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- Tin?: Beaufort Republican. .u >' ? ' . . ! i . 1 .. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. " VOL. III. NO. 51. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1873. . {W&YSS . NEW SPRING GOODS. Jas. C. BAILI1E & BRO., EKSPECTFUHi Y ASK TOUR ATTES Hon to the following DE81BABLE GOODS of. lered by them tor sale: t ENGLISH AND AMEBIC SIT FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. U feat vide, and of the best quality of rood* manufactured. Do you want a real good Oil Cloth ? It to, come now and get tbo very bc? t. Oil Cloths cut any size and laid promptly. A full line of cheap FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from 00c. a yard up. Tabli cloths all widths and colors. CARPETS. Brussels, three-ply and ingrain Carpets of new designs. A full stock of low-priced carpets from] 30c. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch] LACE CURTAINS. French Tambonrd Lace, " Exquisite*." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $2.80 a pair and upwards. CORNICES AND BANDS. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and GUI Cornices, with or without centres. Curtain Bands, Pins snd Loops. Cornices cut and made to lit windows and put up. v?rT?n%#ats/ ciftnPD ff 1IVW *? OOAJunui . 1,000 Window Shades In all the new tints of color. Beautiful Gold Band Shades, $1.60, with all trimmJngs. Beautiful Shades 20c. each. Store Window Shades any color and any size. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and painted wood Shades. RI GS AND DOOR MAJ8. New and beautiful Rugs. 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. Mattings laid with dispatch. WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS. 3,000 Rolls Wall Papers and Border* in new patterns, in gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintaee, fcc., in every variety of oolors?beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung if desired. P.AIR CLOTHS In all widths required ior Upholstering. Buttons, Uimpe and Tachs for same. CURTAIN DAMASKS. Plain and Striped French Terrys for Curtains and Upholstering purposes. Gimps, Friuge, Tassels, Loops and Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains and Lambraqulns made and put up. PIANO AND TABLE COVERS. ' English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano TableCorers. m Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers. Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Covers. 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 duiio well and in season, by james b. name ? uroiners, AUGUSTA, GA. *pl-17-i y. H. M. Stuart, M. D., Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. DEALER IN DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, FA MIL Y MEDICINES, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, 8TA TIONER Y, PERF UMEIi Y, BRUSHES, Ac., Ac., Ac. Together with many other article* too numorou* tomrution. AUof which will be aold at tho lowest price for cash. Physician* prescription* carefully compounded. . fcb.ll. PIERCE L. WIGGIN, ATTORMET AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Solicitor Second Circuit. r Beaufort, S. C. pept.l-ly. ICDDV CAl/APC A. PA ji.itii i gninub u v/u., Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Cart*, Wagon* and Carriages repaired in the best manner at low prices. All kinds of Jobbing promptly attended to. MAGNOLIA St., BEAUFORT, S. C._ J. K Goethe, M. D. Dr. Goethe offers his professional services to the. public. He may be found at his residence, Gam? Hill, near Varnfvllle, Beaufort Co., S. C. jan.l-ly. . . A. S. HITCHCOCK. ATTHDWEY AND OUUflMiLUR AT LAW, BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. BEAIFORT, S. C. Dec.l-yr. YEMASSEE Eating Saloon, AT THE' P. R, & S. & C. R. R. JUNCTION'. The traveling public will here And good meals on the arrival of trains. Also accommodations for mau and beast, near the dejot. B. T. SELLBns, YEMASSEE, S. C. Nov.21-ly. W. H. CALVERTT PRACTICAL Tin. Sheet-Iron. Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tin Ware*. Constantly on baud, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves. TEKJIS CASH. Thankful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention to business in tha future to merit your kind favor. W. H. CALVJKRT. * Ray St., bctweeu 8th and 9th Sts., BEAUFORT, S. C. Arl.s-ly. ~ CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. roch2My E. H. JACKSON. Redeem Your Lands. The Acts of Congress and the Regulations of the Treaaurv Department In regtrd to the Redemption of Lands now in the possession of the United Statu by reason of the Diroct Tax Commissioners tales oal be had at this offiee, Prigs tea easts, ?y mall ftf> PAUL BRODIE, A R CHIT EOT, BEAU FORT,S.C. PrawlDfra of Model* prepared for Patent Office. Studies for special purposes, made at shert notice. Box 31, P. O decl-ly William Gurney, COTTON FACTOR axd Commission Merchant, NO. 102 EAST BAY and NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention Riven to the sale of and shipment of Sea Island and Upland Cotton. Liberal advances made on consignment*. dec7-l> JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder, Jobbing Punctually Attended To. ' OPFICEi Corner Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. C, deci-tf PORT ROYAL SAW & PLANING MILL, Beaufort, S. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., MAXCFACTrRERS OF AND DEALERS IN Mow Pine Titer M Loier, AND CYPRESS SHINGLES, ALSO, Builders & Contractors. Plaster Lathes, ALL KINDS OF JOB SAWING Promptly Done. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always on Hand. Orders for Lumber and Timber by the cargo promptly filled. Terms Cash. D. C. WILSON & CO. novt8-ly THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! P. M. WHITMAN, Watchmaker and Engraver, Mayo's Building, Bay Street. Will give hi* personal attention to the repairing of WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELltY. Ornamental and plain Engraving done at short notice. Gentlemen having flue Watches can test them at thin establishment by one of HOWARD A CO.'8 |500 REGULATORS. Having added to my stock one of J. BLISS k CO.*8 flue Transit Instruments, I am now prepared to furnish Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE, Crofufs Building, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. X. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Bricl Church, St. Helena Island. incli26-ly A. MARK, BOOTMAKER, Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C. Having oj>eued a shop upon Bay Street, I am pro pared to do first-class work. UtChSO-ly A. MARK. PURE WATER Guaranteed by the use of the | AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL, Commission Merchant, BEAUFORT, S. C. I wpt4 The Savannah Independent, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Established on the cheap cash plan, at the low ratt of only ONE DOLLAR A YEAR; Address, INDEPENDENT, P. 0. Box 8fiS. Savannah, Ga._ W. G. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer. , Old Furniture put In good order, Picture Frame* , made. Msttraaaea stuffed at the ahorteat notice. I Corner Bay and Ninth Itmta, ; ftbiwt The Old Man by the Brook. Down to the vale this water steers; how merrily it goes! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, and flow aa now it flows. Afid hero, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay beside this fountain's brink. My eyes art filled with childish tears; my heart is idly stirred; For the same sound is in my ears that in those days I heard. ?WoRDSWOBfH. HOW HE FAILED. Not so Bad After All. David Popham owned a big house up town, and David Popham was rioh. He had come to the city a poor boy, and had worked his way up by his own in thrift and a numbskull! answered David, with disgust. " You're a brute !" was Mrs. P.'s mild rejoinder. "The Vegas are of our wealthiest and best; and Alexander is heir of a grand estate." "In chancery," said David, aotto voce. " What did you say, Mr. P. ?" "I merely remarked, my dear, that he had his chances." " And let me tell you that his chances aro briH-iant. I hnvc no ctommTUat yrm would like to see o ur sweet girls married to clodhoppers!" " If wo could find such a clodhopper as you were content to marry five-andtwenty years ago?" "On! Mr. P., you are perfectly i frightful!" I And under this shot David crawled < awav, and went down to his office on Wall street. But a change was at hand?a change . sad and dark. Mrs. Popham could not stand the wear and tear of the life she , had adopted. The continuous roundel 1 high-living, late suppers, and dissipaI ' tion, was too much for her, and she gave in, as hundreds of others are givi ing in every year. And thus it came that at the age ol fifty David Popham was left a widower , witli three grown-up daughters. Of these daughters Lydia was twenty-two. j Mehitabel (usually called Hittie) was twenty, and Susan was eighteen. And | they were, at heart, good girls ; and , furthermore, they were good-looking. Lydia might have been married had not ; an unexpected obstacle arisen in hei ; pathway. When Alexander de Costs Vega had been accepted by the mother, and blushingly referred to papa by the daughter, the hard-hearted father had ' simply referred to the gay and festive applicant: "Alexander de Costa Vega, you maj ; have my daughter ; but, as sure as there is a heaven above us, if she mar, i ries you neither you nor she shall evei 1 touch one dollar of my money !" The gallant adventurer had believed . David, and had not further pressed his ? suit. a ' When the season of bitter , I passed, and friends could with propriI ety leave flowers upon the sideboard ol j the mansion, sunshine once more enter! ed tho honsohold. Lydia and MehitaI bel assumed the management of affairs, ! and hired two new servants. Viry shortly gay cavalierB chased away the i gloom, and gayly chanting troubadours , made the hours endurable. Lydia and Mehitabel and Susan had not been educated by their mother in vain. Their ! drawing-rooms were the theatre of gay scenes, and the very cream of society i (David Popham called it the "scum, J the brute !) affected the companionship ; of the three graces?joint heiresses oi i David P. , And what did David Popham all this j time ? There was but one thing left for him to do. He pitched into busii ness with a deeper rush than ever, and . j lie turned up a new half-million in 1 less than six months. But a new turn of the wheel was comI ing. John Bossle appeared upon the street with the stock of the Humtown Mining and Manufrcturing Company for sale, ? and David Popham bit hugely. And Philander Scroggla came upon the street with the stock of the DeepBottom Copper Mining Company, and David Popham snapped at this. " My dear sir," Philetus Petunia, a very pink of the cream, who was par, ticularly intimate with Mehitabel, and who kept a pair of horses, and belonged to the Club,?" My dear Mr. Popham, may I venture ?" " Go ahead." "I have made inquiries, sir, concern{ing this Scroggle, and it is the general . impression on the street that his copper mine is all moonshine." "Moonshine, or goldshine,?let those shine who win," said David, and went his way. But the very capstone of all the golden prospects held out that season was afforded by the Pawnee and Flatfoot Silver Lode of Neverdie Peak, Colorado. Now being put down in this County. They are Cheap and. Du.ra"blo, And give universal satisfaction. Pure Water can b< introduced into any house by the AMERICA! DRIVEN WELL in 10 M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent. feb27-Cm S.~MAYO~ BAY STREET. BEAUFORT, S. C., HARDWARE, Liquors, Segars and Tobacco, Net Yarn*, Fish Lines dc Cordage, Grlass, Paints and Oils, White Lead and Turpentine. Special attention given to mixing Painte, ani OUkx cut to order of any Rite. febll M. FOLLITZER, Cotton Factor ASD dustry, perseverance, and vim. He had been fortunate, too; not perversely fortunate, as some men are, but legitimately and honestly fortunate. Of his own accord, and in answer to his own tastes, he would never have bought the big house up town; but his wife was bent upcin it, and he was forced to please his wife. When we say he was forced, we mean that his own love forced him?his love for domestic peace. David Popham had three daughters, who were very pretty, and very good, and they loved their dear old papa extremely. Of course, Mrs. Pophv.m trained her daughters. Mrs. P. had become a woman of society, and. she wished that her daughters should become women of society. Wha.t it cost Mr. P. to sustain his share of this work we will not say. He groar.ed sometimes, but held his peace. Another thing troubled David Popham. As his daughters grew up, brighthued young gentlemen gathered about them, and it was apparent that Mrs. Popham was on the path of brilliant matches. j " I think Alexander de Costa Yega is | Bmitten with our Lydia," she said to her j husband one day. " Alexander de Costa Yega is a spend David Popham wei^t into this up to I n his ears?then over lus head?went into g it all over. 8 By and by camemutterings of disaster. The Hamtown Mining and Manufactur- 8] ing Company had been looked for, and n had not been found. The only respon- t] sible member of the company known on b 'Change was David Popham. 8l Another mutter as it came to light v that the Deep-Bottom Copper Mine had never had any bottom at all. Its only p depth was its profundity of non-eative- v neat. h But the olimax of disaster camo with T the falling through of the Pawnee and t: Flatfoot Silver Lode. t That was one climax?the business B climax. Another climax came when the sheriff placed a keeper in Dsa id Pop- I ham's big house up town, and advertised David Topham's house and furniture t at "sheriff's sale!" T What a crash it was! a David Popham came home, and found E his three daughters weeping. "We must take a smaller house down B town," he said. "My darling* we must T take a very small house." Three days later Lydia, speaking for a all three, asked papa if he could not get a a house out in the country. h "We cannot stand the slight that, is put upon us, All our friends have cut c ?? us. o "You mean," suggesttd papa, "that your acquaintances nave cut yotl. You s have not been making trtte friends." ? One evening David Popham summoned his daughters, aud told them that he ? was going out West. Of the result of B former speculations he had managed to ? save a nol le farm in Minnesota, very ] near to St. Paul, one boundary of which j was the Mississippi River. t At first the girls shrank from such a Q change; but there was no help for it. E "We cannot hold up our heads here," said Susan. "Let us go." And bo David Popham, having paid s the last dollar he honestly owed in the great city, moved With his three daughters to tile new home in the Far West. <] It was tiuly a noble farm, and the c buildings were good and comfortable, t It was spring-time, and David Popham ? took off his coat, and rolled up his g sleeveB, and went at work. By and by c all that was true and good in his daugh- H ters came to the surface, while the i, false and the cumbersome wore away. { Before the season of harvest came they ? could work, and sing at their work, t Their checks were round and ruddy, T