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IrI VoL X WEDNESDAY --NORING, APRL 16, 18, 3.Nol. THE.HERALDi IS PUBLISRED 'F.ERY WEDN.SDAY 3OIlNING, .t Newberry C. I., BY TH. F. GRERKER, Editor and Proprietor. Termss, $2.50 per Jmum Invariably in Advance. iq stopped at the expiration of tim itn ;: which it U Mn. V The X mark denotes expiration of sub scription. A KISS AT THE DOOR. We were standing in the doorway My little wife and 1 The golden sun upon her hAir Fell down so silently; A small %bite hand upon my arm, What could I ask for more, Than the kiudly glances of loving eyes, As she kissed me at the door? I know she loves with all her heart The one who stands beside, And -the years have been so joyous, Since first I called her bride! We've had so much of happiness Since we met in year before; But the happiest of all was When she kissed me at the door! Who cAres for wealth-of land or gold, Of fame, or matchless power? It dges not give the happiness Of just one little hour, With one who loves nie as her life She says she loves me more n d I thought she did, this morning, IY(Ihen she kissed me at the door. - times, it seems, that all the world With all its wealth of gold, 0very small and poor indeed, Cmpared with what I hold; And when the clouds hang grim and dark, I only think the more Of one who waits the cowing step, To kiss me at the door. If she lives till age shall scatter The frost upon her head, I know she'll love me just the same Astle-morning we were wed; But if the angels call her, And she goes to Heaven before, I shall know ber*when I meet her For sL.el kiss me at the door: The Flea and the PP0f680. There was once an eronaut with whom things went badly; the balloon burst, tumbled the man be had two minutes before sent down with a paracbute,-that was the boy's luck; be was unhurt and went about with knowledge enough to make him an aeronaut too, but be had no balloon and no means of acquiring one. But live he must, and so he applied himself to the art of legerdemain and to talking in his Sstomach; in fact he became a Iventriloquist, as they say. He was young, good-looking, and when he got a moustache and had his best clothes on, he could be taken for a nobieman's.son. The ladies seemed to think well of him; one young lady even was so taken with his charms and his great dexterity that she wvent off with him to foreign parts. There he called himself Professor-he could scarcely do less. His constant thought was how to get himself a balloon and go up into the air with his little wife, but as yet they had no means. "They'll'come yet." said he. "If only they would," said sho. "We are young folks," said be, "and no~w I am Professor." She helpedl him faithfiully, sat 'at the ~door and sold tickets to the ex hii iomnd it was a chilly sort opleasure in winter time. She also helped him in the lhoe ot his art. He put his wife in a table drawer, r large table-drawer; then she crawled into the back part of front part-quite an optical iI ltision to the audience. But one 4evening when he <jrew the drawer out, she was also out of sight to him; she was not in the front drawer, not in the bc n ibr not in the house itself-nowhere to be seen or heard-that was her -feat of legerdemain, her entertain ment. She never came back again; she was tired of it all, and he grew tired of it. lost his good humor, could not laug.h or make jokes ;-and so the people stopped comning, his earnings became sean ty, his clothes gave out, and finally he only owned a great flea, which his wife had left him, and so b0 e thought highly of it. And ~heldressed the flea and taught it to perform, to present arms and fire a cannon off-but it was a little cannon. The Professor was proud of the flea, and the flea was proud of himself; he had learned something, and had human blood, and had been besides to the largest cities, had been seen by princes and princesses, had received their high praise, and it was printed in the newspapers and on placards. Plainly it was a very famous flea and could supnort a Professor and his entire family. The flea was proud and famous, and yet when be and tbe Profes. -sor traveled they took fourth-class8 -- carriages on tbe railway ; they weut just as quickly as the first. class. They were betrothed to each other; it was a private en. rtw s~eWU~ woR eve c - out; they never would marry, the flea would remain a iachelor and the Professor -a widower. Twat made it balance. "Where one has the best luck." said the Professor, "there one ought to go twieH. le was a good - actor, and th:at is also -a science of itseh'* At last he travel ed over ail the countries except the wild ones. and he wanted to go th.re. They eat Christian men there, to be sure, the Profes sor knew, but then he was not properly Christian and the flea was not properly a man, so lie thought he might venture to travel there and have good suc cess. They traveled by steamship and by sailing vessel; the flea per formed his tricks, and so they got a free passage on the way