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dec 15
AGRICULTURAL.
Observations on 3Iantircs.
From the Southern Cultivator.
A correspondent of Mr. David Dick
eon, requests his views in regard to
tho value of the Soluble Pacific Guanos,
compared with Peruvian, to bo given
in tho columns of tho Ctdlicator, and
wo are favored with tho following com
munication in response :
Sr-AKTA, Ga., April 4th, 1SG7.
Editors Southern Culticalor: You will
seo by tho enclosed letter, that I am
requested to use my pen, to test the
value of a compound called Soluble
Pacific Guauo as compared with Peru
vian Guano. I appeal to the corn and
cotton plants to decide their real value.
I am friendly to all pure Guanos in
their natural state, bat piefer uilxtng
them myself, and saving tho profit;
and for one, will buy that manure
which pays the best. It is not iu any
of m books or practice, that by adding
a fertilizer to the land, 1 kill that land.
And, as 1 promised to give you some
reasons why ammonia will improve the
land, I will do so, without using any
argument to convince any person
thereof, against his will. I will state
facts, just as I think they exist, and
will not attempt to write a learned
essay ; and as its appearance on paper
will not be attractive, to reap its value,
you must look to the soil, uud transfer
its conclusions into practieo.
I will divide manures into their two
i - .
nis money back next year, in cotton, I
will send him the Cultivator during my
life. All acknowledge the importance
of turning under green crops. The
only thing lost by their drying, is their
ammonia. I have made money by giv
ing my land one year in four, to gather
ammonia and humus.
You will seo that by the above tests,
it will be decided almost exclusively in
favor of ammonia. I now will refer
you to the Northern and European
systems. The farmers of the Northern
States are improving their lands almost
entirely, by increasing their supplies of
ammonia growing hay, clover, oats
and rye, and keeping stock to eat these
crops, annually; not gaining but losing
phosphates, and gainiug nitrogen ma
king the land rich, and tho land making
tho owner rich. Wo all knew some
thing about English agriculture. Am
monia is tho foundation. Ammonia,
from tho atmosphere; ammonia fi cm
l'eruvian guano; ammonia' from the
turnip, hay and clover, &c., returning
merely the bone earth to the soil,
which has been extracted by ammonia,
which last is constantly increasing in
its relative amount.
I must close, and leave the subject
hardly commenced. In all this 1 see
great encouragement, for with a little
ammonia, we can gather large amounts
every year, and put it at compound
interest getting larger returns from
year to year, by adding 30 lbs. of am
monia annually, and getting good divi
dends on the investment.
I believe strongly in natural laws.
t i
mini's
from
recognized classes, inorganic and or
ganie, to compare their value. Inor- Study nature; trace all
ganic mutinies, such as Lime, Potash, cause to etlect, and effect to cause, but
Phosphoric Acid, &c, aro the bais ot j do not go to extremes as some do- ad
all fertility, and whern they abound in I vacating surl'ace manuring becau-e tho
considerable quantities, will enable j trees drop their leaves on the ground,
plants to gather and appropriate much j contending that it is nature's plan to
moro of tho organic manures, l'ut j manure the surface. I think ts-ero is
plants and seeds are not always made j some doubt whether she is trying to
up of Mioeitie quantities, any more manure at all, or making an effort to
than a
will
h
weiijh
same a!0
Take
iOO lbs.,
a
and
that
l'at hoir that
one of the
will weiirh
produco her like, and has no choice
where the leaves shall fall. At all
events, it is a httlG safest to add a little
only one hundred lbs., and analyse the J science, experience .andart, to help old
two, and see how dilforent is the pro- i nature. David Dickson.
portion of all the parts, according to j -
the weight of each animal, and how j W A ft TVS f'P A NOR A WT A JJ
various the proportions of Bono, Nitro-1 y 11 UXtiima.
gev-fiC'o r 11 i v I Choice I&tracts.
With a full supply of nitrogenous! , e 4 ,
and carbonaceous matter, com and cot- ! " 0 nmke the folIowinS extracts from
ton, &c, may bo made with much ltss, j Artemus Ward' " Panorama," just
in proportion, of potash and bone ; nublished in London :
Dr. Thos. S. Duffy,
yOVTINUES tho rraetieo of "Medicine
KJ Special attention paid to Operations
Surgery.
