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J TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. U.. JULY 3, 1883. ESTABLISHE 848 THE VERDIUT --OF THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! Ma. J. 0. BOAa--Dear Sir: I bought the first Davis Machine sold by you over five years ago for my wife, who has given it a long and fair trial. I an well pleased with it. It never gives any rouble, and Is as good as when first bought. J. W. UOLIcK. Winnsboro, 8. C., Aprli 1883. Mr. BOAO: You wish to know what I have to say in regard to tihe Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. I feel i can't say too much in its favor. I unade about 180,00 w 'hitn five months, at imes running it so fast that he needle would get per fectly hot from friction. I feel confident I could noi have (lone the same work with as much ease an1 so well with any e'tier machine. No time lost in adjusting attachint ts. The lightest running machine I have ever tieadled. Br.therJames and Williams' families are as lunch pleased with their Davis Machtines bought or you. I want no better machine. As I saId before, I don't think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. Itespect fully, EL..EN 'TRVENSON, hairtluMd County, Apri', 1883. Mit. BOAG : My machine gives me perfect satis faction. I find no fault with it. The attachunents are so simple. I wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. Respectfully. M i. It. 31L,i N (. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Mit. 3oAO: I bought a )avis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine from you four years ago. I arm deighted with it. It never has given me any trouble, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good as when I lirst bought it. I can cheerfully recommend it. Respectfully. 1a. M. J. KinKI.AND. Monticello, April 30, 1883. This is to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine for over tw ,years, purchased of Mr. .J. U. Hoag. I haven't found I6 possessed of any fault-all the attachmients are so simuple. It neverrefuses to work, and is certainly the lightest running in the market. I conalder it a first class machine. Very respect fully AIINNIB 31. WII.i.IN(11AM. Oakland, Fairfield county, 8. C. Ma BOAn : I am weii pteasef in every part icular with the iavis Machine uought of you. I think it a lirst-chtss niachine in every respect. You know you sold several machines of the same make to dilrerent mneitibers of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. Rtespect fully, Mts. M. Ii. Moiii.kv. Fairfield county, April, 1883. 'Th is into certify we have ha-l in constant use the Davis 3lachine bought of you about i hree years ago. As we take in work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don't, wantt any better machine.. It is always ready to do any kind of work we have to (to. No puckeringor skspp g ig stitches. We can only say we are well p.ea-ed and wish no better machine. C'AT11EntNE WY I.IsE AND SISTEua. t '? April 25, 183. I have no fault to find with my mach ne, and don't want any better. I have male the price of It several times by taking lit sewing. It is always -readly to do its work. 1 think it a tirst-class maii chtne. I feel I can't say too much for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. 1Its. 'IuMAS 8111T1t. Fairlieid county, April, 1833. Mi. J. O. I1OA0-Dear Sir: It gives me much pleasure to testify to the merits of Ite Dlavis Ver tical Feed Sewing Machine. The ma- hine I got of you about live years ago. has been almost in con stant use ever since that i i me. I cannot see that it is worn any, and has not cost me one cent for repairs since we have had it. Am well pleaseul anl don't wvish .r an.y better. Yours lruly, lioilT. (OR4wFonD, (Granile Quarry, inear Wlonsbu 8. C. We have usedl the Davis Vertical Peel Se wing Machine for the it live years. WVe wvould not have any oilier make at any price. The maichine has given us unbioundeo satisfaction. Very respect fully, Fairtleld county, 8. C., Jan. 27, 18s3. hiaving bought a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Macihine front Mr. J. 0. Boug some1( three rears ago, iand it haviniggiven mte perfect satisfaction ini every respect iata amily imachine both for heivy and light se wing, andi liever needed the least re pair in ay way, I enn cheerfuily recommetti it to any oiie as a first-class mnachint- in every particu lar, and think it second to none. It, is one of the limpiest machines made; my childirein use it wIth all ease. 