and' ar-! rived at the wild country. Here reigned a little Princess. She was only eight years old, but she was reigning. She had taken away the power from her father and mother, for she had a will, aad then she was extraordinarily beaa tiful-and rude. Just as soon as the flea had presented arms and fired off the cannon, she was so enraptured with him that sihe said, "Him or nobody!" She became quite wild with love and was already wild in other ways. "Sweet, little, sensible child!" said her own father. "If one could only first make a man of him!" "Leave that to me old man," said she, and that was not well said by a little Princess when talking with her father, but she was wild. She set the flea on her white hand. "Now you are a man, reigning with me, but you shall do what I want you to, or else Il kill you and eat the Professor." The Professor had a great hall to live in. The walls were made of sugar-cane, and he could lick them, but his was not a sweet tooth. He bad a hammock to sleep in. It was as if he were lying tu a balloon, such as he had always wished for himself-that I:aA his.coutant thoght. The flea lived%Vith tne 1rincess, sat upon her delicate hand and upon her white neck. She had taken a hair from her head and made the Professor tie it to the flea's leg, and so she kept him tied to the great red coral drop which she wore in her ear-tip. What a delightful time the Princess had, and tne flea too, she thought, but the Professor was not very com fortable. He was a traveler; he liked to drive from town to town, and read about his perseverance and cleverness in teaching a flea to do what men do. But he got out of and into his hammock, lounged about and had good feed ing, fresh birds' eggs, elephants' eyes aud roast giraffe. People that eat men do'not live entirely on cooked men-no, that is a great delicacy. "Shoulder of children with sharp suace," said the Princess's mother, "is the most delicate." The Professor was tired of it all and -would rather go away frjm the wild land, but he must have the flea with him, for that was his prodigy, and his bread and butter. How was he to get hold of him? That was no easy matter. He strained all his wits and then he said: "Now 1 have it." "Princess's Father! grant me a favor. May I summon your sub 1jects to present themselves before your :Royal Highness? That is what is called a ceremony mn the high and mighty powers of the world." "Can I, too, learn to do that?" asked the Princess's father. "That is not quite proper," re plied teProfessor, "but I shall teachyourwild Fathership to fire a cannon off. It goes off with a bang. One sits high up aloft; and then off it goes or down he comes." "Let me crack it off!" said the Princess's father. But in _all the land there was no cannon except the one the flea had brought, and that was so very small. "I will cast a bigger one!" said the Professor. "Only give me the means. 1 must have fine silk stuff, needle and thread, rope and cord, together with cordial drops for thle balloon, they blow one up so easily and give one the heaves; they'are what makes the report in the cannon's inside." "By all means," said the Prin cess's father, and gave him all he called for. All the court and the entire population came together to see the great cannon east. The Professor did not summon them before he had the balloon entirely ready to be filled and go Iup. The flea sat on the Princess's hand and looked on. The balloon was filled, it bulged out and could 1scarcely be held down, so violent did it become.. . "I must have it up in the air before it can be cooled off," said te Professor, and took his seat in the car which hung below. ut I annot maae nd~ steer it alone. I must bave a skill'ul companion along to help mie. There is no one here that can do that except the flea." "I am not very willing to let hir," said the Princess. but, still she reached out. and banded the flea to,the Professor, who placed him on hir hand. "Lut. go the cords and ropes," he shouted. "Now the balloon's going." They thought he said "the cannon," and so the balloon thent higher and higher, up above the elouds, far away from the wild- land. Thbe little Princess, all the family and the people sat and waited they are waiting still ; and if you do not believe it, just take a journey to the wild land; every child t~here talks about the Profes sor and the flea, and believes that they are coming back when the cannon is cooled off; but they will not come, they are at home with us, they. are in their native coun try, they travel on the railway, first-class, not fourth ; they have good success, a great balloon. Nobody asks how they got their balloon, or where it cane froin th-ey are rich foiks now, quite re spectable folks, indeed-the flea and the Professor !