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TWO DOLLARS i*Kit ANNUM, y volume g. ?V Itili GOD .VTsT I) OUR COUNTUY. ?{ ALWAYS IN ADVANCK SATURDAY MORNINf. JANUARY 11, 1873. NUMBER 48 Anal . wn THE ORANGrSBURf} NEWS rCBLTSITTtif) A T ErOry S;tiurd?y Morning, in- tu* ORASfiERURG NEWS COMPANY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ?no Cepy for on* . $2.00 ? " " Six Months. 1.00 Any one snndin^ TE^ DOLLARS, for a Clnb of Now Subscribers, will receive nri F.XTRA COPT for OXK YEAI?. free of eharge. Any one sanding FIVV. HOLLAHS, s Club ef Now Subscribers, will receive hn EXTRA COPY" for ST*'MONTHS, free o'4 cnarjje. . RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. Si.HO " 2tt M. 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or tone inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices.t.$.r> 00 "Notices of-.Dismissal of Ovmrilians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$!> 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal terms. MARRTAGK and FUN'F.F.AT. NOTICES, hot exoecdiug one Square, itnVdrtbd without charge. ?:n:? 86T Terms C.asli in tlyanre. "TSa Browning & Browning, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ORAXGl BHRtJ C. II., So. Ca. Malcolm I. Bsowstso. Aft ,F. Bnowxtxa. AU'GTTJSTUS B. KNOWLTON (Formerly ot tti<! New York liar.) ATTORN EV AND (V>UNSELliO,R A T L A W , 'ton\yu f,ki??, s. c. fcJ",.yi'S. ,,_?L4'j?* T>. VT. IM LEY Till A L t'iifiTWfti r iRpuIrtcuee tn Fork of Ktlinfo, A 1.1. BUSINESS ENTRUSTED rill be ^remptly aud carefully attended to. julv2? l.v DR. T. BERWICK LEG ARE, SURGEON DENTIST, ?Irmtuate Baltimore College Dental Surpery. bfFICK MARKET-ST. OVER STORK CF M?ft|?(. J. A. HAMILTON, METALLIC CASES THE UNDERSIGNED HAS ON n AN L all of the various Sites of the above CatoB, which can be furnished, immediately oh ap plication. Also manufactures WOOD COFFINS as usual, and at the shortest notice. Apply to h. riggs, mar 5?tixri Carriage Maitufaet urcr. RHEDER & DAVIS, COTTON FACTORS 1TT6?VM- S"D General Commission Merchants, g . Athjcr* \VharJt , CHARLESTON, S. C. OfWSLL RsjiDSU. ZUOIKRMA.N DAVIS oot 16 f.m F. Ubooir. 11. It. lluixiiNS H..C. Hunaixfl. H?QDJIC CO. COTTON FACTORS ?is1. ? ? ? pit?? (ss mi' mi AKI> t<* tOtofrMlSSION .MERCHANTS, .S?RTH ATLANTIC WllAllF, CHAHESTON, S. C. Liberaj Advances matlo on Consignment. P.Err.n to Andrew Simonds, Esq., l'res f Rank, Charleston, S. C. oiay zi wee tf "WASHINGTON HOUSE by Urs. M. W. Stratton, CORNER GERVAIS & ASSEMBLY STREETS ?-4mt*toMA, s. c. Oonrvenioot to the Greenville and Charleston Koilrouds ami the Business portion of the City. Rate of Transient DosttI?Two Dollars per Day. Regalar Hoarders received at Rcaaooablo at es. <*?? 1? t f HOW HE WAS CUKKI). HY II 1\ 1.1.N KOHR EST ORAVK8. 'Tho best heart in the world,' paid Mrs. Ayle.-cr ?lt, with team shining like blue jo\ els in her eyes, 'if only he wasn't a littlo ircliued to limit finding.' 'That's a Wife all over!'said Aunt Jemima, scorn fully. * A little inclined! Why don't you say at once thai ho growls and grumbles so ymi can hardly live with him ? That would be u little nearer the truth.' 'Hut, A nut Jemima, what can T do V almost sol.! el tjio pretty little WifV?. whose shining hair, rosy cheeks ai d pearl fair skill made one think of a mountain, daisy, newly gathered. 'Do!' snorted, Aunt Jemima. 'I'd fix him, if lie was mjf- husband.' All this was v?ry well for Aunt Jemima, who stood live feat eight in her stocking feet, and sp irted a consider able beard ; but i'or Auuic Ayltseroft it sccn'od sheer heresy.' 'T.here he eouies now, she said, flush ing up, and glancing uneasily aruiiftd the room. 