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' ... .. i. ri..... r. f The Beaufort Tribune. * ,i7 YOL. II.?NO. 29. BEAUFORT, S. C., JUNE 7, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The Burden of the Wind. Oh, wind I fresh wind of springtime, What hast thon borne away ? A bnrden of light-winged moments k That hovered, and would not Btay ; The music of children's laughter From meadows all dewy and sweet, Where primrose buds and cowslips Are trodden by joyous feet. Oh, wind ! toft wind of summer, What hast thou borne away ? A burden of love and longing, The dream of a golden day ; Tho murmurs of passionate voices, The exquisite perfume pressed From the heart of the rose that nestled ? In tho beloved ono's breast, Ob, wind ! wild wind of winter, What hflfit thAM VkArnn awan O A burden of mournful remembrance, The sigh of the year's decay ; The skeleton leaves of the forest, Tho drift from the ohill snow-wreath, And tho prayer of a soul that is passing Into the shadow of death. MISS PEVERILL'S PRIDE. i "I never heard of such impertinence," said Agnes Peverill, throwing down the letter she held, and half crying in her anger. " How dare he write such things to mo ? What business has he to love me ? He never would have dared write like this if?if papa were alive and we had not lost our money." "You may thank yourself for this," said Grandmother Peverill, looking over her apectacli-s with an air of concern. < < "V 1 J '' - j.on uavw umuseu yourseu consiaerably with Harold Helper, to my certain knowledge. When one dance?, one must pay the pi|>er." "I don't uuderstan 1 yon, grandma. I certainly never gave bim a shadow of encouragement. I have guessed for some time that he?that he didn't dislike me, you know; but I never dreamed that he would ('are say as much. Papa's clerk ! Why, I've seen bim sweeping ont the office, and his lingers as inky as Caddy Jelly by's." ' Men are audacious creatures," observed grandma; "but if you knew that ho didn't * xactly bate you, you oughtn't to have ncc -pted him as oscort when you were le lrning to ride. When your papa brought him home to dine, you noedn't 1 havo made yourself so attractive, need you? You might have had a headache in your own room, or an invitation out. You needu t have talked pretty nonsense with him by the hour, while your father and I took our nfter-dinner naps, need you?" "One cau't help flirting a little, grandma."' "What, with one's father's clerk? And x>o doubt one can't help working him slippers and braiding watch chains eitherf" "Why, of course, oue gives birthday and Christmas gifts to all one's acquaintances, even to old Biddy, ihe pauper. One doesn't expect them to presume on iXJUl'j UOITCIClt "Au I bo you tbiak that Mr. Helper is presuming when he offers you his heart's love and all hi worldly prospects. Why so ?" " I think he is presuming, because the Peverills are not of his order, grandmamma. They came over in the Mayflower; th< y di amended from Ijord Peverill; they graduated at colleges, have enjoyed elegant accomplishments ever since the flood, and have never soiled their hands with the grime of labor; while Mr. Helper's ancestors were illiterate mechanics, who murdered the king's Euglish, Why, hii own father wdH a stonecutter. I've heard papa shy so." "And supposing that yours had been a mechanic, what objeotion would you have urged?" " Why, it's not a supposable case, grandmamma?a Peverill a stonecutter I" " But supposing you were not a Ml 0?? x uvorrnt " My imagination is not bold enough for such a flight. You see, I have all the prejudices of my olass. I would ohoose unhappiness sooner than marry beneath me." "Tlieu I am to understand that you consider yourself superior to Harold Helper. It is some years since he figured as your father's inky-tingered clerk, remember. Sinoe then he has written a book, ho has invented a machine, he has lectured to scientists. Wherein does your superiority consist? What have you.been doing in tho meantime?" , "I have been rubbing papa's gouty toe, and accepting the attentions of Miles Bond." " You don't mean "? "I menu tlint I shall probably marry Miles Bond somo fine day, if nothing nappe ns." " Marry Milos Bond J" repeated grandmamma, as if ahe had said that she was going to marry the khan of Tartary. "YouBeemto bo astonished, grandmamma." " Yes?a little. He's a born aristocrat." " Exactly?there's a pair of lis. I shall be entitled to consideration in the beau monde as his wife, don't