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THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. I.?NO. 46. BEAUFORT, S. (J., OCTOBER 6, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
Haunting Eyes.
In tl?e hour I fbst beheld thee.
Soft thy kiudly glance* fell.
And my heart bowed down before thee,
Ae beneath a magic spell
Since that time, like some sweet phantom,
In my home thy form doth rise,
And where'er my sad gaze wanders,
There I meet thy haunting eyes!
Oh, those eyes! their lovely shadow
Stole the light of life away,
And my heart, in languid dreaming,
Idly pines from day to day.
Vain the evening's dewy coolness,
Vain the calm of midnight skies;
Even with darkness closing round me,
Still I see those haunting eyes !
KITTY'S TRIAL.
A Sketch of Southern Neftro Life.
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jl' ur ut ictiMi i>en uays miss ruuza, tlie
housekeeper, had reported our little
maul, Kitty, in a most unusual state of
mind and body. Her ehiny black skin
was becoming absolutely pallid?her
broad mouth, always parted in rather
noisy laughter, was closed, and her full
lips tremulous ; her appetite was gone
entirely?she was literally starving herself
to death. The state of her mind
was most distressing, for her utter
wretchedness was painful to behold, and
her silenoe as to its cause something remarkable
in one formerly so communicative.
Our curiosity was considerably
excited by such a phenomenon, and our
wonder was increased by the sudden announcement
one morning that our excellent
chambermaid, whose conduct while
with us had been unexceptionable, had
been arrested and carried off for trial before
our village magistrate. What could
it mean? Kitty's bosom friend, a lialfsimple
girl about her own ago?sixteen
?gave us the desired information as she
passed the house weeping bitterly, fol
lowing in liia wake of the constable who
was leading poor Kitty away.
'* Me and Kitty was at the Cary street
meeting-house Sunday 'fore last, and
Kitty laughed at something, and one of
thecolorod men?a big man in the church
?he say Kitty keep him from saying his
prayers, and he meant to have her put
in prison for it. Kitty and me have
been scared to death ; and now they
done come and took mypoor dear Kitty!
Oh, oh, oh!"
This, then, was the explanation of the
whole mystery. Our merry little darkey
had been to the colored Methodist meeting-houso
two weeks before, and had
disturbed one of the elders, a crossgrained
old bachelor negro, who had no
eyo for our maid's trim little figure and
good-natured face, but a sharp one for
an innocent female who might disturb
his lordship's devotion. His threatening
glancos, as wo afterward heard, had
only increased her merriment, and he
had left the church vowing vengAnnce.
Behold the result!
We were all a good deal troubled, for
Kitty was quite a pet with us, and so
sister Louise hurried' off in search of a
gentleman friend whom she persuaded
to accompany her to the magistrate's
offico. Arriving at the miniature oourthouse,
they found a crowd of negroes
assembled before the door, looking grave
and important, and so barricading the
passage it was with some difficulty Mr.
Jones forced his way in. He returned
in a few minutes to say that the trial
would not come off for an hour or two,
as the sheriff had gone out to the country
to summon some witnesses, fifteen or
twenty of whom had already arrived and
were waiting to bear testimony to
Kitty's depravity. She had been informed
she could send for any one who
wished to testify in her favor, but had
replied no one knew anything about it
but Susie, and Susie was on the spot,
still clinging to her friend, who, like
herself, was frightened out of her wits.
The fine which would be assigned in
case of conviction would not be less than
five nor more than twenty dollars, but if
Kitty could not pay it, she would be
sent to jail. Sister Louise begged Mr.
Jones to remain there?help poor Kitty
through the trial and pay the fine for
her, so that she might return home in i
peace. The room in which the magis
trate sat was small, with a low ceiling I
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uuu uuii iiiLiu venuiacion. urowaod an
it now was with negroes, many in their
shirt sleeves, just as they were found at
thoir work in the fields, the atmosphere
Was anything but agreeable. The judge,
a low, fat man, with a red face and heavy
brow surmounted by spectacles, was
soated by a table on which lav several
large, dusty law books, the leaves of
which he was turning in a pompons
manner?as if the matter to be discussed
before him was one of life and death,
and the fates arbiters. Behind the door,
on a three-legged stool, sat Kitty, with
the faithful Susie crouched at her feet,
both cold and trembling ; opposite them
were ranged the witnesses, around whom
thrpnged a number of darkeys of all
agoH and both sexes.
