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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER = =^_ "~7T^7" "" VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 26. A T^BTfVTT TT? cs o WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, lo7o. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., W^vis , ___^^^? ^[ | mnn miYTT/ia rwn MTOOATTBT I T*J_J?. a V A Story Told Off Nantucket, " There are no heroes now," said she, And turned with scornful, wearied air, And looked across the waves to where A dim gray island met the sea. " I wish there'd bo a ninth Crusade, Or Arthur's knights would come once more, Or of Nantucket's prosy chore A second Ilium might be made. " No flame of genius lights our page ; Our muse is dumb. No martyr wakes Our hearts from sleop. No hero breaks Tho level of our stupid age." He looked at her in sad surprise ; Was she so heartless and blcue ' Whs there no bravery to day Oould make a hero in her eyes V " And yet on that piosaic shore A bero may have been," said he ; ' A knight or martyr here might be Who iiover cross or armor wore. " Just off Nantuckot's ragged coast One day last week a boat went down In sight of dwellers in the town, And all on board bat one were loet. " For ;here were two who caught an oar Ai d floated for a, moment; they Hnd oomrades beeu for many a day, Had danger shared on many a shore. " One felt the oar begin to ?ink Beneath the double weight; he knew It sarely oould.no: float the two, Ai.d one must go. He did not shrink ; " His sacrifice his friend might save, And pausing no', to give him choice, He shouted, with a linging voice That never faltered, stroDg and brave " Aa when they scaled an Alpine height And shouted to the arching sky In triumph, One muot go?good-bye? God bless you !' and *us lost from sight. *' 1118 lrmuu KM 0?> w , rut uun tuuuo He ever heard that voice repeat Good-bje?God tlets joa!' clear and sweet, In tides that roar and winds that moan !" Tbe red lips lost their scornful curl, And quivered now with tender pain, And tears fell like a rammer rain From the dark lathts of the girl. " That tcat a htro! 4 greater love Hath no man !' " passionately thrilled Tbe vibrant tones ; her face was filled With reverence *11 words above. He mnrmured to himself apart? Watching the languid cynic's face Transformed with radiant, tender graoe? ' Ah! uo#?I Lnow she has a heart!" ?Parsont. WHOSE WAS THC GUILT ? "Cilia TVftmftvnA Inid his fnrlr dnum with a gesture half of impatienoe, half of discouiagement, and a frown that had no business on the forehead of a six months' married man, the husband of the prettiest of women, corrugated his hanJfrome white forehead. " You soem to have not the slightest appreciation of affairs, Effie. I have explained time and time again that I am living up to my income?not saving a penny?and yet you still persist in demanding money for every trifle that takes your fancy." Ellis Tj emayne spoke more decisively than Eflii? had ever lizard him, and she mentaliy vowed him horribly cross, and parted her rt d hps and leaned back in her chair with a very aggrieved look on hsr lovely face. And yet it wus lovely. Mr. Tremayno thought so that same moment as ho looked at the delicate {tink-and-huow complexion, and the arge dark blue eyes that had played such mad ha?oc with his heart a year ago?at the full, exquisite lips that had only neemed made for smiles and kisses then, that now were rapidly consummatiog their task of discovering the clay feet of Lis idol?that now were parting | to utter words be knew were coming, that (lid oome. "Youarn just as mean and cross as can be ! What's the use of living at all if you can't have what you want?if you can't have tilings like other people ? I | tell yon I do think you might let me , have some money this morning; I need j it most awfully." Her blue eyes certainly looked pleading enough to givo entire credence to her a.'isertious. "I am almost tempted to say that cannot be true, Effie, since it was only a week ago to-day I handed you twentyfive ponnds?a sum amply sufficient for even the most iuexperienced financier on which to keep a family of two." Darker frowns were gathering on Tremayce's forehead, but Effio answered with a sneer: " Twenty-five pounds! You speak as if it were o fortune! I tell you, Ellis, I mu3t have things like?like other people. How on earth do you suppose I feel when Mrs. Coddington or Miss Bell burn calls for me to drive, weariDg their ; eiega'ii carnage costumes, ana i in tne ; same dreF? I appear iu in the street or : atohnrch?" Tremayne smiled contemptuously, "bo you hope to rival the wife of a millionaire and tho only daughter of a wealthy banker, do yon??you, the wife of a cashier at Wingfield & Sons, on seven hundred a year? Effie, have nothing to do with women who are, unconsciously, perhaps, sowing seeds of discontentment and extravagance in your heart." "lam neither discontented nor extravagant, E'.l*s?you fih/dl not say so. But! I must liavp pome money to get a new ' flnit. Oh, Elli?, such a heavenly shade ' of prnne, and you know I can wear so ' wdll one particular shade. Honestly, I j haven't a drees to wear to Mrs. Lamar's reoeption." jcjuih ai,K uih egsr wan very nine snow of satisfaction, and his siU nee, while bitter thoughts were rushing through his mind, was taken 'by Ellie as a sign of oonBent. She was not slow in pressing her adv vantage. "It won't cost over twenty pounds, Ellis?very reasonable indeed, for I shall make it nearly all myself, and I'm sure you can't be displeased at that. Then f-ay 'yes,' won't you, Ellis dear?" A settled, white look came around his handsome mouth. "If you care more for show and fine clothes than for my respect and the consciousness that you are my economical, prudent wife who is helping her husband save instead of almost goading him in io debt, you can have the money." Her eyes flashed as delightedly as a child's over a new toy. She had accomplished her desire, and his cold yet touching words had fallen unheeded before that? "You can have the money." She sprung from her chair behind the coffee urn, and threw her arms around his neck, kissitg his handsome, worried forehead. "You darling! I knew you would not eay 'no,' for ail you read me such a lecture on economy. Really, Ellis, when you *ee how lovely I shall look in my new silk, you will not grudge the money, will you ? You like to see me look as pretty as I used before we were married, don't youi And you're not angry, dear? You do love mej* Her swert, girlish face all alight with happy enthusiasm,her blue eyeeduH^g with such honest delight, her smooth oheek lying against his, and her dainty little hand stroking his whiskers?of oourse Ellis laid down Lis napkin and poshed back from the table and kissed her. She was his wife?sweet, pretty, delicate as a mountain pink, and he loved her?loved her dearly, truly, as in the days when he had won her, thinking what a rare flower she was. He loved her, and was willing, yes, anxious, to increase her happiness by every honest means in his power?only Effie was extravagant and unreasonable in h?r demand for dress and stylo that were beyond the capabilities of the well salaried man that he was. So, now he kissed her tenderly, and then took out his purse and laid a bank note on the tablecloth. "There's your new silk, dear?may you enjoy it." His forbidding manner had so entirely disappeared, that Effie's heart was encouraged to undertake another pet plan. So as she demurely folded the note away in her pretty little crimson Russia pocketbook, she begun, so quietly that Ellis was quite captured by storm : " I was wondering if it would not be