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VOLUME III.
A.n. Independent Paper Devoted to tlie
fet-e&t? ot tlie' People.
ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, TH??1)AY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1S74.
NUMBER 31.
IN AH HOUR.
ANTIOIVATIOW.
" I'll lake tbo orchard path," she Bald,
Speaking lowly, smiling slowly; .
Tho brook was drlod within ita bod,
The hot nun flung a flimo df rod
IiOw in tho West, as forth sho apod.
Acror3 tho dried brook-conrao sho went,
? BlnaIn? lowly, smiling slowly !
'tOto 'scarcely saw'the sun that spent
Itn llery foreo in tiwlft descent?
.Mho inn er saw tho wheat was bent,
'I'hVgrassoa'parohed, tho blossoms dried;
Singing lowly, Btnlllng elowly :
Her, eyes amid tho drought osplod
A summer ploassnco far aud wtdo,
With rooca aud sweet violets pled.
n.
.Cl i ' ?! ptsirronrrMKirT.
Bat horaoward coming all tho way,
.... Blghing lowly, pacing slowly.
She knew tho bent wheat withering lay,
She Haw the blossoms dry decay. .
She misBod tho ltttlo brooklet's play.
A breoto bad sprung from out the South,'
Bat, sighing lowly, p&olng olowly,
She only-felt tho burning drought;
Her oyos were hot, and parched her moath
Yet sweet tho wind blow from tho South 1
And when tho wind brought welcomo rain,
StlU sighing lowly, pacing slowly,
Sho never saw* tue lilting grain,
' lint only?a lone orchard Taue,
Whero alie had waited all in valu I
PEARLS AND BLACKBERRIES.
\*. No," said Dr. Darling, slowly,'" no;
I oan'b believe tho evidence of my own
senses." And as he onnnoiated the
words with impressive distinctness ho
looked solemnly at Harry Clifford.
He might have found a worse-looking
individual to fix his rogardB upon than
thin young M. D., who had taken his
first hcneon in bonos, mnolos nnd human
anatomy, with tho therapeutics belong
ing thereto, in the little offioo across
the hall, and was just preparing to hang
up a shingle of his own; for Hurry
Clifford was tall and shapely, with rod
brown hair and a huge auburn mus
tache, and merry eyes that laughed like
springs of wator in the sunshine.
Dr. Darling took off his spectacles,
folded thorn, and deliberately placed
th'Cm in their case, still without taking
his' eyes from his noophyto. Harry
Clifford smiled ; hut ho looked a little
ombarrassed, notwithstanding.
'" Sho would havo you in a minute, if
you were to proposo," pursued Dr. Dar
ling; droppiug groat rod hot splashes of
sealing-wax over a shoot of blotting
paper, and stamping them with his
monogram seal in an aimless sort of
way.
"Yes; but I tell yon, sir, I don't
want to proposo," said Harry, staring
fit tho intertwined D. J. D.'h oh if thoy
wero the most interesting things in the
^?^-.v .: v ? ? :;?? ?
" Yon aon t want a pretty girl for a
wife?"
" Not that pretty girl in particular,
dootor."
."?,* Nor fifty thousand dollars?" added
the dootor, pronouncing tho three mo
mentous words in a manner that made
them sound vory weighty indeed.
" I would not object to the fifty thou
sand dollars in itsolf, sir ; but, as a more
appendage to Miss Bradbury?"
" I beliove the bovis crazy," ejacu
lated Dr. Darling. "Well, well, as tho
Scotoh proverb has it, ' a wilfu' man
maun hao Iub way,* and I shall inter
fere no farther. By the way, Harry?"
"Yes, sir?"
" You are going to the oity this after
noon?"
"That is my proseut intention, sir."
" Stop at Depiorro's, will you, and
leave Mrs. Darling's pearl broooh to be
mended. I ought to have douo it a
week ago, but a man can't think of
everything."
'?Certainly, dootor ;" and Harry Clif
ford, deposited tho pearl broooh?an
old-fashioned ornament of mnssivo gold,
set with tiny need-pearIs?in his waist
coat pookot.
