North Carolina Newspapers

p t 4 - 'i' IH rLOVVKS lOUXnQN 7 w U; X i .' J5 . V ' W- r n .i ir j u :i I i" I 111 DO E K J -A' ' .'..1 to J. U. HALLYBUBTON, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C.,-5ATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1880. "VOL V.N).3(. si irlBcn wtox urtrti-rra. Twrald have ben better had wo nsver met, For thm m tantaBaIng memory Of summer hoars that I enjoyed with the Could haunt my winter dap with Tain regret. Hay I not hope thou wilt almoat forget One person whom thou canst not quite forgive? But in ajrsfrolght thy nasue may ever live, Like eve's brfcrbt star when hud of Jove hss set. Unto Uie worshipers who throng tbe pave Of marble, through the grand cathedral aisles, Music's sweet voice to all alike doth tell A cbarm for raring woe. t yaw, by open gran My folly digged for love, thy pardoning smiles, Warm love's cold lips I kissed for death's farewell JOKES' MISTAKE. 'HeighoT,,Trind-'38r. real-estate agent, as he looked out oi cue ... ... v - window at tw old women, a -market cart, and the postman. "Times are dull fearfully dull I Never hare known 'em bo ttagnant since I was in the business. A Vist of houses to rent and for sale that would suit anybody, at prices that are , absolutely scandalous, as for as cheap " bens is concerned, and no demand for 'em literally none f " And Mr. Ellicott lighted his cigar, ar ranged the " To Lets " a little more at tractively in the window, and Bhook his '. head mournfully at the big ledger on the high desk. Bat just at that instant in which he drew a sigh, indicative of the extremest despondency, a stout, middle-aged gen tleman, with a felt hat, an umbrella un der liia, -army and . square-toed boots, walked: into the neatly-carpeted office. The agent slipped nimbly off his chair, laid dotra.li cigar, and "assumed the business rSilbl'' - Vi VL ' r i . " What, can I do for -yon ?" he said, nibbing bis hands, and scenting a brown stone sale, or a red-brick exchange, at the very toast, 1 1 "My name is Jones," said the stout strange; . . . . " Happy to see you, Mr. Jones," sim pered the real-estato agent, rubbing away harder than ever. . "And I want to rent a respectable house in a pleasant neighborhood," add ed the gentleman.- "I am sick of boarding, and I intend to take a'house and go to housekeeping,". "Certainly, by all means," said the agent, beginnings briskly to flutter over the leaves of his book. " We have, I am happy to Bay, a number of most eligible residences here, which can hardly fail to meet your requisitions." " Give me a list," said the old gsntle man. "Certainly," said Mr. FJWitk, dip. ping his pen into the wooden standish. "I mean business," said Mr. Jones. "Iam glad to hear it," said the agent And scarcely five minutes more hod elapsed before the middle-aged gentle man with the alpaca umbrella and the square-toed boots was whero a fat-lettered "To Let" hung conspicuously be side the door. Miss t'ametia Peppermint was just taking her hair out of crimp in tl 9 front third-story apartment as the bell sounded its holloteMocsin through, the house. "Joanna," said Miss Famelia, Over the stairs, "look out of the' area window and set "who it is." " It is a gentleman, ma'am," Joanna answered, in a shrill whisper, ' in a su perfine broadcloth coat aud a now um brella." 7 " Come to answer the advertisement," said Miss Pamelia, radiantly. " Show liim into the parlor, Joanna, and tell him 111 be" dawn directly." She settled: her crimps once again, pinned a petite ribbon bow in her, back hair, gave her forelieod a farewell dab with"a ' pdwdcr puff, and read over for the last time a paragraph in the morn ing's paper, which ran as follows : Wanted.- By a yonng l&dy of education and experience, a. position u housekeeper to a gen tleman of means. No triflora need apply to Mias P., N. W Niion street "Deafr me," said Miss Peppermint, ' hojr my hear flutters for surely this is a crisis in my life. How often does a housekeeper become something nearer and dearex to a gentleman ot suspeptie bilityauid appreciation ! I hope he is fond if poetry." - SlW crosse4 the threshftld ; with a trippftiK stelJ. ' To. her surprise the apartment was empty. v" "Whire i be,. Joanna?" said she, looking around in dismay. " Pleaserna'am," faltered the maid, "I think he's .aa -escaped lnnatio for he's -aWking all around tkebock kitchen, and peerin' .into, the stationary wash tubs, and mutterin' tbhisaelf like every tiring." " Ah !" said Miss Peprjermint, with a satisfied smile. "Very natural quite so. He means to find out what kind of a practical housekeeper I am. A-hem ! nere he comes. Bon, Joanna, there is stove-blacking on the bridge of your nose and a hole in your stocking. A hem ! Please to walk in, sir," to the middle-aged gentleman who appeared on -the threshold, with his spectacles tipped over the bridge of his nose, and his um brella carried, javelin-fashion, under his arm. "I have the pleasure of a'.dress- ing- 'My name is Jones," said the gentle man, brusquely. "You are the lady who " "Who advertised? Yes," said Miss Peppermint, with a smiling inclination "of her head. "Then I wonder at you !" enunciated Mr. Jones. " Sir !" said Miss Peppermint " As old as the hills," said Mr. Jones. All out of repair. Fifty years old at the very least" " Sir !" ejaculated the lady, more as tounded than ever. Truth is truth," said the gentleman, "Not' even decently painted." Painted ?" craned Miss Peppermint instinctively remembering the pearl .,,.1 Dowder. " Rheumaticky, and full of fever and ague 1." energetically added Mr. Joneo. A tumble-down old ruin I " " Sir, you iAsult me 1 " cried the spin ster,' bristling op. "Then, madam, yon shouldn't ob tnide yotir damaged wares before the public.