Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 June 1876 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. DOJNE, PublUher. JAKl'lii:. INDIANA. ITEMS OF INTEREST. t's-raoAal mill I.lttrary. Spurtreon declines n cull to lecture in the I'nitcd States. .Julia Ward 1 1 own has been olectod rresitlent of the Ilo.ston Women's Suffrage A iciatioii. A Life of Hrigham You is in course of preparation by Mr. W. Tullidgc, ef Salt Lake, City. Publishers estiinato that Ceorgo K'iot will receive .HO,mj from tin; sale of Daniel Deronda." -President. Win. A. Stearns, of Amherst College, died suddenly of paralysis of the heart on the hth. The widow of Shirley lirooks, lato editor of l'uuch, has received a pension of IW from (Jueen Victoria. David M. l'hilip, for many years connected with t ho press in Memphis, Chicago ami Toronto, died on the Mi. Antoinette) Pdk, a daughter of the soldicrdlishop, is thfl belle of Unman society this season. It is rumored that the Prince Doria is anion; her suitors. Mr. Felix Ucgaiuey, the artist, is about to start on a tour of the world, lie is to furnish illustrations for a hook on the customs of America, China, and Japau. Oliver Wendell Holmes, at the last .-,, I It . .. r . 1IC( 1 111, "i Hit lit I I III II .111 l 1 IOK CO. II (II SI, read a poem entitled "The Old Horse," ascpiclto The Wonderful ( )ne-Iloss Shay," the leading character being the ho.! instead of the shay. A valuable Masonic jewel, rusting $''011, was presented to Albert Pike, the Sovereign ('oiiinminlcr of the Ancient and Accepted Si-ottish Uite, Southern jurisdiction, lat Wednesday night, in Wa-diingioii. The presrtiiat i n was made by Hobert Toombs, of (ieorgia. Julius ( 'han.bcr, a New York reortcr, has just published in ndin ua account cf his experience as a j-ro-tended madman, and voluntary inmate of several lunatic asylums ia that State. The book is prefaced by a warm letter of commendation to its author from Charles Kcadc, the novelist. S lr net !! Imliialr)', Florida sijtteres ,Jllt,IHKJ from l.er sponge interet. a year Dun Peilro lias bought ten Yankee lawn-iuovvers for models. Itrit i li gold is coined in London with inaehiuery imported from America. l.agr (piantiticsof agricultural implements arc being s!iij)ped to (Jermany. The preeiit indications are that the. wheat it-Id in the I nit.-d States will be very great this year. Indications of the existence of rich veins of iron ore have been dieovcrcd in the hills near .Muscatine, Iowa. '1 he nickel minesof Lancaster, Pa., )ield nearly ;,inx) tons of fire yearly, and give employment, to Hoo men. A valuable plumbago mine has been located in Libert County, (:i. Lvperts pronounce the ore worth from J o to 1.M per toll. 1 he .Juliet (111.) rolling-mills are running day and night, turning out Ifou tons of r.cseiiier ste rails and giving employment to '.(mi iocn. " A mat bine has been invented, after a study of Pi year, for making seamless paper boxes. It rolls them from the I'uip, and will make an hour, no matter w lo t ber they are large or small, found or square. The Lowell cotton lu.muf t t urin : i ....... " '"'"I'.'nivi jiie glOdiuy over Hie pl'osl"i ts f.,r the future, ttinl .some of them predict that it will be the hardest sea"ii for the manufacturers und opcratives that the t it y has ever known. Some marvels) of human ingenuity may be e, u :vt tho London Scientific hxliibition. Thus, n machine, loaned by Sir W. Armstrong, the great gunlnaker, measures thickness up to the wii'-thouandth part of an inch, und another, on the name principle, to the one-millionth part. Tim delicate balance of Mr. nettling carries .'I.immi irr.tins, Hiid turns distinctly with the one-thousandth part of a single grain. Wrtkool a ! Church. . The first prize in Knglish composition at the Hopkins (irammar School, New Haven, Coim., has been taken by tyencer Laisun, a