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CASABIANCA.

The Niger stood in the cotton patch,
N hence all but him had He'd;
The Whitile-trees and traces new
In circles round his head
Yet greasy, sleek, and black he STOOL
As born 20 rule the storm,
A Niger of the blacklist blood
A rough ungainly form
The mule kicked on-he would not go
Without his masters word
The master, in the grass laid low,
His voice no longer heard
He called aloud SAY massa, say
Mus let dis mule goi'
The master trembled as he lay,
And the niger hollered whoa!
"Speak, NASSAU" once again be cried
IF may yet be gomez" III,
Naught hut the whistllug hoois rePHeu'
Asfast the mule kicked on,
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his kinky hair, u
He looked from that lone post OF death
In still, yet brave. despair
He shouted but once more aloud:
MY golly, mus | stayg -,
While Ger him fast a dusty cloud
In pillows made its way.
IL hid the Niger from our view
And filled his shiny eye,
And rose above the cotton, too,
Like clouds across the sky,
There came at last one monstrous kick
The nigger-where was he?
Ask of those heels that flew 80 thick,
Alas could not see.
The work hands all returned at last:
The mule could not be found;
Death held that niger in his grip,
Half buried in the ground. ., ~
boston TrdUeLler.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08

hone TO soar in the empyrean heights
Of literature and knowledge where i
reside permanently. But my love Tor
yonr fathers check.book will overcome
an this. / appreciate fully the saeri.
flee am making, but you must ho'
seek 10 dissuade me.
"And You do then love me 30 dearly
George2" the girl asked. ,,,.
Certainly, my darling. Wlthone
your love life would be nothing but u
four flush to me. All my happiness is
centred in my love for you. Can you
deliberately cast that love aside, d"r'
ling?" ,,..oo
face to his, and placed large three
for-ffty.cents kiss on his innocent
Wabash avenue lips.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08

SPEAKING of a leading editorial upon
"the mule" in a st. Louis paper, the
Kansas City Times says: at reads
like an autobiography. Personal and
descriptive journalism IS very popular
in st. Louis"
FASHIONABLE New York belle boast
ed, on her return from Europe, tn at
while there she had some of the most
celebrated men at her feet. 1t is more
satisfactory to employ a first-class
chiropodist than to goad your brother
to profanity when he uses his raisor.
An author says it may be regarded as
an established fact that apples will keep
better in moist or damp cellars than dry
ones. But that depends altogether on
how many small bsys there are in the
family. It isn't 50 much in the humid
ity Of the cellar rs in the gorgesbiity
Of the boy.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
Veronica McGuire.
Chicago Tribune,

"Do you dance?"
"No, dropped on myself two seas
ons ago." was the response, in strong,
manly voice.
Veronica Mcclure ooked up at
George W. Simpson, expression of
wonder and surprise in her soft, velvety
eyes. Very beautiful was this girl as
she stood in the dim half-light of the
conservatory, the pearly flush and
rounded curves of her arms and shout
ders seeming more than humanity beau
tiful, while the rose laden air of the
place seemed only fit to kiss the wine
red lips of so wonderfully fair maiden.
II am sorry you do not dance, Mr..
Simpson" said Veronica, after mo-
mentary pause, because it is the only
thing in which 1 may truthfully lay
claim to being proficient. AS you no
doubt have discovered before this, I
am wretched hand at conversation, an
original idea never seeming to find
birth in this empty head Of mine"
George looked fondly down upon her
bangs.
81 am afraid you are rather inclined
to depreciate ynur own Abilities" said
he, throwing just shade of tenderness
into the rich tones of his pure voice.
"You play nicely, and you certainly sing
WE'LL"
"Only passably, my dear Mr.. Simp-
son." was the laughing reply; you re-
ally must not fatter me too much, be-
cause I am vain enough already. But,
by the way. have you heard Over the
Garden Wall yet?"
no." was the reply. in tones that
were tremulous with emotion. 81
never heard the tune, but L have had
occasion to go over the wall once or
twice"
at is beautiful thing" said Veron-
lea. "There is wierd sadness, and yet
Joy, about the music that carries one
completely away. Do you not find it
so oftentimes?"
EYES," replied George, at is pretty
darn weird to get over a wall on dark
night and dive down into an alley that
you don't know anything about"
you are just too funnyl" exclaimed
the girl, looking at him steadily. As
she did so his eyes met hers, and the
rich color flooded her checks, making
them more radisntly beautiful than
ever. Turning quickly, she stood with
averted face and downcast eyes, and for
a moment no word was spoken.
Finally George stepped to Veronica's
side and took the little hand that was
towing with a rose into his broad palm.
She did not start or seek to withdraw
il.
fright here it might be stated that
Chicago girls are warranted not to shy
George held the dimpled prisoner for
a moment, and then raised it to his lips.
Mr. SIMPSON," she exclaimed, you
do not seem to know what You are do
ing. Remember, sir, that
@Oh, / know all about that, said
George. Il know that you are rich
and uneducsted. and that you can never
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08