'Dear Aunt Jemima, would you mind having tho window closed ? George dislikes a draught. And it*you would kinuly stop rocking?it makes George nervous to hear tile cliair creak i|.g.' As she spoke tho door was thrown open, and Mi Aylcsoroft, a fine-looking, middlu u^ed mail; cainc in. 'Chimneys all smoking again to-day,' ho said, irritably, ^itunes seem, Annie, us ii' you look pains to make things as uncomfortable as possible iu this house.' 'Dut, Gvorno, how Can 1 help it T 'You could see about having the Hues fixed, I supposed, when you know per fectly well 1 have no lime to attend to sucli things. Diuuer isn't rcadv V 'It will be ready very soon, dear,' said A' 'V'Jl^y?'b. ^ <*car?;.oL luo^ jtroum' olock. Mr. Aylescroft gave a short, disagree able laugh. 'Punctuality is no part of our house keeping, you see, Miss Jemima. Annie, arc those children Never still 7 If 1 boar such a noise as that again, 1 shall go up myself and inquire into it.' Mis. Ay letfcrbft arose and hurried up into the nursery. Aunt Jemima sat grim and pihuit, 'I wonder i* Annie has mended in\ vest V at last broke out the hu?b\nd. ?1 do uot know, 1 utu sure,' Mi:>s Jemima answered, brusquely. Mr. Aylescroft opened one of the bureau drawers, mid gluuccd moodily at its contents. ?No; 1 might have 'known she had not1. That buttou has becu off just one week.' 'When did you ask her to mend it?' asked Aunt Jemima. 'Ask her! I didn't ask her nt all,' Mr Aylescroft answered. 'Then, inny 1 ask, why should she mend it at nil V ?Because,' Mr. Aylescroft answered, with dignity, 'it is a wile's duty to look ovor her husband's wardrobe, with special reference to all such?such wants and necessities.' 'Humph!' said Aunt Jemima ; 'it strikes me that your wife has several other things to da!' 'Here comes the dinner/ said Mr Ayloscruft, wisely evading tho issue, 'and Annie not here, of course ! And she knows perfectly well that, if there is anything 1 dislike?t At this moment Mrs. Aylescroft hur ried In, Hushed uul nervous, and took her sent at the table. 'The foiils burned ft) a crisp !' grouned Mr. Ay It-scroll; and iio celery ! I do think, Annie, tliul, if you took the least interest in my likes ant, dislikes ?' 'Hut, dear,' faltered the wife, not daring to meet Auut Jemima's eye, 'there was no celery in uarkot. I got 8on:o very nice currant jeuy.' ?Currnnt jelly ! I'shanl' aaid Mr. j Ajlcscroft. 'hMnpg and sugar candy ! I My dinner is spoiled !' 'There is a cn*tard lor ? dessert,' hesitated his wife. ?Throw it to till pigs !' grumbled the exacting husband. 'Suiuh cuu cook you a little beefsteak in u few U-inutcsj pleaded Mrs. Ayles croft. ' ? ? -j ? 'Nonsense 1* crpd Aunt Jcmiino, lay ing down her Line and fork ; 'uouacuae! nonsense P Mr. Aykscrofj looked up in indigna* a sort of terrified sur tion?his wife i| prise. Aunt Jemima was a personage of Home importanca. She money to leavo, and sho was not tu be slighted ; but this was intolerable. 'A tnnn who is really hungry can eat good roast fowl like this,' said Aunt Jemima. 'Annie, my dear, you may givo in** r. slice.' Mr. Aylcscroti pushed back bis chair and left tho table. A nine looked after him in terror. 'Oh, Aunt Jemima, you have offend ed biin mortally ! Let me go to him.' 'Fiddle-sticks, my dear !' said Aunt Jeuima; 'he'll keep! For my part,' she added, reflectively, 'I don't SCO what a man, who can bo agreed bio irhcn lie pleases, w nits to make himself so ob noxious for? Annie, I'll write to your brother James. lie is a very sensible young fellow. He has never visited you since you wero married, I believe?, ?No, Aunt Jemima; but?' ?(Jo on with your dinner, my dear, ind I'll go ui\ with miiiu,' said Aunt Tend ma, helping herself to b.iked pota toes. Mr. Aylescroft was surprised, and not rcry agreeably, it must bo confessed, sbuut ten days subsequently, by coming luuie and finding himself face to face tnrit.li a good looking man of four or fivc ind thirty, w ho extended one languid finger from the easy-chair in which he .at, and n. unnured : 'How are you, Aylescroft?' 