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Sharp County record., 1880-01-15
Seedless Oranges.

Seedless raisins have been long known,
but seedless oranges are something of a
novelty, in this locality at least. We
have received a few beautiful specimens
of this peculiar and certainly very desir-
able variety of orange from Maj. Austin
w. Roundtree. Their flavor is very
delicate and delicious, and it is claimed
for them that they keep much longer
than any other orange known. Most of
them are entirely devoid of seed, and
Mai. Roundtree informs us that it often
happens that there is not more than one
seed found in two or three hundred OF
this fruit. This variety was procured
originally from the imperial botanical
garden at Rio Janeiro, and was taken to
Florida, where it was found to thrive,
and from whence the present trees on
Maj. Roundtree's place over the river
opposite Carrollton were obtained.
They have proved to be excellently well
adapted to our climate, and, being very
prolific, we suspect they will soon be
largely substituted for the varieties now
raised by those who cultivate this golden
and luscious ruit.-NeW Orleans Demo-
crut.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15

every farmer should have other fruits in
abundance, and to spare in good seasons,
and if carefully attended to, there will be
hardly year without fair supply of
fruit. There is one thing that too many
farmers forget in this connection. That
is, all the fruit gathered for family use
is worth just the price asked for it by
the village grocer. 1t is true that many
farmers who will not attend to their or
chard and vineyard do not have fruit,
and will not buy enough for fair sup
ply. The objection made is, it costs too
much. They have set out trees, ex-
pecting them to take care of themselves
and bear annual crops. This trees will
not do for the best pomologiSts. Why
should they do it for the farmer? 9th
erS complain that it takes too much
time to care for them. The same COM
plaint is made of the vegetable garden.
Precisely the same course of reasoning
might apply to every crop on the farm.
No crop takes care of itself and pays.
Farmers in the West have become SO
used to suppose that they must run over
large areas to get money out Of crops
that many can not understand how the
cultivation of a single acre in fruit and
vegetables may produce half the sup
port of a famil y SO far as the table is
concerned. Yet such is the fact, and
the sooner it is better known how to ac-
complish this, the better it will be, not
only for the head of the household, but
for the rising generation.-P Prairie
Farmer.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15

ing his head, 81 should risk my life if L
took the Kings wood"
"But | tell you it will be no risk"
said the King. 81 will protect you; go
and get some wood"
Upon that the boy turned and looked
him boldlyin the face.
81 believe you are traitor he cried
-" an enemy of the King! or else you
want to get me into trouble. But you
can't. | know how to take care Of my
self; and | shall show respectto the laws,
though they are bad"
The boy went on gathering stickS,and
in the evening went home with his load
of fuel.
The next day, his parents were as
toniShed to receive a summons to ap-
pear with their son before the King As
they went tremblingly into his presence,
the boy recognized the man with whom
he had talked with the day before, and
he turned deadly pale.
"If that be the King" he said, "then
we are no better than dead folks, ALL"
But the King descended from his
throne, and smilingly said:
"Come here, my son Come here,
good people, both! Fear nothing. |
met this lad in the fields yesterday, and
tried to persuade him to disobey the
law. But found him proof against all
temptation. SO | sent for you, good
people, to tell you what Il true and hon
est son you have, and that the law is to
be changed, so that poor people can
go anywhere into the Kings forests,
and gather the wood they find on the
ground"
He then dismissed the lad and his par
ents with handsome presents, which
made them rich for the remaider of
their lives.
While our boys and girls are taught
to read the histories of many an Old
World prince and monarch far more
barbarous than he, they need not
neglect the story of the Indian King
Neza-hual-coyotl, our American King
David.-J r. TrOaCbrtdge, IN 81. Nlch0-
las for December.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15
rrMs OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

