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Coam?ll Proceeding*-Special Meeting.
GoUMOTIi CHAMB BB,
COLUMBIA, S. O., Marah 18. 1872.
Council mot at 4,P,, E. Present
His, B\6nor tho Mayor,;John, Alexander,
and Aldermen Cooper, Denny', Hoyne,
Mooney, Simona, Smith, Taylor, Thomp?
son and Wigg. Absent-Aldermen Good?
wyn, Minort and Wallace.
On motion of Aldermen Denny, it waa
Resolved, That the vote, whereby Coon?
dil refused tb aooept the pi op o si ti on of
Mr. James M. Allen, relative to tho City
Hali oontraot, be, and the same ls here*
by, reconsidered, j
The following communication was pre?
sea ted and read:
G OLTJMBIA ,. 8. 0.. March 12,1872.
To thu honorable the Mayor and Aldermen
. of the city of Columbia.
2 GENTLEMEN; The undersigned, mem?
bers of the committee appointed by the
Board of Trade to carry ont the litiga?
tion commenced some time ago in rela?
tion to the oontraot for building the City
Hall, have seen, with regret, your rejec?
tion of the propositions made to your
body for the settlement of the matter.
Believing that the proposed arrange?
ment will be beneficial to the tax-payers
of Colombia, we respectfully ask yon to
reconsider your action npon the proposi?
tion made. We are authorized to say
that Mr. B. O. Shiver, the other mem?
ber of the committee, (now absent from
the city,) approves ot the suggestion
now made by ns. Yours, very respect?
fully, EDWABD HOPE,
JOHN O. SEEGERS.
Hon. J. D. Tradewell, City Attorney,
addressed Council and submitted for
action of Counoil the following:
Whereas an authorized committee ol
the Board of Trade of the oity of Co?
lombia, in a written communication,
addressed to this body, have expressed
their regret at the rejeotion by the City
Council of the proposition of Mr. JAB
M. Allen, to be released from his con?
tract for the erection of a City Hall, and
to aooept the offer of Mr. Clark Waring
to build the same; and whereas, in thn<
pressing npon the City Council the ao
oeptanoe of the said offer, the Board o:
Trade assume all tho moral responsibili
ty involved in a change of the con
tractor, and guard the City Counci
against all oenBure in the future for ?Q;
evil consequences which may grow ou
of snob change:
Resolved, there/ore, That the con trac
of James M. Allen with the city of Co
lumbia for the ereotion of a City Hall
for the anm of $138,000, bo forthwitl
snrrendered, and, with his bond, be oan
celed.
Resolved, That the offer of Mr. Clari
Waring to ereot the City Hall for th
som of $86,500, be accepted.
Resolved, That the oontraot now sui
mitted to the City Council by Mr. Ciar
Waring, for tbe ereotion of the Cit
Hall, and his bond, in the penal sum c
$50,000, for the fulfillment thereof, wit
F. W. Wing, John Agnew, John ?
OuldweU and W. O. Swafileld HU retie
thereon, bo accepted; that the said coi
tract be executed in duplicate by Ciar
Waring and his Honor John Alexa tide
on behalf of and as Mayor of the city <
Columbia, under the seal of the corp?
ration and the attestation of tho Cit
Clerk.
On the qaestku of adopting the rest
lntions, the yeas /nd nays were takei
resulting us follows: Yeas 9; naya <
Adopted.
Those voting in the affirmative ar
Aldermen Cooper, Denny, H?yne, Mo
ney, Simon's, Smith, Taylor, Thom pac
and Wigg-0.
H?B Honor the Mayor stated that hr
tho voto resulted in a tie, he would ha1
voted in the affirmative,
Alderman Denny introduced the fn
lowing resolution; which was adopted:
Whereas, the notes hold by Hon. ,
L. Neagle, against tho city of Columbi
for seventy-five thousand dollars, ar
which became duo on the 4th Marc
1872, (notice of which was given at tl
time when said notes became due,) ha'
not yet been psid; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Mayor is herel
authorized and directed to execute thr
notes for $25,000 each, and, with sm
notes, negotiate a loan; and the May'
is hereby authorized to pay the arno in:
doe to said J. L. Neagle, with moue
BO borrowed, upon the surrender of tl
notes held by him.
