The Corner Stone, Volume 5, Number 49, College Corner, Union County, 6 December 1876 — Page 1

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The suffrage-women claim that at the recent election iu Massachusetts fifteen thousand votes were recorded for w oman suffrage and prohibition an increase of fifty percent, over last year. One of the piers of the railroad bridge at Louisiana, Mo., having been undermined by the current, went down a few days ago with a crash, without any j warning, taking two long pans of the ; bridge with it. By good luck there was j no one on the falling section at the time, j and the only loss occasioned by the j casualty wras that of the property i tacit", j amounting to some two hundred thou- i sand dollars. j 'riiEVirginiaConferer.ee of theMetho- : dist Episcopal Church 8outh, unani- ; mously approved of the results of the meeting between the Commissioners of i the Methodist Episcopal Church North, ; and the Metbodiat Episcopal Church South, held at Cape May, last August, j and passed the following: He-solved, j That we regard the action of the Com- j missioners as an authoritative and final I settlement of the question in issue, and ; binding upon all ministers and members of the two churches. j Some idea may be gained of the extent of the flower trade from the statement made by Mr. W. C. Wilson, of New York City, who says that during the past twenty-five years he has cut 1,800,000 violets, 1,760,000 tea-roses, 1.450,000 tube-roses, and has made 912.000 buttonhole bouquets. Mr. Wilson furnished the large cross at the funeral of A. T. Stewart, which cost 900; the flowers at Tweed's daughter's wedding cost 7,500, the floral marriage-bell of four thousand six hundred flowers cost 1,600, and the Americus Club display cost 12,000. Cardinal Antohei li's colossal for- j tune will, it is said, be divided equally I among his brothers, Count Angela f Antonelli, and three other members of : his family, and he Las left his valuable j and unique collection of precious stones I .nd rare marbles to the Vatican Museum. lie inherited much wealth from two i uncles. His salary as Cardinal Secretary j of State was, it is reported, only $2 500. j It is mentioned as one of his admirable traits that, even when most overwhelmed ! with business and the cares of state, he j never omitted for one single day to visit i hi? mother, for whom he entertained the most filial affection. j Attar of roses was discovered by accident. The wife of an Eastern mogul ha d a small canal of rose-water, and as she was walking one day upon its banks, she. noticed a thin film upon the water, which proved to be an oil made by the heat of the sun. The Egyptians were very famous in the manufacture of perfumes, and at the museum in Alnwick there is some ointment preserved in an alabaster vase which still has a very powerful odor, notwithstanding it must be between two or three thousand years old. The word hermit comes from a Greek word meaning a desert place, because deserts were generally sought in order to avoid persecution. A large number of Roman coins have recently been found in England near the old Roman wall on the North Tyne. A treasure chamber containing many altars and thousands of coins has been unearthed. On the borders of Derbyshire and Notts a similar discovery was made a fortnight ago. Workmen who were digging a trench near a brewery laid bare a large earthenware vase of Roman workmanship, buried about two feet below the surface. It was found to be nearly full of copper coins probably two hundred or three hundred in number. Many of them are in tolerable good preservation, and the majority are coins of the reigns of Tetricus, Victorious, Claudius and Gallienus. Ojr trade with Japan increases fast. The Japanese people are inventive. When they buy our fabrics they set about improving them, and their genius is displayed in many such innovations. When our Government sent Commodore Perry to break the exclusivenesa of Japan, we sent among other presents a case of Sharpens rifles. Two years later the Japanese Government sent to us ieturn presents. Among them was what ap peared to be the identical box of Sharpe's rifles. The box bore exact resemblance, and the rifles the same, even to the name of Sharpe engraved upon them. Our Government supposed this to be evidence of disapproval, for inspectors pronounced them to be the same rifles returned. Sharpe was pent for at Philadelphia. The first sharp survey revealed to him a certain improvement which had baffled his inventive genius, and which V;e had given up as impractical. It saved one extra movement in breech-loading, and Sharp immediately adopted it.

