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PRAHX P. BEARD, Publisher. A FAMILY NEWSPAPER. $2.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 4-Sr VOLUME YV.T^O CAMDEN, KERSHAW COjJs. C., JUNE 20, 1877. NUMBER 36. %1u Xrrsbaic PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT IAMDEN, KERSHAW CO., 3. C., FRANK P. BEARD. - Tornta of Hubacrlptlon ? (ItfYABMABXr IX A-V TAN CM.) Om copy, on* -jmj, .... ILM Tn ?ii Vrmwu. .... 1.00 To otaUa mt tan, . . l.T? To cJuba of twrntj-An, ... UD Rates of Advertlalng i Om* aqoara or 1m, |1.*0 for tba ftrat InaarUoa, aad|l 00 for ?oh ?mbaasuent tnaartlon. %r Om Uyob ooaatltntoa a mun. 'Iibml ntM oMbMum* who idnrtlM for ikiMk atx or twin NT-Ail una aro du< jjoaraooo of adTarMaaaaaat, nnlasa oUw wtaa ara dw at aoy tin* afUr Ant 1)? (onYenuncc. Ho glad you are hero for tbo wedding ! I want you to aee my trousseau, Pa gar? me carte blanche tor the outfit? "Tin all bo need give me, you know. TUn't every girl marries three million*, And ao he's as pleased aa can be. Here'a thedress, dear ?whitesatin, .Worth's latest. And the flounces and veil real point: see ! The girls are all .dying with envy. Laat Rammer, at Newport, the way They courted the man for his money Wan disgusting, I really must nay. Oh, Tiffany'a keeping my diamonds ? I shouldn't fi>el xafo with them here 5 1 think they will make a sensation ; No bride has had finer this year. Of course wo are jolng to Europe? The atato-rooma are taken and all ; How long wo shall stay I don't know, but I guess until late in the fall. When wo get back I'll give a grand party. The house ho is building up town Will be something superb whoa it's finished. I wish tho man's name wasn't Drown. In lovo with him? Jule, why you're joking ; He's iifty at least, if a day ; Hut then he is really in love, dear ? I'm sure I shall have my own way." You know I was never romantic : If ho wants a pretty young wife, Why, I don't object to bo petted And worshiped tho rost of my life. It's wicked to marry for money? Oh, yes, but who llkos being poor? Don't thoy say lovo flies out of tho window When poverty darkona tho door ? 1 did coino near falliug in lovo once With (ho liandsomest fellovr in town, Au art id, with nothing but talent? My stars ! how tho pater did frown ! Dut now lies delighted. Tbreo millions! What well-brought-up girl dare refuse? And tho other girls' mothers are wish I ig Their own daughters stood in my shoes. There's my fiance now. See his horses! Perhaps he does look rather grim. And what of tho handsome young artist? Ah, well, wo won't talk about him. ?Harper'* Jkitar. MY COUSIN HORACE. ".Kho in a woman; tbat in enough to make mo dl iliko her." Tho-words full upon my oar, a* I lay just waking tran my eftornoon nap, upon my ?oft* "Horoof!" jlly aunt's gcntlo voioo nttored tlio word in a reproaohful tono, and I know that her son, whom we had' boon expneting homo from hi* French trip for some days, bad arrived^ - 1 " " voflon," mother,* i- loved true, and fair sho boo mod, , labaliaita I wan the only one she *lovod." ?F^TW" * ? ""Well, floraoe, ydh wrote that she had prom ised to hejrdMr wife^ext year." EfcuLp' "8h? Wj married to another one wook bo forr I loft raris, and she had doooivod mo. Bho % loved htm all the tlmo, but they quarrctcd, ami wliilo they wore estranged she met juo. Thov mot again?wore rooonciled j and I? Well, it j? is over!" fQ I sprang up from tlio sofa, ashamed Of tbo part of oaveadropporI hf^d been luiiuUuitinnally playing, aiid hnstonoa to dross for dinner. A.? I stood before tho.glass, I mentally drew a con trast botweon the Amy ho had so often de sccibod in It Is lot tors, and tho faco before mo. fflie had fair, light cnrhyblqo eyes, and blonde f- complexion, witU a fairy-liko figure. 1 was-tall, with a full figure, jetty hair and eyes, a gypsy complexion, and crimson roses on my chocks. Cousin Horace \yaa tall, too?not very liand some^frut manly and talontod, with an erect, < froe oarriago, flashing eyes, and a loud, ringing voioe ; all this I know from his mother, for we had not moi siaoo wo woro children. " So ho has determined to liato mo beonnso 1 Km a woman," I thought, as I braided tbo black hair, and loopod it noar my chook. " Well, it won't break my hoart, I dare say." I came into tho parlor with quiet solf-poOios W sioti and was introducod to my cousin. He started to find the little girl ho remembered a rj. tall woman, but I think felt relieved that 1 did not in any way resemble the lost Amy. Coldly, distantly polite was his greeting -, and mine matched it. Wo chatted on indifferent subjects till dinner Unto, and I took tho earlloxt f opportunity to retire and leave tho long-parted i* mother and son together. Wo wore in a pleasant country house on tho \g . banks of tho Dorwont, passing tho summer ; P*. but wo know nono of tlio neighbors, and Horace * and 1 wore foroed to boeomo friends. Wo walk ed and rodo together, but always chatted on F . gonoral snbjoots, and with tho formality of per feot strangers. It was oxooodingly tirosomo. All my othor cousins, when I had oooasionally visited them, hod treated mo like a sister?and I enjoyed it; i but this iooherg of a man talked, in.his stately, ? ? composod way, as if wo were entire strangers meeting in a crowded saloon. And yot ?strange b as it may seem?I looked forward with ioipa , tienoe to our walks or evening chats -loiigcd, 1 j* wished for them. My cousin was talented, and had travoled?not returning to prate idly of the !