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Vol. IX. WEDNESDAY MORMNG, JULY 9, 1873. THE H ERALD; IS PUELISHEla VERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry V. H1., BY T1103. F. GRENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. Termq, $ .50 per J1111 Invariably in Advance. 7 The paper is stopped at the expiration oi time for which it is paid. T7 The 1 mark denotes expiration of sub scription. From the ll.tlti:n-re Satur y Night. ODE TO A G.1RTER. PICF.Fln UP IN CITUI.C1t UV THE ArT]I-')R. Thon envi Lle clasp ! whose close embrace' Oe hell a torin most beautiful to trace In -iey's eye, welre f'Ain 'tvould seem to Anatomy's most wondrons syninetry Of thee I sing-and ne'er at thee would scofn; B0:4omo ono thou wa::t donned -I'll --"take thee off!" When thou wert placed, on that late fatal morn, In thy plo:,ition bls, where thou wa-At Tiioz littl .,bo1gh:'t thot wonbl'st desert ed b" By thy dte tr mite, and th-tt thy L. E. G , Would now be written-he by others read, Wheln tholu wert lot, a1, to thy nate, iert de:al ! Thou mnv strifes h.ist born,-, if thou %0wold't tell, When tIV t'l:L1!ie form hs strtched right well And offitime. hIst thot 0'.1n fall tension giv en, Save only one,-, aId! then thy "eateh" was rivell So being thus, of t ion shorn, Tlou vieling, sou-*hlt th.- floor, ;n.lone, forlorn! 'Tis plain thou had't t mate, whro w. niost fair, (One glance alone would no th. pretty pair,) Who marked thy doivnall-would relief h!ive given - But could not quit her place for aoght but heaven, t Who nourns thit thou nnt in some I poie:et lie, And thankfil is, Fhe ne'er was worn-so high! Thon lonely elasp! about thoe there's a charm That binds the Yava.ge; man-soothes dread atlarm: &)r be he Sioux, or more narlike I'aw(k)nee, His ire would vanish at one sight of thee ;j F"or all must deemt thy proivess wonl drons bold, What others dare not touch, thou fain would'st hold! But pry'thee, Clasp! thon keep'st a seeret well, Say, can'st thou be induced for once to tell Who o-ned thee?y keeps thy mate in duranee blest,S Who listing in thy absence, sore distrest, Bemoans thy Ioss, oh ! lekless day when 0 she Did break thy hold, while she did bend the knee.? O1d Clasp ! I'll leave thee nowv-thy race is run My theme's exhatusted, and my rhyme is a done : Should sonme there be who might ob'jectionl P make To what is written, and oftence should take; 111 quote them that old saw in French parlance, 'Tis th's-"lloni soit qni maly ponse" Baltimore, .June 17th, 1S72. ANswER c.nv:X Ix XEo isses. e .. . d WHO JS.RU1LTY? "The man waits outside," said n 31r. Spencer Fenton's servant, as he stepped in front of' the low of- c; flee table', piled with books and" law papers. ft Mr. Fenton's servant was a man -1 of penetration, and kne~w where hi to draw the dividing hine between the commonplace umian" and the hx higher ordetr of being ktown as the "grentlemetn." "[Let him conme in," said 3Mr. n: Fenton, qui'..ly, as he took a nis- fi tol f'romi a drawer, laid it on teo table and dropped a newspaper over- it. i Mr. Fenton was a lawyer in good h practice in at large city, and was 't known as widely amnong the class b of customers for whom he prae- hi tieedl as a celebratedi lawyer of "G reat Fxpectationl" and femdi. 1 Th'le man was admitted, and proved to be a sullen-looking, a brutish personage. .in M r. F"etton looked once at this n sQuar'e-jawedc~ savage face, and fC judged his man. "You may go, John," he said to d his servant. "Take an hour or two for your-F self, if you like."-b John went ouit, andl the laiwyer a then took a seat at the table op- d posite Itis ellent, looking at himt sternly. "Now, my man," he saidl quietly, aI "we are together, and I want to a knIow exactly how this matter e stands." .p "'1'm going to tell you hiow it ends. honest injuin, I am. h "Very well. Now, as to this ni banik robbery. You say that you n c'an give inthrmation---for a con- 0 siderat ion, of cours. 'For five hundred dollar s. h Veywell." "Then '111 t,ll you. Tlie man that put up that- job is Soth A mity, the cashiN,r of the baik " Fenton stL'tel to his feet, and for a moment loit self-possession. "Seth Amity ! 