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gave us liberty to build, and the
ground which he made our own over
his owl. name and seal, are all gone.
The Le chancellor is building II
palace ysasyE cottage stood i'll the way,
and the Workmen have torn it down
to-day. There is nothing left to us.
my boy, but God and the wide
world.n
Bring me the deed, mother,' re
piled the son. "The highest in Eng
land has no power to oppress the
lowest. Let his Lordship build on !:
he cannot seize that which is yours
by the Great Seal of England. Were
he ten times Lord Chancellor I will
see him Tomorrow
He did see him, and was heard
patiently. The claim was admitted,
and the Chancellor hired the site of
the old apple woman for the annual
rent of $500. Up to May 1st last,
the sum was punctually paid to the
old woman's descendants.
And here comes in the last link of
our story. England is a country of
leaseholds. A few thousands of the
aristOcracy, in common with the
Established Church, hold the fee
simple of all lands. London is built,
and Liverpool and birmingham and
Sheffield and Manchester, and every
town, great and small within the
kingdom, OH ground leased forninety-
nine years. The rents on these leases
constitute one great element of the
wealth OF the hereditary land owners.
f'Upon the expiration of a lease. it is
the universal custom to renew it, no
matter what may be the enhanced
value Of the land, to the holder, at
the same annual rent, for future
term of ninety-nine years, with what
is called a fine. Thus, the Marquis
of Westminster, who holds three
quarters of the West End of Lon
don; thus the Duke of Bedford,
whose property includes Covent
Garden and al! that labyrinth
OF streets, and squares, and places,
and inns of the court that surround
it !; thus Lambeth Palace. residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
that receives its princeIy reve-
nues from docks and right of
ferries Oh the Thames, renew old
leases at the same annual rate to
the holder, with a fine. The amount
of the fine to be paid in ready money,
represents the increased value of the
land. To James Allen, the barrister,
upon the renewal of the apple
woman's lease, in 1870, the fine paid
by the present Duke of Wellington
was $4,000. The fee simple of the
ground upon which Apslet House
stands, granted, by law Or favor,
under the sign-manual of George the
Second, remains in the hands of the
descendants of the old apple-woman,
one hundred and twenty years after
the King passed his word to the
wounded soldier,
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The Danger Of Convicting ON Cir
Cumstantiai Evidence.

A remarkable case, showing the
danger of trusting implicitly to cir
cumStantial evidence, has recently
been completed in Toledo. Nearly
three years ago Robert Sharp was
found dead, with shots and sIuys in
his brain. \ man named Harring-
ton, who had been on intimate terms
with the deceased, was arrested for
the murder. The testimony was
wholly circ,nnstantial, but SO skill
fully worked up" by the detectives
that Harrington was convicted and
sent to the penitentiary. His lawyers
had become interested in the case,
and, although Harrington was a poor
man, they determined to fight his
cause to the end. After long and
arduouS struggle through the Dis
trict and Supreme Courts, an order
for a new trial was obtained, and
that trial has just closed.
The main points in the evidence
on which he was convicted were the
apparent correspondence of the shot
in the body of the dead man with
that i'll the shot-bag belonging to
Harrington; the correspondence of
pieces of newspaper found near the
scene OF the supposed murder, and
assumed to be part of the gun wad-
ding, with a torn paper in Harring-
tons residence, and a piece in his
vest pocket, and that the motive for
the murder was to be found in the
alleged fact OF Sharp having come to
Toledo with several hundred dollars
of money, which Harrington knew,
and that no one else was so intimate
with Sharp.
On the second trial it was render
ed doubtful whether there was a 81
mila1ity in the shot. 1t was clearly
proven that the pieces of paper. al
legged to have been picked up at the
scene OF the murder were not there
at the time Of the finding of the
body, not for day or two after.
ward, and the inference was I'M
avOilable that they were put there
by the detectives to aid them in
working up" the case against Har-
rington. 1t was further proven that
Sharp was destitute when he arrived
III Toledo, and that Harrington was
doing his best to aid him in procur.
ing employment. To crown all, an
abb was satisfactorily proven. Har-
rington was declared innocent, and
the jury voluntarily gave him a let.
ter, signed by every member, re.
peating in emphatic terms their be.
lief Of his entire innocence of any
knowledge of the supposed murder,
and bearing testimony to his uniform
good character. The public sentiment
unanimously conceded with this yer,
dict. The former employer of Har.
rington Immediately took him back
into his service. 1t causes an un
pleasant shudder to reflect that a
perfectly innocent man. OF good
character, suffered two years of de
grading punishment, and narrowly
escaped an ignominious death, for a
crime Of which he knew nothing. II
is another warning against implicit
trust in wholly circumstantial evi
dence, and protest against the
detectives in working up q CASE
against one they choose to suspect
u cleveland Herald,
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Live Within Your Income.

