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Nasty af Beet station.

Beet Station. wich is in the State NV Iii.
noy, August -, 1873. Things amt wOrkin
ez smooth with us ez | Good wish III our
movement for the releet Nv lllinoy. We hey
made some blunders ourselves, and besides,
the farmers themselves don't show that abb
stract OnthOosia,m wch | wanted to see.
They are too devoted to things purely per-
sonal to take broad views NV things
Our first mistorchoOn occurred in the
election NV officers Nv Grange. ! got a
list Nv the officers and went on 10 ill 'em.
Mr. Cephas Biiins was elected master, Mr..
Pettus treasurer, Mr.. Blathers secretary, and
the other principal offices WIS filled By TIN:
other gentlemen who wooden decline count '
otis eli they wuz urged hard enuti
wat am t. hey?' | asked.
Biilin9 run hi= intellectual eye down the
li-t.
wood /, SCOT you t. De Flora :" he gently
replied.
Whereupon wuz elected Flora, and the
list wuz published Ia the county papers.
There wuz n outlaw all over the county.
Not one Nv Us knDwcd that Flora wuz d
female kno~lcdge j. power, The idee Of
NV heiu Il Flora the goddess Oy bowers, and
SIGH, / mite ez we'll put on white muslin
dress with low neck and short sleeves, and
st1Ili Ut q tdDipp e.. ll4@ 'p'l'1rSH Nv l.l'I-
erty.
But wee cndo0red the latture NV the pop
ulis at this little blunder, and went Ia work
vigorously to drum up reCrOOts. We held
daily meetins ia the back room uy the JACK
son Hotel, discussin the wrongs Nv the
( labOr.s classes. 70 see u there wus a site
/ wich wood hey inet!d the hearts NV the
b laboriu men. Bllllnses iavOrIt attitOOd wul
lranin on hl. elbow on temporary bar
I Pettu-, lyin on q long table, at full length
moumfully victim his lip- ever and anon
/ Blathei. wuz tipped back ia a cheer With hi'
4 let in 1 winder ell, wl.ese - cppi see tbs
sons OF toll, whose interest hr "a7 "atch,r
over, a sweatin in A distant field.
/ observe" said Biathers, that homes
yeOInanry a putin in h.s unrequ,ted toll
Nv sole aches FOR him
And TO drown his sOrIOW at the ste, Mr.
Blathcrs ordered glass nv whisky, refnaEkit
. to the landlord ia the most absent-minde,
inanuer - Just chalk IL dD.n, glch the land
lord, heyen nerd the cOnClooding sentene'
NV the order, in an ekally absent-minde'
manner didn't bring the llcker at all. Hi
onfeelin remark was that he wuZ Just out VI
chalk.
That afternoon got hold u. three farm
ers, and had a long and satisfactory Tall
with them. They were lneensed agln mon
opoli-ts, and were ready IL jine ia move
ment 10 bust EN-. / told en Nv our nes
organlzashun, and invited them TO come wax
me and enroll themselves With choice ban
Nv noble spir!ts, who wuZ agoin 20 bust the.
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SentrilOquisni Easily Acquired.

\ writer in the Chicago Advance says that
the vcnLrlloIuist's art il as easy to learn a
falling OH Il log. He maintains that there /.
no difficulty in acquiring the power. la the
first place, he says, speak aLy word OF sen
tcnCe in Your own natural tone then orrri
your mouth and fix your laws fast, a. though
trying To hinder any one from shutting them
or opening them any further draw the tongue
back ia a ball speak the same words, and
the sound, instead Of being formed IN the
mouth, will be formed in The Iharynx Great
attention must be paid to holding the Jaws
rigid. The sound wilt then be found 10 imi-
tate u voice from the other side Of the door
when il is closed, or under the hoCT 81 through
the wall. To initiate "a sound behind door
partly opened, the voice must not be- altered
from the original pitch OF note, hut must be-
made in another part Of the mouth. This !.
