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BY
;MrsL IL W. Stratton,
4JC&VA1S k ASSEMBLY STREETS
COLUMBIA, S. C.
?ff^l^t.to.the Greenville and Charleston
\* t\ C^f.ofds and the Business portion of
is i ,??t^ ,L^,City. Bate of Transient
?eard?Ttfro Dollars
. ?. per Day.
lie is Lattv ,j
.- TTTJ k.'i
Sli? watches at the porch.
The sun is nearly down;
What keeps her trunntlord?
He should be- back from town.
One.horu^cct.e.rngo
He never made lier wait,?
As much too early then, 11 otfV I
Aa now he ia too Ute I
Had Heaven bestowed on me
That little lady there,
Whom love has made ao sed,
And sadness made so fair,?
Her mind, her cheek, bor mouth
Should not kissea wait :
Were that awcot armlul mine,
1 never could be lute!
THE MIDNIGHT PKIUL;
OR SAVED I?Y A PFI ANTOM.
*'"' : _^n > -Ii
i
.The night of the 17th of October?
shall I ever forgot its pitchy darkness,
the roar of the autumnal wind through
the iorcst, and the incessant d itrn poor
of min ?
'This comes of short cut,' I muttered
petulantly to myself, as I plodded ahm?;,
keeping close to the trunks of ihn trees
avoid the deep ravine through which 1
could hear the rear of a turbulent stream
forty or filly feet btdow. . My blood run
cold as 1 'bought of tlie possible conse
quences of a misstep or move iu the
wrong direction, Why had I not been
route tiled to keep in the right road?
Hold on ! \Yu8 that a light, or arc
my tycs playing MC false ?
I stopped, holding on to {the low
retdunuM boughs of a hemlock that grew
on the edge.of the bank ; for it actually
m cmed as it the wind would seize me
i odiiy and hurl me down the pr cipitous ,
<iesccut.
It was a light?tha nil Provide nee?it
nas a light, and no iyuus futuiuAo lure
n.o > n to destruction, and death.
Halloo o-o !' I.
My voice rabg through the woods like
clarion. I plunged onward through
tanged* 'vines, den?e bricri^ancT rucTTy
hunks, until gradually neuring, I o mid
frrctire a fgUlO wrapped in an oil eloth
caj e, or cloak ; curp ing a lantern. Ah
ihe dim light fell upoti his laue I almost:
recoiled. Would not'solitude in the
??B: I- h a t '
woods Lc preferable to the companion
ship ?d ilie withered, wrinkle.1 old turn?
Hut it was too lute to recede now.
'What's wanting,' ho suarled forth1/
with a peculiar motion of the lips th.a
seemed to leave his yellow teeth all bare.
'I am lost in the iruads; cid you
direct me to R?^? atatidnT
'Yea ; R?? statiou i* twelve. wUea
Ironi here.'
?T-waUe mtl-a !'
I stor.d^gftest^^.,
'Can you tell nie ol any sholter I could
obtain for the night V
No.'
r 'Where are you going V
'To Brew's, dowu iierc by the maple
swamp.'
?Is it a^tavern T
?No.'
'Would they take me for a uight ?
I"~could pay them well.' n
His eyes glaumed ; the yellow stumps
stood reveahd o?ue more.
'1 '1 guess so ; folks do etop there.sotue
tinivs.*
'Is it fnr from here V
'Not very ; about half a uiilo.'
?Then let US make haste and reach it. ]
I am drenched to the skin.'
We plodded on, my companion morr
thau keeping pace with me. Presently
we 1?U the edge of the ravine, eutermg^'
what seemed like Hack less woods, und
keeping Mrnight on ui:til lights gleauiuti
Htlully through tho wet foliage.
It was a resinous old place, with the
windows all drawn to oue aide, us if the
foundation had settled, and the pillars
of a rude porch nearly rotted away.
A wotuuo answered my fellow travel
lers kfcock. My companion whispered a
word or two *to her, and she turned to
me with smooth, voluble words of wel
* ?ft A <J-m ? ?*
come.
She regretted the poverty of their
accommodations; but I was welcome to
them, euch as thoy wer?.
4 W litre is Isaac V demanded my
guide*
?lie has not como ia yA.'
