The Beaufort Tribune.
VOL. IT.?NO. 39. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 16, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
A Spanish Poem. a
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Oh ! let the eoal its elnmber break, <
Aroaee its sonses and awake, v
To see how soon t
Life, with its glory, glides away,
And the stern footsteps of decay 1'
Come stealing on. a
And while we eye the rolling tide, *
Down which our flowing minntos glide
Away so fast, c
Lot us the present hoar employ,
And deem each future dream of Joy p
Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the mind? ^
No happier let us hrpe to find
To-morrow than to-day ;
O.ir goldon dreams of yore were bright; a
Like them, the prceent shall delight?
Like them, decay.
Our livos, like hasting streams, must be, P
That into one ingalflng sea *E
Are doomed to fall? (
Tho sea of death. whn?# mil ""
j ?- vw ava? vu ^
O'er king mid kingdom, crown and throne, ^
And swallow all. g
Al.ke the river's lordly tide, si
A'iko the 1 umblo riv'let'e glide
To that Bad wave ; 1
Death lovels property and pride.
And rich and poor eh ep aide by b do 61
Within the grave.
Our birth is but the starting place, li
Life iu the running of the rue,
An 1 death the goal : ^
There all tbore glittering toys are brought ; ~r
The path alone, of all uueought, ?
Ib found of a>l.
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Say, then, how poor and little worth h
Are all thoao glittering toys of earth A]
That lure ub here ? li
Dreams of a bleep that death must break,
Alas ! before it bile us wake, 11
Ye disappear ! P
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THE SUGAR PARTY.
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Sugar parties, in tho town of O., have fa
jrotn urne immemorial been accounted an
famous affairs, no quiltings, merry m&k- w
iugs, or " bees" of any description tt
being able to approach them in popularity.
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The Nelbies, senior, gavo a party to st
all the fathers and mothers of families in si
the town of C., at the time of the ai
earliest "run" of sap, last season; and
a couple of weeks later, when another gi
grand thaw sent the transparent blood w
of the maple circulating through torpid ir
trunks au(F limbs, the Nelbies, junior, ei
with the permission of the "old peo- tn
pie," made preparations and sent out ai
invitations for their sugar party, which al
everybody anticipated would be a grand si
affair. pi
Certainly, Eliva Nelby and her brothers,
Samuel and Nicholas, spared no as
" pains or expense " to meet the antici- cr
pations of the public. Sam had per- b<
sonally attended to the boiling of the cc
sap, in its later stages, and used his ut- lo
most skill and care in keeping it free B
from impnrities, and in reducing it to bi
syrup of the proper consistency, with- as
out scorching. Then Eliva herself had iz
scoured the bright copper kettle in or
which this delectable preparation was os
to be placed over the sngar making slow
fire in the kitchen, in time to have it fu
" feather" as soon as the guests should vi
do roauy lor tne grand sweetening. ftf
Meanwhile, Nicholas had busied him- ti<
self in filling a large tub with the purest ar.
snow which could be found in the woods, L
and in hollow places, protected from the ti<
sun; and ho had deposited the cooling c.
treasure in the shed, covering it with bi
cakes of ice, brought from a dismal a;
ravine on the northerly side of Eellogg's tb
mount. fit
Moreover, the plotting Eliva, anx- b<
ious to have the old folks ont of the S!