'Sir, 1 have not the honor of your icquaintance,' Said Mr. Aylescroft, itiflly. 'Oh, I forgot that,' said the young1 nan. 'L'ui Annie's broth or, James jordou, you kiiuw. I thought I'd iu iko you a vi-*it. Won't you please siiut that door behind you'? It lets iu ill sorts of eold draughts. And, 1 say, iehat the deuce do you mean by usin^ >pcn fires, when there's so much mure jcunomy of heat iu a stove r Mr. Vvlescr.fi stared. Here wajji^ foung man attacking his household Lares and Penates iu a lUanhor altogether inprecodc?t?d. Mrs. Aylescroft looked up with a frightened air. 'I am sure, .Tamos, dear?'she com menced, but Mr. Gordou waved silence. 'My dear sister, is it pns-ibln thos. ire your children making that fearful iiu'.ac up stairs? Are they rolling forty [louud cannon balls about, or what ?' '1 d in't think they are nuy noisier than other children!' warmly iuteVposed Mr. Ayluaerol't. ?Annie always did spoil everybody,' grumbled Guidon/ 'Annie is a good girl,' said Mr. Ayles 2 ro ft. Aunt Jemima smiled grimly behind ?er newspaper. Mr. Aylescroft pdanoed at Iiis watch. 'Five o'cluck, and no dinner !' he said moodily. 'Five o'clock, and no diuuer !' briskly echoed his brother*in law. 'Annie, I beg you to bcur in mind that punctual! ly is essential to mo.' 'Yes, James,' said Annie, mooklyj and here is conk now with the meat' 'Fi.irly raw!' said Mr. Aylescroft, with a gesturo of disgust, us he sat down. 'Take it away ! take it away !' bawled Mr. James Gordon, motioning with bis upraised baud. 'Aiv'e, When teilt you learn to luuk alter these matters your self?' 'Hut I think,' interposed Mr. Ayh'S croft, '1 could, perhaps, get off a slice or two?' 'Impossible! quite impossible! pro tested bi? brother in-law. 'Annie, these potatoes nro uneatable?soggy?water eoaked ! Discharge your cook tomor row.' 'Bridget has some >:ood points about her,' apologised Mr. Aylescroft; "and if?' 'Annie,' interrupted Mr. Gordon, 'would you Just btep up stairs and quiet thusc.children ?' 'They ;*.rc not making much noise nevr,' said thoir father, a little aggrieveJ. 'It is lledlain broken loose !' groaned Juatcs Gordon, with his hand to his head. Mr. Aylescroft took refuge in digni fied :-iivi.ro until liis wife's return. 'Annie,' said her brother, tho instant she entered the room, 'do oblige mc by chutigiug those squeaking shoos of yours. They're enough to dirvo a man distract ed !' 'I'll put on slippers, Jim, dear !' said Annie, timidly. 'If Aunt Jemima will loavo off her kuitting?the round of thowo needles is torture to a nervous njgn?I shall be much obliged. My dear Aylescroft. I don't wish to seem hypercritical, but you do ratllo your uewspaper uuueccssa rily !' Mr. Aylescroft dropped his newspaper rather diseomfittcd It was a new thing for him to be lectured. 'My dear,' ho said to'his wife, when Mr. James Gordon hni$retirod for the night, 'it seems to me 8>at brother of yo\irs is a very disagrec.tplo sort of per son.' 'Oh, he don't mean anything !' said Mrs. Aylescroft. 'It's only his way? poor Jimmy !' ?It's a very obnoxious way, then,'said Mr. Ablesendi?Gliding fault the whole time !' Aunt Jemima "miled again, in her quiet manner. But at the end of the week, Mr. Aylescroft, weary witli making apolo gies and excuses, aud proving to his brother.tu law that, the World was not utterly depraved, broke forth into ut terance. 'Annie,' quoth he, 'I can't stand it any longer ! Puck my Valise, and I'll go to Boston until this Gordon is gotio !' 'Can't stand what?' Aunt Jemima asked 'This everlasting grumble! It's enough to wear a man's life out !' 