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Year: 1874

preparatory to the coming fall trade, offsr from
this dae their entire stock Of spring and sum


mer clothing, embracing many goots suitable FOL
fall wear, at cost. Boys clothing and broken lines
of mems clothing and furnishing goods they ottel
without reference to cost. Such an opportunity to
purchase clothing at low prices is seldom present


cd Give them call, and buy fine goods at less thar
usual prices of common goods Terms strictly
Year: 1874

ATTEMPTED RoBBERY.-An attempt was
made to rob the storeroom OF priVate resi-
dence on Seventh between Clay ana Leign
streets night before last. The gentleman OF
the house was aroused by hearing the rat
ting of glass, and upon getting up discovered
that thieves had been operating upon MS
storeroom window. One OF them ran away,
and another bid in the shruooery' but
quickly made his exit also after a pro]eciiie
had been landed in his near neighborhood.
Year: 1874

From the Golden age.


ADIOS.
What better words can my sad lips now say


Than TO commend
Thy footsteps to his guiding, o! my friend,
And pray that he may guard thee night and


day?
L cannot bid thee happiness regain


Only one word
Adios-but be sure il that be heard
Above twill save thee from world Of


pain.
IT'S spoken with heart di.trausht with


grief


At its own loss;
But while my pale lips trembling kiss the
1 say Adois. Strong in my belief.
To Godi o. may his strengthening arm de-


fend,
May his great heart
Encircle thee and never more depart
Encempassing thy life unto the end.
II in the rounds of his eternity
We two shall meet
Tkis now sad hour will then seem dear and


sweet
A precious link OF loves great unity.
Adios, and adiOs, once again
1 murmur not
And do not thou assail thy bitter lot
But bring thy lips and heart to say Amen.
Year: 1874

The preparation for an active can
vass in Alabama is being made by the
Democratic party. The Executive
Committee has published an address
which has the ring of the true metal.
and is evidently the paper suited to
the exigency of the hour. Luckily
or unluckily, here in Mississippi, We
have no canvass to make this year:
but we cannot but feel an abiding in
terest in the success of our friends in
Alabama. Poor Mississippi has to
struggle on in her woe and humilia-
ton until time shall work out our re-
lief. What with heavy taxation, poor
crops, disordered systems of business
and finance, our condition is indeed
pitiab!e. All we can do is TO ''bide
the time" of our deliverance.- -Shubu-
ta Miss Times.
Year: 1874

a LION SCALPS THE WRONG Boy
Forepaugh's menagerie was taking an
evening march one day lately, In Bal
timore, and the wagons were halted
near the exhibition grounds. Some
OF the cages were open-that is, moth
ing but the bars separated the AMI
mails from the boys, and the boys
were as usual curious and mischiev-
GUS. They crowded round a cage of
hons-cOntaining lion and a lioness
and amused themselves by stirring
up the occupants with sticks, and
seeing them show their good sets of
teeth and hearing them groWl. A
good boy twelve years old came along
with his books returning from school
At this time the leader of the street
gang, Crooks" by nickname, was
making frantic efforts to spit in the
lions eye. The schoolboy, halting in
the crowd, said: 'tRocks, why don't
you stop teasing the hon? He may
hurt you" Rocks pushed the good
boy, who minds his books, towards
the cage, saying, "What are you
afraid of % The lion put out his paw
and caught the good boys head, and
broke his skull, and lifted his scalp,
and gave the poor fellows hat to the
iOness for her share of the boy
Rocks and the other bad boys ran
away unharmed, leaving the poor
school boy bleeding TO death under
the cage. The doctors think the
wound may prove fatal. A lion does
not know a good boy from a bad one,
and no special providence interfered
that time in favor of the little fellow,
who would not play truant, not even
when a circus was in town.
Year: 1874

There is q bitter religious strife
going on in the Chelm district of
Poland. The Russian Government
has ordered the extirpation of
Romish rites, churches, and priests
in that district, and the substitution
for them of the practices of the
Greek Church. The result has
been riot and carnage in many
placer, men and women shot down
ana knouted, and a spirit of the ut
most bitterness among the peasan-
try. Tho miserable creatures re
fuse TO allow their dead to be buried
according to the Russian rite, and
prefer to inter them without cere-
mony. This fact alone would show
the intensity of their aversion.
Year: 1874

