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., , ? , ,.*wv. .. -. * -? ' . A- - -?- V ? - ' ?0?|| ,n??iOif?T-f"?-- - '. V?'"'" i'l ? ' ' . _ ' ? j ~ ; t " v' ?*" ' . " ' > .' I'1' "' 'v-r ' " "'" --"-T"-.r ^^f / e . '. ' y* - ? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANKER. i3 ' . ***??,- '% ?m ' J -,*U..' : . V *V i 1 _ . ' * : > BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY 7, 1880. NO. 31. VOLUME XXV v. ?J| ? . . ' 'w lis - 1 - \i ' : ~~ 5 ' i mzir; ^5~ . j& The Years are Passing By. The years are passing by ! We watch, as from an open door fheir passage through time's corridor; Kach shadow, in its tailing, slopes Across the graves ot buried hopes; The pulse of being slower beat Through winter snows, through summer heats, And laith and hope and love grow cold As we grow old, as we grow old ! The years are passing by! The years are passing by! Time's record hath such pages blurred, With hasty deed, with bitter word, Such sad mistakes mark iill life's years We scarce can read, because ot tears. We see dead laces on the wall, We hear dead voices in the halls, We touch some hands on bended knee, We kiss some lips we cannot see? The years are passing by. The years are passing by! They carry with them as they go The rain, the sunshine and the snow; Tbey leave behind the drift ot days Wherein each sonl some penanco pays; Some hopes we have, but not our own! Some loves we cherish, not alone! And there are leaves and ladod flowers That tell sad tales in memory s hours. The years are passing by! The years are passing by ! The seal of silence on our lips We closer press. Time's umbra dips To deeper 'lnrknes9 down the lane Through which we walk to hide our pain. We smile and smile as one who bears A lile untouched by grief or cares, But when in solitude we wait * We bow our head at sorrow's gate, The years are passing by! The years are passing by! Another joins the passing band! Oh! is there not some other l^nd . Where compensation lor all ills Tfie measure oflite's being fills? We wait the answer, but in vain; The shadow falls; a sense of pain Kests on us wheresoe'er we go And whispers of the soil afid snow. The years arfcpassingbv! ? TV. E. Pubor. HOLLY. A CHRISTMAS STOHV. v- AikI the holly-boughs whispered each to eae'.i, *' riie world may talk and the world may ? ' *'' preach, Bat the grandest labor in life we sayIs, 'mid sunshine, frosts and vapors grey, Preparing to shine on Christmas day.'" It is Christmas Eve, and only the firelight reveals a girlish figure leaning back in a chair, the while she steadfastly hides her face with her thin white hands. The door opens, and another figure, gliding in. kneels down by the first, and playfully withdrawing these san-e bonds, says, " Elizabeth, darling, vnu will come down. For my sake, dear." 41 1 hardly know." "You shall come down the back stairs tvith me, love, and go into the back drawing-room by the door at the end of the corridor. Nobody need see you. or know you are there?nobody but. John, and darling, it is cruel to disappoint him." " Very weli," and then Elizabeth rises to do even as the other has said. But the other lights the candles on the table first, and gives just a little r tender touch here and there to Eliza beth's aress una nair?me iornier is black luce with a scarlet bow or two. and the latter lies in tiny soft rings all over Elizabeths head. Time was when she would have never dreamt of looking like thi?, and then she leans forward to take a strangely earnest gaze at the face which the dressing-class reveals?a face, thin, dark, and disfigured, but which was once fair and bright as loving eyes could wish. Tears, great passionate tears, drop on to her dress as she turns away, for the girl believes she has a life-long burden laid upon her. " Darling, you wili break my heart." "No," Pauline, not that, and you must forgive me. Besides, 'tis Christmas. too, and we must try to be happy." And she laughs a little, for all her tears of a minute before. Then they go down stairs together, and Pauline takes Elizabeth to the back drawing-room as she had said, where she stirs the fire to a brighter blaze, lights the branches, and then goes away, for she has some little order to giver especting tea, which is tobe served fcnrrw'wlint difi'erentlv to the usual wav to-night. And Elizabeth sees, when she is gone, that the door between the two drawing-rooms is sliirhtly ajar; obey ing a sudden impulse, she therefore deadens the tire by beating it a little together; then, putting out the lights, crosses ov^r ail tremblingly to the door, which she opens wider still; so wide indeed, that, sitting in the durk corner opposite, where the fire-light cannot * come, her eyes are able to traverse the whole spfice beyond. lJauline has not yet returned, only the ladies are there, and these do not interest Elizabeth; and as she sits find waits her thoughts travel baek into the months which have come and gone. It seems but :ts yesterday when she stood in the sweet spring sunlight, with the lindens whispering above and the myrtles sighing below, while the old postman assorted his letters, arranging them after his own slow fashion before giving into her hands the one which had bidden her come to this home, thi6 home in which she was so much prized and beloved. For they?Pauline and she v;ere gjphans. They had lived, to .till the former mirried one of the fashionable English visitors who frequented the place in Germany where they were, with relations who loved them none too fondly. Therefore it was arranged that so soon as Pauline had settled down in her English home, Eliza beth should be sent for to share with her the fttttshine of her new, fair life. And glad, free, and loving, she had come. No matter what bright dreams had in** > terwoven themselves into the summer ' .months?Elizabe h hurries past them, on to what she believes has changed her whole life-currfnt from its course. In some way, toward the end of these same bright months, smallpox became , rife in the village, and Elizabeth's maid who had come with her from the fatherland, was among the first to sicken of he complaint. Sae was very ill. and craved for Elizabeth the whole time through; therefore, for very love, although a trained and proficient nurse was from the first p-ocured, Elizabeth cameand wentcontinually from her own room te that of tlifc sick girl. She would hold intercourse with none of the others . ?she even begged them to go and leave her. but all bravely stayed on; and, strange to say none took the infection save Elizabeth only. The maid died but her ' mistress soothed her to the last; then she herself sickened, but knowing what was & upon her, she had strictly enjoined for Pauline not to come near her, which order the nurse had carried out?for if it spread further* where might it not end? Then she, the girl whose Christian love had been her guide, arose from her bed, her beauty gone, and in her weakness she now, as than, questions the wherefore of the whole matter. They had taken her away to the sea as soon she was anywise to fit to be removed. Now, however, they had come back for Christ mas,for al), even Klizabeth,craved ^ for the sweet home peace of their own place. And t.iere was yet another reason why Elizabeth longed to comc?for the swee: dream of her life must be put side. Better do it at once, she says to -? herself; and yet she shrinks from it. gre The door of the outer room opens, and wo one by one the gentlemen enter just as lin/ they will, for this is but a home gather- she ing amongst near friends. Elizabeth I notes but one, the one who she knows but by the very instinct of her own loving to heart is longing even now to see her. rig] Pauline follows a moment later, they Yo' speak together, then they glance at the too open door and the darkness beyond; alt! they think that she is not there, and lov Pauline turns as thoudito go out again her ?probably to seek Elizabeth, so the litt latter thinks-when some one of her try visitors stops her on the way. John it a Carr crosses the room to where a pretty Stil girl sits, arrayed in white with pale 'A blue in her hair and about her dress. 