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^ . V __ & -^...._? - J * 1 YOLU3IE XXX. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AJJGUST 24j 1871. NUMBER tl v 1 -a? TERMS. tHREE DOLLARS, payable in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square for the first insertion and seventy-five cents for each .subsequent insertion. Liberal discounts made to half-yearly and pearly advertisers. ' Transient advertisements to be paid for in advance. The space occupied by ten lines or less, of ( this siz^ type constitutes a square. j COLLECTING A -BAD DEBT. \ Some twenty-five years ago, Mr, Bodkin, tAW of the old-fashioned printers of New , * York, tvas looking sadly over the ledger. As ( lie turned over the leaf that disclosed the < account of Mr. Quoin, with an unsettled , balance cf $315, and more than two years j>ast due, the sadness cnangeu to grimness. flow well he remembered the first visit of : "deluding Quoin, when, with a corn-basket < d)?ll ofjjrood cuts, said to have cost SI .000, , fielffij^gled the credulous Mr. Bodkin into , jprisftia^h^bbo^ for which Quoin had never , paufc^But he had promised magnificently. , "As. soon, JVIr- Bodkin; as I receive the , ' $314?and the the book, I know, j will not be less ev&y"wcek?<yo\\ shall have , the money. A debt of honor, Mr. Bodkin. , You should have it if I had to sell my ( teeth." And here he showed a collection , that a hyena would have envied for white- , ness and hardness. "Then, again" Mr. Bodkin, you h?>ld my wood-cuts as. security.? , Worth more than three times the amount of | your bill. Finer collaterals were never no- ] * gotiatsd ia Wall street. Pooh ! " And lie swung his cane around his head, as if ready < to demolish any man or opinion that might rise in opposition. , So Mr. Bodkin, much impressed with the , rhetoric of Mr. Quoin, although not entirely , convinced, gave up the work, and Quoin j went on his way rejoicing. Went to < - Khode Island, where he sold his books and. < mocketed the proceeds. And Mr. Bodkin , had waited for the money. IIow often he j had written to Quoin ! How he had expos- , tulatcd, and coaxed and thrcatentcd How ] he had tried to make payments easy for Mr. ] ^ " ill JT 1 4._ : t^uom. now ne nau ou?;re<i iu uin.u van- j coes, codfish, potatoes or shingle nails, or , -any other production of Rhode Islaud. All c to no purpose. ] Then ho had put the account in a law- ? yer's hands. Quoin was sued, and judg- r imentwas had, an execution was issued, and j was returned unsatisfied. Neither Mr. j ... Quoin's property nor income could be at- ? y Cached. Bodkin fairly snorted as his eyes v U. Tell upon the expenses of that suit. j Then he thought of that security?those g 4ovalu:>l>le collaterals?the precious woodcuts that had cost him $1.000. Bodkin had v hawked them at every publisher in the city, t only to get the same answer, substantially, from theuiallwdjood cuts; of course they f are. Worth SI .000, no doubt, to cut them; ^ but to us, who don't need them and could *ot ?"C them, worth no more than fire- t wood." Such security! Good Lord ! Such { security ! Bodkin was growing hysterical. 4}e laughed aloud, not scornfully, but ex- r ultingly.. It was the laugh of inspiration. f. ^? *1-~ ) "*?? o urtw r?r>_ r XTUr l/IHJ UU\x uuu ** ..V- J tiou of Low the del>t might be collected.? i With undisguised chuckling he put on his x ( hat and gent iu search of Mr. Mallet, a i "" JOH*g gentleman of remarkable persuasive t | faculties and faultless in dress?moreover ? xu agent of thpPokomokc Lottery, and an ] . cxceUenfc judge of the game of pea and f thimble. What transpired between Bodkin and Mallet i% purely conjectural. But it j I'' Was odd thai Bodkin should on "his return ^ bate directs ibis foreman to print a dozen j I cards with this inscription : '.'Henry Mallet, jj | Publisher. 