Chinese lad. A preacher in lterrien, Michigan, is charged with taking life easy and winnmJiiiireU In' delivering "original" "'i iiions word for word like the publish'l ones of Prof. Swing. Ilev, David Kd wards, Uishop of the Yliureln.f Tnitcd Drethrcn in Christ, '"'I in Baltimore on tho (ith, aged (il V'urs. ltishop Ldwards was a native "f Dido. . ""Notwithstanding the Queen is the titular head of tho Church of Kngland, Mp has, in her usual independent and "nicwhat heretical waj, written a letl, r to tko (Jeneral Assembly of Scotland Mosingagiftof .ilO.lHHi. -Dr. S. (J. Meholls, sif St. Iouis, i ttie recent meeting of th? Pres. I'Yt, nan assembly for discussing Sun"i.-., mai. inning; i uu i.sc li 'is the increase of the percentage of j't-oprrtyof tu, p,-,,testant Church had '"''-ii about 11 per cent., while the in-j'f'H-e of t property of the Koinan Uiolie Church has U-cn 42 percent. At length a Kindly sympathy is "reused iii behalf of uvary am! invalid "f liers. A Teachers' Kest" is about l() cvtaldished set Tomkins Cove, u.iv-.seb(du (i...i .1 i... i . . 1,1

1 Hudson. The idea originated w ith a

number of la. lies, who have resolved t lit up a Homo where worn-out teachers of their own Hex may lind rest and comfort at a nominal expense. llai mmti Mliliapi. Wni. Ityan, of (Jarrett, In.L, shot olT ono of his hands while intoxicated. Morrison Pureell, a farmer living near Indianapolis, was fatally gored by a cow while trying to take her calf away. At Fair Haven, Ct., William 11. I.lviua rn .....! I.I... .1 . . .. 'j iiiuii .t a ijhiuu vrssei in me heart while playing base-ball, and died soon afterward. Miss Kllen Starr, a young lady living in Knox County, Tenn., while walking in tho yard stooped to pick up a Mower. As sho touched it, a copperhead hnakc, which was concealed in the grass, hit her on the hand. It was thought she could not recover. At Iowa City, Iowa, a 2-year-old child of Michael O'Urien got hold of an uncorked bottle of benzine, and before its mother was aware of it, had drank enough to produce death in half an hour. At Odessa, Dakota, ti man named Moss and a girl named Mary Shatl'er were both htruck by lightning, the former being instantly killed and the latter fatally injured. Several others were severely shocked by the ame stroke. At Cnovennc. Wv. Ter.. Jennie Morton, aged 1.1, was shot in the head i.-.wnj kuitu w i.nO H Umllig Hiung the street, by a negro boy aged VJ. It was probably the result of careless oUtol practice on tho part of the boy, as no intent was shown. Among the most notable cases of suicide reported for the week arc the following; Ceorge U. Frintz, a cierk in the Tost-oHiee in Cincinnati, was to have been married one evening last week to a most estimable young lady. Th; guests assembled, and the bride was in readiness, but the groom did not make his appearance. The following morning a friend of the delinquent went to his room to ascertain the cause of his strange behavior, when, without saying a word in explanation, Flint, drew a revolver and shot himself through the heart. His friends can tind no satisfactory exnlaii.-ition of his singular conduct. John (i. Khone, a respected citien of Wilkesbaire, Pa., hot himself in the head on the grave of his wife, who died about a jear and a half ago. Mrs. Conklin, aged L'l years, and married live weeks ago, drowned herself in the Des Moines Liver, in Marion County, Iowa. Cause unknown. John D. Signian, a prominent business man of La-ton, Pa., committed suicide at his store by discharging the contents of two barrels of a revolver into his head. Pusiness troubles led to the commission of the act. John F. Anthony, of Richmond, Ya., committed suicide by hanging himself to the bannisters of his own house. He had been recently discharged from the lunatic asylum, and it is supposed he had a return of the malady. The rope used was