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NEW SPRING GOODS.
JU. C. BAILIE & BRO.,
Eesmbctvoi.lt ask todh atten
tion to the following DESIBABLE GOODS of*
fered by thcin for sale:
kmuw aim american floor oil
^1 CLOTHS.
34 feet wide, and of the beet quality of goods menufee
tu red. Do yon went e reel good Oil Cloth? If
o, come now end get the very bout. Oil Clothe cut
eny aiae and laid promptly. A full line of cheep
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from 60c. e yerd up. Table .
clothe ell widthe end colore. 1
CARPETS.
Brocade, three-ply end ingrain Carpets of new do*
stgus. A full stock of low-priced carpcta from, 30c. e
yerd up.
Carpets measured for, made end laid with dlepetchj
lace curtains. ,
French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisltea." ,
Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful."
Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $2.50
? pair end upwards.
cornices and bands.
Rosewood end Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut end Gill I
Cornices, witn or without centres.
Curtain Bends, Pins and Loops.
Cornices cot and made to lit windows end put up.
window shades.
1,000 Window Shades in fell the new tints of color.
Beautiful Onld Band Shades. *1.50. with all trim.
inings.
Beautiful Shade* 20c. each.
Store Window Shades any color and any size.
WindoT/ Shadee squared and put up promptly.
Walnp.t and painted wood Shades.
RUGS AND POOR MATS.
New and beautiful Rags.
Door Mats, from 50c. up to the best English Cocoa,
that wear three years.
100 sets Table Mats, assorted.
MATTINGS.
New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different
widths made.
Matting* laid with dispatch.
WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS.
3,000 Rolls Wall Papers and Borders in new patterns,
in gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes.
Ac., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and
cheap. Paper hung if desired.
HAIR CLOTHS
In all widths required tor Upholstering. Buttons,
Gimps and Tacks for same.
CURTAIN DAMASKS.
Plain sad Striped French Terrya for Curtains and
Upholstering purposes.
Gimp?, Fringe, Tassels, Loops and Buttons.
juoreens ana tidiq usmssss.
Car tains and T*mbrsqnlns made and put up.
PIANO AND TABLE COVERS.
English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano TableCorera.
Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers.
Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Cover*.
German Fringed Table Covers.
CRUMB CLOTHS AND DRUGGETS.
New patterns in any size or width wanted.
To all of which we ask your attention. All work
done well and in season, by
James G. Bailie & Brothers,
AUGUSTA, GA.
?rl-17-lT.
H. M. Stuart, M. D.,
Comer of Bay and Eighth Streets,
Beaufort, S. C.
DEALER IK
DRUGS A,VD CHEMICALS,
TAMIL Y MEDICINES,
FA XC Y A XD TOILET A R TICLES,
STATIONERY, PERFUMERY,
BRUSHES, ?c., (tc., <Cc.
Together with many other articles too numerous
to mention. All of which will be sold it the lowest .
price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully
compounded. fcb.ll.
PIERCE L. WIGGIN,
attorney m nnirrfSP.t.nR at uw.
MiAViUlWA UilA/ WW UH WUAJWU U1 UUII I
Solicitor Second Circuit.
* Beaufort, S. C.
Bept.l-Iy. ,
JERRY SAVAGE'4 CO., J
Wheelwrights & Carpenters.
Carts, Wagons and Carriages repaired in the best
manner at Ipw price-'.
All kinds of Jobbing promptly attended to.
MAGNOLIA St.,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
J. K. Goethe, M. D.
Dr. Goethe offer* his professional services to the
public. lie may be found at his residence,
tJamt Hill, near Ynrnsvil'e,
Beaufort Co., S. O.
jan.l-ly.
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT UW,
liOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT.
RF 4 TTdRT. ?_ C.
Dec.l-yr. m
YEilASSEE
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AT THE
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The traveling public will here find good meal* on
the arrival of train*. A)*o accommodation* for man !
and beact, near tliu depot.
33. T. SmJIiERS,
YEMASSEE, S. C.
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W. H. CALVERT,
PRACTICAL
Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker.
DEALER IK
Japanned and Rtr.mped Tin Wares. Constantly on 1
hand, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stovea.
TERMS CASH.
Thankful for paat favors, and hoping by strict attention
to business in the future to merit your kind
favor.
W W. CALVERT.
Bay St., between Sth and 9th SLs.,
BEA UFOIiT, S. C.
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CHARLESTON HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
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Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption
of Lunds now in the possession of the United States
by reason of the Direct Tax Commissioners sales can
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PAUL BRODIE,
A ECHITECT,
B?*UH?r,S.C
Drawing* of Model* prepared for Patent Office
Btudie* for * pec ill purpose*, made at short notice.
