The Greensboro patriot [October 22, 1879]

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The Greensbore Patriot.
oxr?^ COITITTRY FIIR-ST -A-^TXD A.X.-WA.YS.
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1879. New Series No. f>01.
Duke Lropold'H Stone.
I great Pake Leopold,
; (riedom, aawoll as gold,
:: r< ::i A liberal way
| e, the ttoriea nay.
bat tbey wor.M Jo,
DOUOD of hi* cams trn",
; tlaoe on© night alone—
. •! rru ar.d stwlenB hkieu
■ I ping eyca—
u the. road a atone.
. ig for * man to movc--
lent <,n tbat f.eore;
f Ibe tbii-x **" enough to provo
ooe'l maaoie—and aomethiDg
IdDgbod Iho duke, ai he
raid on hi* boratward road.
n '.I reckon will enow
- rorroct or no.'
In Lbo palaet wall,
. y ' r tbu paaMorg-by,
I tbey one and all,
Mi oftone, iefttbcMouotolio
MM along,
. r. VA» Btuut and atrong;
Ifa iho right intent
i I the track of impediment;
; aredtobeneedltN woik,
i might poaalbly do,
r.'y to wliirk.
U *£i for a luii.nte or two,
i I »» be locbked etbODi
wt tj of getting ont:
that the road is wide,'
insured, and .Iroto aMde.
a grenadier
I and K*'ld array;
both loud and clear,
oote of the rock in bio way.
• dg< - icraped h.n knee—
■ whU'ithaiT aaya be.
■ riMo ui.ough
' thia Met uf stuff*
agrenadiar
'. and bark bis (•bin*!
!«J the. planted ii haw ■
i <■ linn aea Ui Mna."
' id he toHiHd ins plume,
I away In a UrriMe fume;
I be!—
fluke, 'a- I thought it
•v '-■ bing there,
way t'» the Tiuage fair,
■-. aach with lnrj pack
■ **-*l animal"* back.
■ Lth a nod of hi* head
bla bighneai said:
' ., foJ mnltitudo
roi tiio imbhc goed.'
pa ft mi ii and hor*e,
t u ilieir onward course.
breaat,
.' east and went;
Ik Ft i!.o atone behind—
thing iito that,' raid they,
For baif a day!"
hi I tbe jolloctive mind
a uatttT tbat implied
be <>thor side.
i I'threa clipped past
! lay. bedded fa*t,
: wtnr and came,
I li.Nt «as ghb to blAiue,
help. At last
lite content
- - :; eriment,
- .ii! a t-lait,
:- r*r and near
i i lips to hear.
the trumjiet call,
' pah i-e wall,
. ad of a guttering train,
■ of w«»udoriDg eyee
■ ru long had lain.
i their blank nurpritp,
' ■... !..- Lt.r*e with a smiling
IhQ atone from its
beeame despair
rithhii gracious
reck had hid
read aloud
rest-fallen crowd:—
and for him alone
more Una rtone.'
■ '• ■•'■ U ay -aw tbo afalne
' gold;
1 " " --.: 1 Uuke
- mine.
■.- of inV own
ray with the stone.
D linvo donbtlcps
for the rent,
to say.
a*ieh yon good-day!'
: the glittering train
I again,
•i . I gleam of gold
ranki of downcast
_ rather 'sold'
--... lies
f ni need despise.
uolas for October.
MLROONEY IN COURT.
I the clerk.
exclaimed the
i answer beyond, a quick
: en eager wbisper-
' ■uch of the brogue pre-ted
(lie crier, end then
to), of his voice:
ml* said Peter.who
e standing quietly
'Sure, a* I'm not a
', there's no nado
■ like i great bull calf.'
', then?' cri<>d
•
ro (ore!" retorted
; 1 be after distnrbin'
it waj; an' I'm a gi«-
■nda teacher of the
:r)r.uey?'faidthe
I
i t..k.- i..i- '. r » haj-then?" said
ligDWtly. -Sure, ifR not re-n
in a court of justice.'
: swear,1 said the clerk,
fit iver bear the likes o'
1 Ii r, approaching the bench.
man, and a dacint-looking
'be lias lost a crop of
i lit nn a strange-i
lbo clerk wore a wig)—
..rnuslTaudfolouiona-
\j swear before the face of your honors
and the gintlomen of the jury and the
gintlemcn of the bar. Oh! but the vir-tue
in mc won't let me do the same.'
'Mulrooney,' said one of the judges
striring to suppress tho quivering about
the mrselos of his lips—his associate
was stuffing a white handkerchief into
his mouth—'Mulrooney, you must be
aware that it is always nccsssary for a
witness to take an oath before he can be
permitted to give evidence at the bar.'
'Sure, sir,' said Peter, innocently.
'That is what the crerk required of
yon,' continued the judge, who added,
with a faint attempt at gravity, -you will
also recollect that it is our duty to com-mit
any one to prison for" contemptuous
behavior at court.'
'Long life to your honor,' naid Peter ;
'surra bit I'll disgrace myself by hurtin'
the feclin's of auy respeztcblo gray-hair-ed
gintlemen like yourself, or your hon-or's
brother yonder, who iB atin' his
white handkercher to stop the hunger
pain. Deed, sir, I'd be takin' great
shame to mesolf if I did.'