'lThe attachments are iiore easily adl julsted iand it does a greater range of work by means of its Vertical iVeed than any other ma cihine I have ever seen) or usetd. Mits. TuoMAS OwINOS. Winnsboro, Fair filk county, 8. C. We have had one of the D}vis Machines about four years andt have always found it reauly to dlo alt kinds of work we have Inad occuasion to ,io. Can't see tilat tioe machine is worn any, and wort <ua.s well as when new. Mas. WV. .J. uHA wpoiti, Jackson's Creek, Fairfild conuny, 8. C. My wife is highly pleasedl with the Da:vls Ma chiiie bought of you. She wouldi nt,t take doi ule what, site gave for it. Th imatinie hias not, been3i out of ordier since she had it, andl she can do any kind of work oin it. Very ltespectfully, J AI. F". Pinu . Mont icello, F?airlieldl counity, 8. C. ''The Davis Sewing Miachinte is sImply ia Isrerr itWe Mas. J. A. (GopwvN. ( .J, 0 BoAo, Fs,1., Agenite-Dear Sir: ?ly wife * has beeni usin1g a Davis Sewing Mlachimne conlstanit ly for the past four years, andi it ha,s never- nee-ledi any re pairs an I works just as well as -whent tir st bought. She says it will do a greater rainge of practical work Mnd do it easIer and b,et'.er thaon any miachino sihe has ever usled. WVe ;aheerfully recoimend It as a No. 1 famIly miachiine, Your tru.y, .A.Q )VS Winnsboro, 8. C., Jan. 8, 1883. Mnt. ilOAG: I have al ways found my D)avls Ma chine ready do all kinds oft to work I have had o caion to do. I catnnot see that the machine is worn a plarticle and it works tas wed as when new. lIeApectfully, Mas. It. C. (UoODtNo. Winnsboro, 8. C., April, 1888, Ma. lhoAa: My wife has been constantly using the Davis Macli ne bought.of you about live years ago. I havo never regretted buying it, as it is always reaudy for any kind of fauitly scwliig, either hbeayor light, Iti ne nver out of fix or neuicag Very respectfu.l, P Ifairfend,. C.,t Marolh 1983. H EROES OF THE SHORE. Alone the coast-guard moves upon his beat, Where the mad ocean leaps against the land. With steady, sleepless eye and weary feet, Through the wild bitter night along the strand. le pauses-ahI a light-a vessel's light Is rising, falling with the angry waves; 01 must the awful tempest in its might Hurl fellow creatures helpless to their graves? Red gleams his reaching signal through the dark; Beware! Beware the perils of the shofe! Too latel the helm is gone; the fated bark Strikes on the shoals; the'waters o'er her pour. 0 sleepers, waken to the fearful cry That now comes speeding landward through the gale! liaste1 noble coast-guard, haste! For suc cor fly: All, all are doomed to perish if you faill Swift come the men, roused by the breath less call; Out o'er the wreck their saving line they send. Alhl wonen, children, see they rescue all! Safe! safe on shore where kindly arms extend. Honor the coast-guard for true victories gained! RIaise the glad voice of joy, the song of praiset Let gratitude and justice unrestrained Give to these aging men some sunny days. IN MIDSUMMER. IIands wanted at Willis's IIop Gar dens, Elting." We were sitting in the plhotton in front of Lavaud's Hotel at Ross, when this sign met our eyes. I looked from it to Baby; Baby with a laugh in her blue eyes, returned my gaze. . We understood each other. ''Let us go!" she said, as we drove off. "Now?" I asked. "Nonsense! "Of course not; but we can drive home, hunt up some ol dresses and old shoes, make a couple of old bonnets, and to-morrow morning, when Harry goes away, come and try our luck. "Ib will be great fun.'' Now be it distinctly understood that my audacious friend was "wooed an' married an' a'," while I was a single young woman, accountable only to my self for my misdeeds. "And Harry?" I asked. "We will tell him when we come back." "But,''I urged again, ''what do you imagine we will have to do?" "I have only the vaguest notions of farm-work. "My knowledge has deen principally :lerived from story-books, and I am ifraid their suggestion are, to say the east, unpractical. "I wonder if it is to pare apples, or )r - ". "Pick hops very likely," broke in Baby. "Never mind what it is, we can steal away and go home, if we do not like it." "Very well," I said; and it was set Lied. Harry took the seven o' clock train the next morning with an unsuspicious heart, and his wife and I went home to begin our adventure. We put on two straight, plain calico skirts, and viewed the costumes with much corlplaceney. My jac..et was a loose one, borrowed from Sarah, the cook, Baby tad ripped the ruilhing off her own. Our shoes were a miracle of holes-I yave a fleeting thought to Baby's high F'rench heels. Hop-pickers did not usually wear Ithem, 1 thought; but I saidl nothing. We laughed till we were exhausted it the figures we made. A way we dIrove in high glee, amid the laughter of the servants, who were by this time well used to our p)ranks. "We will be back for the half-past [Wve train,'' shouted Baby, as we turnted mut, at the gate. ''Baby," I saidl, when we were on the Annuadale road, "do you know where it is?" "Which-the gardens or Elting?" "Trhte gardens'." "No; but we can ask." I wonder did there ever present them selves at any place two such remarkable little figures as turned in at Willis's [lop Gardenis. We went past one or two fields, andl met no one. At hast we came to a man with a spadle on'his shoulder. "18 this Willis's 11op Garden?" asked Baby. "'Where (10 t Aey want people to wvork?'' (demanded I, ashamed to let Baby (10 all the talking. "Oh)I, you want a jIob, do you?'' Biaby's sun-bonnet drop~ped antd cluIiv Bred. I knew she was speechtless. "Yes," I said; "where (do we