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, The : Carolina! " WateiiiaMo ' ; VOL IX. THIRD SERIES SAIISBURY. ST. G, JtfHE 13, 1878. NO 31 n Tie Connty Democratic Conrervative V1 TAnraiiilnil. AC0Ov.n,ion,f the people o, J,!. "PJSJ towmhiD mectioM met rf at ihe primary towmliip .meetings, met !riXo2Zr, officers and for otlier pnrpo- ses- . iir jlt-iwutiw") i.Ltinn wore appointed by the chair- on"- - r llian to provide 1?? Convention. " '""'" """j ran elected permanent : H Cadi, Sec., and aid lect o s weie ..nnTirmpil hv the Convention., lhecnair- I CUi.u.- - fi-nrontifti, in n abort juan addressed the Convention in a short, pertinent ana 1PP riaiuipjt the J ""3 0Tor thanking the OT",rr conferred upon binu The Com ention iwii 'nroceeded to" business. A pre a preamoie i d!)d TCSOIUl.lODS Wr JUliuuuitu vj ijva B Clement, as follows : "Whereas, Agriculture is the foundation of our national superstructure, upon which rtts the prosperity, power, and well bc inr of individuals, State and Federal gov ernments; and, whereas, the interests of tbc Legislatures of the past has bejeu di rected iu the interest of corporations, 'and against the interests of that class which constitutes four-filths of our population; and whereas, the officers in a Republican poveninient are servants and not the mas ters of .the people, and-as such should obev the behest 3 of those who made them, aii(Uelieving that a prosperous condition and the building up of the wst places, is to be-attaiued not so much by great financial schemes as by the practice of JrHd economy in National, State and in dividual affairs, therefore resolved: "That our representatives in the next fTifislaturc are requested and instructed fto advocate and vote lor sucn -schemes as as look to the promotion of the agricultu ral interests and especially the following : 1st. A return to the county government rf our Fathers. Viz: the old county Court system with only such changes as have Uen made nece.ssary by the amendments o the constitution of the Lnited States. d. The enactment of a law .against un- fist discrimination by the Kail Koads of he State against her citizens and in favor if non-residents. 'M. Full, broad, and imple protection to sheep husbandry. li'lie preamble and resolutions were uuau- uiousjy adopted. 1 he Convention then proceeded through ts delegates to ballot for candidates for ounty officers, for a representative for .ivie for the next Legislature, and to recommend to the Senatorial, Judicial and Lougi'cssionai c onventions proper persons or Senator, Judge, Solicitor and Cou- ressman. . Tle ballot for county oflicers resulted In the" choice of C C Sanford, for Sheriff; M Hiugham, for Clerk Superior Court; M Johnson, for Kepresentative to' tlie iext Legislature; Eph Gaither, Kegister )ecds: V K Gibbes, Surveyor; J W Brad ford, Coroner. r The folloringrnamcs were reconnnend 1 for Senator from Kpwau and Davie, abject to a choice by the Senatorial Cou- ention : J C Foard and J II Clement, Ewis. of I)avie, and J S Henderson of Rowan. 1$ Bailey, Esq, introduced the following : Jiesolccd, by the delegates of the several townships of Davie county, here assein- leu, that we endorse the choice of Kowan ounty for Senator, (JS Henderson,) and ! remise him our support at the next elec- firta for members to the General Assem- !y as Senator from Kowan and Davie." I he resolution was tabled and the names ' ko to the Senatorial Convention with J C oard, Esq; leading the list. Kcsolutiou introduced by Dr J W Wise- iian and adopted : llesolcah that we, the icople Of Davie county, in Convention , ssciubled do hereby' endorse the action 1 1U .Ims regar ruese questions natural f our able, honored' and efficient repre- anse : 1)068 result from the degener- fcntative in Congress. (Hon W M Kob- ins,) and declare him to be the choice of lavw county as a candidate for a seat in lie next Congress. i Eeolrcd, That we recognize in the Hon ot Ul18 e4inou.s grain ? Has the seed de FMliobbius that unswerving courage. I tenorated so muck that it, is no longer lubending integrity and bold unflinchino' i Idvocacy of the interests of his conatitu- f icy which truly render him tho chain- lion ot people's rights. Uu ballot for Kepresentative iu Con- res8, W XI Kobbins was chosen; for So- jcitor of this District, Jo Dobson, Esq; IT Judge of this District the names of Bn T I AI';1m '..t ? 