-" "I was never so abused before in my life ! 1 faltered Miss Peppermint, wring-1 ing her hands. Jlt's high time somebody spoke the truth," said Mr. Jones. " Leave the house, sir 1 " said Miss Peppermint. "And welcome," said Mr. Jones, put ting hishat belligerently on the side of his head, and shouldering his umbrella like ffubayonet But first let irie give you a little ad vice. . The next-tfano yon have a house to let " "But I haveh't any house to let," in dignantly interposed Miss Pamelia. " Eh J " said Mi. Jones. "And never had," added the lady, breathlessly. " Isn't this house to let ? " " Yew, but it isn't mine, and I've noth ing to do with it" "You said you advertised." " So I did," said Miss Pamelia, with difficulty keeping back her hysteric tears. "But I wanted a position as housekeeper, and " The middle-aged bachelor stood aghast, the full horror of his situation gradually breaking upon him. " Madam,' he said, " I beg your par don" j . .r "Sir," said Miss Peppermint, " there has been an unfortunate misapprehen sion all around." "I was alluding to the house, ma'am, when I used those unfortunate adject ives," explained Mr. Jones. "I hope yon don't think, ma'am, that I could ap ply them to a lady ?" . "Iam a' solitary female," said Miss Peprjermint, retiring behind her hand kerchief, " and I find myself compelled to earn my bread in a, genteel way. You couldn't recommend me to any single gentleman in want of a capable house keeper, could you ?" " N no ma'am, I couldn't, that is just at present, " stammered Mr. Jones. ' 'But if I hear of one I will certainly let you know. Good morning." And he bolted out of the door in a state of cold perspiration. " What a fool I've been 1 " said he to himself, as he strode along the windy April streets, wipingjris forehead with a red silk handkerchief. " I'll go back to Mrs. Budget's and engage my rooms there for the next ten years." And so he did. Nobody answered Miss Pamelia's ad vertisement ; no one rented the desirable mansion No. 99 Nixon street Mr. Ellicott, the real-estate agent, de clares that business is duller than ever, and Mrs. Budget, the boarding-house keeper, says to her daughter: " Whatever has come to Mr. Jones, I don't know, but he's as docile as a lamb, and hasn't found fault with his roast joint in a month." "Wonders will never cease, " says Miss Budget devoutly. EXTRATAeAlfCE ZZT DRESS. It scarcely speaks well for the stabili ty of a person's character to see too fre quent change in dress. We sometimes notice it in those persons-, who are noted for their good taste and better judgment, and such things are very exemplary. For instance, Mrs. comes to church on Sunday, dressed very becomingly and modestly ; nothing can be discovered in her attire that is not neat and lady-like. She is a-lady, quite charitably disposed, doing with mueh interest, every thing seemingly in her power for the good of others who may need her assistance. She is largely interested for the poor, down-trodden heathen, and greatly in sympathy for the sacrificing, wandering missionary. They are all subjectsof her most anxious thoughts. The home mission has also- jrreat share of her at tention. -- he Inters ardently in- the Sabbath-school,- attends regularly the ladies' special prayer meetings, etc. But this same lady must change her costume every two or three Sundays. What fort I ask. Why so much need less expense there? Is it setting a con sistent example? Even bonnets con sume quite an amount of small change, and I think it soarcely helps to carry out those charitable views and aims this constant changing of these things. I know it is very popular to changehate and bonnets every few days, and they must wear all the elegant ones ; and it takes a great deal of the useful to keep them flourishing. All of these things have their influence, and they are effectual in helping to balance the scales of a useful life. We think of these things when we see those people soliciting a dollar here and a dollar there. If they would save a few of those extra-spent dollars they might be the means of doing much good. No one knows the amount of good that may arise from even SI when it has been rightly disposed of. There is a great suffering in this world that maybe much alleviated with a little money, a .few dollars, and the good seed that may be sown in this way may bring a plenti ful harvest in the future. N. W. A DHEAX. In (larpcr't Monthly, Mrs. Harrtev Woods Baker, a thoroughly truthful person, gives a- dream of the drowning of Bev. Caleb 'Stetson's son on a voy age. The facts of the fall from the mast are given exactly -as they occurred, and were told by Mrs. Baker, before any, thing had been heard of yonng Stetson, to several persons, whose testimony is given in this article. Mrs. Baker, a sis ter of President Leonard Woods, was very sick at the time, and generally thought to be dying. OLD MB. SPOOrEXDYKE. ThU lime He Minm Bit JVowr Roe. Now, my dear," said Mr. Spoopen- dyke cheerfully, "be lively. It'j 1020 ojclock, and we mush't be late at church. Most steady?" 