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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 29. 1876. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 51. aM ASONIC JJIRECTOHY. .Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. W. H. PARKER. W.\ M.\' J. C. WOSaiANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian ChapterNo.l7,R.A.M. J. F. C. DuPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.*. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every month. BeSaiwe toil No. 16, R. & S. M, J. T. ROBERTSON, T.\ 111.*. M.\ JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month. DE. JOHN S. THOMPSON, DENTIST, Offers his professional services to the citizens of Abbeville and the Borroonding country. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON (Have on hand a large stock of Gulls' UM hi SM AJ VERY LOW PRICES. A large assortr ent of .Ladies' and G-ents' Merino Vests & Smrts, i BOULEVARD SKIRTS, J Silk Scarfs and Ties. A * ?< GIVE THEil A CALL. . A The Star Shirfc! " I K x B Having tried these Bhirta, we can tafely re commend them for a good fitting and durable p Shirt. - T Collars, Linen and Paper, J latest styles, 0 With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERRIN. Cottage Bedsteads! * Two hundred Bedsteads joat received, war ranted all hard wood, at prices from $5 00 to $10.00. * v J. D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes! r - * *c Oar etook of BOOTS and SHOE3 is now complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH. Call early and get a bargain. DuPRE, GAMBBELL & CO. C. E. BRUCE, Boot and Shoe Maker, ^ i * ^ Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, 8. (' : V I X X 1 Deeiree to say that he is folly prepared to meet nil demands the public m&y make in his lino. He keeps constantly on hand a large lot or ibe beat material and employs only the lineal work men. He keeps a full stock of cuatommade Boots and Shoes, and guarantees the most entire satisfaction in every instance. M. GOLDSMITH. . .P. KIND. GOLDSMITH & KIND, Tn/\TT%iT\nTi? i itt> nr i nTTTiTTrimn FUUfUMS AJNU IAU11JUSIS . 7 ! : , . (PHOENIX IRON WORK>), COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of Steam Enjrinea of all sizes; Horse powers, Circular and Mu'e.v Saw Mills, Grist and 8ugar Cane Mil's, Flour Mills, Orna mental House and Store F.onte, Irou Railings, Agricultural Implements, etc. Brass and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order on abort notioe, and on the moet reasonable terma. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses. ft -R TJORRELI, AT HIS OLD 8TANE ' *'> : Over Parker & Perrtn'a Drag Store, i Hu a supply o> Northern Harness Leather and other material for Making aud Repairing Saddles and Harness. '. - V CARPENTRY. " u < i fyr r ' t .4v t >r*r * i- "i 9 * The underaigned hereby gma notice that he is prepared to do all kinda of o He also repairs Cotton Gins, Tbrasbers and Fans. 1 full supply of Gm Material always on baod. Farmers are requested to bring meir 1+106 up eariy m me bohuu m uiun uiuc to h?ve them properly prepared. Also Agent for tho Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds of Rubber and Leather Belting. D. B. SMITH, ,, Abbeville C. II., 8. C. STEAM PLANING MILL, Columbia, S. C. F.W.WIN G, Proprietor. MANUFACTURER OF Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW MD ' DOOR FRAMES, ? v"* ? MfleMBliiflsHiiiitte,! PILASTERS, j Mantelpieces, fflULJH HMUM.1S, Handrails, Newels, Balusters. SGEOLL WOM of all Description. All Work Guaranteed A No. 1. Which Shall it Be ? [A rich man who had no children proposed his poor neighbor, who had eeven, to take me of them, and promised, if the parents rould oonsent, that he would give them prop rty enough to make themselves and their ther six children oomfortable for life]. Hiich s all it be? Which shall it be ; looked at John, John looked at me, .nd when I fouDd that I most speak [y voice seemed strangely low and weak : Tell me again what Robert B&id .nd then I, listening, bent my head? This is his letter: " I will give l house and land while yon shall live, t, in return, from out your seven, ne child to me for aye ia given." looked at John's old garments worn; thought of all that he had borne f poverty, and work, and care, iTiich I, though willing, could not share; thought of seven young mouths to feed, f seven little children's need, And then of this. " Come, John," said I, We ll chocse among them as they lie sleep." So, walking hand in hand, ear John and I surveyed our band ; iret to the cradle lightly stepped ihere Lilian, the baby, slept. oftly the father stooped to lay [is rongh hand down in a loving way, rhen dream or whisper made her stir, nd huskily he said : " Not her!" re stooped beside the trundle bed, nd one long raj of lamplight shod .thwart the boyish faces there, a Bleep so beautiful and fair. saw on Jamee' rough, red cheek . tear nndried. Ere John could speak, Ho'b but a baby, too," said I, .nd kissed him as we hurried by. ale, patient Bobbie's angel face till in his sleep bore suffering's trace. No, for a thousand crowns not him!" [e whispered, while our eyes were dim. oor Dick! bad Dick ! our wayward son tobulent, restless, idle one? lould he be-spired ? Nay; He who gave lade us befriend him to the grave; inly a mother's heart ooold be atient enough for Bach as he; And bo," eaid John, " I would sot dare 'o take him from her bedside prayer." hen stole we softly up above, id knelt by Mary, child of love. Perhaps for her 'twould better bo," said to John. Quite silently [e lifted np a curl that lay eross her cheek in a willful way, nd shook his head : " Nay, love, not thee!" he wliile my Heart beat auaiDiy. illy one more, oar eldest lad, rusty and truthful, good and glad, a like his father. " No, John, no ! cannot, will not, let him go." nd so we wrote in a court eons way, 'e could not give one child away ; nd afterward toil lighter seemed, tanking of that of which we dreamed, appy iu truth that net one face 'as missed from its accustomed place ; hankful to work for all the seven, rusting the rest to One iu heaven. Circumstantial Evidence ai Interesting Account ot the Im portance Attached to It in Mur der Trials. The murder of Madame Pauw in "ranee, about ten years ago, shows how conspicuous and powerful motive, in he absence of other conclusive evidence, jmeuxuea puts jusuue Buuuuvuuiiv upuju auw was a widow with three childreD, 'ho had an intimate friend in the Coant e la Pommerais. This titled personage 'as in need of money, and he had a ead for scheming. He planned a frand pon eight insurance companies, and ersuaded the poor widow to become is instrument in it. Her life was to be lsured ; she was then to feign danger os illness; and, while lying apparently l a serious strait, the insurance oom anies were to be persuaded to ohange le life-policies into annuities. The Dunt advanced the premiums; the olicies were made out, transferable by idorsement. Madame Pauw was then ldnoed to indorse them to him, and Lfe to make a will oat in his favor. The ext thing was for the widow to pretend > fall ill, which she did; but, instead f the policies being transformed into ae track of the criminal anilities, the poor lady died 1 It was a rave blunder of the count to tell