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VOLIE XXI.
WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE, JUNE 14, 1882.
NUMBER 13.
KEOiEANIKQS,
Newton, Alaj build a cotton fac
tory, j
TheoaJ cropme parts of Geor
gia averages luihcls to tlio acre.
The new cualouso at Nashville is
ready for occiif.
in Berlin, La., recently. It in bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di
ameter, ami weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British
on the 17th day of March, 1770, and wan
voted to General Washington by Con
grcm. The medal in much rusted, but
ted on both hMch, is very plain
Near Uixhiirg, Va., three brothers
n med I'.anton were at work in a field
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick
ing the boy's face until ho was uncon
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snako was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained liii hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened
that he became speechless, and it was
several days beforo he could regain the
use of his tongue.
TOI'ICS OP THE PAT.
Eastern capjs will build a large the figure of" Washington, finely execu-
colton-eced oil at Chester, b. C.
Virginia coilntcs making arrnng
mcnts to ship i potatoes to England.
Lagrange, Qia, is to have- a large
cotton factory,
In tome par' fcHiuth Carolina the
barley yield isy bushels to the acre.
Little KocVrk., cannot pay her
gas bills, and fas company has phut
off the light, j
A packngoStokes county, N. C,
tobacco receiMd for fii5 per hun
dred pounds.
Alamance nty,'N. C, has two cot
ton factories operation and live iD
course of cortction.
A crate c'lorida peaches sold in
New York iivciity-fivc cents apiece.
The six bred tea plants set out by
Commissiotif-e Due at Entei prise,
Fla., arc dojfinely.
Florida wjxperiment in the grow
ing of cinch trees, from the bark of
which quinJs made.
A fruit fng cstnblUhnient on a
large scale (be started at Greensbor o
South Carol.
Vieksbnigirls have orennized a
band of "si sweepers." This is the
latest South craze.
Greater parations than ever will be
mado thisar to develop the gold and
copper mi of Meckleulcrg county.
North Carta.
Many fijvalnut trees in South Car
olina sell $-10 apiece, t.ie purchase
ers rescrvi the right to remove them
when thcyocse.
The Kirjoud, Vs., alms-house con
tains fev: men who a few years ago
were woj from half a million to a
million drs each.
Jackfoille, Fla., has just
first convion under the new
liibiting i intermarriage f whites and poisoned by food beiupt Cooked in dirty
blacks. !e culprit was fined $50. pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoilod by not uoingeiean-
Flentyif illegal votes are cast in jy p,0 Very pai'ticnlar about
Clarke city, Ga. The grand jury of this. It is a good plan to havo a jar of
that con? has just returned indict soda in some haudy placo, wlioro you
V . 101 ,i,, r,f can, wboncver you wash up, tako a bit
mcnts a nst 121 persons for that of nm1'put iu tho ntcr. It is very cleans-
fense. I iiifr, and both crockery and tins washed
. Scverlabama farmers report .V.ne in hot water with a Lit ofsoda in will
. i , i .,,, be suro to bIiuio and be sweet. All tins
damago cotton by cut worms, a means 1)Q polished onco a woek Xwitt-li-
of damp heretofore unknown ; and C11 towels require good management. It
thev rctrt that it has had a very ses w a very nasty habit to bo careless about
rious effl on some fields.
lion to Manage a Kitchen.
"A clean kitchen makesa clean house,"
is a saving which bus a great deal of
truth in it. As all tho food of tho fami
y has to be prepnred in tho kitchen, and
as most working people havo to take
tlieir meals and sit in the kitchen in
deed, as tho ouo day-room lias to b
parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest
families it ought to bo clean mid ne.it,
or it will not bo comfortable and healthy.
First of all, tho window and tho fire
place must bo clean and bright. No
room is cheerful with a dirty tiro-place.
Every morning tho room must be care
fully swept, and any hearth-rug, mat, or
pieco of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. Tho hearth must
bo cleaned every day, and tho stove
brushed, tho firo-irons rubbed with a
leather once a week at least, the gruto
must bo Mack-headed, and tho fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all
well scoured dowu twice a week. Cup
boards want great caro to keep them freo
from dust, cool and neat. Supposing
there aro two cupboards, ono on eucli
side of tho fire-plaeo, it is well to keep
ono for stores, as groceries, eto., and one
for crockery. Everything should bo
clean that is put iu the cupboards, and
there should bo a place for every differ
ent thing, so that if you wanted anything,
even iu the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Bo suro, wucthtjr yon
keep tlio lids bright or not, to keep tlio
insido of every pan or pot used in cook
insr so clean that it is perfectly dry and
made its Bwcct- 11 you ncKloct llis 'ou may 1,0 1,10
. causo of poisoning yourself and your
t law pro l0USCUOia. Many fumilics havo been
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory havo paid nearly $1,000,000 in
dividends.