"We regret to keep you waiting, Mr.
J ones; but we have had to send into the
cohntry again, to attach George Wilson,
another witness for the plaintiff."
The gentleman bowed, and was about
to speak, when he felt some one pull
his sleeve.
" Mass' Jones, is I got to 'tach anybody
f" asked Kitty, in an alarmed tone.
me poor giri B Tears were soon relieved
on this subject, and the judge, again
turning the leaves of his book, remarked:
" I find Miss Catharine Taylor guiltv,
according to the accusation brought
against her, of quite a grave offense, in
disturbing a lawful public assembly, and
the fine is a heavy one for a person in
her cironmstanoes. Shall I read what
Blackstone," in his commentaries, says
pn the subject ?" i
Mr. Jones expressed liis thanks, but sc
begged he wouldn't trouble himself; di
Just at this moment a ragged little urchin st
ran in, and hurrying up to the judge's
table, said : " Mister, I say, please 's
give me two cents' worth of ginger- tc
snaps." 's
The j udge rose with all gravity, walked
to a small shelf behind him, took the ol
cakes from a plate standing there, hand- is
ed them to the boy, and receiving his J<
pay, pocketed it, while he resumed the sc
discussion of the case before him, referring
constantly to his books, until again o]
interrupted by one of tho witnesses, a tl
gawky, hungry-looking, half-grown boy,
who pulled the forelock of his hair, as e\
he said: "S'cuse mo, massa; but will
you please gib me a cent's worth of yer w
bulTsoyos?" tl
" Oertaiuly, my friend," replied the af
suave vender of sweets, as he walked
with the dignity of a lord chancellor to tc
his shelf, took down the glass jar of can- fe
dies, and returned with the required le
quantity of bull'soy es.
The boy put down a five-cent piece, P'
and whilo the judge searched his pockets
for four pennies to give as change, he
went on with his discourse unon what
Blackstone said of offenses similar in hi
character to that charged to have been I
committed by Miss Catharino Taylor. Rf
The twentieth witness for the plaintiff
having at last arrived, the judge opened tl
the case with all due solemnity, and requested
Mr. Williams to take the witness
stand and state his grievance. 111
The church elder, a tall, severe-look- h<
ing colored man, with white hair and
beard, stepped forward aud began his
speech. eI
" May it please your honor, Sunday ?h
'foro last I was at my church, as every ft'
'spectable colored person should be tl
when there's preaching. I showed tne hi
folks to their proper places, and put H
that wicked young person, Miss Catharine
Taylor, in a comfortable position,
where she could attend to her duties like tl
a Cliristian, and then I retired to my ?]
own seat to enjoy myself in hearing the
preacher, and joining myself in the hi
prayers ; but you b'lieve me, sir, ?liat tl
wicked young 'oman, the prisoner at the
bar, disturbed my devotions with her 111
laughing and chattering, so that it was hi
no. use to try and 'tend to my own T
Christian business any more. She dis- "
tnrbed the whole congregation, please 81
your honor, and- I know 'tis the duty w
and pleasure of you gentlemen as regil- tl
ales the laws to see that the laws is 84
obeyed ; and I can prove by myself and e'
these colored gentlemen here that she's cl
broke 'em?eveiy one?and that she de- hi
serves to go to the court jail, and live on hi
bread and water 'till she learns man- tc
ners." fr
44 Thank yon, Mr. Williams ; that will H1
do. You have stated your caso clearly, S
and?ahem?laconically. You see, Mr. h<
Jones, your little maid is prone to err, m
act rAffar/la hnr rolirrtnna /lufiou lilrn ! *" fl)
rest of iib, ami, also, must pay the pen- i"
alty of her guilt. Mr. Wilson, will you
please come forward and testify to the C
best of your knowledge and belief ?" ar
George Wilson, a jolly-looking darkey,
left the ranks and came forward, grin- dl
ning from ear to ear. P1
He whs duly sworn, and then asked if P
Mr. Williams' statement was correct; if ir
he himself was at church on that fatal
night ; and if ho was interrupted iu his
devotions by Kitty's laughter.
