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VOL. IX. Oarpe Diem. I*rlU b* tatnrrj in ny Mtf-depeirlair; Lmw aw to dnwn»,lbotich bitter be thetraky 'Hpt ' ■ llmow—I know the danger In the distance. The clouds that gather now will soon be break* log. 1 wiu be happy, though the far borlaon Be dark wnh clouds, while lightnings flash their warning; Still will Move the summer stmshlne better— Remember more the brightness of the morn ing. * Do ropes grow less perfect In their beauty Because their petals fa^and fade to-morrow? Shall? not smile and sli9 to-day, forgetting, Though smiles may turn to bitterest tears of sorrow? let me be happy, life Is hard and gloomy; Its sweetest pleasures grudgingly are given— So stern, at kindest, that we needs must cher ish Each brief reminder of our ruined heaven. —Helen Hawthorne, In The Cottage Hearth. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1885. Beyond These Voices. Dead love, l leave thee in the morning gray, Shunning the heavens, wan and misty smile; Not e’en Its brighter coming can beguile My lingering woe. Love turns to thee alway in passionate hunger. Memory will not stray From thee and all thy radiant loveliness. Wilt thou not waken tonne last caress That 1 may cease my sorrow to bewray? Farewell, farewell, unheeded here 1 yearn From thoughts of earth my vision to estrange. God doth not heed I Man mocks at my despair. And tlower-fllled hands tempt me away to turn. Yet blindly weeping 1 can never change— Love guards thy tomb and bids mo worship there. —G. B. Burgtn in Detroit Free Press. SMITH’S WIFE. “Mrs. Smith, 1 am astonished at yon.” Now, this was not by any means an assertion sui generis. In fact, accord ing to his own statement, John Smith was "astonished” at his wife at laast once a day on an average. Mrs. Smith was used to 1L She was a tall, slight woman, scarce ly more than a child in years, with shining brown hair, large dark eyes, and cheeks that had been as pink as sea-shells in the days of her happy maiden life. They were white and wasted now—a circumstance that might perhaps be easily accounted for by the little babe on her lap and the 2-year- old elf who was tottering about the room in aimless pursuit of kittens, sun beams. and other baby delights. "Things are all at sixes and sevens,” went on Mr. Smith, tying his cravat before the mi?ror and viciously twist ing it into a knot. "Coal wasted, but ter thrown into the soap-grease jar, dish-towels taken Jor stove-cloths, and my third-best pants sold to a deal er in tinware for a funnel and two pie- plalters! i never heard anyriking so outrageous in my life.” "But, my dear,” meekly interposed the much-enduring wife, "wo needed the tinware, and you had not worn the garments for a year. They were full of moths.” v "There it is again,” said Mr. Smith. "The moths would never have got into ’em if you had taken proper precau tions. 1 never heard of a moth in my mother’s time. And now yon are act ually asking permission to visit your brother up the Hudson.” “I have not oeen away from home before since we were married, John.” piteously pleaded Mrs. Smith. “I feel almost woru out, aud 1 think the change would do mo good.” “Aud what is to become of me!” sonorously demanded the husband. Mrs. John Smith thought of the day s masonic excursion last week, the trout-fishing expedition into the Cats kills a fortnight since, the races at Jerome Park, and the drives to High Bridge with Parker, Betts, and Frisbee in uu open barouche, all within the month. But she said nothing except: "It don’t cost much to go, John. Aud I’ll only stay away a week. Do let me go! The doctor says the fresh air might help baby along with his teeth, aud little Johnny is drooping this hot weather.” "Well," said Mr. Smith, us ungra ciously as possible, "1 suppose you’ll have to go. Five dollars at least it will cost me, and altogether our ex penses are ruinous this year. See how Georgiana Trotter manages for her husband. I don’t suppose it costs them half to live that it does us. I might have married Georgiana Trotter once. I almost wish I had.” It was on Mrs. Smith’s lips to utter: "So do I!” But she looked at the lit tle children and was silent. "Yes,” wont on Mr. Smith; “I sup pose you must go. Only, for pity^s sake, don’t get into the habit of run- running all the time. I needn’t send up anything from the butcher’s, I sup pose? I shall dine down-town, and there'll be enough left on the cold knuckle of yesterday’s ham for you!” Mrs. Smith abstained from remind ing her husbaad that he had himself breakfasted on the remains of the ham. She only sighed and was silent "It’s his way," she thought "He means well enough. And I suppose all men are so. Only I wish he had kissed me good-by!” Woman nature all overt She could do without her dinner contented, eat ing a crust of bread in stead, but her