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VOLUME XXXVI.
BY THE RIVER.
I am siding alone by the river.
An I the willows are sweeping its brink ;
The shadows of twilight are falling,
An I I sit by the river and think.
The shadows of twilight grow dteper,
The river is fading from sight;
I can see the gray willows no longer,
Aud I am alone with the night.
In darkness and gloom, noble river,
Thou art noiselessly floating away;
In dnrkness and gloom I am floating,
And whither, oh say, do I stray?
The learning of l'lato and Pascal
Is madly at work in my brain ;
1 t..C-.1 - W~...
& am smiBiicu tiuuui iiuiuiii^,
I feci anil I reason in vain.
Docs justice exist ? Oli, where is it ?
Still the heArt of the tyrant is stone,
Still his victims are toiling, despairing:
Still he heeds not, ho hears not their
moan.
'Tis vain that you tell me, hereafter
These things are not to be so ;
We are only able to reason
From that which we see and we know.
For centuries long have the curses
Of the heart-broken pierced to the skies;
For centuries long has no answer
Returned to their desolate cries.
If I call upon Nature to comfort,
It is silent and grim ns the grave ;
The winds will not stay nt my question?
No reply ftom the long-sounding wave.
And the stars, as they gliltc- above me,
Pure and calm as the flakes of the snow,
Look as cold as the sorrows of mortals
As they looked in the years long ago.
Oh. give me ! oh. give me my childhood,
The unquestioning faith that was there,
When I kne't at the feet of my mother.
And gently the taught me my prayer.
I am sitting alone I y the river,
And the willows are sweeping its bank ;
The twilight has deepened to midnight,
*nit f ?it hv the river and think.
FALSE.
Marian Grey was a berutiful woman,
and she knew tt; she alone could tell
how many admirers had placed th* ir
hearts at her feet to be trampled ou.
At last the youti?rmen thought that she j
had found her couqueror in the per.?on
of Vance Hastings, a handsome, industrious
young man, the junior partner of
flic firm of Condor & Co. Walter
Hale, a millionaire, was among the admirers
of M iss Grey, though no doubt
the idea of binding hituslfbv marriage
never once entered his mind; for he had
boasted of the number of hearts ho had
so easily won, aud as carclcs-ly cast aside,
to wither.
One evening Vance called, having re
s>?lved on this evening his future should
he settled. He would know whether
happiness should be his, or hid life be
made u blank by a refusal.
Miss Grey was seated in the parlor,
and nsslie reclined on the S"fu presented
a beautiful picture. R"b< d in blue
silk, with b:ight auburn curls falling
over her her luagnibccnt sdouiui-rs ana
neek in rich profusion, and a pair of
merry brown eyes peeping from beneath
their long lashes.
She lifted her dangerous eyes as Hastings
entt ri d. and greeted him cordially.
We will lo<<k at him too. In height he
was above the average, with well dev-loped
limbs, his head, a little too erect,
ga\c him the Appearance of haughtiness,
his l.air was light brown and his
eyes dark blue. He stated himself beside
Marian, and soon both were engaged
in an animated conversation upon
the various tipics of the Jay. Pres?'n:ly
Vance said :?
"Marian, I love you with my whole
heart. 1 am here to-night to ask for
your love in return fur mine. Will you
1 marry mc on uiy return from Europe,
in o jcir?"
And his ardent question was answered
bv the simple wotd :?
"Yes."
i "That one year will seem to mo endless,"
said he, "so iuipati-nt shall I be
to clasp my darling to my breast."
One kiss, one embrace, and lie was
gone.
The next day Vance Hastings left
Chicago lor Mew York, from which port
he took one of the steamships bound for
Europe.
On the evening of the same da)' Walter
Hale entered the parlor of Mr. Silas
Grey, and was soon the participant in
the conversation going on between the
broker and his wife. Preseutly Marian
entered, and the evening pa-red off uiirrily.
The time for Waller's departure
arrived, but still he s^eue d to have no
inclination to take his leave. What
could detain him? Ains! the boasting
Wltcr had fallen before the charuis of
? > ? - I.I.. l.n nwL.,.,5
.Mariaii, auu miuimj tuvugu v
Iter to bo bis ?ilo.
Marian hesitated. At first she was
on the point ot informing him that she
was engaged to another; but when she
thought of the positions in society the
two occupied, and of her father, who
had btcn meeting with heavy losses of
late, her course was slightly altered.
