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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1879)
INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND! OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879 ASHLAND TIDINGS. J. M. m ’CALL. TO MY OLD COAT. MORRIS BAUM. J. M. McCall & Go ", Main Street, Ashland. OFFICE On Mun Str< i», (in s« comi story of MiCall <S Baum's new building ) Job PrlnlluK. Of all de icripti'ins done on short notice. Lexal Blanks, Circulars. Buainr.sa Carila, Billheads, tetterkieaiis. Pos tar», etc., gotten aP 1,1 »'« m I style at living prices. NEW DEPARTURE. Though hardly worth one paltry groat, Thou’rt dear to me, my poor old coat; For full ten years my friend than'st been— For ten years I’ve brushed thee dean. And now, like me, thou’rt old and wan, With both the youth of glow is gone, Bat, worn shabby as thou art, Thoa and the poe» shall not part, x Poor coat. I’ve not forgottun the birthday eve, The undersigned from and after April When first I donned thy glossy sleeve, When jovial iiiends, in mantling wine, 18th, propose to sell only for Drank joy and health to me and mine. Oar indigence let some despise; We'cr dear as eyer io thy eyes; Or approved produce delivered—except And for their sakes, old as thou art, Term*« ot Siil»N<-rlpti«»n: when by special agreement—«. short Thon and the poet shall not part, Ojecopy, one year.. ...............................................$2 5») Poor coat. •• '• six lu-iuttea ........ 1 5o and limited credit may be given. *• •* three months................................. . 1 One evening I remember yet, Club rates, nix «■•pies for .................................. 12 50 term» in advance. They have commenced receiving their I, romping, feigned to fly Lisette; She strove her lover to retain, New Spring Stock, and that every Term* of Advertisinij: And thy frail skirt was rent in twain. LEGAL. daygwill witness additions to Dead girl, she did her best endeavor, f’ 50 One aquare (ten lines or less) 1st insertion.. the largest stock of .. 1 00 Etch additional insertion............................ And patched thee up as well as ever; And for her sweet sake, old as thoa art, LOCAL. Thon and tho poet shall not part, .... lOu Poor coat. Ever brought to this market. They de Never, my coat, hast thoa been found Bending thy shoulders to the ground, sire to say to every reader of From any upstart, “Lord” or “Grace” this paper, that if To beg a pension or a place. DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, Wild forest flowers—no monarch’s dole— OREGON. ASHLAN’b, Adorn the modest button hole. If but for that, old as thou art, Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will Thoa and the poet shall not part, OFFICE \t :!><• Ashland Drn;Xt<>re. Poor coat. do it, they propose to do the largest CASH IN HAND General Merchandise! Standard Goods! JAMES R. NEIL, A T T O R N E Y A T L A W , Jacksonv ill»». < h’cgon. J. W. HAMAKAR, NOTARY PUBLIC, Linkville, Lake Co., Oregon. business this spring and summer ever done by them in the last five years, and they can posi tively make it to the advantage of every one to call upon them in Ashland and test the truth of their assertions. They will spare no pains to maintain, more fully than ever, the reputation of their Poor though we be, my good old friend, No gold shall bribe our backs to bend; Honest amid temptations past, We will be honest to the last; For more I prize thy virtuous rags Thau all the lace a courtier brags; And while I live and havo a heart, Thou and the poet shall not part, My coat. Our Resemblance to Animals. A Frenchman of tho Middle Ages said that all men were proud of their resemblance to animal, particularly to House, as the acknowledged the eagle, the lion, the tiger, the elephant, and the owl. The ambition, power, freedom, cruelty, strength and wisdom typified by these lieats were all gifts For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, which men emulated. They were all Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, untameable, unuseful animals, excepting Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress the elephant, and he had his dangerous DR. W. B. ROYAL, Goods,Crockery,Glass and side. No man is complimented by being Has permanently located in Ashland. Tin Ware, Shawls, told that he looks like a horse or a dog Will idre his undivided attention to the practice of W rappers,Cloak i, although they are nearest to him in in medicine. Has had fifteen years' experience in Oregon Ottico at hie residence, on Main street, And, in fact, everything required for the telligence; perhaps their subserviency opnositc the M. E. Church. trade of Southern and South offends his vanity. No woman likes to eastern Oregon. . be told that she looks like a sheep, al DR. WILL JACKSON, though many women do look like sheep. DENTIST. A full assortment of The miser has his prototype in the rodents, whose two narrow, gnawing Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon. teeth are eternally reproduced in hu For Blacksmiths’ and General use. Will visit