'Swear, him,' said the judge, nodding
hastily to tho clerk, and sinking baok in
his wcll-cubhioued chair.
'Now, Mr. Mulrooney,' said tho coun-sel
for his fiieuds,' tell us what you
know about this affair.'
Peter's sloay was a perfect rigmarole.
He had been at his friend McShane's—
Lc had returned fromit—his friends had
got into troublo with the Germans, but
AS to how the affray commenced, his
memory, clear enough before, became
suddenly very hazy. All he could|recol-lect
was that sundry of the Irish, being
soundly pnmmeled by the Germans,
pummeled their antagonists quite as
soundly in return.
The cross-examination now com-menced,
and as Peter caught up and re-pelled
every move of the keen-witted
attornoy, the contest between cultivated
sharpness ami native shrewdness became
gradually very exciting.
'Well, Mr. Mulrooney," said the attor-ney,
'you F:iy you left homo in tho even-ing
to assist in observing this national
custom of yours. About what time in
the evening?"
'Deed, sir,' replied Peter, with the
utmost simplicity, 'but that bates me to
say. 'Twas boiwight and betweeH s«n-down
and moonrise.'
•Yon are at least sure of that?' said
the attorney, quickly.
■Och, by the powers! that I am," said
Peter, with a keen twinkle of tho eye.
'Have yon an aininnae, Mr. Clerk ?—
Pray see what timo tho sun sot and tho
moon rose on the 8:h of April last."
'Sun set on the 8;h of April," drawled
the clerk, in his usual nasal tone, "at
twenty-four minutes past six; and the
moon rose at thirty-seven minutes past
eloven.'
There was a sudden roar throughout
the court, like a surge of waves upon the
sea beach; tho face of the prosecuting
attorney flushed crimson, when Peter
Mulrooney looked the very picture of
nnconecioua innocence.
'Yon must speak to tho point, witness,'
said the judge, with all the sharpness
he could command; 'your answer is im-pertinent.'
•Troth, yer honor,' said Peter, respect-fully,
'it's sorry I am for that. Sure,
it's the truth I'm tellin' by the virtue of
me oatt.'
'What o'clock in the evening was it,
sir:' said tho prosecuting attorney,whose
red nose was now getting fiery.
'Sjrra a bit I know,' said Peter.
'Think; fix upon some daily occurrence
for your guide, and then tell the |Uty if
it was before or after.'
'Chi' said Peter, after apparently re-flecting
a little, 'it waa after tay.'
'Oh! now we shall get at it," said
Mr. l'.ibnlons, triumphantly. 'It was
after tea, yon say. Well, air, at what
hour do you usually take tea?"
'That depends upon convenience," said
Peter, with an air of moat profound
thonght. 'Sometimes we have tay for
dinner, and sometimes we've dinner for
tay."
The attornoy looked vexed. ""I want
to know your usual hour for taking tho
evening meal we call tea. Is it four,
five, six, seven or eight o'clock?'
•Yes, sir, that's the truth," said Peter,
nodding his head.
'Which of those hours?" said the at-torney,
sharply.
'If it 'ud be pleasing ye not to be af-ther
botherin' a poor boy, I'd bo thank-ful,"
said Peter. 'It's little I know about
one hour or the other; we dhrive the
taytime up and down tho night so.'
The attorney bit his lips.
'Are you married, sir?' asked tho at-torney.
Ob, but it does be botherin'me en-tirely;
suro I think so."
'Whatl' don't you know whether yon
are married or not?" .
'Aisy—aisy, if yon please—sure its a
troublesome question to answer, any
way, and that's no lie. Misthress I!id-dy
Connolly courted and married me
waust; but sure it strikes me that I must
be a widdy now."
'A widower, yon mean, I suppose.—
Your wife is dead, then?"
'Who? Biddy Connolly? Troth, sir,
it's my sarious opinion the fat ould wo-man
is presarvin" herself for another
husband twenty years fernent ns.'
'You are divorced, arc- you?' said th»
attorney, looking significantly at the
jury, as much as to say, 'Ha! ha! here's
a pretty witness for yon.'
'Divorced I not a bit of it," said Peter,
quietly.
'Separated, then?"
'That's it!' said Peter, and then burst-ing
ont into a low, rich laugh, he added,
'Oh, by the mortal, but it was glad I
was when Michael Connolly came back
from his shipwreck, and Aiaed my shoul-der
of my matrimonial deceiver."
'When you reached the house of the
late McShane, wbat did you and yonr
party dol'
'Wint in, sir,' said Peter, with the ut-most
simplicity.
'What next."
'Gave Dinnis McShane as dacent a
wake as iver was seen out of ould Ire-land."
Marriages iu France. x. Artr.l Touag |u.
m27*™'7.-*menea******—W- Three pretty young girl, walking
fermsTat Kir ^ '"eral ^ tt'°n« ' JSSJSit toward T^ "
ST!?1T2 m.U:h *** ia *•»«•• P°t -ere caught in a sudden drenching
•Now, Mr. Mulrooney, you hav6 told ,
us you were present when the riot took "^25! !1* ^ 'T^ »*»»
place. I wish you to otato distinct I v
who commenced it.
