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b A 14- i ILN ESTABLISHED- 1865. N.EWBEIIR1Y, S. C., THIURSDAY,MY1,188 RC INGALLS AND VOORHEES. The Two Senators Lose Their Teznper and Use strong Wiords. The Kansas Senator, after reviewing and quoting several documents and let ters intended to establish the truth .of his charges that Generals McClellan, Hancock and Fitz John Porter, and the bulk of the Northern Democrats sympathized with the South and with slavery during the war, assailed the loyalty of Voorhees himself, dwelling with special bitterness on an alleged speech of Voorhees in 1864 in which he denounced Lincoln as a dog and ad vised his hearers to put on their dogs iron collars marked "A. Lincoln." Voorhees replied, denouncing the charges against McClellan, Hancock and himself as exploded falsehoods, accusing Ingalls of trying to crawl out of his accusations of treason against the dead Generals and taunting him with holding a bomb proof during all the actual fighting. Ingalls responded to the speech of Voorhees, and said that no one was more conscious than he of the duty which he owed to his country, and of his unpaid obligations of gratitude to those who had done what he under other circumstances might have done. As the Senator from Indiana had seen fit to invite comparison between their records and their relations to the great questions of the past twenty-five years, he felt it his duty to put on record, from information in his possession, what the Senator's record and history was. He should refer only to public matters in the public records and should venture the affirmation that whatever might have been his own (Ingalls') relations to the great struggle between the North and South, the Senator from Indiana had been from the outset a determined, outspoken, positive, aggressive and malignant enemy of the Union cause. "I pronounce that," said Mr. Voor hees, rising with anger in his eyes, "to be a deliberately false accusation. I voted for every dollar that paid the soldier, for every pension bill that re warded his services." Mr. Inzalls refered again to quota tions he had made from Voorhees speeches. pa. Voorheep asserted that not one k"gr4 gr syll .ble read by the Senator was, trhe, qr believed 1o be true in In d1i4nm. The accusation had been trampled under foot, The Senator's insinuation that he (Voorhees) had ever been a member of the political secret society-the Knights of the Golden Circle-was so base and infamously false that he (lid not know how to choose language to denounce it as such. [This caused a sensation in the gal leries, and manifestations of approba tion and approval and the Sergeant-at Arms was directed to laie under ar rest any person thereafter violating the rules of the Senate.] MIr. Ingalls referred to the speech made by Mr. Voorhees in Virginia just before the war, in which, he said, Mr. Voorhees adlvocatedl both slavery and secessnl. Mr. Voorhees stated that lhe had not 1ad he w%s hi*ifa'hor of the destruction IS-en b'ut hit ha{t said he was glad Ihad takien p)lc an~d he was. Mr~. Ingahle-"The Senator from In diaina, at the time when he delivered that speech, had two editions preparedl. one for circulation in the North andl one for circulation in the South." [Laughter.] Mr. Voorhees-"That is not true." Mr. Ingalls-"They arc accessible to day-just as much as the statutes of the United States." Mr. Voorhees-" Bring them in. I say it is not true. I have heard that in campaigns before." Mr. Ingalls reiterated his chlarge that Mr. Voorhees had been a member of the Knights of tile Golden Circle, and -Ncharged that a Captain Shute had been given an appointmient as Brigadier General in the 'armies of the Confed cracy upon r. lcLter of recommnenidationi f'rom~ Mr. Voorheces, and asked :"Did not the soldiers of' Indiana thlreateni to hang the Senator with a bell-rope on the train, after he made that Lincoln dog speech'." Mr. \oorhees-"'The Sen~.ator is a great liar when he iniates such a thing-a great li..ar and a dirty (dog. It never occur.ied-nlever in the world. That is al the answer I have, anld I - ... nack to the scoundrel behind the "5enator, who is instigating these [This remnaak was made in reference to Representative Johnston, of Indian na., who was seated at a desk directly in rear of Mr. Ingalls.] Mr. Ingalls referred to the certiticate he had read signed by citizens of Sulli van County, Indiana, asserting that they had heard tile speechl fronm which he ingalIsi hpp qqloted, and( said: :heisa very reputable gentlemnan ~n the chanmber, a citizen oft Indiana, who informs mec that the signers of that eerg itic.ate reentirely reputable inl habintnts (of Indiana, and that he knows tifty people wvho heard the Senl ator." Mr. Voorhees-"Tell hinm I say he is ani infanmous scounmmdrei andt a liar. Tell him I say so." D)ont't Smile. Out in Neb,raska there is a curious couple, husband and wife. Theymc quar reed t wenty yer ago and hlave nlevel spoken to each othler since. Many attemplts hiave' beeni miade to iniduct themi to break silee. but all to n( all. This is a 5ad dory, but it wouhi be mor~e effective as a moral if the hus: bandand wife were not both