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' - i -t ? t i r -r?T let : . j r : f i f I', tjt j...;. i rn .-;-a'i ca 1 r4T I rf-y ..I. GEO. S. BAKEB, Editor andTProprietor. . i ? . , . . . . . VOL. III. LOUISBTJKGr, I K C.v FRIDAY. JUKE 12, 1874. r n Rv7! UT U t .1 lit TV Grandma's Second-SIirhU It isn't so many jeans, my pet, Since grandma wan young like you ; ; Tis only well, lot me think a tit Why, Lie me, I'm seventy-two ! -Well, ye, 'twas quite a long time ago, Perhaps tome sixty odd years or bo. Bat the years they go like a flash, you see, When a Lody is young and gay, And before you know it, Old Time comes up And cprinkles tout heads with gray ; And tho eyes that were once so strong and " bright Grow wearily dim in the fading light. Ah, well ! there's one comfort for us, my dear, And I'v always found it so: Thfiro aro plenty of little ones in tho world To care for the old, you know. There are plenty of strong young hearts to bear And lift from tho old fall many a care. There's a pair of mrry dark eye , I know, That will lend their aid to me, And a doar little fcirl who will gladly help, When her grandmother cannot see ; fche nays ahe id grandma's necond-eight' And I think my wee little pet is right. THE DAM (JIVES WAY. (Fonr yearn a'o Charles F.cftde in one of his novel gave a graphic description of the burst ing of tho Ouseloy ronervoir. ' In his descrip tion ho clearly foreshadowed the fearful calamity that occurred in the upper Connecticut alloy. We rc-produce it as pertinent to tho present time A mounted policeman brought Ban norqp a note from the mayor, telling him word hart come into the town that there was something wrong with Onseley dam. lie was to take the mayor's horse, and ride up at once to tho reser voir, and. if there was any dancer, to warn the valley. A smart canter brought him in sight of what seemed a long black hill, with great glow-worms dotted here and there. That hill was the embankment, and the glow-worms were the lanterns of workmen examining the outer side of the embankment and prying into every part. The enormous size and double slope of the bank, its apparent similarity in form and thickness to natural barriers with which nature hems in lakes of large dimensions, acted on Ransome's penses, ancl set him wondering at the timidity and credulity of the people in Hatfield and Damflask. This senti ment was uppermost in his mind when he rode up to the south side of the embankment. Ilere was a lako nearly full to the brim on one side of the barrier and an open descent on the other. He had encountered a little wind coming up, but not much ; here, how ever, the place being entirely exposed, the wind was powerful, and blew right down the valley, ruffling the artificial lake. ticrews were applied and the valves of the double set of sluice-pipes were forced open, but with infinite difficulty, owing to the tremendous pressure of tho water. ' This operation showed all concerned what a giant they were dealing with ; while the. sluices wero being: lifted, the noise and tremor of the pipes were be yond experience and conception. When, after vast effort, they were at last got open, the ground trembled violently, and the water, as it rushed out of the pipes, roared like discharges of artillery. So hard is it to resist the mere effect of the senses, that nearly everybody ran back appalled, although the effect of all this roaring coTjld only bo to "relieve the pressure ; and, in fact, now that those sluices were opened, the dam was safe, provided it could last a dav or two. . Laghts were seen approaching, and Mr. Tucker, the resident engineer, droreup; he had Mr. Carter, on of the contractors, in the gig with him. He came on the embankment, and signified a cold approval of the sluices beinfr opened. Then Ransome sounded him about blowing tip the waste-weir. Tucher did not reply, but put some questions to a workman or two. Their answers showed that tney considered the enlargement of the crack a fatal ign. - Upon this, Mr. Tucker ordered them all to stand clear of the suspected part. Now, then," said he, " I built this embankment, and I'll tell you whether it's goiDg to burst or not." Ransome put in his word, and begged them to blow up the waste-weir. Tucker thought that it was a stronger measure than tha occasion required: there was no immediate danger ; and the sluice-pipes would lower the water considerably in twenty-four hours. Farmer Ives put in his word. " I can't learn from any of you that an en larging crack in a new embankment is a common thing. I shall go homa, but my boots won't go off this night." - Eneouraged by this, Mr. Mountain, tho contractor, spoke out. Mr. Tucker," said he, don de ceive yourself ; the sluice-pipes are too alow ; if we don't relieve the dam, there'll be a blow-up in half an hour ; mark ny words." Well,'1 said Mr. Tucker, " no pre 1 caution has been neglected in building this dfim ; provision has bean made even for blowing up the waste-weir ; a hole has been put in the masonry, and there's dry powder and fuse