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9 ' m n,T,TWQl& wssmssssam FIVJE'car-loads of dromedaries were ecently shipped from Texas to Arizona, o be uaad in transporting United States 1 IBA D. SANKKT has started for Eu- «»pe» where he will be joined by D. L. Moody, to inaugurate an extended re­ vival in Great Britain. ^ THK Hussion authorities have recently sent 200 persons suspected of Nihilism to Siberia, without even the formality • Jxt a trial as to their guilt. of the late Monetary Conference J results which may grow out of the event C MB. EVABTS thinks .that the debbera- tiona • have advanced the prospects of bimetallic international arrangements considerably. * JOHN B. RAYMOND, of Fargo, Dakota, says that he has harvested •hw season $50,000 worth of wheat from a farm cost him only $59,000 two years ago. SINGS 1871 the assets of the life insur­ ance companies doing business in Hew York State have nearly doubled, in­ creasing from $211,849,116 to $417,797,- >554, or 97 per cent., while their surplus lias increased about 85 per oent., or from' $38,685,825 to $71,561,670. her father's W&meiA. Only those who knowibe intenaiij of Gen. Batter's family afieo- f9»! [TRQMFTAFRIIRTIMM T--M1.1 Mtttr • lobatsn ax* lateii fnsii the ooeaa m this vicinity, the buineas be­ ing jmnmd in these waters both by j islander* mid flahwBK from neighbor­ ing ports. The toape used hare differ DA. J. 8. JEWBIA, of writing upon the treatment of insane criminals in the current number of a i somewhat in sue and shape from those journal devoted to the discussion of nervous and mental diseases, has the following very sensible wards to say: " Whenever, in the case of murder or any other flagrant crime against society, the plea of insanity is set up and suc­ cessfully maintained, then the penalty should be the incarceration of the crim­ inal for life in a prison asylum. Under no circumstances should such a person be turned loose into society again after having manifested such dangerous tend employed onEaatera grounds. Alight ; frame of pine, from three to four feet in length and fcwn one to two feet in width ! and depth, is covered by laths or other I light slats, placed about half an inch [ apart. A funnel-shaped mouth of , pointed slats or netted cord is made at I one end large enough for the ingress of ; a lobster, and just within, and immedi- 1 ately in front of this mouth, the fisher- ! man hangs his bait, the head of a ood | or bluefisb, or part of the body of some j other fish of smaller value. The lobster i examines the bait and explores the | opening with an excess of caution that It is our hope that one of the ! ?boul(^ ̂ doeS not' P^vent his enter- IHMRDIATKM after the NIGNMG of the recent Franco-Tunisian treaty specula­ tion became rife in Tunisian real estate. Frenchmen bought up land near- the railroad station, and are reselling it at Mi enormous advance. A house rente at $2,000 a year. THK ex-King of Hanover sternly re­ fuses to see his only sister, whose love marriage, promoted and approved by Queen Victoria, deeply offended him, " A dethroned dynasty," says his ex- Majesty, "ought to shun a mesalliance far more than a dynasty in prosperity. A PABTY of fifty tramps boarded a Pennsylvania freight train near Harris- burg and threatened vengeance if any attempt were made to put them off. The train was delayed until a car-load of police could be transported to the scene of trouble, when neadj .twenty of the tramps were captured/ v A LEADING dry-goods merchant of New York states that he never knew such heavy trading in August as during the present year, and that the most noteworthy feature 6f business is t£e large number of Western buyers who have been attracted by cheap fares and low freight rates. A saotriiAB water-route from the in­ terior of Canada to Great Britain is pro­ posed by way of JXudson bay. The idea •'that the bay is open for navigation only three popnths in the year is said to be a fallacy, mid the only impediment is the blocking up of the entrance by ice, which drifts in Davis' straits in April and May. OHAKUH O'OONOB six years ago was given up by his doctors, who left his bed­ side and pronounced him pest hope and reoovery; but the old man of 74 rallied, even after the closing rites of the church had been performed and the consecrated wafer placed in his mouth, and called for what he had long been begging, a pear, ate it, and is alive to-day. HBBB is an item which girls will do well to read carefully and reflect upon. A young lady in Elmira, N. Y., was the successful contestant for a $200 prize to be given to the most beautiful woman in Elmira, and in a short time became crazy. Her mother says that insanity was caused by a wash which the girl used to bleach her hair. The mixtures used for the purpose of producing blonde hair usually oontain ingredients which i lead poisoning. JOSEPH EL MULLET, a genuine Mor­ mon " saint," lectured, the other day, at Philadelphia. He cracked up the many- Wife business, declared that old Brigham Young was "pure and holy," threw out hints that there would be a war of ex­ termination against Gentiles, and made the following modest assertion : " I do not believe, but know, that I am as much endowed with the power and au­ thority of God as were any of the aid Apostles, and I declare that all sects and parties, except the Latter-Day Saints, azp in the wrong." THBBB are at the present time neatly 400 female physicians in active practice in twenty-six States, the majority of them being residents of New York, Mas­ sachusetts and Pennsylvania. These figures show a marvelous