1 Elizabeth sighs. This same girl, she the has heard, is fond of John, although wil society at large has set her down to the but | second son, Edward, who, not being A rich, must needs marry a lortune witn atte his wife. Still, things have never gone sin.! smoothly between the heiress and this ear last, and while the men blame Edward aft( himself in the matter, the women say of that the fault is the girl's own, in that ear she cares more for John; which Eliza- ing beth. viewing him with her eyes, thinks ing i is but natural after all. And Elizabeth to t I knows, as she watches John Carr, that shii his heart is hers alone now. She feels yet proud too. just tor a little minute; then of passing her hand over her poor face, so plu as to assure herself that it Is all a reality, rcai she says that the heart will soon have moi to be given up, for that he who loved kne her before will not love her now; and, of 1 besides that, no word had passed be- too! tween them, so that it will all be very whi easy to forget and undo. Easy?when end she is suffering agony all the while! as t But for this iriving up, jealousy had had her no place within her; now she grudges her the smiles he bestows upon this other, Car thinking that when ail is over, if she, pasl this other, should ever stand in the place she hits destined for herself, it will DM illUU, VCIJ UiUU, x,\r unun. niuuij \jt her. A little piece of holly fulls from a jj wreath close hv. she picks it up, and on then the spirit of the season comes back teu< to her once again. pre' Then she looks calmly on the rest. She sees Edward Carr standing ap.irt jn gloomily watching the other two. She nan wonders if he loves Julia Hammond. ti,c She thinks he must or he would not look wj,( so, and then she pities him and hopes jj_ that all will yet be right for him in the end. Paulirir is gone now, soon she to t will be back here to find her. John is g^, anxious, as she can se? by the way in ?i which he watches the door for Pauline's ?] return. Ah, well! she will be brave:, fiay she will let John see that she can give jlow him up, and not even expect him to wjt] care tor her now; and after that she will ]jav trust to Jesus to bear her on. It is w'}1( wonderful how, having made up her ]es8 mind, she forgets self; she sees now her( that Julia and Edward have exchanged \ slancos, that Julia reddens considerably, a?aj and that John, noting the cause, leaves her as though to speak to his brother. s;er But he encounters Pauline instead, and * ] together they come now Elizabeth's ar01 way. > jn t] Her courage is fast dying out, yet mor when Pauline enters, leaving John out- jau| side by the half-closed door, she man- ?j ;tges somehow to whisper that she is strong, and that he may come in. j She trembles as she holds out hrr easj hand for him to take; siio cannot speak 4.^ i.:? <1.i.? l.oc I V in answer luius miuu^u uc ***w> 2mQ railed her Elizabeth, though lie scorns put well-nigh beside himself with joy at the a ^ thought of being near her. So she but pro. strokes the piece of holly she holds, the { jc while she wonders what Pauline lnis begj told him, lor she has promised to pre- tails pare him somewhat for the change |jmj which has taken place. (;ov< " Elizabeth, you do not say .you are sejz, glad to see me?do not wish me even a [ w.r happy Christmas," and he bends low, as unti though to read the expression of her wiij face. had But Elizabeth draws back. Poor ;lnd Elizabeth! "I am glad," she says, peni nervously, " glad to come back too and I s:l see everybody." youi *' Say you are glad to come back for SCra my sake," lie urges, gently, taking her " if hands in his. * "Oi " I cannot say that?you will not he a wish me to by-and-bye." she begins, und but he interrupts her. in m "Elizabeth, I do wish it. I cannot fUm tell how strong you are, or if I am wise 0n a to speafc like this to you to-night, but and dariing, darling, it must surely do you don good, and not harm, to know that I love verj you?love you so much, Elizabeth, that in a no Christmas joy will be mine unless titer I have your dear love too in turn. Oh, " Y< Elizabeth, if you only knew how pre- ? Y< cious you are to me!" and he would "l< have kissed her, but that she gently put wen him back. slnu Tlion lie t-nolt nt. )ipr fppt. .. v* beth, Pauline lias told me of a change," assis lie speaks softly, as though he scarcely :iddi earea to mention it, " but whatever the ] change there is will be nothing tome, ami can be nothing. Oh, Elizabeth, how Wh: could you, can you dream of its beinsr nisc aught tome? Elizabeth, you love me.litil< "Yes. But?but it must, it must be 0fti over now. Indeed, indeed it must!" only " Not if you love me." was Suddenly Elizabeth raises her head just and looks him straight in the face, al- that though it is too dark for either to dis- havi cern the other's features. " Very well sera ?but?you must ask me again?by-and- he n bye." "( 44 For the last time then, Elizabeth," said he says, and as she complains of feeling had tired, he leaves her to herself to think Uon it all over. hav< She watches him as he pauses by Julia hav< Hammond. He speaks a single word to Hug her, and she sees how glad and yet restless the girl's lace grows at the bare rwuuu v/x mo iaw< sinj DIi^Jir> Jin herself, :is she thinks that after to-night all will be over for her of youth, for she xi is going presently, when she has strength "Cc sufficient for the ordeal, to go out among \Ter the rest, that so he may compare her not i face with theirs, and then decide for fout himself. For her own part, she will see t.0r if he at all shrink, and then she knows 'pyi( well what her answer will be. And uter presently she glides forth, a shadow, a tlie wreck of her old self, as she feels, and ?t:lt knows; and friends who have nevtr jn" ] dreamt of her nearness to themselves gather about her, the while she reads !ind pity and a great shock upon all their vou faces. But her eyes wanders oft' to muc where John and Edward (Jarr stand. t|je To be sure, John's face changes a little, ,iajt but it is only with surprise at her sud- iJOu den appearance: the look which remains tioe( is that for which she has longed, that t,w which she had resolved not to expect, ODe] and then?all seems a blank. ]0f Presently, she scarce knows how it a g< all comes about, she finds herself outside a rs in the corridor with John alone, his also arm about her, as he supports her to a erie chair standing near. oth< She looks up inquiringly?she feels The that she may look up at him now, and spe for rpply he says, "The heat was too whi much for you in there?you were not] fnint and so T hrouffhfc vou liorp. "Eliza beth"?his voice is strangely tender, even for a lover's?" your one look told me all. I shall never ask you t he ques- T tion again," and then he kissed her hap faded cheek as ardentiy and more rever- othi ently than as though it had been fresh toni and fair as it once was. Elizabeth, full oeuld you not understand and believe pets that for the past, and risking of your " A dear life, I should but love you the Aid more? If ray heart was ever yours, hor darling, it was yours most surely then dea when you watched by that dying bed; the and now that you bear the holy impress wal of vour charity upon your dear face, I lore can but glory in you, in that you have tun followed the steps ot One who left us an can example long ago, which example old you have followed." clai Oh, how her eyes shine, those liquid poi eyes which are still the same aa ever, 'W and unchanged. Another couple steal intx out on to the corridor. Lamps are abl burning here and there amidst the fes- bib toons and greenery which the servants to < have hung about to show a ChriBtmas as i eting?oil, it is a erand place for oing out here! and Love himself rers amid the evergreen shade, and ds his blessing about their way. Jlizabeth scarce nutes the other two, ; John Carr says, as though musing himself and her: "I've set matters Li "VT_ J 11 in now lor men as wen as myseu. u see, because of her money he was proud to go in and win, and she, lough she had a mind to be wooed for e. was yet shy of her being taken for money alone. Then, like a silly le maid as she was, she must needs smiling upon me; but I saw through il, and that it was but to pique Ned. 11. all's well that ends well, and I say' glorious Christmas to us all. " 'hey are all four together now, and girls kiss each other because they 1 not cry: for tears seem to them as the natural result of so much joy. ind Elizabeth feels strong enough irward to j.