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MURFBEESBOIIO, ST. C, THUESDAY, JULY 19, 1877.
NO. 38.
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A H0U5JXEEPR'S TEiGEDY. -
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One day as I wapdered, 1 heard a cwnplalning,
And saw a poor woman.! the picture of gloom ;
She glared at the mud on! her doorstep C8
raining) f t'
And this waa her wall assho, wielded the
broom: , I ; . . . ' . v '
Oh! Life is a toil, and lov trouble,
And beauty will fade and riches will flee,
And pleasures they dwindle, and priaes they
double, . . .
And nothing is what I could wish it to be: ;
"i ' , 1 . - I '
There's too much of wprrimeat goes to
I - bonnet ;-'.' ' -"ihere's
too much of ironing goes to a shirt ;
Tlilere's nothing that pays for the time you
irft.ftta on it : :
TiiprJg nolldj2r that kuta Jnt ti-oubleaid
dirt.
it
in December ;
loaded with
i
In March it is mud; it's slus
The midsummer breezes are
! dust : I
Tn fall, the leaves litter ; inmugy September,
The wall-paper rots and the cantuesticfcs rust.
There are worms in the cherries and slugs in
the roses,
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pies ;
The rubbish of spiders no mortal supposes.
And ravaging roaches and damaging flies.
' t 1 J
It's sweeping at six and dusting at seven ;
It's victuals at 'eight and diehef at nine ;
It's potting1 and panning from ten to eleven ;
We scarce break our fast till w plan how to
dine. I -' J j
I 1 . J ! .
With grease and with grime, from corner to
centre, j
Forever at war nd forever alert
No rest for a day lest the enemy enter
Last night, in my dream, I was s
ever
tationed for-
isle in the mids
if life, with a
of the sea ;
ceaseless en-
On a little bare
My one chance
deavor
To sweep off the waves ere thej sweep over
me.
8he I rolled down
j folded ;
Then lay down
Alas 1 'Twas no dream again I behold it !
I yield ; I am helpless my fate to avert i
her sleeves, her apron sue
dirt !
and died and was buried in
The Stone by the Roadside.
Where the tovn of
4 .
Randolph now
carries on its busy traffic, Egbert Ba-
Jgbert
His farm
con's farm ws once located.
Bacon was my grandfather.
covered niore thab 700 good iicres, and
he considered himself wealthy, as he
undoubtedly was
poor boy, and his
was the result of his toil.
Grandfather as a very
man. Many persons
He started in life a
honest accumulation
penurious, but he wasj reallM
and from the lact that ms
were given with
works. It was in
peculiar
Considered him
liberal ;
charities
secrecy, people sup
posed that he never contributed to good
his old age
lived to a great period) that-a company
(and he
was about
She did
the same
jiot long
missed a good
nf Kneulatbrs bouHit his land! because
of the fine water pdwer that rah through
i , and as soon as they erected the mills
t ic place began to go for ward. Tiintil Ba
djn's farm was a thing !of thjel past. I
r! collect when the first mill jvjas built,
and I well remember my boyish curi
ositv in watching: the mechanics who
worked upon it.
i i
I My! grandmother
-ip-e as her husband.
survive his death, and I
friend and counselor when sheileft me.
(Jranilfather expected imjto bejajfarmer,
but as I never had any) taste! tor hard
' work, my thoughts and 'inequations
went another way! Of course he was
not at all pleased with mjr stubbornness,
but my grandmother always stepped be
tween me and his wrath1, and Shielded
me much from his displeasure, j
The old gentlema i was! a stu rjly man
at 70 years. He invariably dressed in
brown clothes, and wore so road a
brim to his low-crowned hat that he
might easily havej beenj takejii for a
Quaker. But geti him angry ohjce (for
his irritability was;' easily arougjpd) and
he would let rly such sharp and vehe
ment sentences that it was sohaetimes
i l it-
difficult to imaging they Were dot pro
fane. -
Id, and
I was 19 years o
was
deep in
i love with Sallie stiller, the yoiiag lady
who played the organ at thef Cross
Roads Church, and was the finest dan
cer among all the girls in the country.