1 T -t Clement of Davie, iro to the Convention ' jnally recommended. - - I Uu motion, ordered, that a copy of the ! Bioceedings "of this Convention be furnish- ' 4d by the Secretary to the Winston ! nd and Salisbury Watehmau. with a re quest to publish. On motion -the Con ention adjourned sine die. J. A. WILLIAMSON, Ch'n. Leon. II. Cash, Sec. I J Mount Vernon, X. C, May 27, 1878 I I lwar It atchntnn Afnv ninvni'nfr'i. o.;in nnples the wheat fields, now he.nl in r nut inu rejoicing in tlie, fresh promise of an arly harvest. The finest and most, rtoli. ate of all grains, (albeit,T)f late years, for I T)n,e nnaccouutablc reason, irrowincr 4nd less in its averacre vipbl. till IP, however feebly, to the divine declara tion tiiat the taithful abour shnll jile the world endures. reap "Shot up from broad rank droop below. blades that The nodding wheat-ear forms a grace ful bow, With milky kernels starting full, weigh ed down, . Ere yet the sun hath tinged its head jvvith brown." t ., niu tu uu " am e oi me island of M li wneie ifc Srcw spontaneously, or f ljout culture. The old red straw wheat, 1hich was first cultivated in this country I: l"e. tMount eriion estate of General ashirjgton, from seed that Was sent over f nim irom Europe, was believed to pos jss extraordinary excellencies, of which Y in these days of disappointment iu ev JfJ 'tomg like securtty aud bountiful re lfrn for labor and expense iu this line, Jje inclined to be not a little skeptical. Its f Ii011 was alleed to consist iu repel -fftf .Av au1 suiting the most indifter J, S0ll! better than the generality of liieat. -w , - C ' . ' ' its produce was certiiiuly abun The SPCies anil rnripfi jmerous as. the articles on an auction- '"al and principal kinds, so distinct iu ' character and appearance, that they may claim rKIlliijr attpnh'nn Tlxia. L.o. claim peculiar attention. These are the hard wheats, the soft wheats, and the Po ine nrst are the standard or etaPle ri in warm climates, sach a. I(a, gi ., Barbarv ; the aecond, in Europe a. in Be.'gi- ttafSS wheats in the country, (Po land) trora which they derive their name. ana are also hard wheats. It is from their external form that they have been, in iiicbu uiucr auu more -properly wneav- growing countries, custody and arbil these older and more ronerlv wheat- trarily defined; and distinguished from other whca& The European farmer is famiUjir with these differences; and he . .,. . . , . : 1'1 lc" J uu ll,ul' wu" naru wueats h&ye ft acf - , transparent. which, when bitten through, breaks short and OW8 ywbtta flr within. The soft wheats have .an opaque skin or coat, fljtt , rfM . ' ..-...- finger, and they require to be well dried and hardened before they can be conve niently ground into flour. The Polish wheat has a long chaff, which is much longer than the seed, a large oblong seed, and an ear cylindrical in appearance, and is a delicate spring wheat not very pro ductive in England. The hard wheats contain much more gluten than the soft wheats ; and this causes the Italian wheats to be used exclusively for the pastes which form a large portion of the food of that nation The far-famed Vermicelli is a dried paste, manufactured chiefly in It aly, in the form of smooth, round strings. It derives its name from its worm-like ap pearance ; vermicelli in Italian signifies "little worms." Maccaroni is manufact ured of the same kind of paste as vermi celli, and in a similar manner, but is rath er larger in diameter, and hollow like the tube of a tobacco-pipe. Fedeliui is a kind still smaller thau vermicelli. The soft wheats contain the greatest quantity of starch,, which fits them for the vinous fermentation, by its conversion into sugar and alcohol ; and for brewing and distilling are therefore the best. The distinction between the winter and summer wheats arises entirely from the season iu which they have been usually sown. They can be readily converted in to each other, by sowing earlier or later, -and gradually accelerating or retarding their growths. The difference in color between red and white wheats is owing chielly to the soil. White Avheats gradu ally become darker and ultimately red in some stiff wet soils ; and the red wheats lose their color, and become first yellow and then white on rich, light and mellow sous. We Americans, according to Barnum, love to be humbugged ; and we have all sorts of wonderful wheats, with high bounding names, such as Egyptian, Mum- my, Baltimore, rrolihc, &c, &c. The big- wheat man is always "abroad" more than i the "schoolmaster," in the shape of flaring circulars, newspaper-advertisements and swindling agents. Well-informed men will pay no attention at all to these pre tended heirs of Christopher Columbus, w ho have -discovered, to hear them tell it, a new w6rld for agriculturists, where 1 wheat produces grains as 'big as pumkius and a great deal plentier than blackberies. Most ot the so-called claims of superior wheat are not worth any sane man's can did, serious notice. The owners of the superior stock Of wheat are the cultivators thereof, iu Lugland, Pennsylvania, Mary- laud, Ohio and elsewhere ; and they are completely out of and above the finernal aScy business. . 