'Yes, dear," beamed Mrs. Spoopen- dyke. "I'm ready. Got everything V I think so. Hymn book, umbrella, and where's the prayer book? I haven't got the prayer book." "Where did you leave it?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, turning over the volumes on the table hurriedly. 'If I knew where I left it, Td strut right to that spot and get it," retorted Mr. Spoopendyke. "I left it with you. Where did you pnt it? Can't yon re member what you do with things ?" "I haven't seen it since last Sunday," returned Mrs. Spoopendyke, faintly. "I know," she continued; "perhaps it is at church. " ; "Perhaps it is," mimicked Mr. Spoop endyke. "Perhaps it got np early, took a bath and went ahead of u. Tjid -yon ever see a prayer book prowl off to church all alone ? Ever see a prayer book h'ist up its skirts and strike out for the sanctuary without an escort? S'pose a prayer book knows the difference be tween a church and a ham sandwich ? Where did you put it ?" "I mean you may have left it in the pew rack. You know yon did once," suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I didn't anything of the sort. I brought it borne and gave it to you. Where do you keep it ? What did you do with it ? . S'pose I'm going to swash around through that service without knowing whether they are doing the Apostle's creed or an act of Congress? Spring around and find it, can't you? What are yon looking there for? Don't you know the difference between a prayer book and the .'Wandering Jew ?' Find it, can't you?" -"Never mind it, dear," fluttered Jlrs. Spoopendyke. "I know all the re sponses, and 111 help you along." "Oh, yes, you know 'em all. . What you don't know about religion wouldn't wad a gun. All you want is a bell and a board fence to be a theological seminary. Think you can find that prayer between now and the equinoctial ?" howled Mr! Spoopendyke. " Got any idea whether you sold the measly thing for china vases or stirred it into the wheat cakes ? Have I been chewing divine grace all the morning ? Where's that prayer book r 'doing to get that prayer Ttxx- before the Revelations come to pass ? " and Mr. Spoopendyke plunged around the room, tumbling books about and breathing heavily. " I don't see the use of making such a fuss over a thing yon don't really need," sobbed Mrs. Spoopendyke through her indignant tears. " Oh, you don't," raved Mr. Spoopen dyke. " Yon don't see any use in put ting things where they belong, either, do you ? How d'ye s'pose I'm going to keep np with religion without a prayer book ? How d'ye s'pose Tm going to know when it's my turn to show what Christianity has done for me unless you can find that dod gas ted book between now and the resurrection ? " and Mr. Spoopendyke spun around on his heel like a top" and knocked over a Parisian jar. --; " Wait a minute, my dear," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, looking at him earnestly. Then she went behind him and fished out the prayer book. "Got jjt, didn't you?" he growled. " Had it all the time, I s'pose. Where was it, anyway ? " " In yonr coat-tail pocket, dear," and Mrs. Spoopendyke jabbed the powder pnff in her eyes and stalked down stairs., leaving her liege to follow. CURIOUS SUPERSTITIONS. The Bedouins take- auguries from birds. A single raven in one's path is a very bad token, but two are extremely lucky. They say Akhdharegn Falen zein two green (i- e., black) ones is a fair omen. The Bedouins have many other superstitions about animals. The superstition as to the flesh of the rock badger which Palmer noted in the Peninsula of Sinai, is unknown here, but there is a similar idea about the monkeys which frequent Mount Kara. These, it is said, were once men, who came to visit the prophet He set be fore them milk and water, directing them to drink the former and perform their ablutions with the latter. The perverse visitors drank the water and washed- with the milk, and were trans formed to monkeys for their disobedi ence. As they were once men, their flesh is not eaten. This legend is closely akin to what one reads in the fabulous history of early Arabia about Nasnas and the Wabar, in the great sandy desert Both these words are monkey names, quite current in the present day, though riot recognized by the lexicons. The latter is an ape, the former a monkey with a tail. Except in this monkey story, J. could find no trace of the superstitious rejection of the flesh of any animal. But some kinds of flesh have a magical virtue attached to them. A man who suffers in any member of his body seeks a cure by eating the corresponding part of a hyena. The hyena is also eaten in the neighborhood of Suez, for a friend of mine who shot one near the Wells of Moses was requested by the Bedouins to give them a leg. A similar virtue at taches to the flesh of the gemsbok (Wndheyhy), a rare species of antelope, found for in the-interior. When eaten, it draws an obstinate bullet from a wound. Scotsman. We can hardly believe it, but they say t's a fact