"' ri" im nr i" inn 11 nwtco to politics, fitcrotnrc, aviculture, Sricntc, iHoroliiw, emit cncral JntcIIisencc. VOL 20. STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. OCTOBER 24, IS6I. KO 40. lied by Theodore Schochi TERMS. Two dollars per annumin advance Two Hollars and u quarter, half yearly and if not paid be fore the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. N nmerdiicoutjnued until all arrearagcsaiepaid, bxcepl at the option of the Editoj. rO.v l'ei-tiseaients of onesquare (ten lines) or less, one or uiree insertions, 3 1 oo. isacti auuiiionai inser on , 2j cents. Longer ones in proportion. Having a general assortment of large, plain and or tiamcnwil Type, we arc prepared to execute every dc scription of Cards ;, Circulars, Mill Heads, Notes, Clank Receipts, :cs. Leg tl and other IHanks, Pamphlets- &c.,pitn Justices ted with neatness and Jesp.Ucli, on jca&onalileteinis at this office. I LOVE TO COURT. I love to court in winter, The many girls I know, When all outside is dreary And covered up with snow ; I love lo court in winter, Because the oik folks dread The cold and stormy weather, And hurry off to bed. 1 Jove to court in spring lime, When all is brig lit and gay, When Nature smiles so sweetiy, To chase the cold away; I love to court in spring time, Uecnuse the girls, you know. They look sco awful pretty In dresses cut so low ! I love to court in summer When all things are in bloom, And yet I think that courting Will ever he my doom; For I have asked just twenty-one Of all the girls I know, To have me for their loving one, And they have answered No! Tea. The same plant produces all the vari eties. Tie different titses of gathering, and moilci of preparation, cause all the difference between those kinds known by so runny distinct names both of green cud black. The leaves are pioked, and not the flowers; they are rolled with the fin gers. These dried rapidly in iron ba?iti3 over a fire become green tea, while those thrown into very hot basins, then taken qaickly oot, ?spo-ed to the un for a while and afterward dried over a fire, become bbuzk lea The.e psns, as some writers call them, tut more correctly, bowls or basin-, for juey are ucui y ?cun-iuuuiui iu nuapo ud about eighteen inches in diameter, are always of iron, never of copper. A Rjixture of rru-ciai! blue and ejpaurn is ued in the preparation of soaie grccu "lea-; but the bitter qualities are general ly perfectly pure. The native building on the North Gate street, :n nhich we lived during the firt jcar of our residence at Shanghai, was rented, after wo left, to a tea merchant. On vi.-itisg it affct-rward, I found he had turned our former kitchen into .tcacohr ing room. There were around the sides of the apartment fourteen of these iron bowls, set ic moitar ou the top of as many trick furnaces in which moderate fin-a were burning. Thirteen of the bowls were half filled with tea leave, and a man fctood at each, rapidly stirring them with bis hand. The retraining bowl tontainod a quan u joum, R tru.T,UiS, u,cu uUiu... - one, the men from the others would come -very few minutes, and taking from it a tmall quantity of the content-, would re turn aud stir, each into hi-? bowl of tho leaves till they had acquired the requi-ite hue. The exceedingly minute quantity of Prussian blue that any persons could imbibe in driukine tea froca the leaves thus prepared, precludes, in ray opinion, iUO .-iuim; . '"j j o -frin- ' The significations of some of the names "by which teas are known, are as follows making due allowance for the changes an J corruption iney uu-iureu u .u.tu found, in being anglicized Hyson means before the rain or flourishing spring, that is, early in the spring. Hence it is oaen called Young H yson. Hyson skin is com posed of the refu?c of the other kinds, the native term for which means tea skins. Refuse of a still coarser, description, containing many stems, is called tea-bones Boluca is the name of the hills in the re- gion wnicu n conccicu. u. means wuue uair?, iuu uuwu uu hu wu- der leaves. Pouciong, folded plant. Souch ong, small plant. Twankay is tho name of a stream in the provinco whence it is brought. Congo is from a term signify ing labor, from tho care required in iti preparation. Taylors China. A Cat Story. An old woman, wbo died a few years ago in Ireland, had a nephew, a lawyor, 4o whom she left all she possessed. She happened to bavo a favorite cat, who nov cr left her, and even remained by tho corpse after her death. After the will wasread in the adjoining room, on open ing the door the cat sprang at the lawyer, seized him by the throat, and with diffi culty was prevented from strangling him. This man died about eighteen months af ter this scene and on bis death bed con fessed that ho bad murdered bis aunt to get possession of her money. Miss Knight's Autobiography. When a pickpocket pulls atyouvatcb tell bim plainly that you have no time to spare. Publii The Trial of the Nation. j The Rev, Thomn. Starr Kin delivered ' I M I0 'l T rCCCBt!? 