Aldermun Denny introduced tho fi
lowing resolution:
In order that the three notus
$25,000 each, which the Mayor has be
authorized to exeonte and negotial
may be met and paid at maturity, be i
Resolved, That the Mayor and Ci
Treasurer are hereby authorized a:
directed to have prepared and execut
bonds authorized by tho Act of the Ge
oral Aasembly, approved on tho 13
March, 1872, BO that au early issue m
be m ado and the money realized therec
On tho question of adopting tho rei
lution, the yeas and nays were takeu,
Baiting ns follows: Yeas 9; nays
? dopteu.
Those who voted in the alfirraati
.are: Aldermen Cooper, Denny, Huyi
Mooney, Simons, Smith, Taylor, Thou
eon and Wigg-9.
His Honor tho Mayor .offered tho I
lowing resolution, which was adopted
Resolved, That previous to tho co
mencement of tho erection of tho C
Hall (under tho contract with Mr. Oh
Waring) that an architect be chosen
the Council to superintend tho wh
work, that it mny bo constructed acco
ing to tho plaus and specification*
Purkins & Allen.
Alderman Thompson introduced
following resolution, which was adopt
Resolved, That tho timo of final p
mont of city taxes, on real und perso
proporty, bo, and tho same is here
extended to April 15, 1872.
Alderman Wigg introduced the foll
ing resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the City Clerk bo
ntrnoted to add roca a communicatioi
tho Superintendent of the Charlo
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
ny, for information aa to when it is
; -; : ? i T. ^^^TTTTTTTy^^^T?^^
tended to oom UIQ no a tho work ot opening
Upper Street, as ordered by Council. !
Aoeonntstf I. Smith, Market. S. May.
Alms HonBO, and W. Stieglitz, Guard
House, were presented and, oh motion,
ordered paid without the usual referonco.
. On motion, Council adjourned. . .
WM. J, ETTER, City Clerk.
The Loulsrlllr, Cincinnati ?nd Chnrln
- tan Hallrottd-Tile Boat? by Spartan.
Dur? and But? ^yuntain tb? Shortest
.nd Ohtftpctt.
After tho abundant and convincing
proof afforded by the surreys and re?
ports made in 1836 and 1887, fortified
by the testimony of skillful engineers
after that timo, was it not strange that
the ?tate, in spite of suoh evidence,
should have committed itself to a Boheme
which hud so little to rcoommond it, and
which bas ended, as many feared it
would, in failure and vastpeouniary loss?
If this "convincing proof" had not
been before the Legislature which inau?
gurated and kept alive the project of
building the Blue Ridge Railroad, there
would bavo been some exouse for those
members who voted away in its interest
millions of publio treasure, which has
not, and we have no reason to hopo evor
will be, productivo of the least'result in
good to tho State. There was, how?
ever, no lack of information on the sub?
ject; but the truth of the matter is, that
the Blue Ridge Road had its origin in,
and was pushed through the Legislature,
under a temporary excitement, growing
out of a controversy between the South
Carolina Railroad Company and the
City Council of Augusta, concerning the
establishment of a depot of said road in
that city. The oontest was a protracted
one, and crested very strong feeling in
the city of Charleston, whose oitizons
regarded such a depot as necessary to
the commerce of their city. While our
people were smarting under a sense of
the wrong whioh they felt had been
done them by the oity of Augusta, there
appeared in the columoB of the Charles?
ton Mercury, a call upon the then Presi?
dent of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad, to bring before the publio a
projeot, which had begun to be talked
about, of building a railroad from An?
derson to Knoxville. With character?
istic promptness and energy, the Presi?
dent of the Greenville Road despatched
his Chief Engineer, Col. Wm. Spenoei
Brown, to make a reoonnoiasance of UH
routo. Col. Brown, after a hasty trir
over the line, reported that it wm alto
gether practicable, "and that he had nt
hesitation in Baying that the whole ro'ac
of 150 miles could be built in a penna
nent manner, with a rail weighing fifty
five pwunds to the yard, for $1,750,000*1'
This most remarkable report being pub
lished in tho Charleston papers, it wa
not surprising that .tho leading men o
that city, with the prospect of tappinj
the Chattanooga trade and thus puttini
the commercial interests of their owi
city out of the power of Georgia capital
threw themselves with energy into th
advocacy of the project. How unfortu
nato for South Carolina that this contre
versy ever arose) How un fortunato the
Col. Brown should over have made sue!