1 e alarming decrease in the average ?iel(l OI WIM " less t"U1 one-Halt wnat n twenty -nve years ago is a subject, u tne otner nana, wmch well deserves ueeV , - CJireiul experiments ana ex- euuea coulreoces between enlightened llirmel8. ac anu exuaustiou ot tUe soil I lias the vcIe.011 the seasons become so far altered Ilom.us ancient round as to be-positively ""cai ami unsimea to tne production w"eat suc" as our sturdy toretathers scat- tereU broadcast over the land and reaped bounteous plenty T .uore manures ana lertuizers are now useu luan ever- t'ience racks her braid to compound the best. These have all useless, if the land is running out. eep ana long-iying snows make the Cl'OO better. lillt. dn lint inte clmnr lm W1"tcrs were as severe then as now. Cli- mate don't seem to have much to do with - ' " Careless -management has deteriorated tlie seed that anybody ought to admit. , vuttui uu -cue green outer, tureshing and cleaning hurriedly, roughly and slo venly, and sweating and moulding in the garner all these have something to do with it, we must believe. If seed wheat had been treated and selected as carefully as corn and garden-seed, it surely would not have deteriorated much more than they ,vand they have not deteriorated at all. The care of this delicate grain has been committed, in our times, to idle and iu coiupetaut hands, who took no interest iu the matter. The care-for-nothing freed maH, and not Cincinnatue, has got to holding the plow and handling the grain. The fields are cut green whenever the la borers are few, the tools arc poor or the opportunity to "borrow" is good to "save them from loss." The thresher comes along mashes audbruiseslhe wheat from tluvstalk in a staving hurry, collects his toll, gets on to the "next barn" as soon as possible. Bushels upon bushels are heap ed up together, to sweat and mould and deteriorate. Not so once, when the work was done carefully and nicely and intelli gently. Men and agriculture have" somewhat declined. "In ancient times, the sacred plow em ployed - - The kings and awful fathers of mankind; And some, w ith whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scales of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war; then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plow, and greatly independent lived." E. P. II. It is said that eating onions will pre vent the lips from chapping. It will cer tainly keep the chaps from girls' Hpg. Mr. Vebnon, N. C, May 12, 1878 , Dear Watchman : While we read of Christ being a "man of sorrows," and of the older Christians, apostles and divines, from Paul and Peter down through the ages of Luther and Melanchton and on ward to such men as Dr. Edward Pay son, Cotton Mather and Dr. Alexander, often being dissatisfied with their religious state and bewailing their lack of spiritu ality, it has become the fashion for Beech er and the balance of such modern pulpit puppets to set up a new model of church men, which I shall take the liberty of call ing laughing Christians. They pretend to consider it heresy to ever intimate that you are not perfectly resigned, and at all times and seasons completely ready and confident of stepping right into heaven, if you were called away from earth by the stern summons of the angel of Death. Sound teaching inculcates the lesson that resignation is tHbe desired, .prayed for, struggled for but that it is by no means indispensable. They pretend never to weep. They don't go into a pulpit, high and solemn, but step with a flourish upon a gay ros trum, bedecked with flowers aud gew gaws, culled and arranged by the Mrs. Til ton 8 of the congregation. They hate sorrow it is so unbecoming so utterly strange and foreign a word iu the vocabulary of the laughing Chistian. They tell anecdotes, and interlard their sermons with politics, commercial panics, houses on fire and lots of other sensa tional trash. The devil sits up in the gallery, looking on delighted, aud laugh ing with no assumed hilaiity. Alas! for for such Christianity I must say I would not exchange the ancient sort, no