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ABBEVILLE PRE&T&^BAf BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1879. NO. 40. YOLUME XS1|j||||j Conflicts. tfc "Thegreat battles of life are unending? they go on by night as veil aa by day, at all 01 seasons and in all placeB." h< Oh! not npon fortified hill or field, Where foemen meet with saber and shield, gj. Are mightiest battles fonght 1 ca Not amid warfare's wild alarm*, aj In the roar of cannon, the clash of arms, jD Are grandest Yictoiifs wrought! 01 Look abroad into earth's sad homes m Where fierce temptation stealthily comes, 01 Followed by wan despair; Where souls are assailed by some merciless gc toe- tt By sin, by hollow-eyed want or woe, gj And mark the conflicts there! si: Many a mother Bitting at night By her starving child, without warmth or ^ "Ku,i w In the desolate wiuter time, Faces dread fees with a courage true, fa And a spirit whose noble straggles outdo ai A hero's deeds sublime. fe Many a wife who watches and prays Through long Hid hours, while her loved j^j one strays With thofe who to rniu lure, Bravely wrestles "with unseen foes? Bravely smiles while her heart's blood flows ^ From wound? that know no oure. Behoid yon raaidf-n. strangely fair, l? With h.r geutlosmilo and her patient air, jy At her needle toiling still. Ah 1 she could tell of many a fight j Bitterly wsgfd by day and by night With the legions of wrong and ill. But she's conquered the terrible army at last? I1' The struggle is over, the peril is past, 10 And victory crowns her brow. . No mortal eyo may see it shine, Yet the ciown is there, and its light divine ^ Illumines her spirit now. Ah, yes! these wonderful battleB are fought, These silent viotories hourly wrought w. In the lowliest ranks of life 1 01 While eome are wioked and many aro weak? While spirits of evil their victims seek Rfl Will be wagod this unequal strife. Only God and bis angels pure tb Ever can know what they endrra tc Who copo with these nussen foe*; fa Only heaven, with its infinite rest, Can symbol the peace of the viator's breast SI When these perilous conflicts close. ?Emrline Sherman Smith c'< m A "NTAT?"ROW TOP!APE fl! XJ. i.1 *,"W " ?' m Bt A* OFFICERS STOBT OF THE MEXICAN WAR, kl "It was during tlio Mexican war, ^ when I was-a sub in a cavalry regiment, E that I found myself on duty at Vera Ornz. Tempted by the high mountains , in the vicinity, the beautifnl scenery, and, above all, the superb hunting, I ?* sallied forth early one morning accompanied by no one save my Newfoundland ^ dog. " , " I was an ardent sportsman, my dou- . ble-barreled gun worked to a charm, and not until the deepening shadeB of eveniDg, accompanied by an unmistakable growl of thunder, did I give a ,' thought to the flight of time or the im- , portanoe of retracing my steps to the . oity. flf "It was about the time that the blood-thirsty and cowardly Canales had , ordered every Mexican to join tne army, , ' and commanded that no quarter should be granted to the hated Americans. "I had not anticipated danger from , the enemy, unless it might be in the ohupe of some small band of guerillas .j lurking amid the mountain gorge, actu- , ated more by tho hope of plunder than by patriotic motives. , " I will not attempt to say how many thousand feet I was above the levol of r' l ?i. T ? 4U^ a4;A?? 1116 8ea, UUt 1 IUUUU tuc oicvanuu oitui- t oient, even for the tried and practiced * nerves of a seaman, had he been placed in my position. "There is bnt little twilight, you ? know, in the tropics. The sun had dis- . appeared in the folds of an immense "1 cloud which was rapidlj- spreading itself over tho entire heavens, while from . its sable depths darted lurid sheets of . lightning, followed by the increasing roar of thunder, which already found an . echo through the valleys and gorges of \ the mountain. j "Idid not fancy a wet jacket, and whistling for my dog, an animal to whioh I was warmly attached, I was ou * * the point of retracing my steps dowu the rough mountain roai, when the . jingling of spurs and acoouterments, the trampling of horses, and the hoarse word of command was sufficient for me to draw back into a tall tuft of grass and Spanish bayonet growing beBide me. 1 " The dog crouohed at my feet, growl- . ing ominously, as if conscious of the danger his master was in; and faith, I .! did not much like the situation I found myself oompelled to face. . " A number of Mexican lancers were before me, preparing to bivouac for the ' aight, and my retreat down the road ^ was out 01 me question. "High, precipitous rocks hemmed me in on three sides, through which tbe 111 road I had traveled hsd been originally 8C cut That outlet was now in possession ?l of the lancers, while in front of me the i r steep side of the mountain, verging al- i1E most on to a precipice, sloped toward m the city. " To remain where I was would be n> only to court death, a nameless fate, an unknown grave, for discovery was cor- <* tain to follow when the sentinels should P1 be posted. " Cautiously I examined the smooth rides of the precipioe, covered here and there by a network of vines dinging to la the crevices and rifts in the rock for its ni unoertain life. Further on I beheld a b dark, irregular line disappearing in tc the murky depths below. I strained a* my eyes to the utmost, for the gloom of night and the mists of the storm, which f* threatened every moment to burst above w my head, enveloped all objects in dark. g< ness and uncertainty. " But for once, fortune favored me, ti and I never laid claim to being a favor- w ite of the fickle jade. The dark line w proved to be a deep, dry gully, the at channel of some mountain stream, long since dried up. a; -n_t 1 i ?L ii? _ n l " x>u& uuw iu return LLio irieuuij uuv?x r m that was the question whioh puzzled si me. fl: "A sodden commotion among the b< gayly-trapped gentry behind me soon fc decided my course of action. They had b] kindled a small camp-fire, were about tt to cook their evening meal, and a dozen cs men?tall, strapping fellows?were ra- I diating from the main body in different as directions to perform the duty of senti- d< nola. " One in particular was making for di the friendly clamp of wide-spreading m limbs, in hopes, possibly, to partially fl: escape the fierce gusts of wind and rain tl whioh had begun to sweep about the mountain. ft " Dropping my fowling-piece, and m bidding my noble dog to shift for him- ? self, I swung myself over the precipice, ai clinging to the network of vines, which en shook and complained beneath my w weight. "The darknees had increased with c< astonishing rapidity, and as I swung no oyer that rayless veid I found it im- fi possible to pierae the gloom. I heard w the short, sharp howl of my dog as he gi darted off in search of me; then, amid a ^ ' , * - ie rush of the squall, came the o< [Bed shouts of men, a straggling si two mingling with the crash of t javj artillery rolling in the vast < ins? above me. "Depending principally upon t rength and endurance of my arms irefully and cautiously felt my w ong the verge of the precipice, woi g in the direction of the gully, whic ? ? i x_ _n* j i ice gamea, promised 10 auuru. me i eans of escape from the dangers whi loompassed me. "Broad sheets of lightning lit ith dazzling distinctness the feari ene, bringing out every undulation ie rockc, every crevice and blade ass; and once, when I had found ight support for my feet, and was g g my aching arms a rest, I glanc >ove amid the yellow glare of t ?htning and beheld the fierce, dai tiiskered faoe of a Mexican peeri: rer the brink, his eyes apparent stened upon me as I hung suspend id flattened against the oliff, but a f< et below him, while the electrici risted and writhed, like tongues of i rnal serpents, around the muzzle s carbine. " It was a trying moment, my frier situation well calculated to inspin eling of terror