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Then Montana said: Tom Car
berry, either you're generous, or else
you're coward. don't think you're
cowardly, an if I'd known you at the
start, it's most likely I wouldn't ha
waded in. But the matter can't be let
drop, for there's hundreds of people in
my section an between here and there
who know that I came here to kill you
so there's but two ways-we must fight,
or you must run. If you'll run, it'll
be jest as good to me as to fight
"Tom's almost suppliant bearing
disappeared on the instant, and he said
Stranger, amt much in the habit O.
runnin, an if we're to fight we may as
we'll have it out now as any time. Are
you heeled?
"Tom asked this question because
we have law against carrying concealed
weapons, which is regarded at such
hours as people think they will have no
use for their arms, and disregarded at
all others.
"The answer was No; left my
revolver with the bar-keeper of the
Exchange
"'Get it," said Tom; I'm wait for
you here
"The Exchange was in corner
building across a street which came in
at right angles to the sidewalk where
they were standing. Montana went IN
at the front door but came out at the
side on the cross street, hoping to steal
up and get the rop' on To Il; but
this was not so easy. Tom was wide
awake; he had crossed the main street
to guard against surprise; so, when
Montana poked his pistol around tie
corner and followed it with just enough
of his head to take sight, Carberry was
not in range. In a moment their eyes
met, and the shooting began. Tom
curled down close to the road-bed, to
present the smallest possible area as a
mark, and because it is comparatively
difficult to hit an object lying on the
ground. Montana sheltered himself
somewhat behind low row of sacks of
potatoes lying on the edge of the side
WuAhS anu pdLbly DchAut o4udl dHu-
ing-post. This last was a fatal error,
for with tall post for a mark it is the
easiest thing in the world to make a
line shot.
"I am making a long story of
the shooting, which in reality was very
soon over. They fired three shots
apiece in as many seconds. Toms third
ball passed through Montana's heart,
and he was dead before his head re-
bounded on the brick pavement. Car
berry surrendered himself at once, and
was kept in Jail until his trial came of,
although bail to any amount was Of
fered.
After pause, the Judge added; 81
don't see how could have done more
for him than I did but che man should
not have been punished-hes should have
been acquitted; and he would have
been but for one circumstance, which
prejudieed the court and jury against
him"
"What was the circumstance so pre-
judicial ?" questioned the listened.
"The Montana chap was the fourth
man Tom had killed in Austin" an
swered the Judge, innocently.
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Five Bales 70 the Acre.

Mr.. T. @. Warthen, of Washington
county, Ga, who made five bales of
cotton on one acre of land, furnishes the
Sandersville Herald with the following
account of the land, its preparation,
manuring, cultivation, ETC.:
The soil is sandy, with clay subsoil:
has been in cultivation for so or so years,
I suppose. About half of the acre was
an old dung-hill, the other half very
poor before manuring. The guano I
used was KettlewelI's AA, OF Phospho
Peruvian, 1,40O pounds raw pine straw,
from the woods, so OK cart loads green
cotton seed, go bushels stable manure,
we'll rotted, 400 bushels. The pine-straw,
cotton seed and stable manure I hauled
out in January and strewed broadcast
over the land, then turned under with
a two horse plow, breaking eight inches
deep. Then with sixteen inch scooter
run in the two horse furrow, breaking
from to inches; in the whole Is to
Is inches deep. I then followed in the
scooter furrow with the guano, or sub
soil furrow, so on till completed. In
February, L repeated the breaking in
the same manner, leaving off manuring.
In March, the same again, breaking
each time cross-wise, or in opposite di-
rections. In April, narrowed the land
twice, to level the soil, and destroy the
young vegetation, Then I checked off
my rows three feet each way, with
small bull-tongue plow, and on the 18th
of May planted my cotton seed in
the hill, six or eight inches deep, drop
ped by hand, covered with the foot,
the seed when covered being on level.
The seed were the 'tCluster Cotton"
variety. purchased them from David
Dickson, Esq, Oxford, Ga, to whom
must confess I am indebted for my sue
cess, to a certain extent. The seed, I
am confident, VISA half The battle. The
cotton was thinned TO one stalk to the
hill in June, with the exception of the
outside rows, in which left two stalks.
Then plowed with 24-inch sweep,
Dickson's, very shallow, one furrow to
the row, and about eight days after
ward 1 repeated the same, running one
furrow to the row, scraping the earth
enough to destroy the young weeds and
grass. Did not use hoe In it, in or
der to avoid skinning the cotton, in fact,
had no use for any, as the cotton grew
so fast the shade thereof prevented ali
vegetation from growing underneath. F"
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Postomce Firurss.