yon see?" For it must be confessed that since Mr. Pcvcrill's deatn and insolvency the beau monde had looked coldly upon his pretty daughter, in spite of the Peverill coat of arms and the luxuriance of the family tree. " Then you do not care a fig for Mr. Helper ?" asked grandma. " Is it necessary for me to deny the soft impeachment, when I have almost made up my mind to aooept another?" " When I was a girl"? began the old lady. You loved brocades and brocatelles e as well as your granddaughter." r " But I did not sell myself for them. And so you are really engaged to Miles I Bond, and there's no help for it ?" t ' Well, not really engaged; I won't 1 give my word?at least not quite yet. i You see, grandmamma, one hesitates to s rivet the chain, as they say in novels, c And then Miles says he will wait; he i won't hurry me ; he'd rather wait a I century in sweet suspense, as he calls it, I than to be refused at once. But I sup- !* pose it will all end one way." t " And what will y .m answer to Harold a Helper ?" r " Heaven only knows. It will not do 1 to tell a man who offers one Irs heart < that he ought to have known better. c 'Nor that you will not marry him r U Li- #-1.1 ' ? uvmiuiK) 11 in itibiier was a stonecutter. ' t Mr. Helper accepted liis refusal, how- 1 ever, with a good grace. Ho made no t fuss about it; he merely assured her s that her happiness would always bo fc dearer to him than his own. " That's the letter of a gentleman," i said g'andma, " if his father was forty a times a stonecutter." "Pshaw!" said Miss Agnes, tearing I it into fragments; but, curiously enough, 1 gathering them together as soon as Mrs. PeveriH'8 back was turned, as if p they were sweet to her as scattered rose leaves. Perhaps she was thinking of tlio days when Mr. Holper was her father's clerk, and had taught her chess of winter eveniugs?da\ s when she was < not so worldly minded, and more romantic, and didn't guess the worth of c position a id long descent. Perhaps she 1 regretfully remembered the spring i mornings when they pushed through the woods for wild flowers and ferns, s when he made a quaint album for her of 1 pressed seaweeds? she had it hidden r away somewhere now. a " It wouldn'tdo," shesaid, half aloud, u answering some unspoken thought. "I i should always be haukering for family I and money. One must give up some- s thing; it may as well be lovo as any- c tiling. Oh, if my father had only been I a stonecutter, too!" i Grandma Peverill met Mr. Helper in 1 the street later. " I hope you don't j mean to desert us," said she, " because I that foolish chit of an Agnes doesn't i know when her bread is well battered. 1 Remember it's a woman's privilege to i change her mind. If you neglect us, t 'You shut your life from happier chance,' ^ as the poet says. Nobody knows what i may happen." < " But I hear that Miss Peverill has ] encouraged Mr. Bond," Baid Harold, i helplessly. " And you're going to stand aloof aud i let that little Miles Bond walk over you? Now let mo tell you that I mean i to make you and Miles executors of my will; so I'd like to keep on friendly i terms with you?dou't you see ?' "Thank you; but aren't we friends, 3 near or apart?" t " 'Tis said I hat absence conquers lovo," she laughed; "and haven't you 1 beard of tbe virtue that resides in pro- t pinquity ? If Agnes sees Miles every e day, and you ouoe iu six weeks, which t do you thiuk she will be most likoly to love best ?" "It is not likely that she will over e love me, whatever happens." s " Who said she would never love you? Aren't you worth forty Miles Bonds ?" " Certainly not in Miss Peverill's regird." " Prithee, what do you know of her regard, Sir Faintheart ?" "Very little, to be sure." ' ' He either fears bin fate too much, Or his deaei t-i are Bmall, That dares not pnt it to the touch, To gain or lone it all.' " "Haven't I put my fate to the touch, Mrs. Peverill, and haven't I found that my deserts are miserably small ?" " Dear me ! I .see that you don't know that women blow twenty ways of a morning. Who knows but she is crying her pretty eyes out this minute, and wishing with all her silly heart that she had it to do over again ?" " Miles knows," laughed Harold. c " Come and see who knows best. An old woman's advice isn't to be sneezed I at. I refused my first lover myself, be- i cause I thought he'd come back and t i.iso mo into it, but he never did. Served me right, too." f And Harold did as he was told. He t made himself intimate at the Peverilla' as of old. He was there in season and 1 out of season. He bore with the i caprioes of Agnes and the condescen- 1 sions of his rival. He was often left to the tender mercios of Qrandma Peverill while Agnes and Miles made the garden or tho river echo with their songs. He came and went liko a shadow. When Agnes chose to listen, he let loose his en- i thusiosm; when sho gavo him tho cold 1 shoulder, he accepted it without a miir- 1 mur?as if one should bo grateful for ( any gift of hers?and fell back upon the t old lady's unfailing kindness. One day, i however, even Grandma Peverill failed i u:? at.. 1?i ?j 1.