1D which he uttered the following striking, lanyuaiTG : God intended the Saxon race, here, I r o clieve, for this sca.e of ground work or puwm iur iucii uLiru. jjui ue tries ev- ery race oncefto ee if they are worthy of their preat Irus-K Nob he calls on us to cam our geography. We paid to Na- poloon some millions of hard cash for half the Mississippi and the whole of the MU- soun; cut now rroviacnce tells us to gain uuuiiMHiu uj UU1 uuaidciui. Ho tries us to see if wo are worthy to secure the perpetual warrantee by our vuiui. j. uc ivucia urn ticgeoeraie. xney care nothing for the Upper Mississippi, for the Sierra, for the Lakes, for the Hudson. They are all williug to let them all go. Their hearts have no pne- cion that reaches into cold weather, or 1 K.I. J. . mi Deyomi wliere a negro can hoe, and dance ana turivc. uc asus us it we can send our plosion southward, or if we are wil- i i .i , . iing to pay our geogrnptty ana tne nerit- "ng auouc nuy cents a pair tor oottorn ac and pride of our children at the first ing. pressure on our purses and our labor, for j Good workmen are now having steady a peace that shatters the Atnericau do- employment and making from S! 00 to main. It is our crisis hour of trial. SI 50 a day. Sis hundred thousand Shall we not be ; stern aud patient, najbi- pairs of sewed shoes are being made up tious to retain the privilege and truft,,iu Massachusetts, for which Uncle Sam and to eave for ourselves and posterity, will pay considerably oser a million dol and the dependents of the short-sighted, ! lars. A low average of the amount paid unpatriotic, maddened rebels, the majcR-'for work bottoming, fitting, boxing, &c. tic benefaction which only patience and would be sixty cents a pair, equal to S3C0,- valor can retain I A Natural Bridge in Wisconsin. A correspondent of a Philadelphia pa per, writing from Pine river, Wisconsin, gives the subjoined description of a natu ral bridge discovered in that region : At tho mouth of the wct branch of Pine river is agreat curiosity a natural bridge almost as wonderful as the one o ver Cedar creek, iu Yiryinia. Here a fctreas: much larger than Cedar Creek, is spanned by a biidge of rock and earth, the handiwork of nature herself. n't. . . i i- t n- - a j. uc west urauco oi i ine river uOws;"ut tBi, ouu men uisiiena was aueuuy through a most beautiful and fertile val-Uery great. Their hollow fiauks, droop ley, eastward, until it ncars the main; ing heads, and low, melancholy moans stream, when a high bluff seems to; uttered at interals, told but two plainly forbid tho blending of the waters. But' told their misery, and went to my heart "where there is a will there is a way,' j like daggers, My poor horse was no lon-an-i the branch fiuds on opening through jger an animated creature, but a spectre hn liirrti 1.1 il fF tntii,!i cL-irl tUn n-njlnrn I nf liimsfllf n Tnnnt s t n rtcfl ri il nr plrolpfnn shore of p,ne ri aod thcir water8 . ... rT,,irmr nn ,nrj tun,lFntu tnm- father of rivers.'' Here is a natural tunnel, from fift en to twenty feet high, right through a rocky hill, whose altitude is 80 feet. The bill is covered with tall pines and foliage down to both rivers with a dense growth of evergreen. .The bridge is wide enough for three teams to drive abreast, and, from its location, I have no doubt but a thoroughfare will at some future time be established along this romantic way. Sufficient water passes under the bridge, even in the sultry month of July, to set a-rolling aud a rumbling a- dosen of the largest mills in the State. A War Episode. A young Philadelpuiao who enlisted in a Minnesota regiment on the breaking out of the war, and unkuowu to his pa rents resident in this city, had gone to Wa-hinston, and thence with his regi ment to Manassas Juuotion. After the battle, when the official report of