Grandfather had conceived a dijajike for
Sallie (because she was a musicijah. He
had no ear for music, and Was not
"moved - by discord of sweet sounds,"
and nothing so quickly excited! his ire
as to scrape a violin w-ithirj his h aring,
or strike a chord upon a piano. .
I Muck against my grandfatherpi incli
nation i he permitted me to enter the
law office of Mr. Smart, as a student.
Had it not been for the gOod offices of
my gnihdmother, t should hot hire had
the wish of my heart gratified. But she
smoothed the way for my grandfather's
consent. But he never ceased to ridi
cule me for my pretensions, arid posi
tively refused to give me his corjgjent to
marry Sallie Miller. It would nipt have
been a wise thing In me to cross the old
gentleman's whims, for I Was his! heir ;
and he could have found another Iwith-
out much difficulty, so I never urged
my lease, .but tiimorM him in every
way I could think of. v j ,
What are you thinking about,
father V1 she inauired. She alwavs
called him by that name. i i
I was thinking," lie slowly replied,
taking the pipe from' between his lips
and dropping both bands upon ) his
knees, that a few year whence, aqd one
won't see good old hickory logs burn
ing upon andirons. Stoves and grates,'
and that . infernal coal that makes
enough gas to suffocate a household,
will supply . the place of i our old
fashioned fires." . -5 " ' ,
I ought to have hed my tongue, for
he was . not " Speaking to mef but I
wan ted M h a w oST ZBnm&JO? myrai rt
ness, and so I replied :
"Oh ! my dear sir, there is really no
occasion for having a stove which per
mits the gas to escape. We have aiow
gas-consuming stoves, and one is not
troubled in the way you suppose."
"Pray, Mr. Smartness, permit me to
inquire how long you have been pos
sessed of this valuable information 't I
have known it for some years, or rather,
have heard it said, that these stoves
were gas-burners, but it's all a lie;
there's not a word of truth in it. I've
known them to send out as much gas
as would kill an ox, if he were confined
in the atmosphere. Now, sir, don't you
feel like a fool ?" j
"Come now, father,"; replied my
grandmother, "don't be so severe on
the boy," (she called me boy to the day
of her death) ; he only told you what he
heard, no doubt, and of course every
one is liable to make mistakes, especially
about such matters."
"That puts me in mind,"1 continued
my grandfather, "of asking you how
you are coming on with your piano
playing friend."
"I scarcely see her, except on Sun
days." "Humph !" returned my grandfather,
clearing his throat. I didn't like the
ejaculation. I often heard it before,
and I regarded it with the same appre
hension that a mariner does an ugly
cloud that rises up to the windward.
"Humph!" he continued, blowing a
column of smoke toward the china orna
ments on the mantlepiece, Vwhat are
you good for?" He looked squarely at
me as he asked me the question.
He evidently expected a reply, so I
answered him by saying that as yet I
didn't know.
"That's candid, at all events," he re
plied. "I've been thinking a good deal
about you of late, and it occurred to me
that you might make a poor lawyer af
ter all. And you know what a poor
lawyer is. You remember Simons, the
man whou sed to board about on the
farmers during the summer time ? Well,
he was what they term a poor lawyer.
He hadn't brains enough to make his
profession support him, and was ready
to do writing or saw wood to help to eke
out a livelihood."
"Our grandson has brains," tartly in
terrupted my grandmother. "My side
of the family contained no fools, and
yours, father, were what were termed
cute men."
"There's a beginning everywhere,"
returned the old man, puffing vigorously
at his pipe. "There must be a begin
ning." -
Having delivered this remark with
an emphasis which left no doubt that
he, believed it, he went on :
"Can you take that clock to pieces
(there was an old-fashioned clock stand
in one corner of the room) and put it
together again ?"
-i'l'm no clock-maker," I replied.
""That is to say," rejoined he, "you
have no mechanical ingenuity. One
must not be a clock-maker to do that. I
have done it, and can do it again ; and
I am no clock-maker."
" "How unreasonable you are, father,"
suggested my grandmother.
He dip not appear to notice her re
mark, but continued :
"Can you turn a somersault?"
"I never tried," I replied.
"Then you are not as expert as a
clown. For the life of me I can't see
what good you are going to do in the
world.'? '
"And I can't see," said my dear old
grandmother; "what occasion there
will be for the boy to mend clocks or
turn somersalts. To hear you talk,
one would think you had nothing to
leave him but your advice, and that
is not of the most encouraging nature."