Box 31, P. O. decl-ly
William Gurney,
COTTON FACTOR
ASD
Commission Merchant,
NO. 102 EAST BAY
AND
NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Particular attention given to the ?alo of and ship
ment of Sea Inland and Upland Cotton. Libera
>dvance* made on consignment*. det7-ly
JOHN BRODIE,
ConttacMr & House BAilder,
Jobbing Punctually Atwuaoa 10.
* ' * orppicB.
Corner Bay and Ninth Street,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
decl-tf
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D. C. WRSON 85 CO.,
MANUVACTVUKS or AMD muM IN
Mow Pine Tito aii Lute
AND
CYPRESS SHINGLES,
ALSO,
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< Plaster Latfcesp V
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Promptly Done.
Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always
on Hand.
Orders for Lrmhrr ?nd Timber by the c?rg(
promptly filled. Terms C?sh.
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THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST!
P. M. WHITMAN,
- ?u ti
Watchmaker ana engraver,
M^yo's Building, Bay Street.
Will irve hi* personal attention to the repairing o;
WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamenta
aud plain Eugiavmg done at abort notice.
Gentlemen bating fine Watcbe* can test them ai
thia establishment by one of HOWARD A CO.'.'
?M0 REGULATOR*
Having added to my stock one of J. BUSS A CO.'f
flue Transit Instruments, I am now prepared to fur
uiah Beaufort time to the fraction of a second.
Alfred Williams,
TRIAL JUSTICE.
A
Crofut's Building,
BAY 'STREET, BEAUFORT* S. C.
N. B.?CourMrlll be held every Friday at Brie!
CUurch, St. Helena I-i iu L mch'Jd-ly
a.markT
BOOTMAKER
Bay Street, Beaufort. 8. C.
Having opened u nliop upon Bay Street, I are pre
pared to do firkt-clata work.
incli2U-ly A. MARK.
PTJRB WATEE
Guaranteed by the use of the
AMERICA! DRIVEN WELL
' -Z
Now being put down In this County. They are
Olioap and. Durable
And give universal satisfaction. Pure Water can b
introduced into any bouse by the AMERICA]
DRIVEN WELL in a few hours. Apply to
M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to
E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent.
fob2T-6m
S. MAYO,
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C.,
HARDWARE,
Liquors, Segars and Tobacco
Net Yarns, Fish Lines <t Cordage,
Glass, Paints and Oils
White Lead and Turpentine.
Sneeial attention efven to mirintr Paints, ar
Gliea cut to order of any size. " febll
M. POLLITZER,
Cotton Factor
AND
Commission Merchant
BEAUFORT, S. C.
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Lines.
Upon a day?no matter?here or there,
Sweet Philomel was ringing, and the air
' Was drowsy with the breath' of roeee every c
where.
a
f lay and sang?as bees will hnm in Jane
For hnmming'u sake?vague prelude to uo tune, f
Songs without words, that yet oomo to an end (
I too 800U.
Unknowing care or Joy, or love or painFain
that is blessing, or^pve that iB vain?
And asking but to rest, and heard the bird v
again. - ? t
Behind the copse the eon had died in fire,
When the last wail camo, faint, then welling 1
higher,
As a soul o'ercome by passion of desire.
So listening aloud, all heedlessly, t
1 said: " 0 bird, teach half thy pain to me,
Fhon shalt not bear alone so^reat a misery!" (
And when I turned my prelude had an air,
My song found words, my careless heart found c
care. j
Ah m?! it was too lat? to say another prayer. ?
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A LONG SPLICE. I
Tlx* Matrimonial Ailventnre of an Old f
Sailor. II
"Thnt boy's name was Billy Tosley," ^
it was the old mariner who was talking,
! "and if ever there was an imp of mis- r
?*hief it was that boy. There wasn't 1
anything in the way of skylarking bnt |
what he was up to, and it didn't matter
a pin to him who he played his tricks t
op, whether officers or men. Sometimes ]
he'd catch a chap caulking on deck of a I
( night, and just put the draw bucket full .
of water somewhere overhead, on the f
rail or upon the honse, and make fast i
one end of a rope yarn to the bucket t
and the other to the chap asleep, so that
when he jumped up sudden he'd pull f
over the bucket onto himself or onto 1
Rome of the other chaps ; sometimes he ]
would make a chap's leg fast, and when 1
an order was given to brace the yards or <
to make or to take in Rail, the chap would ?