made by himself before being sent to the asylum. It was made of ordinary lamp-wick, ingeniously plaited. and had remained co.iccalcd during his confinement. l'orrlit otr. Mr. K. (J. Haliburton, of Nova Scotia, a son of the late Judge Haliburton (Sam Slick), was lately entertained at a public dinner in London. LMward Jenkins, the author of "(Jinx's Itabv." occupied the chair. Among the toasts prop ised Wilbraha I was one by (Jen. Sir Kichard am to " The Memory of Sain Slick." ( Jaribaldi, it is said, will soon resign ids neat in the Italian Parliament, lie recently sent a letter to his constituents expressing hi regret at being no longer useful to them, and stating that declining health unfitted him to discharge the duties devolving upon their representative. He intend to return to his homo in Caprcra, from which ho has been absent about a year. The newspaper correspondents w ho accompanied the Prince of Wales on his Indian journey have been made very proud by receiving from the Prince a small gold medal, which they are wear ing on their watcb-chains. I'he Prince whs very much gratified by the manner 1 in which tho correspondents reported the incidents of his journey, and betook this way of expressing his approbation ol tlieir labors. A wealthy, untitled Englishman is a suitor for tho hand of the Marquis of lime's sister, and he attended the ball given to the Prince of Wales by the iSritiah Minister in Madrid. The Prince does not approve the matrimonial choice of his brother-in-law's sister, and expressed his dissatisfaction at see ing the young man at the ball. I'he Minister asreitained that tho objectionable guest had not been formally invited, and ordered him to leave. The Kussian ceremony of saluting every one, upon Easter with the sentence Christ is risen" and a kiss, was enrricd out with much pomp by tho Emperor and his court. Precisely at midnight, the hour being announced by cannon, the Czar, his family, and all the court dignitaries, together with the chief officers of the army and navy, went in a procession to the Church adjoining the Winter Palace. Here, at a certain stage of the ceremonies, the Czar gave three kisses each to the State dignitaries, the (Jeneral, aides-de-camp, and the commanding officers of the guard. Mass was the celebrated, and the company dispersed.

' for Ilea I O.ldaaiul i:nl. "It In nut alwuyn May," Was one it piM't'a plaint; I'm not a tirl, aim I lay, "J in Jolly k''I it ain't." I'rptttlion there a Yank ho mean, mi email, VVIm nt'Vr nays, VV all, ikmivv, by gnui, I reckon, aim e old A'l.iin' lull, There' never if row n on Vrc bull A nation no all llreil tall A HeOiiLcmiial V an keel I'" lUntun (Unlit.

'Altai 11 Allah! Sacred In tradition!" Kxclanniil ih Hiilinu in liia nw oaition; Then uilli a Hiring they choked Ida luedt'iu-Baor; And Momad muled and knighted llio truunKrchimr, While iroiu Uio palace went the word "'TU lunny How AIhIuI A.U Khan beMiilled his money) l.aol nilit hi; kied Ins iiiullitudinoua vwlo And then tlic rcixaura anijined Uim tlirtad of life!" 'Oh I could I aland where Adam ftood, Aiel w ith the Teuiler (rrupile, Not salan'a wilea nor woman rimles ould make lue bite that apple. " Kxtltnnyt, 1'shawl were thatfrirl ronoitrned to you, To rrced you'd aarrillce ber; Vou'il rat the whole and loae your aoul. Von reckliHi gormandizer. lioekrtttr I 'num. Jane Jeruftha is married, they nay; She hat wedded a very preciac man; Ho the rryalalized oxynen heave, And the thinks be la "O.auch an Iceman!" There' Belinda, U, bluhinf a bride; she ha wedded a only tlx; wine, can; Kor the KriMiin l a learned K'-oxnoct, "And 0,"bay Jlclincl, "he'a a Kncia man!" l.uiiiix iUt t'ourirr-Juuriuil. There wasa man, he had a clock; Hi name was Matthew Miar; VV hicli he wound it regular every night tor aluioft twenty yearn. t'ritil lit Icnfrtli his favorite clock An eixlit