The Greensboro patriot [September 3, 1873]

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THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C,
11V DUFFY *.- MORKHEAD. The Greensboro Patriot.
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ATl'OKNKYS AT LAW
id
SOLICITORS' IN BANKRUPTCY,
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IK ll„u-e.
■YRACT'CE ill State and Federal Court
given to matter, in
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Tin Plate & Sheet IronWorker,
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for Hotel*, Sal », ftc.
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a aplendid aMortment of
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ami now ■plendid
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SCALES & SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
UreeiwlK.ro, N.C.,
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A.M.>'»'•- "ill attend the Probate
: Ho. kingbara Count/ at Wentwortb
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tud I'i-inl.-t rmairvd clM*an Mini »n »hoii
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Cartridges, &•<•., tUwaya on baud.
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Jeweller and Watciiniaki r,
N..rth Kim St., Kaat -i.le of il.e Court Hot
Will Work for Half-Price
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SOLICITOR IN BANKRUPTCY, "
Greensboro, N. C,
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Bankrupt- TH|RTy MILLIONS DOLLARS,
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citizens of
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"W". J±. HOR1TEY,
DR. 11 A. C11EEK,
Physician and Surgeon,
it'll" *u ■ x |..i;.-:.,. ..| 13 years, oilers
it (..-(:■ . services to the citisena
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THE STABLES WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
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ii,.|\ been sttsched to thin Hotel,
and parties wishing ronveyances, can In
■■dated «:tii tiood '■'films.
[ Pi i..-. a. low, if not lower than any
hotel i„ town. JOHN T. REESE,
•*»■'■: ly Proprietor.
(^Jreensboro Female College,
OREE2~SBORO, X. C.
1 h« - will begin on the 87th
i I An-'i.t. under the Presidency of Rev.
1- M .l-i..-. U. U . the r.iru.ei Preaident.
1 .unity \>ill ...ii.l-t of Professors
v l 'b, A M„ W. K. Ahl.rn.an.A.M.,
and I ■ .1 llabr, and a lull corps of accom-plished
lady teachers.
I... circulars containing full inforBa-apply
to the Prcsideni or to
I A ('I'MXtlGIM.
Beeretarj Board Trustees. 1 If
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Cash will be paid
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YAftBOROUGH HOUSE!
Raleigh, H. c.
6. W. Blaiknell, Proprietor.
JOB WORK
III II 1111 I>e-i rlptl.ni.
Executed in the
VERY BEST STYLE,
Aud at New York prices, at the
.Patriot Job Office.
Land of the South.
La ml of the Snnth!—imperial Land I
How prond thy mouutain. rise!
How sweet thy scenes on every baud !
How fair thy covering skies!
lint not for this—oh, uot for these,
I love thy fields to roam—
Thou hast a dearer spell to me I
Thou art my native home!
Thy rivers roll thoir liqnid wealth.
Unequalled to the »e.a—
Thy hills and valleys bloom with health,
And green with verdure lie!
Hut, not for thy prond oeean streams,
Not for tuinoaiure dome!
Sweet Minny South—I cling to thee—
Thou art my native home !
l'vu stood beneath Italia'*clime.
Beloved of tale and song—
On llelvyu's bills, proud and sublime,
Wbote nature's wondors throng ;
By Tempe's classic sunlit streams,
Where Gods, of old, did roam-
Hut no'cr have found so fair a land
As thon—my native home !
Ami thoa hast prouder glories, too,
Than nature over gavo!
Peace shells o'er thee, her genial dew,
And freedom's pinions wave !
I'air science llin.s her pearls around,
Helij-ion lifts her dome—
These, these endear thee, to my heart—
My own. loved native home!
And "Heaven's best gift to mau" is thine •
God bless thy rosy girls!
Like sylvan llowers, they sweetly shine!
Their hearts are puro as pearls!
And grace aud gmulness circle them
Where'er their footsteps roam—
How can I then, whilst loving them,
Not love say native home f
Land of the South—imperial land !