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BY ROSK TERRY COOKE. A wouder-worfcer all night long Has wrought his task for me ; Sow, by the cold and distant dawD His miracles I see ; His grarings on the window-pane Of magic tracery. Here lifts an Alpine summit, steep As is the heavenly stair, A way-side cross below the path But not a pilgrim there; No sad face of humanity, No agony of prayer. A ad here, before a lonely lake, A friugo of reeds and fern ; Across the water's crystal chill No dying sunsets bum. You hear not on that rushy shore The call of drake or tern. Here lies a crowd of broken boughs, A windfall in the woods ; Some wild and wandering hurricane Hath wrecked these solitudes ; But o.i that tangled dreariness No living ttep intrudes. And here is Arctic waste and woe A glacier's mighty face, Majestic in its awful inarch, Slow seaward from its place. Beueath that frown of solemn death There lires no human trace. But slowly from the joyful East Ascends the dawning sun ; Before his look of light and life The magie is undone ; The graceful pictures on the pane All vanish, one by one. Alas ! must all the songs I sing, The traceries of my brain, The little stories sad and glad, Be uttered all iu vain ? And vanish when the Master comes, Like pictures on the pane ? Or will they, in some kindly heart Keruenibered, sing and shine. For wrought from man's humanity Not fleeting frost, are mine; 1 love not to be quite forgot ; To die and leave no sign. Si i ibner for December. IUTTY MjAXJE'B UING. Ther was to be a party Christmas night at Mr. Dillon's, and the young folks of Dillon's Prairie were in a state of most delightful expectation ; not that a party was an uncommon event, but this was to be the party of the season ; in addition to it s being Christmas night, it was to be a grand affair ; there were no lews than twenty couples invited, every one of whom would be sure to attend, and the first snow of the seasonhad just fallen and they were going in sleds. Kitty Lane's mind had been in a turmoil ail day. The trouble was she couldn't decide whether to go to the party or not. Of covirse she couldn't think of missing this the grandest party of the season ; but she had reasons for not going; she felt sure that Charlie Doles was angry at her, and she knew very well that the greater part of his happiness would depend on her being there, and she wanted bini to know it ; finally, she concluded she would go, and would act in such a manner that Charlie would feel this much more forcibly than he would by her staying away. Were they engaged ? you ask. No. but Kitty knew very well that it was only Charlie's bashfulness that prevented them from being so ; and she knew, too, that it was jealousy that made him angry now, for she had gone with the school teacher to the last party, and to spelling school with him a few nights afterward, and both evenings Charlie ,had looked " cross enough to bite her head off," a9 she had expressed it to her confidential friend, Annie Stafford. "And now I suppose," she said to herself, " he thinks I'll be foolish enough to bother myself about his ill humor. Hum 1 as if I cared anything for him ! I do hope Mr. Tiles will ccnie for me to-morrow night" And all the while she knew very well that she was bothering hersslf about his ill humor, and that she would much rather he would come for her than any one else, even Mr. Tiles. Kity Lane was the belle of Dillon's Prairie ; she was the prettiest, the smartest and richest girl there. Therefore to be able to go with her was an honor to which all the youths of that vicinity aspired. On the night of the party Kitty was the gayest of the gay ; she was the life of the party; gay, witty, and sparkling, she was the admiration of every one. Mr. Tiles, the school teacher, a man " slick of hair, and sleek of tongue" who was regarded by the young ladies of Dillon's Prairie in aboufthe same light as that in which the gentlemen regarded Kitty was her escort. Charlie had taken Annie Stafford, but looked gloomy all the evening. Annie, a mischievous creature, rallied him on his gloomy looks, but to no effect; and hnafly, when she had vainly exerted all of her fascinations to draw out his conversational powers, deserted him for some one who could talk faster. Whenever, in the progress of the plays, Charlie and Kitty were brought near each other, he was rather abrupt in his treatment of her, but she was as generous as could be. Near the close of the party, as they were playing a certain game'known as "good-evening," Charlie had bem installed as door-keeper ; he had admitted

but one couple, Kittv and Mr. Tiles, t