2450 Washington street, Buffalo V, lo." fipm Maileta publisher! Why even S the feeucM>oysJiyd their fingers aside their ?, I iioscs when they^ read it. t | Two days after this, Mr. Mallet laid one of to these cards oh-the desk of Mr. Quoin, and M . l^gmj to encjuire the probable value of the } H wood-cut? used in his book. Was he dis^ posedsoB them, or oould they be used ? ] - To be candid (and candor was always a , HH /weakness of his) tic /needed them sorely. ( He had made arrangements to publish a ccr- . |H ~ ' taiu book within three months. If it was j <>ut by that time he could make $2,000 sure. ? I If it was delayed a week his chnnec of profit ] was gone forever. The miserable engravers , wanted three months to work, whereas he ] could not spare three weeks. Quoin's cuts ( were not exactly what he wanted, but they would serve. Would he take ?30 for the ( use of them? j Quoin smiled at his innocence and'shook | Ills head. '"I dou't lend cuts; but I will sell them to you for SS00, and that is cheaper than you can get them made to order." There was no denying this; but it took , more than an hour's hard boring to bring Quoid to abate the price to SG00. Tho most potent argument.that Mallet used was his apparent careless production of a long, fiat wallet filled with new, crisp and crackling tbank notes of high figures only, tnc siguc 01 whieh made Mr. Quoin show his beautiful white teeth. Mallet was undoubtedly a cash bpyer. Next come the question of terms.? Would Mr. Mallet pay $2S5 cash and take an order on his printer, who would deliver the cuts on payment of $315 ? It was Mallet's turn to smile; and he did it like the heathen Chinee, "childlike and bland." What did Mr. Quoin take him for? He never paid for goods till he had them. The idea of paying for cuts he had not seen as ye% and of settling up Quoin's bills was absurd. Under no circumstances whatever would ho tako the cuts until he saw the re eeipted bills ot both engraver and printer. Was he to buy a law suit, to be served with attachments, and trovers and replevins and injunctions and games of that sort? Not much. Mr. Mallet tilted himself back in bis chair and looked upward, as if in quest of relief from the absurdities of Quoin. Quoin became pensive. It was quite evident that Mallet would not advance the money to pay the printer's bill. Where could he get it ? But if he did not get it he wouid lose the $285. That was not to be thought of. The interview Was adjourned. Quoin went out to hunt up the money, much to tho annoyance of Mallet, who could not conceal his apprehensions that Quoin was about to refuse to sell. When Mallet had made up his mind to buy he wanted to buy and eud the matter, If Quoin would go on to New York with him lie would pay all expenses; but he would not pay for the cuts till lie had them,, and with a good title. And here ho flourished tiis wallet. This was talking business to purpose, and lecelerated Quoin's movements. He raised die money. That night Quoin and Mallet took passage together on Uie steamer, and next morning found tliein at the Astor House. Mallet had proved excellent company. He eat and drank and told good stories. and was as chatty and confidential with Quoin as if they had been school boys together. But with all this Mallet showed a most unaccountable fear that Quoin would somehow or other disappoint him ; he was jvidently afraid that Quoin woOld give him die slip. Qimin had to be very decided to prevent Mallet from accompanying him when he went to sec Bodkin. He only wanted to make sure it was all right. For jbvious reasons Quoin was bound that Mallet should not see the interview, and shook him jff resolutely. 'I shall count the minutes while I wait in this room till you conic hack," said ihc aggrieved and wistful Mallet, as he cast himself upon the sofa. "I will surely be back in half an hour," >aid the triuniphantQuoin. It was with exceeding hauteur that Quoin drodc into the office of Bodkin. Ilis face was liar 1, his eyes severe. It was. the grimacss of and officer of Justice on duty, and liA r>lf>v:itinn of a man conscious of right. Olr. Bodkin, I have called to pay yourbill. Of course you did not expect it. Nor do fou desire it. Your conduct in dunning uc is shameful?perfectly shameful. I should feel justified in refusing it altogether. But produce your bill, sir." And le tugged at his moustaches, and looked deiantly. Ithuricl himself was not more jrnnd in consciousness of virtue. The surprised .and somewhat crestfallen Bodkin fumbled in his drawors for the bill md at length ^produced it. A spasm of disjust flitted over Quoin's face as he saw the lidcous total, with two years interest and egal expenses. But he had up his mind to, nakc an impression, and he did it. How it rrenehed him nobody but Quoin can , imag lie. He told down the money in fall and ocured his receipt with great deliberation. ' Now, Mr. Bodkin, oblige me bj' packing ip those wood-cuts and delivering them to he portcr.T". "SurelyfMr Quoin, you will not remove hose cuts so precipitately ? " said the penient Bodkin. Up went Quoin's cane most menacingly. 