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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.' Published Every 'Tuesday. At CAMDEN; s. c., BT TRANTHAM & ALEXANDER.! SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (In Advance.) ? ? Year >2 < O Six Month* 1 25 DR7 TH7 ALEXANDER, Dental Surgeon, COLUMBIA, S. 0'. 11 Office over W. D. Love's store. j , Dr. Alexander will make *a y>refessional visit to Canulen about the 5th of .March. , ] NovliOtf DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE,!i DENTIST, GRADUATE OF THE BALTIMORE COLLEGE J OF DENTAL SURGERY. OFFICE?DEKALB HOUSE. ij Entrance on Broad Street ~ Br. A. W. BIRNET, HAVINO LOCATE!* IS CAMDES, S. C-, 0FFEB8 , HIS PROFESSIONAL1 SEKVICK8 TO THE PEOPLE 'ofJ'THISJ M.AOK C AND VICINITY. j Office, next door lo that of Trial ^ Justice Dcl'ass. decll-3m Wm. D. TRANTHAM,.' Attorney at Law, I CAMDEN, S. C. -i JSKaf Office over the store of Mr. 1 S. Wilson, in the building of Robt. f Man, Esq. Entrance on Broad street. ^ May 24-1 y. J. D. DUNLAP, j, TRIAL JUSTICE, , BROAD STREET, CAMDEN, SO. CA. |] Business entrusted to bis care will receive prompt attention juneTtf. ^ J. T. HAY, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW I j. AND Trial Justice ja Office over store of Messrs. Rnuiu Bros. Speriai ,, attention given to ibe collectiou of claims. J. W. DtPASS, c ATTORNEY AT LAW jj and Trial Justice. Baiiets of ill kinX? pranptty transcV.o1. W. L. DePASS~ It ATTORNEY AT LAW, j* CAMDEN, S. C. I s win practice in all the State" and Federal a Courts. Iac29tf j 'l7il. CLARKE, j 5 ATTORNEY AT LAW, i} CAMDEN, S. C. j h Office?That formerly cccapicd by Capt. J. M. ' n Davis, JanSVtf | j j. d. kennedy. p. 11. nelson y KENNEDY k NELSON, .? ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. it Office formely occupied by Judge J. B. Kershuw. BOVfSU! a FREDERICK J. HAY, f Architect and Builder, CAMDEN, S. C., a "Will furnish pluns and estimates for all kinds of buildings. Contracts taken at | . moderate figures, and promptly and carefully attended to. Oidcrs left at the Comdex* oi rxal office t will receive immediate attention. j< Marchltf j ~JOHN C~W OLfaT, f PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, ' ' i AND , SIGN PAINTER, t Paper Hanger ? Glazier, \ CAMDEN, s. c. lie Sure to Stop at tlie j t Latham House, CAMDEN, S. . ( (TllANStEST RoAUD, $2.00 PER 1)AY.) ?:u:-? i< ^T.Ainp.e accommodation*. Tallies sup- ' plied with the Le-t I lie Market a afford. Eve- I ry attention paid to the comfort of Guests, j &xT l'traons ?Pl?inK J?t the Lullnitu j ? r l?? i House will be conveyed lo anu irom mr depot free of charge. Passengers, without Iimtj bngptge, will be conveyed to and ' front any part of the town, not above L?e- | Kalh street, at '2~> cents. 1 I tare oitnectcl with the house is a first class liar, which is locale J separately from j the house, and orderly kept. tar < 'onveyatices supplied to guests on i' liberal terms, cither for city or country use.'t junS-ly S.I). LATHAM, l'roprietor. jt DeKalb House,! i, 11V A. S. RODGERS. I i Most Centrally Located Hotel ( in Town ' Terms 1*61* 1 < Commercial Travelers will have every Attention paid to their con fort, and he fur i nished with SAMl'LK ROOMS at this ( House; and persons visiting Camden will find it a quiet arid pleasant home. Special rates made for parties traveling together, und for those who wish to stay u i week or more. connection with tlio house is a ; first-class LIVERY STABLE, where horses and vehicles can be had at all times for town or country use, at the most reasons- I hi# tates. Conveyance# to Ul>U from lfe? t t*vVt ai *rvrf ire ft* Itolftt |t VOLUME XXXVI. THE LOVE THAT LASTS. Let others sing in the melting way Of beauty's power and prime, [ sing of the love that lasts for r.ye, And never is touched by lime, k'our holiday love is a shallop trim, That becomes the tempest's prey ; [lut age, nor sorrow, nor care can dim The love that lasts foi aye. Through pine and hemlock whistles the storm. The roof-tree rocks below. 