Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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UKTVRB 9MA80Jt. OhfenwelL VWrcwelUlM exp re— tnla, radttM way (Mght i Winyi Um rim in four boon Uto, lb lad hU andianM to bed, And Um dm jfone, the hotel Looked np, the atetion dark aa pitch, — And two big tramp i hanging aronnd Offering to carry hia raliaovp for Um And oh, yon boya ia the gallery, whoao rude throat* % ^he nocturnal oat’a dread olamora ooonterfait, Farewell I The Jeeter'a oocu pa don't gone I 80 call the field to reat, and let'a away To part the plunder of thia happy day. Forerer and forever, farewell. Caah I haa, If we do meet again, why, we thallmile; If not, why then thia parting waa well mide. You all do kootr thia (wallow tail I remem ber The flrat time e’er the Jeater put it eat. 'Twaa on an autumn evening ia hia room, The night he lectured down in Wilkeabarre. Look, in thia place he eat down on a tack; Bee where he epttt a plate of oyetar aoup; Here’a where a little child ohnahed ia Ml lap, And at it p’ ticked ilk aticky olawa away Mark how the marka of candy Kind aonla, what, laugh you whan yon but be hold * The Jeater'a ancient clawhammer, look you here, Hera la himaetf, with a view for lurid jok i About the dude which he will not get A chance to ahoot off. ■* Being eo far away from the paper, v Until the dude ia dead. And now, time, raeta but that wa apend the With lUtaly trinmpha, mirthful comic ihowa, Bnoh aa befit the pleaeure of the court? Bound drume and trumpet* t Farewell, aour annoy I For here, I hope, begtna our laating Joy. < “A great while ago the world begun. With heigh ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play ia done, And wc'llitrive to please you avery day.” Our revel* now are ended. There our acton. The fat passenger, the croea paaaeuger, The tall thin paaaenger, the woman Who talk* And the man on the wood box. Aa I foretold were all apirite, and Are melted Into air, into thin air; And like the baseless fabric of thia lecture The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous Pul- man oara, s — • The eolemn head waiter, the great lunch ooun- Tea, all its indestructible fodder (ball dissolve And, like this aulwtaattal lecture ended, Leave not a Uatraok behind. We are such stuff A* dream* are made of, and our little life la rounded with tb* nightmare. R J. B. <*EK. WALKER AT CHAPULTEPBC. Why He DM Net Pall lean Cal Dewa the Men- [From the Atlanta (On.) Constitution.] General Joe Johnston telle a thrilling eiory of our Geneipl W. 8. Walker and hie daring at Chapultepee, in the Mexi can war. He aaye; * "Walker who was then a young lieu tenant, was, I thought, the handsomest man I ewer saw aa he led his men to the charge. Of perfect feature, slender frame and the carriage of a thorough- bred, he was the picture of a soldier. As his men swept on in the charge, rushing past a battery that might have swept them from the face of the earth, k dM ‘ Wnfrlti' r n/rfrl to the front. Ba was the lint man to scale the heights, and waa about to seise the Mexican colors, 4*—# " nth them down and put up the Stars L ' and Stripes. Just aa he had hia hand pn the flagstaff Major Seymour, of Connecticut, rushed up, and with ram inborn courtesy, Walker stepped Mide and allowed his senior officer to take the honor. It made Major Seymour so much reputa tion that he waa frequently suggested as a ( oapdidsto for the Presidency. Walker • was the flrat to the flagstaff, and might hare had the glory aa well as not.” I asked General Walker wheat this in cident. He said: "Of course I remember it well. In deed, General Johnston, who waa the Lieutenant Colonel of our regiment, and drilled and fought it, wrote me a note saying; ‘If ever a similar thing occurs, and you lose sight of yourself, please re member your regiment. ’ ” General Walker said further; "There is a curious sequel to that fetory. When my leg waa shot off dur ing the late war, I was put in a federal hospital Near me waa a federal officer who had also lost his leg. He had ioqght in the Mexican war, and was, I think, m Major Seymour’s regiment He wm talking one day about Ghapulte- peo, and said that Captain Kimball, of his regiment, told him that just Iwfore Major Seymour reached the flagstaff e young ttentenant had raised his sword to eat the He cried: ‘Let the auger take down the flag,’ and the lieu tenant gam way. *1 ham often won dered/ said he,‘who that lieutenant waa.’ Ho was astonished when I disclosed the facta. My reaching the flag first waa doo te my superior adthity. I was then a gymnast. As we crossed the wall Oaftain Howard was ahead of me. As W fought our wdy along I moved to- 4*rd the castle^ a squad of men foDow- In the octagonal room of the castle S group of Mexican officers and I cried ‘Rendio lee armas.’ i about all the Spanish I knew, van started to fire, but the Mexicans As I hurried to WLere the M had three captured swards Sb\I was about to out the HigaWme one celled 'Let the K>wcd,Ne flag.’ By an im- course tfo, the major’s sword 4 The bottom has enttair dropped ant of the boom in hope by which the brewers were so badly ■oared lari wflfor. Some o( the laoky operators who bad large stooks when the flurry commenced and the bold but prudent cnee who went ia with a dash and add oat at big figures without waiting for bigger ones, made very huge same of money in the earlier months on the excitement Several of them are credited with hav ing pocketed' half a million each. But thorn who held on to do better, and nearly all the outside speculators, have been nipped. . ' / When hops, for which 16 cents a pound is s paying price to the producer, were forced up to (he confident balls proclaimed that the price would roach fl.SO, and perhaps even •a, before this year’s State crop could come in. They were believed by many brewers and speculators who bought on the un natural rise. Brewers laid in large stocks at 67 oenta, and felicitated them- selma upon having done so. One who had bought for delivery at 80 cents was offered $2,000 to relinquish his contract, and refused. That was only last winter Now good hope ere down fo 25 to 28 cents, and choice State to 85 cents, and at most 40 CM*** George Bechtel bought e large quantity of hops recent ly at 84 oenia from a man wjio had paid 90 oenta for them on speculation. An operator said yesterday that the boom was started by the nnuoally large demand freffl English brewers, on account of the comparative failure of the hop harvest in both England and Bohemia. They sent over here to bny hops still on the vines Iset season, and ho started the upward movement. All would have gone well bnt for the dis- .^very of a new sooroe of supply. Aus tralis sent to England quite a large har vest of flue hops st a season when nobody thought of a new crop coming in. Then the trouble began. Another said: "ThatiTkll very well as far ss it goes, bnt the real cause of the break was not the Australian hops, which oonld hsve been absorbed easily, but the necessities of the outside specu lators who bought in st high prices snd then couldn't afford to hold on. When they began to let their holdings slip into the market at a decline, a tumble fol lowed, for others got scared and there was a general rash to realise. You can credit the fall to men without the neces sary nerve or capital to speculate, yet who would try to do so because they thought they saw’others making for tunes by it.” Still another said: "When hopi ad vanced so surprisingly an enormous trade sprang up in hop sabstitutes, com- [Munda of drugs, which numbers of brewers all over the land made use of, For one of these snbstitntes the certifi cate of a well-known chemist was pro cured that it was actually better than hope. For others the claim was made that (hey were cheaper than hops, and that the l>eer made with them could not l>e told from that mode with hops. Here is a sample of one them. It is a brown, resin-like mass, with a bitter taste in which you can detect nothing of the hops ; but its manufacturer« affirm that when boiled in the wort it develops in the beer the genuine hop flavor. Of course, H has not the beneficial effect of the lupuline of the hop, bnt what do certain hrewen care for that if they can sell the beetY^—New York Sun. A Mery r.— Consumption of Wheat. It is estimated that about six bushels of wheat are consumed yearly by each person In the United Kingdom of Great Britain. On an average, six bushels weigh about 880 pounds, and when ground produce 880 pounds of floor, and about 100 of bran aad “offal.” Flour is usually sold in sacks of 280 pounds, so that the annual consumption is a sack a head for each inhabitant. Assuming the population of the United Kingdom to be 85,000,000, it appears that their re quirements are in round numbers 26,000,- 000 quarters of wheat, or85|000,000aacks of flour. The London Timet, not long since, estimated the home crop of wheat for 1882 at fully 10,000,000 quarters, so that nearly 16,000,000 quarters, or their equivalent in floor, must be imported within the year to keep up the supply. America, Algiers, and Egypt, the Continent, India a* Australia, all contribute to their wants; and as the harvest-time varies more or leas in each, new wheat is sent them from the country where the supply is at the time most plentiful, whenever prices are sufficient to stimulate importation. The inestimable boon to this country of these supplies cannot be exaggerated. When Imtcher-meat is rising ip price, when potatoes are a poor crop, and in Ireland n very small crop, bread bocomcs more and more a staplb food for the lower classes to fall bock upon. Neither can the importance of having well made and wholesome bread be overstated.