" Rather a careless wav to carry
. jewelry, young man," si i 1 Dr. Darling,
elevating his eyebrows.
The morning sun was casting bright,
flickering threads of gold across tho
kitchen floor; tho morning-glories and
Madeira vines, trained across the case
ment, stirred softly in tho mild July
air : and Ursula Percy, Miss Darling's
orphan niece, was busy " doing up
blackberries."
Fresh as a rose, with hazel eyes, soft
ened to intense blackness at times by
the shadow of their long lashes, and
smiling scarlet lips, sho stood there?
her calico dress concealed by the house
wifely apron of whito dimity that was
tied round her waist, and hor black
otirls tuoked remorselessly back of hor
ears?looking demurely into tho bnb
bling depths of tho preserving kettle,
like a beautiful paroly on ono of the
witohes in:" Macbeth';" whilo on tho
whitely-scoured pino-tnblo boyond a
glittering tin vessel was upheaped with
tho beautiful jet-black fruit, each sep
arate berry flashing like the eyo of an
oriental hollo.
" Ursula I"
Tho pretty young girl stortod, vory
nearly dropping her skimmer into tho
pressrving kettle.
"How you startled mo, narry."
Harry advaucod into the kitchen,
with an admiring look at tho bright
face Unfilled with a little blush aud a
good doal of stove heat.
" You aro always at work, Ursula."
"I havo got to work, Hurry, to earn
my own living," Ursula Percy answered,
with a slight uplifting of her exquisite
black brows. "I am not an hoircss
liko Miss Bradbury."
?/ InCJonfound Miss Bradbury 1" oxolaim
ed our hero. " I hoar notlnug but Miss
Bradbury the whole time."
" She is a vory swoot young lady,
Harry," ?nid Ursula, in mildly reprov
ing accents.
"I daro say; but?what a lot of
blackberries yon havo hero, to bo sure,
Ursula."
"Porty quarts," said Urenla, domnro
ly. M Aunt Darliug always on joys them
so much in winter.
Harry put a honey-sweet globnlo cf
fruit into his mouth.
"Blackberries aro beautiful fruit,
Ursula."
?'Very;" and Miss Percy skimmed
diligently away at the bubbling caul
dron.
" Especially when you are doing them
up," added the young M, D., with
rather a olumsy effort at compliment.
Ursula did not answor. Harry walked
up to the range and took both her hands
in his.
f Harry, don't; the berries will burn."
" Lot 'em burn, then; who cares ?"
'' But what do you want ?" she asked,
struggling impotently to escape, and
laughing in spite of the grave look sho
fain would have assumed.
"To see your eyes, Ursula."
"She lifted the soft hazel orbs to his
face, then withdrew them with sudden
shyness.
"Do you know what answer I read
from those eyes, dearest?" ho whisper
ed, after a moment or two of silence,
broken only by tho hissing and simmer
ing of the boiling blackberries.
"No."
" I read yes!'
"O, Harry, I dare not. Uncle and
aunt are so determined you shall marry
Miss Bradbury."
" And I am so determined not to mar
ry her. Is a mau to be given away as
if he were a house and lot, or a bundle
of old clothes, I should liko to know ?
Ursula?"
" Harry, they are burning; I am sure
of it. I can smell thorn. O, do let go
of my hands!"
Harry Olifford deftly seized up tho
big iron spoon, and stirred the boiling
depths vigorously.
" It's all your imagination, Ursula."
"No, it's not; and if they are the
least bit scorched they will bo spoiled
for Annt Darling."
"But, Ursula?"
The creaking sound of an opening
door beyond suddonly dissolved tho
teto-a-tote. Ursula almost pushed Har
ry Olifford out of tho kitchen.
""You'll bo on the piazza to-night
when they bavo gono to tho concert ?"
he persisted, asking through tho oraok
in tlio dooi.
"Yea, yos, anything ? ovorything ;
only go I"
And Harry went, beginning to realize
that loye-mukiug and preserviog do not
assimilate.
" Your pearl broooh, my dear ? O, I
I dore sav it is done by this time?"
and Dr. Darling turned expectantly to
our hero.
