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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. Subscription. Ono Year.81.60 Six Mouths.,.1.00 Ministers of tho Gospel.1.00 adv BKTIS KM ICNTS. First Instertion...$1.00 Each Subsequent Insertion...50 Liberal contracts made for 3 month and over. JOJ3 OFJTIOE 13iPBBCARED TO UO AI;L KINDS Ql' <Jo'b I^i^iritiiig Meeting of the Agricultural Society. The meeting was called to order by Dr. W. P. Barton and minutes of last meeting road and confirmed. The committee of ten on Uie Factory, appointed at the last session of the Society was represented by its chair man, Mr. Ilarpin Biggs, who reported verbally that the project was dropped and asked to be discharged. Dr. Barton, President of the Socie ty, stated that he had.been appointed special correspondent to the State Agricultural Commissioner and call ed for answers to llie following ques tions : Are there any diseases pre vailing among the stock of the coun ty? Mr. Mc Salley stated that he lias cholera among his hogs but thought that the disease would be effectually stopped by the use of carbolic acid. Ho has separated the well from the sick hogs and directs his attention lo those that arc well in order to keep them from becoming impregnated with the disease. He docs not doctor the sick hogs. Mr. Iladley had a sow and pigs which took the chorera and wer ? ef fectually cured by giving charcoal, ashes and turpentine. Mr. Muller endorsed the cabolic acid remedy and knew hogs which had been cured. Mi. Charlie Gehroldshad cured his hogs with slop into which were put charcoal and turpentine. The second question, Are there any obstructions to fish in the county streams? None were reported. Third question, Are farmers pro grossing well with their crops? Capt. J. L. Moorer said they were working and trying to succeed but success depended largely on the sea son. Mr. Mike Riley reported better crops in his neighborhood than he had seen for for sometime. Mr. Mc. Sal ley said he had travel ed a little over the county and thought that the amount of cotton planted largely in excess of the corn. He reported the cotton crop at this stage in good condition ; the corn was small and spindling ; but the oat crop was very line. Capt. J. L. Moorer objected to Mr. Sallcv's report on the ground that corn in his neighborhood was line and promised well. Ma-. Salley said he referred more pattieularly to the sec tion of county above Mr. Mooier's and about Lewisville. Mr. W. $11. Dukes thought there was more cotton than com planted and reported both in good condition. Fourth question, What is the com parative acreage devoted .0 the differ ent kinds of crops? There was considerable difference of opinion regarding the answer to this question, but careful iuquirius from each member it was finally agreed to qjivo the following as ap proximating nearer the truth than any other: In every 10U acres of cultivated land there ate ?? per cent, in cotton, 25 per cent, in corn, l? per cent, in oats, G per cent, in rice, and -I per cent, in wheat. The con dition of the growing crops at the present stage was reported as follows : Cotton, very good ; corn, good ; oa'.s, very good ; and wheat, fair. In this connection it was agreed that wheat seed should be changed every year. Sandy lauds should be planted in seed raised on clay land, separated by a distance of many oiiles. Fifth question, What is the pros pect of* fruit? Various special auwswers were elicited from parties all of which might be expressed in the word "good." Sixth question, Are fanners using more or less fertilisers this year com pared with last? In the large majority of cases, more was reported as used. Seventh question, Are our people buying more or less supplies than last year? Ans. More. Eighth question, Do our people re sort to Liens or Mortgages? It was reported that both were ex tensively used, and Liens particular ly among the colored people. Ninth question. What is lue com parative condition and price of held labor? Same as last year. Tenth question, Are our people less inolined to leave the State than for merly ? Yes. Eleventh question, Is there im provement in the herd of slock? Yes. Dr. E. Cooke wished to know if wheat, as a crop, is profitable in this country. Mr. L. R. Beckwilh gave a negative answer and said he had made four good crops in twelve years, four average crops and the rest were failures. Mr. H. Moorer thought it profita ble because two crops could be raised the same 3'oar on the land, one of wheat and one of cotton or corn. Mr. Riley favored wheat planted without manuring but iu rotation with other crops. Mr. J. J. Salley mado his own wheat every year and did not plant much either, also Mr. Mackay. Mr. Muller believed that after the toll of the thrasher and miller was' taken out thero was but little left for the farmer. Mr. Mc. Salley expressed the