when, for some reason, the door had been closed for a few moments ; on opening it to admit another couple, he saw Mr. Tiles slipping a ring on Kitty's finger ; this was the la t drop in his cup of sorrow ; he was certain it was an engagement ring; he had not noticed it on her finger before. "It is better as it is," he said to himself, bitterly. " I am glad I found out her character before I bad committed myself. John Tiles, you are welcome to her as far as I am concerned ; but if you don't rue your bargain before you are through with it count me a false prophet." If he had known that the ring was a Christmas gift from her father, and that Mr. Tiles had only taken it off her finger a moment before to look at it, he might, have saved himself much exquisite misery, for just before this he had been thinking that he acted like a fool, and that he would go to Kitty and apologize lor having treated her so rudely, and if she forgave him he would say something else not necessary to repeat here, since it does not concern either you or me, or my story ; but the sight of "that ring awoke the bitterness again. The next mormng Mrs. Dale, " the newspaper of the neighborhood," as she was called, called at Mr. Lane's, ostensibly to take Mrs. Lane "a new receipt for makin' mince pies," but really to see if she couldn't find out something about Kitty and Mr. Tiles that would be satisfactory ; ehe had heard a great deal, but to use a favorite expression of hers, " nobody knows how much of hearsay's so." As soon as she had taken off her shawl, although she declared that she "hadn't time to stop a minute," she began with : " Well, Kitty, had a right nice time last night, didn't you ? My Lizzie said everybody 'peared to enjoy themselves first rate, unless it was Charlie Doles, and he didn't seem to enjoy himself at all. He always seemed to think so much of you, Kitty, and I feel rale sorry for him; it'll be such a disappointment to him when you marry that schoolteacher." " Why, Mrs. Dale," said Kitty, " 1 am not going to marry Mr. Tiles." " Ain't you?" said Mrs. Dale. " Well, j now, that does beat everything; but I'm rale glad of it, though I guess he's good enough ; leastways, I never heard anything wrong about him, bat then, you see, I always took an interest in Charlie, and 1 do think, Kitty, that you treated him kind o' mean." That afternoon Annie Stafford came over with some news. Charlie had gone nobody knew where. " And it's so," said Annie, " for Brother Jim was over in town this morning, and he saw him get on the train, and his uncle was at our house a little while ago, and he said he didn't know where he had gone, but it is away off somewhere. But, Kitty, I advise you not to cry your eyes out about it, for anybody that would get mad about such a foolish thing as he did, isn't worth a snap, especially when you can get as handsome a fellow as Mr. Tiles by just saying so." "No," said Kitty, trying hard to smile, " I don't think I'll break my heart about him." Nevertheless, that very night Kitty cried herself to sleep, and chided herself till one would have thought her guilty of some horrible crime. The months wore away, and no news of Charlie came, except now and then a letter to his uncle, directing something about hia affairs. And finally, too, the ache grew out of Kitty's heart, and she said to herself, " I was no more to blame than he was," and a little later, "He was foolish to take offense at such a little thing as that." Fwo years later she yielded to Mr. Tiles's entreaties and became his wife. Perhaps she was fickle ; doubtless you, and I, too, reader, would have preferred to have her remain true to Charlie, but as a conscientious writer of the history of Dillon's Prairie, I am bound to record the fact that she married Mr. Tiles. Ten years passed away, and in that time Kitty's husband had died. One day a stranger came to Dillon's Prairie; a tall, heavy-set man, with sun-browned face and heavy beard, giving hia name as John Sanderson. No one knew who he was, whence he came, where he was going, or his business there, although there were many speculations in regard to each of these. One day, a few days after his arrival, as Kitty was sitting in her house, busily engaged in sewing, and now and thn casting a look out where her little three-year old was playing, a stranger came to the door and asked for a drink. Kitty recognized him as Mr. Sanderson, and placed a chair for him just within the door, while she went to get the water. He began to talk of the people there, and of the changes which had taken place pince he left there. INDIANA

