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NEW SERIES, VOL. 13, NO. 34.
SUNBUIiY. NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, TA -SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1860.
OLD SERIES, VOL. 21. NO 8-
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March 10, 1660 '
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Looking Glasses.
A large stock of Looking Glasses, received anJ
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II
O! YE LOVERS OF 80UP! Afresh
surlily of Macaroni and Confectionery at
' ' ' coTin-n cmvM
Putibury, June 1, 1880.
EARLY RISING.
BT JOHN 0. BAI8.
"God blesi ihe man who first invented ale. p I"
So tiaocbo Panza (aid, ao aay I j
And bleat him also that ha didn't keep
Ilia great discovery to himself ; or irj
To make it aa the lucky fellow mipbt
A cloee monopoly by "patent right 1"
Yes bloaa the man who first invented sleep.
(1 really can't avoid the iteration )
But blast the man, with curses luud and
deep,
Wbate'er the rascal's name, or age, or
station,
Who lint inveoted, and went round advising,
That artificial cut-off Early Rising I
"Rise with the lark, and with the lark to
bed,"
Observes some solemn, sentimental owl ;
Maxims like these are very cheaply said,
But ere yoo make yourself a fool or fowl,
Pray, just inquire about the rise nod fall,
And whether larks have any bed at all.
The "time for honest folks to be abed,"
Is in the morning, if 1 reason right ;
And he who cannot keep bis prprinus bead
Upon his pillow till 'tig fairly liebt.
And so enjoy his forty morning winks,
Is up to kuavery ; or else -be drinks.
Thompson, who sung about the "Seasons,"
said,
It was a glorious thing to rise in reason,
But then be said lying in bis bed
At teu o'clock, a. m the very reason
Jin wrn so charmingly. The simple fact is,
His preaching wasu't suuetiuued by bis prac
tice. 'I'is doubtless, well to be sometimes awake
A wake to duty, and awake to truth
Jim when, altis ! a nice review we take
Of our bent deeus and days, we find, In
sooth,
The hours that leave the slightest cause to
weep
Are those we pass in childhood or, asleep!
Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile
l'or the soli visions of the gentle uight;
And free at last from mortal care or guile,
To live, as only in the angels' sight,
In sleep's sweet realm so cosily abut in,
Wbeie, at the worst, we only dream of sin.
So, let us sleep, and give the maker praise.
1 like the lud who, when big father thought
To clip this moroiDg nap by hackneyed
phrase
Of vugrant worm by early songster caught
Cried, "Served bim right ! it's not utallsur
. rrisiDg
Tha worm was prmiphed, sir, for early rising!"
Tt$ceIlanc0it$
Minnesota for Lung Diseases.
Until recently very erode notions have
prevailed concerning the benefit derivable
from a change of air and climate in oases of
lung diseases. Our people thought that all
that was necessary for the recovery of any
person alllicted with this maladies, was, re
moval to a warm tropical climate. In conse
quence of this mistake, thousands of invalids,
already enervated by summer beat, have been
shipped oB South in the tall to die there.
Experience proves that there ere as many
sorts of cures of rulher preventives of con
sumption as there are pbuses of the disease.
The benefits derivable from change of climate
in these cases afford material for a separate
and important science. It is foaad that some
people will God relief on the Southern shore
of Britain, sheltered as it is by lofty cliffs j
for others portions of France, Spain, or
Italy are most useful ; for others, the Canary
Islands, or the Wet Indies, or Florida, or
Mexico, or California. For others, sea-voyages
furnUb the right air. Tbea as to
borne cures, relief is fouod in out-door life,
horseback riding, going to the sea-shore,
going away from it, living on mouutains or
iu sheltered vallies, in Southern sugar bouses
or tar rope factories, or piny woods, in eating
meat or driukiog wbi.key to .ay nothing of
tbe various medicaments. It will be seen,
then, thut there is great room for the exer
cise ef intelligence in each case.