"A young man should rely upon him
self," returned my grandfathcr."Riches
take wings. I've managed to hold my
property together pretty well, but how
do I know he will do so when you and
I are gone? He'll marry Miss Miller.
What sort of a wife will she make him ?
Smart with her heels no doubt. Kimble
with her fingers at the old organ, but
those wpn't serve to keep a family from
going headlong to destruction." j
"Sallie Miller is a very prudent and;
useful girl," replied my grandmother.
"I don't see what you find amiss in
her." ;
"Don't you?" he replied. Then he
relapsed! into silence, and smoked and
looked into the fire.
By anil by he got up and walked out
tbl-
r
of the room, and then m v - dear old
grandmother took my hand and held it
in her own, and told me not to fret, that
she would bring my grandfather to
think better of my sweetheart. , M
I thanked her ever so much, but "I
had little hope that she would ever be
successful.
About this, time my grandfather was
selling some property in the town
wrhere I was reading law, and it became
necessary for him to go there to sign
some deeds and receive the money for
the sale. At his request I accompanied
him. I
It was nearly eveniiigwhen his bu -l-j
" - . 1 J J A. A f
ues yvaa miisucUj ant we f;i.Jjjtuv v
our return home. Four thousand dol
lars, the proceeds of the sale, my grand
father carried in bank notes on his per
son, as it was too late to make a deposit
in bank. The old gentleman was in
good humor, and talked pleasantly as
we drove along. My mind was full of
schemes just at that time as to Iiqw 1
was to support Sallie Miller if I married
her before my grandfather died. I little
dreamed that ere we arrived home a
way would be opened to me. We were
goihg down a steep hillj audit was tow
quite dark, when the horse stumbled
and fell, and in an instant a shaft as
snapped in twain. I sprang out ofllthe
wagon and grandfather quickly
lowed.
The horse in his fall had become en
tangled in the harness, and lay helpless
upon the earth. The moon was just jris
ing and gave but an uncertain light,
for the sky was full of fleecy clouds, but
still it was light enough to perceive
grandfather drop the package of $4000
as he stooped down to free the horse.
There it lay at my feet and he was un
conscious of the loss. Another instant
and I had picked it up and was holding
it behind me, irresolute how to act.
You will understand thkt I didn't mean
to steal it, but somehow! or other I had
an indistinct idea that I could make the
occasion subserve my aims. There was
a large flat stone by the roadside. I
had trapped a rabbit there once, and. I
knew there was a considerable cavity
beneath it. An instant later and the
$4,000 were deposited in the hole.
The shaft being tied up we got on our
way again, but it was midnight ere we
arrived at home. j
Grandfather had not been within
doors five minutes ere he discovered the
loss of his money. He didn't get angry,
but he was frightened, jit was the first
time in my life I had witnessed him
alarmed.
"I've lost my money,'? he exclaimed,
as he drew his hand from his coat poc-;
ket. 1 jThen he sliddown like a helpless
child,' into a chair and the cold perspira
tion ? broke out in large drops on his
forehead. His face became very white. 1
Grandmother was standing by his side.
"Xever mind," she exclaimed ; grand
son will go back and look for it, and I
dare say will find it, tooj"
"Four thousand dollars don't lay
long on any road, however unfre
quented, and the road we traveled to
night has always some one passing over.
Xo. the monev won't be found. Ah !
-f .-
me;" and the old man lay back in his
chair like one illv
For an instant my heard reproached
suspicion on the affair, I allowed the
hOrse to walk nearly the whole distance.
' Grandmother met me at the door. She
said my grandfather had been counting
the minutes since! I left. He was still
in the sitting room,
j I held the i package
knother kissed mej
"You are a iroodbov
I'll see that your grandfather does the
Hght thing by Sallie Miller."
up, and grand-
Dclll. tl 1114.
1
me, and I was almost ready to confess
my trick, for my grandfather looked
the picture of despair.
"I'll go and saddle a horse and ride
back, il suppose you must have lost it
when the horse was being freed from
the harness. 'Tis only three miles back
and the moon is now up. j It won't take
me long to ride it."
