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The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Intelligence of a Mocking Bird.

A correspondent from city in Arkan-
sas writes: Deeds of personal valor and
heroism, when brought to public notice,
are always applauded, and generally
find their vivacious and enthusiastic ms
.torian. Now / propose to perform this
friendly Office as best I can, for several
members of the little feathery tribe, IN
relating q little occurrence, recently
brought to my attention. A gentleman
residing in this city has the yard front
ing his residence adorned with shrub
berry. One shrub having small post
support. it seemed small mocking bird
had utilized for nest, in which, on tins
particular occasion, reposed five little
birdlings to fill the fond mothers heart
with Joy and gladness. One evening the
lady of the house had her attention at
tracted to the spot by violent huttering
and shrill screams OF distress from the
parent bird. Going to the place, what
was her astonishment to fird large
snake coiled about the post, seemingly
intent upon having "game" supper.
The lady at once called servant, who
promptly dispatched the reptile. Now
for the singular part of the transaction;
No sooner had the good lady appeared
upon the fcene than Mrs. MockiLgblrd
disappeared in the direction OF the
woods, bnt, in less time than it takes TO
record it, she returned, accompanied by
five of her feathery neighbors, with a
war cry issuing from their tiny throats,.
evidently intent upon the destruction OF
the ruthless invader of their homes. A
reconnaissance in force was at once be-
gun, but the " "enehy" had disappeared.
The search, however, was continued un-
til, at last, his remains were discovered,
when the now happy songsters set up, as
it were, a shout Of triumph and con-
gratulations, and dispersed to their sew.
eral homes.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
EnOch Arden in Australia.

A short time since a young sailor,
second officer of a ship trading to the
Mauritius from Melbourne, left his wife
living at Williamstown, Australia. At
Port Louis illness seized him, and he
was left in the hospital seriously i'll. On
the arrival of the ship, the wife saw the
captain, who gave her the facts con-
cerning the health of her husband. Sub
sequently, another arrival from Maui
ritius told her that her husband "died
in the hospital, and upon this very un-
reliable authority she concluded herself
a widow, and in this capacity took a
situation in the provinces and after
time-say about twelvemonth from her
husbands leaving-she married her en-
ployer's brother. Meanwhile, the hus-
band was not dead at ali, but recovered.
No ship offering for the colony, he
shipped home, writing his wife, who,
having left her former residence, never
got his letters. Arriving in England,
he learned that rich relative in China
had died and left him large amount of
money. and accordingly he sailed to
China and took possession Of the proper
ty, upon which he realized some e90,-
600, the result of years of successful
speculation, and sailed for Victoria to
ioin his wife and enjoy his wealth with
her, only to find that, unlike Penelope,
she had not waited for her Ulysses, and
was another's. The next homeward
mail boat took him away to England
without disturbing the felicity of the
existing arrangement. The wife now
repents her precipitancy'
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
A Defiance Met with q Shot,

At Melville, Ray county, says Lex
ington (Mo. paper, occurred what may
vet prove fatal recontre. The difficult
ty. we are informed, had its inception IN
q Joke, which will, beyond doubt, prove
a very serious one to both parties.
Luther Scholar and James Duvall are
young men of good families, and well
thought of in the neighborhood in which
they lived. Both are well known In
Lexington, and Mr.. Duvall has relations
living there. They were in Melville,
small village in the northeast part OF
Ray county, when a dispute arose
between them over some trivial matter.
From words they came to blows. Friends
interfered and parted the combatants:
s hoolar drew his pistol and Duvall
picked up rock. Duvall called Scholar
a coward, and dared him to shoot. The
words had hardly left his lips before
Scholar fred. the ball entering Duvall's
right eve. The ball did not enter the
brain, but took a downward course and
lodged near the roof of the mouth The
doctors say the wound is very dangerous,
but not necessarily fatal. The latest ac-
counts report Dpvall doing rs well as
could be expected.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
How PHILADELPHIA Kills Dogs.

