The Greensboro patriot [February 14, 1877]

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JOHS N. STATUS.
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MOii A CALDWEJA.
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.io. \v. GLENN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reid*vilU, A. C.
ltT'lLL practice in the Conrta of the
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
ui the Citizen* of Greensboro.
nirnii: 8A1WE AS THOSE
Charged.bj other Practicing
ticiani of the City-
JOHN 1. BABB1KGEB,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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My Valentine to Nancy Jane
" Oecurrtnt Xuba."
BT WHO*
Farewell my love, il we mast part,
And should we never meet again;
Rememlier, you have stole my heart.
And in its place left nought bat pain.
lei at this theft I'll murmur not,
For that would grieve yon mnch.I know:
Still, by ymi r charm* I'm sure 'twas caught,
When battled reason let it go.
Then pity me, while here throngh time,
Alone I wander from yonr view ;
Without a heart, and give me thine,
Ant) then my own, niay slay with you.
Oh, that would give a thrill to life,
And wake new joys, for DH to kuow
I had an angel for my wife—
Compared with others here below !
A being of transcendent worth,
A paragon iu every way,
Escelliug all upon the earth
Yet, growing better every day.
A perfect model in her form,
Of breathing life and symmotry
Wherein there throbs a heart that's warm.
And full of lovo and sympathy.
Her voice is Bweet as music's ohiine,
And she is happy as she's gay ;
An incarnation all sublime
And lovelier than the dawn of day!
A guiding star for all the earth,
Who hy her grace and purity,
Adorns herself with modest worth,
Made brilliant by her piety.
Her presence brightens every scone,
For joy goes with her everywhere :
A helpmate for life's troubled dream,
And a specific lor dispair.
A lovelier being cannot live,
And here a pnrer never can ;
For when she came, then heaven gave
The best it had in store for man !
Yea, far I've wandered 'neath the skies,
And much have seen that gave delight;
But no other being I conld priie,
Like her, who's always in the right!
My heart in silence for her yearns,
And from the best amoug the fair :
With gallant scorn it swiftly tprus,
One gracious smile from h.r to share.
| Then is it strange, that I should start
And backward shrink, with shuddering
pain,
To meet the hour when we must part,
Never on earth to meet again ?
Say, can you, will you, not consent i
To give to me your hand and hoart T
Till the last hour of life he spent,
And death our blended beings parti
1 ask no other boon but this,
1 crave tliy heart and nought besides,
Bxeept it be the nuptial kiss
And after that to call tl.et bridt!
Ah, this would heighten all thy charms,
And render them more dear to me ;
, While circling 'round Ihy waste my arms
Should bind me heart and sonl Io thee '
Say, may 1 not thus cling a friend,
Faithful and true, my love, to thee;
! Till time with both shall have an end,
And theu throughout eternity f
can
always be found
* their .
Lindsay's comer
upataira»«itiaBoa
:J a r k e t
Street,
frti-lury ref-erenca
given, il
desired. SlSti
Ml met I CARD.—The nnder-
M io his friends
served for the , tied to a stake
A btory of a Dumpling.
In 1092 it would not have been
n« sale as it is now in the State of
Massachusetts tor one table to dance
upon two of its legs, or for any
orator to declare that it was not
himself to whom one listened, but
the spirit of Demosthenes. For, in
those days, auy oue who woold now
only be spoken of " as so odd, poor
dear," was iu great danger of beiug
immediately, and it
a malevolent person took a dislike
to a neighbor the mere statemeut
that that neighbor had beeu seen
ridiug on a broomstick the night be-fore
was sufficient. Other neigh-oe
of his pro-ng
ihe past tail
..!: ooarae in
the oily of
. Pat no ogj and treat-
- |M*miliar to FKMAI.KS,
l! « itfa all the inatra- bo"r8 drowned him at once.
I ft --,11V Ml TIllS i » • »i _» ,i i-_ a • 11, i.. also, pro- And in those days there lived in
seance of the eye clear, the town of Salem, where grave
at the Drug judges doomed people to death for
•v,S'ul,,",'vvv"1 no greater crimes than being old
' GLEHH and ugly and a little cracked iu the
upper sicn y, or for making faces at
little boys who threw stones at
them, and being fond of black cats
—there lived in one house a daugh-ter
in law and a mother-in-law, who
hated each other.
