A negro from the mountains was in
the act of taking the colored folks'
Christmas tree, when Simon Norris, the
deacon, knocked him in the head with n
blick, and Sim' Able, the p.istor, cut his
hand half ort witli a knife.
The Crab Orchard Masonic Lodge,
No. (:5, elected ollicers as follows: Dr.
J. D. PetttiB, Worshipful Master; Gto.
W. DeRord, S. W.; D. C. Payne, J. W.;
W. A. (aisoii, Treasurer, J. H Bailey,
Secretary, J. C Hays, J. D.. Curtis
r, . D . K. Minks, Steward and T)ler.
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A from M. Cnmilln
J the French astronomer, in
I the New York Herald mentions his dis
covery at duviv obserntorj' Of the
movement of u atar by the naked eye.
This is the nrt time in the history of
Hhtronomy, he snys, that the displacement
of a star has Ihwii fccttled without
Instrumental aid.
The star to which he refers shines
the sliir "Cluster" in the
constellation of the Virgo. It is numbered
and is of tho fifth magnitude.
Hippiuvhus described it two
thousand years ago as a double star, it
was then optically double, only not
physically connected with another
star. But it is no longer double even
in appearance. It was in the attempt
to ascertain the stellar parallax by the
study of double stars, that tho elder
llcrschcl found evidence of the great
law that the dominion of gravitation
extends lx'.vond the limits of the solar
.system to the most i emote regions of
bpace.