kept at the valve-house. I'll blow tip the waste-weir, though I think it needless. I am convinced that crack is above the level of the water in the reservoir." . This observation struck Ransome, and he asked if it eould not b ascer tained by measurement. Of course it can," said Tucker, 'and I'll measure it as I come back." He then started for the weir, and' I Carter accompanied him. , i I They crossed the embankment and got to the wair. " Ives went home, and' the workmen ' withdrew to the side, not knowing ex . actly what might be the effect of the explosion. , . , -, By and by Ransome looked up, and observed a thin sheet of water begin- ng to stream'over-the 'center of the " ""V " HWUMHIg , VIM V 1 HIT" him. Having no special knowledge on these matters, he was driven to com parisons ; and it flashed across him that, when he was a boy, and used to make little mud-dams in April, they would resist the tiny stream until it trickled over them, and from that mo ment their fate was sealed. Nature, he had observed, operates alike in small tilings as great, and that sheet of water, though thin as a wafer, alarmed him. He thought it was better to give a false warning than withhold a trtie one ; he ran to his horse, jumped on him, and spurred away. s His horse was fast and powerful, and carried him in three minutes back to Emden's farm. The farmer i.-ad gone to bed. Ransome toM him he feared the dam was coiiig : I ien galloped on to Hatfield Mill. Hero he found the miUer and his family all gathered out side, readv for a start : ono workman had run down from tho reservoir. H " Ths embankment is not safe." Sol hear. I'll take aire of my flour and my folk. The mill will take care of herself," And lie pointed with pride to the solid structure and granite pillars. ; Ransojae galloped on, shouting as he went. TThe shout was taken up ahead, and he heard a voice crying in the night, " It's coming ! It's coming !" This weird cry, which, perhaps, his own gal loping and snouting bad excited, seem cdLlike an independent warning, .and thrilled him to the bone. He galloped through Hatfield, shouting, " Save yourselves ! Save yourselves 1" and the people poured out, and ran for high ground, shrieking wildly. Looking back, he saw the hill dotted with what he took for sheep at first, but it was the folks in their night-clothes. He galloped on to Damflask, still shouting as he went. At the edge of the hamlet, he found a cottage with no light in it ; he dis mounted and ', thundered at the door. "Escape for your lives ! ior your lives 1" A man called Hillsbro' Harry opened tho window. " "The embankment is going. Fly for your lives 1 44 Nay," said the man, coolly, 4Ouse ley dam will burst noane this week," and turned to pro to bed again. There was a sharp explosion heard up in the hills. Ransome pulled up and said aloud, 44 It will be all right now, thank good ness I they have blown up the weir." The words were scarcely out of his mouth when ho heard a loud, sullen roar, speedily followed by a tremendous hiss, and a rumbling tnunder, tnat shook the very earth where he stood, two miles distant. , At that app&ffing'souia; that hissing thunder, the like of which he had never heard before, and hopes never to hear again, Ransome spurred away at all his speed, and warned the rest of the vil lage with loud inarticulate cries ; he could not wait to speaK, nor was it necessary. -At the top oi the hill he turned a mo ment, and looked up the valley ; soon he saw a lof tv white wall running down on Hatfield Mill : it struck the mill and left nothice: visible but the roof, sur rounded by white foam. Another moment, and he distinctly saw the mill swim a yard or two, then disappear, and leave no trace, and on came the white wall, hissing and thun dering. Ransome uttered a cry of horror, and galloped madly forward, to save what lives he might. Whenever he passed a house he shrieked his warning, but he never drew rein. As he galloped along, his mind work ed. He observed the valley widen in places, and he hoped the flyi&glalte would spread, and so JSFesome of that tremendous; volume and force before which he had saen Hatlield stone mill go down. With this hope, he galloped on, and reached Poma Bridge, five miles and a half from the reservoir. Here, to hid dismay, he heard the hissing thunder sound as near to him as it was when he halted on the hill above Damflask ; . but be could see nothing, owing to a turn in the valley. At the bridge itself he found a man standing without his hat, staring wild ly up the valley. boiler and its appurtenaces, (they raust have weighed some tons, yet they had been driven mere than a mile) and a. dead cow, and the body of a wagon turned upside down ; fthe wheels of this same wagon were afterwards found fifteen miles from the body. He began to stagger and pant. Soon after this, thev came under a short but sturdy oak that had survived; and, entangled m its close and crooked branches, was something white. They came nearer ; it was a dead body ; some poor man or woman hurried from