day proved lie, And a nia-blcr man than Mr. Mcars )ou necdu't exe t toneel At midniirht a the Turk aerencly slept, Slept III the palace ot the Ti hcraKan Thev pinked him with a earviiiit-knife or two. And no he died, thin Abdul A.u Kalin. I ied h Muntipha died, an 1 Sm-IIih III., Without one lovul Ihwhii heaving rVr him; I'p town r I lae (,'rewctil turned lux 1 urkinh loen. And Icll live boul-loadn of lair women to deplore .linn. A IV t Dog's Madness. One evening recently, sajs tho IJaltiniore t , great excitement was created at the residence of Mr. Charles XV. Poo, to Jackson Square. While one of Mr. llooz's children was nlavim with ; a pet dog, tho animal suddenly jumped iroiu nor lap and ran around the room with almost lightning velocity. The family,' noticing that the dog was frothing at the mouth, made their escape by mounting the tables, sideboard-", and other furniture in the apartment. The brute, after many vain attempts to bite those in the room", rushed through every room in the building, after which it returned to the sitting room, where, in its fury, it snapped at the legs of the ciiairs and tallies anM tore the carpets rnrtunately at this juncture Mr. Pooz, who is a shipbuilder, doing business on Thames Street, returned home to dinner. As he neared his dwelling his attention was attracted by the screams of the inmates. Thinking that the house was on fire, Mr. Itooz, without waiting to takeout his night-key, bursted tlier door in. When he reached the dining-room the dog sprang upon him, und a desperate battle took place. After some moments of hard lighting, Mr. Pooz managed by the use of his walking-stick, to beat the dog into the yard in tho rear of the house, and from thencj into a shed, the door of which he securely fastened. The animal barked and howled for nearly an hour, after which all was silent. I'pon cautiously reopening the door, Mr. Ilooz found that the dog in hi- rabid fury had chewed the tongue out of its he-.d, causing it to bleed to death. Mr. r .oz declares that it is almost a mysuivhowthe family escaped the dog's teeth. KeniaiLable Properties of the Cora Plant. A new nlant, much used in Peru, and successfully employed by Weston during his walks, has been "tested by the veteran pharmacologist of Edinburgh, Professor Christ Lson. Cuca, as it was called by the Indians, was corrupted by the Spaniards into coca. Professor Christ isnn proposes to restore the original name. He first tried its effects upon some medical stndciits, and lhenuon himself. He started by walking 15 miles after breakfast in four stages with out tin ud oi cuca. At the close of the walk a pretty heavy one for a man. of 7H his pulse was raised from 62 to 110, and no was totally unfitted for mental exertion. Four days later, under the influence of the new drug, he not only walked the distance without any fatigue, but his pulse stood only at '.hi and fell in two hours to 72. The results of the cxjieriment proved that the chewing of cuca removes extreme fatigue and prevents it, and that no injury whatever is sustained. It has no effects upon the mental faculties, but acts diredly ujKn the tissues and sustains tho strength of the heart's action. A Cure for Corns. Take a lemon and roll it until soft; cut a thick slice and bind it on the corn on retiring at night. In the morning, if the corn is white and disintegrated pull it out with your linger nails never cut a corn. Sometimes several applications of tho lemon slices w ill bo necessary, but the corns are bound to succumb, and you can dance tho next night if you like. Afteryou remove the corns wear shoes that tit and are not too still' in the soles. Cocnanut ViuUUwj. To the trrated meat of a coeoanut take (i eggs, G largo spoonfuls of sugar, i teacupful of butter and a little soda. Line a dish with puff paste nnd fill with tho mixture. Pake in a quick oven.

