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t" ? . ^ ' V '.' '< - ' ' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER 1 v .... | =- "= I * BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1879. NO. 12. VOLUME XXV. 1 1 1 ?1^?1^??? ????? _ - ^ At the Gate. The golden flush of the morning lies O'er smiling rirer and bending skies; While o'er the meadow the swoet winds sigh, And breaths of fragrance blow far and nigh. And the tide flows by. A boy stands under the oak tree tall, At the old gray gate by the orchard wall; He looks iar away where the blue Bea smiles, Wondering where lie the Fortunate Isles, And the tide flows by. A youth and a maiden pauso and wait In the sunset light at ihe old gray gate; They silently gaze in each other's eyes And dream of the rapture of Paradise, And tho tide flows by. Beside the gate stands a careworn man, ; 'Neath a wintry moonlight, faint and wan; h Ho looks lar away toward the cold, gray sea, 9 With a sigh for the days that were once to be, W And the tide flows by. An old man stands by the moss-grown gate, ~ Sorrowing, weary and desolate; The starlight gleams o'er a distant grave, And over it soltly the yew trees wave, And the tide flows by. Through the old gray gute, toward the shining west, Tboy have borne the weary one to his rest; Thfc new day breaks and the shadows flee, The tide of the river flows fast and free Far out to sea! ?Susine W. Aloulton. N POLLY. CHAPTER I. "Dick! you&ro the most provoking ! boy in the world! You've got no re- ' spect for your sisters or anything on this earth. Give me my letter this instant, sir! I would not have such work man- ' aging you, my young man, if mamma 1 had only left your hair long enough to ' pull." 1 Dick, rejoicing in a very close crop, dodges under her arm as Polly makes a 1 grab at his bristly head. With a "Dont you wish you could get it?" and a delighted cackle at her 1 I grasping a handful of empty air instead 1 of his auburn locks, he makes his es . cape, lodging the letter with a skillful 1 twitch on a high bracket which holds a ' bust of Dickens. ( The boys in the Lyons family had come mostly girls; in fact, Dick repre- J sented the single male off-shoot, and, 1 like the bad little boy of the newspapers, ' he wouldn't for any money have risked ' being born again for fear of coming a ! girl next time. 1 "Joy fro with you! Good riddance to bad rubbish!" is Polly's parting salute. 1 and she proceeds to fish out from behind 1 the nl.oster-of Paris coat-sleeve of Mr. Dickens the apple of discord. And her ! color,'which haa risen unbecomingly dur- < ing the scuttle with Dick, tones down < as she reads it. Supposing Job had received a kind , letter of invitation from one of his moth- : er's kind friends?for the first time, too : ?don't you think it would have riled i even him, for a brown, smudgy paw, sticky with molasses, to have seized it, erking it out of his hands, when he was i in the .midst of opening it, without so much as'"by your leave," and toss it up to the ceiling? I The subject of this visit had been 1 broached befo.^e: now comes the letter < bringing mattCiS to a focus. I "Not only putting in the pee, but i driving it home," says Kitty. F " Actually names" the time for you to ; 1 come," remarks Patsy; " and that is more . than most city folks do. They will I come and spend weeks with their county try friends in July, and then tell one to be sure to call when one goes to the city. Think of how Mrs. Aytoun treated the Dodson's, Kitty." " And you've nothing to do but pack ; up your trunk and start, Polly," says i Mrs. Lyons, innocently. "Mercy on us, mamma! But pack my trunk and start! 'Unless I get in i myself I don't see what there'll be 10 < pack it with. If I depend on my alpaca i and blue poplin, I'll be leaning on a broken reed. I am sure; and I can toss my few things in, and then there'll be room enough in the trunk for Tootems and Dot t > play hide-and-seek. " Come, now, Polly, I am sure you look nicely in your things. Ever so much nicer than the Dodson girls, who spend so much." > It is one of Mrs. Lyon's firm articles of belief that her girls look "nicer" than all other girls at all times. I\ fact, that as far as tier girls are concerned, there is nothing for heart to desire. " And actually," cries Polly, " if I had my hands stuffed with money at this I moment I wouldn't know what to get or I how to make it. That comes of living in the country on the road to nowhere. If I were papa I'd move to-morrow and not hide my talents under a napkin." 'Tut, tut, Polly! Don't quote Scripture in a fret," says Dick. "Always ; keep vour temper, my child." " Mamma, will you please to make I Dick behave!" seeing that he dodged all j her efforts to box his ears. "Richard,my son!" "Oh, you'll scrape through," says Kitty, taking up the thread of discourse where it was broken by the skirmish with Dick. " We'll all help you out." " Dot, who was number four, and always dressed in the others' old clothes, gave up on the spot all right and title to any and everything new that she might, could, would or should have that winter. The ^amily conclave was not broken up till far into the -I0ht. Certain trips to the neighboring town were planned nd taken, and many demands made upon the family purse. But at last Polly's trunk was packed? actually packed?with "good clothes," there was nothing more to be done. It was in quite a gushing state of mind that Polly,bundles herself up in a big shawl for a farewell walk the evening preceding the eventful day. Being December, there were no flowers to assist sentiment; no nothing much, except bare brown hills and leafless, gaunt trees. " The sheep were in the fold; the cows gone home;" even the birds gone to roost. But she would not be balked. "I'll try my fortune," she said; and, looking around to see that no one is nera, she stops before a large tree. A.s one of France's gifted writers had done before her, shs takes a heavy stone and draws very near. HTfTUjMl.rt corc " if el..>11 ?1 1 JUU L> WCC, OUV Oil-JO) XU OUtkll be a sien that before the month is out I find a true love. If not?then not." Like the French philosopher, Rousseau, she plumps the tree, and experiences the same feeling of relief and exultation. CHAPTER n. " Just to think! I'm really starting!" cries Polly, ecstatically, bobbing up and down before the squatty mirror to cet a good look at her belongings. "Look out, Kitty, and see if the carriage is at th'> door. "Merciful heavens! what is the matter?" they cry, as a shriek from their v mothi.r reaches them, and a confused sound of trampling feet. They rush down, and find poor Dick yinc, white and still, on his mother's bed. "I knew it." cr >aned Mrs. Lyons. ' I've always said he'd be killed by horses or guns, or be drowned! And now he'll believe his poor mother." Dick, who had insisted upon driving the ponies, had gotten himself tangled up with the reins under the horses' heels, as a boy best knows how to do it. "Here is a broken arm." says John ^ Cary, the doctor, "and he is a good deal bruised; but we'll get him around, I hope. Who will help me with this arm? I want a steady hand?no flinch- he ing.v' Ji: All's. Lyons was so weak she could a j barely stand, Patsy trembling, and in; Kitty had cried till sne could scarcely see. 44 Here, Dot. take these things up stairs;" and Polly tosses off the spruce hat and gloves with an irrepressible w' sigh. Poor Dick stood the operation like a man. That dreadful stretching and st: pulline, and grating together of the l'& broken bones. hll Polly, like a woman, exactly, held the ab quivering limb firmly and gently, helped *M*n flio locf Konrlorrn cntv flip* Pf?lnr r?r?rr?