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THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone, 1866.
SUMTER, S. G., TUESDAY, AUOTST 14, .1833.
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WHILE.
>FOSD.
lr wen ii cannot be tor tong,
i l have it. so-it is too sweet
ijaJittte while about your neck*_
is trod: to death beneath your
^ ?? .
lei not fore-knowledge of his tate
tbe-san-brigbt splendor of your
is brief, and be is only yours
A little while:
. ?tbeciv To-dajSod gives os all,
rlord oformccsand of pow-is.
rare berp?ess io their niter bliss
jj down by the sweet weight of the
tlwHirs
tthe fatnre overbrim li fe's cop
i bitterness of sll things vile
we hsve lived, since Io Te was
. U;K V ?
r?Bt?ewh?e.
weep for hhifc?ill be is dead,
' cot theo ; bo t on ' some sommer eve,
should dim mine
died so young, 1 will not
there is a sacred spot *
on time's b%bway many- a weary
; san whereon we basked
A little while.
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Grape Culturo.
of
tain S. W.
SBeer Wilmington.
> W??miagton Review.}
tf eix year* Caph S. W.
been experimenting in
, near this city, and bas
fated, by his resol ts, the
nd argued assertions of
bunch or cluster grapes
en in this locality, and
-teat the soil and climate were totally
|5miftted for the cultivation of exotic
^WS?;. He asserts and. plainly de
jiratsirates with accomplished results
^Jffiiinfpn theorists either were arguing
it??ory and wilfully neglecting
^tWmMtnre js this climate
or ?^tSwJifete governed by tho
..:%t??^liae?|?t? ?f persons who had
? a?v^g?viei* t?e natter of grape "cul
tarei fair trial. Capt. Nobles has
.froren himself to be a philanthropist
ioisa Cape Fear section, and in order
^ encourage others to come here aud
engage in tbs, good work of tilling
tb? fitoi! aa?r^^row?ng remanerative
crops, has kindly given us for publica?
tion the results of his experimental
labor in grape and small fruit cuitare.
He, besides being a practical farmer,
is a nail of intelligence aud-has put
fais reading and book learning in
pomologjKto a practical test with the
moats^M?actory results. These ex*
pendents, as he terms them, were al!
made in connection with hie farming
?od consequently, but a very small
portion of ,his time, comparatively
speaking/has ?been devoted to the
new rod?stry. In ihe'fall of 18T7 he
{ Started bis experiments in cultivating
bench grapes, having purchase?! a
jew vines, one of each variety, from
nurseries. Now he has over one
hondre? varieties which embrace the
Rowers, Mish, Hopkins? Isabella,
Catawba, Delaware, Concord, Per?
kins, Ives, Martha, Salem and Scnp
pernong of the old varieties, and of
\ the/ new he has the Vergennes,
Prentiss, Lenoir, Lady, 20 pf Bogers'
* Members-, 4 of Arnold's and many
^ others, including the Malaga, which
?sre very desirable.
He bas-now 400 vines in bearing,
12,000. growing, and will set out this
?aft at least 24,000, and possibly more.
He has in the past two years en?
deavored to hybridize some viuqs,
but cannot tell as%et what will be the
resalt. ,We were shown over his
. VT?t?yard yesterday and never saw a
nore luscious looking sight than the
pfilS $?ed trellised vines a?; they fair?
ey groaned under their weight of ripe
;%KFdelicious fruit. The grapes were
J^krt?^rmfy ripe aud "were a s;gbt
pwetl calculated to* make ?ne enthusi?
astic over the subject of grape culture.
a space of 1-4 of an acre of ground
Vas at the least calculation $100
ti^?rtb of ripe grapes, if sold at the
reasonable price, say about 6 cents
per pound, at which Capt. Nobles
-disposes of his harvest. He says that0
tke secret of the fruit ripening uni?
formly is in cultivation and pruning.
It ts not so much trouble to cultivate
-grapes as it is to grow corn, and the
crop ott our soil is far more remunera?
tive. As a further evidence that this
climate and soil are peculiarly adapt?
ed to grape cu i lure we have but to
state that Capt. Nobles, harvest is
??ow ripe. AH of bis fruit has ripen
|ed at least two weeks in ad vence of
that grown in other portions of the
?Stat?^snd it is a matter of much re
gretHuat his crop'will all have been
gathered before the meeting of the
Fruit Growers' Association in this
city on the 22d inst. He is of the ?
opimos that a grape of sufficient body .
can be successfuliy cult.vated Itere j
te make raisinsv *Vhen tte fact is
taken into consideration that grape j
vines ace easily propagated aud that
^fckey need ao protection in this eli
in the winter, we see no reason
woy this locality should not eventual
^0?fi^a^ta grape growing belt. =
^tetKobies has called our attention
^fe:%ct ibat WilmiDgtoB ? ?.rec
B--noa-isMKnitu vrwrnmrnsmsscm
degrees South of the latitude of S
Francisco sud 4:he grape growing h
of California, while Portugal and
grape growing belt of the old coun:
including th? Islands of the Medit
ranean Sea, where the famous Smyi
\and Malaga grapes aw raised are
or about the same latitude of Wa
ington City, and hence several <
grees north of the latitude of Wilmii
ton. But p connection with tl
matter we must not lose sight of t
fact that the now renowned gra]
growing belts of the world are on t
West side of the continent, where t
temperature is warmer in the sat
latitude than it is on the Eastern coi
by two or three degrees, yet after
lowing the difference usually accoi
ed, we have a climate about sirail
to that of the grape-growing belts,
is the expression and teachings of ;
intelligent pornologists that a ligl
porous sandy soil is best fitted to ti
cultivation of the vine, and it wou
appear at a casual view of the subje<
-even if we did not have positive prc
of the fact, that the soil and clima
of the Cape Fear eection were pee
liarly adapted to this industry.