way, had planned an engagement for tb
them at a married people's sugar party, tb
over the river; and now everything was bj
arranged exact y as she desired. co
And Eliva was very happy, until
about three o'clock on the important d<
day. About tbat time an incident oc- cr
curred which threw her into the utmost e>
confusion. Eliva wished the sugar party in
had never been thought of. ro
To explain the reason of this: Eliva al
Nelby was a young lady of lofty pride, tb
Not only did she account herself the di
belle of the town of O., but, having di
twico or three times visited relatives re- pi
siding in Philadelphia, she had become fa
ambitious of fashionable manners, and of
prided herself on her knowledge of the L;
beau monde. Her proper sphere, she lil
felt convinced, was accomplished soci- fr
ety; but believing in the necessity o{ tu
imitating the Romans in their own domains,
she tolerated country people, and tu
condescended to patronize the simplio- E
ity of their manners when in their midst, tb
And Eliva could enjoy herself with T
her rural friends exceedingly well, too ; n<
and slio anticipated as much pleasure as G
anvbodv from tho proposed sucar narfcv. si
Bat at just three o'clock?how inex- fc
pressibly provoking?the arrival of an
unexpected visitor produood the effect di
at which I have already hinted. 1*
That visitor was her cousin Lawrence, di
from the city?her rich, handsome, ac- b<
oomplished, desirable oousin, who had hi
come to spend a week with his ooantry B
relatives in sngar time t tc
At any other time Eliva would have ai
been delighted with the high honor el
which she had so long desired in vain, ai
At no other time conld she have been ro b
utterly dismayed I Although, after she A
had hiistily changed her dress to meet g
him, the yonng gentleman greeted her la
with easy familiarity, she thought it was h
only bocanse he happened to be partial fi
to her; and firmly believing him to be h
the slave to etiqnette that she so much tl
dmired, she shuddered at the thought
?f his disgust should he witness the
'vulgarity" of the countr? people, with
rhom she would be obliged to associate
bat night 1
After Lawrenoe had been introduced
oto the " best room," Eliva, all flushed
ud flurried with exoitement, poured her
urbnleut fears into the stupid ear of tho
toical Sam.
"What will he say?when the folks
ome?" she exclaimed.
"Say, 'how d'ye do,' of course," reilied
the unfeeling Samuel.
"But?everything will appear odd to
im ! He will think ho is amongbarbaians
! He will be disgusted with them,
nd us, too, for associating with them."
" What'll he be disgusted for? Just
s if our kind of folks ain't as good as
is, any day 1"
" But you don't understand 1" whisered
tho perplexed young lady. "He
1 nsnd to c. nd onnintir ond
0 " '-'-J ?UD JUUU(J
:>lks here are so rude and uncouth "?
"If you call living and hearty rude
ad uncouth,' he'll find us up and strivagl"
exclaimed Sam. "We'll have as
ood a timo as he can read about, or my
keep aro all goats."
" How can you talk bo I" demanded
'diva, passionately. "Lawrence will
jink it insultiDg to- introduce him into
ncli rude company ; and he will leave
s in the morning in disgust."
" Lot him! if he's a stuck-up chap
ko that I" muttered the oruel Samuel.
It's my opinion this ain't any place
>r him. He'll spot his shiny boots.
!ut if be wouldn't liko to see the folks,"
am added, pitying Eliva's distress,
why he needn't, you know. Let him
> to bed. I say, Cousin Lawrence,"
o cried, as the young man made his
ppearance?" we'ro going to have a
ttle sort of a dig hero to-night "?
" A sugar party," said Eliva, blushig
at the " vulgarity" of her brother's
braso ; "a sugar party, for the onterlinment
of some boys and girls that we
avo to be civil to?living in the same
>wn"?
" Good hearted, jolly fellows, and
ice girls as you can flndl" added
amuel. " But perhaps you wouldn't
mcy visitii g with them. 'Liva was
lying you ain't used to such, and it
euld be kind o' letting yourself down
> niako one of our party."
" Oil 1 I am sure Cousin Lawrance
ould laugli at our country?friends,"
simmered Eliva, crimson with oonfuon.
" Their manners are so odd?they
e so rude"?
