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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.4 WEDNESDAY ' ir STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, \ Executive Department. j IN pursuance of an act of the General Assembty approved March 1, 1S70, entHed"An act, providing for the general election and the manner of conductingthe same, amended by an Act approved March 12, 1871, an election will be held in the several counties of this State on the Third WEDNESDAY, being the 16th day of October, for the following State, Legislative, County, and Congres sional officers to serve lor me next two and four years, as provided by the State constitution and acts of Congress of the Unised.Stales, to wit: Governor, Licu tenant.Governor, Attorney-General, Sec retary of State, Stale Treasurer, Comp troller-General, Superintendent of Edu cation, Adjutant and Inspector-General, members of the General Assembly, So licitors in the sevejtil judicial circuits, and for the various county offices, to gether with one Member of Congress to represent the State at large, and repre sentatives in the respective Congression al Districts. At the said election the following amendments to the State Constitution will be submitted to the voters l'or rati fication or rejection, to wit: I 1st. Amendment relating to change of time of holding general Elections. Strike out all ot' that }>ortion of Section XI of Article 2 following the words "eigliteeen hundred and seventy" oc curring in the fourth and fifth lines, and fifth lines, and insert the following: "And for'ever thereafter, on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, in every second year, in such manner?and at such places as the Leg istaiui v iuv< ^ juv u?u4???v? wi voting on this amendment shall be as follows: Those in favor of the amend ment shall deposit a ballot with the fol lowing words written or printed thereon, "Constitutional Amendment? Yes."? Those opposed to eaid amendment shall casta ballot with the following words written or printed thereon, 41 Constitu tional Amein me it?Xo.'} 2d. Amendment relating to the fur ther increase oi the public debt of the Btate as follows: Article XV, "To the end that the public debt of sSouth Caro lina may not hereafter bo increased with out tbe due consideration, and free con Bent of the people of tiie State, the peo ple of the fctate, the General Assembly is hereby forbidden to create any fur ther debt or obligation, either by the loan of thd credit of the iState, by guar antee, endorsement or otherwise,' except 4.1 1: i v , lur tue uruuiui y uuu uunrut uuninc??? \>i the State, without first submitting the question as to the creation of any such new debt, guarantee endorsement or Joan of the credit, to the people of this State, at a general election: and unless two-thirds of the qualified voters of this State voting on the question shall be iu favor of a further debt, guarantee, endorsement or loan of this credit, none shall be created or made." The manner of voting on this amend ment shall be as follows: Those in favor of the amendment shall dej)08it a ballot with the following words written or printed thereon, "Constitu tional Amendment, Article XVI.? Yes." Those opposed to the amendment shall cast a ballot,% with the following wojds written or printed thereon, "Con stitutional Amendment, Article XVI? iVO." A.U bar-moms and drinking saloons shall be closed on the day of election, and any person who shall sell any in toxicating drinks on the day of election shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on Qouviqtfou thereof, shall be fined in a sum not lesa than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not less than one month, nor more than six months. The Commissioners or Managers of Election, and cach of them, are hereby required, with strict regard to the pro visions of the Constitution and laws of the State, touching their duty iu such case, to cause such elections to be held in their respective counties on the day aforesaid, and to take all necessary steps for the holding of such electionon, and for the ascertaining and determining the persons wno snail nave oeen ouiyi elected thereat, according to the rules, principles and provisions prescribed by the Act and Amendment thereto, afore paid. In witness whereof, I have hereunto net my hand and caused the great seal of the State to Ije affixad at Columbia, the IGth day of September, A. D. 1872 and in the ninety-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. jl.1 I ROBERT K. SCOTT, Governor. F. L. Cari>ozo, Secretary of State. M. goldsmith. 1?. kind. Goldsmith. & Kind. FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, (PIIQ5XIX IKON WORKS,) COLUMBIA, S. c.. Manufacturers of steam en gines of all sizes; Horse powers, Circular and mi] ley Saw Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Or- > jiauiental. House and Store Fronts, Iron Railing*, Agricultural Implements, etc. Brass and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order on short notice, and on the moat reasonable terms. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses. . fctept. 