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Titt-WEEKLY E'DlTION.1 WYINNSB1ORO) S. I USA.OT~RI. 88 VI.~ O 0
WOMEN AND BASE BALL.
.710W AN AMAT.AU1 GAML' WAS
PLA UJIM AT DANB Ult 1,
Tho Realization Falls Bolow the Antict
pation--They Broak Up Without 1Wak
ing Firat Baso.
(Aold uIry NeIs. 1
The only attempt on record of
Danbu y trying to organize a female
base ball club occurred last wook.
It was a rather incipient affair, but
it demonstriated every thing neces
sary, and in that particular answer
ed every purpose. The idea was
cogitated and carried out by six
young ladies. It was merely do,
signed for an experiment on which
to base future action. The young
ladies werei at the house of one of
their number when the subject was
brought Ip. The premises are
calicious, and include quite a pioce
of turf, hidden from the street by
several drooping, hixuriant, old.
fashioned apple-trees. The young
lady of the house Lh a brother who
is fond of base ball, and has the
necessary machinery for a game.
This was taken out on the turf
under the trees. The ladies as
sembled and divided themselves
into nines of three each. The first
three took the bat, and the second
three went to the bases-one as
catcher, one as pitcher, and the
other as chaser-or, more techni
C.dly, fielder. Tho pitcher was a
lovely brunette, with eyes full of
dead earnestness, the catcher and
battor were blondes, with faces
afliie with , .ipectation. The
pitcher took the ball, brace. her
scif, put her aIm straight out from
the shoulder, ti:en moved it around
to her back without modifying i0
the least its delightful frigidity,
and then throw it. The batter did
not catch it. This was owing to
the pitcher looking directly at the
batter when she aimed it. The
filder got a long pole and succeed
ed in poking the ball from the apple
tree back of the pitcher, where it
had lodged. Business was then re
s1umed again, although with a faint
seiblance of une:asiness geierally
v.sible.
The pitcher wIas very red in the
face, and saidI "I declare !" sav3r.l
times. This timo she took a more
careful aim, but still neglected to
look in some other diroction than
toward the batter, and the ball was
presently poked ut of another tree.
6 "Why, this is dreadfuO," sid the
batter, whose ierves had boon kept
ait a Pretty sitiff tension.
a "Perfectly dreadful," chimod in
the catcher, with a long sigh.
"I think you had better get up in
one of the trees," mildly suggested
the fielder to the batter.
These dbsorvations somewhat
nettled the pitchor, and she declar~
ed she would not try again. WVhere
upon a change was made with the
fielder. She was certainly more
sensible. Just as soon as she was
ready to let drive she shut her eyes
so tight as to loosen two of her
puffs and p~ull out h<r back comb,
and madly fired away. The ball
flewv directly at the batter, which so
startled that lady, who had the bat
clinched in both hands with desper%
ate grip, that she involuntarily cried,
"Oh, my!l" andl let it drop, and ran.
Thislimovement buncovered1 the
K tended about three feet apart, in
readliness for the catch, but, being
.ntentbly absor:bodlin studying the coil
on the back of the batter's head,
.1 she was not able to recover in time,
and the ball caught her in the
bobdice with sufficient force to de
prive her of all her breath, which
left her lips with oar-piercing
shrillness. T1here was a lull in the
proceedings for ten minutes to
enable the catcher to take soein
camphor, andi other members of the
club to arrange their hair.
The batter again took position,
when one of the party, discoverimg
that she was holding the bat very
much as a wvoman carries a broom
when she is after a cow in the
garden, showoed her that the tip
must rest on the ground, and at
her side, with her body a trifle
inclined in that direction. The
suggester took the bat and showed
just how it was done, and brought
around the bat wvith such vehemence
as to alnost iarr'y her from her
feet, and to nearly brain the catch
er. That party shivered and moved
back some fifteon, feet.
The battay took -her place, and
laid the tip of the bat 'on" he
g round, and the pitche shut her
eyes again as tightly as botore, and
lot drive. The fielder had taken
the precaution to got back of a
treo, or otherwise she must have
been disfigured for life. The ball
was recovered. The pitchor looked
heated and vexed. She didn't
throw it this time. She just gave
it a pitching motion, but, not letting
go of it in timo, it wont over her
head, and canod her to sit (own
with considerablo unexpectodnoss.
