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-A ' 1 > , r 'TA \ • Hr V / 5t. VOL. X. BARNWELL, <S. C„ THURSDAY, APRII, 21, 1887. NO. 34, tuk Gltomxt; * :u)Uk, |{p|»oi’t, Mailt* t<* 11u‘ l iiiwnt' <>l A jtri- rultu>»'>}'it> C'orreHpmHlenUi. The BtaU‘ Uej)aituit*iJt of Agndblture has rectivcdTTncl tabulated the April 1st reports of its special Iconespoiidcuts. These rtturns cover every county in the State and over oue-h df the townships. AKKA IX WHEAT ASl) OATS. Estimates based upriu these reports show that the area iu whpat has been in awslhi .1 tlin-.' ]mi- .,v, r ISHts , The condition is ,reporter per cent. Iretter than at the sum should be in'good condition for'work ing, The time should lie determined by experience of past years. The writer has several times’planted com when the ground was frozen early iu the morning, and secured a perfect stand of vigorous — jl hank or , ;• Tilt* litbuluus Wciiltli of tlir IlitiiK of I'rmirtf—lltnlorW itl sliftrli of u s|iijhmhI- OIIH riliUllHsI IllHUtlltioll. 'A few eveniu’gs ago, say/ tin? Baroness X \Vl>rKKN TKHKOH The St orv of a Wmtern llit;li\rii> iniin a >1 oiuitHiii ami jilunts. In Dakota and other extreme Evador, I attended a most .interesting N orthern sections, w heat, com and ve’g-1 reception in the 1’ari an Vufld-' a recep-! etables are planted in May, os soon as i tion where few foreigners^ are ever aJ-j the ground has thawed to a depth | mittod. .It was given by M. Magnin, STlfeNTirn HOAXKS. Ilou Soiiit* Srlfiitl.ts I)rrHN«il l |i I’wrtM ol tti<> Muatoilon In a T’ani'lful Manner.' (Scribner for April.) OPH O.KKAT CAPTAIN. sutlielent to jicrmit of plowing and bar- governor of the Bank of Trance, on the ! n _ i rowing, the spil having been deeply occasion of the eighty-seventh anniver- 0 -| j broken the iireoeding fall; ami—iP-wfton i sarv of the institution.^ DmiiiL j 'tTn' i tv- ^ .f^-^-j-oeennrthatTh^st’etls so planted are up uing 1 gathered much information, and, ,, tj me and growing while the deep subsoil is us it has never been published, my Jt'lll, but 5 LK-TWtft. Below an aver ■ still haul fmmi to the depth of many ! ^lericuTr’fne^rTasy fihd a notes J J ’ — * - i of value. After many tnSiHjknu failures, | the great Bank of France w.is l>orn with i the nineteenth century, iu tlie begip- —~ uing its capital was :k>,OUO^N)»), fraucS, ' Somejif the readers of the Southern represented by TiU.OOO shares : tf 1,000 1 olders were I r**: 1 ageemji. The area in oats shows a dt^i crease of S ]>er cent.. Is low last yoar.^ Condition ‘2 per cent, bette. than in 1886, but-11 per'cent. b. low an average, j —It is eatuMU«4-tluit t'J per cent, of tne oat crop was sown in the fail, and seven ty foer of till '■ m port early suiwirig 14 In-Uer V. i.'li i' , n than that sown in the spring, wl. bon- dred and thirty-seven cotsidf m; la-.te. crop the most promi inp. ’rhe correspundeuls estinmt about 6 |h 1 cefat. of life w in .1 drilled, tin balance ut the 1 broadcasted; and the tejsirls. inches, \\ hits Clover Aiiiiiiik Strmu bprrl*—. KeuiiiiiM-rni-rii ol fjeneml from <f«n- eral-i.oiig'* Hook. (PTpniLtlle ehteago News.) {Scribner for April.) I (l ruin the New York Sun ) An amusing story comes to us from The great lesson which Cuvier taught' We are told that only twice during the the far West. For a long time air out-j the world was, that many races of ani- j biographer’s prolonged intimacy with law, named Boach the Terror, had liecn j ruals' were entirely extinct, and that Lee was the latter seen to lose his tern- the scourge of the mountain districts ol ( nature’s 6hain of existence had not one per, ami that one-of these lapses from Idaho, and-Ust month bp waylaid and maU y missing links. “From his j selbeontrol occurred at Bluirjisbttrg. procccilcd to rob one Bivens, a wealthy recognition of that fact the science of { “Lee,” it seems, “was riding along a gentleman who was traveling through paheontolotrv may bewnd to date. But, little ip the. reatHf the line when the i errttory on ifmang bnstnew. While j the cardivi tjus nature of the mastodon j cainj’ across a soldier who had stolen and the two weie thus employed—the one in | was too fascinating an absurdity to .lx 1 killed a pig, which he was surreptitiooa- it!i. odium lieing robbed and it eontinueil to h|»- i ly conveying to his quarters. Positive Tlley suddenly became aware of tin S ^r intervals. As fete as '1885 we ! onlorspaving been given Igainst pillage approaeh of a mouutaiu lion, one of j lind a New England medical professor t of cTery kind iu Maryland, this tlagrant francs Napoli