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Established 1842.
Clarksville, Hed. River County, Texas, May 5, 1882,
ISTew Series No. 26, Vol.«8.
COUNTY DIRECTORY-
W. E. Woottex ConntyJudge.
J. W.
A. P. Corlet County Clerk.
E. M. Bowers District Clerk.
S. W. Barman County Attorney.
K. C. Graves - -Assessor.
J. R. Johnson' -Collector.
G. L. Moorman rreaaurer.
1>a^id lUiNEr, Surveyor.
jl'sticis and constables.
J.C. womack
J. D. Mower*
J. T. JOICSE
T.J. McBuidk
J. It. White
E. M. Posey,
j. N. Bukge
j T Fleming, J istice Peace, Precinct No 1.
j'c'Brows, Constable, Preciuct " 1
A, J. Brooks, Justice Peace, Preciuct No 2
Levi Bi.izzaud Jonstable, Precinct " 2
H. McAllister Justice Peace, Precinct No 3
N. M. Howison Constable, Preciact " 3
It. W. Towxes Justice Peace Precinct No 4
"W. P. BlaNT<. K Constable Pieciuct ''4
P M White Justice Peace Precinct No 5
Constable Precinct " 5
Justice Peace Precinct No 6
Constable, Precinct " 6
Justice Peace Precinct No 7
Constable, Precinct " 7
Justice Peace PrecinctNo 8.
Constable Precinct ' 3.
CO'iJNTT COMMISSIONERS.
vr. A. MaCLDIN Preciuct No2
Moses S. Grant,.. J[St " 5
F. M. WnvfE, Vct!ncJ .. *
j T. grooms, Precinct 6
COURT DIRECTORY
n.«T«icr CouitT will be held in Red River Couii
1y on?he V/tUoJMay, 1881, and on the 15 oi
liovcmbgr, 1^1 ;1 E M, Bowers, Clerk.
■ j • W SSI S. W. Harman, Co. Atty.
County Court of Red River Comity, held on tlie
third Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
♦.ember aud November 1^81.
J A. BaOBY, County Judge, A. P. CORLEY.Clk.
It'stick's Court, Precinct No. L held ou thelast
Mtiulav i" «acU month.
J T. Flemish, J P., J.C, Knows.', Constable
justice's Court, Precinct No. 2 neld on the
first Saturday in each mouth.
a j jjkooks J- P , Levi Bijzzaho, Constable
Justice's Court, Proeinct No. 3, on 3rd Saturday
"h^r"McAllister, J. P , N M. HowisosCon
Justice's Court, PrecinctNo. 4,4tli Saturday.
IBR.aw Townes, J. P. W P. Blaxton, Constable
Justices Court, Preciuct No. 5, on 2d Saturday
in each month. ..
P.M. White, J. P.. --C. Womack,Constable
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 6, ou 1st Satur
day in each month. „ ,
J. R Mowery, J. P. J- T. Goyne Constable.
Justice's Court, Preciuct No. 7, ou4th Saturday
in each mouth. , „ ...
T. J. McBride. J. P., J.R. Wlute, Constable.
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 8, on tha 2ud Sat-
urday in each month.
J3 M. Posey, J. P., Jure Burge Constable.
GATHER THB! SACBKD DUST.
by father ryan.
Gather the sacred dust
Of the warriors tried aud and true.
Who bore the flag of our nation's trust.
And fell in the cause, though lost, still just
And died for me and you.
Gather them, one and all!
From the private to the chief.
Come they from hovel or princely hall,
They fell for us, aud for them should fall
The tears of a nation's grief.
Gather the corpses strewn
O'er many a buttle plain ;
From many a grave that lies so lone,
Without a name aud without a stone.
Gather the Southern slain.
We care not whence they carao,
Dear is their lifeless clay !
Whether known, or unkuown to fame,
Their cause and country still the same—
They died-and wore the gray.
Wherever the brave have died,
They should not rest apart:
Living, they struggled side by side—
Why should the hand of death divide
A single heart from heart?
Gather their scattered clay!
Wherever it may rest;
Just as they marched to the bloody fray.
Just as they fell on the battle-day —
Bury them breast to breast.
The foejyen need not dread
This gathering of the brave;
Without sword or flag, without soundless tread
We niuster once more our deathless dead—
Out of each lonely grave.
The foemen need not frown;
They are all powerless now—
We gather them here, audw lay them down.
And tears and prayers the only crown
We bring, to wreath each brow.
And the dead thus meet the dead,
While the living o'er them weep ;
And the men whom Lee and Stonewall led,
And (lie hearts that once together bled,
Together still shall sleep.
R. I>. MOODY, M.I>.
BENNETT, TEXAS.