—CA&m- bertt Journal. In Paris, A. M. Bonne asked to have his marriage annulled on the ground that his wife, with whom he had lived seventeen yearn, was a nun when he espoused bee. The facts ore these. The wife, nee Mile, las Borden, a de scendant of afe eld end noble Languedoc family, devoted herself steadfastly to r* ligion and works of charity until she had reached the age of thirty-eight Then she lost her heart in nursing a young railway dark through a long ill- ness. The young alerk returned Jher af fection and one fine day Mile, las Bordet eloped from a coo vent at Bordeaux and was married to her lover in the office of London Registrar. M. ; Bonne has been unauoeeatful in hie suit, for it ap pears that the lady’s vows were only voeux annuel*, that is to taj, row tltehfxpiNai the end of each year. m. Bonne, therefore, holds the fort, and estey fine will eympathke with bar. Or iall thieves fooU kre the worst; thej rob yon of time and temper. Mr. D wee a planter in Loakkim who wee a kind matter to the large number of slaves he owned. Harper’t "Drawer" tells this story of him; "One day it came to hia earn that Me body-servant, a gentle, faithful creature, Of whom he fond, was constantly straying over to • neighboring plantation, and, it was re ported, bad taken a new wife over there. Now it had not been two yean since Mr. — had given the cnlprit a wed- ding that was considered at the time one of the most brilliant affaire that had ever been known on the estate (the. Bride being Mrs. D *s maid, a pretty mulatto from New Orleans), a general holiday being granted, and fes tivities that practically consumed three days inaugurated. Mr. D sent for Beverly, and lectured him roundly. Beverly listened respectfully, but was wholly unconvinced. "‘What do you mean, sir, by sooh behavior? Don’t yon know you are al ready married ?’ " 'Yes, mars ter, dat’s so—dat’a a fao’,’ said Beverly, in a low-spirited way, twirling his hat ss he spoke. '“The overseer' tells me you are always leaving tile place without per mission, and it is no use your trying to deceive mat I know where yon go.’ " T ain’t trying to deeeibe yon, mars- ter. I come here to-day to ax your leabe to address a courting conversation to Mr. Potter’s Susan,’ put in Beverly, with a virtuous air of being entirely frank and reasonable. " ‘Haven’t I fold you that you are married already to Caroline?’ exclaimed the master impatiently. "‘Kalline! Pshaw I Dp Apostle Paul couldn't lib wid Kalline, air. Dat’s dp trafe. liter ain’t no standin’ dat said it,’ Bw- oman no way yon fix eriy, with conviction. ' 2 " ‘You ought to have thought of that before you married her,’ observed Mr. D , judicially. ‘"Now, Mara’ Robert, look here. What’s the use of talkin’ dat way ? Yer neber knows how gals snd bosses is gwine turn-out—neber. Ef yon pick np a coal er fire when you reachin’ round in de dark for wood is you gwine ter hold it in yer hand ? No, yer isn’t; rer gwine drop it on de hairth. Dot’s whst I done. I dropped Kalline, and tain't no use her pesterin’, she gwine stay dropped till Judgment Day.’ "Mr. D was obliged to change bis tactics. . "‘You know the rules bn my place, Beverly, and you must oenform to them. That ends the matter. You can go.’ "Some time went by. Complaints were continually being lodged against Beverly by hia spouse and the overseer, and he was again summoned to the library, where, after stating the case again, and explaining what the penalty of continued disobedience would be, Mr. D made a tout appeal: " ‘Don’t you see, Beverly, that yon ore behaving wickedly, and that God holds me responsible for the oondnet of my servants? I shall be punished it I allow sooh things to go on. I expect you to go book to Caroline, and get along as well sa you can with her.’ "A ray of positive illomination flashed into Beverly's face. ‘Is dat it?’ he cried. ‘Don’t yer worry' yerself ’bout dat, Mars’ Robert De Lard knows Kalline bet ter'n yon do 1’ ” a The Sledge Hammer. Who would suppose that any sane man conld be induced to swing a heavy sledge hammer for fan? It was s Yankee who evolved the irrational theory of amusement At fain and other pfoeee-ef mnltitadee he glibly calls tention to a machine which, when a blow is struck on an upright iron holy on uecele the force ef ftie atrbke. An. almost constant succession of fools pay for the opportunity of thus wasting their strength. They do not thus exert them selves for exercise. Those who need the stretch of muscle are the very ones who lack enough of it to make a good show at the striking machine, and who do not expose themselves to ridicule by making pony efforts; while brawny fellows are tempted to exhibit their strength. "A six-footer, with anas that bulged his sleeves with bunches of muscle st every lift of the heavy hammer, and hands that seemed capable of leaving their im press on the hard ash handle,” says the Botton Herald, "was excited by the spectators’ manifestations of admiration to labor tremendously an entire hour. He was streaming with prespiration when he got through, and had parted with more vitality than a week of sea air could restore. 'Yon most take a great deal of exorcise,’ wm remarked, ‘fo make yourself oo strong.’ ‘Begorra, I wilt an anvil six days ivery week,’ wm the reply.- And here he wm on the seventh day, paying out his nickels for the clinuce to do more of the hard, strik ing by which he had earned them. Conld folly iu diversion go farther?” The Paper Age Coming. A Louisianian writes : "The time will soon come when, in our damp.climate, the floors • of all the stone in New Orleans and in other cities in the State, will be built of strong water-proof and indestructible paper tiles. The damp ness permeating oar dwelling! will be counteracted by paper material of a suitable character. All our cityoan will be built of paper. The wheels of these will be made of paper. The rails of our street can, and even the oroMttea, so liable to decay, will all be renewed in the course of time, and be replaced by paper material suitably treated fo remedy existing evils. Needy aU the furniture ef our dwellings, eo liable fo swell or shrink in our damp climate, will b# manufactured in an elegant and artistic style by means of paper stock capable of Misting effectually the sudden ou tamDaratnra.” •‘ISN’T IT PRETTYT a Fathetic arum m ora of mu CITY PARKH. IF**. The Cater ef Cera. In a recent bulletin of the New York Experiment Station, the director, Ur Stnrtevant, referred to the subject of tb# growth of corn plants from ike seed. Among other things which be thought he bed discovered wm the reesou why some spires appear of a pale color, sosm yellow, and some nearly white. Every farmer must have noticed this Im6 as ha looked over Me fields fo bm the young corn appearing. I have noticed this same occurrenesin corn, says a Weekly Timet correspond ent, and have frequently investigated it, going to the bottom of it and carefully digging np the seed. Every farmer knows how seeds ere formed; that there is an eye, as seme call it, m in beans or peM, or a germ qr chit, m may be seen in corn or wheat Every farmer knows, that when seed—lima beans afford the best instance of it are placed in unfav orable positions—flat ou the side, for instance—the young plants have great difficulty in roaching the surface, and some never reach it but die in the effort And when the young plant does appear it comes up light in color and very weak. The same thing precisely happens with corn. The seed is dropped haphazard; in some cases it lies favorably for the chit or sprout to appear at the anrfeoe in' the shortest time; in others it lies in the wont position foi this, and the sprout winds around and takes quite m much time to get to the air. Then it ia more fully de veloped, the leaf perhaps hM been formed, and by the longer impciMunent and the forced efforts to escape from the ground it appears weak, malformed, and not colored; The effect is, of course, greater if in addition to the unfavorabh- position of the seed the soil is dry and hard or an obstacle' is met with by the sprout in its growth toward the light. —All this I have ftrequenfly noticed, but this season have been led to notice it more particularly. In planting com for experimental purposes, the seeds were numbered in each hill, and the number germinating hM been noted, observa tions being made morning and afternoon