f -J The Beaufort Tribune. VOL. II.?NO. 38. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 9, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. THE BEL LB. A Watering Plaoe Story. A group of idle young men lounged upon the shady eorner of a watering place hotel piazza killing time until the dinner hour. "Let us make a belle," suggested Arthur Lindsley. " Let us tako some moderate girl and idolize her, one and all of us. Not ridiculously, but just enough to turn her head and have all the other dear creatures dying of jealousy." Two days later a party arrived at the hotel who were registered as " Mr. Wolf, Mrs. Wolf, and Miss ( Wolf, of 0.," and on the same afternoon Lindsley announced, tri- , nmphantly: " I've found the girl. No; don't ask mo what she's like. Nothing startling, I promise you, Just a passable sort of a ladylike nobody. The raw mftfAriftl tV?of*a oil* ?i?4. ?vun? d on j aiiu buab a W Uttll WO | want. A mighty pretty little foot she had, though, peeping from under her waterproof cloak. But plain, unmistakably plain and unpretending, I assure you. Just the nondescript sort of thing 1 we require for our made belle." In the inviting drawing-room Miss , Irene Wolf made her debut, clinging rather closely to the side of her mother until the music struck up. The dance began. The youug and shy straugor found hersel f-introduced to a number of agreoable young men. Every one seemed pleased with her. Everything she said, everything she did, proved to ' be just the happy word of the moment ] or the happy uot. " It has been such a | delightful evening," she said to her j mother, when, after midnight, she still j lingered to talk over the novel event. -- a was a suiy girl to dread tlio begin- ' ning bo much. How kind every one is! " As the season advanced, the triumphs of the made belle lost none of their bril- 1 liancy. Her success began to reflect 1 orodit upon her makers. Every day she i seemed more lovely, every day more worthy of preference. For is there a oosmetie liko praise ? Is there a tonic , liko smiles ? Irene Wolf, in her midsummer experience, thought that watering place life was au episode of paradise. But the serpent always crawls into Eden. And ' in Irene's paradise the intruder had, as in Riphaol's picture, a woman's face. , Miss Hammond thought it her duty to , confide to Miss Wolf a secret that had been intrusted by Dick Wilhurst as ' something which he considered " too good to keep." Miss Hammond performed her self- i imposed duty without trepidation. If in the rivalry of the season she had al- ' lowed herself to feel bitterness, and if malioe lay in her motive, she was not r.*- ( warded by the effect upon her victim of her astounding revelation. In listening to the humiliating tale, given in strict 1 confidence and without suppression of < any stinging detail, Irene remained a calm, offering no interruption or ex- a clamation. Her heart, indeed, beat Ario- t lently, her color wont and came. When the whole story was ended sho pondered < a minute, and said: e " Do you believe this, Miss H im- < mond ? I hardly can. I think these e gentlemen?these friends of yours?are too well bred to have placed a girl, an i unoffending stranger, in such au igno- e mimous position. Mo! Do not trouble t yourself about this story. I feel sure i these young men have better hearts." i But, oh, the storm that swept over ( that bared bit of palpitating mechanism, t the woman's heart, in the darkness of i the night ! The pain, the tantalizing i torment, the bewildering doubt. Gould i it bo true ? Let the oareful memory, < the oalm judgment, take up the facts. 1 Alas, the story was not without its corroborating proofs! ( The first night of anguish that sweeps 1 across the pillow of a young girl robs < it forevor of all the white roses of which girls'pillows are made. Thenoeforth the 1 softest is but raffled linen on which the J head rests. I In the morning Irene awoke?for at i . dawn she caught one miserable half ] hour's sleep?awoke, for the first morn- i ing of her life, upon a flat, stalo, unprofitable world. i What pleasure was there to a made ] bello in fixing her blonde hair at the 1 glass f ] The first thought of tho child had beeu this: "Oh, how I wish I could 1 tell mother t" but she reasoned with ] herself: " No; it is better I should i bear