Grateful-all your-days Popkins
was a respectable farmer, who, hav-ing
a mother who bad not only
given him the name recorded above,
but had made his shirts—and woven
the lineu for them, and also the
homespun for his trousers and coats,
who had knit his stockings, cut his
pl.t VI r.itv IIOIM;; ! hair, and washed the back of his
neck every Sunday morniug—went
in the wildest and most absurd
"<>i SE :
ftO.N.C.
the enter of
■ tO the
Keve- way and married a young wife; as
" hity-tity" a young thing as could
come of Puritan stock.
She absolutely conld not get the
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THE TABLE
1 >ms are
i ermi n doeed to
ONLY 5,1.50 PER DAY.
tl„ Month on
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the Depot Free.
ii same Mock
yon to any
ate ratea
a. w. ULENN & SON,
: SALE AMI KKTAIL
I'K'I < i( rISTS.
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plete line of
' -.Paints,
- -.-■ AND l'F.KFL'MERY,
■rally found in a
■ DRUG STORE.
v Mi-rchanls and
- ■ ything in our line
"■■I Cheaper, Than
■ ' - '■'■' ha boawhl North and
They cannot be
ail, home.
01VI, THEM A CALL I
curl out of her hair, and when hiv
husband had been absent from home
all day, she would run to the gate
to meet and kiss him—a most un-dignified
proceeding in the eyes of
her mother-in-law.
Mrs. Popkins, the older, was a
very pious woman, and she was one
of those who believed that Provi-dence
smiled upon the burning of a
witch, and was well pleased with
whosoever drowned him. When
ever there was a little festival of
the sort iu vogne, and some poor
creature died a terrible death, be-cause
of some absnrd accusation,
good old Mrs. Popkins was on the
' ground in her black cloak and hood
and long silk mitts, brought years
before trom F.ngland. On such oc-casions
Mrs. Grateful all-your days
. Popkins, her son's wife, stayed at
home and wept, and said she conld
; not bear to see such things, and
said that they were not right.
This in itself Mrs. Popkins the
elder thought suspicious, and in her
own mind she felt sure that her
daughter in-law bad sympathy with
witches.
Indeed, she was not entirely clear
that the poor girl was not herself in
leagne with Satan ; for how, with
nut some special bewitchment,
could that otherwise sensible yonng
man, Grateful all your days Pop-kins,
have been brought to do such
a silly thing as to marry, when he
had such a mother!
" Verily," cried Mrs. Popkins the
elder, " should I discover that one
of my own household was an evil
witch, I would denounce that per-son.
It would grieve me- to do it,
bnt I would perform my duty."
And then good Mrs. Popkins fell
to thinking of her daughter-in-law,
who wept when witches were burnt,
who, perhaps, had bewitched Grate-ful-
all-your-days into marrying her.
One day they drowned old Gaffer
Gill, of whom Master Prod, who
owed him money, had said that he
stood at his bedside of nights,
adorned with horns, hoofs and a
tail, and pinched him black and
bine. It was rather a doobtfnl case,
so they gave htm a chance. He
was cast into the water, and if he
floated they would know that the
evil one was his friend. If he sunk
he was all right He sunk. No
one had expected this, so there was
no means at hand for saving him.—
From this inspiring scene Mrs. Pop-kins
weut home to dinner. She
found her daughter in law very busy
over the fire. A pot hung npon
the trammel which depended from
the crane, and it was bubbling
beautifully. Gratetul-all-your-days
was watching bis wife with much
calm, Puritan admiration in his
light bine eyes.
" We are to have a new dish to
our dinner, mother," he said, " and
Aune sayetb it will be a good one."
" One none ever tasted before,"
said Anne.
" It would have been more godly
to go to the execution of the witch,"
said Mrs. Popkins the elder, " and
to have refreshed yonr perishing
bodies on cold meats. I fear the
lusts of the tlesh are strong within
yon both."
With which Mrs. Popkins—who
read her Bible rather as a means of
reproaching other people than as a
comfort to herself—got it down and
read denunciations from it to the
unhappy yonng couple until dinner
time.
Then, having said grace, she
seated herself and was helped to
boi'ed pork and cabbage, and watch
ed little Mistress Anne as she set
upon the table great dishfuls of
round, white balls of dough, and
cried:
"There! none other ever made
them before I did. I thnoght them
out for myself. Cut it in two,
Oraty"—that was what she called
her husband—" cut it in two, and
within thou wilt find an apple.—
Here is sauce for it.''
Grateful-all-your-days did as he
was ordered,and burst into a laugh.
" Thou art the beat of cooks," he
said. " Mother, thou never didst
so neat a thing as this—confess it."