sleep to eternity. t They shuddered and crawled on, stilL making for higher ground, but sore perplexed. Presently they heard a sort of sigh. They went towards it, and found a poor horse stuck at an angle," his efforts to escape being marred by a heavy stone to which he was haltered. Round a great fire in the Town Hall were huddled a number of half-naked creatures, who had been driven out of their dilapidated homes ; some of them were already muddy to the knee, they had seen children or relatives perish in found a place where the miscellaneous the flood they had themselves sonar-jTuin made stepping-stones, and by rowly escaped, and were bemoaning passing nrst on to a piece of masonry, so deeply, that the miserable wreck had a jagged waist, no bigger in proportion than a wasp's. - . Not far from this amazing ruin was a little two-storied house, . whose four rooms looked exactly as four rooms are represented in sections on the stage, the front wall having been blown clean away, and the furniture and inmates swept out ; the very fenders and fire irons had been carried away ; a . bird cage, a clock, and a grate were left hanging to the threee walls. 1 As a part of this village stood on high ground, the survivors were! within reach of relief ; and Little gave a policeman orders to buy clothes at the shop, and have them charged to hiirO: This done, he beggeRansome ,t6 cross the water, and relieve the poor wrenches who had escaped so narrowly with him. Ransome consented at once ; but then came a difficulty the bridge like every bridge that the flying lake bad struck, was swept away. However, the stream was narrow, and. as thev them with chattering teeth. Little spoke them a word of comfort, promised them ell clothes as soon as the shops should open, and hurried off to the lower part of the town in search of Ransome. - i WntXn f 4-1. 11. J 1, .1 jid duuu iy uuu buo uua tut) xiwnjit J-iaii aken. Between Poma Bridge and Hillsborough it had wasted itself con siderably in a broad valley, but still it had gone clean through Hillsborough twelve feet high, demolishing and drowning. Its terrible progress was marked by s layer of mud a foot thick, dotted with rocks, trees, wreeks of houses, machinery, furniture, barrels, mattresses, carcasses of animals, and dead bodies, most of them stark naked, tho raginar flood havincr torn, their clothes off their backs.4 -4 "!"' Four corpses and, two dead herses were lying in a lake of mud about the very door of the railway station ; three of them females in absolute nudity. The fourth was a male, with one stock ing on. This proved to be Hillsbro' Harry, warned in vain up at Damflask. When he actually heard the flood come hissing, he hid decided, on the whole, to dress, and nad got the length of that one stocking; when the flying lake cut short his vegetation. Not far from this, Little found Ran some working like a horse, with the tear-in his eye.- E ! He uttered a shout of delight and surprise, and, taking Little by both shoulders, gazed earnestly at him, and said4 Can this be a living man I see?" Strange sights they saw that night. They f onnd a dead body curled round t& topfrjune of a lamp-post, and,- in the suburbs, another jammed between a beam and the wall of a house. They found some houses with the front wall carried clean away, and, on the second floor, such of the inmates as had survived huddled together in their night clothes, unable to get down. These, Ransome and his men speedily relieved from their situation. And now came in word that the whole village of Poma Bridge had been destroyed. Little, with Ransome and his nist hurried on at tboae sad tidings and as the mud and ruins wouldnen trod on the vr-S one of the -a8 tn0 body of on seething soft . the ud, ? woman, lmh-"?, " tT 4- , arther tney saw, . -r and from that to a broken water-wheel, and then on to a rock, they got across. They passed the coiner's house. It stood on rather high ground, and had got off cheap. The water had merely carried away the doors and windows, and washed- everything movable out of it. And now the day began to dawn, and that was fortunate, for . otherwise .they could hardly have found the house they were going to. On the way to it they cane on two dead bodies, an old man of eighty and a child scarce a week old. One fate had united these extremes of human life, the ripe sneat and tne sprinr bud. It transpired afterwards that they had been drowned in different parishes. Death, . that - brought these together, disunited hundreds. Poor Dolman's body was found scarce a mile from the house, but his wife's eleven miles on the other side of -Hillsbojough ; and this wide separation of those who died in one place by one death, was con stant, and a notable featare of the tragedy. At last they got to the house, and Little shuddered : at the light of it : here not only was the whole front wall taken out, but a part of th back wall ; tne jagged chimneys of th next house still clunor to this miseiable shell. whose upper floors were slatting sieves, and on its lower