"Yaas, massa, I was at church dat |n
night, for I always goes to meetiu' if I .
kin git dere, and 'tis sartin sure Kitty ^
she ilere too. and sho got to laughing ^
like, and 'sturbed folks mightily. Ebery !?
word Brudder Williams say is true ; but,
massa, she ar'n't nothing bat a gal yet, w
and gals will liab deir fun, makes no dif- Pl
ference whar dey is:" w
"That will do, Mr. Wilson. Wo see
your evidence is against the prisoner,
duc your Kina neart recommends her to
our mercy on account of lior youth." ai
"I s'pose you say de right ting, is
massa ; but I ain't got no book larnin'
like dese young ones, nowadays, as goes n<
to school. I know one ting, massa, I
tells de truth, and notliin' but de truth, tli
I ain't pomsious myself, like some folkH >
L know ; I don't put on airs jist 'cos I ki
knows I'se free man now?lives to my- in
self and works for myself, and puts tie
money straight in dis ole pocket, wliar p<
it stays till de ole womau comes and gi
steals it all ; and, bless yon, don't leave
me 'nuf to buy my 'b?ocer." ly
A half-dozen other witnesses were
called, all of whom tostiticd clearly di
against Kitty.
"If Mr. Williams is satisfied, I think ^
we might now examine the witness for ^li
the defendant. A bad caso against your
client, eh, Mr. Jones?" w;
Susie, the half-witted friend of Kitty,
like a hunted deer, sprang to her feet m
when her name was called. Some one
had whisnered in her ear (we Rftflrnmnl 1.
discovered) that her eyebrows would
turn white if she told a falsehood while tli
under oath, and the girl was wild with 'e
terror lest such a misfortune should befall
her. hi
"Miss Susan, what can you say in or
favor of your friend i Did she, or did
she not, laugh and disturb the worship- ai
era at the meeting ?"
" I?I dunno, sir. Sho didn't do noth- to
in' as I see but laugh a little bit. I th
b'lieve she laugh?maybe she didn't?
please, sir, don't send her to jail 1 'Deed,
sir, she didn't do nothin' to hurt no- E,
body I"
"Your client's friend's evidence is
rather against her?eh, Mr. Jones? We
had l>etter not ask hor any more ques- pi
tions. Miss Catharine Taylor, you are fu
allowed to speak in your ovarii defense if ty
you wish it. My friends, the law is ai
just, anil allows a prisoner this privilege. d<
Doesn't it, Mr. Jones?" said the judge, Ii
wiping the perspiration from his fore- ar
head with a rod silk liandkerchief. v<
Kitty had to wait until the judge had la
)lil two cents' worth of peppermint
rops before Bhe oonld speak for her)lf.
"All I've got to say is that I didn't
turb nobody at church. I'm not going
?lie about it. I did laugh, but I didn't
turb nobody !"
" Uusli, .hush ! The prisoner is not
jliged to criminate nerself. The law
very explicit on that poiut?eh, Mr.
snos ? You kuow what Blackstone
iys ?"
Mr. Jones didn't know Blackstone's
3 in ion, and didn't care to hear. Would
le judge please proceed with the case?
"All that remains is to sum up the
ridence, and decide according to law."
Uonld 1 cross-examine some of the
itnesses, and see if it is iiot possible to
irow a better light on the whole
Tair ?"
" Certainly, Mr. Jones ; as you wish
> act as volunteer counsel for the deudant,
the law allows you this privige-"
Mr. Jones asked George Wilson to apaar
again.
" You say Kitty laughed. Did she
ugh aloud or noisily ?"
" Wal?no, massa, I ain't never hear
?r. I see dirudder Williams frown, and
looked 'round, and I see her smile
jaiu, pretty broad, and put up her Snare
and look at Brudder Williams
trough dem."
" But did she disturb you at all ?"
" No, massa, she ain't 'sturbed me
aue. Gals is gals?dey ain't like
r>ys."
Another and yet another witness was
iked if Kitty's laughter was loud
lough to interfere materially with their
avotious, and a little cross-examination
ways resulted in the final confession
tat the party had seen Brother Wiliims'
discomfort, but had felt none
lemselves.
Meanwhile the crowd of spectator a,
1 of whom were in deep sympathy with
ie light-hearted Kitty, listened admirigly
to Mr. Jones, with eyes starting
om their sockets, so intently did they
mg upon his words, as he summed up
ie testimony.