Offers hisprofeisional services to the people
in the neighborhood oi Bennett. 1? resh drugs
alwavs on hand. .
jio.4-1 v.
m. l.s1m5. w.j.mcdonald.
SIMS & McDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
CLARKS VILLE, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Courts of the 5th District
andin ihe Supreme aud Federal Courts held ui
the State.
ttf.
beg inning again.
a. m. taylor. s- chambers.
TAYLOR & CHAMBERS
ATTOBNEYS AT LAW.
Clarlisville, Texas.
Will practice in the Courts of the County
nod ot the 6th Judicial District, also the Su
juenie and Federal Courts ot the State.
W.J.SWAIN. GEO. F. Et'liUKTT.
SWAIN & BURDETT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Clarksville Texas.
Will practice law in all ot the State Courts
and in tlie Federal Courts held at Jefferson
and Tyler Texas. Collections solicited, aud
prompt attention given to all business intrust-
ed to their cave.
July 29f/t, 18S1.
w. E. DAILEY, M. D.,
OCUEIST and A LFR 1ST
PAKIS. TEXAS.
uo-2d-1y.
tZ W-KU s M7M- D-
Pariw, Texas.
17special attention given to the treatnien
il ot- tlie diseases of the Eye, Ear, aud
Tiiruat-(Catarrh.)
Office hoursfiom ? to 10 a. m
no.49-tt.
When sometimes, our feet grow weary.
Oh tlie rugged lulls of life—
The path stretching long and dreary
With trial and labor rife—
We pause on the toilsome journey,
■Glancing backward onjvalley and glen
And sigh with an infinite longing
To return and begin again.
Far behind is the dew of the morning
In all its freshness and light.
And before are doubts and shadows,
And tlie chill and gloom of night.
We remember the sunny places
We passed so carelessly then,
And ask with a passionate longing
To return and begin again.
Ah, vain, indeed, is the asking !
Life's duties press all ot us on,
And who dare shrink from the labor
Or sigh for the sunshine that's gone ?
And it may be not far ou before us
Wait, fairer places than them;
Life's "path may yet lead by still waters
Though we may not begin again.
For, evermore upward and onward
Be our paths on the hill of life,
And soon xitli a radiant dawning
, Traustigure the toil and the strife,
And our Father's hand will lead us
Tendeily upward then;
Iu the joy and peace of another world,
Hell let us begin agai n.
Tariff Beform Agitated.
R. G. LANE,
>*tl VSICIAI- nd SlIKOEOK.
Nov. 1st JA7!).
Clakksville, Texas.
co. I
J. W- EAINEY.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
CLACKS VILLE TEXAS,
his services to the public, in all bianche
ofltis profession.
H>' will be found at Goldberg's drug store, or
at his residence, North of the square.
Nov. 1st 1879.
DENTISTRY
DR. Z. B. MCCB3KAN,
Resident T>entist
Can always lie ton J<1 at the Bank building
office a)> stairs. All work wan-anted. Teeth ex-
tracted for fifty cents, all other work iu propor-
toii.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st. no-1-t.f.
M- ,T. IE USTG-ETL.
FllBOOT 1ND SHOE SURER.
Makes the best
BOOTS AND SHOES
Ont of the best material, as low as good work
can be done. Those wbo know the difference be-
tween French Calf Skiu, hand work, ami oil
tanned leather niaile by machinery, are invited to
call.
Repfvii-insr donf prornptlv.
—i——n 11—^
W ondei-iul Invention.
METAL TIP LAMP WICK.
I'atenlfd IJeo. 7tli, 1S80.
This Wick gives a brilliant white light, sti-
periot to iras. retinites no trimming and lasts
u.i many months, as the oil burns am! not the
wick. 1 wick 10 cents, 3 wicks, ~"> cents: 1-
a\ U-ks, 75 cents; 141 wicks, .weut by
mail on receipt of price. State size. We
have lour sizes, No. ft, f; No. J, No.i, No.
Jj inches wide. L-ige juodts to agents..
Metal Tip Lamp Wick Co.70 Couitlaudt St. j tlul
Ktw York. no~0-l!iu. ■ ' l-'°
Pieiro Gasparoue, the renowned bri-
gand chief,expired tlie other day iu an as-
ylum tor the poor near Naples, aged 90.
More than half a century ago the inhabi-
tants ot bis native province conferred the
sobriquet of ''The Terror of the Abrnzzi"
upon him. lie positively revelled iu
crime. When a mere stripling ot 19 he
took to brigandage in consequence of a
disappointment in love. At that time he
had spent three jeats a cowherd in the
ser' ice of a wealthy tanner, of whose on
ly daughter he became enamored, Tlie
immediate result was Gasparoni's dismiss-
al, to revengo which he joined a predato-
ry association, of which he subsequently
became the president, and persuaded his
new comrades to join him in a raid upon
his unkind master's family and property.
