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i~* + f{l0 VOL. X V. 0 IICIENS, S. C., rTHULRSDAY, J Li IA' I 86 O 0 ' A "' 1AGNETIC" GIRL I TAIKS. VU HVl's UNI iIONi. OF ('1AV ENIS THAT PUZZILD T4: il'l PRO1': )lll. Ilow a Muneultnr Young Woinnu 1)Mao. crt Lulit lurns's Secret and Ttiarnet it to Ad'n it( age.-Simple Ezplanation o' Appnrenlly . 1nr velous Feat. (From the New York Worid. I ran across a young woman oil the street not long since, a girl whose face 4 had become familiar to many pol)p! some months ago on 0ho stages of pro. vincial theatres, very shortly after Lulh Hurst, "The Georgia Wonder," had created a sensation ia Wallack's. She had gained considerable notoriety, .I remeil bered, as one of many ''magnetic" girls. The fact also intruded itself that, she had been introduced to audiences as a rude, untutored specimen of the backwoods perfectly guileless, with little education, and remarkable only for the fact tha1 Providence (so the truthful uanager pui it) had gifted her with a peculiar ani marvelous force which enabled her t< accomplish most extraordinary tihings never before seen or heard of. As sh tripped along in front of me I saw tha1 she was still a large, well-built specimen of humanit.y, broad shouldered, and witi excellently developed im1useles, whiel might readily deter many a strong mar from arousing her anger. Untutored girls from the backwoods, you know, very frequenttly strike front the shoulde1 ad hit hard. One thing puzzled me She carried an enormous sunshlude of th< latest style. This seenied wonderful when I recollected that one of the most peculiar characteristics pertaining to thi: eiunple maiden, in the days of her neto riety, was the fact that she could not hol(I an umbrella or parasol over het head for thrce consecutive minutes with out its suddenly flying to picees. I re nembered also that no man could mtin tain in an upright positio an olwn um brelin against which she laid the palm o of herivlite but large hand. And ye here she was al1n1tipulating at slunsha(d< with all the caso and grace of a Fift avenue belle, without any apparently serious consequences. I followed he patiently for several blocks, momentaril expectinlg to see the dainty crimso: parachutte fly violently from her hands Nothing of the sort occurred, however and then I concluded that site was prob ably no longer ''magnetic,'' or that lie magnetism could be summoned and dis tnj)scd at will; that she discarded it dur ing lroadvay promenades and called i forth again wlen the curtain rolled ul oi a full i house. Beset by curiosity, . riauntered after the child of the back woods until I saw her turn a corner int< a side street. A few more steps and sit entered it well-known caravansary. I required butI a moment to find her '111nm on the register of the house. 'I'liis ac coplplished I sent up my card, and wa recew'ed at once. The young womai had di.<sarded the silisiade, which la, tnhlarmled uponi a sofa, and met me witi it confilence and self-possession quite a variance, with the manners assumiied or the occa9ion of her initial entree on th< stage a a "wondr."" After some pre iinnmary skirmishing of a polite nature rielative to her healtlt and other kindred topi(s, I asked her if she had visited Nev York (or the purpose of appearing pro Lessionally, With a reminiscent laugh half chucklec and half giggle, she replied "Oh, dear, no! I don't do that sort of thing any more." "Why not?" I (teried. "Hats tln mtagnetmc influence foIrsakenl you?" Again site gave way to reimnisceen risibiWics, anid mu trmured somte tuninitel Jigible wor'da which sounded like "HIov ''Are you initerviewing lme?'' she atske( after her mirth htad subs)ided. "I!f so have no objection to thne orreah, and assure yoiu canldidly thaLt you will be tin first ntewspaper mant who will have siue ceoded in making mec talk freely.'' ''In the first plae"~ ' shte comntinued '"let te mientiont ani imphlortanlt poin which ceverybiody who camne to witnes: my performances totally overlooked. neover professed to be either magnetic o: jmesmneric. Othter pe'ople atdvatnced tilu th1eory, not I . 1 did conitendt tiiat I waII ablie to accomiplisht soinme seemitngly ex traordiary feaLts, my11 I accomnplishe< themi. TIhere thte mnatft e oed. Whlem I wats engagede by manager's who( hiat wvitnessed my representtations1 theyC dh ntot inq~uire as to whether I was tile pios sessor of any pecliarln o1 un1kno0wn force they simlTy made conadcts with mme un der certain condb iions, namely, t hat. ,was to give so matny paformanlces for a< much money, and i gave thleml. .If pea pie chose to write me upl as mesmerie o magnetic that wvas their affair, not mine. "'Then you dlid niot accwompI lishl you feati through the atid of any iunkniowm force?" T1hte charmingly native child (If natur giggled aigin as shle answe1i'red, in aL ver. nIon-conmmittail waLy: "W\e wion't discus tat pointt but I will tell you whtt wil do. Vith ten inuittes' intst.ructionl I uvii ll nale you to perfornm, wiiithou the aid of either imesnmerism or imagnei ain, any f'eat wvhieh y,out ever' saw mi test? A mian takes tite artik anid hold] it beforei him at atrms' length with aL hanL tightly gt'ippin g each end oif it, amnd er dheavors to stand~ still after .1 ha~ve place my hiand gently upon it. Let us8 try il Ta'Ike the stick." .1 did soI, bracing myself