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The future wi® Jweii^iifaflii/rife,
? And crowns of joy to give., , /
New whrds to ipettk, new thoughts to hear,
Newtek to give a*id ^
Terohatsce new burdens I may bear, :
SO ftiJw®W» sweetest'sake: .**T -J
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k Vt w hopes to open-in the nun, ;; ..h i
P '"New efforts worth the will
Or tasks yiA yesterday begun / j 1
More bravely to fulfil
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Are in my hand to sow,
Whereby, for others amd forme,* *’
Undreamed-of fruit may grow.
In each white daisy 'mid the grass
That turns my foot aside, 7
In each, unqurling fern I pass, .
Some sweetest joy may hide.
And if, when eventide shall fall
In shades across my way,
It seems that nought my thoughts recall
But life of every day:
Yet if each step in shine or shower
Be where thy footstep trod,
Then blessed be every happy hour
That leads us nearer God.
—[Chambers Journal.
October.
Oh, loosely swings the purpling vine.
The yellow maples flame before.
The golden-tawny ash-trees stand
V Hard by our cottage door;
\ October glows on every cheek,
Her crimson banners fly.
—[Doth Bead Goodnle.
lU&li&cjk Ih^reiiadUi o 1 h
Mb deplorable pestilence in Grenada
B. likely to mdke that place permanently
disagreeably to many at those persons
whb Ilf gc tierfe/but' "wl!o" escaped * wlien
■’ e danger became very great. Its fate
it melancholy one. For many years it
teen known as one of the prettiest
d most healthful towns in Mississippi,
is an old town, with an uneventful his
y. When the State was admitted into
: UnioD the Land Office was located
i enada. The two men, whose names
e not heard, attempted to found set
ments. Each hunted up his own set
rs, offered peculiar inducements, and
^id out separate plans. The line divid
ing the two settlements is now the line bi
secting the little place.* Drib lettlei*ekfte^
his place Tallahatchie, and the other
i^pe^Lbisf^.In time the two
ambitious men died, and the rivalry was
buried with them. The united villages
became Grenada, arid as such it has be
come a home for several well-to-do fami
lies, for many others'wjio, were pyadq pyof
by the war, and a stopping-place for rail
road men on the Jackson route and the
Memphis rdkdy -aicl a Aown ‘somewhat
cleaner and more cheerful than the mass
of dreamy railroad towns in this State.' It
had always been tolerably healthful,
only the average Mississippi degree, of
malarial fever and chills plaguing'its pop
ulation. Yellow fever never reached- it
before this year. The hand of war touch
ed it lightly. The place is bounded on
the north by the Yalabusha river—a
tavjpy ***fnL ntini^lapilf. qfef * *#vny
bed; on the west its limit is a low hill,
running north!, apd south, not half a mile
away from th| Southern railroad, which
bounds *^d£&C»Its area
is not large. Nearly all the buildings ex
icept a straggling fcw, a*e arranged,*)*, y
half dozen unpaved and little worked
streets within ajspace of a half mile square.
There is one rphtjAp of } the |>)acy tfcat is
lust now one of great interest. This is
Be town sewer,! or drain. It is a simple
waug"<y>4he‘**3 \he
syiuth.Mrtst to tyntfoyfst un
the Yalabusha River.
SfgaK'iK Wk, 1 sewer. With a
was protected
or prdtob&ed
it was thrown
some
in places un
Vilabash*
drain
thing for fh‘e h6gs, which, ! is
elsewhere in life South, at th^if <jwn
u Kino elnxunsKC,noo* is .
sweet jwill, to occasionally wander in. its
dark twists and turns, and fret themselves
“rto vi;!i an?* rjjom sp.j rtf]« TidTjIttr snc
to death u>: the efforF to get out again;
Their carcasses wpuld isx titpe fester,.apd
the stench, would eventually; become sq
great as ,ta pompel a search for its. ^u^,,
The.flopr of the;.drain is jiopaired, and ip,
not leveli.and pools pf.stagnant water and,
filth collected upon it. Some offensive
odors were complained of earjry. in July,,
apd May or, Milton put. pen to, work h*
cJLeap out tlje sewer, as it wap. feared its
condition was such , as; to endanger the,
pubjici health., The* laborers, uncovered ■
the drain, and made a search, and, it is
said,, found several,.carcasses-joi hogs.