I aat down on a wOodeii bench beside
the fire, aud ate a few mouthfuls ot
bread. \
'I should like to retire as soon aa I
possible,' said I, for my weariness was
excessive.
'Certainly,' the woman started up
with abverity,
?\VherfJ are ^?? goiog to put hiiu V
asked my guied.
'UpcUtiwber.'
'Put htm iti Isaac's room.'
Wo.' ' 01 "nttl"
'It's the most comfortnblo.'
interrupted the whispored
colloquy. ntoit
'I me not particular?I don't care
where you lodge me; only muke haste,
please.'
So I Was conducted up a steep ladder
that Btood iu a corner >f the room, into
an apurtment ceiled with slopiug be-uos
and ventilated by one small window,
where a cot bedstead, crowded closely
ugaiiul the boafd partition, and a pine
table, with two chairs, formed the sole
"attempts at furniture.
The woman set t,he light?an oil
lamp??'on the table.
'Anything more I can get you sir?"
said she.
?Nothing, thank you.'
'I hope you'll sleep well, sir. Wheii
shall I call you ?'
'At four o'clock in the moiuiug if you
please 1 indst walk ?.0 11--Mat ion
in time for the seven o'clock express.'
"I'll be sure to call you, sir.'
She withdrew, leaving me alone in
the gloomy little apartment. I sat down
and loJt'ked nround mo with no very
agreeable Kenaat?ms.
'A will sit down and write to Alice,' 1
thought; 'that will .soothe my nerves
1 ,t'V!! 1*' *?* tan +i*uV' as!)
ana quiet me, perhaps.
1 descended the ladder. The lire still
glowed redly on the stone he.-u th ; my
companion and the woman sat' buside it,
talking in ti low toue, a thir l psrsoti sat
at the table, eating?a short, stout, vil
laiuous looking matt, .inn red flannel
I ii
.t 1.. ?..,M ,tn.
T asked for'w'liting muferials, and re
turned to my room to write to my*wtfe.
'My darting Alice.' *
1 I }>auseil, tpd laid down my pen as I
concluded tue words, half smiling to
think ..what phe would fay, could she
'know',^mWBh?;'rt 0'
did I lay aside my pen and prepare fer
?luuiber. A? I folded my ]?aper, I hap
pen<d to glance toward my couch.
Was it the gleam of a human eye
obtfervii:ir me tlirnuoh the Ina. 1 poti
tum, or was 11 nut my own tancy^r mere
was a -crack there, hut ouly black dark
ness beyond ; yet. I could have sworn
that fcoujylhbis bad. spuikle.l bulyiully
at me.
I took out 'my. watch?it was only 1
o'clock. It was scaree'y worth while for
nie to undress for three hours' sleep; I
would lie down in my clothes and snatch
what slumber I could. So placing my
valise close to the bead of my Led, and
barrjending ,ih.; luckless doom with two
chairs, 1 extinguished the'light &ud lay
down.
At first I was very Wakeful, but
gradual'y a soft drowsiness seemed t<>
steal over me. like a mibly mantle, until
all of a sudden some startling electric
. ? "'it' ?n r a* > 7 *5-?' >
thrill coursed, through my veins, and 1
sat up, excited and trembling.
A luminous softness seemed to glow
through the room?no light ef tho moon
or stars was ever so penetrating?and
by the little window L saw Alice, my
wile, dressed in floating gauneiilh ol j
whito, with her long golden hair knotted 1
back by a blue ribbon Apparently she j
was beckoning to rau with outstretched '
hands and eyes full of vuid,.:inxioti.?
Under Dote
I sprung to my feet and ru-hed to t
ward her, but aa I reached the wind w,
the -fair apparition r-ccu.ed to vanish in- ?
Ij the stormy darkness, and I was left ;
alone. Iu the self same instant the
sVarp report of a pistol sounded ?I
could Si c the japged btrcatn of Are above
the pillow, straight through the very
spot where te.i seconds siuue my head ?
had lain.
With an instantaneous rc^ligtltiou of
uiy datiger, I swung myself over the
edge of the window, jumped some eight I
or ten feet duto tangled hushes below, ?
and, as I ciouehcd there recovering my
breath, 1 heard the tramp oHoot teps
into my room.
