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DEVNYOTED TO POLITIQ, MORLALITY, EOATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTERUST OF TEE UOUNTEY. By Do Fe BRADLEY & CO. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 188I. VOL. X. NO Al NEWS GLEANINGS. North Carolina has 96 counties. The school fund of Kentucky is $1, 600,000. Key West, Fla., shipped 900,000 cigars last week. Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla., at $8 per bushel. Pensacola, Florida, is to have a new hotel, cost $100,000. Wilmington, North Carolina, has a population of 17,506. North Carolina has a commission er o immigration in England. New Orleans is to have a school for A the training of women nurses. North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges at work with a membership of 8,199. ISix hundred thousand oranges will be shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this fall. Monticello, Fla., has shipped this sea son 503 barrels and 29 crates of Irish potatoes. A green turtle, weighing over 400 JWPun(s, has been captured off the Flor ida coast. One hundred children work in the Maysville, Ky., cotton mills for 75 cents to -$1.25 a week each. The Association of Atlanta Preachers have signed a respectful protest against the issuing of Sunday papers. Mr. Matthew Berry, near Ramer, Montgomery county, Ala., is sending to the high school his eight children. Nine spongers came into Key West, Fla., last week, after a nine weeks cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511. The Adventists of Granbury, Texas, have erected a large tabernacle for the purpose of expounding their doctrines. Six thousand cans of oysters were re cently sent. North in one shipment by the canning establishment at Newbern, North Carolina. One hundred and two thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five poundsof straw berries have been shipped from Chatta --nooga this season. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution says Savannah is the modern Sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms, or one to every twelve adults. Such a severe storm prevailed in Lee and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in one place, for nearly a mile, you could walk on the trees that had been blown In Harris county, Ga., dinner-horns are said to have gone out of fashion. Provisions are so scarce that when a horn sounds all the neighborhood re spond to the call. Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the convicted ship-burnier, says that a num ter of business men, cotton brokers Schiefly, were "interested" with him in his business-the ship-bu rning business. A number of young men from Greene county, Ga., started down the river in a canoe about six months ago to try the novel business of trapping beavers. The voyage was very dangerous, but success 11u1, and each man's skins netted him $700. aTwo little boys, Clarence Gross and Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub lin, Ga., and fell on their sides. Willie got up, leaving Clarence on the ground. ,The by-standers noticed that he did not stir, and approaching they found he was dead. Mr. J. W. Slaughter, near Pineville Georgia, was having a well dug on his 4 place, and when about twenty feet deep a Well-preserved oak leaf was found firm Sly imbedded in the chalk. When about fifty feet deep a live snake of the black species was found.. "The Atlantic and Gulf Coals Canal and Okeechobee Land Company" is the dignified title of the organization which *proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever glades. The company will have a cap. ital of $l10,000,000, and will build a canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east and west, and also a canal 800 miles long along the east coast of Florida. Colon ists from Europe are to be settled on the lands. Sugar and Indigo are to be grown on the reclaimed lands. The company held a meeting 'at Philadelphia last week. A oommat of yugmen went out fish in ,and onet- npwere going ast a am huseand' ugy e yelled to the farmer's daughters: "GQirls, have you any butter-milk? " The vMPly was gently wafted back to their ears: "Yes, but we keeit for our own calves," -The boys cal ted that they bad business away...ana the MONOaYLLABLE POEM. Think not that streon6.h lies In the big, round word, Or that the brief and plain uost needs be weak. ro whom can this be true, who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all meni speak, i hen want, or woe, or fear Is at. the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a ahriek Pressed from the