General \Valthall-says that Mayor Miltop
denied this report, but another informant
declares that, the carcasses were found,,
and were flung out op the groppd and left
to rot in the sun before, burial.,, Popls of
filth were found, andparticulariy under a;
livery'stable near thg public square. , ,It
was while this drain was under repair-fhat
the fever appeared,in New Orleans, and
the tide of travel begap tp set portjp Mrs/
Fields, living in depot street, received a
dress from New Orleans, by express, about,
July in* Several passengers fnyn New
Orleans were in the place about the same
time, and some, of them stopped at thp
Walthall House, opposite Mrs. Fields*
residence,. When Mrs. Fields complain
ed, a few days later, ot pains in her head,
of peculiar sensations in her limbs, and
was compelled to send for a physician, no.
one thought of being alarmed. The sick
woman was attended by Dr. Hughes, who
treated the case as one of malarial fever,
She died on July 25. Wherever the germ
of disease i|l case rhij$tf have cpme
from, it may life (important to state that
Shi liV^d very n«tr 'the town drain and to'
the spot Whefe it Was uncovered by the
Workmen' who were cleaning it. The fu
neral of Mrs. Rields was a public one, arid
was largely attended. * There was no sus
picion that, all who attended it Were in
danger of infection. AbPut six cfJtys later
a'young man named Robert‘Cl'.Voting,'a
clerk‘ iq“ thp largest grocery' sli pj> in this
place,"and one that supplies families; in
the country ‘for miles around, was taken
with symptpms very like tfibse 'with which
Mrs., fields ifacT bheh prostrated ike 'was,'
a robust', fine fellow' about 2 8 y ears of age.
The'poison of the fever was swifter .to de
stipy.himitian its fi^st" victim.; Me,was
dead in three hours, and the cpurse of the
disease had all the yellow fever character
istics. The doctors began to consult.
There are, or were, then, five jn the place
—Dr; Ringgold, Dr. Hughes, ijr."'}kajffi’
tb. Gage, and Dr. Ray. When a' mul
atto woman was prostrated afid died1, and
her husband followed her to th^gravie si
day or two after, people began to talk
with alarm'about the fevpr, and to express
fear that the dreaded scorge, which'they
had always escaped before, broken
out among them. The cases multiplied,
and on Sunday, August ri, the physicians
found so many bad cases that they met
together and agreed to pronounce the dis
ease yellow, fever', and to warn, tjfe, towrii
They made proclamation accordingly., Oh
Sturdily nigfct before this, groupsof'ajix
ious persons gathered about ‘ the" 'drug
shop, and hailed every physician So kripw
what was thought of the prevailing dis
ease, but none would admit it to be yel
low fever. The proclamation caused a
sinking and a sickness at heart of the
white population, and a moment of parr
alyzing fear was followed by a scene of
hasty departure by all who could travel
by rail or could procure conveyances to
carry them into, the coun try, J ust at thjp»
time the railroad company became join
ed, and ordered that po trains be allowed
W stop it Grenada. The wagons 'cilfpe
and went, and the j,200 population Was
rapidly reduced-, The negroes number
about half the entire population, and most
of them remained later; Not more than
400 whites faced, the fever, and many of
these did so Wcause their friends Were al
ready, prostrated and needed assistance
Or>'Monday, August jp-a, htyyor ildtoB
guled a meeting. Very few persons at
Rided it. It was hastily resolved to cal)
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upon Memphis and New Orleans for as
sistance:1* The help asked for 'came
promptly.- Drs. Mlndeiville 'and Veazie
aftivfcdfrom New Orleans with-about 25
nurses, and the Howard Association, of
Memphis seftt down a -body of-nurses,
bhick and* white. They alii went at their
work bravely, but the fever spread in
spite Of their-exertions, and increased un
til therewere two* patients for every nurse.
The cases all cropped out so thickly .along
the line of the sewgr, aiyj, the nearer to
this drain the-sharter the illness and the
more hopeless the case. Tbe Mayor
lived not far from the sewer,:and he was
an early victim., He went booie from the
puhlic meeting oa Monday feeling ilL At:
night the fever set in. On Wednesday he
was -dead and hurried to a hastily-made
grave, f There are two graveyards in tbe
town. One is on the line at the west,
and the other is east of. the railroad. Tbe
hill cemetery has been the only one in use
in recent years. The old one was more
convenient, however, and the grave-dig
gers were set to work there. They have
had plenty to do, and have already put
undetthe ground the fairest of-Grenada’s
population. The Lake family is nearly
wiped out. Several yorung ladies, who
have bad mere than- local reputation as
belles, have been as rudely hidden in new
made graves as the poor loafer about the
depot, or the children who were blasted
by the pestilence they did not know
enough , to. feat The ravages of the fever
have been fully detailed. No man can
say what will become of Grenada, and no
heart that is in the right place but will
bleed at the thought -of the sorrow that
will remain after the dread pestilence. has
relented, and the remnants of families
look desparingly around them for their
kitb and kin.