the octor, when he came in, that Msdame 'auw had fallen down stairs; for not nly was this denied by abundant testi iony, but the post-mortem examina ion betrayed the preaenoe of poison as he cause of her death. At onoe there fter the Count de la Pommerais came to the possession of the half million rancs which a crued under the policies nd the will. Here occurred a singular ociUent in the trial. It is clear that, if he count had intended the fraud in earn st when he proposed it to Madame Jauw, and really designed to obtain for ier an annuity by its means, thus secur Dg to himself a life income, he could lave had no serious motive for killing ier. And this was actually his defense gainst the charge of murder. He de lared, and tried to prov^, that he really leant to carry out the fraud, and that ladame Pauw's death was a catastrophe nd an accident. Thus in trying to clear imself of the grave crime, he coolly onfessed the lesser. lint the proof outradictory of his case was too clear ; e was convicted and duly executed. It has been said that a very important aJofnnfiol a*ri_ LUIS. Ill tllU UJiilUl Ui uu Cfuuuiiauvuu via ence is that of opportunity. To show rant of opportunity, that is, an alibi, 3 an absolute answer to the strongest Jdictments, and produces a fatal flaw a the chain. Opportunity to commit be crime must be either proved out ight or inferred by the most conclusive resumption. There never was a more triking case illustrative of this than bat of the young S ottish girl Made sine Smith, whose trial at Glasgow may ofiily be remembered by many readers. I t may be said that the trial was one of j he most interesting in British judicial . nnals. Madeleine Smith had engaged I terself to a young Frenchman named | j'Angelier. It was clearly proved that j he had tired of him, and was anxious o Gisemangie ucnscn li^m mo wuucu- j ion. Bat L'Angelier clang to her, and ! efused to be rebuffed. There is no ' loubt that on several occasions, just I >revious to his visits, she had purchased j >oison; or that, always after these visits, I le was seized with severe illness. On j he seventeenth of March Madeleine re urned to her house in Glasgow, after a vimf, to some friends. The next lay she purchased some arsenic, "to rill rats with," as she raid. Thearsenic MJnght, the next thing she did was to vrite to L'Angeiier, inviting him to tea >n the evening of the nineteenth. He lappened to bo out of town, and did not, herefore, ge* the note until it was too ate to accept the invitation. She wrote gain on the twenty-first, urging him to ome the next evening, and saying: * I waited and waited for you, but you ame not. I shall wait again to-morrow light, same time and arrangement" [*lu8 note L'Angeiier received. So far he proof was clear. It was also in evi ler, ce that h6 started from his lodgings in exoellent health on the Sunday even*, ing, and that he sauntered in the direc tion of Madeleine's house; this was at nine o'clock. Twenty minutes later, he called on a friend who lived but a short distance from her residence. Here the evidence utterly failed, and left a blank for four hours and a half. At two in the morning, L'Angelier was found at his own door writhing and speechless; and in a few hours he was dead. The autopsy betrayed a large quantity of arsenic in his body. But, between twenty minutes past nine and two, no human being could depose to having laid eyes on him. Madeleine herself denied that she saw him at all that night; nor was the slightest proof forthoominc that she did. She was trat on trial for the murder of L'Angelier; and, although her desire to get rid of him?that is, a motive; her purchase of arsenic?that is, possession of an instru ment similar to that which was found to have been fatal; and her notes of invitation?that is, a fact from which a strong probability of a meeting between them that night was established?were fully proved, the absenoe of all proof of actual opportunity to commit the deed availed to save the prisoner's life. She said, in effect: "I was at my house, and can prove it; he was ?ot there, for I defy you to prove it; there fore I have an alibi." The Scottish verdict of "not proven" set her free, but did not clear her of the stain of deep suspicion. The storv of the Danish pastor, Soren Qvist, is one of the most touchingly tragic in judicial records; and onoemore exemplifies Paul Feval's complaint that justice is sometimes too quick to seize upon appearances, and neglect the sup position of fabricated evidence. Soren was a clergyman of middle age, settled over a small, primitive parish in Jut land. Pure and irreproachable in char acter, genial, generous, and devout, he was cursed with a fiery and ungovern able temper; yet he was universally re vered; and varied his pastoral cares, as in fl/Mitiiltnainan onnn. XO UUl UUii^V|UOUl Ui UUWUUUWTlttU wuu tries, by cultivating a modest farm. He had a daughter, gentle and comely. A farmer in a neighboring village, one Morten Brans, well off but of bad repu tation, sought this daughter in marriage, but was rejected both by her and by the pastor. Soon after a brother of his, Niels Brans, entered the pastor's service as a farm hand. Niels was lazy, impudent, and quarrelsome, and frequent alterca tions occurred between him and his mas ter. One day Soren found the man idling in the garden. A quarrel ensued, when the pastor, his hot temper getting the better of him, struck Niels several times with a spade, saying: " I will beat thee, dog, until thou liest dead at my feet I" The man then jumped up and ran off into the woods, and was not seen again. The rejected suitor Morten, after his brother had thus mysteriously disappeared, boldly charged the pastor with the crime, and offered to produce convincing proofs of the fact. Soren was therefore arraigned, when the fol lowing evidence was arrayed against him. A man testified that, on the night 4U a V* /\ nnm in ai ici iiuc uo Dan uxio pcuoi>U) iu his green dressing gown and white night cap, digging hard in the garden. It was also proved that, search having been made in the garden, a body had been un earthed, undoubtedly that of Niels, with his clothes and earrings upon it. A servant girl testified not only to having heard Soren repeatedly threaten to kill Niels, but to having seen the parson go ont into the garden on the fatal eight, in his greefa dressing gown and night cap. Still stronger evidence was pro duced to the effect that the parson had been seen, in his green dressing gown and nightcap, carrying a heavy sack from the wood near by into the garden. The chain of evidence was apparently nnmn1oti> arrainiif ftnrori -ftnrl f.hA nrw~tr 1 r parson now sealed his own fate by de claring that he believed he had lolled Niels, though nnoonsciously. He stated that he was wont to walk m his sleep. He had found texts, written sermons and visited his church in a state of somnam bulism. He must, therefore, have found the man dead in the wood while thus un conscious, and hare buried him while in this condition. To be brief, boren was found guilty and executed. Twenty years after, Niels Bruns turned up again, alive and well, grown now old and Rray. He recoun ed how his brother Morten (now dead) had con cocted a plot to fasten the crime of mur der on the