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Special Reauests. 1. la writing to this offioe on ■Iwnyn gif* your nun* mid Poatofloa addreaa. 1 Business letters and communica tions to be published should be written on separata sheets, and the object of each elf srly indicatedby required. necessary note when N S. Articles for publication should be written in a clear, legible hand, and on only one side of the page. 4, All changes in adfertisements must cachu* on Friady. DR. J. H. I. MILHOUS, DENTAL BURGEON, BLACKVILLE, 8. O., Office aear his residence on RTS. Avenue. Patients will find it more comfortable to have their work done at the office, as he has a good Dental Chair, good iieht and the moat improved appliances. He should be informed several .dA7B previous to their com ing to prevsnt any disappointment—though will generally be found at his offioe on Sat urdays. He will still continue to attend calls throughout Barnwell and adjoining coun ties- ' -* [auglfi ly DR. B. J. QOATTIEIMM, SURGEON DENTIST, wiLLisroN, a c. VOL VI. NO. 47. BARNWELL, C. H., 8. 0.. THURSDAY. JULY 2G, 1883. $2 a Year. THE DA Y OF REST. OAcfi over Capt. W. H. Kennedy’s store Calls attended throughout Barnwell and adjacent counties. Patients will find it to their advantage (oba\ework done at his offic*. set 1' DK. J. RYERSON SMITH, Opfrative and Ncrhanical Dfntift, 5 . YVILI 1ST ON, S. C. Will attend culls throughout this and ad jacent counties. OperatioDR can he more rati,factorily per formed at hix PHrlore, which are supplied with all the latest approved appliances, than al the residence* of patients. To prevent 'disappointment*, patients in*- tending to visit him st Williston are re quested to correspond by mail before leav ing home. Faepltf TiME'Htmiir |238 King Street, Opposite Academy of Music, CHARLESTON, S. C. Rooms to let st ."0 rents a night. Meals all honrr—Ovrters in every stvle. Ales, Wines, Liquors, Secai-s, Ac.tmsr.tOly Roly and beantiful! The very bird That pours his wealth of music on the ear Seems, to our chastened hearts, by worship stirred. To pay his tribute to the season dear. The breezes pass us by with loitering wing And less distinct the insects' joyful hum; Faihter the voices of the gurgling spring, And all proclaims the welcome rest hath come. The flowers hang droopingly on pliant stem, The pale, thin cloud, float down the a*nr. sea • '' With gentlest motion; and the heart, likt them. Fain would go forth, sinless, and calm, and free 1 All things without do utter “ holy time," And all within the soul gives answering cheer; The burden of all grief, and care, and crime Is vailed from sight, it casts no shadow here. Into the deep recesses of the miad, • - 0 holy peace, descend and long abide ! Till a perpetual Sabbath there enshrined • Sheds guiding rays across life’s ebbing tide ! —Boston Transcript. CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesnle and Retail Dealer in Fish. Gamf. Lototm, Turtle*, Terrapin*, Oysters. Etc, Ktc. 8taUs, Nos. 18 and 20 Fish Market v CHARLESTON, S. C. All orders promptly attended to. Terms Cash or City Acceptance. 'Rsoiyl . A, PATTERSON, Surgeon IDentist, Office at the Barnwell Court Houae, 1’atients waited on at residence if de sired. Will attend calls in any portion of Barnwell and Hampton counties. Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms casb. angSllyJ ROBT. D. WHITE MA.RBT.E —AND— GRANITE WORKS MEETING STREEr, | Jp (Corner Horlbeck’s Alley,) CHARLE810N, , : . 8. C juneOly] ' OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, —WHOLESALE— Grocers and Provision Dealers 102 and 104 East Bay Street, augSliy C H A RL E8TO N» JL CL A MORE EXCELLENT WAY. Here you young raacal! drop thal this minute 1” . . . The tone was stern enough to enforce ol*edieuce of itself, blit the speaker added i-inphasie by sciaing the miscreant by the collar and giving him a thorough shaking. It was a small boy, thin and -vtarVcd-looking, With many patches on lus poor clothing and not a few rags that fluttered as he swung in the grasp of the strong, well-dressed youth who held him. But his grimy fingers never msed their hold of 0 the disputed object, and his only care seemed to bo to keep it from injury. His eyes blazed with passion as he screamed: “Let go of me, Rick Markham. It’s no business of yours, and if yon make me break it I’ll kill you for it some time see if I don’t. Let go, I say." It was an odd contest, and the boys gathered, round, full of interest, to see what Would happen, though, of course, they knew that the little fellow could jot- hold out long. “Give it to him, Rick !” shouted out ■sorne, “shok* the dirty little beggar out of his boots.”