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Eaton Weekly
Democ
rat.
F. T. FOSTER, Publisher. Devoted to the Interest or the Democratic Party, and the Collection of Local and (Jeueral yew. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
YQL IV--NO. 50. EATON, P., THURSDAY, AUGUST, 17, 1871. WHOLE NUMBER 225,
Producers and Consumers.
Nothing is so common as to have
go-ahead people say ot a bit of wis
dom, "This is all very well as a
principle, but not a practice." It is
all very well as a principle to say that
too many boys leave agriculture and
useful callings, to become merchants ;
,but ' in fact, the T, temptation of
seudo-re9pectabnity,' and the one in
a hundred chances of becoming rich,
are too strong lor the principle.
Opposing "stock-gambling is . also a
theory which yields before the prac
tice of our most respectable and up
right citizens.
Yet it remains true as ever, that
the world is best off when most gov:
erned bv principles ; and that, as
society improves, it approaches them.
How much, of late years, their influ
Hadce has "been"rought honie to us.
How- moch'railroads" andt" telegraphs
have taught the world of the princi
pies of intercommunication and as
sociation. And what an array of
sound principles are called into life
rv by commercial ' panics and their re
suits. How decidedly are we taught
, " that by getting foreigners to manu
facture for us, we are often placed in
dependent, and sometimes ruinous
positions ; and how apparent does it
become that the principle of short
- 3 credit, steady business,' and economy
are vital truths, and not old fogy no
tions, to be carelessly passed over by
Young America.
The'greatest principle which has
been inculcated, practically, by our
long experience, is the fact that the
"eounlx' lias' had' too f many,, idle
agents; too many non-producers,
consuming the capital which should
have passed directly from consumer
' to ' producer. We have a great deal
too much of that business too many
middle men between the manufao
turer and the ultimate consumer too
many agents between the farmer and
the bread-eater too many shops and
too many business men altogether.
One might, however, have preached
r forever to teach this, without recetv
ing attention. : The great proportion
of the young and enterprising world
do not know that between the broad
cloth-respectability of city business
life, and.the less envied condition of
SQingriculturist- or1 mechanic,"1 there
are gradually springing up a great
number of educated occupations, and
facilities which qualify the producer'
' '. manufacturer and farmer, to make
money, and take -rank with any col
lege graduates. This is all too new
a matter as yet ; but ip. a few years
we shall see the good results, when
every young man, instead of rushing
into a counting room, will think first
of the steadier and more assured fu
ture which awaits the one who has
passed a couple of years at au Agri
cultural college, or who has learned
'' to be a scientific manufacturer.
, But, as we have said, all the
"' Breaching in the world T?ould never
have shown the soundness of the
principle that we - have too many!
business men: The' knowledge of
the fact that we have one place of
business to every sixty men, women
and children, would not have kept
people; from entering into the over
stocked calling. Fortunately, the in
evitable progress of business itself,
and the tendencies which it involves,
are themselves beginning to show
clearly and plainly that we cannot go
astray without being recalled in the
long run. . Every evil has within it
self its own corrective. Of late the
facilities of transport, the perfection
of railroads, the concentration of
capital, have facilitated trade directly
between consumer and producer.
" When Eastern manufacturing com
panies have their agencies in all
cities, and when importing is chiefly
in the hands of a few large houses
which retail, it is evident that the
jobbing and commission business,
and all the various phases of goods-
brokering, must be gradually losing.
.' Here ia a principle which has for
years been awaiting its realization
' one which must eventually prevail
the principle that, as society pro
gresses, the. transfer from pioducer
to consumer must be greatly facili
tated. ... -
We say it would be well if meat
could be raised on the largest scale.
and -directly transferred to the con
sumer. If it be true that a greater
number of middle men and small op.
erators onty make everything dearer
ior the ultimate purchaser, what shall
we say to the vast amount of human
force annually substracted from
producing classes, and added to
non-producing ? It is fearful to con-
;
template. Let any one sum up the
amount of brain-wearing, soul-killing,
unproductive industry which this
country annually produces, and he
will be amazed. The world has never
seen anything like it. And the
whole system is so delusive. A man
whose life-long work finds him a
bankrupt, consoles himself with the
reflection that he has been at least "de
voted to- business." And what does
this business, of late years, amount
to ? On the one hand, it shows a
few clerks, a family, and a porter
sustained. On the other, a life passed
in making articles, perhaps of neces
sily, dearer for the poor. So long
as their number was limited in pro
portion to the number of inhabitants
in the country, those who filled in
termediate, brokering positions be
tween the manufacturer and retailer,
were of real advantage, when the fa
cilities did not exist which we now
have of effecting transfers between
the first and last parties. As they
increase, the enormous amount of
lobbins now done must fall away. It
is in opposition to a sound princi
ple which is now gaining ground rap
idly. The same thing is true of Europe
as of .America ofLondjn as of Cin
cinnati. Everywhere we find agita
tion, whose object is to cheapen
goods, and do away with the non
producing classes. In the Middle
Ages there were very few producers,
and a vast proportion of men main
tained by those who were occupied
in the various processes or profitable
labnr Kvprv
or
.1 1 a
new advance since then has tended to
increase the number of producers.