Old General Houston, of Texas, was
man of peculiar gallantry. When
used to be supplied every day with
some pieces of soft pine wood, which
he Whitfield hour after hour, cover
ing the carpet around him with shaw
ings and'chips. When he saw a hand
some lady in the gallery he would
whittle out heart and send it to her
by a page, with his compliments.
Modern Senators don't pine that way
after pretty woman.
Year: 1874

FRENCH MANNERs.-One of the
highest merits of the French sys-
tenn of manners is, that it tacitly
lays down the principle that all per-
sons meeting in the same house
know each other without the form
ality of introduction. Any man
may ask any girl to dance, or speak
to anybody at q private party.
This in no way extends to public
gatherings, where the guarantee of
supposed equality which results
from the fact of knowing the same
host does not exist. But in draw
iDg-rooms the rule is absolue,
everybody may talk to everybody.
This is an intelligent and most
practical custom; it facilitates con-
versation; it dispels awkwardness
toward your neighbors; it makes it
possible to pass a pleasant hour in
a house where you do not know a
soul; it gives a look of warmth and
unity to a room. No one is oblig-
ed to sit gloomy and silent btween
two repeliing strangers. If you
want TO speak, you are sure of a
listener. OF course people are
often regularly introduced to each
other by the master or mistress, es-
pecially at dinner parties; but in
those cases the object is to put a
name upon them, not to authorize
them to converse; for that act on
permission is required.
Year: 1874

By an inadvertence, occasioned by an
unusual pressure of correspondence upon
Is, the proceedings of the Conference of
the West Virginia Methodist Episcopal
Church South, were published out of
regular order, that is, the third days pro-
ccedings appeared before those of the
second day. We present the latter this
morning
Year: 1874

EVEN the Mteitigence'' is constrained
TO compliment the Democratic ticket for
House of Delegates nominated last Sat
urday, and pronounces it an Improve
ment" over some that have been hereto
fore nominated.
Year: 1874

A vivacous writer on Switzerland says:
"Only the day before your visit the Bad
Step had its latest tragedy, with q comic
edge to it as most tragedies have. In the
pouring rain party left the hotel at Cha.
mounix for the Mer de Glace, and, com.
ing up on the other side, took the Bad
Step first The sweetest of little old
ladies, mere dot of woman, with her
doctor of divinity, we're among them,
and went on over the slippery rock,
made doubIy dangerous by the rain, be-
cause, once started, there was no turning
back. She dragged the pounds on
pounds of wet water proof cloth clinglng
about her feet to the little oasis where peo-
pie rest and gird up their loins before eros
sing the ice. Here she threw herself prone
on the ground, and was still as an ink.
blot. When the others started her hus-
band tried to rouse her. No, she said,
you may all 90 on. want nothing. |
will die herel 1t was the calmness Of
despair. Women often threaten in GER
tain contingencies TO give up, but the
thing is rare as snow in August. When
it happens the family machine stops and
desperate remedies are applied. This
woman did the thing without the threat,
also a rare thing for her sex, and was
ever a doctor Of divinity in such plight
before? He had lived with her forty
years, and she had the power to sur
prise him. He had seen her endure
years of wasting sickness without losing
cheerfulness; he had seen her go down
into the valley of the shadow Of death,
and come back smiling with baby in
her arms, but now at last she had
given up He offered to carry her
down the rock and across the ice-he
who had come abroad for his health; but
she answered him only Go with the
rest. will die here like the refrain
of a dirge. The doctor must have
scolded at this point, if he we're not more
than mortal but it did no good, and
finally he wrapped the mantle of his
thoughts about him, and sat down in the
rain to mediate new chapter on the
woman question. The other people
went on, and the two kept solitary watch
on the Mer de Glace, like the two gray
headed eagles in an eyrie. At the end
of silent half hour, in which the doc
tor discovered what very hard working
people those are who only stand and
wait, she rose up, walked over the ice,
mounted her mule, and regained the
hotel. She had broken the handspring
of hope, and it took Nature just half an
hour to mend it. ."-Nelos.
Year: 1874