3ut never before so cozy and warm Has our cottage seemed as now. Cever before the old hearthstone So gleamed, like an niter's ray : {ever before have your soft eyes shone With the love tlint will last for aye. leaped to the windows the snow is drawn And as wide as the eyesight lifts : iarden, and hedge, and lane, and lawn Are buried in shining drifts. Jut the slorui may scutter and pile tliej snow Till hid is the light of day, t never can darken the eyes that glow With the love that will last for aye. il-- . ? - : 1.? ttt. tiiAiintflina lifl.n I . y uir iiirii]>iivv ucmimjc. k?v h?wuu?miuU vmuv . Almost blocked up with snow, fhe-n'Mjie coach, fighting ith war, I trace, I With lumbering course and slow. wonder, dear it" its passengers, Shawled and muffled in every way, 'an guess of our joy as within us stirs The love that will last fornye. inow-bound arc we, by the wintry storm; From the greet world forced apart; 5ut here in our cottage so cozy and warm ! What a world of the human heart! 'ho mttrmurer Care; in his corner cowers, j And we hug the hearthstones gay; lunah for the joy that forever is ours In the love that will Inst for aye! BLANCHE'S HOUSE HUNT-: ING. " Tran;p, I ranip, tramp ! Tray Mis.j delliek, is a regiment marching over ! his house, or has a private trad asylum ; ukrn possession of it ? It would be a elirf to my min i to know the worst." | Mr Setup oniu* Sivcrtou stood erect nd bristling, in the middle of the fii?or,! u a gorgeous scarlet and mavonn-dress- [ ug gown, slippers wttli spaniel's heads j ti.t.midercu on them, and light e^esi littering with indiptiatioo. Mrs. Mcl-j ick, his landlady, quaked before his; lance ' I'm sure. Mr. Sivcrfon, I'ui very ; orry. and I can only hope no offense J nil b? ink* ii wlien none is intended, nit when there's a 'To Let' on th^ iousc, the law demands that it should e showed to nil as is decent and civilpoken. b.tween 'he hours of twelve ! nd lour. Hut, Mr. Siverton?" ' Hi.use hunters, eh?" snarled Mr. >? tuprouius. "1 wish I had the selling of tlicni. Hut I tell you what, Irs. Mellick, admit one of them mollis room at vour peril, uia'am ! Do you ear ? 1 am not a wild beast in a iuelagerie, to be exhibited to every oue alio ias a permit fiotn the landlord, and I ron't stand il ! Do you hear ma'am ? ] ron't stand it!" And Mrs. Mellick fled from the pres- j ucc of her best boarder, so to speak, outed to the death." 'It's dreadful tryinjr," said the uitck i ,r.d Qiuch enduring woman to Eliza Vno, her freckled neiee, '-but there's i l.t..ucifl<r?lip's to be married in a 'Ill" _ i w mouth*. I pity his wife. 'I don't," said Kliza Ann. "lie's rood enough ifyu manage him a little; itid lie pays his way like a prince ! I'm lire, I'll be Surry when lie's pone! Hark ! There goes the do -r-bell apain." "It's more of them lormentinp house lunters," proaned Mrs. Mellick. "You :o this time, Kliza Ann. and for the ifc of you. don't let tlicin go near Mr Mvertou's room !" And Kliza Ann, only staying for a noinent to sec if the fcow of blue ribbon n her saucy tresses was straight, huri?d to answer the tinkling summons. Two ladi>-s. radiant in .spring bonnets hat were ail narcissus buds and yellow ibbon, and rustling in silk flounces tood there?two ladies who put the itcreotyped (,uestion : ' Is this house to let ?" ' Why, liianche Lfeauies!" cried1 Kliza Aim Mellick: ' is it possible that [his is y< u Miss liianchc lieamcs looked with oujc ungrsciou-tjfss at tlie poor, shah iyt hard worked little Kliza Ann. tialf lispossod to forget that she had sat on lie same bench with her at the ostab isliiiicnt for young ladies, kept by Vludatric 1'irclli 'in every day life Mrs. Kurd I y ). ft r Blanche was dressed like i young (jucen, and gloved and booted o perfection, while a real India scarf *:s !o' pod artistically across her slioul ! rs an 1 her black silk polonaise was rimiind, : ti inch deep, with thread ace. 4,Y?s," ha id Blanche, "it's me. I tope-you are wed, Eliza Ann. Annr jophic and 1 are looking; fur an e!i<>ib]i ' hidenrc. I suppose we can sec thin me. ' Yes." raid Erza Ann. rather chilled jy the frigid reception of her delinhte-i vcogii:tion 'It's a very nice place. My aunt, Mis. Mclin k keeps boarder* litre:" "Hoarder!" echoed Miss Beanies. Irawin*: back the silken flounces, lest hey should by an\ possibility come in contact with tbe faded calico skirls! if Kliza Ann, the plebeian. "IIow von * I "Oh, bir they're rjiiitc nice people !" ! uiid Eliza Vnn. iniHiakiujr the meaning if Miss Blanche. "Very geentce!. I insure you." "I dare say." said Miss Blanche's! Hint, in a patronizing, un-lliflous way But deor Blanche is so fastidious, and ju't about to he married you know " "Married !" echoed