Ashland in May and November, manity. and Kerbyville the fourth Monday in Octo her, each year. To look like an old lion is the proud Ashland, Sept. 15, 1978. A Full Line of peculiarity of the stroDg graybeards. There is nothing finer, more impressive in man than his resemblance. Longfel- Flannels, Blankets, Cassi meres, Doeskins, ow has it as a familiar illustration. We Clothing, always on hand and see it often in the best pictures of the for sale at lowest prices. old Greek poets. When a man’s eye re mains bright, although the shaggy brow The highest market pricey paid for above it has turned white, the effect is splendid. There seems to be an un quenchable fire behind that penthouse. . t is the lamp which never goes out Come One and All. Men of sardonic temper, and smooth out- The H iff best Market Price, ines, who are wise enough to wear a J. M. MeTALL A CO. white straight moustache, have a grand And will deliver resemblance to a Bengal tiger. They ook cruel, but it is a handsome, strong JAMES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, cruelty. No one can help respecting a W. H. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. Anywhere in town, Bengal tiger, although his traits are M1I/L, PKICE8. scarcely amiable. No one, however, ikes to look like a cat, although, also! WMjfner A Amlerson. too many of us do. We hate small, ignoble ferocity, commonplace deceits, secretive capabilities. To see a cat start off* on a diplomatic mission across a field, with no public to deceive, but with only an obscure mouse to surprise, with all the precautions against detection which a Borgia might have used, to see her feints of going east when she means to ARE NOW MAKING FROM go west, is to see old Tallvrand revealed, and to laugh at and to admire-the desire Main Street, of the human race to circumvent some- holy, to take the crooked path when the straight one world be so much easier! The cat is a satire on diplomacy; she SADDI.F. HORSEC nVUUlEM AMD < VHKIIGKS, should be studied. People look like dogs, sometimes not And can furnish mv customers with a unpleasantly, sometimes ludicrously. tiptop turnout nt any time. A much-whiskered individual, driving in a Victoria down town with his Scotch BLANKETS, HOUSES BOA ET)ED terrier, asked a witty lady what she thought of them. “Whv !” said she “I FLANNELS, On reasonable terms, and given the best thought you were beside yourself !” A attention. Herses bought and sold CASSI MERES, man of the Dundready type can look and satisfaction guaranteed in very much like a terrier. There is a all mv transactions. DOESKINS, noble mastiff type, which is honest and fine. .Christopher North had it, and AND HOSIERY. Walter Scott looked like his own Maida. ei. F. rm 1.1.1 pm . The bull-dog finds his manly prototype in Bill Sykes, and we have all seen slen ivr . a . nn e • der, greyhound-looking men and little mean ferret faces on the lookout for game. Nobleoxenarereproduced in some grotesque faces, anil Virgil speaks of “Ox-eyed Juno. ’ Two eyes, a nose, and a month seem to admit of ^great varieties. They are OLD AND NEW, easily imitate«! up to a certain point, then they become infinitely varied. The J. IV. RrA«ELL, Proprietor. Are invited to send in their orders and resemblance to animals is largely dwelt are assured that they upon bv the Darwinites, who seem to find in this lingering look a proof of the Having again settled in this place doctrine of evolution. This school of and turned mv entire attention to thinkers, however, always ignore the one the Marble Business, I am pre great question, as to where and when pared to fill :dl orders with neat At Prices that Defy Competition. the soul entered into the progressive ness ami dispatch. Monuments, cow, cr sheep, or ape. and the animal Tablets, and Headstones, executed became man. They do not dwell upon B^§Tin any description of marble. that conclusive experiment of the brutal j^FSjiecial attention paid to or- savage and the intelligent ape, whom ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS gE^|*~ders from all parts of Southern some traveler brought from Patagonia, f^TOregon. Prices reasonable. and who in three months of training in England resulted in this fact—the ape Address: remained an ape, wjiile the savage had J, II. liussell, learned to read and to write and to pray. Ashland, Oregon. SECRETARY. The resemblance of man to monkeys is, OFFICE In Post Office building. Special attention iven to conveyancing. HEADQUARTERS! IRON AND STEEL THE ASHLAND MILLS ! Ashland Woolen Goods! Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. Flour, Feed, Etc., THE ASHLAND ASHLAND WO OLEN Livery, Sale&Feed MANU FAC’D - CO., STABLES, The Very Best NAITIIIVIEI iWiOOILi! ASHLAND (»« marblemi WORKS. S our patrons ! SHall Receive Prompt Attention ! W. H. Atkinson, indeed, very remarkable and disagreea ble. Who was it who that he could not l>ear to be with them, they looked so like poor relations! There is the little old bearded monkey, so like a prominent philanthropist. There is the cocky little fop of a monkey, so like our “Jeunesse doree.” There is the orange mouthed, big-chinned chimjianzee, the type of a sensualist. There is the little lady mon key, with airs and graces so like an af fected woman. The worst of this re semblance is we see ourselves, alas ! at our worst. We see what we may lie to others than ourselves. It is curious how the serpent type re ap] »ears in women. Rachel always sug gested a beautiful snake—the little flat head, the sparkling eyes, the almost forked tongue, the long, lithe body, the sinuosity, the noiselessness, were all like the great Ophidian who deceived our grandmother Eve, as Oliver Wendall Holmes puts it We often look into gentle eyes, that suddenly change and frighten us, and we see the long slit-like ajierture of an eye which suggests the snake, the most repulsive of all forms of animal life. For the beauty of a snake is as dreadful as the ugliness of a hedge hog. How suggestive of the irritable is that sudden physical irradia tion, “the quills upon the fretful porcu pine.” How anger, “that brief mad ness,” is pictured by this queer animal. The scandal monger is surely meant by that jelly fish who emits an ink like fluid, and is herself lost in it, and Vic tor Hugo’s monster with no hotly, but with eyes ami tentaculæ—do we not all know lier I The birds have given us many a sem blance. We talk of the eagle eye, the eye like a hawk, the pigeon breasted, the raven cunning, the cuckoo invasion, and the dove like innocence as human qualities and belongings. Brilliant and over dressed women suggest cockatoos, and “swan like necks” and ducks, “dear little ducks,” are common enough phrases. Why ducks, the most phleg matic and unromantic of birds, should have been chosen for a terni of endear ment is past finding out. We are not like them, let us hope, when we become affectionate, Mr. Spoonbill, on the con trary, (still derived from duck,) is al ways represented in the comedy as a vo racious villain, much more typical, one would think. “To lx; a goose,” is always used in modern parlance in an uncomplimentary sense. Yet geese are redeeming their reputation. They were worshiped in Rome, because one gave an unconscious and opportune cackle; they arc not dis covered by the modern artists to be very picturesque, pretty and aimable birds. Not so much sillier than their neigh bors, either. However, they have given the world a proverb, and to “be a goose” is to be condemned to the very lowest estate. This idea of the transmigration of souls is one which repays a little study; it was the beginning of Spi ritualism, “materialization,” all thf* forms of that vague effort which man has made through all ages to penetrate that dense curtain which we call death, which God has let down between us and the knowl edge we so ardently crave. It was not an unbeautiful belief, that the soûls of the dead 2ame back to us, sometimes in the form of a bird; singing beneath our windows, feeding from our hands.— Boston Traveler. Demand for a “Social Clearing House. ” 82 50 PER ANNUM What is a Small Farm ? British Waste Land Unemployed. Metropolitan Business Hours. In some of the older States twenty acres is somet’mes called a small farm, and on such small areas a family might be supported. The qestion is frequently raised, “What is a small farm in Cal ifornia 1” The answer in a general wav is that 160 acres is a small farm, and 80 acres a very small one, if the one point is kept in view of the capacity of such a farm to support a family. Smaller tracts might do it if devoted to some specialty, an orchard or a mat ket garden, for instance. Aside from such sjiecial- ties it will require a much larger area of land to support a family in comfort here than in the Atlantic States. The greater number of these small tracts will lie cultivated without irrigation, especially where the rainfall is sufficient to pro duce a crop. There will, therefore, be no succession of crops in a given year. The hay and grain will be cut in their season. There will be little or no aftermath. Tho one crop of fruit will be gather»*«!, and so of all other pro- ducts. Th«* twenty acre farm, in the hands of an old-fashioned farmer, will turn out to be something of a delusion Some account must he taken of the climate, of the capacity of the land to produce, proximity to markets an«l th«» prices which the surplus pre duce will bring. The ten and twenty acre farms appear very well on paper. As suburban tracts they may be veiy de sirable. But when a man goes into the oouutry with his family to live by agri culture, ho needs more room if he is not to devote bis energies to a f«*w specialties. He will tind the 160-acre tract small enough when lit* comes to segregate fields for pasture, forestry, orchards, grain ami so on. Relatively, it might be said, that the average farm of this size is something like a 40 acre farm in some of the Atlantic States. The 10 and 20- acrc farms sketched on paper are very pretty; devoted to market gardening they are sometimos very profitable. But for the sale of garden truck to any ad vantage one must live near the city or large