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getocd to gririrutlun;, gorfitulfunj, gomgstit tSronomg, fMito'Mitijraturc, ftolitics, and the (Jurrmt gjtujs of the gag. XVIII.?New Series. UNION C. H? SODTH CAROI.INAj^&R(;[I 4, 1887. NUMBER 0. From the Southern Bivouac. THE DANCEOF DEATH. BY. MB*. M. SIIEFFRET PSTEBS. "Ah !' rhil," mumicrcd the bride, her eves dewy, and her voice tremulous, 'what if wo should find our wedded happiness to bo no more than this moonflowcr, lovely to look upon, but to be broken by the first rough usage. Sec! > vuuuuv manu tvcn ims.smail Dud altieh itself again wliero it may gaiher life ahd beauty anew.' She bent forward, making a pretty pretense of re-uniting the plant end its severed blossom; but instnntly she stnrted back, making a vain effort to suppress tlio cxclamntion of pain or terror, that sharply broke the stillness of tho conservatory. Her cry was shrilly echoed on the instant from the clump of ferns close by, which, violently agitated, gavo suddoa egress to the figure of a man. It was Bardinolli, lato master in music to . Carolyn. It ivas to tho side of his former pupil lie now dartcJ. Darby was still clasping her in his arms, and was questioning iter in an agony of apprehension, while she, nervously agitated, was using her womanly arts to reassure him. 'It is nothing, Thil?a mero scratch?a sting. A great spider. I think. Tiie crcoturo nipped mo and leaped away before 1 could see what it was. Ah! Signor BarJinclli, is it you? Oh, Phil?what?* l'alc and terrified she lay upon the breast of her husband, who, livid as death, only held her closely, making no effort to restrain the Italian, who had. without, ceremony, seized upon tho bride's hand, upon one finger of which was appearing a faint lino of discoloration, marking tho course of the envenomed sting she had received. The one word spoken, as he applied his lips in suction to the wound, had sent a deadly chill to the bridegroom's heart Tarantula !' No other word was spoken. Darby knew what inoant the drop or two of greenish liquid which the Italian once or twico ejected from his lips, each time returning in mad. haste to his task of peril. Darby's bride knew, too, what signified Dardinelli's dosporate earnestness, as well as sho comprehended the threatening of danger to herself in the vertigo and shivering already creeping over her. Rut neither of tlicso thought of the risk Bardinclli was hazarding; Dardiiio'di himself did not giro a thought to the matter till the possiblo results of his daring cnmc to him in a flash of consciousness. An eager gisoco, convincing hint of the ~~~ fact that the poison was being abated in the veins of his whilom pupil revealed to him, beoidos, a fleck of bload close to the puncture in the dainty hand over which ho had been gloating. Tho blood, ho know, was from a wound in his own lip. His strong teeth had nearly ot through it as he lay in hiding there beyond the fern mound. But the virus that wis creeping from her veins was as the wine of life to him in comparison with the venoin of jealousy that had maddened him, as ho lay there watching the wed ucu lovers, reveling in their stolen bliss. 'It is done,' ho said presently, lifting a flushed face from bis odd work. 'There remains, Signor Darpy, but the drop or two of poison taken up by the blood before I could get to her.' The drop or two taken up by her blood? Heaven of mercy is there no antidote?' Bardinelli smiled. 'There is one, but that may bo impossible ' Speak, mnu ! There must bs no impossible here.' 'There shall bo no impossible, Signor, if Bardinclli's strength faint not,' the Italiau quietly said, 'for tarantism, in my land, there are the tarnntulla dances.' 'I know?I remember,' cried Darby. 'It is music, music sho must have, and you?you Bardinelli?' 'I know the music?yes. When the poison works in her nerves an 1 brain she will move, and I?I will play the death dance for her. Come, Signor Darby, let me carry her, I can best placo her so that the faintest notes may stir her numbed senses.' Half frantic with aginy Darby made no protest, but yielded her to the Italian. Was not the priceless life at his mercy? Had he asked fortho heart in his bosom 1m wont.I nni ?.??