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THE FUJVCKAVi OF IIOPF,
t The following mid but beautiful' linot
wero-written by the late Uiahard Liles,
Esq , of Danville, Va., n gentleman ot
a fine scholar, and a lawyer O!
di , iu3t;on. The lines apeak of the sad
experience and into of the author:
D. C.
I have been to tlie funeral of all my liopcs _
And entombed thorn one by one;
Not a word waJ said
Not a tear was shed
When the mournful task was done.
Slowly and sadly I turned me round,
Aucf sought my silent room;
And tlipfe alone __
By the cold hearthstone
I wooed the midnight gloom.
And as the night winds deepening shade
Lowered above my brow,
I wept o'er days
When manhood rays
Were brighter far than now.
Tho dying embers on the hearth
Gave out their flickering light
As if to say
This is the way
Thy life shall iflose in night.
I wept aloud in anguish sore
O'er the blight of prospects fair;
Wiiile demons laughed
And eager quaffed
My tears like nectar rare.
hell's red v -'Js an echo ran
An echo loud ard frfhg
As in the bowl
J plunged my sonl,
In the might of madness strong,
And there witliiu that sparkling glass
I knew the cause to lie;
This ail men own
From zone to zone
"Yet millions drink and die,
TIBJS iTlliVKftM WIFE.
They were a hard set in the Black Jack
Gulch, near Custer City, rougher than
most of those who made mining a speci
ality by day in the Black Hills, while at
night cards and liquor consumed what
hard labor had earned.
'There's a woman como to camp—a
real woman, young, and pretty as a pic-,
tare too,' said one of the leading dealers
in faro to another, one day, about mid
summer this year.
And the news spread from ear to car
until ivory one kn >w It.
'A woman, young and pretty, bnt with
a husband, or we'd gamble lor who
should have ber,' said Skip Sloth, the fa>>
ro djeaier. 'A husband who is a slender,
sickiy looking cuss, and I'll bet he'll not
last long here.'
The new arrivals had come out with a
small party, aud had their own tent, pro
visions, and codking utensils, so nobody
could board and lodge them or render
them any needed favors.
For a couple of days Llarry Vance and
bis wife Addio kept very quiet, and
seemed to bo resting from their journey.
But on the third day, Vance, accompa
nied by his wile, it as seen out among the
men aoking where any unoccupied grouud
iCOtild bo found, and soon they had -a
claim staked out, aud they both wont to
work with pick, spade, pan and rock-,
er. ,
She was indeed very beautiful in her
short, well-fitted working dress, and ho
looked as it he was hardly able to lilt up
the tools he used.—But it turned out that
ho had worked before in Colorado and
knew how, though they had got sick,
and broke down there, and had to leave.
The boys were all pleased, rough as
theyaivere, to see a woman among them,
and all wont well during the day, and in
truth at night, until tho rum began to
make things lively, and then—well you
know that rum is the foul fiend's agent
in almost every mischief.
A dance was proposed in Dan Stew
art's saloon, and the;i>Qau. who, as usu
al, was full and running over, swore he'd
open that dance with the newly arrived
woman as a partner.
Jack Tooley offered to bet an ounce
of dust ho couldu'j get her to come.
'Make it ten ounces, aud I'm your man
on the bet!'" cried Dan. - - \
'Ten it is!'cried Jack, aud tho nußt
was weighed-eut and put in Baraey Min
or's hands.
So Dan started for the woman. Tho
boys all wefht over to the tent where she
waß> with her husband, to see if she'd
come.
Dan called on her and her man to
come out, and said he'd made a bet she'd
open tho dance in his shebang, aud ho
wanted her to do it.
•My wife will not only not help yon
win money by gambling or betting which
is the same thing, but will not demean
herself by associating with such a gang
as you head!' said iUriy Vance, with
spirit.
GRAHAM, N. O,
'Young follow, life is cheap here I
You'd better button your Hp, and go to
bed. That women, o' yours shall dance
svith me, or down goes your shanty I'
♦Never! Addic, love, go in.—We've
sfaid out here lacing this blackleg too
long.'
Addie Vance turned to go, but she
heard a wftish in tf.o air hear I a low
groan, and fronted round to see her poor
husband sinking a ghastly corpse to the
ground.
Dan Stewart had almost cut his body
in two with * huge bowie-knife.
She did not shriek, she mado neither
groan nor outcry, but stood liko one
dazed, stupefied by the sudden and
awful shock.