In addition to the efforts of Capta
Nobles, we find upon inquiry tb
others in this city have experiment*
with exotic grapes with the ve:
best results, and their ex peri en <
adds new weight to the alreac
-proven fact that we have a grape c
mate and soil. Three years ago
little grand daughter of the late He
ry Nutt, Esq., planted the seed of
Malaga grape in a flower pot, and
due time the tender vine forced i
way through the earth in which tl
seed was planted, and grew luxuriar
ly during the Summer. Mr. Nut
thinking that the vine would not ata;
the -climate, took no pains with it at
let it stay out in the yard during 11
Winter. In the Summer, to his gre;
surprise, he found that the vine wj
alive and had not been injured in tl
least. He then took it oat of the pi
and planted it in his yard and traine
the vine on a trellis. Just before,!
died he was rewarded for his care ?
the vine by sixty well develop*
bunches of Malaga grapes, whic
were of delicious flavor and -equate
the imported fruit. Mr. W. J.
French, Mr. Jas. W. Collins and M
Geo. R. French, Jr., have grown an
ripened the Malaga grape, while tl
latter has also successfully ex per
merited with the Black Hamburg. 13
plucked from his vine last Summer
number of bunches which had 'shou
dered,? two of which he weighed an
found that each cluster turned iL
scales at 11-2 pounds.
Capt. Nobles has not only exper
mented in grape culture, but hs
given ?jonie attention to small fruit?
Four years ago he purchased a wi!
Goose Plum, a fruit of excellent flavc
and propagated from it. The nes
year he had 40 trees, the , third yes
he had 300, and this year he has 1,00
plants or grafts which are from 4 to
feet high. He says that in OJ is cl
mate the grafts will absolutely bra
the first y ear after being set out. He lc
a gentleman of this city have one c
the trees, and in eighteen month
after it was grafted it ripened nine
teen perfect plums. He has also o
his place 3,000 peach trees in bearing
He has forty varieties and propagate*
them from trees which he boughl
Besides the bearing trees he has 30.
000 seedlings now ready for buddinj
and grafting. He has also 1,000 appl
trees in bearing and 5,000 seedlings
It is a rule with him, whenever h
hears of a fruit to purchase a few tree
at any price and propagate from them
In order to thoroughly test our eli
mate and soil he has experimente*
with the pear, apricot, goose berries
and currants and has been successfu
with them. Now, in conclusion, wi
think it has been clearly demonstrate*
that our soil an1 climate are peculiar
ly adapted to grape culture, and w<
hope at no distant day to see anc
know that the Cape Fear section is ;
renowned grape growing belt.
An'Aspiring Youth.
In South San Francisco exists *
bright little boy, not yet 3 years old
whose exploits are somewhat re
markable. Before the little fellow
was 30 montbs*oi age his father ha?]
occasion to look after some repairs ai
the top of a number of flat-roofed
buildings of several stories elevation.
Taking the little one along with him,
and .placing him on his coat at the
foot of a ladder fastened perpendicu?
larly against the back of one of them,
he proceeded to the roof to make an
investigation of the work io be done.
This occupied more time than he ex?
pected, but was finally completed,
and justas he was on the poiut of re?
turning judge of his surprise to see
thc little one's head peering over the
topmost round of the ladder and on a
level with himself. Tc -vjcure him and
descend to the ground required no
little command of nerve or exertion
bf muscle, but it was finally, io his
great joy, aocomplished. A week or
two after this occurrence this little
prodigy of fearlessness was missing
from the family circle. A most
thorough search, under great paternal
anxiety, for a long time failed to dis?
cover his whereabouts. Finally, in
passing throuh thc street on which
the above-mentioned buildings iront,
the object of sn much solicitude was
discovered sitting on the edge of a
projecting cornice, dangling his feet
about at a most lively rate, and look?
ing at the objects below in a mont
unconcerned manner. By dint of
perseverance and tact the yttie waif
was finally brought to (erra firma in
safety. To reach the perilous posi?
tion in which be was found he had
dimed the ladder on which he had
made a pr?viens expie it, walked over
an eight-inch plank in the face of a
strong gale of wind, to the second
building, and either scrambled over
or crawled around a high frontage of
the cornice.-San Francisco Chron?
icle.
Mrs. Langtrvonner return to Eng?
land reported JtuTt she made about ?120,
?.00 while fooling around in America
Sh>-prop0ses to come back and see the
gullible public again.
j The Tendency of Scientific In?
quiry.
Sir Henry Barkly, G. Cl M. G., F.
R. S., took the chair at the annual
meeting of the Victoria (Philosophi?
cal) Institute, at 7, Adelphi Terrace,
London, in the last week in June.
The Honorary Secretary, Captain F.
Petrie, F. R. S. L., read the report,
by which it appeared that the lnsti
i tute,-founded to investigate ail ques
I tions of Philosophy and Science, and
j more especially any alleged to mili
? tate against the truth of Revelation,- !
j had now risen to 1,020 .members, of j
whom about one-third were Foreign, !
Colonial and American, and new ap- j
plications to join were constantly
coming in. An increasing number
of leading men of Science had joined
its ranks, and men of Science, wheth?
er in its ranks or not, co-operated in
its work. During the session a care?
ful analysis had been undertaken by
Professor Stokes, F. R. S., Sir J. R.