--S&ribncr's 3oithly. Micellantons. SUIARY OF THE POSTAL LAWS. The Richmond Dispatch has ta ken the trouble to procure from Washington City al the laws of the POst Office Department now in force. We publish below a compiled statement of such of them as are just now of peculiar interest to the public, and some others of more or less importance to different classes of people : The law now allows no matter to be sent free through the mails. So weekly papers will hereafter be subject to a postage of twenty cents per annum, even in the Counties wherein published, (and only twenty cents wherever de have to pay twenty cents per an nun on their weekly, forty on their semi-weekly, sixty on their tri-weekly, $1.20 on their daily exchanges. Nobody can frank letters .hereafter. But Congress appropriated money to pay pos tage upon dead letters to be sent to Washington, and upon letters and other mailable matter to be sent out by the President of the United States, and perhaps some of the heads of bureaus and the cerks of the two houses of Con gress. No such appropriation was made for C')ngressmen them selves. The postage on regularly sent newspapers and other periodicals is not required to be paid at the office from which they are sent, but may be paid there. It must be paid in advance at the office of delivery, if not paid at the office fr'om which sent. Seeds, cuttings, scions and roots, which were beretofore in cluded among ar'ticles which could be sent only in packages weighing twelve ounces or less, are now al lowed by a new law (not here quoted) to be sent in packages not over four pcunds each in weight. There shall be three classes of mail matter : Letters, regular printed matter and miscellaneous matter. All liquids, poison, glass, explosive materials and obscene books shall be excluded tromi the mails : No packagze w eighbing more than four pounds shall be re ceived for conveyance by mail, ex cept books published or circula ted by order of Congress. No newspaper shall be received to be conveyed by mail, unless they are sufficiently dried and enclosed in proper wrappers. IPostage on all mail matter must be pre-paid by stamps at the time of' ma?!ing, unless herein other wise provided for. Third class must not exceed twelve ounces in weight. Postmasters shall notify the publisher of any newspaper or other periodical when any sus scriber shall refuse to take the same from the office, or neglect tc call for it for the period of one month. When packages of newspapers or other periodicals are received at a post office directed to one ad dress, the names of the subscriber to whom they belong, with the postage for a quarter in advance, is handed to the postmaster, he shall deliver such papers or period icals to their respective owners. The Post Master General may provide by order the terms upoE which route agents may receive from publishers or any news agent in charge thereof and deliver the same as directed if presented and called for ait the mail car or steam, er, pack-ages of' newspapers and other periodicals not received from or intended for delivery at any post office, 1 411 ml mattar e anniWtfoi mailing, on wiV Ch at z:ist one full rate of po.-tage has buen paid, as required by law, shall be forward ed to its destination charged with the unpaid rate to be collected on delivery. If any mail mautter on which. by law. the postage is requ:red to be pre-paid at the mnailing office shall bv inadvertence, reach its destina tion without such pre-payment, double the pre-paid rates shall b charged and collected on delivery. No mail matter shall be deliver ed until the postage due thereon has been paid. No box at any post office shall be assigned to the use of any per-' son ui.til the rcat thereof has been paid for at least one quarter in ad van1ce, for which the postmaster Shall va rceipt. On all mail mattEr which 3 wholly or partly in writiag, ex- I cept book manuscripts and cor. rected proofi passing between authors and publishers, and local or drop letters; on all printed mat ter wvhich is so marked as to con vey any other or further informa tion than is conveyed by the or gina! print, except the corree tion ofmere tyographical errorS; on all matter which is sent in violation of law or the regulation of Department respecting en closures ; and tll matter to which no specific rate of postage is assign ed, postage shall be charged at the rate of three cents for each half ounce or traction thereof. Drop letterss, two cents, wherle there is a system of free delivery other places, one cent. On newspapers and other pe riodical publications, not exceeding four ounces in weigbt, sent from a known office of publication to reg ular subscribers, postage shall be chargcd at the following rates per quarter, namely: On publica tions issued less frequently than once a week, at the rate of one cent for each issue ; issued once a week, five cents; and five cents additional for each issue more fre quent than once a week. And an additional rate shall be charged for each additional four ounces or fraction thereof in weight. On mailabiq matter of third d6as,_, .exepP14 a t as herei-n stated, pos tage shall be charged at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. Double these rates shall be charged for books, samples of metal, ores, minerals and merchavdize. Every route agent, postal clerk or other carrier of the mail shall receive any matter present,.