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' ' ' v :: ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. 1 ,g|| - ;,.-g| HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1880. & NO. 6. VOLUME XXVI. ^||| ~ "i -l Equal Justice !o Iiich Rogues and Poor Clothes thitl are worn at the people's expense Some'imes are flue uiid sometimes an coarse; Men are shut up lor a few paltry pence, Others go free, tiy favor or torce. He who prows 1 icti by d* tramling the State, Bidding the public to dance as he pipes, Dressing in broadcloth, and dining irom plate Ought to wear stripes. Cobblers who labor with lnpstone and awl, Pegging and stiching the work on tfceii knees, Earn what they get, though their gains be small? Not so with others, who rob at their ease, Men who bore holes in the public purse, Thousands to gain, and nothing to lose, Making our lreedom a lmud and a ourse, Ought to peg shoes. PrnVinnlo Innmiioli in nrifcrtHfl Vlliuiuaio m-'suw.. ... j, Men who were train oil lrom their youth tc steal; Others, raoie guilty, are brilliant and gay, Rich with the wreck of the public weal. They who have th'evcd lrom one man or the State, Brothers in crime, like brothers ehould dwell; Justice should hold the small rogues and tut great Shut in a cell. Hard are the stones that the convict break Slowly the rocky muss crumbles away; Easy the rain that bribery makss, Quickly corruption begets decay. Truth n ill move onward, although it be lame, Justice lor tardiness sometimes atones; Men who make lreedom a cheat and a shame Ought to break stones. A Summer's Romance. " Wanted?A lady, to teach a district - school in the Pine Wood?, fifty miles north of New Orleans. To a competent teacher a liberal salary will be Daid. 4k. ?K:? 11 inquire at me umcc in tuio Adele Somers tossed the daily Picayune on to the marble stand at her side, and clapped her hands like a delighted child. "I have it, mamma!" she cried. "The vexed question of where I shall spend the summer has been decided for me by fate itself!" Her mother, a dark, proud-looking woman, handsome in her rich moraine robe of gray bilk, turned an interested face upon her daughter. "Where, Adele? Last summer we spent in Europe, tbe previous year we were satiated with Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport, even a flying visit to the White mountains; I orm't; imagine where you propose going this summer. Oh, I have it! You propose a trip to California?" Adele leaned her head on a little hand, laden with costly rings, and thrusting a dainty foot in a faultless kid slipper, from beneath her wrapper of white cashmere and crimson silk, contemplated it thoughtfully for a moment, as shejreplied: " Gues3 again, ma mere!" "Colorado!" Adele shook her Dead. "I see I shall have to explain, mamma. See here?read this, please." She spre:id the newspaper open before her mother, and hud one white tinger upon the interesting paragraph. Adjusting her eye-glasses, Mrs. Somers glanced it over, then turned a puzzled gaze upon Adtle. "I don't understand, my child. I really cannot sec how this advertisement affects our summer excursion." Adele dropped her Lead upon the Siuin COUI.-J1 wuwe sire Wi's luuugm^. "Mamma," she said, gravely, at last, "I am going to apply lor that position." "Great heavens! Adeie, are you mad?" "No, not quite. To tell the truth, mamma, I'm tired of the foolish nonsense of society, and think it would be delightful to get away from the noise and dust of the busy city, out into the cool, green pine woods. But to be there without occupation, would kill me wilh ennui; therefore I pn-pose becoming a country schoolteacher. When the term is ended I shall donate the salary to som? charitable object?there, mamma, don't object, I shall enjoy it immensely. And then, you know, if I found it too dull, or get tired of my experiment, I can resign in favor of some more worthy person, and come home to New Orleans." Mrs. Somers sat like one petrified; the proposition fairly took her breath away. Adele continued: " And think how delightful to play rustic, like Marie Antoinette at the 4 Petite Trianonto get up early in the morning and drive through the cool woods to a pretty little schoolhouse where rosy-cheeked children await me, and they will bring me bouquets; and I shall live on strawberries and peaches and cream, and new milk, and fresh eges. and?" " And be eaten up with mosquitoes, and snakes and things," interrupted Mrs. Somers. Adele shuddered, then put on a hrave fnce. " Oh, I'm not afraid, unless "?dubiously?" there should be alligators. But ?well, to make a long story short, I have decided to go, mother mine, proviaed I get the situation, and you do not positively forbid." Mrs. Somers rapidly reviewed the 41? 1 A A J ? miuiui in tier uiiuu. Aueie, liiuu^u ? spoiled child, was really a girl of good sense, and her mother usually allowed her to decide her movements for herself. Well, this trip to the pine woods could do no harm, and she was very certain of a speedy return; so after considerable urging, she yielded a reluctant consent. The matter was speedily arranged. Adelc readily obtained the situation at a salary which made her smile. It would have barely supplied her with kid cloves and ribbons at any of the fashionable resorts where her summers were usually passed. And so, one morning, the newly fledged teacher, amid the tearful farewells of her mother, stepped on board the train which would bear her to her destination. In her damty gray traveling suit, with expensive plumed hat, and a veil like sikery mist, exquisitely gloved and booted, she looked decidedly unlike the average pine woods " school j marnj." Arriving at last .it the little way'station, Adeie alighted, and stepping on to the piutform, watched the train as it puffed :iway again; the great iron monster seemed the last link between her and her Iriends at home. For a moment a feeling of desolation stole over her; but she remembered that, after all, her atw t OUU OU IllWI^lg llic urai of ti^situation, she turned to look Ttftaw J.atearly head, bowed gr?:cefuily as>ei?^K^: ' M " Miss SornerX 1 . Then, in answer. toH8tjl,ie*ilonin? look: ' I was sent tomeetHtf? Sobers I the new teacher, and convey h^6^1 baggogo to the residence of Mr^^|0'>-*, pon, where she is to board for th<" . ent." Adelc handed him ber checks, and th< youn<: man soon bad the Saratoga trunk) placed in a larj;e farm wagon standing in sight, with a pair of mules attached "Follow me please," he said, ant Adele obeyed. Soon, perched up in the high wagon they were driven rapidly through tin P green pine woods. It was a pleasan drive that liazj afternoon. The young man proved intelligen and interesting and Adele's spirits ros * . I . accordingly. Only to drop to zero wh( they drew up before :i large log houselow?uninviting. 3 A frowsy-headed woman, with sever children clinging to her skirts, m' them at the door. A gruff-looking man took his pij out of his mouth lone enough to nc carelessly, and grunt a half audib " howdy, marm?" ? And, when Adele was conducted to small, cheerless chamber, destitute ( anything like luxury, and small attemj at comfort, she felt like taking the ne: train back to New Orleans. But after few moments of mature deliberation si: 5 decided to remain. Thatd ecision tunic a corner in her life. The young man who had been h< companion during the drive appeare no more that night; and venturing t inquire his name Adele was speedily ii formed that he was a Mr. Will Harne] who had a sugar plantation two or thrc miles distant; that he was ci.y born an bred, and "put on right smart o'airs." The next morning Adele's labors b< gan. And, oh, how the romance ws swept away by the rude touch { reality! She found herself compelled to wal (Mr. Johnson':* sole team being a yok of oxen) the two miles that intervene between the Johnson mansion and tb schoolhouse?a dilapidated log hutwhere two dozen or more childre J awaited her coming. And where were the bright eyes an rosy cheeks of which she had dreamed Helplessly stupid, Adele pronounce them; and long before the day's wor was half over she was calculating ho\ many hours must necessarily elapse bt fore she would be sitting once more ii her luxurious boudoir at home, recount ng t o her syn lathizing parent tu orrors fr >m win h she had escaped. But when