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LIFE AND DEATH.
A grand country wedding. Every
thing was in preparation. One week
from that day, and Caroline Harconrt,
the belle of the county, and the onTy
daughter of one of the wealthiest farm
ers in Connecticut, was to join hands
for better or worse with young John
Curtis, Squire Curtis’s only son.
John had graduated from Yale with
fair honors—studied law with his fath
er, and then, after a year or more care
ful reading and practicing in New
York, bad established himself in the
last-mentioned city.
One week, and he would claim ins
bride, the beautiful, idolized maiden,
the first and only love of his life, to
whom lie had been solemnly betrothed
ever since the halcyon days of child
hood ; when the curly-headed boy and
tender-eyed maiden first learned to
conjugate the verb Amo—amo, amare.
amavi, amatum; under an apple-tree,
with the sun playing hide-and-seek
among the leaves, little robin redbreast
hopping from bough to bough, and,
and adding another melody to the glo
rious tunc the young hearts were rap
idly learning, was a situation most
likely to result in ardent demonstra
tions ; but unlike most early loves, it
proved itself a lasting sentiment, and
both looked forward with the fondest
anticipations to the time when the great
affair of their lives should be consum
ated. Carrie was passionately fond of
her country home, and the thoughts of
leaving it pained her more than she
cared to have those about her know;
but father and mother had promised to
spend the greater part of the winters
with her, and she and John were al
ways coming home summers, so the
blc after all; but, strange to say, the
maiden’s eyes were always ready to
overflow. In some mysterious manner,
Carrie commenced to feci homesick
before leaving the parental roof.
“If I didn’t know how well you
loved John Curtis, my child. 1 should
think you wanted to back out of this
business,” safd Farmer Ilarcourt, draw
ing his daughter to his knees, and at
tempting to look under the drooping
lids.
Carrie tried to smile, but broke down
completely.
“I am foolish, father, and don't pet
me any more. 1 wonder if every girl
feels so badly at leaving her home?
Sometimes 1 fancy it must be more j
than that. Perhaps it is a foreboding ;
of evil—•Coming events ca-t their shad
ows before,' and this may be one of the
shadows.”
“Nonsense, Caroline 1 never give upi
to superstitious fol-de-rols. It would
be very strange if you were not
thought ful. and even sad, in the antici
pation of this event. You arc about to
take a man, with all his failings; re
member that, Caroline; how many,
you can form no idea, because it is
just as true as you live that a couple
may court a hundred years, and yet
not become acquainted with the defects
in the secret springs that keep the
strange machinery moving. The watch I
always looks bright and nice, ever ap- ;
parcntly in good running order—nei
ther too fast or too slow; but you
don't know the titivating that article
undergoes when it is out of your sight,
in order to keep it all right for the
short time it is in your company.
Don't look so vexed, Caroline; it is no
more than you have done yourself.
Coi’rting is deceitful business, and it's
tarnal lucky tis. There arc few enough
marriages now, Heaven knows, and if
the vail were always torn aside before
the ceremony, I fancy there would be
less. John never saw you cry and
pout because father thought his daugh
ter had silk dresses enough without the
last expensive one she had set her
heart upon buying. You never heard
John swear at his tailor fora miscut,
or scold because a button was missing.
Oh, no; ns long as you’ve been at it,
you don’t know much more in regard
to each other’s real nature than as if
one had been in London and the other
in New York, and corresponded; yet
I firmly believe John wants, needs, and
must have you for his wife. Yon’ll
find he's got failings you never sus
pected, and he’ll discover that his little
wile is not ns periect ns ms lancy lias |
painted her. Marriage naturally strips j
off all disguises, nnd I don't believe j
there are many married people but have
been obliged to pocket a considerable
dissatisfaction. It may not bo so in
your case, child.”
Carrie was commencing lo sob.
“I think you love one another very
fondly, daughter, and love, which is
boundless charity, covers a multitude
of sins.”
In the kitchen, everything was in a
hubbub. Mrs. Iiarcourt had no time
to moralize. The bride’s cake was
being manufactured,and as their friends
and acquaintances were legion, and
every one must have a slice, or become
everlasting enemies, it is quite natural
to suppose that a Considerable care de
volved upon materfamilias.