d p.,, r, Hayne, the Georgia poet,
Los -Ias That he intends removing to the
0i'a a1rs Higginson, author of Room
!, ons % NIore," is the wife OF Col. L. w.
igginson' ,,o,,;
.;ncer, has made great success in
!, ondoh this season.
M MI Tennyson has written two child
% a,bich will appear in the January
'mber NH of st. Nicholas.
M M Maxwell (Nliss Braddon) has
E led the fine old house of the
9l'pa ;uSon Of Lichfeld, at Richmond.
TT Tbo daughter of President White
!, carpell University is engaged to mar
I Mr.. Theodore Stanton, son OF MIS-
Ienry B. Stanton
M, John Bright is said to be deeply
lad ii Milton, and always carries with
a. 3"1 Wherever v he goes u copy'of that
reat r,a poets greatest poem,
NM, W. B Morris, q granddaughter
7 sicb % Hunt, died lately in England.
'ltbo1Igh , but %, she was writer OF
xcellent PROMISE
T0f Victor Hugo, Mr.. Boyesen says
! sc,sbper that there is nothing in his
! nnearance, ~s except his close-cropped
3Rb5;te R5 hair and a few expressive wrinkles,
/ betray his age-77 years.
-Moritz Busch has earned the proud
;tle of the German Boswell. But while
smes am . Boswell's life of johnson did not
nnsar n, until 1871, six years after DR..
pb ppfbnson's death, Busch has already got
IT 4 second work on his hero, Prince
,;smarck. The Chancellor evidently
has ! prim fancy to treat himself in his
ifetime it to the mixed praise and rage,
vmnathv and scorn, excited by Busch's
;oofs, st,l5 Which we may be sure were not
Ssned without Bismarck'S nod.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15
School and Church.

:. lhe School Board of New Britain,
Com /, have adopted the Roman Catho-
~ conVent as one of their schools, and
nave engaged eight of the Sisters to
! "A movement has been made in the
Doaro OF Education of New York to dis
pense with all the textbooks on gram
~ ,lar ana conduct such study orally and
by example.
"a heV' II E: P. Roe, the author, is about
a. Mars old, has a frank, manly coun-
ELI mf9'n4pce, with a sad, earnest expression.
Elle takes greatintereSt in his work,
le owes much of his success to her
on'op fragment.
r.--p prs: Amanda Smith, a colored
lSehst, formerly a slave, well known
s'. ss successful Christian and temperance
.asaI u'ae er IN this country, and who has re-
nuy been conducting meetings ac-
Soly among the higher classes in
ana and Scotland, started in Octo-
missionary to Bombay, India
-: Europe has 81 chronological acade-
M Or high schools. OF these Ger
& Possesses the largest number, 10;
sece has 4; Austria and Hungary
4 Russia 6; Portugal and Turkey,
=; Switzerland and Spain, 3 each;
en, Denmark, Greece, Roumanla,
oeryia, each /. In Great Britain it
W. the practice to have separate
!, Hos for the study of technology.
w place is supplied by special lee
If at the universities and the South
Aston Museum, and by instruction
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15
PROFESSOR J. P. SHELDON says in a

PROFESSOR J. P. SHELDON says in
letter to the London Times: "lt is no
doubt true that milking three times a
day influences favorably both the guam
tity and quality of the milk, and the
shorter the time that has elapsed since
the last milking, the richer and the fat
ter is the milk; but it must be borne in
mind that this result makes anincreaSed
demand on the strength of the sand
must be compensated for by CORE
spending amount of nouri8hment, and
while it is doubtless an advantage to q
deep-milking cow to be MIXED thrice
instead of twice in the twenty-four
hours, particularly in the early period
of lactation, this additional milking en-
ploys additional labor-a factor which
a dairy-farmer can not afford to ig-
nore.n
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15
provided by private associations inter-
ested in chronological pursuits.
Foreign Notes.