If Byron's ancestry was dark one
on his fathers side, it was an evil one on
his mothers, who was an incarnation Of
all unreason. She was ignorant, she
was silly, she was passionate; in
her RACES she was uncomfortable.
She would indulge him to excess one
day, and the next he was lame brat. :"
When they were on good terms he would
call her Kitty Gordon" and when they
we're in their theatrical RACES he would
throw open the door of the drawing
room and say: Enter the honorable
Kitty" She was fond of him in her
wild, foolish way, and was generally at
war with his guardian and his teacher.
He was allowed, while at school, to
spend Sunday with her; but that did not
satisfy her, for she frequently kept him
week, and would not send him back.
When his teacher refused to let him visit
her she went to the school, and abused
him so loudly that the scholars and the
servants could not help hearing her.
Byron, your mother is fool, said one
Of his schoolmates. " | know it, he
answered, gloomily.


Whether Byron loved his mother may
be doubted, but it is certain that he
treated her with respect and Difference.
He repaired Newstead Abbey and placed
her in it when he went abroad, and fire.
quently wrote to her, addressing her as
the Hon. Mrs. Byron, title to which
she had no claim. She was proud of
his genius, and read with eagerness all
that she saw about him in print When
he returned to England after his two
years travel she was anxious to see him.
He wrote from his hotel in London that
he would soon see her, and in the post
script of his note said: You will con-
slider Newstead as your house, and not
mine, and me only as visitor" Super
stitious at all times, she remarked to
her waiting woman when she read the
note: "If / should be dead before
Byron comes down what strange thing
it would be-" The strange thing came
to pass and was brought about by a fit
of rage into which she was thrown by
reading over her upholsterer bills.
Byron received notice of her illness and
started Immediately to her, but arrived
too late. She had breathed her last.
My poor mother died yesterday" he
wrote MS IrlenQ IlBOt anu an Ou
my way from town to attend her to the
family vault | heard one day of her
illness, the next of her death. Thank
God, her last moments we're tranquil. |
am told she was in little pain, and not
aware of her situation. l now feel the
truth of Mr.. Gray's observation, that we
can only have one mother"


Byron was deeply touched by his
motLers death, and the night after he
reached Newstead was heard by her
waiting woman signing heavily in the
room where her body lay. She entered
and found him sitting in the dark beside
the bed. When she expOstulated with
him on the weakness of giving way to
grief he burst into tears and exclaimed:
OH Mrs. Ry l had but one friend in
the world, and she Is gonel' On the
morning of the funeral he would not fol-
low the body to the grave, but stood
looking from the abbey door until the
procession had moved of. Then he
turned to his man Rushton, who was the
only one remaining, and, asking him to
Year: 1874

fetch the sparring glove, he proceeded
to take his usual exercise with him.
Silent and abstracted, he threw more
violence into his blows than was his
habit, as if to get the better of his feel
ings. At last the struggle was too much
for him. He flung away the gloves, and
retired to his own room.
Year: 1874

We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of this old and reliable
life insurance company, to be found in an
other column. The New York Life has been
in active operation in our city for the last
twenty nine years and has well earned by
it's liberal department and its great strength
the high character it possesses As security
it offers twenty-five million dollars assets,
does all of its business upon the purely
mutual plan. by which all profits are an
nually paid to policy holders. Thus they
have safe and secure life insurance at its
net cost.