" I beg that you will make no apoloies,"
interrupted the young man, who
hi iuu luuuu ui u gi'Diiemau in iiib ieoligs
not to be pained by his fair cousin's
ubarrassment. " Nothing will please
.?better than to meet these people ;
id I assure you I shall be able to make
1 allowance for what may appear to me
ngular in their manners. A sugar
irty ! I shall be delighted "
This frauk declaration should have resured
Eliva. On the oontrary, it in- i
eased her perplexity. She feared that
r city cousin would rank her with her
Kintry associates, and charitably over>k
the simplicity of her manners,
nt she could think* of no alternative
it to get through with the odious pariy
. i-oon as possible, assuming a putroning
air toward her old friends, in
der not to lower herself in her cousin's
timation. m
When Eliva s mmil was in this consed
state, Helen Snow, who hod preously
promised to come over in the
ternoon and assist her in her preparaons
for the party, made her appearice,
tripping along the dooryard path,
iwrence enjoyed a glimpse of the rusts
beauty?for such she was?and felt
msiderably hurt that Eliva did not
iug her at once into the sitting-room
ul introduce her. But Eliva, who
anight a formal introduction of her 1
1A i.^ Hill - *T 1 " ? - 1
i<] UUU.11U bU llblilt) HOlt'Il onow would I
i absurd, did nothing of the sort. ]
>o kept Helen in the kitchen; and al- i
tough the latter had occasion to pass 1
rough the sitting-room, her friend
^rooiy deigned to notioe her in her ]
main's presence.
I said Lawrence felt hurt. No won- j
>r. Picture to yourself a plump little |
i-nture with a charming figure, azure i
cs of orystnl clearness, fair hair, fall- <
g in curls around her neok, cheeks 1
sy red, and lips of tempting ripeness; i
t.o imagino these charms adorned by
e most simple and tasteful style of j
ess, without a single jewel except a j
minutive gold pin that fastened a <
vtty neok ribbon?and you have a
iut idea of the exhilarating freshness 1
Helen Snow. To a mind like that of ]
iwrence Gray, suoli simple beauty is ;
ce a volume of true poetry,- drawn |
om the pure and cooling wells of nare.
j
Hut Lawrence was a man of infinite ]
ct; and more than half suspecting j
liva's moti ?es, he made his way iuto i
io kitchen, to her unutterable dismay. <
here sat Helen pariug apples for pies; ;
it for the party, but for Lawrence
ray?Eliva being anxious that there i
iculd be something in the house " fit i
ir him to cat." I
The yonr.g man apologized; said he <
id not like being alone; and wished to <
b considered one of tho family. He i
psircd to make himself useful too; and
L'fore Elivu could realize the extent of
is unheard of audacity, he was helping i
[elen with tho apples 1 Then he began i
> talk to the latter in the moat polite !
id agreeable manner; and Eliva was
looked to hear her answer him plainly
id unaffectedly as if he had been nocdy
bnt a mere oonntry acquaintance,
ud afterward, when Lawrenoe was
ono to see the sugar bush with Niohois,
his cousin took occasion to reprove
er inexperienced friend for using snch
reedom with a city gentleman, assuring
er that ho would make fun of every ling
she had said.
Helon opened her bluo eyes. The:
she shook her curls, smiling cheerfully
" I don't beliove that," she said. " I
he is a gentleman, he wouldn't make fm
of anybody, that way, I am sure. Pel
haps he thinks me simple?but I sup
pose he will excuse it; for he know
people in the country are different fron
those in tho city."
Eliva commiBscrated her unsuspcct
ing friend, being thoroughly convince<
that her cousin's only object in convers
ing with lier was to amuse himself wit!
her simplicity.
Well, tho evening came; and so dit
the invited guests; and likewiso tin
greatest trial of pride Eliva had eve
experienced. Larfrrenco having pre
viously requested her to introduce bin
to her friends, in order that ho migh
be on familiar terms with them, sh<
went through tho ceremony liko a mar
tyr. How awkwardly the yonns: mei
bowed aud shook hands ! How tin
girls blushed at meeting, so unexpect
odly, a Hue young gentleman from tin
city ! What a horrid calico figure Jnn<
Fairfield wore ; and what a gracelesi
kuot was that into which her brother'i
cravat was twisted I What clumsy booti
Lizzie Wyman tramped about in?sin
was so fearful of thoir soles I How
small were the pretensions to fashioi
displayed by any of their guests 1 Whai
must Lawrence Gray think of all thes<
things ? Eliva didn't know. Sho could
only imagine. She shuddered to con
template the scene. At one time sin
had no idea she would have the fortitute
to go through with it. She was
afraid she might die !
