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VOL. y. NO. 15
Our Own.
If I had known in the morning
How wearily all the day
The words nnkind
Would trouble my mind,
I said when you went away,
I had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain ;
But we vex our own
With look and tone
We may never take back again.
For though in a quiet evening
You may give us the kiss of peace,
Yet it might be
That never for me
The pain of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
That never come back at night!
And hearts have broken
I
For harsh words spoken
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for our own
The bitter tone,
Though we love our own- the best.
Ah ! lips with curse impatient!
Ah ! brow with that look of scorn !
Twere a cruel fate.
Were the night too late
To undo the work of the morn.
AFTER MANY YEARS.
rrsi .1 ,1a..- ir.it.
i nr vRHBc ui mr jiwuuium ^ucnuw ??
(mere?A Terrible Keveuce.
The story of the Mountain Meadow
massacre is now more fully understood
than ever before. In the spring of 1856
Elder Perley P. Pratt, of the Mormon
community, seduced from her home
the wife of Mr. H. H. McLean, a merchant,
of San Francisco, to make her his
seventh wife. On her flight the deserted
husband sent his two children, a very interesting
boy and girl, to his father-inlaw
in New Orleans. Some time afterward
the mother left Salt Lake, got the
children and started back to Utah with
them. On discovering this the doubly
injured father started in pursuit. He
came to New York, heard of Pratt there
and tracked him from this point to St.
Louis. There he lost him. Then heleft
for New Orleans, where he heard
that his wife and children were then going
through Texas to Salt Lake, so oil
he started to Texas. In his search for
the missing ones he had learned that his
wife had assumed the name of Mrs.
P. P. Parker, and while travel'n.2
through Texas he contrived to intercept
some letters which he found bearing this
superscription. On breaking open the
seal he saw they were written in cipher.
He succeeded in finding the key to the
cipher, however, and discovered that the
letters were from Pratt and contained a
request that the caravan with which Mrs.
McLean and her cliildren were traveling
should go to the neighborhood of Fort
Gibson, in the Cherokee nation. Coufused
and dispirited, Mr. McLeau returned
to New Orleaus, whence he started
for Fort Gibson, assuming the name oi
Johnson. He made known his secret to
Uo of fort. nnlv. Here his
vigilant and energetic pursuit of the
fugitives was soon rewarded. He captured
not only his wife and children, but
the scoundrel who in the name of religion
had enticed them from their home. The
United States marshal took them before
Commissioner John B. Ogden for trial.
The case awoke intense excitement at the
time, and the populace clamored for
vengeance on the wretch who had deliberately
plotted and planned the ruin of c
prosperous and happy family.
The cipher letters were produced in
court, and Mr. McLeaD told such a pathetic
6toiy of his wrongs that Pratt
only escaped lynching by being concealed
in the jail. Even the complainant himself
became so enraged afr one time during
the trial that in the very court to
which he had come for justice he clutched
his pistol to shoot Pratt then and there.
And no wonder, for he was told the law
was powerless to punish Pratt. Early
next morning the Mormon elder was d'smissed
and left the place secretly, but
McLean watched and pursued him, overtook
him on his road and killed him in
his tracks. "With his cliildren McLean
returned to New Orleans, and the wife
having meanwhile become a raving maniac
was sent to an insane asylum.
It was this event, combined with the
apprehended appointment of new territorial
officers by the government, that
led to the horiible massacre of immigrants
at Mountain Meadow soon after?
slight motived for such a terrible crime.
The party numbered 140 people, meD,
women and children, who had left Arkansas
to travel overland to California,
the new gold field. The party, unsuspicious
of harm, was traveling through
Utah. An attack was made upon them
by what they supposed were Indians.
.They resisted the attack, and kept the
attacking party at bay with their rifles.
For five days the assault was kept up
and the defense sustained without any
definite result being arrived at. All this
time the appearances indicated that the
attacking party were savages. They were
^dressed and painted like Indians and imitated
their ways so well as to completely
deceive the immigrants. It is now known
that while there may have been a few Indians
among them the assaulting party
were Mormon militia led by John D.
Lee. When re-enforcements joined Lee,
lie massed all the troops near a little
spring, and made them a speech, telling
them "his orders from headquarters
were to kill all but the little children."
Then, at the head of his command, he
approached the immigrant camp, most of
the mock Indians having meanwhile discarded
paint and feathers. As he ad
vanced he sent out a flag of truce, to me
great joy of the immigrants, who dressed
a pretty young girl of their party all in
white, and placed her outside of their
defenses, to show that they, too, were
disposed to be friendly. Then followed
a parley, and Lee told the immigrants
the hills were alive with Indians. He
advised them to leave their arms as a
measure of safety, as the Indians wanted
plunder and not blood, and his men
would protect them back to the Mormon
settlements. The immigrants at first objected,
but finally consented, and marched
out of their fortifications without the
least apprehension of danger from their
professed friends. Not an Indian was in
sight at this time. By Lee's order the
man were separated from the women and
children, the letter going to the front.