a good plan if we shut up the house for August, dear, and went somewhere. It will do you so much good, I'm sure, and there will be no expenses here while we're away. Can't we go to Hastings ?" KVio nrwiAfl t.h? hatfcerv verv suddenly. wr W y ar ? almost staggering Tremayne. " Oh, Effie, no. It would involve a larger expense, ten times, than it costs at home." Ihen seeing that well known, martyrlike expression settling on her face, that always drove him to desperation, he added, hastily : "If you can manage it, go yourself. I dare say some of your fashionable friends will chaperon you." "Oh, may I, may I, really? Indeed, I will manage it I I don't need many new thiDgs, I'm sure. I have enough for the silk, and with a little more I can easily get what I absolutely need. Ellis, you are a darling!" He laughed?not very joyously. "I'm glad you think so. Well, I'm off." Two hours later, Mrs. Effie Tremayne, dressed in an unexceptionably elegant walking costume, started out on her shopping tour, to meet at the silk counter Mrs. Godfrey Coddington, carelessly tossing over rare pieces of evening silk. "I am so delighted to have your taste on my new silks, my dear Mrs. Tremayne. Do tell me which you prefer, the salmon, or the pearl blue, or this sunnier pink? I intend to have a couple of them for Hastings." Hastings! Mrs. Tremayne's cheeks glowed. "I hope to see you at the shore, Mrs. Coddington, and in either this exquisite maize or silver pink." " So you will be there ? Do join our party?only Godfrey and sister Blanche and Nellie Bellburn and I?for next Thursday week. Have you engaged rooms ? What shall you get new ?" ft was certainly very delightful to be talked to thus, but, once home, there occurred little qualms of conscience, a*, very, very -gradually, she felt herself drawn into arrangements she knew were far beyond her reach. And yet she consented to Mrs. OoddiDgton's kind offer that Mr. Coddington should secure rooms for her with his party. She made up her mind that the elegant stock of clothes that two hours ago she thonght needed only a little renovation and a small addition to make it all that was necessary, would not do at all. And so, besides the money her husKavw? nfirrnM linr orianf. in flia UOiJU UUU gITVU UV1 MVAUg AU VUV dozen and one trifling accessories that a well dressed toilette demands, there was folded away in a seldom used Compartment of Mrs. Tremayne's pocketbook an unreceipted bill for fifty pounds, made out to Mr. Ellis Tremayne. Effie's blue eyes were daDciug and hei cheeks flushed when she" was Ret down with her parcels from Mrs. Coddington'icarriage at her door. She had time and to spare before Ellis came in to the five o'clock dinner to look over her purchases, thiit after all seemed very few and small considering that horrid bill in her pocketbook, that she dreaded to show her husband,for all the flusLed gayety of her manner. " Ah, is there any need to tell him now ?" she reasoned, while she removed her walking suit and donned a lovely black tissue. " Not the slightest use to tell him before I go away. He'll only muke a fuss, and I do hate a fuss. Besides, after I'm home again, perhaps I can save it out of the house money." So she quieted her conscience with the hopefully specious promises, and the next day, finding it impossible to get ready by herself in timo to go with Mrs. Coddington's party, was obliged to employ the services of a high priced dressmaker, whose bill for her work she tucked away in her pocketbook also, and thus swelled the indebtedness of her husband to be paid when she returned. Ah, when she returned. If she had only known, as she kissed her daintily hidden hand to her husband as he stood watcbiDg her off, with a look iu his eyes that was mingled love, sternne&s, pride, annoyance and harassing worry. " One of the prettiest women at the seaside, and certainly the best dre&sed. one must no a banker s wire, at tne least. Who did }ou Bay you understood she was ?" Old Mr. Wingfield put up his eyeglass as Mrs. Tremayoe went by, fair td see as a lily, in her carriage dress of tender cream tint, with her laco covered, pink lined parasol making faint rosy shades on her clear blonde face and brilliant golden hair. "She is Mrs. Ellis Tremayue, from Londou, with tho Coddington's, I believe, and putting up at the Parade. A regular beauty, isn't plie ?" Mr. Wingfield put his eyeglass slowly back, fctaring after the Coddington carriage. " Mrs. Ellis Tremayne. I suppose her husband is here?" " Not that I know of. Indeed, I think I heard young Bell burn say he was unable to leave his business?a bookkeeper or something, I believe, for a firm in the city." Mr. WingGeld arose from his chair with an old smile on his face. " Mrs. Tremayne must either be mistress of the wonderful economy of making a pound travel both ways, or else"? * A boy with a yellow envelope tapped him on the arm. " Oh, a telegram; from my son, I presume. Wait a minute?" He deliberately adjusted his glasses, and then opened the dispatch. "Oome at once. Everything traced to T. JAS. WlNGFIEIiD." And as he returned the paper to the envelope he looked up to Bee Mrs. Tremayne dashing by again, her face radiant with pleasure and excitement as Bellburn talked and laughed with her. ? * ? * * The pretty little house seemed so lonely and deserted after Effie had gone, and Ellis Tremayne threw himself wearily on the lounge in her boudoir, his face wearing marks of strangely contorted discouragement and exoitement For an hour or two he lay there, his eyes closed, his figure motionless, and then he arose with a half groan of mental distress. " This will never do. I shall go mad if I Btay here with only my thoughts for"? He had gone over to the little dressing bureau, carelessly taking up two little pieces of paper that Effie had entirely forgotten to hide, and a pallor, even more marked than his late deathly paleness, overspread his face as he saw the two formidable bills. Then somethiug very like an oath came from his set teeth. "My temptation be on her head? 99 my ? He sprung suddenly to his feet as the doorbell pealed imperiously, and listened with no ordinary curiosity as a man's voice demanded, to seo Mr. Ellis Tremayne, and heard the servant usher his company into the drawing-room. Then he went slowly, slowly down stairs, into toe presence 01 jur. vrmgfield and an officer. "Mr. Tremayne, you are discovered in your neat system of embezzlement. Officer "Ellis stepped baugLtily back. "One moment, gentlemen, if you please. Mr. Wingfield, I am discovered. Twenty-four hours later I would have been beyond pursuit; as it is, what is the difference between a hunted life abroad, or?this?" Quick as a flash, the pistol gleamed in the gaslight. A report, a heavy fall that thundered through the house like a doom, and the husband of a woman that was too unwomanly to bear her share in the burden of life?the woman enjoying her brief hour of pleasure on the sunlit ocean shore?the woman who had it in her power, as all women who are wives have, to goad to destruction in some form or another, or guide to happiness and sue " ess, in some means or another, this husband, who was less wicked than nroolf nrnnf fn V??a vonrflrfl noattj nvuu nv U44 AwnM4v?t And who thall say whose was the guilt ? Hers or not, who knelt and sobbed over his dead faoe, and tried to reason into silence an inner voice that refused to be still. Sister wives, be you careful, lest, although your hands and hearts are not stained with a crime like this?and many a wife's hands and heart are thus reddened to day?be careful that it lays not at your door tha', your husbands lose all their faith and