as rigidly it ant iron bar. .J'ho younig wvomnant liL th - palm of onye wVhitAe lmndi lightly utponi th rod, and after a miomnent I felt mnyse] swayinig to and fro. Then 1 was jerke vicouetlJy forward, throwvn backwai'd an. iioCst until I wats entirely outt of b)relt P.nd( began to feel very redl in tihe fac< I sat down putling andil paniting, whmil myftair hostess giggled gleefll~. TIh tildng was as great a mystery to me a ever, and I confossed the fact as soon II I had recoveca sufliciemnt breath to e> press miysehf in words. ''It is very simpl)e,"' laughed mi frientd. "IT mTay have twcomlhisihed it b means of magnetism, bitt I wvill shto' you how to do it withouit. Take th cane antd brace yourself again. Youl se you are ini a porfectly rigid positior with eivery muscle strained to) its uttmio tension. Ponse.quecntly time slightter nresnrn from mn umon the stik who+1 or that pressure be magnetic or not, is bound to throw you off your equilibriui. Now I place imly open palmi upon the article, and I need only use the slightest, pressure to move you. Do you ee? ''o demonstrate how simlple the thing is let me give y'ou11 an additional point. When you feel that the pressure. is about to sway you, relax your nmuscles. When the pressure propels you backward let your arms give in the direction of the lovemlent. When the pressure is for ward avail yourself of the same precatl tion. It other words, instead of bracing ,youlrself firmIly, remain perfectly limp, and then I think it will require a super natural force to move you." Again we essayed the teat, L closely followinv the young woman's instrue tions. Tis tuio victory was on my side, and I stood abashed at the sim11ple explanation of a feat which some time ago had Wellmed sufileiently extraordina ry to call forth letters of inquiry from som1e of the most scientifle mutds in America. "Let me show you some thing," said my fair entertainer, tiking a batch of letters from an open trunk and selecting one inclosed in a blue en velope. "Here is it letter from an Ox ford professor wIho happened to witness one of my performances. If you will glane over it you will see that lie was particularly struck with the cane test, which he considered marvellous. He asked about the date of my birth, my general health and wishett to learn whether any of my ancestors, so far as known, possessed any of my peculiar characteristics. He also requested, as it particular favor, that I would give a privote seanc for the benefit of himself and several well-known scientists. ''he performanllce was not given. Now, that. man, like thousands of others, learned as he was, instead of trying to elucidate imly feats through the mledium of natural agencies, dipped into al)struse science and got lost, for of course there was nothing abstruse in the means I used." "Ill regard to some of your other feats, m11ayI qIk how it is possible to hold at chair raised a few feet in the air so the united eflorts of half a dozen men cannot force it to the ground?" "It can be done very easily," was the reply, "if you possess it certain almolult of physical strength, and it is much more difficult to control a chair held by one strong individual than it would be if it were held by six. I will make it clear to you. We will suppose you to be the performer. Youi are a mlan of strength and will and you are determined to sue eeod before your audience. Failure m11ean1s ruin to you so far as finiancial suC ee5s is concerned. 'Iherefore you forget, your audience and everything else but the end in view. You take possession of the chair with it resolution not to 1e shaken by surrounding circumstances. ihe six 1en, on the contrary, are think ilg principally of the derision likely to follow an exhibition of muscular superi ority. There being half a dozen of my opponents, not one of themi could secure anything like a firm hold on the disputed article, and each one, as a rule, tugged in an opposite direction to his neighbor. One'does not try to hold the chair up. Simply by lalishing it with all miy strength I force it against may foes anid shove theu from one side of the stage to the other. The derision of the audi ene quickly relaxes their m ulseles, while 1 nlever for.n instant lose my self-con trol. While I keep on pushing persist eltly, my opponents grow more unsteady oil their limbs, and finally, wearied out, they retire in disgust." 'C111 you tell me how, by simply placimg your open palms against the sides of a chair, you can lift it when it is occupied by a man weighing 200 pounds and over?" "Some persons Could accomlplish it re(adily," was thle ainswer, "idted b y cer tin fatvorable conditions. Mos0t men~1 ini sittinlg downi thriow t.hiemselves back ill such a way that the front legs of the chalir are nearly all the time clear of tile grQundi(. Almost the entire weight falls onl tile hinmd legs. By pressinlg the 0open1 pahus11 chosely to the 81(1es of a chair suchl as is geneoral ly used( ill the performiuances yo(u canntot help 'gripping' to a certain exteint. If 30ou possess a goodly allow ance0 of strength this grip will 01nab)1 3011 to raise the chaiir a fe.w inches from the grounitd. Of course it is oiily a few inches, and you drop it algainl ralther sud(denly3, buit the audiene hea,rs thle legs strike thle floor anid youi are victori "Wll how about the storiy that you