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Conveyances to uud from the depot at every train. declbt, ] Candy, Candy. V ijj* LO&W UMortod Candy lor sate by ? X i/Al 4UHVJ. II 9k VOLUME XXXVI. THE DATE IX THE RlXCi. The women dressed her for farewell In snowy silk und luce: A crown of her braided hair tl ey set Above her quiet face, And on her j lucid breast they laid White roses, as became a maid. Her mother bent and kissed her lips. And kissed her brnided hair. And folded down the peaceful Lands Upou 'he bosom fair; \nd weeping saw )n one a ring? V little golden time-worn thing. >he took it from tbe icy hand, And looked for ihymc or nnme? Something to say why it was there. From whose fond thought it came. She only saw, through many u tear, V date long past?day, month and ytar. 'Twos somn school-fellow's gift," ale sighed, "The child forgot to sin tv;' lud put it back in iis own p uce With tender touch and slow, lnd saw its tiny flitter rest dke sunbeam on that pulseless bieast lb, little ring, you kept it well, The secret of yonr date Vhatever its meaning, it goes untold Beyond the earth and tate. 'aiu or blessing, who can say low much of either in it lay ? fe watch the light in our darling's eyes, The lines tha* the slow years bring, et know as little what they mean As the secret of the ring, oy or sorrow?God only knows low much of both lie under the rose. A PLEASANT STORY. If was the itiddie of July. 185.1, when 11 L union was stirred by t'v? granJ vat ion which had just come o.l in honr of the ' Linn Concert giver," that a all rew-b.?ncd man uiigbt have been ecn walking dowa one of the narrow tracts of that foggy metropolis, alter- 1 ately humming to hiuis- If little snatch s of melody and stopping to gaze at 1 lie signs over the d-iors. Pretty anon 1 e came to the mu>ic store of Crancr. icale & Chappie, and strode heavily in 1 he large nails in the bottom of his shoes 1 taking music in that pi.rt <>f the town. "Hallo, iiiun !" said he in the broad J "urk-Lire duiirct, toa tradesman Lebun) ' he counUr, who was examining n new nd beautiful engraving that was d<*- 1 ignel as a frontispiece to .TulMen's last 1 oika, "C??n you teall me is Measther ' ullieu's in ?" ' "No, be is not, sir. lie 1-ft about ' alf an hcur since," said Mr. Chappie. ' for he was the one addressed); and 1 s l>e r< p! cd. be raised bis eyes from ' ? 't'-'"" nnil uonnnpil I 111* nuitrh look - ' IIC UlTIJil., ....v. -1ST JX"l'rtOB wJlO HOO'l lilW. ill- ' as coarsely clad, a man o' l.r wny lmb, 1 ritli a complexion of tI'm peculiar asliy 1 olor slightly begrimed with c<a', which jdirutcd that he had t"ihd tor years ' eynnd the light and warmth of the sun. "WuliV be in again U>-day " iuuircd the Yorkshire man. "No, he will tt'-t?not before to mor- ' ow. Did you wish tos'C him?" 'Wull, ye'as, aw would ioikc to." said ie. hesitatingly. ''They talk sumniat >'? goon* to Ani'rica." he continued. "Y'f. he sails next week, but how Iocs that interest you ?" said Mr. Chapile, who begnu t? be curious about tbe uotive that could prouif t such a rough coking ovston.cr to sec the man of iuinaeointc white kids and irreproachable it. -I'd loike to go over wi'um," was the cpiy. 1 Like to go over to America with iiui ? Pray what good c cu IJ you do iiui?" said Mr. Chappie, with an extrusion as near eontemj t as was cousiscnt with good breeding. "Wull, as to looks, that's rowth'-r icre nor there, but aw blnw't ophliclcide urn?ibey say wboam?bctther thou ny man in t'coontry." ''Ah, indeed ! What's your business? "Aw works in the coral moinc." Yes; well, how much do you earn a reek ?" "About saxtecn shillin'. And then, ,oo, aw belong to a brass bond and we uakc sumuiat by gi'cn van or two con crts a week." "I lliink, sir, that Mr. .Jullicn has ogugod all ihe help ho wauts, and will jot require yoor services," und the uiuic publisher having satisfied his curi sity, turned away to h s business as it 10 had already spent too much time to oo little put pose. The Voikshireniaii very uwkwardiy icratelied his load. and stood 1'or a mo* nent as if undecidrd what to do, but at ength took a law sf? ps toward the end >f the counti r, peeping over a pile of iiu?iet behind which Mr. Chappie had aken refuse, and s?id to him? 'Perhaps you moight just loikc to iiear uie play a bit. 'Giui yo'U gi' m?