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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

DIsGUsrED..-A retired French trades
man was lately much disgusted at finding
various valuable personal articles mysteri-
ously absent from their proper places.
Residing with him was an old servant,
who had lived in the house thirty years,
and a nephew. 1t was impossible for him
to suspect either, and yet there was no
ground for supposing that the robberies
had been effected by anyone outside the
house. He resolved to watch. To his
CONSERVATION he observed, one or two
nights after, the nephew, in his night
dress, descend, take various valuable
articles, and proceed with them to a
sammer-house in the garden. On his re-
turn the uncle confronted him, being duly
prepared, we may suppose, for "a scene"
lie was disappointed. The nephew ap.
peared utterly unconscious of his affection
ate relatives presence, and passed quietly
upstairs to his room. Next day the uncle
taxed him with his extraordinary conduct.
The nephew denied all knowledge of it.
The summer-house was searched, and in a
cellar beneath it all the missing articles
were found. 1t is bad enough to have
either a somnambulist or kleptomaniac
In q family. but the two combined is
really trial which we trust, for poor
humanity's sake, will remain rare.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
How All Sin Keeps the Day.

The San Francisco Bulletin says it IS
the custom among Chinese house SER
wants to stipulate with their employers
for q portion of Sunday, on which day
they visit their countrymen in the
Chinese quarter, talk over the news from
home, have their heads shaved, go
through with their genufections and
salaams in joss houses, smoke opium,
&C., some of them closing up the days
performances by getting rid of their
weeks wages in the Chinese gambling
houses, which are so thickly located
along Dupont street. The, sidewalks
swarm with these gregarious beings,
whose nature it is to huddle in aocks on
the surface and burrow in bands beneath.
Their dens are hives of industry or week
days, and rooms reeking with smoke on
Sundays. A visitor who ventures inside
has to step over the prostrate bodies OF
opium smokers. and feel his way through
clouds of smoke, meantime holding his
nose against sickening stencil OF fetld
breath, decayed fish-in short, con-
glomeration of odors nowhere to be
found outside of cellar reeking with
the fumes of crowd of Chinese. For
the sake of the delectable pleasure to be
found IN such places, John frequently
refuses to take good situations in the
country; like Bridget, he must be in
town, where he can at least once week
see his "cousin." The Chinese have
hosts of relatives; uncles and cousins
especially the latter-are counted by the
score. They regard as cousins those
several removes further than a white
man ever thinks it worth his while to
inquire. These Cousins" are generally
friends, all belonging to the same COM
mercial company, and when they meet
on Sunday, the iabbering is energetic
beyond description. All day and late
in the night John keeps up his round
of visits among his cousins, but manages
to be on hand Monday morning, ready
for work, which he generally performs
cheerfully, and with fidelity.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
The Reward Of Rashness.

The Rerista of Naples contains the fol-
lowing account of the loss oftwo gentle
men in the crater of Vesuvius, who with
great temerity insisted on being lowered
down to the dark cavern Immediately
below the orifce of the crater: "a party
was formed to ascend Mount Vesuvius IN
the Cafe di Europa. The party consisted
of two Americans, three Englistmen, and
one Frenchman. They took carriages
from the cafe for Resina, reaching there
at half.past eleven P. NJ. Having pro-
cured horses, guides, and other necessaries,
they started for the burning mountain
and began the ascent, one Luigi Garogllo
leading as cicerone, and arrived at the
base of the uppermost cone further than
which horses do not 60. The tourists
then began the ascent over the hlilocks
and boulders of lava until the vicinity OF
the crater was reached, when Messrs.
James Wilcox and Francois lie Mieur, an
American and a Frenchman, insisted on
being lowered down to the cavern which
is formed below the mouth Of the volcano.
The guides, who provided themselves with
ropes for that purpose, complied with the
request of the foreigners and lowered
them down. The mountain being per-
fectly quiet no danger was anticipated !;
but when one of the party above the
crater called out to the rash adventures,
no answer was returned. The guides
growing anxious, cried, "Gentlemen, it
would be better for you to hold on to the
ends of the ropes" Still the ropes re-
named slack, and no answer came from
the sulphurous and murky cavern below.
Twenty minutes passed and the adven-
turers were yet silent. 1t was then pro-
posed that one of the guides should be
lowered down and hold on to the ropes
until he had investigated the appearance
of the cavern base. He had hardly en-
tered when he cried out loudly: "Su
su non c'e niente che una pietra strettls-
SINAI" CsUp! up! there's nothing here
but very narrow rock!)
AS far as any living person can tell the
rest, the unfortunate strangers, the VIC
tins of their own imprudence, were hurled
into the mysterious abysses of Mount
Vesuvius.
In this same month, sixteen years ago,
two Eng'ishmen of birth and fortune, and
French comedian committed the same
terrible error. The same ambition which
urged them to scale the icy heights OF
the Matterhorn also nerved them to search
insldious Vesuvius while it slept, and
they were either lost in some labyrinth oi
lava and ashes or smothered by vapor OF
| sulphur.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