pastor, in revenge for the re jection of his suit. A body had been disinterred and dressed in Niels' clothes; the dressing gown and nightcap had been abstracted, used as we have seen, and re placed; Morten, dressed in them, had brought the corpse in the sack, and buried it in the garden; and then, his plot carried out, ne had given Niels a purse and bid him begone, and not to re turn, or his life should answer for it. Niels had kept out of the way till Mor ten's death, and had now returned with this terrible tale. Testing Dispatches in Cipher. The cipher used by the whisky rin? in St. Louis, pays the'New York Herald, is very simplo when it is once compre hended. The actual words of the dis patoh are written so as to follow the order prescribed in a set of numbered squares, and when the words are thus ar ranged they are read off according to the numbers in the squares. Each square con tains one word, and the set contains twen ty-four words, in six columns, four deep. The reading begins at the bottom, fourth square from the left, ana proceeds, one square to the left, one back and upward, again to tlie left, and so on, until the top of the column is reached, when the next word is two to the right and back toward the left to the first new word, and then down again. We have arrang ed a set of squares as described in our dispatches, and also applied it to the dispatch signed " O. E. Bahcock." Every reader can pick it out for himself. General Babcock's dispatch seems to be arranged in two separate squares, and the deciphering accordingly begins in the proper square of the upper set. The following is a set of squares: 11 1 1 9 a 12 C 5 11 11 X ? < 2 13 11 1 18 16 , 1 15 17 At and with confer her* my f>tly ally prompt ever retain to me unfortunate h? possibly It 1 this I of receipt | on Kmm A1 John now 1 moment ?ee would there to earliest what answer hour hint him , fnlly proteot i ana very ! house If to can ; and prevent' report. Knew he was Honest, During rainy weather a gentleman stepped into a tobacconist's in London, and asked him for the loan of an um brella. He was promptly accommo dated. " You're an obliging man," ob served a oustcmer, after the stranger had stepped out. " Yes, but that's a mighty honest fellow," said the tobac conist. '' An honoster or more generous man you won't find in a day's travel. He has got a number of umbrellas of me, but he always brings back a better one in return. He changes 'em some how, but how I don't know, and I don't care. I see he's honest, and that's all 1 care about it," THE CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS* The Statu* of Operation*! on the Gt?antf Self-Rerfiterinc Tornatllea?The Centen nial Guard. The exposition grounds oontain four hundred and twenty acres and are near ly triangular in shape, being bounded on the north by Belmont drive, on the east by Lanedowne drive, and on the Bcuth west by Elm avenue. The total number of Centennial buildings now completed, with those in course of construction and others not yet begun, is about one hun dred, and the total area covered by the exhibition buildings proper?that is, not including restaurants or other buildings not intended to contain exhibits?will be about seventy-fiye acres, whiih is nearly double the space covered by the build ings at the Vienna exposition. The lat ter covered 88.8 acres, excluding inolosed courts ; those of Paris, in 1867, covered thirty-one acres ; London, 1862, 25.6 acres ; Paris, 1855, 22.1 acres, and Lon don, 1851, 23.9 acres. The board fence bounding the grounds is 16,000 feet in length, and contains thirteea entrances, representing the thirteen original States. These entrances or gates will be orna mented and fitted up for the sale of tickets, and will have self-registering turnstiles, by which the exact number of visitors to the exposition can be easily ascertained. In a bird'seye view the buildings are Been to compose three dis tinct groups, one in each corner of the triangle. In the first are the following buildings, sc nearly completed that the details of the interior ornamentation yet to be finished are not worth mentioning: Main exposition building, art gallery or memorial hall, judges' pavilion, Cen tennial photographic association pavil ion, office of the Centennial commission and the restaurant Ludreau. Those well forward in construction or upon which work is just beginning are the Centennial national bank, Vienna bakery, photo graphic gallery, wagon and carriage manufactory, Japanese bazaar, extension to the art gallery, dairymen's association buildings, Brazilian imperial pavilion, German government building, and that of Clark & Co. The grounds will be dotted everywhere with soda water pavil ions. The second group contains the following buildings, all completed: Machinery hall, United States govern ment building, Uliited States laboratory, United States hospital, office of the Cen tennial board of finance and the three buildings of the British government. ThrwA b?p11 forward in construction are. the Pennsylvania railroad companies, Centennial depot, shoe and leather build ing, three machine shops (annexes of machinery hall); the 0. T. A. fountain, tourist's ticket office, New York pavilion, the nailless, spikeless, bamboo dwelling for the representatives of his majesty the emperor of Japan, and the pavilions of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Those upon which work either has begun, or will shortly begin, are : Fuller, Warren &Co.'s buildibg, Liberty stove works, Gillender & Son's glassware manufac tory, West Point oadets encampment, Loisseau's pressed fuel building, Trois Freres Proence&ux restaurant, news paper buildings, United States signal service pavilion, opamsu goveiLiucm i building and the State pavilions of Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan, Wiscousin, New Hampshire and Delaware. The buildings in the third and last group, which may be said to be finished, are horticultural hall, women's pavilion, women's schoolhouse, South ern restaurant, Lauber's restaurant and tho American restanranfc. Agricultural hall, the largest in the group, wonld be ready for exhibits now had it not met with a misfortune shortly after the be ginning of its erection, in having the framework of one of its wings blown down by the wind. It will however, be entirely completed before the middle of March. The buildings in this group, the erection of which will soon begin, or a fVio navilinnn of Tfnnftflfl and New Jersey, the American brewer's building and the New England loghouse, in which the methods of conducting the old-time i and the modern kitchens will be placed in contrast. A strong force of special : police are stationed on the grounds, but ! the organization of the regular Centen- ' nial guard will probably not be effected i before the end of April.?Philadelphia ; Timet. I In the Sick Room. A waut of sympathy on the part of a : nurse is like a perpetual cold bath to a Eatient. This is not a very common ] lunder. But the opposite is so com mon, that it may sometimes become a 1 question in the patient's mind whether 1 he would not prefer absolute coldness. ! To be continually dodging around the bed, and pouncing upon every object ! that is.not at right angles, smoothing out the sheet, and