The more the world get together,
and the easier they find it to get to
first sources, the more they will ob-
iect to hisrh prices. Probably tne
t OA
day may arrive when all business in
our large cities will consist of direct
purchase irom the producers for
ready money, and sales shall cease to
be made upon precarious credit, un
der the delusive hope that the risk
may be run for the sake of the large
profits ; and that enormous class who
increase the price without adding
anytuing to lue-vmue ui iuo
will turn their attention and industry
into channels of production.
In England andtlreland, and per
haps in other portions bt Europe,
they have regular "market days,"
where the farmer, with the products
of his farm ; the mechanic, with the
evidences of his handicraft ; - the
housewife, with the fruits of her in
dustry ; in short, where the producer,
in whatever line, meets the consumer,
exhibits his wares, and for the time,
plays the role of the merchant. The
days are fixed and notorious, and the
consumer goes there with a perfect
assurance of finding for sale such
things as his wants demand, and in
first hands, without the intervention
of middle men of merchants, whose
profits , would be a direct tax upon
the, one or the other frequently
both. Time and long experience
have demonstrated the wisdom of
this arrangement. The re-unions
are not only economical in ther op
prfltinni in the savings of the profits
... ... . .
wnicn must otnerwise go to me sup-
port" of the middle men ; but they af-
ford opportunities of social enjoy-1
ment as well a.3 useful intercourse of
persons engaged in the same calling,
inerery disseminating useiui lniurm-1
and valuable experiments, tend-
. 1 , , 0
, ' ,
ing directly to me increase oi Knowi-
edge among the denizens of the rural
, . " , . . , ..
uisincis. amuug iub mauv urauu-
ful - svstems in English farm life, we
L-nr.w r.f rnns mnpA wnrtliv of hpinrr
know ot none more worthy or being
transferred to our shores. and put in
o:-r, o-orinr, Ktt nnlo no
J r;.
this. With the large portion ot
English and Irish emigrants scattered
, " j
tnrougnouc our country, it is a mat-
ter of surprise that this enterprise
has not already been inaugurated.
uur rural population can no more
afford to pay an unnecessary tax to
middle men, than can the farmers of
the old world ; and hence we trust
that the time is not far distant when
the exchange, or sale, of commodi
ties from neighbor to neighbor will
be carried on at the monthly or bi
monthly fairs of the neighborhood.
A Mrs. Murdock, of Eldorado, Kansas.
was rendered so nervous by some anon
ymous letters sent to her husband, one
whicu containeu a picture oi a man witn
a rope around his neck, that when one
day last week she saw Hon. Sidney
Clarke and two other gentlemen come
into town in a wagon, in which she
imagined she saw a rope, she seized one
of lier children and nearly severed
head from its body with a razor, and
then cut her own throat, narrowly es
caping death. To her diseased imagina
tion, every stranger ' she saw was
hangman hunting for her husband.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
I
twenty-rour is occupied py some wors
ation ers dolng some that shows Itself in
A reporter of the Enquirer speaks of a
hilarious gentleman from the Capitol of
Indiana as an "India Napoleon." Isn't
that rather hard on the Hindoos ?
The Terre Haute Gazette says croquet
is the leading amusement at present ;
scarcely a family can be found which
does . not possess the neccessary phar
iphanalia (whatever that may be) for a
game.
'Shut this door and as soon as you
have done talking business, serve your
mouth in the same way." That is the
way an editor not a thousand miles from
here gently insinuates, by means of a
two-foot poster, that general conversa
tion can be dispensed with m ins sanc
tum. Bores wouldn't do a slow thing to
cut it out and paste it in their hats.
What must have been the feelings of
that factory foreman who was aggra
vated by the action of a new hand, who
failed to perform his duty right, although
repeatedly explained to him, and finally
approached and let out on him ? He told
him what he thought of men who did as
he was doing; mentioned the torrid zone,
and diDDed to the very roots 01 tne Eng
lish language for vigor of expression, and
men was quietly miormea mac tne anx
ious listener was a deaf mute.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says the scheme for the transportation of
aris communist prisoners to Arizona is
reallv to be carried out, ana auas : "At
first we were opposed to it, but now we
ain't. These blood-thirsty Frenchmen
will serve an excellent purpose in Ari
zona, some time or otner tney win get
acauainted with the Apaches. A common
instinct will make them friends, till 'ye
gentle savage," taking advantage there
of, surprises and butchers a iew mm urea
of them, wnen tne iteus win rise ana go
for ve dusKv cnuuren 01 Arizona, anu
that will he the last of the Apaches."