The following points are from the
elaborate report of the postmaster gen
eral The ordinary revenues of the
pestofice department for the fiscal year
ending June 80, s25, ,996, TAI, and expen-
ditures of all kinds S29, ,OS4, 945; esti-
mated expenditures for the year 1875
are s88, ,e39, ,912 total estimated reve-
nues S29, ,292, $40, leaving a deficiency
to be appropriated out of the general
treasury of 81, 636, 1888. This does not
include 81, 100, 900 for mail services be-
tween San Francisco, Japan and China,
and between the United States and
Brazil, and between San Francisco and
the Sandwich islands. 1t is stated,
counting all railway lines both ways,
mail service over them is "a, 925 miles
daily. @ rmparing the year 1873 with
1872, the rate of increase IN the total
number of letters exchanged with for
eign countries is u IT per cent, and
the rate of increase in the amount of
postage thereon 8 per cent. The increase
In the number of letters exchanged
with European countries is 10f per cent,
and the increase of postage thereon
amounted to u per cent.
A new contract has been executed
with the Pacific mail steamer for an ad-
ditional monthly mail between San
Francisco and Hong Kong and Yoka-
homa, authorized by act of June, 1872.
He at some length recommends postal
saving repositories. In the plan for
their organization two ideas predomi-
nate first, the United States is to in
sure the safe return of principal and in
terest whenever demanded; and second,
the extensive machinery of the post
office is to be used to bring its advanta-
ges home 10 the great mass of the peo-
pie, and the system organized and con-
Quoted on the basis presented, would
not only. encourage economy and habits
of saving on the part of all who might
be in the way of earning small sums of
money, but would tend to utilize and
keep in circulation immense amounts
which are paid ont for wages and IN bus
mess and give every depositor interest.
He again urges the assumption blythe
government of the control of the tele-
graph. A government postal telegraph
is the only means by which full benefit
of this great invention can be secured,
for wherever telegraph is under gov
ernment management it is operated at
its minimum cost, and the people re-
ceive the benefit in low rates of trans
mission and greatly extended facilities.
The telegraph should be made part of
the postal system without further delay.
As congress does not seem to exercise
discretion given in the third section of
the act of July "a, 1866, to appoint ap-
praisers to value lines, property and eff
fects of the system now in operation,
and as the Western Union company ap-
pears to be unwilling to make voluntary
sale at fair price, the postmaster gen
eraI recommends that provision be
made by law for the immediate estab-
lishment of postal telegraph, and con-
struction of all such lines as may be
needed, under the direction of compe-
tent officers of the engineer corps of the
army. The experience they acquired
during the war of the rebellion will en-
able them to do the work In most eco
nomical and satisfactory manner.
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our Eneliah Couging and Corn.


There are indications that corn is no
longer to hang its ears nor drop its tas-
sells in ignominy and contempt as a val
ueless commodity. Its prospects are
rising. Our English customers begin
to discover its uses. A very popular
AGRICULTURAL work averred thst English
fowls could not swallow grains of such
amazing size. English horsemen averred
that maize could never replace their
oats, barley or beans. But truth al
ways triumphs, and cheapness cOnquers
all things. So the general omnibus
company of London, having taken the
satisfactory period-as to length-of SIX
wears for experimenting, declare that
upon feed composed of seventeen parts
of cracked maize with ten parts Of cut
straw CchafD their horses thrive better
than they did upon oats, their appear
ance as well as their capacity for work
evidently showing its superiority. In
addition, the cost Of maize is one dol
lar per quarter eight bushels) less than
that of oats; and so In point Of utility
and economy, our maize having the ad-
vantage. and the thick ice of British
custom and precedent having been
broken, tkere is a last hope for corn
that it may be restored to its legitimate
uses, and some other fuel must at once
be looked up.
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What Gen. sherman SAYS.