?' I?I'm very sorry," began Harry ;
"but tho broooh disappeared in the
most unaccountable manner from my
vest pooket. I know I put it there?"
"Ye?," dryly interrupted the elder
gontlemau, " I remember seeing you
I put it there, aud yon assurod mo at the
time that you never lost anything. So
the broooh is gono, eh ?"
" Yes, sir, it is gone. But Mrs. Darl
ing may rest assured," Harry added,
with a glanco towards that lady, " that
I will roplaco it at the earliest oppor
tunity."'
" O, it is of no oouscqnonce at all!"
said Mrs. Darling, with a countenance
that said plainly, it is of the very great
est consequenco, "perhapB wo shall
find it somowhere in the houso." But
tho days slipped by, one by ono, and
the doom of tho pearl broooh remained
involved in the deepest mystery. Harry
Clifford bought another and presented
it to Mrs. Darling with a little compli
mentary speech. Mrs. Darling laughed
and pinned it into the folds of the
1 thread lace barb sho woro at her throat.
" But it is so strange what oan havo
become of the other I" said Mrs. Darl
ing.
It was in tho month of Septomber
that tho old doctor aud Mrs. Darling
I mado np their minds to invite Miss
I Bradbnry to tea.
I " We will havo a pound oako and pre
served blookborries," said Mrs. Darling,
who always lookod at tho material side
of things.
And if Harry don't eorao to terms
now, ho never will," added her husbaud,
who didn't.
" Get out tho best ohino, and tho
chased silvor tea service, Ursula," said
Mrs. Darling.
" And wear your pink Pronoh calico,
ehild ; it's the most boooming dress yon
have," said her nnolo, with a loving
glanoe nt the bright little brnnotte.
And Ursula Peroy obeyod both thoir
mandates.
" Miss Bradbnry camo?a haudsomo,
showy lady, with a smooth "society"
manner that rando Ursula fool hersolf
very countrified aud common indeed.
" Delioious preserves those !" said
Miss Bradbnry.
"Tli^y aro of Ursula's making," said
Mrs. Darling. Aud Harry Clifford
parsed his plato for n second supply,
i " I romomber tho day thoy woro
browed, or baked, or whatever it is you
enlI it," said ho, with an aroh glanco at
Ursula.
Suddonly old Mr. Darling grow pur
ple in tho face, and began to cough vio
lontlv. Every one started up.
" He's swallowed tho spoon 1" cried
Miss Bradbnrv.
" O ! O ! ho got the apoplexy 1"
screamed Mrs. Darliug, hystorioally.
" Uuolo ! dearest nnolo I" piped np
poor little Ursula, vaguely catching at
a glass of water,
But Dr. Darling rooovered without
any moro disastrous symptoms.
" It isn't tho spoon, and I don't come
of an npopleotio family," said he.
I " But, upon my word, this is about tho
biggest blaokberry I over came peril
ously near swallowing 1" And ho held
ont his wife's pearl brooch boiled up in
the blackberries.
There was a momentary silenoo
around tho tablo ; and then it was bro
ken by Mrs. Darling?one of those
blessed old ladies 'wlio never seo an
inch beyond their nosos.
" My gcoiness gracious i" said Mrs.
Darling; " how could it ever have corao
into the preserved blackberries ? , I?
don't?see?" '
"ButIdol" Bald Dr. Darling; look
ing provokingly knowing. " Yes, I see
a good many things now that I didn't
seo before."
And Harry, glanoing'aoross the table
at Ursula, was somewhat consoled to
perceive that her oheek was a shade
more scarlet, if that were possible, than
his own.
1 He followed the doctor into his office
I when the evening meal was concluded.
Ursula did not know how she ever would
have livod through it were it not for
Mrs. Darling's delightful obtuBeness,
and Sophy Bradbury's surface viow of
tho matter.
"Doctor," ho began valiantly; but
tho old gentleman interrupted him.
" There's no need of any explanation,
my boy," said he. " I know now why
you didn't want, to marry Miss Brad
bury. And I don't say that I blame yon
much ; only I came near choking to
death with Ursula's blaokberry jam."