The Boston Transcript gives an account
of Nilsson's arrival at Jefferson, New
Hampshire, on horsebacK, on ner jour
ney among the White Mountains. She
was followed bv a traveling carriage,
with outriders, and a baggage wagon for
frlm nu rtf hpr rAt tprrlpr jirwl n
trunk or
two. Her habit was dark-blue broad-
cloth, turned back to snow a striped
oVilr-t- ami a erra V lint, wit.h ntlAfleflnt's
" t-, "J - - ' I " w "
wing. The citizens turned out to see the
fair Swede, and now that she has gone,
one of them cherishes a bit of bread pur
loined from her breakfast plate, which
bears the impress of her teeth, and an
other the pack of cards with which she
beguiled the hours in playing California
Jack:
The New York Mail gives this sketch
of Vanderbilt: "One's first impression
of Vanderbilt is that he is a man of steel,
and there is a steely glint in his grayish
blue eyes that reinforces the Impression
His face is Grecian in its cutting, and as
cold, impassive and fixed as a cameo
and sternness, even to the climax of the
imperative, marks every word and mo
tion crops out in the put down of the
foot, as well as in the set expression ot
the rather thin lips. Talks very little
down hlf foot at every step as It he would
say. 'Stay mere tin 1 wake you up again.
Is addicted to whist, and handles the
cards almost with the skill of a profes
sional."
We never could understand heretofore
why it was that most people are more
snappish and ill-tempered in hot than in
cold weather. A philosopher has at last
explained it by the most natural tneory,
tnuslv : "in very not weatner you may
be as disagreeable and disobliging to your
friends as you please. If a coolness. arises,
so much the better.". If anybody can ac
count more briefly, naturally and easily,
or by a more simple course of reasoning
than this for aog-day lrraableness, we
should like to have his views. Some one
has said the acidity of temper was always
there, and that the beat only caused it to
"bile over ;" but this explanation lacks
philosophical depth and breadth, and we
scorn to accept it. The human heart is
not a soda-fountain, any more than
peach-basket is a vinegar-barrel, and
does net act without purpose, however
little we may be conscious or it.
A recent writer pointedly and truth
fully remarks that journalism is the only
profession which is denied the privilege
of privacy.' The lawyer, doctor and
preacher ao tneir worn in private, ana
no weignty personal responsibility au
taches to them on account of it. But the
lournallst is a mark for the public eye.
and his every movement is as open as the
course of the sun. Moreover, the work
I of the press is continuous, as well as con
8tently public. There is no rest for the
weary. Space is no more annihilated by
first day but all the seven." Night is an
lrVT oTX
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the newspapers ot the day and afternoon
Repetition is as impossible as rest. Facts
are ever. new. Comments must be
fresh as facts, and the edition is the re-
,., th,f m. .mill thB hm.
onds. The making of a newspaper
perpetual motion in a thousand fields. In
work demandmg ceaseless effort,
permitting no pause, exacting eternal
and ever varying exercises, it is impossi
I ble lor wheat to be unmixed with chaff,
for accuracy not to be impaired by mis-
take, for injustice not occasionally to
aone
Pressed Coal Dust.
I
of
The use of pressed coal dust, com
pressed into solid cakes, convenient for
stowage and handling, has become quite
general on board tne naval vessels oi di
lerent .European countries, ana tneir
value appears to be unquestionable.
is claimed tnat in tne carriage oi tne lit
tle bricks there is a loss ot only one per
cent, instead ot six to ten per cent- as
the case of lump coal, and when stored
aboard they are found after two years ex
posure to be scarcely at an injurcu.
is claimed for them also that they are
free or comparatively free from ash
and can ba made from the refuse of al
most every kind of coal, and in such ra
tio as to produce the best effect in getting
up and maintaining steam. These bricks
which are exceedingly compact, and pro
duced by nydraulic pressure, and require
Dut a small percentage ot extraneou
gummy, or xesinous matter to make them
stone-like and thoroughly durable.
a
During a storm on Tuesday evening.
the steeple of the new Presbyterian
Church on Twentieth and Uxtord streets.
Philadelphia, was struck by lightning
ana completely aemousnea.
NEWS ITEMS.
is
be
in
Hon. John Slidell, late Confederate
agent to France, is dead.
Fred. Huber committed suicide on
Tuesday last, in Louisville, by taking
arsenic. Family discord the cause.