could( nIot possibly carry' a raised umbrel la for more thlan thtree conscntive mlo mntwihout it~s flying to pieces," I in <pureu, oyeing me1anwVhiile the dlisearded and1( unharme'f)td paratlsol reposinig by3 the y'oung woimani's side. "Oh, she repIlied, dlislahying emblar rassmlent for tihe first time, "I1 was order ed not1 to carry a p)arasol in tile streets anid I simply13 obieyed inst.ructionls. It was unlleasant, of course0, to walk about imp rotected froml tihe onu, buit 1)y Uh;.t little saerifc of pesnlcomforti summuier I was (nab)led to enjoy a fine sealkin1acqu ini winter." "'how did( yout first discover your itbili t.y to peifoftn these feats?" "IJ first discov'ered it," was the guile less rejoinder, "by) going twvo or three t.imes to Wallack's ']Teatre "iud carefully t watchiing Lubli Hurst's exhibition. TIhe -spec'tators really fuirnished the greater partt (If tIhe p)erfornce. It was really miusin g to niotice 1how tIhe auidienlce used towac myeer' v n conlstr'ue it Iinito somlethinug mlysterious. T.Lo illus trate - I1( had1and still haive it habit of Spassing 1my3 hand( biefore my13 eyes andi also( (of running it thiroughm my b)ang s. Well, a youiig man11 would trip upon the stage to try the canie test. Hie would Sbrace himself rigidhly, grip tIhe stick and1( look ime square ini the face, determlia thme alert, and1( he knew it, I wVous~ Squickly raise miy hiand from1 tile stck andt passn5 it before. my1 eyes. H alf the1 spcatr would inumediately whisper aib(lIly, 'She's muesmuerizing himl.' Then01 thion ani began to) grow nlervouls an obfuil. -After a nlyoUen1t my hand1( Sl gini unonsciously forsake the if 'tc n i hog 1 - angs5. Anioth m -or aud(iblho whisper, 'Shle s got electricity mi her hiaiir.' 1y thmis time my1) would-b'e conueor wvas hialf beautenu, anid to finish1 Yhim was comparatively easy," v . "'You have fully dciffed, then, nlot to e give any more exhibitions?" ,"Yes; magnetic girls are at ta discount. ,Tlhny were valuable, though, while the t furor lasted. You see theoy were scome t thing novel, and that is what Americans -like. Rarnu 4imn8.rm.o th fc long ago." "What (1o you think of Lulu Hurst?" ''Precisely what she thinks of inc." "And that is ?" 'Ask her." AitTnUi ADAMS. TalEI SW iWTF'isT NAMtiC. Li.kew' tie (l 'omntenonet atnunt Feminlsse More women have been named Mary than any other name which )as blessed or eursed the feminine sex. It stands Z the typical mc for the holiest and Imosl, abject of wona-l-for the virgin and the wanton. Ansd in every language of Asia, and Europe, as well as that of Egypt, this name appears ahnost without "aria tion. It ltls been an equal favorite 'vith the aristoer ts of Frange and the putritans of New England, and it equally becomes literature or kitchen. It is stately when we speak of Lady Mary Worthy Mon tague; it is simpt'city itself when we re fer to Mary O'Brien, who brings in our break fast rolls. At one time it may bring up a pictlre of a divine painted face, hanging in the rich gloom of an Italian g allery, and at another of a red-checked air,ynaid, with her bare feet in the daised grass. Two of England's five (lucenls have borne it, and the most memorable woman that Scotland ever produced has mde it immortal. The proudest women of France have dignified it, and the worst women of Russia have disgraced it. There are as many 'Marys smiling at the circling suns thaut make the brief summner by the northern sea as loll through the luxurious days by the Mediterranean. The immune that the Catholic missionaries gave to the first converted Inlian maiden was Mary, and perhaps the first daughter of every famni ly for all time will stand in imminent danger of bearing that name, for it is the first to be considered in naming girl babies, and when rejected is always thought of with lingering tenderness. How many lovers have loved it! How they lgve associated it with purity and gentleness, with wvomailiness and candor and trust! What a fateful name it is! Its bearer seems predestined to sorrow, yet it is gladsome, too. "My mother's nlame was Mary." What a plisatnt thing to say'! ''My little daughter, Mary." Coul anything be prettier? "My sister Mary, who is dead." What a wealth of tender suggestions! "Mary, my wife." What picture of home comfort!--Chicago News. ForeIg;ne"rm l'om" Hy the North. The Know-Nothing movement of thir ty years ago would be impossible of rei;etition now, except by fireign-horn citizens and their children. Some of the States of the northwest contain a large foreign-born majority, and many mic ns in the older States contain a majority of citizens only one generation removed from foreign soil. Even in the New England States the tough and stubborn Yankee clement which gave that regionl all its historical character, religion, liter ature and polity, is fast yielding to a mixture of peoples as diverse as those whom the King of Assyria planted in Samaria. The Southern half of the ,Union alone has escaped this change., 'I'1he negroes, in repelling foreign iuni gration from that region, have protected it from the transformation wrought else where, and preserved it to themselves and the des'encdants of the original colonists. The F'rench still possess Lou isiana; the Hluguenot, element. is still to be traced in South Carolina, un(d the Scotch-Irish settlers in North Carolina; but the mass of the whites in the South ern States are of English descent, and peesenit the same aspects they did fifty years ago. 