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,1 .l 1 . I & 11 ' , S-AM & DAVIS Propr'etors] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art Inqiyu Industry an LIterature [ ERMS-8OO Per Ataum n Advanoe VOL. X1I. " WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 15,1875. ._ _.-_ _..-._- - -... --..... :---.1 5. THE .., FP F B141181tiD is PUnDtLitC WEEKLY of1 WI .L J A 1 s. %D A V I S. fernse.-The HRRALD lvpublished Week y In the Towa of WIjpasiro, at $8-.00 n eariabig in advancs, $W. All transient advertisement* to be J'ALD IN AD VANOR. Obituary Notlees and Tributes $1.00 per t quare. Capital and Labor. Tb"alde1atgx e'lt afioin an address recently. delivered in North Carolina, before a council of Patrons of Husbandry, by. ex-Gov. Z. B. Vance, is full of comomon sense and practical and useful suggestions upon the sulject of capital and labor, to workers in any department of life: Brain manure is our great want education for young and old, especial. ly in matters pertaining to ngricul ture. We don't so much need laborers as a proper utilisation o. that we have. Instead of croak in { so much at the negroes, we should work a little more ourselves. At every depot and oross-roads in the State, yeti may see any day crowds of idlorq standing around loose, whittling sticks and spitting at a mark, abusing the negro, as a laborer, lamenting the scarcity of money, and hoping for that issue of $44,000,000 of reserve lately dis cussed in Congress and cussed elsewhere. There is really no ground for despondency. Notwithstanding our great losses by war, substan tially all that we had before is here. Our mother earth is here, and our tillers to it are undisturbed ; the early and latter rains still fall ac. cording to the promise, and the genial sunshine still warms and fruotifies as of old, whilst the good ness of God still bestows the in crease. The strength and courage of our people are sti.l with them ; and though, alas 1 many of our bravest and best are not here, yet all the glorious recollections of our history remairt to cheer and blebs us. And the negro, too, is here, as good or bet ter than he was before, if we know bow to work him. Do'n't des pair of finding a way to do that. You say he won't work unless he is compelled-very well, neither will white men. But compulsion is of difforent sorts. Formerly you com pelled him by virtue of bAing his master-now, compel him to work by force of his necessities. Show him that you can live without him, put your own hand to the plough and say to him, if you will help, well; if not, well again ; enforce the laws against vagabondage, and he will P gladly work wheu he can do no bet. ter. At present he thinks he can make a living by voting, but he will some out of .thst In-due season. On the whole, I am inclined to think he is the best laborer we are likely to get in the South ; as he is the best tool we have which to cultivate the soil, let us sharpen and improve him in every possible way. And for this -great Ang'o-Saaon: people, whose blood has filled the earth with the most beneficent and utilitarian civis ition it haa ever witnessed, and. strewed the shores of Its ocans with mighty cities, reticulated its surfacee with steamu reads, covered the wild seas with the white wings of com merce, and even invaded their un known depths with the Iron-shod pathways of the lightning, fir these mento acknowledge that. the :wheels of their progres. are stopped beeause the negroes won't work and keep cntreets, is a soriyeyegtaeote iadgedl Shatetobts; If it be soll And es to capital, the want of -which makes us cpmpla ip ap loudly --are we really saderig; for that 1 -I say not. We are suffering from a want of capacity to tue what we have, rather. * What relief would a fresh Issue of government cur rency do us, unless we had -the equivalent to give for it ? Suppose that forty. four millions were given to us, how * long would we keep It, if our con sumption annually exceeded our sales as far as it does now 1 Like water, .eeking its level I6 would soon fnd its way to those who had a surplus to ive It. What is the use of an 1dlo -fellow lounging around with bands in ~ lis pockets, without a -thing In the - rld to sell, but who buys als very xe handle and his cabbage from -ie North, abusing Eastern dapitalist t 'r grabbing a lithe currency 1 Lot Iim raise a bale of cottoa, and see if Ie don't rob that Yankee of somie of I I ill gotten gains?1 Let him grow Iis'owns pork, flour, corn, and hay, u. d see'If that (loated bondholder on't have to shell out ? To give ~ u some idea of Anur ootditio6i as t . capital, I would refer you to two 'i*r three points in our State. Ina -t'htarlotte, which Is the biggest towna e Its sise in the United States,. we have five chntered banks, with a capital paid in of $80,000. Their d eposits will exceed *I,500,000, on Shich they pay 6 per cent.