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E. A. WEBSTER, Editor and Proprietor. A Weékly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politios. VOLUME I. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA,- SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875. NUMBER 52. TIMELY TOriCS. A KATH EU heroic uot is that-of-{Simili, dying of internecine struggle's* to go iuto tho market for a loan of $7,000,000 to indemnify Porto Ricans for tho loss of thbir'ém'nnóiimteil slaves--. THE yt How lever is at Pensacola. It its unusually carly for this dreaded man ifestatioh. In BOIUO of tho most de- \nstatiug yollow fever seasons tho difj-_ easo h_Q3 not shown itself pu tho guli co wit until September. " THE plague,'-or Black Doath, bas twaked from its thirty yoars sleep in tho east, and is reported to bo spreading with rapidity in Asia. About eighty- live years ago, it desolated Russia, and ono hundred and fifty yours have passed since it ravaged and almost depopu¬ lated some part H of Europe, Fon young children Now York is at present ono of tho deadliest uitics ; at no timo do they thrive thero overmuch, but last week's mortality among them was exceptionally great. Under five yoars of. age they died at the rate of eighty-six per diem, thc main trouble being diarrhoal disease. THE postónico department has scut, to tho department of justice tho numea of thirty-nine mail contractors who are to bo prosecuted for failuro to perform service after thoir bids were accepted. Tho contracts were relet by tho gov¬ ernment, and tho difference between tho amount paid and tho bids, for tue thirty-nine routes, wa:i $117,087, which is thc amonnt of damages claimed against the delinquent bidders. TIIE German minister of finance re¬ ports a deficiency in tho Budget for this yonr of $5,000,000, and.tho tax on beer io to bo raised-a proceeding which will bo inimcneoly unpopular in Germany, whero everybody consumes largely of the ruby liquid. Such a largo deficiency as $5,000,000 would seem siAgular, with tho millions which have beon paid by Franco, were it not apparent that Ger¬ many has been putting aU her Tnoney THE Boston Journal of Chemistry ve- grots that tho millers uso all thoii finest, soundest wheat for linc Hour, anc tho poorest for Graham or brown bread, 4 general Dame given to mixtures ol bran and tpoilea flour. 11 What w< need is good, sweet, whole wheat flow finely ground, and put I up secure ly for family use, and any western mil 1er who will give his earnest attentioi to furnishing such flour will realizo i fortuno speedily ; securing the mosl nutritivo principles tho Creator ha stored up for man's food." THE substance of Jno, D. Lee's con fesaion is that thirty Mormons, with th assistance of a largo number of Indianf decoyed emigrants from their entrench mont by a flag of truce ; that all wer murdered except sovcutecn children that tho deed was dono under orders c tho leaders of thc Mormon Church that ho took news of tho massacre t Brigham Young, who deplored th transaction, and said it would brin disaster upon tho Mormon people. Th statement of Lee, so far as known, onl confirms proAious reports in regard t the massacre. _ SINCE tho firBt of Juno, wheat ha advanced thirty-three cont» in th Chicago markt-t. If tho reports at han aro reliable, tho wheat crop of Eurer, will bo almost an entire failure, an consequently the demand upon or products will bo unprecedented. Th will ensnro tho producer good pay in prices for the products of his farm f( at least a year to come. While Gre Britain and tho continent may unfle tho people of America will bo great benefited. Just when tho ndvanco prices will ceaso it would bo haznrdoi to predict. _ THE ol orleal newspapers in Fran speculate on tho causes of tho gre flood with Romo asperity. It appen that tho municipal oouuoU of Toulon recently refused to erect a Btatito "tho glorious and miraculous phe bordeas of Pihraó," and ono of the cou oilers said, "Wo prefor a fountain Whereupon tho Gazette do Nimes uc remarks, "God has fulfilled tho wish those honorable councilors and senl fountain to tho capital of Lagucd which they little expected. Had t town voted tho required sum Divi Providence," says the editor, "won never have treated Toulouse so i veroly." It is understood fhat t bishop of Chartres is ol the cai opinion. THE committee appointed by t Delaware Fruit Growers' convention confer with,tho steamship'companien regard to tho shipment of penches Liverpool havo reported that they call «pon tho authorities of tho American steamship company, aud they favored tho project. Tho company would allow tho growers to lit up tho stcorago for» ward cabin . with thoir refrigerators, which can ?bo douo with fivo Hundred dollars for cadi vessel. This portion of tho ship1 would hold 25", OOO or 30,(M)0 baskets"aiid a* compartment immodi- diately mifibrWath could bu fitted up >vh'ich ' vpulct ! carry G.0Ö0 additional. They would charge tho growjors for the shipment, of this amount oï^fimit to Liverpool about twb'thonsnud dollars^ and give'them tho privilege of sondiug out au agent freo of charge with each consignment. Tun July returns to tho department of agriculture shows that the acreage iu corn is about three por cent, greater than Inst year. New England lins in¬ creased her noronge about olovon per cont, and tho.Faciüc states about ono pet cent. All tho great corn growing regions hove increased acreage-Míd¬ elo states two per cent., South Atlantic states three per cent. Gulf states, in¬ land southern states, twelvo per cent., states north of Ohio Bevon, west of the Mississippi fourteen per ce"nt. The condition of the crop is below an avor¬ ige in tho'Now England aud South At¬ lantic states. Tho minimum condition, eighty-two per cent., being iu llhçdo Island, Florida aud. Alabama aro "also below tho average, but other Gulf states and inland southern states are about tiro niaximi.ni, 112 in Mississippi. All other states except .Missonri,10:l are below tho average, tho minimum eighty-two being iu Wisconsin. THAT mont insu flat aldo of nil idiots, tho practical joker, does not always escapó ou earth" tho wrath that is laid up for him. There lived and taught school in St. James parish, Louisiana, recently, a mnu by tho namo of Bow¬ den, a- well-meaning person, but af¬ flicted with that peculinr sense of hnrnor which is sure to get somebody or other into trouble sooner or lator. Ono of his mdst -successful jokes was tnav ot displaying auvertismg bills printed in imitation of greenbacks, and offering to bet hundreds ana thousands of dollars with peoplo who didn't know that ho was fooling. Thc other day an offensive smell coming from nu out¬ house led to a search for tho cause, and tho corpse of Bowden was found beneath tho floor and under a covering of corn husks, where it wns rapidly decaying. A Swedish plantation hRud, who lind seen him displaying his imita¬ tion bills, had mistaken him for a per¬ son of largo and available moans, and had murdered him for his money. The Swede is now a fugitive,'and ho fools doubly the weight of tho joko, for ho got no money, and tho Governor lias offered SI,OOO for his arrest. l'vov, jJovATjDSON, tho aeronaut, who lins beeii traveling in company with Barnum's Hippodrome, and making bal¬ loon ascensions after tho conclusion of the afternoon performances, made his second trip frum Chicago on Ibo 15th, accompanied by Mr. Newton S. Grim¬ wood, a reporter of the Chicago Journal. After ascending iuto tho air tho balloon took a northeasterly course, sniling over tho biko in tho direction of Mus¬ kegon, Mich. About soven o'clock in the evening it was Bighted by a schooner ubout thirty miles northeast of Chicago, at which time tho balloon was skim¬ ming tho surfaco of tho biko. The schooner followed after it until it was observed to rise suddenly into tho air, when tho chase was giveu np. A vory severo gale occurred on I ho lake about midnight, and, as no further tid¬ ings lind beeü received in Chicago from tho balloon or its occupants up lo the morning of tho 17th, grave apprehen¬ sions were felt for their safety. It wns tho opinion of experts that tho balloon ooiild not possibly bavo roached tho Michigan shore beforo the storm burst upon it, and that tho aeronauts per¬ ished in tho luke. It is snid by porno that the balloon was a rotten, patched up affair. -Ali Englishman-traveled, of course -relates that un American gontlomau who had at an early age cono tho over¬ land route to California, told him this : Wc crossed tho sandhills near tho scone of tho ludianmail robbery and'massacre of 1850, wherein the driver and con¬ ductor perished, and also all tho pas- Rc'ngera but one. But this must have been a mibtake, for at different times afterward on- tho Bncifio coast, I was personally ..acquainted with one hundred and thirty-three or four peoplo who wero wounded during that massacre and barely cr-caped with thöir lites! Ibero was no' doubt of tho truth of it ; I had it from ¡thoir own lips. And oue of tho pavtiofs iohl me. that ho Kept' coming across arrow hews in his system for nearly Roven years after tho massacre. TO HOPE. O Hopo! No more, I implore, Drool vo IUO that I limy bplieyo thoo ; Kori know that the flake will follow On tba nlry «ny of t!n< BWBIIOW, Thal tho drift Miall Iii" whorotbo lily blown And HIP icicle liuiig from lUo6t«lu of tho row,- O Ilopo l-iiu nuire! ^O^Iopo ! T .'. » V > il C' *V f A * -Hornillo yet awliilo; » / * w t » /t Deceive me and 1 will boliovo tbce, TbotiKb 1 know tbattbo flake mont'follow On thoalry way of tho Swallow,- That HIP drift munt lie whore tho lily blows And tile icicle haut; from tho Blom of IllO nMC,- 0 Hope! -once moro] SA 'l AT il *" - Jolla, Vnnec. Olieneil. j At Ll / 1&ÓÜNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. Tcrtknon)) Flirilnf tint First Dav oj thc Trini- Huir ihr Hatcher iras Plailllcll omi JCxérñtnl, Afc tho opening of tho trial of tho Mormons implicated -in tho Mountain Mondow- ^massaoro, at* Boaver, Utah, Robert Kays .testified aR follows : Carno to Utah October 2, 1857, 'through Mountain Meadows saw pilos of bodies of woman and children, piled promis¬ cuously ; there were sixty or seventy bodies ; tho childroa wore from two months old to twolvo years ; tho smaller wore torn by wolves and crows; some of tho bodies were ..shot, some had thoir t hroats cut, some Btabbed, aud all were torn by wolves except tme wpmnu, who laid a little way off, and appeared as if asleep, u bajl-lisjo.in her.. left side; it appeared tho bodies wert? dead fifteen days; sovoii of ns saw it. ? Piles of men's bodies were further on; didn't go to seo them; uo clothing on the bodies, except one sock on the leg of ono niau; none were scalped. Assatel Bennett called: "Was itt tho .Meadow's December, 1857; saw tho bones thero; horrible sight; skeletons of womon and children; curls, long tresses hair, dried blood; childron 10 to 12 years; some skulls had flesh dried oU; tho bodies had been covered up ; wolves evidently dug them up Phillip Dinger Smith, n défendent of San BornamTi, California, called : Pros¬ ecution ontpred nolle proseqni as to himself. Dived in Cedar city from 1852 to 1857. Was at the massacre in September, 1857; heard of tho em¬ igrants coming. Tho people were for¬ bidden to trade with them ; felt bad about it ; saw a fow of them at Cedar ; heard .minors of trouble S uday. It was the custom to havo meetings of tho pronident and council; bishop and council and high council. The matter carno up for discussion as to thoir de¬ struction. Haight, Higbee, Morrill, aiien,' annis, înysea uuu uwui>, «-.- .¿ there. Some brothern opposed their destruction. I did. Haight jumped u)> and broke up tho meeting. I asked what would bo tho consequences of such nu net. Then Hnight got mad. Tho l'udinns wore to dfstroy thom. On Monday, Higbee, AVhite and I met ; samo subject again. I opposed the de¬ struction. Haight relented, and told AVhite and I to go nhend nud toll tho peoplo tho emigrants should go through snfo. AVo did so, and on tho rond wo met John D. Lee. Wo told whoro wo wore going, nud ho replied I bnvo something to suv nbout that matter ; wo passed the emigrants at Iron Springs; next morning wo passed them again ; as wo carno back they lind twenty or thirty wagons ; ovor a hundred peoplo, old men, middle aged men, old wo¬ mon, middlo aged women, youths and children ; nenr homo I met Da Allen ; ho snid tho emigrnnts' doom wns souled, tho die cast for de¬ struction ; three days after Haight sent for me, and said orders bad como from oamp ; didn't get along, wanted rein¬ forcements; that he had been to Prowin, aud got further orders from Colouol AV. H. Dame to liuish tho mnssacro, to do- coy and sparc only smnll children who could not tell the tale. I wont off, met Allen, our first ruinier, and others. Higbeo said : you aro ordered out, armed and equi oped ; so I went ; Hop¬ kins, Higbee, John AVillis aud Sam Purdy went ulong ; had two bnggago waggons ; got to Hamplen's rancho in the night, three miles from emigrants ; there met Deo and others from tho gen¬ eral camp, where tho lttrgRst number of men were ; then found tho omigrants not all killed. Bateman or Deo went ont; with n white flr.g. A mnu from tho emigrants mot them. Deo and a man set down on tho grass and had a talk ; don't know what they talked. Deo wont with the man into tho intrenchments. Afttvr some boure tboy came out and tho emigrnnts carno ont with their wounded in wagons ahead. Tho wounded were thoso burt in tho three days previous fight. Next carno tho w«inen, next tho men. As the emigrants came up tbo men halted, aud tho womon on foot and chil¬ dren and wounded went on ahead with John D. Deo. Tho soldiers had to be all ready to shoot nt the word. AVhen tho word halt came the soldiers fired. 1 fired onco ; don't kuow if I killed a man ; not all killed nt tiio first lire. Saw tho women afterward dead, with their throats cut. I saw, ns I cumo up to thom, a man kill a young girl. Tho men were marched in double filo first, then thrown in singlo file, with tho sol¬ diers ulong side. Tho emigrants were congratulating themselves on their safety from tho Indians. At last John M. Higbeo come and ordered my squad to fire. Dee, like the rest, had firearms, No emigronts were allowed to escapo ; saw soldiers ou horses to take on wine: thoso who run ; saw a man run ; snw Bill start on a horso and kill bim, and a wounded ulan beg for lifo, TT'ghee ont bis throat. I was told to gather up tho littlo children. I v/ent, and saw a woman running toward the men, crying, " My husband, my husband I " A soldier shot hor in tho back, and sho fell dead. -A bollo nt Saratoga wears diamonds on her shoes, Post Office Points. Tuc following Into rulings by tlío pbstoffice deparimout in regard to ninil mather will bo found of interest to every ono engaged in mercantile pur¬ suits . When packages of merchandise or Hauipii's ol merchandise arc wrapped ^o as lo prevent examination, or have nuy .writing upon thom except tho address; it is lite duty of tho postmaster to rate theurup with lotter postage, to bo col¬ lected on delivery. Samples may bo marled in pencil.or ink with letters or figurín by which they aro to bo dis- ra?jp£-'hod in a descriptivo lotter or in¬ voice (each separately) without, subject -uß.