Eliza Ann, stopping short with the instinct no interest , hat iviry female shows on lie sutyvct A iwnrewt/. I CAM Miss Blanche laid hold of the du<>r handle of Mr. Si vert on'a room at ihis uiomnt, and -rave it an energetic shake l,Is this door locked?" demanded she, sharply. "Why won't it open ?" "Oli, please, don't." faltered Eliza I Ann, ' it's one of our boarders, a very | particular gentleman, and I'll tell yuu all about the room, only he won't let any body in." "A pretty idea," said Blanche Beanies. I icilt get in !" % "But please, you mtisn't Blanche, dear," pleaded poor Kliia Ann. "He's such a nice gen'Ionian, I wouldn't offend him for the world " ''Perhaps he duu't know," said Miss Beanies, purposely elevatintr hrr voice, "that we are looking with the intention of buying." "Ves," added Aunt Sophie, her own voice rising a note or two higher, "my neice is to be married to an old man as rich as Cicasus, and we want a stylish house for the ceremony It don't matter what we pay, for he'll settle the bills afterwards; Blanche is very fortu* ?? ? T mciirA mn M i.-s Melliek." "And th?? best of it," addod Blanche, with a hugh, "is that he is so old, it won't be very long before he leaves me a rich young widow." "Oh, B'anchc !" cried out the horrified Eliza Ann, ' how can you talk so, when?" Just at that moment the do^r of the big second story room swung open, and Mr. Scmpronius Siverton, in the red and maroon dressing-robe, and the dog's head slippers, stood bowing in the porta', with a red fliuh upon his temples, and a peculiar, mocking smile playing around his lips. "Walk in. ladies, walk in," said he. "You are wtlcome io look at this room. I don't allow it to be shown in general, but you shall be an exception to the rule, l'ray make no stranger of me." "Mr. Siverton," stammered Aunt Sophie, with a spasmodic attempt at a smile. "Seropronins!" faltered Blanche. "But you were mistaken about two little things," remorselessly went on the < old gentleman. "I shan't settle any little bills of your contracting?ueither do I intend to leave Blanche there n rich widow. To be my widow, it is first necessa y to be my wife, my dear, j _j T*? _ .1 J .*. aii'i i ve niau^i'u my uiiiiu ?# cv?w u? j that subject." Anil with a flourish, Mr. Siverton shut tlie door, and retreated once more int<> privacy. Mrs Peck and her niece. Miss Blames, "tared at each other like two galvanized females. ' It's all your fuult. Blanche/' Baid Mrs. Peck, bursting into tears. ' You began it first, aunt !'* shrieked Blanche, with all the premonitory symptoms of hysterics; while poor Kliza Ann rati to and fro, for camphor, sil-vo'atile una burnt feathers, scarce Luowing what to think or believe. But wht n the peaceful twilight shad ows settled over the chiuincy top#, all was restored to (juiet agaiu, and Mr. Sivcrw ti medi ated deeply. "I'm well out o[' th'it scrap-'," said he to hiuistlf; "it's a g<<od tiling I found Miss Blanche out in time to spoil that piece of fun about the young widow! But there's the wedding suit ord red, and the w< Jding ring, and I'd made up my mind to marry tomilmly. Is that you. bliza Ann f "Yes, sir," meekly responded that j faded young person. "I've brought your j gruel, sir." ' Upon ray word, Kliza Ann," said Mr. Siverlon, "you've learued to make gruel exceedingly well; and you're a gond girl, Kiiza Ann. Dia you ever think nf luing married?" "l)tar uie, sir, wliat a strange question !" said Kliza Ann. "I've a mind to marry you myself, Kliza Ann,"said the old bachelor, abruptly. "Oh, sir, I uint half good enough," said the lowly minded Kliza Ann. "Yes, you arc!" said Mr. Sivertcn. "Come here aud kiss me, my dear. After all, you are very pretty when you blush like that!" And so Kliza Ann Mcllick married lie rich old bachelor after all, and Miss Blanche still remains Miss Blanche. Necromancers of Old. The raising of ghosts was a favorite exploit <d the necromancers of old; the fame of Torruiva; the Spanish magician, has been immortalized in 1 >oii Quixote The demons that the celebrated Italian, Bcnvcnuto Cellini, describes as having seen when he got within the conjurer's circle, and which amazement magiiiticd into several legions, are now believed to have b-en merely figures produced by a magic lantern; and their appearing in an atmosphere ol perfume is accounted for by the burning of odoriferous woods, in older