tiortei 1 luxoc arid others h poivirv home was tin ach, and its sharehol< m Bonu^rfe, Lneien Bonaparte, Beauharnais, C’amllacens, i noted. Its tom-- Hotel Massine, in se ue the I’lace dea Victoires. In I>u7 Its tn only few exceptions, : of the grain ;-ow. ter tl'.uu the muh' drilled. It is isl of the wheat en-i lh.it thi dll 1U1 v*-ry otidition mch K t- Cultivator may have Miseovereil that there is nothfog in the ahajic of natural grow th so destructive to the strawl.i-rry plant as white clover. It'is much more rampant some years Ihuu others, but it is *1 a ays the great pestiferous obstacle growth and mlturi- of this de- capital w.is inereaMvt to f J iiciona betry. Tins muy Hot be the case fniucs. Mauv special laws have lies n I iu oU*^fitruwU>mr regions, but in our enacted giving privileges to this Isuik 1 ovtioiror central Virginia, it is especial- December :B, lh?.', •privUcgea n 1 Vs». This clover, like all Othrs, is # new able after that date. The building | -tap nHitcd growth. 11 crowds, hugs and oeenpied by the Bank of Fram e at th.-1 tie' stra»l»erry plants to a ruin- prvt-t nt timn has great importance. It thi'Ke sti-a tliy, cnu l monsters that m- hal.it atid,lay waste tlie fastness'-s of tlie Kocky Mimutain region. Boach immi' diately dropped Ids booty and--skinned up 0 in e as nimbly us he evertsurtit^as forth other nian, he didn’t stop to pick up his projierty—he followed Boach up ■'if trmi with marked alacrity. The writ in ■ as if it w ere an unquestionable fact. The giant theory lingered still longer, and even yet cannot bo consid- eml entirely extinct among the un- k-arned. The dictum that the Hii{>eniti- tions of one age are but the rcienco of preceding ages receives ample contirma- tion iu the history of tjiis subject. Not disregard of his commands threw the (icneral into a hot passion. Though usuall greatly disinclined to capital pun ishment, he determined to make an ex ample of this skulking pilferer, and ordered-the man to bp arrested an 1 taken liack to Jackson, with directions to have him shot." The Puritan General, to 1 noil Him 111.11 aru niaiiiv’. Aim i UuU M the lilhtorV of this 811 l)H _■ _ rci-TTou, Haunting his tail savagely, iTouger ago tIi.iuT846 a mastoilon skcle- ’ whom Hcriptuml precedents were quite Marvel out extent strawU rfy nx» wiather. Thi' lover roots 1, grow iu clbvi-r and v Is and grasats may b .;f igc 111 winter wi.ri Irozen, but it is te. .i< i a v w ell as mild winter all biennial ceded out to ;e ground is li.’lldwecd- »t Iu m frt nj iliM-ftf" ' u 1 any liud, tl;< ’ ;Tli«rs|»4ki **xn«*4i i 1* -In of 1 ('oiij|»iaUit bfiiij Z <if i-Li.irl* 8U» tctiR lidgfkp ii iu billa, 1 1 ’lit 11lift clucft 1i« ut ajqx ar pi L*' %• U • it a» MUtniiJ U- >i:vtun> l*r% vahituit *» in i-KvioUn «mr- *. a\ ft * C l!l till VlitoV th caae* of kuu«1 vta 1 v,» . i. n I'CJfteii !ln| «H! ily »lut« atuoD^ bon* % ■ 1 of lut • un , "i4i 11 ••th,-r dilMM.1 lift* In** | Bchrrktalby t in* M.*t ioli i mill? c • -B<|iarit of Uu* Ivukitn III at and the • WIKM of «lU Im • Lrgcr i “ wav, hot its long, rcBTitn t«> come again inwotnc aud will uot eimtlv, however, lor pittliu i nHvirt,* jn to (wo plant* in a LiU, lali* apart. The cultivator 1 in this posit <»n, and rhirer, put hiue erass I* J tl it Ur iiu|)ortaiioe. is Nil irregular quadrilateral building, surrounded by the Bues Caoix ties Petit* t'liangi s, de | a Vhllietv, lUililf et Bail- - ziwciL The public has cut 1 re conhil.-oee in tlm lank, an*l U> taanf thivcosSJi uce grtwt pni-untious have Um tak< ti to n ::di r private at *111 as ppblic pro|H rtv safe. 1 he tire brtgadi', 4S.iri{sis4*i| of’ iln lul li who oUee beloniri'il to tlie r«'/f- 1 ment of Pari-, I am spa: buildings undir one roof iaiucusc rewrroirs, tfnd sixt conUtu UBfi-A iSieTy l,. Ibr water. Aside fn m tlie lirvrui watchmen arc cmplcjtd. Tl la Vniiicrc, occupasl to .h liank of France, was built in the di-eign* <•( 1 ranc< is Man building is geiu rally known licking l.i* hidequs fangs and rolling its t la- -y ej 1 balls suggestively, looked up ! at the Kb m*n in the tree and ]>re(iari-d 1 to join them. ... , . fithd in the jaws, all missing parts were • Have you a jastol ? asked Boach the | restored after the human mode), and the i error.„ whole raiseiFupuir ffie hind legs.— It ^“N , said luven , the traveler, “but oertainlv eonveved the notion of “a in my U It I carry a knife fourteen inches ‘sup- 1 .“Tin n,” - uggi ste*l the Terror, ‘ |lose you stick the knife into that mint wh<-n he r<-aehera -ut for us.