"I think I will go with you," replied
the old man." : : .
"Don't think of it, "I replied. "Trust
me, grandfather, if I can't mend a clock
or turn! a somersault, you ; will acknow
ledge that ilwas always a ; good hunter.
I'll recover every dollar of you money."
"Do you think so?" he asked, grasp
ing me by the hand. "You must not I
mind what I said to you, my boy, about!
being good for nothing. You are my
grandson, and my boy heir, too. All I
have will be yours some day."
lucre viie tiling j uu v 'n i r ,
to let me have," I replied.
He waved his hand.
"I know what you are going to say,"i
he answered. "Well, your grandmother;
has been talking to me on that subject..
Go along, boy, bring me back the $4000, ;
and I'll allow you to marry Sallie Mil-!
ler." r . i ' ..;-.
I made a spring for the door and was
hurrying to the stable, when the old
gentleman followed me f
"Remember my conditions, the $4000
I lost, i Find that for me, :and you can
marry Sallie Miller, and 111 provide for
you. But if you fail to bring me the
Here you are, sir,'?i I shouted, coni
ng into the old man's presence, and
placing the package in his hands.
"Thank heaven!" he devoutly ex
claimed j "I had jgiveii it up, my -boy.
id you- liave much of a search ? Where
did you discover it?" I
Just where I said you lost it. On the
spot where we broke the shaft."
Grandfather examined the ackage
and 'found it all right. Then he hugged
hie, and pulled! my
"Xow, you
Sallie Miller.
for she, no doubt,
of instruction in
jjour grandmother
keen vonr houe
Waste
ear," saying :
scamp, you can niarry
Brinsr her home here.
requires a good deal
housekeeping, and
will make her fit to
from running to
Reader,! thee things happened many
vears ago. All
the farm have long
biut there l is still
le landmarks about
since passed away ;
large, flat stone by
the roadside, as one rides out from the
I never graze
a
and
town of Randolph
upon it without recollecting how inti
mately my destiny
connected.
aud that old rock are
Estimate off the Fighting Forces off Turkey
Ill Turkev the army has been organ
ized under regulations j issued in 1871.
Its ranks are entirely supplied from the
Mohammedans, except in certain priv
ileged districts, such as Albania and
Bosnia which furnish special corps of
their own. In the rest of Turkey every
alile-bodied Mussuljnan of 20 years and
upward is bound byj lawto serve in the
standing army, but notwithstanding
this law a young Turk of the wealthier
classes can always obtain exemption
from the service, the period of service
is nominally twelve years; that is, four
in the Xazm or standing army, two in
the Redif jor reserve, and six in the
militia, but practically the soldier re
mains in time of peaceonly three years
under the colors, and is then sent on
unlimited furlough. The number of
recruits levied yearly is from 30,000 to
40000 men J about 20 per cent, of whom
are supplied by European Turkey, and
so! r of.nt. hv Asiatic Turkev. The
total military forces
sive of the "sedentary" army formed of
who have served twelve vears. is
HI1'' " ' " - V
as follows :
of Turkey, exclu-
Infantry.....-;
Cavalry
Field artillery
Artillery in fortress. !.
Engineers '..
Detached corps in Candla,
Regi
ments.
.56
.24
. 6
. 4
2
; War
footing".
117 360
22.416
7,800
5,200
1,600
Peace
footing-
100,800
17.280
7,800
5200
1,600
8
16,000 16,000
.80 170,376
148,680
.148,680
. 75,000
87,000
...459,360
this army of nearly
Tripoli and Tunis
Total...
Reserve
Auxiliaries.. . .
Irregulars
Total of forces. . . . J
The best portion of
460,000 men is the artillery, which con
tains many young apd intelligent om
cers, and obtains the most efficient of
the; recruits. Every regiment of field
artillery is provided with sixteen bat
jteries of six guns eac h ; all the guns of
the horse artillery ar e rifled Armstrongs
ibuti the mountain Artillery has only
Ismail guns, of which a whole battery
produces less effect pan a single Arm
strong. The fortress .artillery consists
bf six regiments. Prior to the outbreak
Iroops in Bulgaria
ilS.000 infantry, 3,000 artillery, and 216
gun;s. In atldtion tojthis force there are
io.OOO gunners in the fortresses at v arna,
Shumila, Rustchuk,
was estimated at
and
was
Widderi. The
distributed as fol
Silistria, Nikipoli,
armyr in Bulgaria
ows: InTultsha,
7,000; Silistria, 18,000; Rustchuk, 10,-
money, I say nay, and perhaps for a
good while to come." j!
