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??inn if a" i fvWn ^W?>? .V ., II??, a m i! :i : fit) '71 iHI Hit .il ? i.II'W .A.n. Independent Paper Devoted to the. ? Interestn ,' ot ? '-tlie People. _Li_Li_:_ Ii I I ' - . Sri- ? ti ,jrt?f rYOLUME III; ORA!NGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1874 SP 1 V,: j iiirjjrii liioii: . 1 . I I r * r- * BY WILI, WALLACE HABS ijtilot hol? tho earth Beneath tho winter moon, , the kottloprooiicd. up?? tho hcatU,, a Bweet, old-fashioned tune. Tho cricket 1 ,o oh't cloi With tho Clicking of tho cricket, And red coals in tho chlmnoy-ylace. Peeped qut, with, many a rosy face, l,li.e berries in n thicket. The crano's arm, otnpty, stttok out stiff, . VAnd tlnwaro ?u\t?o.Bholve? 'S \ Twinkled and WlnktMPut every gllD*, In the flickering flre-llgtt, as if They whispered to tnemtelvOB.; Tho good dame, iu her rutiled cap, Counted her slitchoa alowly, AndthO <jid luan, with full many a gal', Bead from tho big book on his lap, Tho good words, wise and holy. Tho old clock clicked; the old man read, His deep voice pausing, lowering ; * The good wlfo nodded, dropped her head? The lids of both wero heavy aa lead? " They wero souud asleep and snoring. Oh, htile old couplo! s'weei each dream, Whllo-all the milk-paus tilting? Puss paints her whiskers m tho cream, Till John and the belated team Bring Mag"?lo from the (luiitiua. May time,1 i>ray, wL._ y years Make thin my voice- an . tbrapple, Find my la?t days of life lil-- theirs, j ABhweetwltliol-tMranV l v i and prayers, ? t T~< . KjiA f)Uo ;l AvIutpr ai,,,iP. N "WESLEY. TJie InJUSttco Ulographcra Ilavo Dime to the Father of Methodism. It bns long beon a settled conclu sion that John Wesley, the foundor of Mothoilism, was in many respects a grout character, as well as a good and a pure man. Tho ,seot which. he origi nated has spread throughout tho, world, and, from tho poorest and humblest j surroundings, bns grown to vast wealth j and "influence, and to day Methodism numbers its adheronts by hundreds of thousands/ and tho tall spires of its bhnrohosaod sohools greet tho oye_ in almost every oity and village in America, while its numbers aud Btrongth in the | Old World aro suoh as to command consideration aud respebt from its former bitter assailants aud despisers. Gould tho old cruBad er against tho pride ami folly and wickedness of an hundred and fifty ye uns ago be permitted to oome again in the ilesh and behold tho grand results of .the mission work he began in the'wilds of Georgia, ho would doubt less be-filled with snrpriBO and rapture somewhat akin to that experienced by St. John after he had availed himself of a free press and gazed upon the won r detful glories of tho New Jerusalem; ' With?ut assenting or objecting 'to the peculiar faith and teachings of this sect, it will be admitted that history, in its record of tho different religions oreedB and systems, chronicles no par allel that will contrast to tho organiza tion, growth, and achievements of the Methodist Episcopal church. And yot, even while the great apostle was strug gling to nurture and preserve the feeble I life of hin now doctrine in its infancy, ho eccountered trials and tribulations other than those arising in hin spiritual field of labor. White sweating under the burden of the oross that bore tho legends of holiness, purity, and charity, and orying aloud to fallen men and women to turn from their wickedness aud be saved, ho was at tho same time tho uuhappiost of men. Misery and despair woro in his soul; anguish and remorse followed him through the long I days, and tho dreary nights brought! him no reBt. Singing and striving with 1 holy fervency to do tho work of his I Master with clean thoughts and a white 1 soul; concentrating all his gifts and en ergies in the grand resolve to build up a tabernacle of tho Lord in which man- f kind could learn the way to eternal happiness and peace, ho was beBet in his path by temptations which, when not resisted, have their inevitable sequence * in misery and torment. His was like tho experience of other men in similar! positions. It is tho same