sore heart, or strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend? There is a strength Which dies If stretched too far or spun too line, Which has mere height than breadth, more depth and length. Let but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, R hich jows and burns not, though it gleam and Light, but not heat--a flash without a blaze. Nor is It mete strength that the short word boasts It serves of more than fight or storm to tell The roar of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts, The crash of tall trces when the wild winds swell, The roar of guns, the groans of men that die On blood-stained fields. It has a voice as well For them that far-off on their sick beds lie, For them that weep, for them that Mourn the dead, For then that laugh, and dance, and clasp the hand; To joy's quick step, as well as grie:'s low tread. The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep tine, And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand, With each, with all, these may be made to chime, In thought, or spo.ch, or song, or prose, or rhyme. A Ludicrous Elopement. It's hard for a "country jake" to con vey to his Susan Jane the exact situation when first the arrow is lodged in his heart. The attitudes and awkward com binations of personal presentation nre painful to an outsider, to say nothing of what hc suffers. See him cross his legs, first one on top and then the other, and then see him shoot them out in front, and run his hands in his pockets; then he draws in his feet, doubles them under the chair, pulls his hands out of his pockets and drops them down by his side, stretches, yawns, blushes, and almost dies trying to say it. Poor fellow, it is martyrdom wle it lasts, and when he does "get his uouth Off," it's like put ting a beggar on horse back; lie just canters off to paradise with a happy-go lucky indifference that is enviable, har ring an obstruction on the track, and then over on his head' he tumbles, when cruel parents intervene and refuse to ratify. A ludicrous case of this sort of agony occurred near the place of my nativity about twenty-five years ago, in which I had my sympathies so roused that I was moved to lend the hero some assistance. His name was Joe, and his girl's, Mar the Jane, to whom he had surrendered his entire heart, stock, lock and barrel without reservation of any kind, which she gushingly reciprocated by adding her entire stock in trade in the partner ship proposed. But the old folks de murred-refused to ratify-threatened a war of extermination-banished Joe, and belied Martha Jane, besides several other threatened acts of dire hostility. In fact Joe and Martha Jane had the biggest spider put in their dumpling ever known since Adam's and Eve's apple scrape. Their hearts all but "busted"-but they didn't. The parties were neighbors-lived in sight of each other-Joe on the ill and Martha Jane in the bottom. When Martha Jane came forth to nourish her young fowls with a preparation of ground oorn and water, she would1 cast her loving eyes upward and rest them on Joe, who would from ab~ove look down affectionately on his Martha Jane, and they would sigh and swallow great hunks of grief as big as app~le dumplings. Joe was so b)adly off that I1 was sorry for him, and when he called upon mec to assist him, I proceeded at once to the prospective mother-in-law (more or less) with my eloquence, "from whom proceeded from whence"--not running, but my time was good. I reported p~ro gress, and begged to be excused. Joe got worse and worse; threatened to conmmit-well, to steal something, and did make divers efforts to steal his girl, but the old folks slept on their arms. Joe was getting terribly bad off; he said he must have her; that I nwnt steal her for him. I tried to prevail on him to bide his time; but, no, have her he must, and I must do the job for him; lie knewv I could (do it if I would, and lhe wanted it done right off. When I found Joe couldn't wait, I con sented to try my hand. I was about Martha's age, and the thought occurred to me that I would dressi in woman's clothes and let Joe steal me, and see if it would "sorter" cool his ardor. I con tided my plan to some of the boys, and they approved it and p~romised their as sistance. We concluded that w' would let; the old man, Martha Jane's father, into the secret, and arrange for him to pursue us with his hounds, of which he had about a dozen, when we made the attempt. The old man entered into the affair eagerly, for lie despised Joe. After we had fixed all the p~reliminaries of time, place and manner of proceeding, we