the Miu-j ncsota colonel was handed in, the name i of the lad appeared as fallen, and the ti-j meat. The Yankee was very anxious to dittos fell like death upon tho household divide ho that he could get both bind that he left. Mr Warthman was direc-1 quarters, and porsuadcd the Frenchman ted to inquire into the ca-e, and his hopes that the way to divide was to out it a were dissipated at once, on arriving at cros the back. The Frenchman agreed the field, by receiving personal testimony I to do it on condition that the Yankee from comrades of the lad that he had would turn his back and take -the choice fallnn in tp onrliniii-of the fii'ht. mortal- of nieces alter it was cut iu two. The , woun,3ed. He at once telegraphed the ' u op lor3 o leu liict, nut do it cay ten in witn a soldier who bad left the fight in compa-' ith thc supp0sod deceased. The two i walked t0(,cther for tevcQ meBt BUi (owq Qn lhe ouod t0 hjet.p hido by When the Mmne-otian awoke the Pennsylvanian was utis.-ing, and had not afterward been sen. This awakened a , faint hope of the lad's escape, tut, a'tor awaiting tor days, this small consolation failed, and the parents of the lad gave! him up as dead. Ye&terday they awa-1 kened to find upen the threshold a wan- rirl rl ii wf t. moii vptttl il n ji T linnn 111") check to indicate his calling, and no pen caD deBCribo their delight at recognizing - .t- a j i j in mis person tne auseu. auu lamameu boy. He had strolled off in the woods at night, was taken prisoner, and, again escaping, wandered up and dowu seeking rest, which he at last found in the loyal camps. Obtaining a furlough, he came to find himself set down as dead. He has again buckled on his armor and gone ... . . . to dare death. m-KX an evening party, lately, a ' young man from England was boasting s-rn. onlfh H imrtftn of his ancestors. "0, yes," said Sam H., "your father and mine spent part of tbeirjives togetb- "Where was that!" sharply inquired . tho other. "In the Bloomingdale poor house," ..ui:"- !"Ji"g P was the stinging reply Wbon a dentist pulls out an aching tooth for us we call it a dental operation; - r il'. i ....11 A trtnt in. DU II u- nwiv. iv ism. uvv u w w. - - - - - r Bieau, w auuu.u va t uu r .-.j t u ;i nn ..i nn. ) should call it cfation: shouldn't we! Extensive Trade in Army Boots and Shoes The -Shoo and Leather Reportcr gives ?I 'f ' ,D? Slal,ST : , , 1 bo doaand for acwed army abooa, for the United Sf..its trnnnq nu troll no fnr ' ..-r, ...... sewed and pegged shoes for the different . n A .-.1 . . I. e . I. J ! rr btatea show no signs of diminution. Last wee a ucuucuiau oi tnuianapoiis leit two orders for Gve thousand pairs of pegged , hoos each for the State of Indiana, and several lots, ranging from three thousand to five thousand pairs of sewed shoes woro disposed of at good prices for New York, iHibSouri anu otner estates. Lrovernment uunuota uiau p.aeuu in uomou ior about twonty-five thousand pair.1 of cav- , airy boots at profitable rates. These ' i i l i- t i . j gouua are to uo made irom eigne ana a half ouncea of upper leather. Some of our manufacturers who received contracts '. on Saturday were cutting and giving out stock on Monday ready to turu out the goods at the rate of from one to two huu- dred pairs daily, in every shoo town in tne otate worumen are engaged in making sewed army shoes, on which they are get- . l c t. . f i 000 distributed amoug the journeymen in the State for making the bhoes. This is exclusive of tho large amount of both sew ed and pegged work for the State, as well as of cavalry boots, which will not fall s.hort of one half the above amount or S1S0,000. The department will com mence paytDg for goods about tho middle of September, when our contractors will have a chanoe to Sam's gold. fingor sonic of Uncle Effects of Thirst. The oxen hud now been four days witb- i i j: i 3 .. The change that had come upon him with in the last twenty-four hours was incred ible. From time to time ho nut his head 'into the wagon, into any one's hands, and J looking wistfully and lauguidly into hu jface, v.ould reproachfully (his look 'con veyed as much) seem to say "Cruel man don't you see I am dying why don't you relieve my burning thirst?" The dogs again ceased to recognize my ca resses. Their eyes were so deeply sunk en in their sockets as to be scarcely per ceptible. They glided about in spectral silence; death was in thsir faces. The waggon