start sudden and find himself down on i
the deck in no time. Frequently, the i
whole watch, on turning out, would find i
I their boots stuffed full of oakum, or the I
sleeves of their jackets turned inside i
out, or some games of that sort, and it I
was always that whelp that did the job. |
' Licked he was, of course, but it only i
made him worse, and the fellow thnt I
whipped him was sure to come off sec- i
ond-hest in the long run. He was a
great favorite, too, was Billy, with all I
hands, notwithstanding all his tricks, i
'cause he was such a willin' lad when I
anv work was to be done, and I've seen 1
the tears stand in the eyes of that boy i
! when a man has pot ahead of him to
loose a royal or to'gallan' sail. He had i
good book-larnin', too, bad Billy, and
| could read and write wonderful, and it's
along of that same writing of his that I
t got into this scraoel'm going to tell you
* about. Billy was always fond of me,
s and so was I of him ; you see we was
* shipmates in two or three ships together,
and of a night nothing suited him
better than to get down alongside of me,
and get me to spin him a yarn I waR
always good at yarnin', but then the
twisterR I used to reel off to him was
> different from the stories I spin yon,
'cause these is all true ; but I used to
lie by the fathom to him, and I do
believe the bigger I lied the better he
liked it.
"'Spin us a yarn now, Tom,' he'd
say, 'and let it be a reg'lur twister, as
* long a* the mnin tolxurlin',' and so I'd
go ahead, and tell him of all sorts of
things I'd seen on deep water voyages
round the capes, and among the natives
9 on the islands in the Pacific, and about
whalin' nnd all that; and he'd take it
>. all in, as innocent as if 'twas mother's
milk. That boy was sharp to learn, nnd
. afore he'd been six months to sea there
) warn't a knot, from a 'Tom-fools' to a
j ' Matthew WallTer,' but what he was up
to; and afore him and I parted company
for good he could just put two
ends of a rope together as neat as most
anyone.
i " 'Twas in one of the ' Double L' line
' where we was first shipmates, Billv ami
I, but 'twas in a Black Bailer?the Yorkshire?when
the thing happened that I
f am going to tell you about.
" I was up at a public house that I
* used generally to fetch up at of an evening,
where the tenpennv ale would
make you cry like a child?for more,
and you didn't need to take much more
either, afore you'd begin to talk of your
- rich relations. Well, I wns up there, as
I tell you, one night when the barmaid
Bays to me:
" 'Tom, do you know a chap called
Jem Williams ?'
" ' Of course I do,' Bays I; 'he's second
mate of a bark that went to Glasgow.'
" ' Exactly so,' says she, ' and he's
? just the softest chap I ever knew. He
was here the voyage before this last one,
and he used to be up here continually.
I I didn't take much notice of him,' says
* she, ' 'cause there's a many that comes
up here regular ; but see what a letter
id the soft fool has been a sending me.'
" Along of my going to this house for
~ a couple of years or so, off and on, Polly,
the barmaid, and I had got to be in
I)retty intimate-like, and I didn't like to
et her see that I couldn't read writing,
which was the fact; so I says, Polly,
dear, just fill up my mug and bring me
>9 some more 'bnccy, and I'll just clap this
letter in my becket and overhaul it when
I gets leisure.'
~ " ' I'm sure I don't care what you do
with it,' says Polly ; ' the softy, to write
such a thing to me.'
" Well. I takes the letter down aboard
. the ship, and the uext day I asks Billy
?this hoy that I told you about?if he
thought he conld read it.
"'Of course I can,'says he; 'let's
have-it.'
" So I pulls the letter out of my pocket,
and that there hoy read it right oft
_ the reel the first time he tried, without
missing a word.
" ' I say, Tom,' said Billy, after reading
the letter, ' the chap that writ that
is au awful flat.'
" ' Of conrse he is,' says I, ' and that's
m just what Polly said.'
" ' The young woman he's sweet on,'
says Billy.
" ' Of oourse,' saya I, ' what other ?'
"' She won't answer it ?' says Billy. *
"' Not she,' said I. a
"Then that boy's genius for mischief a
ome in straight, aha says lis I t
u 1 "Tom, wouldn't it be a jolly lark to g
.newer that letter ?' i
As now,'says I; 'we ain't Polly,' t
or I couldn't see what the deuce he was a
Irivin' at. 8
" ' No,' nays he, ' but I can write a a
etter And sign her name, and put it in 8
he ship's bag, and we'll go to New York r
ibout the same time that he will, and f
ee'll see how he'll take on when he gets t
he letter; it will be a great sell,' and c
he young f arniint actualy danced for *
oy at the idea. ?
"'Go ahead, my bo' says I, for I ,
lidn't see no great harm in it at the t
ime; and Billy he gets pen and paper
md firea awav. ?