'I'd like to know, av it please ye,"said
Peter, humbly, as he smoothed the
crown of bis hat, "I'd like to know nv a
wise and underataadin' gin^lemau like
yourself can tell me, when two dark
clouds come together and strike light-nin',
which of the two struck find?'
'Thia is no auswer. Cloud*ouiuot bo
compered with two parties of drunkeu
men.'
'I think the answer quite pertinent,
said the attorney for the defense, with a
smile, 'for both men and clouds appear
to lie charged with fluid.'
'Ah, ah!' said Mr. Bibulous, nodding
significantly at Peter; 'ah, ah! the man
is no fool, I see.'
'I'd be very sorry to contradict yer
experience,'said Peter, smoothly; 'an
suro I'd like to return the compliment,
but for the virtue of me oath."
'What kind of a piece of road was it
where this affair took place?" said the
attorney, angrily; 'was it straight or
crooked ?'
'N'ath'rally it was as straight am! purty
a piece a road as vou would liko to look
at; but circumstantially it was as crooked
as a gentleman that had toat his tec.per,'
said Peter.
'How do you make that out?"
'Sure, 'twas the liquor made tho dif-fer."
'Oh, then, you confess to your party
having been drunk ?'
'It's my sarious opinion that it was
them Ciarmins that w.s bating aliout
like a wreck at say, an' that my friends
behaved themselves like dsciut paple;
but it is not aisy to say.'
'When yon wore at McSbano's, did
you eat and drink?'
'Sure, sir, what did we go there for ?
Would you have us starvin' wid the hun-gor
on an occasion the likes of that?"
'Certainly not—of course—certainly
not. Now, please tell the j ury what the
refreshments consisted of.'
'Lashins of atin and dhrinking,' said
Peter, boldly.
'Never mind the eating; what kind of
drinking had you ?'
TotecD,' said Peter, 'wid the true
flavor of the pate about it.'
■Poteen! poteen!' said tho lawyer, as
if affecting ignorance of the liquor.—
Pray, Mr. Mulrooney, wdl you oblige
me by stating what pott-en is?'
'Arrah!' said Peter, slyly casting his
eyes at the rubicund nose of his ques-tioner,
'as if ho didn't know.
Mow Grain Is Handled.
A Baltimore paper gives an acr.ount of
the manner in which immense quanti-ties
of grain are handled at that port,
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nesa of the Baltimore » nd Ohio railroad
has increase! fifty ,„,, oenU over Us,
year. Three or ic „r hundred ears on
pally with grain. Two hundred and
fifty men arc employed in the elevators,
and from 2&t) to 600 around the wharves
as stevedf,res. Tho two elevators have
a-o«|Kcrijy of over 2,000,000 bushels.—
: They orr.tain ail storage bins, twenty-
' one receiving and elevon shipping ele
I tutors, which are furnished with every
facility for tho rapid transfer of grain.
Jtetwoen tho elevators ia tho railroad
ferry to carry freight to the Canton side,
where conmiction is made with tho Phil-adelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad, forming a continuous through
freight line from New York and the East
to tho South and West. At the Bslti
more and Ohio wharves, one day re-cently,
there were eight steamships and
seventeen ships and barks discharging
and loading. Aa the cars arrive an in-spector
from I he com ami flour exchange
iuspects tho graia und marks the grade
on tho side of each car, which is then
run into the elevator and its contents
distributed in the bins according to its
grade.
The superintendent of tho elevators
ifsues a receipt to the consignee of each
car, which receipts are afterward sold on
'change. The roi'elpta when bought are
taken to tlie superintendent again, and
if tho grain is to be shipped to a Eu-ropean
market he issues an order on the
elevator to deliver the kind and amount
specified in tho receipt. It is not known
at the elevators to whom the grain be-longs,
as a record of this is kept at the
upper office. For instance, A. and B.
r*eh ship a carload of grain of the same
quality at tho same time. It is first in-spected,
and if fouud to be of the Bamo
graJe is emptied into the same bin.—
Thus A. may sell his carload to C., and
IS. sell his to D.; the ouc may get the
other's purchuso, which, however, mat-ters
little, as the grade is tho same. It
is like pouring half a dozen glasses of
water into a pitcher and then pouring
them out again into tho glasses. The
identity of each glass is of course lost.
The bins are from fifty to sixty feet
high and ten feet square, holding abont
fi,000 bushels per biu.
Alter the CK has been run into the
elevator, two men, with the aid of steam
ahovels, ..--.u unload ii 'ii five minntes.
Sixteen cars can be unloaded in one ele-vator
at on.i time, aud flvo in the other.
As it is unloaded tho grain is elevated
to tho npper floor and dumped into the
scales. Eich car is weighed separably.
Before the grain is shipped it is drawn
out. of the bins through a spont a* the
lower eiid. is agaiu elevated to tho top
i;eu
very,ZZZZZ S £SaS: ^SriJJrr**-*!*-" ■*Sl?»-«s=s£4 oxomjilary spouse. Ho
levehas little to do with matrimony.
