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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER * J"?.y , _________________ - ??? ? ? . - " - - - . . _ i ^ <jj % . ? BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1876, VOLUME XX1Y---NO. 32. - ? :A ... r. . ^ ??^ .4 ? """ 1 . i' Di^ma In TVr"nf. 1 Night Song, Cleopatra Dying. Sinks the sun below the deeeri, Golden glows the sluggish Nile; Purple flame crowns spring and temple, Lights up every ancient pile Where the old gods now are sleeping; Ieis, and Osiris great. Guaid me, help me, give me ootirage Like a queen to meet my fate! "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" Let the Caesar'h army come? I will cheat him of his glory, Though beyorrl the Styx I roam, Shall he drag this beauty with him While the crowd bin triumph sings ? No, i o, never! I will show him What lies in|the blood of kings. Though ho hold the golden eoepter, Rills the Pharaoh's suudy land, Where old Nilus rolls reaistlees, Through the sweeps of silvery sandHe shall never say I met him Fawning, abject, like a Have? 1 wil foil him, though to do it I must cross the 8tygian wave. Oh, my hero, sleeping, sleeping? Shall I meet yon on the shore Of Plutonian shadows ? Shall we In death meet and love once more ? See, I follow in your footatepa? Swrn the Cffisar and his might? For your love I will leap boldly Into realms of death atd night Down below the deeort sinking Fa ?es Apollo's brilliant oar, And from out the distant azure, Breaks the bright glsam of a star Venus, queen of Jove and beauty, Welcomes me to death's embrace, DyiDg?free, proud, and triumphant, The last sovereign of my race. Dying! dying! I am ooming, Oh, my hero, to your arms : Yon will welcome me, I know it? Guard me from all rude alarms. Hart! I hear the legions oomiug. Hear their ones of triumph swell, But, proud Cffisar, dead I scorn yon, Egypt?Antony?farewell! ? Thomas S. Collier. Joe Gorton's Passenger. The day was drawing toward its close, chill and raw. Lake Village was almost always gusty, but just now the wind was having its own way more than usual, and any passer thrungh the long, bleak street, happening to glance in at the window of the little tavern, might well have been tempted by the bright fire and good company inside the bar. They were tne twual afternoon loafers, with the exception of one small, wiry looking man, a stranger, who, at the moment, was evidently the center of the general interest. " But what is it yon know, anyhow, Etranger ?" asked one of the group. Come, now, among friends." "Never you mind," answered the man addressed, " I know enough to shut up John Sawyer a pretty spell, if not t<? make him nwing, and I know how . to tell it when the right time comes, : dor't you be afraid for that. The day's getting on," he added, abruptly, rising and turning toward the window, " and i your duck pond there don't look over 1 agreeable just now. Who's a good boatman hereabouts ? for. if I'm snilt. I i can't swim." "Job Gorton's your man," was the answer; he couldn't tip over if he tried, oouldu't Joe." " Why don't yon wait till to-morrow, Bt ranger, if you're afraid o' the weather? and them clonds over there do look kinder pesky," baid the landlord of the Lakeside- House, turning a practiced eye on the gray mingling outlines of lake and sky. "Well, fact is," said the other, " I'm acquainted over in Milham, and, if it'B all the same to you"?with a wink? "I'd rather be there than "hete; so, if you'll hunt up this Joe Wbat's-his-name, 111 be obliged." Tt ie 1 udVrd. resenting the wink and the impi e<i in^ii uati >u, or>ened the door and cdl<-u out, rutber sulkily, to somr. one in the next room: " M?rky, run do vn to tlie water and tell Joe there'b a pas* nger here." In another minutn the house dooi closed, and a tall, slight girl's figure, with a shawl over her head, might havi been Keen hnrrvinc down to the water Bide. Joe Gorton, busy about his boat heard his name called, and, looking up. saw the girl Margy. The sharp wind bad blown out stray looks of her crisp, black hair from under the red Bhawl, but th?? hectic in the cheeks, and the feverish brightness in the dilated eyes, were not all the wind's work. She came close to the young .boatman, who raised himself up, facing her. Joe," she said, "there's a passenger waiting up to the house;" she laid her hand on his arm, and glanced can tiously around before adding, in a whisper : 'Joe, if once that man reaches the other f>ide, it's all np with father." " What's that, Margy ?" said the boat man, looking wonderingly at her. I tell you I heard it; he'll bring it home to him; he says he's come a-purpose. It'8 father's chance clean gone if you take him across." "Do you mean I should refuse to take him, Margy ?" said Joe, slowly. ' What good would that do?" said the girl, impatiently. "Kelley or some of 'em wonld take him fastenongh; what's father's life against a fare ? No, it's you must take him, Joe, and then, if anything happens," sinking her voice to a meaning whisper, "nobody but me and you'8 the wiser." Joe started back. " Marg, what's that you're thinking ?" "I cui't help it," cried the girl, passionately, twisting her fingers in the shawl fringe so that it snapped; "he's my father, and never was a better but for the drink?you knowyourself,everybody says so?and, if you could hear that man up there laughing and boasting he'll hang him, Joe, you'd find it hard to keep your hands off of him; but I don't ask you to so mach as touch a finger to h m, only, if the boat turns over, he can'r swim. I heard him say so, and then father's saved, and nobody ? the wiser, for t^e best boatman that ever was might have an accident on a < squally evening like this." " There, there, Margy, be still, poor i girl, you don't know what you're say- i ing," int-irupted Joe. "Yes I do," she said, passionately; i " never you think that, Joe Gorton. I i tell you it lays with you to save father | or to kill him; yes, and mr, too, for if i they hang him 111 never live over the i day, and that I swear, so you choos be- i A, TT 1- >? _1_ _ i I* t. . iwwu u?. i-LurtL i sue iurDea to listen. " I can't stay." She pressed her hand : hard on his shoulder, looking up^pite- . oosiy in his face. "Joe, if ever yon oared for me, save that poor old man! " And before he could answer she was gone, leaving him looking after her like one in a dream. The clouds were getting lower and heavier as the boatman set off with his passenger. " Looks as if we should have a spell of weather," said the latter, glancing * from the leaden sky to the leaden water. " Hope you're what they cracked vou up to be, for if I got a ducking here I shouldn't find myself again in a hurry." " Well, I'm as good as they average, I reckon, mister?I didn't hear your name," said Joe, looking up inquiringly "Peter Groom is my name, and one I ain't ashamed of; it'll be pretty well known in these parts by this day \fr6ek, I'm thinking," and the man smiled a smile not pleasant to see. " How's that ?"' said Joe, anxious to betray no previous knowledge. * I've come to give evidenoe in a trial that's coming off in your county town," answered Groom, motioning toward the Milham shore. "I've traveled nigh five hundred miles on purpose to do it, and I'd travel five hundred more if 'twas needed." "Is it the Sawyer trial you mean?" asked Joe, carelessly. "People have been saying there ain't evidence enough to make a case, Dut 1 'spose mere s something new turned up ? "1 should rather think so; something that'll make a case'11 hold John Sawyer as tight as his coffin." Joe clinohed his hand on his oar. He was beginning to understand Margy's hatred for this man, with his open exultation in tho ruin he was going to work. ' I'm sorry for the old man," he