a hasty and inconsiderate a report; an
how much more unfortunate that ou
Legislatura should have thrown awn
nearly $5,000,000 on an enter prise whic
will require au additional expenditure c
$10,000,000 to make it of the least valu
to tho State. For much less than on?
half the sum already expended on th
blue Ridge Road, Charleston could huv
been put in communication by railroa
not only with Kr ox vii le, (by u short i
route,) but with Cincinnati and Loni'
ville. Let us seo if this is not true.
In Deoember, 1859, the friends of tl
Spartauburg, Butt Mountain Gap an
French Broad route having organize
under tho narnu of tho "Groenvillo un
French Broad Railroad Company," wit
a private subscription of $700,000, mad
application to our State Legislature fi
aid. They asked that the State shoal
give them $10,000 a milo, to bo pui
paid whenever each section (in contint
ous line) of ten miles was completed ut
ready for tho track; or, in short, tl
distance from Spar tanbury to Pail
Rook, on the Tennessee line, being IS
miles, they only asked the State to gn
thom to complete their road $1,300,00
With the memorial they presented to tl
Legislature was the. report of Maj<
McCallu, tho Chief Eugiuecr of tl
company, showing that tho cost of boil
ing tho rond from Spartanburg to Pail
Rock would be $2,272,415; and to sho
tho confidence felt in tho correctness i
this estimate and the great roliam
placed upon tho accuracy and skill
tho engineer who made tho report,
proposal accompanied tho manum?
signed by fifteen gentlemen of larf
wealth, (?otnu of them having had mm
experiuueo ac railroad contractors,) off-,
ing to tako tho contract for tho lino fro
Spurtunburg to Asheville, N. G., at t!
estimate of the engineer, receiving
pay meut ouo-half cash and the roma i
dor in sleek (iud bonds of the compati
This in o mo rial wan referred to tho Coi
mittco on Railroads, (a committpo tin
consisting of partisans of thu Bli
Ridge Road,) which actually report
against the measure, because tho roi
ions too cheap! Tho committee (of whi
lion. B. F. Perry WHS chairman) sn
that the road could not bo built so ebon
that "tho estimates through the mou
tains aro so much under the costs of
other railroads over tho same range
mountains, that your committee cann
regard thom ?is nltogotbor neeurutf
This wai u most remarkable ropo
when the committee hud before them
oller from gentlemen of high stuudin
uud weil kuowu to the chairman of tl
committee, to do the very work ut t
engineer's estilante, which tho cammi ti
thought was estimated too low, just I
causo tho lt ibun Gap and other rou
ucross tho mountains cost so much mo
and when a resolution was referred
them, upon tho coming in of thia
port, to inquire aud report upon t
genuineness of tho proposal made
sundry persons to do this work ut 1
estimate of the engineer, and whotl
-- I . n-;-'-.i ??? , rjyn-r
said persons had the ability to comply,
with their proposed oontraot, kau Bama
commute? reported. "that il ira? satis
faotorily shown to your committee that
the m?morialiste are gentlemen of large1
property add abundantly able to oom ply
with their proposed don tract."
At the time of (taking this application
to the Leg i al at ure, $2,500,000 bad been;
expended by the JStuto on the Blue
Ridge Road, and it waa ?ien claimed by
the friends of that enterprise that
$3,000,000 more would finish it. Yet
the Legislature refused to give aid to the
French Broad Road, when a less sum
than that already wasted on the Blue
Ridge Road would have secured ita com?
pletion. In our next issue, we will show
at how small n cost thia French Broad
Road may yet bo built.
I Carolina Spartan.
Tho editor of tho Utica Herald says:
"My wife bad cut au item from the co?
lumbia of nomo papor, wherein a de?
mented writer told nbont some imposai
ble woman, who, being troubled with a
bad temper, counted twenty-five ovory
timo hhe got provoked, and thus became
a sweet, amiable and dearly-loved orna?
ment of tho bouso of her delighted hus?
band. I r?ad the article, and remarked,
'Bosh.' Maria paid no attention to me,
but unfolded her plan. She said that
ovory timo I got mad, I should oouut
twenty-five, and overy timo she got mad,
oho would count twenty five. I asked
ber who abe thought would pay our rent
while we eat and connted twenty-fivo
over and over again all day long. Then
she said I was always raising abjections
to her plans for our mutual improve?
ment, and I said I was not, and she said
I was enough to try the patience of a
saint, and I said aho waa too, and abe
oame for me, and I told ber to count
twenty-five; but nh o forgot all about
that, and just tallied one in my left eye.