story of tomptatioms, weakness and suffering. Yot, unlike many other men, it seems John Wesley did not go to ruin in oon ?soquenoe of hin sins and indiscretions ; nor does it appear that the subsequent j propects or .final success of his church were seriously impaired by his actions. (Abraham Lincoln uttered a well known truth when ho remarked to his friend Herudou, that few biographers gave tho real facts in a great man's life; that th6 writer thoioof is too apt to make a panegyric instead of a histoiy, presenting and dwelling upon a'l the good deeds performed by his horo, and glossing ovor or secreting his foibleB and weakor oharaoteristies. So it has boon with tho biographers of John Wesloy, with perhaps ouo exception,?a more recent lifo written by T.yorman. Not one tells tho truo story of his rela tions with tho Bovoral women who be came oonneoted with hi* lifo, and who, beyond doubt, cast a balefnl shadow upon his career. In early lifo Wesley formed a resolu tion of celibacy, and determined that ?his futiiro career should bo ono of hoU deniitl, labor, and homolespnoss. He published an essay entitled "Thoughts ou a Singlo Lifo," ox tolling that state an tin privilego, if not tho duty, of all who wero onpablu of receiving it., aud threo yenra after, in a public hymn, which in clearly autobiographical, ex pressed himself "an.follows : " I liavo no nhftrnr of my hoart , To roh my Bavior of a part, ?And rlpHOerato MinwJiolo; Only betrothed to Christ am I. ? Ann wait Hin uomlng from tho Hlty To wed my happy noul." But it 8eemn ho did not long pcrfliBt in this resolve. During his ministry in Georgia ho formod a " deep attachment" to a Miss Sophia Hopkey, niecn of the chief magistrate of tho colony. The earlier biographies of Wceley represent tho nfftir a? involving a conspiracy ou the part of tho young lady and hor ?ri?uuM ?gftfpse tVm rcputr.tion r.r.d virtue to iraoh a state that his friends inter Eos cd ; Wesley showed stubbornness, at consented to on investigation by a conference/ oonipesed of his Moravian friends'and advisers, who decided that he should abandon the, woman, without even censuring, him for his conduct. A few montliB after, Mise Hopkey was married to A, Mr. Williamson. Being a devout member of the church, she pre sented herself at the Lord's table, when Wesley -publicly refused feo administer to her the sacrament. The grounds of bis refusal have never been involved in much doubt, though the consequences of his behavior drew upon him such odium and persecution that ho was finally compelled to shake the dust of Georgia from his feet, and seek a newer Not long ..after this occurrence, his friends hoard that he was engaged to a Mrs. Qraoe Murray, a young-widow who had nursed him in a short illness;' and who wss actually accompanying him in his- ministerial travels through the country., Thin young woman had' been brought up as a maid-servant, and was a person of Bmall education, though of groat attraction; arid aj fervent con vert to Methodism. From the accounts of this affair,. ic would seem that she completely entangled Wesley in her not, and hold him in her coils with great adroitness, - Grace, though fair to look ucon, was internally a great fraud. Had she lived in this age of the world, trained amid the gushing influences of modern fashionable society, sbo^would no doubt have proved a brilliant repre sentative"; girl of the period. For a long time she kept Wesley under her influeuoo, and ..tho scandal assuming larger proportions, Charles Wesley, brother to the apostle, strove to oriiBh it. This ho suocooded in doing, after exerting himself for months, nud uoing considerable diplomacy. John yielded, and met the lady to say faro well. He took her by tho band, drew her to him, kissed her, and said: " Grace Murray, you have broken my heart." Then and there they changed $ho relation thoy had so long borne to each other. The preacher again took np the cross of self sacrifice, and went to his work with a sad heart, chewing the bitter oud of disappointment until he gave signs of greatly broken health. A week, ^or two after, Graco was married to an