3lan, you are either drunk or crazy !' "Be 1? Then you tike me om'er's and git ie swore to it. I'll take my adidary and Whereas that lie's the o1e as put, up the job, I ain't going to swear to a lie." "I believe you'd swear to any thing for a dollar, Senter; but that don't matter. Of course, if vou -an prove what you say, the man must be punished. Seth Amity ? L would undertake to swear that you are lying." -A ai;i't, Mr. Felton; so help mo. [ ain't. lie's the man as done it ; le's the man as put the others 11p to the fastenings, and give iem the impressionl to the sa!0e ey and the word to unlock the afc by." "You know a great deal about Ahis matter, it seems to ie." "Course I know about it. I Lin't sneaked and crawled there ull Iights for nothin.' See here, ,bey are going to make another lai! on the bank, and they are oinr to meet to arrange it to light. Would you dare go with nie and listen ?" "Can you lead the way ?" 1I kin. aid you'll see what ye Irecious Seth Amity amounts oo." "Shall brig a policeman ?" "I don't like the cop; but brilng ne if you like, he can't hurt me." "Very good, you can leave Me ow, but be on hanI at nine." lie arose and unlocked the dlooi'. id Senter shufled out in his sul n nunner. As he passe(l down lie wide staircase, a young man rushed passed him rapidly, and ave him a look of' silent scorn. enter stopped on the stairway nd looked after him. "That's you, Seth, my boy. You re down on ine for a traitor and former. but I'*l fix you yet !'' The Ng man tapped at the oor of' Fenton's room and enter . The lawyer looked ill) at liiml iickly, and an expression of' oubtful meaning passed over his Lee. "Good norning, Seth," he said llov do matters go on at the ank?" "They are in trouble, of course, r there is absolutely no clue to ie scoundrels who robbed the fe. They wore cunning enough ot to take anything except gold -actually leaving a lary'e quantity f notes, which they might have ad as well as not." "Do you suspect any one con ected with the bank ?" "I own I have my suspicions, [r. Fenton, but I have no proofs, od as the man and I are not ood f'riends, it might look like ersonal enmity on my part if' I poke of it." "T1ho safe was opened with the ey and word." "Yes; that is the puzzle, for on rtwo of' us had the word. The ey is another matter, and it ight have been taken in a doz aI was Why, if' the directors inot have the utmost confi one in mie I nighit have been ispected myself. Are you going ) the house?" "No; but you must give the aime of' the man you suspect; of' yurse it will go no further than iyself." "Henry Dana, the assistanit shier," replied Seth, slowly. You know that he has not been -iendly with me since he knewv ary and I were engaged; for lhe oped to succeed himself." tUmphl! You are going to tihe ouse to see mary ?" "Yes, I thbought perhap)s you ee going down'i. I can't stop) a oent; so good-by, and if you ad out anything let us know at Hie hurried out, and Fenton r'e aned with his head upon his inds, in deep thought. lHe had -ustd Seth A mity so far that lie ad accepted him as the affianced asband of' his only daughter homn lie loved as f'ew parents >vc their children. He knew that his informer was brute, but a good spy, and lie id given him trustworthy infor ation before and it looked bad >' Seth. If it proved true, lie ould be the one to break the iughter's hear't and con sign Seth mity to a prison cell for' years. ut lie had been retained by tile ink officials to wor'k up this most idacous robberv and he wvould > his dutty. Seth hurried down >the car's and stepped up to the enton residence. As he wenlt Sthe steps the door opened, and young man step)ped out, who st a savage glance at him, and .tssed by without saying a word. "What is Henry Dana doing re?" lie muttered; "and what a aicious glance he gave me. I ust understand this matter at ice." He touched the bell and sent up is name by the servant who an ve1e tbe ll Directly after the girl eam back with a (!ard, upon hviich wa written in a delicate female hand "Not it botua, to Mr. Amity. I will ut er se ' u apii. .MLo- Fms." Seth looked wildly at the ser vant, and then, tearing the Carn in pieces, he stamped upon then furiously, and hurried out into tlf street, his heart full of doubts ant fears. Mary had refused to set him again. Who had poisonet her mind against him, and hoxn should he unravel the Web whiel fate seemed weaving around him Senter was on hand at the ap pointed time, and met Fenton al his oflice, where they were joined by a policeman. Fenton had arm ed himself. and after a stern com, nand to be careful what he did, the informer took the lead. walkinl( several paces in advanee of the