and the dresses th6y had brought with c them from New York would not meet around their strengthening forms. f Once more David Popnam was nappy, t When winter came his garners were , full, and his herds were sleek and fat. fl And, would you believe it, the girls t had learned to make butter and cheese, t k Tiicii fnth?r hrw?l mod* Lfiem uiulcrstnmd that he expected them to make them- j selves useful, and they had unexpected ly found real comfort and joy in being i useful. t That winter two voung men crept t into the society of the Popliam family, j They were from New England?John Lowe and Philip Granger, i We don't care to make a love story of our speculative Bketch. Suffice it to i say that for the first time in her life 1 ; Lvdia experienced the heart-throbbings B i of a true and pure love. John Lowe \ was strong and manful, and she both loved and respected him. 1 i And so it was with Hittic. In Philip t Granger she found a man upon whom t she could lean for support, and in \ ' whoso honor she could lovingly con- 1 fide. And, moreover, she felt that she f : could help such a man in the battle of 1 life. t i David Popliam offered no objection 1 when these men asked him if they i , might try and win his daughters. He t only said to them,? t i "If you take them, you take them as 1 they are." 1 i And that was all they wanted. 1 But?the luck was not yet exhausted, c i The mnn of vim and energy had drawn f [ around him many worthy friends. With f s the coming of another spring a third ^ youth appeared upon the domestic c ' stage?a George Harvey, who had come ( i from New Hampshire with his parents t when a boy, and who had worked his 1 way up to a fair and honorable position c in the legal profession. He came and t 1 fell in love with Susan, and finally f i gained her for his wife. f And so the three girls'were married, I i and confessed themselves happier than i they had ever been. 1 : One evening in May, shortly after f Susan's marriage, they were all assem bled in the great sitting-room of the farm-house. Lowe and Granger had been talking i of n sale that was to take place on the i river. " It's a great thing," said Lowe. i " Immense," acknowledged Granger. r " I suppose it will fall into the hands of a big company." ' "It must if the whole property goes j together," said Lowe. "About the Flouring and Lumber J : Mills," answered John. " You know tthey were to be sold ?" i Popham said he had heard of it. ; "Yes," explained Philip, "the death n of Mr. Sanger, and the election of Mr. Burroughs to Congress, has necessitated r , the sale of the whole concern, as the remaining members of the firm are not J able to carry it." " What is the property worth ?" ; " The mills, with the water-power, ' and the stretch of land above?twothon- e sand acres, more or less?are held at * half a million." "In the hands of men who understood * the business, I should say the property c was worth that snm." 1 " It is, certainly," said Lowe. "You have both worked in the mills?" * " Yes," replied John. Andheadded, 8 with a smile,?" We might say that we ? were brought up in them,?Philip in 1 the saw mill, and I in the flouring ? I mill." 4 " And you understand the business ?" J " We have such confidence in our 1 knowledge and ability, sir, that we have resolved to apply for the situations of superintendents, if the new purchasers c should require such." c " Well?now look here," said David a Popham, with brusque good-nature, t "I think I csn help you, and help a others at the same time. If you say you k i can manage those mills, with such busi- c oess assistance as a good square busi ess man can render yon, I think I can nd the party who will own them. What ay you ?" The young men hardly knew what to ay. David Popham was not a man to lake an idle promise, and the prospect bus held ?ut almost took away their reath. But John Lowe, who was a fareeing, clear-headed man, at length entnred,? " If you have friends who nfe able to urchase, let them understand the adantage they will gain in owning the and up the river. I know the expense rill be enormous, but the land and the imber are not only valuable, but through hat ownership the water may be held inder control. "You couldn't make room for George, suppose ? " " Such a company must have an attorney and clerk. Look at the post rhich Mr. Burroughs vacates. What n opening for an educated young nan I' " Well, now,?we'll all meet here toaorrow evening, and I'll then tell you rhot my friends will do." On the tolloWiilg evening they were 11 assembled again, and David Popham nnnnn/>p.l tlmf. tlie whole mill nronertv tad been bought. "And," he added, with a gathering if bright moisture in his eyes, "the iwners are thesb three girls of mine." The man's look was too solemn and nblime for a joke; and they gazed upon tim in speechless wonder. " My aear children," resumed David, trashing his eyes, " I'll make a short tory of it. The ' Humtown,' and the Deep Bottom,' and the ' Pawnee and Tlatfoot,' were my own companies, 'ohn Bozzle and Philander Scroggle rere myths, and the corporators were 11 dummies of my own