growth. Per­ sons not very far advanced in years can remember when there were no women claiming to practice medicine who were Worthy of public confidence. The change that has already taken place is probably only the beginning of a new era. In a few years the number of women who are creditable doctors will be so great that their sex will cease to be a matter of comment ^ A WRITBB in a New York paper sayB: " Gen. B. F. Butler haa a finer side to his character than most people would ^--suspect who know him only as a nmn of | varied and brilliant attainments, taking I and giving knocks in the arena of public I'i life. He is a prince of good fellows as f an entertainer, and he has always been I;1* a model of the domestic virtues. The *'• v • death of his amiable wife was a severe £>•. blow to him, and his declining years are f t still more-heavily clouded by the lo-,s of | § his beloved son, a young lawyer of high f promise, Unless I err, his only-remain- Z-. >8 child is the accomplished wife of ex- l . Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, who BOW - j; % , -,"Av.U, which has so shocked the nation may be the passage of simple, stringent, well- considered laws providing for the dis­ posal in this way of all dangerous in­ sane criminals. In this way only can society protect itself and justice con­ siderately avoid blind and useless sever­ ity. If such a plan were adopted and rigorously carried into effect, the plea of insanity would be made inore rarely than at present. " THERE are 7,092 public hoosM and 4,425 beer houses in London. During 1880 20,868 persons were apprehended for drunkenness. Of these, 15,998 were males and 13,870 were females. The average of apprehensions for drunken­ ness seems, however, to be diminishing. During toe five preceding years the pro- nig. But he soon seems entirely satis­ fied that all is right, when he turns and backs in. He appears to realize at once that he is caught, and endeavors to get out; but, strange as it may seem, al­ though he examines the opening again and again, it never seems to enter his mind to turn and back out as he came in. Captivity also appears to rob him of appetite, for it is seldom that he will touch the bait which led Mm in, and which is now within his reach. Con­ finement appears to deprive him of any power of speech which he may pos­ sess, or perhaps, like some human be­ ings, he takes a malicious pleasure in seeing others share Ms misfortune; for he will give no warning when another, lured by the bait, investigates the open­ ing, and sometimes a dozen or more will be taken by the same trap. Not infrequently, however, they will so for forget their anxiety to escape as to fight most lustily with their strong claws, which are sometimes wrenched from their bodies, but this does not cripple them permanently, for it is not long be- portion was about 7.500 per 1,000 of the fore another claw grows just as good population, whereas in 1880 it was only as that lost, except that it is a little there 6.345. Against "drink houses' were 158 convictions, whereas in 1868 there were 1,034. There were 3,330 per­ sons maimed or injured and 137 persons killed in the streets during 1880. Of these, " light carts" responsible for 1,043, cabs for 800, omnibuses and cars for 268, broughams and carriages for 307, heavy carts, wagons, drays and vans for 841; but of the 592 accidents by vans 45 were fatal, whereas of the 1,843 acci­ dents by cabs and light carts only 42 were fatal. Six hundred and eighty-five persons were arrested in the metropolis during the year for oruolty to animals. The number of servants arrested for lar­ ceny in dwelling houses was 1,747. In 1880 the number of women arrested for annoying passengers was 6,547. Of these, 2,363 were oonvicted and 268 dis­ charged. What became of the remain­ der is not stated. I Practical Knowledge. Tfeft world little imagines how „ „ it is indebted to the laborious researches of scientific medical men for many of the most important truths relative to human health, happiness and life. As population increases, and the value of food is enhanced, the knowledge which chemistry has elicited is becoming more and more valuable m a practical point of view. Some kinds of food are mare nutri­ tious than others, and if it should be found that articles which ore cheapest have most nutriment and give the high­ est ability to labor, then knowledge be­ comes money to the poor. Tables vary, but some of the general results are as follows: One pound of rice, prepared for the table, gives 88 per cent, of nu­ triments and,4consequently, a relatively proportional ability to labor, compared with other articles of food, A pound of beef, costing 15 cents, gives only 26 per oent. of nutriment. According to these estimates, therefore, rice, as an article of food, is 100 per cent cheaper, 100 per cent more valuable to the common laborer tnan roast beef, yet countless numbers of the poor in the large cities strain a point daily to purchase beef at 15 cents a pound, when they could get a pound of rice for one-third of the amount, the rice, too, having three times as much nutriment as the beef, making a practical differ­ ence of 600 per cent., aside from the fact that boiled rice is three times easier of digestion than roast beef, the rice be­ ing digested in about one hour, roast beef requiring three hours and a half. There is meaning, then, in the reputed fact that two-fifths of the human family live on rice. We compile, therefore, the following tables for preservation, as being practically and permanently use­ ful. All the economist requires is