'That's what I've said to Annie, time and again,' dryly observed Aunt Jemi ma. 'George Aylescroft, you've only been looking into a mirror all this while !' 'I, Aunt Jemima!'?and Mr. Ayles croft dropped the oarpet-brig he was pre paring to pack. 'It un't possible ! M y, it can'/ be possible ! If I have really been making myself so disagree?ble. why didn't somebody tell me so? Aunic? Aunt Jemima 1 is it ral'y ill) truth V Annie burst into te.tr:*, A tut Jemima smiled, nud .fumes Gtirdou walking out ?^,?>m hebi^p^gg^^l^fl^sr^^buj^/iudow drapers, with a :R^TtiovTou>. s| under his dark eyolurhes. 'Old fellow,' said he to his hi other-in- I law, 'a truce to this warfare. I'm nut :o bad when J leave of) giuuibiiug and fault finding?ueither, 1 dare say, arc j you ! Let's try it V ?Agreed !' said Mr. Aylescroft. rcso lutcly subduing the impulse of ilidigua ri- !i tlut t"sc up in his hc.irt. j 'And.' :;d !ed James Gordou, 'the one who Gods fault (Irs; ihull Heat Auuic to a diamond ring.' As Mrs Aylescroft hus not yet conic into possession of her diamond ring, tho natural iuforenoe is that the gentlwmeu of the family arc putting a strong con straint upou themselves. And George Aylescroft is cured by the homeopath to prescription?ibimiiia Similibus, 'Hut bow disagreeable 1 must have made myself,' he frankly avows; 'and without being aware of it, tool' A Desperate Encounter with a Pan ther. A professional hunter, named Repze, was out bunting this week Oll Martin"-? Island, down the Columbia. Tho hunter was accompanied by a hound only, which started some animal a lit le distance away in tho dense brush, liepzo run from thick timber in which ho was stand ing toward the edge of the water. \ clear space of several rods divide.1 the brush und the river margin. On reach ing the bauk, Hepzs halted and placed himself in an attitude of defense. In a few uiomc.tta, the hound emerged from the timber and came ruuuiug toward its master. Immediately following the dog in hot pursuit, a large and forocions pin ther hounded in sight. Rvpzo raised his gun to his shoulder und fired. The ball took effect in the jaws of the animal but did not iufliut uuy surious injury nor retard its advance toward the hunter. On firing, Repze retreated into tho wa tor up to his arm pits. The wounded and infuriated animal sprang after and "tackled" the hunter. The dug came to the r.-sene ol his master, and made it so warm for the panther th*t it abandoned Repze and turning ou the hound. Repze waded out toward tho bank, turned around and tired the second barrel of his gnu at the panther, The load was largo buckshot, ana took cflect in the panther side, The wound was very sevoro, but did not cntiroly disable the animal, which was getting the boat of tho dog. Seeing that tho houud would soon be drowned. Repze resolved to rescue it if possible. He had ohschirgod both bar rels of his guu, nud oast asido his large bo vie knife in the edge of the timber when he started to the retreat. No time however, was to be loot, and Repze ?pi*ang into the river to save his dog Hy this time tho panther had lost much blood, and was growing weak from ex haustion. The hunter, who was a pow erful man, seized hold of the panther's baud, and after a fierce "tusscl." broko its hold ou tho hound. The pnnther now turned on Repz-s. A long ami des perate encounter essued botw;en the panther, and tho dog. At last Repzs succeeded in peeping too animal nose under water until it was quite do id. after which he drew the body to tho shore and fainted from his wounds and exhaustion. Tim hunter was severely laeetated in the conflict, and has scarce ly been able to leave his bed since. The honndis also billy torn. TRAPPED. BY a. H.vrnEr.on. When a man has traveled for sonic time through this vale of tears, and then falls in