— “Stick to it, Toby,” cried others, to keep up “the fun;” “findin’s is bavin’s, if you can only keep ’em. ” ‘ ‘Boys 1 Boys ! What is all this dis- turliance ?” inquired Miss Lawrence, the teacher, hurrying to the scene. “Haven’t I forbidden fighting times enough.” “Yes, ma’am,” answered Markham, “but this isn’t a real fight. Toby Dxigg* stole Ray Burgess’s toy balloon, and I was trying to make hinugivo it up, but no won’t, and so you see I cannot take it iway without breaking it.” “Careful, careful,” said the teacher, gently; "stoic is an ugly word. Do not say it unless you arc Mire Devereux & Co., 1 dKllxrs 15...... Lilt, Co ■tit, Lath*, Platter, Hair, Slate* awl Marble laities. Depot of Building Materials No. 90 East Bay Sash, Blihds, Doom, Glass, Etc. sep71yl CHARLESTON, 8. C. — TH0S. HcG. CARR, FASHION AKLK Skaviag aid lair Ireuiig Saloei, 114 Market Street, (One Door East of King Street,) . marSOly] CHARLESTON, S’ C. 1— a^*TRY'‘ a M* 1 J CAROUNA mil TONIC! THE GREAT REMEDY FOR ’ — A" ‘ ■ PULMONARY DISEASES, COUGHS, COLDS, / BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY. SURE CURE FOR and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. Hi-Eor Sale by DRUGGISTS. all GROCERS and H. BISOHOF* « GO., GhAEleetoB, S* O. Sole Maaafaoturera and Proprietors *1 6b N V> i “Well, I am sure, Mias Lawrence, for I saw him myself. He watched where Ray laid it when some of the boys called him to play tag, and went and got it and was making off as iast as ever he-eouid when I caught him.” “Charles,” said Miss Liwronoe, grave ly—she never called him - by that hate ful nickname^ Toby—“I thought you were growing to be one of my beat boys, Htuj now you pay me in this way for trust lug you. You cannot be my friend if you do such things. Now moke it as near right as yon can. Goand give Ray ius balloon at onoe.” The child’s eyes had been fixed upon lierp as. though be dreaded each word as it fell, while his face grew .whiter ami more set, As she cessed a stony defi ance settled over it. He moved not ope step. “Charles.” she said, after along pause Of wonder at the stubbornness of this boy, who had lately obeyed her every word, and perplexity as to the best course ih case be continued obstinate, “are you not going to obey me ~ “No ma’am,” replied the boy, Rlowh “I didn’t steal it, and I won’t give it up to him—not if yon kill me.” Miss Lawrence was astounded, though no sign of the fact appeared. “Very well,” she remarked, quietly, looking at her watch, “we have no more time to spend with this affair now. Go into the school-room, all of you, and take your seats. I will attend to it after the session. Charles need have no rec itations. He can take his time to think.” * * * e s • • The sunbeams stole in through the school-room window, marking, a* they moved from desk to desk, the passage of the boon. Pleasant summer hours they were. Bees hummed through them, . birds sang, and sleepy windlets swung in leafy branches, but two hearts in that room were too heavy to.heed. Charles Driggs sat stolid and deter mined, watching the door furtively, and calculating his chances of escape, for to thm p»»" his “thinking” had evidently brought him. But too many eyes were upon him, and, ssite^Jhe-tsaeher’a efforts to prevent, many fingers were pointed at him and many cruel little tongues whispered “Thief I” Ah I what a wild beast instinct it is— that so common one, to hunt the ins pected or unfortunate, either of human or dumb creatures, fli* eery ones that should rouse the Christ-like yearning to shelter them. Miss Lawrence watched anxiously. She felt that there was something unac countable in the boy’s sudden stubborn ness and in the value he seemed to m-t upon a simple toy. She had found him. at her entrance into the school, idle, willful^ and disorderly, as neglected children so often are, but be had been easily won and had fried earnestly and constantly to improve. This out break was pnzaling, discouraging, liki so many of the cases teachers have 1. deal with. Sometimes they find tin key to the mystery; oftencr it is entin h out of their reach, and they have t< blunder along blindly, doing wind cir cumstances compel, feeling that, after all, it is not the right way, though tin only ore possible to them. What a weary afternoon; would it never end ? At last the sunlight slipix-d off the threshold. The pupils soon fol lowed it. For a moment she slackened h« 1 watch, while the larger ones, being in spelling-class with their backs to tin door, could not see. In that moment Charles slid round. He was almost gom —not quite, though. Miss Lawrence turned just in time ti seize him and thipw him, kicking and struggling, into the nearest seat. She was thoroughly -angry at his persistent wickedness, and flung the boy down with the feeling that he was entitled to no further consideration from her. “Sit there !” she exclaimed, "and we will have you fastened like any other thief.” Cruel words they,were—regretted as soon as spoken—but the boy did not seem to hear them. His eyes were fixed with a glare of terror upon the balloon; which was slowly shrinking away, -pierced by some pin-point. As it shriv clod up into an unsightly rag he flung himself, with a despairing scream, upon the floor beside it, and lay there moan ing and grieving like a dog beside some article once worn by its deed master. * As for Miss Lawrence, she w^s rathci glad of this uulooked for escape from her difficulty. , “Ray,” she said, “I will get you a new balloon, since this one was destroyed partly through my fault The school is dismissed. Charles will remain.” The boy sat quiet, unheeding the jeer* or the contemptuous glances of the others as thgj passed out, and staring blankly straight ahead of him, like one who had just seen a last hope go out. The teacher watched his face, so stony, so uuchildlike, long after the last young footstep had pattered out of hearing. At last she said.^ “ Charles, I did not suppose yon cared. so much for playthings that you would take those which did not belong to you.’ “ I don’t,” answered the boy, dogged- ly. “ Why don’t yo let mo go now ? There aint nothin’ to stay for. You’ve smashed it, and that’s the very worst thing ye could do to me.” “ You may go presently; bnt why do you speak so to me ? I did not keep you here for a punishment. You forget that I have the toy to pay for, unless yon can help me.” — ' “ Well, I can’t then,” Tie rejoined, desperately. “ 1 haven’t got a penny in the world. If I had had or could a get it, ’cause she hadn't a bit of money, and then ho didn’t say-another word, but iust turned his poor head over on the pillow, when he tlionglit nobody was lookin', and cried all to himself. "I’ve been tryin’ ever since to get somethin’ to do, so I could buy him one, out nobody would give me any work. He was so bad this moniiu’, mother -aid she was. afraid ho wouldn’t last but a day or two. He’s out of his miud a good deal, and then he talks mostly about the pretty red moon, and says he is going to climb tip into the sky and get it. I thought maybe he’d die easier to have it, and when I saw Ray Burgees with oho in his hand I made Up mv (mind to get it if I oonld. It wasn’t real, downright straliny for me totakeit from him; really it Whsn’t, Miss LrW' renoe, Only just taking a little of what bolougs to us—for father spends ’most 2Very cent he corns at Mr. Burgess’s drink shop, though mother has begged Mr. Burgess on her knees not to sell to him. We’d be comfortable and decent as anybody if wfl could only have fath- r’s wages; but they all go to help buikl Mr. Burgess's grand house,’ and put fine '•lollies on his wife and buy nice tilings or his children, when our poor Lcn •an,’t have one little plaything, and he dying of slow starvation. That’s what .other says it is.” And the boy broke down with a sob at thought of ilia pet brother’s wrongs Miss Lawrence bad not the heart to ■ rgne with him. She was ]H>or herself, ut no misery like this had ever crossci , i t path. “You may go, now, Charles, she rid; “but let the balloou rest for to ight, and don’t giye up; your brother nay not be so ill as you think." He departed, a little’comforted. The teacher went straight to the one iy-shopof the village and purchased its 1st remaining toy balloon. Then iw sign, “Theodore Gray, M.D.,” carcely noticed before, arrested her nt- • Titiori, and soon she was on her way to liu house of want, accompanied by i oiing pbysieian yHTo was not too well stablished gud successful,to attend the -nor. — Len lay on his lied of suffering jflkrawn face so white that he Ireaiy dead, and one felt almost ed ffi^ee the blue eyes.unclose, diaries sat gazing at him in despair. A fruitless fight against want and mis- ry showed everywhere. While the Doctor examined his pa tent, Miss Lawrence sought the heart- iroken mother. “ We have come to help you, if you rill let us,” she said, simply. So the two—poor themselves—set to .ork to relieve those so much poorer 1 ud more unhappy. Little Leu’s sunken eyes brightened d sight of the red balloon, and after a upper of warm broth he fell asleep rith his hand on the string and the right globe nestled against his won •hcek. No; be did not die. Richard Markham heard the story text day and wont to see him. To his redit be it said, he was not ashamed to like Charlie by the hand, and say: ^ ‘ ‘Forgive me, lad. I WAfl more to blame lion you. I ought to have found out all ilxiiit it before trying to make a public A BRAVE ACT. (INK MAN AUT* WHII.K OTI1ERM CWIjTT MYUPATIII/.K. Haw a Knaaorav liars* wa» HtspreS aa4 a I .Mile (ilrl’a I.lfe HaveS. A FATHER’S WANDERINGS. MTOKY OF A WAN WHO AFI’KABH AF- TKR AN AltMKNt’E OF 1WKNTY- F1VK YKAItM. No commouieatioa will be pubhabid uakss accompanied by the bum aed id* dram of the writer, *ot necessarily lor publication, bat al a guaranty of good faith. Addrem, THE PEOPLE, Barnwell 0. H.. 8, C.