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A IjOHt Friend. 1 I * 4 V Mr friend he whs; e friend from ftH the rest, with childlike fnith he op<‘'(l to-uio hia brcn*t. No door was locked o»i mtur, grave, or Krief; No woukness veiled, hidden no disbelief. The help, the sorrow, ami the wron* we:» bare; And, ah I the shadow only showed the fair. I jravehim love for love, but deep within I ninffnifiod each frailty Into sin; Each hill-topped foible in the sunset glowed, Obscuring vales where riverod virtues flowed; Reproof became reproach, till common grett Tiie captions word at every fault 1 know. He smiled upon the censorship, and boro AVith patient love the touch that wounded sore; Until at length, so had my blindness grown. He knew 1 Judged him by his faults alone. Alone, of all men, I knew him liest, Refused the gold, to take the dross for testl Cold stranger, honored for the worth they saw; His friend forgot thedlamcii.d In the flaw. At last It came—the day ho stood apart. When from my eyes no proudly veiled his heart; When carping Judgment and uncertain word A slern resentment In his Insoni stirred; When In hi« face 1 read what 1 had been, And with hia vision saw what he had seen. Too late! leo 1**“! 0. 6ouTd he then have know*— When hta leva mil tilne had perfect grown; That who* the vwtl was drawn, abused, chas tised The censor stood, tee lost only truly prized Too late we lonr* a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, faultless totl'e end. —John Uoylc O’Reilly. actual years warranted, and—He liked her; yea, he certainly respected and liked her. For two or three days he hesitated, shrinking yet from placing himself in the jtosition of a fortune-hunter, and then lie wrote a manly tender letter to Harte, asking her to be his wife. He Hftd sufficient tact to avoid llowery flattery, to make sickening protesta tions, and the letter bore the stamp of sincerity on every line. An hour later his messenger brought an answer, and Miss Harte was his affianced wife. Escorting the ladies to their home, a magnificent country sent, Mr. Riuidall would not have been a human had he irot eongmttdated himself upon the fu ture ownership of the wealth so lavishly represented all around him. He had said nothing about the future poMtion of Miss Maxwell, good-natun d- 'y willing that she should still tind a home w ith her aunt; but lie sometimes thought lie would give her a hint about assuming so much the air t>f mist^yj of the house-. The wedding was magnificent, the noneyraooa spout in traveling upon a wedding-gift of a cheque from Mr. llan- tiall’s uncle; and one morning, in cosy confidence, the subject of going home arose. •‘Where Kind master, have you taki Uoar?" Mrs. Uandall asked; n rooms, “or MK. KA\DALL’S MAHHIAGIu Just on the eonhnes of one of our largo manufacturing towns, there stands an imposing residence of brown stone, elevated by terraocs above the road, sttr- rouuded by study trees, and with a wide extent *f garden stretching on all sides. I had !**• employed in panel-paint ing one of the large bedrooms for some weeks, and my curiosity and interest had been eieitVd by the fact that the master of the house, Mr. Jo«opk Kan- daTl, was a tall, handsome man of less than fifty years, while his wife was cer tainly twenty years older, apd a very feeble old woman. Yet never were any young couple more accniinglv devotoo than this oddly-contrasted pair; and I, living in tha house with constant occupation there, certainly had good op|>ortunity for witnessing any matrimonial ditter- • netai, hiul any existed. When my work wes done, I returned to my own home, and several months later, by quite an accident, not neces sary to record hbre, 1 h- inicd .thii store «if .Mr. Kandull's tnarringe. Fn*m early IswIksmI lie was a “ne’er do-wv!!.’’ Mone\ ran thixmgh his fingars like sand, uml alier his fatlier. his grandfather, and his uncle Had each stal led him in b ,m-ss, only to end in f*.itire, the family decided that lie '• cold never la- gis.d for anything. * • “ . * “ # ae was a \ ,y haiidsom • man, witli a < dlegc educalion. the instincts and wanner* of a gi ntlcimtn, and kindly in iccliug; but li was ood-nutnred. tmth- ful, and t<M) easily inlluciicotl by who ever took the trouble to dictate to bim. At thirty he found himself bankrupt, out of business, and w ithout any definite prospects; and while he was seriously considering suicide as a wav out -<sf his ditlicuit.es, h • received an invitation to ,visit an old friend in (irantley, a pretty village near the s adiore. He found (iraiLiiev at the height of its summer season, and !iis own uttrae- tion very readily a<-!:nowl<algt;d by the ladies, who dancedW iili him. strolled on the beach hy mooitlight with him. ami acts-ptetl his graceful attentions with smiling pleasure.. It was lu re that he was introduced to Miss Susan Harte and her niece and suppose* 1 hrirrs-. Mis* Maude ■ Max- weli. '1'hcy were ladies of jewition, ratinod and graiv.ful: the youn jit one lovely in the fivshtR-ji of ii -r youth, a pretty blonde face, and re nder figure; the older oiui stately amt xlignilied. show ing in every wen! .. i ull.