The Greensboro patriot [March 14, 1872]

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From Potneroy's Democrat.
THE WAITER AND WATCHER.
BV j. T>. huniim.
"The moon looks down upon us, mother,
The little star*are twinkling too;
I wonder if they want me, mother t
Would they havo me 'way from you f
Must I leare to-rrigbt, dear mother I
Toll mo—think you—must I dio t
I feel to strong again, clear mother,
Think you, meet we say good-bye. f
Say, "Not to night!"—oh.ilo—please.mother
Say I must not leave and go;
I'll bo so still, won't murmur, mother,
If but whisper—'Eddie, no ."
"Not sorry that I'm better, mother f
Would you have me fall to sleep T
And live no more with von, dear mother t
Tell ine, is it why you weep f"
Thus tho baby boy and mother,
Ixincly watched the coming day ;
Wept and watched tho dreary hours
As they slowly rolled away.
But the moon wont down and left them,
And the little stars had tied :
Left the mother lonely watching—
For her little ono was dead !
KK.U.I.NC, 1'A., May 3, 11171.
tare, in the corrective and curative
poweis of tho 6word,the faggot, and of
all kindred crncl contrivances worthy
aloue of savage moo—though denied
in acts, might be constrained to admit
in words the super-hnnianity of this
decree. Yet it is spumed from them,
as is almost everything else that is
worthy aud wise. The fulness of their
ingenuity has been exercised to make
tho South uninhabitable ; to set her
people at each other's throats ; to keep
alive aud active the spirit of animosity
and discord; to drive approaching
peace from her borders.and to envelop
all with tho breath of calumny like a
contagion. Aud wherefore all this T—
Why this remorseless policy of anger,
cruelty,and crime 1 Bad indeed must
be the cause, and bad indeed it is.—
What is it but that these malignant
miniature of Radicalism, by this cow-ardly
and atrocious means, linked with
all the appliances of usurped arbitrary-power
which from long experience they
know so well how to use,hope not only
to keep their party from annihilation,
but to fasten it permanently upon tho
American people ' The whole thing is
a desperate and dangerous device, au
intolerable usurpation, and it merits
universal execration.
The bearing ot the Southern people,
as a whole, under all that they have
been forced,at the point of the bayonet,
mill in other ways hardly less tyran-nous,
to under go, has bceu such as to
command the respect and admiration
of all candid and unprejudiced men.—
Theirs has beeu no common lot; their
Buflcring8 no common 8iifferings,nor is
what they have lost to be measured by
any common standard, Amid it all
they havo been bravo, stout-hearted,
courageous; not sullen,uor despairing,
though greatly tempted to despair; but
looking forward,through present dark-ness
and over present calamities, to
the dawn of a better day. Their pa-tience,
their strength, their good cheer
have not been in vain. The day is
l>ieakin;,'.:iiid this is due in great tneas-are
to their lemperateness,wisdom,for-bearance
nnder trying circumstances.
It cannot but be believed and hoped
that Hie exercise of these will continue
to the end. The recent past to the
Southern people is a dreary waste.—
The opening future is lull of promise
to them as an integral part of the
American people. And the time is not
far distant when, relieved of the pres-ent
embarrassments that impede their
progress aud bear them down, they
will illustrate, lor the eneouragement
of other nations and other times, how
true it is—
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
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ty The following article from the
Washington 1'alriot expressesour ideas
so exactly that we reproduce it entire:
The Reconstructed Southern
States.
Perhaps no people were ever more
doomed to drink the perennial waters
of bitterness than the people of the re-constructed
States of the Month during
the last ten years. They have gone
through that which would have utterly
east down aud left forever hopeless a
people less brave, less strong, less in-trinsically
great. To have shown them
selves,as they have done, superior to
every vicissitude of fortune; in war,
superior to defeat and humiliation ; in
peace—or that which is called peace,
though it is pence not in deed bill in
name -superior to injustice, insult, op-pression,
wrong.and the slanders of ev-ery
evil tougutv-tampstlieni,while shed-ding
a glory upon the country of which
they arc a part.as being of the very
highest type of manhood known among
men. Did they belong to some Other
nation than this; did we know theiu,
not as brethren with whom we have
been at strife, but as strangers, and
marked how they have borne them-selves
through immeasurable calauii-ties,
they would have extorted the uni-versal
praise of the American people,
including those now blinded by fanati-cism,
or warned by an unreasonable,
and, it would seem, nnappensMsMc ha-tred.