In this expedition he slew the object of
his affection and her father with his own
band, leaving the other members of the
family to be despatched by his associates.
Later on, under the Bourbon regime, he
succeeded in inspiring the Abrnzzi popu-
lation with such abject fear that no one
could be induced to betray him through
out his long career, although the Neapoli
tau Govermeut at oue time offered a re-
ward of five thousand ducats for his
head. As soon, however as his physical
powers began to fail him, he contrived to
make terms with the authorities, a>id sur
rendered himself voluntarily upon the as-
surance that a full pardon would be grant-
ed to him. During the last ten years ot
his lite spent iu the asylum above referred
to, he is said to have written his memoirs,
to be published after his death under the
title, "The Experieucejof ^Neapolitan Fa
triot from the Year 1811 to the close of
the Franco Austrian war,
Crazy.
A man looking to be about 25 or 30 years
old. from Clarksville, but who has been con-
ttued in the lunatic asylum at Austin, passed
through tlie city day before yesterday return
ing home, having been released by the author-
ities as cured. Somewhere between here and
lionhaui his disease got control of him again,
and at Hells he was trviug to jump from the
car uuder the impression that someb <Jy was
trying to kill him- Rev. Mr. (/lark took
charge of him there yesterday and brought
llini to Sheruiau .iinl turned him over to the
authorities. He had to be held nil the way to
prevent him hurting himself. His name was
not known.— [Sherman Courier.
El Paso Tex., April 26,—Gen. Fnero, Mexican
| eouimiimU'r ui cluef across the river, telegraphed
i tjoti- McKeiinie nt Santa Fe, as follows: I am just
I informed by t Jen. Reyes that near tlio dividing
j line and near tlie frontier, a battle ensued on the
! lS)th instaiit. «it li a number of Indians from Ari-
| zona Teritoi y, when nine Indians were killed and
innumVer of si. !euhorses recovered. Eight sec-
II ions of my ci and are in pursuit of the In-
dians which I conmranicate to you as they mav
•oss on cr into New Mexico.
In an unusually large special meeting
of the Chamber ot Commerce yesterday,
Mr. Gustav Schwab moved that the
Chamber urge Congress to adopt Mr.
Abraui S. Hewitt's tariff resolution, which
is as follows:
Resolved, That the bill creating a Tar-
iff Commission be recommended, with
instruction? c the committee on Ways
and Means to report wiihiu thirty days
or an earlier date if it be practicable,
bill based upon the following instrac
tions:
First—That all raw materials, meaning
thereby all materials which have not
been subjected to any process of mauu
facture, and all waste products, meaning
thereby all Waste materials which are fit
only to be manufactured, and all cheuii
cals which are not produced in this coun-
try, aud alcohol for use iu manufact-
ures, shall be placed upon the free list.
Second—That, so far as possible, spe
cific duties shall be substituted for ad va-
lorem duties, and that in determining
such specific duties the average dutiable
value of imports during the last three
years shall be taken as the staudaid of
value, upon which no higher rate of duty
shall be imposed than shall be necessary
to compensate tor the difference in the
cost of the labor at home and abroad ex-
pended in the production of such pro-
ducts, after making due allowance for the
expenses of transportation, anil that the
rate of duty shall not iu any case, except
on luxuries, exceed 50 per cent, of such
average durable value.
Mr. Schwab denied that Mr. Hewitt's
plan was a radical free trade measure,
aud challenged auy one to point out any
great valuable industry that is threaten
ed with destruction, or even with serious
injury, it raw materials are admitted free,
and it the duties ou manufactures are re
duced to Mr. Hewitt's scale ot specific
rales. The injury to wool growers would
be utterly insignificant when compared
with the great advantsiges that our wool
leu industry will derive from tree wool.
He regarded Mr. Hewitt's resolution as
the first opportunity for commerce to re
assert its rights in the couuciis ot the na-
tion.
Mr. Gardner K. Colby was opposed to
Mr. Hewitt's plan, and offered as a sub-
stitute to Mr. Schwab's endorsement of it
a series of resolutions that the present
tariff uiay properly be changed; that a
reasonable protective tariff is essential to
the prosperity and best interests of all
classes, and the whole subject should
be referred to a commission of experts to
report to the next Congress such fact* as
will furnish a basis for wise Legislation.
Charles S, Smith, in support ot Mr.
Colby's substitute, said that the tarifit is
not a question of sentiment, but a matter
of business. England had built up her
manufactures by protection. Mr. He
Witt's proposal would be detrimental ;o
the interests of our cotton manufactures.
