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VOLUME 3. " CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JULY 23, 1852. NUMBER 59.
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K. TEE LOST CHURCH.
*. BY JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Here stood a church?a house of God,
An earthly temple built with stories;
Its courts our father's footsteps trod,
Tt<s u-raves received our father's bones;
The hyran^of praise, the voice of prayer,
* The Gospel trumpet sounded there;
And ransomed spirits, in heaven's bliss,
May round the throne remember this.
But earthly temples must decay?
By slow or swift destruction fall;
And time or tide will wear away
The stateliest tower, the strongest vi^ll:
Here botb conspired in one dark hour,
To sap the wall?bring down the tower;
To storm the sanctuary, and to sweep
Its very ruins to the deep!
The river rushed upon the sea;
The sea the river's rage repelled;
All the wild winds at once set free,
f War with the warring waters held.
On fire with foam the surges seem,
While vehemently beat the stream,
7 And rocked the fabric to and fro,
As if an earthquake heaved below.
Till as in the dead of night, the flash
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UI ligUUUng ibtufa iium c. uuuu,
Chased by thunder, crash on crash,
Down to the deep the temple bowed;
Bowed, for a moment o'er the spot,
Another moment and was not!
O'er the lost church the billows boomed,
And in its wrecks its tombs entombed!
"Thus far, no farther shall ye go!"
'Vhe river heard that voice and fled :
Spanning the firmament, God's bow,
The sign of wrath retiring spread:
Promise of future glory gave,
Of resurrection from the grave,
Wheu circling seasons had lulfilled
The term hie sovereign counsels willed.
The fullness of that time behold!
Nine gem-rations, in ttieir haste,
Have passed where stood that church of old,
Yet left the ground a hallowed waste ;
Ye who where once they breathed, now breathe,
To your posterity bequeath
Of your existence here well spent,
A house of prayer, as monument.
From granite rocks the pile renew;
[From Cambrian mines the ores be brought;
From ancient woods the timbers hew ;
To body *bith creative thought;
And bid ttie second temple rise
A land and sea mark to all eyes,
Wnich shall outshine the first as far
As harvest moon the morning star.
"There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal in the Heavens," lor them
Who travel singly or in bands,
To seek the New Jerusalem :
With them may all who worship here,
Age after age in turn repair,
Where that which men call death on earth,
Spirits may deem their better birth.
IG^ms of Thocout.?Help and give willingly
when you have any thing, and think not the
mnrp of vourself: and if vou have nothing, keep
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the cup of cold water always at hand, and think
rnot tlie less of yourself.
Avarice in old age, says Cicero, is foolish; for
what can be more absurd, than to increase our
provisions for the road, the nearer we approach
to our journey's et.d.
If half the pains were taken by some people
to perform the labor allotted them, that are ta
k ken by them to avoid it, we should hear much
Igr less said about the troubles of life, and see much
more actually completed.
A sensible writer says, that to occupy one's tnind
with a matter that stands out in open antago?
nism to common sense and all the principles that
guide us in the affairs of life, is to trifle with the
I faculties which the creator has given to us for a
B wiser and better purpose.
' Poetry and Pkose.?Poets are noted for
their not-to-be-expectod choice of wives. Lady
Scott, for example, was as prosy and practical in
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her character as sir waiter was poeucsi ana ivmantic.
One day in the spring Sir Walter and
Lady Scott strolled forth to enjoy a walk around
Abbotsford. In their wandering they crossed a
^ -field where a number of ewes were enduring the
frolics of their lambs. "Ah," exclaimed Sir Waiter,
"'tis no wonder that poets, from the easiest
ages, have made the lamb the emblem of peace
* and innocence!" "They are indeed, delightful
little animals," returned" hir ladyship?"especially
with mint sauce!" The happiness of their
wedded life, however, does not appear to have
been lessened by the incongruity of their disposition.
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"Hello, stranger, what are you peddling if
" Quack medicines." y
"All right?go ahead, I've got a iot of gt-ave es."
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From the American Farmer.
PRIZE ESSAY.
On the Comparative Value of different Manures,
To which was awarded the Premium of the
Maryland Slate Agricultural Society.?By
Wm. D. Gresiiam, of King and Queen Co.,
Va.
continued.