_ 111? ing back to Dick'slreckled face, and then till pave a little sigh herself, and didn't know ! how she got up stairs to her room. P:l There she was bidden to lie down, com- at pose herself, even take a nap. You Know some people pin their faith to "taking tin naps," and would advise one to "take a nap " even though the house had just 'e? burned down. til! When they were all out, Polly takes off the "good clothes," her new button w< boots, the new traveling-dress and all; putting on her old alapaca) for tears make ugly spots), she cries all sorts of tears?tears of sorrow for Dick, of vexa- j ^n tion with him; but most of all tears of i <'oi disappointment and pity for herself, j t-'h When she had wept out all her " little | ?tl weeps," she went down. John Cary i was gone, saying he would return in the ! | evening. . j thi He was a well-looking, well-to-do, | bashful man of thirty, or thereabouts, ] Po and esteemed quite a "catch" in the i kis neighborhood. Indeed, it was the talk j r>f tho nninrlih/irVinnrl hnw tlinsp bold i wi Dodson girls hud thrown themselves at j his head. j hei Patsy and Kitty acknowledged in sor- | row their unsuccessful efforts to attract do more than a passing glance, and began * iidvising Polly, as soon as she came down, to " try her hand and air her new finery for his benefit." As Doctor Gary had lefl Dick feeling wa juite comfortable, the Lyons family 3eemed inclined to celebrate thisuncom- citl mon event of having an invalid in the .1 house with considerable energy. cit; The younger members of the house- to liold, Tootems and Dot, crawled around ne: the bed in a fever of curiosity to see on "how Dick's arm was mended;" Kitty <jn( ind Patsy, having recovered from their I stil fright, wanted to amuse the patient, and ! I see him laugh, and Mrs. Lyons was mak- nn: ing some jelly and cake for "the poor wr dear." J Only Polly was as glum as an oyster. ha< 5he knew well that a small imp was at hui work within her, but could not make up vol licr mind to drive him out; so she sat try with red eyes and sulky face, gloomily ' knitting. She didn't laugh a bit over the she girls'jokes, and Dick didn't see any poinl bee to them either. cri 44 Oh, Dick, you iust ought to have been looking when Polly fainted. Doctor John didn't even stop to look at her. Why, if it hadn't been for Patsy and me, _ * die'a have tumbled on the floor. He ! inly said, ' Sprinkle her face,' and went | on punching you about tlie ribs." ! " i " He's a slow old coach," chimed in < . Patsy. " Polly hasn't made much of a-; ? start yet; I shouldn't wonder if a Dod- j 1 ? son gets him yet. They are so persever- j ing. | ary "Oh, I'm dying of love for him," says , Polly, sarcastically; "and, of course, I shall cry my eyes out for him." (laj Dick was dozing, but these words of j 1 Polly's caught his ear, and he kept re- | ???. peating them to himself. He could see i , lier eyes were very red, and that she | ll.e.1 <eemed very sad. I_ 1 Doctor Cary shook his head when he | j'(?s round the family party assembled round i-"1* Dick's bed and the boy with a high J fever. sJr' "Too many nurses entirely. Who will take the responsibility of keeping him quiet? Miss Polly, will you attend ''et to the prescriptions?" .. Of course Polly would, and she did ,nS her duty =o well that Dick rapidly im- p 1 proved. He could soon enjoy reading iloud, and delighted in having Doctor | _ Uary sit with lnm and tell him the gal- \ wc lant exploits of the Homeric heroes. j m* lie brought, him Tennvson's " Idvlls of i the King," and read aloud to him many a : iiuio'j evening, while Polly sat near, so- jlll! berly working and listening. j " Geraint" was one of his favorites, j " who tin-ashed robbers in armor by the j I half dozen, as a boy would a walnut j sat tree; and brave "Sir Launeelot." who j exi tumbled knights over like so many ten- or pins. hel They had been reading ''Elaine," the wli sad tale of the " Lily-maid of Astolat," 'J who loved so well and loved in vain, thi It is often these rattling, rollicking ice boys who have the tenderest feelings, voi and at the conclusion Dick was quietly lar snuffling and bowling 1he tears out of ; sui his eyes with his knuckles. Polly had | the slipped out to hide her own. i ens "Doctor."says Dick, brokenly, "would ; ;ln< you let a girl die because she was loving | wj you so?" ofi "Never, Dick, never! But I am not fro the slashing kind of fellow girls die tju /?tt" c?i?a av P?i?ir l?lln?li?n(rvnflior it*u5?uuaiant^ | re(. sadly. * 0U| 44 Doctor," said Dick, in a hoarse wins-1 ne? per, 44 one of 'em's doing it. She cries, j ^ and droops over her work just like the J no1 4 Lily Maid' did; and she's loving you. I fro heard her say so." j atc 44Oh, no, Dick, you are mistaken!" ^ cries the doctor, blushing furiously. 1 ?t: 44 Not a bit. I'll tell you who she is. j -ns It's my favorite one of 'em. It's Polly, I that's who it is; and she can skate as | m( well as a boy. and make good traps, and j such taffy! Doctor, would it hurt me to i ' eat taffy now?" j As I have said, the doctor took in new 1 ideas slowly, but when th?*y once made j ' an entrance into his head, they came to ., stay. , wl For the first time in his recollection : a j sleep failed to visit hi mat his usual hour, i m( He lay tossing and tumbling, thinking. 0f folly's pale tace an 1 wistful eyes haunt- ( ed him, and Dick's tearful words: 44 One \ p0 of 'em's doing it, she loves you so." ' Lg It may have been that he loved Polly a ! {n long time unconsciously. At any rate, it seemed to him now that he had loved her j ge, a very long time. > jc( He could stand it no longer. The beau-' j8 tiful girl pining away lor him. He i ? sprang up and wrote her an offer of *n marriage in the dead of ni^ht. He handed ! this letter to Polly himself as he bade her 44 Good-bye" after his next visit, pre- ' tendedly to Dick. Polly took it quietly without opening j it, thinking it to be a new prescription j fr< for Dick, who, with his arm in a sling, | ed now roamed at large. i hi She sauntered into the sitting-room i fir where they all were. ! en "Does Doctor John always direct ! m them to you, Polly?" asked Kitty, open- j eo ing it. The next moment she screamed I ar outright, "Patsy, come here! Dick, j CI what do you think? Doctor John wants 1 tli to marry our Polly. Did you ever in in your born days?" [ st The excitement was intense. 1 hi " So there's to be a wedding in the j w Lyons family at last?" cries Patsy. ! p( "Mercy! the Dodsons will turn green to with base envy. What luck! Tell us ar how you managed it, Polly?do, Oh, C you clever Polly!" R And Mrs. Lyons came hurrying in, and p< smiled so blandly, and crowed so triura- A phantly over those "scheming Dodson tli ,girls,'that Polly was perfectly confused D She did not get a chance to read her hi letter till it had been handed around the rn Tl n.' ,1_ i 3 i._ 11 !i. i. room, r^ven .luck. ineu to speu it out is before she could lay hands on it. He c? considered he had more right to it than h any one else, and chuckled quietly to d< himself at the unwonted success of his ai manoeuver. b< 44 Why, Polly will scarcely have to get p: any weeding clothes," cries one of the cc girls; 44 the finery up stairs will come in b< exactly." si There could certainly be no objection tli to the match,- as Polly was eighteen, and pc Doctor John was plenty old enough to p< take care of her. Polly preferred wait- t m ing herself, but44 the girls" would not' ? ?r of such a thing. So when Pc ode another start to the city, it was little bridal tour, instead of beau-cat ECHAPTER III. What boy could ever hold his toni lien he ought to, or keep a secret,? " Polly, I must tell you," says Di ter she had her bonnet on, ready irt. " Come off here?it is a secret, ught the doctoi * for you, miss; 11< m how you were crying your eyes < out him, and how you were dy ter Jiim. I heard you say so. 01 uiagcd this matter nicely. Nc sink me for it, miss." Polly was stunned. If she did not ci rticularly about John Cary herself.; least imagined him to be greatly ?re with her. It was too cruel to desti 3 pleasant illusion. A.nd Dick stood hopping first on ( then on the other, waiting to inked. She could have boxed nim. \ moment more and the farew< re over, and Polly and her husba re rolling side by side to the stati< ' Polly, aear,1' says her husbai ve've been in such a stir and bust d?and even our courtship in su ifusion, that I'm glad we'll hav< dnce to get acquainted with ea icr. You 11 call me John, won't y< ir?" ' Oh, yes," she answers, coldly. "Ai ng will do." ' And you'll kiss me, now, won't yc lly? Do you know you have nei ised me a single time yet?" 'Some people are coming, and th 11 laugh to see us such geese," si lly, hurriedly, pulling her veil oi r face. ' You scarcely feel that, you know n you, Polly?" She was crying so she could not t er. and Doctor John sighed rati lly to himself. ' 1 don't know much about womei ,ys, I am a/raid." 