Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.


How Beecher is being tried. Per
jury.
The home circle-walking around
with the baby at night.
What holds all the snuff in the world?
No one nose.
The best enginecring-building a
bridge Of faith over the river Of death.
The best journaIism-printing the
true and beautiful only, on memory's
tablet.
He who is false to present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
see the defect when the weaving of
lifetime is unrolled.
Great Britain has one COW to every
twelve persons, sheep for everybody,
and one pig for every six.
The maple sugar crop is very i'm
portant one, amounting in value to
several million dollars annually.
A man of large experience says his
acuuaintances would fill cathedral,
but a pulpit would hold his friends.
Cast your nets in the right water,
and they may take fish while you are
sleeping.
Jay Cookies splendid country seat,
"Ogontz," near Philadelphia, is TO be
sold at public sale on the 25th inst
The place has cost Mr.. Cooke 81 .000, 900.
Borden's condensed milk factory in
Orange county, New York, uses four
IL 81 Of L nj
and pays out $27, 900 monthly.
Alta spelling match in Gambia, n,
H., few evenings ago, Deacon Ezekiel
Lane, SO years old, spelled down all the
young folks and took the first prize.
The steamship Calvert, Captain r.
f. Foley, made her last trip from Bal
timore to Charleston, in the unprece-
dentedly brief space of forty-seyen
hours.
Hear what A T. Stewart, of New
York, says: Gle who invests one dol
lar in business should invest one dollar
in advertising that business" Stewart
is worth one hundred millions of del
lars.
Whom first we love, you know, we seldom
Time rules Us all. And life, indeed is not
The thing we planned IL out ere hope was
dead;
And then, we women canno: choose our
lot.
At an amateur performance of q
piece called "Joseph and his Broth
rem" in London, recently, Potiphai
wore a black frock coat, white vest
black trousers and hat, carried a walk
ing cane, and smoked cigars.
The name Of the Emperor Of Brazil
will be dam Iging to the page of any
hotel register on which it may be in
scribed. II is Pedro Giovanni Carlo
Xavier de Paul Leocardio Michel GA.
briel Raphael Gouzagne.
Ofthe ten oldest Congressman now
living, five have passed into or beyonC
their ninetieth year. The oldest il
Horace Binney of Philadelphia, who
was born in that city on the 4th o
January, 1850, and who is also the old,
est living graduate of Harvard Col
lege.
The colossal bronze statue of DAME
Webster will be placed in the Contra
Park next month. So the Park Com
missioners say The site selected is il
the middle of the roadway n quarter o
mile west of the lower end of the
mall,-N. Y. Sun.
ST. Louis Republican: 1t is proposed
that ali the descendants of the signeri
of the Declaration of independence
should meet for banquet at the Cen
tennial, doubtless to show how great
the descent has been.
"Davy Crockett" still retains tn,
stage at the cosy Park Theatre, New
York, and it would seem that Mr.
Mayo's hold upon public esteem be,
comes closer with each representation.
All the papers in Gotham speak of the
play in terms of the warmest praise,
and for Miss Rosa Rand's Eleanor
Vaughn, they have only golden opin-
ions.
Trade is much depressed in Austria.
One of the largest industrial establish
ments in Vienna-SigPs engine faeto-
RVS about to be closed. Several
thousands of workmen will be thrown
out of work by this disaster, and their
families, numbering, it is said, about
10000 souls, will be left destitute
Only last year this factory made about
400 locomotives, which were sent to
Russia and Italy. Herr Sigl now has
orders from Russia for about 400 rail-
way locomotives; but it is said that he
cannot obtain the necessary capital for
carrying out these orders.
The Vallejo California; Chronicle
relates the following incident of the re-
vival now in progress at that place,
conducted by the Rev. Mr.. Hammond;
Last Thursday evening Mr.. Hammond
preached from the text, saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me?' In the
the audience there was an engineer
named Saul. who was accompanied by
his wife and little girl. The reverend
gentleman repeated his text several
times, saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me?' At last the little one, who
thought that the text had persona,
application, looked up into the face o.
her parent, and said, Father, dom
mind him; he's drunk"
While son of Mr.. Perry Pearsal
was ploughing with double team nea
Red lane, New Dorp, yesterday, on,
of the horses became unmanageable.-
The boys father and mother went t,
his assistance. The horse suddenl,
. made a plunge at the boy, and bit hi
armin a frightful manner. The hors
then jumped upon the mother an,
broke two of her ribs. and trampled he
so that her life is despaired Of TIL
horse was got into the stable and tie,
with rope, which, however, was sool
broken, and the animal jumped ant
plunged about the stable until h,
broke his neck.-N. Y. Sun.
Recently a sailor was painting tn
sides of bark in the harbor of Matan
zas, Cuba, when suddenly the rope sus
tanning the plank on which he wa
seated gave way, and the man fell int
the water. Being a good swimmer h
easily kept himself afloat, shouting t
his companion TO lower boat for him
BY this time he had pushed his way
until alongside of the vessel, when hi
companions flung him a rope. At tn
moment of catching it, and while the,
were preparing to haul him up, tn
unfortunate man was heard to give
terrible cry, while at the same time tn
sea was assuming reddish color, an,
the body of the man disappeared be
low the waves. a few seconds afte
the upper half of his body reappeared
the dorsal fin of an immense shark ap
pearing over the water few feet of
The mate ordered boat to be lowere,
so rs TO get what remained OF the poo
sailor, but the shark gave n suddel
turn on his side and swallowed the 9th
err half of poor Jack at single guIp.
The particulars of the grand crup
ton of the mountain called Trolladyn
Jaw, in the north of Iceland, have beer
received. The eruption occurred il
December last, and was preceded b,
earthquakes. The weather during the
month was very foggy, and the flame.
from the burning mountain could not
be seen to advantage until the % OF
January, when the sight presented wa.
magnificent. Columns of fire and
stones were shot straight up into the
air to a great height, and fell back in
to the crater in so narrow a circumfer-