‘ —*-V earned one do you think I’d a touched his old balloon!” • “ But why should you, any waj ?” urged Miss Lawrence. “ It wasn’t any- diing you needed.” “Wasn’t it ?” he cried, furiously. “ I never needed anything so much in all my life, and if tin-re’s another to lx- prigged in this town to-night I’m the fel low that docs it, and you may help your- setf.” “ Why Charles 1” exclaimed *Uic as tonished lady ; “are you crazy? Whut is the matter? Tell me all about it,” she added, coaxingly, almost terrified by the strange conduct of the boy. “♦What’s the use ?” he muttered, with a sullen, suspicious glance, “You couldn’t help, and if you could, you wouldn’t. Nobody cares for poor folks like us. What if we do get sick and die ? It’s no matter. And as for feelin’s, who ever thought of our havin’ any ? Feelin’s is for folks that dress in silks and satins off o’ the money they cheat us out of.” “Charles,” observed Miss Lawrence, gently, “I am sure I don’t know what makes you Ulk so strangely, but I am very sorry for you, and if you will tell me what all this means I will help yon, if lean. Isn’t that fair?” “Yes, ma’am,” replied the boy, slowly, after a long, wistful gaze into the trou bled and gentle eyes of the teacher; “I’ll tell ye, though there’s nothin’ you can trample ol you, when I had never mown jpfl to do anything like that x-fore.” “ I don’t blame you,” replica! the other. /’ It was the first time, and it shall lie the last But, of course, there are jilenty who won’t believe me.” For a while all Richard’s spending money went to the Driggs family. Others too, in time joined to help them, so that, though always poor and struggling—as how could they bn otherwise ?—they dh' hot again reach such a depth of want The father did not reform, for the dram ,hop still stood open and his earnings iropped mostly into its till But work .vas furnished his family—so they man aged to live. Miss Lawrence has never cessed to practice the “ more excellent way," and many Hi'S Call down blessings upon h«-r. She does not teaqh the village school now, but a lady sometimes stands *t a window over the new sign—now no longer new—who IoqJw much like her. I think you will find, too, that the Doctor is soon to take a student who signs himself Charles Driggs.—A rf/iw’i Magazine. The Candui Paradr.—Speaking of r i lie fireworks at the opening of the East River Bridge, a war veti-ran said: “Dur ing the spring of ’65 candle rations were issued to the army of the Potomac. The men hod no use for .them, and they ac cumulated. One night a single com- [From the New York Tim**.] While the Boulevard from Macomb’s )am bridge road to the Pork was crowded with all kinds of pleasufB equipages, recently, great excitement was produced in the vicinity of One Hundred and Fortieth street by a frantic cry of “Clear the track 1 A runaway 1 )rive on the side-walks 1” A man in a light road wagon was driving his horse ;oward the Park on a run and screaming -this warning to the drivers in the street, Behind him, in the middle of the broad thoroughfare, a powerful ronn horse was dashing madly down the street, drawing a top buggy, which swayed from side to side, while a little girl of 13 years dung desperately to the lines, with white face and streaming hair. Everybody gave the runaway vehicle a wide berth. Men in light wagons whipped their horses fran- qpon the sidewalk, coachmen drove their carriages, hurriedly to the side of the road, ladies and gentlemen on horseback galloped wildly to the fences, and although sympathetic women in tlteir "cftiTiages screamed and men turned pale, no one made the sliglitess effort to assist the child, who without looking to the right pr left, was scream ing: “Oh, won’t somebody save me! Oh, somebody stop him ! What shall I do ! Oli, what shall I do!” A quiet looking man- in a clerical fnxik coat, who was meditatively driving • a large “ buckskin” horse liefore alight road wagon toward the city, hoard the warning cry of the man who was trying to clear the road, and looked around just as the roan horse, on a frantic run, was passing One Hundred and Thirty-math street, and all the vehicles were crowd ing to the left-hand side of the road. The quiet man, without a moment's hesitation, put his horse, which was a last one, to his sliced, and drove swiftly l-cside the runaway steed. Don’t lie afraid 1" he called coplly to the child, who clung to the lines like a little heroine. “Now, do just as I tell you ! Hang on to the lines, and pull most on the left, and