in the heart of t >ldest. But whether it was the raj bich was falling in torrents and dr g furiously before the gale, or t are of the lightning, which prevent ie lano?r from discovering me, I ? lable to Bay. At all events I escap .s notice, the shot did not come, a: atohing my chance in the lulls of t mpest, I continued my perilous coun "Itseomed as if the flood-gates ;aven had been opened; and the scoux g wind, sweeping with terrific violen ound the mountain, disputed eve eh of the way which I gained with t tmost difficulty, oftentimes threaten! ) tear me bodily from the osoillati dder ^hich had served me so well. "Ihad but little strength to sps hen I at last found myself crouchi 1 the muddy bottom of the old moc in gorge. " nnt ll. ?J.n.J |A| " xne earm yituueu uouoam my ic< jid and pebbles swirled by; and risi )ove the crash of the elements, I hea ie increasing roar of some unkno1 nent as it swelled and gathered foi r above me. " Nerved on by the strength of d >air I rnshed down the steep deolivit oklcss as to where my feet might wr ;r. Completely blinded between t ingled glare of the lightning and t tense darkness that followed ea wh, I stumbled on, feeling that eve oment my steps were becoming r eadier. "The water was already up tor ices, and rushing by with a foroe tl ade me grip desperately to whate^ ,'ojection I could And along the side ie ravine. " The inexorable waters rose 3 ster, and the danger of the temp< ew wilder still. My strength and ev oulties were failing fast, my feet we :ted from beneath me, and quiok an thought I was rushing helpless ong enveloped amid the spray and foa that maddening whirl. 111 think I must have lost mvself I moment, but waked, amid the aarkne id roaring waters, nearly strangled taSk. - Another instaint and I w birled heavily against some yieldi: >ject. I rallied my strength for a fir fort Tho next flash revealed t reok of a tree, with the roots st inging tenaciously to the side ol' 't ink. " I drew myself up out of the rush e current, and crawled to a firm fo< >ld on the shelving bank of the torrei "The cool rain revived me. The i< Oie Birai" upuu mj uotvuuo ojrott k1 robbed me to a great extent of t rengtli and vitality natural to i rong constitution. But my power [durance was great. I stumbled f( ird, feeling my way amid debris Uen trees, pitholes and huge rocks, attered promiscuously Jabout on t eep side of the mountain, until a fai immer of light streamed tremulouf iross my path. It was a welcoi ght, and, prisoner or no prisoner ade up my mind to risk life and libel td demand shelter from the terril orm, which still raged, but gave sig abating. "I was unarmed; the only weapon id sallied forth with had been abi >ued on the edge of the precipice, i ] ous to my attempting the perilo issage. I felt my heart beat faster neared the door of that tumble-do1 ,nche, which loomed up, a huge, shaj; ss mass, amid the gloom and solitu that wild spot "A moment's hesitation, and I knock solutely at the door. " Quiero vive f (who comes there id I heard the click of a weapon. " 'I am an Amerioan,' I replied, b rly, in English; 'a United States o: r.'who has lost his way on the side lis cursed mountain.' "With a jerk the door was thro1 ick on its insty hinges, revealing t jure of a man of brawny proportioi med to the teeth, and of most villa is aspect. " He held a llaring torch on high, t ^certain light of which fell across ] :arred and scowling visage. Keei id deliberately he scanned the torn a ttered remains of my uniform; th< i a voice harsli and growling, he < anded: " 1 What do you want here, and h any of you are there?' "I replied, in the best Spanish mid master, that I was alone, and : sated my doleful story of being lost ie storm. "At that moment, to my surprise a itonishment, my faithful Newfour nd, who, by some keen instinct of 1 iture had sucoeeded in scenting n arst from the surrounding obscuri' 'stifying his joy by leaping upon ] id baying in his deep, powerful torn " It was a welcome surprise to me. It that I had at least one friend up hom 1 could rely in case of an em< 3ncy. "The man's appearanoe was indi< ve of a mixtured ferocity and cunnii hile his eye, wild and unsettled, lit ith an expression I could not fatho i he bade me enter. " Strange forebodings filled my he: 11 gazed about the reoesaes of t Dvel. It was almost bare of furnitu ive a table and two broken chairs, re blazed cheerily in the fireplai afore which were stretched three da rms wrapped in tattered and gret lankets. The gleam of firearms, ley lay piled in the oorner, did not i ipe my attention; and you may depe aid not feel the easiest in my mi i I drew up before the fire, with i og ooiled down at my feet. " In my exhausted state, despite t uiger I felt was lurking about mo mst have dropped off asleep, my he riding a support against a projection 10 chimney. " The low, monotonous hum of voi* >11 upon my ear, and cautiously rec< oitering from beneath the viflor of J up, I found that the three sleepers h reused themselves, and were in de< umest consultation with the gentlem hom I had first accosted. " B training my ears to the utmos raid manage to oatch occasional fri lents of sentences as they dropp >om the lips of the four comrades, w ere as promising candidates for 1 allows as ever I care to meet again \ or like circumstances. >n- "The bowl aud rush of the gale had lot ceased but the occasional patter of rainhe drops from the leaves and roof of the w 5x- ranche proved that the stolid La 1 but recently passed away. he 4,4 Do jou notice the glitter of those , I buttons ?' remarked one of the four. 0jT ay "' Curse the buttons 1' broke in an- yc :k- other fiercely; 'of what value are they ? Bp sh, It's the glitter of gold I like to see ; and he we have already wasted too much valu- 0f ch able time. 1 for one say kill him. If << i the Yankee dog had a dozen lives they up should all be forfeited. He has come ar^ ful here unasked; he shall not depart bo ^ of easily.' m of "'Hush, Juan; you are too hasty. , a The question is, will it pay to dispose gB iv- of him ourselves and share the plunder, Bp ed or take him to Oanales ? He might Vg he come down handsome. Suppose the B0) .1. oV./-wnl/1 n-rnrra +/\ Ho an nflfirtAr nf _ n- icu-ivn ouuuiu ? m( Dg importance ?' . tly ' Bah ! Ton talk like a fool. Do you BOj ed not see he is too young to have gained S0J aw any importance. As for Oanales, car- pr ;ty rajol you will get nothing for your in- pains from him.' 8U of " 111 this I heard distinctly, and much more which it i8 unnecessary to repeat. je, id; Tbat my life was doomed was beyond pr* 5 a all doubt; but I was not disposed to he make a vacancy in the corps without a ?r) in, struggle, and especially after undergo- ^ iv- ing what I had in escaping from the eBj he lancers. to ed "I felt the blood coursing through im my veins with renewed vigor as I looked ed the situation square in the face. My a{. ad brain grew clearer as the imminence of no he the peril I was in grew more apparent. ^ 36. " The dying embers of the fire emitof ted fitful gleams which fell across the g- arms of the scoundrels piled promiscu- fai co oasly together in the corner of the m( ry ranche. gB he "At that moment, and as I was cast- ^( ng ing wistful glances at a carbine, the 0f ng beetle-browed rascal who had lighted me in to the den glided across the floor, ^ ne slipping a stout bar across the door. m? ng " ' Now, boys, finish the job, and then an in- share alike,' were the words I heard. ql 'Every nerve in my body jarred; st, the blood rushed back to my heart as ^hi ng | the decisive moment arrived. Up to ws Jd that time I had not stirrcJ or changed J-* 4-* . . (?n my position, jeuuiug me tmuuiiuicm ^ ^ ce count apon an easy victory, no doubt. aD The odds were fearfully against me, wj [e- and aB the four turned their wolfish po y, eyes in my direction, the clear, ringing in- notes of a bugle came rising and falling, jftj he filling the air with its melody. ^ he " A wild cry of joy burst involuntarily ch from my lips, a thrill of hope pervaded sry my whole being, as I listened. It came ex' in- from my own gallant lads?a detach- un ment Bent out, in all probability, in ny searoh for their missing officer. ^ int "My four friends had paused, their as er hands on their murderous knives, un jij of certain and undecided how to act. They turned for an instant toward the door, j.n ret leaving me to take advantage of their otj 3St Btupidity. B0 en " When they again confronted me, I W? ire was in possession of the coveted corner, er with a rifle to my shoulder, looking yo ly them grimly in the face, while my dog, j!