An important article bag been lately going
tbe rouods of tbe papers, which atatea that,
taking Boston as tbe locality in which con
sumption reaches its greatest intensity, in
tbe United Slates, there is a gradual diminu
tion of its virulence as you go West and
South, until tbe ininimuin is reached in
Florida and on tbe borders of tbe great
plains in tbe West for instance at tbe west
ern boundary of Minnesota. Such glowing
accounts of the benefit of Minnesota air,
in cases of consumption, bave been circulated
through tbe country during tbe last five years
that a tide ol emigration of this class of the
afflicted has set very strongly thither, and
seems likely to do much for up building of
that noble State. Tbe latest and highest
authority on this subject is Rev. Horace
Busbuell.D.l)., well known as one of tbe most
liberal and intellectual divines of New Eng
land, lie has spent nearly year there and
bia experience is quite valuable, lie bad
passed a winter in Cuba, without benefit, also
nearly a year in California, making a gain in
the dry season and a partial loss in tbe wet
sea.oa. Breaking down again be went to
Minnesota. A physician told him on bis re
turn borne, after a strict investigation, "You
bave bad a difficulty in tbe right lung, but
you are heated." lie is at least greatly im-1
proved, lie says that tbe requisite style of
living, if yoo would give the climate a fair
chance iucludes relaxation from care, oat-door
exercise (those too far gone for tbia cannot
expect much help) good lodgings and proper
dre.s. The Que point about the climate is its
dryness. Tbe summer rain occurs mostly at
night. The winter air is cold but exquitely
clear. There was no rain last winter from
October to March. A California rain table
will show better than that of Minnesota, bat
in tbe former State tbe heavy fog from tbe
sea ia as bad as rain for consumptives. Phila
delphia Keening Bulletin,
Akotiiib Fboo Story In the Dallas
(Texas Herald, we find tbe following .'A
gentleman of undoubted veracity informs us
that last week a bull-frog was killed near
here, measuring eighteen Tucbei across the
shoulders, and over two feet and a balf in
length, ilia voice was terrifi. bis enor
mous eyes atuck out three inchea and be
coold leap beyond tbe conception of tbe moat
extravagant. He waa abot by a bey, and tha
jewel-beaded monster was captured with
much difficulty."
It ia to be remarked that all stories like
the above emsns'e fr ' in !- r" " uudoubi
ed madly.
Parson Brownlow on Yancey.
Parson Brownlow, in his paper, tbe Knox
Villa Whig, says i
Tbe fact that W. L. Yancey killed his
ancle, Dr. Earle of South Carolina, has been
stated In general terms, but the detail! bave
not been given, Dr. Earle lived one mile
and a half west of Greenville where his widow
still resides, if alive.- A few bandred yards
distant is an old field, eometimea used for
practicing on horseback, but more frequently
resorted to as a master ground. - This was
the occasion of a drill muster, when Dr.
Earlie's son, about ten years old, went to the
ground, as alj boys seek to do ; and during
tbeir wheeling and turning, the boy got in
the way. Yancey ordered bim to get oat of
the way, but the boy, in bis confusion, got
more and mere in the way, whereupon
Yancey lashed him most unmeroifully with a
horsewhip. Dr. Earle was not at borne ; but
on returning bomn through town, a friend
told bim bow cruelly Yancey bad treated hit
son. Yancey told bim that tbe boy bad been
vtry insolent and that he had slapped bis
jaws. Dr. Karle replied that he bad served
him right. When Dr. Karle reached borne
and learned tbe facts, and found that Yancey
bad lied to bim be returned to Greenville in
Sbarch of bim. Yancey, knowing the pluck
of Dr. Karle, and that be would be detected
in tbe falsehood, prepared himself for fight.
Dr. Karle found Yancey on Dr. Crittenden's
porch, and in marching apon bim waa ahot
down by Yancey with a pistol. These are
the tacts as we have them from one bora and
reared in that vicinity, Tbe fact that he
was convicted opoo trial, and imprisoned, and
afterwards oecame the subject of Executive
clemency, corroborates tbe truth of tbia ver
sion." The Local Paper.
We clip the following sensible article from
Life illustrated :
Reader, did you ever reflect on the subject
of supporting liberally the press, and first of
all your own local newspaper? If not, permit
us to suggest to you your privilege and your
duty in this respect.
Each city, town and village in a country
like tbe United States should be represented
by a live local paper, and it would be well,
not only for the people and the place so rep
resented to have a paper which would reflect
credit ou both, but a paper which would be
an honor and a credit to the State and the
nation. Strangers from abroad judge us by
our newspaper pres., and hence tbe impor
tance of making tbe instrument as perfect
ana potent as possible.
it is the duty of every citizen of each place
to contribute something toward improving
and strengthening the local press, lie may
do it by subscribing and paying for bis paper,
by advertising in it, by recommending it to
others, or in alt tGese ways. Were the
country prose as liberally patronized and as
well supported as it should be, the country
would uot be flooded with tbe worthless trash
in tbe shape of "love and murder stones,-' as
it now is, which poison tbe minds of the
young. There is usually more moral integri
ty and circumspection aianifested by editors
of the country press thin by those of tbe
large cities, and a more healthy tone of mind
and morals will generally be found to pervade
them. They are more free from tbe reports
of degrading vices and crimes, and are never
opened with that feeling of suspicion which
attaches to the common flash literature of
tbe day.
Tbe country press may be improved. Each
individual residing within the limits of it's
sphere and circulation may aid in it's im
piovement. lie may be on the lookout for
interesting information, and when this is
obtained, communicate it to the editor. lie
may bring his owo business before the public
by an appropriate advertisement, or if be bas
beef, pork, or grsin to sell, he may announce
it through the local press. He may give
historical sketches of the past, and show tbe
progress aed changes going on at present.