We should have been proud of
our own unconquerable blood that runs
in their veins; quiek to claim thctn as
our kindred; and ready, with out
stretched hands,'.o lift them out of the
ruins of their fortunes with which they
are now surrounded.
Wo are accustomed to overflow with
sympathy for what it pleases us to call
the oppressed of other lands, strangely
forgetting that we have something mar-velously
like oppression in our own —
Iudeed,for such, and for any, it seems,
not of our own household, we are very
tender-hearted.ready to make any sac-rifices
in their behalf, and take great
credit to ourselves for tho exercise of
an enlarged Christian charity abroad,
though destitutc,iii a significant direc-tion
aud singular mnnner,of that excel-lent
virtue at hum1, We have tars
that are acute to hear and eyes thai
are quick to see bonds afar off, and, as
self-constituted apostles of emancipa-tion,
we are ready to By on the wings
of the wind to the Uttermost parts ot
the earth to break them. We have a
boundless vision,so intractably bound
less that we cannot contract it to a re
cognition of what is demanded of us at
our own doors. In the plenitude of our
benevolence toward the inhabitants of
other nations, if not, indeed, of other
planets, aud in the unqilenchablenes-i
of our enthusiasm for remote enterpri-ses
of succor.we go tracing the I itu of
the horizon for something to relieve,
carefully overlooking the claims of
those whom we need not traverse the
globe, or get beyond our own borders,
to find,to whom is due first justice and
then fraternal kindness. Hungary, Ire-laud.
Cuba, have we as a steady source
of sorrows, whose griefs we vol-unteer
to carry in our bosoms, but
for one-third of our own land, our own
kindred,the people of the South, bowed
down in dust aud ashes, we have
nothing butContuinely,ati averted lace,
denunciation,instilt.and a heavy hand.
As a matter of public policy, as a
matter of political wisdom, not to put
it on higher gronnds,thts is not only a
gross wrong,but a gross blunder. In i
anv aud every view ii is indefensible
and unpardonable. Compared with the
vindictive blindness of the policy being
pursued toward the South—and it La
Itadical through and through—the
blindness of the mole is preternatural
sight. And what possible good can
come of such a policy T It is fraught
with uothing but evil. It does violence
to common scnse.to common justice, to
everything worthy of the name of
statesniau3hip,and to all the better in-
Stincts of the American people; It is a
policy not only of supreme tolly.bttt of I building, the earn*
supreme wickedness, of vengcance,and ; the Prussian Here
deserving the scorn of every right
minded man. '•Vengeance is mine,aud
I will repay,*'saith One whose authori-ty
to create and power to it llict penal-ties
we dare no; deny. Perhaps even
the champions of desolation,ot retribu-tion—
they who continually exhibit au
abiding faith, worthy of a satanic na-
.r»r
erations in the South.
The annual meeting of tho Penn-sylvania
railroad company was held
in Philadelphia on the 20th instant.
The report of J. Edgar Thompson,
president, for 1871, shows therevenues
of the lines operated by the company
and the amounts paid for their work-ins
expenses, «sWf as follows :
From the Pennsylvania railroad and
branches, $18,719,836.85; Philadelphia
and Erie railroad, $3,542,263.73. To
tal $22,262,100.58, Expenses of rail-roads,
$15,365,697.07; profits, $6,896,-
403.51. Deducting dividends, interest,
&C amounting to $5,426,112.73, there
is left a balni.ee to the credit of profit
and hiss on account of the Pennsylva-nia
railroad company of $1,470,290.78.
The lines controlled by the company
beyond Pittsburg arc held by the
Pennsylvania company. This com-pnny
lias a capital stock of $12,000,000.
Of this $8,000,000 (preferred stock) is
held by the Pennsylvania railroad com-pany
in exchange for its leased roads,
etc.." transferred to the Pennsylvania
company.' Tho remaining $4,000,000
Of stock' (eommon) is held subject to be
disposed of to individuals at not less
than par. The president believes that
alter 1871 this company will pay 0 per
cent, per annum.