adjourned to meet the next Sunday night and have the chase. We met ac cording to adjournment at the time agreed, and a woman hitched me up in some of her gear, with a parcel of things tied round my waist--I don't know what they all were, but I know the outside was calico, and it was in two pieces; one was the tail, which was tied on first, and the other was a sort of jacket with sleeves to it, of some dark sort of stuff. These, with a white sun-bonnet, and a blue veil, and some cotton stuffed in judiciously to give me a shing make-up, having been provided as despensable to my toilette, I1 was ready and willing to be Joe's--for a time. When we arrived near Martha Jane's house, the old man was waiting for uR. We arranged that after we had got about a quarter of ? mile off one of our party, (who remained behinA for the purpose) should notify JToe that we had Martha Jane, and when Joe came tearing by the house, the old man 'was to give hun a salute from his old double-.brelled shot gun. Very soon here came Joe full tilt down the bill towards the creek. Bang went the vemnerable shot-gun, and away Went Joe, and soon came the old man on his sway-back horse, with his hounds atid sIot-gun, and tcoipanied by his S0l). Mitelellville Was the objective point of the expedition, and it was about five niles off. The boys got Joe's arms from hini to protect his girl, and prevailed on imi to rush ahead, pay the toll-gate fees, proceed onl to Mitchellville and have the license reidy, so as to have no delay. Accordingly, Joe went off at a lope, paid the toll for us, and gave strict orders not to let Martha Jones' father through; but when the old man came to the gate ho just julmtped his old sway-back over it, and on he came, his hounds in full cry. The way he "got up and got" along that pike was a scene not to be forgotten. The fuss he made aroused everybody en route. Our crowd consisted of five, besides Joe, and we arrived at Mitchellville about 10 p. m. Joe was there, and as soon as I had dismounted, he was at my side and led me up to the door and rattled it so that the startled Justice opened it at once, blIt, upon seeing, as he supposed, a female, closed it to arrange his toilet. Meantime, the old man and his hounds could be heard nearing rapidly. I whis pered to Joe I wanted to retire around the corner of the house to arrange my dress, and he said, excitedly, " Be in a hurry, the old man will soon be here." I did make hasto, for no sooner had I got around the ccrner than I darted through a gate, ran down the sido of a fence crept throngh an opening into a back. yard, and hid behind an ash-hopper. When the Justice had got clothes on hle opened the door to tell us to conc in' but, of course, I wasn't there, and Joe was running frantically round the housc looking for his girl, while the old man and his d(ogs wvere coming nearer every ninute. The Justice came out and Joo yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came not. Tlen the Justice called out: " Don'" 1)e iihrmed, inadnm, come in; you shan't be hurt," and essayed to assist Joe te find her. By this time the old man, his son and the hounds had charged into town and were almost at the door. According tc previous itarangenent a sham row at once began between our boys and the pursu ers, and so well was the thing done that the citizens (for every man, woman and child ill the village was up) pitched in to prevent what they thought would be a sanguinary affray. The burly Justice, seeing the turn af fairs seemed to be taking, and excited beyond measure, mounted the horse block and commanded the peace so vo ciferously as almost to be heard in the adjoining counties of this State and Kentucky. This restored quiet, our boys professing to be law-abiding citi zens. The old man also simmered down though he insisted that he had the right to be a little out of humor at the boys ror robbing him of his gal, and kept lin. ering round and "'cussin' " a little on hie outside. After the row had been squelched, the women of the village organized a searchi for the lost maiden, with a view af shielding her from the wrath of the irate 01(1 man. It was not long before I was discov ared by one of them, and she, with mother, made a dash at me. I scuttled >ff as fast as I could, but I hung my i)oot in my lawn calico andl madIe a per reet "shuekin" of it in my haste. It tore aearly off at thle waist andi split in two, hnd by the time 1 got to tile next fence I had a trail two yards long. I had great trouble in climbing that fence (I can't see how a woman can clmb1 a fence, no way); in fact, I half