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the; Beapfort Repcblican. AN INDEl|ENDENT/ FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, OUR MOTTO IB-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR 1 / ? VOL. III. NO. 29. \ f BEAUFOET, S. C., THUESDAY, APEIL 24, 1873. {WMSWRE ' . - : 11 (T . i _ . _ A Winter Wedding:. It fled away in a clang of belle, Marriage belle, ^ On the wings of the blast that sinks and swell That bold, weak, fate-struck, Buffering soul. Whom Christ wash clean, and God make whol And we stand in the light of two happy faces, Two happy hearts whom our heart embraces ; And we hear the peaceful organ's sound, And the angry storm sweeps harmless round; Blessed is the bridegroom though tl heavens are dun; Blessed is the bride whom no sun shines oi Mayhap, some wandering angels say, Stop and say, As through the gloom they carry away That bodiless Bpirit to Him who knows? He only?whither the spirit goes; " God give them all that the dead man lackec (As men dare Judge him) in thought, word, ac Lest earth's doors opened, shut doors i heaven." Blessed is the bridegroom without crow or land; Blessed is the bride with the ring on hi hand. Peal, ye joy-belle, peal through the rain, Blinding rain: God makes happiness, God makes pain, 8ummer and Winter a good tree grows, A strong soul strengthens through weal an woes. " Be not afraid,"says the wild sobbing wind ; ' Weep," sigh the clouds, "but the blue is b< hind." Blessed is the bridegroom under shower ( sun, Blessed is the brido whom Love's ligl shines on. THE ROTTEN CROSS. It has been many a long dajr sine then, yet I remember it all, just a though it had occurred but yesterday. I was a carpenter, the foreman of large establishment, and as such pos sessed the entire confidence of my em ployer, who, by the way, had been schoolmate of mine. One day he called me into his offic to look at some rare coins he had jus purchased. Here," said he, placing in mv ham a heavy gold piece, " is one which i worth more than all the rest put tc gether. It is a great curiosity. I paii ?200 for it, and considered it cheap u that. I could easily double my mone; in onllincr and an vnn R??f? Hftrvev. it i *" ? ?' J * i really a good investment. "No doubt it is," said I, " though i seems a large sum to have lie idle." I breathed ail involuntary sigh as laid the coin down on the desk, for ?20 would have seemed a fortune to me jus , then. The severe illness of my wife, an* one of my children, and the death o another made serious inroads on m; purse, and it had required the exercis of the utmost economy to keep mysel free from debt ; nay, I had been oblige* to withdraw from the bank the smal sum, which, besides my salary, was a] I possessed of worldly treasures. Think ing of this. I laid the coin down with sigh, and turned away to attend to m; duties. The next morning I was again sum moned into the office, but this time met with no friendly greeting, as usual "Harry," said my employer, abrupt ly, " that coin we were looking at ha disappeared. I have made a thorougl search, but it is not to be found. I has been carried away by some one You alone saw or knew of it, and?" He paused and looked significantl; into my face. I finished the sentenc for him, the hot blood dying cheek and brow as I spoke. " You mean, therefore, that I took i ?I!" "What else can I think ? The coil was here ; ycu alone saw it. I canno recall having 6een it since it was in you: hauds. You are in need of money; yoi have told me that yourself. It was i great temptation, and I forgive you be cause of our old friendship, but I can not retain you in my employ. Here i the salary due you." " Very well," said I, with force< calmness, "so be it. since you navi so poor an opinion of me after years o faithful service, I shall not stoop to de fend myself." Then I took the money he had lai< upon the desk, and went out from hi presence a well-nigh broken-liearte< man. But for the tender love of my wife, 1 doubt not but that I would have burie< my sorrows in the grave of a suicide. "Supported by that love, however, an< the consciousness of my own innocence, took fresh courage, and set resolutel; to work to find a new employer. But powerful is a breath of slander turn which way I might, I ever foum that the storv of my dismissal for thef had preceded me, and my applicatioi for employment uniformly met with i refusal. Time went on; piece by piece, ou furniture, and every spare article o clothing, found its wav to the pawn brokers, until, at length, even this poo resource failed us, and my childrei cried in vain for food. let i am not sit aown in luieaespair I could not afford to do bo ; the life o death of all I loved on earth depends on my exertion?and so turning awa; from them with a heavy heart, I onci more set out on the weary search fa work. All in vain ! refusal after refusal me my entreaties for employment, and ! was turning homeward with a listlesi step, when passing an immense ehurcl I was attracted by a group cf men at iti base. Impelled by some strange impulse, ! approached and mingled with them. A workman was standing near by looking up at the great steeple, whicl towered aloft some 250 feet above them while a gentleman, evidently an archi tect, was addressing him in earnes language and at the same time pointing toward the golden cross at the summi of the spire. . . " I tell you," he exclaimed, as Idrev near, " it must and can be done. Th< cross must be taken down, or the firsi heavy gale will send it down into th( street, and lives will be lost. Coward is this the way you back out of a joV after engaging to do it ?" " I didn t know the spire was so big! % up there. Do it y?irself if you want done J \ 1 " I would if Tfwere able." said 1 architect. But gS if you will ; let 8' be ! My honor is pledged to have t done at any prifce?and I can find ?