amb'. TWO GIRLS FIGHT A DUEL. noth Loved the Same Cowboy and Hate Each Other. S.A MALeOs, N. ., Mlay . duel took place a few days ago bet we two lovesick 31ormon maidens at small Iormon settlement in Lun valley, this county. Tney had beeonl enamored of the same youth, Jan WVhitmian, a cowboy and a G;ent ih Their names are Saral' Bolloin a11 Mary Leenore, aged sixteen and eigI teen years. They were always friend up to the time of their love afitir. The mllet a short time before the duel in th adobe tabernacle in the hamlet and hai a tight right then and there. This in creased their hatred, and from tha time up to the day of the duel ete went armed with a revolver. The: finally met by mutual agreement o the outskirts of t he small village an proceeded to fight a duel. There wer no attendants. They measured of about twelve paces drew their bael toward each other, then wheeled, ant fired shot after shot. The firing a tracted the attention of some farmer working near by who rushed to th scene of the duel. When they arrived Miss Bollon wa lying on the ground screaming, wit blood flowing from an ugly wound i the shoulder. A few feet from her la her revolver in the dust. M1iss Leenior stood like a statue about a rod awa looking silently at her p)rostrate riva with her revolver still smoking in he hand. When the men approached t disarm her she fled, and shrieked. "Yes, I have killed her, and I a glad of it !'' Miss Bollon was carried to the neal est house, where her wound was dresset She was found to be seriously, thoug not fatally, wounded. No arrests hay yet been made. Our Baby. KY A WIv. [London Tid Bits.] I never could see the use of babie: We have one at our house that belong to mother and she thinks everything< it. I can't see anything -indcrfu abcut it. All it can do is to cry, an pull hair and kick, It hasn't half t1: sense of my dog, and can't even chas a cat, Mother and he wouldn't has a dog in the house, but they are alway going on about the baby, and saying. "Isn't it perfectly sweet !" The worst thing about a baby is th; you're expected to take care of hit and then you get scolded afterward: Folks say, "Here, Jinmy, just hold the baby minute; that's a good boy"; and the as soon as you ha.e got it, they sa: "Don't (10 that! Just look at him! Th. boy will kill the child! Hold it ui straight, you goodl-for-nothinmg litt: wretch!'' It's pretty hard to (1o your best an then be scolded for it, but that is tii way boys5 are treated1. Perhaps wht I'm big, folks will wish they had doi: diffe~renttv. Last'Satufda' mother an Sue went out to nitake calls and tol mec to stay at home and take care of tI baby. There wvas a football match o1 b)ut what did they care for that? The. didn't want to go to it, and so it nmat nto dIim-rence(' whether I went to it ntot. They said they would be gone only little while, andl if the baby waked ui I was to play with it and keep it from crying, and "beC sure and1 not let swallow any piins.' Of course, I ha to do it. The baby was sound aslet when they went out, so I left it just fewy~ minutes while I went to see if thi was~ any cake in the pantry. II was a woman I wouldn't be dreadfully suspicious as to keep ever; thing lockedl up. WXhen I got back uj stai:s again the baby was awake, an was howling as if he was full of pimn So I gaive him the first thinig that canm handy to keep him quiet. It happenw to b'ea bottle of polishi, wIth a sponis on the end of a wire that Sue used 1 black her boots, because girls are t lazy to use the regular blacking brusl The baby. stopped crying as soon as gav.e him the bottle, and I sat down 1 readl a paper.~ The niext time I lookt at hint he'd got out the sponlge, an about half of his face was jet bluel This wyas a nic fix, for I knewv nothiin could get the black ott' his face: an when mnother camne home she would sa the baby was spoiled amnd I had doi it. Now I think an all-black baby is ev. so ruuchi more stylish than alt all-whtil baby, and when I saw that the hall was partly black I niade up, my nmimi that if I blacked it all over it would 1 worth more than it ever had been, ani amid perhaps muother would b.e ever, much pleased. 5io I hurried up an ga.ve it i good eQat of black. You shoul have seen how that baby shined! il polish dried as soon its it was put ndIhdjust time to get baby dressi again when mother and Sue camei( i: I wouldn't lower myself to repeat the unkind language. When you've beeni called a miurderim little villain and ami uninatural son w ill rankle in your heart fo.r ages. A ft. what they said to mec I didn't evi seem to miind1 about father. but wel up)stairs with him almost as if I w going to church, or something th. didn't hurt much. The baby is b)eaul ful andI( shiny, though the doctors s it will w'ear oft' in a few weeks. Nobm shows any gratitude for all the troul, I took, and I can tell youi it isn't 'a: to blac'k a baby wt,i ont gettinig it ini his ey'ee anud half I :.ometies thiu it is hardly worth while to live in tl] NEW SOUTHERN WODlS. A l'irked From ('aarle,' E;bert (ra.idork', i NovelK. [From Nashville Aimericai.] :A letter front a gentlemaii of tiis city with regard to the article on Miss V ur tfre's new