Then here's a health to thee !
Long as thy mountain harriers stand,
May'st thou lie blest and free !
May dark dlssnntinn'l banner ne'er
Wave o'er thy fertile loam !
But should it come, there's one will die,
To save his native home!
A. I). MEEK.
Wooden Railroads—Their Con-struction.
To develop the resources of a I
country, facilities for transportation
are indispensable. Iron ore couhl ;
he mined aud lumber manufactured ;
only to a very limited extent if
wagon transportation for any con-siderable
distance over common
i-oads were necessary to reach a
market. Where the business is
.stillicicntly extensive to Warrant it,
and the capital can be secured,
railroads, either narrow or ordinary
gauge, will afford the best facili-ties.
itut there arc many localities in
which ordinary railroads are im-practicable,
not from physical, but
from financial diSieullies in the
way of their construction.
With a limited capital and a
sparse population, railroads cannot
be built, even in localities highly
favored in natural resources for op-erations
of quarrying, miuing and
heavy manufacturing.
In such cases a substitute for the
wagon road, less expensive than
the railroad, becomes a desidera-tum.
This substitute has been propos-ed
in a new style of wooden rail-road,
costing but little more to con-sliuct
than an ordinary wagon
road, yet affording transportation
at less than one tilth the cost, by
wagon, and less than the ordinary
cost by rail, where interest on capi-tal
invested is considered.
This road diners essentially from
the tramroad, which consisted of
sawed rails about three inches
wide, laid ou cross-ties, and used
with narrow tread iron-wheeled
cars.
Such roads, although some im-provement
on the common wagou
road with its mud holes and deep
ruts, have given very unsatisfacto-ry
results. The differences extend
to the tracks, cars and motive pow-ers.
TRACK.
The track is formed of heavy
logs, hewed on the upper side to
the width of eight inches, and ou
the inside at right angles, sufficient-ly
deep to form a straight edgj for
the flange. These logs are buried
so that the top, or rail surface, is
almost level with the road surface,
resting on stout sills at the ends
and middle, to which they are se-cured
by wedged tree nails. The
tails therefore are solidly bedded,
and not liable to warp or twist.
Twenty feet would be a conveni-ent
length on curves, but on
straight lines longer pieces could
be used, the ties being ten feet
apart.
The grading of a sufficient width
on a side hill, with gentle slopes,
would cost about §300 per mile for
a three feet gauge; but of course
the cost of gradation will vary
greatly with Ihe locality.
Ravines aud small water courses
would iu geueral be crossed with
rough trestles or timber cribs.
Hewing the timber would cost
about d-00 per mile. In a wooded
country, where timber can be ob-tained
along the line ot the road,
where no large bridges are requir-ed
and no lock to be excavated, the
cost ot such a wooden railroao.
should be covered by from $50U to
s*'_',000 per mile, depending upon
the amount of earth work.
CARS.
The cars proposed for such wood-en
railroads are simple - frames
placed ou wheels, without springs,
and covered with a floor of flank.—
The wheels are of wood, built up of
pieces cut from two inch planks iu
Ihe form of secular sectors, about
eight inches at the wide end. l-'our
thickness of plank will build a
wheel with a tread of eight inches,
corresponding with the face of the
rail. A cast iron hub is iuserted iu
the centre, through which tin iron ]
axle passes, and a cast irou ilauge
is bolted on the inside.
The timber shc.uld be of hard I
wood, well seasoned, the sectors!
laid so as to break joint and well
bolted. Diameter of wheels about
thirty inches.
Such cars, if used with horses,
will cost about $40 or &>0, or one
third the price of a farm wagou.—
They will carry three Ions, and can
be made by any lough hand who
can use carpenter's tools, designed
for use with locomotives in trains,
draw-bars and springs must be.
used, and the cost per car increas- ,
ed.
MOTIVE POWERS.
Horse or mule power can lie used,
but if Ihe tonnage is considerable,
it will be preferable to adopt alight
engine of six or seven tons, with
wide drawing wheels, covered With
valcauized rubber tire.