Dkn.vis Kearney pops up again, but
not as a politician. Ho has drawn 8,000
iu a lottery.
A man who buys a glass of boor in
Iowa on Sunday renders himself liable
to a fino of from $1 to 5.
Livery stublo mon in tlio East nay
tho extension of the tolepliono from vil
lage to village is injuring tlieir business.
Wendell Piiilmfs lias declined, and
Govor&or Long has accepted tho invita
tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos
ton. "
A monument costing 10,000, and a
fountain 815,000, are to bo erected to tlio
memory of Lincoln, iu Liucolu Park,
Chicago.
AoconoiNa to a local paper a man died
in Minnesota from what was "prouoneed
to bo leprosy by physicians, of the most
hideous appearance."
Ciiahlks Rhadk is writing a series of
i.hort stories which will appear simul
taneously in England, the United States,
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
has issued a proclamation warning drug
gists to desist from tho pructico of Sell
ing liquor " by the drink."
Tut! Toledo Made says that tho
troublo with Mrs. Christ iancy aroso
from tho fact that she wanted to bo a
sister to too many uico young men.
Trices at tho prominent summer re
sorts will bo from tweuty-fivo to fifty per
eeut. higher than they wero last year.
Second grado people will have to stay at
home.
Trns Arizona Star declares that by the
aid of artesian wells tho desert lands of
Arizona can be mado tho most produc
tive wheat growing districts in the
country.
Captain Howoatb is still is seolusion
and everything seems to be all right
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not ap
pear, but perhaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than wo do.
Thb poriod of three years required by
law beforo a statue can be erected iu a
public placo in honor of a deceasod per
son is injuring its cud in tho caso of
William Cullou Bryant, so Contral Turk,
Xew York, will soon have a now niouu-niont.
CnAitLES Hwt died in Now Tork of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a fow
days ago. lie was well known iu Bos
ton, Washington, aud Now York as tho
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices.
The London World say s: "It is an
open secrot iu the Irish party that Far-
mill dare not go to Ireland, and that
iu Loudon, when not in the House, ho
is iu virtual hiding." Mr. Paruell's
crimo is that ho favors a peaceful settle
incut o! tho troubles iu Ireland.
Wiikn a lady culled upon Mrs. Secre
tary Kirk wood tho other day she found
Unit lady ironing, Hence, wholecolumns
of praiso and flattery. ITad it been
some woman whoso husband had a sal
ary of $'25 per week., sho would havo
received tho cold cut forever after.
It seems that Walt Whitman has
written a book "Loaves of Grass"'
that is too dirty to bo published. We
knew that Walt was old, and thougl
also that ho was clean, but after all it
don't do to havo too good on opinion ol
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu
man. Tns Texas Legislature has showered
a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons soiling the
Police Qazete, Police Newt and simi
lar illustrated journals $500 per annum,
in each couuty where such papers aro
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
ing their salo.
Cnrlong History.
When George Washington, who,
though only twenty-five, had won re
noun by his gallantry under Braddock,
visited New York, he was the guost ol
Beverly Bobinson, a young Virginian,
who had como hither a few years pre
viously and married an heiress. The
lultor (Jane l'hillipae) ownod a manor
on tlio wost side of the Hudson twenty
miles in extent. Tliis, howevor, was but
half of tho paternal estate. On tho
past sido of the river was a similar tract
belonging to the other sister Mary
rhillipso. Tho lost mentioned tract
continued the 1'hillipso manor house,
which is at present the City Hall or.
Yonkers. Mary rhillipso was at tho
time above mentioned, living with her
sister, aud was rondcrod, by wealth and
personal attractions, ono of the leading
toasts of tho day. Ueport says that
Washington offered his hand to tho
leiress, hut was refused, as sho did not
euro to bury herself on a Virginia planta
tion. Another s'litor, Capt. Morris, of
the British army, was nioro successful,
aud haviig won an opulent brido, ho
immediately constructed a mansion suit
able, to ins now portion as lord ot tlio
manor. Yonkers was too fur from tlio
city, and hence ho selected tho present
mte. Carpenters were brought from
England and the building was erected
m a slow and solid manlier, its date ot
completion being 1700. Tho lord of tho
manor lived liere in grand stylo until
tho revolution, however, broke up their
establishment. When Washington was
expelled from New York ho passed
several days in thin vicinity, during
which the Morris lio.ise was headquar
ters. His old flame bad taken refugo
with soino Torv fumilies in tho vicinity
and her husband (now a Colouel) was in
Tho Now York Rcportor.