"Then I was going to romonotrate
with the poker, and abe told me to count
twenty-five, and I said I would not; but
I did before abo bad pulled more than
half my huir out. Then she made mo
oount twenty-five over and over, until I
was out of breath, and felt red and plea?
sant and good-natured. So wo went to
aupper. Now, tho cat was curled up in
my chair, but I did not see it until I sat
down; and I did not soe it then, but I
was pretty miro it was there-in fact, I
knew it was there ns well ns I wanted to,
and more, too. I felt inclined to riso up
suddenly, but as I gathered to spring,
ehe brandished tho tea-pot and mur?
mured, 'Joshua, your temper is riaiug;
oount twenty-five, or I'll break your
head;' and that cat was drawing a map
of the Tonth ward with her claws upon
me, with tho Btreets and boundaries
marked in my blood. I rose to explain,
and said, *My dear, I-,' but she ca?
romed on my head with a well-shot tea?
cup, and sprinkled my face with a quart
of hot tea, and I sat down and connted
twenty-five; but it killed the cut. The
old fellow died harli, though. I could
fool him Bettie as his nine lives wont out
ono by one.
"A few days' practico of this role,
under tho loving instruction of Maria,
has enabled me to conquer my temper
completely. Nobody can get mo mad
now; I am in a ututo of perpetual calm,
and I want to eeo tho man who wrote
that story. I want to fit him for tho
hands of an undertaker and muke a de?
mand for mourning goods among II?R
friends. Then I can die happy-count?
ing twenly-live."
A BRILLIANT PERORATION TO THE
GREATEST SI-EECII OF THE CENTURY.
The following aro the closing words of
Sir John Coleridge's great opening
speech for tho defence iu tho Tich?
borne trial, oilered with n calm earut st?
ucco:
"A great estate mid an old and honora?
ble family thvuit your verdict. On \ou,
and yon alone, depends whether a young
and uoblo Indy, of spotless character,
and whether a young child-too 3'ouug,
indeed, for certainty, but of whom all
good things may reasonably bo hoped
shall enjoy that estate and represent that
family, crippled, indeed, by tho ruinous
expenses of this law-suit, and by tho
falsehoods of the claimant, yet still uu
old and honorable family, and still a
great estate; or whether tho estate is to
bo wasted and tho family degraded by
tho mau whom I described before in
wordti I don't repent of using-in words
I have mudo good-in word? I now re?
peat-as 'a conspirator, a perjurer, a
forger, a slanderer and a villain. Gen?
tlemen, whou Chidloek Tichborne carno
to dio, in tho timo of Queen Elizabeth,
on Tower Bill, ho spoke of tho family of
Tichborne aa having lived unstained in
its place iii ELuupshiro for '200 j'onrs
from boforo tho Conquest. 300 years
havo rolled anray oinco the days of
Queen Elizabeth, and the family of
Tichborne is still there; und tho hopes
of that great and ancient family aro
centred in tho little child of whom I
havo spoken. For him-whom I most
inadequately represent-I ask your ver?
dict. J. ask for no favor-I ai>k for uo
indulgence; I oak yon only to do that
which is j tut and right, according to thc
strictest principles of law ami tho
clearest j ule? of reason, i know yon
will do what yon think right, because ?
havo tho most absolute trust aud faith
in the honor, justice and integrity of a
body of English gentlemen. English
justice cannot, indeed, through yon,
wield tho sword which iu to smite down ?
craft and crime; but English justice
does commit to your bunda its equal
scales, in which truth will always out?
weigh falsehood. And, gentlemen, I
trust, in no vain or braggart spirit-in
no unseemly overconfidence-but in
completo couildetice, I accept tho issue,
for my caitRO is right, and you aro just."