town. Now, most of the farms for sale are too remote for such purposes. A 20-acre tract devoted to ffardenin" O o would supply a small country town. A small farm in California is one with a sufficient area to support a moderate sized family in comfort, with the possi bility of laying up a little money; and that at present is about as much as can be done in this State on a farm of 160 acres. Still it must be said that this need not. always tie true in this State, and the course of events is towards smaller aver age farms than those of 160 acres. Where water for irrigation can lie pro cured the best of our lands will bear as minute a subdivision as any land ip. the world, and will nevertheless support a family in comfort. So long, however, as wheat-growing is our chief occupation and source of revenue, 160 acres will not lie called a large farm. But, as our population increases, new industries and products will become naturalized among us, and we may confidently exjiect that men will live here, as in other places, on very small tracts of land. It happens, in many cases, that twenty acres of good land near a market is worth, so far as the ease and comfort of living is concerned, more than a whole section further off. An emigrant who has not means enough to purchase the 160 acres which makes a small wheat farm, need not despair, but let him buy what he can afford, cultivate it in corn, vegetables and fruits, raise all the water he can by means of windmill or horse power, and so toil upward Dy degrees. We have seen a success made on ton acres, even when the produce had to be shipped forty miles to a market. It is better, though, that a man should, if possible, struggle through, and, for his children's sake, win a larger tract, say the typical 160 acres of which we have spoken.—S. F. Bulletin. There are no less than 12,000,000 acres of waste land in the United King dom capable of profitable cultivation, of which 5,9(10,000 are in Scotland. Were the latter cultivated the country might be self-sustaining. Yet these are kept waste for the pleasure of a few men, while tens of thousands are expatriated that might find happy homes on them. One is sometimes tempted to think that the venerable Professor Blackie may be right and that “an agrarian outbreak would do good.” Wfi have hrvl two or three premonitions of exhausted patience north of the Tweed. The government even thought it was time to be doing something, and promised a Game Law amendment bill. Nay, they even intro duced it, but then played and dallied with it until the lateness of the season gave them an opportunity of slaughter ing it with the innocents. The case was this: The case of a farmer in Scotland, convicted, under the Night Poaching act, of killicg a rabbit outside of his own gate, had excited much indignation, and at the suggestion of a Scotch member the government engaged to mitigate the brutal severity of this act, by enacting that when the convicting magistrate was of the opinion that the crime of killing a rabbit at night was not aggravated by violence, actual or contemplated, the penalty might be diminished to that to which the offender would have been liable had the horrible crime been com mitted in the daytime. It will hardly be credited outside this enlightened country that under this atrocious Night Poaching act the magistrate in sentencing has no discretion, but must condemn to imprisonment with hard labor. The government brought in their bill, and though the Night Poaching Act applies to the whole country, the mitigating bill applies to Si’otlaml alone, . P. A. Taylor, member for Leicester—that radical of radicals, as well known, perhaps, in America as here—not liking the idea that the English farmer and laborer might be kicked and flouted more than their Scoteh kinsman, moved that th3 bill should apply to the whole country. This was agreed to, and friends of de cency and justice congratulated them selves on the fact that at last one little step hail been taken toward investigat ing the shameless atrocity of the Game Law Code. But they cheered before they were out of the woods. The bill went to the wall w ith other innocents, and the poaching laws are vet unamended, much to the annoyance of the Scoteh esjiecially. As I write the report comes to hand that within th»* last two weeks no fewer than seven applications have been grant ed to farmers for sequestration in the' Sheriff Court of Fifeshire, and that in the Eastern counties the number of farms on the eve of being given up is steadily on the increase, the occupiers intending to try their fortunes in Can ada and the States, where they will only have the weather to contend against, and not heavy taxes and extortionate land lords also. It is poor consolation, but it is nevertheless true, that now, as in days gone by, England is suffering from the folly of unwise legislation. — London Corr. N. Y. Herald. Few of your readers have an idea of the pressure under which business is done in this city. Everylxxly in the great centres seem to be working against time. The contiast between business hours