It would stop three fourths of our cotton
and woollen machinery, unless we were
willing to force our laboring classes to
starve or accept foreign rates of wages,
with all the attending and very unfavora
ble comparison in their condition and
modes of lite.
Mr. D. C. Eobbius supported Mr. He-
witt's plan. The modern problem of tlie
protectionist, he said, appears to be to
obstruct intercourse with foreign nation*
as far sis possible, so that home capital
and labor may combine to monopolize the
market; and when a surplus occurs man-
ufacturers may combine to lessen produc-
tion. Such a system makes capital and
labor as inefficient as possible, and caus-
es the many to suffer for the few. The
principles of taxation are few and simple.
The things which should not be taxed are
raw materials that are important in the
processes of industry. The idea ot a
Tariff Commission was developed ou the
Malay system of running a muck iu the
utry ot intoxication or upon the Donny-
brook fair principle of "wherever you see
a head hit it." A tariff commission would
revive the old scramble for favor at the
hands ot Congress, and result in a con-
glomerate bill like that arranged by the
late Fernando Wood.
c tuse of the strikes. As an importer he
f it the necessity tor a change in the tar-
iff, when his firm was compelled to pay
119 per ceut. duty ou one article that is
used by the poor, and 220 per cent, duty
o:i another article worn by the laborin
classes. They imported one article that
c st d8 cents, and paid 120 cents duty.
There was a geueral desire on the part
of the members to speak, but, although
the Lime of each member was limited to
five minutes, it was obvious that all could
not be heard. Mr. John Iioach was aux
ious to ausvrer Mr. Chittenden, but could
not get an opportunity. Mr. Royal
Phelps, after several attempts, got the
floor, and endorsed Mr. Hewitt's plau.
Mr. Isaac Phillips also favored Mr. Hew-
itt's plan. He remarked that now when
a man imported 1.0U0 pieces of silk he
was obliged to give 600 pit-ces of it to the
Government. After further discussion, a
vote was taken, and Mr. Colby's substi-
tute was lost, 29 to 33. Then
Schwab's resolution was carried by a
small majority.
Before the discussion, Mr. Charles S.
Smith made an unsuccessful effort to get
the Chamber to consider the question ot
Chinese immigration. He presented pe
Utions to Congress to refrain from auy
Legislation obstructing or restricting em
lgiaticn from China. Among the sign-
ers were the Presidents of nearly all the
clearing house batiks, aud the leading
merchants in the dry goods, the iron, the
china, and the shipping trades. But the
Chamber could not consider it under the
rules.—[N. Y. Sun.
The Story of a Practical Woman.
Mrs. Miriam Florence Leslie, the wid
ow of the well-known publisher, has, upon
application to the courts of New York,
had her name changed to Frank Leslie,
the name her husband bore. It was not
a mere whitn with her, but a business
idea, as she wishes to perpetuate the
name ot the Frank Leslie publishing
house, ot which she is now the proprietor
aud manager. Every morning she is
fouud in her office at 8:30 o'clock, and re-
mains till 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She
signs all checks and money orders makes
all contracts for supplies ot every sort,
looks over the proofs of till articles before
they are published, and makes sugges-
tions concerning the make up of every
periodical before it is sent to press, in a
word, she is the head of the whole estab
lishment. Iu Mrs. Leslie's employ are
over four hundred people, comprising ar-
tists, engravers, editors, compositors,
etc., and thirteen different periodicals are
issued.—[Philadelphia Times.
St. Louis, April 21.—A good deal of a
sensation was produced by the publica
tion in the late edition of the Post-Dis-
patch, this evening, that Mrs. Jennie
Dixon, wifeot Burnett Dixon, a comtuer
al traveller for the Lorillards of New
York, ran away from her tiome on Chan
uing avenue, near Olive street, last Sat-
urday evening with John G. Curtis, a
young man less than seventeen years old,
son of K B Curtis, formerly a large
clothing merchant here, but now proprie-
tor ot a bucket shop in the caamber ot
com nierce building.
Mrs. Dixon is an attractive lady of
twenty eight.years, daughter of Mr. Ladd,
a retired manufacturer of the highest re-
spectability, and has two brothers well
known in business circles, and a sister
and mother, ail of whom move in the
best circles of society, and who are terri
lily shocked and scandalized at her con-
duct. She left behind her three small
children, aged respectively six, four and
two years, simply directing her servant
to send word to her tyotlHT to come over
and take care ot tl-em. Mr. Dixon is 1
sent from the «*" " '•
A Fire Escape Trial.
We don't want to say a word to dis-
courage those New York people from in
troducing the bow and arrow into the
fire department, nor do we throw a doubt
on the idea that ninety-nine men out of a
huudred can cntcli hold of a rope and
safely descend from a seventh story win
dow. All we propose to do is to call at-
tention to a trial made on Labrosse
street.