A yonug lady who, utter kissing a t wo*
year old boy, made ibo remark, "1 lovo
to kiss little boys," was exceedingly sur?
prised by a litt lo five-year old girl inquir?
ing "ii sho didn't like to kiss big boyB,
too?"
? FBONTIBB HOHUOB.-The following
instance o? a terriblqpesult f rpm (be pas?
sion for drink fr given by ibo LaCroase
(Wisa.) Republican:
A few years ago, a man was living with
bia yonpg Wife ib M ikato, Minn. He
was intelligent, and successful in busi?
ness until tho passion for strong drink
enslaved him, nnd bis business and re?
putation were both wrecked by its sata?
nic influence. He was foroed to seek a
nor borne for bis little family, and his
wife, bred to luxury, accompanied him
to the frontier, in the hope that the re?
moval from the temptation would free
him from the grip of the habit which
cursed him. Here they livod for several
years; his abstinence from drink being
broken only by an infrequent and occa?
sional debauch when hu visited somo of
tho nearest towns. Early in Deoembor,
bo told his wife that business compelled
him to go to-, and that he would bo
absent soverul dnys. Hbo, about to be?
come a mother again, with thrco helpless
children nnd a scanty supply of wood,
fearing that the insatiate clamor of ap?
petite was tho novice which drew him
uway, entreated him to Btay, but in vain.
Ho leit.
?Soon after, oue of those severe storms
of December-doubly severe on the un?
sheltered prairie-carno on. Uefore its
closo, abo was entirely destitute of wood,
and the terrible alternative was present?
ed to her of passively freezing to death
with her little ones, or socking assistance
from tho nearest neighbor, three miles
distant. She courageously chose the
latter, and leaving her three shivering
little ones with nothing but a mother's
yoarning love and prayerful blessing,
she started out to seek relief. The next
day, she was found half buried in the
snow, dead, a new boru infont at her
side. The three children wero found
dead ia the house. This, while the once
fond husband and protecting fathor was
away, reveling in the delirium or dozing
in the stupor of drink I No words can
add to the horror of this tale, but, be?
side tho unspeakable wife and mother,
how trivial our commou losses, griefs
and sorrows seem.
NORTHERN SETTIJEHB IN TUE SOUTH.
When tho war closed there were nume?
rous good Northern men who settled in
tho South. They wore attracted by the
odvantnges offered in this section for
profitable investments of capital and the
abundant prom?tes of remunerativo re?
wards for labor. Our pooplo were
pleased to have tbem amongst ns as citi?
zens. Under tho uew order of things,
ve wcro in waut of such Bettlers. We
wanted their energy, their enterprise,
and their experience in great practical
projects, for tho development of re?
sources our own people had neglected.
They are now identified with us in in?
terests, in fooling, and in association.
They uro of us aud with us. Our coun?
try is their country; our rights are their
rights. In war wo M ero enemies; iu
peace wo aro friends. Somo of them
bought farms; some became merchants;
others engaged in other enterprises, and
all of them, wo hope, have been satisfied
with whatever success may havo at?
tended them. Thero were other men
from thu North who came South at tho
sarao timo-not us quiet, friendly, peace?
ful citizens, settling here to advance
their fortunes in business, but as politi?
cal adventurers, allured by the credulity
of the ignorant negroes, with tho hope
of obtaining office by promoting discord
between tho two races. These aro tho
men who have not been taken heartily
by tho hand, nnd received as acceptable
accessions to Southern Bocioty. Some
of thom havo succeeded in securing
"soft places" through tho ogeucy of
their arts ns partisans and demagogues.
Others have been disappointed, aud,
liku birds of prey, havo flown from field
to field. Aud their complaints of hos?
tile sentiment in tho South toward nil
Northern men, havo been too often re?
ceived iu the North, wo fear, without
question, and to tho detriment of our
people Among the good citizens of the
North who wero opposed to us in the
war, aud havo settled hero since, there
are Bomu who have boon Bought and se?
lected by our own original people to Gil
high positions of responsibility and
honor.
If tho North had met tho South ns the
South was willing to moot the North
when the war closed, both soctions would
havo been profited by tho reciprocal
magnanimity.-Norfolk Journal.