Experiments with Lime.?Upon six acres of
land accurately measured there was gathered in 1
1846, thirty four bushels of corn. In the summer
of 1849, this lot of. land was dressed with
fifty bushels of lime to the acre, applied as a top
dressing, and the following spring a dressing of
woods scrapings was added, thoroughly ploughed
in, and well cultivated in corn; there was i
gathered in the fall of 1850, one hundred and
twenty-nine bushels of corn ; the same fall this
lot of land was seeded in wheat, (the first time
it had been in small grain for' the last twenty
years) the wheat grew off finely, and in thespring
so flourishing did it appear, I was iuduced to '
seed it in clover. The wheat was got out, accurately
measured, and eighty bushels the result. '
The clover has taken finely, and with the appli-:
cation of plaster and bones, will make one of my j
finest lots. 1
2. In afield containing 130 acres of land upon
which there was gathered in 1844 about 500 barrels
of corn, was limed at the rate of fifty bushels
to the acre in August, 1848, and cultivated in
corn in 1849 ; although the corn suffered very
greatly for rain, there was gathered 647 barrels i
n 1 I i.Lt,
01 good mercnamaoie coru.
3d. Upon a field of 150 acres of land recently
purchased, lime was applied at the rate of fif- ;
ty bushels to the acre, in the summer of 1850, i i
and well distributed ; it was in corn last year and j <
by good judges it was pronounced the best crop i
that had been upon it for a number of years. It i
is now in wheat, having had an additional fal
low of peas, (peas having been sown last summer <
in the corn.) I believe this old fi?ld, which con- i
tained the sorrel and poverty grass, and which ]
was an u eye sore" to all good farmers, will this i
summer present a new aspect in the foliage of a ]
good set of clover. I
Marl.?This is another agent which has been 1
extensively used in this section of the country in
the renovation of land, and much advantage has <
been derived from its application, yet so great is ]
the deficiency in agricultural chemistry and chem- i
ical analysis, that some of the marls which from <
a superficial view appear to have the most shell <
and other valuable properties, have turned out i
to be very inferior, and to reward but poorly the
it* ri n r*
unaertaKcr. i nave irequenuy seen iarmers who (
were zealous in marling their lands, and so soon j
as thev had taken off their crops would turn in I
large herds ot' cattle to gaze them, ?nd when the J
same tields would come into cultivation, (that >
being every year) they would declare the marl
had done them great injury, in rendering their 1
lands more sterile and barren?experience how- i
ever, luts proven their theories fallacious, added ?
to the great improvement in the divisiouof lands 1
and the rotation of crops, A'o country has more t
improved by the application of marl than this I
section of Va. The green sand ruarl acts more i
efficiently than any manure 1 have ever applied; I
and the marl to which I have reference, is that ! i
found along the Paiuunky river, of Va. and which :
has rendered the farms along that river so valua- :
ble, and given them a celebrity which is not surpassed
by any lands in the State. 1 have seen
poor tields by the application of this marl pro- .
ducc almost double, and it has been ascertained i
that any amount can be applied, and to the i
greatest advantage. It is to this marl that the :
experiments and the five years protit of farming <
of Edtnund Puffin on his estate in Ilauover Co.
Va., and which appeared in the pages of the i
American Farmer, for July, 1849, is alone to he
attributed, and which gave a new impetus to the ,
agricultural interests of this section of country.
An attempt is now being made in this county, by
raising a company and sending vessels after this
marl, and I believe it could be delivered any wheie <
on the Day snore or its tributaries at a cost not i!
exceeding from six to eight cents per bushel, j,
And it can in deed and truth ho said to be u a i
mine of wealth to the proprietors, and the adja- j i
ceut districts which admit of water transporta- |
tion." I have already occupied more space than i
intended upon the subject of lime, and as it can
with equal propriety, be said of marl, 1 shall not
elaborate with other remarks and experiments, i
Ashes.?The application of leached and un- (
leached ashes upon land, has been so visible and i
apparent to every farmer that it would be unite- i
cessary to mention their beneficial effects in detail. <
In supplying the alkalies to the soil, so necessary
for the production of all crops, renders it one of
the most important of all manures. Its application
to light and sandy soils, in supplying " the
silicate of potash," so necessary for the land,
and thereby giving them the power of production,
renders it most valuable to such lands. A
sufficient quantity of ashes being out of the
question for our large fields, " tbc supply notbeirf?
equal to the demand," and the juice higher
than the farmer can in most cases allbrd, that
more need not be said upon their beneficial application,
except to recommend them whenever
they can be obtained at a fair and reasonable
cost. !