The Baltimore and Potomac railroad
will, it is stated, be completed during
the ensuing winter. It will be con-nected
through Richmond, Virginia,
"with the whole system of Southern
railway south of this point now largely
controlled by the Southern Security
company in which this company be-came
a shareholder to protect its in-vestment
in the Baltimore and Poto-mac
railroad. The Southern Security
company is composed of gentlemen
friendly to our interests and objects,
and of which Gen. G. W. Cass, is
president."'
Extraordinary 1'rrfnnnaiiee.— Of all
the sensational performencea [of the
present flay that of the Prussian Her-cules.
Herr lloltnm. at the Holborn
Amphitheatre, in London, is described
as the mast striking. There heve been
many performers ol the gun trick, but
the cannon of Heir Holiiim is not a
flick, but a reality. A siege gnu,
drawn into the arena by two horses,
it loaded b> an artilleryman, and Jo
sight ot the audience a cannon ball~ol
twetity pounds weight is inserted.—
Then Herr BoltUUl walks to the op-posite
side, and, standing face to the
muzzle, gives the word of command,
''Eric !" and sure enough, after a flash
ami a boom, which shakes the whole-building,
the cannon ball is caught by
rentes. On another oc-casion-
either throtight some slight er-or
in the managment Of the gun, or
owing to the charge of powder King
too great—the couuou ball passed
Heir Jloltutu's head, instead of iuto
his hands; and as if to prove that
'•there was no deception, carried
away a portion of one Of the pilasters.
What makes up a Grant Con-vention.
In a speech recently delivered, Gov.
Brown, of Missouri, showed the mate
rial of which Grant conventions are
made, thusly :
THE DESECRATION OP REPUBLICAWISM.
In some instances it has been really
pitiable to see the stretch of power that
has forced attendance. Here was Post-master
Warmoth, lather of His Ex-cellency
of Louisiana, who comes fee-bly
forward to duty, protesting aside,
"You know I didn't want to, you know,
but I couldn't help it, you know."
[Cheers. | And bete was my friend
Tim O'Brien from St. Louis, who had
escaped all their vigilance last fall,
cornered at last, and now crowded to
the front to give a Show Of Lllreralieiu
I suppose to the Convention. [Cheers.]
Why, there could not have been a
greater gathering of them if there had
been a $5j000 office to be filled.—
[Cheers.] What a rest.it has beeu for
the people of Missouri! For one day
tbe silent exactions havo been sus-pended.
For one day the mails must
havo ceased to distribute. For one
day enforcement of setrch and seizure
has lulled with the detectives, while
tho office-holders held high carnival
over au expected four years' added
lease in their luxurious livings. Let
me say, therefore, that when from this
list of the five hundred you take out
the henchmen and the, marshals, the
ex-ministers and expectants, the Cus-tom
House and surveys office, the in-ternal
revenue service, the post office,
the inspectors, tho mail carriers, the
contractors; when you subtract the
very respectable members ot the Gen-eral
Assembly who were appointed
delegates to save mileage, perhaps
[cheers], and those I have before
named as vainly coming with a hojie
of better things; when all these are
deducted, the Convention, I fear, so
far as the people are concerned, would
show but a beggarly account of empty
benches. And this is what is com-mended
to us as a neat but not gaudy
illustration of civil service reform! Do
you wonder now that civil service re-toim
met with a sneer from the Presi-dent,
and was kicked out of counte-nance
by the Senatorial ring t Aud
we Liberals are abused and traduced
because we do not choose to take part
and parcel with them iu such desecra-tion—
diabolical desecration, of all true
Republicanism. •
He concluded his remarks with the
following by way of consolation to the
office-holders whoare potting up stakes
on Ulysses tnr the Presidency for an
other term •
THE PEOPLE'S MASS CONVENTION.