That speech settled matters. It
was more than Mrs. Popkins the
elder could stand. She glared at
her daughter-iii law. She glared
at her sen. She rose and donned
her hood and cloak, and took two
of the ronud balls—the first apple
dumplings she had ever seen—upon
a plate and walked out of the house
with it. " Hath she taken leave of
her senses .it last f asked the
daughter-in-law."
" She is proud of thy culinary
skill, my child," replied Grateful-all-yonrdays,
who, like other men, had
no intuitive perception, and thought
his mother and his wife the best of
friends, " and would fain boast of
it to our neighbors."
" Alack!" cried Anne, " my heart
misgives me."
And well it might, for Mrs. Pop-kins
the elder had gone straight to
the house of one iu authority, who
delighted iu the destrncMon of
witches, and had set before him the
plate.
" Verily," she said, " I have often
declared I would denounce even
one of my own kin who should
prove to be a witch; and here is
the proof that Anne, the wile of
my well beloved Giateful-all your-days,
has proved herself a witch
by making this. Within a dump
ling of dough, with no hole in it,
lies a whole apple. None but a
witch conld do such a deed. I de-nounce
her. Cut one of those open
to prove the truth of what I say to
thyself: keep the other for the
judges."
The great witch finder did as he
was bid, and pronounced the apple
dumpling the chietest work of Satan
he had ever seen ; not only witch-craft,
but au evil miracle, so to
speak.
That night poor little Mistress
Anne was arrested and cast into
prison. Her mother-in-law, as good
a cook as there was iu Salem, had
declared that she had done what
was impossible to any cook. Grave
elders had opened the remaining
dumpling, and out ot it had rolled
a boiled apple. Aune had not
thought of halving and coring it—
As the evil one had helped her by
fire, fire was to be her death.
The stake was set, faggots were
ready, but before she was burut
some form of trial must be gone
through. The mother-in-law was
witUeS8.
The husband was on the spot,
tears in bis eyes, and a great basket
on his arm ; and Aune was brought
from her prison to confront the fierce
men who were only too anxious to
doom her to death. Accordiug to
their laws she might speak in her
own defense if she had anything to
say. The charge was made, evi-dence
given, the dumpling exhibit-ed.
Then up rose Mistress Anne,
white and trembling.
" I have nothing to deny," she
said. " I made the dumpling ; but
I beg leave to show al! those now
assembled how the work was done;
then, if there is anything evil in it,
do me to death, lor I am worthy."
" It is bnt jost," said the judge.
"Perform your incantation."
Then stepped forward her hus-band,
Master Grateful-all-your-days
Popkins. He set before her the
basket and took thence a box of
floor, some butter, a rolling din and
pasteboard, four apples, a pan of
sugar, a spoon and a nutmeg. In
the court room, as io all rooms that
needed warming at that day,
point their agencies, send out peti-tions,
lecturers, (street preachers if
necessary) tracts—every possible
influence that may strengthen the
prohibitions party. Let God's min
isters, as faithful watchmen on the
walhi, urge their people to duty.—
Let neighbors talk with neighbors,
and friends with friends. And by
the blessing of Heaven on the
.', was mighty cause, the next approaching
an open tire; over this he placed " May-day" will shed a light and
the pot, and kneeling on the floor
Mistress Anne mixed ind rolled out
a paste. Then paring the apples
she infolded each in a white sheet
and dented the edges of the lap in
the paste until it was invisible;
then the pot of water, boiling and
bnbbling, she dropped them in.
" Is there witchcraft in this V she
asked.
" It is all deceit. They would
boil out!" cried the motber-in-law.
" We will wait and see," cried the
judges. They waited.
An hour after, all four sat about
a table eating the delicious dump-lings,
over which Anne poured a
savory sauce, and each declared
that none bnt good arts had been
used in the concoction of Mistress
Anne's excellent apple dnmpliugs.
So she was not bnrnt for a witch
after all, and shortly after Mrs.
Popkins the elderwent back to Eng-land.
Whatever other folks said,
she declared she knew that her
daughter in-law was a witch. How
else had her son been brought to
marry her ? And the day that she
sailed away was the fiist day of her
wedded life that little Mistress
Anne had ever felt that her hus-band's
name of Grateful-all-your
days Popkins really belonged to
tbem. ^^^^^^^^
LOCAL OPTION.
The Stronghold of our Immediate
Hope.
GOOD TEMPLARS OF N. C.:—In
the kind and wonderful providence
of God, the temperance cause in
our State has within the last two
decades realized a progress which
is almost too strange to believe.—
Ouly a few years ago so little tem-perance
sentiment had shown itself
in our State, that the wisest aud
most sagacious friends of the cause
declared it to be their firm convic-tion
that the time woold never
come in the history of North Caro-lina
wheu her Legislature would
have anything at all to do with a
liqnor bill.