" Well, Jim's letter was soft, sure
mongli, a tellla* Polly how much he
oved her, and how he'd never stopled
a thinkin' on h'er since last he
slapped his eyes on her, and a promisin', ,
f she was willin', to come right on
itraight and splice h r eat of hand, and
>o on, it was soft and no mistake ; but
t wern't notning to the one which this
>oy writ in reply. He read it off to me,
vhen he'd got it all done, and it was i
juslier, I can tell you. He didn't stick
it nothing, didn't that boy, but telled
Tim as how Polly was on the very verge
>f the tomb for love of him, and if he
vanted to see her alive he'd better make
ill sail in her direction and carry on
lard. It was writ regular small, like a
voman's writing, and that boy claps
?olly Jones at the bottom of it and
itows it away snug in a cover and diects
it to Jim to his boarding-house in
Franklin square, New York, and the
joy's mind was at ease.
"Of course, I didn't tell Polly anyhing
about this, and in good time our
tailin' day oome, and away we went and
irrived here at the foot of Beekman
itreet in due course.
" The bark what Jim Williams was
iecond mate of, got in two days after
is, and Jim came up to the house where ]
Billy and I was boardin' and he got the ,
otter, and was just as pleased as a dog ,
ivith two tails. Jiilly ana i was a aesfpin
iur weather e.ves open all the while, <
?nd we was tickled a'inost to death to <
iee the way that chap went on. About ,
ivery fifteen minutes he'd get away by
himself and pull out the letter and read '
it all through, and then he'd come up ,
to me or to some of the other chaps in
the house and insist on standing treat,
n? that by bedtime what with freshenin' ,
the, nip so often Jim was more'n half
*ea's over.
" As soon as He was paid off Jim
leaves his bnrk and ships afore the
mast in the John R. Bkiddv, and away
lie goes to Liverpool t-o get spliced, as
be thought; and Billy and I, having
swayed on all taut ropes till our money
was gone, we ships in the New York,
and away we goes, too ; and it so happened
that all three of us got to Liverpool
together. Jiin got there, as it
might be a Monday, and we got in two
days after, and the first night ashore I,
of course, calls in to see Poily and have
a mug of ale. Well, Polly, Hrter sayin'
how de do' and so on, goes on to tell
me as how 6he really believed that Jim
was adrift in his top-hamper. 4 He's
erazv, sure,' says she ; 4 he will have it
.1 - r 1
mat X writ llim It ICHCI uim uum mm
come 011, and that I would marry him ;
whereas, you know Tom, I never did
anything of the kind.' She said he
really took on awful when she told him
she never wrote to him, and she was
quite sure he was crazy.
"Well, when I told Billy all this I
thought that hoy would go into convulsions
with laughter. 'To^n,' said he, 'I
ain't quite done with him yet,' and he
writes him another letter, signing Polly's
name, of course, and makes an appointment
to meet liirn by the Nelson monument,
in the Exchange, the next night
at seven o'clock. Billy aud I went
through there about eight, and lie was
a walking back and forward as industrious
as if he had been standiu' watch at
sea, and I don't believe he left that
blessed square afore midnight.
"Well, the next night urter this he
goes up to Polly, and they had a reg'lar
row. He produces the letters, and asks
Polly if she will deny her own hand
writin'. aue got as mau as omzes, auu
wouldn't look at the letters at first, but
after a while she overhauls them, and
then she see that somebody had been a
hoaxing of Jiin, and she told him so,
and then they made up, and parted
good friends. She made him understand
that he must sheer off; that she
couldn't keep company with him for
the long voyage, and he took so many
mugs of the ten penny on the strength
of it that he lost his way going down
to the docks, and found himself in the
lockup in the morning and was fined 10s
and costs for being drunk and disorder y
"I am afeared, sir, yon find this rather
tedious, but I had to tell you all this to
get in the fair way for the yarn I sot
out to spin you at the first, which was
to tell you how I come to get spliced.
"When we got back to New York
after that trip, Billy had got the idea
into his head that nothing but a tallwater
voyage would ever make a sailor
of him. 'It was no use,' he said, 'going
these coasting voyages, I want to go
around the cape and all I could say
wern't no use, go he would, and two
days arter we arrived he shipped aboard
the Sea Witch, with 'Bully Waterman,'
for the East Indies, and as I heard afterwards
he came mighty near losing the
number of his mess in a gale of wind,
just afore they got up with the cape.
"If you don't mind my going off, on
a 'short board,' after him. I'll tell you
how it was, and then I'll resume the
yarn I've been a spiniu'.