The agency is in the hands of those high
ly respectable and responsible old citizens
Copes & Ogden, No. A Cafondelet street,
where parties who desire life insurance can
apply for any information.
Year: 1874

sTo-morrow evening, it will be remem
bered, the perform ance at the Academy of
Music will be for the benefit of those who
are suffering from the overflow in the coun-
try parishes. It is clear and full benefit
which Mr.. Bidwell has generously offered,
and, under the direction of a committee of
citizens, the entire proceeds will be turned
over to Vhe Mayor for the purpose indicated
A large number Of persons have bought
tickets for the benefit. To these the gracious
Kittredge will furnish seats upon applica-
ton at the box office. The entertainment
will be good one, and the house should be
full one
Year: 1874

Notwithstanding the report in the papers
of yesterday of suspension Of travel over
this road, q dispatch has since been received
from G. Jordan, superintendent of the road,
at Montgomery, by s. H. Scranton, of the
Mobile Road, stating that the report was
unfounded, and that all trains over the
road are leaving and arriving on time In
case of break on this road, however, we are
assured it would not affect travel between
our city and the East by way of the Mobile
route. Passengers by this road leave daily
on the morning train. and 60 through with
out detention.
Year: 1874

The New Orleans Gaslight Company an
nounces that from and after the first day of
May discount of twenty five per cent will
be allowed upon all gas bills paid at the
office OF the company within three days
after presentation. All persons who can
pay their bills at one time as well as another
will gladly avail themselves of this offer.
Year: 1874

Owing to the dullness Of trade and scarcity Of
money, we are of.ring our immense wholesale
stock Of MEMS, YOUTHS ana BOYS' SPRING ana
SUMMER CLOTHING end FURNISHING GOODS at
COST and BELOW COST for CA SH aud CASH ONLY
Wholesale buyers can purchase to their decided
advantage on approved paper Call and satisfy
yourself GARTHWAIrE, LKWIS MLLRR


No 100 Common street, opposite City Hotel.


apl9 In
Year: 1874

Not being able to crowd all the reading matter into the Weekly, we again accompany tue edition with a supplement, containing very good reading matter. We have ma uia for printing more matter than we have space for, which mania is not very profitable for us, but, we do hope that subscribers will appreciate our enterprise.
Year: 1874

The New York World made respectable bull, when it said that, with one hand, Gen. Howard would put one Apache in the font of christianity, and, with the other hand, take dozen out" Tine poor General has but one hand.
Year: 1874

The amount of liquid matter which
passes through the microscopical
tubes of tho skin in tweEIy-touI
hours, in any adult person of sound
health, is about sixteen fluid ounces.
or one pint. One ounce Of tho sixteen
is solid matter, made up Of organic
and inorganic substances, which, il
allowed to remain in the system for q
space of time would cause death
The rest is water. Besides the watc,
and solid matter, a large amount Of
carbonic acid, q gaseous body, passes
through the tubes; SC we cannot fail
to understand that they are active
workers, and also we cannot fail to see
the Importance of keeping them in
perfect working order, removing oh.
structions by frequent application Of
water, or by some other means.


Suppose we obstruct the functions
of the skin perfectly by vanishing a
person completely with a compound
impervious to moisture, How long
will ho live? Not over six hours
The experiment was once tried on q
child in Florence. Popo Leo, The
tenth, on the occasion Of his accession
to the papal chair, wished to have q
living figure to represent the Golden
Age, and so he gilded a poor child all
over with varnish and gold leaf. The
child died in q few hours. If the ful
of rabbit or the skin Of q pig be
covered with solution of India rub
Der in naptha, the animal ceases tc
breathe in two hours.
Year: 1874

HAND-SHAKINa. - How did people
get in the habit of shaking hands?
The answer is not far to seek. In
early and barbarous times, when every
savage or semi-savage was his own
law-giver, judge, soldier and police
man. and had to watch over his own
safety in default Of any other protec-
ton, two friends and acquaintances,
or two strangers desiring to be friends
and acquaintanccs, when they
chanced to meet, offered each to the
other the right hand, the hand alike
of offense and defense, the hand that
wields the sword, the dagger, the
club. the tomahawl, or other weapon
of war. Each did this to show that
the hand was empty, and neither war
nor treachery was intended. A man
cannot we'll stab another while he is
in the act of shaking hands with him,
unless he he double-dyed traitor and
villain, and strives to aim q cowardly
blow with tho left while giving The
right and pretending to b. on good
terms with his victim. The custom
of hand-shaking prevails more or less
among all civilized nations, and is the
tacit avowal of friendship and good
will, just as a kiss is Of warmer pas
sion. Ladies', every one must have
remarked, seldom or never shake
hands with tho cordiality Of gentle
men, unless it be with each other