But Lawrence seemed to like it. He
talked with the young farmers about
agricultural nft'.iirs until they had gained
conHdeuce, Hnding that on certain sub
jects they could teach him. He chatted
with the girlp, and found out what books
they had read aud what they liked; then
passi g to gayer matters, jested about
coming into the country to eettlo down
among them.
Besides, Lawrence was deeply concerned
in the fate of the sugar. Every
few minutes he would escape into the
kitchen to see how it was getting along.
Perhaps it was because Helen Snow was
wutchpg the Hlowly boiling syrnp, the
golden froth of which filled the shining
copper kettlo; or it might have been
the golden froth itself that culled him
thither. I do not know which. He
certainly talked gaylv with Helen: h?l
at the same time lie tasted the luxurious
liquid, by dropping a little from a ladle
upon a pan of snow.
Lawrence also was much interested in
tbo experiment of ascertaining when the
sugar was done sufficiently to grain.
Helen taught it to him. It is this:
Make a little hoop or bow of a splinter,
or a straw which you may pluck from
the broom, and plunge it into the boiling
sugar in such a way as to have a
heavy film adhere to it; then blow
through the hoop, and if the dross of
Bngar flies away, white and light like a
feather?why the syrup has been over
the fire long enough, and all you have
to do is to cool it, and stir it to make it
grain. Helen also explained to her new
acquaintance that, as soon as the maple
trees begin to bud, the sap becomes useless
for sugar. You may boil it and boil
it till you burn it up; but it will not
grain. This appears to bo a provision
of nature.
At length the sugar " feathered
then the keetle was removed from the
Sire, and all things made ready for the
feast. Nicholas' tub of snow was in demand.
Basins and pans were filled;
md the snow covered and deeply streakad
with sugar which had been poured
upon it, was passed around to the company.
Boys and girls ate from the same
Jishes, delighted; drawing the hard wax
out of the snow and quarreling for it
playfully. Some, however, took their
mgar iu saucers, and cooled it by stirring
to make it graiD. The kitchen was
tho scene of this "sugaring off;" and
tpo most periect Happiness prevailed.
With one exception. Eliva did not
like to eee Lawrenoo drawing wax with
Ho'.en, in a corner by themselves. Having
tried in vain to separate them, she
gave up in despair, and was only miserable.
Yet she would not acknowledge,
aven to herself, that Helen was anything
but a silly goose, and that Lawrence was
not "making fun " of her.
Was it possible that her oousin enjoyed
himself as well as he pretended
to ? Was it genuine good nature which
saused him to appear so highly amused,
when Jane Fairfield And Lizzie Wyman
became engaged in a sweet combat, and
Fought each other with ropes of wax ?
Eliva felt more like crying with vexation
I
At length, after a few games had been
played, and the company had danced a
little to Edward Jones' playing on the
Qute; after the guests had feasted on
sugar, and exhausted all the iuventions
A mirth, the party broko up and the
young people began to tAke their leave.
Eliva was congratulating herself with
the reflection that it was all over; and
that Lawrenoe would never see one of
the "vulgar, odious company" again,
when, to her infinite astonishmout and
vexation, her cousin whispered in her
41.**4 a a. 11- ?
mi umb lio unu uu^ageu to win a. 11 mo
with Helen i
How blind is pride 1 Eliva saw in this
arrangement only the vanity of Helen,
and the mischievous natnreof her cousin!
She would not believe he had anv better
motive than to amuse himself
with the effect of his flattery I And although
she was a little astonished that
he did not "make fun" of her on his return,
she would not ohange.
Even on the following day, when Lawreuoe
called on Miss Snow, Eliva silently
accused him of malioe. How could she
think of anything else as long as it was
her settled conviction that, could he forget
that she ever associated with suoh
a people, he won hi adore her ; and he
' hopo that she should some day becom
" Mrs. Lawrence Gray, and occnpy hi
J1 house in the city!
