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THE BRENHAM INQUIRER,
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY. AT
THBEB DOLLARS
PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
JOB PRINTING neatly exe-
cuted, at low prices, for cash only.
Announcement of Candidate,
Ten Dollars, in advance.
No attention paid to orders,
onaccompranied by the cash.
Irmjmm
miter.
YOL. X.
BRENHAM, TEXAS, SATURDAY. JANUARY H>- mi. NO. 25.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ATTOBNETS.
J. D. & D. C. GIDDINGS,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
and
qeneh.il laxd agents,
Brenbav, Vastbiastra Connty, Texas.
CHARLES R. BREEDLOVE,
/Attorney dc Counsellor at Law,
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
Crr:cE—In the Count House.
Nov. 4th,fC5.
POETRY.
THE STYLE.
BY H. FLINT.
B. F. PARKS,
Attorney at Law.
"ITT ILL practice in aV the CouTts of the
f f 3rd Judicial District, and in the coun-
ties of Ilaiiis aad Austiu. Special attention
to Probate business.
Breaham Feb. 10, 1S65. ly
CHARLES T. KAVANAUGH,
Attorney at Law
and
Notary pu"blic,
BELLVILLE, AUSTIN CO., TEXAS.
CoutTacts, oonvevances, deeds, deeds of
trust, mortgages, wills, die., carefully and
neatly, drawn up.
Depositions properly taken and promptly
returued. Acknowledgements of deeds by
married women, affidavits, protests, and all
other natural acts. oct. 20, 1866.
£>, L, McGary,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brenbam, Texas.
WILL regularly attend the District
Courts in the Counties of Washington,
Austin. Burleson, Brazos, Milam, Fayette
and Colorado.
COLLECTIONS AND
CONVEYANCES MADE,
Lands Sought. Sold, or Located
ON COMMISSION
and Abstracts of Titles to Real-Estate
Properlv furnished.
Nov. 4th, '65.
J. R. M'DONALD,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
cha?p£ll kill,
V/icsIiington Ccnntf, Texan.
April 14,1866.—ly
THOMAS B. WHITE,
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
Po toff ice Street,
march 2. '66-J y. GALVESTON.
JPII ISlt'lANS & SURGEONS.
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PR. HERMANN BAUER,
Surgeon,
X .*&kl*UR9' j
:iuayl« Hotel. }
•cnlnim, Texas.
I saw a girl, not long ago.
Parading on the street.
Who showed at every step she took,
Her ankles calves and feet.
Her dress, though plenty long enough
To sweep a yard or more,
Was gathered up about a foot,
Behind, beside, before.
She wore a monstrous waterfall,
A turban hat and feather,
With water-wheels and water-mills,
And rats and mice together.
He waist was just about a foot,
Her skirts ten yards around,
. Her hat it weighed two ounces,
And her waterfall a pound.
Her dress was made of finest silk,
Perhaps from Paris gotten ;
Her saque was maue of velvet,
And her body made of cotton.
Her face was ^xtra pretty,
Her hands were extra white ;
Her hair was extra heavy,
But her brain was extra light.
At night I asksd my sister Em,
A stylish girl—said I,
"I've got a question for you, Em,
I wish you'd tell me why
E'n when the day is cloudless
And all the walks are dry,
The ladies take such extra pains
To keep their skirts so high ?"
"Well, Hi," said she, her lips the while
Put on a stylish smile,
•' I don't kjow any rerson
Than because it is the style."
The style Confound the style, say I,
Oh would we did not know
An atom more of fashion now
Than those of >earsago.
Itseemsasif the men to-day
Were growing boys again,
While all the girls are trying hard
To be transformed to men*
The girl whose poor old father now
Has saved some little riches,
Cuts short her dress like fa ther's coat,
But throws aside his breeches.
Her foot is pinched, her waist compressed,
Her calves are stuffed the while,
Her pouting lips show dentist's teeth
When e'er they wreathe a smile,
Herbram is full of nonsense,
And her stomache full of bile,
Her heart absorbed in fashion,
And her head all full ni style.
