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A Brave Old Soldier.

He was an old man and he had quite a
bad limp, and lie remarked as he touched
his hat: "All l want is money enough
to get to Savannah. l feel that have
not long to live, and want to be buried
in that nice, cool graveyard just outside
of Savannah"
The appeal didn't open a single
wallet. He was talking to three mcu
who had found shady spot under a
grocery awning, and he seemed little
disappointed. Pulling Il new string, he
remarked: Gentlemen, won't you do
something for an old soldicr2" "Werc
you soldier in the last war ?" asked one
of the group. "I was," was the prompt
reply. "What branch of the scrvicc?"
"The heavy artillery"
"Whcre were you staioned -
"Well," slowly replied the stranger, as
if he hadn't expected such question,
Eve were sometimes here and sometimes
there. The fact was, our artillery was so
heavy that VIC generally kept it on hill.
The Confederate government didn't seem
to expect that lis three or four men were
going to drag a big cannon all over the
country and whip the Yankees to boot.
Yes, 1 was wounded in the left leg"
"In what action" was asked.
II never knew what they named it (;
my business was to get up and hump and
knock thunder out of a whole Union
regiment at once, and you just bet l
didn't have any time to fool around and
ask what they were going to name the
battle. | went into the war to fight, and
didn't 1 just throw myself though ?"
"Did you throw yourself under a wag-
on?" quietly asked one Of the three.
Sometimes did, and sometimes /
didn't. They used to let me fight any
way to win. I've fit from under wag-
on and from the top of q tree, and the
boys used to call me- the wildcat"
"They must have seen you 'clawing, to
the rear suggested another of the trio.
"Very likely, gentlemen. Sometimes
1 could fight better at the rear, and l
went back. Then I'd change and fight
on the flank, and then I'd advance and
NOW 'em down in front"
"Where did you say you were wound
ed ?" "In the leg-just about there.
The surgeon said that three or four bull
lets hit at once" "Bc honest, now, old
man, and tell us if you didn't get that
leg hurt in mill or around machinery? ?"
"Grcat God do you doubt my word?"
gasped the man, starting back.
"We do they replied in chorus. He
closely scanned each face, and was in
dulging in gestures to show bow he de-
plored such conduct toward one who
had fought bravely, when one of the men
said:
"Come, now, speak the truth, aSd we'll
raise you thirty cents" The old man
turned to go, halted, hesitated, and then
replied: II suppose, gentlemen, that /
fell off building in Atlanta and hurt
my leg, but it happened so burned close
after a battle that I could never really
tell whether the fall or the fight hurt me
the most. Now please pass in your ten
centses T'-Raleiyh Sentinel
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IN CASES OF AccIDENT.-Prof. Wilder
thus tells what to do in cases of accident:
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing, and
dash water into them; remove cinderss,
etc., with the round end of a lead pencil.
Remove insects from the ear by torpid
water; never put hard instrument into
the car. If an artery is cut, compress
above the wound; if vein is cut, COM
press below. If chokcd get upon all
fours and cough. For light burns, dip
the part in cold water, if the skin is de-
stroyed cover with varnish. Smother
fire with carpets, etc; water will often
spread burning oil and increase the
danger Before passing throug h smoke,
take full breath and then stoop low;
but if carbon is suspected, then walk
erect. Suck poisoned wounds, unless
your mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound,
or better cut out the part without delay.
Hold the wounded part as long as can be
borne to hot coal or end of a cigar. In
case of poisoning, excite vomiting by
tickling the throat, or by hot water or
mustard. For acid poisons, give acids;
in case of opium poisoning, give strong
coffee and keep moving. Ifyou fall into
water, float on the back with the nose
and mouth projecting. For apoplcxy,
raise the head and body; for fainting lay
the person flat.
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4 NEGRo's REASON FOR VoTING TIE
DEMOCRATIC TIcKET.-Icsterday [
heard an old negro explaining to few
of his color his reasons for having voted
the Democratic ticket. Said he, as he
made fierce gestures with his weather.
beaten hand, "Ycs, you're right; | did
vote the Democratic ticket Its the first
time ever did, and unless they run this
goy'ment better than the Radicals have,
it will be the last time. 1 propose to try
'em. Why is times hard, and why is
dar no money in the country? The Rad
icals are playing smash with everything.
l commenced to vote for the Radicals
over two years ago, and ever since that
time money has been getting scarcer and
scarccr, and now | don't see $40 bill
once a month. l haint got cents now
where used to have dollars when l conf
menced for to vote the Radical ticket.
We must have q change in this here
business, or we'll all 20 up, white and
black alike. Talk about the Radicals
being friends to the colored men! Any
man with half of one eye can see that
thcv amt friends to anybody but them
selves. They're artcr the office which
draws them big pay and takes all the
money out of the country, and makes
cotton 90 down so that a darkey can't
earn enough in year to buy hoc-cake
for Christmas. That's what they do.
Who lent me mule last summer to fin
ish my crop, when mine had broken his
leg trying to get over the fence? Was it
a Radical? No; they'd have seed my
crop go to weeds aforc they'd have did it.
Fact is, mighty few of them have got
any mules to lend. 1t was Democrat
who came to me and says: Joe, you've
had bad luck; you will lose all your
work unless you can get nag to finish
your crop. Go to my stable and get that
old mule that's blind in one eye, and pay
me what's right for her when the crop is
made paid him like man: When
was sick last summer, and didn't have
bite in the house to cat, who brought
me hunk of bacon? 1t was this ere
same Democrat, and now when he wants
nv vote lie can it. A man who sticks
up to me, I'll stick up to him all the
time"
So saying, the ancient negro walked
off, leaving his litter circle of listeners
to comment upon his speech and digest
his sdom.-DaNon "a letter IN Gin
cinnQt Commercial.
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Superstitions.