.'Ia he dead r cried a voice up the
ladder?the. smooth, deceitful voice of
the woman.
'Of course he is,' grow en a v doc
baek, 'that charge would hare killed tea
men. ? A light there, quick, and tell
Tom to bo ready.',
A co'd, agonized shudder ran through
me. What deu of midnight murderers
had 1 fallen into ? And how fearfully
narrow bad been my escape 1
7 A WltW^Be/ apeed that only wortu' ter
the high road,
ror and deadly peril c:injgiTe, I rushed
through the woods, n?vfr ill?min tod "by
a Faint glimmer of stat^ght. ? I know
not what, impulse guided^ by, footsteps- -
1 shall never know Ino many times 1
crowed my own tnvrk '?l* how close 1
stood to the brink of tfo aiaadly ravine,
but a merciful VrovidJi KMOtodnipassed
'me with u guiding nnd 'rotecting care,
for when tho morning Jdawned, with
faint rod bars of orient \* {ht against the
eastern sky, 1 was close ->
httnie seven miles from
Once at town, I foItr#fty%t6^y to the
police, 'bnd a dctnchine^>'fcafi sent vr ith
me to the spot.
Alter much sonrcliin'-j&nc},ninny false
alarms, We meciededjtn finding the
ruinous old house; b}t ^t was empty ,*
our birds had fl.-wn ; j?rt'3ioVT recover
my valise and chain, wiiob latter I had
lelt under biy pillow. *
'It's Drew's gang' aid the leader of
tho police; ':iud tht\?'vc troubled us
those two years. I /tao't think, that
they'll come back hcroTF presout.'
Nur aid (hey. 5/*' ;
But the .sttaugest ^kvt of toy story Jk
to come yet. Somc'toree weeks sub-so
ijuently I received a M-for from my sis
ter who was with Ali^e in her English
home?a lelter whosojut'dligeuce filled
inu with surprise.
'T must ti ll you'>st)ttlathitig very
strange' wrote my si?ter, 'that happeued
ror us on the nigitt pfc*h9>17th of Octo
ber. Ali'-'- Ii.i.l not b,ccn well for some
lime; in fugt she had been confined to
her bed nearly a weelS ffnil 1 was sitt iug
beside her readme? late \ the
clock had ju<t st.ni -k >?dc, when all of s
sudden she .seemed t.? Faint away,grow
ing white ntid t'^iajiHv7fcJE2?^^c' *
hastened to c^j?i'i^.uH-e, biit*uif?Jir,
eir..rta seemed vain I, ,-ft,torc her to life
or animation T w | ;d*t'?'bout "to icud
for the doctor, ^he n VtV aonBes returned
as suddenly as they Lt j,^ mttA, ,bs> sa
on in bod, purfniellcck hor-hair and
loooki'ig wildly arVn*HiejE^_
"Alice '-' 1 erc^ijLi, 'how you tcrri
?Not ill,' she ::ii.mv< red, 'but T fee! so
strange. Gruoie 1 hdrc been with my
I husband !'
All our rcaxnqggg failed to convince
her ol the impn.-^.biiity ol lu-r a.v-crtions
She persist* to this moment that sitosaw
you and was with you on the 17th ujj
October, or rath of rm the morning of
the l.Sth?whore und how ahc cannot
tell?hat wo think it in ml Iiave been
some dream. .JjJhc is better now .and 1
wish you could see Tiow fast she is iiu
proving.
This is my plaiu. unvarnished tale. I
do nut pretend'to explain or account 'for
it h mysteries. I * imply relate facta. Lot
psychologists unravel the Ubnnthic.il
skuiu. X aip uot superstitious, neither
do 1 believe in ghosts, wraith or appari
tions; but this thing 1 do know?that
altfioiigh my wife was in England, in
body on the morning of Oolober 18, her
spirit surely stood bolero me iu Vow
York at the moment of i he deadly poril
that menaced inc. * It may be thtc to the
subtile instinct and strength oi a wifo'b
holy love, all things are possible, but
Alice surely saved my life.
um . ?. mm t t _
Saoac-ity ' or rtlR Bmki>.?Cases
like the following almost make us ex
claim, "What's the Use of eyes f" The
accomplishments* of a t-ightlcs* man are
tbitS: told. Beading, I'enn.. owus the
person, but leaves it for a Berks county
Geriuan paper to immortalize him. He
is a German, ninety years ot'age, keeps
a tavern. (whielt is known as blind
Hartman V> is export iu the handling of
money, und battle* ?11 attempts to cheat
him with spurious curreucy. lie walks
out alone, can point to any piece of real
estate in the tOwii, and to crown nil,
in- nils clocks and repairs musical instru
ments.
