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Telegraphic?Foroign New?.
Pahih, May 125.?Tho Assembly, to- ?
day, elected thirteen * members of the
new committee of thirty, nil belonging to
partieB whioh Bnpport tho present con-!
Htitntion. Among them are M. M. La
, boulaye, Casanne, Ricard, Ferry and
Picard. The seventeen other members
remain to bo elected by a second bal?
lot, as none of tho candidates received
an absolnto majority. Among the can?
didates are M. Gabetta and two deputies
of the Bight. No Bonapartists offered
themselves for places on tho committee.
Berlin, May 25.?Tho upper house of
the Prussian Diot have passed bills for
tho suppression of convents and relative
to tho administration of church property.
Brussels, May 25.?Tho Senate has
unanimously adopted a vote of confi?
dence in tho Government in respect to
its conduct of the correspondence with
Germany.
London, May 20.?The great event on
the English racing calendar?the run for
the Derby stakes?took place to-day, on
tho Epsom Downs, and was won by Ga
iopin; Ciaremont came in second and
the Repentence colt third?eighteen I
starters.
Berlin, May 26.?The Government
forbids a procession in honor of the
Pope's jubilee.
Vienna, May 20.?Tho bearer of an
anonymous letter, offering 1,000,000
florins for Bismarck's assassination, has
been arrested.
The Pope is not seriously ill.
The Bishop of Nismer, France, is dead.
Telegraphic?American News.
New Obleanb, May 26.?Rev. W. E.
Copeland, who recently figured in the
scandal case in Baltimore, and who
proflched in one of tho Baptist Churches
in this city on Sunday last, has, it is rc
Eorted, loft the city, though shadowed
y the police.
The friends of the lato Gen. John C.
Breckinridgo met at tho St Charles
Hotel, last night, and adopted resolu?
tions eulogizing the life and character of
the deceased.
Charleston, May 25. ?Arrived?Steam?
ship Charleston, New York.
Washington, May 27.?Major Charles
J. Graves, of Rome, Go., is here, en route
for Egypt, to enter tho Khedive's sorvico
as Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers. Maj.
Graves was a F?deral graduate, but
thought honor called him to the South.
Attorney-General Pierrepont has issued
a circular that "hereafter the practice
of the District Attorneys of employing
substitutes must be discontinued, and
no compensation for such services ren?
dered to this department will be sanc?
tioned."
The Sioux Indians visited tho Presi?
dent to-day, who made n speech on the
subject of another location for them. He
did not want them to leave their homes,
where they were born, without their con?
sent; but would point advantages of en?
tering into an agreement that he would
propose through the Interior Depart?
ment The President alluded to the
great difficulty in keeping the whites
away from the Black Hills, and said each
recurring year the difficulty would be
greater, unless tho Indians grant the
right to go to that country. No speeches
were made by the Indians, except that
Spotted Toil, with some show of indig?
nation, denied that he had said the
Secretary of the Interior was a liar.
Probabilities?For tho South Atlantic
and Gulf States, failing barometer,
South-east to South-west winds, slight
changes in temperature and partly cloudy
weather, with local rains.
St. Joseph's, Mo., May 2G.?A heavy
rain has drenched millions of gross-hop?
pers.
Wilkebbabbe, Pa., May 26.?Every?
thing quiet It is thought mining work
will be resumed Juno 1.
New Yobk, May 26. ?President Jowett
has called a meeting of the Erie Direct?
ors, in consequence of the refusal of tho
Pennsylvania Coal Company to buy the
Erie coal lands. Tho Tribune Bays a
Director of tho Erio Railway Company,
in conversation with ono of its reporters,
lost night, said tho -Erio Railway Com?
pany will probably default on its Juno
interest, in consequence of fuiluro to
obtain expected money from the Dela?
ware, Lackawona and Western and Dela?
ware and Hudson Companies. In view
of this fact, there will probably be an
application for a receiver on Wednesday,
(.to-day,) on tho ground of insolvency,
not bankruptcy, of tho corporation.
This action will be taken under tho State
law, and will be designed to protect all
interests concornod. President Jcwett
was subsequently appointed Receiver by
tho Court.
St. Louis, May 2C.?Most of tho time
of the Presbyterian Assembly was taken
up, yesterday, in listening to the reading
of records in tho Wilson case. This was
finally finished, and to-day Rev. Stuart
Robinson will make the argument for
tho Louisville Presbytery, and Rev. J. J.