have been here before," said Kitty. "Yes," Faid the stranger; in fact I used to live here." Kitlylooked athim sharply a moment, j and then the simple word " Charlie," j escaped her lips, j "Yes," said the stranger, rising, and j taking her hand, "I am Charlie; and Kitty, I have come back for you ; will ! you marry me now f j And Kitty? Why, of course, she j laid her head on his broad shoulder and cried, and said she would. What else 1 would you have had her do, pray ? How ttViitma ri Ainmtetl Mitt Xeiulbors Mff Fourteen Smali .. New Orleans Bulletin. Whitmarsh's next-door neighbor is the owner of a very fine hog, an remarkably large si.e, a sharp-backed, long-nced specimen. When Whitrnarsh came home yesterday afternoon, he found this hog in his garden, surveying with great complacency the ruin of what was once a fine garden. Some men would have killed the hog then and there, but Whit marsh restrained himself, and started to drive the brute quietly out; but the hog, instead of permitting hhnelfto be driven out, showed fight, and when Whitmarsh kicked at him he seized the foot in his mouth, which made Whitmarsh lose his balance and fall backward over a wire flower-stand. He got a little angry at this, and his anger was increased by seeing several of the neighbors looking at him from their windows. Seeing a hoe handle lying on the ground, Whitmarsh picked it up and renewed" the-assault. The hog retreated to a corner of the fence and stood at bay, and when Whitmarsh advanced on him with the intention of whacking him with the stick, he made a rush beween Whitmarsh's legs, which flew from under him, and sat him on the hog's back facing backward. Whitmarsh, with great presence of mind, dug his heels iu the hog's sides, and leaning forward secured a good grip on the hog's tail, a position often s( en in the circus when the volunteer . attempt to ride the trick-mules. But this positiou could not be -maintained even by so agile a man as Whitmarsh, and the hog making a sudden plunge, Whitmarsh doubled up over hij tail end somewhat after the manner in which a toy monkey goes over the end of a stick. Whitmarsn held on to the tail, however, and the hog dragged him around in the yard, rolling him in the dirt in the most reckless way, amid the laughter of the neighbors, and to the intense de light of fourteen small boys, who, perched on the back fence, were heartily cheering the performance. Then the hog took to running through bushes, some of which hod large thorns on them, hoping to drag Whitmarsh off from his tail, squealing horribly all the time; but Whitmarsh still held on, determined to die right there, rather than let go. Finally the hog dashed into a large pile of decayed tomatoes.. andWhitmarsh, forgettinghimself for a moment, put his hands up to his face to prevent its being smeared with the odorous mess. In doing this he let go his grip on the hog's tail, and that animal, leaving him iu the tomato heap, disappeared through a hole in the fence with a farewell squeal of triumph. Whitmarsh picked himself up and went into the house, and when he came out of the bathroom two hours later, he remarked, with suppressed emotion, that he nowhad but one object in life, and that was to be the supreme owner and governor of a small State, and to see some enterprising genius undertake to bring a hog into it. He said that after disposing of that case he could die happy. Rome correspondence of the New York Times: The Pontiff before long is to have a visit from the ex-Empress Eugenie, who, with the Prince, her son, is at present in Florence. They are to pass the winter near Naples, where a villa for their accommodation has already been taken. By the presence here of the widow of Louis Napoleon the Italians are reminded of the help rendered to them when that adventurous man, in the flood-tide of hia prosperity, was at the head of France and the "Arbiter of Europe." The sentiment of gratitude has not died out. Napoleon III did for Italy more than he intended. Under Providence, the movement to which the war of 1859 gave the first impulse went on until the unity of the country under the King and not under the Pope, aa the Emperor intended was brought about. In the changes still possible in France, few here believe that an offshoot of the imperial stock will never come to power there as the head of the State. If the Republic should assume once more the imperial form, it may be that the grand-children of the sovereign of Italy, by their Jerome and Clotilda origin, will have as good an opportunity as the socalled Imperial Prince. But such possible issues must be left to the chances of time. STATE LIBRARY

