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The following details of the death
OF the eronaut, La Mountaine, al
Ionia, Michigan, are printed in the
Chicago Times of Monday: A heavy
squall of wind delayed the ascension
for three hours, but at the end of that
time the air became perfectly calm
Under the direction Of the professor
the balloon was got into position, and
it's initiation with hot air commenced
The canvas was soon filled and loom
ed up nearly seventy-fve feet high
The basket was d willow one, OF q
size sufficient to hold one person com
fbrtably. 1t was attached TO the
balloon by six or eight long ropes
which were fastened at the top to a
round piece Of wood, some two OF
three feet in diameter. The ropes
were in no manner fastened together
between the top and the basket. AS
each piece was one hundred feet long,
it seemed even to the inexperieni ed
eye that there should have been some
webbing or network, at least, over
the bag or hugle Of the canvass. = 1t
was also noticed that the ropes We're
unevenly distributed, three or four
being in comparative cluster, leav-
in5 the other strands far apart.
Everything being in readiness, the
words, F." Let her go, were given, and
the air-ship darted up with great ra-
pidity, while the daring eronaut
waved his nat to the uneasy, uncer-
tain multitude who almost breath
lessly and in silence watched his
flight. Immediately upon leaving
the ground the mouth Of the canvas
began to flap around with great vio-
.lence. When fully q half mile from
the earth, and when the whole struct-
ure looked no larger than a hogshead,
the balloon slipped from between the
ropes and Was instantly inverted.
The car and it's occupant dropped
like a shot, and when the ropes were
.r"llnl tant the round piece of wood
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How a Young Lady Feels When
She is Engaged,

The following Z" INTERCEPTED letter, :"
from the Home. Journal, tells funnily
how a young lady fsSls when sur
reptiously engaged:s&
DEAR ALLIE: L haze got a real,
live, grownup beat, ;aand ism it jol-
ly. He's perfectly splendid: just
like those lovely wax.fgures in the
windows, only they can't use their
lips. It's the French teacher, and
he says ".ma petit" Just like COO
ing dove, and he always smells SO
sweet of pond 'lilies.M l don't have
anything to do with:the boys now !;
those little boys ofdseventeen and
eighteen do very well2Ehen there are
no men around, if they can get money
enough from their pas to buy US Gun
theirs candies, but they can't amuse
US girls of fourteen ;sthey seem just
like babies; and when they try to
make love-O, my aFn'tthey mushy?
Now, Monsieur Fontaine acts as il he
had been engaged twenty times. al
though I'm his first love; but we
dom let on before Maand Thuse. 1t
makes Arethusa awful mad to have
me call her Thuse, anlthat's the rea-
son do it.. heard her ask ma the
other day if that FIenchnan's man
ners were not toossfariliar toward
thai child. ChildK Sizes awfully
afraid Of my being4a young lady
What need she cares now she's mar
ried? Wasn't she spooney, though,
about Fred?. WheRhe used to come
and see her., I would drag Tominy
into the room and putiny arm around
his waist and squeeze his hand until
her face would be- as red as a beet.
Such fun l caught her kissing him
once-such little nipping kiss, just
as if she were tasting pepper sance.,
Now, if l pretendedsto kiss a man.;
ia do it in right good earnest; just
plant my feet square on the ground
and give to him surepop right or the
lips. O, Allie, pooEThuse would 60
off on dead faintat my low bred
xp,es.iora and ,inf9Em me, for the
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about one hundred leev n.a.. :: .oorey
his hold, folded his hands and arms
before his face, and his feet first
struck the ground with a dull, heavy
thud. Then ensned panic and up
roar in the crowded multitude which
is indescribable. Women tainted ;
strong men wept, and, to add to the
confusion, the canvas came flying over
the crowd like huge bird. Soue
one cried out 10 get from the way,
as it wculd fail with crushing force.
Then the cry vas taken up, and II
general rush was ma,le for safety, III
which many we're more orless injured.
La Mountaine was crushed to liter
al pulp. Not a sign Of motion or
life was visible when lie was reached.
A medical examination disclosed the
fact that hardly Il whole bone Was
left. Many were ground and splin-
tered to powder His jaws fell upon
bis arms and were pulverized. The
blood spurted from his mouth and
ears. The corpse was laid out and
placed on the public square, where it
was viewed by thousands during the
afternoon, and was sent to his home
at Brooklyn, Mich, OH the following
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The Attorney-Gene has given
an elaborate opinion in Gen. How
ards case. His paper is a legal Gu
riosity. 1t shows that the Govern
ment has no possible hold on Gen.
Howard, who somehow, strangely
enough, has dropped through sue
cession of loop-holes in the law be-
yond the reach of justice. Some
100000 have mysteriously disap-
peared under his mismanagement;
he cannot account for it; the Freed
mems Bureau has been run so loosely
that nobody can tell into whose pock-
cts the money has leached. And for
this, the. Government has nothing to
show but Gen. Howard's bond for
$4,000, and his certificate OF church
membership '.'in good and regular
standing. The thing is exceedingly
unhandsome. Gen. Howard may be
very good man, but gifted with re.
markabIe incapacity.and superhuman
gullibility; he may be very bad
man playing a game with consuln-
mate SKILL but it is immateral which
he is, so far as the Government is
concerned, while he has manipulated
three-quarters of million dollars
from tie Treasury. One thing looks
badly for Gen. Howard. He has been
apologized for and explained contin-
eually and interminably for a half
dozen years. Every week or two he
has had the benefit of new coat o!
whitewash. He has required a vast
deal Of writing mp. 1t looks suspi-
cious He has been explained too
much by half. No honest man could
stand 50 much putfery and palaver,
so many polishinSs and perlnmings,
as have bee' found necessary in his
case. We see NO harm in his being
interested in churches and speaking
in meetings; but what the public
want to know is, how man can re-
concile the holding of an Office for
which he knows he is incompetent,
and IN which he Is a confessed de-
faultef for nearly three-quarters of a
million, with any religion that recog-
nizes common honesty as virtue.
To admit his honesty is to impeach
his capacity-and an incapacity which
can no more be distinguished from
crime than two peas growing inlthe
same pod can be distinguished from
each other.
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i'suits OF Eojly.