Han'NAH.?An exchange says there
is a station on the i'lttsbutg Fort Wayne
and Chicago railroad called Hannah,
in honor of a deceased cit i/.-mi ol Fort
Wayne, A train (topped thnre tho
? itlirr day, and tho brakeman after tho
manner of his elsss; i hurst his head in
the door and csllsd out loudly, " Ilatum"
A young lady, endowed with the poetic
appollution of Hannah, suppositig he
was addressing her and shocked Kt hw 1
familiarity on short acquaintance frown
cd like a thundercloud, and retorted,
"Von shut y olsr Mouth?"
i i ?mm mm ssi
A awful swell?The check after ?
tootU UCbf!.
Pulling a Tooth with a Door-Knob.
-
The rough ?ort of dentistry described
below baa occasionally been practiced
as a trick, with more or less success ;
but w* hare rarely heard of a patient's
choosing the door knob method of his
own accord.
A rough, Western farmer came into a
doctor's office to hare a tooth extracted,
but IIinched at sight of the "instru
ments;" and again and again the doctor,
tried in Tain to get a gripper into his
mouth.
At ln*t, the Hoosicr declared "that
'ere new fancied thing to be no account,"
and wanted to know if the doctor could
tie a striug around the tooth; "for,"
said he,' "that's the way I used to pull
'em out, au' I guess it's bcttcr'n all yer
ncw-luugled fixtures."'
The dentist, to please him, said he
would try, and producing from a drawer
a fine strong piece of Ban-line, after a
great deal of trouble, and yells of pain
from the iloosier, it was firmly secured
around the tooth. The Iloosier then
proposed to fasten the siring tc the
door-knob, which was accordingly done.
The backwoodsman then commenced
a series of easy jerks on the lino, each
ef which was followed by yells of pain.
The doctor resumed his seat, and
smiled .uidibly behind his paper, occa
sionally glancing toward the door, and
then turning quickly again to the paper
to hide belli id it his merriment.
Thus matters sto ?d, until at last tho
lire burned low, and the dentist arose to
replenish it. At he threw in the wool,
and Mined the red hot coals into a
blaze, a biilliant idea scorned to strike
him for his face brightened * onderfully.
Arising from the floor, he left the poker
iuThd-fi^fc. and, seating hitusetf, awaited
the change of affairs.
The back woodsman" -bad relapsed into
drspoodency, lor a melancholy expve ??
sion had settled on his face. He stcadi
ly gazed downward, as if he were iu
deep thought.
- TluEaleuti^as 7 have enid before, ro
sutued his seat, but threw aside hia'
paper, and sat looking intently into the
fire, with an expression of merriment
placing on his features.
Thus he sat for some time. At last,
muselessly -rising from his chair, h
drew the . poker, one end of which was
glowing with a red heat, from the fire
l?o suddenly brandished it in the air,
and brought it rapidly towards the
Hooker's nose. The backwoodsman
threw himself back with a jerk. The
cord did not break nor the door-knob
coam out; but the tooth loosened from
its roots, and bounded against the door
with a click like a bullet.
Two Curtous Nsbdi.eh.?The King
'of Prussia recently visited a ueodle
manufactory in hia kingdom, in order to
aee what machinery, Cotnbiucd with the
human hand could produce. He was
shown a number of superfine needles,
thousauds of which, together, did not
weigh half an ouuee, and marveled how
such minute objects could be pierced
with sn eye. Hut he was to see in this
respect how eren something still finer
ami more perfect could be created. The
boier?that is, the workman whose busi
ness it ia to bore the eyes in these nood
les?asked for a hair from the monarch's
head. It was readily given, and with^a
? mile. Ho placed it at once under the
I boring machine, turned a hole iu it with
I the greatest care, furnished it with a
i tlnead and then handed the singular
uec lie to the astonished^King.