The Liberal Republican Convention
will meet in the city of Cincinnati on
the first day of May, and rest assured
that it will then and there take full
account of this attempted prostitution
of the Republican party to thecorrupt
service of one man. Prom an extend-ed
correspondence by the committee
in charge, 1 am assured that it will be
hugely attended, and will have to
assist in its deliberations many of the
lirst statesmen of tie nation—tried
heroes of the long iinti slavery con-troversy,
and equally heroes today in
the conflict to sustain the freedom of
all against a despotic system of central
authority. You will have every State
outside of New England, and several
from there, largely represented by well
accreditcd Republicans,earnest in their
faith of retorui. Aud *hen they gather
there, my friends, 1 feature the pre
diction they will give good account of
themselves", and slape out work that
will give the ollicf-holdei double duty
until November next. [Cheers.] There
will be no faltering, no quailing, no
halting between two opinions, but only
manifest the stern pirposc of men who
know what duty dtmands of them,
and who mean to do it, who realize
how much stronger before the uncor-rupted
people is patriotism than any
power of patronage, aad who have de-veloped
enough of nauhood iu the
grave conflict of the past score ol
years not to fear now when the very
liberties for which tfcey fought are so
much endangered. [Loud cheers.]
The North Carolina Senatorship.
Report of the Committee on Privilege*
And Election*.
The report of the majority of the
Committee on Privileges and Elect ions
en the memorial of Joseph C. Abbott,
claiming a seat as Senator from North .
Carolina,is a voluminous paper elabor-1 years Ogoi Annette, by the will ot
ately reviewing the testimony and ar-1 her fmt*, was possessed of a con-adt
0 ■■..:.:
nO SeUted With Fire.
Wf have- reed and read of "Salted
with Fire," and m Moore we actually
witnessed ft The good people of
GreensfjMii will remember Annette
Fry,'^blee-eyed rosy cheek g4rl, who
irradusted at Edgewotth some dozen
gtitnents adduced in the case iu the
light of a great number ot parliamenta-ry
and judicial precedents and decis-ions.
They state the claim ef Abbott
to be that the votes cast for Vance
(known to be an ineligible candidate)
were nullities, and consequently that
the candidate who received the next
highest number of votes was elected.
The committee admit that this view of
the case is supported by general tenor
of the English authorities and decis-ions,
but these they say are based apo*
a very different rule from that adopted
iu our country,where the Government
is based upon the theory that the pow-er
emanates from the people,and that
the majority have the right to govern.
Committee cite many American au-thorities
on this subject, and also call
attention to the provisions of the four-teenth
amendment for the removal of
disabilities by Congress, which consti-tutes
another striking point of differ-ence
between American and English
eases, saying:
" It is difficult to conceive how the
Constitution could grant authority to
Congress to remove the disabilities un-der
which an individual who has beeu
elected is laboring, and allow him to
take -his seat as a member, and yet at
the same time embrace the idea that
such an elclion is wholly void aud the
votes cast ior him nullities. Yet Con-grcss,
by its action, has given the first
construction to this clause of the Con
si 11 ut ion,and if the memorialist iu this
case shall be admitted to his seat, the
Senate will have to give the second
construction."
The majority further argue that it
was not an unreasonable expectation
that Vance's disabilities would bo re-moved,
and the votes for hint were
therefore not purposely thrown away.
It is also held that tho act of July 25,
lSCii,is a bar to Abbott's claim,ami for
these and other reasons, minutely set
toi i'n.tin. majority of the committee re-port
a resolution that he is not eutitled
to a seat.
(The majority consist of Senators
Morton, Ixigau, Hill, Thurman, and
Anthony.)
Senators Rice and Carpenter tako
precisely the opposite view of the case,
and submit a minority report, setting
forth at very great length tho reasons
which have compelled them to dissent.
Thej adduce numerous Eugliuli aad
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views, and iu the courseof their argu-ment
insist that the circumstances
which may well induce tho House of
Representatives to depart from the an-cient
rule and practice iu determining
the election of its members do not ex-ist
in relation to the election of Seua-tore,
the votes for whom are matters of
rec,.ni,aiid cast rira roee and not by
ballot. It is, therefore, easy to ascer-tain
whether such votes were cast in
ignorance of a candidates iueligibility.
•ideraWe : fortune, mostly in negro
property.!1' After the war closed she
tangbttscftoo! for a living and in the
lottery'cf matrimony drew Gra-ham,
a worthless radical, who was in-dicted
for the murder of tho Lino family.
He was a brother of the famous Gra-ham
who charged the best men of
Moore county with murder, arson and
the worst crimes known to the law.
He made the charges on oath before a
■oagistrate. Holtien kept the affidavits
nor many niouths and then had them
published without TTthinj? «t«pa to ar-rest
the parties accused. As we jour-neyed
between Jonesboro and Car-thage,
we met a fine looking woman
neatly dressed, driving a little black
bull to market with a barrel of turpen-tine
in a cart. She had the air and
walk of a cultivated lady. The graces
ot the woman, her look of intelligence,
her freshly washed calico and neatly
ironed collar, attracted our attention.