-t! « pnekago to Jotter postage. Au idllress may bo written on a oir- onlnrvluit any Other Writing thereon excep|. tho mero.: correction of a. typo- graph'.Cid error, would render it sub¬ ject't.. letter postage. Ifc ia tho duty of n postmaster when mail mutter is sent to his ofiico through iniBtnito, to forward it to its destination, Boric manuscript, when so Wrapped ns to -. droit of examination, is charge¬ able with prepayment of postage at rates ot third-class matter, viz: ono cent au om.co or fraction thereof, limited to four pounds iu weight. Paper with writing on it, should not bo UB««ñ ns wrappers for newspapers, P.H this \vould subject the packages to letter posta-, e.. To entitle regular subscribers to re¬ çoive newspapers froo of postage, they must Reside iu tho county whoro such papou aro printed and published. Mai. matter: iûclosed iu sealed en- velopii with tho coruers notched, is subject to letter rates of postage. A postmaster is required to examine alls-printed matter, or third-class mutter, pussin>¿ through IIÍB office, to seo that it is charged with proper rates of postage and to detect fraud. Matter contained in a foaled, envelope notched ¡it tho corners cannot bo satisfactorily ex¬ amined withont destroying tho wrapper. Pre,»aid letters must bo forwarded from « iio postoflico to another at tho re¬ quest of thc y Tty addressed without additional charge ôf postage ; but let¬ ters hnyiug been onco delivered accord¬ ing ti) 'heir address require postage at tho pr. paid rato when returned to tho ofiico for forwarding. Packages contamine liquids, or any other .'.ritter liable to dofneo or destroy thoÄolLtents of tho mails, or hurt tho persoi.ji of any one couueoted with the servie,»; should bo excluded from tho maiI'v'"'vTit scaled paciinges doposired in -, ?'.Af t .? » rt. f ?--- .. postage, in tho nbsenco of any positivo knowledge of their contents, forwarded to their destination. Unscaled circulars deposited iu a lotter-carrier ofiico for local doli very through the box or general delivery, or by carriers, are subject to a postage of one cent eaoh circular, to bo prepaid by stiirnp ufllxed. L. and E., pago (il, sec. 99._ Burning of a Russian Town-200 Lives Lost. A Petersburg lotter to tho London Standard says : Tho lire which destroyed tho town of Morechausk bogan ubont 1 o'clock in tho afternoon in ono of the fauburgs, nt a distauco of nearly half a milo from tho town proper, and within a few hours thc whole towu, over an extent of fivo versts, was a prey of tho dames in all directions, causing thom to overlap all the opou squares and even tho river. As tho liro grew tho wind became n tompest, and enormous pluuks and shoots of iron, torn from tho falling houses, wero hurled as high as tho sec¬ ond story of houses still standing. Oases of goods allowed to lloat along the river were burned ou tho water. Home ot" the papers of tho pnblÍ3 offices hnvo beou found at a distancia of sixty versts from tho town, and tho glow of tho firo lighted np tho horizou to a dis; tanca of ninety versts. Tho Oro spared about a hundred wooden houses at one ond of tho towu, hat of tho brick build¬ ings hardly ton have escaped. All tho public edifices, with tho excep¬ tion of tho school and several of thu churches, have been destroyed. The destruction of property has been öütiro, Many of the inhabitants trusted to cel¬ lars and vaults, but they nearly all foll in. As tho firo spread, furniture and other effects wero removed to gardons and othor opon spaces, but. in vain ; tho flames soon reached tnom »nd reduced nil to iiBhep. Only ono of tho corn de¬ pots was saved. It ia calculated that 1,00.) buildings havo beou burned, and that tho loss cannot bo less than 5.000,000 roubles. Abont 2001ivos were lost, and sovoral thousand porsons wero wounded. Succor, in tho shapo of provisions, clothes, and money, was instantly for¬ warded from Tamboff, Riezan, and other places, to tho .unfortunato citizens of MorBchnnsk, literally wandering about tho woods or sheltering under carls, having lost everything, and tho number of tho homeless and destitute exceeded 10,000. Three days nftor tho Aro tho corporation of the town petitioned tho government for a loan of 3,000,000 roubles, tobo redeemed in thirty days. ENGLAND'S NEW RIVAL. Rapid Development nf Colton Manufacture in Itlllill. The manufacture of cotton is rapidly increasing in British India, and ns con¬ siderable profits aro realized, tho ton* deucy is toward continued inyeslmöuts and tho extension of this groat indus¬ try. It is now manifest that Mniiobns- tor has lost its fermer control of tho eastern markets, In tho piuglo presi¬ dency of Bombay there uro twenty-five cotton mills in tull Operation, working 000,000 spindles and 7,000 looms. Thu spindles produce about 13O,0GJ pounds of fol ton thread n day, of which about 50,000 pounds aro used to produce cloth. These mills ure chiefly in the Bombay Island, whoro a new spinning1 mill, just opened by n wealthy Hindoo, and working 25,000 spindles, makes a total of seventeen work hie mills, Up con td ry t here are several others-ono ut Surat, two ut Broach, two at Ahmcdn- bud, ono at Julguum, ono in tho native state of Bhowuugger, and ono at Ma¬ dras. Extensions are also rapidly going forward. Eight extensions are in course of construction at Bombay, chiefly on share capital, and theso will provide ut least, for the working of 10,000 more spindles and 1,345 looms*. Tho machine¬ ry is always of tho very newest and most approved construction, and no efforts are spared on the part of tho ludinn producers to enable their goods to com¬ pete uccessfnlly with ibo choicest pro¬ ducts of foreign manufacturo- United Statis Economist, An Incident of the Floods. Writing of the disasters of tho in¬ undations in France, a correspondent says : At, St. Oyprien, tho suburb of Toulouse, which suffered so sevorely, M. Mahratta, a well-known sculptor who ro- sided there, but who had his atelier in the town, was at work in the latter, when he was informed of tho risk to which his family, whom he had left iii tlie Faubourg, were exposed. He im¬ mediately hastened home, and began lo pack up his valuables und prepare to retreat with his wife, two girls, eight »nd niue years tdd, und a little boy in his mother's arms. Bnt tho Hood had becu too quick for them. In less than ti quarter of au hour it had risen moro than four feet, and thoir house was sur¬ rounded beforo they were aware of it. As tho water rose higher and higher they moved from stage to stage, until they reached tho roof aloug with other' families who had taken refuge there. Thus they stood, tho father holding his two littlo girls by tho hand, tho mother carrying her boy, till darkness sot in, tho flood still rising, and tho houses around them giving away before it ono after the other with fearful crash.' At last their own house borgan to lotter and crank, and give other siguí, that it wac no longer a safe place ot refugo. Another-house nt some little distunco offseemeJ to offer a stouter resistance, and one of their party, who was a good swimmer, threw himself into tho water, and by great effort succeeded iii climb¬ ing on to tho other roof¿ Unfortunately, iii laking bis'spring from that on which downÄl me/'Mu ur ol\e"*w'i ¿j tTic.