\ated intellect and strong eoiiuii < i sense. Bob Wluli-. 'ur. UaiulaH’s frietwl, aft er the intnalu •: i. ■. spoke his mind with frank if vulgar in ■\iuUi: “(io in for the heiress, Jo -. They say the old tad is worth a quarter of a million, an Miss Maude is her only Relative. Anyone can ace that they are devoted to each other.” And uuyone could also sew uvwjMWjP denpe of we.nltli in their surronnaingfl. Their own carriage, with tyvo magnifi cent hofses, was with them for their daily use, their costumes were of the most costly materials, their jewelry was superb. A lady’s maid attended the.«. and they occupied' an entire suite of rooms at the only hotel. Friendship led to intimacy; and Mr. Uandall did try to fascinate the heiress, whose sinipyring preltiness covered a cold heart ana a very commonplace J©ind% • , ^ . t To dress well,- to- be a centre of at traction for bowing beaux, were the ob- - j(<ct« of-hrr ambition, and hcrrtmvorsa- tipn never rose .above the level of the smallest of small-talk. Thojjgji he-hud Mfc-^ys ^emed to lack Ttn|smt^' ability, Mr Itanilal^ was no Wool, anifhe founiWiimself evening after evening turning from Miss Maxwell’s Vapid talk to the fresh strong mind that shotk' through her aunt’s conversa tion. Miss Harte was an accomplished mu sician, with a rich cgntfalto voice, and love of music had always amounted to a passion witli Mr. Randall, so there was a strong bond of sympathv there, t ph yon go to housekeeping?” “Itnomfl.” cried the bridegroom; •shall you not return to your own house?” ••My own house! I have no house. families of his work-pcpple k ea they had always a •friend in the head of tne vast establish ment in which the husband and father toiled. Without children, both Mr. and Mrs. Randall extended their charities far and wide, and when gratitude met them, Joseph Randall said: “The thanks are yours, dear. But for you I should bo that dreadful object, an aimless, Indolent man of fashion, what in days gone by they called ‘an old beau. ” ’ * Strange Visions of Young Girls. A remarkable outbreak of religious hallucination occurred on this island this year. About January hist a report was out that a young girl had seen viiions and was under some influence not belonging to this world, Her ex citement soon communicated itself to others, and in the course of a few weeks some twenty young girls were affected. They then organirert religious meetings ami much excitement was caused. 1 went at once to see what took place at these meetings. About fifty people sat round in a room singing, clapping hands and stamping the feet, keeping time to a kind of monotonio chunk The girls who saw visions wi re standing in the center, sometimes walking up and down. They had a vacant kind of stare, shall | (iradtmllv the singing quickened, until at last it’bu.-ame fust and fmions. Then the girls would dauee, shout, and hark Jike dogs. After twenty minutes of this they would fall down with a shriek. Their THE CALIFORNIA RUNNER. ROAD- Finh-Spearlng Through the loe. II WHS ■ About thirty years ago, I was stranded 2 Joe,” for sudden! her; "did you thin thought everyone Maude's jH-nsioner. grew very pale, been! 1 thought you loved me.” "You were no tool in thinking that,” was the quick reply, as her husband put his arm around her; “I do love you. I did think thejvisition reversed, ami that the truth flashed i sU^igglcs, eric*, and foamings at the 1 had money? 1 u.o uli voiv dre.