dabbing at the pil lows, and saying a dozen times an honr: " How do you feel now ?" " Don't you want something to eat?" "Can I do anything for you?" "Let me bathe your head I"?is enough to drive a sick man wild. He feels that he would like to ask you to go away and hold your tongue; but he knows that all this fidget ing is prompted by affection, so he holds his tongue instead, and bears it all with what measure of patience na ture has bestowed upon him. In point of fact, the sick person is generally very ready to tell his wants. His food and drink and physic are the momentous matters of the day to him, and will not be forgotten. He is likely to tell you when he feels better. He is euro to tell you when he feels wors9. Worse than all these things is the solemn faoe in a sick room. It is hard for a troubled heart to put on a cheerful countenance, and it is no wonder that nurses so often fail in this. But we have known persons who thoaght that a cheerful face and a bright smile in a sick room were indications of a hard heart.?bcribner. Four Innocent Men. Four innocent men have just been pardoned out of the Oregon State prison after spending three years there on life sentences. In 1872 a stage was stopped in a lonely place by four masked men, who took from it gold dust worth $4,200. The nearest house was the resi Ui bUU 1UUI rncu, nuu noio tuvui ward wrongfully convicted. Footprints were found leading from the place of the robbery to that house, and it was also ascertained that the men had been out late on the night of the crime. There was no other indication of their guilt; but the public sentiment was very strong against robbers, and no more convincing faots were demanded. A : mob visited the house, caught one of the men, and scared him with threats of hanging into saying that he and the others were guilty. The false confession would not have Baved his life, but the ar rival of an officcr did, and then he de clared the untruthfulness of his state ment. The four were tried and hurried ly convicted, and sentenced for life, al though the driver of the stage swora to an opinion that they were not the rob bers, for which testimony he narrowly escaped being lynched as an accomplice. Becently the real criminnls were de tected. Gave It Up.?Dumas was smoking a j oigar, twenty years ago; the room waa blue, and a doctor was lecturing to the j young fellows on the evils of tlio exces sive use of tobacco. Dumas laid the | unsmoked half flridd, and has not lit another since. 1 A YOUNG LORD IN LIMBO. The Favorite of Buffalo Society Brought Grlef?Portlcnlara of the Cue. For something over a month, says t Buffalo Courier, a young llnglishms named Hugh Courtney, aged twenl three, supposed to be one of the descer ants of a titledfamily "across the wate] he haying represented himself as t son of the Earl of Devonshire, has be cutting quite a swell in fashionable o cles hereabouts. To all appearances was well supplied with filthy lucre; 1 attire was "loud," of the veiy lat< fashionable cut and decidedly Englif He changed his clothes several timet day, was petted and courted in socie circles, for "a lord, you know," is novelty here and his acquaintance not be slighted. He was believed to be t soul of honor, of course. His in ten aristocratic feelings, upon his first 8 pearance, led hftn to decline being i troduced to sode of our first familn " because they sbld leather," but subt quent deliberations caused him to chan his mind. He boarded at the Ti House, called for the best the hou afforded, drank oostly wines, smoki ? in V CJLpCliOl YD tl^fUD AU 1UUV LUMU^vv. - extravagant tastes and habits to the fu est extent. Bat alas for the nncertai ties of human enjoyment I One nig found him the inmate of a prison ce charged with defrauding thepropriet of the Tifft House of $325, the amou of his hotel bill contracted during 1] stay here. The particulars of the cas as learned by our reporter, are, in bu stance, that Courtney left England thri months ago for San Francisco, where,; in Buffalo, he made him sell' conspic ous and popular smong the bon ton, little more than a month ago he can here and took up his quarters at tl Tifft House. He represented to D Tathill that his funds had run short, bi he would soon receive a remittance fro his father, the earl, and would make goc all liabilities incurred. This was we enough for the time being, but the san excuse was presented each time he r ceived his bill, nntil it became U stereotyped for human endurance, ar a warrant sworn out for his arrest, < the charge above named, was placed i the hands of officers, who waited up< Mr. Courtney at the hotel and ma( known their business, which, natural enough, put him in quite a flurry. H actions and talk were more like those < an overgrown and inexperienced be than a man. Requesting a few minutes' time he a< dressed a piteous appeal to a well kno* lady and gentleman, and handing it to messenger instructed him to oollect hi fee from the party to whom it was ac dressed, as he was possessed of on] Bey en cents. The note was as follows: Dear and Miss I ai locked up for not paying my bill at th hotel. Will you be kind enough U con: and make it all right ? It is for not pa^ ing my bill. I am in a dreadful state ( mind, and, my dear Miss , please d persuade the to do something, < I shall have to lay here all night. H. Coubtney. P. 8.?If you could see me it woul be all right. Mr. Courtney was then oon^eyed 1 the Btation and looked up. Shortly a ter liis incarceration the messenger bo entered the Btation and said the commi nication was returned with a refusal t pay his fee. A reporter, on learning c the occurrence, paid a visit to the prii oner in his cell and found him feelin very badly. He expressed the opinio that this was a " blarsted country, whei a man must live on money, while at 'om< you know, I could live on me ow name." He remarked: " I'm very e: travagant, very extravagant, you knoT Like to spend lots of money and have jolly gool time, you know." He didn appear to be having a very good tim just then, though. He wa3 very anxiot that his name should not appear i print, and refused point blank to gfr any information beyond the statemer 1-V.n* T.ia nonrla TPOVA Wflftlfhv flTld Hvfi Ln the south of England, and that; h bad money enough -when he came hei to home had he started immediatel Dn his journey. He had no business c professional calling; hehad served som time as an officer in tho British servic and had been traveling for plearan He intimated that a "little onpleasani uess " had occurred in the family pric to his departure from home and a tributed his riisfortune entirely to th "failure of papa, you know," to mai remittances in response to drafts he ha made upon him. He is hopeful th* some of l;he wealthy acquaintances h aaa made here will come forward an issist him in his dilemma until word ca be Eont to hi3 parents. An Earnest Model. Some carious details are given in foi iign journals respecting afamous mdd< who posed for the " Atalanta " of Prt lier and the young girl in Gerome' "Cock-Fight," now in the gallery c Luxembourg. When Bhe first went t Paris she was a young and illiterat peasant, but she managed to edacat iierself. "Wliile posing for the "Ate lanta " she ceased one day to come at th iccustomed