General Beauregard's support Of
the amalgamation resolutions, as they
are called, recently adopted at a large
political meeting in New Orleans, has
been the subject of considerable com
ment on the part Of the Southern
press. Much regret has been ex-
pressed that one So distinguished and
possessing so enviable a reputation
should nave fallen from his high
estate, and have lis hitherto honora-
bic name covered with rcnroach and
dishonor General Beauregard bas
fallen immeasurably in the estimation
of the Southern people. After the
war, among the surviving chiefs OF
the lost cause" he ran ked second
only to the noble and peerless Lee.
But in consequenceol his late obnox-
ious political teachings his name has
been cast out as unworthy, and he is
resting under the shadow Of the dis
approval and condemnation Of the
people who once loved and honored
him. From the heights of honor de
has fallen to the depths of disgrace;
there let him remain until he gives
abundant evidence of sincere sorrow
and repentance for his folly and crime
in recommending the social equality
of the races.
1t is true that General Beauregard
in recent address to the people of
Louisiana in vindication of his sup
port OF the ama'gamation resolutions
takes the ground That they do not
necessarily lead t" the social equality
of the races. But in tie entertain
ment OF this opinion he is at variance
with the editors of the prominent:
and representative Southern Journal
who have given 5the resolutions due
consideration andscarried them cnt to
their logical consequences. They
claim that the inevitable resnltof the
close commingling of whites and
blacks in schools, hotels and every
place Of public nature wiA lead to
amalgamatlon. General Beanregarl
in his address Of vindication has not
succeeded in meeting the@objections
raised against the eresolutions OF which
he is SAID to be the author.. And t
is a matter of simple impossibility
for him TO meet ,hese objections which
are founded on the instructive feel
ings Of cur nature, andsconsequently4
entirely out ofethe domain OF argu.5
ment. Ii he is possessed OF any
;pnwers of penetration or discernment
lie must see and feel that he has COM
5mitted a grav error and taken a false
step. 1t IS to be .hopedthat he will
repudiate his own resolutions, and dc
works meet for repentance of the ig-
noble and ignominious course that
has brought his once honorable name
into such unspeakable disrepute.-
Chester Reporter.
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A WESTERN GIRLS CRIT
young man from New Brunsvic.
city, who has been visiting in Nil
waukee, Wis, recently, passed Ban
COR, on his way home with a fail
daughter of the West, to whom he
had been engaged, and who he was
taking to his provincial home to sow
to his fond parents. He took her to
his fathers house the father looked
coldly on her, and the young man
quit the paternal roof, loudly pro-
testing that he would take hisgirl to
the States, and after procuring the.
services of clergyman, proceeded
to win bread for himself ard tie idol
of his affection. But the fellow had
been so influenced by the papa's
threats of dislnheritance that he in
wardly resolved to send the poor girl
off to shifk for herself. In pursu-
ance of this plan, he, on the. arrival
of the train at Vanceboro, re-checked
his trunk to his home and waiting,
on the platform till the last moment,
he let the train go on, and took the.
next train back. The girl, on discov--