* an instrument, aw'll show you what aw ;on do " The request was so good nofurodly male that Mr. Chappie could hardly refuse, so lie led hiui up-stairs, and gave him an ophichid ', wtiioh, alter a moment's iu-p cti n ho threw d?wn, jo cosely exclaiming? "GangaAa' wi'yorard brass. Cooni, rnun, gi'c us a goo J 'un." Mr. Chappie obligingly complied The Yorkshiretnnn took the piece of shining i t 1 uieial in his Iiulc hands, that were narujued, cracked and blackened with toil, iod raising it to hit* lips, played a J?'Pa> to air with such a piftiiy-iM' toWe and t>eaufy of expression, tliat it was hard to tell which Hentiincut was the stronger in the uiind of the list' aer, surpiise jr delight. "Jlut all this tnav be by rite," thoui-lit Mr. Chappie. "Here, lot uio hear vou filay that," said he, us he placed before aim a new and very difficult solo for he oph chide The Yorksh'romari plajjed it onco hrougb, utrd tuKuuarliud L.a hfteuer by ? CAI executing ir with mavelous accuracy, | capping the climax by improvising a | florid and appropriate cadenza. "Zounds!" paid Chapplo, "Monsieur Jullicn must hear you. Call to mori?aib m Ann nnrl IiaMI IiA \\ orn '' "Ha! ye thought I diJn't play ony. eh ?" said the performer, as he strode out of the room, and ho gave vent to a broad guffaw as lie tramped down the stairs. 1 he next day at the appointed hour. Jullien, with his publisher and the Yorkshire ophicleidist was in the same | upper room. Jullipu,after hearing him 1 play was in ccstaeies, which he endea- j vored to express in hall a dozen lan- ; guages. "Hravo !" he shoutid. rubbing his ' hands. "Capital! Mon Dicu, est ex~ ti aordinairc. Mr. Chappellc, engage J him and give him five pounds a week." | "Five pounds a week!" exclaimed ; Mr. Chappie, "he'll be glad to go for one quarter of the money." "Never mind that," said Jullien, "never uiind that?hire him, and give him five pounds (825) a week, lie's worth it." The game raw-boned Yorkshire) man ; is better clad now; his countenance j wears a healthier hue, and our word for it, you will hear no provincial brogue in the tone of his ophicleide. The Days of Stage Coaches. A correspondent tells the following tale of the days of stage coaches in California : The stage drew up at his ranchc odc day with a passenger list go beggarly that it reduced the smiling lioniGaco to state of despair, and to an ohtrusc calculation of his profit and loss accouot. Among the few dust begrimmed passengers that filed in to feast on the irood things on his hospitable board, j was a verdant looking individual, who ; tightly clutched one of those old fash- j ioned, capacious mouthed carpet-bogs with vast bowcled depth, that our zrand lathers used in their journeys, ( jtid that was usually laden with two jhirt? and a month's luncheon. This particular carpet bag was notable only lor th? apparent extreme paucity of its i contents, and when our verdar.t traveler slunk bash J ully to the unoccupied ad of the long dining table, and seated Inmsclf in one of the chairs, lie deposited his dusty bag on u vacant chair nt tiis side. So industriously did he ntack the viauds before him, that Donif.ce lapped him on the shoulder several 1 ;iu:cs before he produced a dollar, the usual pi ice u.' u meal. "Your bill is two dollars,"said Boniface. "Hay !" "Two dollars, if you ) lease " "Goth all mighty, landlord," he ex claimed. "you don't mean to say that j you tax a fellow two dollars lot a meal like this?" Our charge is a dollar for every cheir occupied at the table. Your bag monopolizes a seat and the charge lor it is j thd same as for a person." "But, Judge. see here, hew, tlio bag hain't eaten a mouthful." "Can't help that; there arc the vi-! ands bclore it, and if it don't partake i ol (hem, it isu't my fault. Come, sir, . pay over; 1 huveu't t.me to argue the ' matter." "Wall," squire, maybe its all right, j but it seems mighty rough ou a feilow. 1 Hero's your two dollars." And the owner of the bag sit down and hastily iinished his meal. amid the audible smiles of his fellow-passengers; and. the very perceptible priu on the laud lord's lace. His meal done lie turned to his bag, opened it, shook out the creases and folds, and with provoking miiij/'roui, thus addressed it, loud ' euough tor all in the loom to hear: "1 beg your pardon, Mr. Bag, for making you wait ibr the second inble. Aunirrv. eli? 1 should rather think; n j i so, with nothing inside of vou hut n shirt and a paper collar, an i there isn't uiuch substance in them. Like roast beef, cb ? Here's a nice piece weighing a d-zen pounds I gu?ss. Whc.v! you took that in at one gulp and it do> s uot seeui to distress you cither. Try a breast of lamb ? lean recommend it. St>:ry the miutsaucc is all out. Hiscuil? Ves, here's a hull plate full. Jliscuits arc very trying on uue's digestive uiachinery, they say; suppose you tty a c<>up!e of pintufuls of bivad on top of theui. Have a spring chicken ? Two '( Well, ouu ate cheeky, but hero they are. Vou don't wait to pick 'cm, 1 sec Souie utore biscuit '! There you have them?" Suiting his actions to these words, , the owner of the bag stuffed into his capacious interior every odiole that lay within his reach, regardless of the con- ' sternation depicted in t lie face of the landloid. who rushed up to stop him. "Thin is robbery, air, downrignt robb. ry I" be thuudertrj. 