elimbed and half rolled over, herrst tihe strings round my waist, ran out of all the balance of my lower female harness, threw my bonnet black on my head, raised the yell, and almost ran over some more women who were looking for me, and I heard one of them say,) as I p)assed--"Lordy, Kate, what w'as that?" I didn't stop to ex plain, but made good my escape. Joe was not to be thus outdone. He p~erseveredl, and in a short time succeeded in getting away with tihe right Martha Jane, and the two were made one. But Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after wards, for the reason, I suppose, that I came so nigh b~eating her out of a hs band. It was the nearest I ever came to being marriedl, and( thlough ,Joc-doubtless in stigated by his wife-gave me a terrible thrashing some eighteen months after the escaplade, I never recall it without a hearty 1augh1. The Postal Card Fiend. '"Thero is a new kind1( of fiend in exis once," said a post-oflice detective recent 1,y to your corre3pon dent; "the Postal carod fiend, wvho came mnto existenco with that species of epistolary effusion. The nuisance is a much greater one than you can imagine. No one who is not con nected with the service can imagine the nulmber of scurrilous cards sent out. Ladies come to us-some of them be longing to the first families in our city whlo are almost heartbroken over the open missives they have receiveod. They do not want to expose thle matter- -often it is tile result of some family feud--and so all we can do is to stop the cards here, while the vihhin is allowed to go free." I have heard of a case lately where a young wife was assailed in reputation hy a former lover-rjectedl, of course-who kept just within the boundary of the law. Tihe insinuating language was sufficiently veiled to keep the young husband un easy, while it ate dee p into the young bride's heart. It will k il iher, as she is dlying slowly of the inward wound. 0f course ten years in prison would be light punishment for such a fiend, but these people always calculate upon an unwill. ingness to prosecute on account of fearE (If puliicity.-V, Y, C'or, Philadelphio Recor<L SOUTHERN TOWNS. The Maeshroosa Places Developed 11160 the War-Iron Mlnra'eacres. IGath's soithern Itter.' The average Southern town which has grown up since the war, surrounding a railroad station, consista of two to lIVe drinking saloon, a few stores and a series of cabins or shanties of planks or logs, set hither and thither, without much reference to a town in the future. Through a long range of country there are no fences on the side of the railroad track. The trains are kept constantly whistling to avoid running over cattle or iules. This is the case within sight of Montgomery, Ala., where there are some 16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one finds a steam saw-mill put up since the war in the midst of the wood, sawing out lumber. The rivers are full, almost to the level of the landscape, in high water, and they are principally efficient as to flooding the surrounding bottoms and creating new soil for agriculture. Alto gether the most hopeful country in the South, for various occupations, is Plong the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, where I saw a number of iron furnaces, and in two or three cases cotton mills, built by Northern calital in a perfect manner. One of the furnaces which gives the name to the railroad station was ealled "Stonewall," after Stonewall Jackson. The next was called "Teenmseh," after Oen. William Te cuiseli Sherman, and is operated by ex Senator Warner, of Alabama, who was on Oren. Sherman's staff. Warner got into the train at his station and talked to me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me: "There are just four towns in the South which are picking up rapidly-4lhat tanooga, Rone, Atlanta and hiring ham, Ala. My biother-in-law, Justice Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter ested with me in the Tecumseh furnace. We worked along for some years (uring hard times without muu'ch returns, but we are now making money, and so are the furnaces generally in this section, of which there are a dozen or more. All of them are charcoal furnaces, and two of these are said to be the largest charcoal furnaces3 in the world. We have orders for iron a long way ahead. The ad vantia ges of aiqking iron here are cheap ness cf materials and of labor." He said tlt they paid about one dol lar a day for ibor, and paid about forty or fifty cents for cut wood per cord. I also understood him to say that the ma terial entering into a ton