Thereupon she d& ared that she
would never throw another ball as
long as sbo lived, and changed off
with the catcher. This youn-, lady
was somewhat determined, which
argued success. Then she looked
in an altogether d' orent direction
from that to the batter. And this
did the business. The batter was
ready. She had a tight hold of the
bat. Just as soon as she saw the
ball start, she made a tremondous
lunge with the bat, and lot go of it,
aud turned around in time to catch
the ball in the small of her b:ick,
while the bat, beig on its hook,
and seeing a stone figure holding a
vaso of flowers, neatly clipped oft'
its arms at the olbow, and lot the
flowers to the ground.
There was a chorus of screams,
and some confusion of skirts, and
then the following dialogue took
place:
No. 1-Let's give up the thing.
No. 2-Lot's.
No. 3 - So I say.
No. 4-It's just horrid.
This.being a majority, the ad
journment was made.
The game was merely an experi
ment, and it is just as well as it was.
Had it been a a real game, it is like
ly that some one would have been
killed outright.
Fronch ingenuity has really suC
ceede,l, it would seem, in the coi
struction of a mercury telephone
aiti interesting variation of the sys
tem at present in use. It is coi
posed of two instruments for trans
mission and reception, connected by
means of wires. Eich of theso con
sists of a glass vessel, containing
acidulated water and mercury, into
which is inserted a capillary tube
tilled with morciry- One wire con
nects the mercury in the tibos,
and the other that is in the vessels.
When a per.)n spaiks bforo the
titanimitt,or, the vibration;i of the :tir
are coniiimimicated to the mercury,
and.cause vibrations in the electro
motivo force, which are transmitted
to the receivor, and there give rise
to vibrations appreciable by the ear.
A simplification of this method of
arran1gotment consists in using a tube
with alternate drops of mercury and
acidulated watir, in this conveniont
manner forming a series of clectro
capillary elements.
A SINGULAR COMMUNITY.-Judge
Jackson, of Georgia, writing from
Iowa to the W1,esleyan, says : "In
Iowa, some hun dred miles before
you reach the Miss ouri, there is a
singular community, composed of
frota one hundred and fifty to two
hundred poopie, called Ica rians, and
their village Icaria. They eat in
comm ion, having one dining-room,
one mill for grinding, one proper -
ty in lands, and are one in all things
save in wives. Every man is re
quired to marry ; unlike the Mor
men, he can have but one wife.
Theoy elect a President annually,
who rules the community and ap.,
portions the profits. t'hoy are
French in descent and have been
located at Icaria for some thirty
years or mor e.
A glance at the Holly Springs Re
oorter, the only paper nowv published
in a town of two thousand five hun
dred inhabitants, tells a sad story
of the desolation wrought by the
yellow fever epidemic. The "Occa
sional Edition" of September 17,
1878, is printed on two separate
sheets of paper, eaca~ five by seven
inchtes. It is in mourning, as wvell
it may-be, for the first page and part
of the second is taken up with a list
of the deaths. Then there are a
few editorial paragraphs, all relating
to the epidemic, and a page of "per
sonal" news, telling who has been
attacked, who is nursing the sick,
&o. There is not a line of adver
tising in the paper, nor a line of
news or editorial comment on any
subject but that of the fever.
THE JUsT AND THE~ UNJUST.-The
good slammeth the gate and bang-.
eth the door, and maketh. a noise,
for his heart is without guile an.d he
feareth not' the grievous words of
his wife ; but the naughty man shut
teth the gate -softly, and, stealeth
upstairs in his stocking feet, and
stumbleth over the rocking chair,
and ,the9 last con,dition of that man
is worse'than th*' frst.
DE'MOCRATIC PLATFORM
Adoptod in 1870 and Ie-Adopted
for 1878.
The Democratic party of South
Carolina, in Convention assoibled,
annliounces the following as its pl-t
form of principles: We rierat our
acceptance in perfect good f,'Ith of
the Thirtcouth, Forteenti amil Fi
toonth iomndments, to the Fedenal
Constitution, tccuptilg ani' 1tanld
igllA upon themi ; we turn froiml the
settled and final past to the great,
living and momentous ismto of the
present anld future.
gVo reaflirin the platform of prin
ciples announced by tie National
Democratic party assembledj at St.