Marriage is a business arrangement that
is to bring him in a ceitain sum of money
and provide him with* housekeeper and
aome legitimate children. But apart
from the natural characteristics of tho
Fronch husband, of which we shall say
no more, tho Amerit-in wife mu-t be
very suro and oextitin that her marriage
is lawful in France.
The ignoring of tho marriago laws of
other countries forms a proniuent am
painful feature of tho Frenoh code. Th
American bride mnst remember that
what constitutes a legal marriage in the
United States by no means makes of her
a lawful wife in France. French laws
make of the civil marriago a nine qua
non. The French bridegroom and tho
American bride may be married with all
the formality that religious rites may
bestow—nay, with all the rites of the
Boman Catholic church — but, even
should Cardinal MoClosky himself be
the officiating priest, the marriago would
be null and void in Franco if tl..
brought up, mat understood her fear
lest he should in auy way take advan-tage
of his courtesy to be impertinent,
andleingof rather a mischievous turn
of mind, he waited until he caught her
eye, as she looked shyly np, when, as-suming
that'far'look "so often seen on
tho deaf and dumb, ha pathetically
touched his finger to his lips and shook
his heat).
The girl looked so immensely relieved
that he came uear laughiug right out,
especially when ho announced tbat he
was speechless she showed she wasn't
by quietly observing to one of her
friends, 'Oh, Maty, isn't it too bad, ibis
handsome y;mng man is deaf and dumb?'
Maty thonght it waa, and wondered
how he ever got along ia the world, and
ranch to the amusement of this knight
of the umbrella, the throo proceed-ed
to discuss him girl-fashion, and from
tho color of his eyes to the ont of his
clothes he was fully criticised; 'Annie'
deciding that, aa a hinb'aud, he would
be sans rvprocht, never swearing,
were not united before the Frenoh cV , ZTJTtt *' m'k'°« "'"""» «oW«-
sul. That act—nd that lone-eon.,,. ! „ Wh6n *"' £**, *? 8Ut,OD the
tntes a legal marriage in France. I *£a?,''" IT** ,?* ^"T^ their
One can readily perceive to what dire f r".^I ,?' £ T^1"' h°r-complications
this rule, whioh is geu.r- ; u '', , ^ \!** ". 8,WeeUmil°" *-*.
ally unknown in tho United States m/y. "'''?"".B,D* -'tU >;a,n,Dl di«tinot-give
rise. Not a year passes that some £? TmWkT- To *" t '"',
oeeu ol service With a suppressed
j shriek, tho merry maids rnshod into the
! building, while the youth departed
year passes that some
poor American girl does not come to
so.ne one of the American lawyers iu
Paris-to ask the heartrending question,
'Ami, or am I not, legally married?'—
Deserted by h-r French husband—too
often with two or three little children cu
her hands to support—she has been
coolly informed by the man whom she
espoused in the United States, in the
1 resence of friends and relatives, and
with all duo formalities of priest and
ring, tbat she is not his wife at all. Aud
whistling 'The Merry Maiden and the
Tar.'
Scarcity of Frail in Montana.
A correspondent traveling in tho min-
I ing districts of Montana, writes: There
nro mining and agricultural machinery,
, dry goods, groceries, hardware, car-riagcs^
furni'.ur,', musical instruments
in shert, every article of comfort or lux-
Tho prosecuting attorney, with his i of l,,e house, weighed and then spouted
obnoxious nasal crgan growing redder
aud redder, turued to the beech and ges-ticulated
vehemently. What ho said
could not be heard amid tho storm of
laughter.
'Silence!' shouted tho crier.
'Witness,' said the judge, absolutely
snorting in the effort to maintain a be-coming
gravity, "this cannot be allowed
any longer. What is the reason you
evade a direct reply to tho question (—
Answer bim; he must bo answered."
'Troth, sir, I'll do that thing. The
rayson, sure, I supposed it was making
fun of me he was.'
'Why should you suppose that ?' said
the attorney, fiercely.
'Bekase, as I looked at yer Yeshnvius
of a nose, I thought you must have been
well acquainted with the crater."
The judges fell back and exploded;
the prosecuting attorney sank into a
chair as if a ten-pound shot had fallen
suddenly upon his head; the auditor.'
were almost purple in the face, and thero
stood Peter, looking all about him with
a sort of inquiring wonder upon his face,
as if utterly unconscious of any oanae
for such a noisy outbreak.
•Have you done with the witness?"
'Lst him go," said the attorney, sharp-ly;
*I can do nothing with him."
Peter's eye now fairly twinkled. As
he left the box he drew down the cor-ners
of his mouth with the utmost sov
ereign contempt.
'Anghl' he muttered; it 'ud take a doz-en
little red-nosed men to bate Peter
Mulrooney ayther with tongue or the
shillelah, I does bo thinking.'
into iho vessels.
The two elevators cm load live or six
vessels a day. As the grain runs through
the spont into the hold of tho vessel it
is shoveled and packed by the steve-dores.
There are six piers, which hold
two bteamships each, besides which
there are enough open pion to accom-modate
ten or twelve more.
on her legal adviser devolves the painful I ...
! ury which a well-to-do population re-duty
of telling her thut, iu the eyes of
tho French law, she is nothing but a
concubine and that her children are bas
tards.