/? wished to say him nay. Fragile of build though he was, llardiuclli caught up the lovely burden surrendered to him and boro her, with the strength and speed of an athlete, back to the glare and languorous pcrtumes of the ball room. IIOr life is mine!' ho muttered, in his haltdelirious joy ns ho felt the pulsations of her heart answering to the wild-throbbings of tho poison charged arteries of his breast. Awe-stricken, the wedding revelers cleared the floor of the danoe hall. There were rapi 1 questionings and agitated replies, there were groans here and there and sobs half-repressed. Then there was a silenoe as of tho sepulchre in in the garish house. Through this silence stole the first wierd notes of llardinelli's Dance of Death. No one looked at the musician, every eye was fastened on the brido of Philander Darby. She lay upon tho wine-velvet of the divan, white and rigid, about her trailed tho satin and lnco and orange and flowers of her bridal attire. Uardinel i's violin wat giving forth quicker strains. So fantastio were the chorls, now plaintive and imploring, now full of a mad energy, anon dropping into fathomless depths of pathos, it seemed as though the player were iamrovislns the airs- tellin? In dm aiill on the couch the tale of a life noble in its dreams and aspirations, tragic in its faituros. Yet through the wondrous harmony dropped over, clear and pure as a shower of pearls, tin notes of the rythmic tarantella waltz, The call to movement reached the locked senses of the dreamer, She moved, she arose to her feet, she glided oeer the floor. Iler move' ments woro as rythmio as wero the strains o Rardinelli's violin, they were those of the Gra^ ces. Iler face wis as the frozen one of the doom' ed Iphigenia. Upon the silence of the room the Italian's mclley wrought like magio. The wedding guests swayed hither and thither in grotesque aituicry of the dream dancer upon the polished floor. The breeze of the night wafted the mystical strains out through the wayfarers upward to tho empyrean to sweep the confines of other realms of mystery. Bardinelli was lending nil tho cunning of his hand to rouse the suspended faculties of his beloved pupil. The heavy lids veiling her vision were slowly raise I, surrounding objects were once more photographed upon the retina of the eye, tho tinge of life was returning to lip and check, her movements ha l less of grace and more ofenorgy. It were as though the shackles of flesh were being again riveted upon tho free movement of the spirit. The statute had waked to life, though another than Pygmalion should reap the kisses of those divinely parted lips. Louder and louder swelled tho waltz melodies of the forgotten musician. One who casually glanced toward him saw that he was contorted, and that the veins in his forehead were purple chords, tensely drawn. So might have looked tho Laocoon wrestling in the folds of the seamonster. Not tho less surely, however, was the master hand informed of tho genius of a deathless will, and the observer unknowing, turned again to mark tho effects of tho power upon her, who, like Eurydice, was being lured back from the world ofinystcry an J shadow by his Orphic enchantments. Suddenly alio stood still. The throng of spectators gazed at licr. Their united brrnth would not have stirred the down ol a thistle puff. Her white bosom rose and fell. The orange blossoms looping her corsage trembled like sentient creatures filled with a passion of joy in her living warmth and loveliness. Her eyes rovcd anxiously over the expectant assemblage. She was looking for some one. For whom ? Sho smiled a dazzling smile of recognition, and joyously stretched forth her arm. Ilcr bridegroom hurried to meet and take her into bis cinbraco. Fer the first lime there was a discord in the music. No oco noticed it. There was a break, a pause, then a crash of chords, then silence. 'It was you who drew me bnck among the living, Phil,' murmured the bride, at rest on tho heart of hor husband. 'Not tho bands of death could hold me from you yet, dear. It was the yearning of uiy spirit that spoke to you through tho inusio of Bardinelli's violin.' Tlion n mv h-l/w-.H' l.? . -> = v ?v ?? ?.?