Well, I shall not want to marry
For about a year or so,
And I hope that when I'm ready
1 shall make a stylish beau ;
But, O, ye Gods ! if women then
Are gotten up in style, a
I'll stil! postpone the business
And wait a longer while.
I shall still postpone my marriage
Until a girl I find,
That won't allow the fashion
To supercede the mind ;
And then, if such a one I find,
My bride I hope she'll be.
For a girl that ain'tabsqibed in style,
Is just the style for mfc.
But tho rapacious ouss wasn't satis-*
fied yet.
"It's your boots I want now,"
says he.
Mr. O'Keegan began to think that
the chap was a little too Radical, but
as the chap insisted that the boots
were an indispensable concession, Mr.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
Cotton and wool manufacture is a
reality m Houston,. The Eureka
Mills are nowr turning out fino sheet-
ADVERTISEMENTS
INSERTED AT
One Dollar and a half per square,
(ten lines or less.) for the first in-
sertion, and Seventy-five Cents
per square for each subsequent
insertion.
Business Cards of one square,
or less, Fifteen Dollars per an-
num. Advertisements consid-
ered due upon first insertion^..
The Approaching Financial Crisis.
—We clip the following timely re*
marks from the N. Y. Sun :
" For months past there have been
r? 3. •J
Keoiueuee—L
Brcnh
A Little S ory w
< * Corry O' Lan us,'
tho
ious goods,
cotton and ij^ol, and test the
O'Keegan pulled them off, saying to ' 1uestion of Profit k-*'d loss in these en-
himself, " he's got everything now,
and I'll be off."
While the villain was putting on the
boots Mr. O'Keegan wished him good
night and was trotting off, when tho
unreasonable amaahaun calls after
him.
" Mr. O'Keegan," says he, just stopj
where ye are.
your money, and
coat, and your
ings and drills, anU will in a few days | lndicafions pointing to a momentary
put in the marketT **eir various 0-on<^ i revulsion in this country. Shrewd
put
both
an, soya m,, stop That tfa
I have your watch and |.. ,,
, J . , . ' liable, a mc
d your coat, and waist- , T
• i t i I S show. In ,
r ooots, and 1 belave i , , '
' I Ai AntA<i nr o
chat's ail ye have about ye that's!
7
; men have observed them, but the
great mass of the people have given
lerprises. them no attention. So far as Congress
The Houston City Mills will be 13 con.cerned> one would not suppose,
erected this spring? Already aro the ^l*on\'ts^eg,slfttion, that there is a sin-
bricks ready, and much of the ma- ^ °pon tho surface of the fi-
cbinery is OiiigCj^ound. This ma- nanc*aJ Wftters, or that snch a thing is
clmery is very fine, and has eTei* }[k°ly t0 occur- Tho danSor is
cost, we aro toleighty thou- aaeatJ> howeVe!"> and both Congress
! sand dollars. & |an(^ people should endeavor to
That these fact£$jp.,;n 3r^f_* m"kc T-ovlnon for it. No people nev-
and ^ £*°Pio cao> lonS wifchs
the fir^ 't lace, they arei8^nd Slleh a P5'ossaro of taxation as
greater, and are t°a'wh'ch. w rests upon tho people
of tho United States. * * * The
estimated amount of revenue which
| erected at a cost r*c- greater, and are
„ .i.i. i "" ° j worked at iu&t about the same charge
worth taking. But now ye il bo after ,T lL J m,. . b
. . . . J , . ... as Northern mills, this last was not
going to the magistrates and tcdmg j ant.n.ntltnA jt was gupi)0ge{j . +1 the Government proposes to raise next
. * " 4 i rnni* l'a AAA AAA
h o v«tv luii^ickiubVd twa-ivi vviitii^ : . • . 1
yerstory and sending tho peelers after S an J01?11 c
• such wftcrcs
me. and trying to get your property
back aad me hanged. To save j o all '>cr ?<"!'-raor° l, 'a" th0Se m,1Is,.