Governor Bullock has given five thou
sand dollars to endow a scholarship at
Amherst College for the coming woman.
Harriet Pindell tried fire-kindling
with petroleum at Moscow, Tenn., on
Monday night. It was of course a fatal
experiment.
Miss Tissie Curry, of Darlington,
Beaver county, Pa., was burned to death
on Tuesday evening, another victim to
misplaced confidence in oil.
About 200,000 pounds of cloves are an
nually imported into the United States,
and about 1,000,000 pounds imported into
England.
Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, one of the
old merchants of New York, died at his
summer : residence, on Long Island, on
the 17th inst., after two days' illness.
There are eight pin factories in the
United states, whose annual production
is 2.000.000 packs, each pack contain
ing 3,360 pins, a total of 6,720,000,000
pins. . ;
President White, of Cornell Univer-
sitv. has given $50,000 to that institution,
?2U,000 Ot wnicn goes to tne norary, anu
tne rest to De usea in tne coiisirucuon ui
the President's house.
About 850,000 tons of coal are used an
nually in London to make some 8,000
million cubic feet of gas, and the "little
bill" for the same amounts to more than
$3,000,000. '
Several hundred colored people from
Atlanta. Georgia, are spending a lew
days visiting at Nashville, the citizens of
which city are entertainmg tnem witn
cordial exhibitions ot hospitality.
The albumen wasted in the manufac
ture of the albumenized paper used by
photographers is converted into the
beautiful marbled paper used loruecorat-
ing walls. ,. , ,
Twenty-eight thousand claims for pen
sions bv surviving soldiers ami sauors
of the war of 1812 have alreadylieen an
dited. and it is thought many more will
be received.
It is announced that all Americans vis-
iting Europe must have passports, espe
cially naturalized citizens, as they can
not procure them of our foreign agents
without showing their proper papers.
The locusts, which have appeared in
the Northwest, are dying in such num
bers that in some localities the ground is
thickly covered by them. They, did
much damage to the young forest trees.
A fire in Amgusta, Illinois, on the 12th
nst.. destroyed five buildings, including
the Yarlington House. The fire is sup
posed to be the work or an mcenuiary
The amount of damage is not known.
Henry Kelly, sentenced to the peniten
tiary for. two years lor attempted rape,
swallowed a spoonful of powdered glass
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His recovery is very doubtf nri
lix me ijuuisvmc jail, bile xlii isut.
The contract for completing the Cairo
and Fnlton railroad from from the Mis
souri line to the Texas line has been con
cluded, and the work is to be completed
by the 1st of July, 1872.
Wilmer McLean, a real estate dealer at
Manassas, Virginia, owned the farm on
which the first battle ot the rebellion
was fought, at Bull's Run, and that upon
which the last was contested at Appo
mattox.
Charles Dyke, engineer on Robert Ful
ton's first steamer to Albany, died Mon
day in Washington, aged eighty-five
years. Mr. Dyke was also engineer of
the hrst steamer down the Ohio ana
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.
There are at least one hundred million
acres of fertile land ia Texas, owned by
men who for various reasons are com
pelled to sell it; and half the land in
Texas is in market at prices ranging from
nity cents to two dollars per acre.
The cause of the famine in Perisa is
due not only to a failure of the crops,
but also to the fact that increased taxa
tion drove very large numbers of people
from tne country into tne cities, ana tnus
the agricultural products were still more
aepreaseq, .
In the pigeon shooting match at Chi
cago, on Saturday, for the championship
of the United Scates and five hundred
dollars a side, A. 11. Bogardus, of Illin
ois, killed ninety-one out of a hundred
birds, and Ira Paine, of New Jersey.
eighty-nine.
A man named Dolan, on Saturday.
shot and killed Thomas Wallace, about
sixty-five years old, his partner in busi
ness, at the falls of Blaine, oi Tug fork
of Big Sandy. The cause of the murder
was a dispute about some machinery
In the Hunter murder case at Akron
on Saturday, arguments were 'finished,
and the jury charged. Alter an absence
of two hours and a half, the jury return
ed with a verdict of guilty of murder
the nrst degree. A motion lor a new
trial was made.
Captain D.Kenny, jr., who, during the
early part ot the war commanded an
Ohio battery, and was. afterward Com
missary at Camp Dennison, died last
Monday, at Chicago. His remains will
be interred at Geneva, Ashtabula county.
Ohio,
The boiler of a Staten' Island ( New
York ) ferry boat exploded Sunday, kill
ing and scalding a large number, and
addition many were blown overboard
and drowned, The number lost is sup
posed to nave been one hundred and
fifty.