was heavily laien, the soil excee dingly heavy, the sun in the daytime like an immense burning glass, and the op pressiveness of the atmosphere was great ly increased by tho tremendous "veldt" fires which, ravageing the country far and wide, made it like a huge fiery fur nace. Andersons Okaranao River, A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a pig in co-partnerahip. When killing time came iney wisued to divide tne Yankee turned his back accordingly. nrenonman viou piece win you uave ze piece wid ze tail on him, or ze piece vat haint got no tail? Yankee Tho pieco wjth tbe tail on. Frenchman Zen by ar J0U can tako him aili I taij() ze ozer one. Upon turning round, the lan- kee found that tho Frenchman had out off the tail and stuck it iuto tho pig's mouth ! jgThe soldier, notwithstanding all his troubles, trials, aod dangers, is fre- quently a quaint genius. When McLmw ill moila liij I n ri n in. Ko.ro mo ma.Vi(i fid yanco on Manassas, a Connecticut regi- ment was detailed as advanco hkirmish- ers, ana upoo aruvmg at uuuuuvmo it i :wa9 drawn up in double file (open) to al- J 0w tho grand army to pass through. Fifty thousand men thoroughly equipped, and armed, with their long train of ar- tillery, passed through in grand array; presenting a very foroft of bayonets as i n..t :n,. : . . . 1 far as tho eye could reach iu either 01- az mm. - .-. 1 .1 . . . .i. I. n itiiinnccnii rrio . ... . 11 , i- : j giouu wwwiuw.w, r ....... w cvtinroiio ivnrn miinn I m 11 1 eapuu with the magnificence and solemnity or the scene, and felt their hearts thrill with , nlnar.ble nrido as they reviewed in these long columns, their country a strength. But as tho roar guard was passing, all their sensations received a tcrnoJo DacK net dj loe louowiug ijuu ry, propounded by tho (almost) !mnn'' tlQur Imvn vmi anoTI fill last .S l.nvn rn., Rnen auvthioi? i man of a man with a gun ou his shoulder, go- -in.naathorer Asked in a tone as "se- ing past rious as a funeral." Tho effect can easi- ly bo imagined. t- . ! ftfS-Tod. a Democrat and tho Union . "TT. ; , i-k. i.i. nnniiioate ior uoveruor ui vuiu, iiua iwwu , , . r Kn ,mn j " - I'lectod dv a maioniy oi uvui How it happened that the Secessionists'! " " George WPson " f did not take Louisville. J A fow JCBra ino RS Mr. Gallaudet1 , hC t -that -f not"WM iogin the streets of Hartford, . take the city of Wville instead of there eono running to him o poor boy. of stonnirifT nf. firoon Minor rolw.rn l.n ,. 0 A nA I. . - - ! . . t l , i -r -rr .....v, uc iuu- ded Kentucky on the line of the Louis- "Villo and Nashville Railroad, is due not tu uuy ioroatgnt or iorco oi tuo Umted Mates authorities or of the Union men of Kentucky, but to the loyalty, courage and tact of ono obseure individual. The oooessionists bad lafd their plaus to ap- pear suddenly in Louisville with a pow- riui ioroo. inoy Dad provided lor "-p.iauuu 1Uui uuuuieu cjir udu ut- teen locomotives, and had eight thousand men, with artillery and camp equipage, n U 1 'Pi i i j .i. " xuey uaa seourcu mo scrvi- ces of tho telegraph operators, ono of whom forwarded to Louisville a dispatch explaining the(detcntion of trains ou the road, and were moving forward at a grand rate. Everything was going well witu tnom, anu Lioutsviiie, with, perhaps, ( lU0 cicepnon oi a lew. secessionists, was j uuexpecting and ungarded, Gen. Auder- . .. ... u.I :.. .. . r . 11 r son beiog iuuocont of any knowledge of Mr. Gallaudet, and he became appreo-: would not bear his weight. Now ho was the movement, James Guthrie, President ticed to a cabinet maker in the neighbor in a dilemma, five miles from any habi of the road, totally in the dark, and Gen. i hood. There the same integrity won for tation, ioside of a Btump twenty feet high, Rousseau lingering in camp on the Iudi- j bim the favor of new associates. To , with no prospect of any assistance, with ana shore. But at a station just beyond f gratify his inclination for study, hi mas-1 uothing to subsist on but the goose eggB; urocu xyver, mere was a young -man in tne service or tne roau, wno was a warm friend of the Union, and who, compre hending the meaning of tho monster train, when it came up, seized a crow-bar used for taking up rails to make repairs, and while tho locomotive wero being wooded and watered, ran across a curve, and in a deep narrow cut, wrenobed the spikes from four rails. Tho train came along at good speed, the rails spread, tho locomotive plunged into the ground, tho car3 crashed on top of it, and it wa3 twenty-four hours before the traiu could go ahead. In the meantime Louisville was saved. The hero of the ocoasion had not had timo to get out of the cut before tho crash came, and was taken, but in the confusion and excitement got away, and is sfe. These facts are related by Dr. R. S. Newton, who was in Nashville when the Secession army advanced, was de tained there several days subsequently, heard the circumstances narrated thero, and was told of them afterward by Gen. Ruckner and other officers of the Confed erate army . Cincinnati Commercial. I . 