-1- # mm. outs wukuu mmueiuy i rum a doze, find asked : "Is it really love?" glancing after the two, peltiug each other with roses in the garden. " It looks like it," gasped Harold. "Time will prove?time, that nnlooks all secrets and discloses all impostures. Miles is of the earth, earthy. He loves floe society and grandfathers and coats of-arms. . It is a orime in his eyes to be born without a silver spoon in one's mouth." Theu she fell into a doze again. The shadows draped themselves about her ; a star came out and leaned to look into the window ; a late bird tilted on a spray near by, and made a sudden gush of music through the place ; the murmur of laughing voices came faintly toward tbem on tho breeze. But Harold listen- 1 k1 alone, for Grandma Peverill was aloady far away. A few weeks later Miles Bond and dr. Helper were engaged looking over 1 lie private papers of the lat > Mrs* Peverill, as her executors. That modest >ortion of her fortune which her son's peculations had left intact she had be- . [ueathed to" Agnes. Presently Miles aised his eyes from the paper he had >een inspecting. "A rascally piece of main ess," he groaned, between his teeth, ihould he quietly light his cigar with he paper, bury its contents in oblivion, nd marry Agues, and go on his way ejoicing ? No : perish the thought ? A Bond, of the Bonds of Bondholder, who jould trace their lineage to the Con[uoror ? A thousand times no! He oado a desperate resolve, and passed he sheet to Harold, It was merely a etter from the late Mrs. Peverill, seti:.g forth a certain family matter, which lio had deemed it wise that thev shrmld ;now, not as executors, bnt as lovers. " Of course this will not affect your nterest," said Herold, filing the paper way, qnito at his ease. "It might not," sneered Miles, "if ' wore not a Bond, with family credit to sustain." " And yet," said tho other, " Shukesteare tells us that " ' Love is not love, which alters When it alteration fiuds.' " " Shakeipeire be hauged !" quoth tho juondam lover. Tho following week, when Mr. Helper Iroppod iu to pay his respects to Agnes, le found her watering her beds of miglouette and pansies. "Oh," she said, presently, and half hyly, "the oddest thing has happened ! ! must tell somebody ! How dear grauduamma would laugh if she were here, md say it served me right. I received \ note yesterday (you could hardly call t a billet doux, though it was from ililos), and what do you think ? Ho lays in it?there, turn your eyes away, lon't look at me so while I toll you?he )3gs me to release him from an engagenent which, upon close examination of lis heart?under the microscope, I supjoso?he finds himself unable to fulfill 1 Uoff you must know that there never vas an engagement at all between us ; le just teased my soul out of me to narry him, and I promised. Only to hink of it 1 A Peverill, a descendant of >ue Robert Peverill, who figured in the Crusades, jilted by Miles Bond 1 It nust be that grandmamma's jointure iisappointed the poor youth. Motto : Never appoint as your executor the man vhom you wish to marry your heir." " You don't seem to take the affair nnch to heart," said Harold. <( l\AAflnsA mr liaarf wnan'f t it."