Really, she liked Walter very well, and
Vance would undoubtedly find in his
travels some one more worthy of his
love. 1 Itu* considering, she gave an
affirmative answer.
' Yes, Waiter, I will be your wife."
Marian had given a favorable reply
to two suitors. Which would be the
bridegroom ?
* * * * # *
A year had passed, and Vance thought
of returning home. A happy uian was
he as he stepped oo hoard of one of the
steamships running between Liverpool
and New York. What happy thoughts
passed through his miud of his wuiting
Marian !
At last the harbor of X'-w York was
j reached, oud boiling u cab he wqa iui
V
^p^5555
CAI
mediately conveyed to a hotel. A lew
hoars later, ou entering the billiard
room, lie was greeted with :?
"Why, howd'ye do, Vance !"
' Hallo, Jack !" said Vnnce. ' I little
thought to meet you so many miles from
home "
'1 am engaged in this city just now,
but canr.ot say I like here as well as
Chicago."
"I am plad to loam that you have
been successful in your business. Shall
wr have a gauie at billiards
' I am agreeable."
The friend* were soon engaged in a
contest to prove who was the more skillful
in the use of the cue, and the game
was now and then enlivened by convcrsniion.
"Jack," said Vance, "you have not
as 3ct told rac anything concerning the
changes that have taken place during
my absence."
UW*1I," said Jack Harris, as he sent
his ball with rapidity across the table
and performed a very difficult double
shut, "mariiagcs are first in order, I
suppose."
"Certainly, Jack; marriages first, byail
means."
"Well then, your friend Walter Halo
lias married the beautiful?"
"No. no, you are jesting, Jack, Walter
Utile would never marry; he was
lorn for a bachelor."
' For once my boy, you arc mistaken.
Walter is married, and has a lovely
bride ?"
' I can hardly think such a thing pns
sible. By the way, who may his charming
bride be."
She was Mis* Marian Grey."
The cue dropped from Vance's hand.!
and the c dor quickly fled from his face
as ho exclaimed :?
-Maiian Grey ! You must be mis-1
taken ! Walter Hale has not married
Marian Grey."
" "l is the truth "
' It is a lie! No, if nil New York
wcro to say so, I would not believe
Marian Grey false!"
As Vance thus spoke he loft the
room, leaving his friend mute with astonishment.
"1 wonder what has come over Vance,"
mused Jack. "What did he mean9
False to whom?? to Vance? Ah!
I've guessed the truth. Poor fellow !"
A few moments passed, and Vance
returned; his face was white with emotion
and his eyes.gleamed with a peculiar
light.
"Excuse me. Jack," he said; "I was
hu?-ty a moment ago. but I was suffcrinu'
terribly. .Tell me. have you any proof
of wh.it you said ?"
"Why allow the affair to trouble you,
man ?" said Jack.
"I must have the truth. I must
know all. By what vile mean* did he
snatch my darling from me ?" exclaimed
Vance, as he brought his fist, down on
the table with tremendous force.
"Since you desire it. I have a news
paper in uiy room in which are the full
particulars of the wedding "
"Allow me to sec it."
"Certainly. Let us adj turn to my
room."
Thither the friends went, and wen*
soon seated beside a table.
''Here it is !" said Jack.
As lie spoke lie pushed the paper to.
ward his companion. Vance, picking
the paper up tmd glancing over it,
quickly catnc to the heading, "Fashion
able Wedding," b<ueath which was
given a full description of the marriage
of Marian Grey uod Walter Ilale.
Vanco road every word, while his
eyes grew brighter, his face whiter, and
as he finished reading it, his head fell
upon the table. Jack, understanding
all, attempted not to cotisclo him, but
left him to bis sorrow.
The mxt morning Vance re appeared
looking like a spectre, ami, after breakfast,
took the iraiii for Chicago.
******
Mrs. Hale was seated in her parlor,
reading, when the servant entered and
announced a visitor.
"His card, Delia."
' I have none, ma'am; he raid, 'Tell
Mrs. JIalc that a gentleman wishes to
see her.' "
Mrs. Hale became agitated. Could
this be Vance? Turning to Delia, she
J said : ?
i ' Describe him to me."
j '-Jlc is very handsome, uia'am. only
his eyes look fierce and blood-hot."
' That will do. Say to him that
j I am engaged," said Mrs. Hale, nerI
vously.