There are very many persons, not
in Lynchburg only, but elsewhere,
whose fortune must necessarily be
wrecked by unnecessary eXtrav-
agance; for we are not now as pros
perous as we have been, and cannot
afford to indulge many luxuries to
which we were formerly accustomed.
Extravagant expenditures occa-
sion a very large part of the suffer
ings Of great majority of people.
And extravaganza is wholly a rela-
tive term. What is not at all eX-
travagant for one person may be
very extrayagant for another. EX-
penditures--,no matter how small in
themselves they may be-are always
extravagant when they come fully
up to the entire amount of PERSONS
whole income.
The mode of living is almost en-
tirely matter of habit. 1t is just
as easy to get along on three -fourths
of fyourincome-whatever the amount
of it may be-as Oh the whole of it,
if you only think SO, and restrict
your expenditures accordingly. The
thousand Inconvenience of debt,
embarrassmenta and dependence may
all be avoided by firm and un-
deviating adherence to this rule.
One great aid in pursuing the
course which we have recommended,
will be found in keeping an accurate
account of all receipts and eXpendi-
lures. BY frequent reference to this
you will see just what you can afford
to expend, without encroachment on
your rule; and you will also see
what of your expenditures you can
most conveniently curtail, Or cut off
entirely.
There is a great deal, too, in re.
Election and foresight, i'll the eXpen
ditrre of your money. 1t is a very
common remark that one person will
make the same amount go twice al
far as another. This is owing to the
employment of greater rprudence anC
Judgment i'll buying. Almost any
amount Of money can be thrown
away, and scarcely anything obtain
ed for it, by thoughtless, careless
spendthrift.
We despise skinfiints. But econo
my and meanness are by no mean:
identical. On the contrary, as it il
easy for any one to see, an unseltish
judicious economy-a wise saying
furnishes the means not only of in
dependence, but of beneyolence ant
generosity Also Lynch. Rep.
The power of Saratoga, says SAKE
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A Simple Weather Glass.

Take a glass about ten inches in
length, and one inch in diameter,
fill it up with the following liquid:
Two parts camphor, one part nj
trate of potash, and one part sal am
moniac, and dissolve in spirits of
wine and add water until you have
partially precipitated- the camphor.
The extremity Of the tube can
be left open or hermetically closed.
The glass tube thus prepared is then
fixed in horizontal position against
the wall or a board.
The changes in the weather are
thus indicated:
l. 1t the weather is to be fine the
composition of the substance will re-
main entirely at the bottom Of the
tube and the above liquid will be
perfectly clear and transparent.
2. Before the weather changes to
become rainy the precipitate will
rise by degrees, and small crystaliz-
ations, similar in shape to stars, will
be seen to move about the liquid.
3. When the storm is imminent
the precipitate will rise to the top of
the tube, assuming the shape of
leaf, or an assemblage of crystals
the liquid change very often takes
places twenty-four hours before the
change of the weather.
4. The side from which the wind
will blow in a squaH will be also III
dicated by the particles of the sub
stance floating in the liquid, and
assuming the shape Of long hairy
needles,
5. In the summer time, The weather
being warm and dry, the crytaliz-
alton will have tendency to remain
lower In the tube, and the liquid will
also be more transparent.
The amount of crystalized part
icles that will be seen floating in the
liquid will be sure sign or indica-
ton of fine or bad weather, and will
depend entirely upon the suddenness
of the change in the weather which
is to take place, acting in the most
energetic way on the composition
above described.
The value of this simple instru-
ment to forewarn of an impending
storm and also to indicate the CONT
nuance of the weather, will be read
| lily appreciated by those whose occu,
pations are affected by the change
of the weather.
The youngest elopement OH re
cord took place at Hudson, Mich.
last week. Master Frederick Tubbs
of that town, aged five years, took
Miss Schermerhorn, aged three years
combed her hair, put the dolls
things in box and proceeded Will
her to the depot. where they got OF
the rear platform of the western
bound train without being noticed
till the conductor received dis
, patch for them. They were put of
at Osseo and returned on the mex
J train well pleased with their. trip.
81 Town pumps-local editors.
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Lumber! Lumber !! Lumber !!