it myself. And father, dear 1 father, how he would reseDt this cruelty I I how much ho loves his poor little girl ! j He must nevor, uever, never know." < The evening after Miss Hammond's < dutiful act Irene was beautiful?really j beautiful for the first and, perhaps, last < time in her life. She came down into the drawing-room array* d in an excel- i lent Peris dress ; for her mother, whose I maternal instinct liad been aroused to ' the peroeption that Ireno's costumes i were not in the style of those worn by < her companions, had purchased for her 1 darling at an immoderate oost from one of those fashionable modistes who fol- 1 lew in the wake of the summer faring : gay world the very last importation of draperied grace. Irene oame down into the drawingroom attired like a little princess; but j it was not that which made every eye i discover she was a beauty at last. It < was the hectio rose leaf on her cheek, the scarlet of her lips, the violet shad- i ow about her eyes, the mystical shadow upon vonng eyelids that grief has at last kissed ; it was the kindled exoitementof conflicting pain and pride, the quick flame that made her gentle fawn colored yes shine steel and gold, and gold and steel, and that illnmined into positive, \ potent brilliancy her modest, softly tint- ] ed, pleasantly featured, but never be- 1 fore startling face. She was really beantifnl, and every i one said so that night. The belle, with- ] out possibility of mistake. But to those who knew her and who were with her frequently, or watcljpd her closely from that time forth, there was something missed from Irene that had hitherto had part in herself?the joyous confidence, the innocent abandon, the quiet but genuine undertone of real happiness, had fled. With all her pride, Bhe was too ingenuous to conceal from those who cared for her that her perfect peaoe was lost. Our friendly young men held a consultation npon this point. " Mark me," said Sam Dent, "Iknow something of girls, and that girl has fallen in love. Mark me, in love with one of us! I only hope, since I am an engaged man, that it's not me." Da Bois looked infinitely self-conBcious, but did not speak. " Don't trouble yourself, Sam," said \^rilhnrst. with inmnntttiriry anlf.Qtao^+iVvr, ' I happen to know she hasn't been such I a fool as that." "We've played too deep," said Gros- ] venor. "Upon my word, it hasn't been < right. We've had our fun, but, by 1 Jove, it has been hard on the girl." 1 " Well," said gra eless Diek, " it isn't ( a wrong that can't be made rigbt. If i it's me she's iu love with?and?but?well 1 ?n'imporfe. If it's me, I don't care if < I do become a victim. 'Tis a cool hun- ] dred thousand. It might be worse." "Wilhurst," exclaimed Lindsley, with flashing eyes, "take care. Miss Wolf is 1 too true a woman, too good a girl to be lightly spoken of, in my presence, at least. A girl thnt any man might be proud to make his wife." " Heart hearl" cried Dick. " Excuse mr, friends. I meant to praise, not to scoff. What greater compliment can be paid to a made belle than to ring the shange out of her?ring the changes. I mean. Lindsley, my dear fellow, I pass. Take her; aud a thousand blessings go with you, my boy." "Lindsley is right," said Sam Dent." " The girl has metal in her." "Whoever heard of a bollo that hadn't m tal in her ?" asked Dick. " Nonsense ! but I tell you there's a ^enuino ring to her." "Of course." "And a smart tongue, as I can testify, when she's put to it," said Qrosvenor. " 1 liko a woman who can hold her )WQ. " " Her own tongne? So do I," satd Dick. "Oh, I'm sincere. Irene Wolf is all right. Hurrah for our made belle! She's u trump. Liudsley, you're n eucsess. Well, good night, boys: I'm off. Ity-bye, Jjindsloy. Ring the belle? ling-dongl" ? * ? The feminine portion of the boii.se iad not been so sensitively aware of the ihauge in Irene. The truth is, they vere too thoroughly engrossed in a ironderful event to condescend to rifles. The event was no other than the unsxpected arrival at this delightful sealid 3 hotel of an English lord, a bachelor, sros ed in love abroad, it was rumored, ind come to America expressly to marry. A live lord I One and all of the femilioe portion of the house fixed heart and lonl upon him at onoe. There was no lurning back from the plow; there was 10 dallying