opin ion that .vheat would pay on certain lands. When, however,'the question was put to a votn, it wan pretty gen erally decided in the negative. Mr. Hadley offered the following question for discussion at the next meeting and expressed the hope that there would bo a full attendance on that occasion : How aro we to get labor in the future? The subject was brought up at this time because ol the fact that laborers can give Liens and and rent lands with no difficulty what ever and thus the scarcity and clll ciency of labor is likely to become a serious question for the farmers to consider. At this stage of the pro ceedings dinner was reported ready and the Society adjourned to the sec ond Uoor where there was a feast of good things to eat ami better to drink awaiting the crowd. Work in earnest began nor did it cease until the bones were picked and the last drop had been squeezed from two demijohns of Dr. Barton's best. Ingersoll's Opinions. ''J am for Biaine," said Col. Inger soll. "I want Biaine. to he nominat ed because he is a man of genuis ; be cause be will 1111 the country with en thusiasm, and because men dead for other candidates will h ve wings for him. With him as President we shall sec a new era in this country. Government will be purer and poli tics more patriotic." "What about the third term?" "I think there is widespread preju dice against the third term as a prill" pie, and there may bo some feeling against Grant. For myself, though Grant bus never been my friend,! have always been bis, and I can think ot no circumstances under which 1 would do him an unkind act. j But at the same time, above the grandeur of his history, over all the roar of bis guns, I hear the ntimc of Biaine. Peisonally, I hear the name ol Biaine, and I am lor him first and last." ?'?What about Sherman?" uShould Sherman be the only can didate before the convention, the con vention would aujourn and advertise for proposals." This epigrammatic rejoinder caus ed much merriment. Some one asked a similar question in regard to Tilden. "No Democrat admires Tilden," Mr. lugersoll instantly replied. "The Doiuucrals admire cunning ; they ad mire a gentleman shod with silence ; they admire a gentleman with velvet feel; hut"?rising in his seat?"they admire courage, dash, defiance." "And thai Tilden hasn't," observ ed another of the partv. '?The Democracy tried Tilden* (?nee," the Colonel added. uThey tried him once and he was not equal to the occasion. They say he was elected ; but he had not courage to say that he was." "Whai is my opinion of Tilden? Tilden stands on the shore of bank ruptcy, a wrecker. Everybody iinag incs a line shore ; and when they think of Tilden they think of one gathering j boxes and bauds and trunks and ! personal baggage. The name of Til den suggests a surf." Never Saw a Wornan. Meadow's history of the Chinese, lately published in London, in a cbup ter on love, has the following story: A Cbiuese who had been disappoint ed in ma* ringe, and bad grievously suffered through women in man.) other way a, retire.1 with bis infant son to the peaks of a mountan range in Kweichoo, to a spot quite in accessible to the liule footed G- inp.se women. He trained the boy to wor ship the gods and stand in awe and abhorrence of the devils, but he never mentioned women to him, always de scending the mountain alone to bin food. A* length, however, the in firmities of age compelled hi in to take the young man with him to carry the heavy hag of rice. As they were leaving the market together, the son stopped short anil pointing to three approaching objects, cried, "Father, what aro those things. Look ! look ! what are they?" The father instant ly answered with the peremptory or der, " Turn away your bead ; they aro devils?" Tim son iu some alarm turned away, noticing that evil things were gazing at him with surprise from behind their fans. He walked to the mountain iu silcuce, eat no supper, aud from that day lost his appetite and was allhctcd with melancholy. For some time his troubled and anxi ous parent could get no satisfactory answer to his enquiries, but at length the young man burst but, crying with inexplicable pain, "Oh, father, that tallest devil! that tallest devil, fath Tlcklos Him to Death. "Am I tired of life ?" said a cheer ful old man the ether day , in reply to the question. "Not a bit of it. I remember landing in this town with a chip hat aud hickory shirt and a pair [of breeches. I've been way up and I've been flat on my buck, yet I'd like to begin and go it all over again ?Chip hat, shirt, breeches, and all. Why ? Well, you see, when y? u come to the end you don't know what's be yond. I'm dead sure of this other thing ; and, ou the whole, this world just tickle me to death." I hav finally got so that I ain't at all sertain ov wat 1 kno misclf, and am gittiug less sertain ov wat others say they kno.?.Josh