* bonders ho had seen but to profit by thom, and improve tho groat mind Hoavon had givon I . htm. He never referred to Amy, but sometimes, K.; when apeaking of his stay on the continent, a K bitter smile would flit over his fa ie, as if the ? reminiscences he spoke of were oonnectod with K others buried deep in his own breast pj|'! One morning, while wo woro at breakfast, a K' ran drove up, and from it was hoisted a largo K package containing a piano. |x k "Ooustn," said Horaoo, " you woro lament EE tag tlio absenco of a piano lost week. Will you k use this one?" ?f Tho delight and gratitude I felt at his kind R r. thoughtfulnoHfl woro chilled, crushed, by tho ? OOkH, business-like tone of his voice, i l>owcd, '? tried to S)>cak, and flir'ly ran upstairs and . dried- I eoiild not toll why. It was very kind for him to indulgo mo in my favorite ploasuro, but he evidently hated mo all tho while?else why that chilling tono? It was a merely polite attention offered by a gontleman to a lady-? nothing moro. "He has no heart, n > feeling I" I thought, as X dried my oyos < but l>efore night I changed my opiukm. We were seated in the parlor, with no light but thai given by the moon as it poured In at, the open windows, and f opened tho piano. It | bad a flue deep tono, and after my Angers onoe upon it I forgot everything else. Hor ** and my aunt woro silent. I played for some ' when a deep, bitter sigh made me look Auntie was gono; my coualn sat upon the bis head bowed down, and his face burled no onsldon. Are you HI?" I asked, crossing the room, no I But mnsio ?such music as yours many tilings. You are a fine perform ) but that Is nothing compared to inrie yon pour out I could' l* a bet 1 heard such often." bounded high at this, his first oom 1 said, gently. " I lore it, too ! Cousin, I havo sat for hours, listening to a harp played by "? He paused ; I knew what he meant, and, my heart full of sympathy, I softly laid my hand upon his head. The action, slight a? it was, re called him. " It is getting late! I will close the piano ; and then good-might, cousin." Odd, distant, stately, ho rose, letting my hand fall from his head, never heodiug it. I went up stairs. It was tho drop too much in my cup; and humiliated by the thought that I had given my love unsought, uucared for, I paseed the night in aloeploss, tearful agony. ... The next morning I resolved to return home, and was more determined by hearing one phrase which fell from Horace's lips just as I entered tho breakfast room. It was : " Novor? mother! I oau never trust another woman !" I turned from tho room and went out into tho air. I was choking, stifling. All unheed ing where I strayed, I went on toward the bank of tlie river. I thought of the loviug, kind at tention toward his mother?his gentlemanly boaring to our few visitors?his kind, unosten tatious benevolenco to tho poor with whom he camo in contact?and I contrasted it with his cold indifference to myself, till I grow nearly frantic. Then my thoughts turned to that silly girl whom he had loved?false, deceitful as she was ?and I hatod myself that I had no power to efface her imago from hit> heart. I, dark and tall, disgusted him, when her angel face rose before his mind's eye. I whs handsomo, and did not want admirers to tell me so. My heart full of bitterness and sorrow, I dashod on, hearing tho ripples of tho water kiss tho bank below mo ; and sometimes looking down, half tempted to end my misery like Kappho. I whs ntanding, exhausted with my passion ate haste, leaning against a tree, when a deep, manly voice called loudly : " Kuto ! Kato ! where aro you ? ' I started, lost my balance, and fell down the bank. There was a rushing souiul in my oars, and then I lost consciousness. I wan lying on the sofa when I recovered nty senses. I felt strong arms around mo as I lay there, too be wildered to open my eyes. I felt, too, hot tear* dropping on my faco ; and I heard -oh, music ! a deep, rich voico, broken with sobs, saying : " Kate ! darling ! my own Kate, speak ?'.o ! Do not lie ro still, like death ! Kate:' and then i " Oh ! she is dead ! I shall never be happy now 1" . I opened my oyos, and then, as of old, afraid to trust his own heart's choice, he started to draw back, but I clasped the hand that drew back. "Horace?" I whispered, "lovo mo?I mo." i Well, I can't writo any more, because I am employed in twisting orange flowers UiU> the most becoming shape for a wreath ;jand to morrow my Cousin Horace booomos somebody els*?to me! -trust ? Fe'fiiale Detective. A woman recently died in London roar furnishes incident enough ?-^_?4ootor she volunteered to nurae tlioso families , whoso honesty waa suspected by the I Authorities, (is ^ nurse she disarmed | all suspicion, JUu} 'did not fail to take ooreful note of all sho heard. Her man ners wore also apparently so loose anil low tliat but little restraint was observed in her presence, and her reports foi wardecMo the Scotland Yard wore thus rendered all the more valuable. While engaged* in her duties, sho extracted from her half unconsoious and debili tated fever patients the confession of some dark deed, and hints ns to the whoreabouts of confederates iu crime. Such was the general plan of action ob aervod by this extraordiwu-y woman ; but this was rather a slow process, and at times it was necessary to fall at once upon the wrongdoer. On one occasion, for instance, the police received infortun ium that there was a gang of false money-makers in a certain street, but notwithstanding every effort they were nuable to ascertain in Which house the coiners worked. The services of the female detective were therefore requisi tioned, and sho was dispatched to the street in question to see what could be done. Feigning violent illness, she penmadod a child who issued from one of tho suspected houses, to take her in doors for a moment. Tho sudden eutrance thus obtained enabled