The moon is thought, by old wives, to
influence the life ofa child. Thus, the
child born on the first day of the new
moon is unfortunate in all its undertak-
ings, and will live long; one born on the
fifth day will be vain and deccitful one
born on the sixth will live long; one
boru on the seventh will have a life of
trouble; one born on the ninth will be
rich !; one born on the tenth will be
great traveller; one born OH the eleventh
will be devoted to religion one born on
the sixteenth will be grateful but un
fortunate; one born on the eighteenth
will be brave; one born OH the nino-
teentn will be full of malice; one born
on the twcnty-frst will be strong and
healthy one born on the twenty-sccond
will be cheerful, but inclined to low socie
ty one born on the twenty-third will be
ungovernablc, will forsake family and
friends, and wander in a foreign country
unhappy through life; one born on the
twenty fifth will be desperately wicked,
and come to a fearful death one born
on the twcnty-fifth will be amiablc; one
bern on the thirtieth will have the same
of all good gifts, temporal and spiritual.
A baby's nails must never be cut till it
is year old, or it will be thief. A
child with blue vein across its nose
will never wear its wedding clothes;
should it chance to outlive its infancy, it
will bring sorrow and disgrace TO all be-
longing to it. A babe that cries at its
christening will live long, if you batho
it on Sunday it will be sorrow free; if Oh
Wednesday, it will grow beautiful ifon
Thursday, it will grow fat if on Friday,
all its sins will be forgiven if on Satur-
day, it will be unhealthy.
There are certain other supcrsttions
applying to grown people; if you cut
your nails on Sunday, it provokes Mons.
ieur lc Diablc to such degree that he'll
shave you all the week, and lead you
into mischief. If you clip your hair at
the new moon, it will grow long at the
full as the moon wancs your hair will
fall out. If you don new clothes ON
Sunday you'll be happy; if on Monday,
they'll tear; if on Tuesday they'll burn;
if on Wednesday, you'll have plenty; if
on Friday you'll be unlucky; if on Sat
urday you won't live to enjoy them
Every one, silently or openly, is a little
suspicious regarding Friday, yet few
could give reason.
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4 DELUsIoS.-A young man who
thinks he can lead reckless and profit
gate life until he becomes a middle aged
man, and then repent and make good
and steady citizen, is deludcd by the devil.
He thinks that people are all fools, and
destitute of memory. He concludes that
when he repents everybody will forget
that he was dissipatcd wretch. This is
not the case, people remember your bad
deeds and forget your good ones. BE-
sides, it is no easy thing to break up bad
habits in middle age that have been
formed in youth. When q horse con-
tracts the habit of banking, he generally
retains it through life. He will often
perform well enough until the wheel gets
into deep hole, and then he stops and
holds back. Just so it is with the boys
who contract bad habits. They will
sometimes leave of their bad tricks, and
do well enough until they get into tight
place, and then they return to their old
habit. Of those boys who contract the
bad habit of drunkenness, not one in
every hundred dies a sober man. The
only way to break up bad habit is never
to contract it. The only way to prevent
drunkenness is never to drink.
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NAILS IN FRUIT TREEs.-NailS driven
into fruit trees, as near the ground as
possible, are said to have the effect of
making such trees more healthy, vigo-
rous and excellent than those into which
no nails have been driven. The reason
why nails are so beneficial is thus cx.
planned: The reason why the worm will
not attack the tree is because the oxida-
ton or rusting of the iron by the sap
evolves ammonia, which, rs the sap rises,
will of course, imprcgnatc every part OF
the foliage, and prove too drastic dose
for the delicate palates of intrl ling in
sccts. The salt of iron afforded by nails
is extremely offensive to the worms, while
it is not only harmless but beneficial to
the foliage and fruit of the tree.
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DON'T BE Too CRrrlcAL.-Whatevcr
you do, never set up for a critic, We
don't mean newspaper one, but in pri
vatc, life, in the domestic circle, in socic-
ty. 1t will not do any one any good, and
it will do harm-ifyou mind being called
disagreeablc. If you don'tlikc any ones
nose, or object to any ones chin, don't
put your feelings into words. If any
ones manners don't please you, remem-
Der your own. People are not all made
to suit one taste; recollect that. Take
things as you find them, unless you can
alter them. Even a dinner, after it is
swallowed, cannot be made any better
Continual fault-iinding, continual criti-
cism of the conduct of this one and the
speech of that one, the dress of the other
and the opinions of t'other, will make
home the uuhappiest place under the sun.
If you are never pleased with any one,
no one will ever be pleased with you
And if it is known you are hard to suit,
few will take pains to suit you.-Hearth
and Home.
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Farming as a Business.