Billings. Change of Life. Chango is the common feature of eociety?of all life. The world is like a magic lantern,or the shifting scenes of a panorama. Ten years convert the population of schools into men nnd women, the \oung into fathers and matrons, make and mar fortunes, and bury the last generation hut one. Twenty years convert infants into lovers, fathers and mothers, decide men's fortunes and distinctions, con vert active men and women into crawling drivelers, and bury all pre ceding generations. Thirty years raise an active gene ration from noncnity, change fasci nating beauties into bearable old wo men, convert lovers iuto gtandfalhers, and bury the active generation, or re duce them to decrepitude and imbe cility. Forty years, aias 1 change the face of all society. Infants are growing old, the bloom of youth and beauty has passed away, two active genera tions have been swept from the stage of life ; names once chetished are for gotten, unsuspected candidates for fame have started from the exhaust less womb of nature. And in fifty years?mature, ripe fifty years?a half century?what tre mendous changes occur. How Time writes her sublime wrinkles every where, in rock, river, forest, cities, villages, hamlets, in the nature of man and the destinies and aspects of all civilized society. Let us pass on to eighty years? and what do we see and desire in the world to comfort us? Our parents are gone; our children have passed from us into all parts of the world to light the grim and desperate battle of life. Our old fricudd?where are they? We behold a world of which we know nothing and to which we ire uiikrown. We weep for the genera tions long gone by-?for lovers, for parents, for children, for friends in the grave. We sec everything turn ed upside. do?vn by the fickle band of fortune and the absolute despotism of Time. In a word, we behold the vanity of life, and are quit?. ready to lay down the poor burden and be gone. Speak a Cheerful Word. Did you never go out in the morn ins with a heart so depressed and saddened that a pall seemed spread over the world? lint on meeting some friend who spoke cheerily for a I minute or two, if -only upon indiffer ent matters, you have felt your spirits wonderfully lightened. Evjan a child dropping into your house on an er rand has often brought a ray of sun shine which did not depart when he went his way again. It is a blessed I thing to speak a cheerful word when you cnn. ''The heart k no weih its 'own bitterness" the world over, ami jlhose who live in palaces are not ex empt, and good words to such hearts I "are like apples of gold in pictures of j silver." Even strangers we casually meet by the way, in the travelers' waiting-room, are unconsciously in lluenced hy the words and tone we use. It is the one with pleasant words on his lips to whom the strang er in a strange land turns for advice and direction in his porplexi ies. Take it as a compliment if some way Hirer comes to you to direct him which street or which train to take; your manner has struck him as tie lousing to one he can trust. It is hard sometimes to speak a pleasant word when the shadows rest on our own hearts; but nothing will tend more to lighten our spirits than in do ing good to another. When you have no opportunity to speak :i cheering word you can often send a full beam of sunshine into the heart of some sorrowing, absent friend by sitting down and writing a good, warm hearted letter. Ohio Not for Grant. j The Cincinnati Commercial feels ! authorized to say to all concerned ! that if Grant is nominated at Chicago. Ohio will not go for the third-term ! party, cither in October or November, j We believe that Hamilton county j would give a majority of five or six (thousand votes against the third-term ticket. Ohio is a Republican State, but not a third-term Grant State. Will the desperadoes who are deter mined to drive the Rhpubliean party into a candidacy utterly incon sistent with Republicanism take no tice before it is too late? We know as much about Hamilton county poli tics as anybody, and we are absolute ly free to speak out the whole truth, irrespective of nominations, for nomi nations bind us only so far as we ap prove thorn,-at.d we think it the prop er thing to speak plainly before the forks of the road are reached. An Ecclesiastio Bon Mot. The Cincinnati correspondent of the Baltimore Star relates the following incident of the Methodist General Conference: "The following may be recorded ns a bon mot of the session : During the vote for Bishops a color ed member said to General Fish, ''I am voting for two colored Bishops,'' ami, showing his ticket, revealed to the astonished General his own name. 'Why,' said he, 'I am a lay man, and, besides, I am not a colored man.' 