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WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. ;W Slav. ; " While the jolly hours orinfc on propitious May." I hear the footsteps of the frolic 3Iay, Tripping as on that holiday When Love with berries of the bay z : Was crowned to sing a roundelay. SiDg, ail ye choruses and choirs That lift unto thft !nvp-tnnp;l Ivres The music of their magic wire3, gP To May, to May a roundelay! 'hear the gentle murmurs of the Naiad, An the far whispers of the Dryad, In Echo's answers never tired. With love and mirthfulness inspired To sing to Slav a roundelay. Sing, spirits of the vasty air, In dingles, dells, or rocky lair, In haunted hollows everywhere, Si'Jg to the May a roundelay ! I hear the soft sea wave.-- that ebb and flow Where ancient Triton tj hern doth blow, In blasts now load, and long and low, Unto the bills, re-echoing slow, . 'i'o jlay a merry roundelay. Sin?, Oh ye spirits of the waves, "J hat sleep in hidden corves and caves, Where Doris with her Kerens laves, An.! sings to May a roundelay! I hear mezzonean zephyrs rise and fall, Chanting io 3Iay their madngai, And fountain!", rivers, brooks and all Bepeat their carols to the call Of May to sing a roundelay. Sing, spirits of the balmy breeze, That lift to life the budding trees, That blow the blossoms o'er the leas, ? To merry May & roundelay! ^ I hear in -svhitperiug woods and genial groves The measures of their happy loves, And ia tbe coverts of the coves The melodies of tunle doves, Making to llav a roundelay. Bre^k l'orth and sing, spirits of mirth, Hide in the bosom of the earth, That wake to-day to happy birth, And chant to May a roundelay I Sing, Sing, Oh heart, unto the breath of spring: Sing, for all life is on the wing, And Nature's no.es incessant sing, And Echo's answers backward fling, To merry May a roundelay ! Sing, spirits of the sky and sea. That holds the charmed Memnonian key Of music's mighty mystery, ? Make to the May a roundelay ! k. ?Harpers Magazine. The Obnoxious Boarder. "We all disliked him (I refer to that dreadful Small Measure, his first name really being "Sam,"(but changed by us, * with one consent, as soon a3 we beheld him, to "Small," as much more appropriate) heartily enough before ; but after he had the presumption to fall, or pretend he had fallen, in love with Mildred Dainty, our landlady's pretty & daughter, we absolutely detested him. "We had been a community of young artists and scribblers, barring the old gentleman in the third story front, who was a wholesale grocer, and the maiden lady of uncertain age in the fourth story back, who was a milliner?both of mem as gooa-naturea souis as ever Jived?without a discordant spirit previous to his arrival. But ever since that October afternoon he first made his appearance at the front door, arraved in a drab suit and a felt hat of the same melancholy color, with a flfffo brown satchel in one hand and a black Bp^y silk umbrella in the other, and ' inquired, in the meekest and thinnest of voices, if he "could obtain board there,'' and had obtained board there, our landlady being much impressed by his very respectful manner and the mournful tone in which he referred to his mother as "an angel in neaven," ns , had persistently pushed his way into our circle, ea'.ing our oysters, smoking our tobacco and cigars, never reciprocating in thft slightest degree, and, in short, as Tom Toms expressed it, ''becoming a reg'iar nuisance." We managed to erdare him, however, with many earcastic remarks and broad?extremely broad?hints about interlopers, all of which rebouaded lightly from our target, he belonging to that too numer Otis class the iron-clads, until, as I said before, be tried to make love to Mildred Dainty. Then, indeed, the uiready half-awakened lion, or, more properk speaking, lions, were aroused, and ready to tear him limb from limb. We, the artistic and literary fellows * had known her since she was thirteen years of age, and almost all of as had been wildly in love with her before she saw her eighteenth birthday; bnt on that auspicious (particularly for him) day she was betrothed to Charley Seabright. And we were all sincerely glad ?that is, as sincerely, glad as rejected t suitors could be?that Charley had won the prize, for he was a splendid fellow, handsome, talented, generous, and? what some handsome, generous, and talented fellows are not?honorable. Mrs. Dainty was a queer, shy woman, i . with a Boman nose that suggested the ? nose of Michael Angelo, looking as though (as was really the case with ^ Mike's) somebody at an early period of life had depressed the bridge of it; a pair of mild blue apologetic eyes; hair ?which she arranged in many flat puffs from the nape of her neck to her brow, causing her head to resemble a phrenofi logical chart?of a subdued brown; and a pretty little mouth. The daughter was totally unlike her, except as to mouth, having large merry gray eyes, golden brown hair (which, when unbound, fell to her very feet), a delicate straight nose, rosy cheeks, and a smile like?like?well, George Lee wrote of it once, k 'A smile like the flash of the hummingbirds's wing As it hovers over the lilies." And as Charley was dark, with great Ma/Or erec an<l Tiair o.r>rI mnct'.sr'hA +.n match, they formed an admirable con% trast And' somebody says, very justly, according to my way of thinking, "In joining contrasts lieth Love's dei lights." Small Measure, the detested one, had oblique eyes of no particular color ^ 4 (George Lee spoke of them, cr of, in the poetical style, one of them, as "a squinting eye to match a squinting mind,") light red hair, nose and chin sharp as a razor, and a great waste of material in the way of hands and feet. However, he was so quiet, and spoke so tenderly of his departed maternal tttqc cr\ T?i>Txr fn Mrs. Dainty, that the dear good-hearted WP woman was quite taken with him, and used to, for a icng time after be came among us, try to ward off onr wordy r, attacks by some pleasant remarks and adroitly substitute nice slices of meat from her own plate for the lumps of ^ iat Feil Johnson, who carved, placed ' _ upon his, and gave him extra large pieces of pie and cake in the fruifc season to indemnify him for the apples, oranges, etc., tnat roree winter ana x ?w? sat at either side of him at table ?invariably contrived to confiscate. 4 Bat after he had been there about \ five months we noticed that even Mrs. Dainty began to treat him coolly; and when he took to following Millie about and praying for her, dear little innocent girl.in a shrill voice at midnight, much to the annoyance of the boarders on his floor, knowing all the time that she was engaged to Charley Seabrisht, she became downright angry and gave him ^ 5^ earely his share of cake and pie?not a fit more. K* * Besides this she confide 1 to Charley, who confided to us. that Small Measure hadn't paid a cent of beard for nearly fO months, and that he gave as an ex planarion that i:he old gentleman in whose employ hs was was very ill, and accounts could not; be squared until he got well again. None ol us believed in this old gentleman, whose bookkeeper went to business after lunch and returned home an hour before dinner; and Tom Toms, who, disguised as a broom seller, took the trouble to follow him on two occasions, reoorted that unless the bookkeeping was done in a billiard salooon or the Metropolitan Art Mnsenm, none was done on those two occasions. Well, after onr landlady's tacit agreement to onr proceedings, we did everything to oust the nnweicome gnest; but he seemed resolved, as Pauline says in "The Lady of Ljon3," referring to her own sex,' that his "wings once scorched," he'd "cling and cling forever." Mrs Dainty summoned ap courage and dunned him sternly. He mec her glance with tearful eyes, spoke of his once happy home and its lost guiding spirit, told her a long story aoouc ms sics employer, wnom ne could not forsake in the hour of adversity, because of bis kindness in years long gone, to that dear guiding spirit, and assured her that she