go?" "'To that red building over there. "'Just dlownl that path, and theni to the right." We thanked him, atnd( ran on till we canmo to a great red building, a sort of barni with widle-open doors, and with in mten and women apparently hard at work sorting and picking hops. A fewv turned and stopped their work, looking at usB curiously, but the rest kept otn occasionally exchtanginig a jest with one anothmer. A young man stood in his shirt sleeves-marvellously wItite they were, too-with his back towardls us, giving ordlers to a carnman whlo was loading a wagon. In a mtoment he turned atnd regarded1 us with a broad stare of astonishment. ''Sir," said Baby, "can 'ou give uts any work?" "Will you cotme this, way?" lhe asked, leading uts out of the opposite doorway.. "What can you (do?'' Ite added. "Attythintg," I sid as confidlently as I cold. HIe showed uts a p'ile of hops whitcht was to be sorted1 from leaves atnd branches and put ito baskets, attd wvalked away to the first comners. Baby attd I fell to at otnce. Site kntew what site wais about, and I worked uttder her dhirectiotts. "Oh, Min," shte said, int a wvhisper, ,,we are In a nice scrape If Ito finds us out AntipatMhs and Aversions. Shakespeare, in his "Merchant of Venice." has a well known passage concerning the naccountable anti- t pathies of some men, and an interesting | book might be written on the subject. Not unfrequently these antipathies are stronger, and apparently, most ridieu lous in people whom one might suppose to be loftily superior to anything of the sort. Scaliger turned pale at the sight of watercress; neither he nor Peter, of Albano, could ever drink milk; Cordan was disgusted at the sight of an egg; a French lady "never could abide'' the sight of boiled lobsters, and Ambrose' Pare records the case of a man who was similarly affected by the view of cooked eels. Vaughelim a famous - Hanoveriant sportsman, slew wild boars hInumerable, but ran away from a roast pig, or fain ted if lie had not time to beat- a re treat. Marshal D' Albert was so terrified at the view of the pig's head that if any one had fought a duel with the marshal with a pig's head in his left hand lie would have had as much advantage as t it he had on a suit of armor. So says t I3ussy, Tihe smell of fish threw Erasmus into t a fever. King Vladislas, of Poland, ran away from an apple. Zimmerman records the case of a lady who shuddered on touching the velvety skin of- a peach, silk and satin being equally obnoxious to her, Dr, Beattie tells of a strong man c whom the touch of velvet would dis turb. Lord .Barrymnare could endutre anything but a pansy; the Princess of Lainballe anything but a violet. Gretry, the composer, and Aim of Austria abhorred the smell of roses. We read of a monk who fainted on seeing a rose, and never quitted his cell during the season of their flower lug. F orito, the Italian poet, had ia sim ilar ,version, and so had Vincent, the painter. Scaliger tells of a relative whom the sight of a lily threw, into convulsions. ' henry Ill fainted on seeing a cat, . though he wats passionately fond of lit tle dogs. The Duke of Schomberg had the same mortal antipathy, and the case is recorded of a gentleman who could not even bear to walk under a signboard bearing the image of poor puss. The Duke of Epernon was unaffected by the sight of an old hare, but the sight of a young one sickened him. e The marshal of Breze fainted at the sight of a rabbit; in this case the antip athy could be traced back to his having shot, while firing at a rabbit, a ser- e vant. A hare or fox terrified Tyco 3rahe nearly out of his wits. William Math c ews had-a mortal dread of spiders, and when the Duke of Athole, thihking the antipathy feigned, approached hi .n with his hand shut, Mathews drew his sword, and it was with great dilliculty t lie was prevented killing himself or the duke. Marana, the author of the "Turkish Spy," tells uts that 1he would have pre ferred encountering a lion rather than s a spider. Mather records the case of a a young woman who could see a person .trim his nails with a pair of scissors, f hnt if a knife were employed she fainh ted. C Beaitic tells of a man who had a hor- y ror of seeing a person handle a cork. t Le Mothe de Nayer could not l'ear the y sound of any musical insti 1tment, t though lie delighted in the roar of c thunder. . Augustus had a mortal fear of thun- c dher anid lightning, and thouigh lie al-- x w~auys carried a sealskini as a talismanui t againist them, would hide, if possible, 1 mi a vault. His terror had been inispiredi whien, dlurinig a night march, the light- a nong struck his litter and killed a e slavo by his sidle. A lunar eclipse wvas too much for the nerves of Bacon. Bayle, the phiiloso- f pher, never couldl overcome his antip)- t athy to the sound of water splashing. s T1hie Emperor Hlerachius at the age of fifty nine conlceivedl such an aversion to a the sight of wvater that it was found c necessary to build a bridge of boats across the Bosphorus and screen it I closely wvith boughIs inl ordler that