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A JShtttrer of JFtetth, i Charlotte N. C.i Observer. : A gentleman writing from Gastonia, North Carolina, under date of the 30th, gives an account of a truly wonderful occurrence. He states that a shower of flesh genuine, unmistakable flesh fell in sight of Ga-tonia, Gaston County, on the farm of Mr. James M. Hanna. The circumstances, as far as they can be gathered from the letter alluded to, and from the statement of Mr. G. W. Chalk, of this city, who visited the spot and heard the statements of thof-o who witnessed the phenomenon, are as follows; Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock, while Mr. M. Hanna and some of his lit tie grandchildren were picking cotton in a field near his house, they vere astonished at the sight of smali pieces of

continued lor aims time, and when it ceased it was discovered that the flesh was scattered over an area of about half an acre of ground. The pieces varied from half an ounce to an ounce in weight. In the words of our correspondent, "the ground was not covered, but the flesh fell like light hail." In appearance it is described as resembling beef, part of it being filled with small sinew, but in no piece were bones or fattt matter found. When it fell it had the appearance and odor of fresh meat, but pieces sjnt us for inspection are almost entirely odorksi, and resemble dried beef. It may be added that the weather was perfectly calm at the time of the shower, and that there has been no storm and no heavy wind in that section in several weeks. The occurrence created much excitement in the neighborhood, and our informant says that many persons visited the field and obtained pieces of the strange flesh. Several physicians ni the neighborhood secured portions ot it with a view of examination, but thus far the results of their investigations have not been reported. The specimen in our possession is about three quarters j of an inch in length and less than an ! inch in width. A Frenrli, tianibliwr Stovu. A curijus story comes from Pari?. .It is not so very long since a young man well dressed and apparently rich entered a clandestine gambling-house. He was playing at trente et uuarante, and had already won a little pile of gold. "Red wins," presently Mid the banker, and proceeded to hand over a hundred Napoleons to the unknown one, for the stakes were high. But the stranger made no attempt to take the gold, and returned no answer to three or four questions put to him in refereuee to the game. Ilia eyts remained fixed on the red, while his features assumed a ghastly paleness. A player touched his arm he was dead. Then the banker coldly withdrew the hundred Napoleons, observing that play was in the nature of a reciprocal contract, which could only be entered into between parties both of whom were capable of contracting, and therefore never between a live ma a and a dead one. The cause of death was heart disease, and the ofiiciel report was soon drawn up in proper form. It contained, as may be imagined, no sort of reference to a gambling-house. I'anaoliu. This curious animal, commonly known as the scaly ant-eater, is a native of the old world. It ha a long, pointed snout, has no teeth, but has a prehensile tongue, with which it catches its victims. The ant-eaters are found in various parts of Asia, and Africa, living in holes which they dig in the ground. The largest species is th short-tailed pangolin (mania pentadactyla, Linn., and is three to four feet in length, with five toes. Hence the specific name. The scales are deep brown in the adult animal, and hard enough to turn a musket ball. Another species, the long-tailed pangolin (m. teirrdac(yla), found in Guinea, has but four toes and a much flatter tail, which is nearly twice as long as its body. From their external covering and shape they resemble the scaly lizards more than they do the true mammals. RES owned as the Egyptian ladies are for the richness of their attire, they would regard it as highly indecorous to display upon the street the magnificence of their dress. When they go about the streets of Cairo on shopping expeditions, they cover themselves with a dismal robe of black. As a general rule, what ever they are compelled to exhibit to the pubile gaze is simplicity itself, white what they reserve for private inspection is gorgeous in the extreme. Tojetti's pathetic picture of Elaine is on exhibition in a Boston art gallery, and a visitor was discovered before it the other, day using her handkerchief frequently, and apparently deeply affected. A sympathetic woman on the same bench at last remarked that the subject was as painful as it wan beautiful. "La! t'aint that," replied the weeper; "I'm jut comin' down with the infiuenzy!"

BY SI.4KY AISliK OS VERB.