should be paid the momeet he himself was paid And so another month went by, during which we were painfully conscious that he was quietly sneering at and exulting over our unsuccessful efforts to get rid of him, thereby nearly goading us to madness?or *Selby Hardwick, who wrote sensational stories for the sensational pacers, said he was. But at last our chance came. Small Measure informed Mrs. Dainty, as he was departing?to bookkeepingone spring day, that he should not be back until late that night. We instantly resolved to lock him ont, and keep him out. Nothing conid have happened j better. It was April 1; we'd make a night of it, and a fool of him. Charley Seabright, the only one who always refused to join in any plot against him ?"Hang it!" he said, "I don't want the fellow to think I'm jealous of him" ?was awav, gone to Boston, and not expected back for three days. Mildred was delighted. "Don't ever let him in again," she begged. "Only this morning he picked up a button that had burst off my shoe, and kis&ed it, and put it in his vest pocket. I hate him!?I hate him! And how dare he kiss one of my shoe buttons ?' So we carried our pipes into Kirk Howe's room?second story frontwhere we sang, played the violin and guitar, told stories, repeated verses, and art and literatnra. until ten o'clock, at which hour the rain began to pour down like a second deluge. Merrier aud merrier grew our party, and the noise was at its highest, when Perce Winter, who had been listening at the window, struck an attitude and shouted, "'lis he!" And becoming comparatively silent, we heard him fumbling at the lock with his :aight-koy for a few moments, and then ringing the door-bell, eently at first, but gradually louder and louder. The ringing was immediately drowned by a jolly chorus, kept up without intermission lor a quarter cf an hour. At the end of this time he nad begun to ben? upon the door, and the bangicg -was something fearful to her, and Mrs. Dainty and the maiden lady, in light and airy costumes, were entreating us to Stop it, from the tipper landing. "Oh, look here, this can't be stood, yon know," said Tom TomsJ^iLj?<v pose that we go down in a body, open, the door suddenly, fall upon him like a tVcnT.^sr-T-inlf Tiim riff t.TiA stoop. And then, if he comes back again, I see nothing for it bnt a thrashing." I seconded the motion. It was carried unanimously. Like a band of Indians on the trail of an enemv, we stealthily descended the stairs. I quietly unbarred the door, took the key from my pocket, and unlocked it, the storm raging so fiercely outside meanwhile that what little noise I made could not be heard there, and then, as the door flew open, with a wild whoop we precipitated ourselves tipon the unfortunate banger, forcing him down the steps and into the gutter before he could say "JacS Robinson." He struggled out and clasped a lamppost that stood near, and as he did so the light from the lamp fell on his face, and a well-known voice fell on our ears: "For Heaven's sake, boys, what do you mean?"' It wasn't Small Measure?it was Charley Seafcright! Cbarley our best comrade?our owa jolly, generous, splendid old Charley! We dragged hini up the steps in still shorter time than we had driven him down, and into the hall, where we had his rain-soaked overcoat off in an instant, and were about to carry him up stairs with a wild confusion of tongues?"Why didn't you send word you were coming, eld man ?'r "By jove! it's tco bad!" "You're the last person of whom we were thinking"?when Perce Winter oxclaimed, "But where, oh, where is that wretch Small Measure ?" "I'm here," said a soft, hypocritical voice over the balusters, "vtry com rortaoie, tnanK yon, aua j/ve qmse enjoyed the entertainment you gents have been givin' I came right away after goin' out this afternoon, because seein' a little boy passin5 with a piece of paper pinned to his bask, I suddenly remembered that it was April-fools' Day, ana I was afraid somebody might make a fool of me. And I thick it's distressin' to be made a fool of, particularly an April-fool. Good-night, and pleasant dreams I" But he left the next day, just as Mrs. Dainty had avowed her intention of invoking the aid of the law. His mother, who looked like anything but an angel?though, to do her j astice, she vras ranch better-looking than her son?came a iter hira. "The scamp," she said, "a-robbia' the money-drawer, and a-leavin' me all 3lone to take care of the shop?pork, ma'am, qnite extended, from a sassage to a hull hog? and I never knowin' where he was til! this blessed mcrnin', and I shouldn't 'a knowed then if he hadn't been a-boastin' to a young gal what lives in our neighborhood?he met her out walkin' last Sanday?about the pretty young lady he was a-goin' to marry, and live quite the gen tie man in a genteel boardin'-honse. And she was that mad at his kissin' a shoe-butting and ? - ? T? J li/v nn 1 ^ IT AV\' oICLi JC U U U1U ^ 13??.Lie JLlw v iu vucu acy company with herself?that she follered him unbeknown to this house, and then came and tol' me. He alius was a slyboots, that Sam, and I've bad heaps of trouble with him ; but I'll pay you what he owes you, ma'am, and looi his conduct over, as I'vo done many times before; but he'll have to mind his P's and Q's after this, I can tell yor.." And so we got rid cf him at last, thongh not exactly as we had intended. ?Harpers' Weekly. The longer X live the more deeply am I convinced that ihat which make"? the difference between one mail and another, between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination ; a purpose once formed, and then death -1 m.:- n-cii or Victory. iuu mix u-j ?u#ything that is to be done in this world, and no two-legged creature can be a man without it. In 1879 tfce product of iron in Virginia was 169,683 tons, and the State ranked as twelftn among the iron prooncin; Srates. In 1830 the product fxs 182,326 tons, and the State rose to be eighth rank, i aDELIXA path. An Istere.ntinff Account of the Great Opera sSinssr'n Life In S?t. Petersburg. From 1863, when "the Patti,"' as iha Russians called her, firsfc appeared in St. Petersburg until the memorable J night, just before the breaking out of; the Russo- -Turkish war, when she ! made her appearance before a St. Pe-1 tersburg audience, her career was one j literally unprecedented in the history I of sinters. On the night mentioned I the Czar paid her the highest compliment ever paid an artist by a crowned head in pnblic. He stepped from the imperial bos on to the stage and presented her with the celebrated diadem of diamonds containing some of the most valuable stcnes, except crown jewels, in the world. Tbe applause was simply overwhelming?the eyes of the diva filled with tears, and she. finally wept ontright, the audience composed of the cream of St. Petersburg society, shouting as they stood up, I "Path I Patti! our own! .Return soon to ns I" It was during this residence at St. Petersburg tint the marriage with de Caux vas hatched, rumor says by the Empress Eugenie. The Marquis was passably good-looking, medium size, had light brown, curly hair, parted in the middle, and wore an eye-glass, heavily mounted in black, that gave him a look of owlish wisdom. The general impression oi mm at ?t. jfetersonrg was that be was rather a pretentious individual, and disposed to consider hia alliance with the diva a come-down. He was very highly connected in France, his sister being Duchesse de Nalmy, and I he himself had been an equerry to the Emperor, a position which he resigned I at his marriage. They lived in St. j Petersburg at the Hotol Demuth, and led the quietest life imaginable. : The reason they gave for not going : into society, was that owing to the ; intence cold, the Patti was ordered not to go out ut night. The truth was, the 1 cn/Mof-.