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ABBEVffiLE PI^ESS AND BA^IVEI^i^ v * BY AY. A. LJjg^D HUGH WILSON. ^ jpf-. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1875. .... VOLUME XXIII---FO CONGAffH 111 WORKS I - <:: *, Oolixmloia, S. O^-.' H Mi Proprietor. K Mnnnfnfitnrer of Steam Ell gines and Boilers. Iron and Brass Castings of all Descriptions made to Order. ? was awarded tho first premium! J[ on castings at the State A^ricul-j tural and Mechanical Society Fairs, j held in Columbia, November, 1ST 1. j '72 '73. MANUFACTURE Cricular Saw Mills of all sizes. ;Ii x c< r\ ? * UXIjOV Took the First Premium at State Fairs held November, 1ST 1, 72,73;Manufacturer of Grist Mills Irons of all sizes. For Sale. 1 & ^ Gin Gearing of the following sizes. 9 feet wheel and pinion $:to 001 A 10 * o- ou. " " " .To 00 12 " " " " 4o 00 ;f| .v 14 " " " " 00 001S "With Bolts $6.50 Extra for each set. Anti-friction plates and Balls for Cot- ? ton Press $10.00 anil $12.00 per set. & D. B. SMITH, Agent, (Abbeville S. C. " Dec. 10, 1873, 35-tf 1 New Store! mpiw s t ^ . JIEW trUUiJS!!; 7W1HE undersigned have just opne<f an entire new stock of [ GROCERIES, Provision and Liquors, [' ? As well as Oilier Goods in b their Line. si u | At the 01(1 stand of A. M. IIILL. re- |. .nnntltr 'I'ROW Hi; I 1)(J I- & CO.. whew ? we "will be pleased to serve the public i | CITE A P FOTi awn. . ' A. M. HILL, i: Jau. 29, 1873, 42-ti ill E, I C.WEST & SONS, ? ! ALADDINs oilty J; THE BEST OIL IX USE. jt] "WARRANTED 150 I>EGRl-:iCS FIRE TEST, j b Water white in color. Fully deodorized. 0 And it will not explode. It burns in all Coal Oil and Kerosene J i, Lamps. TKY IT. Ask for "Aladdin T Security," and take no other. jJJ C. WEST & SONS. ; 113 and 115 W. Lombard St., Bait. M<1. j I Nov. 7, 1K74 gO-Gm {^ i ST& N0RRELL> 7 li Harness and Saddle Maker, ! u A T his Old Stand over Parker & Per- si I /% rin's Drug Store, has a supply of b Northern HARNESS LEATHER, joi [ and other material for Making'and Re- c< " pairing Saddles and Harness. i a f(\ Dec. 2, 1874, 34, tf j FRESH GOONRY MEAL," *), v, . I M At $1.40 per bushel, received every! week, by j Cunningham & Templeton. ( t Nov. 11 31-tf i. ESTATE OF |e - TAR C. -RAY. iWrl. IV ? 5 ~ 11 IT p A LL persons indebted lo James C. m f\ Ray at the time of his death 4tro requested to make payment to us, ju and those having demands against U him to render them in properly veri- ] ? l?ed to us. WILLIAM ANDERSON, ANDREW ANDERSON, Executors. j| Abbeville, March 13, 1S75, 49-Cm " C.E. BRUCE," !J Boot and Shoe 3SakerJ? 1 Over Parker & Perrinjs Store. ! .Abbeville^ S. C. j*' DESIRES to nay that he is fully pre-: puled to meet all demands the* public may make in his line, lie keeps, l constantly on hand a large lot of the best material andeinploysonly the finest *y workmen. He keeps a full stork of 4 custom-made "Boots and Shoes, anfl " guarantees the mpst entire satisfaction si in every instance. Sept. 1, 1874, ^1-tf Mark the Spot of Your Pe- ^ ceased Friends. Marble "Works A FULL line of stock on hand audi /m all work sold ut the lowest price, I ^iid work done in the best workman-like 1! manner. Several hundred new and:* handsome designs on hand to make! selections from. We will duplicate city price in all monumental works L>y which you can save freight. v Y cry rcspcctful Iy? . D. CHALMERgj " . sast-'iv.u.. ..? , STEAM -ift ? " 'U.-, /U v ' v," ->W--' ;. " - - ; ' Columbia, S. C. p w; wing,! IVoprietor. MANUFACTUllKIt OF | B I 1 lash, Blinds, Doors,! t WINDOW ! AXI) DOOlt FRAMES, ! unite Pivot Bliiids aiii Slitters < COLUMNS, ! 7 ii Pilasters, ;; MANTEL PIECES, | i fiouldings, Brackets,' j Ilaiul-Rails, f. t JEWELS, BALUSTRES,! * 1? I 0 croll Wcrl of all fecri]itioii.j ill Work Guaranteed A No. 1.; t May L'8, 1S74? 7-ly. i lj 7D7CHALMERS & CO. j ^ I >' DEALERS IX i a. ! l lairs, Parlor Suits, OWer Suits,! i | i! Falnut & Mahogany Bareaus,; * fashstaiuls, Tables, Ijodstcads,: Window Shades, &c. Looking j (.ihi.s.scs, Oil Olirumog, Ac. Abbeville, S. C. I I Also agents for the sale of the rol- j ? bratcd Philadelphia Improved JJus-j ie Window .Shade, which for drra-j (! ilil)', cheapness, convenience and! j, eauty, cannot lie surpassed. .Each c liade is furnished with all the fixt-| 1 res coinph-te, and only requires two J ith nails or small screws 10 fasten it; t p with. Should they become soiled j y flies, they can he spread on a tabic,' 1ashed and made as bright as new,' ^ nd will last for years. This style of' ^ hade is much superior to cloth' hades. Jn warm weather, "when the] * 'indow is raised, ihe shade admitsI j he air but prevents (lies and mosqui-j 3cs entering the room. TWe simplie- , y of their fixtures is mnch in their j h ivor, as they require no rollers, each ; 1 IimIo being complete, and an}" oncj an drive two nails by which t.o hang ' liein. They arc low in price, dura-j 1 le, convoniciit. and never get out of rder. Call at store and see samples. Nov. IS, 1874 32-tf IENTISTRY! DENTISTRY!! ! Dr. H. D. WILSON ' rWFFERS lus professional services to | Lf the people of Abbeville County j nd of upper .South Carolina. Having 1st finished a course of study in the * ennsylvania College of Dental Surer \\ he feels fully competent to attend j > all cases requiring the exe.cise oj iilled Dental Surgery that may be rought to him. He asks the patronage j f the Dcorde. and iruarantees full and jmplete satisfaction. He has procured t full set of first-class Dental Instru- t lents, and is prepared to do first-class { ork at most reasonable rates. I BZtjr OFFICE jnst over Post Office. 1 . GOLDSMITH. 1'. KIND. | Ooldsmitli "Kind, OUNDERS & MACHINISTS, | (IMKKXIX IKON WOUKS, i COLUMBIA, S. C. . ft MANUFACTURERS of Steam En * JL gines of all sizes ; Horse powers, ircular and Mulcy Saw Mills, Grist j id Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Ornmental, Hou. e and Store Fronts, Iron ailings, Agricultural InipUnu-nts, etc. i-a.