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in
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31.. II. .Justice,
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declS
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TTAVINO associated in tho practice of
XX Medicine in all its branches, respect
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prompt attention to all calls, to inerit a cou
tinuanco of their established practice.
Charges moderate.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
SHELRY, N. C.
PRACTICE in tho Superior Courts of West
ern North Carolina. maylO-tf
JOHN T BUTLER,
TBACTICAL
Watch and Clock Maker,
ji:yi;ixi:ii, &c,
MAIN Sr., CHARLOTTE, X. C.
DEALER in Fmco VV atehen and
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"Watch Materials, &c.
Finn Watches. Clocks and Jewel
ry of every description repaired and I in;!!
warranted for twelve months.
ftTWork left at tho V indicator Office
will ba forwarded at my expense. janl5
Harness Manufactory.
A. D Farnsworth,
LOO AX S STORE, -V. C.
RESPECTFULLY informs tho public that
ho has opened a new Harness Shop, near
Logan's Store, whoo ho is prqared to do all
work in his line and at prices to suit tho hard
times. Givo us a call. lci-iy
W. P. LOVE & CO.,
SHELBY, N. C,
W7 HOLES ALE dealers in Liquor of
? all kinds. The trade supplied at lowest
rates, and dealers aro respectfully inrit;d to
examine their large stock. apr!2-tf
Tinware.
I AM now prepared, at m old stand in
Rutherfordton, to furnish the public with
Tinware.
I have secured the services of a No. 1 work
man, enabling mo to till all orders.
REPAIRING
done at short notice.
Tinware told by retail or wholesale.
II D. CARR12K
feia-tf
earth. Take a cord of black-iack wood
-
oir a poor pine or black-jack ridge,
whore there is but little organic matter,
and set the organic matter free by
burning tho wood ; then take the sec-vvfel5-i?oirAc,m:tYre'r
abounds iu groat quantities, and rela
tively in much greater proportion to
the inorganic matter ; burn this as you
did tho first cord. The cord of wood
from the poor land, will contain nearly
double the quantity of Phosphate of
Lime ana l'otasn tliat exists m thei
wood from tho rich land. All soap-
makers have found this true as to pot
ash. Now to compare tho two manures :
Take 10U bushels of cotton seed, and
set all the organic matter free by bur
ning tho seed; then take 100 bushels
of cotton fiet.d, and put it in the hills
of coin on five acres. Then put the
ashes tho total inorcraiiic matter of
tho 100 bushels of burnt seed on the
hills of five acres of cord. Then plant
five acres without any manure. Tho
difference in tho crops of tho three
pieces, will show what tho orp-anic and
inorganic parts are worth.
Mv opinion is, that one bushel of
raw cotton seed is worth, for the growth
of plants, as much as tho ashes of the
100 bushels of burut seed. This I
consider a fair test of the difference in
value between tho Phosphates and Al
kalies on the one hand, and Carbon
and Ammonia on tho other. I had
400,000 lbs. of cotton and seed burned
in one house, lhe whole manure was
not worth to me as much as one thou
sand lbs. of seed.
Second : Take tho manure of ten
horses for ono year, dropped under
cover, and set all the organic parts free
by burning, thereby wasting its ammo
nia. Then take the manure from the
like number of hor es, dropped in like
maimer. Uso this on twenty acres of
cotton; uso the ashes on twenty acres,
of the same kind of land ; then plant
twenty acres without any manure.
Cultivate them all alike, and tho differ
ence will bo a fair test between phos
phate aud ammonia, except that the
commercial phosphates are mostly in
soluble the ammonia always soluble,
or will be iu due time, which is a great
item in lavor oi ammonia.
Now 1 will state a different way to
prove that ammonia is the cheapest and
most expeditious means to renew the
fertility of land, and make it product
ive. In the first place I will refer you
to clover. Every, person knows the
effect that clover has on worn land, in
a climate whero it will grow The
chief things added to the soil by a clo
ver crop, are carbon and ammonia. In
the South, the cow pea will auswer the
same end, if sown early, manured with
-ou lbs. ot l'eruvian Guano, and turn
ed under from tho 1st of July to the
1st of August; then at the same time
j seeded again with peas', using 100 lbs.
guano. Feed off with hogs and beef
cattle, which will generally pay for all
expenses, and leave the land twenty
dollars bettor the increase in value to '
be decided by the increased production j
oi mo next cotton crop, compared wiih
that of a part of the field that you have
left uamanured, aud rot town with
peas
itually married Jto one hundred aud
twenty more. So we say he has two
hundred wive4 JHe loves not wisely,
but two hundftd well. Ho is dread
fully married.'? He's the most married
man 1 ever sair fa thy life.' ,
I saw his mother-in-law while I was
there. I can' exactly-tell you how
many there W tt her, but it's a good
doaC It f-trika me that one mother-in-law
is abou enough to have in one
amHy unlesft- jou're very fond of ex
citement. .' i
XOKXoJr PROSELTTISV.