-c nf Sf. prsVinror. -fiftafvn Years ' a20, was the haughtiest in the world. They would pay any price to hear her 1 sing, but their doors were resolutely 1 shut against her even as the Marquise de 1 Caux, the wife of one oi the bluestblooded of French aristocrats. Strange 1 to say the contrary was the case in 1 England. During her summer holidays ' there, a clique with the Prince of Waie3 ' at their head had taken her up and j shown her every attention. At her wedding, at the French Legation in London, ' there were many distinguished persons of both French and English families, ' and among the Americans present was 1 tV>o to-mil v nf Dr. Rims t.hfin living1 in ' ??"V "" ? ? w Paris. To return to the Hotel Demuth. At this time, when they were living almost in solitude, with only a few intimate friends visiting them, the wildest reports were circulated in regard to tbe DeCaux's extravagance. He was said to waste all his wife's salary in gambling and riotous living, when the truth was that he was saving to the last degree. The supreme wish of his heart, as he often expressed it, was to save enough to retire his wife from the stage. This thrifty disposition may have had something to do with the quietness with which he submitted to the neglect of society. He ussd frequently to say, and with some reason, that it would not do for him to ask his wife to retire wi.h a moderate fortune, as it would require a vHr^greaTioft^efndee J, and the ability ' to maintain grand style in the world as 1 o/initralon* fr\r fhrt riVArtcllP'lrn'i'no' ail plause his wifo received whenever she sang in public. It was also said that ( he used to lock her np in her room and k beat her whenever he felt disposed. He was the tamest and most domestic of ' husbands. He never left his wife's. side, and every night she sang he sat in a front row at the opera, and clapped his hands violently every chance he had, nmeh to the amusement of the audience. In regard to bis beating her, j it is likely that the diva could have held ' her own with him in any kind of a con- 1 test, physical, mental or moral. It was 3 said tbat she never had many offers of marriage, which is unaccountable, if 5 true, considering her beanty and her glorious voice, tbat was a gold mine to ' her. The most distinguished offer she , ever had, perhaps, was Gastave Dore, who certainly was very anxious to marry her long before the De Caux match was ' bruited. Bnt the Patti was inexorable 3 to Dore. ( At eight o'clock every evening when : she did not sing she would receive the 1 few friends who formed her circle to . tea at tne Hotel 3>muth. As soon as 1 the tea-table was cleared, an exciting J game of lotto would begin, and be kept ( up for a couple of hours. The players were usually the Marquis and Marquise, * Miss Lamb, an English lady, who was * her companion before and after her marriage, and two gentlemen, one a J friend of the Marquis, and the other an * officer in the English army, attached to ' the English Embassy at the time. Each j player would put twenty copecks into ] the pool, and there were first, second, 1 and third prizes. The Patti was the * wildest and most excited of the gam biers, clapping iier hands delightedly 1 sT-e.v ay* trinrtinrrc or>ir? rlocnoir of. ^ her losses?a few rabies being all that ^ was involved. Her dressing was at 6 that time the admi.ation of St. Peters- 1 burg; her costames were Worth's * masterpieces, and marvelously elegant and tastefal both on and off the stage. De Caax ased to be farioasly angry when, as the case often was, persons were introduced to him who immediate- { ly asked an introdaction to his wife? ' and evidently disrelished the :tact that } Via urns A1r>nv?onr -fl-ia TrnoT-varn^ Madame. At the end of every season the Czar made her a presont of diamonds, which in the aggregate were enormously valuable, without mentioning his lc-st most imperial gift. The "abonnes" of the opera likewise gave her a magnificent present of jewels every year. The subscription list of the latter used to lie at the English Club, and from eight to ten thousand rubles were invariably subscribed. It iras estimated that the bouquets thrown her. or rather handed ^ her bj the chief of the orchestra, cost [ equally as much?flowers are dear in St. Petersburg. The prices paid for boxes 1 at the opera at her first appearance were something fabulous. The American Croesus, \Tlnans, had the best box. He ! paid no less than sixteen hundred ru- 1 'oies for it-aboat a thousand dollars. : As a Russian remarked, lie might have 1 made a trip to Paris and heaid her sing 1 a dozen times forthatsum. Other boxes sola in proportion. A commissioner at one of the hotels trying to bny a ticket had his pockets picked and was severely injured in tha crowd besieging the ticket office. The speculators of course had a chance, and some of the seats, other than those in the boxes, were sold for fifty time3 their original cost. ? Philadelphia Press. The crew of the British bark Alexander ran short of provisions and lived on hulf a. class of water pach dailv for a i number of days. "We've known lots of men to live on less water daily than that. Letters are the very nerves and arteries of friendship?nay, they are the vitil spirits and elixir of love, which, ia case of distance and long absence, would be in hazard to languish aad quite rnolder away without them. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of the Christian Union preaches occasionally during his j visiS to England. ' . : ':?&f.s'-. : - A LIFE FOR A LIFE. The Ti airic Story of Two Old Duels Foughc iu New York. A singular and fatal duel was fought some years ago in New York by the late Stephen Price, well known in England as a former lessee of Drnrr Lane Theater. Benjamin Price was considered the handsomest man 01 ms lamuy, though his brother Stephen was not to be despised, either as regards good looks or abilities. Benjamin one evening had escorted a very pretty woman to the Park Theater, when a British officer in an adjoining box took the liberty of staring her fall in the face. She complained to Ben Price, "who, on it3 repetition, seized the offender by the nose with his finger and thumb, and wrung it most effectually. The officer left his boz and went to Ben Price's. Ben in answer to a knock opened the door, when the officer, whose name was Green, asked Ben what he meant, remarking at the same time that he meant no insult tc the lady. 'Oh, very well," replied Ben, "neither did I mean to insult you by what I did." Upon this they shook hands as sworn brothers, and some time after Mr. Green went to Canada to join his regiment. The facts i v - 3 Ot tne attair, nowever, xiaa reacueu Canada before Mr. Green did, and of course got noised about. An officer of his regiment having a pique igainst him was particularly active in airing the scandal and brought the matter so strongly before his brother officers that one of them, a Captain Wilson, insisted upon Green being ostracised unless he went back to New York immediately and challenged Jfnce. ureen, nowever, being no shot, he was allowed time to get tip his pistol rractice to a favorable standard, and having practiced for five hoars daily, until he conld hit a doliar at ten paces nine times ont of ten, then be came to New York and challenged Ben Price. They fonght at Hoboken, Price being killed at first fire. The seconds immediately decamped, while , Green, who had obtained leave to go to EDgland on urgent private affairs, took a small boat* crossed the river and got on board a vessel in the bay ready to sail for the old country. Price's body was found where it had fallen, with a piece of paper attached to the breast, on which were written the following i / (mi. ? _ -r> : word3 ; "J.X1I3 13 x>eujauiiii -time, boarding in Vesey street, New York ; take care of him." The body was brought to the city quietly, and he was bnried in New York. The death of Ben Price was, however but one-half of the tragic transaction that resulted from the pnliing of Mr. Green's nose. Some years later Captain Wilson, who has been already referred to, arrived in New York from England on his way to Canada, and pnt ip at the Washington Hotel. There one Jay at dinner the conversation turned Dn the death of Ben Price and the manaer thereof, when Captain Wilson, who uad joined in the