others, and not appearing to be long" to thilm. He took a cab at a corner stand, they followed his example; and after ordering thei driver to keep the other cab in i sight, they drove through the city, and halfa n hour after alighted in a side street, where the houses were of the class known as su-spi vious. The cabmen had their or ders and drove away, and Senter joined the party. "Where ib the place; you ?" said the policeman. "Gent leman Tom's,"replied Sen tcr. "Toni keeps a little game of fa ro, and a good many rough custo mers hang around him,"I said tho poli(emanl. "Will you go in ?" clf course," said c Feton, quiet ly. "You are Ime," muttered he polieman. "This way, then." Ie openled a gate and bly the talismanic power of certain words and knocks they were soon inside of the house, in which the gamb ling was inl full blast. Senter led the wav up staiiC to a small room which was carpeted so thickly that their footsteps gave no sound. Senter moved a small panel, scarcely an inch across, and motioned to Fenton to ook in. 1e applied his eye to the openifng, and saw three men seated at a table, almost withiu rmach of hi.q hand. consAgrsing in low tones. All of tha them were masked closely, and two of' them called the third by name,at differ. ent times, and the name was Seth Amity. Fenton listened and heard the whole plan of the proposed robbe ry, and lie knew that the nian whom lie had trusted, aid to whom lie had been about to give his daughter in marriage was a villain and a partner with rob bers. All compunctions were at an en(l, and the last words he heard as the men arose were these: "I have invested the proceeds of our last haul in Chicago in such a way that it will give mue influence enough with that old shark, Fen. ton to indluce him to humiry up the marriage with his daughter. They are o y e r forty thousand in gold in the bank, and the specie will flow in heavily to-morrow. This will make us rich enough to retire and live like honest men." Twice during the next day Seth passed Mr. Fenton in the street with a wild excited look in his handsome face, and the lawyer found it hard to believe the evi dence of his owvn ears. Seth (lid not look like a criminal, but rather one whom some unexpected sor row had driven to despair. At night three men, with hats drawn closely ove.r their brows, crawled through the alleys at the back of Moreton's Bank and ireach ed a door, which was opened by a key, andi they entered. A man lay sleeping on the floor, who was quickly overpowered bound and gagged. The one who appear-ed to be the leader showed them the way to the place where the other watchman was seated, nodding over a table. He was disposed of as easily as the other, and left up. on the floor helpless, and then the eader produced theo key to the vault and openied it easily enough. The floor was quickly strewn with small canvas bags, each of which reresented a large sum in gold. As they were gloating over- the prize, which far exceceded their ex pectations, there came a sudden rush of men, and the three rob bers wvere secured before they had time to think of danger. "Taken in the act Seth Amity," said Fenton, showing himself. :You cannot hope for mercy at my hands." One of the officers removed his cap and held up a lantern; and they saw not Seth Amity, but Henry Dana, his dark face distort ed by rage. "1 am beaten; take me to pris on; let me hide myself from the whole world !" s-aid Dana. So the three r-obbers went to prison, and Seth Amity was clear ed in the eyes of all men, and what he cared for most, in those of' Mary Fenton. D)ana hadi told her that he roebbed the banik, and that the officials had pr-oofs of his vil liny, -andl she was strnr'g eoungh to cast off the man she believei to bo a villain. She made amphi atonement for those nivnents 0 doubt, for she is now iis wif'e and N ill love lini the better because site sinned agaist hii for al 1hour. The tolen property was nearly all recovered and return;ed tu bak. Dana was sent to Sing Sing, where he was folund dead in his cell six montis after the pris. on closed behind him. Whether he died by his own hand or con flictin patssions of his own heart, no 11ain knows. AlBOUT RAIL ROADS. We make the following extract from the admirable speech of tihe great Railroad mian, Col. 1Rudnutt, khief Engineer of the Laurens & Asheville Rail Rload, delivered at Laurens, on the 20th of June: EF.CTS OF RAILROADS. Not