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Obituary Notices and 'ITibuilu $1 00 per
CUNTENTENT,
- luggested 4n se'ing a little pictu're oT
'An aged couple in a log cabin, before a
fire, a. bed timo.]
'he b-inks Is all abtislin', Nane, and
thingi is goin' ter bmash ; .%
The people sold for credit, whar they'd
oughler sold for oash
.An' whisser's bringiu' poverty to every
body's door :
Tho rich kin istand it very well--hit's or
ful on the poor.
the workinman's the. scro', Nance
hest' gist no work to do,
An' folks ar roin' to' suffer whar they
suffrin' never I new
An' thent that's always 'showin' o' to
p.or folks whit. tit.-y've got,
You'll find. perh %pi.s thit. they'll turn out,
the poosest cf the let,
I've jeast boe-thinkin', Ntn3y Jane,
abanil 11h1 awful mu111 ;
How foilks had1 b <tier live an' raise their
chlieirle-i jus-t lika i 4 ; i *
For. a. I told old hauoin Smltk, ie sea
it fill k, ir otr
He unver in his life had seed two folks
iie me un you.
Our liores at Ald 16g nabin, Naice. half
hiddein thle wvoods;
Our faily's rich in life ed- I th ea:th, bt
poioir in -wosldly gio'ls '
We It.i i-'t in.. 'in. lave curi i n, or no ear.
.al on hte floior..
But the .utin is always smihhling thiough
tie window an' the door.
Our farm to a'nail-we've got a spring an'
ho-rses. ogs an' Vcw9
We've gal. to smilk ani cook an' sew, an'
b'ys to tend the plows : .
We'Ve got ito gold iftiha ks that bust., ior
*ive tio taniti a csil-.- -
. tell you. Namnoc he Lord is good, an we
should fn3L otlatent,
Ve''e plititi n i' honest ccuinlry folks, an
know no city airs.
We read thei Bible every night before we
kneel itt prayers;
!Vb go -to chur.-h n Stnd.y, Nance, an'
- walk iust li&!e the -yet, .
A n' live like ChristihAn' p-ople onght-we
try tu do1 Wilati's best.
Our hoy's-doti't do like city boys, who
i -'rimi thaar duty shrink,
Wlhose parents raise 'em tip to think 't.ia
a d.-griot in work. 1
Our gals ais tI kl I hem city gala yott will
so offeai tet'
Who' ought to help itir nlotheis more an
run less on the stree t,
Y'du do .'t rbe'Thomas Henry pushin' bil
. linteis every night,
Or lotli' 'hout the taveen, gitlin' treated
till he's tight ; -
You ldon't fint hni a runnin' 'ro.nd to
o * tclt same deiiie'ts eye,
0.' Od6rt'n' of some gail itat's rich, whose
daddy's 'bout, to die.
Ali ! Nance. the time has comtie at last
w hen prillo nmust have its fa'l ;
The folks'll ad 'the - workin' man's the
lite andti pr.,p rt all ;
Tho -fnrtiet's independent. Nance. his
f 'ade will never apil - '
So long as he is able with his sons to till
the stoil.
lho'proud, nrimlocratio folks, iiho salt in
fortiune's door, - -
Who r hought the'd never come to wan
are -hustrd up'.' nn! poor-;
Their serv nts gone. their horses sold,
t heir heunst's an' ijiei'- laptls.
An' ever'ythaing extept. thaer lives, ai'e in
the staeriff'st hands.
Old womar, put ylit knittin' up ; its gittin'
ptarty latp ; .; -
I'll read aibat wo chapters in the Bible
if'you'l wa viit ;
We'll praty to:20n. ief->re -re sleep, as
every Christ inn olight,
An' thitik liam, not foir what we want,
but what we've haid and get.
- WI L~L 1. IIA ES,.. .
(iellefa News.
Groat disasters are reported from
fluods. lust 'week, in the Sotuth and
West.
.In 1872, G reat Britain mined 123,
900l,000 I ons of coal, and exported
14,000,000 tonas.
Sno t fivtell to the,,dlopth .of tN ioclhe
at varitous psinits in thu 1o~yal North
.'PThe w'dkIing rnen of:Eglmnd hlave
26'',t00,0t0 in the esavltng' bantks es
LubAi-had for the worhisig claspos.
. A Ison ofl the late. Rled. R. J. Bfree!.
ihridige, t).'b., w.a killed last~ week at
LI;,ao, Tietnu., whers lie #9as a st,u
dtt of' law-.