conversation, took credit for having been mainly instrumental in bringing about the duel, de;ailing all the particulars connected l-ifiY.aTrri+'Vi Tliic ctofomonf TOAq fturrifiil immediately to Stephen Price, who was ying ill of the gout at home. His friends said that he at once implicity sbeyed the instructions of the physician ind, obtaining thereby a short cessation ri the gout, was enabled to hobble out jf doors, his lower extremeties being swathed in flannel. His first course the W^lhicgton Hotel ffhere his inquiry was? ''Is Captain Wilson within V "He is," eaid the waiter. "Show me up to iiis room," said Stephen, and up he went accordingly. Hobbling upstairs with much difficul;v, cursing alternately as he went the ?out which caused the pain, and the Captain who was the cause of his having ;o hobble, with equal vehemence, he at last reached Captain Wilson's room, his :eet cased in moccasins and his hands jrasping a stick. Captc.in Wilson rose ;o receive him, wondering all the time vho his lame visitor conld be, but his nind on that point was ?oon relieved. "Are yoa Captain Wilson?" asked the stranger. "That is name," replied the Cap;ain. "Then, sir, my name is Stephen Price, fou see, sir, I can scarcely put one foot before the other; I am afflicted with the ?out. My object in coming here is to nsult you. Shall I have to knock you lown, or will you consider what I have ?-r?cn 1 f on/3 oAAArrl > qi oujuiv..wuu wmn? mvvv* ngl.y?"' "No, sir," replied the Captain, smiling; "I shall consider what you have said quite enfficien1'. r x: shall act ac;ordingly. You shall hear from me." In dno time their came a message :rum Captain Wilson to Stephen Price; rad early one morning a boat left New fork in which was seated face to face 3tephen Price, the Captain and two riends. Thev all landed at Eedloe's [sland, the principals took their posi;ions, and Caption Wiluon fell dead at ;be first sho;. The Captain's body^was nterred in the vault there, and Price ind the two seconds returned to New Fork. Captain Wilson's friends in Imerica thought he had departed suddenly to Canada, and his friends in England thought he had either died suddenly or had been killed in a duel >n his way to join his regiment.?United Service Magazine. A Vast Wheat Region. The wh' at growing section, in this state and Washington Territory, ie emsrHCtd between the 43rd and 48th paral [els of north latitude, ana tne xivin ana L24th parallels of west longitude, embracing about 180,000 square miles, of rhich at leaet 25 per cent., or 28,000,^ OO acres is good wheat-producing land, md with fair cultivation, would yield in average of eighteen bushels to the ncre. The total jield of this fast region, under possible developments therefore, prould reach the enormous quantity of :-ver 300,COO,000 bushels of that cereal which constitutes so important a factor in the commerce of the world. Illinois, in 1880, produced about 50.000,000 bnshels; here is a region that has a capacity to yield six times as much, But admit that, in this generation, only one half of this land is subject to cultivation, and used for this parpose, ancl we have, within the next eccre ancl a-half of oysters, a product of 150,000,000 bushels; enough to furnish freight; for a railroad along every water-course, and up and down ev^ry valley, in this entire section. Shipping: Statistics. There must be many persons who go down to the sea in ships. According to statistics recently made public by the census bureau in 18S1 there were 10 ships, 12 barks, 7 barkentines, 3 brigs, 318 schooners, and 143 sloops constructed in the United States. There were also built 51 side-wheel river steamers, 105 stern-wheeJ river steamers, 1S5 river propellers, 2 side-wheelers and 93 propellers for the lakes, and 8 ocean steamers. There were 5,415 American vessels entered at seaports, 669 in ballast and 4,745 witn cargoes ; 14.527 foreign vessels entered, 3,334 in ballast and 11.193 with cargoes ; 3,577 American and 10,286 foreign vessels ar> rived at lake porss. Ouly 3,541 American vessels cleared from ports in the United States, 2,812 in ballast and 6,253 with cargoes; 24,843 foreign vessels cleared. 7,496 in ballast and 17,017 with cargoes. Only 914 American ocean steamers entered and S26 cleared United States ports; 3,308 foreign steamers entered, 3,329 cleared, .. Sudden Deafness. A lady who, juflfc before the Peninsular war, had been married, heard suddenly and qnite unexpectedly that her hnsband had been ordered out to the seat of war. So great was her horror that she became instantaneously and perfectly deaf, remaining so for many months; and it was feared that her case was incurable. Some months later siie was in church on ..a Sunday morning. The congregation began to sing a hymn, and quite suddenly her hearing returned, so much to her surprise that, forgetting where she was, she jumped up and called out> "Why, bless me, I ca.n hear as well as ever I could in my life." She retained her powers of hearing to a good old age. A poor lady, governess in a family, was standing one day in the hall when one of the children of the house, who was sliding on the balusters, fell over them, and was killed at her feet. The poor lady, from horror, became immediately perfectly deaf. v?n ATI A A? 4'll/V All <ilA?? fl AAMAA A ciiitiyo u.uc v/x r-"? is that ot a child ofT?even, apparently quite stroDg and healthy, who seems to have actually become deaf from the effects of nightmare. The story is worth telling here, if only in the hope that it may make some reader less eager to despise childish night-terrors. How often nurses, and even mothers, and those very loving and tender ones, try to scold a child out of these night alarms, "fooiish" as they call thsm; yet how many are there of their elders who have not experienced sncfc terrors ? There hud been great Fifth-of-November riot- in one of our country +nnmc UTon in hidenns masks had patrolled the usually quiet streets; two citizens, who had offended their fellowtownsfolk, were bnnxed in effigy; and, of course, there wajgthe regular accompaniment of equibsfc and crackers, and in the end a treajendous street disturbance, needing -&e intervention of the police. So alarmiDg and annoying had the disturbance been to quietly minded citizens, that it was resolved never to allow a Fifth of November to be observed again in the town; and great was the rejoicing in quiet households over this decision of the town council,. A few dayrbefore the return of the fateful day, some children had been playing happily together, and, as far as can ba discovered, nothing had been said or done to alarm any of them. They went to bed as usual, but had not been long in the dark when the youngest, a little girl, ran into her elder brother's room, and exclaimed : "Oh," I feel so frightened; I can't help thinking of the Fifth of November; and when I shut my eyes, I see those hormool*o on/R T Aan't. aaf. AAV* V The brother "was very gentle and tender with her. ' He assured her there would be nothing done in the town on the fifth, and carried her back to bed, telling her she must be good, and remain there, and that no harm would happen to her. A few minutes after, she ran back to her room, again describing her utter terror; she could not help seeing those dreadful masks, and she felt so dreadfully frightened, A ? * 1^/vh Via aIt f a V* <-i?nrl Zlgaiu 11c uuu& uci uauA tu vcut hxava tried to coax her to sleep, with apparent success; but after a little whiie she ran down to his mother, exclaiming: ' 'Oh, mamma, I feel so dreadfully frightened; I cannot help seeing those horrid masks; and I* wish papa would come home and syripgaj^y. ears, for I am quite deaf,"" , The mother took her on her knee, and coaxed &nd fondled her till she fell asleep; then she took her to bed, and waited in much anxiety for her husband's return. She told him of the child's dreadfully excited state, and took him up to see her; but sho was sleeping so placidly it seemed a pity to wake her. SleeD was the best medicine. Next norniiig, when she woke, they dipcorered to their horror that the child was; stone-deal; and not only has she remained deaf ever since, but, being so young at the time of her affliction, she had also become almost quite dumb. Evidently the sound of her own voice in ner head was most painful to her. Sudden, abrupt noises, she could still hear. No doubt, she would be able to derive some benefit from one of the new inventions?the audiphone?for enabling the deaf to hear, from the vibrations of sounds conducted from the teeth to the ear; but all efforts to restore her hearing have been useless The injury to this tiny, iroperceptible nerve had so affected all the rest that the idea of being examined by a doctor seemed entirelv to unhinge the child, Cflnn'a^Q fViA Aoxr KJyjlUKJ KJJk VUU Ufivibpv MUAAWU v?. wuv v?v.j were consulted. All advised the same: "Leave her alone. Any effort to conquer these, fears is only likely to increase the in jury to the nerves; time may cure it; nothing else will."