He may belp to make bis local paper a source
of instruction to strangers and of entertain
ment to bis neighbors. Is be a manufactur
er? Let bim invite capital and influence by
setting forth such natural advantages as the
place may possess, and indicate tbe routes
by which it may be reached, its accessibility
to tbe markets, etc There is no estimating
the advantages to any town or village of a
live local journal, and we doubt if there is to
be found at tbe present time, an editor who
gets fully paid for tbe services be performs,
sod we put tbe responsibility where it belongs
namely, on the people, whose business and
duty it is first of all, to support handsomely
tbeir owo local paper.
Fanny FernVery Sick.
I am sick of politics. 1 am sick of torch
light fizzles. I am sick of "the Prince." I
am sick of men who never talk seose to
women.. 1 am aick of boya of seven smoking
cigars. I am sick of gloomy Pharisees, and
wordy, idealess sermons and narrow creeds.
1 am sick of lawless Sabbatarians, and female
infidels, and free lovers. I am sick of uo
healthy, diseased books, full of mystifications
and transcendal bosb. I am aick of "chaste
ribbons" and "ravishing lace' 1 am sick, in
sc age that produced a Bioute and a Brewn
iog.oftbe prate of men wbo assert tbat every
woman should be a perfect housekeeper, and
'cii to add, that every man should be a per
fect carpenter. I am as sick of women self
styled "literary," wbo think it a proof of
genius to despise everyday household duties.
I am sick of schools fur tbe manufacture of
bent spines. I am sick of parents, tbe coffins
of whose children are already being made,
asking teachers to add "another braucb" to
the already suicidal pile of lessons. I am
sick of over-worked, ill-paid female opera
tives. I am sick ef seeing tracts distributed
where soap and bread should go. am sick
of seeing noodles ia high places, and intelli
gence and refinement sitting in inglorious
ease by tbeir own firesides.
I am sick of tbe encouragement beld out to
women by the other sex to remain pretty
idiots, followed by long moral essays apon
the enormity of being each. 1 am aick of
flummery and nonsense, and humbug and pre
tensions of every kiud. 1 am sick of this
everlasting scrabbling and crowding, and
pushing and jostling, on tbe edge of the five
feet of earth, which is all any one of os can
have at last, after all our pains. Fanny
Frn,
Bio roa tiik First Shot at Socth Carom
ka Tbe Sol ma (Alabama) Sentinel, of tbe
20th, bas the following : "We beard gen
tlemen from tbe Caoebroke, Mr. B., wbo re
sided near Price, and a belter wan than
Price is, tell a crowd of Breckiuridge disun
iooists yesterday, 'that if South Carolina at
tempted to dissolve tbo Unioo, be would give
a thousand dollars to fire tbo first goo at
her.' lie is oae of tbo most wealthy men of
tbe Canebrake, and wo can assure tbo disun-
' Ke is nut alone ia entertaining that
How a Drunkard Feels An Incident
A graduate of one of tbo Universities of
Great Britain came to me, shaking and
trembling.' He said be bad "come to me as
he would go to a physician." I said, "You
must stop drinking." "I can't." "You will
die." "1 am afraid I shall if I give it op; I
can't." My wife and two gentlemen were
present. I said, "What good does the drink
doyoa!" "No good." "Why do you drink t"
"I must have it." Thinking that, being ao
educated man, he might give me some ideas,
I asked bim "Will yon tell me bow you feel
before you begin to drink' and afterwards V
1 shall never forget 1 He stood up and said,
"All I can aay is, 1 mast have it." "Why t"
"I feel as if there were iusects in my veins I
Oh I it is horrible, horrible! 1 touch my
coat, I touch my band, and I jump I Ob 1 1
shall go mad mad mad 1 If 1 could not
get it without having a sound tooth torn out
of my jaw, bring the instrument and wrench
it out j 1 mast have tbe drink, yoa see so I
get it. And then I standstill, that 1 may
not disturb its effect. That's what 1 want
1 want re! iff ; and I feel it. Quick, quick,
but, it sends the blood through my veins ; tha
insects are gone, and I begin to perspire.
Yes, 1 am better, better, better I It's what
I waut it's coming it's coming it has
come to me--relief like a DsBh of summer
lightning ; and it bas gone, and I get ano
ther." "Then," 1 said, "you will die." "I
am afraid I shall ; can yoo save me T" "Not
ooless yoo stop drinking." "1 can't die; I
haven't offered a prayer to God for sixteen
years." "Yoa must give it up." "I can't."
1 said, "Uod will belp you." "So he won't."