> ? iiw nua iivicu f tu L ii u abnegation of an humble gratitude, 'it is to Dardiaelli I owe the debt I may never hopo to repay.' To Bardinclli?' She turned in Iter gracious beauty and raovcd toward the musician. lie did not rise to meet her. He was sitting bending forward, and his face was averted as from a sight distressing to him. His violin had slipped from his grasp and was resting against his knee, two of its strings broken and snarled. She laid upon his shoulder the hand from which ho had extracted the veaom of the tarantula. Bardinelli!' Her voice had never before appealed to him in vain. Now he gave it uo heed. She bent over him, her bridal veil blending with the long hair floating over his shoulders. Her gentle clasp closed upon the fingers still holding tho taut bow. Then a passionate cry broke from her lips, and she luruod to her husband : 'He is dead! Ho has given his life for mine, I'hil.' S50,000 is as old Loo Hut.?Key port, N. J., February 10.?John I. Scheuck, the old Monmouth County hermit, is slowly dying at the home of his brother, to whom he was taken nine months ago. Tho hermit is nearly 80 years of age, an 1 for noarly fifty years lived in seclusion, allowing no one to cross his threchold. Just before his removal to his brother's home ho had bcett suffering from a stroke of paralysis, and had it not been for tho timely visit of his brother ho would hnvc certainly died at the timo for want of nourishment and carc. The near neighbors noticed that he had not been out for several days, and, suspecting that ha was sick, sent for his brother, who found liim very low. After his removal an invcstigition of this hut was made. In a little shanty which was built in a thicket was found an iron box containing papers worth $10,000. In other corners of the tumble-down building was found qu'te a large quantity < f gold and silver coins. Under one of the beds in his two-story rookery which answered for n home was found an old woolen stocking filled with monry. The interior of the building vciy much resembled a museum, there being many curious articles hung upon tho walls. In all about thirty maskcls and guns were counted. On attempting to^lnkc one down Mr. Scheuck was astonished at its weight. Upon examination he was rather surprised to find it filled up with $10 gold pieces. Ill nil nearlv S.Ml cy mill valuable paper* wero found concealed around the but and outbuildings. The old hut is daily vi-ited by many sightseers. This ancient lutnblc-down building is hardly two stories high wit It an old-style roof slanting near to the ground There nro four rooms, the largest being eight by fifteen fett. The staircaso is made from an enormous oak log. with deep notches cut in it. Much of the furniture was made from oak trees cut on the farm. Mississippi llivcn Hank Caving in. ?The Mississippi Kivcr bank at Leoln >Miss., is caving in and tho warehouse and office at the landing went into the river. Other buildings are in danger. The Richmond Kniiiiits or Labor loi^hi f Tueik Colored Members.?Richmond, V*., Fcbuary '23.?In the municipal election Jast May the Knights of labor electod a new city council. i Party lines, color lines and all other linei were obliterated in the interest of pure reform, i The Colored Knights 'went in' with their white brethren and voted as none but the colored brother can vote. They carried the day. I Tho Knights wanted a *'ncw deal" and they i got it. They took hold of the city government in July, and begnu by abolishing all city labor i contracts and substituting day labor with short . hours. * Thj'fat job' of the year was llio building of i tWnew City Hall. Thrco hundred thousand i dollars liad been voted to build it. The previous "Bourbon"' Council had advertised for contractors bids. The reformers promptly rejected the contract plan nnd decided to build the hall by day labor, and, under the supervision of the committee on grounds nnd buildiogs the work is now being carried on. Qranito is the material used, and it was patriotically resolved that the granite must come from beneath the sacred soil of Virginia. Lots of stone masons were employed, and the colored stone mason applied with the rest for a job. lie didn't get it. Among other things the reform committee on grounds and buildings resolved that no colored mechanics should be employed. This raised a i row among the colored Knights, who bad helped to elect the "reformers." The city attorney, Mr. Charles V. Meredith, was called upon by the city council for an opinion as to whether the resolution was legal and constitutional. That gentleman, who is a dyed-inthe-wool Democrat, said that 'the commiiteo bad f no power to pass a resolution excluding from employment thereon any one on accouut of color, as such action was contrary to tha Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As the legislative branch of the municipal government in Richmond, in other words its City Council, could not pass such a resolution with any legal effect, neither lias one of its