lie might enter Constantinople. Tihe cases are mentioned of one Nie anho, who fainted wvhenever 110 heard a lhute played; aiid a womian in .Namumr who tell into a svoon on. hearing a bell t rung. A residenit of Alcantara was f thrown intojconvuilsionis ait the sound of the wvordi wool, though he wore gar ments of that material. Pennanits, the traveler, had a .great t a1version1 to .wigs, amnd on one memo rable occasion, afte'r exhmaustimng him nmi mi mhaLftdakl.ions5 upon0 the miay3or of Chester's head covering, siratched it oft and fled through the streets wvith it, I p)ursued by the indignant magistrate. ~ Jamies I had a dlecided aversion to the ( sight of a naked swvordI, and Louis XILV ~ abhorred the sight of a gray lhat. P'reolous stones. The Calcutta Exhibition, which will Open on the 5th of December, wi'll be remarkable chiefly for the Juarvellous collection of precious stones that will be shown. Many of thme native princes of Inudia have p)romilsed to lendl their finest jewels, and amnonig these are soe of the costliest In the world. The trea sures of thme Nizam Scindia, Hlolker, theI Gaikwir, and thme Miaharajas of Jampur, Patiala, and Travancor are especially rich in diamonds, rubles, and emeralds; and it is saidl that some of tihe magnates of Bhopal can, if they so choose, cover themselves with pearls. Indeed, .theI wealth of India in precious stones is so immenise as to appear fabulous to West ern minds. Perseverance' can sometimes equal genius In its results. "There are only two creatures," says the eastern pro verb, "'which can surmount the pyra mids--the eagle and the snaIl.' "So Jaok has strained himself train Ing for the double scull race?" said a< Harvard boy to his chum oni tihe float. "Yes, Jack never was very strong." ; "And now," chummed in the first speaker, "harry Will be so angry!" "Lot us steal away," I whispered back; "we can do it in a little while." Still we kept on, half laughing, half dismayed, for a couple of hours, when our master as Baby insisted on calling him, came back. He might have been any age between twenty-flive and thirty, tall, straight, and handsome. "I saw him glance at Baby's white, slender lingers, where, horror of hor rors shone a diamond, which from sheer force of habit she had forgotten to remove. "You are getting along famously," le said, in an amused tone. Then "Will you be so good as to fol low me?" He looked somewhat surprised at the quantity of work we had done. Men did not generally speak in that way to hop-pickers, but we could not in prudence refuse; so we followed him to a little garden, where, under some trees that screened them from observa tion, we found a bench and a rude table. "Will you wait here lie asked. And, touching his hat lie went away. "'Well,'' I cried, sitting down, "if this does not beat everythingl "What does it mllean?" "It means that he found out who we are," answered Baby, dejectedly. "I wish we had not come." "Never mind," I said, consolingly; "it is an adventure; a little more than we bargained for, that is all.'' Just then caine back "our master," carrying a tray which he deposited on the table before us. Our astonished eyes took in wine milk, a cold chicked, fresh butter, and slices of home-made bread. "Mrs. Lester," he said turning to Baby, "will you forgive me for recogniz ing you?" "But it was almost necessary; the men might have leen rude, and it is better that you should go home niow. "You are wondering how I came to know you; but 1 have seen you often driving around the country with your friend. "My name is Roger Carlyle." Baby laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks; "Mr. Carlyle," she said, 'I am infin itely obliged to you. 'We saw the sign yesterday at Ross, and thought we would come for the fun of the thing. "But I had no idea we were to have such al adventure. "I have an idea that you are nmasquar ading yourself." "Well, I am," he acknowledged. "I ai acting to-day for my uncle, who owns the place. But will you not eat something? "You must be hungry.'' We were starving and did full justice to the nice luncheon. While we were eating, lie went to the inn for a conveyance, and brought it round to us. "Good-bye," said Baby, as he gave her the reins; and be sure you coie and see us. "Mr. Lester will be glad to thank you." He laughed and promised. "Oh, Baby!" I said, when we were well on our way.. "What a scrape!" "Pshaw!'' returned Baby. "It was plenty of fun; but neverthe less, we will not do it again." As the half-past five train came in, two irreproachal'!y dressed young ladies sat in a poiy-ti:ueton, waiting for harry Lester. We told him about it after dinner, and though lhe scoldied, lhe hiad to laugh, part,icularly when we dIOnnied our cos tiumes to give him an idea of the ef fect. Onie good thing came out of it all OUr friendship with Roger Carlyle. Hie came over as lhe had pbromised, and1( gave Hlarry a very ludicrous ac count of oiur proceedings. Did it ever lead to more than friend ship? IIow curious yo0u are! P'erhuaps. A liglanid Oraiine. It is almost certain that