-s and Iron Castings of all kinds utile to order on short notice, and on! > ic most reasonable terms. Also, man- i facturers of Cotton Presses. Mav -s. 1st:'., 7-liim [ t "MAS' SAW Mil' is Closed for Repairs. PARTIES who have contracted ? for U'M I>EH will call on AL-t iEN McCANTY nt Mr. Edwards, j 1 I have sonic I limber on hand which; j ill be disposed of for the cash. f. W, THOMAS.! ! .March 124, ISTo, 50-tf )R. JOHN S. THOMPSON, DENTIST, ! ! ^kFFFRS Ins professional services to! * J" the citizens of Abbeville, and the! t irrounding country. j r Office over Citizens' Savings j' lank, Abbeville, S. C. j ) Oct. li, ISTo.J.sif I Thresher and Fan, j t ! v ALSO. U lailway Horse Power, r For sale by t Barnwell & Co. j? April 19,1875,6-tf 1 11 E " y*S ' [Cyi'YHIGHT SVXTKEI).] HieljeirofiheP|ilii ort 5 Cftc ^ttorncy'jg .fee. IIY ALFRED 13. TOZER, .trnoi: (ir i;<.iso 11 \ n i ? ani> FooT/tj " IVltO WAS TO BUJIli," ETC. ^ ? ? niAi'Tim r. m th:: dead hand. An cTJ man, white haired but hale njrid Iroiig of frame still, lay dying injj&fpacious hal! of his own i*esidenceJijBfe? deasaut New England factory townJ* Ten minutes lx-fore, ho had loft liis room o pay his daily visit to the office in the ;n at mills below, and now he lay, prone k ith a fatal strolnjfof paralysis, on the oakn floor of hia' owu house, with no one to ce him die, or to learn hia lust wishes. Tli'.-early October sunlight shone through he narrow, stained panes of the front enrnnee and rested upon the old man's face, tow disfigured with such anguish as only hose in * no very jaws of death can know. Vhen that torrilde numbness first came ;><>u him, and lie had fallen at the foot of lie br'?nd stairway, lie had tried to make ie servants i'i the rear portion of the muse hear him and understand his terrible cod of !.<_ :[i. Hut all were too far away ml too busy v. it It their dut ies, to hear the v moans and et ies which alone escaped w ln??_ r? And so lie lay dying alone, with the cmuds of the (own and the morning work 11 the house growing fainter and fainter a 11is cars. His right side was completely paralyzed i*oin tli" moment of his fall, and while iiat awful nerve stillness, wlu.-h means iMth, was creeping swiftly towards bis vart, lie scrawled a few wolds- 011 a scrap f paper whit:h lie was carrying in his hand t tit? time of his fail, *.:i-1 fell back innsj.Je, with (be writing held fast in his lcjiclied iibt. When the housekeeper passed through lie hit.1.! <>n her way upstairs, she foiUid him i,-i>:tr tiiere, dead. 111 a few moments the honso wis filled i" h curious villagers. There were not a ,?w re.ii iitourner.'i 111 the throng which, a .'W lioiirs later, filed past the still figure L-'m .ui tin; lied in tV? darkened parlor f.om, I r V. niSiiiyft'i'il had been kind iiia.-ler, mida liberaI, yenerous neighor. ' Tlie on"r!i(ivop will 110 vcv have as kind n i was! the iiiiiv.-rsal relink, :.? l sisiiiy a r>.n;li man with tlie i -t of !;i<- in.!'.- iit-on him. wiped hiseycs ?-j ii'll -ir, an lie aloud .11 lilt.' piVSt'TU'C of ii.- 1. \Y< rl: t the fuetwy was at once, lid. fortho tirst. time in yen is. the horns t.>>i*i still on a \v><;k-'l;iv. lis nerves ami iiit. wpi.f iivu unci steel had worn out tliu.su nerves an I sin . v.-.- which were not of i'tiil ;?lld SlCel. t il.lt. illl'i glided thelU S<> loi)**, ii(l ill o-.'.'inod resting f"r afresh start in a "'iir iit'i:. with H>e-I.-ad man's successor, in' blael; crape which Muttered i'roin the '..is. even seemed t<> daunt icliance at tho :cw owner, whoever ho ini^iit l.>e, unci del.iiv ti>:ii. no quarter woiil 1 lie given until i e very en !. rvi.-asi .v Ui! operatives gathered in iitle i;i*- uj... a'-ont tho ii'vn and tlie mills, i> (lise'iss t!:c startling event of the day. ' \Vh<> will he master now ?" was tlie ading <ptery. Those wito did not ask the m.vtion < }) . nly, looked it, as they gazed mo each I't iiers' faces. It was an inquiry !-at liti oii'j essayed to answer. If lie had only married and given us a on ill..- himself," was-a wish on many a ip and io many a heart, throughout the "It is tnio, t>en, that ^Ir. Wallingford or married." said a young man, who 1.1 i l-a'u employed at tlio mills but a short ;im?r. " It' you have over heard any rumors regarding -sir- Wallingford'n early life," said in dI.I weaver, " 1 would advise you not to ju j.l;o:i them to-day." "There a: i. or wore, rumors, then?" " Yes," s.iid the old man, gravely. "I bought you knew or 1 would not have polien as I ditl. It seems that a strange roman came here years ago and elaiiuod to >e his wife. The marriage, she said, took >l.toe in England. She was in great trouble, >ut only one woman who directed her to he house and saw her condition, heard her tory. It was as wild a night as ever blew, aid the poor thing had scarcely clothing nongh to cover her person, to say noIilrs^ about keeping her warm. After caving Dame Cameron's house that night, she was never seen in the village again, but ve all knew?for D une Cameron was the greatest gossip in tiie place?that she lay tear death's door there for weeks, and that l child was born to her. " 1 was a voung man, then?it must have ecu, I'.'i me see, iweiuy-iour years ago ioe filling winter?and full of fun. Many a hue 1 hung about the house and around he garden wall, on one errand or another, o try and got a gliiupse of the woman, but never did. I am ashamed enough of it low, but boys will be boys. The quarrel lie two had when they parted, seemed to i.ive been made up, and we all expected lrit the old house would have a mistress, ?ut one night she went away and the mater ended there, so far as our knowledge of t was concerned." " Did she take the child with her?" asked ho young man, now thoroughly interested n the subject. " We have always supposed that she did. t ha-; never been 30en here." " Von are eerl.da that it lived?" " V. s," "Then there whs an heir?" There is only her word for that. Mr. iValiingioid never acknowledged either I ;r or 1 iie child." ' \\\i? .Mr. Wallingford away at the time he woiuun claimed the marriage occurred ?" Y. ;-\ and that is the strangest part of it II. Everything she said about him talli l with what we knew." *' lint ai'uut the property. Had Mr. iV;iIIafford 110 relatives whatever?" "He had a brother, but ho died young ;ii.l isntsrirried. Wiiy do you ask so many -lis ' I think the story of the strange woman niti her child must have greatly exeitcd my , '.i: ioo:ty,'1 replied the young man, " and of Muvse, wo ure all interested in learning in t.i whose hands the mills will fall." With II i, h<* sauntered away from the spot, and !::e ?iid weaver joiued a group of opera* liv< s near by. ' Wi- will soon know about the disposilioji of the propei ty," one of the group as Ldviiur. as the weaver stepped up. " for I '<vy? r (Jn\ ison Is is way to the house,and !.e iii.iy t.