The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 June 1875 — Page 1

~ V" ■ '' j p PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor. L__L- *

VOLUME I.

* FKKSH TOPIC. A Chicago sign bears the following . legend : “Repeering, oplmtatering, var- : niaing, new furniture after order. . In bad manner and on the must rescmible terme cane chairs be mated. .< - There does not at prewnt seem to be a notable for military life in the ranks of our regular army. Accordiug to • recent report fr, ’ !H over 1.700 men have deserted within the last ten months, being a proportion of 1 in 14. It m stated by a New Ybrk i«per that the couple married in a balloon to ad vertiae Barnum’s show didn’t live to ! gether thtae weeks. He boxed her ears, he ahburn-haired bride broke his m«y>. I and the theory of the eastern current Is still unsolved. • _______ Lr is related that a Paris advocate n ■ centlv appeared at the Imr wearing his mustache, and the Preri* mt called his attention to the fact that mustaches were forbidden. •• Well,” said the advocate, “J never knew before that the sword of u«tiee was a razor..”• , j -”, - . Hmxht (’. SvHiATTOX, formerly Post master. at Mooreston, N. J., who was sentenced in the United Stab's District Court to pay a tine of $3,000 for unlawuliy detaining and opening letters, up peered before the United .Static Commisaiouer for that district, the other day-, and took the necessary obligation Unit he was not worth the required atuotnrt, and tbemfara Qouhi not pay it- - In ao-j corrtance with the act of IR7I in such caws, Stratton was thenf"!' - discharg'd. It is a striking comment on our Congmasional enactment* for tire benefit of the postal service, that after the Ist of July a newspaper can Im* sent from Brooklyn to Constantinople for two cents which would require four cents to carry it from Brooklyn to New York. Th. rate of jxjstagc on newspaper* sent abrtad after July I will be two cento mi pajiera that do not weigh more than four ounces, while at homo the rate is one cent oh every ounce. •_ ’, _. _ t a Cabritb, the Vineland editor, has so far recovered that he is now able to walk, and ho will doirbthwH resume his editorial labors before very long. An ounce of lead is sUll situated somewhere in his head, and its influence upon his lib rary style will be waighed with some interest, i His recovery will establish the fact that load tn Uh* brain of an editor » not tieces • aarily fatal, and hereafter when aggrieved individuals desire to areassinate editors - jfcUrey will remember the itory of Carruth, and, instead of foolishly shouting their L victims in the head, they will aim their avenging pistols at some vital part of the editorial frame. ‘ Tua, reports from the West do not ; confirm the apprehenidons which wenat first excited by the reappearance of the grasshop]»er pest. It now appeahi that the pests are not generally distnb uU*d over any considerable taction of territory, but are to be found' here and there only, with wide intervals untouched between their different hatching pteo* In many countu-s in Western iMissouri mid Eastern Kansas they have ravaged a few farmere only. In other counties a I few aisteuiis of land will be found to have suflepsd. Nowhere, it seems, have the ravages of the peeta extended over any whole county, and in only a very few cases lute general destruction of croi>a been visited upon any entire township. It appear* that the eggs wen* posited and the iaaecta batehtil out upon small tracts, randy ever more than a few aorvs in a place; tlrat tlm ywraig gnawihoi4* >ira » white wtngleaw, do not travel far from their ludching pUccvs and that as soon as their wings an* <lc veloi>cd they leave in a general easterly direction. Tita list of steamers which have ; . down by fire, or wreck, or cxplosirioe the beginning of the pnwent year m simply appalling. On an average, a steamer has been destroyed - every week since the Ist of January, involving an average tout* of forty Mvea* Heaa is the frightful catalogue: Jan. 4, a steamer blown np otr<h’' Tyne, 10 tost; Jan. IX steatnur sunk in the Bay of Biscay, 26 lost; Jan. 13, British steamer Bride, sunk, 20 lost; Jan. 14, steamer Altee, from Cardiff to Ghi atari tinopie, 20 lost; steamer Berar, from Odessa to Oardiff, 20 tori ; Jan. 20, steamer Thor- ; nabia, from CardflF toltombay, 29 lout; Jan. 22, steamer Mongal, near Hong Kong, 6 tost ; Jan. gar, from Aberdeen to Uslcintn, i&Rwt; Jan. 30, steamer Georgo Baltera, from * Portbeawl to Gibraltar, 21 lost ;Teb. 16, steamer Berlin, off the Jajaur M- coast, 30 hat; Feb. 26, steamer Hong Kong, from Loudon to Japan, 12 tost; steamer Vicksburg, at Fire Island, 1 tout; March 3, steamer Gottenberg, off the Australian coast, 166 kwt; March 12, ateunrer R B. Hart, at the foot of lafeiid No. 102, Misstasippi river, 16 tost; towboat R. A. j Babbage, near Cairo. 3 tost: March 16, steamer Witham J. Lewis, ta Chester, BL, 5 lost; March 25, steamer Ruby, in Pqge< Sound, 10 tout ;Miinhl6,steamer Lizrie Rea, on the NfiswismppU I tost; April 4, steamer Fu Sing, 80 tori ; April 21, three steamers burned nt Now Or lewna, 73 lost; Mgy 3, steamer St. Lake, at St. Lanta, > test; 7,j*tamer Schiller, off the Sally Iriamta, estimated 350 tost; May S, rtatamer Cadur, near ißreat, fifi teat; andVMay 13, sfcaxhet we. tawflaaA Oregon, Kauary there were 9 steamera and 166

V - ■ - - . • • ; ■■■■■■ *’W ■ >, r. •' r. t a* a The Syracuse Enterprise.