the dog usedl by the 01ld Celtic tribes of Scotland and Ireland W.. not the modern stag hound, swift and strong and beautiful as it is, for in dlealig with b)adger and1( otter a (log of this kind would be of little or no usec. Nor could their favorite dlog have been of the niature of the muodern ter' rier; for such a (log, again, howvever goodi for otter and badger, would mani festly, from lack of strength and speed, be but a poor ally in the chase of the elk or stag, or boar. The onuly (log thait now-a-days, if kept for pburpose, could be depended(ic( upon in the varied, rough-and-tum-ble chuas'e in wvhich the .Fingalians so much dlelightedl, would be the collie, for lie is sagacious andl strong, and swift and( sure; far sighted at once and exquisitely keen of nuose; as clever with all sorts of vermin as a terrier, and( more to be dlependedl upon01 ini track ig and( bringing to hbay a (leer than anyW staghound. A collie, in short, is lit, or could be easily made 40 to go) any where and do any thing, andi( there can be little dloubt, we think, that the famnous (logs of the Fingalian baldads, the Br-ans, Gr-umacI ,Biubhlachs, &c., were collies. Whatever anuy other (log can (10 the collie can, with very little trouble, be taught to (d0 (uite as well, or better; his extraordlinary sagacity, q1uiet self possession, anid constant an xiety to p)lease beinig a foundi(ationl on which lny amnounut of dog-usefulness can be reared in the shiortest pbossible time, anmd with the least possible trouble. P'roperhy caredI for as a pup, thme collie grows up a (log not eonly of mnarvellous' sagacity, but of .great strength and speed as wellh, with an amount of courage that nothing dlaunits, and( utter ly free fgom those fits of sulkiness and ill-humor which so frequently cause an noyance in the case of otherwise very excellent (logs of their kind. Collies have for some time beeni fashionable as complanions8 and pets, for which their good temper sagacity, and beauty em Inenitly fit tiem. We have long beeni fully persuaded that, wvell-bred and pro peily attended to, they might easily be made the best sporting dogs ini the world. 1110o1od iIe was a Tramp, It cane to pass, that a certain railroad nan sent forth his servants to call them hat were bidden to the wedding, and hey would not come. Again he sent forth other -servaits, aying, tell them which are bidden, be 0ol, I have killed the old lien and pre nred the wedding.tinner and opened a :eg of nails and all things are ready for lie blowout. But they made light of it and went lieir ways, one to his farm, another to is drug store, and another to his grist uill and the remainder took the ser 'ants and entreated themn spitefully ,id put a tin ear on them, and frescoed hem with Michael Ailgelo eggs. But *hen the railroad king heard of h he bounced the entire outfit and shut If their passes and raised their freight arlif and busted themi up in their busi ess and smote them sore on the gable nid of their intellects and iade it red ot for them. Then lie said unto his servants, the eedding is ready, but they which are iddent are not worthy. Go ye therefore down the sidetracks nd into the round house and the water tlik and tho cabooses and the gravel rains and gather together ts many as e shall find and tell them to come over o the wedding feast and fill them elves up. And the servants wh nt forth and munded upas many as they could find oth good and bad and bade them to the 3ast. And when the king went into the re eption room he found there a mal who ad not on a spank tail coat and low ecked shoes and clocked socks. And lie saith to him: "Pardner, how omneth it that thou art here 'without ny store clothes on, and wearing in Lead a linen duster and jim-crow raim ut generally." And the nai was at first speechless it he answered yet aga a: "Oh, railroad kimgl live forever. I now that I am here without a wedding arment; but beholk, I amn a conductor n thy line, and I have reformed, and ave ceased to 'knock dowli;' and be old thy servant is poor, and the is try ig to live on his salary. And the king was wroth, and told the slier to gather him in and take him by te slack of his raiment and to cast hi ver the outer wall, and there was 'eeping and gnashing of teeth." And while the wedding guests made lerry and whooped it up, the man who ,as east out (lid steal around and be Ulme solid with the cook, and filled him 31f up with the wedding feast on the iy. And it Caime to pass that when lie had aten of the fatted calf and the wed ing cake, and absorbed all the chain agne that he could carry away, lie rawled into the mow and slept till the ock crew. And when the morning was come, he )urneyed over the railroad track to rard Salt Lake; for behold lie was a r'alnp. A Forgetful Chief Justuu. Chief Justice Jones of Nev York was o fond of society that he never declined i invitation to a dinner or to an eve ing party. But "his lionor" was a orgetful and an over-worked man, and is desk at home, where lhe studied his ases, was loaded with papers of the lost risc'ellaneous character. When