ering the cruel desertion of her lover.
took the matter coolly and with
genuine glit. She told confident
Whom size mad made on the train that,
1 hy!and-by, she would come back and
put-a revolver bullet through that
Young man $ heart if it cost her alife
|, sentence in the provincial penitsn-
! tiary.
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her. promised Tommy ,no 1.,-.
day five cents wo1th Of pea nuts to
let me hold him outof our third story
window. He'd let me skin him for Il
paper of peanuts. So Igot him ont.
and knelt down under the window
ledge, where couldn't be seen, and
held tight hold of his wrists. Thuse
thinks my strength is disgusting
Pretty soon there was an elderly shrek
and then an elderly form rushed
across the street to mother, but by
the time they got.up stairs I Was
seated quietly at my crochet-work,
and Tommy was turning summersa!ts
on the bed, over the lovely Auted
pillow-cases. And still thinks it is
poor Miss Tracy that is "a little wild
at times u
love my brother Fled ever so
much, but l don't see how he ever
came to fancy such .die-away speci-
men as our Thuse. Because she is
so awful pretty, I suppose but she
lust turns him around her thumb.
! If he refuses to get what she wants,
she lust looks like a martyr in the
flames, and lets down all her back
hair Iii Ike the Magdalens in the pic
ture gallery. And although they
are real pratty hanging on the walls,
even an artist does not want to sit at
the table three times day opposite
a live one, with her eyes. rolled up
and her hair down her back.
So poor Fred always gives in, and
she smiles a forgiving smile, puts up
her hair, and goes off to buy the fine
silk or the set of jewelry that has
taken her fancy. And when she
gets it she keeps tight hold OF it, too
She has never given me even a cuff
button. Thuse always was stingy.
And size is so stuck-up, because she
has GOT a son. Just as if it were
something wonderful. Why, Mrs.
Tubbs, our u laundress, has eight Of
them. besides one that was drowned.
and one scalded, and she isn't a bit
set up. But Arethgsa says :. my boy
and does the maternal all to pieces.
She thinks Alexis is made out Of nicer
materials than most babies, and |
know she doesn't believe the cate
ch;sm where it says he was made out
of the vulgar dust of the earth. I
Snnnose she thinks rose leaves and
corn starch were used TO make up
his delicate organization. 1t would
rel;sve I NV feelings to see speck Of
d;rt on that child's face; it makes
me ache to see him so painfully clean.
And she thinks he is going to be a
little Solomon, or some humbug or
other.
Now, Allie, I have got secret
that YOU mustn't tell living soul. Il
Won do | will never forgive you. /
have av promised Monsieur Fontaine to
he m married in three weeks, on my
fnurteenth birthday, and if mother
seems likely to object We are going tc
clone, lust like the girls in the nov.
els. Wont it be splendid? Just
th;nk what sensation it will make
The Chicago papers will be full of it
" Elop ment in high life. The lovely
DAUGHTER Of the rich and elegant Mrs
E-h eloped with her teacher.
Poor Thuse, would do high tragedy
wiring her hands, and talk OF the Id dis
grace to their noble house Of ELS
SSorth. I should think her delicat'
shoulders would ache from carrying
our noble house SO loug. Now, don
YOU breathe word about it, and
will stand by you if you run ava.
with q sh0bls0k,
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Batesyille, S. G.