* , B “V , but if r Uw\o tin- knife 14, the 'inn, ad 1 iveus, “hihI if ho falls with it, whet |irot,N*tion Lave 1 from you? No* I d keep tiie knife arid let you shoot the rrrt-T wtrta vpiuir ptsToI.’* “V.i*, laii <-up|Mwing I ih* shoot him,” raid ib-uch, “ahat protection have 1 jour krflfo when my pistol is ton was exhibited in New Orleans as familiar as tliey had been tn C'rom- tliat of a giant. The cranium was made well s oflieera, “could not quite see the of raw hide, fantastic wooden U'cth wore | utility of the culprit's execution, when men were already scarce, and it struck him tliat it wonid answer the purpose quite as well to nut the fellow in the front ranks of the army at the most threatened point” He accordingly treated him as David is report'd to have served the . htisliand of Bathslieba, lacing him where his cliauoe of hideous, diabolical giant' doubt responsible for man As a Mid commentary on and was no nr nigiitmartw. the state of the w-1 medical profeasion ui the southwest at the ‘Jl•lacing Inm where his cliauoe of U’ing time, it may bo added that the exhibiUifM#'** excellent. The fellow, though was perfectly honest iu his lielief, aud to °f clandestine pork, wss not want- supjsirt his faith he had a trunk full of 1 mg '» courage, and Iwhaved gallantly, physicians ccrtihcwt.w that th<»c wen- rwh.enMxl his credit by his bra* human iooumig Uir«,ugii the heat of tlie . 1 unscalLed, and tlins though he lost witl hi*' tlie lion was coming up the alarming rapidity. He seemed of Hotel de •rouRbt in 17 I M T< id foot h m way In )8i0 “Dr.” Koch, a Ocrmau char latan, mated a great sensation by an nouncing the discovery of tlie leviathan of Jqb, which he ralled'tlu- Miaaoiihum, from the State where it was hmud. It turned out, however, Uf be nothing but a mastodon preposterously mounted, b , Koch had adde<l an extra iloaen or more jomta to the backbone and nbs to the • a comnru- chest, turned the tusks outward into a mu t will eat j m a: Ton si MMHHH ought to be at any partieular mom sat, if on time; but as trains frequently and generally get late the train of inferior class must have its movement expedited by some extraneous cause or it may be delayed for hours awaiting a train that may have been wrecked or has been kept back for some other of many nailers Then the duties of the train dispatcher are of importance. He will probably give an order to the delayed train 1 place which he thinks it can reach without difficulty, and ho directs train to proceed to the opposing ti e place and place and there pass the other train and in that manner the trains are enabled to naas each other without any delay to dtncr. His great respondbQiiy consists in that he may have a dozen other trains in his charge at the amm time and in directing one train to go lieyond its usual place to meet another he may neglect to give an order to the second train aud in such an event a col lision would probably ensue, mnch prop erty be destroyed and probably lives be It will readily be aee est mistake of a train cause serious results ; and in this 1 his responsibility is than that of any other individv whose charge the public are placed, pilot on a vessel may lose his i ' out the fact soon becomes a| othm, and his capadty for misehkf is thorny lessened; other pioyes may neglect their dm rush headlong into danger, 1 Msoetatrs generally realise the before any unfortunate results 4 but the slightest behest of a trail patobar must be obeyed without Hon; even though to do ably. and probably an that the slight- might :ritU r hi iuiy d B d 1 ac- pig, he may lie said to have saved his iMoon. ” . • The author the chajiter 1 where the star fortunes with the following anecdote, which rests 1 wrung directions, only ou tn wiq aper authority, but loaUncw <>( which General D>ng deems worthy of m •xtramelr lielief and reproduction, because U M so of qq, strangely eousonvot with his own obsor- adoww to ttw orders give vationM of low's Urge minded and in- 1 .while they perform tasir vanaUj considerate sttUode toward shuoal entirely unknown Luiouuieb. The »«V»ry was on “—‘ ..... appropriately oonclihlcs; jeopardise 0m lives of thorn receiving wgned to Gettysburg, the orders-though of oouree until an x of the Confeilerwcy ■ aoe»d«Dt results the train asa are igno- 8 iisaaeil Into irreparable . chpse, rant of the fact that they have been grren I lollnwiog aiu)CtioU% wbirh rmtm wroiur dimtioos. u» 1 luuge Hi vi'tih I *1 r. %v . si. d» of Tfns and flftcvn decnw l I 1. la i*u* Um tat the Hotel the propert; of ti iu I* ply thet pr •it - lac I’ a p •t i» 1 leu to th*' xu head a hw Iuug8 end.