DIABoL1oAL THIEvEs.-The Journal
des De5ats quotes a letter dated Nijhi
Novgorod, in which an accounts given OF
daring robbery perpetrated by thieves
of that place. The correspondent says
"On the Sd of September at 7 O'Clock, the
great theatre which contains one Thousand
persons, was full. The piece represented
was q tavorite one, entitled "CriHe and its
Punishment" Among those present
were the leading military and civil officers.
the head of the police, and large num-
Der of police officers. While the first act
was being played, and the attention ofthe
spectators was fixed on the stage,a report
was suddenly heard, slight smoke filled
the upper part of the theatre, and a cry o.
'sfire" was raised. Everybody rushed tc
the doors but only one was open. Terror
became general when this was discovered
The crowd was enormous, and person:
we're thrown down and trampled upon
The thieves who had combined to cause
this alarm took the opportunity of selzlne
whatever they could lay their hands upon
They tore earrings from the women ant
stole watches and studs from the men
This scene lasted for about ten minutes
the people employed in the theater an(
the police made it known that there wa
no trace of fire. When tranquility hat
been restored, inquiry was made respect
ing the articles stolen, and it was foun'
that the value exceeded 100000 roubles
Several persons were killed; three mel
and woman We're taken to the hospita
dangerously wounded, and an actress re
ceived a very serious wound. The thieve
contrived to escape.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

HORSE PowER.-The term horse power
bears among engineers three very different
meanings, being, however, generally quail
fed by the adjectives nominal, indirect'
or actual, each of which refers to certain
special data upon which the estimate
of power is based. Nominal horsepower
is generally estimated from the diameter
of the cylinder, the length of the stroke,
multiplied by a certain standard velocity
of piston and pressure of steam. AS each
engineer decides for himself what this
pressure and velocity shall be, the stand
ard varies with different makers, and for
all practical purposes statement of the
diameter of cylinder and length of stroke
would convey q far clearer idea than any
mere expression of nominal horsepower.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
Farmhouse Notes.

To TAN SKINS AND LEAVE THE FUR
oS.-Remove the legs and other useless
parts; soak the skin soft; remove the
aesh and soak the skin in warm water
for an hour; take for each skin, OF borax,
saltpeter and glauber salts, each one
half ounce; dissolve with soft water sutti-
cient to allow it to be spread on the flesh
side of the skin; apply it with brush,
double the skin together and put in
cool place for twenty-four hours.
CEMENTs.- receipt for cement to
stop cracks in glass vessels, to resist
moisture and heat, is thus given in the
Scientific american: Dissolve caseine IN
cold saturated solution of borax, and
with this solution paste strips OF hogs
or bullock's bladder (softened in water)
on the cracks of glass, and dry st a gentle
heat; if the vessel is to be heated, coat
the bladder on the outside before it has
become quite dry, with paste OF rather
concentrated solution silicate OF soda and
quick lime or plaster of Paris.
ANTIDoTE FOR Poison. find the
following commended: If person swal,
lows any poison whatever, or has fallen
into convulsions from having overload
ed the stomach, an instantaneous remedy
more efficient and applicable in larger
number of cases than any half dozen
medicines we can now think OF, is
beaping teaspoon of common salt, and
as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly
in teacup of water, warm or cold, and
swallowed instantly. tits scarcely down
before it begins to come up, bringing
with it the remaining contents OF the
stomach, and least there be any remnant
of q poison, however small, let the white
of an egg, or teacup of strong coffee,
be swallowed as soon as the stomach is
quiet; because these very common artl'
cles nulify larger number of virulen1
poisons than any medicines in the shops.
SUCCESS IN FARMING.-Much of the
success we observe among the best class
of farmers, says Colenan's RmuL World,
results from calculation skill and energy
A man to fully succeed on the farm must
be an intelligent investigator. Heshould
at least understand the character of his
soils, and how to handle them, and the
best time to do it. He should under
stand the principles of the laws of nature
fully and clearly. He must know the
effect of each manure upon each partlc.
ular soil. In fact the successful farmer
must be scholar and teacher. 1t is
not enough that he knows mechanically
how to plow and reap. He should un'
derstand when to do it, and the relation
of the elements, one to the other. The
benefit of rotation of crops should be
part of his farm knowledge subsoil.
ing, the application of manures, and
their effects upon each particular cereal
should be clearly understood. Any man
can be botch on farm if he wills it
but to have success in farming there il
much to learn. To be complete far
1her, there is more study, research ant
experience necessary than to fit a man tc
be physician, merchant or lawyer.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
Holland as It Is.