to compare the price of a pound of food with the amount of nutriment which it affords: Kind of Food. . Otto........f. l'ea« Barley Cora bread... Wheat bread. Bice Beini Bye bread ... Oatmeal Mutton Plume Grapes lieal. Poultry Pork Veal Vciileon ...... Codfigh I ,, Applee Mi* Turnips Mekraa Cucumbers... smaller. A lobster is supposed to retain his shell until the latter part of his fifth summer, when another shell forms with­ in, cracking and graduallv crowding off the old covering. Until this change oo- curs a lobster is not considered suitable food, and any one can judge by the length of the fish whether he has moult­ ed or not, the change never being made before the animal is nearly or quite ten inches in length. Alter this, the shell changes yearly. In accordance with this fact, a stringent law has been passed for the protection of the public, forbidding any fishermen to sell or ex­ pose for sale any lobster less than ten inches in length, exclusive of the claws. This law is generally obeyed to the let­ ter by fishermen who sell their catches in the shell, but a great many lobsters below the lawful size are carried away bv smacks in their salt-water wells, where they can be kept alive for a long time, and sold to canning establish­ ments, whose goods are too much broken up in canning for measurements to be applied with much certainty. Lobsters generally pass the winter in deep water, coming in with the ap­ proach of warm weather, the larger, as a rule, appearing first, Early in the sea­ son, the catch is mainly of large fish, which are so sharply pursued that toward the latter part of July and later, their numbers are diminished to such an extent that there is great temptation to the fishermen to. retain those which the law directs him to return to the ocean. Many fishes hold lobster's eggs in high esteem, but the mother lobster will defend them savagely with her powerful claws, and for better protection attaches them to her abdomen, as many as 12,000 having been counted upon a single fish. When hatched, however, thousands of defenseless lobsters are devoured their enemies, and, if man also is to be permitted to prey upon them before they are 5 years old, we can hardly hope that the supply will long remain m ^frMfrknt as in the past Modtef Percentage ttf • Preparation. A'utrimenL raw 86 boiled.... S9 boiled..... 9-J baked.... 81 baked SO .boiled.... 68 boiled.... ST baked.... 79 :::::J38r:: 74 SO raw. a» raw %7 roast M /..... roart 30 ; roast 84 tried M broiled... as boiled.... ..A 31 whipped.. IS raw 10 raw 7 boiled.... 4 raw a raw * The Fireless Locomotive. The following is the first intellij^flfie description of M. Francq's much-talked- of tireless locomotive: "The construc­ tion is much like an ordinary locomotive, except that there is no lire. The boiler is a receptacle of extra strength, and the water contained in it is raised to a tem­ perature of about 395® by the injection of team at a pressure of 215 pounds. The steam is provided by a stationary boiler at one of the intermediate stations on the line. The* tireless locomotive is thus charged with water capable of giv­ ing off a quantity of steam sufficient for a moderate journey. Of course the pres­ sure of steam giveu off is at the first very great and gradually lessens; but the inconvenience which would arise from this constant change of pressure is overcome by the adoption of a reducing valve, by means of which the pressure of steam reaching the cylinders can be nicely regulated. These engines were tried and worked from Ruell to Port Marley, 6.51 miles, and from Port Mar- lev to Marie de Rot, 2.15 miles; it is therefore evident that these engines are quite capable of covering jonrneys of length sufficient for tramway work, es­ pecially p.s the engine described draws a train of twenty tons." ' ̂ Whj We Commence Dinner With Soup. The rationale of the initial soup has often been discussed ; some regard it as calculated to diminish digestive power, on the theory that so much fluid taken at first dilutes the gastric juices. But there appears to be no foundation for this belief. A clear soup disappears al­ most immediately after entering tne stomach, and in no way interferes with the gastric juice, which is stored in its appropriate cells ready for action. The habit of commencing dinner with soup has without doubt, its origin in the fact that aliment in this fluid form--in fact, ready digested--soon enters the blood and rapidly refreshes the hungry ma-, who, after a considerable fast and mr. h activity, sits down with a sense of t - naustion to commence his principal meal. In two or three minutes after he has, taken a plate of good warm soup, the feeling of exhaustion disappears, ana irritability gives way to the gradual ris­ ing sense of prood- fellowship with the cir­ cle. Some persons have the custom of allaying exhaustion with a glass of sher­ ry before food--a gastronomic no lew than a physiological blunder, injuring the stomach and depraving the palate. The soup in trod act s at once into the system a small installment of ready-di- gestetl food, and suves'tlie bhort- period of time which must be spent by the stom­ ach in deriving some nutriment from sol­ id aliment, as well as indirectly strength­ ening the organ of digestion itself for its forthcoming duties.