, in not1 has planedu ' the ,Virgiruia
tLegiautuio littaititng itnterscat to ..ix
pi.-r cinit., td foiteit ing ..iierest,
nheitsri'- ai ttr ra t'- is chargti,
'I'be~ Stt G.o g .r Itniana ist to
huoldIi I iiinveti I. *T at itindinapo.l is, iin
the 10) h of .Ini e, .o inuaut'te re
lote it son ufli sir-rptoi
W~heit is oolemriaud Ftreanch chemy
ist Q afih} was on pnue ocasion a wit
ne-n .t a truah fu' gioing~ lie ws.r
anked by the preoident, if. he .could
staue theo gnatity of arsenio-rerjuisite'
to k tIl a fly ? "Cortniuly, M. le Preu
iden,,A irepliedtheo expaort ; '-butI
nmust flest knovw bjeforebund the tage
of tl.e fly, its sox, its toet peramecnt, ut.
onditioni and habit of body, whbethe r
mttrried or single, widlow or umadeu,
widower or hachelo.3"
A Jrusband Sold.
Botne years since, when all the
wosld was mad upon lqUtterjes,,- the
Irish cook of a midle'tlgpd, single gen
;tleman drew fron his hands her eArn
inlg aid savingsof somo years. Iler
etuployer was atixtIus to know the
cause, and sho told him that, having
repeatedly drean)l that a certain
number was a great .prize, she had
bought the whole ticket. He oalled
her a fool for her pAins, nnd never
lost a chance to tease her on the sub
jecot. 8fie seened to take his taunts
in good hutnot-,. saying it would all
turb ob.rqtht by-and-by. Ote indro..
ing he opened his paper it breakfast,
and shw it announced that the very
numbei-s tha.t lWridget bad dreamed
and bought,. ha. drawn the treat
priie, one hundred thousand dollars
Bridget was summoned, and the
wily ;gentle man proceeded to inform
'her, that.he had long valuel hei as a
friend, atsd being deirous to .settle
down,himself for life, he would ie
*.iiling to make her his wife, if abe
had.ho obj -otion, ,.lriget had al
W t-hlought.hiin a cear, good a mun,
'ad oui!d:be giad to do i.nything t4,
please him. S.i he flAished his
l.reakfast., told Bridget to put on her
bet th.ingas. the patmn was aent for,
anad thade them one that very morn
ite
After It-*as. all bver the cautioun
but-band said to his brid.,
.'-Well, iU idvet, youn made two
good hits to-daty ; yu .ave .-got a
ood husband, and noiv' f lug me the
lot tery! ticket you and I have laugh
ed so tIdeb aboit,"
PIlease doi', lough eny more
about that ; 1 knew there was noth
ing in thbem dreams, and I sold it t6
the butcher a tmonth ago I"
The Eufaula New:, has uan adenti-t5t
of-a hors ihle afAr whjiih occurred in
liaibour county, botween Eufaula
and Greenvillt, on Thuiaday morn
itig , laat. A maegrd boy, seIsLeti
yeais 4-f age, narnbe. Natiisin Newtoti,
hIad unariied the Jau,hter ofa. negro I
nainsed )ainiel lirok. le proposed
to ni..e his w fe to is own resid.ence
to wt1io a 1..ot joeuOd, aid iu.r.uided
the girl'-inot to go Natban went
back on Wedseeday lat t.. see if lie
could sspt persuade his wife to go
%10 hih, anid Brooks set his dogs
oni him. Nihat fled, aijd the . dyge
followed him home. That n1 ight
Brooks aind two other negroes, armed
uryived at. Mr. Alstou's where Nattiant
Was livinhg, acca-ci him of s8taling
the dogs, and forced in to acco mi
patty them to Ur,.oks's, where they
whipped ii' to i-ath with a unggy
trace ! '..y t .on fled, and have not
3et been trre .ed.
A Washington letter says N
'decihioi ham yet been atotcsued by
the Supreme Court in. the Sepangh
case frour Soith Carolia, involving
the cona.titutionality of the Ku-Klux
low. i is uiplersto,d, that so far
the'meimbers of the ct art hasie held
so formal deliberationc on the sub
j,-et. Tho quiestion'now . is scarcely
cotisidered of any - couiserjeebee, and
it is now in .csontemplAtion by the
departnent ofj istice to ord er --t4
United States attorney for -South
pa-olina i~o withdr-aw the cuse aga iinst
Beytaugha.. , iShouild this bo- done,
which is very' pt-oba ble, it muakees ab
end of the whole matter.
tia h- RaiyRpbian party
has recently experienced its second
strokte of pzanusis, to be followed. by
an apoplectio collap~se in 4d&emis,er
of this year. ."It is,t' says the Tri
bunte, "btr4pped of the aillies by whaomi
itias'beeni--kept in power. It is
abandoned--as ins Connecetiout-.by
the digusted people,iwho have tired
9fits corruptitons. ..1It irn left to its
fate- by every man who feels the
rigor of taxation and the ex tortion
of the plunderer-s, and its end wili. be
accomplished in ,thefJallI by the great
body of the agrloulturists.'
flon. E. D. Msasel, in speaking
of the Prsotestant (Chuasch in the Unem
ted 8'tates,says the populastion of this
cont. y incsreatses somiewhat fas: or
tian the Chiteohuaccumliuodation; and
thast thereo are miaceh msores thu t) nine
tiillions of. personas in the U..ited
S'tate.4a w ho e.>uhll nut.Gud roorns .in thes
hsur-checs. The Indelpeiident saja thus
is niot, a, spilhsnti Vtv5 that instead of
'ee, gsumbesr of thiseo who djaiints ait
tensd church heimcg 25.per cent, of the
popla~tians 42 pre etis miore *sosr'
ly the trillh. (iiat thereo its r.,ssm lin
al--the -Churche~s to, 56 pier cent. of
the popuation an~d t.hast only shbout
58 kyr cent. are pussible worshippers.