trust iu woman's sacred vow as well as blessed privilege to share eagerly in their economies and mauy petty grievances that no household is without?that small though they now are, if not accepted in the spirit of patience, love and forbearance, are the little vexes that destroy the vine beyond the hope of recovery. Murder in the Riug. In Pennsvillo, Salem county, N. J., has been perpetrated oue of those revolting crimes that too often shock the community, bnt which in this case has peculiarly horrible accessories that tend to magnify the occurrence. Two men, or brutes clothed in the garb of humanity, hailing from Philadelphia, fought a prize tight in the above named locality, and one of them gave up hih life at the conclusion of the contest. Battered and bruised uutil he was almost unrecognizable, the dead man's body presented a fearful, horrible spectacle when found by the poiico on a Philadelphia dock. Now, possibly, the police will endeavor to lind the murderer; but, had they acted with decision and prevented the departure of the roughs from their city, the fight and murder could not havo occurred. They failed in their duty, and the entire commnnifv in thnrikftd in nonseonence. II is a sad commentary upon our boasted civilization and progress, that while we are inviting the world to witness them, such Kcenes aR this prize fight could occur, and, above all, owing to Philadelphia's negligence. It is well known that certain prize fighters who had only recently been connected with a f-imiJar exhibition in New Jersey, were among the abettors in this contest at PennsviUe, and had been in Philadelphia for days p. epaving for the fight. The police cannot plead ignorauoe of this fact, and they deserve, as they will receive, the condemnation of every pura-minded citizen throughout tho land. The very contest itself, too, was a disgrace to those concerned in its furtherance. The dead pugilist was a mere boy, only nineteen years old, and his opponent; wiuj a biruug, tsuviwurb umu ui over thirty. The instigators of the contest will probably remain unpunished, but i/ the contumely aud execration of mankind cm have any effect upon their future, then can they rest assured that it will follow them wherever they go. The Montenegrins. The Montenegrin mountaineer and warrior is a man six feet in height, with grave, thoughtful faoo, singularly contrasting with his quick, nervous gait. He has high cheek bones, like an American Indian; his eye is black and piercing aud his shoulders have a slight 6toop produced by constantly bending forward as he ascends difficult height^. He is, perhaps, the most agile human being on European soil; there is no haunt of the chamois which he cannot follow; and even the goa^s sometimes hesitate to go after their shepherds when Inere is a dangerous path to be crossed. The Montenegrin women are often the objects of pity to travelers, but they claim no Hvmuathv and acknowledge no hard ships. Their destiny is to work and to suffer. They are not even welcomed into the world, and the birth of a daughter is regarded as a calamity. The girl grows up neglected and often cursed. She carrios fagots of wood on her head that she may earn a few coins to buy arms for h??r brother. She has no youth, and is old at twenty-live. She is married young, and bears children while enduring labor in the fields which would be too hard even for strong men. The woman urges the warrior to the fight, 1 /~vr*/-!r. Kin /?ima ?n/l ylroaooa a tpnnn/1a IWOUO ULID gUUD} auu U1UOOUO rnu nwuu\*ui She is Beldom beautiful of feature, and the coar3e work which sho performs soon ruins her form. Demoralizing. The condition of the industrial classes Ill UKJl lUCi U uciuxauj ouuno uitav uuuu times are quite us demoralizing as Lard times. After the close of the FrancoGerman war wages rose to an unnatural level, all classes fancied that the flood tide of prosperity had sot it in, thrift was discarded and luxuries became indispensable, a craving for wealth beset all classes and discontentment was fomented, and the ultimate result was deterioration of workmanship. Herr Reuleaux , has summed it up : " The products of German workmen are wanting in finish, wanting in soundness, wanting in taste, i and absolutely devoid of imagination." The best work in the world is done by contented workingmen who are moderately prosperous. The claim holders in the African diamond fields are about to stop digging until the price of the preoious stones advan cp. The Cape Standard says: " Diamonds are dirt cheap." The Burning Forests. It is a peculiarity common to all great fires, says the New York Herald, that they create their own winds by reason, of the local rarefication of the utmosphere. The continuous indraught of air assists in extending the area of destruction and lends intensity to the flames by supplying the oxygen needed for their support. The heat is so great in advance of the line of fire that the vegetation beoomes charred and deprived of its sap before the flames reaoh it, and it is, therefore, prepared for rapid combustion. Without an abundant rainfall it will be very difBoult to arrest and extinguish these forest fires, especially on the parched mountain slopes of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Fortunately the coming weather changes will have the effect of creating rain areas along the line of the Ohio valley east ward toward the Atlantio coast ana over the region in which the burning foreBta lie. But certain portions of the lireswept country will receive but little of the rainfall, being situated to the eastward of the northern portion of the Alleghany mountains. Kanges of lofty hills which lie transversely to the tracks of areas of low atmospherio pressuro exercise the 6ame influence on the movements of the latter as the cushion of a billiard table has on the moving ball that impingos upon it. The area of low pressure with its marginal rains ic deflected from its direct course and forced to follow that which gives it the readiest means of resuming its eastward progress. The Alleghany range lies northeast and southwest, so that storm centers striking it on the western side are caused to move along parallel to its axis until the termination of the chain is reached north of the Oatskill mountains, whence the storm moves eastward into New England. For this reason Albany may have a season of copious rains, while Newburgh and Poughkeepsie experience a prolonged cfrought. The regions now suffering from the forest fires are particularly affected by this topographical influence on the weather conditions, and it is really remarkable that they have not long since been denuded of their timber by Hnnh c.f?nflai7rat,ionR. The attempts of the local residents a fighting the fires in an almost waterless region will prove fruitless, so long as the efforts are confined to trying to extinguish the flames directly. Those engaged in such a work cannot approach near enough to arrest the advance of the devouring fire. All post and rail fences should be torn down and removed, and a wide belt of forest out down about a quarter of a mile in advance of the conflagration. In felling the trees care should be taken to cut them so that those next the fire would fall with their tops toward it, but all the others should fall the other way?that is, present their butts to the flames. By this means a wide space would be created between the most combustible parts of the trees and time would be given to beat out the flames when they reached the heavier portions. If possible, the trees felled in the center of the clearing should be hauled as far away from the exposed line as possible. With tho large force composing the army of the fighters, this work could bo easily accomplished in a single day. The avenues of clearing so formed Bhould be kept open as perma nent safeguards against future forest tires. ___ Fashion Notes. OM fanhioned aprons with braces are striving for favor. Paris houses are already designing autumn and winter costumes. Embroidery is sceu on all materials and mixtures of materials. A new material for neglige toilets, called "rendnmac," has suddenly become popular. At Paris watering places the fashion of tie-back skirts is followed to the furthest possible limit. The newest stylo for fall isthe Holoise costume, so called becaufe the bodice i.