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V UJL. | Times VII. 5
GREENSBORO, N. 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1868. {NO. 44.
Tomb-Stones.
Henry G Kdlot/g,
South Elm.
Sign and Ornamental Painting*
A. W. Ingold,
East Market, Albright's block.
Physicians.
A. & Porter,
West Market st., (near Times Office.)
7?. IP (ilenn.
West Market, McConnel building.
Jat. K. Hall,
North Elm, opposite court-house.
J. E. Logan,
Comer West-Market and Greene.
Watchmakers and Jewellers.
W. Ji. Farrar,
South Elm, opposite Express Office.
David Scott,
East Market, Albright's block.
Cuiiford County Officers.
Sheriff, K. M. Staffer*.
Coroner, John A. Pritchett.
Treasurer, John Hall.
Clerk Superior Court, Abram Clapp.
Recorder of Deed*, J. W. S. Parker.
Surnyor, G. W. Bowman.
Commissioner*.—Wm. M. Mcbane, Chairman;
Wm. W. Wheeler. John C. Denny, Jonathan
Anthonv, Zeplinniali Mitchell, (colored)
J. W. S. Parker, Clerk ex-officio of the board.
USEFUL HINTS.—New milch cows countries is used, in combination with
Business Directory^
Attorn*} s at Caw.
£coU <t' Scott,
North him, opposite Court House.
QUmer <t- Qilmir,
.North Elm, opposite Court House, (see
advertisement.)
Adams d- Staples,
Second Moor, Tate building.
Scales <t- Scales, . .
North Room, Patrick Pow.in rearot I or.
ter & Eekle's Drug Store.
^potheniiirs and l>rujrgists.
It \V. Qlenn, M.D., , , .,,.
West Market Street, McConnel building.
• rort'r •(■ Eckel. , .
West Market, next oourthouso, (see adv.;
Auctioneer.
Jos, li. Pearee.
Barbers.
With** & Wtteji, ■
North Elai. opposite Court House.
Bankers and Insurance Agents.
Henri (1. Kellogg,
South Elm, Tate building, («eo adv.)
1} iUon m Sholer,
South Elm, opposite Express Ofcce, (see
adv.)
Boot and Shoe Makers.
E. Kirch Shlagel, .
West Market, opposite Mansion Ilottd.
'"L>-vie stT* doors North Steele's cornor.
Cigar manufacturer.
A Ilrochnann,
South Elm, Caldwell block.
Cabinet Makers and Undertakers.
John A. Pritchett,
South Elm, near Depot.
Wm. Collins, ,
Corner of Sycamore and Davie streets.
Contractor in Brick-work.
Hut-id McKnight.
ontractOrS in Wood-work.
/. J. Collier,
.las. L. Oakley.
Hand Kersey.
Confectioners.
F IteSmH,
Tate Building, corner slurs.
J Harper Lindsay, Jr.,
South Elm.
Dress-Making and Fashions.
Mrs. X. Maurice,
Swuth Elm, {fit* adv.)
Mrs. A. Uilworth, '
Next door to Times Office.
Dentists,
J. fT. Hoiclett, .
1st door left hand, up stairs, Garrett ■
building.
Dry <ioods, Cirocers and Produce
Dealers.
)V. S. Moore,
Has: Market, Albright s new building.
L. H. Routsahn, , ~i
Corner East Market and North Elm,
Lindsay corner, (see adv.)
A. Wtath'r'l'l, , ,^ .
Corner East Market and Davis streets.
W. I). Trotter.
Hast Market. Albright s new building.
West Market, opposite Porter & Eckel,
M C. Hudson, _
West Market. opi>osite Court House.
Jos. Sloan A Sons,
South Elm, wear Depot, (see ad\.)
€. 0. lutes.
South Elm.
Srtiith .(■ (Miner,
Opposite Southern llotsi.
J. />. hline.
I'.ast Market street.
' Corner East Market and Davie streets.
/». W. C Benbow,
Corner South Elm and Sycamore.
Bogart .<• Murray,
' East Market, South Side.
Foundry and Machine Shop.
/ // Tarpley,
Washington st., on the Railroad.
«Sroeers and Confectioners.
Starrett & White,
East Market, next Post Office.
«cuertil Emigruti—■ Office, for the
West and South-1*cst.
ljoxiis Zimmer.
Gen'J Southern Agent. B and O. R. K.,
West Market, opposite Mansion Hotel.