school was dismissed an* Adele prepared to return to her ne\ quarters, escorted by two or three o the little Johnsors as pilots, the rattl< of wheels greeted her ears, and Mi Harney appeared, driving rapidly to tho snhnnlhouse. Onlv a farn wagon, but the sight wos a welcom one. He drew ud before the door. "Come, MissSomers," he cried, pleas antiy, " let me have the pleasure o driving you back to your palatial board ing-house." She saw the fun twinkling in hi merry eyes, and felt intuitively that In understood the situation. Seated beside him, as they drove long she forgot all about the intended resign'a tion; and before she was scarcely aware of it, she had told him her wholi story. W hat a hearty laugh they enjoyed and the ice thus broken they were ai firm friends as though they had me under the brightest auspices. Anc Adele, thinking it all over that nieht decided to postpone her return to Orleans until the end of the week, a least. The following evening brought Mr, Harney again as escort home; and eacl succeeding evening, also. Ho took to calling at the Johnsor house too alter scliool nours, ana Aden confessed to herself that she had nevei met a more entertaining gentleman. And so the week ended, and still thai resignation bad not yet seen the light: then followed a second week, similar tc the first. At length, toward the clos< of the week, Mrs. Johnson announcet to Adele, that the Monday following sh( would be expected to "go to Harney': to board," two weeks at es.ch .house be ing the stipulation of the "boardins around " arrangement, and volunteered the information that "Madam Harney was 'lowed to be the best house' keeper in the parish." " Madame Iiarney!" exclaimed Adele involuntarily. " Why, I did not kno"W that there w?s a Madam Harney?" "You didn't? Wal, I declar now! and Mr. Will never told you?" "Certainly not." began Adele haughtily, "or I should never have per mitted?" There her anger and righteous in dignation overcame her, and sh( hastened from the woman's oresence. Will Hnnipv <i married man! Whal right had he to intrude his attentions and courtesies, then, only to make hei an object of contempt to the people about? Adelc's wrath was kindled: she forgot the pain that would pierct her heart like a knife, and determined to put a stop to this ridiculous mas querade as soon as possible. But to her surprise, Mr. Harnej troubled her no more. He came no more to the Johnsor house, and dropped from her life aj completely as though he never hac been. But somehow she could not forge: him. Yes, it was true?the fashionabli belle, who had mingled in the best so ciety of the land, had come to th< fr* rtirrn Knr honrf n wm JUUKiy pine nil v u,T. t?j to a plain farmer?only to be told thai he was a married man! How she despised herself! How weal she was, she said. And having dismissed the school, 01 Friday afternoon, she seated herself a the little desk and wrote a brief resigna tion of her situation. When she ha( signed her name and iaid the pei down she breathed a sigh of relief. " I must get away," she said to her self, " before they expect me at Mr Harnev's; 1 could not stay there now V* Putting the letter in her pocket sh< closed the door of the schoolhouse, anc started on her long walk home to thi Johnson house. Confident of finding her way, she hac sent the children on, and now wasquiti alone. Glancing up at the sky six quickened her steps involuntarily. Ii was overcast with clouds?dark, gloomy threatening?a dreadful storm was fas coming up. The thunder began to roll in the dis tance; occasional sharp lances of light ning cleft their way through the ink] clouds. Adele h:id a natural terror o thunder-storms, besides it was realh dangerous out there in the thick woods where trees are liable to be striekej down, crushing the unwary pedestriai before escape would be possible. Wit'i an exclamation of terror, Adel hastened onward, guiding her footstep by the " blazes " on the trees, which she had told, were placed there to indi cate the road. And now the storn burst forth in ungovernable fury Wind, thunder, lightning and rain which fell in great drops at first, am anon in blinding sheets, drenching th girl's slim form, and blinding her eyes so that she could no longer trace he path. Stumbling about wildly, she n last sank down exhausted at the foot c a huge pine tree?she had lost her was There was no use in trying to deceiv herself; she was lost, there in the path lessjorest, and night was coming down was ever situation muruappamuji For a few moments she crouche ' there, trembling with terror; ther with a sudden determination, sh sprang to her feet again and dashed o: widly. On?on. The storm increase . in fury every.moment?it was positivel i frightful. 1 .Just then there fell upon her ears away to the right, above the roar of th tempest, the sound of horses' feet. A that very instant there came a blindin AnoK rxf klilo UllnhlimilS ? uasii kji iigittuiu^ uiuv? 1 awful?r. roar of thunder, like the ej ? plosion of mighty artillery, and a gra * "pine tree in her oath?cracked?shoo it? green arms widly, and fell. Adel vas too thoroughly horror-stricken t j ^jaoye, and she knew not which way t C tt&n- in an instant more the tr< wo^ have crushed the slender form 1 1 gfound?a bleeding, mangled, lifi less mftP8? but a strong hand seized hi , quickly i&d dragged her from the jav 3 of death: &e boughs of the falling tr( t just gracing garments. Adele lo consciousness.^^ , . t She opened Mkejea to find her hei a pillowed on Will'fianiey's breast; 1 m pressed his lips to hers, and called hei ? loving names. The storm had nearly raved itself to al death; its fury was past, and Adele et was saved. 1 She struggled to her feet. Will tried s >e to speak calmly. m >d "You are safe now, I believe, Miss c le Somer?," he said, coolly. j " I am ?thanks to you!'' r a She extended her hand; their eyes t af met. h )t "Oh, Adele! Adele!" he groaned, r it " God forgive me, but I love you so!" b a Adele drew herself up, proudly. f< ie "Mr.Harney."sheened,indignantly, t d " you forget yourself. How dare you? c a married man?speak to me of love?" b ?r Will stared straight at her for a mo- b d ment, then burst Into a clear ringing g :o laugh. t l- " Married ?n he exclaimed; " not il I I f, know it! Why. Miss Adele, who told li :e you such a tale?" fi d " Mrs. Johnson was speaking of?of 1 Mrs. Harney," faltered Adele, " and I a J* of course thought that?" h ls "She referred to my mother who lives h )f with me," laughed Will. "Now, tell E me. Miss Adele, is it true that you are b k betrothed to a gentleman in New Or- A e leans?" y d "Not if I know it." said Adele, mis- d e chievously; " who told you such a s - tale?" si n " Mrs. Johnson." A " And?and that was why I have not d d seen you lately?" y, ? " Exactly." ti d Then lifting Adele on his horse Will si k escorted her back to the Johnson house, d v and Adele sat down to write to her ft >. mother. n n Great was Mrs. Somers' consternation v j when her daughter's engagement was at e announced. But when at last that lady ir was prevailed upon to visit Will's u ^ pleasant home where, notwithstanding it v its rustic surroundings, everything that c< f a refined taste and ample means could ir e do. made a paradise of it, and finding h . that the Harneys themselves were irre- st _ proashable, Mrs. Somers decided that rc i Adele might have done worse. bi e And so Adele's experiment in the di pine woods tHrned out to be quite a 0 romantic affair after all. oi } The First Locomotive. The first engine to draw a railway s frain on this continent was run at hi 2 Honcsdale, Pa , August 8,1820, on the y( newly-finished road connecting the g( i Lackawanna coal fields with tide-water ^ - by way ol the Delaware and Hudson aj ? canal. This, says a New York paper, '<j s was the first road of any consequence in jg thej republic to adopt practically the vj > economic system of inclined planes and eg 3 gravity locomotion, since adopted by ent pineers wherever practicable. At that i time railways were just beginning to | attract the attention of capitalists. The r Liverpool and Manchester road, the t pioneer enterprise of the kind, had been m for some time building and was near completion. George Stephenson's ex- as 1 periments with steam machines for th roads were watched throughout civ- tlj