alone is the effect of Rail roads to bring about at exchange of the productiors of the eart, which range so widely inl its ditler ent parts-so that the very de signs of providence seem to have becn to lead nations to commercial intercourse-but Railroads have rendered habitable large arrears of the globe which, without this lever of commeree. would have been uninhabitable. For instance, suppose wheat worth in market $50 per toin, and corn $25 dollars por ton. Suppose the cost of ivag oil transportation to be 20 cents per ton per mile, while the cost per rail is about one tenth, or 2 cents per ton per mile. Place the farmer 100 miles from market, and upon a common road, his wheat would be worth per ton only 830, and his corn B5.00. Build him a Railroad and see the effect upon his market. His wheat is now worth $48 per ton and his corn $2,3.J. Again, place him 150 miles from market, upon a wagon Road, and his.wheat is Worth about $20, and corn is absolutely worthiess; and at the distance of 250 miles his wheat is also worthless-in other words will only just pay transpor tation to market. Give him a Railroad and at once his wheat be. comes worth $45 per ton and his corn $20. I would dwell longer upon this interesting problem but for lack of time; however, enough has been said to show yon that in this day no State can afford to be without Railroads within her borders, oven though she never receive one dollar profits direct upon earn ings, for she is adlding enormously to her own wealth while increas ing the wvealth of her people. It is thus that Railroads increase con sumption and stimulate produc tion. Place a man out on the frontiers of Arkansas-where his corn is only raised for home consumption, or if upon th3 prairie-mayhap it is used for fuel. Look in upon his unchincked and stick-ehimneyed log cabin. You find that with his long rifle and fishing rod, ho has adopted half the habits and nearly all the civilization of the Modoc Indian:. His children are shock headed and shoeless, and if clad at allit is in homespun, the product of an energetic mother. I speak now with no disrespect to the homespun, for I rather like it but I am going to illustrate its ef fect upon commerce or trade. Such a family has absolutely no wants beyond a few pounds of sugar and coffee bought from a store mnayhap 30) miles away. A few years pass, and along comes the Engineer with his iron rails and his Locomotive. Let our Arkansas traveler visit, after a fe years residence near our- Rail road, this sem i-barbarian Modoc you will find him dwvelling in a new home, surrounded by a clean and tidy group of children, all smartly dressed. HIe now receives a handsome profit upon his own and his son's labor, and suddenly his wants ex pand with his new ideas and his new neighbors, and he finds now that tho wants of' himself have multiplied a hundred fold. it is thus that tho same engine which takes from his very (leer, almost his products-his corn, his bacon and his cotton-returns to him and his hosehold a hundred articles which ho never cared for before, from his absolute inability to purchase; while his sons and his daughters are sent to the neighboring village, and receive that mental training in schools which shall make them useful members of society. It is thus the transforming in fluence of Railroads works out the grecat problem of sociology in the amelioration of our race. I said a short while ago that no State can now afford to be .vithout Railtoads. 1 might have added that the time must soon r.ome when no County, ,ue whole length and breadth ofour entire land, can alrord to be w-thout Railroad C'nlnection. on talk about encouraging Cigration to your fair and pro dIctive fields. Without the bene fiof cheap transportation to mar k<t, and all the energizing moans tle powerful nginu of Riai Iroads gi;es to business--for all p)racti Ca results you might as well sur roind yourselves by a Chinese w2ll, lock up the gate and lose the key, and then wonder why pIople of the outer and barbarian w-ld did not come in to admire ycur pigtails, and learn wisdom in pditical science, and stuly socio logical problems of your new Con ifucius. I tell you, gentlemen. the time hIs come when yon must act. Old Lansews must wake from her kthargy, else she will be left be hind-yea, very far behind her nighbors in the march of prog ress. The times won't wait any Iong'er for the wagon. schylis has given us. in