"As I was told, the ship was pretty
well up with the cape, when one night
it breezed on rapid from a whole Bail
breeze, till it blew great giro*, and from
having three royals onto her?for you
aee they hod had fine weather up to thin,
and hadn't stripped ship for the high
latitudes?they were brought down to a
close-reefed maintopsail and foretopmast
staysail, witli scarce a pause in the
shortening sail. The sea got np very
rapid, and by morning it was as nwly a
time as a man would wish to see. The
ship began to roll heavy and labor a
good deal, and at daylight the word was
passed forward to ' send the royal and
to'gallan'yards down,'
" Well, Billy, as I told yon, was al
raya ready when thefe Was" work to do
nd he and another boy jnmps aloft i
end down the fore royal yard. He take
hd end of a topmast stun sail tack*, am
;oea up and stops his tmiiiafd to th
lackstay abaft, casts off the eud fror
he yard and lets It unreave, shinns nj
,nd reaves his yard rope through th
heave at the masthead, slides dow
gain, gets his hunt gas't clear and hi
ail secured, bends on his yard ropean
tuts on his quarter stop, and the otbe
ioy having got the tripping-line on an
he clew-lines and sheets cast off, Bill
:nts the' parral lashing and sings on
'Sway away the fore-royal yard' a
>roud as a peacock, for neither of th
ither masts was ready yet, and he wa
ickled at beating 'em.
" Well, he gets off his lift and brae
ind sinars ont. ' Lower awav.' still ahea
if the other masts?'$rjt his other lil
ind brace off, and was a putting on hi
yard-arm stop,' when the chap thi
ras a tending the yard rope on dec
(urged it suddenly, and the ship givin
i heavy lurch just then, Billy lost h
mlance and away he went. Well, tt
thip lurching so sent him well out 1
eeward, and the wind caught him an
vhirled him round like a feather an
dew him far to leeward, and the cha
,hat told me this said he fell onto tt
iurl of a sea abou* a ship's length 1
eeward as softly and easily as if lie hn
iad a parachute over him all the ws
lown. The ship, of course, under tin
ihort canvas, was laying right dead i
he water and making a clean drift I
eeward, and so she soon drifted rig]
itop of Billy, who was a striking oi
ike a Sandwich Islander. When tf
;haps on board seen she was sgoin' 1
retch him, a half dozen of 'em was ov<
die side in bowlines ready for to gra
iim as soon as they got near en on gl
ind one of 'em got Billy by the scruff i
die neck and he wor palled aboard agi
fie weren't a bit daunted, weren't tb
ooy ; for as they was pnllin' of him u
tie sings out to the rest of the cha]
that was over the side to look out f<
bis hat, winch had blowed off his hei
and was a floatin' some distance to le
ward.
" That was a tight squeak, thong
wasn't it? 'Taint everybody that ci
tumble from a ship's to'gallon masthei
and get off with only a wetting ; bti
you see, 'twas the wind as done it, ar
lie wern't mu^h heavier than a goo
sized chaw 01 rerDHCKer.
" Certainly, I was gliftl to hear tli
Billy was safe, but if he had he<
drowned it would only have served hi
right, for the trick lie played on rae b
fore leaving New York, which was
write a letter to Polly and sign my nar
to it?" Thomas Peters "?a tellin' Pol
as how I intended to speak to her af?i
leaviu' Liverpool, and was willin'
splice her if so be as how 6he was
that mind, and a lot more of trash
the same Bort. Well, of course,
kuow'd no thin' of all this, and I shi
in the Hottinger with old CaptH
Bursely and away I goes to Liverpc
again. We docked in the Water'
dock of a Sunday forenoon, nnd tli
ftveuing I riggs myself up and goes 1
a8 usual to see Polly and get my be<
There wasn't nobody in the snng wh
I went in, nnd as soon as ever Pol
came in and clapped her eyes ou me s
come and put her arms around my ne
and gin me a buss in true ship-sha
fashion. Well, I was a good deul to
aback by this, cause Polly hadn't nei
been so familiar before; but us su
things are always acceptable after a f
voyage, I just returned the hroodsi
to the best of my ability. After uwhi
Polly heaves to along side of me u
begins to tell me how glad she was wh
she got my letter, and how she ne^
had any idee that 1 thought so much
her, and >dl that, until I was compleh
befogged, for I eouldn't make out wl
she was a-driving at at all. So I say
1 Polly, my lass, just belay them ji
tacks and gum-sheets of yourn for a I
and let's know what all this is nbo
for I'm blowed if I can make it all <
rightly, anyhow.' Says she: 'Do
you know th. letter you sent me?'
"' Mr,' says I; ' I didn't send you
letter.'
" ' You did,' says Polly, 'and here
is,' nnd she dove down into her pocl
? .1
ULiU irwiicu xv up.
" 'Read it,' nays I, and Rhe done i
and I seen how die land lay at once, n
shaped my coarse nccordin'. I kno\
it wsh Billy's work at once, but I i
that I was in for it.