'I'hey have several million negroes with them, it is true, and their presence offers a very difficult social .roblem for the future. But there is no intermixture; the whites live omi onie side of a race line, and the blacks on the othi er', as they did in the day of slavery, and whleni the people of the South are spoken of reference is had to the pumre, unmixed1 descendants of thl e original colonists. -- St. Louis Repmubliean. . l'The Mn 'WhIo I.,.angha.. 'Thle man whose ha-ha! reaches from one end of the street to the other may be the same fellow whslo scolded his wife andl spamiked thme baby biefore hie got his b)reak'fast, but his .laughter is only the( craickle of thorns mider the pot. '[lie mnan who spreads his laughter through his life, before a late breakfdast, whlen lhe missesi the train, when his wife goes visit - inig and lie has to (at a (c01( supperici, the moan who can laugh when lie fIids a bt toii oft' his shirt, when the furnace fire goes ouit in the night and both of the twins take down with measles at the sae time, lie's the fellow that's neeed. 1He mnever tells his neighbor to have faithi; somehow lie puts faith into, himt. Hie dlelivers no hionmilies; the sight of his be'aminmg face, the sound of his happy Voice and the sight of his b lessed daily life carry conivictioni that wordls have mno nower togiv.e. Th'le blues flee before ir stefog before the west winid; lhe conl.cs inito his own~ hiome like a flood of sunshine over a meadow o,f blooming butterups, and his wife and( chlilrmen blossom in his presence like Junie roses. His home is i'edolenmt witi sympaithy anmd love. TIhie neighborhood is better foi' his life and somebody will learn of him that laughter' is better tihan tears. The world iieeds this man; why ar'e there soi few of him? (Jan lie be created? Cani lie be evolved? Why is lie not in every house, turning i'ain into sunshine and win ter into summer all thme year round, until life is a perpetual seasoni of joy?---Lewis ton (Me.) Journal. Last year the imports to the United States (of genine sain(les fromi the Mcd iterranmean amounmted in value to $599, - 519, on which duties amouniting to$1 70, 13 wer'e paid b y consumers. In or'deir to check this tradl(e and afford more pro0 teetion to the caniniig of hieirings for sard(inies, Captaint Boutelle, of Maiine, lhnu introduced a bill to raise the duty on foreign sardines to 45 per cent. By this methmod the distinguished legislato' from Maine hopes that a better mnarket would he~ afforded for the coarse little fish that are cannmed ini Portland and1( pr'eseirved in oleomagarinie or (cottoni seed oil andi( then fraudlulenitly paiSSed1 off under(i counh terfei Frieincliha abels as.' genuine sar'dinies of the. Medhiteri'anaeam Instead of in ereasingd the dtties oli sar'dinmes thecy omught to bem repealed, and then imen ini P'ortlanmd whoi( derive a profiale trade by' eannming herring amid sellinig them forn F'rench sar'dines ought to lbc ..punished for fraud.-Phladelphia Recod. RiegioN."lnnMaane *1pertationN or SuceN. (New Yorik Malltind Express) Col. W. 11. Gilder has just sailed from New Bedford, on his novel journey to the Arctic regions, to settle, if lossil)Iie and he believes it is possible- the geographical problem of what there is at the northern axis of the earth. This ex pedit ion Mr. (:ilder unidertakes in alnost the samle ilmier that Stanley uidertook his great equatorial journey across Afri ca, which ended in 1878 by his discovery of the sources of the Nile, the sources of the Congo, and his descent of that great African stream to its debouchinent in the Atlantic Ocean. Col. (iler's walk across Siberia, his sledge journey with Schw1atka from North Rudson's hay to King William's Land and return, includ ing a summer search over King Vil liam's Land, is the longest on record, covering a distance of 3,250 miles in eleven months and twenty lays. During the journey the travelers were re<piired to live on the country through which they passed, as they only took with them one month's sul)l)ies. It was thus roughing it over the wearying wastes of that great land of desolation within the Arctic Circle that taught Gilder the true method of locomotion towards the Pole, precisely as Stan iy's intelligent appre ,ciation of the equatorial liflculties en abled him to go oil t well-defined cam pign against the climate, the topogra phy alnd the inhlitants of Central Africa. "My intention," said Col. Gilder, at. the \ ictoria Hotel, where he was sur' rimuneded 1by at party of travelers and kindred spirits, amoig whom were Lieut. Sclwatlka, Oscar Saawver and Mr. W. R. (rillith, who is to accompany him on his Polar journey, and who has nade pedes trian tours of Germany and Northern Africa, and is altogether, by scientific training, )lysiue, amlbition and tem l)eraiment, fitted for the dangerous un dertaking, "is to leave New Bedford ear ly in Juie on one of the two whalers which will leave for Hudson's Bay. I will be accompanied by Mr. Griflith alone, who is a graduate of Cornell Unli versity, and who will go along as an assistant observer; and," added the Colonel, with a grim smile, "to look after results if anything should happen to Inc. 1 shall have all of the best in