i ilization with the deepest interest, ar ' In 1828. John B. Jervis, chief engineer sb r of the Delaware and Hudson canal, sent co his assistant, Horatio Allen, to England w " i 10 .investigate me xippncauun vi bikhiu u) to land transportation. Allen became ur > convinced that Stephenson's ideas were ' destined to revolutionize commerce, f0 I and he, therefore, bought for the canal ^ < company three engines to be used on jjj 3 the initial railway in the United States. __ In M:\v, 1829, the tirst oMibe-enphrea' ? was landed in New York; was put to- . I gether by AUen, and exhibited at the m foundry for some weeks. It was queer looking enough, having four wheels iltl connected by side rods. Vertical cylin. ders on each side of the rear end of the dc r boiler communicated motion to a vast walking beam, attached to the side-rods en ' of the driving-whocls by other long iron v* rods. The engine was indeed, so ot . covered with rods and joints that it re sembled a vast grasshopper. Having "c been delivered at Houesdale in due sea- ot son, Allen had it out on the track, con- re ' sisting of hemlock rails, eight by ten an inches thick, four feet three ihche3 ?? L apart, and spiked to hemlock ties with ln i ten feet space between them- Tiie an engine weighed seven instead of three &F ; tons, as had been agreed upon; the rails 011 ; j had been warped, and as the road ; crossed the Lackawaxen river, after a w I I chnrn fiirvp nn n qlendpr hemlnnk trestle, ^ei . which, it was believed, would not sup- w' port the engine, Allen was besought not r to imperil his life on it. He knew fa' there was danger, but, ambitious "s i to connect his name with the 5 first railway in America, he determined Pl [ to take the risk. He ran the engine up and down along the coal dock for a few M1 t minutes, ana then invited some of the 11 ; large, assembly present to accompany . him. Nobody accepted, and, pulling se ; the throttle-valve open, he said good- m j bye to the crowd, and dashed away t from the village around the abrupt tu curve, and over the trembling trestle, pc i amid deafening cheers, at the rate of tr ten miles an hour. The "Stourbridge w i Lion," as the engine was named, from se t its place of facture, was attached, after fit - the trial, to trains of coal cars, and at 1 drew them satisfactorily on the docks, ai: i But it could not be employed to advantage on so slight a railway, which could m - not be fitted to the engine on account of cc . the expenses required. The " Lion" fli , was, therefore, placed in a shanty on the docks, and staid there for years, ar ? Finally, it was taken to pieces, its boiler Ti 1 being carried to (Jarbondale and put in b1 3 a foundry, where it is still in use. The other two engines shared the same fate. I John B. Jervis is still living, at eighty ; and upward, af? Rome, in New York, b< * and Horatio Allen, over seventy, re- tc t sides at Orange, N. J. What marvel- es , ous progress men of their age have seen a< t in their day. ti ? O A Doomed City. jj? " The town of Covington, Iowa, is Liter- g, r ally a doomed city. Situated on the V! bend of trie Missouri river, the banks pj ' are gradually being eaten away, and the g( ' ground on which the court-house stood a year a<ro is now covered by many feet p( of fast flowing water. The cutting away is done by Jits and starts. One Sunday p, e the current set inshore and took off a ^ s strip of land thirty feet wide in a few U] > hours. No invasions were made for fc anotl.er week, when another slice was c, 1 cut off. Then about half a dozen build- ^ inas were moved back some thirty feet, tJ! ' and the next day the land on which ^ ' they had stood was all gone. The citi- ^ e zens have tried to moor trees and logs ^ '? to the bank in the hope of forming a n, r barrier for the flood, but the current is (j t so swift and the water so deep that these 01 ^ attempts have failed. To give an idea jy; ' of what the town of Covington has suf- cj e fered in the past five years, the case of p - the ferry-house and the principal hotel may be instanced. Two years ago there p; were 60() feet of land between the build- S! d ing and the river bank; now you can '* toss a stone out of the hotel window ^ into the river, and the buildings are now a] n being put on rollers for remova1 (i d __ u A Dried?np Lake. h 3, Where at one time, says the Eureka " e (Nev.) Tjcader, was Ruby lake, there is ? .t now not a drop of water. Seven ov ? g eight years ago this sheet of water wa3 ? - from eighteen to twenty miles long, and ^ varied in breadtli from half a mile to ^ it two or three miles, and in a number of ? k places was very deep. The lake was " [e led by numerous springs along the foot ? jo of Ruby mountain, anri was the largest ^ jo body ot water in Eastern Nevada. For ? >e some years past it has been gradually P jo drying up, until at last it has totall-* ^ e- disappeared. No cause for its disap2r pearance can be assigned. The Ruby rs range of mountains is considered the v -- !????/*(?* nvtrl Unfmnnn fV>o P Anlrrr f L'C lUigCOU auu uuuiu ui/unguii uuv xvuvaj ^ 3t mountains and the Sierra Nevadas, and r besides being well wooded, has been the p td best watered mountain range j FOR THE FAIR SEX, An IlUtorlcal Gown. c A modiste in Fourteenth street, New t fork, has on exhibition an elaborate a atin gown.whose history can be traced li without a break, it is claimed, 'to its il iriginal owner and wearer,Queen Marie o Antoinette. It is of pale yellow, or g ather it was, for age has mellowed it g o an old gold hue; it is richly em- tl iroidered in clusters of flowers of natu- ti al color, which still retain their first v irilliancy. The unfortunate queers n 9ndness for flowers is well known, and o he models of the pansies and roses and a arnations on this gown might have u teen chosen by her from the gardens of p ier favorite Petit Trianon. Its asserted n enuineness is thus made out: During r< he sprine following the execution of e: iouis XVI., January 21, 1793, the revo- d utionary tribunal decreed that the ii iirniture and entire contents of the tl 'uileries should be disposed of. The a ale continued six months, and would p ave continued much longer had it not ti ieen legally stopped. > Pierre de la b Livere, minister of for eign affairs, then n n u. ; ~ UUgUL UUCC ^UWlia \AJ ATiai 1U 31 intoinette, which passed to his son, b rho went to San Domingo, and fled, tl uring the last insurrection on the " land to Philadelphia. The eownj de- fc ?ended to his daughter, Mme. Remi, ai lignot, of Charleston, S. C., (grand- n< aughter of Pierre de la Riviere), who oi ras afterward married to M. Ruties, of A liat city. Through her the pale yellow qi itin came into posse9'.v>n of her eldest le aughter, now Mrs. Churchill, and sc om her the modiste pu". ohased it some st lonths ago. It has been v rv carefully ci amped and newly put togc t .it"., so that ai i preserves, under the circumstances, Si l astonishing freshness. A.~. m;:v h, tl pposed, it is the object of the r,.'. ,>e3t at iterest to many women, not on ac- re )unt of its associations, but of its h.-tv- ! <r: ig belonged to a sovereign famous for ! er elegant toilets. If history could be sc udied by and through clothes, hjw in tany enthusiastic students tuere would ui e among the other sex, and how won- vi srlully proficient they would become, si ne of the Wo remaining eowns, a blue of le, -was given to another daughter of tL [me. Mignot, who, after marriage, re- er loved to Holland, and it was used as a >vering for some handsome pieces of si: irniture now in possession of her hus- se ind, living at the little town of Einho- fi] 2n, NorthBrahant. The third, a purple T )wn, having been owned by a sister of tli [me. Mignot, returned to madame tli ter her sister's death, and was burned ac uring the great tire at Charleston in 161. The authenticity of the sole sur- w ving gown appears to be pretty well uj tabfished. tli Fashion Fancies. Satin is in general demand for many tn tides of the toilet for summer wear. g< Soft and light materials are used ore than <?ver this summer. S1 ar Skirts are still drawn as much back ^ ever. Very small puffings are over x ? 