was a deep layer of mua, wita sue carcass 01 a nuge sow lying on it, washed in there all the way from Hatfield Tillage. The people had all run away from tho nouse, and no wonder, for it seemed in credible that it could stand a single moment longer. Nevrhad come so ciooo to demolition ana tnen Bioppeu. Tb.ere wa3 nothing to be done hej: and Ransome went back to.r borough, keeping this side thgfears ; Daybreak realized hi? the first su- 1 A. T" Tl -a 1 . Desween z oma unage'tne place was burb of Hillsbomot that many had like a battle-fln the spot, but that, been drour "up the valley by the flood drowr Highest, they had been brought aAra and deposited in the thick laver of mud left by the abating waters. Some were cruelly gashed and man gled by the hard objects with which they had cow in contact. kher,8 re aceful expression JL ,,n..the cheeks. One Anon? the fhiuMft TVmth. ? -f Like "most classes of laborers in China, the beggars are very clannish. and are associated together in guilds , all of which have their head-men, who exercise a species of control over them. These head-men are well-known, and are registered at the office of the magis trate. They were originally appointed by the authorities to lessen the trouble of .keeping the beggars in,order, and they hive now become a recognized in stitution, and their office. is, we have heard, hereditary in certain families. Like numbers of other Chinamen, who, outwardly at least, hold a respectable position in life, these worthies live on perquisites and the contributions of the iraternities which they superintend. In the "Social Life of the Chinese" we find an amusing account of tho manner in which the affairs oi the beg gars are regulated. 44 A head-man of tho beggars," we are told, 44 may make an agreement with the shopkeepers, merchants, and bankers within his dis trict, that beggars shall not visit their shops, wharehonses, and banks, for money, for a stipulated time, and the beggars of the locality are obliged to conform to the agreement. Religious mendicants, refugees, exiles, &&, from other provinces, who take to becraing for a hying, do not come under these regulations. The head-man receives from each of tho principal business firms, with which he can come to an agreement, a sum of money as tho price of exemption from the importunities of beggars ; and in proof of this arrange ment he gives a strip of red paper, on which is written or printed a sentence to the effect that 4 tho brethren must not come here to disturb or annoy. This paper is pasted up in a conspicu ous part of the shop or bank, and the money is taken away and professedly distributed among the beggars con cerned, though there is little doubt that their chief appropriates the lion's share to his own use. After a business man has made this agreement with the head-man of tho beggars, should any local beggar apply for the usual pit tance, it is onlv necessary to point to V v v X the red slip of paper and bid him be gone. If ho will not depart at once, ho may be beaten with impunity by the master of the establishment, which beating the latter would not dare to give unless he had proof of an agree ment at hand ; and it is said the head man might, if tho beggar repeatedly violated the agreement, flog or beat the culprit to death, and no notice would be taken of the matter by the higher authorities." All the Year JRou A little uh Wi 1 It was s wTrisf MTallfn ??e?- taace, two eCT3C hands bV"" ir, "He He yelled to thi3 man, 41 Dam is burst. Warn the village for their lives; run on to Hillsborough when you are winded, send another on. You'll bo paid at the Town Hall." Then he dashed across the bridge. As he crossed it, he caught sight of the flying lake onco more ; he had gone over more ground, but he-had gone -' no farther. He saw the white wall strike T 1 a m at t uoiman s iarm. : mere .was a ugut in one window now. j He saw the farm honse, with its one light, swim bodilv, and then melt and disappear, with all the poor souls in it. He galloped on ; his hat flew off ; he came under the coiner's house, and yell ed a warning. A window was opened, and a man looted out : tne lignt was behind him, and, even in That terrible moment, he recognized Shifty Dick. "The flood! -the flood 1 Fly! Get on high ground, for your lives 1" At the first blow, the house that stood nearest to the flying lake was shattered, and went to pieces soon af ter; all the houses quivered as the water rushed round them two stories high."-' ,....1 Fearful as the situation was, a sick ening horror was added to it by the horrid smell of the water : it had a foul and appalling odor, a compound of earthiness and putrescence ; . it smelt like a newly-opened grave ; it paralyzed lite a serpent s breatn. As Henry Little, the hero of Reed's story, left the barn in which he had taxen reiuge, he tried to nnd nis way to the road, which he knew led up the hill to Woodbine Villa. But all land marks were gone : houses trees, hedges. all swept away roads covered three feet thick with rocks.? and stones, and bricks, and carcasses. . The . pleas- ant valley was on horrid quagmire,' m which . he could take few steps. burr dened as. he. was,- without sticking, or tumbling against some sure sign of destruction and death. Within the com pass of fifty yards he found a steam- ted and emptied., aa alone in one, Beatea rr,7 n Vim Slid J"rVOi , 1 n wauur iiu . ; . 