" If the judge will allow me to expreso
y opinion, I should, from what wo have
aord during the trial, say that Catharine
aylor has been guilty of irreverence in
place of public worship; and that in
) doiug she annoyed one of the elders,
hose place it is to see that all deport
lemselves properly on the occasion of a
srvice in the church. Beyond the mere
Tect on Mr. Williams feelings as
lurchwarden, no harm seems to have
aon done. No ono else seems to have
aard any noise, or been induced even
> look towards the prisoner, exoept
om having their attention drawn to the
>ot by their elder's evident discomfort.
rcIi being the case, the plaintiff cannot
3 said to liave proved his statement?
unely, that Kitty disturbed the worlip
of tlio congregation. I move the
dictment be quashed."
" Yon are right, Mr. Jones, aud Miss
athariue may thank you for having
gued lier case so admirably. You have
ie law on your side ; the accusation of
sturbing a public assembly is not
oved ; therefore, we can only repriaud
the prisoner for her acknowledged
reverence, and dismiss her."
A burst of applause from the spectars
followed, aud a crowd collected
ound Mr. Jones to shake hands with
m, aud thank him for "spoakiug so
iautifully for Kitty?just like a born
wyer, for all the world !"?while David
rilliams strutted out of the room in a
ate of virtuous indignation; aud
isie, the only one of the throng who
as not laughing boisterously, kept ap?aling
to Kitty to know if her eyebrows
ere white.
It Is the Nature of the Bea?t.
Frogs, toads and serpents never take
ly food but tliat which they are satisfied
alivo.
If a bee, wasp or hornet stings, it is
?arly always at the expense of his life.
Serpents are so tenacious of life that
if.y win live nil uiuiil/UH willioui IOOU.
The head of a rattlesnake Iioh been
lown to inflict a fatal wound after beg
separated from the body.
If the eye of a newt is put out n.iother
jrfeet eye is soon supplied by rapid
owtli.
Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarisleep
with eyes open.
Alligators fall into a lethargic sleep
iring the winter, like a toad.
There are agricultural ants in Texas
tat actually plant grain and reap before
ie harvest.
Naturalists say that a single swallow
ill devour six thousand flies a day.
Tho tarantula of Texas is nothing
ore than an enormous spider.
A single codfish produces more than
000,000 eggs in one season.
A whale suckles its young, and is
lereforo not a fish. The mother's afction
is remarkable.
Toads become torpid in winter and
de themselves, taking 110 food for five
' six months.
Serpents of all species shed their skins
innally, like sea crabs and lobsters.
Tnrtles and tortoises have their skeleno
narflw nilf.ui la r\f 1 noton/I a#
j'.? v.j i/uv?<4v uidvoou ut nmuui|
e body.
It is believed that crocodiles live to
> hundreds of years old. The ancient
gyptians embalmed them.
The Hop Crop.
Tlio Jirewe.ru* (Juardian says the
'ospect in Kuglaml continues fair for a
ill averago yield of hops of good quali'.
On the continent rain is needed,
id unless it comes soon the crop will lie i
ierea^vl and tho quality deteriorated,
i France and Germany tho hopflelds i
e somewhat troubled with mold and 1
irmin. In Belgium the yield will be 1
rgely over the average. ]
THE PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL.
The Space Co be Occupied by the Bulltllnaa
Erected.
Philadelphia is preparing to take the
lead iu the way of exhibitions or world's
fairs at the Centennial next year. A
comparison of tlio ground to be covered
by the buildings at Philadelphia with
that covered in other cities is interesting.
Here it is so plain that all can understand
it:
Pndiable area covered at Philadelphia 1*7ft?75 acres j
Vienna, all courta covered? M 5-10 acres
Vienna, no oourta cov.?38 S-10 j
Paris. 1867?SI acres. '
Ixnidon, 1863 -25 6-10
London, 1851?1
23 a^res.
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A Detective's Blunder.
The Virginia City (Nev.) Evening
Chronicle relates this incident: About
two mouths ago a young lawyer of this
city and his newly-acquired wife were
returning from a visit to the bay.