'Not an hour, sir?not an hour. I want hose cuts now, sir, now." Tber<? was uo resisting this impetnosity. Hie cuts were produced, examined and hcckcd. Quoin sailed out of Bodkin's office gloriously, with His pnvtor tugging at he bundle, like a man-of-war protecting a nerchantman. It was but a few minutes to get bai'* to he Astor Ilonse. Ilere was vexation. '1 lie loor of the room in which he had left Malet was locked. Down to the clerk's office lew the irate, impatient Quoin. "Where's my friend and room-mate, Malet, of room 360 ? " "Mallet 1?yes, yes, MalJct is it ? Millet paid for his room and left half an hour go." "What!" "Just so. Paid for his room half an hour Igo, took a coach and went to the Erie Ilailoud depot." "What" " No mistake. Went by the Erie Rail oad." Not even then, was Quoin conviuccd that iiis polite friend Mallet was a delusion and a snare. But he had the presentiment. All lay long he traversed from hotel to depot in in agonized frame of mind. Nor did he fail to call on the chief of police to make sure that his friend had not had a fit and been sent to the hospital. Nor is ii worth while to recount his visits to booksellers and lis enquiries touching the publisher Mallet, jf Buffalo, who w;ii- unkuown to them all. As night fettled on the city, he felt able to express a decided opinion concerning Mulct. He was "an unvcraciy and an inaptitude, a phantasm and a wind-bag." As for Bodkim?words could not do him justice. But he never saw either one of them again. That day Bodkin closed the ledger account of Quoin. That day Bodkin and Mallet went out riding on the Coney Island road. And the riders of that frequented thoroughfare were astonised at the vivacity and vociferousncss of the spectacled elderly gentleman and his young friend. They were evieently at ease and at peace with the wide world: So Mrs. Bodkin thought. For Bodkin's temper was sweet for a month, a state of mind unknown before "or since. One of the most terribls of the nmvdlrnfr calamities that have lately occurred in those ' quarters of the globe which are subject to great convulsious of nature is reported from the Batavia papers by the cable.. A small island in the Malay archipelago, known as Tagalo'nda, was swept by a wave of forty yards in height, caused by a concussion of the sea which accompanied and outburst of of the volcano of Ruwangr All human beings oo the island,*four hundred and sixteen in numbe, togethes wiih their cattle, horses and other animals, pei ished in the sudden deluge. Mary Earnest, of Michigan,, has died, aged 109. Before her death she made the remark: "I guess the Lord has forgotten me and left mo on the car h." A New York Rebel Disinherits His Republican Daughters. The 'will of Cornel, a citizen of Guilford, Chenango county, in this State, who died in the fall of 1809, at the age of 79, contained the following curious clause: "Fifth: Believing that the natural Consequences of action based upon or dictated by the political creed or belief approved of or advocated by my daughters, Cornelia A. Wood and Ruby Ilouck, have been and arc to largely increase taxation, it is my will that the amount of taxes paid by me since 1861, and to be hereafter paid previousto my decease by me. together with the succession or other revenue tax or taxes to be paid from or on account of property now or hereafter owned by'me, be considered as having been paid for and on account of my said daughters, Cornelia A. Wood and Ruby Ilouck,and it is my will and I hereby direct that they receive nothing from my estate, either real or personal." 