Bennett, Vice-Pres. R. S., Professor
Beale, F. R. S., and others, of the
various theories of Evolution, and it
was reported that, as yet, no scienti?
fic evidence had been met with giving
countenance to the theory that man
had been evolvedffrom a lower order
in animals ; and Professor Virchow
had declared that there was a t coin
piet? absence of any fossil t}rpe of a
lower stage in the development of
man ; and that ay positive advance
in the province of prehistoric anthro?
pology has actually removed us furth?
er from proofs of such connection,
namely, with the rest of the Animal
! kingdom. In this, Professor Bar
rande, the great paleontologist, had
concurred, declaring that in none of
his investigations had he found any
one fossil species developed into
another. In fact,, it would seem that
no scientific man had yet discovered
a'link between man and the ape, be?
tween fish and frog, or between the
vertebrate and the inverterbrate ani?
mals ; further, there was no evidence
of any one species, fossil or other,
losing its peculiar characteristics to
acquire new ones belonging to other
species ; for instance, however simi.
lar the dog to the wolf, there was no
connecting link, and among extinct
species the same was the case ; there
was no gradual passage from one to
another. Moreover, the first animals
that existed on the earth were by no
means to be considered as inferior or
degraded. Among other investiga?
tions, one into the truth of the argu?
ment from Design in Nature had
been carried on, and had hither:-,
tended to fully confirm that doctrine.
Tiie question of the Assyrian inscrip?
tions and the recent Babylonian re?
searches had been under the leader?
ship of Mr. Ilormuzed Rassam, who,
on his arrival from Nineveh, had given
a full report of the extent of his new
excavations, which were of the high- j
est interest. His discovery of Sephar- j
vaim, one cf the first cities mentioned
in Holy Writ, was most important.
Professor Deiitsch and others aided in
the consideration ol the discoveries
and the inscriptions found. Two
meetings had been held to 'consider.,
the questions raised in Mr. JLerbe?
Spencer's Philosophy, and LorrF
O'Neill and others had shown, by a
careful analysis of his arguments, that
a greater attention to accuracv in
statement would have kept Mr.
Spencer from arriving at those hasty
conclusions which had made his philo?
sophy remarkable, lt was announced
that the results of explanations now
beingcariiedonin iiigypt would be laid
bofore the Institute early in the winter.
The discoveries were very important,
especially that of the site of Succoth,
which, like the results of the survey
of Palestine, was confirmatory of the
Sacred Record. The quarterly Jour?
nal, which had been published for
sixteen years, was now issued free to
all Members and Associates, whether
at horne or abroad. Several interest?
ing speeches having been made, the
Members and their friends adjourned
to the Museuift, where refreshments
were served.
One of the Greatest Speen-?
. lators.
P. D. Arbour is of sturdy Scotch
Presbyterian rtock. He was born in
one of the. central counties of New
\ iork. on a farm arnon ? the bills. It
j was the highest ambition of his boy
? hood days to carn money c-uough to
j buy the farm adjoining his father's.
When the gold ferer broke out be was
j still a mere stripling ; but full of youth
; ful enthusiasm, lie start;d for Califor?
nia, driving a wagon across the plains
and mountains. ile remained there
three or four years, and in that time
saved a few thousand dollars. He had
cash enough to buy that farm and set?
tled down. He had no sooner reached
! horne than he experienced a sudden' re
j vuisiou of feeling. The htrects of the I
! village looked narrow, cramped aad
I dull. The house appeared mean and
j dingy. He only remained on the form
twM or three days and then took himself
to Cincinnati. Later he drifted to Mil
j waukee, and at the close of the war he
sold a grea^lot of pork at ?40 a barrel,
and bough*!t in again at ?13 to ?19. I
realizing a profit of shout a million. !
j To-day be ranks as the wealthiest mau
in Chicago, being rated by those who j
know something of his business, at !
! ?25,000,000 or $30.000.000. His |
I transactions are colossal. His firm
j employs between 5,000 and 0,000 men,
? ard on his nay roi'?? nrc about G ft y men
J who receive salaries of ^5,000 and ?
j over. He not yet 55 years of age. j
! An old operator tb-'ua tells 'how cable !
1 . i r -, * '
I messages are received : '[ do;, t sup- ;
j po.^e you know bow tb.-1, ineso;:-;^.* are I
j received over the cables ? No, Well, j
! it is altogether diiferent from this tick, j
i oe:, tieri, inc operators h\l JU cart !
i room-. The messages come as tittle j
\ electric sparks ; the letters are known .
! by the length of the flash. These m? :. ;
ro blind iii the end of fifteen years, pnd
are nestor*ed in Lcgiana. v.-.ii nothing j
is done for them here. 'J hey arc noe
even paid any better than we are.'
It is calculated ihc'- fifty bicycle? will j
be entered for races at the next State j
Fair. This will be a big feature of the j
week's festivities.
A Bible Sensation.
Cable special : 'A Mr. Sbapira, o
Jerusalem, a bookseller and dealer ii
antiquities, bas just deposited 32
the British Museum fifteen ?Kps 0
black sheepskin leather, on which ar<
written, in characters simib;. tolhos<
on the celebrated Moabite stone, por
tiens cf the book of Deuteronomy dil
fering materially from the receivec
version. The date of thc siips is ir
the ninth century before Christ, or six
teen centuries older than any autben
tic manuscript of the Old Testament
Mr. Sbapira bought them from ar
Arab, aud he asks for them $5,000,
OOO, from the British Museum 1
genuine, the interest and importance
of tbe discovery can not be overrated
and so far as the variations in thc
sacred text is concerned, there if
promise of one of the greatest con
trovcrsies that scholars have ever en
tered upon. The decalogue furnish
ed a good example for comparisor.
with the received version. I quot?
from tbe Shapira record :
'I am God, thy God, which lib?
erated thee fi om the land of Egypt,
from thc house of bondage. Ye ehaii
have no other gods.