--total, $g,850,000. Raleigh ls, I learn, over $600,000 on dopos , and WVi1 mington sone $800,000, and their baking capital is about half their deposits-total bank capital in three towns, about $1,550,000 ; deposits $2,900,000. Now, seven-tenths- of those deo bsits belong to our farmers aueh neieas toe, tiown on middle ien, and clamorous for more sospital. What do they: do with it ? Will they lend to tihir neighbors who are In straite and haven't got well on their feet since the *ar, and secure it by a mortgage at 6, 8, or 10 per odot. t Not one in ten. You haven't confidence in your neighbor, though he mortgages his farm; but you putitin one of these banks on ong time at 6 per cent., and your eighbors - go to the bank and borrow it at 18 per cent. to raise the wind :for the next crop. Or he goes to a commis sionimorohant and buys his supplies on a credit, at a cost of over 50 per cent over cash prices, and mortgages his crop in advance to pay for ithem ; and when that mortgage is foreclosed your crop gone, no supplies on hand, and the same process to be gone over again the next year, you say. its want of more capital. 0 my brothe take no offence, I pray you, at the wounds of a friend, when I say it is a want of common sense and common charity toward each other. Make your own supplies, and you will not have to borrow so much' money. If you have any to loan, let your neighbor have it, unless you had rather see the banker speculate on your money than he. Nobody blames the banker or the commission merchant. If they can run a machine on your money, who should Abuse them for it 1 Not I, for ons. L[earn to use your capital wisely be. Fore you clamor for more. Pour your surplus cash on your farms, or into manufacturing, instead of the banks, and you will knock out a mid die man every lick. l'he Gulbord Case-Why lie Was Refused Caiholic Burial. As this case is attracting a great. deal of attention, an explanation of it is just now order. Joseph Guibord was a French Canadian. He though a Catholic, was a member while living of a Library Company at Mon treal, which refused to remove from. its shelves certain books at the .re quest of the Roman Catholic Bishop of that city. Guibord was the owner of a lot in the Catholic Oemetery. After his death the bishop refused the widow permission to bury her husband's remains in consecrated ground. The widow appealed to the courts. Conflioting decisions only made the matter worse, until finally the case went the English Privy Council, and an order has been pass ed directing that the remains of Joseph Guiiord "be buried in that part of the eemoterj in which the re mains of Roman Catholics who re ceive ecclesiastical burial aro usually iptorrod." it cost ten thousand dol lars to get this decision. A second attempt is to be made to bury him there, and the dispatches this morn. ing indicate th1,t troops will be re quired to accomplish it. But for all that Hoew little wrecks it. where men lie When once the moment's past; When thme dimi and glazing eye Hias hooked on earthm its last. Whet):er honoeth the sculptured nra The OOffined~ lid my reut Or la its nakedness return Back to mother earth. Caurions Facis Ahoult Capt. Wcbb, the Gireat 8*lrmtr. - As Capt. Webb is the grertest swimmer the world has ever known, or is likely to know, any facts atbout ,him must, at thig time, prove inter esting. We learn that he one swam from Blaokwoll to Grarese.nd, doing twenty miles with the stream in four hours, and afterwards eclipsed even this performance by making his way from D..ver to Ramsgate, a distance ot eighteen miles, in nine hours. It was in the second attempt to cross the channel in his life saving dress that Capt.. Boyton succeeded, and in view of this fact, and Capt. Webb's previous feats, the Te'legraph urged him to "try, again." Hie did "try agaln,"[with the success already an nounced. The Tolegraph dehoribes the appearenoo of Cspt. WVebb, when stripped for his work, as "very much that of the old Greek statues of Hercules. He is, if anything, a little short of middle height, with a tre.. mendous chest, a