? [Chambers' Journal. New Words in the JKevised "Version. The following list, male up from lists contributed to an English newspaper, contains 158 words in the revised version of the New Testament, which are not found in the version of 1611. Some occur in more than one dook, DUt mey are givrju umv A few marked * are in the margin of the former version; those marked f are in the Apocrypha: St. Matthew and St. Mark?Anxious, appointment, beach,cross-over, cushion, epileptic, explain, interest, lord (it over,) moored, steep (noun,) wallet, wineskins?13. St. Luke?Accurately, bond, disbelieve, enroll,* narrative, palsied, storechamber, waterless, welcomed, wet / T. \ ?- A * 1-U.i 11 ^vero,; wnimg-iauiei??x. St. John?Anew," dispersion, suspense*, tend?4. Acts?Assassin, ashore, attendant, baggagef, cast off (nautical,) cell, citizenship, coast along, difficulty, dysentery, early (disciple,) embark, exact (knowledge,) foreign, foresail, foreshew, foster-brother, freight, indulgence, layout (anchor,) lee, make for, master (verb,) neighborhood, overboard, proconsul, rabble, restoration, surmise, strolling, temple-keeper, weigh (anchor) wrong-doing?33. Romans?Aim, corrector, divinity, factions, probation, stupor, trace (out,) *n n Afto oi r? rt ft I andJII Corinthians?Actually, aforepromised, anxiety, clanging, defect, disparagement, doomed, fickleness, gamesf, imitator, lawsuit, mirrorf, pitiable, re?ret, surpass, weaknesses?16. Galatians?Branded, different, gratnlation, guardian, interest, unsettle, vainglorious?7. Ephesians?Befitting, world-ruler?2. Philippians?Irksome?1. Colossians?Persuasiveness?1. I and II Thessalonians?Lawlessness, precede?2. I and II Timothy?Bereft, braided, conduct (now,) hardship, impo&ter, oreiudice*. self-control, tranquil, un approachable, uncertainty, wrangiings* -11. Titus?Heretical, questionings, selfcondemned?3. Hebrews?Drift, effulgence, encouragement, it; terpose, slnggisb, solid?6. St. James?Boon, faction, impulse, restless, shudder, steersman, vauntin gs?7. I and II St. Peter?Amidst, animal, carousing?, compassionate, defilement, destructive, humble-minded, interroga tion, lascivious, meaaier, mere, inocat-ry, revel, nnsteadfast, wine-bibbing? 15. I, II and III St. John?Imitate?1. St. Jnde?Autumn, dresmings, lovefeasts, riotously?i. Eevelaticns?Abyss, close (sealed ) deathstroke, glassy, Hades, hyacinth, mid, over-r pe, unmixed, Yiotorious-10, Career of a Man-Eating Tigress. For more than a year past a man-eati icg tigress has been the terror and j scourge of a small tract of hill country j in western Gaihwal, which looks down acros3 the Ganges npon the sacred shrine of Rikhikesh. From first to last she is said to have killed between fifty and sixty bum an beings. A considerablv higher estimate, indeed, is current V " w ' * in the neighborhood. Last year she became a proclaimed offender, and a reward of 400 rcpee3 was set upon her head. So widely infamous did she become that it is somewhat surprising she did not obtain more attention from the sporting manhood of our cantonments, particularly when it is considered that her haunts were within two marches of so well-known and accessible a piace as Hurdwar. Such attempts, however, as were made to circumvent her, whether on the part of forest hunters and others or natives, invariably failed. Her wari ness and activity seemed to be altogether extraordinary. From some spot on the hillside she would watch a group at work in the fields, and regularly stalk them by careful and circuitous approaches; then, dashing in among them, she would pick off her victim, and in a few seconds be down the side of one hill and under covert up another almost before his commnions had time | to look arotmd. The sound of bamboocutting was so well known to attract her tbat that industry for the time entirely ceased within her beat. Of course occasional failures are recorded against her; one plucky fellow cudgeled her off the friend she seized by his side with a lathi; and in another instance she'abandoned her prey owing to the lucky circumstance of a mouthful of the bomboo bundle on his back failing to please her taste. But these were rare exceptions to trie monotonous taie 01 slaughter. One of the very last cases was a particularly painful one. A peasant's wife objected to go to work in the fields, or rather cultivated terrace3, pleading her fear of this beast; the husband forced or persuaded her to go, promising to accompany lier and stay near her while she worked. She was carried off before bis eyes. People on the lookout for this tigress with firearms could never find her; cattle she never killed; to elephants her haunts were inaccessible, and it seemed clear that if she were ever destroyed it would be off the corpse of a human being or the carcass of a langur, the only animal beside man on which she was known to prey. And so it turned out. About a fortnight ago the senior assistant commissioner of Garhwal obtained the services of a dozen Goorkha3 from the regiment quartered at Dehra. These plucky little men had only been a day or two across the river when the tigress kil'ed again another woman. They started for the spot in the afternoon, four of them going along the hilhide in advance, while the rest of the paity kept along the nullah. The tigress, Rtartled bv the latter, broke in front of the former, and, luckily, having her back broken by the first shot of the volley fired at her, succumbed without a straggle. Not only was the tigress apparently killed off the body, bnt some of tiie victim's fingers were found in her stomach.?[Allahad (India Pioneer. ????Cm The Elephant's Intelligence. One evening, soon after my arrival in Eastern Asam, and while the five ele? phpnts were, as usual, being led opposite the bungalow, writes a traveler in India, I observed a young and lately-caught one, step up to a bamcoo stake fence and quietly pull one of the stakes up. Placing it under foot it broke a piece off the stake, and, after lifting it"to its mouth, threw it away. It repeated this twice or thrice, and then drew another stake and began again. Seeing that the bamboo was old and dry, 1 asked the reason of this, and was told to wait and see what it would do. At last it seemed to get a piece that suited, and holding it in the trunk firmly, and stepping the foreleg tbqII frtvnror/1 noocpd t.'riA rrtAP.fi of hflTR boo Tinder the arm-pit-, so to speak, and began to scratch with some force. My surprise reached its climax when I saw a large elephant-leech fall to the ground quite six inches long and as tbick as one's fincer, and which from its position could not be easily detached without thia scraper or scratch, which was aelib* erately made by the elephant. 