Wearied a trifle with constant billiug and
cooing, the young husband made some
feeble excuse or other and slipped off to
the smoking car to burn a cigar and
think with a sigh of tho departed bachelor
days when ho could spit out of the
window ovor liis boot toes, with none to
say : 11 Oh, please, Steve, dear, don't I"
The bride, with rather an injured ex
pression, war sitting 111 lior palace car,
musing on the waning ardor of lier Stephen,
when she suddenly discovered that
she was the center of attraction to the
whole car. Two vongh-lookiug men
were standing in the aisle, gazing at her
closely, and then referring to a paper
which one held in his hands. Before the
astonished and indignant lady conld collect
her thoughts, one of the men took
the vacant seat beside her, and with a
knowing wink observed:
" A good get np, Nancy, but it won't
do. You're copped dead to rights this
time, honey."
"Sir!" gasped the 'riglitoned lady,
shrinking back into the furthest corner.
.".By tl lie big stick," said the man, admiringly.
" Nance, you'd ought to
a-gone on the stage. I never eee anything
better done. But it won't do.
You've got to come back with us, Nance,
an' you stand a mighty good chance of
goin' over the bay for live at shortest."
" Sir, what do you mean !" exclaimed
Mrs. , thoroughly alarmed and starting
to her feet. " Will no gentleman
protect me from the insults of this fellow
?"
Half a dozen gentlemen sprang forward
at this appeal.
"Gentlemen," said the man, "jist
'tend to your own business, and I'll tend
to mine. I've been hunting this bird
for two months, and more, and T've cmt
her at last. She puts on a good deal of
style, but if you've ever heard of Nance
Brown, one of the 'cutest thieves on the
coast, here she is. I'd have takeu her
quietly, but if she wants to make a row,
it's her own business. I'm Detective
, and here's my warrant."
" Oh, this is intolerable," cried the
poor lady, bursting into tears of indignation
and shame. " Gentlemen, my
husband, Mr. , is on the train. Go
find him, for Heaven's sake !"
There presently appeared about the
wildest-looking lawyer outside of Stockton.
The detectives grinned at the vehement
explanations of the husband, and
the other officer warned him to be quiet,
or he would arrest him for interfering.
Fortunately there were several Virginians
on the train, and they at onoe identified
the lawyer as a resj>ectable citizen,
though, the marriage being recent, they
liad not known the lady.
The detectives were profuse in their
apologies, and got out of the car in
double quick order, looking more sheepish
than any thief-takers have a right to
look, and Hurwirino it- moa
est resemblance t5oy had ever seen.
Poor.
Sydney Smith's penmanship was
wretchoa. His wife once asked him to
interpret a passage which she in vain
tried to spell out, and he answered that
" ho most decline ever reading his own
handwriting fonr-and-twenty honrs after
he had written it." His friend Jeffrey's
writing was not much better. " My
dear Jeffrey," wrote Smith on one occasion,
" we are much obliged by your lottor,
but should bo still more so were it
legible. I have tried to read it from
left to right, and Mrs. Smith from right
to left, and we neither of us can decipher
a single word."
A DISEASED COMMUNITY.
Nothing to Do bat PeddleScu4tl~A Jttentedy
Tor the Dlwue. j
Ouo of the worst diseases that can
afflict a community is scandal. When
said community arrives at such a state of
affairs as that described by an Atchison
(Kansas) paper, it is to be pitied.
The paper avers that "the whole atmosphere
is tainted with the infamous '
stories of pestiferous character-vampires
who, with a malignancy as persistent as ;
it is dovilish, torture the most innocent <
acts into guilt and the most liarmless in- 1
discretions into crimes." Moreover,
" these harpies of both sexes devote al- |
most their whole time to their malign i
.work." i
Moralizing on the sod state of affairs,
the New York Tribune Bays: Every well
meaning man should consider how much
good he can do withont taking a great
deal of trouble, either by listening to
ill-natured gossip with an air of indifference
or of impatience, or by indignantly
refusing to listen to it at all. For we
must consider that a great proportion of
the stories disadvantageous to personal
character which are afloat, are really
none of our business, and in no way
concern our happiness, our prosperity,
or our success. Now, we will suppose
that a man of good character in Atchison,
when one of these slanders is whispered
to liim, makes the whisperer un-.