-.If 1 r Uisn { d. •u Rot w Ul 1 y at it and Irovr his kliilc clean ie monster s breaet. ground wttli a bullet ud ek-ven inches of , Then Rack and q. , told by a “Gran j I" en no wing th 1 of (•• Uyahurg •t dt »U-n the tree. They y that tl.c J could in. Karh wo* in- Iil« life. 1 top IflO id 1(1 iw they uht Ihuu lt*n* to- semi cuttle, and ronverteil the animal | into an aquatic moustur which anchored itarlf to trees by means of lt« sickle- diaped tusks and then peacefully i-liun- ti rid ou tlie loaom of the wav.*. lake the SiU-nan. he f. und interest mg o Urmationa of his viaus iu the lxi>k of Job, that refuge of perplexed monster makers. Koch took ha leviathan to lojudou, where if was purchased by the Bi ni»h museuia, ami reft'Qverted into a ‘ mastodon by FrufMaor Owen, who at udoc rccogiuxwd its true nature-. 1 1 M nr-, ik A iiokhi: r Ait. Tl.rj l *ra|X- lr»,u s I^mI) '■ l‘*rk«( »s4 J sitatu*rv,l my 1 t aaas Asj tiMssal mt Trwabto. | (Vi.mii the Kpw fork “us ) and ae G« nraaLL"<* ordered his i trial. A Fourth avenue ear was rolling ho aud his officers rvda mar ms. As n ir th- y cam. 1 >' c I r< -gni/.d him, and. whose Uvea they have aud therefore never rw umily I Army ' man, who bad i puli'.rains of the hauls and who Mid: **i waa in battle of l it j sh myself, and an ami the unnortaut uart thev i4st in ffimde.il oeenmd there which largely J^aad ile~vEmant!! 1^---- clisiu: d my neWk of the Huuthem peo- -, T , praise due them, travelers ought el iaMt bs made acquainted with thair daffim i v ne rs pi*.*! Iiad been a most bitter anti-Hooth ; man, end fought and curved the ( onfsd- i-rstee .1. 'ja-rately. 1 could see nothing good m any of tticm. The U* <Uy the tight I wss 1 sally wounded; a ball; khstt'-rrd m# l*'(t U*g. I lay OU from t'<-uw-icry Bidgre woe I to**rw AK KVI (froai Iks AMaaial The followiag rather ■MT. I. tit liovi I 111. kin Til. t. L. Ir ThU I n-ui X. I Vai, ihc n IU MonIht ton*; for tl Mlt'S have I dtenu <• tl tons. T in low 1^ ,, 4 n yt-snyw sti | Ill’ll td . . n (axu.< i- of tile Mtu ’I ►*M; Wt that ku jf revoluti *'Tb»t I'. I of the vil or- I'lUi w •• «U . xhy lv J jr t* liiL c m .'i j* r re nt, < in the Laud Apnl. Th; 'UU t. nil I i* 1- Uo Oi/tiltUaXid lor >*t ths (ioejK'l; tho Cu r ihii il^M .1 : t7i i.., all tlie v. .rii" * ’ iu »giv, we •pit to amnd is olor i» too eu us ph. rapiled. In blue wa- clioi I in y are all blue with the exre ption of [ the note of o.iroi) francs, creutrel in IMd, whu-h woa ml. Never more thou tra* cuttings of this-fade wo* mode, and of K these there.are 'out ftNe in circulation at , preaeut. The ligtirrs priutrel on Ute | notes are- tla-ir mi-BH'i I'r 1 rifiiuirtcutl. il, and tlie combinations are so uuui» rolls tii.it each Dote lias its own tu trk. A I B, J. (Joy • w • ract for lay mg t. i. its own twentw-three it is Aret yu. f the tire; c.v.1 until the kignatur placed upon it. The Mirvulia severe tlmt workhigincb cai i veu a clipping of |<«pt r. .1 ,t wirb uuprvv.ion, women ore employed to Ie - ‘ C'u. re.unt and recount the p ipers aim ndacc ;hm in [lockages of l.lklO. Tiic ie!. r . rop anjig •T'-t of t* ear 4- Sc '.lWO i y |Bf _ where. Mihs r;.. l[. . wom gie. ii up to I of the blue ink is unchungahle, and its q. vlie, but hcrphyoicnuis mid, “If yon go composition is a secret. These notes i to such a village on our coast, perhaps i l<»vo the bank crisp ana bright, To- rc\, I v the sea air may prolong your life; but it' turn in less than two years torn, soiled w : t . I', i ;* an aafully wicked place.” That pel* jknd often altogether illegible, having V t1 i ' M>ui -‘ n arrixcddhi re, ami took a - room. | nmde the tour of France, and perhaps of louu'. 'of S h** sU pt but littk’ the lirat night, and the world . As they are brought buck k toward morning was sleeping quietly | “d judged iihworthy for use, after with her windows open forjea air, when many formalities they are destroyed in_ du 1 w..:. a'ulib :ed by the rough swear-! tho prosenoouf tlie regents."At^ine time m.iki^ ai big of men r'i'ir "mim -”- Hfae \ Hie worthless notes were bnmftl^Bnt cunl-l m t bear it, and, ha^trlr-.hewing, | bow they pre rrdnred to pa^to; t'Vo* wen!dewn to the door, and ^aul, “Oh, enormous cy/imlors receivo-the notrs men, 1 anxw poor, sick, dying woman. ^ aUr is ^«mred upon this niass, the 1 have come from the hills tu prolong I orifice oTtn© cylinder eloped and sealed The condition of In at and oats is jjnylife, but you are going to drive me ami the whole is cooked forty-eight Fruit, gdiiiiu produce, ptaiiUd (•'rn4o.it la-ui irji recent fro-ts and freezes, _Ci