1 they could dQcJpft. ai 'iJlB?? WhyleSmedie'heeaid. They tried to encourage him ; but he answered them in words that showed how . deeply old Shylock'a , speech is founded m nature r -'S-T.v-" 44 Let the water take me ithas taken alllhadW It u A- a When they asked after hisneighDors, he said he believed they were drowned. Unluckily for him, he had been out when the flood came. Little clambered into the' other cot tage, nnd found a little boy and girl placidly asleep . in a cupboard up stairs. . " ' : Little yelled with delight, and kissed them, . and cuddled, them, aa if they had been llis qwn, so sweet was it to see their pretty innocent faces, spared by death. The boy kissed him in return. and told him the room had been full of water, and dada and mamma had gone out at the window, and they themselves had floated in the bed so high he had put his little sister on the top shelf, and got on it himself, and then they had both felt very sleepy. 44 Ton are a dear good boy, and I take you into custody," said Ransome, in a broken voice. . -i-x: ' s--' Judge if this pair were petted, up at the Town Hall. ' At Poma Bridge the devastation was horrible. The flood had bombarded a row of fifty houses, and demolished them so utterly that only one arch of one cellar remained ; the very founda tions were torn up, and huge holes of incredible breadth and depth bored by the farious eddies. 1 Where were the inhabitants t Ransome stood and looked, and shook like a man in an ague. 44 Little," said he, ' this is awful. Nobody in . Hillsborough dreams the extent of this calamity. I dread the dawn of day. There must be scores of dead bodies hidden m'thls thlck mud. or perhaps swept through Hillsborough into tne .very sea," i u .ij. A little further, and they came to the 41 Reindeer," where be had heard tLe boon companions singing over their graves ; for that ttight, long before the " cocfc did craw, or the day daw," their mouths were full of water and mud, and not the ." barley bree" . - ao Know 'tneir rat needed but a glance at the miserable, shattered, gut ted fragment of. the inn. that, stood There was a chimney, a fragment of I triangular piece of roof, a quarter, oi tne inaiae or oner Becona-noor jcoora. withU,thjB boards gorie andhjuf tth ioistsEone and' the others either hane- lrig down perpendicular or sticking at an angle of forty-five. Even on the side furthest from the flood the water had hacked and ploughed away the wall xTan extensive stock of baud madJ. TTSfl. The lk' so common to the wa- The mr southern coast, and particu- is a harmless creature, so far as is known. It belongs, I suppose, to the ray family, although it lacks some of the peculiarities of that genus. It at tains to great size, some having been taken nearly twenty feet in length and seventeen or eighteen feet broad.- They are furnished with arms or flippers, one on each side of the head. These arms are flexible and of great strength. They are employed for taking tho food of the creature, and probably for defensive purposes. But the fish use them for picking up any object of a portable size which they find in the water. A gen tleman living on the Savannah riverj Georgia, was in the habit of sending his negroes down the river to fish with nets, as the tide served. On one occa : -Caardlnr -aralnit Disease. The following la m synopsis of Dr. Stephen Smith's paper on the Dalies or liealln Boards, read be I ore tte Social 'Science Convention : A funda mental duty - of administration !s the organization ol a complete registration of the vital statistics of the city. It is of sich registration alone that" It can lay the foundation "of permanent sani tary work, and it is not auQcitnt that such registration "ahonld simply gite the tod number of marriagm, births, and'deaths annually, bat should i arnUb all those collateral facts and evidences which aro necessary to a thorough study xf the intricate and obscure ques tions relating to the social and physical well-being of the people. All contaiorM may be warded off and restricted by the isolation of the sick. It is not too much to say that emall-pox, scarlatina, and other disease msy be tolerated or suppressed at will by such measures. Against small-pox, no intelligent phy sician doubts that any c.ty may be absolutely protected. Measles and tho other brood of demetrious affections aro not less susceptible of control by isolation ana aisiniection. luaaemio diseases- are mainly due to imperfect scavenging and defective methods of dealing with cremental matters, both personal and domestic, such as the de composing . refuse of kitchens, over flowing cesspools and privy vaults. cellar damps, etc. To discover and cause the