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N ^ IjCO, I > ' - r,Tp ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1877. NO. 26. VOLUME XXV. $2 5,000! T II E LfiBGBST II CHEAPEST STOCK OF , EVEIi BROUGHT TO ?r- fx ! t7 c > ^ f GREENVILLE! /TbarnVJ ~~ i Twenty-five thousand dollars worth of GOODS which ho intends to dttpow of AT, OR BELOW NEW YORK Retail Prices! ? .1 m ?% IM k trriK ior Mips. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. J _? f CAPT. W R. WHITE I with me and would be glad to meet with hid Id Frie ds and CuKtomers, and will S vVE 'HEM SOME MOSEY. A No. 1, Wagon Yard IN REAR OF STORE, FREE TO ALL. Kecpcctfullr, r T. W, DAYIS, : c AT A T\' STP.P.T7.T. c 1 GREENVILLE, S. C. Oct. 17, 1877.?Zziioi 8SABPBTEBS FOR CHEAP GOODS, MORGAN & BRO. HAVE RECEIVED THE ( I Largest General Stock i -OF ? frAAflQ u uuuo In Greenville. WE OCCUPY OUR HEW STORE AT OUB ' Old Stand on BUNCOMB STREET, ind with oar facilitie# for doing bnuiuesx we 1 slum to be xecond to none. We make BOOTS, SHOES, DOMESTIC AND FANCII DRY GOODS, A. ' SPECIALTY, ' And in them can Offer Great Inducements., , tli.;;' r VCe were at the manufactories in jxruon, a"a ?ad our : j . I o Boots and Shoes nade to order, and will guarantee both quality ind price. Buying from flrxt hands wo Have h? profit of the middle man, which will l>o a airing to the oonramer who boys from up. i%~. ra vur wry uuuus j^BVere selected with great care, and embrace jf&ll the Novelties of the aeaaon, and in this j^fcepartment we make POPULAR PRICES. I Our Grecery MwM t well Fupp'icd at all times with CH -ICE HBOODS, which will be sold at HARD PAN PRICES. g|V Come and nee for rournelvep. No charge B^Bhowing good-*. We give a free exhibition. mm H. MORGAN & BRO., S Buncomb Street, . Hvfl ' ' ' ' l ' ' H -i GREEXVILLE, S. C. | Mr. W.-A. LATIMER, g^Vrpm PATIT, is with uk, and will be leaded to have all his friends call and see hire. 3 D.k *f- 'A. '/' fcM Wo alio have in connection with our store, ||| Tho Largest Wagon Yard the City* fitted up with Trough*. Bleepiu E^Eoone, etc., for the ?c-onunod*uon -of oni B^Ki?.ndn and bnstomers. 1 reo o1 oharge. j?9 October 3 1877.?3mo? C. T. WILLIS, Pendleton Street WEST GBEENVILIE, WILL PAY THE Highest Market Pric FOR COTTON, ANI) SELL ' GROCEPJES, DBY GOOD! CLOTHING. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc. At the Very Bottom Figures Oct 3, 1877.?tf i. c. jiKlpii A:.i.r.: Yaedev McDix. ALEXANDER,ALLEN & McBEE Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in UPPER & HARNESS LEAT2EE Kip and Calf Skins, GREENVILLE, S. C. Highest cash priee paid for Hides. Sept. 26, 1877 ?12m GREENVILLE Machine Work? AND ^ IRON FOUNDRY, Redmond, Macdonald &' Cc, PROPRIETORS. riTEAM ENGINES, Boilers, Saw and Gri 5 Mills, Cotton Oinn, Pr-B-es. etc., prompt! epaired. We have recently i dded to our estal isiiment an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepare n fnrtiiiih nil kinrl-t of CASTINGS. CQUhI to tl >eet furnished by any foundry in the countr; it nhort notir-o, ami on reasonable turnip. Cat >aid for Old Iron delivered at our foundry. Works on Rivor Street?rear of Caglo' Planing Mill. October 3, 1877. ?12m T. C. GOWER 8s CO., CREENVILLE, S. C., DEALERS IN ilk nil Of Every DeHCrlptloii. rHEIR STOCK is the largest and cheapest i the State, and Builders and others iu Abb< ille trill And it greatly to their interest to coi ult our Agent, Mr. C. V. HAMMOND, ir send their orders direct to us when in nee if anv goods in our line. We make n, specialt if )OORS, SASH, BLINDS, SHINGLES, NEWELS, IULUSTERS, HANDRAILS, Etc Yfo have a very large stock of the bent PUMPS iow in use, to which they invite special itten ion. Lime and Cement )f the best quality can be furnished to th >eople of Abbeville Couuty chenper from Greer rille than from any other point. Our stock c heue goods is always large. T. C. OOWER & CO. October 10, 1877.?12m FEE PALMETTO COTTON GIN MANUFACTURED BY J.M.MATTHEWS NINETY-SIX, S. C. dealeb in TT^URNITURE, Coffins, Belting and Gi P XToft.T?io 1 rr*noral1p oni) Arrant fnr Qfaa' Engines, Tkre*hertt, Reapers and Mower Cotton Presses, etc. Condensers, Feeders and Seed Crnshe: attached to GinB when desired. Repairing Carefully Done. All communications receive prompt attentio Purchasers should call or correspond wil Inm before purchasing elsewhere. Juno 15, 1877.?tf O. A. TRAYLOR, # WITH WILLIAM MULHERIH dealer ix Boots and Shoes HATS AND TRUNKS, "29 3 Broad Streel Half Block below Planters' Hotel, AUGUSTA, CA. Durable Boots and Shoes a Specialty. September 19, 1877.?3m E. J. White. E. M. Hughe Fashionable Hat Emporium. WHITE & HUGHES, DEALERS IS Hals, Cms, Ms, DnHtt Derro., 269 KING STREET, OPP. HASEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. Umbrellas Made and Bepaired to Order. October 3, 1877.?3m ' STEAM Planing Mill COLUMBIA, S. C.\ P. W. WING, Proprietor? A TAN*f"FA.CTUREU of 8ash, Blinds. Dooi Window und Doo*- Frames, Inside Piv >l:mU and Shn tors, Pilasters, Mantelpiew 'loldmun. Dncketx, Handrails, Newels, Bale icr*, Scroll Work of all description. 411 Work Guaranteed A No. 1,1 Feb. 2?. 1876.?tf . The Guest. BY MABY CLEMMEB. From out the great world's rash and dm, There came a guest; The inner court ho entered in, And sat at rest. Slow on the wild tide of affairs G The gates were cloBed ; Afar the hungry host of careB At last reposed. Then through the dim doors of the past, All pure of blame. Came boyish memories floating past? I His mother's name. " Ah ! all this loud world calls the best I'd give," he said, "To feel her hand, on her dear breast To lean my head. "I cry within the crowned da?, _ That would be joy, " Could she but bear me far away, S, Onco more her boy." Man's strength is weakness, after all ? He stood confessed; ? * - ' AMI i.V- MJ ? 11 ) | iNODe quite cnu buu tut; ucvi a mm ?n, None qnito are biassed. Across the face that knows no fear ' A shade swept fast, As if a following angel near That moment passed. I tie sacred silence of the room Did softly stir; A splendor grew within the gloom Of her, of her! Out to the?great world's rush and din, Has gone mv guest; The battle blame, the praise mon win Are his?not rest. Far out amid the earth's turmoils A strong man stands, g Upheld in triumph and in toils By unseen hands. But who may lift with subtla wand The masks we wear? I only kuow his mother's hand '' Is on his hair. I only know through all life's harms, Through sin's alloy, b' 8omehow, somewhere that mother's arms ;d Will reach her boy. io ? Si THE FLOODED GULCH. I warn't never meant for no Bailor, I warn't; but I come of a great nation, and when a chap out our way says he'll dn a tliiDg, he does it. I said I'd go to sea, and I went?and thar you are; I said I'd drop hunting, and take to mining, and thar I was ; and that's how it come