Such engines can be manufactur-ed
at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for about $4,000.
Passengers couhl be carried on
the proposed roads with such en-gines
at a Speed of ten or twelve
miles an hour, which would make a
great improvement on the stage.
coach.
Such roads would rot out long
before they would wear out, and
the answer to the objection that
they are not durable is simply that
they will last just as long as the
cross-ties on an ordinary railroad,
and it Will cost less to renew them.
Poatoak ties in Ihe South last from
ten to toui tecu yean
The com of transportation by
wagons lot a distance ol tWOOty-flve
miteeywithout return load, is
fifty cents per 1,000 pounds, or
ten dollars per ton of two thousand
pounds.
Assuming the tractive power of
such a wooden railroad, for the pur-pose
nt an approximation, to lie
double that of an ordinary railroad,
or twenty pounds per ton,the angle
of friction would be forty eight feel
to the mile. And a hois.- exerting
a power of 130 pounds, at two anil
a half miles per hour.or four horses
(iOO pounds, would haul Oil a grade
of 131 feet to the mile one-fourth of
the gross load on a level, or seven
aud one-half tons, giving six tons
of net load.
As a trip of twenty live miles,
returning empty, could be made iu
two days, assuming a team to be
worth *•"> a day, the cost of the
round trip would be $10 or sixty
six cents per ton, as against £10
per ton by wagon transportation;—
and the road, too. on grades of 1.10
feet to the mile, nearly—tolls tor
use of road not being included in
either case.
This illustration will show the
great economy ol such roads over
wagon transportation, even when
operated by horse power, but where
the business will warrant it the
rubber tired locomotive should be
used.
If, after a few years, a business
should he developed sufficient to
justify the expense, an iron railroad
could be substituted; of which the
original grading would form a part
—the expenditure would not be
lost
It is also to be observed that Ihe
rails of the proposed wooden rail
road being even with the surface of
the road bed, or nearly so. would
permit the same road bed to be used
for ordinary vehicles.
COST OF OWOKATINU
the wooden railway, as compared
with an ordinary iron road. As-sume
length of road twenty live
miles. Iuterest 10 per cent, and
one engine only, to be provided
with a minimum equipment of cars
in each case. For an ordinary rail-way,
with 4."> pound rails.
20 miles, 818,000 per mile,
•460,000, interest,
Road repairs, 1 man, per
mile, (labor,)
Locomotiveengine,81-\000,
iuterest and repairs 20
per ceut.
One (good passenger ear,
84,o00, interest and re-pairs
20 per cent.
20 freight cars, $16,000, in-terest
and repairs 10
per cent.
Engineer and Breman,$3.50
per day, three hundred
'lay*. . , ,
One conductor for both
freight and passengers
mixed train,
Three brakemeu, 81 per
day,
Ageut at each end ol time,
Fuel for engine, two cords
per trip, oue trip per
day,
Renewals of ties, 8120 per
mile.
Wear of rails twenty years,
annual wear $160 per
mile,
Supervision,
Depots and siding repairs,
&c,
Stationery, insurance, loss,
damage aud
Mis,
inciden-ts,-
I.""!
7,500
2,100
000
3,200
1,350
7.-.0
1.0SO
1 200
1,200
2.800
3,750
1,000
soo
1,000
To cover running expenses and
pay nothing ou capital, would re-quire
a business of 0,140 passengers
and 7.300 tons—yieldiug a reveuue
of $28,000.
A wooden railway for the accom-modation
of an equal business
world require the following esti-mate
:
25 miles at an average cost
of $1,5000, $37,500,10
|>er cent. $3,750
Renewal of track once in
0 years, $33 per mile
per annum, 1,455
Six hands for track re-pairs,
1800
Engine, $4,000; 20 per
cent, S00
Engineer, 900
Train hands, 1,800
40 freight cars,$100, 20per
ceut. 800
4 passenger coaches, $250,
20 per cent. 200
Agent, 1,200
Fuel, 800
Supervision, insurauce.sta- •
tioiu-ty, incidentals, 1,500
Total, 875,850
This is a moderate estimate ol
the cost of operating an ordinary
railroad, with a miuimum equip-ment,
for oue year, including re-pairs,
renewals and 10 per cent, ou
capital, aud amounts to about &,■
000 per mile.