10, 1872, 22?Gm Notice of . 9 T? rtftPWWiff WaffKMrTa mil) _ ssitomi. PUBLIC NGTICE is hereby given that a FINAL SETTLEMENT will be made at Abbeville C. H., on "WEliNESPAY, the 4(h DECEMBER next, of the assigned property of B. E. (jiberfc, which has come into my hands as "Administrator of Win. M. Rogers, dec;d, Assignee. ROBT. McCRAVEN, Administrator. Sept. 2A1672, 21-tf SOAP STONE. GT^OAP STONE can be furnished for chimneys, backs, jams and hearths oi any size and shape. All persons en gaged in building should use this Stoite for hearths, jams, &c.?the only Stone that will stand the lire, and can be fur nished at about half the price of granite, i Apply lit the Marble \ard, or to Mr. i John Lespefr, near Cokesbury. __ Aug.'14, 1872,18-tf. m MOULDINGS. WALNUT and Gilt Mouldings, just f V received, all sizes. Picture frames of any size can be put up at short notice, at J. 1). CHALMERS & CO.'S. _ July 31, 1872, 10-tf. The State of South Carolina ABBEVILLE COUNTY. In the Common Pleas. Ex Parte Bernard 0' Conner and liar ricl P. his wife. Petition to Sell Lot. PURSUANT to Order of Judge Or in this case, I will sell at Publi* Outcry, at Abbeville Court House, 01 Sale Day in October next, (7th.) The Lot of Land, on Corner of Water Street and Publi< iSmmiw npjir t,ho Court Hoiisp. know! as the O'Connor Lot, with the material thereon?2-3 by 75 fee more or less. Also, the Lot in rear of Adamson'; Grocery, with right of way to Wate Street, 23 by 4-3 feet, more or less. Terms of Sale. A credit of twelv< mouths with interest at 12 per cent from day of sale, io be paid scmi-mmu altij. Purchaser to give bond with a least two good sureties to secure pur chase money, pay cost in cash and paj for stamps and papers. Titles to be ex eeuted but nut delivered until all tlu purchase money is paid. WM. H. PARKER. Special Referee* Sept. 10,1S72, 22-tf Sheriff's Sale. Ij$ Y virtue of a Fi. Fa. to mo directed 0 I will sell at Abbeville Courl iii nnTnn'Rii'Nrpvn within tlia legal hours, the following property: One Trunk and contents, i dozen Bottles Bitters, -14 Pairs of Shoes, 19 pairs of Boots, Toys in Show Case, One Accord eon, 1 Lot of Hats, Clothing and Dry Goods, 1 Lot of Drugs, Station ary, 1 Lot Hardware. 1 Lot Empty Bot tles, 1 lot boxes and barrels, 1 Cooler, Tinware, Glassware and other sundries, levied upon as the property of Johd An derson, at the suit of W. <fc S. Agnew. Terms Cash. Y virtue of a writ of Fi. Fa. to me directed, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, on Saleday (7th) October next, within the legal hours, all that tract or plantation of land, situate in the County of Abbeville, containing r>f Irmri nmro nr Ins*: bnnndpil hv binrls HENRY S. CASOX, S. A. C. Sheriff's Office, \ Sept. 3, 1872, 22?It j Sheriff's Sale.. 400 ACRES, of Peter Bykard, and lands known as Mrs. Mary* Boozer's, levied on /is the property of R. H. Mounce, at the suit of Rebecca Stewart and J. J. Cooper. TERMS CASH?Purchaser to pay for stamps and paners, HENRY S. CASON, S. A. C. Shariff's Office, \ Sept. 4, 1S72, 22-41 / Sheriff's Sale. be re-sold at the risk of the V V risk of qhe former purchaser, A. O. Watson, at Abbeville Court House, CJnl?ovt oil thol uii naivuaj* , i in vv iuvvx wi* tract or parcel of land, situate in the County of Abbeville, near the village of Cokeabury, containing 153 ACRES, more or less, adjoining lands of DrNew ton Sims, Ed. Hodges, Yancy Martin and others, levied upon as the property of A. O* "Watson, at the suit of W. li. Parker, late Commissioner, &c. TERMS CASH?Purchaser to pay for stamps and papers. HENRY S. CASON. S. A. C. Sheriffs Office, Sept, 2,1872,12-lt The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. In the Court of Probcitc. Robt.. R. Seaw right and John X. Sea wright vs. Jas. Seawright,.Elizabeth J. Pruett and others. Proceedings in Partition of Land. ST appearing to my satisfaction that Ebenezer W. Searight, Andrew T. toeawright, CarolineSeavright, Clarence Seawriglit, and Mary Seawright, De fendants in this case, being some of the legal heirs and representatives of John ScawriL'ht, late of the County and State aforesaid, who died intestate, reside without the limits of this State, on mo tion of Perrin & Cothran, Attorney's,' it is ordered, that the said Defendants do appear in the said Court at Abbeville Court House, in forty days from this date, and answer the said Petition, or their consent to the sale of the said real estate will be entered as confessed. Given under my hand and seal this 10th I Aj. o.J uu\ ui ocjuviuut'i, *%. xj ioii. C. W. GUFFIN, J. P. A. C. Sept. 18, 1S72, 2-i~5t Sheriff's Sale. Banister Allen, Plaintiff, vs. James K. Vance and Sterling C. Merrimau. Bill for Specific Performance, Foreclo sure, &c. BY virtue of an order of Court in this case, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next, uin,; witnin me legal Hours, an that certain tractor plantation of laud, containing more or less, situate, lying and being within the County of Abbeville Slate of South Carolina, on Turkey Creek, ad joiuing lands of the Estate of Dr. W. T. Jones, A. M. Agnew,Estate of Marshall Sharp. J. T. Johnson, G. W. Hlggins, and others. Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for stamps and papers. HEN 11Y S. CASON, S. A. C. Sept. 6,1872, 24-1 f Final Discharge. "T5&TOTICE is hereby given that Mr. J. S. Williams, Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Williams, deceased, has applied to C. W. Gufiin j\idge ot Probate, in and for the County of Ab beville, for a final discharge as Ad ministrator. It is ordered, that the 17th day of Oc tober, A. 1). 1S72, be fixed for hearing ol Petition, and a final settlement of said Estate. * J. C. WOSMANSKY. C. C. P. Abbeville County. Sept. 18, 1872, 23-tf Y virtue of an execution to me direc ted, X will sell at Abbeville Cour! House, on Sale Day in October next within the legal hours, two barrels o; Whiskey, levied on as the property o: ' U. M. Mars, at the suit of John Knox I Terms Cash. 1 HENRY S. CASON, S. A. C. j Sept. IS, 1872, 24.-31 1,240 Acres, Sheriff's Sale. Executor's Sale. Four or Five TlisaM Acre OF , HIE WOOD l&m Y VIRTUE of an Order from th Circuit Court for Greenville Cour ty, we will sell before the Court Hous door, on SaLESDAY in OCTOBE] next, to the highest bidder, the follow ing lands, to wit: One tract, in Greenville County, fiv miles above the city of Greenville, lyin /?!> K^tli cirlu flu? Air T,ii]fi Tifiilroa and of the Rutherford road, contuinin about one thousand acres, and know as the MOUNTAIN CREEK TRACT Onp tract, contaiuing from four to liv hundred acres, lying between the Pei dleton and Anderson roads and on bot sides of the Easley's or Towns' bridg road. One tract, of about four hundred acre lying between the Anderson and Grov road, and on both sides of the Green ville & Columbia Railroad. One tract, of about fourteen hundre aeres, lying between the Grove and All gusta roads, on botli sides of the Soutl vnd North Forks of Bushy Creek, an< known as tlio BRUSHY CREEI TRACT. One tract, of about twelve hnndrei acres, known as the L AUK EL TRACT One lot, of seven or eight acres, lvini withing within the incorporate limit of the city of Greenville, fronting 01 Pendleton and Anderson streets, am adjoining lands of Gains, Stradley nn< others The above lands are almost entire!; in the original forest, and the extreui outer limit of no portion of them i more than six miles from the city limit .Some of them are entirely within th city, others partiy within and parti,' without, and others from a half to fiv and six miles distant. The dilleren tracts will be subdivided into tracts o from 30 to live hundred acres, to sui purchasers, and plats of the same wil be exhibitodon day of sale, and in th meantime can be seen by calling on A1 exander Mciiee. ALSO One tract of land, known as tin SHOAL TRACT, containing one hun dred and forty acres, more or less, situ ated in the upper part of Greenvilli County, on Waters of Beaverdam Creel jind ndioinine lands of R. F. Whilkei an i others. One tract, known as the GAP CREEP TRACT, lying on both sides of the oU Gap Creek, containing fifteen hundrec or two thousand acres, and extending to the North Carolina line. TERMS. One third cash ; balance on a credit o twelve months, secured by note an< mortgage of premises; purchasers t< pay for stamps and papers. if all the tracts are not sold on Sales day in October, the sale will be contin ueel from day to day until all are tiispos ed of. N. A. MoBEE, ALEX AIcUEE. Executors of Vardry McBee, deceased 111 1U7>> !tf kJVJ/V* IVj JLUI-, ?? Greenville & Columbia R. B CHARGE OF SCEDUXE. On and after Thursday, September tin 5tli, 1872, the Passenger trains ou th; Road will ba run as follows, daily, Sun days excepted: GOING WEST, OK UP. [Leave Columbia 7:15 a.m " Newberry 10:40 a. m " Cokesbury 2:00 p. m " Belton 3:50 p.m Arrive Greenville 5:30 p.m GOING EAST, OR DOWN. Leave Greenville 7:30 a.m " Belton 0:30 a.ui " Cokesbury 11:15. a.m " Abbeville 9:15 a.m " Newberry 2:3(Xp.m " Alston 4:20 p.m Arrive Columbia 6:00 p.m #3?" Connect at Alston with trains or j the Spartanqurg and Union Railroad connecting at Columbia, S. C., witl Night Trains on the South Caroline Railroad, upand down ; also with Traius going North and South on Charlotte Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and Wilmington, Columbia and August* Railroad. ABBEVILLE BRANCH. Train leaves Abbeville at 9.15 M. connecting with Down Train from Greenville. Leaves Cokesbury at 2.1; P. M., connecting with Up Train fron: Columbia. Accommodation Train Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Leaves Cokesbury at il.15 A. M.., or on the arrival of the Down Train fron1 Greenville. Leaves Abbeville at ] o'clock P. M., connecting with Uf Train from Columbia. ANDEHSON BRANCH A BT.UEBIDCEDIV'N DOWN. Leave Walhalla 5:45 a.m 41 T'orrvvillo 6:25 a.m, " Pendleton 7:10 a.m " Anderson 8:10 a.m Arrive Belton 9.00 a.m UP. Leave Belton 3:50 p.m " Anderson 4:50 p.ra " Pendleton 5:50 p.m " Perryville 6:35 p.m. j Arrive Walhalln 7:15 p.m. j Accommodation Train between Jiel ; ton and Anderson on Tuesdays, Thurs< days and Saturdays. Leave Belton a! 9.5*0 A. M., or on arrival of Down Trail from Greenville. Leave Anderson ai 2.03 P. 51., connccting with Up Trait i from Columbia. j THOS. BOD A ME AD, (Jcn'i yuperintenaem Jabez Norton, Gen'l Ticket Agent Boot and Shoe Maker, LARSON'S OLD STAND, ABEEVILLE C. H., S. C, O-'-O ANTED. 