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NO. 3. THE PEOPLE'S PAPER. pubuuuhd at camdkv, ?.c. ftP. * M, ?. BEARD, Proprietors. ?'v:'y^8F *? ^11 fgf thlt P*P?r?lMBM ?MBp?ot?4 bjr th? nmaAw tt* author, wrt mrttjr for poWic?t!on, txttiu trkhM of good M; falthon th? part of tt?wrtt?r. Wrttoooljr oaooo ?MtofUwpKir. B(piracalirtr?infllla|tTtac mm ?u4 OjUm tobav* tit* MUan pUim and *?* * v ? ' The Gazette Job Printing Office ? ? IUurrmpMt??4 thunanroUwr omco In town, lowoeatein tbonuwt i\tirftctivo?tyloaewy . ti<? ot Job rrtauu*. ?uch w PtnphMa, I-catfeu, Bill Head*, Lotto/ and Note Xm Brief?, Poateri, Dodcen, C1VuUr?, fluid BUI*. Wtddlp?, VUUlnf *?d AddfttaCvdi, UuaImmUu#*, LaMa, Work (too* la Broiuo, Boa. Bluo tui^BUck. . TbopubUoniiuiroaioiabor Ui*t tbo fcwt 1* iUw*)r? th? CtlOAp66t? WidpwwkitChulNtMi Mom, ud puutM outlro ?*tlsf*ctlou to our patrons, ^ -?> ??* W# kaep ooa?UnUjr on band Jt? Urgaat atoek of Papon and Card* la town. ,x. . __ . I. C. H. CLAUSSEN'i STEAM BAKERY, Manufactures tU of OAKDOBB, OAKEfl^BREAD, CRACKERS Keep* ai*o for the trad* a oomplete assort ment of OonfocUonery, Floor of all grades, Pearl Grits, Meal and feomlny. . Ne. 1? Market St., CkariMtw, S. C. Edward Parry, STAim PRINTER & BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER. SCHOOL AND UW BOOKS. U9 Meeting Street, opposite Charleston Hotel, CHARLESTON, B. O. a. jubt. n. mm. O. BART & CO. Importers and wholesale dealer* in Apple*. Orifice*. CmMmm*. ???*??? *" ? omuu, wa *u ower goods to flrcVotaM whole** I* frail store. No.. 05, 5T and 59 IHeotln* Ht., a*pj.4m CHARLESTON, B. O. Bollmann Brothers, Commission Merchants, Dealers in GROCERIES, WXNEB, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, , CIGARS, BIO. lWHIMBsitBsy, CfcaHefw',g? C. JOBBER 0? AB ioiBra m NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, ETC. N*. 165 Mmtttm Street, **pi-am QHABLEBTON, B. 0. .SAM'L B. MARSHALL A CO. 4 ? IMP0BTEB8 OF ' Hardware, Ortleiy ,G?n* j fli-i- tnatBnllnwta AIM 55 and 57 Society Street, CHARLESTON, 8. O. WULBERN & PIEPER, Wholesale Grocers, Ana Dealers in PROVISIONS, LIQUORS, TOBACCO. ETC. Nes. 107 und lOO East Bay, ' iep4-em * OKAHr.esrmw a ? M ' mm i y^^fortl?M?Wtf AND BAST BAY, CHABLBBTON, 8. C. I i ' iMfMHiiiaiaMaatai ' aa MMBMMBa I . HBNR7 BAYBR, I ?^Commission Merchant For the sale of Country Prodooe, Importer and wholeeale dealer in Applee,Potatoes, Onlon?, Otdwrs promptly filled at Lowest prioes. KVBItt Bast Bay, opposite New Cnntom H**e? CHARLESTON, B. 0.. GftEAT BARGAINS JTaael Street) * door from, Meetingy CHARLESTON, 8. C. Carriages, Buggies, Etc. run - stylish and durable rehlolo I : , .^iMft.WLOB, Manager. ..AVERLY house, OHAltLKHTON, & O. ? MB te: SASHES, Alii A"? iuNDe. Wffl Bklr ill kfieston, ?. O. Mtreha*ln? !jsl W W.W40IMH. 0. *????? ' M'? V mg WIQBVVB A HI - F. W, WAtlENRR ? CO., OHAMMTON, ?. O. ? COTTON FACTORS m WMOtmAta anocEiiH m^rs, TJS&?t^ussn4 **? A??W?#0* >. 3?/. .3K VTT-VJt . ?,\ :Vj7: - J1 Hj2A^ **or,n <mow? wnr*KKY. st? UICRAIAOVANCU (MOKjMl COMtltNMENTS ? I I l|?l|.?l|.^?.. I,. ? - ..I , ?????? $ v*' "!''? fo-?V'W,.'?'1 "*? '?"*! ENCOURAGE HOME PEOPLE * HOME ENTERPRISE. * UF.OUGK ;n/ IHWIKMI A DOS, v&msx* , cauuuurov, s. o. < The 0*17 Door, Buhand Blind factory owned and managed 67 a Carolinian In Charleston. Always on band a large stock ?( Doors, Bash, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets, Scroll and Turned Work of evary description. Glass, White Leads and Builders' Hardware at manufacturers' wholesale prises. P[anod O. and T. flooring, celling and lin ing boards delivered In Camden by carloads at low rates. Spring and Shimmer TRADE, 187 . S. H. MARKS & CO., PETERSBURG, VA., CANDY MANUFACTURERS, 104 Bakers, <5?rft*manu w?d Crackers wo are pro SmMWOK TOOm! * 4rtU Inoourage Southern Industry and Enterprise .* *n? thus secure your own suocess. Our steam refined Candy Is made to suit the trade and keep In any olimate, and cannot be oxoeUed. Canned Goods of all kinds?'Tomatoes, Bran-, dy Peaches, Peaches and Cherries. Bitters. Bitters,?Tobac*. 0. Virginia * Burwell's at Factory prloea, and Cigar* of all gradea and priori Snnff-Kriph, Btarr, Railroad, Carolina Belle and Call A Jkx In bales or bladders. oth^r_ tooda too numerous to mto?on. All wo ask U a trial and we ltflpro ?atU&oikm. p Mch. 16,lj* 'L . 6W .. r. D. toDOTKOT. r. H. nelson. KENNEDY & NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Camden, N. ?. f Om> formwlj occupied !?,??.^.S.' ' ~ ^^ ' ?uZlEjf J^IDDLE'S HOTEL,' ~ t r' "? . -* '*% LANCASTER C. H.( S. C. ? r- r . ... *N- V Bariag purehaeed the Hotel formerly essupV by Mr. Jeaes Crockett, situated on Main street, ass prepared' to reeelve traaslsnt and pemaas boarder*. Oeod aooomntodatlons at rsasonalt fates. Btables and lots fres to drorers. J. M. HIDDLB. BE 8URB TO STOP AT THE ATBAX HOUSE CAMDEN, S. C. (Transient Hoard $2.00 pkr day.) Versona oonr^Tdd I - ------- *Hh the house la a ftrat elaea Bar S^y kiT4*4 U*Hom*> 141 uSS%Bnmwi!&&sr" - p? ? * $ ' *'*. *A**A*. Preprtetea. A Boy's terrible Fall* 2iiSto5S* wot,!? !