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. ^ * 4 /.vi / / f r> TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. FEBRUARY 27. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 THE QUAKER OB. VEYARD. Four straight brick walls, severely plain, A quiet city square surround; A level space of nameless graves, Tbe Quakers’ burial ground. In gown of gray, or coat of drab, They trod the common ways of life. With passions held In sternest leash, And hearts that knew not strife. To yon grim meeting house they fared, With thoughts as sober as their speech, To voiceless prayer, to songless praise, To hear their elders preach. Through quiet lengths of days that came, W’ith scarce a change to this repose; * Of all life’s loveliness they took The thorn without the rose. But In the porch and o’er the graves, Glad rings the southward robin’s glee, And sparrows tlll the autumn air With merry mutiny. While on the graves of diab and gray Tbe red and gold of autumn lie, And wilful Nature decks the sod In gentlest mockery. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Miss Pidgpon engaged !" said Mr. Duckett. ‘•Well, really now.” Mr. Duckett sat at bis little round 'table, in the cool shadow of the vines, breakfasting on buttered toast, and coffee fragrant as Arabian gales. He had this theory about the gravita ting power of the world ; but he hkod fully as well to hear about the latest quarrel between Mrs. Squire Allen and her sister, the parson’s wife, “A meddlesome old baboon !” said pretty Alice Derter, when she caught - Mr. Duckett looking in at the window one day, to see whether the tall young jnftn by the chimney-pieoo was Henry Lake or Walter Fitzwilliam. ' “A most intelligent person !” said Mr. Mountmorris, when Mr. Duckett confi dentially informed him that he had overheard, behind the stable door, an active flirtation between Betsey, the maiVI and Artemus, the hired man. “I dou.t believe in all this kissing and hugging,” said Mr. Duckett. “And I thought perhaps you would like to know.” So that the public opinion of Stan- dale was pretty equally divided on the subject of old Mr. Duckett. He hr * 'jeen up nearly all night, with a telescope, looking for a new comet, and consequently was breakfasting rather latex then usual; with Mrs. Hopkins, his land-lady, waiting on him, in her best cap and apron, “Yes," said Mrs. Hopkins, as she brought in a fresh fried egg on a piece of toast, “it’s really true this time—to Mr. Paysiey, “And they do say that Dolly Dutton is ferocious enough to kill her, for every one knows that Paysiey has been play ing fast and loose with Dolly these three years, and has only thrown her over now because Miss Pidgeoa’s old uncle has left her three thousand dol lars, and a set of silver spoons.” “Hum l” said Mr. Duckett, between his sips of coffee. “Very extraordinary.” “Though for my part,” said Mrs. Hopkins, “I never could see what there was about Alphonso Paysiey to take the fancy of the girls. “But I should not wonder if Dolly Dutton sued him for breach of promise yet,’ Mr. Duckett was very much interes ted in all this, ^ He had seen Miss Pidgeon once—a tall, pale, lean female in spectacles, of some feur-and-thirty sauless summers ; and he knew that Alphonso Paysiey was the clerk m the village store, a sort of “gay Lothario” on a small scale. And pretty Dolly Dutton often came in to help Mrs. Hopkins with her churn- ing, preserving, and household saturn alias of that nature—-a rosy, pink cheeked young damsel with a dimple on her chin, a mischievous gleam under her pearly lashes, and a mortal fear of the lodger’s telescope, which, in her own mind, she could not altogether dis sociate from a camera. “Miss Pidgeon engaged 1” repeated Mr. Duckett, as he pushed his plate to one side. “Then there’s hope for the oldest and ugliest of us all—eh, Mrs. Hopkins? “Even me ?” “La, sir,” said the Landlady, “there ain’t any reason you shouldn't have your pick and choose of the finest ladies of the land 1” “Do you know of any pretty girl that would take pity on an ugly old bachlor like me ?” “Plenty of them, sir 1” said Mrs. Hopkins, “Then,” said Mr. Duckett, suddenly changing the subject, “pack my bag. Mrs. Hopkins, if you please. “I am going up into the woods to follow the course of the geological strata that underlie this locality.” “Dear me, sir !” said Mrs. Hopkins. “I shall be gone two days,” said the philosopher. “Very well, sir.” And when the sage was gone, she sat down to her household mending with a sigh. “I really do miss that dear old gentle man when he’s gone,” she said. “It’s rather hard to be loft without even a oat to talk