,Ouilford Land Agency of North-
Carolina.
Jno ff Crretter. Gen'l Agent, . _ .
West Market, opposite Mansion Hotel.
JHFlHMI II ■ ilra—
East Market st.. near Court House.
James /.'- I'hom,
Comer South Elm and Sycamore.
MOi*ut*l'-r„ Hotel, Scales & Black, proprietors,
West Market, near Court House.
Planter's Hotel, J. T. Reese, proprietor,
East Market, near Court House.
Liquor Dealers.
Dean A- Buabee, V holesale Dealers
West Market St., Garrett Building.
lAvery Stables.
W. J- Edic.ondson,
Ditvie street.
Millinery and Lady's Goods.
Mrs. H'. S. Moore.
East Market, Albright's new building.
Jlrs. Sarah Adams,
West Market, opposite Court House.
Music and Musical Instruments.
l'r»f. F. Ji. Maurice,
South Elm, (see adv.)
Tailors.
W. L. Fowler, TT . I
West-Market, opposite Southern Hotel.
Tinners.
Jno. E. O'Sullivan, ... . .
Comer West Market and Ashe streets.
C. G. Tates,
South-Elm.
Photographers.
Hughs <fc Votes,.
West Market, opposite Court House,
up stairs.
Facts for Farmers.
DiPTHERiA.—Iu the Paris Journal
des ConnaisanccH Medicates we find an
interesting paper, by Dr. Ozenam, on
the treatment of diptheria, attended
with the formation of adventitious
membranes. The specific he uses is
bromine, which has an electric action
on the pharynix, the retain pendulum
and the larynx; so also has promide
of potassium. Three German experi-mentalists-
Frantz,Sehmidt,andTaube,
—were the first to prove that bro-mine
introduced into the respiratory
organs caused false membranes to be
formed in the larynx of pigeons. From
this they conclnded, according to the
honueopathic principle —similin simil-ibiis
cttrajitur—that this clement would
cure croup and membranous diptheria.
Dr. Ozenam took up the matter allo-pathically,
and by experiment found
that bromine first hardened the ad-ventitious
membrane, andtben reduced
it to dust. This led him to conclude
that both the homoeopathic and allo-pathac
principles of medicine coincide
in certain cases ; but letting this ques-tion
alone, his researches have gone
farther, and show that bromine de-stroys
contagion as well as chlorine,
aud prevents the spreading of cpirtem
tcs. This fact, of course, became a
stepping-stone to using bromine as a
curative medicine, and nearly all the
cases treated with it have been sue
cessful.
As a preservative irom epidemic
diptheria, Dr. Ozenam administers
from ten to twelve drops of bromine
in the course of the day, in sugar and
water, and in proportion of twenty to
fifty gms. of the latter per drop. This
liquid solution must be kept in the dark
since li.^ht would cause the formation
of hydrobromic acid.
The vial must be kept well stopped,
and its contents must be changed as
soon as the light amber color has
disappeared. To the patient the solu-tion
is administered in drops hourly,in
a table-spoonful of sugar and water,
so as to give from one to two grammes
of the former in the course of twenty-four
hours. In the case of croup Dr.
Ozenam proscribes fumigations of bro-mine.
A basin with hot water is placed
before the patient; a large pinch of
bromine of potassium, or else common
kitchen salt, is thrown in, and then iu
the course of five minutes three tea
spoonfuls of the above bromided solu-tion
are added. The patient inhales
the vapor ot bromiue thus evolved
through a glass funnel. By this means
our author has cured upwards of one
hundred and fifty cases of croup or
diptheria, with only five failures.
should be carded daily. They like it,
and it pays.
The potato is a great absorber of
potash. Therefore wood ashes are a
good manure for it.
Put a few live fish into wells, if angle
worms infest them.
If the roots of trees arc dipped into
water just before planting, the earth
that sticks to them will give immediate
support to the small fibers.
John Johnson says that farmers must
give special attention to sheep and
cattle keeping if they want to make
grain growing more profitable.
' Calcined plaster is as good a ferti-lizer
as the uncalcined, but it is usually
wasted after its use in the arts.
Some ono says if salt is kept before
a horse in the stable, he will not gnaw
his manger. Trial will tell.
Root crops, not grain, are the thing
for young orchards. They do not steal
so much tree food.
Toads are capital helpers in taking
care of vine patches.
Experiments seem to prove that
fence posts sets up the reverse way
from which they grew, will last much
the longer.