'Not this year, nor the next oi her." Dick's words seemed prophet 'oily did not even get half way to t y. Doctor John had gone to the coo bring her a cup of water, and wli ct Polly opened her eyes, she was lyi her own bed in her own room, dai ;d, feeling very sore and weak a Bf. )octor Jolin, looking much older a xious and wan, had his fingers on I ist, counting her pulse. railway accident, of course. Po 3 a terrible time of it getting w( t she found out what a kind, good. < led husband she had in those wea: ing w>:eks of pain. iVheu at hist, there came a day wli ! could again' be daintily dressed ;oming ribbons, and when once m< mps and curls were a part of life, s a great day for them. ' We were married last year, Poll} 's John, looking at her admiring lereitis the middle of ane*r Jar '. We've been man and wife ti g weeks. Quite an old aouple, are ?" 'oily put her hand in his. 'You have never kissed me y Uy." ' I'll do it now." And she put f ns around his neck. 'He! he! what fun!" came giggli m the half-open door, ana JDi shed off down stairs. >atsy and Kitty came rushing up what could tne matter be, and ity reported, " P0II3 just up and kiss husband as bold as a lion before th< ," though her face was as pink as t e on her brepst, and John Cary w ishing like a girl. ^nd though when Polly got well a ong enough she gave Dick a go iking, she thankedliim all the same > bottom of her heart, and tliev be ted and made much of the boy, t tsy and Kitty declared he was on t :h road to ruin. iut John proving a good husbar liy Wiis right. Marrying a man e eating mushrooms. If you die th re toadstools, if you live they w< tshrooms. If a man heats you he i idstool; if not, be sure he is soi id of a mushroom, for which inkful. ryphoid Fever from Impure Ice )r. Flint, of New York, has becoi istiod that a source of typhoid fei sts in ice. The poison is not destroj impaired by freezing, but is sini] d in suspension. The ice conce lat it does not kill. Che ScicJiliJic American, in speaking s subject, says: Whence comes c supply P Often from shallow res rs in the midst of neighborhoods ge towns purposely made to recei face drainage from all around, un< i erroneous idea that no harm v\ iue, as freezing is supposed to pur \ render harmless what might oth se be objectionable. Great quantit ice are taken fiom canals, from eree m stagnant ponds, and from strea it are either the natural or artific ipients of surface drainage, of 1 tporins of sewers, and of unclear is from various sources. The dani m ice taken from improper place; t only from that which ic drunk, 1 m its use in refrigerators and presei >ries, where milk, butter, fruits, ve, )les and meats are subject to its sat ng influence as it vaporizes. Seve ifononc liown fullon nriflpr t.liP Hnnhf servation where the disease,. by l >st careful investigation, could not iced to any other source. If weacc a fact the statement positively mi the London Lancct, that it never 01 ites de novo. but proceeds from a s il and specific poison, which is ca ; of diffusion to a great extent, f lich preserves its noxious qualities ong pfiriod, even if buriea for mr >nths. we cannot Reject the hypotht ice infection. 3n this theory swamps and shall nds, and streams in which drainag rmitted to flow, and ponds drawn summer, are not only dangerous e immediate neighborhood, but n id disease and sickness wherever i rut from them is transported. T a new peril which can easily be guari ainst. See to it that the ice you us thing but pure frozen living water. Cariosities of Human Food. Man has been wonderfully ingpnii im lii^ infnncv in the concoction ible varieties. Apart from ba] mum thighs in iejee, and boi )?<?rs in Sumatra, there are cert ilinary fashions still extant, wh ust be marvelously unintelligible t invenvionalized appetite. Not tha pears strange to eat ducks' tongues liina, kangaroos1 tails in Austria, e loose covering of the groat elk's n New Brunswick. Not even that i artlin^ to see an Esquimaux eat s daily rations?twenty pounds eight of flesh and oil?or a Yakut c< ;ting in voracity with a boa-const; >r; but who would relish a stew of its in Burmah, a haif-hatched egg tuna, monkey cutlets and parrot piei io Janeiro and bats in Malabar, >lecats and prairie wolves in No merica? Yet there can be little do lat these are unwarrantable prejudi* r. Shaw enjoyed lion; Mr. Dan :id a passion for puma; Dr. Broo akes affidavit that melted bears' grc a most refreshing potion. And h in we disbelieve, after the testimony ippocrates, as to the flavor of boi If squirrels are edible in the E; id rats in the West Indies?if a si 3 good on the Amazon, and elcpha: iws in South Africa, why should jmpassiorate such races as have li 3ef or mutton ? For wo may be qi ire that if, as Montesauieu affir lere are valid reasons for not eat >rk, there are reasons quit;; as un achable for eating giraffe, alpac ermaids' tails, bustard" and anacon Athenccum. >lly The Pearl Fisheries of Ohio. About twenty years ago pearls were discovered in the Little Miami river, Warren county, Ohio, and since then the scarch for them has been one of the. recognized industries of the region. The , Cincinnati Commercu.1 says that luc mussels which furnish the pearls are i found in beds anywhere from the banks to to t^ie middle ?f the river, and are geny erally discovered by the feet of the pearl 0|i lisher. About fifty men and boys are engaged in this work. They wade into jjT the river from depths reaching from the <? knees to the neck. ' Witli their feet they feel (he shells,-and ' raise them by their toes to a height where the hands can reach them withv? out stooping so as to bring the head un' in ^er water- Miniature canoes, tied to the shore and floating out, are used to de' y posit the shells. When a bushel or more have been collected the fisher goes , to tne saore. and sitting down on tne grass, in some cool shade, lie opens the ,.j shells with a large knife. nd The pearis are found between a slight ' membrane that lines the shell and the j' shell itself?a translucent web of tex.j' ture 'between a cobweb and a film of icti m'ca- Occasionally the pearl is embed' (led in the shell so firmly that only an ch PXPer^ lapidary could safely detach it. 3U This is rare. The number of pearls ' found in a single shell at the Miami fisheries rarely exceeds three, and on an average only one shell out of one liundred and fifty has any pearls at all. It ' is a common experience to bring to shore bushels of shells with never a pearl. One may work for days with no :eward; ,Ve agnin, he may make from five to one ^ hundred dollars in a sinele day. The ' uncertainty is probably half the fascination of the work to the peculiar class of ' men and boys^who prosecute it. About a year ago a wealthy banker of ler Waynesville, Mr. J. H. Han-is, began to purchase the pearls, which had pre, viously been bought by New York and European dealers chiefly, and has since made a large and fine collection. Men ' tion is mane of one fine specimen, the * Everhart pearl, found in the Miami and 1?_ sold to Messrs. Tiffany & Co.. in New York, for S900. The Tiffanyg sold it to a party in France for 81,000, bought it .1? back for $1,500, and made a final sale of j it for ?2,800. The season of the pearl fisheries of the j Little Miami lasts only from June till October, as it is necessarily dependent upon the warmth of the water. The ji fisher works about six or seven hours >jr per day, seldom remaining longer tuan i ' two hours, consecutively, in the water. It would seem as if the work would be -j? very unhealthy, leading to malaria and all its attendant train o? low fevers and in exhaustion, but it was not spoken of particularly in that way. There are pearls found in other parts ' of Ohio, hut are of the milk-white, , ii owing to the lack of the calcareous dej' posit that abounds in Warren county. The pearls of the Little Miami regio .i are " of a soft, sky-blue, pink, golden tinged, _n and iron color, with specimens that show, a pure type of each, and others thn',; are blendingsof all. The colors, of course, et are not solid, but exauisite tints and ' shades, changing with the anele oi refracted light. Tlie size ranges from that of a mustard seed to the size of a bullet. Many of the old Indian mound s that g have been opened contair ;d pearls, showing how ancient their existence is. ^ These pearls in the mounds lie as if they had been strung, but ttoey crumble at a d touch. ' Recently a pearl of the most extraordinary beauty and brilliancy 'vas accirag dentally found on the Waynes 'ille side of the river by Morton L. Roberts, a litnj tic lad of eleven years, ihe son of Mr. J. 0(i A. G. Roberts, of the Adams Express jn Company, of Cincinnati. Morton was ltu visiting some relatives there, and went in down to get mussel shells to border a I e flower bed for his aunt. Tliere was a quantity of these that had been looked 1(j over by fishers and thrown aside, and it jg was in one of these that the observing [CV eye of the little boy detected the gem that promises to be a very valuable one. " T ? i n f l-\ n f U a 1 n r\ourl OTTOI* g ^ It 13 3?UU W? liC LUC laigCOb fJUibl I c?U nie taken from this region, and perfect in its ke symmetry. It has the brilliancy of the purest and most intense tints of the opal. It seems to re*t in an aureole of colors, so delicate, yet so glowing, as to suggest to one n dream of color. The mc pearl will undoubtedly prove one of very ,rer rare value. Its weight is six carats. red Dly als How an Outlaw was Caught. 