the detective to hoar tho motalio sounds pro ceeding from tho coiner's workshop t>eforo the latter were nwaro that any stranger was in tho house. Hut they soon discovered thoir danger, and the ohief of tho gang, in his fury, hurled a ladle full of molten load ut her head. Fortunately tho poke bonnet that she woro saved her life ; tho burns she re eeivod wero not fatal, though they de stroyed her hair and its roots. The police arrived in time, on hearing the alarm, to arrest eighteen coiners. After this, sho disguised herself as a boy, and penetrated mnny a thieves' den. On one occasion she was discovered, and struck down with a blow which fractured her skull, before tho polico arrived to her aid. Still undaunted, with returning health she resumed her dangerous occu pation, often engaging in hand to hand tights, and armed with the mngio whistle, rattle, and number given her by the Authorities, and which insured the assistance of every policeman, stranger or not, whoso services she might Jlnd it ?.iccossary to call. Sickness at last sub dued this turbulent spirit, and thieves need no longer fear the visits of the female detective. A Victim of Kleptemnnia. Miss Sarah Redmond, a fashionably dressed young woman who is known to her friends as being afTlictcd with klep tomania, pleaded guilty of stealing a seal sktu snok and some articles of less value, from New York stores. She ha bitually stole all she could,and spent the proceeds in carriage rides. Hor aim and pleasure seemed to l>o carriage riding. At the time of her arrest over seventy pawn tickets were found on her. Tho judge said, in passing sentence, that, it was a duty he would gladly have avoided. He thought the case was one fof a com mission in lunacy rather than an indict ment. Ho gave the lowest penalty the law allowed, one year. The prisoner broko down in tears as tho sentence was pronounoed. "Th? Kurds," savsan A?i*tio dispatch, "?ro threatening tb? khan." Tha mOk-khtn, probably. A KEXAKKA1SLE SHIPWRECK. I.*M of the City of Ntn Franrlaco on the Mexican Coast. Tbe Bteamer City of San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, left Panama on May 11th, at 4:30 ?. u., with 137 passengers?forty-six cabin and ninety-one steerage?and her officers and crew. Hor cargo was valued at three quarters of a million dollars, oonaiating uf silks, velvets, luces, etc. On Wednes day morning, May 16th, the day was bright and the atmosphere clear; At eight een minutes past nine o'clock a peculiar, indescribable tremor was felt, the ship having struck against an unknown dan ger, cutting into the hull tho length of sixty feet, causing the water to rush in with fearful velocity. The ship was then six miles southwest from Tnrtur shoals, and thirteen miles from tho shore, the captain having known by observation her position at eight o'clock. The danger upon whioli she struck i* not on any chart, but a document sworn to before the United States consul at Acapulco by one Perer, and witnessed by William Lund of tho gun-boat Mexico, deposes that said Perer is perfectly acquainted with tho rocks extending from. Point Maldonadocia in a southwest direction, and the sharp pointer covered with four or five fathoms of water, extending in a nearly straight line southwest fco a dis tance of twelve or fourteen miles from laud, and that he fishes for turtles there frequently. Tho ship was at once turned toward the shore, gradually sulking. She had a full head of steam on when she grounded on the sand bnuk at 10:20 a. m. Fortunately, three compartments wero still water tight. Tho captain and his officers wero cool and preserved discipline on board. As soon as the ship struck orders wore given to get the "boats ready and put lifo preservers on, as the dauger of sinking was most imminent. Soundings between the reef and sand bank showed five and a half, seven and a half, twenty, twenty-two fathoms and no bottom. During the fearful interval, though the ship was evidently sinking, not a cry ' was heard from tl*e passengers, and there 'was little oonfosion, ujthougli among the 187 ? passengers twenty were small children*_*nd mauy were young men never before at sea. The boats were Altfed and starte^or the shore, the pas Mexiatn shore. Fortnuatcly a stream of fresh water was found between tho. mountains whore, with tho stars for a? cohering and roqts and branches of trees for mattresses, all slept. Tho captain at once sent ono of the offieors to Acapulco, eighty miles distaut, but fortunately a l>oat fell in with tho gun-boat Mexico, Capt. Solar, oommanding, and, although under orders to get provisions for a bo siogod city, tho inhabitants of which were starving, tho captain at once steamed off to tho relief of the shipwrecked pas sengers. They wero all taken off safely, crowding tho deck of tho gunboat, and the npxt day they were transferred to tho Pacific Mail steamer Cost Rica, Capt. Whiteberry. Tho commanding officers and crows of tho United States ships Lackawanna and Pensacola acted most nobly, supplying fho passengers with oloth'ng from their private wardrobes. The United States ships took up sub scriptions to a large amount for distri bution among the women and children who wero entirely destitute. Capt. Wiuldell and his officers behaved splendidly, their conduct being bravo, humane and unselfish. Cupt. Woddell says seven steam pumps of 160 barrels of wator per minnto capacity were abso lutely usoless. The wliole bottom is out of the steamer. The captain says ho ran the steamor repeatedly over the same spot before, find can only conjecture that the lute earthquake, which was made manifest on the coast by tho tidal wave, may have upheaved a suhmarine roek. The ship was under