$ to him, if properly pre-paid by stamp and deliver the same for mailing at the next post office at which he arrives; but no fees shall be allow ed them therefor. All letters enclosed in stanmped envelopes (the postage stamp in every case being of a denomina Ition sufficient to cover the postage that would be chargeable thereon if the- same were sent by mail) may be sent, conveyed and de livered otherwise than by mail, provided such envelope shall be duly directed and properly sealed, so t.hat the letter cannot be taken therefr-om without defacing the envelope, and the date of the let ter, or of the ti-ansmission of re cei pt th ereof, shall be written or stamped on the envelope. No money or-der shall be issued for than fifty dollars. and the fees therefor shall be : For- order not exceeding $10, five cents ; exceed ing $10 and not exceeding $20 ten cents; exceeding $20 and not ex ceedinig $30 fifteen cents ; exceed ing 30 and not exceeding $40, twenty cents; exceeding $40, twenty-five cents. How TO BE SoMEBoDY.-Don't stand sighing, wishing and wait ing, but go to work with an en ergy and pesveac that will set every object in the way of your success flying like leaves be for-e a whirlwind. A milk and water way of doing business leaves a man in the lurch every time. Hemanave ambition enough to wihhislfo the topmost round ofthe ladder of success, but if he has not the goaheaditiveness to pull himself up there, he will in evitably remain at the bottom, or at best, on the very low rounds. Never say L can't, never admit there is such a woird ; it has drag ged its tens of thousands to pover ty and degradation, and it is high time it was stricken from our lan guage; but carry a whole lexicon ot l can and wills with you, and thus armed, every obstacle in the way of your success will vanish. Never-envy your neighbor his suc cess, but try and become like him, and as much better as you can. If' at first you dont succeed, don't wilt down with despondency and I can't, but gird on the armor of I can, and my word for it yoeu will. The bar-rooms of Greenville have been closed this day, by the expira. tion of their licenses, the City Coun cil having decided not to renew them. We trust the council will continue firm in this decision.- Greenwile GEN. JOHN B. GORDON. The Washington Chronicle is pubbshlgir a series of sketches of the-new Senators who have just entered upon their duties as sulh. Of Gei. Gordon it says Ron. Jobn B. Gordon of Geor gia, is a native of the State he represecnts in the U:IitCd States Senate. He was born in 1son county on the 6t.h of February, 1832. He receivd his education at the Universitv of Georgia. and graduated in 1852. After leaving College he studied law, and was admi:ted to the bar i-i 1853. In 1855 he embarked in an inter prise for developing the coal int( re'L in Northwestern 'eor gi,i in which business he was engaged at the commencement of Lite war. lie raised a company fur .he CCo federate service along the (,eor gia and Alabama line, which was assigned to the Gth infantry, and upon the organization of the regi mnt was successively elected ma jor, lieutenant-colonel and colonel. His regiment joined the Army of Northern Virginia in May,1861,and as itseommandant,be served there in untii the elose of the war, At the battle of Alntietam, Coone' Gordon received five wound; two in his right leg, one through his left arm, one through his left shoulder, and one through his left cheek. After this battle he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and as signed to the command of the Geor g,ia Brigade. foi merly commanded by General Lawton, then Quarter master-General. On the 12th of May. 1864, he fed the celebrated charge at Spott svlvania Court House, and won the title of "The Man of the 12th of May," and a promotion to the rank of Major-General. From that time he commanded Stonewall Jackson's division, and after the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg he was in command of one wing of Lee's army. General Longstreet commanding tbe other. Since the close of the war he has been engaged in various inter prise looking to the mineral inte rests of Georgia and the South. In 1867 he was the Democratic Cld1aa,tefor Governor of his 6tato, running against Bullock. He was elected to the United States Sun ate over Hons. A. 11. Stevens, Benjamin H. Hill, 11. Fielder, A. T. Akerman, receiving 112 out of 202 votes. His term expires March 4. 1879. A QUEER CONCLUSION. ARE MEN AND WOMEN FOND OF EACH OTHER. The Pall'Mall Gazette is exer cised over the question whether "men are more interesting to men than women are, and whether wvomen find moreo in women to in]terest them than they do in men." 