I flew alone: that road as fast as grood
horse flesh could carry me, but felt like ;
a guilty wretch as I knelt down by the
stone and passed my hand beneath it.
A gleam of happiness crossed my heart
as I held the package in my hand.
My first impulse was to hurry home as
fast as I had thither. But reflecting
that my speedy return might throw a
000 ;i Tirnova, 5,000;
Nikopoli and Sis-
tovsi 2.000: and in and around Widden,
55,000 and 114 gunsj Since consider
able; changes have occured in the dis
tribution of tnis forceseveral regiments
havint? been sent down the' Danube
from Widden.
Couldn't lie for
that Money.
A gtory is told of a young Waterville
Me., lawyer, who was of convivial turn,
whoihad'in his hands a number of un
settled accounts agair st an old farmer
in the vicinity, who never paid any
debts until he was sud, and then only
after loud outcries against the lawyers
for "grinding the facs of the poor."
One day he came to settle a bill, when
the lawyer offered to I discount him a
dollar and a half if he j would go into
the street, mingle with all the groups
of pejople whom he might meet and lead
the conversation up to a point where
he could incidentally remark that he
(the lawyer) was a sharp and worthy
fellow. The old man wanted the money
but -finally he said I impressively :
"Snriirp. ! Im!a verv old man and have
' i. i i i '
done: many wicked th
but with my views of
Hp. for that riiOnev."
half was discounted without
any recompense therefor.
ngs in my life;
eternitv I can't
The dollar and a
extorting
features aile
the might
The Arab and Copt of Cairo.
Although Cairo is. strictly speakin
in Africa, it is the most intensely and
typically Asiatic city in the world.
Except perhaps at Damascus, there is
no other place in which the character
istics of the Mohammedan Semitic races
can be so easily studied. The people
call themselves Egyptians, but are
Arabs ; they talk Arabic, and are of ti e
religion of the Arabian Prophet.-- The
Copts, whose name would make them
the representatives of old Egyptian
are even now. easily distinguished from
the ordinary Arabs by their superior
appearance. But they may represent
the governing classes, those who coir
pelled the, construction of the, grc
monuments, and whose
found in the statues of
mnnnrfhs of thirtv or fortv ftentui'i
ago. The lower ranks are Mahometans
and possibly many of them are Arab
but thev are a down trodden race, th
servant of servants, the toilers, and can
not d iifer very much from the people
of whom .Herodotus says, truly or false
ly, that lOOjjoOO of them at a time wem
forced by (jheops to build his pyramid.?
But Masr fef Kaliira, "the . victoriou.?,
city," is altogether Arab. The Roman!
fortress, erected to overawe Memphis J
and still kiiown as Babylon, is tolerablj
perfect;;. much more perfect, .indeed
than any remnant of Roman rule in En
gland; but it lies some miles south o
Cairo, and Was not even included in th
earlv Arahl town. Fostat. : now callet
-1 i ; .
Old Cairo.
As Egypt was one of the first con4
quests jof Mahomet's disciples, one of
the earliest jseats of the great Caliphs J
and long the centre of Arab civilization
it. has more features of nurelv Araw
p . A . v ,
type than Constantinople,' or indeed,!
any other Oriental city of its size either
Europe, Asia or Africa. The traveler,
therefore, who desires to see the Ma
hometan at home cannot to better than
seek him in (Cairo, and he finds in the
narrow, picturesque streets of the. old
parts of ; thjj town scenes j of interest
which we may seek in vain elsewhere.
When he emerges into the modern
quarters tlie change is remarkable.
Though all the tyranny of the Turks
has not suffice to alter the indelible
characteristics of the place, and though
the wide squares, the fountains, the
gardens, theWcades, the watered roads,
the rows of Villas have a half French
look, the people j who crowd every
thoroughfare are as unlike anything
European a can be. j Here, a long string
of groaning'tamels, led by a Bedouin in a
white capote, carries loads of green clo
ver or long faggots of sugar-cane.