-> fashioned after a ruedasval type. A new porto bouheur is formed of seven porte-bonheurs twisted one with the other, and composing a single bracelet only. A popular way of wearing the hair i in a French twist, with the ends made in two or three fincer oufTs on tho too of the head. Qiiilles or robiugs made of silver braid formed into network, will be worn during the autumn on sicilienne dresses of dark colore. A bride indicates to her bridesmaids the precise costume which she desires them to wear, but they purchase these themselves. Porpoine hide or kangaroo skin boots, and either thick woolen or silk stockings, are worn by ladies traveling abroad, for mountaineering. A new form of neodle case just introduced resembles a one-pound weight, and when open discloses a pincushion and several paokets of needles. A novelty in jewelry are riDgs composed of Reveral narrow bands of gold, either plain or set with gems, miniature copies of porte-bonheur bracelets. The latest fashion in bracelets is a gold bracelet with the wearer's name in Byzantine letters, but so interlaced and so large that they cover nearly half of the arms. Oatagon nets, composed of silk braid and oruamented with a ribbon bow at +Via r\f fVia liAarl an/? aimfViar nf. f.liA """ ""F - ""? ? bottom of the not, aro designed for country wear during the 6ummer months, There are batiste flounces nearly covered with Eastern embroidery, to be used for ornamenting light silk dresses; they are worked in quaint shades, and the silk of the dress matches the pale faded tints of the background*. Indian gauzes in which faded colors are introduced, Persian gauzes with arabesques, and Egyptian gauzes with nViafonf^riat m ftanitrrm am nnmhwrftrl among the popular Oriental goods now in demand for overdresses to evening toilets. Fall and Winter Wraps. A wrap of some warm material is usually the first garment purchased when cool autumn days arrive. Large importations of these, says a fashion journal, show the fashionable shapes to be enlarged editions of all the styles in vogue last year, viz.: Large mantles, long sacks, large dolmans, and long cloaks of both sack and circular shape. The size of these garments gives an air of comfort and warmth, and their bimple trimming, usually a mere border, is in keeping with their pjain and graceful style. Heavier materials aro used than the i cashmere and drap d'ete that of late have done service all winter, and these | heavy goods are often wadded, and are nlroavB lined with silk or with farmer's satin. The soft pliableness of lighter wool fabrics is given to luxurious camel's hair cloths that are ono-fourth of an inch thick, to diagonal stuffs, regular beaver cloth, and to the figured, basket, canvas and armnre cloths. A crreat many rich black silk wraps are shown, but very few velvet garments are imported. It is said that fine ololh cloaks are to be the first choice next winter, and will become fashionable for dressy wear again, just as last season fine woolen stuffs were restored to favor for rich costumcB. Why he was Anxious. Mr. Robinson went out to the cemetery the day after the interment of his wife and had aqi interview with the superintendent. " What are your regulations in regard to monuments in this cemetery ?" aaked Mr. Robinson. " Well, we hardly have any special rules. We let people do pretty muoh as they please." 41 You wouldn't make a fuss," said Mr. Robinson, "if a man should put something original and novel over a grave, now would you ? Something calculated to attract attention." " No-n-no, I guess not. What have you in view i" "Well, you see, Harriet was an uncommon patriotic woman; made socks for the soldiers during the war. and was all the time knitting fiddle-faddle things j for sanitary fairs, and I thought maybe I'd get her up some kind of a red, white and blue monument, with a brass eagle on top, and the American flag flying from a pole. Perhaps I might put4 Hail, Columbia' in gilt letters on the stone on one side, and a picture of General Washington holding the Declaration of Independence in his hand on tfie other. How does that strike you f" " It would be unique, anyhow." " But what I wanted to see you about particularly was to know about the size. Now, would you allow me to make the monument about fifty feet high of some solid kind of stuff that'd spread over the ground a little piece ?" " Oh, yes I I s'pose so. It will be oostly, though." " Oh, I don't mind the cost. What I want is to get weight in the material so's it'll set heavy on the ground and stay there." " You must have thought a great deal of Mrs. Robinson to expend so much money on her." " Well, betwixt you and me that isn't QKn moa Ar?n r\f ftinaa roaf.lAflfl XDJUMJhlJ XL* UliO fTHO VMV V4 vuwuv *vuv*v?"j oneasy women that never'd stay, quiet when you wanted her to, and it occurred to me that maybe something might happen to resuscitate her, and to tell you the honest truth my idea was to run up some kind of a monument that'd hold her down permanent?keep her there, you understand. I don't want her bustling about, now that she's stowed away as dead." " You are probably not aware that we have introduced an alarm here which connects the vaults with the office, so that if a person returns to life out of a trance we (An at once go to the rescue. Mrs. Robinson, you know, is in a vault temporarily." v " Tou don't mean to say," exclaimed Robinson, "that she's got one of the alarms anywhere near her?" " Certainly she has." "See here, now, I want to say something to you in private. The honest fact is. I'm about to marry the Widder Jones, and if I can make any little arrangement with you to snip off that wire for a few days until Mrs. Robinson is thoroughly dead, it'll-,be money in your pocket." "Oan't do it, sir." "Because you see for yourself how thundering embarrassing it's going to be if the old lady should come 4o and begin to stir around just after me and Mrs. Jones were comfortably married. Now wouldn't it ? Look at it in a common sense light. So if you could muffle up that machine somehow, or give me some kind of a written guarantee that she won't resurrect, it'll be regarded as a personal favor. Do they ever come to?" " Ono old lady revived last week, after sho had been in the vault three days." "My gracious, man, you take my breath away ! Why, it's awful I Upon the whole, I believe I'Jl run Mrs. Robinson out and bury her in the burying ground. I'll send over a man for her this afternoon, and put her in a hole forty feet deep. I never did like these cemeteries anyway, with their new fangled notions. So you be ready to ship her off when that fellow comes with the wagon." Mrs. Robinson is now entombed securely, and Mrs. Jones and Robinson are one. Rufus Choate's Fence. I suppose that the story about Rnfus Choate's handwriting has been told often. It seems that Mr. Choate, while living on a farm down in Massachusetts, wanted a now fence around the home lot. So he called in his carpenter and had ft tala