The Youth OF THE PER1oD.-The
London Sa atrday RevieaO says: "The
growing emancipation of young peo-
pie from old fashioned forms of re-
apect would seem to be making them
SO unendurable in. society that they
are more and more exiled from it.
What does it profit. that they possess
all knowledge if they do not behave
according to their age and condi-
tion?' Affection is damped for the
learned little roughs, who would lave
been delightful if only they had been
trained in habits of respect by atten-
tion to it's outward and visible signs
Mature L. hst altogether - hsly
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lars in regard to the matter.

lars in regard to the matter.
About the middle OF March last
Mr.. ]. j. Gregg, we'll known citizen
of this place, long prominently con-
nected with cotton manufacturing
interests, met in Boston an English
capitalist, whom he induced to come
out to this city for the purpose OF
investigating a projected land scheme
connecIed with manufacturing as Il
basis. The capitalist, after reaching
the city and looking into the matter,
WAS so we'll satisfied thai he proposed
that if q company with capital oil
100000 were formed he would take
stock to the amount OF $4,000. cal
culating to use portion ot she capi-
tai in laying opt streets snd construct
ing sewers. No difficulty was expe-
rienced in forming the company.
several Of the most prominent citl-
zens of Augusta making up the re-
quired amount above the $4,000.
The capitalist returned to England
and, as an evidence that he meant
business, Immediately RENTED thlr-
ty-two thousand dollars to the com
cclapany in Augusta. The com
pany at once swent to work to pur-
chase land near the city and contigu-
Gus to the canal, and now owns
very large tract adjoining or in the
vicinity Of the canal. The compan.
has pretty nearly completed its pur-
chases.
The English capitalist referred to-
us an inducement for citizens here to
ioin him in manufacturing enter
prise TO be established on the Augusta
canal, stated that he would head a
subscription list in England with
Gil 900 ($55,000) to organize a com
pany Tor the purpose OF builiing OF
said canal a factory OF $4,000 spin
dies, and use his Influence to get up
company w.tha capital of 81 100000
with that view. Mr.. ]. j. Gregg
will leave for England this morning
to perfect the scheme in concert with
the capitalist. He is sangulue ol
success, as he has received great en-
couragement from prominent English
capitalists. If the scheme is perfected,
as we trust and believe it will be, a
great impetus will be given to the
manufacturing interests OF Augusta,
and large addition made to her ma
tcrial wealth and prosperity.
Gle g. Sentinel, 18th.
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TRUE HEROISM.

Let others write of battles fought
On bloody, ghastly fields,
Where honor greets the man who WINS,
And death the man who yields;
But will write of him who fights
And vanquishes his sins,
Who struggles on through weary years
Against himself, and wins.
He is hero staunch and brave
Who fights an unseen foe,
And puts at last beneath his feet
His passions base and low;
Who stands erect in manhood's might,
Undaunted, undismayed-
The bravest man who drew a sword
In toray or in raid.
It calls for something more than Drawn
Or muscle to oercome
An enemy who marcheth not
With banner, plume, and drum
A foe forever lurking nigh,
With silent, stealthy tread,
Forever near your board by day,
At night beside your bed.
All honor, then, to that brave heart,
Though poor or rich he be-;
Who struggles with his baserpart-
Who conquers and is free. go
He may not wear hero's crown,
Or fill hero's grave;
But truth will place his name among
The bravest Of the brave.
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Married at fourteen !