The Tammany Democrats claim that
large amounts of the fraudulent disburse
ments of the funds of the city of New
lork have gone to pay Republican mem
bers of the Legislature for their support
of Tammany schemes. They say that
the names of these meh will be pub-
usneu.
i josepn ora, or Astoria, m ., was
knave enough to buy what he supposed
to ue a pacKage oi -queer" lor $250.
His visions of spurious greenbacks turn
ing out to be only saw-dust, he is now
fool enough to spend time and inonev i
trying to punish the New Yorker who
sold him.
The frightful punster of the New York
World must look to his laurels. The
New lork Globe remarks: "Dana,
the Svn, seems determined to take ad
vantage of every pretext to give Grant
dressing. Let him beware 'The way
the lirant's-aresser is naru.' "
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
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Hogs that are much confined, and can
not get to the earth, will frequently be
benefitted by having a little charcoal,
soft brick bats, or soft rotten wood thrown
to them; and a trilling quantity of
brimstone mixed in their food, occasion
ally, is an excellent thing. . :
No better plan lias ever been devised
keep butter sweet than to put it. in
ean jars and cover it with strong brine.
No kind of vessel, cask or tub will an
swer so well as a jar. In this way it can
kept lresii and sweet lor twelve
months.
Cuuk For AVasp and Bek Stings.
It is stated that "a good absorbent" will
ease the pain of stings. "One of the best
absorbing substances is lean fresh meat.
This will relieve the pain of a wasp sting
almost instantly, and has been recom
mended for the cure of rattlesnake bites.
It has been used with marked effect in
erysipelas." Dr. Beecher says the best
tlimg is strong tobacco, made quite moist
and applied to the part.
Hoof Ointment. Take of lard, half a
pound, rosin, lour ounces, heat them over
slow fire until melted, then pulveize
one ounce verdigris, and take the pot off
the hre, add the virdigris, stir it well or
it will boil over ; when partly cool, add
two ounces of turpentine, then strain
through a linen cloth, and it is lit for ue-
Apply it from the hair down one inch,
merely greasing it. l ou may work the
horse all the time.
CnuRNiNG Butter. At times, from
some peculiar cause, much difficulty is
encountered in . churning. The butter
will not come. There ure instances of
persons having churned the whole lay to
no purpose, which is certainly very try
ing to tne good nousewite. As a last re
sort, try a table spoonful of soda or pearl
ash, dissolved in a pint of warm water;
pour it into tne ennrn-while it is in mo
tion, and if butter don't form after this
application, the operation may be aban
doned as hopeless. - . , ,;
How to Cook Oi-d Fowls. For the
possible benefit" to some other young
housekeepers; I wish to tell them how to
cook an old chicken. .Prepare as for
roasting, then boil three hours In 'a cov
ered pot, with , one . quart of water, to
which add two tablespoonfuls of vinegar,
after which put into a pot in a hot oven
for about one hour, to brown. The liquor
in the' pot' to be prepared for gravy;
should the water boil away too much, more
should be added.. , The result is, the meat
is as tender as young chicken, and some
ttnnt ricner and better.
To Can Honey. A writer in the Bee-
Keepers' Journal says : In the first place
it should not in any case be taken, from
ttie hive until it is properly evaporated,
so as to prevent souring. ; I am well
aware that we can not get as many pounds,
to let it remain until evaporated, as to
take it as soon as it is deposited by the
bees, but what we do get is much better.
and when I put an article into market, I
wisn it to stana tne test, wiien ready
to put in cans, it should be pat in a tin
vessel, set in water, and brought nearly
to a scalding heat. Put in the cans while
hot and screw on the caps tight.
Making Cand lbs.- if any 'of 6ur farm
ers who study economy in their domestic
affairs, find it more economical to make
their own candles than to buv them.
Such persons will' find that by making
the wicks about 'halt the ordinary size.
and dipping them in spirits of turpen
tine, and drying them carefully before
the fire, or in the sunshine, before mould
ing,- they will last longer, and afford a
much clearer and more brilliant light
tnan tnose inane in tne orainary way. a
small portion of beeswax, melted with
the tallow,' has a tendency to prevent
tneir "running," ana renaers tnem niucii
more lasting, - ! ;
Crooked Breasts in Fowls. These
may be hereditary or arise from quick
growth and nairow perches. Whore a
last growing ana consequently weak
bird roosts in a narrow perch, it lacks
the power to support the body by the
clasp of the feet, and from very lassitude
the oreast rests on the perch, which, at
an early age being only gristle, It takes
the impress of it. This is peculiarly ap
plicable to large birds, such as Brahmas,
Cochiu-Chinas, etc., which should never
be allowed to roost at all, certainly not
until they are over six months old
Crooked breasts are always a bad sign,
and fowls with them should never be used
as stock birds.