4'i will nut Hubinit to it." "See ht-'re now, squire, just keep cool and we'il urgue this," caiuil v replied the verdant one, nut letting tip however, in his occupation of tilling the bag. i "H.dii'l this bag pay for a squire mea.? What is a square meal if it isn't to cat till one is satisfied? Isn't that so gouts?" j His fellow pas?engers, wild were roaring witli laughter, readily assented. -Sow that being the verdict of this jury, let mc tell you Mr. landlord, that this bag aint going to be siti*fied untilit is chock full I'm its friend, and any j one that interferes with its meal will get eternally 1 untried. Ho meant every word of it, and the . Lndiord wisely withdrew, looking a i SjjJaudid cxuaipiu of the biter l/itwu, | dDEN, S. C., JANUARY THE LAKE W ITIIOl T BOTTOM A WONDERFUL SF1EET OF WATER HIGH UP AMONG MOUNTAINS. Pyramid lake is nearly forty miles in i .l (IPiflun in twentv in It'llglll U) iiuuuv ......v.. - -width. It is but 4.000 feet above the level of the sea. while Lake Juhoc is 0,210 feet above the level of the sea. The Luke contains many islands, several of which, near the middle of (Iip lake, rise to the height of some hundreds of feet, and are pyramidal in form and light pray in color. One tall spire, scon far down to the northward, where th.j lake seems shoreless, is perfectly white. A large island, probably the largest in the lake, contains six square miles of comparatively level ground, and is covered with vegetation. Upon this island a number of goats were turned loose some years since, and they have increased at a wonderful rate, so that thpy may now be seen feeding upon every hill. They need no care, winter or summer, and are about as wild as the goats found by Robinson Crusoe on the island of Juan l-Vrnandez. The lake is of immense depth; it is said that near the centre GOO fathoms of line failed to find bottom. The waters of the lake are brackish, except immediately about the point where the waters of the Truckec river flow into it. Owing to the brackishness of its waters, to great depth, or to both depth and brackishnc9s, the lake never freezes, i Although the lake is generally very rough, owing to its being exposed to sweeping westerly wind*. the I'lute Indians fearlessly navigate it in all directions and almost at nil times on their tule raft. These rafts are often nothing more than a single bundle of tules,' ? . j - J ? but wlieu tlie ran is mu'iimu iu utu>uu> . module more than ono person, two or three bundles are lushed together and drawn into the shape of a clumsy boat, j Near shore they generally pole these , craft about, but they frequently hoist j a sail made of a blanket, ai.d fearlessly steer away so far out upon the lake that only their sail remains vi.-iblc. These tule boats very closely resemble the catamarans used by the natives of some i of the islands of the South 'Pacific. ; They arc so buoyant that it is inipo.?i- j bio to sink tbcni. Far out in the lake ' among the islands they set their long lines, strung full of hooks. These they visit on rafis. and sometimes bring in ; not less than 300 pounds of trout atone trip. The trout arc sold at ten cents per pound at the lake, therefore it will readily b? seen that fishing is a profitable business. At the north or lower cud of the lake . are a dozen or nr>rc islands of lock of p?culiar and picturesque form. These are of solid rock, and arc from 300 to 100 feet in height. Atadistanco they look like monster musnnmnn ?