~ "What under heaven wore you thinkng of, then I" "I was thinking whether or no you? rou had changed your mind, sir; whether you would ever again dare "? "I dare do all that doth becomo a over," asseverated Harold, inclining to he level of her lips. " Will you reconlider the question I asked you a year igo, darling?" And Agnes reconsidered. Mrs. Helper had been married a year ind better, when it occurred to her, in in idle moment, to overhaul Grandma Poverill's papers, now that they were her >wn possessions; and when she heard Elarold calling her she went slowly out ? meet him, with ono of them crushed n her soft hands. " What have you thore, darling?" he isked. " And you knew it all the whilo !" she inswerod, irrelevantly; "you knew I vas not a Peverill, descended from the 3rusader; you knew that I had been ulopted from a foreign foundling iHylum ! And yet you loved me ! and pet you married me. Agnos Nobody 1" md Mrs. Helper begun to ory, and alowed herself to be olasped in tho arms )f a stonecutter's son, and found comfort in it. " 'Love is not lovo, which alters When it alteration finds,' " laid Harold. "Bnt I may bo the daughter of a cob uior, 01 a pauper, or worse, bus jobbed. "You are my wife, and I love you." " Then I would rather be your wife ;han the daughter of a king," said alio, uniting through her tears. Mr. Helper had forgotten to burn the otter which Grandma Peverill had written to lior executors, and so .pride lad a fall.?Bazar. The European (Drain Trade. The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the British corn trade, Bays iliore has been no noticeable change in ;he aspect of the country. Ail vegetaiion is making slow progress, owing to ;he prevalent cold winds. The season n Scotland in much behindhand; adverse weather has caused seeding to be inusnally protracted. In the trade a '.nndnn/tTT I/t A Uaa.. ivuu?<uojr l/W IUU1 DCK)DU OUblVlbjr UUO UCT5U apparent, millors buying more freely, iml speculators showing considerable iu;erest in the present course of prices, rrunsactions for the continent at our ocal markets have l?-on only of a tentative nature. Some small quantities of both English and foreign wheat have seen taken for export. The export demand for oats having abated, prices dedined slightly. The supplies of maize rnvo been sufficient to check any advance. Continental advioes, exoept from Franoe, are fairly satisfactory as to the jondition Of crops, although want of lunsbine has been felt there also. Navigation has not been resumed at St. Petersburg, and prices of wheat are very high, both there and at Odessa. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I tui Th? Convention nnd Electoral Calculation* . m Illade by I.eadlBK fflca la Both Parties. NX Thoro is a good deal of guessing abont iar Presidential chances just now, as the eif conventions draw near, and political ex- au perts go abont with slates tolerably well tai made up in their pockets. Tlio New co; York Herald figures on the Republican -^i convention as^jollbws : Of tho total number of delegates, 742. Blaine, of aft Maine, will have 310 ; Conkling, of New to York, 288 ; Morton, of Indiaua, 224, and an Bristow and others, 100. These calcula- frc tions, tho editor says, are the result of ar( much figuriug on tho part of leading mr politicians, and it believes tho votes on 1 the first ballots will vary very little from m( the figures as given. ]at Of the Democratic convention the co same authority says that tho opening struggle will be between Tilaen, of New York, nnd Hendricks, of Indiana. Judge pr Davis, of Illinois, will not develop much co strength at the outset, but his friends Ei will hold his name back until the an strength of various candidates is de- wi veloped. It is claimed that on the first pp ballot Tilden will have 294 of tho 742 Qa votes, and that Hendricks will at any 1,1 me iinve zoz votes against any Eastern man. The calculations made by well in- no formed men of both sides show singular ev discrepancies, but each side, it will be ob- va served in the followiug lists, claims New mi York. The following is a table made by co Republicans : m< Hem. Hep. \ Hem. Hep. 6V Alabama 10 ? Mississippi 8 ? iui Arkansas 6 ?j Missouri 15 ? California. ? C Nebraska ? 3 Connecticut 0 ? Nevada ? 3 ^ Colorado 3 ? New Hampshire ? 5 Delaware 3 ?Now Jersey ? 9 ric Florida . 4 ? New York.*..... ? 35 pii Georgia 11 ?North Carolina. 10 ? ar, Illinois ? 21 Ohio ? 22 , Indiana ? 15 Oregon 3 ? . Iowa ? 11 Pennsylvania... ? 29 Kansas ? 5 Rhode Island.. ? 4 ru Kentucky 12 ?South Carolina. 7 ? alf Louisiana 8 ? Tennessee 12 ? vft Maine ? 7 j Texas 8 ? ;1 Maryland 8 ?JVermont ? 5 Massachusetts.. ? 13 Virginia 11 ? Q11 Michigan ? 111 SVest Virginia.. 5 ? Pi Minnesota ? 5l Wisconsin ? 10 C< (p| Total* 160 219 The following is a Democratic calcula- th tion: ri< D em. Rep. Dem.Rtrp. pj. Alabama 10 ? Mississippi..... 8 ? p( Arkansas G ? Missouri 15 ? pi, California U ? Nebraska. ? 3 Colorado 3 ? Nevada 3 ? P? Connecticut.... G ? New Hajppshire ? 5 St Delaware 3 ?New Jersey.... 9 ? Qj Florida 4 ? New York 35 ? Georgia 11 ? North Carolina. 