-luton or. ,. . ..
The frienda-of John 0. .Whittier
have fears.. that she maiy, never be
strong enough to anssurre ll literary Ia.
bors, and-nite urging~ him to Mo abroad
for his healtn. Never rohiait, lhe has
lieen losiv.t strot.gth fot.sonb yetslh
piast. Wh'ien the rebellions as eruh.
ed b~e saidl that hoe -felt thast his life
work had been happily cendedi.
4 New York establishment ad ver- -.
tLies "1erfutued ilk baths for the
amnlazion.
ReognItio1 of Cuba.
W ASnINGTO N, April 13.-,h<
oflicial oigan contains an olaborat<
editorial declaring that. tho present
ktime is op)bortun0, -. a.d gives aeasot
for the immtuediate recogniti-m of the
Cuban R'epublio. The art.ole con
tains citations from international law
the .*riter showing that it will be nc
j.xst equse of offence to Spain if the
teoognition in accorded and commer
cial ireatieo entered itite-with the R.j
public prior to.recognitiona by Spain.
It droliros that our commercial in.
terests are gr oatly sufrgring on account
of the war in Cuba ; that thebalance
of trade against us is fron forty ;o
fifty uillilns; that c9mpliotion
heretofore ciisting no longer exiit.
that Englaind intrigues for ontr l of
Cuban offairs and trade ; that a reoog
nition would open new markets for
Ale Western grain-growers and .the
provision, dealers maU'hiiiists and
inanuufacturers of the Eastern and
Middle SLates I furnih occupation to
Aounands of Southern people, and
restore prosperity and good feeling in
he Southern States towards the go.
re.-nenit. The artied is suppoise'l
,o exp.ess President Grant's views,
iud foro.hadows action by the govorn
neni Lt.
rick 'rpsc.
N FAw YonK, A pril 11.-The board
)f icatilth is,ued a pornit for the u.ri
it of Loui.4S G3:rnmi9,'whu died at the
I.Jue i f Dr. Ernt Utlinag, on whos i
-ertilim.ate the burial permit was
pn ma'ed The futaeral and iuterimiat
.1 .wed. It was a. on ruiinored : that
Jillng aid Miss Germ.s had been en
Viged, and that the doctor had taken
3ui a joint policy of , ttn thousand
dullur., in tho Nerchantan' Life I).
urance Cbmanhy, wh 'ich policy was
;o revert to him in case of her death.
Suspicions vere aroused that the
1oung wouan had ntiet. ,ayiulenit
dIeali.. .The in'suaance comlany .wal
tot FithfieLd. The cotoner ordered
ie body exhumed. The disiiter.
neat toik place, and the coffin wits
aikeni to the Morgue and op'ened.
vben, insten'd -vf a body, were found
sinmetemn bic.k. wr.y ed .i (,apor
indhkept in 'ptIae by laths.
k, the undortaker, is arrested.
'lhere is:ngitation in the Episco'l
liurh of Virginia as to. the ftituiro
> 'inon of itsA clergy ill regard to the
ead:ng qnehtions of church doctriine
md po-licy, and eArious, pprelbtiions
uitt :ui to the oiOirse nou.t likely to
be ta!nn. Then tis no expectation
that tie movement of Bishop Cut.n
1nnins will be followed, but it, is s3pd
to be not impos..-ible that .a more lui
portant, aid effeetive roten, against
the new saceidotalism wshich is repre.
sente.l by t e IBihop of Illinoir and
li sympathizer, will be tiaide. Vir.
grini% chuichmii boiat of their his
torical recsrd, au.d rigfi- to acts and
onvenions far o ler-thim the date of
the :Protes tant tIpiscopril hurchof
twiaUited Stattes with ta feeling that
recent ritual innovationsare not only
very heretical b.it also somewhat
snobbish.