struients that can be obtained, and many of this kind and quality have already been contributed; but it should be understood that the main object of this expedition, after .1 reach my base of operations, will Ie to push ('n towards the Pole and reach it, if possible. This is the one aim amid object of this attempt my third one-within the Arctic cir ele. Buttwhatever I can do in the inter est of science, in laying down coast lies anm1d pl.)tting topographical features by observation or otierwise, will not be neglected. Miy set pnti-pose, remember, is to push always northward, and if I stand at the very axis of the earth, no more is to be said - -that will be my high water mark." ''And how long will this little picnic glace take you?" "I expect to return ini I8)O, or after an ab ence of about four years. My New Bedford whaler will take me ill to the ('ary Islands in Ra tlin's Ilay, between the 76th and 77th degrees north latitude, and thece to Cape Sabine in 78 degrees 15 minutes, where (reely and is party were rescued. I will go by some jcotchI whaler, which I expect to find in those latitudes in Smith's Sound, and which will carry me as much further north ets we cali find opell water. But at any rate, there is plenty of animal food in the vieo ity of Unird Inlet, just to south wad of C ape Sabinie; and if necessary, imstead of miaking a eoast journey on the wvesterni side of SmithI's Sound and Kane Basin I cani pass inland and reach Fort. Conlger in lid ituide 80 dlegrees 415 minutes nor th, w here there are plent.y of suippllies left by Lieut. (Greely and which will be mph;, for the very polar object 1 have in view'' "HI-ow long will it taike you to reach "'Albout a year; and there I shaull win ter. 'Thien I shtall push mty way to a ntorthieasterly direction amnd se ek 11 nmake my point of departure at the sp)ot where IAmuf. Lockwood was forced to turn backward at. latitude 83- degrees 24. miiuiites, 0or withtin :191 mides oif the Northi "WI mt, thleu, are thle favoral e coindi tions for reahtiing the P'ole?"' "'I think I amn not wrong in assuming that if I reach that point attainedl by i ent. Faiekwood, withI adequate suip plies for man and b east, thei vexed prolem of thle Polar sea will be forever set tled; if myi~ best judgment and expteri ('nie did niot teach me this, I would not be so romtaniti(' as to untdertake to leave the Inuxuries of this zone. WIVhen Lock wood was ohbliged to turn southward from that. spot, less thian 400) mi les from the P ole, lie could travel from seveni teeni to t wenty muiles a daiy over cleair ice, whereas 1befor lie was limitted to teni miles a day, owing to the conlition (If the supjerfice. His supplies would nt hol (lit and his orders were to return. 'lhs was ini the month of May.'' 'So you are confiidlent of rehing the Pole if youi 1begini wIhere Lockwood left off?" "'Yes. It will retqulire less thtan thirty (lays' more travel, and I shall mautke every endeavor subsidiary .to this omne effort, for therein lies the mystery of the .'ir cumptholar world.'' "'11ow nuumierouns a party will you take with you fromtenrhrotcato Groeenland yet reachied liv muan?'" "I sh all have tIhe y oiing huniteris and their families, and I shall get thieii fromt the country tabouit IIludsoni Hay andi (Cumbherlanid 1iet. Yon many add, too, that [ shahll iin no way ble nilbarratssed for funds or suplies. Wh'lil tmy frietids and those intterested ~in polamr discolvery have sent mte many valuable armis and imstrumieitts, anid while such aie ilways welcome, I have ino iiisgivings abouit bhe inig audegatoly providedi." (Col. (Gilder is a im an (of stocky,v thysiquie, amiable dlispiosit ion, self-confaldenit with (lit egotismi, iandt self-po'ised without any of the I-amt-lhe abotuit lhhat. 1liis conasti tuition has stolod (eey shock that cant visit a ,journalist, exp lorer and moan-of the-world, and his temperament every1 onslaught that makes dyspepties ofl somet andit tedious nairrto(rs of olthe(rs. Ele goes- abhouit his pIresenlt undertaking with (out excitemuent or solicitude, just as if it were an evm.y ay amfa. What They are )lohg anid N here They ar(" Io.111ed. The recent meeting of ex-Confederate generals at Mongomer, Ali., leads a Vasllilgton co-rrespondelnt. of the Loulis ville Post to look up the present where abhonts and oCenlpations of Some of the principal sirvivors among the eaders of the Confederacv. Of the six full generals appointed by the (onfllederal4" Congress, only two Srvive ;Joseph i. Johnston, now United States commissioner of rail roads, and G. T. Beaturegard, aljutant general of I ouisialna axial nxx iianager of ihe Loulisilana lottery drawings. Of the twenty lieuteniaint-generals ap pointed to the provisional IrIlly, several are living. E. h irby Smith is professor of mathemuaties in the University of the South, in lTlennessee. Jaines Longstreet is keeping a hotel down in (eorgia. 1). 1. llill, of North Carolina, was, till recently, president of the Agricultural School of the State of Arkansas, and now earnusi a living chiefly is i ma11Lgalzile writer. Stephen B. Lee is a farmer, and presi dent of the State Agricultlural College of Mississippi. Julbal A. Early practices law at Lynch b ureg. Of the mlajor-generals, A. P. Stewart is 11Ow president of the University of Mississippi it Oxford. Tosep h Wheeler is in Congress, is very wealthy, an1xd oll' of Ilie largest p lanters in Alabama. Joihn 13. (iordon is a millionaire rail rua(il 1111x11. (eneral Loring, of Florida, was en gineer in Egypt until a few years ago, when lie caine to New York to work at. the sallne profession. 