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1 Half n mile the devoted hand had scarcely
gone from their camp when, at -the
monster Leo's command, they were shot
dead, every one except the seventeen lit
tie children of the party, whose lives the
"council" had ordered should 1)0 spared.
One hundred and twenty men, women
and children were slain in cold blood.
Before the women of the party had all
been killed, one young girl is reported to
have rushed from, the crowd toward Lee.
She first threw herself 011 her knees before
him and begged him to let her live.
She then rose up and, twining her arms
about his neck, cried to him to spare
: her; that she was going to California to
join her lover, who anxiously awaited
I her there, and to whom she was to be
married on her arrival. He repaid her
, confidence by dragging her aside with
| vile iutent, and because she resisted him
and tried to defend herself with a knife
she chanced to have in her possession he
shot her through the head.
For years after the perpetration of this
| daring crime the property of the murdered
immigrants was openly used by their
murderers, and the fate of the missing
ones for some time remained a mystery,
their death being laid at the door of the
savages. Some Indians did participate
j in the massacre, but they waited for the
i white savages to set them an example in
human butchery, only rushing from
their ambush to surround the immigrants
when, by Lee's order, the first shots had
been, fired. After the massacre the
; bodies of the murdered immigrants were
j left on the open prairie to be devoured
by the wolves. So closely was the secret
of this terrible deed guarded that not
even in the northern Mormon settlei
ments was it known for a long time that
any white men had participated in the
I slaughter. The first authentic tidings
of the fate of the immigrants reached the
outside world through Mr. William H.
?A
rtogers, a government agem, ?uu unuu
something of it while crossing the plains
in charge of a treasure train in 1857. The
next year he was appointed Indian agent
in Utah and was ordered to rescue the
children whom it was believed the Mori
raons had saved from the savages.
With the impudence of brigands the
44Latter Day Saints" demanded a ransom
for their release. Mr. Rogers refused
the demand and gathered the children
together. To his amazement one of
the children, then about eight years old,
told him one day that it was not Indians,
j but white men, that killed their parents.
With a company of cavalry he went to
the Mountain Meadows, where a horrible
j sight* met his gaze. The skeletons of
120 men, women and children were
spread upon the field, the flesh torn from
the bones by hungry wolves and bullet
holes through the heads of most of the
; victims. A large quantity of hair from
! the heads of the women were gathered up
i from the sage bushes, and all the reI
mains were given a Christian burial. A
| few days afterward two Mormons called
on Mr. Rogers, and telling him 44 their
! hearts were pressed with grief," said
j they would give him a true history of
j the Mountain Meadow massacre if he
i would spare their own lives. He told
! them to proceed, and they related to him
the story told above, naming Lee as the
leader. Some blooded stock, wagons,
i carriages and other property owned by
! the immigrants, they said, had been
j taken to the Mormon tithing establishment
and sold at public auction for the
benefit of the 44Church." Brigham
Young, it is said, kept one of the carriages
and a piano for his own use.
In the Mormon versions of the stoiy
of the massacre it was made to appear
that the immigrants provoked both the
Mormon settlers and the Indians in their
progress through Utah. The Mormons
cowl their was chargeable to
the Indians altogether, and that they
were attacked because they had poisoned
a spring at which cattle clrank and died,
and that Indians ate the flesh of these
animals and died also. But this lias been
pronounced absolutely untrue by those
who have investigated the matter, and it
was well established both before and at
the time of Lee's trial that the murder of
the unsuspecting immigrants was but the
execution of a well laid plan ordered by
i the Mormon council, and that Lee not
only executed but exceeded his sanguinary
orders. With his own hand he
killed and wounded women and children
lying helpless after the flrst volley. He
shot a man down who held a child in his
arms and who knew and recognized him
through his disguise.
In November, 187-1, Lee was arrested,
and was soon after indicted for participation
in this fearful crime. He had
evaded pursuit for a long time, living
with one of his eighteen wives, an English
woman, among the Xavajoe Indians,
where his hut was like an arsenal. His
first trial continued through part of July
and August, 1875, and on the testimony
! then adduced the jury failed to agree.
During his trial his cell was searched,
and elaborate preparations for an intended
escape were discovered. At this time
one of his wives tried to see him, and,
meeting with a refusal, she assaulted the
jailor. In. September, 1876, he was
again tried, and the jury found him
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Having in that Territory the right to
choose whether he should be hanged, be
headed or shot, he choose the latter iorin
of execution, and was accordingly sentenced
to be shot on the twenty-sixth of
January, 1877.
An Honest Rebuke.
A group of elegantly dressed young
ladies met in one of the streets of New
York, and stopped to talk together. Near
them a rough looking man was on his
knees repairing the pavement, and unnoticed
by the young girls, who talked
loudly, fast and slangy. At the sound of
one of their expressions the man rose to
his feet and came toward them. 44 Don't
say those things again," he said, looking
squarely at the lady who had last spoken;
44 you wouldn't if you knew what they
meant." Silence fell on the noisy group.