- braver man than ?ou to do it." The carpenter walked away witli dogged, slouching ^tep, and the gent man was about to move away, al when I stepped forirard. ie "What is it yodj want done, sir !' asked. " I am a carpenter; perhaps Q. ; can do it." He turned eagerly toward me. " I will make it worth your whi Take down that cro^s and I will p i you a hundred dollar^ ' You will lis to ascend those ornamental blocks, a I tell you candidly the* are not to I depended on ; they must be weak a :t. , rotten?for they have been there 1 years. { I looked' up at the'i spire ; it v square at jihe base and tapered to sharp poitft, while aloDb each an| were nailed small gilded blocks of woe sr " It's a^langerous place^to work," said, " afcd there will t>a even mt peril iiJ descending tli&4 ascendir Suppose I succeed in moving the stoi and that?" "If any accident happens to yc d -my brhve fellow, the mohey shall paid to your family. I promise y that. / Give me your address." " Here it is, I said, " and us y 5* valim your soul keep yourjword w: meT My wife and children are starvir )r or I would not attempt this |rork. II ditf they can live on the hundred dolh it for a while until my sick wife recov< her strength." I'll make it a hundred and fifty !" ( claimed the architect, " and may G protect you ! If I had the skill nee* e sary to ascend that steeple I would a ^ no man to risk his life there. But con and keep a steady hand and eye." R I followed him into the church, th up into thespire, until we paused befc [m a narrow window. This was the poi a from which I must start on my perilo feat which I had undertaken. e Casting a single glance at the peoi in the street below?mere specks the distance?I reached out from t ^ window, and, grasping one of the on s mental blocks, swung myself out up the spire. I For an instant my courage faltere ,t but the remembrance of my starvi: y family came to my aid, ana with a i s lent prayer for * protection and si cess, I placed my hand on the ne t block above my head and clambered u From block to block I went steadi I and cautiously, trying each one ere 0 trusted my weight upon it. ,t Two-thirds of the space had be< { passed, when suddenly the block th i suppoxted me moved?gave wav ; ui f heavens ! neveikthough I phould live y see a hundred ^^rs, shall I cease e shudder at the retfc^ftion of that t( f rible moment, fl Yet even ii^re mi^fc of my agon II as I felt H^felf slipping backward, 11 did not for one second lose my presen > of mind. a It seemed to me that never before h: v my senses been so preternaturally acn as* then, when a horrible death seem* [. inevitable. I Down, down I slipped, grasping |# each block as I passed it by, until length my fearful course was arreste s and then, while my head reeled wi li the sudden reaction, a great shout car t up from the people below, i, " Come down, come down !" call the architect from the window ; " In y the sum shall be yours, for the ri e you have run. Don't try again! Coi s down." But, no! more than ever now I w t determined to succeed. I was not oi to give up, after having undertaken i difficult task. t Coolly, but cautiously, I commcnc r the ascent once more, first seeking i vain to reach across to the next row a blocks, for I did not care to trust m - self again on that which had proved - treacherous. This I was compelled s do, however, until the space betwei the angles became sufficiently small 1 allow me to swing across. Accomplis e ing my purpose at length, I went i f more rapidly, carefully testing en - block as I proceeded. Ere long I reached the cross, ai 1 there I paused to rest, looking do\ _ c XX? j: 1??l.x ?.U1. ? r? j uuiii me liu^iii' ?iui & vwAftiv 1 I that even then astonished me. A few strokes with a light hatch I that the architect had hung at my bne 1 and piece by piece the rotten cross fi to the ground. 