>r i-ng:i standing on steins?such otr^s as might have been produced by the roc. that bird of ancient times, one wing of which, according to Ibn-F.l-Wardec. was 10,000 fathoms long. It is impossible to climb those rocks, | as, white their stems form perpendicular walls, it is beyond the power of man to ascend those parts where tiioy begin to swell out into domes Mr. Stiles sa)s be has sounded the lake at the base of these fantastic islands, and, with the longest line at his command, was unnblo to tiod bottom. One of the largest of these i-lands. the tall white one seen from toward the head of the lake, is not wholly perpendicular on all sides. On one of its sides 1 there is a deep slope which it is thought might be scaled in some way. A story is current at the lake that John 0. Fremont, the great pathfinder, found a path to the top of this rock. It is believed that he left his field glasses and some other instruments of value on the summit of the rock.au J many uttcuipfs have been made to climb it in order to secure these articles. The last attempt to scale the pyramid was by a sailor, who usca a loug rope, throwing it upward till it caught upon a projecting point of rock, then drawing himself up and then throwing his rope to a rock above. He reached a height of 150 feet, when lie was unable to find any more projections over which to throw his rope, and came near never reaching level ground ulive. He was obliged to descend in the same way as he effected the ascent, and wlicu lie not j low 11 lie was completely exhausted; his' hands were bleeding uuil he was scratch* I eJ front head to foot. Tito fishermen have now concluded that the only way in which the field glasses and other plunder can be secured is by attaching a line to a rock and then firing it over the top of the pyramid from a mortar. One of the small rocky islands of the * -? ! - T* !_ lake is a!ive Witli mmesnuKes. n is supposed that the iir-t of the stock was wafted to the island on a rnft of tulesor drift wood. Uoe. Wood, who has visited the island, says there is ''millions in it." The reptiles have their homes among the rocks and live on the eggs and young of watcr-lowl. and upon the dead fish that are east n-horc on the island. Mr. Wo>?d says that the stories that have been told of the snakes rushing in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any man landing on the island, are untrue. Ho found that whenever they were disturbed they ran away and concealed themselves in the crevices ol the rocks, just us would have been done by any other snakes.?-Xcvttda Enter' prisr.. The New York ?S'?? publishes a list of defalcations within the last five years fooling up over $3l).UUU.UU0, and it embrace* only reported eases of $5,0U0 uud upwards. p 15, 1878. One Night of Swearing. The Fearful gonad Hint Kept n gleeping-Cur Awake all Xiglit. It was in the Cedar I'apids steamer Outside it was dark as the inside of an nk bottle. In the slceping-car people slept. Or tried it. Some of them slept like Christian men and woajen, peacefully and sweetly and quietly. Others sl^pt like demons, malignantIr? hwlnnticie (l.imliclile OSt f !lf?Il<r] 1 it l_J. v.tyuo.j, , .. _.... -was their mission to keep everybody else awake. Of those, the man in the lower number three was the ''boss-" When it came to a square snore with variations, you wanted to count ' lower three" in, with a full hand and a pocket full of rocks. ' We never heard anything snore like him. It was the most systematic snoring that was ever done, even ou one of those tournaments of snoring, in a sleeping in a sleeping car. He didn't b*-gin as soon as the lumps were turned down and everybody was in bed. Oh, no there was nnre cold-blooded diabolism in his system than that. He wailed until everybody had had a 'litlie taste of sleep, just to sec how good and pleasant it was, and then he broke in.on their slumbers like a winged, breathing demon, and they never knew what peace was again that night. II<> Rtnrtod out with a tcrriffie Gn r r r t!" That opened every closed eye in the ! car. Wc hoped it was an accident.' however, and trusting that he wouldn't j do it again, we all forgave him. Then he blasted our hope* and curdled the sweet serenity of our forgiveness by a long drawn "0 w-a h-h-h-hali !" That sounded too much like business to be accidental. Then cverv head in the sleepless sleeper was held off the pillow for a mi tithe, waiting in breathless suspense. to li'iir the worst, and the sleeper in "lower three" went on in long-drawn, rccular cadences that indicated good staying cjualitics, "Gwau-ah! ((waa a-uh! Ghwahawah! Gahw.ahw.ih! Galiwa-a n-ah ! Evidently it was going to last al' night, and the weary heads dropped back cn the sleepless pillows, and the swearing began. It mumbled along in low. muttering tone?, like the distant echoes of a profane thunderstorm.? Pretty soon 'dower three" gave us a little variation. He shut off a spiteful 'G wools!" Which sounded as though his nose had got angry at liiui and was going to strike. Then there was a pause, and we began to hope lie had either awakened foom sleep or strangled to death, nobody cared very particularly which. Hut he disappointed everybody with a guttural "Gurooch !" Then he paused acain for breath, and when he had accumulated enough breath for his purpose he resumed business with a stentorian "Kowpf!" He ran through all the ranges of the nasal gamut, lie went up and down a ........ >i itin sn-ilit ,>(' Kiinviw }k> ran the intricate and fearful variations until it seemed that his noso must be out of joint in a thousand places. All the night through he told his story. "Gawoh ! gurrah ! gurrr! kowpff! Guwawwah! gawah-hah! gwock ! gwurt! gwah-h h 11 who-'f! Just as the other passengers had consulted together how they might slay him, morning dawned, and 'lower three' awoke. Everybody watched the curtain to sou what manner of man it was that had made that beautiful sleeping car a pandemonium. Presently the toilet was completed, the curtains parted, and '-lower uutubcr three" stood revealed. Great heavens ! It wa? a fair young girl, with golden hair, and timid, pleading eyes, like u hunted fawn's. Extraordinary Gambling Fraud. For over a month past a heavy poker game has been going on in the card room attached to one of our popular saloons. An unprecedented run of luck was the lot of the experts who were running the game in the interest of the sa loon management, or at least in the in-[ tcri'ft of those who controlled liic card room of the saloon. A number of the most experienced curd shuips in Los Angclos si t tiiotuseIves to unravel tlie mystery. Still the luck stayed with the house, and the confraternity were worsted to the tunc of about >51,500. "It was strange; 'twas passing strange," that no outsider could, under any circumstances, win a game in that room try they never so hard, but so it was. At last two proficients took possession of the apartment, ostensibly lor play, and locki d the doors. They at u.iee begun a dilligcnt searjh of the premises, and tin earthed a regular system of wire telegraphy, by the aid of which a stool pigeon, who saw the cards of the outsiders, telegraphed their hands to the manipulators of the skin gauic. i We understand that those who have ] been fleeced have taken legal advice, j and that every means will he tried to, recover the money.?Los Angelas IhraUL At an Atlanta wedding the other day, ^ among the wedding presents ostentatiously displayed was u ?10(1 bill, a present from the doting father to his darling daughter. Alter the guests had departed the old tnan coolly rolled up the bill and put it in his vest n'ockot, auii (hat wan the end oi it. m si| NUMBER 27 Amenities of War. Hon' McC'lellan aud Custer treated uu old Weat I'oiut 4/omrade. In the summer of 18G2, when Generals McClcanll ami Joe J&hnson were ; commanding the two opposing armies j in the attack and defense of Richmond a freak of fate or decree of destiny or- 1 dercd a sii gular coincidence in the sit ' nation of the Northern and Southern f cadets. Custer was acting on General McClellan's staff, and his torm- r friend { on that of General Joseph Johnson, each as aide to the commanding generals of the Northern and Southern ar- ( mies. On the day of the battle of Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks, tho Confederate . rand uAIIAHAIII tTAII *17 O C luuiiuaijuci wan rv? cicijr huuhucu ????* ?everc!y wounded by a shell, and his place afterward filled by Gecorai Lee. ? The same day Johnson's young aide was captured by the enemy while in the dischatge of his duty, and taken to Mc- f Clellans ^headquarters as a prisoner of distinction. He had been known to the Federal General when at West Point, and being courteously recognized h was treated with much consideration, c Here loo, he met several young officers ? who had been cadets at the same time with him, by whom he was welcomed with much cordiality and pice?kindest e and most cordial was Custer. p It was a sigular, a striking scene; oDe that merits description among the s incidents of a sectional war. The blue jackets greeting the gray, foes meeting as friends, bands clasping kindly that I were armed in deadly strife against v each other. Just a small green spot in r the dreary desert of war. To Custer's it m 11 . * II J iL . carc oicuiaiiuii especially constgnea me young Confederate officer, with the fi charge, given in a serio-comic