said, after a pause, "and so are most folks about here. Wilson was known for a bully, and, if Sawyer really aone it, 'twas that?that ?nd the drink, for when he's himself he wouldn't hurt a worm." " You've no need to tell me what John Sawyer is," said the other, shortly. " I knew him before you were born, before even he i ame into the^e parts." " Well," said' the boatman, " you've a queer notion of old acquaintance' sake then, that's all." "I'll give him a swing for old acquaintance' sake, if I can," replied Groom, with a scowl. Joe drew a quick breath. " Can you do that?" he asked. " That or a lifer. I tell you, my man, I saw it done." " You saw Sawyer kill Wilson ?" exclaimed Joe, stopping short on his oara. "I saw him strike the blew that killed him, and that comes to pretty nigh the same tfcmg, 1 ta&e it. " "Bat how is it you've kept back all along?" " Well, it's like this," said Groom, who appeared to be in a more communicative mood than a while before. " The day of the murder?to begrn at the beginning?I happened to be passing through Milham, and stopped over a train there to see a man I had dealings with. Ho lived a little ont of the town, a lonesome road, part of the way across some fields. I did my business, and started back again alone, as I had come. Half way, or thereabout, I heard a kind of cussing and quarreling in the next field?right close to my ear it sounded, only I couldn't see anything for the high hedge. 'What's up ?' thinks I, ' might as well take a peep.' 'Twas an uncommon fine evening; moonlight you could almost see to .read by, and 1 knew Sawyer as soon as I set eyes on him. His faoe was turned exnshflwr a tyin on/1 tiotItt Annnorh if. Innlro^ OVWiJ W iUV, WUVt VMVMQU *? *w?vv then. The next minute 1 saw him strike out, and the other went down like a log." " And you let him lay ?" interrupted Joe, in excitement. " You never called for help, nor nothing?" " What for?" said Groom, carelessly. " I thought 'twas just a drunken quarrel?I knew what Sawyer was?and I left 'cm to settle it between themselves. I had to look sharp for the next train, so I hurried back to the hotel, and none too soon, either. I never thought again about the matter, till the other day I happened to hear that John Sawyer was ffoing to be tried for murder, and, talking this way and that, I found the time and the gen'ral circumstances agreed with that evening?so, then, I knew I had seen .the thing done." Groom paused a moment, and when he resumed it was in an abstracted tone " 'Twasn't particularly convenient for me to leave my business just then ; if it'd been anybody else I'd likely have left the p<y>r devil to sink or swim, as might be, but John SawyerJ I tell ?nn " >ia /?nntinriAr1 t.hrnnch hin teeth, as, catching the boatman's eye, he appeared suddenly conscious of a listener, "I'd let all I've got go to rack and ruin for the pleasure of seeing John Sawyer stand there, a disgraced and oon victed man, and Raying to him : * 'Twas me that did it!"' There was something in Joe Gorton's breast on which the fierce words and manner jarred painfully. He was no preacher, this poor, untaught boatman ; he did not know he * to tell the man before him that his promised revenge was cruel and cowardly ; bnt yet he felt that, even setting aside Margy's interests, there was something in it which roused all his instincts of resistance. iTe shook his head as he thought abont it. *' That's a feeling I can't make out," he said, half aloud. * n?n'fc Tjrm 2" R&irl H-rnnm. shortlv. supposing the remark to be addressed to himself. " Have you got a sweetheart, young man ?" he added, abruptly, after a chort pause. " A sweetheart?" repeated Joe, starting at the associations connected with tin: question, and the man who put it. "Well, you've no cause to be shy of owning it," eaid Groom, who had noticed the movement. "A sweetheart, when she's the right eort, is what no man need be ashamed of. I had one myself when was your age"?he stopped a moment?" I don't s'pose you'd often see her like, I never did. There -was a girl up at that place, that tavern there, had a kind of look of her about the eyes an' forehead, but nothing to oompan. I had a friend, too? well, it ain't much of a story," Groom broke off, with a dry laugh, "and I don't hardly know why I tell it at all, only, maybe, it'll help you make out what seems to puzzle you. The long and short of it is that mv friend?mind that, youngster! my friend cheated me out of my sweetheart. I ain't much to look at, I know?never was ; but I could care for a ? oman just as much as if I'd been six foot high, and fresh as a rose, and I'd take my oath she cured for me, too, till he come between us with a false tongue enough to turn my girl's head. Well, he come off first best; she left me and went away with him. I swore then, boy," said Groom, looking darkly in his listener's earnest face, " that if ever my dayoome, I'd be even with John Sawyer; 1 never thought 'twould, but it has, and do you think I'll let my chance slip dow? No, and the man brought down his fist with a force that Bhook the boat's side. " That was hard lines, sure enough," 3ftid Joe, thoughtfully, "but, Mr. Qroom, you was speaking just now ol a girl up at the tavern, there. She's my sweetheart, and," added the boatman, slowly, " she's Sawyer's girl, his only child." "NoI" exclaimed Groom, evidently moved by the intelligence. "Hetty's child," he muttered to himself, " Hetty's child!" " Yes," said Joe, eagerly, " don't for get whose child she in, and that you'll make her suffer along with the old man." "Ah," said Groom, "that's all very well, but I don't forget, neither, whose child she is on the other side. No ! I'm sorry for the girl, and for you, youngster, since you'-e an interest in her, but I'd have my pay out of John Sawyer, now-, if I was to die for it." Joe's grasp tightened convulsively on his oar. Waa the man crazy, thus to make a boast of the misery he would cause before one whose advantage and opportunity it alike was to insure his * I silence; who bad him almost as completely at his mercy here on this unfamiliar element, as if they two had been alone in all the earth 1 If he were to die for it I Every plunge of the dark water seemed to be repeating those words. The boatman roused himself with a start at the sound of his passenger's voioe. "You're a pretty feller, ain't you, now," said the latter, resuming the subject in a lighter tone, " wanting to persuade me to cheat justice after that fashion?" "As for that," answered Joe, "you said yourself if it had been anybody but Sawyer you wouldn't have troubled to hunt him down, and I can't see as that's any better notion of justioe than mine. Besides," he added, gravely, "the old man's got his death sentenoe a'ready, if that's what you want; what with the drink he ain't the man he used to be, and the night of the quarrel he got a ccngh that's tearing him all to pieces; the doctors say he can't live long, nohow." " He'll live long enough to make the acquaintance of a rope's end, I reckon," said Groom, with a coarse laugh, "and that's all I care about" rm_ - i i-i ? lilt) UIUUU WUIUO tUlU umuulol k uuodu the lurking devil in Joe Gorton'a heart. He stammered out a curse, inarticulate for passion. "Eh?" said Groom, oatohing the sound, but not the words, "what's that you say ?" The boatman stopped rowing, and leaned forward till ne almost touched Groom where he sat " Just put yourself in the old man's place for a minute," he begun, with an effort, speaking quietly. "S'pose there was somebody'd got the chanoe and the will to get shut o' you, just as you have of old Sawyer "? " What are you driving at now ?" interrupted Groom. "There ain't anybody, as I know of, has got either- more luck for me !" he ended,with a laugh. "Ain't