To-day we behold our noble old
State right on the verge of legisla-tive
redemption from the terrible
curse! It has come like a storm,
and a " nation has been boru in a
day." One town after another,
one church after another, college
alter another, iu quick succession
has petitioned and secured the re-moval
ol this monster curse, until
our State is absolutely spotted over
with prohibitory corporations.
But the noblest, grandest stride
toward our sure deliverance from
ihis loathsome blight on our State,
is the more recent sweeping provi-sion
which stands on our statute
books, allowing every township in
the State the privilege of voting the
liqnor traffic down. The followiug
is a brief statemeut ot the law now
iu force on that subject:
1. It the people of auy township
wish to rid themselves of the curse,
the first thiug to do is to send in a
petition to the County Commis-sioners
at the meeting on the first
Monday in April, signed by one
fourth of the voters ot said town-ship,
asking them to order an elec
tiou to lie held in said township to
determine whether or not spiritu-ous
liquors shall be sold within the
limits of the same ; in obedience to
which petition, the said Commis-sioners
are required by law to or-der
such election.
2. The sheriff of the county is
required to hold such election,
when ordered, under the same regu-lations
as are prescribed for hold-ing
elections for members of the
Legislature, with some slight va-riations
as shown in the law.
:). Every voter allowed to vote
for members of Assembly is a voter
in this election ; and if in favor of
the liqnor traffic, his ticket mnst
have written or printed on it the
word " License." If he is opposed
to the traffic, his ticket will have
ou the word "Prohibition."
4. When the votes are counted
as the law requires, if a majority
are in favor of " Prohibition," the
sale of liquor iu said township shall
thereafter be unlawful until the li-quor
party become strong enough
to petition for and carry an election
iu the same manner as before.
Now, dear brethren, and frieuds
of humauity, what shall we do—
what is our duty? Our Legisla-ture
has done nobly iu giving us
such a law. The matter is now
with us—with the people. This
curse of the liqnor traffic is now at
the disposal Of the free voters of
every township. Our Legislature
has doue its whole duty—all we
could ask. It says to ns: " If yon
want this curse stopped, we place iu
your hands the means of your de-iiverauce.
If yon do not want it I
stopped, yon have the liberty of al-lowing
it to go on by your own care-lessness
aud inactivity."
And now, in response to this no-ble
opportunity to save ourselves,
our children, and onr neighbors
from the blighting curse of this
damnable traffic in blood and tears
and broken hearts, aud ruined
homes and lortunes and lives, shall
we prove ourselves worthy or un-worthy
of the blessings thus placed
within our teach—the fearful alter-native
submitted for onr decision !
We appeal to every Lodge and
every Templar aud every friend of
hi- country and his kind, let us, in
the name of God's mercy and of hu-man
misery, go to work faithfully,
earnestly, for the overthrow of the
accursed traffic amoug us. If the
temperance people do not this work,
who will t Let Lodges at once ap-fragrance
npon onr rum cursed land,
such as it has never yet beheld or
scarcely dreamed of.
Remember, no time is to be lost.
The petition mnst be sent to the
County Commissioners at their first
meeting in April.
THEO. N. RAMSAY,
G. W. C. T.
MOSES GTLLAM,
G. W Counsellor.
IOLA H. BLEDSOE,
G. W. V. T.
N. B. BROUGHTON,
P. G. W. C. T.
SAM'L J. FALL.
G. W. Sec'y.
V. BALLARD, G. W. T.
Ex. Com. Grand Lodge
Housekeeper's Help
Don't Throw Away Your Old
Bread.—Very|few housekeepers are
aware ot the tact, which is, howev-er,
true, that pieces of old bread,
crumbs, and crust—provided they
are not mouldy—on being soaked
and mixed up with dough, when
making bread, improve it very
much. Try it, and you will be sat-isfied.
Custard Bread Pudding.—To
three well-beaten eggs add one
quart milk ; sweeten aud flavor to
taste, (lemon is the most generally
used flavor,) and pour in a tiu pud-ding-
pan. Then take baker's rolls,
or bread (sweet rolls are best),
spread with butter, and lay in the
pan: Bake until the custard forms
Serve cold.
Nectar.—Chop half a pound ot
raisins in the sun, one pound of
powdered loaf sugar, two lemons
sliced, and the peel of oue. Put
them into an earthen vessel, with
two gallons of water, the water hav-beeu
boiled half an hour, and put
ihem in while the water is boiliug.