>!l us something ahout the will.". Although tho word:* were .spoken loud i'ur iheattciuoy'3 ear as he reached 'ip giviitp, he passe<l on without turning i.3 he.id or noticing tho remark in any v.iy. Keeping straight on up the street, unting aside now and then wnere the narov? walk was Mocked l?y such gatherings s he had just left, he hastened up the >ro<id avenue leading from tho street to V lilingford I louse, as it was called I >y the iiiagerrf. and entered with the air of one win was perfectly at home there. ISv this time the crowd had thinned; so hat when the attorney entered the room i InMV'1 lie dif.'ul mnii I.lv. hn found himself lone. lie at once suumioiiud the house* 'The coroner has done liin duty, I snp>osc?" lie said, with an eyo to the legal ea tares of the case. The poor woman Raid, between her so)>3, h >t he had. it, is necessary ihit T, ns his attorney, honld talce charge of the papers fonnd oa is person and tiie fcey3 to his secretary," ii-1 the attorney, and then added, " I v V '' simpljT'do'tifiis m the alisemeof any relatives. " The woman hand-id him a bunch of keys and, a-package of papora, letters, etc.', .. which had been taken from her muster's pockets. The attorney at onco began a hasty ex'' amination of the papers. A Jook c?f per, plexity came upon his face as he did so. ;;? The paper he sought seemed to he minting. \> *> ' " Surely, madaine, those aro not all," he ' _Baid, turning to the housekeeper, after "booking through tho entire lot. iuul exuinin*' 'r iuf*' each paper < losely. ? " ' The woman assured him that every paper * had been saved and placed in the package. 5 fv Just tlien, the atl arnev's eye caught the g gsflutter of a small Scrap of paper, which, L - jwattea by a light breeze irom uie ujieu !? ^window, fluttered from the side of tho $ ^ttorpso and landed almost at his feet. Ho V -'-^caught it up, glanced at it hastily and fik thrust it into his poeket. ^ In that one quick look h(. saw but a *r single word, but it was tho one he hud looked for in vain among the other papers, and the one he wanted to find. " If Mr. WaJlingford ever i/iade a will," he said, addressing the old lady, " it was not drawn up in this village, lie always told me that directions reg irding it would be found on his person after his death. Now, I want you to go over every one of these papers with me to certify that there is nothing of the kind here." m She did as requested, but met with no better success than the attorney. " You are certain that yoa have not overlooked a single paper, Mrs. Ames," vsaid the attorney, addressing her by name. " Fes, certain." "Then wo will go; only don't forgot that you examined t he papers, and that the existence of a will wjis not mentioned." And the two left the room, the attorney returning to the street and going in the direction of iiis office. Arriving there, ho drew tho slip of piper from his pocket arid examined it closely. It was the same the dead hand had hold so firmly, and the characters v.-ere almost illegibly written, or scrawled, rather; for the mill-owner had struggled even against death to write them, and the pencil had dropped from his hand while the last word was still incomplete. . Notwithstanding" the labor necessary to rightly understand the scrawl,ho.revcr, the attorney seemed highly pleased with his investigations. He worked over the paper for an hour or more, copied the words into a cypher known only to himself, and then, putting the original into the grato, watched the lines slowly dar'. en with ilio h*iat, lade away and turn to ashes. " Not a s >ul knew of the existence oi that paper,'' ho muttered, "and 110 one suspects the secret it contained. I have a fortune within mygrasp at last!" he added, exultantly, and sat down to mature his plans. The dead hand had dune its woik but clumsily, and a bariier of a wince and cunnin<r was hiiildij'i" fast. lii-tuci'll the freat niilis standing so gloomily silent on the river brink below, and thy man whom the former owner had bequeathed them to, when their gains or ioasea were nothing to him. CITAFTER IT. A MTRTERJOUS VISITOR?TAK r NO NOTES. The attorney p.issed a restless night. After trying for an I.our lo sleep, he arose, drew on a dressing gown, and went t?> work at Instable, giving his attention strictly to those papers marked " Wallingford." The mill-oTrner had been one of his Tv.-st clients. Having a gr.-it dis'ike for details, and trusting implicitly in Gray, he 'had shifted a large portion of his business from his own shoul lers t > those of the attorney. The result was, that Gray was thoro.tghly posted in every t ranch of his allairs. He could have fold at any time, to a p mnd, how much cotton the mills h id ground up during the preceding twelve nio aths, and how much cloth had been shipped away, Mr. Wallingford had als?