'The Gazette comes to the unwelcome conclusion that the pretended fondness of the two sexes for oine another is the great fundamental hypocr-isy of the r-ace. It would be unfair to dwell too much on the circumstance that they make one another un comfortable in a way that mecn never make men, ndr women women, taking that fact by itself. This might be a mere r-esult of their being different. But a r view of the whole case tends to establish a general incompati bility between the two. Things will have to alter very much if men and wvomen are to get along well together-. The pretence that they are dying of sheer liking for one another is not only not proved, it is disproved. Not mere ly is that kind of mortality who! ly absent from the r-eturns, but af ter all these centuries the two sexes greatly keep aloof fr-om one another. When you can get a glimpse of their true tendencies, it comes out clearly enough that men and wom en are domestic creatures under compulsion. All kinds of social contrivances have been tried, the real purpose of which, no matter how it may be disguised, is to sepa rate the sexes, and so secure for each the pleasure of being only in its own society. T here is no sacri flee men will not make to get this luxury. They will support the costliest clubs. They -will smoke, they will pretendI any sort of re creation from cairds down to bil liards, sooner than not to apar-t from women a portion of their time. The like thing holds of the ladies in the same way. The inability of men to stay at home allows their wives toassemble inu tual clubs in their- own drawing rooms, and they do do so.- For one club the mongave, the wom en have hundreds--just as many as there are houses. The truth is, the taste of the sexes radically differ. At home feminine likings prevails, and there is no man who is not more or less. aware that the minor ar rangements and wonder-ful and to him superfious filigre-like orna . mntt.nnof hi an ar,otfo him nor for his sex, but fur the other. Just as little can it be doubted that men and women dress each for their own sex: that it is the admiration of their owl, kind. not of the opposite one, they lay themselves most out for. Men and women ave in a perpetual condition of surprise. and scoff at each other-' styles. both always ornittilg criticism of their own. Conversation equally betrays this natural opposition. If the Sex(" had irea! respect for one another, would they idulre in those unbelieva:be eonpliments ? Neither does it to t.hose of their own kind whom they honestly ike. The artificial style of tadk which is the.traditionary custom of the sexes, is plaialy that of creatures who do not under stand each other and have mu. tual suspicious. Being strange, they betake themselves to compli ments. A qualification in reference to the family relation has to be made. To a man his mother is not a woman-,he is a divinity. The like partly holds in a girl of her father. and brothers and sisters are not of any sex. But get out side of this no-nsexual circle, and the antipathy comes quickly into play. Boys nearly hate girls, and the feeling is returned. Old men care nothing for -aom,n of any age, except as nurses. old women creep together. Jt is only dluring the central portion of life that the sexes can be said to be civil to one another. In fact. if nature had not forced men and women to love each other during that por. tion willy-nilly, and given them that incredible and perplexing bribe of children, it is doubtful whether they would have any mu tual liking. Love is ail that ex ists betweei them. It -is astonishing, considering what a complete, intricate. long association the bringing up a fami ly ties a couple to, that they do not become more really intimate than they do even in the best cases. Doubt may well be felt that there are few husbands and wives who in spite of all the trials they have shared, h.ve not at the bottom of their hearts a sense of grievance one against the other. It is all very sad : but it. cannot be helped. The sexes are a par tial failure, and somehow has a. risen an enormous exaggeration of their Lking for one another. Looked at calmly, the interest each has for the other is woefully lacking in versatility ; it is alike monotonous and small-mere love, in fact. COURTESY IN THE HOMIE. Your husband comes home at night silent, cold or cross. All day you have been thinking wvhat a dear fellow he is. He did a splendid deed yeste.day, over which you so fondly muse. No body ou earth i.s quite so fine, or noble or wholly to be adored as he. Ho opens the door. Lo! your god is moody man. Some thing has gone wrong -his diges tion, very likely. HIe ate a'piece of pie in a restaurant at noon, vile enough t.o tear up mucu.ous mem brane and temper together. He is blind to all tbe little love su p)rises that you have lying in wait for him. He knocks down your houquet, smashes your vases, bungles and bangs generally. In the keen reaction of disappoint ment. you answer him shortly or sharply. He, in his turn, says something which indicates that be does not think you altogether an angel. Either of you would die for the other. No less, each won ders for the moment how the olher can be