3 ^ ~ This will has been contested, and the case is now on trial. The claim is that Cornel labored under a political delusion equivalent to a monomania. It has been proved by Benjamin Slater, an intelligent merchant, of Norwich, and one of the subscribing witnesses, that when Mr. Cornell asked him to sign the will as a witness, Cornell made reference to one of his daughters, aftd said: ' That the Republican party was the main cause of the war. and it was for that reason he had discarded this daughter?bccausd" she encouraged the principles of such a party." Franklin Mathewson, of Guilford, testified: lie (Cornel)? said lie would be d?d if his daughter, who married a d?d Black Republican, should have one cent of his property. This was not fur from the sumiuer of 18G2. The war for the rebellion had then begun. He said that these soldierB ofthe ll4tfiwQre going down f^outh to feed the turkey buzzards, and he hopedto God not ad?d one of them would ever come back. He (the witness) also testified that he had a son in that regiment who died in a hospital in Louisiana! Other testimony was given, including statements of the deceased that be should change his will and "cut off all his children who ad .1 T> i.i: ? TVio ftTP. VOCiUCU xvepuuiiiuil |Mluvij?vn. A..V cutor gave evidence that the deceased was a leading politician of his town, and was frequently appointed to public trusts, and that he conducted his business transactions with capucity and ability. The evidence was closed on Saturday last. The decision of the Surrogate is reserved, waiting the written arguments of the respective counsel. ?>. ??. . " * " 1 A Novel Engine.?On Saturday afternoon anovel exhibition was given at the State Fair grounds at Waverly, N. J., which was attended by a large assemblage of gentlemen interested in transportation, mechanics and mining. The occusion was the first public trial in America of the traction engines, manufactured in England, which were rendered so serviceable in the German army during the late war in the transportation of supplies over country roads. it is claimed that an engine weighing five | tons, costing Sd,000, anil managed -by ono man. will haul a load of thirteen tens at a speed of five miles' and hour over rough country roads and up grades of one foot in twelve. The trial at Waverly shdwed that grades of one in six could be Burmounted with ease; that the broad wheels on the engino could cany it safely over soft, muddy ground, without relaxation of speed, and that it could be guided by a simple oporation around a eircle of-twenty feet. The engineer is a boy of 16 years of ago. The evolutions of the engine, which was put to every test during the two hours and a half, were watched with great interest by the crowd of spectators. The statements made-in its behalf appeared to be fully justified by the results. According to theso machine can be run?drawing heavy loads? for twenty-four hours upon 800 pounds of coal, and can be worked in any situation where horse power can be used, at ono third its cost. It will be exhibited at the Stufe Fair on the 20th of September. Thrilling Scene in a Menagerie.? An English journal of a recent date gives the subjoined account of a fearful combat in a menagerie at Cam. rvon, Wales, betweeu a leopardess, three hyenas and a keeper: Mrs. Wombel's lloyal No. 1 Mcnagerio, which is on its way to Carnarvon, was thrown into a state of great excitement on Friday night at Ifarlecch. Shortly before the feeding, when the carnivora were becoming exceedingly active and parading their respective dens with evident pleasure in expectation of their daily meal, a leopardess, which had its habitation with three other performing leopards, had quietly bored a small hole in the partition, and at the sight of the three performing'hyenas, her next door neighbors, dashed through and made a terrible onslaught on'the-'three animals. They in turn played their part? two of thein remaining in deadly combat with the leopardess, while the third heyena, which had evidently learned that flight was arimofimcs the best part of valor, escaped through the hole by which the leopardess hud entered, only to find itself surrounded by greater dangers, namely, three growling leopards. These appeared at first sight quite amazed at the unexpected visitor, and for some seconds held'consultution by crouching and growling at tho farther end of their den. A policeman gave the alarm, and Lorenzo, with the agility and intrepidity of a tiger, rushed into the hyena's den, and, inviting two.keepers to follow him,-tho three human figures could.be seen in tho midst of the combatants, who by this time