Cooke for tho complainant
Cincinnati, May 26.?A despatch from
Columbus says while some men were at
work on a scaffold, putting a truss roof
on the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, the
scaffold gave way, precipitating six of
them to the ground, a distance of seventy
foot, instantly killing threo, named Geo.
Brown, Jerry Ryan and Albert Gottleib,
and fatally injuring the other three,
named Ben. Smith, Wm. Hannon and
Fred. Kuntz.
Cleveland, May 26.?In the Presby?
terian General Assembly, a resolution
was adopted regretting that the negotia?
tions relating to fraternal correspondence
with the Southern Church failed. The
Assembly, however, deems it inexpe?
dient to press the question through an?
other committee, and at the same time,
expresses unequivocally its confidence
in the integrity and Christian character
of the brethren of the Southern Church.
Lamoasteb, Pa., May 26.?The Repub?
lican Convention adopted a series of
resolutions affirming their continued ad?
hesion to the party and deolare the fun?
damental principles of their political
faith.
Yoctorday'o Market Reports.
New Yobk?Noon.?Stooks active and
, prices better. Money 2. Gold 16. Ex?
change?long 4.87*; short 4.001. Cot?
ton weak; sales 1,710?uplands 16; Or?
leans 16$. Futures openod easy: June
15 27-32@Utt: July 16<3>16 1-32; August
16 5-32@16 3-16; September 16 1-32.
Corn strongly downward. Pork heavy?
mess 21.25. Lard dull?steam 14}.
7 P. M.? Cotton weak; sales 2,078, at
1G@103. Flour dull and prices still
strongly in buyers' favor?superfine
Western and State 4.70@5.00; market
closed doll and deolining; common to
fair extra Southern 5.1006.00; good to
choice 6.0508.25. Wheat and corn lo.
lower and - only very moderate demand.
Coffee about J lower and a little more
doing; sales 800 bags Bio?16 gold.
Cotton?net receipts 50; grosB 592. Fu?
tures closed quiet; sales 43,200: May
15 25-32@15 13-16; Juno 15 25-32; July
15 29-32015 15-16; August 16 1-32016J;
September 15 29-32015 15-16; October
15 7-16015A; November 15 9-32015 5-16;
Decomber 15 9-32015 5-16; January
15 13-32015 15-32;' February 15j|015
21-32; March 15 13-16015J; April 161-32.
Sugar nithcr more steady?8011}. Mo?
lasses dull and heavy. Fork lower?new
mess 20.30. Lard lower?14A0 14jj.
Whiskey moro active and lower; sales
400 barrels?1.191. Money easy?21(g)
3. Exchange quiet-4.H7L Gold dull?
15J016. Governments active and steady.
State bonds quiet and nominal.
Boston.?Cotton dull and nominal?
middling 16; low middling 15 j>; good or?
dinary 14J; gross receipts 33; exports
Great Britain 104; sales 83; stock 15,435.
Baltimore.?Cotton dull and easy?
middling 15jj; net receipts 2; gross 32;
exports coastwise 90; sales 145; spinners
70; stock 8,345. Flour quiet and in
limited demand?5.0005.50. Wheat
dull and weak. Corn unsettled ?83084.
Provisions dull, heavy nnd downward
tendency. Pork nominal?21.50022.00.
Bulk meats dull and lower?shoulders
8}; clear rib sides 11J011 Jloose; packed
9012J. Bacon quiet?shoulders 9;j0
9jJ; clear rib sides 13; hams 14.1015J.
Lard dull and weak?refined 15J f steam
15\. Butter lower; demand fair?good to
fine Western gross 240.27. Coffeo firm.
Whiskev nominal?1.22. Sugar steady?
10A.
Galveston.?Cotton dull ?middling
14jj; net receipts OS; gross 70; sales 50:
stock 3G.G5G.
Memphis.?Cotton quiet and nomi?
nally unchanged?middling 15; net re?
ceipts 70; shipments 339; sales 1,200:
stock 19,240.
Norfolk.?Cotton dull and nominal?
middling 161; net receipts 452; exports
coastwise 32o; sales 50; stock 3,523.
Savannah.?Cotton dull?middling
15J; low middling 15; good ordinary 14{J;
net receipts 775; sales 11; stock 11,807.
Mobile.?Cotton quiet and in fair de?
mand?middling 14J014J; low mid?
dling 14-jj; good ordinary 14; net re?
ceipts 37; exports coastwise 40G; sales
1,000; stock 12,555.