--Sir Henry Thomp­ son. * Insanity. An American writer on special diseases in a recent paper «»n insanity asserts that it is largely increasing, aud avers that we know ne *t to nothing of its pa­ thology. It is thought to bo • 'a disease of physical degeneration rather than one of civilization (as stated by E-quirol); but the causes of mental disease, its course and its methods of cure, are regarded as yet remaining undiscovered. It is esti­ mated from statistics that one in thirty of all persons reaching tho age of 20 may be expected to become insane in the older States of the Union. Insanity is found to be much less prevalent in new and fresh places than in those where the population is centralized; is more common in the Eastern cities than in those of the West, and is least often met with in the farm districts of our new States. I ts frequency has become more and more strongly marked in the last twenty-five years, and a much closer attention to neurological investigation is recommended." English Drunkenness Incurable. The Retreats for Habitual Drunkards which have been established in England do not, according to the report of the official inspector, appear to have accom­ plished much. There are but two of them, and the number of patients ad­ mitted during the last year has been only fifteen, of which seven were females. Five have been discharged, and ten re­ main under treatment. The inspector, hrnm. . at in the retreats. The be seen, lias been QOMtucfea upon a small scale. The moat atteoiarful of the American retreats have barfly reformed one out of fifteen at tboao subjected to their treatment; and yet they axe re­ garded a* remarkably saccessfttl. , Sugar Making. Sugar making now and sogu as it was are very different things, ana what it has gained in facility it has lost in picturesquenesa. Hie ola camp with its primitive appliances is no more; the "kettle" has been superseded by the •* pan," and the trougn is becoming a mass of crumbling decay. The women and children are kept at home, and no longer know the old-time delights of "sugaring off," though in the Arcadia of the past their services Were not des­ pised, and the whole household set up its abode in the woods. The sap was collected then in troughs each about three feet long, hollowed out of sections of poplars, and was conveyed to the kettles in barrels, from which it was transferred by scoops. There were five or more kettles, from ten to thirty gallons in capacity, and each was filled with sap, which was kept boiling, the larger kettles being refilled from the smaller ones as evaporation reduced the quantity. When tha contents were re duced to a desired consistency, the hot sirup was dipped out and pasfsa through a flannel strainer into covered tubs, from which again it Wis poured into a large, thick-bottomed kettle for the process of "storing oft," some milk and the whites of several eggs being added to it. Thus prepared it was placed over a alow fire and kept just beiow the boiling-point until the sediment and all foreign matters in it floated to the top and were removed, when it became delieiously translucent. It was now exposed to a greater heat and gently boiled, the evaporation con­ tinuing, and bringing it nearer to the point of granulation. No# the sugar- maker was all watchfulness, and it fared ill with those who distracted him, for, if the golden liquid seething in the kettle boiled the least bit too much, it would become dry in quality, while if it boiled too little, it would become "soggy." He tested it constantly, plucking threads of it from his stirring-stick and trailing them round in 3ups of cold water. While the threads yielded warily to the touch, the sugar was not yet done, but as s on as one broke crisp between his fingers, the moment had oome to take the kettle off the fire. As the sugar be­ gan to cool, it crystallyzed round the sides, and gradually the whole mass, under a vigorous stirring, became gran­ ular. In that way sugar was made years ago, and when the sap flowed profusely the operations were continued through the night, and the fires east strange shadows in the woods. But, instead of a hut of logs, a permanent sugar-house is now built, and furnished with many elaborate devices to prevent waste and deterioration. Formerly, when the ma­ ples were tapped with an auger, an " elder quill" was inserted in the in­ cision to conduct the sap into the trough below ; that is, a small piece of elder wood about three inches long with the pith bored out of it, which farmed a tube; but in most orchards of to-day a galvanized iron spout is uaad, which has toe advantage of not souring the sap nor choking many porea. Imwtliiag is "torprtved." The 'CnBasli|j| aflrfeade with the unvarying order of collections from letter-boxes, and, if the grove is on a hill, and the sugar-house is in a hollow, the sap, as it is gathered, is emp­ tied into a " flume," which quickly con­ ducts it to a large reservoir within the building, wherein it is strained through cloth. A scoop or a ladle is as anachronistic as a javelin. From the reservoir the sap is conducted, as re­ quired, through tin pipes into a "heater," whence it passes through a series of iron tubes to be delivered, after straining, in a condition for "sugaring off." Maple sugar, as it reaches the market, is of a clcarer color for all these improve­ ments ; but there are some who actually say that the flavor has fallen off, and that the new patent evaporators are a snare. One change has certainly not been for the better, and that is the abandonment of the social life of the old camps, which made sugar-time in the Green mountains enduring memories with those who are now ebbing away.-- Harper's tyagazw*. . Tip 1 ' ; Marriage. Mairiage is, of all earthly union^ ul- most the only one permirtiug of no change but that of death. It is that en­ gagement in which man exerts his mo.st awful and solemn power--the power of responsibility which belongs to him as one that shall give account--the p-»v.rr of abnegating the right to cluing?