A Philadelphia paper says: cat this
season of the year, when 50 many un-
muzzied dogs find their way to the dog
pound on Lamb Tavern road, it will be
a matter of interest to some citizens to
know what becomes of the animals when
they arrive there. The dogs are kept
few days in case their previous owners
want to claim them, and, if not called
for, are killed. The mode of killing
them is rather novel in character. Into
a small brick building, containing two
rooms, one above the other, the unsus-
pecting CANNES are induced to enter.
Once in, the modes of exit are closed. A
charcoal fire is started in two stoves,
and as soon as blue blaze (carbonic acid
gas) appears on the fires, the windows
are shut and the hampers are reversed,
so as to prevent air from entering the
rooms. In about minute the dogs fall
insensible, utter faint cry, and shortly
afterward cease to breathe. They are
left in the room, however, for eight or
ten minutes to make sure that life is en-
tirely extinct. The windows are then
opened, and, after the poisonous gas es-
capes, the dogs are removed.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
CONSTANTINOPLE IN WAR TIME.
The Sofas and Their Method of Intimids
tion-An Exciting Scene.

The Sofas and Their Method of Intimida.
tion-An Exciting Scene.
AConstantinople correspondent writes
The Softas (students of relgion) want
Midhat Pasha to return to Office, and
they want Redif Pasha and Mahmond
Damad Pasha to be sent about their
business. There came, a few days ago,
q great mass of stalwart, ferce-eyed men
surging up past the front of st. Sophia
into the courtyard of the Dar-ul-Fow
noun, where the parliament holds its
sessions. The day was fine, and the cof-
fee shops under the Assembly Hall were
crowded with people who were nearly
frightened out of their wits by the sud
den apparition of that motley crowd in
red and green and blue and black cloaks,
and wearing white or green turbans on
their heads. A mob of Sofas is the most
terrible of mobs in its outside appear
ance, and the four pair of Turkish SEN
tries at The gates and on tho staircase of
the Assembly Hall dared not stop them.
They insisted on admission to the hal,
and the captain on duty at the top of the
grand staircase made no effort to stop
them. He only induced them to mode
rate their expectations, and to select five
spokesmen, whom he conducted to the
floor of the astonished Assembly. He
introduced them with tie remark that
they wished to ask the Assembly few
questions, which they proceeded to do.
Everybody in Constantinople breads the
Softas in his inmost heart. Nurses use
the name to frighten children. So the
president of the Assembly, instead of
ordering the floor to be cleared of the
intruders, suspended business in order
that they might speak, and even argued
with them in his paternal way from the
lofty white pulpit which places him
above the heads Of all the house. They
went away at last, sure that they had
done great and noble thing.
After they had gone, the president OF
the Assembly closed the session and
went straight to the sultan's palace.
The more he thought of the affair the
more he was nettled at having been car
ried away by the popular fear of Sofas.
This mob bad insulted the Assembly,
and late, but fully, the president saw
that the Softas must be punished for it.
Martial law was declared the next day,
and now there are about forty Of the ring
leaders of the affair cooling their ardor
in Jail, under s;ntence of banishment,
while some fifty or sixty more, who live
in interior cities, have been expelled
from the schools where they were study
ing, with orders to 60 home at once.
The government now makes light of the
affair, but at the moment it feared a
movement like the agitations which end
ed the reign of Abdul Aziz. The only
thing which deprived the demonstration
of this grave character was the fact OF
the parliament. Last year the Softas
were the Representatives of the peo-
ple," and carried all before them. This
year they did not see until after the affair
was over that the parliament represents
the people, and receives from them the
support and trust which the Softas have
always been accustomed to find.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
A PICTURESQUE Turkish Town.

