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Supposing! p ll PPo*>«' that a man, avaricionB and old, °nld oome to nn jingling his ailverand gold, -ol oflcr a Bhare of his Mammon to ma,*^ ^ t. th.' nalc of myself would agree— I wouldn’t -would you V -fjPP' ong a he>“', all bristling with fame, thejreight of a wonderful name, 'll nSffntrrrt-rfl^uiiJtr ootivlesoeusien his hand and a little attention— i wouldn’t—would yon ? 1 ig a youth, with his he'.rt in his eyes, hone like the light of the Ix'autiful skies, I promise to love me through all his glad life, gged that I’d be his own dear little wife— Qness I would—wouldn’t you ? Uabj>Land. IVY OEOROK COOPER. How mai y milea to Baby-Laud! itell, ^»e flight |tr rightr- ^the bell. Baby-LaujJJ- t ie, s, - IS, Ppure and bright. r What do they do in Baby-Land ! Dream, and wake, and play, Laugh and crow, Shout and grow, Jolly times have they. What do they say in Baby-Land ! Why, the oddest things; Might as well «Try to tell What a birdie sings. Who is the Queen of Baby-Land ! Mother, kind and sweet; And her love. Born above, Guides the little feet. trttttl Nature with dn-unv And all the seen - a t rVOI.. HI. NO. 146. KKIEM. VOL. VH. NO. 340. ATKiyS T , S. C., THURS: !77. $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. THE SR,ENT HEART. Mrs. Hartley was seated in a small, rather cheerless sitting roam, engaged in the homely occupation of stocking darning; while opposite to her, Sarah, her only cl ild, with folded hands, looked ont cf the cottage window. There had been a tall figure passing down the path | Could she marry him, and live year after year, w^ym love for her husband, no love from^H ? Could she stand be fore the nlta^and pledge herself to honor and obey a man for whom she felt only a gratitude which tantalized her by ^|iazzi?h^su8picion ! As if m answer to her thought, her ! moth v said : “ Yet you have all to gain such a marriage, Sarah, nothing to lose. ” “I should lose my self-respect, my happiness for life. No, mother, though I may seem ungrateful, I’ll not marry where there is no love !” | Mrs. Hartley did not urge the suitor’s cause, although deeply disappointed at her daughter’s decisiou. She had mar ried for love herself, though her husband had been a rich man, and she knew only too well how much warm, true love is needed to make married life happy. To advise Sarah to marry Charles Everhard after her reasons for refusing were so clearly stated, would have been to do | violeuce to all her own convictions, j Bnt Charles Everhard did not patient- j ly bear the rejection of the beautiful girl | he had persistently wooed for many Ion-' ; months. He had, as Sarah suspecte 1, planned the apparently chance encounter ! which first brought him to the notice and grateful acknowledgment of the widow and her daughter. He had spent valuable time and no small amount of , money in following up this introduction, and having, as he believed, won Sarah’s affection, had asked lier tobe his wife. somewhat more cheerful than it had 1 been the previous day, and Sarah was speaking cheerily, when the postman’s voice rang along the narrow passage. “ Hartley!” i* ’An answer tJ. ^J^ ,i dvertiBcment!” cried Surah, iSyiny -.own for the lettex and up agai« “A great legal envelope marked Ever hart rjLd Hill,” she saul. “ Can Charles sue me for breach of promise, mother ?” There was a pause whileSar’h opened the letter. Then Mrs. Hartley gave a startled cry at the deathly pallor of the face lifted to meet her eyes. “ Mother,” Sarah said, in a hushed voice, “ can you bear a great shock ?” “Yes, dear. All we love are dead, and we have each other.” “A shock of joy, mother ! Rather a { , — uovel sensation for you and me. This f s a ’ JOU * ; the thickness of a sheet of paper lottcr tells me that my Uncle Herbert'p Je t ween it and the magnetic bar. In left a will!” * throwing the voice against the dia- “ Yes*, Sarah ! Speak quickly, child.” phragro, it is set in vibration correspoud- “In care of Everhard & Hill, to be t° the different tones and strength opened on my twenty-first birthday, i ^ ie v °i ce - The movement of the dia- CMrles Eberhard’s fathex-, mo|her, lias pi ira S ni fls ft approaches and recedes >eH died.” f lom ^ ie steel magnet, sets up an induc tive amonni in the bobbin, which is transmitted