that Devil's lake is the cool eat -place in Wiaoonjin. BVMWEB CLOUDS. The gorgeous Alps of summer skies In softest unto oft maaa in view, Where seraph forms in fancy's dreams . Recline beoeath tin tender blue. And, ncmang onvastreseUol ftseee, . - Those spirits of the axure deps Dwell far above our earthly fields, Where time his generous harvest reaps. nlule we In fate's ranoneleas chains May hapless seem in vales of woe, Shi! onward float the beauteous clouds. Still cheer us with their genial glow. Our hearts are fike the summer clouds That take their beauty from on high ; Us hght that gives the charm to life, . And Hght that soothes ns when we die. From the dark windows of the soul Some loving hand tbe curtain Hits, When gmnpees of the peseef ul land Come bJssf ul through the suoset rifts. JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. Az a general thing thoze who deserve good Ink the least pray the loudest for it. Mi dear boy, selekt yure buzzum friend with grate caushun ; once selekted, en dorse him with yure bottom dollar. I think I had rather live in a big oitty, ana unknown, than exist in a village, obliged to know cryboddy, Or be sus pekted bi them. I kan trace all ov mi bad luk , to bad management, and I guess all others kan, j if they will be az honest as I am about . it I An immitashun to equal an original j has got to beat it at least 25 per cent If yer expekt to succeed in this life j yer must moke the world think that j yer are at work for them, and not for , yureself. You may - find very plain looking coquets, but who ever saw saw a hansum prude? Life is measured bi deeds, not years ; , menny a man haz lived to be 90, and left nothing behind him but an obituore notiss. 1 Men luv for the novelty, of the thing woman luvs because she kant help it Thare iz this excuse for luxury, all lnxurys kost money, and sum one reaps the advantage. j The man who kantlaff iz an animal, and the man who won't iz a devil. ' A festive old man is a burlesque on all kinds of levity. . j Fashion, like every thing else, repeats , itself. What iz new now, haz been new menny times before, and will oe again. - WBITIXQ COMPOSITIONS. : Humanity runs in just about the same veins, arid the veins aro just about as deep -Jo-day as they were a thousand years before the flood. The boys of the present age live just about as long, and are just about as much " boy " to the square inch, as those of the preced ing generation. Their fathers are actu ated by the same motives, moved by the same passions, and 'spend a lifetime in pursuing the same phantoms that men died chasing years ago, and soon will come down to the charnel house and there lie side by side. Human nature hasn't changed a parti cle since Adam was a boy. History throws no light upon the subject, but we are warranted in presuming that old Adam and all the little young Adams protested vigorously against' writing compositiqps. We can readily imagine ' that wben that dreaded Friday for "com position and pieces " rolled around ono little Adorn bad lost his paper; and an other had spilled hir ink and -another naa actually .nroxen -ms. pen, pna ao on. An1 finoTlw NaVhpTi f.TaA'.taiu.Hftr' rrftrl cmtr v " ": "7T that he tntMf rite xcompositien-Qn jChristopiier Columbu8,"tfnoSwheft lfwos produced three "weeks behind tjme-it ran as foHcfwB I ." ' " The subject of this composition is C Columbus. Columbus is the man that discovered America in fourteen hundred and something.: I thik he was born m Spain. 1 "appose Mr. Columbus had a father, but I don't know what his name was. He was a bald-headed old coon ; seems to mo I have heard them say that when he was a little ensrf he used to go sailing on the water. I wish he'd got drowned the very first time he went on to the sea, and- then I wouldn't have to write a composition about Christopher Columbus. That's all I know about it" Thb North pole, ds seen by a Balti more clairvoyant: "The pole is situ ated on an island, having gradual rise from the water's edge to about the mid dle of it On some parts of w appear only bare rocks ; on other parte it has an abundant vegetation. About half of it, the east aide, is covered with fruit- trees. In some parts they grow in dense thickets ; in some they grow not so close together, and have grass thickly inter spersed among them. The fruit con sists of oranges, lemons, bananas, cocoa nuts and other tropical fruits. This port of the pole is inhabited by beetles, white and black ants, grasshoppers, and many other kinds of insects, all unusu ally large; also by many different species of the monkey tribe. On the west side of the island the vegetation is not so dense. It has many tropical fruits, but the trees are small. Among the natural products are the gooseberry, blackberry, grape, currant, rnsplierry, and man drake. But it differs from the east side in having monkeys, and in having vast numbers of birds of every size and plu mage. Among them are the ostrich, swan, goose, duck, quail, robin and humming bird . On both sides are many small streams. " A wbttkb whs saw Victor Hugo on his last fete day says that, although he was looking well, age is beginning to tell on his vigorous frame. His thick white hair is beginning to thin out on the crown, and the broad shoulders to stoop. Yet his eye is as bright, his step as firm and elastic, and his voice as strong and musical as ever. THE fOUB-COBXEBS STOBE. BZ M. QUAD. It was invented soon after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers and it has been enlarged and improved every year since. There is nothing like it except another about four rones west The store at the corners or cross is a Yankee idea, run on Yankee principles, and never flourishes outside of Yank eedoro. Viewed from the exterior the four-corners store is neither romantic nor orna mentals It was planned by a humble architect.