Saul, editor of the Frankturter lei
tatng, has been sentenced to one month S
imprisonment for reprinting an article
insulting Prussian Judge.
The Earl of Leicester and the Duke
of Abercorn are the envy of all the no.
bles in England. Each has six daugh-
ters, and each of the y ladies is mar
ried to peer Or the son Of a peer.
The Pope next year, it IS said, will
visit Belgium and Germany as the guest
of King Leopold at Brussels, and 90 to
Cologne to celebrate the completion of
its peerless cathedral, the work Of 692
years.
The Cologne Gazette says that it is
still doubted whether the Duke of Cum
berland will renounce his rights to the
throne of Hanover, and thereby take
possession of the 100000 thalers put
aside in the cellers of the royal palace at
Berlin. When the old Duke of Bruins
wick dies, the Duke of Cumberland will
be among the richest of princes.
Italy is preparing to extend the
suffrage to every citizen above q years
OF age who can read and write. SignOr
Salvatore Morelli, a member of the
Italian Parliament, has proposed that
women who fulfill the legal qualifca-
tiOns required of electors shall be ad-
mitted to the suffrage. Petitions in
favor are receiving the signatures of a
large number of women.
The lady who is now Crown Princess
Of Germany was, as the child-Princess
Royal of Britain, a veritable "little
witch" A certain distinguished physi-
clan, who was often called to Windsor,
was always familiarly addressed by the
merry child as "Brown'" In vain the
Queen tried to induce her small daugh-
ter to grace "Brown's" name with
some sort of prefix. At length she was
peremptorily informed that if she ever
again ventured to make use Of this un-
ceremonious style of address, the pun
ishment would be an instant dismissal
to bed. The physician reappeared in a
day OF two, and was greeted by the
young lady with these words; "Good
morning, Brown, and good night, too,
Brown, for I'm off to bed," and she at
once "beat a retreat
Prince Bismarck, i'll as he is, can
not persuade himself to abstain from his
exciting occupation with State affairs.
His doctors admonitions have little ef-
feet, and even the entreaties of his wife
and children are vain in persuading him
to retire into private life. Although he
gave orders, on his departure for Var
zin, only to be troubled by the Foreign
Office with matters of the utmost i'm
portance, he is constantly consulted and
is in almost uninterrupted communica-
ton by post or telegraph with the CEN
tral authorities in Berlin. On hearing
of the recent deaths of Baron Bulow
and Gen. Padbielski, both his Juniors,
his forebodings were considerably in
creased, and he constantly alluded to his
almost uncomfortable sufferingS from his
physical infrmities.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15

A PENNSYLVANIA who raised 10000
cabbages this year tells the Country cen
HenlaB that in harvesting he saves labor
and avoids the annoyance of dirt among
the leaves, by cutting the stalks with a
downward thrust of an old shovel with
a notch in the edge of the blade, ground
sharp. The head then falls on the
shovel and is lifted directly to the
wagon.
Sharp County record., 1880-01-15

Mr.. Gladstone writes that the
election will be the most i'm"
the twelve in which he
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-02-28
Death of Col. r. A. Stewart.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.

Col. R. A. Stewart, once a promi-
nent planter and politician in this
State, died recently at Orange Lake,
Florida, where he resided for some
time, He served during the war as
commander of the Pointe Coupee Bat
terry, in which he distinguished him
self as a brave and daring officer. At
the close he removed to Brazil. but
becoming dissatisfied with the coun-
try, he secured profitable employment
in the Island of St. Thomas, where he
successfully introduced his celebrated
apparatus for the defecation Of cane
Juice, from which he accumulated
quite large fortune. i'll health in
duced him to visit Florida and there
the "grim visitor /" found him.
Among his intimate friends he was
always called Black Dick from his
very swarthy complexion. May the
ashes of this good man rest in peace.
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ments or these dangerous classes,
there ie also to be found in large city,
that which is hard to be found any
where else. Great ability, like any
other scarce commodity, is dear, and
it is only the great centers Of capital
that can afford to pay for it. Great
orators, actors, singers, preachers,
painters and sculptors naturally gravi-
tate to where the rewards are the
greatest, and where the avenues to
fame are broader. trust | may not
be considered irreverent, if I class
church going among the amusements
of the city. The whole character Of
our church going seems to have
changed; the great body of our peo-
pie do not 60 to church simply as an
act of Sabbath worship, but they 60
to hear Beecher or Talmage, Doctor
John Hall or Robert Colyer; and ap-
ropos Of the blacksmith preacher,
who graduated from the forge to the
most aristocratic pulpit in New York:
When he came here from Chicago
few months ago, they were not want
ing who prophecied his speedy dis
comfture and downfall, bnt all their
prognostics have failed, and the self
taught student Of Christ has anchored
himself so deep in the hearts of his
congregation, that it seems as if they
would hold him till the Master calls
him away.
The magnates Of the Episcopal
church have congregated around the
gentle shepherd Cowley, and DR.. Nor
gan A. Dix, the Rector of Trinity,
has become one of his bondsmen.
The latest sensation is the elope-
ment of pretty school girl aged
twelve, the daughter Of wealthy
farmer on Long Island, with an ugly
old villain Of forty five, who leaves
behind him wife and several child
rem. He was a laborer on her fathers
farm, and wretchedly poor, SO the
presumption is that he took her to
some of the low dens in New York, as
those are the only places that would
shelter them.
We hav. been having quite a cold
snap, wllereat the heart Of the ice-man
doth much rejoice, aud the small boy
crieth balielnjah as lie snow-balleth
the passing traveller.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
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Heavy Storm in Natchitoches,
Natchitoches Vindicator.