New Orleans.?Cotton dull?middling
15J; low middling 14^; good ordinary
14; not receipts 647; gross 905; exports
continent 702; sales 1,000; stock 80,145.
Charleston.?Cotton quiet?middling
15J015^; net receipts 154; sales 300:
stock 14,497.
Wilmington.?Cotton nominal?mid?
dling 15; net receipts 24; exports coast?
wise 22; stock 947.
Augusta.?Cotton nominally un?
changed?middling 15} ; net receipts 47;
sales 280.
Philadelphia. ?Cotton quiet?mid?
dling 16J; net receipts 28; gross 120.
Loulsville. -Flour unchanged. Com
dull?73077. Provisions dull. Pork
nominally 21.50. ISacon?shoulders 9A;
clear rib 12j; clear sides 13J; sugar
cured hams 13J014. Lard?steam ren?
dered 151; tierco 153016; keg 10A.
Whiskey 1.15. Bagging firm?13014. "
St. Louis.?Flour unsettled, lower to
sell and very small order trade. Corn
dull?No. 2 mixed 620623. Whiskev
1.19. Pork 20.75. Bacon in o?ly limited
jobbing domand. Lard nominal.
Cincinnati.?Flour dull. Corn dull?
73071. Pork nominal-21.25 asked.
Lard nominal?steam 141014A; kettle
14J. Bacon in demand?shoulders 9Jf<f
9?; clear rib 123012A; clear sides 12J0
12}. Whiskey quiet?1.15.
Chicago.?Flour dull and unchanged.
Corn in fair demand and unsettled?No.
2 mixed 631, bid; rejected 60. Pork ac?
tive and panicky?19.40. Lard in fair
demand and unsettled?14.200 14.25.
Whiskey 1.16 offered; 17 asked.
Paris.?Rentes 64f. 60c.
Liverpool?3 P. M.?Cotton dull
middling uplands 7j>; middling Orleans
808J; sales 10,000: of which American is
6,000; speculation and export 2,OIK); basis
middling uplands, nothing below good
ordinary, deliverable Juno or July. 7:{:
nothing below low middling, deliverable
May, 7J; June, July or August, 7207;;
basis middling Orleans, nothing below
low middling, shipped April, 8.
The Civil War and Sectionalism.?
After all, it would seem as if the late
civil war had helped to obliterato sec?
tional lines more effectually than any?
thing else could; and no more striking
evidence of this can be found than in
tho generous and almost affectionate in?
terest which every portion of the Union
has manifested in the revival of ancient
patriotic recollections in othur localities.
Ono of tho pleasant est features of the
Concord and Lexington centennial,
lately celebrated, was the generous little
Bpeech of Gen. Bartlett, who, speaking
for tho South, recalled some of tho me?
mories of tho past with manly courage
and friendship, and onco more awakened
enthusiasm by dwelling on the fact that
our proudest history is national and our
highest glories are common property.
The quick rcsponso to these sentiments
which came up from tho wholo people
showed how near to the heart of every
true American lies the patriotism to
which the speaker appealed. Tho cele?
bration at Charlotte was not for a County,
or even a State, but for the nation; and
we aro glad to know that the citizens of
the old North State and their neighbors
so regard it. Before the final act whioh
we annually celebrate as the declaration
of independence, the colonists through?
out tho then Bparsely-settled country
lighted their scattered watch-fires. Lator
they woro massed in one host. Hero
and thero, from April, 1875, to a distant
day, our people will commemorato these
initial steps in tho great revolution.
Now it is Concord, Lexington, Mecklen-*
burg or Westmoreland. Next year it will
be Philadelphia, whero tho whole group
of colonies wore represented in 1776,
and where the whole nation will bo rep?
resented in 1876. And it was a happy
ohanoe that gavo the Centennial Com?
mission an opportunity to send to Char?
lotte a fraternal message during this
latest celebration. The old North State
has tho hearty cheer of the whole country
in its revival of old-time glories; and we
are Bure that when the Union shall, by
and by, honor the national centennial,
North Carolina will have honorable place
in the fellowship of the States.
?{New 1'orA: Times (Hep.)
A St?ry of Deed ForgerV.
The recent relations concerning deed
forgeries, at a criminal trial in Chicago,
havo reminded me of an incident that
occurred a few years ago, in the vicinity
of St. Louis, which seems to me worth
relating.