that trouble, I'll jist knock ye on tho i " 13 fon"d,that e,Xponse3 °.f T"
bead, and make ye a eomfortablo bed ratl,vcs are 1"' 0 " "h!aP' tl'el'1^
it u a ,, A1 jrest expense—foo>.l— being consulera-
m the bog, and covei ye up so that £. , 1 . 4l ... ° . .,
1/ ^ -a bly less, and that they can work with
nobody'll disturb ye. Ifyevoammdi , , * , .
to confess your sins before ye takc profit to tbcmselve: on about the same
yer nap, I'll give ye jist two minits by1 wa!res as 10 Lowu|li
must bo necessarily fifty !'7ar is 8505,000,000—an average of
your own watch."
Now Mr. O'Keegan began to think
the virtue of concession bad its limits,
and that it was timo to take a stand
in defence of conservative principles.
His eyes were opened.
He was aroused, and instead of sor-
ing his prayers, ho squared off a-*!
pitched in to the unconscionable
scamp, and being some on his muscle
when iiia dander was up, ho knocked
the blackguard out of time in tho first
round, recovered his property, and
handed the other chap over to the
first policcman who came along.
" Bedad," said Mi. Olieegan, f< If I
had only done that in the first place
I'd have saved myself a dale of trou-
ble and a bad cowld."
I think we had better fight it out on
tho first issue.
But, in the second place, tho cost of
tho raw material is much less. Cotton
laid down at the iiiirtory bore costs to-
day about 20 cents spceie or say 27
cents currency. Xmid down at the
.Northern factories, it costs fully 37
cents. If tho cost of manufacture is
tho same, heic is
;ent., an
advantago
a saving of 2^
per
enough of itself
J. L. WATKINS,
^Ajsiciau and Surgeon,
I:!-.EXIIAM, TEXAS.
Has resumed the practice of his profession.
Office, at the Drug Store of J. L- Watkins &.
Co. June 30-tf.
MERCHANTS & GROCERS.
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BEIT. STONES,
U. NAPIER STONES
BEN STONES & Co.,
COTTON AND WOOL FACTORS,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
A SO
General Commission Merchants.
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
July 19, '65.
T. TONN,
Commercial Broker,
COMMISSION, RECEIVING,
AND.
FOElWAILDIKrCS- -
Keeps always on hand Family Groceries,
Iron, Liquors, and all kinds of goods generally
kept in country stores.
Brenhain, Texas. June 23rd, 1866.
WOOD &. GREEN,
wholesale AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Grccer.cs and Family Supplies,
—Shipman Building, Main Street—
Brenbam, Texas.
A complete stock of goods in our line al-
ways on hand and offered at the very lowest
possible figures.
or-11 solicited from our friends and the
public generally. July 7, lS66-6m.
August 4th, 186S-y. ; correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle,
is responsible for the following •< little
story" illustrative of the demands of
tho Radical party:
O'Bliqno thinks that if a man wants
everything, the best way is to lei him
have it, for then ho will bo satisfied
and won't want anything else.
If the people of the North will only
give the -Radicals all the offices, and
the white people of tho South will
grant negro suffrage, give up their
lands and personal property, and then
comc in with ropes around their necks,
and subnit to bo hung without any
bother, \\ o shall have peace.
Thi i-eminds me of a little story.
It * as about a man in Connaaght.
Ji snamo was O'Keegan.
He was a decent, quiot, oiderly, and
peaceable sort of a man, who believed
in a quiet life.
He lived out of town, and had to
travel a bit of a lonely road, with a
bog on one side and woods on the
other.
Ono day as he was traveling home
all alone, and it was quite dark, the
moon had'nt risen, and that part of
r. f. ewino.
g. w. ho&ton.
t. KESir.
E. FXEWING & Co.,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
A *J>
Sfueral Commission Merchants,
•r- Brjcli'slore, near ntjVoad Depot,—
^ BRENHAM, TE3L AS.
* €\7fLL receive on consignment for sale
\ \ or shipment, Merchandise, Cotton,
Wool, Hides , and all kinds of Country Pro-
duce.