The second curious needle is in
possession of Queen Victoria. It was
made at the celebrated needle manu
factory at Hedcitch, and represents the
column of Trajan iu miniature. This
well known lloman column*is adorned
with numerous scenes iu sculpture,
which immortalize Trajan's heroic ac
tions in war. On this diminutive needle,
scenes in the life of (juecu Victoria aru
represented :n relief, but so finely cut
and so small, that it requires a magnify
ing. glass to see them. The Victoria
ucedle can, moreover, be opened ; it con
tains a number of needles of smaller size,
which aro equally adorned with aceues
iu relief.
Says a Canada paper, *Tt would make
some of our tine ladies start to aee Lud/
Duffer in promenading the streets doing
her shopping. She dresses plainly and
sensibly, wetra thick soled boots, and
does not fear a walk from one end of
the city to the other, or to face the
muddiest crossing."
? ? '
1 Girl and a Wild Cat
A rotnatic incident recently orcurod
at tho ranch of Leonard Methcn, about
five miies above Brown's Valley, Cali
fornia* M:;s Leonora Methen, daughter
of Metket- aged perhaps 1G pears, pos
sessed a pec lamb which she very natu
ally admired. On Thursday evening of
laat week the lamb was missing. Leonora
observed about the yard tracks of an
animal, and thought thoy wore that nf
a California lion. There being no men
about tho rauch, the girl dispatched her
mother to a neighbor for assistance to
hunt the wild animal. Subsequently^
concluding she would not wait for re
iiiforcemeuts, Leonora loaded her six
shooter and a shot gun, and placing her
dog Bcxer on the scent und tracks
started out alone to capturo the beast,
if possible. After going somo distance
.?ml climbing a high hill, an animal,
which proved to be the wild cat, was
seen in the top of a live oak tree. The
gill then took aim with her pistol and
fired but missed the animal. \ second
barrel was discharged when the wild cat
tumbled from the tree. A brief fight
theu occurred between the dog and the
wild eat, v. hen tho latter got away and
ran down the hill. A pursuit was made
by the girl and two dogs?another one
having come up in the meantime
Tho wild cat was overtaken and fiually
killed by tho dogs aud with rocks thrown
by the girl. The victor seized her prize
carried it to the house, where, by that
tiniG the mother had returned with neigh
1 o s cagar for u l.uu . On examining the
head of the wild cat it was found that
the pistol ball entered his right eye and
ranging downward passed out at the
f.?rcshouldcr- Thftnniui.il weighed thirty
pounds and measured thiee feet and
?ne inch from tip to tip. The young
lady very naturally feels proud oror her
achievmcut.
A Wedding and a Murder.
Big Creek, ten vaWeu north of M?m-_
plus, Ten a., \v.as recently the scene of"
I ? ? ?
the following disgraceful murder. A
German named Bach man bad married
the sister uf George Cooper a jollifica
tion h d taken place aud four hours
after the we 'ing, one hill, a former lov
j er ol* Bach tijo's bride, and then pretty
drunk, begs i to discuss the lady's char
acter in a in unu r so displeasing to the
tipsy bridegroom and his brother in law
that, with knife snd pistol, thoy set
upon and murdered him. They then
ran away, leaving the newly-made bride
alone to onurn, and now, as the Mem
phis Appeal says, "the citizens of the
neighborhood want to have their fellow
arrested and punished"?which is stat
ing the case not at ail too strongly.
A Nkw Turns?A California papor
discribes the discovery of three tilla
ges of Juni Indians, supposed to be the
survivors of the ancient Aztoca. They
dwell on the great trail from Mohav, on
the Colorado, to Albuquerque, on tho
Rio Grand, and are about a day's jour
ney from the diamond field. They num
ber about 15,000 and are very different
from other tribes, being in looks, bear
ing aud pride of dross, a manifestly supe
rior race. The women are comely* vml
modest in dress, their houses aro clean,
and their cooking good, Certain kinds
of cloth are made by them These peo
ple have fields of corn, wheat and vege
tables, flocks of sheep and goats, and
they keep all the domestic animals.
They are friendly to the whites, never
fight aggressively, but are stubborn in
defence. Their housos are of stone
three stories high and built in tcrrancc
form. They worship : he Great Spirit,
and believe he dwells in the sau.