"I will," said 1 ; "my wife and 1 will take
care of you for four days, if you will. 1 bave
just four days to spare for you. Wo took
bim, though we coald get no promise from
him. We nursed bim night and day. Tbe
third afternoon be sat with me, bis band in
mine, and-1 spoke to bim of God and Christ
sud eternity. He said, "1 am a man of some
common seose, 1 believe ; and am very well
aware that 1 can never be happy in another
world." He then went oat and cut bis tbrost
from ear to ear. Oh, my friends, shall we
not try to save oar fellow-men from such a
futeT From a Speech of Juhn Ii. Govgh.
Lost Litkratirk. Iu these days of cheap
printing and toleration, book burning is look
ed upon as a puerile folly, apon a par with
tbe Irish method of spitiug a banker by burn
ing bis notes- Still, literature bas suffered
losses. As Wat Tyler's victorious rabble
made fire-biaoda of the ancient records of
London, so mad mobs destroyed invaluable
treasures when tbey aet fire to Lord Mans
field's and Dr. Prieslly's booses. Tbe Van
dal Massena, in retreating from tbe lines of
Torries Vedras, waotoely destroyed the
church and convent of Alcobaca, rich with
the' national literature of Portugal. Valua
ble works bave fallen victims to ignorace aud
avarice. Tbe niece of Peirese, "The Attor
ney General or the republic of letters," re
fused to allow tbe letters addressed to bim
by tbe most eminent scholars of tbe age to
be published, because she found them useful
for fuel.
Mr. Warburton's servant osed up a collec
tion of old plays, many of which were unique
specimens of Elizuhelbeo dramatists, for the
bottom of tarts and lightning tbe fire, for
which ignoble purpose the r cords of tbe hos
pital of St. Cross were applied by its ignorant
housekeeper ; and Bishop Cowper's wife, dis
gusted with bis studious habits, destroyed, in
a few moments, tbe result of eight years'
labor. Sometimes authors bave been stoics
enough to commit literary suicide. Colard
eau, when dying, dragged himself to tbe fire
and sacrificed bis trituration of Tasso; Sir
W alter Raleigh is said to bave destroyed the
concluding volumes of bis History of tbe
World ; James Montgomery burnt novel,
the composition of which bad lighted tbe
hours of bis imprisonment ; Moore put
Byron's diary in tbe fire ; Orsay did the same
office for bis own, which must bave been
worth reading ; and Col. Stewart, son of
Dugald Stewart, not only destroyed bis own
manuscripts, wbiab he calculated had cost
bim thirteen years of bia life, but wbat waa
of considerably more consequence, baroed his
father's incomplete "Philosophy of a Manas
a Member of Political Association," bis Edin
burgh lectures on "Political Kconomy," and
a continuation of his "Encyclopedia Britao
nfco Dissertation ;" unmindful of Milton's
aphorism, tbat "be wbo destroys a good book
kills Reason jtself." Chambers' Journal,
Large Vkoktables. We lately gave an
account of a mammoth bunch of pUiutains
grown in Liberia, weighing over SOU pounds
and 3 feet A inches loug, which was exhibited
at tbe National Fair, at Bucbauao, Bassa
county, last March. There were also exhibi
ted el the same fair two mammoth yams, not
over a year old, one weighing 280 pounds, tbe
other weighing 290 pounds. If there is a
country on the globe tbat can produce larger
or finer yams and plainlains than Liberia, wo
should like to know it. Ooe would suppose
that every colored man in tbe United Slates
would long to go and live in Liberia, where
be and bis children may be independent and
happy, instead of remaining in a dependent
coudiliou here.
Woodkn School, Slatks Not long ago
Messrs. Deaoand Monger, of New Haven,
Conn., took out a patent, for the manufac
ture of tbis article, and from tbeir manifest
superiority over tbe old stone slate, tbey are
going into almost universal nse. Tbey are
made of three thicknesses of veneering glued
together and covered on both sides with a
black coaling of just tbe proper degree of
rougnness to receive tne impression from toe
peocil, and are then framed in tbe usual man
ner. Tbeir most striking peculiarities are
tbeir extreme lightness aud durability ; they
may be thrown down and even stamped upon
without being broken. Tbe same firm also
make black boards with tbe same covering.
Ot B Becit Does. Ao Eoglisb paper says
that a young damsel wbo is engaged, aud
will shortly be nailed to a gallant son of
Neptune, lately visited tbe Mariner's Church.
During tbe sermon tbe pastor discoarsed elo
quently and with much earnestness of tbo
dangers and temptations of the sailor. He
concluded by asking, "la there one wbo
tbioka anything of bim wbo wears a tarpau
lin bat and blue jacket, or a pair of trowsers
madoofduekT lo short, is there oue who
carea aught for the poor sailor 1" A little
girl, a aiater of the damsel, jumped op, and
looking archly at ber sister, said, in a tone
loud enough for every one to bear, "Yea, sir
onr Beckey does."