iuforior suitor. She and Wesley did not meet again for thirty-nine years. She long outlived hor husband; and when in London she -canto to hear) her. son preach in Moorflelds, she" met her venerable lover?lover still, apparently, for the interview is described as affecting. Henoeforth , they saw o ich other no more, and Wesley never again mention ed her name. Through long years (says the account), Grace continued a course of Christian usefulness, and lived and died eminently respeoted. She lies in Ghinly churchyard, in Derbyshire. " Her last days were her best days." We lean that undeterred by his former experiences, in 1751 Wesley again ventured on an engagement, which actually resulted in marriage. Now, too, tho lady was a widow, a Mrs. Vazeille ; her first husband having been a merohant, who had left her a small independence. There was little in her to deserve the attachment of suoh a man, either in ohorater or intellect. Sue, too, like Grace Murray,' was of humble birth, and, like her, had been a maid-servant. Having during her widowhood joined herself to the Meth odists, she was naturally pleased and flattered with the attentions of their re nowned head. Charles Wesley again interposed, but this time in vain. Ib soon appeared how ill-advised a union had been contracted, and after a few years of wretched married life, marked on her part by outrageous ill-temper, jealousy, violence, and even treachery, whieh her husband on Iiis side bore with the patience, of a Soorates, the lady one day took herself off, and lived in a state of separation from him until her death. Wesley expressed consider able joy at her departure, for it is s?id of this woman that she takes hor place in tho foromoat'rank of tho bad wives j of eminent men, worthy to be classed with the wedded companions of Soo rates, of Albort Dnrer, of Goorge Herbert, or Richard Hooker; she was the moat vicious vixen of them all. There were other affairs with women in whioh Wosloy beoame involved. A Miss Jane Ogilvie, of Georgia, to whom he had paid court, avowed that ho had solemnly promised to wed her previ ous to hiB return to Eogland. History does not state whether slio was a roaid sorvant or not, but sho is represented as having been. handsomo and unedu cated. Wesley's friends, however, de nied tho truth of her story, and sho was compollod to assuage the pangs of her diwtppointmont by marrying a native ruutic, and the pair doubtlcHH found happiness in raining bountiful crops of children and goober peas. Considering that in his yonth Wesley hud rcsolvod upon loading a lifo of single blessedness, and to keep clear of all feminine allure) neu hi, ho must bo rognrded, to sayftthu'least, as weak of purpose, and inconsistent in this respect, as few ominont men, not nxoopting Dean Swift, proBcnt a moro unlucky record in their .dealings with the opposito box. ?The Britishers arc ousting an eighty ton gun to carry a 1.8801b hhot ton niilos ! A ohnrgo ot fs?? pounds of pow dur will be required. Tho gun is to be of steol, 27 fo-;t long, 6 feet in dinmo tor at the trunnion and 10 inches bore. This formidable missilo is to bo comple ted next Jone/_ ?The Chicago Times describes an ?Aloe-holder us "colleotor of tho port of Ararat, when Noah ?rrived thero with hi?'ark, and hnn uninterruptedly held, office over since." field. THE HEART OF THE OOMSTOOK. An Underground Mountain of Solid Kil ver Oro?Inexhaustible ltlohes* "Virginia City Enterprise, October 24. The Consolidated Virginia mining company are beginning to open up and lay oaro some of the secrets of the northern end of the great O?mstook lode. They are reaching the great lode on a new and sound line, and are find ing a continuous body of ore. This body in now known to extend from the Gould ?fc Ourry through the Consolida ted Virginia, California and Ophir, to the Union Consolidated. The Consolida ted Virginia company are on the upper edge of the great deposit lying under the basins which are situated in the eas tern suburbs of the oity, and are, now beginning to reach some of the rich ore it contains; In the early days many of our miners Were of the