'You're tho widow Vance now, and
#
•m'll dam-in with me I' cried Stewart,
with a horrible laugh.
'Yes,' she cried, with a voico so loud
and shrill that every hearer was startled.
Yes; lead your way to tho hellish den!
Lead (lie way !'
Dan turned, and (he won.an, without
one glance at the hotly followed him.
The crowd which would h&ve taken
her part, amazed, followed her, and iu
a minute Dan's saloon was full.
'Strike up the music!' cried the rafllftu.
'Me and the widow will lead oil, and the
dust is mine.'
'Hold! lam the orchestra ho urecls!'
cried the woman, and her form seemed
to grow right up taller than that of any
man there. '1 will play the tune tie
must dance to - Listen to it. It is the
Mmdircr's March!'
Ami" then, qtftok as Aiought she pulled
a revolver from her b >som, and flash,
flas!), went every barrel of six shots
within as many seconds, right in his
face,
Every ball told, and ho was dead
beforo his body touched Iho floor.
' Who else wants to dance with me?'
she shrieked putting away tho empty
revolver and drawing another.
There was no answer for a minute,
and then cheer on cheer, rose, and every
man at the diggins swore to honor,
respect aud protect her.
lier husband was buried, and atler
that though sho led a cad and lonely
Jife, there was not a mauin ail the rudo
camp that ever looked unkindly at the
poov widow, or did aught to add to her
so/row.
And every Saturday all hands turned
to and worked claim to help her, so she
could carry back her husband's bones
in time to the land from which both
came.
A TALK H i l l! DAVENPORT
Hon* the Members of Kfcr Fnmily Hare
l£«eu K •Incased,
(Chicago /liter-Ocean. Janaary 3d,)
'And so you are going to Australia?'
said a reporter tor the later-Ocean to
Miss Fanny Davenport, tho actress, iu
the oourso of a little chat yesterday.
'1 did mean to go. and was making ne
gotiations,' was the reply-; 'but my moth
er objected to the great distance a lid
long seperatiou, so 1 gave it up.'
'Then you have made no engagements
for the ensuing year?'
'Yes, I expect to go abroad in tho fall,
and play for d time-in London. I wish
to go there particularly oil account of
my sisier, Florence, who will make her
debut in that ciiy.'
'You have already ono sister on tho
operatic stage?'
' Yes, Blanche,' and . Miss Davenport
handed, as she spoke, the picture of a
charming young girl with a piquant face
tohor visitor, continuing: 'She is sing
ing in Italy, has made a splendid success,
and is, of course, very enthusiastic.
Florence,'my baby,'l call her, is only
sixteen. She has a beautiful voice, and
will give us a chance to be proud of her.'
'Your family seems divided iu tals
cuts?'
'Yes. I think Blanche and Florence
inherit their musical talent from my fath
c.t. lie hail a very fine voice, and came
near going on the operatic stage. Indeed
he ouce sang in 'The Bohemian Girl.'
'And the others?'
'Well, May nets, voti know, and my
little brother will be another George
Fox. 'lt was thought as a child that I
had a very good voice. I remember
-Mmc. Celeste telling me when I was
abont twelve years old that my voice bad
the same qualities as Titiens, but using it
on the stage so much has impaired it IDI*
singing.'
'Then you aro all before the public?'
'Yes, beginning with my mother,
though excepting my.brother Edgar, who
has no inclination for it.'
'Tlio experience and teaching of your
parents must have been ot great ad vans
tag;?'
4 You will think it strange, perhaps,
I ut my father never taught us anyihinu
of acting.' ' °
■ 'But you received training elsewhere?'
•No, none. My father used to say,
'You have talent; form your own con
ception of the character; work it out*
don't be a parrot.' I remember when /
made my debut at eight years ot age as
King Charles. It was at my father's ben
efit, and I begged him to help me, but he
wouid not.'
•You think this sort ot self training
good ?' °
Yes. I believe the best wav for be
ginners, it they have the talent, is to join
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4 1879
a good stock company and wd|'k np grad
ually ; all the dramatic and elocutional \
lessons In the uorl.l will not do as mucll.
It is far better to climb np the ladder stop
by slop than ii is to bo fiod to it and have
ladder and al raised. As to beauty, ii
nilV actor or actress has,it, sj innch" the
heller; it not, FO much greater must flielr
genius fie in order to make tho audience
forget I heir lack of it.'
•Jannusehek is a notable instance of
tho latter?'