" ' Polly,' says I, 'put me down or
ship's deck any day, and put a marl
spike in my fist, and I'll turn out a j
of work etjiial to any man ; put me
a ship's topsail yard in a gale of wii
and I'm equal to the situation ; but
for readin' and writin', Polly, tha
never learned in my youth, and it hn*
come to me in age, and couseqner
ynit letter I never did write ; but
got my name to the bottom of it, an
never went back on my own name yi
as near as I can make out, it's jist s
a letter as I should have writ if I'd b<
able to and had had any idea of wri1
sicli a letter, and ro what's writ is w
and can't be unwrit nohow ; therefc
if so be as how after understandiu'
subject in all its bearings you still c
tinue of the same mind, we'll go t
very next Sunduyafter a parson, and
a not with our tongues that wo ci
never untie with our teeth.
" Well, Polly said as how she wasc
venient; and so, pure enough, that v
next Sunday we was spliced in au
church out at Evertou, and I got he
passage home here in the same shi
was aboard of, and have never repen
of the same. ' Is Rlie still livin
' Why, of course she is, and a wai
for me at home this blessed mini
While I was goin' to sea she lived ii
house on Cherry Rtreet, and when I
this here joi? ot nigiitwrnciuuiiu uu
lock we moved up in Sixth nver
where I lives at the present writinV
A young drug clerk committed ,i
cide a few days ago. At the inquest
ooroner asked a fellow clerk of the
ceased if he knew ot any cause for
suicide. " No," was the reply; " he
(retting along nicely, and was goinj
he married next month." " Goini
be married, was he?" exclaimed
coroner. That wilLdo. We have
at the bottom of tbi* business."
A tireat Law Salt.
^ The United States Morsbal's office
s completed the service of subpoenas in
1 the giant equity suit against the Union
e Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit
Q Mubilief of Amerioa, and others. The
y suit was ordered by the last Congress,
d to recover a large amount of moneys.
8 It was instituted in the Cirouit Court
in Hartford. Thirty-eight wealthy Wall
. ii.nV?ni mprrhftnts. and retired
y j property owners hare been joined in
the complaint a* co-respondents. Tbey
lB represent 8100,000,000 in the aggregate.
e It took eighteen days to find them and
18 serve the summonses tlpon them. .
The Subpoenas were served on Sidney
IP D lion, the Hon. John J. Cisco, .A. A.
d Low, Police Commissioner Cnarlick,
ffc Joseph B. Pigot, Henry Blood, Horace
i? F. Clark, Charles A. Lambard, Edward
lt C. Morse, Eli Bjard, George P. Smith,
k Prosper P. Shaw, Thomas C. Durant,
g James M. Smith, Oliver W, Barnes,
8 George Griswold Gray, Charles C.
16 Waite, Henry A Bobbins, the Atlantic
10 and Pacific Telegraph Company, exJ
Gov. E. D.. Morgan, the Fourth NationhI
Bank, W. A. Guest, Williams A
P Gnfon, George Bliss, Henry W. Gray,
10 Wm. H, Maey, John Bonder, Israel
;o Hedden, Charles H. Neilson, Andrew
^ Carnegie, William Tracy, James B.
17 Johnson, Pierrepout Morgan, A. IseRn
& Company, and GardinerG. Howland.
'n Some of the respondents are in Ento
rope. They were snbpoBnaed through
their counsel. Many of those who relt
ceived the notice characterized the suit
)e as a political job, and protested that
to they did not ovyi any stock in the Credit
ftr Mobilier or Pacific Railroad. Justice
to Hnnt of the Supreme Conrt, Circuit
'b Judge Woodruff and District Judge
Shipman will preside at the hearing.
Q- Ex-Congressman JeDckes, the Hon. A.
F. Perry of Ohio, and J. H. Ashton of
Pi Washington will appear for the GovernP*
meat.
or 1
id ' Triiffles.
e
Truffles are a genius of fungi, of a
h, fleshy substance, with a distinct skin,
111 the*whole substance pervaded by a net"
work of serpentine veins. They are
)(j not found in this part of the world, but
d- they are very generally diffused in temperate
parts of Europe. They are subterranean,
often found at the depth of
m a foot or more in the soil. Some of
e- them are amongst the most highly
to valued of esculent fungi. The common
ne truffle is of a black color, and has a
ly wart- surface. . It varies in aize from
re a large plum to a large potato. On acto
count of its agreeable flavor, it is used
of iu tne preparation of many dishes. It
of is commou iu the central and southern
I parts of Europe, chiefly in loose soils, iu
p- woods and pastures, as in the chestnut
in woods of France nnd Italy. In England
>ol it occurs pretty abundantly in the
oo downs of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and
iat Kent. Other species are found in some
up parts of France, Italv, and other cornier.