A reporter's lifo is not a happy ono.
He is tho slavo of duty at all hours of
tho duy and night. To-day ho is hero,
to-morrow thero. On Monday ho may
be among thieves and murderers, on
Tuesday among politicians and states
men, aud on Wednesday among ladies
and gentlemen. Ho may bo evon aniolig
all threo on the samo day. I remember
a cold, raw morning in February when I
had to get up long before daylight and
make a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch
cork's coffee and cakes and run for a
train. That aftornoon I found myself on
board of a largo European steamer,
which had stranded high and dry on tho
New Jersey sands. 1 shared tho cap
tain's dinner while tho waves camo dash
ing against tho vessel's sido with a foreo
that threatened to mako us food for sea
worms at any moment. I camo back
wet and weary that uitfht, but there was
no rest for mo yet. To Delmonico's I
must go, as soon as I could change my
clothing, and partako of a great banquet.
Such is the lifo of a newspaper reporter.
Ho knows not at any time whero ho will
take his next meal, llo often is sent
from a wedding to a funeral, or from a
ball iu the Academy to a murder at the
Fivo Points. Like an annyou the march,
ho must always havo his baggage pre
pared, for at ilvo minutes' notice ho may
: 1)0 sent several hundred miles where
! skirt-collars aud handkerchiefs aro un
known. Ho may bo sent to scour tho
bay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long
Island woods for mysteriously disappear
ing personages.
Not only must tho rcportor bo ablo to
tell an interesting story, but ho must
also, if ho wants to earn his salt, havo a
knowledge of the world aud possess that
tact and discretion which comes of such
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
tho British army. After the war both ; knowledge. Young men fresh from some
To snow their respect for Darwin, a Si-eakiso of tho vast strides mado in
number of students belonging to the
Moscow University havo resolved low-oar
a band of crape around their arm
for twelve months.
TnE Czar of Russia thinks that by in
augurating reforms that he can get
things in shape for his coronation iu
about a year. Iu what abject terror
such a ruler must live.
The kersburg, Ga., Index-Appeal
says thoest and largest f ruil crop ever
grown iGeorgia will be ready for the
market! a few weeks.
In tl seven counties around Griffin,
Ga., lfdistillorieswill bo running this
summ The peach crop in the same
sectiofwill be immense.
A ly-Keniusoi vnuiiuii'i "
made, small fire engine, three feet high
and cmplete in every way. It raises
stean in a minuto and throws a tiny
streiti of water nerly twenty feet.
Ccoanut growing is becoming an im
poiant industy in Florida. They grow
toperfection, and promise to add great
lyto the wealth of the State.
A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered
tint his stock will feed as readily on
towels. Tea things and glass should bo
wiped with a thin, coarso towel kept for
that purpose. If you havo a plate-rack
over the Bink, plates should bo washed in
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
drain in the rack; but. if you havo no
rack you must wipo the plates; keep a
good dish-cloth to wash them with, mid
a good coarso towel to dry them with,
and uso your dish-cloth and your dish
Uiwol for nothing elso.
' It is "thought that cork trees can bo
successfully raised in every Southern
State. Of soino specimens planted in
Georgia many aro now thick enough for
use.
A NArrnA locomotive is about to bo
tested on tho New York, Lako Erie and
Western llailroad. It is an immense
saving iu fuel, provided it works all
right. t
An ENnusn surgeou says tho timo is
coming wheu a man's stomach can bo
repaired and replaced without difficulty.
It will simply keep him homo part of
tho timo.
vatiou in Constantinople.
harvest a big crop, of the long de
spised herbage.
The outlook for a peanut crop in vari
ous parts of Virginia and North Caroli
na, is very discouracinc. Cotton and
Br cding-off". Horns.
Tlio qucBtionof " brccdhig-ofT " the
horns of native cattle is receiving at
tention, and thero aro many who claim
that it " can bo done." Horns on neat
cattlo aro a relio of barbarism, so-to
speak . They are not only a useless an-
1 1... .-.alfivnlv nliiept.iollflble.
peu.uiK". - T ' . '.". ;;,. TTv,n VTT.T.An thn millionaire Pros
Not only uo oauio uo ouu uiuwu ".".,,
in a yard or Btablo. but they have many jj01lt 0f tho Northern Facifio Railroad,
a time, by their horns, caused the death w onco Washington correspondent of
of, or disabled, other animals, lim u tl0 cllic.lg0 2V6Me,but lator, degener
ated and fell in with momed people.