about. You see, we was rather rough out our way, where Hez Lane and me went with our bit of tent and pickers, shootingirons, and sech like, meaning to make a Spile of gold. We went to Washoe, and didn't get on ; then we went to Fort Laramie, and didn't get on there. Last, we went right up into the mountain, picking our way amongst the stones, for Hez ses : " Look here, old hoss, let'B get whar no one's been afore. If we get whar the boys are at work already, n they've took the cream, and we gets the 6" skim milk. Let's you and me get the l" cream, and let some o' the others take the sLim milk." "Good for you," I says; and we tramped on dav arter day, till we got right up in the heart o' the mountains, v where no one hadn't been afore, and it was so still and quiet, as it made you quite deaf. It was a strange, wild sort of place, like a<j if one o' them coons called giants ! had driven a wedge into a mountain and ; split it, making a place for a bit of a stream to run at the bottom, and lay bare the gcfld we wanted to find. "This'll do, Dab," says Hez, as we put up our bit of a tent on a pleasant green shelf in the steep valley place. "This'll do, Dab; tliar's yaller gold spangling them Rands, and running in veins through them rocks, and yaller gold in pockets of the rocks. "Then let's call it Yaller Gulch," I - says. " Done, old hoss !" Baid Hez ; and Yaller'Guich it is. We set to work next day washing in the bit of a stream, and shook hands on our Rood lnck. " " Tkis'll do," says Hez. " We shall if make a pile here. No one won't dream of hunting this out." " Say, etranger !" says a voice as made ns both jump. " Do it wash well ?" And if there warn't a long, lean, ugly, - yaller-looking chap looking down at us, r as he Btood holding a mule by the bridle. | j Why, afore a week was over, so far from us keeping it snug, I reckon there was fifty people in Yaller Gulch, washing away, and making their piles. Afore 9 another week was over some one had set up a store, and next day there was a gambling saloon. Keep it to ourselves! Why, stranger, I reckon if there was a speck of gold anywheres within five in hundred miles our chaps'd sniff it out like vultures, and be down upon it. ' It warn't no use to grumble, and we u kept what we thought to ourselves, working away and making our ounces the best way we could. One day I proposed we should go up higher in the ^ I monntains; but Hez said he'd be blamed ^ if he'd move ; and next day, if he'd wanted me to go, I should have told him I'd be blamed if I'd move; and all at | once, from being red-hot chums, as | would have done anything for one I another, Hez and me got to be mortal ; enemies. [. Now, look here, stranger. Did yon ever keep chickens? P'r'aps not; bnt if you ever do, just you notice this. | | You've got, say, a dozen young cocks ' j pecking about, and as happy as can be? i smart and lively, an' innercent as I chickens should be. Now, just you go , ! and drop a pretty voung pullet in among ji j 'em, and see if there' won't be a row. j Why, afore night there'll be combs ! bleeding, eyes knocked out, feathers torn I and ragged?a reg'lar pepper-box and | bowie set-to, and all 'acause of that little j smooth, brown pullet, that looks on so _ j quiet and gentle, as if wondering wfco ; made the row. Now, that's what was 8- | the matter with us: for who should oome j into the Gulch one day but an old storei keeping ort of fellow, with as pretty a ! daughter as ever stepped, and from that j moment i? was all over between Hez : and me. He'd got a way with him, you see, as [J I hadn't; and they always made him l)| welkim at that thar store, when it was only "How do you do?" and "Good morning," to me. I don't koow what love is, strangers; but if JS6i Burn had I told me to go and cut one of my hands : off to please her, I'd ha' done it. I'd ha' | gone through fire and water for her, God bless her ! and if she'd tied one of her ?. limgy JilllCJL Xiikl 10 1UUUU JLI#y XIU^IV, OL1U might have led ise about like a bear, rough as I am. But it wouldn't do. I Boon see which way the wind blew." She was the only y woman in camp, and could have the pick, and she picked Hez. I was 'bout starin' mad first time I met them two together?she a banging on his arm, looking up in his face worshiping him like some of them women can worship a groat, big, strong he; and B' as soon as the.v war got by I swore a ? big oath as Hez Bhould never have iB- her, and I plugged up my six shooter, give my bowie a whetting, and lay in wait for him coming back. It was a nice tiine that, as I set there, seeing in fancy him kissin' her swe little face, and she hanging on him. I was 'most mad afore, 1 was ten tim worse now; and when I heerd Hez coi in', I stood there on a shelf of roc where the track came along, meanii to put half a dozen pings in him, ai then pitch him into the Gulch. But was that mad that when he came u cheery and singing, I forgot all abo my shooting-iron and bowie, and we: at him like a bar, hugging and wrae limg him till we fell together close the edge of the Gulch, and I had on to give him a Bhove, and down he'd h gone kelch on the hard rocks ninety fe below. "Now, Hez," I says, "how aboi your darling now ? You'll cut in afo; a better man again, will yer ?" " Yes, if I live," he says stout-Jik so as I couldn't help liking the grit 1 [ showed. "That's right," he sail ! "pitchme over, and then go and te j little Jael what you've done. She' I ha fine and riroud of ver then. Abinadc j Scales!" I He said that as I'd got him hangir over the rocks, and he looked me fu I in the face, full of grit, though he wi j as helpless as a babby; bnt I didn't s< | his fac? then, for what I see was tl ! face of Jael, wild and passionate lik< | asking me what I'd done with her lov and my heart swelled so that I gave sob like a woman, as I swung Hez roue into Bafety, and taking liis place lik< "Shove me over," I says, " and put n out of my misery." Poor old Hez! I hated him lil pyson; but he wasn't that sort. 