tries of Europe, and are sought after
en and used in the same manner as the
11 v common truffle. It has recently been
he discovered that the English species are
ck far more numerous than was formerly
pe supposed ; truffles have also been disok
covered in localities in the south ol
rer England where their existence was
ch formerly unknown. The gathering ol
iea truffles is the occupation of many perde
sous in the places where they abound,
le, They are dug up with a kind of hoe 01
nd pick. Dogs are trained to seek them,
en and readily discover by the scent the
rer spot where they grow underground,
of Thestirringof the soil in the gathering ol
;ly truffles seems to increase its productivemt
uess. No particular kind of dog it
it-. 1?a,1 Mifflu.ootttinfy
s : specially empioyru im u>iu. ^v..up|
it- but one of which the parents are truffle
lit, dogs is preferred, as it is said to be
at, more eaisily trained. In Bome parts o]
mt France, pigs are also trained to seel
n't truffles.
no How to Cure a Jealous Husband.
There is a man in this city who is st
affectionately fond of his wife, that h<
is jealous if a man looks within forty
10; five degrees of the direction in whicl
ud she may happen to be. The other daj
see a gentleman spoke to her and he im
mediately threatened suicide. His wif<
l a was dispatched for a bottle of poisoi
in- which she had put up at the druggist's
job consisting of a little water colored witl
on liquorice, and bottled, with a glaring
ad, poison label outside. When lie chrent
as ened to take some of it, and actually
t I poured it into a wine glass, she scream
in't ed for help and ran into auother roon
itly where slit could watch him through tin
it's key-hole, and saw him coolly open tin
d 1 window and throw it out. She thei
at; rushed bock, apparently frantic witl
icli grief, and implored him not to d<
sen the rush deed. He merely pointed t?
" 1 ? ?J 'Iaw.. rtn Mia floor
till tue piiiss, mm ijmg uwnu v..
rit, began to kick out his legs like a jump
>re, lug-jack. She told liim she was deter
the mined to share his fate, and swallewei
on- the rest of the liquorice water, where
his upon he became really frightened, call
tie ed the neighbors, confessed that he on!
in't shammed, and said that if she only sin
vived he uever would trouble her agair
on- Then she explained the ruse, and h
ery was so mortified he tried to buy up th
old silence of the neighbors, but the stor
ir ji was too good to keep. He is thorougl
p I ly cured.?Titusvillc (/'a.) Herald.
ted
K \ An Actor's tfa ns.
tin
,te> The London Era estimates the vain
a a of Lord Dundreary, Garrick, and oth<
PT?t of Mr. Sothem's characters to the:
in^e impersonator, by judging that durin
? --li:. i:r_ v
? ' the sixteen rears 01 nm puuuu mo i
lias made ?193,000. When he h??a coi
eluded his Australian engagement an
finished his seeond tour in the Unite
Bui States, Mr. Sothefa will have brongl
the ' '? t?tAl gains up to aomethiog not ft
, short of a quarter of a million of mone'
The Era moralizes :.* The best pai
the representative of law.physie and divin
wns ty are old men before ther are bless*
I to with any sprinklings of Dane's goldt
z to shower. Mr. Sothern is not yet thre
the and-forty." " Bot then," remarks tt
got Orchestra, " how many actors are the:
so fortunate as Mr. Sothern 7"
Facta aii?l Fsncle*.
i The Boston brick market is over
stocked, thongh they have ha<l tiro
fires, and have got a prohibitory* liquor
lair.
. * d?
The Washington Chronicle denies
that Speaker Blaine b^'hiiirehasecf'Wir "*
interest in tbat paper " wit > the view
a candidacy for the Prendency."
A Baltimore paper notices as tomb-*
thing remarkable that a Scotchman Jim *
died in that city who was 111 years old
and was wounded in the battle of Wa-' *
terloo. r ' "*>
The inmates of the National Soldiers'
Home in Dayton, Ohio, will have a
notable celebration on the Fourth of '
Jnly, the observances including the laying
of the corner stone of the veteran
monument. iflitw V? h
jNext to old Bonrboo whiskeys" ssys
a Chicago pap^r, "the thingtbat
tncbinn is prondest of is thalheisa
Kentookisp.". ,"Tiiis ianoitrne," aay?i
the Courier-Journal, "a . Kentuckian's
chief pride is that hi is ndt a Chicago-"
ian." . oj '
An elderly man at Winsted, Connect
ticnt, has cut his throat lest he shonia
I come to poverty; and in so doing leaves'
| an estate worth some $30,000. Alas I
I that honorable poverty should be
thought more draaclful than a disgrace- .
fnl death. ^
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
has refused, 22to R7, fo strike
the word "male" from the Constitution,
defeated several propositions to allow
women to vbfce oh school and Hqnbr
questions, and only permits them to be>,
eligible for school offices.