1 at A "Wonderful Dog-. Wc have a remarkably intelligent Scotch terrier in our office. Among oth er peculiarities, he will not allow a stran ger to open an account book on our desk, unless either the book-keeper, or ono of us, is prtseut. His strict guardianship of our interests in this particular has been repeatedly tested, though we nevor took any pains to impress upon him that such familiarity with our books would of- fend us. It is almost unnecessary to any that his canine accomplishments bh ro- lates to the art and my-tery of rat-catch- wit nn nf n mnst. evtrnnritiruir w kind. On a recent occasion ho cornered one of the vermin, and being unable to get at hire, he actually starved bim out hav ing never deserted his post for some three days and nights, during which pe riod bis food was carried to him. Tho rat then gave up, and was destroyed. On the 21 inst., he came into the office with a bit of dirty paper in his mouth, and laid it dowu very carefully by the stove. No ono noticed the circumstance at the time, but shortly after, one of us sat down by the stove and observed that he'was holding this ditty paper with bis paw, and licking off the dirt. Presently, when ho thought it was clearf enough, he very politely look it in his mouth, and . J . . . . i poked it into our hand. uuriosity in - duced us to osamino it more cloaoly, when, to our astonishment, wo found wo hnrl hnon nrnsnnted with a fen dollar bill! It proved to be a good bank bill, but had evidently been trodden iu the mud for for some time. Wo had uo dilnculty, however, in getting the silver for it. Who's got a more intelligent dog than this? Hartford Times. g&Among tho soldiers now at Fort Sumter, is James Cahel, an Irisiman, who, a fow days ago had the bravery to say that when tho Uuion fleet hovo in sis-ht he intended to spike the guns of tho fort. For this expression Captain Rhett (son ot tne editor oi cue mercury u.uu.- 0(1 "ltu 10 00 ueu acroBS buu lu uu : htrmmi to receivo one uuuureu uuu -- rr . f. twenty-five lashes, well laid on. llio soldiers in the fort rebelled against tho infliction of this punishment, and so a- larming was tho mutiny, that Khctt sent to Fort Moultrie for soldiers to quiet it. They came and tho man was whipped.- , a. ii i a i u ui u u u k, iiu.wu ww- . . .9 inrmlnnl tv II 11 II nrPIirrfII Illlt I. V U or three weeks ago. "bows the state oi fonlinir nmnnir the so diers in JJort oum- w w . . .. n j 1 1 it foroii.nnrs nnd xm-j 7 i.o .innn tfnrfc Northern men, who bating no work, were obliged to go into the army to live. A Lively Interest for the ftlen! A Cincinnati paper, in speaking of tho overthrow of tho rebels at Phillippi, soys that iust beforo the Federal troops enter- ed the town, a certain Indiana compa- ny, almost worn out w.tn tno marcn, wero straggling along with very little regard to order. Hurrying up to his mon tho captain shouted: "Close upl closo upl If tho enemy were to firo when youro straggling along that way, they oouldnt siragguufe aiuub tuuu j, j v. n ..EH nno nf woul U1080 upi - . .... - i . nj1 uVH eioae(i imriiediateiv. w j - J ' ' inrolliru or f?,i ,, r.n "r verv orainnrtr nnrpgrnnm hiif. ahnyi. kiia ccntlenian as the bov icouired Rr onr, tll m.. f WOuld like a boy to work for him and learn him to read!" j "Wbo-o boy are vou. and where do 1 you live!" l ha'vo no parents," was tho reply, "and have just run away from the work - nouse, because tbey would not teach me' vines, which he pulled op and to peep in to read.'5 jaud get poasvsiou of the eg"8 After ho i "TIia o-ontlnmnn mnrln nrr.nm.nk ' J.i(i snnnpoft,! ; CJ f . . . D . . . O with the authorities of tho town, and took the boy in his own family. There he 1 eggs some sis or eight feet down iodide, learned to read. Nor was this all. Ho j The neft, Le supposed, was