words, repriitel from tie c New York Indepel(ent inl the Am11eri ('ei of April 2, gives some valuale .inform,ation. I have hithert(, sought t 1 in( vain for the locality where \Iis F - MIufree's "deedie" is used. In the , s suniier of I4~> I made inquiriesaiong the mountaineers of the Smokies, but ( e could find no one who knew the word. 1 But, now, a gentlenan who traveled for several years in eastern Kentucky, t says that "leedle" is common eilougli in Pike Martin, Floyd and Johnsoln ! . Counties in that State. Mv inforiant thinks it "purely a inountain word, not ! I iueh used along the Big Sandy river, e except in imitation of those who live at a 1" somedistance from it." le says 'ueedle' t is also used in north Alabama. The I same authority states that spun-stuck is comllon in the Kentucky counties l mentioned above. I was sure that Miss e Murfree had not coined either of the above words, though I had not heard s them used, I am glad now to confess (I . j my error in charging her with coinling the words buzzardy and foreshortly. V MIy correspondents says "buzzardy' v e has only been used by negroes in my , , presence," while the captain of a h1o,- t ,gang "often said 'foreshortly' for imie- I r diately, when he afflcted great ilmpres- V U sivec'Ss. I ail reminded by this letter that I t A have several times been told, afi er triti- (I eising _Miss Murfrees, or Solmc other i. person's use of dialect, that I was in f error above some of the words, but I h have rarely been able to get any definite i e information. And yet it would seem to T be so easy for any one who has heard a t word to state how and where it was e used. Nor is the matter unimportant, 11 A recent letter from one of the workers y oil the great Century D)ictionary show- it ed that an article on "Southernisns" i was being consulted in compiling this 1; lalloth lexicon. Any of us may c contribute to the accuracy of that and a similar works. I would esteem it a e great favor to be corrected by anybody as to the use of:lny proviteialismis, and f to receive from any source lists of un- c e usual words. Two eases would have 3 taught me, if the lessons had not already a been learned, the necessity of care s in making assertions about the use of t words. I was on the point of -denying 1 the use of "to" for "at" in a certain part I of the South, but fourtunately found t occasion to correct it in the very clii- I dren around Ine before referring to it in L print. After criticising Miss Jlurfree i afor making one of her characters say. "Ef Vander air lef be" (let be, I was t' amused to hear the expression drop naturally from tile lipls o,f the little nlegro whoopenedI the Vanderbilt malin I e ga*te. 4 A lett:rjust received from Chlarlestonl, 1 S. C., iformis me that "deedle" is a namie griven. toi little chliCikens ini Berkew 1ev county, . C.ktir * at Chne o hreIvno F,.Iorumi.]t I hkave ofteni takCen oiccasioni to reark I that tIle world is awaiting thle ap)pear- I anele of three inivenitors, greater thtani an~y who have gone before, and to a whomn it will accord honors and emIolu mienlt far exceeding all ever yet received I by any of their piredecess-ors. T1hie first t is 'kwho will show us how, b.y the combIustioni of fuel, directly to produce t) the electrie current ;the second~is tiheC aman who( will teach us to reproduce I thle beautiful light of the glow-worml r (and tile fire fly, a lighIt without heat, I the pIroductioni (of which meanstl tile utilization of energy withIout that stillt 1moltre serious waste thanll the thermio dlynamlic not niet with inl tihe attemt i toi prodluc liglit; while the third is the inivenItor whol( Is toi give us the Iirst I p lractically successfulI air ship. Tile I first two oif thlese pIrobileIs are set fori tile electrical enlginleer, and we my he< prneecss of faith,. should it pirove< to lie such, when, 'onltemplIlat ing the I enlormlous. gainl toi hlumlanity wich i miust come (of such inivenItionls, we loo k coidl(ently for the genius whoi is toI mlultipily tile wealth of thle world to ani extenlt beie which even thke boonI conl ferredl by tile ceators oft tile steami d4 enlgine4 and( thle telegraph will not apt p ear overshadowinig. When thkis ink ventor comtes forward, anid mosIt pirobla lv not till thlen, it is veryv ikelv thakit wV -51hall see' steami supiersedied by a .0 Wasu irN, 31ay 5.-Toi-day wa d thke thlikteenthl dayt oft the- tarit! deba:te e which were agreedl upIon as tile limuita Ition after the discussIon had runi along dfor three days without an1 agrreemient. i lht dalys mlore oif the seventeen re r main, aside fronm thet night sessions,5 w henl on!ly one( Repub licanl spoIke. The timhe lhas ben rema:rkaly evenly di videdi bietweenl tile friends anid 01pp) nlents oft the bill, its frienids hiavitng Ii cons=umed twenty-six hou41rs and1 forty t minu1ltes and its (opponenits hlaving it ltllutes. A Riot ink a Mill. le. Br.A(KviLLI., 3av -I. -A row1 ic e urredl this uItorping ilnag thle hatnds 1o aIt the steamlill of11 tiJ. W. Woodward, .kinear Itarntwell, in whtich (one got 1badly is beaten and1( eut andi (one.