had redoubled the fight. The grasp was a terrible one, and a fatal one. Sooner than we can write, one hyena lay dead.' The leopardess released her captive only to make an attack upon tho other. Lorenzo, rushing at the neck of the leopardess, made an appeal to his two human comrades to reach the leopardess' tail to Mr. Fairgrieve and three other gentlemen who had come up to the outside of the den. Thcu there was a sight worth seeing. Tho leopardess doubled and redoubled, plunged and replungcd, but was safe so long as the tail was in the hands of the captivds. Self.preservation then became the first law of hor nature, and with the assistance of Loronzo and his friends ibside, tho gasping hyena was released. During this scene within the hyena's den, other keepers managed^.by shiftirfg doors, to separate'the fugitive1 hyena (No.. 2) from tho other leopard. ? A Strange Being in a Texas River. The Brownsville (Texas') States says that A. A. Freeman, Esq., member elect from Haywood. County, to the next Legislature, made to one of the editors of that paper, In the presence of several Well-known gentlemen, the following remarkable story: J. B. Maxey, an intelligent citizon of Bell's Depot, in this County, and keeper of tho hotel in that place, and for whom A. A. Freeman vouches as a 1 reliable, truthful man, was fishing in a canoe, or^ July 7, in Forked Deer River, near Bell's i I)|ppt,-and in that pari of the river between thw railroad and dirt road bridges, when his atfention was calledjtq an object in the river, somo fifty yards distant, which presented the appearance of a man drowning. Maxey rotfOdy&a-'boat within ten feet of the object, and saw a remarkable creature, as the following description will testify: It had a face perfectly white features Jike those of a human IriJing. It had something like moss on its head instead of hair, and its neck was longer than the n#ck ofjh&Mb. Its body, down to the waist, or so. much of ,it"!as -was exposed, w&i coveted, with blagjc and white spots. It w?-H8 large"as an^hridinary- man, and had lai&c black eyes'-' Maiey was within ten feet of it ten minutes.' Fto did not see any arms. It'Jooked at him amjhslewJy turned around and disappcarfed in the'water. Thomas Ncal, Esq., told Mr. Freeman that he saw the same thing at the same place about three years ago, but did not tell it because he thought he would be laughed at. JamesNeal and Isaac Ward says they saw the same creature. A Desperate Case.?When the greeneyed monster plants his envenoned fangs in the vitals of a West Tennessee youth it is always best for the whele neighborhood to look out for'squalls. Some days ago there was a densely-attended wedding not very far from Jackson, in that end of the State. Among the very few who were not present on the occasion was a young who was-known to Tie desperately in love with the bride, and whose heartjaid han? she had "rejected with scorn." fti the midst of the marriage ceremony the house was suddenly shaken to its very foundation by something resembling ft mixture of earthquakes and discharges of artillery. The rejected lover, in order to be revenged, had piled up a number of shells under the smokc-liouse and touched them off with a train of powder. The scene which followed the explosion is said to have boggard description. The smoke-house,/-jrith, -its several thousand pounds o?]tac&q, jws hurled high into the air and sca^lcred to^thc four winds of heaven. Tho bride fainted' In.tliq arms of her adored one, the rest of the calico screamed, and the men swore, and for sumc little time the wildest consternation prevailed Meanwhile the young man, with his soul steeped in the sweets of revenge, took to his heels and has never been seen since. Young ladies of West Tennessee who arc about to marry should have their rejected lovers bound over to keep outixbm under the smoke-house with their shells.