It is difficult to tell colic from bots
in a horse, but a tablespoonful of
chloroform, in twice as much mucilage,
is a good remedy for cither.
Rich milk is not the best for calves.
A butter cow is not a good stock cow.
tartaric acid and bicarbonate of soda,
as a cooling beverage.
THREE WORDS OF STRENGTH.
There are three lessons I would write,
Three words as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have hope. Though clonds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put then the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.
Have faith Where'er thy bark is driven,
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,
Know this : God rules the host of heaven,
The inhabitant's of earth.
Have love. And not alone for one,
But man, aB inaiv, thy brother call;-,
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave the lessons on thy soul,
Hope, Faith and Lovo—and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges cease to roll,
Light when thou else were blind.
Election Returns.
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Constitution.
Vote for
President.
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TEA DRINKING.—Persons unaccus-tomed
to drinking tea are aware of the
peculiar sleeplessness which follows
an indulgence in the beverage. This
effect is due to an alkaloik which exists
in tea, known by the name of "theine."
A medical student in Boston recently
tried some experiments with this sub-stance,
the result of which he describes
as follows:
" I took myself theina? gr. xii., at
about 2 P. M., by the mouth, aud
about two hours after there came on a
state ofgreat physieal restlessness, and
at the same time a very uneasy state
of mind, which Lehmaun describes iu
this connection, as a "mental anguish."
Soon after, there was a tremulousness,
most marked in my hands and arms.
On attempting to write and control the
muscles of the hand, the hand trembled
so violently that it was impossible to
write with any regularity, nor could it
be restrained for more than a few
seconds. My mind was also in an
excessively uncomfortable and anxious
state, which admitted not the slightest
rest, whether I sat or lay or attempted
reading. This lasted, perhaps, two
hours, when there were no other
phenomena, except sleeplessness, until
2 A. M., having gone to bed at 10.—
Meanwhile, the mind was in a state of
most active and persistent thinking,
in spite of all attempts at forgetful-
Alamance,
Alexander,
Alleirlinny,
Anson,
Ashe,
Beaufort,
Bertie,
Blad.n,
Brunswick,
Buncombe,
Burke.
Cabarrua,
Caldwell,
C:iniden,
Oartferet,
C aswell,
Catawba,
Chatham,
Cherokee,
Chowan,
Clay,
Cleveland,
Columbus,
Craven,
Cumberland,
Currituck,
Davidson,
Davie,
Dnplin,
B«gecombe,
Forsytlie,
Franklin,
Gaston,
dates,
( '•anville,
Greene,
O WIIICIU.
Halifax,
Hamatt,
lluvwood,
Henderson,
Hertford,
Hyde,
Iredell,
Jacksou,
Johnston,
Jones,
Lenoir,
Lincoln,
Kfaeon,
Madison,
Martin,
McDowell,
Mecklenburg,
Mitchell.
Montgomery,
Moore,
Nash,
New Hauover,
Northampton,
Onflow,
Orange,
806
367
229
988
620
1314
132D
1270
784
1047
779
832
384
474
890
1416
409
184(5
388
701
128
603
439
3401
1770
437
1705
521
962
2340
1179
1431
803
448
2514
801
ness.H
The same substance injected under
the skin of a toad, produced death in
a very short time, and the experiment-er
came to the conclusion that theine
is to all intents and purposes a poison.
Still, tea-drinkers will probably say,
as the tobacco chewer did, when told
that tobacco was a poison, " If it be a
poison, is is a very slow one."
isqi ■tank,
An Ohio Farmer bets on the follow-ing
:
Large horses are generally most ad-mired
by farmers; but farmers are
most admired who pony up.
Prosperity is generally based upon
knowledge and industry; the swine will
always get most that nose most.
Farmers are like fowls; neither will
get full crops without industry.
Because a man who attends a flock
of sheep is a shepherd, makes it no
reason that a man who keeps cows
should be a coward.
We like to see a farmer increase the
growth of useful plants and shrubs
around his home, but do not lik* to see
him use rails, poles and boards to
prop a-gate with;.
CORN.—A great deal of corn is wo-fully
wasted after all the trouble and
expense of plowing, planting and har-vesting.
This waste is absolutely
wicked, and with a trifling extra care
may be easily remedied. In the first
place, in husking, a vigilant look out
ought to be kept that no unripe, un-sound
ear or halt matle " nubbin w goes
in with the pile that is to go into the
crib. The pig-pen is the better place
for all such material. One unsound
ear may, and often does damage a
whole bushel of sound com. Next,
wherever you are going to put corn
I'erqulmana,
Person,
Pitt,
Polk.