Delia was about to do as she was or;
dert-d, when the door opened, and Vance
: cnter-d.
i "Madam," lie said. "1 must speak
! willi you; you will bo kind enough,
therefore, to dismiss the servant."
| Mrs. H ate motioned Delia to depart,
i When they were alone a ?udd"n fear
; seized her, and she uskel with a quivering
voice:?
"Dray. sir, what can you wMi tlia?
you thus forcibly present yourself before
me 7"
"What I want you know best; what
I shall have, you shall know in time.'
" Remember 1 am mistress here, and
! will allow no one to make use of threats.'
"Dare you. false woman, ask mo what
I want? What could I want? Wert
! you free to-day I would refuse to marry
I you! The love that I bore for you ha?
now turned to bitter hatred ! One yeui
I nj:o you professed to love me."
"Knotiuh, sir?I will hear no more.'
"Von hall hear me through ' Ay,
you may appear devoid of fo< lin<_', hu'
when I relate your basem 8s to your bus
bond, will he continue to caress a mo
I ney-sceker? No, he will seoru despist
und hate you, us I do now ! Ilu Wil
I cunt you fa* Lis Louie, uud L tLul
iIDEN, S. C., JANUARY
laugh at you. Degraded woman, the
devil that, vis within me has now come
forth, augmented into a hatred that
will never die."
Then, seizin*; his hat, he hastily retreated.
Liter in the evening Mr. Hale returned
home, and, observing his wife's
nervousness, asked the cause. The answer
that he received not satisfying his
curiosity, he summoned Delia and questioned
her.
"Delia, who called to see your mistress
this afternoon ?"
"I do uot know, sir; he gave no
name."
lloenniKrt litm "
Delia thereupon gave & minute description
of Hastings.
-Thai will do." And Delia retired.
' I thought it was Vance Hastings
who rushed by mc like a madman, ns I
was returning home," soliloquized Walter.
,4I will be satisfied."
| lie immediately went to his wife's
room, and demanded an account of the
iuterview with Vance. Marian, trembling
with fear, told him of the insults
mid abuse i hat Vance bad heaped upon
her. Her husband became.furious, and
rui-hcd out of the bouse in search of
Hustings.
A few moments later, Walter Ilalc
ascended the steps of a hotel, and, inquiring
for Vance Hastings, was informed
that the gentleman he sought
[ was in the billiard room. Vance was
[engaged in conversation with n numb<r
ol fiicnds. when Mr. Ililc entered and
?i.i?i i,;...
|?uu:iuijr uutu'^u uiui.
"Mr. Hustings, I demand an apology
fur your conduct to my wife this alter- J
Moon.*'
"I w ill make none."
"Then Mr, I shall avenge the insult,"
I exclaimed Mr. Hale.
"I am at your service," sneeringly ic?
plied Vance,
Karly on the following morning, in a
scclud-.d > pot, with a wild expanse of
living verdure, shady proves and beautiful
cornfields, five men were assembled.
A duel was about to take place. Everything
beini: satisfactorily arrraug'd, two
shots were fired. One of the participants
fell to the jrrouud; his face assumed
an ashy paleness; the surgeon
ruslitd to his aid, but too late?lite
had fled. Three of the tn^n stooped
to lilt their wounded couipanious when
a shot was heard, and, turning around,
they beheld Vance Hastings, the victor
fall dead.
? 1 v 1 a _ 1 ... -a
iMuriun urey n.ia icarncu to mvi- a>
Ia.-t, but I he one to whom she bad
proven false had snatched her idol
from her. Henceforth her life was
blighted.
Let the Past be Past.
We all of us have pleasant memories,
which ?t moments of leisure fold
'himselvcs silently around us, and fur a
tiiuc wc are buried in their sweet cmbrace.
Hut is it well to be so wrapped
in the everlasting embrace of the past,
us to be dead to the present and future!'
Is this the duty wc owe to God and our
Icllow-uian ? Ah, no; far from if.
To be sure, it is nothing less than
mortal to permit oursi Ives and our
thoughts to wander back over the past;
to feel again all the old emotions of pain
or pleasure; to go thtough this scene or
that scene again; to fold that once loved
; form again to our hearts. Hut to live
I in the past, to have no thought or feeling
fur the present aud the opening future,
is wrong.