Guiteau starts on his trip to the next
world just four days beforo the Fourth
of July aud 302 doys after tho commis
sion of tho crime that placed the Nation
t'to railway world, tho Hai wau Age
gives tho following interesting statistics :
Wo believo it is safii to iy tlnvt tlmro aro at
li r.ct tin-cm liuiMltid siul Hfty lim, cuvorniK, M
l iimdirato ctimnto, a total of twenty-tiye
tln-.UHiind miles, Umu wlii'-U work is now m
progress or in proposed to bo commenced dur
ing tlio present ytar.
Missorui is iu a truly pitiablo coiidi
lion. Rather than hunt Frank James
down and punish him according to law
Tor tlio crimes ho has committed., a great
leal of red tape aud an unconditional
pardon seem to bo preferred. What
would bo tho moral of an unoouditioual
ptudon to Frank James ?
TiiEhomotorworking gills in London,
I railed Garfield Houso, at tho formal
opening at which a fortnight ago Mm-i-t-T
Lowell presided, contains thirty
nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
room, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation from
aixty-tivo emits to ono dollar a week.
Tnn press generally is circulating tho
report that Chicago girls would rather
ami
went to England, vhere Mary Morris
died in 1820 at tho ago of four score, j
She always felt a deep interest in Wash- I
iueton. and havinir lived to see her I
former lover become tho chief captain of
the age, sho survived him twenty years,
but never mentioned his mimo without
admiration and almost emotion. Perhaps,
liko Maud Muller, sho sometimes said to
herself, "It might havo been."
After tho revolution tl.o entire manor
was confiscated and the Morris property
was sold. Beforo this took place, how
ever, Washington visited tho placo in
company with some of his Cabinet, and
a grand dinner was served by tho tenant
They wore deeply iiitrest'd in tho as
sociations of that fearful sceno whero
ono disaster after another awaited tho
patriotic army. 'Die Morris estate after
ward had several owuers, and was at last
purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a
retired French merchant, the price paid
being 810,000. Ho e.ied in a few years,
leaving his wife Bi;le owner, and this
woman has given ho placo a notoriety
far greater thau Ita previous record.
Madame Jumel wa, fascinating and
beautiful in early lif&, but in later years
bIio displayed many tagarres, and as her
years were prolonged to ninety they
were marked by miiiy of tho weakness
of old age. Hhe auA her husband had
lived several years u Paris, where they
gathered many curiosities which still
adorn tho ancient mansion. Visiting tho
place recently, I passed through an
ancient gate and followed tho oad,
which leads from the turnpike, till I
reached tho portico which, as has been
remarked, has a g-'aud prospect. On
cutrauoe ono is struck with tlio breadth
and dignity of the lull, which is rich in
inland college, who como to New York
newspaper offices under tho impression
that reporting is something that they
san do if they cannot do anything else,
ftro quickly undeceived. One half of tho
lews which is printed in tho local col
umns every morning is obtained from
people who do not care to furnish it, and
who havo to bo "ruu down" very often
with as much skill as tho most cunning
of foxes. And for all this tho reporter
is paid but littlo moro than tho average
mechanic. It may Biirprixo some of you
to learn that he gotsovon that much,
but he docs if ho i good for ajiytbiug.
That good ones cet no moro is mainly
duo to tho fact that thero aro so many
bad ones competing with them.
Yet with nil tho drawbacks of long
and irregular hours, inadequate remun
eration and "assignments" that aro often
uncongenial, thero is a charm about a
reporter's lifo which all who havo ever
been members of the profession must ac
knowledge. There isa romiuico con
nected with it which does not entirely
: dio out of even tho older members who
now keep to it because they have been
1 spoilt for anything elso. Mlio now genera
tion of metropolitan reporters, vluel
ilillor niimidnmhlv from thn old. is kept
to its wink probably moro by this flavor
of tho adventurous than any thing else.
Tho Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer
has almost died out and tlio ranks aro
i recruited from a class which has less
I tho literary and moro of tho "bo up and
doing" spirit about it. They wan nn
I active life and they find it hero. As they
j grow older, however, they becomo more
l ktruiulit iu their desires and thero aro
i ronseuuciitlv constant (bopiiiiiRs out.
Either tliey work their way into tlio eai-
relies, both of furniture and art. Among j loriul chairs or they go into soino other
.. . . i i. ;i i,iOB o Tvi.ttv iit.t o doc than a man.