larly, at tin daic of ibe r, j to furnish an estimate of ti. damage ihUtcfcdi UnVAl.bs. favorable an exhibit a* e. ui.t still tllTTt; are senje facts e. them that should encouraged The area in wheat has b. in . d. wtJ, ■ twiat.l in .. fmiaors. higher than at the ramc tnu A smaller proportion of tin winter kiHed than iu 18n!. H-- m-s and to drive you away, you pale woman?” other work animals are in fair euuditior t y> nr. away. ' i rop was i •‘One wicked man said, “Who is going for farm wdrk. There has be. n uo in crease in the amount of food supplies] purchaseil, notwithstanding lust year's short crops, and there has been a de crease in the amount of commercial fer tilizers purchased in Value of about 3300,IKK*. . With very few txceptibusduo reports to tho Department arc of a cheerful character, and their tone indierdes a de termination among fhe farmers to do- r,wearing serve sneermthin-yefte, which they will have fli dmis.*’ Before she Tnnl filjiisEed, tingner, alt chjcfff of great French bauk- - * win with favorable. When to Elttiit tiet'tlH. It is a common notion that the tem perature of the air and tho soil is a re liable indication of the time for planting the different varieties of farm aud gar den seeds. Many farmers will not plant corn or e»tton until, in their judgment, the soil is “wurnl enough” -to gepiinunU- the seed. That this is uot an utf» rriflg guide may be easily demonstrated by the experience of anvame who has kept a diary and observed closely. It is quit • Uary true that corn, nor cotton, nor other You are; you have been about my'Saviour.” .* The man trembled, and said, “I will knock down the man that swears. Nobody shall swear while you areliero. ” A man cjune along swearing. Said he, “You stop thSt; tiq^re is an angel here.” In a few days shelobk a little cabinet organ, hired a hall, opened the doors uud windows, and tne rough men gath ered around. She touched khe keys, and began to sing, “What a friend -yg bars were in eyes unaccustomed to weep. In a little while she bad irechnrch, and had need for a minister, and they are doing great things there that never would hu've been done but for that pale woman.—Dr. Bates in Service for Jesus. She Went. “I came down hero to go out ou the Lansing brain, ” she said to Officer Button ut the Third street depot yesterday morn ing, as .she held a satchel in one hand and an umbrella in the other. Yes'm—train goes in thirteen min- seed will germinate and come up if the “How are the stoves in the cars?” - tempoPature ot the soil continues, aftei “Ferfectly safe, ma’am. All the cars planting, below the projier degree of r<.n tiiat road can roll over twire; and not warmth for the germination and growth i take lire.” of the particular seed. But ordinary observation shows that in our changi-able sjiring climate the .temperature of th» air and soil on one day is no guarante* of what it will be throo or ttnir dayi thereafter. The conditions of pi may be all right at the time of planting and tie all wrong at the time ol geriai- uaittg. Itrtmrvmng corn Urt rtuy r. - quire s about twelve or fourteen uni s (< come up, ked cotiou rexd from ffvc t- ten days. Ht i.ce, the weather liiay b* all that could be desired U* ac cral uays after phuitui? the re d and Wn i hl eoldorrair. Itiwiocre importsa t rbst ure Utter half of the period ol gt:tu should be note fareraid* Urea ti tmif. Tire ObERSt mb- av to • coniiag to tuBs—taa day «4 ire* i«r dcvarai ra tree * -L “Bridges safe?” “Entirelv so.” “Don't tlie rails ever sjxcad ou that « r “N. vef.” ' “How is it about cotiisions?” “Iu«y don’t have any.” “Any chance for some o run into the rear endof oure "Nbl A tilt.” “Well. I don’t know rinks and go, but 1 want to •tunt that U anything doew ■ larh 1 arm kdlrel my <4d ake a*Hrnt leva thair gj,-‘ni, xpefta hours. A very line blue paste is the re sult, ami this is sold by weight for the manufacture of pasteboard. The notes in circulation at this moment represent 3,500,000,000 francs, aud since its cioa- tion the bank has issued 35,500,000,000. The governor of the . Bank of France is M. Maguiu, a faithful representative of tho government presided over by M. Jules Grevy, and himself vice-president of the Senate. The general council is composed of two lieutenant-governors, three honorary lieutenant-governors and fifteen regents, among these Baron AlphoaSe.de Bothschild, and Baron Hot- mg-houscB. Several times has the Bank of T‘ranee been in a position to reader service to the government; once in 1871, at.the close of the Franco-Frnssian war, it inade the Bepublie