Opinion that in the course of time a. point in the I lead would be reached where would be found almost .solid -silver. At the far ther depth of four or five hundred feet in the mine the Consolidated Virginia company'may reach a point where thoir ore will laok but little of being solid silver. There appears to be. lying far down in this portion of the lode a per fect mountain of silver ore. Specimens brought up from the drift running into the Consolidated'from the'fifteen-hun dred-foot level .of the Gould & Carry are even now almost solid masses of sil ver. The reporter of the Gold | Hill Ngwp, who visited tho newly opened section of the Consolidated Virginia mino day before yesterday, gives the following account of it: " Tho drift, after reaching tho Con solidated Virginia south line, and be ing connected with the fifteen-hundred foot level of that mine by an air winze, the Gould & Curry drift being thirty eight feet lower down than the south drift from the Consolidated Virginia shaft, wan pushed directly ahead to SroBpeot tho ore - vein on the level, [ardly had the line been crossed before the drift encountered n body of rich, sulphuret oro, second to nothing of the kind now known to exist on the Corn stock lode. The drift has penetrated this body of ore 110 feet, with every indication of its extending the entire length of the claim,, and even .into tho California ground. To attempt a fair description of the rich character of tho oro is almost useless, the sides and face of the drift being one glittering mass of Bulphurets mixed with tho richest char acter of Chloriden.?Much of tho ore it being sacked, and a portion of the amalgamating department of the Mari posa mill is to be set apart for its reduc tion, its extreme richness often requir ing tho use. of 600 and 600 pounds of quicksilver to a charge for a single pan, where only 200 pounds is used in work ing the ordinary el ass of ores. No oross ontting of this body has yet been attempted, and all the air forced in by the compres sor is required to drive the Bnrleigh drills in the face of the drift. The exhibition of the precious metals displayed in the face when a blast of half a dozen holes is discharged is simply grand, and one that would cause the eyes of the miser to weep with joy. Two upraisers have been made, 1,000 feet apart, for air connections with the 1,500-foot draft south of the shaft, both of. which passed the entire distance through the same rioh character of ore. The future prospeots of the Consolida ted Virginia, judged by its present de velopments, are not only almost with out an estimate, but every drift run, in fact almost every stroke of the piok made, seems to be adding to its already immense wealth."_ , Recent Assyrian Discoveries. We may see numerous black stones in the British museum, whioh record tho sale and purchase of particular lands, and the most terrible curses are invoked upon the heads of those who should injure and destroy these evi dences of the ownership of property. One of them, lately found by Mr. Smith, tells us that the ground men tioned in it was bestowod by the king upon a sort of poet-laureate, on ac count of some panegyrics he had writ tou upon tho kingdom. Still more plentiful than these are private con tract tablets, often in an outer coating of clay, on whioh an abstract of the con tents of the inner tablet is stamped. Many of them are pierced with holes, through which strings wore passed at tached to leaves of papyri. ' The latter have long since perished ; tho papyrns was used by the Aooadians as a writing material at. a rqmoto date, although the more durable olay tablets wore prefer red. Tho mercantile class seems to have consisted chiefly of Somites, rather thau of Accndatns ; and if wo want to find tho fullest development of business and commorco wo must come down to tho eighth and seventh centuries B. C, when Nineveh was a bustling centre of fcrado. ^?yro hud boon destroyed by tho Assyrian kings, and trado hod transfer red itself further to the cant. Car oherainb, which was favorably situatod tioar tho Euphrates, was the* mootiug plnc.n of tho niorchants