--the power of parting with his freedom--the power of doing that which in this world can never be reversed. And yet it its perhaps that relationship which is pj«ok en of most frivolously, and ei:te<ed imo most carelessly i.nd ir-o.it wantonly. Ir­ is not a union merely between two creat­ ures, it is a uniou between two spii its; and the intention of that bond i* to per­ fect the nature of boi.li, by supplement­ ing their deficiencies with the force of contrast, giving to each sex those ex­ cellencies in which it is naturally defi­ cient- ; to the one strength of character and firmness of moral will, to the otner sympathy, meekness, tenderness. And just so solemn, and just so glorious as these ends are for which tho union was Contemplated and intended, just so ter­ rible are the consequences if it be per­ verted and abused; for there is no earthly relationship which lias sojnucli power" to ennoble and to exalt--Eobert- •on. * ' Lady Washington. In some "Memoirs" found in a very old library we read that Mrs. Washington was in her day a lady wielding the same sort of a scepter as the Empress Eugenie did iu hers, and that the Princess of Wales does now. She was queen of fashion of her time, and the out of her silks, the flow of her laces, indicated the proper method to all her coterie of friends, and from thence it circled to the outer world. Even in the early days of the republic, according to this authority, women dressed in rich fabrics, and ex­ pensive accessories to the toilet were considered necessary. When Thomas Jefferson was Minister to France, he took enough interest in his women folks to seed home to them from Paris white Batin slippers, long gloves, lace slips and other pretty things. la one of his letters he gives a parental caution against extravagance, but urges his daughters to always keep themselves dressed as ladiea MANX of the great English towns have taken advantage of the cheapness of money to fund their debts on better terms--some as low as 3| per cgiit. a g a i n s t a p r e v i o u s 5 p e r c u p * . t f v I Tfce CUMrtai assasMaalfaBi for political rea­ sons fa'tygMal in its character, because CI) it was so clearly a political murder; (2) it was the murder of a Southern- born white Republican; (3) it was done in 1877, after President Hayes had termina­ ted " bayonet rule(4) no serious at­ tempts have been made to punish the assassins; (5) it illustrates in its inci­ dents the barbarity of the Southern character. Judge William Wallace Ghisolm was bora in Morgan oounty, Ga., Dec. 6, 1830, Mid when 16 years old moved with his parents to Kemper county, Miss. He married, in 1856, Emily S. Mann, daughter of a Florida law­ yer. Cornelia Josephine Ghisolm was born in 1858, and subsequent children were Clay, John and William. Judge Cliisolm voted for secession, and served in the Confederate militia; but after the war he advocated reconstruc­ tion and became a Republican ; opposed the Knklux, who, between 1889 and 1871, killed thirty-five negroes iu Kem­ per county, while whippings took place without number; suid he testified to their outrages before the Congressional committee. In 1869 he became Sheriff, was elected in 1871 and again in 1873, with Charles Rosenbaum as his deputy. In the election of 1871, John P. Gilmer, a Georgian and an ex-Confederate sol­ dier, became a Republican and supported Judge Chiaolm for Sheriff, and in 1872 was elected Stale Senator ; and he and Judge Cliisolm and other white Repub­ licans organized the county and carried it Republican, exciting, in consequence, the bitter hostility of the white Demo­ crats, including a prominent family named Gully. Between 1873 and 1875 Gov. Ances was driven out and J. W. Stone took his place ; and the Demo­ crats in 1875 carried the election by the white-line shot-gun policy. In 1876 the Republicans undertook to make a canvass, and Judge Chisolm ran in the Third district against H. D. Money, and was declared beaten by 11,633 ma­ jority, after an exciting and dangerous canvass, and reported threats to kill Judge Chisolm, some of which are graphically described in a letter of Cor­ nelia Chisolm of Nov. 13, 1876. After the election efforts were made to punish the White Leaguers, and thirty or more were indicted. H. D. Money, the Con­ gressman-elect, the Kemper Herald says, responded to its appeal to the Democracy of the county to "rallv to the defence of its outraged citizens1" as follows® "We reoeived a letter a few days since from Hon. H. D. Money, in which he made arrangements to pay us §20 for the purpose of defraying the ex­ penses of our Kemper bulldozers, and stated that he would pay more if it was needed. He expressed the kindest feel­ ings of sympathy for those of his fellow- citizens of Kemper who had been in­ dicted, and declared his willingness and determination to bear his full share of all the result." During the winter Judge Chisolm went to Washington with bis daugter, and testified before thfe Congressional committee concerning the election of November, 1876. April 26, 1877, John W Gully was assassinated by a negro, John Riley, on account ol an old feud'. Judge Chisolm Republicans named Hoppen, J. P„ Gilmer, and Charlea Rosenbaum were arrested, charged with the murder. No attempt has ever been made to prove their guilt, and time haa only awved otxttpletdy to disprove it. The accused voluntarily gave themaahrea up, and to escape danger from an assem­ bled mob, Mrs, Cliifiolm and