Clara and Mary Merwin, sisters and
orphans, were in the sitting-room of
their pleasant homo on the edge of a
village near the Missouri. Their mother
had been dead several years; their
father had lately died, leaving them an
i estate, as they supposed, of the value of
some 840,000. But they had learned
finite recently that the property was en?
cumbered to such an extent that they
were likely to he deprived of it all. This
discovery, as may be supposed, tilled
I them with sadness and anxiety, and they
were seated in silence, unable to read,
to converse, to work, to do anything but
brood over their great misfortune-.
While they were thus occupied with
sombre thoughts, a buggy drove up in
front of the house, and a man alighted,
and tho buggy drove away. This man
must have been a little on the shady
I side of fifty, to judge from his gray
I hairs, although his face was fresh and
|uuwrinkled. He was dressed with re
I mnrkablc neatness, and his manner indi?
cated briskness as well as precision. In
one hand he carried a small valise, and
I in the other an umbrella, and he stopped
j quickly to the door and rang the bell.
1 In a few minutes he was ushered into
the presence of the young Indies.
"I'm obliged to introduce myself," he
said, smiling and bowing in a courtly
manner?"Abner Fierce. Here is my
card?professional card. You will per?
ceive that I am a lawyer in St. Louis,
and presumably a respectable man.
Don't be afraid: lam not here to hurt
you. but to help you. I have tho honor
to call myself a friend of your family;
that is to say, although it is many years
since I have seen any member of said
family, I always had the highest possible
regard for your now sainted mother, and
nothing could please me better than to
be of some service to her children."
"We are happy to meet you," mur
mnred Clara.
"Thank yon. I-happened to hear ?
no matter how -that you were in trou?
ble, and have come up hero in the belief
that I can assist you. I hope you will
feel that you can trust me. 1 am actually
an honest man, although a lawyer, and I
mean well, although I may express my?
self clumsily."
"I am free to admit," said Clara, "that
wo need assistance and advice, and that
we have not known to whom to look for
it."
"Very well. It is a good thing, no
doubt, that I have come. Now, sit down
and tell me all about it." ?
Clara Merwin, who was the elder of
the orphans, and tho leader in every?
thing, told hew she and her sister had
taken out letters of administration upon
their father's estate, when a man of
whom they had never before heard put
in an appearance, and presented a mort?
gage', with bond included, executed by
the late Mr. Mervyin, upon all his real
estate, for the sum of ?10,000. Not con?
tent with prohibiting them from attempt?
ing to sell anything, he had tied up their
money in hank, leaving them absolutely
penniless. They had used their credit,
but tradesmen were becoming impatient,
and some had refused to supply them
any further without pay.
'?That is a bad case," said Mr. Pierce.
"You need money, that is the first thing
to be attended to. You must let me act
as your banker until I get you out of
this scrape, and that won't be long, I
hope. How much do you owe?"
??More than $1,000," answered Clara.
The old gentleman counted out $200
from a well-filled pocket-book, and
handed it to her.
??For your mother's sake," he said;
when she refused to receive it, and he'
forced it upon her in such a way that
she could not help taking it. lie then
accepted the young ladies' invitation to'
make their house his home during his
stay, and went in to dinner with thoui.
'Ts there any place where .1 can
smoke?" he asked, when they had re?
turned to tho sitting room.
"You can smoko here," said the im?
pulsive Mary. "Pa always smoked here,
and wo are used to it."
So he took a meerschaum and some to?
bacco from his valise, and was soon puff?
ing aw;.y with an air of great content?
ment.
?T can think better when 1 smoke," he
said. "Did you have any legal advice in
the matter of that mortgage, Miss Mer?
win?"
'?Yes, sir," replied Clara. 'Our law?
yer said that it was a plain ease against
us, although it was strange that we had
never heard of the mortgage before."
"Very strange. What is the name of
the man who holds it?"
"Alexander Campbell."
"Hum. A good name, but a bad man,
I am afndd. When and where can I see
him?"
"He will be here this afternoon," an?
swered Clara. "He prognoses, if we will
make him a deed of the real estate, to
give up the. bond and mortgage, leaving
our money in bank and tho rest of the
personal property."
"Very liberal. Introduce me to him,
wdien ho comes, as an old friend of the
family, and not as a lawyer."
