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I liIi,r ' Vol. ix, WEDNESDAY MqORNING, APo.I 30873 THE HERALD 1S PUBLISED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOPNING, At Newberry C. H., BY THOS. F. GRENEKER; Editor and Proprietor. Ters , $2. 0 per J nuM, Invariably in Advance. 7 Thw per is atop?d at the expiration of time for w h it is . a The > mark denotez expiration of sub scription. WMEN WORDS FAIL. When words fail, when, mute and pale, The quivering lips re!u,e their task, Is sorrow fled? is feeling dead, Or anguish over ? Who can ask? When word- fail,-oh! then unveil This steel-cold grief that a ounds so deep, And you shall find a tortured mind May still forbid the eyes to weep. At the last, in vain you asked Those parting words Lhat los e embalms: As dumb and still, one dead might fill The place I held within your arms. Yet you know how vain the flow Of graceful, ardent speech may be: Then say you feel my last appeal Is answered,-answered tenderly. Say you heard what yet no word But tailed to mtke you hear so well; And say that still, through good and ill, You trust the love I could not tell. -F. F., in Old and New foi- February. WORKE WAS THE SIN? A "IANCE OF RUBY GULCH. BY WELDON J. COBB, JR. "From a sluice up to a lode, po ker, euchre, or cassino, I'm your man; ready to stand up and be shot if I make a false deal; ready to rid the earth of the man who cheats at the play." "Bragg's a good dog, but the chink carries conviction in these ere diggins," spoke up Beaver Tom, gruffly paraphrasing an old maxim. "Cor-rect!" roared the ne%v ar rival, opening his hunting shirt, and taking therefrom a small buck skin bag. "-I'm always ready to plank- down the cash when my word's doubted. It would be a dangerous dodge to fling Lucky Dan the lie at Vera Canyon though." And the bronzed mi ner's eye gave forth a momlentary flash of anger. The men seated in the tavern at SRuby Gulch repeated the name over in subdued tones, and then each one looked cautiously at the new arrival, who seemed a singu lar compound of good nature, brag and wealth. There was not a man there who had not heard of him;'heard too of his deeds of prowess ; of his remarkable facili ty for accumulating wealth, and they remembered, enviously, that "Lucky Dan" was a .pseudonym not inaptly bestomed upon the mi nor who "turned everything he touched into gold." "come down here to have a lit tle sport and to prospect," con tin ned the miner, carelessly chinking his dust on the table. "'See here !" kicking over a chair and seating himself on its back, a new tre a of thought striking his mind ; "I hear that you fellows are go. ing to get up a sort of committee to investigate the Durand busi ness ?'" He said this in a careless t me, meantime tossing the bag and catching it, yet a glowv of interest partly hidden, came into his eyes. "Yes," spoke up Beaver Tom, "and the power-s above help the man who murdered him, if we catch him !" "Is that the way you do busi ness in these diggings ?" queried Dan, with contemptuous emphasii in his voice. "How d" you know whether Bill Durand was murder od or not ?" How do you, know but what he died in a fair fight. I don't blame you, boys," continu ed the speaker, in a conciliatory tone, for the miners were frown ing dangerously at this frank con demnation of their leader's senti ments, "for Bill was a whole-soul ed boy. You see I have seen him; he was at the Canyon two days h before he went under. But, boys, *Bill Durand was a quarrelsome, Bunreasonable man when whiskey had the upper hand of him. Don't condemnthe man that killed him until you know if he hadn't pro [vocation to do so." "You're sensible," replied Beav er Tom, "But that's what we pro pose finding out. See here, Dan, look at that lad there, and think how you'd feel to be put in hii place, without a father to tak care of him, and a mother loft a poor lone widow, without a cent. or a hand to help her, of her o.vn kin." Lucky Dan started, and direct ed his eyes to the part of the room iTdicated by Beaver Tom. Then, with a gesture of his hand, he beckoned the golden-haired, sweet-faced, five year oid boy tc Y.him. "Well,, my lad," he said, "anc ~you're Bill Durand's boy, are you Here take these to your mother iand tell her so long as Lucky Dam 2lives, neither you nor her shall want -" and be drew from hlu poCk2& a baodfal of gold Usli** gles and thrust them into the boy's hand. "Now, landlord give us a room, and any of you fellows that want to take a hand, come on." The "room" into which the "se lect party" of five entered a few moments later, was any thing but elegant, yet so inter ested were t be party in the heavily-staked game that they on ly thought of the business in hand, and as the result remained to be. decided on the last hand just dealt, no one noticed a knock at < the door, so absorbed were they I on the game they were playing. "What's