In early Bible times when Peopi0
used to live eight hunderd OF nine nun
dred years, what pestiferious nulsancS
the "oldest inhabitants" must nS''
been.
THE hides of all the cats in Amefi0~
would be worth 100000 to COM
merce, but they are probably worm
s2O,OOO,OOO to the cats.
WITH good beefsteak at fifteen cS.s
a pound, people can almost forgive 'ns
followers of Moses for falling down snO
vorshiping the golden calf.
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Suddenly Weakened.

Il suffered with rheumatism of the
back and hip for a number of years,
said Mr.. Thomas Morgan, Superintend-
eut of Streets. Il was waited on by
physicians, but they gave no permanent
relief, and resolved to try s.. Jacobs
Oil. Ny rheumatism weakened at the
first attack Of its great enemy, Sc. 9a-
cobs Oil, and soon i was well.
cinndti Tines-Stdr.
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.
The Greatest Industrial Achievement In the nI,,0,
Of the World.
New York World.

Of the World.
New York World.
Thanks partly to Mr.. Schurz IN.
recently issued report OF the Publi.
Commission shows that the amount .,
arabic land still subject to occupation
under the Homestead and Preemption
acts is barely enough to meet the do.
mands OF settlers for two more years.
and now that there are practically No
more public lands Mr.. Francis A. Walk.
or has thought it an opportune time
to review, in tho Princeton Review 70,
May, from a statistical point of view
the progress Of American agriculture
made during the last hundred years
More than 60 per cent, Of the 3,S00,OOO
farms OF the United States are cult.
waited by their owners-in the North.
ern States as so per cent, and in Con.
necticut, Maine, Massachusetts,, Wiscop.
sin, Michigan and Minnesota 80 per
cent. In the thirteen southern states
of which full statistics have been gath.
cred the number of farms has increased
65 per cent. since 1870, the number Of
farmers who own their own land has
increased almost as largely. These
statistics show not only that the Amer.
lean farmers are more thrifty and indie.
pendent than the agricultural class Of
any other country, but that as class
they become more thrifty every decade.
The mechanical improvements made
during the last hundred years in agri.
culture have wrought as great revolu.
ton as in any other industry. and every
important mechanical help has either
been an American invention or was first
made efficient by American enterprise
In very general way the problem Of
adapting crops to soils and has been
proftably solved, but the most profit
able line of work now open is more
scientific and minute solution of this
problem. In this matter we must learn
of European experience. Our horses,
particularly our running and trotting
horses, our wool and the Devons and
Shorthorns that we export to England
show the important biological work
done by American farmers. The estab.
lishment of experiment stations by
many of the States, especially the
Southern States, shows that time is
coming of intensive as we'll as extensive
farming of high culture as well as Of
wide tillage. The vast area that has
proftably brought under cultivation,
the character of the farmers, the me-
chanical helps and the successful be-
ginning of real American science Of
agriculture, the late Superintendent OF
the Census thinks, are the most signif.
cant facts shown by the census, and the
results thus shown the greatest indus
trial achievement in the history of the
world.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-22
pIXLEY ON POLITICS.