Louis, and in accordanco with the
declaration of that platform and the
utterances and nots of our distin
guished leader, Wado Hiamptoii, wo
call upon all our follow eititzens, Ir
respective of race, color or previous
condition, to unito with us in con
tinuing the work of reform and
redemption inatugurate:1 by the
Democratic party of South Carolina,
for it is evident that substanuial and
lasting reform is impossible within
the ranks of the Ropublic.m p-trty of
this Stato. We havO ch.ge.l and
convicted the Republican party with
arraying raco against racu. coatin.!g
disturbances and fomenting difficil~
ties ; with prostituting thme elective
franchise, tamporing with the bAlot
box, and holding lnf.Ir anl fraudii
lent elections ; with iving accumni
lated an enormous debt ; mism.in
agod the finances, and inijured the
crodit of the Stato ; with lvvyingr
oxorbitant taxe3, and squandering
thon when collooted, thus wringing
from the toil and livelihood of th.'
honest poor man o' the State a large
percentum of his hard eurning.
without giving in return any comi
Plensation therefor, and recklessly
involving in (ldobt a najority of th'e
count'es of the State. Its 1mage-.
mont of our penal and charitable in -
stitutions was a shame and a dis
grace. Wo charge its logislation
as dcmoralizing, partisan and dis
graceful, arnd the von-ility and cor
ruption which charactorized every
branch of the government, executive,
legislative and judicial, fs having no
parallel in ,he history of nations. It
C*cte(l a multiplicity of tilleces
sary and uolsele;i oil)im, eoniplic tI . I
in their systomn immi I illlvecsaril y
expolisive, and c:l never pu!ify
itself, give good an imp trt ia gov
ernment, or by its vaor:,l force and
character exercise in it full sover
eignty the law of the 1:nd. WO do
not chargo this conditioa of things,
which every patriot 1nm1t deplore.
upon the mases of the party, buit.
upon the leder, who ma,d such
fatal use of their comidonoe an I
trust, for it is our firm conviction
that all the good ptopC of the State
of both races desirc peac and
prospeiity. We t.hei efuro cAl upon
all o; our follow-cifizoms, irrespetive
of race or past party affiliation, to
join with us in presorving the good
name of our State, and in maintain
iug her dignity and claractor among
the commonwe.ths of this grVt
country. We discountenance e'll dis,.
turbancos of the peace of thle State,
and denounce all instigators thoereof,
and earnestly call upon alli ot our
foliowu'-citizens, i rrospecctive of party
lines, to eorcise forbearance anId
cultivate good will ; 'imd if the gov -
ernment of tihe State is continued
in our control, we pledge ourselves
to protect the personls, rights anId
property of thme people, and to
speedily 'bring to sum mary justico
any who dare violate them.
We desire a fair and peacealo
election, appealing to the reason and
not the passion of the pleople, and
have guaranteed by law a fair elec
tion and a fair count. Wo call upon
all of tihe patriotic sons of Carolina
tjonus. Our objet id continued
reorm, retrenchment and relief,
that by honesty and economy wvo
mnay still further reduce the taxos
and lighten the burdens of tihe pCO
ple, giving at thme same time abso
luto security to the rights and
property of all. Upon these para
mount issu we cordially invite the
co-operation of every Democrat and
Republican whlo is earnest and will
ing to unite with us inl this great
work.
"We have got 'to practice tihe
most rigid economy at such a time
as this," remarked a man the other
day to a crowd on the sidewalk. "I
have stopped all the papers for
which I formerly subscribed, and
don't buy candy, toys, and such
trumpery for tile children ; times
are hard. Come in boys, and take a
drink,"
Fashionable mother : "Maria,
I'm almost discouraged ; how many
times have I told you not to say
t.ater, but pertator, '
In1 the latest mun1111ber of harper's
l,e(ky we finld an instanco of the
wonderful suceoss of a n1om1 dle
p/Ue, ait illustrated in the caso of
Mr. S;unnel Griswold G'odIrich, lit
0110 t.iillm of Woodlbury. Coii.:
lie inado his first visit to Europe
in 182:3. Soon afterward he as
8um1ed tie chAratr01 Of Peter Pir
Ivy, a chatty oI-.I geniIeial who
loved to tell stories about thIngS
and1( people to childrenl andI yotilu(
prl'sons. The thing took imimlo~
diately, and during a ilong series of
years Peter Palry's boo(S Woro
)otlrmd forth in au:,zing numbur
and variety. More than thirty
years afterward Mr. Goodrich
thought it due to his owNi name
and famo to mako puiblic a few
autobiographical fact.s. 1-0 said
almong other things, "Ii Eigland
my namo has buou largely utsod as a
passport for the sale of books I
iever wrote, whilo attempts have
beeni mado in this country to de
privo mo of tho aithorship of at
least a hanulrod volumes which I did
write." He gave an astonishinlg list
of a hundred ani oievonty volumos
written or edited by himself, a
hundred and sixteeii of which bore
the ronownled name of Peter Parley
a1s the author. Threo hundred
t hiousanid (5,)pivs of the several works
woro -old anii.tily for sonm time
botore his au1toliography was writ
ten, and seven millions had boon
sold al1to-ether. Of ono of the
works among the earliost and most
tuce-si IflI of thlt. whole, lie lndo tho
signifi.int comniit :"Two mil,
lion copies of it wero Sold ; the
putlisher paid me $300 for the
copy-right. an made his fortune by
it." Mr. p.o,lrich proccedod to
givo a list of thirty-one spurious
Peter Parley volumes published in
A:merica anC" td forty-one published in
E.nighnd. He died in 18G0 ; but
the Peter Parley gold mine has beel,
worked ever since on both sides of
0ie Atlantic.