in the country and in the city is one of striking character. In the former they continue all day, but here the limit is from 10 to 3, and in some instances less. At the ’Treasury, for instance, where the transactions cover a million a day, the time is only from 10 to 2. The great sjieeie house of Trevor <fc Col gate observe the same rules, and anyone who should come even but one minute after the clock had struck, would be too late. Four hours a day may appear too brief, but after this comes the finishing of accounts, which requires the remain der of the afternoon. The system thus referred to presses an immense amount of traffic in a small space, and hence time becomes immensely valuable. This explains the various notices which may be found in different places of busi ness, one of which reads as follows: “Call u|xjn a man of business in busi ness hours. Transact your business and then go about your business in order that he may be able to attend to his business.” The above, which con tains much good advice, is a feature often met in our leading establish ments. The same idea is sometimes ex pressed in more sarcastic language, as may la* seen by the following, which is also visible in some offices: “Our office hours for attending to church subscrip tions, 11 to 1. Book agents received from 1 to 4. Balance of our time de voted to other miscellaneous calls. N. B.—We attend to our business at night.” This compression is of modern growth, and results in no small degree from the fact that so many people live out of town. There was a time when our banks were closed for an hour daily, in order to allow the cashier and his clerks to go home and «line, ami the business was continued until 5 o’clock. How ri diculous would this apjiear at present! Then our merchantmen lived within a half mile of their stores, but now, in some instances, the distance is thirty miles. Hence, men are now workrtl prodigiously during the brief interval devoted to business, which, in fact, is a daily battle, full of intense and exhaust ing effort. Instead of going to dinner as it should be eaten,they rush to a lunch and fill up with whisky. No wonder so many of them are drunkards. The amount of stimulus thus taken is im mense, and the universal plea is heard: “We cannot get through without it.”— New York letter to Rochester Demo «■rat. Setting out with the declaration, which it says is “the admitted state of affairs,” that “among women a call lias erased to be a scheme for meeting peo ple, but a tedious and laborious way for not meeting them,” the Springfield Re publican says: The crying need of so ciety among women is clearly a plan un der which cards can be exchanged and calls made without the risk, which now exists, of finding ¡»eople “at home that Not Self-Mindful. catastrophe which wrecks the best laid schemes for paying all one’s social debts in a single afternoon. What is wanted An accident, a somewhat ludicrous is a social clearing house. The banks of one, too, of the fire at tho Hagerstown New York long since found it past their Hotel, has been told us by one who was patience to go from bank to bank with there and who literally “barely” escajxsl the checks against each. They accord with his life. He is a traveling man. ingly devised a “clearing-house,” where Being suddenly awakened that night by their representatives could meet and pay a bright light shining in his face, be dis off their balances by mutual exchange. covered that the window-frame of his Society needs a mutual exchange for so room, on the third floor, was one blaze cial debts. A room ought to lie fitted of flame and that the apartment was up down town near some popular mil rapidly filling with smoke. He at once linery store and as far as possible from left. How he knows not, but finally the neglected public library, with little succeeded in reaching the ground by a pigeon holes marked Mrs. A—, Mrs. jump from the second-story window. B—, Mr?. C—, Mrs. D—, and so on When safely landed he stood watching through the social alphabet. A woman the work of destruction, and near by with calls to make coul«l go there and de him were a group of very thinly-clad fe posit her cards in the pigeon-holes of her males, also gazing. While thus standing ha noticed a acquaintance, secure that she would find none of them “at home.” She could go party of firemen hurrying past with a to her own pigeon-hole, obtain the cards quantity of feminine apjiareL He im there deposite«l an«l triumphantly return 1 mediately, with that gallantrv so in the calls on the spot. The work of keeping with a traveling man, hailed the weeks could be done in a iky. Every men with : “Look here, you fellows, give th«*se end now subserved bv calls could be ac complished at a very great saving of ladies some of those clothes. The roply was in an instant: time. All the useful information in re “All right, stranger, we’ll do so ; but gard to servants, the weather, and other people’s business now laboriously dissem don’t you think it would be a good idea inated by calls should be stereotyped on to put on a pair of spurs yourself V The last remark caused him to inves the cards. tigate himself, when he found“ that his “Well, Pat, you didn’t come to the whole costume was a shirt, a vest and a two o’clock train to get me as I told you.” pair of gaiters, while the rest of his gar “O, indade I di«K, sor; but I got there ments hung idly over his arm. Our too late for that train, and so I waited friend blushed, sought a refuge and for the next one. pulled on his pants.