to.” It was two days before Mr. Duckett came home, and when he did come home he bounced into the sitting-room in a manner which Mrs. Hopkins after wards remarked “nearly frightened her out of a year’s growth.” “Mrs. Hopkins,” he cried, “where is the constable’s.house ?” “The constable, sir,” repeated Mrs. Hopkins. “It’s on the corner of the old Mill Road—the redbrick cottage with the creepers all over it “But, begging your pardon, sir, what can you possibly want with the consta ble ?” “Woman,” hissed Mr. Duckett, be tween his set teeth, “there has been a terrible tragedy ! “It must be investigated 1” “Sir ?” said Mrs. Hopkins, more be wildered than ever. “Is it possioie mat you haven’t heard ?’’ he said. “Heard what ?” “Of the murder !” “Bless and save us, sir!” she said, jumping up. “What are you talking about ?” He looked intently at her. "Woman,” said ho,” have you seen M as Pidgeon lately ?” “Well, now that you mention it, I have not,” said Mrs. Hopkins, wonder ing greatly. “But I’m told she’s gone to Lowell, a visitin’.” He uttered a groan. “Look at this I” he said—“a piece of crumpled paper which I found beside a brook, a few miles from here. “Evidently a portion of the guilty correspondence. “You will perceive that it is not the caligraphy of a cultured person.” And Mrs. Hopkins read, on a torn and stained piece of note-paper, the following words— “ poor phebe pidgeon is poysoned. “Dollie Dutton done did it with Ratt poyson, don’t Tel annyone, she is ber ried out under the wilow Trea. ” All the rest was tom away, but Mrs. Hopkins had already read more than enough. “It ain’t possible l” said she taming very pate. “That letter would be evidence in any court of law,” said Mr. Duckett. “I am going for theconstable at once!” * * * " * * Dolly Dutton, sitting singing at her work, by the window of the Dutton farmhonse, was nearly frightened to death by the clasp of the constable’s hand, all of a sadden, on her shoulder. “You are my prisoner," said the con stable. “But don’t be skeart 1” “What for ?” cried Dolly, trembling all over. “For murder !” “Is the man crazy ?” said Dolly. Whose murder ?” “Miss Pidgeon’s,” said the constable; “and the quieter and quicker you come along with me, the better it will be for you.” “But I never dreamed of such a thing 1” cried Dolly. “That’s all talk,” said the constable, “That’s what they all sav.” “I am innocent,” pleaded Dolly, hys terically. “That’s for the jndge and jury to de cide,” he said. There was a great crowd that after noon around “the old wilow Trea,” a well known gnarled veteran, on the edge of a meiry little rivulet. All the spades and picks in the neighborhood were in requisition. “Dolly, the implied murderess, was at Mrs. Hopkins’ house, nnder a strong guard, until they could take her to the neighboring jail, and Alphonso Pay siey, at Mr. Dnckett’s suggestion, had been arrested as an accomplice. “Why don’t they tell me on what evi dence they have dared to arrest me ?” said poor Dolly. “Them weren’t my orders,” answered the constable, who, in truth and in fact, was a» much in the dark as Dolly her self. Bat the spades and the picks, after much diligent labor, produced uo com mensurate effect. “I’m blessed if I believe there’s any thing there P’ said the biggest of the excavators ; and at the same moment, there was a murmur through the little crowd, and a woman pressed her way through, and Miss Phebe Pidgeon her self stood in the front rank. “What on earth are yon all doing ?’' said she. “Simons told me that I was murdered. “If it really is the case, I don’t know it myself yet.” The diggers dropped their imple ments ; the undertaker’s wagon began to back down tbe road as quietly as possible ; the crowd stood open-mouthed. “Thea,” said Mr. Duckett, “bow do you account for this letter ?’’ Just then a tiny little hand plucked at his sleeve. “It’s my letter,” said Squire Allen's little hired boy. “I wrote it to Billy Bliss. “It's about my pet pigeon—my Phebe's dove. “Dolly Dutton kept it at her house for me, and it got poisoned with some of the stuff she got for rats.’' “Then,” gssped Mr. Duckett, “why didn’t we find it, then ?” “Cause I took it up yesterday." said the boy, whimpering, “and buried it in oar own back-yard, so I could look at its grave.” There is nothing so quickly turned as the tide of public feeling. “It’s all Daddy Duckett’s own pie 1” shouted an irreverent young man. “I hope he’s satisfied with the way he’s baked it ?” So DJly Dutton was xeleased, with many apologies ; Alphonso Paysiey was notified that he need no longer consider himself under arrest ; Miss Pidgeon went hon e, to fiud her house