creation and nanipulation." " Father I" " I never invested a dollar in any uch stock." "And you did not speculate ?" " Not ruinously. I speculated, my [arlings, but the speculation has turned tut grandly. I made an investment for he moral and physical health of my teloved children ; and how that has reulted you know very well. As for the ild fortune, it has been growing in pite of me ; and much of my property s still in New York. And now, my oved ones, will you take the mills and he broad river acres, with your father o keep you company and aid you, or rould you prefer to return to the jpreat ity?" They understood their father's sacriIce in their behalf very well; and when hey had looked upon the husbands riiom they loved, and had embraced md kissed their dear devoted father, hey authorized Lydia to speak for hem ; and she said : "We will accept tho mills, and the >road river acres, with tho companionhip of our dear father; and we will be lappier than we havo ever been, seeking c make the most of the healthful and expanding life into which he lias led us. Ledger. The Strawberry Dance. An annual Strawberry Dance is celeirated by the Onondagas. When the itrawberries first begiu to ripen, ac:ording to their pagan idea, a dance oust be given to the Great Spirit for he return of fruit. The women go to he neighboring hills and gather the vild berries. The next morning the >ig succotash kettle is placed over the ire at the west end of the Council louse, and the berries, with some wacr and some maple sngar, put into the cettle, and all stirred well. While this s cooking the time is whiled awav by he Indian dances. One of the chiefs akes the turtle shell; this shell is cured iy a process known only to the red men. Che shell is carefully cleaned, and the lead and neck stretched out for a lmnHe, and some corn and beans put in the hell so as to make a rattle. The chief ihakes the rattle and strikes the bench vitli it, all the time chanting an Indian ihant. The dancers, headed by the hief, dance around the musician, and he dancers now and then give a whoop. Phnir mmfn. nn.l in manv cases their children, take part in the dance. After lie strawberries are cooked and they eel that they have danced enough, they orm a circle, and a cup of this strawjerry stew is passed to each one. This, vith a few Indian speeches, forms the 'ndian way of returning thanks for the ruits. Let Your Wife Know. It is a custom too common with the nen of the world, says the Methodist idvocalr, to keep their families in utter gnorance of the situation of their buai1C8B. The wife knows nothing?lias lot even an idea of her husband's forune, whether it is to be counted by mndreds or thousands. What can a roman kept in such ignorance learn ? ihe spends, as a matter of course, all le gives her to spend, with the full conidence that when that is gone, and she isks for it, he will give her more. If an unmarried woman works, she nay go with a bold, unblushing face, ind demand her wages ; but a wife can lemand nothing, her claim is only for jure necessity; and generous men, on hat account, are too often indulgent? oo fearful of letting a wife know the ixact state of their finances. 'Tis all prong. Husband and wife have a mutual inerest; every woman should know the Xftct state of lier husband's finances ; inderstand his plans, and aid him, if tossible, with her counsels, and thep hose terrible catastrophies would not o often happen. Many a wife, who is dunging her husband deeper and deeper nto debt from ignorance, would, if she mew his embarrassments, be the first o save, and, with true womanly symmthy and generosity, help him to renstate the fallen fortunes. Californians are toasting of a new [omestic fowl, the chaparral cock or hurra, which is easily domesticated, md when properly cooked is superior o chicken for eating. The churra is ,bout the size of a cnrlew, with a topmot, and a long tail of beautiful colored feathers. It is a greet enemy to nukes and vermin. That Trousers Leg. It is a little singular how fashions come and go, says the Danbury News. 1 Many of them at the time appear indispensable, but they noiselessly disap- , pear and others come in their place, j and we forget all about them. We were thinking the other day of that fashion < which some years ago was more popu- ( lar than any other, which was in such , general use and seemed so fitted to its place, that it is doubtful if it was considered as a freak, any way, but was rather a necessary adjunct of society, j which came in with the garment it was displayed on, and was as sure of the future as the garment itself. We refer to the fashion of turning up the pantaloon leg. The young men all did it in those days, and the variety of taste displayed in doing it was edifying to study. It was absolutely essential that the pants should be black, and the boots should be flue in quality with legs gracefully wrinkled. The width of tne Tap varied considerably, but one inch for the better class, and three inches for plebeians appeared to be the standard. Bural people, to whom black doe-skins were not always