1 subsequently found that it was a common oc currence. JLeecn-scrapers are usea. oy every elephant daily. On another occasion, when traveling at a time of year when the large flies are so tormenting to an elephant, I noticed that the one I ro<?e had no fan or whip to beat them off with. The mahout, at my order, slackened pace and allowed her to goto the side of the road, where, for some moments, she moved along, rummaging the smaller jnngle on the bank. At last she came to a cluster of young shoots well branched, and, after feeling among them, selected one, raised her trnnk, and stripped down the stem, taking off all the lower branches and leaving a fine bnnch on top. She deliberately cleaned it down several times, and " L-1J -i. men, lajmg uuiu ?,l iun juhci cuu, broke off a beautiful switch about five feet long, handle included. With this she kept the flies at bay as wo went along, flapping them off on each side every now and then. Say what you may, these are bona fide implements, each intelligently made for a definite purpose. A Little Inquisitive. The other day on the Central Railway, says an exchange, we sat nest to a coarse-voiced woman, with nose and eyes which looked as if made expressly for prying into indicated that she had found the business a thriving one. Opposite us sat a handsome young lady in an elaborate sage green, with an elegant copy of Middlemarch on her lap. The sharp voiced woman stared at her very hard, j fidgeted a good deal, and leaning over commenced a conversation in this way: j "Book agent, J see I Have good luck ?" "You are mistaken, madam; I am no agent,'' (much astonished). "You go to school, per'ap?" ' No," (with a smile). "Oh, you don't? Thought per'aps I you did," and looking her over as if she j i- tt*o c n/\f_ r-? o lrin cr Y\mcrTP<2<z I LlilVJCl??JLLO OUO TTOiJ uvu ?~w^, spied a heavy gold ling on her third finger of the left hand and commenced again: "Married ?*' "Yes." "Bride, perhaps?" "Yes," with a glance at a tall gentleman who stood at the rear end of the car, talking with the conductor. "Oh! and these are your weddin' fixings. I might have known it," running her eyes from the jaunty hat down to the multitudinous fo]ds and ruffles to tbe dainty French kid boots. "Husband forehanded "My husband has the same number of ! hands as other people, madam." said j the bride, very sharply, making the best of her way to a vacant seat at the other | end of the car, while the inquisitive i wnman settled back, as if she was wronged at not having met with her usual success, and exclaimed, "Some people do act as impolite as get out." The results of the first counting of the returns of the census of France on the 18th of December shows that tbe population has only increased by 389,670 since 1876, the pr. sent population amounting to 53,5983000 sonls. A xieniarkaljle Surgical Op ration. The Grto'ado Miner fays: On Thursday moraiDg a reporter of the Miner was permitted, through the courtesy 01 Dr. F. Hartman, to witness a remarkable and difficult surgical operation, consisting of the removal of the entire lower jaw. The patient is Miss Miss Gertrude Hickmao, daughter of Mr. "W. W. Hickman, of Silver Plume. On November 27. 18S0, while the familv were living in Leadville, the extraction of a tooth caused some inconvenience afterward and an incompetent medical attendant administered mercury, which produced salivation and eventually resulted in necrosis of the whole lower jaw, attended with terrible suffering and a redaction in the weight of the patient from ninety-eight to ninety-three pounds. Having had charge of the case several weeks, Dr. Eartman decided on the course mentioned and secured the services of Dr. Bradley as assistant. At the time set for the operation one table was completely covered with differently shaped and cruel-looking lances, pinchers, scissors and other surgical instruments, supplemented by numerous materials and appliances intended to meet anv emersencv that could oossiblv arise, and another stood ready for the patient when the anaesthetic being administered in another room had kindly produced insensibility. When this was accomplished the unconscious girl was placed on the table, the adhesions between the jaw-bone and the muscular tissne were severed with the iancet and the jaw was broken at the chin. The left half, clear of the articulation, was first extracted with comparative ease, and afterwards with a little more difficulty, owing to the hemorrhage proceeding from the disrapttired blood vessels, the right side also. The application of cold water by means of a syringe at onee cleansed the parts and stopped the bleeding, and in sixteen minntes from the time she was laid on the table the patient was carried back to bed, where she almost immediately recovered conscionsness so nicely had Dr. Bradley ganged the application of the chloroform, and was informed by her delighted bnt trembling parents that the operation they had dreaded so much, had been (skillfully and expeditiously performed. She speedily recovered from the effects of the anaesthetic, and a marked improvement is already apparent. Dr. flartman is confident that a plate and a set of teeth may supply that place of the extracted jaw. This ^s the first time this operation has been performed in me ozaie. ocraDge co say, me operation will cause no permanent disfignremen t lliltel One cf those lovely spirits which from time to time appear for a while upon cur world, as if inhabitants transplanted from another sphere, was this amiable and learned man, known to very few outside the people whom his teachings have powerfully an * lastingly affected. He flourished in Palestine about the time when Jesus himself walked among nis disciples, and among the Hebrew people even of the present Ua\} ci^utcwil liuuuxcu jroio ui uiouautc have not spoiled the charm and the glory of his name. Hillel was "nissi" of the Jewish Sanhedrim, at the same time thatShammai was "Al-beth din," the two titles repr?-_ senting the two highest dignitaries-^ the Jewish state. Eg-jrss-HtforJr at Babylon, and was a descendant of King David, according to the Talmud. He outlived Shammai, and according to the same ancient account of him, presided forty years, becoming the ancestor of a line of princes whose influence on the Hebrew to the fifth century and rvnthem on the civilized world. was very important. He had eighty disciples in Palestine. It is related in thfl Talmud that two men were once wagering four hundred dinors whether Hillel conld be provoked to anger or not. One who thought he could make him angry entered his residence on a Friday afternoon, and rudely summoning the teacher from his preparations for the Sabbath, asked him three impertinent questions, to which Hillel gave a sweet and a wise reply. "I would ask you many more queries," said the stranger, "but I fear TTin -will Via ancrv trifch rr>r>-'' Hiilel seated himself, and said,? ' Let me hear all your questions, and I will try to answer them." It was this gentle man who said, in answer to a man who wished to become a proselyte to the Jewish religion, provided he could be taught their religion while he stood on one foot, "Whatever is not pleasant unto thee, do not unto thy fellow-man. This is the substance of the law and the prophets. All the rest is but the commentary thereon. Go and reflect on it." r\- - ? -r TT;n^T-. KJUG ur i/VYU ui i o piuvciuo aio these : ' Be cf the disciples of Aaron, loving and pursuing peace ; loving mankind and bringing them to the study of the law." "If I do not act for myeelf, who can do it for me ? When I am alone by myself, what am I ? If I act not now, when shall I?" "It is man's duty to overcome selfishness, to increase his knowledge, to guard against vanity and haughtiness, j and to us3 well his time in perpetual j self-improvement.? Waverly Magazine. ' The Dail? Swelling of Plants. With delicate means of measurement Herr Kraus has recently proved the existence of a phenomenon in all plant organs, which is connected with their variable water-content, and consists in a periodical swelling and contraction in the jLffentv.Trmr Lrwnn, , decrease in thickness from ths early morning till the afternoon, when they begin to swell again., attaining a greater sizo by night than by day (this is well seen in agave, aloe, and the like). Similarly with buds, flowers, green cones, frnits, cte., and \*ith stem and branches. Herr Kaiser has before proved such a period in trunks of trees, and Herr Kraus shows that