% Orders for Merchandise, Cotton, Wool, <tc.
promptly filled, when properly covered by
remittances. July 2 th, 1865.
MARTIN T. KURTZ,
f COMMISSION MERCHANT,
^WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STORE,
i Brenham, Texan.
Consisting of Dr" Goods, Groceries, Boots,
" shoes, Hardware, Tinware, Cutlery, &c.
' Cheapest Store in Breuhaiu.
«all and see. June 2, 1866.
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KOCH & GEHKMAN,
DEALERS IIT
IJy Groceries and Provisions,
—Opposite Post Office—
Brenhain, Texas.
A full and complete stock on band at all
es to be disposed of at the very lowest
'ires. May 26, 1866.
WhEKE's the Nigger ?—Thcro avo
men in Pennsylvania who paint tho j
devil in his true colors, and the editor
of tho BeHcfonlo Watchman is .ono of|
them. The Radical sheet, tho Tama-
qua Journal, having said * " We Imvo
i ffjuTCiiie" lE6eHu5fican' victory ■ \ no . ! ' a-
! s 1 t, 0 n.i L, cso c.r.u,
VVher's the r>if«rpr? **-->' ,.__iota.id
him, feel him,
to give a monopoly, lx>th for home
supply and for export trade— to mar-
kets not more distant. Add to this
tho jobbers' 15 per cent, profit in Now
York, the cost of bringing goods from
there here, say 5 per cent., and we
havo a margin for supply to our own
trade, of fully 17 cents per pound of
manufactured goods. Can any one
doubt that feuch manuFactories must
prove a success'(
Our calculation is* of course, not
minute, but the p^ac'Mcnl rct'der will
observe tbat there is nothing visionary
about iL, and that ir.V^encral terms it
| covers the caso. *v
Judge ifunger, vuio^a the Superin-
tendon!
go ahc£
of both t!:
man. - id
. p _ ...
l i to aet'cPt. wh^t they could r.ot cuoimous that
Lnnd adiflprne' toj^ii/^i l«Wy
^ j :theil boarulng jouse tiuil5 welrprfijca j fiuo„fco on The :
jrem Tier's mistake.-^
j
016 for every man, woman, and child,
white or black, in tho United States.
This, bo it remembered, is simply the
revenue required for tho u?o of tho
General Government. In order to
get at the actual burden of taxation,
the various State, county and other
taxes, must be added to tho above sum.
Before the war the expenses of tho
General Government were less than
§100,000,000. We now have to mako
up the addition with rcsouices greatly
diminished. * * * Under such
circumstances it is plain enough that
wo must fall unless relief can be had,
and tho signs of the times admonish
os that danger is drawing near.
Married by Accident.—Last even-
ing Edward Thayer and Miss Heller. P.
Jelliman, attended by Mr. Austin
Humphrey and Annie E. Crausc, went
to St. Paul's Church the former couple
to get married, and the latter to act as
groomsman and bridesmaid. They all
stood up before tho altar, and the offi-
ciating clergj'inan, theRev. Mi. Dunn,
supposing that both couples were to
be married, requested the gentlomen
to join hands with their respective las
dies, which was done, and in a very
short space of timo four were made
two. The situation being fully reals
ized by the latter couple, they conclus
In a lato number, the Cincinnatti
Commercial says, in reference to the
proposition to territorialize the South:
11 It is not at all probable, in tho first
place, that the Southern Slates will be
reduced to a territorial condition by
act of Congross. Wo regard it as so
improbable that wo do not think it
worth while to discuss the question of
tho power to do so,
"There will be some bluster of that
sort, and possibly a bill to that end
will be presented and debated, but the
majority of tho Republicans, in and
out of Congress, will hear of no such
measure with any patience. It would
require aa* iher revolt on tho part of
the Southern pecplo to convince thom
of such a necessity."