A RifLKD Cankon. said to bo the Unrest
in tbe world, was receutly tried at Sboebury-
u-ea, xogiaou. Ik wvigus O loua, BUU Ores
175 lb. sbot. It is made of noddled steel.
and ia tbe greatest mass of this material ever
put together,
A LADT-rAsctNATDia Clisi At Council
Bluffs, Iowa, the alarming discovery bas just
been made tbat Frank Bates, a younv, dash
ing, popular, lady fascinating dry goods clerk
is a gin.
Something about Adam's Fall.
A favorite temperance lecturer down South
used to relate the following anecdote to illus
trate the influence of a bad example to tbe
formation of habits, rainous to tbeir effect.
Adam, and Mary bia wife, who lived in the
old States, were very good members of tbe
chatcb, good sort of folks anyway, quite Indus
trious and thriving in the world, and Mary
tbongbt a good deal of a glass of good toddy.
Whenever the Minister called to make
Mary a visit, which was pretty often, she
contrived to have a glass of toddy made, and
the Minister never refused to imbibe. After
a while Adam got to following tbe example
of tbe Minister to such an eiteot that be be
came a drunkard drank up everything be
bad, and all be could get. Mary and Adam
became very poor in consequence of bis fol
lowing tbe Minister's example so closely;
but the good Minister continued bis visits,
and poor Mary cootiuued still to give bim
the glass of toddy. One day be called in and
told Mary he was going away fur a week
should return on Friday and handed her a
book containing tbe catechism, aad told her
when be returned be should expect her to
answer the questions. Mary said, "Yes,"
and laid away tbe book carefully. But Mary,
like a good many other church members,
thought no more of the book uutil the very
Friday the good Minister was to return.
"Wbat shall I dot" said she ; "the Minister
is to be here to day, and 1 bavn't looked in
the book be gave met How can 1 answer
the questions t"
"1 can tell you," said Adam, "give me a
quarter, aud let me go over to Smith's and
get some good rum, and you can answer bim
with a glass of toddy."
Mary took tbe advice, gave Adam a quar
ter and a jug. and off be started. After
getting bis jug Oiled, uod on his way back,
Adam concluded to taste tbe ram. Ooe
taste followed the other, until bo stumbled
over a pile of rocks, and broke the jug and
lost all the rum. But Adam u.anuged to
stagger borne.
Soon as he got into the house, Mary in
quired very anxiously for the bottle and rum.
"Where is the bottle of rum, Adam T"
Poor Adam managed to stammer out,
"that be stumbled over a pile of rocks, and
broke tbe bottle, and spilt Ihe rum."
Mary was in a fix Adam drank the
minister coming the rum gone and the
questions uulearned. But here comes the
minister! It won't do for the man of Ood
to see Adam drunk, so she for the want of a
better place to bide, sent bim nnder the bed.
By tbe time be was fairly uuder, in came the
minister. After sitting a few moments, be
asked Mary if she could answer the questiou,
"How did Adam fall?"
Alary turned ber bead first one way, and
then then the other, finally stammered oat,
"He fell over a pile of rocks."
It was now the minister's turn to look
black ; but be ventured another question,
"Where did he bide himself afler bis fall ?"
Mary looked at tbe minister, then at the
bed, but fioally she broke out with, "Under
the bed, sir I There Adam, yoa may come
out, be knows all about it."
The good minister retired not even wait
ing for his glass of toddy. Abstainer.
A Frioio Picki'ocket. A cooler pick
pocket than is spoken of iu Stultgard, waa
never seen, lie was ao obsequious little man,
wbo had offered bis services to bis victim, to
show him tbe lions of the city, but tbe other
refused tbe offer. Tbe officious personage,
however, was not offended, but politely asked
bim wbat o'clock it was. Tbe other answer
ed that he did not know, as bis wstcb bad
stopped, and continued bis walk towards tbe
Museum of Natural History, which be enter
ed. He bad not been there many minutes
before the same person came up to bim, with
the air of an old acquaintance, and offered
bim a pinch of snutl. Ibis M. v
declined, saying he was no snuff-taker, and
walked away ; but some minutes after, baviug
a presentiment of something being wrong,
be felt for bis snuff-box, but instead of it
found a scrap of paper In bis pocket, on
which was written, "Aa yoa are no aouff
taker, you do not require a box." He
thought tbe logic of bis unknown acquaint
ance rather impertinent, and resolved to bear
his loss like a philosopher, but wbat waa his
amazement when, a moment after, be dis
covered that bis wutcb bad also disappeared,
and in bis other pocket was another note, in
tbe following words ; "As your watch does
oot tell tbe hour, it woald bo better at tbe
watchmaker's than in your pocket." It is
unnecessary to say tbat be never heard any
further tidings of the two articles.