-.' *. ..C^. . Sim Catches Him.?A lady corrcspon* * " * nr XV dcut of tlic JNew lorK vommcrcuu jiuvcuubcr, writing, from Long Branch, describes her uneasiness at the too frequent and too protracted absences of her husband, who is spending" the season there with her. Finally, she finds him out, and reclaims him, as follows: . I made a discovery'a few evenings since which relieved my mindirom a groat deal of worriuient. Our sex are; naturally, suspicious and inquisitive,* "I was having a' pleasant chat at the room of a lady friend, when I thought I heard my husband's voice over the fan-light of neighboring room. We listened, and heard boisterous .laughing, which soon convinced us that both our husbands were thero. We could hear distinctly, "Chip,f' "Chip,'' "Chip," Twenty better," *What ye got," and a score or more of odd expressions. Woman's curiosity was not long in being gratified. We had nooccasion to peep through the keyhole; we learned, to our entire satisfaction, that our husbands wore wedded to "two pairs." I wish you could have witnessed iny husband when ho entered our apartment about *?- T L?4 hnon tTTotfirinr 3 o'clock next morning, x nuu u?u n for-ixiui?had a sleepless night. lie entered tfl&dthtly, and commenced undressing himsqJT.-.'Uo was arrested for a moment by my snoring. I confess I snored, but only in fun. It was just to fool him. lie, poor fellow, stared at me with all the eyes in his head; he had never heard me play before on the nasal organ. I went it as strong'as Levy, hut with not quite so much harmony. There lie stood, like patience on a monument, when I commenced talking in my sleep?''Chip," "chip," "chip," "twenty-five better," "two pair." Wasn't no a piuuuu, iuv^... could stand it no longer, and so roared right ought. Ho confessed all, and promised to do better, and to give more attention to his deserted wife. It is said that the most" active' dealers in the Circassian slave markctofConstantinople are women?many of them, too, of Circassian birth. Of these, the wife of'tho late : FuadPaoha was one of the most successful and notorious. A -common, ancPgcncrally a well paying, speculation among them is tc buy a Circassian female child of twelve years of ago atabout 81^000, teach her the Turkish language and a few femin ine accomplishments and sell her when sixteen years of age foi 85,000. % - 4 , J Stebbins Draws A Natural. "Talking about ugly men," said White Hat, "did you know Vounglovo Stebbins? You knew him, Sykes ?'. "I'll bet you," Baid Sykes. "Wasn't ho a screamer ?" ^ "He could get away with any of 'em." said Sykes. " A ell," continued White Hat, "one night me and Stebbins and Bob Egglestsn were up to Pastor's eatin' oysters, and after we got through I went doWrt to the bar to pay. A lot of fellows were eating and drinking there, and talking about homely men. 'I don't care what you say,' Bays one fellow, 'von let Bill Williamson work his face as he pleases, and I'll back him agin the three ugliest men in the Union.' "How's that. Bill V says anotner ieuow, looking at a tolerably plain man with a smooth 1 face standing by. " 'Oh, he's foolin',' said Bill, swallowing his toddy, and wiping his mouth with his hand. 'There ain't nothin' disagreoable about me.' " 'Excuse me,'gentlemen,' says I, T'm a stranger, but is that the man you're backing for plain features V " 'That's the man,' says the first spokesman. ... "I turned round and leaned ag'in the bar, and looked at him, and says I, 'No paint, not feathers, nor nonsense i" " 'Nothing but the features that God has given him,' says another, j " 'How much would yon bo willing to to waste on him ?' says I. J "'Largley/sayshe. 'Heavy; money talks. United States promises to pay,' and he hauled out a big pocket-book, and slapped it oa the counter. . "'Champagne supper would be nothiug,' says I. " 'Not a reed-birds's eye,' pays he. " 'I'm the man you're looking for,' I says, nnd in ten minutes we hnd a jury 'panelled, and I was training Stebbins for his part. "Ho hauled down the corners of his mouth, rolled his eyes as if he had a fit, and I led him in. But I kew in a minute I was beat. That fellow of theirs stood in front of the judges, and he looked like a whole family of wild Australian children rolled into one. lie never moved a muscle, but looked with an idiotic leer at the ceiling, and waited for the verdict. The jttry didn't leave their seats. They said it was a clear case, and it was, and I walked off. " 'Now,' .gays I, 'Stebbins, you mnst do your best j we've got two more chances, and I want you to spread yourself.' "Stebbins prepared himself, and I must say he was a melancholy sight.?The right side of his moustache was stuck in bis nose, and his mouth was screwed around until it touched the lappcl of his left ear, and we walked him in." But there stood their man, and I didn't care about seeing another such sight. Every hair on his head was standing straight forward like fencestakes, and bis +.vnr.if<ta liic nnnfl t.ill vnil vyva IVVl'U 1>UI lieu 111 wnwuu .... J could sco the backs of them. I never knew how he did it, but I hope I may die if he hadn't swallowed his nose, and there he stood. The opposition gave a shout, and I knew we was beat again. And so we was, and went back, feeling pretty blue. " 'We're beat, Stcbbins,' says I. 