^ im his hair bristling with rage, stood Bei bravely beside me, displaying his white ^ 'or fangs to the enraged gaze of the greasy e >88 four. po to Knife him, lads, before they are ^ as atop of us. Put him out of sight, or jia g we'll all swing,' but not one of them ^ lal stirred. ^ he "Thatdark, death-dealing rifle-bar- pr ill rel had a wonderful tranquilizing effect. he " ' Curses on ye!' Bhouted the leader, 8n foaming with rage, as he dashed forward, ^ of knife in hand. 1 Are you all afraid of tw )t- the Yankee? I let him in here, and 8j it. this knife shall give him permission to _ ?r- leave.' x stl ;m "Perhaps the villain expected to ^ ho shake my nerves, and cause me to wj. oy j throw away my shot, but I never felt rj^ of firmer, more determined in my life. >r- "On he came, brandishing his knife, of closelv followed bv his adherents. | all " I covered liis left breast with the he eight of the weapon, and with there- j ' int port the scoundrel fell headlong to the ily floor. no "Charging through the smoke the , I remaining three rushed upon me, but j ty were met by the dog, who buried his ? )le teeth in the flesh of one of them, us "I remember striking out with my j clubbed rifle, of parring rapid thrusts - , i I and cheering on the dog, when, by in- some means, in the melee, a horn or re- canister of powder must have fallen j ' us amid the red-hot embers of the fire, as "It exploded with tremendous vio- j svn lence, blowing off the roof of the house, . )e- rending the walls asunder, and hurling ; de me to one side half suffocated and nearly insensible. * ed "When I fully realized what waa passing about me, my own troops were ) ?) removing the debris of the ranche from ? my limbs, and the Newfoundland was , ' it- licking my face. ffi- "It was, as I supposed, a party sent { of out in search of my unfortunate self; . and they were returning from a boot (ra less search, when the report of a rifle he followed by an explosion and the glare is, of flames attracted their attention. , in- "Of course, my friend, we made J short work of the three miscreants who -- - Till ,he j were dragged forth from the burning txis j wreck. They howled vigorously for ily I mercy, bnt that was not to be thought ud ! of in their case. A swing from the nearest bough terminated their career, Je^ and I rode back to Vera Cruz, with my mind firmly made up that, during the ow remainder of the campaign, nothing should ever tempt me to wander alone J' j among the hills of Mexico in quest of j~* re- 8ame'" dv in st( n(1 More About the Caffres. br UU pf id- The Caffres, who have given so much dc -lis trouble to the British, with whom they fir ie, have had any nnmber of wars, are a pe- in ty? culiar and, ethnically considered, a very wi me interesting people. They inhabit the flf wD> nortnern puri ui tuu uuuuucut ui a.uxoa, a I and are tall, well-proportioned and gen- ot on erally good-looking, of dark-brown or M 01- bronze color, their hair growing in short ov woolly tufts. They are brave ; in times ag 3a- of peace, kind and hospitable to stran-_ tn ig, gers, and are noted for affectionateness br up in the family relation. Having minds of ao m, a very acute, even logical, kind, they th have often gained the advantage over an art opponents in pacific arguments. Ex,he cepting their well-nigh irresistible pasre, sion for appropriating cattle, they may A be sai? to be tolerably honest. Their 3e, theological notions are indistinct and irk confused; but they are very supersti- el( isy tious, standing in perpetual apprehen- th as sion of wizards and sorcerers. Their tu es- huts, built by women, are of beehive th nd shape, made of wattles stretched with es nd grass, and a collection of them is called B< ny a kraal, a Portuguese word meaning in- hi closure. The rule of the ohiefs is patri- th he archal; but thoy are aided by a number wf , I of councilors (pakati), whose advice is ca iad usually followed oy tne cnier. .roiyg- u[ of amy prevails, and wives are commonly mi bought for cattle, the natural currency br sea of the people. Albeit the chief has ab- si) )n- solnte power over property, he rarelj sn ny exercises it. Almost any crime may be er ad atoned for by payment of cattle, ana re- bj }p, taliation is strictly forbidden, even in si< ^n case of murder. The Oaffres are strictly so pastoral. The men tend the herds ex- at 11 clusively, even milking them, while the fa ig- women "cultivate the soil and look after re ted the duties of the household. Their lan- bv ho guage is sonorous and expressive. In wi ;he war they discard the customary blanket, hi m- and fight nude, painted from head to M foot with fire-red day. m '.j f WATER FARMING. hut a New York Ktate Fl?h Comn Says about ntoekln* Suburba anil Htreama with Fltb-Peter C< At a recent meeting of tbo I lb, held in the Cooper Unii irk city, the members listen eech from the venerable Peter d a paper by Robt. B. Rooset the State fish commissior Land farming and water fa r. Roosevelt, who believes th 9 given to men to Bhoot and fcch, provided both can be tn 30tint as human food, and thr no more harm in carrying a hing-rod than in wielding an i ade, encouraged the idea of wi [oping the sporting privileges as convenient to our cities, )ring the idea that any reven' is degrading. " Trout,"he sa: [d in New York market durii ison as high as one dollar a p ice which is brought by ecarc ler kind of animal food, and pply can be increased a beni conferred upon the communit ptimate profit returned to tin oduce them, while in many p] id and not accessible to the s eat storehouse of fish food, 1 Boulty in obtaining even the c ; Borts of fish. If the farmer his usual crops a crop of fiBh, benefiting .his neighbors an mself. To do so may eeem t first glanoe a difficult operat t half as much so as making tl res ' laugh with a harvest' t a inexperienced. Fish-farn rules and limits, precisely i ming has, but is simpler >re productive. From a single h millions of young may be pi sturgeon contains nearly ten i eggs, cod and nerring miiiioi ndreds of thousands, and ev d bass several thousands. Wi inagement these can all be 1: d in some cases in very i& tee hatohed, and fish pro\ smselves; they need no food jy convert worthless insects < .tergrasses into human food rat or bass from a farmer's poi n nothing but the trouble of a d compares in excellence on h th his best poultry, to say no' rk that has been fed twice a ratlis, The only loss of ti ior is in the catching, and to it it is only necessary to make undant." Mr. Roosevelt did not advise f eept in rare cases where the usual facilities, to undertakf icial hatching of fish, but h urn to utilize such ponds and they can without labor and e lis might not yield the great )lo profit, but it would bring rns, and in no wise interf< tier occupations, "It would me," he said, "for the fa itch over the incubation of tro lich require months to proc ung, nor is it necessary, so 0 States take this labor upo Ives and furnish, to all wh pm, trout fry already hatel ntlemen owning suitable str nds desire to stock them wit ey have only to apply at tl tching-house and, where a mbine, the expense to each is ter the trout fry are placed oper element?and it