¡pfti'lite i lí¬ ber arms, and although tho former was laid hold of and rescued, tho child was carried away by tim flood, and perished before tho oyos of its father, who could only just, save his fainting wife. By good luck, in tho house to which their companion had escaped a roll of calico twenty-live yards Jong was fouud. On ono end ol this an iron was tied, mid, nitor immy attempts, swung across, and a communication thus opened with tho other house, Tho two littie girls wore successfully made fast to the end of tho roll and dragged through the water. Mme. Maurette was next tied to it and had also nearly gained the other roof, when tho strength of those who sup¬ ported her failed, aud sho fell back into the water. For a moment sho seemed lost, but ber husband, throw¬ ing himself in, in Iiis turn, and swim ming to her, supported her nntil a fresh effort could be made above, when both were eventually hoisted up. Tho nitdit was passed in cold and wet, expecting death almost hourly. But thc house re¬ sisted, and bjT morning the water had rallen suflioiently to enable tho party to wade ashore. Rather a Tough Suake Fig'.it, but a Good Story. A fow days since, while a young man of tho vicinity of Middlo Grove, whom wo shall designate as Jcomes, was shrubbing in tho field, he ran upon ii block snake in a cluster of bushes, and, calling his dog Zip, set him after thc snake. Whilo he was intently watching tho progress of the light between hit snakeslup and his favorite canine, some thing behind took him "whack" upoi the seat of his trousers, and turning quickly, ho discovered to his horror i tremendous horse'-racer, full six feet ir length, with lurid erect, hissing tongue amt glaring oyes, curling himself in tin fullest attitudè for battle, and befon Jeemes could comprehend the terribh character nf tho situation, "whack" tin snake took him again. Ile Mien lookct for a tree, but there was none to climb- for a stick, but i here was none at hand He then drew his jack-knife, with tin determination of selling his life lil dearly as possible, and tho most terribh battlebetween man and snake then oe curred that has ever transpired in the his tory of Monroe county. Tho snako wa very strong und native, and, çurlinj himself around one pf his victim's leg* he stuck his terrible fangs into hin with marvelous rapidity, tightening hi hold and orawliiig np all the limo, whili Jeemes lilied his "jack-knife with rapidity never equaled by tito siivag Modoo. The snake was getting tb best of it, and had twisted himself ti] nearly to Jeemes* face, and was nhou to coil his slimy length about his tuc climbing antagonist's swan-like throat when Zip, tho faithful servant, bavin finished snako No. 1, carno yelping i tho rescue, and, taking in at a glanc tho hazardous position of tho mosto] hu spiling and grappled the monster b the neck, and hold on with a viee-lik grip until Jeemes, by tho use of hi knife, extricated himself from Jo's toi ribl'e predicament, and from an nntimel and premature grave. The snake wu killed, lind t'n ; i rusty dog was tho lift preserver or his master.-FrofH // Paris Mo., Appeal, FACTS AND FAMO LES. -The coffee-planters oí Ceylon uro threatened with pecuniary ruin, tho rats having seized their plantations, grasshopper style. Not hoing rtblo to import American music, thoy are trying to frighten oh' the invaders with* tho tom-tom, a home instrnment. -There is an Duglish paper which thinks that in case of war the chief food producing nations, by combining ngninsfc England, could conquer her without firing a shot or landing :.. soldier by simply declining to deal with her. ;-Tho old superstitious idea that, tho hand of a dead mun is a talisman ngainst evil, onco prevaleut among southern ne¬ groes, seems no! to have' died out. A vault in Greenville, Miss., wnp recently broken open and a hand cut from a corpse. - On ono of the bridges of Paris a baliy Fprnng ont of its mother's arms and fell in tho river, sud tho mother jumped after it, but could not swim. Another-woman jumped in who could swim aud brought out both. Tho mother was half drowned and tho baby was dead. -Some of tho clergymen in Kentucky propose to hang smtes in the church vestibules, so that young ladies on en¬ tering, can register thoir names, thus saving a great expense for providing seats in tho vestibule for young men, and making a great deal of waiting uu- uecessary. -"James Brown," of St. Giles, Dou¬ ri ">n, clnims to bo reckoned among tho ncblo band of vivisectionists, his trade being tho catching of cats and "skin¬ ning 'em alive." "The simple fnot is," ho says, "I got nu honest living by skinning cats, and because skins taken from tho live cats aro worth sixpence apiece moro than those taken from the animal when dead I skin the cats alive whenevor I can." -If tbero is a manufacturing city on this continent which might be "called tho Manchester of America, it is Lowoll, Mass. There are daily em¬ ployed nearly eighteen thousand opera¬ tives in the various mills. Tho capital stock of the several eorpornt'ons is over 810,000,000, while tho total valua¬ tion would foot up six times sixteen millions. In mauy instances tho origi¬ nal stockholders have, perhaps, moro than doubled "their*investments by mag¬ nificent dividonris ; ami it is a notablo fact that even in ibeFO depressed times ptoaÜCmi fif wïtôZiâtfSf^iZ , T -Tin's is what a hank cashier wr>. .o to Washington when ho wanted "reg¬ istered bonds" : "I may not havo ex¬ pressed myself properly, not kuowing much about this busiucss of swopping bonds, but my intentions aro pure and innocent. I wish ro havo these bonds in such a condition that when burglavs orad to my room at midnight, put a pistol to niy head, twist my nose, tako me by tho ear, lead me to ray bank, compel me to unlock my safe, I can contemplate the removal of my bonds with a smile that is child-like and bland." -Tho work ot excavating tho arena of tho coliseum at Rome, has been sus¬ pended siuce May, as it cannot bo pro¬ ceeded with until tho discovery of tho duet or canal used by tho old Romans to drain oil' the water collecting from tho adjacent slopes. The canal has boen traced in its starting point near tho ruins, and in its possago through tho forum, lending into tho Cloaca Maxima; but its intermediate course hus yet to bo unearthed, which operation, together with its proper deaning aud repairs, will be a job of some riiflieiilty, time and exponso. In tho meantime the excava¬ tion in the coliseum already made, will have to bo kept dry, or as free from water ns possible, in order that tho foundation of the building may not bo seriously damaged. -A popular theatrical manager says he has been tho means of keeping be¬ tween two aud three hundred young ladies off the stage within tho space of live years. " Ono reason was," said he, " because they had no talent, and an¬ other was because I knew that before they had been in tho profession many weeks they would ho heart dy sick aud tired of it. The life of cn actor is a hard one. Peoplo come," said ho, "and seo the actor walking around the stage, speaking a few lines, dressed in mag¬ nificent clothes, ami .winning tho ap¬ plause ot' tin-, multitude; 'How de¬ lightful !' they exclaim. 'Nothing in the world to do bul to (bess well and look pretty.' They do not know what a dog's lifo it is. Aird traveling throupji the country is the hardest work of nil. Out till twelve amt one o'clock at night, and out of bed by iour or Jive in tho morning to fake rin carly tr.» in to the next town. Sometimes thoy do not get to bed at all." THAT SAVED DIM.-It has been gen¬ erally supposed that a bald head was of no ace omit, oven to tho owner, but Vicksburg stnnils up and remarks to tho eontrary. The other day a resident of this oily wont up to ThouipBou'u Lake to got ii shot at the big alligator, and while eating a cold bite in the simile a mau jumped over the ieneo, presented an old army musket nt bin head und cried out : t| " Stranger, nnkivor yer head ! Tho Vieksburger was dumb! minded, but mario liaste to remove hin hat and exhibit a pnto which shono liso it höwJy polished pilpuw. ,ti, "Stranger, that saves yo! continued tho man, Ss ho shouldered his musket ; " I thought) ye. wi.! tho t^bhcatled ped¬ dler who charged my w.fo st.veiriy-hyo cents for II ter i jue t winch hmm t w\ n darned picture in it !"