great pair of shoul ders, and a somewrhat liberal allow-. anee of flesh," Sayers, who fought with Ileenan, is said to have been about the samne build as Capt. Webb. Th~e 'lograph considers that, for hard and severe work, "the best type of mian' 'is one of middle height or oven loss4 with a deep chest, square shouldIers, thick no'ok, and II' nything, a slight tendency to fat." Returns thus far from Onlifornia give Irwin (dem.) 48,000 voter. Phelps (Rep.) 25,000. Iidwell, (Ind.) 18,000. Legslature is large ty demoocrafo. Tlhe democrats have probab.y elected the Mayor of San Francisco, the first timie in several yeara. The Illicit Cotton Traffic. LETTER FROM JUDGE MACKEY. CiOEsTER, . 0., August 81, 1875. Messrs. A. if. McMullen, O. 11'. McFadden, W. P. Ferguson, J.oseph Nunnery, R. I. White and others, Landsfordjprecinre, Chester county: GENTLEMEN-I regret that I am constrained by the pressure of toy official duties to decline your invita tion to attend a meeting of the c tisens of Landeford precinct, to be hbld on the 3d proximo, without regard to race or party, for the purpose of concerting some practical measuro to check the system of cotton steal. ing, prevalent in that section. You are correct in your theory that the practice of cotton stealing derives its ohief support from those country storekeepers who buy cotton at night. I shall, therefore, sanction any lawful action that you may take for the suppression or regulation of this dangerous midnight traffic, which is disastrous alike both to the fair dealing country merchant and to the planter and all honest laborers. My observation satiafies me ibat beneath every pile of stolen cotton in this section there may be found two active forces, namely - The brain of the white man and the hand of the black ; the former bear ing the same relation to the latter that the steam in the cylinder of the engine does to its driving wheel. During the past two and a half years 110 persons have been tried in this circuit for cotton stealing, of whom all but one were colored. Of these, ninety-eight were convicted ad duly sentenced. Thirteen receivers of stolen cotton,etc., have also been tripd. These last were all white men, and all of them were convicted and they paid fines amounting in the aggregate to nearly ten thou, sand dollars. The juries who rendered the verdicts in these eases were composed about equally of white and colored citizens the colored generally preponderating in numbers. You will perceive, therefore, that the juries are pre pared to do their duty whenever legal proofs of guilt are furnished in the court. I deem it due to our colored popu lation and to historic truth to state that I am convinced, after much research devoted to the subject, and embracing many countries, that they are less addicted to stealing than any class of agricultural laborers in -the world who outnumber their employ era in the same proportion, and that when they steal agricultural products they are impelled immediately by the want of food for themselves or their families. In proof of this last statement, I refer to the fact that of the ninety eight persons who were convicted before me, as stated above, ninety, three received baopn and flour or meal in exchange for the stolen cot ton. This deficiency in the laborer's supply of food is due not only to the fact the ration, generally istuod to him is too small for a laboring man, but if lie has any children too young to work, no allowance is mando for them in tihe issue of rations, and as he is paid only at long intervals, where lie does not work on shares, the children L~ust starve if' they parents do not sometimes ateal. One potent means, therefore, of lesseninig the amount of stealing among the colored far im laborers is to increase the wages or the rastioni, and to contract with laborers having children under working ago with referonce to supporting such ohildrea with the necessary foed during the period of the contykot. 