with time to be "well off vith the old loves," or loss of haste in joing first to bury one's dead. The ifi'air demanded, or commanded rather, i religions zeal and dispatch. " Up and mike I" was the motto of every Amazonian ambition whose bewitching archuy suddenly fixed upon this shining /Ull OTJ O. I If the thought of "Mrs." had to auy j >ne been sweet, the thought of " My f ady," " My Lady Lindehurst," was in- \ jomparably a treat. ? It was, of course, nocessary to be t presented to " my lord" first. And i Lord Lindehurst, who had been thrown < ->y accident of foreign travel into inti 1 note relations with Qrosvenor and Dn ] B ?is, came specially introduced. He t was legitimately a prize of the set. \ Not until a fortnight had elapsed did < it become faintly rumored that Lord c Lindehurst, whose attentions had so far t 3een generously general, had^" taken < particularly " to Irene Wolf. ] A torrent of indignation swept through i tho house. Miss Hammond felt her c plane of duty so broadened that she < actually contemplate 1 confiding Dick s Wilburst's secret, "too good to keep," io the young Euglishman?to illumine < Pis note book as a characteristic episode t if American manners and life. She was lelayed some* hat in her benevolent in ^ tent, for the reason that the live lord i was not easily approached. . ^ An for Irono, when she felt that the Illustrious etraogor was unfeignedly at- 1 traoted by herself, she experienced some a womanly tumults of satisfaction. He, a it least, was sincere. This lover, at least, 3 was unaffected in his marked preference ( Dy any ia'ent relisli of a joke. J 1 ' Ho did not make me," alio very nat- i urally, and with some grateful sense of restored dignity, said The yonng nobleman, an unassuming ( f outh, seemed hardly to appreciate the < urore he had created. The rumor of j bis having been crossed in love was not e correct. Hia own temper had made the ( cross bv decidedly refusing a match pro- t posed for him upon worldly principles j alone. , Personally, Lord Lindehnrst was a { man who, without a title, would not have been popularly remarked. He was a traveled, but not a "society" man; ob- 1 servantly, not experimentally, edu- 1 oated; nor was he particularly intelleo- 1 i tual. Bat be possessed an agreeable presence, refined manners, an nmple for bnne, and an excellent heart. He bad a presentiment that he shonld find his wife in the new world, and his presentiment was fulfilled. He fell in love at first sight with Irene Wolf. The night of his arrival was the night af Ireuo's beauty. In whatever degree ihe faded from her perfect brilliancy ifter that, his kindled imagination suppliod the defect. He saw her first in the jpothcosis wrought in her by the one sruel moment of her life. He never Faltered in his faith in her bright supremacy from that time forth. For a fortnight he studied her unobserved and " afar off ; " then he asked to be presented, and from that time he Jevotod himself to her with increasing lovotion. At the close of the season their engagement was annonnoed. The refined prejudices of the young lor 1 wore not disturbed even by a prolonged visit in the Western home of Papa and Mamma Wolf. He found ihere what he esteemed most, the aris:ocracy of heart. It was a long wedding journey that [rcno took, and for manv months and jven yonrB she had no visible part in her Irst-loved Western life. But her image was idolized in that home. " My little jirl" whs the theme of inoessont delight; ind dearly -as her affection clung to ;hoso who had filled completely her ;hildish faith and trust, she never repented her choice. She loved hor husband as truly as he loved her. " I was made for him," she said, both Irst and last. Fortunes Lost aud Won. Virginia City, Nevada, has sixteen paro games, all situated in C street, at ;ho rear of the principal saloons. The proprietor of one of the most flourishng faro banks says that the expenses of mining the games, exclusive of license, root up at $27,400 a year. From the irst to the fifteenth of the month, the ime at which the miners are flush, most >f the games run three shifts of eight tours each, thus employing six dealers tnd throe case keepers. After tho midUe of the month tho business slackens, ind only ouo or two of the games runs nore than two shifts. Every bank pays i yearly lioenso of $1,000, making the so m for table total of $25,600. A popular delusion prevails that faro s conducted " on the square " in Virginia. The fact that the owners of the fames live, as a general thiug, in abont us handsome houses as can be seen in .he city, and th?