Randolph,
Richmond,
Robeson.
Rockinghani,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Sauips«>n,
Stanley,
Stoken,
Sorry,
Transylvania,
Tyrrell,
Union,
Wake,
Warren,
Washington,
Watauga,
Wavne,
WiJkea,
Wilson,
Yancey,
Yadkin,
Total,
3046
657
4U4
582
805
667
844
23i
1364
594
1195
647
307
515
937
670
1705
543
722
1093
741
3571
1904
417
1324
923
870
906
1797
409
1559
1202
1613
1403
1162
1350
1026
428
761
851
148
237
760
3341
2225
806
320
1485
1445
923
283
796
93084
1012
501
210
846
614
1056
618
971
785
878
6:6
1062
623
517
916
1438
1060
1162
262
457
209
915
816
1460
1233
887
841
753
1489
1158
317
1229
603
650
1865
594
1317
696
407
334
V.12
808
1552
503
1008
451
845
608
521
285
920
499
1925
120
253
7:54
1048
2235
805
724
1863
515
533
718
1238
93
711
675
1259
1143
If.41
457
1180
609
449
614
254
395
731
2382
944
362
307
1232
540
891
454
654
1055
516
284
1050
624
1227
753
1079
608
1090
741
1111
617
530
898
1409
1131
1540
423
520
243
1037
951
1493
1680
907
835
690
1590
1473
787
1376
678
672
2148
557
nw
1593
789
660
361
714
791
1412
607
1348
422
861
738
572
459
607
607
2149
118
341
884
1096
2344
1045
879
1907
588
580
1054
1559
195
877
80«
1337
1513
1530
ass
1447
651
744
737
232
339
930
2953
1053
348
348
1487
820
1103
435
622
1102
351
245
1002
620
1318
1517
1372
878
1085
927
940
394
528
834
1957
488
1765
443
692
155
656
512
3535
THE MYSTERY OF AN OLD FORT.
A letter writer, iu describing Fort Ma-rion,
one of the defences of Augnsline, Fla ,
gives the following story:
Fort Marion has an old, solemn and ra-ther
threatening warlike appearance. The
outer wall, five feet thick, of the material
called coquino, (ko ke na ) found in great
abundance on the beach, near the light-house,
has quite a slant, or inclination inward.sev-eral
degrees from a perpendicular. An in-ner
wall, two and a half feet thick, standing
perpendicular, keeps in position a bank of
sand, some eight or ten feet thick, between
the outer and inner walls. Behind these
walls are arranged the casements, strongly
arched overhead, and extending all round
the interior. Upon these arches and the
walls, a floor of brick, stone and concrete is
laid, whereon the heavy guns of the fort are
placed; very few are in position uow.—
Within the enclosure of the fort below are
piles of cannon halls rind quite n number of
old Spanish guns, partly eaten by rust. In
1858, while putting some heavy guns in po-sition
on the fort, an arch gave away,
making a hole some five feet wide; disclo
sing a cell hitherto unknown to pny person
living. In this new and strange apartment
were found one or two gun carriages, made
of ir.ahogony, finely wrought. During the.
excavations made by the officers, one of
them accidentally discover'd the appearance
of a doorway that had been masoned up.—
They determined to test the reality of the
suggestion, and removing a few stones re-vealed
an opening into another cell, where
was found a bedstead, on which lay the skel-eton
of a man chained to a huge staple in
the wall; beside the bed stood an open ma-hogany
chest five feet long, two and a half
feet wide, sides of plank two inches thick,
mounted with huge iron strap hinges and
three enormous locks. No clue has yet
been found to the history of this case, or the
offence of this terribly punished victim.