^d an Megglnaon threw himself orer, oatohW tUropewlth om WfiSrSS BoooMdedin gaininff * window, going whose nemo is said to be nnoooededm gaining a wi hand owhftn-1. TEe boy, i-atatedasWillism Allan, - ^ w J>on of the <Ab marshal of JnneMon JJJ?* 11 ** alleged that he mi ZSv1?? -v as - sad took A Suuner D?j Idyl. Mora on the mountain* wide and far HI* roty weelth is flinging, And drowsy mists from gorse Mid brier Their upward flight are winging. Oome, friend, the lark ie in the eky, The golden hoars ere fleeing; The oloodleee eyes of youth end hope ?re sorely beet foe eeeing. There le e glamor In the glens, - Where rustlo belle ere ohlming; The glowing hllle beyond the fena Key yield e prise In o limbing. We'll Journey on by flood end field, We'll ran end leagh together; And lore end truth will be oar stay - Through clear end cloudy weether. HOOK. Here let us linger for e while? The green leetee clustering o'er us The ley of life is soft end sweet, When btrd-throeta swell the ohorus. The sephyr woos the pensive brook That steals by broomy oorer\ The metedflnohonblossom'dspray Pipes to hie nested lorer. Ambition eeeke the upland path * Wealth eere-born fanoles follows) But love Is found in humbler ways, Hid green and peaoefnl hollows.' Oh eyse that droop with tender graoe 1 Oh lips that bloom for kissing 1 If lore wears truth upon her faoe, This is her hoar of blessing. HY?ax?, : Tls sweet to stray by violet nooks When birds their matee ere eelllng, And sweet, sweet Is the Toloe of lore When evening dews are falling. Oh helpful hands that fain would rest, Beet sweet nor dreemof sorrow; Think yon the heert that loved to-day Will krre yoa less to-morrow ? The flowers that shine about oar feet fOept sefeln winter's keeping, And woke to-day to fragrant life y Hon sweetly for their sleeping. Whet though we find the ohaageful son His weary charge forsaking, Well ley oe down in hopeful rest, And dream of brighter waking. THE FAIRY GUEST. John and Peggy Dajmel lived half-way p Dooir1- **?1- ' - - uentm! ?aem laj _ 'u*se-oovered[\hillB, and above Ana around bkretohed mile upon p><U of mountain?aores of heather, the abode of grouse innumerable; patches of grass WM a drover, i, e, ho box .. jcm. ?wu^.. ?d. He WM very comfortably off; and hii oottage waa well built and thatched. He found no difficulty in paying hi# rank to the day", and bad always abund ance of snob simple food ana olothiag M satisfied his deai rea. It waa a Novem ber night of atom and rain; The goats thundered at the door, tossing the bare arms of the few stunted syoamores that grew near the house: they had swept along mountain defiles and ?oross the gray waters of the lough, and now shrieked and howled madly round the gable. An oooaelonal lull in the storm brought the olamor of seagull and ray of plover toJDonnel's ear. jRe looked the door, stuffed a wisp of straw under it to keep out the oold wind, and sat down opposite Peggy in the ample chimney ?Godsend the cnttlo has found shelter the night I said he, shaking the sshes out of his pipe* _^e?gy was spinning. She stopped her J?n n? heftt something, John, dear? ry, I heardjtho sough o' the <Whbt, whist, honey 1 there it was agtfnj it wasna lute the wind.' ?Sere it was the seagull an' the plo ver.' replied her husband, carelessly. Just wen another blast of humoane b wept serosa the lake and thundered at the door, tosaim the carefully arranged wjsnof straw Into the middle ofthe ?It was ? pitiful cry: but it wasna the a^?ta&8y?ewlD4'' *"*?***? "^Wha wad oomo to we'er door the Ulghtt ssked John, impatiently, ?Iou're aye talking foolltohness sinoe tbatvil lain, that thief o' the word, Tim O'Brien, went awa'.' Two days previously the servant had his aeocrture Without or letting his master and mis ? feeslightest InklMg of his ?J They had both been over ^?1 sinoe then, and the consequence was that one was cross and the other tired and nervous. ' Again the whistling, raging blast.? Mrs. Donnal Shivered, and muttered a prayer foe sailors and wanderers as she threw more turf upon the blaiinghearth. There was a strange cry at that very mo ment. She went to the door ana un i??ksd IV and While the wind burst In resist! eesly, it brought something like a human figure la along with ii 'Woman I woman f screamed the out-1 As the cloud of turf ashes began to oettle stain, the figure, the gift qt the storm, WM more distinctly seen. A miserable, stunted boy, thinly clad, without cap 6r shoes and stooklngs, crouohed over the fire, holding his per ished hands to the warmth. He had red balr, large blue eyes, and a gently In telligent face. Peggy Donael felt her heart drawn toward Mm at once. ?Poor wean; but you're klltwl' the wet en* oold Did you come far the dayr she ssked. The poor boy lifted his large, soft eyee to ne? face without speaking. ?Be seated an' warm yoursel'j the gude man makes you wnloome.' The boy sat down on the stool she pieced for him before the fire, and smiled at her In silonoe. ?Who had the heart to let the likes o' you travel the night? What do they oall you, my poor wee men Y No answer. . *1 deolaro he's a dummy, J?hn? cried she; 'the poor wean |? The storm raged ont but the wanderer WM Safe end happy, lfc stretched out his bare feet on the warm flagstone, and thel with mealv rointrms ?nd put ft tin of milk into his band, he required no farther invitation. John Donnel's ill temper vanished as he watohed the ohildeat his Clipper and heard hislighs of contentment. ?Where ahall he sleep? Tim O'Brien's bed's no msde yet.' 