- and whenever more room ha been jyxprired additions hove been erect ed with moN regard to pitch" than ' plan. The row of solid Mtching-posks in front is 'moM-to customers than orna mental eoxnice, and it is only once in .a great while that anyone is found mean, enough to criticise the. orthography of the ai ateTr reaong- anWbABlBUMtjBim'1 i..: .: J,.. Hide?: ?!. a 'Vf&wriatfv J And t-ti..?ij-tomw.x The irrterir' bfrtha. ktoi is mtumm : . - . - - 1 and inore. JjStH tegg HM te&esta.it t Buut) j luutjar-aiMinMU - uaa straw -nius are piled tofteT-MMryokes and bud , cages and 'grind-stone and tra-niaina : and boys' b-Jota and bolt of factory ean be fished oat cl the .same heap.. Dry goods, groerieV3 hardware, wooden ware, boots and shoes,: Yankee notions and willow-ware are packed beneath' the , one roof, and. iif ter the 'first year file store is .made postoffice and a drug-"store.- The proprietor does not adver tise : " Pnaoriptions carefully com pounded day night," but he has the necessary confidence to deal in salts, porous plasters, pills, patent tonics, dyes, indigo, copperas, logwood, quir. nine and cough medicines, and he makes no mistakes, f He-is apaeker of eggs and butter ; he is a far and hide buyer ; he is a shipper to commission houses ; he is a 1 judge of leathdr and can warrant, shawls I and dress goods ; he stands next to the ' doctor ' in prescribing for rheumatics, j and is head. , and shoulders . above any other man on -, postal sta tistics. An4if..aU this does not produce a feeling; of awe, be it known that he has actually " been down East i for goods " yeis, sir, bought goods right i on Broadway in New . York, and " was treated like a perfect gentleman." ' He, lias a little world of hia own. He is constantly revtjlyng from pitchforks to drifaiy&y'sanft "rjfim amxrius, uiuulimtr to pins and needlgs. His day begins with a call for three nutmegs or a card of j shirt-buttons, and closes with a sale of 1 a calico dress, but in the interval he has 1 sent to farm-houses fox miles around hats, shawls, shoes, groceries, butter bowls, chopping-knives, fruit-jars, corn knives, apple-parers, jugs, jars, door locks, window-glass, paint, putty, cut lery, crockery and most everything else not made for special use on the high seas. All this beside his weather pre dictions, his estimate on the wheat crop, his opinion of the political situation, and his vivid descriptions of his down-East journey. Some men are bora to com mand great armies ; others were created for a higher sphere, and they establish a four-corners store and rule whole coun- I ties. VPS AND DOWNS. George H.. Williams, of Oregon, who was Chief Justice of the Territory, a member of the State Convention, a six- years' ! Senator in Congress, a member f the ioint hieh commission that made j - treat of Woshinirton. Attorney Gen- era! of the United States, and nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, went out of office six years ago $120,000 in debt He sent his family to Europe, xiheie they could live cheaply, he rented his handsome residence, and buckled down to the practice of his profession. As a natural consequence in a man of his ability and position, he got some very heavy cases, and he practiced in every court m which he could get a client He worked night and day, he took no rest, and lived closely. The re sult is that he is now out of debt, his family is back from Europe, and he is living again in his handsome house. He is now thinking of again returning to Or-egon-nd trying to get back into the Senate. If he succeeds a few more years may find him pnt of public life and $100,000 in debt again. Washington Utter. BARK BURSTING. This occurs on thrifty young apple trees near the ground. It used to be thought that freezing of the abundant liauid sap occaffloned this. But then it occurs as frequently before the first au tumn frost as after it The sun has been supposed to cau.se it- because it is oftenr seen on the southerly side of the stem than on the north. But some times, like the tides, it occurs cn both sides at once. The College Quartet ly prints s theory of explanation given by some German observers, who have made this phenomenon a special subject of study. They say that the protoplasm in the cells of the newly-formed wood and bark is extremly hydroscopic, imbibing water And swelline like a sponee. The aggregate force of expansion of thou sands iof cells is sufficient certainly, to account for the disruption. The editor adds ti e remark that some sorts of trees, more table to burst in this way, seem to hav-J fa open bark which imbibes water from Without readily. Some aerial influ ence fa implicated, for we always find