I regret to eiy that efforts were made
to make a Mormon of me while I was
in Utah. ' i ;
It was leap Wear when I was there,
and seventeen fung widows, the wives
of a deceased Mormon, offered me their
hearts 'Ct2tl"hanu. T called ou tl.eui
one day, and taking their soft white
hands in mine, which made eighteen
hands together, I found them in tears.
And I said : Why is thu ? What
is the reason of this business?"
They have a sigh, seventeen sighs of
different -size. They said
" Oh ! soon thou wilt be gonested
away."
I told them when I got ready to leave
a place, I wentested.
They said : " Doth not like us?"
I also said : 44 1 doth, I doth."
I also said : 44 1 hope your intentions
are honorable, as I am a lone child, my
parents being far, far away."
Then thev s tid : 44 Wilt not marry
us'r"
I said : " Oh ! no ! It cannot was."
Again they asked me to marry them,
and again I declined, when they cried:
44 Oli ! cruel man ! this is too much !
Oh ! too much!"
I told them that it was on account of
the muchness that I declined.
BRIGHAM TOCXa's FAMILY.
The last picture I have to show you
represents Jlr. Urigham Young in "the
bosom of his family. His family is
large, and the olive branches around
his table are in a very tangled condi
tion. lTo is more a father than any
man I know. When at homo as you
here see him --he ought to be very
happy, with sixty wives to minister to
his comforts, and twice sixty children
to sootiie his distracted mind.. Ah ! my
friends what is home without a family 'i
A
Witness.
HIS AKTISTIC CAREER.
I could draw on wood at a, very ten
der ago. When a mere chili, 1 once
drew a small cart-load of raw turnips
over a wooden bridge. Tho pc-onle of
utteutiou. They said I had a tut are
before me. Up to that time I had an
idea that it w as behind me.
Time passed on. It always does,
by the way. You may possibly have
noticed that timo always does. It is
a kind of way time has.
I became a man. 1 haven't distin
guished myself at all as an artist; but
, . i y . l
1 nave always ueen more u its uu.wu
up with art. 1 have an uncle who
takes photographs, and I have a ser
vant who takes anything ho can get
his hands on.
HIS MUSICAL IDEAS.
I liko music. 1 can't sing. As a
sinsrist I am not a success. 1 am sad
dest when I sinr
are ntar me. They
than I am.
The other night some silver-voiced
young men came under my window
anil .an!? 44 Come where my lovelies
-) m
The following is not far behind the
Cousin Sally Dillard "
ir wor:
and labor clone in
. it.ri--'- -
Wishing.
Of all amusements' for the mind,
From logic down to fishing,
There isn't one that you can find
So Tery cheap as wishing
A very choice diversion too,
If wo but rightly use it,
And not, as we are apt to do,
Pervert it and abuse it.
I wish a common wish indeed
My purse was somewhat fatter,
That I might cheer the child of need,
And not my pride to flatter ;
That I might make Oppression reel
As only gold can make i,
And break the Tyrant's rod of 6teL
As oiily gold can break it.
I wish that Sympathy and Love,
And every human passion,
That has its origin above,
Would como and keep in fashion ;
That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate,
Ani svtt- rpe emotion,
Were buried Wly ratnoffis xreep
iScneath the waves of Ocean !
I wish that friends were always truo,
And motives always pure;
I wish the good were not so few,
I wish the bad were fewer ;
I wish that parsons no'er forgot
To heed their pious teaching ;
I with that practicing was not
So different from preaching !
I wish that modcft worth might be
Appraised with truth and candor;
I wish that innocence was free
From treachery and tilandi-r ;
I wLsh that linen their vows would mind ;
That women ne'er were rovtrs ;
I wish that wivus were always kind.