more than I would give the Kohnimoor dia mond for a pewter spoon. Vcrbum sat, tCc. E. P. II. THE PKESIDENTIAL TITLE, There is trouble at the White House. Yesterday wo had Postmaster-General Key's address to his fellow citizens of th c South, Marning them to flee from the wrath to come. To-day's telegrams an nounce Mr. Hayes' views iu entire accord with those of his cabinet officer, and also deny that he has given any expression to them. It is manifest, however, that an attempt is to be made by the administra tion to scare people into opposition to the intended exposure of fraud by talk of "Mexicauizing" the Government. The word is in constant use among the Radi cals since the passage of the Potter reso lution of investigation into the alleged frauds in Louisiana and Florida, and we are daily informed by the Krdical press that Democrats, in the adoption of such a resolution, are bent oh "Mexicauizing" the Government. As we said yesterday the nearest ap proach to "Mexicanizatiou" we have had or are likely to have, was made in the winter of 1876-77 when Mr. Hayes was made President somewhat after the Mexi can fashion. The essence of the Mexican system is to permit an adventurer to get into the Presidency by bargain and fraud and then to keep in by intrigue or force. The word itself, says our excellent cotem porary, the Savannah Xeics, is derived from the custom, which prevails iu Mex ico, as in all other Spanish-American countries, regarding the treatment of a President in office when dissatisfaction ex ists against his addministration . This is not to wait for him to serve out his term, but to collect a force, make war upon him, turn him out without ceremony, aud de clare for his succesor to serve until his time for being likewise treated arrives. To assert that the Democracy, or any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, intend to adopt any such plan of procedure at any time is to assert a most flagrant absurdity, and this, of course, the Kdaicals perfectly well kuow. But giving them the credit for ordinary intel ligence, it is to be presumed that by tho term "Mexicauizing the government" they mean to convey the idea that the ultimate object of these investigations is to fix the stigma of fraud upon Mr. Hayes' title that he will no longer be able to occupy a position for which he was a defeated candidate. It has been so often declared that the question of Mr. Hayes' title is a matter entirely separate aud distinct from the proposed investigations, that it is almost superfluous to repeat the assertion. The object of the resolution, as time aud again published, is simply to ascertain if the statements made by McLin, Dennis et al, to the effect that the will of the people of the sovereign States of this Un ion was treasonably set aside by fraud aud trickery, are true. It is to find out whether notSherinan's N oyes and their confederates did maliciously and wick edly, instigated by the devil, and having no fear of God before their eyes, enter iuto a conspiracy to trample npou aud cast aside the fundamental principles upon which this government is founded andinstalin office a candidate for the Chief Executive of the nation who had been rejected at the ballot-box. Such charges have frequently been made against these men, and allowed to pass by unno ticed ; but when at length two promi nent participators in the conspiracy made confession of the same, nothing was left for the National Legislature to do but to inquire if the constitutional rights of the people in this matter had been violated. ' as alleged, and if they had, to make trea son forever odious by punishing tho of fenders. Respect for the good name and fair fame of the government of which it is aco-ordinate branch forced this step upon the Congress of the nation. But suppose, as the result of this in vestigation, that Mr. Hayes shall be for ced to retire fromthe place he : occupies, and make way for the rightful President against whom, even theD, will properly lie the charge ot "Mexicanizing1? the gov ernment Taken in its legitimate and broadest meaning, the word implies the installing into office tL President; not con stitutionally elected either by fraudu lent or violent means. Now if it is prov en that tlie leaders and managers of the Radical party did, by means of fraud aud threats of violence, deliberately And wil fully revolutionize the government by seating in tho Presidential chair a man not elected by a majority' of tholegally cho sen electors of the different States, who then will be proven guilty pfj 4Mexicani zatron.t'1 Clearly, notme bat these-saine leaders and managers of the Radical par ty, and the Democracy, so far from doing what those very men to-day charge upon them, will rather un-Mexicauize an alrea dy Mexicanized government. Therefore, if these leadors and managers are wise they will cease throwing stoues, for they live in a house of very brittle glass, which can easily be demolished. Raleigh Ob. PETE ON THE 'POSSUM HUNT. Told by Martin HelskllL "Now look-a-here, Mahsr Tom, and you all, you all wudn't a-ketched me out on this yere hunt ef I'd a-knowed ye was a-gwine to hunt 'possums. 