of all nations, and the "manch of Carohemish" be oamo tho standard of weight. Houses and othor pro orty, including slaves, wero bought and sold ; and tho carofnl liesn with which tho doods of ualo or louse were drawn up, the dotails into whioh tboy went, and tho number of at tending witnopsos, were quite worthy of a modern lawyer. Money, too, was lent at interest, usually at the rate of four per cent., but sometimes, moro espe? dally when goods liko iron wero bor rowed, at throe per .cent. Seonrity for t'to loan was ofton takon in houses or othor ptoporty. The witnesses and eontrnoHn^ i>a ties genorally affixed their peals ; but whore they wore too poor tO POS?OHR any. a pnil.rnftrk W8fl considered sufficient. AU this appreci ation p.ad interchanging of property led,i as wo migh supposo, to testamentary do volution, and no less a document than' tho private will of Sonnacherih' I in ncrW the Cvitiah museum.?Ftqser's Mag. Improvement of the English Railway System, . ? .: ' Toe Midland railway company, whose rails run from London through Bed fordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbysliire, Lancashire and Yorkshire to Scotland, wasche Jlrst hist year to attach (third- I class c mages to all its trains, .the oon ico of which is that th4 reeeipts. ' 'rdTclass trofno havo risen, ?nor^l but, on tho other baud, tho see i have considerably decreased, | so tap company is about ,to try! ia great scheme, no leps than the abolition of Bocdnd-oloss carriages and tho re duction of first class fares. This; at firbt sight. BOon\'B(ja groat boon to tho traveling | community, but on looking into it it io found to bo virtually the abolition of the ^Urst-class, Tho people who havo boors: accustomed to rido nccond-olaas | will now bo compelled to use the' supe rior ?carriages, more especially as they can jdo so at a comparatively small in ere: o of oxpenso, and thus the great boo. of first-class travel, tho space,' the, quiei, and the freedom from! intrusion,' will be entirely done away with.. Eoual ity i n nowhere more out of place'than in traveling, and so long as extra comforts and luxuries can be Had by paying for them thefe will be plenty only too willi ing to secure them. Tho introduction of drawing-room, cars on tho American linos and tho great use made of 'these l cars by tho woalthior portion of thOiJ traveling public is a proof .of thin. It in to bo hoped that our other railway companies will not follow the lead of the Midland, bat if they do it will in ovitably load to tho introduction of palace oars or thoir equivalent. Another alteration in our railway management is the establishment on the Metropolitan railway. of carriages for' " ladles only." This id an adoption of tho damcs settles idoa with which wp, are sB familiar on continental railways, and iB:8oid to have been necessitated by ' ihuvior of men who''.make it a of traveling by the ?nder nd iino for the purpose of offering ofiensivo familiarities to women. It in i obable that the plan will succeed or tho underground trains scarce ly i Jop more than a minute at each eisrfiiic, ajid-therais enormous difficulty;! in selecting the carriages of tho olass f for which you have a ticket, so great is the throng and confusion ; the selection of a special compartment will therefore bo almost impossible. Ono will be curi ous to see the style of ladies who avail themselves of the new regulation. In the carriages for dames settles in France I never recollect seeing any but the oldest, the plainest and the most unin viting of the sex.?London Cor. JV. Y. Herald._ A Gigantic Project. The project of converting a portion of the Sahara Desert into an inland sea continues to find favor, and it is under stood thorough surveys with a view to determine the precise mode of ac complishing this object are under way by the French government. As to whether the result aimed at is desirable or not is at present a question of con siderable disoussion. On tho one hand, the replacing of a large amount of de sert waste by water, and making sea ports of interior points in Algeria, and the expected restoration of an- ample