in posses sion of half-a-dozen artists of illustrated papers ; and Mr. Duckett disappeared. Not mysteriously, however. He paid his bill at Mr. Hopkius’, gathered ‘ogether his scientific imple ments, and left town. And the inhabitants of Standaie have never seenjiim since. California Mi'llonalre* in mcw York. Every One Can Graft. Our first successful grafting was done at the age of nine years. “At home” we had an old orchard that seemed to be past its period of useful ness. and what apples it did bear were of inferior sorts. It was a question whether to cut down the trees, or try and rejuvenate them by the application of an abundance of manure, well stirred into the soil, and by grafting the old limbs with new and superior varieties of fruit. It was concluded to see what virture there was in manure and oions, and this gave us an opportunity to watch the process of grafting. Before the job was finished yre had learned the art of catting n cion, making a cleft, applying the wax. etc. Later in the season it was a source of much gratification to see the young graft we had put in, growing along with those set by a mas ter-hand. This reminiscence of youth is given as a proof that grafting is not a monopoly of gifted minds, or an art that can only be acquired by the tew. With the ordinary amount of “gumption” to begin with, followed by careful teaching for only a short time, almost any one can graft successfully. Qrafting is simply planting a catting of one vari- ty in the wood of another, instead of in the soil. It is ersential that the grow ing layer of the cion and stock come in close contact, and be uo held outu tuey grow together. Now is the time to get the cions. They may be bought at most nurseries, and great care should be taken to get only the best varieties. If cat at home, be equally careful to get them of the right kind, outtiug only twigs of last season’s growth. Each sort should be eat separately and tied in bundles, labelled, and afterwards put in boxes with damp sawdust or moss, and kept in a cool place until used. A fine saw, two good knives, one strong and heavy, the other smaller, with a keen edge; a hard-wood wedge, six inches Jong and half an inch thick, and a small mallet are the implements used in grafting. The wax may be easily made by melting together, beeswax 6 oz., rosin and tallow 4 oz. each, over a moderate fire, stirring gradually until all is melted. Rolls of waxed cloth may be formed from old cotton stuff made thin by wear, and torn into strips two inches wide. Wind the strips upon a stick and dip them into the melted wax; when the cloth is thoroughly penetrated by the wax, remove, let drip, and put away from dust ready for use. Grafting should be done as soon as tbe buds be gin to swell. Having determined upon the place for the graft, saw off the branch, smooth the oat surface and make a cleft with the knife Mid mallei Out the cion from the twig, leaving two or three bads upon the piece, and sharpen the lower end into a wedge. Open the cleft with tie knife and place the cion in carefully so that the lower bad comes at the top of the cleft. The inner bark, or growing layer, of the oicn and the stock sbonld touch as much as possible. If the grafted branch is small, a single cion is enough, other wise, put in one on each side. Unroll enough waxed cloth to cover tne wound of both stock and cions, and press it bn carefully and olbsely. Hie quick ap plication of this protection Is only a matter of practice. It is well for be ginners to start worthless limbs before doing regular grafting in the orchard. If possible find some one m the neigh borhood familiar with the process and learn the art from him. The general principles may be obtained from printed directions, but the success of the work will depend upon the knack, and that is only acquired in the orchard. Buiidtua Sims ib Paris. Some of the Parbian journals have been discussing tbe prices of building cites in the larger capitals of Europe and America. Oue of them complained that the price was larger in Pans than elsewhere, but others have shown that the fact ia precise ly the other way. The pessimist sheet is told, for example that in 1880 the price per superficial metre in London, in* a quarter corresponding to that of the Paris Bourse, was 46001., and in another quar ter, somewhat like that of the Rue de Bae or the Rue Dauphine, it was S2001. At Vienna, on the new boulevards whicn abut on the Prater, tbe preaent selling value of the metre runs from 2600 to 2700 and 2900f. At Berlin building site* are tnree times dearer than in Paris, while at New York, Ban Francisco and Chicago tie