Remedy for Sick Fowls. (The fol
lowing is communicated by a friend
who assures us of its efficacy : Ed.) If the
fowl be overfed, or, having eaten sonie-
tmng ueieterious, taKe one teas noon I ul
powdered rhubarb and mix it with two
teaspoon iuls ground flaxseed; make six
pills by the addition of a little lard or
butter; give two m the morning and two
in the evening ot the first dav. and the
remainder on the morning of the second
day. In case of feyer, which will be
known by the heated condition of the
head, one teaspoonful powdered saltpetre
mixed witn two teaspooniuls ground flax
seed, are to be made into six pills, to be
aaministerea liKe tne preceding.
How to Drive a Young House. In
teaching a young horse to drive well, do
not nurry to see now last he will trot.
Keep each pace clear and distinct from
the other; that is, in walking make him
walk, and do not allow linn to trot.
While trotting be equally careful that he
keeps steady at his pace, and do not allow
him to slack into a waiK. The reins.
while driving, should be kept suug; and
when pushed to the top of his speed, keep
him well in hand, that he may learn
bear well upon the bit, so that when go
ing at a fugn rate ot speed he can be held
at his pace : but do not allow him to pull
too hard, for it Is not only unpleasnt, but
it makes it often difficult to manage
him.
Death to Bugs. The following re
eeipt for destroying bugs on squash and
cucumber vines has been successfully
used for years. It is certainly worth
trial :
Dissolve a table spoonful of satpetre
in a pailful of water, put one pint of this
around each hill, shaping the eartli
that it will not spread much, and the
thing is done. Use more saltpetre if you
can atlorcl it it is good lor vegetables,
but death to animal life. The bugs bur
row in the earth at night, and fail to rise
in the morning. It is also good to kill
the grub in peach trees, only use twic
as much, say a quart or two to each tree
There was not a yellow or blistered leaf
on twelve or fifteen trees to which it was
applied last season. No danger of kill
ing vegetables with it. A concentrated
solution applied to young beans made
them grow wonderfully.
AN UNPUBISHED HISTORY.
The Personal Difficulty Between
William L. Yancey and Ben. H.
Hill in the Confederate Senate
Chamber.
[From the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald.]
Among the many event of personal in
terest that transpired in the South during
the late war but few are of more dramatic
character, or aroused a deeper interest
among our people than the unfortunate
personal dimciutv which took place in
the Confederate States Senate, at Rich
mond, during its secret session, between
Mr. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, and
Mr. Ben. H. Hill, of Georgia. Several
different and conflicting versions of this
affair have been given through the South
ern press, but none has yet been pub
lished that accords with a statement we
recently derived from a gentleman who
was at the time a Senator, and an eye
witness to all that transpired on the oc
casion. The difficulty had its origin in the
heated political contests so common iti
this country prior to the breaking oiit
of the war. . It was when Yancey,
his dazzling eloouence. was "fivinfir thfc
Southern heart," that a barbecue, Sb-
tended by thousands, was gven, wie
of the southern counties of. fjeorirla. lit
was here that Hill andA ancjey met the
one the bold defender 3t" theMjiiion. and
the other the boastquhajtinion of seces
sion ; anu uuring tne uebate which en
sued words woVe utterelf tiatcauRcu an
estrangement that w.as never afterward
reconciled.
The two men met again In the Confed
erate Senate, both doubtless smarting
under the recollection of past contest,
and entertaining no kindly feelings for
each other. It was when the cause of
the South was drooping, and every pa
triot ueart was neavy witn despondency
and 1 gloom, that Mr. Yancev. risins-in
his place in the Senate,-declared that the
war could no longer be caariedon with
any hope of success unless many of the
constitutional restraints and embarrass
ments were thrown aside, and boldly ad
vocated a radical change in the Govern
ment to meet the demands of the public
ana tne exigencies or tne hour.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Yancev's
remarks, Mr. Hill promptly arose to rer
ply. The scene was one of the most in
tense excitement. He deprecated the
opinion advocated by Mr. Yancey, and
proceeded with great severity1 to review
his political career, running back to the
beginning of the times when our sec
tional troubles were first agitated. He
said Mr. i. ancey, not satisfied with hav
ing jarred upon ancudisriipted the old
Union, was wow cryoftt against and
endeavoring to Subvert d .break down
tne ijonieaerate uoyerniieiit. vv hen Mr.