Ye shall not make to yourselves
any graven image, cor any likeness
that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in ?be
waters under the earth. Ye shall not
bow down to them, nor serve them. ?
am God. Your God sanctified.
In six days I have madetheheaveD
aud the earth and all that is therein,
and rested on the seventh day. There
Tore, rest thou also ; thou and thy cat?
tle, and all that thou hast. I am God ;
thy God.
Ilonor thy father and thy mother.
I am God ; thy God.
Thou shalt not kill the person oi
thy brother. I ara God ; thy God.
Thou shalt not commit adultery
with the wife of thy neighbor. I am
God ; thy God.
Thou shalt not swear My name
falsely, for I visit the iniquity of the
father upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of those who
take My name in vain. I am God ;
thy God.
Thou shalt not. bear false witness
against thy brother. 1 am God ; thv
God.
Thou shalt not covet his wife, or
his man sevrant or Iiis maid servant,
or anything that is his. I am God ; thy
God.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thv heart. ? am God : thv God.
'These ten words God spake.'
Dr. Ginsburg, the eminent Semitic
scholar bj whom Mr. Gladstone has
just"given fifty pounds sterling to?
wards tiie production cf "his work on
the Masorah, has accepted tim above,
aud is busy completing a translation
and determining on behalf of the
museum, the genuineness of the
fragments,. The general opinion
among scholars is that lucy are
fraudulent.
A "Woman's Work.
The female mind is a mazy conun?
drum which, though impossible o?
solution, it isn't bese to give up !
While seated in my oSce the other
day trying to convince myself that a
liewell told was alraos?: as good asa
shabbily dressed truth, a lady with
much back hair and false friz stepped
ia and inquired if I was presen?
? j!d her that a largesbare of rro was
there, but that the thinking portion
principally was scated on a solar sp-'t
gathering fresh spectra, (i calculated
that would be a stu'i uer, but she
didn't stun !)
'Is there enough pf you herc to
grasp a thought V said she. as she
sank iuto a chair in such a manner as
not to crush-the chair.
'Yes, a small one,' said I, 'but not
enough to buckle on to anything
heavy like the theory of dynamics/
'Well,' she inquired a? she began
tc unbutton her ulster, 'what of wo?
man's work V
'Abs !' said I transposing^, 'wo?
men must, work and men must weep.'
'No ! seriously now/ she exclaimed.
'I want to do some great work so as
to leave foot prints on the sands of
time.'
'Ah, yes V I soliloquized.
'You scatter tracks foreverrsore.
But leave the heel marks toward the door.'
'What number do you wear?'I
continued.
'Two's and a half/ said she blush?
ingly, drawin?;_one foot out of sight
as a rnudturtle does his head ; 'but
you are trifling with me ! 1 am strong,
loving and capable, and I long to
throw my energies into some ?reat
work, and be doing good to human i
fr- >
v .
4My dear madam/ said I, 'the large
contracts for well doing are nearly all
taken ! Susan B. Anthony has taken
thc European contract and the rece?it
sapply of female workers in South
Africa has been more tuan equal to
thc demand. A red headed ?vornan
recently left Moscow for Khiva (over?
land) who will probably be able to
let her iight shine ai! over Central
Asia, while convict labor covers Aus?
tralia and the steppes of Siberia, and
the Amazons have got control of
ttansportation throughout thc entire
length of the Amazon River which
bars out all other feroce labor in !
South America. There m one field, ?
however, which is still open to your !
sex, a-:'? to it 1 would di rec' your at-j
teution/
'Oh ! Loll mc : let) me ! she cried, 1
'ami bid surcease to my soul sobbiners i
ano $a?L*or longings.
'Go home/ I continued, 'and try I
your hand ai making your little do- j
wost ic circle sobrigli? and cheerful!
that your Uh? band and children wo ft
want to spend their .evening s awav 1
from it: Mend no their clothing!;
Sew on their buttons find make home j
a i?:.?c<- that they will love to linger j
in. ?heii your child reu will not some;
ce' gamins, or your husband a i
grocer I'.p.fer. Then posterity will j
i 3 -jp call you blessed, and for j
your labor yr- would receive a re?
ward to which the eciat of a r ostrum
seeking virago I.-; as a penuy bun to
a square meal '-[Q.. in Owosso
Press.
The Bad Boy.
'Say, d?a ? rel! yon about pa s?id
ina having tron?le ?' said the bad boy
to the grocery man.
'Ko, wfcat's the vow ?5
'Well, you see, ma wants to ec: no
nomize all she can, and pa has been
getting thinner since ho qui1; drink?
ing and reformed, and I "have kept
on growing until I ara r/g^rer than he
is. Funny, ain't, it, t:>;? a boy should
be bigger than his pa ? Pa wanted
new snit of clothes, and ma-said she
would fix him, and so she took one
of my old suits and made it over for
pa, and he wore them a week before
he knew it was an old suit made over,
bufconedayhe found a handful of j
dried up angle-worms in the pistol j
pocket that ] had forgot when i was j
fishing, and pa laid the angleworms j
to ma, and ma had to explain that she j
made over one of mv old suits for na. j
He was mad and took them off and j
threw thew cut the back window, and j
swore he would never humiliate him- j
self by wearing his son's old clothes.