-hot, all colored. AN A3ERICAN 1'OM l'EI. Itundreds of 31Iles of Canalt arl I)itct he Ituina of a City 2,o00 Years Old With a lopulation of 20,000. [C'or. St. Louis lh"1tilpuli,lm.] t MM.icoP.l Wi.s, Ariz., April :. iere the vallevs of the ('ila :01 its rinccipal trib utarv, ."alt -river, :1re Ione. L line rin in a northerly c ourse across ie valley through 'aMricopa and I'h'- I ix woul be nearly one hundredl liles >ng from lmloultainl to lloultain. This alley land is, so far .as the eye call dis r, as smcooth and level as the surface v f a lake. There are hundreds square tiles of it in this iit'di:ate ueighb or- h ood. Each of the two rivers ab)V ienitioned has s nuch wate' in it here i t this time as the Iio (urauide has at 1 :1 Iaso. The beds of tile river'sare not iore than fifteen feet below t:.e plain, that nature has provided b otunte u1sly for a Past anli 110 d1ou1bt t)1' a 1'u Ire large agricultural comimunity. Fifteen miles southeast of Ih''"nix., ut only three miles east of the Pi(e ix branch railroad, is a spot inl the lail called by the Mexicanls "Los t Iuertos" (the dead.) T'hi, is the site, l f the ruins of the once popc)lulons, i- ii ustiious and ENTERI'Rt5IN(: Zt'NI CITY, llich- 3Mr. F. I. Cushing has been ex loring for more than a year. Mr. uAhing has named his caip "'('anp 1em1Ienway" in honor of 31rs. Heinen 'ay, the Boston lady whose public t L)ilit and national pride impelled her > take thit' necessary steps and provide tat' t ut of her'i owin amplle for'tunie thle icals to secure to posteritV all the inl >rmiatiol and relies of thi, ancient LIoerie:nIi race that could be collectedi eforc the reckless curiosity-hitniter andi andal should begiln the completion of te ruin begun by earthquakes :nd the lemnent-s between 1,001 and 2, tt years go. As your readers generally know, Ir. Cushing began the acquaintance 11(1 study of the living remnants of the uill race several years ago ill the vii iges in southern Colorado and nortli rn Arizona. He lived along thelm hiost constantly, learned tileir :in uage, gined their confidence, was inl iated a nieniber of the tribe, and nually admitted into the high secret ounell of the wise men of the tribe. his was done in due and ancient forml n entitled him to a knowledge of all i ecrets and ancient traditions of the ribe. When he went to Los Muertos le took two of the tribe wi"th hini. He . ad scarcely begun work when they iscovered that the builders and (Weu all ts of the ancient town were their nee-stors. 'ie cvidentces were si2nl11 l unulmeralle and indubitaible. They c:"re Zunis. Your correspolnlent reachcd Mari opa with Prof. .dw'ard S. Morse. a earned' his firs't lessons inlarl 1i.i Ii nee' from LouiS Agassiz. Prof. M~olyet ins ('omie to assist Mlr. Cusling for a t'eek or two ill his most exci tinig hiuit. t, visit to the c'ampl diselosed. a dozen o ifteen tents forlied arounld a squarie slcita ini tIhe open, shadleless pllain. .'wo able aissistanlts, a secretary, a sym athlizinig and hielpinig wife andl wif's ister', conistitute Mr. Cushling's parlty , ogethier with a force (If' 1prhaps a dozent' Liost cord ial. HIis manne11r, miovemlenuts lid style ofIt 'onlver'sationl are thllose (If ni active, earliest anld btisy nian. H is osttumle is a br'oad toll S'ot('h ('all, (lark riownj cordur'oy suit. Ilegginugs of the aine mi ater'ial andll mloccasins. TIhe ceadoluartersL or laboratory~\, conisistinlg f two large connlectingi tents, was (Ie uipied by long, rougZh bo((ard taldes, el'es, wvhiile benieathi and albouit w'~ere OIxeS and( a fewv chair's. Thle placita, (Il(urounded by' ropt', iS ('Ihec'ked( oft' with wine into per'haps 200 t wo"-feett S<ltuare(s lost of' thlese ar'e or'uiedcl wih stonie r'ound1 in eiach'l sqjuare is a wire wit hi eseen'l l'orrlespIonding hlbels. After sever'al hour11s oIf conllverlsation1 ni the all-abIsorbinig topielo :1211 a hear'ty innerId a visit was in:iaie to tilt ne'igh cay oni holrseb ack. Thelse' are i It thet tow'l n rity toI haUve been' nearly rI quiilte 21,4th ou.lS. The houses( which'i s gelneral ly detected b y Ihe( (II chag'ed .aracter (It the vegetaitioni (or byV the ieienit ditches aid reserirsul, nearui vhich'l the suiiionIls ofl tn he'ity w're dwayi s located. Tlhie (r<nI ry dwin lel Ilng 1:a5 a fire-place abolut four11 feet iniside( Illf IIlor. thle 1better' ilo g't thle dr iauOght [hiis fire-place is a b asin-shapedl de'-I ressionl 50ome1 ifttenl ince's ill dniuni e'r ain11 surmioutedl by a pradn IVt'r with li1tud, this I11(l heilng nolt un-1 ike what mlav somietimel(s he( seen over t blacksmnithl's Iire'. IITe fuel was ebar:i 'lal. Occeasionally a hole11. sayV fouir fet'' uI diameterd andl Iiv or ll six feet de i'I,s 'oundI benieath the level of' the groundl oor. This is thet grl:aary. TheC deadIl ,ve bulried unlder the gre,und floor. Wheni the numllber of the deadl hald he -omle 511 numeltro)us that addlitional r'ooml ind to be' sec'uredl. the hr~ 1ding andl thet round( tiollr wt're raised,. so as mlake '(om11 for anlother' layerl oft rnaves. K ilis Lere also seen wVhichl had been'~ u:'s.d for~ sakinug someI l;-inds og put tery,'. burni ig ~emen'lt 01' .