A Wrktcued Custom. A foreign corres
pondent writes from a German town :
Tbe auction of dancers at a village is a
curious afiair tbe girls are all assembled on
an open space, generally in front of tbe
burgomaster's bouse of business, and an
auctioneer having been chosen among the
young men, generally a wag in his way tbe
names of Roscheo, Nuruichen, Kirtcbem.aud
all the other cbens, (an endeaiiug diminutive
by wbicb the lasses are styled,) are called out
and tbe auction for tbe dancer proceeds,
which gives the highest bidder the sole right
over her band for tbe year, at all tbe (.
dances and rejoicings which take place, and
these are not few. It is generally ao under
stood thing tbat it is akin to a declaration,
but still it is not ia any way binding. Of
course, there are struggles aud competition
for tbe prettiest, but she falls to the richest.
Tbe cash goes to pay musicians and a spread
or two, aud if anything is over, it is giveu to
tbe church.
Tub Fboo Story. We bave already told
our readers tbat some of the Toledo (Ohio.)
ladies swallowed live frogs as a remedy fur
consumption. Tbis bas been doubted by
many, bat, the Toledo Vmt.s of the 2'JtU u'.t.,
confirms the statement thos :
Some question having arisen among our
exchanges, as to the truth of tbe statement
tbat a female of this city ia iu the babit of
swallowing aix live froga daily, aa a remedy
for consumption, wo will simply state tbat
there are at the present time more tbao six
ladies of this city swallowing lire frogs daily
in hopes of a permanent eradication of tbat
disease, aud if wo may credit tbe slatemeuta
of our practising physicians tbey are our
"opper teu" too.
There is something inexpressibly aweel
about little girls. Fxehamje.
And it grows on tbem as they get bigger.
There BOW 1 Louiirille Journal,
TllIBTV TUOI'SAKD APH.WB Off A Si NO IB
Trick. William It. May, of Pomfret, (Cfc.)
picked forty bushels of apples from ooe tree.
He bad tbe curiosity to count tha number of
apples in one peck, and found 199, makiog
"CO in or.e bushel, and 30,400 applet grew
upon tbo tree.
Bitfalo I.08K4 Tbe Si. Loois (Mo.)
Democrat aaya, tbat a total of 80,000 buffalo
robea bave been received ia that city duriug
tbe present year. Tbeae robes are all laooed
by the Iodiao squaws, as tbo men never stoop
to such work.
I1 0 t t X J.
Where there's a Will there's a Wiy.
"Aui veniam viam, aut faciam."
BT JOnN O. SAXli.
It wss a noble Roman,
In Rome's imperial day
NY bo heard a coward croaker
Before tbe battle, say :
"They're safe in socb a fortress ;
There is no way to shake it"
"On I" exclaimed the hern,
Til find a way, or make it !"
Is Fame your aspiration ?
Her path is steep and high ;
lo vain he aeeka the temple,
Content to gaze and sigh ;
The shining throne is waiting,
But he alone can lake it
Who says with Roman firmness
"I'll find a way, or make it!"
Is learning your atrlbitinn T
' There is no royal road ;
Alike the peer and peasant
Mast climb to her abode ;
Who feels tbe thirst of knowledge,
In Helicon may Blake it,
If he bas still tbe Roman will
To Jind a way, or make it.
Are riches worth tbe getting T
They must be bravely sought ;
With wishing and with fretting
Tbe boon cannot be bought ;
To all tha prize is open,
But ouly he can take it
Wbo says with Roman courage
"I'll Jind a way, or make it!"
In Love's impassioned warfare,
The tale bas ever beeu
That victory crowns the valiant ;
Tbe brave are they wbo win ;
Though strong is Beauty's castlo,
A lover still may take it
Wbo says, with Roman daring
"I'll Jind a way, vr mule it !"
THE PRINCE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
The last number of the London Punch con
tains tbe following verses :
TUB NEXT DAKCK.
Yes, dance with him, lady, aud bright as they
are,
Believe as he's worthy these sanshiny smiles,
tVuve o'er him the Hug. of the stripe and tbe
star,
And gladdsn tbe heart of tbe Quoen of the
Isles.
We tbank yoa for all that bas welcomed
bim most
For tbe sigu of true lovo that you bear tbe
Old Laud ;
Proud Heiress of all tbat his ancestor lost,
You restore it in giving that warm, loving
band.
And we'll claim, to tbe omen. Fate's looking
askance.
And fate ouly knowa tbe next tune she will
But if John aad bia Cousin join bands for the
dance,
Bad luck to the parties who get in tbeir
way.
) u m 0 r 0 it $ .
Love Conquers all Things.
Long story, but must make it short. No
room for love while politics rale. Got the
particulars from individual wbo bad it all by
heart.
Young man of the name of William
Yoang lady of tbe name of Belinda. Lived
in same neighborhood, near a neighboring
town. Yoaug man good-lookiog, but not
rich plenty of poor kin, but no money.