> dedl largely in stocks, and the record of his losses and gains was aleo safely housed in his attorney's memory. " An immense fort 11 10 a wait a some man lierc," he muttered as lie examined tho papers before liim. " It must he more than a million, und th.it is worth fighting for, so I must be very careful in my work." And his fell to plotting again, with his head resting upon his han<l. In this position he fell into a doze, in which tho papers before him Seemed to rise and shape themselves into fantastic forms. First they resembled the walls of the mills; then, the exterior of a prison; and finally, everything seemed to drift away, further and further, until lie could ;io longer discern them. He arose to his feet with a start. A gust of cool out-door air had cer. tainly fallen upon him, a:id for tt second he shivered in his light at cire. He glanced at tlr; wir.dows, an<l seeing that all were fe-aiv]y fastened, he concluded that he had be :n mistaken. Then his eyes fell upon ti e table, and he saw that tiie papers he had .issorted and pi iced there had actually boon swept to tlio lloor and lay there in a confused heap. For a moment ho stood perfectly still in the middle of the room, with an undeliuahlo terror creeping over him. What Could it mean ? Outside, the fall wind w.is howling dolefully down the street, hut it did not seem possible tlakt- a crevice largo cuough to admit such a gust existed about any of lite windows or doors. " I either brushed those papers away in my dream," he thought, "or that dour was opened while I slept." J t was with a good deal of terror that he admitted, even to himself, that this last cau~e might explain the strange affair. Many men are physical cowards who are bravo uiomlly, and Gray was one of these. The thought that some one might have been even for amoun nt in his room at that timet** tin*night, with evil intent, completely unnerved him for a time. Finally, he tnrnedhis 1 mi:? up to its fullcstglare,and niad?:a cuvfui?summation of t!ie room and the doora luaiiii^- into it. There were two of these, <no i p.-ii.ng from liif h'nsin.ess ofliiv i ; front u'v I yiiy initi the main hallway of the building, The latter was securely locked, jn.-:t as In* h i ! left it, and tho former was a.? was hi* custom to leave it. lie sl?v>d fur a moment in the doonvayhotwuon the two rooms, with the lamp in his hand, and looked around the outer office. Nothing unusml was in Pvrht, nnd he turned hack to his chair, As he did so, he saw thai lie had notice ted to holt the hall door, and did so at once. " I am getting nervous." he muttered, as he reseated himself. He worked away unt il nearly morning, awl Mien <!">/.? I again, this time ton heavily to hear lightfuotsteps creeping about. his room, or see deft fingers stirring the papers on his table. The intruder was dressed in the gavb of an ordinary working-mun, and was closely masked. Ilia object did not seem to he j plunder, for the attorney's well-filled w.al; let, protruding froiu the pocket of a coat lying on a chair, remained untouched. But he examined closely every paper in sight, and even looked for more among the pages of books of reference lying on the table. The attorney stirred slightly in his sleep, and the searcher hastily crept into the main offie". where he p.msi-d and listened intently. Oray wasf>on sound asleepagain, and he returned again to his task, but seemed to meet with no better success than before. Just as the light of morning began to creep into the rooms, he returned to the outer office, carefully unlocked the door with a skeleton key, unbolted it, and passed into the hall beyond. Again, a trust, of wind touched the sleep I Tig man ts Iiiuc, JUI mo Uiiiu^uu ?aa suuiis;in the ball, ami again he sprang to his foot, to find his papers littering the jarpi't. " What can it mean ?" he asked himself, )ver and over again. At length, ho saw that the door was unbolted. He started back in terror, . ' * ' .... L- . . , ii " It conld only have been done from the inside," he said, "and someone has been hiding here." He examined his wnllet, and found that It had not been tampered witlu Then he ran hastily over the papers and saw that none were missing. '"What could he have wanted ?" TFt puzzled over the question without fai ling an answer. " I will take good care that I shall be molested no more." lie thought, resolving to have a double loci: put on the door thai <?ery day. As the daylight now filled the room, he put out his lamp, dressed himself with unusual care, and after locking up the papors. took his cane, and sallied forth for a waiK. People in factory towns. an; nsuallj early risers, and the attorney found the street by no means deserted -whi n he stepped out of his hallway. As he walked s.long, he could not help observing thai already he was the central object of interest in the place. " They want to know who to cringe and fcow to next, I suppose," he grumbled, of he strode along, " and think I might tell them if I would. I wonder what thin* wil] say when I tell them there is no will ?" lit added, chuckling softly to himself. " And I wonder what thoy will say when, aftci all, a will is found ?" After an hour's stroll. Gray entered a restaurant and ordered breakfast. The dining-room was on the first floor awl separated from a bar-room only by a t'lin board partition which did not reach the ceiling. The table at- which Gray ?;i> seated, stood close to this wall, audhe could therefore hear distinctly, what was- going on arouna tue oar. Two men, evidently mill hands, wort drinking together and talking of the al absorbing topic of the time?the dual!) ol Mr. Wiillingfordand the disposition of his property, particularly the nulls. ' You have been here a longtime, if 1 am rightly informed he lieavd one of t!u men Hay to his companion. "Yes, nigh onto thirty years," was tin. reply. "You remember the string* woman wlu came hero ono night, twenty-lour years age then ?" "I remember the occurrence ri^ht wolf for it created quite a sensation here, although we were all careful not to let Mr Wallingford hear that we knew anything of his secret." "And he died, thinking tliat no one knew, except the housekeeper aud him self ?" " I suppose so." " Did you see the woman P" " No one in the vUlage,save Mr. Walling ford, the housekeeper, and the widow Cameron, saw her." * Not the serVants in the home ?" ? No." " Nor the village physician f" " "When the woman gave birth to ht>i child, a strange doctor cared for her. Hi was -with her night and day for a fort night." " Was it a boy ?" "We always thought so, but I har-llj know why." . " Where is Widow Cameron now ?" "Dead, thest twenty years." " What do they call tho woman at th< honse?" " The