hour, so Pradier went i search of her, and found her, as h thought, lying dead. An attack of brai Fever had struck her down, and in a fe1 iays she died, to all appearance. Be this seeming death was only the rigidit of an intense attack of catalepsy, an she was really conscious of all that wa passing around her. Pradier conclude he would takf a cast of the corpse. Th modeling of the feet and hands gave th * ~ t__J_ I- A. poor girl no uneasiness, out uer wm at the thought of the suffocating weigh of the plaster on face and chest enable her to break the fetters of the letharg] To the amazement of the artist, the suj posed corpse bounded from the bed, an seizing a mass of the half-liquid plaste: she dashed it full in Pradier s face. Tt violent exertion did her good, and si was saved. But somehow she word never forgive Pradier. She would n< enter his studio, and he was forced i get another model to complete h "Atalanta." * How a Cricket Saved a Ship, In Southey's " History of Brazil" 1 tells how Cabeza de Vaca was in s grei ship going to South America with H men and thirty horses ; and after th? had crossed the equator, the command* discovered there were only three casl of water left. Ha gave orders to mal the nearest land, and for three days the sailed for the coast. A poor sick soldii who had left Cadiz with them, broug] a grillo, or ground cricket, with Inn thinking its oheerfnl voice would amui him on the long, dreary voyage. Bi to his great disappointment, the litt inseot was perfectly quiet the whole wa; The fourth morning after the ship ha changed her course, the (Ticket, whic knew what she was about, set up hi shrillest note. The soldier at once gaT a warning to the officersin charge of tl vessel, and they soon saw high, jagge rocks just ahead of them. The wafc had been careless, and the great ship j a few moments would have been dashe to pieoes on the ledges, if this pur creature had not scented the land, at told them of their danger. Then the cruised along for some days; and tl cricket sang for them every night, ju as cheerily as if she had been in far c Spain, till they got to their desiim port, the island of Oatalioa. F1BM STOCK. Some Very Interertln? FlfUN ud 8ta llrtlofc The number of farm ani'maln is not keeping pace with the increase of popu lation, swine having decreased eight per cent, during the past year, sheep having barely held their own, while horses have increasBd only three cent, and oows about one and a half per cent. The Erices of horses and mules of all ages ave generally decreased, although local causes have in some sections kept them firm, and in a few States increased them. Thu decline is sharpest in the Eastern States for horses, and in the Western States for males. * The rates for milch oows are not sub tained in the Eastern States, eicept in Connecticnt and Massachusetts. The average is the same as that of last year in New York, a decline being percepti ble in the remaining Middle States. There is an increasing demand in Mary land and Virginia, States well suited to dairying, and prices have advanced somewhat. In the Oaiolinas and Georgia the rates sympathize with the prevailing downward tendency. Prom Florida westward along the gulf ooast, and in Arkansas and Tennessee, prices are higher, the greatest proportionate in crease being in Texas. In every State ? ? ? - ? ii _ i oi tne great in tenor vaueya were is an increase, exoept in Nebraska, where prices ruled very high last year. On the Pacific coast the high California rate of last year is not fully sustained. A comparison with last year is made in the rates of the following States : 1171 UTS. New York. Virginia... Georgia... Texas Ohio Wisconsin. Misaonri.. Oregon.... $37.60 22.77 17.02 15.72 82.65 26.75 20.86 21.75 $87.50 22.94 18.85 18 83 80.42 26.37 19.50 21.65 The class including all cattle exoept cows exhibits no very sweeping changes. The abundance or scarcity of supplies for winter use causes local changes. In the Eastern States, prices are firmer in Vermont and Massachusetts ; in Penn sylvania, in the Middle States; in Mary land Vrti4V> riarnlinfl Alabama Tatojj the more eastern States of the Ohio val ley, with a positive rise in the district west of the Mississippi. There is little decline in New York, Delaware,Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsin and Minnesota. There is some decrease in several of the New England States, in New Jeesev, Georgia, and little in Indi ana and Illinois, except that in the latter prices of matured stock are well sus tained. The following tables show the relative prices for 1876 and 1875 : Btat*. U71 1? Maine (20.43 $21.12 New York 19.40 19.60 North Carolina 6.33 600 Georgia 5.97 7.00 Texaa 5.87 5.28 14.72 14.25 Uiuitr Iteo Ttart. Illinois 14.uu 10.40 Mieeoari 11.66 10 00 0??r three I Van. Stmtr. 1871. 1875. *58.22 tes.oo New York. *. 51.% 52 08 North Carolina. 15.35 14.70 Georgia 1&47 15.00 Texaa 14.18 11.82 Kentucky 36.05 34.53 IJlino'a 35.74 34.69 Missouri 28.81 24.25 The rates for sheep are not materially changed in the Atlantic States north of Virginia, or in the Gulf States. In the Southern Atlantic States, and in the Ohio valley, there is a Blight tendenoy to high rates, and in the Missouri valley prices are still more advanced. The numbers of sheep on the Pacific coast are so increased that in dry season some districts are overstocked, tending to de crease in prices, which is indicated to some extent in the preAnt returns from Uaiitoraia. xne pncea 01 iuu grown sheep are thns reported in the following States: Pennsylvania. Georgia... Texas ; Tennessee. Ohio Illinois.... Nebraska . 1876. 1875. $3.97 $4.22 3.95 3.90 8.15 8.17 1.94 1.76 2 29 2.16 2 40 2.20 3 09 3.00 2.75 2.84 3.00 2.74 A alight increase in the price of hogs ia observed in New England, especially in those of more than one year old. There is an advance in the Middle States, in Virginia and North Carolina, bnt in Sonth Carolina and Georgia prices are not fully maintained. In Ar kansas and Tennessee, where supplies .were scarce and high last year, with low prices for all kinds of stook, there has been a manifest advance the present sea son. The Western States all return higher prices than last year. The fol lowing figures for old hogs will repre sent the general tendency of prices: Saw. W7& | 1175. New Hampshire $27.25 ! t24.00 NewJereey 20.60 j 18.75 Aj-kansaa \ e.iu i 4.10 Iowa 13.75 I 12.13 Kansas 14 92 | 6 67 Maryland I 10.27 9 73 Alabama. j 6.07 5.81 Kentucky 10.19 . 