-in with the others in ;ing the an pels'song of "Peace on th," for it is now nearly midnight, >r which she goes to bed and dreams the bit of holly she has picked up ly in the evening, and that it is tellher the little story of its life. Notheventful had come to it more than he rest of its fellows, only the suntie, frosts and snows of earth; and it had striven hard from the hour its birth till the Jay when it was eked from its parent stem to be rty both to give and take at this >t blessed season. It said that it w Christmas was coining with all ove, gifts and gladness, and that it k heart, drawing back from nothing icli should bring about its desired A PKwnKnfli f Inwlro iVUVt J. ilUU JLJUUi^U^Vtl UllliinO) he glad bells greet her waking, that year has prepared r.er likewise for Christmas joy; for does not John r iove lier but the more for what the t has brought her? Victor lingo and the Barber. jalmarHjortli Boyeson in an article Victor Hugo in Scril>ncr'ls Monthly ? the following Anecdote of the nch poet: In tne year 1848 Victor *olived in the Plane Royale, and was the habit of patronizing a barber led Brassier, who had his shop in vicinity. One morning a gentleman, ) for convenience sake I shall name ?, entered the barber's shop, seated ;self in a chair, and elevated his chin tie proper angle, while Brassier stood meninjr his razor. Iv'eli, Brassier, how is business?" Excellent, sir, excellent! I should it is even too good, for I don't see r I and my boys are to get through ti all our engagements which we e to-riav. Balls and parties everyire! We have to dress the hair of no than thirty ladies fgr to-night. Look i is the li6t of their addresses.' few days later Mr. H was in seated in Brassier's chair. -low about your thirty ladies, Brasp Don't speak of it, sir. I didn't get ind to more than half of them. And iie end I shall lose half a dozen or e good customers, and it is all the tofM. Victor Hugo.' 3ow the fault of M. Victor Hugo? at has he to do with your clientsP'l [t is just as I say, sir. and you will ly comprehend it. A tew moments r you left, M. Victor Hugo entered seated himself in this very chair. I the napkin around his neck, seized avinK-brush. and was about to apich him, when he cried: "Wait." pulled a pencil from 1 lis pocket, and in to fumble impatiently in his coati and in his breast pocket without ing what he sought. At last he disced a piece of paper on that stand, ed it and began to write. Although is hard pressed for time, I waited 1 he should have finished. But he? r he paid no more attention than if I never existed, but scribbled away, only stopped occasionally to bite his iil. " Well, go on, scribble away," id to myself. "If you can read it rself you are lucky." Such terrible wl! And pooplecall.him a fine writer! you are at liberty, sir!" I said, le moment, and I shall have done," nswered. But the moment passed, I was still standing with a soap-dish iy hand and brush full of lather, and J - IT Mil . ^ ing wiia impatience, ne sun Kept s before, scribbling away, stopping, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "Parrae, sir," I ventured to say, " I am much pressed " " Ah, you are hurry," lie replied; " so am Iand i he made for the door and went. >ur hat, sir." I cried after him. ju are right," lie answered, smiling, lid not think of that." And off lie t, without even allowing me to re him. )' Gentlemen, you.have not loment to lose," I shouted to my >tants. "You will each goto the ess which I shall give you. Here is list?well, where is the list? Wait a nute! I declare?where is that list? it have you done with that list, you als?" " Six', it was on that stand a 3 while ago." " There! Are you sure iat?" "Indeed I ittn, sir." Heavgracc! only that was wanting. It on my list that M. Victor Hugo had been writting. It was my list, sir, he had carried away with him, after ins covered it all over with his wl. Do you understand now how lade me lose my customers!1 Compose yourself.my dear Brassier," Mr. H . " If this scrap of paper not been found to receive the inspiraof the poet, French literature would * 1/\of cAmn trnvv finn roi*fldfl Ynil 2 been the collaborcUcur of Victor ;o, :ind that is no small honor." The First American Drama. ;ie first American drama was the ntrast," written by Itoyal Tyler, a mont lawyer of marked ability. He only wrote the first American play, also the first American tale, the latbeing "The Alegerine Captive.' ?r was an able jurist as well as a ateur, and reached the dignity of supreme court bench in his native e. The " Contrast" was performed Sew York in 17P(?, and was highly alar. It abounds in Yankee dialect, its leading character is a rustic th who comes to New York and is :h surprised at city life. He goes to theater to seethe " School for Scan"and when he gets to his boarding sc he complains of the fraud pracri upon him. " Instead of a theater, j only lifted a green curtain, which icd into a neighbor's house, where a of folks were talking. There was )od-natured sort of a husband and mtinrr cnrf nf u wifo " TvIpv wrote a play showing up the missofa New York May day, and an3r entitled " Lands in the Moon1" latter was a severe satire upon the miating mania of that time, a fact eh reminds us that such things are liing new. A Witty Teetotaler. he correspondent of a London paper pened to be on Peckham Rye the sr day wlien one of the disciples of peranee was holding forth. After a flavored attack on the " Goverment as he styled tne publicans, he snid: clinvh time jurn T was coming from ridge's, where I had been to buy a se lor my cab; I saw a woman lying d drunk on the cellar-flap of one of neighboring public houses; so I Iked in to the bar and said to the land1: 'One of your sign-boards has lbled down.' The old gouty publiand his pot-boy, who was rather nr than his master, came outside, eximing, 'Where?' 'There!' I said, nting to the heap of rags on the flap, by don't you take it inside and put it > your window, as all other respecte tradesmen do with their goods, and el it,' Our1 own manufacture, made jrder,' instead of leaving it out here, if you were ashamed to own itP" TIMELY TOPICS. se P. One of the most peculiar wills on record is the subject of contest in the New York surrogate's court. It was made fo by Isaac W. Potter, now deceased, on ti< the 28t.li of February last, and bequeaths C< as a legacy to the heirs of the testator, a ap lawsuit, which has been pending for a of long time between the deceased and di Mary Ann Coulter, whom he accuses of in having wrongfully deprived him of cer- gl tain property. Until this litigation is in settled, not a cent of the estate of Mr. pr Potter is to go to the heirs, but all is to cc be appropriated to the payment of coun- en sel fees. pc th A nice little book to which some H generous folk may like to have their jo' attention directed is the new "Chinese 1,1 Encyclopedia.1' It has just been com- 8t; pleted, and is hot lrom tho press, with J51* a sumptuous guaranty in the form of "j! an imperial vermillion edict. It com- of prises only five thousand and twenty 80 volumes, and may be had for the trifling fr sum of seven thousand five hundred |al dollars. This is far more voluminous as well as more costly than encyclo- Pr pe- ias are apt to be in benighted ^ Caucasian lands; but then the Mongo lian empire has vastly more people to fy! read them. Thins of an encyclopedia Ul in five thousand volumes! m' su v?i sppmq tn t XM>1 ?UUU spui. -he the happiest hunting ground. Two at, Scotch gentlemen who are traveling f0' over the world, and everywhere looking an for good shooting, have goi.e to San ur Frnnciseo after several months' sport -j<| along Montana rivers. They say they w were never in want of something royal to sh ot at, finding buffaloes, elks, hears, deer, antelopes, mountain lions, lynxes, wildcats, and other game in abundance. They brought as trophies magnificent sets of elk and deer antlers, buffalo. ('1J heads, bear and other robes. Twenty- us eight bears, mostly Grizzlies, fell prey to v' their rifles. One of these was estimated th to weigh 1,200 pounds, and measured or thirty-three inches around the forearm. PC The robe, handsome and well preserved, tb measures eight feet three inches from in nose to rump. so (TP pL Ro:id robbers stop and plunder overland stages and strip their passengers in Idaho to-day as coolly as in the olden f0 times. A short time ago masked high- ;n waymen stopped and robbed a stage ^ coach at Pilgrim Springs station, tying tnd blindfolding drivers and passengers, he and breaking open Wells, Fargo & Co.'s pj treasure box. They were very non- ra chalant and deliberate, stopping on the cr spot and cooking their supper. They were careful, however, not to interfere to with the United States mails. Soon aj atter they had gone, some men arrived to aid the stage passengers, and rode on ar horseback, at the .highest speed, 450 rj miks, finally overtaking and capturing ca two of the highwaymen and bringing pf them back prisoners. Souls that thirst cr for stirring adventure may still find rj, what they want if they go far enough U1 westward. w a] The work of the New York associa- br tion.for the improvement of the poor is rii so systematic, intelligent and important of that the thirty-fifth annual report, 01 which has just been issued, merits the gc attention of all who are interested in