'I'lhC Washiun>gtois City Republican
says: A 4cermtain Waihinigtou letter
wrilter gives his arenders the vague
iinformnation ,that ex-Sdtrhatort John
1col, iif Northn Carola~aa; "is practic
ing bin profensaion ipt this cityp." Ex
actly what his proVfesisiefti asiin
bed t w3mytery here, unlecs it be to
delude the workingonen with the
preience tilat he is theirifaienid, arnd
htnht filed. ton'ueccd inu thar; A t
0one ime hna professed to be aspirnant
for Cabimiet honoers; but failed in that
also. Ini short, lhe seems to be a ipnan
of-iniany :prfn i-n tahd an equali
nubber of* fanlureo -
The Swiss Times, rspenking of thne
effect of ,the Old Ce t~hollo '' move ment
in 8witeerlanni innt': "h is' less
tan a year sinoeo the work of reformn
begana in G)enneya, and( air9. dy thne
prnests are chosen by'the churcei' the
1orced Cu pfesaiont Is relieved, the
heledy' nbur ry, divine- wtorehip 'is in
ti-e laiguge of the people." -The
same; ,.~pupr denuies tine story about a
qA.parre1 bo. ween;, ..i5acinthre :a-nd
Reinken, publi lred 'In the Catholic
Res isw, anid ataten thnat relations of
anutial kindljinesi-exg,,t, betw~een t-he
Oldl Caholitis of Germany and
S witz rland.,.
-r n e eroat of-the Liberal party
in Enaglaand athe Nonaconfomi.,ilts see
lit rabih ity. of thne -d iseitiblieh-n
Iteri o. f thne -Nun ttflal anb treh, Th~e
Comsi viii iva -sot,e ii ni l 'Ihe sblid
agi n~t it. A luthough in any levent
ie nation would at preenttn I by
thne en.hhi.,biaent., tine Oppo.tition
Iaubbid ,ilon o hopje f flaul succeass in
t~ne rengmn of t he Liberala than they
can posuily find uinder .Dlisraeli's aid
minitraton.- Christian Union,
The San 1Fr ancisco Chronie says
that ern the 16t~h of A pril there wall
outne off one of the most neiowurth3
tooial events that San Fei'nnoisco oir
any other eity ons the Amerbn opn.
tine'nt Iis aver .firnessed. It will
conai.e of a grandi ball, in which- the
panticpantw ui I amppnair In diferAnt
ebaratcteri taken fr'ous Charles Dick
en's works.
Edhine Boileat.
I ,iF.A'Tr1 Of "OI.D BULLION'S" DAoQH
.TER A TRAGEnY FOUbED'' 6N
F11ENWNT'8 EL PASO ROAD OPEnIA
TiONS.
The -, Paris papers Oention the
death of the above nanmed lady,, in
that city, on the 8th of, Mlarch. She
was ti e Youugebt daughter of the*
late Seinator I homas H. $enton, and
possessed mayy of hip attrIbetes-his
warn heart, indemitabke energy and
stein senve of duty. Pasiting away
from e iith at an early ageot thirpty.
tnine years, the viciasitudes 9f her liie
nad been..tiroady more than isually
f.ii to..the lot ot wornan.. - k.,
Durin, her girlhood bot-father was
auoug tOhe foretiost A wericans of the
ime, aid her first yqnth was ushered
into the high oirojo.of esciety at the
capital of the Ulited State., where
the brillianoy of her iutelkpet and the
grae -of her manner madig her an 4t.
trtotioun in the midst,-of diplomuate
aud stat9emen. 1i4 185 bhe was
iarried to Baron Boillgau, then
Seew etary to the French Legation.
Snortly after her marriageher hus.
blmd was promoted by his govern
tuent to he Post of Consullat Calcut.
ta. and thQ young woman was remov.
ed from the easy life and ;the happy
surroundings whiob she had hitherto
known to lace the realities of tile
world ,among btrangerb in a distant,
lai. See-ral-years in that unheal..
thy climate ufibtd beriously tvo un.
dertnine her husband's health, and
linilly; obtainfig tho.faipr of a re..
eall, with her aiollh ,nd and her
infant, leaving Ohiid A~e behlid
her. she retqrned to o ee. 'ne
next advancetnent.brqugbt ber I us
band as Consul..Geoeial to Quobeo,
whither #-he accompanied 'him, and
in 1867, she returned for.,a few yoars
to the U.nited.States' B.-ron Heilleau
ha4uitig lb the teantimue been appoint.
ed Consul General a.t this port. But
in 1870 came anottei- - promotion,
whici was but A new exilu, hrer hus
batii's io4U;service; being rewarded
with the post of Minister Plenipo.
tedii y to Peru. Very eoon aofrer
canme .t e...A t intima(Iotjg of the
oPwnitig trial, to whisaii, it ma.9 be sal4
-4 as duo the doath of Mr. Boilleau. In
1867 General Fremout, who was nat
ried to her sister, was erganiiing tb6
M1le.n1lhis) aud A Paso latiroid. He
lookei to Fratiue a.4 the great warkdt
for his' bonds. lie -expiained: the
merits ot' the enterprise to Baron
l3ieau and regsqeted a favorable in
tit.dutction if the-aobeine to the Vreuch
Mioiisterof the Iuteridr; 'Whieh-' wks
giren. : The lotit.: was -taken up in
'aris, but the rbild wan uver built.