way, and wns going at the rate of eleven knots an hour when she struck. Tho captain was on the bridge an hour bofore the steamer struck, and timed everything by his watch. Twenty minutes after she struck the fires went out. In that twonty minutes she was running in shore under full head of steam. Who ran for forty-two minutes, making a distance of nine or ten iniles, and thus grounded in thirty feet of water on a sand bottom. Next morning about a foot of the stern wan seen out of water. Tho wholp body of tho ship was sub merged, and tho mizzenmast gone. The Imggago of the passengers, furniture, etc., wore constantly floating nshoro dur ing tho day. The money of tho passen gers in the purser's hands, tho ship's money, and all the baggage wcro lost. A Kemedy for Mormoiiimn. Tho best solution of the Mormon problem yet proponed in that of dividing up Utah among tho adjoining States and Territories. 'J wo contiguous States, Ne vada and Colorado, do not to day eon tain a snffieiont population to justify their admission. Nevada has not 00,000 people within her borders, and Colorodo has less than 100,000. Territorially there is no reason why tho eastern por tion of Utah should not t>0 annexed t > Colorado, and tho western to Nevada. In creating the original territory of Ne vada a large slieo was cut off from Utah, and a.iothor portion might now l>o added with advantage. Such an addition might prove advantageous in improving the polities of tho State by introducing therein another element. And thero is no doubt that the people of Nevada wonld take due earo to punish polygamy within their borders. Colorado wonld be t>oneflted by the annexation of a por tion of eastern Utah, and the Territories of Idaho, Montana and Arizona could with advantage absorb the northern and southern portions.?&'an Francisco ftulUHn, AN AMERICAN CONJURER IN JAY A. AppmH^i Before Ike ltcyal F??Hj-F*U ItrfM mud ladrrM Prrtftfls. In their ooey quarters, in New York,. Robert Heller, the conjurer, and mister laugh over some droll scene* in foreign lands, writes a correspondent. At a dinner party given by them re cently Mi*s Heller wore a remarkable looking medallion containing over a hun dred small diamonds and a ruby of great value. Some one spoke of it as a bit of Mexican manufacture. " No, indeed; that came from a queerer place* than Mexico?from the island of Java," she said, " when Robert and I appeared be fore a large audienoe, comprised of the emperor and his wife?but there was so many of her, the house was fulE" Tho Hellers had bejn in Jar*, some time when, with much pomp and otrcom stance, they were invited (Or, moreprop orly, commanded) to appear before the royal family. The emperor at that time (this was in 1872) was 6Qe Soerabaiga, called short among his subjects " Sooloo." was^bjg fat man, nice and black and greasy, and he reoeited his S?eeta in state apartment capable of ^botding three or four hundred,:and tho room was nearly full. There was an empresa of Soerabaiga, on extraordinary looking person, who hold her mouth wide open to display hbr greatest chaitoi, a row of big teeth, stained jot black, that looked like the Indianapolis depot.' Ranged behind the royal pair were the second class in con jugal relations, sixty-three concubines, with three children apiooo, and all about tho same age, say ten to fifteen, most of them boys, dress 3d with all the tasto a fond mother in the island of Javjt is pob sessod of. t Their bur was gorgeously greaued and pisited; around their neoks they wore brass chains with largo medallions appended, and several of them carried feather-fans. .*. -l' Old Sooloo had any quantity of clothes on, but it was ovideutly an unusuaT dress-up day for even an fmperar. At the minuto Mr. Heller had oomplefced one trick the proud sovereign arose and twitched off his spangled Ulster; close of the second his broidered frock coot folio Mr. Heller sat down to the much its the proper In undeaolothes out in Java. - Mr. Heller was abont to introduce his sister for the seoond-sight business, and he lookod with some anxiety for furthcT intentions on the part of his royal audi onoo; but the king had got down to hard pan and sat quietly. Miss Heller, know ing the prejudices of the placo, had searched her wardrobe for the gayest dress?one with low neck and short sleeves. . She added to its gtary every bit of jewelry of which *he was posses sed. Her entrance created a sensation. Tho young geutlomen?young Java and Mocha and St. Domingo, and all the other coflee-eolorod names?arose, and, to tho poor girl's consternation, clus tered around her. When Mr. Holler gathered nrticles from these young men }io got their last rag, their medul lionp. Tho explanations and accompanying talk of Mr. Heller's feats aro to us an enjoyable portion of tho entertainment. He had in this instancoto get along with an interpreter who knew about twentv fivo words of the English language; but Mr. Holler aud his agent and Miss Heller wero much delighted, for the graceful Robert would say: " I am about to show you, most igno rant old reprobato, how thoso three egga may bo made to produce tlio medallions* of your stark-naked cons," etc. " Now, if after breaking all the ten command* ments and outraging decency you ean give me your attention, I will proceod to," etc The poor sister shuddered, lest her frequent laughs bo construed into affronts, but, uninterrupted by bow strings or scimctars, tlio performance concluded to great applause, and tl^o emperor beokoned to ono of his slaves, I who approached, walking on his fo^t, and yet in a sitting posture, the hardest and most ridioido^s position assumed |>y grotesque dancers, when they do a hefl and-toe step, with their