'Ill shake straw in the oorner there near the fire/ replied Peggy, ?an' throw ? wheen seeks orer him. He'll sleep rightly, 111 warrant him.' 'Ay, it'll be better nor the baek o' ft dike, rd thinking,' returned John* The poor oreftture was now quite dry and warm: he lay down on the straw that the kind woman prepared ler him. bat he first caught hold of her herd hand and pressed his lips upon it. ?Ijook. John, lookl' oried she, with tears in her eyes; 'did you ever see the like o' that V It was twenty years sinoe ft ohild had slept under that roof; fall twenty years sinoe ft small blank ooffln had been car ried down the mountain, containing Peggy Donnel's son, and more than half her heart. She dreamed of her dead son that night as die had not dreamed for a very long time. She fancied that he oam* to her bedside, and begged her to be good to the friendless ehud for his The storm lulled before dawn, and by the time the Donnele got up ftp then work the stranger wss up ftlso. When Peggy took her nttlkpail, prepaid to go oat to the byreu he sprang forward and took it from her hand. Smilingly she eoasentfd to lot him holp her milk Moiley and Buttcroup and strain up the milk; then, while crtie made ^reakfast, assist him also. Very useful he was fn finding the oftttle and driving them to fresh grafting (Kro& sndh^vM* tarn* dred helpful things during the dsy. ?He's ft sight better than Tim O'lSriea. Let us keep him, an' hell be as good ft boy as we oould get,' said Johnl^mel that evening. ?? ?What name shall weoall him ?r asked Peggy, quite pleased St her husband's proposal. j*.; h u^?3&.b" *ttoo?h So the dumb boy was called 'Niel,' WM given a suit of ?? -- an<i;' No accident happened l' | Tpringjithe eggy made ^JMrasiasya .*1% *?"""? awiuiuu ilipiH nnsnMUu a# Vw .>11] _T._ the staff would hardly move in it; end butt6I bri?8i?fif eighteen pence per pound in Letterken ny market. If Don neliBold, he gained more than his neigh forMm bou?h*? everything was oheap ?^We did v was wont to inBtanoe of! owae under. times;{tO his neighbors who lived on the mountain; but,, what was move, remarkable, he seemed to havea strong attraetlon for all birds and The Tery night.lifter his arrival he made a handsome bow, and eaoh even ing while Peggy sat at he? spinning wheel he made arrows, tossing them, as he finished them. up to the loft. There was a large sheaf of arrows lying beside the bow, out he never shot a single flffe. ?Why, bat you tak' your bow an* ar rows outbye an' play yourseT a wee, ndear ?' asked Mrs. Donnel, when right spring evenings oame, but no answer of any description was forthcom ing. It was a real vexation to her that she had no means of discovering why he had made the bow and went on making so many erroffs? One November morning, a year after Niel's arrival, .John Donnel oame into the kitohen, pale with grief and dis may. ?The oattle are all a 'all driven off the mom Thieves I robbers I 0_, ? Oh, Peggy, mavourneen, whaVill I do, anyway r 'Gone? StolenV exclaimed Peggy, and she was unable to utter a word more. 'Aye, gone?stolon I' repeated the be reaved owner, orying bitterly. ?Whisht,' said Niel, ooming forward 'quietly, and speaking in an authoritaK; tive tone??? whisht this an* sad*'1 die the mare?an' let us Swa' After the thieves T ; . .? -u ' TJ. The surprise of hearing ||iel calmed Johnatonoe. He let him bring out the mare, and helped him to put on the saddl#- Then he mounted*'-itndf^K seemed quite natural that the boy should spring up behind first taking his bow and arrows from the loft. This way.' commanded Niel, when they reached the high-road; *lLsee the tracks o' the beests/fb -M Donnel oonld not see any tracks, but he suffered Niel to gnidf 'Jtim at eaoh cross-road. The dsy was far advanoed before they oaught sight ol the drove, about a quarter of a mile ahead of them, aoootnpanied by two ooolies and four "^ow 'ill we light a' thae thieves an' rascal* o' the world V cried John, again reduced to the depths of despair, 'Leave it to me,' replied Niel, bend ing to one side, and shooting an arrow i n the direction of the drove. There was a strange commotion ahead when that fairy arrow reached its goal, for the animal hit at once turned round and galloped beek to its owner. Another and another arrow followed that onei till at length the whole drove turned about, and presently surrounded John and Niel. There stood the four robbers, gating after them as if spell-hound. 