must no tten that only cold spring-' ited to them?they will take smselves. In the course of a o they will have attained ai ;e, and can then be caught. ] simpler than this, and yet ho earns and fine fresh brooks tl at perhaps once abounded wi lich are now wholly depoj lere is, however, another kind own as the fresh-water bass, i ssibly even more valuable i >ut for the farmer's use. It it acting in the character of tb which it will live, and wi >re rapidly; more important eds no culture or care what y time. The parents, which ? prolifio, lay their eggs in a st and watoh over them unl 3 hatched. Bass have never 1 ;reaRe rapidly where they ha Jroduced, and they are suite )st any pond. These are es o fish to be used whero water i to be combined with land far e simplest and easiest way. ] required but to place a few pai re fish, which can be easily tri , in any water they are exp< pulate, and they will attend at themselves. They can he 'n with any other speciei ainst the dreaded pickerel; 1 ?ase rapidly and grow quickly iman food they ere excellent." MV Unnaowolf. <vrr>1niriad in on iny questions, that there are tv basB Baited to different waters ke in appearance as freqnentl afounded. What is commonl; " big-mouthed " bass thrives' or stagnant water, while th juthed fish require clean wai g over pebbly bottoms. Th 0 numbered among the sporti are the trout, which until I ree years were not protected iw York State commission. Mr. Cooper followed with an i Ik, in which was briefly revie aroh of progress during his ow ghty-nine yeara Beginning wl )rk city numbered 27,000 inh? > reoounted incident after i Felling upon Fulton's applic sam and his own invention ought into use water as a >wer, and the sending of ore i >wn descents by a chain. Oe st of his inventions, finally to practical use under other is found to have been patentee ty-three years previous. In oulogistic speech by Mr. I her demonstrations of respect r. Oooper gave a little sketc: ra life, in which he stated tha :e of twenty-one he had learm ides. When the war with ! oke out, having gained a ps me machinery, he began accur e fortune whioh has been s d judiciously expended. Logan at Fort Donelson General John. A Logan, v jcted to the United States Si a Por^nKli/iona Af tllfl TlliTinifi re, was found severely won e battle-field of Fort Donelsoi teemed circuit clerk, Captai ill, who, thinking him dead, b splendid sword and bolt i em to his family. Captain B is then a gallant Confederate me upon General Logan strefc )on the ground, dressed in f ontals, his arms folded aci east, his eyes olosed and g jn of life. While standing ov ipposed, the dead body of t! al general, Captain Bell wai 7 Captain Maderia, of the Con 3e, who recognized in Logan hoolmate. Maderia was deepl; what he thought to be the i te of his youthful companion, oted Captain Bell where to I rord of the fallen chieftain. shot through the lungs, anc xng on a thread for a Ion aderia was afterward killed at &vLg&.?Anderson {By.) Newi jn FOK THE FAIR SEX. nlaaloner A Rn",nn Weddln*. n Ponds The recent marriage of the Gr ioper. Duchess Anustasia?the daughter of 'armers' emperor of Rnssia's brother, the Gr DD New Duke Michael Nicholaievitch, goven ed' to a general of the CauoaauB?to Prinoe ] Cooper deric ?' Meotlenburg-Schwerin, ia relt one scribed as follows : iers'. on A distinguished company assemt rming." the winter palace at 12.30 o'olt at birds am?ng those present being the meml 1 fish to ?' the ecclesiastical synod, the supe rned to ?lerf?y? the connoil of the empire, se it there tors, the diplomatic body, the d grjjn or officers of the army and navy, and ixe or a presentatives of the mercantile olas isely de- The ladies appeared in the Russian tional costume, and the gentlemei and re- dress or uniform. ae from The bride and bridegroom were id, "are ceived in the magnificent apartn: ig their known as St. George's hall, and c lound a ducted to the chapel within the pali sely any w^ere they were met by the emp< if their aQd empress, whose appearance ;flfc will 8a^ted by 101 guns from the forti ty and a opposite the imperial residenoe, Me who Th0 Grand Duchess Anastasia ^ laces in- over ^er wedding costume a sup ea, that crimson velvet mantle lined with erm: there is the train being supported by four oh ommon- berlains and the master of the cere: can add n*ea attached to the household of he will Grand Duke Michael. well as the chapel Prince Frederio and 0 many fQtnre consort were received by ion, but metropolitan of Novgorod and le broad Petersburg and the members of ieems to 8yn?d, and the inferior clergy cariy ling has the crcsB and the holy water. is land- The emperor led the bride and bri and far Sroom to their respective positic 1 mature and t^16 rin8s having been brough nrino.pd. the altar beforehand, on gold plates, mill [one ma8ters of tbe ceremonies, were pia as, shad 011 the fiug?rs of the exalted conple in' trout the imperial confessor, while the cro' ith good were over their heads by high < latched, notaries of state. w days. Upon the conclusion of the Qr ride 'for celebration, the grand duchess j or care Prince Frederic returned thanks to Dr waste emPeror and empress and their parei I. The ftn^ after a Te Deum had been sung : ad costs a Ba^ute of 101 guns had been fired, itching ceived the congratulations of the is table eembled guests. thing of Next came the marriage cerem day for according to the Lutheran rite, wh me and was performed in the Alexander h reduce a^er ^hich the bride and bridegrc the fish were conducted back to the impe: apartments of the palace. armers At 5 o'clook a grand banquet 1 jy jmve 8*ven the Nicholas hall, at wi j the ar* the following toasts were proposed, e e urged accompanied by salvos of artille streams "The Emperor and Empress,"": ixpense. Newly-married Couple," "ThePare est pos- of the Bridegroom," "The Parent! fair re- tho Bride," "The Imperial Famil jre with " Tiie Clergy," and " All the Emper bo irk- Ffithful Subjects." rmer to At 8.30 o'clock a grand ball took pi tit eggs, *n ?t. George's hall, luce the ? ?~? _ long as Cotton Dreaa Goods. n them- A quaint novelty among ootton go o need f?r spring and Bur.mer dresses is ca led. If mummy cloth, and resembles in earns or rough printed surface the mummy cl h trout uP?n which tidies and covers are i ie State broidered. The choice designs come nu -ber 8?'t faded colors, suclTas pale blue v trifling. olive stripes, one of which has spi in their ?f flowers upon it. Some. have two t be for- three shades of olive foliage form ivater is stripes; others have ivory and n care of stripes, or else blue and pink spr? year or The merchants test these colors by 1 a edible *nS them washed?not with great a Nothing but, as they say, " washed to fade w many aQd these washed samples are showi aere are purchasers to prove that the sty th trout colors are as faded as they e mlated. will be. This mummy cloth is a y of fish,' wide; fcyirteen yards are sold for a sh* vhich is simple dress. han the Coteline is a stiff, half-transpai i not so cotton fabrio woven in lengthwise r ie water or cords that make it very durable. 