1 n rrar* nnna oro in 6 t' ilipSi ^UU uibuu uiivj iuv AU op ;e back, on the lower part of the skirt w id bust. All walking-dresses are ort, or just clear the ground. Petti- t,; iats are trimmed with plaited flounces, hich are not starched; even those on e trains for evening dresses are left * istifFened. Sp For morning wear at ihe seasidevmd ra r traveling purposes, alpaca with tL ack dots is popular. This is an agreea- re e change from the long-worn plain - b< Wash dresses are shown this season ce infinite variety, from calico wrap- R1 rs at ninety cents to satteens elabor- n< cly made and trimmed with real lace, ri, sting sometimes as much as sixty su illars. tL Old English patterns are revived in sr ibroidery, wheels, stars, etc., and a cc sry popular design has a groundwork fii lace-like stitches in the old-fashioned m f- wnrt. with heavier fieures of leaves, cc >wers. etc.. in bold relief upon it. An- n( her old fashion is revived in the pretty pi vering so dear to our grandmothers, as d bands wide onoueh for flouncing gi mc with inch-wide borders of rever- 03 g, forming a trimming as pretty as lace a" d as durable as heavy embroidery. A of eat deal of torchon and woven Valen- m jnnes is used upon these d esses. pj Dotted and embroidered muslins, hite and ecru, come in quantities this ison, and are among the novelties fiich Dromise to endure. Languedoc lace in cream color i3 the cn porite lace for white muslins, and is " ed in many plaitings, frills and iabots. ta le insertings, set between full, soft sa iffs ol muslin, are much liked, and one to Dnders that modistes were so long in cc scovering the happy effect of creamy th its upon pure white. h' An American twilled silk, closely re- P mbling that of which ladies' ties are ade, is used as a substitute for surah, jr Some very pretty white short cos- " mes are made for country wear, com ised of a skirt of lawn or nainsook ? immea wan two aeep uounces eugea ith Italian lace and headed with in rtionsof the same, and a long half- v ting sack adorned with a similar rufile ?! the bottom and trimmed with tucks id lace insertion. * Some of the new poke bonnets are al- ^ ost Quakerish in shape, but their iloring suggests peacocks and butter- ? es. jj All the trimmings ot bridal dresses " e massed upon the side breaths. ram, waist aud front are left quite P ?in- ? The Textile Plants of the World. H Men's first steps in civilization may , 3 traced almost directly in their efforts i clothe themselves, and their first ' isays in skilled labor are made in the laptation of the materials which naire has furnished them to use for dress, n the banks of the White Nile are ^ ibes who content themselves with a g mple apron of leaves, or less; and Sir imuel Baker noticed that a great ad- a ince in general civilization had taken ' ace there when, after having spent ' iveral months among people of that _ rnde, he came into Unyoro, where the j! iople wore garments fashioned out of 1.1 le bark of a fig tree, which they had to reparc by soaking and beating with a iaiit'1. -LuniL seemeu 10 lunow u?lrally upon tlie acquisition of the taste u ir clothing, for the lig trees have to be ; lltivated to secure a sufficient supply, c ccordingly we are told, when a man t ikes a wile, lie plants a certain num- tj or of the trees in hii garden, as a proision for the wants of the family he -j as in prospect. A erade above the j iiked races arc the Papuans of New , uinea, with their loin girdles of grass 1 r palm leaves, and above these are the . [aoris of New Zealand, with their . oaks of the leaves of an agave-like . lant laid upon each other like scales. . he South Sea islanders have in the u aper mulberry a plant which serves the ^ imc purpose to them as the tig tree to 1? le people of Unyoro, Irorn the bark of i rhich they prepare ttie tapa by soaking b ad beating. They illustrate another evelopment of industry in the adorn- r lent of their clothes, for which they ave an end less variety of designs, many tj f them of considerable merit. This Lage of civilization is also often marked _( y a corresponding development of the ! otter's art and of skill in ornamenting easels. From the method of using the rhole stuff of the bark to the art of seprating its libers and spinning and weavig them into cloth is a great step. The d rocesses of spinning and weaving are as a aried as are the people who carry them ? n, and are largely determined by the * ature of the material to which they d iave to be applied.?Popular Science E C '* ? c All the authentic writings of Shakes- i ieare that remain are three signatures t o his will, preserved in Doctor's ComQons, London, and one signature on ach of'two law documents?one in the J iritiah ' museum and the other in the ' af the city of Lop Jon. 1 i. Mexican Villages. A correspondent tells us how a Mexi an village looks in the following ex ract from his letter: Perhaps w< light within one of the smaller colactions of dwellings. No matter whai ts name may be. Each resembles th< ther so much as to be known at i lance as "own brother." The lire! eneral impression left on the mind is hat the place bears an artful likeness 3 the towns built of toy blocks by j ery young child. The streets, whicL light better be called lanes, are withut system or regularity. The houses re either of adobes or of stakes planted prieht In the ground, and clinked and lastered with mud. They may or maj ot have little courts either in front 01 Bar and inclosed by adobe walls. Nc ndeavor toward display of taste, no in ividuality is apparent about the buildigs. All the angles were intended bj le builders to be right angles, and such thing as a curve is beyond the pale ol ossibilities. Seldom will you find a ee among the alleys of the village; ut if you venture for a stroll after ight you may, while barking your jins against broken down adobe walls, e convinced of the presence of the lorny mesquit bush or the hostile Spanish dagger" plant. Save ?r a complication of such a kind, i all-pervading sense of deadly dulljsa tills one's being from the moment f entering a New Mexican townlet. s you pass by the houses an infreaent person may be seen moving listssly from one doorway to another, or >me open-mouthed lounger may stare upidly Irom the shade in which he is ouched. But nobody seems to have iy particular purpose or object in life, hould you put a question to one of lese automatic corpses, the invariable iswer will come with machine-like '.gularity, "Quien sabe!" There is an ;f.:pres3ible air of sadness about the :t ?. The color of the buildings, as >. ovvful in tone as the brown-stone Dme3 of New York, the ever-present, ^productive sand upon which fche illage rests, even the white sunline oppress onfe with a feeling gloot i. Vnd the Mexican villagers -f ti- ? 4_r <-t, iemsi"V?s pnrutKeoi tueuuuicui men ivironuiL-nl und are a sad people, with sadness, however, that is not inconatcnt with general contentment and asons of mirth. There is not much thin the streets of the "plazita." he inevitable goata clean ap what litb garbage is thrown out of doors, and ,e hot climate breeds many insects to :t as general scavengers. In riding along the highways and byays of New Mexico one often comes ion small gatherings of dwellings in ie queerest, most unexpected places, hey seem to have been droppea down om somewhere above, with a happv)-lucky disregard for the fitness of the larter where thev should touch ound. You may see a village sliding id straggling down the side of a sana .11, with not as much as a blade of ass to ward off the fierce rays of the in in summer or the chiily blasts of inter wind, while it is more than kely that within five minutes' walk lere is a locality ndmirabjy suited by iture for a town site. The first comer jpears to have raised his roof-tree herever he happened to find a clear ace, and his followers have ,nged up by his side because he was lere before them, and for no other ason. Yet in some cases the disjreeable locations of the villages have jen 'to a certain txloat matters of riessity. In making a settlement in New exico the first consideration is near?ss to water, by which land can be irgated, and whence live stock may be ipplied. Where the quantity of land iat can be brought ULder water is nail, the dwellings are s^t back in any inveniently proximate position. The st settlers having made their arrangeents with some such intention, later ?mer3 have crowded their homes as ;ar as possible, with thp idea of mutual