And Dr. Darling laughed again until,,
had his spouse been present, she would
have thonght a second attack of apo
plexy among the inevitables.
"Little Ursula!" he added, "who
would havo thonght it ? Woll, you shall
have my blessing."
The pearls were all discolored, and
the gold of tho old-fashioned brooch
tarnished with the alchemy of cooking ;
but Ursula keeps that old ornament
yet, more tenderly treasured than all
the modern knick-knacks with whioh her
young husband loads her toilet-table.
And Overy year, when she preserves her
blackberries, Dr. Darling cornea to tea
and makes ponderous wittioisms, pro
tending to search in the crystal preserve
diflh for a " boiled brooch 1"
But thon jolly old gentlemen will
havo their j kes.
Superannuated Dawdlers.
A Saratoga correspondent writes:
"The old beaux at Saratoga aro very
numerous at present. They come horo
and dangle parasols and fans in return
for invitations to parties and Germans
during the winter. This is easier thau
nnMinr nn? WfigthTRifflffi^hnlir ??-i?
a terrible bore with tho old beaux, who
like their oigar and newspaper and home
comforts of on evening, and are not to
be coaxed out unless there is a swell
affair with a wine supper to repay them.
So here they ore dangling fans and
doing penance, and next winter they
will be invited again, because they were
'so attentive at Saratoga.' The old
beaux are growing a bit heavy in figure,
and show a few erow's feet, but on the
whole get themselves up well, and, as
they are acknowledged ' society men,'
the young ladies are satisfied to have
them at their heels.
"The old girls who are hawked about
from one watering-place to another are
also weil represented this season. These
'young' ladies aro export in casting
dio-a-way glances, hanging thoir hands
fin-fashion, and in all the gushing trioks
of maiden-hood. They aro striving to
make the most of themselves with n
deadly effort, and aro really very etylish
in their fine toilets, with esoalloped
foreheads, hair parted on one side, and
bonnets pinned on oaptivatingly. This
old stock have been waiting in tho
markot for rich husbands, and could
now be bought cheap."
Gorman Musical Invasion of France.
Sutherland Edwards, in his recent
book on "Tho Germans in Franco,"
tells the following pleasant anecdote of
the armed propagation of the Wagner
idea : "The morning after my arrival
in Ronen, I was awakened by the sound
of Buoh mnsio as under ordinary circum
stances would never have been heard in
Franco. A selection from 'Lohengrin'
was being played by tho band of an
East Prussian rogimont just in front of
tho hotel. Hero, then, -was conquest
symbolized in music Nothing but n
successful invasion oonld havo brought
Riohnrd Wagner to the native city of
Boildien; beneath whoso statne tho nn
familial sounds were, at that moment,
being produced. Tho sarcasm, however,
met with very little notico from the in
habitants, Street-boys, whose curiority
and love of novelty aro stronger every
where than their patriotism, held tho
music-sheets for their enemies; but tho
adult passer-by paid no more attention
to tho doubtful strains than did tho or
chestra dog that had dragged tho big
drum after him, from somewhere near
Konigsbnrg, to tho capitol of Nor
mandy, and who now, likeadogthatjhad
seen the world, lay down on tho pave
ment, and calmly slept without once
disturbing tho general effect of tho
mnsio by tho unexpected rinforzando
of n snort?. It was freezing hard, and
tho brass instruments, pinched by tho
cold, wero terribly hoarse. What, how
ever, was the froot to East Prussians??
ono of whom, when a shivoring French
man complained that tho thbrmomoter
marked ton degree* bolow freezing
point, is Raid to havo replied : 'Ton de
grees? Why, in East Prussia, at ten
degrees, it thaws.'"
?In Paris, natural flower? are mnoh
worn at ono side of tho waist, and aro
arranged in this wise : A small bou
qnot is placed in a tiny glass holder
containing a fow drops of water, whioh
is thon conoenled in tho folds of tho
i sash.
to boys.
Tliclr IInrbn?iK??H, Supers* it toitt* ami
Wlckctljjc?.