st practical benevolence. A summary of fri the year's work shows the total number vr of families relieved to have been 11,132. pc In many cases relief was given more en lian once to the same family, so that w; this total does not represent the number al of separate families who were aided, w The latter is estimated in round num- to hers at 5,000 families, or, allowing five to each family, about 20,000 persons. w The total amount of relief afforded was ,!l 821,691, almost wholly in groceries, Sr with less than $2,000 for coal and shoes, and $1,582 in cash, for rent, medicines, tj1 movinir exDenses, takine articles from pawn, etc. This total represents a little ^ over four dollars for each family, or about one week's support. The figures are important as showing the actual number of applicants for aid, and how cJj much benefit can be rendered by a of moderate outlay. "V dn At the meeting of the National Agri- ^ cultural Society, held in New York, Prof. Maniy Miles delivered an address ti. on the "Correlation of Animal Form." an He spoke of the differences that existed between animals of the same species, a, aad of the importance of being able to jP] decide which is the best for the produc- 0f tion of the greatest quantity or best an quality of whatever is required, whether op of work, of meat or of wool. There are two methods of determining value of ne onupjtrv nnrl tlipir i. MUC* , ii) m>-? j ?j nt, form. The law of the correlation of ^ f.;rm is that where one peculiarity is jn observed it is always accompanied by co another corresponding peculiarity. For tjj instance, the smooth teeth of carniverous animals are always accompanied by jn; jaws working vertically and the rough ,n teeth of ruminants by jaws having a 0T lateral motion. In meat-producing 'pi (tattle, too, great length indicates bad ^r feeding qualities, and too great depth, an inclination to develop too much fat. on A perfect meat-producer must be the <re mean in all respects, without too much f:l| dsveiopment in any one direction. an pr Calcraft, the English hangman, is dead. For fortj -one years every execution in England was managed by him, bo and during that period he "worked an | off" over two thousand convicts sen- --tcnced to death. His time was occu- ^u pied in his deadly business to such an * 1 extent, that his dates ahead were care- J, fully noted before death sentences were ~.f imposed, lest one engagement might conflict with the other. In his later years Calcraft made a strong effort to enable his children to outlive the stigma ] that attached itself to t^eir father's is position. He educated them liberally, tin and at length one of them entered the an Indian civil service and fulfilled his ari duties creditably. There was at first a tai great outcry azainst the appointment, un but. it died out as the young man pur- ne: sued his ?vay evenly and gave satisfac- bl< tion. In his treatment of prisoners who it were to be hanged, Calcraft was curt syi and business-like. At a hanging in vij Dundee the rope broke, and the hang- on man always afterward furnished tlie tai ropes himself, and was very careful to les personally inspect the arranging of the th gallows and everything pertaining to it. tnl The recent attempted assassination of in1 Lord Lytton in Calcutta by a lunatic ev recalls the fate of the last Viceroy of in; India but one?the Earl of Mayo, on the no eight of February, 1872. Lord Mayo vi< ? TTteJf fr\ t)\n A rs H n m u ri iclnnHQ whore he hud inspected the various in- foi stitutions of the convict colony. Ho ha went to the summit of i\Iount Harriet at a < sunset, and walked down with Count ca YValdstein and Captain Iiockwood in or advance, the other live members of his ha staff close together and an armed police soi cuard atn soldiers arounn ano in me nn rear. Darkness falls rapidly in those to cliira|^, and ere tlie narrow stone pier ah was reached torches had to be lighted, eo They were only twenty-live yards from til the boat, the escort being close to Lord kii Mayo on both sides and the police and of his body servant in the rear, when a mi man suddenly sprang out of the dark- be ness and stabbed the viceroy twice, on fir the left shoulder and under the right a shoulder-blade. Lord Mayo ran for- it ward a few paces and fell over the pier Jo into the shallow water. He got up himself and was helped out, his shoulder bleeding copiously. Hp walked firmly, otl felt his wounds, nnd said: " I don't ce think I am much hurt." After the ah woundB had been bound up he mur- hn mured twice, "Lift up my head"?and ar expired. The assassin, who waa seized ar on the spot, proved to be a convict " named Shere Ali, sentenced to penal t< rvitude for a murder committed .'at jshawur in 1867. At the final meeting of the newlyrmed American Agricultural Associa3n, held in New York. Professor Peter jllyer, chemist of the United States ricultural department, gave an account the investigation wl>ich he had conlcted during the past two years regardg the extraction of sugar from sorlum and from cornstalks. He said that five years he expected this country to oduce all the sugar needed for home nsumption, and in ten years to produce ongh for export, though now it imtrted $100,000,000 worth of sugar, more an the value of the gold produced, is experiments had been made upon ur kind.? of sorghum. He naa iouna at in the early part of the season the alks contained five per cent, of unystalizable sugar and one and oneilf to two per cent, of sugar capable crystalization. Later in the sean the amount of the former had deeased to one or two per cent, and the tter had increased to thirteen or fouren per cent. The amount of the sugar oduced in the latter case was as great could be obtained from sugar-cane, is experiments with cornstalks had so been successful. Out of the syrups at he had obtained, ninety per cent, or ore of the amount was found to be gar. The cornstalks were still of ilue after the syrup had been extracted, answer to questions, Professor Collyer ited that the best time to use the stalks r sugar-making was just at maturity, id that the cost of a machine to make > ten or fifteen acres was about $150. le production of sugar from corn-stalks as about 1,300 pounds to the aci German Village Life. Living also is fairly good and very icap in any one of the taverns whicfi lUally line the main street of a German llage. They are easily recognized by e sign 01 a stag. a utm, n &uu> u sun, a tree, cut in meial or wood, and susinded in the street. Latterly, however, e custom has come into vogue of printg the name of the tavern on the house, that the guests are no longer in danir of mistaking, a lion for an ox, or of lagining they are in the tavern " Zur nde" when they are in the " Sun." tie room you receive is clean and comrtabl#, but if you co to bed with the tention of sleeping late you will cerinly lind yourself, deceived. After ree o'clock in the mor ling the streets igin to get noisy in a decidedly uneasant manner. In larger cities coachen and ox drivers are forbidden to ack their whips without occasion, and ?eems as if in the villages they wished make up for lost times. Drivers of 1 sorts vie with each other to see who ,n crack often est in half a minute; id while some apr.ear to imitate the fles cn a battlefield, set off by the oc.sional boom of a cannon, others, more xwnfn 1 lv inflinpH qlinw t.hpir skill 5n acking littl" tunes?that is, the lythrn of them?in a manner which ider other circumstances would be ortl.y of all admiration. Under such regime you will be apt for.the time to :i?me a convert, to tha theory of early sing, and to while away the lirst hours the morning you may put your head it of the window and observe what is ling on at the fountain across the reet, whither the water is conveyed t>Qi a neighboring hill. Here the serint girls bring their salads and their itatoes to be washed for dinner, and to rry bnek ?bucket or a little tub of titer for home consumption. This is ways carried on the head, balanced ith creat skill, and it is most amusing observe two or three of these women issipping for five minutes and longer, ithout ever thinking of meanwhile king the heavy load off their heads. ?me of these giris are rather handsome r girls of their class, not so plump as e Bavarian or so angular ana plain as e North German women. In fact, xt to the Rhine provinces, I believe e finest looking girls in the empire are be seen in and about Stuttgart?the ference being here chiefly to the better isses of society. A peculiar element beauty here which has often struck V attention is that so many of the laes, he they blondes or brunettes, have ry long and dark eyelashes, a custom liich is worthy of imitation by the sex general. In brightness and vivacity e Saubian girl is something deficient, d her chief mental characteristic, as the men, is still her Gemuthlichkeit, ivord which has no English equivait, but may be describedas a mixture genuine kind-heartedness, naivete d a certain amount of greenness or itimism based on want of experience, it if the Saubian girl seldom reads the wspapers and takes more time to attain r social qualities, she is more indusous than her transatlantic cousins, deed I have often wondered what hemes of all the stockings and other ings they nre always busy on, day and slit, while the mpn. less industriously clined, devote the afternoon and eveng to old woman's gossip in the tavern er half a dozen glasses of beer or wine, le common notion that wife and chilen usually accompany the husband to e tavern is incorrect. This happens , Sundays or on festive occasions, but nerally the men go alone and return to in the evening, not infrequently in exhilarated condition. That such a actice, the temperance and economical pects aside, cannot have a pleasant ect on home life is evident. True, in rint?mor?v *v?