'Now.' said Niel, ?we may ride home again} the oattle will go before us.' Qp end on they rode, driving the re oovered heifers. No word of gratitude had Donnel ipoken, and as the glow of pleasure caused by the restoration of his property died out a little, his usual fret ful temper returned; but Niel did not appear to notice his morose sQenoe, 'Will you he pleesed to stop at this house t?p the roed, John, till I get a drink?' asked the boy, who wsstiredand thirsty. , ?We havena the time to stop, an' night oomtn' on; sure you can wait tUl we get home,' replied the churlish msster, Niel said nothing until they reeohed another house, a mile further on, when he again made hid request, and was again rofnned. But Donnel himnelf be gan to be thirsty and weary, and at the Jiext roadside oabin he drew up. ?Good woman,'called he, ?& pleased tf ^tame a drink. m o, John Donnnl,' returned the boy, are ? bo] fish, ungrateful man, an * eaVnor drink mair (me your brought your cattle back, but wouldna atop a minute to let me ; an* you'd tak' the drink youreel' e you'd hand the bowl to me. If it raana for Pegfiy, I'd just send the Masts baok to the thieves; bnt I'll leave aae, an' that 'ill be punishment for yon.' Bo Baying, ?iel jumped the horse, and olimbing a . ^ ?, aviok 1 Bore I didna mean to affront yon. Oh, oome baokl How MUI gat the beasts b'. * i, auywayl* No answer?no traoe of Niel, searoh ^hero he might. With the utmoat diffi culty, and after hiring a ooupleof mvn to help him. Donnel did snooeed in driving his cattle home, and it was late St night when he entered his own kitoh Sn and sank down by the fireside. 'Ipt't Hie IT' wsa the first thing ? said* er sorfftw and dismay overwhelmed aha listened to her husband's tvJohn, yon unfortunate, foolish i: don't yon know what you've done? ,'ve banished luck frae we'er roof.? toft I knowed what he was the minnte heard him speak this mornin'.' i'he poor woman threw her apron over ter head and wept as she had not wept inee her son's ooffln left the house one* ~ r - years before. And good she for her toars. From thai aeut nothing prospered with John, health failed;his oattle met with ap te; ill luok attended him in overy he undertook. He had, indeed, Sank cause to mourn for the loss of ilaliygnesfc Plan to Lessen Intoxication, thenburg plan' for the regu of the ml* of mtoxloating liquors, mi has so often been referred to. Is in successful operation in Sweden. Irian wm started fa 1864, in Goth itw^rg, * town of 60.000 inhabitants.? > OOttmittee reported that it wM'neoes sary to reorganize tho liquor traffic on ' sew principle, viz.: that no IRR -M proprietor or manager a license from the State should ' private gain from the sale of .n association formed by the g citizen* of tho< town/ organised tailed liability oompany, raised a in| capital to purohaseall the pub houses for the sale of liquor, and jduoted their bnsfoeie in'1bo interest sobriety instead of exoeaa. Tho prof - - made from the aale of liqnor. to be drank on the premise* waif to be iiaid over entire to the puhiio treasury of the town. At first the Ubenses to grooexs and other dealers, for tho sale of liquors in oertafa quantities not to be drank on seeds being also passed ovaf:to the trettury. A few years afterward shops^J6?;Jblnbbini^4ogether aud amend tbo law as to give the' oonwwiSx this trade also to the asBobjaUon, whWh was done. In 1801 the police oaaee of draiwennees bad averaged 6.10 per oent., and in 1870 they had diminished to ?68 per otet. At the' same time the amotint piaioi into the olty treasury is so considerable an assistanoe to the taxpay ers as not to be despised, though with the suooessfnl increase of tho system it Is constantly diminishing. ? Singular Law Bait. A 1?W Bait of ft singular kind is short 1 y to ooonpy the Attention of the magis trates ftt Milan, Italy. An amateur of art, residing in the above-named town, reoently died. On his death-bed he sent for a oonfessor, bnt the priest who obey ed the summons of the siok man abso lutely refused to absolve him unless he first oonsented to destroy two niarvelous ly fine oanvases signed by Rubens, whioh the rigid son of the ohuvoh found too nude tolneet bis bigoted views of propriety and morality. The proprietor of the paintings pleaded hard for his chef d'cmvren, whioh; with the rest of his art oeileotfoni he wished to bequeath to his heirs, but finding the priest in flexible. and what remained to him of life rapidly ebbing away, he at last oon sented to the aot of vandalism exacted of him, and the two Bubens were com mitted *0 the flames. This done, there remained Inst time for the prieat to ab solve the dying man before ne breathed ' last. His ton, who inherits the \ was absent at the mdment of ~'S deoease; bufc having sinoe under intelligence of a dying man, and 'nished the value of his inherit $0,000 franos. This sum he the oonfessor, who refuses ng that the paintings were wiCh the free consent of their late owner. It remains to be seen what view the Judges will take of suoh fanati oal oonduot. Remlntsoonce of ft Hreat Novelet. This ?harming