"I've always hcern tell that it was
good luck for a bride to stir her own
cake,” said Ilepsy Burr, who had come
to help prepare the good things.
“Well, I don’t know what under the
sun is the matter with our Caroline,”
replied Mrs. Iiarcourt; “but I can’t
persuade her to do anything. She
wouldn't even stone the raisins. ‘Make
it mother, and get it out of sight : lor
my part I don’t care whether I have j
any cake or not,’ said she to me yester
day.”
“Now, that’s very strange, Miss Har
court, and not at all like Caroline,
Between yon and I, I don’t like the
way she mopes around. Now, there’*
Ellen Bliss, who’s to be married to
morrow ; she’s at bright and chirp as a
cricket. Caroline, Caroline I” as Hepsy
caught sight of the young lady on the
back piazza. “Now I want you to
come right in here and stir your own
cake. It’s a very bad sign to let some
body else mix itand Hepsy placed
in her hands the dish containing the
butter and sugar. “I will whip the
eggs as light as a froth, while you keep
at that until it is just the consistency
of cream,’’ continued Hepsy.
Carrie gave the materials a few very
uiiscientific turns, and then without a
word pushed the pan one side, and
hastily left the room.
“Now what do you make of such
conduct as that?” inquired Mrs. Har
court, in evident distress.
“Lordy massy, I don’t know; but il
don’t mean any good, any how. I’ve
heerd mother tell about her sister
Mollic, that carried on just so for all
the world. She got married at last,
and they went on a wedding-tour to
Liverpool, where his folks lived, and
the vessel they sailed in was never
heard of from that day to this.”
“I think it’s the going away from
home that troubles Caroline; I guess
she would be lively enough if it wasn’t
for that idea,” and Mrs. Ilnrcourt
whipped the newly-laid eggs until she
had formed huge pyramids of snow
ronm n .. A lTnn... ....... (l.n
cake briskly, exercising her tongue in
a similar manner; and by-and-by the
loaves were ready for the big brick
oven, and Hepsy waited in considera
ble perturbation to see if tlie little
trial-cake was just as rich and just ns
black as her fastidious taste required.
Yes. it was a success; and the slielvcs
in the capacious storeroom groaned
with their weight of goodies.
The day of the wedding arrived,
bright, crisp and clear—one of those
glorious autumn days just before the
leaves, so gorgeously colored, com
mence to fall.
The evening preceding. John and
Carrie had spent together, and both
were under a cloud. John had a ner
vous headache, and consequently was
not talkative; and Carrie, with his
head in her lap, pressing both little
hands against the aching temples, al
lowed many a silent tear to fall.
“Don't be worried about this stupid
pain in my head, darling,’’ said John,
noticing her distress. "I shall sleep ij
offand Carrie bade her i.over “good
night” for the last time—to-morrow
the husband; and for the first time
in her life she left him sobbing.
Ay, that was a lovely picture—the
bridal toilet was faultless ; but Carrie's
roses had all paled. The Inst exquisite
touch had been given to the orange
blossoms and vail, and John was called
to salute Miss Carrie ilareourt for the
last time. He, too, was pale as death,
and walkod forward very slowly, nnd
with apparent difficulty. Carrie, with
head bowed, gave him both of her lit
tle white-kidded hands to press.
For a moment they stood quietly;
then in a tone so strange, so deep, so
unearthly ns to cause all present to
gaze at him with n.stonishment, John
caught her in his arms, pressed her
tightly to his heart, saying:
“Kiss me, darling quickly; I am
going;” and sank into a chair.
A moment more, and the loving
heart ceased to palpitate, and the dread
ful truth overwhelmed the anxious
friends—John Curtis was dead !
No mortal imagination caii depict
the scene that followed. Carrie would
not leave the chamber; her grief was
of a character impossible to describe—
not a tear or a sob. She seemed en
tirely lost to all external surroundings.
There he lay, with a smile on his
beautiful features, dressed in his bri
dal clothes, awaiting now only the last
sad funeral rites. What a change I
Nothing could induce Carrie to leave
the room. She would not listen to
entreaty or command. Sometimes for
au nour or more sne wouia ne perfect
ly quiet, with her head ou his shoulder
—that cold, dead shoulder, which the
very thought of at any other time
would have paralyzed.