1 lives lost; in February, 3 steamers and 43 livre ; in March, 6 steamers and 201 i livre ;in April, 4 Mteana-reand 125litre ; fiu May, 4 steamers and 427 livre; oA iu four mouths and a half, 26 steamers have tx i-n destroyed and 964 lives. I ifEimKAlfDA, Oovkkmor Fvato*, of Uolorhdo, fa a candidate for the United Status Senate. I The Kentucky election it next on the list. It will Im-held on the Au-, | gust. * . . ’ . ■ The ('hrMian I himi (Beecher’s pa- - per), nominirtre Henry Wilson for I‘resident. i The qmwtion of revising the Constitutiou of Alatiama will ta* submitted tea < vote of the peopW, Aug. 3. | Ex-Gov. Ci’BTix says he won’t accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania if tendered to him. • Sexatou Sakgkxt has formally announced that he will not be a canfli.tate /for re-election to the Uhihd btateS Senate from California. The Demoerats of (hieago talk of starting a new daily juiper. It is rumond tluit fi2<M),ooo has already been pledged to the enterprise. MoirmS “Bristow is the . ghstf Anu rican whisky Setorr. Bnt itf* i .1 kind of SeizeriHm the country can stand for a half dozen terms.’’ | Hox. Johm G. Thomas the Ohio mem; b r.a f the Natiomd Democratic Execu tive Committee, is <»f the opinion tliat the next National Convention will bp; Lehi in St. Louis. New Yoke TrU-tme ; “bofar as uewu. p.qx r sentuui lit uulicaU-a anything, the Hon. M. C. Kerr; of Indiana, stands the lieri chance of taring the next Speaker of I the Hou* «>f K presentaUv. a. ” Is Uie Nebraska Constitutional Cm j vention a proposition ik under dwcusmon, I with a probability of its incorporation into the new Cmstitution, submitting to a dir. ct wto of tie people the -ehwUvn ’ of United States Senator. Sematok SnsvKXsox, of Kentucky, is | not so tired of his mi that he is willing ■to give it up to Mr. Bock or Gen. \\ ill- [ isms without a struggle. He expects to | Ibe a candiilate tor fe-ek , cti< , u, and will ] rtun|> the State iii the coming campaign. CliiGsoo Timt'-t: “ A canvass of the i-luuires for the next bpeakei>hij> of the i Hou* at AVashingten *-ems to settle the .portion effectually so far as Fernando • Wood and Sunwri Cox are wnCernid. The coveted honor seem* now to hover l etwrt-u Itan.lall and Karr.’’ Maixb Demi»crats are looking about i for a candidate for Governor, and are | hreitatitig ta'twfcn M.-mstm. 8. C. Strout, ; 1L IL Hastings, -W. I’, itaiyee. Japes ( C. Madigan, John C. Talbot, and Cliarlre W- Roberta. Mr. Strout is said to have ’ tlie ta-st chaacx. The couvnutiou will be held on June 22. This Hhow tta> late Jesus* D. Bright « cured his i leeUon to thcA’uited States Senate. He was Ijeut< uant Governor of Indiana iu 1846, when the Senate of I tluit State was a tie and the Hous.' Whig by 10 liisjonty. The Hous* repeatedly in vitrd the Senate to meet them in joint eopvoutiou to elect a Smarter, but every one of their resolutions wiw lost in the tatter by the resting vote of Mr. Bright, its PremdenL Th*' clcctiou was thus stand off for th* aereton. The »sxt Leg iriatnre was Democratic, ami Mr. Bright received tie* Senatorship as his reward. Krirxra i»x * rvuncu.'. I ’* l **M‘s*» iarifi Fw aU ta» tostteW rin <5*34. BI <1 Antons* ■**» Uw, so re«* itoto*. Tbrt h« tur A .»« «tew< brett as M«ci. An 4 wtw rx-praSMb Wn. n»b-J Hu reisr w*»- *>»■* t »» fob « I th. S It. !■ *. *t lv-1. t-T I>Ml .-Ot-M . The jataraFeowsttsUreva-rene. f ... . '■ j . wntaa ibM .MHcy «t» by om— . He Urate a bi l-l «U« retatiatoremAUee Q£ mm lauawtHWC. Xfl bau *- .1-I*. ei 111 . ■■■■■" ■ 1 Judge Turple has fem reading a jmiier to Uie “Fiat Lux” Society mi the urigm <?f the phrase ‘.jKSta*. iridaw, ** find b® no sioqJy.. a barbarism, or fungns, which has attached itself to the English lan gnagt*. “Grace widow” is the term of one who becomes a widow by grace of favor, not of w'crerity, •» by jlrafli, and originated in the early ages of Eurojiean |ci vibration, when divvrorewere, grantod but seldom and wholly by authority. I the Catholic Chnrch. When sod» decree was granted to a woman the Papal law of the French it would real, “Veu ir de grace," which, in “ widow «rs grace," or “graee wrttow," ‘ veuve” being translated as “widow.” i htdifttiapolU Atataik Attas** Anvmmma.—While walking through a path from Perry’s Churubohe j saw a large snake coming, toward her ; it very naturally frightened her. and she ] ran with all - her speed (she was only 16" years of age), and the snake right after j her. Very soon die tataie- Wa* «naM creek that crowed her path, and cratata “Sally Dillard" like she preparexi to •i creeasAwrt- tbe snake caught her just a» she readied leg in a manner too tight for comfort. Sh* seifc<xl the mniO* br threat with one hand and with the her S’hThdjS'W ids ship’s htabd.—AYwnt/in (N. (barter.