heart yearned hungrily for the omitted caresa, the ignored word of tenderness. Poor Mrs. John Smith 1 How the strong-minded of her sex would have pitied and despised her! No light! no tire! It was drflary enough on that chill August evening, as Mr. Smith screwed the night*key into the lateh and groped his way in the halL He sat down in the bay-win dow and stared about the vacant room. There was bis wife’s work-basket on the table, her little rocking-chair stand ing vacant beside it, while Johnny’s forgotten rattle lay on the floor oleee by. "It’s denoed lonely,” muttered Mr. Smith, with something of a shiver. "I hope Jcanv won’t stay long.” And as he lighted" bis cigar and whiflbd a guilty sense of bis own i came upon him. "ft moflt'tave been rather a stupid life tor her hen, poor little thingl” thought bn “I might have uomu thought h» "I might louilfto keep fin company a times whea l didn*. She Mr* Bed for it He moved his chair uneasily and emitted a thread of blue, spicy smoke from his lips very much as if he were not enjoying it particularly. "I suppose they are at Bilberry farm by this time,” said he to himself. "I suppose the younkers are iu bed and Jenny is sitting out ou the piazza, list ening to the whippoorwiPs. I’ve almost a mind to go out there to-morrow even ing, and take some peaches and ba nanas and things. It would be a pleas ant surprise for Jenny, and—hello! What’s that! A ring at the bell?” Flinging his cigar into the unused grate, John Smith shuffled along to, the door in his slippers. "Oh—a telegram! Now, I wonder who should telegraph to me!” "Well,” said the shivering and rain- drenched messenger, "p’raps you’d better open it and see. AnywajL I’ve no call to'hang around hero no? long er!” And off ha went, while Me. Boaith carried his buff envelope back to the parlor light and somewhat nervously tore it open. Cowdbky, Aug. —, To John Smith: Railroad accident. Your wife is killed and your chilli dangerously hurt. Come by the next train. Jared Mehkdith, M. D. Again and again Mr. Smith’s be wildered eyes roved over the contents of this appalling missive before lie coaid fully comprehend its deadly meaning. "Dead! Killed!” he muttered to him self. "My Jenny killed by a railroad accident!’' 1 And then, catching a railway guide from the book-shelf, he whirled over its leaves with trembling hand. The next train did not leave the terminus under an hour and a half! To him the time seemed almost like eternity. How could he endure this awful agony of soul for an hour and a half? "Perhaps they are incorrect,” he muttered to himself, wiping the beads of cold sweat from his brow. “People can’t always judge exactly in such a moment of dismay. Perhaps she is only badly hurt, and 1 can nurse her through it after all. My Jenny! my loving, patient, swcet-eyoU wife!” A strong sob rose up in his throat as if It would strangle him. “No, no, she is killed!” iie gasped, as his eye fell once more on the telegram. “Dead! and 1 never can speak to tier again or tell her what a cruel, exacting brute 1 have been! God knows i didn't mean it, and now it’s too late to make any amends. Why didn't the children go too? How can I bring them up with out Jenny?” His head drooped low op his quiver ing hands; a low, spasmodic groan burst from his pale lips. An hour aud a half before ho could go to Jenny; half an hour then, before ho copid look upon her dead face; for Cowi/rey was an insignificant way station some eight or ten miles up the road. “If I could only live my life over again!” he cried aloud to the bare walls, while light in his arms ho clasp ed Jenny’s little work-basket, with its strips of unlimshed hemming—all that was left to him of the fair, departed E resence. “If I could only speak to er just once, and ask her forgiveness for a thousand things. But, no—it is too late—too late. And ” He stopped abruptly. The sound of a hack driving hastily up to the door, the reiterated jerk of the bell-wire roused him once more into reluctant action. “John! dear John!’ “Jenny, my wife!” He stood, pale and stupefied, staring at her as if she were actually a ghost returned from the regions of space and unreality. “There has been a terrible railroad accident!” said Jenny, her voice falter ing, as she laid the baby on a sofa and took little Johnny lovingly on her lap —“a few miles beyond Cowdrey. Three or four people were killed, but, thank God, we escaped unhurt. Of course, I took the first train back that I could, for I knew you would hear of it and be uneasy. And only to think, dear, there was a poor mothor killed, with her little babe in her arms, and her name was the same as mine—‘Mrs. John Smith.’ ” He pointed one trembling finger to the telegram, which lay open on the table. Mrs. Smith reda it with dilated eyes and pale face. “Oh! ruv love, what a fright you have had!” she exclaimed. “And only to rellect, it might have been me!” “But it is not Oh! thank heaven, my own darling wife, it is not!” gasp ed the husband, holding his recovered treasure close to his heart “And I have yet time to live my life over again!” And from that hoar John Smith was a changed man. To Jenny it seemed almoatlike millennium, bat Mrs. Geor gians Trotter tnrned up her nose and ■aid: "John Smith must be in his dotage, spending all his lime and money in carriages to'the park, extra help, and fine clothes for that pale-faced wife of his. John Smith always Was a fooll” —York Daily Newt. beg Before Wicket Very young ladies, who enjoyed the doubtful privilege of having schoolboy brothers, were sometimes permitted or compelled to join in their games of cricket So long as they reveled in the short skirts of infancy the experi ment was fairly sacoessful, bat the crinoline of maturer years interposed an impenetrable screen between the bell and the wickets, to the exaspera tion and despair of the bowler. Gal lantry no less than decorum forbade the perpetual verdict of "leg before,” which, m strict jostioe, should often have cat short the fair cricketer’a in ning. This seriously interfered with theencoees of feminine cricket, and occasionally—such is the frank brutal ity of boyhood—with harmonicas re lations between the players. With the decline ef this special branch of sport the question has really loet its pnuTtical interest Bnt it is to be fear ed that the diflftelty, an far ee it snr- ef that "Wforoatioa at in the m the Allentto—tesdew Seeirf j. CURIOUS CALCULATION. The End of thf> Wmld Kiirnr-d Oat, and the Perl oil Fixed at ISfO. The following singular ami very cu- rius calculation, by which the ap proaching end of the world is deter mined, has never imfoie been made known to the pub,io. ivnica a Water loo, Kan., cuttvsp >nl«>nt of tlm Louis ville Couricr-Jotc,•<;*/. and may be of very great interest to those who have been studying the prophecies, or watching the progress of human events. Believe the re-mlts <>r no!, as we may, nevertheless here are the figures, which any reader can verify for himself. If these results are hero correctly fore told, lliuu the startling fact «tar< s us in the faco that the world ig within fifteen years of its rinse, in the tall of 1899 the final winding up is to lake kpltce. Here are the c&lculatipns. Let the peader carefully examine them: I'dfeegiq, There are seven! impor tant prophetic periods made known in the scriptures, and various dales, as well as significant numbers, such as the great period of 2,500 years men tioned by Daniel, the period of 1,290 years, aud the period of 1,856 years. Besidea these there are in the book of Revelation other periods and signifi cant numbers, such as the 1,200 years; the period of the woman’s sojourn in tho wilderness, 1,000 years the period of Satan's being bound, and 66G the number of beasts. Enoch’s age (365 years), wh9 , ’ prophesied of the second advent among the antediluvian sinners, is also beyond all question a symbolic number. Ferhaps, like tbe 365 days which complete one revolution of the earth around the sun, making one year, so his 365 years may be symbolic of the great prophetic periods known as “days,” one grand revolution of w hich is to complete one of time's groat) oars aud timsU earth's career. “Seven” is also one of the significant numheri of scripture, aud a “week of seven,” or 7 times 7, still more so. The student of scripture will readily recall frequent instances of this siguiticaul figure 7, and especially tfie more important one of 7 times 7, or 49—the number of final completion, the finishing of all mys teries, the w inditlg Up of earth’s affairs. Very well. Now, take tiieso figures, add them together, aud see what you get: 2,300 years, Dan’s great period for tho cicaoiing of the sanctuary. 1.290 year s, measuring tno continu ance of the “abomination of desola tion.” 1,535 years, the period of "blessed ness’ ’ to the saints. 1,260 years, the duration of the wo man’s sojouru in tho wilderness. 1,000 years, tho binding of Satan. 666 years, the number ol tlio “beast” who is to go into perdition. 365 years, tho symbolic age of Enoch, the great prophet of the advent. 