>t thoy are themselves lehiud fast horses in C street, counts for lothing with the gambling Comstocker, cho invariably has liis " system" nearly >erfectod, and is sure to " bust the fame " before long. This ardently ouged for triumph is occasionally .clneved. Within the last six mouthsno ess than four games have been cleaned int. They were, however, comparativey poverty stricken concerns, having >nly $2,000 or $3,000 capital. Most of he banks now running have a backing >f from $50,000 to $100,000, and one ustitntion has $400,000 as a foundaion. The largest winning reported so far his year was made by a teamster, who jot away with over $5,000, and left he bank a wreck. On the 'other hand, he losses have been extremely heavy. )no well known gambler here, who ronld pass anywhere for the father of a >rosperous family, has lost $15,000 at aro within the last four months. Apro>os of this gentleman, I heard a good ittle story the other day. He and some ther professionals had been losing rightfully, and some desperate step was iccessary to raise the wind. A neat dot was hatched. Free drinks are a eature of every gambling room. A vaiter takes the orders from the play>rs and brings in the liquors and cigars >n a tray. The waiter of the game vhich this wrecked gambler and his lompanion had resolved to victimize was lenvily bribed to join the soheme. Drinks were called for, the dealer among .he rest asking for refreshment. The m tnaitov v*noi-n/1 41*a twtn *u Hivui ui niuici ^/cktoou kud iaaj w vuc lealer in snoh a manner as to oover the tarda, and the gambler deftly removed he box and substituted another with a told deok in it under oover of tho tray. Ln about ten minutes the oonspirators von $1,400, knowing what oards would tome up. After about two-thirds of the leok hud been dealt the dealer smiled ind said: " Well, boys, you may as well hand >ver my box; I seo you've got me this lime." There was neither anger nor hard vords. " Anything to beat tho game " s considered allowab'e, and the gamblers valk off with thoir spoils in peace. The profits of the faro banks are arge and certain* A seasoned gamester laid the other day that a game that he ind ono partner conduoted for eleven rears cleared in that time over $500,000. )ne of the two banks with which Gold mi is Dlossed clears regularly every uonth $5,000. A patty of meu gathered on the shore >f the river Lea, in England, to play ' oat," a game as to which the reporter n a London newspaper gives no deloription. A part of the fnn, however insisted in tying a rope aronnd a man, hrowiDg him into the water, and drawng him across the stream. The rope >roke, the man was drowned, aad the >ther players are under arrest It is estimated that there are about >00 American youths, aged from twelve o twenty years, who are engaged in the cmsinesa of " amateur journalism." GEN. CUSTEU'S LAST CHARGE. Lleal. I'arland'a Mtary of (he Hananlaary T Balllr with the Hloax. A letter dated " Mouth of the Little Horn," giving a new version of Custer's R fight with the Sioux, has been received E from Lieut. John Carland, of Company tc B, Sixth infantry, attached to Gen. Gib- fr bona' command. Lieut. Carland says : w At the mouth of the Rosebud, on the P twenty-second of June, we struck a la large Indian train leading up the Rose- in bud valley. Gen. Custer from there n? took command of the twelve companies hi of cavalry and pushed on after the in Sioux. He followed them to the foot of e? the mountains, and found by scouting pi in the valley that they were encamped fa on a branch of the Little Horn. This was on the night of the twenty-fourth, tv On the twenty-fifth he took five com- O panics and followed the stream down on t! one side, while Major Reno, with seven it companies, went down on the other, sc Major Reno was to attack the enemy in al the rear while Custer fought them in w front. This would have worked all right, bi as Reno had got in their rear, but Gen. at Ouster, marching down on the other b< side, Raw what he supposed was the hi front of the camp, and made a charge