'Taint no luck to hunt 'possums : eberylwxly knows dat. De debbil gits after a man as will a-chasin' 'possums w id dogs when he kin'cotch 'em nioc comfortable in a trap. 'Taint so much difference 'bout coons, but de deb bil take care o' 'possums. An' I spect de debbil know'd 'bout dis here huut, for de oder ebenin' I was a-goiu' down to the rock spring, wid a gourd to git a drink and dar on de rock, wid his legs a-dang-lin' down to dc water set the debbil bis self a chawiu' green terbacker!' 'Green tet backer ?' says I. 'Why, Uncle Pete, aint the debbil got no better sense than that? 'Now, look-a-horc, Mahsr Martin,' says he, 'de debbil knows what he's about, an' ef green terkacker was good fur any body to chaw he would't chaw it, an' he says to me, "Undo Pete, beeu a huutin anjpossums ?" Aud says I, "no Mahsr, I neber do dat." An' den bo look at me awful, fur I seed he didn't furgit nothin', an' was a sottin' dar, a-shiuen as ef he was all polished all over wid shoe blaciu an' he says, "Now look-a-here Uncle Pete, don't you eber do it ; an' w'at'a dat about dis yere Baptis' church atde Cross roads, dat was sot afire T" Au' I tole him dat I din't kuow nuftin 'bout dat not one single word in whole world. Den he wink, an' he says, "Dem brudders in dat church hunt too mauy 'possums. Dey is .alius a-huntiu' 'possums, and dat's de way dey lose dar church. 1 sot dat church afire mesef. D'y' hear dat Uncle Pete T" An' I was glad enough to hear it too, for dar was bruders iu dat church dat said Yeller Joe an' me sot it afire, cos we wasn't 'lected trustees, but dey can't say dat now, fur it's all plain as daylight, an' ef dey don't bleab it, I kin show em de berry gourd I tuk down to de rock spring when I seed de debbil. An' it don't do to hunt no more 'possums, fur de debbil'd just as-lib scratch de end ob his tail agin a white man's church as agin a black man's church." From "That Same Old 'C'ooi.' by F. It. Stockton ; Scrilncr for June. JOSH BILLINGS ON BEEU. Why He Believes it 117i Xot Intoxicate His Famous Beer Test Act. I hav finally come to the conclusion that lager beer as a beverage is not in toxicating. I have been told by a German who said he had drunk it all uite long just to try the experiment, and was oblidged to go home entirely sober in the morning. I have seen this same man drink eighteen glasses, and if he was drunk it was iu German, and nobody could understand it. It is proper enuff to state that this man kept a lager beer saloon: could have no object in stating what was' strictly thus. I believe him to the full exteut of my bility. I never drank but three glasses of lager beer in my life, and that made my head outwist as tho it waB huug on the end of a striug, but I was told that it was owing to my bile being out of place ; and I guess that it was so, for I never biled over wus than I did.when I got bom that nite. My wife thot I was going to die, and I wa3 afraid that I shouldn't for it seemed as tho everything I had ever eaten in my life was coming to the sur face ; and I believe that if my wife hadn't pulled off my boots just when she did, they would have come thundering up too. O, how sick I was! 14 years ago and I can taste it now. I never had so much experience in so short a time. If any man shud tell me that lager beer was not intoxicating, I shod believe hiin; but if he shud tell me that I wasn't drunk that nite, but that my stummick was out of order, shud ask him to state over a few words just how a mau felt and acted when ho was set up. If I warn't drunk that nite, I had some of the most natural simtums that a man ever had and kept sober. In the first place it was about eiffhtr rods from where I drank the lager beer to my house, and I was jest over two hours on the road, and a hole basted through each one of my pantaloon neez, and didn't hav any hat, and tried to open the door by the bell-pull, and hiccuped awfully, and saw everything in the room trying to get