Let the past be past. You cannot
uow undo its errors, or again go through
with its glorious pleasures, or feel its
sanctifying realities. I always feel bet:
ter after a momentary glance into the
past. Again t lie loved form of the one
I cherished eveu letter than life itself
i couies before my eyes, again I visit the
j lined home ol cinidiiooc: again uu my
eyes beholJ my sainted mother, long
, since a glorious angel with the immortal
host, and I have no faith in tho future,
and live fur a short time in . the
glorious hut dead and buried past of
my life. Oh, how fearful the awakening
from this dream.
Down through the long vista of my
.departed years comes the sweet remeui
j brance of my darling Twas many
| long and weary years since these eyes
beheld her face, but every fiature is
forever impressed on my mind. 1 loved
, her, and lovehci still. 1 can never, never
i forget her look of agony as I told her
if my love. With saddened, breaking
heart I listened as she toM mo of her
plighted troth to wed another. I hogged,
I prayed even in my anguish of
soul, that she would fly with me, and
bo mine, mine alone. Dut no, as ca'ui
as I was agitated, she sat, glorious in
Iter womanhood, and with the fatal significance
of her pledged word glaring
her in the face. I cursed tier then. I
deeply and fondly honor her now.
The storm has passed. The snow
I--., o...r. ,i I, n mil nil The sun. with
here and there a cloud athwart its path,
moves steadily along the skv, and dimly
tho mind remembers the past. It take*
in nil the details of the storm, and coin'
pares it w ith the gentleness of the pres.
I cut, and at last it ceases to reflect on
' the storm, and dwells only on the bright
aud glorious present.
t Just so it is in life; and it is best. It
is the will of the All-seeiug Ono that
this should be. Look on the past but
r liitle. live not in it. Se-'k out your
errors, and profit by their experience in
' future. Alas, too true it is that many,
, as they glance back ou I in ir bygoii"
i j days, see so little of good that they
dare not look again. This is only toe
- true. Hut ''to the pure, all things arc
pure," and if they look with u pure
1 heart, determines for better things in
i iliu Wight aud glorious futurs thuJ
.r 29, 1878.
God has spread out before them, they
will find some good to he thankful for.
O reader, throw those paiolul riieinorir-s
behind you, and turn resolutely to
a future which njay yet be rendered
holy nnd happy.
Tho Country Store.
Just the place among the hills for the
old time country store, that, ltko Noah's
! Ark, contains a little of all sorts. You
look for it at some lazy four corners,
within hearing of an anvil's ring, ar.d
the grind of a mill where the creek
plays in lite wheel like a cagcd squirrel.
And you find ir, the variety store of a
hundred years ago, where needles and
crowbars, poos? yokes and finger rings,
liquorice-stick and leather, are to be
had for cash or4 dicker." In the corner
yonder stands the spindle legged
desk, behind a breastwork of barrels,
mid a bastion of codfish criss-crossed, a
bi?? blotter spread upon the lid, a goose
quill pen, a sand box and a pewter ink
staud within reach.
Here is the wooden bench beside the
stove, covered with jack knife sculpture,
awkward II's like a pair of leaning bar
posts with one bar, and li's like ox
yokes. It is here that in raiuy days
and winter nights the whittlers. smokers,
spitters and talkers gather in, and lay ;
their blue and white mittens beneath
the stove to dry; perhaps a village dector,
with his saddle bags und pink and
senna-nimbus perhaps a country lawyer,
who practices at the country bar
in court timo nul the tavern bar the
I year round, with bis dogmatic way and
j tobacco atmosphere. Here Unious are
I caved, States constructed, stories iciu
I and pigtail gnawed. Here fore-handed
j farmers talk pi / mid potatoes, uud box
I mil couutry tills smell of peppermint.
! and warm their rosy finders, that match
| their ripe cheeks lor color. Here cloud3
! of smoke from clay pipes float up among
{ the bed cords, and brooms, and tin Ian'
terns, and cowhide boots suspended
| overhead. And the stove, with its red
| mouth close to the hearth, roars and
| reddens in rlie howling nights, and the
black :! Ilea Is in the floor are worn
I silver bright by stampiug and uneasy
feet. A boy. tipped with red as to fiu!
gers. nose, ears and toes, stands before I
j a short row of glass pickle jars, in
j brimless hats of covers, therein lean a
: few streaked sticks of childish happi!
Hess at a penny apiece, and gazes with
watering month, that keeps him swallowing
in blissful expectancy.
In a Hurry.
An alderman was rather puzzled the
nlhi-r day by a call from a stringer who
hud a carpet-bag in one hand and a malicious
look in his eyes. He let the cur'
pet-bag drop, wiped his forehead, and
' wanted to know it the uian before biui
was an alderman.