C . : . — —.
. ri: J A Trifling Preacher. >1
A clergyman-Once preached; a- very
awakening sermon.: A young man in the
congregation was, much impressed, and
finding that the.clergyrparr was to walk
some distance home, joined him,-fa -the
hope oftiaVing some conversation as how
to be saved, i • The clergyman '.was walk
ing wish several others, and instead of
conversation1 turning on religious matters,
it was light and1 even indecorous. Some
years: afterward, the clergyman was called
to see a djing man at an inn, as he en
tered the> room, >th& dying man started.
“ Sk,”. he said, “ I have'heard you preach.
Thank. God, for that ! But sir,”' continued
the, man, “i I have beard you .falk, and
yqtr.-mlking -has ruined my soul Sir, do
you remember the day J hpard you
preajch ? Xkat sermon .brought conviction
to my: heart,: But,i sought conversation
Wiith-y.Qu, and li walked home -with .you,
hoping to hear something! about my; soul’s
peace; but you trifled—trifled—trifled!
Yes,-.you did ; .and.1 went home believing
that you knew all .the solemn things you
said:fa the norning were1 lies. For-years
ing—I am owe-no longer. Buti am not
siVe'd I I will m&t and accuse you. be
fore the baij.'of Godl” And so the man
died..
Uses of Telegraphic Cables.
_., As soon as cables are . laid giving tele
graphic connections between new points,
am opportunity is afforded,fordeterraining
the longitude of the stations; This is by
far the, simplest and most accurate method
of..determining longitudes that has ever
been finvepled. ; All that is necessary is to
have correct- local time-at each station,
and to note the time, accurately when the
signals are sent. The difference of local
ti#ea is practically the difference of longi
tude. There is a small loss of time in the
transmission .of the signals,, but the error
that this might occasion is entirely elimi
nated by sending signals both ways oyer
the wire, ,and computing from a pair of
signals. The submarine cables with the
West India Islands have been recently
employed for this purpose^ and several
longitudes of localities in Trinidad and
Barbadoes ascertained. Tht longitn
the stations is thus determined
yards, iqual to a hundredth part
ond of time.
Origin of Lynch Law.
James Lynch Was Mayor of Galway,
Ireland, 1843. He had made several
voyages to Spain, and on one occasion
brought home with him the’son of a .re
spectable Spanish merchant, named Co
mez. Walter Lynch, the only son of the
Mayor of Galway, was engaged to a beau
tiful young iady of good family and for
tune. Preparatory to the nuptials the
Mayor gave a splendid entertainment at
which, young Lynch fancied his intended
bride viewed, his Spanish friend with too
much regard. He accused his beloved
Agnes of unfaithfulness to him, and she,
irritated at his injustice, disdained to de
ny the charge, and^^ parted in anger.
On the following^ight, while Walter
slowly passed the residence of Agnes, he
observed young Comez to leave the house,
he having been invited there by her father
to spend that evening with him. In the
madness of jealousy, Lynch rushed on his
unsuspecting friend, who fled to a solitary
quarter of the town near the shore. Lynch
maintained the pursuit till his victim had
nearly reached the water’s edge, when he
overtook him, and stabbed him to the
heart, and threw the body into the sea,
which cast it back again on the shore,
where it was found and recognized on the
following morning. The wretched mur
derer surrendered hirr.seifj and his father,
being chief magistrate of the town, in
trusted with the power of life and death, j
found himsell obliged to condemn his son
to death. On the night preceding his ex
ecution,-his mother went to the heads of
her family and prevailed on them to at
tempt a rescue. The morning of the ex
ecution, an immense crowd had assem
bled, who cried loudly lor mercy to the
culprit. The Mayor exhorted them to
submit to the jaws: but, finding them de
termined on a rescue, he, by a desperate
victory, overcame parental feelings, and,
hading that his efforts to accomplish the
ends of justice in the usual place, and.by
the usual hands, were fruitless, he became
executioner himself, apd from the window
of his, own house launched his unfortu
nate sop, into eternity;
Bars and Bsir ltfitids in London.