The reason is obvious. 1t is for them
TO receive homage, not to give it..
They cannot be expected to show to
persons of the other sex a warmth OF
greeting which might be misinter-
preted, unless such persons are very
closely related to them by family or
affection, in which case hand-shaking
is not needed, and the lips do moro
agreeable duty.
Year: 1874

The boy who, when asked to what
trade he would wish 10 be brought up
II will bo q trustee, because ever
since papa has been a trustee we
have had puddings for dinner" was.a.
wise child in his generation.
Year: 1874

The feature of ocean travel last week was
the large number Of passengers who left this
city for Europe The immigration was large for this
time Of year. but the emigration exceeded 1t by several
hundreds This Is accounted for by the fact that the
demand for lahorers In this country is ut present small


and growing less day by day, II being estimated that
10000 persons In this city out Of employment On
the other hand there Is extraordinary demand for
help in England and ireland. Letters being
stantiy received by 10 this country from their
relatives and friends the other side Of the water
the result has been large exodus of steerage passe


gers During the week which ended on Saturday. there
arrived at Castle Garden 2ale immigrants, OF whom $50
were Nsnaopies on their way from Russia 70 Dakota
Year: 1874

MR. BECK, of Kentucky, has intro
duced bill into Congress providing
very severe punishment for Members
of Congress who prosecute claims
against tho Federal Government. The
New York Herald, while characteriz-
ing it as "ben-punch" arrangement,
declares it to be Unnecessary but hu-
initiating measure"


The Washington City Re3ondticaa
says: "There can be no doubt that We
have had too much Of this kind of Pc
caliar legal practice lately, and the best
thing that can be done is to take away
the temptation. 1t is argued that the
fact that man is member of Con-
gress should not operate against him
in the pursuit of Lis profession, but
there can be no doubt that large
amount Of practice comes to certain
gentlemen merely because they are
members"


This kind of practice is said to be
much esteemed by General Butler.
Year: 1874

Colonel LAMAR, of Mississippi, has
introduced another bill in Congress pro-
viding for the return, by the Federal
Governn ent, of the tax On Gotten iile-
gally collected for several years after
the war, and we sincerely trust that he
may be able to secure some repara-
ton for this long standing outrage
upon the cotton planters..of the South.


It seems, howver, from the various
accounts we have seen, coming from
Washington City as to the causes of the
failure of other bills, that the difficult
ty, in the way of the passage of a
proper bill by Congress, has been not
alone with the representatives of
Northern constituencies in that body.
Southern members Who favor the re-
funding OF the tax have been widely at
variance upon every bill that has been
presented, fer the reason that they
could not agree who were the proper
parties to whom the refunded tax
money should be paid. In other words,
the contest between the commission
merchants and the producers prevents
t1at concert of action SO necessary to
SUCCESS.


Whether Colonel LAMAR Will be
able to reconcile those long stand
ing difficulties, we are unable TO
say, but any proposition coming
from him Will doubtless COM
mand the most respectful consideIa
tion from both merchant and producer
for the reason that it comes from a
gentleman whose sense of justice, it is
we'll known, is too strong 10 permit
him to propose any other than Il fair
and equitable compromise.


Precisely the difference between the
farmer who produced the cotton and
the merchant who sold it, We have
never been able to understand or to
appreciate. It has always seemed to
us that the matter resolved itself into
the question who was out of pocket
for the tax? If the merchant paid the
tax merely as the agent of the pro-
ducer, we cannot see how such pay
ment would give him any beneficial
interest in the refunded tax money.
Tne merchant may indeed hold the
receipts from the Government Officials
but if he paid the money only as the
agent Of the producer, it is difficult to
see what real beneficial interest he has
in the matter. We sincerely trust the
whole matter may be speedily ad-
justed.


If we mistake not, North Carolina is
interested in the rtfundirg of this
illegally collected cotton tax. to III"
extent of six or more millions OF dol
lars.