It one-third of this income should
be derived from passengers aud
two-thirds from freight, carried at
0 ceuts per passenger aud 10 ceuts
per ton per mile, the number ol
passengers carried the twenty-five
miles would be 10,180 and the num-ber
of tons 20,200. This amonut of
business would pay 10 per ceuL on
capital invested.
Total, $14,704
To pay running expenses aud 10
per cent, on capital, will require an
income of ouly $15,000 per annum.
To cover operating expeuses, with-out
interest on capital or equip-ment,
about $10,000.
The amount of business that
would pay operating expenses Only,
without dividends, on an ordinary
iron road, would pay operating ex-peuses
and a dividend of 40 per
cent, upon a wooden railway ; aud
the business that would pay 10 per
cent, upon the irou railroad would
pay 142 per ceut. upon the wooden
road.
To pay 10 per cent, upon the
wootlen road would iequire a busi-ness,
at the prices stated, of .'$3,000
passengers and 4,000 tons of
freight.
The capacity of a wooden railway
with a single engine of seven tons
and grades of one hundred and fif-ty
feet to the mile would be: adhe-sion
of engine, 3,200 pounds; trac
tiou on level 20 pounds per ton;—
load ou level 100 tons; on grade of
150 feet, 40 tons; requiring about
three tons to a car. fourteen cars,
or twelve cars, exclusive of the
weight of the engine. The net load
carried would be about twenty-eight
tons.
A day's trip each wcy for three
hundred days would give an annual
capacity of 10,800 ions.
If the trade should bo all one
way, only hall this amount carried
anil no passengers, 82 per ton for
twenty live miles, or 10 cents per
too pounds, would pay r.inning ex-penses
ou such a road and 12 per
cent, dividends ; while an irou road
would not be operated at all with
ordiuaty equipment, inasmuch as
the income would not pay running
expenses.
The cases are numerous where
such railroads would perfectly meet
the wants of the public in develop-ing
the resources of sparcely settled
localities, and serving as valuable
feeders to tiuuk lines.
The estimate for capacity has
been made for a' single engine of 0
to 7 ions.
II the weight or number of en-gines
be increased, the capacity
would be increased proportionally.
The ultimate capacity with increas
ed equipment would far exceed
the requirements of any locality
where such roads would be employ-ed.
The question is often asked ;
What is the limit of grade that
can be employed on such wooden
raiiroad T
The answer is, grade affects only
the load which a given power can
transport, and is independent ot
the road itself,'gravity being a ■■
tarding force due to inclination
solely.
At the same time it is true that
the more perfect the construction
of the road bed and the machinery,
the more rapidly does grade reduce
the tractive power.
On a well constructed railroad S
pounds per ton will move a train ;
and a grade of 20 feet to the mile
will more than double the required
traction for a given load. Ami
every additional 20 feet would re-quire
additional power equal to the
resistance of the train upon a level.
On a wootlen railroad, assuming
traction as twenty pouuds per ton,
it would require a grade ol nearly
lilty feet per mile to double the
power or with a given power to re
dace the load one half.
On a grade of 200 feet to the mile
a team of four horses could haul 5
tons.
The adhesion of locomotives on
ordinary railroads does not exceed
one-fifth of the weight in drivers,
and is measured by the friction ol
iron npon irou, but the friction ol
wood ou wood is fifty per ceut.,aud
that of rubber on wood is probably
greater; consequently rubber tired
locomotives could ascend much
higher inclinations thau ordinary
engines upon railroads, the limit of
which is about 800 feet to the mile
without load, and ffbole weight ou
drivers. The surplus adhesiou,
however, can not be utilized with-out
a proportionate increase of cyl-inder
power, which involves also in-creased
boiler capacity.