Bnt disenchantment came. It wa
' during the following autumn. Lawrence
8 having visited G. during the summer, wa
Q at his unclo's house again. Eliva wa
ilatteriDg herself that she was "cei
'* tain of him."
* "Coz," said he, sitting down by he
side, "I've some thonghts of cha giu|
1 my way of living. I think I hav
lived the dreary life of a bachelor Ion)
* enough."
9 Eliva cast down her eyes discreetly.
r " I hope you will make a good choioe,
* she murmured.
1 "I think I have."
' Lawronce looked her full in tho faoe
9 She turned away modestly.
" Ever since I have known aoythini
1 of the world," he continued, " I hav
9 believed that the man is less liable to b
" deceived, who takes his wife from i
3 pnnnfrr hnmo fKon Vio
3 city born anil bred."
3 "Oh! Perhaps you are right I'
3 sighed Eliva.
3 "And I have chosen accordingly.
3 have come here for a wifo "?
7 " Here !" exclaimed Eliza, affectini
3 to be surprised.
^ " Yes?here, to the town of C.; and
3 have chosen?Helen Snow 1"
' Had her cousin declared an intentioi
to select a consort from a tribe of Ea
8 quimnux, Eliva could scoroely have beei
more surprised. So utterly unablo wa
' she to realize the startling truth, that i
is generally thought she never beiievei
3 her cousin to be iu earnest until his mar
' riago with Helen actually took place, i
' short time ago; and oven now, iu her in
" ability to undoratand how such thing
1 can be, she more than half believes tha
1 there was some sort of enchantmen
1 used on the night of her last?her fata
1 ?but never-to-be-forgotten sugar party
Condition of the Jews.
Iu the conrse of an articlo upoi
1 the coudition of the Jews in Eaeten
Europe, the Republiquc Rrancaisi
' quotes some interesting statistics as t<
1 their nninbers both there and in othei
' countries. From these statistics it ap
1 pears that Jerusalem does not contaii
1 more than eight or nine thousand, ani
1 that the Jews are rather more numeroui
1 in North Africa than they are in Judea
1 There aro scarcely any Jews in Italy o
1 Spain, and in Greet Britain thev do no
form more than one in a thousand o
the inhabitants. In France they are ii
' the proportion of fonr to one thousant
of the whole population, but this com
' paratively high proportion is due to th<
fact that the Jews are very numerous ir
the departments on the German frontier,
tho Bas Rhin alone containing 20,935.
; In the annexed provinces of Alsace-Lor
raine the Jews numbered 40,928 out ol
a total population of a million and ti
half, while in Switzerland there are onlj
7,087 Jews to a total population of more
than 2,500,000. Germany, including
tho Polish provinces and Alsace-Lorraine,
contains no more than 512,16C
Jews, while in Anstria they" numbei
1,376,000, or 3.8 per cent, of the whole
population. Nearly a third of the
Austrian Jews inhabit the province ol
Galicia, where they form nearly an
eighth of the whole population, and
whore aj. the rate of increase observed
during tho last twenty years they will
eventually be in an absolute majority.
Tho 63,000,000 inhabitants of Russian
Europe comprise 1,820,100 Jews, who,
until the recent decree authorizing them
to reside in any part of the empire, were
confined to certain districts in Southern
Russia, to Gourland and the onoienl
provinces of Poland. More than 1,600,000
of the Russian Jews reside in the
Polish provinces, and as the inhabitant
of those provinces number but 12,113,AOS
11 *
uou, tuoy iurm more uiau eleven per
cent, of the whole population, oatnumbering
the Poles, properly so-called,
by nearly half a million. The Jews are
still more numerous proportionally in
the kingdom of Poland itself, there be783,000,
or thirteen per oent., in a total
population of 5,706,000. In 1867, Hamburg
contained 13,457 Jows out of a total
population of 806,507 ; Berlin 27,565,
out of 699,981, and St. Petersburg
only 2,612, out of 539,128; while iu
Warsaw there were 72,776 Jews in a totul
population of 222,906. Their numbers
have increaced since, and they now represent
35.9 per cent, of the whole
population.