The Chicago Republican professes to
havo trustworthy information from
Utah that Brigham Youngis about to
retire temporarily to a plantation
some sixty miles from Salt Lake City,
leaving the charge of public affairs in
the hands of his son. This movement,
it is said, is occasioned by the increase
ing age of Brigham Young, and the
object is to test the ability of young
Brigham to wield the sceptre before
tho death of the father makes a change
compulsory. If the young man an-
swers, Brigliam's abdication is to be
permanent.
It is rumored in political circles
here that several leading Radical mem-
bers of the House are carrying on a
private correspondence with their
friends in the State Legislature, urg*
ing them to postpone action on the
Constitutional Amendment until Cons
gress has time to prepare a substitute
for that measure as the ultimatum of
the Radical party on the question of
restoration, I have no doubt of the
truth of this report, as it is very well
known here that scarcely a single Rad-
ical member in cither House now fas
vors the adoption of the Amendment
as a final settlement of existing po«
litical troubles.
wool growing inlcrfcst
thy
Moral. | v*
j where's tho
humorous j man answers
V'
in this wise:
jo::o bc..<..
a portion
nicrtrer.' Can't you seel ' '. ' . „
ii i- 9 r ■ I of these en tcrp rises"!
smell htm: ror in-- , .t„ v
, . i taken. \Y e
stance .- eo to your store, and 3*ou iret
.. . , , " _ . Ion# on tho mari
from eighteen to twenty-nvo coins
A im- i
worth of nigger in every yard of
muslin 3'Ott buy; from ten to fifteen
ccnts worth of nigger in every yard
of calico your wife and children use;
from six to eight- dollars worth of nig
ger in each barrel of flour your famiiy
long
graph.
pros iv
ViS
stock oi eacn j
kill remains to be
ife it will r.ot be
L—Houston Tde-
Vv i • • "!
i. iVOH.
mistake.-^^troil. ha.* recently arrived^
tralia, for tho cxprc:
Attempted Robb^hitand Murder.—
The Flag of Thurs-iay contains an ac-
count- oi an atletnrjt to rob and mur-
der Mr. John M. Craver, of tins coun-
ty, near Pittsburgh, in Upshur county,
Indian, ami a white man who
nigger in each pound of coffee you I gave his name as Tom Douglass, and
purchase; frcm eight to twelve cents j claimed to bo a citizen of Missouri:
worth of nigger in every pound of! The Indian w as pursued and shot, and
sugar you buy to sweeten it; you'll j Douglass, alter four day's confines
find a small bit of nigger in your box j mcnt, closely guarded by tho citizens,
consumes; t went}*-five cents worth of j by an
" got away." From tho tone of the
article it is presumed he had some
" help."—Texas Republican.
of matches, and considerable nigger
in your plug of tobacco. You can cat
nothing, wear nothing, see nothing,
taste nothing, or have nothing tbat is
not more or less affected by the miser-
able niggorism that has controlled the
country ever since the Black Republi-
can party got it by the throat. Now
you see it!
Murder in Hill County—Wo are
called upon to record another atro- tjrjeci ;n ijie ganj ground in a mill and
eious work of robbery and murder.
'ii.
iie National Intelligencer says.*
Tho indignation which tho people of
North Carolina express against Ex-
Gov. Ilolden, tho aversion shown Col.
Stokes by tho people of Tennessee,
and the burning words of contempt
indulged in by Texas against the no-
torious Hamilton, aro cited by Radi-
cal journals as evidences of the disloy-
al character of tho people of those
States. So, too, in other States, where
men are now violent Unionists, as
they would have the country believe,
who were formerly blatant secessions
ists, the the people do not refrain from
Siieep Raising.—Tho Western por*
tion of Texas is attracting considcra**
ble attention abroad on account of its
unequalled facilities, for grazing. Tho
Lerjbst has become so
product of this
a largo Ins
nark fx. ■; 0 e inun
t- from Aus-
•e: i j. D pi-iO .«f en-
gaging in sheep raising. views
are to enter into tho business on the
Australian plan; that is, to havo flocks
numbering from ten to twenty thou-
sand.—S. A Antonio Express.