to dim the visions of the snectators When the Kmneror I ('liarJus was married to the Bavarian Princess Sophia, in the city of Prague, ihc father of the bride brought with him a wagon load of magicians to assist bin. in the festivities. Two of the chef proficients in the part? Zytlio, the Bohemian sweeter, and (Juion, the Bavarian?appeared as rivals in an eztraor ordiuary trial before an exalted assembly. Alter superhuman efforts to as. tonish, Zythu opened his jaws from ear to ear, mid swallowed his companion until his te< ih (uncle d lit- shoes, which lie spat i ut b> cause ho said that tin y had not h>en cleaned. The ailtiiiraiion of the audience was sueceeded hy feelings of honor, but Zytho calmed their apprehensions by restoring the vanquish d Guion in his perfect corporal propurtiw s in life?tt lumuph of art itotyijctt't* 1 [DEN, S. C., FEBRUARY The Pirat o Fisherman. The fish-market of Havana is said to bo the finest structure of its kind in the world. It also interests the traveler by its romantic association with the story of Marti, a reformed pirate and smuggler. who built it and tl.e "Tacou Theater." During the administration of Ta? con, from 1834 to IS3S, piracy had grown so bold in and about Cuba as to defy the Spanish navy sent to suppress the outlaw? Their leader was a man named Marti, and for his person, dead or al.ve, the Governor-General offered a large rewi-rd. One dark night a man was watching the sentinels pacing in front of the Governor's palace, Havana. As they turned their backs and separated for a moment, the man sprang unobserved through the entrance, lie passed up ine Droaa stairs, saluted in an imperious style the guard there stationed, and parsed into (lie Governor-Generals room. The Governor, engaged in writing, looked up os the man coolly cast aside his cloak, cxclaimiog,? "Who enters unannounced ?" 'One who has information of the pirates." "What of them ?" said Tacon, earnestly. ' One moment.?I must not sacrifice myself." "You have naught to fear, i'ven if you he one of them, you will bo pardoned." . I "Will yon pardon and reward mo if I reveal the lurking places of the pirates, and deliver Marti into your own hsnd> ?" ' J pledge you my word of honor," said Taeon. "Your Kxccllcney, I am Marti." The cool scoundrel then fntcred info ?r> nrntiimn./inl u-ifli fiir? I Inverti^r for i the bet raja 1 of all the smugglers and pirates. l iidcr his guidance, the Spani-h vessels sailed to the outlaws' hiding places, and captured those who were not j slain. When Marti returned to Havana, lie | was offered the pardon, which he ac- i ceptcd, the money which he declined. In lieu of tha reward, he asked the i monopoly of selling fish in Havana. It! was granted, and he erected a mnguiti- j cent f tone market. When he became' master of enormous wealth, lie built a theater and named it after the Cover- ! ncr-Oeneral who had pardoned the scoundrel. Masonic AssistanceMr Tom Cole was tried before Its- , quire Elliot for the killing of Jauies llced, which occurred last December. J Then were a dozen or more State wit- j ncsses, who gave such testimony that th** magistrate did not deem it necessary i to hear any witness for the defence and i discharged the prisoner immediately. ; The s'orv of the killing has been pub ~ * ~ *; li.-U-d be lore, and it will be interesting to give the circumstances as detailed by the witnesses It scouts Torn Cole and Jauies Reed had a difficulty at the grocery on the Horn Luke road, kept by a man named Williams, only a few miles South of the city Friends interfered and the affair was quieted, Cole giving up his pi*tol. Shortly afterward Reed commenced quart cling again, and wouud up by j grasping the 1 it offensive Cole by the I throat ami drawing and raiding over his head a huge bowie knife. Cole seized j his hand and said. "1 aui your friend,' don't cut inc." Agaiu bystanders interfered and Reed started home; hut a drunken brute of a friend cried out to hitn, ' Jim, if you are a coward go home and go to bed, but if you are a man show l it, ami cut his liver out of him." Poor ' Reed was weak enough to listen to this drunken advice and agaiu assaulted Cole, doing his utmost to cut his throat. Cole I could not stand this attack, unarmed as he was, and it is said, he gave the Masonic sign of dire distress. Suddenly two pistol shots were heard and l'eed fell dead. The