Happy is it for the poor creature if
she has a home to retujm to on the other
side of the Atlantic; for in France, the !
boasted land of highest civilization, she
will find no law to protect her or to pnn-isb
her betrayer. Thus, to every Amer-ican
girl in the I'nitcd States who con-templates
matrimony with a Frenchman ;
we would say: Do not trust to the ten-!
der love of your Jules or (lastoUB or Al-phonse,
but marry him bard and fast iu
quires except grain, vegetables and
meats. I saw thero (specially enormous
quantities of canned goods of every de-scription,
for Montana, like every other
milling country I have seen, depends
upon the packing-houses of the Fust
and of California for almost all the fruits
and a large part of all the fish and vege-tables
that are consumed in the Territo-ry.
A few apples and some berries are
now raised in tho Bitter Boot valley and
around Helena, but in such small quan-tities
that they still command enormous
A Lady's Explanation.
A lady says: 'We read a great deal
about the extravagance of wives, and of
girls marrying without knowing how to
cook or take care of a family. I should
like to ask who is to blame for this state
Ito Not (Jossip.
That person is to ba pitied—for what
ho lacks by nature or has missed in ex-perience—
who can see the course of true
love without in his heart giving the
lovers his gladdest benediction. But no
one"can give better proof of a vulgar
taste than by making tho love affairs of
other pcop!" the subject of flippant or
familiar talk, especially in their pres-ence.
Flirtation that bas no heart in it,
and puppyisb love-making that has no
head in it, axe entitled to no special con-sideration.
But any true attraction be-tween
a young man and youug woman
eo touches the holiest experience of life,
that none but rnde hands will tear tho
vail away from it, or drag it from its
privacy into giggling gossip. We abom-iuato
the gnsbiug people who wear their
hearts on their sloeves, but we too of-ten
seem to think it quite the thing to
lay hold of the sensitive friendship tbat
we see blosson-ing into lovo, and toss it
np in conversation, and jok# about it,
as if it were just as fit a target for the
town talk as a cattlo trade, or a concert,
or a lawsuit. Such treatment of love
affairs tends to drive them out of the
wholesome sunlight of family and neigh-borly
life iuto all sorts of hiding places
that are not good for them.
prices. Fair winter apples are worth
the presence of the nearoail]Trench con" '"enty-live cents a pound on the trees,
sul before yon cross the scaa with him near y'8soal». "d retail in Helena for
and venture into the 'plaisant pays de abo,'t tWJOe th*t Price- z P™nme that
France,' whioh is so charming to live in | ' maioril.v of the children born in Mon-for
a multitude of reasons, aud so won- tana ,,8Te nevor ,aated freeh '""» ">•*
derfully the reverse to any woman who I banlly know what it is like. A little
does not look sharply after her rights.— ^ in oneof the Helena Sunday-schools
So will you escape the direfnl doom of was a"kod recently by his teacher why
being turued adrift in a foreign laud, oar firBt ■*■■•» "•« driven from the
penniless and forlorn, a cast-off mistrcsj i (lir,,cn °'Ell<,n. Ml1 he replied, very
instead of iho wedded wife vou had so i 'hhocently, 'Because they ate up all of
Feats ef Hor-.rmani.liip.
The Irish jonrnala contain long and
animated acoounts of "the great Galway
leap. It seems to have revived the
memory of those feats of the (Idwaj
Blazers, whioh LeTer immortalized in
his 'Harry Lorrcquer" and 'Charles
OMalley," and Maxwell in bis 'Wild
Sports of the West." The two gentle-men
who made the wagers are both
Blaxera-Mr. Bodkin, of Onarrymonnt,
a sou of a former M. P. for the txunty,
and Mr. Joyce, tho son of a gentleman
also of fortuae and position in Galway.
Mr. Bodkin, who krepa a small paek of
houuda, wagered 490 that his whip, on
a horse of his called Droneen, would
pound Mr. Joyei on hia brother-in-lawV
(Mr. O'Neill Powers) horae Unction:
that is, would take a leap that Mr. Joyce-would
not take.
The first jump taken was down a rail
way embankment of twenty-five feet
descent to the track, with a similar rise
on the other side. Droneen took the
down leap, but failed in aix triala to
mount the embankment. On the seventh
he sucooeJed in clanioeriag up. Mr.
Joyce took the jump aud monutnl the
embankment ou the first trial. It was
then proposed by .Mr. Joyce to try a
.similar feat with a desc.-ut of fifty feet;
but the populace, who were present .:.
vast crowds, interfered. Droneen wa-then
ridden at a six-foot three inch oope
and dalfaed wall, but refused it; Mr.
Joyce cleared it without a tonoh of tke
iron, winning the wager amid euthtuias
tic cheers.