As business, farming has not ranked
with other branches of business, such, for
instance, as manufacturing and the like.
1t has been conducted loosely, without
any special regard to order or SYSTEM
Few farmers think it necessary to keep a
set of books in which to make entries of
their transactions. No account is kept
of the sales of stock, grain, ETC., and none
of the purchase of supplies. No notice
is taken of the actual cost of producing
a crop. When the end of the year comes
they have very little idea how much they
have made or lost. Now suppose mer.
chants and other business men should
adopt this slipshod policy of carrying on
their business, what would be its condi-
tion in very short time? Would it not
be miserably jumbled up? And would
not this state of things lead to bankrupt
cy and ruin? The same argument why
merchants should conduct their business
upon systematic plans applies with equal
force to agriculture. Ifthe one is bus
mess, so is the other, and if the one finds
it indispensable to keep an accurate re-
cord OF It's entire proceedings, SO tne o'iier
will find it equally important.
The farmer will suffer and suffer pro-
digiously, if he never knows the state of
his business. 1t j, an easy matter for
him to record every sale he makes or
every perchase. There is no necessity
of his being a scientific book-keeper to
do this. Many of them have sons com.
petent to do this work, and it is a good
schooling for them. In England farm
ing is carried on Systematically as any
other business. No one pretends to con-
duct his operations without a regular set
of books; and many wealthy farmers
employ book-keepers just as our mer-
chants do. The result is that every
farmer can tell at the close of each year,
just how he stands, how much he is out,
or what he has made or lost.
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HEARTY BREAKFASTS.-ln a large
majority of cases it will bc found that
the best and hcarticst meal in the day
should be eaten in the morning. If the
closing rcpast of the day has not been
eaten too late, or has not been excessive
in quantity or indigcstiblc in quality, the
stomach will be rested and active after
the individual has enjoyed Il cool bath.
The stomach will then respond quickly
with the necessary gastric juice for the
solution of food, and if u fair amount of
exercise is taken during the day, = large
mass of food will be assimilatcd and con-
ycrtcd into blood and tissue. With a
good, substantial breakfast no greater
amount of food will be required during
the remainder of the day. One further
meal will be ample, and that might better
be taken at from two to three o'clock in
the afternoon, than at any later period, if
business engagements only permitted it,.
The breakfast may be made from any
kind of wholesome food, and the fewer
kinds the better. The dinner should be
light and readily digestcd, if sound sleep
is desired and strong appetite and perfect
powers of digestion next day. One
''squarc meal" in every twenty-four hours
is all that can be taken care of by many
weak stomachs, and more than this is i'll
excess and induces headache, nausea,
and distress. II dinners were abandoned,
and especially late and heavy dinners,
myriads of tlyspcptics would be cured.
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"Did you stay long enough to see
much of the Centennial 2" asked one At
lanta clerk of another who had just re-
turned from u two days sojourn at Phila.
dclphia ooh, yes; got pretty good
idea of the whole thing" WAS the reply {;
"youll find the best beer at Ed, Mcr-
GERS"
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Successful Farming.