bodies not tliri?o feet high. j The emperor gavo an order, tho slnjvc hitched off and hopped on, bearing iv tray containing casket#!; these hoopeded one after tho other, whilo Miss fltiUor impatiently watchcd him. "What ^as she going to got ?" Finally ho selected one of the largest slid approached }ho waiting lady. Tt was' tho huge medal- i lion with the hundrod brilliants at | taohed to a wire brass ohain that a wrtll bred New York pug would rofuso to bo led by. I Hut the ruby shone resplendent, Jand the diamonds flashed, and Miss Htller was delighted. Tho emperor hung tho chain about her nook, and with ranch artistic taste undortook to make it rest graoofully amid some flowers nho wore on her breast. Sizty-fonr Mrs. Boorabalgas gland at this oeremofty. As the hideous rnsoal | gavo tho medallion a still more oarefnl scrutiny, Mrs. Boorahaiga No. 1 opened hor blaok mouth and uttor a ory like a eayuto. " A-io-i-ow," said she, and on the in } stant tho sixty-throe wives behind her j lifted their voices asono woman, and tho "a-ie-aiow" that wont up fiVun that ! alarmed party frightened the poor girl I out of her wits. Bho clasped her fnodal < lion and she got away; but not till she loft the island of Java did she consider j hor life aotually safe from the joalotis fury I of sixty-fonr Mra. Boersbaigaa. A Brooklyn tramp loft the table, at wliioh he 1 had bow seated to partake of a meal, lieoanne j hi* h<>Ht offered him hro?n<^ijrar to irwoeton I,hiit coffee. Ho remarked that he had fallen I far, rery far, bnt ha had not reached that point I of degradation. BIO BEN OP CALIFORNIA. llrndlif >|?C'ro?k?r Ihnl wu .Undr K?pr t? y^Jfly t? Defy Ilia Htr?aath. JAn JPP. Sutton, a '49er, lectured be fore tliojlfanhttttau Liberal Club in New York fttflut California when in the tle lirium oc the gold fever. Among the unocatb miners about him at that time, heMtd,jrero "Big Ben" and "Little Dick," mate*. ?' Big Ben " was far aboVte man in (he mining region in s^twe; Jtrorly and of wpndortul strength, his favorite pastime being bending crow bars* r' Little Dick" was a curiosity for (jh^Wlw&rt miners on account of hi* nu^lness ; and a meaner soil was never il^ ft man weighing eighty pouuds. "LiftM Dick," was quarrolsome, but oowatjfc and *' B'g Ben" had to do the himng for him. 80, although in offeaA and kindly naturally, " Big Ben *'wwt the reputation of a desperado. Iq njining bowlders too heavy to bo han^jHt by ? few mon were often en ooni|4|0d, and when thoy were the pro pri^fcyg of Adjacent claims were invited to uh^V to removing them. " Big lion" cr forgotten, and he did the half * dosen sturdy men. But bowUdfrfcad been movod near iough, he commonly thrust the wpH .under the bowlder, and, Ida ahoblder against the crow double. Finally Jim Y vowed that he would wel<| flicrowfeas-'that "Big B^n" oould not btf&L ^He got a ponderous Imr of o??tfrom 'Friaoo, and welded it into oJrowbar that, sure enough, " liipr Ben 'jjOBuld not bead. Tke latter tv inriral4^pd this, hia first defeat, to his THee came from the States, to m cupuikte, the dootor's wife and tiny She beaeme vara ''*^3 Ben," and" ha worshiped her. (Though be waa pahning or mad-J linfjHth * glimmer o# the yellow specks at bottom brightening hia eyes, he wonj Wq when '* Birdie " said : " Come, ? want some flowers, or pretty store*" For years afterward the min ds used to say, between the pulls of theii Tvyening pipes, that "Big Beg* IflM. Boa? wiaCnw," and, arms, "Big Ben ^^Wminlng crimp was by tho side of thoifed of a dried up stream. Across i'Mpgh bauks a siuglo fallon tree ex to?pd, the only .connection between the oam|> and tho flowery slope beyond tho Ono afternoon, as suddenly softams in that regiou do return to their b?8, a mighty flood poured down tlio be|S. The miners saw " Birdie " gather ing flowers on the opposite slope. " Big Bpn, returning with "Littlo Dick," s*w her peril. Ho shouted : " Dick, go across and g^t tho child, and I'll hold tno bridge." Ho, put his crowbar iuto a crovioe beneath ^ho tree, and braced his massive shoulder against it. " Little pick" dartod across the tree, about frhich tho waters weVe rising fast, snatched up " Birdie," arid ran ; and as ,3io darted across it and wprang to tho phore, tho tree whirled dortm tho cur yrrnt-, and "Big Ben" foil prostrate. 1 Bloody foam was 011 his lips. \ Ho had ruptured a blood vessel. "Birdie's" mother wiped away tho foam, and \look ing up, "Big Ben" whispered :I saved 'Birdie,'and bent the bar," alnd diod. Ho lia<l bout tho crowbar tluL Jiin C<x?k had forged to overtax hi| strength. Clearing n Gambling Saloon. "Long Tom's " wiw t)ie popular nnmo for drinking saloons in mining towns in California (hiring tho goltl fevor. Thoy were long and narrow rooms,and received tlioir cognomen from a resemblance to a sluice box, into which the minccs emp tied the "tailing," or dirt iu placer mining. Every mining camp hid its "Long Tom" saloon, in wli cli the evening amuHomentH wero faro, roulette, montel and a fandango. One night the freak seized Undo Dave Anderson, a well known eecentrio comedian, who .had been hotting some small sums in a " Long Torn " saloon to pretend that ho had been losing heavily. After about an hour of this play, he rushed out in a seemingly desperate mood, and somdwhero obtained a pack age of black sand, and a half ounce or so of powder, tho latter loose in his hand. Hushing in again he pretended to pour from tho package into his hand, saying as ho did so : " I've been robbed?I've been robbed !" and throw tho loose pow der on the red-hot stove, producing a slight explosion which attracted the at tention of every one. " I'm ruined," ho continued, " but you shall all go with me," and