done by closing the lips tight and drawing
one corner OF the mouth dpwuauI,s 80 toward
the ear. Then let the lip, be opened at that
corner only, the part 10 irtna II Clo.rl. Next,
breathe, az il were the words out Of the Orihre
formed. DO not speak the words distinctly,
but expel the breath in short IUi!s al each
. word aud as loud Hs possible. Hy so dO!n.
you produce the Illusion in the minds Of you-
listeners that they hear the SAN" voice which
they heard when the door WIS closed bat
more distinctly and nearer on account Of III
door being open. The l;l- must Away. br
used when the ventri.Oqu-t wi-hca % have Il
appear that tho sound comes through some
obstacle, but from some one close ~ hand.
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TIA" NHi'"H1i /,jtygy contain, an account
oi an extraordinary accident, rnusistn. Ia
The 'liNinG at railway engine into house
AT Dusseldorf. The "CCurtrr oi The place "a
furniture warehouse SAYS, in Il letter To his
brother at happened ut 40 in the MON
ln% rs was sittlu" in the room ith my whole
family, taking breakfast wa ready to go
/" business, aud had risen Tor that purpose.
A. | looked, hy chance, cat oi the window
there came toward the house with great IA
pidity an engine. ! saw at once what "A ca
taatrOphe threatened, aud cried out We are
all lost; the engine Is going through the
house nm to the back, Before, however.
the room door could be- reached, IN nhoat
fifteen OF twenty seconds, the thing wa over.
The locomotive had driven through the ware
house, had broken through the board, and a
partition wall, and stood pulling by the stair.
case behind. God hr praised, the house din
not fall down. liut my next fear WIS that
there would be Il fire. | could not reach the
staircase, the way being through smoke aud
steam. clmbcdovrr il little roof hy means
of ladder, down 10 the var,l behind, IN order
TO open the escape valve. Unfortunately tn.
was 80 injured that ii had become useless.
left the ladder lying AGAINST th, end of the
house, To which my tanuI, hri rrd, IN order
that they might escape u.s. q to Tie street,
and this was done. Thruugh the help at my
uwn-pcOrle and some TINT, mn-uu, and ser
wants, further misfortune VIZ uIritrl /
immediately caused all The Windows IT, b.
propped and supported in urdrr &" prevent the
falling of the gable, which, up 10 the present
moment, has happily not occurred. The
engine went "n snOrting until Ii:ip. II still
remains in the house, and u cannot be re-
moved Tor some days
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Petersburg Notes.

The naDGeS order sy-t-m 10 Petersburg j.
appreciated by our poorer glI-sr-. IhOu,-
ands Of dollars in small sumo o.. from ike u
fifteen dollar. arc aEuUall. cent - and rom
the city. The principal CD!yIrI colonies IA
the North ia .h.rh our citizens are inter
ested. are ia Boston, Ml--a,Lu-clt-, in
Plalniield and BERGEN, NeH JDrey, and "a
New You o,ty aud brooklyn. They are
composed ,hi,h, Dl children, "hD-e aged
parent, re-.I~ here, and tho END home past
Of their literal wage. Ia soue cases Parents
send funds L. their children to hTing them
home On a VISIT.
Olen NnItheTucTa wishing servant. ssni
a months wage. IL ads 4urr t.-srauge a CO1k
or coachnan, while many 20 away % thel:
own accord seeking wotk.
Sometimes good domestic EeSi-lts her old
Petersburg h0ine. bat before long money
order cOiuc5 With letter, telling her she b.
wanted. A. one letter -a.d 1--WE have had
.osne pretty good servants, lat none ike old
Betsy
The lide VI Emigration hDws steadily OuG
and in, and nothing - add this beneficial.
movement a. the r"stal money order sys-
teru.-TG> .S,.;iera y lgr1;.
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Funerals in Madagascar.