Tub Hu tan has roinsca to permit " i . , , . , , .
Hel ew exiles from Russia to make set- one Chicago g.r has taken tho .rouble
leme'it in Palestine. Two hundred to write a letter for publication aeknowl-
... .. . , ,l.riir tho soft impeachment. There
Jewish families are on tho verge of star- ul; uib uw m h
on ne'onle are mortally afraid of cattlo with
lermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing J,orIlgi but pass by the " mules witn-
( e- out fear, in tueir wuu mw
... rinmlv must be sometlung wrong
tho Chicago man's breath elso dogs
noses aro a mighty sight cleaner there
than they aro here.
Guiteau's act ono year ago interfered
tlio latter is a fine portrait of Madamo
Jumel with her family, and also a picture
of Aaron Burr, who beeamo her second
husband. Other works of art adorn its
walls, combining tho past and tho present
in a very interesting msuncr. Hew York
Letter.
Staving Off a Hun.
Tn times of severe panic peoplo have
been known to refuse Bank of England
notes and prefer local notes. In coun
try districts of Scotland tlio old onc-
pouuu notes wero greatly preierrea to
sovereigns. It is said that wheu there
was a ruu upon the Bunk of England
in 1705 the device was resortou to or pay
ing tho country people in shillings and
sixpences, une aeuio muiicni-nim uim
prolcssion or imsmess ana inerr places
ure filled by now-comers, who, nowadays
re generally graduates of the lending
Colleges. So then, hero is
Tn tlio truthful rc mrtor
Win vit iirintn lull ituat he ouyhter;
An cxitiuple sultlimo
Of tlm Uit n ol his 1 1 in.
Ucorge C. Clement-
Tlio Modern Cnucns.
An need citizen who was one of tho
! early settlers, was seen coming out on to
. .. f 1 ..t - n.l...M A
the Bldewalic m iroin oi a iiiiiuo
nut fnnr
undoubted need ot tneir norn, u.n
,i,.m.0iiitil. there are no ferocious am-
mals to attack them. Nature appears to
i,n Ininr gradually and unaided that
whioh a littlo artificial help would accel
erate, as comparison octweon mu biuuuu-
with tho usual Fourth of July celcbra- p.tod all tlieir premises profusely, and
lion nis act this year, wo are pleased many dapper gen tlemou were deterred
tosy,wi,,havo a tendency to ad,l to
tho hiliarity of tho occasion. Vo do w i im tuonB ftwl ulirUil8oning
m.t. make merry over tho prospective , . u -.. i10ok obtained a
I event of tho assassin's untimely death-
atti VtavA anflitrswl uVPrr1v from the -Li ir,nir horns of the Texas steor,
aud tne Buors oai ui
indicates. It is suggested that horns
may be bred-off by searing them when
the calves are young. Everybody kuows
that dogs and cats havo been bred with
out toils, yet analogy might signify
nothing, as sheep, whose tails are cut
close when they are lambs, oontinuo,
after many generations, to raise lambs
whose tails, in turn, would be long, if
they wero not cut. But a family of
A.M.i,in cntllfi bred in Scotland,
originally had their ears clipped from
year to year to uouawj uwm.ni..r.
y. . l 1 u lm Wn
cold.
The Rome, Ga.,-Courier says the best
evidence that the couth presents
the bcBt field for cotton manufacture is
in the fact that Southern mills run
profitably on full time while Northern
mills have to curtail tlieir production.
Reports from the overflowed territory
In Louisiana differ widely. In some
places benefits are reported and crops are
jdoing well. From others the reports are
ust the reverse. The cut-worms in
some parts is doing extensive damage.
The increase in cotton spinning in the
South is indicated by the statistics of
1 - - ! .- n.i m r '
ucurgm, juuuaniH, lenncssee, missis
Bippi, Iiuisiana, North Carolina nnd
South Carolina, which shows an increase
under a cloud of gloom the lost Fourth I fllt from it but it is a source ot grauu-
of July. cation to know that America is still iub-
, ., . , .1 oosed to put vicious dogs to doath.
Vrwn m nil acres of tho best farmina l"mlAl 1 " "
land in Dakota havo just been thrown
open to settlement by a decision of the
Secretary of tho Interior. Hero is a bet
ter field for enterprise and industry than
El Dorado.
time tho calves began to bo born with
tho end of the ear wanting, and now the
peculiarity is fixed.