-omethin of II thle k id. The emlelt had been large enoiugh tol le'ave uiite a mIoundO (If debrIis. This seemsl1 mi aerIopOllS, aus wvel ii. a temIlple, re to Ie found elsewhere. Everything vas Ibuilt of adobe. Around the tern >de is an outer wall, apparently for leene. The temple walls were con trueted by first setting up pickets five r six inches in diameter and some liree feet apart along each side of the iop)osel wall, which was made three r four feet thick. To these were lashed kind of cane for lathing, and the icekets on opposite sides were well ished together to prevent spreading. 'hen the temiperei adobe clay was well aiiiped in and the inner and outer sur aees of the wall were plastered by hand rithi the same .iaterial over the lath ig. In some places the imprint of the listerer's fingers is as well preserved s though his job had just been fin <ied. The priest's cistern, like gra aries, were found one at each corner f the temiple. Most of the bones and he skull had been secured by Mr. ushiiiig, but there still remained in it iiuliilcr of bleached and shivered frag ucnts. A numiiber of other things ere found, which the limits of this omniiieatioi forbid me to describe. The cause of the exodus, Mr Cushing, biinks, was a series of earthquakes, the ist of which, although not overwhelm ig, was the most severe. He has found i some of the buildings evidences of as ianv as three reconstructions of the Calls. He has found human skeletons iiong the ruins in such positions, and c covered by fallen walls, as to indicate hat their owners perished in such a atastrophic. He also believes that lie superstitious inhabitants left every hing behind them, believing that ar ieles carried away from the doomed ity w ould carry bad luck with them. fence the great number of relies found. E number of skeletons were photo :raphed in the positions in which they Vere found. Another reason for infer ing earthquakes is that there isa slight eversal in the grade of some of the anals. He therefore sometimes speaks f the ruined city as TiE "AMERICAN 'OMPEII." As to the canals and acequias, le has urveyed on the plain 374 niiles of them nd the eTlcl is not yet. One of them is evoenty-nline miles long and thirty ighit feet wide for a long distance from ts head. They, as well as the reser 10irs, fire places (or basins) and the ,ranaries are all lined with a grayish vhite cement resembling chalk, both in ppearance and in consistency. Wherev r any one of these canals or ditches raverses the plain-and they constitute perfect net-work-its presence and ourse are readily detected by a double ine of gravel and black cobbles, very uggestive of an old wagon road. The urtu-e of the ground, however, is as lat as a floor. The gravel was in the >riginal soil, as dug out of the ditches o tori the two embankments. When hese were leveled down by the rains of -enituries the gravel remained on the ~urface ini two parallel lines. The black 'oblels had been bronght frc,m the *treams and dtriuted alogtg the ema aianmny uf all the ditches. These hey ealled '"water tanmer."' The larger. litehics and canals, like the reser.voirs, vere terraced, apparently for the pux >ose of avoiding broad and shallow ex >ansio'ns of wvater when the water was ow. Fu rthIermlore the reservoirs were uibdi vided into compartments and each 'oimpartmen~mt was terraced, from its >uter rimi above to its center rinm below ike a bienched amphitheatre. Ima >oini ili g reservoirs were also construct -d about the base of the miounitains and iills to catch rain-water comiing down lie usually dry arroyos. But this rater, instead of being distributed over lhe surface of the 1)1ain,through ditches, rals p)ermitted to side underground mid reach the roots of the growing crops >y unmderground distribution. I believe isimilar method of aeing crops is t ill ilk us.e amonQlg sete of the In'dian ribes. It scenis, therefore, that the irieultural capacIty of this district was -eched by these peop)le, the limit of iroduclitioni being fixed by the water :upily, and the water supply having n~menimade avaihlbe as far as they were thhe to mai~ke it so. At -arious places lie earth, which has tiliedl the ditches ind reservoirs to a level, has been re notved, disclosing the terraces and ce inent lining. E'verythiing ini life, wvithI these people, 1 l-:ua;irs SmsmeFIANCE. Pliere was i pnrescribedi formula, and a *easoni associatced for it, associated with ~verV act. H-ence the inivariab~le distri >tioni of t he ''water tanmers"' along tlle -aniais and iditchies. T1hie pottery,which w'as the worik (.f the wnmen, always lai cerpain convyentionail decorations Lyheni it had aniy at alhl. One of these was aeircle or a Pair of collateral cir le-4,cithier insidec of the mouth of the ,owl or outsiide of the neck of the jar or dla. These eircles were never complete wvhuen miade lbv marriedl womeni. The ud i s of t Ihe circe-s were niever coinniected. \Vheni drawing the circle with their wo odeii brush andi black pigment, and thiout to comlete it, the dlecorator wouldl turn her head awvay from her wokso that if, by aniy mishap, the .inds of thle circle should connect, she *iouldl truthfully saiy that she did it while her eves were turned awvay. Not 'i wit h the maiden. She was required to make her eireles complete. When