'Yes,and so is Irving, tho English nc-*
lor. ami. I think, tho greatest on the
stage, lie is like an ugly oßknltiro cf
Bomb, ivlth Utile biliortwWlliig ev ex,
dark skill and Otic leg so much shorter
than the other flint he walks with a de
cided-halt. I almost dreaded to see hiof
as Jlumlct, but, do you know, bis acting
was »o wuuderlul ton! noone could mink
of his looks. Yen, I believe Irving ami
Marie Scobach to bo tho two greatest ar
tists ou the stage.'
von Btndy inn. nmr.
Davenport ?.'
♦Cynibelitie.' I prefer the legitimate
drama, und mean to confine myself to ii
in the future as much as possible '
'And your new play. •Olivia."
'I like if, and am very curious to see
how it will take hero. You see, it is very
English, and not the„ modern English
that Dickons dramatized.'
•By tho way.' continued Miss Daven
port,'is it long-sineo Clara Morris was
here?'
'Her last season was in tho summer,'
replied the reporter.
'I wjuld like to see her very mnch,'
continued tho lady. ' Sho is a "charming
companion, anil always so bright. The
last timo 1 saw her was tho first night
of' Olivia.' Sho was looking very "ill,
and came between iho scenes to speak to
mo. 1 was sorry afterwards to seo tho*e
reports regarding bur domestic happi
ness.'
• Do you believe them?'"
'1 cannot; and 1 think even if such was
tho case, she is much too proud a woman
to complain,'
"Marriages in the profession are not
ofteu happy?"
" rhut idea," said Miss Davenport,
warmly, "is a very mistaken one. 1
know uf no lisp pier domestic lives than
many that I could name in our profes
sion. Take Mr. an IMe a. Kobeon, for
instance, Mr. and Mrs. McKay, and a
host of others."
"And in regard to this question of
stage morality?"
"I am sorry to say there aie grounds
lor its questions in some instances, but
there are many good and virtuous wo
men in the profession. A woman has
only to exact respect by her conduct aud
mode of life, and it will bo pnid her.
I ho sweetest thing to me in the world is
the homage paid to Fanny Davenport,
her father's daughter, not jj'anny Daven
port, tho actress."
WEDDED BY Winn,—A romantic inci
dent of the recent storm was the mart
liage by telegraph of two young people.
Tha young man ia a residsnt of this city,
while the lady resides some miles Jiiis
side of New York. On the d*y appoint,
ed the young man was in a railway train
stuck fast in the drifts some forty miles
this side of the residence of the bride ex
pectant. The hours passed on and the
traiu did not succeed in getting out of
the drifts. Finally it was suggested that
rather than submit to a postponement
the marriage be conducted by the aid of
the wires. All parties having agreed to
this, the wires was stretched from the
office to the house of the bride's parents
and the two were made one by electrici
ty. Afterwards when the track was
cleared of the snow tho husband and wife
met for tho first time as such.— Rocltes*
ter Express.
Hon- Judah P. Benjamin, according
to a Londotfcorrespondent, occupies an
elegant suit of law chamber* and has a
practice which yields him $150,000 an
nually, for which reason he would de
cline a judgship, which only pays $25,000
Mr. Benjamin is represented as saying
that he could easily secure a seat in the
House of Commons, several constitu
encies having given him veay flattering
invitations to represent them, but he hax
no desire to go into Parliament for the
same reason that he would decline a
judgship--it involves too many sacrifices,
Mr. Benjamin has a house in Paris and
always Rpends his summer vacations
there.—Raleigh Observer.
No CAUSE TO CRY.— Yesterday after
noon a boy ot ten who had been caught
out in tho soaking rain and well drench
ed was standing in a doorway on Madi
son Avenue, wiping his eyes and nose by
turns, when a second lad about his ago
came along feeling a good deal worse.
'W— what ails you?' sobbed the sec
ond, as ho halted and looked tho other
over.
•I—l got all wet, and I've—l lost a
cent!' was the reply.
•Is that all?' indignantly demanded tho
first;'then you'd better run home—you
haint got no right to cry P
•B but you arc orytng too!'—
'I—I know it, but my father run tor
oflico yesterday and g-got left I When I
cries I have suthin' to cry about—suthiu'
that affects the ijull family I'
A Yankee girl who met the Marqnfs of
Lome in Halifax writes home to her I
iriotuls that 'lie is real nice.' J
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Too MUCH LAND.—This is the great
drawback of tho majority of tho South*
ern farmers. The land may bo good; it
may have been purchased fir less than
its estimated value, still there is snch a
thing as having too much of"especially
if it is not fully paid for. To shoulder ft
burden of debt for a piece of noil pro-iuc
tivo property is not a wiso thing to do iu
any vocation. Taxes must be paid, year
alter year, and capital is locked up
which might be more properly employ
el.