1 My work was done, and as the It I fragment disappeared, I fotiud a 6 y pleasure in the thought that should never reach the ground alive, my de ; ones would have ample means tosupp 1 their wants until my wife could obtu t employment. l Sad and cautiously I lowered mys< % from block to block, and at leng reached the spire window, amidst t r cheers of those assembled in the strei f Inside the steeple the architect plac - a roll of bank notes in ray hand, r "You have well earned the monej l he said. "It does mo good to seo man with so much nerve?but?b!e ; me ! what is the matter with your hai r It was black before you made the ascei 1 now it is gray!" jt And so it was! That moment of i e tense agony, while slipping helpless r downward, had blanched my hair un it appeared like that of an old ma t ' The work of years had been done in i I instant! s ' Entering the bnre, cheerless roc l which was now all I called a home, s ! found a visitor awaiting me, my la I employer. r nil ?? - ~ .M ?i 5: 1, L UU1VCY, oaiu UC, CAICUUIU^ u i hand, "I have done a great wrong. , co6t me a terrible pang to believe 1 jour guilt, but circumstances were , I strongly against you, that I was fore - i to believe it. I have found the coi t Harvey, it^lipped under the seci ? drawer in iv aesk.^gaa you forgi t me, my dear frwdtT?" . My heart Jkmoo full to speak, r silently pressa^ffis hand. 5 "I will ujdro t-% wrong I have don i All the w^tq sh % know I accused y< j unjustbnot thrcmh my words onl ! but thorough my acf^is, too. You mu > be my partner, Har^P If you refu I shall feel that you .ve not forgiv< It i me. it I did not refuse. Instead, I thankfully accepted the offer which my friend so ;he generously made, knowing that no surer it method could have been devised to siit lence forever the tongue of slander, and I a free my name from the unmerited reproach which had of late rested upon > a it. le- Unmerited prosperity has attended so, my steps ever since that eventful day, but neither prosperity or wealth can ef" I face its memory from my heart, nor reI store my withered locks to their own raven hue. * ^e- Tobacco Not NotrltlTC. >ay ive Tobacco belongs to the class of narnd cotic and exciting substances, and has be no food-value. Stimulation means abnd stracted, not added, force. It involves for the narcotic paralysis of a portion of the functions, the activity of which is ras essential to healthy life. a It will be said that tobacco soothes le and cheers the weary toiler, and solaces jj the over-worked brain. Such may be if a mnmpntarv effeeta. but the Seouel )re cannot be ignored. All such expedients 1 are fallacious. When a certain amount jp of brain-work or hand-work has been ' performed, Nature must have space in m which to recuperate, and all devices for kg escaping from this necessity will fail. ou It is bad policy to set the house on fire to warm our hands by the blaze. Let ou it, then, be clearly understood that this temporary excitement produced by toj_ bacco is gained by the destruction of ^ j vital force, and that it contains absoir8 lutely nothing which can be of use to ;r8 the tissues of the body. Tobacco adds no potential strength to the human frame. It may spur a ;x: weary brain or feeble arm to undue ex?" ertion for a short time, but its work is destructive, not constructive. It can8X not add one molecule to the plasm out ie? of which our bodies are daily built up. On the contrary, it exerts upon it a en most deleterious influence. It does not 'r? supply, but diminishes, vital force. It has been denied that tobacco leads U8 to organic disease, but the evidence is . very strong the other way, and it would . be very remarkable if continued func.in tional derangement did not ultimately e lead to chronic derangement of the oria" gaus ; that it causes functional distur011 bance, no one dreams of denying; indeed it has been remarked that no id, habitual smoker can be truly said to Qg have a day's perfect health.?Popular si- Science Monthly. ic xt The"$pring Strikes. ly A labor strike is 6aid to be impendI ing. The carpenters say that they don't get enough to pay their board, en Shoemakers, that it takes their awl to at keep them at work, and their sole dei J pendence is often in their last job. to Painters complain that they have beto come literally hue-ers of wood. ?r. Upholsters complain that hangings have gone out of fashion. Boiler-makers aver that Congress has *1 kept the country in hot water to such a ce degree that they have no chance. Blacksmiths complain that all the ad forging is done in Wall street, and !te tnere is no cnance. ed Tailors say they mean to give their customers fits, at The hatters have kept ahead, at The gas-fitters will go in for light d, work. th Printers say they are tired, and can't ne set up " any longer?that's what's the matter. ed * Bakers say they knead more, and ilf don't like to see so many rich loafers, sk Butchers complain of being comae pelled to work at killing prices. Candle-makers urge that wick-ed as work ought to be well paid for. t lie Wheelwrights say that all spokesa men in Congress voted more pay before retiring, and they expect to do as well as their felloes. The paper-makers say their busi0? ness is such that it brings them to rags. And, finally, the plumbers propose to J(~ have their customers do the work, and ?0 charge double pay for superintending cn it themselves. Each superintendent to will have three tenders, one to fill his pipe, another to hold his hat, and a " third to act as substitute when lie goes out " to see a man." ad Copying the Men. On ray way home Saturday afternoon, writea a Brooklyn correspondent, I e? noticed a large assemblage of boys