Let is stand three or four days,
stirriug it twice a day ; then strain
it, and in a fortnight it will be ready
for use.
Knickerbocker Cho\c Pickle.—Ten
pounds green tomatoes, 5 pounds
red cabbage, 5 ponnds green cu-cumber
pickle, 24 ponnds greeu
peppers, G pounds onions, chop
line, add a half pint salt and let it
stand twelve hours. Then mix 1
quart horse radish (grated,) 2
pounds ground mustard, half pound
celery seed and halt pint of olive
oil, with 2 gallons best cider vine-gar
and boil it 15 or 20 minutes.
Then add all together and mis thor-oughly
and simmer over a slow lire
for one hour, occasionally stirring.
Then bottle up, or put in jars and
you will have trom 1 to o gallons ot
a most superior relish, costing
about 00 cents per gallon.
RemedyJor CoUb.—Aa this par-ticular
season of the year colds are
more or less prevalent, the subjoin-ed
remedy is given, which has been
pronounced infallible: Take three
medium-sized lemons, boil lor six
or eight minutes, take up on a
plate, then slice them thin with a
sharp knife. Put them and their
jnice in to a brown earthen pan.
and put over them one pouud of
clean brown sugar—the browner
the better—and set the pan on the
top of the stove, so that the sugar
may melt gradually. When it is
melted move the pan to a hotter
part of the stove, and let it stew for
about three hours. Theu take it
off, let it stand half an hour, and
then stir into it a small tablespoon-ful
of the oil of sweet almonds.
When cold it is ready for use.
Dose—a teaspoonful whenever you
choose.
Turpentine in IIeadaclie.—l)r.
Warbarton Begbie (Edinburg Med-ical
Journal) advocates the use of
turpentine in the severe headache
to whieh nervous and hysterical
women are subject. "There is,
moreover," he says, "another class
of sufferers fiom headache, and
this is composed of both sexes, who
may be relieved by turpentine. I
refer to the frontal headache, which
is most apt to occur after piolong
ed meutal effort, but may likewise
be induced by unduly sustaiued
physical exertions—what may be
styled the headache of a latigued
brain. A cup of very strong tea of
ten relieves this form of headache,
but this remedy, with not a few, is
perilous, for, briuging relief to
pain, it may produce restlessness,
and worst ot all—banish sleep.
Turpentine, iu dosses of twenty or
thirty drops, given at intervals
of an hour or two, will not only 1 •
move the headache, but produce in
a wonderful manner that soothing
influence to which reference has al-ready
been made."
{New Series No. 463.
noiples of draught. In exhibit-ing
and competing at state and
county lairs, it became necessary
for me to know how to fit my plow
for its work, and more necessary to
find a plowman who understood
the whole matter. It took weeks
| to find such a plowman; but I did
I find him, and every time he was
i put in competition he won." i
No Danger.—Ho lounged np to
to the counter, picked up a tooth
pick, and as he pried away at his
molars he said to the clerk :
" Must be hard, mnsn't it, for a
man to die iu a trance state!"
•• Yes," was the brief reply.
" That's all I'm afraid ol," con-tinued
the confidential dead head.
'• I'm afraid I'll be buried before I'm
really dead."
" I guess not," answered the clerk,
" the law regulates that."
" The law ! How 1"
" It prescribes how long the body
shall bang before being cut down."
The man laid down the tooth-pick
softly aud weut out very quietly.
The Louisiana Crookedness.
[Special dispatch to the Baltimore Son.]
Examination oj Casanate and Wells
—The KHOK Nothing and General-
Denial Policg— Wells Subjected to
a Rigid Examination—Excited Al-tercations
with Mr. Field—Threats
of Yiolence by the witness.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 The ex-amination
of J. Madison Wells,
president of the Louisiana return
ing board, before the House com
mittee to-day presented such a
sceue as was never before exhibit-ed
in any congressional investiga
tion. It was evident from first to
last that Wells had come before the
committee with the determination
to "brave through" the charges
against him by sheer audacity and
assurance. Whatever else may be
said of Wells he possesses the one
redeeming trait of genuine, contain-ed
courage. As Wells sat in the
witness chair this afternoon, facing
Dav.d Dudley Field, who was cross
questioning him, his teeth sat hard,
bis eyes flashing, and his hand
grasping with nervous energy a
stout hickory stick, he looked like
.he veritable impersonation of a
bulldozer And it must be con-lessed
that the skilful and accom-plished
lawyer had to bend his
whole mind to bis task before he
drove the rough old man into a cor-ner.