at six o’clock. Some few plants ap peared yellow and weak, bnt thia has invar s' ly the effect of unfavorable posi tion of the seed. In two or three oases ’the spire did not appear for mare than a week, and the seeds were carefully dag np. In ell these eases the sprout was found growing spirally under ground unable to reach the surface, The seeds had fallen with the eye downward, and the spire had started to grow on one side, and as the soil wm moist and sof 1 below, .the surface the spire hod worked its way there unable to pierce the hard dry crust above it becausfi of its misdi rection. Had the spire grown straight upward it would have come through all right, bnt growing sidewise, it glanced off os soon m it reached the hard crust. And, of coarse, being withoat light, the sprout wm yellow and weak. When these plants were carefully loosened and soft soil loosely sprinkled over them, the spire soon appeared above the surface, but still yellow and weak for a few days, after which they grew as well m the others. So that this fact noticed by Dr. Sturt ;vent is not due (at least in these cases) to the nature of the seed, or any variation in it, bat to accidental circum stances altogether, which may happen to any seeds. > Mary •f < ‘Isn’t it pretty r said a little old he wheeled A baby carriage fo the place where a reporter of the World wm sitting in the Park yesterday. "It must be pretty," said the reporter looking j blip the oaniage, and seeing a tiny creature anugly nestling in a downy neat, with its face covered with a deli cate lace veil. . / The little old man-WM delighted, hia little old chin went twit-e-twit-a-twee, and he chirped like a bird. "They keep its (ace covered,” he said, With a sigh, "since the little white heane drove away from the hove the other day. But I—" * The little old man stopped and looked all round with his little twinkling eyes. "I will show its face to yon, sir, it’s so very pretty.” ; And the ‘little old man’s chin again went twit-a-twit-a-twee, ."They will be aUgiy,” he continued ; "bnt I’m so prond of its pretty face that I must show it ” * Suddenly the littleold man took the lace that covered, the baby’s face in his trembling flngtm. andAho reporter pew- pared to bnrst into exclamations of de light even if the face should pxpve fobs the homeliest in the world. "Mustn’t" a little child said, coming from behind the boshes, and seising the coat-tails of the little man. "Danpa mustn’t”" j— "The flies will annoy Rose,” s gentle girl of twelve said, joining the little group and carefully replacing the lace. CIom observation khowed a tear trembling in the girl’s eye, as the little old man wheeled away the carriage with the little child dancing by his side. ~7 “Oh, it’s such deception!” she ex claimed, buying her face in her hand. "Baby Rose died last week,” she con tinued, "snd wp are afraid to tell grand pa, m his mind is weak and she wm his idol; so we put a dofl in the carriage, closely veiled, so be cannot see its face, and let him wheel it sjound. But it’s so deceptive.” , < Just then ■ the little old man paused, left the little child with the carriage, and came back fo where the girl was seated. He put his face close to hen and whis- "What was 4V’ he asked, "that they carried away in the little white hearse?” The poor girl turned sway her face. "Flowem," she said, "only flowen, grandpa.” "I wonder,” the little old man mnsed, "why they all torn their faces away when (hey tell me what they carried away in the little white hearse.” . Then he went to the carriage again and chirped like the merry little old man that he wm. - "Flowen, only flowen,” the reporter heard him murmur m he wheeled the loll a* ay.—New York World. - • A PenfstMT“ Siiadow.” * A detective recently s&d to. a Cleve land reporter: "A man hired to shadow a party, or a shadow, as we call him, gets abont $2 a day and expenses and is pAid for the time he works. A shadow » expected to watch a man from the time he gets up in the morning till he goes to bed. If it happens to be aparty who oust be shadowed night and day it requires two men to watch him. A shadow must watch Ms man closely without himself being seen or showing “WU1 Moses Webster Finback please the party to find out that he is being ,t e p dis way?” asked the President m shadowed. I meet the shadow, for in stance, and tell Mm that he moat keep his ayes on a certain man whom I will designate by brushing on the shoulder with my handksrohief. - Then I enter s •lace, snd M the man comes out I pre tend to