Mr. Alexander Campbell called in tho
course of the afternoon, and was made
acquainted with Abnor Pierce, at whom
ho looked suspiciously; but his eyes fell
when he met the old gentloman's intent
and piercipg gaze. Mr. Pierce glanced
but slightly at tho deed that was offered
for tho consideration of the ladies, being
occupied in studying tho countenance of
tho man in whose favor it was drawn.
"I can't decide upon it, just now," he
said, at last. "As the friend of these
young ladies?standing, as I may say, in
loco parentis?I must make a few inqui
. rios concerning tho value of this pro?
perty. Suppose you come after supper,
Mr. Campbell, and suppose you bring
that mortgage with you. I have no
doubt it is all correct, but would liko to
soo it."
Mr. Campbell assented to this, and
withdrow. Abner Pierco filled his pipe
with nervous hasto, but also with to?
bacco, and Mary brought him a light.
"I know that you havo some good
nows for us," she said. "I can see it in
your faco."
"Not bad, my ohild. I hope and trust
that it is very good. A good name, but
n bad man, I said, and that is true. I
think I see my way out of this difficulty,
and tho money I lent you is safe. But
you musn't interfere with me, young
ladies, or be surprised at any thing I may
say or do, or object tb it. You must
trust me, and let me work in my own
way."
After supper, when Abncr Pierce had
enjoyed another comfortable smoke, and
had conversed with the girls concerning
their mother, as he had known her in
her youth?a subject upon which he
grew very eloquent?Alexander Camp?
bell came in, bringing the deed and the
mortgage, both of which he banded to
Mr. Pierce for examination.
"I have made inquiries concerning the
property,'' said the old gentleman, "and
am satisfied that it is not worth more
than the amount of the mortgage, and it
would probably bring much less if sold
at foreclosure. Your oiler is a liberal
one; but I must first look at the mort?
gage. This appears to be correct," he
continued, when he had examined the
instrument. "It is properly acknow?
ledged, and the signature is undoubtedly
that of Philip Merwin. 1 suppose the
young ladies will have to go to the
County seal to execute the deed."
The girls' countenances fell at this
sudden surrender on the part of their
champion.
"This reminds me," said the old law?
yer, picking up the mortgage again, "of
an occurrence that fell under my observa?
tion in Tennessee. Not that the two
cases are alike, as the Tennessee case
was undoubtedly a fraudulent affair; but
there was a similarity in the circum?
stances. Don't look so down-hearted,
young ladies. What will be. must be,
and it is useless to cry about what cannot
be helped. As I was about to say, a man
died in Tennessee, leaving a widow and
one daughter. The widow was about to
administer upon his estate, when a man
who was unknown came forward, and
presented a mortgage similar to this, and
for exactly the same amount. It was ex?
amined by lawyers who were familiar 1
with the signature of the deceased, and
pronounced correct. Although there
was something strange about the affair,
they could find no flaw in the instrument.
It was particularly pnzzling to one of
them, who thought thnt he had trans?
acted all the law business of the de?
ceased. He got hold of the mortgage
and brought it to mo when I was in
Nashville. I happened to have in my
possession a very powerful magnifying
glass that had been presented to me?the
most powerful single lens I have ever
seen. With this I examined the mort?
gage, and soon discovered that "forty"
had been raised from "four." There
was no mistake about it. I could easily
see the 'marks of chemical erasure, and
the difference, in pen and ink, between
the "raised" and the rest of the instru?
ment. How the rascal got into the
register's office, I don't know; but the
record thorn had been altered in the
same manner. He ran awav, and it was
not considered worth while to follow
him. Strange circumstance, wasn't it,
Mr. Campbell?"
Mr. Campbell was fidgeting uneasily
in his chair, and made no reply.
"Here is the glass," continued the old
gentleman, taking it from his pocket,
"and you can see for yourself how it
magnifies. Now, as I look at this
'forty'?why, bless me! the same signs
are visible that I saw in my Tennessee
mortgage! 1 think you will be obliged
to drop this, Mr. Campbell. My Ten?
nessee man's name was Alexander Hell,
and he has added a Camp to it since he
came to Missouri.
Campboll, his face red us llame,
reached out his hand for the document.
"I believe I will keep this, Mr. Camp?
bell, for fear of accidents. What! Do
you think you could take it by force?
Hero is something that shoots five times.