8.67 Indiana. I 13 33 1 9.30 An Unlucky Countenance. When Abbas the Great was hunting in the valley, he met one morning, as the day dawned, an uncommonly ugly man, at the sight of whom his horse started. Being nearly dismounted, deeming it a bad omen, he called out in a rage to have his head struck off. The poor peasant, whom the had seized, and were on the point of executing, prayed that he might be informed of his crime. " Your crime," said the king, " is your unluckv countenance, which is the first object I saw this morning, and which had nearly caused me to fall from my horse." "Alas!" said the man, "by this reckoning, what term must I apply to your majesty's countenance, which was the first object my eyes met this morning, and which it to cause my death ?" The king smiled at the wit of the reply, ordered the man to be ro a j ? " firnaivnt itinfwul ar i leasea, ujiu^uvo iB , of taking off his head. :e >yl .1: Female Devotion, An Arizona wife begged the court not to punish her husband for the crime of bigamy, of which he had been convicted. "He loved me once and was kind," she said, with tears running in streams down her face, " and when I go away to my lonely home, it would be my only earthly comfort to know that he was free to seek for happiness, if he can find it anywhere in the world." TTT1?? *TTOf< f.Vio >r UCIl OOUTOUWJ noo puuuxuwu, stricken woman fell upon her knees be fore her husband, and placing hej hands upon his arms, asked him to forgive her if she had ever done anything to chill his love for her, and to kiss her just as he would a dead wife whom he loved. The wretched man seemed entirely over come by these pitiful appeals and his own fate, and, grasping her in hia arms, kissed her over and over again, and when the officers drew him away, she sank fainting to the floor. THE WILD FAMILY AGAIX. Murder of the Girl by bet Brutish Brother ?The Murderer Captnred and Sent to the Insane Asylum?An Unparalleled Story et 8ava*ery and Barbarity. In the fall of 1871 quite a sensation was created by the discovery in the "wil derness of Wyoming county, Pa., of a family of wild people, consisting of a man and his two children. * The latter roamed the woods in a nude condition, subsisting on nuts, roots, etc. The man lived in a miserable hut, where his chil dren sometimes slept. He was possessed of a good education, and clothed in rags and surrounded with filth, he spent his time in studying an old Bible. He seemed to have a profound knowl edge of Scriptural subjects, and was well versed in ancient and modern his tory. He possessed, also, extraordinary elocutionary powers, ana naa myenvea a system of short hand which he wrote with remarkable speed, and read with fluenoy. Soon after the discovery of these strange beings a man named Rob inson sought to make aoney out of them by exhibiting them about the country. To obtain the children he was obliged to kidnap them, and by a course of most cruel treatment compelled them to sub mit to be partially clothed. When plothing was first put on them they tore it to shreds. The father was induced to aocompany them, and served as lecturer, reader and short-hand reporter. The children were a boy and a girL They were named William and Melvina. The latter waa twenty-two years old, perfectly developed, but somewhat dwarfed in appearanoe. The boy was nineteen. There was a remarkable re semblance between them. Their heads trere email, with reoeding foreheads, and were covered with long, matted white hair. Their noses and mouths were rery large, and their eyes small. The expression of their faces was idiotic. Ihey were mutes, so far as emitting in telligible sounds was concerned, but they had a straoge, harsh gibberish in which their father insisted they com municated understandingly with one an other. The exhibitions of this degraded family were bo shocking to the sensibili ties of the pnblio that the exhibitor was compelled to abandon his speculation, uid the "wild mutes," as they were armed, were returned to their retreat in the wilderness, in the winter of 1872. They were gradually forgotten, but in 1873 their father appeared at Tunkhan lock and made the charge that his son iid killed his faster and attempted the iie of his father, and asited that he be aken in charge by the authorities. The did boy was arrested with great difficulty j aid lodged in jail. All efforts to get Him j. *"? ?nnnnnrtfloofnl n-nr? \J WCtti uiuiuxuig noio liuouwwwui) uuu ie was so violent that no one dared to inter his cell unprotected. Nothing ould be done with him, and some weeks iter he was secured he was returned to he woods. Ever since he has been a ource of annoyance to the authorities, md he has at last been disposed of by >eing captured and incarcerated in the nsane asylum at Danville by order of ?urt. The extraordinary story of the amily, as told officially by the father, is is follows. It has no parallel in modern imea : The name of the father of the wild nutes is Thomas Wells Parke. He is lfty-flve years old, and waa born in Exe er, Luzerne corfnty. He lived in that )Iace until he was fifteen years old, ob aining the rudiments of an English edu ction. Beyond the fact that when he au-i. I--'- 1 IiIIUI 11 lo [^tucuio uiuvuu iuuv/ vuu wilderness of Wyoming county, to the ipot where he was discovered with his ariily in 1871, and that they died there, md were buried in the woods by his iwn hands, nothing is known about his .ntecedents. His father left fifty acres if land, on which Parke's hut now tands. When he was twenty-six years Id he married a girl of twenty, named dory Searlea. She was sickly, and sub-; ect to insane spells. The girl, Melvina, ras born in 1849, and the boy nearly a hree years later. Their mother never s ,'ave them any attention, and from the C ime they were old enough to get about v hey were compelled to look out for I hemselves. They never spoke a word fc r> fViaiT li-tJoa nnr Vttir? ft D-ftrmfiTlt of STIV I ind on them until the showman took hem away. They early took to the roods, and grew up like tho animals bat infested the region. Prom digging or roots and hunting nests they acquired he habit of going on all fonrs, and were Imost as fleet as deer. They were qually agile in an erect position. They nbsisted on nuts, roots, bark, etc., and Lbo systematically hunted mice, rats, abbits, ground moles, and other bur owing animals, which they devoured aw. They climbed the higesfc trees with a8e, and hunted birds' nests, the con ortiVti av rnnriff oUWJ U1 YVIUtUj nuoiuui vggu W4 j mwuq irds, were choice food for them. They randered about in the most rigorous rinter weather, and sometimes remained way from home days at a time. Their kin became almost black from exposure, nd at the time they were discovered by he huntera their flesh was covered with cars made by onts and scratches in the roods. The skin of the palms of their ands and soles of their feet was thick nd as hard as horn. The disposition of he boy at that time was ugly and icious. He had made several assaults n his sister, wounding her badly, and ad attempted to kill his n other, who ' il-- l?t. Mowik 1R71 Ail away irurn tuo uuv m xuiuvu^ av?*j nd never returned. Left alone with his wild offspring, the ather noted with alarm the increasing Brociousness of the boy, and, when he ould control him, he tied him in the int for the safety of himself and the irl. This increased his fury, and he ms released. The disposition of the ;irl was gentler, and she was quite do ile. When they returned from their short our with the showman it was in the aidst of the severe winter of 1872. >arke had left home at the time he isually gathered his crop of potatoes nd turnips, all he raised on his land, nd when he came back there was noth Dg for him to subsist ou. His children -1- TTTAA^a GtOUh. lUBUineivoa at uulo w uuu >tuuuu. The snow was very deep, and they :ould find but littlo to eat. It had been heir custom previously to make out heir winter's subsistence by sharing heir father's potatoes, which he cooked n a hole dug in the ground in liis hut. rhe stock having been exhausted, they iuffered terribly from hunger. Parke ibtained occasional relief from the sur ounding villages, but it seems, singu arlv enough, that no move was made to leal permanently with this wretched amily. The mutes stripped the bark rom trees, and even ate the straw which ormed their father's bed in one corner >f the hut.