agents or committee any such right. I am of the opinion that the resolution is void." This was a settler and the "reformers" found themselves in a bad fix wjth regard to the colored stouo mason, Knight of Labor and voter. When next tho sablo-hucd brothers applied for work they were referred to the foreman who told them ho had no vacancies. They persisted in their demands, and when somebody began to ' weaken the Stone Mason's Union (white) ' kicked" and si id if the "nigger" is employed "we'll qujt.". And lite poor colored brother, in still left out In the cold. w i Jonesville Enforcing tub Laws.?Jonesvillc, February 25.?If things continue as they have begun in thie community, the declaration that "prohibition does not prohibit" will prove false as to one locality at least. There has been formed at Jonesville a society for the suppression of unlawful traffic in in. toxicating drinks, and all the best citizens of the town liavo joined it. Ry the direction of this society warrants'have been issued for the arrest of violators of tho law in ten cases. Since the organization of this society whiskey selling has to all appearances boen a thing of the past, and those who have heretofore found it easy to secure tho beverage are like "Rachel weeping for her children and mourning because they are not."?Cor. Netct and Courier. . m Driven to Suicide nv Slander.?Louisvil Ivy., February 22.?Mrs. Willie F. Fisher, wife of Charles Fisher, a harness-maker of this city, committed suicide yesterday afternoon. Sho took four ounces of laudanum at 3 o'clock and expired at 8. In a letter left directed to her husband, sho stated that she was driven to the deed bv the lie? rirMilflt**! !"?? V. , ? - ? ? ??t nj i.io father and mother. Sho also spoko of her lore for him, and implored him, for his own sake, to cease his habit of drinking. The deceased was a beautiful woman of pure character, only twenty-five years of age, and had been marred just two years. Fisher is eaid to have been more devoted to his sister-in-law than his wife. To this sister the dead woman also left a letter bequeathing her a ring and asking her to prevent any of the Fisher family from viewing her remains. Defeated by a Broken Type.?A contested election case will result from a broken type in Pittsburg. Henry Barlow was a candidate at the recent election for School Director in the twenty-sixth ward, but was declared defeated by the returning board. When the ballots were printed for the second district the letter II of Henry was partly broken off, and only made a short stroke, and the ballot read enry Barlow. Forty of theso votes were cast and not counted on the return sheet. Theso would have elected him by a largo majority. w Ephemeral Fathers?An estimable lady of West Bide has had the fortune of Ibreo husbands?two having passed over to the majority. By the first husband there is a eon; by the second there is a very bright little girl. One day while some lady friends were lunching with I the nnlhoi. 1. ~ 1,1.1. .-..I K... "Mauia, has Jack a papa in heaven?" "Yes, darling; hush!'' replied mamma. "Have 1 a papa iu Heaveu?" "Yes, darling, hush!" repealed mamma. Alter a pause and profound thinking the littlo miss added: "l'apos don't last long, do they mains?'' Buzzards Wzstand Nortu.?Washington, February 2o.?Another blizzard ia blowing in Dakota, and Northern l'acikc passenger trains are snowed in near Sentinel liutte. Still another blizzard is reported from Northern New I ?ur* una i*ew England. New England especially is dotted all-over with snow-bound trains, and in Maine, Northern Vermont and New Hampshire railroad traffio Ifas been practically auspeuded since last night by the heavy snow, fierce winds and freezing weather. WtfAWi, CUTH.AXD Will Uo WuM IIK Rrriufej i'What will the President do when he retin it to private life?" naked one New York nun it another to-day. "I om tell you preeiMV,flid the other." "He will not go baek tolheBalo, but will make his home in A'.hanyor New York City, more likely tho latter. ,From his eatings while in the White Hohnj^ will purchase, a large, handsome hous^tHhe eminently respect aMe-nnl not too faahldVble part of the city, perhaps Qramercv Park. htn. Cleveland will continue her eocial career ! * a manner not enjoyed by any wife of ah* Ifc-Presideat eince the days of Dolljr Madisot. Hr.i SbvelsnQ will fit up for himself down town nu!elegant law office, in which he will spend vtry little time and do very littlo work, as he