Young lady's beauty not likely to be tbe
dealb of ber; bat grandma went under year
ago, and left ber pile of ten cent pieces large
as a poand of wool. Yoang lady desperately
ia love with yoang man, and yoang man des
perately in love with yonng lady. Yoang
man wouldn't let concealment, "like none of
your demmed worms," feed on lit crock ; told
bis lovo "emijitly." Yonng lady acknowl
edged tbe corn "thine, forever tbine, dearest
William !" and wilted iuto young man's arms
sweet as yoa please.
"lie beld ber gentle hand in his,
And pressed ber slunder form,
And vowed to shield ber from tbe blast,
And from tbe world's cold storm.
And then she raised ber eyes to bis,
All filled with drops of woe,
And in the tendereBt accents cried,
Oh, quit don't hag me so !' "
Sacb is life and love. Yoang lady told
yoaug man to interrogate old folks. Young
man did. Old folks said, "not if tbey coald
belp it." Young lady broken hearted nuit
combing her hair tsok off boops wore shoes
slipshod, and wanted to "liud relief ia the
silent tomb.1" Young man met young lady
oy mooniignt aione, wanted to throw bundle
of clothes out back window, climb down tope,
ladder "into these arms," and fly to the squire
and happiness. "1 may die 1 know 1 ahall
die, William but never, osrir, will I wed
thee, dearestaone, without consent of Ma
ana l a." xouog man pleads like angel
trumpet tongued. Yuung ludy stubborn and
dutiful. Youug man tries tha iudiznsnt
upbraida youcg lady sweats
He did oot think to find so cold
A heart be deemed bo true :
A heart like hit would yield her ail,
If toie like bis sbould woo,
and talks of pistols and prussic acid. Young
lady dissolves in tears. "O 1 William, leave
me quit my tight forever but take me
along wilh yoa !" Yoang man happy as
cigger at corn shucking, and tells young Ueiy
lo look out Saturday night and duu't be
scared if she sees ladder poked ia back win
dow "your William will be at 'tothor end."
Young lady thinks she's gone too far, and
sayt better wait till she's her owo "mistress''
only five years. Young aiau says "five
years be derned." Wat coming Saturday
night with ladder if his lean's idol would
fly from parental tyranny, and tie fcappy with
bim and let bim be happy with her. well and
good ; if uot. disappoinluieut shouldu t leed
oo bis vilals loug a pistol would lix thing
quick eoough. Young lady all tears otfsin.
"Cruel, cruel mau carry me to the euda of
the yearlb j 1 don't care where, just ao as
you carry me." ....
Saturday uight young lady shut up "ssva
gerous dog" ia smoke house, and goes up
stairs. Young man carries ladder two miles ;
pute ladder op to tbe window and whispers
" Heliody !" vary load. Deliody dossn t bear
bat dog does, and cots op among meat barrels
terribly. Old lady wekat op. Tlls old man
f .. a t ! All
tomsbody s trying to break ia. via wau
g'ta np, takes dowo doable-barrel gan, opens
iioor easy, slips arouna smoite nouse ana lets
,1og out. Dog pitches -around, and . trees
young man and yoang lady ap ladder. Old
man smells large rat-trap full of mice, and
dodges behind tree. Yourg p.ople reach
tbo ground, yoang lady having drove dog off.
"Ob 1 William, I am afraid." "Afraid, aear
est I and of what t Is not thine Owo William
here to protect." Old man lets off oue
barrel of gun; young muo disappears over
fence, leaving coat-tail in possession, of dog,
and young lady screams and faints in old
man's arms.
Yoang lady sent off next day to Kentucky,
and youug mao soon starts - for Texas iu
horn.
Young lady been two weeks at small town
ia Kentucky telegraphic dispatch one night
Pa quite sick, see if company can be bad
ut botel, and comes borne at once. Young
lady seu-S to hotel to know is anybody going
to , in Tenuessee. Yes; genteel young
man going right straight to that very place.
Early next morning stage takes np young
ldy, and goes round to hotel for young man.
Young man gets in. "William!" "Belindy t
bush, don't say a word 1" "How is Pa 7" "In
first-rate health." "That dispatch I" "Had
it sent myseir." "Wretch I where ore you
going to take me ?" "To the parson's."
Happy couple at botel here last week.
Telegraphed old man all about it. Old man
comes down next day with all necessary feel
ings and arrangements to take young lady
home a premature widow. Uot doesn't du
it. Young son-in law, gentlemanly and polita
loved daughter so well couldn't help it.
Yoang lady all tears again, with equal pro
portion of sobs. "Kill me if you will, my
father, but spare William." Old man's reel
ings go down several pegs. Tbinks it oo use
to cut up over spilt milk "get your bats end
bonnets and let's i;o borne." Young couple
bappy as infants with fingers stack full of
molasses and feathers, fly round alter bag.
gage ; old man pays botel bill, and all leave
town together.