Tmts Hnns or FRANc.-RochI,
the French hcadsman, was roportod
by iI arisian paper to have been
me ill by thle horriblo scenes at
the recent double execution. Anoth
er paper thoropon looked into tihe
.11:tter :id fomd that he spent the
d.iv folhowing * the exoeltion in fvd
in, the birds At time Tuilleies, and
:14i,s that ho is it ([lic. o:uIn inof
fensive man. whose last aut before
lhe bring.4 out his victim is to light
a eigar, that he has miade the heaid
basket uiisnally largo. so that if
nleislrv it will hold four heads,
and* that ho sCt this dispatch re
eo-Atly toi his wife: "In spito of a
in-eatonuing rain, large attendanco.
Work went ofl well. 11ome to -
Morrow0 moring. Wait breakfast."
A RiAL, If FAINE.-- A. brave young
Womal nam d Miss Kirg, of Long
Isl:md, saved a young man from
drowning a fow ays ago. He was
bathing and was being carried of'
shoro bv the swift current. Socing
his pecrilous8 position Miss King
jumiped inito ai b)o;t mwd rowved to
his resene. She re:iehed him just as
Ih M was aout to sink from eoxhiaus
tion. 1-fr stuiongth no(t b)eing egual
to the (flOrt of lifting hinm inlto the
boat, she toldl him to hold( fast to
the sternt and thuns she rowodl
ashore. She was perfectly cool and
sel f-possessed unatil the young man
had been1 safely brought to the
beach01, wvhen, like a trne gi rl, she did
the proper thing and fainted.
HAno1 NAMES, Eme -Scaurcely has
the Raccoon of Swat been laid
among his fathers before the Amneor
of Afghanistan appears to test the
Atlantic cable with his ill-timod
poerformanioos; and this, too, whiloe
General Phillipoviehi is bomnbarding~
the Bosnians at Senkovics and
JTanovichi is whooping them up at
Kiobuk. Some idea of the terrors
of a British shindy on the Punjaub
border may be gathered from the
facts that such names as Barrookul
lun, Ghuznoo, Kounegoorum, Moo
takhala and Mnzuifarabad are likely
to be actively involved day after
day.-.Baltimore G'azette.
She was a Boston girl. She was
visiting her Whitehall country
cousins. While wvalking out, several
butterflies passed her. "Oh, dear
me, wvhat charming little birds,
They are p)erfootly exquisite." "They
are not birds, my dear," replied her
country cousin, "they are butter
flies." "Oh, you don't say so.
Then these are tihe dear little cirea
tures that fly from flower to flower
and gather the sweet, yellowv butter
we use ? They are too lovely for
anything.~~ Whitehall TIimnes.
Billy Morris, the wvel,1nownz
ner minstrelt is dea4
At no other season of the year%
are cough and colds so prevalot as
at, the present time, and every
sufferer should chock his co% laintA
at once by the uo of Dr. A41?,
Congh Syrup, and thus provent it
from leading to tscrious lung affoc
tions. *
A groceor boing solicited to con
tribute to tho building of a church,
promptly tisubscribed his name to
'hl impapr in the following manner
"John Jones (the only placO in town
where you cin got eleven pounda
of sugar for a lollar) twontyT-ftvo
(coli. s."
The work of the toinporanco mon
in Iowa during tho past sunmer
Inay be inferred fron the fnot that
over twenty miles of blue ribbon
haVo bael Consu"linod ill the Shape of
six inch badgos,
-.00O- 00 - ---
It is already estimated that the
cotton crop this year will anount to
5,000,009 blos-- quartor of a mil
lion more than that of last year.