11 grow comes in cool, clean patterns of bl still, it greon or a green-blue spray on white ever or chintz colors on cream grounds, o: ire fair- stripes of the favorite SevreB blue v sort of olive green. iil they Printed armures are also new cot 'ailed to goods. The white ground has rai ,ve been threads like the brilliantines form< d to al- worn, and is strown with pale-tin peciallv small flowers and foliage. The zeph r?? are Scotch cringhams made by Ulasj itUUllUg - ? - # w ~ ming in "Ouees in contrasting colors for pic Nothing ftn<3 stfipes, such as pink barred \ irofma- blue, or bine with green, or red \ insport- white and black. The Scotch tart scted to are also shown in these goods. A gi 1 to the deal ?f Rassian braid lace is b? ?ld their imported to trim these pretty zap s, even ginghams.?Harper's Bazar. ;hey in and as Hints on "Every-Dar Cookery." Miss Juliet Corson delivered an swer to teresling lecture on " Every-day Oc 70 kinds ery " at the Cooper institute, in I j, but so York. The great hall was filled, an y to bo number of ladies and gentlemen o< j known P'ed seats on the platform, among tt in mud- bein^; Mr. Peter Cooper. Prof. I e little- mona provided the apparatus t ter rnn- which a number of eioellent views v ie latter thrown upon the large canvaB at ng fish, hack of the stage. Miss Corson saic ;he past WQ8 her intention to give some insi by the iQto the charms of French cook< which, she claimed, was by no mean informal expensive as was generally suppoi wed the In fact, economy in household mat n life of j (s. Miss Corson said, the pride of v * Kan rr?or 20D New -Tenon noutjeiiCD^cj.. X' VI UOl UiUi tbitants, ing she will purchase a few fresh v? ncident, "tables, a crisp salad, a little meat ation of fish, or a portion of a ohicken?, s which enough of each to make the desi motive meal?and as every particle must n mines utilized, there is no margin for wa ie of the The chief reasons for the excellency brought French cookery, Miss Corson said, ' hands, the charcoal lire, the earthen pip] 3 by him an(J the comparative scaroity of mat reply to ft^s? which, in consequence, necessito Jly, and tbe most economical treatment, offered, cooking food, the first consideratioi h of his to rednce it to a semi-fluid Btate with t at the losing any of its nutritive proper! ed three Food thus softened is prepared for England easy action of the digestive orgi itent for Broiling and stewing are the most nulating travagant ways of cooking meats. I 0 freely iQg has a decided superiority over in the matter of economy. After ha^ shown her audience how to cook f< she proceeded to describe the pre way in which it should be served on table. In this connection, views i rho was model set breakfast, dinner and suj; Bnate by table were presented on the canvas, 1 legisia- a number of hints were given of tided on simplest and most inexpensive metl i hv nnr of beautifvine a table. Miss Ooi a W. E. cloeed by "impressing upon her yo took off lady hearers especially the necessity and sent politeness and good manners at the ta ell, who 1 soldier, How Lazj Chinese Students arePnnle ohed out A yonng John Chinaman at Phil nil regi academy, in Andover, finds his hea :oss liia danger. John had been rather bacfcv iving no in his studies, so that the faculty con er, as he ered it their duty to make the s he Fed- known to the Chinese goveramen' a joined whose expense the young man is < federate cated. This they did; and one may his old agine the disguBt that was manife y moved upon reading the reply, which wa mtimely follows: "Send him home, and we , and di- behead bim." John will stay with send the Melioan man and keep his head. ?Bo Logan Globe. 1 his life . ? g time. Somebody has ooTinted the n< Chioka- papers of America,' daily find wee >. and they number 11,000 and odcL -?r' . TIMELY TOPICS. Some Iowa farmers have decided tha nud flax was the most profitable crop raise< the in that State. and - ior- Captain Orapo and his wife, the Nex ?je- Englanders who sailed aoross the Atlan de- tic last summer in a little boat, ezpec to journey up the Mediterranean am >led through the Suez canal this summer. )ck. __ 7 jera Farming on a grand scale, even wiu rior the assistance of improved maohiner ina- and implements, is a dangerous expen hief ment, and in the West has terminatei re- disastrously. It is estimated that th Bes. money sunk during the past ten year na- in such undertakings amounts to ove i in 8100,000,000. re- Several vessels laden with exhibits fo: tent the international exhibition to be helt son- at Melbourne, Australia, in 1880, hav< ace, already sailed from the United StateB >ror The exhibition will open October 1 was 1880, and all applications for spaci ress should be made not later than June 30 1879. Buildings will be specially erect ore ed for the exhibition. erb ine, Trance has its experiment in commoi am- with other countries in the matter of em mo- bezzlement. At Bordeaux, M. Del the becque, director of the mint, was sen tenced to six years' imprisonment am his 825,000 fine for embezzling 8280,000 i: the bullion, which had been lodged in th St. mint by the Rothschilds. M. Delbecqu the substituted galvanized copper bars fo ing the bullion which he embezzled. iae- a new sect oi mormons naa sprung uj >ns, in Southern Indiana, and two Latte t to Day Saints are preaching there success by fully. The peculiar tenets of this winj ced of Mormonism are anti-polygamy, heal 1 by ing by the laying on of hands, immei sion, the second coming of Christ in th< lig- near future, intervention of God in tern poral and spiritual affairs, miracles o special providences in the interests o an<J the saints. The seot number about sizt; the members in Floyd, Washington an< ^ Clark oounties, made up of respeotabl Qnd farmers. re as* It is estimated that when the nationa census is taken in 1880, the returns wil ich 8now a population of over 47,000,000 ii aj. the United States. If the basis o ' ' representation remains tbe same as a rial Presen^> n0 new States are admitted the increase in members of Congresi will be sixty-six. The representatioi rich remain the same in the States o k Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Flori . da, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, Nev pu" Hampshire. Rhode Island and Soutl i Carolina. After the next apportionmen . the national House of Representative ,, will consist of 359 members and th ?eleotoral college of 436. The New Eng land States will gain one member, th< Middle States ten, the Western thirty two, the Southern nineteen, and th< Paoific States four. - A New York paper throws ont thii I? f earions suggestion in regard to the ele vated railroads: If an ivy or some run vf ning vine were planted at the base o each iron pillar on the elevated roads r" we might in a few years convert a long nnsightlv skeleton of iron into a fee , tooned bower, giving coolness, shade pleasing the eye and even beautifyini . the city. In France the general hard JD? ness, grimness and angularity of th 1088 railroad tracks in the immediate vicinit; iy8, of cities and towns are quite concealei by masses of foliage. Paris, in th< shading of so many streets and boulo , vards with two, four and sometimes si: . . I* rows of trees, has a motive, and that mo tive is the rendering of the city mor< lver and more attractive to strangers, there arr by tempting within her walls travel ? trade and money. When this is full; . comprehended here then more attentioi ; may be paid to the ornamentation of i oity with the noblest site cn this conti .a!' J -J Fifteen Follies. rith 1st. To think that the more a mai eats the fatter and stronger he will be ;ton come. [Bed 2d. To beliove that the moro hour 3rly ohildron study at school the faster the; ted learn. iyrs 3d. To conclude that, if exercise ii j0W healthful, the .^ore violent or exhaust lids 18 cue more guuu 10 uuuc. rith 4th. To imagine that every hour takei rith from sleep is an hour gained, ans 5th. To act on the presumption tha reat the smallest room in the house is larg< ling enongh to sleep in. hyr 6th. To argue that whatever remod] causes one to feel immediately better ii "good for" the system without regarc to more ulterior effects. jn_ 7th. To commit an act which is felt ii jot. itself to be prejudicial, hoping tha jew somehow or other it may be done in yon: <j a case with impunity. xjq. 8th. To adviso another to take i iem remedy which you have tried on your lay. self, without making special inquir pith whether the conditions are alike. rere 9th. To eat without an appetite, or t< the continue to eat after it has been satisfied 1 ^ merely to gratify the taste. jgbt 10th. To eat a hearty supper for th< 3ryj pleasure experienced during the brie 8 8o time it is passing down the throat, a 36(3, the expense of a whole night of dis ters tabbed sleep, and a weary waking in th> the morning. ket- Hth. To remove a portion of the cov ftrinff immfldiatelv after exercise, whei O - ? , or the most stupid drayman in New Yorl jnst knows that if he does not pnt a cover oi re(i his horse the moment he ceases to worl | be in winter, he will lose him in a few day ate. by pneumonia. . 