13. F. (,healthatm was recently appint ed postmaster it Nashville, ''enil. Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the judge advocate general's oflice. Lafayette Mlzxws 1 postlaster at Savanimh] l, Ga. S. B. Buchner lives iln Louisville, Ky., where lie owns a great deal of real estate. S. 13. Frellch ernlls a seanty sublsist. ence by engineering in Georgial. C. L. Stevenson is inl Fredericklblurg, \Va. John II. Forney, brother of Con gress m1a1n Forney, is in an11 ilnsalne asyln lit Selnia, Ala. Abney II. Manuray is \Wanshington algent of a New York life inslurance eoilpany. Joini i. Walker is also in the insur ancle business. Isaac 1k. 'T'rinle is ill retirelnent inl Baltimore on a fortune. General Heath is em ploved by the government on some Soth1111er rivers. ('adnus Wilcox is writing a history of the lexican war. Fitzlugh1 Lee is governor of Virginia. ''Extra Billy'' Siiiith practices law at Warrenton, -\ a. Charles W. Fiel, once at (loorkeelpel of the House, is superintenlent of the Hot Springs reservation. William B. Bate is governor of Ten nessee. W. I1. F. Leo is i Fairfax county farner. C. J J'oligine, who cale over fron Fralce to eslouse the Confederle callse, is back in Paris busied with railroad operations. 'illian .llahone is inl the Se Imte as is E. C. Walthal, of Mississippi. Joh11 S. \larmnaduike is governor of Missonri. Pierce M. 13. Younig is United States Con1sul--generall at St. Peterslburg, M. C. Butler is a Senator of the United States. (4. W. Curtis Lee is president of Washxington and Lee I'liversity ait La'. Genl. Waxde IIllmpon is in the Unxited States Scinate. Oly a few of 11he several hu ired br1igaidier-genleraxls canl be ninti(owd. WVest AdamIxs is 1poistumlzster lat ,Jacksonll Miss. Frniik Armnstronlg is n1ow waxiting' the Sena'te's eonftirmaltionl to bIe Inldianl aigen t. Joh lC. Brnow IwaIIs tw~ice governor '11 of I T1nn1ss14 lS miilt the Texas P'acific raxi road for Jaly Gould, and1( is the hlIter's aittorney foxr all his roads we'st of the Missssipi,as well as receiven for1 tim Texs 1'acille, with hxlead<pmr11ters~ at .I)xhi strinIg" district, ill 3\ississip)pi, 1in ('eai gress, un t il he was left last lli bv pat splits. thxe Uniited States lluse' of ReprOesenlta tives. I". 3I1. C'ockrell anld A. 1I. Coinuitt axe United Staites Senaltor's. R. Fj. Colstoni is ill thiw surige'on-gr I. . C'ox, ofi N orthx Carolina, is inl the llouse. X. I. die 81iy is commilissioner' in tIle hand ltien of Texxas. IBasil Ihixke edits the Soul herni IBiv(oune ait Louisville, Ky. ,J. '1. 3IorganI, of Abdxh1Ixxt, axIn 8. it. iI axey, of Tlexxas, xarle UnIited Sxttes SI II A'u. 31 . Scals is governo of1)1I1 Normthl ( . 31l. Sihlly is third audnitor of theli 1treaxsuriy. It. M.- 'unee is xassistanmt connalIissionIer of paltenlts. Thel islaughter orlIl irdM. 'he' rectily orxgxaized Auldublon So theI sliaughiter (It th feat herld innocent11s. On)e Il4o.lway lt- moys from11 500,000 to I ,000l,I)0 sma~l Amica,'xI n birs every yexar, obltaininlg themx fromI lvery Sait'e Iln thle UnIion. ( tuIls, 141rns, lIlioles, ('rows, blackbirdls, hobl)IiIi[4, shnp, larlIs, spaotxws, eto'., xare gret iv iln de hxouise 1has 5,00) splarrjows in stocuk; ando 14), (00 pis oX(f G ermnxxIII magp iE s Ix unle up ai recenIt conxsignmiienxt. A miil iin hobo links are said1 toI haive 1been killed ii one1 month1 nxexar l'hiladIelp)hial, and14 (on1 mil.. liniery houIise hadll 200,000 bid-skinsi (on inl order to earni ai fewv 'elnts ori doillxrs has biecomeI a 'onnnh,onI practiee on Ln Island and e'lsewhler(. O ne (If thle Iob j ets oif the A udlubhon Si eiety- is to 5s(1nre4 the 11 encIen 1 o11.(f laws in all the Slttes agaxiinsIthe 1 xluilonls l>raeCti('o o f hu ii i heahlt.iful andx haxrml1ess4 Ibirds pxay 1 ribuxte with their lives to the denxaand s of fashx ion,-Frank Leslhie. IR IEMA SONS AND KNIGlITM. lIairnetm from the ('nndin IIInIop,'- P'aNtoral Letter. The collective >anlstol'll letter of the eleven Catholic IBishops of this pro vielias proved a disappoitnmelt to many. It wis believed that the Knights of Labor would be roundly denounced, whereas the anathema has been reserved for Freemasonry and the Knights are only casually referred to. The following are extracts from the letter: "Freelnasonry lies in the hands of half a dozen uiknowi individuals with sini ter designs. A great Protestant states n11111 wrote in connection with the hu ropean revolutions: 'All these great movements of oppressed nations, etc., are controlled by haulf a dozen individu als, who give the'ir orders to the secret societies of all Europe.' It must be ad mitted that there exists in Freemasonry Ia concealed Board of Directors, whichl varies according to the tines, place and Country. "1esides thsiie societies there are oth er forbidde ones, which must be avoid :d under penalty of grievous sin, and among tihe1se mulst he remembered espe.. cially those which impose on their mem hers ia secret which is to be made known to no one, aid anl unreserved obedience to hidden leaders. Such is, in particu har, the society known as the Knights of Labor, which' the