-olful to see. uml ur'many know that 1 was Ob.” and her face what a fool I have CM-.es it took fotir or five men to hold th in still. After the fit was over they would lie exhausted for about one hour; Maude depended on you; but never things man^r mil doubt my love,. If it was not. very ar dent when I proposed to you, it grows stronger every day, it grows stronger every day that we spend together.” "But yet you thought me wealthy?” "A humiliating fact 1 cannot deny;” and then in a sudden outburst of confi dence, Mr. Randall told his wife the whole truth, dwelling somewhat longer upon Ids business attempts and perplex ities, than on the hope he had enter tained of a future life of a luxurious then, when they came to, they gave very ! detailed accounts of the visions they had j seen. A great deal of these visions w as. 11 f course nonsense, but one thing was ; remarkable —they sjioke of fxtople doing Torn the place. Ujc ou Inquiry tt was found in some cases that what they had seen corresponded exactly with the events. One most remarkable feature in this outbreak was that it was not confined to one spok Almost simultaneously in every settlement on the island (the island is forty-live miles long and twelve broad in places) similar outbreaks oc curred. t.irls living at a distance of five t*r ten miles from the scene of the "shouting meetings," as they were call- | A very singular and fet a very little known bird is the roadrunner chapar ral cock, or, as it is known In Mexico and the Spanish sections of the United States, the paisano. It belongs to the cuckoo familv, but has none of the bad habits by which the European cuckoo is best known. It is a shy bird, but is not by any mearis an unfamiliar object in the southwestern K irt ions of the United States and in exico. Sometimes it wanders up into middle California, but not often, seem ing to prefer the more desert**!, hotter, and sandier parts of southern California and from thorc stretching its habitat as far east as middle Texas. It is not by anv means a brilliantly colored bird, although some of its hues are very beautiful. The prevailing color of the roadrunner isolivw -green, which is marked with brown and white. The top of the head is black blue, and is fur nished with an erectile crush The eves are surrounded by a line of bare skin. It is not a large bird, being seldom twenty-four inches long, with a tail tak ing more than half that length. The tan, indeed, is the most striking feat like of the bird, being not only so very long, but seemimrly endowed with the gift of perpetual motion, since it is never still, but bolw up and down, and sidewise, too, into every passible angle, and al most incessantly. But while its tail is most striking, its legs are most remarkable, being not only long and stoat, but wonderfnlly muscular. How muscular nobody would be able to imagine who had not put them to the test. A traveller in Mexico tells of going out witli his ranchero host to hnot nares with a brace of very fine hounds, doing over a long stretch of sandy plain, re- lievod-only by pillars and clusters of cactus, die Mexican called the attention of his guest to an alert, comical-looking bird some distance from them." | With the remark that the gentleman °“ lcr should hoc some rare coursing, the Mexi- | can slipped the leashes of the lie had tinished, ids away pleasantly, a cottages t The soimner wore and It was only when close and a deserted beach told of guests that Joseph Maxwell asked him self seriously how his summer flirtation was to end. IJg was not a conceited man, yet Maude Maxwell had Itk. bl0> see very Vainly that she had a preference for is: Society and attentions. Yet he shrank from the prospect of a wife with no idea above dress and gaiety, how ever richly she might be dowered. Loving neither, in the true sense of the word, he certainly found momplea*- ure in the society of the older la<'f and then a little demon of policy whispered to him that, after all f the money was Miss Harte’s, and, with her social posi tion and attractions, she might marry, and ao deprive Maude of her sup posed inheritance. It was true that she was old enough to be hia mother; but a handsomer wo- i ao thoroughly tasteful in idleness. When spoke: "You may not lilA to hear my fath er’s opinion of me, Joe, though he meant it to be a complimentary one. He always said 1 should have been a man. for i had a true business bead. For Uu years before he died he was •aralysetl, and I was the actual head of us business, the weaving of carpets, in W . He left me a competency, which was stolen from me by a dishonest trus tee; and I should have taken up some occupation to gain my own living had not Maude been left an orphan, and im plored me to live with her. “It was scarcely a life of dejKindenee, fyr.she needed me, and her lavish gifts of clothing and jewelry 1 accepted in the place of the salary anyone else in my place must have been paid. I was housekeeper and chajteron, and we were very happy; but 1 never dreamed that I . was supposed to own her wealth. "Now listen to my pro|iosition; The factory my father controlled is closed, but 1 am an old friend of the owner, who carrietf usttho business for a short time after ray father diet!, and found his ignorance of the details swept away all his profits. 