A farmer needs no moro lnnd than ho
can thoroughly cultivate or pasture.
Add to tltl% a moderate quantity of
woodland. All excess should bo dispos
ed of, to actual settlers if possible, and
proceeds used for improving what re
mains. Better have too little thau too
A CONVENIENT LAND MKASORK.— TO
aid farmers in arriving at accuracy in
estimating the amount, ol lands in differ
ent fields undo* cultivation the following
table is given.- Five yards wide by IGB
long contains OHO ajro. Ten vurds wido
by 484 long contains ono aoro. Twenty
yards wido by 242 long contains one
aero. Seventy yards wido by 694 long
contains one acre. Eighty yards wide
by GOi long contains ono ucro. Sixty feet
wido by 726 long contains one acre. One
hundred and ten feet wide by 387 long
contains one acre. Ono hundred and
thirty feet wido by 3G3 long contains one
acre. Two hundred and twenty feet
wido by 181 i lung contains one acre.
Four hundred and forty feet wido by 99
long contains one acre.
TRANSPLiINTIAIO TItKES,
This is the best season of the yenr for
transplanting fruit or shade trees of all
kind. Anytime in the winter belore
the ground freezes deeply will do.—
Persons have unoccupied, lands, yards,
etc!, should plant thorn with trees. The
result will amply pay the coat of
and yield a thousand per cent, in satis
faction, comfort and beauty. Many of
our tanners' fields are too bare of fruit
trees. There should sufficient to
furnish stock with shade during tho hoat
of a summer.sun. There is land enough
that might well bo Occupied for this
purpose. —Ex. . ... ■x. 4
Bishop Simpson was about to begin
his lecture before the Yalo theological
student the other d».y, when he was
seen 10 pause and look tor something
"Younggentlem.'ii," ho said, 'I find
tnyselt in tho position of the picacher
wlio was inlormcd by a lady that
thirdly hud flown out of the window.'
A part of tho MS. was missing, am)
while Professor Fisher went away to
search for it. the Uishop entertained bis
audience with a hatf-honrs talk on
President Lincoln. Than the MS.
appeared, and the lecture began.
CtIUEL.—At dinuer tho host introduces
to the favorable notice of the company a
splendid truffled)pheasant,aiuid muiuinr*
of admiration.
"Is'nt it a beauty?" he says. "Doc*
tor So-and-so gave it to mo—killed it
hiinßfilfl"
"Aw, what was he treating it for?''
asked one of the guests.
"Yea," said a venerable and benevo
lent-looking old man, "I'vealways really
enjoyed living in an unhealthy climate."
"That's queer," said a bystander,
" What's tho reason?"
rather think," responded the ven
erable and benevolent-lookiug old gentle
man, "that it's because l'iu a physi
cian."
In a Paris restaurant a gentleman and
a snob are seated a tho same table. The
snob is just finishing his dinner, the
gentleman just beginning his. The snob
ixhts a cirgar and blows a cloud of
smoke over his coffee. The gentleman
rises and says, in the politest tone,
"Excuse me, sir; will it annoy you if 1
eat while you are smoking?"
Fitz Hush Ludlow, in his narrative
of travel in "The Heart of the Coutis
ncnt." tells of «n eccentric genius who
improved on the old yarn to the effect
that '-tho weather would have been
colder if the thermometer had been
longer." by Baying lie haf been where
"it wa* so cold that the thermometer
got down oft the nail."
Chin Lan Pin, iho Chinese minister in
Washington, is credited with a neat
.mot on being asked what hi* connfy
men would do it they 'must go.' 'The.-
will go to Ireland/ said the minister;
'that is the only country the Irish do not
rule.'
The Season says that tho late Dean
Richmond once asked a would-be dend~
head the grounds of his application for
a free pass. "Simply because 1 don't
want to pay." The testy old railroad
king at once handed him a pass, and
said: "Sir, I respect you. You're the
first deadhead that ever told the ti uth."
There is a young lady in this city who
goes by rhe name of "Earthquake"'among
| the boys because she has tftkeu so many
of them.— Toledo Commercial.
NO, 47
Gleaning s,
The painter's overcoat.—Varnish. *
Whin is a pig the heaviest? Whan
lie is led.