Twenty-four hours passed in this
manner. Preparations were being
made for the burial. The long, narrow
coffin was brought in, but Carrie pro
tested that he should not be placed in
it until the very last moment.
The shades of night came on again ;
still Carrie kept her watch, flepsey
was sent in to reason with her; Car
rie always liked Hepscy.
•“Now come away, Miss Caroline,
and go to bed. I will remain here all
night, if you want me to. You are
making yourself sick.’’
“Hepsy, I shall remain 1”
That was all.
“Well, so shaU I,’’ said poor Hepsy,
alarmed lest Carrie’s ihtellect was per
manently injured.
“Hepsy, go down stairs into the
store closet and bring me a bottle of
brandy.”
“That sounds something like,” mut
tered Hepsy. “She’s beginning to feel
faint, poor child ! How my heart aches
for her! Laws! 1 shall always be
lieve in forerunners after this. A lit
tle brandy will set her sleep, I guess
‘■Shall I give you some, Caroline?”
said Hepsy, returning.
“Yes; make it part water. Hurry
up, Hepsy. Now give a napkinand
Hepsy, horrified, watched her making
preparations to feed poor lifeless John.
“Good Lord! Miss Caroline, 1 can
stand most anything, but pouring
brandy into a corpse is going a little
too far, and I shall call your father t”
“Hepsy, rub his bands and feet with
something hot instantly 1 Help me to
take him off this dreadful board I
Don’t you sec bow his countenance has
changed ?”
“Lord, yes!” replied Hepsy, tremb
ling with terror. “You have manled
the poor dead creature till he looks
awftal I Don’t you know you are act
ing a very wicked part. What do you
think the undertaker will say to such
behavior ? The girl is raving distract
ed 1” and Hepsy ran to call some one,
as she saw Carrie attempt to change
his position.
“Caroline, for God's sake what is this
Hepsy is telling me? You must have
gone stark mad! Poor child!” and
tears streamed down the old man’s
face.
“Will yoii come here, father, and see
for yourself? There is a cold perspir
ation on my darling's face. Give me
the brandy—quick Hepsy!”
Hepsy passed it mechanically.
“Go for the doctor; somebody run
qnickly. I tell you he is alive 1 JohnI
John ! John! open your eyes, darling!”
and, to the utter astonishment of her
father and tho consternation of poor
trembling Hepsy, John slowly lifted
the lids, smiled pleasantly, and by the
time the doctor arrived, the pulse, al
though feeble, was quite regular, and
life and consciousness had entirely re
turned.
The terrible paraphernalia of death
was removed, and Carrie, worn out
with her long watching and fast, slept
quietly by his side. When he revived
sufficiently to speak, iic informed (hem
that he had been keenly conscious ail
the time, and suffered the most terri
ble mental agony for fear Carrie might
| be induced to leave him ; but the no
j ble, loving girl, acting out an impres
I “ion stronger than the human wills by
| which she was surrounded, defied them
I all, and saved her darling’s life.
I The next day the wedding came off,
, but in an entirely unexpected mnnner.
j Carrie, radiant with sweet content, and
j this time with a healthy color on cheek
i and lip, stood by the side of the couch,
i and in the presence of a few friends
vowed to love, honor and cherish, in
sickness and health, until death did
them part.
“Ah! Carrie hail walked within the
shadow of death, and the vow came
spontaneously from an earnest soul.
John's “1 do’’ was firm and tender.
Hr knew that the woman who stood
I by his side wag staunch and true—true
I in life, true in deailW-his then—his al
ways.
There was not a dry eye in the room.
Kvcn the minister faltered.
John couvalesced rapidly, and there
is no happier couple to-day in New
York city than Mr. and Mrs. John
Curtis.
The Managing Woman.