/-vrn woinrVif oppmc fn Hn :ached to near and remote relationips than anywhere else in the world, t of genuine, sympathetic family life jelieve there is more in an American an in a German village, in spite of all tmuthlichkeitof the latter.?New York Uion. Talking: at the Table. [t is one of the best digesters; there no tonic known to equal it, if it is of ; kind calculated to promote hilarity d good feeling generally. Most parents 3 prone to prohibit their children from Iking and laughing at the table; it is physiological; it is cruelty^ Joyousss promotes the circulation of the aod, enlivens it, invigorates it. sends tingling to the remotest part of the stem, carrying with it animation, ^or and life. The louder the little es laugh the better; the faster they Ik the "better; for then they can eat is in a given time, consequently chew pir fnnH rnnro t.hnroucrhlv. Discard controversy from the dining ble. Discourage all subjects which rite political or religious career. Let ery topic introduced be calculated to struct, to interest, or to amuse. Do t let the mind run on business, or predus? mishaps or past disappointments. ?ver tell bad news at the table, nor : an hour before. Let everything you ,ve to communicate be, if possible, of fladsome, joyous, hilarious character, Iculated to brine out pleasant remarks agreeable associations. On the other nd, never administer a reproof at the trial board to either child or servant; id fault with nothing; speak unkind no one. If remarks are made of the sent, let them contain some word of mmendation, which if repeated in eir hearing afterward will kindle tidly feelings, and thus will thoughts the family table come across the imory in wter years, when we have en scattered, and some laid in their ml vpstinff iilfice. brinxnncr with them sweetness of emotion which makes a pleasure to dwell upon them.?Halt's xirnal of Health. _____ "Smythekins," said Pettimouse the her evening, at Mrs. Fairandforty's reption, " do you know that interminile talker there, Miss Gabiteasy?" " 1 tve the pleasure of a slight acyuaintice with her." " Let me make your Suaintance with lier more familiar?" o. thanks; the pleasure of it lies in i being slight."?New York Mail. r . , i I, ? The Mackerel The mackerel, which commercially ranks next to the cod among salt water fishes, is also partial to a cool home, though it is found somewhat further south than the cod. Like the lastnamed fish, it seeks very cold water in which to spawn, preferring that of which the temperature is but little above the freezing point. Instead of enjoying cold water all the year round, however, as the cod seems to do, there is a possibility that the mackerel hibernates. Seeking a soft, muddy or sandy bed at the approacil 01 Winter, it uunes itseji therein, first drawing a scale or film over each eye. Whether this film is an .apology for a night cap, or a result of a dropping of the eyelid through extreme drowsiness, or due tp providential design, or development according to environment, a la Darwin, is yet to be decided ; but the existence of such a covering to the eye during hibernation has been proved by examination of mackerel which have been dragged from their comfortable couches by the dredges of intrusive scientists. It is not impossible that it may yet be discovered that the film is the result of disease, and that the muddy bottom is resorted to. not as witfter-quarters, but as a hospital where the " earth-cure " is practiced as a specialty. Whether sick or only sleepy,however, the mackerel has an intense aversion to a cold bed, so in selecting a resting-place he avoids ground over which salt ice is likely to drift, and drizzle its chilling ^ater downward. How the fish arrives at certainties or probabilities on the subject is something that no fellow not a mackerel can find out, but the dredge lias never lounn one 01 mese fish in localities where salt ice melts. The mackerel is quite a sociable fish among those of its own blood, moving always in great families or schools! When it comes inshore from the deep sea it is always with an innumerable company, which seems to move with a sort of regimental front, and wheeling from left to right, th*i point cTappui being that portion of the shore, naturally the southernmost that it frequents, where earliest in the season the freshwater fish return to their native streams. The mackerel's shoreward movements are not always due to its own hunger, but frequently to that of the tunny and other Dredaceous fish which are fond of fresh mackerel. The discreetness of the fish under such circumstances is highly praised by scientists, and is cheerfully recognized by ttie honest fishermen.who welcome the fugitives heartily upon their arrival, and care for them so effectively that when next the tooth of the tol-mentor threatens them it will be unfelt and uncared for. The means of welcoming the mackerel are severalseines, nets, weirs, and pounds being as effective as the hook. The success of the last-named implement is "Que to the plebian habits of the fish while dining. It seldom bitp?, nor does it prolong the enjoyment of a choice delicacy I U., 4. a?,o11rtw iiy niumiui;, uui it iuipii,T niT.iiju.1. at a single gulp whatever is set before its Selecting its food by appearance instead of flavor, it is not wonderful that a bi of red flannel, a bright "spoon," or even a bare fish-hook may seem worth taking. What disappointed fishermen on " the Banks" are pleased to term the (qualified) fastidiousness of the fish seems to contradict this statement oj the mackerel's gustatory habits, but the apparent capaciousness with which these fish appear and disappear at a vessel'^ side is due to temperature instead of taste. Lying at a depth of perhaps two hundred fathoms, in cool water, the fish hurry to the surface for the chopped bait which fishermen throw overboard to attract them; the surface water, however, is generally too warm to be endured for more than a few moments, and then hurry back home as soon as comfort becomes more desirable than (ood. When the mackerel disappear?which they do frequently during the season, and afterward for a long time?they seek for depth rather than distance. They remain off the coast, but far this side of the Gulf Stream, throughout the warm season, but in water sufficiently deep to meet their views in point of temperature. They often lie in vast schools within a mile or less of equally numerous herring, for which fish themacuerel has a yearning throat; but while tlie mackerel are two hundred fath; ms down, the herrings :ire within fifteen or twenty fathoms of the surface. Between these two zones, a distance of only a few seconds, mackerel time, the water is too warm to permit even a hungry mackerel to enjoy the pleasures of the chasc. so these life-long enemies remain in sight of each other in a state of truce ?until the coming of cold weather.? Harper*s Magazine. Books and Their Makers. The London Chemist says that German writers invariably smoke while writing. The most widely-read novelist in the Southern States, it is said, is Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. Trollope turns out about two novels a, year, and when he begins he never knows when to stop. Miss Braddon, the English novelist, is, in fact, Mrs. Maxwell, the wife of an English publisher. Twenty new books by women are announced by American publishers to be , issued immediately. The historian, Bancroft, who in his old age likes to ride horseback, is an enthusiast on the subiect of music. The largest