abatement of these crois nuisances again a public health. wen as against public decency, is evidently the province of sanitary omcers. ineir duties should also em brace the proper regulation of trades hcausing sickness, to protect the health of operatives and the dwellers in the neighborhood who are- subjected to deleterious gases which create sickness or offensive odors which compel them to shut out from their houses the exter nal air. In short, it is sufficient to summarize sanitary duties as follows Regulation of commerce and immigra tion that will prevent the admittance of exotic pestilences to the cities, either in the cargo or the passenger. Persons suffering from contagions diseases must bo rigidly isolated, and trade and busi ness causing special forms of disease among operatives or among the people must ue piaceu anaer eucu reguiajjg as will effectually removo aJi Health and sources o'f sicnly to study boards aro requirja' all existing public tho bearing projected public improve workjnavo upon the publio health, but Ktey must come down to the individual. i -a. i ii ... : uuu aiuuy mo innuenccs wnicu anect his general health and tend to Invalid him and shorten his life. These duties must be grouped as follows: First, drainage ; second, food supply ; third, water supply.-A SaniUry Board abouUr from its peculiar constitution, be the ablest and wisest authority in at least three departments medical. legal, and mechanical engineering. Thus con stituted, the coramunity may safely commit to its caro the varied duties and numerous trusts which devolve upon the guardians of the public health. In its connection with all other Government departments it should always demand all such restric tions of their actions as it may judicious ly deem detrimental to the health of the community. Steps are being taken in the right direction in the formation of model sanitary boards, and not only is State medicine beginning to be recognized as an essential feature of municipal government, but there is a healthful tendency toward the selection r j i -Ttr iif Interest - i - 'saenee Is the fittest reply i folly. Sorrows are the shadows of past jy. Better ii a portioa in awfle tAn with a wife ,! 'T A .10-1 A near lantern is belter than a dis tant star.' Qasrrel with dead nea and yon won't get hurt. 4 ' 1 Wherever 5.H1?tP Jou wUl find ashes. ... Much corn lies tinder the tra that is sot seen. ' Ton will cot find a deep fox In a shal low burrow, u a ' ;,.., At White Pine, Nevada, mahogany is used for fuel. ' "J WateVTorrnsT nearly thrre-fonrths thft entire weight oi the body. Heaviness, beadacue. nausea, rcault from the ropira'ion of impare air. One farmer in Monmouth county, N. J.. who has six acres in blacklx'trie. old last season Iron 10 Uie tiseoi $3,000. A clover root was torn up by a Cam bria (Michigan) farmer, while plowing, which measured four feet and six inches in length. Waynesborougb, To., boaats of a haunted distillery, which is jnst the place where one would naturally look for spirits. Trndall informs us that olr light la passing through a dirk ro?m, reTcsls its track by iUuminxting the dust float ing in the atr. llard words are liko bail-stones in summer, besting down and -destroying what they, would caariah if they wcra melted into drops. The hot blast is now used in den tistry. Nothing will dry a civity of the gnm so quickly.' It is blown in by means of a syringe. Money and time are the heaviest bur dens of life, and the nnlisppiest .1 all mortals are thoe who have raoro' ' ran-4It in waterconUininj ordinary temper stances, expo' .nat areyou doing there, you eal 44 Merely taking cold, eir.M looks to me as if you were stealing ice. A Well, ye?i, -perhaps it -will fctar4hat construction. i . ; i . , Excessive exertion often leads to a congested state of the lung, and defi cient exercise is capable of producing tubctcles in the same organs through nutritional alterations. The Amceba found among tho itluf soia, represents the lowest form of ani mal life . It has no particular jLapc, al tering, ill form, momentarily. xJid moves by this curious means of progres sion. The Vermont State Agricultural So ciety has voted that a herd of cattle f hall consist of one bull not lens than one year old, two cows, two two-year-old heifers, two yearling heifers, and two calves of either sex. . Astronomer Proctor has small faith thst the million dollar telescope which the wealthy Calif ornisn, Mr. Lick, pro poses to have built, can be made pow erful enough to bring the moon within thirty miles of ns, aa fondl; hoped, by the enthusiastic projectors. Here and there, a hand or a ghastlv face appearing above the mud showed how many must be hidden altogether, and Ransome hurried home to get more assistance to disinter the dead. Just before tho" suburb of Allerton the ground is a dead flat, and here the nying lake had covered a space a mile broad, doing frightful damage to prop erty but not much to life, because wherever it expanded it shallowed in proportion. In part of this flat a gentleman had