6H0ICE CYPRESS & PINE LUMBER
LOT every dimension, and In unlimited
quantities. supplied by the undersigned al
Mount Pleasant Mills, near Washington. We
will gil with promptness and dispatch al
bills entrusted to us.
Orders addressed to the undersigned, al
Washington, will receive immediate attention
All kinds and any amount OF Seasoned
Lumber always on hand, at - Reduced
Prices.
TERMS Cash at the MILL
FRANK MCNICOLL.
Mt Pleasant Mills, July ., 1871,
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An Irish dentist, desirous of being
elected coroner of Wexford, heads
his appeal to his constituents with
the appropriate and graceful motto !:
A long pull, a strong pull, and a
mil all tOUethpr!0
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\ Michigan editor has just given
up the sanctum for the pulpit. He
thinks it is easier to fight the one
devil at which minister levels his
arrows, than the thousands which
an editor is obliged to contend with.
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J.w. BLAcKMANS
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
ey CAMP STREET.

Corner Of Commercial Place, New Orleans, La.
OPEN DAY AND EVENING THE
3~ ENTIRE YEAR.
-Al Penmansbip, Bookkeeping Math.
ematies and Languages are practleally 1augsn' se
by experienced professors. Persons from nj nj
teen to fifty years of age attend. Instructions IS
Separate desk to himself and is put ttsv taTGng En
sn ths s;tnat;on he intends to fill. Persons
who have neglected their education are here
speedily prepared for business; Students from
the country may obtain board in the family
of the Principal. -, ,,o,
TERMs-Twenty per cent. less than othel I
Commercial Colleges in this city. Cost OF
full Commercial Course only 500. Average
time, three to four months. ,,
The Principal has been professional teacn'
er in New Orleans since 1851.
For Circulars address
J. w. BLACkMAN,
Feb15-lyl New oi'eans'
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A colored man amused himself in
Evansville, Indiana, the other day,
by swinging from a hook suspended
in an ice-house for the hoisting and
lowering of ice. Suddenly, by some
mishap, he missed his hold ON the
hook and fell into the deep ice cellar,
a depth Of some fifteen to twenty
feet, and lit on his head and should
ers. Of course those who saw it ex-
pected to find him dead !; but when
they looked in at the door he sat
scratching his head, and, with q
foolish look Oh his face, first examin-
ing the broken ice where he fell, and
then measering the distance with his
eyes upward to where he fell from.
When he saw the proprietor of tho
establishment he looked very sorry
and said: "FO' de Lord, boss, Use
sorry | broke dat ice, | is, sartin.,
4 married man, whom we will
take the liberty to designate as
Smith, though that is not his pa
tronymic, lives at a family boarding
house in New York city, most of the
inmates of which are inclined to
enjoy the luxury of late sleep Sun
day mornings. Smith, however, has
been attending a series of revival
meetings lately, and has indicated
as a result strong desire to abe
good.n One morning he was awake
at an early hour, and two young
men who sleep in all adjoining room
were soon unpleasantly reminded of
the fact, as he persisted, while MAX
ing his toilet, in singing, without
regard to time or tune, and in hor-
rible voice, "There is a Happy Land,
Far, Far Away Didn't those god
less young men mltter wishes, not
loud, perhaps, but earnest, that he
, would Immediately start on a trip to
, the far away country, or any other
place. After a while he changed to
that favorable old hymn, "Jesus,
my all, to Heaven has gone,7 and
trolled it Justify until he got to
q gomez which gradually faded away,
and a second afterward the unwilling
listeners heard, Eliza! Eliza
where in HI is my other boot ~
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At school at Newcastle the mas
ter asked class Of boys the mean
ing Of the word appetite" After a
short pause, one little boy said, 81
know, sir; when I'm eatin' Pm ,appy,
and when I'm done I'm tight.'
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"IIis pill grimage is over,' as the
druggists widow said when she Or
dcred an cpitaph for his tombstone.
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An Irish student was once asked
what was meant by posthumous
works. "They are such works." says
Paddy, "as man writes after he is
1noI -
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An exchange says: 1--WE are in
receipt Of two poems, one on a
Throbbing Brain and the other
on Beating Heart We will wait
until we receive one on the Stomach
Ache and publish the three to-
oethpr.n
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A New York editor says: "Fash-
ionable garters are of blue velvet,
gold mounted" How does the fellow
know that ?
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\ young man stepped into a book
shop and said he wanted /" A young
mans companion." "Well, sir" said
the bookseller, " there's my only
Iaurhtpr.r
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Many man justly consider his
wife poetical when she is a rerse to
him.
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A Key to a Persons Name,