his Promethus Bound, a most won 4-rful picture of eudiirance. Ile, ah immortal god, is moved to pity by the helpless condition of the erth-born inhabitant of this plan el, whom he sees groping r0-ut in dirkness. His compassion ally leads hun to steal the' fire iroim1 Heaven. which he conceals in the hillow of a reed until lie could be stow it Ul)On1 mi1ortalS. WVith the pOs session of this Heaven-born gift the inhabitants of earth soon acquire all art and all knowledge. ijut for this clandestine act, Jupiter (the cruel father of the gods,) sends Mercury and Vulcan to bind Pomethus in adamantine bcnds. Pinned to the lofty crags of Al t. Caucasts, upright, sleepless ar.d never bending the knees, he must keep his eontinnal vigils. a neighbor to the stars, for ten thousand years. Yet amid his suffering, this en during martyr pours lorth an apostrophe to the. elements the imost sublime that exists in any lan guage-"O, divine air and ye swift. pinioned winds! Ye fountains of rivers and smiles innumerous of ocean wavf-! I call upon the all zeing orb of tho sun ! Behold me! What 1, a god, am suffering at the hands of the rods " In view of its wide-searching and wonderful results may not this language of Genius become that of Prophecy, and may not this Heaven-borin gift of fire tipify the locomotive Engine? Have a care, gentlemen, lest your descendants have reason to apostrophize the elements, with equal profundity if' not equal sublimity, because you, their progenitors, had not secured to to them their share in this price less patrimony of the Heaven-born gift to mortals-that by your apathy and your parsimony you had banished from your borders this Promethean fire. From the Central City (Colorado) Coach. A TERRIBLE BOAT RIDE. shOO0TING RAPIDs--ONE IfUNDRIED AND FORTY MILES5 IN TWO IIoU'Rs. Clear creek is a miuiatura river that rutns thrloughl the canon of' the same name. It dlescends upon a down grade of four hundred feet per- mile, with her-e and there a fall over a rocky pr-eipice fifteen or twenty feet in height. Large boulders, forty and fifty feet in diameter, and weighing thousands oftons impede its dashing progress every two or three hundred yards, while its curves are so sharp and so frequent that tihe strieam can nowher-e be seen for a distance of a thousand feet. Gi-anite cliffs, two or three miles high, project over it on either side, and giv e a frightful, romantic and dangerous appea ance to the rushing torrent be neath. Just below Black hawk, on the side of tihe str-eam,a small reservoir has been conlstructed in which is kcpt an ordinatry skiff. Last Sunday tw~o little sons of Mar-tin F. Walk er, aged r-espectively ten and twelve year-s, got into the boat, and were splashing the water with a stick, when the fastenings gave way and tIhe boat went drifting towards tihe rapidly runnning cur recnt. The little boys soon dis covet-ed their danger, but wvere powerless to avert it; so they clutched hold of the side of the boat, and with pallid countenances awaited thleir- doom. Soon tile boat was caught by the current and began descending at a fear-ful rate. Over Black Hawk rapids they went like an ar-rrow, clearing a distance of sixty feet at a single~ dash. Lighiting again on the to r-ent surfit-e, the boat seemed to have gained a new impetus, and shot by the boulders and around the rocky points with the celerity of a sun beam. At a distance of about six miles below the starting point, Conduc tor Gibbone, who was standing on the rear piatform of the down C.I C. train, saw the boat coming and immediately stopped the tr-ai n. All han repaired to the water's edge, and did everthing in thei: power to arrest the flying boat but past them sIe went iIea bu lIe from a riflle, and was out of sight in a moment. The condnetoi then ordered the engineer to pa on a full licad of steam and follow as rapidly as possible, which h< did, constantly sounding the alarn of danger. lie did not get an other glimpse of the boat, but th< alarm brought the employees al Beaver Creek Station to the look out, and quickly makiug a slil noose they sought to throw it ov or the bow of the boat as she cam< under the bridge. This they sue ceeded in doing. but could no mor< hold it than they could have hek a thunderjolt. and over Beavei Creelk flls she went with th speed of' i ilitning. The fills ar< abont thirty feet high-, and at thc 1oot are a number of largie bould QrS, but the