A couple ot citizens who had given the
matter much deep thought decided to ex-
periment a little. It was exactly 2
o'clock to a dot when oue appeared in a
second-story with a look ot mortal terror
on his face, and the other stood on the
walk below with a bow and arrow iu his
grasp aud a smile of self-coufidence run-
ning clear back to his hind collar button.
Attached to the arrow was a stout fish
line and attached to that was an inch
rope, and six small boys grouped them-
selves arouud to bet that it couldn't be
done.
"The idea is,*' said the tuan in the win.
dow as he looked down, "the idea is that
this building is ou fire. I am a Chicago
drummer. I am surrounded by flames.
Exit by tlie stars is cut off. Even cheek
cannot save me. It I do not have aid
from below I'm a goner.''
"Anil the idea is to shoot you up this
line," said the man with the bow; "You
receive it, hand up the rope, make it fast,
and down you come with never a button
missing. Here she is!''
It was a notable shot. Had a bird
been roostiu^ exactly six feet to t he left
of that window he'd have been driven
right through the clapboards. The man
with the bow muttered something about
rheumatism iu the elbow, aud tried again.
The arrow struck about tour feet to the
right this time. A third shot hit the
sash and bounded off, and the man up-
stairs called out:
"What's the matter down there. I'd
burn up three times over if there was a
fire here."
"I've got to practice a little," growled
the other; and after tour or five more
shots he sent the arrow into the window.
Some one jumped up and down and
swore and howled, aud then the man put
his head out and yelled:
"Do you want to kill me or rescne me f
You've nearly destroyed my left eye with
that internal arrow!''
"Never mind your eye, but pull up the
rope!"
The fisli line ascended and then the
rope climbed after it. The man upstairs
made a noose, slipped it under the leg of
the bedstead and was presently seen at
the window. It took him just seven min-
utes to back out clear of the sill aud get
a firm hold of the rope, and when his feet
The Fire Obedient Husbands.
swung clear his hair stood on end aud
Mr. S. B. Chittenden said ho believed
tiie whole country was demoralized with
the desire to emulate Jay Gould, and
make a fortuue by turning a hand over,
in a minute. He himstMf had a slight iu-
terest in pig iron, and, as a manufacturer
ot pig iron, he opposed and denounced
Mr. Hewitt's plan. He believed Mn He-
witt proposed to make this country a
dumping ground for all the old iron and
scrap iron of the universe. Ho thought
the question too big for theCliamher, but
he felt bound to seize the occasion to op
pose Mr. Hewitt's plau to let iu all the
old scrap iron tree and keep up the tax
ou pig iron.
Mr. A. Foster Higgins said it was nec-
essary to keep the home market to our-
selves. H« was in tavorot the substitute
offered t>y Mr. Colby.
Mr. James M,
his eyes bulged out like 30-cent plaques
with white groundwork.
'Come right down!" called the man
with the bow.
"How far is it
"Not over fifteen feet."
The man intended to come down in a
graceful manner and receive the plaudits
of the multitude, but as Foon as his
weight tautened the rope the bedstead
made a rush lor the window. There was
a whoop aud a yell, and then something
struck the ground with a thud. When
that something arose he called the man
with the bow many hard uames before
stopping for breath, and two of the boys
who stood nearest were picked up and
shot out into the mud as if they had been
ity on a t usiness trip, sup j chips. It was only after a crowd had
Hen iw noi.irurin ' e0llectc«l that the "Chicago drummer"
limped away, and the other man pulled
up the rope and lowered the window.
When a polieeina l came rushing up and
wanted to know who had been bitten by
a dog, a boy called out:
"Nawbody! They was a fihootiu' a
rope up there, and there was an awful
fire, and oue feller was cut off from his
exit, and he was comin' down through the
winder, when all at once he lit right there
where the ground is tore up, aud they
said they could lick each other in less'u
by thunder, and that's all we know about
it!"—[Detroit Free Press.
al>-
posed to be in New Mexico or Colorado.
The whereabouts of the ttuant conp'e is
uot known, but it is supposed they went
to Chicago.
To Got Rid of Bermuda Grass.
I noticed in a number of Home and
Farm, in November last, a correspond-
ent ask ng how to get rid of Bermuda
grass, ai.d as 1 have not seen a reply, I
thought I would tell him the best way.
aud this is my excuse for this short note.
This is my plan : Take 100 acres, fenoe
oft 40 acres in lots of 10 acres each; and,
when so fenced, buy 300 large, common
sheep, two pure-blooded merino bucks
and one shepherd dog. Pen every night
in lot No. 1; plant lot No 2 in corn, lot
No. 3 in corn and peas, and lot No 4 in
cotton ot best seed that can be had at. any
price. We have now sixty acres of Ber-
muda left on hand for the sheep to graze
upon.