prices are 8800 to 400jl. per metre. It is to be noted that all these cities have a smaller population than Paris, so that Parisians have nothing to complain iff in this matter. The immigration of Californian mill ionaires to New York is a notable feature in the social life of this country during the past few years. Mr. Keen* led off'; then came Mr, D. O. Mills, and now Messrs. Stanford and Orocker have fol lowed suit, and Nob Hill is deserted. This is not to be wondered at. San Francisco is a wonderful city, and for its size has made a power of noise in the world, but, like it similarly created auriferous sister, Melbourne, it is scarce ly the place to spend an income of $2,600,000 a year. Tne Australian magnates, with very rare exceptions, still go “home.” There is Sir Samuel Wilson, renting Lord Beaconsfield’a Hughhenden, and occupying in town the splendid corner house*in Grosvenor Square, built by the late Earl of Craw ford. Millionaires (still more Mrs. and Misses Mi'lion air t) want some one to vie with. Imbued with a spirit of emu lation, they sigh for fresh fields to con quer. As for Mrs. Mackay, she does not seem to be centent with anything oat of sight of the Are de Triomphe, while the hospitalities of "Jones of Nevada” find liberal expression in the capital. Already new places in Fifth avenue are presaged. The palatial splendors of a Vanderbilt are alleged to give sleepless nights to a Mills, whue Mr. Stanlord, accustomed to the ample elbow room of Nob Hill, complains that the cast-off mansion he occupies for the winter of the arbiter of New York Cen tral—a most comfortable abode—which we suspect the former occupant and his wife oftentimes, amid their new-found spendor, look back upon with regret, is “quitetoo awfully” crampedaud narrow, and so, perhaps, a Stanford house (built, we fondiy hope, by an architect who will know how to make it an ornament to the town, which sadly needs such ornament) may arise before long. The two cities which are in the future likely to gain most by the development of the West are New York and Washington. These bid fair to become the great win tering centres of the wealthiest in the country. Washington cannot offer the theatrical advantages of New York, but is unsurpassed in this country in the human materials for an agreeable din ner party. The elements there are so varied—diplomats, statesmen, eminent lawyers, soldiers, sailors, civil service men. “In New York,” Charles Astor Bristed—than whom none knew better what good company is—used to say, “they run after a hon because a hon is more or less of a rarity; we don’t run after them at Washington because we are so used to them,” and he made his winter home there, New Yorker though he was, because the society was so uni que ana interebUug. v ...—-tw Woolen Costumes. The most fashionable cloths for wool en costumes are not shaggy, but smooth- finished, and very handsome; in short, a lady’s broadcloth. They are made in coat suits, with real or simulated vest; and also in closely trimmed skirts and basques, some doable-breasted, some with and some without vests. Some are frogged, or enriched with braiding in military style; bat the finest forms prefer .the plain, perfectly fitting coat, or basque, untrimmed save by the rich facing of satin which is occasionally visible; the stitching and the buttons, which latter are often as ornamental as jewels. One of the great reasons for the superiority of the plain costume is that it is more capable of individualiza tion than the machine trimmed ones While machinery has brought the art of decoration in certain ways to great apparent perfection, it turns hnn- flred'i oat all alike, and then no matter how handsome they may be, they soon become common and lose their value. We see this constantly repeated in ele gant fabrics, whose only fault is that the ornamentation is capable of being infinitely repeated. The embroidered cashmeres, and the later braided suits of cloth are cases in point. Doubtless the price at which they are introduced, and held, while still comparatively new, are very high; but the reduction of half, which has taken place m some instances, cannot be altogether due to the pre mium pat upon novelty; but mast owe its extent largely to the multiplication of models of the same design. There is something, too, in the bold ness and striking character of the new braided designs which accounts for their occupation of a lower grade than that for which they were originally designed—a pronounced character, which is distinctive when there is only one of it; but is considered to show lack of refinement when it is often repeated. We