49 years, tho number of final comple tion. Total 8,265 years. Now remember that before all tho catastrophes denounced on mankind as the divine judgments against sin there were usually periods of "waiting” bo- fore tho judgment foil, so as to afford opportunity of repentance and escape, anil these periods multiples of 40, as, for example, before the flood, 120 years; before the conquest of Canaan, 40 years; and before tne fall of Nine veh, 40 days, denounced by the pro phet Jonah. Now add together 120 years of Noah’s warning before tho flood came, 40 years of Israel’s warn ing before judgment fell on the guilty Canaanites, 3J years that the witnesses laid unburied preparatory to resurrec tion, aud three years during which the owner of tho vineyard came Peeking fruit and finding none, at the expira tion of which period tho fig tree was to be cut dowu, and you have 166J as the sum. Now, to apply these mystic numbers and learn their significance, imagine your life divided into the four periods of childhood, youth, manhood, and old a^e, so as to get it in iu completeness. Take your age in years, leaving of! months and days, add it to itself three times (one for each of these four periods), add to it the mystic number 8,265 (the sum of the great prophetic periods) in order to ascertain the full sum of time's revolutions, and divide the amount of four (the number of univeraality, because these calculations apply equsdly to every human being), subtract from the quotient the other mystic number 166} (periods of warn- ing given to man before the execution of final doom), and from the remainder deduct the number of years you have lived in this sublunary world, and yon get the number 1,899}. Now it matters not what age you take, that of the little child or the old man, the result is tho same, the omni- ous 1,899} always renuins as the one fatal period when every human life ia to close. But the one year in which every human career is to. terminate and every life dose must be the final ye&r, the winding up, the conclusion of all sublunary things, the year of doom. A singular confirmation of this cal culation is to be found in the fact that, according to an old Jewish tradition, the world was created m the fall of the year, of which the old. feast of trum pets, occurring in October, waa sup posed to be tbe memorial. And it would be natural to suppose that it would be very appropriate for it to close its* career on the completion of one of its annual revolutions; in othe words, in the fall of the year. And to this remarkable calonlation plainly in dicates. The three-fourths singularly points out that fact Hence, if theee conclusions are not erroneous, we have the startling prophecy before us that when earth reaches one of her great milestones on the highway of time in October, 1899, a mighty hand will be laid upon her and she will stop. Let the worn look out for 1899. ■ A ' ■■ An ancient burying ground was re cently unearthed in Paris while dig- trench in the Roe fiaiande. The ging a in coffins of stone and plaster fbund there have been traced to the seventh, eighth and ninth osotariee. They pointed to tho efcrt and had crosses inscribed qfe M'. dreto, symbeitoul of nity, fludwiywr emblems of The OonfMernSe Capital. Contrary to the common belief, then was no lick of provisions or delicacies in Richmond at any time daring the war, but the prices Measured by al leged dollars wen simply stupendous. I do not remember that there was any actual suffering among the people, al though food and drink were of course economically dealt with. I recollect alto that there woe a bread riot of so largo proportions ae to'call for tho in tervention of the military, but the wo men, black and white, who wore the chid participants, were of*tho lowest class, and were instigated not by want so much as pure deviltry. It is a curious fact that what arc call ed tho lower classes fared better, as far as provisions were concerned, than the officeholders or wealthier citizens. Tho salaries of the office holders, both con federate and statu, were grossly inade quate to provide for their families, and tno wealthier citi»oa¥tt the outset of the war had invested, almost without exception, all their available means iu the 8 per cent bonds of the confederate government Those who owned slaves, by hiring them out obtained large re turns, for labor was in great demand; but the trouble was that the confeder ate authorities conscripted all able- bodied negroes as drivers of mule teams, laborers on the fortifications, etc., just as they conscripted able-bod ied whites for service iu tho field, and the hire given to the masters was but a tithe of what could have been procured in open market. Talk about Washington being a city of boarding-houses aud restaurants, why it was not a circumstance to the confederate capital. Nearly every house, and especially of limited means, was filled with lodgers, and nearly every other house was an eating-house. Tho poorer whites and blacks made money band over fist by cooking pro visions aud selling them from stands ou tho streets and at tho depots to the huge swarms of hungry people who were constantly coming and going. The population proper of Richmond was not a fourtfi of the vast crowd that daily and nightly congre gated witfiiu its corporate limits. It was the Mecca of the confederacy, ayd tho pilgrimages made thereto wore Constantin tlieir coming. Officers aud soldiers, Jewish merchants, "ex empts.” blockade-runners, refugees fr^i Maryland aud West Virginia and fr^Pcounties of tho Slate hold by the federals poured m a steady stream into tho lap ol the city, and the people of tho city made their living, aud. indeed, it may ue said in many instances wax ed fat, in feeding and lodging tho hun gry horde. The home guards, organized to de fend tno capital, comprised ail tho officials in tho confederate and state departments, aud no man was exempt who was able to tiro a rifle from be hind a breastwork. These field no drills, but marched iu a body, with regular order, to the breastworks when the alarm boll in the capitol square rang forth the warning peal of the approach of tho enemy — so many strokes, i think.