'Stec of sending me over, now he had tl ; chance, he claps his hand on my shou ; der, and he says, says he : " Dab, o] 1 man," he says, "we can't all find th 1 big nuggets, and if I'm in luck, doa't I hard on yer mate." Then he held out his fist, but I couldn I take it, but turning off, I ran hard do^v I among the rocks till I dropped, bruise and bleeding, and didn't go back to m tent that night. ' I got a bit wilder after that. Hez ar Jael were spliced up, and I alius ke i away. Hez used to come to me, but warned him off. Last time he con ( across me, and tried to make friend I " Hez," says I, " keep away. I'm de i prit like, and I won't say I shan't pin yer!" Then Jael came, and she began to to] to me about forgiving him ; but it on] I made me more mad nor ever, and so : went and pitched at the lower end of tl [ Gulch, and they lived at t'other. Times and times I've felt as if I'd g Urt" 4t?A rtlll'flf Knf T n OTT/ j UllU piu^ Ut'/i UU 1/liO UUV A UWT1 ; did, though I got to hate him more axi ' more, and never half so much as I di j nigh two years arter, when I came upc | him one day sudden, with his wife Jaa j looking pootier than ever, with a litt white-haired squealer on her arm. Aj j it riled me above a bit to see him t i smiling and happy, and me turned inl a bloodshot, drinking, raving savage, thi half the Guloh was feared on, and t'otli* ^alf daren't face. Early one morning, as I lay in m ; ragged bit of a tent, I woke up suddei j like, to a roaring noise like thunder I and then there came a whirl and a rufll j and I was swimmin' for life, half choke ; with the water that had carried me of ; Now it was hitting my head, playful lik< : agen the hardest corners of the rock | could And in the Gulch ; then it was hi | ting me in the back, or pounding me j : the front, with trunkfe of trees swej : down from the mountains, for somethin had bust?a lake, or something high u ; ?and in about a wink the hull settli ment in Yaller Gulch was swep away. "Wall," I says, getting hold of j branch and drawing myself out, some c 'em wanted a good wash, and this '11 gi* ! it 'emfor you see water had bee j 6keerce lately, and what there was ha all been used for cleaning the gold. I sot on a bit o' rock, wringing thi j water ?ut of my liair?leastwise, no ; ! was Bome one else like who sot then j chaps I knowed, you see; and thei ; was the water rushing down thirty c ] f?rty foot deep, with everything swej ! before it?mules, and tents, nnd shai ties, and stores, and dead bodies by tt , dozen. "Unlucky for them," I says; an I just men J. neara ft wiiu sorter eanei j aid looking down, I see a chap bal swimming, half-swept along by the to; rent, trying hard to get at a tree thi stood t'other side. " Why, it's you, is it, Hez ?" I says t myself, as I looked at his wild eyas an strained face, on which the sun show full. " You're a gone coon, Hez, lad so you may just as well fold yer armi say amen, and go down like a man. Ho I oould pot you now, lad, if I'd got shooting-iron ; put you out o' yer mil ery like. You'll drown, lad." He made a dash, and tried for a branc hanging down, but missed it, and g< swept against the rocks, where he shove his arm between two big bit*; but tt water gave him a wrench, the bone wei crack, and as I sat still there I see hi] swept down lower and lower, till 1 clutched at a bush with his left ham i and hung on like grim death. | "Sarve you right," I Fays, cooll; ! "Why shouldn't you die like the resi If I'd had any go in mo I should plugged yer long ago." " Holloa!" I cried then, giving a star " It ain't?'tis?taruatiog.! it can't he But it was. There, on t'other side, fifty yards lo\ er down, was a bit of shelf of earth thj kept crumbling away as the wat( washed it, was Jael, kneeling dowu wil her young 'un ; and as I looked, Born thing seemed to give my heart a jigj just as if some coon had pulled a strini j "Well, he's 'bout gone," I sayt " and they can't hold 'bout three mil uted; then thej^l all drown togethe and she can take old Hez his last babl to nuss, 'cuss 'em! I'm safe enotig] ; What's it got to do'with me ? I sha'c | move." j I took out my wet cake of 'baccn, ar whittled off a bit, shoved it in my chee! ] shut my knife with a click, and sot th j watchin' of 'em?father, and mother ar I bairn. "You've been too happy, you have i I says out loud ; not as they could he j it, for the noise of the waters. "No ; you'll be sorry for other people. Drow ! blame yer ! stock, and lock, and barre | I'm safe." Just then, as I sot and chawed, tellii ' myself aa a chap would be mad to ti and save his friends out of such a floo | let alone his enemies, blame me ! if Ja | didn't put that there little squealei j hands together, and hold them up as she was making it say its prayers, born fool!?when that thar stnng seemi | to be pulled, inside me like, agin n heart; and?I couldn't help it?I jtimpi up. " Say, Dab," I says to myself, " dor you be a foot You hate that lot lil pison, you do. Don't you go and drov yoursei I was 'boat mad, you know, ai couldn't do as I liked, for, if I didi begin to rip off my things, wet and ban to me. How tbey did stick I but cleared half on 'em off, and then, like mad fool, I made a run and a jump, ai was fighting hard with the water to g across to Hez's wife and child. It was a bit of a fight. Down I wer and up I went, and the water twisted e like a leaf; but I got out of the ro and thunder, on to the bit of a she where Jael knelt; when if the silly thii didn't begifi to hold up to pie her chil and her lips, poor darling, said, dumbl " Bare it 1 oh, save it I" et In the midst of that rush and rtmr, as If I saw that poor gal, white, horrified, 68 and with her yaller hair clinging round n- her, all my old love for her comeB baok, b, and I swore a big oath as I'd save her lg for myself or die. id I tore her dress into ribbons, for there I warn't a moment to lose, and I Dound p, that bairn somehow on to my shoulders, at she watching me the while; and then, at with my heart beating madly, I caught ifr her in my arms, she clinging tightly to to me in her fear, and I stood up, thinking ly how I could get back, and making ready a* to leap. et The flood didn't wait for that, though. In a moment there was a quiver of the at bank, and it went from beneath my feet, re leaving me wrestling with the waters once more. e, I don't know how I did it, only that,. rt '< ?rtA r?ft V?olf omnflioro^ kXJ ftlUOl tt U^UV nuu UUU umvvuv*vv?| 3, I found myself crawling up the side of ill the Gulch, ever bo low down, and drag* 11 ging Jael into a safe place with her ib bairn. She fell down afore me, hugged my ig legs and kissed my feet; and then she 11 started up and began staring up and is down, ending by seeing, just above us, 3e old Hez clinging there still, with his le sound arm rammed into the bush and e, his body swept out by the fierce stream, e, The next moment she had seized me a by the arm, and was pinting at him, and id she gave a wild kind of shriek. i, '' Save him .'