iver a vessel was to be niade a part of lie household it was conscrted by' ilropp~ing a little ~tmial io it. This en dowed it with a kind of life or spirit. When a mlembe ir of a household died ine. of these vessels was hburied with hiim. but it was firt "kilkl"' hy punce tulring~ a s.mll hole in its side. Other inist anoes miught he given Illus trating the religious characteristics and mode or living lhe shown to be of Chi nes of Mangolian (irigini Rut the above will be sufficient to give sone think !ike a fair idea of what they were. And in this connection it may be said that it is an open question among archselogists whether that other Central American ancient race is the originator of that architecture and of those designs which are common to them and the ancient Egyptians, or whether the reverse is the case. Explo rations now being prosecuted may prove that, after all, the New World may be really the Old World. Judicial Salaries and Tenure of Office. (Judge Geo. C. Barrett in the May Forum.] It ought to be said that if justice mis carries more frequently in this country than in England, owing to the infer iority of our judges, the people are themselves to blame. We have just as good judges as the people are willing to pay for. The whole judicial system, national and State, is founded upon the policy of' small salaries. The people want cheap judges, and they get them. The bright feature in the system is that, upon the whole, the people get fairly good judges, and occasionally great ones. We may justly expect to receive full value in attainment for our money, with even a large discount for honor and dignity. But we will be disap pointed if we hope to average any thing more or better. The idea that inferiority results from the elective system is hardly borne out by experi ence. Tenure is a far more vital mat ter. Given short terms and meager compensation, the sequitur of poor judges is assured. Life tenure is not in entire accord with the spirit of our in stitutions. The happy medium would seem to be a tenure sufficiently long to secure independence, but not long enough to awaken despotic tendencies. "Eeny, Meny, Miny, Mo." "A dignified professor witl a bald head," we are given to understand by the New York press, has been lecturing on the above subject, and finds it a very fascinating and extensive theme. In other words, he has been investigat ing the "counting out rhymes" of children, in all languages. He finds that they exist in Penobscot Indian, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Bulgarian, Swedish-in fact, almost every known language. In Dutclh he has found fourteen counting out rhymes, in Ger man two hundred and sixty-nine and in English four hundred and fifty-four, altogether eight hundred and sixty in all languages. We must henceforth remember that it is an ancient classic that the children are repeating when they say: "Wire, brier, limber, lock, Three geese in a flock." They Rung the Bell o,r tl;e Peacher. [Fro~m tile Chrristian Advocate.] We laave heard, on the best authority, an instance of absent-mindpdgepss.pro dmced? ya preocupartion. A Presby-~ terian minister, still living, belonging to a celebrated family, was ill. Late Saturday evening he thought he would be a,ble to preach the following day, and so secured no, supply for his pulpit. Sunday he was much worse. Nothing havin,g been, done, he determined, if. possible, to reach the pulpit, offer prayer and pronounce the benediction, and omit the evening service. He as cended the pulpit, announced a hymn, offere.d a brief prayer, and arose to ex press iris regret that he could not pro ceed. He said it was a gr"ot disap pointment to him. He had hoped that morning to be able to speak to them upon the following beautiful paasage of Scripture, (arm.nucin~g thie text,) but owing tor fll lhealth he would not be able to do so, and would merely state the line of thought which lie intended to communicate. After speaking for a while upon that, he said : "Ini the evening, had I dared to venture out, I should have hoped to follow these re flections with a few remarks upon an other subject," (announcing the text.) After a while a bell rung. He stopped, placed his hand to his head, and said to One of the djeacons : "What is that bell ringing for 7" Said he : "That is the 1 o'clock bell, and you have spoken about two hours in telling us what you would have said in the morning and in the evening if you had been well enough to speak." Why Times Were Go~od, [Fro.n, the Arkansaw Traveler.] "ow are times ini this neighb,or hood?" asked a traveler of a native of Anderson county Kentucky. "Fust rate." "'Farmers are in gool co,ndition, I snppos~e?" "Don't know that they air." "'Money, plentiful, then, I presum~e."' "'No, kain'tsayg that it is.'' "And vet you sa times ar xu. "That's wvhat I'lowed." "When the farmiers are.i not ini good condition?" "Yes." "Ah, hahi." "Well, at that rate, I don't se how you can regard times as goodl." "I do, fur thar have been s'ix still houses started in this couty in f"ur months." lIe WVa,s D)oubtful. - [Froin the Home Journal.] Lawyer(to witness)-you have known the prisoner a long timie? Witne*i-Yes, sir. Lawyer-What is his reputation for truth and veracity? Witness-Well, he won't tell me the truth when a lie will do as well, and I'm a little doubtful about his veracity. thin1k he'd na lief steal as not. JACKSON'S BLOODY FEUD. he Doubly Deadly Duel of Tae.da-Aa J Outgrowth of the Jooea-Ganobren Sheotiag. NEW ORLEANS, May 1.