so disagreeable. What a perfect evening you had pictured to be spent together. You spend it apart. You dump your head on your pillow and wonder why you were born. The most exquisite flavor of daily existence eludes us chiefly through the lack ot a prevailing and pervading courtesy in our constant intercourse withb each other; through a careless laok of tender consideration for the temperamen tal differences and infirmuties which cxist in all-is "foolish and has notions ;" that is reason sufli cit why -should be crossed. and by~ so much in no wise considered. \i e dismiAss the fact without study, without one atom of tender feel i g.and tr eat tha,vietim according. ly. Think how many loudly pro. fessing "friends" you have who rever fail to repeat a cutting, sar castic. or even rude remark:; w ho just as rarely speak to you one kind or' encour-aging word. It is a sad comment on human nature that the one who repeats an un charitable speech is invariably considered sincere, while the per. son whbo ventures to repeat or ex press a ver-y kindly one is al ways open to the suspicion of flattery. The French and German Govern, ments have exchanged ratifications.o: thetra for tai evation oi THE FIRST TRAIN FRO. CHARLOTTE TO SPARTAN Sone time before 3 o'c!oek, p. Im.. kn Monday. last, a vast, assem h!y i hies and gentlemen were g.ther1d :ar the track of the Airinw Rilroad, to greet ie ar rival (Af the first Train from Char. lotte. As the clock strack the hour, the train was descried i; the disO)tance, and illLldSt th.e :,ring 1u ;S. ringing of bell the war ing oa hndkerebien, :un shout ing of the Multitude, the beauti. fui engine like a thing of life, gli i ed tmajesticaly through the n:e thnyto the, point see-e1for the dk.,Ot. The-train brought abozt sixty of the Irinent an-l sub'tan.al men of Charlotte to rejoce WiLl us over this event, so important in our history, and which we trust will mark the beginning of a new era of prosperity for this whole section of country. Tfhese vibitors were welcomed in appropriate terms by Hon. Simpson Bobo, of our town, Who after speaking of the vast importance of this great continental highway, in devebp ing the resources of the country and in restoring it to even more than its former prosperity ; paid just and eloquent tributes to Col onel Buford. the President : Colo nel Sage. Chief Engineer ; Major Weliford, and all associated with them in this great work ; not. f.r getting the humble laborers, with their picks and shovels. Mr. Bo bo closed by inviting the e:ccur tiori:sts, one and all, to dinner pro vided for them by tne citizens of the town. at the Palmetto louse. General Young. the Mayor ol Charlotte, responded in a most cbaste and eloquent impromptu, which was heard with the most eago r interest by the vast throng of ladies and gentlemen present, and most vociferously chuered by every one. Although not a pro fessional mani, (we befieve,) Gene ral Youn is a most graceful and ef feetive Speaker, and Charlotte has reason to feel proud of her official representative on this occa:iion. We would not, even if we had time and space to do so, mar the beauty of his Honor's speech by any report which we are able to make of it.-Carriia Spartan. WHAT Is MusrC?-It is an art foumi.d within the nature and being of mai. It ii the language of the heart, which revceals in euphonious sounds the beauties oi the soul. It is the whisper of the emotions. whose b-cath is the revelation of the sentimental in the lii'e of man, freed from Csualty and objectivity through the me. diun of sont's. Music, threefore, is the analagous expressior. of the soul itself. The laws of the development o1 the souls' emotions are also the laws of musical compoSition. The material for sound is furnished by) the mechanicism, which is regu lated by physical laws. But thiE material on ly is not m usie.althougi it is ini the garment in whieb sht is dressed. In the recesses of th< human soul, the emotions, sea timents, and passions form them selves into the ideals, which tie artist has simply to copy. Th< peuirt of the feling in tb< heart of different men gives in dividuality to a composition,mrark: it as the fruit of this or that man but always traces it back to th< life of the soul. A SLF.DaN BEAUTY.-SOelets in Iloshnungabad,.which import an town, as our readers are doubtles: aware. is situated in Hlindoostar -is just now occupied in discus sing the peculiar conduct of: young married lady named Nun nee. During the tweclve years o her married hife. this singula: young person has never met bei husband without instantly falling into a state of profound slumber In this coniditioni sh,e reuiains si long as hie is in her presence having slept on several occasion: for periods of eight or ten con secutive days. It is not ever necessary that he should speak t< her in order to throw her int< this s!number: for when he passe near her, disguised so that sh cannot recognize hum by sight she instaiitly falls asleep. A during these prolonged arid fre q uent naps, she