Going, are you? Very well ; I don't think
you will be molested, if yo\i will leave
this part of the country and never roturn
to it. It is barely possible that the
estate of Philip Merwin may really owe.
you $4,000. If so, I advise you not to
try to collect the debt, as such an at?
tempt would land you in the peniten?
tiary. Good-night, %Mr. Campbell, and
farewell."
j "What is it? What does this mean?-'
asked Clara, us Mr. Pierce, rubbing his
hands ami smiling, bustled around to
fill his pipe.
"Are you so dull, my child? Why.
the fellow is a swindler, and has been
found out. I guessed as much when I
first heard of the affair, and was sure of
it when von told me his name. You
will soon be able to pay me Iiiy$200, and
then wo will straighten up matters.
Thank yon, Mary, yon are very kind to
give me ii light."
"Do you mean to punish him?" asked
Mary.
?Tt would hardly pay. We could put
him in the penitentiary, but you might
lose $4,000 by tho job*. By trying for
$ 10,000, be has lost the $4,000 that may
have been justly his duo. He will bo far
from hero by morning, I*hnve no doubt;
a good riddance to him! Ah, this is
comfortable. I know that I feel better,
and I hope that you do."
The girls were sure that a great weight
had been lifted from their minds and
hearts. Alexander Campbell, uh'a.s* Bell,
decamped, and Abner Pierce stayed a
week with tho orphans, during which
time he arranged all their affairs satis?
factorily, and won their lasting gratitude
and love.
"How can we ever thank you for all
vou have done for us?" said Clara, when
lie was about to leave.
"It was for your mother's sake, if 1
can ever help you, all I have is at your
Bervice."
Abner Pierce has visited the orphans
frequently since tho event above nar?
rated and they have always had a cordial
welcome for "ma's old beau."
The steady and rapid increase of crime
in the city and County of New York is
assigned as tho reason for appointing n
legislative coinmitteo to sit during recess
and investigate tho cauBes, with a view to
ascertaining whether tlio laws or the
courts are to blame. One provision of
tho resolution constituting this commit
teo is peculiar, namely, that tho State
shall be at no expense for tho support of
its members at hotels. Thoy will have
to dopend on their per diem, the samons
though they were in legislative session at
Albany. The smaller courts of the me?
tropolis, and sorao of the higher ones,
view the movement with anything hut
favoring eyes.
Attend Perry & Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars
Josn Bileinob.?If a man is natral
now-days, ho is charged at once with
trying to ho excontriok or silly.
Menny a man has reached the summit
of fume, and then lookt down npon the
humble valley he cum from and loagcd
to be back there ngin.
Thare is a grate deal of modesty that
is nothing else but fear.
Tho days of chivalry are not over; they
will last as long as whiskey duz.
I never have known ov an impudent
man yet to be possessed of downright
good sense.
It is the little things that enable us to
judge ov a man's character; he don't try
to hide them, and couldn't if he would.
I have never seen but a few who knew
how to cry good, and even less who
knew how to la?' well.
I think ihe majority ov people have a
better public than private character.
If a man tells a tic, he i s always in a
hurray to prove it.
l'asiiunce is like castor ilo?it is one
thing to prescribe it, and it is another
thing to take it.
There is more real happiness in reduc?
ing our wants than in grntifying them.
No man ever failed of success who
could do a thing better than another
could, and kept n doing it.
Yu kant make a friend of a servant
friendship and servitude; won't mix, only
in the same way as ile and alcohol duz.
Deference is the most cunning compli?
ment yu kail pay to a worthy man, and
the most wasteful one that yu can'pay to
a bully.
There' is one kussed smart thing about
ghosts -the y never show themselves only
by candle-light, and then only to one
person at a time. ?
It is a well-known fact to outsiders,
but parents won't believe it, that preco?
cious children never amount to anything
else.
If I bad a boy. I should much rather
be unable to decide, up to ten years old,
whether he was going to be u fool or not,
than whether he was going to be a Homer
or a Napoleon.
If a man wants to find out the utter
weakness of money, lot hiiu try to hire a
double tooth to stop nking.
A str?ng? r with no guile in his face
and no overcoat on his shoulders, Man-,
dered into a clothing store in Newport,
the other day, anil naked if he could he
fitted with a spring overcoat. The pro
prieter promptly answered in theaflirnia
tive. "Yon speak very positively," re?
plied the stranger. "I am bigger than
you take me for." The store-keeper was
still confident that he had coats that
would answer. "I am a pretty heavy
man," said the stranger. "I will bet you
$") that you can't guess my weight into
100 pounds." The man was not particu?
larly largo, und this astounding challenge
entirely diverted tho seller of clothing
from the ordinary course of his business.