lie desk could hol no more, lhe would 'ut the papers into a basket, and then lhe process,of accumulation would go i as before. One day the chief justice, needig a ertain paper, runmliagedl through the ,ell-filled basket and found an inivita ion to a p)arty. That evening lie diressed imself, amd, about 1) o'clock, walked ito the house of his friend, arrayedI in vhiite kids, white cravat, swallow-tailed oat, and in the other essenmtials of a arty suit. On being ushered iinto the parlor, lie aund, to his surprise, thme host sitting here alone, readling his paper, but no ignts of a p)arty. "I'm afraLid I have made ai mist,ake, ir;'" said the chief justice, after the ordlial greeting of his friend. "If you have," wvas the courteous re ly, "I am obliged to the mistake, for it a's given nme the honlor of youir coiii "Buthaven't you a party to-night?" "No, sir." '"Is not that from you, pir?'' a sked' lhe jud(ge, as lie.drew forth a snmll note rin his poceket. "Certainly, judi(ge," rephledI thme host, but thait was for this day of the month inst yeaLr, wvhen I recollect that we had lbe pleaLsure of your comnyany." Unirn F1411len~Ity. Onme of the most remarkable reasons robably ever urged for pardon of aL rmmminal has been p)resentedl to the tovernor of North Carolina in appli ation for the release of Tim Buckner, negro desp)erado, confied in jail. kbouit eighteen months ago B uckne nocited a riot, and( placed hinself at the end( of 100 lawless negro lumibermnen, vho threatenedl to (destroy the town, L'he Gov'enor wmis coiimelled to call out, hie military before the riots were sup >ressed. Bucknier was conivictedl and( cut to jail for twno yeiLra for being the ing lead(er of-the miob. At the timie of is arrest the negro owned two cooii logs which daiily visltedl the Court dur ng the trial of their master andm( sat by lis side. After IBuckner wasii sent to Lil, the poorm brutes took up their staL ion at the jailyaLrd do(or. During Bucknier's impilrisonmenlt the Logs have not been absent from their uost a single night. They relieve each thier duriing (day to get food, but aLt ight are conistaintly at the doocr. Th'le cole of the towmi became attractedl by ingulhar evidlence of the dlevotion of thme lummb creatures to their master. They milt a keiinel near the jail (door and( vithin sight of Bluckner's cell ind(ow. 4ovenor Jarvis' W~ife visited the pilace aL 'ow days ago, andI was moved to tears >y the wonderful fidelity of Buikiner's logs to their mnater. She has joined itheors in recommending theGovernor to Iardlon Buckner, who still has a year to or.ve. Thme principal rtasonms urged for Executive clemency are thme facts here 'elnted. Soda cure for the Skin. It Is now many years ago that the author, while engaged in some investi gations as to the qualtities and effects of the alkalies in inflamations of the skin, etc, was fortunate enough to dis cover that a saline lotion, or saturated solution of the bicarbonated soda in either plain water or camphorated wa ter, if applied speedily, or as soon as possible, to a lurni or scalded part, was effectual in immediately relieving the acute burning pain; and when the burn I was only superficial Qrlot very severe, removing all pain in a'-Very short timne; having also the v'ery great advantage of cleatnlinoss, and if applied at once, of preventing the usual consequences a painful blistering of the skin, separa tion of the epidermis, and perhaps, more or less suppuration.. . For- this puri., all that is necessary is to cut a piece of list, or old soft rag, or even thick blotting paper, of a size suflicient to cover the burned or scalded parts, and to keep it constantly well wet with the sodaic lotion so as to pre vent its drying. By this means it us ually happens that all painl ceases in from a quarter to half an hour, or even in much less time. When the main part of a limb, such as the hand and 1 forearm or the foot and legr, has been 1 burned, it is best, when 1riacticable, to plunge the part at once into a jug or pail, or other convenient vessel filled with the soda lotion, and keepit there until the pain subsides; or the limb may be swathed or encircled with a sur- t geon's cotton bandage previously soaked im the sature(d solution, and kept constantly wet with it, the result being usually immediate, provided the solution be saturated and cold. What is now usually sold as bicarbonate of soda is what I have commonly used and t reconnended, although this is well known to vary much in quality accord- t ing to where it is manufactured; but it will be found to answer the purpose, although probably Howard's is the I most to be depended-ou , the common carbonate being too caustic. It is be lieved that a large proportion of iedi cal practitioners are still uliaware of the remlarkable.qualtities of this easily applied remedy, which recomniends itself for obvious reasons. Wrecks of Washington Lire. The streets of Washington are lined with old battered wrecks that the waves and winds of politics have cast ashore froin time to tUme. It is a fact, how- 1 ever