This feat naturally recalls other dar-ing
exploits of the same kind in the
same district. Somo sixty years ago a
wagerof £J00 was laid that no one would
be found to leap over the west bridge ol
Galway at a certain point, a desoent ol
seventy leal at full tide. The wager wax
accepted by Mr. John Kilroy, the pro
prietor of a well known sporting hotel
in the town, who at the appointed hour
and place appeared, mounted on hia
black mare Moll. The party making the
wager, however, withdrow on a forfeii
of £200, Abont the same timo a Mr
Earle, of Athenry, in the county of Gal
way, rode for a heavy wager over the
bridge of Athlone, a descent of fifty feet
to the Shannon, aud was carried safelj
to tho banks. Ou auothcr occasion, not
more than twenty years ago, Mr. John
Dennis, master of tho (lalway Blazers,
rode hia horse Heart of Oak for £Son
over the racecourse of lt;hanso without
apur, saddle or bridle, guiding his horsi
with his whip at racing speed aud clear
ing live five foot stono walls. Nor have
these feats of daring l^eii confined to
(lalway. In tho town of Waterford the
late rather notorious Itarquis of Water-ford
rode his horse lilueskin np the
steps of the Waterford hotol, in through
the hall and out of the back window—a
jump of twenty-five feet.
ITEMS OF UENKKAL IMIIKKM.
fondly imagined yourself to be.
The reoent flagrant case, made piblic
a few months ago in the French papers,
respecting the marriage and desertion of
a young English girl by a Frenchman,
called forth an infinite degree of indig-nation
in Kogland, Yet cases as outra-geous,
wherein the unhappy wife ia an
American, are unfortunately of too fre-quent
occurrence. We should* think
that a revision of the French code, by
which such unions should be made legal
and valid, would be an act not only of
humanity, but of ordinary justice.
the Lord's canned fruit.'
Trstlug Machine fur Fabric?
Anecdote or a Celebrated Doctor.
The renowned Dr. Abernethy was a
man of sharp wit und biting tongue, but
was sometimes brought up with a sharp
turn. Oa one occasion the doctor was
j forced to own that he had the worst of
Tit. Too story mas thus: He was sent
| for one day iu great haste by an inn-
| keeper, whose wife had in a quarrel
scratched his face with her nails to such
an extent that the poor man was bleed-ing
aud mnch disfigured. Abernethy
thonght this au opportuuity not to be
lost for admonishing tbo offender, and
The custom of testing iron, wood and ': mMt .Ml,,iam, are yon not ashamed of
other building materials, and tostiug yuurPCi. to treat your husband thus—the
wire, ropes, cables, ate., and using these I husband who is the head of all-your
head, in fse'?'
Comparative Slreneth of F.xplosiTrs.
The report of the United States board
of'army engineers, j nst published, pre-sents
the following interesting tablo as
the result of two years" thorough trial
of the relative efficiency of the various
of affairs? Girls will be girls, and it will
bo useless to try to make women of "variou.| ^T^,..s^ZST*taZZej^T!!!I, *■•« "f" "ann'aetnrera owning
them until they are old enough. If modern explosives, taking ordinary dy- ,. ... . , . ■ large silk and la.-mills intend to bring
girls 1 namite as the standard: Dynamite. No.;^^S^^i^K-° - I '° ,L'8 COUUtr' "''0Ut 3"0S"ie8 •"*""*"•
tests as a measure of tho commercial
value of the materials, has proved to be
so advantageous that the same idea is
being applied to woven fabrios of all
kinds. For testing tho strength of fab-rics
a new machine has been introduced,
designed to report pulling s'raius from
half a kilo up to 2J0 kilos. The machine
consists of an upright staodurd, sup-porting
a horizontal hollow beam of
iron, containing scale levers with a brass :
weighing scale haviug a sliding weight
and a graduated scale. Suspended from '
■Well, doctor," fiercely returned the
virago, 'and may I not scratch my own
head?'
A gentlemau once asked Abernethy
if he thought the moderate uee of snuff
would 'injure the brain.'
'No, sir,' was the doctor's prompt re-ply;
'for no man with a single ounce of
brains would ever think of taking snuff."
young men insist upon marrying
before they are hardly out of school,
before they are old enough to assnmo
1, 100; gun cotton, f-7; dualin, 111; rend-rock,
91; dynamite, No. 2, 83; Vulcan
the responsibility of motherhood, they powuer, «2; mica powder, 83; nitro gly-cerine,
HI; Horculcs powder. No. 1,10C;
Hercules powder, So, -. H3.
with leather, and so arranged that when | gkiI|ed fcorkmen ia afc, Iace and deUaiU)
fabrics, who do tl.e work in their
must abide the consequences. The girls
don't propose to the yonngmen; neither
do they urge an early marriage; it is the
young men that do this; and many a
young girl has been coaxed into mar-riage,
when she felt she was too young,
by the same young man who will, after
marriage, fret because his child-wife
can't cook as bis mother did."
Mr. J. S. Blackie, professor of Creek,
Edinburgh university, Scotland, in a
recent communication to a leading news-paper,
says that he has become so con-vinced
of the essential injustice, impolicy
and social perirof the existing British
land laws that a ministry ought to be at
one» formed, pledged to deal at ouoe and
louver with their reform, and that the
present system of locking up tho land,
(iod's catholic gilt in the soil, is a sys-
At a large public funeral of a promi-nent
citizen of Delhi, N. Y., the mourn-ers
were dressed in white, instead of
the customary black. This was done in
approval of tho wishes of the deceased, j tem which tends directly 1° breed ha-who,
while living, strongly opposed the tred betwixt el ass and class, and to sow
inevitable heavy and expensive 'mourn-ing,'
aud requested them to dres9 in
simple white afbis funeral, especially
if they believed him to have entered a
happier world,
the seed of commnnism aud revolution.