"1 am." was the reply.
..li _r.._#l.. ..icnnntiKli. I ?'nn5<>ir.n
" I CIIWHIJ IICJ/UUIIU.V) . ? | v~. .
the query
"I suppose I ain."
' Well, sir," continued the stranger,
"down hero nt the d-pit some one hit
me on ihe n-ck with a stone."
j "Did, ch ?"
"Yes. sir, lie did, and [ estimate the
damage at twenty-five dollars."
"1 am sorry," remarked the alderman.
"It is no way to use u stranger
to hit him on the neck."
"Of course it isn't; but I don't care
I for \our soft words. I want my twenty!
five dollars."
"Why, I have nothing to do with it.
I didn't hit you."
"1 know you didn't; but you run
this town, don't you ? Some one .uust
be responsible. I am not the kind of a
man to be hit?on the nock and go right
along without saying a word."
"1 will tell you what to do." said the
I alderman, after a little reflection "You
goto t ho mayor and get an order on
uie for the money, and I will pay it."
"That's angelic and all right," replied
the mail, and he steered for the City
j Hall. He began blowing around to
some of the idlers in the corridors, and
they sent him to saloon on Monroe aveI
nue, "to see the mayor's brother." lie
must have found some one there, and
miisi have bad some words. Those
watching I)iin saw Iii.-* big satchel come
out lir.-t, Ilion ho slid out after it, bair
! on en J aud chin all biuised up, aud as
: lie reached the curb stone his suuill
satchel him on the back with a loud
; "chug " lie went down Woodward
avenue, stepping fast end high ; and at
' Congress street ran against a woman,
| and explained :
"Iu a hurry?didn't mean to?just
licked the hruthor of the mayor of this
town stone blind."
How It Was.
Everybody knew that another four
I years ot the hell which (Jrunt organized
; in LousiaIIa and South Carolina would
j not he tolerated by the public opinion
of the Country. Nobody knew this bct?
j ter than Grant himself; and he know
1 it so well that within forty-eight hours
[ of his retirement from otnce ne pave
formal notice to Packard and Chamber
lain that the uiaintainance of sham
governments by bayonet power bad become
offensive to the moral sense of the
whole country, and that orders had
been issued for the withdrawal of the
military support from the pretenders.
If, under these circumstances and with
tliin knowledge, any Republican iu Congress
sought to bio 1 Mr. Ilayas by
, pledges to defy public opinion, undo
the orders that Grant had issued, perpetuate
carpet-baggery, and repudiate
i the contracts made by Stanley Mut?
thews and Foster, they simply asked
i bim 10 u.uko himself utterly iufutm-u'
by a breach of faith without a purullci
i in iU titroaity.?CAi'aijo lYt/w*
NUMBER 29
A Slight Mistake.
There she stood, the apple of their
eyes trembling with suppressed weeps.
Their frowns deepened as the mother
wiped her glassei^prcparatory to reading
a letter found in* the gffTa pocket. It i
began : "Angel of uiy existence."
"What!" howled the male parent;
"You don't mean to say it began like
that ? Oh, that a child of mine should
correspond with?but pray proceed,
my dear."
"Hera, existence spelt with 'a', too,"
proceeded the mater.
"Why, the lunatic can't spell," chipped
in the old man.
"It is impossible for mo to describe
the joy with which your presence has
filled me."
Then why docs he attempt it, ass ?
But pray don't let mo interrupt you.
3o on, go on ; let joy bo unconfined "
"I have speut the whole night in think-j
ing of you"?that's picturesque, any I
way?"and in bitterly deriding the ob- j
stinate old whelp who will not consent j
to our union."
"Oh, lot me get at him ! Whelp ! Is i
thy servant a toad, that ho should thus j
be spoken of?"
"Yen, yes; one moment. I was about;
to observe that the band tbst could pen |
such words would not hesitate to scalp j
the most cherished relative."
' Theodorous, I didn't see this over ;
the leaf."
4,Eh ? Let me see; hum. 'Yours, I
with all the love of my heart?Tbeodo- j
rus. May 10. 1835.' Why, bless my ;
eyes, it's one of my letters." (Seusa- t
tion.)
"Yes, papa," echoed the olive branch,
"1 found it in the cleset yesterday?j
only you wouldn't lot me speak."