?save him!" she shrieked le in my ear. i What, Hez ? Save Hez to come be;e tween us once more ? Save her husband id ?the man I hated, and would gladly see le die ? Oh, I conldn't do it, and my looks 1- showed it, she reading me like a book [d the while. No, he might drown?he was ie drowned?must be. No ; just then he >s moved. But, nonsense ! I wasn't going to risk my life for his, and cut ray own 't throat as to the futur'. n She went down on her knees to me, < >d though, pinting again at where Hez J iy still floated; and the old feeling of love for her was stronger on me than evfcr. id "You're asking me to die for you, ip Jael ?" I shouted in her ear. I " Save him?save Hez!" she shrieked, te "Yes, save him!" I groaned to myb, self. " Bring him back to the happiness s- that might bo mine. But she loves him ig ! ?she loves him; and I must." I gave one look at her?as I thought [k I my last?and I could't help it. If she [y had aBked me ciumoiy, as sne aia, to ao ^ something ten times as wild, I should ie have done it; and, with a ran, I got well np above Hez afore I jumped in once r0 more, to have tiie same fight with the jr waters till I was swept down to the bush 1(j where he was. ij I'd got my knife in my teeth to cut ,n the bush away and let him free ; but as ]( I was swept against it my weight tore [e it away, and Hez and I went down the a' stream together, him so done up that he 50 lav helpless on the water, to Something seemed to tell me to finish it him off. A minute under water would ;r have done it; but Jael's face was before me, and at lapt I got to the other side, y with her climbing along beside us, and y. if it hadn't been for the hand she . j stretched down to me, I should nevar have crawled out with old Hez?I was ,<j that done. f. As I dropped down panting on the 9t rock, Jael came to my aide, leaned over it me and kissed me, and 1 turned away, fc. for the next moment she was trying hard a and bringing her husband to, and I was )t beginning to feel once more that I had g been a fool. p I ain't much more to tell, only that e. the flood went down 'most aa quick as it had come up, and Hez got all right a again, and did well. They wanted m muchly to be friends, but I kep' away. re i felt as I'd been a tool to save mm, ana ,n I was kinder 'shamed like of it, so I took d off to 'Frisco, where, after chnmming about, I took to geing voyages to Panit ama and back, and the sea seemed to it suit me like, and there I stuck to it. j, e Slaughtering Cattle with Djnamite. * The London Times says that experiments were made recently at the Islington cattle market to illustrate the use of 16 dynamite as a means of slaughtering cat* tlo humanely. Mr. Thomas Johnson, of " Dudley, killed three bullocks in this way. To show the safety with which '* the explosive (Noble's dynamite) can be r* employed, small quantities were first burnt without any explosion. The charge with which the cattle were afterward killed consisted of about an d ounce, of a pinkish pasty substance, into a which had been plunged a detonator on 5 a fuse. The bullocks, bought that morn0 ' At--. la/1 -infr* Mr "? ILIg 1U lilt) uiui^u, nuc leu luuv w Thomas Cross's slaughter house, and a tied up to posts there in the ordinary. 3" way. Although many animals had recently been despatched with the pole'k axe near by, the bullocks selected be^ traying no consciousness of their ap!(* proaching fate." There was no tremor or 10 sweat upon them. ^ The operator, fondling them, passed 111 across the forehead a fillet of string 'e secured round the horns, and so arranged that midway between the horus and eyes, and thus in the centre of the forehead, P- the charge of dynamite was placed, ' which formed the central and only ornare ment of the fillet. Then the fuse was fired, and in two cases the bullock was k killed at once by the explosion of the ' ounce of dynamite. A hole was made in the skull by the force of the explosion, v~ but the concussion was entirely local, ^ and people standing close by felt noth* ing. They heard a loud report. The animals were immediately pithed by ?" passing a cane down tbeir spinal marSi rows to remove all sensibility, and in a ?' quarter of an hour their carcasses, 11 stripped of the hide, and divided into a" two, were hanging up as sides of beef, r> ready to be transported to the MetropoliV tan Dead Meat Market. '} The brain was found to be entirely 1 ^ broken up. With the first bullock tried the experiment was less successful. The charge had been placed too low. The animal was felled, but struggled on ^ the ground. A man was, however, 1(1 ready with the pole-axe. He smote ? once, and no more, and the poor beast ? was out of its agony. Afterward a ar bullock was killed with one blow of the lW pole-axe, and another by the French method, the vertebrae being severed * I with a knife at the back of the neck. In each case the cane was used immediately *8 afterward. J7 All three modes of slaughter, properly carried into effect, seemed as little cruel f* as is consistent with the necessity of im'flicting death, but the pole-axe and knife, " both used with consummate skill yesterday, require considerable practice to be employed with dexterity. In country *7 slaughter houses, where the men have less experience, a thick-browed bull is , sometimes struck again and again before 1 he dies. The dynamite may be applied 16 at leisure to the proper place, and the 'n operator ought to be able to count on keeping it there. An objection to its use ~ is in the report which it makes. The 1' second bullock was obviously frightened by the noise of the explosion of the first f charge. The three animals were killed " in niae minutes at the expense oi about 3d. In the Black Country, where dynae' mite is immon as a blasting material for mines, it is said to be already in '*? practical use in the slaughter house. ae ar There is bo funeral so Bad to follow as )lf the funeral ?f our own youth which we lg have been pampering with fond desires, d, ambitious hopes, and all the bright y: berries that hang in poisonons fllnsters over the path of life. That Boy of Saunder's. " Can you settle this little bill this morning, sir ?" the collector asked, in his most insinuating tones and with his most reassuring smile. " Sweet little Bill ?" quickly rejoined the doctor; " Little Bill Saunders ? Maybe I can't, just. I'd settle with him quick enough. Worst boy in the m'w mt? rrnta oVirif f.Ko ntliflr VTVS&AU} Oil, JL. iUJ guw OUUW vi*v night with a leather thong, and then wet the knot. Swelled so tight, by George, sir, I couldn't have untied it in an eternity and a half. Strap was bo strong a team of oxen couldn't break it, and I had no knife. Couldn't climb a picket fence, and there it was?eleven o'clock at night ?and I howling and yelling fit to wake the dead, trying to rouse some one up to brine me out a knife ; and a policeman came along before T could make anybody understand who I was ; and just as 1 was trying to explain wife opened her window and screamed ' Police !' Sister opened another window and shrieked 1 Murder !' Children roared ' Fire !' and a policeman took me off and locked me up. Did, sir, for a fact. That Bill Saunders?has he been annoying your neighborhood, by the way ?" "Thatisn't the bill I refer to, Bir," : explained the collector, smiling, but in a rather sad tone of countenance, " 11 meant this little