TnE hundreds of saloons that closed
in Ohio iu conscqnoueo of the Pond
linnnr tax bill, now that tho bill has been
iW.lnrnd unconstitutional by the Su-
In premo Court, will probably returns busi-
Tho Belle of El Paso.
Almost every other house was a drink
ing saloon, aud the whole placo had an
air of dissipation which was rather moro
Wmntivn than allurinc Tho worst
uess again.
Tun Syraouw Herald is in favor of
substituting steam whistlos for ohurch
bells. "They can ba heard further,
create more disturbance, and it is han
dier to drop in and murder the man who
pulls the rope."
Cha. tiles LocriivnuNKR weighs about
100 pounds, his wifo 300, and their rela
tive Btreugth is fairly represented by
the same figures, lie ostensibly keeps
a restaurant iu Now Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as ho complains to a polioo
justice that three days iu succession bIio
t,mk him aoross her lap and spanked
him terribly. Being arrested she gave
hail to keep tho peace, thougu at n o
i;m ul.fl avowed her intention to
subject her husband to discipline when-
ever and however biio piouoou,
thn South Carolina
of k361)60nspid.esduringmi and 1882 SSn" natod iu the
u lujirewuus u invesuiieuiui y,uo,- other sido. proving upon tno vices oi mu nnUnfl Rfjih House by tno aaopuou ui
I n tltni Awn Yrfit ami Tiink- I .. -m - 1 riHin ra.
nan ntifc nf t. IPlf iwwiu.mu a
2 in IriaAninorv nnH a nnnotimnhnn
of 120,000 bales of cotton a year.
The ferryman at Neal's ferry, on the
Chattahoochee river, Tenn., found a box
floating in the stream which contained
s sweet little babe, alive and crowing.'
An abundant stock
the waif was in the bo
in iroup county, tfa.. a Jicid was
planted in wheat this year which for
hine proceeding years has been planted
in cotton. Strange 'to relate a snlcnd'id
stand of clover came up with the wheat
though it - is cine years since it was
planted in clover. '
A rare and valuablo relic was dug up
nrnnnnHitios for gambling, drinking,
anddanoing. " Le vin, le ieu, lea belles,
tmil no teulet vlaiain. seemed fitly
to desoribe thoir lives ana occupation, oi
all events during Christmas week. My
t i I Am
maimng coutesioo. bou
rapidly disposed of.
will now be
kt-Wi TftnRon for resuming her
- ... ... ..
own name is that sho is indignant, iui,
nuve nun uiuwiuur, , , i r , a owq uuuiu in , ,
offinoclothing for SSSrOTeAttlS TTZZZ
3ox. to see the "boys," as she called them, her exertions should pass to her ims
.. "I - J , , 1 T I..J m'aiial IU TlMain Vllin UAM I.. vnlntlVfll ftTI b 1H dCath. 1 U6
whom I had visited in prison, who wore
friends of hers ; and during tue inter
view a Mexican soldior had taken ad
vantage of a touching moment to rob
her of $5 and her pocket-handkerchief,
so that I was entertained by her opinions
of the Mexicans as a race, couched in
strong language, during the half-hour I
enjoyed the pleasure of her society.
Elackwood't Magazine.
ivitwVa rnlatives on his aeatn.
whole thing is an outrage.
Thb penitentiaries are full of murder
ers who will agree to be " goou umm
if thn Oovnrnora will pardon them out,
Tl.i. in mnrpfv miD-u-fisted by the negotia
tions pending between the Governor of
Missouri arid Frank James.
number of sacks of meal, opened them ,
at the top, put a good thick layer of i
cloth upon the coutonts, then placed I
them nutied whero tho glittering coins
would bo manfost to all oiiservcrs. une
bank procured a number ot peopio us
confederates, to whom they paid gold,
then slipped rounu again 10 u.ien. i
and refunded it, and thus the effect of n
stago army was produeod. At another
bauk the eluoi casnier uimnuu
every note with the most searching scru
tiny, holding it up to tho light, testing
the signature, auu miiKing ""',
on account of alarm as to forgery, thero
was need of tho most scrupulous care.