What Blackbirdi Do.
One day last season, as the barley in
my fields was ripening, the blackbirds
begun to gather about it, and my farmer
begun to auathematize them as thieves
and robbers, feeding upon what they
did not sow. ' Why, they come," said
he, 4'in clouds from Naushon, and all
about us." Notwithstanding, I told him
I was satisfied that they did more good
than harm, and that they wc.re weloomo
to their share. The harvest begun, and
as the mowers reached thp middle of the
flold they found the stalks of the grain
were very much stripped and cut up by
tun army worm, vvnen iuo uariey was
down they begun to march out of the
field in a compact stream through the
barwav iuto the next ono, and hero wo
saw clearly what the blackbirds were
after. They pounced upon them and
devoured them by thousands, very materially
lessening their numbers. The
worms were so numerous that they
could not destroy them all, but they ma
terially lessened them and their power
of mi-chief. A.11 honor, theu, to tho
blackbirds, whioh are usually counted
mischievous, and are destroyed by farmers
like vermin. These army worms returned
after an interval of eight or ten
i years.
r TI1E FUNNY SIDE.
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Story of n Ladr who wu Present at the ?
5 Train Robbery la Missouri.
'? Concerning the Missouri Pacific ex- y
H press robbery. Miss Peabody, an ex- jE
f Jersey City lady, and now teaching a,
school nt Denver City, who was on the
captured train, gave the following interr
esting statejnont to the Jefferson City 88
Tribune reporter : r*
0 " After leaving Otterville," said Miss ?
? Peabody, " I was dozing in a reclining
chair?probably fast falling asleep. w
? Suddenly the train was brought to a ?1
halt, and a moment later a man rushed w
hurriedly throngh the car. I believe n<
ho was the express messenger. Some
'* one asked what was the matter. The ol
train is being robbed, that's what's the to
^ matter,' he hurriedly replied, and kept bi
6 on. Then all was commotion and con- sc
0 fusion. Tnolnilintr mraolf ?"iro
ft throe tallies in the car. I confess that I j
B was terribly frightened and thought I w
? slionld faint, but "?and Miss x'eabody
laughed at the remembrance?"I saw a
. tliat there was no one handy to catch or a
caro for a persoD in a faint, and concluded
to omit this part of the pro- .
^ gramme. Meanwhile shots were being
j. tired on the outside, and we could hear !
numbers of men cursing and swearing. ?
I suppose the shots were fired for the
1 pnrposo of intimidation. I believe our
car was next to the smoking car. Di1
rectly the car door was thrown open, $2
a and in stalked two of the robbers. The OC
; leader put his hand on the shoulder of h(
a brakeman aud said : 1 Hero, I want
you,' aud hnstlcd him out. We thought
ft they wore going to shoot him, but, I
suppose now, they wanted him to iden- it
? tify the express messenger. It was raro re
fun?I mean it is amusing to look back tfa
? at it now, nothing funny in it then?to nc
1 see the passengers concealing their valu- it
' ables. Hero you would ree a man with
his boots off, cramming his greenbacks <<
in his socks ; several?Mr. Marshall, of ^
Fulton, among the rest?tossed their ^
1 cash, watches, etc., into a coalbox; ^
1 others were up on the backs of seats
hunting holes for their pocketbooks.
3 Wherever anything could be concealed, r
something was sure to find its way.
"The conductor, exoited and nervous,
j hurriedly passed through and told all .
who had valuables to taKe care of them. .