There aro.Kreoiii? of suspected iutol*
ligeneo whafftohl to tho heathenish
opinion that u boy, considered apart
from his family relations, und regarded
simply as a nooial phenomenon, in tho
most- ourioria; entires?ih el' the civilisa
tion of whack wo boost. And they aro
queer onong^i to oonimnnco nrguiug in
favor of that; opinion by a reference to
tho superstitions of tho young idea.
Thoy wantto know, for instance,
whence a b# derives tho settled con
viction that j >iu on tho bauds breaks
the forceof??&e schoolmaster's blows;
that an eyeShkor placed in tho center
of tho palm szr suro. to split the peda
gogue's ratgin; that tho incautious
handling of itbads leads to warts, and
that a white-bean planted in the dark of
the moon dnder a brick, near somo
house waterspout, removes them. Far
be it from tS to attempt an explanation
of these str?nge ideas, bat it is certain
that thoy havo been entertained through
generation ft or generation .of boys, and
no doubt any urchin that over sported a
"knuoklo dfibBter," a "pottery" or a
"crystal," .fhat ever "mumbled the
peg," or plnjed "leap-frog," can uo
count for tliifcra to the entire satisfaction
of any impartial inquirer.
What rcaliy is puzzliug to tho adult
mind is whenco tho boys originally ob
tained thtfr barbarous methods of
" counting t^ut" for " catcher," " fox,
or any of tHpso pleasant juvenile games
requiring ffyetness of foot and a secre
tive disposition. For instanco : a lot
of boyB -v
somo of
through a
applying o
got together to play at
.eir games. Ho will go
reat rigamarole of words,
i word to each as he desig
nates him Wyn tap on tho broast, and
tho last ondjso honored is " it," as thoy
call the " e |$cher," as thus?
" Onorr, Orov, Iokory, Ann,
F?llt i, FolliHun, Nicholas, John,
wry, Qnavy.
Baglml? Navy,
SUnSluin, Btaukulum, Back!" .
Now, tho?o aro theso who would liko
to know what sense thero is in all that,
and what tjao mystery connected with
these portentous words. And also in
this, another modo of counting out:
"Occa, bocca,
?, Bonn, crocka, / ,3?
k y'Occa, bocca, trrico! "
Or in thip; which is considerably less
elegant, though possibly more signill
cant than tl o two preceding :
"ink, pink,
How you do stink! "
Tbo fiit.'i4?>.belles of the. Queen city,
it must bo coufesaod^tWBTtne. same~snv
age methods in making their olec'ion
of " Who's it ? " eto. The girls have
also a good many incomprehensible
chants and songs of their own. Tho
starting point is, of course, "ring
around the rosy spot," for it is an utter
impossibility for girls?that is, small
ana real girls?to play anything very
long that does not require a clapping
of hands and thoir circling abont with
some ontlandish chant. Their favorite
song is :
Groon gravel,
Groon gravol,
How groon tho grasa grown;
Aud all tho creation
la auhamod to bo aeon.
Dear Annie, doar Aunio,
Your truo lovo ia doad ;
Tlo Hont you a lottor,
80 turn back your hoad."
Wheroupon the donr Annio in ques
tion reverses her top-knot to tho balance
of the oirclo and continnes to go round
in that position until tho dreadful tid
ings of tho decease of tho truo lovo of
"Dear Lizzie," " Dear Louie,"oto., is
convoyed to thorn respectively, and
thoy, in turn, reverse themsolvos in
honor Of tho departed. When tho
wbolo list of names in tho oirolo is ox
1 hausted, and tho boroaved objects of so
much pure affection are in mourning
together, tho game is playe 1 over
again.
If there chance to bo any youthful
I r presents*ives of tho node sox about
with whom tho young ladies are on
! good terms, tho ohant is sometimes
varied thus, tho oiroling performance
novcr ceasing for an instant:
"Llttlo MinnioTnn,
A Bitting in tho nun,
A weeping and crying for a young man ;
lliao, Minnie; riao, Minnio,*
Wipe away your tcara;
Look to the Kaat and look to tho Woat,
Aud look to tho ono that you lovo tho boat."
And Minnio immediately casts n lan
guishing look upon somo young shaver
among the boys ; who, in response, as
quickly assumes a molanoholy air,
breathes hard n couple of times, and
attempts a simultaneous display of all
hiB jowolry.