otection in case of danger from Indian saults, and thus the " plazita " has own. Sometimes the land cultivated j the men of the villages extends for considerable distance from the center habitation, but more often there is no ore soil under tillage than a mere itch for each family. Au Admiral Punished. Formerly the Spanish mails were rried from the Pliillippine islands to one Kong in crazy ola men-of-war deilea for Mint purpose. Not long since, .ys Kenncbecker, in one of his letters the Boston Journal, one, which was impletdy runout and hauled off, met " -- ^Vl-- T?;? e iaie OI iue rue JLUm, auu luvituj ings a tale. The admiral of the station ;pected his daughter out, and in order show his love for her ordered the resrur steamer to be detained a trip, \hat 2r accommodations might be made ore fitting for the distinguished pasnger. The officer in command was immoned, who being told by the adiral of the station that he desired relirs upon his steamer to be made, or;red him to make the intermediate trip i the Esmeralda, the worthless ship, he officer undjrtook to remonstrate; Id his superior of the rotten condition : the old ship. " Are you afraid, sir?" ernly asked the admiral. " No, your onor, not afraid, but a just feeling for le safety alone demands, on account f the valuable lives and treasure to be at under my charge, that I should )eak." Proceed to sea in the EamerIda, sir!" was the order. He did. In long Kong he found the admiral's aughter, to give her father an agreeble surprise, had come outa trip ahead, ad insisted upon making the voyage rer to Manilla in the Esmeralda. The iptain gave way, and proceeded to ia. Among his passengers was ur countryman, the gallant aptain Nathaniel Hinsman, of aiem, whose ship was in Hong Kong, ad he started for Manilla to engage a irgo for her. The Esmeralda was ever again heard of? The haughty dmiral was awfully punished for fiis ricked, arbitrary stubborness in sendi? that miserable vessel to sea. About ie time his grief for the lo83of his tiild was greatest, a stvaueo lady with child came to the door ar:d demanded Imittance. She was dressed in deep lack and heavily veiled. Slowly aproaching the stricken man, she threw ack her veil and said: " X have come > summon you to the bar of God for ie loss of my husband, whose soul rent ouL of the world unshriven!" hen she passed solemnly out. Hot emeanor wa3 awful to behold, and -ruck him with ghastly force. Peraps he saw other ghastly faces around im summoning him to that terribk ibunal. In six months from that day, is door swunsj open, and the veiled idy and child stood before him. " ] ive come to summon you to the bar ol k>d for the soul of my husband thai es unshriven! It was your act, and 1 hallenge you before God for my husand, and always shall!" Then sh< assed out. It was more than he coulc ear, and the terror-stricken mar hortly afterward left for Spain, rathei bun endure such torture. This part o lie tale I relate as told to me by a highb lmnori foatH in it in Afjlil ^UllbXCUiibu *, W4-...K ... ? lla, weil-known tor his integrity. The est of it I know to be true. Postmaster-General Maynard's las uty as minister to Turkey was not o n agreeable nature- He was obliged t< it as sole judge in the case of a natural zed American citizen accused of mui lering a Turkish pasha by poison. Til Dan wa3 found guilty and sentenced t leatli. This is the tirst instance wher in American minister has been calle ipon by virtue of his oflicial position t ry a murder ease. Owing to the numerous fires inth ?il region no sparking will hereafte >e permitted in the vicinity of the dei icks. Uses of tlie Hop Plant. Dr. Emil Pott, of England, calls atten tion to the many useful purposes for ; whicli various parts of the hop plant may be applied, over and above the mere t production of the umbels employed in ; brewing, to which alone the grower's i care appears to be given at the present L time. To begin with, the tendrils furi nish a good vegetable wax, and a juice j from which a reddish-brown coloring i matter can be extracted; further, their i ashes are greatly valued in the manufac ture of certain Bohemian.glass wares. ! Of still greater importance is the fact i [ that a pulp for paper making can be < I prepared from them, and though the ' goods thus manufactured cannot t>e sat isfnetorily bleached, very serviceable i i unbleached papers and cardboards are not from this raw material. The fibers i can also be used in the manufacture oi i textile fabrics. Experiments in this 1 i direction extend to a far back date, and f in Sweden yarn and linen making from < i hop fibers has long been an established ; branch of industry, which is constantly ! iacreusing in importance and extent, i The separation of the fibers has hitherto i presented considerable difficulties, but ] these appear < !v. effectually overcome 1 by ihe proems recently devised by Dr. i Weis*, of Neutomischel. of steeDin<; 1 tnem ior iweurv-iour nours in coia water containing live per cent, of sulphuric acid, or for twenty minutes in boiling water to which *hree per cent, of the acid has been added. Other mineral acids, such, for instance, as muriatic, may be similarly employed. Nordlinger, of Stuttgart, lias patented a plan of rendering the fibers verv flexible and tractable This he effects by boiling them in close vessels with soap and soda, and, after thorough washing, treating them with diluted acetic acid, and then again washing them in cold water. Another use to which hop twigs may be put is that of basket and wicker work. Lastly, it must not be forgotten that the young slioots form a very palatgble vegetable, not inferior to asparagus in point of delicacy of flavor, while the leaves and the spent hops themselves supply an excellent lood for live stock generally, and for sheep. Dr.. Pott contends that by the recognition of some or all of these numercui; virtues of the a plant, growers can always repay the cost ol cultivation, without reierence to the hop itself, which, of course, will remain the chief object in view, and can render c themselves more independent of the great fluctuations in the price of the lat- _ ter. to which they are at present sub- ^ jectcd. f f A Monopoly in Corks. p The cork business is a very large and c profitable one, and, like many others, is t wholly under the control of an associa- n tion calied the Cork Manufacturers' t union. This union not only regulates t the price, but the size and length of t corks, even determining discounts to all s buyers, and giving in its circular a list e of those dealers) and jobbers who are r entitled to special discounts. It goes 1 further, and says that no corks should J be sold on longer term of credit than F sixty days; that none should be sold to a druggists in New York, Philadelphia, f Boston, Albany, Troy, Portland, or v Providence, or to bottlers anywhere, on t a longer term of credit than thirty days; a Tlija nrrvnomonf ia on*-orf>H intn t(YT t.hp t purpose of protecting both the importers t and manufac.urers in their endeavors to i promote the best interests of the cork t business. Before the union was formed 5 Xhe larger manufacturers 1 such an extent and sold so low that a smaller manufacturers could not live, f Prices are twenty-five per cent, higher c than lorm rly, owing to the ri?e in raw 1 material, or natural corkwood, but as prices are as numerous as the size3 and a shapes of corks, it is impossible to give i them The use of cork increases very 5 rapidly. Heretofore the refuse cuttings c were thrown away, bul now every pieee, t large or small is utilized. From the ? clippings is made linoleum, a kind of I floor cloth. Other refuse is granulated s and used in packing fruit. Shavings, or t curled cork, goes into mattresses, which s are very cool in summer And more so in r the winter. The great use, however, to s which corkwood is put is for bottle 1 stoppers, and in this it supersedes all t otber substances. The cork tree is a 1 species of oa < called Quercus suber. It t grows abundantly in tlie south of 1 France, Spain. Algeria and in some parts t r\f Itnlv This p.nuntrv's suddIv comes ( from the Atlantic side of France and ? from Portugal. Corkwook, so called, is the bark of the tree which it?the tree ?throws off, the first time when about twenty years oid, and every nine or