neither eats, fiirts nor deLsires any jewels, she is o course, a safe andl inexpensiv, Iwife. Nevertheless, her husbant regards her as an extremely use less piece of property. A Connecticut woman will cee brate a tin divorce. and mor' would be glad to. A California clergymnan put marriage and fnneral fees on par. A Peoria colored girl is theees scholar in the county. American school girls at Rom Ier to flr wi. W the Cardirmla ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of *.00 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and 7e. foreach subsequentinsertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributcs of respect, same rates per square as ordinai y adverisements. S'pecial notices in iocal column 20 ccnt6 per line. Adiverfisements not marked with the nun b,r ofinsertons will be kept in till forbd and charged accordingly. Special contrmers mde with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates ogQ Parizw Done with Nestmess and Dispatch. Terms Cash. VICTIMS OF MISPLACED CONFIDENCE. In sp;te of all that is published in th,e wayv o- warnin,_r, sone peo p wi'i s;st inth, practice of I t- e Ir 10 plausi. bh es n:ii tiw,v lear1n by that --hal: srangers" are3 n :: 1's-l to :ik off - .I- : i t- ' " :.' V ais e - -- I I iL - . t Io "l i rav lers arib..utes one's :-Lla t il . t our is r.o tnf.rt r-d t han' toe be . oud. I f* a h "t: g ood 1you1o;let th hove ten do!!ahs for five minutes. and oiers yhau a thou sand-dollar dratt to hld fr se cariv don't do it. your can buy a barrei of sneh( drtts at five cents ia pound. If I fellow"anhs vou over you haveujust gotacaitdwt a the ho ei tbor in the ears has a p)re.ssing til to paty, bait. unfortun latly v.s nothinr less than a hun dedd omr note. and the mtan with xh ll at no change-don't take any pt in that operation, even if the )od fellow hands you over a pocket-book fuli of hundred-dol lar notes as security. In all such cases, rem eber that honest peo ple never ask strar.gers or new acquaintances to lend money or exchange watches to help them ipay bills, or do anything of that sot iety-nine tes in a hun dred .th~e man whbo does it is a knave, and ats such beware of him. For the fate of the lady who ear ried twenty-five thousand dollars in bonds in her trunk, and then handed the trunk over to a entleman" she had just been in. troduced to. most pople will feel sorry, b't they wilH. nevertheless, be of the opinion that she was so dreadfully verdant that she does not even read the news papers. A solicitor who had recendvy been engaged by a prominent life insurance firm returned to the o'fice of his emi ployers the other day and comiplained that he had be.en snlubbed by a uentle man on whonm he had called.. '5nubb ed," criedthn:ner:subd? have snubbed you : I have solicited life in1suran]e frai! the Atlautie to the Mi.sis.ippi. and haveu r.ever yet beeni snubbed. 1 have leen kicked dowa stairs bent en overil heaC1? d w~ith chairs an thr1rown Uout of the window, rut snube !iO2 h:.e nver been.'" The 'oliOi is~ driviag a coal Wagon. Xu must have lived here a long ''aw" s:iu a tr:aveling"fi Enlishman to a old )rig ifOeer Yes, sir ; i hm-.~ I oa vu a e that mountain ? el wl:e ! canliI.e here that moun tin. w. e hol'j in the ground." The lI gaI ma ope:.'*I d his halft shut eyes. A\wi I whlit-- mlan hais been fountd 1n th f"e.t ;f Aniolfi, in Antioqui, Cral Americ,.wih thbodyJ all ewered wi:n ha;ir. He refuses br'ad anid secars. saving all his wants were supplied from Heaven An official statement shows that thc tta i nuber of persons in the United State who were assessed for income durng the years 1871 and 1872 under tIe act of.July 14, 1870. were 74.775 and 74.337, respectively. It is said that. if the Chinese were to adopt the Prussian military system, they could bring into the fid up wards of eighty million soldiers. un eq'ualled for patience and eudurance, and for indifference to death. Mrs. McGlynn. of Omaha. attempt etocommuit suicide by cutting her throat. She was so inad when the physician sewed it up for her that she stuck a knife in hin, and it is expeet ed he will die. An old bachelo'r says that <'iving the ballot to women would not amonut to anything. for they would denv that they were old enough to vote until they were too old to taIke an interest in politics.___ A young lady of St. Louis has just Ci cet to Europe an order for fifty yards ofBrussels carp:t twentyv-fi' e feet ide. She is sromIg to make a pair tf sppers for the editor of a local put. -npr. The ladies ofSnranlnah are raisin? tnuds for a mionumtent to th&ir fallen brother'. the cornler stone of which is to be laid on the 26th of Atril. the. Southern memnorinl day. A milliner at Detiance. Ohio, walk ed into a church one Sunday recently, andi r::whided a iusiness man who hrad slandered her. TIhe minieter halted untii the affair was over. The Poat-vifice Department and its agents are busily engaged in preparing for the 1st of July, when the law t abolishing the fran?king privilege goes into effect.