tone, that, w "The prisoner should not be treated very severely, but be allowed a cigar and other refreshments occasionally." b So that one night there was rather a jollification in one of the headquarters c* tents which the partyocupied?rehearsing scenes at West Point in which u they hud mingled, "skylarking" ot h Penny Haven's, and other liap-huzard r< frolics, stori?s of study and drill, and c< mutual inquiries for friends scattered South and North amid the ranks of the st contending armies. d Afterward, when the Confederate k prisoner was ordered to bo sent to Fort it Delaware, in parting with his acquaintance again, Custer, hi* generous guardian, suddenly struck with a kind thought, exclaimed impulsively, "You 0 must have some money, Jim; those pic- s] tures in your pockets (Confederate cur- a rcncy) don't pass up there;" and in h spite of the earnest protest of his friend d who assured him he could readily draw on relatives in Baltimore for neeJed Vl funds, finding it impossible to persuade 0< him to take the money ke offered, step- s) ped up and stuffed some notes in his ^ vest pocket, nolens vofetis. Such acts arc only prompted by a noble heart. ?| During this detention at General n AffCldll.-m's hendmntrtera while one day the Federal and 0 on federate officer# n were seated together under a tree, an itinerant artist seized on the striking ,, feet of the singular situation and ? promptly portrayed them in a photo- f< graph. As un auiusing and appropriate addition to the seeue, Cusfcr had a j negro boy seated at his feet; putting, as 0 he said, laughingly, "the impressible w conflict between them." This picture tl attracted much notico from the press p at the time with the singularity of the t| circumstances and incidents attending sj upon the meeting of the two young men. h Female Society. All men who avoid female society G have dull perceptions, and are stupid d and have gross tn?tes, and revolt against w what is pure. Your club swaggerers, e who sucking the butts of billiard cues n all night, call female society insipid, d Poetry is uninspiring to a yokel; beau- h ty has no charms for a blind man ; mu t< sic does not please ; a poor beast docs g not know one tunc from another; but as a true epicure hardly ever tires of water, sauce, brown bread and butter. 1 I protest that I can sit for a whole c night talking to a well-regulated, kind- P ly woman about her daughter Fannie Pl or her boy Frank, and tunkc this the P evening's cntcrtniument. One of the * great benefits a man may derive from a f woman's society is that lie is bound to 11 be respectful to her. The habit is of e good to your morals, men, depend upon u it. Our education makes us at the best eminently selfish men in the world, and the greatest benefit J that comes ^ to man from woman's society is that he has to think of somebody to whom r he has to be attentive and respect- {< ful- , ABoy a Composition on Columbus. ' lie was born when he was very young in a little town called Genoa, on a little gulf of the same name in the Alediter- b ranean Sea. I suppose he was like a most all boys; ho had hoops, marbles p, and tops, wint to school, got whipped, j, and was terrible hungry about dinner- $ time, and liked to go to Sunday-school h when it was most Christmas time; then c maybe he felt bad when he didn't get anything on the tree. 1 guess when he got big he wanted to go the Black Ilills v or to Arizona, if somebody would give f him money for he had none of his own. t< I think all boys would like to be like s Columbus, but I don't think there are g any more countries to discover. <j While climbing a load of wood with [ u gun in his h?nd a Texas man recently shot his windpipe in two. Tho windpipe id uo un to bitu now. ] ADVERTISING RATES. Time. 1 in. } col. j col. 1 col. 1 week, $100 $5 0) $0 00 $15 00 2 " 175 7 50 12 '<25 20 00 3 " 2 50 9 00 15 25 24 00 I ' 2 00 10 50 18ix> 27 50 5 ? 3 50 11 75 20 50 2100 (i " 4 00 12 60 22 75 24 00 7 " 4 50 13 25 24 73 37 Ou 8 ?? 5 00 14 00 25 00 40 00 3 mos G 50 17 00 33 00 60 GO 4 " 7 50 19 00 39 60 59 00 6 " 8 50 24 00 52 00 84 00 9 " 9 50 30 00 63 00 105 0t? 12 " 10 25 45 00 75 00 120 00 lir Transient atlvertlsenieni"? mn?? I* accompanied with the cash to insure ittseruan. Russian LadioS The ladies in Russia ara very anxious to marry, because they have no liber'y before marriage. They are constantly under the paternal eye until they are liven up to their husbands, and then they take their own course. Ainiust : s loon as the girl is born, iu th-? b 't*r rank of society, her parents bczin to prepare the dowry she must h\ n when ihe goes 'o her husband, vfhc ms*t 'urnish everything for au outfit if1 life, >ven to a dozen new shirts for n?