both wood and bark share in it, independently or unit- i edly. The various experiments of j Herr Kraus?removal of foliage, water-, ing, shutting out light, etc, lead to ex-1 planation of the phenomena by the ! varying reciprocal action of those factors -which bring water into a riant and i those which carry it away. By night! only the water-absorbing activity of the parts below ground operates, by cay the water-consuming activity of the parts above ground besides. The water- j consuming activity uepeuua mmm* \ju the foliage and cn light (removal of leaves or of light stops contraction ) and consists essentially in transpiration, flerr Kraus states that when a plant is watered these things oecnr : In a short time, Jess than an hour, the stem begins to swell ; both wood and bavk take part in this, the wood always first. The swelling progresses at a pretty quick rate, upward cf several meters per second. After some time, perhaps an hour, contraction gradnaliy rccnrs. The contraction began at the upper part of an acacia after ten minutes, whereas the swelling ac the lower part con'inned fifty mmn!e3. Tins snows mat xue contraction is due to the activity cf the f. Jiage. and i3 gradually extended downward, It was at a party. Miss Angelina bad V=-n pf-rsuad^-d to preside at the piano. "There," said Serephina, as Angelina took up a piece of music. ''Site bus taken a tune from the rack, and now ! Bhe will put us all on it.'7 A CHINESE MAZEPPi. A'Chlnamnn Tied to n Steer in ArizonaA Thrilling Scene Ending in a Tragedy. At Brookvilie, Arizona, Jake McCray, Billy Folansbee, and Tom Dilworth, three cowboys, had been carousing, and were then on their way back to their rendezvous. Suddenly a Chinaman appeared, laden with baskets, aud with a dog trot slowly approached tbem, and his little piglike eyes showed that he had an instinctive fear of the horsemen. This W8? an opportunity for cruel sport which the cowboys could not let pass, and Jake McCray said to his companions: "Boys, let's have a China Mazeppa. I'll lasso the Chinaman, an' yon ketch a steer, an' we'll tie John on an' ran him throngh the streets of the town." To this cool proposition Billy and Tommy joyfully assented. In a few seconds McCraVs riata was describing circles in the air, and Ah. Sin, dropping his burden,fled for dear .life; bntj&tr a few bounds, the unerring riaU encircled the limba of the'Mongol', and he was jerked and thrown ten feet in the air by the bound ing horse of the cowboy. In the mean time Billy Folansbee and Tom Dilworth had pursued a tinge Texan steer, ana Bill had thrown his riata on the animal's horns, while Tom, by a deft un derha^d throw of the rawhide, had encoiled the animid'8 hind legs, and | threwn him prostrate on the earth. There he lay panting and bellowing out defiance at his captors, although in their expert hands he was as powerless as an infant. Biily and his companion shouted to Jake McCray to bring over the prisoner, and added parenthetically. ''Be kerful and don't kill the darn critter, as there won't be any sport in giving a dead Chinaman a ride." Jake McCray was careful, but not as considerate as he misrht have been, for, when he arrived where the steer was straggling, the Chinaman had lost the best part of his blouse and about half the cuticle from one side of his body. They fastened the riata to the horns, and the trained animals held the steer fully as well as though the riders were in the saddle. The trembling Chinaman made piteous appeals to his captors, and even fished out four twenty-dollar pieces from some recesses in his clothing, and offered them as a bribe for liberty. The money was appropri axea, UUl tiue iuugeu-iur UCCU'.UX woo denied him. They laid the prisoner, breast down, upon the steer and pulled his hands well down on the shoulders and tied them together. Then his legs were pulled apart and secured firmly on either side of the animal's loins, and the Chinaman was tied so firmly on the back of the animal that he looked, as McCray expressed it, as "though he growed there." The fastenings were then removed from the steer. With blood in his eye, and shaking bis great breadth of horn defiantly at his tormentors, he charged cTi/?f>oBciralv first, at one horse man then at another, while Ah Sin was jelling alternately, "Police!" and "Murder!" in broken English and Chinese, at the top of his voice. His captors made the air fairly riDg with fiendish merriment. Finally the "fiery, untamed" steer was headed for town, and then began a race which beggars description. Over gully and ditch he went, making stupendous bounds each time these obstructions- were encoun^?re3, and each bonsdJ^w accurately recfoa'w fairly rent the air with his scream^sS?^ AVW TTftO ?ft/rw1 A 4-A A LUC -VUg i.11 U1 LU.KJ VAJ TT X^U4WWV\4 MJ the distance covered by the steer in a jump. The cowboys were more than delightrd witb the success of their scheme. The steer would endeavor to turn, but his remorseless tormentors headed bim at every point; when endeavors to make these turns would develop abnormal bursts of speed, long drawn-out wails would issue from the unhappy Mongol; and when the animal settled down to an ordinary run, the cry would sink down low, ana tnus, use ine masic of an iEolian harp, would the moans rise and fall. The wild, frenzied bovine approached a gully fully eighteen feet in width, and, with a ficrce snort and bound, the steer gathered himself in one supreme effort and cleared it by a scratch. Jake McCrary's horse, following a little to the light, and at a narrower place, also successfully jumped across the dry chasm. But Bill Folansbee and Tom Dil worth, following immediately behind the Chinese Mazeppa, both came to grief and were landed, horse ai'd foot, in the bottom of the ditch. Tom recovered first and hurried | his horse along the bottom for a quarter of a mile, and finally clambered out; but Folaasbte lay stunned in the bottom, whiie his companions continued the mad chase. The steer was tnrned at middav into the main street of the town. All the dogs in the place chased the frenzied animal and barked in chorns; hordes broke from their fastenings and behind came McCrary and Diiworth, shouting like wild Apaches. The frenzied animal, with his human burdsn, followed everywhere by shouts, barks, and indescribable din, shot through street and alley, was headed ?,A ?ii/3 Tilairo on/1 fine. .miiU oij uaig aau ceeded in going through the Orion saloon, breaking np two flourishing j poker games, making his entrance through the front door, and his exit at the back. His Nemeses, McCrary and Dilworth, as thongh playing "follow my leader," spurred their foaming and reluctant steeds through the same passage ; and, although the proprietor protested with a sii-shooter, they, too, made their exit with safety. Up the street, with renewed vigor, flew tbe unwilling Mazeppa and the wild beust, the latter running- amuck living thing he encountered with his long, sharp horns. Suddenly, when ia front of the Court House, the steer stumbled and fell. Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith took advantage of this and, with a few quick cuts of his bowie knife, released the Mongolian Mazeppa from his perilous perch. The released Chinaman tbresv himself under the protection of the officer of the law. The harried steer, seeing his mounted persecutors approaching, struggled to his feet and darted away. Tom Dilworth, when he discovered his prisoner free, loo.