Ma tried to reason with him, but he j
was awful worked up and said he was
no old charity hospital, and he storm- j
ed around to Und his old snit of clothes,
but ma had sold them to a plaster of
pans image peddler, and pa hadn't
anything to wear, and he wanted ma
to go out in the alley and pick up the
suit he threw out the window, but the j
rag man had picked theft up and was
going away, and pa he grabbed a linen
duster and put it on and went out j
after the ragpicker, and he run and
pa alter him, and the rag man told a
policeman there was an escaped lu?
natic from the asylum, ar:d he was j
chasing people all over the city, and
the policeman took pr? by the linen
ulster ami pulled it off, and he was a
sight when they took him to the
police station. Ma and me had to go
down and bail him out, and the police
lent us a tarpaulin to put over pa, and
we got him horne, and lie is wearing j
his summer pants while the tailor j
makes him a new pair of clothes.
I think pa is foo excitable and too
particular. ? never kicked on wear?
ing pa's old clothes; and I think he
ought to to wear mine now. Well, I
must go down to the sweetened wind
factory and jerk soda/ and the boy
went out and hung up a sign in front
of the store: 'Spinage, for greens, j
that the cat has made a nest in over?!
Sunday.r- Peck's Sun.
Oysters Grown Cn Trees, j
For years the waters of Poquouoc !
River. Conn., have been noted aa pro
docing the most delicious cysters known j
in the world. The demand was far tn
excess of the supply. Gs account of ?
thc thick, black med thar plastered the j
bed of the river, and which is fatal to j
oyster cu!rare, only a small margin of;
the bottom, a reeky strip far iv shore, j
could be utilized by t!:t. oyster-growers. ?
It was not until tiree or four years "go j
that a .speculative and inventive Yankee !
devised plan for sxtendis? tue -?vster ?
cultivation upon tue mad bottoms. lie i
ventured into rds woods aud cac down |
a forest of tough, wiry white birches, j
dragged thea, to the bank,, bore them j
to his boat upon the river, sod dumped j
them overboard, taking caro that they j
j should be lefc at proper intervals er; j
the bottom. lie had an idea that th? !
Oyster spawn weelu come sailing :;iou;:; !
? io the season, catch bold ot tho bitch ;
[ boughs, sud grow inte -? fabulous for- j
j tune fer bim. The idea wac a good o'je, j
i but. not perfected. Eb the ?
j birches to lie a suitable tiru?; and then
I pulled them up. Every bough sud
twig was thick with half-grown bivalves,
but the weight of the growing s?eils i
had dragged the brush down into the
I fatal mud, and the oysters had perished j
; by the million.
; Enlightened by this failure he made j
! another trial. He planted the birches !
i upright on the bottom, setting them at j
augie with the current. The sub- j
merged trees were fron; fifteen to twenty .
: feet ie length, and the hut's, which !
were three or four inches ic diameter, I
were thrust three or four feet into the
mud. Their tops just pricked through j
the waves at low tide. It was just j
what the oysters wanted, a ready-made
home. Tiiey drilled as thick as snow?
flakes to thc bending boughs and pliant
twigs. Singly they were so small as
to be almost invisible, but their legions
speckled the trees . with brownish
patches. Thc trees bowed under their
load of growing shells, but the elastic
wood kept the fruit out of the mud.
At the end of a few months it was seen !
that the oyc-ter orchards promised an
astonishing harvest. Ali the oystermcn
altng the river were anxious to try
their baud at thc new style of oyster
farming. Under the law of the ?tate
the mud bottom ou each side of the
100 foot channel was staked and set Ou
in plats to a dozen or more applicants
to bc planted with oyster trees. Soon
b >tb sides of Pouuonoc Uiver, from its
head lor a long way towards the SCH,
was bristling with sunken birches, wav- !
iu? an ebbing and flowing welcome to j
the drifting spat.- Norvrlr.h (Conn.') i
Corrcsjj'j: dent Nw York Tina s.
Dancing.
Dancing is one of the oldest of j
recreations. Homer speaks of a new ,
dance invented by ?D?edalus foi Aria- j
doe. Theseus was immoderately j
fond of the rici of fandango in v. nidi j
the arms move with tho legs. Tho i
Normans'rcvived rather than invented j
round dances in the twelfth century ; ii.1 :
Bohemians invented the redowa : the j
poles the polka. Irrst dar. ?ed in England ;
[.'. 4;"?-' .? ? iluDgariars the mazourka
and galop. The cotilil; e owes i's ori- j
? gio to i he courtly Due -I- L?.uzua who I
for his audacity in contracting a chindes- 1
ti.;., carriage with 'he Grande ?Viadc- |
mela tie,' was imprisoned for f?. n years i
Louis by AS \ . To this now popular and !
Ion ir-winded dance many Si:ures were i
added by Marie Antoinette, and some
more by thc Empress Irenic u nder j
th second omni)"; the pct-t ooi'ii'.? bor ?
??cot3io6nsat the TuilCfjCi halt; was ano :
of .'.considerable social impc taace. id :
wa: long held bv ene of the em; rrors j
equerries, the Marquis de ..: "\?
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Jt is not death that makes the ;
martyr, but the cause.
vcmtevticur. j "at is to say. there
h ,'- riot been an election carried *by
the Republican party in any cf these
5re -States daring the past three
years wi-ich r,-rai ld not have been lost
had the negro voted the Democratic !
xicket. ^ i
By til? census of "880, tl ie number
cf colored -eales of twenty-one years !
and -"'.-er in che several States was as ?
follows :
Now York, 20,059
Pennsylvania, 23,892 i
Ohio." 21,T06 !