1,000 lbs. T)IU j v V HIDES for which the highest price will be paid or taken in exc^^ugf for Boots and Shoes. May 20, 1872, 7?tf JUST SO. NE Gross and four pairs of Miles best CLOTH GAITERS, receivei and for sale at' 19 0. July 31,1S72, lG-tf. Application for Charter]] o: Incorporation. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby givei that application will be made a the next Session of the Legislature fo the incorporation of Hodges Depot. Aug. 21, 1S72, 3m A Modern Story. Nay, 'tis thy wedding-day! Thou must be blithe to-day; Gladly the bells shall ring, Gayly shall children fling Eoses and primroses for thee to tread. Quick to thy chamber get, 1'ut on thy coronet; Bloom of the orauge-tree Right well becometh thee; Proudly thy chosen one waits .thee to wed. Standest thou still there? Wherefore that vacant stare? Pule arc thy checks and cold, And by thy face i3 told Something of sadness, and something of rue. Can, then, winged memory Yet bear thee mournfully Back to those days of bliss, Ere with a bitter kis*s He whom thou lovest last bid thee adieu? Worthy he was of thee, Poor though he chanced to be; Long he is gone, and so Maybe he's dead, you know; So let him buried be: turn to thy lord. "What if to-morrow bring Sorrow and murmuring? liiches and title heal Wounds that our spirits feel: All that is costly thy lord can ail'ord. So to thy chamber get, 11 Put on thv coronet. ' All things are waiting tliec : Try and smile happily, Let not thy face thy heart's sadness y record. ! BESSIE HAT, e )' ? The fragrant wild roses lifted f their pink chalices up toward the t sunshine of the July heavens; the \ robbins sang uproarious glees in " the branches of the old apple or chard, and neither rose nor robin was fairer or sweeter voiced than e| .Bessie Hay as she stood among the current bushes, culling the red ripe fruit nnder the shade of a huge old pear tree, where the stooe wall of the garden was draped with the emerald festoons of a wild grape vine, while Paul Estcott stood lean ing against the mossy trunk of the pear tree, twisting a trunk of blue bells in his hands. "I know I am poor, Bessy," lie said, resuming a conversation which had apparently lapsed into silence for a moment or so; "but I sup pose poor people have a right to live and be happy as well as rich ones." ."I suppose so, too; Paul." .."And I am sure I am willing to work, if only I could find some . tiling ro ao." Bessy looked depreciatingly at I him. "Mr. Elton wants some one to take the farm and work it " "That is mere drudgery, and, be s sides, the pay would hot enable me -! to marry and support a wife com fortably." "We could wait, Paul." "You are very willing said tho young man bitterly. . "I don't be lieve, Bessy, that you care for me as I do for. you," . "Oh, Paul!" And a pained look came over the fair young face. "Well, then, what do you think of being tutor to Mr. Sinclair's lit tle boys?" "Thank you I don't fancy the idea of being toad-eater to a pomp [ ous aristocrat like Henry Sinclair." i "13ut ratil, wo cant always ao . and be what we please in this | world," pleaded Bessy, with a troubled look shining in her ten der, garnet-brown eyes. "Easy philosophy for you!"? I And the young man threw down j his stem of blue-bells." ' 1 "I suppose you would like to | have me break stones upon the i road. I thought at least you could 1 sympathize with the feellings of a j gentleman." "So I do, Paul, but I believe in the scripture doctrine of a man's doing with all his might whatever his hands iind to do." "I see how it is," said Paul Est cott haughtily; "you are weary of your engagement; you want' to break the worldly fetters that bind you. Vcry well; so let it be. Yon are nice." And he strode away over the high grass, muttering to himself something about "having suspect ted how it would turn out, ever t ; "17 7) 1. 1 1 (jsincc -Morion van i>rugn nau conic t j down from London to sketch the i scenery, and turn the heads of all the girls." Bessy Ilay made a step or two to .jovertake him, but she checked her-: self in an instant, with a scarlet stain on her check, and a,ga the ring mist in her eyes. "He ought to know better," she thought, "and he does. l\o I will uqt follow him. lie will come: back to me when the momentary pique has worn iteelf away."' "In the meanwhile, Paul, vault L ing over the low stone wall a few j , paccs below, had very nearly stum bled over the prostrate form of a man lying amoug the red clover ' blossoms, in .the island of shade cast by an umbrageous tree, and reading. ' "Mr. Van Br ugh." 1 The young artist glanced up with a sort of lazy scorn showing under liis long, dark eyelashes. 