Previous to the night of Thursday,
tic 18th inst, very heavy Southern
winds prevailed, and the sky was
overcast with dark storm clouds, but
no rain fell. At II o'clock that night
the wind suddenly yeered to the
Northwest. Vivid flashes of lightning
lit up the Egyptian darkness, followed
by the thunder's angry roar. A per-
feet hurricane arose, accompanied
with hail stones. But part of the
storm visited this place, lasting but a
few moments. Yet fences we're pros
trated, and trees uprooted. In the
upper portion of the city the wind
lifted the roof from Mr.. F. Hubley's
shop, an old building. No other Sc
rious damage was done here. The
heavy Convent fence blew against
this local's residence with crash,
thoroughly alarming the inmates,
while the building shook like an as
pen, under the force of the gale.
We learn from the stage driver be-
tween here and Pleasant Hill, that
the road was blockaded with fallen
timber. Six miles east of Mansfield, a
tornado passes through the pine
woods, cutting clean sward, half a
mile wide, leaving not tree standing,
aud piling the timber indiscriminate-
" in confused heaps. Messrs. Farr,
McCoullough and Steinhardt, were en-
route to this city on the night of the
storm, and give graphic accounts of
the perils and hardships they en-
countered. They had to cut their
way through the fallen timber, and
were fifteen hours in reaching this
city from Mansfield.
When the-full account of the dam
age done, reaches us, it will doubtless
prove one Of the most destructive
storms which has visited cur section
in many years.
Thus far, the only casualty we have
heard of in this parish, is that of a
colored man, who was struck by the
limb Of a falling pine, and had his
shoulder dislocated.
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SENTINEL.
Mr.. Acklen's Swell " Pops. y
1)uachita Telegraph

s
An item from the New Orleans City
Item. Of the 18th reads thus: A runlor
is current that a duel will take place
ere long between Congressmen King
and Acklen, growing out Of the squab-
BILE which the House COMMITTEES on
oie'sh Ne'a.lohs y nov lnves1'gas-
ing; -, :, -, -: -,
fol .ne ~. l'aio.,nia.,o', e,,.' = ugn. nlK,
.s We sops eno .oM.ng2 WY "n,.n .s a.l
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For the CHIEF.
LOVED AND LOST.

LOVED AND LOST.
"A. J. REYNOLDS.
They name thee before me,
llnell to my ear;
A shudder comes DER me,
Why vert thou so dear? a.
They knew not knew thee,
Who knew thee too we'll;
Long, long shall rue thee.
Too deeply to te1.-BYRON
The moon was calmly looking down
From clear and cloudless sky,
And the stars in their loveliness seemed to
froWn
From their stations so far and so high.
And the birds had long since ceased their
notes,
And each had sought it's quiet nest
Tired and tuneless their little throats
Were resting-for they needed rest.
And all alone. amid this scene
Of silence rare and grand,
stood by the side Of my sweet Eveliae.
And fondly held her hand.
Yes, held the fair and dimpled hand
In fond and fervent clasp;
For ! felt and knew BY the face so wan,
l held it for the last.
The grim old Fates had frowned on us,
Aud willed that we should part;
In spite Of our loye-in spite Of our hopes,
Disregardmg the aehing of hearts.
So we meekly bowed to the all-wise decree
That sundered two lives forever;
Though it tore me away from my lassie so
free,
will cherish her fondly-ever.
And we're parted to meet perhaps never
more,
Whilst the earth on it's axis shall turn;
Yet mem'ry reverts to the glad days of yore,
And with them that night will return.
And see her now az / saw her then,
AS We stood meath that clear moon and
sky;
And hear her sad voice as plainly as when
She remarked, "We must part-you and
l."
And forever will dwell in my sorrowing soul,
The pain, the woe and regret,
That comes with q power I can not control,
Ind I acish ace s,crer had nsst.
promised her then, as we took the last
leave,
That her and the past I'd forget;
And I've striven quite hard-but ! verify
It vividly dwells with me yet,
We have loved-we have lost-and yet it is
true,
That others have done just the same;
As fondly and faithfully as once lov'd you,
With the same devotion, and with as much
flame.
But God looked down on us that eve
From His Throne in the realms above,
And blessed the hearts He had caused to
grievc,
With that foolish passion of love.
DoNALpsoNvILLE, February 25, 1880.
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Industry Rewarded.
New York World.