1. We commanded Underwood, who was
driving to halt. Ho did so, and we
ventured to ask the lady her name.
"My name," she said, "is Xctty Gra
ham."
"Where is yonr husband, that he is
not going to market instead of you !"
"He ran away and left me," she said,
with a deep drawn sigh.
"Have yon any children T"
"A little boy, throe years old,"" was
the reply.
"What Is yonr steer's name!" we
asked—(we did not say bull, before the
lady.)
"His name is Dick, sir."
"If you will change his name and
call him Judge Watts," we said, "I
will pay you a quarter."' After a little
hesitation she said:
"There is nothing in a name, and I
will call him Judge Watts and give the
quarter to my little boy."
With the enriosity of a woman she
asked, "Is your name Judge Watts !"'
"No," we said, "God forbid. That
is not onr name."
We gave the blue-eyed fair faced
driver two shillings, which was the
nearest we could come to a quarter,
and drove off saying, to ourself, "salted
icith fire.'"—Raleigh Sentinel.
SMOKING NOT OFFENSIVE.—A cor-res|
ioudent of a Georgia paper tells
this story:
One night, passing from Wilmington i
to Florence, S. C. our enr was filled
with gentlemen, and there was onlyone
lady present. After we had proceeded
Some way. it was proposed to have a
smoke, but ono of the passengers
pointed to a card on which there was.
"No Smoking Allowed.'' So when the
conductor came through the car be
was asked if he would allow us to
smoke. He pointed to the lady and
said, "if she has no objection you may
do so.9 I went to the lady and bow-ing
asked if it would be offensive to
her. She. lady like, answered, "Not
at all. my dear sir; I am so lonesome
if I had a cigar I wonld smoke myself."
She was at once supplied, and we went
on a set of Inppy fellows smoking out-selves
to sleep.''
A Precious Brace of Sooundrels.
The Quiney, (Flo.) Journal has this
interesting refereuce to two characters
who have occupied a position of unen-viable
notoriety before the public for
several years past:
GEN. LITTLKFIELD.—A reqnisition
for the surretiderofGener.il M. S. Lit-thucld
to theauthoritiesof North Caro-lina
has been made by tho Governor of
that State on Governor Day. This
State, howovor, Uaa a urior claim on
him.
An indictment for bribery, coinmit-tcd.
as alleged.in Leon county,has been
impending over Littlefield for a couple
of tears, and he has been at large da-ring
that time aud under heavy bonds.
On Tuesday last, when the requisition
from North Carolina arrived,his bonds-men
withdrew from his bond and sur-rendered
him to tho State authorities.
Since then he ha's been in tho custody
of the Sheriff of Leon comity,and vaiu-lv
endeavoring to make a new bond.—
At last accounts it was understood he
was lodged iu jail. . .
Considering tbat.at the beginning of
the session of the Legislature, General
Littlefield came to Tallahassee with
high hopes of being sent to the United
States Senate, his present condition at
its close is a sad commentary on
vanity »,! all human aspirations, and a
pregnant illustration ot the treacherous
mutability of all muudane affairs.
George W.Swepsou.whose name has
a notoriety in Florida not altogether
ciiviabltyind reeketh soinewhat,aIso,in
North Carolina, is again in trouble IU
Tallahassee. That little trifle of f-t-o,-
000 or so, which it is claimed he ob-tained
from the State by devious meth-ods,
is a thorn in George's side, which
tires him no little annoyance. He was
arrested in Tallahassee some short
while ago,on the the charge of embez-zleiog
the above little amouut,and gave
bail for his appearance there on the
•oh just. H^ was arrested again last
week on the same charge i.i Savannah,
eare bail again and reluctantly kept
bis compulsory appointoeut in Taita-
"'l ,,.'• matter is now undergoing invest
ication before the Supreme Court, and
we rather suspect that a repulsive ar-rav
of disgusting frauds will becxposed
to view.
Beautiful Ireland.