dashed the paekago into the stove. They went out of that saloon pell-mell, over one another, through windows and doors with mingled howls, execrations and yells of terror, and in three seconds by the watch Unele Dave had the field to himself. Had it l?een done by any less popular than ho, tho gamblers would probably have killed him for his practical joke, but as it was it is still told as good fun in tho place where it occurred, I'looer* villo, then called Hang town. A Qirp.Rn Friar or Naturw.?Mr* Win. Cotton brought to onr office, sayg tho Holt county (Mo.) Pre**, one of those strange monstrosities of nature* Tho Ixxly in apj?earanee resembled thai of a well-dovoloped pig, perfootly hair* I less. It had but one eye, located direot* I ly in the center of its forehead I above the eye thoro protrudod )>oftois or trnnk about two I length, which seemed to liifve an j thron rh it, as if for breathing purposes. From appearance it mnst havd been ! born alive, although when found by Mr. Ootton, with a litter of vsmall pigs, it 1 wan dead. FARM, <JARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD. ! Prarllml Hints and SmMinblr Sminlloai. A New York correspondent of the Country Gentleman in relation to the wintering of vines, and sort* for quickly covering trellises and arbors, says: "This spring even the more tender varieties have come ont nil right, and they have been left on the trellis just as they grew. Sonjo of tho hardier sorts are alive on j the laterals and to the tip ends of the j last year's growth. The Delaware, j Creveling and Eumoian appear to have j stood tho winter best. All the Rogers grapes may be included ih this list. The j Rogers hybrids aro also tho most ram- i pant growers I know ofv One berry planted in 1868 bore a good crop last ; year, and yet made so great a length of j wood that I measured one or two shoots. Tho longest single shoot of last year's growth wasthirty-five feet and six inches, of which I cut off about twenty-fivo feet, leaving,the remainder to fruit this year. Some Salem shoots grow twenty or more foot. For quickly covering an ar bor or exposed wall, these varieties ex ceed all others I am acquainted with. The Salem is also very easily propagated, and a large proportion of two-eye cut tings, planted in tho open ground, will mako good roots by fall. A daily ration of green food is actually necessary for laying hens. Vegetable, 'either cooked or raw, iH much relished also, and Berve in some measure to sup ply tho place of green diet. Onions chopped tine and mixed with their food are exceedingly wholesome, and if not a cure, aro certainly preventive of disease in many instances. Growing chicks are ^pven more anxious for greeu fixkl than }?W)g<hens. They crave it, ami when | ^^Hsaary to be housed from it on ac- j of inclement weather, it should be for them. There is no green 1 Ma bo ?wholesome for them as onion topB ' out np fin a Mr. "William S. Marston, an East An- j farmer, has this spring been con- | a series of experiments for the of ascertaining the exact cost | a large family of swine, which j wintered. . Twenty-live pounds of which cost twenty-five cents, and weight of corn meal costing the Were purchased and have hogs, the shorts to a reigliod about-throe thcvjuieal tuii bowr weighing a little less. Both have been fed mixed with water, and the hogs hod no other food for twelve days, that being tho time which the twenty, five pounds lasted. The daily keep of the sow was, therefore, two pounds of shorts, and of the boar two pounds of meal, the cost of each being two cents ; and upon this food Mr. Marston claims the hogs have moro than held their own. Another farmer living in tho same neighborhood has kept the past winter about thirty hogs, upon hay tea and meal at a daily cost of three cents for each hog. When a 300-pounder hog can bo kept for two or three cents a dny, pork ought to be cheap.? I'ennont Farmer. Itcclpcs. Canned Rhubarb.?Cut fresh rhubarb iuto inch piece", placing a layer in a largo earthen dish, and sprinkle liberally with sugar. When you have filled tho dish, or used up your rhubarb, turn a lnrgo dinner plato over it, place in the oven, and bake until done. Have your canning jars heated ; fill at once, and serow on tho covers, tightening them evory half hour until thoy are absolutely air-tight. Hoitr-Mapk Vinkoah.?One gallon molnnara, soven gallons of rain water, linlf ]>int good yeast. This will bo good vinegar in throo or four weoks. Com) Mkath.?Cut any sort of cold moat in tliin slices and plneo in a baking dish ; seasoning with salt, pepper and Bninmor savory" or thyino ; odd a little of tho moat gravy and tomatoes to more than eovor; thickening with broad or orookor crumbs ; bake in the oreii. M 1 ? Whll* *h? *?t In the t Ix'tovftl, hor liund mndprnj wintfolly orerthe k<iv? ft* nli? ! "Honiabodjr, Homebody'^ walling for thoo." Hhn w?d right. Th? ' old in mi with ? n?w p*ir of uppers and ft olab tu waiting for him, bfthlrtd th* frontdoor, A STIKHIXO ADVENTURE. l>rau, n? ,??. ?otloui ofa w>|u||(r#|f trmpt nt Itcirur. T|A RBf"fltter uml plumber named Thomas Flemming, went down into a well ou the premises of Charles Spraguo near Whitcstone, L. I., to mend leaks in a pipe. The well was thirty-five feet deep. He "look with him into the well a clmr wal furnace to heat his soldering irons. tolT^wT v, hWU OUg****' "Pprhap? wjl ^tonrr, ho complained to his as sistant Vho^As working at the top of I the well, of ft sonse of suffocation. A ew^inntes later h* attempted to pull himself np, hand over hand. When 1 within a foot or two of the top of the I well his strength failed him, and while holding to the rope called to his ansis- | tout a mere boy, to pUll