* They fought each other ike wild beasts, and their father lived n mortal terror for nearly three months. Ifear his hut is a swamp, which is the lome of myriads of the smaller rep iles. When spring opened, the wild aid almost famished children scoured his swamp, and caught and devoured vith the ravenous appetites of half itarved wolves the creeping-occupants >f the mire. This is not only testified o Tfy their father, but by others, who leclare that they saw the boy catch and :at a water snake. Parke says that this horrid diet in ireased the ferocity of his children. One lay the brother and sister camo into the mtand a fight ensued between them. Parke was compelled to fly. Bill, as the joy was called, attacked his sister with tn old case knife he had pioked up in the hovel. He stabbed her in the breast and in other places. She ran bleeding into the woods. Her father fonnd her afterward lying at the foot of a tree, dead. He carried her body a long dis tance into the woods and buried it. Parke continued to live in the hut, bnt was frequently compelled to leave it bo escape the fnry of his son. Finally, sarly in 1873, he made the oomplaint igainst him, and has at last had his brutish child safely disposed of. Parke is a thin, wiry man, ragged and slovenly. His head is covered with long, white, unkempt hair, and he hac a lowing white beard. He attributes the lamentable condition of his children to the incapacity of his wife to oversea and Tain them, saying that he was too much absorbed in his scientific and literary pursuits to notice their wants. Shortly after the death of Mclvina he puDiisnea a cara ataung ior iiuutuuMuu us to the whereabouts of his wife, and pegging her to come and look after the ieeds of her remaining child. He is by nany considered- insane. - A Narrow Eieape, There was to be a military execution way'up above the heads of everybody n Harper's Ferry, on Bolivar heights, md with abonta thousand others I went o see it. Two soldiers had been con victed of desertion, and their death sen tence approved by Gen. Sheridan. I ikip the details. About twelve o'clock loon they found themselves on their mees in front of two coffins inside three idee of a hollow square of soldiers, rith a firing party two rods in front [heir eyes were being bandaged; three ninnfcea more, I think, would have set led their accounts with this world, wnen in orderly came galloping up that iteep, muddy hill with a telegram. Sen. Stevenson, who commanded there, )pened it. It was signed "A. Lin win," and directed an indefinite sus pension of the sentence. A suspicion iroeaed my mind that we had all been participating in a gotten-up dramatic mtertainment, to prod ace a good moral )ffect on the soldiers present, particul arly the two most interested. In other ivords, I suspected that this telegram lad been received by Gen. Stevenson jefore the funeral cortege left Harper's Ferry. I was on the staff in those days, ind was privileged to ask questions, so I - 3 ^ r% U rtfl mrea UU LIIO gCUBiai au iuo uaiuuiuu ers two hours after and inquired about t. He assured me that my suspicions rare unfounded. . " But the line from here to Baltimore s down and I had no reason to expect a lispatch. How it got here I don't mow. Certainly, they would have, een dead in a few minutes more." The statement of the operator at Balti aore, afterward published, gave inten ity to the dramatic situation out on ileak Bolivar heights on that dismal February morning. The President's lispatch was received about ten o'clock hat morning, with the cipher of the iVar department to hurry it to Harper's ferry. For hours the line had been town between that and Baltimore; there vw no train tnat would oe umeiy. xc v&h the jadgment of the operator that his ended the matter; that the men aost die, Yet an effort might be made o reach Harper's Ferry from the west. 3o made the trial; he kept right on risking it for an hoar and a half. As he ailed, and continued to fail, his anxiety 'rew greater to save the doomed men. dare not say how many thousand miles hose words of the President traveled mckward and forward in that ninety oinutes. They went to New York, to Buffalo, to Cincinnati, to Pittsburgh, to Vheeling, and elsewhere, often return ug like Noah's dove of mercy, and as ' - nti L.j Ilten sent one again. xiiey reucueu Cumberland at last, and thence flashed [own to Harper's Ferry in timo. Saved his Diamonds. General Jack, a noted circus man, has great penchant for diamonds, and it is aid that those who want to come it over Jeneral Jack?no easy thing to do?al ways approach him on his diamond side, le takes it as a compliment to be asked 0 show his collection, and does show it. Jut he is a good judge of character for U. The story goes that some thieves onspired to rob him by profiting by his leasure in showing his treasures. There rere three of them?nobby English fel iws?who came over expresslyto do the >b, and thoroughly posted. They made is acquaintance at a hotel, and in due ourse procured the invitation to see his iamonds. They claimed to be sporting len, ardent turfites, but connoisseurs in uch things. They came to Jack's house ne afternoon, in a coach, and he re vived them alone, opened his safe, dis 1 J nrnnf. inf.A T l&ytJU mi 1UO uiDaouito, nvun istory, eto. "This," he said, "is my foloonda specimen?not very large, bnt jmarkable for its brilliancy and pure Ater. This is my Brazilian?it is a bit ff color, a suspicion ofa canary tinge"? hack I smack I thwack! "You would, ouldyou?" and with three successive lows of his fat white fist, his three Inglish visitors were knocked down and nt hors df combat. It was a mere aspicion on his part?something he saw 1 the men's faces, read in their eyes? ut it saved his diamonds.. He sum loned aid, looked the safe, secured the len, and found them fully armed?pis >ls, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag, liloroform, red pepper. He disarmed ism, bundled them into the coach, and ave them twejity-foy hours to leave the An Odd Detection. An elderly man fell at the corner of Washington and Warrenton streets, toston, while intoxicated, and hurt him 3lf badly. A crowd immediately gath red, bnt though the man laid there un ble to move, no one essayed to assist im up, till a young fellow foroed his ray through the crowd and made him elf very officious in his efforts to get be old man home. Meanwhile another lan in the crowd had seen this young lan counting some money in a neigh oring doorway and suspected that he light have knocked the old man down nd robbed him. Officer Maynard was ummoned and both men were taken to tie police station, and on searching the oung man, who gave his name as r:~Ur.ai TW1f\r TrurA fnnnd on his XitUOVi AMJ4V* 9 ? ? eraon, which he said belonged to his unt, Mrs. Catherine Mahoney, at No. 1 Newton place. An officer went to be house, and on investigation Mrs. iahoneyfound that $440 had been taken rom under a