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I. Her fioin the lion. I rank lllril. if 'I"""' hiiaHla.fo Hie lion. Ill hat, Allrtt Ilr Itaira X Itrllrvtt 'I liwt Itrrorm la !. Ililr Will, in Hie Itrpu lll an I'aily, i and Will 'I lirrrfoi r Huiiiiort I I-um- I rallr 1 It krl. I v.ii jiii .Alien, i. uriiiiiraiiie. Andrew. Mini lier, WlUon, Howe, IColiiisiHi all now irone to tlieir reward -were it leaders. Of the llvliiL'. I'alfrey, Ad.iln. Whittb r, eo. operated with this noble array f martrr bearing the Republican banner without fear and witbout reproach. n broader field. Lincoln. Chase, heward, Trumbull, Scherz, led the Republican fnreen frni one triumph to another In the battle for human rijfhtn. t'nder niich leader It was an honor tonervp. ln by one, ino-t of these great in n fell bv th way, and all who survive have been excluded from the councils of the party whl-h they formed and to which they KHve'the Inspiration of ideas. And nowwho for years huvr) been the recognized leaders of the Republican party ? irant, Cameron, Morton, Conklinir. hon, Itlaine. 'IxkiW first upon that picture and then on this." and tell me how, for yearn past, I could fail to pray, Iraw me out of thin crowd?" NO SHOW FOR AN IMK-KMKNT MOVKMK.NT. Since the melancholy failure of 1872, any attempt to renew the effort neems well-nij;h hopeless. The fatal defect In ttii.t movement was, that it wan started and tarried out an an attempt to create a new lb-publican party. In purpose, mi mainlv to prevent the renomiuatioii of (irant.and it would have fallen to pioee, as its leader designed Itsnould, had the atiou;il Kepulilican Convention noiniiiNted a candidate who represented the traditi"Wis and ideas of the b'e. publican party. Hut It failed to provide for the contingency of i rant's r -nomination. Inassuniiii' the name of Liberal Ktmiljlican. it count expect no large levession of numbers other than Ib-publicim; c.peeijllv when it pi need at the head nf its ticket one", than whom hardly a Republican In the country wan more obnoxious to the Democratic musses. I saw then the mi-take involved in the name of t be party adopted bv the Convention, and I labored eaniostlv with the men who had the ear of tho Convent ien to secure the adoption of a name which should truly represent the real purpose of the honest masns of the country; ami th it was, the party of .National Reform. That woii'd have been a name to conjure with, and one which would tint have repelled the Demoeratie inasK's. w it bout w bo.e alliance sucvs was hopeless. Other counsel lrcfailed. No SHOW Kilt I'.KKOKM WITHIN' THK r.Vlt I V. Admit that the Republican candidate who, to-day, repreenta specially purity and reform, shall ! nominated at Cincinnati and elected, lie jfocn into ottiee under the necessity of taking counsel of th! men who have fleeted him. Among these undoubtedly would tie many ef the purest men of the Republican party f the olden time; hut among them, too, must be the men w ho have degraded the Republican party and dishonored the country. The men who banished Sumner and (Jreelev, Trumbull ami s, hurz front the councils 'of the rirtr oust sun iki recovnizeu a tupport) r or the Administration, and an entitled to a voice in Its policy. They are in the Senate, and control its action. They till all th' important ortVet of the country. Will a Kepubllcan Administration turn them on'.? Kighty thousand licpublican onice-hold-rs are eating out the substance of t he people. Here and there one has been detected in his nefarious j.rmt ice hardly n in1iiiteimal fraction of the whole. Will a Republican Administration call its devoteen to account for pract lor learned from their superiors? The Republican prea nf the country, with a few honorable exceptions, in controlled by rucs or their apologists. THK ONLY CIIANCK. N! Xn! There is but one way of salvation for the Republican paly, ki.d that is through the purgation of defeat. The spoils once out of their grasp, the corrupt men who ratted" from Uie IirniiK-ratic p-irtv Into the Republican would insi inctivelv f.dlow the scent of public plunder, and rat back into the Democratic party, and the Republican party, released of its incubus, with im men of ideas at the front, would again deserve the confidence of the coiin'rv. I b's is a consummation devoutly to be wihed. Most of my dearest friends' are still in the Republican party, endeared through many years nf association, by tiond nf -oimnon faith and mutual trut. ' 1 mean to keep the right to love them still. 