when I tell yon to jump, do it. Will you mind what 1 ay-2," , K "Yes,” answered the little girl; “but save me, oh, save me, if you can !” The quiet man gave the buckskin horse a cut with his whip, and the ani mal broke into a gallop and brought the atiof hiu»aster> wagon even with the runaway horse’s head. Then the man piiokly wound his lines about bis right hand and with the loft seized the runa way horse’s bridle. The frantic beast plunged and jerked bis head away, al most dragging the man from his scat, and dashed on, the man losing his hat and whip. But he at once drove along side the horse’s head again, and again seized the bridle, which was again torn away from him. He drove up again and made a third attempt, and met a like failure. “Don’t give up,” he called out to the child, who was losing courage and crying; * ‘just hang on to the lines. ” Then, in very vigorous language, he exhorted some of the horsemen whom they were flying past to come to his assistance, bnt not oho responded. The two animals, in this time had run down to One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, and between One Hundred and Twenty-fifth and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth streets Hes « heap of stones, mortar, and bricks, where a building is in process of con stmction, and toward this jagged pih the quiet man, who was still driving and encouraging the girl, saw that the runa way horse was headed, and knew that he must make a final effort to stop the animal at onpe. He drove up lieside the he ul of the beast again, seized the bridle, dropped his lines, and, calling to his own horse to stop, he sprang to the ground, dragging the runaway horse’s head with him, and after a sharp strug gle brought,the brute to a standstill and took the child, who was almost fainting from the buggy. The little girl said that her father who had been driving with her, hat Ix-cn rnn over at One Hundred anil Thirty-sixth street, and that the hpns liad run from there, a distance of morr than a mile. The quiet man drove back .to look for the father, and met him driv ing down in a grocery wagon to look foi his child, whom he expected to fimt dead or dying in the road. He was not badly hurt. He said that he stopped in the road to check up his horse and gave his little girl the reins. Some other horses came up behind and startled the A Mtarv that WaaM be WerWrA aft lata Twa Valaai* Nevel—Aftrr.TwTBly- Sve Year*. The story of John Heim to, who tamed up in Reading, Pa., a few days ago aftei absence of twenty-five years, is in many r«q>ectH remarkable. When he disappeared Hennse had a wife and sever al children, the youngest of whom, Mary, then three months of age, is now married. Mrs. Hennse heard nothing of her husband until wjjjji after the late a ix)ut the war begun, when she received a letter announcing that he had Ix'en conscripted into the rebel army. Nothing more was heard from him and he was mourned as dead. On Tuesday a bronzed and weather Ix-aten man of sixty-five years registered at the Berks County House., Ho wore long hair that fell upon his shoulders In curls and his ears were adorned with I gold rings. It was the same John who had disappeared a quarter of a century ago, seized with a loncing to o ioe more see his wife and children. Ho learned t at they were still living. The moot ing between the long-Oeponded couple was not a gushing one. There were no tears of joy am) no clinging in fond em brace, but nevertheless the prodigal husband was cordially greeted when ho had established his identity. Then he visited his youngest daugh ter, Mra. Rolland. That lady was en gaged at her household duties when she was suddenly confronted by a strange man. “Your name is Mary,” said he break ing a short silence and advancing a step or Iwo. “Yes, that is my name,” answered Mrs. Rolland, eying her strange visitor suspiciously. “What can I do for you ?” “I am your father, Mary, who left you when you were a babe three moutlis old. Am I quite forgotten ?” And tears came to the old man’s eyes he leaned against the counter and as gazed at his daughter. Mrs. Holland's first impulse was to summon assintance, for she feared the man was demented, but he stopped her and soon convinoixl her that his sfbry was true, and then re lated to her his past life. To a correspondent of the Times Hen- use told his story. He said when he eft Reading he went to Virginia. Here, ij'hen the war broke out, he was forced into the reliel army, and when on the march to Gettysburg he escaped, but was recaptured and placed on lioord a war *»ossel. He again escaped, and then made his way westward, only to be cap tured by hostile Indians. For a time he was kept s close prisoner, but eventually le adopted their habits and mode of life, and was looked upon as a member of the tribe. He Hved with his red brethren fifteen years, and during that time learned several dialects.'