1 will introduce yon to him, and the sale of my diamonds will give us sufficient capital for a modest storr." You will be nominal master, as my father was, until you conquer all the intricacies of the business, gain our old customers, and can carry on the whole withont any assistance. Until then, let me direct and teach you, as I helped my father. When you are a rich man”— and here Mrs. Randall’s eyes grew dim with tender feeling—"you can buy me some more diamonds.” It was not a matter for hasty de cision. Mr. Randall, remembering his failures, was doubtful of his own abili ty, but his wife had her way, and be fore their wedded life was six months old. Mr. Randall was engaged in his wew-bnsincss. ' — - ■ Spurred on by an honest shame that a woman had a better business head than his own, he did what he never done before—threw his whole soul into his easiness, and was amazed himself to find how rapidly he learned to guide it. Every day filled his heart with deeper love for the noble woman who was so true and faithful a helpmate to him; who, with all the knowledge he lacked, never let one clerk or employe guess her real position. At home, in the evening, she showed him the result of her day’s correspond ence or book-keeping, and gave him clear instructions for the next day’s work. And he, learning all quickly, had sufficient sense to let iter control the entire busi ness, until site herself, after two years of faithful work, said; "You can do without me now, dear. I resign.” They had lived very economically in those two years, Mrs. Randall govern ing the small house and one servant as efficiently as she had controlled her niece’s grand mansion or the affairs of the factory. But ambition once roused in Joseph Randall, he resolved to give his wife a home as handsome as the one she had left for love of him. Depriving her of no comfort he could afford to give her, he denied himself all extravagancies that had become second nature. Cigars were thrown aside, clothing was reduced to respectability, ignoring the many changed of faction, riding was exchanged for an occasional drive with Mrs. Randall, and yeas by year Joseph Randall saw his business in crease, his bank ucconnt enlarge, until he was mastt-r of a flourishing business, and of the magnificent home where Mrs. Randall had cmnlnycd me to paint the panels of the bedroom doom. And as years robbed the devoted wife of her strength and the noble beanty of middle life, they took nothing from the love of a husband, who knew that* to her he owed all bis prosperity. He realised fully the life of indolent loxarr ha would have led, and eontgasOad n with tha OMtel one to which Ah had od, would be seized. Being seized with w jf 0 u kind of frenzy, they would run, nS if 1 by in pirution, to the spot where the rest were assembled, no matter how far. Most of those attaeked with the fits were people who belonged to the baptist society. (Ynwqumtly their visions were not of tin* Madonna, but of the distinc tive predestination doctrines of their sect. Very glowifig accounts were given of the various punishments and tortures reserved for the wicked in hell, and they were most liberal in dispens ing these punishments among their friends. Up and down the island about 400 or 500 people were spized, and it was at first thought it was a kind epidemic of hysteria. In a few cases girls of highly respectable character were seized, and, although they tfrd not see visions, yet for weeks they would have fits daily, and such was their superhuman strength that I have seen a young girl of 16 struggle out of the grasp of four strong men. The outbreak lasted from Janu ary to July, and at one time it was fear ed it would lead to serious consequences, for all the people who gave credence to the visitors neglected work and aban doned themselves to holding meetings, day and night for singing, shouting, barking, anulistening to accounts of the visions seen. In the daytime, and especially on Sundays, they had processions with ban ners. This led to some bad feeling, and in a few cases the law had to be appeal