'Paul bit his lip. "Engaged in the noble, occupa c tion of evesdropping, eh ?" he mut tered. "Come, now, Estcott, don't bo i crusty; I did not mean to overhear \ your conversation, but what was a r fellow to do? This is the jolliest place on the whole farm, and I wasn't to blame because Miss Hay came out, looking like Hebe's self, to gather red currants, and you fol lowed like lier shadow. Come let's go down by the trout stream, and talk over matters and tilings in general. Are you really in earnest about wanting something to do ?" "Of course I am." "Then suppose you just glance over this letter that I received this morning from my uncle. I have no i&ea of expatriating myself nmonor the nicr-tailed celestials, for o ? O / all the fortunes that ever were made But for an ambition man?read tlie letter, that's all." Paul Estcott obeyed, almost daz zled for the momeut by the bril liant prospect it seemed to open to him. "You really give me the privi lege of accepting or refusing this situation ?" he exclaimed. "I really do; and considering that I don't want it myself, it is no very great stretch of generosity 011 my part. Only, you see, you have to decide at once, and be in the city to report yourself at my uucle's counting-house within four and twenty hours." . Paul sprang up, flushed and ca ff cr. "I'll do it, I'll show Bessy Hay that I am no do-nothing after all, when a motive really worth my while presents itself. But," glan cing. at his old-fashioned silver watdh, "I have no time to lose." "23ot a second." "But my trunk ?" "You can get what you need in town; my uncle supplies the out fit." "And Bessy?" "Write her to-night; ray uncle will forward the letter undercover to me, and I will see that she gets it." Paul Estcott wrung his compan: ion's hand. "You are very kipd." he said huskily. "I had .almost grown to regard you with distrust." van Brugh laughed, showing his dainty, pearl white teeth, under a hivm-n moustache. "Ifever judge by appearances," lie eaicl, "take my word for it, Miss ITay will excuse all lack of cere mony when she learns all." Mr. Van Brugh accompanied ; Paul to the railroad station, and saw him* oil' with a smilingly-ut- j terod profusion of good wishes. ' The best friend a fellow ever J had," thought Paul as the train ] moved of. Brit he could not see the sardon- < ic grin into which the curves of the farewell' smile altered when the liftln Prtimtir R+fltinn V.'flR lfiffc onco more to silence-and loneliness. "Xow," said Morton Van Br ugh, "I shall have theiield all to myself. Strange how fascinated I have al lowed myself to become with a mere country girl! But there cer tainly is something very winning in her type of beauty." Bessy Hay never answered Paul Estcott's farewell letter, nor did the latter once suspect that it was be cause Mr. Van Brugh never had delivered it. Paul, firing up under the fevered impulses of his old enemy, jealousy, took refuge in silence. In or did a long epistle from his Aunt Jemi ma. which contained more news? possible, probable, and impossible ?than any government bulletin, serve to cool the flames. "Folks say," wrote the epistolary spinster, "that Eliza Hay is going to marry the widower Sinclair, be cause he's rich. There was a deal of talk about her and that young Van Brugh, but he went away all i of a sudden, folks thought it likely with a flea in his car. Eliza knows! *vn1l Kulo lior bread is! buttered on, and Sinclair can't live long with that cough of his." It was no wonder, then, that when pretty Bessy Hay made an, excuse to come to Aunt Jemima's and asked wistfully, and with a cer-l tain quiver in her voice, if Paul's! letter contained no message for her,! the elderly gossip - monger an-i swered: "Bear me, no! You didn't ex pect to hear, did you ?" Bessy went back home, her little heart as cold as lead in her hosom. She has refused Van Brugh ; she said u2s"o" to Mr. Sinclair, in spite of Aunt Jemima's knowing prog nostications ; and people began to wonder if pretty Bessy Hay was going to he an old maid, after all. ""Why doesn't lie write to me, or send me at least a word to show j that he has not utterly forgotten Why doesn't she answer my let- jf tcr ?" tliought Paul. I ^ So the world wagged on until Mr. Estcott came home from the 1 p fur-oft' ilowcry land?not, indeed,if with the fortune of which he had I dreamed in such a sanguine fash-! c ion, but with a sufficient compc-b tence to live ;vell and comfortably j,, 1 in a place as modest as his native village. It was a stormy November even ing, with threabttiiings of snow in the chill air, and the low wind! stirred.the last withered leaves upon the boughs, when he alighted at the station, looking almost into the eyes of Bessy itay, who had come to the post-oflice to aRk once again for the letter that never came. How seldom arc our visions real ized ! Bessy had dreamed a thousand ji times of meeting Paul Estcott, but ? never in sucli a way as this. "Paul!" she quive/ed. "Ah said Paul, doffing liis stylish fur traveling-cap, "I hope you are well." For he did not exactly like to call her Mrs. Sinclair as yet* The red staius of sunset had al most faded out of the sky when he overtook her. about a hundred yards from the station. Ilia heart smote him when he saw the look of patient endurance in her face. "Are you alone, Bessy ?" "Yes, Paul." ; "I suppose," lie said, with an ef fort, "that I must call you by some All A tA AttT 9'' UlUV/i uaiiii; iiu>v . "Call me