0f 12th. To contend that because tin flre dirtiest children in the street or high kin wa7 flre hearty or healthy, therefore i :erjl is healthy to be dirty ; forgetting tha< ite(j continuous daily exposure to the pun jn out-door air in joyous, unrestrained ac t jfl tivities, is such a powerful agency fo tout health that those who live thus are wel ;jeB in spite of rags and filth. the 13th. To presume to repeat, later ii ins, ^e> without injury, the indiscretions 6I* exposures and intemperance which ii jafc. the flush of youth were practiced witl iach impunity. ring 14th. To believo that warm air ii joj necessarily impure, or that pure cold ai jpei is necessarily more healthy than th< the confined air of a crowded vehicle. Th< 0f a latter at most can only cause nausea >per while entering a conveyance after walk and *a8 briskly and lowering a window will the by exposing to a draft, give a cold in -J- fdllihlv. or an attack of pleurisy o luuts rgou pneumonia, which will cause weeks anc UDg months of suffering, if not actual deatl r 0f within four days. ble. 15th. To "remember the Sabbatl day " by working harder and later oi ihed Saturday than any other day in th lips vee^? a yiew ?* sleeping late nex <j jn morning and staying at home all day trard reat? con86ieDce being quieted by th isid- ?* no' very well.?Hall, ame t, at The average attendance in the Masss jdu- ciiusetts public sohools last "year wa im- 228,447. The number of male teacher sted was 1,115; of female teachers, 7,890. Th 9 aa average monthly wages of male teacher will was $75.64, and of female teacherc the $33.04. The entire amount paid t ston maintain the eohools was 85,301,853.6( There is one mayor in Chicago, HI. }W8- but hasn't Memphis, Tenn. 1?Norrii kiy. town Htrald. They ought to call i the services of a Baltimore, Md. EXPOSING THEIR TRICKS. t How the Most Wonderful Foals of Eastern N( ) JacKlers are Performed. , A celebrated prestidigitateor, named Kellar, gave a Philadelphia reporter an i aoconnt of his travels all over the world. Concerning East Indian jugglers bo t much has been said that the estimate of ^ i one who has been among them is worth having. Celebrated travelers have pronounced their tricks as being marvel a ons. Says Kellar, speaking of them: Hi y " The East Indian jugglers, except in i- their snake tricks, are very poor. I was i anxious to test them, and so I got a 8P e number of the most expert together by nc s paying them ten rupees (five dollars) 00 r each, which was more money than they ra would see in six months. They wore nc nothing but breecliolouta. Their dex- at r ferity in snake tricks was really marvelj ous. From their naked arms they ap- ^ 3 parently drew large cobras and made them dance over the stage, and even J?: ' with my practiced eyes I could scarce |n 9 detect the trick. Once, however, I saw v the snake's tail whisk from a bag that a8 I was lying on the stage. With a movement actually bo rapid that the human av eye could not follow it they drew the a serpents from that bag. Then came the . famous trick of the growth of the mango ^ . tree. Of this army officers of high 'a . standing in India have written long ao- 6(3 j counts, pronouncing it beyond human a comprehension. I have seen these ac- ?* e counts copied in Philadelphia papers. Pc e Well, it was the poorest trick that I ever *n r saw attempted. The jugglers now no aD longer appeared in the nakedness that Wl made their snake trick so marvelous, - hnt thev donned loner, flowing gowns. P* L| %/ v. ? r Over a flower-pot filled with earth in aD . which the seed had beea planted an ^ , empty basket was placed. ThiB remov. ed, there was seen the budding stem of ur a mango tree. The basket was again nc e placed over the flower-pot, and when again removed the tree had grown conj siderably. ThiB was oontinned nntil be I there had been produced quite a high plant. This was nothing more than y j bungling sleight-of-hand. The long "e B gowns concealed branches of th#mango. ?r These were placed, not very dexterously an neither, beneath the baskejj and stuck in the earth, and, in one instance that I 1" J witnessed, the juggler performed his 06 1 work so poorly that the stem actually wf J fell over and out of the pot." n*( [ Kellar was asked if he had seen a feat do fc of East Indian jugglery which the late 7? ? Rev. Dr. P. E. Morfarity, 0. S. A., de- dii 3 lighted to narrate, and concerning wlioh be J Father Moriarity frequently said: "If ca 1 there is such a thing as demonology that of " alone will explain that performance." no ? Tim f.rirtV Vinn hflfin ffifiblv imitated 1 in this country in the Indian basket pi ' mystery, in which, however, a trap8 door always plays an important part. B As narrated by Dr. Moriarity, who at hi * the time he witnessed it was conneoted 3 with a British regiment on duty in ZV " India, the juggler's performance was as dii 0 follows: Having previously told the offi- f?' cera of the garrison what he proposed doing, the juggler permitted them to dii 3 select a spot on the green sward in the ^h " open air. Here he stationed himself, g* ' with a basket with a hinged lid at his O* * fe t, a little boy his side and a sword in w ? one hand. He wore nothing but a ca ? breechclout. The officers, with looked dii k arms, knee to knee and watchful eyes, tii '? formed a semi-circle in front of him. Ti ? The juggler placed the child in the oi ' basket, closed.the lid, muttered a seem- he e ing incantation, and suddenly plunged TI P the sword through the basket, and as aB 3 the child's agonizing cry was heard the an 0 man drew back the sword all dripping 80 with blood. The officers were horrified, de 1 but they still kept their semi-circle un " broken, and the Indian again plunged W? e his sword into the basket, and again and ha again. Still the child's heart-rending ? ? screams were heard, until finally they 811 7 grew fainter and then ceased entirely, ho 1 The juggler asked that the basket be a examined. The officers opened it. It ha was empty. There was no trace of the CIi child. A gleeful shout was heard in the bj rear. The soldiers turned about, and hu there, astride the lower limb of a small Bt l tree, was the Indian juggler's child, m' - waving his arms in the air and looking an as happy aa you please. There was no er< s apparent solution of such a mystery, 'hi f Kellar was asked if he had ever seen tai anything like it. a.g 3 "Yes," he replied, with a quaint tic smile. "I saw one Indian juggler who Pe could perform the trick, and a mighty an l good triok it is, too. I paid him two do rupees (one dollar) and he showed me ou t how it was done. I marveled first that ?' 3 he should expose the triok for so small a ne sum, but I soon discovered that he was j safe in telling me all about it, for none th s but those who wore the East Indian jug- tin - ... i -_a 1 j Jta i gler's costume?trie Dreecncioui?uuum perform it. Dr. Moriarity, in narrat1 ing the particulars of the performance, t omitted mention of one very trifling r little article?a white cloth?and this Sa seemingly insignificant appliance was th( i the most important feature of the affair, U] - In legerdemain trifles weigh the heavi- Tc f est. The trick is done in this way. The go child is well trained. After he has been bi: 3 placed in the basket the juggler, while H< , praying aloud, weaves a large white coi cloth about his arms, as though it were m? e part of the incantation. He suddenly or f throws it over the basket, binding one in t end. Then he draws the cloth toward da him, brings it up around his waist and elc 0 tucks the ends in his clout, leaving a inf ?