3 The most ludicrous inoident I can now
recall was when a sanctimonious looking
J individual, evidently scared almost ont ti<
: of his wits, broke forth with the old $4
familiar song: I'm going home to die a .
j no more.' His quavering, doleful voice 20
1 echoed through the car with lugubrious be
effect. Some of the male passengers tic
5 wore ungallant enough to interrupt him
1 with the remark that he had better be trc
getting his money out of the way in- wj
stead ol starting a camp meeting. Hav- ^
" ing finished the hymn, he arose and gave jjj,
[ in his experience. He stated that he tri
1 had been a follower of the Lord for ever ho
so many years?that he was a true and mj
1 consistent member of the church?that
> he had never wronged a fellow being,
' but that if he was doomed to be murdered
he wanted his remains forwarded .
to his family in New York, and to write .
1 them that he bad died trne to the faith "
| and in the hope of a glorious resurrectiou.
The tumult outside continued. '
' We could distinctly hear them pounding Ea(
away at the Adams Express safe, and
their coarse oaths and imprecations at re<
1 being delayed. Occasionally shots were m(
fired. The leader of the robbers, a tall,
1 fine looking man, accompanied by one ?c
1 of his comrades, passed through the a 1
1 car. 4 You need not be hiding your JBJ
1 money,' said the leader, 4 we do not in- T1
J tend to disturb you.' He wore a red
' handkerchief over his faoe, with holes hif
out for his eyes and mouth. Below the Pu
1 handkerchief appeared bis beard?very
1 loug, but probably false. His companion to
was a smaller and a rougher looking to
man. His mask was simply a white
handkerchief tied over the lower portion
of his face. The upper part was
' plainly visible. He remarked that we
must consider them an awful set of rep- f0i
robates. ??>
il/i
" Tho inqniry for arms showed three Sit
pistols in oar car. One of these was lQl
owned by a lady. Throughout the whole Fo
affair she remained perfectly cool and wa
collected, and refused to accommodate a ja t
gentleman with the loan of her pistol. in<
When Rome ono said this was the work < \
of the James boys, she laughingly re- we
marked that her name was James, but the
she hoped none of hor relatives were en- kn<
gaged in suoh disreputable business. Qf
The newsboy bad a pistol and made his fa
way to the front platform. Looking np j}u
the bluff, he descried the figure of a
man and tired. In an instaut the shot hei
was returned. The ball passed between in,
the plucky newsboy and a gentleman to
who wus aiso on the platform, and both ocu
of them sought shelter without cere- Th
mony. Thinking that the robbers might not
fire U? i ough tho windows, I got off the He
chair and took a position on the floor, org
The sanctimonious New Yorker, who was aj]
g ii..g away to dio no more, thinking, the
doubtless, that I was engaged in prayer, ter
soitiy approached and asked if I was ter
props r od to die? I was not in a humor the
to enlighten him upon the subjeot. We th?
were detained about an hour, when the Ofl
robber-1, having accomplished their pur- tin
po?e, gave ua permission to prooeed. gh
It was one of the episodes of my life Mi
I shall never forget."
toi
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A curious incident happened at the ne'
representation of the drama "Fate," am
in Liverpool, recently. A lady in the aft
dress circlo was seen to watch the play at
with iutense interest, and at the point caj
when ono of the fomale characters gives thi
the " villain " hush money, that he may inj
not reveal her identity, the lady cried thi
out; "It's a lie ; she gave him nothing." tin
Facts and Fancies.
Sixty-two thousand buffalo robes will
o sent East from Benton, Montana,
lis falL
A horse oommitted suicide in lake
illage, N. H., the other day, by drownig
himself. He was siok, sad became
aepondent.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
ljs that the strut of a corporal in the
gular army is grander than the stride
f a general of volunteers.
A man was knocked down by a robber
hile walking with a woman on the edge
f a precipioe near Cincinnati, and the
oman ptkshed the robber over the bank,
sarly killing himA
Georgia man offers to pay a reward
' $500 for information whioh will lead
> the conviction of an individual who
roke np the engagement between himlf
and his sweetheart.
Clergyman to Tommy?" What shall
give yon for a present!" Tommy,
ho respects the cloth, also truth, nn sitatiugly
: I?I think I should like
testament, and I know I should like
popgun 1"
Professor of mathematics (illustrating
freshman that the sides of a prism are
) surface, not its oontents)?" When a
ilor makes for me a suit of clothes,
>es he make the man!" Freahy, with
idity?"Yes, sir!"