Hill concluded, ttiecxcitcment already
at - white heat,-was increased bevond
anything ever before witnessed during
those troublesome times.- Mr.-Yatlcey
arose, ana In a calm, uignined, sell-
poised manner, peculiarly his own, com-
menceu nis reply.- JHe desonbert Mr. liill
as repeating slanders which had. been
uttered against him lor the' past twenty
years; and that all which JVlr Jlilli had
uttered had been said numerous times
before by every third-rate nolitieian in
the country ;. and coulinued, , by , saying,
"Nature has designated' the Senator of
Georgia as an imitator; that hehad'been
cast in a certain die, and it was vein to
attempt to enlarge his dimensions,
Pallid with rage,. Mr. Hill mounted to
his feet, and seizing a heavy glass, ink-
stana, nmea it witn ail ins might anu
power at the head of Mr. Yancey, which.
grazing his forehead, plowed its way to
tne skuii . ana - passed on its lurlous
course, crushing heavy window facing
beyond. Without turning his head. Mr.
Yancey, who was at the time addressing
the Speaker, continued hisspeacb, delib
erately remarking, "It is always the pre
rogative oi cowaras to strike irom tne
rear " En raced still more at this re
mark, Mr. Hill, gathering a chair, rushed
upon his antagonist: who, heedless of the
attack, was continuing his remarks as
calmly as u nothing had happened, when
a number of Senatorsi; interposing the
difficulty . was ended, i Mr. .-Yancey's
wound bled most profusely, and a scene
or tne utmost contusion prevailed.
ix nas been several tunes-stated, since
Mr. Yancey '8 death, that it resulted, from
injuries received In this rencounter
but such is not the fact, as he died from
a aisease tnat coum in no way have been
supennuueeu by tnis cause, j , , , 4 v
An Endless Chain Orator.
to
a
so
A St. John's (N. F.V letter to the Bos
.
ton 1 raveller says i. nr.
In the annals of our house of assembly
we nave a recoru oi one oi tne most re
markable feats of oratory ever : accom-
plished. One of our members, in order
to batne some government measure, actu
ally spoke against time for twenty-four
hours at a'stretch," thus throwing into
the shade the mighiest achievements of
ju'ciuu&Lu.eiiea or xxe commenced
at 1 o clock in tne afternoon on the un
promising subject of the premium Daid
on the skins of wolves. The stream of
his eloquence flowed on till 9- o'clock.
and then his opponents felt sure that he
must soon "cave in" from sheer exhaus
tion, and -that their motion wou'd be
passed, and they snugly; in bed b v. 11
They were reckoning without their host.
Twelve o'clock struck, and the tones of
his voice were as loud as ever. In des
pair, and determining not to be beat, the
government sent home for matresses and
blankets, and stretching themselves on
the floor, : were soon snoi ing soundlv.
Tha.gray light of a winter's morning at
lengtn glimmered through the windows
the members rubbed their eyes and
yawned to their horror, there was thei
tormentor, evidently "blown," but still
vigorous, and pounding away at the
wolves skins pourihg out fresh torrents
of invective when he saw them fairly
awaKe. fomenting themselves with i
comfortless cup of coflec in the refresh
ment room, they determined to sit it out,
A tie noon gun urea, anil the giant bega
to reel his hand no longer smote the
desk defiantly he emptied tumbler after
tumbler ot water; still he held on, an
not till a quarter to four did he collapse
and, dropping into his chair, was last
asleep in a moment. In vain did his
friends try to rouse him by dashing cold
water on his temples and tickling his
nostrils. He had to be carried home, and
the! story goes that he slept for fortv-
eight hours. His name will long be re-
memoerea in jNewiounuiana, and those
who were privileged to behold that mem
orable conflict will send down the par
ticulars to their children's children
Such pluck and energy could not go un
rewarded. That orator is now the occu
pant of one of the highest offices of gov
ernment. AVho can deny that virtue is
occasionally rewarded even in this life
HUMOROUS.
Out West the grain is now raised at all
seasons by the elevators.
Life's greatest enjoyment is made up of
anticipation.
Go ' to strangers for charity, "acquain
tances for advice, relatives for nothing.
Because a Fort Wayne wOman kept her
bedbug poison on the same shelf with
her preserves, she don't have to mend her
Johnny's trowsers any more.
A minister asked a tipsy fellow lean
ing up against a fence where he expected
to go to when he died.
it.l can't get along any better than 1
do now," he said, "I. shan't' go any.
where." ' ' v i i
'My dear," s:id a husband to his wifW
m going to start a coffee plantation."
How'll you get the land ?" . "Oh, there's
no trouble about that; I always have
plenty oi grounds in my cup."
WheMvou make cider.' select nothing
but yie soundest turnips,- chopping them -.
Inboiling your cider use plenty of ice,
and when boiled hang up in the sun to
dry. fU.-Greeley. ' 1
Johimy was telling his ma kiw he was
going ytdress and show oil when he got
to be a man. His ma asked :-. 'Johnny.
what -do you expect to do for a living
when you get to be a man ?V , Weill I
reckon I'll get married and .board with
my wife's pa." Ui.iu.
Whisky is your' greatest Wcmv."