mistakably to understand that he considers
himself insulted by the sneaking
recital. "What have I done that you
bring this unclean report to me ? What
reason have you for believing that I
would like to hear this ? Do I regard it
as true or false ? Sir, or madam, I
think nothing about it whatever, nor do
I intend to think about it. O ! it will
not keep mo awake o' nights?this hint
that Mr. lias gone wrong or that
Mrs. is no better than she should
be. No more of your insults if you
please?that is the point about whioh I
am principally oonoerned. Your talk is
contamination. Be off with you 1"
Let them try this in Atchison as a
remedy for the prevailing epidemic, before
they betake themselves to the persuasive
pistol and the argumentative
bowie knife 1 A few honest ones making
this contemptuous stand against the
foul sea of detraction, will work wonders.
Slandor should be one of the
most disreputable vioes in this vicious
world ; but ou the other hand, it is a sin
into which tolerably well-meaning talkers
fall, partly because they mast talk
about something or somebody; and
partly because there is on exaltation of
ourselves in the depreciation of others.
It is the resnlt sometimes of idleness ,
and vacuity of life ; sometimes of jeal- ,
ousy and irritation at our own failure j
where another has snoceeded ; not sel- .
dom of habit caught in streets and j
shops, as the measles ore caught in the
public schools. Warring against it
must be personal, and not general or
public.
Taming Clams.
When taken young, the Graphic says, I
clams, dull and stupid as they look, may
be tamed, being readily touched by
kindness and good treatment. A friend \
of the writer had one which was quite ]
domesticated and a general favorite of
the household. At a word or a touch j
from the hand of his master he would ,
open his shell and eat from the tip of ,
his finger, previously moistened with sea ]
water rich with the infusoria which form
its natural food. It even learned to
recognize its master's footstep, and it '
was touching to see the joy it would ex- J
press when my friend approached it; at such
times it would open its shell and
make its peculiar cry until it was' taken ,
up, when it would neatly against his warm
hand, feed, and then sink quietly into a
deep sleep, or purr somewhat like a \
young kitten. For some reason the 1
clam was called Evil-Merodach, to which j
name it would respond whenever ad- j
uressea. xurougu tne carelessness of
an ignorant servant-girl it met its end by
falling out of a window where it had
been placed, as was customary after its
evening meal, that it might enjoy the
twilight, of which it was very fond, and
in which it would sing quietly to itself,
dreaming perhaps of its early days and
friends. The shell was broken, and notwithstanding
the most careful nursing,
it died in a few hours.
Nettle Goes Visiting.
" Ain't you surprised to see me t" said
a tive-year-old girl, as she tripped into
my house in the midst of a rain storm.
"The rain fell all over me like it ran
down through a strainer, and I shooked
it off, but it wouldn't stay shooked. I
asked God to stop, but there was a big
thunder in the way and he could not
hear me, I underspeck; and I 'most
know ho couldn't see me, 'cause a black
cloud got over my head as black as?anything
! Nobody oouldn't see little girls
through black clouds. I'm going to stay j
till the sim shines, and then, when I go (
home, God will look down and say: "
' Why, there's Nettie ! She went to see
her anntie right in the middle of the j
rain;' and I guess he'll be jnst as much
eiprised as you was !"
A Missouri family history runs thus :
Hiillie Wilhite ran away some years ago
with her brother-in-law, Aaron Davis ;
he, however, returned to his wife, and
she married a Mr. Neely, who eloped
and left her. Two years ago her oousin,
Kzekiel, ran away with a Mrs. Winland,
both parties leaving families Last
month Aaron Davis' son, Marion, a boy
of nineteen, ran away with his mother's
sister, a woman of thirty, and to comph.
-iters his father haaagaiq eloped
wim **?*? sister-in-law, Sallie.
'Items of Interest.
Bags hare no sense of propriety.
Pound a boy sufficiently and he will
become a simple-ton
The skull of a Troy man, who was killid
by its fracture, was only a sixteenth
)f an inch thick at the base.
A New Haven boy would have been
killed by the kick of a horse had it not
tieen for stolen apples in his pocket.
A boy in a wild state, about twelve
rears old and unable to talk, has been
captured by some hunters in nothern
Texas.
When will men learn that there is
moh a thing as " legitimate banking,"
uid that it is criminal to speculate with
trust funds?