rain-fall to various parts of northern Africa, are viewed with favorable an ticipations. On the other baud, it is maintained that the Bea will bo simply an immense evaporation basin, which will coon be clogged up with salt \ or that a serious interference will take place in the amount of heated air oar ried across the Mediterranean, which at present prevents the extension of the Alpine glaoiers. Should this be inter rupted, it is feared that increased glac-i ation will ensue, possibly restoring a large portion of central Europe to its condition during tho reindeer epooh. Whatever be the result of this great engineering operation, it is extremely probable that lt^will bo attempted by the French authorities. A Pleasant Little Farce. T.ho Tower of London is looked up every night at eleven o'olock. As tho clock strikes that hour the yeoman por ter, clothed in a long red olouk, bearing a bnnoh of keys, and accompanied by a warder carrying a Untern, stands at the front of the great guard-house and calls out, Escort koya." Tho sergeant of tho guard and 'live or six mon then turn out and 'follow him to tho gate, each sentry challenging as they pass ?with "Who goes there?" the anawor being " Keys." Tho gntcB being care fully locked and bsrrcd, tho procession returns, tho BontrieB exacting tho flame explanation and receiving the earno an swor as boforo. Arrived once more at tho front of tho main guard-house, tho Bontry givos a loud st imp of hifl foot and oska, 41 Who goesthero?" "Roys." " Whoso keys?" "Queon Victoria's koys." J" Advance Queen Victoria's koyB nnd nil's well." Tho yeoman por ter then calls ont, ?* God blcBB Queen Viotoria." To which tho guard ro spondu " Amen." Tho officer on duty fives tho word, "Presont armn," and i?aes tho hilt of his sword, and ha yeoman porter then murchofl alono across the parade and deposits tho keys in tho lieutenant's lodgings. ?Tho dnko of Brunswick, whoso ago is eighty-six, is going to marry a girl of eighteen. He'll probably do just us ho ploases about it, but it's somo satisfac tion to call him a blamed old bootjack, E "; ? U. [j I ? . _ ' ; II. . 'itlt ''NEW MOT?B. "J Liquid' Carbo.-nto. Aold a'Substitute tot ? ? Stcatu. ??UM ?- The interesting announcement of a, aubatituto for steam as it motive power has been recently made in Germany, from a source entitled to a hearing. Tho rapid consumption of. the i earttrs fuel supply and the drain, on its forests, attended by so' many disastrous cpn eeqnonoes,' have stimulated scientific in ventors to. find a.su?>ewoii /o^atei m., and it' is to bo hoped the present dis covery will prove1 a'Bttcwessv The new ' rfotor is.earboleum, and its npplioat on , to misery is claimed*Qr.;&ABei ' of'Grbliujrih, who' has 'dei^a mi dp > yfears toil* study tahd ttttlWKrt??"*! pcriment first; t^ht;hjm that whop bioarbonate of sodium is heated iri ii closed!space, at a'ternr hundred, dogr oes. Fahrcnhoi t', 1 i qui d < bonip acid jfi distilled, out. e^ it, * 'fifty or. b the' expansive force of fifty or pixt mospheres. i Oarboieur? is not dang? as an ^tesiye^and the? faotthAfcct , employed, as the German inventor. p*o-, posW; iUs-'pdsaeBsed of=enormous* mo* tive power, was-attested by B?ientifio I this motive power of the carb in the now cnrboloum' engine, ia ontly v?ry small when comparedJ(ritnr 'that requisite for producingaiyfch pressure; ?f i rsteam 'irr. the ordinary en gine., tin the.:formerj^tMiQ$J}$&&> pounds of coal per liour for each Uorso ptiwer' represented by the' engine?on amount so small that .it won^a^R1'**3' necessary in shipa driven by the i Srbeeib to devote much space for f 'he chief jt?wMjjtt tsheV invot|ttori, C in' laVge^fac^ories, ^Tne aathor tfc&fy that for the grbat industries t?o cnr boloum engine can, in nearly, every in-1 ^he scientific vaS'ot is immense, if: mechanical ingenuity can j jiyof plentiful an that .element from . wliibb'f steam is jnado it may bo anawcred. it 'is almost'&iWllfitflaator;coalm &orhe parts of the world.