see a bog on Ml shoulder and knMfeR that nntil I give the won! that man will ■ Ism sa article going .the remade of the agricultural papers, copied teem the Germantown (Pa.) t Telegraph, which advisM the farmers not to rake after the wagon when loading hay, m it does not pay. It seems to ba copied without note or comment, m if the editors agros with it fully. Ido not sgme with the writer, for I would like to biro a man at two, or even throe, dollars per day to rake after any person that I aver saw pitch hay upon a wagon, if I oonld have the hay that he gathered, if he need a drag rake and moved anyway anOrt. That is, in hay m usually loaded on the wagon. If the ■hay is a very long clover or Timothy, and hM been standing in the tumble all .night, he might not* get two or three hundred pounds of hay, bnt there are bnt few fanners who draw in their hay from the tnmblea without shaking it out to air a little while before they load it. If the pitcher tried to take up thq bay with his fork so clean that it would not pay to rake after, hia time and that of the man on the load and the time of the tMm would cost more than the time of the man with the rake. ^ But supposing the man did not get quite hay enough to pay his wages. Is not the looks of your mowing field to be considered ? Dom it pay to put on a -gnjj f or a solution of the the strong A PERILODS J0CRN FROM BRIGHTON 1 OFT a Aa i AHwi I Late A Wmmt* With • mJnUn ha eaaUI BUe W Besl aatf RawbaWawls. T t [From the Boston (Hobo.] "Man under the wheels!” Th were few, but of horrible import ing the passengers to shudder thought ef some one’s violent del "Is he badly up?” asked stsnder. 1 "Can’t tell till weV« imout ‘ men, take bold^Kid pull carefully a railroad offidal Conductor Hoyt’s inward bourn due at the Huntington Station Boston k Albany Railroad at 10:4 Saturday, July 14th, hod made th tomary stop at that point, and j’ the conductor wm about to give tl nal to go ahead he obse/vetl the b a man, apparently lifeless, lying « top of the reAr track of one of tin The man wm seemingly mixed tearful confusion among the rods, ■nd bars <d the truck snd brakes. How the man got there wm a my L’he engineer wm certain no am Men struck by the train on the t trip, and the conductor wm at hia qever be ont of the sight of my shadow. The shadow takes him to dinner and bock to his,plaee of busfoeas. Then to supper; and then down pawn in the even ing. Then it ia that Ma hardest work begins. He may have to suddenly hire THE HMfrKILX CLUB. A Little Advice te a. WmAdtIm Brother the meeting opened. i Brother Finback, who-hM been a very quiet bnt very interested member of the dab for the pMt two years, advanced to the Meek, and Brother Gardner (ten- tinned: ~ • ■ **• "Moses, I Tara yon am oo dy pmt of removin’to Ohio?” - "YesTiS:” v "You will take your certificate long ‘ wid you, an’ you will keep your mem bership wid us jist de same; so’ any clean eollaf and necktie when yon go ,to town dr go' visiting, or when you re ceive company? Probably not, unless yon need to borrow money (when a de cent appearance ’might help yon), but you do it for the looks of the thing. How does a mowing field look when it is only shout half raked, with bunches of hay scattered here and there through the field? It looks tome m if the owner, wm ss slock and slovenly as the hum who goes into the village or to ohorch abont half dressed. I am not very dressy myself, bnt I do not advocate slovenly ways in anybody. I have heard farmers say that it. did not pay to mow the edges of the field and around trees or other places where the mowing machine would not reach, and it may be that it does not, but if I left a mowing field with all the edges un mown, I should feel every time I looked at it very tnach as I should if 1 were going np Washington street to The Journal office with one boot blacked and the other covered with the material that I used for enriching my soil, or m I sbould if one side of my face wm clean shaven while the other had three weeks’ beard upon it Bat the writer says that the scatter ings after the cart—the leavings of the tumble and the windrow—ore worth m much if left on the land to decay and return to the soil the elements they have taken from it, as they would be if gathered and pnt into the barn with the rest of the hay. If so, why wilhnot the same thing be true in regard to the whole hay. crop ? _ Why bother with harvesting any of it? t I have not much patience with such nonsensical theories. It will not do to measure all the work done upon the farm by the money value of the results accomplished. Many things should be done simply for ap pearance sake. 7 . ~ ; The farmer who cannot afford to do the labor required to keep his farm look ing neat and clean is an unsuccessful farmer, and should go to work for some other man. I scarcely know which looks the worst, a mowing field not mown clean or raked clean, or a cultivated field that is about half hoed.