there?" said the boatman, slowly. " You talk about justioe, Mr. Groom," he resumed, "but it ain't jus-, tioe you've set out to do?it's murder. You ve got the law on your side, as it happens, but all the same, as far as you --- J - !? * 1?J l? are concerned, it a muruer?t%a uwjl, ivx what I can see, as if somebody?it might be me," said Joe, .looking fixedly in the other's face through the growing dusk, " somebody with a motive, no matter what, for wanting to be rid of you, getting you all alone?as it might be hereout of sight or help, should just put you quietly out of the way "? ' Hey ! d'ye mean to threaten me ?" cried Groom, springing up. Just then the breaking gnst struck sharp on the boat's side, that, left to her own guidance, had drifted round ; she gave a lurch and a bound, that sent Qroom, who in starting back bad lost his balance, overboard like a shot. Joe stared for an instant at the empty place opposite, hardly comprehending what had happened so quickly, then, mdden as the lightning darting through :he sky above him, it flashed into his mind that here were silence and safety, and that throngh no act of his. Why not profit by the accident? Why not, in the man's own spirit, in his very words, " leave him to sink or swim, as might be?" But foe could no more be deceived by his own, than by others' sophistries; a voice within him cried: "If you leave thiH man to die, yon are his murderer 1" A great surge of horror and remorse for the thought that had been in his heart seemed to sweep him away, and before a second lightning bolt could tear the clouds, he had thrown himself after Groom. When the two rose together, the boat was nowhere in sight. There was nothiDg now for it but to strike out for the shore. Luckily, the Milbam side was not now very distant; still, it was a hard stretch through the numbing water, encumbered, as he was, with his heavy olothiDg and the weight of Groom, who, moreover, himself completely helpless, held him with a nervous clutch that half strangled him. By the time they neared th#shore, his strength was pretty well spent, but the growing lights gave him heart again ; he reBted an instant for the final prll, and just then it was that the gUBt seized him, unprepared, and whirled him away from the inlet he was making for, to the rock ledge jutting into it, that caught and battered him?poor Joe. He was conscious when they took him up, but there was a look in his face that foretold the end, even before the doctors did. As for Groom, he had been shielded by Joe's body, and, tough and wiry as he was, was scarcely the worse for the whole adventare. When he beard what they were saying about Joe, he burst out with an oath, and hurried to where he lay. " Well, Gorton, and how is it with you ?" he said, affecting to speak cheerfully, though struck at once by that look of death in the face. "About as bad as it can be, Mr. Groom," answered Joe, feebly. " The old boat and 111 go down together, I reckon." " Now, never you talk that stuff, my man," said Groom, in almoBt a blustering way, perhaps to conceal a certain unsteadiness of voice; "I owe you a life, and I ain't one to rest till I've paid if if if fotraa oil ffon /^AAfAva f mm nora to Jericho. I've got means, I tell ye." "No use, Mr. Groom," said Joe, Hhere ain't no doctor oould patch up what's smashed inside of me. But look here," and he instinctively lowered his voice, with a glance at ?the attendant, though there was little* fear of that broken whisper reaching any ears but those close to it, "it's what I wanted to speak to you about?you owe me a life, you6ay; mine ain't yours to give?but old Sawyer's in"? Groom's face darkened. "I swear I'd almost rather you asked for my own," he muttered, "But you'll promise, Mr. Groom?" said Joe. in his eacrerness manacrinor to half raise himself, "you'll promise?" "Well?Is'posel ain'tgot no choice," answered Groom, still reluctantly; "yes, I do promise, there's my hand on it." A gleam of intense delight for a moment almost drove the death look from Joe's face. "It's all right, Margy," he whispered, softly, to himself, and laid his head back again. When John Sawyer had been discharged for want of evidence, when the Lake Village gossipB, wondering over the stranger's disappearance, concluded that his boasts had been mere idle talk to make a sensation, Margy could have told them better. She knew how it was Joe died, she knew that a life had been paid for her father's; and in a heart softened by pain she acknowledged that her prayer had been answered in God's own way. A Clerical Hit. Ministers will have their little jokes like other people. ' Gome over and preach for me tonight," said a Chicago divine to a clerical friend whom he met on the street, not many days since. "I can't to-nteht," was the reply, "I'm almost down sick with a headache." "Well," drolly observed the other, " I guess you can do it, for if you preach as you usually do, you won't have to nee your head any!" They they both laughed, and pinched each other in the ribs, and said it was a good one, just as heartily as though they had been the worst kind of sinners all their lives. A Yellow Feyer Story. There was a curious incident in the yellow feyer panic at Savannah which has not attracted as much attention as it deserves. The hero, of the mournful episode was a young ding clerk. When tne fever broke Out at Savannah the whole foroe in the drug store where he was at work deserted the post of danger and left the city. His friends, who lived in Augusta, sent word to him to come home, but he refused, and remained on duty until the proprietor of the store ordered him to close it. He then went to another drug store in Savannah and worked laboriously as prescription clerk. He was kept so busily engaged that he had little time for his meals, no chance to change his clothes and no opportunity for rest or amusement. His employer took the fever and died, although the boy nursed him faithfully. The cook took it, and he attended to her also and she reoovered. A young oomrade was then taken ill and the steadfast drncoist nursed him and performed his duties in the store night and day. His friend regained his health slowly, and then the olerk was himself seized with the fever, bnt as he was strong and eheerful he sent word to his relatives that he had no- fears. It was then his companion's turn to show the kind of stuff of whioh he was made; and the material turned out to be pur ? gold. He nursed his friend from day to day, keeping up constant communication with his home by telegraph as long as the telegraph messengers could be persuaded to venture into the infected part of the town. His last dispatches were : "I will stick to him to the last," and "I shall not sleep to night." Both of the young men died that night. We are not much addicted to what is known in the newspaper profession as gush, and have no desire to tura a oommonplaoe matter into heroism by a few gorgeous phrases glittering in the light of an overheated imagination; but we are inclined to mini mat ?um? uuuur us due to the memory of these two young fellows, and should be frankly paid. They found themselves in the heart of a city afflicted with the plague, a place in which even brave men often quail and from which selfish ones always shrink. They were in no sense before the publio eve, and whatever they did wm done through loyalty to their own impulses, not in the nope of reputation or reward. They had that kind of duty to perform which is the hardest that can be put upon man. It was ugly, wearing, disagreeable and dangerous. The self-sacrifice required was not sudden and startling enough to win glory, but it was of that moderate, continuous and exhausting kind which only rare patience can stand. If these young