A Messenger, just arrived at Fort
Laramie from the plains, reports that
twelve Indian tribes havo united to
take common cause against tho whites
in the Territories of Dakota and Mon-
tana. The number of warriors is es-
timated at 11,000,
the Washington corres-
Tho Philadelphia Press says a thri-
ving trade is driven in Philadelphia in
the re manufacture of stumps of cig-
ars, otherwise known as "old sogers"
which are industriously gathered from
the streets and fronts of hotels and
bar-rooms, and afterwards washed,
tho country wasn't lighted with gas
in those days, when who should step
up from behind a lamp post but, a big
nilirtherin villian with a shilhilah un-
der his arm.
« Good morning to you, Mr, O'Kee-
gan. an' I'!i trouble you for tho time
O *
of the day," says ho.-
Mr. O'Keegan took 0£>t his watch
to answer the question, when tho
blackguard grabs it.
"It's a fine regeater ye have got,
Mr. O'Keegan " says he, " and it's in
danger ye are of losing it; so I'll just
take care of it lor yc," and ho stuffed
it in his pocket.
Mr. O'Keegan says to himself, says
he, •< Better let him have the watch,
and he'll be satisfied and go away."
But he didn't.
" iVTr. "O'Keegan," says ho, " may
be ye have some small ohange about
ye, tbat ye'd be happy to lend me;
and ye will save me the trouble of go-
ing through your pockets, by shelling
out."
Thinks Mr. O'Keegan to himself:
" He only wants my money, and I'll
let him have that rather than have
any trouble with the fellow."
So he shelled out, and thought ho
had satisfied the rapscallion, and was
going off quite peaceably.
"Whist, Mr. O'Keegan," says he,
" ye have a mighty fine coat tbat 'ud
just fit me, and I'll trouble you for it."
Mr. O'Keegan thought it wasn't
worth while to fight about a coat, so
he pulls it off, and the other chap puts
it on, and Mr. O'Keegan thought he
was going to get home at last in his
shirt sleeves.
Judge J. W. P, Doyle and son living
about 12 miles from Hillsboro, on
White Rock creek, were murdered on
the evening of the 20th inst., at the
houso of Judge Doyle. As soon as
tho murder was completed Mrs. Doyle
was robbed of a large amount of mon-
ey and drafts. We learn that Judgo
Doyle was an old citizen of Ilill, and
universally respected, though in poii-
lies ho differed with a imijority of his '
feiiow citizens. He was Chief Justice
of Hill county before the war, and
since undo? Gov. Hamilton—Wo arc
informed that the citizens of Hill are
making every exertion to arrest the
murderers.— Waco Register.
A note from tho widow of de-
ceased, states that there were six par-
tics engaged, and that they stole
§32,000 in drafts, 810,000 in currency,
and §2,500 in specie. She offers the
specie and currency as a reward for
the apprehension of the murderers,
and return of the drafts.
presented to the public in the various
forms of fino chewing and smoking to-
strong expressions of hostility against
i the in aligners of those whom they
once misled. Nor could anything be
more natural. It is not their Unions
ism that is complained of, but their
business.
This is true. Nobody at the South
objects to tho " Unionism " of any-
body. The objection to these men is
that they are selfish and dishonest;
and the time is coming vhon their
selfishness will bo understood, and
when, in the language of the Intelli-
gencer, the North itself "will be glad
that there was enough of manhood in
" Ilermes"
pondent of tho Charleston Mercury,
eay s:
Tho opinion gains ground that Wade
Foster & Co., are touring it in the
South for a purpose be3*ond that of a
Christmas frolic. If the gritty and
cantankerous Wade return with the
report that he has been mistaken in
the feeling of tho South, a fino open-
ing will bo made for widening the
doors of Congress. "Reconstruction"
is called for urgently in Wall street,
and here is a cbanco for an excuse for
it.
bacco and aromatic snuff. Ugh! Think
of this, yo smokers and chewers—ye j S°uth to reject loaders who havo
revellers in tho sweet intoxication of i Pr0VCD themselves unworthy of tho
tho seductive weed 1
There is on Blackwell's Island, New
York, a man who, a fow years ago,
was ono of the mos« learned and elos
aoceptablc'wftnd promising
young ministers in tho land. Ho re-
fused an invitation, from the First
Presbyterian Church of Troy, to settle
as a colleague pastor with the Rev.