housekeeper ?'' "Yes." ' Mrs. Ames." "Then she is married ?" '{Yes, but her husband was wild lite and went away, after a terrible quarrel about fifteen years ago." " l>idhe live at the house e" " Y-ia, lie was mau-of-all-work about tin place." " lie was there when this woman came ?' "Yes." "Have another glass of beer, and tel me what sort of a man he was. How die he look* * The beer was drawn,' and the listening attorney heard the two men drawing chairs up to it table. " I don't remember much about him,' said the old man, after seating himself '' except that he was us ill-looking a chaj as ever went unhung. It was a villigt woiulor when Sarah ijlecker married him when she might have chosen almost anj voting man in the place, and he turned oui no better than we predicted." "Hid he blue eyes and light hair ?" "No. I think his eyes and hair weri very black. His eyebrows were heavy anc black, and seemed as though they wen trying to hide his eyes, and he had a 3ca: across his nose which didn't increase hii beauty.' " Was he tall or short ?*' " 1 hardly remember, I think about a.1 tall as 1 am." " Do you know where he went ?'' *' I heard a year '.i?C that he was in Bos ton.' " The s.uno man as when lie left here,! suppose?" " A great. <1 -al worse." "Ia Hon'itii a ye ir ago," muttered th< attorney, jotting the m-moramla down ij his note biok. " B::tek hair and eyes overhanging eyebrow.-,, and a scar on hi: nose ; we will make a note of that, too. may want to find that twin if his wife i obstinate." ' Of course ho has never been back here't" " We have never seen him, but it is said that ho has bcien on these streets and through the Wallingford House, on many o, dark night and forced his wife to give him money." " In the habit of frightening the old lady into giving him money. 1'robablv very dissipated," wrote the attorney in his note hook. " In the house!" exclaimed the other, in surprise. " Why do they admit hiiv ?hen he comes on such disagreeable errands ?" "That is str.inge, but it is said that he g.'t? in." " Have another glass of beer. You must ' ?A -1 *>-v*r etiiociflrwnsr nrv iuia?ui ui^; iui \ji ?**j . I>ut you see, there is nothing better to talk about, and then I feel interested. Now. tell me how he gets in." " I don't know." ' The old lady?his wife I mean?opens the door, or perhaps, a window for him, I [ plVSIilll'J." "Well, I don't presume anything of the kind. J wouldn't like to have you tell that I said so, chum, but l here bo houses that folks who know how, can go in any time they like, and folks who don't know can't keep them out." " You ilon't think?" " T didn't s ty what 1 thought, because I don't want to think anything about it." .4 house with secret passages," muttcred the attorney, taking out his book once more. " Keep on my old friend on the other side, and I will have a romance written directly." ' It may seem foolish," went on the rnmv/ linn. tint f wmil.l like vouroninion 0!i thi-? inntlor. T><? yon think the strange I A'oncm was really Mr. Wallinyford's wile ?" i "Yes." " A ud the child ?" " la heir to the mills," interrupted the old man, " Why -lid he send the mother and child away so .suddenly then ?" " That's what, puzzles mo." " The woman i?'<jht have boon only?" " I can't think that, if I know what you mean." " T thought an; but I can't believe that." The attorney's meal w:is finished, and. he had he.ir.l enough. He arose and stood for a moment behind the curtained doorway, looking into the bar-room. The men he had heard talking were Btill seated at their beer and did not pee him. As the young man slightly turned his face to one side, he saw that it was the same that he had noticed talking with tho old weaver the day before. He had overheard a few words of their conversation at that tiqie also. " Why does that man take such an interest in that woman ?" he muttered, as he left the restaurant by a rear door, and turned toward hia oflico. A cloud of . ! mysteries seems to have uropped down on ' thin place. I can't sleep in my own room, but 3>>111 tr one walks through a locked and - bolted ill Kir, ami I can't eat, but I must ' hoar i story rtf strange women and secret - piis.H?jri k. S.'cret passages in New England !" and Gray laughed, or chuckled, rather, sui'tly to himself. "I must find out who that man is," he thought us ho eu terod his office. " I don't ! want him meddling in this matter. Heirs ; come f:wt enough without being hunted and ; trumped up by idle village talk. I must take care uf him." > chapter nr. TIIE TWO LKTTECS. ' . Half way across the village green, on ! his way from the post office, Eageno W^il" ' In''ford saw his sister Bertha, yta#?ag to lee tjw ktterff 4kfccarri^(i.itt &tS.liati(3. It * , was t{*c'forenoon lif the second day after fche mill-owner'sdeath. Eugene hod two-letters, held closely to getheri -when he flr*t saw his -sister standJ ing by the gate, but when he stood by her ' eide, among tho neat rows of flower beds ! which lined the walk, and held his hand out to her, it contained only one. Handing ' her this, he stopped only long enough to bcc thatshe had not noticed the deception, - and went up *tnirs to his own. room. Once there, he dropped his careless man' ncr and paced up aud down excitedly. 