I'Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thoa wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek lo quench tbe fire of love wilh words."
The Race-
We have been heard to laugh "some" at
times, in our sanctum, we believe ; but we
duubt if a heartier guffaw came from it, tbau
was awakened by tbe following "Race with a
Bull," for wbicb we bave to tbank a new cor
respondent in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, it
almost eclipses "The Cock Fight in Havana."
which we published some time ago ; in wbicb
an American sailor nnbugged an oncouth
"bird" in tbe pit," which, after receiving un
resistingly two or three powerful "digs" from
"Black Sultan," bis game antagonist, put
oue claw on bis neck, aad with the other
pulled his head off 1 He was an 'American
Buld Eagle. Like tbe horse-racers below
described, the Spanish "sportsoien" growled
and grumuled : bat tbey were compelled to
aa "inglorious defeat."
"Some forty years ago the members of a
race courts near Brownsville, on the Mon
ongahela, published notice ol' a rare, oue mild
heats, oo a partiuular day, for a purse of oou
hundred dollars, Tied for anythiug wilh four
logs and hair on.'
"A man in tbe nergbborhood. named Hays
had a bull that be was in the babit of riding
to mill with bis bag of corn, aud be determin
ed to enter hiiu for the race. He said noth
ing about it to soy one, but be rode bim
around tbe track a number Of times, on
several moonlight nights, until tho bull had
tbe bang of the ground pretty well and would
keep tbe right course. He rode with spurs,''
wbicb tbe bull considered particularly disa
greeable, so much so that be always bellowed
when they were applied to bis side.
"On tbe morning of tbe race, Hays camo
npoc tbo race ground on horseback ou bis
bull. Instead of a sadle, be bad dried an ox
bide, tbe head part of which, with tbe horns
still on, be had placed on the bull's rump.
He carried a short tin horn in his baud.
He rode to tbe judge's stand, and offored to
enter h s bull for tbe race ; but the owners of
tbo horses objected. Hays appealed to the
terms of tbe notice, insisting that bis bull bad
'four legs and hair on,' and that therefore he
bad a right to'eoter him. After a good deal of
swearing tbe judges declared thomeelves com
pelled to decide tbat tbe bull bad the right
to run, and he was entered accordingly.
"When tbe time for starting arrived, the
ball and tbe horses took tbeir places. The
borse-racers were out of humor at being both
ered with tbo bull, and at the burlesque
wbicb they supposed was ititeudod, but
thought that it would be over as soon as tbe
horses started.
"When tbe signal was given tbey did start.
Haya gave a blusl with bis bora, und sunk
bis spurs into tbe side of the bull, who bound
ed off with a terrible bawl at uo trifling speed
the dried ox-bide flapping op aud down,
and rattling at every jump, making a combi
nation of uoises tbat bad uever been beard on
a race-course before- Tbe horses all flew the
truck, every one seeming to be seized with a
sudden determination to take the shorte.t
cut to get out of tbe RedUoue country, and
none of them could be brought back iu tiuie
lo save their distance. Tbe purse was given
to Hays.
"A general row ensued, but the fun of tho
thing put tbe crowd all oo the side of the
bull. Tbe horsen aiitoutended tiat t. were
swindled out of the purse ; aud, if it bad not
been for Hay's horu aud ox bide, which be
ought not to bave been permitted to bru.g
up, n the grooad, the thing would uot b.v
turned out as it d d. .-i.ii
Upon this Hats told them that bis boll
could beat any of "tbeir horses anyhow, and if
ibey would put up one hundred del art agauisi
Ihe purse he bad won, be would take oU he
ox-hide and leave the tin-horn, and run a lair
race with them. His offer was accepted ami
I be money staked. They again look their
i laces at tb starliug post. od the sigual
w..s given. Hay gave ti e bull another tourh
with the spur, aud the bull gave a treuiend
ous bellow. Tbe horses, remembering the
dreadful sound, thought all the rest was com- .
. hlorv. Away they went again spile
of all the exertions of their ridera. while Hays
galloped his ball aroDud the track again aud
aoo tbe money.
Bully for tha bull ! Knickerlockor.
Pui.i.ino thk Wool too Fsr A hitherto
Democratic liutchmati. of Ripley coantrv,
lud ana, gives the following reasons for
voting tbe Itxpublicao ticket:"! tiukt 1
leaves do I'emoerats long lime ago, nuismy
....Il !. ..H nt,ar miiiA avea. and BO
year uj pun. uw -. w - - j
l -. mot Hum a iu : but dis lima dey pull
it to far dat 1 it rigbl oor urn sop.
vy I vote de Republican dicaei.
T,, ol.l scotch woman, who, when
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Services were very
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