Georgians had fallen side by side in a battlefield in the endeavor to sustain their flag or rescue each other, no one would have wondered at their death; but to find them wearing out their health in nursing the sick, and faithful to each otner tnrongn weary vigns, is a sweet sorprise. At a time when the national character has suffered a great deal abroad through the misconduct of officials through whom we are mainly known to other peoples, and the American is pictured as a hard, angular, superficial, unscrupulous personage, occurrences like this at Savannah should bring us reassurance and comfort. It is only one incident out of many from day to day suggesting rare powers and propensities for good. Every skirmish on the plains, the overturning of a pleasure yacht, or the rescue of a shipwrecked orew, is sure to briog some hint of a capability for heroism which seems to be an American heritage. Few readers will fail to respond to the words of the correspondent who has told in a private letter the facts which we have just re peated: ' They were brave boys, were they not ? Does it make any difference which side or which flag such souls fought for twelve years ago ? Can't you reach out and shake hands over any distance ?"? World. A Glassmaker's Fate. There was an artificer in Rome who made vessels of glass of so tenacious a temper that they were as little liable to be broken as those that are made of gold and silver. When, therefore, ho had made a vial of the pnrer sort, and such as he thought a present worthy of Caesar alone, he was admitted into the presence of the then Emperor Tiberius. The gift was praised, the skillful hand of the artist applauded, and tne donation of the giver accepted. The artist, that be might enhance the wonder of the spectators and promote himself yet further in the favor of the emperor, desired the vial out of Caesar's hand and threw it with such force against the floor that the most solid motal would have received some damage or bruise thereby" Coe3ar was not only amazed, but affrighted with the act; but the artist, taking up a vial from the ground (which was not broken, but only bruised together, as if the substance of the glass had put on the temper of brass), drew out an instrument from his bosom and beat it out to its former figrrro Thin rlnno Via imnainnd that he had conquered the world, as believing that he had merited an acquaintance with Csesar, and raised the admiration of all the beholders, but it fell out otherwise, for the emperor.inqnired if any other person besides himself was privy to the like tempering of glass. "When ho told him " No " he commanded his attendants to strike off his head, saying : "That should this artifice come once to be known, gold and silver would be as of little value as the dirt in the street." Long after this, in 1610, we read that, among other rare presents then sent from the Sophy of Persia to the king of Spain, were six mirrors of malleable glass, so exquisitely tempered that they could not be broken. The Good that Comes to Us. Much of the good that comos to ns through life is far removed from any of our plans or intentions. If we watch a child at play we shall see that his continual pleasures take him unawares. One by one they meet him unexpectedly in simple yet ever ohaDging forms. When he grows older and plans his enjoyments how seldom does he realize his anticipations ! Happiness eludes his search and defies his schemes, but comes in ways unthought of. It escapes from the ambition* schemer, who thought his grasp upon it was firm, and dwells with the simple and loving hearts under the cottage roof, who court it not. It flies from the banquet table, spread to ensnare it. and descends upon the frugal board, where health and peace and love preside. Complicated plans to secure wealth and power, fame and position, may be successfully carried oat without bringing hall the enjoyment which comes uncalled to those who live simply, purely, trustfully and self-denyingly from day to day, making no claim, but receiving gratefully whatever blessings descends upon them. We would by no means nndervalue a grand life purpose, or throw the least shade of disrespect upon careful and well laid plans of action. They are invaluable, if we use them as instruments, keeping them under a wise control and modifying them an occasion may require. They are only detrimental when we worship them, become absorbed in them, are bound down by them, und a* ek good in no other direction. Like fire and water, our plaua rnaho excellent servants but very bad masters. A Story, *1lh a Moral; A gentleman of middle age; who had always been a farmer, had cleared up i and improved one of the best farms in i Maine, erected hew and convenient ( buildings, reared a family, and was en- < joying the blessings with whioh he was 1 surrounded, became possessed with the ] idea of aellxiig hiaiartn. i Friends told him he could live so i muoh easier to go into the village, where i he could have a nice house, a garden, i keep a cow, and, if he chose, a horse, ( and live like a gentleman on the interest ( of his money, .that he advertised his ( farm for sale. He found no want of t purchasers, and the farm was soon dis- c posod of for a handsome sum. Then c the stook, farming tools, etc., were sold, i and the place that he had wrought with c liia own hands, the buildings he had c built for his own convenience, and, ao- t cording to his own notions, the spot s where he had raised his family, and t around which clustered so many associa- i fi/vno naooA/1 infn flio tlflTlrifl nf fltrftTl- V gers. For a time the gentleman did not i locate, as he desired to look round, find 1 a place to rait him, and see where he d could he happy for the remainder of his d days. At last he found a place that i suited him, purchased it, and settled c down to life again. But things did not a go right. He missed hiB old farm and l house, the silent but delightful oompany v of his cattle, sheep, and other domestic s animals, the scenes where he had pass- s ed bo many happy year?, and the society i of his old neighbors, tried and true, t He grew discontented, and was well t nigh sick. His wife and daughters, f also, were not pleased with their new s home; it was half a mile from town, ( with a little land, and was what many ? would have called a desirable place. $ Having remained long enough in his new plaoe?he ooald not be said to have lived at all?to become satisfied he should never be contented, he resolved i to have the old farm back again. He 0 went to tbe man who owned it, paid him E five hundred dollars more than what he j got, took possession again of his fa- j miliar fields and groves, and, having 3 learned a wholesome lesson from his transaction, is now at work again upon !_ _ -ni i :? Vt/ii. 1 ms U1U lurui, 1* LUtppittl, wrnci nuu ucir ter contented, if not a richer man. _ Its moral to farmers and ethers is, that when they get discontented and sell j out, they should be snre they are able to 1 buy bacK their old homes and business, 1 when they find they have not bettered themselves by the change. c A Grand Potlatch. There was a mighty gathering of In- t diaus at Saanich, says a letter from % British Columbia. Ppward of 3,000 redskins, in 273 canoes, were present. 