account?" " Oh," shouted the debtor, reasaur- j ingly, and in a tone of the brighest in- j telligence and comprehension, "yes I it's the same one; that's liim?Bill j Saunders. Jjittie account enongn, j. should say. No account at all. Why, bless you, sir, that boy it} fourteen years old, nearly three years older than my Jim, and I don't honestly believe he ever did a day's work about his father's house in his life. My boy is away ahead of him in sohool to-day. and does more chores about the house in a day than Bill does ia a month. He's no account : for anything but mischief. Dropped a live cat?a great, big, roaring Thomas Henry cat ? down MacElroy's sitting room chimney the other night. No fire in tha stove, and cat yelled till the noise blew out the flue. Fact. Just roared and yelled and wailed till you could hang a hat on the noise 'as it came out the flue, and it cost MacElroy eight dollars to have the chimney cut out next day to let the cat out; and when the hole was made, sir, cat was half wild with fright and shot out like a rocket, and scalped the workman, clawed out the dog's eye and jumped on MacElroy's back and snatched a pound of flesh off his shoulder blades. It was just awful. | Why, that boy?" But the collector interrupted him to say, in a voice that was solemn with gravity of apprehension, that he wasn't speaking of any boy; he had a little matter here? " Oh, pooh, pooh ! Oh, pshaw," exclaimed the debtor, waving his hand \ with the same air of sublime reassurance i and tranqnilizing patronage that had before marked the tones of Ins voice, "not a bit of it, not a bit of it, my good sir ; : nothing the matter with him at all?no more than there is with me. It's just natural, inborn meanness, sir. I don't* < know that the boy does it for pure meanness, either. I won't say that; but it is wickedness, sir; it's original sin. Why, : there ain't nothing the matter with the boy. He's healthy and he's smart; got a bright mind; thinks quicker than any boy in this town; goes in swimming in March, and I have seen that boy skating on the pond in December in his bare feet. Why, here one day last snuimer a poor wretch of a blind fiddler that was singing and playing around here lost his dog. Lean, smart, faithful, half-starved cur that led him around, fell into an old well down by the brick yard one day, and the old musician came near following him. Old man nearly heartbroken, you know, for the dog supported him more than his singing and fiddle did. Mighty a mo >4 r?r?T trnn lmmr onlun.lidlr trained danced, went dead, collected the money, stood on his head and throwed all kinds of tricks. Well, I reckon the two was about two days trying to get the dog out. Sides of weil were dangerous; nobody would go down. Well so deep and dark couldn't see the dog, but could hear him moaning and howling. Well, this Bill Saunders said he's get him out. Got a clothes line and tied a big steel trap to it, tied on a good bait and let the trap down into the dark. Pretty soon hears a sharp, muffled, half-strangled snort and yelp from the dog, and Bill hauled him up, wriggling and kicking, nose in the trap and trap holding on to him like a boy to a circus ticket. Why, this Bill Saunders?" But the collector broke in rather impatiently to say that he had no time to liafon fii qfnrioa finrl Via umnffl/l fn lrnmc what he' was going to do with this account of 817.85 which Tare A Tret had againsj; him, and which had been running over time nearly three months now. The debtor took the bill and looked at it a few moments. " Oh, ves," he said, very deliberately, after a while, during which the impatient collector fidgeted and danced about the room. " Oh, yes, T. W. Marmot. Yes, I knew him. Waa in tbe building before I came here, and lit out only three weekB after I came to Burlington. You see, my name's J. H. Sinclair, I don't owe Tare & Tret a dollar ; never done any business with 'em in my life, and never will, so long as there's any place else in the market to buv. This man Marmot is in Texas. He's no good ; a d. b. You'll never get a cent on that bill in the world. You see, this Tom Marmot " But the indignant collector snatched the bill, and ejaculating?"Why didn't you tell me this before?" started out the door, leaving the entertaining tradesman to wonder what in the name of sense ailed the man, and if anybody Vas foolish eiough to suppose that he was going to pay all of Tom Marmot's old bills just because he moved into his old stand.? Burlington Hawkeye. How Some Women Make a Living. A Now York letter has this: The fern mania is spreading so that one woman in reach of New York has a fern farm, and makes a good income, sending both fresh and pressed ferns by mails. The littl? baskets of leaves and grasses with a dead butterfly poised on the picture, that ladies like to hang in their private rooms, require both taste and some knowledge of natural history to combine the materials, and their sale iB one of the ways by which some in reduced circumstances try to earn a few shillings. It is hard work making a profit, for the fashionable florist expects to buy them for fifty cents apiece or less, even thongh K/i aflllo 4-V>r\rv> $r\y OQ -in lirtliMovo iiU DUliO UUVLU iV/1 Vv u. ? Non-Combnstible Wood. At a recent meeting of the California Academy of Science in San Francisco, Dr. Behr called attention to a eucalyptus tree standing in the grounds of the old German hospital, on Brannan street. The tree had passed through the fire of August, 1876, and exhibited the peculiarity of resisting the action of the flame?a property well understood in Australia. Dr. Keliogg stated th^t eucalyptus shingles were in common utp in Australia, on account of their being ftre-proof. It was impossible to fire t roof of this material. There were some 132 species of eucalypti, but all seemed to possess this non-combnstible property t? some extent. THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION. | Figures Showing the Increase In the Populutlon of the United States Since 1799? Reaolt, Forty-Seven Million People In 1880. The New York Sun says : The speculative American mind is already exercised concerning the present population of our beloved counts^, and is guessing what that population will be in the vear 1880?if this weary old world lives long enough to hail that year of enumeration. Under ordinary and regular conditions the merest tyro in mathematics could forecast our increase. But the conditions are not ordinary, and great allowances must be made for variations. For instance, if we had a certain ratio of in^roiujA /mm Iftifl to 1850. and from 1860 to 1860, it would naturally follow, J supposing conditions equal, that some- ' thing like a similar ratio would prevail 1 for the next ten years. But the con- * ditions are radically