'Yes.' was the reply ; 'but you are just as good as a colored man.' " The South. The World hus certainly earned the right to speak frankly as a friend to the Democrats of the South, and it is time for every true friend of the South to tell Southern men plainly that they need not seek or hope to evade or escape the responsibility of their plain, demonstrable relation tu tho Democratic party by professing either that they have no opinion as to what manner of man should be the Democratic candidate at Cincinnati, or that they think it discreet to with hold any opinion they- may have form ed. The pretext of this Southern in difference, or Southern reticence in tho notion that any Democratic can didate will be prejudiced in the North by Southern advocacy of" his claims. It is time for nil grown men at the South to understand that this notion has been industriously put about by Mr. Ti Id en's friends 'in order to bull doze the Southern majority of the party into shutting their eyes and opening their mouths and taking what Grumercy Park may send then). It is time for grown ?u^n at the South to understand that, no matter who may be nominated at Cincinnati, he will be denounced to.the Republican voters us a Southern candidate. If ue is a Nor'hern mau he will be re viled as "u Northern man with South crn principles." The stalwart con tention am! outcry this summer must be met, and boldly met,- by any Dem ocratic candidate. The stalwart yell j in 1880 against any Democrat ? ill be like the stalwart yell 1872 against Horace Grceley?that tho Democrat ic party is a Southern parly. Why [should it not be? In 187G Mr. Til 'den went out of the Northern States in a minority of a quarter of a million, but when the real ballots of the Southern States wero added this was [turned 'uto n majority of a quarter of a million. The country has got on now to a point where it longs for nothing so much as a frank utterance I of the true und best sontiuient of the South. The business men of the j North and West desire to see the Union as it was in the hearts of the whole people. New England, and especially Massachusetts, tho brain of the anti-slavery war, is looking back to the better days of the repub lic and proves Ibis demonstration by [the feeling which it displays in favor of such a national statesman ns j Mr. Bayard. Tho 1 colleges, the I churches, the be?t. elements of Puri tanism and the best elemen's of Cath olicism iu. MatHiuv'iuf^tto ay) manifest this feelfng. The independent, right minded, no-party men of the East and North are intently expecting what the South will do at Cincinnati. By what the South docs at Cincinnati the 'South will, wc repeat, be judged, and in the Northern judgment of the South the Democracy will be judged. No man iu New York or in New En gland is uninformed as not to know t'>ut the South can control ' he Cin cinnati nomination. Is the South so demoralized ns that it no longer has any political convictions, or that it dares not act upon these convictions ? Let that once be really believed, and there will bo an end of all hope for the Democracy in 1880! Arc the majority of a great national party re duced to dumb acquiescence in the control of a minority? That would j be even worse for the Democracy. If the South can no longer form polit ical opinions, or no longer venture to enfoice them when formed, it is lime the country should know in bow great a peril our institutions stand !?JS'ew York Yorld. (Dem.) Morir/onism in the South. It is creditable to our American civilization that, notwithstanding the 'oleration with which the Mormons 'have been treated, the followers of Brighani Young has thus far been eo*i pel led to seek converts to their peculiar doctrines among the old na tionalities of Europe. England has been the great Mormon recruiting ground and latterly Denmark and Sweden. Dining the last few years, however, the Saints, we regret to say, have found a good deal of encourage ment in some of the Southern Stales, especially iu Georgia and Tennessee. In Lawrence County iu the latter State Mormon missionaries have been at work for more than a twelve month, and their efforts have been, unfortunately, so successful that twenty of its citizens recently joined the Church of tho Latter Day Saints. They have just left for Utah, where they will no doubt be admitted to all the rights and privileges of the elect. One ol the converts in question is described as a handsome young mar ried woman, whose hiisbaud, however, did not uccompany her. Lawrence County it is to be hoped will not lind many imitators iu the South. It is al most incredible that at tho present lime Mormonism should be able to rcciuit its rank? in any portion of the country, but it seems there are a few places into which tho light ol civiliza tion has not yet penetrated. WllEN a fellow looks back into the dim vista of by-gono /earn, about tho only things he can remember, is his mother's slipper, his first pair of boots, and the old schoolmaster. Lifo