Frank Pixley has been occurring on COW.
ardice in politics, and it must be admit
ted that the theme is fruitful one.
There is no doubt that politics do make
towards of those who adopt them as a
profession, and this is why reform through
politics is always so tedious and difficult
1t is necessary to convince your pro
fessional politician that the strongest ar.
gument has the support of the greatest
number before he will pay any attention to
it. As rule he cares nothing for
the intellectual force of proposition. The
main question with him is-will it be pop.
ular :! This way of looking at questions
of course leads politicians to indorse the
most irrational and intellectually weak
theories, provided they seem to have the
general support. The politician, in short,
is perpetuslly endeavoring to find out the
direction of popular caprice, and when he
has found il he proceeds to pander to it
with all his might. Whether this sys-
tenn is or ia not inseparable from demo.
cratic institutions, however, is vital con.
sideration, and one the determination OF
which ought to have preceded Mr.. Pix.
ley's defamation against the politicians.
There are some thinkers who suspect that
democracy involves just this constant
pandering to popular caprice, prejudice
and passion, and who even go go far as tc
maintain that none can obtain political
power in this country who will not consent
thus to debase themselves. If Mr.. Pix,
ley had gone deeper into the subject he
would have made his lecture not only
more interesting but more nseful.
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= ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE

insist upon remaining upon the ticket, it
win unquestionably become the duty of the
County Central Committee TO remove him,
and to select another candidate for Sheriff.
And Mr.. Berkey and his friends will, if
they are vice, hasten to forestall the
otherwise inevitable action of the commit.
tee, for by so doing he will perhaps
avoid still further misfcrtunes. In any
event we are compelled to say that the
Republican party of Sacramento county
cannot and will not accept Mr..
Berkey as its candidate under the
newly discovered state of facts. So
far as is now known he ia defaulter, and
under circumstances which may make it
very difficult for him to escape indictment,
and impossible to escape civil proceedings.
Now there have unfortunately been too
many official delinquencies in this county.
We do not want to recapitulate them, but
every taxpayer knows that their number is
discreditabiy great. There must be an end
| W Wis ANU vi shiiSy aAu IL "OuLu pS
mere midsummer madness for the Repub.
lican party to think of supporting for
Sheriff candidate who is shown to have
defaulted in position of trust, as Mr..
Berkey has clearly done. The really in.
comprehensive feature of the case is that
he should have thought it possible to accept
the nomination for Sheriff with this hang.
ing over him. Certainly he was not justi
fled in doing SO, and his own temerity il
the sole cause of the extremely humiliatine
and painful position in which he now findi
himself. Bat SO far as the party is con
cerned he must not fall into any mistake
1t cannot carry him. And therefore h,
must speedily make choice between volun
tary withdrawal and involuntary removal
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raE CASE OF sMR. BsiKsY.

We think it will be>generally admitted,
by all who have read the statement OF Mr..
Berkey's delinquencyj presenta By the
RECORD UNION yesteHday, thas the posi.
tion he occupies is {whoIly incompatible
with the continuance of his candidacy for
another office. We b ave no disposition to
say anything concerbing him which the
facts of the case do not strictly justify.
We are indeed sorry for him. But there
is the law, which he has violated. There
is the fact of his retention of public mon.
eys. And these facts can mel her be put
aside nor explained away. Whatever pal
iiating circumstances .usy exist in the case
cannot affect the consideration that man
who has done what MIR. Berkey has done
is in the nature of the case altogether unfit
for an office of trust and responsibility,
and in short an impossible candidate. We
hope that he will see this himself, and that
he will withdraw, though we cannot re.
frsin from observing that he ought not TO
have put himself forward at all as the case
stands. This, however. is his one oppor.
tunity. Should he be so ill.advised a. TO
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-22