Gather the crop early in the fail and
ho will have for sale off his dead Bermu-
da as follows : 50i)0 p.iunds of cotton at
9 cents, S450; 300 barrels ot corn at 70
cents, $210; 1200 pounds ot wool at 20
cents, $240, making a total of $1100, with
a farm much more fertile than when he
commenced, and all can be done with
oue man and a boy.
When he gets tired of killing Bermu-
da in this manner, he can get ten fteed-
meu to plant one hundred acres with the
following result: Sheep dead, fence gone,
tio corn, and two bales of trashy cotton
Constable, of Arnold, j at 0 cents per pound, expenses 8200 per
Constable & Co., supported Mr. Hewitt's! man. Total, bankruptcy and a general
plan. He wanted a tariff', he said, that j smash up.
would protect the honest American in-
porter. As to woollens, the manufactur
ers demanded a high tariff uominaIl7
that they might give the workmen more
wages. But, by the table of prices of
woollen goods, he could show that the
manufacturers to-day owed their hands
14 per cent, advance. That was the
T, M. Wells,
Rapides Parish. Louisiana.
There were five of them together, and
it was late. They had been drinking.
Finally, one ot theui looked at the clock
aud said:
"What will our wives say when we
come home
"Let them say what they want to.
Mine will tell me to go to the mischief/'
responded No. 2.
"I'll tell yon what we will do. Let us
meet here again iu the morning, aud tell
our experiences. Let the one who has
refused fo do what his wife told him to
do when he got home pay for this eveu-
iug's entertainment."
"That's a good idea. We will agree to
that." So tin party broke up, and
went to their respective homes.
Next morning rfi>\v met at the appoint-
ed place, and bngin to fell their experi-
ences.
Said No. 1:
"When I opened the door my wife was
awake. She taid: 'A prettv ti'ne of
uight for yon to be coming home. You
had better go out and sleep in the pig pen
for that's what yon will come t< sooner
or later, anyhow.' Rather than pay for
all we had drank last night, 1 did what
she told me to. Tnat lets me our."
Next!
No. 2 cleared his throat, and said :
"When I got home, I stumbled on a
cbair, and my wife called: 'There you
are again, you drunken brute ! You bad
better wake the children and stagger
about for awhile, so they can see what
a drunken brute of a father they are af-
flicted with.' I thought the best thing I
cOtild do under the circumstances was to
obey , so 1 woke up the children, and
staggered around until my wife hinted to
me to stop. She. used a chair in convey
ing the .hint. That lets me out."
Next!
No. 3 spoke up, aud said:
"I happened to stumble over the pan
ot dough, and my wife said: 'Drunk
agaiu! Hadn't you better sit down in
that dongh ?' So I sat down in it, and
that lets me out."
Next!
No. 4 said:
"I was humming a tune, and my wife
called ont. 'There you are again!
Hadn't you better give us a concert ?"
I said, 'certainly,' and began to sing as
loud as I could, but she told me to stop,
or she would throw something at me; so
I stopped. That lets me out."
Next!
No. 5 looked very disconsolate. He
said:
"I reckon I'll have to pay. My wife
told me to do something none of yon
would have done it you had been in my
place."
"What was it F
"She said: 'So you thought you would
come home at last! Now, hadn't you
better go out to the well aud driuk a
couple of buckets of water just to aston-
ish your stomach!' That was more than
I had bargaiued for, so it's my funeral !''—
[Texas Sittings.
Defence of the Johnson Grass.
the outset.
Speaking of the new comet the Albany
Argus says: "The comet is now about
135,000,000 miles from the earth It will
contiuue to approach until- May 20th,
when its distance will be about 80,000,
000 miles from us. It uow seems certain
that the comet will visible by the 1st of
May. It will not be conspicuous, howev
er, until the middle of May, and by the
end ot that month and duriug Junj will,
without doubt, furnish a splendid dis-
play. Last night Ibe comet became cir-
cn in polar—tha is, never sets, but it will
be so low down iu the northeast dnriug
the early hours of the evening that it will
be hidden by the mists of the horizon. It
will probably b i seen in its greatest glory
about June 4th or 5th, far down iu the
northeast just before the first glimmer of
dawn."
Dallas, Tex., April 28.—Adelagation
ot the Texas aud St. Louis railroad—the
stockholders and directors—arrived from
Tyler by special train at 10 o'clock this
morning. The following compose the
party: J. W. Parainore, J. L. Sloss, W.
M. Senter, Geo. B. Hubbar i, J. W. Phil
lips, of St. Louis; ex Gov. R. B. Hubbard,
of Tyler; C. M. Seley, of Waco, and J.