on is them, the rnrll'linll oiuinnr ma-o on/1 Inffinn o O ""J him right into the gap. The brave man Pi rode on with his three hundred men, er and would have killed the whole 2,000 in Sioux, I believe, if there had been no m enemy behind him; but instead of oharg- in ing the front, ho was right in the center pi of between three thousand and four m thousand Sioux. Those that were be- m hind him kept conoealed until he was dt right in their midst, and then, when it di was too late, he made a bold dash trying to cut through them, but the enemy fo were too many. He fell about the first sp ono, and the horses becoming unmanage- cl< able, the poor soldiers were cut down in th less time than it takes to tell it. ne The Sioux then turned with all their th fury upon Major Reno. He charged wc them with one oompany, and returned cu with ouly eleven men. He then rotreat- dr ed a short distance, placing his men on of a bluff. He kept them off until tho ne night of the twenty-seventh, his men going without water forty-eight hours. He th was relieved by Gens. Terry and Gib- a ] bons, who saw the smoke from where they th wore at the Little Horn, and thinking cl< it a signal of the Sioux, marched that bi way just in time to save the last handful m of the Seventh cavalry. m Out of tho whole regiment only 328 T1 men aro left, and forty of them are fo badly wounded. It makes one heartsick m to look over tho battle ground and see the poor fellows, some of them with their w< eutrails cut out, others with their eyes st< dug out and heart laid across their face, mi They even stopped to cut their pockets th to get their money and watches. The all most fearful sight was Oolonel Cooke, otl Ho was a splendid looking man, with er long, dark whiskers. They dug his th face all out so as to get his fine beard, it is supposed. Thoy did not disfigure Gen. co Custer in any way, but his brother, Tom gr I Custer, was opened and his heart taken Oi out. ga Gen. Ouster, Capt. Tom Custer, and th Boston Custer, brothers of the general, gi' First Lieutenant Calhoun, brother-in-law wn of the general, and A. H. Reed, the gen- on eral's nephew, fell within ten feet of each no I other. We estimate the loss t ? the enemy at five hundred, though it is hard to tell how many were killed, as they carried i most of them away. Gen. Terry and the ge remaiuing officers aro feeling very badly. I was standing by Gen. Caster when ^ Gen. Terry came ud. and as he looked down upon the noble general tears , ooursed down his face as he said : " The | flower of the army is gone at last."' Cos- mi ter was supposed to be the first one who 1 fell, but we found seventeen cartridge lo1 shells by his side, where he had kept ?1? them ofl until the last moment. < No blame can be attached to any one in for this fearful slaughter. If Ouster mi had had the whole regiment, it would < only have been worse, as the Sioux were f?< too many. pe There is one poor Crow Indian on the wc boat who has five shots through him, yet gD he is happy because he has nine scalps at his side. These Sioux were all from the same a ' agency, as we found camp equipments that had never been used, [also blankets At that were new and branded United States Indian department. dr Inauguration Day. When the day for the inauguration of ? the President of the United States was pr fixed upon the fourth of March, it was pr for the reason that the date occurred I pr seldom on Sunday. Bat twice daring oar history has the Inauguration day fallen on that day. The first was the Hp second inaugural of James Monroe, the ^ fifth President, March 4, 1821. Tl e second was when Zachary Taylor was jo made President, March 4, 1819. Being r;f Sunday, his inauguration did not take Elaoe until the next day. The third will , e the next inaugural, March 4, 1877. This will happen three times during 9P each century, or one year after every 1 seven leap years. Exoept when passing from one century to another there is a slight variation, as will be observed in tho following dateB of the past and "P future inaugurations of the first two ?n centuries of the republic : March 4, 1821; March 4, 1849; March 4. 