In case of war Gen. Sherman has no
fear that the American soldiers viii be
able to give as good account of them
selves in Cuba as they always have else
where. He thinks that IL war shall be
determined upon great saving Ia ex-
pense could be effected by raising the
number of men IN each company of the
regular army to one hundred. In this
manner fifteen thousand men could be
added to the army without the necessity
for additional officers. It is no uncom-
mon thing in the armies Of Europe for a
captain and two lieutenants to handle
as many as two hundred and fifty men.
This idea of Gen. Sherman's is unques-
tionably good one. The great trouble
in our late war was that so many of our
patriotic citizens who desired to serve
the country wanted to do it with epau-
lettes upon their shoulders, and Of all
the tenders of service that are made
now, none comes from those who are
willing 10 be high privates. In case
there should be a difficulty, the govern
ment would save a very large amount
by adopting Shernan's suggestion. The
general says there is abundance OF
everything in the way Of supplies for
the army at the different depOts, and
that the aisenals and magazines are all
well stored with arms, ammunition and
ali wRrlike appliances.
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A Chapter from Sydney Smiths Life.

Sydney Smith went to Edinburgh IN
1877, and in 1900 he married there. His
wedding present to his wife consisted of
six small silver teaspoons, which from
age were attenuated almost into moth
ing, and as the threw them into her
lap he said that he gave her all his for
tune. His wife had some property, and
a gift of some hundred pounds from
Mr. Leach, whose son was Mr.. Smiths
pupil, enabled them TO set up house
keeping. A few years later and the
Review was started. Smith wrote seven
articles in the first number, and com
menced the long warfare against crime
and abuse which he waged for so many
years. He was the only man in Eng
land at that time who believed that
there was something more costly than
wisdom, and that was ignorance. He
demanded Justice for women, reform IN
public schools, universities, poor laws,
church discipline, and reform in prisons.
Of course the whole coGntry was star
tied. Not hang a woman for stealing
e5 Not cheat poor woman when an
opportunity occurred AmelioTate the
condition of chimney-sweeps ! Mon
strous What was the world coming
to? they asked. He finally left Edin-
burgh and went TO London, where he
was settled over the founding asylum,
at q salary of $50 a year. Then came
his first course Of philosophical lectures,
which established his genius. They
we're continued three years, and the
! largest halls that could be obtained
we're each night filed 70 oveIfowing
with his audiences.
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Love AND PAszOE.-I think the aver
age novel is making sad mischief IA the
average mind in its pictures Of true
love. It makes the tender glow and
glamour which related natures feel when
they meet, true love. II is no such
thing il is true passion, that Is all a
blessed pewer purely and rightly nsed,
but no more true love than those little
hooks and tendrils we see IN June, on q
shooting vine, are the ripe clusters OF
October. For true love grows out q
reverence and deference. loyalty and
courtesy, good service given and tai<enl
dark days and bright days, sorrow and
10Y. It is the fine essence Of all We are
tolefher, and all We DO, True passion
comes FIRST, true love last. "It Is s0wn
q natural body, IL Is raised a spiritual
body, and so Il is written; The first
man is of the earth, earthly, but the sec
ond man is Of the Lord from heavtn- :
Robert C0lver.
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THE SPANISH ADJUrANr.



"sinee yesterday morning, how does It run?
i have Il. Iherei Shoot him. Forty-One,
only boy, and a sailor, too.
Dead7 Wen, sergeant, hurry it through.
"Count7 OF course. BIT what's the nesd.
when every soul OF the fools must bleed
Forty-twoi Are there any more?
was half afraid they would stop Ut four.
'Forty-three. How his head went down.
Another sailor from heel 20 crown.
English, too, from his build and face
Glad 10 see one Of 'em find his place
"rhat ones Irish. No we won't care
For any more dancing at Donnybrook fair
Forty-four. They're the worst Of men:
But he'll never trouble Spain again.
'Long, iank, steady-as I'm alive.
Hes Yankee colonel Wen, forty-fve,
Northern and Southern, who cares now
Where he came TO his end or how2
''Forty-six. That fellows afraid,
Did you notice the gasp at his heart he nader
picture2 Ali And the ball went through
The very face Of it-spoiled IL, too.
''Forty-seven. I'm sure that's right;
Wait I'll / get my cigar alight;
This VIII be news that will scare away
These blockade runners for many day.
"Cuban or Frenehmani Good! Forty-eight
on TO the left therei Lay them straight.
But at least we've taught them to keep their ranks
Zone more, sergeant Forty-nine,
80, then ; now for a bottle Of wine.
And Wen drink 10 the traitors who cross the sel
To where Spain Is ready 10 Eet them free"
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Foreign piplomatg At washingson