love, it is distressingly hard up on him. It is a noticeable fact, and a sudject for grave study upon the part of those who interest themselves iu the various sinuositie< of that trickiest of all subjects ? human nature. Old Tom Sedlcy had reached the mature age of forty, and bad not yet lullen a victim to the snare of the tem per, nnd had begun to hope that ho might worry along through life uu injured, when a pair of bright eyes fixed him for all time, and so neatly that, be fore he had time to realize his danger, he found himself taken in and done for. Tom was stopping at his brother's place in the country, and his sister-in-law thought that it was a mortal shame that a good looking man, with money enough for two, should be allowed to spend all shut :;:< v.<-y himself. Women do not like this sort of thing. It offends them to the soul to see n man enjoy himself in his twti way alone. I n .y consider that some responsible female ought to be allowed to have the disposal of the money, 1 ecause tlicy can spend it much more gracefully than a mau p ?ssibly could, and it is woman's province to spend the money?I know they do it mighty m.-y whethci it is I their j :? ?vir.ee or not. So Mrs. Deau began to plot, and Tom pursued the cveu tenor of his way? hunted, fished and rode about the country ; bestowed plaiouic winks upon the pretty "girls, and otherwise dctnoan ed himself as a healthy, well-moaning and to.drably-contented gentleman of means should, unconscious "of the fact that his dooui was decreed irrevocably, and that tho sun of his prosperity had .?et. 'Tom.' said Mrs Dean, one morning at breakfast, 'I wish you would take the carriage and drive to the station, as William is so busy. I expect a friend by the nine o'clock train.' 'Anything to be agreeable,' said Tom. 'May I ask *il the frieud is of the male or female persuasion V ? 11 is Jennie l'enton.' 'The young widow, do you mean ?' 'Yes, Tom,' said Mrs. Dean,demurely. 'I'll want a baggage WagOU,'snid Tom. ?No woman ever travels with less than a ton of baggage. 1 wish the legislature Would pass a law restricting all travelers to one trunk, of limited capacity, and it would save a great deal id' heart burning and recrimination, that 1 know.'f He took the carriage, however, and set out for the station, after receiving instructions us to the course he must pursue iu order to find tho widow, lie whistling ou his way, unconscious of tho danger which hung over his guilty head, and reached the station just as the train came in, and after dropping two or three passengers aud tome baggage, steamed ou again. 'I don't believe she has come,' in tiler ed Tom. ' I here isu't baggage enough in that heap tor one woman, let alouc u ? party . 1 here is some mist.ike, 1 guess.' The persons who had left the train to their baggage, and left one by one, ami Tom saw only a single small trunk re inaiuing, i modest-looking urticlsenough, which ho considered unequal to the tasl. of holding ti e apparel of a first class A no i lean female, lie looked iuto the 'station, and saw a small,rather pre possessing female, neatly but modestly dressed, and approached her. 'Mrs. l'cutou V he said, inquiringly. She bowed, and he aunouueed him ?elf, and went to look after ber baggage, | and received the information that it consisted of a single trunk with ill-con cealed surprise, and he ioece? r ith< r foolish, as a baggageman walked away with the trunk in question. Ho found Jennie Fenton a dangerous woman, one of the quietly effective kind, who go for a m:?n without auy apparent effort. She spoke well upon any sub ject, and yet not obtrusively, and Tom began to realize that ho was in the vicinity of shoals, and had bettor sheer off to avoid a wreck. Mrs. Dcau received her friend with a sly smile, and it would huvo pleased Tom had ho board the fir.