The eoipany's affairs were placed 'in
the hatads of a rooeiver awl -the
French bond hidders were thid vuffer
eih,4 The eren-h oirta, refusi-ug to
look into the oauese of the failure, pro.
nounced the whole ichenle a fraud,
cot.cooted for tbe purpose 6f obtaining
Iluoney fow Melch 'citizens' under
falne pretetsiea. Their own Minister
%as aeOu!ed of partibipation iq the
fraud of having reootiimewded thib euL
terprise, and he wes rcaolled froih
Put Wand put on trial. The decision
of t1t ieoul t was a sweeping one; N
el en of honesty was rheognizedl in
the wh Ie transoction. It was treat
1ed as a pure fabrication, and every
one'con~cerId in It :ias prononned
guilty, fromi General Frernoout down.
twnrd. The Getneral, fortuniately foi
bim, was in' Now t'ork ; b,,t lben
Ullillean, who had come frodi ilma
to. Paris-a~t;the -first intimnation of anly
faultfinding with his conduet, was.
j.aid for his prutoptns by a aeettened
to three years' imprisontuout, and a.9
Shreh, 1872A, he was imairat in the
Conciergerie. Thle .suspense .had
lasted twoi yeArn, attd-under the final
bilow Mmne. lioilhtau's heoath gave
ray, iong-II.hness:.ollowed,an i
ter aue nronrths, r-ising from what
her phaysicians thouight would be her
deathhledj, she comin cd one tititir
ing anti frtiitibts enlorti to obtain I IIer
lbu'nd's: releage. trromi all qluar
ties'.she prooured letters, petitions,
btatenuenltA shotig the true status
of theo railway her husbanti haad re
counmeindel, going"utnwea:ingly from
Otne ninistthr to another. 8hoe-tdok ito'
warniug :from, her -failing'str eng~ho
unvlt at'last neture, succumbed, atid;
worn out by her exetions~ a d her
atnfirinag she d'id,-leaving her liue,
blanl Mtill in prison, and six -childfen,
tvil nd.proteet'i'n batft that of friends.
-N. Y. Heorald, April 15.
-"A correspondent 'iriting "from
Potne, e~rys th a , an Eidglishman wasn
,kuocked'do*n the during the'earnival
for lnsultink the Amedrien flag. The
stars and sir ipes *ere ' favgid~g from
the baleoivy of Mrs. Mahtjor Goddard,
and the iAnglishourn remarked that1
the na..ty rag-shoald Itome down. An
Atmerlnan wfase btand ing 'near, 'anid'tne
Enoglishman protoptly weem down to~
the pavement.
,Geod. Washington'. private seal Is
now in the dssi' fM.Bsrd
.D.Vashington, of Illiuiols. It is of
while ceuneiso in the form of a shield
;srut'moed by'a coronet' upon' which'
'a perubed . ~y~n with-..pread.
*ings.' 'On (1 I'sh il is the 20otto,
".krxiduj aet4 prebe6."
, A i v I~a c ela n dl u n
FEMINIE AARR DACK.-. RIDItd'-THEa
'ARTING FI5.Ils Til RIVEIR.
Mr. 8. P1. Waller started fot a
trip in Iceland in Juhe, 1872. H1e
gives an acodUnt of "Six Weeks. in
the Saddle," ib -.a'ittle vdlume . froiti
which we get an idea of the eustoms
of the ,p1ople tilete. -'The Idelanders
1re ae ioat tionveniedtly' hospitable.
it Is diffloult to get a farmuor, *ho
keeps you for a day or two, to no
cept puy. Dur author seems to laive
,one his best to reiuite his -.'hosts by
Moking - i uoIf w.atsing. Ilere *e
have an in,tanoo of nitive kindness
and feminine courage :
In the tuiornitg I made a. sthall
*tudy, Mnd after- a : ver'y rulerkbie
meal god mnly good *isbe., we ictilo
lf. AII Wont vtell datil we came to
ihe river Markafijot, whichliappeined
to be very much looded, Not hking
to atteiit to swiira unde'r the ciroum.
stunces, we rodo on doen: the bank
fot boine hiles. and furtunately found
a house.
Ktnuoking at the doorb we asked,
"Is tie river very deep '" "Very,"
said a volee from the..inside.
"Is there a bnnau who will show us
a ford I" we askedt again.
"No," was the reply, ."both John
and Olavr.areup in the mountains
but-one of the girls will do quite as
well. Here, Thora go and show the
ltnglisililin the way,"
Iumetdiately, an eiceedingly hand
souse youngi woman ran out, and
nodding kind-ly to me, went qround
to the bck ot the house, capght, a
pony, pup a bridle oh it, and hot
taking the trouIble to fetch a saddle,
vaulted on his .bare back, and sittilng
astride, drove Ijer heels into his sidem
abdgaolloped ol dqwn the tiverbank
as haud as she could go; shoating for
is to folloiW.
We becarpe naturally rather ex
Pited at such a displayJ of dash on the
part of such a. preoty girl, and started
off itlimediately. But though we
did our utinost !catch her,. she in
increased her distance. hand over
hanU. There was n doubt -bout it
theilad.as much courage as ever we
could boastoofi and, in point of horse
manil tp, ws a -hundred yards 'hlead
of either of us.