^nron in frnnf in ffrace- hii pui lliuu UMJ^IUQ MVIIM ~? 0 - ful folds. Then he draws his sword and po q performs the rest of the trick just as it a l has been described. The explanation is co: a simple. As he draws the cloth over the he i basket the agile youngster tumbles out, ba a and while still concealed by the cloth he dn gets under the juggler, grasps a strap pr e around the man's waist and actually an - draws himself up between the juggler's fai t legs. by b ''The cloth, when brought about the cei 9 man's waist, hides the little fellow, who sic - from his queer retreat utters the pierc- be r ing shrieks of the dying child. With a go 1 sponge saturated with a red liquid and go aptly applied, the juggler produces the Tc i blood stains. When the spectators rush br , forward to open the basket, expecting be i to witness the child's mangled body, the en l little fellow slips from his hiding-place a and sneaks away to wherever he is to he 8 make his appearance. That is how it is M r done, and I say again, poor performers wl a as Indian jugglers are, it is a mighty th a good trick." ba , _ ku of ? gr " Answers to Correspondents." 8h J Desperate Wife.?(1) My husband is M 1 not only false to me, but treats me very dt 1 unkindly. He knocks me down with a chair, or something, every few hours, a? 3 and last week locked me up in the eel- ^ai 1 lar while he went shooting. When he ? returned, after five days' absence, he re- T? 6 leased me with tba remark: "Great p1' 0 Scott, ain't you de \ yet?" Yesterday ba 6 I detected him putting arsenio in my afc tea. What shall I do about it? (2) y* Are underskirts cut gored with raffles j?: i- this winter or not??(1) You must win s your husband by kindness. Hiding b behind the door or under the bed will ^ e only make him worse. Plait your hair ar s like a trunk handle so that he oan drag i, you aroond the floor more easily; and o work him a satin-quilted olub-holder to >. hang on the bedpost. The great thing ce is the proud oonBoiousness of having bi , performed your duty. Do this and all w] i- will be well in ten or fifteen years. (2) ar n We'll find out this evening.?San Fran to oiaoo Post. oi -rv . AN APPALLING PESTILENCE. irlhern Brazil Devastated?Horrible Mcenes of Disease find Death?Fire Hundred Thousand Persons Succumb. The 2ju1u war, the yellow fever visitajn, the Indian famine, the distress aong English workingmcn, arc inflaiBimal compared with the horrible enes of disease and death in Northern razil. They are as trivial skin ernp)ns to the gangrene which has eaten ) Sertao, a region as large as Franco, ae long account given to the New >rk Herald, by a Eio Janeiro correiondent, tells an awful tale. Sertao is it a matted forest flat, but a rolling untry, sprinkled with woods. The iny season is from January to July, it a drop of water being attainable other times except by digging; id when the whole year is dry e most terrible suffering ensues, le people are agricultural and pasral. Not 100,000 out of the 2,500,000 fiHim-nnofl than starvinc UaUllMUlW uiu WMW* TT?/w D poor, and the majority are described a degraded mass of mixed white, aok and Indian blood. The Sertao erages 500 miles in width along tho ast from the Parabypa river to the in Francisco, and turns southward to inas Geraes. Iho black spot of the mine of 1877-8 was Oeara, an area [ual to the Middle States. Three wet inters were succeeded by the drought 1878, The unthrifty and starving >pulation began to eat disease-breed* g roots. Crushing penances, pillage id crime were inaugurated. Children are left to die, and filthy carcasses of limaiS were greedily devoured. Peoe orowded into the towns, dying right id left by tho way?and this was only e beginning. A cruel feature of tbi* time was the irelenting exaction by creditors, and ide girls begged on the pavements for od, their bones straining tneir ssin to irfiting. Lists of the dead could not i made fast enough to keep pace with e hccatombs of famished bodies, omen sold themselves for a meal. The faulting cabinet of the Brazilian govument had left a debt of $50,000,000, d private charity was soon exhanst. In the most favorable time a man's dug in Northern Brazil costs twenty nts a day, and now, when provisions >re exorbitantly dear, the utmost ?ney subscriptions did not average one liar per year for each man. Smallpox, llow fever, beri-beri (a local paralytic 3ease), and new sorts of wasting fevers came epidemic. Cries, groans, shrieks, rses, mingled with tbe sickening odor decaying bodies, for tho living could t bury the dead fast enough. One hundred and fifty thousand peoe fell deaa in Maroh, in Ceara, as they trried over the stones with bleeding 3t. A Tather killed, cooked and ate 3 own ohild, and cannibalism became mmon. Grain was looked in magaaes by the authorities, until a sudden stribution of money and plenteous od bred new diseases. The wretcheo ire shipped to other places like cattle, ad like vermin and were thrown into e sea. The government neglected its and opportunity to put the people of jara under military surveillance and to rilize them. A second dry season me, and although food was now plenty; sease was unchecked, and deaths con* med to increase in number per diem, venty thousand corpse, filthy masses sores, lay emitting a horrible stenoh neath a few feet of gravelly soil 1086 who dug the trenches were oiten phyxiated. Whole families lay dying d dead together, and the terrible sue was like one whioh George Eliot scribes in ' Ro'molu." At Pacatuba, th 1,500 population, the deatbrate is 120 a day. The lo s in population s been over 500,000?sixty per cent, and a new plague, called the " black lallpox," threatens to renew these rrors. It seems that the devastation might ve been stayed by vaccination, by disaet feeding under military direction, ' cleaning and burning contaminated its and bedding, and by decent burial, it the government was criminally reas in its duty. All the good done emated from a few courageous and gen3us men. We have no reason to think at the narrative of these facts, the dels of which are sickening, is at all exgerated. A more horrible combina>n of all the miseries of famine and fltilence is not reoorded in history, d the plagues of Athens and of Lonn scarcely deserve mention beside this e. And yet the wo-ltt was ignorant nil this, and the ignorant and willful gligence of the government of Brazil ams to have afforded every means for b spread and fatality of the pestilen,1 famine, uhile opening no way for correction. * nwUh a Dntra I A rnilUKSS CllUJ/C3 TT ILIA u uubu, A. princess has eloped with a duke in moa. His excellency, tlio governor of a Tan Masaga district in the island of jola, had a charming sister named ?e, with the complexion of a baked oro, a coooannt apron, a necklace of rds' claws, and a fanoy that was free. 3 was ardently attached to her, and aid not be indaoed to consent to her urriftge under any considerations, social political. When Dake Malietoa fell love with her the conrtship was concted clandestinely, and eventually an jpement was agreed upon and carried :o exeoation. The governor bethonght mself of a bit of strategy to- recover ssession of his truant shter. He sent message to Toe pretending to be reQciled to her choice, and requesting r to return and be married nnder cue ronial thitch in proper style. Tne sky Lothario fell into this trap. Great eparations were made for the occasion, d Lord Malietoa, accompaniel by the x Toe, set out on his return, followed all his relatives in an imposing pro3sion, bearing baked pigs in profutn, and timing their march to the ating of tom-tomp. On Sunday the vernor feigned a violent attack of ut, and sent a message for the lovely J >e to hasten to the bedside of her poor other. The