Said wooden railway, operated
either by locomotive or animal
power, may become very important
agencies in promoting the settle-ment
of localities not supplied with
railroad facilities and in develop-ing
mineral and agricultural re-sources.
In the last number of Van JTos-traud's
Magazine, July, there is a
statement that more than one hun-dred
miles of wooden railroads are
in operation in Canada, iu the pro-vince
of Quebec alone. That the
gauge is four feet, eight and one-halt
iuches, the running time about
sixteen miles per hour, but that
trains have been running at the
rate ot twenty-five miles per hoar.
The cars have tour wheels; some,
of the engiues weigh about thirty i
tons.
laid on cross ties; and if such roads I
ruu with cars and engines with 1
iron wheels at speeds of sixteen to I
thirty-five miles per hour, and en-giues
of thirty tons have proved so
serviceable that their use is extend-ing,
there can be no room to ques-tion
the success ot tho system here
p!'o|x>sed, of solid rails permanently
bedded, wooden wheels, light en-giues
with rubber-ties and moderate
speeds. H. HACPT.
An Immaii— Fortuna-
Faet Skruuer Tfcm Ke*ios*—JW
Ladiei of Madimm, Q**f*, JW»
.Heir (0 ZVrtre JftlKes* •/ DtOtn
(a /Vwses—Ttty Leat*/or Ewtft
to Claim Their Prinoolf Fortmn*
Next Week.
In our issue of yesterday we sta-ted
the fact that two ladies of Mad-ison,
Georgia, had fallen heir to an
immense estate iu France. The ru-mor
was in circulation about a week
or ten days ago. that an old lady
living in Wilkea county had reoaiv-
, ed intelligence that she was the
Pnde and poverty hair travelled ll(.ir £ about eight miuions of doi-together
now for about 5 thousand , larlt Bat it now tarDS ontf npon
J<T\?w Pretend to lav each oth- tu„ mo8t re,Uote and nnmlstakable
ur't ,h- ^r P °° ■»*M*J , evidence, that Mrs. Virgtato M.
but themeelfs. j c Ml an(1 b„ nieoB) M„. HL
Lazy men are always the most i mjMV;hMlbmi of Madison, Geor-gia,
are entitled to not eight, but.
{New Series No. 287.
Thoughts by Josh Billings.
■^ZaSz's.nirzst change their minds. TWELVE MILLIONS OP DOLLARS,
A man will defend his weak spots, now waiting in France to be olaim
Wars Now Going On.
When the milleninm comes there
will be universal peace in this little
planet of ours, but not before. Uni-versal
peace societies do not pre
vent men from cutting their throats
nor nations from slaughtering peo-ple
by the million. Men will never
beat their swords into plow-shares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
The Hew York rfVrU enumerates
the wars now going get:
I. An internecine war between
the Republican Government of
Spaiu and Don Carlos, the legiti-mate
heir of Bourbons to the throne.
This war has continued for some
time, with varying success. At pre-sent
there seems no Jiope of a deci-ded
victory by either army.
II. The war between Cuba and
the mother country. This struggle
has continued for four years. It
has been prosecuted with vigor on
both sides aud ferocity on oue. The
end is not yet.
III. The war between Russia and
Khiva. The telegrams have inform-ed
us lately that Khiva was captur-ed
and the Khan conquered. Our
morniug tlispatches contradict this
rumor. Russia, though she will
doubtless ultimately be successful.
will have to earn her conquest of the
Khanate of Khan aud lighting bis
soldiers.
IV. Modoc warjust ended.
V. The war between the Dutch
and the Sultan Atchen. This con-llict
will, after the close of the pres-ent
armed neutrality, break out be-fore
many mouths with renewed
fury.
VI. The war between Sir Samuel
Baker and his forces and tho slave
dealers of the White Nile. Late
dispatches show that the painful ru-mor
of the death of this hardy explo-rer
and his accomplished wife has
no truth in it. Sir Samuel is there-fore
now executing his mission iu
the very heart of Africa.