ed to in the interests of peace. It was a singular thing that although they organ ized themselves into a sect, and all who disbelieved in the” visions were “here tics," yet they showed the utmost court esy and good-will toward the church, but toward their own particular de nomination and the various other aocta they displayed great animosity. The excitement has died out now, and they have ceased to exist as a sect—San Salvador Letter in London Times. pecul nave An Anecdote of "Jeb” Stuart. From a paper by General Jentury, tew more cavalry to Longstreet, in the February Century, we quote as follows, “ ‘Jeb’ Stuart was a very dar ing fellow and the best cavalryman America ever produced. At the Second Manassas, soon after we heard of the advance of McDowell and Porter, Stnart came in and made a report to General Lee. When he had done so General Lee said he had no orders at that mo ment, bat he requested Stuart to wait awhile. Thereupon Stuart turned round in his tracks, lay down on the ground, pit a stone under his head and instantly fell asleep. General Lee rode away and in an hour returned. Stuart was still sleeping. Lee asked for him, and Stuart sprang to his feet and said. ‘Here I am, general.’ “General Lee replied, ‘I want you to send a message to your troops over on the left to send a fe the right’ “T would better go myself,’ said Stuart, and with that he swung himself into the saddle and rode off at a rapid gallop, singing as loudly as he ootud, Mine the cavalry.’ ” • Sherbrooke, Canada, boasts a young girl with nerve. A young man at a party, wKd was boasting of his nerve, was challenged to hold up a small tin to be shot at with a revolver, when he weakened and declined. A young lady | present at once offered to hold the tin, and did so unshakingly while it was pierced by a bullet tired at a distance Of twelve yards. She then -held up a smaller object—a small plate—which met with the same fate, and picking up one of the pieces held it for a further trial. Her confidence in the skill of the marksman, who has been several times a member of t!io Wimbledon team, was not mispltuxd, for the broken piece was again tut by a bullet while in her fingers. he straining hounds, which sprang qff as if used to the sport, and darted after the bird. For a moment it seemed to the stranger a very poor use to put the dogs to, but he was not long in changing his mind. Instead of taking wing, the bird tilted its long tail straight np into the air in a l saucily defiant-wav. and started off on a run in a direct line ulu-Ad. It seemed 1 an incredible thing that the slender dogs, with their spaee devouring bounds, should not at once overtake the little i bird; but so it was. The legs of the i paisano moved with marvelous rapidity, and enabled it to keep the bounds at their distance for a very long time, be- l ing finally overtaken onfy after one of i gamest races ever witnessed by the visit ing sportsman. The roadrunner, however, serves a better purpose in life than being run j down by hounds. Cassiu mentions a most singular circumstance among the uliarities of the bird. It seems to a mortal hatred of rattlesnaktw, and no sooner sees one of these reptiles than it sefe about in what, to the snake, might vveH seem a most diabolical way of compassing its death. Finding the snake asleep, it at once seeks out the spiniest of small cacti, the prickly pear, and, witli infinite pains and quietness, carries the leaves, which it breaks off, and nuts them in a circle around the shmiWing snake. When It has made a sufficient wait about the object of all this care, it rouses its victim with a and- den peck of its sharp beak, and then quickly retires to let the snake work out its own destruction, a thing it eventual ly does in u way that ought to gratify the roadrunner if it have any sense of humor. Any one w atching it would say it was expressing the liveliest emotion with its constantly and grotesquely mov ing tail. The first impulse and act 6f the as saulted snake is to cpil for a dart; its next to move away. It quickly realizes that it is hemmed in, in a circle, and finally makes a rash attempt to glide over the obstruction. The myriad of tiny needles prick it and drive it back. The angry snake, with small wisdom, attempts to retaliate by fastening its fangs Into the offending cactns. The spines fill ita mouth. Angrier still, it again and again as saults the prickly wall, until, quite be side itself with rage, it seems to lose its wits comptetelv, and, writhing * and twisting horribly, buries its envenomed fangs into its own body, dying finally from its self-inflicted wounds. After the catastrophe,the roadrunner indulges in a few gratiflod flirts of its long tail and off, perchance lb find ’ its reward in ling run dowq by the hounds sot on tar men.