round on the back side of me, and sitting down cm a chair, I did not wait long enuff for 4 1 to go exactly under me when I wuz going round, and I set down a little too soon and missed the chair about twelve inches, and couldn't get up;soon enuff to take the next one thatcome along ; and that ain't awL my wife sed I wuz drunk as a beast, and, as I sed before, I began to spin up things freely. If lager beer iz not intoxicating it issed me most almighty mean, that I know. - "rtiuij miuh. mat lager oeer iz intoxicating, for I havo been told so; and I am probably the only man living who ever drunk eny when his liver was not plumb. I don't want to say anything against a harmless temperance beverage, but if ever I drink eny more, it will be with my hands tied behind and my mouth pried open. I don't think lager beer is intoxicating, but if I remember rite, I think it tasted to me like a glass of soap suds that a picklo had been put tew soak in. A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION. The cat, be it remembered, is more ad dicted to electricity thau any other ani mal, except the electrical eel, and hence is peculiarly susceptibleo the influence of the earth currents. So long as the cat walks over fences running from north to south his axis is coincident with the direction of these currents. They pass smoothly through his spinal column, and beyond gently stimulating his mind and tail, they have no perceptible effect upon him. When, however, he tries to walk on a fence built, parallel to the equator, his private axis becomes perpendicular to the earth-currents. They penetrate into his vitals aud wreuch him all to pieces in their efforts to force their way through him. Filled with anguish, he 6tops, clings fiercely to the fence, aud lifts up his voice in frenzied agony. To some exteut tho muscles of his legs are paralyzed, aud he is unable to move un til tho unfeeling boot-jack comes hurt ling through the air and stimulates him into action. He then springs from the fence, his pains vanish and his voice is silent. Is not this a complete and scien tific explanation of the question which has so long defied the ablest scientific minds. We thus see how beautiful are the reasoning processes by whicti true science investigates abstruse questions. We also see that one of the most common incidents of every-night life is due to the electricity of the earth. Let us, then, be thankful that we liveiu a scientific age and that there are more uses for elec tricity than any one has yet dreamed off. A FEW ITEMS FOR MOTHERS READ. TO A correspondent, iu writing to the Middletou Press, offers the following seasonable suggestions to mothers of af flicted children : We hope that the mothers will remem ber that good brandy is a cure for sum mer complaint; in bad cases a teas poouful in milk three or four times a day. A flannel cloth, wet in hot brand3r, or better, camphor aud brandy mixed and heated, will relieve the pains in the sto mach and bowels. Bits of scraped ice are better on the tongue than driuks of water. For stings aud poisotts, a strong solu tion of saleratus and waters immediate ly and then frequently applied gives relief aud sure cure. For burns, an immediate application of flours covering the burn and wrapped so as to oxclude tho air ; then burn lard till it is quite brown and apply, and re lief and cure will soon come. Do not wash off the flour if it clings, but put the lard over it. At night, in extreme warm weather a lemon squeezed in tepid water, to sponge off the tired-out little body, wiii give rest to both tho mother and child. Sale ratus is good, but the lemon is best. Even washing off the little feet, neck and J palms of the hands in tepid, never very cold, water, will induce a heath ful sleep. Care of Furs. Ladies, it has been re marked, as a general rule, imagine that care iu putting away furs is all that is required ; they think they can wear them when and how they please, provided they spend a few enoo for camphor when they lay them aside. This idea should be corrected. More harm is done to furs hv wearing them for a week after the w0i,r become warm than during the whole cold season. Vyhen they are i,i iu. th.. ri"ht way with a soft brush, an. old linen h indkerchief folded smoothly over them f mini cauinhor keot in the ililu. (V 1'ivv v-. 