collection of books in the world is in the British museum. The library contains over 1,000,000 volumes. Wyckliffe's translation of the New Testament was published in 1380, and the celebration of the 500th anniversary of his great work is suggested for next year. C. C. Davenport, of Panola, Texas, who lost both e^es at the battle of Chancellorsville, is selling poems of his own production for the benefit of himself and family. Victor Hugo never reads, but always praises, the numberless books and manu. scripts which are daily sent to him, and on which he is asked to pronounce judgment by the aspirants for fame. Jean Ingelow is a small, slight , woman, perhaps forty years of age.with a pleasant manner, and a quiet, somewhat timid smile. Her eyes are bright and expressive, her hair tinged with gray. John LothroD Motley's autograph at the recent sale in Boston brouj{ht $5.75, and Hawthorne's 15.87; William H. Prescott's signature was sold for $6.00. Poe's for S2.74, while Bulwer's and T r? II T_ 111? Wn.rlif cJHQU'H I\.U3SL'll JiOWL'll 3 cuv.il uiuuSiii one dollar. Mr. Longfellow being visited at Cambridge by Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard was naturally asKed by the latter for an autograph. "What shall I write for you?" asked the poet; and Mr. Stoddard begged him to write down some line of his own which he might have a preference for. Mr. Longfellow thought for a moment, then went to his desk and wrote the lour lines beginning " Lives of great men all remind us," etc. The author of the "History of the North American Indians" says that "among 2.000,000 Indians he found not one who breathed through his mouth If he examined the breathing arrangements of so many Indians, it is oifficult to understand how he found time to write their history. An Indian that Vn-ooMme thrmiffh nis nose is no more pleasant to contemplate than one who breathes through his mouth, Many persons prefer cigar store Indians. They don't breathe at all.?Ncrristown Herald. Mrs. Betsy Mustard vants ?20,000 damages fr?m the royal bank of Scotland. THE YEAR'S EECOED. " I Events of Importance that Occurred in 1879. JANUARY.?1. Resumption ol apecie payments in the United States....2. Nine men killed and thirty-three wounded by the bursting cf a gun on the British manot-war Thunderer in the Mediterranean. ....3. Intensely cold weather throughout the Onitod States. Alonzo Garcelon (Democrat), elected governor of Maine by tho State Senate....4. Destruction ol the Chicago postofflce by Are. Execution of Juan Moncasi in Madrid lor attempted assassination of King Alfonso, failure ol the Cornish bank, of Truro, England, lor ?o,000,(.00 .... 5. Great republican victory at the elections lor Fronch senators .... 7. The Now York legislature meela in the new cnpitol at Albany....9. Forty Cheyenne Indian prisoners at Fort ftobiuson, Neb., killed while trying to escape.... 10. Twenty persons killed by ? railroad collision in llusflia 11. Twohnn? drcd Russian officers and soldiers killed by truin breaking through a bridge in Turkey. Intense excitement created in Germany by Bismarck's bill limiting freedom of debate in Gorman parliament..... 12. I ho Pope's long circular against socialism, communism, etc.. is published.... 14. Fiftyeight miners killed by an explosion in a Welsh colliery 20. Threatened crisis in Franoe averted by passage ol a vote ot confidence in the government. Several United States Senators elected ..., 22. Severely cold weather and much destitution reported Irom England.... 27. Beginning ol investigation into the cipher dispatches by Potter committee.... 30. Resignation ol President McMaho* and election ol Jules Grovy as president of France....31. M. Gambetta elected president of the French chamber ot deputies. FEBRUARY.?3. Exciting debate in executive session ot the United States Senate on the New York nominations .... 4. News received of extraordinary precautions takon by European countries to guard against the spread ot the plague raAging Russia....5. Beginning ot cipher dispatches investigation in New York by Pot ter committeo.... 8. Mr. Tilden testifies before Pottercomraitteein New York. Heavy strikes begun in England. Russians begin evacuation ot Turkish territory and definitive treaty ot peace between the two countries signed ....11. Fatal land slides in Kansas City, Mo., and Allontown, Pa.... 12. opening'oi uerman parliament.... 13. Opening ol British parliament. Nine Chinamen killed by an explosiou of fire-damp in Calilornia.... 14. St. Valentine's day.... 15. Bill lor restricting Chinese emmigration passed by the United States Senate.... 18. Three persons killed and about twentyfive severely iniured by a train falling through a rotteu bridge near Se Ima, Ala.... 21. Details ot plague horrors in Russia received.... 22. Seventeen lives lost by an explosion in Stockton, Cal. British steamship Zanzibar, with complement of thirtygixofflcers and crew, given.up lor lost alter being out lrom New York forty-two days. ... .25. Reports received ol disastrous storms in France, Spain and Italy. MARCH.?1. President Hayes vetoes the Chinese immigration bill.... 2. Great Are in Reno, Nev....3. Reports ol Potter committee published... .4. The Forty-fifth Congress udjourns and the President issues a proclamation for extra session ol Fortysixtb Congress 5. Closo of theVanderbilt will case in New York....9. Six persons killed at a fire in East St. Louix, 111. Beginning ol international six days' walking match in New York.... 12. The to wn ol Szegedin, Hungary, destroyed by a flood. Twelve persons injured by the fall of a gallery during a walking match in New York.... 13. Marriage ol' Prince Arthur, Queen Victoria's third son, to Princess Louise Margaret, ot Prussia. Arrival ol Bayard Taylor's remains in New York.... 15. Rowell wins internationyl walking matoh in New York. .... 18. Opening ol special session ot Forty nixlh Congress.... 19. Forty-seven lives lost by the foundering of a French iron-clad off coast ot France....20. Several New Orleans banks suspend payments....24 Rev. T. DeWitt lalmage's trial lor deceit and falsehood begun before the Brooklyn Prfishvterr. 4.PKIL.?2. Election in Rhode Island....5. Close ol debate on army bill and its postage in the House. Cambridge dot eats Oxlord in annual boat race on tho Thames.... 7. Spring elections in Michigan, etc .... 14. Attempt to assassinate the Czar ot Russia in St. Petersburg. Disastrous tornado ! at Collinsville, Nev....l7. Syndicate of New York and Boston bankers' bid for < ?"200,000,000 four per cent, bonds ac- i ocptcd by Secretory Sherman.... 18. Fatal tornado in South Carolina. Marlial Jaw de- , clartd in six populous Russian districts.... , 20. One-halt ot Eureka, Nev., destroyed by , fire....24. General Dix's luuertd in New ' York. Iimj>erorol Austria'ssilu "wedding celebrated in Vienna....26. Bror.vn TONked 642 miles in six days' championship pedes- ' trian mutch in London....29. President { Hayes vetoes army appropriation bill. One j thousand bouses, comprising town ol Oren- < burg, Russia, destroyed by lire. I MAY.?7. Californiavotes in lavoroladopting | new constitution....8. Rev. Dr. Talraa^e's { trial belore a Brooklyn Presbytery ends in his ( acquittal.... 12. The Pope's creatcs e ght i new cardials. Voto ot tho "military in terlerence" bill by tho President.... 16. ; Six executions in dilferont parts ol the Uni- ; ted Suites.... 20. The legislative appropria- ' tion bill rasses United States Senate.... 24. ( Participation ol Brooklyn's 13th regiment in ( Queen Victoria's sixtieth birthday festivities ( at Mont real... .25. Catholic catbcdral in ( New York dedicated... .26. End ol war be- t tween Engird and Afghanistan officially , announced....29. News received of a ter- j rifle naval bat'.le between Chilian and ( Peruvian vessels. The Pre-ident vetoes tho JLCglSlllUVC IIJIJIIUJ/I II1WUII i/m. ug>?.,u|ni,sons killed or injured at a hotel tire in ? Ilaneratown, Md International congress ( in Paris adopts a plan to build a ship canal S across Llie Isthmus ol Durien....3 '. Decor- C ation day. Aboul fifty poisons lose their s livvs by a tornado in Kansas, Missouri and j Nebraska. f JUNE.?1. Great eruption of Mt. El na report c ed 2. Great strike ol iron workers in *; and about. Pittsburgh, Pa....3. Secretary ' ot War McCrary nominated by President S Hayes to succeed Judge Dillon as judge of ! the eighth circuit....9. Itoports received of ( great destruction of property in Italy by bursting ol dikes and inundation of .river t Po. Cessation of eruption ol Mt. Etna re- f port-d.... 11. Mysterious murder ol Mrs. r Hull in Now York city. Emperor William'0 c gulden wedding celebrated in Berlin.... 