unk der a horizontal bar in Hicks street. Rather struck with such a solemn assembly, I stood opposite, determined to watch their proceedings, to see the ,ul end of what seemed to mo to be so curi'j ousa gathering. As the crowd parted, ar I noticed one boy with his arms pinion(j ed and a rope passed under them, which .r. was thrown over the bar, another boy, representing a clergyman, stood with a ^j? piece of paper in Iuh hands. The well^ known liop of Sheriff Brennan was noI ticed as he stepped up to the Rev. Doc?t tor. All was quiet. The rag was ej waived, and some four or five of the larger boys caughthold of the rope, and ,the convict was dragged up. A young M. ' D. stepped up, felt the pulse of the busgs pended boy, and pronounced him dead. He was lowered and his body given to j.' his friends, who said that the funeral ' would take place immediately. The crowd adjourned to the funeral, seeming ," to be perfectly satisfied with the success , of the execution. Your readers can draw their own con' elusions from this little incident, adds the correspondent, who also intimates that the parents of those ten or twelve y year old boys had better pay them a ?e little attention in the way of birch rods. ii8 The Anderson* Case.?-The jury in jt the case of Thomas ?'. Anderson, tne in Titusville, Pa., bank officer who shot 80 himself dead, iiave returned a verdict C(j of insanity. The investigation was n most searching and exhaustive, and the ej evidence proved conclusively that Mr. ( Te Anderson was deranged when he com- j mitted suicide. The bank accounts are J j strictly accurate and no possible motive ( existed for the sad occurrence. The re- , e suit of the inquest proves conclusively j nj that he made no improper disposition 1 v( of his employers' funds. , at I se "Black as a coal," is no longer a ten- i an able simile in Australia. They've lound ] a pufe white coal deposit there. ' Depth of the Ocean. The ocean is not a "bottomlessdeep," except to the poets and to young ladies, I neither of whom are familiar with the o modern improvements in taking sound- h ings. Not only have skillful seamen I known how to reach the bottom and ii fetch parts of it up to the top from great I depths, but mathematicians have given n themselves the trouble to calculate p theoretically its average depth. BufFon v fave this at 240 fathoms, or 1,440 feet; ti lacaille gives from 164 to 273 fathoms; 6 Laplace, .erroneously estimating the p mean elevation of the land at 3,280 feet ti ?three times the height now allowed v bv nhvsicial ffeoerranliers?thought the ti waters of the sea must be of about b equal depth. Young assigned a depth a of 2,735 fathoms to the Atlantic and o about 3,800 fathoms to the great Soutli h Sea. According to this estimate, other u mathematicians add, the Pacific must s be at its deepest point fifteen and a half u miles in depth, which is scarcely prob- e able. Their bottoms are of unequal b depth, and they contain mountains as a well as vast rolling plains. a If the waters of the Mediterranean p were suddenly lowered about 110 fath- t< oms, it would be divided into three dis- U tinct sheets of water: Italy would be u joined to Sicily, Sicily would be united t< by an isthmus to Africa, the Dordan- tl eiles and the Bosphorus would be ii closed, but the outletof Gibraltar would a remain in free communication with the p Atlantic Ocean. If the level were lowered by about 550 fathoms, the JEgean, a the Euxine, and the Adriatic would tl wholly disappear, or only leave in their ^ beds unimportant pools; the remainder p of -.he Mediterranean would be divided \? into several seas like the Caspian, either a isolated, or communicating with each t; other by narrow channels, and the ter- ^ minal promontory of Europe would be d joined by the isthmus of Gibraltar to e the mountains of Africa. A depression ^ of about 1,100 fathoms would leave a nothing but three inland lakes : to the c west, a triangular basin occupying the a centre of the depression between France e and Algeria ; in the middle, a long cav- a ity extending from Crete to Sicily ; and n eastward, a hollow lying in front of the w Egyptian coast. The greatest depth of ? the Mediterranean, exceeding 2,200 a fathoms, lies to the north of the Syrtes, a almost in the geometrical centre of the t basin. e a Horace Greeley in a Mob. 0 Relating 6ome personal incidents of * the late Horace Greeley, Browne tells about the draft riot in 1863, in New ? York city. He says after the riot had ? " ? n 1? n. gotten weii unaer way weeiey uau very little doubt he would be hanged to ^ a lamp-post by the mob, and he had 11 actually accepted death as his inevita- * bio portion. Messenger after messen- 11 ger, friend after friend, went' to him to e apprise him of his imminent peril, and were surprised to find him as cool as the summit of Mont Blanc. He had entire confidence in their statements, remarking, " Well, it doesn't make much p difference. I've done my work. I may v, as well be killed by the mob as die in s] my bed. Between now and next time q is only a little while." b The day it was expected the TYibune e would be