For ibout'anlr a (mile we .rattled
along, when sudien!y she puled up
short on a sand bank.
"You can brobs here," -ho :,nid,
"but you uiti.t * be eay efut. : Make
straight for that eook right over ther6
and *heu you iate 'eticied it,. you
will be able to se4 the cfiru of stoiies
we bWuilt, to sho* the lauding place."
"All right," lIsaid. "(Good-bIy."
8he looked piazled for a tIoInentC
and then said : I'll come througI with
yob ; it will be safer,"
"Good grocious, 1HjLri6,' doh't let
her come,' I said; "she is sure to bi
drotvued, und [ can't get her out
with all these wet clothed on; tell
her to go back."
But h'efore I was half way throigh
the Centence, she had urged her horse
into the rtater, and in a moment was
twenty yards, into .the -iver. Of
oo(irne I followed as quick Ws poesi
ble, and, ahe'tea great deal of splash
inA, reached the middle of the flood.
"Now," she said,. bringing her horse
tip abrgast with with mUine, and- pofor.
ing with her whip, "there'd the
mark."
The water was running level with
the horses' withers, and it was only
hry h'flinkg 'their Iheads ve*-y high thiat
ther couil d k eep iheir noten'elear.
"G'bfooye"h said, "Gotd bless"
sa'eooI was qitito aware of it
kisse'd mue on te elhee'k.
.I was abetto return the; edniphi
ment, but shi, *as goutieg'atid 'a few
winutds after *0 s1w lier, a mere
speck in the distance, galloping over
thd.plaiin.
, Kissinig ini icelanid 3 is 14 -eibtorn
similar tdshaking batals h'ere. 'I had
thought nothing of it in ordinary sit
untionA, but a kiss ill the. .idt ;of
bodtmdtess waterd wa%, to say tlu leist
of'it, strengei it wis ~rtaitl5 'the
wetteet one I overlhp4 in my life.
The edit~or of to.-4)adbuty News
asks "Usnt ti' watermeluon b' sue
cessfully oottivated'o' sandy 'soil, in
a rubal town of 4,000 inbabitants, and
a tlieologvteal institnto located- near
by, containing I 20 students studying
fob %he mnonistry 1"
The Methodist E~piscoyal Church
South, ini Texas, bhas 250 traveling
preachers, 815 local preaoheus, and
47,000,lay members. The' Methoditt
Episopal Church hast 127 travelIng
and 381 local preachiers,' and over
15,000 lay mew-liers. -The oolored
Methodist drganisatioti of th-e State
has about 13,000 member,' rnisking
the total Lqt~bvdipts itn Te'4asr.5,000,
which. Is about'one-twelfth the pppma.
lation of tiie State.
A very rm'atkable diffetfende lie
tween the aere. is illustrated by ths
feet that ifa newswsper r6dodtfer.' da
hibit. his note book at a lgdIea' ae.
lag, a, ,pption to' adjourn *tl) kp a.
rded immedlately, whureap a ibotion
'of'thi, kind, %fferod tundbr s)ijoilau'
Ipiunastnpet, bb e"O ieeting- df tlig
'Stte qfe,,ftn afnd pver' tilit hase
4o as M a.eaded.-Broek4un Aradae
What Ocaeral 9 rant offered to Judgc
black.
One day during the late unpleas.
'Antnebs coucernhig the Chief Ju Litico
ship, when among the will rumor.
that were flying about the Io.v and
the hotels, was one to the effot tI.o
after efibing . would comno Jeh
3lamck, I Imet-the famous P1nn8 1.
vauianPiacing t*y and down a corrido
in iho Ebbitt Aouse, as is his wom
after dinner. Said 1: "Judge
Black, is it true. that the 1lhesid1ent
has signified-.his intention of uoinut.
ing your.ll'ffar Chief Ju-tie in case
ir. Uu'hiug is rejected 7"
The Judge raihed his hit, nd'inst
ed his wi, and proceede'd to .by
"Thle Pasident, ias 'tamndere d to me
ama Id h'oe accepted the highest and
uost hotioratilo gosition that can be
held under his -dinnhtrition."
-iere I waitid cipectant
S"'he proud posit ion of' a pri')ate
:citit.en," pursued Judge Black, im
pertatrbably. -
"Oh,' said I.
"Yes." said tihe Judge.
"Ai !" said I.
Vel1, this remindel 1 ofr' a, slali
boy. e'lic smnall boy was ati a NIethti.
d iet revival, tind the minister, at the
close of a fervid exhortatitiol, asked
everybody who wanted to go to heiCav
en to eise up. All rose except the
s4all boy. "Now," said the mn l O
God,*iith awlul 8-leimity, "if there
is any, one here who wants to go to
hell, let him rise up." Instait ly th
small boy becimne perpendicular. A
gronti sounded 'ver the inJctuary.