well known here, that a majority of tho.se who are forced out of public I life and settle in Washington turn out as "ne'er do weels." I know a gradu ate of Harvard College, who wis him self the President of a college, a Sena- i tor in Congress, and subsequently in a i vosition of almost unequalle(l power,wno "settled", in Washington. Drink and cards brought him to ruin, and lie was, I if I an not wrong, once in jail and t many times in the station house. Hie was at superior scholar, an eloquent 5 speaker ai4 an able thinker. It was ( not unusuM for him to accost his for mler friends and ask for a quarter to t buy him something to eat. Where lie t is now I do not know. I know of as I sad a case in the lower house-a man a of colnnanding mind an(d presence and rarely gifted as an orater. Ile was at 1 one time a member of the c6nstitutional ( convention of Kentucky, afterwards a t member of the State Legislature of Ca- t lifornia, and was elected to codify the laws of that State; was an elector on I the Frenont ticket in 1836; was Re- ( ceiver of Public Moneys in one of the c Territories, anld subsequnen tly Surveyor-] General, and then served two terms in t the hlouse, lie was sought by all thet scientihic, religious atid literary socie- c ties hlere, and1( stood as high as any mnan inl either bn,muchi of Congress. WVell, 'J what of itY you ask. Well, tis~ of it :. For several years past that man kep)t - a one of the lowest dives and brothels in p the city, where young meni amid wveaki tmeni were lured by ruin, cards and wo- . ' men. JIe (lied tile other day ill this a mtiserable lloyel and( -was folwdtoi the grave by a dlepraved creature of the c town whlom lhe called his wife. I ce.a ploinIt out to you cx-Senators hero who cait scarcely buy the(ir breakfasts, wvho are so seedly andi( dilapidated that they will cross thle street rathler than meet an 0old friend. There tire ex-cabiniet oilicers whoi usedl to bespatter "u15 coin n11on pleople" wvith nmudl from their car inge wheels as they rolled grandly on, who are now not recognized by thteir former associates. There are ex-Go nlerals inl the army, whose nameslti have hlonorable mientioni in history, and( on whose shoulders the dlou ble star of a l.jor-G;eneral set witht pide, now~ 50 l'poor awl( it he)pless that theiy aire olfteni armugty wiLasout a cenit to buy icogd. A Cauvo in a Quaaarry. A remarkable discovery has beemi miade by Edward Brown, a qularymmanu 1 at Johnmsonm's quarries, nmear Pocopson,i Chester county, Pa. Brown had reached a dlepth of teni feet, aiid after I dIrillinig a 111lin what hie supposed to< be solidl rock lie charged it with powder, lbghted tile fuse andi retired out of dani- I ger. After the blast went oft lie re-( turnedl, w~hien, inlstead( of. 111bimg brokent 1 like, be discovered wh'lat looked mocre 1 liea kitchen which had1( just been< through an experienice with a Western cyclone. There was a stove, a lot of I tiln cans, ant iron 1)ot, a niason's trowel, a sing ularly-shiaped axe and sonic bones.1 The pulace where the thinigs were founid 1 1had( evidently been a cave, fthe miouthi of which hlad beenl coveredl up, and was I probably the hidinig-place of some crim ial in the early days of thte century, I whlen hihwaymon wer*e numerous in Chester equnitj. Joe lhare was borni a withini a quarter of a mmile of the cave, I 1and( possibly lhe retiredi there to live a whenm pursuied. .lie wvas a noted high- i wvaymant, who wvas hanged nit Trentoni for robbing tihe Uniited States nil near f Lainater. The quarry wais until withini a few years covered with heavy 1 timber and1( thick underbrush, making 1 it a good hiding-place. Mucli Interest- .1 fns been exhibited in the articles found, m which will be stored away as relics. Feebleness of means Is, In fact, the blen ess of him that employs thnm. , The death of the owner of Lundy Is land, England, is an event that suggests ionme strange reflections. Mr. Ileava t was the owner of the little principality which he; so long ruled with patriarchal .are, and he had an advantage which 'ew sovereigns nowadays possess, of Jm ng uncontrolled by constitutions, cabi let or Parliament. It is true that th( >wner of Lundy was not what in the >ld German Eimpire waus called "un nittelbar," but as Clovelly townt. is a ,ood twelve miles of stormy sea from. is domain, the queen's writ was slow n running thus far. For ninny years ,he Government has been anxious to buy lie island, in order, if necessary, to ,rect fortifications there; but Mr.Ileavan holding that it was better to be first man in Lundy than the second in Britain, stoutly refused to part with him--rocky eritage. Lundy Island is one of the iortions of what may be called unex lored Britain, over which the historian 111(1 naturalist might linger longer thian ts diminutive area would appeart o justi 'y. Every voyager who has passed up ir down the Bristol Cliat,nel knows its vild cliffs, noisy with sea-fowl, render di famous by the picturesque passage njwhich Charles Kingsley has celebrated hem. Every year liundreds of vessels