Last spring the five children of NJ.
B. Corbin Of Colorado promised to
earn money enough to pay for an or
gan if their father would buy one.
The bargain was made, and, as cap
ital, three dozen chickens and an acre
of arabic land were given to them.
The ground was planted with onions
and yielded the remarkable crop of
three tons, for which 9l45 was re-
ceived. The net receipts frt,un the
chickens was fifty five dollars, max
ing the total receipts 5000. The or
gan cost $l18, leaving n balance of
eighty-two dollars still in the chill
dren's treasury. The children arc
from six to fifteen years Of ago and.
worked throughout the season Will,
great Energy and perseverance, and
hence deserved their success. We are
glad to record this pleasant little
item, and trust it may inspire other
children in the country to like indus
try and thrift. Parents may do we'll
to follow Mr.. Corhin's example.
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sibly been abandoned. If it should
become the rale Of hotlf parties to !
hold their nominating Conventions
here, and at q time wi,ea congress
was not in session, there wsala be
less objection among the people.thaa
in thescase in question. But there is )
every gear greater wish ameag the
masses to prevent .Gongressmea and
public officials from interference with
hePresidential selections. When that /
is accomplished long step towards
genuine Civil Service reform will have
been taken.
Of actual progress in legislation
since / last wrote you, there has been
very little, unless we count the
amount Of work on the new House
rules as progress.
The meeting in this city OF the
leading educators under the auspices
of the National Education Association,
was one Of great interest. Reports
were made Of the progress of general
education not only in our own coun-
try. but the world, that were most ea-
couraging. The marked sdisappex-
ance of illiteracy in onr own land,
particularly among the colored race,
was shown to be very noticeable.
The success of the new motor seems
to be assured. Great interest is man
ifested In this new invention which
promises to reduce the expense of all
motive power at least so per cent.
Inquirers enclosing stamp addressed
to Phaks," lock box 587, wiilreceive
prompt attention.
SENTINEL.
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Our BrOadblim Letters.

The Amusements of Gotham-From the
Brothels to the Churches Shepherd
Cowley out on Bail Sensational Elope-
ment, etc.
NEW YORK, February 2l, $780,
EDITOR CHIEF:
Nothing can be more instructive
than the amusements Of great city.
If they merely consisted of Sunday
school picnics and church fairs, they
would need very little description, for
all cavalcades of young folks and old
folks, with lunch baskets and hamp-
ers, heading for q leaky old barge
which is drawn to its destination by
smoky little monster of tow-boat,
and all church fairs, where unlucky
bachelors and unfortunate married
men are feeced by lucky bags, lot
teries, and post Offices, are very much
alike. But unfortunately, all the city
amusements are not under the con-
troll Of the goody goodies, but there
are amusements going on here day
and night where crime abounds, and
sin holds high carnival; where souls
are wrecked, and murder is done,
and where robbery is planned as a
regular business pursuit: The char
acter of our amnsements has not i'm
proved of late years; instead Of a
wholesome concert or we'll regulated
drama, we are now either the victims
Of disreputable class of so-called So
ciety plays, redolent with the aroma
Of the demi- monde and reeking with
the foul morals of the brothel; or es-
Gaping from the contamination of this
disgraceful class Of plays, you find
yourself confronted in a hundred
forms, with the variety shows, class
of amusement to which New York
seems to have surrendered itself al
most entirely at the present time.
Like everything else in this world.
they are Of various degrees the best
are to found on Broadway, and the
vilest on the Bowery, where the
sweepings of the low concert saloons
of London crack their coarse jokes
and corrupt the morals Of the young.
The Bowery has an nnsavory reputa-
ton at the best, the worst class of
dens, which are snare to the feet of
the unwary traveller from the country,
are to be found here. "A few years
ago they were on Chatham street,
and on the different vile thorough
fares that divide the old fourth ward
The leprosy of crime had poisoned
the whole neighborhood; across the
street was the bloody sixth ward, and
| the foul rookery of the Five Points,
which hundred years of municipal
enactments have not been able to
/ purify. While here, on the subject
of amusements, those who read my
letters three years ago, can not forget
my description Of the Grand Duke
theatre, then in the zenith of it's glory
The building was an old, tumble
down, shackley affair, which looked
as il it might at any moment fall
about the ears Of the audience. The
theatre was down in a deep cellar, all
damp and clammy, lighted with poor
lcaudles, yet palace for the gapins