The funeral customs are not the same
throughout the island. In the centre of the
island they build stone tombs, part under
ground and part above ground. They are
very careful about their tombs, the size and
the beauty Of which are in proportion to the
position ofthe family and unfortunately some
times out of proportion to thermcans. They
pay far more attention to their tombs than tn
their houses. The door is frequently closed
by a large, fiat, roughly rounded stone, which
i, rolled back to openit. The tomb is always
built on the borders of the family possessions,
and the ground on which the tomb stands
cannot be alienated. Thay never rent land
t. build q tomb on; it must be their own
possession. Not to be buried in the family
tomb is reckoned greater calamity than
death itself. When the soldier or any other
one dies in distant district, his bones are
brought to be laid with his fathers. | have
seen them carefully preserve an amputated
limb in order to place it in the family grave.
The first patient supplied with a wooden leg
in Madagascar died a few years afterwards OF
fever. l wished to preserve the article as a
curiOsity-the first wooden leg in Madagas-
car, designed and constructed for me by Mr..
Parrett, the printer for although surgical.
instrument maker in England might not much
admire the article, we looked upon it with no
little admiration. After | heard that my
former patient had ceased to require it, |
promptly sent for it. was put OIL in polite
way until after the funeral, when was told
that it was considered part of the body OF
the deceased, and they had buried it with
him. The Tanala, who live to the southeast
of the capital, have a different way of dispo-
sing of their dead. They do not build tombs
but make large box, often a tree hol-
lowed out. This they place at distance in
the forest, and in this place the body,
previously wrapped up in mats. The
Belsileco, again, more nearly resemble
the Hoyahs in their mode of burial. They
build cenotaphs pretty much like the tombs
we have described, but they dig winding
subterranean passage, somewhere near the
cenotaph, in the further end of which they
cut lodges upon which they place the corpse
The most singular practice, however, in con
pectionwith funeral rites, is that followed IN
the case Of the Andriana or Princes of the
BelsilecO. No sooner does an Andriana die,
than they kill bulocks and cut OF their skin
into strips, and with these they tie the bod,
to one of the pillars Of the house; at the same
time they make missions in the soles OF the
feet, and tightening the skin-cords daily the )
squeeze out in this way a good deal Of the
| fluids of the body, which they collect in ar
earthern pot placed beneath the feet. They
say that this process goes on until worm
! like creature which they call fanalio, appears
| They kill bullock and give some of the blood
as offering to this fandRo, which they SAL
contains the spirit ofthe departed. The body
| by this time probably pretty we'll mummified
| is then laid in the family tomb.--Ssni1!
Magazine.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Ios AND sooS psIsIlsc.

bonds and elevate labor t. lis proper place.
Are you wiilin To line SIGH a hoI, ,r,,-
sad" demanded. Am you willin to line
a oIsanisashuu wich will give the farmer, "a,
The country proper reward Tor their labor
Wich NH give EN-. in short, vat belongs u
em:''
We ait wcair" said they inkoriou,.
Then, come with me-" ,ed /.
uNhered EN- into the back room of the
Jackson Hotel.
"BilIins, Blathurs. rcttu,." | yelled ex-
ultnslv, here Is tire honest yeunanry VIII,
has ben ground into the dust hv thieyin mo-
nopoltes, who want their rtcs-here is three
recroots for our noble amy Of lreemcn!"
Ii struck me al the time that my tii.n,is
did not look so eXultant cz they should
that they wore the general appearance NV
three men who wood hey liked To hey hin
somewhere else
Mr.. Billins," sed farmer No. "you
propose to give the farmers wat il there Ina,
do YOU ~
MIR. Blathers, you are going to restore t,
the farmers wat Is there own, amt YOU"
sed farmer No. -
MIR, Pettus, You propose tn help to rc-
store Ia labor wat belongs to il, don't
vous"
Certainly" sed Bnlns. Bhthrr. AMI
PettuS. cx white CT sheets,
Then commence in this holy cr0oSa,le hy
pawn me for the load Nv hay sold YOU eight
Years ago. scd the Iniooriatcd man, secyin
Bll!lnS by the throat. PAY me for the load
NV potatoes YOU bought NV me last winter"
shouted No. ;, seezin Blathcrs.