By the accompanying table of let
ters, the name of a person, or any
word, may be found out in the fol
1O;winO manner.
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a poor, emaeiated Irislman, hav-
ing called in a physician in a forlorn
hope, the latter spread a large mus
tard plaster and put it Oh the poor
fellows lean chest. Pat, when with
fearful eyes he looked down on it,
said: "Dr. it sthrikes me it's dale
of mustard for so little mate.D
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A gentleman i'll Chicago, who was
arrested for cruelty to miserable
looking horse, was asked if he ever
fed him. "Ever. fed him! that's q
good 'un," was the reply. "He's got
"a bushel and a half OF oats at home
now, only he amt got time to eat
'amn
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"Labor-shunning Class Of People,
TFrom Our Home journal. I

: Mr.. EDITOR - Apropos of your
well timed remarks upon the '1abor-
stunning class of people, in the
South, a young, hale, vigorous man
came into my office, last week, a
begging. Said he was born in this
State, and just from Baton Rouge.
I limited to him that the cry for la
Dor is coming up from half the plan
tations Of the State, and that he
might easily find employment with
good wages; whereupon he fared
up rather Indignantly at the sugges-
ton, and considered labor as proper
for "negroes and coolies," but not
for sgentlemen of edncationD like
him! He was not ashamed to beg,
but quite ashamed to labor! Some
thing wrong here, Mr.. Editor, in our
system of education, is there not!
Yours, G.
~~---~-..4@~.-~------
The Grasshopper War; which
took place about the time the Pill
grilns came to New England in the
Mayhower, between two Indian
tribes, was brought about in this
way: An Indian woman, with he1
little son, went to visit friend be
longing to another tribe. The little
fellow caught a large grasshoppel
on the road, and carried it will
him. "A lad from the other tribe
wanted it, but he refused to give il
up. A quarrel ensued, which soor
drew the fathers and mothers into
a dispute, and ere long the chief
were engaged IN a war which nearly
| exterminated one tribe.
/ o--e-~--4~0s--~.~.-7-e1-~
| John Jacob AstOr once sold apples
L - .
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THE HUMORIsTs' COLUMN.
A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wiscstmen.

What word may be pronounced
quicker by adding two more letters
to it ?-Quick.
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COTTON PRESSES
HORSE POWERS.
The Reynolds" Revolving Wrought
Iron Screw