1877; ?r March 4, 1917; March 4, 1945; March 4, Ut 1978. Cholera of an unusually virulent type fel killed half the residents of Golwood, ut India, within four days. The rest fled, dc but were refused admission to other vll- an lAges, and had to return to the infeeted fa | pla:e, most of them to die. in A llUXKAKD LOVE FEIST. wenty-flve Qaadred PmpIp Ratine 8*?P oat of Bight Hundred Bowls. At the Dunkard's "love feast" at ehrerflburg, says the Reading (Pa.) 'agle, the large concourse proceeded ? the Swatara creek, about a mile om the church, where seven persons ere ready to bo baptized. The Rev. ioutz prepared the whole party on the nd, then proceeded with each one ito the water very near up to their jcks, the water being about four and a ilf feet deep at that plaoe. Then, after voking a blessing from above, he gave ich of them three dips into the water, it ting the whole person under the surce. The party consisted of five men and 70 women, all married but one man. ver 1,500 persons were present when te baptizing was done. In the evening was ostimated that at least 2,500 perms were present. A feast was given to 1 who desired to partake. Meat soup as the principal dish served. The others and sisters were seated three id three together, eating out of one >wl, each having a shining spoon. No lcksters were allowed on the pre rues." Ministers from Ohio, Maryland and eunsylvania were present. As a genal thing the Dunkards are all well off worldly goods, and generally interarry with each other, and the donomstion is very strong. Each brother is lvuegea to get up ana maKe some reark. They all talk Pennsylvania Geran plain, but very slow. At least a >zen brothers addressed the large auenco in one forenoon. Each one asked a blessing upon the rmer brother's address before he >oko. They wear the plainest kind of atliing. Many young ladies, still in eir toens, were notieed wearing the sat but plain white mull cap, covering e whole head, oven the ears. The jmen, young and old, dress alike?no xl or fancy headdress to be seen. The esses of the women are made mostly calico, in the plainest possible manx. They generally wear a small cape of e material the dress is made of, with pure white handkerchief tied aronnd e neck. The men wear homespun nthiug of the plainest goods, with no xttons?they use hooks and eyes. The en all wear long hair, parted in the iddle and combed back of the oars, tio basement of the ohurch is fitted up r the congregation to take their eats in. Throe large tables, ninety feet long, iro filled again and again. The second orj is fitted up as a sleeping aportsnt, where a great many slept during o night. After the servioes were over the brothers and sisters bade each her an afieotionate farewell, the broths loving and kissing each other and 3 sisters doing likewise. ! A meeting of the same denomination mmeuceu n?ur x>uruvuie, wuoro u , eat many of the same participated, ie of the ministers warned the oongretion earnestly, hoping that none of : a members would visit the Centennial, ring as his reason that the Centennial 1 is nothing but worldly, and their duty 1 earth was to prepare for spiritual and t for worldly things. Thoughts for Saturday Mght. Crabbed age and youth cannot live father. Timo's chariot wheels make their road the fairest face. We see time's furrows on another's ow; how few, themselves in that just irror, see I Childhood itself is scarcely more rely than a oheerful, kindly, sunshiny . 1 age.Old age was naturally more honored ! times when people could not know acli more than what they had seen. To guard the mind against the tempdon of thinking there are no good ople, say to them: "Be such as you mid like to see others, and you will id those who resemble you." Testimony is like an arrow shot from ong bow?the force of it depends on e strength of the hand that drawe it. i gument is like an arrow from a cross w, which has equal foroe though awn by a child. Spero Speroni explains admirably how uuthor who writes very clearly for mself is often obsonre to his readers. It is/' he says, " because the author oceeda from the thought to the exession, and the reader from the exession to the thought. Objects close to the eye shut out much rger objects on the horizon, and lendors born only of the earth eclipse e stars. So a man sometimes covers > tbe entire disk of eternity with a >llar, and quonches transoondent glow with a little shining dust. Men fear death as ohildren fear the rk; as that natural fear is increased in < ildren by