—Murray m Wathiny- Ion Republican. - toB Money Better Thau Titles. Yes, it is money that commands re spect in this country, speaking gener ally, writes a New York correspondent. We really care scarcely anything for distinction of birth. Tho worship of foreign aristocracy prostrates lew of us. Noblemen tourists com maud at tention from only an insignificant por tion of Now York. Tho hotels are full of ^titled travelers, aud they are not hunted much. “ihe sallow man leaning against the post,” 1 hoard a hotel clerk say to a guest, “is the Marquis no Monclur, wiio has crossed the Atlantic to bo tho French consul at Quebec. The man talking with him is the Viscount de Thurv, <»n a trip around tho world. is a Fans notable. The Spaniard over yonder, in the center of a group of his couutrymou, is the Marquis de C'astelfuerte. The chap who just asked me to send a package to his room waa Lord Henry Faulet, of England.” The recipient of this information waa not deeply improsaod. He acarcoly followed with his glance the directiona indicated, and did not deign a eom- meut on tho accumulation of aristo cracy. "Do you ace the red-headed fellow aitting on the aofa?” aaid the clerk. "He was a bell boy in this hotel ten years ago. He went west, pitched in to cattle ranching, and has already made his million.” Now thflJtearer waa alert. His ears seemed to ^aiver with tho reception of the words, and his eyeballs threatened to quit their sockets to get a closer view of the self-enriched individual. “Can’t you manage to introduce me?” he asked eagerly. An hour later I saw him still deeply absorbed in con versation with the red-haired man, while he doubtless could’t have identi fied one of the noblemen who had been pointed out In 1874 Clarence A Portley, who had lately graduated from West Point, married Miss Maggie Alexander, daughter of Dr. Alexander, a New York millionaire. When the wedding ceremony was over he handed his son- in-law an envelope containing $100,000 in government bonds. "Thank you,” replied the gratified son-in-law; and then he asked, “But ae we are going away would it not be better that you should keep the money till we return ?”i "ITl do so,” answered the delighted father-in-law, and hie half-choked words, "God bless you, my childrenl” were lost among the eiatler of the de parting carriage and tho valedictory shouts. Not long ago Mr. Alexander died without a will, and no mention was made of the $100,000, though his property was left to hie daughter. A friendly suit has now bees Instituted to determine the ownership of the $100,- 000, the wife wanting her husband to have the meney. A Beaton ite UelieUa aaye that flF wBF buy ae much of tbe necessaries of life to-day us $1.60 ia 1876, $L$9 in 1866, 91 neats ia 1846, and $1.19 in la other words ton purchasing power of $1 is 1$ percent greater-than it was in 1866. A dollar will bwy mow to-4ay than mtoosi fWthnto periods to tho <r it'.'* THE TUSCAjpKAS. Tbe story of the Tuscarotae la a checkered one. They were adopted into the Iroquois in 1712. They came from North Carolina in 1708, where they had 16 towns and 1,600 warriors. Their existence there was the same as all other tribes, the same old story— encroachments by tho whites, who robbed them of their lands, and when resistance followed long and bloody border wars ensued. They burnt one Lawson, the surveyor general of North Carolina, who had marked some of their, territory Into lots for settlers. They captured the German Baron de Graffenried, but released him after five weeks on his promise that he would occupy none of their lands without their consent In 1713 invaders of their territory captured 800 Tusoaroras in a fort on the Nouso river. These were killed ami sold as slaves into South Carolina. Tho remnant migr&tdt^ to New York os others had previously done. Previous to this Tuscaroras, ou tho 22 of September, 1711, had killed 130 Whites on Albemarle sound. In tho war of the Revolution most of the Iroquois adhered to tho Finglish, but many of the Tuscaroras andOneidas were friendly to the colonists. When Gen. Sullivan and Col. Gansevoort made their destructive campaign a- f ;aiust the Indians ou tho route to the ower Mohawk castle they were treated with every mark of friendship and hos pitality iu passing through the Tusca- rora and Oneida castles. These officers had been ordered to spare the Tusca roras and Onoidas. such portions of these tribes as had been English allies escaped in canoes ou Oneida lake, thence dowu the Oswego river, and coasted along Lake Ontario to the Brit ish garrison at F’ort Niagara In 1780 the Tuscaroras camped on a mile square given them by the Senecas, which is a part of their present reservation. Tho Holland^ company subsequently gave them two square mile* of which in 1804 they added by purchase 4,329 acres, making tho total of their reser vation 6,249 acres. Tho United States government paid for tho purchase $13,- 722, being part of tbe trust funds held by tho United Stales on final adjust ment of the claims of the Tuscaroras upon North Carolina. Thus the Tus caroras connaeneed their settlement in the town of Lewiston 17 years previous to the advent of the Holland Land com pany aud 19 or 20 years before tho commencement ot settlements there by white*. The Tuscaroras were thus the pioneer settlers in this region, aud the most kindly relations have existed be tween them and tbe whites ever since. In the war of 1812 the Tuscaroras were the allies of tbe Americans against the English. The Mount Pleasant family, of whom John is now the chief of the Tusca roras, have a prominent history in the border wars of the old time. His grand father was a "big Indian,” having been a captain in the British army, and at one time commandant of Fort Niagara. His son John was the fatherof the pres ent chief. He was 68 years old in 1849, and has left records of his early expe rience in this region. He states there were no crows in the Niagara region until after the war of 1812. Deer were not plenty, and tho wolves haunted them, driving them into the lake, and waiting until they, wearied with swim ming, came on shore and were caught and devoured. When tho wolves were hunted out deer became plenty. Bears were plenty in some localities, and panthers were occasionally killed here abouts. Bittern’s white owls, and flocks of swan were seen about Niagara falls and ou the islands and in the marshes. Wild cranberries abounded, and there were a groat number of beaver dams. Salmon three feet long were often taken in Flightecn Mile creek, near Lockport, and below the falls of the Oak orchard. The "woods aro full" of Indian stories and romances through out all this region of Niagara county. The lands hereabout belonged to the original Holland purchase. The tint white child born on the great Holland purchase was on tho 19th of June, 1801— “a tine boy,” as the - record* state. He was subsequently Col. Henry B. Ransom, of Clarence. In October, 1798, which was before the Holland land purchase, on the present site of Buffa lo, there were but eight buildings, all log houses, of which Asa Ransom oc cupied one. He subsequently removed to Pine grove, and was the father of the “fine boy.” As late as 1806 there were only 19 dwellings in Buffalo.—iiansonti vilU (A'. Y.) Cor. Troy Budget. The Unlucky Opal. "The prejudice against opals may be dying out, but a jpeat many people still hold to the belief that they bring bad lock,” said a jeweler tbe other day. "1 could tell you of a little inoi- dent that occurred here that may make you wonder whether some people do not manage to get themselves born three centuries too late. A man came here with a nog that had a beautiful opal iu it, and told me to take out tho stone and let him see tome other gum to put in its place. I asked him if be was going to get rid of the opal altogether, and he said he was going to destroy it. I was rather snrprisecC and said: “ ‘Don’t do that; I’ll give you $60 for it.’ "He declared that ho didnH want money for it; that it had brought him nothing but bad luck since ho 'bought it; that he had failed iu business and loet two of his children, and all, of course, on account of a little piece of stone. I went orer to that bench and took the opal out of its setting, and while looking at the ring I laid the gem on the bench beeide me. As quick as a flash that man picked np a ham mer that was lying among the tools and hit the stone a whack that smash ed it into a thousand pieces. There was nothing left" Then be said ‘TbereP in n satisfied manner. It's too bed, for the opal is one of the pret tiest gems in tbe world.”