attacked, its employees, who ai had prepared for defense, spent several li hours in trying to get him out of the & office. His invariable reply was, fi " Never mind me, boys ; I'll take care d of myself." And amidst the distribu- p tion of revolvers, muskets, and hand- tl grenades, and the fitting of hose to the fi steam-pipes, the intrepid Horaoe sat n down to his desk to write editorials for tl the next morning's issue. It was only w after several of the staff went to him, d and urged him to quit the establish- a ment for their sake, saying his remain- & fng would do no good and merely im- o peril the office, that he consented to t< leave. He would do for the Tribune, e the darling of his heart, what he would c< not for himself. His final remonstrance ri was, " You might ns well let me stay, fi If there's goinjg to be any fun, I don't ii know why I shouldn't see it too." But t< at last he was borne almost bodily into p a carriage and driven off, still protest- y ing against the proceeding as " devilish ii mean." e n Jefferson's Official Delicacy. Jefferson was clear in his great office, ii (Secretary of State under President y Washington,) and he lived up to his h great prinicples. Being asked by a n neighbor to write something that should c help him into Congress: Jeffersonsaid, ? " From a very early moment in my life, <] I determined never to intermeddle with elections by the people, and have invariably adhered to this determination." Much fts he loved his old friend and secretary, William Short, he would not h assist him to sell the little public stock p which he possessed, saying: "I would g do anything my duty, would permit; c but were I to advise your agent (who is v himself a stock-seller) to Bell ont yours g at tliin ortlmt moment, it would be used e as a signal to guide speculation." In- c vited to share in a speculation, ho ^ declined, on the ground that a public 0 man should preserve his mind free from n all possible bias of interest. Wnen the t! fugitives from the St. Domingo massacre t< arrived in 1793, destitute and miserable, c he wrote to Monroe: " Never was so Vi deep a tragedy presented to the feelings h of man. I deny the power of the gener- 0 al government to apply money to such v a purpose, but I deny it with a bleeding X1 heart. It belongs to the state govern- ? monfa Prnv iiroro oilrs to be lihprftl." .. "lv"~,Ti - "'Rv -T |J In his French package came one day a t letter from the wife of a groom in the a stables of the Duke of Orleans in Paris, f, addressed to her sister, a poor woman n who lived fifteen miles from Monticello. r He was careful to rejoin it upon his 0 daughter not merely to forward the let- ^ ter, but to send it to the woman's house by a special messenger. ?James Parton. R Turkish Toweling Suits.?Snits of ^ gray and brown Turkish toweling stuff, n for ladies' wear, with rough, sponge-like stripes have double-breasted polonaises, cut with low reVers at the throat, and a ire to be worn over white habit skirts, o Square pockets are on the front, and n there are two rows of silver buttons u down the front. The skirt has a deep e; Spanish flounce, with narrow gathered u ruffle at the top and bottom. Russia w leather belts with silver chatelaines are h vorn with these suits. ji Carious Attempted Suicide. About the 1st of February lost Julius Jnde and bis wife Julia, both natives f Germany, removed from the city of few York to the village of Jamaica, jODg Island, and took up their abode a a small tenement in York street. Inde succeeded in obtaining employlent in the offloe of a German newspaper as a compositor. In this office he rorked for four weeks, but was so illreated by the other employees that he nally was forced to leave it. This hapened about three weeks ago. Since bat time he has had no employment rhatever, and for the greater portion of be intervening time his family have een without fuel or food. Finding no venue of escape from his miserable ondition excepting through the poorouse, he and bis wife, after deliberating pon the matter, determined to commit nicide rather than become a burden pon the county, and thua end their arthly troubles. Accordingly they oth carefully washed themselves, and fter putting on a clean oh&nge of linen nd setting the house in order, they roceeded with the utmost deliberation 3 carry out their determination. Ende jok his razor, and, after sharpening it pon a hone until it cut a hair, cut a jrrible gash in his left arm, severing he main artery. He then cut a gash 1 his left leg near the ankle, which lso severed an artery. He then, it spears, handed the razor to his wife, who lso gashed her arm, severing an artery, nd her left leg, near the ankle. Both hen got into bed, believing that they rould soon bleed to death. Fortunately one of the occupants of the house, rho knew of their needy circumstances, t this opportune time happened to go 3 their apartments with some food, and fas horrified upon opening the door to iscover them lying iu bed and the covring saturated with blood. An alarm ras at once given, and in a few moments physioian was in attendance, and suceeded in stopping the