Guano.?I have been both successful and unsuccessful
in the application of this manure ; no
doubt owing to the fact that some of the article
used was of inferior quality, or had been adul
terated ; and in very dry seasons, its effects are
often much less marked. And here let me advert
to the fact, that this manure being in the
hands of speculators and their agents, it becomes
us as farmers, feeling a mutual interest, to rescue
it from their hands, and place it under the
control of thoso who have wou our confidence.
Never Las a class in any community suttered so
much as the farmer by speculators ; his lands,
his crops, and finally his raauure is now under
their controlling influence?yet amid all difficulties,
unaided by " the smiles of power," they
have continued on, in the even tenor of their
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way. My experience in this manure shows, that
the manner it is used, and the land upon which
it is applied, will alone determine its \alue. It
is the most active of all manures; the large
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quantities of ammonia it contains, and its evanescent
nature renders it necessary that something
should be used to fix and letain if possible
the ammonia in the land; and it is conceded
by some that plaster is the best of all known
agents iu fixing it?plaster being the sulphate
of lime, the sulphuric acid having more affinity
for ammonia, readily combines with and forms a
sulphate of ammonia, which is less volatile, and
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will remain iri me iana 10 ieeu me piaui. uumiu
should never be applied as a top-dressing, owing
to its volatile nature, but ploughed in the land
six or eight inches, aud the seed sown after and
raked in ; nor do I believe it will improve land
unless followed by some green crop ; and nothing
actsso well as clover. I have seen poor land
upon which guano was applied, produce most
luxuriant, clover. Upou light and sandy land I
believe its effect will not be half so apparent, nor
do I believe it will pay as good a per ceut; but
upon the close and baked soils, which seem in
winter to be as compact and hard as the winter's
frost and cold can possibly make them, are certainly
the lands which derive the inost apparent
benefit.
The Western Catastrophe.
We take the following particulars of the explosion
of the ill-fated steamer St. James from
the New Orleans papers.
The St. James left Bay St. Louis, at about
ten o'clock on Sunday night, with nearly seventy
passengers, and about thirty other persons,
composing the officers, crew, and servants. The
California started from the Bay twenty minutes
after, and passed the St. James in the Rigolets.
Getting into shoal water, the St. James again
went ahead, and kept the lead, until when opposite
Point Aux Herbes, some twelve or lifteen
miles from the landing at Milneburgshe bursted
fier boilers. This was at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing when all the passengers were in their berths.
Immediately after the explosion the boat took
5re, and the flames caused the loss of several, who
aad escaped the explosion.
The California, fortunately, was not over a
juarter of u mile behind, and Captain H. P.
Ensign, her commander, quickly placed his boat
in a position to save the survivors. A geutleman
connected with the Picayune, who was on the
Jalifornia, thus describes what occurred, after
:he St. James passed her:
The ill-fated boat had not gone more than a
piarter of a mile in advance, when her boilers exiloded.
The scene which ensued was terrible
ioyond description. The upper part of the St.
fames was litterally shattered to atoms, and the j
vreck was almost instantly it flames.
"The shrieks of those on board the burning
joatwerc heard by t he passengers on the Califortia,
and as the flames rose and extended, the t
suspense and anxiety became agonizing. Capt.
Ensign steered directly for the wreck, but the
ire was so intensely hot, that ho was compelled
av a due regard for the persons immediately tinier
his charge to haul otfa short distance. The
tx>ats belonging to the California were launched,
manned, and went to the aid of the sufferers.?
Some were in the water and others on the wreck,
md as many of the former as were discovered
were rescued.