The man. realizing what he had done,
seemed abashed, and turned away. The
i young lady to whom lie had spoken took
. a step toward him and impulsively thrust
out a delicately gloved hand. " We all
thank you, sir," she said,in clear, ringing
s tones. He grasped his trowel in his left
hand, while with his right, soiled with
i his honest work, he raised his ragged cap
i with a grace that showed the gentleman
, in the bricklayer, and Mlently returned
, his yltoe.
:aui
AND PORT
BEAUFORT, S. C
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What n Comma Did.
! . I
Tht1 claim of tlie United States for the I
return of the SI,500,000 advanced to
help out the Centennial Exposition has i
been rejected by the United States cir- !
' l A T)l,;i.,.lnliiUio nlflinnorli
I'll it I'WIU I ill' X lUKIKOIj'lllo, luuivitgw ,
there are abundant funds remaiuiug in
the hands of the managers with which to
satisfy it. Consequently, unless the dei
cisiou of the court is reversed on appeal, 1
the $1,500,000 will be distributed among
the shareholders in the enterprise. That
this would be the result was foretold by
the opponents of the loan at the time it
was proposed, and was indignantly denied
by its friends.
The.clause which was relied on to pro- |
tect the interests of the nation, and '
which was used to secure votes for the
grant, reads thus:
" The appropriation hereinbefore
! made shall be paid in full into the trea- !
sury of the United States before any dividend,
or percentage of the profits shall
be paid to the holders of said stock."
The advocates of the grant professed i
: to read those words with a comma after !
the word " dividend " and persuaded the j
public that no dividend of any kind |
would be paid to the stockholders until ;
! the loan from the United States had j
been first returned. Now, by their coun- j
sel learned in the law, they have success- :
| fully contended that there is no such |
j comma, and that only a "dividend or i
j per centage of the profits" was intended. !
j Inasmuch as a dividend of capital is not ,
: a dividend of profits, they have got the .
judge to say that the stockholders may
pocket the $1,500,000 as returned capital,
and the United States may lose the
: whole.
This is not the fir&t time thaVa comma
or the want of it has made trouble with
i?*AAaiiwvr A /tloilfiO ir. '
I me Ulllieu owiws unvomj . A v/iwuov AU
: the Tariff act of 1875, by the omission of
this modest sign of punctuation, admitted
free of duty all kinds of foreign
fruits, when the intention of Congress
was merely to exempt fruits imported j
for the sake of their seeds. The trick in |
that case was universally denounced and j
! speedily frustrated, but in regard to the
?1,500,000 now in question the nation is
1 very possibly without a remedy.?New
! York Sun.
A Vermont Farm.
The Rutland Herald says: The farm ;
of Counselor Evarts contains between j
seven and eight hundred acres, seventy i
head of cattle, including twenty cows,
three yoke of oxen, averaging four thou- j
sand pounds per yoke; fifteen calves, a |
j three-year-old Durham bull, a splendid '
specimen of that famous breed; a fine J
Jersey bull, and otlier youug cattle, all ;
, of which show care and skill in handling i
and feeding. There art; two hundrefl j
; sheep on the farm, many of them being j
| superior animals. Of horses and colts i
j there are sixteen; one span, as smooth !
j and active as colts, aged one twenty-five j
; and one twenty-six, showing that gener- j
j ous feeding and careful usage are strong
; incentives to longevity-. Several spans j
of young horses show good blood. Mr.
' Evarts has his best pair of horses in New
; York, no doubt competing, as far as he
i may, with Bonner and other horse fan- ;
ciera in-that city. Last, but not least,
| come the swine, twenty-five in number,
i Brick from the old Baptist church,
bought by Mr. Evarts, furnished materials
jor4he walls of a new and couveI
nient. piggery, ami the interior was finished
with due regard to neatness, ease
i of feeding, and the comfort of the inI
mates. One breeding boar, imported
from Lancashire, England, is as near a
perfect type of the hog as we have ever
seen. The products of the farm average
j two hundred tons of hay yearly. This
1 year two thousand two hundred bushels
! of corn were raised on twenty acres, be- j
sides several acres of fodder fed to cows
ill tlie tail. Uftts ana roois ui \iuiuuo
. kinds are largely raised. ^
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Suffrage by Machinery.
t An ingenious Belgian lias contrived an i
apparatus for the application to general
elections of the system of the bell punch
and the telegraphic tape combined.
There is to be in his scheme at each polling
place one machine for every candidate.
The voter is to touch the machine
; inscribed with the name of the man for
whom he wishes to vote, and the machine
records one on the tape or 44 blue
j trip ticket," and rings a bell. Each tape
punched with the votes is rolled up on a
graduated scale in such a way as to indicate
without counting how many votes
j have been cast for each candidate. In
! the operation of this machinery all that
the returning boards would have to do
; would be to bulldoze the reel 011 which
that tape has to be wound, and thus they
would swell the majority of a favorite
candidute.
What he Wanted.
44 Well, old fellow, what's the news?"
44 Nothing, only I am about to be
married."