—Boston Journal. Ab Obedient Domestic. ogtibout the*1foH- une- of their men weep. •rt of'a a week a fall report of'a Bum’s habits, haunts, style of living < and even of his week’s expenses, is gft$n Ms employer. Overproduction Id Ytg iron. * During tiM month ofJune furnaces went out of b&st, making a to tal of eighty-three that have ceased op erations during the yea#. The cause of this shotting down is overproduction, which followed the gldht falling off in the demand for iron and ateef during the last twelve months, and which hM be come Btare and more a' burden in spite of unprofitable priOM end loaded mar kets. During the ai* months ending June the output ua/psomewhat more than one-half the prod jetton of the year 1882 so that unleM tesnaom whs blown out the total output for MB would ha ia exoeM ef ‘Hist for 1881 With so many works Jamd the produo- time you kin raise money 'naff to take a freight rain an’ sum up an’ see ns you ***•“ man ont on aontO carousing expedition. ’ ou , He finally takM him home at night, se cure* a cover and catchers little sleep, Himself. The securing of a cover ia sometimes the most difficult part of the work, for your man ma/ live in an aris tocratic locality where thefe are no rooms for rani I have known our man Boland to deep night Iffitor night in a coal bunk on the .strtffi .when it one nipping cold. There are in New York certain benfcs and which every year along, days have each one- or their men shadowed'about a weal. At the end of tion for the iMt six will doubtlsM be mu the year for atten is really serious, m the figures- at stocks on hand and unsold clearly ritow. While on December 31^1882, there were held 888,665 tons of gig Iren, su June Mr the quantity had reached 538,800 replied Moses m he wiped a tear from Ms eye. ^ ■ "An’ now I want to my a few furder words to yon,” resumed the President altera solemn panse. "Yonam gwine to cat loose an’ sail in do company of strangers, on’ dor’ am a few things you would do well to remember. "Remember, dat a lawyer will work harder to el’ar a murderer daU ha will to convict a thief. . , - "Remember, dat a nabor who offers you da loan of his hoe am fiahin’ around to secure de loan of your wheelberrer. • "Remember, dat yon can’t judge of da home happiness of a man an’ wife by feia’ ’em at a Sunday skule picnic. "Remember, dat while de aivenge man will return you de k’roet change in a business transackahun, hall water Ms milk an’ mix beans wid Ma oodba. "Remember, dat all de negatives of best pbehognphm am -retouched, an’ de wrinkks an* freckles worked out. "Remember, dat society am made up of good clothes, hungry stomachs, de ception, heartache* an’ mixed grammar. "Reeaemhar, dat people will never atop to qfumtion do tref of any rumor or scandal affectin’ your character, but it takes y’are to satisfy ’em dat your great grandfather wasn’t a pirate an’ your great grandmudder da leadin’ gal in a fifteen cent ballet Yon kin now sot down an’ eioM yer afm an' reflate an’ digest, an? de rest of M will puroeed to carry ont de nodal programme of de moetin’. "—Detroit free Brett. An Austin lady, who had^ the Trxat Siftingt tella_ us, hired a new colored cook under the dis tinct understanding that* ahe waa ■to have no visitors, became very angry when she, the lady of the house, opened the pantry door one evening and dis covered a colored "gemman” bolt np- right— — . . —"—- "What do von mean by disobeying I’se my orders?” "I ain’t disobeyin’ yo’ orders, jess doing whst you ttee me tor do. "You impudent pieoei What do you mean, anyhow?” — "You tale me ’atinotly dat I wm ter pnt in de pantry whatever wm leff ober from yupper after I had «>t fra egjgn*, anVOsheah colored *gsm|Un waa leff ober from rapper, je*a m yen tole me. I'm one ob deae colored ladies what alien does joM wha^I’se tote. "What I meant was you shouldn’t cnrrence. Galling to bis assistance if the brakemen, and aided by the ing hands of many of the passer Mr. Hoyt proceeded to extricate th jrtunate man. Grasping one d imn’s arms, the conductor began pc .ently, when suddenly a voice u j-om the mass of humanity beneatl jar. “Look a’heral t»kn ynur hinds ■xclaimed the man. ~ T' The condnctorwas astonished. “1 on are still alive ?” he asked. .