''The flames r-ose from the centre of the St.
James, and Capt. Ensign made a second attempt
to reach the. persons on the wreck, lie suceeeJed
by skilful management in trotting under the
item, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen
Lpiiuod the deck* of the California."
The following incidents of i he scene are narrated
by the gentleman from the Picayune:
"We learn from Mr. Archibald Binnejr that
Judge Preston had his berth over the boilers, No.
24. lie was seen to retire to rest, and immediately
after the explosion occurred the place where
he had been lying was observed to have been
shattered to pieces, and he was nowhere to be
seen. Jt is presumed that lie perished instantly,
although a faint hoj>e, which will cling to one
when the destruction or safety of friends arc concerned,
was entertained that by some miracle lie
might have reached the shore, which was not far
di-tant.
"J. M. Wolf and his son, a lad about fourteen
years of age, were seen standing on the wreck of
the St. J.-uiio together. The boy urged his father
to jump into the water, and declared that he
could save liiin. The father refused to jump
into the water, and the hoy left him and struck
out for the California, which was then approaching,
lie reached her in an exhausted state, and
was saved. A rope was thrown to him just as
he cried out that lie could struggle no more.
"John L. Shed, of the mint in this city, was
on hoard the St. James with his lady. Mrs. Shod
was rescued, and her husband is supposed to have
perished.
"Col. Palfrey was among those taken from the
water, having swam from the burning wreck.?
Ilis hands were slightly burned.
"A negro boy belonging to Dr. Pennington
was lost. The doctor himself was indefatigable
in his exertions for the relief of the wounded, and
his conduct excited the admiration of all who obsened
him.
"The steamboat St. Charles had arrived in
Milneburg; but the light ot the burning St. James
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nsivmir oc*cu seen, uiu ciipiiiui uy steered
for the wreck. He arrived there, however,
after all who could be were saved."
The St. James was a high pressure boat,
which had been running on the river as a coast
packet, until about a month since when she was
taken to the Lake.
The man who pushes aside the paper with his
first si}> of coffee, and says " there is nothing in it,"
and who turns up his nose at typographical blunders,
might find a profitable exercise in trying to
make a paper of his own some evening, ana
then get the caudid opinion of his friends upon
Us merits.
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Hearing with the Teeth.?Curious as this
assertion may appear, it is easy to prove it by
the following simple experiment:?Lay a watch
upon a table, glass downwards; thou stand so
far from it that you caunot, in the ordinary way,
hear the ticking. Now place the end of a small
deal stick?say six feet long?upon the back of
the watch, and grip the teeth to the other; with
the finders close each ear to exclude all external
noise, the beat of the watch will then be .'is audible
as if placed against the ear. All other
sounds can be conveyed in the same manner, no
matter how long the stick is; for instance, if
one end is put.upon a piano forte in a sittingroom
facing a garden, and the stick is thirty or
forty feet lung, extending to the farther end of
the lawn or walk, now, if the instrument is ever j
so lightly played, "the tune" will be instantly
distinguished by any person applying the teeth
to the opposite end of the stick.
We clip the foregoing from an exchange paper.
Many years ago an old subscriber who
was entirely deaf called at our office, and with
the help of a slate which he always carried with
him, we were enabled to converse with each
other. In the course of our interview he remarked
that for many years he had not been
able to hear even the loudest thunder; but added,
that to his great surprise, a few evening's
before, he was at the house of a friend, and was
seated by the side of a Piano, hi3 elbow resting
upon it, and his teeth upon his thumb, when he
heard distinctly the tune which the daughter of
his friend happened to be playing. Again and
again he tried the experiment, and he could always
hear when the connection thus formed was ,
kept up; but could hear nothiug whatever when
it was brokeu either by the /eraoval of his elbow
fi\-?ir> tho T.i.inn nr hv r.lflrinrr bia thumb unoil
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any other portion or bis face. From the character
of our informant we have never had a
doubt of the truth of his narrative?and we give
it now chiefly as a suggestion whether some
simple instrument cannot be framed by means
of which deaf persons may be enabled to hear
with their teeth.?Richmond, Fa., Watchman
<? Observer.