A very Curious Election has been
held in Chili. The people of that
country have had some apprehensions
that they were to be visited by an
earthquake. They have had, it is said,
the same premonitory signs, whatever
they were, which preceded the terrible
1597 I earthquake in Pern, last August.—
1843 They, therefore, deemed it advisable
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1025
2618
1262
1431
878
452
2754
75g
3206
645
412
640
744
572
9.-9
22')
1204
592
1215
625
323
529
740
740
1902
529
727
1019
837
3915
1931
417
1453
1047
913
953
1531
405
1752
1234
1504
1463
1332
1279
1026
466
783
818
186
195
811
3433
2308
955
303
1421
1205
897
266
" 840
to elect a patron saint to interceed for
them, that the apprehended calamity
might be averted. The election took
place on the Gth ofSeptember. The Val-paraiso
Mercuric says the favorite can-iliHorn
wo« Jpjtna fMirisr. rhn Uarlnrtit\1o
Saviour of the world," who polled 10,-
946 votes; " the Most Holy Virgin"
followed with 4,132; sundry other saints
put in a poor show, polling in the ag-gregate
384 votes. After the election
a Te Deum was sung and a sermon
pronounced in celebration of the joy-ful
event.
Printing By Sunlight—One ofthc most
novel recent inventions is printing by sun-light.
A company has been organized here
fur reproducing by photo-lithography mu-sic
in a minatare form. Through this pt o-cess
sheet music is reproduced, notes and
all, on a scale of four or five inches square
ana retailed at three cents "a song." The
camera is destined to play an important
part in the art of printing.—New York
Com mereial.
THE VOTE BY DISTRICTS.—The fol-lowing
are the respective majorities by
Congressional Distrists in the late elec-tion,
viz:
First District—Majority for C. L.
74015 84181 96488
Cobb, Radical, 3,583.
Second District—Majority for D. H.
Heaton, Radical, 2,602.
Third District.—Majority for O. H.
Dockcry, Radical, 1,961.
Fourth District—Majority for J. T.
Deweese, Radical, 1,240.
Fifth District—Majority for I. G.
Lash, Radical, 3,402.
Sixth District—Majority for F. C.
Shober, Democrat, 1089.
Seventh Dufnct.-Majority for Plate
Durham, Democrat, 18.
RECAPITULATION.
Dem.
MISCELLANEOUS SEWS ITEMS.
The Mormons are cultivating raising
grapes and figs in southern Utah.
All the Tear Round is hereafter to be
edited by Charles Dickens, jr., who
succeeds Mr. Willis.
A tailor reading a quack medicine
advertisement conclnded he would like
to know "a cure for the tick-dollar-owe."
Philadelphia has taken steps to im-a
thousand English sparrows, which
will be let loose in the public squares
and parks next spring.
Careful observation ofscientiffic men
has proved that the greatest known
velocity of the largest ocean ware is
nine hundred miles an hour.
There is a volunteer company in
New York, numbering seventy men,
none of whom have beards less than a
foot in length. The captain, named
Vietnhemer, cultivates an ornament
of that kind which extends tohis knees.
A petitiou is in circulation in London
to request Parliament to enact a law
whioh shall give authority to thejudges
to sentence street thieves to the whip-ping-
post. The lash, it is said, is the
only thing they dread. Them's pur
sentiments.
Mark Twain writes that Mr. Qreely
once hired out as a writing master,but
that enterprise failed. His first copy
was " Virtue is its own reward," and
they got it " Washing with soap is
wholly absunl."
A Wisconsin coroner has decided, in
the case of a man run over while at-tempting
to get on a railway train,that
he came to his death by " wilful and
wanton exposure to unnecessary dan-ger
and peril."
FATAL ACCIDENT.—We regret to
learn that Mr. Henry M. Giles, former-ly
of this city, late of Baltimore, was
instantly killed ou Tuesday 24th be-tween
Warsaw and Clinton by the up-setting
of the stage.
COLORED MARBLE.—The Leesbnrg
(Va.) Washingtoman has been shown a
sample'of colored marble, taken from
the farm of Mr. John Janney, near
Farmwell Station, in Londonn county.
It polishes beautifully, and has been
tested and found to be good marble.
Coffee is said to be an antidote to
the poison of nicotine, and is therefore
a great refresher to smokers. This ac-counts
for the Turks smoking all day
msmU mipwmij. .*»-»KCi OVCIjr I'll", tucj
take a sip of coffee. They appreciate
the good effects without knowing the
reason.
"TIM OLD NORTH STATE."—The
Hon. Lewis Hanes offers to dispose of
this paper, being satisfied with his
experience of Editorial life, and desir-ing,
we suppose, to devote his undivid-ed
attention to the profession of the
Law. The establishment is in complete
order and its patronage is good.
The Late Queen of Spain, Isabella
II., is said, by a Paris editor who has
counted them up, to have had five
hundred and nineteen cabinet ministers
during her reign of thirty-five years;
seveial times as many as all the Presi-dents
of the United States together
have had from 1788 until now.