There are probably more liquor shops
to the square inch in this city than any
where else-in thfc world, and apparently
every one (tnyselfj of course excepted)
drinks beer, ale or porter’ the latter called
stout: Most' HqnOr shops have 4tWo en
trances, one for women and' the other for
then, 'a partition dividing off the bar.
The bartenders ate invariably women, and
most of them not only good looking and
lady-like, bbt nicely dressed and as neat
looking as the girts in our dry goods stores
The bar maids in "the hotels are also the
clerks. I have not seen a single hotel
clerk in. G.teat Britain, of the male persua
sion. .. Women, are also clerks in all kinds
of, stores-r-dry. goods, groceries, hard
ware &c. Speaking of drunkeness, I am
surprised to see so little of it—a very few
cases compared to the vast population.
There are many curious customs in -this
quarter of the world tu Yankees at least,
onq pf which is that noone seems to get
up before nine o’clock in the morning, and
if you are foolish enough to get up before
that time ypu have it all to yourselves—
you can’t get break fast or buy anything,
get,U)to a public building or church, or in
fact do any of the things a traveler wants
to. But then no one thinks of going to
bed before midnight, and in some sections
of the city it is pretty lively atone A. M.—
Wood Pulp.
A machine is described lately for mak
ing dry pulp from dry wood, in a cheap
and simple manner—pulp of this kind
having the advantage of being readily
shipped, not liable to freeze, and convert
ible with less labor than paper. This ap
paratus grinds up the wood by exposing
it to the action ofp cylinder covered with d
grinding
A Persian BoetKr
M. Flaudin, in his narratiyS^ a ffftL
dence in Persia, relates a curious idsident'
which occurred when he was at Ispahaftvj
The Persian servant of a European had
been stung by a scorpion, and his master
wished to apply ammonia, the usual rem
edy in such cases, but the man refused
and ran off to the baxarr. When he re
turned, he said be was -cured, and ap
peared to be so. The European, rather
surprised at this almost instantaneous cure
questioned him, and found that he had
been to a dervish, who enjoyed great rep
utation in such cases. This dervish, he
said, after examining the wound and ut
tering a few words, had several times
lightly touched it with a little iron blade.
Still more astonished at the remedy than
the cure, the European desired to see the
instrument by which the latter was said to
have been effected. At the cost of a
small pichkech he was allowed to have it
for a few minutes in his possession. After
a careful examination, finding nothing ex
traordinary in the instrument, he made up
his mind that the cure was a mere tnck;
that the dervish was an impostor; that
the scorpions sting had not penetrated,
and that his servant had been more fright
ened than hurt. He threw the blade
contemptuously upon the table, when to
his great surprse, he beheld it attach it
self strongly to a knife. The quack’s in
strument was simply a magnet. But what
power had the loadstone’s attraction over
venom ? This discovery was very odd ;
incredulity was at a nonplus ; and yet the
man stung by the scorpion was cured, and
he who had cured him was in great re
nown at Ispahan for the treatment of that
sort of wound. I relate these facts with
*
out comment. Who knows if science will
not one day discover something as yet un
known to it, but practiced by the Persians?
Have not savages remedies composed of
the juice of plants, of whose existence Eu
ropean science is ignorant ?
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A EamarkablcC&ve.
Some time since a‘Mr, Neff, residing
near Alexandria, Huntingdon county,
went to his well and found it dry. He
then went down into the well and was
much surprised to find not a pint of water
and the bottom fallen out He tied'a
lantern to a rope one hundred feet long
and let it down, and as the lantern still
burned he rightly concluded that die air
was pure. He then procured a spliced
rope three hundred feet in length, and to
the end'attached a basket containing a
lantern, a dog, and a Gfc-t. He let them
down, striking bottom at 291 Feet. At
the end of six hours the basket was
brought up. The lantern was still bum-'
ing, and the only visible effect on the dog
and the cat was -chilliness; The next day
the owner, accompanied by a neighbor,
descended to the bottom, and found an
immense cave, stretching in every direc
tion. Stalagmites and stalactities of mag
nificent gorgeousness lent beauty and va
riety to the otherwise tomb-like scene.