The Cottox Ckop.?For the past fortnight,
says the Mobile Tribune of the 8th inst., we have
had very encouraging accounts from all parts of
the South, of the grain crops?and there is no
doubt that the yield of corn will be more abundant
than for many years past. But in regard
to cotton, very little is said. One thing, however,
is beyond dispute?the plant is generally
small and backward, and in many cases has suffered
from the usual cotton diseases; but the late
rains, which have beeu pretty general, have produced
a favorable change. There has, however,
been so much moisture and hot weather, that a
more serious calamity is apprehended. Indeed,
we find in a Louisiana paper that the caterpillar
has already been seen. The same paper says
the army worm has made its appearance on the
plantation of Mr. McMillon, in East Feliciana.?
Its appearance this year is much earlier than ever
known heretofore, and will, in consequence of
the backwardness of the plant, whose growth
has been retarded by the late Spring.do immense
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damage, ine worst rears are ciiieruuueu.
The Will oe Henry Clay.?Louisville, July
1G.?The will of Henry Clay was presented in
court on Monday hist, and admitted to record.?
It is drawn up by his own hand, *nd bears date of
July 10 1951. It relates almost entirely to the
disposition of his estate among the members of
his family. The only exception Ircing that which
relates to his slaves. It provides that all the
children of his slaves born after the 1st of January,
1850, are to be liberated and sent to Liberia,
j The males at the age of 28; and the females at
the age of 25?three years of their earnings prior
to emancipation to be reserved for their benefit
for the purpose of fitting them out; prior to
their removal they are to be taught to read
and write and cypher. Slaves in being before
1850, arc bequeathed to his family. Ashland is
left to Mrs. Clay, for her sole use and benefit during
her life, and at her death is to be sold, and
the proceeds divided amongst his children. The
following are the only specifics devised outside of
his family:?To Dr. D. W. Dudley, the gold
siiii(T-Ikix nresentcd to him bv Dr. Hunt, late of
fWashington; to Ilenry S. Duncan, a ring containing
a piece of Washington's coffin, and to
Mr. W. X. Mercer, a snuff box said to have belonged
to Peter the Great.
Mrs. Clay was appointed executrix, and tbe
lion. Tlios. A. Marshall and James 0. Harrison,
executors, with the provisions that no security
should be required of either.
A Bealtiful and Affecting Scene.?As the
steamer Ben. Frankling passed the town of Rising
Sun, Indiana, ou Thursday last, on its way to
Louisville, with thesacred remains of Henry Clay
on board, thirty-one young ladies, representing
the different States of the Union, stood in conspicuous
view on the wharf, in front of the crowd
of citizens that had assembled. All, save one,
were, dressed in virgin white, their heads covered
with black veils. The one excepted was robed in
deep heavy mourning, and represented Kentucky,
and occupied the centre of the line. How touchin
gly beautiful the scene, and what pride?sad
pride she must have felt, as in that galaxy of
beauty, she found herself the representative of
that Slate whose broad land, from one extreme
to the other, was bedewed with tears!
The whole scene was rendered more expressively
solemn by the deathly silence that universally
prevailed on board the steamer, and on shore,
as the vessel floated noiseless bv, bearing its precious
charge onward to its last repose.? Cin. Com.
Never let people work for you gratis. Two
years ago a man carried a bundle for us, and we
Iwi.m k/*/ir* lonrlinor Kim tu'A wliilltmr ,1 \V?l>lw t3V6T
since.
The virtue of prosperity is teiuporance; the virtue
of adversity is fortitude.
A
Too Much fob Human Endurance.?We
heard a pretty good story, a few days, since,
about a good old deacon somewhere out in 'York
State,' and was something after this wise: He
was one of those upright dignified sort of meju
who make it a rule to perform their duty and
then make the best of the njatter, however the
event may turn out; but every thing on his farm
was kept in the neatest of order. It had got to
be quite late in the season for mowing, and still
the deacon had a fine piece of grass, which he
had been unable to cut on account of the press
of other matters, soon one beautiful day he put on
a large force, and by noon he had it all done and
apruuu auuui jii uice uiuci, wueu lucre cuiue up
a shower and wet it. After the shower, the old
gentleman came out and walked about perfectly
cool, and the next day he had it again spread to
dry; about noon there came another shower; well
out came the deacon again with a long fiace,"and
the dignified air becoming one in his station,
looked at the hay and walked into the house.?