To be a good housekeeper is one of
the most essential and useful accom
plishments ; and the man who secures
for his wife one whose education in
this respect has not been neglected,
combined with a mild, confiding and
loving disposition, has a most valuable
treasure, and if his home is not agreea
ble and pleasant he may be assured
that the fault is with himself, and ho
does not possess the nmuly and gentle
manly attributes necessary for such a
partner for life. We commend the
following just and truthful remarks to
the attention of our readers:
“The managing woman is a pearl
among women ; she is one of the prizes
in the great lottery of life, and the
man who draws her may rejoice for the
rest of his days. Better than riches,
she is a fortune in herself—a goldmine
never inning in us yiein—a spring 01
pleasant water, whose hanks are fring
ed with moss flowers when all around
is bleached wfclte with sterile sand.
The managiu J'womau can do anything,
and she does everything well.
Perceptive and executive, of quick
sight and steady hand, she always
knows exactly what is wanting, and
supplies tlic’deficiency with a (act and
cleverness peculiar to herself. She
knows the capabilities of persons as
well as things, for she has an intuitive
knowledge of character. The manag
ing woman, if not always patient, is
always energetic, and can never be
be disappointed into inaction. Though
she has to teach the same thing over
and over again, still she is never weary
of her vocation of arranging and or
dering, and never less than hopeful of
a favorable result.
g^An exchango describing a cele
bration says: The processiou was
very fine aud nearly two miles in
length as was also the prayer of Dr.
Perry the Chaplain.
“During a recent severe thunder
storm in our vicinity a cow was struck
by lightning and instantly killed be
longing to the village physician, who
had a calf four days old.”
tSp-An honest farmer writes to the
chairman of an agricultural society:
: “Gentlemen, please put me down on
I vour list of rattle for a bull.”
Radical Catechism.
What is the greatest sentiment ever
nttered by a statesman ?
Ans.—I propose to fight it out on
this line if it takes all summer.
What constitutes a flree government ?
Ans.—Enfranchising negroes, and
disfranchising white men.
When is it necessary to quarter stand
ing armies among the people ?
Ans.—When they are democratic.
Is there auy higher law than the con
stitution I
Ans.—Yes; bayonets.
Who is the greatest living statesman
of the present day ?
Ans.—Grant.
Was Grant nominated on account of
his statesmanship ?
Ans.—No; he was nominated with
the hope that he would save the re
publican party.
Of all the races under the sun, which
is the most educated and refined ?
Ans.—The negro.
Who was the father of his country ?
Ans.—John Brown.
Who are the most prominent divines
of the present day ?
Ben. Butler and “D. W.” Logan.
Who will be president if Grant is
elected ?
Washburne, and old daddy Grant.
Were there any democratic soldiers
in the late Lincoln war ?
No, not any.
Were the southern states ever out of
the Union? '
No, but they were out of the aboli
tion party.
TT •• j uutn 1.11^ vtioin piauuiiu viaiui
that the northern states have the right
to regulate the elective franchise ?
Because they have gone back to de
mocracy, and lost to radicalism.
Why does the same platform claim
that congress should regulate the fran
chise in the south ?
Because without the aid of the nig
gers there, (.irant would lie a “skinned
kitten.”
Why is the Freedman’s Bureau con
tinued until after the presidential
election ?
In order to control the ballot box,
and pay a lot of loyal carpet-baggers
who are too lazy to earn their living.
Would the radical party commit any
vile acts if they had and dared use the
power?
Yes, they would hang alljhe demo
crats in the land.
What is loyalty?
Fealty to the radical party and negro
siiprcniacy.
A Novel Invention.
The “Mechanical Tallyman” is the
last Invention. This new machine has
been invented to take the place of the
check clerk : and the necessary liabili
ty of clerks to make errors in counting
barrels, etc., as they are taken out or
put into vessels or cars, has originated
this invention—a mistake in counting
made by Mr. Win. Boa, the inventor
of the machine, and the foreman of the
Chicago Dock Company, and costing
him $36, having been the immediate
cause. The “mechanical tallyman” has
the merit of being of simple construc
tion. In appearance it very much re
sembles a clock, having, like two fin
gers—a Inrge one and a small one ; and
having also, like a clock, its dial,
marked off into minute and hour di
visions. One revolution of the large
finger counts one hundred, and one
revolution of the small Huger one
thousand ; the revolution of the small
finger being made up after revolutions
of the large finger. "While, therefore,
the large finger makes one complete
revolution, the small finger passes but
one-tenth rouud the dial plate.