the chil­ dren, attended by Angus McLellan, a friendly Scotchman and an English sub­ ject, accompanied them to the jail. Armed men surrounded them, and one of the Gullys fired a charge of buckshot into Gilmer's back, who exclaimed : "Oh ! Lord, don't shoot me any more ; 1 gave myself up, and you promised to protect me," and started to run ; was pursued into an alley-way, riddled with bullets and his dead body was laid down at his wife's feet at her home, as she was preparing to follow him to jail. A mob gathered around the jail; the treacherous guards deserted, leaving the guns unloaded aud with no ammu­ nition. Cornelia and her brother Willie left the jail, went home, secured powder, bullets and wadding in her clothing and returned. Mrs. Chisolm also went homo, and before she returned the as­ sault began. On her way back she saw McLellan shot dead by two of the Gullvs, baring been just before forced out of the jail by the Sheriff in order that he might be killed. From McLellan's murder the mob rushed to the jail, headed by one Rosser and the Gullys. Mrs. Cliisolm worked her way to the gates of the jail door, where the mob commenced firing in at Judge Cliisolm. Cornelia brought him guns left by the guards4 and received a wound from chips of lead and burnt powder in her face. The locked was chopped to pieces, and the door forced open against the efforts of Cornelia and Johnny, and, as it opened, Rosser shot off Johnny's right arm at the wrist, whoruslied to his father's arms, while Cornelia seized Roger's gun ; but he hurled her from him, and fired his second shot through Johnny's heart. Seeing his boy killed in his arms, Judge Chisolm seized a gun left by McLellan, and killed Rosser, whose fall drove back the mob only to set fire the jail. Driven out by the smoke, Mrs. Chisolm and Clay Jed with Johnny's dead body, while Judge Chisolm went with Cornelia's arms about his waist. Henry Gully shot at them, and one ball struck the girl's arm, driring the ragged metal of a gold bracelet into the wrist, while another bullet shattered the arm from wrist to elbow. Just outside the jail. Bill Gully shot at Mrs. Cisholm, whde shots from the mob caused Judge Chisolm to fall. Cornelia appealed to the crowd for help to carry him home, and the appeal was answered by a discharge which sent fifteen large duck-shot and one buckshot into her leg and foot Her bonnet-strings were severed by a bullet, and thirty shot holes were made in her clothiug. Their work being fin­ ished, the assassins allowed negroes to help their victims home. After a long sflffering. Judge Chisolm died May 13; Cornelia lingered till the 15th, and then passed away; and thus son, father and daughter went to their death at the hands of an infamous Southern mob. Before his death Judge Chisolm said to his wife that he felt that he was about to die. "Tell my children that their father never did an act in his life for which they need to blush or fjeel ashamed. I am innocent of the charge these men have preferred against meV* and have been murdered because I am a Republican, and would live a free man." As the only sequel of this terrible and shameful national tragedy, the Kemper coiiutv Kuklux of 1876 hove been found not guilty; the murderers of Judge Chis­ olm, and of Cornelia and Johnny Chis­ olm, have also been acquitted; no mur­ derer of Angus McLellan haa been tried; a* of the *< yea ! Il ia of civilisation as fhf speaks when he declares of his Section, " Thy gantleneaa hath made thee arcat!" But the people of the North will read from the Vicksburg Herald such utter­ ances as these: "At Aberdeen, last Saturday, CoL Lamar made an «loqnent speech. A better Democratic? speech we do not care to listen to; and in manly and ringing tones he declared that the contest involved tho supremicy of the unoonquered and unconquerable Saxon Pwe. We were glad to hear this bold and manly avowal, and it was greeted with deafening plaudits. We have never seen men more terribly in earnest, and the Democratic white line speech made to them by Col Lamar aroused them to a white heat-." And the paper says, " If the killing of anybody is necessary, wo repeat what we have heretofore said-- let the poor negro pass, and let the white scoundrels who have tired his heart with evil passions be the only sufferers." Lamar used the same language at Scooba, Kemper county, aud Judge Chisolm's name was mentioned as the man who stood in the way of Democratic victory. Prof. T. S. Garthright, an educator of tho ingenu­ ous youth of the State, in a speech at DeKalb, within sight of Judge Chis­ olm's home, said : " Gentlemen, if you ever expect to have peace and harmony in your county, you must get rid of this man. I will not undertake to tell you how to get rid of him--that you know as well as I; but you must get rid of him." Then he made a gesture about his neck in imitation of hanging, and the brutal* crowd gave loud and con­ tinued cheers. Such men as Lamar and Garthright and Money, mo»e than the ignorant Southern white trash of Kemper county, are responsible for the Chisolm trage­ dy and jthe failure to punish the mur­ derers, to our everlasting national dis­ grace. WM. E. CHANDLEK. COHCORD, N. H. * Do darter Saakea Eat flaht Well, if you will allow me a point and ownsider crayfish in the category, I can answer yea. While on the Upper Alle­ gheny, not long sinoe, I stepped out upon a log which projected into the river and began washing my bands in the water. Suddenly I perceived a quick movement in the river just be­ neath my hands, which was followed by the appearance of a large, healthy cray­ fish, which seemed to rise out of the water in a strange sort of way, which I could not understand, but in a moment more the mystery was solved by the head of a snake popping up and showing that it had just caught the crayfish by the tail. I kept perfectly quiet, while the snake watohed me for a minute or two, and then, concluding that I looked too good- natured to hurt it, it commenced on its meal. It was a garter snake about six­ teen inches long and slender for its length. I could not see what it could possibly want with a crayfish, for I did not suppose it was insane enough to im­ agine that it could swallow such a bunch of shell and olaws. But it went right at it as though it understood its business. Swaying its head (which remained on a level with the surface of the water} from side to aide, it worked its jaws aa though with a suction motion, rubbed its throat occasionally upon a little stone in the water, and the tail and part of the body of the crayfish waa soon oamfortably past the BttMoon. But now cam* flu tog of war, fat there was tho head and shoulders and huge large olaws which were now to be dispoeed of. The snake seemed to re­ alize that it had need of all its powers in order to oomplete its enterprise. It paused for a rest and a breathing spell, and I could readily imagine that it was spitting on its hands for the finish. Then it m&eaoed again, and such a swelling and swaying and contorting would have made a circus clown sick with envy. And all this time the poor crayfish didn't offer a single objection. It simply looked out into space with a facant stare., and didn't seem to have the least interest In the proceeding. It had doubtless been crossed in love at some not-distant period, and considered the world a hollow mockery, from which it was ablee&ing to be freed. Gradually its shoulders were drawn into the cavity, then its head sank slow­ ly qfht of sight, and the last thing we saw of that orayfish was. one ol its huge, sharp daws illustrating a dissolv­ ing'view, as it w&s drawn into its living grave. Then that snake's jaws closed uke a rat trap; it worked its body, push­ ing its victim down further--just as you have seen a boy work his throat when choking on an overdose of dry sponge eake--bcked its lips with its tongue a few limes, winked its eye at me, as though to say, " There, you can't do that, old man, and then wriggled away under the log to digest its well earncd meal.-- forest and Stream. Our Forests Melting Away. To make shoe pegs enough for Ameri­ can use consumes annually 100,000 cords of timber, and to make our lucifer matches 600,000 cubic feet of the best pine are reqnired every year. Lasts and boot trees take 500,000 cords of I irch, beech and maple, and the handles of tools 500,000 more. The baking of our bricks consumes2,000,000 cords of wood, or what would cover with forest about 50,000 acres of land. Telegraph poles already up represent 800,0(K), and their annual repair consumes about 300,000 more. The ties of our railroads consume annually thirty years' growth of 75,000 acres, and to fence all our railroads would cost $45,000,000, with a yearly expenditure of $15,000,000 for repairs. These are some of the ways in which American forests arc going. There are others; our packing boxes, for instance, cost in 1874 $12,000,000, while the lum­ ber used each year in making wagons and agricultural implements is-valued at more than 8100,000,000. Iceland's Parliament. The Assembly of Iceland, writes a correspondent from that far-off land, is composed of thirty-six members, thirty of whom are elected by the people and six appointed by the King ot Denmark. The thirty popular members elect six of their number to serve with the six ap­ pointed by the crown as an upper house. All bills must pass both houses and be duly approved by the King, who holds veto power. Sessions are held onee in two years, and the members are paid 0 kroner ($1.68) per diem and traveling expenses. I don't know how they make out on the mileage. There are'no end of miles here in any given direction, but it would take an American CongTe;-sai&u half his time to make even cocktial money at the.-te rates. The islai.d di­ vided into fifteen districts, over each of M>u-h is a sysellmand, or judge, who collects the taxes. The sysellmand goes over his district once a year and informs the people where he will meet them and zeedLve their taxes. H« mw, but «Gsrcc)y cotfld brilArsWg What ftU«d htm, thrilled him, vriUi • Chair*, table*, waiiawot, »U wer» And, g*iinp long with np^cn wwateui At such magaifioMico, hi* little ring Se«tu«<l by CMBpartooa a jwitry thing, And from that hoa^, for very s'-ato*, no In ail men's sight his uttia rlcg hs wore, Whors'n hid heart toot nuch de,i£ht befortti --iTimrtilf Ti film' Tintf*. : PITH AND FOIST, an attorney it You will seldom find law--he knows better. WAS not the milky way ooe of the Aral star routes? How TO find out what's iu a name--* put it on the back of a note. S IT IB appropriate to refer to the spankef boom when a whole primary school ii whipped, for some general nnmlfmntiiflf ; "SKE here, waiter,1" Raid Cauliflower, pushing away his egg-cup m disgust, "I don't want to count chickens before thejr are hatched." DB. PATTEflsoir, of Scotland, baa di#» covered that frogs and toads will fight Well, let 'em fight We'd rather see thei* fight than beta- them sing. TETERE are thirty-two circuses in tho country this year. They make a ten# ble st r tin on the peanut crop, but peopl# must be entertained. ^ A Ur.ooKr.YN man answering a Hair ; • Y o r k a d v e r t i s e m e n t , " H o w t o w i n a l l " 5 . poker," received the following repfo: " Hold four aces or don't poke.'