Indiana, 10,930 ;
Connecticut. 3,532 ?
New York was Republican in 1780 j
and in ISSI. A chang-:- of 11,000 ?
voies in 1880 and of 7,000 in 1881 I
would nave given it to the Demo- ;
crats.
Pennsylvania was Republican in j
1880 and in I Sol. A change of ?
18,000 votes in 1880 and 3.000 in 1881
would have given the State to the I
Democrats. ,
Ohio was Republican in 1880 and j
in 1881. Either year a change t>f j
13,000 votes from Republican to
Democratic wonld have elected the !
Democratic candidates.
Indiana was Republican iu 1880 ;
the Democrats, however, needed less
than 3,500 Republican votes in order
to win.
Connecticut was Republican in
1830. A change of 1,500 votes
would have made the State Demo?
cratic.-JV. T. Sun.
Postal Changes.
There is no department of the gov- j
em m ont which indicates the progress
and growth of the country? more j
ciearely ti ian the Postofiicc depart- !
meat. " Prom 1825 to 1836 all post- i
masters were called 'deputy post- \
masters'/ and were appointed directly j
by the postmaster general. In 1S1G j
the late of postage fora letter ona!
single sheet of paper was 6 cents for j
30 miles or under. 10 cents foi 50 j
miles or less than 80, 12 1-2 cents for j
any distance over 80 or less than 150
miles, 18 34 cents for .distances be?
tween 150 and -400 miles ; and 25
cents for distances over 400 miles.
Letters contain lng two sheets of pa- j
per were charged double postage.
No envelopes were in use in those
days, and letters were folded and j
sealed with wafers or wax. A ma-1
jority of the letters were not prepaid, :!
the oostacre tax falling on the re- ;
coi vcr of the letter. Newspapers ]
were sent within a state or distances
of 100 miles for 1 cent and 1 1-2 cents j
for greater distances. No regular j
foreign mail was established until i
164 V, winer* was tue date of the in-1
traduction of postage stamps. The '??
highest salary paid to a postmaster i
was S2,C00. j
The dates of the most important :
changes in the postal system since !
I S'25 ore the use of railroads for con- j
veying mails, the reduction of!
postage, 1845 : introduction of postage !
stamps and postage adjusted to !
weight of fetters, 18-17, ; The regis-1
try of letters, 1854 ; free delivery in j
certain cities, 1863: the railway mail j
service. 1SC4, and the postal money j
ovdr-r system in 1864.
Thc next r?duction, that of single ?
idlers io 2 cent postage, will take ef- j
feet the first of October.
X Wad. ?lan
The celebrated wild man of tho
Camas prairie was killed recently by
some parties travelling through the j
prairie. While the travelers were j
camped in the foothills on the edge of j
the prairie ono of them named Mickle
haney went a few Mind red yards from j
camp to kill some ducks, takimr with I
him a shot-gun loaded with large shot.
When only a couple ofhundred yards j
from-camp tiie 'Wild Man of Camas' j
jumped np from his hiding-place and
after running a short distance, stopped
and looked at Micklehaney through I
his large, clear eyes ?br a moment ;
then, with a shriek that struck terror j
to the hunter and caused him to
shudder as the echo resounded
through the forest, the man, with the
ferocity of a savage beast of the jun-1
gie, made for Micklehaney so fiercely j
that in order to insure his own safety
he emptied both barrels of felic gun
into him, when he fell, apparently j
dead. Micklehaney went to him, i
when the strange being began to re- j
vive, and he put his foot on the man's !
neck and called to his comrades to j
come and bring an ax, which they did j
with all possible haste. The man es- j
capodjust as they arrived, and with a j
pitiful moan regained his foot and j
started to run. The ax was thrown j
at hi tn, and as he turned his head to j
look back it struck him in thc center I
of the forehead and he dropped lifo- !
less to the ground.
On examination 'ie was found tobe j
rather tall, wit'", full, clear eyes and !
an extraordinarily large head ; ap- ;
neared to be about io years of age, :
aithoug't not a gray hair could b-.4 ;
seen. The wavy black hair of his j
hoad hung low down onto his body ;
and his busily beard was about two
and a half feet long. The body was j
also covered with a thick growth of
hair about two inches in length. This ;
was also black and very fine. Tho,
fm?er and toe mr'is wt rc two inches ;
long and resembled claws more than
nails. I!;? was wrapped in a lo;';;
IMO.- made of rabbit skin which, .
although the tailoring on it . a:; not a
subject of admiration, was well Milloo
?br the most bitter cold weather.
The skins were sewed together hy
sinews. On examining the place
from which ho made his appearance
.: was ?our.J that lie had.a very'cont J
Imitable bed, widen .vas made of tho*
soft bar*? of sa:-, brush lt was uu
d< r an overhai ging rock and weil pro- !
tooted from the wind. Near the bcd
were two rabbits, which had most
likely been killed by stones.
'About ten years ago au insane I
stage-driver ?eft Boise Ci?y and has
never since been heard of. The
'Wild .Mau of Gamas' n-ay bo t'>e
same, having taken up his abode in
the thci? desolate prairie, but seldom
visited by white men. He could very j
easily secure food there, a? the conn- j
try is filled with rabbits both winier j
and summer, which can be easily ?
killed by an expert at throwing \
stones. The '"Wild ila., of Camas' i
has. since first seen in 1873, been j
dreaded by the lonely traveler and !
prospector, who will bc relieved to j
know that lie is head. j
An old Story in its Original j
Form*.