little aneodoto 61 Mr. 1 ftaokeray is told in the 'Memoir of bo*? Oompton:* *1 well reoolleot my brother end myself mooting my father returning from rehearsal through Hyde Park, In company with a tall, bnrly men of a ruddy oomplexton. My father oarelessly introduoed us as two of tlie 'vArmints;' hia friend shook hands with US. and inqnired about OUT sohool affairs and sports more kindly than did most middle-aged gentlemen we knew. They were both engaged in conversation which WS did not understand, till, jnst before resehlng the barraoks, my tether Mid: ?Well, we have to part here, as yon are ttrfttg to Oxford at/ 'Ten,' said his friend, 'I must leave yon and yonr boys now/ and turning to OS he wished ns [ood*bye Terr heartily; then, as he was baking hands with my father, he added, I wonder what there is in mv pnrset? There, Oompton, take it, and give the young 'nns what there is?not mnoh, I'm thinking.' 'No, no,' said my father; '/on mnst not do that.' 'Nonsense, my dear fellow; I was a schoolboy onoo, and know the valne of tips. Everybody should tip schoolboys?it does them good.' Bo saying, he hurried off, leav ing his purse with my father. 'Who is that?' WS both oxolaimed. That's a very celebrated man tailed Thackeray.' said tof father. 'How much is therst' was the next very natural question. 1 forget tike exaot amount, but we both went home some five or six shillings richer, much impressed with the cole* brated man who had inch 'stunning' Ideas* and carried them ont so well/ w? it Ailing up with great rap late census shows a population J; being an increase of 268,417 The Van who Never Drank. In the'early part of the late war,when Gen. Grant was in command of the army before Vioksburg, a number of cffloers were gathered at hi* headquar ten, haring a pleasant social time. One of thorn invited the party to join in a social glass; all bnt one aooepted. He asked to be excused, saying that he 'never drank.' The hour passed, and eaoh went his way to his respective oommand. A few days after this the offloer who declined to drink reoeived a note from Gen. Grant to report at headquarters. Ho obeyed the Order, and was soon in the preeenoe of the general. Grant says to him: *You are the offloer, I be lieve,' for their aoquaintanoe was slight, 'who remarked the other d^y that you never drank.' The offloer modestly answered that he was. *Then,' con tinued the general, 'you are the man I have been looking for to take charge of the oommissary department, and I order that yon be detailed to that duty.' He served his oonntry faithfully until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged. Tears passed, and Grant had oome to be President. The offloer had settled down to the duties of private life, and the little inoident was oheriahed as a pleasant memory, The trouble, on the border between Texas and Mexioo along the Bio Grande attracted the attention of Congress, and a oommiasion was ordered to asoertain the facts and report. Again President Grant remembered the man who "never drank,' and appointed him chairman of the board. The place was aooepted and he entered faithfully, upon the work; the report submitted ahowed the thoroughness with which the duty was discharged. While engaged in this work he made the aoquaintanoe of a gentleman who owned an extensive cattle ranohe in Southern Texas. That aoquaintanoe in ranohe, he plaoed it In the hands of the man who 'never drank/ and-during the 1 art month he has effected a sale, to an Knglish oompapy, ot the ranch of JWO, 000 acres of land and several thousand head of cattle for an even million dollars; out of this he gets a commission that enter largely upon paoking beet for for* eign markets, slaughtering their .meat on their ranohe from their own herds. The superintendence of their business has been tendered to and aooepted by the man who 'never drank,' and hie goes in a few days to his new field of labor. This takes Iron Chicago one of her rnost esteemed and honored citizens, but it gives one to Texas who. will .al ways bo found on the side of order and good government. "? . .. ? "? ilairdresalng in Paris. Three ptyles of hairdressing are no tioeable. For slender. cwftWT back hair is tied high, two thiok (eaoh ylaits of ^tbreej fall intwo plaits!,- The high ooiiftu ... adopted by the posseseors of fall; round faoes; the back liair Is combed up from the nape of the nook, and thai on the templee combed baok to meet it, the whole being massed in two or three long puffs; the front hair ia parted in the oenter and falls in half rings at the aides. The third fashion ia the simple olaaaio head-dreus, with the Gfeek ooil low at the baok; the front hair is simplyparted and waved, and the baok hair firmly Elaited in a tress of three. Very little air is required, but the head should be finely shaped, as the outline ia dearly displayed. Dark tortoiaeshell pins are worn in fair hair, while silver ornaments are preferred by brunea. Natural flow ers are more worn than artificial ones, and some young girls adopt a flower, and