a loan of several hundred millions. The shares of 5(H> frauck are quoted at the Bourse 4,550, aud during- the last few weeks, when stock fell far below par because of the rumors of war, those of the Bank of France were reduced to only l,52iTfmncg, A Story of Twit Words. “Oh, if I were lucky enough to call this estate mine, 1 should lie a happy ft How," said ayoungmam “And tberr^ said a friend. “Why, then I’d pull dow 6 the old house, and build a palace, have lots of prime fellows round me, keep the bust wines; and the finest horses and dogs iu tlie ooanrty.” “And then?” “Then I'd hunt, and ride, and smoke, and drink, and dance, and keen oi>en house, and enjoy life gloriously. ' “And then?” “ Why, then, 1 I like other'people, 1 should grow old, u ioj and not awe much fur there- rs?” ,v .« v ^* .Wia theft?;’ ••Whj,..tiremrel in the coune «f nature I should kaiv ut I mil take i *11 thss* -i-l- r-ar* Uiimza—and- wt-ll- V.» I otk Sun • W oskuigtoti, has the the new system ol wen in East Orange, and on Saturday in' secure »1 HU negroes from North Cat- idiiis siwl \ irgmia. They were brought ou by throe agent* of a labor bureau, aud, os tho agents got a cummin, ion for each man, they made all aorta of repre- st-ntstiona to secure them, promising many of ihuu SIN a mouth sn l loard, irrt otlwn jit . trpcf day. CojI* could nut jay them all the agents promised and a row*seemed uumiMeut. To make laatUrs worse, the agtuts became in- tcxH-ated, and attempted to avoid any iiecii.’wiun with the laborura ami to drive them into quartern in an old ha? shop in Dodd struct where u gong of Italians bod l>een housed. The colored .men did not hkc the quarters, and were diMSsttffiad with the rations of meat and corn meal provided by th<- contractor, 1 earing a riot, tho nmtrartiir (Tallod on tlie •uiiHitlily along Msdiaou aveua<. I’lfty-nitilh slrot-i, the other day. when it* ordinary assurtioent of all norta of I iasM ngt-As wa- - tortl< <1 out of m-tui- istleaMicMi by s nlinek that would have mode Buffalo Bid's proudest Sioux burn with envy. p * 'Taka it off! Take it away! Take it off!" screamed a nicely dressed Indy, t meant to kill me. jumptaji into the aisle, with one hand on ] he looked down at ' expression upon 1 left me, and 1 woi about. He extended SfCIblq* to one of the Her features and the other outstretched startled male passengeni. were a picture of terror, and her block < joe g! uned with frantic And grasping mine tb-mir intensity at the wrist of her ouUWetohod right into my ey ua, jsaM: arm. ] hope that you wdl scon be At find a suspicibu swept throngh the minds of tho knowing paseengese that it was a case of suakes, but on looking at the pretty wrist, set off by a jeweled bracelet, they h*w a real live leech. A lawyer who has an office in the Poth r building and w ho has some nerve as wdl as gallantry, plucked off leech and put it in a pajer box the lady had oarriaa Jv her - ; Meanwhile the other lady TMff * " Governor Gordon. Hon. Jons B. Pardon ms for taku.g tha tnuuiih faiat (rota exjiimure oihI l mb of writing to yoa to ask a Is bit..'!, 1 n..M*l jpp icy luuiN, 'X'kud A bunt two months ago I ws Lee in tl.- (ace, ana shout ui as loud as a* a maamgar in the Interior 1 could, 'Hurrah Ai tlie-Ctnon!' The ment, on a I General hear i roe, Ymts'-d, stujqwd IriaiVanH. hone, dramounUdl and came toward Co* rue. 1 c uf< ns that \at drat thought ha instructed me to writs to yoa, he cams up • that yoa wss a personal frisftd d •d sak yoa woald yoa enough to writs to tha Han. Hs is. Thud 'as oa srasisa s x n v, raiasj Manning and an sx- m from the Htats of -is up with such s asa face that all fear what ha was his hand to me, and looking •My sun, 1 welL* If I live a thoiiHaiid yean l shall never forget tire I M»k upon Lee's face. There he was, dchalud, retiring from a fi<Id tliat hod coat him ami hL cause almost their last 1 ment, my employers will say to-day that uojn-, yet hestopjM d to ftqMuush words | they never had tne least suspicion of my Harris, General, at Washington, D. 0., in Iwhalf. Mr. Gordon, I was atom k ful ia discharging my duties as a ■ aenger, and of aU the and other valuables that I paaosd through my hands of asthow to a wuiinde<F suhlter of tho < uemj who had taunted him as he passed by! As soon as Um» general had left m.- ' I cried myself b> bleep there upon the bloody gn und." What they could frightened rioter. llow many leeches to TIIK TKAIN irlSI’ATCBKK. did you have, fr ... 