—A’sw York Sun. _ . The largest apple tree in tho United States is growing at Cheshire, Conn. It U 60 feet high, spreads 100 feet, and yields from 76 to 110 bushels of pies per year on alternate sides of Z One day early in 1828 he went tor a Walk with Lora Langdale, one of his intimate friends, over some fields which are now covered by the mansions of Belgravia. The con Venation tnrned on Southey’s recently published narra tive of the Peninsular war. Lord Lang dale was greatly struck by Napier’s re marks on the events of the struggle and tbe characters of tbe principal act ors. Suddenly he asked him what he was thinking of doing. "Do you mean,” replied Napier, "where am I going to dine?” “No,” said Lord Langdale; “what are yon thinking of turning to as an occupation?” Then he urged him to turn to literature. The article on Jominl proved that he could write. He must not waste biy life in more amusement Why should he not write a history of tho War him self? On returning homo Napier told his wife what Lord Langdale had mid, and added that he himself felt doubtful whether ho was clever enough to write properly such a book as a history of the war. But she, believing firmly in her husband, encouraged him to try. F’or several nights ho lay awake think ing over the matter. At last his scru ples were overcome by the thought that he might be able at least to vindi cate the calumniated memory of Moore; and he resolved to . make the attempt. Those of his acquaintances who did not really know him were sur prised to hear of his intention, and re marked that being comparatively a young man, ho was 'presumptuous to think that he could write such a his tory. Having formed his resolve he lost no time in proceeding to execute it. F'irst of ail, he called upon the Duke of Wellington and asked him for the loan of his papers. Tbe Duke re plied that he bad himself thought of writing a plain, didactic history of the war, which should bo published after his death. Till thou it wonld be im possible to make known the whole truth without giving pain to many worthy officers, whose only fault bad been dullness. F'or these reasons he told Napier that he could not lend him his private papers; but he intrusted him with a number of important docu ments, and gave aim autUority to ob tain from the Quartermaster-General, Sir George Murray, all his orders of movements. Of his own accord he promised to answer any quesliona as to matters of fact which Napier might wish to ask him in ths course of tus work. Murray, however, refused to let Napier have the orders of move- menu, stating that he reserved them for a history which be himself intended to write. After taking theee prelimi nary stops Napier went to Paris to col lect materials for the F'rench side. He walked about tho streeu, exploring tbe oontenU of the bookstalls, and bought every book that seemed likely to be of any use to him. - He also went regular ly to tho Depot de la Guerre and mad« copious extracu from the documente. which were stored on its shelves. Uu returning to England he took np his abode lor a time at Slrsthfieidsays fflr the purpose of consulting the Duke. Marshal Boult, with wnom when in Fans he had struck up an acquaint- uucc, lout him valual(io papers; he cor responded with Marshal Jouniun, and received iulo. muliou from officers who had served on the staff of Ne) aud Mosscna. lie also Collected an im mense mass of letters and journs’ from British officers. — T/u Aalto ''new. —War between Indian Government toe toes declared. * - * The Indians fti New again raiding tbe whites. I~»A land rentt was shot last Weu , _. county Westmeath, Ireland. While attempting to An American Marriage. Among the various tribes of Asia none are so rich or well d re ■Med as the Armenians, ssys tbe Glasgow Herald. To them belongs chiefly the merchan dise ol precious stones, which they ex port to Constantinople. Tho Armenian girl whoso marriage is to bo described had delicate flowers of celestial blue C inted all over her neck and breast; r eyebrows were died black, and the tips of her fingers and nails of a bright orange. 8ho wore on each band valu able rings set with precious stonSK, and round her neck a string of very tine turquoisesskirt was one of the finest spun silk, her jacket and troasers of cashmere of a bright color. Tho priest and his deacon arrived, tho latter bringing a bag containing the sacerdotal garments, in which the priest arrayed himself, placing it miter ornamented with precious stones on his head, and a collar of metal, on which the twelve apostles were repre sented in baa-roHef, round his neck. He began by blessing a sort of tem porary altar in the middle of the room; the mother of the bride took her by tbe hand, and, pleading her forward, she bowed at the feet of her future hus band to show that she acknowledged him as lord and master. The priest, placing their hands in each other, pro nounced a prayer and then drew their heads together until they touched three times, while with bis right hand he made & motion as if blessing them. A second time their hands were joined, and tho bridegroom was asked: "VYiU yon be her husband?” ‘T will,” he answered, raising at the same time the veil of the bride, in token that