Transcript of VOLUME ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA,- SATURDAY, … · THEytHowlever is at Pensacola. It its...
E. A. WEBSTER, Editor and Proprietor.A Weékly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politios.
VOLUME I. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA,- SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875. NUMBER 52.TIMELY TOriCS.
A KATHEU heroic uot is that-of-{Simili,dying of internecine struggle's* to goiuto tho market for a loan of $7,000,000to indemnify Porto Ricans for tho lossof thbir'ém'nnóiimteil slaves--.THE yt How lever is at Pensacola. It
its unusually carly for this dreaded manifestatioh. In BOIUO of tho most de-\nstatiug yollow fever seasons tho difj-_easo h_Q3 not shown itself pu tho gulico wit until September. "
THE plague,'-or Black Doath, bastwaked from its thirty yoars sleep in thoeast, and is reported to bo spreadingwith rapidity in Asia. About eighty-live years ago, it desolated Russia, andono hundred and fifty yours have passedsince it ravaged and almost depopu¬lated some part H of Europe,Fon young children Now York is at
present ono of tho deadliest uitics ; atno timo do they thrive thero overmuch,but last week's mortality among themwas exceptionally great. Under fiveyoars of. age they died at the rate ofeighty-six per diem, thc main troublebeing diarrhoal disease.THE postónico department has scut,
to tho department of justice tho numeaof thirty-nine mail contractors who areto bo prosecuted for failuro to performservice after thoir bids were accepted.Tho contracts were relet by tho gov¬ernment, and tho difference betweentho amount paid and tho bids, for tuethirty-nine routes, wa:i $117,087, whichis thc amonnt of damages claimedagainst the delinquent bidders.
TIIE German minister of finance re¬
ports a deficiency in tho Budget for thisyonr of $5,000,000, and.tho tax on beerio to bo raised-a proceeding which willbo inimcneoly unpopular in Germany,whero everybody consumes largely ofthe ruby liquid. Such a largo deficiencyas $5,000,000 would seem siAgular, withtho millions which have beon paid byFranco, were it not apparent that Ger¬many has been putting aU her Tnoney
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry ve-
grots that tho millers uso all thoiifinest, soundest wheat for linc Hour, anc
tho poorest for Graham or brown bread,4 general Dame given to mixtures olbran and tpoilea flour. 11 What w<need is good, sweet, whole wheat flowfinely ground, and put I up secure
ly for family use, and any western mil1er who will give his earnest attentioito furnishing such flour will realizo ifortuno speedily ; securing the moslnutritivo principles tho Creator hastored up for man's food."THE substance of Jno, D. Lee's con
fesaion is that thirty Mormons, with thassistance of a largo number of Indianfdecoyed emigrants from their entrenchmont by a flag of truce ; that all wermurdered except sovcutecn childrenthat tho deed was dono under orders ctho leaders of thc Mormon Churchthat ho took news of tho massacre tBrigham Young, who deplored thtransaction, and said it would brindisaster upon tho Mormon people. Thstatement of Lee, so far as known, onlconfirms proAious reports in regard tthe massacre.
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SINCE tho firBt of Juno, wheat haadvanced thirty-three cont» in thChicago markt-t. If tho reports at hanaro reliable, tho wheat crop of Eurer,will bo almost an entire failure, an
consequently the demand upon orproducts will bo unprecedented. Thwill ensnro tho producer good pay inprices for the products of his farm f(at least a year to come. While GreBritain and tho continent may unfletho people of America will bo greatbenefited. Just when tho ndvancoprices will ceaso it would bo haznrdoito predict.
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THE olorleal newspapers in Franspeculate on tho causes of tho greflood with Romo asperity. It appenthat tho municipal oouuoU of Toulonrecently refused to erect a Btatito"tho glorious and miraculous phebordeas of Pihraó," and ono of the couoilers said, "Wo prefor a fountainWhereupon tho Gazette do Nimes uc
remarks, "God has fulfilled tho wishthose honorable councilors and senlfountain to tho capital of Lagucdwhich they little expected. Had ttown voted tho required sum DiviProvidence," says the editor, "wonnever have treated Toulouse so i
veroly." It is understood fhat tbishop of Chartres is ol the caiopinion.THE committee appointed by t
Delaware Fruit Growers' conventionconfer with,tho steamship'companienregard to tho shipment of penchesLiverpool havo reported that they call
«pon tho authorities of tho Americansteamship company, aud they favoredtho project. Tho company would allowtho growers to lit up tho stcorago for»ward cabin . with thoir refrigerators,which can ?bo douo with fivo Hundreddollars for cadi vessel. This portion oftho ship1 would hold 25", OOO or 30,(M)0baskets"aiid a* compartment immodi-diately mifibrWath could bu fitted up>vh'ich ' vpulct ! carry G.0Ö0 additional.They would charge tho growjors for theshipment, of this amount oï^fimit toLiverpool about twb'thonsnud dollars^and give'them tho privilege of sondiugout au agent freo of charge with eachconsignment.Tun July returns to tho department
of agriculture shows that the acreage iucorn is about three por cent, greaterthan Inst year. New England lins in¬creased her noronge about olovon percont, and tho.Faciüc states about ono
pet cent. All tho great corn growingregions hove increased acreage-Míd¬elo states two per cent., South Atlanticstates three per cent. Gulf states, in¬land southern states, twelvo per cent.,states north of Ohio Bevon, west of theMississippi fourteen per ce"nt. Thecondition of the crop is below an avor¬
ige in tho'Now England aud South At¬lantic states. Tho minimum condition,eighty-two per cent., being iu llhçdoIsland, Florida aud. Alabama aro "alsobelow tho average, but other Gulfstates and inland southern states areabout tiro niaximi.ni, 112 in Mississippi.All other states except .Missonri,10:lare below tho average, tho minimumeighty-two being iu Wisconsin.
THAT mont insu flat aldo of nil idiots,tho practical joker, does not alwaysescapó ou earth" tho wrath that is laidup for him. There lived and taughtschool in St. James parish, Louisiana,recently, a mnu by tho namo of Bow¬den, a- well-meaning person, but af¬flicted with that peculinr sense ofhnrnor which is sure to get somebodyor other into trouble sooner or lator.Ono of his mdst -successful jokes wastnav ot displaying auvertismg billsprinted in imitation of greenbacks, andoffering to bet hundreds ana thousandsof dollars with peoplo who didn't knowthat ho was fooling. Thc other day anoffensive smell coming from nu out¬house led to a search for tho cause, andtho corpse of Bowden was foundbeneath tho floor and under a coveringof corn husks, where it wns rapidlydecaying. A Swedish plantation hRud,who lind seen him displaying his imita¬tion bills, had mistaken him for a per¬son of largo and available moans, andhad murdered him for his money. TheSwede is now a fugitive,'and ho foolsdoubly the weight of tho joko, for hogot no money, and tho Governor liasoffered SI,OOO for his arrest.
l'vov, jJovATjDSON, tho aeronaut, wholins beeii traveling in company withBarnum's Hippodrome, and making bal¬loon ascensions after tho conclusion ofthe afternoon performances, made hissecond trip frum Chicago on Ibo 15th,accompanied by Mr. Newton S. Grim¬wood, a reporter of the Chicago Journal.After ascending iuto tho air tho balloontook a northeasterly course, snilingover tho biko in tho direction of Mus¬kegon, Mich. About soven o'clock inthe evening it was Bighted by aschoonerubout thirty miles northeast of Chicago,at which time tho balloon was skim¬ming tho surfaco of tho biko. Theschooner followed after it until it wasobserved to rise suddenly into tho air,when tho chase was giveu np. A vorysevero gale occurred on I ho lakeabout midnight, and, as no further tid¬ings lind beeü received in Chicago fromtho balloon or its occupants up lo themorning of tho 17th, grave apprehen¬sions were felt for their safety. It wnstho opinion of experts that tho balloonooiild not possibly bavo roached thoMichigan shore beforo the storm burstupon it, and that tho aeronauts per¬ished in tho luke. It is snid by pornothat the balloon was a rotten, patchedup affair.