—John R. Coryell, in Scientijlo American. t>y Jke severe* win ter weather, which put a Stop to navigation, at the old army station of Green Bay, now a flourishing city in the great State of -Wisconsin, at the mouth of the Fox river—at the south western extremity of a long arm of Lake Michigan. I had IroqucnUv noticed on Fox rnrer a curious lot of black dots on the ice, in the retired nooks and coves along the farther shore. “What are theyr r I asked; and the invariable re cta was: ‘They are Indians fishing.” Tnis pozzled me still more, and I re solved to investigate. So one day I crossed the frozen river, and approach ing one of those mysterious black dots, found It to be apparently only a bundle in a blanket, scarcely large enough to contain a human form. Bat, looking closer, I could see, flr^t from one handle and then from another, the quick mo tion of a pole, or spear-handle, bobbing op and down. A word, a touch, even a gentle push, only called out a grunt in reply, but at last one bundle did stretch itself into a bright young Indian brave :with wondering and wonderful eyes peering at me from nnder a mop of mack and glossy hair. A little tobacco, a little pautominc, and a little broken English succeeded in making him un derstand that I wished to know how ho carried on his fishing under that funny heap. Alien I saw it all. Seated, Turk fash ion, on the border of his blanket, which be could thus draw up so as to entirely envelop himself in ft, he was completely in the dark, so far as the daylight wits concerned; and, thus enshrouded, ho was hovering over a round hole in the ice, About eighteen inches in diameter. A small tripod of birch sticks erected over the hota helped to hold np the blanket and steady a spear, which, with a delicate handle nine or ten feet long, was held in the right hand, the tines resting on the edge of the hole, and the end of the pole sticking through an op ing in the blanket above. From tne hand, dropped into the water a nag on the end of which was a rude ooden decoy-fish, The Carolina Contra! No fewer than 150 newspapers United States are printed by ia tha iraoe written to say, she ex- ’ls me there for Christmas week. Suburban belle—Hpw delightful it must be to spend Christmas In a great country house—like Stilton Grange, for instance. Delightful stranger (from Loudon—Yaas. By-the-by, ncr Gra< of Stilton has just wri pec S’pose I shall have to go! Suburban belle—Won" yolu find it rather lonely? Delightful stranger—Lonely! A—why? Suburban belle—Because I saw in .to day’s morning Post that the duke and duchess and family are not expected back from Australia before February! (Coliaspe of delightful stranger.)—Lon don Punch. - - The following is one of the unre pealed laws of New Jersey, passed while the State was a British colony: “That all women, of whatever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgins, maids, or widows, who shall after this act impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimony any of his ma jesty's subjects by virtue of scents, oos- ttwtlc*, washes, paints, arUieial ‘teeth, false hair, or high-heeled shoes, shall in cur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like meanore." Husband (returning from the funeral) —‘The minister, in his funeral sermon, ■eemeH to be very much overcome. If I am not tears.” mistaken he Wile—“Yes; the diPiMtd. to Jer* worth over $100,000.’’ 8tnn L . en decoy-fish, small enough to represent bait to the unsuspecting perch or pickerel which should spy it This decoy was loadod so as to sink slowly, and was so moved and maneuvered as to Imitate the motions of a living fish. Crawling under the blanket w ith my Indian friend, 1 was surprised at the distinctness and beauty with which everything could be seen by the subdued light that eanm up through the ico. The bottom of the river. B 'x or eight fet* ta>- low us, was claariy’Visible, iWld barely four feet u way. The grasses, vegetable growths, and spots of pebbly bottom formed curious little vistas and recesses, in some of which itrmmflv floated a school of perch and smaller fish. Each little air-bubble sparkled like a gem, and the eye delighted in tracing and watching