* ; - " FBUIT eaten at ipght is baneful.* | & This is one of those wise axioms prove#, v ,;. " * ' to l>e true by Adam. His trouble ws* caused by eating an apple after Eve. PKRFEOTIJT safe--"I always," rniif the wife of a French editor, "like to know that my husband is fighttega duel. Tlien I feel that he is perfectly safe front T1* karm." _14 / A Hxangra had preached an hour; J ; then he remarked: 86 Another wide fiala v opens from the subject in another diieo» tion." Just then an old ookxed saia& ejaculated: "Please, Lord, abut up da bars." ; Turn diffeiwoe between pigs and pt»- * • giliste is not so very great The latter % 4 peel for the fight, while the former fight lor the peeL--Philadelphia BuOeHiti 4 Yes, and one sometimes gets a ring punched in his nose, and tne other geta * his nose punched in a ring.--Bottok , Bulletin. s 4 " I'v* been to Mn. Tittletattle," aatf i | Mrs. Telltale, " and tho way she ran oat about you was perfectly scandalous* ' ' " So she has been talking about me, haa ; ; she?" asked Mrs. Brown, quietly. " Yes, indeed, she lias," said Mn. Teu> . 1. tale, with emphasis. "What a ate* ./ time you two must hava had," aaid l?! Brown, with a aweet amil* ; " AH, my love, what a love of a lov*. ?-.V ly new oostuma you have on!" "Da you think so, loverT" "Yes, any kitat : i and Fm real glad. " Are you reaOyT You are so kind." 89 Yes, dourest* I waa ̂ beginning to feel sorry for you, after you'd worn that old black silk threa 1 years and turned it twice." • _ COME hither. Womankind, and all tkair WMML ' (Hv« me Hi; kliweii an 1 call them forth; : 01 V* bm thy bUlmf MM, that ot TU> >, '• A Kiaa ot Love; , Th» Melting Kiss that doth OOMOOM TospnluM; S.is»„ of eTofy A Ki» of An; The Kiaa which aror atlm soma new A KUBorWtht; Tim ferackta*, A KiMOf Tb* Made Ku», crotehat tail qaaptr Maw: " ThaXiM of Eicq (tenet* The Kte of Blum which d Unto dothb*** •v - * .. i ... i \ t • i : V ,.*x vb« A*j i < > P i f • Km- -i . fci'M: ̂ ,, sst.k£: ws- • i .11 * XlW Kta of all the aotonoM in oaflb • V. . The Ktaa atauft. • So! 'tie enongh! •' --From tfr<e earlier pmm o/Jotepk Ifntftf THE Chicago Times says: "Tfcaa work on the residence of Mr. W. F,\: Storey, on Grand boulevard and VoirtyM third street, is progressing. Goiundent ble improvements Have been made, II has been determined to make the bujl&* ing incombustible." Mr. Storey hagt:' evidently got an idea that he can 4ak» his residence with him when he " MT 'sperienoe in dis life has tauafat' medat de inau who swaps mules wiihk eyes shut am sartin to git de wust ob it Brudderly feelin' goes a good way ilk case of sickness or want or death, but ii seldom reaches down to hoss-trsde, U I vere buy in' a mule of a SM&Xfcajft '•* knowed all my life, I should begitt* the hoofs and look dat animile ober «hr| up to de point of bis nose. I shouldn't. 'spect him to tell me dat hehadfflkwl down any teef or puttied ober any hoof cracks. My advice am not to lie or d*» " ceive in tradin' mules, but to answer as few quesshuns as you kin' an' seem aoct-: o* keerless whedder yourofifer am 'oenleS or not."--Detroit Fbree Jftrem, ASTBONOHY is a beautiful science. are told that if a railway was run frcsft the earth to the neareat fixed atar» aaA; / the fare was 1 penny for every 100mila% and if you took a inaaa of gold to Hi*. ticket office equal to the $3,800,000,000--it would not ba cient to- pay for a ticket to the nnarft -v ̂ fixed star aforesaid. If tide be the oaa* \ < i t m a t t e r s v e r y l i t t l e t o u s w h a t f a c r -- " i M a railroad is everoonatraefcei^ Itwonld 5 "-'i be mighty discouraging to go to th* , J ̂ ticket offioe with a mass of gold equal t» -( ' *'̂ 4 $3,800,000,000 and bo informed that tit* - 1 fare was $5,678,082,000. If the tiaket ~ 1 agent wouldn't traat until we got back we'd be compeUed to forego the trip. ̂ ,":*1 The Fourteen Wonders of the World. ̂ The seven wonders of the ancient times, were the pyramids at .'J| Egypt, the Pharos of Alexandria, tho 7 - ** walls and banging gardens of Babylon, * f, the Tempi© of Diana, the statue of the- * " Olympian Jupiter, the Mausoleum at * , ' Artemesia said the Colossus at iihodea, !fv.|r f!pp The seven wonders of the world ha ,? modern times are the printing-press, the * , x*k steam-engine, the telephone, the phono- | graph, telegraph and electric light. \M'h, The so-called " seven wonders " of th* ancients were mere trifles competed with J those of the present time. The Brook* lyn bridge, for example, would make - V. the hanging gardens of Babylon a mam ' JM toy while the whole seven wondacspst , together would sink into insignificance * M oouid their builders have seen eHjhft- ning-express train at full speed. ? 1 ̂ He Took an Interest. 1' A traveling man sends us a joke that|g?l|| wo do not remember of seeing in print* K j|| Two commercial agents met at the ds« T~ pot with their grips, when one aaid t 1' "Hello, John, where law© you beent" ,i% John said that he had been luring ol£ but now* he had an interest in tne buaiC ness, and was going on the road agun.:; The friend congratulated him ou having' gained the proud position of partner in one of the largest houses in Milwattkea^ which was making money hand over when John broke in by saying : " No ̂I • am not a partner, but the old mim Iqii, * *' me if I didn't take more internet in ttle -̂ business he would bounce me, so Ihav* '". concluded to take aa interest in it fcaKOf- Good day."--**«**• „ * «*. 1. 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