The machine can be attached to any
kind of loading or unloading apparatus
—whether it be mere slide, an eleva
tor, or a skid. In the case of the latter
it is attached to the side of the skid ;
while under the skid, in its center, is
placed a valve, which, when rolled
over and pressed down by a barrel, or
in the case of a slide, by the sliding
box, or in the case of an elevator,
unshed out of the way bv the ascend
tag or descending article, connects
with the machine, causing (lie large
Anger to count one by moving it over
one division—the Auger being pushed
along one space as every article presses
against the valve.
For Widowers.—A man lost his
wife. His neighbors called upon him
to offer consolation, and he came into
the house all covered with dirt and
water.
“Why, Mr. Brown, what have you
been t.oing?”
“My wife dying so, made it a broken
day, and I thought I would clean out
my well."
Another, a town-crier, couldn’t cry
because his wife was dead.
Another heathen declared it was
splendid weather; his w ife had such a
cold, she couldn’t speak.
Another barbarian iiad inscribed on
his wife's tombstone, “Tears cannot
restore her, therefore I weep.”
And while upon the same subject we
will tell another “good one.”
A man was married : he lost his wife
and had a stone erected over her grave.
He married a second wife, and when
she died he had the gravestone split,
and it thus served for the two depart
eds. He proposed to a third, aud the
lady quaintly remarked :
«.j ,in not believe that stone will split
again.” A refusal
I jglj
From the La Crosse Democrat.]
Ia the Negro a White Man f
What our people need, to cure them
of their negro fanaticism, and dispel
the delusion which has wrought so
much mischief in our land, is, to make
them understand the true character of
the negro, and the great and striking
differences which are to be found,
throughout its whole system, in the
intrinsic character and qualities of
bone, muscle, blood, fibre, hair and
everything else that enters into, his
organization and composition, between
him and ourselves. All this is a mat
ter of fact, of scientific investigation,
and not of sentiment. It is what can
only be learned by the careful, thorough
investigation of the naturalist, the man
of science.—At the head of this latter
class, of the men of onr day, stands
Professor Agassiz. With no preju
dices against the negro, but from his
long residence in New England, and
personal association and interchange
of thought, with her leading men; more
likely to partake of their views, politi
cally, he has nevertheless, risen above
all these influences, and been faithful
to truth and science, and gives his testi
mony as a calm, unbiased observer, a
cool and thoughtful philosopher, who
scorns to conceal or pervert a fact, hit
where and prove what it will. Candid,
truthloving white men, rend the follow
ing, and ponder upon it, and cut it out,
end lay it by, and read it again, and
again ponder upon it, nnd repeat the
process until you can make up your
minds that the negro is not your equal,
and that he should occupy the subordi
nate position which God evidently
intended, and his nature has fitted hint
for, and that you will stand by your
own high, noble white race, and go for
its supremacy over the negro every
where :
“I have pointed over a hundred speci
fic differences between the boual and
nervous systems of the white man and
negro. Indeed, their frames are-alike
in no particular. There is not a bone
in the negroe’s body which is relative
the same shape, size, articulation, or
chemically the same composition as
that of the white man ; even thenegro's
blood is chemically a very different
fluid than that which courses through
the veins of the white man. The whole
physical organism of the negro differs
quite as much from the white man’s as
it does from that of the chimpanzee,
that is, in his bones, muscle, and fibers.
The chimpanzee lias not much further
to progress to become a negro than n
negro to become a white man. This
fact science inexorably demonstrates.
Climate lias no more to do with the
difference between the white man and
the negro than it has with that of the
negro and the chimpanzee, or than it
lias between the horse and the ass, the
eagle and the owl. Each is a distinct
and separate creation. The negro is
no more a negro by accident or misfor
tune than an owl is the sister oftlic
eagle, or the ass is the brother of the
horse. Iiow stupendous, and yet how
simple is the doctrine that the Almigh
ty Maker of the Universe lias created
different species of the lower animals
to fill tiic differnnt place and offices in
the grand scenery of nature!”
Prom the Charleston News.]
Gen. Grant and JeflT. Davit*.
Some years ago a certain young U.