-t words they exchanged when alone. 'Commenced!" said Mrs. Dean, iu an iuquiring tone 'Splendidly! I'll touch him to des pise women.' ? From the hour-when that quiet, self possessed female set her foot in the Dean house, the doom of that unlucky man was spokon. The * victim might WTithc, but he. could not escape Did bo propose a fishing expedition, he found himself bored in less than two days, and back again at his brother's, riding about the country with Jennie Fenton. Vet she never seemed to wish to keep him near her?he would have bolted in a moment had sho douc that?and rather seemed to suffer his presence than desire it. There is no course of treatment so likely to bring tho victim to the proper frame of mind, and in three short weoks the case ofthat man was desperate. Mrs. Dean looked on, outwardly un conscious of the fish in the net, but re joicing fiendishly in her soul. The victim was conscious of his danger. He fought against it, but as the moth re turns to the flame of the candle, so he came back to tho influence of Jenuie Fcuton'e quiet smilo; and when at last, tho time oamo to strike the blow, as 1tWt> VA'rrr rhiin ' through a rotcantio glen ucur the lake, she announced her intention of going away. 11c broodud uvor it for half an hour, aud thou, profaning hi - speech by the truthful Words : 'I know what a fool 1 am !' bur.-t out with a proposition. She heard him calmly to the end. 'I thought yi u despised women; Mr. Scdley V ahe auid, quietly. 'So T aiwiys have, Jennie,' he said, eagerly ; but I eau't resist you somehow. I wish you would say yes.' She said it, and she mad" htm u good wiTe, too. A telegraphic glance passed between the two l*di;s as I e assisted his affianced to alight at the door. 'You needn't tell me about it, Tom,' said Mrs. Dean. 'I giro my cousent. Why else do you suppose I sent for Jenuie V Tho victim wilted, and J*as silent. Mrs. Sedley Jcarries more trunks, when on a journey, thuu the {relict of Mr. Moses Fenton. An Avvfi.il Lonesome tt.in. In the shanty which, in California's early days did duty as office for the batik - iug, postal, and expressbusiuessof Wells. Karge & (,'o., in Morysville theco s it ouo Saturday evening, 11 misanthropic and dejected looking individual, whose long and unkempt hair, and board, cowhide boots and rough drcas bespoke the tniu cr. For overau hour ho sat there the picture of despair, with not a word or a look for any one prcsont. Miners oauic left, their '' dust," took their coin in re turn, and exchanged greeting with all present, savo tho 000 morose man whose apathy nothing, it seemed could disturb Finally there entered a young miner with a beaming face, who, after compe ting his business at the couuter, turned to tho agent in charge and romarked that on the previous Satutday ho hud some dealings with tho bank aud though that somo mistake had been made iu his account. "Guess not," said tho agent. "Our cash was all right; and I reckon wo keep our books pretty straight." But upon the request of the miner that thu accouut should bo examined, the account was looked at, and it was found that, through a clerical error, tho minor had becu paid just $50 too much "Tint's just what I muko it," said the latter, "and here's your money." With tliis ho threw down tho gold, aud receiv ed tho thanks of tho agent. While this conversation was in pro gress the misauthropic miner had pro? served bis looks of utter iudifferencc; but when he saw the money acty'tTy f?