He took the wager, named his guess?
about 100 pounds the money was put
up in the hands uf a third party, and all
started otf for a pair of scales,* iuid the
stranger balanced 2'M pounds of weights.
The store man looked sad and puzzled.
With a smile that was child-like and
bland, the stranger took his money and
walked o?' without saying anything more
about the overcoat. It has siuco been
learned that this man wears a lead jacket,
and has been making an honest living by
playing his scurvy trick on unsuspect?
ing dealers in clothing. Ho came from
Connecticut.
The troubles on tho Mexican border
have about reached their climax. The
question now has resolved itself into one
of the preservation of tho pence. The
United States Government, with dne re?
gard for its dignity and a desire to pre?
serve, its honor, cannot longer permit the
present state of a Hairs to exist on the
border. Not only is Texas every day in?
vaded, its towns rapined and its citizens
outraged, but Mexico is un equal suf?
ferer. The bandits belong to neither
side of the Rio Grande. They are as
active on one side as on the other, and
they steal from Mexicans with as much
avidity as from Texans. There is only
one remedy that wo know of. and it is
time that it was applied. The United
States Government has dilly-dallied too
long with this matter. Mexico is willing
but she is weak. The stronger power of
the Federal Government must be in?
voked. Cortina must be crushed and
the daring robbers of our own nation
curbed.
Even the New York Jferahl severely re?
bukes tho recent alleged action of the
Pupal Cabinet in demanding the restora?
tion of Roman Catholic Unity in Spain.
Such a demand means nothing more
than that every other religion shall be
excluded fron* Spain, and that the dnjs
of Philip II be restored. King Alfonsio
is said to have declined to accede to the
demand of the Papal Nxincio, and, in
that ease, the Pope cannot count him in
with bis strictly obedient children. The
Papal Cabinet* certainly should learn a
little wisdom from tho past anil bo con?
tent to toke its chances with other faiths.
But there is every probability that the
reported demand of the Pope or the
Spanish Government is a telegraphic
humbug, for Alfonso has been restoring
Catholic unity ever since ho got back to
Madrid. The old Isabella text-books havo
been restored to the schools, and the
English Protestants have had several
difficulties growing out of the closing of
thoir churches by tho Government.
Death of Hon. Jesse D. Bright.?The
death of this honored son of Indiana,
removes another of tho strong men who
controlled the destinies of this country
in the political contests which preceded
a resort to arms in 1861, anil it would
have been well if bis counsels had pre?
vailed. Mr. Bright was born in central
New York, in 1812, and there studied
law. Soon after removing to Indiana,
he became dooply interested in politics,
and almost from the outset of his public
caroer, was r. public leader. He wos
successively a Circuit Judge, Stato Sena?
tor, United States Marshal, Lieutenant
Governor anel United States Senator.
His service in tho Federal Senate began
in 1845, and continued unbroken down
to his expulsion in 1862.
Mr. Wiley Williams, the young man
who was so sadly injured at Charlotte on
Thursday last, was in twenty-four bat?
tles during the late war and escaped
unhurt to be so terribly wounded, at
last, in a civil celebration!
The decoration of the graves of the
F?deral and Confederate dead, at Elm
wood Cemetery, Memphis, 'lean., on the
24th inst., was an event which points
well the moral of fraternization jn the
matter of a mutually glorious history.
Tho largest processieu ever seen in Mem?
phis, with the exception of that in honor
of the memory of General R. E. Lee, was
formed. The ex-Federal soldiers^almost
to a man, turned out with tho ex-Con?
federates, and in the ranks were seen tho
tattered hattla-flags of both armies. At
no time since tho war has there been
such an enthusiastic intermingling of
the blue and the grey.
The United States Marshals in tho
Southern States, it is said, will, ere long,
receive the attention of Attorney-Gene?
ral lMerrepont, who wants to know how
it is that the business of theso officials
has been conducted in such an extrava?
gant manner. Besides proventing them
from putting Government funds to cor?
rupt uses, the Attorney-General should
see that they attend to their legitimate
business, and keep their hands ont of
local politics?a practice which has been
very common among them for many
years.