introduoe it into every toilet where a flower ia admissible. Daisies are the moat general; mignonette in large oluaters is affected in every ooatnme by certain blondes, and panaiea are select ed by those who wear corn, eoru, mauve and mastio-gray dresses. London's Water Supply London is not so progressive in tome other mutter* m in the construction of the road-bed of her streets. It will hardly be credited that thiSTMt metrop olis, with its population of three millions, has no munioipal water supply. That is to say, there is ?no supply of pure water direct from Its soturoe tinder the administration of metropolitan authori ty.' The quotation is from the language of a resolution passed at a reoent meet* ing held to oonsider the question, and at whioh snoh prominent men as Sir Chas. Dilke, Sir John Imbbjok, the bishop of London and" Cardinal Manning were among the speakers. ?t present the city la supplied by no lees than eight trading companies, whose dividends are < vormous. Their net profits for last- y^ar are said to amount to nearly $4,000,000. Of course, the effect of the water supply being in the hands of these greedy oorpcratlons is to make the world-wide expression 'as free aa water,' a grim sarcasm to the swarm log population of London. Indeed, one of the speakers at the meeting to whioh I have referred rather wittily remarked that the head of a (neat manufacturing bouse in London had made a calculation of the water used by his establishment and found that it would be cheaper for him to oonneot his premises with the nearest brewery and use beer at the oost prloe, instead of water! Iiyons shot Van Doren in self defense at Vevay, Ind., last year,but did not kill him. They lived on adjoining farms, and so had the convenience for keeping the quarrel going. A few days ago Ly ons' son said that his father had need lessly bungled the Job of shooting Van Doren. and proposed to undertake it himself. He lay in wait by the roadside for Van Doren, who was ooming from the village on horseback, and, when his victim got opposite, coolly rested a gun across the fence, took aim tery deliber ately, and shot him through the brain. 'I guess that was a suooe**,' the mur derer remarked as ha and a neighbor ex amined the dead man. Within the past twelvemonth 810, 000,000 has been extraoted from the mines at Leadville, and the yield to-day is estimated at about $1,G0Q,000 per month. The population is steadily in creasing, and the town itself Is a per fect hire of industry. The Chicago, Book Island and Pacific railroad has fast paid off a mortgage of $18,500,000 whioh was held on ail of its property. The Instrument bore $9,000 worth ol revenue stamps, and had been standing thirteen years. Handsome Sapphire* and amethysts are found in Jackson county, N. O. -' Teaching Hone* to Trot, The horse hu three natural methods of progression. The walk, which ia the ?lowest, the trot or paee, whioh is the intermediate gait, and may be considered praotioally the same, and the gallop, whioh is the fastest of all methods of movement. These throe gaits are nat ural and oommon to all horses, whether in a state of domesticity or wild on the plains or pampas of the wilderness. When danger approaches, every horse instinotively springs into a gallop as his fastest means of esoape, ana the contin uation of his wild and reokless flight will be determined by his imminenoe and oontinnanoe of the danger. Through all the ages, the gallop being the fastest means of looomotion, the horse instinct ively seeks it when he wiflhea to attain his highest rato of speed. Now, in steps the breeder of the trot- | ting horse, and he undertakes no less a task than to revolutionise the habits of aotion and instinots of the animal. When a party of friends calls to see his oolts, he takes them to his paddocks or show yards and starts up the young things to exhibit their gaits, perhapB with three or four together, and perhaps singly. Boys with whips are stationed at differ ent points to drive and perhaps frighten them to their belt trotting speed, and perhaps a small boy is let loose to as sist. The result is that the oolt often breaks into a wild gallop, much to the disgust of the breeder, but it there is one that sticks to his trot, under all the surrounding oiroumstancee of severity and terror, ne is at onoe the pride of his owner, and at onoe the ohoioe of every observer. Everybody familiar with breeding affairs has witnessed this kind of exhibition over and over again, and. other things being equal, everybody will choose the oolt that shows the most marked and steadfast disposition to get away from danger oft* trot,and otiok toll, It is probable that few, if any, of our most intelligent breeders hate a true oonoeptlon of 'the completeness of the revolution to which their movements tend. Some are stumbling in the dark, others take a single step and then wait for something to turn' up before they take another, while very few oan see the plain highway toat leads to suooess. The instinotrf of self- preservation at the gallop must be bred out, and the instints to fly from danger at a trot instead of the gallop must be bred AJ1 knowl jrcfttor 0^*ad, of " ^. ;booome [ he must strike it This is tho "point at wbio^ tho breeder aims, and the more dearly ho oan see it, the sooner he will reeoh it. The revo lution in the instinctive habits of aotion must be complete, and then wcrwill have a perfect natural Tho Diamond. , or rnfcher robbing: tho dia* and in polishing the "lag agent oan bo usod est wear soaroely destroy of tho oat edges or deadens its polish.