0I^ A letter from Columbus, Neb., gives ,ur particulars of the capture of "Doc" er~ Nliddleton, the notorious outlaw. Sol. diers, under Detective Llewellyn, from 've Fort Ilartsuff, and a party of citizens '.e.^ from Grand Island, arrived at Niobrara river by different routes, about the same lfy time. The party proceeded immediately ?r" to the house of Miadleton's father-in-law, where they captured him and five other persons. The old gentleman was given the choice of leading the party to Midia? dleton's hiding place or of being hanged. "c W itli tears tailing flown 111s iac-i, me unlll_ happy parent led the party, consisting ol =^r fourteen mounted men. into the high 31S hills to the northwest. Proceeding 3Ut about seven milrs, the head of a deep rv" canon was reached. Dirge pir. i trees Ke* filled the gorges of the canon, from the ur* deep recesses of which no sound came to indicate that the brigand chiet vvas hid,r1s den there. The soldiers wer<i quietly the picketed on commanding points. Richbe iirdson, Middleton's father-in-law, re* ept fused to enter the canon, saying the out\dc jaws wouid shoot him if they'saw him ig- guiding the soldiers. The party retened pe- through different defiles that led to the Pa_ main canon. In a short time the camp md was discovered. The stillness was soon for hroken by the ring of the rifles. Mrs. my Middleton, who was in the camp, Jsis screamed for a cessation of hostilties. She came up to the sheriffs of Hall and ow Howard counties, who told her to go e is back and tell her husband to'surrender, off She went back, and soon returned, sayto ing that " Doc" would not give himself jay up. Some men worked their way cauthe tiously into the camp, and it was found 'his to be deserted. The outlaws had fled, led Middleton was discovered crawling e is through the grass, and in a moment a ball came near ending his life. He begged for ouarter, and was taken with arms on. He said he was shot by Detective Ilazen with a Winchester the Sunday before. The wound only temou^ porarify disabled him. He was at once < ' ?j taken to the top hills, and thence to the *ed main camp, near his father's house, south led of the river. The camp of the outlaws ?in contained fruit, sugar, ammunition, bediC'* ping, nowder, canned goods and endless 0 ,ft knicklcnacks. The tents were piled up t ^ and burned. ; in , or t 'j3 A Carious Family Dispute. ing A curious case, says a Paris paper, has in just been decided at Fontainbleau.where >m- a M.andMme.Missiessy appeared in court ric- to plead against each other for two of red their daughters. It appears that this ; in married coupie nave seven cnimren? 3 in five daughters and two sons?and that or the father had insisted on the three eldrth est daughters becoming nuns. The ubt mother offered no resistance: hut when ;es. it came to depriving her of her two revin mainin" daughters, who were also diskes patched to a convent in spite of her en;ase treaties and delicate health, she appealed iow to the secular arm. Hie court encieavf of ored to shake the determination ot the iled husband, but lie remained inflexible, delist, claring that a voice from above had oth called upon him to submit, and that his nts' daughters should remain where they we arc- The court of Fontainblenu took a nip middle course, and decided that the two uite young 'adies in question should be re ras, leased from th? cloistered convent in ;ing which they have been imprisoned, and im- sent to the celebrated Convent of tin* :ha, Oiseaux in Paris, which is not cloistered, i(i:i and where thoy will be able to receive the visits of tln ir parents. , \ DOWN IS A SILYER MINE. The Terrific Heat that was Experienced li the Savage Mine, near Virginia City We v., by a Party, Mr. E. R. Cleveland, of Bodie, Nev. and a Virginia City Chronicle reporte accompanied Superintendent Gillette int< the Savage mine to examine the grea heat issuing from the levels lately draine< oi not; water, *r iiiic mc paiuv ?ci? waiting their turn to descend a" mine; came up with nothing on but a pair o overalls, shoes and hat, his skin looking as though it had been parboiled. Thi superintendent inquired: " How are things getting on below?" " Oh, very well, sir; hevry thing is lial right, but hit is very 'ot there now," an swered the man. In a few minutes the party were rapid ly descending the shaft, which was st full of hot steam as to produce at first i feeling of suffocation. The steam come.1 up in a blinding volume, which increase; in tenperat'ire until the landing place 1,300 feet from the surface, is reached Here there is still much visible steam although the atmosphere feels dryer anc hotter than any yet encountered. A sens< of horrible confinement from which then seems to be no escape anc] in which then must be a constant struggle to keep froir falling exhausted seizes the visitor and ii not dispelled until he enters the cooling room, where the mouth of an air-pip< coming from the surface strikes him as? grateful bla^t from the North Pole "T!"?* ?*?~c *i,:? ti.n >v H'liuuu leiii'ituj ui luio fwuu buu luuibii could not work at all. They are obligee to remain longer in the cooling-rootr than at Ihe picks and shovels, so debilitating is any exertion in such a ten* perature. After attaining a comfortable condition in the cooling-room the party enterec the incline giraffe to go to the 2,100 level the part of the mine last drained. Th< iron sides of the giraffe were so hot thai they could scarcely be touched withoui burnine the flesh. The heat seemed tc come fairly out of the rock on all sides while a perceptible hot draft proceedec from the bottom of the incline. Eacl had a large piece of ice in his hand to use on his pulse. ai*ms, neck or to hole in proximity to his mouth whenever the hot air appeared to burn the lungs when inhaled. Thus provided the giraffe was run? down. It descended rapidly unti witfiin about fifteen feet of the 2,10( level. The heat increased with ever} foot until the station was reached. Hen it was so intense that all felt themselves wobbling when they rose to get out ol the giraffe. An air-pipe close to the landing place furnished temporary relief while a bucket of ice-water near by waj sought with greater eagerness than evei ?? prominent citizen did the nearest barroom after a night's spree. The waj from the giraffe down to the 2,100 leve! was by a narrow ladder placed betweer the moving Cornish pump column on onu suit: unu <i uuimey jjumpuu uic ui-nu ?a position from which, if one fell, lu must be either killed outright or horribly maggled. The ice which the partj started with had by this time all melted away in their hands. When the level was reached a stratum of heat was entered such as might come from hades itself. The sensation was nc longer that of general oppression, but o! the danger ofbeing absolutely burnt; instead of the feeling" extending through the whole body it was confined to the skin and the lungs, which seemed to bf fairly scorching. When the level was entered the breath for an instant was taken away. A nearly naked miner who saw the party going in cried out: " Don't stay there a minute. It's too dangerous.'' His warning was unnecessary, for nc sooner had all entered than one began tc mak<? his way out. The other at once followed and lost no time in getting tc the air-pipe and the ice-water a few feet above in the incline. " You think this is hot," said a miner who had comc there for breath, "but ?r/m mmlif in Imvo lioon 11pro hpfnrn t.hf blow-pipe was put in." The drift connecting with the Ilale & Norcross on this Itvei displays an interesting piienomenon about midway between the two mines. The drift connects with the lightning drilt. running to the Combination shaft, at the