with him about the work, and the next time he went to Boston he got his architect to make a rough sketch, showing his ideas of how he desired the fence to be built. Ou the day appointed for the work to begin Mr. Ohoate was summoned away. Just as he was about to start the carpenter appeared, and Mr. Choate pulled the plan out of his vest pocket, and hurriedly delivered it, and then drovo off to catch the train. Returning after an absenoe of two weeks, on approaching his home, he was filled with amazement, and led to doubt whether he knew where he lived; his home lot was surrounded by a zigzag fence of most extraordinary design. When he Baw the old carpenter pounding lustily away, ho felt reassured as to the identity of the place, but most puzzled by the marvelous fence. neiio i" ne snouteu. wnaiare yon doing ?" "Doin'l" said the old carpenter, smashing iu a tenpenDy nail with one blow. " We're doin' some pooty tall work. We've just slung this fence together in a little bit lets time than any similar slingin' was ever done in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts I We're two days ahead of contract time now I" "But, for Heaven's sake, what kind of a fence is this?" " Dou't know. Thought when you gi' me the plan it was the darndest fence I ever heard off, but I supposed you knew what you wanted." "Plan!" said Rufus, "plan? Let me see the plan!" and -when the carpenter handed it over the fence, Mr. Uhoate realized that in his haste he had felt in tho wrong pocket, and handed him, not the plan, bnt a note in his own handwriting. Posted. The Burlington llawkeye says : A Gloucester letter writer says codfish are caught with a line thirty fathoms long, provided with four hooks, which are baited with " porgie." That kind of stuff may do to tell away down in Gloucester, where the people aren't posted, but out West here we have seen too many codfish swaying from the grocery uwuiijjj m mu duiuui? uio<?o not to know better than all that gibbering gosh about lines and hooks. You don't catch codfish, you buy them, just like mackerel. Corn in England.?Indian corn has i attained a permanent footing as an artiI cle of food in England, and to our agriculturists this is a matter of much importance. In 1875 about a million tons of oorn were imported into Great Britain. English people, however, do not receive the article in all its original sweetness. It mnst undergo a process called kiln drying, of it would heat in the barrels. lliis process is periuruieu uciuio girnuing, and requires great care. The Japanese have arranged for an international exposition, to take plaoe shortly after that of Franoe has closed. A Brave Woman. A story in Scribner'8 Monthly, entitled "A Little Centennial Lady," has the following regarding Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Cromwellian memory: "There are high-paneled walls, on which hang the old English Fairfaxes; here a Vandyke of the great Parliamentary general, "Black Tom," of Grom?/i1a<3 in leafVlAT Hntlhlet. Rftflh ou D mau< uiuu f and gorget, and starting from the canvas with' a strange fire whioh a couple of centuries have not yet dimmed any more than they have the luster of his fame." Among many historical reminiscences of General Fairfax one in particular is revived by the perusal of the above. In the year of grace 1644 James, seventh Earl of Derby, Lord of the Isle of Man, placed his vast wealth, numerous vassals and his life (whioh he subsequently lost on the scaffold) at the disposition of his king. Obliged to absent himself from his territory in the service of his sovereign, he left in charge his wife, Charlotte de la Tremouille, descended from the illustrious houses of Bourbon and Nassau. During that absence Sir Thomas Fairfax came to demand of the Countess of Derby possession of the island, in the name of the Parliament and Oliver Cromwell. Alone with her young children, an insufficient and undisciplined garrison, she asked for: a month to oonsider the proposition. The Parliamentary general, through a mean intrigue with one of the countess' retainers, believing himself authentically informed that the garrison was not in a condition to resist suooessfully a vigorous attack, curtly answered: "Not a day's," and he departed to begin that siege from which he retired after three months of incessant action, utterly discomfited, with a loss of 2,000 men. The heroic courage of Charlotte de la Tremouille animated her faithful soldiers. She taught them by her own lofty and steadfast endurance to prefer death to dishonor. She feared neither shot nor shell, and T?r.?.o tVmn nnofl a mnnon ball nassed through her chamber, but she made light of every peril which threatened her own person. The Eagle tower still rose imperiously in its untouched strength, the banner of the Stanleys waving proudly over it. But she was destined to encounter Sir Thomas Fairfaz again, under less propitious circumstances, after seven years of conflict, broken in spirit by the death of her noble husband, who had just been executed at Bolton, in Lancashire, of whom it was said: " He died gallantly, piously, 1 ke a Cavalier." In the supreme hour of her sorrow, on the very night of her husband's death, while reading his last letter, she received a summons from General Fairfax to surrender the island. T" V?ooi?f. Trrrnrtct wif.ll XJLL LJ-LAO UAUOUUVJ) UO* uctuH n *?M grief, the indomitable spirit of the lice of Nassau showed itself in the action of the undaunted Charlotte de la Tremouille. She came forth bracing up her energies to action, resolved that the honor of her house should not bo lost so long as a woman's head could contrive means to preserve it or a woman's influence Bway the hands of others. But treachery nullified the efforts of the bereaved lady through the agency of a miscreant who had been from his earliest youth the recipient of unbounded favors from the Earl of Derby, and to whose care on the scaffold that confiding nobleman had oommitted his countess and her children. By the action of this creature, who betrayed them to General Fairfax for a consideration, Charlotte and her children found themselves prisoners in their own castle. She was cast into prison and kept there reduced to the lowest penury, her children starving around ner, whilst General Fairfax enjoyed her revenues and reveled in his greatness as Lord of Man. Her great heart, overwhelmed with grief and end-' less sorrow, burst in pieces. She died in 1651. Going to Sea, It is not many years since, says the New York Timez, that our merchant marine was almost wholly manned by men from the seaboard towns and villages of the New England and Middle States. And though but few of the present protectory laws then existed, the trials in court for ill usuage and firaoltv at sea were then comnaratively few ; and the desertion of the crew in "a foieign port was likewise an infrequent event. A hearty good feeling and sympathy existed between the officers and the sailors, who felt that they were working together for a common purpose ; and this was strengthened by the fact that the subordinates were often friends and relatives of their superiors in rank, and wero working for promotion. Now, however, there is a distinct type of sailor, who is as much looked down upon by the officers of a vessel as the Helots were by the ancicnt Spartans, and perhaps as deservedly so. Tho young man who goes to sea, before the mast, for the purpose of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the profession is now an exceptional person ; and even with our reduced commerce, there is a greater demand for officers of vessels than would seem possible to those who have not