A New TYPE SETTING MACHINE.-The
most perfect specimen of a type. settipg
machine is now substantially complete in 4
private room at Colts. It has yet to stard
the test of manufacture and actual trial,
genious and yet not complicated mechal.
ism. Judged from description, the Ms.
chimes used by the London Times are not
to be named the same week with this. &c
cordiug to recent account, the Times ma
chine destroys three or four columns of
type a day and will no. distribute, go
that it has been found necessary to hve
new type cast daily aud brought to the
machines in tubes. Now every one VINO
has seen tho Colt machine work admits that
its work in setting the type and in distrb-
uting it is faultless. By a very ingenious
arrangement it distributes while It SETS,
and the work of distribution being slightly
more rapid than the setting, the cases are
always full. The distributor is regulated
in such way that the instant the most
frequently-used letter case (say that of "e")
is filled the work of distribution stops,
to be resumed as soon as the case begins
to be emptied. II the machine will do the
work of two men in setting type land much
better than this is clsimed Tor it), it can
readily be said to do the work of four, since
the tedious work of distributor is Gaposed
of at the same time as sort of sid; issue.
And each letter goes into it's Appropriate
case as certainly and regularly as tie Yale
key fits into its own lock. The onlyioubts
about the machine areas to the "jutiGer, !"
but this is claimed to be completes now,
pnd certainly it would seem simplr thing
q arrange this than TO have made tie other
parts. II Hartford letter to Springfield Re.
publican.
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oyerthrowing the present governmsnt ~
which Governor Carlos Ortez is AZ ths L..J
It Is well known that the Goysrnor has r.
late been organizing companies in ali the
towns Of the State, and at Alairs no has 900
national guards under arms. with too eating
aguos. He has 1000 stand Of Rsmingtoa
guns, with large quantities of ammnnitiop.
General Carlo and General Ortez have for
long time been abusing each other through
the press Of Mexico, and there ia a terrible
feeling existing. which will ultinatslv end In
q duel or general revolution in Sonora. In
case of Carlo opening the bali the Nav.
-torenista faction, which is large will ioin
him, while the Pesquera faction will snnpo,t
0rtez, both being allied strongly with tie
General Government. The outeome il hard
t, predict.
Colonel Garcia, the hero of the late Ipdisn
fight, is under arrest for murder He had o
deserter shot few days ago, and was err.
rested by the civil authorities. There ia q
strong feeling existing between the civil and
military factions, owing to the large force for
the purpose Of ousting Ortez. -
The abr is full of rumors of rsvolut;on.
Stage Jumped by Road Agents.
Tucson. August 21st.-The STAGE peing IL to
Globe yesterday was jumped by road asents,
and hall, the messenger, was killed. The
treasure box, with over s.. GOO was taken,
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TIE LEIGH SMITH EXPEDITION.

At least one missing Arctic expedition
has been successfully rescued this year.
MIR. Leigh Smith went north in the yacht
Ezra about eighteen months ago, intending
to seek for the Jeanette. His vessel.
however, was soon caught and crushed in
ice, and he and all his crew had to winter
among the polar bears and walruses, but
finally reached Nova Zembla all safe and
well. Their fortune in finding game ap-
pears to have been remarkable, and thew
also escaped scurvy and other exhausting
diseases. In fact the Leigh Smith expedi.
ton seems, Notwithstanding the early loss
of the vessel, to have been specially ex.
empt from the kind of disasters which
marked that of the Jeanette after it had
escaped from the ice. And it is relief
nowadays to learn that the members of any
Arctic expedition have returned alive.
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Manufacture Of From.

OGDEN, August 21st-The Ogden furnace
was lighted on Saturday last, and to-day
made the hrst ca OF iros, all number one
and of superior quality. This is the first iron
made il the great valley between the Rocky
Mountains and Sierra Nevada, or within a
radius of 800 miles of Salt Like, within
which region there is a consumption of 40,
600 tons of iron annually. The ores and fuel
are excslleut and abundant, and the whole
market here will be supplied by home pro.
ductioD, which iaaugurates an era of great
manufacturing prosperity for this inter.moup.
tain region. There is great rejoicing among
the people here over the successful manufac
ture of pig iron in Utah.
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ditiOn.
UTAH.
First Act of the Commissioners.

SALT LAKE, Au ust 21st.-At their meet
ing TO day the UEah Commissioners adopted
the old registration LIST, which they purpose
revising and hsldiDg an elect in November
for delegate to Congress. The old list con-
tains the names OF male and female polyga-
mists and as the L lmuuds bill does not give
the Commissioners power to erase names
from the registers, 1T Is thought by many that
the first act of the Commission is q serious
blunder.
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SECOND EDITION.