To all these wars must be added
the occasional conflicts that occur
on the banks of the Rio Grande be-tween
the -Mexicans and the Tex-aiis:
the chronic revolution of
Central and South America; the
difficulties between the English iu
India ami the wild tribes 011 the
northern frontiers—difficulties final-ly
to bo settled only by force of
arms; and the internal struggles,
leading to occasional bloodshed, iu
most countries of the world, not ex-cepting
our own.
According to an official statement
the amount of tax on spirits collect-ed
by Hie Tnted Slates in 1872 was
$49,475,516.30. This represents a
bout 100,000,000 gallons, worth at
wholesale, $85,000,000, but which
brought, at retail, about $317,000,-
000. This aggregates a moneyed
interest of over 8400,000.000. The
beer trade pays a tax to the govern-ment
of 88.373,498.40. This repre-sents
a retail valne of over 8212,-
600,000, which. Added to the value
of the article to the inanulacturers,
represents a moneyed ^interest of
about $300,000,000. The wine trade
represents an interest of $75,000,-
000. The import trade of liquors,
beer and wine, represents a retail
value of $27,000,000; of beer, $2,-
800,000; of wines, $135,000,000; or
a total of nearly $105,000,000. Ad-ded
to all this the capital invested
in building and machinery, etc., to-gether
with the expenses conuected
directly and indirectly with the
tratle, the feeling is at least $1,500,-
000,000, or nearly three-fourths of
the national debt.
a grate deal more sharply than- he
will hiz strong ones.
If men were stubborn just in pro-porshan
azthey was right, stubborn-ness
would take Lei seat atuung the
virtews, bnt men are generally stub-born
Jnst in proporshun az they are
ignorant and wrong.
Genius after all ain't ennything
more than elegant kommon sense.
Tuare iz a grate deal ov dignity
in this world that iz koinposed en-tirely
ov dignity, and nothing else.
We hav professors who teach the
art ov talking korrektly, whi kaut
we hav sum who will teach the art
ov listening pashuutly.
Slander travels ou the wiud, and
whare it corns from, aud whare it
will go, we don't euuy ov ns seem
tew k no.
Wheu a man ov learning talks be
makes ns wonder, but a wise man
makes us think.
People worth uoticiug should nev-er
forgit that everything they say
and do iz watched by somboddy,
and it iz equally true that the good
things are generally forgot, but the
bad ones never.
I phully apreshiate the proverb,
"that speech iz silver, but silence iz
golden," bat I must say that snm
ov the most district and dignified
phools that i ever met hav been
tboze who never ventured an opin-ynn
u!>on enny subjekt
What iz happier tew meet than a
good temper 1 It iz like the sun In
day and the soft harvest inoou bi
uite.
Sam pholks are naturally so kross
and krabbid that it iz an insult tew
ask them to be polite. Y11 mite a?
well ask a dog tew lake the krook
out of fiiz tale, and be a gentleman.
I hav often heard ov men who hud
bekura disgusted with the world,
and retired into solitude ; but i hav
never heard ov a kommitty ov our
fust citizens waiting ou them and
asking them tew kum bak.
I never hav known a man yet die
at three skore years and ten possess
ed ov the welth that he had got
rougfiilly.
Peace iz Ihe shaddo that the set-ting
sun of a virtewous life kasts.
Side by side ov Plain Truth stands
Common Sense—twoov the gratesl
warriors time haz ever produced.
Diogeneze waz a grater man than
Alexander, not bckanze he lived in
a tub, but bekan/e a tub waz all he
wanted tew live in ; wealth could
not ll.it tIT him, nor could povertj
make him afrade.
It takes just 3 times az long tew
tell a lie, on enny subjekt, az it das
tew tell the truth.
Vanity iz the most jealous dis-ease;
1 hav saw men so vain that
they kouldn't look with kompoaare
upon a peakok spreading hiz appen
dix tew the morning sun.