Hale & Norcross inclinc. There is a strong current of cool air coming from the Combination si aft, which meets the hot air of the Savage at the point mentioned. The result is to convert the hot air into visible steam, which tills the drift for about fifty feet. The point of contact of the twe currents is as clearly marked as it woulel be in the case of opposite colors joined together. The temperature is equalij distinct. In a distance of twenty feet one p:isses out of an oppressive hot atmos pliere to a comfortably cool one, or vice versa. The exact temperature of the heated portions of the mines described has nol been ascertained since the late increase o temperature, but the water is said to be about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Theeffecl upon the visitor is to so thoroughly heal him that when he reaches the surface where before he descended he was sweating in the heat of the day, he feels as though he had suddenly been transported to the regions of frost and snow Cold shower after shower is scarcely suflicient to cool the body. It takes ai least half an hour and the application o floods of cold water to reduce the temper ature to a normal condition, after which lmwever. one feels more vigorous thar before. A Hawk Storj. A correspondent of the New Yorl Evening Post, writing from Columbus Ohio, tells a story about a weasel's es cape from a hawk's clutches. The in cinent is similar to one told in old road ing books. Not long since, says th< writer, while in a thickly-wooded dis trict in the northern part of this State my attention was attracted to the pecu liar movement in the flight of wha proved to be a large male Nisus Cooper or Cooper's hawk. He flew in circle! just over the tops of trees which bor dered a meadow land, through whicl ran a small stream of water. Each cir cle he made seemed to be smaller thai the preceding one, and notwithstanding my presence each circle brought hiri nearer to the ground. Now and then hi would take an upward flight, as if doubt ing the certainty of his prey, when pres ently he seemed to know that his bes chance was at hand, and. swooping dowi upon his victim, seized it in his talon and darted away. He had not cone fa: 'when he began to descend in a perpen dicular line, with a tremendous flapping of his wings, as if something troul)le< him. Arising to about double the heigh of the surrounding trees he bemnsiowh to descend with drooping head; and hi" tail, which acted so well :us a rudder t( guide him in his upward flight, nov seemed to be a useless member, whili the wings liar! ceased their flapping an< were spread motionleis in the air. A1 this time I could distinguish something ivs it were, in the shape of a snake coilec up in his talons. Notwithstanding hi: seemingly exhausted condition, ever; now and then lie would make an effor to ascend, but his efforts were in vain In a few moments more he struck th ground, when instantly from his talon there sprang a common brown weasc which made its way to the nearest un derbush. Upon examining the bird which was more dead than alive, I founi that this cunning little animal hatj sue ceeded in forcing its slender body througl the tisrht grasp of the liawk's claws, unti it reached the part on the left side of th bird immediately under the wing. Thcr it nibbled a small Jiole ana drann til blood of this high-flown bird until i was compelled to di? the death it hai intended for its victim. The weasel wa undoubtedly about to take its meal fror a number of ducks which were lloatin in the stream near by; but it feasted i mid-air on the biood of its would-be dr stroyer. " I'll take the starch out of you,"as th perspiration said to the shirt collar.Alcsscnger. An Arkansas Man's Omen. A strange story comes from St. Francis county. In the St. Francis river bot' toms there lives a man named George H. Toban. With him live a wife and a ? thirteen-year-old son. The family has r resided in a quiet way, so far as any one J knows, until recently. One morning. J1 just after the yellow fever excitement 1 began to spread over the country, Mr. \ Tolban, upon opening his door, found a L* card lying on the doorstep. On the card 1 were written the words, "yellowfever." ? Very little attention was paid to the 3 matter, but when, again and again, similar cards wore found, Mr. Toban be. came concerned, and, not being as ^lear 1 of superstition as might be, regarded the cards as ominouj and as a warning of an approach of the terrible disease. Every night he would read gloomy re} ports from Memphis and every morning 1 found the card, "yellow fever." Finally i he determined to watch and satisfy him 3 self, and on the doorstop remained all night. No one appeared; but when the darkness was dispelled bv the streaks of | daylight he saw a card lying on the | step beside him. Catching it up and | examining it, he saw the words "yellow ; fevtr" written in exactly the same hand ? that had marked the cards before. Then 1 there was indeed anxiety in the family. 5 The fever reports grew gloomier, and the * family settled into the^elief that Provi} dence, by a handwriting on cards, had 1 advised flight. The husband did not know what to do, the wife was fright| ened into a terror that trembled at every 1 sound as though yellow fever walked 1 1 with noisy footsteps, and the son was almost dumb and sometimes deaf with ' fright. It was at last decided that vacation of the place would be necessary. : But a change came, and the mystery, 1 like mist, clcared up. On the night be| fore the proposed departure the hus' band, unable to sleep, sat on the bedside, * almost terrified and weak with dread. * Suddenly the door of the room opened } and his son, in " night attire," stood in the room. The father, influenced by a 1 sudden feeling, did not speak. The boy 1 advanced to the mantelpiece, took down ! a pencil, went to " the attle table," took I out a card, leaned over, wrote some1 thing on it, and then, advancing to the door, slipped it under. The father j watched breathlessly, and when the boy started to leave the room the man ' caught him. The boy struggled, gasped [ and awoke. He did not know, nor could ! he understand, why he stood there | grasped by his father. The wife spwang [ out of bed. A few words explained all, ! and when the door was opened there ' was the card bearing the words " yellow [ fever." The youni? man in his early youth had exhibited signs of somnnm' bulism, and reading every day the yelr l/\t*r foTToi* vonAvta fn fho ftimilv nr? Hmihf. ' influenced his action.?Little Rock (Ark.) J Gazette. [ The First Sewing: Machine in Indin. In the days when the sewing machine , was in its earliest infancy, a lady resid[ ing in India imported one, and for a long time kept its mysterious working hid t from the ken of her native*tailor. This , functionary was tne very slowest of his | proverbial slow " caste, and wasted no [ end of time drawling over hem and stitch. One day his mistress came to him arm! laden with yards upon yards of some , dress fabric. " Dirzie," says she," how | long will it take you to run those i breadths together?" " Tree day, missis," , replies Dirzie. " Missis, please, plenty , too much work." "Three days! Non; sense! Three hours, you mean. You ' are a very lazy man and I'll cut your , pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do.it my, self." Then the lady retires to her , boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of i which a sharp and continuous click and fKn no no Mn no n'f >>'11111 1UU U 111U UVUW1 O UiH O* liv vibii V make out what the sound is, and . he is much too lazy to speculate ; on it. He continnes to "chew . betel," and yawningly to ply needle and thread. After an hour or : two "Missis" comes back, and throw, ing at Mr. Dirzie's feet the raw material . now fashioned into a completed skirt i says: "There! See! You wanted three . days, you sleepy fellow, to finish this, ! and I have done it already." Astonished ; Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines i the seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and i satisfies himself that all is Droper and ac. cording to tailors' rule. He is confound? eri. It passes his understanding. There - lira the work done and no mistake. But > how? He springs up from the mat on [ which he has been squatting: he kicks | over the little bniss vessel which holds r his drinking water; he scatters ri^ht and > left thread, needles, thimble; he stops not ! to put