changed; the cir- : cumstancee are not only different but f exceptional, and n* formula of the past ] can be made to apply. The war made 1 fearful inroads into the population of < the country. There was not only the ] loss by battl6 and attending evils, but - the absence of half a million of young J and middle-aged men necessarily re- * duced the natural increase in times of 8 peace. There was a rapid decline in im- 8 migration ; a decline that has continued * to the present time, and bids fair to go 8 still further. Between the arrival of half * and less than a hundred thousand in a ? year, there is a very material difference. * It should be noted, too. that the great ' majority of immigrants are men and 8 women in the beginning of life, founders * of immediate families. . t These hints are thrown out to prepare c the reader lor the estimates, to be made 1 further on, of the populatioa of the c Uni?n now, and the probable population fi in 1880. Keep in view the tremendous t drain by actual loss in the war, the nat- ? n?ol rofnWlnfian nf innrPRSA ill COIlBe- 1 aneuce of the absence of heads of fam- ^ ies, and the sudden redaction of im- 0 migration. 8 Going back to the first census taken in J 1790, we summarize the enumerations J1 up to 1870. Bear in mind, however, J that a considerable fraction of popula- * v tion has been added by annexation, as in \ the purchase of Louisiana and Florida, ^ the conquest of Texas, the partition of e Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Alaska. Here is the summary: Ptr etnt. t CentHi qf Total Population. Inrrtatt in 10year*, inc. j. 17!jn 9 (WQ 01* ? 1W?.s'308^83 1,379,260 38.10 t 1810 7,239,881 1.931,398 80.38 i] 1820 9,033,822 '.',393,741 33.06 h 1830 12,866,020 3,232,198 33.67 1 1840 17,069,463 4,203,433 32.70 C 1830 23,191,876 6,122,423 36.46 ? 1860 31,443,321 8,261,445 36.68 lo70 :..38,558,371 7,116,060 22.63 n The uniformity of the increase up to * the war is very remarkable. Taken alto- e gether, it shows a little more than three and a kalf per cent, a vear. At that rate we should have had in 1870 about 42,500,000. We fell short about four C millions. C We are getting well along into the last 8 half of the decade, and several State o enumerations were made in 1876. From ti these, and from the figures of the past, n " * * ? 1 1-1 ~ I, tuere may D6 lonna reasuuHuiw itruuuus u for estimating the present population, I and the probable population in 1880. d In the following table, compiled from d the Sun, are given the population of n each State for 1870, the estimated per t cent, of increase between 1870 and 1880 t in accordance with the ratio of increase f between 1860 and 1870, and the estimated c population in 1880. Surely each of these a States must have increased since 1870 I considerably faster than during the war v period; yet we will take in round o numbers very nearly the rate of increase a from 1860 to 1870, and apply it as fol- s lows: Slate*. Pop. 1870. Peretnt. inf. Pop. 188U L Alabama 996,992 4.00 1,036,869 8 Arkansas 484,471 12.C0 525,6 7 ? California 860,246 50.00 840,370 c Connecticut 537,454 20.00 644,744 E Delaware 51125,015 10.00 137,516 T Florida. 187,748 30.00 244,282 * Goorjfia 1,184,109 12.00 1,325,902 C Illinois 2,519,891 50.00 3,809,836 ? Indiana 1,680,637 25.00 2,100,791 f Iowa 1,194,020 26.22 ' 1.507,068 1 Kansas i 364,899 90.02 692,475 f Louisiana 724,915 35.80 U87.163 T Maine 626,915 626,915 Maryland 780,804 12.00 8'5,'51 8 Massachusetts 1,457,351 26.70 1,846,473 r Michigan 1,181,057 25.12 1,484,001 f Minnesota. 439,766 71.70 735,048 ^ Mississippi ?2 ,922 6.00 869, 18 ? Missouri 1,721,295 4X31 2,449,7*9 fc Nebraska 122,93 ) 219.31 392,561 , Nevada 42,491 47.30 62,597 * New Hampshire.... 319,303 3i?,i>uu g New Jersey 906,096 25.02 1,132,730 r New York 4,38J,759 14.73 6,027, 87 " Nqrth Carolina 1,071,381 8.00 1,167,069 t OhTo 2,065,2.0 16.00 3.066.019 f Oregon 90.923 80.78 118,917 t Pennsylvania 3.621,961 26.00 4,403.439 * Rhode Island 217,363 37.62 299.125 ( South Carolina 706,606 g3.40 941,288 f Tennessee 1,26 ,620 12.00 1,409,6<0 J: Texas 818,579 40.00 1,146,010 J Vermont 430,551 ' 330,661 t Virginia and W.Va.1.667,177 5.00 1,750,636 . Wisconsin 1,064,670 34.60 1,418,628 1 s Totals 38,116,641 20.00 46,781,798 ] The Territories have not been taken t into consideration in any of the above } calculations. One of them (Colorado) ( has been admitted as a State since 1870. j The native born population of all the Territories in 1870 was 348,530. At the ] rate they are growing this would mean ] neaily a million in 1880. So we may y "guess" the entire populatisn at the j 1 s?/v?taiia of anmowliarA 1 UUAL COUlCUUlfti. tLUOUD uv | near 47,000,000. t I ? A Determined Self-Murderer. i Frank Saier, a German, of Fulton, 1 Mo., was bound to make an end of liim- t self, and thia is how lio proceeded to do I it: Going into a portion of the kiln 3 where he worked and where he would 1 not be interrupted, he took off his apron, * folded it up neatly, and then removing f his liat, laid both aside. With a stone j i hammer he commenced striking himself 11 on the head, fracturing the bone and |1 inflicting a ghastly wound. But this j1 fjrocess was too tedious and painful, ho, j aying aside the hammer, he drew a ; knife and endeavored to cut into the j wound and force the blade into the brain. Failing in this, he stabbed himself sev- j ( eral times. But fate seemed against j. him, for at every stroke the blade was | c atopped by a lib. Death seemed to ; ? avoid him. His patience was exhausted, {t and he gave up the attempt and came j ] out of the kiln. Then a fellow-workman | ] saw him all mutilated and bloody, i: Others were called and the would-be ! ] dead man was conveyed to his room. , The patient appeared to be perfectly j ( rational, and said that everybody was |, down on him and that he was tired of I ( living. He survived a few days and then | ^ died. i t i 11 An incident nf Colorado Life. i; In a drear and wintry prairie opening j called Summit Park;;" Oregon Bill" has , established liis hermit home. His cabin | is visible a mile down the meadow and I ? a tin corkscrew of smoke was curling ( above its iirty roof when we passed. , The other day whilst O. Bill was away | thirty or forty miles at his next neigh* . bor's, rebuilding a dilapidated leg or j something, another fellow who wanted \ to be a hermit came along and jumped j into Bill's possessions. By and by Bill < came limping back home on crutches j and the jumper met him at the door with j his gun. Bill let go one crutch, held j up his game leg, whipped out his re- j volver anil blazed away. Then he walked , off down to Sagmache, sixty or seventy mileB, told the story and gave himself up. An examination was had and he was discharged; a fatigue party waa sent 1 up