"You may go to the park, my child.;
Hem, we'eve made a nice mess of it." I
"Yes, love. Next time we will look j
at tho date." m
Baboons. %
Tlnrnriii lino oiifippni'pd in firp.ltifl? such
? ? n |
an interest in the entire monkey spc- j
cieh, that we venture on a baboon st<*y. |
A Hottentot f o-eossed a tame baboon, j
which entertained an intense dread of*j
snakes; its muster, for mere wantonness.!
I forcibly entwined a dead snake round!
| the baboou'i neck, when thai animal
; sat stupefied with tVar, and on the snake
; buing removed, stole timidly into the
; hut of the Hottentot. After a short
lapse of time, the baboon was, actor a in?r
j to custom, called on bv its master to
| scratch his head. Although summoned
several times in an angry voice,it refused
j to move. The Hotleutot rose and struck
' it with a stick, and immediately the en- j
raged and aggrieved animal sprang upon |
him ; the neighbors hearing tho scuffle, j
run to a-'C what was the matter, but1
j could distinguish nothing through the j
dust raised in the interior of the hut,
except hot cinders, which were kicked
! about in ail directions from a fire-place
| in the centre of the abode. The screams
* ?-i . i.-u .? ..... ;,t?.
i 01 iuc* man aim uiu uiiuuun ncic m?i:
mingled, till nt length the latter dashed
: out through the by3tandors,and escaped
to 8iiuii> mountains. The Hottentot
1 had bccu seriously bitten in the eni
counter, and was some weclt9 in recovi
ering, but ultimately rcgaiued Ins
strength,and bcut upon revenge, scoured
; the mountains in search of his antago;
uist. lie at Lst descried his baboon,
; which he could discern from aoy other,
peeping over a erug, and leveled a gun
; at him; but the animal instantly with|
drew its head, and held forward one of
| his companions as a target instead of
i himself, chattering loudly as in defiance,
so that the man was compelled to return
! home foiled and disappointed. Which
acted like the nobler uuiraal, tho man
or the baboon? It would puzzle even
Darwin to ?ccidc tho question. We
are glad the baboon was not killed, howj
ever.
I A Genuine Love Match, and What
Came of It.
Ten years ago a handsome young
j man passed through Monticcllo, Kj.,
aud was noticed by a young girl sitting
at tho window of the most aristocratic
house iu the town. She fell iu love
; with hiin at first sight. She hud wealth,
culture and beauty. He was poor, and
was then on his way to ,-cek his fortune
as u cuttle herder in Texas. After nm1
? 1 !'i himself iho
uy U|># UIIU UUHII9, lib IVUUU
owuer of a silver mine in New Mexico. I
, The j^irl bloomed into a beautiful wo
mau, with literary ability, and became
: a contributor to the Jjxtsfo/ir Time*.
^he learned who the unconscious object
1 of her fancy was, and they corresponded
throughout the ten years She uever
| wrote a word ol her personal attractions
' or family, uor did he speak of his pood
i fortuue. A tew days ago lie wrote hrr pro.
, posing marriage, and soon followed his
letter to her Kentucky home, when he
I saw her for the first tiuio. Recently
I they were married, and Miss Ann^t
Horry, that was, harncit on reacmpig
Stiver City that her husband, R. fb.
Mctculf, was the greatest capitalist in
Now Mexico.
The volcano Ceboruco, situated on
the road between Guadalajara and Topic,
Mexico, has lately been throwing up
great volumes of stuoke and nshea. The
eruptions are. at times, of daily occurrence,
and a Mexican photographer is
watching every moment, and taking
photographs of the extraordinary freaks.
The lato eruptions have not caused as
much fright and terror as usual.
A New York receiver, duly appointed,
collected all the assets, to wit:
84,420, and his expenses wero $4,340,
i leaving $70 to be distributed umong the
i creditors. And of such is the kingdom
of bankruptcy ut atodcru tiatti
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with the cash to liurare Insertion.
Old Kentucky.
Governor McGreary, of Kentucky,
in hid message says in a simple tray that
the financial condition of that commonwealth
is gratifying. Tho funded
debt of that State has reached the coutempt
iblc aggrcgato of only 8183,394.
Of this amount, however, only onetwentieth
part is now due, and has not
been paid only because the bonds due
have uot been presented for pnymeut.
The rest are not payable till 1894-5-6.