-The ugly s 'eling created in Misissippi by the a lamilton-Gambrill shooting a year v go resulted in a-double tragedy to-day, a n whh G^n. Wirt Adams, a promi- t sent citizen of that State, and John H. u 1artin, editor of the New Mississippi- 7 Ln, were killed. The trouble originated ( n polities and prohibition. Gambrell, ho was editor of the prohibition or- O an, abused Hamilton. They met, t xchanged shots, and Gambrell was illed and Hamilton was wounded. The j rial of Hamilton, which has been oing on for some months past and has s ust ended in his acquittal, has divided d he State into two hostile factions. The u artin Brothers who edited the New fississippian, have assaulted Hamil-1 on and his friends, prominent among i vhom was Gen. Wirt Adams. To-day the New Mississippian con- n nined this assaulton Gen. Adams: c "People who do not receive the New a Siississippian regularly please remem- t er that since we exposed the obliquity >f Gen. Wirt Certificate Adams, the ostoffice is endeavoring to wreak its t pite against this paper in every possible ray. This paper has to-be in the post- b >ffice about half hour or an hour sooner t han the Republican paper here, or it t s made to lie for another mail. it is f trange how mad some men will get when the plain truth is told about them n print, and yet this paper is feeling a emarkably well." The two men met at Amite and President streets about 2:30 o'clock this ifternoon, when Adams cursed Martin. ['he latter replied by drawing his evolver. He tired and slipped behind L tree. Adams also drew and fired, but few seconds after. Martin continued irng from behind tree, while Adams Nalked around it to get a bettershot at iim. Altogether six shots were fired >y Martin and three by .Adams, when Limost simultaneously. they fell dead, without a word. Adamshad been shot )ut once, when a bullet 'went through tis heart. Martin was shot through the )reast, leg and hat. Both used Colt revolvers of 44-ealibre. Gen. Wirt Adams was 69 years of age. He held office under-the republic )f Texas in 1839, and served in the 'exas army in the war with the Chero kees. Returning to the United States, 1ie became a banker at Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss., and was a member of the Legislature. He was sent in 1861 to Louisiana to secure co-operation in the passage of the $ec eion ordinance. The position of Postmaster General in the Confederate cabinet was offered him, but he declined it to organize a cavalry regiment, the best in the Con rederate service. He was made Biriga dier General of cavalry in 1863. He was engaged, in, nearly' every battle of the' army of Tennessee, and made the- last fight of the war east of the Mississippi at Gainesville, Ala., capturing many prisoners. Gen. Jackson was appointed postmaster of Jackson by President Cleveland two years ago. Mr. Martin was only 30 years old, a brilliant editor, bu.; of the aggressive and impulsive sort, and he had been en gaged in a number of serious diffiealties growing out of the Hamilton case. The States says: "Col. Jones Ham ilton, of Jackson, Miss.. was seen to night in the corridor of the St. Chartes Hotel. Col. Hamilton said that for sonme time past the New Mississippian had been attacking Gen. Adams per sonally, and this morning the paper eharged Gen. Adams with retaining New Mississippians in the postoffice. From another source it is learned that the origin of the trouble between the men grew outofGen. Adams' outspoken sympathy for Col. Hamilton, which was dlenounced by Mr. Martin's neWs paper. Mr. Farish, who was walking with Gen. Adams accosted Martin, saying: "You rascal, I have stood enough from you." Martin replied: "If you don't like it"-and simultaneously with the remark he drew a pistol, fired, and got behind a large tree, half a foot in diameter. Gen. Adams also fired about the same time; but Farish, though not certain, thinks that Martin shot first. A Steep Doctor's Bill. Dr. Chas. E.'$fmmons, a New York' phlysicianl, has brought suit for $143,000 against the executors of the estate of the Hon. Samnel J. Tilden to recover pay for his services as Mr. Tilden's physi cin. The case has not advanced far as yet. In the complaint only the lump sum, without particulars, is given. The executors ask for a bill of particulars, and their lawyers appeared in court Monday and moved that such a bill be ordered. Argument on the motion was adjourned until to-day. The New York Morning Journal quotes a man of figures as saying: "Dr. Simmons must have visited Tilden every day at $100 a visit for four years, giving him the ben etit of a leap year every twelve months; or he visited him every day at $50 a visit for eight years; or at $20 a visit every (day for twenty years; or at 810 a visit every day for forty years; or at $5 a visit every day for eighty years; or at $2 a visit ev-ery day for two hundred years." she Did Not Know. [Fromn the Home Journal.] "D)o you know what 'dollar' is in Volapuk, Miss Sue?" "No, Mr. Martin; what is it'."' "One hundred cenlts~" THE CHICAGO SCANDAL MILL. udge Tuley Uudertakes a Much-Needed Reform. CHICAGO, April 21.