of ir)procured on his land cost only about sixty-five cents. I presume lie meant without la bor. This was disputed by Mr. Folger, who thought Warner ust have had said six dollars and a half, but I am pretty sure lie said sixty-five cents. Warner said that the present Governor of Ala bana was a pretty fair man, and that, while the State was not impropiug much, industry would soon start up. A bank had just burst at Rome, Ga., and Sena ter Warner was just going ul to see what had become of $8,000 of his furnace nmoiney dleposited~ there. Throughout the South there is a rising opposition to any more tae h~auks, and a general op p~osition to my further noise about what is called "States' right." I have shown -you in another communication how the -exaspecration against ''States' rights," so called, hass broken out among tihe most dlogmatic soldiers of the reb~ellion1, w1ho0 wvant a bet ter living for their families and less p~olitical theory. She Was a-Washing. They had an assault and battery case Ion trial in Justice alley, says M. Quad, andl one of the witnesses for the plaintiff was a colored woman. After the usual quiestions had been asked she was told to tell the jury what she knewv about the case. She settled back and began: " Well, I was a-washin' out my clothes when" "Never mind1 the washing," said the Ilawyer. " But it was Monday." "Can't help that." "But I always wash on Mondays." "Never mind that. Tell the jury what you knlow ablout this aiffair." "Well, [ was a-sudin' an' a-sudin' my el >theCs when I seed --' " Can't you let that washing alone ? We all kno1w thiat yon were washing.'' " Yes, sah. I h'ad fo'ten shirts, free tablecloths, twenty-four collahs andl twelve towels in the wash an' I was a rinisin' an' a-rinsin' when A0e ole man he "Say, Mary, won't you tell the jury what you saw? " " Yes, sahi; I was a-wringin' an' a wringin', an' I had my sleeves rolled up " Mary, I wish you'd hang that wash ing up to dry." " Yes, sahi. D)e next fing arteir wring in out do clothes is to hang 'em out, an' I was a harAgin' when -' "I guess you can be excused," said the lawyer. "Shioo, now ! Jist hold on till I git dat wash in' in afi' part of de shirts ironed an' I'll tell you jist how dat fight began an' de name of de party who was kniocked ober de ash-heap an' frew do aley fence ! Doan' git a poo' woman way off down yere an den refuse to let her airn her witness fees." Opium Smoking. San Francisco is not of the opinion that the article in the new Chinese treaty prohibiting citizens of either country from importing opium here, and vessels fiying thme flag of either nation from carrying it, will destroy the trovle in this article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific coast, is not confined to the ChIinese, for American youths have acquaed the habit. Says one of the importers: "The |Chinese will get it, if it is on the top of Ithe earth." Begging In New York. A New York oorrespondent of the Boo. ton Transcript writes: Among other kinds of business which are flourishing in New York just now is that of begging. The mendicant is seen everywhere. Chancellor Crosby, in an address the other evening said that after a month's experience in personally investigating cases in which he had been applied to for help, he had found all beggars to be frauds. He believed, too, that all the beggars he had known for thirty years past had been foreigners, or the cl dren of foreigners. This is a sweeping as sertion but it is pretty near the truth. Begging is made a regular occupation to a much greater extent than is generally known. Yet there are cases that appeal so strongly to your sympathy that you can hardly pass them by. I found one the other evening. I had crossed the ferry to Brooklyn about dark, when a little girl asked me for a penny to buy bread or her sick mother. She was bare-footed and shivering in her thin clothes, and seemed to be a deserving object of char ity. But I thought I would investigate a little. So I insisted on her taking me to see her sick mother. Very reluctantly she led me to a comfortably furnished apartment in a neighboring street, where I found the sick mother to be a robust Irish woman who was bustling about preparing supper for the family. There were ornaments on the mantel and pictures on the wall, and an ample supply of cold meat, bread, and tea on the table. I used some vigorous lan guage appropriate to the occasion, when the womau said she had sent the child to beg in the streets, but her reply was characteristic of the class to which she belonged: "Shure, and what harm is there in the child's