44 But why so gloomy about it ?"
44 Because I w;int 10,000 francs. The
contract is to be signed to-day, and on
my side I have to show 20,000 francs.
I'm 10,000 francs short. lou might
lend tliem to me?only till this evening."
' God forbid ! But I'll tell you how to
manage it. Of course there is a mantelpiece
in the room with a mirror behind
it. Pile your 10,000 francs up there:
the glass will repeat them, and at a little
disstance the illuion will be perfect."
" I have thought of that, but "?
'' But what ?"
" The 10,000 francs I have got are the
| 10,000 in the glass."
What he Kicked.
The Detroit Free Press reports the
following: He was a young man, and he
looked like a student?like one of the
students in at tendance at Harvard college.
Moreover, his prompt action, as he saw
a loaf of bread on the crosswalk up Woodward
avenue, went to show that he was
fond of football, and therefore a student
! at Harvard. He reasoned that the loaf
ho/1 fallen frnm n Vmkpr's sleitrll. and fill*
; ther reasoned that it was better for him
| to kick it into forty pieces tliau for some
: poor man to find it. He kicked. He
; kicked for all he was worth, and uttering
i a wail of agony he limped to the fc;:ee
> aiul leaned against it and 'swore like a
i pirate. The interior of that "lost" loaf
> of bread was a handsome cobblestone,
i put there for just suoh en emergency,
FOR'
ROYAL 00
THURSDAY, FER
Life iu Wall Street.
The New York Times, in an article on
the gamblers of Wall street, says: h
Mo?t of them are from the West, nota- li
blv from Cincinnati, Louisville, Sr. e<
T !_ _ m.: r>??l ],
JUUIU^ L/Ilinv^W, lUH n auatc <IUU ut, x uui, , n
Discontented with their narrower field at j b
home, they come to the metropolis,where w
tlieir financial genius can expand ; where ti
big operations are the rule, and where ! w
big men, as they imagine themselves to tl
be, find their proper place. They are ci
unquestionably shrewd, energetic and i h
sagacious; but they seldom see Wall a
street in all its proportions and ramifica- S
tions. They overrate their own power a
and foresight. They try and enter into e:
open combat with the street; and while s]
they are one, the street is many, and tl
therefore they must be eventually over- g]
come. * * * One of the peculiarities w
of the smaller gamblers is that they in- t<
variably believe beyond wavering that tl
they are more astute than their fellows, tl
They acknowledge the perils of their a
pursuit; they admit that they walk amid a
pitfalls; that counselors are untrust- d
worthy; that friends cannot be counted , p
on. But they are wily. Other men are b
constantly fading. Oh, yes; they admit I
this; but then some men are not like 1
other men. Their faith in themselves is ^
superlative; but bitter experience demon- tl
strates ere long that their faith is sor- e:
rowfully misplaced. <r
Every year or two such ardent gam- F
biers come to grief, and are succeeded ^
by others equally ardent, equally san- h
guine, equally fated to win. Have you a
not met Smith, of Cincinnati, in Broad f<
street, and inquired after Simpson, of d
the same city ? " Poor Simpson," is his 1 tl
response; "they've cleaned him out. &
That last operation in St. Paul broke liim 1 g<
flat. He's gone home to die in peace." j a
" Where's Parker, of Louisville ?" you j ti
may ask. " I haven't seen hnn lor some j s
time. Parker's gone up. He was a little | J
too rash. He went heavily into Michigan j g
Central; couldn't carry it, and had to ; a
succumb." "Wiggins, of St. Louis, is j gj
still bellowiug with the bulls, I pre-jt]
same ?" "Well, no; he isn't bellowing ft
as much as he was. The fact is, he w
bought a big lot of Jersey Central at h
over par, and when it went down with -a ft
run Wiggins had to squat. Indeed, he's ! e<
completely used up." "Robinson, of ; e
Chicago, still keeps on top, doesn't he ? h
The last time I met him he told me he n
was worth at least a million." Proba- h
bly he was then; but that's seven or a
eight months ago. Lake Shore scooped u
him in. He lost all he had, and several i ft
hundred thousand more. He's gone to s
Colorado, and is trying to do something a
in silver mining.
You may suggest to Smith, of Cincin- \
nati, tliat since such a fate has overtaken !
Simpson, Parker and Wiggins, he may
not be quite safe himself. Smith laughs 1 a
with the insolence of a full blown pride i,;
as he says : "Never fear for me. I've ' d
had my eye teeth cut; I know the street ?
thoroughly; Wall street doesn't get up j <*
in the morning any earlier than I do. '
You can bet on me." Some months i ^
later, vou encounter Brown, a neur friend ; .Y
tpf Smith, and you ask affectionately after j 1:
the Cincinnatian. "Smith, poor devil, ^
thej've got his scalp. A few weeks ago ; c
he was in Washington looking for a j 1
$1,500 clerkship." j <
So it goes with the confident gamesters 0
in one continuous round of disaster, o
They exceed the Bourbons; they learn c
nothiug and forget everything. I
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An Irish Arcadia, j
! f
John G. Richardson, the great manu- j
i facturer of linens, seems to have success- ; ^
fully solved the problem of giving em- j ^
ployment to a community of 4,000 per- j
sons, whilst at the same time greatly bene- ^
fiting them by surrounding them with j
every incentive to temperance and moral I
I restraint.