that ?" demanded Dan, I as a still louder knock sounded on the door. Then in a louder tone -"Come in," he -oared, "if your V life's insured." The door opened, and a woman i entered,-a woman pale, but beau tiful; a woman whose fixed, sad I glance caused Lucky Dan to drop the cards he held in his hand, and; stare and wonder what the inter raption could mean. "You gave my boy some money, sir?" she asked, coming up'to the I miner and laying her hand on his shoulder. Despite his assumed bluff de meanor, the miner trembled under the touch and reddened at the consciousness that he was render ed weak by this woman's influ ence. "If you are Bill Durand's widow, I did ; and blast it ! woman, don't cry. Bill Durand was a friend oft mine, and I'll never see a com- 1 raee's kin come to poverty and I suffering." "I only cane to thank you," spoke the woman in broken ac- I cents. "It is for my boy's sake I that I accept it." A suspicious moietare came in to Dan's eyes as he arose to his feet, and took the woman's ex tended hand, while a strange thrill I pervaded his being at the touch. "Never mind that," he said, leading her to the door. "I owe it I to you," he added earnestly, "for was not your husband my friend ?" He trembled so, as the words came fromi his lips, that the wom- i an looked up at his face. "I want to talk to with you," said the miner opening the door. "We'll see if we can't do some thing for an old friend's-" "But the stakes !" cried Bear er T&m from the table. "Blast the stakes ! Divide them i among you." sang oat the miner, as he left the room with Mrs. Du rand. Ono week, two weeks, three weeks went by but Lucky Dan I still tarried at Ruby Gulch but the I card table knew him no more. i From the bluff, 9oarse miner, he i had changed into a more quiet, thoughtful man, whose strongest characteristic became refined to1 subdued half-courtesy. IMeanwhrle, the rough denizens of Ruby Gulch saw and marveled. "What's up with him, anyhow," queried one of another.] "Love, my lad." replied Beaver Tom. "That widow has bewitched him." Not a farfetched guess, honest miner ! Day by day, Lucky Dan became more and more attached to Mrs. Durand and a thoroughly changed man he was, constantly devising some means of conveying pleasure to her and her bright boy Robert. But if the miners for a moment accused the widow Durand of fiirt ing with, or milaigthe lion of Vera Canyon, they surmised incor rectly. It would be difficult to understand how Lucky Dan found pleasure in the company of a wo man whose whole heart and its affections seemed buried in the grave of her husband. . Yet he loved her, and she with womanly intuition knew it. But an event occurred which drew the miner still nearer to this1 woman. Mrs. Durand had fallen ill and, despite all that care could do for her, she was brought to the point of death. ISitting in the darkened room, with her head bowed and pale, sad features, Lucky Dan heard the woman call him to her couch of~ suffering ; he went to her bedside.1 "I am dying," she said softly. He closed bis eyes with an ex pression of pain loth to gainsay her, vainly endeavoring to hope against what seemed only too ap parent. "You love me ?" she continued, looking earnestly at the bowed fombsde her. "God knows I do !" was the fer vent response. "Then you will not refuse my dying request. My heart is bu ried in the grave of my murdered husband, but for my boy's sake to secure him a noble and gone. rous protector, I want you to grant me a request. Dan, will you mar ry me,-here,-ow ?" 'A groan of anguish swept~ through the room as Lucky Dan let his face fall upon his hands and. trembled with internal emotion. "I cannot marry you," he groaud edA "7 rdaa nnt !" Mrs. Durand closed her eyes vith a sigh. "I swear that I will care for 7our boy, but this-I cannot do it -I dare not do it." The woman nuttered a few evords unintelligibly and then was pparently unconscious. Finally she awoke. "My boy-my Robert," she ;asped, averting her eyes from the niner's face, whose frame quiver !d with suppressed emotion. Dan went to the door and call d Robert. Mrs. Durand silently )eckoned the miner away. He Nithdrew, closing the door after lim. In half an hour Robert came out )f the room, a reproachful look in iis eyes. The miner started, )pened the door, and entered the -oom. "God forgive me !" he murmur )d. "I will marry you," lie said a oud, as he advanced toward the iilent figure upon the bed. Never on earth, honest repen ent Lucky Dan. For all your ove cannot recall life to the frail enement-the cold, earthly cask it from which the spirit has fled. Fifteen years have passed In an apartment of a New York botel sat two men in whom t would be hard to find any re ;emblance to the Lucky Dan and ittle Robert Durand of a decade id a half before. Genteelly dressed, handsome E--bert Durand just graduated 'rom an Eastern college, was en .husiastic over his