‘‘Letup 1 letup! I don’t want t listurbed," wm the reply. ‘‘Bat what are you doingundertbe tueried the brakeman. “Minding my own business,” wm uiggeetive rejoinder. At this moment the onlookers wei istonisbed that you conld have knot iny one of them over with a very si eather. "Come ont of that!” at length stei Tile red the conductor. "Nary a come, pardner, I’m again; to ride the whole distance; that’s kind of s carpet tack I am.” Expostulation and solicitation hat I’ailedf the fellow wm forcibly dn iut, placed on his feet and, with a n m either side, wm expeditiously ti Med np the steps and into the baggi car, where he wm again interrogated "Are yon injured ?” "Bet cher life I’m not But, I a yon chape hsve spoiled my trousers w iron rust in a polling me out” _ "Where did yon crawl under the oai was asked. | ' f 'At Brighton,” said the man. “Why did you do it?” , - "For fan.” "Any other reason?” - ‘ WeH. yer see. I've worked for t Boston snd Albany some years, si never had a pass or free ticket over 1 road. So the other day I says to Jo (he works on the road, too), ses I him: ‘Joey. I’m agoing to ride into ti city for nothing.’ ‘Oan’t do it,’ sez h ‘I can,’ sez I; and, by Jiminy, hei lam.” "What are you doing with that oi rag in your hand?” inquired a fo stonder. "That rag? O, that wm a bQed ahii when I started. But I pulled it off o the way down *> that I oonld shore nr, arm atween the wheels and ware it t Joey, so he <fould im me on a fro fride.” ^ Ite he Sam If. , Commissioner of Internal Revenue Evans said the other day that the news paper comments upon hia course since he came into office—much ado about nothing, anyway—reminded Mm of an old farmer down in Ms neck of the woods who wu sued for slsuder.- The matter I haven’t been keeping toy com- pany.” . "Haven’t you bean keeping company with this man ?” The man and brother here spoke up and mid: ’ "No, ma'am, she hain’t been keepin’ company wid me. Hite me who hM been koepia’ company wid hat.” „ "Dar! dar 11 tole yer I hadn’t been keepin’ company wid nobody. I’se one ofdese cnllud ladies what alien does jeM what she’s told.” Saved By a "Madstone.” "Iq that dog mad?” he asked the boy M the animal dashed by.. "I a^ould reckon ho isr raphad the boy; ‘1 just see a batcher take a piece o’ maa from him and kick him six fete into air. Wouldn’t you be mad if that waa William Pyle, a book agent residing with hi* wife and two children at Dela ware, Ohio, wm bitten by n mud dog on Satnrdny list. He wns soon after token with hyornpliMbia and wus kept under Motrol only by the nse of strong opiates. Sunday be prew worse rapidly, snd it wm feared he wonld die. Monday a niadstone was applied. This peculiar .atone wm found fa the p-wscseton of a man named whose fatheaforonght it from Virgbii-i seventy years ago. The stone i» of a lead-color and is shaped like a honey co-uh. It gave the afflicted man instant relief. The attending phv- , while placing very little ooufl- in the efli \icv of the mudstone, now d tsl mi that tliere is strong hope of the man’s recovery. finally referred to arbitrators. They heard the plaintiff's grievance and hia witnesses, and then they sent for the defendant "Did yon make there statements?” said the chief arbitrator, reading the ■lander. "Welj, yea,” said thejamer, twiddling hia thumbs. "Were they true?” asked the arbitrs- <*• 4 “Well*no,” said the old nun, skrtrly; "not exactly.” "Why did you make them, then?” asked another arbitrator. "Well,” aaad the farmer, shifting about uneasily, "yon see it wm this way. W» were all down at the store, and the others were all toying something, and I thought I would say somethiog too. So I said that” 1 A Tragic Alter. . A tragedy wm recently enacted in the theatre at Ubate, in the State of Oandina- maroa, South America, where a Spanish dramatic company hM been performing. It appears that a soldier belonging to the Colombian Guard wm discovered by the director of the company fo have formed aa intimmy with cm of the actresses, wMeh so MumbbI hMffiRi fcj struck the former. The soldier antes aa but deterniasd to .be t*, first occasion on wlffifc |s tamed one ef the gnard te tim thetese loaded Ms rifls, snd on the director passing shot Mm dead. The vietim’s name wm Garmon*. The horrible dead created gnat eoastor- natiouin Ubate, whore the dreamed wm mueh Wx seldom And people ungrateful so tong m wu an in a ooRdWcB to nodei