'Hand in hand we stood around the Administration of Andrew. and felt his ewn great arm lean on us fur . . ,, i. .. .... subjoin. i me in i lie nmiouMing auranct that they, will soon It-am that patriotIsm and virtue did not die when the lb-publican party committed suicide, ami that we shall yet come together In the trials and triumphs of the future, and wonder we ever separated. i.kt vs nr. ritvcTicvi.! What then remain? The Democratic party. Do vou belong to the Democratic arty?" o: I shall never again "beong" to any party, but I am ready to co operate with any party or with any men, who, in my judgment, lu st promise to destroy the jHiwer which now curses the country. I know full well how great in the optilar distrust of the Democratic party, have taken some small share in creating that distrust when it was well founded: I loyed my country and I biited it." Hut now old things have passed sway. When we are abletovote in the millennium, we w ill welcome the ideal party. Till then, we must aim at practical methods and practical results. I do not like to be forced to a hoiee of evil, but 1 see dearly that, until one party or theothernoniluaten an ideal candidate, we mut chooMe between thon w ho are presented, or ' 'taketo the woods. ' HFTTKIt 1HK WORST IKM( KTtAT TIMS THK ItKSI KK.IM'lll.n VN. Can we trust the Democratic party? In lMs, our Southern Whig friends, in Justifying themselves for supporting the Whig ticket with Wen. Taylor at the head, used to ay, "The Southern man who in farthest from us is nearer to tm than an v Northern man can be." It is my profound conviction that the worst Democrat whose nomination at St. Louis is jio-sible is safer for the country than the best Republican w hose nomination ia possible at Cincinnati. The lnierative, the solemn, need of the country is a change of the National Administration. A new M-t of books mut be opened at Washington. Kvery department of Government, from the White House to theCmitOTn-houc, mnt be purliied; the accounts of so.uoo otHcc-holdcrs mut be examined. I have no fear that, while this process of scrutiiiT I going on, any new set of nthec -holders can organize a system of peculation and corruption like that which Is now in full blat. Kven if the incoming Administration should follow in the footstep of its predecessor, 1 J think 1 know that in four entire vears it , could Dot i ntrench itself in otllee an the Re- I publican party has done in almost 10 vears of undisputed power; and that in lsso the country w ould repudiate the servants who! should prove false to their trusts, and would ; reinstate a Republican party redeemed, re- J generated and disenthralled'

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LN o.N I I slOX. I In tbe dark and troubled ii,t that ia tmon ii, I ceo but one htarof hp the. uiiltcd liemocrutic i-arty of the United Mat en. ('ontidrhce, am awarr. Is a plant o alow grow th. Distru-t of the I(-niocrat-I'1 artv i, 1 doubt not, lioncMly eiitertained by the beat portion of the Id-publican

of pui gation and punishment have had their e fleet in purifying the Democratic, party In 1 rhapn ns great degree as J; years of power have corrupted and dinease.t "the .Republican party. I want to vote for a candidate w ho has not only shown the courage to light the thieves of his own party, but who will not be elected and surrounded by the same pang of thieves and theirapologis'ts. Mr. krr' fuse. From the N. V. Kvcniiitr I'ost Itepnbliran. The statement which Mr. Kerr made on Monday of his connection with the appointment of tircene to be a lieutenant in the army, and of the circtiiiistaueen attending the charge of corruption brought against him, was apparently a perfectly frank, straightforward Hnd satisfactory one. Kin explanation of bin course in appointing (ireene instead of some person from his own district wan full and complete, and we may say in a word that Mr. herr ban answered the questions which, a the A'reni? l't some time ago explained, i wan incumbent upon him to answer This reduces the w hole matter to a jtietioii of veracity between Mr. Kerr on the one hand and the man Harney on the other, and the question of veracity In such a cane Is eimply no question at ull. Iltriiev. by hi own ac count nf himself, was a broker of bribes in the public service Mr. Kerr, on the oth r hand, ha lived in the sight of