It is doubtful whether in all the
long and varied experience of Mr.
Held that he ever had a tougher
contest than that which for nearly
four hours was waged between him
and Wells this afternoon. Cool
aud wary as is Mr. Field, he was iu
imminent danger several times of
losing his temper, while on three
several occasions Wells lashed him-self
into such a rage that he almost
sprang from his chair, and it was
halt expected that he would at-tempt
a physical demonstration on
Mr Field. He ponnded the table
with his fist, he refused to answer,
he interjected replies and comments
into the midst of Mr. Field's inter-rogatories,
he sneered at him as a
New York politician, intimated in
the plainest terms that he was no
gentleman, and behaved generally
in such a manner that had it been
in a court of justice he would have
been summarily punished on the
spot. At every opportunity he
rung in the old cries of murder and
intimidation, and mob violence.
His sublime audacity was exhibit-ed
in the most striking manner
twice In succession, when, after re-plying
in the most insolent manner
to questions put by Mr. Field, he
turned in the most innocent style
to Ihe chairman of the committee
and asked to be protected. Hour
after hour Mr. Field endeavored to
pin him down to the point, but nev-er
did trout at end of line dart hith-er
and thither in more incompre-hensible
angles and tangents than
did Wells in winding devious way
evade the questions he did not
wish to answer.
Finally the patience of Mr. Field
was exhansted, and he in turn ap-pealed
to the chairman of the com-mittee,
who theu administered a
stern reprimand to Wells. After
this he calmed down a little, and
condescended to attempt au expla-nation
of the letter written by him
to Senator West. As will appear
in the regular report the explana-tion
which he vouch aafed was of
the lamest character, aud can find
no intelligent believers. Toward
the lalter part of the examination
Mr. Field succeeded iu landing his
tront beautifully. Wells said that
the original returns showed a ma-jority
for Hayes, ne admitted that
some ten thousand Tilden votes
had been thrown out, and that the
Hayes majority returned by the
board was a bout 3,300. This was
the moment of Mr. Field's triumph
and he was so overjoyed that he
rose op from his seat. Said he, "if
Hayes had a majority on the origi-nal
returns, and yon threw out ten
thousaud Tilden votes, how was it
that the majority returned by you
for Hayes was only 3,500." Wells
pondered over this awhile, and af-ter
discovering that there was no
system of arithmetic by which he
could reconcile such statements, he
reluctantly said he had beeu mis
understood, and that Tilden had a
majority ou the face of the returns.
During the entire period of Wells
examination his quondam friend
Maddox stood by Mr. Field aud
eyed hi in closely, but Wells was
not seen once to return his glance.
The villainous adventurers who
have fattened for ten years on very
life-blood of the people of Louisi-ana
have certainly been very fortu-nate
in having the active assistance
of such a man as Wells in execut-ing
I heir dark designs. Looking
at him this afternoon as he sat in
his sullen defiance one conld not
but be reminded of Gen. Sheridan's
description of him, and see iu the
mind's-eye the slimy trail of the
serpent.
When Mr. Wells came here in
the custody of the Sergeantat-arms
of the House he brought iu his
trunk several pistols end one of the
iiii-toiic deadly Thug knives. This
afternoon when he weut to the com-mittee
room he secreted on his per-son
a revolver and carried in his
hand his riliecane, and it is believ-ed
that he also had on his person
the Thug knife. This was not sus-pected
until the threatening dem-onstrations
made by Mr. Wells,
when Mr. Field finally succeeded in
bringing him to bay. It is said
that Mr. Wells has slain three men
in the course of his life, two of
whom were colored men. It is not
difficult to conceive that a man ca-pable
of the crimes which he has
committed against the State would
have no hesitation in adding mur-der
to his other enormities.
Treatment of Young Horses.
Mr. Brady Nicholson, of Stanton
Grange, Garforth, at a recent meet-ing
of the West Riding Chamber of
Agriculture, Yorkshire, England,
read a paper on this subject, from
Working Land on Shares.
Working land ou shares seems to
I be a poor business for both parties.