ake shelter under these glantite rann ari s, and the steeple of St. Mary's tedcliffle. is not more fanilar to the nariners who hail from the port of 3ristol than is the "Constable" of "Old .undly." Sailors refer to the isle in erms o ' affection, just as yachtsman 11(1 hoimesick Iudians speak of "the Jear Old Rock " and perhaps for the anme reason. it is the last bit of Brit sl soil they m'ay see for long months r years, and on their return its gray rags and flashing light are the first tangible evidence of the uative land be iig once uore in view. Yet in itself he island is as prosaic a spot as cam vell be imagined. It has the rucins of a ca-king's stronghold, at Pharos built ol, he site of St. Aine's chapel, a mansion iouse, some granite quarries, and a few Lairy farms. With the oi'-lying "Slut'' t comprises about two tiousand acres, nd in all it is only three miles long by ne broad. Butter, gannets an(1 granite re its chief products, and though a few heep, goats, horses and cattle graze the erbage of its narrow valley, big blocks f stone form its main export to the inter world. Lundy is not a hospitable pot for apart from the diliculty of caching it except iln open boats or in tone-bearing barges, the shores are ocky and precipitous, guarded by num rous treacherous reefs, and the solitary ailiding-place is surrounded by jagged >oints, which make strangers wary of .plproaching it even when the sea is mnooth and the wind fair. The Lundy tes are therefore not much troubled vith visitors, for though the quarrymen ome and go, most of theim are natives, Lud so attached to the island that, unless or ai run to Clovelly or Barnstaple, they arely care to leave their lonely home. r.ike most islanders, they are a little uspicious of "foreigners" from Glou ester and Glanorgan who are ignorant f mining and have the misfortune not o be Devon folk. The soil is not more han suflicient for those who find a liveli tood oil it, and island lpolitics have al rays tended to teach the lesson that tray men from the mainland must be egarded as boding no good to the hon st citizens of Lundy. Among other raditions confirmatory of this maxim is he curious story of how in the reign of Villiam and Mary a ship flying the )utch colors landed a party of men, stensibly for the purpose of buying one f their colmrades iln consecratedl ground. ni reality they w~ere Freinchmen, and7 he conhin contained3( weapons with wvhich lie marauders armed themselves ini thei hurch, after requesting the islanders to Lave thmn alone to their funeral rites. Lheni issuing forth they desolated the ttle farms, 1am-stringing the horses nd( bullocks, flinging the sheep and oats over the cliffs and stripp~ing the ihabitants of the very cloths they wore. hle i nh abitants of Lundy are therefore vary of anybody seeking their hospital Ly, and manage to get on very wvell with uit newsplap)ers and1( telegrams, The Turkiah& Grocer. The Turkish grocer, conspIcuous by' is sniow-whiite turban and his flowing card, sits cross-legged oni the high aised floor of his shop. with a by no ieans isitant background of caiisters mid bottles; wilth his scales suspended roni the roof, and with all the materials f his trade ch,.se and readly to his hand. Jsually a female friend or purchaser is ,lso seated on1 the shop1-boarti but with her legs dependent in the af.reet. Of ourse shie wears a yaslunak and feridjee, mit a yashmak is-no bar to oral coniver at.iom, and still less is it a bar to them aniguage of the eyes, andit conversaltion >f the one( 1(md( 01r tile othier, goes on for mi ind(eiinite timei between the grocer md1( his visitor. Whenl a veritable ecus ,oiler arrives the 01(1 Turk dhoes not ,rouble himlself to remove the chilbouque 'rm his lips, but stretches out his hand 0 thet required canlister or bottle, dIraws lown the scales from the roof, anid sup >hies the article dlemandled. Sittinig, as ie does, a little above the faces of Is ustomners, 1he looks down giavely and >enevolently upon01 them and seems to ay: ''Look aroundii, there are 110 dlark :01rnehrs in my shop1; no 51and( caln lurk . Indetectedl in the sugar which I pIresent o) you ini the lighlt of this blazing suu tor could the insidious horse-bean, ift vere to introduice it amnong the fragrant >eries of Mocha, escape your penetrat uig gaze. " The restaurateur's cook, as he standls behlind his smoking pots 1and( hinhig stewp)ans, in like mnanmner takes lie entire crowd of spectators imnto his onnfdenice, and defies thlem to mistake rabbit, wvhich lie dlissects before them, or a cat or a puppy.' Al ltheotradesmn nd( hiandilcraftsmnen sedrn to say to the niteninig purclinsers: "]3ehold us! We r'e all faIr and above board. You will ind in us no untradespet-like artifices. Ve lay blare to you'all thue'arts amid nysteries of our' ci'aftsi." Would you mly a gorghian,(wadded quilt,)' you shlall ee us weigh out the cottoni which it hall contain, anid you may wvatchi us as &e mnake it ui, and judgesfor y'ourself vhether we ar6 the meni to coninive at ~he surreptItIous insertion of inferior naternt l,