ballets pierced the breast of the unfurlnnate 111:111 and lie died almost immediately. None of tlie witnesses could say who fired the shot, and Cole's iips were sealed on the matter. The - - i? \t a* theory of the Attorney, u. r. .u. i urner, was that either some friend had quickly handed a pistol to Cole and that he had shot the man who w:in choking lum and threatening his life, or that sonic friend i if Cole's seeing his imminent [) ril, had sent the threefold aggressor to his long home. Cole was assured that he was perfectly justifiable if he hud done (hn kd'itig. hut no assuruuee couid make him open his mou'h on the matter. Jwjuiie Klliot >aid he saw no grounds upon which to commit the accused, but that he, ns a magistrate of the law, was couipi lhd to take notice oft lie fact that in the earlier part of the evening Cole had a pistol, and he therefore hound him over fur carrying conceded weapons. Tho Horrors of Trichiniaals. A Youngstown (Ohio) dispatch to the Cinciinia'i Enquirer says: "Sii weeks ago Fied. Hciik, Sr , a laborer at the Cirard Finiii.ee. killed a hog, and from the head and other rough puts made what is called 'wur.-t.' Of this (tie entire lutnily, numbering five, ate heartily in its law state. A fi w it ays afterward Mrs. Fred llenk was taken sick and d;cd on New Year's d.iy, the fannly physician pronouncing toe dis case tyjdins f-ver and rheuiiiatism Their two ihldren, Kva and Frederick, Ir. aged respectively five and ? ven year?, were taken sick shortly befor their mother Jicd, the symptoms being ths same. Another physician wa? culled in, and he pronounced tho dis? ?KfvtUw iWtr. W (rf i i^iwiibiib i 11 ??mnmmmm????? r 26, 1878. week ])r. Lauterman, of this city, a graduate of ihe University of Austria at Vienna, was called. He immediately declared the disease was trichina), other physicians ridiculing his diagnosis. Sunday Kva died and was huricJ. 'Yesterday Dr Lsuterman insisted | on reexamining the pork in use by the i family, and with the uaked eye white 1 bodies were discovered in the muscles, while with the aid of a microscope the ! thread-like worm, wound up spirally, ' were found in countless numbers. To: day a small portion of the muscle was j taken from an arm of the dead girl by i Dr. Lauterman, and. from calculations j made by him. one cubic inch of ntusi cle contains 100,000 trchinnc spirals "The hoy Pre d was visited today! ; by an Enquirer correspondent, w' o 1 found him Ivir.i? in Lei on his back, i ?/ ~ 'I ! with his arms and his le?rs wonderfully : i swollen and drawn out of shape by con- ; traction of the muscles. On touching tho muscles his pain became indescribable. I (is physician says death is almost inevitable. Mrs. Honk, si.-ter of! Kred lJenk. Sr., who lives with him, ! was taken sick to-day. Dr. Dauterman says that witiiin twenty four hours she ; will be prostrated with the terrible dis1 ease Ki nest Bonk, of this city nttcn. ; ded the l'uncal of Frederick on New ' Year's day and partook of the moat in, use in the IJiuk family, and yo-tcrduy | was prostrated with trichina?. Fork is at a discount- here. Never Marry a Man Who Drinks. That writer who said that, said all in a few words. It is a motto that every girl might have written upon the wall of the peaceful little chamber whore flic dreams her tuaiden dreams, and often makes up her mind to marry the ''dear, good fellow" whose only fault is taking a glass too much now and then, and re lurui linn alter marriage. It is :iil the umrn necessary that it should be written there, because '.he men who "drink are by no meaas the worst tn-u in the world. W? know the generous, warm-hearted men, men oI intellect and nn-u of power, have found the temptaiou too hard to witti-' stand, and that many a mail, otherwise ! contemptible and wicked, has never had ' "a glass too much" in his life;although it is also true that under tho influence of liquor, men have done deeds the | very though's of which would have j Sickened their sober souls. If only all men who were despicable in all otlwr respects, there would be little need or the warning; but, as it is, let every girl remember it, let every mother whisper it. Whatever his charms or his natural virtues may be, no woman can be happy with a drunkard. And he who will not give up ; drink for bis sweetheart's sake will ' never giro it up to please bis wife. If anything