Whon ho had completed his pretended
examination he handed the note to one
of his subordinates very aeiiDcraioiy,
with, in slow and moosured terms, " You
may pay it." utuer pii' " r-y
. - 1 - 1 i , 1 1 r .Aiinfllitf lfe
the money vcrjr ihubuiu.j, w......0
bnincr held, a few nights bo-
f.u-n election, on his ear. Ho seemed to
bo propolled by some unseen power,
and as ho got up and picked up his hat
out of the gutter, brushed tho mud off
i his sloovo and wipod tno niooa on jus
nose, a friend went up to him and
i asked what was the matter. Tho old
i man suid, "Well, I hain't attended a
j caucus in thirty year, but my nephew
wanted mo to go to-night, and wheu I
Hint the meeting be opened
1 I . .1 T it il. fAll IUM
with pravcr, t viuus. vuu vu u.u.
on mo. "A fellow said, ' O, give us a
v.,ut .ml T don't know how I cot out
here, but I did. Why, iu '49 they used
n mum no meal meetings wun 'ii"i
and close 'om the same way. This cau
cus opened with a knock down and I
s'poso it will close with a riot. Hello,
there is auother man riding down stairs
without any saddle, and I s'pose he pro
posed some old-fashioned custom. Say,
Jo you think my eye will be black? I
told the old lady I was goin to mcetin
nnd I wouldn't like to have her think I
had lost my temper and struck the sex
ton. Well, that's the last politics for
mo." Tho old man, however, got a
policeman to go with him while he voted
on election day.-Milwaukee Sun.
Can't a coffin shop properly be ealled
a bier saloon?
Bt contracting a disease yon help t
spread it. Queer, isn't it?
" I can't account for it I" exelaimed
the defaulting bank cashier. Philadel
phia Item,
Smoking and chewing are two evils,
and ye who select the former chews the
less. Courier-Journal.
' Fooo says he never finishes a oigar bnt
he thinks, "Another temptation removed
from tho young men ot America."
It is bad luck for thirteen persons to
sit down together at a table, especially
if there is only dinner enough for ten.
Tns cat is the great Amerioan prima
donna. If bootjacks were bouquets,
hor nine lives would be strewn with
roses,
"And phat wud ye want sich man at
Patlirich for?" said Mrs. McGlojie. "Ye
uiver cud thrust him out yer light, onliss
ye was wid him.
What iB called respectability is a great
help to many men. Once they have at
tained it, they can put in a lie where it
will do the most good.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to boo the Ideal Opera Company. When
M. W. Whitney govs a particularly low
note the chief said: " Ugh I him heap
dug out,"
Kkst is said to be the solution ol many
puzzling perplexities. H that's so, we d
liko to solute a puzzling perplexity about
three hundred and sixty-five timet
year. Courier-Journal.
An Ikish gentleman, hearing of a
friend having a Btone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed: "Be me sowl, an'
that's a good ideal hure, an' a stone
cofliu 'ud last a man his lifotime." ,
A Pennsylvania boy recently swal
lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi
encing any ill effects. If it had lodged
iu his throat it would have made him ft
little horse sure. Norrittown Herald.
"Is this the front of the Capitol?"
asked newly-arrived stranger ol an
Austin darkey. "No, sah; dis heah side
in front am do rear. Ef yer wants ter
see tho front yer must go around dar
behind on de udder side." Texat Styl
ing.
Mr son. asked a clerical parent of
his hungry boy who was just in the
starvation period, "I wiBh you would
make a study of 'Watts on the Mind.'
" I will, pa' was the qniok answer, "at
soon as I have studied what's on the
stomach."
Calculated to fill it: "I telL yon,"
continued Pingroy, " Brown isn t fit for
the placo. In fact, I don't know of ft
place that no is cnicuiaiea to nu.
"Don t be intemperate in your remans,
Piugrey," Baid Fogg; "you forget bis
stomach."
"Yes." said the injured party to the
owner of the dog, "I know the dog was
only iu play when he bit aoont nan
pound ol llesn out oi me. veruuuiy uo
was only in play I And I was only in
play when I took an ax and made hash
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to
got mad about 1"
"Tell your mother 1 m coming to see
hor," said a lady to Mrs. Gibson Bige
love's little boy, who replied: "Im
glad you are coming. Mamma will be
glad, too." "IIow do you know your
mother will be glad to see me?" asked
the lady. "Because I heard her tell "
papa, yesterday, that nobody oyer came
to tho houso except men with bills to
collect." Austin Siftingt.
His exit : Thero had been a seeming
coolness between the lovers. One day
Emily's Bchoolmate .ventured to refer to
tho subject and asked her: " When did
you bco Charlie last?" "Two weeks
a?o to-night." "What was he doing?"
"Trying to got over tho fence." " Did
ho appear to bo ranch agitated?" "So
greatly," returned Emily, "that it took
all tho strength of papa's new bull-dog
to hold him."