S. officer was wild and as unpopular
among his army comrades as lie was
reckless. During the great Crystal
Palace exhibition in New York city he
distinguished himself by riding a horse
into a hat store, and performed several
other feats which at last brought him
to a court martial. The court assem
bled at Fortress Monroe, the officer
was tried and the finding given, bnt
not published, “guilty of conduct un
becoming an officer and a gentleman.”
Informed of the finding, and anticipa
ting its approval, the captain, for such
ho was, went at once to Wasnington,
called upott the Secretary of war, and
made a frank statement of the case.
lie acknowledged bis fait, bnt said
if punished bv the court in the manner
he expected, he would be forever dis
graced. In consideration of his posi
tion as au officer, and the clrcumstnccs
connected with the family, he begged
permission to resign. The Secretary
of war informed him that such a thing
as a resignation after charges had been
preferred was unheard of in the annals
of military law and contrary to the
rule and practice of the service. But
the officer begged on, and finally the
Secctarv yielded; and the soldier be
came a civilian and merchant. That
officer was Ulysses S. Grant, and the
Secetary of War, ex-Presideut Jeffer
son Davis. These are the facts as they
were related to us by an officer of the
United States army.
gS’Mt was un ardent boyish love that
faded out as life grew older; my heart
flew to her like a dove, and lighted on
her beauteous shoulder; or sipped the
hondj^of her lips, or in her eyes found
heavenly graces; 1 loved her to her
finger-tips, I loved her very footprint
traces 1 Her features wore a rapturous
charm, her smile made all within me
flutter; in rounded beauty was her
arm, her little hand was fat as butter.
No wonder that I loved her so; but
she was false as she was pretty, and
soou she sacked her little beau, and
took a big one from the city. 1 caught
him out one gloomy night—'twos one
of love’s extremost phases—I aggra
vated him to tight, hut oh. he larrup'd
me like bla/cs!
Ecliptic of the Unit.
The total eclipse of the sun which is
to take place on the ISth of August
next,.is already exciting unusual inter
est among astronomers, in consequence
of the long period of darkness which it
will occasion. A line drawn on the
map from Aden across Hindustan, aud
away to the southern coast of New
Guinea, will represent pretty accurate
ly the line of total obscurity. It so
happens that on the day above named
the moon will be almost at its nearest to
the earth, consequently, the moon will
hide the sun so completely that the du
ration of the total darkness will be
nearly seven minutes. This is so rare a
phenomenon that all interested in cos
mical science are earnestly desirous of
getting all they can ont of it by obser
vation. Foremost among them, the
Royal Society have taken such meas
ures that, if the weather be only favor
able at the time and place of observa
tion. most satisfactory results will be
obtained. They have sent ont to India
a number of newly constructed instru
ments-telescopes, spectroscopes,
prisms, actinometers, and others, by
which all the phenomena ol»an eclipse
may bo well observed; and as the ob
servers will be some of the most skil
ful of the officers employed on the
great triuometrical survey of India, we
may hope that the highly important
questions involved in the phenomenon
will be cleared of their present uncer
tainty. If the southwest monsoon,
which will then be blowing, will only
leave the sky clear at the place of ob
SPrVftMnil. WO shnll hv ('hriatmua nevi
know more about the sun and its light
and atmosphere than hitherto.
*^The Republicans ought to ap
point a day of thanksgivingfor ahappy
riddance of the Blair family.—Cincin
nati Commercial.
Make one job of it and give thanks
at once for all your riddances. You
have got rid of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet
and of the Supreme Judges he appoint
ed. You have got rid of the Vice
President you elected in 1864. You
have got rid or all those old ••Jacksoni
an” gentlemen like Amos Kendall, of
whom you were once so proud. You
have got rid of a great many statesmen
and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Besides the Blair family you have got
rid of the Chase family, the Adams
family, and the family of “Abraham,
lsaar and Jacob.” It would be hard to
name a decent family that you have
not got rid of. If such losses arc
pleasing you will never be done giving
thanks. You have got rid of an inter
esting family of States, and retain only
a troublesome family of bonds, Butlers,
scallawags and negroes, of whom we
wish you much joy.—Louisville Cou
rier.
JgjyThe Spirit of Democracy says:
The leaders of Radicalism are
Butler, the demagogue and thief.