! ; TMX LKISH ncif ET. [ I I'm riitandin - tn the uia<l, 81-itly, WM not a »j*lp.-en near. ’1 Agi sreobeJeei M the gW T 'V Issll tae KMt*l I hear. i Me gnn f i<at a '•ahsuldherans!., - ' I’m wetted to the bone, An - whin I'm althor sbpaMn - out, I find xneaelf alone. Thl* Southern climate* quart, Biddy, - Aqui I fitfiwinter - I j An*eununer lathe qpine. j Ye mind the hot place down below ? And may ye nirer fear 1 Tduisg* o»®»>tani*--sUMta’ - a, I Ita awful.wamim here. I . The only moon I »e«.. Biddy, 5 1» one eiuall "tar aetbore, f An that's f-nnet the very cloud ’ It W*t behind liefore: The watchfin-a glanM- alon« the hill, » ThaWamihli'loUweowte; - | An - whan the nintry yuaara thorn I aee h!» oogly month. Isa dead for ehlape 1 am, Biddy, j An<i drbstUin «waU- I'd be, If thun duld rebel* over there Wonld only lave me Ire, ; i But when I lane agaituit a gMuliijq j » An* ehtrive to get repoor, A niuakrt he'a cornin' ehtrete ! '■ .To hit me apacious nivsfij • ■ it*, ye I'd tfte to »«*'•'. Bi.tly. A »h|»rkin' here wid uie. As - thin, avourwen, hear ye »j, •*.Aeusi#as*k nuteitve!* - . j “ <ML Biddy, darlint," thin asya I.' Say- you. ■ <1- : . nt of that,' Say» 1, "Me arrute matL your watae, 1Sa,» you, “lU daya- nt, I'aC An' h<>w‘a the piga and ducks, Biddy ? !■ Il'a Hum I think or, ahnry, That looked K> fnnoaint and etawale Upon the parl.w Bnre!. I'm Mire you're ai*y with the pig, j Tbat’a fat aa he can be, Au - fade turn wid Uh- boat, twanae I'm tould he hoks like inc. ‘ | Wteß I »>me tom*•«*>". M<*By, A aeteiut tried ami thnte, It'a Juost a daycitU houke IU biiild, I • An - nst it chai* to you; Well have a parlor, bedroom, hall, A dock-pond natciy done, Wid kitchen, i«g-p«-n, pratey-pateh. j, Augaerut-ailiu utw. f UfV Bi|t, tanrtber! there', a baatc, Biddy, That - , crapin' round a tne. * ! An’ well I know the crathur’s there, To have a "hot at rne. J? Jio», Atalher Bebel, aa> yer praj-.re. v -’u. •Myer.WrtftypaK. Here gocal—begorea, Biddy, dear, . J.. . , I've broke hi* oogly > w ! . : f I EXORCTSTKd A GHOST. Tom Brown was haunted. You may turn up your nose, rredut aud scout at the idea, but such things (to t liappen, even in the niueteenth century, ' as I am ready to prove. , 1 it, my friend Tom was haunted ! and by no lees a personage than Iris wife’s first husband, who, it would rea- ! aonably be supposed, haring vacated the place that Tom liad obligingly offered to fill, would have left our hero in nndistitrlied jwisßcasiou of all the rights and privileges thereunto ta-longing. '* Now, if it hart tawn tiie ghost of T< an’s l |ilWadri~t*‘~:| dw or , any of his auuta or cousins, or even tliat [ undetaniblo but indispensable article—if men would have any wives at all—a j mother-in-law, he could have borne it with some degree of equanimity: but as i it was, lie was driven nearly frantic. Tom had married the Widow Vandusen with the best possible intentions, who had manifested no reluctance to liecoming Mrs. Tom Brown; indeed, we . an> only to remember tliat she was a willow to feel pretty sure tlmt she did her ' share of the courting. . And now to haveMte ptafoeeof tiie dei.eewd Vandusen dished np for break' .fast, dinner, and W, to say nothing of having them served up cold as side j dishes, on every {Mutable ocrasion, was , rathux uww than Tom could nurture. • can understand the ppet wlit’n be | says, “ How Urataug* brighten as they | ! take their flight!’ s but why a woman should speak of *| her taisited hofbnmV' a *! who wm anything Imtaaaint whri» on > earth, or why a man shmild ailndc to | “the ibw deisirted," who was only dear 1 to him iu her heavy draft upon his [MM-ke'tblok, are aiming thoee tilings, to qnofo flie immortal Dundreary, “ which no fellow can find out" Ttan's wife was a quiet, meek -faced 1 : litife woman, and who would have taten pne waumUirt. tliat she did not Utake hiin , of the j best of wiveo, J Indeed, most of Tom's male acquaint- . " anew thought tlnd he ought to be away j H feiloai aad b« w»ntol have. baeir tar Afar glaatataF defnnta Vandusen, whose presence his late widow reiufritaMly invoked and whose moral excellencies, as portrayed by her skillful i Land, he ibw,tare<l of ever being able to emulate. ■ |4 Mre. Brownregardiid his shortcomings ’ ! * with an air of indulgence that wtanot the I leapt wjpriMattog pact of it _dj 1 I ■ T*n» 'mcatre '4ell,”'-«hv would ’ asy, with p sigh **f mingled fqmgpation Hand regriff." "T Amid "UoU"expect to ‘ have>TO mH* hmbiurds « fey aiartcd i Augustus I" ' * We are sorry to say that Tom did not always roorive this with the meekness ‘ eMlMlCtad bim. " < .)&! > “No one can regret his death more , I * than I do, my dear,” was his hafoefiag 1 C rejail idcr one day. • *flSfrs. Brown uttered no reproach, > neitiicr did she fly into a jwtaon. She *Tknew a trick worth two of that Slowty rajriftfc her to her • .■waiting: to tae« tbe ” “arintoi Augurtus didaEdidwAdo, I Tom left tbahmisG, jittering some wry r emphatic language, like the unfeeling brii fe ho wta, as o«r laJj_jreaaera wilT I i 4. •! <ff the Bite Augustus Vanduxen, so he . j vMWMbI, to throw any doubt upon th.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3,1875.