There half a' dozen blue-gowned women
squat idly inj the middle of the roadway.
A brown-skinned boy walks; about with
no clothing on his long, lean limbs, or
a lady smothered in voluminous drapery
rides by on a donkey, her face covered
with a transparent white veil, and her
knees nearly as high as her chin. A
bullock-cart fwith sniall wheels, which
creak horribly at every turn, goes past
with its cargo of treacle-jars. Hundreds
of donkey-boys lie in wait for a fare,
myriads of half-clothed children play
lazily in the gutters, turbaned Arabs
smoke long pipes! and converse
energetically at the corners, I and every
now and theilapair of running footmen;
in white shiils and wide short trousers,
shout to cleathe way for a carriage in
which, behiifa half-drawn blinds, some
fine lady of the Viceregal harem takes
the air. Shejis accompanied perhaps by
a little boy in European dress, and by a
governess or inurse whose bonnet and
French costuie contrast strangely with
the veiled figure opposite. ' A still
greater contrast is offered, by the appear
ance of the wiomen who stand by as the
carriage passes, whose babies are car
ried astride ofi the shoulder, or some
times in the basket so carefully balanced
on the head. The baskets hardly differ
from those depicted on the walls of the
ancient: tombt and probably the baby,
entirely naked aiid its eyes full of black
flies, is mu(h like what its ancestors
were in the tljiys of the Pharaohs. In
the older quarters of the town the scenes
are much thelsame only that there is
not so much noom for observing them ;
for the street! are seldom wider than
Paternoster Row, and the traveler who
stops to look about him is roughly
jostled by Hindbad the porter, with his
heavy bale of! carpets, or the uncle of
Aladdin, with his j ' basket of copper
lamps, or the water-carrier clanking
his brazen curls, with an immense skin
slung round his stooping sltoulders. i
PoUtene8.
Many a man, raised from poverty and
obscurity to wealth and honor, can
trace hig rise to civility; it is sure to re
produce itself! Ijn others, and he who is youngest
always polite I; will be sure to get, at
least, as muchas he gives. We believe
it was Macaulay who defined politeness
to be benevolence in small things. The
French, who are nothing unless satiri
cal declare politeness to be the zero of
friendship's thermometer,
A tAtnl on) i nan of the BUD In 1878
gives another chance to hunt Vulcan. I Austria, 1144
NEWS IN BRIE?
4 A colored female died in Soaldintr
county, Ga., recently, at the age of 101.
mineral Butler is makinc & fortune
in thU manufacture of bunting for
dresses. ! . . . ":
different kind, was exhibited at a Oeor
kia fafr. ,
A megatherium '8 tusk twelve feet
one? riaa been nried from a Salem. Ore
gon; sjvamp. I .
Cadet Flinner. the colored srraduate
Tnint. fltnnrlci Hi-vt.v-thirri in a
blasi oft sixty-seven. ,
Sidney Lanier, the poet, who has
3enj some time at Macon. Ga.. has re-
overed his health.
Lilfeni rtartfoa at. Vlrtrlnia c.tv
XevJ, climb to the top Of a mountain
s,uuu iet above the sea level.
any are making rifles for the Turkish
jrOvdnment at the rate of 4,000 a day.
! A oli8h cigar maker (of Lancaster
dountyv Pa., recently worked ninety
i!ix hours on a wager, without sleep or
:-e8t. J ' 'j j - i . n
Mill Alexander Corbet, of Vermont,
who Is eighty-two years old. claims to
Ijiave read the Bible through eighty
times. f .-'- v . 1 ; 'i: ,
Maud Oswald, Barnum's best rider,
proposes to try to j ride three hundred
miles i!n twenty-si, hours, at Dexter
P:arki Chicago. ' 1
p -The citizens of, Arcadia, in the par
ish of Bienville, La., elected a few days
ago fifteen town officials, and the whol
number of votes cast was 13. !
j -Cjbai raining is becoming quite an
irhDortant interest in Alabama. From a
Of. 4,000 tons In 1873, the product
ines grew to uo.uuu tons. in
yeld
oi nerjn
1$76. I C
as .Taek is firtln & to P"iiiri a nartv
p.. . 1 n a t j
of ii.ngixshmen during a three months
hunting trip to the Yellowstone. The
party will visit the scene of the iCuster
massacre, j . . . ,
II A Vermont farmer, Mr. A. B.