Bessy Hay," she an swered quietly. "You are not married?" ' "Xo, Paul!" He drew a long breath that was almost like a sob. "Aunt Jemima said?but Bessy, why did you not answer my let ter ?" . Before they had reached the old Hay farm, where the current bush es had long since lost their leaves, and the garden wall was already beginning to be whitened with the fulling snow-Hakes, the mists of doubt and misunderstanding were all cleared up, and Bessy Hay had promised to forgive and forget all her lovers seeming neglect. "Van Brugh was a scoundrel," uttered Paul, "but without his aid I could scarcely have been jn a po sition to marry you! It has been a long time to wait, but it is all right, Bessy, after all." "It's like a story, Paul," said Bessy, "where people go through all sor(3 of trials and tribulaitons, but are happy at the last. Oh, Paul, I never thought I should live a story." a mother'Tstrategy. / Dramatic Scene at a Watering-Place North?Mrs. Vielo Abdncts Her Child?Pain Tu] Episode of Do mestic Life, Etc., Etc. Tho upper circles of society of the North aro very much excited ovor the abduction of a child of General Egbert L. Vielo. at Luke Mahopac, by bis divorced wife, who hacLcomo over from Europo in the steamer Vandalia, for the purpose,.and who icturned to England when pho accomplished it, carrying the child with her. All the parties are in the highest society. General Viele and his former wife arc both well known in Virginia, where ho commanded a department, inclu ding Norfolk, after tho--war. The New Yovk Express, of the 7th, gives Iho particular of the affair, the oc currence being already jeceivud by telegraph. AYe copy a portion of its account: On Wednesday last tho shores of Lake Mahopac wcro the pccrc of an episode in real life and of a character most thoroughly melo-drnmatic. Our readers may well remember tho liti gation regarding the Vcile children und tho conduit of Judgo Barnard therein, who, having made an jordcr For the mother to have the custody of Lhe two youngest .children, neutrali sed ilg effect by forbidding it to be entered. By arrangements between Lhe parlies, A CONNECTICUT DIVORCE ivas agreed upon, Mrs. Vielo being in willing to manufacture testimony is to the residence required by the aws of that Stato. By some blun lerof the law}-ers nothing was was stated in the decro in the dcereo as .0 the guardianship of tho children. ;nd only one child, tho youngest boy, vas given to Mrs. Voile after the livorce. After escaping a trap laid ,o steal him from her, Mrs. Vielo took iim to Europe, ond while there heard >f her husband's marriage. With voman-Iiko impetuosity Mrs. Vielo vroto to New York that she would iave tho clergyman deposed for vio ating the canons of tho Church bj' olemnijeing the marriago, and that ho would return at once TO REMOVK HER DAUGHTER. ArrivetMn New York (per Vanda ia) JS1 rs. Vielo took into her eonfi lence two lady friends of good slnn ling and two gentlemen. One of hem, rumor has it, is an office]- hi?h n the United States army; tho other t is believed, a well-known lawyer of his city. Thursday n'ght week the wo gentlemen (appropriately dis guised) took a run to Lake Mahopae, diero General Vielo resides with his icwly wedded wife and former wife's hildren. Tho house of General riclo was carefully^survcyed by tho ourist. who learned that a Kocky ilountain bear was kept chained in he roar garden. One of our tourists, I inving sonic acquaintance wilh Gen ral Yiele, called upon liiin and soon ! nade i'riends with him, his new wife, ,nd THE LITTLE GIRL, i?r whoso abduction these elaborate! (reparations wore being made. To! :cep up their character our tourists inished up wilh a pedestrian excur-j ion; and informing tlio clerk of the | iregoiy Ilouse, while paying their' ills, of their intention of returning ho following Tuesday, they trudged j iff to Fceskill on foot. 1'eturning to ^ew York, a pressing business en-1 :agcment was made with General j fielo for the following Wednesday | September 4) at the General'* office ! ON TIIF, EVENING OF WEDNESDAY, ho 4th of September, our military j riend fulfilled his promise at the Gregory House, and the next morn-J ng watched tho General off by 'the J rain. This ho telegraphed to New: iTorlc. and the forty-minutes-past-ten i rain boro from New York Mrs Geti-i ;ral Vielo, her legal adviser, and onCj >f the lady friends beforo referred to.! flic military gentleman met them at; he depot, l)ake Mahopac, with a car-1 iagc, and the party, with many manyj ncumbrances, for Mrs. Viclo design id taking a long journey?what an apt word was the old Boman "imped imenta"?started round the west shore of the Lake to General Yiele'e residence, avoiding the village by this detour, and coming upon a pic nic on their road. Arrived at the General's the lawyer got down, rang the door bell, asked for the General, and he being out, for MKS. VIELE NUMBER TWO. She as it happened, was out driving; whereupon our lawyer, describing himself as the health officer of the district, appoimea nnuur u ictum ^im aginary) act of tho Legislature, asked if the laday whom he was addressing could furnish him with