existence of the superhuman virtues under figuratively speaking, he lay crushed. His wife had married and buried her first husband in California. She came North soon after her widowhood to visit some friends who luul known her oijy in her maiden life, where Tom | saw, won her. But, as luck would have it, John Bab- [ bit, an old schoolmate of Tom’s, came home from California. Os course tlib two had a world of tilings to talk over. “ How curious you should be married, old boy I” said John, as they sat smoking together. “And to pool little Mrs. Vandusen I” ‘•l'm married to her fast, enough,” ' said Tom, dryly, “though I lureen’t the slightest exjx'ctation of ever being able to supply the place of her first husband. Yon knew the late lamented Aug rtus Vandusen 1” ' “ I knew more than I wanted to of him; though I never knew he was lamented by anybody. His wife certainly liad no cause to lament him. Why, be used to get drunk every night and , come home and wuswli the furniture ! I I never pitied any woman as I did her. I used to hope she'd outlive him, so asfeto take a little comfort before she died. He did die. though not in his bed; the vigilance Committee got hold of him one dark night, | and ” Here the speaker ■ touched his throat, with a brief but expressive gesture. “Too many horses missing, you understand.” Here, as the speaker caught a glimpse sos Tom’s astonished' face, the sudden thought struck him tluit this revelation i might not be over and 'above agreeable to the man occupying the place that had been so suddenly vacated: “ 1 beg pardon——” “ Not a word of apology, my dear fel f low,’’(interrupted Tom, whose face wits actually radiant with smiles, grasping ! John warmly by the hand, whose turn it was to be astonished. “ I’m delighted. That is to say,” added Tom, checking himself as he saw his friend’s bewildered, look, “ I shall Ire delighted to have you dine with me to-morrow; a strictly family i dinner, you understand. Mrs. Brown will Le delighted, too! Oh, yes!” chuckled Tom, on his way home, feeling strongly inclined to throw up his cap and hurrah in tire exuberance of his joy. He was confident that he bad now a spell by which he conld “ lay ” the ghost that had so long haunted him. It was past eleven when he let himself in. Instead of creeping meekly along, as 1 was |bis wont, he walked noisily up stairs intolthe room where his wife was sitting, handkerchief in hand, in the attitude , into} which she had arranged herself at . the turning of the latchkey. Without paying her the slightest heed. : Tom marched across the floor to the fire', where he stood warming his liands and whistling softly to himself. • Astonished at this nnheard-of procedure, Mrs. Brown glanced out at the culprit from a corner of her pockethandkerchief. / “ Never, during all our happy married i life, did my sainted Augustus come home at such an hour as this I” she said, with more thhu usual emphasis, as she noted his air as tranquil enjoyment. “ I-know be‘didn’t,” was the cool re ply; “he used to come home at two in , tlie morning, crazy drunk, and .smash the furniture. I haven't got to that yet, but it wilLcome in due season.” Speechless with astonishment and dismay, Mrs. Brown removed. the luuidkcrchief front her eyes, and looked at the | speaker. . That look was too much for Tom’s risibilities; throwing himself down into a I eliair, he laughed until his wife began ’ seriously to think that he had taken leave of Lis Senses. “You’ve been drinking, Tom,” she said, solemnly. “ Oh, no, not at all, my dear," he i»>. plied, his face suddenly settling into ui expression of preternatural gravity; “ that’s the* next fixture in the programme, 1 believe. I’m but a novice aa yet, so you must excuse my imperfect tendering of t-he character that has been so often held up for my imitation. Practice makes perfect, you know, ami I hope in time, to attain to all the virtues [ of the late lamented Augustus Vandusen, though I hardly expect to reach the elevated position ’ that was his when lie made his final exit.” Mrs. Brown’s face turned scarlet. “ What do you mean, Tom I” ‘ ‘ Oh, nothing, nothing," be responded, I throwing his head back, and fixing his eyre upon a fly on the wiling. And uotamither word could she get 1 out of trim. ‘ ’ Tlie next morning Mrs. Brown was i grave and preoccupied, saying little, ami studying her husband’s face whenever she could do so unobserved. Tom, ou the contrary, was in the best «possible spirits, raiding away without ’ apparently caring whether she replied or • not He casually mentioned, on rising from , the table, “ that he should bring ■ friend home to dinner.” Formerly, any such intimation was a sufficient warrant for Sirs.' Brown to call lup the ghost of the deceased Vandusen, but, etrftonsly enough, she did not even mention his name. ' Tom found his wife alone in the parlor when he returned to dinner wjth his «««•■ * - T “ Mrs. Brown, Mr. John Babbit An ' oldncquaintanoe of yours, 1 believe.” t Whatever Mre. Brown had feared, or ■ fiftnn white to red, but retaining her self-