*? The exceptional hardness of the diamond is well known, and gives point to the expression, 'diamond out diamond;' bnt the popular notion often oredits this 8em with an indomitable natnre whioh > oan soaroely claim. Among the many extravagant tilings whioh Pliny tells ns is his remark that oertain diamonds have snoh exoessive hardness that when Btruok upon an iron anvil the hammer and anvil are torn asunder. Yet he ooolly asserts that snoh stones oan be snbdned by digestion in goat's blood, provided that the onrions solvent be fresh and warm. Without going to this height of-extravaganoe. many believe, even nowadays, that a true diamond will resist the blow of a hammer. This pop ular error arises from oonfrouting hard ness with toughness?two physioal prop erties whioh are entirely distinot. A piece of guttapercha, for example, is so tough that it is torn asaunder with diffi culty, yet so soft that it may be indented with the finger nail. On the other hand, the diamond is so hard that no other substanoe is eapable of stretching it, yet so brittle that tlie 'Regent' itself might be shattered into fragments by dropping it on the ground from the height of only a few feet. . A Token of the Fast. In the Sierra Nevada mountains have been disoovered the timbers of a strand ? ed vessel, resembling those of a Chinese I innk, high up iu the mountains, between Miu oral King and the headwaters of King's river. The sound portions of the timber resemble oamphor wood, and it is said still retain a faint smofl. The fastenings are of oopper; the rigging, et&, are of oourse all gone. A number of bones, supposed to be human, were also found in the vicinity, and upon the adjacent slopes there is abundant evi dence of the previous occupations of the waters in the shape of shells, as well as | the occasional finding of petrified fish. | That this valley has at one time been an inland sea Is admitted by geologists, i but that these waters were navigated Celestial seamen one or two thousand years ago has never been olaimed, even by the Chinese themselves. But these same people do elalm to bave been the original discoverers of this oountry, and this find seems to give oolor to the olaira. It has also been claimed by them that vessels of theirs have been wreoked on this ooast, and that portions of the orews have returned to China; but that the wreck itself should be looated, and that this looation should prove to be in Tulare oonnty, Is surely an interesting faot,- inviting the inspection of the cu rious and the solution of the scientific. Narrow-Gauge Railroads. The St. Louis Ilepublioan gives the following estimate of the running ex penses of a narrow-gauge railroad, based on the performanoe of nineteen locomo tive* dnrlng one month: The looomo tlves consume one ton of ooal per sev enty miles, one pint of oil for thirty eight miles, one pound of tallow for sev enty-seven miles of running. Engine repairs have oost four and tbroo*tenths oents; the wages of engineers, firemen and roundhouse men have cost flvo and nine-tenths cents; fuel has oost one and a quarter oents; and oil, tallow and waste have oost one-qnarter of a cent per mile run by the engines, mnkiag a total for engine services of twelve oents a mile: a result whioh is seldom equaled in the direction of economy. A Washington yonng lady of the mv tnre ago of tt\t, after the etory of the owetlon and the fail had been related, and the yonng ladr had been meditating for some time on the morel of It, and t?l X didn't He kill'em and begin over Hi ITEMS or CnOUKAL INTEREST. Scarlet fever is so prevalent in Indian apolis that the advisability of keeoinsr the pablio sohools oloeed for being disoussed. The drought in Boumania eontinues, A partial famine is likely to ensuein many districts unless the government assists the inhabitants. Fortj-one of the candidate* on the Workingmen's tioket in San Francisco were foreigners, and of that numbiff twenty-four oame from Ireland. Sinee the reduotfon in the tobaooo tax the loss thereby to the internal revenue department has been over three-quarters of a million of dollars per month. ?