on his sandals or to adjust loosen? ed turban and waistcloth. Scared and bewildered, he runs for very life into the I bazaar, shouting as he goes along:, t "Shitan! shitan! (The evil one! the [ evil one!) rle do tailor business at Mem's > house. I listen! I hear! He cry'Cleek, I cleek, cleek!' Two hour time he neber t stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true dis word I tell. Ebery bit true. All . work done finish! I hot go back dat j bungalow." And he never did.?Cham. bars' Journal. r How the Znlus Smoke. ? When the white man " inhales," he ' rarely allows the smoke to pass beyond his mouth and nostrils; but the Zulu Kaffir fixes his Hds over the broad 1 mouth of the bullock's horn, closes his nostrils with his hands, and draws in the reek of the burning weed till his lungs are filled. Then, handing the c pipe to his neighbor, he lays hold of a ? small tambooty reed, and slowly blows the smoke through it until his lungs are empty. Thus unconsciously do they illustrate the lyrical conceit of the time when tobacco was young in Ensland? " thay fairly "drink tobacco." There is ? no haste or wildness in the earlier stages of such a festival; for. sententiously t talking together as the j)ipe goes slowly 1 round, ana waiting their turn in order. 3 ftiow Mnir nut lif? snifcfcltt from thrfr " several reeds, and trace in figures on the 1 ground the plans and pictures that give " body to their talk. But* one such 1 powerful inhalation of the weed is not ? enough for a seasoned smoker amongst 1 the men of Zululand. Again and aeain 2 docs each warrior fill his lungs to repletion, and blow forth the dense cloud " through his tambooty reed, until the powerful narcotic either lays them pros1 trate on mother earth or drives them 3 into paroxysms of madness. "I have r seen them so excited by smoking," says " one who knows them well, "that they > have jumped to their feet and run away > ?running till they were out of sight; 1 and on one occasion I remember a fellow ! f running at full speed, under the ins fluence of this excitement, till he 5 dropped down dead." It is clear 7 enough, from this example, that the J Zulu" knows nothing of the pipe of J peace, and that he would he a hopeful 1 subject for the philanthropic efforts of the Anti-Tobacco Society,?New Eng1 land Grocer. s Y Tlio TsliudI* A letter from one of Prof. Nordensk-1 e jold's assistants, recently published in various Scandinavian papers, gives an 1 interesting account of theTshudi, a pe. culiar race inhabiting the northeastern part of Siberia. They look very much j like the Greenlinders, are small but ? alert, have a brownish-yellow skin, with i! coal-black eyes and hair, and a singular j ioyless^almost frozen, expression of face. e They live in tents, dress in skins, and c feed on seal-fish. Their women are e tatooen in the race, in tiieir intercourse t with the crew of the VjfiKg, they were a j little shy, but curioui ike penguins, s and willing to help. Their moral ideas u were rather naif but firmly adhered to, ir as far as then went. Of their language, n a dictionary (Tshudi-Swedish) has been made, comprising about three hundred words, and it will, no doubt, prove of interest i<> the linguists, as the tongues o ot the Polar races have hitherto been as - great u puzzle to the philologists as those of the negroes of tropical Africa. FOB THE FUR SEX. White Bunting Drenei and Boitlci. Among the prettiest day dresses worn at Saratoga arid other resorts are those of the thin toile rcliaieuse. They are woin by ladies of all ages. One lady with gray hair worn in puffs, with, a white silk turban, has her white bunting dresses trimmed with black velvet bows; a younger lady uses plaitings of Breton lace on the knife-plaited tlounces, and white satin ribbon for a belt and sash. Still younger ladies choose contrasting colors of silk, especially the pale blue. The short white skirt has a shell flounce of pale blue at the foot The front and side gores are covered with pale blue brocaded silk set on in box plaits placed at wide intervals, and ending in a series of blue ribbon loops. The long white coat is of the Lafayette shape, with a shirred panicr vest of blue brocade drawn ' ~4k to disclose a deeper vest of plain ! *ae silk ' Bustles are again considered necessary to produce the bouffant effect now in vogue. When these elaborate draperies were revived it was hoped the dress material would be sufficient without o"wliort flm elmr Qlrirf. ia oupjJis&U) Kf uu n uvii wtiv ou\'i? >/??<?? worn, tlie overdress seems incongruous if too many breadths are put in it. The present styles, however, are not objectionable; it is only their exaggeration that is to be dreaded. Many ladies have never left off wearing a small crinoline tournure, even during the reign ofprineesse dresses, and it is this bustle that is now generally adopted for short dresses. 1 ' A* ? I. AMMk. f Alie lumitmiug nuustra uuumicuii must; with plaits, puffs, and flounces of the wiry crinoline, or else those of muslin furnished with half circular springs of tine French steel, so light and flexible that it is difficult to break them or to get them out of shape. These are S3. Other bustles are quite long, measuring about thirty inches, yet are meant to wear with short skirts. They have bias flounces of French corded crinoline mounted on muslin, in which springs are run; these springs can be easily re moved when the garment is laundried. These cost ?1.50 upward. Some have an extra ruiHe to extend over the hips and enlarge them. Longer bustles for trained dresses are similarly made, with stiller flounces to support the flowing train without obtruding itself; these cost ?2.50 upward.?Harper's Bazar. ChrJatine million. The following sketch of the Swedish songstress, Chnstme Nilsson, is said to be truthful: On a remote estate in Sweden iived a Baron Leheusen, whose wife was very musical. On these Swedish estates the peasants were, until within a few years, practically serfs, and are called Bunde and Torpare. The Bunde have about thirty or forty acres, and have to perform certain obligations to their landlord, such as tilling his ground with their horses or oxen, etc. The Torpare are cottagers with a small plot of ground, for which they have to pay a certain amount of dagswerke, or day's work, each week. Their food is obtained from the vegetables on tliese plots and from about two shillings per week for the labor of their free days. Nilsson's father was a Torpare of Baron Leheusen's, and the little Clristine used to run about barefooted, w ith a short petticoat on, full of holes, coming down to her knees. Baroness Leheusen one day heard her singing one of the old Swedish ditties winch have been handed down from generation to generation among the Bunde and Torpare. The baroness was struck with the sweetness of her voice, and ordered her to come up to the chateau; there she gave her some elementary lessons in singing, and then sent her to Paris, where she was placed under the tuition of a French professor. After several years of assiduous study she made her debut before the Parisians at?if I remember rightly?the Theater Lyrique. With the flrst money that she earned she built up the cottage of her old father, the Torpare, and made him comfortable, and he now is a well-to-do peasant. , Maniase of a Prince of Fiji* The marriage of Ratu Joe, the youngest son of ex-King Cakobau, litis a tinge of romance about it which does not often occur in Fijian marriages. The parents and friends of this young chief were desirous that he should wed with the daughter of Tul Suva, a damsel of equally distinguished descent and parentage with himself, and having a liberal dowry of broad lands with which to endow her spouse. The young lady, who, we understand, was by no means averse to the match, had been lorn? resident at Bau, and was being literally thrown at .Foe's head; but our Fijian " Romeo" remained firm in his refusal, and, on matters being pushed to extremes, went privately, accompanied by the fair object ot his choice, a maiden of comparatively humble birth, to the house of the resident missionary and was married. Great was the indignation at Bau when the mriPKinrra Vw?r??j mn Vnnwn CliUlCStlllC lUmil<(QV uv,vi.iuvy li. That such a magnate should marry without the usual solevu or feast was not to be tolerated; but'eventually Joe, who '.s a favorite, was pardoned by the old man, and a substantial feast, provided by the latter, appeased the wrath of the numerous friends and relatives, who have now determined to leave these true lovers to be happy if they can ?Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald. Types of Character on Railroad Trains. There are certain general types of character which are observable on almost every railway train, and with which we are so familiar that we pay them little attention. There is the man of many bundles, a family man of course, who bears in his countenance the painful consciousness of having lost someffo? cnmoflnntr anH wlin tiling U1 JUI^UILUI owiuvuiiiUQ, I?am n >iu, in a desperate endeavor to recover a parcel which has slipped down from one arm, scatters upon the car floor an :issortment of parcels which escape from the other, and are promptly "trodden upon by some h.isty wretch behind him. There is the mat who is always late, and who, dropping breathless into a seat after a brief race with the retreating train, wipes his perspiring brow and recites to his neignbor the circumstances of his detention and hurry. There is the nervous woman, who after havine studied all the time tables, scrutinized the placards on the cars, and harnusseri the ticket agent to the verge of insanity, afflicts her feilow-passengers with shrill and tremulous inquiries as to whether the train runs through to Albany, and whether the car she is in is the light one Hapless and careworn individual! Smal good does the journey do her, for the train lias lntrdly started before sue discovers that she has lost her ticket, und it is not until she is well alon" toward her destination and has "oad?d the conductor into a frenzy and herself into tears that she finds the bit of pasteboard in some unexplored recess of her travelinsbag, where she had placed it for safekeeping. There is the woman who will have the window open, and the irascible old gentleman immediately behind her who will have it shut; there is the market woman with gigantic baskets odorous of herring and onions and other delicacies; there is the man who sleeps the sleep of intoxication, and who, yielding only an inarticulate response to the protests of the conductor, and disclosing about his person no trace of n ticket, is presently bundled oft' by the brakemen; and there is the multitudinous infant, weary, wide-awake and vocifer ?ito ?n nhiocf- <-?f 1/vi I'll in r* nnil flptpsfn. tion to every bachelor in'the car.?BosIon Journal. Tin? New Haven Register sees one advantage in warm weather. At no olli??r season of the year can you spread ilif butter on the children's bread so cvenij and so thinly. .. . United States Life-Saving1 Service. How greatly the chances of escape from shipwreck along the coast have j been increased by this service will be seen by a few figures. When the service was reorganized in 1871, it was stated, again and again, by two members of Congress, that more than a thousand lives were lost annually upon the coasts of New Jersey and Long Island alone. No doubt this was an over-statement. : No careful account of the losses upon , these coasts had ever been kept; it was known, however, that during the twentyfive years previous to this time, five hun- ] I rirpfi and twelve Dersons had perished. an average ol twenty-five a year; and it | j was also certain that many more had been lost of whom no record had been made. During the five years beginning with 1871, only sixteen persons were lost < upon tliis coast, an average of but a little l! more than three a year. "In other ] words," says the report, " where twentyfive persons were annually lost (and 1 doubtless thrice that number) there are 'j now only,three." Sucti a record as this, the, general superintendent has a right , to say, ' has never been surpassed in the ' annals of efforts for the mitigation of 1 marine disastTT." ? J Such are some of the results; what are the means employed to secure them? At each of these life-saving stations are a keeper and a ciewofsix aurfmen. By these the beach is steadily patrolled at night, men going out in both directions from each station, until they meet the patrols from the nearest station on either side. Each patrol is furnished with a p red headlight, which lie burns on discovering a ship in danger, to alarm the a crew at the station and notify the wreck that relief is at hand. Then he hastens to the station to help in bringing up the apparatus for the rescue. A metallic life-boat and a small cedar surf-boat are f waiting there to be used when the conditions will admit; there is also a neat lit- J tie mortar (the pattern of which was designed by Lieutenant Lyle, of the Spring- ] fieid Armory), by which a shot-line may be sent over the wreck if it is not more . than five or six hundred yards from the shore. The line carries out a hawser, and upon that the people on board the s vessel are carried ashore, when the water * is so rough that the boats cannot be managed in it. The principal convey- 1 ances that travel by the hawser are the. t breeches-buoy and the life-car. The buoy is sufficiently described by its g name; it is suspended by a pulley to the ( hawser, and one person at a time is carried ashore by means of it. The life-car is "a covered boat, having a few air- f Holes in tne rop (tiiese pcnorauons Demg made from withm to prevent, by their raised edges, the water from readily entering), an interior capacity lor receiving from two to four persons for its load, and a ring at each to which are attached the hauling lines that enable it to be pulled to and fro through the water between the shore and the wreck." Besides tnese are life-rafts and cork-buoys, and those life-preserving suits in which Captain Boyton has performed so many wonderful exploits. A medicine chest contains stimulants and restoratives, and the crew are thoroughly trained in Howard's method 01 resuscitating the drowned.?Sunday Afternoon. What Happened in August. The month of August, although less crowded with battle anniversaries than June or July, has had an unusually large share of the world's greatest events. On the 3d Columbus sailed from Palos, in 1492, to discover a new world. The same day, twenty-seven years later, saw an exploit of almost equal daring?the outset of Cortez's overland march upon Mexico. The 4th gave the first blow to English feudalism by the overthrow of De Montfort's revolt against Henry III., in 1265. On the 10th, the storming of the Tuileries, in 1792, consummated the triumph of the French revolution. The 13th crushed at one blow the dear-bought supremacy of Louis X.IV.. by the defeat of Blen!-* im, in 1704. The 16th, 18th and 19th witnessed the great bathes ot Vionville and Gravelotte, and the complete surrounding of Metz, in 1870. The 26th is doubly memorable to France, sis * !?? r\f tho nrrn?l HpfpjLtQ IrlXt; nuui V tljdij Ui vuw jjivi.vvww ^ and greatest victories?the battle of l Crecy in 1346, and the commencement of ( Napoleon's two days' fight before Dresden in 1813. On the 28th of August, 1631, Gustavus Adolphus defeatea tho Austrians, under Count Tilly, at Leinsic; and on the 31st. Hood evacuated Atlanta at the approach of Gen. Sherman, in 1864. But in addition to all these famous days, this eventful month has witnessed the* execution of the Scottish patriot W;1,: .m Wallace (1305): the establish- x ment of the Reformed Church of Scot-' % land (156fl); the outbreik of the Seven 1 YearswWar (1756), as well as three of the greatest battles, Minden. Zorndorl ? and Liegnitz (1758-60); the birth of Sir c Walter Scott (1771); the liberation of 1 the Christian slaves at Algiers by Lord t Exmouth's bombardment of the" place 1 (1816)andGen. WinticldScott's Mexican victories of Cherubusco and Sa? Antonio (1847) \ " r A Hotel with a Million Rooms. . \ For the benefit of those unacquainted 1 with the term " dugout," as used in the [ far-West, says the New York Hotel Gazette, it may "be proDer here to state that \ in the early days of Kansas it was cus- j tomary, owing to the scarcity of timber, for tho nnnrpr rl>iss of settlers to make f, their houses in the ground, generally on *, the side of a hill or slope, if their claim t afforded such. This statement may at t first thought seem absurd, but it is a fact , well-known to those who have traveled through the West. Intelligent and well educated people, who from one cause or another incident to a lifetime had become reduced in circumstances, Jwere not unfrequentlv met with living in these "dugouts," with as much comfort and ease as many of their