Thomun who loved the watchdog's
honest bark was not a trump.
All men are not homelws, but soue
are homo less than others.
What is it which the more it 19 cut,
the longer it grows? A ditch.
What is the only pain of which every
one 1 n:ikos light? \ window pane. "
Why do Suin.wr roses fade? Because
there is no way of releasing them.
Cheap out of door breakfast—A roll
ou ihe grass.
George W. Oliilds has a SO,OOO clock
>n his eellturuTrboiq ofiho Ledger. ' '
It takes a,good deal of rrlef to kill a
-"--Jan tilts has'got a scal-skiii
5.i1.l fi \vnirv 'ls certainly
ono of |bo greatost revivalists of the a«e;
for at the end ofevery seruiou there is
great awaking!'
There are 824 places In the good city of
New Orleans where the downtrodden
and oppressed citben may walk iu uud
Like'sugar in his'n.'
Every one bolting downward becomes
mpiessed with lisown greatness, hut
noss " I,ward fuojß liid owu little*
'They say Fortune knocks •at everv- .
Sffi.n?. d l ? oi ; o,,co »' Ba . vs * distinguished
Ml L V we mhßt ,mvo been out.
if she has ever called on us!'
Jewelry Is made In Germany trom iho
pure, blood of the ox. Tl.fr blood is dried
ssffisjrzxz. " ,, """ cd
"ifow did yon learn that graoefol atti
tude? said a gentleman to a fellow lean
ing in a tipsy fashiop. against a post.
X have been practicing at a glass."
Madame Anderson makes #7,000
clear by her long walk, not to speak of
tl'e notoriety the 'acquired, which was
great
Caleb Gushing never permitted a servant
to enter Ins apartmeut, making his own
bed and arranging his furniture. He was
an admirer of art.
tho habit
f nsiii K ijmyijray wi,h tho" laborers bo
met. I like you,' « u id one, 'there is
«mMi* of tho gentleman ab>ut
Iho comprsitcr who knew mere than
!'^.V V KI 6 '' a , ,K ' r " ,0(l out tl,e Phrase,
Ihe boy is fhther to the mau,' as
nouseiise, changing it into' The mail is
tather of the boy,'ia hi search 01 a new*
situation.— Boxton Transcript.
•Would the son of tho President of the
United btates be a prince 111 tho foreign
country?'asks a subscriber. Well, not
exactly. lie might be a monarch,.though
especially it he was out of inonev—a
king to get homo. - Toledo Commercial.
A captain of a volunteer corps, lining
doubtful whetho he had distributed
inuskets to all the men, cried : "All you
that are without arms, hold up your
hands."
"Mr. President," said the orator of
'lay ' not even truth has excaped the
slanderer« tongue. She is constantly
» ° f iu S—"t tho bottom of a
A fastidious Connecticut woman who
went to a New Haven lawyer to take
steps to procure a divorce admitted that
her husband treated her well enough
but contained 'that ho had no stylo
[ about him.' •
A preacher in Kentucky the other
Sunday becoming exasperated 111 his
discourse paused to say: 'Ladies, if yoa
will give mo your close attention I will
keep a lookout on ttiat door, and if auy.
thing worse than a man enters I will
warn you in time to make your escape.'
P. 1. Barnum, the great showman, ia
a candidate for Senatorial honors from
Connecticut. Why not elect him? He
would make a splendid manager for our
national circus and menagerie.— Jiich-,
mond ( Va.) State.
Singlar, isn't i*, that when a man
gives his wiij a dime to buy a box of
hair pins, or a gum ring for tho baby, it
looks about seven times as big as wheu
he plants it down on the'bar for s little
gin and bitler3 for the stomach's sake?
"What's your occupation?" asked a
visitor at tho capitol of a bright • boy
whom he met in the corridor. The boy
happened to be a page id the House.
*'l iu runuing for Congress," was tho rt>
ply.
There* is a remarkable Jewish syna>
goguc in the ancientcity of Prague with
walla so thick with dirt as to bo absotntely
black. A local tradition says that
somewhere on its walls tho namo Jeho-.
yah i& inscribed, aud it is believed that:
if the walls are cleaned the name will bo
effaced.
A WARM RECEPTION.—A man wha
W&.H seen coming out of a Texas news->
paper-office with a crushed hat and a
damaged nose explained to a policeman
that lie entered the office simply to en
quire if the editor was in. "And ho
was in, tho victim added, mournfully,
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