The Turkish headquarters at Shumla
are picturesquely situated. A CORE
spondent who visited the camp one
Friday (the Mohammedan Sunday draws
q pretty sketch. Innumerable bell
shaped tents, interspersed with the green
ones of the superior officers, are cluster.
ed about all over the vast hollow in the
natural amphitheater of the mountains.
The sound of bugles on the plain breaks
the stiffness of lovely summers even
ing, and from all parts men are coming
at the double to fetch their rations from
the kitchen camps on the left of the road.
Shumla, in addition to its natural
strength, is very strongly fortified; is in
the opinion of many men impregnable.
The town itself, costly Nesting at the
base of the hills, is extremely Oriental
in appearance. It is much more Turkish
than Rustchuk, which has become more
or less Westernized" by the passage
of the mails. The railway platform is
crowded with uncouth-looking men and
boys clad in every variety of native cos
tune, from the sad brown jacket and
ample combinations Of the Turkish
peasant to the wonderful-becloaked
Armenian merchant and still more showy
Aranauts. Boys Of similar genus to
those who sell evening papers at ordinary
railway stations run up and down with
fruit, water, curious. looking loayes on
sticks, and bits of roast lamb on skewers,
shrieking aloud the merits of their
wares, pushing each other aside, and
generally exhibiting symptoms OF won
derfully keen eye for business and quick
scent for backsheesh. Soldiers, OF
course, are plentiful. Melancholy Cir
cassians, with honest looking blue eyes
Arabs, looking exactly what they are,
blackguards, impure and simple, blue
tuniced warriors of the ordinary Turkish
line, with their bright scarlet facings
and fezzes; these are mingled with white
turbaned softas, black-hatted and gown
ed Greek priests, and exquisitely dressed
and gloved French-imitating Bulgarians.
Together they make up crowd such as
only the dirty but picturesque East can
produce.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or ene-
mics.
Friendship is the medicine for all mis-
fortunes, but ingratituLe dries up the
fountain of all goodness.
Make no more vows to perform this or
that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyself.
Never plead guilty to poverty. So far
as this world is concerned, you might
better admit that you are villain.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipa-
ting his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.
Right in one thing becomes prelimi-
nary to right in everything; the transi-
ton is not distant from the feeling
which tells us that We should do good to
all men.
The pleasures of this world are deceit
full; they promise more than they give.
They trouble us in seeking them, they
do not satisfy us when possessing them,
and they make us despair in losing them.
He who says education, says govern
ment; to teach is to reign; the human
brain is a sort of terrible wax, that takes
the stamp OF good or of evil, according
to whether an ideal teaches it or claw
touches it.
Oaths are vulgar, senseless, offensive,
impious; they leave noisome trail upon
the lips, and a stamp of odium upon the
soul. They are inexcusable. They
crafty no sense, while they outrage
taste and dignity.
Of all the love on earth the one most
like the divine love is that OF the good
mother-so unselfish, unforgetting and
watchful, eonsiderate, free from jeal-
ousy, and desiring the good of her chill
dren far more than her own happiness.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Husbands, Ideal and Real.

HUSBANDS, lCeaI anu heal.
"Oh, fair Ambrosis! lift thy earnest look
moment from the pages OF thy book:
Is therea lover that hath power to move
Thy heart to strong and perfect loye?"
My lover must be wise, must love with me
All nlovely things in art and poesy;
His soul must sit on high like some large star,
And men salute him, even from afar."
81 do not ask for houses, land, or gold,
Only for knowledge great and manifold.
Let such lover seek my heart and hand,
And will bow me to his wise command"
:'Ah, what stupid husband |" answered May !;
sd not have such one a single day:
My lord must OWE a very lengthy purse,
Or else fear he'll find it all the worse"
"And l." said proud Cornela, Gown no lord
But he who buckles on his country's sword;
he must lead armies, and in blood and flame
Carve the bright letters that shall spell his
name"
The wise Ambrosia weds banker old,
A man without thought beyond his gold;
And May, who vowed that naught but wealth
should rule,
Marries poor professor, and keeps school
And ne 'er to proud Cornelia soldier came;
Vain were her dreams Of glory snd Of fame;
She bowed her soul to daily household work
Her lord a little harmless dry goods clerk.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Strange Rites.