former associates in ipuch costlier homes at the East. Much depended on the muscle, ingenuity , and taste of the builder whether his t home looked like a wood-chuck hole or : - i 1 it JIUlLUlll l/KWitamuu. j In one of these "dugouts" a certain wealthy hotel proprietor in Kans:is lirst , commenced business ;is a caterer to the ( Kublic. Ilis patrons were cattle herders, , lexican " greasers" and railroad labor- | ers, who were content with the simple , fare lie set before them. His hotel contained two rooms, the " dugout" |and . the "boundless prairie." In the former 1 was kept the cooking utensils, stove, etc., J and the latter served as his bedrooms, i " I have a million rooms," he would say, 1 "room enough for the whole world, 1 and plenty to eat as long as the buffalo ! deer last." His customers, though of a rough class, paid their bills promptly, j which enabled him in a few months to 1 lay the foundation of qui'e a respectable { hotel. A thriving town grew up around him, and, as money continued toeome in, 1 hemade additions and added new attrac- ' tions, till to-day he enjoys the patronage < nf as line a class of travelers as visit the 1 West. Onality of (he Brain. The American Naturalist has an ac- ' count of a cheerful set of scientists in France, calling themselves the Societe d'Autopsie. Believing that the study of I fln> brain of a man whom we have ! known, not only through his works, hut in his diameter and faculties, ivi 11 contribute to the advancement of knovvl- 1 edge, the members of the society bind | themselves to surrender their brains to the inspection of their fel'ows immedi| ately upon death. The lirst to die was . Jules Asseza, thus losing his chance at [ any other member. The second was a M. Asseline, whose brain contradicts in . many ways important conclusions at which students of the brain thought they had arrived. The intelligence of M. Asseline was of an exquisite finesse that was pushed oven to subtlety.and yet the ' u>t!Volutions of his brain were thick and ' Iflfiie. Broc.i. the great -mthority on I was surpri * < ?! to tind it. of a coarse I. \t1HV Hope. I lay in grief, tad Hope drew near to where I tossed aloo* Without relief, \nd paused a moment whon she heard that moan; L'hen mised her glowing eye* and met mine own. Never a word she said, i'ct still I gazed and still was comlorted. [hen bending low with wond'rons gra She laid her luvnd upon my eyes, Eler cool hand on my burning lace, And at her touch bright visions rise, w<w1a nfrouma flnfl nnfaaiflfalid skies. . In softest tone ilio sang the song that has no elof?? ['hitt deathless song which no one knoirt Save she alone; ['lie song that leaves no memory, ["he song of endless victory And fatore love;* lud (is I listened to the voice above, lelt as one returning from the doad. . ilowly 1 rose and raised my drooping heed. ?All the Year Round. , ITEMS OF INTEREST. A prowed thing?A ship. Apopka, Fla., grows three-a.nd-a-halllound onions. The Rome Sentinel says a postman is i> man of letters. A chicken hawk is the bird to raifi? thickens.?New York Mail. The best wire-pullers?Telegraph re- ' >airers.?New York Express. Stanley the indefatigable is again in Africa, busy in exploring schemcs. The probate duty on the will of the ate Baron Rothschild amounts $4-12,500. Animated people?those who hare aken an electric shock .?Modern Arqo. Our grief may be guessed from the olace self-deception we resort to.? lichter. . . Some of the New York gambling house* lave been found to be connected by elephone. According to an official return, seventy- . even persons died of starvation in Lonlon last year. Disraeli has written his own biography, to which he is in the habit of addng almost daily. Selling introductions to beauties is the ast method of money-making introduced it the English fairs. One Boston firm sold 16,000 panes of ;lass at retail the day after the great torlado and hailstorm. % A woman at La Salle, 111., has been deected stealing prayer-books from the lurches as a business The puzzle which careful nu " ?rs try o solve is how to train the girls ana low to restrain the boys. People who struggle to the tops of the Swiss mountains are those who may be aid to most enjoy a foreign climb.' The amount of pin-money required by '? he married woman depends on whether ihe uses diamond pins or rolling-pins. Many a young lady who has a rich p* s pressed for money. Ask her young gentlemen friends.?Yonkcrs Statesman Donald McLeod.a veteran of Waterloo, lied at Cleveland, Ohio, recently, one iiindrcd years, six months and twenty;wo days old. All should adopt this stirring motto luring the heated term: Our temper: t must and shall be preserved.?Kansas jity Times. There have been constructed in the Jnitfcd States since the great crash in , : i873, and within a periodoi five years, il.563 miles of railroad. A child remarked, after gazing earicstly at a man who was bald, but had icavy whiskers, " His head was put on ipside down, wasn't it?" Canada has 7,095 miles of railroad in >peration and under construction. Her ailways represent a nominal capital >utlay of upward of 8360,000,000. Green apples have arriven, And mothers will be given Enough to do; For the youngster, they will eat 'em, And the mother* they will beat 'em, Then won't they rue? ?Meridtn Recorder. There are 3,927 churches or places of vorship in the republic of Mexico, of vliich twenty-seven are Protestant and he balance lioman Catholic A young man has been courting die ;irl live years, and every time he lias ailed during the past six months sho lad fed him on pop-corn. But he doesn't ake the hint?and pop \?Norristown Icrald. A newly-married lady w.-u telling mother how nicely her husband could vrite. " Oh, you should just see some >f his love-letters!" '"Yes, I know,", vas the freezing reply; "I've got a )ushel of them at home in my trunk." Tableau.] The cactus grows to a wonderful size n Arizona. One variety grows to the leigh"; of sixty teet, and measures ix feet in diameter. There are ire fifteen or twenty varieties, three of vhieh bear fruit that is highly prized by he Indians, who depend largely upon hem for sustenance. When evening pale o'er de wy vale A somber shade is throwing, And twinkling eyes in azure skiea With gold aru overflowing, When all is still, and wood and hill. Proclaim the day's abduction, Thon do the sinful gnats begin To double on their suction. ? Wvlt Whipple. Nothing usually creates more consternation among the females of a family han to have the door-hell ring at nine n the morning while the hired girl is lown at the grocery after potatoes, riiey can't make up their minds whether to show up at the door with no "inmo inrl nn hi?lt. im t.hpir wranners. Evait on the girl, or ask " Who's there?" y^tween the shutters of a second-story .vindow.? Wheeling Leader. After the recent death of a Piute chiej n Nevada, an admiring Indian concluded ;o kill his own sauaw, so that she could tccompany the chief to the happy huntng grounds; hut the woman did not tvish to be sacrificed, and so made her escape. The Indian then seized a baby, juried it to the neck in the ground, and stood guard over it, intending to let it starve to death. After three days, the :-hild was rescued by white men. f There is a large family of Bonaparte? living in Rome?die grandchildren of Lucien Bonaparte?all of whom are excluded from the line of succession to the French empire by the law disinheriting the children oi Lucien who incurred the severe displeasure of his brother, the first emperor. The oldest of the family is " it r n uarcnimi J^ucion louis r>on:ip?irt*% wuw ives :i very quiet life in Rome and is universally respected for his pinty and charity, it is brother. Prince Napoleon Charles, and his four sisters, all married to distinguish Italian noblemen. belong mostly to the Catholic-Conservative party. The Transatlantic circus bad a lively day at Leesville, Ind. Some sharpers who accompany.the show, failing in their attempt to swindle a resident with cards, snatched his money and hid in one of the tents. Soon afterward one of the women equestrians stole a watch from a man's pocket as she passed through the crowd. Flic robbed men fired into the tents with their revolvers. The showmen retaliated by seizing three villagers, dragging them into a tent, and whipping them soundl' with r;>whid"s. This incc-iscd thecrowu and a : neral fight. ensued, in which four 1 I slmwui. ii ;iT>il <>w vj|!iig>'r won? wounnm witli Ijij