-AliEnglishman-traveled, of course-relates that un American gontlomauwho had at an early age cono tho over¬land route to California, told him this :Wc crossed tho sandhills near tho sconeof tho ludianmail robbery and'massacreof 1850, wherein the driver and con¬ductor perished, and also all tho pas-Rc'ngera but one. But this must havebeen a mibtake, for at different timesafterward on- tho Bncifio coast,I was personally ..acquainted withone hundred and thirty-three orfour peoplo who wero woundedduring that massacre and barely cr-capedwith thöir lites! Ibero was no' doubt oftho truth of it ; I had it from ¡thoir ownlips. And oue of tho pavtiofs iohl me.that ho Kept' coming across arrow hewsin his system for nearly Roven yearsafter tho massacre.
TO HOPE.
O Hopo!No more, I implore,Droolvo IUO that I limy bplieyo thoo ;Kori know that the flake will followOn tba nlry «ny of t!n< BWBIIOW,Thal tho drift Miall Iii" whorotbo lily blownAnd HIP icicle liuiig from lUo6t«lu of tho row,-O Ilopo l-iiu nuire!
^O^Iopo ! T .'. » V > il C' *V f A *
-Hornillo yet awliilo; » / * w t » /tDeceive me and 1 will boliovo tbce,TbotiKb 1 know tbattbo flake mont'followOn thoalry way of tho Swallow,-That HIP drift munt lie whore tho lily blowsAnd tile icicle haut; from tho Blom of IllO nMC,-0 Hope!-once moro]SA 'l AT il *"
-Jolla, Vnnec. Olieneil.j At Ll /
1&ÓÜNTAINMEADOW MASSACRE.Tcrtknon)) Flirilnf tint First Dav oj thc Trini-Huir ihr Hatcher iras Plailllcll omi JCxérñtnl,Afc tho opening of tho trial of tho
Mormons implicated -in tho MountainMondow- ^massaoro, at* Boaver, Utah,Robert Kays .testified aR follows : Carnoto Utah October 2, 1857, 'throughMountain Meadows saw pilos of bodiesof woman and children, piled promis¬cuously ; there were sixty or seventybodies ; tho childroa wore from twomonths old to twolvo years ; tho smallerwore torn by wolves and crows; some oftho bodies were ..shot, some had thoirt hroats cut, some Btabbed, aud all weretorn by wolves except tme wpmnu, wholaid a little way off, and appeared as ifasleep, u bajl-lisjo.in her.. left side; itappeared tho bodies wert? dead fifteendays; sovoii of ns saw it. ? Piles of men'sbodies were further on; didn't go to seothem; uo clothing on the bodies, exceptone sock on the leg of ono niau; nonewere scalped.Assatel Bennett called: "Was itt tho.Meadow's December, 1857; saw thobones thero; horrible sight; skeletons ofwomon and children; curls, long tresseshair, dried blood; childron 10 to 12years; some skulls had flesh driedoU; tho bodies had been coveredup ; wolves evidently dug them upPhillip Dinger Smith, n défendent ofSan BornamTi, California, called : Pros¬ecution ontpred nolle proseqni as tohimself. Dived in Cedar city from1852 to 1857. Was at the massacre inSeptember, 1857; heard of tho em¬igrants coming. Tho people were for¬bidden to trade with them ; felt badabout it ; saw a fow of them at Cedar ;heard .minors of trouble S uday. Itwas the custom to havo meetings of thopronident and council; bishop andcouncil and high council. The mattercarno up for discussion as to thoir de¬struction. Haight, Higbee, Morrill,aiien,' annis, înysea uuu uwui>, «-.- .¿there. Some brothern opposed theirdestruction. I did. Haight jumpedu)> and broke up tho meeting. I askedwhat would bo tho consequences ofsuch nu net. Then Hnight got mad.Tho l'udinns wore to dfstroy thom. OnMonday, Higbee, AVhite and I met ;samo subject again. I opposed the de¬struction. Haight relented, and toldAVhite and I to go nhend nud toll thopeoplo tho emigrants should go throughsnfo. AVo did so, and on tho rond womet John D. Lee. Wo told whoro wowore going, nud ho replied I bnvosomething to suv nbout that matter ;wo passed the emigrants at Iron Springs;next morning wo passed them again ;as wo carno back they lind twenty or
thirty wagons ; ovor a hundred peoplo,old men, middle aged men, old wo¬
mon, middlo aged women, youths andchildren ; nenr homo I met DaAllen ; ho snid tho emigrnnts'doom wns souled, tho die cast for de¬struction ; three days after Haight sentfor me, and said orders bad como fromoamp ; didn't get along, wanted rein¬forcements; that he had been to Prowin,aud got further orders from Colouol AV.H. Dame to liuish tho mnssacro, to do-coy and sparc only smnll children whocould not tell the tale. I wont off, metAllen, our first ruinier, and others.Higbeo said : you aro ordered out,armed and equioped ; so I went ; Hop¬kins, Higbee, John AVillis aud SamPurdy went ulong ; had two bnggagowaggons ; got to Hamplen's rancho inthe night, three miles from emigrants ;there met Deo and others from tho gen¬eral camp, where tho lttrgRst number ofmen were ; then found tho omigrantsnot all killed. Bateman or Deo wentont; with n white flr.g. A mnu from thoemigrants mot them. Deo and a manset down on tho grass and had a talk ;don't know what they talked. Deo wontwith the man into tho intrenchments.Afttvr some boure tboy came out and thoemigrnnts carno ont with their woundedin wagons ahead. Tho wounded werethoso burt in tho three days previousfight. Next carno tho w«inen, next thomen. As the emigrants came up tbo menhalted, aud tho womon on foot and chil¬dren and wounded went on ahead withJohn D. Deo. Tho soldiers had to beall ready to shoot nt the word. AVhentho word halt came the soldiers fired.1 fired onco ; don't kuow if I killed aman ; not all killed nt tiio first lire.Saw tho women afterward dead, withtheir throats cut. I saw, ns I cumo upto thom, a man kill a young girl. Thomen were marched in double filo first,then thrown in singlo file, with tho sol¬diers ulong side. Tho emigrants were
congratulating themselves on theirsafety from tho Indians. At last JohnM. Higbeo come and ordered my squadto fire. Dee, like the rest, had firearms,No emigronts were allowed to escapo ;saw soldiers ou horses to take on wine:thoso who run ; saw a man run ; snw Billstart on a horso and kill bim, and awounded ulan beg for lifo, TT'ghee ontbis throat. I was told to gather up tholittlo children. I v/ent, and saw awoman running toward the men, crying," My husband, my husband I " Asoldier shot hor in tho back, and shofell dead.-A bollo nt Saratoga wears diamonds
on her shoes,
Post Office Points.Tuc following Into rulings by tlío
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When packages of merchandise or
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ns to -. droit of examination, is charge¬able with prepayment of postage atrates ot third-class matter, viz: ono centau om.co or fraction thereof, limited tofour pounds iu weight.Paper with writing on it, should not
bo UB««ñ ns wrappers for newspapers, P.Hthis \vould subject the packages to letterposta-, e..To entitle regular subscribers to re¬
çoive newspapers froo of postage, theymust Reside iu tho county whoro suchpapou aro printed and published.Mai. matter: iûclosed iu sealed en-
velopii with tho coruers notched, issubject to letter rates of postage.A postmaster is required to examine
alls-printed matter, or third-class mutter,pussin>¿ through IIÍB office, to seo that itis charged with proper rates of postageand to detect fraud. Matter containedin a foaled, envelope notched ¡it thocorners cannot bo satisfactorily ex¬amined withont destroying tho wrapper.