owe something to the new cloths, however, for their fine dark shades in oolor; and, whether plain or decorated, they are most useful and valuable, from the serviceable and hygienic points of view; and it is to be hoped will be pre served to us with but little modification, so far as fabric is concerned. A pure wool dress is worth a dozen silk in cold weather, so far as practical and sanitary value is concerned. Bold Train Robbe;*. Bay r f Fal<*rmo. Tne Law of Pnblio Bales. In a sale by auction there are three parties, viz: The owner of the property to be sold, the auctioneer, and a portion of the public. The articles must be sold without reserve, and unless the vendor reserves one bid he cannot bid himself or have the auctioneer or any one else bid for him. There are oases on record where* bid was not reserved, and the vendor had a bidder who bought it in, and afterwards suit was brought against the vendor by the highest bid der for the artiole and it was decided that he, the plaintiff, was the higUest outside bidder entitled to the article against the vender. Bo, also, if any article is a truck off to a person, and it is afterwards ascertained that the vendor or auctioneer practiced fraud, by bid ing himself, or had puffers, it was held both by the courts of England, and so repeatedly decided by the tiupreme Court of Fennsylr nia, that tbe purchas er could not be held, bat the purchaser, as soon as he discovers the fraud prac ticed on him, must return or tender the artiole to the vendor. The attempt to rob the Central Pa cific train at Montello, Nevada, on the 22d of January, was one of the boldest ventures ever made and was not a fail ure because the plans of the robbers miscarried. On tbe eontrary, there ar rangements for carrying out their bold scheme were completed. The great mistake which they made was in tack ling a train which carried one of the bravest men in the world- With a lesi brave and determined man to deal with the attempt would have proved succss- ful, for the attack was vigorous and persistent and continued almost without intermission for three hours, until the buffled villains withdrew from the scene, leaving the heroic Boss wounded, but victorious. To him alone is due the credit of having saved the express car and the entire tram. A reporter called on Mr. Ross at his residence in Ogden and was given the full details of the attack and defense. He has been in the employ of Wells, Fargo & Co. over sixteen years and this is the third unsuccessful attempt which has been made to rob the treasure nnder his charge. Eleven years ago, while holding his shot-gun on the treas ure coach of the Montana Line, he was held up by a band of road agents, but killed several and got away from the rest of the crowd. This last attempt has seldom been equaled anywhere for the bravery and persistent of the rob- bors and the stubbornness of the de fense. Mr. Ross stated thaUthe point selec ted by the robbers for their operations was one the loneliest places on the line of the desert, the centre of a section sixty miles in lengtn, where there is no night telegrapn station. The San Fran cisco and Ogden express trains pass at 1.36 o’clock A. M. at Tecoma, ten miles east of Montello. “We left Toano, west of Montello, on time, our tram be ing in charge of Conductor Cussin. 1 checked the way-bills received at that station, laid down and went to sleep. The next thing which I was aware of was a rap on the car doer, as if an agent had called, and, supposing the tram was atTocoma, I got up and looked out, when a man pointed a gun at me and said : “ ‘Hop out, wo are going through you. ’ “I jumped back and pulled the door to and hooked it. The> then went over to the opposite side and said : “Open up the doors and jump out. We are going to rob the train.’ “1 replied : ‘Just wait till I get my boots on.’ “Never mind your boots. Hop right out here and we will get through with you aua ujciA juumuigeii youx uuuim on. “Again the men outside said : “Open up, or we will burn you out and murder you.’ “I then got in position and shot through the side of the ear. Nothing was done for a few minutes until one of the robbers asked. “Ain’t you going to open up the door and come oat ?” ‘ T told them I was not coming out. Another demand was made for me to ‘nop out,’- I made no reply to that. They then stationed one man at each corner of the ear between me and the baggage oar, and five shots were fired simultaneously from different quarters, and ranging towards tho centre of the car. Tneae were the shots that struck me—one on a finger, one on the hip and one just below the breast, near the watch-pocket. They then got up on the end of the car to to uncouple the train, whereupon I fired two shots through the end of the car. At this time they heard No. 2, the west-bonnd express tram, coming. They backed our train up and went on the side track, and sent two men down the road to meet No. 2. When it came up 1 heard Conductor Clement ask Cassia. ‘What are you doing here ? I want to speak to you.’ The robbers aimed their guns at Clement’s bead and told bun to pull out, and he did.” The nearest telegrapn station was thirty miles. The robbers then com pelled the breakmen to uncouple the express, move it forward and forced the engineer to run ahead and back down to wreck tbe express car, which was attempted three times without success, the holes in the doors being guarded by the stubborn messenger. Several attempts to bom the car were unsno- cesslul. owing to the scarcity of wood, and; alter renewed attempts to kill him through the doors, they mounted their horses and rode away. Anything more besutiful it is impossible to imagine than the entrance to the lovely Bay of Palermo, guarded on the one side by the massive Monte Pellegrino, and on the other oy Monte Navarino; while tbe city, bathed in nerpetual sunshine, and laved by the calm waters of the Mediter ranean, lies at the mouth of the rich and fertile plain, the Conca d’Oro (Shell of Gold); so named, we conclude, from the golden fruit which bulks so largely in the exports of Palermo, whose plain is simply a thicket of many square miles of orange and lemon gardens, stretching up to an en circling amphitheatre of hills, some of which tower to the height of 6,000 -feet— altogether completing a picture from which any a. list might well have drawn as a sub ject for “The Plains of Heaven." For in valids Palermo is rapidly becoming a favorite Winter resort, the temperature Itelween night and day being subject to less variation there than in almost any other known place. The city itself is beautifully clean. The hotels are comfort able and well managed, if a little expen sive—from twelve to twenty francs per day The many changes of race and na tion that have dominated in Sicily, have itamped its people with strange and strik ing variety. Handsome Moorish faces— living Murillos meeting you at every corner, specially handsome in tbe case of young boys and children—abounding side by side with the softer norman type of blue eyes and blonde hair; while now and then the straight nose and eyebrow of the Greek tell of the strong hold each race has maintained. We should, however, be dis posed to think the Eastern element the most indelible. We were struck by the numbers of well-dressed young men loung ing about in street and cafe with a lamen tably idle, listless air; but an ingenious youth threw light upon the subject by re minding us that Palermo is the seat of a university 1 The Oriental love ot show is strongly markea by the number of ele gant equipages that grace the fashionable drive between the town and La Favorita, a royal Bourbon palace at the base of Monte Pellegrino, and built in the rather nnclas- sical form of a Chinese Pagoda. Unlike the solid ideas of the Proverbial Scot, who no sooner gets his head above water than he makes for land, the first ambition of a Palemian. on feeling himself begin to float, is to sport a carriage; his second to own a box at the theatre; bis third, to have a dinner other than herbs—that is, salad and maccarom; and his fourth, to own a private and particular burying- ground. NEWS IN BRIEF, A . < *bow«r of Silver Spark*. A tall, broad-shouldered, gray-bearded man from Montana, while viewing the sights abont Chicago, strolled into one ■rv# 4-K^rx CU.A*• A AlaA Boot and Shoo ttUHliiesg, During the first 10 months of 1882 this country exported 336,890 pairs of boots and shoes, valued at $424,836, an against 260,778 pairs, valued at $322,- 917, fora like period of 1881. We also exported of sole and upper leather, $5,- 704,351, againBt$5,157,876 for 10 months of 1881, although in “moroooo and other” fine leathers our exports show some falling off, having been only $427,- 190 for 10 months of 1882, and $635,* 405 for the corresponding time in 1881. The imports of raw robber and gutta percha to the 1st of November last were 19,387,126 pounds, valued at $13,061,- 887, against 14,763,979 pounds, valued at $8,215,970, foa a- like period in 1881, In our imports in hides and skins, the principal artiole which oar tanners look at, the imports for 10 months of 1882 were valueij at $22,210,920, against $24,- 213,409 for a like period in 1881. Exhibition at xnlweip. The international exhibition