certain carpet and voung .'aylor is held for taking it. Thus an ttempt to do an act of kindness result d in his being detected in a crime. A Centennial Blow-Up. They intend having a very lively oen snnial "Fourth " at Hell Gate, in the last river, New York. One hundred nd twenty men are employed drilling oles in the roof and sides of the excava ion, which has been completed at a cost f $750,000, and which is directly under eath the rock which once so frightened footer TTondnVlr TTnilqnn nnrl liin lephantine mariners, inducing them to elinquish their refforta to reach Hin oostan via Hell Gate. An average of wenty-one holes a day are drilled, and ?hen the fourth oomes they mil be harged with 50,000 pounds of nitro-gly erine, which will be touched by a cur ent of electricity, and Hell Gate will be henceforth forever open to the naviga ion of Brooklynites and New Yorkers, An Answer. You ask me, wondering, why I sing, And why my lips In langhter put; The ripples of my mirth ul spring From the deep sorrow of my heart. A emile is easier than a tear That serves to keep sad memories green, And always, through what is, I hear The echoes of what might have beeo. Items of Interest. . Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more. Capital punishment?Hanging on the neck of a pretty girL When is a baby like a canister f When it is a tea thing. All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate. When are eyes not eyes? When the wind makes them water. If crying babies had any sense they never would take their mothers to matinees. - A Western writer has evolved a liew name for the Legislature?"act grind ers." Never huny. More men have died from getting out of breath than for any other reason. Chilian women have received the right to vote, the only qualification being they must be of jtge and able to reau aim whlc. A tramp lately asked a lady for money She offered hi food. " Gracious ! was his observation, "do you think I can eat all the time ?" A family in town has a dog twentyi five years old. He was originally a hound, but he's stayed with them so long that they call him a tarrier. , During the past twelve years Dart mouth College has received about $600, 000 in gifts, and about $700,000 more will become available in a few years. Lamartine says: " War, very far from being the progress of humanity, is only murder in mass which retards it, afflicts it, decimates it, dishonors it." Experiments with young grasshoppesr at Jackson, Maine, have shown that they may be frozen and thawed several times without impairing their power to return _ to life. The Erie car shops at Elmira, N. Y., are crowded to their utmost capacity, in turning out pas sen gar cars to meet the extra demand dnnag the centennial year. The men are working nine hoars a day. "Remember,"said u trading Quaker to his son, "in making thy way in the world, a spoonful of ou will go farther than a quart of vinegar." And Broad brim was right; but the trouble is, people will persist in trying the vinegar Some men are always lucky. A htm tor of Brainerd, Minn., while oat in the woods reoently discharged his gun just to clear out the barrel, and unknown to him a fine buck happened to be with in range and was shot through the heart. The family of Lewis Neides, of Bead ing, is unlucky. The daughter fell off a chair and broke her arm in two places. Soon after, Neides himself fell and factured hiB ribs, and before he had re covered his son, aged ten years, fell and b:*oke his arm at the elbow. Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper and another will fol low it, and atill another until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought there which has no bottom; the more you draw from it the more clear and fruitful it will be. David. T. Sleeper, of Sandown, N. H., who is totally blind, is able to reap, mow, thresh, chop down trees, cut up cord wood, make ax handles, ox goads, and can go round the neighborhood with assistance or direction from any one, and never finds time to spend in regret ing the loss of his eyesight He was in a confidential mood when 1 1 ? An fV?n ne wem iiumu mo utucx uj^uv v** ferryboat, and said to the gentleman sitting by him : " I'm happish man in New Yorfc. I donowe man shent. I'm gonehome, an' if tholoman's sittin' up I'll licker, an' if she's gone to bed 111 licker any way. I'm bonnt' have shome fun." The warden of the Oregon peniten tiary has discharged the prison doctor and detailed one of the oonvicts, who is an educated physician, to perform the duties. The warden claims that he saved the State $1,500 a year by this arrangement, and is always sure to have medical attendance "within reach" when needed. " See here, conductor, why don't you have a fire in this car ?" " Well, you see, one of the directors is a clothing man, another is a doctor, and another is a drug store keeper, and another runs a tombstone factory, and you know in this ruvmln mnsfc * live and let live.' So you see1"? "All right, sir; go ahead with yourooffin." "This is my last call,"remarked a flippant young gentleman to a young lady who was soon ta-be married, on a recent occasion. "I never call on married women or unmarried ladies after they have reached twenty-five." "You do well, sirgravely remarked an elder lady present. " At that age, and after marriage, they begin to know the value of time, and do not like to waste it." Acoounts from Villefranche, France, state that the valley is still covered with snow and the cold very severe. The wolves, being almost famished, have be come most audacious; a few days back four of those animals entered the village of RierAyroux in the open day, and carried off two young pigs and a goat. A number of dogs have also been killed by them, and the innabitants dare not venture out at night unless armed with a gun. The boys of Winnemucca, Nevada, had some fun with a showman. They formed a line from the ticket office ex tending around a near comer. Each asked the price of admission, and, on being told that it was fifty cents, shook his head, said it was too dear, retired and fell in at the rear of the line. This was kept up until the showman, astound ed at the unanimity and seemingly great number, reduced the charge, and then every boy cleared out. A French artisan living in London committed suicide the other day by guillotining himself. One evening he was observed to take home two large planks of wood and a large dotlble handled knife. With these, as it was subsequently discovered, he constructed a guillotine. Grooves were formed in the wood for the knife, and down these, after having been drawn up with a nnllflv. it forned hv heavv stones. The unfortunate man's head was com pletely severed from his body.. Mrs. Gross, of Paw Paw, Michigan, thinking her husband was unduly atten tive to his brother's wife, was therefore made jealous. One evening he left the house late, and she guessed he had gone to meet his sister-in-law. So Mrs. Cross followed stealthly and discovered, not a liaison, but a murder. She dogged him to a place where he was joined by two brothers, and thence kept them in sight while they took a drunken stranger to ward a lake. Then she went home. The stranger was robbed and drowned, and her testimony is nsed in tne trial of the three brothers.