The diplomatic circle which Mr.. Cush-
ing adosns is the most mysterious of all
our circles. The attaches generally eat
at a cheap restaurant IN the rear Of vii
lard's hotel The ministers dine out
when they eat anything. The English
minister is an inoffensive, tall man, who
walks as if he was chasing hares up
Pennsylvania avenue. He has the best
residence of any of them, having rented
the house of a Pitesburg gun contractor,
who gave shoddy entertainments during
the war, made large fortune, and was
finally cleaned out by some Wall street
sharps, so that he actually had to 60 TO
Europe with his family and live as
moderately as some of their kings. Sir
Edward Thornton has been as efficient
a minister of the United States as of
England, and the last of his good works
IN our behalf was to get parliamentary
appropriation for ministerial residence
at Washington, on which the builders
are now at work. This is the first in
vestment made by any foreign govern
ment in the American capital The
house stands on what is called &c Honest
Miners Camp" where Bill Stewart and
the Pacific coast circle are putting up
costly houses. The French minister
has recently opened a roomy house in
an execrable new row. He is & polite.
ehirpy young man, with nothing much
to do. By the way, Carl Schurz told
me that he was so disgusted with the
news of McMahoa succeeding Theirs as
controller of France that he would not
go TO Paris at all. The Austrian and
the North German ministers are both
barons and very unlike each other
Schlozer, who represents Bismarck, is
often called the crazy Ddtehman on
account of his walking full tilt and
never carrying an umbrella in the rain.
His vivacity, rapid speech and gesticu-
lation are all French. He is a bachelor,
and a right good fellow, who will drop
in anywhere and drink glass of beer,
and he is one OF the most gallant at
tendants on the American girls. His
father was a diplOmatist, and Schlozer
has served in Mexico and st. Peters
burg, and written several books on court
intrigues. He says that Washington is
the most pleasant city in the world,
and will be the most perfect capital.
The Austrian minister, Lederer, is an
sristocratic old gentleman, with slen-
der body and finely shaped head, which
is said TO contain no very great con-
tents. But he looks both Francis Jo-
seph and Maria Theresa Washington
Letter.
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Disraeh and his Wife.

If anybody desires to know what
wife may be to her husband, with what
pure unselfishness and devotion she can
give up everything that she has to his
service, and find a noble happiness in
doing it; what a support and comfort
she can be to him under the inevitable
sorrows and misfoTtunes of life; how
maRnifjcently she can inspire him to
fresh exertions, and stand as a bulwark
between the adverse world and himself,
anyone who wishes to comprehend all
this need only read the story of Mr..
Disraeli's married life It will be found
that in such case the devotion is not
all on one side. The affection oe good
woman kindles the nobler qualities of
a man, and he viii repay her devs tiOn
with lofty fidelity. If Mr.. Disraeli
had, as he once said, the "best of
wives" he, on his part, proved the best
of husbands. Till the last day of her
life he paid to his wife those attentions
which are too often associated rather
with the romance of youthful inter
course than with the routine of married
life. When he rose to the highast point
of his ambition, the only favor he would
accept of the queen was a coronet for
his wife. He was scarcely ever absent
from her side until the dark day when
the fast friends were to be parted. She
knew that she was dying, but refrained
from telling him so, in order that he
might be spared the pain of bidding her
farewell. He also knew that her last
hour was at hand, but kept silence lest
he should distress her. Thus they
parted, each anxious to avoid striking a
blow at the others heart. The domes-
tic lives of public men are properly
= 7 = L r -1.ns~
comment; but in an age when marriage
is the theme of ridicule from Headers of
progress" it may be that this passage in
Mr.. Disraelis career may be pOndered
with some profit by the young.-AttaTa-
tic NOnthkN.
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NUMBER 10.