at Ant werp, which is to be held this year, promises to be a very considerable affair. Holland has awakened from the lethargy with which the project was at first regarded, and great preparations are being already made for the reception of the many thousands of expected visi tors. A thousand Dutch firms have already entered their names as exhibitors, and demand 8000 square yards of space. Belgium surpasses this figure. Ger many is aeudiug a largo number of exhibits, including those of the house of Krnpp. England is said to be fairly represented. evening and took a seat near the stage. During the performance he became deeply interested in one of the group who were disporting on the stage. The dark eyes of the siren completely cap tured the heart of the rugged miner and he lost no time in gaining an introduc tion to the fair enslaver. He made an engagement to meet her at the rehearsal next day. The miner was punctual in keeping his appointment and waited patiently until tne artist had finished her rehearsal. He then brusquely in vited her to take a walk and she, noth ing loth, consented. This promenade was probably ihe most profitable one in which the actress ever engaged, for her companion led her into a dry goods store and without much coremong began purchasing such articles as he seemed to think she needed. Fine hosiery and underwear, a richly-trimmed cloak and a handsome collar were among the par- chases which the man from Montana made for the object of his affection. On the following day another walk along the leading street was taken by the pair, and as the scow was falling the gener ous man took his oompauion to a store and bought her a gossamer cloak and a pair of rubbers before they left the place. He then requested the woman to accom pany him to the depot. Arriving there the miner bestowed a fond look on her and said, with a smile: “You think I’m a funny follow, now, don’t you? Well, now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ve taken a fancy to you. If you’ll marry me and go to Montana I’ll give yon a $3(J0 sealskin saoque, Of course you needu’t go if you don’t want to. It will make no difference in my feelings for yon if you don’t’* 1 The favorite of the ’ footlight turned her head, hurriedly reviewed the situation and replied: “I don’t think I will accept your offer.” “fill right; good-by,” exclaimed the miner, as he hurried into the train, and thus they parted. On arriving at the Theatre that even ing the actress was informed that a package was there for her. It was found to contain a “love ot a hat,” which she had admired when oat walk ing with the miner, and a handsome moroooo pocket-book well filled with gold pieces and bank notes. HllUoni from Nottilag. —The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church has more than 1C0.000 members. - Greensboro, N. C. t grave-robbers ask $10 for every corpse in tolerably good condition. —It takes $15 to buy one hundred pounds of flour in the Baker mining district of Montana. —Mrs. Langtry spent much time in Chicago at roller-skating, a pastime of which she is very fond. —Among the perfumes greatly used in London society are white rose, fran- gipauni and ihlang ihlang. —New York and Brooklyn have 35 - 000 people who earn their living be- ween sundown and sunrise. —Last year Great Britain made nearly 2,700.000 tons of puddled iron, and im ported 90,000 tons besides. — Nine new cotton factories, with an Aggregated capital of $1,725,500, have just been chartered in South Carolina. While butter is only 10 cents a pound in Marshfield, Mo., the dealers ask 75 cents a pound for it at Butte, Montana. —The mother of President Garfield spends several hours every day reading the published works of her illustrious son. The Rev. Dr. A, F. Baird, of Syra cuse, N. Y., is to succeed the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock in the Amencan church iu Paris. —Messrs. Moody and Sankey intend holding a series of meetings in London next fall, beginning at about the 1st of October. —In Genoa a mounted tablet has been placed on the house in which, a cen tury ago. oa October 27, 1782, Paganini was born. —Mr. Gladstone’s popular axe is not regarded in all quarters as the very best instrument of exercise for 1dm to use in his old age. —The Rev. W. H. Milburu is still telling before country lyceums his in teresting i>tory of “What a Blind Man Saw in England. ’ —Mr. James Russell Lowell is to have the honor of unveiling the bust of Fielding, which is to be erected in the novelist's native country. —There were twenty-four stormy Sundays last year. The average during the past fifteen years