A bewildering definition of tho word
"courtship" was given by a witness in an
amusing hrcaoh of promise caso recent?
ly tried in Loudon. Mr. Chambers,
counsel for tho plain I ill", remonstrated
with tho witness for using tho word. "I
am au old bachelor," said he, "aud don't
understand courtship. How ia it doue?
What is courtship?" Tho witness, who
being a married Indy might reasonably be
expected to answer by the light of her
own experience, define:! it thus: "Look?
ing ut each other, taking hold of encl)
other's hands, and all that kind of thing."
Tho definition, though puzzling to old
bachelors, is good. Persons experienced
in such matters will liar o no difficulty
in interpreting tho Inst clause to their
own satisfaction; indeed, "all that sort
of thing" is quito as exact an inter?
pretation ns is wanted for tho indescrib?
able art of making lovo.
Following un invention used to some
extent in Trauco aud England, San
Franoise > thinks of introducing street
cars iu which ordinury illuminating gas
furnishes the motive power. At tho la'.e
Mechanics' Fair hold in that city, a gas
engine was exhibited by Mr. Pioche, and
worked 1.0 satisfactorily that Mr. ll. U.
Robertson lia? delcriuiucd to apply il in
th? propulsion of street cars. It will
occupy but four feet Minaro and may bo
run for twelve hourn utan expense of not
moro than S3, mid mic mau may ucl ns
engineor, conductor und driver, lt is
claimed that no noise, smoko, or danger
of explosion will attend its use.
' A PEASANT ACCOUNT OF AN EXPLO?
SION.- The Banbury Ntws gives (be fol?
lowing cheoriul account of B late dieoster
Dear that town:
. There was a trifling affair in Branch?
ville on Friday. Pbilos W. Bates has a
quarry ?boat a quarter of a mile East of
the village. He is also the owner of a
blacksmith,shop near by, where he em?
ploys two or three mon to sharpen the
tools need in quarrying the Btone for the
Bhepang Road at Bethel. In accordance
with a good old New England custom,
the powder used is kept ia the black?
smith shop. There were two kegs partly
filled and one keg unbroken in the shop
at the time our story operJb. It was a
pleasant day. There was no bright sun?
shine, bot the general appearance of
things out-doorn WSB mellow and com?
fortable-like. One of the men was em?
ployed at the anvil, hammering tbo
iiiltry eud of a crow-bar. A few grains
of powder had fallen npou the floor
whilo replenishing the quarry from tho
opeu kegs. Wo came near forgetting to
state this, which is a moro important
matter tbau nt first sight seems probable.
The other employees were very busily
engaged, as the hardy sons1 of toil are
apt to be when employed by the day. A
balsamic filled the atmosphere of the
shop. Suddenly, a flake of streaming
hot iron shot from the anvil and down
among the grains of powder which held
their slumbering fires to the floor. There
wore a few unnoticed pops and flashes,
then came a hiss as the flame shot over
into tbo open kegs. The man who held
tho crow-oar mechanically passed ont
doors. Another son of toil, who, with
his back to the danger, was looking
through a window, turned around in
time to detect one end of the shop in
tho aot of moving off, followed by a
comrade, whose shirt had gone up in a
flame. The two partly filled kegs had
exploded with the customary violence,
and the full keg was on fire. At this
juncture was displayed an aot of heroism
seldom exhibited ia Fairfield County.
Mr. Bates seized the burning keg and
hurried it out into the Bnow, in time to
quench the flames, save the balance of
tho shop and the lives of himself and
mon. Two of the men were badly
barned, a portion of tho shop was
wrecked, and two roosters who had been
fighting near by at once buried all ani?
mosities engendered by the fray, and
immediately started over the hill for
homo, with the rapid and graceful gait
peculiar to those feathered Mormons."
SNOW-HOUND BRIDEGROOMS.-A Chey?
enne correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, speaking of the lute block
on the Pucific Railroad, says:
A man iu Denver married, but had to
leave immediately and unexpectedly for
Suit Lake City on urgent business. He
left his bride with tears in his eyes and
a pro m i so of immediate return upon his
lips. He got there just ia time not to
be ublo to get away. He made his way
slowly along with tho blockaded trains,
working with the bands, for every shovel?
ful of snow got out was that much ob?
struction removed betweou him and his
beloved. When within 2U0 miles from
Cheyenne, tho foremost train ran into a
bigger snow-bank than ever, at whioh,
faithful unto death, ho Etruck out ou
foot and walked 200 miles iu five days.