Pre,»aid letters must bo forwardedfrom « iio postoflico to another at tho re¬quest of thc y Tty addressed withoutadditional charge ôf postage ; but let¬ters hnyiug been onco delivered accord¬ing ti) 'heir address require postage attho pr. paid rato when returned to thoofiico for forwarding.Packages contamine liquids, or any
other .'.ritter liable to dofneo or destroythoÄolLtents of tho mails, or hurt thopersoi.ji of any one couueoted with theservie,»; should bo excluded from thomaiI'v'"'vTit scaled paciinges doposired in-, ?'.Af t .? » rt. f ?--- ..
postage, in tho nbsenco of any positivoknowledge of their contents, forwardedto their destination.
Unscaled circulars deposited iu alotter-carrier ofiico for local doliverythrough the box or general delivery, orbycarriers, are subject to a postage of onecent eaoh circular, to bo prepaid bystiirnp ufllxed. L. and E., pago (il,sec. 99._Burning of a Russian Town-200
Lives Lost.A Petersburg lotter to tho London
Standard says :Tho lire which destroyed tho town of
Morechausk bogan ubont 1 o'clock intho afternoon in ono of the fauburgs, nta distauco of nearly half a milo fromtho town proper, and within a fewhours thc whole towu, over an extent offivo versts, was a prey of tho dames inall directions, causing thom to overlapall the opou squares and even tho river.As tho liro grew tho wind became n
tompest, and enormous pluuks andshoots of iron, torn from tho fallinghouses, wero hurled as high as tho sec¬ond story of houses still standing.Oases of goods allowed to lloat alongthe river were burned ou tho water.Home ot" the papers of tho pnblÍ3 officeshnvo beou found at a distancia of sixtyversts from tho town, and tho glow oftho firo lighted np tho horizou to a dis;tanca of ninety versts. Tho Oro sparedabout a hundred wooden houses at oneond of tho towu, hat of tho brick build¬ings hardly ton have escaped.
All tho public edifices, with tho excep¬tion of tho school and several of thuchurches, have been destroyed. Thedestruction of property has been öütiro,Many of the inhabitants trusted to cel¬lars and vaults, but they nearly all follin. As tho firo spread, furniture andother effects wero removed to gardonsand othor opon spaces, but. in vain ; thoflames soon reached tnom »nd reducednil to iiBhep. Only ono of tho corn de¬pots was saved.
It ia calculated that 1,00.) buildingshavo beou burned, and that tho losscannot bo less than 5.000,000 roubles.Abont 2001ivos were lost, and sovoralthousand porsons wero wounded.
Succor, in tho shapo of provisions,clothes, and money, was instantly for¬warded from Tamboff, Riezan, and otherplaces, to tho .unfortunato citizens ofMorBchnnsk, literally wandering abouttho woods or sheltering under carls,having lost everything, and tho numberof tho homeless and destitute exceeded10,000. Three days nftor tho Aro thocorporation of the town petitioned thogovernment for a loan of 3,000,000roubles, tobo redeemed in thirty days.
ENGLAND'S NEW RIVAL.
Rapid Development nf Colton Manufacture inItlllill.
The manufacture of cotton is rapidlyincreasing in British India, and ns con¬siderable profits aro realized, tho ton*deucy is toward continued inyeslmöutsand tho extension of this groat indus¬try. It is now manifest that Mniiobns-tor has lost its fermer control of thoeastern markets, In tho piuglo presi¬dency of Bombay there uro twenty-fivecotton mills in tull Operation, working000,000 spindles and 7,000 looms. Thuspindles produce about 13O,0GJ pounds
of fol ton thread n day, of which about50,000 pounds aro used to producecloth. These mills ure chiefly in theBombay Island, whoro a new spinning1mill, just opened by n wealthy Hindoo,and working 25,000 spindles, makes atotal of seventeen work hie mills, Upcon td ry there are several others-ono utSurat, two ut Broach, two at Ahmcdn-bud, ono at Julguum, ono in tho nativestate of Bhowuugger, and ono at Ma¬dras. Extensions are also rapidly goingforward. Eight extensions are in courseof construction at Bombay, chiefly onshare capital, and theso will provide utleast, for the working of 10,000 morespindles and 1,345 looms*. Tho machine¬ry is always of tho very newest and mostapproved construction, and no effortsare spared on the part of tho ludinnproducers to enable their goods to com¬pete uccessfnlly with ibo choicest pro¬ducts of foreign manufacturo- UnitedStatis Economist,
An Incident of the Floods.Writing of the disasters of tho in¬
undations in France, a correspondentsays : At, St. Oyprien, tho suburb ofToulouse, which suffered so sevorely, M.Mahratta, a well-known sculptor who ro-sided there, but who had his atelier inthe town, was at work in the latter,when he was informed of tho risk towhich his family, whom he had left iiitlie Faubourg, were exposed. He im¬mediately hastened home, and began lopack up his valuables und prepare toretreat with his wife, two girls, eight»nd niue years tdd, und a little boy inhis mother's arms. Bnt tho Hood hadbecu too quick for them. In less thanti quarter of au hour it had risen morothan four feet, and thoir house was sur¬rounded beforo they were aware of it.As tho water rose higher and higherthey moved from stage to stage, untilthey reached tho roof aloug with other'families who had taken refuge there.Thus they stood, tho father holding histwo littlo girls by tho hand, tho mothercarrying her boy, till darkness sot in,tho flood still rising, and tho housesaround them giving away before it onoafter the other with fearful crash.' Atlast their own house borgan to lotterand crank, and give other siguí, that itwac no longer a safe place ot refugo.Another-house nt some little distuncooffseemeJ to offer a stouter resistance,and one of their party, who was a goodswimmer, threw himself into tho water,and by great effort succeeded iii climb¬ing on to tho other roof¿ Unfortunately,iii laking bis'spring from that on whichdownÄlme/'Muurol\e"*w'i ¿j tTic.¡pfti'lite i lí¬ber arms, and although tho former waslaid hold of and rescued, tho child wascarried away by tim flood, and perishedbefore tho oyos of its father, who couldonly just, save his fainting wife. Bygood luck, in tho house to which theircompanion had escaped a roll of calicotwenty-live yards Jong was fouud. Onono end ol this an iron was tied, mid,nitor immy attempts, swung across, anda communication thus opened with thoother house, Tho two littie girls woresuccessfully made fast to the end of thoroll and dragged through the water.Mme. Maurette was next tied to it andhad also nearly gained the other roof,when tho strength of those who sup¬ported her failed, aud sho fell backinto the water. For a moment shoseemed lost, but ber husband, throw¬ing himself in, in Iiis turn, and swimming to her, supported her nntil a fresheffort could be made above, when bothwere eventually hoisted up. Tho nitditwas passed in cold and wet, expectingdeath almost hourly. But thc house re¬sisted, and bjT morning the water hadrallen suflioiently to enable tho party towade ashore.Rather a Tough Suake Fig'.it, but a
Good Story.A fow days since, while a young man