t-IJe the sen otie uaii-.r day Three merry children were'et.r-Iay. The great warm sun wis sinking low, The wave? were beating to and fro, An J Eilvery Elselis atJ psl-t'Ieswlilie Lay glittering ia the rosy light. Around the rocks, tike ribb-ens hticg. The pretty fricsisR sea-mess clans, And green jea-gras.s gently itrajred With t very throb the ripi: made ; And like a scow-fitlj, smooth and wide. The U.-. h flcptJ down to w.v.t the tide. Ah me I tliat hour vas parsing i(rt Afar from town aad crowded SLreet, To IiX' across the ocean's sparf, Aad feel the rough wiaJ en my fce ; To hear the ripj'Vs measured Kcg, The c-hiMrcn's -voices, f'.'e-h and strong, Half dTownir 00 the e;er brefie The old, old music of tk se ! M merry hearts! O voices g'.H'X ! Tiic aJ st3 is no lecgor sad. A charm is .'eat to rock and ware More fair than nature ever guv, The wliile your joyar.ee echoes to, And light jrouag (dotateps tout and go, IVar hnppT-Jjc-srtfeJ children tare. At I'.-iy Wsijf- tie summer sea. msiiti ax tiCMS!aitf. Is W place are two heads better than one? In a barret. ' Ax envious man repines as much at the manner ia which Lis neighbors live as if" he maintained theni. Pit way the little uniform, lay the torch upon the shelf, pay your election bets up promptly, you've a realizing sense how 'tis yourself. " My son," said an old man, " beware of prejudices ihey are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices creep in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out." Us raised his tniie and paused ! A gbasUr glare tlieaiaed from bis eyf i.ke wb1:es throagH a sbutu-r ! nt'.i-atj him, uiOT?les- in thai fixed, strange stare '. I shuddered 85 1 saw his lips set tiiere Evpresa the shrieks hia startled aoul would utter What saw he ? Kotaicg but a woman's hair 'T .is in tue butur. A fox which got into N. H. 31a son' 8 cider mill at Holhxton, New Hampshire, drank itself dead drutk and fell an easy victim, is the last thing to afford a solemn and impressive warning against the excessive u of app2e juice. 'Pare to do right." Don't steal cider. Wur.: you enter or leave a room or any place of business be careful to leave the door open ; there is nothing like ;nty of ventilation and besides there is no cotter way vy v uaj v-i. whether the owner or occupant is a gooa Christian or a profane monster. Rome uiiinel : The disturbance in a Floyd avenue house the ether day did net rl:e frora a dispute about the returns from Florida, as many supposed, but rew out of the fact that the mother of the family found her oldest son tampermg wita me tacreuiicM u pnu quinces. - - i i AN Luzhsuman writes ironi i Biiaaeiphia to the New York Tribune that " the base-ball clubs in this country may, comparatively speaking, be counted on one's fingers' ends.'' fie mti-t have, comparatively spc-akiBg, about three thousand fingers. Bl-biangton Jluck-Eyt : Ine mastery of a pure mind over human prejudices and never so well cxempuueu as iu the play of contending emotions that sweep over the face of & young lady sw. church when she looks on the same hymn-book with a man who has been eating onions. Bayard Taylor, in one of his recent letters, savs : When 1 was in luuy, eigm years ago, a rich American could pro cure a Barou son-m-iaw ny settling on him about twenty-five hundred dollars a Toe average value of a Count was five thousand dollars, but a Prince could not be had under ten thousand dollars a year, and even more was trouietimes demanded. FREEDOM. What art the,:. Freedom? Ob. rouldsIsTts Answer from their ItTicg graves This df mund, tyrauts would Ree Like a dxeatu'e dim imaery ! 1 boa art Justice- ne'er for gold May thy righteous lawa b sold, As laws are in England ; tbou Shieidett alike iigh aud low. Thou art Peace never I y thee Would blood and tr.-ir.if wasted he, tyrants wasted them when ail I g ued to quench thy flams in Gaul I Tbou art Love ; the rich have kissed Toy and like hita foliowiog Christ ,;von their substance to 1 free, And through the world have followed Shee iSETii Kin man, of Saa Frauchsco, hunter, trapper, and Presidential chairmaker, predated Mr. Buchanan, ia 1S56. with a chair made of elk-horns and hcofs in lSolhe sent Mr. Lincoln one just like it; and Mr. Johnson was favored with a chair made of grizzly skins and clawK. The Presidential chair of 1876 is like 31 r. Johnson's, but underneath the neat there is a ferocious looki c : . i. ;u . f - --r- t V means of a spring. The jaws cf the grizzly snap viciously, and then the head returns to its place cf concealment.