earning a few pennies at the ferry ?" Plans of Polygamy. Some idea of the avowed designs of the Mormon Government may be formed from the following public statements' by their Bishop, Lunt: "Our Church has been organized only fifty years, and yet behold its wealth and power! This is our year of jubilee. We look forward with perfect confidence to the day when we will hold the reins of the United tat.s Government. That is our present temporal aim; after that we expect to control this continent. We do not care for the territorial officials sent out to govern us. They are nobodies here. We do not recognize them. Nor do we fear any practical interference by Congress. To-day we hold the balance of political power in Idaho: we rule in Utah absolutely; and in a very short time we will hold the balance of power in Arizona and Wyoi ing. A few months ago Presi(lent Snow, of St. George, set out with a band of priests for an extensive tour through Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon tana, Idaho and Arizona to preselyte. We also expect to send missionaries to some parts of Nev'ada, and wve design to lalnt colonies in Washington T1eri tory. In the p)ast six months we have sent more thian 3,000) of our people down through the Sevier Valley to settle in Arizona, and the movement still pro gresses. All this will help to build up for us a political power th at the denma gogues will 1be forced to recognizle. Our vote is solid, andl Will always ri~nill so. It will be0 thrown where the most good wd'il be accomplished for the Church. 'Then, in some great p~olitical crisis, the two great political p~arties will bid our supp)ort. U tah will then b~e admitted as a polygamous State, andl the other Terri tories we have pe(aceflly subj1ugated1 will be admitted also. We will then hold the balance of power, and will dic tate. In time our prmncip~les, which are of sacred origin, will spread throughout the Unitedl States. We wvill possess tike ability to turn the p~olitical scale in any oarticular community we (desire. Our *)eople are obedient. You can imagine Lhe results which wisdom may bring about with the assistance of a church organization like ours. It is the comn pletest onie the worldl has ever seen." Decline of the Italian Race, One of the reasons for the deformed, rickety, dirty, wretched, thievish inhab) itants of Italy is the total absence of proper sanitary arrangements in Italian towns and villages, from the palace to the hovel and room tenement. Italy the land of sunshine, art and song-is a landI of filth ard vermin. There arc marble palaces, art galleries and blue skies, but neither se wers, dlrains nor ade quate scavenging. Hence strangers who are tempted to visit the world-renowned cities pay a fearful penialty in risks from fever and certainty of mosquitc stings, as also of punishment from other do mestic torments. There is not one Italian city properly sewered, drained and scavenged. The best hotels use cesspools, out of which pass foul gases and putrid fluids to contaminste both air and water. Ironcladls with 100-ton guns, Royal Cuirassiers, IRoyal Carabinieri, customs officers, excisemen, police, municipal guards and Jesuits will avail Itidy noth mng in removing the fearful causes of disease and human distortion. When will statesmen learn that the greatness and strength of a nation are not alone in magnificent cities, ~palaces, ironclads an d standing armies, hut in the health, comfort and content of the people ? The further lesson also requires to be learned, namely, that, where the mass of the peo ple are allowed to grovel in filth and misery, there can be no true security for property. A whiff of grape-shot wl not cure such disease. H: whio can plant oourage in a human soul is the boot nh~hninian - INTERESTING PARAGRAPH%. Youvo men may be too fresli, but eggs -never. WE have no objection to a man's bor rowing trouble; but. we want him to keep it to limself after he has borrowed it. Buffulo ('<orier*. "Wonstv are either thinking about nothing or ele tlihikiig amut sometlinig else." This pafsses for wAisdom because it was Maid by Duimas. SINCE. 18(66 ninivi thousand divorces have been granted in Italy, Milan being Met down for no less than three thousand. Since 1870 Rome has 'had six hundred. AN exchange remarks that gout, which is becoiling cquite fashionable, will never affect the editorial professioni, as cracker and beer lunches never produce so high toned a disease. WHEN iPliiladelphians see a man with a black eye, bloody nose, and geiierally larrupped appearance, they point to him and whisper: " He's a statesman." B1oston Post A cuuncu never splits on account of its numerical strength. It is only whieni two deacons can't decide which one is to boss the sexton that need is found for aiiot her building and minister.