Ti 11 valor iz like honesty, it enters
into all that a man sez or duz.
The mau W'JO thinks "he kant do
it," iz alwaze more than half right.
—S. Y. Weekly.
Nose Bleeding.
A correspondent of the, Ncieiitilic
American sa.\s : "The best remedy
for bleeding at the nose, as given
by Dr. Glaeson in oue of his lec-tures,
is a vigorous motion of the
jaws, as if in the act of mastication.
In the case of a child a wad of pa-per
may be placed iu its mouth and
the child instructed to chew it hard.
Of course an adult does not need
the paper. It is the motion of the
jaws that stops the flow of blood.—
This remedy is so very simple that
many will feel inclined to laugh at
it. but it has never beeu known to
fail in a single instance, even in
very severe cases."
To Con Tomaloe*.—Skin them by
scalding them ; put them on to boil;
season with salt and pepper; boil
three-quarters of aa hour; then Inn e
the cans hot aud pour in the boiling
tomatoes; seal immediately.
ed by these fortunate ladies. Mrs.
Campbell is a widow, about seventy
years of age. Her niece. Mrs. Cham-bers,
is also a widow, about thtaty-six.
The vast property which they
have inherited belongs to the Ben-uauleaa
estate. Information in re-gard
to it was received by them a-bout
three months since, and"by MB
advice of a gentleman in Madison,
who says be was once a law part-ner
ot the lion. Judah P. Benjamin,
they at once wrote to the latter at
London, asking him what coarse to
pursue in the matter. Mr. Benja-min,
after thoroaghly investigating
the ease, wrote to Mrs. Campbell
aud Mrs. Chambers that there was
uot a questiou of dottbt in regard to
their claim, and advised them to
come on to Europo at once.
The pro|ierty descends to thane
ladies through a Mrs. Reunaulean.
grandmother of Mrs. Campbell, and
great-grandmother of Mrs. Cham-bers.
Mrs. Campbell's maiden ns
was Mugnire, and that of her 1
er Mademoiselle Rennaaleau. They
are conuected with one of the beat
families iu France.
It appears that a certain party
who once resided in the United
States, aud for a number of years
transacted busiuess for several old
refugee St. Domingo families living
in Augusta in connection with thetr
iudemuities from the French GOT- '
eminent tor their losses in that is-land,
became aware some time ago
that the
HUGE ESTATE
wan-waiting iu France to be claim-ed
He therefore hurried posthaste
to that country, hunted npa remote
branch of the Rennaaleau family,
and succeeded in marrying one of
(In- female members of it. He then
presented proofs of the death of all
of the American aud nearer branch
of the family, nad claimed the es-tate
for the distant branch into
which he had married. Mr. Ben-jamin,
iu his letter to Mrs. Camp-bell
and Mrs. Chambers remarks
that this man will soon find out that
the
DEAD CAN HE RESURRECTED.
By the terms of an aggreement
between Mr. llenjamiu and the two
ladies, the former will take one-half
ol the whole amount of the estate,
and the other half, six million dol-lars,
will then fall to Mrs. Campbell
and Mrs. Chambers, the share of
each being the neat little sum of
three million dollars. Of the entire
amount ol millions, seven million
and a half arc in the Bank of France,
and lour millions and a half are in
the hands of the Rostchilds, the cel-ebrated
bankers.
Mrs. Chambers is now making ar-rangements
for the voyage of her
aunt and herself to Europe. They
will be accompanied by a lawyer
from Savannah and Mr. Antoine
I'icquet, of Augusta, who go for the
purpose of identilying them. They
will also carry papers signed by old
citizens of Augusta, proving their
ideutv. They will leave for Europe
uext Tuesday.
Mrs. Chandlers was the observed
of all observers while in Augusta,
the storv of her great good fortune
and that of her auut having be-come
pretty well known in the com-munity.
This windfall illustrates to the
fullest extent that fact is stranger
than fiction. The two ladies named
have suddenly been raised from mod-erate
com iicteuce to immense wealth,
and only wait a voyage across the
Atlantic to step into their posses-sion.-..