was worth living for in those days, even though there wasn't much money in it. ?Subscribe for tho Dfmociut. Senator Hampton's Speeoh. The announcement that Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, would address the Senate to-day in op position to the resolution unseating Senator Kellogg, drew one of the lar-| seat audiences of the session to the Senate Chamber. Governor Hamp ton's position on this important ques tion has been known for several days, but it seems that his determination to be the first Democrat to speak against the outrageous action recommended by the Elections Committee was only reached after he heard Ben Dill's in sulting reference to the South Caroli na Senators yesterday, of whom Hill said there were "whispering* in the air* as In their course on this meas ure, inlimating that they would dis honor themselves if they antagonized the resolution to oust Kellogg. Gen eral Hampton, at the outset, disclaim ed that he proposed .to make a legal i argument. He intended merely to stale the facls and draw those logical dedutions from his premises, such as any man of ordinary common sense was capable of. He slated the ease as proved by the official record, and j then briefly teviews its history down to the admission of Kellogg. He de clared that Kellogg's title had been then projected ami adjudicated. The j Senate was forever precluded from disturbing it. He then read a half dozen standard authorities sustaining his position. Nest came his reply to Hill's personal allusion of the day before. On this point. Senator j Hampton said: "The Senators from South Carolina need not to be admon ished by the distinguished Senator from Georgia that, they must not low er the standard of the Palmetto Slate in dishonor. Sir, we have followed that standard on stricken fields, shot sown and bladed thick with steel, without the example of the Senator from Georgia to guide us in the path of duty. I hiive seen that standard, sir, in the fore front of the battle In terlocked with the colors of Georgia, while the Senator's 'knightly collea gue' (Gordon) who sits before me with the scars of battle prominent on his fucc, moved forward beneath both, and added new lustre to the martial annals of his heroic State. While these scenes were transpiring on the field of conflict the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Hill) sat comfor tably in the forum, beyond the reach of personal danger. As the Senators from Soulh Carolina were true to the Palmetto standard then, they will do ih.ir duty now under the broader ensign of the Union." With these wortls Gov. Hampton resumed his seat, amidst much applause. At least twenty Senators publicly congratula ted him, Edmunds and other Repub licans being among the number. Gov ernor Hampton was very much fiv tigued by ihe effort, and was compel led to leave the chamber shortly af terwards.? Cor. Baltimore American. May and Pecernber, It seems to be pretty dillicult to scare off a Connecticut girl when she has once made arrangements to have a wedding come off/. The local papers in a rather uneventful portion of that Stale tell ihe story of a 3'oung w oman of twenty-one who had engaged to marry an old man of siicty three. After maki.-i" a memorandum of the great difference in the ages, it is prob ably unnecessary to say that the qld fellow is rich ; that was a part of the fascination with which he captured the young woman. Matters went on very smoothly for a time, until the old man began Ip suspect that he had rather not marry, or at least that he might not want to many the particu lar young woman who was so dearly in love with him to all appearances. This hideous man began in a most cruel fashion to take the conceit out of his young love. Calling as usual upon her this malicious and patched j up wretch made a comic show of j himself by removing his wig. his teeth I and some other things made to order. This greatly to the disgraceful man's delight, astounded the young woman, and for a time it looked as if she tright regard it as desirable to seek a little further for a husband. It was only for a brief time, however, for her love soon rose supeiior to wigs and false teeth : it was anchored on solid rocks?such rocks as rich old men sometimes employ in temp ing love. She declined to break the engagement off merely because he was bald und toothless; his purse was robust and all that a young woman could desire. In vain he further sought to frighted her by sitting his age up some twenty years mere than she had suspected it could be ; this she rather liked, under the circum stances. His patience finally wore out, and he broke oil* the engagement without permission from the other party. A breach of promise easo is now occupying the attention of a Con necticut court which will be likely to furnish the concluding chapter to this s^ory, "John Smith, teacher of cowtill