- j
A Circassian leg-end is that a man j
was walking along one road, and a j
woman along another. The roads '>
finally united, and the man and wo
man, reaching ihr? junction at the j
same time marched on from Lhere to- j
gether. The man wus carrying a j
large iron kettle on his back ; in one !
hand he held by the legs a live chick?
en, in the other a cane, and he was
leading a goat. Just as they were j
coming to a deep, dark ravine the wo?
man said to mat'.
'I am afraid to go through that
ravine with yeo ; it is a lonely place
and you might overpower and kiss
me by force.' .
'If you were afraid of that,' said
the man, '}rou shouldn't have talked
with me at all. How can I possibly
overpower and kiss yon by force when
I have th.is great iron kettle on my
back and a cane in one hand, and a
live chicken in the ether, and am lead?
ing this goat ? I might as weil bc tied
hand and foot.'
'Yes,' replied the woman ; but if
you were to stick your cane into the
ground and tie the goat to it, andtturn
kettle bottom side np and put the
chicken under it, then you might
wickedly kiss me in spite of my re?
sistance.'
'Success to thy ingenuity, oh, wo?
man !' said the rejoicing man to him?
self. 'I should have never thought of
this expedient.7
And when he came to the ravine he
stuck his cane into ?he . ground and
tied his goal to it. gave the chicken
to the woman, saying, 'Hold it while
I cut some grass for the goat, and
then lowering the kettle from his
shoulders, imprisoned the fowl ander
it, and wickedly kissed the woman,
as she was afraid he would.-Circas?
sian Legends.
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How Colds are Taken.
A person in good health, with fair
play, says the Lanc- i, easily resists
cold. But when the health flags a
little, and liberties are taken with the
stomach, or the nervous system, a
chill is easily taken, and according to
the weak spot of the individual, as?
sumes the form of a cold, or pneu?
monia, or, ii may be, jaundice. Of
all causes of'cold,7 probably fatigue
is one of the most efficient. A jaded
man coming home at night from a
! >ng day's work; a growing- youle
losing; two henrs- sleep over evening
parties two and three times a week,
or a young lady ?heavily 'doing the
season,'' young children over-fed and
with a short allowance of sleep, are
common instances of the victims of
'cold.' Luxury is favorable to chill
taking ; very hot rooms, soft chairs,
feather beds, create a sensitiveness
that leads to catarrhs, it is not.
after al!, the 'cold' that is so much to
be feared, as the antecedent condi?
tions that give the attack a chance
of doing harm, ?orne of the worst
'colds,' .happen to those who do not
leave their house or even their bed,
and those who arc most invulnerable
are often those who are most exposed
to changes of temperature, and who
by good sleep, cold bathing, and
regular habits preserve the tone of
their nervous system and circulation.
Probably many chills are contracted
at night or at the fag end of the day,
when tired people get the equilibrium
of their circulation disturbed by either
over heated sitting-room* or under
heated bed-rooms and beds. This is
specially the case with elderly peo?
ple. In such cases the mischief is
net always done instantaneously, or
in a single night. It often takes
place insidiously, extending over
days or even weeks. Ii thus appears
that 'taking cold' is not by any means
a simple result of a lower tempera?
ture, but depends largely on personal
conditions ami habits, affecting espe?
cially *he nervous and muscular ener?
gy of the body.
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Pulpit Humors.
The drawer bas never had so good a
metaphorvcomplete in ali its parts, as
the following, which is cut from a re?
cent article in a promiuent. religions
newspaper. We feel sure that the |
nict?'fhor is all right, because tho j
author of it is a Doctor of Divinity:!
"There seeds of pride aro. bursting ;
with fiaoie which might lay thc loan-j
dation of a deluge that would with its ;
fangs envenom my soul."
lt was .-i much less highly cultivated j
minister who recently made this eon- 1
tributing to etymology in a sermon eu !
tbe>-Beatitudes.'' "3iy friends," said !
tho preacher, "before proceeding to i
unfold our subject it is necessary to
sive a definition of thc word I nave :
just used. Beatitude ts composed pf !
two words, 'be' and 'atitudc."
means to live, to exist; and when a j
.nan li VON. .vheu he really lives, he
always -'.likes au attitude. Heneo we
view." ne. \
This is hardlv a u*ir illustra:ion of
t!:<- value of pi aching. ? much bet- .
ter cue ?mies iron? one of the pleas- j
ar.ici t cities in Connecticut. A dis-j
titiCpishcd clergyman in thc leading
church bad one m ming Swished nts ;
.reo M. when one of his rouch-im- ;
pressed hearer* same forward to thank
him for it. and this dialogue follow ? : j
. .T; f* :",,?. j. ..r>;iy> siucO 1 ii :iid v .%U
In this very place, fifteen ye.--rs
turo, ? Leard you preach a sermon that .
i have never forgotten. ? c lid rae
?nore good than any sermon I ever ;
hoard." It stuck by mc, und ? have!
always wanted to thank you for it."
.'Ali. indeed !" replied the pleased '
I preacher. '"Such evidence of ruy poor
i boor is very grateful. I should like
: to know what sermon it was. Do you
; remember thc text.
i "Welt, nr. ? can't tell chat the text
! was now. but it was the greatest ser
j UJon I ever ! rar-i. f t just lifted aie.
I nerer forget tha? sermon."
"I should really like to know what
sermon ir ?eas." replied the clergyman,
much interested io so decided a case of
the power of tbe pulpit. "If you
cannot recall the text, what was the
subject of the sermon V*'
'.Well. DOW. doctor, it's gone from
me ; ? forgot what thc text was, and ?
can't ryko up the subject row ; bat I
tell you it was a great sermon. It did
me more good-it was the most pow?
erful discourse I eyer heard. I shan't
forget ii. if I live to be eighty."