the mystery of beautiful w ater formations, where every crevice seemed a little fairy world, wttn changing lights or shadows made by the sunlight through the transparent ice. Suddenly, from somewhere—I could not tell Where, it seemed to coroe by niagio— a large “dory," or “moon-eyed pike,” appeared on the river bottom.. The watchful Indian slowly raised the decoy-bait toward the surface, the larger fish following it with interested snd puzzled eyes. There was a sudden movement of the spear; down it darted; its sharp prongs pierced the unsuspect ing pike, whimi wag speedily drawn np and thrown wriggling on the ioe. Then the blanket wax re-adjusted, and the fishing was resumed. My bright young Indian fKobd said he could catch from twenty to thirty pounds of fish in an afternoon in this manner, and some times could even secure double that quantity.—J. 0. Roorback, in St. Nicho las for February. An laflexible Jaror. ooksb our nooin> bxst in its msr lxqal WMBTUC WITH THZ BORON AID BOOTH- ebb oowraucnoH ookfavt — jumb AVERT DWOLVEB the nutnrono*. « [From the CUrlotU Obscrm, Spell 1st.) The first legal battle between the Carolina Centeal Railroad Company and its rival, the Boston and Soath- ern Construction Company, waa end ed at Linoolnton yesterday, and tbe Carolina Central lost the fight Judge Avery, preaiding at (he preeent term of Lincoln Superior Court, before whom the issues were discussed, ren dered a decision under which the Boston and Southern Construction Company are at liberty to lay their track side by side with tbe track of the Carolina Central between Piney Ridge and Rutherfordton, in Rather- fordcounty. The pleadings and the affidavits in the iniunction case of tbe Carolina Central Railroad Company againat the Boston and Southern Construc tion Compauv were read on Tuesday afternoon and night On Wednesday Judge Bynum, for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. H. Justice, for the defendant* addressed tbe court, and Judge Scbenck began the closing speech for the defense yesterday morning Judge Schenck concluded, and Col Fuller, for the plaintiff, closed the case at three o’clock, when Judge Avery delivered his decision. He took tbe view that tbe real issue was as to the title to the right of way, which could not be tried in this proceeding. If the Carolina Central could prove title to tbe right of way ia dispute, it bad a remedy at law. He, therefore, denied the application for an injunc tion. Inasmuch as the affidavits were not eler.r that the defendants hod nropar- ty in North Carolina, tbe Court held that it would have to require a bond of fifty thousand collars. This was furnished in five minutes and tha in junction waa dissolved Tbe Carolina Central Company, we are informed, promptly entered an appeal from this decision. The outcome of this soil is that Rutherfordton will shortly have two * wowd r»yroads, for it will be a race now be- twee!)-{-.he -Carolina Central and the Boston and &!lllfern Oompfcn T t? which can first get trains running be tween Shelby and Rutherfordton, For at least four miles of tbe distance between these two pi sees tbe tracks of tbe two roads will run alongside of each other, just fourteen feet apert WteatZTmkSvttl ■Rates tew* Mta oT wteek aaA swoB -4 oat •n not M*d • yroyhrt to Ml VBaftes «ais rwasjEnmU iMbIb alMrawetetotews te OS! tor tea Mew to wtos tea valwa, aaS a» fw» rtest Mtvtesw U *• was MaVtewt mm! Qaaroa koorr i “■», totter nastes ——aiwtes loa* laSotMr. "Lam, te, taavo ms aiW tea Whw too ate. MaoU to ho Hi SUBNET, The Agrieerittertel J iNDCsrar “There are some infernally obstiqato men in this world,” said Frank Funai the other day, “but I struck eleven of the worst specimens last week I ever came across.’’ “How was that?” •‘Why,you see, I was on the jury. In one oaae I’d no sooner laid my eyes on the prisoner than I made up my mind he was guilty, and the testimony only served to strengthen that opinion. To my sarpAe, I found, when we wont out, that the ffiher eleven jurors were unani mous in favor of acquittal.” “And of coarse you gave in.” ‘‘Not much! I had a duty to society •vhich I had swonuto perform, and I determined to do i( if it took aJU night. 1 reasoned with them calmly, tearfully, prayerfully, but it was no use.” “How did you bring them around?” ‘‘Finally I said: ’Well, my mind is mind up. When yon fellows get over your dashed obstinacy wake mq np.’ And I just tipped my chair ba£k and settled myself doww for k good nap. Theft I snored. Ever hear me snore?’' We aH expressed regret because we ‘ enjoyed that please re. fellows Blind Chapiaiu Milburn’s Labor Speech. Washtxoton, April 1.—The chap lain, in his prayer in the Boom tins morning, said; •<Mfs ear, oh I God of Jacob, wd awaken us to see the danger which threatens the civilized world, a revolu tion more txemendoue than any of which history telle, in which the sceaee of tbe reign of terra* may be eHaotofi in every capital of Europe and Ameri ca. For long the lew have mastered the many because they understood tbe open secret—tools to them that can qpe them; but now the many have learned the secret of organinttoa^dril The and wrongte in now proarinenflf ore the public in this State, In fa# it would seem that he is ebont to crowd out the lawyer In the amount of sympathy and sonMdsrgMon be is receiving. How teeteebtehim to dfe rimoM stet ef the minds of Kim And Mi frittltlf tions are being atffie <» aO lkeSh, and every one V rwdy to ftwer ffito rathe with m offejen «p to bam bande aboold be worked mi % cultivated. taSriag and wift alone, are not toe things to 1 and edtten i oeay. gwJLrafid fireelMl bff a level head, a brave heart i kart a* after al, the stone, the gnpi man We meet look to ooraalvee ie < the evUsof wlfcfc weeoespteto. Otr and dynamita. Rouse - the rich meittehoHBf element will bee Mato to of the world to understand that the I hog ae the time has come for grinding, monopoly to cease; that carpi may get souls in them with juatiee, honor, conscience and human kind ness. Teach the rich men of the country that great fortune# axe lent them by Thee for other purposes than to build and decorate palaces, to found private collections of art, to stock wine cellars, to keep racing studs and yachts, and find better company than hostlers, grooms and jockeys, pool sellers and book makers Teach them, oh,. God! that it is Thee who has given them power to get these fortunes; that it is to prove them, to knew what ia in tteor h«erto whether they will leep Thy, oom- mandmente or no, ana that those commands are that Thou ahaR lot# theXord, thy God, with ell thy heart; and thy neighbor as thyaeifthat if the rich men of our land keep these eom- mandssente the poor will Mow the example, and we at leasl will he Mir ed trura tbe days of tribulation that are fast coming on all the world Help us, 0 God, end save us.” The had never “Neither h-.J those fellows. In ten miniita* i ivy were wild. Some of them wan loti n> jump out of the window, but couldn’t gelt it open. In ten miautes more eight of them gave in, and ia fif teen aunntes they waked me up and said they jvere satisfied I WM right, of the ^ Mr. a H. Huey, •90 bushels of eo»: er a new trial on the ground that the verdict waa against the evidence and common sense, and discharged the lory for the term. That lete me off jury duty for another year.”—Millinery Trade Review. The AatKiBn of Ldffe. If Autumnal days ore shorter, they are likewise cooler; the time for storing away fruit in the bins has come; the tints cm the leaves are still scarlet and K lden, the barren Winter is not yet So all these; and with buoyant heart, quiekekSd With grateful memories, I resume the study-chair and begin n new lease of Isbof*. No patience have I with that stale phrase about “the shady side of *>;” if e servant of (he Lord gets on the side <ff the hiH that faces heaven ought to be the sunny tide. Nor is that etfisrnMseass abbot “the dead fine ef to” worthy ef respect- IVe did not behove such staff, or be y** talk*! about tape that te Torch Agrafe) Bpdtefal Nogroef. Several weeks ego we pub Hebei an burning of the orib of r, together with about of tha arrest of two nagroea, who, 04 their way to jail oonfe^|d to h * done the burning (o gratify a y had at MrJfiuey. On Wedna* night last, about 9 o'clock, an- ed perties ran to the w«Bt te but found tha repea eat awd backets in the wall 1 AND BOONOWT cmrr or TUB OSABD SE MI la nMfern mart bn to- expect j ad. “Gome on’* * the tbe laborer nndenfanfo white on” ia apt to pa question, Is the negro now being pretty thd ed, end idm esuetas ten to both sUto Thai mat eotoa who'eb- to dfeulMm, t the BMfeo'teifa m a fato htod.it to? not nhinys be hieowntefc Henan wailrtiiwM Kteyiffif ffithd If iK* UftOMT tffe ffimpifr jg pjgfign Dtrfofff oat of tetofc* *31 ‘ Hai m\ » _ __ 000*1'do to atop flla to rttaodlfcMt - Hri .... .. - tithaaoi tha leer. in from tha MriHtd but, aayet, it mUtottdbMktsI at, ttnae bate hnac was than n haBosatery hosu bean fete! a the