him U|)i T]li(j I the.lK.yluu not strength enough to do, and he ran for assistance. Before }lo , t, turned with Thomas Smith, Flemming ! had fallen to the bottom. Smith and the I boy shouted to Flemming and lowered a *pe for him to grasp, but he failed to I from^tJ either. Some ladies had come from the adjacent houses, and Smith ventuml downtheweU to fasten a rope the Ixxly of Hemming. This ho did Whe? lCVne<i t0 nHcl ildhy the pipes.' J hen half way up, either fr?m exhaus tum or partud suffocation. he fell t<. the bottom of the well, eoming in contact al> v m y ?f hemming. Those ?b,ne attempted to. pull Flemming'* body up, but could not, and additional o p was summoned. When additional help arrived, the body of Flemming was brought slowly from the bottom, but un fortunately, when about half way up the rope broke and the body fell again to the headmT>ttl,eWe11, RtrikiU* ?n SmitI,V that b ? tho8??n it seemed alxLv1 /"0U- Mn,Kt p,>nNl'- 11 quickly determined to sound a general" alarm, and 111 a few minutes hundreds of people were on the premises. Not one among the men teemed willing to de their I1"10]111- WPlK Th? W'mU'n wr?"ff their hands in agony. Presently there eame Wiufield S. Overton, who consent^ to descend, and a few minutes strong hands were lowering him gradually into what was believed to be a pit of death. He carried with him a signaling line. The foul air ayd gases a fleeted him slightly when half way down. At the bottom hp ? ml f,,lt B l0g' which lie attached the signaling liuw. Tiwil , felt another leg, and having s?mred a r..pe to that, signaled to be drawn up Almost as soon as his head reached the surface, the body of Smith was alongside of him. There was yot life and Drs Meeker and Pitt set to work to resnsci in ah , ?' 1 ffronne(1 occasionally, and u about an hour was so far restored as to leave no doubt of his speedv return to ZT"""""- "<?*> Overton again descended into the weli U> secure the body of Flemming. He iUHfcT m'? maU'H hlml antl "houlders just above the water level. Mo suddenly beea.no conscious that his senses were departing, and with one quick effort he secured the rope under Flemming's arms and signaled to be hoisted to the surface' Ho was in a state of scmi-con.soionsness . j)ul'e,J the signal rojte but twice in abml 11 tuues'KO U,at the men above did not immediately hoed the sig. -ml. Ho became totally unconscious. rwo or three minutes later the men hinking ho had been down long enough, hoisted h,m to the surface. A chill of terror seized the crowd as Overton's senseless body, which many supposed to be his corpse, was pulled over the side of the well house. A minute later and I lemming s corpse was lifted out if,. ha.1 been dead perhaps fifteen minutes. ooctors soon restored Overton to Consciousness. It is believed that the charcoal furnace generated a large .p.anti ty of carbon 10 acid gas, which fell to tin bottom, and together with the damp foul n,r> produced suffocation. What a Scribe's Mistake Did. Count von Tliiclcman, who passed through the Caucasus about two yearn ago, states, in his account of liin travels, that ho was informed by more than one Russian official that it was only through a mere slip of the pen that the harbor of Batoum remained in the possession of the Turks on the conclusion of peace after the campaign** of IH'^H and According to tho story that was repeated to him, it was laid down in tho original draft of the treaty of Adriauople that a stream named tho Tachoroch, which flows into the Black sea to tho south of Batoum, should form the new frontier lino between Turkey and Bosnia. In fcmking the fair copy of the deed, how ever, the scribo employed mistook the r" for an " 1," and so wrote Tseholoeh, a word which chanced to be the name at that timo of a stream some twelve miles to the north of Batoum?a clerical error which consequently allowed the Turks to retain possession of the only good harbor at the east end of the Black sea. (Jraln Trade of Western Kuropc. M. Ijeroy Beau lieu, of Paris, writing recently of the effect of the Eastern war 0t> the grain trade of Western Europe, nays that he does not believe that the countries of Western Europe will sufYVr much on aeoountof the cutting off of the supply from ltussia ami the Principals ties, if the war remains localized. The reason is that tho imports from the United States, the oountries bordering on the Mediterranean, and British India Would^Ul up tho void left by the Hosing of tho Black nca. Tho United States <pnd India could also furnish the oil Mods hitherto exported from Bosnia to Wostern Europe. M. Bonulieu remarks that it remaina to be seen whether, when tho current of imports shall on^o have net in from tho United States and India. Russia will be able after the peace to bring it back to her southern ports, foi it is a frequent if not common result of great wsrs to displace the course of tia< e sometimes for n long period. ^orm JOB PRINTING. V Tb? Guirri oOo* M capable of procnpCj u>4 aeeily (McsUiif til etylae of Job Pru>Ua| it the .uvmI rmlee. VUtfinf Oinb, UMsinrss Cmt*iis, H cUUit%u funis, iUt.ll Tickets, Circulars, Kcccipts, C% soils, Invitations, Handbills, listers, Hates, Uoilffcrs, froi/ratntnes. Id ebort, we hire the yrrtr* ?nj material (or Ailing any onlar whlcb may be given oa. We solicit a trial. lteui* of Interest. ! Texas beof is sold for fourt?*on cents a . potuid in Ijoudon ami for fifteen cent* in (ial [ vt)8ton, Texas. A dog defended his mistress so cfTeetutlly' in Kent county, Maryland. from a tramp, that the tramp will be maimed for life. A little Philadelphia Ih>v startled a lady friend of the family the ether day. by remark ing that he was " four years old v. it li lii?cl<>then on !" " She makes all the oon.piests *1,0 desire*,' aaiil a gentleman of a reigning 1? II.'