on a TTrm soon acquired the confidence of his new ' foundation, and he accordingly let bitn associates by faithfulness and houesty. ! self down inside; tut when he struck tho He was allowed to use his friends library, substance on which the nest was built be aDd made rapid progress in theacouifi- tiOD of knowledge. It became necessary after a while that -in- necessary George thould leavo' ; ter had a little room furnished for him in the upper part of the shop, where he.ly exhausted, no ono coming within bear- devoted his leisure time to bis favorite ing ditauce. On tho third day after his pursuits. Here bo made lare attain- 'incarceration' two gentlemen wero out ments in matheroatifs, in the French Ian-! hunting aod came within bearing di3 -guago and other branches. After being itance. Tbey were much frightened at in this situation a few year, sitting at tea 'hearing a man grganing inside of tho with the family one evening, he all atj stump and they could not reconcile them once remarked that he wanted to go tofsclves to whatit meant, but having learned franco. "Go to France?" said his roaster, Fur- prised that the apparently contented and happy youth should thus suddenly bo- They procured axes, and soon the prison come dissatisfied with his situation: 'for er was liberated. Ho swears be will what!" r i "Ask Mr. Gallaudet to tea to morrow evening," coutinued George, "and I will explain." His kind friend was invited according ly. At tea time the apprentice presented himself with his manuscripts, in English and French, and explained bis singular wish to go to Franco. "In the time of Napoleon,'' said be, "a prize was offered by the French gov ernment for the simplest rule of measur ing place surfaces of whatever outline. The prize has never been awarded, and that method I have discovered. " He then demonstrated his problem, to the surprise and gratification of his friends, who immediately furnished him with tho means of defraying his exDen pes, and with letters of introduction to the Hon. Lewis Cass, then our minister to the court of France. He was introduced to Louis Phillipi, aud in the presence of the king, nobles, and plenipotentiaries, this American youth demonstrated his prob- lem and received the plaudits in the court. He received the prize, which he bad clearly won, besides several presents from the king. He took letters of introduction, and proceeded to the Court of St James, and took up n similar prize, offerd by the Royal Society, and returned to the Uni ted States. He was prepared to secure the benefits of his discovery by patent, when ho re ceived a letter from the Emperor Nicho las himself, one of whose miui?ters had witnessed bis demonstrations at London, inviting him to make his residence at the Russian Court, and furnishing him with means for his outfit. Ho complied with the invitation, re paired to St. Petersburg!!, and is now Professor of Mathematics in the Royal College, under the special protection of 11 tUn 1? lucinl Jii run nf Clnni. 1 u" fcUU -j jjgyAvery curious calculation has been made relative to the Union troop- on the banks of the Potomac Taking as a basis the regular allowance of room " required IOr a au.uiei tunauu uF rifrht, aud with his musket at 'Shoulder arms," and placing them in close single file, it would require tho whole roadway from Jersoy City to tho Capital to form the lino. If the samo troops had to be reviewed it would take a railway tram, going at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, thej nra aianufactured in the North. ever fourteen hours to pass along the L,.t weeij five members of the Indiana liuo of soldiers. regiment, northeast of tho Chain Bridge, wore out scouting, and succeeded in kill- ggrThc basement of the Capitol build- Dg one 0f tne eoemy: the othera fled, lea ing has been converted into an immeuso viug ono, who bung over his dying com- i i t . r i...: .j;.. .. ii. nn.Af jgyuoy u. Rocauso they are regularly shaved nersi ! by tho Government contractors . , . . it. 1 .1 u uu ubu t.