According to Mr.. Mackenzie Wallace,
when the approach Of cholera is feared,
all the village maidens in some parts of
Russia gather together at night, in the
usual toilet of the hour, and walk in pro-
cession round their village, one girl
walking ahead with an Icon, the rest fol-
lowing with plough. The girls make
their own arrangements as to time; but
it sometimes happens that the men find
out what is going on, though, if any one
is caught taking observations, he is sure
to be considerably beaten, it is said, by
the fair members of the procession. A
correspondent says that very similar
custom is in vogue in Azimgurh, India,
when drought is apprehended. On an
appointed night the village women,
taking yoke and plow, go to fallow
field, generally in northeast direction
from the hamlet, and draw the plow
few times over the field. Women of in
ferior caste and mature age are generally
the performers. Notice is given to the
males of the village, and they religiously
abstain from vitiating the ceremony by
improper curiosity.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Cruel Sport.

The other day a number OF frogs were
tortured in the English Black country in
a manner simply revolving. Some dozen
men met at a public house b ton indu!g-
ing in little ''sport." To accomplish
their laudable purpose they skinned q
number of frogs alive and set them upon
table to race, betting upon the result. and
sprinkling salt upon the poor suffering
Creatures with a view to make them go
the faster. All the men we're in the en-
ploy of we'll known Black country firm,
and the police at once communicated to
the head of the concern the facts above
stated. with the result that all the twelve
men were instantly dismissed'
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"Well, that will comfort Lima little.
will tell her that"

l will tell her that.
"No-wait and let her find it out"
A few months after this, Mr. Lennox
and Mr.. Hargrave were walking together,
when the attention of the latter was
drawn to the handsome sign Oh which
the name of "Waldmyer, Artist" was
conspicuous.
"Is that the same whom you recon-
mended to me as portrait painter 2"
1.-THE same. He is making a great
sensation here. His saloon is constantly
occupied by sitters, and already he has
acquired fortune, although it is only n
few months since he came from Italy"
Italy and has he travelled"
He has, and since he returned his sue
cess has been unrivaled, not only profes-
sionally, but socially, for he is now ad-
mitted to very select circles.
eyes, very likely" said Mr.. Har-
grave "by the way it was who ad-
vised his going to Italy. I knew it
would save his life, and moreover, I dis
covered such wonderful talent in him. I"
Mr.. Lennox bit his lips. "Let us go
in," said he. They did so, and Mr..
Hargrave greeted the artist with So much
cordiality, and congratulated him SO
warmly upon his restoration to health,
and paid him so many compliments upon
his success, that Waldmyer ventured to
draw the curtain from a large picture
which stood in the room. It was
Madeline-so ifelike, so beautiful, that
one would have almost expected to hear
her voice. 1t was full length portrait,
and perfectly matched another standing
just behind it, which Mr.. Lennox had
employed him to paint for Alice. The
two girls had sat privately, at hours
when no one but themselves and Mr..
Lennox were admitted.
Mr.. Hargrave gazed and wondered
and then he gazed at Waldmyer, stand
ing erect, or leaning but lightly upon
crutch of a peculiar French manufac-
ture and which seemed light support
to cripple, such as he remembered
him when he asked him for his daughter.
4
eff ever life was prosperously cast,
it was that of the two beings whose love
had endured so long and so well. 1t was
not in Mr.. Hargrave's nature to with
stand the pleadings of Waldmyer and
his Two friends, Mr.. Lenno1 and Alice
and there is not happier little wife in
the whole world than Lima Waldmyer,
the artists bride.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-02
Soldiers Helping Themselves.