1< The occasion of the assemblage was a 7 grand potlatch of over $15,000 worth of (' goods being given away. English ^ blankets to the value of $6,000 were ^ thro an from the top of the lodges to be scrambled for by the natives below, who stood armed with loDg poles, 8tr*k full of nails at one end? to secure the nze a as soon as it fell. In addition to fteso, 8 somo curious " pcrcecees," made by the t natives themselves from"the wool of the d mountain sheep, wero also thrown, t Three hundred guns, amongst which a wero some very fine doubled barreled J pieces with percussion locks, were then t thrown down, and caused a series of a tremendous struggles, which lasted in some cases for nearly an honr. Pieces of board representing sums ranging from 3100 to $600 were then scrambled for after the same fashion. Three brothers c gave 3,500 blankets as their contribu- 1 tion, which had all been paid for by the f products of the chase. The stock of s /m'ft.j Koine PTlmriflfpil the natives all cot s into their canoes and left, thus ending t one of the largest meetings of the kind t which has taken place for many years, g and probably the last of any magnitude t which will occur, aa the rifling genera- c tion of Indians seem to care little about c perpetuating the customs of their fore- a fathers, and this, as well as many other 8 ancient practices, will soon be numbered t j among the things of the past. All was conductcd soberly, and the Indian i superintendent, Colonel Powell, and Police Superintendent Todd, who were t present, were both struck with the ab- c sence of any sign of intoxication. a c A Horrible Death. Some weeks ago Alexander Scott, a B farmer living near Cherry Hill, Mary- t land, indulged in an ezohange of ( horses. The horse he secured was a J fine looking animal, but at the time was i suffering from disease of the head. Mr. c Soott believed it to be "distemper," ? and did not object to mnaing the risk. r A few weeks ago Mr. Scott's hand begun a " i i j 1.1. ^ to inname irom a Bngnt wuauu uu ue t back of it, and became in a few days a G very ngly ulcer, causing him a great <3 deal of pain. He became sick of fever, T and a physician was called in. He found t the patient suffering from fever, but de- ^ tected nothing different from an ordinary case of intermittent fever, and prescribed the usual remedies. The physician having occasion to leave home, and the fever not abating, another doctor t was asked to attend Mr. Scott. At the s first visit he prescribed for intermittent I fever, having first inquired about the s sore hand, and being told that it had n nearly healed. The next day, however, t he found Mr. Scott suffering with a rag- a ing fever, and covered with 1' button c farcy." The disease was unmistakably t "glanders," and had been'communi- ? cated frocu the glandered horse throngh 1 the break in the skin of the hand. Mr. a Scott suffered the most fearful agony t and delirium throughout two days, when 8 death ensued. Oases of persons suffer- t ing from " glanders " are very rare, but t occur often enough to remind horsemen "v that the proper way to deal with a horse ? sufferiug from this fatal disease is to t have him killed at once. A horse may t have "ohronic glanders" and live a long time, keep fat, and work without i difficulty, yet innoculate man and beast 1 with the deadly virus that is slowly sap- c ping his existence. i ^ Not Contagions. ( The following incident is mentioned [ in an exchange in proof that the yellow f fever is not oontagious in the sense in f which smallpox or scarlet fever is, and f that, unless a place is in a condition favorable to the spread of the disease, [ there is no special danger that the 1 presence of a patient who has contracted 1 the fever elsewhere would causa a well person in contact with him to tako it: About twenty years ago the yellow fever desolated Norfolk, Virginia. For a time ? the alarm in the oountry round about t was very great, and every village and ( neighborhood instituted a sort of quar- t autLne, which shut the poor Norfolk i people closely in their stricken city, i Henry A. Wise alone of all the people 1 in the neighborhood retained at once ] I his courage and hiB humanity. Seeing < how sore the need was of a refnge ] without the walla of the city, he invited ] the sufferers, sick and well, to come to i his plantation in Acoomac county, just I across, the strait from the city ; and de- i fying the threatened violenoe of a ] frightened mob, he bronght them there . in "considerable numbers, and not a < particle of harm came of it; not a single ' person who had not been erposed | to the infected air of the city took the ] disease. If this fact is correctly re- 1 ported, there is something in it deserv- 1 ing the careful investigation of thoughtful physicians. A War Incident* At the battle of Gettysburg, while commanding a company in the Eightysecond Ohio regiment, July 1, an offloer, 3apt. Lee, was wounded and left /or lead upon the field at night by his repeating comrades. One of Jubal Early's aids carried him off the field, vith other wounded, and deposited them n an obscure farmhouse, whence he had 10 means of communication with his ammanf rrf fHotirl*. Thfi TlfiWB of leath reached his home in Ohio. His >bituary was published, and Prof, MoDabe had prepared an eulogy upon him* o be delivered July 11, the Sunday of commencement week, in connection with >ther exeroises appointed for the day. Iin immense crowd were gathered in the ihurch. After the opening of the exircisee, Capt. Lee, pale as a ghost, hob)led in on crutches and took a quiet eat among the worshipers. He had >een left oehind by his captors, and, lot knowing himself reported dead, he tad come quickly aome to Delaware to eoover, reaching there unannounced ate on Saturday night. Those were lays of intense dramatic experience, lays of death in life, and life in the aidflt of death, and though everyjheart if those who knew him leaped for joy t seeing him, the decorum of God's lonse was preserved. The meeting ras turned into a missionary anniverary. Rev. Dr. Harris, the then misionary secretary, but now a bishop of lis church, presided. When donations o the missionary fund were in order, his young soldier, a poor man, pale and alteringly, rose on his crutches, and aid, briefly: "In token of gratitude to Jod for Having Bp area my me upon me leld at Gettysburg, put me down for !100." Hotel Bills. Were you ever in Sohwalbaoh ? This 9 the bill with which a party of four and ne-half?viz.: three ladies, one gentleaan, and a servant?had to pay at the )eutschen Kaiser Hotel in that place in uly last : 'o apartmenta? Foot bedrooms and a sitting-room, five days, ten franca.... 50 'o breakfast? 'Four persons, 1.25 francs each, five days. 25 'o dinner? Foar persona, three francs each, five days. 60 'o wine? five bottles Hochheimer 15 'o tea?four persons, 1.25 each, five days . 25 'o servant s board and room, five days 25 Total 208 -'all one dollar five francs. ...w $40 Were you ever in Saratoga ? This is he bill which a party of four?viz.: two :entlemen, one lady, and two servants -hod to pay at a hotel there in August ast: 'o board?$40per day, fire days $200 Three bedrooms and one small sittingroom ; servants' rooms.) 'o meals in room 10 !o baths . 