Pay me Tor the load NV wood | drnwd
y"o last tall, wuz IA year ago." shouted No.
;, going f,r Pcttus.
The farmers didn't git their pay, and We
have abandoned all hope NV sekoorin them.
There amt no use of Us sympathizers with
labor tryin To do ANYTHING with men who
take such narrcr and Sroyclin views NV things
ez these men do. Principles are broad aud
general in their naChcr and cannot hc broucht
down To- sch small matters CZ wood. potn-
toes. and hay. Outil men Kin be made
broader, our laborS will hc in vain. Can't
fettuS, Blathcrs, aud Hillin~ sympathize
with Labor list cz well when they don't nay
Is when they do?
tollered these men out aud hccrd en- ask
each other wat earthly good it could possibl,
do labor and laborn mrn t. elect three sirh
internal beasts 10 oils. This j. the reward
we git tor services in awakuin the masses To
a SENSE up there wrongs. And the ongrntr-
tul wrctchtS are orgHnHiu To- elect urtonal
farmers t" the Legislature, and Ia ~irh county
ofliSes ~ hey ANYTHING IT, de- with tnXnShun
and Sich. Wat Endorsement Is there fpr a.
to ContnNoo our work.
shell keep on II little while though, / Kin
avoid the tate that oycrtook my friends,
Tor II hewitt hin here long rnutl /" oit IN
debt.
PETRoLEIM Y. Massey,
lNunSt Postmastcr-Nu Fnumrr.
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Extract from II speech Of General
IsuIler AT the New Hampshire
state Fair.
Facts Worthy OF Careful Attention.

The tendency of our people, whether in
their national, municipal, and social organ
izatiOns, or in their personal capacity, to 60
into debt, cannot have escaped the attention
of every discerning mind. Indeed, drawing
drafts on the future, payable by posterity,
and burdening the present generation to pay
the interest, is the resort for carrying on all
enterprises, and has assumed such proper
tons, and is fraughtlwith such consequences,
that the mind of the statesman and the
philosopher of political economies may well
be turned to it with the greatest attention, if
not alarm, because Of its possible results
upon our future national prosperity. Our
rationale overnmentis owing 81, 900 900 900,
on which we are paying, as interest, an
average OF rising six per cent, reckoning
that interest in the currency with which all
our products are measured. At least three
fourths of that amount is due to foreign
bankers and capitalists. If this were all
and no other consequences arose from it,
there need be little anxiety, and it would
hardly be worth the attention of the states
man or economist in calculating the future OF
the nation. Divided among forty millions OF
people, in a country of the eXpanse and re.
sources of ours, it would be easily managed.
But every State in this Union, with hardly an
exception, has debts amounting, in the assre.
gate, 10 quite S4OO ,OOO,OOU. But our lndebt-
edness docs not stop there. Quite every
county, every city and town in every State
in the Union owes debts, more or less, to an
amount, in the aggregate, perhaps one
half as much "a the debts of the States, in.
Guiding the advances made for municipal
railroad, and other like enterprises.
| Nor do we stop there. Our railroads have
| borrowed, and are owing a bonded debt
| 1900 geo 900. Nor does the furore ofindebt
ment yet stop. Almost every college and
| institution of learning, from the modes,
academy up to the university, each and al
owe sums of which an approximation car
hardly be made, and which no statistic,
show. Nay, We go still further. We draw
upon postsrity TO. get the means of hearing
the gospel. All know that very large ma
/ j0rlty Of the thousands of churches which tn,
census shows have buildings dotting ou
lands, have been built on credit given. il
fact, by the coming generation.