Piiayino and Fiohttno.?jEsop's fable
of "Jupiter and the Wagoner" is being
illustrated in Missouri. The Governor ?
has appointed a day of fasting and prayer
for relief from the grasshoppers, while
the State Entomologist recommends na?
tural means?such as offering a pecuni?
ary reward for every bushel of hoppers
destroyed; an excellent suggestion, if
practicable, as it will not only diminish
the voracious swarms of destroyers, but
at the same time afford remunerative em?
ployment to thousands of people now
unemployed and needy.
Mabel H. Young, tho littlo five year
old girl who was the victim of an atro?
cious outrage in the tower of the Warren
Avenue Baptist Church, Boston, Sunday,
died the next day. Cumulative evidence,
among other things blood stains upon
his collar, handkerchief and clothing,
strengthens the belief in the guilt of the
sexton, Thomas Piper, aged twenty-six
years, who is under arrest. The feeling
against him is intense. He is charged
with other murders. ?
A recent Washington letter mentions
that Patterson, of South Carolina, was
whining a few days ago. Bristow had
kepthim wnitingin theantc-roomawhole
forenoon, receiving heads of bureaus and
damn newspaper men all the time, and
when he did see me he treated me more
like an interloper than a Unted State
Senator.
The whole number of voters in the
United Kingdom of Great BritAin and
Ireland is 2,821,241. This leaves out
nothing but the Dublin University,
whose graduates all come to hold lucra?
tive offices.
An Ohio girl got up the other morn?
ing to bathe her face in tho liquid dew,
and cut off one of her fingers on an old
scythe hidden in tho gross. There's al?
ways some drawback to sentiment.
A Cleveland woman rocently married
a Chinese laundry man, and three days
thereafter the unhappy Celestial appear?
ed at a barber's shop and ordered Lis
pigtail cut off, saying in explanation,
"Too muchee dam yank."
A great deal of cleverness is exhibited
in the sunshade han-dles. Some are fear?
fully and wonderfully made.
Attend Perry A Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
The father of poverty is foolish spend
ings. .
Attend Perry A Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
To find out what's in a man, send him
to sea.
Attend Perry A Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
Rev. A. H. Cornish died in Newberry
last week.
A.Tictiom Sickles.
Sewlmj Machines, Furniture, etc.
By H. & S. BEARD, Auctioneers.
I THIS (Thursday) MORNING, 27th inst.,
at 10 o'clock, in front of our auction
store, we will sell,
34 SEWING MACHINES, of different
manufacturers. These machines can be
bought at very low figures, as they will
be sold without reserve.
also,
1 Feather Bed, Mntresses, set Bed-room
Furniture, and a variety of other useful
articles. May 27
Salaibr Foreclosure of Mortgage.
SKIBEL.S & EZELL, Auct'rs.
PURSUANT to authority on me con?
ferred by John L. Nc.igle, in and by
his deed of mortgage, dated the 14th day
of July, A. D. 1873, convoying to nie as
trustee the property hereinafter described
for the purposes in said deod expressed,
I will sell, at public sole, in front of the
Court House in Columbia, 8. C, on
MONDAY, the 7th day of Jnne, 1875,
All and singular the BRIDGE of the
Columbia Bridge Company, situated and
being upon and across the Congaree
River, opposite to the city of Columbia,
with its piers, abutments and all other
property, real or personal, belonging or
incident thereto, together .with all and
sigular the franchises, rights and privi?
leges of the said the Columbia Bridge
Company incidont and appertaining to
the said bridge; and also four hundred
and ninety-four shares of the Capital
Stock of tho said Columbia Bridge Com?
pany. L. D. CHILDS, Trustee.
?May 23 _j_._
Acacia Lodge, No. 84, X. F. M,
Jk THE REGULAR Communica?
tor tion of this Lodge will bo held at
/V\Masonio Hall, THIS (Thursday)
EVENING, at 8 o'clock. By order of the
W. M. F. M. DRENNAN, Seo'y.
Batter, Pine-apples, New Potatoes.
OA DOZEN sound PINE-APPLES.
?U 20 cans (20 lbs. each) new May
Mountain BUTTER.
250 head CABBAGES, 3 to 7 lbs. caoh.
? new POTATOES.
500 reams WRAPPING PAPER. For
sale low by W. B. BURKE,
Commission Merchant,
Msy 27 1 City Hall Building.
For Sale,
APAIR OF GREY HORSES, small
size. Work well ? in double or
single harness and?under saddle. Will
! be sold together or separately. Apply at
' this office. May 9