i- possession wonderfully, as Tom could ’» not but note and admire. As courteous and attentive as his r hostess was, John felt ill at. ease. He had too much tact and good-broeiling to ■- make any allusion to her former life, a their conversation was confined to the i merest commonplaces. So the dinner was not a very cnliven- - ing affair. Tom was the only one of the e party who seemed to be at ease ; he was in high spirits—on the best of terms 8 with himself and everybody else. As soon as she so with pro- * priety, Mrs. tile two g«*ntle- ? men to themsi lvre, going directly to her - own room, and seiiking relief in that unfailing refrge for all feminine troubles and perplexities, “a good cry.” Tom entered the room an hour/later. There was a comical look in hip eyes * as he turned them upon his wife’s sorted ’ face. He was evidently determined to press the advantage he had obtained to f its fullest extent ’ I “My dear, I hope my efforts to ‘follow in the footsteps of my illustrious pre- ’ deeessor’ meet with your entire ap- * proval ?” “Tom!” ' Here Mrs. Brown bursts »into tears. ’ This was more than Tom’s good and generous heart could endure. “ Come, let us make a bargain, wife. ‘ If yon will let the ghost of ybftr former r husband rest quietly in his present home ’ ! —Jet us hope tluit it is a happy one—l will do tlie same.” ’Upon three words, the ghost vanished, i and never troubled tUem any more. Tom and his wife kept tlieir bargiiin, and, as the children’s stories end, “lived I hay >y ever after.” THK I‘EKII.S OF l/cE.IS VOYAGES. The New. York Trinum-, in comment; . ing on the loss of the Schiller, says: , . • In respect to Steam boats upon our ’ rivers, which are nearly comparable with ocean steamers, there has been a , I marked improvement in regard to safety, i | During many years exceedingly few t calamities involving great loss of life ; have happened to the crowded steam- ! : boats of our Eastern waters, and even ’ the proverbial clangers of a voyage on r. the Mississippi have been much dimin- > ished. But with regard to ocean navit gation the improvement in safety has i scarcely kept place with even the increase t| of travel. The actual number of shipwrecks is still great. The loss of life in f the event of shipwreck still bears a large proportion to the number of passengers. 5 There is also this noteworthy difference , between railway and steamship acci- , dents. In the former tlie employes of . the road, in proportion to their numt tiers, far more frequently lose their fives than the passengers, while precisely the reverse., is true of steamship wrecks. In an essay preeente<l by Prof. I Wm. A. liogi rs, at tlie Portland meeting of the American Association, it was . i distinctly shown by a comparison of . statistics that there had been for many . years a continual and very large increase in tlie proportion of slupwrecks among I I British vessels. He concluded that tills , } unquestionable increase of danger and i 1 accident was due to tlie cont’nlence of I Captains in reckoning by instruments, and depending too much upon their chronometers. Tlie ratio of errors in I cliroiiometers was shown to be such that i a navigator should expect from this , source an error of more than miles, must lie on tlie lookout for pne of 11 j milt*, and need not be surprised at one -of 21 miles. Ulis is supposing he trusts * to an average clironometer.JT A good navigator told Prof. Benjmiiin Pierce - during a voyage that he did not. trust II his position within 00 miles. Tlie Pro- ! feasor himself, white Superintendent of i the Coast Survey, declared as his own wnviction tliat a Ciqitain wh<T neglected to taka soundings when within thirty ( miles of a coast, “if he hail any pwaen- . gers on his vessel, out to be hung.” ’ .1 AATt KAL PKEAGDtCE. Mr. Young, of Jiusamine, Kentucky, t doesn’t like dogs any more. Tlie fact is, , Mr. Young had recently an experience j with one deg which, prejudiced him the race from “ Old dog Tray rj ever faithful,” etc., to the insignificant s jM't with a riboon. Mr. Young had oo erndou to call upon a neighbor upon I errand, and was just entering the neighs J box’s yard when a very large and ferocious bull-dog suddenly assailed him, I rearing up appar»-iitly with the intention of seizing him by the throat. Mr. Young, fortunately for him, made the ’ first grab, and. seized the dog by the ; throat himself, intending to tiirotilc the t animal. The dog didn't throttle worth u c«mt, and there they stood, man and g dog—one anxious, the other ferocious. , Mr. Young was afraid to let go, and the t dog’s eyes, which met his, told him he 1 hadn’t better. Three or four ftightened t children in the yard were sent after their k mother, who soon appeared upon the r scene, hntoould give no assistance. She merely said: “Mr. Young, I can give iyou no assistance; he is very vicious, II and if I should strike'him he would turn upon me. ” Here was a nice situation ibr a man with a bull-dog , but Mr. Young * ‘ was equal to the situation. He directed j the woman to look for a rope, which she A eventually found, and then ventured to put about the dog’s neck. Than, v«y f carefully, Mr. Young took the dog out r *to the very end of the rope and let go 8 sndd-mly. The rope proved reliable, wd eecapu was secured, but, under the n cireransteuroes; it fe only natural that the ' hero of the aSrirriMnddteei-sr prejudice tt, -gainst til®."whole raee of dugs. 'JU ■a ' ■ tSia W'-£*?' ' is JK. i Jim Fisk, Sr., has gone on «trip to the M Holy Land.