"Poor bo.y,".sud the-ninister, "do
you really want to go to hell ?"
"Well," r plied tho sminall bicy,
'4 c4n't say thalt is my main object ;
but I don't faitney this crowd, and I
am bound to get ont of it if 1 have to
go to htoll to do it."
An rishman wan br .ought before
a judge on a charge of stealiig a
wid.ow's pig. 1'.,'' said the J ulge,
"when you are brought faco to Ce
with .the widow . nud the pig on the
great judgumont -tay, what Ucuountiit can
)Ou jive of yourself V" "Did yen
say. the pig.would be thebei-i, yr hion.
or'?" 'To be hur4 I did."' "Well,
hedm,yer. riverence, P'd ay, 'Nho.
lalonly, there's put- yig.' "
. In 1873, 140 membersi wer r.ddled
'to'th'a-8ociety of .Je(ns (Jesit.,)
tnaking'the total on tuer o :.en r*
of the hooicty 9,10I.
The New York min speaho? ' of
Ann Eliza, ex wifo of BrigLa am
Young, speaks of her as tall, slenidJr,
tr.ight aud graceful, apparently
about thirty years (pild, but I -ohiing
younger. ier face i. refined inid
comiely, abd she is without the prae'
tical archness ibnd eJ(joiettish wrig.
piles of Eastern society. (111e is
thoughe to resemble very much
Agnes Ethel, the actress.
SoMd of the English papc:s give
currenoy to a repuri thata mn.rriig
may posbibly be orranged betwcen
the Princess, Beatrice youngest daugh.
ter of Quieeu Victoria, and tle Mar
quis of tdifford, eldest son of the Duke
of Southerland; This peer is one of
the rioheat in England.
*A fNew York politici mu, in wr7liting
a letter' of-condoleo to the widow
of a deceased memiber' of thle Leg isla
tu re, says :"I cannot tell how pain
ed I wats to haa'ir that your husband
had goneo to lloee. We) were h'o..
aomn frienis, but now wo shall never
hioet again.".~
'Pz o-m 1853 to 1873 to PRformedl
('Dutch) chus cee have grow n fo
333 to 481, thj nmlni.trsf r"'m 33~2 to
091I, thu lutmuiilies from 26,64 2 to 4a1
2't4, sti..the ommicants from '30,
567 to 67,i'23.
P'bristency is final victory. John
Otnivh'was marr iod ini Philadel 'hlia
last wem'k to-a girl who~ had rejueted
him eighteen times. She sacid bihe
wanted totest his jovo.
The Wecsterna Union Telegraphic
Cinmpany wvill soon occupy their
granrd btrutcture on Broadway, New
York.
'San F'rancisceo claims the third
lowest death rate in the world.
Zurich and Geneva rank first and
second.
'e/n1es .1. houl, a promninent yoting
Craole oitizen of New Orleans was
nmystoriously assassinated in the
stroets of thk it.y lat.Fiiriday hiight.
, Edith Wilson, the "child mother,"
elevtch featA of ago, of Otsego, has
lost her babiy, soton Wook0aund oe
day ol~t
Ah ofange tmeo in vigorous giotwth
yIelds fromi 500 to 2,000 oranges
o1@ory ar.. In. t1lo 11editerraneas.
8otfntteu, Whei-e' ot-ange cultrure has
'beonie within a few years an lipor.
tagit biusinese, the oranges are gath
ered in baskdts lined wvith e 'tvas.
They, are carefully *katnined te
wd 6(y all that,'8' wunting.' is,
stanaaro,.ihtoqit- et., The pickerb
gat frosm 9 to in $oa a a y
An Exciting Episode,
Lir-rit RocK, A pril 15. Jaa Brooks
who claim1. to have been olected 0o.
vernrim in 1872, took the oati df
Ifico -iboItt 1 I o'cloick tiis Iorning.
wfore 4 hief Ju'ai Mc(lur %1 ald
within live uillutes fromt that time
totiok f,-reiblea p0--ss-ion of th: G-over
101's il ain 'joc: ed Governor . ix.
ter by forc. Aiboti 1on year ago
3rualks columaend a suit in th Cir
uit Coart *a I'ulaki uuunty fur tho
ice of i'ive, nor. A t alb..ni the m1a1me
l ule I he A (ol nt'y (. elleritI coilltu1no
od m4iit igaini-t G',veior luIxter by
warrants i" the Cupiem Murt. Til
.aiter C ort. reitleid a decision that.
tae 0 '.1u t s If tho :-tate hiad no all.
11h3 t Vy o3veri cotiauiaed elctionis for thea
.Mee of Coonr- It. wan genierally
regarded that the inatter was settled
so far as the uourts "ro concerned,'
The Logislature in 187:3 ojened41 the
efturns Iaid deel.ared i axter elected
Nothing was thought of tho inatote,
pari'tirayiiV, until a few days "go,
when the atitrniy of GAovernor Bax
ter de ird that the case in the Cir
Uluit (1,11 t be t till y on I deniur
re1r with tho olaji.ct it' disposing of
lie sit111. A t une:rstanding was
then hIakd that the diaiiurier should
ho huinittad and largi'te on next
MAloday. Ini-ia; the lisence ' *o-f
Judge., Jigh1 h alltd Comupton, the
ittorinys o Gov. eaxter, Air. Whip.