> Carboleum is found inexhaustibly in tho bed a of ? common chalk in all parts of tho earth. As com mon chalk contains carbonic add to tho amount of half its weight it will yield double its volume of carbplenm..; And tho chalk resourcca of tho earth are aytbeyoad compuUtltss/ ju. It is evident, therefore, that the pro posed successor of steam, if mechani cally applied, would be used over the larger part of the world as on invalu able auxiliary of steam, with an enor mous economy of coal and wood. The snooes&ful introduction of snob emotive powder, minimizing- the fuel consump tion, would be a boon of incalculable importance in the manufactures and arts. That tho principle upon which its introduction is claimed to be feasible is scientifically correct seems | hardly to be doubted. If the immeasurable chalk beds are stored with mechanical energy [ as we know the coal beds are, the anxiety of physicists and economists, lest the world s fuel supply may fall short in the. lapse of a few centuries, is dissipated. The utilization of the new fuel would give an impetus to all indus trien, and might revolutionize the com merce of manufacturing nations whose wealth and political power are mainly due to their coal supplies. A New Weapon, j The New Orleans Picayune gives the annexed description of tho neatest in strument for a street fight1 that ban vet been produced : It is a 'weapon with a sinister and cynical appearance that wonld make even the bravest man trem ble. It consists first of an ordinary pair of brass knuckles, rather sharp, in order to produoe a telling effect. To one end is attached a gimlet knife, to the other a revolver, whose trigger forms one of tho divisions of the brass knuckle. Thus armed a man might defy an army. If he were to get hold of one individual man, the effect is ap palling ; every blow he strikes with the knuckles would not only break the as saulted person's skull, but lodge a half dozen bullets in his heart, while the gimlet attachment is cutting away at his throat. A man who had been treated to that weapon would be killed at least a dozen times before ho knew what was the matter; not only killed, but bo bat tered, bruised, and out to pieces, that a sardine box would prove a roomy coffin for his remains. Somebody oUght to name the weapon ; it doservea a name. It is small, but telling in its effects, Detroit Police Uourt. " I don't think this world has any further use for yon," remarked his honor after taking a long look at the prisoner. VI see you haven't any get up-and votolwioe in your nature, and your character has been allowed to tumble around until you feel like an old omnibus horse." "Don't abuse mo," roplied tho prisoner in a mournful voice. V But it annoys me to see a big, fat hulk of a loafor idling away his life and ohewing apple-rinds to keep from starvation. I'd get under a pile-driver, go to sloop on o railroad traok or walk off Ihewhatf before I'd drag out suoh a life. However, it's no use talking to yon. Consider yourself elevated for threo months, and wi\en that's out come baok for some morn."?Frco Press. ?No, bub, we've always made it a rnlo never to buy a wrel of flour un less there are four red X's on each head, with thirty-on o stars in a circle, and a chrorao ploture in tha cen ter, and our nonkr has good with bisouit. v 1 FACTS AND FANCIES. ? ?" My Sundayevening n^'j^'what she calls him m Dotfbit. ''>;?> ?o " -^At1 Bordeaux,1 recently,: three^bot tles of Medoo, pf the yiniag???^>793, were; sold .for L800. francs, or about 8120 a bottle, i~TltnttwHir ?If a pdim&i, wKo ^'tifiBDl^Aom illness to sign bis will, has;his hand ? ?Captain Jack's widow is going to [^J*^0? wWier of the re|fu^^mjriand oonld useitagain^i n<-iiU,.j-.tb *MT L.!-^Aff6rsey;CHtar lawyer wwjtnakUto a ftbont .angels', te^rs, wOfepingJ willows end tombstones, when his >horior. iaid : ^nfine your remarks , (ft^^og -p*". Snort1 anA "pudgy wom'en^ought not to- Wear nfreltef^ 'This i*gbooTfid rice throw aweyiV.Thoro ^tnoVe.jgro man in. the world who believes it ap plies to her. " "Short and'pudgy I" Not for. Josephine. | t'A is .'d??i ?"If you will just take notice,"jays the Detroit -Free-Breso, ??yon will find that a bald-headed man DBveraraipeH his luaJLpfa|L fJa$T?" It wpuhl seem, then, that man'?' politeness,' liko Sani&On's strenglb, lies in his hoar, z j aJj tufa /'?Now comes thei b?a&-poXf "JQ*je? to makjpa man grow pale clear behind the ears/' It's.one thing, and another'tliing, and some more tilings; tunt? 