Dr. Be man. He is now a driveling
idiot, not by a visitation from God,
but through the excessive use of al-
coholic liquor.
The announcement that but a single
revolutionary soldier, Samuel Dunn, of
New York, is now living, has brought
out the Meadville (Pa.) Republican,
which states that another revolution*
ary hero is still living at Sandusky,
New York. His name is Mathias
Bakeman, and he receives a pension
from the Government. Having been
born in 1755, he is now 111 years old,
and his daughter, over 80 years of
age, keeps house for him. He enjoj-s
excellent health, can walk about, and
every fourth of July fires from his
old fowling piece a salute in momory
of auld lang syne.
Poisoning by a Human Bite.—a
sad occurrence has happened at Artb,
in France. Lieutenant Felehin was
somo time back bitten in tbo thumb
by a man named Muller, but ho
thought nothing of the wound, and
went next day on a journey on his
private affairs. On reaching Bale be
found bis hand and arm began to
swell, and a medical man declared
that the case was one of poisoning
from a human bite. He at once re-
turned home in haste, but he refused
to have the arm amputated. The con-
sequence was that the inflamation ins
creased frightfully, and he died some
days after in horrible suffering.
Ageninsof Jackson, Michigan, has
had patented reversible boots and
shoe heels, the merit of these being
that they may be changed so that they
will wear evenly.
trust of any party."—News.
Hespecling the condition of Virgins
ia, the Richmond Enquirer says : "The
people of Virginia, with few excep-
tions, are eschewing politics, and de-
voting themselves to industrious purs
suits. Already they have done much
to repair tho waste and ravages of
war, and to render themselves com-
fortable and independent, after a plain
sort. Although their crops have as
yet afforded but little surplus for out-
side markets, they have varied and
multiplied tho products of their farms
as well in grain, fruits and vegetables,
as in live stock; and hence, we think,
tho State was never better supplied, in
the aggregate, with provisions for
home consumption, than now. Tho
distribution of these provisions is la-
mentably unequal; for thousands of
women and children, and of the aged
and infirm, who were stripped by the
war of everything, have been wholly
unable to repair their losses thus sus-
tained.—N. T. Day Book.
The reports from Montana indicato
serious danger of a famine in that
Territory this winter. The cold sea-
son set in earlier than was expected,
and the supply of provisions is very
meagre. Starvation prices havo aN
ready been obtainable in the mining
towns.
What is taken from you before you
get it ? Your portrait.
A Self Struggle.—Tho following,
duly signed, was lately contained in a
Western paper: "Whereas, at any
particular times I may importune my
friends ard others to let mo have liq-
uor, which is hurtful to mo and detri-
mental to society, this is, therefore,
to forbid any person selling me liquor,
or letting me ha^o it on any account,
for if they do, I will positively prose-
cute them, notwithstanding any pro-
mises I may mako to tho contrary at
the time they may let me have it.
California must be a prolific coun~
try, especially about Sawyer's bar.
We learn that editors there have chil-
dren within seven months after mar-
riage. Who's pin here since Isc pin
gone. For particulars we refer Cali-
foruians to tho editor of the Trinata
journal, David E. Gordon, a doublo re-
fined libertine who holds a flambeaux
to guide the God and morality party
there, and does it by personal attacks
on Wisconsin editors.—LaCross Detn.
A man stopping his paper, wrote to
the editor : " 1 think folkes ottent too
take papurs, my daddi didnt and eve-
ry bodey says he was the most intels
ligentest man in the country, en hod
tho smartest familie of bois that ever
diged tatur."
A Lesson op Trust.—Somo timo
ago, a boy was discovered in CI a i born o
street, evidently bright and intelligent,
but sick. A man, who had the feeling
of kindness strongly developed, went
to ask him what he was doing there.
" Waiting for God to come to mo,"
said lie.