flow of blood d sewing up the wounds, not, howver, until so much blood had been lost s to leave their recovery a matter of mch doubt. With careful nursing and etching they may possibly recover. Inde is a man about forty-five years of ge, of more than average intelligence, nd has been in this country about sventy-five years. At one time he ownd and edited a paper in Washington, nd at one time was employed in the lovernment printing office in that city, .t the breaking out of the war he ensted in the Twenty-eighth New York tate Militia, and served the full time, le afterwards obtained a commission s second lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth few York Volunteers, with which regilent he served unjil the close of the rar. The unfortunate couple have been larried fifteen years, and have followed ight children to the grave. A Useful Bank. The inhabitants of the north-western nrf. nf SihpriA live filiieflv unon salmon. liich enter the streams in summer to pawn ; then the natives take immense uantities of the fish, dry them, and lay y a supply for the next season. About very third or fourth year, on the averse?though with considerable irreguirity?salmon do not appear, and the onsequence is a famine, which, falling rst upon the dog teams of the people, isables the latter from drawing suplies from other quarters. To prevent ae terrible sufferings which have arisen rom this cause, the Russian governlent established at Kolyma, a post on le Arctic ocean, a sort of savings bank, 'ith a capital of one hundred thousand ried fish, purchased from the natives ud stored away; then a law was enactd compelling every male inhabitant f the settlement to pay annually one?nth of all the fish he caught, and no xense for a failure was admitted?this ontinuing as long as the fish season cmained good ; but when there was a lilure of the salmon, and starvation upended, every depositor was entitled o borrow enough for his regular suplies, on condition of repayment next enr. At the latest advice, this bank ad carried the people through two onsecutive years of famine, and accululated acapital of three hundred tliouand dried fish, and was still accumlatlg at tho rate of twenty thousand a ear. It was thus on the road to wealth, esides proving such a fountain of beeficcnce of the people. It is the priniple of Joseph's management in Egypt, ith all the modern improvements re -"d l\?? bo ofnfa a( oA/iiafv in ft 1"a uncu. UJ WVV ? Dcceired by a Fortune-Teller. One of the funniest suits of tho year as just been decided in Indiana. A hysician sued on a bill for professional ervices, and was met in court by a ounter claim, also for professional serices. The Crawfordsville Journal ives the following interesting facts licited on the trial: The defendant lnimed a set-off against the doctor's ill, alleging that his wife had at varius times told the fortunes of the several lembers of the doctor's family, and hat he had never been paid. The doc!>r did not deny the fortune-telling, but laimed that he had been misled there y; once greatly to his damage ; that is daughter, relying on the prophecies f defendant's wife, believed that she rould on a certain day named be called pon to marry; and that in consequence hereof he was put to large expense in irocuring for This daughter a wedding rousseau suited to her station in life ; nd that on the day named by the dewifn nvortrt li i r? rr TOO a in rAAfli. ess for the marriage, but that no mariage took place, for the reason that no ne put in an appearance to claim the and of his daughter, in marriage, nor as he, ranch to their dissatisfaction, ppeared to this day. The doctor got augment for $5 and costs, the latter' mounting to over $90. A nice old man bought a house at notion in East Taunton, Mass., the ther day, and then astonished a newlyia/ri :d young man,to whom he was an tter stranger, by making him a presnt of it The newly-married young J lan thought it was a joke, until his ife was summoned, and revealed to im that thenioe old man w&p h<|pincl$ ut from California, Ac. The Bank of England Forgeries. The discovery of the frauds practised on the Bank of England by Americans < was purely accidental, so an English correspondent says. The parent estab- { lishment in Threadneedle street habitu- ] ally exercises great caution in discounting bills ; but, as the forgers were evi- f dently well aware, this caution was re- j laxed at the branch office in the West End. Some months ago "Mr. War- j ren," of whom the police are in search, / opened a deposit account there, keeping always a balance in his favor. Then he deposited genuine bills with t his cash, ana afterwards presented the forged bills, which were readily discounted ; many of them purported to * be drawn on Arms which use a peculiar ( paper with certain water-marks and, printed matter; signatures had then to f be made; and so accurately were all i peculiarities imitated that it is probable the forgers would have fully succeeded t in their plans had they not made the t one blunder of presenting two bills in which the date of acceptance had been j omitted ; inquiry was made of the firm j whose acceptance was thus undated, and the bills were then, of course, . found to be forgeries. As yet, unfortu- 1 nately, not the slightest clue to the J principal actor in this gigantic swindle has been discovered. His clerk, Mr. I Edward Noyes, was examined before < ~ T Ka nrtorrro nflfflinftt LLIU UUI'U lUit>jrvi| vuo vum^v ? 