0 i -a 1 box all the time, to scare mtruders in the shape of moths. FORCE OP HABIT In most of eur colleges it is the custom for one member of the faculty usually the president to have supervision of all absent and dilatory students, aud to him every such one is to go to explain tlie cause of his absence or tardiness. No more kind and indulgent guardian of the college discipline could havo been found than Dr. A Every student knew well his old and stereotyped way of say ing, "well, well, I'll excuse you, this time; but don't let it happen again." 'Although not iu accordance with the usual ruh Mr. H married man, had been admitted to pursue the studies f the re gular course. One day ho was abseut; on. appearing with hkvclasa ia the -doctor's room, he 'explained, with great embarrassment, that the aarivalof an heir had been the cause of his detention. Without looking up from the papers on his table, and apparently without a thought as to the nature of the excuse, so long as there was one, the doctor graciously re marked : "Well, well, I'll excuse you this time ; but don't let it happen again." The announcement was greeted by tho class with the most tumultuous applause. Harper's Magazine for June. EVERYBODY'S CANOE. "Try to please everybody and you will please nobody" is a well known truth, and brings to mind the following story : "A man iu a forest was building a canoe, along came a traveler aud told him he was shaping his bow altogether wrong, aud advised him how to fix it. The man changed it, and the traveler passed on. Presently, along came another taveler, and stopped to watch tlto process, sug gested some other improvement, which the man made. Not long after a third came aud tendered his advice, which was accepted. The man having finished the canoe, after the wishes of the travel ers, suspended it from a tree,, and com menced to make another after his owu ideas ; so when the fourth traveler came along and asked him why he did this and that, tho man looked up quietly aud said: "See here, stranger, this is my canoe; there's everybody's canoe up in that tree." FISH BY THE SQUARE MILE. Some faint idea of the vast and inex haustible number of fish on our shores (says a recent issue of the Hartford Times) may, perhaps, be obtained by a consider ation of the met that yesterday, no fewer than 6,()0() barrels of porgies were caught off Newport. If the sea, through tho Vine yard and Long Island Sounds, is any where near as rich in porgies, mossbuu kers, and other varieties of the most abun dant kinds of fish, what an unimaginably teeming world of life there must be be neath the waves ! And it is, even more than the striving, pushing world of hu man life, a scene of rapacity and destruc tion the stronger preying upon the weak er aud "the survival of the fittest." Enor mous as this single day's catch of porgies seems, it is surpassed by some of tho big hauls of bony-fish or raossbunkers the "whitefish" of the evil-smelling fish oil mills ou the shore. These creatures act ually swarm iu millions and are caught aud hauled in by the cargo. Schools of voracious bluefish pursue and drive them flipping and flashing to the surface, where they are promptly xounced upou by the sailing fish hawks and sea gulls that wait for them out of the water. Iii the sea and on the land the world seems to be a sceuo f shark and tiger, in ono or another form of destructive rapacity. Pills may sometimes fail to act on the liver, but sawing wood never will. Make yourself necessary young man, and your success is certaiu. Anger always hurts us moro thau the one we get mad at. About as low down as a man can get and not spoil is to live on his wife's re putation. Everybody seems to think himself a moral half bushel to measure the world's frailties, I don't bet on precocious children ; the huckleberry that rirJcns the quickest is the quickest to decay. When you strike oil, stop boriug ; many a man has'borod clean through and let the oil run out the bottom. Next in poiut of meannes to doing an iuiury, is to do a man a favor and every now and then remind him of-it. The man who is honest from policy needs as much watching as a. hive of bees just ready to swarm. A stupid-looking countryman halted before a blacksmith's shop, tlie proprie tor of which was forging a shoe, and eyed the performance with much interest. The brawny smith, dissatisfied with the mau's curiosity, helt tl;e red-hot iron suddenly under his nose, hoping to, niuke ! him beat a hasty retreat. "If you will gi ve me a sixpence I will lick it," said thft ronntrvman. "I'll stop the braggart's j aw," thought the Smith, as he took from his pocket a sixpence, and held it out. The cuntrvman quickly grabbed the coin. ' . w . . - - - - - - - . . i n i x t licked it, ana waispa away wnisuing, 'Dd yo'i eyer catch, a weasel asleep." -.