" What do you mean ?" said tho
gentleman, touched by the pathetic
tone of the answer of the boy, ia
whose eyes and flushed face he saw tho
evidence of fever.
" God sent for mother, and father,
and little brother," said he, "and
took them away to his home up in the
sky; and mother told me, when she
was eick, tbat God would take care of
me. 1 have no home, nobody to give
me anything, and so I came out here,
and have been loeking so long np ia
the sky for God to come and take caro
of me, as mother said he would. Ho
will come, won't he ? Mother never
told me a lie."
"Yes, my lad," said the man over-
come with emotion, « he has sent mo
to take care of you."
You should have seen his eyes flash
and the smile of triumph break over
his face, as he said: " Mother never
told mo a lie, sir, but you have been
so long on tho way."
What a lesson of trust, and how
this incidont shows tho effect of never
deceiving children with tales.
A dispatch from Fort Laramie gives
an account of a horrid massaere, said
to have occurred near Fort Phil.
Kearney. Three officers and ninety
enlisted men wcro surrounded hy a
number of Indians, and every one of
them killed.
The Georgia cotton crop is carefully-
estimated at 170,000 bales, which is
less than a third of tho product of
ISG0. The samo pioportion through**
out tho South would make the entire
yield of last year about 1,400,000
bales.—2 clegraph.
Colorado and Nebraska aro only to
be admitted by the insertion of a
clause in tbo Enabling acts that tho
word " white " is to bo stricken from
their constitutions; otherwise, enough
Repu blican Senators will vote against
the bills to defeat their passage over
tho President's veto.
A brow-beating counsel asked a wit-
ness during a trial for assault, at what
distance he was from tho parties when
the assault happened. He answered : „
feel five ineheB and «.
bah*- -
"■t'Sr chme you to be so very ex- t
act, How . aatd "a
- " B^ause I expected spme fool S
<jther w'ould ask mo," said he, " so I \
measured it."
- Jt is undeniable, says Prentice, that
in Atncrica it takes threo to make a
pair—he, she and a hired girl. Had
Adam been a modern, there would
havo been a hired girl in Paradise to
look after little Abel and " raise Cain."
A poultice of onions, applied morn-*
ing, noon and nfght for threo or four
days, will euro a felon. No matter
how bad the case, splitting the finger
will bo unnecessary, if this poultico
bo used. Wc have seen it tried sever-*
al times and know the remedy is a
sure, safe and speedy one.
A marble quarry at Sheffield, Mass.,
with two hundred acres of land, re-
cently sold for eight thousand dollars.
Tho deed for tho property required
three hundred dollars wortn of stamps.
The latest antiqnarian sensation is
tho discovery of an ancient city in
tho south-eastern Africa, believed to
be tho Ophir of the Scriptures.
Skating is now all the rage in tho
North. The girls see how near th y
can go to the edge without going urn
dcr, arid make their lovers rcscuo
them.
A Good Invention.—A " Down
East" Yankee has recently invented
a rat exterminator, consisting of a
sort of powder snuff. The animal
jerks his head off at the third sneeze !
Tho East India telegraph company
wiil construct lines in China. They
aro now wanting only 850 miles of
wire to connect New York with Pekin.
This company will connect Pekin
with Hong Ivong and other coramer*
cial points. Its labors will probably
result in forming a complete telegraph-
ic claim from Calcutta, along the coast
of Asia and tho Amoor river. Before
many years we 6hall bo in hourly
communication with every city in the
world.
" Do you consider lager beer intox*
icating ?" " Veil, ash for dat, I can't
say. 1 drinks feefty to seexty glasses
a day, and it never hurts mo, put I
don't know how it would be if a man
vash to make a hog of himself."
Tho Emperor of Brazil has just lib~
crated tho national slaves, tho profits
of whose labor belonged to the crown;
and large numbers of the frcedmen
have entered the arm}*, and aro being
forwarded in detachments to tho seat
of war. This looks like tho first step
toward general emancipation in Bra-
zil ; at least, it is so regarded by the
Abolition party of the Empire.
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