And husbands always lovers !
I wish in fine that Joy and Mirth,
Atd every good Ideal,
May come erewhile, throughout the earth,
To be the glorious Real ;
Till '.lod shall every creature bloss
With His euprcmcst blessing,
And Hope be lost in Happiness,
And Wishing in Possessing !
Ode to the Baby.
There he lies, bat two hours old,
Worth his weight in precious gold !
See his face, so red and rosy,
Peeping from the blankets "cosy ;
Seo bix tiny fingers pressed
O'er his little heaving breast ;
Then his toes to seo 's a treat,
Curled up in a little heap,
Now he kicks his little leg.
Now he shakes his little head ;
Now lie opes his pretty eyes
( h, the dear, the darling prize !
rut see ! his lip and eyelid fall !
Ho opes his mouth, and then a squall!
A Pithy Sermon.
So
aro those who
are sadder even
dreaming." I didn't go. I didn't
think it was correct.
I found music very soothing when I
lay ill with fever in Utah ; and I was
veiyill; 1 was fearfully wasted. My
lace w as hewn down to nothing, aud
my nose was so sharp I tlidn't dare
stick it into other people's business
for fear it would stay there aud I should
never get it again. And in thoso dis
mal days a Mormon lady she was
marriod, though not so much so as her
husband ; he had fifteen other wives
she used to sine: a ballad commencing,
44 Sweet bird, do not lly away," aud
I told her I would not. She played
the accordeon divinely accordeonly I
praised her.
THE STEAMER A EI EL.
I went to California on the steamer
Ariel. This is the steamer Ariel.
Oblitre me bv calmly trazinjr on the
steamer Ariel; and when you go to
California be sure and go on some oth
er steamer, because the Ariel isn't a
very ood one.
TUE PICTURE OF THE OCEAT DESERT.
This pijturo is a great work of art.
It is an oil painting done in petroleum.
It is by tho old mas'ers. It was the
last thing they did before dying. They
did this jind then they expired.
The most celebrated artists in Lon
don are so delighted with this picture
that they come to the hall every day to
gaze at It. I wish you were nearer to
it so vou could see it better. I wish
I could" take it to your residences, and
let you see it by daylight. Some of
the createst artists come here every
morning before daylight with lanterns
to look at it. They say they never saw
I anything like it before and they hope
they never snail again.
v hen I first showed this picture in
New York, the audience were so enthu
siastic in admiration of this picture
that they called for the artist and
when he appeared they threw brickbats
at him.
brigham; tocsg.
Brio-ham Youn? ha3 two hundred
O c
wives. Just thmk of that-
celebrated
i case :
Action f-
and corn meal."
Plaintiff son on the stand Recol
lects the ditching perfectly, but seems
to forget all about the bacon.
Vim snv votir daddv did all the
work? Do you know what he got for
it " inquired the attorney for the de
fendant. lie got nothing for it, as I ever
heard on, that what he never got,"
answered the witness.
"D'.ilrnour daddv cet corn and
bacon from" the defendant in pay for
ditching?"
44 Never heard of his getting no corn
nor bacon."
44 What did your daddy and family
eat that summer?'
44 Yittels, mo-tly."
" What sort of victuals?"
4 Well, meat and bread, and some-
t i
tunes winstfj.
Well, where did he get that meat
and bread?'" .
" Well, first from one and then lrom
the other." r
" Did he not get some of it rom the
defendant?"
" lie mou2ht"
4 1 know that he mought, but did
he, that's the question?"
" Well, he mought, and then you
Inn r hp mOUL'htll't."
irhr:ible excitement, and
of thunder.
nswer this r.uestion, and no more
c !,; trlflmo- with your oath. Did
vm.r diuldv. or did he not, get corn
;,wl iiniT.n from the defendant for
,Kt,hinr?"
ttwil nnw. he mouirht : it didn't
j 7 "
znrtlv. vou know."
Horn his Honor interposed, and with
diclal frown, addressed the
J '
u-ltnpss thus Vtisc :
" Witness, you must answer tnc
question, or the Court will be compell
ed to deal with you. Can't you say
yes or no?"
44 1 reckon."
Well, then, answer yes or no.
Did. or did not, your daddy get corn
or bacon from the defendant at the
time referred to?" inquired the Court.
Witness, now fully aroused, and
conscious of his danger:
Why ia the Grecian bend like a cip;ar?