she was now his, and lotting it fall again. The priest then look two wreaths of flow ers, ornamented with a quantity of hanging gold threads, from the hands of the deacon, put them on the heads of the married con pic, changing them three limes from one head to the other, repeating ouch time, "1 unite TQfltmad, J “ ’ — live la bind vou one to uuojher peace.” Writing on the subject of edelweiss, Mr. Burbidge, of the Trinity College Botanical Gardens, Dublin, points out that the plant is easily frown is En glish gardens from soed. ft U sown ia common garden earth in a cold frame, and when large enough each Bttlo plant ia placed in a small pot in a mixture of loamy earth and old lit the puni earth and old* lime rubbish; or . into he samara eqaatljr well pUtaced by anioto to dea,^ ‘ Iflwkledi asuaay roekgar- et their favorite bridge near Kelt L t a portion the work foil, killing and wototitof dozen men. -All the booses Tn On- ^ ytngn not tor pistol gambling I clnnati were raided stonday night and several wagon loads of men warn taken to the police station. -Tbe Hon. A. A. McKay, Jndgo of the sixth circuit judiciary district off North Carolina, died at bis homa In Clinton on Tbaraday tnorttfig. Mr. Win. Jonas, who Uvea to Venezuela 2,700 miles away, came to Virginia and voted at foebmood an unscratched Democratic ticket: —The li/izi, a vessel now toodiag QueU-c, ia declared by tbe Toronto (Hobt to have seen a centoitr and a mlf active service, and to be ya4 n •launch aid handi>ome craft. -There has been an alarming in crease in the number of suicides In Berlin within tbe past several umntto. Lanes are reported daily, and days they number ae high as ten. —The will of the lute Ueo. Ueorgn . McClellan was filed with the Pro bate Court last week. It givte bfo property to hi* wife, and aflor tor death equally to bis son and daagbtor. —AH tbe pnblic schools of Savannah, Ga.,Tire crowded to exccee, and with in tbe past few days one hundred and fifty applicants have been refused ad mission for want ofroominttoachoolo. —Mrs. Martha Wilkenon,ofOrcen»- boro, N. C., and her son tod ad greement aboQt the widow toarryii hired man. Tbe next mo ruing mot i and ton were found dead ftofll bullets. No eine. —The Rev. John Wkiee, colored, off FUubnrg, Pa., issaing several persona of that town tor con-piracy win other peraous in Alabama, (wtorn Knox wade himslf obnoxious ae n proaetar), to injure his reputation. —The Empire Piaster mills, Non. 21 and 23 bethone street, New York, a six-story brick building, WOO bnraon ou Wednesday, and the wails foil to, the firemen and neighboring honeos baring a very narrow oeenpe. —At Montreal last week flve Mi . were painting the ceiling of n dfiU* shed when the tcaffblding gave way. and two of the men were ilHod to» stantly, a third died ato aud the two others are not live. -Tbe wifo of Wilbetai IVeOnd, o German former to Onio, gave birth to dren recently. She ’ of ago aud daring nineteen yean* baa given birth to twenty-one eWldren. —A cltteen of Andcrsonvliie, to 1882 uaught • very small opos marked it and let it go. A tow ago he caught tbe same opos-nm ( iu two hundred vards of whore ho caught him three veers age,'hud to uow weighs eight pounds, v — An Ottawa dispatch says that fho death sentence passed on those ly convicted of mnrder in eoai with tbe Norlhwest rebellion. Will . commoted in several cases, but wUljto carried into effect wfyh tte rems' on the date fixed, the 27ti> inet. —Secretary Endfcoft bn* opt to? etrnctions to military oomtnondiro who are stationed in the neighborhood to which, upricing* against the Chlndto are apt to occur to have their in reedlue** to suforee tho — of the President’s Saturday, , ' i -Capt. M. O. McGnvor, of Ctooto- nati, who cam** to TenaeoMa with George H. Thomas Poet, 6. A. K* was drowned In the Tennessee Birer, near Oraltorvilte, white oot doob hunting and whHo-tryiog to save too Ufo of a colored boy who WiS Wjtih him when tbe boat capdized. -Tbe apple crop this mr In the State of New York, as ww is to sort ers! of the New England tttnfos woo the largest jdeid ever khowtu ThO fruit to of excellent quality. Ttoorsr* age priori* about $1.86 a bnnto. Oot of this has to eotne the prise off too barrel, leaving tbe net price off too fruit abont $1 n barrel. —Tbe closing of the hors on. day in Massachusetts worked charm everywhere, to — authorities woo. ring October the nnmber before the potfee e tv-two daily. On the eiectkm it seven arrests for been made—a smaller bad been presented tori . yean. • '' -d v .*}' —Near KLwimmo. Pto, gentleman lidiafe aton noticed* forgo hawk apoa and fix Ns tali a hfoek snaka. 1 Tho- ly coiled itself arosmd and the contest of iimi After watching them the gentleman got Into ids boggy aid neighbor’* several u. contestants coah stBl ontheottor alive. «Xhej ■hiiV v •■Vs ortho i -•, T'>~ YV .