a beautiful garden and pleasure-grounds over night ; they wero now under wa ter, and their appearance was incredi ble ; the flood expanded here and then contracting, bad grounded large objects and left small ones floating. In one part of the garden it had landed a large wheat-rick, which now stood as if it be longed there, though it had been built five miles off. In another part was an inverted sum mer-house and a huge water-wheel. both of them great travelers that night. In the large nsh pond, now much full er than usual, floated a wheelbarrow, a hair mattress, an old wooden cradle. and an enormous box or chest. .Little went splashing through the water to examine, the cradle; he was richly ' rewarded; He found a little child in it awake but perfectly happy, and enjoying the fluttering birds above and the buoyant bed below, whose treacherous nature was unknown to him. - ' , Little and Ransome carried the child away, and it was conveyed to the hospi tal and a healthy nurse assigned it. lunsome prevailed on litue to go home, change his wet clothes and lie down for an hour or two. He consent ed, but first gave Ransome an order to lay out a thousand pounds, at his ex pense, in relief of the suffers. ma am anen ne went nome, sent a message to Raby Hall that be was all right, took off his clothes, rolled exhausted into bed, and slept till the afternoon. sion, two of his boys reached the fish ing ground before the tide had fallen I nt rZhrJZr:-- cow pitwrmM - w-.,uu aypucauon 10 i r. lTslefaloess. When persons Swindltxo. Some farmers in Ter' . . mom wno ao not reaa tne papers, are spending a number of dollars each in fighting an old and of ten -exposed form of swindle. Two or three years sgo a man named Newcomb went ihrouph Vermont appointing agents for a patent sickle ber for mowing machines, and took their name, in order, as he said. to have their addresses. The addresses have since turned np as $200 negotiable notes, and the farmers are being sued by Ih person to whomf the" "notes were transferred krrd arho appears -to have lughlthem.ingc faith, a izzv Thii bssm 2alaneliai true friend whVwill serve the with bis means in time of aUstress, and with his soul in time of need and danger. " . ' . i i suinoiently for tfxtlrpur poses. Coffee always goes to sleep when he has noth ing else to do. So pushing a pole into the mud, they tied the canoe thereto, and lying down intended to sleep until the tide served. But along came a huge devil fish, which grabbed up the pole, and tucking it under hia flipper, began towing the canoo and its con tents toward the deep water. When the negroes awoke they were terrified well-nigh eut of their wits. They were proceeding to sea at the rate of about four miles an hour, but the power pro pelling the canoe was wholly invisible. The first impluso was to jump over board, but it occurred to them in time, fortunately, that they were unable to swim. Finally the rope by which mas ter devil fish was towing them wa3 cut, and they reached the land in a pitiable state of terror. An individual of this species has been known to take up the kedge of a small schooner and carry it away for a mile, towing the vessel that distance, when he dropped the anchor, apparently fa tigued with the amusement. A large devil fish was struck with a harpoon in the lower part of the river St. John by the boat's crew of a small armed vessel, engaged in the protec tion of live oak in Florida. He ran for the mouth of the river, dragging the boat rapidly, although there were eight men exerting themselves to check his speed. They were compelled to cut the line at last, as there was danger of his fouling with the hawser of the vessel. . Bot Knxro. A boy named Parker. aged seven years, was killed by several schoolfellows at Burgh,' in Norfolk. r.ngiana, a lew a ays since, lie was thrown by them int- a dyke three or four Uses and killed. He was injured so that he could not get home, and was left lying on the bank of the dyke. where he died during the night. The surgeon who examined the body said that the lad had a great and violent struggle with death, for his hands were clenched and pieces of grass were be tween his fingers, while his eountensnce bore an expression of anxiety, dread and fear. A wound on the temple was the cause of death. lixz Kjltr s xxxtlt. a divorce ess has recently been attracting attention in London, in which it appears that the respondent bad obtained an introduc tion to his wife through the agency of a matrimonial club which was insti tuted for th purpose of -proridrng' the members with opnleni wives. .'In-this particular case, eomehow or other,? the club wis at fault; forth ifes fortun did xiot r turn out-aj large sa the' eoci-z mitt had been led to believe. Henc domestic unhappiaess and aa appeal to in count.. administration. A Nervous Lot, American men and women are ner vous, and naturally nave nervous children, of slender physique, and easily excited into precocious intelli gence, which is considered genius. Instead of letting the little creatures suck