A Rkd Hot ARMY.?Figures are
inexorable, "and they sometimes cut fua
ny capers. For instance, a letter appears
from Secretary Bilk nap, asking for a
special appropriation of 8100,000 to
furnish the army with stoves, $20,000
having been exhausted for that purpose.
As thero are 30,000 men in the army,
this would give each man a four dollar
stove, South ns well as North. The
curious reader will ask what eviry man
in t he army wants a fa ur dollar stove
for.
Mrs. Mary C .Mast, widow of the
lato rcgistsr of deeds of JJeaveDwortfc
Coouty, Kan., has been appointed by
tbe Board nf County Commissioner! to
succeed her lato husb tnd in that office.
A. Hard Casein Court.
The following am ruin ? scene tt Miel
to have taken placo in one of tho courts
out West:
Judge?Bring the prisoner before tow
court.
Pete?Iloro he is, bound to blase as
the spirits of turpentine said whoa tt
was on fire.
Judge?We'll take a little fire out of
you. How do you live ?
Pete?I ain't particular, as tho oyster
said when they axed him it ho would be
fried or roasted.
Jodgo?Wc don't want to hear what
the oyster said or tho spirits of turpen
tine cither. What do you follow f
Pete?Not particular, anything that
comes iu the way, as the locomotive
raid when she run over the nigger.
Judgo?We don't eare anything
about the locomotive. What's jour
business?
Peto?That's various, as tho cat said
wheu sho stole tho chicken off the ta
ble.
Judge?That comes near the line now
I suppose.
Bete?Altogether in my lino, as the)
rope said whon it was chocking the
pirate.
Judge?If I hear any more such eotn?
parisoo.s I shall give you twelve
months
Pete?I nm bono as tho beefsteak veld
to the cook.
Judgo?Now. sir, your punishment
shall depend upon the shortness and
correctness of yours answers. I sup
pose you lire by going round the
docks,
Bote?No, sir, ean't go round the
docks without a boat, and I ain't wot
4 "
ono.
Judge?Answer me. How do you
get your bread ?
Pete? Sometimes at Small's the baker
aud sometimes I eat a later.
Judge?Nc more of that stupid inso
lence, llow do ycu support your
self?
. Beie?oomciimen cn my Jff* >at^
sometimes is my chair.
Judge?I order yon to answer this
question correctly : how do you do f
Bete?Pietty well I thank how do you
d>?
Here Pete was allowed to retire with
out further interrogatories as to his es
cupatinn or mode of living.
Doino "a Stroke op Businbss."??
During a theatrical oxoitemont in Boston,
the coachman who drove theprimadonna,
from the steamboat to the Revere Rente)
has ridiculed the insame admiration,
which his "fellow citizens" were exhibi
ting. Mounting the steps of tho hotel
he cried, "Here's the hsnd thai once
lifted Jenny Lind out of the coaeh.
(jontlcman, you can any'of yew have
the privilege of kissing it for' five dol
lars?Children half price,
A New Haven man who went honte
the other eve-nog and found his house
locked up after infinite trouble managed
to gain entrance through a backwia*
dow aud then discovered on the parlor
table a note fiom his wife reading : "I
havo gone out; you will fiud the door
key ou one side of tho door step
A clerical wag who was made tb?
rceipicut on Christmas morning of an
unusual nuuibor ot embroidered slippers
worked by the fair hands of the young
ladies of his congregation, nearly suf
ficient to stock a moderate sised shoe
store, was beam to wonder if the young
ladies had t ike i him for centipede.
A Kentucky hello, Miss Amelia Be
gram,? widely know for her benuty sjpre
bility aud intelligence acoidentaiyraad
fatally shot herself a few weeks siucs
through the heart with n pistol belong
to her brother whioti had been left by
him on a table in her room.
? y-?i
A colored woman, aged 107 years, has
just died near Louisville, who, oa bar
death bed, confessed that she nerer kaew
Washington, ner aureod any of the
distinguished me* of auciea* iistea,
She deserve* a ?tatue iu black marble.?
Bo$to* Globe
"I wish I was in Heaven." said dis
couraged Mrs* O'C lire nee the other;
morning. "So would I," remark.*! ner
brutal husband,"if I hadnAfriea Is there
whom I value " -