^ened his riata and shouted to MeCrarv to catch the steer, and he would capture the Chinaman. Swinging his lasso around, he charged up ana loudly called on the deputy sheriff to stand aside. The officer of the law drew hi3 pistol, while the Mongolian crouched and trembled behind him, and the deputy sheriff shouted defiantly, "Touch him at your peril " Without a second's hesitation the riata was thrown, and encircled the officer and Chinaman, but before the line was tightened by the quick turning hor*e, the crack o Smith's pistol was heard, and Dilworth ; fell dead from his saddle. The hcrsf?, j frightened bv thrt falling body, bounded I awav, and the two or three turns taken lirtm lioli} riata firmiv. j .UUUiiU iw*- ? ? ? ' i and the brave officer and abused China! man were dragged, bumped^nd j jlted, j through the main street. |The dogs j made matters worse by their barking, ; and the citizens endeavored to inter[ cept thr> mad career of the liderless j borsc. Finally, afrer dragging them a i .nile, the iiata broke. S'hey were j picked up, bus ?o badh^ were they I braised and torn that it was hard to tell j which was Caucasian or which Moni gol;an. McCrary, seeing from the out: come of alTairs that there would be ! trouble, hunted up Folassbee, informed j him of the fatal termination, and both 1 fled in fear of their lives. An English El ction. A New York Evenina Post correspon dent, writing from Northampton, England, gives an interesting acconnt of the recent re-election of Bradlangh, after his expnlsion from Parliament. The writer savs_: The riotons ballot - I ing of tiie old J^ataziswjii oraer uas passed ont of British politics forever. The nominations at the hustings, the speeches of the candidates to an accompaniment of rotten egprs, brickbats, and opposition brass bands, the balloting which conld continue for days provided only a ballot was polled every legal nJS honr, snrvive now only in the literature of the past. The nomination nowadays is a very quiet affair, only the candidate and three friends besides the legal J8 fiScers being allowed to be present. The actual voting is even more prosaic. ? Each legal voter, after securing regis tration, is given a registration number. This, when he goes to vote,'he tells one <; of the poll clerks, or if he forgets his jinmKw.W ffiVna, higjxa?, nn^ tiin nn? her is ascertained from the poll-books. Then he receives a Ballot "bearing, besides the names of the candidates, the voter's registered number, which is also entered on the stub from which it is torn, lilfe a bank check. The ballot is stamped on ihe back with a general mark to certify its genuineness, the voter steps aside to a screen^ marks with a pencil or pen a cross opposite the name of his candidate, goes back to the box, sbows the back of the ballot with .;3jS the affixed stamjT to the clerk, and drops the paper in the box. Through > -Ja the good offices of an acqnaintance I got admission to one of the Northampton polling halls. Nothing could be more commonplace than the rongh set of board tables, the stoat wooden ballot-box mounted on a chair, and the mechanical rontine of voting. But it is well worth considering whether this Enelish svstem. with its checS?-?n^_ fraud, has not features worth adopting - - _ . at home. While it necessarily discloses some votes to the polling officers who chance to know an elector's registered number, the obstacles to "split" tickets, the certainty of detecting any stuffing of boxes, and the heavy penalties attached to any betrayal of trust on the part of the poll officers, make the scheme well nigh perfect for an English election. -At four o'clock in the afternoon the ballot boxes were sealed up and taken under police escort to the City Hall, where the count began. As the time .-ill drew on for . a declaration of the vote the excitement deepened. Among the Conservatives gathered at "The George** hotel the first reports, telling of several I hundred majority for Corbett, created general good humor and enthusiasm. Then came a dismal rumor of two hundred majority for Bradlaugb, and as this sank to the actual figures and was partly confirmed, cheerfulness gave way to universal gloom. It was curious to see how the mood, the sentiments, even the Dhrases of the people present re produced what one hears in the camp : of the defeated on an American election night. Fears about the prosperity of the communiiy, threats never to cast another vote, charges of treachery and broken pledges, all attested that threa thousand miles $f blue water make small difference with human nature under political reverses. Meanwhile, outside, the cries of the victors began to be heard. Ten thousand men, women, and children gathered around the | City Hall, waiting the official returns. finally appeared the mayor with ash.e?fco?-.-^ej>er in his hand. A crier, resplendent in Ted. and gold uniform, ran c a bell, the votaress. read with its majority of one hundred andeightnfor B Bradlaugh, the crowd shouted, and the successful candidate offered his thanks and congratulations. A Romance of Wood EnsraTing. Like printing, the infancy of wooden graving is shrouded in weil-nigh unfathomable mystery. The first woodcut now known to the world appeared in 1423, and nobody has the sligfcest idea who cut the block. The only ex- a| isting impression was found pasted on s\t +V.r\t a moT^TT? IL?\J liiOiUU VI WUV Vx/ * vs Vi ? script in the library of a Snabian convent, and is now in Earl Spencer's T famous collection. But according to Papillon, a French wood-engraver, and writer on the subject, there were some blocks even older than this. They were cut, so his account runs, by two twins, Alejandro Alberie Cunio and Isabella Cnnio. The maiden is described as being surprisingly beantiful, talented, and?? accomplished; at thirteeen she understood Latin and geometry, wrote excellent verse, played upOD several instru- * / - J ments, and had begun to design and paint with dejicacy and taste; while her brother, the chivalric Alberic, was of quite ravishing beauty, and one of the mnsf. r>harmincf vonths in the fourteenth century Italy. At fourteen be commanded a squairon of horse in the war, and displayed extraordinary valor. After distinguishing himself by defeating two hundred of his foe, he returned to bis amiable sister, and in conjunction with her designed and executed eight f ^ wonderful wood-blocks illustrating the progress of Alexander. On the completion of this remarkable series, he once I ? j ? At*? V.of+7/i more ysuiurou uji uo uc^u vjx being accompanied by the passionate lover of bis beautiful sister. This brave action, however, proved fatal, for fce was killed and hi9 friend dangerously wounded while defending him in the midst of the enemy. This so affected the twin sister that she resolved nevei to marry, and, pining away in the approved style of mediaeval romance, died at the interesting ase of twenty. This a pretty and effective story. The only fault about it is that it isn't true. Papillon, the author of it, had an exuUt-iuj-ili im^lujliuui uml?FCTlui Jj_i au"?- ? 5 thorities ascribe it to tbat peculiarity rather than to sober history. At all events there has been a nice little squabble about it between various writers on the art of wood engiaviag; and as nobody but Papillon ever saw the pictures, nor heard of tbem until Jbe published his "Traite ae la Gravure," as his proofs M -- it ia rr&Ti- jpk. -'J are oi me inusi ?U^UJ *vj AW ^ ^VM erally believed in these dull days that ;-f -s the whole story is a romantic myth of the Middle Ages.?[London Graphic. Judge Lyacli in England. This is not the only country in which i Judge Lynch claims jurisdiction. Not | long ago in England a mob tried to put out of harm's way a man and a woman i who had burned their victim to death by setting fire to his clothes, which they had previously saturated with paraffine oil. It is doubtful if a mere horrid and atrocious crim3 was ever committed. Tuis is what the neighbors saw when they entered the room ia which the deed was done. Ashby (the murdered ma:i) was cu his hands and knees on the floor enveloped iu flames. Every vestige of clothing had been barned off him. His ?a<N?, nose, fingere, che>t, eyebrows and head were terribly burned, the tkiu actually peeling off tLie psor tejio^'s tace, no was wupletely s--a'crated ia pwafSne oil, of which there was a quantity iying about the floor, and, he had also a severe cut on the forehead, iher.om was in great disorder, iciv.saud fo; k> were lying v|g about, a pail broken, a portion cf a broken lamp was on the table, other parts of a lamp were iyiar about the floor, sxc.-l a quantity i-arafiiae oil was ? ^ >.sr The ;aa.;o murderer