'trusting that your organlsed* efforts to bhock the system df buylig stolen cottony~ which now threatens widespread dis aster to the cotton producing section, will be so sagacionaiy end energeti cally directed as to acoompish the' mportanit end in view, i om, gobn tle amen, yours respectfully, T. J. M AoKET, Circuit Judge. Huzing. Sometime ago, (ladet Erwin, at West Point. thmrust his bayonet Into one of his comnpanions who essayed to "haze" him..by throwing him over a precipie. Erwin's action has boon we learn, entlr'ely justified by the authorities of the Academy. And now it is said "some foolish students of the scientillo college of Yale Uni versity hased a freshman the other day, and by doing so kicked up ani' international -'quarrel, for the I rosh. man was a young Chinaman of bIgh rank, and part of the haaing consisted in cutting off his cue. Hie has there. fore, lost caste, and has been de. prived of his allowance Miy the Chii nose edluoational o(omnmission in this country, The Chinese minister at, Washington has investigated the maatter and sent hicme a report to his governmenrt. The latter. -may ask satfacotiona for' the in'ault."- No*, bore Is si question of international law which might engage the attention- of legal gentlemen of this State, 'when they get through the Supreme Court. - ..A unusfa C'onetitanonaliutL A Modra kasem. Tbo~mas, or Ton Gardner, as )e as familiarly Gallo, *as born owa the rivor St Joihn, oPQ tpile above Ae mouth of, Maotaquak stream, In the year 1798. Viewed} oamually, di4d nor gave no evidence of gansual pow er, but when stripped his nseutar development was treag n pus, and it is affirmed that instead of the ordi. nary ribs he possessed a solid bony wall on either side, dad that there was no separation 'wbatever. He stood five feet tet and a .half inches, erect and full obepte4, qnd nover ca. needed one hunsr ,and niaty pounds in weight. The late Charles Long inteA us that one time he saw Gardtao'rlif* from a towboat a punoheon of eorn, containing at least twelve buphels, and, s winging around, deposit it on the sand. In so doing he tore the sole of his boot. On another ocoasion a number of men were trying to life a stick of timber. In ;all the whole crowd only one man could raise it about two inches from the skids. Gardner told four men'to sit on it, and then lifted it so high that the men jumped off to save themselves from the fall. Mr. 4IcKean has frequently known him in lifting to break bodm poles six inches thick. lie has known him also with one hand to lift, by the rung of a chair, the chair itself and a man weighing nearly two hundred pounds. Once when attempting to lift a very heavy man he wrenehed the rung entirely from the chair. Gardner was at one time possessed of a balky horse with which he ex. eroised great patience ; but when patience ceased to fe a virtue he would fell him to the ground with his clenched fist, sinking him behind the ear. It is related of Gardner's sister that on one occasion a famous wrestler traveled all the way from Miramichi ;o Tom's home in order to ry a fall with him, Tom was ab sent, but the sister looking contemp tuously upon the intruder 'deolared sho would throw him herself, add, suiiung thd action the word, in a fair trial threw him three times in sue. cession. The stranger's experience with the sister was sufficient ; he never sought after a future interview with the brother. Tiheogreatest feat which Gardner was everknown to perform was on one of the wharves in St. John. Mr. McKean saw him lift and carry .an anchor weighing 1,200 pounds, numn bers of other witnesses standing by, some of whom are yet alive. ire quontly he has seen him currying a barrel of pork under each arm, and once he saw him shoulder a barrel of pork while standing in an ordinary brandy box. When about forty years of age Gardner removed to the United States, and never returned to his native province. It is commonly reported and be. lieved that he fret with a sad adven ture on board a Mississippi spoamer. A heavy bell was on board as a or. Lion of the freight, and the capt in, a great, powerful fellow, was qua. corned as to how he should reinove it from its place in order to make more room on dock. While the daptain and passengers were at dinner, Tont, In presence of the crow, to their utter, umazement lifted the bell and eartied it to the opposite side of the boat. Whemn the captain returned ho asked how that had been accomplished, when Gardner laughingly rewarked thatd he carried it there, the former gave the lie, and as one word brought on another, he presently striack Tom in the face. This was too smuch, andi for the first time In hi. ife the strong man gaye blow for blow; but one buffet was suffieleot.. The. *apw tain never spoke agin, killed dea on the instant. Tm made .his' oe cape, went West, and has never been heard of since.--eto Brunswick Re, p~orter.'