The d^Terenoo between a woman and
an umbrella is that the latter can be
shut np.
the end of the pioce of fabric to be test-ed
is clamped between tho jaws the
strains will be eveuly balanced and dis-tributed.
Below this, on the base of
the machine, ia a roller controlled by a
band-wheel, and round this the other
end of tho fabric is wrapped, when, on
turning the wheel, the strains are ap-plied,
and by moving the weight o ; the
scale-beam so as to keep it continually
balanced, a point is reached where the
fabric is torn apart. This point shows
the breaking strain of the material.—
The percentage of stretching before
breaking may also be fonnd in the same
manner. If all fabrics were tc-sted ic
such a machine, and the breaking point
carefully noted aud marked on the goods
when offered for sale, data would be
provided which would
value of the goods on au exact basis. —
Seribncr.
own
' houses. It is the intention to select
' cheap, but good land at some distance
from the railroad, but where the weav-ers
cannot be interfered with, and to Ui- j
| vide it into lots large enough for a house I
and garden. The women do the house I
: and out-door work, as the men, who j
' wea\e, are obliged to keep their hands
in suitable condition for the delicate
work.
Kiliiriiiii in (icrmaiiv.
A lady writing for (i'lotl Company
gives us her views of religion in Ger-many
as it appears to American eyes:—
A church does not mosn in (i.-ruiany, as
wi!h ns, a community of believers united
socially and spiritually, interested in
their church aud their pastor, and
thinking of him as their head aud leader
in all good works. It means a building
which the local government has erected;
a bare, baru-likestructnre;no cushioned
pews, no family sittiuga, no 'home'
feeling anywhere. It means a minister
iu a black gown nr.l frill, who also is
paid by the State, and with whom on
occasions of baptism, confirmation,
marriage and burial, yon are brought
into formal relations. It means a oold
liturgic service and poor congregational
singing. One hears much of the nar-rowness
of denominationalism with us.
In Oermany the church is broad enough
for tho four winds of heaven to blow
through it; but some of ns would prefer
something not quite so catbolio and a
little warmer. Faithful ministers there
are in Germany, aud devoted Christians;
but they are a pitiful minority. And
while with in ire associate infidelity
with cynicism, there it is joined to so
many domestic virtuos, to such rever-ence
for tho sr.creducss of all family
ties, that one at first knows not how to
meet- it. Yet touch ou sacred theme*
with those people, and yon are answered
with a coolness and irreverence that
.-hook- at once your faith and your teats,
Around German coins runs the motto,
'God with ns;'but the common people
have relegated the divine name to a
byword. Women especially aro profane
to a degree sh'ickiug to tho foreigner,
who ia not accustomed to appeal to the
'dear Heaven' or the 'Almighty one'
over the price of butter or the icarcity
of eggs.
Woman's wrftes—postscripts.
A good word for the blackbirds is thus
I spoken by the Natcbitocbes, La., Vin-
1 dicafflr: 'Dm farmers tell ns thattbon-
| sands of blackbirds are swarming in the
fields of ootton and destroying the cot-
' ton-worm as they go. Very few worms
I can be fonnd 'webbed up," and the
r planter feels good. The destruction by
the birds this year ia accounted for only
by the effects of the game law, which
are just being felt.'
What ail Old Man baa >"utie»d.
I have notice. 1 that all meu are honest
when well watched.
. I havo noticed that pnrses will hold
pennies as well as pounds.
I have noticed that in order to be a
reasonable creature, it is necessary at
times to be downright mad.
I have noticed whon the purse is emp-ty
and the kitchen cold, then is the voi:e
of flattery no longer heard.
I have noticed that silks, broadcloths
an 1 jewels, are often I ought with other
people's money.
I hsve noticed that the prayer of the
selfish man ia, 'Forgive us onr debts,'
while he makes everybody that owes |
bim pay to the utmost farthing.
I have noticed that he who thioks
every man a roguo, is certain to sec one
Charleston's business lost year amount,
ed to 353,000,000.
A boy of six years was fmothercd at
Wake, N. 0., while pl.tyfuily hiding iu
cotton.
The Georgia Slate tax this year is
only thirty-five .-cuts on the one iiun
dred dollars.
A San Francisco rnaii wasoanght alter-ing
the figures ou his n-.oth-r's tomb-stone,
his object bt-in,; to m&ke tho date
suit his purpose in a lawsuit.
Two alligator eggs have keen pre-sented
to tho editor of the Sanford,
Flo,, Journal, each measuring seven
aud a quarter laches in length by flra
and a quaiter MI diameter.,
M. Augii'le lli-in. «.y, a-ao died re-cently
at Cognac, l-'nn..—, al the ay
seventy-eight, was a member .( tl.e
French senate, but was mndfa hitter
known as a pnaluccr of brand*.