eau check a man in his career of dissipation, it will be the dread rf losing the girl ho loves. Say. "You shall never have tnc unless you forsake the bottle." and you may conquer him. | Failing in that, all your wifely tears Would fail a'so. Don't marry him. ' Hotter weep over your dead hopes, and 1 go single to the grave, than suffer what a drunkard makes his wile suffer. Never marry a man who drinks?Mary Kylo Dallas in New York Ledger. Deserving Boy6. We like boys to try to help thornselves Ev? ry one ought to bo friend!y to theui. The boys of energy and ambition, who make a manly effort to j do something for themselves, are the | hope of the country. Let their anxious J ears always catch words of encourage- j merit and cheer, for such words, like : a favoring breeze to the sails of a ship, j help to hear thcin forward to the desti- , j nation they s? ek. It is nut always as it should he in ! this respect. Many a heart has been i ! broken, many a young man of industry, j | animated by honorable motives, h;^t ; been discouraged by the sour words.. I the harsh aud unjust remarks of some j | unfeeling employer, or some relative I who should have acted the part of a , I friend. The unthinking do not eon-' 1 - - ? ?I. !-l- ... I. ' j sidi r the Wetgtlt Willi which >mn amarks sometimes i;t11 upon a sensitive spirit, and how they may bruise and , break it. I If you can not do anything to aid J and u-sist young men, you ought to ah- j 1 stain from throwing obstacles in their ' i way. Hut (an you not do something ' to help them iorward Vou can at i 1 h ast sty God-speed to them, and can j say it feelingly from your heart. Vou i ! little know how much bouefit to boys I ' and young men encouraging counsel, l given fitly and well timed, may be; and j in the groat day of uccount. such words ! addressrtd to llnse in nc-d of them, your need you may find reckoued among your ! ! good (b eds, j Then help the boys who try to help i themselves. Vou can easily recall simple word* of kindness addressed to your- j self in childhood and youth, nrd you; would now like to kiss the lips that spoke them, though they may long since ; have been sealed with the silence of I death and covered with the clods of the | valley. ) The Chicago Tribi/ie relates the fol; lowing pleading incident : As, at a wedding in Hoy no avenue the other eve! ning, they were gathered around the 1 happy couple (the bride was a widow) ! congratulating them, an over-sensitive ! friend hurst into tears and sobbed, j -How glad I am her poor dear Arthur is not aitve to sec this day ! It would have bioketi his heart to set his wife married to some one els**!" Then she went into hysterics and was removed, having cuit u gloom oyer the commabit/. NUMBER 33 Gobing and Gobang. Tlicro was an interesting case before I Police Judge Wilson the other day. A man bearii.tr the singular name of Goban^ was charged with committing an assault and at the same time battering . an individual answering to the rcmark' able patronymic of Gobang. The names i having such a striking similarity the I Judge had some difficulty in establish* ing which was which, and a stupid wit-: ness in the case added considerably to 1 the confusion. 'Now tell me.' said the Judge, 'who) was the aggressor in this case ?' i Witness: 'Who's he V Judge: 'Who's who?' Witness: 'A. GrcssorV Judge: [ mean ibe tnan who struck j the first blow ?' Witness: Gobing. He hit him, Go-! bang?' (smiting his fists together to! show how lie did it ) Judge: 'Did Gobang hit back ?' \Vilnrs? '\Tn lir> rlidn'f. lilm in llin ! back ' j. Judge : 'How did he hit him V Witness: 'Ho hit him, Gobing I'j (another fistic pantomime.) ji Judge : 'Well, was that ail?' Witness* 'All of Gobing?' Judge : 'No. all of the fight.' Witness: 'With Gobang?' Judge : 'I'll Gobaogyou if you don't answer my questions, properly. You j ain't so stupid as you appear. Now ' commence and tell all you know about' this figbt, or an officer will Gobing you 1 down stairs and lock you up.' Witness: 'Well, your honor. I stood ij talking with one of the men " Judge: 'With Gobing?' Witness: 'No, with Gobang; and the other fellow cuaie up and hit ' Judge: 'Gobang?' Witness: 'No, this was Gobing that i< came up and then it is was, Cubing !j (fists smite together) and Gobang ! (an- j other smite) first one and then the i other, and then they cliuchrd and went j \ down, he on the top.' I .J udfxc: 'Gobang?' h Witness: 'No, uo, Cubing. Then | the polic? came up, and your honor,1! that is all I know about it.' I Judge : 'And a very remarkable sto- 1 ry it is, too. Case dismissed. Gobingi; and Gobang cau go.' j I Witness: 'And whsre shall I go,' j your honor V Judge: 'Go-haug!'