Because it is manufactured to-back
her.
The St. Louis Democrat publishes the
proceedings in the divorce court under
her caption "Casual Tias."
The fenco of a graveyard in Rich
mond, Ind., bears the inscription, in
large white letters, "Use s Bitters
if you keep out of here.''
A story is told of two Yorkshiremen
who traveled together three days in a
stage-coach without a word ever "passing
between them. On the fourth day one
of them at length ventured to remark
that it was a fine morning. "And who
said it warn't ?" was the reply.
Gov. Weller, of California, was
wrecked on the Golden Hule, and on
arriving at San Francisco, he remarked
: ---" ijflst a vi
reputation."
ir but mv
"GovemrreioTiS told him if he
. ... . -. i
travel witu less batnrajre
WW w
Many a sermon has been spun out
to an hour's length that did not con
tain a tithe of the sound moral instruc
tion and counsel to be found in the
wV'ft'Tiev7"foTin ?f odd : 47 You are
architects of your own fortunes. Kely
upon your own strength of body and
of soul. Take for your motto self-re
liance, honesty and industry ; for your
star, faith, perseverance, and piuc.;
and inscribe on your banner, ' Le just
and fear not.' Don't take too much
advice : stay at the helm and steer
your own ship. Strike out. Think
well of yourselves. Fire above the
mark you intend to hit. Assume your
position. Don't practice excessive
humility. You can't get above your
lovel water don't run un hill. Put
potatoes in a cart over a rough road,
and the small potatoes will go to the
bottom. Euergy, invincible determin
ation, with the right motion, are the
lovrr-s that move the world. The
crcat art of commanding is to take
fair share of the world. Civility costs
nnthinT and buvs evervthinjr. Don t
..... 0
drink: don't smoke; don t swear
don't jramble: don't lie ; don't deceive
or steal ; don't tattle. Be polite ; be
Dnerous : be self-reliant. Head gi
books. Love your fellow-mau as wel
as God. Love your country and obey
the laws. Love truth. Love honor
Alwavs do what your conscience tells
you is your duty, and leave the conse
omence to God.
meml, 4,you
than any one I ever saw
A physician walking out with a
friend of his, said to him, "Lot us
avoid that pretty little woman you see
there on the left. She knows me, and
casts on me looks of indignation. I
attended her husband." 44 Ah ! I see ;
j-ou had the misfortune to despatch him."
''On the contrary," replied tho doctor,
"1 saved him."
Mr. G. was a most inveterate pun
ster. Lying very ill of the cholora, his
nurse proposed to prepare a young ten
der chicken, "llad'ut you better have
an old hen ?" said G., in a low whis
per, (he was too ill to speak louder,)
4'for she would be more apt to lya on my
stumach," G. fell back exhausted and
the nurse fainted
" That's a tarnation tall horse," said
Laidlaw. 44Yes ; I guess you can't re
count for it," said Jonathan. 4,No;
how ?" said Laidlaw. 44 He belongs to
Hummins, the livery man," replied
Jouathan, "and his tallness comes
through his having been regularly
higher'd (hired) every day for the last
seven years."
A pious old gentleman congratulated
an acquaintance upon his recovery from
recent sickness, and inquired vvho his
physician was. 44 Well," replied the
convalescent, "Dr. J. brought me
through." 44Xo, no," said his friend,
"God brought you out of your illness,
not the doctor." 44 Well, maybe ho did,
but I am certain the doctor will charge
fur it."
NO. 24.
A BOY MURDERER.
A Remarkable Murder
Ob, iny Brother, I am
Dead ! Ally has Shot Me !
An Affecting Ieath-bcd
Scene.
From the Gilroy (California) Advocate.
On Thursday last, Albert Cochran, a
boy 11 years of age, shot and killed
Samuel Henry Harris, aged 13 years,
under the following circumstances:
The parents of the two boys live at
Gilroy, in adjoining houses. The boys
and other children were at Cochran's
house, amusing themselves at play, the
parents being absent. Albert went
into an adjoining room, and was follow
ed by Hwrry. Albert forbade him go
ing into the room. Harrv insinted.
did he would
"Fried Mallaby, I am pleased that
thee has such a fine organ, in ,ihv
mg an organ in me cnurcu. oo a
am," said Obadiah, "but then it tnou
wilt worshin the Lord with machinery,
I would like thee tc have a firstrate in
strument.