1 Had that letter been the only jnail that morning, instead of walking tlie floor with ? that troubled face, ho would have been ^ reading it aloud down stairs with his sister ' reading too, over his shoulder, and both making dozens of plans for the future which it opened to thein [ Perhaps he thought of this, for he took the second letter from his pocket, read it ' carefully for the third time, and then destroyed it. "The girl shall not know until it is set: tied," lie thought, "I did wrong in giving Bertlia that letter. She will wonder if I don't ! accept the offer at once, and will worry over the matter, while my tongue is tied. * I can't deceive her, and so I can say * nothing at all." " When he went down stairs, it was to ' find Bertha glowing over the letter he had given her, and reading it aloud to a young lady who seemed equally well pleased ' with its contents. After a few words of greeting to the * young girl, whom he addressed as Fanny, Eugene purposely sought his sister's side, resolved to face the matter at once. " I'm so glad, Eugene," Borlhn said, as she finished reading the missive. "It couldn't have happened better. Just think, r Fanny, of our Eugene, being Superintendent of the Blakeslee Mills, and having the superintendent's house to live in and ever so many people under him. We shan't know him in about two weeks, he will put r on so many airs! Please Mr. Superin teiklent," she added,bowing low with much humility, "won't you give a poor girl n joi.?" Seeing that neither Eugene nor Fanny r had falluu into her merry mood, Bertha became grave again. " Ain't yoti glad, En gone," uhe said irapatieiitiy." "id you, Fanny, why don't you 3 say something 1J? Of course you will go, Eugene ?'* " I can't ray." Two pnir of bright eyes looked at the the young man in astonishment when he said that? the dark eyes of his sister, and > the blue onus uf the girl who was to be hia ? wife " While they both waited for some explanation, Eugene walked up and down the } little sitting-room and tried to make a very ordinary matter out of his indecision by his manner. " What do you mean, Eugene?" 1 It w;is Bertha who askod the question, I ljut it would have been hard to have told which of the two girls awaited his answer < the moat anxiously, 3 " I will tell you presently?perhaps tof night," he said, moodily, never stopping' in his restless nacina: of the room, ? "What makes you act so, Eugene?" } Bertha asked. "I heard you walking just 2 in that way over our heads a minute ago, and now you are at it again. I never saw ' you do that before. Si), down here, like a gotxl brother, and Ull Funny and I why 5 vo:i arc n '!o: b' .i1iO.it accepting this . fTor. j ' i really can't do that, girls," said Eu( gene. "I have l>e<?n true to yon, haven't r I, Bertha, ever since our parents died and 3 left us working in fie mill hero together ? I never liave deceived you?neither you nor Fanny?and I don't want to begin now. 3 I want you to tru-it me just this once," and he went out ot' the house with some garden tools under his arm, and making a g"eat show of having business there. " it seems so strange," s.iid Bertha,after ? he had gone. " He didn't want to settle here and marry on the pay he was getting, and now, when the mills have shut down 3 for no one knows how long, ho wants time ' to think about accepting a place where he can be his own master, and get three thoujj sand dollars a year. I can't bear to see j him act so, when the offer lies there, in l black and wliito. One would think that because the name is the same, this brother of mine expects to got a shareof Mr. Wallingiord's money." " It is strange about the name," said Fanny Clayson, seeing an opportunity to attract Bertha's attention, and thus save her lover from a hasty criticism. " Are you certain that the- families are in no way connected?" "They might have been a long time ngo," replied Bertha," but the relationship is very distant now, if any exists at all." " Didn't your father come here with Mr. Robert, Wallingford " No; he came two years later, i tninn he limited the matter up one winter, but I guess it came to nothing, although he would never have claimed kinship with his employer, even if he had discovered some; thing important. He was a very proud man, you remember." "1 don't recollect much about him. I was quite small when he died?fourteen, I think." " And I was fifteen and Eugene twenty. I wonder what makes Eugene act so," she added, stepping to the window overlooking the garden. " He took out the garden tools as though his life depended on cutting weeds, and there they are, lying on one of my flower beds, and he is going up and down the walk, jnat as lie went, in here just now. i never saw him act so before." " Never mind Eug<ne, now,"said Fanny, bent on attracting Bertha's attention from her brother. " He will do well enough. Toll 111 e about your father. Didn't lie get along pretty smoothly with Mr. liobert Wallingford?in the mills I mean ?'* " lie was a man who would go on anywhere," said Bertha, proudly. " Ho would I have been superintended! instead o! asistI ant, if he had lived another, year. Shan't I go and call Eugene iu ? Ho will niako himself sick out there." "Don't, Berthaj ho wants to be alone, lie will tell you to-night." " Why couldn't he have told use before he went oul ? It will I o an a ,'(: until night time, and he only said perhap-: ho would tell us then." "Woman's curiosity !"siid Fanny, with a. bright little laugh. It was evident, however, that Kit'.1, too. was pained by the seeming want of trust exhibited by her lover. 'If I come over to-night, do you think you will know?" Fanny asked, as she made ready to depart, a few minutes later. " Ilnf nliviun rlon'f. hum' hiin. Hortlia. I know as well as you, that a great ileal depends on the answer to that letter, but it id best to give him time." "What do yoa think it will be, Fanny, ' Yes' or ' No.' " " I can't even guess. T5nt I am going to try and think, that he will put away any scheme ho may l>e thinking of?for I know there is something?and say ' Yes.' " "Can't you imagine what that something is, Fanny "Howcould I ?" True,. Cojdo to-nijrht, then, and I will tell you what ho says.?r The two girls, Bertha and Fanny, were almost inseparable companions. They had j been friends since childhood,- but since Fanny's engagement to Eugene, they had q been together more than ever. There was only a year's difference in their ages, but their dispositions were ex- a actly opposite. While black-eyed, rosycheeked Bertha was spirited to an almost unfortunate degree, and impatient of restraint, blue-eyed Fanny?who bofe the ? reputation of being the handsomest gfrl in the village?was quietr retiring and un- < assuming. She was rather slender in figure, and there was a grace in her every move- j ment which never failed to attract. Her complexion was of the purest white, and her features, without being