the if.ury at or just above the surface. Sudcla change of temperature proba bly ojterrnines the actual crisis of the 1 , I burst " m ' AIud little Philadelphia boy made his Bother's hair raise the ether day. He le her switch for kite bob SOUTHERN NEWS. Gifmoii has 616 licensed distilleries. Three is a hair oil spring at Eureka, Ark. . Atlanta has $93,000 worth of public school property. Pensaoola has two telegraph lines arid two express companies. The persimmon crop is the biggest thing in Douglas County, Ga, New Orleans expects to ship 30,000, 0Q0 bushels of grain this year. Scbevxn Cotrjrrx, Ga., .has, voted against lioenaing tbe sale, of whisky. . In Louisiana good Auuids make .from $2.50 to $3.50 per djy picking cotton,, ,, . . Tub completion of the Mississippi Biver improvements will require $4200,- 000. ' . ;;. " Mississippi has had twenty-six Gov ernors,, and of whom twenty-two. were Tier ah axneeia to urodnee , one-fourth 1'.- .7 : . a" v ot ins enure cotton crop ox vn dwuo tbiyeM.W' V- - Gxobqia ' n toly 500 Univenalista, onfifcoy claim to be increasing in nam- UUli-roj VM fcers of late; NtABXT one hundred airricultnral en gines are in' use in Anderson County, South Carolina. p Southkbn planters hope to find the English sparrows an efficient remedy for the ravages of cotton worms. A lad at Columbus, Ga., on taking a plant from' a flower pot, found nine snakes in the earth at the bottom of the pot ' - ; - : Cotton factories in the Sooth save freight and insurance, and the profits of middle men, and avoid the compression oi cotton. Delta, Miss., has a malarial epidemic. There is hardly' man, woman or child in the' town that has not fallen a, prey to its influence. ' Gen. Gilmore's estimate of the cost of the Florida ship canal,. $50,000,000, is believed by many interested parties to be too high. Memphis merchants are generally at taching steam power to their elevators to take the place of the. water power formerly in use. A gold watch- has been plowed np on tbe battle held at Xihickamanga. and with slight repairs will be a good time keeper again. Thb St Louis cotton exchange offer a premium of $5,000 to the largest ship. per of cotton from Texas to that market tnls'seasrjTf. - The tobacco growers of Virginia claim the adoption of the Barnett process of curing tobacco will save $500,000 an nually to that State. It is estimated there are 500 eases of break-bono fever in Savannah. 680 in Augusta, and 2,000 in Charleston, and it is epidemic in New Orloans. Thb First National Bank has been es tablished in Pensacola. This makes the second national bank in Florida, the other being in Jacksonville. Each citizen of Edwards, Miss., is as sessed $3 annually for the improvement of the streets, and, in default of pay ment, he has to work on the streets for ten days. iKEBE is prospect of an .abundant yield of rice in Georgia this year. The area devoted to the cultivation of this grain will doubtless be largely increased in the future. Thomas Foote, the Mayor of Macon. Miss., gives notice that he will strictl? enforce the law of the State against pro fane swearing in public. The penalty it 91U for each offense. At Mollohon, 8. C, Young Jacks and his wife left their infant in charge of t negro boy, who fell asleep, when a dog attacked the child and was eating its vitals when discovered. The child is not expected to live. Three things have recently given New Orleans a " boom " which promises to be permanent : The jetties have proven to be successful, the Texas railroad has been completed, and the National Quar antine has kept ont the yellow fever. The Georgia law that no license to re tail liquors shall be granted without the written consent of twe-thirds of the free holders living within three miles of the place in which the liquor is to be sold will probably close every saloon in Ogle thorpe County. MEcxxEXBrBO County, N. G, has seventy-five churches, of which twenty- four are composed of colored people. The leading denominations are the Meth odist Episcopal, which has thirty-three, and the Presbyterian, with twenty-two, churches. Since the sale of liquor was prohibited in Carrollton, Ga., five years ago, the an nual trade of that place has increased from 8200,000 to $500,000r-and it is sai 1 hat there is not one merchant of the thirty in that town who would not vote against the whiskey traffic on -purely business principles. , A censts enumerator' of Bedford County, Va., traveled nearly two days without seeing a pair of shoes on a man or woman. An enumerator in Dinwiddle County enumerated two persons, each of which instances he found them the sole occupants of 'their residences, and found them alone and dead. He enumerated them and shronnded them himself. At Nasrogdoches, Texas, Mrs. Burke died, and while the body was being in terred in the graveyard a thunder-storm arose. As the group of friends stood around the grave a bolt of lightning des cended in their midst, and struck and in Ktantly killed Bev. Mr. Hearn, who waa I in the act of praying. It also knocked j his brother to the ground senseless, an knocked down G. H. Weaver, James I Shaw and George Rogers.