veloeity of the boal was such that it cleared ther! easily, anti struck the water soic twenty feet beyond. From here no one saw the boat. or its living freight,until it reached a point one hundred miles beloN Denver. Through Golden intc the latte river, and under tht Denver bridges she went, unno. ticed. nor slackened her pace un until sh lodged in a drift at the distance below Denver above men. tioned. The Platte does not run very rapidly, but the boat had ae quired such a wonderful speed in its descent from the mountains tlhLt it far outrode the cArrent. A Mr. Walsh, who lives ou a fitrm near the drift where the boat lodged, discovered the boys still in the boat, which was near IV full of water, and took them tc his home. Thev were restored to their overjoyed parents the ful lowing evening, after having ae complished the most perilous jour ney in the quickest time ever be fore made by any human being who escaped alive. The distance traveled was one hundred and forty miles in two hours, but how it was ever done, or how tile boat escaped being dashed tc pieces upon some of the hug boulders or rocky cliffs whic every where intercept the course of Clear erook, ig nothing short of a providential miracle. Probably not agaiu in a thousand years could the journey be made with the best appliances and by the most skillful mariners. CURIOUS ANTIPATHIES. It seem. certain that, in somne cases, the islike to particular ob jects, and even sounds, which we are wont to ascribe to affectation, are very genuine and deep.seated. A certain clergyman, we are so berly informed, always fainted when he heard a particular verse in Jeremiah read; and another case was even still, more unfortunate, being that of an oflicer who could not stand the beating of a drum and1 eventually died of it; one man would fa!l down at the smell of mutton, as though deprived of life: another could not eat a singlc straw berry, an d anothers' head be eame frightfully swollen if he touched the smallest particale of hare. ,Orfila speaks of a painter, named Vincent who was seized with vertigo whenever there were roses in the room. Hippocrates istances one 1icanor who swoon cd whenever he heard the flute. Boyle himself,in spite of his philo sop)hy, fell into syncope whenever he heard the splashing of water. The D)uke d'Epernay swooned at seeingr a leveret, though a bare took no effect upon him, which is as much as to say that he was Fightened at a pony, but not at* a horse. Tycho Brahe fainted at the sight of a fox, Henry III. at a eat, and Marshal d'Albret at a pig. (Chambers' Journal. We read of what promises to be the biggest book in the world. It is now in process of manufacture in Paris, and will contain the names of all inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine who have formally proclairmed their wish to remain French subjects. The list is said to comprise 380,000. One hundred and twenty-five compositors have been employed on the work dur ing the last three months, it is printing on seven presses, and the volume will meclude 13,163 pp. A valuable work, no doubt, but not one which we would wish to read through at a sitting. The Portland (Maine) Argrus dis eussing the farmers' organization, says: "That movement, which is sweeping through Western States as never did before. will ere long reach New England and Maine. The samte causes exist here, and the same ucces sity will impel to action. A people' movement will come, and it will be ir An innocent vouun mnan in Des Moines was asked by the Rev. 31r. Hammond. the revivalist, if lie was laboring for the good of his soul. "No." was the reply; "I work foi Billy Moore'' r LOVE BY WIRE. t 0)M.\NTI(' MAuRTA;E Or T:Fr. 4;1AIl OPERCATOus4. t Tho report of Mr. Seudanore I, the Director of Postal Teleg-raph 2 in reat Britain, cotins a rt of tie moSt, Urigilal desc'rp - tions. .\ter saying how sues i(l he has f,iold 1the system of n liying m:a!e and fem.ales clerk t ether, ani 1ow m1uch the tone of > lk l,aS hee r'aised_l by the asso. - chtarti.tand how w".ll the women perTor1 the 0ccking or fault - tiinding branches of the wor'A, he I e,s On to Speak Of fIenIdAips I furnied between eerks at Cititer uend of a telegraph wir. They be in by ebatting at intervals of their work. and very soon b)eome fast friend. 'It is a fact.' continues -. 1ldtulnore. 1that a telegraph ulork in, London. vho was eng..