_ Mdonulgnor Jose Taixal, Bishop offtbe See of Urgel. would seemi to be In a very tight place ainoe a criminal prosecution is to be brough6 against b m by the Alfonsist goveirn.. mont, and he is now a prisoner near Barcelona. Taixal Is the primate of the Carlists, and, although It was reported in D~eoember that he had abandoned that esuse, hi. subsequeht faithful adherence to his p ost of duty in the face of the dliculties by which he was sorrounded seems to stamp the report as of Alfonsist origin, Of course the Madrid 'Gov ernment will have littleocompas' sion on a fierce partisan 14k. Taixal.. It is said that . orders have been given by Mr. William Butler Dun can to go on with the building of his new and magnificent seaside house at, Newport, and that thbre is ntoproba ihlty that his fauiily .will suf1ei WIthis least from povery. $t is the orodltors, not the membei-s of the bipkrdpt firm of Duncan, Shbrman & 04, who are suffering ?rcui a laoc og funds.---Phldephuia Wealve jnst and sea men. 40w, they Fight In Frauc.. WA' tike irom Punch the follo*ing oapital burlesque on the recent /seo' bet*'eeo Htenri Ncchefdrt and Paul di Cassagnie. Tr. PkmTnSBARo, Febuary 1. Norertsca : I have discovered that *welve ;years kgo, you wee' good .enougb 4D' accuse MeO qf telling an infamoqe falsehood. I have taken Aen years to obtain a copy of the. wretched print in *hich tba libel ap. pared., That tutae rable periodioal ou edited twelve. years ago, and if at eiil exists, you edit it still, Xou paust 94It *till, I repeat. bEoase it istoi -berbarous to be edited by apy odd lest f, lest ' despidables less diShodowbte thin - yogibelf I You hIeat ire 1-Tbe ever to-besullieobet". 4 bated jspreal ,is, or prus, call d Genu Dc ,Dux: Mon es. I ooutteously invite-7ou to asplain to me what is the meaning yot attach to the words "infamous" and "false hood." I may add,-for your information, that recently I at rolled into the ceh..q tery in which is situated the grave of your grandmother. I (the writer of this letter--you understand) dauced upon that grave I Accept, tonsieur, my considera. tions the most distinguished. ilhcTOR Do VIN OnIaNAntE. Lat'tbR IT. BURKAU or Lc GAMIN Da Daur' Aor aDxe, March 1. Moi ssauR : You will see that I hastened to reply to your base and mercenary communication I You oak me for the meaning of the words "infamdus" and "falsehood." I am not surprised. You are a man of education. * Man" is. a courtesy title I confer upon you. However, search the Dictionary-the source of your literary inspiration i If that work albrds you iisuffiolent infor mation, you will find a full explana. tion of the two words in the historj of your own life l I have nothing more to say to you but I denounce to the world your late father and mother's uncle as poverty-stricken piok-pookots and low salatied spiesi Aceept, Monsieur, my conaidera tions the most distinguished Ao ENNON DE POSIMKS DEZ EimE.. LETTER III. LEICEbTER SQUAllK, May 1. MONSIKUR .I hurry to answer your miserable and pretentions comn maunioation. As an explanation it. is unsatisfactory ; as a contribution to periodical literature it is beneath contempti If you are not in the hands of the police for having committed petty larceny, I invite you to meet me--to meet me to fight a duel to the death I You hear what I say to the death l First lot me inform you, however, that you are a villain, a ruflian and a vagabond I My friends M. Comte de Foie de Veau and M. le Chevalier do Vingt. cioq Centimes will represent ue. Aonopt, Monsieur, my considera. tions the moat distinguished. LE.TTEVR IV. JJUIEAU or l.E GAMIN Dic D~ax Morovs, July 1.) MONsIEUR : You will see that your weak-minded cballenge is ac cepted at once. I rejoIce that spoon. stealing isne~t punish able with death for the. law has thus sawed you fro m the guillotine to fall a victim to my Vengeanee. It will be no news to you to hear that you are a bully, a card-aharper and 6 coward I My friends, M.