suitable in absence of pavements,, endeavored to incorporate the fashion on Kentucky jeans ahd light cassimeres, but it was a depressing failure. The white canvas presented no ?nof nf fha 1 act UlUrACU UUUIilOOb bV vuo awov v* --oi and when you saw a case, it made you sad and dissatisfied the rest of the day. There were others who rolled the leg, making a knotty, clumsy affair of it, and it was difficult to tell whether those people should be pointed at with acorn, or merely killed on the spot. In addition to being black it was necessary that the pants should fit rather snug about the boot. Otherwise the lap #as not so smooth, and for awhile it was necessary to pin or stitch the lap up to keep it in place. But whvn it was up snug, and tha broad black seam pressed flat, the boot polished, and the heel straight and narrow, it wn3 difficult to imagine anything more comforting and sustaining. If we only had a dollar for every tear of joy we have shed over such sights, there is no position of trust and honor we could not have. But the fashion has gone with the years that have passed before, and w? watch its retiring form with eyes that are dimmed by emotion. Death From Fright. The singular circumstances connected with the death of the wife ox Thomas Ferguson, of Cleveland, Ohio, are thus narrated by the Herald, of that city : " About 7 o'clock Wednesday morning Mrs. Ferguson went to the house of her brother-in-law, near by, on an errand Coming outof the house to return home slie was followed by a small pec aog Delonging to her brother-in law. One of the dog-killers employed by the city was makiug a crusade in that neighborhood, and catching sight of this little animal went for it. Mrs. Ferguson called the dog to her, in order to save him from the slayer. The latter, who was but a few paces from her, raised his gun and aimed at the dog beside her. The woman saw the weapon pointed, as it seemed to her, directly toward her, and supposing it would be discharged, she screamed with fright and ran home. On entering the house she sank lyion the floor, pale and tremblng violently. She was barely able to tell her husband the cause of her fright, and soon afterward was seized with severe convulsions. These continued throughout that and the following day. In spite of all that medical skill could do, she sank rapidly, and died between 4 and 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The deceased was twenty-one years of age, and had been married Ave months. She had been in good health, and no other cause than that given above can be assigned for her death. We could not learn the name of the man whose criminal carelessness, in his greed to obtain the paltry sum paid for killing dogs, caused this sad beravement. Ho was violating the dog ordinance, which provides that all shooting of dogs must be done before the hour of G o'clock in the morning, for the express purpose of avoiding the danger to persons on flifl nl rflpf. " Do Horses Reason \ For many years I have made the horse a subject of careful thought and study. At times I hare been led to believe that horses have reasoning powers, and can understand and apply them in various ways. For the last two years f have driven my mare nearly everyday over the same road. About one mile from my home are two roads, one leading to the church, the other to the depot. Now six days in the week I drive to the cars, and on Sunday to the I church. At the point where these roads i separate, I give my mare her head, leaving her free to make her choice, and on week days she will go straight to the depot, and on Sundays she goes of her own free will to the church; I never knew her to fail me yet. It puzzled me for a long time to learn how she should know anv difference in days; and I have come to the conclusion that she reasons from facts?facts connected with everyday life. On week days I start from ray stable in a two-wheel carriage; on Sundays I start from my house in a carry| nil, thus making an entire change, both ( in time, place, and carriage; and from I these facts she must be guided in her I choice of roads. Many say this is instinct; if so, where does reason begin ? ?O. W. Fiike. While attempting to wall a well on the Weldon farm, De Witt county, I1L, Cyrus Jones had an opportunity to show his nerve. He was operating the windlass, and his friend, Edward Henfon, was below. In swinging off a tub : of brick Cyrus dislocated his right shoulder, but realizing that to let go his hold would be to kill Henson with the suspended tub, he grasped the windlass with his left hand, called for help, held on nntil a woman came and the bucket was landed, and then fell to | thn ground uncousoious from the agony I he endured. Items of Interest. A monument is to be erected over the remains of Col. Ellsworth, at Mechanioarille, Wis. Pioche, Cftl., had twenty-three shooting and stabbing affairs during the month of July. Three more of the "petroleum incendiaries" in Madrid have been condemned to death. Texas received 120,000 immigrants last year?at least 60,000 from Europe and the Northern States. It is now