-ared on a wire to Berlin, frned an ae quaintance with, and an attach ment for,-mark the officials style of the lanru.jae-"a feminale clerk who worked on the same wire In C Berlin: that lie made a proposal of > marriage to her, and that she ac cepted him without having ever seen him. They were married. and t[c marriage. which resulted C f frmthle electric 'Iflities. is Sup. posed Lo have turned out as well F as those in which the senses are f MO re apparentlV concerned." Nor s must the prudent reader run away 0 with idea that these young per- " sons were very rash, or that they married without due acquaintance. C For it is a fact that a clerk at one end of a wire can readily tell by t thle way in which the clerk at the ' other end does his work "whether I he is passionate or sulky, cheer- t itl or dul1l, sanguine or phllegina tie, ill-iatured or good-natured. SThe W JoArnal of the 'IClegraph. A THRILLIN( ADVENTURE.-The h following is from a California pa- ; per: Millie Coyan. aged about ten t years, and daughter of George M1. Coyan, general manager of all the " mines in and about Lost Camp. a was assisting Some Of her younger sisters over the sluice boxes. in t the mine known as Wood's Ra - vine, when she missed her footing and tell into the boxes, through t which was running at the time about five hundred inches of wa- h ter. She was swept for a distance n of sixteen hundred feet through n the sluices as though she had been 1 a feather. It appears that she s, passed through the boxes in a sitting position, and during her Y terrible race tried repeatedly to d rescue herselfffrom what in nine- t ty nine cases out of one hundred t] would have proved fatal to she strongest man. Even while going s at the rate of a railroad train the 1v exhibited presence of mind enough " to let her head fatll back in the a water, to escape a piece of wood o that is nailed over the boxes.-and k against which, but for thte precau tion taken, her brains would cer tainly have been dashed out. After beingc ari-ied a distance of 900 feet,. she was washed over a "dump" 12 feet high, falling into anothe-r: sluice-box,.700 feet long. Passing P .through the latter, she was swept C' over another "dump," 20 feet high, a flling among rough jagged rocks. ri IIere she managed to crawl out as few feet from under the heavy tI body of fliewater, and was Shortly after rescued by Mr. Bart lett. foreman of the mine. It was U founid that she sustained severe in. juries on the left knee, hip and side. at [Ier face was also scratched and d swelled, but fortunately neither h will permanently disfigure her. f SrNou: BEDs.-T he large double at bed, which has held its own for of centuries, is fatst faliling into dis Cl favor, to be superseded by the g single bed. The fatct is pretty bt Iwell established that wherever two persons sleep together, one h abstracts from the other some l amount of vital force. T1his ist especially the ease where old and ai young persons share the same tI bed. Besides, in a room where " there is nto decided currettt of air. e the emanations from the lungri ( atmosphere for a considerable dis tance. In tile public wards of in great hospitals, never less than t two and a half feet is allowed be tween each bed for this reason. a In the sleeping apartments ofa royalty and nobility single beds are everywhere the rule, and no ei exception. The Emperor of Ger- it many sleeps upon a narrow bed 01 anti hardl mattress. The singcle bed h covering is a wadded silk quilt. TIhe Fmperor and Empress of Austria take their royal slumbers t. on similar beds, with the same w description of coverlet. One of t< the principal advantages of these narrow beds is that the mattresses are easily aired, and that, in the et opinion of all house-wives, mus be a very important consider.ation:. d .The Chtica.ro itant who stepped be- n hind a pair of muule that lhe initended t to purchase. vsked with mtuch feeline. when he wats picked out of the trutter ADVERTISINC RATES. iverr:zcmcments in-erted at thc rate ot z- .0 sqnare--one inch-for irst insertion. Anl .. lor cav h inerti:l > 4)1111111 a1ierti--m cit- ten ner cent on above. No:lees of mceting, obituaries and tributes re lcs. 1 t, an L:,S ir ,quare s ordinaily n4 L le ti e t. Speci"! n.:e in jocal co"lumn 20 cents er Ine. AdvertisementS not marked wii tih num )r of insertions W;ill be kept in till furbid id charged accordingIy. Specigl contracts made with large adver sers, w:tli beral deductious on above rates jma FgII-x Done with Neatness and Dispatch. rms Ca,h. WHAT NEXT? A New York correspondent who as h:-d the pleasure of seeing the ;ten nyleof French made dresses, elahIns. '"o W:ikts. no corsetz.po oves '" le describes the fashion s iollows: Tim i.to Fr.