HORSE POWERS.
The Reynolds" Revolving Wrought
Iron Screw
COTT N Pr ESS
rs an improvement on the most popular Screw
Presses, and is pronounced to be the most
complete, durable, and easy working Press
now in the market The whole weight of the
Press with the cotton in the box stands on a
pivot, enabling two men or one horse to press
q 500 lbs bale with ease.
T7se Reynolds Horse POlCers
Is unsurpassed for strength and durability.
They are manufactured expressly for Cotton
Ginning Corn Mills and other plantation
work
These articles took the PREMIUMS at the
TEXAS STATE FAIR, 1871.
Manufactured in New Orleans. at
REYNOLDS IRON WORK o
Corner South Market and Fulton Sts..
Near ST. Mary,s Market.
w. II. REYNOLDS, Proprietor, Box 1890.
Office and Depot, SO Carondelet Street
BLOCH & DUPRE, Agents,
Opelousas, La.
Agents wanted everywhere. ~ Send for
Price List. CJe2i-6m
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Phoebe Cousins, of ST. Louis, re-
Gently gave her views of the ideal
marriage, thus:-" A molecule of
oxygen roaming lonely through
space, seeking for it's mate, but
finding none, when of a sudden in
some hidden nook it discovers a
molecule of hydrogen, when 10!
there is rush, an embrace, and
there is neither any more oxygen
nor hydrogen, but a diamond drop
of dew reposing Oh the bosom of the
lily After which she added, that
she herself was a molecule of hydro
gen, but the only responsive crush !"
was toward the door.
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CERTAINLY. Some forty years
ago, when mans respectability de-
pended upon his taking a news
paper, a certain shrewd individual
was one morning enjoying the luxury
of his paper, although he labored
under the disadvantage of not know
ing a single letter in the alpha
bet, when more knowing neigh
Dor of his, who happened in per-
haps to borrow his paper, observ-
Ell to him that he had the jour
nal wrong end up. The old gentle
man, drawing himself up in the POM
posity of affronted dignity, exclaim-
ed: II would have You to know, sir,
that if Itake paper andpa for it,
[ have a right to read it which end
up | please.n
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JACQUES ARNAUD.
NetaFy Pnhlie and Justice OF the Peace.
0FFIcE AT
zecuvilie, Parish # st Landry.
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John Jacob AstOr once sold apples
on the streets of New York.
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The power Of Saratoga, says Sake,
is water power.
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Town pumps-local editors.
Smyrna times., 1871-08-16


bat probably very small proportion of those
who use them understand the principle upon
which they operate The tip of match, which
Is a combination of sulphur and phosphorus,
ignites at a heat of l20 degrees, which a Slight
friction will produce, and this in turn ignites
the sulphur, which requires 450 or 800 degrees.
The fame Of the sulphur sets fire to the pine .
wood Of which the match is composed, and
which ignites at about coo degrees. The COM
bnation Is necessary because the phosphorus
alone would not kinde the match, while the
sulphur alone would not ignite with the ordn-
ary friction.
David Walker, slave, was sold in Norfolk,
Vs., 81 years ago, to another master residing
in New Orleans, and separated from a colored
woman, Mary Gibbs, with whom he had been
living as his wife Hearing a few days since
that his former partner was still in the old
Virginia home, he went back there, found her,
and married her. lie is now 50, and she It
but they still look forward to years Of welded
JOY.
Hapcrs' Btzor, in an article upon Nam
ing Children" says Let the child have a
simple, good name. aad let him make it illus
tr0us if he can. irat it be remembered that
all those great names you have selected gave
no glory to the great men who bore them. The
men made the names glorious, but it is a glory
which cannot be reflected.
A correspondent, writing from Saratoga Of
the young New York men there, says their pc
cullar style Of fast living makes men of 80 ap
pear older than their fathers Of GO. Five years
at Saratoga, he says, will make corpse Of any
man who follows up the fashions of watering
place.
p. s. Gilmore, Of Boston Peace Jubilee
fame, has published prospectus for World S
peace jubilee. tie proposes to erect a coliseum
at Boston which will seat 100000 persons, and
to provide 10000 vOlccs and 2000 instruments
for the music.
A philosopher hath said He who is pas
sionate and hasty is generally honest. 1t is
your cold, assembling hypocrite you should
beware of. There is no deception in bull
dog. 1t is only the cur that sneaks up and
bites you when your back is TUNED.
An Albany damsel asked one of her fellow
boarders, stylish dry goods clerk, at the break
fast table, "Why is your moustache like my
back hair?' He blushingly gave it up, when
the answer caused him to blush still more, Be
cause It's all down.
Bainbridge serenader, who mournfully
warbled 6 I'm lonely tonight, love, without
thee" had his loneliness allevlated by a mum
Der Of dogs, who made it lively enough for hin
for the balance of the night.
DR.. Hall has written long article to prove
that it is unhealthy for man and wife to sleel
in the same room but we know of some wiye
that would make it unhealthy for their hus
bands to sleep anywhere else.
Elmira rats are not gifted with superior or
der Of intelligence, if reports are true. The
steal shoc-pegs and stow them away under tn
delusion that they are oats-a notable exampl
of moral and mental darkness
A most excellent old lady uptown is muc
excited in mind to know how it is that a litt
quicksilver in glass tube can make such av
full hot weather by just rising it an inch or tw