I FAICM AM) MAJUSJt'.IIUE'V. farm Kakinys. ) T? is estimated that a flock of 1,000 s ’ sheep folded on one acre of land, will ’ thoroughly manure it in two nights ; or, in round ntimbers, 180 acres of land will > ,be so thorougldy manured in one year as to produce one bale of cotton to the acre. ’ The trimming of box-edging should ’ *now be attended to if it has not already 1 been. It should bd trimmed to a point, I and not be cut below last year's growth, but as nearly to it as possible. No one who thus trims'box-edging will er er go back to the square cut-off, which almost invariably results in a|dcad center the whole swwon. I I DisAPPonrrMENT often results from | sowing or planting garden seeds that are too old to germinate. Whenever seeds ' are gathered they should be labelled and dated. If properly gathered and pre- ' served, beans will retain vitality 2 years; '' beets, 7 ; cabbage, 4 ; carrot, 2 ; sweet corn, 2 ; . cucumber, 10 ; lettuce, 3 ; | melon, 10; onion, 1 ; parsnip, 1 ; peas, i 2 ; radish, 3; squash, 10 ; tomato, 7 ; turnip, 4. k Fokbst-gbowiko, it is satisfactory to know, is taking a pretty firm foothold in the old States, the necessity of which we LI etui no longer ignore. The most recent instance is the purchase by Messrs. David Landreth A Son, of several thousand acres of laud in Virginia, which is now ' being planted with the seeds of the black walnut, hickory; chestnut, locust, catalpa and other valuable wtxids. In sections where much grain is raiseil and but littie stock kept, soiling becomes • practical at once for the following reasons, 1 which are admitted by all who Dave tried the system : It saves much land, about three-fourths, while some claim a still greater area is saved. Thia is being demonstrated continually in the older parts of our country. Lands pastured do not yield near as much feed per acre, and much of what is produced is destroyed ' by the tramping of hoofs and fouling of the stock. The New York Butter and Cheese Exchange have made a careful and scientific '! experiment as to the best salt for pre--1 serving butter. Ten different qualities 1 were tried, among them the imported salts. They finally decided that the Ashton was no better than the 1 that it did not depend on the kind of salt, ’: but the quality. The pure chloride of sodium, no matter where from, was 1 equally good inqireserving butter. With this decision,-however, it will not do to use impure salt, containing chlorides of calcium and magnesium, wliich is in most } of the salt of commerce. The Country Gfntlemah says of “the best and safest plan of feeding both for 1 ! heifer and calf, just before tlie heifer drops herialf”: “If there is no danger of undue distention of the udder from the secretion of too much niijk previous to calving, a feed of a half peck of roots, j two quarts of wheat bran, and one or two quarts of corn meal per diem, in addition to all the ’ good, early cut hay she ' j will eat, will be a safe and proper feed for a feW"dav-s previous to her dropping 1 i tlie calf. The bran and roots will keep tlie digestive organs in a healthy condition, and tlie hay and meal will keep up tlie animal’s strength and flesh. After the calf is a week old the com. meal > should be increased, and if the cow is to be kept tor milk as well as breeding, the i j bran and roots should also be increased. A pound or two per diem of oil meal is also excellent The cow should have, at all times, all the healthy, suitable focal ‘ j she can be made to eat.” Ztomecflc Eeoaomy. To each bowl pf starch, before boilI ing, add a teas|>oonful of Epsom salts. ■ Articles prepared with this will be stiffer, , and in a measure fire-proof. When an iron poker becomea softened . i by king usage, it ran be hardened by hratiug it to a redness and plunging it several times into a pail of cold water. Gingeb Cbackkks. —One pint of molasses, a half pound of butter, one tabletqxionfid of cinnamon, one of cloves, I and one of ginger, flour to make a stiff . paste; roll thin, cut in squares or strijis, ( and liake in a quick oven. If possible buy an oil-cloth which has ( been ramie for several years, as the longer , it has lain unwashed the better it will t wear, as the paint will harden. Never . scrub. Sweep with a soft hair brush, . and wash with a soft cloth dipped in milk and water. Don’t use soap. Rub , dry with a handful of rags. Ham Cake. —A capital way of disj j {losing of the remains of a ham and . making an excellent dish for breakfast is: } I Take a pound and a half of ham, fat and t lean together; put into a mortar and [ pound it, or pass it through a sausage machine; bod a large slice of bread in , half a pint of milk, and beat it and the > ham well together; add an egg beaten [ up. Put the whole intel a mold and f | bake a rich brown. , Rice Pudding. —ln a six-quart pud- . ding pan put one and a half teacupfuls , of rice, not boiled; add two eggs beaten ( 1 with one cup at sugar, a littie salt and k ! nutmeg; add one cup of raisins; fill the i pan with milk; set in' the oven; bake two , hours. It will need stirring twice after [I it begins to bake. Both these puddings > ’ are to be eaten with butter. > Mush-making. —When ready for mush • t • making, dip out a pint of the boiling t water into a pan ; add half a pint of cold > water. Now stir meal into this until it , is about as thick as good, sweet cream. > Stir it well, then pour it into the kettle ,i as boifing -water; salt it to your taste. , Stir this well until it boils thoroughly, (tien add meal until the proper thickness is obtained, and cook it well. This be- ? ing followed, you will never have lumpy 1 iQush, as is frequently the case.