-n.ade dresses are mi r; ile are tmer drapings with he~ 1 :hrtuly lh>wi ncks. absuence of all leveS. -:rap roir.:- over the naked lIuller. jiin the dress at the 1;..li11 thle h,ack ::n,1 thle pit of the 1:1(-h T ' kirI i, stranly and dftul hu1. Tt cnp and fldd; it c;iln.-!ht iigh It the hip. or in the ai.d is shiaped ii(htly ab(oit the nItIrk fi-ure. FrAlm benelath thi,; drap ry t: mu aI o~,,-yard41 trtin. Out orl estu:a :.re made. a5 ihr as flith aIperis ent4-(e.1 In th" 5:tme stale. hee fa.hii1 diemaa::l revolving "pe eta:mdn. w-hat daners turn the SlIowm e:ent."' N,5 dress of this nd coulil be taken on its owner s ack in a hurry anywhere. Of course orsets, and a zood many other articls f underwear hitherto decimvd indispen ible, will have to be taken off for the Empire" waist. At a very swell -edding_, reetption late!y the high-ton d lle5 held thir :ms like trused )w!s. to prevent the silk and lace su.s en1dors that did duty as dress-waist!, ,(Aml falling off their shoulders. The 1l1ie bridal party were, to the number f a dozen. photographed. and if I ,er- to send a copy up to Connecticut 'd not only be prayed for in the hurches ,s ini lor. but I'd be liable indictlint for sending indecent ictures by manil. No gloCs: That's readful for nice looks. No corsets: 'ht's hud for comfort; and no waists > our dresso., and that's Loina to be ol for ifumme. if it pOssesses no ther decided advantaae. ONLY FIT Pol TiE LA.-An old dy walked into a lawyer's office late when the followinz conversation yok place: Lady-Squire, I called to see if you ould like to take this boy and make lawyer of him. Lawyer--The boy appears to be ra ier young madamn; how (lid is lhe? Lady-Seven years, sir. Lawyer-iIe is too youn-., decidedly >o young ; have you no older boys ? Lady-O h :y.Ihave several, utw aeconcluded to make far.. ters of the others. I told the old ian I thought this little fellow would iake a first rate lawyer, so I called to se if you would take him. Lawyer-No madami; he is too >ung~ vet to commence the study of me profesion. But why do you think iis boy better calculated for a lawyer Ian your other sons. Lady-Why, you see. .sr. lie is just enya old to-day. When he as only five, he'd lie like all natur'; hen he gut to belihe was saussy id impudent as :mty critter could be, id nw he'll steal everythingi he can y hands oni. THE PATRONs OF HUSBANDRY. t last we hear something defi-. te of the plan and purpo~ses of' 10 mysterious buOrder of Husband r" that has so suddenly become a wer in the West. It is a secret, >-opcrative, industrial, beneficial, ad literary institution, with va ous rites borrowed from the secret >cieties. Apparently it has no ling do with politics. Men and omen arc alike admitted. but ue latter are limited to the fourth 3gree. The members of tihe first igree are designated respectively Laborer and Maid ; in the second gree as Cultivator and Shep ~rdess; in the third degree ns arvester and Gleaner, and in the urthi degree as Htusbandman Id Matron. The memlership the organization at this time i timated at 450.000, and if it does into polities, it will certain!y a powerful influence. The farmers of Illinois are going to ve a Fourth of .July of their own is year. They have decided to set art the day for a free discussion iof e evils which oppress them-road ~. in the place of Mr. Jefferson's do ment, a new Declaration (of Inde ndcee which their executive comn ittee has just issued. An Omaha paper, without intend g to bje personal. insinuates that if e Omaha postmaster would resign, nany persons would feel less anxious lout their monev letters." The number of ordinary letters cir dlated in Germany was20.0.0 1870. and it increased to 240.000. )fi in 181 he rate per cent, increase oving actually augmented. A German veteraon waIs recently bit n by a mad dog in his artificial le, ith the sole effect of beiner enale)l.d walk more rapidly than before. The ordinances of Pe t are print I. in the formi of posters. :m d pasted p in public places as a terror to evil >ers. Do not feed rusty Straw to ani Lals. It is not healtby-inl fact > some ext ent poisonous. Man respires, aspires, conspires nd expires