The money appropriated for public instruction
in France does not reach the
avoI nf Mnononlinsm^fn' Vinrlrvnf 4na?
tame purpose,
" Our common mother's unfortunate
fruit speculation," is the latest way of
referring to that misfortune which compels
us to work for a living.
It is stated that Baltimore is now the
only city in the United States where
girls are not employed in some of the
printing offices as compositors.
An East Oranby (Conn.) fanner has
the original deed to the land on which
be lives. It has been in his family for
one hundred and sixty-two years.
A drunken man slid head first into a
Sue of a church at Pittsfleld, and two
carpenters destroyed a hundred dollars'
worth of the building in getting him
out.
" I never sot my hand to writm* poetry
bill two years ago, ' said a young ruralist,
Lilting back in a grocery chair, " bat the
minute I took to goin' with that Johnson
girl, by gosh ! I couldn't help it."
An equally unreasonable old landsman
onoe said of the tribe who oamed walking-sticks
: " Everybody is fitted for
something useful. Now a young man
who can't do anything else can oarry a
sane.
Feminine logic?Precise old aunt :
" It's no use, Emily ; I should never alter
my opinion of tne young man, not if
Jou were to oonvinoe me ever so much.
don't like him, and even wild horses
couldn't make me."
Society News.?Mr. F. O. Follansbee's
terrier, " Jip," that went to
Swampaoott in July, has returned to
town and will pass a week with its maternal
parent before joining the family
cat at tne city mansion.
A man remarked to a friend of his the
day after the funeral of his wife that he
never saw a man take anything so hard
ind weep so bitterly as he had at the
bouse. The mourner responded: "Oh,
pshaw! yon oughter 'a seen me at the
grave V %
There was once a sea captain who deBlared
that in all his expense* he never
failed to meet bad weather when he had
an board his ship a man who parted his
hair in the middle. "I don't know how
it is," said the anaient mariner,' " but
the elements oan't seem to tolerate that
habit.
It is too frequently the case for papers
to ridicule the oofiege graduate as a
helpless and useless individual. Mr.
A.very, of Yale, however, graduated only
\ month ago, and already he has secured
% position of trust at a salary of $3,000 a
vear. It is as pitoher of a professional
base ball club.
A mother visiting Detroit with her
laughter, a girl of fifteen, said to the
;hild who was about drinking a glass of
*oda water : " Now, Mary, be careful.
Don't gulp it down at three swallows
md get exploded all to pieces by the gas,
But sip, sip and don't run any risks."
It was a rioh old widow who wondered
hat the handsome young man had fallen
in love with her. " Yes, It is wonderful,"
said Mr. Spraoeup ; " but I do
love you to distraction ; why, I even
love the ground you walk on." " I
thought so," observed the widow ; " but
[ am not in want of a landlord at pressnt."
Lightning struck a telegraph wire
near the Connecticut river depot at
Northampton, Mass., cutting it in two.
It passed into the offioe in the depot,
melting the wires, placing around the
instruments, and scorching the walls of
bhe room. Nobody was injured, although
the operator felt strange sensations.
This is the way oompulsory education
BDerates in Sootland. In Olsaoow. out
a} 14,174 children not at school, 6,846
were sent on aooount of warning or remonstranoe,
3,103 after service of no*
tice, 711 after the parents had met the
ichool board, and 44 after the parents
jad been prosecuted. Both in catv and
country the law is said to work well.
The wheat crop of Franoe in 1874, aox>rding
to the report of the minister of
igri culture, was 124,000,000 hectoliters
>f 2201 pounds avoirdupois each, the,
argest crop France ever produced, equal
o 455,700,000 bushel*. _The annual
xmsumption of wheat in Ifranoe for ail
inrposes is abont 330,750,000 bushels.
France had probably a surplus from last
rear's wheat crop, over and above her
innual consumption, at about 124,960,>00
bushels.
A young man in Munioe, Ind., was easorting
a young woman to his home in *
ferriage the other day, when he came to a
>riilgo that had been overflowed br a
resliet. Me drove his horse into the
vater, but when the carriage was threatmod
with submersion and the horse befall
making an effort to get away, he out
he traces, sprang upon the animal'sbaok
ind set for snore, leaving his companion
n the middle of the stream. The tor ent
overturned the ct^rjjgo and the girl
vas drowned. '