'and I don't know what tho blazes ails yon, but I never saw you look so well as you do to-day.' Tom'Eggleston was out of patience. 'If the cussed fool would stand natuial,' says he, he'd beat 'em yet.' "The idea struck me in a minute. 'Try 'cm, Younglovc,' says I. 'Just leave your face the way Heaven made it, aud let's go in.' "Stebbins was practicing before the glass, but when he turned round and sobered down, I looked at him, and says I, 'that's ! Tf fhnv 1'iin bent that face I'm VllUUgw . J ready to pay.' . "Stobbi 11s said it was no use, but we led him in, in his normal condition, and when they looked at hira they, screamed. Even their man, who had got all his faces intoone, and who stood there working his ears beside, and looking like a wagon full of scared monkeys, got a glimpse of Stebbins, and burst into a roar. The judges said I had won, and tlio other side gave it up and paid the supper." / ' Ax AnTTRTio Operation.?Horace Vornot, the distinguished French painter, happened once to bo traveling from Versailles to Paris in the same railway carriage with two English spinster ladies, very prudish and prim, and 'of a certain age. Vernet's appearance was striking, and the ladies, after scanning him attentively when ever they thought ho was looking the other way, began to communicate to each other their observations upon him in rather loud whispers, thinking, apparently, that as they spoke in their own language thay were at liberty to make what comments they pleased. The veteran painter was intensely amused, but was too much a man of the world to manifest the slightest consciousness of what was going on. It was not long before the train had to pass through a tunnel. Vcrnct, seizing the opportunity, leaned forward, so as to be within hearing of his neighbors, and applied a smacking salute to the back of his hand. On emerging from thfr. temporary obscurity, his face had assumed a mischievous expression, which, as he intended, was soon interpreted by each lady to the prejudice of the other, each charging the other with havinrr received from the inoustaclied stranger the mysterious kiss in tho (lark. Arriving at the terminus, as all were alighting, Vernct offered his hand to help his fellow travelers I out of the carriage, and then, with a graceful how, took leave of thcra, saying, as he retired, to their dismay, in perfectly correct. | English, "Adieu, ladies; I supposo I ?halh . never have the satisfaction of knowiog.^to i which of you I am indebted for the.,utfexi pected but valued favor I rcceivod in the i tunnel." Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. A SjffaulAR Custom.:?An English pa- m per reports that July 25th was the day ap- flfl pointed forcarrying oht the directions cuu tamed in the trill of Joseph Knill, of St. B Ives, a seaport town in Cornwall. Thisgen tlernan, who was formerly Collectoi*of the B Port prior to his death, in 1788, made a K| most eccentric will, by which he directed Bj that an 'obelisk should be'erected.to his I memory. He -also directed that every five I yours ten maidens hot exceeding ten years I of ago, two old women and a''fiddler should - 9 dance around this monument,, now known an "Knill's Steeple." , The maidens ond 'old women were each to receive half a guinea, and the fiddlerjone goldaSi In ildd::i in to these bequests the oldest man in the parish who hud brought up thd largest family by his own industry was to receive five pounds sterling. After the ceremonier, are over.the trustees of the fund and the Mayor arid corporation of !$t. Ives proceed t? . dinner, on which, agreeable to the vjilLa chrtaitt amount of money is spOutf On tllb \gfit flia Ja wan iranf or <* onivatll 1/CICUi^tUlVU VUW UHJ ??MW ?W 0 holiday by the people of the town*' /-.? ' IEW8 ITEBfer. . 