sacred Congregation of Inquisition has declired must be chissed among societies condemned by the Holy See. The cosmopolitan char acter of secret societies, aind that of the Knights of Labor inl pal'ticlullr, nleces sarily exposes many who belong to them to obey the orders of ia council sitting in iL foreign coulitryv, whichl at i given mlo mnen1t may be opposed to interests and (evel at war with the Government to whom its memhers owe allegielnce. The principal dangers of these societies are found in the fact that the members are homn1 to secrecy and become vile in striuments ill the hands of ia few leaders who may exact from them the most out rageolls aid t.yrailllliel acts, is is shown'l by numerous most deplorable strikes." The Bishops have, it w ill be seen, left themselves free to change their front should the Knights alter their constitu tion so as to meet the wishes of the church. The principal stipulation will b1s that Knights shall sever their conee tion with the order in the United States. A meeting of the local lrnllell is being held to consider the matter, and shouhl1 they fail to come to all arrangelment all ('atholies w "ill he peremlptorily ordered to leatve the societ y.---Montreal )iepatch. tiddl( 5rn t ltsn n t'nr. A very c(iommlllonl theme of conversation lmlonlg tlravelers is the question of wheth er or not a ear rides easier in the middle t1imn above the- trucks. One of our rail 'road contemporaries sole time ago p1b lished all article on the subject, and took the ground that there could be no differ 1nie unless the sills and framing of a car yielded like the buckboard of a wagon. T1'here is c(rtainly no yield to car sills 1111d framing; yet, every old traveler avoi(ds the seats, and especially the sleep ing berths, above the trucks, (n1 old travelers generally know whnat they are d(oiIg. It' the i"it,v who insisted that therc coul he no <bilerence in the mno tion in the ditTerent parts of the same car had ive-r crossed the stormy occal in moderately lng stenler he light hiave received somue el] ighteniment, es ileeially if sea sickness urged him to timd the 10oint of leatst iotion. It is well known that there is less motion amid ships thlnli there is at the ste,m or stern, anid less moti<m lit the bottoi of the vessel tlin there is o1 (leck. A car acts in at sililia' wav. Allything defective abti (1111 thi'ek jerlks thle wheels, wichj truck('1, and1( tinit inl turn1 to till body13 oIf thle ('<l(ih. Th )'oeIlt alinng a'l fewvetr soh(lier1s inl thlis lloality to ceaIte feeling I. L ee hPost of1 l'\ Ionfe'deraItes, ot Rich m11010, al. , Ilo thel New llhunpsh1ireO I'e thew countr IVbIis IiiglinIg (If the gray(3 and the bIlu 111u1s11 led to hlappy r'esuilts, Le 'P'I t.5 It f tI here is iherle andlI therel' on10 whio thlinks~ Iluit his honor is in dan ge'rI 1f being t MIIIishe lorIl'1 his lyalty taipere(ld withI, this5 is aL good tinlie for lium to take( tol till wooIds. Whlen thlese sII llhnllish. genth-m1enI get throu1gh withI ('urtamil il till sky to1 obIscurie the0 sun1. If New I hunpshI5lirel fits thuIs poorly3 in1 till dred1 visitorls from11 Vir'ginlia is liale to odislaIce it, it malltterls verly little whe0ther'l ter' gets Il futhe 111'wo desire to remind1( thlose Ioverl-5('nsit i Sti('klers' that they New Ilhunpshlire or' rep'resenlting her A hurIgIlihiws goling throu)lghl IL hiouse ill 0 I )akota tolwn (on1 nlight and1( disc'ov (Curious to know whe(therl 1he hadL brloken illo an lild'titorI's houIlse IIr that11 of some other01 varkiety of (cap itallist, 11( tuirnIed to tol iln1olre ho1w 311i clame by suchi an agn ulm a mlIlIembe of tIle Territorial ILegislaL pol11it uay r,iIhl dropping 1ItO'his moey. \l ill i naI'lt 1 nlero' nI0 MOir 1)1ke. weel k, an' I 'ze got d is*ou raged. Yout ha11 Il'ze gin ilt'o( go out angu' sk irnulsh, fIor hoIlgs an' ehiickenls 'long will de r'es' of you '1 take mIy chances4' hf gwilE' tll con1gre'gaLtion'it was dlecidetd to .continuel( the salar'y lat $2 and let h im) skirmih. - Wall Street News. I am making two breeds of sheep. One I call the "Farmers' Sheep " and it is to be a mutton sheep, with thick fleece, thicker than that on the English breeds and better adapted to our change ful and rigorous climate. The truth is, no one ever vet inported any of the English breeds 111 kept theni up to the standard of the imported stock. We need an American breed adapted to our climate and the modes (Sf feeding and care we give. This will require a sheep . with it very compact body and a close fleece; sheep with open wool are not a suited to our wants. .1 shall not aim t get a good sized sheep with s(Juaro body, broad back and short legs andi as meaty as possible. Such a sheep will maturo young and the lambs will do to slaugh ter young, tiil they will make a good weight. ', Legs and lank quarters do not weigh lineh. 1 take pleasure in show ing farmers my foutlation sheep and the line of breeding. This year a pure bred OxfOrddo n ram is being used. T here is in reserve a dash of Merino to make the fleece liimre compact. It takes two years to fix types inl b)reeding and to estallisht uiiform1 Characteristics. So the sooner we begin such work the bet ter. Why should we not have breeds of our own ? The other breed of sheep is "Mutton Merino.", The fiture muist necessarily fiid Merinos unre plentifitl tlnu any other breed, as in the past. This is on account of their special adaptation to mountain lands, dry plains and rough and sterile places where other sheep would not exist. No others canl endure what Merinos will, or thrive in such large flocks. 