jdfshopJpf Jericho, has set out 700' elm
tflees ilitig the highway bordering on
hlis lahdt Future generations will rise
up and call him blessed.
j Rpcikport, Arkansas county, Texas,
is :goingj ; into the green turtle canning
b lsinessU There are already quite a
niimberOf cais, thereaboiits, and now
schrcli i$j beingmade for the turtles.jj
I Thelbanners and armorial bearings
of j the original Knights Companions of
by Edward III. in 1334, have been hung
iri St. Gj0rge8 Hall In Vindsor Castle.
j A pi the last target-flring with an
eightyj-tOp gun, at Shoeburyness, Eng
land, the target cost $30,000, and each
projectile knocked to pieces j one-fourth
oflt. or $7,500 worth of Iron and steel.
H-Bdtsfy Hudley, of St- L6uls, waited
sixty years to get married, and directly
alter theI ceremony her husband went
off, with $11 her money. She'll , know
enough riot to be in such a hurry next
tlpifp! - ; L .". !
U-Lydlsi. Thompson is seen daily
driving lier pair of Arabian ponies in
Regent's Park, London. Her collection
ojjewelsiis valued at more than $100,
000, onel necklaite alone having j cost
;$3iQ0OL!i: ! a ! ! :
i 4The 'fbig treej" as it is called, which
grejw tn paiaverafi county, Cal., con
talned 0Of,OOO feet of inch lumber, and
iwak fnd hv five men workini? twentv-
twK and dne-half days, making 112 days
labV. . . i M. , :;
.-At Wheatland, Cal., there ' are
about 353 'acres in early potatoes, the
e8timatbdfyield of which is five tons to
jthejacre. fVhis gives, (with fifteen sacks
to the tbh 20,250 sacks as the total pro
iluct in tht section, j 4 ;
i-Glass ; bottles were first made in
England 4bout 1588. i The art of making
pottles and drinking glasses was known
to the Romans eighteen hundied years
igo. as jthey have been found among th'e
ruins of Pjbmpeii. j !
-4Th4 tide of Chinese immigration
iiaslset in iagain. Over 3,000 Chinamen
anded aci San Franci3co during JNlay,
nd more are coming. The anti-Coolie
ditors raijse their hands in pious hor
or land groan unceasingly.
eorgla man named Thomas
eury 13 about attempting tne ieat oi
exnlorinsrl an unknown cave nan wav
Sown theislde of a precipice on Stone
'lountain.! To do this he will have to
je loweretffrom the top by a rope 2,100
etlong.ii;; .!''..-. j
1 Colorado is said to bcbuilding more
railroads to-day than any other Western
MltatA nil liprrirnrr. ftrifl her mines ftnirl
rariris are helnz developed more rapldlv
than for
this the
years past. In addition to all
season of 1877 promises to be
marked by kn unusual amount of tourist
travel. - j , (- :
A surveying party who have been
measuring the principal elevations in
Connecticut, have found that the highest
lindl Is Mount Brace, in the extreme
north western corner, which is 2,300 feet
hllghl NeU came Bear Mountain, 2,250 ;
Buck Mountain, 2.150, and Bald Peak,
l996 all ib Salisbury. i
k Queejri Vlcforiahas completed her
53th year.l I ODly twelve others of the
tftirty-elgh I reigning ' sovereigns of,
Christendom have attained this age.
The oldest of them is the Pope, who is
tEmperdriWilllam is 80. the Czar is
Victor! Emanuel Is 57, Emperor
Francis LTdsenh is nearly 47. The
1st Alphonso ot &paiu.
nf tha nolitical complica
tions in Euf-bpe, it may be of interest to
know tbJe lostof the maintenance of
soldiers in feaph of the great countries
ori the othel side of the ocean,. It fa said
that England spends for each of her
soldiers $50Q per annum ; Russia, $240;
France $284?40; Belgium $207 40; Ger
many $105 Turkey, $184 40; Italy,
$83 46; Denmark, $17C; Spain, $16o;
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