0 him being that he had " obtained bj fraud and forgery from the Governor and Company of the Bank of England the sum of ?1,500/' but his examination elicited no important facts, except as to render it highly probable that one "Horton," who had transacted business with the Western branch of the Bank, was identical with the "Frederick Albert Warren," who was the principal in the whole fraudulent business, fie wrote most of his letters to the Bank from Birmingham, and made them very friendly and confidential. In them he 0poke of being ill and unable to attend to business in person j it is singular how he wormed himself into the confidence of the authorities of the Bank, and the mystery vet remains apparently inexplicable. The detective iorce doe3 nothing in the matter, and it is thought by some persons that there has been too much money fraudulently obtained to make it worth their while to do anything?in other words that they have been "seen." It is said that that eminent pereon, Mr. Warren, remained at a hotel in London for several days after his plans were discovered, and that this was known to a number of the Metropolitan force who declined to do anything in the case because it was in the hands of the city detectives. There is reason to believe that Warren had other aliases, and transacted business under the'name of Bidwell. It may be remembered that a woman named Ellen Vernon was arrested while about to leave London with ?2,700 in a bag such as " Bidwell" bought, as is now shown, shortly before. It is believed that she was Warren's mistress, and that she knew of the business in which her lover was en gaged. Her cross-exammuuuu uiuco thirt highly probable, but throws not the slightest light upon the whereabouts of the principal in these nefarious transactions. Among the innumerable rumors concerning the affair it is said that some months ago the London representative of a New York journal received a letter frem a "C. K. Horton," dated Alexandria, stating that the writer hod been a contributor to the paper when in America, and that as he nod, while traveling, suddenly found himrelf in want of funds, he thought that perhaps the London representative would cash a bill for him. The offer was respectfully declined. When the city forgeries were discovered and the writing compared it appeared that C. K. Horton and Warren were one and the same individual. Tho total loss to the Bank amouuts to ?77,000. The Story of a Little Girl. Children who have pleasant homes and kind mothers to look after and watch over them, would learn a lesson could they visit the courts of some of our large cities once in a while. In a New York court recently, a summons was served on a lady to bring before the officer a child thirteen years of age claimed by its mother. Tho lady came into court accompanied by the child, who is a bright-looking, intelligent girl, with a profusion of fair, curly hair. The mother was most violent, and insisted in a loud voice, that her daughter should be given up. But the little girl cried piteousiy, ana twining ncr units tuuuu the neck of the lady, besought the 1 Judge to let her remain in the custody ( of her kind benefactors. "Oh, Judge, i said the little one, " It's dreadful ( home; mother used to send me out i along the docks, and when I didn't bring home money enough she used to lick j me. When this kind lady picked me , up on the docks I was as black as your < coat, Judge, and I had only a few rags , on me. Pray don't let me go homo j again, Judge ; it's dreadful." The lady, who is a quiet, kind-looking woman, confirmed the child's state-, ( mvnt as to her condition when she was ' picked up on the docks. It was in ! November last, and the lady took care to obtain the mother's consent before 1 taking the child to her home. Justice Cox said he would not take 1 the responsibility of removing the child from her present custody, as it was obvious from the conduct of ! the mother and her language to her daughter in court, it would be a most unwise proceeding. He instructed the lady to allow the mother to 6ee the child, and told the child's mother that if she wished to press the matter she would have to taae it before the Supreme Court. Leakmno.?The colored men down South are learning the white man's way. nf )otria1aHnn verv ranidlv. In the u* y . Arkansas Legislature Mr. Farbish be* gan to swear. The chair said.it was not allowable in debates, and that made the member swear worse, finally, he swore so roundly that he hod to be tamed over to the Sergeant-at-Arms. II The British manufacturers of agricultural implements decline to take part in the Vienna Exhibition. Facte and Fancies. " Massachusetts has 879 inhabitants to svery mile of railway. ,). There is said to be a skeleton in ev>ry house, but not always a skeletoncev. i