The national debt of England is about
1,880,000,000; of Franoe, about $4,700,*0,000;
of the United States (whioh,
iwever, is gradually being paid off),
Hint $2,240,000,000. These are the
>nviest national debts.
A minister asked a boy what o'clock
was. "About twelve, sir," was the
ply. "Well," quoth the minister, "I
iought it had been more." "It's
>ver any more here," said the boy;
jnst begins at one again."
The Pine Bluff (Ark.) iVess says:
A lady just returned from Louisville
lis us that it is all the fashion now for
e ladies in that metropolis to paint
ch morning, while arranging their
ilet, a black streak under each eye."
Should a man frequently calculate his
come and expenditure he would eapo
many a bitter refleotion, for he
net be lost to every generous feeling
pride and honest principle who wan ly
incurs debts he cannot discharge.
In 1875 the United States had in opera>n
74,858 miles of railroad, costing
:.fi5A.32&A<Ul anil MrninB 44/13 5*Ml 7Aft
fear. They transported that year over
0.000.000 tons, and passengers ntuniring
more than five tunes the popula>n
of the cuuntry.
Mr. Martell, of Oognao, France, is
iveling in this country. We do not
sh him ill, but we would be pleased
have him sample some of the brandy
afc is sold as his. He would then obn
an idea of how vast in resources,
w infinite in ingenuity the human
nd is.
A.n apparatus for reviving persons
arly drowned is exhibited in Paris.
ie body of the drowned patient is put
an air-tight vessel, with his head proiding.
A pump then draws the air in
d out of the vessel, which tends to
ike his breast heave and his lungs
>ve, as in breathing.
Mr. Forsyth said in Parliament in a
sent debate that the present law of
irriage in Scotland was a crying scan1.
At present, if a man and woman in
otland, perhaps half tipsy, said before
witness, " This is my wife," ' This is
Y husband," it is a lawful marriage,
tere was a well known story of the eldest
a of a Sooth peer, having quarrel ed with
i father, went into a house of bad rote
iu Edinburgh and acknowledged a
iman there as his wife. This was held
he a good marriage, and he was tied
f hia wAman all tiia It fa
Sitting Ball's Esrly Life.
Major Robert Nugent, of the Twentyirth
United States infantry, gives the
lowing sketch of the early history of
iting Bill. He is a Sionx or Dakota
dian. For several years he lived at
rt Rioe, on the Missoari river, and
s known as a "Blanket Indian." This
\ term of soorn or derision among the
liana, and is applied to Indians who
lang around " the military posts and
ar the white man's blanket instead at
5 Indian's bnflalo robe, for yon must
ow that the robe is the Indian's badge
manhood. One day, for what reason
not known, a soldier struck Sitting
11 a blow. That was the blow in 4
ose train has followed a long list of
roio deeds and whioh has shaped the
lian policy of the United States, and
which the death of Ouster and his
nmand may be immediately traced,
at blow aroused the spirit of a great
tl which until then had lain dormant,
i at onoe flew to the desert, where ha
fanized a band from the disaffeoted of
tribes and made unrelenting war on
> wmtes; ana from tnat period, about
i years ago, to this, he has been the
ror of the country, from the falls of
i Missouri to Fort Randall, and from
> borders of Montana to Devil's lake.
l the seventeenth of May, 1868, 8itg
Bull attacked the village of Muaaell
ell, one of the tributaries of the upper
xseuii. I was at the time encamped
h a detachment of troops near the
vn, and but for the aid I offered he
uld have taken the plaoa. He reived
his attack on the twenty-fourth
.1 captured nineteen head of cattle,
er killing two of my men, who were
the time guarding the herd. I restored
the nerd. All accounts agree
it he is a brave man and an enterprisx
warrior, and reoent events indicate
it he is possessed of some, at least, of
j higher qualities of generalship. > ;