> turned, hie faeo brightened up, he tm* slowly walked toward the honest minor with slow and solemn Toico, and sai l. "Young man, don't yoa feel awful lonesome in this country American. Humorists. We enjoy having a new name to ad mire and laud, and after a little while wo enjoy equally its depreciation and de nunciation, Wo all seem willing to lift pcr?on to a certain height, and we rel ish so ing him there as long as we can delude ourselves with the notion that wo aided to put him in the position. Hear ing others extol him, we grow envios^i. . and cynical; fall to piercing him w:th arrows ot satire, and are delighted when ho is dowu uover to rise again. A slight retrospect will prore the truth of the statement. We ca ? easily recall tho wide popularity D ?ostickj (Mortimer Thompson) gained as a hu morists. His Datnphool was iu every body's mouth, and in manypsrsini, char acter. His sketches were laughed ?t immoderately. He came from Detroit, Michigan, to Now York and tho Tribune and sciutilatcd for a year or two. Then ho was pronounced wearisome and ere long he wank out of sight. II j wrote for the weekly storppspcrs, but he lo*t his attraction, and recently went to Mino apolis, Miuuesuta; to assist in editti j a daily. Artemus Ward followed. Frosa a humble local reporter on a Cleavelsud (O-)jouruul he rose to more than nation al reputation. His phrases were qu >lci by the peoplo and his lectures drew crowds. Ho suffered an eclipse. Ho went to England because ns it was aaid, bis jokes wcro all known hero. 4 He diel and the encomiums that bad been suspen ded were rovived over his grave. "Naiby" (Locke) rose t ? f ?tm im no diately after tho war; had his culinina tl?n and decline. ?Yuu",rw*miu ^ badly spelled screeds now, though he lac-V tures with pecuniary profit; edits the | Tokdo Blade, and is worth $250,000, \ Orpheus C. Kerr (Robert Ft. Xowafl) < was highly commended for hi* clevar satires on tho Army of tho Poto nac in * New York weekly' put bccimo invisible with toe return of peace He is attach ed at present to the staff of the World,' docs the "Social Studies" in the Sunday issue. Mark Twain (Samuel L Clemens) was brought to the surface by his "Jump ing Frog," aud universally advertised by his extremely ludicrois "Innocents Abroad." As the funny man on tho Gui axj/ he was prouunnced such a failure that he retired from his department in confusion and panic His '? Houghing It" is wholly inferior to his other book,' though it has sold largely. The pnbttec are wearying of him a little and he niu<t arouse himself if he euros for his lau rel-. Bret Hart conquered nttention by bli extraordinary tales in tho Overland tad grew celebrated byhistriflV'Tho Heath ens Chinee." Cities and publications* bid for him nnd Boston aud tho Atlantik carried him off. Since then he hag been stifled almost. Wo have had n4 really clever thing from him, according to the critcs who consider his reign at an eud. Juhn Hay came home from Europe, j wrote "Littlo Brceohes" and "JimBlutf I soe," and was made tho themo of count - j less paragraphs. His admirable book, "Castilliau Days," gave him reputation among the cultivated hut they are the few. He is doing fine strong work oh the Tribume, but he is slipping out of the public eye. Even Joaquin Miller the poet of tho Sierras, has almost had his day. Hit song are pronounced monotonous and his genius a manufactured article. We await at this moment anothercoat ing man?somebody to put. up and pufl down. He will bo along anon. Tho question is: Do our humoraist anl titer ry lights decline, or do we declare them exhausted because they are such, or be cause wo are merely fickle??.V :w York Correspondent St. Louis Globe. - ? ?mi if" A Western paper lias this dcricate personal item: "Thoso who knofr nice old Mr. Wilson, of this place, personally will regret to hear that ho Was assorted in a brutal mannar last week, but was not killed. The latest definition of a gentlemtn is a man that can put on a clean collar without being cousipicuoia.