Bingham, who hanged an innocent
woman.
Yates, who was drunk 10 vears out
of 17.
Stevens, who keeps a yellow wench.
Wade, who does nothing but swear.
Colfax, who does nothing but grin.
Kelly, who tried to'hide behind a
bucket when harranguing down South.
Forney whose account as Secretary
of the Senate was $40,000 short.
Brown low, a very bad old man.
And the smallest of all is Grant, who
has been convicted of lying, drunken
ness, butchering ten men to Lee’s one,
and of being a very weak man ; al
though a determined oppressor of
White men for the benefit of Radicals
and Negroes.’
8®*A Baptist minister is responsible
for the following; “When I was much
1 vuugii limit HUH-ill IttU, 8UUII Ultt’l
tho commencement of my administra
tions—I held a meeting at my own
house. It being customary for manv
of the congregation to remain to din
ner, Mrs. B. sent our negro boy Tim to
neighbor Paul’s for some butter. Tim
returned and located himself, standing
on one foot at a time, in the out skirts
of the congregation. Being well warm
ed up in my sermon, thlnkiug neither
of Tim or Ids errand, but only of the
most successful mode of pressing
upon my hearers one of my strongest
arguments, I demanded, with all the
energy in my power: “And what
did Paul say ? Tim at the top of his
little squaking voice, exclaimed, as Tim
only could have done: “He tlied you
coulden’t git any more butter till you
paid for what you had got!” “This
brought down the house and cut short
oue of the finest offorts of my early
ministry; and since then 1 have kept
1 my preaching disconnected from do
mestic affairs.’
10“A little fellow, some four or five
years old, and who had never seen a
negro, was perplexed one day when
one came where heaud his father were.
The youngster eyed tbestrauger till lie
had passed, and then asked his father:
“Pa, who painted that man all black
so ?’
“God did, ray son,'replied tho father.
“Well,“said the little one, still look
ing after the negro, ‘I shouldn't have
thought he'd a held still.’
g0““The man who raised a cabbage
head has done more good than all the
metaphysics iu the world,” said a stump
orator at a meeting. “Then,” replied a
wag, “your mother ought to have the J
premium.”
Domestic Recipes.
Packing Butter in the Summer.—A
Vermont butter maker writes to the N.
Y. Farmers’ Club, Concerning packing
butter to keep: Pack it in well soak
ed tubs or firkins, put a little damp
salt in the bottom and place it in a cool
dry cellar, on a bench of wood eigh
teen inches from the cellar bottom and
the same from tho wall. Stono or
earthenware docs not keep butter well
as the moisture from the surrounding
atmosphere in warm weather, conden
ses on such vessels and soon affects the
butter. Put no salt ou or between the
layers. Fill to within half an inch of
the top. Place a clean wet cloth over
the butter, pack the edge down with a
knife, and then spread thinly wet salt
over the cloth. Having made and
dealt in butter for some time, I can say
the above mode of packing and keep
ing butter will be useful to many, and
cause a smile of delight to the buyer.
Ice Cream.—Take one quart of milk
and scald it very little, beat the yolk of
four eggs to a froth, and stir in slowly.
Add one half pound of sugar. Flavor
as you like it, and freeze.
Alderberry AVine.—Two quarts of
berries to five quarts of water. One
pound of sugar, to one quart of the
juice and water together.
Tomato Catsup. —Scald your toma
toes ; then place them in a kettle to
Don. wnen aone, cool ana strain mem
through a scivc, then add pepper, salt
and cloves. Scald them again, and add
one tablespoonful of brandy to one
pint of the catsup, place in bottles, cork
and seal while hot, setting it in a cool
place.
-A dreadful hailstorm has lately
occurred in Texas. Great injury was
done to the crops, and the roads were
blocked up for miles with fallen timber
blown down by the toruado. Whole
farms of twenty acres were demolished,
and some of the planters were moving
off. Hail stones fell weighing five
pounds.
(9* A Frenchman having heard the
phrase, “I've got other fish to fry,”
very readily learned its application.
One evening, after escorting a young
lady home, and being invited to walk
in, he thought of the above expression,
and excused himself by saying:
“I tank you, mum; I must go cook
some fish.”