ions and other dances?grammar taut in the neatest manner?fresh salt lierrin on droll?likewise Good Trey's cordjial?rute sassagc and other gar den truck?N. B. bawl on friday nite?prayer meeting cheusday?also some singing by the quire." RuusentHK for the DsssocRATi Don't Pity. Don't pity men and women?they don't like it. Show pity to some strong man in blue overalls, that you used to know in the nobbiest of busi ness suits, and seu how quickly he will freeze over.; but show sympathy and friendliness to tho man himself, without one glance at his clothing, or employment, and his great soul looks on', of his eyes and returns your greeting. He isn't without hope? there are many bright things in life for him. Don't pity a woman who does her own work, and el'ten look tired and discouraged. Don't pity the farmer's wife, uor her equally hard working sister in village or city. They certainly have their dark hours ?everybody has?but there is always something for which we work and hope. Always something for which, in our worst trials, we whisper "resur gam." Don't pity tho woman who enjoys lace-making and decks herself and children with the labor of her hands. Let her be comfortable in her own way. We don't know what happy fancies she Hitches into her work. If her ruling pnssion is to wear purple and line linen and home made lace every day, don't feel sorry that her mind has no greater compass. These things are pretty,, and if she repeats uresurganj"o.v.er her stitch ing, that is the gospel and bow of promise for her. Don't pity the wo man who goes without collar ami cufls; though she might look much belter with them, she would be the same person ; and then so many tre mendously mean animals of the ape kind, both male and fema'c, wear such nice collars und culls. No; never pity men and women. Pity babies who are not loved and well cured for. Pity dumb animals whose right to existence is not recog nized. But don't stand up in the temple ami thank God you arc not like other folks; go close to your brother or sister who is so humble in attitude, and you will Und they arc waiting for an inheritance too, but meaning to obtain it by a different process. We stand together ou Mount Pisgah and look for our prom ised land, but. each oue sees his own purple mountains and vine-covered valleys. It is no more truo that "every heart knoweth its own bitter ness," than that ?"Fur us all, some sweet hope lies Deeply bidden from human 03*03." When we look at our neighbors and see about them thistles and duck ponds, wo-may ho sure, somewhere, they have their clear, still waters, and gardens of roses. A Foolish Boast. .That any Republican candidate can be elected against any Democrat is a boastful assumption not warranted by the political situation. What reason is there for believing that the Demo cratic party is not as strong in 1H80 as it was in 187G, when the Republi can party had but one majority iu the electoral votes? The popular major ity in 1870 was largely in favor of the Democratic candidate. Tilden received.4,284,205 Hayes received.4,033,295 TiIdea's majority. 200,070 Although Tilden Jost his election by the narrowest of possible majori ties?a majority of one?in Ibc dec ral colleges, he run ahead of Hayes by more than a quarter of a million in the popular vole. The Democrats have at present a majority both in the .Scnale and the House, their ma jority in the popular branch of Con gress showing that the people of the country at large continued to stand by them for two years after the Pres idential election. What has occurred since to depress Democratic hopes? To be sure there is the feud in Now York ; but with any other candidate than Mr. Tilden that feud will be in stantly healed from tire moment that ihe Chicago ticket is announced. There has been a s'eady Democratic majoiity in this State since Mr. Til den's e'GCtion as Governor in 1874. Even last year the aggregate Demo cratic vote was a majority, and had it been united on one candidate, Mr. Cornell would have been defeated. Whole Democratic vole.453,356 Wholo Republican vote.418,507 Democratic majority.34,780 It is generally conceded that the vote of New York will decido the Presidential election. But in view of steady Democratic majorities iu the last six elections how can any sober minded Republican cherish so auda cious a fancy as that tho weakest Re publican candidate can curry the State againct the strongest candidate the Democratic party can nominate? A weak candidate has really no chance at all in Ibis controlling the State against the united Democracy supporting a popular lickyt. Jt is mere brag and moonshine to say that a candidate who would repel a large number of Republican votes is strong er than the best man tho Democrats can nominate. We commend to the Republican party "a prudent husban dry of its resources."