"Elegant simplicity** receives a fresh
illustration in the case of the Cinci nnati
school miss who, not wishing to encourage
extravagance of dress among her
poorer school-mates, appeared at hw
school exhibition in a calico garment,
the trimmings of which best $100.
Thecreditof originating the "Orange"
movement is claimed by Mr. Porto
Welch, of the Osktloosa (la.) Reform
Leader, who asserts that he suggested all
the principles mi. which it was founded,
and the policy nv which it is guided,
as loDg ago an 1869. >"? ,,T
"What are you about, my dear ?" said,
a grandmother to a little hoy, who was,
filling about the room and casting fur'tive
glances at a gentleman who who
paying a visit "I am trying, grandma,
to steal papa's hat out of theroom without'
letting the gentleman aee it, for
papa wants him to think he's out." <
A proposition has been made in the
Ohio (. onstitutional Convention that
the state have nothing furtlur to do
with education, henceforth dividing the
school funds among the .various religious
sects in proportion to their numbers,
to be by them applied to giving a
I
sectarian education 40 me cnuureu u*
their respective adherents.
"Yon shouldn't he glutinous, Isaac,"
said Mrs. Partington, as, with an aiixious
expression, she marked the strong
covulsive effort tliut young gentleman
was making to bolt the last quarter of
a mince pie. "Yon shouldn't be so
glutinous, dear. You must be very
careful, or you will get something i?it
your elementary canal or sarcophagus
' one of these days that will kill yoti,
Isaac." pi ltd
A Bigamist Arrested.
1 George P. Evans, age 40, of New York
. city, formerly of Boston, where he has
many, wealthy kinsmen, was arrested
ami placed in the Tombs on tlio charge
of bigamy, and also on a sivil suit
brought by Patrick R. Barnwell for
f $10,COO damages. On March 1, 1872,
- Evans married the daughter oL the
' plaintiff. Miss Moreiu Barnwell, age 18.,,
[ Soon after the marriage, the father of
> Miss Barnwell, suspecting that all was
T not right with his son-in-law, separated
L her from her husband tuid took her to
his home. He then went diligetlVf^'to
work to discover the past life of Evans, ,i
and found in Harlem a jpunp w man
, | named \lmira B. Davis, who v a ii<*k
1 in bed. and in a most destitute condi
I tion. From ber he leurned that sue
' was the daughter of wealthy parents ill'
i Boston, ami that 10 years before, when
j she was very young, Evans, to whom
she was very much attached, had persuaded
her to leave her home and aci
company him to New York. For a time
1 be treated her well, but of late years
, has not done ho, aubjeoting her to varii
ous insults and indignities. Ou March
I 1, 1872, the day on which he married
Miss Barnwell, Evans was unusually
j kind, and after kissing his wife nl
fectionately, left, stating that he would
i return in ten minutes. From that time
e she has not seen him. After learning
e this mncb Mr. Barnwell went to Boston,
q where he disoovered that in 1854 Evans
li married the daughter of David N.
j Badger, a rich merchant of Boston, by
3 whom he h?d. two cliildieu, oneof whom, t
; now living, is 18 years old, the age of
- his hist wife. This woman and her'
daughter Mr. Fnrn^M 1 to be liv3
iug at Everett, Mass. While Mr. Barn*
i- well was thus engaged in traciug the
I* past life of his son-in-law, the latter
y took advantage of the opportunity, re
gained liis young bride, and fled to
i. Canada. The father followed,.and suce
ceeded in overtaking the fugitives in
e Ontario. Evans then promised to oby
tain a divorce from his first wife and roi*
marry Miss BarnwelL To this plan the
father gave his consent, and the party
returned to this city. It was soon evident
to the father that Evans had no
intention of fulfilling hie promises, but
16 he was loth to bring the matter into
a. K.mpvcr. Mr. Barn
>r conn, ikrtru ?j, ?.?f _
jr well discovered that liis son-in-law was
making arrangements to elope with a
? young lady, and therefore had him at- 4
ie rested. The case has excited great interest,
as both Evans and his tlrst two
(] victims are respectably connected in
d Boston. err : k nc.Jvj/trj. idi
it i - ?n vv. -vi. ir
Ponrnu> Waists.?Pointed waists are,
j. in vogne abroad for high corsages, and
d many newly imported dresses have *
i- deep point in front, with round straight
d back. This style is very handsome for
m dinner dresses of silk. sn<l other luavy
e- fabrics made with high liftdfci fraises.
ie The chatelaine bodice, rounding over * re
"the hips, is gradually coming jnto use.
So a New York fashion journal tells as.