A. Jenkins, of Iowa. They were nv-t by
a reception committee and made the
guest ot the city, and driven to the hotel
iu carriages.
At 2 o'clock in the evening they were
met by the citizens at the board ot trade
rooms, which were crowded. Messrs. Par-
ainore, Hubbard and other visitors made
speeches. Messrs.- Parainore aud Hub
bard explained the recent Illinois Central
combination and the effect it would have
on railroad competition aud the general
progress of the road, etc. He said the
line would be fiuished froin Texarkana to
Cairo in May, and from Mount Pleasant
to Dallas by October, and soon thereafter
pushed to the Rio Grande.
Westchester, Pa., April 25,—J, D.
Andrews, the "Lightning Calculator,"
killed his wifeyesterday at tliir residence
near Hayesville, this county. For several
years the "Professor"
tendency to insanity
was hired to watch
Here, let me say at rue outset, my
statements regarding it are not front sel-
fish motives, and 1 do not state in print
its full value as a grazing aud forage
plant While I have the seed to sell, niy
true motive in letting the world know of_
its value is that this Southern country,
which is so near on the verge of starva-
tion, will be wise to accept the gitt of a <
kind Providence, who has for years placed
witniu their grasp a wealth *ecoud to
none iu the agricultural world. i
Guinea grass revolutionized farming iu .
Jamaica. W hole districts, not suscepti-
ble to cultivation previous to the acci-
dental introduction ot this grass, became
tue most profitable parts ot the island,
producing astonishing numbers ot fine
livestock for home use aud export. The '
Johnson grass is a better grass than the
Guinea grass and will do more for the ,
States ou the Gulf thau this did for. •
Jamaica. X. Y. Z. pays: "If the plant
can be eradicated or prevented froui
spreading it would be profitable to learn."
Lying alongside of this Johnson farm,
separated only by a h-jdge, row ami rail ;
teuce, is a cultivated farm, ou which has
been grown cottou and corn ever siuce
Mr. Johnson planted his grass" seed in-'
1S40, In all these 40 years there is not, '
in my judgement, to exceed two acres iu
Johnson grass if you would gather up all _
on the place, aud put ir, in a body, except
what is cultivated tor hay tor the stock
on the place. Thi* does not spread
aud God be praised for it; this is oue of
its most valuable properties. Its loug
cane like root s penetrating deep lor moist-
ure, makes it the most valuable that
grows.
But, it auy man should become iusano
and desire to get rid of it is easily done
by turning up the ground iu August aud
September with two horse plows. This
kills it so effectually that cotton aud corn
chu be raised the next year without diffi-
culty. Experience has taught this also.
By breaking up the grass lauds and sow-
ing a ciop of oats every three years you
increase the growth of the grass, beside
taking oft a good crop of oats you get the
same season two good crops of hay. How
does that compare with cotton, which it
takes from January to January to culti-
vate at a loss ? Let ever.v one figure for
themselves. Another thing we have
learned the last year that uo grass grows
that is so valuable for overflowed lauds
as this. In the adjoining field there was
built a dam across a bottom which grew
this grass in great luxuriance. It was
supposed that the grass was killed out.
The dam gave way, and when the water
dried off the grass came up as finely as
ever, although it had been under water
for four months. Here we have the thing
for the overflowed lands ot the Mississippi
bottoms. The debris lett by the water is
a splendid fertilizer, and it is not at all
unreasonable to expect five or six tons ot
hay per annum on these rich grounds—a
gross income of 8100 per acre, with less
cost tliau to put into market the same
value in cotton.
With these facts—for they are facts—
before you, why still contiuue to hate
grass, your best friend ?
The " cost of handliug grass for hay
does not begin to comoaro with that of
cotton. Should you desire to graze, one
man could easily take care of 500 head oi
cattle.—Cor. N. O. Times Democrat.
A Giant and Wife from China.
Chonng Chi Lang, a bright yellow
giant from China, disembarked from the
steamship Spain yesterday morning, and
sliook hands cordially with Policeman
McAllister of the steamboat squad,
whereupon Mr. McAllister remarked that
"the biliious hay I ban had a grip like a
quartz crusher,'' and walked away iu ft
Pvft. The giant was accompanied by his
wife, a little person, less than five feet in
height, with a bright, pretty face, and
real Chinese feet, scarcely four inches
long. The giant wore a stove pipe hat,
all ulster, nd Chinese, slippers that some-
what resembled a pair of Whitehall
boats The pair were driven to a board-
ing house in Ninth street, where the giant
reposed wearil\ iu two chairs, and receiv-
ed Manager Starr of the Broadway Mu-
seum, while the little woman sat at a ta-
ble. and worked buttonholes in the sleeve
of a tremendous shirt.—|N. Y. Sun.