?CincinnatiSrl~ urdujy Xijht. 1 Killed for Being a Soceress. Advices received -from British Co* ; lunibin report a singular murder there of an aged white woman by an Okana-' gan chief named lied Berry. The old! woman was the widow of James Grisdale, one of the first while settlers in ,' the Okanagan district. She was re-11 putcd to be wealthy, and was accounted 1 a soceress by the Indians around about, j Several of lied Berry's horses had died i of a murrain, some weeks ago, and the , medicine men of the Okanagaos held 1 that Mrs. Grisdale had afflicted them with the disease. Red Berry at once started for her abode, and finding her on her knrcs at prayer, concluded that he had caught her in the very act of ptac- 1 ti.*ing her black art, and with ouo blow of a club da-bed her brains out. lie men il)ioriU"u inc wnue winrn ncur ly what ho had done, and asked them lo reward him for ridding their flocks and herds of an evil spirit. He was arrested and taken to the jail at Okan-, agan. lied Ilcrry. beyond doubt thought j h? was doing the community a merito- j rious service. Tho Mississippi Monster. The monster seen in the Mississippi; river above Memphis a few months ago' by the captain and crew of a tuwboat re-! appealed the other day near island ninety j five. This time the frightful creature wus seen by some of the crew of a pro-' ducc boat. The monster's body was shaped like a snake's, his tail forked like a fish's and his bid formed like a pcli- i can's. His bill was about six feet long and a flowing black uianestood nut from his head, which was erected eight feet above the water, as ho swam majestically d"?n the stream. One twist of; his forked tail knocked off the steering! oar of the produce boat and sent the; crew in terror to the hold. The ill: starred craft now lies moored at Vicksliurg, deserted by all the crew- but one | man, the others believing that tho tnon-! ster is lying in wait for this particular | boat to sink it out of sight. No Escape. Every condition of life, ho it what it i may, has hardsnips, haz-rds, pains. Wc i fry to escape them; wc pine for a shel-j tereil lot. lor a smoothc path, for cheer- I in?i friends and unbroken success, Hut j Providence ordains storms, disasters, , hostilitcs, suffering; and the great qu*s- | tion whether we shall live to any pur-1 pose or not. whether we shall prow strong in mind and heart, or be weak and pitia-' ble. depends on nothing so much as on 1 our use of these adverse circumstance?, j Difficulty is the element and resistance i the true mark ol a man. Self-culture' never noes on so fast as when embarrassed circumstances, unexpected changes of the times, or other forms of suffering, instend of disheartening, throw us on our inward resources, clear tip to us the great purpose of life and inspire calni resolu-1 lion. Thus all conditions may be pressed into the service of self-improvement. It is said that at three years old we love our mothers; at six our fathers; at, ten our holidays; at sixteen dress; at j twenty our awec'hoarts; at twenty-five; our wives, at fori) our cuildrtu, tod lit. Wily ourselves. * - I ADVERTISING RATES. Timk. 1 in. | col. \ col. 1 col. i 1 week, $1 00 $5 00 $0 00 $15 00 12 " 175 7 <70 12 25 20 00 3 " 2 50 0 00 15 25 24 00 4 " 3 00 10 50 lb 00 27 50 '5 " .'150 11 75 20 50 21 00 ? ' 4 00 12 50 22 75 24 00 ' 7 " 4 50 12 25 24 75 37 00 18 ? 5 00 14 00 20 00 40 00 3 mos C 50 17 00 32 00 50 00 4 " 7 50 10 00 30 50 5'J 00 j 0 " 8 50 24 00 48 00 84 00 1 9 " 0 50 20 00 50 00 105 00 j 12 ' 10 25 35 00 08 00 120 00 tv TranRiont advertisements roust l>e accon ' anied with the ca?h to insure Insertion. I JT A Dangerous Present. The Czar Kent to the Shah of Persia a Krupp cun. The present was landed at Knziii, on the Caspian Sea, but it took a month's labor Ly a regiment of the Persian army to get the cannon to TeheraD. Arrived there, a day was appointed to fire it. X' e court and almost the entire population of the city assembled. Bang! went the cannon, away scampered half the multitude, and down tumbled the minaret off one