Tea Plant.—The Jacksonville Un
MM sat s: "It may not l>e generally
known but it is none the less pat-ent,
that tho genuine tea plant is
growing profusely all over the su-burbs
of the city, and presents quite
a thriving np|iearance everywhere
it is found. We are informed by a
prominent mechanic of this city,
and an old citizen at that, that he
uses no other tea in his family. He
plucks and dries what he requires
for his own use, and says it is equal
to any black tea oflered for sale in
the grocery stores. If some shrewd
New Euglauder were only here iu
Florida, he would soon make a
regular busiuess of preparing a tea-crop."
^^^^^___ v
Oue ofour bravest preachers says;
"I have great hone of a wicked
man ; sleuder hope of a mean one.
A Wicked man may be converted
aud become a pre-eminent saint—
A mean man ought to be couverted
six or seven times, one right after
the other, to give him a fair start,
and put him on au equality with a
bold, wicked man.
A retted* for corns is recommend-ed
by P. P. F., as follows: "Bathe
the feet in tepitl water, to soften the
corns; pare these of very closely
with a sharp knife; then rub on
well green peach tree leaves; when,
after continuing the rubbing once
or twice a day, the corns will disap-pear."
"C-c-c cau that p-p-p-parrot talk!"
asked a stuttering man of a Ger-man.
"Veil he don't talk so gooter
as vou, I schop, by tarn, his heatl
off"
The salary of President Grant is
over six hundred bushels ol corn, or
two bales of upland cotton a day.
with house, fuel, lights, stables and
grounds free. Poor fellow !
An Irishman being iu a church
where the collection apparatus re-sembled
election boxes, ou its being
handed to him, whispered in the
carrier's ear that he was not natur-alized
and could not vote.
A German Jew was eating a pork
chop iu a thunder storm. On hear-ing
an unusually loud clap, he laid
down his knife and fork, and ob-served,
"Veil, did any poty efer
hear such a fuss about a leedle peece
of bork I"
Miss Seavy, of Belmont, N. II., a
maiden lady, aged sixty, died last
Thursday of voluntary starvation,
having refused food for twenty-eight
days. Her sister died in the same
way a few years since.
Common shellac, dissolved in al-cohol,
makes the strongest cement
known tor wood, aud w.U make the
Earta joiued as firm as though they
ad never been severed.
What's the proper age for a par-son
t The parsonage, of course.
The 3and Club.
A man was indicted the other day
at Sau Francisco for murder, with a
weapon of a peculiarly dangerous,
and for a long time, mysterious na-tuie.
This is a sand club, formed
by tilliug an eel skin with sand.—
When this instrument was first
brought into list; the authorities were
greatly puzzled by deaths apparent-ly
from violence, yet no marks conld
be found ou the outside of the body.
A burglar was finally captured with
a sand club in his |iossession, made
out of an eel skiu stuffed with sand.
Being closely questioned, be ex-plained
its use. When the victim
is struck, for instance on the head,
he drops insensible and soon dies
from congestion of the brain. Of-ten
the skull suffers no injury from
the stroke ; and if the person struck
recovers sensibility, be gradually
relapses into a condition of idiocy.
Sometimes a man struck in the body
will be knocked down by the pecu-liar
force of the blow, and feel no
immediate results from it. In a few
weeks, however, the flesh will begin
to mortify under the line of the
blow, aud rot down to the bone.
Scene 011 a Detroit excursion
steamer : Excited individual to the
steward—"Don't you see a man
there iu the cibin there hogging a
woman I" "Well, yes," replied the
steward, "but what of that t Hasn't
a fellow a right to embrace bis
wife f" "That's what you ought to
run him off for," replied the stran-ger
dancing around ; "that's my
wife aud I've stood it so long that
I've got mad."
The negro who was banged at
Suffolk, Va., the other day remark-ed
as be was going to the gallows,
"I wish dey bad put it oft till arter
1 watermillion time."