He carno in with frozen foet and ears,
but his heart was all right, au \ he went
on to Denver rejoicing. At one point,
he was chased by wolves, and lost his
plug hat iu ruuuiug. The hat saved his
lifo, for the wolves had never seen ono
before, and stopped to examine it for a
long time. It took thom so long to de?
termino what it was, that our heroic
lover got out of reach. Ho borrowed a
red handkerchief at a laborer's hut and
passed on.
Another traiu, bound East, contaiued
two youug men, goiug home to get mar?
ried. Tho happy day had been all set,
and everything was roady but them.
They fairly howled with rage* and vexa?
tion, and swore they wished the snow
was iu a warmer climate. The very dny
they were to be married it snowed more
than ever, and nv they saw it coming up
on the track, drift on drift, they lookod
us if they wero io bo hung instead of
married. That night, us otie of them
crawled into his berth, as cold as un
icicle, and shivering like a poplar leaf,
ho stuck his head out from behind Ibo
curtains aud said: "I say, Bill, tbis ain't
what wo expected, is it?" Bill said,
"No, not by a d-d sight."
AN ENGINEER'S EXPERIENCE-Accord?
ing to tho Niagara Falls Gazette, ono of
tho night engiupers in the Now York
Central yards nt Suspension Bridge, ex?
perienced two radically different sensa?
tions in a very brief period of timo a few
nights ago. While running his eugine
he observed a mau on the track in tbo
immediato front, but too Into to givo the
signal of warning before passing the
spot. Tho ponderous machino was
stopped ns soon ns possible and tho trem?
bling engineer took the back track with
gloomy forebodings to look np thc
corpse. His feelings cnn probably be
better imagined than expressed when ho
met the object'of his search coming to
meet him with fist doubled up, and other
indications not favorable to tho bodily
comfort of tho engineer. A speedily-ex?
ecuted right-abont-face movement was
made, and the engineer, out-distancing
his wrathful partner, reached his eugine
and fled ingloriously from the scene.
LONG AND SHOUT DA vs.-At Berlin
and L indon, the longest dny has sixteen
hours uiid-n-hnlf; ut Stockholm, the
longest day has sixteen hours, and tho
shortest seven; ut St. Petersburg, the
longr-ht day hm nineteen, ami tho short?
est five hours; at Tomoo, in Finland,
tho longest day hui twenty-one hours
and u-hulf, and tho shortest two hours
aud-a-hulf; nt Wandernd, in Norway, the
day lasts from the 21st of May to the
22.1 of duly, without interruption; and nt
Spitzenbcrgon, tho longest dny is threo
months und u-hiilf.
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WHAT SI,AH>BB DOE?.--More than
fifty years agi. a young mao lived in a
Western city Ad, as a dru'ggipt, was ac?
cumulating priperty, possessing the re?
spect and conldenoe of 'the community,
as was prove?!}y the foot that as be was
about starting ft o the East to lay fn s took
the cashier:J a bank handed him .ft
package of mfcney in bills to be handed
to a bank offlier in Philadelphia. Being
very obligicf, be received the package
and promised to deliver it promptly on
bis arrival-f hioh he did. The cashier
of the bank to whom be delivered tho
bills looked over them hastily, placed
them in a drawer, saying it waa "cor?
rect." and went on With his writing.
Now for the singular sequel.
A month Jater the Western backer
carno to the yfcung druggist and informed
him that a bal of a large denomination
was missingft The yoong man said he
did not kivfm how that could be, for he
bad deliev? Bl tho package as he bad
received it ?Biat the Eastern banker had
looked it ?er; pronounced it correct,
and that !JB thought bis responsibility
ended the I The fact] stood thus:
Two promMont business men, in re?
sponsible tWitions, on ono side, und the
unBtipporuB say-so of a young druggist
on the o theft the odds were too unequal,
and the y An g nan had to go to the
wall; the lom mn ni ty withdrew their
patronage Ind their confidence; his
business mis broken np; he first at?
tempted onje thing, then another, but a
cloud seemed to hang over him.