PIe, atto1 raey of' Iirook z, aro.se and
aLed that it had been aigried be
wcen h i ai r it nI, tit e cu tituse 1 of G o)v.
xter ia i a dennarr1er abould b
Ibluiietd. 'iTh, ulthiugh in the
ibanc of Gov. xier's Attorneys,
-as tioughiit Iothiag if at the time.
lItstru Ifay m110oning, Uatbou 11
1'clOck, when ti eres were but few in
lie Co-'rt. roer 11a neither of tho
:veror's )counicl prlesent, Judge
hil luck inouniced his deciiou
veriulint; the doeinurrer, and Ilonlo of
Saxici's coluIsel being present to
it'% Ver, plead, or mov3 fOr lan appeal,
.udgment of ouster was issued, a
hit pIlai'ed in the iiands of tho
llk-in, and( ill VC 11i11vetis frotu that
ule t43 artned hand, headed by
3ro0k., were in the GOVernor's oflico
lejanding I o tssession. The Oover
ordeclined, whelet'aan foiciblo) pos
_mi wa1s taken and guaiirds plauced
it al lbe cnCti:t s to the ofijec. III
ie iealime Geei al d iieran INh" i Iib
lainied to act 1ts irooka' adjutnitii
enicral, broke in the door of the
riiory in the saiac hu'iiig and took
M"aSee F;:-to ii of iboit n1 hundred
tand of' arin,; Aju tant Geuneral
iti oig ofi Gov. llaxtei' it.J, refusing
. giv- upil the keys althotigh sur
'iulded toy aried ien. Governor
ILxter reliiseda to ie (jected, except
'Y fol'a so wit (o aIt Bfoolh' tIen
ook hold ofhim an 111ed him out'
inc that, tiei Broisc has hald pos..
eiui of the St ate HIouse.
G o 3ver.or I 1 has established
is headfjattartels at S'. ,?ohi's Col.
age, ind it is leplrtied, tho Stits
otutse will be3 taken pIoivs e1 uli of to-'
light. (.3h 1 eat, ex ciiteieit, p al S
bo oIout. the city.
WalI Ztcccits ld.
At
A story is told oif a ceitain neOwA
per prpiee who relitevdc 13is di..
2ine'ty by) 1 a pecie (3f Ihumoti.
Th129 agent of a largte.t lIanutfac~tr
tag houset went to Lu im44 to priotest
igatIinstLC freinant iuseaulits in the edik
"Wh\ 1)t the: devtil is ihio matter' ?'
Iho 1he 'it ter. '"A li you say is an
iifernal4 Jiea. Cut then3 wo feel thatL
no caot a lford. tot havoi this thiung go
[)n. Whalit. shalli we. do to stp it, ?l"
Theia propralilitor I appeared'4 astract-~
ad for 1 a: ew 343oments1 2, 144nd the re-- '
tin.iaked : "'I as thaiiniig about~t lb
chiaralctera in1 the4 Hihil. Let tuio sec I
11is i 3443e was--Vas Zacbetun. Whiat
lid be dlo ? Ohi, yes ; hoe2 hiuibed a
ree to $0e)e the Loar d ; anid ho d idn't
<ee him oither. u hiat did iio do t hen
Do you tetnettnbcr, Mr. Agent what
be dlill then ?"1
"'lo caie downo, I sulppose.''t
"At h, yes-.....thanlk you --Iht's t i
lI I cameii down''l, sensti ble fellow ;ho
044123 down."'
The paratble was fitti ig. The
'iLent ita ted tho examtple o1 ZeOh
cus iand thea joutriuli-tic batteries
were initstatneously sp'ikOd.
A Clos~e Calculation,
A oorr'espondenit of tue S4CW Yorki
iun 21ke)8 thiis '1 calnatioin -'Sup.
posing thero are 2,000,000 pelicans ii
Vioida-and thero are certanly
more than11 thait-theiy would oat
[>00,000 tiusbols of fish each day, or
l82,50000 bushels per year. Tho'
ii Iliotns upontainllijons of white atnd
blue erancs, heronas, curlows, gulls,.
1.-,hhawks king~shiers, and othier
water fowl, .devopir thousande d~
Ish every twenty-four hour, An
axperienced Cracker estimates that
700,000 buushce of fish a dif~aro re.
riuired to food the birds of Floridji''
1I)la loe.Tis would ranke 255,500,000
bushaels each year. Add to . thia~ the
billions of fIbh swallowed by abarks,
bases andi the sum total 'sti yo aY
aeO t ly . ,2,000,000 bushellidestwuo4
by foathered uand finny fiehorwah i
the peninsular in twelvo months?