2 Total $212 In accordance with a custom at hotels, servant is reckoned as half a quest?two ervants count for one. Now at Schwaliach each guest had to pay less than two [ollars a day, while Saratoga mulcted hem in the snm of ten dollars apiece nd over. What is the reason, asks the few York Times, for this difference beween the cost of living at?the American nd German watering places ? It Didn't Snit. A Detroit boy, after finishing the last hapter of a book called "The Pleasires of the Deep," pleaded with his ather to let him ship aboard a lake chooner. The old man smiled a grim mile, took the case under consideraion, and in a few days the boy wus on he rolling deep, having shipped as a greenhorn on a vessel in the lumber rade. He sailed to Saginaw, came lown and crossed to Toledo, and next ??? lama on/1 my no aMpcaicu iu i/ov&vii) juuav i.MM tiff, his throat sore, one eye nearly shut ,nd a feeling of humbleness running all hrough him. "What! back again?"cried the old nan, as the boy entered the house. " Yes, father. I want to saw all the food for winter, bring in all the coal, ilean ont the cellar and paint the barn' jjd you needn't give me bat two meals a lay." " Don't you like sailing?" "Father, you don't begin to realize .nytbing about it The captain sailed ight along on Sunday, the same as any >ther day, and I believe he swore even tarder. He wouldn't give me an umbrella when it rained, he made me sit ip most all night, and two or three times le called me up at midnight and made ae haul on ropes and drag old sails j-ound. There wasn't a single night uiian nil nf ns cot off to bed at nine 'clock, and there wasn't a day that he lidn't boss ns around and break in on is every time we got to reading anyhing good ! I like land, father, and I riflh you owned a farm I" A City of Insnrance. By the last official report it appears hat 212,467 people have their lives inured in the insurance oompanies of lartford, Oonn. If each of these repreents a family of five, then more than a aillion people are looking to the city as heir refuge in the time which the inurance agent, himself a Hartford proInct, can so pathetically describe as cerain to be, for the uninsured, of acute Inancial as well as domestic .distress. ?hese lives are insured for $450,000,000 Itogether, and the property insured in he fire companies of die same city is 1645,646,000 more, so that the total risk rhich Hartford carries is in round numiers $1,100,000,000. The Chicago fire piped out six of the large number of ire insurance oompanies in the city, and ook $10,000,000 of property away from he plaoe. A singular freak of fate, says a writer u S'cribner for November, made the oss seem even a bit worse than if it had some on any other date. In Hartford fiurance stock is taxed at its market r&lae, and the tax lists are sworn to, )otober first each year. The fire came >n the ninth of the month, and so the lolders the worthless or fallen stocks lad for that year to pay taxes on the lighest valuations the stocks had ever mown. I? the fire had occurred ten lays earlier, the difference in favor of he individual losers would have been rery considerable. Love and Devotion. Sandy Melville endeavored to swindle in old man in Omaha by selling him ipurious gold coins in "exchange for greenbacks. After his arrest he at-1 jempted to escape from the officers and vaa dangerously wounded. A lovely naid haunted the corridors ot tne jau i intil the sheriff took pity on her and permitted her to enter the prisoner's jell and dress his wounds. She nursed aim and gavo him brandy and water and piloted him ont of the valley of the shadow. When she had restored him xa health the courts took him in hand ind sentenced him to five years' imprisonment in the Iowa penitentiary. Affecting spectacle ; justice of the peace sailed in; marriage ceremony in the jail witnessed by all the prisoners; bridegroom carried cff to chew tobacco in the penitentiary; bride returns to her humhlfl homn to take in washing and to wait: beautiful essay in local paper on woman's* devotion, with appropriate references to Diana and Mother Eve. / Strange Sounds at Night. Evory one has noticed how many singular sounds are heard at night? c noises apparently unexplainable, and t consequently mysterious. Many a c ghost story has sprung up from an un- f accountable noise; many a person terri- j fled beyond measure by an unexpected t sound at midnight. Sir David Brew- 1 ster gives an ezoellent account of a t mysterious night souild which would c have frightened many persons* but z which proved innocently harmless when 1 tested by a steady observer. A gentle- { man heard a strange sound every night i soon after getting into bed; his wife ? heard it also, but ~ not at the time when s she retired, a little earlier than he. No s probable cause could be assigned, and J the effect upon the imagination became t rather unpleasant. He found some time i afterward that the sound came from a i wardrobe which stood near the head of c his bed. He almost always opened and t dosed this wardrobe when undressing; t bat ss the door was a little tight he t oould not quite olose it. The door, pos- t sibly affected by gradual changes of t temperature, forced itself open with a a sort of dull sound which was over in an c instant. From the lady not being in t the habit of using that wardrobe, the d mystery became associated with her n husband only. Had they given way to d imagination, and never investigated the s affair, another haunted house would e have been added to the long row already e standing. o L The Custer Fight. r Little Buck Elk has stated to Indian ^ Commissioner Mitchell that he was in the fight in which Gen. Custer and all his men were slaughtered, and that eleven different tribes were engaged in f the fight. He said that the Indians o were as thick as bees at the fight, and c that there were so many of them that a they could not all take part; that the p soldiers were all brave men and fought a well; tbat some of them, when they tl found themselves surrounded and over- p powered, broke through, the lines and n tried to make their escape, but were s pursued and killed, miles from the battle- a ground. One soldier, who had a faster v horse than the rest, made his escape v into the Bad Lands, and after he had fa riden seven or eight miles accidentally g ran into a war party of Indians and war s killed by them. This soldier rode a 1; big horse with flaxen mane, and had a t government saddle and gray saddle c blanket, but it was not known whether f: he was an officer or not. He also said u that they captured six battle flags, and fa that no soldiers were taken alive, but i after the fight the women went among d the dead bodies and robbed and mutila- fa ** ? ? 1?i.? _ tea mem. mere were pieui/j u* waimu?> u and money taken from them which the fa young warriors are now wearing in their j shirts and belts. Another Indian fight. News from Fort Fetterman states that s a haying party of twelve men and seven s ox tecma were attaoked by a band of a twenty or thirty Indians, twenty-five a miles from that post. John Ottens, \ wagon master, was badly wounded and 1 one horse was killed. It appears that t two of the party were ont hunting about 1 eight o'clock, and, hearing an Indian c war song, hastened to the train, whioh ] was immediately prepared for defense, e Four of the men Btarted to find the sav- 1 ages, which they did, and made a lively t rfltrpftt. hotlv trarsued bv them to with- t in fifty yards of the train, when the re- c maining eight men Bent a volley into the c Indians, who retreated to the shelter of a the bluffs, and commenced firing upon I the train, which, being at a disadvantage, c was compelled to move two hundred i yards. The fight lasted nearly four t hours. The number of Indians killed is t unknown, but two were seen to fail ? Mr. Powell, a contractor, states that the \ Indians showed great courage, and were t strongly armed with Winchester and army rifles. The telegraph line between Fort Fetterman and Oheyenne being cut about the time of the fignt, it is thought that it was the work of the same band. ? Ottens is doing well, but undoubtedly ? will lose his right arm. * s . *Jnst Like Her. " The Pall Mall Gazette reads modern wives a lecture on the duty of finding sureties for their husbands. A woman who was an inmate of the workhouse of St. George's-in-the-East applied for permission to leave that establishment for a day or two. Her husband, who was in receipt of a pension of ?38 per annum, i had been sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and to find sureties for a further period of two months for a sav- s age assault upon herself. During his 1 imprisonment she and her child had be- z come chargeable