- : l Viocomte PifpAg6-Puf and M. 1e. General IBoum, will represent me. Acept, Monsieur, my considera. -tions the most distioguiebed. *AoAauz~od4 Il PoMK DR TENRE. LETTKl V. PAnsa, September 1. MESSIEUnsB: We have the honor to declare that we are acting on be half of our principal, M. Hector do Via Ordinaire. Our priccipal (claiming his rights as the insulted party) dem ands to choose weapons, distance and conditions. H~e pro. poses pistols as the weapons ; for the distanoe, three paces a for the oondltions, that the pistols be loaded with powder, paper and bullet. We await with impatioee the reply of your prinoipal. Accept, Messieurs, our considera tions the .most distinguished. La CourtE. DI Foil DIE E(AU. La CIUETAI.II DE VIHOT ozNQ OirN [Taxas. LET~tR VI. - -PAnis, Odtober l-g . x. Mestuis i- We have the hqpor to~ unounce , tliat we have ,lpatily sub . Isted y ou proipospal to our prin.. ciV l. M. Agneti nondd Pommes do Terre hurriedly aedept. the weapons, the dietsee ad a part of th. eon ditions'. He will meet your principal pistol In hand, at three paces dlis, tance. Hlowover. although the pis. tols may bp loaded with powder at paper,'they mut not be loaded wi ullets. Is honor (whibli is f dearer to him than-life) deinands tI sacrifice I 'T'he 19ident must therefore 1 considered at an end, unless acooept our- prIncipal's propositic wbiih is as follows : The weapons to be rapters, t distance four feet, and the conditip to'bo that the Rpiers shall ha b'lades at leest three feet long. We await your reply ilth anxiel Accept, Mebeieurs, otut 6onsides tious the most distinguished. 1ds VIcoMTa PIFrPArIr-POU/. Lr. OsNRAL R3oun. LETTaR 0iZ. PARI,-October, L-"-8 . as. MassiEUs : We have tho honor announce that we hbve tardily al regretfully submitted the proposal your principal to our principi After' much and long oousideratii our principal finds that he can on agree to rapiers and the distan< He lobjects to the conditions. I feels that his couarge, his reputat~i as a brave man, demand that t rapiers instead of having blades thr feet long, should have no blades all I Under those ci rcumetanoes t incident must be considered, at end. Accept, Messieurs, ojr consider tions the most distinguished. Lk CoMT Di Fo.: Inc VeAU. La CIEVALIERI Dr VINaOv-0:Nq 019 TIME e. * * * * * * And, strange to say, the inoiden was at an end. Sunpson's New Boor. Down in Tuockahoe, N. J., there i man named Simpson, who has fiat roof on his house covered wil tin-so says Max Adler. . The to got to leaking badly, and it happe ed to occur to Simpson that it wou be a good thing to cover the who surface with the material out which concrete pavements are maq in order to make it perfectly tigt A man was accordingly engaged, at he covered the tin with concrete the depth of four inches. The our of Tuokahoe is oats. In warm weat er millions of these assemble ai hold ratification meetings and r hearsals and general synods out the backyards and on the roofs. Tuokshoo the heiat is unusually i tense, and Mr. Simpson was unus ally annoyed by the animated di oussions of the cats in his neighbo hood. The more he "shooed" the and flung old boots at them tl more they yelled. Night after nig grew more terrific, and day by di Mr. Simpson observed that t1 mysterious catawauling oontinui during all the hours of dayligi Simpson hadn't a bootjack or blac ing brush or a rolling pin or cologne bottle to throw at them. At last, one moonlight night, tl uproar got to be so outrageous th Simpson arose from his bed, dote mined to ascertain what all ti growling meant anyhow I It a peared to him that the .uise ea from the top of the house. He we up into the garret and put his he; out of the trap door. There found 196 cats suock fast knee do in the concrete, which had be softened by the heat. Some of the had been there four days. T minute they caught sight of 8imps the whole l96 doubled up the spines, ruffled up their liack ha snaked their tails, and gave one u earthly howl, which shook Simpsor nerves so much that he dropped t trap door and tell down the ite ladder on the head of Mrs. Simpse who was standing bolow dressed -in thing with a frill on it, and astn with a palm-leaf tan and 'a b slat, determined to protee6 alimps to the death.~ Simpson has sin sold the house to a man who m'ak sausagos and fur tippet., and it whispered around Tuokahoe tl his actual gains average forty d< lurs a night. Beule and Theodore. Thebo. Tilton Is writing a play five-act tragedy, one of the "Gi rasheous Hleavings I All is lost I Hi ha 1 ha V" kind, and Beso Turner writing a novel, one of the "But murmored the mnaiden, "if th dostest not thinkest, Adolbort, it it wert better for mne if 1 havedi bade not" kind, and we don't ci much now if the trial comes off or n With Biessle's new novel, s'From BI to Bied ; or, Asleep in the Darl and Theodore's terrible ,tragei 'Hung to the Wall ; a Tail of Nightshirt," the Americoan people< struggle through the winter about patiently as they worried through I spring avid summer. -w .Bu~rlbgd -The infloence of -the imaginati on the vital. funotions has. alw been recognised, and it was t recognition that enabled the an.