frightful tales so is the other. : roaun, convulsions, weeping friends d the like show death is terrible; yet ere is no passion so weak but conquers e jear 01 it, ana tuereiore death is not h a terrible enemy. Revenue nmphs over death, love sighs at it, >nor aspires to it, dread of shame efers it, grief flies to it and fear anjipates it. * Joe," said Tom, * I heard a certain How say to his girl, 4 Shall I have your ensins engroved on that ring f' What > yon think of that I" 441 think," iswered Joe, 44 he mnst be the same llow who asked his girl to let him ride her phantom." Items of Interest. The present number of ohurohee in London is 802, an increase of sixteen the past year. The clergy have increased from 1,875 to 1,445. Several Baltimore physicians say that many diseases are caused by soap, the grease for whioh is obtained from unhealthy animals. To feed sparingly and irregularly is to lose all you give to fowls ; bnt to study into their wants and anticipate them is to render them very profitable. "Marie! what's that strange noise at the front gate t " "Oats, air.* "Oats I Well, when I was young oats didn't wear stovepipe hats and smoke cigars." " Times are changed, sir." Customer?" How much for the lilies . of the valley f " Florist?" Five shillings a bunch." Customer?"Too much." Florist (blandly) ? " Well, madam, if you will have the lilies of the valley, you must pay the vally of the lilies." The census for 1875 shews that Boston has 841,919 inhabitants, of whom 179,675 are women, 162,268 men, while the foreign born are in excess of the natives 2,841. There are 4,969 colored persons, 45 Ohinese, 5 Japanese and 57 Indians. * A man with a fall set of burglar's tools was found in Independence Hall, trying to pry opeh the sue in which the Declaration of Independence is kept. The magistrate before whom he was brought allowed him to be discharged on a plea of insanity. A young man of Wayne county, Iowa, who had been deaf anddnmb for twenty tears, while driving leisurely one day itely was suddenly thrown from a wagon to the ground, striking his head, and on arising found that he had recovered his speech and hearing. A Ohioagoan has obtained a verdict against a railroad oompany whose baggageman smashed his trunk. He proved that the trunk was not only dropped from the wagon to the ground, but that the baggageman lifted it as high as he could, so that it would fall heavier. A lunatic was found dead in an English asylum with his ribs crushed into his lungs. A ooroner's jury did not believe the explanation given by the keopers, which was that he had inflicted the injury by throwing himself against a wall, and a rigid investigation is in progress. An ingenious, if not learned, philologist has been studying up the origin of "cobos," the word used by farmers in calling their cattle. He says that the Greek' word bosoo, meaning '' to drive to pasture, repeated rapidly Deoome* "Xo bos," whence " oobos." There's nothing like learning. Not long ago a paragraph from Paris told of a man whose nose had begnn to grow alarmingly. We now find, in a French mediod journal, an aooount of an operation performed upon that nose. The exoresenoe, weighing 280 grammes, was cut off, leaving a badly scarred but more symmetrical organ. South California has three temperance colonies. Two of them are in Ijos Angeles county, and the third in Santa Barbara county. The colonists are thrifty, quiet and enterprising, and the oolonies themselves are in a most flourishing condition, the absenoe of intoxicating liqnor attracting a moral and intelligent class of people. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Failure* la the United State* Imr the First Six Mentha *f 18TS. The failures in the United States for the first six months of 1876, as reported by the mercantile agency of B. Q. Dun A Co., are as follows, the number of failures and the amount of liabilities being given by States: S'ofM and TtrrUorl?. Ammmtqf * Alabama 88 8M0,M8 Arkanaaa 88 UMS California W 1,178,109 Colorado 81 800,841 Connecticut OS 8,373,004 Dakota 8 07,000 Delaware 8 188,008 District of Colombia 13 04,777 Florida 11 88,000 Georgia lit 3,747,001 Idaho 1 M00 illlnol 800 8,S0M00> City of Chicago 88 0,970,800/ Indiana ISO 8,181,481 Iowa 148 1,074,480 Kanaaa 80 878,000 Kentucky 1ST 4,838,700 Lontaiana 88 1,184,788 M.