General Butler then showed how the pro
ceeds Of the war debt of the nation and O
the bulk of the State debts were DESTROYED il
the war; that costly public or educationa
buildings do not add to productive capacity
and that of the sl2C 900 900 which We mus
annually pay abroad, only ESQ, 900 900 is tn
product OF our gold and silver mines: tn
rest must be paid from the products Of tn
soil, exported abroad.
Now, as our statistics show that, as a rule
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nEThe Hampton Students" have com
menced their singing campaign, and are now
giving concerts in Massachusetts. On OctO-
Der 9Th and sth, they sing in fremont Tenn
pie, Boston, and On the sth of November. in
Music Hall. They are expected in Hampton
on Christmas day. Early in January they IN.
tend to give a concert 10 Norfolk in Peters
burg and in Richmond. They will proceed
thence TO Washington, Baltimore, and Phila-
deIphia
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sa5- A physician in a small town IN Maiae
had long been pestered BY little street Arabs
who came to peddle candy. At laat, when
patience had ceased 10 be a virtue, lac told
the boy TO go into the next room, where
there was fellow who had q sweet tooth in
his head. The young pedler went in, and
his eyes fell on an all-grinning skeleton
swaying and nodding in the breeze. The
boys hair stood on end, his tongue pal=.ed,
and he dropped his stock in trade instauter,
and scampered of as fast a. his legs could
carry him. The physician, kind-hearted
man withall, and very tall and lank By the
way, fearing that be had carried the joke too
far, picked up the candy aud ran to the eide
walk, CRYING out, Come back, boy, there
nothing here TO hurt you. "Oh, no." said
the boy, gestIculating, with his thumb ana
finpers from the end OF his nose, "yOu don'i
come that on me; know ye, Il We bey 70,
your clothes on"
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Gen. Buffers Views on the Treat.
ment or Prisoners.

Gen Butler has written a letter in reply to
one from Rev. DR.. Wines, of Hartford, Con-
necticut, asking for information concerning
the method by which he conducted the mill
itary prisons and governed the prisoners
during his command of the Department Of
Virginia and North Carolina in 1864. Gen.
Butler says:
when l took command in November,
1863, at Fortress Monroe, found large
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THE FIRST CoLORED HIGH SCHOOL IN
KENTUCKY. Kentucky, Octo-
Der s.-The first colored high school building
erected in the State Of Kentucky was dedi-
Gated yesterday with interesting ceremonies.
The city officials and leading citizens were
present and participated. The building is
fine structure, costing s25 900, and will ac-
commodate six hundred pupils.
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An applicant for place said, "Worl. !,
not so much an object as wages"
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TETKVIEIN '. NA5EN,
(WmSt Postmaster FnrIur
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Facts for the People.

As the virtues Of medicines can only bc ascer.
tained by careful observation, It 10 to DO regret
cd that many OF the Drugs still prescribed BY
some physiciars should retain Gplace In our Ma
terra Medica. As an instance Of this, that vile
drug. Balsam Copabis, furnishes an example,
About the year 1880, tho spaniards In the Island
certain complaints, thought, according TO tho
notion ut ttat lime. hat the remedy
might be found where tho disease originated.
Under this impression, Balsam Copabis came
into use. butnever has q nAuseating drug done
more injury, for II note only changes tho nature
OF the disease To- more dreadful state than the
original bat it ruins the tone Of tho stomach
and brings on Dyspepsia IN its worst iormsi 70
TAn's GIFT, . purely Vegetable Remedy. Is
within the reach Of all. Only ten pills TO be
taken, and will cure every time In from two to
tour days, Male packages, s2 femalei RI
Cor. Market and l7tn told Monroel.
oc4 Agents for Whcslinx, W. w.