But this is gotting off tho main sub
ject?boyB. Tho livoB of most of tho
great heroes, philosophers and statesmen
that havo figured in tho world's history
havo been written, tho "solf-mado'
men of tho country havo beon run
through a Hoo press several thousand
times, and tho future of. promising
youths throughout tho land has boon
horoscoped somewhat oxtonsively. But
who shall writo up tho youth of our
distinguished soldiers and statesmen,
and moneyed men? Thero aro many
gentlomen of oolobrity in this vicinity
whose juvinilo oxporknoos would pan
out handsomely, but wo aro afraid none
of tbom would bo so frank and outspo
ken on tho subject aa Col. Richard Hol
land, now of Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
but- a Oincinnatian " born and raised."
The colonol admits having been tho
wiokentst boy in Cincinnati. Ho was u
Look street boy, and fond of tho canal.
Ho was also fond of ginger cake, and on
one occasion abstracted tho grocery
pass-book from beneath tho patorual
roof,-and obtained twelvo sections of
thnt substantial and spioy creaturo com
fort for the boncflt of his "crowd,"
who ato it in a neighboring board-yard,
and gavo three times three for the au
thor of tho feast.' "An attempt to niter
the Agares in tho book"faiIed, howovcr,
and tho youthful financier tocoived a
largo doso of strap oil, as a curative for
his smartness. Tho colonel we.fi like
wise- fond of agun/ahd an hia father had
ouo/whioh th? old gontlomnn prized very
highly", Bichard and hlsT)v?tner took iz
out on tho hill) to Bhoot" chippies" on
an average three times'a week, Riohnrd
taking tho! weapon apart and ramming
tho stock-up the back of his coat, while
his brother carried the barrel in one of
his '.trousers' legs, so as to get it out
of the house unseen. . They managed
the ramrod by tying a string to it and
making a .whip of it until they- got out
of'sight. They had "lots of fun" with
the gun until the brother tried to shoot
the ramrod ont one day, when it kicked
him over, and knocked both hammers
to a full cock. - Richard didn't see his
brother for over five minutes, and [then
had to carry him home. Tliero was
no more shooting of "chippies."
The most important transaction of
that period of tho colonel's oxistenco
was the clandestine carrying away .and
pawning of tho old gentleman's watch
?a venerable time-piece whioh had been
lying unseen in a bureau-drawer for
over five years. Riohard very reason
ably thought tho watch was completely
forgotten by that time, and that he had
made a very judicious disposition of it.
But the very next Sunday, as ill-luck
wonld have it. tho old gentleman, on
dressing himself to go to a dinner-par
ty, said to his good wife, " Well, I
guess I'll wear my watch to-day," and
frnitless search being made for the
chronometer, Riohard fled the spot end
played " hookey" both from school and
home for tho next six weeks.
It has been montioned that tho colo
nel was fond of tho canal. So he was,
and a jolly lot of tronble it used to get
him into, too. Ho was going home
from " school" one day with his shoes
in his baud, whon it suddenly occurred
to him to make a boat of one of the
pedal coverings, and straight into the
look it went. Then tho other boys
commenced to " waft" it to the other
ond. of tho lock by throwing stones,
etc., at it, and tho result was that the
ship wont hopelessly down.- Richard
trembled at the thought of going home
with one shoo. It would be known that
he played truant, and a. good stout
stick would await him. Various expe
dients wore thought of and suggested
as a means of getting-1 him out of the
Borape, but they were all failures. The
lost one was to'indnce a shoemaker in
tho neighborhood to - make a.. ,ma?o f or J
the shoe inside of an hour, and for the
handsome remuneration of two cents,
but Riohard was astonished to learn
from the artist that it oould not be done
in that brief space of time, and partic
ularly for that sum of money. The on
ly thing remaining was to hook a shoo
belonging 'to' a mill-hand, whioh was
about five times as large as the other.
Th** disparity in size was disoovorod the
very first thing on his entering the
house; the mill-hand came, making a
terrible fuss about tho larceny of his
shoe. Richard was in disgrace again,
and had to flee onoe more to the moun
tains. And "sich," as Sairy Gamp
would say, "Biohis boys."?Cincinnal
Commercial.