( Mr. Ricliardson is the owner of 6,000 j
acres of land at Bessbrook, Ireland, on *
! which are quarries of blue granite and
j farms tliat are successfully worked, and |
i in the midst of which is the village of ^
| Bessbrook, with the great mill, offices t
j and warehouses of the Bessbrook Spin- ^
J ning Company. ! *
i The village is laid out with streets that ^
are lined with little cottages for workmen, ;
: with larger houses for the mill officials, ^
and there also is a beautiful villa occupied ^
; by the owners of the vast estate. ^
Every cottage has a dooryard deco g
1 rated with beautiful flowers, and the ' g
| property includes a public square to add | j
; to its attractiveness. There are shops of
! different kinds for the sale of articles re- j J
quired to meet the wants of the village, i .
but the sale of beer and ardent spirits is
forbidden ; and there is not a police offi- f
cer, a police judge, or a police station in (
i tlip village, neither is a pawnshop to be 4
i found. " !
The different denominations, of which |
j there are five (including the Catholics,) ( 1
| all live together in liarmony, and four
1 churches stand in close proximity upon a
1 hill that looks out upon a beautiful land- !
' scape with its green fields and undula- 1
j ting surface as far as the distant Newry <
: monntains. i
The streets of the village are kept, j
scrupulously clean, and the whole aspect f
I of the place is one of extreme neatness. 1
Mr. Richardson is a prominent member i
of the Society of Friends. He lias given 1
1 so largely of his means and time to fur- ; i
I ther the" great oause of temperance in 1
j Ireland, having recently served as the ]
i presiding officer at meetings held there, that
he will be welcomed in America by j
many who believe that intemperance is i
the greatest curse our fallen humanity i
Jias to contend with. j 1
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Lost it All. ;!
A story is# told of a well known New i
Yorker who, on his way home from the ;
club the other evening, managed to oc- J
, cupv considerably more than two-thirds ]
of tlie sidewalk. In this predicament he i
?* vwrr f-nm aaaHv individuals, who ]
; \>?o men K/j tnv
first relieved him of his watch, and then 1
j tumbled him over into the snow. As he 11
lay there shouting for help, two other <
individuals came along and inqu'red: ;
"What's the matter?" "Why," said the ]
broker, " here I've?hie?been robbed of 1
my?liic?watch." "Didn't they tuke ]
your money?" asked the strangers. <
"Don't know," said the broker, feeling :
! in his breast pocket for his wallet. "No, j 1
here 'tie?hie?money's all right." j:
"Well, we'll take that, then," said the ;
strangers, as they seized the wallet and <
i disappeared wound tb* first eorow. <
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MMERCIAL
TiUARY 22, 1877.
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How She Obtained a Necklace.
A singularly cunning robbery was
itely perpetrated at Florence. An Jingshman
accompanied by a girl of eighten
arrived at a fashionable hotel, hired
andsome rooms, paid their bill regular7
every week, and lived exceedingly
rell, but without any foolish expending.
Tlie man brought with him f
Titing bureau, which he placed againsl
le door of tho room which communiated
with the apartment occupied bj
is daughter, and she had her escritoire
gainst the same door in her room,
oon after their arrival the man visitec
leading jeweler's store, and made sevral
purcliases, paying for them on tin
pot, and at length told the jewelei
lat he was on the lookout for a realh
plendid pnrure of diamonds, witi
hicli he wished to present his dangh
?r on her marriage. The jeweler saic
lat in this case he luckily had precisely
he right tiling, and forthwith produce*,
splendid necklace, which the man exmined,
stone by stone, aiid at leugtl
ecided to take for $80,000; but he ex
lained that he had not so large a suir
y him, and must communicate with hit
iondon bankers, and appointed tin
'uesday week following as the daj
'lien the necklace should be bought anc
lie money paid. On that day the jewel
r repaired to the hotel, and he found hit
ustonier seated at his writing bureau,
[e took out unbundle of banknotes, ant
as proceeding to count them, say
>g: " My daughter knows nothing
bout this. I am preparing a surprise
ir her," when there was a knock at the
oor, and the young lady came in to sa^
bat papa's tailor was waiting to try or
ome clothes. Papa instantly closed tin
ecretnire to conceal the necklace, and
s she stayed in the room and begin
liking to the jeweler, said he'd go ani
ee the tailor and come back presently,
'lie young lady stayed some time, anc
ave the jeweler the chance of quite ar
greeable flirtation. At length she saic
lie really must go. The jeweler tliei
ried the secretaire, found it locked, anc
;lt quite happy as to the necklace. He
raited and waited, until, when three
ours had elapsed, he rung the bell anc
tld the waiter to tell the gentleman he
otild wait no longer. But neither fath
r nor daughter were forthcoming, no]
ave they since been seen, nor has tin
ecklace. It was found that a nice litth
nl<s liriil hppn made throucrh the door
rfd the splendid ornament having beei
eatly hooked and landed, the liaulei
ad quietly stolen away. The de
pair of the poor jeweler may be im
gined.