11,.. . i i, ^“^ Inodam, in the kox?” a jydted the lawyer, from Orange and East Orange, and sev- ••Three:” she gaspech “Why, madam, there’s only one here.” The shriek that followed was a chorar^ ifo of ftirerj t*ss Hand. cral sqinids of men were sect to the | scene. Tlie colored men luul sensible lea<K-rs > who said that tliere would lie in* row; but the jxilice ha<l plenty to do^ in pr.>b cting the diUiikeu agouti from tne wratli of the crowd of men and lioys which gathered and excited tho iro of persuadqd the colored men to stay iu the barracks until to-day, when uu effort w ill be made to come to some under standing with them. They wore quiet yesterday, but demanded that tlie agents should pay Their fares to their homes if satisfactory arrangements wore not made. Tilt-Cotton llovynoiil. . Every female pa-seugar thought sho was weandjj one or lioth of tile other two. But tho lawyer founjl both in the mat ting of the car, ana one of tiiem was crippled in the excitement. The lady jumped off the car spitefully to conceal her embarrassment. It turned out that she was the pretty wife of a well kuown iron merchant and member of the Seventh Regiment, who was at home with a swollen leg. . His wife had been down town to get the leeches to feed on her husband’s leg, but the dfoggist had cut too big a breathing hole for them. WUgn the husband learned of his wife’s adventure he laughed till the swelling went down. in tho annals rences i gener of thj his serve grossest inj honor v merits; but] employes, passengers, An Irate I’lea for PrsNent Style*. f 'fflkl 1 'll «ai*t the Murial < it ao r - 'N«*wv»l«* uatvi a»-*U ' 'Ir^ tlmr 1 * . I a" as! s to •sir; j • i to under- yea-die.” “And lire; bapi*-n by your thru*, I must be ^ V “MC -j- M wj yean oiler si. T!_cbba Tfinmi d With: “God I • to book.' my hapfeiM'Oi to yoa “OL, bo gnoa •Tj* In its weekly review of the movement of tho cotton crop, the New Yuik Finan cial Chronicle says that for tho week L-ndyig Friday, April 8, the total receipts have reached 2‘.>r308 bales, against 34,115 . , , balvp last week, 46,2!i8 bales the previous 1 hero is a class of women, and the W'-ckj ami 57,716 baK s three weeks since; u l llu , r i* 1 ' 111 i- s nnneoqssaiily large, making the total receipts since the 1st of who , have 11 tendency to asrihne an air of hepUimljcr, 1886,5,676,161 bales, against apology and self-toTcuse whek the Jove 4,8‘Jl,:*s:i bales-for the- same period of of adornment and eagerness to achieve 1H8.7 showing ah increase biuce Hop- aame ia talked of. Tb®y awime a tember 1, 1886, of 178,202 bales. deprecating air when this subject is The exjiorts for the same time reach a brou 8 ht n P- And Bhoidd they? It total of 40,004 bales, of which 27,986 1H uatural an(1 fittin 8 that women should, were to (Irtat Britain, 405 to France and want 40 look and dreW) weU - Mor e t’" 14 * 12,573 to the rest of the continent. The ^ lt 18 ft woman’s duty, just so far a« total sales for forward delivery for the her circumstances and means will admit* wor k are 480,400 bales. For immediate ^ dre68 woU aud t^tefuUy. Why them delivery the total sales foot up 961 bales. 18 an Y {or a w " ma11 to makif a The imports into continental ports have of herself for “beauty’s sake t> a b. .-n fur tin'S.UH; period tti.otxr bales. mystery. Dressing, to be sure, is gp There was an increase in tho cotton in j d rt, and it is only to those to whom thlaJ sight Friday night of 10,106 bales as art is unknown who are raising the hue compared with the same date of 1886,- •nd cry about “dress reform and ‘ ■ an increase of 45,474 bales &.s compared 8lble ‘irking- . The women who tin with the eorresjKindiug date of 1885, and lze B^t exhaustively upon this s'YOjl a deercano of 225.009 balcb ah cum pared l ^ ri5 bo Tool wiihlHM. - dowdy and ndicoloua anywhere to The old interior stocks have decreased "J 0 ® 0 "’ ^ is the woman devoid of during the week 10,578 lialee, and were w , figure is scrawny mid abso- Fridav night 184,554 bales less tiian at lately destitute of any lines of beauty 1 , the same period List year. Tb<- receipt* who8t ‘ arm u l uU « aud ^“y, that is sure at th* 1 same towns have been 2,136 bales u ® ®T*y •’*“ ■U* o®raeions ti> declare less' than the same week Lot vear, and ^ dw W 0 . f ^ P^ Dt “ •ance Scptcml^r 1 the receipts at aU the harm,ul “ d ‘fijanoua to ones ht*tiih ara-tiK.327 bales more than for the TLt; 7 “V." 11 Inaiiig merery ruffU and mm. - fims in Lft.'C. JaT - -* . ^ - The tolAl receipt* frem the planlatioo* I au kus^Am as*. -.nee Srjtombt-r 1, ore 0,154,351 ___ i» {885 *wj were \l:i.5,w<i balss; Nathe* are all-prepared rarafilia* — . -a I'vM IK* were 4,112, PWl naira. Al-, reliable, llua a pruvrar by the resuits | lU'.