Button said Holland was the lowest
country of the globe, but he was mistaken
The greatest depression in the earth'S
surface is found in the plains about the
Dead Sea, thirteen hundred feet belo"
the level of the Mediterranean. Had ne
said the lowest in Europe, he would
doubtless have been correct. as large
part of the land is thirty feet below the
surrounding sea level. The greater part
of the country is composed of the mud OF
the Rhine, as the soil of Egypt has been
formed from the deposits of the Nile.
What has not come from tue many-mouth.
ed Rhine is the gift of the sea. Holland
dikes against the sea from without and
the rivers from within, and these streams
present the same difficulty as the Missis-
sippi-the gradual rising of the bed from
alluvial deposit, and the consequent neces-
'sity of additional diking. For number
of years the waite: OF the rivers, like
wild beast in leash, has been led to the
sea by embankment, but this docs not
always prove sufficient.
There are French scientists who have q
theory that Holland is gradually and con-
tlnually sinking, and will ultimately dis
appear. This opinion rests on researches
made at three separate points of the coun'
try, which show, according to these geolo-
gists, that the level has undergone con-
siderable depression. The process is SO
slow, hswever, should the theory prove
true, that the inhabitants of the present
and following centuries will hardly be
disturbed. There is an old Legendary
prophecy of like tenor lowering about the
fishermen's villages on the coasts, that
the sea will one day take back what was
once taken from it. But before such q
submersion takes place, the ingenuity OF
man NAV doubtless be relied on for find
ing some means of a7erting the disaster OF
Atlantis.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

DIsGUsTED.-A retired French trades
man was lately much disgusted at finding
various valuable personal articles myste-
riously absent from their proper places.
Residing with him was an old servant,
who had lived in the house thirty years
and a nephew. 1t was impossible for
him to suspect either, and yet there was
not the slightest ground tor supposing
that the robberies had been effected by
any one outside the house. He resolved
to watch. To his CONSERVATION he Oh
served, one or two nights after, the
nephew, in his nightdress, descend, take
various valuable. articles, and proceed
with them to summer-house in the gar
den. On his return the uncle confronted
him, being duly prepared, we may sup
pose, for a ''scene." he was disappointed.
The nephew appeared utterly unconscious
of his affectionate relatives presence, and
passed quietly upstairs to his ROOM
Next day the uncle taxed him with his
extraordinary conduct. The nephew de-
MED all knowledge of it. The summer
house was searched, and in cellar be-
meath it all the missing articles were
found. 1t is bad enough to have either a
somnambulist or a kleptomaniac in a
family, but the two combined is really a
trial which we trust, for poor humanity's s
sake will remain rare.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

A REPORTERS CREDENTIALs.-Tb ST.
Louis reporters have queer credentials
to public entertainments. A few days
since one made application for entrance
to the fair grounds. The following
conversation thereupon ensued between
him and the guardian of the gate "Got
q ticket, sir ?" "No, sir" "Well, you
can't go in then-stand aside" "But
I'm a reporter for the Globe" "Show
me your credentials" "Well, here are
three passes on the Iron Mountain Rail
road, one on the Bellevllle branch of the
Cairo Short Line, one on the st. Louis
and Southeastern, one on the Fifth street
road. Here's copy of the Globe, a
ticket on Chinese laundry, restaurant
bill of fare, two toothpicks, clean
handkerchief, bunch of keys and a
pipe" "Pass in, sir
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
A Gambler Baked by q Child.

A man nearly fifty years old, named
Alexander Deming, living on Lacrosse
street, and owning vacant lot in the
Sixth ward, worth 1900, got on spree
about week ago, and fell into the hands
of two rascals, who deserve at least o
ducking. One of them is young man
named Kidder, machinist, and the other
stranger in the city, but friend of
Kidder. When Deming started out he
had about $50 with him, and his inten-
tion was to purchase COW Of man on
Woodford avenue. He was met by Kid
der, asked to drink, and then the two sat
down in a saloon on Michigan avenue and
began to gamble. So infatuated did Dem
ing become that he did not return home
but once in four days. Kidder won his
money, watch, and then two notes of
hand for S13 and $27 each.
When Deming had nothing more to
put up he gave his own note OF hand for
800 and lost that This was Saturday
noon. One of the men got blank deed,
filled it out with description of Deming's
real estate aud then filed him up with
liquor, lent him one hundred dollars and
offered to play him for the property, they
to run the chances of the wife signing.
The man accepted the offer, and before
dark had lost the money and the deed.
Then, while the stranger lent him money
to keep him playing, Kidder went to
Deming's house and presented the paper
for the wife to sign. She is not able to
read, and, he told ier that it was her
husbands life-insurance policy, and that
she must sign it or she could never get
the money in case of his death. She was
about to sign, when one of her children
read the words Guaranty Deed" aloud,
and she caught the idea of what the ras,
cal was about. She seized chair, and in
a moment sent the scoundrel out doors,
Not content with this, she followed him
two blocks, clubbing him at every jump,
aud then got her neighbors to bring her
husband home. The two men started fol
an officer to have Kidder arrested, when
he handed over tho watch and agreed
to refund the money, but ran away
Saturday night without so doing.-Detroi'
Free Press.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