Married at fourteen Just think !
l shall beat Thuse out and out. Then,
too, something might happen to Mon
sienr Fontaine. Of course I wouldn't t
have anything happen to him for the
world; but then something might,
you know-the railroads are always
smashing up; and if there should,
why then I would be young andin
teresting widow; and black Grape
with my fair complexion would be so
sweet, and 0, Allie, do you think that
I am too young to wear a widows
cap? What blow that cap would
be to Arethusa. She would rather
receive whole paper Of needles in
her side-that is, gold-headed ones,
not your common steel things. Now,
Allie Wyndham, if you tell you'll be
just as mean as you can be.
CELIA ELLSWORTH,
(for a little whitley
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thing whatever..S lseFs and Rous-
seau may assert; she has to be re-
formed from the cradles and infant
school teachers can witness how i'm
portant the conduct fsthe body is in
training children We:see how charm
ing it is in Russian child 10 kiss
his parents hand, toremain standing
until bidden to sit, and listen until
asked to speak. The, discipline Of
these Tartars and Cossaeksis the same
in which our Philip aSydneys and
Jane Greys were trained, which gave
models to vandyke, aid kept green
the family affection that was once our
boast; and we hardly do we'll to neg
lectfit :"
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fAs sogamaGU

~ i'ccS ~ VICE fI-S- ai.C feMu-
nerative profits nave rewarded those
who have had the foresight to embark
in such enterprises, while communi-
ties have become prosperous and idle
hands found employment through
their instrumentality. In our neigh
boring State of Georgia, We find that
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company located in Columbus, re-
port profits equal to twenty-iour per
cent. Of the capital invested, by the
operations Of the past year, while
the Columbus Manufacturing Compa-
ny report % per cent. and the Ros
we'll Factory 9 per cent. for the last
six months of 1872. The factories of
Macon and Augusta have also been
steadily yielding handsome profits,
which we have every assurance will
compare favorably with those of the
factories at Columbus. In Virginia,
where these factories are in operation,
the results have been equally encour-
aging. In fact, we have reliable data
to the effect thst the cotton mill in
Petersburg, which runs one hundred
looms and three thousand and twen-
ty-two spindles, yielded a net profit
in 1872 of 25 per cent. .'on its capital
stock. The reports from Northern
mills, where the facilities for running
them are nothing to compare with
our own, the profits are said to have
been from eight to twelve per cent.
for the year just closed. There is
every inducement for our people to
invest in enterprises of this charac-
ter. There can be no such word as
fail, as what can be accomplished Ill
Georgia, Virginia. and other States
can most assuredly be accomplished
herr, There can certainly be no H.
veStment which will be so certain
aud satisfactory in its results, or one-
calculated to add more speedily al L
cfectually to the commercial impol
tance OF our city, than one or MOI
well conducted cotton factories WI
will be first to put the bail in motion:
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"Come III :"

"Come III ="
"Come inn' sweet words Of welcome
OF confidence and cheer;
A saying uttered every day,
Yet grateful to the ear!
"Don't stand upon the threshold,
Or sit outside the gate;
send you simple greeting, friend,
Come in 10 longer wait"
The guest may be a peasant,
The host may he Il king.
Or Uicc Ue,'St, yet tie words
Have still The SAME sweet ring.
Then he not slow to utter
Tho syllables We pen,
For angels have been entertained
Sometimes, you know, by men.
Well give no chary welcome
While i'm this world of sin,
That angels may in turn hid us,
When life iso'er, Come in!'
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DreYi!ies ANA leyii:eS.

Sss"" "Pnre love IS monarch of all diff
noulties. Beautiful and light-iooted, like
the leopard, i: leaps tho chasm of sepa-
ration, and crouches delighted at the feet
of its own ~ Jus5so.
- a Memphis lawyer fell down
while speaking he other day. 1t will
make the case clearer to say that all ink
stand thrown by the opposing counsel
hit him just before he fell.
~ Conundrum from the Chicago
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80 "An Illinois windmill lately
run ISL days without stopping" Small
matter to boastof Wehavea large num-
ber of wind-mills in this State, that have
not only run 365 days without stopping,
but they keep this fun UP for the term OF
natural life.
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n A wicked man in Davenport, be-
ing on his death-betl, wished to consult
some proper person regarding Ills future
state, and his friend sent q fire insurance
agent to him,