-jgh the reempto a» the tratjorto the ■ the ws .d Dr Harter a bua | ps*4 seek were tftlra, the ‘ mmrwamt free* |Jaatet»nft* *a* oftiv r rau . hahar the tohmw bawg ^ftC - frees Ih*- NOucks *1 lbs r~it-r r tovw. k| fc w mag* hkr i 'emgr amt -torn A Mtu WKs Hnl<U aenaer la Tn^ traveling public have long wont to bestow approval upon rail' engineers for the self-sacrificing which they exhibit when the lives en trusted to their care are endangered, and of the rail these occur- quoit that passeogDra the man at the throttle ye a* a hero ay virtue of opinions are de- d it would be the to detract, from the Abnegation always a cum* ol railway tirely unknown to responsibility is so much greater and whose slightest omis sion might jeopardize the lives of people on trains more than any oversight on ] the part of conductors or engineers, that | it is indeed strange that they .are so seldom mentioned in the public print*. This class is the tram dispatchers, whose every order is implicitly obeyed by truimaeii; and while tne crew of one train is responsible for the movement of that train alone, the dispatcher holds in las hands the lives of every individual on every train on the road; and on a road having a large traffic the duties im posed on mm are very great and arduous. liis position in the railway service is Unique; were all trains running on time and provided for on the periodical time table issued by the company, he woald have no duties to perform; but trains will get delayed ami occasions will arise requiring extra trains, or trains' w ithout any specified tune or rights, to be run over the road, and then his sen-ices are necessary to avoid hoars of deffig. ^ All trains on railroads are divided in classes, according to their importance, generally two, passenger and freight; and all trains of one class running in a specified direction have the right to the road, or need keep no lookout for trams of the sam^or a lower class running in tha opposite direction. Thu* it is on a certain railroad train* running wffiward have the right of way over train#lffiHing westward; then an east Bound pasetoffigJniB ean run the whole length of flWMff in entire Jiare- —| gavd of all train*; another powettger train going west need only kick out for j the esat-boond paarntger train, while tin, j the freight train* Burt to* out of way of both j iftungw train* and of th* honesty. Furthermore I my old master. I was **i*htoi I aarvad him w.ll, and li<* ^sid wlien he pit me in the department, upon this hs fait bound to serve me some too. I wee til General Toombs’s brigade during tha war and served there faithful a* a ser vant. I. have crawled up on my knees and hohds, over a mde, to carry my friends something to eat that waa in tha defense of their section of the country aud General Toombs has often add I never forgot my natural ritual I know ^ho my best friends are. Mr. Stephens that it are the duty of those that elevated to high, lofty position to n the humble and poor with tha pity for this reason I appeal to pathy, your charity and to erority as the Governor of tha State that give me birth to n my humble and deprived oon* with pity. I bag of you, Mr, eye i your your i dear look] ditiffif with all the humbleness crowning tha not of a servant to write to Mr. Harris at the earliest date as your convenience* will allow you in my Dehalf. I remain, sir, your most humble and obedient servant. Piano Latarttb. Moody Riot in Denver, Dbnvkr, April II.—A bloody riot oc curred here to-night between rival Swedish, Polish and I at 34th and Blake stresta, which i in the fatal shooting of five men and the serious wounding of several Others. It grew oat of a When the christening party and drunk they went out upon the side walk and made war upon fli^lphehiiianto of a neighboring house. Others itf*4|ie neighborhood became involved and the uproar became great It required a detachment of a doaen police, armed with Winchesters, to quaO the disturbance. Three or four police first made their appearance, whan tha rioters postponed their contention and joined loroes against the common enemy. They could not stand against the rifles, however, and about thirty wen lodged in the calaboose and some in the hoapi- taL * , • But one or two of the apeak English. They era all dirty and spattered with blood, i the appearance of belot^tog to tha low est type of humanity. Many of “lenver only a; ana. Palau ~ of Europe. tow Wm w ra S am I of Us I torjfti aad ivn | *•/-| ftwragmoa oftows a* | tom free.