of the city gates, near which the gun had been placed, But there was nuothcr disaster. In an hours time a messenger arrived from a village five uiilcs away, and reported that its inhabitants were bewailing the loss of their mosque. The cannon ball from the cannon had struck the building and ruiocd ?t J ho Shah was so dismayed by the effect that lie never permitted the cannon to be fired off again. Bound to Oct Spliced. { A well dressed negro applied to tho judge of probate of Mobile for a marriage license. He was a3kcd how old his intended was, and unswered with great animation i 'Just sixteen, judge?3wcet sixteen, and do liundi-omcst girl in town/ The judge said lie could not do it, as the law forbade him to issue a license to any one under eighteen. 'Well, liolo on judge,' exclaimed the man. I know dat dem girls am deceitful and lie about detr age. She is nineteen if a day/ 'Will you swear to it V asked the judge. 'Y?s, sah,' replied ho, and he did. 'And how oid are you?' said the judge. The chap looked suspicious, and replied cautiously ; 'Thirty-five,' and added, 'if Jat woi/t do, judge, ' I've got more back.' * 31ie Accommodated Him. Easton (l'a.) Free I'rcss: We don't waut a Moore Towusliip girl for a lung tester. At a singing school up there :he other night a young man was bragging about the strength of his lungs, ^ xnd invited a girl in tlio company to hit him iu the breast. She said she was left-handed; had been washiug that day,' ind was tired, and didn't feel very active, but at his urgent request sho let at him. When his frieads went to pick him up lie said that hu thought he would die easier lying down. lie b&d lost all recollection of having any lungs but the young wouian consoled him by admitting that she didn't hit him as hard us she might have, because she rather liked him. Death. We shall come to the time when we shall have but ten days left, eight days, seven days, sis days, three day9, two days, one day. And then hours; three hours, two hours, one hour. Only minutes arc now left; three seconds, two seconds, one second. Gone ! Life's chapter ended ! The books arc closed ! The pulse at rest! The feet through witli the jourrmy ! The hands closed from all work ! No word on the lip ! no breath on the nostril! All the muscles arc stiil, the lungs stiil, the tongue still, the nerves still, all still!. You might put a speaking trumpet to the ear, but could not break the deafness. No motion ! No throb ! No life! Still! Still! 0, doathly stillnes ! Lots of Time LeftOn the 31st of December, a uedes triun of Brush street came across a boy about thirteen years old, who was try* ing to pet up a bloody battle between a pout and a dog. Tho man halted and said? 'Boy, what sort of way is that to end the old year.'' 'But the goat kin lick if he's a mind to sail iu,' protested the boy. 'No matter if he can, you ought to feel ashamed to end the year in this manner.' 'What time is it.?'queried the lad. Three o'clock,' was the answer. Nine hours yet to repent in ! Go for hiui Watch?stand up to him Billy 1' veiled the young imp.?Detroit Fie* Dress. Marriages. Last year 34.072 couples were united in holy wedlock iu London, no fewer than 29,001 of these b-ing solemnized in the Established Church. In 26,2ti7 cases marriage was by bauns, the least expensive mode. Of the 34.000 cele- j brations, 27,339 were marriages of spin- 4 stcrs and bachelors; 2.017 widowers again tempted fortune with spinsters, while 1.759 betook themselves to widows tor consolation. Widowers wore captured in greater numbers than widows, 3,770 of those manly natures having again submitted to blissful bondage, while only 3,d'Jl> lemale relicts naa tne nerve or the good fortune to follow their example. Art of Swimming. Men are drowned by raising their arms out of the water, the unbuoyed weight of which depresses the head. Other auimils have neither notion or ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into the water he may move bis hands as he pleases if he does not raise them out of the water and his head will rise high enough to allow him to breathe; and if be will use his leg.* as in the aet of walking up stairs his shoulders will rise also These plain direct'ens are recommended to the recollection of all who have not learned to swim, a? they may be found useful in preserving life. An era unknown to wom?Q-*ih? mid* die tge?>