Here and there a flowing stream of water
rippled over stony beds, while thousands of
bats .fluttered their clammy wmgs, Sur
prised at the intrusion of man. Petrified
seashelte of a hundred varieties protruded
from the strata. They- spent hours in con
tinuous wandering, and discovered a vein
of nickel ore and a nugget of metal re
sembling antimony. It is supposed that
this cave is connected with those at War
rior Ridge and Sinking Valley; o-^v a fev*f
miles away. Specimens of the nickel ore*
have been‘sent to Philadelphia and ajpjf
lyzed atodpronounced superior to the nicVj
el of either Lancaster or Germany^Jite on
ly two places on the gloh? where is is now
mined.—Pittshj,*# Gazette.
Awwtean XMamopd Cutting.
The Cap: diamonds, which now form
the world’s only steady supply, all go to
Londoni fir this capital has become not
only a gre&? center tor buying and selling,
but alsafor cutting,—an industry
by Amsterdam,
with its ri'
at
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never can recover their lost prestire
Sthat the flow from tbe^ir.n^
ease and that they shdutd again
thf supply already on
gapa to work up and cut wotid suffice
the- iWjrld for dozens oY'years. On the
other hand the estimated ro p£r cent, of
whifetEipl sK»es find af iniinSdiiffc like
principally, and Ultimately after cutting,
for the American mark#. American pur
chasers, it is saidj are the most crii
judges of diamonds, and will mv«
the best white.
We should be surprised if in a
famed for its mechanical ingenuity tht
art of cutti&jf‘diamonds should be left ex
clusively to the Old World; but it is, how
ever only within a few .-years that tlnsindus
try has become established here. Mr. Hen
ry Morse of Boston, andMr. Hermann of
New York were ihe pioneers, and yet re
main sole ?6mpititorsT-Ae IhrSer, with
true Yankee ingenuity, solving the prob
lem with distinguished success for himself,
and the latter bringing-with him a knowl
edge of the trade from Europe. The
cleaning, cutting and .polishing of the
rough stone can now be done as well here
as abroad, or (as I believe, judging by re
sults and from the testimony of experts,)
better. Stones cut in Europe are frequent
ly remodeled and repolished in this coun
try, thereby gaining srnich in value, and
others abandoned m the rough as not
worth cutting are here, contorted into ex
cellent brilliants.—Scribner.
Casts From Living Forms.
I was taken by a friend to se- the won
derful plaster casts of liviBg human beings
which are among the curiosities of the
Russian department. How the thing is
done, it is impossible to imagine,;but there
the two statues are, recumbent female fig
ures undoubtedly taken from living wo
men. One lies slightly turned upon her
side, her lips parted in a Smile, as though
she was trying to suppress a laugh. The
other, who has much the 'finest form of
the two, lies face downward, her feet cross
sed and her head piilqwed on her folded 1
arms, as thqugh she had thrown herself
down to sleep. The minutest-details of
of the texture of the skin, nails, eta., aifle
perfectly reproduced, the “ goose flesh ”
wherewith the skin is covered being amus
ingly noticeable, and showing that the,
preparation used for these casts, the com
position whereof is a secret, must. be ap
plied cold. Then all the little indenta
tions, in the soles of the feet and the
palms of the hands, and the curve, ef the
nails and their rimming of skin and flesh
axe reproduced with even startlxag accu
racy. The process by which these fig
ures are produced is still a secret, but if
is certainly a wonderful and curious dis
covery.—J\iris Cor. Pbtla 77mfS., , -;.
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- • A Terrible Death, c :
Galignani reports that a terrible acci
dent to an English lady hawjust fake®
place at Biarritz. Miss Gordpn, who;had
passed the winter in Paris, wa& drowned
while out on an excursion. She attempt
ed, without a guide, to go, along the clitfe
far beyond the ppint marked' .by the. au
thorities as the Hunt for the public toacj^g
safely. She reached:* place known W:!;
the Pkce de kt Mort, and® stopping tV
pick a dowei!, hejtfeSi' .sfippmfcand shXf
was nreeitutaiAl into a hole known as the»
a spot said to b*ve this pecglia^B
iiy, that at the end of torty-ejg}n*^f?W'i;.!y;V:
ao.lhtsc more than the skeleton rem^Mg:
of any beings watch Ml 'into ■% It com^|
taitu- .mliioos of small insects which dt*'
/our (he body, and which ate called har
lots, and are by them held in especial
rorror. The Duke de Erii^. met bis
Jeath under similar circumstances * few
/ears ago. L ;T
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The autopsy of the body of gam Steen*
>ergh, the negro murdfrer, hanged Jn
Fonda in New York on Qood irsday,
ihowed that the two> kbes pftbft cere
jjjm were fastened together fro«yindam
■fe-The upftt part <rf lie brain