The Smallest Baby Alive.
The ease with which the Esquimaux of
St. Lawreuce island can see to a great
distance, and the marvelous way in which
news is transmitted from the most distant
points, is really wonderful. A native will
describe the dress and appearauce of a
A gentleman >rom Cantlelaria Informs ur
that the smallest baby ill the world was born
in that camp at noon oil the, 3d iust. The
father is a miner in the employ of the North-
ern Belle Mine am'weighs 190 pounds. The
mother is a stout, healthy woman, weighing
perhaps ICO pounds. The child is a male, as
perfectly formed as any human being can be,
but upon its birth it only weighed eight
ounces Its face is about the size of a horse
chestnut, and the size of its limbs can be im-
agined when we say that a ring worn on the
iittle tfngei of its mother was easily slipped
has manifested a I over its foot nearly tip to the knee. Our in-
and ail attendant formaut states that it was the opinion of the
liim T,-ist nio-1.11 attending ph.v sician that the child would live
.. ,T . , ■ * * ' -. I and prosper in good health, notwithstanding
while Mrs. Andrews was in her sitting j jts diminutive proportions. The midget is so
room her husbaud seized a rolhng-pui, | smaii that three of its couid play hide-and-
and quietly stealing up behind his wife, j in it cjgar-box. This is believed to lie
dealt her a terrific blow ou the head. Hhe I the smallest baby ever born.—[Cal.P aper.
fell to the floor insensible aud die^l soon! — —-—
after. Andrews, who is about sixty years ])r. Lewis, of Morrissauia, reported to Ihe
old, accumulated a large fortune by his Bureau of Vital Statistics yesterday tli e
wonderful skill as a mathematician. It is
supposed that his peculiar mental exer-
cise was the prime cause of bis mind
breaking dowi..
Danville, Va., April 25.—Dr. John
P. Lipscomp, a merchant of this city, was
killed to day by Sterling Edmunds, of
Halifax county—his f..ther iu-law. They
were b«tli wealthy aud ot high social po- following her own notions and
ution. Last night Mr. Lipscomb, while relsonie and suspicious.' She
intoxicated' drove his wife from home, i er married. She will ba buried
but after awhile she went over with one • Farms to day.—[N. Y. Sun.
of her neighbors and gained admittance.: '
The family were at breakfast this morn-i Cabbage will thrive ou any good corn-
ing wheu Mr. Edmunds walked iu and, j land, though the stronger the foil the
after some words, said "You have been better they will develop. New land is
treating my daughter badly, and treated i preferable. Plow deep and manure very
her badly last night." With that Dr.liberally. The early sorts bear planting
Lipscomb arose, aud pistols weie drawn.; from eighteen inches to two leet apart iu
Dr. Lipscomb fired first. Mr. Edmundsi the rows, with the rows from two to two
death of Mary M. Ilulliii, aged seventy
years, which took place from starvation
on Monday in a house ou Woodruff ave-
nue, near Greenwich [dace. The woiuau
had means, but she was miserly and for
years suft'e.ed from mal nutrition. "She
lived," Dr. Lewis says, "Alone in a cold,
damp house; was obstinate to a degree in
ws.squar-
was uev-
at "West
Columbus, O., April 25.—Mrs. Som-
meis, living near North Georgetown,
Tuscarawas county, w«.s shot twice and
fatally wouuded by a tramp who was re-
fused work on the, farm. Fifty men are
scouring tiie woods for the criminal, and
intend to lynch him.
man who is approaching at a great dis-1 gre(j immediately afterwards and the j and a half feet apart; the large varieties
tauce. A white man, even a sharp-eyed (jocj-or fen dead. Mr. Edmunds surren i to be from two to four feet apart iu the
" iH dered himself, and was acquitted on the ] rows, with the rows from two and a half to
ground that it was homicide in self de- four feet apart, the distance varying with
fense. j the size. The crop should receive as
.■ i .r ^ —. j many as three hoeiugs and three cultiva-
Moths that have been immersed in sul-i tings. Cabbage will not usually follow
sailor, can just make out that it is a hu
man figure. So if anything occurs on the
coast, if a piece of wreck comes ashore,
the full particulars will be known in a
short time 1,000 miles from the place
where it occurred. It is a wonderful sys-
tem of telegraphy—oue nal ive rnshiug off
to pass the news to auother, aud thus
speeding intelligence over hundreds of
miles in a single day.
phuric ether will recover after the evapo-i cabbage or tin nips successfully iu field
ration of the ether; beetles will recover | culture, unless three or four years hava
from the effects of chloroform, and flies! intervened between the crops. For late
after having spent a whole day iu a bot- fall maiketing plant drumhead sorts lrom
tleot wine. ! June 10 to June 20.
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