The next day being pleasant, he had the hay
dried, loaded and driven into the barn, into
which they had got, just as another shower, had
begun to fall. The deacon congratulated himself
that he had finally seoceeded msecuringthe hay
when a gust of wind struck the barn, gushing
through completely sweeping the hay scattering
it to the four quarters, and tearing the barn doors
from their hinges, one of which, hitting the old
gentleman, prostrated him in the mud, and fell
top of him. After the dcor had been removed,
from him, he surveyed the ruins for a few moments
and then exclaimed:?'"Well, I think it time for
,ine to express my sentiments."? Westerly Echo.
Alaey being asked what business her husband
followed, said he was engaged in finishing."?
Further explanation was necessary, and after a
brief hesitatton, she continued, "finishing his time
in the State Prison."
"Make way for a hinderpendent woter,' said
a man at a recent election at New Orleans.
"Why good man," said the Clerk, it is not an
hour since you deposited vour vote at this very
poll."
4,I knows, I knows," says the voter; that was
the Democratic ticket; this 'ere is the Whig ticket."
41 But if you strive to vote twice I shall have
you arrested."
"You will, will you" shouted the son of the
sovereign people; then I say if I'm denied the
right of voting for the Whigs, after going the
whole ticket for the Democrats, there ain't no
universal suffrage, that's all. Its a darn'd onesided
business, take it all around.
"Oh, dear! Mr. Ferguson, you surely iest
when you say my babe is the handsomest child
you ever saw. You must be soft-soaping it."
"Well madam,"replied Mr. Furguson, "it may
possibly be so, for I now lecollect I thought it
very much needed soap of some kind."
Mr. Ferguson was seen immediately after making
a hasty exit, pursued by an enraged broomstick.
Here is a laughable instance of "A man short
of Bible." A reverend gentleman, while visiting
a parishioner had occasion in the course of
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conversation 10 reier 10 me Dioie, on asmng ior
the article, the master of the house ran to bring
it, and came with two leaves of the book in his
hand, I declare," says he, ''this is all we've got
in the house; I'd no idea we were 60 near out 1"
A Merry Youth.?Last week the " Swamscot
Dorcas Sewiug Society" held their annual
meeting and on motion it was resolved, " that
our parson wait ou Tony Joues, and see if nothing
can be done to correct the manners of Tony,
The next day the parson waited on Tony senior
and nformed him respecting the object of his
visit. Tony listened patiently, and then replied?
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"jrarson, i u let roiiy go iu meeting every
Sunday, ef I only know'd you was a-goin to
preach; but, parson thar aren't a boy in the city
of Swamscot what's got more manners than my
Tony, and I can convince you of that in just a
minit, You see Tony out there skinnin, them
are hitlers?"
The parson nobded assent.
"Now, see," I'll call. And raising his voice to
the highest pitch, he shouted?
"Tony!"
The response was quick and equally loud?
"Sir!"
"Don't you hear that, parson ?" said the old
man. "Don't you call that manners?"
"That is all very well," said the parson, "as far
as it goes."
What do you mean by as far as it goes? That
boy, sir, always speaks respectfully to me when
I call him;" and rising his voice he again called,
"Tnm- i"
The response "Sir" was equally loud and
prompt. Again the old man called?
"Tony 1" ^
The boy dropped a half-dressed fish, and shaking
his fist at his aire yelled out:
" You miserable black old drunken snob ;Til
come there in two minutes and maul you like
blazes!"
The pason was astonished, the old man disconcerted
for a moment, but instantly recovering
himself he tapped the parson on the shoulder saying:
w"You see. parson my boy has got grit as well
manners. That chap will be an ornament to
your society one of these days.
I need not add that the parson incontinently
mizzled.
Rowdyism is making such progress in the city
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izen's organization and lynch law, to protect tho
lives and property of the citizens. The police
may arrest bullies and desperadoes, but tho Al?
dermen at once discharge them.