"Bu- can't you recall anything in
it? You excite my curiosity. Can't
ynn give mo a clew that will identify
it r
''No, I can t tell what was ic it ex?
actly ; the subject has slipped out of
my mind, i don't kuow exactly what
you said, but. it was a magnificent ser?
mon, it did rae more good than all
the preaching I ever hoard, it hts
just staid by me for fifteen years."
"And you can't recall a word that
will help me to identify it. V
"Well, I can't now briDg up what it
was about, but I remember how it
wound up. You said, 'Theology ain't
religion-not hy a-sigkt.r"-liar
per's Magazine.
Earthquakes.
i _
! Casamicebda, Italy, is one of thc two
1 great, earthquake zones, the other dis?
trict being the Western portion of South
America. In ao century since the
earliest recorded history h;>s Southern
Italy and Sicily escaped suffering from
frequent and severe earthquakes. In -
Stciiy, in 10*93, 00,000 people perished
in one earthquake. During the reign
of Tiberius, 16 A. D., 120,000 people
lost their lives in one day in conse?
quence of an earthquake. The earth?
quake attended with the most serious
j results ic the destruction of human life
j was that of 526, when 250,000 human
i beings perished, according to Gibbon's
I figures. Antioch, which had previously
j been destroyed at least twice, and seve
j ral other Syrian cities, were completely
I destroyed, and the shock extended into
Italy, where great damage to Ufe and
property resulted. In 63 Herculaneum
and Pompeii were destroyed by an
earthquake, this being 16 years before
the burial of those cities by thc erup?
tion of Vesuvius. THe city of Judea
was destroyed in 31 B. C., when 10,
000 people lost their lives.
; The most famous earthquake of his
j tory was that at. Lisbon, November 1.
j 5755, when 30.000 people wee buried
I alive and 30,000 more were killed.
! Calabria, Messiui and a number of
j smaller villages were destroyed Feb
! mary o, 1783, and some .100.000 lives
J were lost. Tu I82? Murcia, Spain,
: was destroyed, 3.500 hoares being
j thrown down and a couple of thousand
i people bei"!z, killed. Lima and its
j harbor, Callao, in Pe^u. were destroy
! cd in lo??, and again in 1746. and
j thousands perished. Arequipa, Peru,
j was wiped ont. cr existence in 1868,
j 50,000 people befog left homeless, and
? several thousand losin<: their lives. Ia
j o
I the same year the cities of Ibarra and
? Ottavaila '.-ere destroyed, and not one
j of their 10.GOO inhabitants escaped or
I could ever be found afterward. Cato
. cachy wa? also ob! i terr, ted tram the face
: of the earth, and a lake DOW covers tho
i spot where it stood. In that earthquake
! the U. S. war vessel Wateree was
! earrie: from the harbor of Callao two
j miles inland. The famous earthquake
j which devastated and depopulated Cal
J lao in 1782 continued at intervals for
i four years. It took bat three minutes
j fer an earthquake to make the entire
i city of Port Royal, Jamaica, a complete
! wreck in luO.?, an d even less time for
j the obstruction of San Salvador, in
! the Wes: Indies, March 10, 1873. The
! city of Mendoza, ia rae Argentine Be
I public, ^as destroyed and 12,000 pco
i pie killed by a shock of but a moment's
I duration in March. ISG1.
j Echoes cf tito Iso-nan Earthquake.
; The Loudon correspondent of the
j Boston Globe writes as follows : The
! State of affairs at heh ia is worse now
j than ever. Ar. first ii- was decided to
j co rer the whole ?cene of the earthquake
1 with chloride of iiaio to protect the
! living in their necessary work among
\ the rait;*, so great and deadly has be
I conic the stench arisio.' from thc bodies
j of the mor-, than eight thousand human
? beings known to have perished. But
j when it was found that seores of living
' persons were entombed i i the ruins, the
! plan of wholesale disinfection ha?d lo be
I abandoned. To-day a man was rescued
j alive from the ruins. Thc cf&uvia that
folio wed from the crevice which bis
j person had acted upon as a tight-fitting
\ cork overpowered his rescuers, all of
! whom fainted. There caa bo no doubt
I that many persons still remain alive in
: the Isehia ruins. It is probable that
ail those remaining alive to-morrow wili
have to be abandoned to their fate, as
every part of thc scene has ceased to be
endurable. Scarcely a rescuer is left
abie to resist, thc terrible vomitings
compelled by the indiscribable stenches
now prevalent. The eotire island has
been almost constantly shaken by a
.?eries of intermittent shocks ever since
the great disaster of }&<t Sunday.
Strange to say, the odors which will
now render further rescues impossible
and drive thc force of humanitarians
from tim one.; b autiful island, will
probably let in the ho,-t<es of Italian
brigands who cow hover about in
sufficient number to pass any proba?
ble guard, waiting thei; chances to
rush on the scene f>r any pl nr.der.
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What the two Geno: a!? Reported.
Among the striking aoutrasts ex
hihiied in characi r thv most frequent
were the comparisons b:tv. "cu Stonewall
Jackson and Bwcll or Karly. On one
occasion Lee received this devout dis?
patch from one flank: "By the grace of
Ged wc have beaten them on the right,"
and ti? next moment from the other .
win" : "Bv (}-A bard fighting we have
whipped them on the toff." One Lieu?
tenant wa* Jackson, the other Ewell.
Rich i? md State.