- f- A "Parallel Case." Recently a rag- Ku, Buivenng, middle-aged man called at a house on Sibley street and asked frr food, bntthe lady of the house called umt: "Why don't you work for food t" "I would if I knew where I could find work," he promptly replied. "There's a place down town where you can saw wood aud earn your dinner," she continued. That seemed to stick him for half a minute, but he finally said with great sol emnity: "Madam, let me state aparallel case. There's a place in heaven for you, but you dou't want to die till you are driven Y to it," She pondered over his philosobhv for n few eeoads? and Jthen called .to the cook' to pass out' half a loaf of bread and soW meat. Whirhtgig of Time. The latest intelligence from New York city tells us of the utterly deplorable condition of Frank Moses, who was onco Governor of South Carolina by the grace of the Radical party. This man, wlm at one time had it in his power to have achieved an honorable and lasting fame a fame that would have blotted out every petty siu aud shortcomiug of his previou s' life has indeed fallen low. His condi tion is represented to us by a gentlemen who saw him in tho great metropolis a few days ago as being little, nay. not as good, as that of the common street men dicant. Columbia Register. Achilles, by having a plungiug-bath in the river Styx, was rendered invulnera ble, all but his heel. There is a gentle man in Spaiu who has tho advautage of the Grecian hero, in being bullet-proof all over. The Herahlo states that "a mau has just arrived at Madrid whoso body bullets 'cauikot enter. He propones being publicly shot at by the soldiers of the gar rison, aud if this be uot permitted, he will shoot himself by means of a machine which will let off severaf rifles at the sumo time. This strange fellow is said to havo invented a garment of a tissue which will resist any bullet." The Kussiau head of tlie police depart ment, Gen. Trepoff, after being shot by the girl Vera Vassolovitch, thought him self mortally wounded, antfemdo his will, leaving about $3,000,000 to his family. This caused his dismissal, and' not publio sentiment. The Cray hatl always con sidered him poor and honest, and wa shocked to find a man who he thought was serving him through personal, devo tion had shared iu the common corrup tion of official life. NeYerstrike a man when he is down. unless yon can't lick him any other way. Philadelphia Chronicle. The wise man laugheth at a joke, the fool goeth off on his. ear about it. Rome Sentinel. Woman tempted man to eat ; but he took a drink himself. Nevr-r trouble trouble till trouble trou bles you. When Mr. Billony went home yester day and saw a handsome boquct repos ing ou one of the parlor chairs, he men tally observed that it was a shame to let 6Uch bautiful flowers lie there' find with- er; so ho took them up tenderly, procur ed a basin of water and placed them care fully therein aud the same instant his wife gave a piercing shriek and fainted dead away. But it was too late. Mrs. Billony V new spring lnmuet was ujttorly ruined. Surr. Herald. There is-nothing no, nothing beauti- ful aud good that dies and is forgotten An infant, a pratling child, dying in its cradle will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it, and plays, its part, though its body be burned. t ashes or drowned in the deepest sea. There is not an angel added to the hohts of heaven but does its blessed work on earth in those who loved it here. Dead ! Oh, if the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source how beau tiful would even death appear ! for how much charity, mercy, and purified-affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves. Dr. Pratt, a Georgia chemist, has dis covered a method of making pure brim- stone direct from iron pyrites, which are found iu inexhaustible quantities in tho northern part of the State. The process, is simple,and the brimstone costs about only one-third of the price for the ordiu ary article of commerce. A patent has. beeu obtained aud works will soon be es tablished. - ' Lord Dudley was one of the niOKt ab sent-miuded men met iu society. One day he met Sj-duey Smith iu the street and invited him to come aud dine with him, "and 1 will invite Sydney""Smith to meet you," he said., "Thanks," said Smith, j j "but I am engaged to meet him eh- where." At Brown's, ou Friday last, the Tobac co Hold amounted to .-j7,000. The aveiuo ... i i , t l.w c?il rr-ia uluitir KM iwr iiiiiumvl " -i i Vinslon Sentinel. -if f-1