- In Mississippi during the year ending December 31, 1879, there were 201 eon victions for murder. Of this number thirty-nine were executed by nan-dnff. while 162 were punished by imprison ment for life in the penitentiary. Daring the same time there were 121 convictiona for the orime of manslaughter, punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for terms varying from two to fifty -yearn. About ten yean would be a fair average. TOO PARTICULAR. A girl may not ask a man to become her husband ; but there are many ways 1 in which she may with propriety com manicate to almost any bright young manlier ideas' concerning him. They are., not set down in the guide-books. They are not parj f.our written literature.- They entiwagfc by rul and jweq- Intion. -They are above and beyond all these, and reAponsible 'to ho law.' - Im possible though it be to define ' them in words, the language of love speaks them more plainly than comet vtaoe. Mont girjs start ont in life with the intention- of marrying sorni ebcdj, though many of tnem are what is called too particular. The girl who wants to marry, but k not easily suited, looks around to see what offers,- and. Iliads that this man's beard is too red, that one's eyes too blue, and the other one's ears too long. She will look a little farther. She examines all that are in the market, and concludes to look farther yet And when, after having al most unconsciously become a flirt, and having broken the hearts of half the young men in the neighborhood, she keeps on "looking a little farther," she finds herself going down the hill on the shady side - of the way, still with an in definable longing to marry somebody, and wondering who will come along to propose to her. It would be rash to ad vise the young lady to accept the first marrying man who offers. - It is equally, rash to advise her to wait and wait and keep on waiting, and at last marry no body. But, if she desires to be " set tled in life, it is well not to be too par ticular, or too shy to give encourage ment to the right man when he cornea along. DURATION OP ETERNITY Various illustrations have been sug gested to convey to the mind some idea of illimitable duration. It has been, said, suppose that one drop of ocean should be dried np every thousand years, how long would it be ere the last drop would disappear and the ocean's bed be left dry and rusty f , ; Far onward an. that would be in the coming ages eternity would but have commenced. It haa which we tread were composed of parti cles of the finest sand, and that one particle should disappear at the termi nation of each million of years, oh, how inconceivably immense muBt be the period which must elapse before the last particle would be gone I And vet, eternity would be in its morning twilight It has been said, suppose some little insect, so small as to be imperceptible to the naked eye, were to carry this world by its tiny mouth- fnls to the most distant star in the heav- i. Hundreds of millions of years would be required for the single journey. The insect commences on the leaf of a tree and takes its little load, so small that even the microscope cannot discover that it is gone,and sets out an its almost- endless journey. After millions -and millions of years have rolled away it ar rives back for its second load. Oh, what interminable ages would elapse be fore the wholo tree would be removed 1 When would the forest be gone ? And the globef Even then, eternity would not have commenced. A PECULIAR CASE OF CHEEK. There are some men who make it a rule never to lend any money to a woman, and say that, however honest a woman may intend to be, she is natur ally destitute of ideas of busi ness fairness, and ungrateful for favors, A San Francisco stock broker has about that opinion of his landlady. She waa crying to him about her troubles one day, as some communicative ladies are apt to do, and said she wished she was rich. He asked her how much money it would take to make her consider herself rich. She said she would be happy with $2, 000. So he went down to 'Change, bought twenty shares of Consolidated Virginia mining stock, which was going np at the time, and held it till it realized a profit of $4,000. This he handed to the old lady with hk "best regards. She wept for joy, and wanted to kiss him, and then asked him to invest the $4,000 for her. , He advised her to be satisfied with what she had, and warned her not to speculate in hope of getting more. Bnt she insisted, and, as business waa business, he took the job, invested the $4,000 in something that tumbled, and she lost $2,000 by the operation. She was furious, said it was all hk fault nd actually sued him for the $2,000 lost, though she still had $2,000, with which she had formerly declared that she would be perfectly happy. A DOO SIORT WORTH THE TELLING. H. S. Lapham has owned a canary bird and a small eur dog about tliree years. The two pets have, in fact, known each other intimately all their'lives, and they have been on uncommonly cordial terms, considering the radical difference in their respective natures. On Wednes day last the bird escaped from its cage, and very soon after the dog disappeared. When Mr. Ipham opened hk front door yesterday morning there stood the dog with the truant canary in ita month. Bemarkabie as it k the bird waa alive, and it now occupies its old quarters, not particularly "chipper," it k true, but still in passably good health. At court, to make advances w as dan gerous as not to make them. La FLEAS AJfTSniS. oka a housewife. Certainly; in many " ' , boarding-hoosea the boarders final. U , v landlady tenders tough fowl. - . . ... ' "Toat," Hud a girt to her nweetheawt you have been paying yonr distrtsrew k me long enough. It k time yon made known your umlxsirtBras, so aa not to ktHvmwQB)aDgeiS- . j. Whi a Oiic g (KMtiea lvofm. by , j rail, she opffna window iand alAntfcher ear towarditi AlT'she tm . to itvwlts- j shmvektonpty hee earipto & ool-bin WibfaTa i with. 4 cvirnhwrf mUlrmoi MI fn th . ' 4 A dasKt who was ttooping to wash lib hands in ereek. didn't notice Hb . peculiar action of a goat just behind him ; so, when he tjcmnbled'onf of the trater and waa asked how it happened. he 'answered : "I JMmno 'aaotly; bat- 'peared as H de shore kinder h'isted and frowed me." , .,.. 1. i A rapid recital of the loUowinft Mt J tonce k said to be, a Wkmn(Uw 'frt'S,!iJ lisping: Hobba meet Saobbs and " Nobbs; Hobbs bobe to Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs nobe with Snobba and -robs Nobbafob "Thk k Nobbs, " the worst of Hohba Job," and Snobbs aoba. . - - - . . . A phtsicxan ' was lecturing lately oa the ignorance of people ef .their own complain to, and said that young lady, ' .i 1 .- 1:.'- 1 1. i - once aaaea nun wum jua ohi jocioraj would be upon, and, being told "the eir ' culation of the blood," replied htTt she should certainly attend, far eh, had been , troubled with that complaint for loaf , time. to thb KKBjrtfrrniAi, txn. . . " Bj a Miaarafata Wrstcs , . XoO on, tbon ban, roll oa t Throngh pslhltss realms at sfrsos . JtoOoa! WhjU though Fas la Srsorrv ossst ' ,,, What utoogB I saao mset mr' bus f ' , What tfaomh I mUftt twwhaoln's IBs t ' What Ummw t twslsw staUas aTttit'f "traravae-aladi ,y t.- . . v -m! --.Ci JX . y:-JL:J . Idoltmbi,Mliat :ti H Tbroof ta saaa of tekjr sir v' ' It's tro rn fot shirts to wcarf , - ItHm tar kntohaOta a) iijjUJ , i j It's tros mi prospMts aU look btws ,h-v:Halaa! . ... n j Bo-foal . ," -r. &O0rt. '---TI ;r , . - ! .. - - Hi was a demure, eountrlfled-looklng ' man, and wne remarkably awkward and uK- Ba feaa M-emvMiMi,t once before, and the smart Waiter by the name of William had palmed off bed quarter on him. He came a second time, and, on handing over a $S bill, be remarked in a timid way, " Last time you gave me a bad quarter ; please be more careful tins time.'' " No danger," said the pert waiter, " that waa the only one of the kind I had. Sorry I can't -accommodate you with another," as he shelled out the change. AH the after noon William was chuckling to himself, but the last time he smiled right heart ily was later in the evening, just before - ' '. he settled with the boss, when thalindi- . vidual chuoked him a bad $6 bill, with the humorous remark, " f 11 make yon a present of that $5, William, and take it out of yonr salary at the end of the week. "Hawk- Eye. NIGHT IN THE HOOK. At last, however, night sets in. Grate ful it comes after the sun has gathered np hk smiting rays and gone down to hk rest All at once we are plunging into comparative obscurity, for -again there k no twilight to stay the steps of departing day. At one stride comes the dark. But, looking np into the sky, w behold a vast orb which pours down milder and more beneficent splendor than the great lord of the system. It k such a moon as we torrestriak emnot boast ; for it k not leas than thirteen.., times as large and luminous as our own. There it hangs in the firmament, with out apparent change of place, as if " fixed (n its everlasting seat" Bnt not with out a change of surface. For thk great globe k a painted 'panorama, and, turn ing around majestically on its axis, pre sents its oceans and continents in grand succession. As Europe and Africa, locking the Mediteprsnesn in their em brace, roll a was; to tbe right, the stormy Atlantic offers its waters to view, then the two Americas, with their huge for este and vast prairies, pass under in spection. Then the great basin of the Pacific, lit np with kland fires, meek the gazer's eye, and as thk glides over the scene the eastern rim of Ask, the Tipper portion of Australia, sail into sight The Indian ooean, and afterward the Arabian sea, spread themselves out in their subdued splendor, and thus in four and twenty hours " the great ro tundity we tread", turns hk pictured countenance to the moon and grandly repays the listening lunarians by re peating, to the best of ita ability, the story of it birth. Tor k the sky less marvelous in another respect, for the absence of any atmospheric diffusion of light permits the constellations to shine ont with a dktinctness which k never paralleled on earth. They gutter like diamond points set in a firmament of ebony. Stars and clusters which we never see by the naked eye flock into view and crowd the lunar heavens. Britbh Quarterly. METEMPSYCHOSIS. Believers in metempsychosk have had their faith refreshed by the recent birth of a fbiM who, coming into' the world, made searching scrutiny of hk sur roundings, and, sinking back into hk nurse's arms, remarked Thank Heaven, st last I have got myself born into s family that k eomfertably Axed." Exchange.