to plant the other fellow and now of i Bill's " right there in none to dispute. i Japanese Wrestling. In the center of the amphitheatre a nonnd has been raised on which a ring iafl been formed by banking np the earth o the height of a few inches. Two jrave-looking elderly men, apparently ;he jndges, now seat themselves upon nats on the mound, and unfurling their }aper umbrellas, light their pipes, and lommence smoking in dignified composure, while the two wrestlers doff heir kimonos (robes) and enter the ing. They are very far removed from >ur idea of what an athlete ought to be, or though muscular they have an ungainly heaviness of figure. Weight is naeea tnougnt 01 sucn importance m ihese contests that men axe fattened for ;hem like prize cattle, under the misaken belief that such size is an advantage a the fortunate. A tedious preliminary jerformance has to be gone through beore the actual business of wrestling :ommences. Each men comes to the :enter of the ring, and squatting down n front of his antagonist, raises each leg n turn, and then brings it down heavily >n the ground, at the same time striking lis body smartly with his open hand. [ suppose this is meant as a sort of shallenge; but it has an extremely udicrous effect, at least to foreigners, to lee two very fat men so employing themlelves. Both men now quit the ring and ake a draught of water and a pinch of .-ij. xi IL?:. ,3 Mit, Willie uiey ruu uieur arum uuu lands with mud, in order that they may jet a better hold of each other's body. Lt length they re-enter the ring, and he real struggle now begins. They quat in front of each other like two inge frogs and strike their heads together, at the same time uttering a curims hissing noise, which gets louder and ouder, till they suddenly fly at each ither lake angry cats. Heavy blows and laps are exchanged freely in the effort o close, but umpires are behind each houting out cautions at any attempted ofringement of the rules on either side. Vhen they have fairly got hold of each ither many a cunning feint and twist is hown, and the struggling bodies and imbs entwine so rapidly that the pair aok like one gigantic octopus. At ength the bout is concluded by one man teing hurled bodily out of the ring into he crowd outside, and the cheeringfrom he excited spectators is absolutely deafning. The victor stalks about the ring or some time in great dignity, receiving he congratulations of his mends, and hen repeats his former challenge, strikag his body heavily and crdVing like a iantam cock. Another wrestler, nothag daunted, at once comes forward io ry his fortune; while the vanquished ombatant, who has picked himself up mid a running flrd of chaff from the ^sympathizing orowd, resumes his imono with an assumed air of indiffernee and vanishes behind the spectators. A Very Queer Wedding. Three young men of Newark, N. J., Jharles Lutz. Frederick Griener and teorge Diertvill, were brought before Ipecial Polioe Justice Otto, recently, n a charge of conspiracy and subornaion of perjury. The arrests were made .pon the affidavits of George Hart and is daughter Elizabeth. Lutz, Miss lartjs counsel claims, clandestinely aarrled her, hoping thereby to extort aoney from her family. Miss Lutz is a oinor. being only fifteen years old. Her ieauty is not spoken of in enthusiastic erms. She is an only ohild, and her ather is a respectable and prosperous itizen living at No. 165 Hamburg place, nd works as an engineer in Joseph lensler's brewery. Lutz, the groom, rho is now under $1,000 bail because f his being a groom, is a dyer by trade, nd liis acquaintance with Miss Hart was light, and possibly will remain so. On a recent Sunday Miss Lizzie left ter home to get a tooth extracted, as he was suffering intensely. On the omer of Broad and Market streets she net Lutz and his friends, Griener and )iertvill. They asked her to get into a ar with them ; she refused at first, savQg she did not know where they would ake her. They entered, however, and nvAr a mile, lea vine the car near Belleville avenue. While walking long the streets one of Lutz's friends proposed they should call upon a minster and Lutz and Lizzie get married. Lgain she objected, but they persuaded ler that it was to^be just for a joke. Beore entering, however', they told her he would be asked her age, and she nust saj she was eighteen. After furher objections, she agreed to this. The our called upon the Rev. George M. Joynton, pastor of the Belleville Avenue Congregational Church, and requested bat he should marry Lutz and the girl, [he minister asked her age, and one of he young men answered for her, eigheen. Mr. Boynton was not satisfied, ind resolved to put them under oath, iiutz swore he was twenty-four and she o eighteen. Upon this they were marked, and the girl at once went to her lentist's, then home, where she has renamed. Monday a friend of her family named lummerk came to Mr. Hart and told rim that a party to which his daughter vas going that evening was a pretext to ?et her where she could be married. Jpou this information her father ques;ioned her and learned the facts as above itated. He was incredulous and called lpon M/. Boynton, who assured him ot' ;he fact and presented him with a oer lificate of marriage to which was ap>ende<l the sworn statement of the two ronng people as to their age. Acting ipon this, he made affidavits before Jusice Otto, and the three were arrested orthwith. Their bail was fixed at 51,000 each, and an examination set lown for the following Tuesday. The notives of Lutz and his friends have lot been ascertained.?New York World. _____ Clerical Statesmen. There have been two or three members >f the United States Senate who were jreaehers. Of these we recall Everett, >f Massachusetts; Colquitt, of Georgia; tnd Tipton, of Nebraska. In the House here have been a few ministers, notably liDiard, of Alabama, and Seelye, of Vlassachusetts. There has been but one nember of a cabinet, besides Mr. 3verett, who has added preaching to jolitics, and he is Secretary Thompson, >f the navy. The Rev. J. C. Fletcher, vriting in reference to him in the Inlianapolis Journal, saya : When on a risit to Terre Haute a few days ago, I iscertained a fact about our secretary )f the navy, which I have never seen n print. As I was on my way to church, n company with one of the oldest citironunf Tawo TTnnf/> T nntiV/vl a fmrriarrA Iriving in the direction of the country, ind my companion remarked: "That jarriage contains Hon. Mr. Scott and vife. Mr. Scott is the ex-member of Congress from this district. They are joing to a little country Methodist church n the vicinity of Secretary Thompson's rarm. It is there that Col. Thompson .8 in the habit, when at home, of each Sabbath expounding the Scriptures to lis farmer neighbors. He is now