will only desire a nominal place at the ber. He would not expect very much of a very lucrative practice. But what is he goiog to live That's the rub of the story to which I'Vas about to come. He will be made the present of one or two, possibly more, large holiness corporations, to whom his name, his habt|t of industry and reputation for good common sense and strong will power will easily be wortjfranyphere from 310,000 to 25,000 a year, la short, he will repeat on a little larger stale what Secretary Manning has been asked to do. \ LausbstStarch,?tin answer to a correspondent, th+ScientiJic American gives the following formula'for making (he preparation that steam laundries nse to make their goods so stiff and have suA a fine gloss, and how it is used: Melt pounds of tlio very besl A 1 paraffino wax ovcf a slow fire. AVlien liquefied, remove from tbtfirc and stir in 100 drops oil of citronella.1 Have % lot of round new pie tins, olean oud nice; place them on a level table, ooat Lbe^ slightly with sweet oil, and pour about tit table-spoonfuls of the enamel into each tin, The pan may be floated in water to oool tty contents sufficiently to permit the mixtok^lo be cut or stamped out with a tin euttor If to small cakes about the size of a pepperqfnt lozenge. Two of these cakes added to eadtfnt of starch will cause the smoothing iron to ijnpart the finest possible finish to muslin or .Jtten, besides perfuming the clothes. A G ?a Receipt To Prevent Hair Coming Oct.?Smld black tea, 2 ounces, with one gallon'fiSolling water, strain and add three ounoaiA iccrine, tincture cantharidos ? ounce, bay rvc'ftce quart. Mix well and perfume. This L- 'Jkood preparation for frequent use in , 1> yji jftntl^ en |k? rntlp amdhair, but neith?rwm|? kept in good condition without care and attention to general health.?Scientific America*. Farm Psospects In Chester?Rain, mud, slush, and rain again, is the normal condition of the weather. The farmers are gloomy over the present unpropitious outlook. Tho crops last year were poor, and the consequence is that trade is dull. Several merchants are disposing of their stocks at and below (?) cost, while others are holding their hands and keeping watch ever their stuff. It is more difficult, 1 am told, to get supplies this year on the promised crop. Last year a large number of farmers failed ts pay out. For years the cry has been 'hard times," but now it is hard times nnd less money. What the preachers and peddlers will do is a mystery. Drco Store Barrooms.?Chester is a dry town. The query with our people is: Why will thePbarmac eutical Society of South Carolina degrade the tfrugbusiness by giving a permit to tell whiskey over a dozen or so bottles of patent medicines? Some of tho stores never fill a prescription save for tho outlawed stuff. There are three genuine drug stores hero and three whiskey shops dealing under false colors ?a druggist's license. IIow long the decent druggists will submit to this condition of affairs remains to be seen.? Cor. Col. Ilfyitler. Piety and Railroad Passes.?Mr. J. C. Anderson, General Passenger Agent of the O. and W. Railway, recently sent a clergyman's pass to a minister at Munnsville. N. Y., and the gratitude of the parson found expression in the following very unique letter : "Your favor of the 17th inst. is received containing clerical pass So. 08, for 1887. Many thanks for so useful a cm d. When it will be yours to board the train to journey into the world of the unseen, may the General Passenger Agent of the Earth and Heaven Air Line, Jesus Christ, grant you a free pass-check subscribed wiih bis own hand. Gratefully yours." ?Port Gtrvit Gazette. Show-Bound Nkw Knolasi).?St. Johnabury, Vt., February 25.?The blockade on the railroads in tbia section in the worst this season. A hard wind has prevailed all night. The mai Weston Boston and Lowell Road reached train here at 9 o'clock lost night, and is still here, waiting for the road to be cleared. It is said ^there is fifteen miles of roaJ West of here upon which the snow is from five to twenty feet deep. The highways of the hills are nearly impassable. A Democratic Victory in Rhode Island.?Providence, February 21.?To_ day was held a special election to fill tho vacancy in tho House of Representatives of the 49th Congress from the Second dis. trict of Rhodo Island, made vacant by the verdict of 'no election' in November, 1881, as declared recently by tho National House. The elec ion resulted in tho