The first aim and purpose of every bus
mess man, whether he is farmer or a
merchant, is to make money. There may
be, of course, other motives connected
with this, but undoubtedly the leading
object and incentive to action is money.
This may seem like taking low or sor-
did view of the subject, but if rightly
considered, it is not. The law of our ma
ture that impels every man to make his
business source of gain, is unquestion-
ably sound and wise, and all that re-
mains for US is to regulate our conduct in
harmony with that law.
The man who pursues farming for any
other purpose than to make it pay, is
simply an exception to a general rule,
and his success or failure is Of little con-
sequence to the world. But the intelli-
gent farmer who perceives that under all
the doubts and difficulties of his voca-
ton, there still remains clear margin
of profit, who steadily works out his con-
viction to tangible result, and the con.
querer's final success, proves his good
sense as we'll as his capacity, and by de-
veloping the possibilities of his business
sheds light upon it that gives new value,
not only to his own farm but to every
farm in the country.
The world never grudges to such man
the honest fruits of his labor, for his ex-
ample is a public heritage beyond price.
He shows that the occupation which
feeds the human race is able to remuner-
ate those who engage in it; that the sue
cessful farmer, while gradually accumu
lating an honorable independence, is
helping to reduce the price of bread to
the hungry. And this, be it observed, is
not mere abstraction, but great agri-
cultural fact.
The farmer, for example, who succeeds
in getting large yield OF corn, from an
acre, and at lower cost per bushvl than
ever before, thereby contributes to dl-
minsh the market price, as we'll as to
increase the abundance not only of this
cereal, but of nearly all the products OF
husbandry. If he has been accustomed
to get thirty bushels of corn from an acre,
at cost of fifty cents per bushel, which
has been the experience of many farmers,
and if by persistent effort, he works out
method that gives sixty bushels at forty
cents, which has also been the experience
of some, then his net profit, on a market
price of seventy cents per bushel, is 300
per cent. greater than before. But this
is not all. A saving in the cost of corn
indicates corresponding reduction in
the cost of beef and pork, of mutton aud
wool, of milk, butter and cheese, poultry
and eggs.
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If women were as particular about
chosing yirtuous husband as men are in
selecting n virtuous wife, moral reform
alton would soon begin, which would be
something more than froth and foam.
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1t has just occurred to us why We never
hear of any steamboats, named after US
G. Navigators are supcrstitious as to
names, and craft so named would be
liable to get stuck on q bar.
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- GLOW much owcst thou ?" is grow
ing to be favoritc hymn in the
Churches. 1t is sung while the brethren
pass around their hats.
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= Mrs. Gov. Smith, of Georgia, can
cook breakfast for her husband when the
cook gets mad and leaves for home.
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OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER.

MACHINERY HALL-TuE GREAT Cor
LIss ENGINE-THE GIANTS OF STEAM
THE Big KRUPP GUN-THE MAGI-
CLANS OF THE SAw-ARIsTocRATIC
SopA WATER-IRoN CUTTERS, &C.,
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PHILADELPHIA, Sep. l, 1876.

Special Correspondence OF the Anderso" 1n'epiyeneer
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-09-16
Bloody Riot in Charleston, s. G.

CHARLESTON, Sept. IA serious
riot occurred late last night, grow
ing ont of street attack by the
colored Republicans upon some
colored men who have been taking
a conspicuous part in the Demo
cratic canvass. A small body of
whites endeavored to defend the
Democratic negroes, but We're over
powered by the number of the
rioters, after a severe fight, in
which pistols were freely used on
both sides. The Rioters held
King street, the main thorough
fare, from midnight until sunrise,
breaking windows, robbing stores,
and attacking and beating indis-
criminately every white man who
showed his face.
A large number of persons were
injured, mostly whites. Several
of those shot are in q critical con-
dition. Intense excitement pre-
walls, the general feeling being
that the trouble is not yet over.
The riotous proceedings of the
rice field strikers on the Combahee
have been renewed. The situa-
ton is regarded as serious.
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number of wounds. When asked
if he was hurt, Mr.. Ransdell re-
piled with the cool nonchalence of
Mercutious, when he said of the
thrust which killed him: ats not
deep-as we'll
The particulars Of the shooting
are about as follows Mr.. Ransdell
stepped into the Tax-collector's
Office, and finding no one in, pick
ed up an illustrated paper and
commenced viewing the engrav-
ings. While waiting thus with his
back to the door, Mr.. Rolla Mad
dox invited him into the hall and
made reference to private bust
ness ruatter. His tone aad man
ner were highly improper to Mr.
Ransdell, and forthwith Mr.. Mad
dox found himself Keeling against
the wall. Maddox then drew a
revolver and commenced firing at
Mr.. Ransdell. The first FIRE did
not take effect. The second shot
struck Mr.. Ransdell in the fore
part of the left thigh, passing eu-
tirelv through the flesh. The
third shot entered the right thigh
and lodged. This would have
caused death had the ball not been
turned from it's course and some
what stayed by striking a silver
coin in Mr.. Ransdell's pocket-book.
He also received a wound in the
left arm, which is the most painful
of the three. Mr.. Maddox re-
ceived q slight wound in the hand
also.
Immediately after the shooting,
Mr.. Maddox was arrested by
Sheriff Paul, but waived examina-
ton, and gave bond for his APP
pearance before the District Court.
The two Young gentlemen have,
beratOfora heep cnnsidered ouiet
and peaceable. MIR. Ransdell has
performed the duties of Clerk OF
the District Court faithfully, and
won many friends who deeply sym
pathize with him in his sufferings.
When last heard from his wounds
were painful, but DR. Price, his at
tending surgeon,thi the wounds
will not proEeifatal.