Thcra is just about seven times the
amount of this debt in the state treasury
applicable to ita payment. With a
revenue tax of four mills, the State
raised in 1S77 something over two millions'
of which it could spend less than
a million and a half, so that its surplus
for one year is ouo-fourth its total tennue,
and one third its expenditures.
Work upon a new State Capitol has
been suspended for some years, but in
this condition of the public purse, Gov*
ernor McCreary prudently, ns it appears,
recommends that' the building be
linished. Need we add that no "ring'
ever plundered that purse in Kentucky
Making People Happy.
Some men move through !'fe as
a band of music moves down the street,
flinging out pleasure on every side
through the air, to every one, far and
ucar, that can listen. Some men till
the air with their strength and sweet-'
ucss, as orchards in October days fill
the air with ripe fruit. Some women
cling to their houses like the Looeysuckle
over the door, yet like it fill all
the region with the subilc fragrance of
their gooduess. IIow great a baunty
and a blessing it it so tu hold the roy.?l
gifts of the soul thai they fhjli be music
to some, and fragrance to others, and life
to all! It would be no unwornhy tl.iug
to live for. to make the power which we
have withtu us the breath of other meu's
joy: to fill the atmosphere which they
must stand in with a brightness which
they cannot create for themselves.
New Year in New York.
A eorrespondent writing to the
tial of Commerce from New York,
says: " One of the most exquisite of
the many floral decorations which
adorned our New York parlors oa New
Year's Day, was a Confederate flap,
composed of crimson and of white car*
nations, with a flap staff of gold colored
immortells. The whole was encloe-d in ?
frame of catnelias. tube ros<s, white hyacinths,
heliotrope, stnilax and other
rare flowers. This artistic flower piece
appeared in the most conspicuous place
in tho parlors of one of Carolina's daughters.
Mrs. F. G. DeFontainc, to whom it
was sent as a'-New Year's" offering, by
J. B. Polk, a nephew of Bishop Polk,
and right royally did she insist upon its
sharing the "comphmcuts of the season"
with her.
A Mighty Clever Girl.
She lives at Ottawa, Canada, and this
! is how she managed it: She thought it
would be just as well to commence
: housekeeping right away, and begin the
i new year with training up a hushand in
j the way he should go, but her father
I thought differently. So she invited all
| her friends to the wedding at a certain
I church at a given hour. Of course
thero was a big crowd, including the
angry father, who was prepared to forbid
the baos with a shotgun. Meanwhile
the young lady uud her adored
' William went to another church and
I were quietly married; and a< they kit
i the sacred edifice, sho remarked that
j where there was a Will there was a way.
A Peaceful Town.
"There is not," wrote the editor of
the Dead wo d Daily Champion, " a
quieter, more peaceful, well regulated
j nod orderly community in the western
country." And then, as the office boy
j entered to say that somebody wanted to
see him, he took his Howie knife between
his teeth, put u Colt's new pat|
tern scren-shooter on the desk iu front
; of him, and then said: "Jim, get out
nuother coffin?a plain one this time?
1 and let the critter corno in." ^
i
j The larg.-st bell in the world is in
; the temple of Clars, iu Kiota, Japan,
i Uulikc the great bells in Pekin and
I Moscow, it is whole, and its tone is as
perfect and as sweet as when first suspended.
Where and by whom if wn*. "
east is not known. Chinese and '?
crit characters completely coveMff but ,
; they are not translatableh^Japaneso 1
scholars. It is ^jLJinTnigh am! It) 4
j inches thick^jeflff'rim. It has no clop.
I pee, buM^struck by o sort of woodcu
' batU^mg ram on the outside.
1/ ] Jos WELL once asked Johnson if
f there was no possible circumstance under
which suicide would bo justifiable.
: "No," was the reply. "Well," anv?
Bos well, "suppose a man has been guilty y
of fraud that he was certain would bo
; found out." ' Why, then," says Johpson,
"in that case let him go to soum
; country where he is not known ; not to
the devil, where he is known."
In New York forty-one per cent, of
the collections for the poor go into tho
j pockets of the officers of tho bencvu|
lent societies. That is to say, where *
1 man bestows one dollar in charity, ho
gives 50 cents to tho suffering poor and
j 41 cents to tho pampered officers
Congressman Smalls, of South Carolina,
still decks his desk in the House
, of Representatives with a boqurt froui
1 the Rotanioal Gardens, and, inhaling
1 its perfume, ulmost ihrgeU that lie it
under ecuteuM to iUcpeniUBiier/
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