choice ol Charles F. Page, Democratic contestant, over Win. A. Pierce, Republican, and Alfred Chadscy, Prohibitionist. If any animal on tho farm earns his an oual sty-penned it must be tho bog. Dui'kd Nkuroks.?The Atlanta Constitution of Thursday contains the following : Captain Criin is investigating n very peculiar case. It appears that several negroes were waited on at Spartanburg, S. 0., by an emigrant agent who stated that they could procure employment in a hotel somewhere in Mississippi, and that good wages would bo paid thorn. These negroes, being out of steady employment, seeing and, as they thought, a chance of improving their condition, readily accepted the inducement hul l out to them, sold out thoir homes, and started with the agent for the promised land. The negroes readied the eity Monday night. When they i rrived here, the agent informed them that the hotel in Mississippi would not take them, but that they could get work on the levees on the Mississippi llivcr To niako matters still worse admittance to tho hotels and boarding houses in Atlanta was denied them, and they wore compelled to make tho Uniou Depot their temporary quarters. Two of the negroes, who gave their names as John Clark and Taylor Hatch, called at polieo headquarters yesterday morning and laid the facts before Chief Connolly. These darkeys told the Chief that they were entirely destitute, and had not tasted any food for two days. They said also that their baggage had been checked through to Meridian, Miss., and tuey couiu not Ret it. Uaptam Urtui was detailed to look into the matter, aud found the statements of the negroes were true. There is no doubt in the mind of Captain Crim that these negroes were inducod to leave their homes under false promises, and the caso will bo thoroughly veutilated by the police authorities of the city. O Cor?. Rion's Snuf? Rox.?A correspondent to the Newberry Herald and Hcics, in to-day's issue of that paper, says, that just before the breaking out of the war a highly educated Swede, named llauiuicrskold, settled in Liucolulon, N. C , to engage in the iron bus'iuess ; th it abandoning his business to enter the Confederate army, he became impoverished, aud that after, ho war, in urd r to raiso money, he sold a valuable diuuinud-sluddeu gold snuff box, said to have been n gift of the King of Sweden, V.l. L. D. Childs, ol Columbia, who subsciji. ...j presented it to Col. ltiou. The correspondent thinks that this is the alleged Orleaus suuff box. lie is correct. The buuff box bears the letter 0-, and a crown set in diamouds. It has not the Orleans monogram. The iuitial is probably that of Oacar I, king ol Sweden aud Norway, born 1739, died 1839. Col. lliou's family knew the liiitorv of this snuff bos, ainl his reference to it, as a proof of his Oricans descent, they considered an ovideucc that he was under the influence of morphiuo wheu ho made his dying declaration. The Staten Island Fire.?New York, February 23.?The cotton at the stores ou Staten Island, where the recent great fire occurred, was insured for nearly a million dotlais. The followiug liabilities hnl?I by the companies named below have been ascertained, but their actual losses are not yet adjusted : American, New York, 8191,000 ; Liverpool and London and Globe, 6111,000 ; Phoenix of Loudon, 6120,000 ; ltoyal of Liverpool, 890,000; Phanix of New York, 800,850; Queens of London, 8118,000; Imperial of Loudon, 6125,000; Continental of New l'ork, 810,000 ; Fire Association of New York, 825,500; German American of Now York, 829,900; Home of New York, 810,000 ; North llritish and Mercantile, 840,000 ; .Mutual of New York, 89,500; Commonwealth of New York, 830,000. To Be Sold as a Slave.?Chicago, February 23.? A special from Augusta, Ky., says the trial of lleury Dodson, charged with being a vagrant, cauio oil yesterday before Judge L. Bradford and a jury. The jury, after hearing all the ovideucc. returned a verdict of oniltv nrul <>r. dercd Dodsou to be sold lo the highest bidder at public auction, tor a period of seventy live days. Judge ]>radlord has fixed March f?tn as the day of salo. This is the first case of the kind that has occurred in tins county lor a great many years, ami much interest was manifested. The proof showed Hudson to bo a worthless, iusolent vagabond, who lived iu a statu of tilth aud misery, lie ill treated his family in every way imaginable. i The Cuy of Despair.? Heard in so ciety: Ue; ! beg your pardon, Miss, but I don't aduiire your last name/ i She : 'Great heavens, man ; haven't I done everything in uiy power to change iti Must 1 knock a man down with a club ? An unsteady man, like uu unsteady light is apt to go out nights. DOMESTIC RECIPES. MUFFINS.?Ono quart flour, two t.aspoons baking powder rubbed in the il >ur, ooe pint of sweet milk, threo two tablespoons melted butter ; bake quick. Salve for Burns.?One half pound resin, one-half pound tobacco, f >ur o inc s camphor, one-half pouud lard, one-fourth pound tallow, molt all well together anil put in boxes ready for use. TO sug.ir-UURE HAMS.