SPECIAL PAYMENTS.—Hon. Jno.
Lynch, of Maine, in a letter to a gen-tleman
in Washington, announces his
intention to call np on the first day of
the next session of Congress his bill to
provide against undue expansions and
to keep, put coal or gas tar about the ^fr0
premises pretty liberally at first. It IWJ
Is an utter abomination to rats and Valley of the Rio t*
mice. They will not board in the corn
erib flavored pretty strongly with gas
tar. naif a dollars' worth of tar will
save ten dollars worth of corn.
SAUSAGE.—Housekeepers will do
well to preserve the following first rate
receipt for sausage:
To every twelve pounds of meat take
three tablespoons of BPltL not' much
heaped, three tablespoons black pep-pea,
eight tablespoons oi-sage, and a
teasx>oonful red pepper.
The Virtue of Borax.—The washer-women
of Holland and Belgium, so
proverbially clean, and who get up
their linens so beautifully white, use
refined borax as washing powder, iu-stead
of soda, in the proportion of a
large handful of borax powder to about
ten gallons of boiling water. They
save in soap nearly half. All the large
washing establishment adopt the same
mode. For laces, for crinolines (re-quiring"
to be made stiff) a strong solu-tion
is necessary. Borax being a
neutral salt, does not in the slightest
degree injure the texture of the linen.
Its effect is to soften the hardest water,
and, therefore, it should be kept on the
toJiet-table. To the taste it is rather
sweet; is used for cleaning the hair* is
an excellent dentrifice, and in hot
The Southern Trans-Continental Kail-
,.oarf._nas recently been the subject
ofa letter written by General Rosecraus,
iu view of his mission to Mexico, the
northern States of which are interested
in the route. The General proposes a
from El Paso, in the
rande, to a point
i the Rio Colorado, where connection
could be mad 3 with the Southern Pacific
or San Diego and Gila City Railway,
of California. On the eastern end it
is suggested that three of the principal
lines only—that is, the Kansas branch
of the Pacific, the Memphis and New
Orleans, and the Fulton and Shreve-port—
should ask for aid from Congress
to build as far as El Paso, and that the
road reaching that point first should Q{ gouth Caroiina, was re-elected Re
Bad.
1st, Dist. 3,583
*>iid* u 2602
3rd. a 1,961
4th. n 1,240
5th. (( 3,402
6th. i. ■
7th. «
12,788
1,107
1,089
18
1,107
Bad. maj. 11,681.—Sentinel
The Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa-tion
have been holding their annual
meeting at Mount Vernon since the
17th inst., and adjourned Friday even-
Miss Ann Parmelia Cunningham ing
A
, entitled to receive the subsidies for
the trunk line. The northern States
of Mexico would, it is asserted, con-nect
with this route, aud obtain all
their supplies and machinery for the
development of the immense mineral
resources of the region.— Whig.
The bread of idleness—Loaf ing.
gent, and her report shows that the
treasury has, within the past year,
been replenished to a greater extent
than ever before, which fact is attrib-utable
to establishment of all daily
communication with Washington by
the steamer Arrow. With the funds
now on hand the grouuds will be beau-tified
and the property preserved.
contractions of the currency, which at-tracted
some attention upon its original
introduction last winter. His bill pro-vides
for the gradual resumption of
specie payments.
An English paper says that Disreial
bas discovered a remarkable move iu
chess. It may be freely described as
follows—"If-you find yourself hope-lessly
beateu, look your adversary cool-ly
in the face, turn the board round
as uuobservedly as you can, so that
his pieces appear to become yonrs, and
say 'Mate' before he can protest."
A GOOD ONE^-Tlie Baugor Whig
tells a remarkable story of a man down
at Tennant's harbor, who, being out
in his dory, fell overboard, and, not
being able to swim, conceived the idea
ofstriking bottom and footing itaahore.
Accordingly, shutting his eyes and his
teeth firmly together, he struck out
for the shore, until, thiuking he must
be near land, he opened his eyes and
fouud himself iu the middle of a corn-field.
The maiden name of Milton's mother
has long been a matter of doobt. A
writer in the Athenaum states that he
has recently discovered in the marriage
registry of the Bishop of London entries
which prove that Miltou's mother was
fhe daughter of Paul Jeffrey or Jeffries,
merchant tailor of St. Swithiifs, who
died before 1602, and of Ellen, his
wife, who survived him, and who was
buried February 22d, 1C10'11/