it3 fists and grow fat it is jump ed, and danced, and confused, and made to repeat like a parrot. The English method of placing youncr chil dren in thehands of experienced nurses and making them responsible is much better. A large, airy nursery at the top of the house ; a good, clean, whole some Belgian, Swiss, or Swedish woman to take charge of it ; breakfast of oat meal porridge and milk; dinners of roast or boiled beef or mutton, and rice pudding ; tea of bread and butter, milk and fruit, with no confectionery or 44 pieces" between meals, and no late visits or rides with mamma. In such a quiet, uneventful atmosphere the baby grows and thrives best, the child is subject to less excitement, and with healthy and regular habits lays iue xounuaiion ox an excellent constita tion, while the mother is not worn out by its constant presence, or made ner vous by being constantly harassed with giving directions to ignorant and inex perienced nurses. A S trail i e Case. The agent at Las Pmas Indian agency, Colorado, reports to the Com missioner of Indian Affairs the circum stances by which five men lost their lives lately while on the Ute Indian Reservation. One of a party of six on arriving at the agency was questioned as to what became of his eomponions. He represented that they had probably died from hunger and cold since they left him to his fate, his feet having been frozen. After closer investigation, there being suspicious circumstances. the man (whose name is Packer) finally confessed under oath . that one after another of these five persons had been killed by the remainder, and that he himself had killed the last remaining man only about twenty miles from th agency. He excepted only the two first victims of whom he spoke as hav mg died from starvation, having first eaten the dead bodies before commenc ing to kill one another. Packer has been turned over to the civil magistrate. who .will investigate the . affair by regular inquest, and he will b pro- ceeaea saanst la sccoraanco wua me I -A Paris idler records It as a strange zact, vox unaer we xuie ox a republic. the old and beloved song of the Mar- teillsis Is one more foraiddta. ho do not therw 'if . nnear to oe sic suixex iiom couiiLuea wakefulness, this is a sure eigu of men- al exhaustion. hen any part of the bodv is sncciallv exerted. tLo blood flows in Increased quantity to that part. So when there is any stress had on the brain, the head becomes surcharged with blood, as is shown bv the flushing . of the face. If this condition is lrog continue!, the blood-veasels lose tho power of contracUoR. Then the brain remains in an excited state, even when he mind has no longer any desire to work, and it cannot take its proper re&t in sleep. In order to enjoy refreshing sleep it is necessary that the bioou be not concentrated in the bead, bat dif- nsed eausllv throucb all Darts of the body. This is probably the reason why the warm bath just before - goirg-to bed is so conducive to a good night's repose. . it is, Lowever, tue best way not to allow the mind to get excited near the hour of rest, bnt to let it run down gradually, liko a clock, in .the evening. , . . m There have ben some wonderful eases of sleeplessness caused 6y endue mental exertion. Boerhaare, th lukh philosopher, tells us thst at one time he was so absorbed in a particular study icai ue am no news us ryes in aieep (or six weks. -.This fcecxa i& credible. A French general asserted that, for a hole year, while engaged in active warfare, he slept. but odq Lour ia twen ty-four. Tbese and similar cases are probably exaggerated. We all know bow often people are unwilling to ad mit thst they have been asleep, when they have really bad a sound cspv The persons mentioned eould not have sur vived such prolonged wakef nines . Aa sttendant of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon, whose nervous yitetn had become deranged died simply from in ability to sleep. An Incident la Early Irish' Ulstery. Donoghgave orders to prepare for an engagement, xne wounasu men were ordered to be removed to a piece of safety, alon with th "bsfgsge ; but as soon as riirjatnck s message became known, indignation spread through the whole array. The wounded refused to be separated from their comrades. They required to.be sharers of thai con test, ana for that, purpose thsy sug gested that stakes should be cut from th neighboring wood sad moated In the line of bottle ; that to the stakes a wounded man shouia be tua. ana a sound warrior set at his i aide, who should not be at liberty to stir from his poet. This extraordinary order oi bat Ue had such an 'effect a the.Oicrrioxis, that nothios eould indue- tbesi 4a try their strength with, the Dal pais.. Ho inducements could urged them to en gage with troop whose undaunted res olution was displayed in so conspicu ous a Piaarr. r ' i X 1 A
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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June 12, 1874, edition 1
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