spendng his vacation with us, and every Sabmth ho really preaches the Gospel. In ;his he is ably encouraged by his wife, who is one of the ' salt of the earth.'" A gentle heart is like ripe fruit which bends so low that it is at the mercy of every one who chooses to pluck it, while the harder frnit keeps out of reach. Fashion Notes. Boas are round and two yards in length. * ' Shetland seal is the finest and costliest. Alaska seal is the strongest and most durable. Bridal veils are worn under the bridal helmet. Bronze colors are preferred in feather trimmings. Mandarin feather trimming is an eccentric novelty. Sealskin is still the favorite fur for hats and bonnets. Seal dolmans are shown at some of the leading houses. oijuirrei iwn. lining icuuuo ii>o popularity for silk cloaks. Pur borders will probably be very fashionable this winter. Sealskin sacques are made in small sizes for little children. Chinchilla is the favorite dressy fur for the coming season. The Princess is the favorite style for making up morning dresses. Muffs are of medium size, made up softly, without stiff interlinings. The old rule of crape collars and cuffs for first mourning is discarded. Long cloaks of fur seal are handsome garments for driving and sleighing. Plain jet is preferred to clair de lune or variegated jet by fashion purchasers. Armure and Sicilienne silks are the favorite materials for fur lined garments. Most of the artificial wreaths made this season have the leaves of velvet or satin. j Artificial cut rfowers a? e preferred to ! natural ones for table or parlor ornament. . The long circular cloak with a Russian collar is the most popular fur lined carriage wrap. The handsomest seal sacques are bor dered with some other fur, sucii as ctonchilla, otter or beaver. The handsomest for lined garments have chinchilla, sable, silver fox, ermine, and bine fox linings. The novelty in bridal garniture is garlands composed of orange flowers, buds, leaves, and small oranges. Collars and cuffs of fine linen cambric, finished with a broad hem, are the correct thing for first mourning. Sea otter bands of dark brown shades, I with silver hairs inserted at intervals, j are seen among the handsomest high | priced fnr trimmings. Avery handsome artificial wreath is | made of cardinal red satin Marguerites ; and satin leaves of the same color, with ; a few black satin leaves interspersed Bridal helmets are now substituted for , bridal wreaths. They consist of tiers of | orange blossoms and buds, with two very long, but narrow, streamers comj posed of the same flower with its bnds. New seal sacques are partly shajfed to the figure, are from thirty-two to thirtyfive inches in depth, have shoulder seams, high collars, with refers in front, are double-breasted, and are fastened . with frog buttons of seal, passing through loops of brown passementerie. Counterfeits. I A Washington correspondent telegraphs to the New York Tribune as follows : The energies of the counterfeiters during the last three years have been diected to the National Bank notes, no less than seventeen counterfeits, twelve ; on $5s, three on $10. and two on $50 | having been issued. The Secret Service j force have captured pll the plated of i counterfeit bank notes, with the exception of those which have appeared within the last two months. The following plates have not been captured : 85s on the First National Bank, of Tamaqua; and $50s on the Third National ft) of Buffalo, N. Y., and the Oentral Ifational Bank of New York city. The following description of these notes is given by B. G. Underwood, receiving teller of the national bank redemption agency: All counterfeit fives on the First ; National Bank, of Tamaqua, Penn., that ! have been seen at the redemption ! agency, have had the letter " B " in the upper left and lower right-hand corners of the note. None of these have had | the correct charter number, which is 11,219, and is printed in large red figures ; across the face of the note, and all notes i on this bank with another charter j number are counterfeit. On the back of ! counterfeit, to the right of the words, ;4' National currency," the word 1' owing " , is printed "ownig." All fiftv-dollar notes on the Third J National feank, of Buffalo, N. Y., bearing the signature of L. E. Chittenden as I register are counterfeit. All genuine ! notes bear the name of either Colby or i Allison as register. The correct charter i number is 850. All fifty-dollar notes on the Central ; National Bank, of New York city, hav- _ ! ing both the signature of L. E. Chitten-<flf i den as register and Ae words, " Printed | at the BnreaH of Engraving, United I States Treasury Department" in the ! upper left-hand corner of the note, are j counterfeit, as Mr. Chittenden ceased to be register long before the notes were | printed in the Treasury, i " Hanged in the Shade." ' The Constantinople correspondent of the Political Correspondence relates that many of the Bulgarians taken redhanded in acts of violence and con! demned to death, wlien they see that there is no longer any hope or chance of escape, produce from hidden pockets large sums of money, which they present to one or other of the zaptiehs who may perhaps have treated them with j kindness. Lately, five Bulgarians were sentenced to death in Mustapha. When ; it came to the turn of one of them to be j led forth, he requested the non-commis! sioned officer commanding the party in j charge of him to wait a moment. With RnmA t.rnnble he then extricated from | the folds of his garments a handful of gold liras, and these he presented to the | sergeant. This latter, moved by the I generosity of his prisoner, tappec7 the : latter on the shoulder, exclaiming: j 14 As you are such a good fellow, you i shall be hanged in the shade and, i keeping his promise, he selected a shady i and pleasant spot, and there the Bnl- . I garian was executed. Curions Place for a Nest. Some time ago, says an exchange, we . gave a few interesting notes regarding j the curions places in which birds have J been known to build their nests. The i London Times surpasses all stories of the kind in the following account writte:i from East Cosham, Hants: " It may be interesting to some of your readers "? so runs the paragraph?" to be informed ? I that, in a small piece of framework un- 4 I derneath a third-class smoking-carriage : on the London and Southwestern railway, a water wag-tail has built her nest, ? and reared a young and thriving family of four. The train runs regularly from Oosham to Havant five times a day,in all about forty miles; and the station master informs me that, during the absence of i the train, the male bird keeps close t<? the spot, waiting with manifest interest, and anxiety the return of bis family fron^ heir periodical tour,"