1hit cannot Merinos be inade to fill more tlhan one sphere of ulsefullness, tn(d tlis becoine proportion ately more lesirl le:'? Yes, and I wish I had got this itdea twenty-flve years ago and had just sio mitclh timite to develop it. We must. have a nmit ton Merino to give a large fleece of line wool, and with char aeteristics well estalblishied, to breed a lamb which, witIi go ) keep, can be made to dress thirty poids or more at four or live inthi( ' age, which is ten poulinis iihelad of the present average. Moreover, slowiess i,r imatitring must be bred out. Tht tveratge 'Merino, atl tl'igli the snall-st sheep, is the longest to get its ftll growth. I have my ideal iitton Merino, and -in now musing a run which is perfect it'ii in soime respects wool atnd forii i, hit of couirse the na tur' for quick growth is lacking. This imu11At he coaxeI into the bl'od b1 y selec titnt, crosting, and good feeding. The offspring 1must exceed the parents it: size atnd rapidity of gr 'wth. A real mutton Merino would he the most valuablo sheep in Anmenica, heais ust adapted to* such a wite exteit of conaitry nt wants. -. D. Curtis in 'TIhe New South. Trhe (nthi:ne ('tn:1(1u1. Several of the News York papers in their articles on the (1in(liuahite, mako a mlistake in saving that ('anmlilial (libbons is a Cardinal 13ish(op1. T1he dlistiiguisheod prelate of hlt in,re is a uardillnal priest, just as was the late ('ardintal MlcCloskey, of New York, amid will so lank in the sa cred college. (i ihe first of January there were just sixty citnlinals, the limit b)eing seve,nty; of the sixty cardinals thirty-six u-ere born and educated in Italy. The muoiber of those styled cardtinatl bishops is liliited to six, and these dligniitaries live in R ome. At present five of the ennlinal bishops are Italians and one is 1at :i I'glishman-Ed wartd, Cardiinil liowiant d, arcl hp riest of the vatican Basiic:i. Th11e o)licers of time others are respectively deait of the sa cred college, Iih brarianl, great pelitentiat ry, prefect of the congi,riegation of indul geiiees, and Lo i (Chiunbe rla in. Tlhe atuaitl archi slii>ps (if se's wvho' iarcecarti iths are'( ahascr i piiesfs. llenry Edlward, Candinial .anning, -is arch bishop of Westininisteir and thle primate of the Ciatmhioli emreb tii -.glaind. The ftaimous Sinme<mii, prieftet tof the prop~a ganda, is a cardttiil priest; so, talso, is Jaii. setartuiy of' State. After tihe car'dmial ptnets eoinie the tardinial dea co ns, th ere 1>eilig t Ipresenf thirteen John lleunry, 'anlhiiil Newman:ui, mieta most eiminenit maen of ( ifn lirifain, al.. though a pietst in I li- chiil rhi, is a cardi mnd detacon in thei saicred co llege. Car dliintl McCloskey wits thle is t'rlate in Anierica to receive thle t'ardiinal's hat. 'T'Iia was; in 1 75, whe h itle was sixty-fivo years ol. At litf timie Dr. (Gibbons was b ishiop of Iliiiinoind. TPhe second preatelL( to ree'ive ihe ennilinail's title was Bishop ( hIions, I lie Iirust insigia having baen lititiletd to himi t his iresidtence yes f4erdahy. lTe flhini prielatt ini Ameiricia whoii receive's the sia' dlignit.y is Arch 1hishiop Titschi'raui, of ( Qulbic-. lie was ch osen it cardiinail att thet samo conisistory wvhicht co nferred the litnohr up~on (Gib honsi1. Sitmen oif the New York papters have also madtte a imiit aLe ini stating that irtlaiid hats f t oiirtdiiimls. At the timo~ Aichibisho p \leC( abea was made a cardinal lie was the omly wveairer of the red hat in irehmd, tand het hoat biornit thle rank only ai short while wheni lie died, leaving no I,rish <-ardlinitl; but rectently D.r. .Patrick I"raiicis Manttii, of .1rielmand, wits sent to Austr'alia as archibishiop of Sidiney and wats cretatedi a cardiinal. D r. Walsh, car dimal McCabe i's successor its artchbhishop. p riiimate of Irbt'itimt, inms not b)e nmen f.ioiied in connmectioni wvith thit emWdinal mate, so far mis fthe publlic huas been ad vised. --Richnamod Statte. Nert ofi the A pnn' r'stimr.t lerk. There is tine field ini which, so if it; said, wvomian, lovely w'oiumn, will never timnd empiloliytmnt. She cmii never bie anl aptothiecary'Fstclerk , heitraiute she is not abde to keel at seeth. A pihiarnmeiy is a r'egitlar conifessitmiil, andh iinto the ears of tIhe discerei t at ftendtant are pomiredi weightty secre1tts, which it wtouhI netver do to in I inst fto the posse~ssion tof the gadd(inlg gossipp y femimae. In flhe regular courso of) hiis busiiiness, fi th dispenser of pills andh poiwders know'ts till aibouit peop)le's biodily mitlictins antd weakntesses, and( becomeis aeEliuitied wifth little sins and thmiungs of that kiind which'h thie initerested >arties wuld nt, have the world to now lotr tniythIing. 'Thlen, tot', lie learna whopin) ~tt, whio 1powder'is, who eats oipim, whto must's bieIliiadonna to briighiten the eyes, arseic to wh iten the skin, w~ho is obliged to use insect piloder at home, rtnd various t.hiings of thiat kind which woumld bie too gi'ait ta te'mptationt for a~ lalkative womnan to give away. A. 8. I'rick, of Fatirbnks, Loxingtonm (lit a 15~ pound enhasge from hilS sprinj naltch on the 20th