Several of the i-cst known ol Mr,
dankey's aud Mr. BUsa'hymns are being
translated at L-ickuow, India, into the
vernacular of that oui.tiy, lor--.se in a
Christian church ol ahiehapaaij is the
paster.
Georgia papers c :.:pl mi .f nnscrop-ulous
persons killiug off the trout in
tho moiint.iiu streams by eipk lii
podoes in the del p p.xils where the flab
aougrcgate, and oppci'i to ilic leg
tore to stop it.
Private advices have bet n received st
ForJ Smith. Aik., of tlie disc, %,-ry if
very rioh load mines in the vicinity of
Spoonville, in Clark en 1 Hot H, i
oountiea. Tho mineral is fo'ind near
'he surface in great qnaul
Dnring the month of July. 1879, tl
were exported from Boston, New V
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Ban Fiat i
tad other Patted States ports 00,03a
gallons of petroleum and petroli
products, the aggregate value of a
amounted to ta>288,4Cl
Capl. Lambert Erana, ■ '
hia schooner, in C eaapeak bap,
dreamed twice tlie HUH.
vessel wss run down by a sham, r and
that he was drowned. A . b< UI or to
after tho Faaoonor waa atru '• by a
steamer, and the captain ki" '...! ovi r
board and seen no more.
It is stated as the rosult of exsper noe,
by old railroad engineers, that in all
eases of apprehended collision, if tl.e
-pood of the train cannot be aft -tnally
mooted, and aeolliaioe b unavoidable,
the safest eonxae is to get nil iho M I
pa sible, »s tl.e slowi .-t train invar ibly
receives the most damage.
The animal report of the pisiliinetoi
general for the fined year ended Juno
30, 1871), will show that dnring the. year
2,07"! postellices were established aud
1,079 were discontinued. Tho total num-ber
of nfliccs existing Juno .10, 1N7'J,
were 40,872. Binee tnat date there has
been an increase of 373 offj let,
A Philadelphia lad\ is the * wner of
> valable relie in the shape of a menu-
•cript copy of Wesley's- Hymns in the
handwriting of their author. The book
deaeended to this lady from her grand-father,
to whom it waa given in partial
payment of a debt by the son of thnmau
who printed tho firs' t-ditiouof the hymn1.
A Jacksonville, Fie., druggist, has a
splendid young niockiug bird that will
go end come as orderid, turn BOntOf-suults,
run around in acirole, march,
fetch and carry, hop on on*- foot, pick np
coin, and do many other pretty turks.
Be leaves his cage at will, goa< and
-omes as ho likes, snd seems t < idolize
his owner.
Dandelions aro not ouly eultivati I
largely in France, win re tliey aroliigLly
esteemed for greens, but are also grown
quite plentifully around Boston for this
purpose. Large quantities are forced
for early sale under gb) s. T ie roots
aro transplanted front the Holds iu Ban -
tember and set in a bed prepared for
tho purpose.
l>;iring a recent athletic contest in
New York, nearly til the records wero
beaten. Among the feats perform*- i
were: A seven-mile 'walk u flfiy-fjvo
minutes and thirty-six and u-ln.lf I
onds;aoue bnndred-yard run in forty-nine
and one-eighth seoondi ; a mile ma
iu four minntes and thirty-two-
fIf:hs BOOOU i'.
afsjoi Pierre Cavsgnsri, the Bril
resident who died m the Mr. 't' >: <' •
bul, waa a Bonaparte through bis do-scent
on the maternn! side, from I.n
prince of Canioo. The Brat of the Bo<
Dapartes to fall in Q .' I
death iu tho enrri D! year, in Eaglish
uniforms, against savage enemies, and
in c >nte--: i which had not < -'ig
nity of battles.
The Irao apex of this continent is a
grand plateau, 0000 feel il -.• tfai level
of th" sea, iu the !'. .-i >• ■..
gion between the YVll >watou< nv, aj |
Qreea Ulvei City. '1 i ere are tl ■
of the Two <> roans,' ■ epri K •
waters are '. I ■ '■
name, and whioh II .-* on ■ .
t ie Gall of M- tie i vi. the i
and the Uissouri, end on "*h<
I the I'.'oiii
1 river.
L] ins shoi V in I)
I a' Vevay, In I., last J r.bllt did llol kdl
' him. Tbi y .;••> I on adj
and *-o had iLe oouveni' uc . for k-1- pibg
[ the aaarrel going. A lew laj ro Ly-
■ ons' son said that his fa
leasly bungled the job i ^ Van
whenheshsveshimseii, and heonght, in i UoreD' uu ' 1»'<1'" ' '■ ooJertete it
mercy to his neighbors, to surrender . ■"■■•"■ "" ''-v ::' w»'1 bJ' Ul
the rascal to justice.
I have noticed that mom v is the fool's i
wisdom, the knave's reputatiou, the
poor man's desire, the covetous man's
ambition, and tho idol of them all.
Stonewall Jacks, n used to take a bath
' of dead eold water every day.
for V,\n Djren, who waa coming from
the village ou borsebaek, an i, « u<
victim got opposite, ee ly l i gnu
across the fence, t
a'ely, and shot him lb: ig .-.i::.
'I guess that was a success," thi
derer remarked as be and S neighbor e»-
trained the dead m»i
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