. to aTniTfr "True." was the sharp reit|>ouse ; "but >h'd give all her slaves for otio master." " Mother, may I go plav liaur hall V" "Yes, my valorous piteher. Hut put your wire ma:-k over your ritutr. And don't let that dci d ! ?l! I i: \vr !" " That parrot of mine is a wonderful bird,' said BmitlioTH; "ho eric* ?stop ihef' <? naturally that every time I hear it I j ! .mi stop. What are you all laughing at. anyway . When a man Is treating a dashing widow to icocream, and sees his wife coming into |ho restaurant, about nil lie can do is to button his coat, hang to his chair and trust to Providence. The time of year is fa>t coming when you can sit on the back stoop, under the lilit of the star*, contemplate the beautiful wniUittfa of nature, and smash iuom piitocs oil your iaf. "Can there be unythini; brought into this House," asked a disgusted member during the last session of the Legislature, "that will not bo repealed sooner or later?" One of tin op position suggested : "A skinned orange." Nice uncle (improving the occasion) - "You see, my dear, you don't generally call boys 'pretty but if tiiey are Very Rood indeed they may grow up ' handsome." " O'ive Prsitn-h ?" Oh, uncle ! w hy didn't yon 1>?t a good boy V" "Now then." remarked Tom, hiding Lii-t books under the bridge nnd droppiiif..' bis lii.e in|o the istol most freiplelited by the ti-ll, "the early lish eatehos the worm.'' And ho chuckled as ho thought who would catch the earlv tish. 'I'hrec Hours in a >y,.||. Frank, an eight-ycur-oM Sl>i) ,.f yr Snyder, waa hi nt out to the woods near Stoddartsvillc, 1\(., i? |1UMt lt|I Kum<) eows that had strayed away. Tin- b?v had ii,,t returned at dark. Then hi'.* parent* became alarmed, and Kotne neighbors were summoned to help hunt him up. For two hours they searched about in the woo,Is. Nothing foul,! 1?> m?ou of him. At about ten o'clock one of tho searchera while Vu**\uz through the yard of Uu ol,l farm-liouse, half a nnlo or so from Snyder# place, hn.nl Homo one call faintly : " l'npu'papu !" Ho stepped in ilte direction of thodound and threw tho B-ht of his. lantern fn that direction, My its rays he Paw the missing boy. He was lying almost on the oiltfo of an ol,l well, the covering of which was broken, revcnliug nn opening about two feet ftquare. He waa raised to his feet but being tumble to stand was Carried httne. Hb wiih carefully treated by the overjoyed pareata. For a long time he was unable to give nnv account of what had happened to him, but dually did substantially as follows : lie had hunted about in th.-? lots f.,r the eows until six o'clock. On /,1s way home ho was passing through tin- old farmyard. Ho startled a pheasant from a clump of bushes, and turned aside to nee whether it had a nest there. lie crept into the bushes, and blatantly something gave way beneath him, -and be win plunged up to bin waird. in water. He knew that he had fallen into t)i? ? old we'l Vtor reeovertug from his ten.,r h f about as calmly as possible to net ,.f bin perilous situation. 'J'lie ,.iilv wnv was to climb up the sides of th< w;?l! I.y tho chinks between the stonr s. If.. n>vlo his way half way up the well in thiK way when his foothold giVe way nnd ho fell back to tho bottom again/ Jb then took ofT his alines, and after testing Htarted up again. His progress, he sav's,' was alow and tedious? so alow that it had grown dark at tho opening above, indicating that he had been in the well more than an hour. In trying to edge around a largo stone that ho had met with and which ollercd no place to help him along, he lost his footing again ni',1 "gain fell to the bottom. Tho boy says ?hi t if it had not been for his thoughts of home and the agony his parents would be in ut his absence, he would not have had tho nerve to att. mpt the ascent again. He did, however, after a long rest in tho water, to mil of which he had become t ccnstomed. This time lie succeeded in scaling the wall, and on drawing himself out at the opening above, fell fainting t . tho I. Change* ill Fashion*. The changes in the present fashions aro but trifling ; changes, however, there ?ro in tho shape, color and trimming or everything. All the changes are gradual; tho tightly-draped dresses are slightlv varied in drapery and trimming, an,I the materials, hitch nn grenadines and "gazes noigeuso," are to be had i? all the new shades. Suits of woolen and faille aro almost exclusively used f.?? walking pur poses. Tho skirts ?re very short in front, and have v< r.v long trains. |? the ?In.vs of t|,? French directory and the empire these trains were (,.)<? ,, ,IV)>1. tho arm, while now they in" only raised on one side. For evening wear the lower part of skirts is trimmed w,th airlands of flowers or fruit, or made with 'aprons trimmed with lane and bundles of (I nv "rs. For day wear tho triminii gH air placed very low upon the skirtt. Tliel principal trimming., used nr? .voohm em broideries, damns |uire g.,:|,,on, and ief or steel bead-work. Hawks as Poultry Destroyer* Colorado lyi.*>,by legislative >?nnctmcnl, given a Ittmty of twenty Ave een'n f..r each and every hawk sciHp. At Pntivcr City, since the hawk season comntcnced, the money ptid for scalps for that comi ty alono aVcrages from to $10 per day. 'I hes"< hawks are mostly kill.d in the vicinity of chicken ranches, and the bount v does not offset their ravages on the poultry.^ They not only ent ry off the young atid half grown chicks, but actu ally attack full-grown fowls, which are often killed by the furious onslaught of the rapacious hawks. Meadow larks have almost bean exterminated by tho common en< my