Fast Horses.
The following tablo, Bhowing tho
timo made by the celebrated flyers of
tho country, is interesting :
Goldsmith Maid.-: 11 '-,
Lulu.2:10?
American Girl.2:17?
Poster....2:17?
Lady Thoru.2:18?
Luoy.2:1H?
Jud?o Fallerton....3:10
Flora Teniplo.2:lQh(
tlcortfo Palmer.2:19?i
H.xl Cloud..2:20
Henry-.2:2)?
Cxuiors.2:*0?
Mountain Boy.2:20?4
Gazclle.-..2:21
Jay Gould.2:21?
Geor?o Wilkes.2:22
St. Jamea.2:22
Sleepy Georgo.2:22
Lady Maud.2:22?
Ilolino.2:22?
llosalind.2:22?
Huntress.2:22)4
.Teuuie.2:22;,'
Flora Hello.3:92;
Kilburu Jim.2:23
Joe Ilrowu.2:23
Wm. H. Allen.2:23?
Hotspur._2:23?
Hcntation.2:231.
Jim Irving.2:X??
Billy Bar.2:23?
Mohawk, Jr._...2:24
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Fauuio Allon.2:25?
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Thomas Jeffersou..2:26?
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Harry Harley.3:25?
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Surprise.9:20
Matt Smith.2:20
Sea Foam .2:20
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Grand Duchess.?>::w,\
Lydia Thompson..2:20\,'
Charley Greeu.2:20?
Uen Flanier.2:20?
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Queen of tho West?2:20?
Honest Dutchman.2:20?
II. W. Oenot.2:20?
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More Facts About Chinch Burs.
An oxtensivo stock dealer informs the
St. Louis Rural World that in his re
cent travels ho has seen mnoh of tho
ravages of the chinch bug, and that tho
following is tho best way to dostroy
them : Whon they first appear, as they
usually do, on tho side of the corn field,
and before they havo entorod it, out live
or six rows of tho corn and dear the
ground ; thon plow n strip of laud eight
or ton feet wide, leaving a deep dead
f nrrow, and tho trap is comploto. When
tho bugs approach tho Hold, thoy will
pass in under tho corn plaoed across
tho dead furrow, and preforring tho
shade and moisture, remain there until
tho stalks become perfectly dry, whon
they oau be put through a process of
cromation that will provo effectual in
destroying thom. Should thoy first ap
pear in the middle of a field of corn (as
it not unfrequontly happens they do),
thoy can bo surrounded on the forego ?
ing plan and dostroyed in the same way.
?It takes practice to make perfect.
Mr. Long, of TuBcumbin, Alabama,
had to pratico eight years before'ho
could throw n biblo aoross the house
and knock a young Long down.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
?Those lines tue uy a realistic Sagi
naw; (Michigan) poet :
*l Wpii'ut tho rod Iujuu hero took their do
JigbtH,
Fi ih't, fit und blod.
Now moiitof the inhabitant* la^ldtc^,
.? Witirnaiy red."
.-. rr? eohoolboy- defines flea,. " Flea,
liow, nod?when you pnt your'^h&nd
on it." _
?England and Scotland aro said to
contain six hundred thousand, lu>bitual
drunkards, including both B?xesv^ ' 'ini
?"Havn't I a light to be saucy if <I> oi
pleaso ff asked a young lady of an old,
baoholor. "Yes, if you please, but
not if yon displcano," was tho ausser.
?It is truo that thero iB nothing liko
advertising, i but a public officer, with
nothing but his salary of 82,000.a year
to live on, should be careful not to give i*5
his wifo more than $5,000 worth of dia
monds at a time.
?An. Iowa p* per reports tho follow
ing as the form of marriage in a town >?
in that state: " Join your right bands.-1,.,,
Do you want ono another?' (They
both answer, "Yes.") "Well, then,""*
have one another. You're man and
wife."