Rain in California.
An enthusiastic citizen declared, sayi
San Francisco paper, that an inch o
ain in this State was worth a miliioi
ollara. He certainly did not make ai
verestimate iu this instance. The agri
ultnral products of this State' wer<
rorth last year not less than $70,000,000
Vith no more rain tlu?n has fallen tliii
ear up to the tenth of January only tin
rait crop would have matured. Grapei
rould have done tolerably well, but tin
erenl crops would have been a failure
'hree 01 four inches of rain, in additioi
i> what has fallen within the last tw<
iiya, will be sufficient to mature mos
f these craps. Now that the rain hai
orae, it brings also a promise of more
t has put heart into the whole farming
ommunity. They will shape all tliei
perations for a dry season?one witl
us! enough moisture to bring forwart
lie crops where the tillage is good.
After the middle of January, and in i
Iry season, we cannot expect more thai
our or five inches of rain at the most
f this is well distributed we shall ge
air crops over a considerable area. Ex
ept on irrigated lands wheat apd othe
ereals will be a failure in the San Joa
[uin valley. Irrigating canals will b
mslied by private enterprise, and thos
riio can turn water on their lands thi
ear will probably find their account i:
ligli prices for pasture, hay and grain
There is little prospect that more thai
welve inches of rain will fall in any c
lie coast counties or in most of the in
erior valleys. It is reasonably certai:
hat it will be relatively a dry season
Hie present rains will revive the pas
tires, which by fro t and drought ha
leen nearly ruined. The grain crop
vill be brought forward. In many in
itanees grain sown late had not eve:
iprouted; in others it had germinate
tnd died. Some fields will have to b
town again. But in most cases th
am will bring out enough dormant see
:o make a good start.
It is quite within bounds to say tha
iverv inch of rain which falls after thi
late will be worth a million of dollar
o the State; and every foot of snow o
;he mountains will be worth nearly a
nuch more to the miners.
An Extraordinary Story.
The New York Herald publishes a
?xtraordiuary story, of which the follov
ing is a very brief synopsis : Elizabet
Mary Sanxay was born in Mulberr
street in 1827, and was married in 184
to her cousin Louis Gordon Keith,
laval captain in the United States se:
rice. On the death of her husband sh
remained in Baltimore under the care (
!ier cousin Archbishop Eggleston, wh
placed her in supervision of St. Vincent
Asylum for Orphans on First street i
that city. The institution was formerl
in charge of the Black Cap Sisters, wh
refused to retire until threatened wit
legal process. A year later Mrs. Keit
ind her infant daughter were kidnappe(
md conducted by one Lovegrow to th
Mount Hope lunatic asylum, where th
mother was forcibly detained for seve
rears, being mourned as dead by h<
relatives. She finally regained h<
Liberty through the interference <
A.rciiOisnop JtienancKs, ana reiurnea 1
ber father in New York. In search i
health she went to Williamsburgh, Va
where she was again kidnapped, an
confined in a lunatic asylum for eightee
jrenrs. She was finally liberated by
military commission, appoined by Maio
General Hancock, by which she wi
pronounced sane. Even then she wi
detained on various pretexts for son
months, but was finally restored to hi
brother R. Selby Sanxay, who had bee
informed of her existence. Tiie lady wi
i3 said to have undergone this terribl
experience is now living in Ehst Twentj
Sight street, in York tfity,
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The Old Man Who Smiled.
f
i The Detroit Free Press tells this story:
One time there was a good old man liv
ing in Detroit. His baek was bent, his
1 -* 1 won Tt-lin rrn7.pi] lltVin
1 Wit!"* MUM1 J Ulivt lm u V*MW ^
liis snowy locks and wrinkled face wliis7
pered to each other: " He is a good old
man who has not long to live."
i The old man had been weH off in his
t day, but when he found himself on the
shady side of life* wife dead and home
7 broken up,he said to his only son: " Here,
i William, take all I have, and let your
. home be my home until I die."
I The son took the papers?you bet he
did ! and the father was given a cozy cor?
ner, a big chair, and a corn-cob pipe,
r I All went well for a year or so, and then
7, the son and the son's wife began to make
i it uncomfortable for the nice old man in
the corner. They threw out hints, del
prived him of his comforts, and one cold
' j day in winter he was told that he had
I better go to Halifax?Nova Scotia.
I The old man's heart was sore as he
i went out into the world to battle against
- hunger and cold, and when night came he
i cowered in a doorwav, and wept like a
J child.
3 " Who is making that chin music up
7 there?" called a reporter, whose steps
I ' had been arrested by the sobs, and he
went up the steps, and patted the old
> man on the head, and bye-and-bye the
. story was told.