VEGETINE.
REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES
,17S floA LTIC STICEET. 11HOOK LYN-, N. Y.,
November 1, 1814.
Dear Sir-i,oin personal bonelit, received by
li w-w, ais well ats from porsonal knowledge ot
I hose whose ules itive semnetl almost miranu
]lus. I enn inost heartily and sincerely recom
meIindl i he veget ine for t-hc complainti s whlh it
is 111111ied to. euro.
JAMES P. LUDTLOW,
T.aie Pastor of Cavalry Ilaptist Ciurch,
1acramento, Cal.
YEGET I NE.
SHE RESTS WELL.
SOUI'll POLAND, ME., October, 11, 1870.
Mn 11. I. sFNvss:
Dw:ir Sir-I have been siWk two yeara with
ite liver emla nt. and during that .ilme have
takn(' a great in'tly different, medicines, but
rtneof 6in dlti ine any gooi. I was restless
at nights, and had no alppti(e. Sincn takinp
t he V E' i- TIN,E I rest. well ani relisli my food.
(.in, reoimmendi t VEoWTNE ror what it has
(1011 0r 1m11. Yourts rep1ect.Iull,
Ml HS. ALBERtT 1IoKERHH,
Nit.ness of tio 0h above',
MIR. GEUOltGl M1. VA1,1011AN,
Medford, Mass.'
VEGETINE.
GOOD FOR THE CHILDIREN.
BOSTON 1[0MR. 14 Tyler Street
).OSTON, April, 1876.
3ti. 11. It. STPYRNS:
Der 5ir-ve fel th.it, the ehtidren in ou,
home' h:ave been evIt1 benefi ed by the Vege,
linle yotl hiv" sop ildly givenl 11 from1 time to
ime, espeeI.a1ly t hose troubled with the Herof,
la. With respect,
M1. N. WOtMELL, Matron.
VEGErINE.
REV. 0. T. WALKER SAYS:
l'i:oN'IDENCF, It. 1., 164 Transit Street.
II. 1i. 5rRxu, s
I iil iounii to ox press wit i my signat ure tho
high value I plae upon your VEO P 'IN. My
familly inve used It. for the last two years. In
iervous tebilix it. is invaluable, and I recom
mend ito all who may icod an invigorating,
r(novating tonic.
0. TP. W ALK Eli
Formerly last.or ol: Bowdoin-square Church,
Boston.
VEGETINE,
NOTHING EQUAL TO IT.
oUTI1 SALEM, MASS., Nov., 14, 1876.
I ha r sle---I hai o b -en troubied wvith Scrofula,
(Cankeri and iver- Complaint, far three yeais.
Not hing ever didi me anyv good until I coim,
muieeed usIng t,he VlE'tETN. I amn now gets
I tng along ifrst-rate. andl st.ll using the Vo e
thn'. I 'ontsltrier there is nothing equal to it ,
such complaints. Can heartily recommend It
to I3veryb)ody. Yours t,ruly,
MitM. I.T,iZiE M. PACKARD,
No. 16, Lagrange Street, Sout,h Salem,'Mass.
VEGETINE.
RECOMM~END IT HEARTILY,
SOUTH HOSTON.
Min. SvmvuEss:
Dear Sir--I have t aken several bottles of your
VEO ETINIE, and am convinced it. is a valuable
remiedly for 1)yspopsia, Kidney ooamplaint, and
(Genoral Debhility of tho system. I ccnn heart,ily
recommiend it, to all sufferers freom the abovq
comnplaints.
Yours respecctfully,
MItS. MUNROQE PARKER,
Prepared by
H. RI. STEVENS, Boqston, Mass,
Vegetine is Sold b,y 41l DruggIsts,
oct 3-4w
WVHISKEYS 1 WHISKF4YS I
T have now In store atnd am receiving
.daily one of the largest and best stocks
of Liquors ever afforod in this nmarket,of
all grades and at any price to stit. my
otustomers. iFino old KContueky Bourbon
andi Rye a specialty. Some of which has
been in bonded Warehouses for four
years and is now mellow by ago, and the
following weoll known brandu always in
stock:
Steno Mountain Corn Whiskey.
Nathan's Cabinet (1863) Rye.
John Gibso"-' Son &Co.'s XXXX Rye,
ALSO,
Brandio ,, Wines, Gins, and everytling
usually femnd in a first qlnq 19
House Give me a call.
oct 12 B. J. *9041I1Y,
yI tou want tI4~
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