?A Vermont man has the following
posted in his field : "If any manB or
womanB cows or oxen gets into these
here oats, his or her tail will bo out oiV. [
as the case may be. I am a Christian
man and pay me taxes; but blast d man
who lets his critters run loose, says I."
?A lady who had . been teaching ;hor
little four-year-old the elements of
ari thmetio was astounded at his running '
in and propounding tho following prob- - Jo
lorn : " Momma, if yon had three but
terflies and each butterfly had a bug in
its ear, how many butterflies would you
have?" ,
?Remember that appearances aro
often deceiving. Many a pale, thin '
young lady will eat more corned beef
than a carpenter. Because you find
her playing the piano in. tho parlor it Uk,
no sign that her mother is not at tho
comer grocery running in debt for a
peck of potatoes.
?Tho New York Mail denoanees as a
double-distilled fool, a young French
man who, seeing the dead body of a ?
very beautiful woman displayed at -tho
Morgne, went and killed himself, first
writing a letter, stating that ho had
committed the act-in order to have his iV
cadaver put on the next slab to hers.
?A well known brother of tho press'.
remarks, in a recent issue: / "It is not ?
our fault that wo * are red-headed
and.eatalL 1 *bo next, th
those overgrown rural roosters, in a bafKKS!
room reaches down for our head, and "
suggests that some one has lost a .ro&e
bndout of his button hole, there will;'*,
be trouble."
?A Walker street (Atlanta, Qa;)
man has a goat for sale. While ho Wui-if
at? dinner recently, the goat chewed up
his new 'panoma hat,, a box of oigars,
and his wife's now bonnet,, and Bovernl
fruit cans that were out airing, pre-,
parntory for duty. The goat is an ex
pensive luxury, and will be Bold cheap
on long credit.
?To despond is to be ungrateful be
forehand. Be not looking for evil.
Often thou drainest the gall of fear
whilo evil is passing by tby dwelling.
Verily evils may be courted, may be
wooed, and may bo won by distrust; for
the soil is ready for the seed, and bus
Eicion hath coldly put aside the helping
and.?Tupper.
?A writer in Lea Mondes says that
he is enabled to materially reduce the
number of insects whioh prey upon tho
flowers and fruits of his garden, by
covering the inside of an old tub with
liquid tar and at twilight putting a
lighted lantern within, leaving the
whole oat overnight. The bugs, at
tracted by the light, ore caught and '
held fast by the tar.
?Grave city pastor to his fond wife?
" My dear, Mrs. Wilson must be ex
{icriencing a change of heart. She
coked so serious during my last ser
mon." Fond wifo?"Sho. you goose,
why couldn't you boo that her new Sun
day hat has one artificial flower less
than Mrs. Brown's, who sits in the next
pew?" Tho pastor collapses and takes
rofnge in an arm chair.
?At his late fancy-dress ball tho
sumptuous Wales "was dressed in a
light maroon velvet doublet and clor k
of satin, embroidered in gold, trunk
hoso, large buff boots and a black felt
hat, with a white feather. He wore al
so a wig of fair hair, whioh prevented
his easy recognition, and had his-Star
of the Garter on his breast, and tho
badge hanging from a bine ribbon
ronnd his neck."
?A commission appointed by tho
Fronoh minister of public works, hav
ing reported favorably upon the groat
schomo for connecting England and
France by a sub-marine tunnel, French
coal owners to tho north of France are
beginning to discuss tho probabio effect
of the work upon their trade, and aro
afraid that the tunnel would greatly in
crease the deliveries of English coal up
on tho northern French markets.
?A hater of tobacco asked an old ne
gro woman, the fumes of whose pipo
woro annoying to him, if sho thought
sho was a Christian. " Yes, brudder,
I spoot I is." "Do you beliove in the
Bible?" "Yes, brudder." "Do you
know that there is a passage in the
Scriptures that deolares that nothing
unclean shall inherit the kingdom of
lleaven ?" " Yes, I've heard of it."
"Well, Ohloe, yon smoke, and you
cannot enter tho kingdom of Heaven,
hcoauso there is nothing so unoleon as
tho breath of a smoker. What do you
say to that ?" "Why, I speotB f leave
my breff behind when I go dar,"