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Branch, residing at the .Townof Moore.
field while these adherents procured
pistols and Bowie. knives to present TO
Mcneil, his nephew, and his son, some
fishing! poles and fowlipg.pieces were pa
raded, and wagon was brought up IN
view OF the officers, to take the quasi
sporlsmen of. The trio took the road to
Fort Pendleton, and, in q lew weeks at
the lhead.oi ahundred = Rangers," about
one! fourth OF which were Maryland boys,
McNiell took the field and, until his death
at Mt. jackson by the hands OF his own
men, was the ,scourge Of the Federal &C.
cupation west Of the Alleghanies. About
division oil troops were required TO
watch him and prevent the destruction
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He
knew all the mountain paths and places
Of seclusion from long familiarity, and,
with Gilmore and Mosby, completed the
link Of gtirrilla history along the Poto-
mac. Gilmore was fayorate OF neither
Of Mosby nor MCNEIL, who did nol.llke
his mode Jurisprudence. McNiell
was O. square.set, raw boned, ugly'made'
up man, with rough face and manner,
q deep voice, large grey eyes, and
gray beard, the type Of the Scotch
mountain wrestler. He weighed about
200 pounds. He was not accused oil
cruelty OF felony, and he left his body In
the land he SO. actively illustrated. His
manner was that Of one almost invariably
good humored, and he had squandered the
estate Of himself, brother, and vile. The
capture OF Crook and Kelley, at Cumberi
land, was in pursuance Of o resentful pur.
pose adopted by "Hance" MCNEIL, and,
after his death, i committed TO his son, a
character not unlike bis father in nature
and success, who returned to Missouri at
the close of the war.
McNeill's wife resided, during the early
part oil the war, at n place OF refuge on the
Scioto river, in Ohio. Here she was
taken with fever and ague, and wished to
rejoin her husband. She came to Oak.
land Abyrail, and stopped at Dailey's Ho7
tel. EGen, Kelley refused 10 let her cross
the lines, and ordered her back to Ohio.
MCNEIL sent James Daley to escort her
within the Coniederacy, and she was
tinallylsped across theglines gin, the night
near New Greek. VMcNeill sought siren
uousIy, until his death at Mt: Jackson, to
capture Kelley for his discourtesy to his
wife. The son fulfilled the purpose. i.
- GATH.
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New York Market.

New York, Oct. d7.-Flour-More do
ing but unchanged. gWheat-Higher;
low grades in fair demand; No. b Chica-
go 81 36s1 37t; No. . do. 81 Seal 40;
common white western 81 80; very choice
do. $3.50. Rye-Unchanged. Barley
Scarce and flrmer;6 common western
81 80. Malt-Firm.s = Corn Scarcely so
firm and unchanged Oats Scarce and
frmer; western mixed 52a53c; neB do.
ahoat 5Ga5Gi Hops-Q Quiet and I'M
changed. C6fee@Quiet; Rio 30a22c.
Sugar-Dull and heavy; fair 70 good re.
hning 74asc. Molasses and Rlce-Dull
but unchanged. Whisky-Lower Of
81 011a1 o. 5'.7jfM a'.iH-a ~ .4hl
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CINorNNATr,I Oct q -Flour-Qu at
SO 00a7 90 Wheat-Steady ct 81 40.
Corn Quiet Of 53a54c. Rye Unchans.
ed. Oats-Quiet Of 3sa45c. Barley Do.
mandfairland market firm. Groceries
Steady. s-Unchanged.e Eegs-Un.
changed. Butter-Demand fair and mar.
ket firm for best. Cheese-Steady. Pro.
visions-Quiet Pork-Steady; sales at
$l5. Lard-Firm; jobbipg sales Of steam
at Sc. Bulk Meats-Quiet and inactive;
shoulders 7sa7ic; clear; rib sides held at
Sc; clear sSsStc. Bscon-In fair jobbing
demand; shoulders SO; clear rib sides sfai
SIC; clear 0a9tc.J Whisky-Salesfca 90g
Ole currency. a'a'i,l iIiGsa1 g'sF ''i7y.;