10 ? Illinois ? 21 Ohio ? 22 ari Indiana 15 ? Oregon 3 ? an Iowa ? 11 Pennsylvania .. ? 29 tit Kansas ? 5 Rhode Island.. ? 4 oi. Kentnokv .. 12 ? Snnth Ctrnlina ? t Louisiana 8 ? ronnoHtjeo 12 ? . . Maine ? 7 Texas 8 ? lft" Maryland 8 ? Vermont ? 5 A( Massachusetts.. ? 13 Virginia 11 ? th Michigan ? 11 West Virginia.. 5 ? tje Minnesota. ? 51 Wisconsin ? 10 Totals 211 158 i"i Pr th Sleight of Hand Shooting. th A murder caso awaiting trial in India was, according to tho India papers, ex- SQ peotod to give rise to much legal discus- J siou as to whether the circumstances justified the charge. A juggler who al- ^ lcged that ho possessed some power which rendered him "bullet proof," invited tho prisoner in the case to aim at him with a loaded mu <ket, assuring him that he might do so without the slightest fear of producing any painful results. *1 The prisoner accepted the kind iuvitation, and with a loaded musket presented to him by tho juggler immediately "5 sent a bullet through his head It is J*1 urged that as there was no intention on *1 the part of the prisoner to kill tho de- j" ceased, the charge of murd? r cannot be maintained. The juggler was thorough- Jrt ly confident of his own invulnerability, and several of his relations who were to j1-1' be called as witnesses for tho defence were prepared to prove that, although ftQ several times shot at before, he was ?v never lmrt. Some few years ago in ltl England a "wizard" at one of the vo theaters begged one of the and enoo as cf). a favor to fire a gan at him. The spec- c" tator thus invited loaded the gun with m' a ehargo of shot ho had brought with e.(' him for the express purpose of te-ting rV the alleged invulnerability of the wizard. The rosult was painful in the ex- Kr treme. The wizard's face was peppered j11' with tho shot, and the spectator who tired tho gun was given into the custody 11 1 of the police. Both narrowly escaped ,n' death?ono by tho gun, the other by the ^ gallows. 811 til The Khedive of Egypt. Br tli E. D. Holton, one of the Centennial mi commissioners now in Egypt, writes mi hrirriA fhaf Iia Itoa flvo mining* 41% state, who taken a deep interest in tho Oentennial. Mr. Holton says : The main point I had in view in meeting the^ secretary of state was thin : Would the* khedive seud TueQk Pasha, his oldest til son and heir to the government, to 17 America? The minister replied that the 17 khedivo had anuouuced his purpose to fei do so, and iu auswer to my inquiry if of there was any objection in giving noto- do nety to that purpose, said there was not. is Therefore it is reasonable to expect that B? this fine looking and accomplished gr young Egyptian will be at Philadelphia, au Accompanied bv our consul I had an in- de tor view with this princo at his own pa palace, and found him much interested M iu his proposed journey. His father as lie Jet had not given him his orders, but he tb a?l many inquiries to make about his he journey, whioh I was happy at being ci able to answer. * W In Agricultural Hall. Tho number of exhibitors in Agriculral hall is, of Americans, 1,450; of i reignors, about 800. In the oenter of I 9 hall is a fountain, said to be the J gest in this oountry, discharging s jhty gallons a minute. It would be -j almost endless task to mention in deI the exhibits of oonfectionery, tobao- c s, prepared meats, fruits, bread, f nes, seeds, starch and the like, but it II be interesting to note many here,er, and especially will it be profitable , give descriptions of the wool, cottons " il other raw materials that form fabrics ^ >m all parts of the world and which 9 scientifically arranged, not in small 4 isses but in commercial packages. 4 The display of agricultural implemts, or, what is the same thing, of 8 >or saving machinery, is the most j replete ever made in this, and probay in any other country, and the work- _ inship of the specimens is remarkably aisewofthy. It is yet too soon to mpare our implements with those of iropo, Africa and Asia, as these last 3 not vpt fnllv on AtliihiHnn and len tho proper time oomes it will be ^ ghly proper to place the implements e ed by our fathers along side those lich we use to-day. _ Of all tho foreign exhibitors in this * jricultural hall l.one is in such readi- ? rs, and probably none is so varied and e en exhaustive, as that of Brazil. The 8 st range of exhibits of the shop, farm, luufactory, mine and forest; the taste; i rreetness, carofulness and good judg- ? jut