-Deroit Free Press. Accomuni to Professor Sviiig, ''the (comniig man will be teiperate, chaste, merciful, just, generous, cltritable' large hearted, sweet-tempered, Christia i, a good neighbor and faithful citizei,'" What a nice time the coming woman will have. A WRITEr in the London T/iptth says that, the "fifteen puzzle" was worked o'ut ml MUton's "lReerentionls inl Malthematlii cal Science" more than fifty years m, The Hlindoos, Chinese, n'nd Egyt ian i s were familiar with the puzzle, the squnare of sixteen beiig coiscerated t4) Jupiter. A MAN is either a fool or a physiciiiii at forty, and wheii he is the latter there is no physician- in this country at le:a1t --who can teneh himni anything. li( knows sornebody's domestic medicine by heart, and imagines he is sti'fering froiii every disease known to the books. In a medical point of view it is occasionally not a bad thing to be a fool. WHEN a Chinaman dies on the home ward passage from San Francineo t. China, his rer. '- " """ - I--- . companions, 1 G I With (''uiij .1i( Greiiville to and method. A g , ;G nd 1 < n ri aiGrnieoa an artery open I -it 1 h ld (l i ville to and of arsenical s t 1n a n1 an Gvi ve'ins by mean u d t'' Gn es1 kn eire arelry 'iete ai p Wih l-'1.t nurg niiul A sheville, and artery is te sot: uii itmn an C (otinnbia to and THlaced in a o): llowi 1 -n and Asheville, and Alston lished, giving, I 1 wu h C es ernii Lenior Narrow Guage her and natioii I Il i hiil 1ia lhll ' ,11,1 Clh sle engaged on the Uhfil'sh Ne miz ''late - --- a lijpleasantiless:" Per cent. Nativo Americans.........1,523,300 75.4:1 (I e'nai . .................. .)',50(0 8. 7; Irish ....... ............. 144 2(10 7. 14 Jlritishi Ameri~icani...........5:3,500 2.-10' Other foreigneris--.........48,4002.: Engl1ish.... ..............45,5010 2.-1; Foreigners uniknown.......2,500) 1.33 [Total nimiber...... ...2,018,200 A YOUNO Italian painter, Signor Carlo, in Paris, has been astonishiing a select. circle of spectators with some wondlerful perOformanees'I~ in the~ wa of raidi( 0ecen tion. A menmber of tihe company chooses a subject, and without a m<> ment's reflec'tioni, the painter pr'ceeds to depict it on a large canivas, six feet hv three. In four or five ninuites the pie ture is finished and~ replete with details. Of course, being produced at such1 a rate, the work leaves much to be dlesired(1 but as an instance of lightning speed, combined with a harmonious enscmlie, it is simpilly marvelous. A Pleasing InIh~ciet. There is a lady living in a little four room cottage ini the environs of Bostoni whose nameio is well known to litj'rary p~eople. She depends wholly upon her own) exertionis for the supp)Iort of herself and1( chiildreIn, tand dloes all her own house work, yet her ('ottage is the focus of the 1best Hociety of the locality. A gentle manli enLhniig tlie're recenitly was r(ee-eivad at the dloor by a dlaughter of the lady, who tohld him her mo(thler wasL too busy 'to 1be enlled, but that lhe could see her in the kitchen if lhe pleased; and hie fol lowed her to that room. The lady greetedl him without the least embarrass. ment, though she had on a big apron and her sleeves wvere pinned back to heri shoulders. She was cutting a pumpikini into strip~s for pies; and there sat a yen (ralhe gentleman gravely paring the strip~s to the accompaniment of brilliant conversation. I was asked to guess who the gentleman was, and, after severa fruitless attempts, was told that it wvas the poet Longfellow. While the pump kin-paring was a success, another dis tinguished1 poet called, and he also in sistedl upon being impressed into the tservice. It was a dreary day outside, and no one caredl to leave the pleasant cottage, so they all stayed to lunch, one of the pies forming the /)i('e dIe res~ist onuc of the occasion. Speaking of this incident afterwardl the lady saidl: '' My frienids are kind enough to comfe and see me, though they knowv I cannot leave my work to entertain them. Visiting and work must proceedl together, atnd when I set my callers at wyork wvith me we are sure to have an agreeable time."-ip .A CURIOUS uee was made of the mar.. niage ceremony in Cincoinati thme other day. A young girl having put her in fant to death was, at the suggestion of her lawyer, married to her lover, who, was the only witness against her. The two bei.g married the State was de nried of a nly evdece