ten J years afterward. The tree is said to live 150 j ears. 8 i Checking Perspiration. ^ A Boston merchant, in " lending a ^ handon board of one of his ships on a r windy day, found himself at the end of j an hour and a half pretty well exhausted r and perspiring free'y. He snt down to e rest. The cool wind from the sea was r delightful, and, engaging in conversa- s tion, time passed faster than he was , aware of. In attempting to rise, he s found he was unable to do so without r assistance. He was taken home and put } to bed, where he remained two years; j and for a long time afterward could only ? hobble about with the aid of a crntch. t Less exposures than this have, m constitutions not so vigorous, resulted in inflammation of the lungs, " pneumonia," ending in death in less than a week, or causing tedious rheumatisms, , to be a source of torture for a lifetime. Multitudes of lives would be saved every year, and an incalculable amount ol human suffering would be prevented, if parents would begin to explain to their children, at the age ol three or four years, the danger which attends cooling ; oflf too quickly after exercise, or work, rr play, or of remaining exposed to a wind, or of sitting at open window or door, or of pnllingoff any garment, even the hat or bonnet,'while in a heat. It should be remembered by all, that a cold never comes without a cause, and that in four times out of live, it is the re suit of leaving oh' exercise too suddenly 1 or of remaining still in the wind, or ma cooler atmosphere than that in which the exercue has been taken. The colder 1 the weather the more noef is there, in coming into the house, to keep on all the clothing, except india rubber or . 1 damp shoes, for several minutes after' ward. Very few rooms are heated ; higher than sixty-five degrees when the thermometer is within twenty degrees f ' of zero, while the temperature of the body is always at ninety-eight in health; , so that if a man comes into a room which ' is thirty decrees colder than his body, j ! lie will rapidly cool oft", too much so . olten, if the external clothing is not re[ moved. It is not necessary that the 1 perspiration be visible; any exercise f which excites the circulation beyond \ what is natural causes a proportional [ increase of perspiration, the sudden checking of which induces dangerous i diseases nnd certain death every day.? 1 llaWsl Journa of Health. i ?? r A Feast iu Morocco. ' We seated ourselves, and were served f at once. Twenty-eight dishes, without ~ counting the sweets! Twenty-eight 5 immense dishes, every one of which would have been enough for twenty people, of all forms, odors, and flavors; t monstrous pieces of mutton on the split, f chickens (with pomatum), game (with 3 cold cream), fish (with cosmetics), livers, puddings, vegetables, eges, - salads, all with the oame dreadful come binations, suggestive of the barbers o shop: sweetmeats, every mouthful of fi wliifili whs enouffh to Dur^e a man of d any crime lie bad ever committed; and o with all this, large glasses of water, into which we squeezed lemons that we had brought in our pockets; then a cup e of tea, sweetened to syrup; and finally, ir an irruption of servants, who deluged l'* the tabiea, the wails, and ourselveB with ro?^ynXei.'--Morocco del Amicis. '-r "-J ' . Terrible Adventure on a Train. A painful accident, says the Paris Oalignani, occurred on tlie Northern railway just as the mixed train from Paris to Lilie was moving out of ihe gate de St. Just, near Amiens. One of the guards, whilst jumping on to the toot-board of his van in the rear of the train, slipped and fell between the van itself and one of the first-class carriages. He, however, seized the coupling chains, and grasping them with the energy of despair, shrieked for assistance. The adjoining compartment was occupied by Count de Ceste and Viscount de Canissy, who happened to be looking out of the window at the time of the accident, and who immediately 3houted to the guard to stop, but the train was by this time rattling ahead at a rapid pace, and it was impossible for their voices to be heard. They seized the cords of the alarm signal, but as fate frould have it, the apparatus was out oi order. Believing that the guard would be unable to hold on much logger, they determined to go to his rescue, and at the risk of their own lives they left the carriage, and, compelled by the jolting of the train to cling to the footboard, dragged themselves ilong it until they reached the back of ;he compartment. There they were horrified to see the unfortunate guard dangling in a semi-unconscious state from She chains. His feet were fearfully acerated by contact with the ground, md still he clung on instinctively, un lOie, However, iu xuuvc ui cvcii, ujjDarently, to "notice the presence of the ;wo passengers who had so heroically some to his aid. It was evident that lis strength was fast failing him, and ;bat he would soon drop under the wheels from sheer exhaustion. They herefore dashed forward, and grasping lim by the arms dragged him up on to lie buffers and thence to the footboard low they managed to regain their cariage with their almost li/eless charge is i mystery.. They did so in safety, howsver, ana the train soon afterward enered Longueau. A telegram was distatched to the Amiens hospital, and hither the sufferer was removed in a recarious condition, his feet having teen literally worn away up to the inkles Do Your Own rishln?. Young and old as well, you'll never atch any of the golden fj^hrthat swim n the world's waters Bv standing with 'our hands in your pockets and watcling another hold the pole.' It is a thing hat cannot be done. I? you expect to ish, you have to dig your own bait? iut the tempting morsels on your iwn hook, throw .irt, your own line, lold your own rod and watch for the dbbles. Seeing another's cork go under, ip bent and line strained, won't do ydu he least particle of good, loafing upon he shore and gaping at others while preadlng and drawing nets woft't fill ither your stomach or barrel.. You aight just as well attempt by taking tOld OX CUU bHHp Ul iuuI uuvu iw utuj our &. ?cgisli avoirdupois over a mua tuddle. The one thing is .about as ensible &3 the other. You have got to ish for yourself?even " cutting" bait sron't answer. Fish don't come Tor the whistling or wishing. They are wary nd have to be tempted. If you expect 0 have them you have got to go for hem in more senses than one. Holdnir up some tree, while others hold up he pole and manipulate the reel, never ret brought a man his breakfast. The raogfl pnn try.tht? will find the .bsurdity of the proceeding. ^'Bob * or your own eels?that's the orly way to :ertainly get them. They won't crawJ ip to your feet and beg to be skinned. Do your own fishing. The world is 1 great herring pond, and your cnance s as good as that of your neighbor's, if rou choose the right kind of bait, use liligence, have and take advantage of! ide and time. Golden tishes swjiu ibout in plenty, and are to be caught, * A- A A if WAIT r.VPfV JUl( uuutuciunuuuii uu ill ivt jw J uccessful man owes his independence o individual energy and enterprise, itandingon a rock alllhe day looking ind hoping never yet tilled a basket; uch a scaly proceeding won't cause the lse of the scaies ?you may depend upon hat. Every one has to fish for what le gets. Others may possibly bait and ake off the prize from-the hook and >addle the boat, but the fishing has got 0 be done by your own hand. Every >ther means you mar trv will turn out 1 failure. A Spider Story. One chilly day I was left at home ilone, and after I was tired reading ' Robinson Crusoe," I caught a spider md brought him into the house to play vith. Funny playmate, wasn't it? (Veil, I took a washbasin and fastened lp a stick in it like a vessel's mast, and hen poured in water enough to turn the nast into an island for my spider, which ! named Crusoe, and put him on the nast. As soon as he was fairly cast iway, he anxiously commenced going ound to find the mainland. He'd camper down the mast, stick out a foot, jet it wet, shake it, run around the tick and try the other side, and then un back to the top again. Pretty soon t became a serious matter to Mr. Robnson, and he sat down to tbink it over, ^s in a moment he acted as if he wanted o shout for a boat, and I was afraid he vas going to be hungry, I put treacle >n the stick. A fly came, but Crusoe vas not hungry for dies just then. He vas homesick for his web in the wood hed. He went slowly down the pole 0 the water and touched it all around, ihaking his feet like pussy when she wet ler stockings in the grass, and suddenly 1 thought appeareato strike him. Up le went like a rocket to the top and :ommenced playing circus, iie held one oot in the air, then another, and turned iround two or three times. He got exsited and nearly stood on his head be'ore I lound out what he knew, and hat was this: That the draught of air nade by the fire would carry a line tshore on which he could escape from lis desert island. He pushed out a web hat went floating in the air until it :aught on the table. Then he hauled >n the rope until it was tight, struck it leveral times to see if it was strong rnough to hold him, and walked ashore. [ thought he had earned his liberty, so [ put him back in the woodshed again. ?Hearth. Words of Wisdom. Worrying will wear the richest life to jhreds. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. A comet with a tail three miles Ion? is coming. Feeling is no criterion whatever ol right or wrong. We are led on, like the little children, by a way we know not of. There is no justice in this world save that which springs from the center of a heart of love. God's people, the world over, are one in Imnpunrt nnrnnse. and assurance ol *u -"p ' i ultimate victory. The joys of heaven are like the stars, which, :>y reason of our remoteness, appear extremely little. The strongest heart will faint sometimes under the feeling that enemies arc bitter and that friends only know hall the sorrow. Blessings may fail and fortunes vary, but the thankful heart remains. The happy past at least is secure, and heaven is ahead. Be thou like the bird perched upor ?nmp fmii thine, who. although he feels the branch bendiDg beneath him, yel loudly sings, knowing full well that he has wings. We raise ourselves by adorning that which is better than we are. It is th( one virtue of the soul which is always tending1 upward by its proper motionupward to something higher, purer and better. ffe'jc .' KfcLv- rffrltj-f^V If tdT STOBT OE A DISSOLUTE LIFE. From a Happy Home to .Career of v Crime. A recent letter from Pittsburg, Pa., to a New York paper, says: Robert Dinsmore, a farmer, about fifty years of age, lived with his family near West Middlefcown,Washington county,Penn., in 1867. He was possessed of a fair fortune. Late one night in the summer of 1867 he was called from bed by a loud knock at his dodr. He opened the door on a crack and peered out. Two men, one large and the other a stripiing, stood on the steps. They asked the way to the house of a neighbor of Dinsmore. As he was giving them directions how to reach there, the large man threw himself suddenly against the door and forced it open. Dinsmore saw then that their faces were black. They demanded a sum of money that tuey said the farmer had in the house. Dinsmore at once seized the larger man of the two, and,being a powerful man, overpowered him. Bv the aid of his companion, the surprised robber was enabled to extricate himself from Dinsmore's grasD, and the two strangers ran into the kitchen and attemntea to escaDe from the house by a window. Dinsmore's wife and daughter had arrived on the scene with lights, but were so trightened that they could not make any outcry for help. DiDsmore followed the robbers and attacked them again. The struggle was renewed, and the younger of the two desperadoes seized a butcher-knife that lay in a cupboard, and attempted to stab the farmer. The latter warded off the blows, and struggled desperately. During the encounter, it was discovered by the two female witnesses of the affray that the men were not negroes, but were only disguised as such, the black they had on their faces being rubbed off in the struggle. Finally, the elder of the robbers drew a revolver and shot Dinsmore dead. The two men then made their escape. As soon as the members of Dinsmore's family recovered sufficiently from their terror, word was sent to the authorities at Washington, and officers were sent fn inTrnatmafo tho offflir A hnnhhppl was founcf in the kitchen. This had evidently been detached from a boot be longing to one of the guilty men. The ground was soft from recent rains, and in the morning the tracks of the two men wert/ plainly seen leading away from house. The track made by the boot without a heel was easily followed. It led to a house in thevillaee of Washington-. A notorious ruffian named Jobn Fogler boarded in the house. He was.found in bed. A pair of muddy boots atood by his bedside. One of the boots was without a heel. The heel | found in Dirismore's kitchen was tried to tKe >oot. It fitted exactly. Fogler was arrested at once. He was identified by Mrs. Dinsmore and other members of her family as the man who had shot t her husband. The leader of the Washington county bar at that time was the Hon. William Montgomery. He was a member of Congress from 1856 to 1860, ana earned Li national reputation by his debates on te Lecompton question, taking Stephen A. Douglas' side of the matter, and making the memorable reply to Curry, 01 AiaD&ma. ma speecnes un tue Nicaraguan question, in reply to Quitman, of Mississippi, were also widely quoted and commended as masterly presentations of international law. He was a delegate to both the Charleston anp Baltimore Democratic national conventions in I860. He was a man of great "wealth, and lived with his wife and son in an elegant homestead near Washingtor village. His son was sixteen years old in 1867, and although well educated, having almost unlimited means at his command, and having the finest social and business prospects before him, was given to the companionship ot dissolute men and chose their habits. After Fogler'8 arrest, search was made I for his companion in crime, but no trace of him could be found. It was finally remarked that William Montgomery, Jr., hud not been seen around the village for several days. It was learned that lie and Fogler had been together the niRlit^of the murder, and that ne had left home a few hours after Fogler's arrest ^ as announced. While people generalJyJcould not bring themselves to believe that the boy was tne accomplice of Fogler, the authorities were certain that he was. He was traced to West Virginia, and at last arrested and brought back to Washington county. So great was the public sympathy for the father of young Montgomery, that every member of the Washington county bar volunteered to defend his son. Prominent among these were Col. R. M. Gibson and William McKennan, now Judge McKennan, of the United States circuit court. Fogler and Montgomery were given seplirate trials. Fogler was tried first. He was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. As Montgomery's trial advanced public opinion was turned against him. Although Mrs. Dinsmore and her family positively identified the youngt man as the companion of Fogler, and other circum I stances poinieu witii tcunuc uucv.uic? to his guilt, he was acquitted on the testimony of two witnesses who swore to an alibi. Fogler was hanged, and on the gallows made a confession in which he solemnly averred that Montgomery was his accomplice. The community were entirely convinced of his guilt before that, and following his acquittal an investigation into the manner in which the testimony as to tne alibi was produced led to the disbarment of two of Montgomery's counsel? Leroy Woods Taylor and James B. Ruth?from their privileges as attorneys. They were promising and brilliant young men, and their disgrace resulted in the death of both of them in the course of a few months. Young Montgomery was shunned by all classes. His father was broken down by the moral certainty that his son was a murderer. and died in 1871. He left to his unfortunate boy a fortune of S75,000s with an appeal to him to forsake the mode of life he had chosen and go to some distant part of the country and become a new man. The young man's mother, once the life of Washington society, became almost a recluse in her olegant home, and lives there yet, a heart broken, prematurely aged woman. During the trial of Montgomery