19*An exchange, in speaking of the
magical strains of a hand organ, says
“When he played Old Dog Tray,’ we
noticed eleven pups sitting in front of
the machine on their haunches, brush
ing the tears from their eyes with their
fore paws.”
-The iron manufacturers in Mas
sachusetts are making money. The
Teuton papers announce that two com
panies in that city have just declared
dividends of 20 per cent. each.
-Mr. Frank Kcid of the Zanesville,
Ohio postoffice, has invented a machine
which will add five long columns of
figures at once.
(9* A Connecticut editor gives an ac
count of a man who “blew out his
brains after bidding his wife good bye
with a shot gun.”
(9* A child was run over by a wagon
three years old and cross-eyed with
pantalets which never spoke after
wards.
(9*0001 ittlc and Butler having
dined together, Prentics conjectures
that it must have been at a place of en
_a ___.1 it_x
It^*E very where endeavor to be use
ful aud everywhere you will he at home.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. J. ROGERS*
ATT®BUSY AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to the Collection
of Claims, Investigation of Land Titles, Pay
ment of Taxes. 4c. my Hi
SIMON r. HUGHES. WM. W. SMITH.
HUSHES A SMITH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
—AND—
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
CLARENDON, ARK.
DR. J. W. BURSTS?,
Being permanently located at Des Arc,
will contiuue the practice of his profession in
all its hruuchcs.
Office at Col. J. M. Burney's Drug Store.
DR. ROBT. B. TREZEVMT,
Tenders his professional services to
the citizens of Des Arc aud vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sep21
F. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL M
kinds of work in my line. Mend- Kk
ing, Cleaning, 4c. Aall
-Thankful for past favors, 1 solicit a
continuance of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me febiS-tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Z. P< Hi PARR,
ATTORNS? AT LATtf,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
H. I3. ~Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
DBS ARC, ARKANSAS
WILL practice inthcCourts of the counties
jf Prairie, White, Jackson, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to tba
solleotlon of claims any where in the State,
sepilf.
T. E. EMERSON)
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARK
Special attention given to the collection
and securing claims, buying and selling lands,
paying taxes, examing titles, Ac. april 11
J. R. F. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Courts of
i he seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to his
care. janl2
lt- s. OASTT. W. J. BRONAOOH
GANTT & BRONAUGH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie,
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu
laski. Prompt atttention given to the collec
tion of claims. Taxes will be paid and titles
Investigated for non-residents. oprl4-3m
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. S. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD * THOMAS,
imivimtuw
DES ARE, ARKANSAS.
JAMKS H. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. GAUSE,
Augusta, Ark. Jacksonport, Ark.
Patterson & Clause,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jackson port sad Augusta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, and
Attend to special cases in any part of the
State. Address either office. myl8-ly
J. C. JONSON, Office—West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searcy, Arkansas
JONSON & MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
—AND—
General Land and Collecting Agent*.
SEARCY, ARKANSAS,
Will give prompt attention to any business
in the counties of Independence, Jaekaon,
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
and Van Uuren. marO
SOL. F. CLARK. SAM. w. WILLIAMS
JOE. W. MARTIN.
CLARK, WILLIAMS ft MARTI*,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
act as Real Estate and General A gent t.
Omen—Markham Street, near State House
april2S-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHER.
Attorney at I^aw,
corroy plaxt. woopruffco, ark
WiH practice where eallcd.
sep88-4f.
VN. R. COODT. D. MC BAR
COODY & McRAE,
AmiVSIt At &AW
SEARCY, WHITE COVNTY,
ARKANSAS.
Will practice in all (he courts of ArkuiM.
mar'24
SR. ALL31T
Offers his services to the citizens of
Dos Arc and vicinity in the practice of
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
and by attention to business he expects
to share a liberal prtronage.
Office*—At his residence—late the
residence of W. G. Frith. sep21
Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
riNENDERS his professional services to the
_L Citixens of lies Arc ami surrounding
cuuntry, in the practice of Uedlclneand Ob
stetrics. He hopes from an experience of
over fifteen years in Southern practice, to
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney’s Drug
s<or*' raarch„’8-1868-lv