Thb most serious labor strike ol tho twioe ovor 8o as to be sure tho sum was
year began Juno 1. The proprietors o , ghtj and tog e
ttsburg iron mu have to be done over again.
l the new scale of wages, a strike the coun measures in-
was oruerea. nomo um -v verteci were piaceu in uiu
: -D.M-st.Mivrr mill VICinitV HUUl 11. . A iilft nf ffold UPOn IIIO UP,
IL1111B IU IW'X'fJ " iHO DI'lUDl, a i. - o--- tWrn
down, and more than eighteen tnousanu aftor the manor or tue u" "i'"" "
workmen are thrown out of employment so to at streex corner , ;;
nieeling upwards of nve thousan. "atoth. parlor boWnd and
i l .1 n.-rtn Imndrpll wl ..- . . ,
men went out, uuu aD-..w- - i handed out as "new ai aiemponivuio
. u;crht hundred auit worli on the otner nno T7hrnnhit. The cleric in
side of the river, in mills whose pro- accommodating his phraseology
. s,innt. t. in nnnr ncnio. at tn tha mraiunn. cnea ouv iouuj.t maj
SZSbePittsburg houT.'Now, Jim, do bo gottin' on
v ... i- :!. tlioir
mill-owners. The stme is naeiy w
spread to all tno iron muis west oi
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
and obstinate. It is lmposBimo w meas
ure the loss to the productive interests
of tho country which this strike will
entail, or to compute the hardship and
Buffering it will bring to the families of
the workiugn.cn. It can not be rogn rd ;d
pther than as a publio calamity.
;! ilmm sovereigns : lolks is woiun
for their money." " Coming, sir, com
ing," was the ready reply, and the
"folk" thought the supply boundless.
It is always the simplo-mmded and the
unimformed who constitute on suchoo
ana thn nbiaf oortion of the throng,
iust as the people who go to extremes are
i..if nnna. The crowd was
..:i r.r.,i,uld tho uroof that all was
right was burning their fingers. Lon
don sooiety,
Wood tVeavfng.
This indnstry belongs strictly to the
town of Ehrouberg, on the Austrian
frontier. Sparlerie work, or weaving of
wood, was iutroduooa more man a cbu
turyago,but has been confined until
tvifhin fl flh ort time to the manufacture
of cheap hats, gluod together, and worn
by the lower classes. Lately, however,
nwiiiir to the interest taken by the Gov
ernment. Ehrenberg has been able to
nut fashionable hats and various
fancy articles, all mode of wood and sold
vnrv low rates. The aspen is the only
tree whose fibers are tough' enough to
,tmit. of weaving, and ail tne wmoer
luivinrr beon used in the vioiuity of the
O , , 1 . i i.. .
mn. tne material is uruuKim
Poland. 1 ne process requires mo uiuiubi
tiinotv in dividing tho wood, and as the
divider must always follow the direction
of the fiber, it is necessary that the
threads Bhould be prepared by hand.
The weaving itself is done on large
looms. '
Thb most diffusive pleasure from
publio speaking is that iu which the
speech ceases, and the audience can
turn to commenting. George h.iou
The Speed of Thought.
Helmholtz Bhowod that wave of
thought would require about ft minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch
found that a touch on the face was recog
nized by the brain, and responded to by
a mauuid signal, iu the soventh of a sec
ond. Ho also found that the speed ol
ifTored for different organs, the
sense of hearing being responflea to in ft
Bixth of a second; while tuaM sign re
quired only ono-fifth second to be feh
and signaled. Iu all these cases .the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re
mained, however, to Bhow the portion of
this interval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Donders Dy very
delieato apparatus has demonstrated this
to be about seventy-five thonsanths of a
second. Of the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
andths for the aot of willing a reponse.
When two irritants were caused to oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-flftJi oi
second was required for the person to
recognize wnion was u
.l,'l.tlo lnrmi- tlltprvrd WBS reQUired tO
determine the priority in the case of the
other senses. These results were ob
tained from ft middle-agea man, ou in
youths the mental operations are some-
' . . , il,. anlt Th
what quieaer umu u -
average ol many expenuwum
that a simple inougu wuuyww
fortieth ot a second.
Gov. Ltttlefield. of Rhode Island, Is
a man. of tho people, having in Ida early
days worked in a cotton factory at
Katick, one oi tue villages wnicn nayo
grown np around tne nprague miua.
While Littlefield wastoiling at the spin
dle William Sprague was Governor. By
a turn of fortune's wheel Sprague be
came a bankrupt and Littlefield ft
Governor,
"Howmtjoh do you charge for your
peanuts ?" asked a lady at the fruit stand
it the Central
ouart." said the oJera.