?N. Y. Jleruhl. We have tho statement of the Northumberland Press that nn old Shanghai hen iu that placo has been sitting four weeks on a carponter's hammer. She declares that bho will hatchet if it takes all tho summer. Why Aunt Sallio Never Married. "Now, Aunt SalHe, do please tell U3 w!>y you never got married. You remember you said once that when you were a girl you were engaged to a minister, and promised us -you would tell us about it some time.? Now, aunt, please tell us." "Well, you see, when I was about seventeen years old, I was living in Uliea, in the State of iMew York.? Though j say it myself, I was quite a good-looking girl then, and had several beaus. The one that .took my fancy was c, young minister, a .very promising young mun, and re markably pious and steady. lie thought a good deal of me, and I kinder took a fancy ?.o him, and things went on until ve were onga ged. One evening he came to seo me, and put his anna around me and .kind o' hugged mc, when I got ex cited and some ? list rated. It was a Jong time ago, and 1 don't know >but what I might have hugged back a little. I was like any other girl, and pretty soon I pretended to be mad about it and pushed him away, though I wasn't mad a bit. You must know that the house I lived in was on one of the buck streets of the towu. There was glass doors in tho parlor, which opened over the ^stneeL These doors were drawn to. I step ped back a little Iroin him, and when . lie came up close I pushed him back again. I pushed him harder than I intended to; and don't you think girls, the poor fellow lost his bal ance, and fell through one of the doors into the street." "Oh, aunty ! Was he killed ?" "No, he fell head-first, and as Jie was going I caught him by the legs of his trousers. I held on for a min ute, and tried to pull him back, but his suspenders gave way, and the poor young man fell clear out of hie pantaloons into a parcel of young ladies and gentlemen along1 the street." "Oh, aunty ! aunty 1 Lordy 1" "There, that'a tight.; squall and giggle as much as you want to.?? Girl's that can't hear a little thing like that without tearing around tho room and he-he-ing in such a way don't know enough to come in when it rains. A nice lime the man that marries one of you will have, won't he? Catch me telling you any tiling i again." "lint, Aunt Salic, what became of him? Did you ever sec him again?" "No; the moment ho' touched tho ground hp got up and loft tfcat place it) a terrible-hurry* I tell you it was a sight to be remembered. How that man did run! He wont out West, and I believe ho is preaching out in Illinois. But he never mar ried, lie v/as very modest, and i suppose he was so badly frightened that he never dared trust himself near a woman again. That, girls., is the reason why I never married. I felt very bad about it for a long time?for he was a real good man, and I've often thought to myself that we should be very happy if his sus penders hadn't gave way." A Fair Gffer. The Editor of the Houston (Texas) A(jk has been solicited to act as um pire in the cate of two divines. Dr. Jacoh Vors?nger, onitor of the Jewish South, and Dr. 1'npe, editor of the Terns Baptist Herald\ who are now engaged in a dispute that has become aciimonious and personal. 'Ihe Aye man, with becoming modesty, de clines, save with tho following sensi ble condition. Wo have to say that wo have got about as much of other people's troubles on hand now as we can very well got along with.?But we will net as umpire in the case proposed -by Mr. .Makepeace, if tho parlies will agree to this condition: If the umpire decides against Dr. Vors?nger, ho shall be baptized by Dr. Pope; if tho decision is against Dr. Pope, he-shall be circumcised by Dr. Vors?nger. If the parties will signify their con sent tu that condition, we will lake the papers and render a decision. Looking Under the Bod. Just before a prominent ex-oflicc boldcr of Hartford retired the olher night, ho got clown on his hands and knees and peered anxiously under the bed. "What in the world are you looking for, Edward!" enquired his wife. "Looking for a woman," re plied her husband, promptly. "You have been looking for a man under the bed for fifteen years, and J thought I'd start a hunt for a woman, and I'll bet I'll Und Use woman before you do thefilan." Daniel Conioy, the poor fello'v who went mad over the liflecn puz zle s'ome time ago at Erie, but who recovered alter a brief period in the insane asylum has gone wrong again. His laut attack was on Sunday in the Catholic Cathedral at Eric. In the midst of the solemn High Masc, Con ioy threw his hat high above tho Bishop's throne a fed declared he was Daniel in the lions' den. The poor fellow was taken away and will be locked up again in the mad house. A young man over in Kcrshaw County, aged 2?, eloped with a widow aged (15, a few days ago, and married her. He must have been an enterpris ing chap.