to the parish, and the guardians had attached the pension, so as to pay for the maintenance of the wiffl and ohild during their stay in the . workhouse. The term of the erring husband's imprisonment having nearly expired, he had written a most affectionate letter begging his wife to find the necessary sureties for him. Her application was granted by the guardians, and the woman was given permission to start on her singular errand of endeavoring to persuade some confiding person or persons to guarantee that for two whole months her husband would refrain from any further attempt to fracture her skull or smash her ribs. Legal Begging aud Stealing. To beg tobacco and steal umbrellas is strictly legal, for it has become a law by e custom, the practice of which has been c indulged in " time out of mind, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." If by chance one loses possession of an umbrella only for the short space of. i five minutes on a stormy day, when such * things are most required, the chances e are that it will go into the hands of a stranger and will never be seen again by 1 the rightful owner. But an umbrella stolen is not so great a crime or an aci i of such unparalleled meanness as to 1 have an habitual tobacco beggar solioit \ in a bland manner a " chew;" and when you hand him your box to have him j take all that there is in it, put what ho ? can in his mouth and the rest in his Test e pocket, then coolly remark that you keep a poor stock and ad visa you to go and purchase a new supply. Both of these disreputable acts are of i frequent occurrence, but the petty lar- ( ceny in umbrellas is not so frequent as f the confidence dodge in tobacoo. The [ snrest remedy to effectually abate this j nuisance is to attach your umbrella to f your side as some of the ladies do their j fans, and when you are solicited by , well kaown tobacco beggars hand them ( five cents. \ Let Me See Him. j When Louis XV. was passing through 1 a town in the north of France, his re- 1 V?nin/v rt# fliQ mrvof. AnfYinaiacfin V,0|;illVU UVUIQ V* VUW AWV/V VlikUWMM. V.V) an old woman was suddenly seen to dart throngh the ranks of the military escort, 1 crying: "Let*me see him! Let me i see him!" i The kiug stopped his carriage, ad- < dressed a few kind words to her, then i oontinued his progress. i Then the old woman flung her hands 1 into the air, aud, with all the raptnre of ] pions Simeen, cried: I " ThaDk Heaven! 1 have seen him ! < And now I don't care how soon?he < dies!" 1 A AltJIT JtlOguv ** M A letter horn Alexandria says : A new jalamity now engages the attention of dl Egyptians even more than the finan)ial decrees of the hhedive or the reosal of the government to acoept the adgments of the new courte. It seems hat many of the cavalry horses that lave returned from Abyssinia in the last wo months came with a most malignant lisease upon them. The doctors protoonce it a kind of typhoid fever. It is nost infections and terribly rapid in its >rogress, death resulting in many cases n a few hours. It is stated, and on [odd authority, that the government, intead of isolating the infected animals, " "L 1fcn thfl old them an ul wry iub 'ellaheen. Thus they have been disribnted throughout the country, and in he neighborhood of Cairo alone several inndred horses are already reported lead. A well informed correspondent has describes in the Delia the effect of his epidemic in one of the busiest disricts : " It is ravaging now among the torses, mules and donkeys of oar disrict most furiously, and many villages re named where not one horse has esaped the disease. It is to be feared hat this calamity will interfere very lisagreeably with our work, as the cartaen will be short of horses, and the lonkeys to cany seed and cotton to the tations will be very scarce. The govrnment is alone to blame that the disase lias spread so quickly over the ountry, selling everywhere for a napo3on or a pound the sick cavalry horses etumed vrom Abyssinia, instead of isoiting them." Sitting on a Porcupine. The Sacramento (OaL) Union has the j Dflowing incident: A traveler by one I f the railroad trains brought to the ity a porcupine of large size, caged in roomy box, with pieces of board laced across the top at intervals of bout an inch and a half, in order that tie animal might have as much air as ossible. His owner sat the box down ear the ticket office while attending ome other matter, and it attracted little ttention. By-and-bye a young man, rho had got tired of standing up, seeing 'hat appeared to be an empty fruit box " * * ' ?AT_ _ andy, deposited iiimseil upon it wim u igh of relief. A bystander who underfcood the " situation,"stepped up quiets' and with his cane begun punohing be porcupine. It wasjiut a few secnds before the animaf became " fretol," as it were, and he got his "back ip." The reader may at some time isve admired the alacrity with whioh an q dividual has arisen from a chair out of leferenoe to a bent pin which had sometow got there before him, bnt on this ccasion the man shot up as though he ad sat down upon a full paper of bent tins, all hot at that. A Dance of Death, Tne uon. .aveiyii asmo*, obcp-gmuuon, biographer, and formerly private ecretary of Lord Palmers ton, writes to r London paper to explain, by means of , private letter he has received from a rery authentic source, the meaning of ilr. Baring's denial of the statement hat forty Bulgarian girls were burned. Che statement was founded on a misunlerstanding of a colloquial Turkish phrase. To bum is yakmak, a verb conitantly used in the sense also of ruin. Chus a debtor will say: " Do you wish 0 burn me ?" meaning to ruin me. The ruth as to these girls is that they were larried off, and have never been heard if since. Mr. Ashley's correspondent, 1 consul, further tells him that after two inndred men had been murdered in a ertain village, the Turks found some aore in hiding places, and told them hat if they would dance one of their naional dances they would let them off. Jo the poor fellows begun to danoe. It ras a dance of death. The ruffians shot hem down while at it. San Francisco Millionaires. It seems to be a penchant among the aillionaires of San Francisco to squanler their money on hotels and opera touses. Senator Sharon has a sevefctory palace hotel, on which he is losing bout 01,000 a day; Senator Jones runs . newspaper and a Roman bath estabishment; E. J. Baldwin, another milionaire, has built an opera house and lotel at a cost of $2,6JO,000. John Kerne, another millionaire stock broker, las given Strakoech a $30,000 lot of ground, upon whioh ho promises to mild an "Eetalian opera house;" and rasper McDonald, a leading bear, has ust taken possession of one of San jVanoisoo's leading theaters for moneys idvanoed. It would seem as if her milionaire brokers intended having a nonopoly of all the luxuries *f life. Elbow Grease. "Awful Gardiner" was onoe a well mown pugilist and sporting character in 'few York. On one occasion he went to Newark with a " select party " to give l sparring exhibition. The man who -J nf tViQ Viol! TpVioro th? show UK1 Uiuugo VI w*v ?as to take place was of gigantio stature, md one of the party wagered a bottle of rine that " Awful Gardner " could not mock the fellow down with his fist. Chey all waited in the hall for the comng of the janitor with lights. He ap>roached with a candle shaded in his lands, and as he came within arm's each the "Awful" measured him and truck square from the shoulder. The uau hardly winked/ He simply turned lis head round toward the pugilist and aid: " Gentlemen, please be a little tareful of your elbows." His Eplcnrean Taste. "Speaking of epicures," lately reaarked a young Chicago society swell, ' I've got a brother who is the greatest *r 99 