the public for vears, and that so uprightly that no breath slander has until now attainted Ids renutslion. Mis word hs been good In Washington on any subject for yearn, and it is good now against better w itnesses tliiiii Harney can pretend to be. When wend 1 that if arm-', story was, and i, intrinsically Improvable, and that it is contradicted by the whole history of Mr. Ktrr's life, and hy that gentleman'' a present lack of wealth, it seems scarcely necessary for the committee to report verdict which has been anticipated by everv thinking man in the country. We aie glad to believe, however, and the fact Is worthy of notice, tint lio n of 'J shades nf political oj.inion have desired the Speaker's complete vindication and w ill rejoice in It. Kvcn in our licivest political animosities the American people do not forget the public worth of a ")od man. character; and while the temper of the time is merciless to w rong -doern, the fastening of a stain upon the reputation of Mr. Kerr would hav e been deemed a pub-in-i-aiauiiiy,io oeniourncii.iiot rejoiced over. From the X. V. Tribune Republican. J Harney ' testimony againt speaker Kerr bad from the !irt no bai. except Harney's word; it wan opposed to nearly all reasonable probabilities, and flatly contradicted bvthe Speaker hinwlf. An exposure of Harney 'n life and character now discredits him as a witness. F rom other sources there comes circumstantial evidence that he pock, eted the mh. v lie received from (ireene. In addition to'all this, Mr. Kerr give a minute and satisfactory account of the circumstances under which be advised the ireeiie appointment. That scandal in wiped out. Dosing a Death-Set ktner Darlj. A seedy-bKjkin negro, with a pad countenance, called at the ollice of a prominent Vet-Knd physician vesterday niorninir, ami submitted a desperate case. Said he : "Doctor, I want to die. (Jive me. something to kill me." 41 Yes, yes, all ripht," suid tho physician. " Where do you live?" "I live on Thirteenth Street, near Crayson," said the dejected darky. Whatdo you want to die for?' asked the doctor, with :i serious face. " l.ec-a-ie, doctor, I'm tired o' livin In this world of trouble, an' want to go home to glry. " Well, ahem!" hesitated the phvsician, "I am willing; to d it, but I'm afraid you haven't ot religion." 'Hain't got 'ligi. n !" ejaculated tho nrgro, with n look of glory- lighting np his eyes. "Dies de bird," said he, clapping his hands, I'se beenaltaptis dese twenty years; jined de church an' 'as baptised when l't,u a l.y. If dats all you aro afeard on, give iiede pizen and let dis poor troubled negro's soul goon home to heaven." "Oh, well, all rig-tit, if you've pot religion," answered the din-tor, nnd he sought among his phials forthefutal dose. Three grains of ipecac and two drops of crot on oil were mixed in a tumbler w ith a gill of whisky, and handed to the negro. "Now," said the doctor solemnly, drink this, and in one hour you will be a dead negro, sure." A gleam of gladness lit up the old neproe'.s ere as he took the glass in his hand, nnd with an expression of cool determination he placed the glass to bis lips nnd drank down the potion. Then taking the physiciau by the hand he said : "ttond-bye, doctor; God bless you, I'll meet yon in Heaven." The troubled old soul then walked out of tho office and made rapid strides for his home, epe ting in a few moments to bo with 'them bright and shining: angels;" bnt things didn't work satisfactorily, though they worked well. Uncle Neil was not only alive last night, but was in a very vigorous and active state of animation, with his dream of glory vanished. Louisville Courier-Journal. Statistics of l otton Planting. The Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche makes tho following comparative estimate of the amount of land which has t his year born devoted to cotton-planting in the Southern Mates: Acrtii i;i. .. Sll.ns) .'. P..,'. i i . Armor ls.'ft. s a,iii .V S-IMI t.T-.'"l.'i l!l li'Mi l.Kil ,ctu 1. 31 o, on l.'.'O ,IMl m-;,ui 4 IV, (Ml Stntr. is:. s;i,oeo A7 ni I ,r.nt l,4'.!,"1 I .(uVi.m-O J ,:ts -,,IMKI 1 ."J'-o.tnsi 4.".,0U'l 2.'.;,ooa Arkansas Tennessee ... . Mississippi... Ahibnnia ..... Louisiana I c v lieoinia s. iirolma.., N . ( arolmu. .. r'lorid Mii cilaneiuin 1 .o.non l.VT.ono '.'.'l.i'OO 1 , H it, INI I 1,.'T1.ii 41.1, (SMI V !, Total S.'Vki.iKSl !,4'-.Vl V.ZU.HQ

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