: I' is to the interest of the tenant to
spend as little for extra labor as
possible, because the owner of the
land gets half the benefit, without
bearing any of the expense. When
which we make the following ex-! the country was new and the land
tract: rich,a man conld, perhaps, afford
Young horses require, like all' to gire half the prodnote, as he
other yonng animals, good keep,! could get fair crops with little bl-and
grazing upon pasture land | bor; but now that the land is more
that has been well boned. When I or less run down, and it is necessa-was
at Newmarket judging grey- j ry to build it up with manure and
hounds in 1845, the late Lord ■ good culture, it is impossible for a
George Benninck himself spread ! man to expend the necessary labor
bone-dust ou the grass where his i »nd give half the produce for rent,
young yearling race horses grazed., It may be done for a year or two on
Foals are better taught to lead as land in high condition ; bnt the
soon as taken from the mare, and farm must inevitably deteriorate
their legs and feet handled. II, under the system. A man might
they happen to meet with an acci- , afford to rent a grass farm on shares
dent, unless they have been halter- \ but not an arable farm. It is diffi-ed
and led, they are very bad to I cult to take one of our ordinary
manage. Young horses, like chil-, run-down farms and raise enough
dren, require kindness and firm-' from it, for the first few years, to
ness. The more^quietly you move I pay the cost of labor and support
about them the'better. Numbers' the teams. It would be cheaper, so
of horses are spoilt by ill-treatment, far as immediate profit is concerned,
Horses do know the person who be-', to pay one hundred dollars an acre
haves ill to them, and most of them < for a farm in high condition, with
when young, will, alter ill-treat- good buildings and fences, than to
ment, give a parting salute when accept as a gift one of those run-they
have an opportunity. I also , down farms. It is time this matter
look straight at the eye of a horse was understood, so that those un-when
I go up to him. If he drops easy mortals who are always ex-his
ears back, I give him a quick peering to sell, and consequently
glance; I speak to him, which make no efforts to keep up and im
draws off his attention froui kick- prove the land, should be compelled
ing. If a man walks boldly up to a to turn over a new leaf, or else dis
horse, he will seldom lash out, ; pose of their farms at a low figure.
Rarey's success was due to his ', —Ohio Farmer
nerve aud knowing the proper ; —a—?■■-■_
tackle to put on a horse. A Fable.—A farmer seeing a
At two years old a yonng horse ; crow pull up a stalk of corn, flew
had better be mounted and caretul- ! into a rage, and killed it.
Iy haodled a few weeks before turn-J After piekiug up the dead bird,
ing out to pasture. At three years | he said, "1 will open the stomach
he should be broken—a most criti- of this black thief, and see how
cal time. Much depends on the | much damage it has done."
proper treatment, getting the horse
with a good mouth and manner.
Should the horee unfortunately
throw the breaker aud learn wick-ed
ways, he will try to do so again
if he has the least opportunity. A
man that rides a young horse
should always be on his guard.
When the horse is first saddled,
i an him up and down the yard till
he gets used to the saddle. By
adopting this method, and keeping
your heels trom touching him when
In the craw of the crow he found
caterpillars, cut-worms, chinch
bugs, aud divers other vermin,
enough to have destroyed hlaf his
crop, and bnt one grain ofcom.
Then the farmer exclaimed .•
"Now I know I have slain my best
friend V
Moral; Let the birds live —
Bedford Star.
Jt'hi? ■ I"8,'fang<Ti "i"""
first mounted till he settles down, ^"I'"8
1
r,Rht- "g. »"'*'|«'nly shoot
mauy a fall accident may be avoid
ed.
A Wash for
The following
Fruit Trees,
is recommended
by a commission of fruit growers,
presided over by Prof. Cyrus Thom-as,
State entomologist of Illinois,
and is a part of a very full report,
embodying advice as to the best
means of fighting the insects that
infest the orchards of that State:
Insects and mildews, injurious to
the leaves of seedlings and root
out and persists in going south to
investigate the election frauds, and
the left limb is just as determined
to travel north to discover the north
pole, while his bend shows an in-clination
to go west and grow up
with the country, the probabilities
are thata thrilling academic posture
and a heavy fall of flesh are im-minent
Also, somo profane swears
and a bruised fat man.
" Oh, this horrid weather," wall
ed a fashionable Chicago woman on
a recent cold day " What's up now!"
grafts, can be kept in subjection or [ stoically inquired her husband,
' •' What is up," exclaimed she j
" why, just look at my nose—made
red as a beet and no powder in
creation that will stick on iu such
winds as wo have !" It was a lament
able scene to gaze at, that wife and
her nose, yet the husband's sympa-thies
did not seem to be aroused.