r w , The poet says, "Shoot folly as it lies," but the trouble is that folly never lies. iik'. Small-pox is still scourging the inlabitants of San Peto ana- Salt .Lake 3ity. :f)iw The outstanding legal-tender notes >f the United States amount to $358,>69,997. ' ' 11 San Francisco, by a local oensns oonains 189,000 people, of whom ll,000are Chinese. A party of forty persons emigrated rom Syracuse, N. Y., to found a colony n Kansas. It is not an uncommon sight in Buslria o see women working with men pavibg he Btreets. The immediate slavery emancipation aw for Porto Rico has passed the Spfcnsh Assembly. :,f Plesiotaurut California \athej>lea?ng name of a bug which inhabits Sun Francisco beer. .flw h 1u$ George Taylor, captured by the ipaches in Arizona, was burned to ieath at the stake. <u j tnW Wisconsin is another State that xsp imanded her representatives for insreasing their salaries. The girl in Iowa who as announced jy telegraph lost week danced six sacjessive sets on a wager died on 'Friday ast. lo d i.Wj& The French and German governments lave exchanged ratification^ of t4jhe reaty for the German evacuation *oi Prance. ' 1" In Fremont, Nebraska, yon can Jbtny jotatoes for thirty cents a bushel, eggs it twelve to fifteen cents a dozeri.and oeef at ten cents a pound. T One of the mills of the American Powder Company, at Acton) >ra&9B., dew up recently, killing two -wotkmtn, >ne named "Wentworth, and, injuring lire, others. 1 Langston, who murdered the old lj(dy tnd little girl in their bed* near ^Paralise, 111,, reoently, makes confession of ;he crime, and implicates bis wlfifi as lis instigator. : -,T Defalcation seems to be a contagion imong the county treasurers or New fork State. Fonr counties have had their iffairs sadly complicated by themalfeasince of treasurers. Don't sit lop-sided when you write, squinting at your chirography pcross ;he bridge of yoijr nose. A distinguished oculist declares this attitude extremely hurtful to the eyes. The United States Government sale of leventeen of the engines of tho New (fork Central Railway Company realzed only 817,000, leaving $445,000. of ;he tax claim still unpaid. A new horse disease has appeared in Portland, Maine. It effects the legs, naking them so weak that it is with lifficuty the animal can stand. No jaaea have proved fatal yet. Two young ladies in a Minnesota own volunteered to nurse thC family of neighbor dnring ail attack of a oon;agious disease, and both were taken 11, died, and were buried in a common jravc. ! An anxious gentleman, bargaining 'or a house to rent from old MacMasters, isked if tho honse was cold. "Well," mid the old gentleman, seriously, "I :au't say us to that; it stands out loo 1-8." "Why," asked a governess of ner ittle charge, "do we pray God to give is our daily bread ? Why don't we say our days, or five days, or a week ? 'We want it fresh," replied the ingenious child. A silly fool of a lover at Des Moines Iraws blood from his arm and usef it n the place of ink to writo to his girl. Ten to one that he don't pound her with he stove-handle in less than a year ifter marriage; A Buffalo drug clerk, who was instrunentol iu badly poisoning a citizen's ion by mixing an injurious article fti a iulve he was ordered to make, coolly -emarked that it was "only a Slight nistake of his." Francis Joseph of Austria offers five housaud florins, equivalent to two housand dollars, for the beat editorial >n Austrian affairs; to be written in .Herman and not to contain more than me thousand words. The father of the simple-minded boy, Willie Clark, has brought suit for $5,X)0 damages against the Massachusetts sheriff who nrjestod him ou tho chargo j{ placing obstructions on the Boston md Albuny ltailroud. A lady about to be married was told hat her intended, though a good man, tvas very rcientric. " Well," she said, " I am glad to hear it, for if he i* .very unlike other men, he is the more likely J t " CO 00 a goou nuauHuu, , A New Haven lady, who has been iumb for two months post, was frightened into distinct utterance, by the sudden and silent approach of a member of her family while she was ransacking the attic of her house. When a city editor of the Tribune once suggested the reformation of his neck-tie, Mr. Greeley answered, ?*Xou don't like my dress, and I don't like your department. If you have any imf>rovements to make, please begin at lome." A Vermont paper remarks: J?sident found something offensive in Jxis last dozen of eggs, and took the dealer to task. 'What is the matter 'With fViom 9* Aflkttl that individual. 'They are not good,' was the reply. '"Well, that can't be wondered at,' "m the apologetic rejoinder, 'the hens are ao drove now they ain't expected (6 be particular as usual.'" 1*1^793 The idea of protecting vinsyardls tipm frost by the creation ef artificial clouds, caused bs fires lighted at night, which has been in use for many years in France, Fas been tried in Maryland with fruit trees with considerable* suceeah. For density of smoke the vineyard, jjaapfieten near Stresnes, France, use casks of tor, drawing a dense veil, like a certain, over the grapes,