io iiiuTiNv-uiSH young.ixoui vivi when dressed, the Mirror and Farmer 0 gives the following directions: The rear 1 end of the breast bone in a chicken is . soft, a gristle, which, as the fowl grows 1 okler, hardens into solid bone; by presss ing inward upon tins bone it can readily i. be ascertained whether the fowl has I been wintered or not, as it will easily J bend in a chicken, but cannot lie bent in an old fowl. All edible birds, when young, have the lower part of the legs, the feet, and the under part of the feet 'soft, but as the fowl matures these bet' come hard and rough. 8 ! THE n iCKEDEST BOY. - I The youth of Missouri are apparently 1 very precomous, as shown by the foilowL> ing correspondence of the Sedalia Dems oerat: “ Pomeroy Beetling, a "son of 1 Mr. E. L. Beetling, living in Cambridge, ' Mo., was detected last Wednesday in an • attempt to murder his father, mother, t and brother-in-law. Mr. Beetling is one ’ of the wealthiest and most jxipular men ’ in the State, and being desirous of giving > his son a good education, sent him to Fayette, Mo., a small place, where he ’ tliought lie would nut get- the oppor--1 tuuity of practicing his accustomed r.isc t for a few weeks his father went to visit him, and found that he had gotten deeply J iu debt, and was engaged to be married r to a young lady who had broken off an engagement for that purpose. Mr. Beed- ” . ing, thinking' this was the wrong life for a school-boy to lead, took liini home. 1 The lioy wished to marry, but he had no s money, and had no means of getting v • any, and he was not of age ; so he dt'ci--1 ded to kill his fatter, mother, and I broiher-in-law, who constituted the 1 family. To do this he tried to get Mr. ts “ Stanton, a num of ndt the best reputaR tion, to assist him. He told Mr. Stanton t he would give him 81,500 for the job, 1 saying he could get a man in St. Louis 1 ■ for §SOO, but was afraid the St. Louis f man would kill the wrong persons. Mr. Stanton told Pomeroy to meet him in a • i log-house on a certain night, and they c would proceed from there to commit the ' deed. Mr. Stanton bail no idea of keep--8 ing his promise, but told Mr. Deeding of 1 | his son’s designs. Thinking that the ■ j father wquld not believe him, Mr. Stanj ton got two men to accompany him to the log-house as witnesses. After they f liad arrived there Pomeroy commenced 8 I telling Stanton the details of the work. ' Just then the men from underneath camo 0 ■ in, grabbed him, and took him to his : father. Mr. Deeding had him horse- *• whipped, gave him a draft for SSO, and I discarded him. Pomeroy went to GlasB gow, got his dnflt paid, sent for his r trunk, and went to St. Louis, since which r time nothing has been heard from him. ” r —— - 1 -BIG IX.IUX HEAP* s i The Sioux Indians at Wiishington are , ' a very audacious party, and by their igJ ■ norance and impudence, forfeit all ■ ! claims to a conference with the govern--0 ; ment authorities. In calling at the White J i House yesterday, Lone Horn, a small J ' chief of great pretentiousness, essayed to 0 ’ hold a prolonged discussion with Presi- ■ dent Grant in declar- ? i ing to him, with a characteristic lai'k of r ( modesty, that he (Lone Horn) “owned 11 all this country." Tliis speech of Lone 3 j Hom made the other Indians envious e ( and jealous, and they afterwards express- • Icl their feelings by saying tliat Lone 8 ■ Horn was “no big Injun ” in his own t ! country. Now the authorities may look 1 out for an attempt to outdo Lone Horn ,|—whom the President had to “choke i off ”—m ugly talk. _ In speaking to the ; Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on Tues- , day, Red Cloud—hostile chap as he has ’ ever been—said that the white meu were ’ ■ all liars, excepting, however, the company present. Yesterday the same Chief | repeated the assertion, and observed tliat f he did not except even present company, . as on the day before. The Indians feel no * restraint, they* being assured of their personal safety while among the whites, and : hence, this true revelation of Indian na- ’ j ture. To treat with them is one of the ' most ilisagrecablc of tasks, on the part • I of the President, his Commissioners and I the Secreitary of the Interior.— Chicago s ■ Joumai. r — . 1 IXPORTAXT TO BATHERS. r ; Avoid battling within two hours after ,i a meat Avoid bathing when exhausted 1 ‘by fatigue or from any other cause. > ' Avoid bathing when the body is warm, provided no time is kta; in getting’ into i- ‘ the water. Avoid chilling the body by 1 sitting or standing naked on the shore or : in boats after baring been in the water. I Avoid remaining too long in the water ; II leave water immediately if there is the e i slightest feeling of chillness. Avoid n bathing altogether in the open air, if, e after having been a short time in the n water, there is a sense of chillness with 1 numbness of the hands and feet. The vigorous and strong may bathe early in h l the morning on an empty stomach. The s young and thoee that are weak had beta ’ ter bathe three hours after a meal; the 1 best time for such is from two to three B hours after breakfast. Those who are a subject to attacks of giddiness and faintr I ness, and those who suffer fronopalpitas tion and other sense of discomfort at the heart, should not bathe without first con- - suiting their medical adviser. 5 . . 1 The monthly-payment system in the t matter of sewing machines has received . a set-back in the New York courts, it e having been derided that a woman who i, | has nearly paid for her sewing machine ■, in that way has rights that the company s is bound to respect, and cannot be dei- prived of her machine and all she has y paid upon it by a little delay on her part ' in meeting the claims against her.