ccrtificatcs of the vaccination of any children there under fourteen years of age, and no certificate being forthcoming, asked to examine tho chilren. Teresa was brought to him. lie learnedly put on his spectacles. Tho right arm being shown, lie said tho mark was so faint it must bo dono over again. "Oh, I've made a mistake; 'tis the other arm," said Miss Veilo, the oldest sister, and showed the, left arm, which our doctor for the nonce described as very good; that it had taken very well; jotted down on his tablets the name and age of thojittle girl, said the mark was very good, kissed her sweetly, and asked to see tho other child, said to bo seven years old. She was out with Mrs. Vcilc (No. 2;) would be homo in half an hour. "Well," said the Doctor, "I'll make somo other calls. My time is, of course, very short, but I'll be back at half-past 2." Stepping back to his carriage, ho drove around; returned in twenty minutes. Miss Viele ap peared at the door, leading LITTLE EMILY by tho hand, whom she took into tho parlor to unfasten her dress and ex hibit her arm. Our "doctor" made the agreed-on signal?military friend and Mrs. Yiele rushed out, -to the door?"Mrs. Yiele," said our doctor lawyer, "here is your child." "My dariing," said tbo yearning mother, and quick as thought she lifted the child in her arms and bore her to wards the carriage. Bat Miss Yiele, though taken by surprise, proved herself a heroine. One can only re gret that her courage and presence of mind were not displayed upon the proper side. She flew after her moth er, but was stopped by the two gen tlemen,-on whom shefuriously turned, tearing the coat of one to tattors and infiirtinrr a .fiflvorA blow on"tho fore head ot the other Thinking Mrs. Viole had sufficient start, tho gentle men now let go th'eir^old, antfagain Miss Viele darted aftor he mother and sister, and would have caught them had not the lawyer seized her round tho waist. Miss Yiole's foot, tripped, and she fell heavily on the gravel, hearing tho gentleman above her to the ground, but soizing his hat ?a very peculiar ono, borrowed ox preasly to mislead?she carriod it off iu triumph. The party drove off, the mother kissing her child frantically^ ana ior a ume au weni merry as ? marriage bell,' except that nothing would induce the driver to hasten his horses, he evidently doubting wheth er all was right, and apparently wish ing himself and his team well out of the business. Presently our Jadj' friend oricd out: "we aue followed!" Our lawyer, looking over tho car riage, saw a man coming on at a hard gallop with a rovolver in hand, and whispered to the military friend to draw his revolver. Down came the i i 7r ~4. jjuibult, uuu luvuuujj tuuiuvuivcr <vt the gentlemen demanded the child. Tlie military gentlemen, cooly pre senting his piece, said in a threaten ing tone, "Don't shoot; drop your muzzle," and down it went; the horse man galloping on to the picnic party and appealing to them for aid. Some three or four stepped into the road to stop the carriage, though this was not necessnry, as the darkey pulled up and refused to proceed until the matter was settled. Several threatening faces now ap proached the carriage and demanded the child. "NEVER.1" SAID MRS. GENERAL VIELE, drawinsr herself tin: "Jfever! it is o " ~ i / my child, ard you shall cut my heart out before 3-ou tako it." The lawyer jumped down, and tel ling Mrs. Vielo to appeal to tho wo men, he went among the men and ad dressed them. The battle was won, but meanwhile Mrs. Viclo had been addressing tho mothers there, and one of them, loader among them, soon said to her, "You keep the child. "I will while I have life," Raid Mrs. Yiele passionately; and tho lawyer, turning to the good woman, asked her to speak to the men, which sho did with effect. Tho noblo-Iwoking man before referred to, standing six foot four, and broad in proportion, advanced to tho horses' heads and said "drive on!" Still the driver hesitated; the lawyer jumped into the carriage find urged him on ; the horseman with the re volver-having since dismounted) made a motion to spring to the horsos' heads, but was held back l>y tho nob!# looking man and another?one on each fide holding him by his coat cuffs?and the lawyer, half draw ing his sword-stick, told him that if he again dared to stop the carriage, ho would put tho sword through hiuu The party drove oa to Peckskill, but reflecting that they would havo to wait over an hour and a half for tho train, during which time another crowd and fuss might bo got up, or ders wore given to tho driver to go on to Montrose. This ho deelaacd his horses could not do, and some mis trust being felt of him, he was senton lo the depot with some of the party, while tho rest took another carriage and proceeded to Garrison's, wher^ they got safely on board the cars. Sufficient time was given to General Viele to procuro a habeas, and at the same tune au intimation was given him of tho nature of the dol'eneo. which could be raised, and no steps being taken , or at least none being, heard of, Airs. Viole and her child left, to-day for Europe. SCRAPS. <?4 A follow who sees a girl homo under an umbrella is certainly a rain bean; * The Chicago Times describes the aurora borealis as the "angels in the panorama business." An extravagant bride at Swamp-. , seott?according to a Boston paper bathes in a suit of white satin, trim med with lace. . Donn Piatt, who is banqueting on fricascd ''caw-caw," says the best way to enjoy "crow" is to contemplate buzzard. . * ?