A storv is told of a soldier in tho ar
my whose only fault was that of drunk-
euess. His colonel remonstrated witn
him :
"Tom vou are a bold fellow and a
good soldier, but you get drunk."
"Colonel," replied Tom, 'how can
,i .i . a i
vou extect an iae virtues oi uumuu
character combined tor sixteen aouars
a month."
Atlanta, Ga., is called the Chicago of
the South.
Wilmington, N. C, is organizing a
6team fire department.
The cotton worm is making havo
with cotton fields in Mississippi.
A l.irffft number of buildiues are
- o . v
beins erected in Americus, Ga.
vance, when Albert grabbed a shot-gun
standing near him. and pointed it as
him, cocked it and fired, the chargo en
tering the abdomen from tho front.
The guu is an extra largo one, stub
and twist barrel, aud was loaded with
No. 7 shot. At the timo the gun was
discharged Hurry must have been with
in one or two feet of the muzzle, as
his clothes were on fire and badly pow
der Imrut, and tho entire charge, wnd
ding and all, passed iuto him. The
boys ran out of the house, and an elder
brother of tho wounded boy, heaang
the report of the gun aud the screams
of tlib boys, ran toward the door and
saw Harry, who wan standing at tho
door, leaning figaiust it, with his hand
over tho wound. Harry cried out :
44 0, my brother, I am dead. Ally
has shot me."
The brother then tenderly conveyed
him to his ho uso adjoining, and sum
moned physicians immediately. The
boy whojlid the shooting, it appears,
fully understood tho situation, and ran
off to a neighbor's where his mother
had been" visiting. The physician
came, audan examination satisfied him
that the wound was mortal. This in
formation was imparted to the almost
ditructed parents, brothers and sisters.
Littlo Harry lived till half-past 11
o'clock that night, when his immortal
soul took its departure from the-aarthly
tenement to meet Him who has fcaid,
4 butler little children to come unto
me."
It was iudeod a trying scene to seo
ho mother at the dying couch of her
elovod boy, summoned so suddenly
Vom the eudearing presence of pa-
mila 1 ...tl.n.j ... t,,..- m-Bul -tmlnA
suppoit the ttUlicted during suca trying
ordeals, and, upou her knees beside the
suftjrer, she poured out a prayer to
God for her dying boy that raeuod tno
heart3 ot all her hearers, and caused
tears to flow from eyes unused to weep
in"". Harry summoned all his play
mates, and as they stood around his
dviu" bed ho called thtir attention to
the horrible, isartui wouna ia ma au
douien, presenting a mutilated and
bloody hole large enough, to admit a
hen's egg, which spoke to them in 6ilent
yet potent speech, admonishing them
of the terrible results of 6hooting a fellow-being.
He then sent for Albert, the boy who
fired tho fatal shot. Upon entering
the room in company with his mother,
he was told to kneel and ask Harry's
pardon, but before the words could
have utterance Harry spoke up and
freely forgave him. The deceased was
a boy of extraordinary intelligence, and
was a favorite both among his associ
ates and tho adults of our town.
The crop of St. Landry Tarish, for
lSOU, is estimated at .,oou,vow. t Newport tho fashionable pro-
rru. i.oaV t ihm fair Gramme at the hotels is to rise at nine,
.rrnnnda. near Richmond, is being re- or thereabouts, as the previous night s
o - . '
Well, Judge, 1 can't edzactly re
member, you know, seem' as how its
all dun been sone and eat up, but "
planting himself firmly as one deter
mined to out with it ' to the best of
my reckerleckshun, if my memory
serves me right, he mought, and then
acain he moughtn't."
"The plaintiff saved his bacon. Ver
dict accordingly.
Diamond lust.
Man a bubble on the ocean's roll
ing wave.
Life a gleam of light extinguished
by the grave j
Fame - a meteor dazzling w ith its
distant glare.
Wealth A score of tremble and
consuming care.
Pleasure A gleam of sunshine pass
ing soou away.
Loxc A morning stream whose
memory glides the day.
Faith An anchor dropped beyond
the vale of death.
Charity a stream meandering from
the fount of love.
Bible A guide to realms of endless
iovs auove.
- ... . , t l
lteugion A Key wmcn opens wme
the gates of Heaven.