looked into this subject. Those who die off, or who, from old age, quit the service, leave but few to take their placo who have been properly educated from the forecastle upward. The entiro service has become demoralized, and parents do not care to trust their sons uuder such influences. toss of SelM'outrol in Battle, Conut de Paris gives some curious instances of tho loss of self-possession among soldiers in the heat of battle. He states that among 24,000 loaded muskets picked up at random on the Gettysburg battlefield, one-fourth only were properly loaded, 12,000 contained each a double charge, and the other fourth from three to ten charges. In some there were six balls to a single charge of powder; others contained six cartridges, one on top of the other without having been opened. A few had twenty-three complete charges regularly inserted. Finally in the barrel of a single mubiset there were found completely jumbled together twenty-two balls and sixty-two buckshots, with a proportionate quantity of powder 1 ' "Rnt. xcfl aVinnld nnt, nnvnrj>l'v firifciflise the American soldier," adds tlie author, " for it appears that an examination of the battlefields of the Crimea gavo similar results." What it Would IIave.?Speaking of the last prize tight, the New York Herald. says: Two vicious brutes, known to pugilistic fame as " Jimmy" Weeden and "Billy" Walker, both of Philadelphia, met in the prize ring and pounded each other until "Billy " Walker died. We raise no objection whatever to ruffians like these killing each other, but as the law has declared such A mode of slaying murder we sincerely hope that Pennsylvania law will send "Jimmy" after "Billy" by the beBt line that can be procured for the purpose. The Gobbler's Last Words.?" I feel that I wax weaker eaeh succeeding flnrl f.Viaf t am faaf n/rmrnanVnnor mxr end; a few more stitches and all will be over; and I shall go whore there is rest for the weary sole, and every sorrow will bo heeled." Having said awl he wished, he calmly breathed his last, THE TR42HPS7 FAJtCAJJiSE. Camp* of Idle Vacranta In the New Jersey Swamp*?How They LItc. The main retreat of the tramps in Eastern New Jersey, a correspondent of the Sun says, is in the groves and swamps bordering the Pennsylvania railroad a short distance above Waverley station. As this point is nearly midway betwcrn Elizabeth and Newark, the officers of both cities disclaim jurisdiction over it, and the tramps, recognizing it as nentral grounds,- havo taken possession. Night after nifht i tiring the past four months their carup fires have lighted up the swamp, and crowds of males and females have held carnival beneath the trees. Tramps of every nationality, age, and condition resort to this rendezvous, and the farmers of the adjacent district have suffered so severely from their depredations that they I have determined to take the matter into their own hands, and drive out the marauders. The Pennsylvania railroad company has also suffered from their piracies and lawlessness, as new aud old ties have been burned, telegraph poles have been injured, and trains have been stoned by some of the drunken miscreants. A few nightsago at least thirty j of these outcasts were congregated in i and around a blazing log fire far in among the trees in the swamp. Interspersed among the crowd were five hideous looking women. One of the peculiar yelps of one of the men in the gang, while passing a farmyard at night, it is said, will set every dog in the neighborhood to howling, and he is further distinguished as one of the most adroit thieves on the road. Not far off sat four men playing "seven up "for pennies, and scattered around in various positions were a dozen of more, chatting or making preparations for " turniDg in" for the night. Empty tomato cans, ham bone?, broken crackew, and feathers, the debris of former feasts, were scattered on the ground. A short distance above, cooking their evening meal, were several strange tramps, ragged, filthy, and, judging froni their language, " down on " the crowd below. One of the party, dirtier and more piratical in appearance than his companions, was pointed out as "French Lou." He said that he had just reached "the retreat" the night before, and had been robbed of a silver watch by the other gang, pointing over his shoulder. " Wait and see," said another, in a significant way, " if we don't get square yet wid dem fellows. We'll put up a_ job on 'em that'll make 'em sick." When questioned as to worn ana the prospects, the Frenchman?who spoke excellent English ? replied : " Work ! What do we care for work when there's plenty to eat without it?" "That's so," chimed in another. "It's no use for us to attempt to work; we couldn't get any if we tried. Down in Philadelphy, the other day, I was arrested and locked up for asking for work, and do you think I'll run that risk again ? Why, the ootmtry is rich enough to support such gentlemen as we be, and then not feel it. Talk about hard times, why these are just bully!" " How about the comiDg winter?" The tramps made no reply for a minute or so, when a little dried-up fellow answered: "We'll get along well enough. We understand our business, and if there isn't bet times in the big riKwiafinoo T'm <1 frvnl w Allien UJ v?11 im/11./..^ A m u ?W*| " 'Tain't going to be like it was last winter, you can juet bet yonr bottom dollar," said another. "Well have something to live on; and if we have to fight for it, why we'll do that." The night following, a Troy molder, while walking along the railroad track, with a little bundle in his hand, was accosted by three tramps from the swamp, who demanded his money. The molder knockod the spokesman down; but before he could realize his peril was in turn knocked down, and was robbed of ?1.50?all the monoy ho possessed. Two of his assailants even wanted to take his , bundle, but were persuaded by the , third of the party to let him retain it, i and he was suffered to go on his way ( upon giving his promise not to tell the , police. "The retreat," as it is known to the ( tramps, is silent during the day, its ( regular denizens being out on begging tours in adjacent towns or cities, or ] among tiie farmers in tne vicinity. ?uward dusk they may be seen returning, " dropping in " from the railroad track and country road, Bingly, or in pairs, and are lost sight of in the thicket which screens their haunts from the road. A farmer wLo lives in the vicinity estimates that, since the commencement of the present year, fully one thousand chickens, young turkeys and geese have been stolen from himself and his neighbors ; .their fences have been torn down, their cows milked in their pastures, and, in several instances, their orchards stripped of tho green fruit. They are now apprehensive that the corn in the j fields will suffer unless prompt action for the driving away of tramps is inaugurated. _ Life in Arizona. An Eastern gentleman engaged in 1 miuing in Arizona has written to a friend 1 in New York, giving an acconnt of the difficulties under which mining operaay a nrnoopil f.O( ] 111 t.llftfc TftrritOrV. ' ClUUD UA KJ ^/A\'WV/VMIrw%. - _ Ho says: The amount of progress I ! make seems to me small, but you can have no idea of the difficulties which ] have to bo constantly met and overcome. The labor is very unreliable, and 1 j it is hard to get a day's work for a day's ' ! pay, and there is a strong feeling of ' jealousy between the whites and Mexi- 1 cans which is hard to overcome. The 1 weather is hot beyond belief. Never, I ' think, less than ninety degrees in tho shade, and from that up to 120 degrees. ' There is no lumber in the country, and