said that the recent fatal accident to the White Mountain stage was largely due to overloading. The American school system has been eulogized in London by Mr. Hartley, lately returned from the States. There has been some loss of life and an entire destruction of 8,500 "native honses" by Hood in the province of Agra, India. A man shooting in the woods in Delaware county was recently attacked by minks, and only escaped after a severe fight. The physicians of Beloit, Wis., have resolved to withhold their professional services from delinquent patients till they pay up. The crop of chestnuts, butter-nuts, hickory nutsf and walnuts promises to be immense in many localities this fall. The trees are fairly bending beneath their loads. i-? tnt. International rrepuntuuuD iui Industrial Exhibition are progressing rapidly in Buffalo. Four largo additional buildings ore so far completed as to admit engines and shafting for machinery in mption to be erected next week. The heaters. who are on a strike at one of the Chicago rolling mills earn from eight to ten dollars per day. They must be men of great skill, and upon their knowledge of the tintof the bloom depends the value of every pound of rail produced. In 1832, the Sandwich Islands had a population of 130,316 souls; in 1836 there were but 108,579 ; in 1840, only 84,155, of whom 1,962 were foreigners ; in 1850, 60,800, of whom 4,194 were foreigners. The native population has decreased over sixty per cent, in forty years. At a Sunday school concert the other the following occurred : Little fellow (recitiHK yerse)?41 \ am tlio Bread of Life. Superintendent '(questioning him as to his knowledge of Bible)?" Who said 'I am the Bread of Life?'" Little fellow (in surprise)? "/said it." A Washington man, wanted to whip a refractory horse. He had hardly commeneed operations when the liorso broke his halter and " went for" his master, who retreated to a safe place under the stairs, where he was kept until his wife, with some assistance, drove his assailant bock to his stall. One day the grass in a swamp situated In Hopevilledale, Conn., 1 nm/tnnr was cut, ana tne qneswuu muno um.?u6 the laborers whether It was dry enough to be carrried into the bam. To test this, a lighted match was thrown into it, and in about five-eighths of a second they were looking around for the hay. A letter from Ishpeming, Mich., says: " We have had a rio? here. A man was killed in the street and the murderers were arrested. While they were being removed from the jail to the depot they were taken from the officers and beaten, one of them so badly that he died in a few hours and the other so that he can- . not live. Some of the ring-leaders have been arrested, and the others are Btill at large." The "hoodlums" of San Francisco are infinite in* resources. They have devised a new way of money-making, which is rather brilliant. Two of them enter into partnership. One of the firm insults a rich young lady in a public place ; the other, with great spirit, knocks him down and gallantly protects the young lady and sees her home, where, of course, the grateful father gives him fifty dollars or so. Wandering a benefit. A writer indites as follows: " If I had a boy that wanted to run off, I ctm n a knnnsflek on his back and B9n<l lain off. The chances are that sore muscles and poor beds, flood appetite and bad dinners, would fetch him back again. Cut that we all have the vagabond instinct, let this summer loafing by the sea and on the mountains bear witness. The more conventional our oity life becomes, the stronger is the passionate impulse to break the chains of social restraint and do as we please fur awhile. It is the counterpoise that preserves the equilibrium of life. But what if the boy sent out with his knapsack had hardihood enough to beur the inconveniences of liis life? He would get more good from straying than from school. Have I not tried it ? And if I had a boy to educate I should send him on a pilgrimage, that he might serve apprenticeship to the world as did Wilhelm Meister. He might contract bad habits in his wanderings. So he might contract bad habits and more easily at college. But I would not, therefore, keep him at home. Liberty is a good tonic." Railroad Disasters. The New York Herald closes an editoral on the last railway slaughter as follows : As it is, the life of a human being in deemed of less value than an old rail or carriage wheel. A fifty thousand dollar fine for each life sacrificed, and a twenty thousand dollar fine for every injury sustained, and common sense and watchfulness and economy of the right sort might return to onr railroad and steamboat management. A great Rcpnblic like this should not exist solely for the benefit of irresponsible monopolists. The time has come when the evil of which we complain can no longer be endured. Our people must not forget that the cure is in their own hands. Jf the evil continues the blame will be theirs. People and newspapers and officials will talk, talk, talk, and every day fresh and more .terrible disasters occur through the negligenoe of railroads.