of tho vicinity of Middlo Grove, whomwo shall designate as Jcomes, wasshrubbing in tho field, he ran upon iiblock snake in a cluster of bushes, and,calling his dog Zip, set him after thcsnake. Whilo he was intently watchingtho progress of the light between hitsnakeslup and his favorite canine, something behind took him "whack" upoithe seat of his trousers, and turningquickly, ho discovered to his horror itremendous horse'-racer, full six feet irlength, with lurid erect, hissing tongueamt glaring oyes, curling himself in tinfullest attitudè for battle, and befonJeemes could comprehend the terribhcharacter nf tho situation, "whack" tinsnake took him again. Ile Mien lookctfor a tree, but there was none to climb-for a stick, but i here was none at handHe then drew his jack-knife, with tindetermination of selling his life lildearly as possible, and tho most terribhbattlebetween man and snake then oecurred that has ever transpired in the history of Monroe county. Tho snako wa
very strong und native, and, çurlinjhimself around one pf his victim's leg*he stuck his terrible fangs into hinwith marvelous rapidity, tightening hihold and orawliiig np all the limo, whiliJeemes lilied his "jack-knife withrapidity never equaled by tito siivagModoo. The snake was getting tbbest of it, and had twisted himself ti]nearly to Jeemes* face, and was nhouto coil his slimy length about his tucclimbing antagonist's swan-like throatwhen Zip, tho faithful servant, bavinfinished snako No. 1, carno yelping itho rescue, and, taking in at a glanctho hazardous position of tho mosto]hu spiling and grappled the monster bthe neck, and hold on with a viee-likgrip until Jeemes, by tho use of hiknife, extricated himself from Jo's toiribl'e predicament, and from an nntimeland premature grave. The snake wukilled, lind t'n ; i rusty dog was tho liftpreserver or his master.-FrofH //Paris Mo., Appeal,
FACTS AND FAMOLES.-The coffee-planters oí Ceylon uro
threatened with pecuniary ruin, thorats having seized their plantations,grasshopper style. Not hoing rtblo toimport American music, thoy are tryingto frighten oh' the invaders with* thotom-tom, a home instrnment.-There is an Duglish paper which
thinks that in case of war the chieffood producing nations, by combiningngninsfc England, could conquer herwithout firing a shot or landing :..soldier by simply declining to deal withher.;-Tho old superstitious idea that, thohand of a dead mun is a talisman ngainstevil, onco prevaleut among southern ne¬groes, seems no! to have' died out. Avault in Greenville, Miss., wnp recentlybroken open and a hand cut from acorpse.-On ono of the bridges of Paris a
baliy Fprnng ont of its mother's armsand fell in tho river, sud tho motherjumped after it, but could not swim.Another-woman jumped in who couldswim aud brought out both. Thomother was half drowned and tho babywas dead.-Some of tho clergymen in Kentucky
propose to hang smtes in the churchvestibules, so that young ladies on en¬tering, can register thoir names, thussaving a great expense for providingseats in tho vestibule for young men,and making a great deal of waiting uu-uecessary.-"James Brown," of St. Giles, Dou¬
ri ">n, clnims to bo reckoned among thoncblo band of vivisectionists, his tradebeing tho catching of cats and "skin¬ning 'em alive." "The simple fnot is,"ho says, "I got nu honest living byskinning cats, and because skins takenfrom tho live cats aro worth sixpenceapiece moro than those taken from theanimal when dead I skin the cats alivewhenevor I can."-If tbero is a manufacturing city on
this continent which might be "calledtho Manchester of America, it isLowoll, Mass. There are daily em¬ployed nearly eighteen thousand opera¬tives in the various mills. Tho capitalstock of the several eorpornt'ons isover 810,000,000, while tho total valua¬tion would foot up six times sixteenmillions. In mauy instances tho origi¬nal stockholders have, perhaps, morothan doubled "their*investments by mag¬nificent dividonris ; ami it is a notablofact that even in ibeFO depressed timesptoaÜCmi fifwïtôZiâtfSf^iZ ,
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-Tin's is what a hank cashier wr>. .oto Washington when ho wanted "reg¬istered bonds" : "I may not havo ex¬pressed myself properly, not kuowingmuch about this busiucss of swoppingbonds, but my intentions aro pure andinnocent. I wish ro havo these bondsin such a condition that when burglavsorad to my room at midnight, put a
pistol to niy head, twist my nose, takome by tho ear, lead me to ray bank,compel me to unlock my safe, I can
contemplate the removal of my bondswith a smile that is child-like andbland."-Tho work ot excavating tho arena
of tho coliseum at Rome, has been sus¬
pended siuce May, as it cannot bo pro¬ceeded with until tho discovery of thoduet or canal used by tho old Romansto drain oil' the water collecting fromtho adjacent slopes. The canal has boentraced in its starting point near thoruins, and in its possago through thoforum, lending into tho Cloaca Maxima;but its intermediate course hus yet to bounearthed, which operation, togetherwith its proper deaning aud repairs,will be a job of some riiflieiilty, time andexponso. In tho meantime the excava¬tion in the coliseum already made, willhave to bo kept dry, or as free fromwater ns possible, in order that thofoundation of the building may not boseriously damaged.-A popular theatrical manager says
he has been tho means of keeping be¬tween two aud three hundred youngladies off the stage within tho space oflive years. " Ono reason was," said he," because they had no talent, and an¬
other was because I knew that beforethey had been in tho profession manyweeks they would ho heart dy sick audtired of it. The life of cn actor is a
hard one. Peoplo come," said ho, "andseo the actor walking around the stage,speaking a few lines, dressed in mag¬nificent clothes, ami .winning tho ap¬plause ot' tin-, multitude; 'How de¬lightful !' they exclaim. 'Nothing inthe world to do bul to (bess well andlook pretty.' They do not know what a
dog's lifo it is. Aird traveling throupjithe country is the hardest work of nil.Out till twelve amt one o'clock at night,and out of bed by iour or Jive in thomorning to fake rin carly tr.» in to thenext town. Sometimes thoy do not getto bed at all."
THAT SAVED DIM.-It has been gen¬erally supposed that a bald head was ofno aceomit, oven to tho owner, butVicksburg stnnils up and remarks to thoeontrary. The other day a resident ofthis oily wont up to ThouipBou'u Laketo got ii shot at the big alligator, andwhile eating a cold bite in the simile a
mau jumped over the ieneo, presentedan old army musket nt bin head undcried out :
t|" Stranger, nnkivor yer head !Tho Vieksburger was dumb! minded,
but mario liaste to remove hin hat andexhibit a pnto which shono liso it höwJypolished pilpuw. ,ti,
"Stranger, that saves yo! continuedtho man, Ss ho shouldered his musket ;" I thought) ye. wi.! tho t^bhcatled ped¬dler who charged my w.fo st.veiriy-hyocents for II ter i jue t winch hmm t w\n darned picture in it !"