shown in the collection of Brazil, ' en in this department of agriculture, _ F licate a directing mind. ' t Brazil has done everything that seems ssible to do to make known to the t >rld the vast natural resources and <3 lies of this great South American em- t re. From the province of Amazouas o 3 shown india rubber, tobacco, ooffee, d :e, cotton, sarsaparilla, a peculiar kind maize or corn, but the chief article is e bber. Para shows much of the same, 0 10 cocoa, which iB extensively culiited; sngar, arrowroot, and various r Is. Maranhao, cotton of superior j lality, rice, coffee, indigo, tapioca, auhy, sugar, coffee, woods, leather, rara, tobacco, sugar, rice, farina, oof- f 3. Rio Grande de Norte, coooa proicts, medicinal plants, etc. Parahyba, v e same. Norte, sugar, ootton, woods, 1 je, wax; but at present the other c ovinces need only be named, viz.: 3rnambuco, Alagoas, Sergipo, Bahia, * ipirito Santo, Rio Janeiro, S. Paulo, 1 irana, Santa Catharina, Rio Grande do * il, Minas, Gerdes, Goyaz and Mai to i rosso, all of which are more or less 1 presented. Many of these provinces s largely engaged in wool growing a d in cattle breeding, and the oapabili- t >b for extension in these branches are t nply enormous. r Most of the other foreign nations are e :o in displaying their goods in the jricultural hall, and in a few instances j eir cargoes, having been unexpectedly t layed, are but just arrived. Spain, r issia, Portugal and Norway are plao- i g theirs in position. The agricultural e oducts of the French are behind, but ey will soon be on hand, and among e other nations nearly ready are the * atherlands, Venezuela, Japan, Austria, -ussia, England and Italy. One reaa for this delay arises out of the great * lount of work these exhibitors have en doing in other departments where oir displays are complete. a Marrying Intemperate Men. c In a case of divorce heard by the i anklin county court, Vermont, divoroe J is asked for on the ground of intoler- * le severity, and was refused for the no being. The St. Albans Messenger 11 ves the following account of the suit; ? jo evidence showed gross ill-treatment 1 tho wife, tho petitioner, by thehus- * ud when intoxicated, and that he was ^ squently in that condition. At the T aring tli6 court asked the petitioner, e wife, if sho knew when she married ( r husband that he was a drinking man, z d sho replied that she did. After the t idonce was in the court remarked that t oy woro not prepared to grant the di- J ice at the nresent time, but winhnrl t.r? a usider the case, anil that they were in- t ued to think that, when a woman c irried a drinking man with fnll knowlge of hia habit, she must atand by the ^ k she had knowingly taken, and that a a vorce should not bo granted on the j onud of abnae by the hoaband while g toxicateil, he at other times treating c r well. On tlio coming in of the court r tew days subsequent they further oom- < tinted on the case and the rule that in fo minds of the court should apply in ch cases ; and Baid that in this case o habit in the husband had become so , oss, having grown upon him dnring o five years that tho parties hail been ' irried, and the wife had suffered so j uch from him that they would grant . o divorce in this case. E That Brilliant West Star. A curious advertisement appeared in e Londonderry Journal, April 30, 83 : " Whereas on February the 14th, 83, it pleased kind Providence to oon.. .... * f ? ? 41 XT 1? ?*T? 11 ? ? i un luiiiuirw ^ruiv, ui Dliruttliy, |)HriHn * Tamlaghtfinlagan aud county of Lon- I mderry, a man child, whose appearance ^ promising and amiable, and hopes the ? dug who lirst caused him to exist will ( ant him grace. Also in consideration d remembrance of the many heroic i eds done by that universally renowned t triot, General Washington, the said j atthow Neely has done himself the t mor of calling the said man child by i e name of George Washington Neely, t i being the first child named or so i Hod in this kingdom by the name of \ ashiugton, that brilliant West star." \ What he Expects. The following poetical advertisement dicates humorously, but very truthally, how much a man expects of his rife: ranted?A wife wh > oan handle a broom 'o brush down the oobwebe and sweep op her room; Jan make deoent bread that a fellow oan eat, lot the horrible compound you everywhere meet; Vho knows how to boil, to fry, and to roast, lake a good oup of tea and a platter of toast; L woman that washes, oooks, irons, and