< ?11 the dircetors of the West of Eng* land and South of Wales District bank oxoopt one. have beon oommitted for. trial for publishing false balance sheets. King Mtesa, ruling near Victoria Ny ansa, Africa, has abolished slavery throughout his dominions; At least half a million of slaves wore liberated on Saturday. Eggs imported from Ohioago last month were eaten at Dublin breakfast tables, and good Amerioan butter at 8d. per pound was and skill is on sale on ike Dublin quays. James Bullook, of Walton oonnty.Ga,, whilo hoeing iu a ootton flold recently, found oonoealed in a stump 910,000 In gold and silver and a pile of gresnbaoks. The paper money had rotted. A span of the Great Kaw river bridge, Kansas, gave way,precipitating 270 oat tle and two herders a distance of eighty feet. One herder was badly injured, but less than a dozen cattle were injured. Early In 1880 the Bible revision oom mittee hope to give the publie a sight of the New Testament. Two editions will be issued?on* small and oheap, for gen eral use. and the other a large, hand- . some ootavo, A negro' was watohing negroes in Griffin, Ga., play billiards. In turning, his stiok knocked down several ooets, in the pockets of one of whioh was a derringer, Which being discharged in flicted a mortal wound. | And how the returned city people j write to their country oousins, with / whom they have been staying, that they arrived safely, but found the cityTn feqtod^with^smollpox, whioh is lively to Indian Agent Newell, at Itosebud Agency, Dakota, reports daring the f > month of August tho Indians made good ns* of the twenty mowing maohiaes and soythea sent to them by the department. Four thousand tons of good merchant able hay has been harvested by. them. The king of Vkbyssinia olaims the whole of the strip of ooast whioh was oeded to Egypt in 1877, and also seVeral towns and the territory in which, they are situated. If his aemnnds are re jected war is apprehended. General Gordon has been empowered to offer a compromise. J Thaljow York prcxliioo mo " iedi * * r * intended for shipment tb-.tht shall weigh 200 pounds, and all floor in saokB 100,150, or 200 pounds, the Udm bor ot pounds to bo marked oneach package. In the ohanoery court of Campbell s oounty, Keutnoky, Ohanoellor Mensiee rendered a written opinion that the lot tery commonly known as tho Common wealth Distribution Company of Ken tuoky is an illegal enterprise, subjeot to suppression at any moment by grand turies, and that, purohasers of ttokets lave no security for payment of prises. A new ooldny to be introduoed in Georgia will oe composed of many wealthy members, who will bring a printing press with them and publish an organ styled The Worker, edited by Mrs. Elisabeth Thompson, a lady of great wealth, noted for her many noble aots of oharity, and who gave last year over 830,000 to tho yellow fever Buffer - ersof Memphis, ? terrible disease has appeared in Paulding, Harrison and Polk oounties, Georgia* XI has been fatal to all per sons attaoked. It appears to be a sort of typhoid fever with unusual symptoms, Mid it is quiokly fatal. Physicians sdy they oannot tell what it is. One dootor had twenty-nine cases and lost them all. The disease has carried oft sixty young men in th* three counties mentioned, A new substitute for curled hat* as ft stuffing for upholstery, has been found in the fiber which surrounds the ooooa nut shell as it originally oomes from the tree. . This fiber is dried and maoerated to remove the gummy substance in it, after whioh it is braided by maohlnery and on being pioked open has thecurlea appearanoo and is equally useful AS the genuine artloel. A railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepeo Is to bo built by a Maesa ohnsetts man who has secured frem the Mexican government the right of way and the promise of a subsidy of #12.000 a mile. The line will be an importtat rival of the Panama railroad, and will tir of immense advantage in assisting the Mextoan authorities to enforce order in a large seotion of their turbulent repub lic. A Milan, Italy, correspondent, refer ring to the Philadelphia and Reading lo comotive exhibited at Paris last year, says that it has given most satisfactory and creditable results on the Roman ana Alta Italia railway, burning every kind of lignite found in Italy, and, according to the report of railroad engineers who made the tests, more successfully than any other, at the same time doing better servioe and drawing heavier trains than the best Italian engines. A yonng Kentuoklan named Thomp- V son, who was happily engaged to a, fair widow, got intoxicated while in the tonir pany of no mo exciting companions, whereupon the lady broke the engage ment, declaring she would never many a man who drank. This decision to work" od upon the man's mind that after mop* ing about for a few days he dwoandefl into an unused well and held his faoe In the shallow water until dead. When fonnd the body was on its knees, and the shoulders end book of the head were not even damp, A man named Bailee was sentenced to be hung at Athens, Ala. The case was appealed to the next term of the supreme oourt and sentence suspended. Bailee murdered his wife, and lynoh law was prerented with difflonltjr when he mm About 8,000 people m wmhled After the WW,broke Jnto the 1*11 ?nd took Belle* half a mile from town rssraMKMs ?tt ggggprasjte'js