meeting with iis kind foster-parent. "it does me good to see you," earfully spoke Lucky Dan, hold arg the boy's hand, and affection Ltely regarding him. "Now, I ihall find peace. We will settle lown in some quiet spot, and in ach other's company, tind com ort far more secure than a roving, vorldly life may insure us." A shadow crossed the boy's ace. "No, father," he said solemnly 'my duty to you, kind, generous )atron and friend, must, for a hort time gave way to a duty I we to my mother." The ex;niner staned aid palrd. "I cannot understand you," lie aid, with a feeling of vague un -est at his heart. "On her dying bed," continued ,he boy, "1 swore to my now >ainted mother, that, when man iood should be mine, I would seek )ut the murderer of my father. rhat solemn promise-" He stcpped and arose to his ect. regarc g with dismay and error, his companion, who had al o risen, with eyes glaring wildly nd features distorted and pale, was crying out, madly: "Hush ? Will it take an eternity o blot out the memory of your father's death ? Listen," he said, ess excitedly : "I know whbo kill ad your father, I saw the deed one. And, as I hope for future peace, it was a fair tight. Your tather had been drinking, and two miles from Vera Canyon met a Eriend. Dangerously intoxicated, he insulted the man who drew his revolver inieself-defence, and shot him dead. Robert, my dear boy, [ would not marry your mother with her husband's blood upon my ands, for it was I who killed your father !" He had been advancing toward Robert, but the young man with an exclamation of horror, put up his hand, and with a repelling ges ure of mingled dread and scorn, tell heavily to the floor. When he awoke to conscious ness, night had darkened the room, yet he knew, intuitively,that his father's slayer and his more than friend wvas gone. Gone ?-whither ? In that aimless, haunted life he led for years he never knew until his wanderings had brought him to Ruby Gulch one cold wintry morning. In the tavern he found the greatest commotion existing: an old acquaintance of some of them, after an absence of many years had returned two days be. fore,and he had died that morning, with a single word upon his lips -"Robert." In a distant and isolated gold bearing region there is a quiet un obtrusive miner who labors, un ceasingly, day after day. He awaits the end, for the brightness and hap>iness of life exist not for him. W HOSE WAS THE slN ? Artemus Ward once lent money. He thus recounts the transaction : "A gentleman friend of mine came to me, with tears in his eyes. I said: 'Why these weep ?' He said he had a mortgage on his farm and wanted to borrow $200. I lent him the mo ney and he went away. Some time after, he returned with more tears. He said he must leave me forever. I ventured to remind him of the $200 he borrowed. He was much cut up. I thought I would not be hard on him, so I told him I would throw off $100. He brightened, shook my hand and said : 'Old friend, I won't allow you to outdo me in librerality; I'll throw off the oilfetEQ10. [OFFICIAL.] The Laws of South Carolina. I Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly at the Session of 1872-'3. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 17 OF CHAPTER XLV. OF THE GENERAL STATUTES oF THE STATE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That section 17, chapter XLV., of the general statutes of the State be amended by striking out the words "frtv-five," and insert., in lieu thereof, the words "fifty-five." Approved February 22, A. D. 1873. AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTIONS 5,6 AND 7 OF CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. That section 5, sec tion 6 and section 7 of chapter eghty-three of the general statutes of South Carolina be, and the same are hereby. repealed. Approved January 29, A. D. 1873. AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 120 oF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF THE STATE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That chapter 120 of the general statutes of the State be amended as follows: Strike out the word "thirty,." whenever it occurs i.n section 11, and insert the word "ninety;" strike out the words "ninety days," in section 13, and insert "six months." Approved February 20, A. D. 1873. AN ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PRTVI&EOR A GE* ERAL LICENSE LAW. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: S,FCTo. 1. That the act entitled "an act to provide for a general license law," approved March 13, A. D. 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from the first day of April, 1873. Approved December 20, A. D). 1872. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 12, CHAP TER CIII., OF THE GENERAL STAT UTES OF soUTH CAROLINA. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting, in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That sect ion 12, ch apter CIII., of the general statutes of South Carolina, be amended by adding,' after the word "dollars," line 15, these words: "or be imprisoned for a period not less than one month nor more than one year, at the discretion of the court." Approved January 25, A. D). 1873. AN ACT TO AMEND sECTION 2, CHAP TER XXV., OF THE GENERAL sTAT UTES OF SOUTH CAROLIA. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. That section 2, of chapter XXXV., of the general statutes of South Carolina be amended as follows, viz: "That trial justices sball be distributed as the convenience of the several counties require, and the number in commission shall not exceed,.in Abbeville, thirteen; Aiken, ten; Anderson, sixteen; Barnwell.eight; Beaufort, thirteen ; Charleston, t wenty-four; Chebter, eight; Clar endon, six; Colleton, twelve; Cbesterfield, five; Darlington, ten; Edgefield, twelve; Fairfield, eight; Georgetown, eight; Greenville, nine; Horry, eleven; Kershaw, nine; Lancaster, nine; Laurens, saven; Lexington. nine; Marion, ten ; Marlboro, six; New berry, six; Qconee. nine; Orangeburg, ton; Pickens, eight; Rich land, twelve; Spartan burg, thirteen; Sumter, eight; Union, eight; Williams burg, ten ; York, twelve. Approved January 25, A. D. 1873. AN ACT TO ENFORCE THE PAYMENT OF THE POLL TAX. Be it enacted by the Senate an~d House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by tbe authority of the same: SRoi 1 That there shall be assessed on all taxable polls in the State an annual tax of' one dollar on each poll, the proceeds of' which shall be applied to educational purposes; and if any person shall refuse or neglect to pay said tax before the expiration of the time fixed for the payment of all taxes, the county treasurer shall, within twenty days thereafter, furnish a list of all delinquent polls -to the county commissioners of the coun ty; where the persons so taxed and delinquent have no property to be distrained for the payment of said' poll tax, as authorized in the act: providing for the assessment and taxation of property, approved September 15, 1868, the person or persons so delinquent shall be subject to a penalty of double the amount of their poll tax,and,on fail ing to pay the same, when notified of the fact, within ten days after such notice, such person or per sons shall be required to work upon the highway or roads in their respective counties as the county commissioners may direct, not exceeding three days. SECTIoN 2. That tho said county commissioners s3hall, after receiv ing the delinquent poll list, sum mon such delinquents to appear at their office, and then and there give them the opportunity to pay the double tax, and on failing to do so, such delinquents shall be required to work upon the high ways and roads of their respec tive counties, as the county com missioners may direct; and if said delinquents, being personally warned by the said commissioners, or by written notice, served at their place of residence, shall refuse or neglect, having had ten days' notice to attend by them selves, or substitutes equally able to perform said duties as them selves, or to pay the double tax in lien of said duties, or, having attended themselves, shall refuse to conform to the requirements of this act, or obey the directions of the county commissioners, they shall be considered gailty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned for the same, in a county jail, for a term not less than ten days. Approved February 20, A. D. 1873. AN ACT TO REQUIRE COUNTY CORO NERS TO REPORT TO THE GOVER NOR IN CAPITAL CASES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ot the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: SECTIoN 1. That it shall be the duty of each county coroner, whenever a homicide has been committed in his county, and the party committing such homicide has not been arrested, or, having been arrested, has escaped custody before bill found, to forward a re port to the Governor within three days after the holding of an in quest by him, or, in case of escape, within three days after notice of such escape, which report shall embrace the name of the person killed, and the namo of the person, if know.n, charged with commit ting such homicide, together with a copy of the evidence taken be fore the jury of inquest, and the verdict rendered thereupon: Pro vided, That, in case of escape, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or other officer having custody of the party, to notify such coroner of the escape promptly. SECTION 2. Upon the receipt of any report, as provided in section 1 of this act, the Governor may, in his discretion, offer such re wards as the. gravity of the cr-ime warrants, not exceeding five hun dred dollars in any case, for the apprehension and delivery of the fleeing or escaped criminal, as the case may be, to the sher-iff' of the county in which such alleged crime was committed, which re ward shall be paid, upon the wvar rant of the Governor, from his contingent fund. SECTION 3. Any coroner who shall willfully neglect to make the report, as pr-ovided in section 1 of this act, shall be liable to indict ment as for a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or- both, at the discretion of the court. SECTIoN 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same arc her-eby, repeal ed. Approved February 27, A. D. 1873. 'AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 9S, 99 AND 100, CHAPTER XVII., OF THE GENERAL sTATUTESOF soUTH CAR OLINA, RELATING TO HOLDERs OF INSURANCE POLICIES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. That section 98 of chapter XVII. of the general at,tntaa be amended in the fifth line of said section, after the words "bonds or stocks of this State," by inserting the words "or of the United States;" also, at the close of the said section, insert the fbllowing proviso: '-Provided, 1owever, That it shall be the duty, and it is hereby required of the comptroller-general, upon notice being served upon him by the agent of any said company or as sociation, accompanied by proof sufficient to establish the fact of the insolvency of such company Dr association so depositing, to lispose of, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, after twenty-one lays' notice of said sale, (ndtice to be g.ven by publishing in one )f the d:ily papers in the city of Columbia, and in one daily paper in the city of Charleston,) so much )r so great an amount of such bonds or stocks so deposited as will enable him to reinsure the policy holders of such insolvent company or association, in such proper and solvent ir.surance com pany or association as any policy bolder in said insolvent company Dr association may desire or elect, for the balance of the unexpired term of such insurance previously taken by him in said insolvent company or association." SEcTIoN 2. That section 99 of uhapter XVI. of the general tatutes be amended by inserting after the word -'State," in the third line of said section, the words "or of the United States." SEcioN 3. That section 100 of hapter XVIi. of the general statutes be amended by inserting after the word -State," in the eleventh line, the words "or of the United States." Approved February 20, A. D. 1873. SisutHaeouzs. BILL ARP ON THE RACK HE PLEADS ALDERMANIC DUTIES AT 2 IN THE MORN ING. Bill Arp, the editor of the Rome Conmierdal, has been swimming around the Council Chambcrs e.v-e-r-y night during the.innun dation of his city, and here's what comes of his being out. It will apply to Augustaas well as Rome: E-v-e-r-y night ! Here it is half-past 1 o'clock ! It's a wonder you come home at all ! What do-you-think- a womar-is made for ? I do believe if a rob ber was to come and carry me off you wouldn't care a-What is it you say ? City Council business must be attended to ! How do I know you go to the City Council I Does the City Council meet ev-e-r-y nigrht ? Theyv don't meet but once a week in New York. But I suppose R-o-m-e is a more important place. Oh, yes, oul every -night. Twelve o'clock one o'clock-two o'clock. Here I stay with the children all alone lying awake half the night wait ing for you. Couldn't come home any sooner ! Of course yeo couldn't if you didn't want to. But I know something you think I don't, but I do. That I do. wish 1 didn't. Where were yet Monday night ? Tell me that. The marshal told me the City Council didn't meet that night Now what have you got to sayi Couldn't get a quorum ! Well, i you couldn-t, why didn't yoi come home ? Out e-v-e-r-y nigh1 -hunting for-a-quorum. But you wouldn't hunt for me this lati if I was missing. Where were you Thursday night and Friday night ? There was a show it: town wasn't there ? What did you buy that bottle of hair oil for and hide it ? Oil for your hone, in deed ! Whoever heard of hair oi for a whetstone ! So you think] didn't see you in the other roort brushing and greasing your hail and looking in the glass at youi pretty self ? A man ought to b< decent. He ought, ought he Yes, indeed, a man ought to, and decent man will stay at home wit] his wife sometimes and not be ou e-v-e-r-y night. How comesi that the City Council didn't mec but twice a inonth last year Trying to work it out of debt Yes, that's probable-very-IlaugL ing and joking and smoking an swapping lies will work a debt of! wo't it ? Now-I-want-to kno w-how-much-longer-yo1 -are- going -to- -keep -up this-night-business ? Yes, want to knowv. Out e-v-e-r night. City Council, Free Masoni shows, hair oil-and brush an brush and brush untilyou've near ly worn out the brush and you head too. What is it you say ? 