& .phybiolans to be so successful ohar ms, amulets, and incantations. ?d erI Early and the ealawag. th - ar General Early was in a Richmond Is saloon with a friend recentl when iti walked Rush burgess, naited be States Internal Revenue Collector, au lately defeated for Oengress, togeh. at, er with Hon. Ambler Smith. e at once approached Gen. Early and his be companion, offering cigars, which as they accepted, supposing ha to be we an old comrade in arms. Generat, said Rush, 'yoa dop't seem to know Ine.' a- 'No, replied the General, I do not recollect you.' 'Well, I am Rush Burgess.' 'Are you that scalawag t' replied the general, in his empbtio drawl. *# am Itb Burgess sir,' rephi0 Rtsh, flushing as red as a turkey. to cook * 'hut you should not speak of me in that., of 'Sir,' said the old General, with i. scorn and contempt in tone, look n and gesture, 'your impudence in ad. 1 dressing entlemen deserves much - worse; and had I known you, I would * not have received your cigar,' and be n tossed it from him in loathing and he turned away. ee Burgess made some remark about at the General's age, when the old man returned. e 'Sir,' said he, I am old enough an to know what I am saying, and I am young enough to stand up to it," 'Then, sir,' cried Burgess, "our acquaintance ends here I' 'Ends !' exclaimed the General -by heaven, sir, it has never begun I' Odds and Ends. A Vermont paper has an artiele on "How to Treat Tramps." For our own part we should most certainly i, oppose treating them at all. a "Let her drive," is a phraso to be ih found in the Bible. So also is -'skin of of my teeth," and "his driving was . like unto the driving of Jehu."' l1 A man who was up in a police le 'cout recently, gave his occupation of as that of a "eoncologiet.' and us a, I plained by saying that he opened t.. oysters at the market. id 'he word reporter h-s been adopt. to ed into the French language, though ia ainst the protest of the purists, * who claim that nouvelist, or d "newsist." answers every purpose. iu lamlet. n - n. In answer to a correspondent, the a"- Monde Illustre gives the following s- particulars of the Danish prince . r- The historian Saxe Grammatious, m who lived in twelfth century, states eI that Hamlet was the son of a king of ht Jutland, named Horvandil, and that ty his mother was the Queen Gerutha. oe Fenge, the brother of Horvendil, d having assassinated Hamlet's father ,t. seized the throne and married hie k- widow. Hamlet feigned madness, and a in the meantime prepared to take vengeance on his guilty uncle. King he Fen ge suspected the sinister designs at of his nephew, and sent him to Eug r- land for the purpose of having assas is sinated. Hamlet, however, suceed p. ed in gaining the friendship of the ae English king, and returned the fol at lowing year to Denmark. There he id slew, with his own hand, the assassin be of his father, was proclaimed kiag, 3p and fell some time afterwards In a in battle against King Vigilet, who was in offended because Hamlet had assumed be the style of rrvalty. IOula~in-Making.. We 'speak of mountains fotnsing ,e louds aout their tops: tholoud. be have formed the mountains. Lift a ,district of granite, or marblew lato, n, their region, and they gathte about Sit, and uri th eir stonm. agai~ 'it, id beating the reeks into sands, andi ad then carry'them out into th. sea, in carving out canons, gelebes and vale e Ioya, and leaving plateas and smote Stains embossed on the surfaee.--Popte i ar &iensce Mont~ty. A new grove of colossal redwood trees has been disovered in Califor -nia. One of themi eclipses all that --a h ave-been discovered on the Pacific r. coast. It ciroumference, as high as a 1 a man cn reach standing and passing; is a tape- line around,. is a few inohes. Sless than ot46 hundred and fifty feet. au This is bemyond the measurement of at any tree in the Calaveras grove. Thea st height is estimated at ono hundred re and sixty feet, and a part of the top, t, lying on the ground is over oe hant. ed dredc feet in length. "State ;fficers inebraska have no. ly, fees and It takes them an honxarid a a half to amaswer a question. an An Illinoi* father is deterino&m~ hethat his childrn shall all ilearn the priinter's trade, so that th y cinsa have free tiokets to eiroulos4 ,Grasshoppers have appeared in Afa arica in greoot numbers, and the na tives aremmaking dried beef of them .The aggregate number of deaths ini for New Orleans for the week enig w** August 26 was 108~