When you can't think what your
wife charged you to bring home,
get hair-pins. They are always
bandy in the house.
destroyed by a free use of a combi
nation of lime and snlphur. Take
of quick or unslaked lime four
parts, and of common flour of snl
phur one part (four pounds of sul-phur
to one peck of lime), break up
the lime in small bits, then mixing
the snlphur with it in a tight ves
sel (iron is best), pour on them
enough boiling water to slake the
lime to a powder ; cover in the ves-sel
close as soon as the water is
poured on. This makes also a
most excellent whitewash for or-chard
trees, and is very useful as a
preventive of blight on pear trees,
to cover the wounds in the form of
a paste, when cutting away diseas
ed parts; also forcoating the trees
in April. It may be considered as
the one specific for many noxious
insects and mildew in the orchard
and nursery ; its materials should
always be ready at hand ; it should
be used quite fresh, as it would in
time become sulphate of lime, and
so lose its potency. Wherever dust-ing
with lime is spoken of, this
should be used. This preparation
should be sprinkled over the yonng
plant as soon as, or before, any-trouble
from aphides, thrips or mil-dew
occurs, early in the morning,
while the dew is on the trees.
This lime and sulphur combination
is destructive to the pests in this
way: Firstly, by giving off sul-phuric
acid gas, which is deadly
poison to minute life, both anima!
and fuugoid ; and the lime destroy-by
contact the same things; be
sides its presence is noxious to
them ; neither is it injurious to com
mon vegetable life, except in ex
cess, unless the lime to the foliage
of evergreens.
He was only an inquisitive boy,
and he said: "Ma, will all tho
heathen turn up when it comes
resurrection times!" •• Yes, my
son." "And them missionaries:
those will turn up!" "Certainly,
my son." " Well, when them Can-nibal
heathen what's been leeilin'
on missionaries gets resurrected,
and them missionaries what's been
eat comes around and wants to get
resurrected, things is going to be
worse mixed up than the presi-dential
election, hey, ma !" " It Is
time you were in bed, my con "
"Ullo Fwed! What on earth
are you walking about with that
beastly sausage under vour arms
for!" Fwed: "Well—aw—the
fact is, the othaw day I saw in the
papaws that a fella'd been sent to
the workhouse—aw—because he'd
got no visible means of subsistence.
Tut me in a regular blue funk, you
know 1 So I got this sawoage to
protect myself."
The way to avoid suffering from
corns is to have bay windows ou
your boots.
Good Plowing.
Plowing is an art. A really
good plowman is a rarity as much
as a really good landscape painter,
and yet plowing is one of the main
items of valuable labor upon a
farm. Oue who knows says: "I
have seen one man, when plowing,
lean forward with bands upon the
plow handles, and laboring at one
time to keep the plow ironi going
too shallow, and at another to keep
it from going too deep ; make a
narrow or irregular depth and
width ; here a balk, and there a
ridge. I have seen another man
take the same team, arrange the
gearing, and plow with oue hand
on the plow handles, turning a fur-row
clean, of even width and depth.
Unfortunately too few plowmen un
derstand the principle of draught,
and hence many a good plow is
condemned as bad. It is this want
of knowledge how to use a plow
that keeps back progress and re-duces
the value ot the crop on
many a farm. I speak knowingly,
having had practice, more or less,
between plow-handles for over fifty
years, commencing when eleven
years of age. I studied the art ol
plowing practically, and being en
gaged in supplying farmers with
plows a part of the time mentioned
there was a necessity of knowledge
of the form of the plow and the
An old German fanner iu Iowa
had his bam. which was destri
by fire, insured lor 1500. The com-pany
said be conld coepl $200 or
they would build him a new I
When the life insurance
came around the German faceti
Iy in formed him that he won Id not
have the life of bis wife insured, as
the company, in the event ol
death, might want him to take
some withered old Dutch worn.;
The editor of a Philadelphia p;>
per went to a convention and left a
new silk hat, worth seven dol
hanging ou the rack in the cloak-room,
aud when he came ont to go
home be found it had gone, and an
old, greasy, ragged, sunburned old
rag of a hat, with a chalk scrawl
on the brim, " Please Ex."
One of the most curious thingswith
which re are acquainted ii
watch should keep perfectly dry,
when it has a running inside.
A chap who was told by a clergy-man
to remember " Lot's wife," IF-plied
that he had trouble enough
with his own, without remembering
any other man's wife.
Judge Hoar once said of a law -
yer : He has reached the sup
tiveoflife. At first he sought to
get on, and then ho sought to get
bouor, aud now he is trying to get
honest.
A young woman in Rochester, N.
Y. has sued for damages a man
who kissed her. A man who can't
kiss a woman without damaging
her ought to pay for his awkwaid-ness.