1 helps your business to keep ul your social relation ! Ab, indeed You've got relations here at hem! sir. They need keeping up som I should think. What did you sa; about catching it the other nigh at a whist party ? Fellows, its 1 o'lock, but iet's play a while lot ger-we won't catch it any wor when 'we get home. A prett epnevbh foP a 4.e-e.en.t ma t make. Catch it! Catch it ! W el, I intend you shall catch it-a lit tie C. Wnat's that you say ? If I wouldn't fret you so you would stay at home more ! Well, sir, do y >m stay at home first a few nights aud try it. Perhaps the fretting Wloud stop. Out e-v-e-r-y night hTC11us I fret you so. What's taLt Sir ? You know ladies who in't. alwavs scolding their hus-q bands ! You do, do yon ? How come you to know them ? What I i':iness had you to know them ? What right have you to know whether other women fret or not ? That's nhways the way. You men think all other women are saints but youar wives. Oh, yes-saints s-ai- t-S. I'll have vou to know, sir, that there isn't a woman in this town that' more of a saint than I am. I know them all, sir -a h-c-a-p better than you do. You only see the sugar and honey side of them, and they-only see -the- sugar- side-of- you. Now, sir, I just want you to know that if you can't stay at home more tban you do. I'll leave these children here to get burnt up, and I'll go out e.v-e-r-y night. Vh en a poor woman gets desperate, why, sir, she is-she is desperate, that's all. THE SORT OF MEN THAT WOMEN LIKE BEST. We know that men actually shrink from the attempt to ob tain companions who are their su periors but they will find that really intelligent women who pos sess the most desirable qualities are uniformly modest, and hold their charms in modest estima tion. What such women most ad mire in men is gallantry ; not the gallantry of courts and frps, but boldness, courage, devotion'and re fined civility. A man's bearing wins ten superior women wher. his boots and brains wins one. I a man stand befbre a woman with respect for himself and fearless nesi of her, his suit is half won. The rest may safely be left to the parties most interested. Therefore never be afraid of a woman. Wom on are the most harmless and agreeable creatures in the world to a man who shows that he has got a man's soul in him. If you have not got the spirit to a test like this, you have not got that in you which most pleases a high souled woman, and you will be ob liged to content yourself with the simple girl who, in a quiet way. is endeavoring to attract and fasten you. But don't be in a burry about the matter. It isn't credit able to you. Especially don't imagine that any disappointment in love which takes place before you are twenty-one years old will be ofany material damage to you. The truth is, that before-a man is twenty-five years old he does not know what he wvants himself. So don't be in a hurry. The more a man you become, and the more manliness you become capable of exhibiting in your association with women, the better wife you will be able to obtain ; and one year's possession of the heart and hand of a really noble specimen of her sex, is worth nine hundred and ninety-nine years' possession of a sweet creature with two ideas in her head, and nothing new to say about either of them. So don't be in a hurry,we say again. You don't want a wife now, and you have no idea of the kind of a wife you will want by-and-by. Go into fe male society if you can find that which will improve you, but not otherwise.__ A FA-rALITY IN NAmrs.--Three fine ocean stcamei-s bare been built and named after three grea9t oceans, viz: - The Arctic. the Pacific and the -Atlantic. The Arctic came in colli sion with the French steamer Vesta. on the Newfoundland coast and sunk, causing a loss of two hundred and fif ty lives. The Pacific with a large number of passengers, was never heard of after she left Liverpool. She doubt less foundered, and went dIown with all on board. The sad fate of the Atlan tic, with its awful destruction of five Shundred or six hundred lives, is still Lthe engrossing topic, of public interest. LThe god Neptune. like the God of the Hebrews. seems to frown upon having any graven image to commemorate his -majesty and power.-News~ & Coi, -' A correspondent of the New York iHerald says that nearly all the Ku - Klux prisoners at Albanj have been [ discharged, those only remaining who rwere convicted of direct complicity in ,murder. No complaints of the viola i tion of the enforcement act have been - received lately, with the exception of r complaints that the department has t ascertained were made by horse thieves > or vagabonds, who have in several in ! stances received protection unwitting .ly from the government. The dis e patch adds that the administration r would not object to a discreet exercise t of vigilance to rid the South of all its 1 useless members, and it does not pro - pose to again be deceived in the name eof law and order in extending to this y jclass the- protection of the strong arm .0 nf the law. ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of 1.60 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and 73e. foreach subsequent insertion. Donb!u columa advertisements ten per cent on above. Notice! of meetings, obituaries and tributme o, respeer, same rates per square as ordinaiy advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Spcial contracts made with large adver tiser,, with liberal deductious on above rates Jo PaI2r"fe Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. A GRATEFUL EDITOR. The editor of the Philadelphia Dispatch has been made the hap py reCipient of some interesting reading matter, and he very pro perly expresses his thanks thusly: "We owe our thanks to Judge Kelly for the latest Paterlt office report. We already have sixteen hunlred of these interesting vol uines in our litl!e library, but thev have been read a;d re-read so many times that we know every pagc of them by i.cart. This new volune came (pportuz Iy and gratefullk- on Christmas morning, and that l1ight we gat ered outr little fImily around the fire and read it through to them. The affecting tale entitled -Im provemen t in Monkey. Wrenches.' seemed to touch every heart, and when we came to the climax of the little story about 'Reversible. Pie-boards,' there was not a dry eye between the front door and the stable. During the reading of the. piteous narrative entitled the 'Gum Washers for Carriage Axles,' the whole fitmily gave expression to boisterous emotion. and the hired girl was so much excited that she lost her pr-eee of mind, and went around to her mother's inadvertently with six pounds of sugar and a butter-kettle full of flour, and came home at midnight intoxicated. We can never suf ficiently thank Judge Kelly for innocent enjoyment thus furnished us. The memory ol that evening will linger in our minds very muvii longer than that hired girl ever lingers when she lights on a lot of substance which she thinks will suit the constitutton of her aged parent.' CHANGE IN THE CoURsE OF RAI.N. -A correspondent writing from Hawkins Co., Tennessee, states that locality, the rains all come from the south west, conformning to the direction of the river-s and mountains: but what little rain has fallen during the dry season, both last year and this. has all come ''re clouds psssing from north to south, directly across the riv-ers and mountains. Scientists are asked to account for this change of direction. The droughts, during which the change occurs, are not owing to the absence of forests, for the country is heavily tirnibered. The matrimonial foibles of Lady El leuborough, who recently died in D)a mascus. made her life very eventful. She eloped from her first husband with Prince Schwarzenberg in 1842. Soon tiring of the Prince she went to Italy, and before 1848 contracted six mar riages. In Athens she married Count Theodoki. When she had dissolved the eighth b)ond, and while travelling froni Beyrout to Damascus, she was united in the Arab fashion with Sheik Abdul a camel driver in whose nomad life she participated for a year. Finally she built a palace iu Dam::srus and re mnained there until her death. Something over a year since, a Mr. Colyer located at Mateo, some -70 miles north of Key West. and coin nmenced raising vegetables for market. He has, with the assistance of two sons, raised 24,000 head of cabbage, which has averaged him 1 8 cents per head. Also suaar cane to the value of over S750, together with all the ne cessary vegetables for his family use We do not '-Despair of the Republic. An Iowa father with three miarri ageable daughters, has posted the fol lowing notice over his bell-pull: "Wood, S5 a cord; coal, 30 cents a bushel; gas dear and b id. Parties staying after 9 o'clock will please set tle quarterly. N. B.-A reduction made after engagements, and the full amount added to the marriage por tion. granges of Patrons of husbandry con tinues. Nearly 1200 granges are now organized, and the nunmbers are rapid ly increasing. The memibers are now in discussion as to what action they will take in the coining campaign, ar.d the politicians are auxiously awaiting~ their movements. Some close observer, comment ing on the alacr-ity with which workmen left their labors.at the stroke of twelve, remarked. 'I have seen a man who had his pick in the air knock off and .leave it there, irather than waste time to put it down after tw elve struck.' A Connecticut bridegroomn cr-e ated quite a sensation at his nup tials r-ecently, by appear-ing in a pair of knee-breeches belonging jto his grandfather, and which owing to briefuess of the- modern sock, left sever-al inches- of bare veal exposed. John Graham, of Virginia City, raved because his wife Mary, hadn't washed his shirt. She molly-fled him with a rolling-pin, and he now has no need of shirts Some one has d'einied opolicy" Sto "consist in serving God in uc a maguer aM got to offend Satan."