'onetfeela ?nrt be might; as, .weU,removo,to New Jersey and let everything go? to blazes. . ~A girl in Georgia brought ?^s^uit against a recreant lover.oldiming 810,000 damages/ but she cbmprpn^isea^ipur bales of cottqn'and a,new parasol Her lawybr'tdok the cotton" ;for ki^feerand she kept* the parasol;to heal hep w^find #.affee?pnsrr .. , ,; . ?";What think you of .the. prices charged to hear Patti;** says'liParirfSor respondent, "yon who gianibloint pay ing three dollars a peat, to [hear 'N?sson, Maurol and Camp?nini ? Boxes at the ItaliehSj from twenty-five' to 'fortyVflol lars; single' ? seats . in the-parqaette, twenty dollars ; balcony, twelve dollars; second tier the same." ?l?aw ?Tho legal ruling in England is-that to secure a copyright in that country "" an"! American author must either first Sublish his work in the United: King om, or publish it upon' the samo day here and there. He must, too, be Iome where on British soil on the day of publication?Canada coil will answer the purpose. In the United States no foreigner can obtain a copy right unless he is a citizen* or a resident; and res idence is held to mean staving with "an intention of permanent abode." ?A grocer in Detroit keeps "a little brown jog" near his cider barrel,"and when he wants to do the fair thing by a customer he mingles some of the con tents of the aforesaid jug with the ai der. He made a mingle for an old farmer, but got in a great deal of whisky and very little cider. About an?hour after drinking, the farmer was observed leaning against a fence, and was heard to soliloquize: "It's too lato for sun strokes and too early to freeze to death, and I. guess it's a touch of the shakin' ager," ?Tho mighty intellect that presides over the " Answers to Correspond nit a" of the New York Ledger has on*his hands the case of a Memphis young man, who writes : "I am a young man, twenty-five years of age. I have .been very little in ladies* sooiety. T have many invitations to evening1 parties, bat I feel snch an embarrassment, that when in tho society of ladies I' blush and perspire, and feel very uneoiifdrta ble, and can not act myself.: I can talk with them on business. matters when in the store?I am in the retail gr??ery business?but when I get in the parlor 1 feel very much out of place, i Please tell me what to do to overcome this weakness." ?A Mr. Atoherloy has recently5 tefcted a large number of samples .of- malt liquors, in England expressly for lead, and has found that thero ia poison in most of them. The liquor act.-, im his opinion, upon tho lead or composition piping used by beer retailers for con necting'the barrel with?ier beer-engine in the bar, and in case where the beer has been for some time in oontaot with the metal the proportion of lead m con siderable. Hence, ho cautions morning beer-drinkers against imbibing 1 ho Unit "pull" of tho pump, especially when their particular fa&cy happens to be for "old ale.*' Shcrry-drinkefsehould also bo warned against winoj dpotored, ns is frequently the case, with acetate of load. ?A man of wealth aiid oo?fieqrfenoe living near St. Paul, Minn.,.l,aU?ly re ooived an addition.to the statuesque or naments of his'parlor. Elevon years ago his first wife died and, was bnried in some, out of the way corner jtt\ Min nesota, where the gentloman happened to bo at the time.: Lately ho resolved to bavo the; [remains disinterredi and 5laced in tho fnmily lot near St. Paul, 'be workmen found instead of m umb ling bones a perfectly petrified human form in tho grave. It was as solid as a rook and heavy as lead, and the man when ho received it could not 'see the necessity of burying it at all, i - Ho has set up tue statue of his firs], wife. His second was away at tho tirno, fend at lost accounts. It will dopend very muoh upon her aotion in,,the .matter whether there is a funeral or whether that statue stands around in her way,