I " Come down to the station with me,"
said the reporter, taking the Old man's
J j arm. " Your son is first cousin to the
3 man who preferred buzzard to lamb, and
3 ! I'll help you fix him !"
r! The next morning one of the daily
i papers contained an item to the effect
3 that an old gentleman named Goodheart
, had been found wandering the streets at
i night, and that when taken to the station
I $10,000 worth of United States bonds
. were found on him. The old man rend it
I over three times, slapped his leg as he
i saw the point, and a beautiful smile covl
ered his face and climbed up through his
i hair. In about an hour his son William
1 rushed into the station and called out:
3 j " Father, dear father, come home ! All
3 of us were crying all night long, and my
I wife is now lying in a comatose state on
3 your account!"
The old man went home with him,
f winking at the lampposts and smiling as
3 j he turned the corners. He had all his
? comforts back, and the son bought him a
^oM-rr orwl o. r?nir nf box toed boots
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i : that very day.
r Well, as time went on the son ventured
- to suggest that the bonds had better be
- turned over to him, and every time he
would say "bonds" the old man would
smile and turn the subject. 'Ike other
day the father went to bed to die, and he
smiled oftener than before as he lay woit*
ing for the summons. The son said his
heart was breaking, and then went
1 through the old man's clothes to find the
I bonds. He didn't find any. He searched
" i the barn and the garret and the cellar,
5 and finally when he ?aw that death was
(very near he leaned over the bed and
* whispered : "Father, do you know me?"
i I "Oh, yes; I know you like a book,"
? | replied the dying man.
"And, fatter, don't yon see this thing
j is almost killing me ?"
II "Yes, William, I see it."
j* i "And, father?those?those?bonds,
1 von know. I suppose you want them
5 used to purchase you a monument ?"
i "Correct, William," whispered the
? father, winking a ghastly wink, and as
r ; that same old smile covered his face death
I came to take him to a better home.
' When evening fell the son and the son's
wife were wildly searching the straw bed,
II to get their hands on those bonds,
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* Women in the Treasury.
r The detection of another thief in the
cash-room of the United States treasury
e affords a Washington correspondent the
e opportunity of calling atteufion to the
s superiority of women ove? men in resistq
ing temptation.
t. ; Since the first greenback was printed
a the counting and putting up 01 pac-sagea
>f 1 of money liave devolved entirely upon
i- | girls ana matrons. There are few in
n | office now who have been there from the
i. beginning, and billions of dollars have
i- passed through their hands without the
d fraction of a dollar sticking. Have they
s been rewarded? No! Numbers of men
i- j like Winslow, the last thief caught, liave
n been appointed by political influence at
d salaries double those paid women ; and
e j these experienced, tried and trusted woe
men, who cannot be well dispensed with,
d are not only never promoted, but are
i treated as though they should be thankit
ful that they are permitted to serve the
8 | government for $75 a month. Sometimes
s i a package that has been counted by a
n woman has been found short in the acs
count, and no matter how innocent the
counter may be, the amount missing is
taken from her month's salary. In almost
every instance of this kind eventually
the thief has been found to be a male
u messenger, or some man who received the
package from tlw lady, and abstracted
one or two notes.
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A Sensible Present.
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r-1 Last year a wagon and carnage manure
facturing company of South Bend, Ind.,
)f presented each of their army of work0
men (about nine hundred in all) with a
's twelve-month subscription to a weekly
n i newspaper, the employee signifying
y whichever paper he desired to take. The
10 , aggregate expense of this token of good
h ! will to their workmen by the company
h was a large sum of money, but they pro1
i rwwfl to incur it again, and as a prelim:
-t I f w
le j nary step, have taken a vote of the
le force to see how many would prefer a
n turkey instead of the newspaper. Only
?r three of the entire number express* d a
n i choice for the turkey.
}f; The course of a manufacturing com*
so | pany that will have a*care for the intel3f
lectual well-being of its men, indepen.,
I dent of their attitude each to the other,
d ' as employer and employed, in a pecunin
ary point of view, cannot bo too stronga
i ly* commended. The so-called natural
r- antagonism between capital and labor
is j will have hard work to assert itself when
is capital thus takes labor by the hand and
10 isays: "Come up higher." The ex31*
[ ample of the company in this matter ie
n | worthy of imitation by manufacture! (
to j throughout the country, and the pre^
j would do well to give them a gentle
7" [ bint to that effect by bringing the one
I under eentideration to their notice*
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Uncle Remus' Revival Hjmn.
' Oh ! whar chill we go w'en de great day cornea
i Wid de blowin' uv de tminpits an' de bangin'
uv de druniB ?
IT,^ nven,. omnom 11 ko ontohpd OTlt late. 1
iiV n lliauj pv RtUUVAO M t
Au' line no latch to de goldin' gate ?
No use fer ter wait 'twell to-morrer?
De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer.
Bin's ez sharp ez a bamboo brier?
Oh, Lord ! fetch de mo'ners up higher !
j We'n de nashnns uv de earf is a stannin' all ?
aroun', ^.
; Who's a gwine ter be ohoosen fer ter war de
glory crown ?