-b'or tour Hants take one cup brown sugar, two-thirds cup alt, nnd two tablespoons saltpetre. Mix w?!l, then rub over hants, a little nt a time, for two weeks. Much better than salting them in brine.' Sausage IIecipe.?Grind the meat, not too much fat, then woigh; take for every pound oltcneatonc teaspoon Fait, ono heaping teaspoon sage and one of pepper ; mix these thoroughly before putting in meat, then mix all together for half an hour. Pudding.?Five eggs, one cup of molesses, three of flour, one-half teaspoon each of soda and croam of tartar, ono and onecups of milk, one cup of mixed butter and lard. Butter pan nnd cook slowly. Servo with sauce while warm. Mutton Cnors.?Season with salt nnd pepper, put in the skillet and frv five minutes, take out and dip each chop in beaten egg, then in bread-crumbs, and fry till nicely browned on each side ; or put in tlio oven, baste frequently and hake until brown. ScRArPLE.?Boil a pig's head until bones will atrip from the meat; chop meat fine, akin grease from liquor, return meat, season highly with salt, and pepper, aid corn meal until tho consistency of mush. Cook slowly one hour or more, pour in pans and set in cool place. Slice and fry fr-r breakfast. Sat.vf. For Cuts and Bruises.?Three pounds resin, one-half pound beeswax, onohalf pound tallow, two ounces white lead, melted and stirred well together, turn into a tub of cold water and when cold enough I work till white, Then roll KVo"Sticks and , cut. Wrap eich stick in paper. Add - white lead just before taking from the StOVJ. Stewed Eels.?Cut eels in piece?, dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry. If no gravy is at hand, put a piece of butter dinned in flour in the nan TT-. one-half pint of liquid in which a bunch of meet herbs has been boiled, pour it in the frying pan, nrd lemon juice and a little ?<}' the peel grated. Stew the eels in ibis till tender. Saoo I'uddino.?Ono quart of boiling water turned upon a cup of sago. Have your pudding dish filled with apples, pared and quartered, stir tbo Sago well and turn over the apple, bake and cat with sauc r ere to and sugar. Sponoe Jelly Roll.?I'our egg-", o .o cup and a half sugar, one tablespoon biking powder, beat the whites separately, and the sugar and tlio yelks together till very light, thou add part of the whites, then a cup of flour, then boat good, then a little more flour, then ill) rest of the whites and stir easy, put it in and bake. Spread and roll as quick as you cm. It is very good Cookies.?Two cups sugar, one of butter and lard mixed, two eggs, leaving out the whites of one, one-half teaspoon sod>, one hall'cup cream, roll thin ; spread the ton with the while of the egg beaten In a st * If froth, sprinkle with sugar and press a raisin the center. Rake quickly to a light brown. For ginger snans. add ono eon li.iiloil one tenspoon ging-T, ono of cinnamon. and one of soda to tho above recipe. A Goon Man Go.sr, WitoNU.--Gnlvi>ti'!', Texas, February 17.?Judge Thomas M. Joseph, for several years Treasurer of this Grand Lodge of Odd Follows in this Slate, is short in his nccouuts 8231S5, being the entire fund of tho Grand Lodge. Joseph was defeated for re-election last week. Iio says he lost the money nearly four years i go ' in mining, lie was Mayor of Galveston from 1858 to tho fall of 18(52, and always j-toid high in tho community. lie is nearly seventy years old, and has a large family of grown up children, lie is utterly pros trated over his downfall. Grand Maj-tir Gibbs declares that ho will prosecute tho defaulting officer until the doors of the ponitentiary are closed upon him. Joseph is practically under arrest now. Comes Out Ai.l tiie Same.?'Thoro , must be somebody backing that paper, for 1 ordered uiy paper stopped and 1 know three or four more who got mad and , stopped theirs, but the blamed paper seoms to coino out just tbo same.'