We know, of course, that Ireland is
called the "Emerol Isle," and the color
oitf tehneteermederainldtoisognrreeinm, abguint antieovner bad
there was anywhere iu this world to be
seen such verdure as it charmed our
eyes to look upon in the rural districts
of Ireland. The slopes, the knolls, the
dells, fields of young grain, over which
the breezes creep like playful spirits ot
the beautiful; the pastures, dotted
with white sheep of the purest wool;
the hillsides, raising np into mist-shrouded
mountains, are all covered
with thick carpets of smooth, velvet
green. But Ireland should also be
called Flowery Isle. There is not a
spot in Ireland, I believe, where
blessed nature can find au excuse for
putting a flower, but she has put one
—not only iu the gardens and in the
meadows, but upon the very walls and
the crags ot the sen, from the great
brooming rhododendrons, down to the
smallest flower that modestly peeps
forth from its grassy cover. The Irish
furze, so richly yellow, covers all places
that might otherwise be bare or bar
ren, the silkworm delights every when
Little Tilings.
I A llttle«ensersM aew aad thoa,
Is relished by the beat of
A nice name for a drunkard's wife—Carrie
me home.
. The intellectual young lady—Cere (8arak)
Bellom.
A wiek-ed profession—making light of os-reooa
things.
"Money makes the mare go," and money
made Chicago.
The good old anntie that calls you to lun-cheon—
Ante Meridian.
-the easiest way to form the poo*
-take something.
Poace-makers—children; If yon dont be-lieve
it, jiui giro them a china lea set.
The dearest spot on earth (to yoang awn)
the spot on a bi Hard table.
If yon are asked to take an egg, and won't,
is that au-egg-ativo reply f
All truly great men have paper oollare
named after them.
It makes great difference whether glasses
are used over or under the nose.
When is a scheme like the third of a yard T
When it's a ftjot.
A lobster would neTsr be well read If It had
its own perserve way.
The man wko was drowned with applause
came out very dry.
How to overcome your sorrows.—Strike
olio of yonr own sighs.
Many delight more is giving present, than
iu pacing their debts.
What is that which is full of holes, and yet
holds water T A sponge.
Whatever other depression may exist, the
tide is bound to rise dally.
At a school where words were "given out"
for subjects iu eniuposiljpn, a "mote inglori-ous
Milton" produced St sight this sentence
on the word "paucnyric i" "A few drops of
panegyric, given on a large lump of sagar, la
often best with an infant with the stomach,
ache."
An Iowa girl, enjoying a buggy ride with
her lover, had her chignon removed by a
horao which was driven up behind. Just aa
the thing was done to driver of the bora.
whipped up aud passed the lovers and whirl-ed
away, the chignon dangliug from the
horses mouth.
A lady named Triiuby, who died iu Chicago
some weeks ago. was sent to Rochester for
interment. But before she was interred,
whih? tho authorities were awaiting some
technicality, she cauio to life, hurst the lid
oil' the coffin, aud telegraphed to Chicago
tlint she wouid be back on the next train.
John Bteele, ("Coal Oil Jolmy") who won
national notoriety during ths oil panic for
h:s great extravagance, is worth at present
about t.VI.UOO or colMieo, and profiling by his
former experience, knows how to keep it.--
His penchant now is the purchasing of dia-uionds.
Horace Greeley refuses positively to sigu
the call for the uui-ting of tho National Re-publican
Convention on tho ground that h.
wants to ho imle|ient iu action,aud uot bound
hy tho Convention.—Washington Star.
A California Judge recently had a grocer
brought before him for selling matches with-out
slumps. He decided that the grocer had
not violated tho law which forbids "exposing
for f.ile" unstamped packages, because tho
matches in i|iiesliou won sold from under
the county.
A little hoy named Knight, who recently
entered the mission school of New London,
was told hy the tcach-rs that ho must be a
r,.'■'.'.'I.'".'v' ;'!;;! o*|beu l'iL^'4i^Jiu„w.°."',,\j{iirtt^
with the prospect, and promised to be the
beat kind of a boy. The mi t Sunday he ap-petireil
in his place, looking sorrowful, and
iho iiaclier asked hitu if ho had beeu a good
boy.
"Yes." he replied, "I've tried to Is5 good ;
but it's no use. Tho hots say I can't go to
llenvi II if I'm ever ro good."
"Why do the boys say thatf" asked tho
teacher.