DEAR OLD GRANDMoTHER.-"Sh She sits
by the fre-dear old lady with nicely
crimped and plated cap-border, and the
old-fashioned spectacles as pleasant q
picture OF the Home Grandmother as
any living heart could wish to see. She
Is the oracle of the family the record
of births, deaths, and marriages the
narrator of old revolutionary stories,
that keep bright young eyes big and
wide awake till the evening log falls to
ashes. What should we do mithom the
Home Grandmother l.? How many little
faults she hides What delightful
special pleader' she IS, when the switch
trembles over the little erring fayorite's
head 'Are you punished often 2 In
quired a faxen-haired youngster of his
curly headed playmate. No! was
the prompt and half-indignant answer
'no! I've got grandmother! Love
that good woman. Sit ut her feet, and
learn of her patient lessons from the
past. Although she knows no grammar
perhaps can not tell the boundaries
of distant states, or the history of ma
tions-she has that, perhaps, which ex'
GELS all learned lore. She has lies pis.
dom She has fought life's battle, and
has conquered. She has laid hel
treasures away, and grown purer,
stronger, through tears, and sorrow, and
suffering! Never let her feel the sting
of gratitude. Sit at her feet. She
will teach you all the dangers of life's
journey, and tell you how to go cheer
fully and smilingly to the gate of death.
trusting, like her, in blissful here
after" Every reader, who is SO fortu
nate as to count among his chahen':
household gods" gOod grandmother
will see, in this graphic little sketch {
rejection of IN influence which is only
second to that of the mother OF his off
spring.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

A MYsTERY.-It's deep mystegy-tbe
way the heart of man turns to onewoman
out of all the rest he's seen i the world,
and makes it easier for him to work seven
years for her, like Iabob did for Rachel,
sooner tkan have any woman for tn ask
ing. often think of them words, "And
Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and
fhey seemed unto him but a few days, for
the love he had to her."
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

Some Scotch miners at Wishaw re-
Gently did a remarkable thing. They
voluntarily refused an advance Of shil-
ling day in their wages, ON the ground
that the coal masters had raised the
price OF coal seven shlllings per ton.
The men were unwilling to lie under the
imputation of having occasioned this
rise, and so, in public meeting, re-
uuested the masters to stake the last
advance off the price, and take back the
shilling"
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

Coop SEED.-We have met farmers,
says Rural Nev Yorker, who have local
reputation for producing the best wheat,
rye, oats, corn and potatoes, who have
gained and maintained it by careful Sc
lection and use of the best seed these re-
spective crops produced from year to
year. Some of them have secured what
are regarded distinct varieties, by watch
ing their fields and selecting such stalks
of grain as showed remarkable growth
and perfectness of development. Any
farmer with care, can do the same thing.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

The World does not Contain a medicinal
preparation which has obtained more widespread
and deserved popularity than the MEXICAN MUSTANG
L1sIAEsr. since its Introduction to public notice
more than twenty years ago, it has been con.
stantly used for every kind Of disease injury to
man or beast which be affected by local appli.
cation, and far its proprietors aware, has
not failed in a single instance. After so long and
successful term Of probation, who will have the
hardhood to deny its pre-emnent claims to popular
esteem.-tCom.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07
From the German Of Heine.

Where shall yet the wanderer jaded
In the grave at last rechne?
In the South, by palm-trees shaded!
Under indens by the Rhine?
Shall I in some desert sterile
BE entombed by foreign hands?
Shall sleep, beyond's ife's peril,
By some seacoast in the sands?
WE'LL Gods heaven will shine as brightly
There as here, around my bed,
And the stars for death-lamps nightly
Shall be hung above my head.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

CHAppED HANDS, face, rorgh skin, pimpIes,
ring-worm, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous
affections, cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the JUMPER TAR SOAP made
by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. It is
more convenient and easily applied than other
remedies, avoiding the trouble OF the greasy
compounds now in use.-COm.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-07

a case Of chronic rheumatism of unusual
severity, cured by JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE LIN1-
MENT, is noticed by one of our exchanges. A
large bunch came out upon the breast OF the
sufferer, and appeared like part of the breast