his ?ounsel referred to him frequently in addressing the jury as "this babe." As soon ai he was free Montgomery plunged into all kinds of excesses, and from the allusion above was given the name of " Ba'ie " Montgomery by his vicious companions, ana ny mat name he has been notorious as a criminal throughout this part of Pennsylvania *nd in the Ohio valley for the past thirteen years. He hash cured in many shooting affrays in this city, Cincinnati ' St. Louis and Indianapolis, and his name appears on the police records ol all these cities in connection with ' numerous petty crimes. No man that ever followed his course of life ever ased liquor in such excess as he. During all this time he used only a vers small portion of his inheritance, and that only to settle some of his mort , serious difficulties. He has forced a living out of his dissolute companions nnd was always known as the " meanest man in the valley." On Wednesday h< tt _____ j; i. ' was in tl)city, ne whs exueeuin^ij drunk. While taking a drink at tin 1 White house he fell to the floor. H< was carried to the city hospital, and ir 1 ten minutes was a corpse, i ?? ; Some people admire the Chinese, bul ! a few minutes conversation with on< will convince you that he ;s a wishe< ; washee sort of chap. i ? ? i A drunken stranger staggered int< Mrs. Evans' sick room, at Arrowsmith [ 111., when she was alone, and tr.e frigh killed her. Diversity* I Other people have their faoJtj, 4 And so have we u wells * ' Jt'rA 6 And ill y? chance to see and hear ,.'3B Te have no right to tell. T Aye! let as hold oar tongues in chcaV At all times given to running, * ? Nor take such pains to lerret oat Our neighbors'* lack or canning' 9 Some wear their blemishes outside, * >* fl The real man or woman. While others hide them, ii they can, i'et all alike are human. y - The i oee that bears the shortest thorn I Is oftentimes the sweetest; , ** So stern, decisive bonis have proved " "^3? The truest and completest. And he who seems to shod no tears >' Of sorrow for another I May be the very one whose hand I J? IXBt UllO UIC iOUOU WAWUO** 4 (> "(?.' Be not deceived by outside show; * fl Doubt not, too soon, & neighbor, . * * Because he chooses in bis way ' ^>v>. To Uve and love and labor. 8 * * JfM Diversity ol thought and mind I Shines In each path ol duty; I Diversity is God's great plan C To make a world of beauty. -s? .^>'38 ITEMS OF INTEBBST. j A capital thing?Cash. "" -rI A kidnaping case?A cradle. v " "' *S3H New York city has 200,UPO cats. v Italy has had six administrations in . ?^| four years. | All the Ohio counties except four "J9 grow tobacco. Black suits are now worn even by . very young Indies. I California fanners give rat-killing *1 bees in their infested barns. 5* -pw?m I A farmer's li.'e cannot be monotonous; I they iabor in so many different fields. e The first paper money in NewEng* I land was issued in 1689. | There are fourteen different remedies a for sea sickness, the best being to fb I Ycu may try to beguile flies Sri th^fly. paper, but you\u nna laeyn nuctw /jj Mount Everett, one of tbe Himalayan I chain, is tbe highest mountain In the " | world. It is 29,002 feet high. Boston made S 13,000 last year aa I dogs. Sharp financiering that, to maw . ' Ja $13,000 out of one pound* I To prevent lamp chimp/.7? from cracking put the chimneys ;ntoa**et*. - -Jm tie of cold water and gra jnr.y heat ij until ic boils, and then let M na gradually It is thougut that the German minis- . ;-|j terofwar is bent on increasing th<4 - .1 standing army of the empire to 2,000,000- 1 of men, and that sooner or later, he will' 1 succeed. ' V I At Omaba a curious freak was re-.- J centlv performed by tbe wind. I'lor* 1 ence and Willow lakes, north of the 1 city, were blown nearly dry, the x&rid' ' scooping out the water. The grounft a near tne lakes was covereu wnu ucnu fishes which were blown oat,, of the A French statist has come to the coa- |j| elusion, after a very laborious examina-, I tion of the number of deaths from raiU j way accidents in all parls of the world, J that if a person were to live continually ' in a railway carriage and spend all hia 1 time in traveling, the chances in favor j of his dying from railway accident . a would not occur until he was 960 years . The baker's cart was standing by the " . door, minus the baker. Little chub- I climbed up and looking into the boxes, ? feasted her ej es cn cookies and jumbles innumerable. " Oh, I'se a good mind to I take a cookie." "But that would be very wrong," said the nurse, reprov- * -"^3 ingly. "The baker won't see mef1 . . * " But God will," solemnly. "I know; - Jj but He won't tell the baker."?New 1 Haven Register. * < A fond mother wants to learn some waytoleilhow her son will turn out. That's easily done. If he's wanted to j f?o out and wed the garden, he will' turn out slowly and reluctantly and be. ' 3&M two hours dressing. If he's called to see a circus procession go by he'll 1 probably turn out quick and hurt him-; syfl self trying to come downstairs and put ' ] a^boot on at the same time.?Lowell A blind horse makes a very awkward. , ] runaway. Such a "Dobbin" tfas'-. . ' waiting unhitched for his master in a * * St. Louis street, a small boy having promised to keep an eye on him. The . dies were troublesome and the horse '. had gradually turned himself until he ; . ?1 stood kicking and switching directly' facing a hat store on the opposite side . "j | of the street. A gnat alighted over the ' v Eoor beast's spinal column and began / oring for its marrow. The horse started with pain and ran for the hat store, the proprietor of which spread an umbrella and rushed to the curb, hoping * . - J to frighten and chaDge the course of the TIL - LII.3 I runaway, juie uuuu uuiaci mia/uiom t ^ | ment when he went ever the man and j umbrella accelerated his movement* " ' through the window. The vehicle was wrecked and class and hats were ruined to the value of 830. The Antiqalty of Wearing. The earliest records of the art of we .v?ing are to be found in the Old Testament. ? Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in 44 vestures of fine linen;" ana Job lamented that his days were swifter than the weaver's shuttle, the use of the simile proving that the shuttle was a common and wellknown object at that time. Portions of woven cloth and a weaver's shuttle have heen found among the remains of the Lake dwellings, and as the latter arc believed to belong to the stone age, the origin of the art may possibly have been - ^ nearly coincident wun me exisumue ui . man. Few, if any, savage races have been discovered altogether ignorant o the art, and many of them have hrough it to a considerable degree of perfection while the relics of the ancient Peruvian and Egyptians show that they wern skilled weavers. Some fragments of ? Egyptian cloth were found on examination to be woven with thread* of about 100 hanks totlio pound, with 140 threads to the inch in tiie warp and 61 in the woof. Although the art was oracticed / extensively, and with no mean skill, in * very ancient times, it progressed slowly and gradually?by small steps at long intervals. The great advances in the . art of weaving have been made during the past 300 years, mainly during the past century. -Scientific American. South African Diamonds. The produce of the South African ; mines is enormous, and the quality of " the stones, which is frequently marred by a somewhat tawny complexion, is * * ft ' reported to ce improving. iUUw.., I twin " drop" from the Vaal river, skilli fully mounted by Mr. Streeter, was declared by experts to be of Indian extrac, tion. \ ast protits have of course been t realized. One gentleman's claim is said 3 to have cleared in two years $225,000. r The New Rush mine alone yields $15,000 3 a day. In IS75, when the diggers had J been at work only four years, gems to i the value of $17,500,000 had been extracted from it. The packets of diamonds sent by postbag from Kimberley 1 lj~ i?7r, wpi(?hed 773 lu iuvyu iu ..?? ? pounds, and were worth $7,072,950. 2 Nor does there seem to be any present prospect of the supply coming to an end. On the contra*-?, there is every ) reason to believe that only a very small , portion or the diamantiferous regions of t South Africa lias yet been explored. Frazer's Magazine.