12. rj Eleven persons drowned by a waterspout , in the iilack Hills.... 16 H*nlan deleata Elliott in championship rowing match at 8 Newcastle, England. Beginning of six days' t international walking match in London.... t 21. Weston wins the walking match in t London, scoring550miles....23.Tho President signs the army appropriation bill and t vetoes the judicial expenses appropriation c bill. Cox, Mi's. Hull's murderer, arrested ,. in Boston.... 2G. The Khedive ot Egypt ab. dieates in favor ol his son....27. Harvard l rlntmiu Ynln in annual boat race at Now London, Conn....3i). Federal murshal appropriation bill vetoed by the President. JULY.?1. Extra session ol the Forty-sixth Congress closed....2. Fatal storm in Wisconsin and Minnesota....4. Seven lives t lost by an accident to a steamer on Lake c Quinsigamond, Muss. Large Are in Am- j. hurst, Mass.... 8. James Gordon Bennett's yacht Jeannette sails from San Francisco on exploring expedition in search ol the j North Polo.... 10. Fight persons killed by ?' an explosion of giant powder in mine works e nt Bodie, Cal. Yellow lever panic in Mem- a phis 12. Funeral ol French Prince Imperial at Chiselhurst, England. Eight lives t lost by wreck ol steamer State ol Virginia oir tho coast ol Nova Scotia.... 16. Many r lives lost in Now England during a ter rillc storm.... 18. Eight persons drowned by f capsizing of a yacht in St. Lawrence river, Canada. News received ol a grout Zulu de- E *r* (kAiitli A rrtno hrr T^ivl inutnt-.l i mid virtuul end oi the Zulu war 26. ^ Destructive storm in western Pennsylvania....28. A congressional committee bcgiua at Chicago an examination into the i causca otiho labor depression....31. Five 0 persons drowned by the capsizing ot an excursion yacht at Clayton, N. Y. ! C AUWUST ?2. Disastrous storm in England j j .,..4. Kentucky State jlectioto. Filly per- i sons killed durinc storm in Denmark. Mown L ol Volcano, \V. Va., destroyed by Are.... ! 7. Election on quostion ol debt compromise ' in Tennessee. Financial panic in Montreal, f Semjcvo, capital ot Bosnia, almost totally burned down....9. Yellow levor declined I an epidemic in Memphis.... 12. Austriun 1 ministry resign.... 15. British parliament prorogued. James MoHenry, English tinan- ? oiul a^eiit, tails in London lor sj5,OUO,OUO. j Fatal riot ol ship laborers in Quebec. Sev- , eral persons killed at the destruction by tiro j ota summer hotel at Locu.H Grove, near Coney Island .... 18. Tremendous storm 1 along the Atlantic cost . 23. Great excitement created in 3au Francisco by shooting ol 1. S. Kaliocb, workingmen's candidate lor ^ mayor, by Charlos De Young, sr., proprietor Chronicle newspaper....30. A monument to General Custer unveiled at West Point. 9EPIEMBER.?3. CaliJoraia State election. Maaf acre of British embassy at Cubul.... 5. Several persons killed or injured by boi er explosion on steamer Alaska, Lnke Erie ....8. State election in Maine.... 11. Tammany bolts Irom Democratic State Convention at Syracuse.... 18. News received ol Fo the capture ot Cntewayo, Zulu king, by the British .... 20. Goneral Grant arrives in San Francisco alter two yeais' absence abroad. International talking match for Astloy belt begun in New York....22. Particluara received of great fire at Kiev, RussiH....23. Alliauce lorraed between Ger- Ay many and Austria.... 26. Partial destruction ol Deadwood, Dakota, l?y fire.... 27- Rowell pQ, wins the walking match in New 1'ork.... 28. Prof. Wise and companion ascend In balloon Pathfinder, at St. Louis, and never heard Irom again.... 28. Bloody battle between United States troops and Ute Indians in Colorado. OCTOBER.? 2- Monument to Andre erected on the 8pot where he was hanged, at Tappan, N. Y. About fifteen persons killed and many more wounded by lall ol a giand In 1 stand at a fair in Adrian, Mich.*..4. Beginning ot pedestrian match lor O'Leary belt in New York. General Merritt's foice relieves Captain Payne's troops, beleaguered by Utes, in Colorado....8. Capture ot famous Peruvian irou-clad Iluascar by Chilian vessels alter a desperate naval flght.... Ayi 10. Fiiteen persons killed and many wnnnda^ ^ A TaaI.AA. n VUMMVW I/; JIIUUVOU WUIliOiVU aw UUUIUH;ilj . Mich.... 11. Murphy wins tho walking Ani match for the O'Leary bolt 12. British troops enter Cabal.... 14. State elections in Ohio and Iowa.... 15. Disastrous floods in Spain.... 16. Dr. Lo Moyno cremated at Washington, Pa. Hanlaii and Courtney inuke a flzzle ot their boat race on Chautauqua Lake.... 18. Loss ot Spanish steamer j Nuevo Pajaro del Occano in Bahama Straits, j West Indies, by Are, and lorty ol her passengers and crew perish.... 19. Formation oJ 1 new Turkish ministry.... 20. Twenty-seven up British troops and many Afghans killed by ] blowing np ot amagazino in <9bul....21. ^ Terrible distress in Hungary.on 'account ot bad crops reported... .25. fellow lever epi- * demic in Memphis declared at an end. cei NOVEMBER ?2. Five men billed by explo- 'J sion ot Are .'amp in a colliery near Scranton, a^ Ph....4. Elections in a number ot States. f0I .... 5. Obsequies oi General Hooker in New York, and ot Senator Chandler in Detroit. I .... 7- Steamer Champion sunk by the ship ma Lady Octavia, near Cope Henlopen, und Un thirty lives lost....8. Three lives lost and J damage exceeding $100,000 done by breaking ot a train tliiough the iron bridge over ' the Missouri at St. Charles, Mo. Several persons killed by the lall of a cracker factory in Kunsas City, Mo.... 10. A party oi flity white men Irom Now Mexico, attacked by Indians in Mexico and thirty-two killed. ....11. fatal cyclone 111 (Jrawlord county, Arkansas.... 12. Reception to General Grant in Chicago. Five persons killed at a New J York tenement-house Are .... 17. About j],a thirty Chinamen killed by an explosion in a Rn( California railroad tunnel.... 18. Nine lives ij < lost by the sinking ol a portion ol a town on * Lake Ontario.... 19. General Thomas' statue I unveiled in Waabingtom. Great excitement lan in Ireland on account ot the arrest ot sev- use oral persons for seditious utterances....26. an Great s&leot 250,000 shares New York Central railroad stock by W. II. Vanderbilt to a, syndicate of bankers lor $3 ,000,000.... 27. Thanksgiving day.... 23. Marriage at Madrid ot King Allonso to Marie Christine, Austrian archduchess. DEC KM BER.?1. Opening ot the regular ses- " sion ol Forty-sixth Congress.... 2. Attempt to to kill the Uzar ot Russia while on his way wll to Moscow. . ..3. Banquet to Oliver Wendell hai Holmes in Boston in lionor ot his seventieth Oh bi.thdny....8. Opening ot the international dairy tail in New York....9. United 8tate? Senate con dims Secretary of War McCran Wo to be United States circuit judge....lu. Tui Ex-Scnutor Ramsey's appointment as a no ?t cessor to Seoretary ot War McCrary con- Th] flnned by the Senate. National agricultural Fri society formed in Now York....12. News Sat received of great floods in Transylvania ( and Hungary. Destruction by fire ol Red to Rock, Fa 15. Twelve miners killed ano |(Cl eight injured by an explosion in a salt miue in Wurtemburg, Germany.... 10. Groat . welcome to General Grant in Philadelphi* 0 ....19. Details reoeived ot heavy battl ? i j Chi IJUIWCBII l/UlllltUB UUU UiUCU 1VIUC3 VI lull ? and Uoliviu. g ' ?? 9 Jo Inter-Oceaulc Canal. ];ti At a meeting of the American Geo- up graphical society, held in New York, a pis paper on the proposed inter-oceanic po canal, prepared by Rear Admiral Am- we men, was read. The paper was mainly j i review of proceedings of the Paris 0ti conference, caiUd to consider the pro- wi icct, and of which Admiral Ammen w;is js i member. Beyond that it set forth thi what are claimed as the particular ad- zjf vantages of the Nicaragua, or avow- tin ;dly favorite American route above all jy, others, he said that the rainfall on the Nicaragua route is exceedingly small, inly about forty-eight inches a year, anil ;hat there will be little interference with ;he work from that cause. There is ibundant good stone, hydraulic and p? )ther lime, wood and bamboos, which ?? atter may be found very advantageous n the construction of harbors. There is {?