removed by the pill. This done once
every month or SIX weeks viii be found
of great service to the bilious, and to
those who do not or cannot take much
exercise, which Is the best and cheapest
rouge. MIX or bran-water pUrifies and
softens the skin. Indigestion is a great
enemy to beauty, and all eaters of fat,
pastry, or candy have imperfeet skins.
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LooKI


The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seription is out or unpaid, and that
yoR are requested to pay up at oncs.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends aud patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses. and
We are forced to adhere to q strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF s1eh
course. and renew your suoseripElo1
without delay. We solicit your tAFor.
~ We enter no new names on ooi
books without the money IN advance.
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and 1s72

AN item for the tea-table: The Brit
ish board of trade has discovered TO-
600, 600 pounds of adulterated teas in
bond at the London custom-house, and
moves that they be sent to this cOun-
trN
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HuyTs FoB THE BnLIoUs-Ail like 70
look Is veil as they can Coffee creates
bile, il hushes the eyes, taus and with
ers and blackens the face. So does
stronQ and adulteraied Tea. Charcoal
in small doses, carried Of by a laxative
dose, improves the skin. aud may be
used occasionally tablespoonful each
tine, in water, and pOwdered-and be
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WIEN the women wore hoops, houn-
ces and full" skirts, eighteen yards
was enough for a dress. Rufiles are
ont of style, slirts are made as plain,as
a bean-poIe, and yet every female wants
twenty-five yards in q dress.
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A TERRIBLE neutrality-suspicious.
bride with policy Of insurance on her
husbands Life for S20,OQe.
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NEw YoRK CHURcH STAFIsrIos.- -
The annexed table shows the nunber
and valve Of churches in New York
city, together with their seating capae-
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And the following shows the exports
from New York for the past ten months,
as compared with the same time in 1871
and 1872:
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Receipts and shipments at New York.

The following shows the receipts of
the articles named at New York for the
past ten months, as compared with the
corresponding time in 1871 and 1872:
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GRAVE AND GAY.

A PATENr has Deen granted ex-Presi-
dent Andrew johnson for combination
DIaue
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Death is the common friend or foe,
AS different men may hold,
And at it's summons each must go,
The timid and the bold.
But whether on the scsffold high,
Or IN the battles van,
The fittest place where man can lie
Is where he dies for man.
-.NesO Orleans PicGYtETle.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-13
FILhLEGT0S, DBL.
Thursday Afternoon. Nov. 10.
THE LAST OUTRAGE IN CUBA-IT Is lime
TO INTERFERE.

The massacre OF the crew ofthe Firginius is
the crowning act in the long series Of outrages,
psrpetrAted in Cuba, and it now the plain duty
of our Government to promptly and energetic
ally lay heavy hand on the irresponsible mon
sters who have been guilty Of them. In doing
so, we plainly do no violence to the honor or the
interests of Spain, for that nation, though nom
inAlly in control Of the Havana authorities is
really able neither to direct nor check their
atrocities. They have been acting upon their
own plans, and in behalf Of their supposed in
terests, altogether. and while pretentiously 10y
al to the Madrid government, are in fact as much
in rebellion against it, and as completely defiant
of its authority as the insurgents" are of theirs
II our Government, therefore, sends feet
and army at once to the Cuban ports, and inter-
poses it's suthority, either in cooperation with
that of other nations, or alone, to punish the gull
ty wretches who are responsible for the massacre
at Santiago de Cuba, and to prevent such shock.
ing acts Of barbariAm in future it will be no insult
to the Spanish Republic and should be approved
of by President CASTELAR, and his associates.
tits to be hoped, however, that whatever is
done will not be in tine direction of the annexa-
tion Of Cuba, nor Of such protectorate over it
as will lead toward that result. Nor do we want
any war with Spain, and none is necessary. Our
complaint is not against Madrid but Havana
not against CASTELAR,, but the bloody and cruel
clique OF Spanish shareholders who are respon.
sible for the groans and cries Of bleeding Cuba