The presence of the irregular soldiery
in Erzeroum, Asia Minor, is not bless
ing, according to correspondent. The
government has kindly ordered that no
one shall kill Christians even if the ar
mics are defeated, SO that life is tolera-
bly, safe, but the little woes to which
Christians are heir in the presence of
the irregular defenders of their hearths
wear upon the minds of the sufferers
more than greater ones. The Circas-
slams are commonly the culprits. One
goes to shop and asks, for instance, for
gunpowder. 1t is furnished, and he
walks off, saying that he does not pro-
pose to fight and pay for his gunpowder
also. Another stops man in the street
and takes the shoes off of his feet, with
the remark: "There. I knew those were
my Shoes" Another helps himself to
pair of boots and pays dollar toward
the cost of them and departs. There is
no resisting the arguments of these fell
lows when they are armed to the teeth,
especially where the article stolen is a
pair of boots. The shoe which is in
general use among them is very simple.
A bit of leather is turned up over the
sides of the foot and finely sewed with
two seams, one from the tip of the
pointed toe to the instep, and the other
at the heel. This is the original model
of all pointed shoes, ancient and modern,
and is doubtless strong and comforta-
BILE affair, but has the drawback for the
Circassian cavalry service that the instep
and ankles are bare-for no Circassian
wears stockings. To remedy this the
Circassians make sort of boot leg of
another piece of leather, and wear that
separately. The sight of this cavalry
boot is enough to explain the Circassian
greed for surreptitious foot gear.
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Items Of Interest.

The bird of paradise is a native OF
North Guinea, near the equator.
Shocking knowledge - Personal ac-
quaintance with galvanic battery.
We find self-made men very often, but
self-unmade ones good deal oftener.
The Centennial Exhibition diplomas
have been received in Europe and dis
tributed.
Contributor" Why have you not in
serted my last article Was it too long ?"
Editor-"No, it was too narrow"
A Wisconsin eagle, killed the other
day, had eleven bullets in its body. 1t
was probably going off somewhere to
found lead mine.
"Please don't shoot the COWS is a
sign on a farmers fence near Chicago,
intended for city sportsmen who go out
after prairie chickens.
Mohammedan writer, speaking Of the
different sects of his religion, says:
"Sects are different, because they spring
from men; but morality is the same
throughout, because it springs from
God"
Nothing will 30 emphatically grab 9
man by remembrance's coat collar, and
haul him back to childhood's time, as TO
suddenly come upon q half dressed youth
nesting behind the rushes on the edge
of swimming pond, sadly chewing the
knots out of his shirt sleeves. =.
Forget to remove pitcher of cream
from the kitchen table and several hum
dred flies will tumble into it in less than
forty minutes. Set the same pitcher OF
cream as a fy-trap and you wouldn't
catch more than two Of the insects IN
half day. Such is the experience OF q
young housekeeper.
In average health, and under ordinary
circumstances, the fat OF the body con-
stitutes about one-twelfth Of its weight,
but in some cases it becomes increased
to an enormous extent. Bright, OF Nal
den. England, weighed 72S pounds
Daniel Lambert, an American, weighed
739: and case is recorded in the Phila-
delphia Transactions OF o female child
which at four years Of age weighed zoo
pounds.
The Custer of the Russian sImy, and
its youngest general, is Skobeleff, con-
oueror of Khokand, and now OH the staff
of the Grand Duke Nicholas. In the
Khokand war he made night attack,
with $50 men, on camp ef several
thousand of the enemy, cutting down
eyery man within the range Of their
swords. The enemy fed, leaving forty
dead and all their camp material and
baggage. Skobeleff did not lose man.
There has been SO much rain IN Iowa
that the grasshoppers wear India-rubber
hoOfo
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Facts Worth Remembering.

A queen bee lays from 10000 to 3d.
600 eggs in year.
It is estimated that no less than two
hundred different species of caterpillars
feed upon the oak.
The slower the growth Of the oak the
more durable the wood.
Bees, beetles, dragon flies, gnats,
spiders, etc., have minute animalcula
upon their bodies.
The roe of the perch, only half a
pound in weight, has been found to con-
tain 2sO, 1000 eggs.
The larva of the silkworm weighs,
when Matched, about 1,00Oth part of a
grain previously to its first metamor-
phosis it increases ninety-fve grains,
or $500 times its original weight
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There had been a heavy thunder
shower, and the parched earth and
wilted vegetation drank in the refresh
ing showers. 81 should think the plants
would whisper to each other how deli
cious it was, he exclaimed, enthusiastic
cally. eyes," said she, call but the
onions they wouldn't be likely 10 wa;s.
per with such BREATH"