—Norristown Herald Acres of Perfume. Some idea ef the magnitude of the business of raising sweet-scented Howers for their pe~*ume alone may I m * gathered from the fact that Europe and British India aloite consumes about 150,000 gal lons of handkerchief perfume yearly ; that the English revenue from French eau de Cologne of itself is £40,000 an nually, and the total revenue of England from other imported perfumes is esti mated at $200,000 each year. There is one great perfume distillery at Cannes, in France, which uses nearly about 100,- 000 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower leaves, «32,000 jiounds of jasmine blossoms, together with an immense quantity of other ma terial used for jierfume. Victoria, in New South-Wales, is a noted place for the production of perfume yielding plants, because such plants as the mign onette, sweet verbena, jasmine, rose, lav ender, acacia, heliotrope, rosemary, wall-flower laurel, orange, and the sweet- scented geraniums are said to grow there in greater ¡»eifection than in any other part of the world. South Australia, it is believed, would also be a good place for the growing of the perfume-produc ing plants, though they are not yet cultivated there to much extent. The value of perfumes to countries adapted to their production may be gathered from the following estimates of their growth and value per acre, as given in the London (England) Journal of Hor ticulture: An acre of jasmine plants, 80,000 in number, produce 5,000 pounds of flowers, valued at 1,250; an acre of rose trees, 10,000 in number, will yield 2,000 pounds of flowers, worth $375; .300 orange trees, growing on an acre, will yield, at ten years of age, 2,000 |»ounds of flowers, valued at $250; an acre of violets, producing ],G00 pounds of flowers, is worth $800; an acre of cassia trees of about .300, will, at three years of age, yield 900 jiounds of flowers, worth $450; an acre of geranium plants will yield something over 2,000 ounces distilled attar, worth $4,000; an acre of lavender, giving over 3,500 pounds of flowers for distillation, will yield a value of $1,500. Dumas is working up another drama. Political Duels in New Yprk. This city, writes a corresjxindent, has always been noted for its political warmth, and many a bloody duel has been thus occasioned. In two instances the victims were of the famous Hamilton family. Captain George Encker shot Phillip Hamilton, and in less than three years afterward the father of the latter fell by the hand of Aaron Burr. Among other tragedies of the same kind was the Coleman and Thompson duel. The former, who was the first editor of the Evening Post, challenged James Cheet- liam, editor of the American Citizen, but the latter declined the combat. One of his friends, however, Captain Thomp son, took up the quarrel and challenged Coleman. The meeting took place in the suburbs, and Thompson was mortally wounded. DeWitt Clinton and Richard Reker also had a hostile, meeting occasioned by po litical opinion. The latter was wounded, but fortunately recovered. Politics are not as bloody as in former times, but this is only because duels are no longer fashionable, and the war is carried on by the press Speaking of duels, it may be said that the oldest duelist in this city, and perhajis, indeed, the only one, is James Watson Webb, who fought with Thomas F. Marshall, of Kentucky. Marshall was counsel for the noted forger, Monroe Edwards, and the first day of the trial Webb’s paper, the Courier and En quirer, contained a severe attack on the prisoner. Marshall naturally retorted in the ojiening of the defense, and gave Webb such a scathing as called forth a challenge. In the meeting which fol lowed, Webb was wounded in the leg, and has ever since been slightly lame. He was indicted on his recovery for violation of our anti-dueling laws, and only the executive clemency prevented his sharing Monroe Edward’s fate—a sentence in the State prison. A Romantio Burial. A young lady was recently buried at Brighton, England, under romantic cir cumstances. 'Die day of her interment was the day originally fixed for her mar riage, and her friends complied with her dying wish that she should l»e drawn to the grave by the horses which had been engaged to convey her to church. To the catafalque there were attached four grays, whose beads were deckid with floi-ai rosettes of white and red gei'aniuins, and the coffin was covered with white and amber silk pall. The carriages which followed were also drawn by horses ca|»ari.soned similarly to those which drew the hearse.—Troy Times.______ ~_______ In R ticulo mortis—the oyster. ’A. '