IWth A knife bv which the ties
of earth are riven.
Earth A desert through which pil
grims wend their way.
Grave A home of rest where ends
life's weary day.
Piesurrection A sudden waking
from a quiet dream.
Heaven A land of joy, of light and
love f-upreme.
graded.
A large amount of wheat is being
shipped from Booneville, Mo., to St.
Louis.
Iron ore has been found in Vamis
occupation will allow. Alter breaic-
... . . a
fasting, a ride is taken to the beacn, a
bath is indulged in, and the ladies go
down to shop. After an elaborate
toilet they dine, then dress fora drive
on the avenue or wherever lasnion may
Valley, Ga , with 65 per cent, of iron dictate, and at night there are hopes,
parties and various ways io ps y
a i v.. 41ia u-ai etna
IUO ClCUllii CIOU KV " ' "
hours." The intervals are filled up
with dressing and undressing, flirta
tions, gossip, promenades, &c.
ore.
The New Memphis Theatre opens on
the liith of September with Arrah-na
Pogue.
A fire is rairins in the forest near the
Flower of Hundred, Prince George
county, Va.
Northern capitalists are about start
His Excellency Governor Holden, '
issues his proclamation, ordering an
diction to be held October 7th, in the
ine an extensive shoe factory it Helena. 30th senatorial district, to fill thevacany
caused by the deatn 01 non. j. .
O'beme ; and on the same day in the
8 h Senatorial District, to fill the vaca? cy
caused by the death of D. J. Rich, Esq.
Ral. Standard.
Ark.
The landings alons the -Missouri
river are all crowded with wheat await
ing shipment
The colored voters of West Florida
re unanimous airainst annexation to
w
Alabama.
Favetteville, N. C, is raising
suucnpuon to purcu mo - E ror of China ia to b raar.
Sme r;d. hnt ho is onlv 14 and knows no
Amons the attractions at the liot better, poor lad.
Springs, Ark., are occasional bear rights
The coinage of the branch mint in
San Francisco for July was $1,040,000 ;
since July 1, $0,000,000.
" Banc me. if I don't believe the
world's a wheelbarrew," said a jolly in
ebriate, as he rolled along the pavemet,
4';md I am the wheel revolving on a
haxis : now I'm in the mud," aays he,
as he fell headlong into the gutter, and
now I'me on dry land," a3 he crawled
upon the curbstone ; his concluding re-
I mark, as his boots lollowing fcis head
Oblige j down an open cellar-way, was, "now
O- I . 7 . .
If any man will trv thi rim, ma bv thinking of that That ishe the wheel is broken, ana tne vemcie 15
cn rne acre ea'h wpy, and faib to get ha6 eighty actual wives and he is ptr- out of fix,"
An old lady, recently in some court
before which 6he was brought as a wit
ness, when asked to take off her bonnet,
revolving on a ' obstanately lefused to do so, saying.
1 . 1 ......
44 There is no law to compel a women 10
take off her bonnet " "Oh I" impru
dently replied one of the judges, " you
know the law do you ; perhaps you
would like to come up and sit here, and
teach us?" "No. I thank you, sir."
ana eanaer puiungs.
Rev. Hermann Bokum, Tennessee
State Commissioner of Immigration, re
signed ou Wednesday.
Gen. W. R. Miles Yazoo, Miss., is in
San Francisco, makinjr. contracts with
Chinese laborers.
The expense of taking the census of
South Carolina, ordered by the last
Legislature, will be $60,000.
Jacksonville, Florida, is infested with
a gang of thieves and burglaries are of
freqent occurrence.
Ex-Governor Worth, of North Caro-
Baiithe woman tartle, "tier ld, Una, wfco faas beea in ill fcsaliii to:
paen enough thetfe how." tome time; is xmprcviag.
When a lover dotes on his darling,
a refusal acts as an auti-doto.
The street cleaning of Chicago costs
over $1,900 per mile every year by a
contract made by the city with a pri
vate individual.
Jesse R. Grant denies in a card that
Mayor Megrue, Federal Assessor of
Cincinnati, gave him a horse to get
his office.
From the recent researches of Pro
fessor Dareste, in Paris, upon the
production of monstrosities in chickens,
it is found that by varying the applica
tion Of th "vat to the egg, every forn
of known ciDcstroaify can b j-roduce-'I
at will.
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