ipicure x ever saw. "Indeed," chorused the oircle about dm. "Yes," continued the swell, "why, te eats everything in the line of victuals ie can lay his hands on?he doesn't care rhat!" Then when everybody got up and oiled around and laughed, that young iwell got mad, and wanted to know if iny one supposed that he "didn't know vhat an ' epicure' was ?" Weld Peaches.?The editor of the iVallapai Enterprise, published at Minsral Park, Ari., has been presented with i box of wild peaches, and says of them: These peaohee, though wild, are equal n flavor to any we have ever eaten, and lome of them measured as much as nine nches in circumference. The trees lpon which they grow were discovered some twelve or thirteen years ago by ihe first whites in this section of the jountry, and at the time of the discovery ;he main tree looked to be as old as it loes to-day. The fruit, in appearance, resembles the fine&fc Jersey peaches. A Notable Clock.?In the Kansas auilding, on the Centennial grounds, is i clock whose peculiar excellence is that ;t requires winding but once in a hundred years. It is said to keep the most iccurate time, telling the month of the yrear, the day of the month, the day of ;he week, and the time of the day; and pet the inventor claims tnat it does an ibis with muoh lees power than is required with any other clock escapement 3ver invented. Who would like a century clock ? Over tbo bill All ia still, Yon ota scarcely hear a breath, 'Mid the tree tops, calm ae death, The little bird is silent in his neet, Only wait; Soon or late '< . Yon, too, my sonl, shall one day find your res i Items of Interest. If a clergyman is in doubt what to preach about, he should preach about ten minutes. A California Indian went a\ray from home with the avowed intention of getting a new wife. His old wife thereupon killed herself and four children. A Wisconsin editor having written of a deceased gentleman that "sickness had impaired his health," a rival rejoined: " Yes; it often has that effect." "Ho, all ye dyspeptics!" gays a patent medicine advertisement If all the dyspeptiee would only hoe regularly their number would be reduced amazingly. On the English channel, where the voyage prod noes the usual effect. An economical lady cries: "What a pity! A breakfast that they charged so much for, too." " It is humiliating to a yomig man who has been singing nis sweqfcst songs in front of a house to be told by a. policeman that the family have been.absent for a week. ?. ,j, " I wish you would jwy a little, attention to what I am saying, sir," roared a lawyer at an exasperating witness. " I I am paying as little as I can," was the I calm reply. The following notioei* .posted conspicuously in a Scotch office Shut ; the door, and when yon have done talking on business, serve* your mopth the same way." Every year a Georgia farmer cultivates a distinct piece of cotton, which he calls his "preacher patch," because theavails of the crop go fc>- the support of his minister. t: J A trained horse in an English^ circus . attached tee man wno waa uuuuuuuiug its performance, shaking him its a cat : would a mouse and then throwing him j out of the ring. According to a well known physician, " it is dangerous to go into the watnr after a hearty meal." And it would bo a very fishy one a man would get if he* did go in alter one. Three boys in London were sentenced to three days' imprisonment and to receive seven stripes each with a birch rod for having thrown atones at trains on the Midland railway. On September 15, the sixty-ninth anniversary of Mexican independence, the oorner stone for the bronze statue of Juarez was laid. Signor Gagliardo, a San Francisco sculptor, won the prize for the best model. ' ' M. Sebrill, a French architect, obviates the danger arising from dampness in brick buildings by injecting bricks, tiles and other earthen material with the tarry residue from the manufacture of illuminating jt.n. The Louisville Courier-Journal says. Mrs. Sally Beers, of CJinton county, Mich., works a form of one micdrei acres and has nine children. 'Ii there were a few thousand such persons in the world as Sally, more of ?j* might escape work. A Binghompton (N. Y.) man is suing for a divorce from Iijb wife on the plea that she has a glass eye that is always open nights, and the "aspect makes him nervous." Ho coaxed her to close it with red sealing wax, bat that only increased his terror. Th? latest. siinDiefit and most effectual moose trap yet thought of is an earthen washbowl nearly half filled with water, covered over with meal and placed on the pantry sht tf. A Pulaski (N. Y.) woman recently caught several of the mischief makers in one night by this method. A traveler in Egypt ig 1866 visited a number of Arabian schools, in almost all of which he noticed they kept a silk cap. Upon asking why this was dono he was told that it wa&the severest punishment that oould be inflicted upon' i any of the children to be compelled to wear it. It was Pope who used to swear " God mend me," and, swearing his favorite oath one day in the presence of a little boy, the boy looked at the diminished and misshapen form of the great poet, and said: " Good mend you, indeed ! I think it would be a good deal easier to make a new one." '] The miners of South Yorkshire were dissatisfied with their wages, and attempted to beoome colliery owners them selves. An association bought a colliery, the profits of 'which were to be shared among them. The capital raised was about $400,000. The enterprise has proved unsuccessful, and the money is lost. It has been proposed to establish penny banks in connection with the public schools of New York. The candy shops and chewing gum venders might suffer, but good results would be obtained. The experiment has been tried iu London, where, in a few months, 5,266 ohildren had deposited no less th?n $5,620. Visitors to the Centennial art gallery will be sorry to learn that the little statue of "Playing Cat's Cradle" was broken by the point of a parasol one day recently, and the tiny bars of mar- v ble replaced by threads. But the lady who' unwisely meddled with it feels probably more sorry, as report tays she had to pay $500! The ire of a St. Lotus paper toward the editor of a Chicago journal i3 let loose in this way: Ho stands up<jpd lies, sits down and lies, eats lies, drinks lies and dreams lies. There is no other " ? ? a oiirl name but lies icr ms prepuce UUO auv? unprincipled assertions. If there is really a place prepared for liars, the smell of sulphur already arises to his nostrils. General Fadeeff, a Bcssifiu, is of opinion that Germany will not willingly expose her flank to Russia when she could protect it by raising up a Polish state between herself and her great enemy on the north and east. It would suit Germany marvelonsly. moreover, to have an independent Poland, which, in its movement toward the east, it might colonize with its superfluous population. No tool is more essential on the farm than a good grindstone. They were formerly all imported from England. Then the Nova Scotia ones were found superior. Ohio grindstones are largely used by Western fan0rs. But now Lake Huron grindstonesare superseding all others; they have a fine sharp grit, m ci-.nnld and leave a tine edge, xue DIVUu ?? be kept clean and dry, and free from grease and rust. A mercantile agency in Toronto professed to make, through its system of espionage, a correct statement of the status of a retail dealer. The presumed knowledge was sold to a wholesale dealer, who sold to the retailer on the purchased hypothesis that he would receive the money for his good*. The retailer absconded, and the wholesaler recovered 8524 at law from the mercantile agency, and a higher conrt affirmed the judgment.