-r u 'nng husband. The young man goes to he house of his promised bride, and munts over her dresses, and ezauiiiv* he furniture, and sees the whole with lis own eyes before he commits hiuwlf o the irrevocable bargain. In hi;,li ife such things arc conducted wiift riore apparent delicacy, but the facts ire obtained with more aoturaey, rhc tusiness being in the hands of a broker ir notary. Tho trousseau is exj^^.ed in lublic before the wedding day. Her Oat. "Emelinc Arnold, did you strike your msband with a poker?" nsked tho ourt of a square shouldered woman rithout anj bustle on. "And what did he do?" she squeaked. "The poker question takes the pref. rence, Mrs. Arnold. Did you play loker on his head?" "You don't know what I have to tand from him." "Answer my question, Mrs. Arnold." "If you knew that man a* I do, judge! had thirty-dollars in c*.sh when we rerc married five years ago, and he has u.i through every cent of ir." "The?poker?the poker 1" "Well, I did hit him," she replied, nding herself cornered at last, "hue rhat did he do?auswer nia that!" "I can't do it*" "Weil, sir, he kicked the cat that has cen in our family for three yeara !" Is Mr. Arnold here ?" asked the ourt looking over the audience. Mr. ArnolJ, with his head bound p, had been waiting to swear against i* wue, uui suuut'UJ) uvulaitm MHAI :morse, he rashcd oat doure as the ourl called. "Mrs. Arnold, you may go home," lid his Honor, "anfl if you feel a your aty to strike your husband with a peer occasionally, I suppose I can't help , ff Nellie's Idea of Prayer. Little Nollie.who wasoniy fmrycars !d, no sooner saw work laid aside, than lc ran to her mother's knee and r' .inioj scat there. Mrs. Lee lifted her to iter ip, and went on, busily thinking of her uties and cares. For a while Nellie amused herself cry quietly by winding a st:iu" in r id at through her fingers, hut prcr^ntly ic began talking to her.e'.f itt a L.. >nc; "When I say my prayers. God say?, lark, angels, while I he ir a lit.'e oise.' " Her mother asked her what th*t oise was: "A little girl's voice. Then the ancls will do just so." (siiuttior' her louth very tight and keeping very still jr a moment,) till I say Aui? n ! Isn't this a sweet thought? I woner if the children who read this story f little Nellie have ever thought how onderful it is that God always L^ars icir prayers? He hears the softest rayer of the little child kneeling bv be bedside. There is never too much ingiug or too many praises there for im to hear a little girl's "noise " The Springfield lirjitiUirunsays that ren. Butler should have cited the "bullozed" pariah of Baton Rouge, La., dien he was recounting the dreadful fleets of the Hayes policy. The iuhulan manner in which the white people own there have been building school ouscs for negro children and hiring sacliers to instruct them, would make a ood text for a bloody-shirt harangue. The thing that seems to be hurting he Republicans worse than anything lse is the assertion of equality on the art of the South. That a Confederate oldicr should apply for office is a bitter ill. That he should get it is death. V.UU V CL 111 IS ^uvt'l llUJUMb 13" UIJO a lie Confederate has a real tangible interest ii. lie has to auppoet it. Ho has an qua! right to share its benefits. Let is have iess nousenseon this subject. Mrs. Scales, of Kansas, r*ail a paper f floriculture at the late meeting ct'tbo State Horticultural Society. Some peo>le were talking when she began to cad, nod she gave them this sly wipe : I never read when people are convering, for fear that I should disturb hem." After that she had the undiided attention of the house. California's head is level. A hill hes ecu introduced in the Legislature aimed t the forcing process in tln> common ehools. It provides that reading sprung, writing, arithmetic arl ..ogronli} hall lake precedence of all other studi a n the district, primary, gum mar and osmopolitan schools of the State. Two young ladies from 0!..oinea.i rerc visiting two differcnr fam''V* nor nr from Beacon Hill, Boston. A Boson girl, speaking of one to t'-c ?'ii r, aid : She's the most disa^.-'eab" ;irl I ever saw." " Yes," r- u?Dod the latnsel from Cincinnati, "end the iroudest, though her tathcr ouly Lilled a hundred hogs last year." Bayonets aro driven, but bulkU art