" Mi, y say." replied tho boy, with the ut-most
simplicity, "there'll ho mi uight there."
from thousands of trees, to drop its
•'wcu brass* '7"*i^LWuuillir hawthorn.
with its sweet-sceuletijiinT, <w.
iallv the white variety, adorns the
landscape and tho gardens; wild flow-ers,
of every hue aud variety, clamber
to hide the harshness of the mural sup-ports;
the beetling cliff of the North
Sea are fringed and softened wan
lovely flowers; and if you kneel any
where almost on the yielding, velvety
carpet, you will find little, well-nigh
invisable flowers—red, white, blue and
yellow—wrought into the very wool
and texture. Ireland ought to be
called the Beautiful Isle. Tho spirit
of the beautiful hovers over and touch-es,
to living loveliness, every point.—
1 'all Mall Oazette.
Lice on Hogs.—The Tennessee Agri
iidturist says: "W. S. Swanu informs
ns that he has an .infallible remedy for
lidding hogs of lice-which is to take
buttermilk and pour it along the hog's
back and neck, and after two or three
applications not a louse will be seen.
He has tried, and seen tried, in several
cases, with the same success in every
instance Mr. Swanu being a reliable
man, we recommend its trial to our
tanner frieuds whose hogs are toubled
with lice." .
To MIUSCRECIUIN IN A BIN.—First
get the actual number ot cubic feet,
which is done by multiplying the In-tel
ior length, breadth and depth to-gether,
then eight-tenths of the cubic
feet will be the number of bushels that
the bin will contain, or eight-tenths of
the cubic feet of grain will be tho
number of bushels.
To get eiglK-tcuths, multiply the
cubic feet by eight, place a period be-fore
the first right-hand figure, and
you have the bushels and the tenths of
bushels.
If you measure corn on the cob,
allow one-half for cob, so that four-m;*,
nl'e.-io.,"lSuW,V!<J £•^JJJ |* *•
Illustrate: Bin 10 x 10 ilWM/2™.-.
tiply these together, product (1,000)
one thousand; of which sum eight-tenths
or 0.8 will be bushels, aud four-teenths
oM1.1 il (torn iu the ear; that
is, 800 or 400 bushels, ns the corn may
be shelled or on the cob.—Cor. in-
Rural Carolinian.
Wheat in Oroon—l.x Senator >es-mitfa
related to ns, the other day, a
remarkable peculiarity of this climate.
He says that wheat may be sown in
this Stateat any season of the year,
with perfect assurance of a good crop, i
LIFE IN BROOKLYN.—A gentleman
while walking iu Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, oil Saturday evening, was
jostled by a stranger, niul alter pro
feeding a few yards, felt in his pocket
in vai:i for his watch. He hastened
back, overtook tho thief, aud point-in"
his revolver, sternly demand-ed"
''Give me that watch!" The
stranger surrendered it without a
word and hurried away. On reaching
home the gentleman was startled iu
the middle of his narrative of his des-perate
encounter with a highwayman
by an interruption from his wife,
"Why, John, you left your watch on
the bureau this morning, and 1 bavc
beeu wearing it all day."
lUnielyfor Painful Wound*.—Tako
a pan ot shovel with burning coals and
sprinkle upon them common brown
sugar, and hold the wounded part in
the smoke. In a few minutes the pain
will bo allayed and recovery proceed
rapidly. In my own case a rusty nail
hod made a bad wound in the bottotn
of my loot. The pain and nervous ir-ritation
was tatveie. This was all re-moved
by holding it in the smoke for
litteen minutes, and I wan able to re-sume
my reading in comfort. We
havo often recommended it to
others with like results. Last
week one of my men had a finger nail
torn out by a pair of ice tongs. It be-came
very painful, as was to have been
expected. Held In sugar smoke for
twenty minutes, the pain ceased, and
it promises speedy recovery.— Country
Gentleman.
A Wonderful Child.—Au exchange
toys there is now a wonderful child in
Ill'injis, three months old, weighing
but two pounds. Its length is only
seven inches, and its face about the
size of a watch -crystal. Its tiny arms
aie SO slender that a small finger-ring
. iu be sbped on either of them to tho
shoulder. This little creature is al-ready
making quite a noise in its part
of the world, and hundreds have cal-led
to see it. Its parents are of stand-ard
size.