- Then came a yearning for the home of his youth. He liade his savage friends farewell, went to France, and after a brief sojourn there returned to America by way of Cul». Then I came to Reading,” sorrowfully concluded the aged adventurer, “ and I will leave again as quietly as I came, the city is strange to me, the people are all strange, and even my own family do not seem to recognize me. I will leave for the South; I have friends there.” And he kept his word, for he left as sud denly as he came, not even bidding his wife and children farewell. ^ Gambling in the Army. Flagrnnt Outrage* on a Cl tinea. 'The Providence, R. L, Journal given a detailed account of malicious persecu tions to which Mr, William A. Weeden, a fanner of Cumberland, has been sub jected of late years. Twelve years ago his two large Imrns were burned, with cattle junl horses. In 1882 his barn and other outbuildings were again burned, ' involving a loss of 92,400, on which there was only $600 insurance. In clear ing away for the new bom which is now being erected there was found among the debris, in the centre of the cellar, a bot tle containing dynamite. Soon after the barn was burned several of the fence* land were torn down and thrown into the road, and like disgrace ful actions are kept up until this day. Recently outrageous actions have been Committed at the family lomb on his farm. The door has Ix'en taken from its hinges and thrown into the middle • the road, and the gate lias been torn off and placed by the roadside. On the . slabs arc caricatures of disgraceful ob jects, and many lines of vulgarity writ ten with red lead. In the tombs are the IkxHos of Mr. Weoden’s father-in-law. sistcr-in-law and his two ohihlren. At the commencement of the season he found in his lots which he intended to mow first, that in several places were large pieces of iron, umbrella wire*, large stones and other missile* stuck into the ground, so that the knife of the mowing machine would edmo in contact with them. He discovered this by one of his hired men going through the field. Not long ago he was plowing, and at night left his plow in,the field. Upon returning the next morning the plow was nowhere to be found. Finally it was discovered in a swamp near the field, with both handles and the shore broken, - which made it unfit for use. About the first of last month Mr. Weeden went to his well on the night before which the deed was done, and found the bucket as usual, all right. The next mining the work girl went to the well, which hoe two buckets; and on letting one down for the other to come up noticed a change in the color of the water. She brought it up, and upon making an examination found the bucket to be filled with fresh cow manure. The water has been unfit to drink or to use since this was dime, although it has been cleaned out. Fre quently in the morning he has found the front of his house Wlaulied with filth and the fences around the house torn down and mutilated. Only last Sunday evening the bars at one place on his farm were taken out and thrown Into the road. Mr. Weeden says he knows of no reason for thus ill-treating him, racpptrrerlwpfi, political animosity or personal grievance, of which he is nna- aware. It would seem that the State ought to take some means to protect a citizen in his rights, if the town is on*" * ble to do so. F A Roman Pageant. The Washington Jtepublican says:— Said an old army correspondent re garding the revelations of gambling among army officers at Washington: “ It is not to be wondered at that idle army officers should gamble when it is a fact that the vice was a common one during the most active campaigns of the late war. I have seen men spend the even ing between two days of a battle in playing cards for stakes. It wasn’t ex actly gambling under fire, but it was the next thing to it There was hardly an officer’s mess, regimental or staff, «hat do, a* I know on. You see, my little pany, each man carrying a lighted candle it He olang to its brother Len has been sick a long time md gettin’ thinner and thinner, till he’s iest as poor and pale as a ghost. It’s mostly the poor food he ha* and the hard times, the Doctor said, and he finally told mother there wasn’t no use of his cornin’ any longer; so he don’t, and poor little Le& fcift got so weak he can’t ait started in procession through the comp. Regiments, battalions, and . brigades caught the infection, and 50,000 candles glimmered and danced in every direc tion, winding like a fiery serpent over the hillocks, and stretching out in a sea of flaming dots as far as the eye could reach. The bridge illumination was up any more, but just has to lie still all I very fine for its kind, but for beauty and day long, with nothin’ to pass the time novel effect I think the candle procession or make the time any qaaier* haiutteAhUsmifftif home ofus hdlooim up to the | ana of the Army of the Potomac will re- | when i window a few minutes at a time. He can’t bear it long, but it seems to please him. Well, the other day, as I was loin’ so, a boy came along with one of ihem things, an’ it took the poor k little fellow’s eye, so it seemed he must have one. But mother told him she couldn’t member the candle parade.’ Ah old lady in Kalamazoo, Mich., ob jected to the setting of a telegraph pole si her premises, saying she wasn’t going to have that thing there to telegraph she said all over town. Lead ami was dragged a block, when the beast got away and the wheel of the buggy went over his leg. The quiet man drove them both home, but declined absolutely to say who he woo. Th* dirtiest man that yon will en counter is the one that leave* a box of soap at your House for a few days. “Is it real good?" naked a lady of oneo venders; and then, looking at him, she added, reflectively, "Bnt, ol oou-so, yon wouldn’t know anything about it. ’’ Is thxm in this country any law against marrying a deceased wife’s sis- Stranger. The tournament in the Villa Borghese at Rome in honor of the marriage of the Duke of Genoa was an interesting spec tacle. It will be remembered that the Piazza di Soena, which was planned far pngrants of this kind, and where many have been given since the days of Pope Paul V., has exactly the outline of an aucieut Roman circus. The seats which had been erected along the side* and semi-circular ends were filled with about thirteen thousand spectators. In the royal pavilion, on the middle of one side, hung with crimson velvet and decorated with flowers, were the King and Queen, the bride and bridegroom, the Duke of Aosta and Prince Arnulph of Bavaria, with their respective suites. On their right was a pavilion for the foreign am bassadors and envoys, and on their left others for their families and far the Cabinet Ministera. The mnphere, all young Italian nobles and cavalry officers, divided into four squadrons of thirty- four riders each, two representing Bava rians and two Italians, woe mounted on richly caparisoned thoroughbred horse* and wore handsome sixteenth century costumes of gay colors, with plumed hats. They rode into the lists preceded bjwthe woe not a poker club, and thousands of I herald, Prince Odesoalchi, trumpeters lollars changed hands after each visit of | and standard bearers, and were led by the paymaster. Freeze-out poker, the winner to maintain the mesa until the next pay-day, wia a common form of gambling among the officers. Many of the private soldiers were lively gamblers, and hardly a company was without its ‘poker sharp’—usually a cool, quiet, goody-goody’ sort of chap from some country district Early in the war pro fessional gamblers haunted every depot of supplies and pressed upon commis sioners, quartermasters, and paymasters. One or two paymasters lost fabulous nuns to these sharks; then defaulted, were sent to prison, and the gamblers tied to Canada until the storm was over. The vioe is as common and as fashionable io the army among officers and privates as it ever was—the only difference is that Ihe army is not qaite as large as it the young Prince of Naples, who ac quitted himself gallantly. The sports were of the various kinds practiced at such pageants—since tilting went out with the use of armor—theTurk’s head the hunt of the rose, and the like. TU. men rode well, and the evolutions, es pecially those at a hand gallop and over hurdles, were admirably executed, and elicited loud bursts of applause. So pq a spectacle has not been witnessed b Rome for many years. Denounces Liquor-Sellers. This if m tun • of year at which the luxurious young man takes his girl out in a village cart in the country, and as he points with the whip at an orchard full of blossoming trees, and they are both looking at it with their hearts full of poetry, th* hone flies screes abridge, and the cart suddenly jumps ter ?—Stranger. No; none is needed. When the average m«n marries a second fnll of water, bounces about t^fggW j time he usually prefers to change his | the air, and fills their eye* aaM^|Pth juotber-in-law.—J’hUadclpkia N*ws. mqd.—Fuek. The Milwaukee The Rev. Father John’s Cathedral, once sermon to a -people, in which the action of against the si the men who themselves s could not ■aeramente refused to church or the ing the good city. The and was much well MiehgkNB Wisconsin says:— Mahoney, of 8t a temper- concourse of he 'hesrtily indorsed Btowell) opposed htesj Ring r~i # l * >1^