* iconsiderable population, well disposed, md, when they can have remunerative imployment, fairly industrious. The . :ountry has an abundant cattle supply )f good quality for food, and other pro- , iuctions which would furnish the main lubsistence for laborers on the canal, : with a convenient water transportation , n general along the line of the ship , :anal, and lake communication wit'> an , 'xtensive. populated, and fertile region. , between Lake Nicaragua and the Pa;itic, near the line of the projected canal, . everal passable roads exist, and what- t tvoT pniirlc rninlit- ho rumiirpH nvpr this . ihort distance could readily he made at ? nconsiderable cost. There is an in- . xhaustible water supply in its lake of 1,800 miles of super/ice. wliich equalizes fct loods and makes the daily changes ?, mall in the discharge of the river San suf luan, by which it debouches into the , Caribbean sea. An excellent harbor can be made on , he Pacific coast at San Juan del Sur, ? onvenient for anchorage. Lake Nica "rigua affords every facility lor an inter- = hange of cargoes that may be desired. y ["lie west coast and the valley of the ake are, as compared with the eastern lope, comparatively healthy, and on he eastern slope a considerable part of J he labor can be done by means of ing Ired ing machines. Ya Th* cost of the Nicaragua route would six ieS<55.7'22.137. The Panama route would on< ost $94.511.3G0, and the Atrato Napipi brc oute ?98,196,894, supposing that the by onstruction of a ship canal on either to yoi le an engineering possibility. slit , wa doi Couldn't Cut It Short. th( A day or two ago a woman entered Ha he telegraph office and said to the reeiver of messages that she desired to Li< elegraph her husband who was in Chi ago, lor money, tie poinien ner to tun ounter supplied with blanks and told po1 ler the rate for ten words. She strug- in* ;lod away for a quarter of an hour, nd then handed in the following: ha " Won't you please send me ten dollars dr< >y next mail?" bri " I don't know whether that will do or of lot." she said as she felt for her money. S0< If you were to receive such a dispatch na' rom your wife would you forward the cef aoney?" " Well?well, I might," he replied in Ba louhtful tones. "Now you wait! f don't like the lispatch at all, because I tried to keep t within ten words. I'll write an- 7 ?thcr." on She tore it up. walked over to the . ounter. and in three minutes handed . J n a new one, reading: in " Am out of food and fuel, and want 1 en dollrrs as soon as you can get it wl lere! If you can't spare it I'll spout the jus >arlor carpet!" nei " That would bring the money from P?"V ne." said the receiver as he read the j ines and marked the number of words, ho "Then I guess it will from him. mi ?end it along, and if I don't get the ev< noney inside of two days you'll hear ou: I1W I'Ml'lIc f\( 1 UHlfUMUjf lip^UJL' Jlfll J " Brussels carpet off the lloor!'~Z>^ntt7 as Free Press. ref The word right is never pronounced vrong, and the wrong Jis never prolounced right a larutinuu iwrow There's a ?ong in t he air! , ? There's a star in the sky! There's a mother's deep prayer ," ? '' T And a baby's low cry! id the star rains its lire while the beantilul ?'n?, r the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king f *y There's ft tumwlt ol (oy * "*. O'er the wonderlol birth, For the virgin's sweet boy '* ' .'v . Is the Lord ot the earth. ?. e! the star rains its Are and the bcautUu sing, r the manger of Bethlehem cradles a kin* S: - v. > In the light oi that star Lie the ages impearled; And that song trom afar ? Has swept over the world. ery hearth is aflame, and the beantiiol , j!:. the homes o< the nations that Jesujia king^ >_sr. We rejoice in the light, And we echo the song That comes down through the night ' k S From the heavenly throng, j < a! we shont to the lovely evangel they briD*? * ' ->. i wegrtet in his cradle oar Savioorlttri king! ?Dr. J. G. Holland*' :<x , ITEM 0* INTEREST. tusaia's army is feariully addicted to * , ^ nk. ... Che astronomers' business Is looking' .?Boston Pod. 'ostal curds, now" almost universal rted in Austria, In'1865. ' '3. I woman at Havana, Til.; one d^jefic*. ltly gjfe birth to four girl babied The most touching thing to which our ention has ever been directed is tltt- e finger of the right hand .?Lukent - ' n the decade between 1800 and ,f870 nufacturing establishments, in the ~.4m ited States increased 80 per cen?. ' t is difficult to understand why a fe never ask?her husbahd if the doors ' *v i -v t all locked until aiitfer he Is' snugly rered up in bed.^WalcrUpyOfitcpjqrf '4 The fanner's harvest no# bos " ' Cold winter's mode his bow; All yon who have nice steers to shod, Prepare to sbed them now. ' ? Vovktrt SBrtMtkkri' - \ d. South Carolina a statute provided it all persons having no reasonable ' > i lawful excuse shall attend some re?\ious service every Sunday,. . > lice is cheaper than wheat71n "Eft id. and is Baid to be quite extensi vely # d as an adulterant, if so putrittotU-'- V ' artiolc may be called by suolvan'ame-, , . " \:' . At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; At thirty, strong, it over; v ' V At forty, wipe; at fi/ty, rich; . At sixty, good, or*j?v%r. ?Buffalo Courier. There are many fellows who endeavoi . beat time, but : boot the only man 10 accomplishes ii is the fellow who J adles the baton in the band.?Waterloo v terver. ^ A WfcEK In TUB STpCKt'BCaiXKSS. nday, I dabbled in lutaro ojiepi.ioHfl: * aday, owned millions b?" nH^mefifHtion*?tdnettday, on my avonne jwlace l^ao; ursday, I drove out a spanking bay ?ftin, day, I gave a magnificent i *.V . urday, wo busted, with nothmg fit all. * , Jne of our rural exchanges is trcwf ' give farmers advice on the subjpfy ol. eping chickens. The best way about s time of the year, is to fas^.thea the roost with a chain cable and put prinp-eun near tire hen-house ?loor.~ f /*>j n m? 1 uxiy ucnvx; The two highwayman who as-ailer lin Hamm, a thin, bent, consumptive tie man, nenr Vinceom'*, Ind., wuked the wrong customer, for lie drew a ;tol and shot one of them, and . - undedthe other insensible-with the 7f 'apon. [f there is one time more than an* ler when a man's heart overflows th gratitude toward a loving wi/e, it * when he receives a bill of fSOYrom 2 jeweler for the handsome birthday t with which she recently so affoo naiely surprised him.?Midcllctqwn cuucript. <r ?r ' F* A Seller Sold. Mpbonse Karr, in his "Livrc d? rd " tells a nice little story of Auguste mieu, a well-known writer on T* /nro, whoso practical jokes made him nous all over Paris. One niglijF mien, having aressea nimsen ior mjr. .^99' rt in a provincial costume, enterec 1 kwardly a watchmaker 8 shop amir \ > th a timid bow and an apology fofc< "*' turbing the tradesman, began: Piirdon, monsieur, but what aqjf.-' r >se little round things hanging -'tip .4 re?" * f" 'Those ar* called watches." 'Watches! What are they for?" 4 To tell the timpof day." ' Why, thev must be real handy. Do 'v cost much?" A ' From two hundred francs down to enty-five." 1 Bless me, I could afford to buy one. os it take much trouble to make them JJ1 'V . 1 No; all you have to do is to wind m un every day?this way."*.-' 'That seems very easy?but when >uld I wind the watch?I think that vliat you call it?up?" 1 In the morning." ' In the morning?why ?f- 1 f > 1}Ann 11 en urn ol ?r.|tTi (IrtlSV fit lJCvauor jwi MIV ?? I?J > ... ;ht, M. Romieu, And you'd bre:ik,jt if 1 tried to wind it then." Sared bj a Watch-Caw. dr. Wood Yantis has some interest; relics of his grandfather,. Jacob ntis, who died in IfJftO. a<;ed seveutyOne is a- silver watch, more than J hundred years old. which was night to this country from Germany his grandfather when lie was quite a ang man. It is of almost spherical jpe, of the " bull-eve" pattern, and .3 mnde by William P'.umley, of Lonn. The watch was for a long time ! only timepiece in the old fort at .rrodsburg, and to it Mr. Yantis once ed his life. He had gone to the Blue ks in company, it is said, wiih Boone d others for salt, and. having become >arated from his companions, was diapered and pursued by Indians. Find- : himself about to be overtaken by ! redskins, he drew out his watch, sily detached the outer case and jpped it to the ground, hoping its ghtness would attract the attention his pursuers whiie he could make 5d his escape. Such was the fortune result of the stratagem, and he sue' J - ? in 'den in rt'ftciwu^ mc iu>> ><4 . i afterward had a new case made in ltiraore.?Bardslovn (Ay.) liccoril. " Notes." Han must need pick up many a crown the royal road to wealth. The ta k of there beine no sunshine this life, is all moonshine. foung man. if you nrc ever asked tat happiness is, and you don't know. it say it is the possession of cood ilth.'and a dollar that was left after ? ying all your deots. \ftcr all, to receive-just praise for our nest endeavors while we live is mu'-h >re gratifying than the prospect of r so much 'misspelled "tally" on r tombstone. ' Do you take your local paper?" asked tranger of a resident. "No," wa- the )ly; "the fact is I am too poor. Why. i dear sir, I cannot afford to keep a S, to saynoihing of newspapere."? rners Falls Reporter. a