NUMBER 22.

’ HB- ’.-v- “i '' ■ “For better or worse,”' - -_•> (And. the sake of her purso»; “ For richer, for poorer ” 1 (Os course 11l enduro her); “ In sickness ami health ” (Why not? with her wealth); “ To love and to cherish " (I’d otherwise perish); “ Till death do us part ” < i (Then at her aim Ms dart)! • SHE. “ For better or worse ” . (To old maids I'm averse); ! “ For richer, for poorer ” (And age has no curer); “ In sickness and health ” r (Time creeps on by stealth) "To love, cherish, obey ” , 1 ' (So I marry this day), “ Till death do us part ” (Then I’ll try widow's art). PL EASAXTR IES. Country hum-bugs—-Bees. A rare flower—The pink of propriety. The new bonnets are of chip, but not of “th®old block.” The true men of leisure—They tliat work to obtain it. How to make good puffs—Send the publisher fifty cents a line for them. A g<A>d tailor sponges his cloths, tuid his customers sometimes sponge him. “ Thieving in the outskirts ” is tlio latest for “ picking ladies’ pockets.” The worst snob out is the man who, on learning of the death of the late Emperor of China, drank only black tea. “ Consumption is an economical disease,” said John Henry; with a cold on his lungs; “you can furnish your own coughin’.” • i ’ “ What a shame that I should be starving!” exclaimed a poor corset-maker 6 out of work; “I that have stayed the stomachs of thousands.” It is not a pleasant spectacle to see an able-bodied young man shielding a store box from the suir'-s rays when a good horse can be purchased for, $1.50. We mean a saw-horse. The cavaliers, Hlunng the Protector- i ate, were accustomed in their, libations to put a crumb of bread into a ! glass of ■ wine, and before they drank it say, “ God send this Crumb-well down.” A little Troy girl, hearing her school i teacher spoken of as a painstaking • woman, remarked that the scholars were [ the “ painstakingest,’ 1 for they were generally whipped all round every day. i “The battle of spring, ’’ says the New i York Evening Mail., “is fought with blades of grass.” What does spring i mean, then, by arming all her flowers with pistils ‘i—Louixvillc Covricr-Jwr-i naZ. - Flick or GREATXESS. ’ He who ascend’ to mountain tops shall find Their loftiest peaks most wrapped in ice and snow; He who surpasses or siiWlues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the suit of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread. Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on hie naked head. A gentleman was endeavoring to en1 joy an evening in the company of a young lady upon whom he called, but 1 found a serious obstacle in the person of a stern father, who at length very plainly intimated that the hour for retiring liad arrived. “ I tliink you are correct, my dear sir, ” returned the unabashed young man “We have been waiting to have ’ you go to bed for over an hour. ’■ A poor woman went to her minister, asking him to come ami perform the funeral service of her fourth husband, he having officiated for the three who had previously disappeared from the public view. “ Why, Bridget, how is this i" asked the reverend gentleman. ■“Ahi it’** mighty bad,” she replied “ There was never a poor woman worn down with such a lot of dying men as I've been.” THE REASON OF IT. That the Captain of the’ Schiller was « skilful seaman is sufficiently evident from the fact that he liad spent the greater part of his life in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company —a service which trains the best steamship officers in the world. That hi' was a brave man we know from the story 1 of the shipwreck. Ha stood by his boats pistol in hand, in the first wild panic which followed the striking of the ship, and he went down wtfh his vessel without attempting to save his own life. But for all this the loss of the Schiller was due to the Captain’s fatal neglect to stop his engine and heave his lead. He was nine days out. He knew that he must be within a few miles of a dangerous coast. For three days he had taken no observation, because of the fog, and was depending wholly upon dead reckoning. Th these circumstances he should have cared less for speed than for safety. For three hours before the vessel struck—and probably for even a longer time —he was on soundings. Had he hove his lead at seven o’clock on Friday night the Schiller would not have been lost. This is the / 1 plain truth. No special pleading can ‘ change it Nevertheless, the Captain did only what many other steamship • Captains would have flone in his place. The recklessness that runs a ship on the rocks in a fog in preference to incurring a slight delay ia encouraged by the ‘owners of most of the lines of steamships sailing fro n New York. Speed is P re ‘ f rred to safety, and so long ** th 3 ease other Captains as brave and skilful as the gallant Thomas will take the i risk of shipwreck, and other ships as noble as the Schiller will be dashed to ( ; pieces on iron-bound shores. ' I — ; The Rev. Paschal Lamb is th? singularly appropriate name of % curate in En- > gland wbo has just been appointed to ; the Church of St. Margaret, Wert. & / S I