stitohee, ind sews up the rips in a fellow's old clothes, uad makes her own garments?an item, too, which is k> horrid expensive, as every one knows ; i common sense creature, and still with a mind 'o teach and to guide?exalted, refined : sort of an angel and housemaid oombined. Items'of Interest. The first "trick horse" on reoord? he wooden one in which the Greeks n to red Troy. With a sigh of relief we annonnoe the act that daring the past week no oaadilate.for the Presidency has been aocnsd of murder, forgery, burglary, or aron. There is life in the old land yet A Boston firm is said to be doing an mmense business in buying damaged nd refuse butter at fire cents a pound, rorking it over and ooloring it, and then mtting it on the market as fresh country utter. The Washington Jiepublican, with ears in its eyes, says : One of the sadlest things to contemplate just now is he large number of persons in this ountry who have no relations in Philalelphia. * Now subscribe for the newspaper. An minent physician says: One of the heapest and most efficient chest proteoore, when unexpectedly exposed to oold, aw winds, is a folded newspaper iiyride he vest. A Harrisburg man who boasted he'd tever seen the horse that could throw dm, was landed in a druggist show rindow five minutes afterward, amid a horns of "There's a light in the winlow for thee." In Nevada, when a building falls and lills two or three people, the jury first innt up the contractor and hang him, tnd then bring in a verdict that nobody s to blame but the contractor, who cantot be found. An Irishman, noticing a lady pass long, espied two strips depending from inder the lady's cloak. Not knowing hat these were styled sashes and in the . ight place, he exclaimed: "Faith,? na'am, your gallusses are untied." A quarrelsome hnsband and wife in owa decided to separate and divide heir property evenly. The land was neasured off into two farms, and the louse and barn were out in halves, and aoh half removed a short distanoe. "Yon have a considerable floating >opnlation in this village, haven't yon? eked a stranger of one of the citizens of i villago'on the Mississippi " Well, res?rathei," was the reply; "abont half he year the water is up to the seoond tory windows." The superstition of sailors was strik glv illustrated in Chicago a few days go.' The straits of Mackinaw opened in Thursday by the breaking up of the oe, and on Friday the news reached jhicago, bnt not a vessel would leave >ort until Saturday. Sometimes you see a sun browned nan with a slouch hat, and with the mds of his fingers turned down as if .he magined himself abont to strike the :eys of a piano. He is not a pianist, ie is a base ball player, and his Angers nil always stay that way. A company has been organized at lalifornia to manufacture sugar from nelons, which are to be raised on a ract of reclaimed land in the delta of he Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. i correspondent of the Baltimore dim ays the melons make mnoh better sugar han beets, and can be raised much iheaper. A Chicago man handed in an adver'crtisement offering $3 for the return of > bull terrier, but it was printed #25. Ie then sent in another notjoe offering >5.00, and it was published $500, the onseqnenoe of whioh was that his esidenoe was besieged by owners of 'dorga" leading a countless host of mil terriers. The reward was not paid. A blind boy, who was taken into an levator for the first] time in a Cleveland lotel, set np the most terriflo screaming rhen the cab began to rise, and would inf. Ka nnlil if wan le explained that he supposed that be tad been misled, and was being taken lown into the dissecting room of a nodical college to be used as a subject. The Canadian minister o! the interior sports that there are 91,910 Indiana in he Dominion, of whioh number 10,000, >olonging to nntreatied tribes, are sailed between Peace river and the United Jtates boundary. In the five older provinoea, they have personal property vorth $489,234 ; real estate worth $7,133,708, and in invested capital the sum >f $2,844,972. A strange custom has been preserved n Nottingham, England, from remote imes. One of. the heads of the family, previous to looking the street door for he last time in the year, carefully deposits a gold ooin in olAe proximity to he door, where it is allowed to remain intil the new year has been ushered in. riiis is believed to insure the supply of noney for the years' necessities.