- r "W V kiss the rod. When a beautiful fomale f ,,q wo sbnnld oyo luuu.i ipwiiuti.j " " .... il. i..u ki33 the lash. uaKo uouse. iu iub uunmug iucib au;rade, probably a relative, until ne was eight large ovens in full operation, oai-j captured. In his possession wero discov ploying forty bakers and turning out fromjered a namber of Miuie Balls, each of 20,000 to 24,000 twenty-two ounce i wjich had a deposit of arsenic in it cov loaves.pcr day. Iu the vaults, outside ered wjln tallow. He was asked what of tho building, there are six double o-ltu0 Q,joct was in using those balls. He yens, enploying sixty bakers, and pro- eXplained that the contcuts were a poison; duciug daily from 30,000 to 40,000 ti,at tbey had not many of them yet, and loaves. One huudred and nixty per-' Wcre only used by thoso sent out on pick sons are employed at these bakeries, re- ct 0r scouting duty. He said that thoy eeiving from thirty-fivo to forty dollars cam0 from the North that they had not per month. Tho monthly pay-roll a- received many yet, but were promised a mounts to o?or six thousand dollars. j larger upply. In connection with this, .. I my informant, a very reinble brigade sur- A tipsy Irishman, leaning against a cqu a tbftt a wag shot jQ lamp post aa a funeral was passing by, pourtceula Massachusetts Regisacnt, by was asked who wan dead. "I can t ex- a rebej pj0tet, who3e body, immediately actly say, sir," said he, "but I presume it afler lhe baH eDtcrod h;3 Qesbt 3Vcllcd up is the jintleman in the coffin. jand t,0 patrent died. The surgeon con- " 77- a 'siders this a clear case of poison, con- A MiraculonV Es-ane The Memphis Argus eivC the folio ingacceuutofa miraculous escape Kom starvation of a gentleman residing in ... 6 J ' I nt-. v:,.t. I 11 il orrt n I o onnt.lp ' nnno:i. near ! "Lfst week ha was out bunting in u'l,r, t,Mtnm ; !,;, " j i.. observed a Hd goose fly oat of a larc cvpretump. which was some twenty feet high. Ois knowled.-e of the habit of these geese led him to believe that tho goose had anest in the staiap. On iho ; outside of tbe Etump were a number of . r r top of the stump, he discorered a large number of di-cov-red thit ho bad no foundation and uimseit sinKing to tne bottom ot the tree. bin "The inside of the tree was rotton and , he screemed and yelled until he was near- that the gentleman had been missing from home several days, they soon were satis- ' fied that it wasjuo 'ghot' inside the tree. never attempt to rob a goose nest, situa ted as that one was, again." Hundred Dollar I3ote to itoo Old Y. a well to do farmer in Illinois. bad some four marriageable daughters; and being one of the mon who think their girls should get married as soon as they arc out of their short clothes, felt some what chagrined that his girls should re main on his hands so long Now there was a young fellow in the neighborhood wbo had been waiting on the V. girls for some time, and had gone the round from oldest to youngest; and the old man had been anxiously waiting for, and especting young R. to "ask con scut," for some one of the girls, but as yet ho waited in vain. B. however, had proposed and had been accepted; but tho old folks had not been made acquainted with the fact. Now, in the mean time, young B. had purchased a fine horse of the old gent and had given his note on six nJonth's time for one hundred dollars. Well, pay day was fast approaching, and B. had not the "ready" to meet it; so the day before tho note became due, young B. made his way over to the old. gent's, determinod to ask him for his daughter hoping thereby to get an extension on the note at least. As good luck would have it, he met the old man iu the yard, aud was about to go through with that interesting ceremony of "asking consent," when imagine bis surprise arid joy, the old man broke out with the following: "Look bore B. you young racal. you bavo been eourtin' my gals for more'n a year; you.ve been gaddin' and cuttiu' round with the hull on 'em. "Now.-your note come' duo to-morrow, and I'll tell you what I'll do. You shall marry one of my gals I don't care which and 111 give you a good scttin' and your hundred dollar note to boot; aod if you don't I'll sue you by thunder!" "It's a bargain," said B. I'll do it." And the next week there was a "tall" wedding dowu at tho old man Y.'s; and td this day B. chuckles over tbe way old mau gave his consent without asking, "and a buudred dollar note to boot." Poisoned Ulinie Balls. There is tho most positive evidence that poisoned Miunie balls arc used in the rohnl nrmr r.nd ncntaneo i afforded thnfc . . . . . . t i tained in tho ball. Some genius has conceived tho brilliant ! 1 r I nil Ikn 1an..... tnin V. n. . v A L military, serv.ce-bceause ,tbcbarges ro sn ureat that no ono could Vtfcand - a ",r vm
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