rigidly regular, rr ^ more than-.; t in hcrcheekB.and the long, "Sf'. ftmoo xr&iltiA wAnr^pfilllv^ I deep blue eyes, were adde<J charms vM&': r bad no small share in majring Her fhe belle of the thriving New England ^pwn .whore she had always lived. ' , i< It was natural that both girls- should j feel a deep interest in anything Eugene engaged in. If he should accept the offer ^ now under consideration, it meant & speedy marriage, and a life of quiet comfort was as certain as anything can be in this-world t of clianges. If he declined, who could tell what might come between them? Who could say how he might be situated a single month from that very morning ?' * u Bertha was busy with thoughts like these when Eugene came in from the garden, and threw himself at full length on the &ofa, in the room where she was sitting. " Bertha," he asked, after a few minutes' thought, " What did you ever hear mother say about my name ?" * Bertha looked up, surprised at the g strange question, but made no reply, t " About my first name, I mean." " What a boy," said Bertha, with a 11 smile. " Don't you know your own * iiuiutj i r ".Roland Eugene Wallingford, of course." ^ " Well, what more is there to knew about it?" E "They never called mo RolaniI,did they; c why did they give me a name they dia- c hked and would not use ?" t "I am sure I don't know." "Was I named after any one ?" 8 " After some one father mot before he e came here, I believe/' I "Confound this notion of making a c child a walking, talking token of their parent's affection, for some one else. They will be inscribing the virtues of the de- 1 ceased on the children's backs next." n Bertha looked shocked, yet amused at n her brother's quaint idea, but said nothing. a "Hid father nny second name? They g might have given me that, you know." s "Ho had none." " Nor mother?" "No name but Margaret." L "Are you certain ?*' "What makes you ask such strange 8 questions, Eugene"? I don't understand von to-dav." y ' */ ^ " I have a curiosity to know. Tou said, r just now, that I was n?uued after some one e father met before coming to this placed Do 8 you know who that miic was?" "I do not.'' * A long silence followed. Hertha worlred t' industriourly at the hem of a handkerchief, jnnd Eugyno lay with his eyes fixed on the ceiling of the room. " Eugenel" It was Bertha who broke the Bilence. I Her brother was TTusy with his own v thoughts and did not answer. The girl walked over to him and put her hand on 0 his shoulder as he lay, stili looking 3traight I up. il " E-igene, I have answered your ques- u tions ; will you answer one of mine ?" " If I can, yes." " What aro you going to say when you c answer th:it letter ?" b " I don't know yot, I am going out tonight-. and when I come in, you shall know everything about it that I know." k " You have something else in your mind, o: and you won't tell me what it is. Has any- , thing happenedla anything dreadful , going to happen ? Tou look a year older than you did when you went out to cue post ollico. Did you show me all the mail xi you got ?" g " There, sister mine," sai-l Eugene, uiafe- a ii:g a miserable attempt at being gay, "I agreed to answer you one question, and you C: have asked me half a dozem'*;?.} .^r (:jl *' But I am in earnest ailtl I -want 8; answer me." . " Well, if yon will know, I diiln't show you all. I kept one back and destroyed it., o: Don't ask me what it contained, for I won't k tell you until to-night." ^ He lay there a few minutes longer, never seeing the tours that were gathering in his sister's eyes, and then went out t< in the direction of the business portion of ft the town. s) Aud while Bertha sobbed and puzzled o.er tho unanswered letter, and the letter r< she had not seen, Eugene pondered over It the pile oi crumpled augments lying m i his room, and imagined that the success or w failure of his life depended upon the truth or falsity of the message the legal-looking 11 sheet had contained. h< Although it was scarcely noon when Eu- ii gi'iie left the house. Fanuy went over at p dusk aud found that ho had not yet re- . turned. Both girls were too anxious over 11 his unwonted absence and his actions of n the forenoon to talk much, and so they sat u in silence by the window facing the street, until tin.' c'oi'lt struck ton, and still the *, bright moonlight showed no signs of his ^ coming. e: to BE CONTINUED, running" for office. k I never run for office but once. At the k earnest solicitations of some of my friends, ai in an unguarded moment I allowed myself to be announced as candidate for the , c< office of |Justice of the Peace. Previous to : fc, this fool movo I had been considered a de- c; cent kind of a mr. i, but the nest day when ' a; j the Bugle came out it was filled with ac- i jr i counts of my previous history that would j b ' have curdled the blood of. a Digger Indian, j tl : A susceptible public was gravely informed! qj j that I was not fit for the office, that I was I almost a fool, besides I had come West I ; under very suspicious circumstances. I! had starved my deaf old grandmother to' ' death and then sold the remains to a soap- 80 i factoy. I had stolen a hand organ from a poor blind cripple and run away with the a' proceeds. I had sold my grandfather's: coffin for fourteen dollars, and buried the w ' old gent in a boot box. In utter despair1 sr I I rushed around to headquarters, withdrew ai | my name and swore a solemn swear that 1 I would never indulge in politics again. ! ls ' And I never will.?John Quill. J ?! HE WOULD THY IT. I CC ' I An old gent living in the country called i . ' at the office of the gas company in Chicago I 111 the other day, having a two quart pail in j . | his hand and asked: "Is this where they sell gaa ?" "Yea, sir, wo can furnish you with gas,1' ] , j replied the clerk. "Well," said the old man as he pulled thoj | cover oil his pail, "I'vo heerd a good deal J _ | about gas, and my' wife's hcerd a goouI ; deal about gas, and I'll take two quarts' I along and try it. How much is it aj | qnart?" | ?? When he was informed that