Who's a gwine fer ter stan' stiff-kheed an' tol', I
An' answer to dere name at de calhn' uv de q
roll?
You better come now ef you oomin'?
Old satan is loose an' a bummin'? <
De wheels nv distrucshun is a hummin'?
Oh, oome along, sinner, ef you comin'.
De song nv salvation is a mighty sweet song,
An' de pairadise win's blow fur an' blow strong -+
An' Aberham's buzzum is saf an' it's wide,
Au' dat's de place whar de sinners oughter
hide !
No use ter be stoppin' an' a lookin',
Ef yon fool wid satan you'll git took in,
You'll hang on de edge an' git shook in,
Ef you keep on a stoppin' an' a lookin'.
i De time is right now an' dis here's de place?
; Let de salvashun sun shine squar' in yo' face.
' Fight de battles uv de Lord, fight soon an'
fight late,
An' you'll allers fine a latch on de goldin' gate.
No use fer ter wait 'twell to-morrer?
De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer.
Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo brierAx
de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher.
?Atlanta Constitution.
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Items of Interest,
According to the report of United
States Secretary Chandler 6,524,326
acres were disposed erf during the last
fiscal year, for which the cash receipts
; were $1,747,215.85. During the year
! 21,803,517.25 acres were surveyed,
: leaving yet to be surveyed 1,132,665,i
214.53 acres.
i Chlorate of potassium and iodide of
potassium are separately harmless jb&Uj
cal doses, but the Journal of Pharmacy
' warns physicians not to administer them
] together, because in the stomach they
combine to make iodate of potassium, a
j poison. Mixed in any other way they do
not thus act
A Canadian woman has iust taken ro1
venge in a novel way oil a female boarder.
She didn't abnse her, denounce
her, scratch her, or anything of that
kind?oh ! no; she quietly took a scia-.*sors,
went to the closet and cut up the
hated one's best silk dress into strips of
a size for making rag carpet.
While he was sitting on the woodbox
, and chewing the bitter cod of reflection,
: a man with a brass watch chain and a
three dollar set of glass diamonds entered
the car, and six of the women lifted
| their sachels down and moved close up
; to the side of the car. Such things are
not righL put they always will be done,
| A gardener near Santa Cruz, Cal., has
a strawberry patch of half an acre, from
which he says he can on any day or
month of the year gather at least twenty
quarts of ripe berries. He lias picked
3,000 during the past year, and blossoms,
! green and flaming red ripe berries are to
, be seen on the vines the whole year
through. >
" Men are like hymn's," remarks an
exchange newspaper. " There are short
metre men, sharp, blunt and hasty;
; there are long metre men, slow, weighty
and dignified; there are hallelujah
metre men, mercurial, fervent and in{
spiring ; and there are eights-and-sevena
I men, gentle, genial and delightfril. There
are also some ' peculiar metres,'"
The killing of a German sailor by
i some Frenchmen at Smyrna seems about
to exercise upon the relations between
France and Germany the same influence
as was exercised by the row in an inn of ;
^oioio in fourteenth century. Some
Ui ,
j British and French sailors fought there, ,
and soon after begun the hundred years'
war between France and England.
The annual report of the inebriate
asylum at Binghampton, N. I., states
j that from May 1, 1867, to December 81,
1876, 2,065 patients were treated. More
, than one-half of these were permanently
cured. The reegjpts during the year^inclusive
of cash on hand, amounting, to
about 87.000, were $43,714.55; the expenditures.
$38,319.03; cash on hand,
$5,395.22.
A portly magistrate of Glasgow having,
one fine Sunday in summer, found his
way to church, was overcome by the
I heat of the weather, and fell fast asleep
! during the sermon. In the middle of
the discourse a dog which had got into
church set up a howl. J' Put out that
dog," said the minister; " put out that
dog instantly?he'd wauken a Glasgow
magistrate."
A correspondent of the English Mo
, chanic, in answer to a question as to the
best means of keeping the feet dry in
I winter, says : A simple plan would be,
j on having a pair of shoes made, to order
the maker to put between the soles a
piece of guttapercha as thick as a sixpence.
No wet or damp will ever get
, through. I have adopted this plan for
some years. Formerly I had both wet
and cold feet continually, which even
worsted stockings failed to keep warm;
now I wear cotton all the winter and
never have cold feet.
The Bridal Party.
When the bridal party arrive at the
f church, they are met in the vestibule by
j the ushers. The procession then begins
i with the ushers walking together, arm
in arm; then the bridemaida in paus;
| then the bride's mother, escorted pr the
groom, and last the bride comes with her
lather. There is no impropriety in haying
the little girl walk in just in front of
j the mother. Up m reaching the alter,
' the bridemaids piss to one side, and the
i! ushers stand opposite them, leaving a
I i space between for the bride and groom.
-; The parents stand just behind the bride,
i When the ceremony is over, the n3wly
i married pair go immediately < u1; of
i church, withont l>eing congratulated,
! followed by the bridemsids, who are
j now escorted by the ushers, and lastly
, come the parent*