'But," said Mr. Jones, "don't the Bible
say, Mr. Preacher, that we are to love
our enemies?" .! :'::.
O, yes Jones, but it don't say we are
to swallow them." " ' " ' ' '
Please accent a' lock-' of 'mV hair."
said an old bachelor -.to widow ; hand
ing her a large curl, ; -- -y f '
"bir, you had better give me the whole-
wig." - .i . i .. -r
Madam, you are Very "biting indeed,
considering J-our new teeth." . ,
Small boy oh tip-toe to companions:
S h stop your noise, alljof you." Com
panions: "Halloa, Tommy, what's up
now ?" , Small boy : "We've 'goti a new
baby very weak and tired walked all
tne way irom heaven last night niusn't
go to kiekin' up a row around here."
A hack-driver in Chicago who was ar
rested for cruelty to a miserable looking
horse, ' was asked if he ever fed , hint.
vliiver feed him ? that's a good 'un.1 was
the reply, "He's got a bjishel and a half
of oats at home 'now, only he "ain't got
time, to cat 'eniVi' j ,.-. t J-.--r out
Said a pompons husband.- whose wife
had stolen up, behind him and given.ftim
a kiss : ,
"Madame, I consider such an act inde- .
corousl" ... ... . 'i . . . ,
Excuse me." said his wife : "I didn't
know-it twaB you.?; -d iui.i s. d'-i ;
In the taidttof a heavy shower during
a prolonged storm, a little miss was ob
served at the 'window' crying bitterly.
"What is the matter ?'',.6he was asked.
I'm 'faid.". "There's nothing to hurt
you; what are you afraid of ?'T ,MFaid
rThe rising r generation. ,age .rapidly."
A mature specimen, eight years old, was
hunting around the police station for a
stray father the other night. "You see," he
remarked, with niial exultation. "guV
ner's a little wild, but he'll grow out of
it!" . . ,.
"Now, my boy," said the committee
man, "If I had a mince pie, and should
give two-twelfths of it. to John, two
twelfths to Isaac, two-twelfths to Harry,
and should take half the pie myself, what
would there be left i" bpeak up loud, so
that all can" hear.' "The plateV shout
edtbebdy. - "" ' "
They have a 'thrifty man out in! the
neighborhood of Terre Haute. . H is a
wealthy fanner, who sells all his wheat,
and feeds his large family on stale bread,
bought of the ciiyiiakers at the rate of
three loaves for live cents. ' i
An old toner, who had attended, a sci
entific lecture, where the learned profes
sor caused several 'explosions- to take
place from the gases produced by water,
said, "You don't catch me putting 'water
in my liquor after this. I had no -idea
before that-jy ale jwaa so dangerous,
though J never iked to take tjoojnnch of
. f-Ti.-S HO"V'! !'!! i: ij-''ul
A young and inexperienced oil opera
tor, who commenced to talk oil and jiut
down wells near . Rouseville.-.was asked
by his boss driller before commencing
work,-"vhat kind of a well he wanted to
put down," meaning with large casing
or small. "Well,'" replied the old vet.,
"Ilguess.you'd better sock tl own , a hun
dred barrel well ; that's as high as they
run now. ain't it ' - '-
"Mr. Brown, you said the 'defendant
was honest and intelligent. What makes
you think so T Are you acquainted with
him?'.', ., , ... . ,
' "No, sir ; i never seed him.''
- "Why then do you come to such a con-
elusion?" i . , , ., ,. : . , r ,
' 'Cause he takes ten papers, and pays
for 'em in advanced . f : , i h
Verdict for defendapt.
A darkey returning from church was
asked to give an account of the sermon,
and said : . . -.
"Well, sah, de sermon, was tipon, do
loaves and de fishes. De minister said
dar was seven fonsand loaves and live
fousand fishes divided among de twelve
'postfes."
"Well, sir, what miracle i3 there about
that?"
"Why, sah, de mer'cle was dat they
didn't bust." , .
We think it must have been an Ameri
can doughface who was so much aston
ished to learn -that Dumas was a quad
roon that he called upon him to verify
the fact. ,- C -. .
"I am told," began the visitor, "that
you are a quadroon, Mons. Dumas."
"Yes," was the answer.
"And your father?"
"Was a mulatto! The distinguished
General Dumas, of the army of Italy,
and a mulatto!" roared the author, in
tones that left no doubt of the quality of
his lungs.
"And his mother?" continued the in
truder, interrogatively.
Was a negress !" shouted Dumas, rising
to his feet. '
"And who, may I ask, was his father?"
continued the enterprising and indefati
gable bore.
"An ape, sir, an ape!" thundered the
indignant author. "My family begins
exactly where yours ends. Waiter, show
that monkey the door."