has been 16j stormy Sundays a year. —The Britishers who recently bought 27,000 acres of Florida land of the Dias- ton Company have taken 32,000 acres more, paying $1.60 an acre. —Yokohama merchants have sent to “Well, look at the Mills family in New York" said Gath. “ Here is D. O. Mills, worth, 1 expect, $30,000,000, and a very prudent and care ul man in every thing he oea. He kept a little grocery somewhere up the Hudson river. He had a cousin, Joe Mills, who was opening oysters w Fulton Market, and if you watch Joe to this day you will see him draw his coat-cuff across his ante, a habit he acquired when he was m the market with his oyster-knife in that hand. “Then look at Commodore Garrison. He was a Dutch boy, brought up in the Highlands of the Hudson River. He be came a kind of a common workman on vessels and finally on steamers, and so worked his way along to be the purser and captain. Then California was annexed and bloomed into gold and Garrison be came tbe rival of Vanderbilt.” “Well, what was Jim Keene or the first beard of him f ” “He was a milkman in one of tbe early towns of California, driving bis milk wagon into „4he place and serving his customers with milk. Keene, however, does not does not bold the position he did here a lew years ago. It is said he has bad great losses and has even had to mortgage his Newport residence.” cans interested in silk coltnre. —The bell used at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, is from an ancient Bud dhist temple, iu Japan, and was pre sented by Mr. J. Graves, of Boston. The institutions in New York sub ject to the bank department of the State represent nearly $700.000,000 in their resources, and probably over 2,- 000,000 depositors. —During the year just closed in Eng land there were reported 28 mining ex plosions, 15 of which were fatal, the number of deaths reaching 241, exactly the average for the past 32 years. —The crops of Texas for last season are estimated at 1,400,000 bales of cot ton and 150,000,000 bushels of,corn. Texas now stands first on the list of Southern States in the production of cotton and corn. —Of all the men-of-war in Europe Italy has the most heavily iron-plated and possessed with the most formidable gnus. The “Duilio” and the “Dando- lo” have armor twenty-two inches thick, and they each carry 100-ton guns. —Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, says iu his Message to the Legislature that the population of the Territory has doubled in two years; and now reaches 300,000, and that the amount of taxable proper ty is $50,000,000. —The City of Montreal has made a claim for taxes on a church on the ground that a fair was lately held in the building for profit, whereas, to be exempt from taxation, buildings mast be used exclusively for divine purposes. —Teachers in the pnblio schools of France are very seldom paid more than $5 a week, and as the expense for sal aries is now a little over $15,0001000 the Minister of Public Instructions re- loses to add to this amount and so in taxation. 'he Secretary of War has been di rected to spend $15,009 in erecting a monument ac the birth-place of General Gouverneur K. Warren at Cold Spring, near West Point, N. Y., provided tne ground, a rectangular place on the Poi rot estate, shall be given to the Govern ment for that purpose. Czar Alexander III makes a hobby of police and military uniforms. He has changed the costume of the St. Peters burg police three times since his acces sion. and careful'y examines the minutest details of all new styles sometimes tak ing hours to decide upon the pattern of of a button. —The annual report of the New York Custom House shows that the tonnage receipts for 1782 were $1,346,045, divi ded among 6327 sailing vessels and 951 steam veasels. Of the former, 2461 were British. 1904 American, 611 Nor wegian, 339 German and 261 Italian. Of the latter, 643 were British, 162 American, 47 German and 7 Italian. —Official returns still show that wolyes exist in large numbers in France. Last ye tr the number that were killed by persons who received the State awards amounted to 1225. The amount annually voted for these awards and for other expenses Attendant on the State campaign against the beasts is $80,000. The theatres of Europe are now 1457 in number, and Italy heads the list of nations in point of the largest share. She has 348, as against 387 in France, 194 in Germany, 160 in Spain, 150 in Great Britain, 132 io Austria and Hun gary. 44 in Russia, 34 in Belgium, 22 in Holland, 20 in Switzerland) 18 m Swo llen, and Norway, 16 in Portugal, 10 in Denmark, 4 in Turkey and 4 in ' Lit, dWbAi • i^smsma