9 ? A green grocer?one who trusts. -fyj One of the Japanese princes is dying of consumption in New York. Kazan is the only city of Kussia which has a volunteer fire company. New York has thirty-seven steam fire engines and fifteen hook and ladder trucks A Burlington young lady says the armless woman of- Barrium's show "writes a very good foot." Printers consider every letter which. Contains a remittance a capital one? Street cars to he used in Bombay. and Java are being manufactured in this coontry. ? t ;:' The C immnnht prisoners are said to he very much depressed as the time for their trial annroacheA. 1X . T ic Fcjee islands arc said to raise very g od Sea Island cotton, {Did to export about y,000 bales a year." At Claremont, N. H., recently the light-' ning scattered a box of matches over th* floor without setting any of them on fire. The Bobeson county (N. C.,) outlaws havd . committed fifteen murders in cold blood since the first of January. A French doctor has written a life of thd devil, including his subject's essays on po. litical economy and what he knows1 about wanning. The pupils in a "Western school are taught to apply the feminine gender to all vessels except "men-of-war and mail steam' era." Indianapolis has a merchant who has been in business over fifty years and never adver tised a line. His profits average about fifty1 cents a day. . A new treatise on precious stones declared that a ter ail, mankind, if wiae, will. say of precious stones, the most valuable as well as the most useful stone in the world is tbo grindstone. The custom of wearing cadet buttons has been given up by the indignant belles at West Point, since Cadet hmith presented some of his to a lady of color.. -vi'i M'/y The Louisville Ijtrigrr says: "Mrs..Picknf .Talfdmnn r?Mnllv rravfl hirth tn'triiw V?, VI c "M lets, ail girls." That woman has had her share of picket duty, and they onght to out ' put her on detached service for a yeat* or two. . - ' h ' " Mother, send for the doctor." "Why, my son ? " " 'Cause that man in 'the parlor is going to die?he said he would if sister Jane would not marry hiua, and Jane ?udl . she wouldn't." ' 1 vl Mr. Donaldson, of Cincinnati, has so thoi ro iphly'dime.iticated a humming-bird that' upen g< i ig into his garden the bird will immediately alight upon a shell in his hand( and sip the sugar-water within it, no matter' how rnuny persons may be stauding around him at the time. . ' !,i >i.. ' mi i. i a. J ncrc mUKb OU SUlIIOUUUg iu u. UiUifo, IU1 tho very polito Boston papers call r their Foundling Asylum a 44 Hel'ugo for Anonymous Infants," while Chicago, with the most finished etiquctto, announces a " Kanchetfor babies born on the European plan." The Tirnrs, of India, gives the following' interesting but jaw-trying intelligence: 4,AVe are very glad to learn that the marriage of .Mr. llughoonathdas Madhowdas; a Kupola Bunia merchant of Bombay, with Dhuncoorbai, the daughter of Shct Gudburdas Mohundus, and the widow of Luchmicliand Dhurumsoy, was celebrated at Chinohgoogly." . * . - ' The Berlin Coi-refpomJeiit, in an account cf the German navy, says: "Every ship in the German service, even the smallest, gunboat, is provided with detailed drawing; and sections of every foreign war ship. - Its 1. ihuiaIhIIv jiml dntailn Wt'UK JJUlillo mv o|?wj?4.j - ww^-, given as to tlio spots to bo aimed at with most likelihood o{' disabling the machinery.". ^ ^ In one of tlio mounds of the Miami Valley a patient antiquarian lias come upon evidence of a buried civilization? the shape of the image of a arm about foa? inches* long, of blue stone. It bears a petrific rifllc suggestive of a 'fleece, and is believed to be the same little lamb which Mary had on one occasion when she was endeavoring to obtain the rudiments of her education. religious paper prints the following /paragraph : " -It is asked of all newspapers desiring the spread of truth and the destruction of error that they publish this request and prayer to Almighty Power that on the three first Sunday nights in October, 1871, there shall appear in the heavens a distinct light in the shape of a great cross;" and futhcrmoro all good pooploare urged to pray earnestly for this miraculous sign.