gas was ai * * ro vapor, and the method of burning it was! 1 explained, he sighed and said: "Hannah will be awfully disappointed." utv.'" Five O'clock in the Morning. ? . t is all very well, for the poets to tell," By way of their song adorning, if milkmaids who rouse, to manipu- , late cowST - - ' '. JrS At five o'clock in the morning. * ^ Lnd of moony young-mowers, wivabun-* die outdoors? ^ And charms of their 8traw"beds scorn- ^ iefore break of dfly, to make'love and ^ fet. five in tlip morn inc. <r^ < t may not Jtaw^Qn^for tjie man in tile " '' 'b kneel in the wet grass aild Avhatif lie poped down on anattftf? W h^wcould lie see what ya^.qi^^rfais At five o'cleck iu the morning^ t is all very well, sucli stories tcyie^V ^ * But if I *.vere a maid, all forlorn-Tngj*^ ; jid a lover should dropf in the clover^ At fire^o^clock in the morning-; -J&ijjf*. f I liked him, you see, I'd say, 4Tle<K^^i%^8 call atthree ;M If not, I'd turn on him with sqfiBir-' ingDoa't come here, you'Flat, with contm?* ? drums like that, At five o'clock iu the morning J*' : . _ frcfu* rrvirrpc ?r x ivrriAff ,2^ A very smart German philologist, named ' *' Jachrcaier, Has invented a universal faxr uage. We have not mastered all its in- , ricacies jet, but the theory start* with; th* ' /*, lea that man needs only four thousand -j rords to express all hia ideas. Bight here re agree with the author. There are pleay of situations in life where one or two r^ ;ood solid words are about enough, and we . ' ^ an scarcely surmise auy combination of * ircumstances which would require nacre : ^ * ".J rj hanfour thousand. That number would V atisfv even an insurance asrent or a light ting rod man. It might be a little short " or the mother-in-law -when aha start? * >ut to give the brute who married her laughter her opinion touching his coming tome at two o'clock in the morning; but a aother-in-law has very few rights that any aan is bound to respect. It is certain that German philologist would not halt in his c, reat taak on her account. We not ure, but Dr. Baclunaier may have a mothr-in-la,w, and if he has ho will agree, with is. "r" Starting from the basis of the four thouand words, Dr. Bachmaier states that each * f the words will have a number which wilcpresent it in all the languages. As an xample?if the number 100 stands oppol ite the word fire in the English column, it rill also be found against the word feu in he Trench, and feuer in the German* and bus throughout the whole list of language* ised. In the application of this method, an Englishman, writing to a French friend rith the dictionary in hand, will first seek ut the word he desires to express in 'rench; but, In place of writing the word _ ' tself, will write the numeral that is the niversal representative; and, reversing his method, tho French'recipient of the ommunicrtion will replace the numerals y the words of his own language. It is very easy to see how charming all. his is going to be. Under the operation f the present beastly system of languages* |fellow has to learn a tongue throughout efore he can talk rto the natives. Audit - ' . >metimes happens that after he has spent . ' V lonths aod months on hia . Ollendorf, and oes to Paris, the very first man he aska bout the gold pen of tho schoolmaster alls him an idiot. That isn't the answer i Ollendatf.' It is, ,;;No,'bti^|pbave the , . ilk gown of tho gr?mdmothers But as >ng aa the whole world does not revolve n the Ollendorf principle, it is cheering to now that German philologists are turning ' ' heir attention to schemes which will sur- . lount the difficulties now existing. Herojforo it has been very embarrassing to ill in love with a Frenoh girl who hadn't ;udied Ollendorf. Bat now ii is'all seme. You have simply to clasp her hand, ' >ok toward heaven and say 98,16, 23/7, 1, and she will reply, 5, 72, 8, 15, 29. 'hen you are not well up in the Bachmierin system you will have to talk with the ooks in your hands. This will make the iterview longer and consequently more leasant. If you say three 2, 22, 78, meanlg "I lovo you," it will take her a few molents to pick it all out of the French colmn, and then you can embrace her or get our hat, just accordingly as she replies. Iverything is placid. There is no undue scitement, and even if her father came own with thunder in his eye, it would take irn so long to find out the numbers standig for the expression of his intention to ick you, that you could bo half a mile round the corner before he wag ready. We prcdict fox the system a great ?uc>ss. It will bring ull mankind into a close ond of brotherhood, and advance the luse of civilization. We will be once j jain a simple people, each with his book i his hand, going about babbling in num? ers. Neither C'hcctaw nor Chinese shall u*ow us, and our polyglottis will wag lemly to the nvrsdie of the numerals. LAUGlUNfi CHILDREN. Give us the b<>y or girl who smiles aa ion as the first rays of the morning sun li^nce in through the window, gay, happy " id kind. Such a boy will be fit to "wake j" into a man?at l-ast when contrasted itli a sullen, morose, crabbed fellow, who trips :inu siuuia * auuj vui, v* i-l grunts like an untamed hyena from lo moment ho opens his angry eyes till he confronted by his breakfast. Snch a rl, other tilings being favorable, Trill iod material to aid in gladdening some >lu for table home, or to refine. civilize. mo and humanize a rude brother, makg him gentle, affectionate and lovable. It is a feast to even look at such a joyspiriug girl, and see the smiles flowing, to speak, from the parted lips, displaying set of clean, well-brushed teeth, looking ' most the peysonilication of beauty and JUUUVaO; tlUlfc iW <%0 WIO rds?the wide-awoke kird3?that comenced their morning concert iopg before o lazy iuvs dreamed that the sun WJlfl ap- ? r oaching, andmhout to pour a whole flood light and warmth upon tho earth. Such a girl i? like a gentle shower to the .veiling (.firtli, bestowing kind words# eet eiuils3, aud fu-ta of mercy to all omul her?the joy and light of the hQflSC* m. % v. ^ ,