A second etition of the REooRD-USIoS is issued
each day at P. N. bringing the Eastern and coast
news up to tina. hour. By this arrangement the
RECORD UNION will present the latest news obtain
abe at all points east and north Of Sacramento.
The regular morning edition Of the RECORD UsIos
Is carried by morning trains, and is ahead Of all
competitors as far north Chico, the California
and Oregon Railroad west to Benicis, and south to
Stockton, and east to Colfax, Folsom and Placer
VILE AID all intermediate places. The second edition
matter will be found each day upon the third page
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A Snug Majority.

GALVESTON, August 2lst.-The Neacs' San
Antonio special says Charles Ward, a ne
gro, was hanged at noon for ravishiDg Ger.
man girl year age.
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EGYPT.

The doings in Egypt are still on q very
small scale, though it is quite possible that
Sir Garnet Wolseley knows what he is
about, and that he is slowly drawing net
round Arab. If the latter can be be.
leaguered till his heterogeneous army falls to
pieces, OF course the result will be much
more satisfactory than if obtained by fight
ing. The condition of the Nile, however,
must render decisive operations necessary
in short time, for after the humiliation
has reached its hight it will no longer be
possible to march and maneuver over the
Delta. the Suez Canal has now been Sc.
cured, and that important point gained,
the army can be employed without further
hesitation against the rebels. The Porte
has apparently lost its opportunity of joint
action, but this ia by no means to be re.
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SCoRPIoNs.-It is wonderful t.iia5 one
doesn't hear OF more .o3i pion stinge, con-
slderlng bow -5dndant these pernicious in.
sects are in nearly every tropical and SUBJ
tropical country. They are fairly hardy,
too, and will survive much greater de.
gree of cold than centipedes. One morn.
ing. when / had just returned from a
voyage and was repacking aud arranging
some things in my bedroom at the hotel in
Southampton, q lively, vigorous scorpion
fell out of shell upon my bare foot !;
luckily, it rolled off, and the carpet re.
ceiyed the emphatic tap of its tail which was
intended as delicate attention to myself.
A bath sponge seems to be their favorite
haunt, and it always behooves one to care.
fully examine that article before getting
into ones tub in regions where these little
pests abound. think that over dozen
were killed in my cabin during one fort.
night-brought there, no doubt, in a box
of Espirito Santo orchids from Panama.
Cargoes of coir, bales of medicinal woods,
punches of bananas, and other fruits and
vegetables in bulk, often Introduce them
on board vessels, and in old wooden
ships especially they will remain, and
colonize the bulkheads and interspaces. |
got nip once, and only once. Walking
along the main deck of steamer living
in Rio de Janeiro, loading up with coffee
being barefooted and in the dark, | trod,
as l thought, on a piece Of glass but.
drawing my foot up instinctively, l felt the
tickling OF scorpions feet on my heel. Il
seemed to have curled up after its tail.
The local symptoms were about equal in
intensity to the bite of q common viper or
the sting Of a maribunda, but with LEGS
constitutional arrangement; the ulcer was
along time in healing. however. There is
aghastly story told Of a gentleman in In.
dia, who pulling on his boots one morn.
ing, felt horrid prickly object in one of
them. With great presence of mind, in
stead OF withdrawing it, he forced his foot
violently down and stamped on it furiously,
though enduring exquisite agony in the pro.
cess. But it was not eentipede, only a
small blackiug brush left there by care.
less servant. The Psylli of Piiny and other
historians, as well as their modern descend.
ants, who swallow live scorpions, and carry
them in their caps next their shayen
crowns, probably deprive them first of the
means OF doing harm, as they serve the
venomous serpents with which they juegle.
by bunting their s.ings. 1t is.
nevertheless, very easy to hold
scorpion, and possibly to handle them
freely, when accustomed to them. SHee
how some people can pull about wild ~
and bees and ferrets without injury, though
taking no apparent precaurion. Manipula-
ton OF snakes, too, only requires little
observance of their weak points and respect
for their prejudices, which one glides into
insensibly by habit. The London Field.
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=. Ergoklyn, bow wrote a congestion on
the SUI ct OF the Quakers, ~,.,lct>ne de-
scribed s. sect who never quarreled,
never got into a fight, never clawed each
other, and never jawed back. The pro.
duction contained postscript these
words "Pa's Quaker. but ma sn't."