i all the building has to be done with * cbttonwood poles, aud hauled five miles ' on jackasses to tho mine. In addition, 1 I have had to pack water five miles, as 1 we have had no rain, and the tanks at 1 the mine are exhausted. We have now 1 killed three rattlesnakes in the house, J besides any quantity of scorpions, etc. In opening my trunk I was stung in the ] finger by a scorpion. I bound a poul- 1 ??? nf nninns and tobacco on tho wound and drank throe full pints of whisky. * It make me very drank, and I think killed the other poison, although my whole hand and arm was numb for a day or two. It is a pretty hard country, t and three men have already died of ^ thirst near here. My last letters were i sent here from the mine (only J fourteen miles distant) by an old Scotch- < man. The letters did not arrive, and 1 we searched for him and found him dead i only four miles from camp. He was I stripped and his nails were worn from , his hands by scratching in the sand for i water. We have sent out twice and i brought in men who were crazy and blind and speechless from thirst. The sun is terribly hot, and the rocks so hot that they blister the flesh if touched, i You can hardly realize what a country it is, nor how expensive it is, as well as hard work, to accomplish much. Transportation, more than anything else, is the great Dug Dear. A few days sinoe the poor Empress Charlotte escaped from the Chateau de Lacken, -where she is still under care. After finding her it was difficult to make her return, and she was induced to do so at length by the stratagem of flinging flowers before her, as she is very fond of flower*. inij iiitwa vi jnoouuux* The Story of a Singular Sect, the Cobbltea ?How they Cat a Man to Piece* and Stuck hla Bead on a Pallnc. The following has just been received from a reliable correspondent at Kensett, Arkansas : Subjoined are the sickening details of one of the strangest and most extraordinary tragedies ever enaoted in the history of the world. Before referring to the murder a few curious facts by way of introduction are neoessary. About two and one-half miles south of Searcy, the seat of White county, is a wild looking place known as Gum Spring, the residents of which are known as Oobbites, owing to the fact that an old man named Cobb, who claims to be (Jhrist, roles witn an iron band. His crazy followers claim to identify him by certain marks in the palms of his hands, and he has during the past year made many believe in Ids doctrine, the main point of which is that every one in the community shonld live id adnltery in order that the souls of the women might be purified. The prinoipal rendezvous of the Oobbites is in an old log i hut in Gnm Spring, which is on the i main road leading from Searcy to Little ! Bock. During the past few days the aften tion of passers by has been attracted by : strange noises, and this fact being con- , veyed to citizens of Searcy they determined te investigate the matter. Mr. 0. D. Humphrey 3, of Searcy, and a ' Mr. Blake, from Glrsss, in this oounfcy, , determined to visit Gum Springs and , see what was going on. The Btrange noises were heard a3 they , reached that locality, and on driving j past the hut they wore accosted by Mr. ' Dover, who claimed to be one of God's { people. Mr. Humphreys proposed that { they should run back and see what was ' wanted, they did so, and were invited into the hut, DovA asserting that God 1 was in there. As soon as they stepped 1 down from the vehicle Humpnreys was 1 seized by four men and Blake by four < mi. _ I?AA o - J I l_ 1 wumtjju. j.lit? latter auuueautju in urea*- J ing away, but the former was unable to do so. Blake ran about one hundred yards, and, on looking back, saw the men cutting his companion to pieces with long knives. He at once started for town, but the buggy was upset and demolished. He then mounted his horse, rode to Searcy at breakneck speed and reported the terrible occurrence to the citizens. A force was at once raised and proceeded to the rescue. On arriving at the spring a frightful sight met their gaze. The Cobbites had decapitated Humphreys and stuok his head on a paling. A boy who was riding by was compelled to get off his horse and bow to the head three times. He was also made to pray and then told to hurry away or the bowels of the earth would open and swallow him. When the posee arrived M. T. (X Blank, thn leader. shouted to Dover to come forward. The latter wanted to talk the matter over. ' He picked up Humphrey's head at Intervals! canght it by the hair with both 1 bands, shook it back and forth and then : replaced it on the fence, ordering the 1 crowd, with a menacing gesture, to go away. The Cobbites then commenced to jabber in their peculiar way at a furious i rate. Mr. Black did everything in his power to calm them, without avail. Do- < ver and his crowd then started toward Black, with no good intention, and his posse fired, killing two men and wounding one. The remainder?four men, four women and two babies?were arrested and taken to jail. While in custody they talked about their Jesus, meaning Cobb, asserting that he could turn the gates of hell at will and would come and rescue them. This was about six p. m., and the town was wild with , excitement. It was feared that the pris*- , oners would be lynched. Scouts were f sent out to the vicinity of the log hut < and a guard placed over the dead bodies there. Another posse, about two miles ] the other side of Gum Spring, captured , a wagon load of Cobbites?two men, two * women and three children. They were j on their way to the church when taken . and Knew nothing of the murder. They ? were bronghv to Searcy and lodged in a j hotel, with a guard over them. A pre- j liminary examination v. A3 held, when they were all released and ieturned to Gum Spring. They talked incessantly 1 about their religion and gesticulated i constantly. There is no doubt that they a ire all crazy from the combined effects I of religion and starvation. Men, women f and children are as gaunt as a pack of ifamished wolves. t Since the above was written they have a ill quieted somewhat, and apparently s begin to realize their situation. They +?llr of oil aiirl urill nr>fc notift* t LICUJUUG HW ? w ML, - ? A in outsider.' This extraordinary affair c created unprecedented excitement in g this vicinity. I c A Model Wife's Letter. c Trim Jove, not content to bask in the * sunshine without an umbrella handy in I case of .rain, finds fit expression in the 8 Following letter, which the Danbury New a has divulged: ' ( Mi' Deak Husband : I got here last t eight all safe, and was met at the station J by uncle and aunt. They wero so glad t [ had come, but were sorry that you 1 were not along. I miss you so much, c We had hot rolls for breakfsst this 1; morning, and they were so delicious. I c rant you to be so happy whilo I am ? here. Don't keep the meat up stairs. It frill surely spoil. Do you miss me now ? x Dh I if you were only here, if but foran iiour. Has Mrs. O'R brought back ? pour shirts? I hope the bosoms will luit you. You will find tho milk tickets j in the clock. I forgot to tell you about them when I came away. What did you io last evening? Were you lonesome without me ? Don't forget to scald the ^ milk every morning. And I wish you would see if I left the potatoes in the pantry. If I did they must be sour by ;his time. How are you getting along ? ' ^Vrite me all about it. But I must close \ 30w. Oceans of love to you. Attec- ] ;ionately your wife, . 