-Judge Tuley urprised the crowd of scandalmongers nd sensation seekers who filled his Di orce Court this morning by reading lecture to the audience, the press and ie public in general, before he started in pon his usual Saturday divorce grist. he Judge gazed severely around the ourt and said: "I desiretosay to the representatives f the press that it is my earnest wish hat the newspapers would cease their ublication of these divorce proceedings. tpartfrom the great wrong done the artiesseeking relief of the Courts, I am atisfied that the publication of these Ivorce proceedings has a very bqd effect ipon public morals. I know it will be mid that these details would not be ublished if the public did not demand b. The public have no vested interest a the scandals and infelicities of the narried people who find themselves ompelled to appear in these Courts as pplicants for divorce. If the public aste is so vitiated as to demand the ublication of these proceeding it ap ears to me that the newspapers ought o be better than the public. "As to those people who gather to tear the recital of evidence suitable to heir depraved taste I propose hereafter o admit none except those who may ind seats. I have been compelled on ' norethan one occasion to order young iris whocome in partiesof from five to dozen to leave this Court room. I ball extend this order to the bailiff t :eep out of the Court room all minors luring the hearing of these divorce pro eedings. It is wise and even necessary o publish these proceedings in an accu ate manner, but I cannot exclude the eporterseven if I wished, and I would Lot ff Ihad the power, but I feel that he manner in which these divorce pro eedings have been reported for the last ix or twelve months tends to bring the Aministration of justice into ridicule, f not contempt, and it must be stopp Duringthe readingof the lecture sev ral young "ladies' "visages lengthened erceptibly and they grew still longer whenthe bailiff proceeded straightway o hustle out of the Court everybody vho had no business there. How to Select aMinister's Wife. The best pellet of common sense late y aimed at the fair sex comes from the ;heological seminary at Lexington, Ky. It purports to be a description of ;he sort of girls these incipient divines. lesire for wives. It certainly is not ;he kind reputed to have been most in, lemand in New England in days when ;heology flourished. "The buxom, >right-eyed,,rosy-cheelied, fall-breasted& iouneing lass,, who. oan, darn.a stoelk ng, mend' trousers, imake lwr owas rocks, command a regiment of pots wd kettles, feed the pig, chop wood, milk cows, wrestle with the boys and be a lady withal in company, is just the sort of agirlto marry. But you ! ye pining, moping, wasp-waisted, pret by-faced, musi-murder1g, novel de vouring daughters of fashion and idle ness ! you are no more fit for matri nony than a pullet is to look after fourteen chickens! Dear girls! you need more leg exercise and less sofa ; more pudding and less piano; mrore breakfast and less bustle." Frank Leslie. Popu Rr Monthly For May.. The number deals with our land, and Mr. W. E. McCann tell the stor-y of the "Star Spangled Banner" and its author F. S. Key. "A Week's Jaunt Among the Lakes of Central New York" is. devoted to a neglected part of our land. which elsewhere would furnish a thous and themes to the poet and painter. Dr. Van Fleet gives a delightful study of rur native Warblers. Another article tells of "Pjevaliski's Adventures in Central Asia," showing how Russia is. laying her plans for pushing her sway to the borders of China and India, or perhaps beyond them. Our great uni versity Harvard, is brought before us in its actual condition and early history; and what lessons the photograph teaches of the flight of birds by showing a series of instantaneous pictures, make very curious reading. What with all this, and stories by Mrs. J. (G. Austin,, F. B. Hallowell, Etta WV. Pieree and others, the magazine gives an endless amount of inter. sting and attractive reading. Dull Daya. Begging the question-a girl in leap year. The girl who won't be won usually remains one. A woman is never prettier thn she wants to be. To young men: It is bietter to iw fast asleep than fast awake. Now comes the time of the year wheni young men's minds lightly turn to thoughts of loaf. As a matter of fact, and in justice to the South, it might as well be known that the colored vote is in no small part suppressed only by the apathy of color ed voters, who will not go to the polls. Although there is an old saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, an old walnut tree near Baltimore, Md. has been struck five times. The first time it was struck ten sparrows that were taking shelter in it from the storms were killed. In the tree was a nest of three crows, and they were saved only because their nest was blown out just before the tree wa~