unsuspecting one obeyed, it no sooner was she inside the govaor's lines than she was bundled into canoe and conveyed to Sola Sola, n r brother's domain. The distracted alietoa and his retainers remained lere they were bivouacked, assuaging eir grief by gorging themselves with ,ked pig and other delicacies, not towing what disposition had been made the missing bride. Toe had professed eat regret for her folly, declared that e had entirely overcome her love for alietoa, and would henceforth be a itiful sister. But she had not proved Ise to her lover. She sent him a letter, d within a few hours a war canoe conining seventy warriors, armed to the 3th, put in to Sola Sola. The faithful >e had so arranged that the guard of 1 women under whose surveillance she d been placed should be out of reaoh the appointed time. When the war noe came inside the reef she rushed rth, and without tarrying to casi off r simple apparel, boldly plunged into * ?a-- LamI e water, swam uui iu mo uuat ?uu wm ken on board. Then she sank into the ms of her lover. A resident of Glarinda, Iowa, has reived a rebuke from his pet caunry rd. He kept the bird in the room in tiioh he does a great deal of smoking, id it finally quit singing, and refused i even chirp, until it was removed to lother room where it got better air. ITEMS OF laruitEsr, All ships are for saiL I Grasshoppers sing in the hop era. 1 News of the weak?Hospital reports /||1 A bill-head?The bnst of Shakspeare. fl Bred on the waters?The ancient mar- ' -Jj Scarkt fever?Madly in lore with the : 3jjg I girl with tinted hair. ifl One herder near Carson, Nevada, has ~ 4 nearly 8,000 Cashmere goata. 1 Steamships for Europe usually aaacj'M I 1. an nru\ frtn fl flDOQIi OU JW lOCWXD VOVU WM^ri yr, _ None bnt the brave deserve the ltfiirtv^H| is the way Sitting Boll quotes it. Vr-s "Scrambled eggs" said the erocer's "I boy when he dropped his basket t four dozen hen-fruit. 1 What is the right kind of timber for f%: 9 castles in the air? Sun-beams; moon* ^ 1 beams and star-beams. ; " Tom: "My father's so tall he can. look over the garden wall." Jaokr V Sou>^ 1 can my father, with his hat an.-'-Fup^ -j : I "Everybody," says an exohanga> /-Wm "likes radishes in Japan." ItX*-.mis- -V1 take. We don't, for one. We liketrara ' ,jfl The grand secret of Bussian Valor? ;J 1 There's so much "itch" to their names y* I it's no wonder they "come up to the H The foundation for the meanest man laid wnen a hqiuu w; iuiu i hole in an apple for his companion to "To get the sack" ia from the i French?but a young man does not . I care where it is from as long as it is 9 A writer in the Oinoinhati Gazette. - ' 1 says that 17,000,000 gallons of alcohol ia . ';1 annually drnnk in the United States in M the shape of malt liquor. ' The man who wrote that."nothing. - 'Ji was impossible " never tried to find the, : M pocket in his wife's dress when it waSv Jj hanging up in clothes-press. M . canine bepuddm?. -m There wm once % big yellow dog, * 1 Who furiously ran after a hog. >. 1 He was lost in a tog, > - - -*rrffTW Which vu thick u & bog,.. And h&8 stood ttill since, all agog. .. m Geologists have reported thai there iff | in Japan enongh workable coal to pro- . ' '' , I dnce a yearly yield equal to that in 1 Great Britain, for one thousand years. I To be in advance of our oontempojrs- -.'3 1 riee, we feel justified in saying that bath-, S ing will be fashionable at the various 1 watering-places next summer. ?. 2 A number of enterprising peooaaa I have been engaged in collecting the a bonea of the horses that fell in the late 0 aJ battles between Russia and Turkey;: and have sold them to Austrian sugar* | ; J At Santa Cruz, OaL, there Is a womaa' Vi 9 of Spanish extraction, who was married at the age of fifteen years, and is not yet a twenty-seven years of age, but dona^^ajfiB the eleven years of her wedded life has 1 borne fourteen children, all of whom afe-^jB 8 dead, except one. 9 There was an old woman of Bine Bell I Who, when told some bad news, cried " Do A But I always said so, And at onoel sunt go ,.->fW And tell all the neighborB^B^Be^"^ A .annuiiuii anil tt TIAWflTlflnAI* fiditOF - a uo tt ojlrnjk/va hmv* ? hat people don't talk ?bont and some- /. >$ I imes abuse are rather poor concerns. ---?1 The men and business that an editor :; |j I sometimes feels it a duty to defend, atin^^H risk of making enemies of another class, are often the very first to show their in- " 1 gratitude. The editor -who expects to | receive much charity or gratitude soon find out his mistake; but he should 1 go on and say and do what he con- I scientiously thinks right without regard ''' to frowns and smiles.?Waterloo Ot^ 1 Mary had a little chili I Which gave her heaps of pain, I And when she tried to shake that chill I It shook her back again. ' E It followed her to school on a day, \ 'j| Which was aaainat the rale; " , It made the children laogh to see '; 5j 8 Poor Mary shake in schooL fl And so the teacher sent her home, And bade her take sjme ile fl To reoonstraot her system and 9 To liquidate the bile. a Words or Wisdom. fl Hnrne hearts are seen only at dead"** tide. " Most people's compassion is worse > ^ than tbeir indifference. To be dumb for the remainder of life is better than to speak falsely. Ho is the only"1 rioh man in the world & who has learned to be content with what <** he has. ? > No man knows the highest happiness ?v of life nntil he knows the happinecs of giving Fire and sword are bnt slow engines of destruction in comparison with the >; babbler. Life would be insupportable if pain / * .*over a great loss preserved its bitterness * -i for a long time. If you sweep your own doorsteps /'Itclean you will have little time to crifi* cise those of your neighbor. Many a man who feels himself great among little people would find himself f -w\ little if he were among great people. ^ Live within your means and nobody v< will know how much you have ahead; but; tjie moment yon borrow a cent peo* pie know how poor yon are. Women and men of retiring timidity R nre oowardly only in dangers which - % affect themselvee, but the first to rescuo _ when others are endangered. .. * No man will excel in his profession if ' * he thinks himself above it; and commerce will not flourish in any conntry * v where commerce is not respected. Mere immensity of size always as " V' tonuds ; but our wonder at the vast re[ suits accomplished by comparatively ' alight means remains the longest with as. -, aS ^?? ^j| 1 he Antiqaity of Weaving. : y The oarliest records of the art of ^ weaving are to be found in the Old Tea- . tament. Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in -/* the "vestures of flue linen," and Job lamented that his days were swifter than ' ? the weaver's shuttle, the use of t#6 . ! simile proving that the shuttle was a common and well-known object at the time. Portions of woven cloth and* /; weaver's shuttle have been found among ; the remains of the lake dwellings, and... : as the latter are believed to belong to ~7 the stone age, the origin of the art may possibly have been nearly coincident , with tho existence of man. Few, if . * any savage races have been discovered altogether ignorant of the art, and mojjy . of them have brought it to a consideif able degree of perfection; while the * '"1 relics of the ancient Peruvians and * i p.nnrrktifina flhnw that thev were skilled .a *-eji ?. weavers. Some fragments of Egyptian , q oloth were found on examination to be woven with threads of about 100 hanka to the pound, with 140 threads to tho * inch in the warp, and sixty-four in the woof. Although the art was practiced. * extensively, and with no mean skill, in very ancient times, it progressed slowly . ? and gradually?by small steps, at lcng intervals. The great advances in the art of weaving have been made during the past 800 years, mainly during the past century.?Scientific American. I