1 P. S.?Don't set the teapot on the 1 jtove. ' A Queer Verdict. The disaster on board her majesty's , drip Thunderer has been thoroughly investigated by the coroner, and, after an 1 inquiry lasting several weeks, the jury iias returned a verdict of "accidental 1 ieath.'" This rendering is in keeping with a recent one in the case of the run uing down of a yacht by Queen Victoria's pleasure steamer, the Victoria and ; Albert. Of course it was a pure acciilent that the safety valves of the Thunderer'a boiler were tightly wedged down when the fires were lighted and steam was gotten up. The omission on the part of the engineer to examine the condition of the boiler must be recognized as accidental, ^t was an unfortunate accident that water in a close reservoir should make steam when the temperature was raised above the boiling point. It was entirely aocidental that the ship was built at all, for that matter, it tne Jiingiisn people are satisfied with the verdict we have nothing more to Bay, but the word "accident" has received a new meaning. There is a law in Wisconsin tbat when a man dies without heirs, his property goes to tho Statn school fnud. A Diru-s oyujf. The ehadow of a bird On the shodow of a bough; Sweet and ole&r his song is heard, "Seek me now?I seek thee now!" The bird swings out of reach in the swaying tree, Bat hifl shadow on the garden walk below be. longs to me. The phantom of my love False drams with hope doth fill, Softly singing, far above, ' Love me still?I love thee still!" The cruel visions hover at my sad heart's door, fiat the soal I love is soaring oat of reaoh forevermore. Items of Interest. A patent has been granted to a Baltimore man for " an improvement in oysters." A New London lady has taught her large Newfoundland dog to hold up her train when she is crossing muddy or uuaiy btret)us. England has waged forty-nine wars since 1300; France, thirty-eight; Russia, twenty-t^p; Austria, twelve; and Prussia eight.' A Western man moves that the liiokory tree be made an emblem of the United States, as the oak is of England and the laurel of Greece. Beef and mutton cost about three aentfl a pound in Servia, a turkey fctches i shilling, a pair of fowls may be had ! For six cents, and a draught ox only ooets from ten to twelve dollars. Two young women in St. Louis got into the parlor of a woman whom they hated, and cut the upholstery to a damaging extent j of 8200. They were convicted of the offense, and fined $100 saoh. " Did you see a wolf and a dog go by nere ?" asked a hunter of a woodchopser. " Yaas, I did." " Well, how was ihey?about nip and tuck?" "Not juite, mister; the dog was about six nnflpfha _ ? t ii iQU^VUO MMVMV*! ^ A farmer the other day wrote to a Sew Tork merchant, asking how the former's son was getting along, and vhere he slept nights. The merchant replied : " Ho sleeps in the store in the laytime. I don't know where he sleeps lights." There is a cavern near Decorah, Iowa, jailed the ice cave. It is two hundred feet deep, and in the summer the water vhich drips from the rooks freezes a - it falls. The strange thing is that in win;er no ice forms in the oave, even that jf summer disappearing. In Arkansas a man was sentenced to oe hanged, but all the carpenters in the neighborhood refused to build the scaffold. As the condemned man was himself a carpenter by trade, the sheriff tried to induce him to put up a gallows, but he steadfastly declared that he'd be hanged if he would. The biggest corn story of the season somes from Mount Camel, HI., where, it is asserted, on the farm of Wm. Johnson is a stock of corn the top of which is forty feet from the ground. There are two ears of corn growing upon it at the distance of thirty odd feet from the level oi the surrounding country. A Burlington schoolboy views the advent of school days without a tremor, because, he says, he is pained to an oz. that his father Jibs, him without qr. nearly every day, worse than ever his teacher did, nor is he the only unhappy boy in town ; he says he knows a cwt. the return of school days with eager imoatience. A Maine minister, advertising for a lost pocketbooft containing $8, said: " The person who has it knows whoso it is, because my name is in it, and if honest will return it. If not, he will, of course, keep it, and accept my advice to use the money for the purchase of a i stool of repentance that is charged frith ignitible tyimstone." A twelve-year-old boy jumped into a river at Eosebnrg, Oregon, to rescne a younger brother. He was swimming toward the shore with the little one when lis mother, who had in her excitement jone too near the edge of the bank, ilipped into the stream. He instantly et go his hold, and went to save the nother, and all three were drowned. When Mrs. Patience Remington, of fforth Smithfield, Conn., celebrated her linety-fifth birthday recently, her three ions?triplets?flfty-i}ine years old, were jresent. When they were born their ather was offered $100 to name them Lbraham, Isaac and Jacob, but his pariotism was greater than his avarice, -J V>? fVlom WftflhitlfftOD. JeffdT' iiiU UD unuuu cmvm; ... ^ . -w # on fud Monroe. Wood pavements have a better name or durability in London than in this iountry. The city engineer reports that ,fter being treated with asphalt, which ;eep8 ont the surface water, wood is one >f the most durable pavements. It is cheaply laid, noiseless,' smooth and elasio. Before a horse falls he may be exacted to travel on granite 132 miles, on ?phalt 191 miles, on wood 446 miles. A convict who escaped from a North Carolina jail stopped at a farmhouse and old the inmates that he was an officer in jursuit of a fugitive, and had put on he prison dress in order to deceive him. le asked for a revolver and got it. At another place, by telling the same lie, he jorrowed a horse. Several bloodhounds >vortook him, but he shot them. Yet, ifter all his good luck, he was captured. A Chattanooga farmer's house was obbed. Next morning a stranger called tnd said that ho was one of the robbers, rod he showed a locket. The former laid that he valned the locket becanse it lad been worn by a dear child. 44 Here t is," said the robber, seemingly affectid. " Let me make restitution. Here ire $20 for your little son." Ho handed he farmer a counterfeit 850 bill and revived $30 change. The English court of chancery budget for 1874-75 is an exceedingly interesting locument. The enormous sums administered by the court are annually increasing. The assets in cash and securities were ?37,000,000, mostly in three per sent, securities and bank stocks. The American securities amounted to $500,300. Among the curious accounts is a long artay of boxes with jewelry, etc., lodged for greater security in the vaults of the Bank of England. During liis recent stay at Ischl the emperor of Austria saved the child of a poor woman from a violent death. As bo was passing through tfco Rettenbach gorges, a boy of four years old fell oyer a precipice, and his clothes having caught on a projecting branch, was suspended over a torrent some fifty feet below, The emperor, whose proficiency in all athletic sports is well known, jumped across the precipice, freed the boy from bis perilous position, and took him back to his mother. The Virginia way to cook chicken is: The fowl to be killed, plucked and evis - " - -1 1?i ?Unrip on corstGd in too suuritjot pvooiuiv 7 ? no aocount is it to be washed, but it must be wiped dry with a clean napkin and cut into six parts?the breast, the two wings, i he back and the two legw. The whole is then to be thrown into a fryingpan with butter, cream, mush (small eakfs of Indian meal dough); the whole to be done l>efore tho flesh loues its natural heat, and the fryingpan and contents mast be heated in advance to receive tii?* ohiokuu,