Years rolled 01. The story was hand?
ed down from one to another, and new
comers imbibed the prejudices of the
old; and t wen tr years later there was an
odium attached to his character, so that
at the mention of his name there was
that falling af the countenance which
meant "no confidence." The young
druggist became an old man, but never
succeeded iv regaining the social posi?
tion ho bad wst. He died in Coventry
The old des? was taken to a shop to- be
repaired. Cm removing the drawer, the
missing bank bill was found to have
been lodged behind it.
ONE QoEsnoN Too MANY.-About a
generation,'t>y-gone there flourished in
Western Michigan a certain Squire
T-, whoBe stalwart sons now till the
parental acres, in whose honesty the
community had great confidence, but
who had an unfortunate failing-drink.
He had been known to try canses when
be would have been more appropriately
in bed. Upon one occasion an appeal
was taken from a judgment rendered, as
it was alleged, "when the wine was in,
tho wit was out." Under the broad lati?
tude taken ut that day, a full inquiry was
gono into at the trial of the appeal, as to
the question of sobriety of the Justice,
and there was much contradictory testi?
mony; the friends of the Justice swear?
ing ono way, bis onemies directly con?
trary. At length a very candid witness
appeared, who testified with great appa?
rent circumspection-so great, indeed,
that on tho direct examination almost
nothing was elicited from him. Upon
the cross-examination, ibo lawyer [con?
ducting it made a very common mistake,
and, being unwilling to "let well enough
alone, " kept driving away at the wit?
ness until be finally lelt safo in patting
tho leading and dangerous question:
"Did you not look upon the Justice,
upon the trial of that case, as a perfectly
sober mon?" 1
The witness hesitated, and the counsel
pressed the interrogatory still - closer.
The witness finally emitted the follow?
ing, with great difficulty, as though it
bad boon drawn from him painfully:
"I should hayo thought so, only for
one thing."
"Well," enid the cross-examiner,
"what is that?"
"I saw him lill up bis inkstand with
whiskey, and toko a uuifter out of tbe
iuk bottle."
Thc cross examination stopped at that
point.
Tho Western Union Telegraph Oom- .
pany bas for Bomo time boen cramped ia
its present hindquarters in Liberty
street, and recently attempted to pur?
chase the Astor House, in order to get as
olose as possible to the new post o?ice?
now iu process of ereotion near tho city
bull. Failing in this, the company de?
termined to purchaso the valuable cstato
on the North-west corner of Broadway
and Dey street. This property extends
between fifty and sixty feet on Broad?
way, and runs back 150 feet in Dey
street. It was purchased a few years ago
by Dr. Evans, tho Paris Court dentist,
und a well-known American, for the
Emporor Louis Napoleon. The price
given for it by Napoleon, through Evans,
was $480,000, and the prico paid for it
now is said to be ?800,000. On the 1st
of May, all tho buildings standing on
this property will bo torn down, and the
I erection of a new and magnificent struc
j turo will bo begun.
DRINKS BETWEEN DRINKS.-in a Pbi
j ladelphia saloon tho business is adver?
tised on a card, on oue side of which ia
' tho planntory indicator, which shows
j the kind of drink required for thirty
! customers, and tho hours at which it
'should bo taken: At 7 A. M., au "oyo
! opener;" 8 A. M., "appetizer;" 9 A. M.,
"digester;" 10 A. M., "boanti?er;" ll
'A. M.. "big reposer;" 12 M, "stimu
i lator;" 1 P. M., "ante-lunch;" 2 P. M.,
' "flottier;" ii P. M., "warmer;" 4 P. M.,
I "sympathizer;" 5 P. M., "social drink;"
i 6P. M., "invigorator;" 7 P. M., "straight
lout;" 8 P. M., .'chitchat;" 0 P. M.,
! "faWy drink;" 10 P. M., "entre r.cte;"
' ll P. M.. "sparkler;" 12 P. M., "rous
! cr;" 1 A. M.. "night-cap."
i Tho Jacksonville fFloritla) Union gets
j off tbio leligious joke on ono of ils
i colored brethren who attempts to pray,
j The good colored deacon was prayiug
for tho recovery of a sick sister, nnd
ended this way: "Ohl Lord, holp ber.
Ob! Lord, make her well. Obi Lord,
I if you can't niuko ber well, then, obi
j Lord, help ber grin and bear..