> : A Western paper says that ccrp is growing so fast in its locality that it frightens timid horses that pass t>y the cornfields. ' . The City Gonncil of Chieago is ask ed to changb the names of some fifty streets. The main troubles are "Wrong street," "Rum street," "Whiskey Point," and "Queer Place." Change is certainly wanted. "See Naples and die," says the proud old Italian proverb. "I didn't quite die,1' commented a profane American | "but I did vj>ry nearly. The smell was awful." A colored hod carrier,.of Peru, Intf.,1 caught a rafter of a falling building on his head. It was badly broken? the rafter. A Japancso scholar in one of the New IlaveD schools, having been in sulted by a schoolmate recently, iient a note to one of the instructors, re questing permission to kill the offend-' er. - : ; Dr. Evans is the famous American" dentist in Paris. When ho pulls !a tooth for a cockney Englishman the., cockncy salutes him "Great Eyans," The official returns, of the JSprth Carolina election give Gov. Caldwell 98,594 votes, and Merrimon 9(^679 votes, thus eleoting Caldwell by a majority of 1,915. Sincc mad doc;s have made their ?' advent in St. Joe, Mo., the' yonng men have donned iron calves. The' gins are content witn naiurai saw-' , dust. . Under the head-<lHow. we assist the . Devil," a religious paper says, "We consume millions of gallons of distilled spirits yearly." The editori al "we" in this case makes it awk ward. Ancicnt manuscripts were written without accents, Stops, or separation between the wprds; nor was.it until afterjrbo ninth century that cojjyists began to leave spaces between the words. One of tbo young men belonging to a choirin Danbury bad his hair cut by a generous* barber Oil Saturday. Sunday he sung for a eolo./'Cover ray defenceless head," and blushed like a lobster while doing it. . ' Roasting ears are plenty," says an exchange, to which a dismal contem porary responds, '-Yes, and noses and heads and corporations. Down with the mercury, drown the magnesium. This is too much I" The Springfield Republican, when it speaks of Edmonia Lewis, is troubled to uccido whether to alludo to her as a "negro sculptress" or a- "negress sculptor," using both forms of expres sion in separate paragraphs. An old lady, on entering a store the other day, said: "Why, it can't be that you keep this store yet! I thought you had gono out of business. I ain't seen your "name or anything about your store in the paper for over a year, ana evorynouy in our neign borhood thinks you havo gone oot of business."?Exchange. Sir Walter Scott, in his days of. law practice, once defended a house breaker at Jedburgh. After the trial, the prisoner sent for him, thanked him for his exertions, and said ho was sorry he could not give him a fee* but he would give him two bits of infor mation : First, that a yelping torricr inside a house was a better protection than a big dog outside; and secondly, that no lock so bothered a house breaker as an old rusty ono. "When a fellow is too lazy to work " says Sum Slick, "ho paints his name over tho door, and calls it a tavern, and makes tho whole neighborhood as lazy as himself." ' Little boy, can I go through this gate to tho rivor?" politely inquired a * fashionably-dressed lady. "Per'aps 80 j aloud of hay went through this . morning," was tho horrid reply. The habit of indulging in ardent spirits by men in office Las occasioned more injury to tho public than all other causes. And were I to com mence my administration again with the experience I now have, tho first question I would ask a candidate would be, "Do you use ardent spirits?" ?Jefferson, A story is told of a father in a church, who, when tho marriage sar + a 4 K a wainf wiiaka f ka V 1v-V VillJ IG 1>VS hiv UVIUV TV uviv vuv clergyman asks, ''Who givoth this woman to bo married to this man ?" replied, "Well, sir, I am called to do it, although it do go again the grain. I wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who is worth twicc the money o' that ere man." The answer was not con sidered regular. The following note was written to her schoolmate by a girl who had been absent several days: "Dear Su sie?I shan't attend school again until I Get some new cuffs, collars and jew el, -yt?dear Mama agrees with me that it is my Dooty to take the shine out of that Upstart Mamy Jones, and I'll do it if I never learn nothing." Truth.?Many persons are contin ually complaining of bad luck, when their ill-fortune is nothing more thart their own want of energy and perse verance. Bad luck is simply a man with his hands in his pockets and a pipe in* his mouth, looking on to seo how it will come out. Good luck is a man with his shirt sleeves rolled up and working with a will to make it come right!