to the bobbin at the distant i j station, caisiug the steel bar to become | ! more or less magnetic, which A STRANGE HISTORY. died. Then aad this will since Uncle Herber ‘ ‘ I begin to understand, dear, you are heiress—” “To thirty thousand pounds !” There was a long, long silence, and Mrs. Hartley gently untied Sarah’s shabby bonnet. After a moment of composure, Sarah cried fervently: “ Make a fire .of the chairs and tables, mother, while I spend the contents of my purse iu a xu that led to the little gate, but, long* be- 'witUffche pure instincts of ; good breakfast. I have just discovered fore, that was out of sight. Still Sarah sat there, her dark, mournful eyes look ing out npou the dusty road, her beauti ful mouth folded in lines of pathos, touching in one so young. Busily the shining needle went in and out of the stockings, and sometimes the mother cast a wistful glance at the lovely face opposite her, as if longing to com fort or advise. It was strangely pathetic to her fix see the little white hands, that were always so busy, idle in the fore- -oon, the cheerful features so absorbed sad. M '>-t, Sarah broke the long, painful silence. “ Moti. v ” “ i 8 it my duty to own maiden heart to guide her, had that I am very hungry, refused his offer. But there was uo more want or cold With his heart full of bitter revenge for the heiress or her mother. It was ho tried to win by cruelty what he had thgee years later when Sarah was sought failed to gain by kindness. Before u , agate f?r a wife by one who loved h«r marry Char ‘ ‘ Your V* warmer word . marrying a mn. x great a debt of grat ‘E-NCimother. I but i s Everhard ?” Sarah ? Have yon. uo use when you talk of owe so to him. week had passed he urged his suit with Mrs. Hartley. With affectionate words she told him of her own regret at Sarah’s decision, but absolutely refused to use her own influence to alter it. Then, when vague hints were thrown out to wakeu her fears, a stately dignity re placed the motherly warmth of hjjjK manner, and Charles Everhtyai^ uS courteously but distinctly that j Sarah could never bribe or threat. But a fewd^were,allowed for re- j flection im^ethe landlord of the little 1 cottar” raised the rent to such an ex orbitant amount that only immediate removal remained for the Hartleys. Th©' easy, lucrative work was taken away at an hour’s notice, and when Sarah went to the warehouse tor which she had wircii., - ' ' 1 "i nt was denied and vton the treasure of her love, aad the warm, true heart, under the apjeal of sine —e devotion, silence at had ^ girl from -”***‘ v ing wife hvu**^ _ turu, acts upon t\e diaphragm. No battery is, used. The urinciple upon which the curx-ent is v&usmitted depends npou Faraday’s manetic-electro law, that a disturbance h a magnetic field causes an induced cureut of electrcity, the whole ’ ower coxes from the voice, the current, therefor is weak, consequently the diaphragm is t a delicate coustruc- fiou ; freely responding to extraneous currents from oth? wires. According to the well-known law of magnetism, power variesinverselj;o the square of the ie j distance. It is diflic’t to reproduce the enee to the cgnal, outlaws prciptly UO txCZ “Yet he loves yon Tie vo uh! ly, “ If I could only believe tlnu.” Sa-»di | ),^ r . there. Winter sighed. “ If I we^e only sure he »^cd the narrow attic room seemed even more idjeary tb*>i before in contrast to their me ! “ Yon doubt that V Mrs. liartley^ioke iu a tone of the utmost arm ’’eiSKt, while her busy hands fell idly beforWr^** “You doubt C Hailes Everhard’s love ?” “ Mother, if he really loved me surely my heart would answer something to his words ? But when he is most elo quent 1 a)r r hik from him the most. I ask q***eh' why he should feign a love f^foe, who can give him nothing—not y/vcu love—in return, and find no answer. ' And yet I know, by every throb of my - r—r . ■ “ Yon are too x-omantic, Sarah. Think for a moment. We were miserably poor, living iu an attic,doing slop-work for the bai-est necessaries of life, when accident threw you in Charles Everhard’s way.” “Was it accident? I have often thought it was strange that he should have stood so very near when 1 was iu- j suited for ♦be only tune iu the street. It has of**i troubled me that I thought j ictooted (l glance pass between the man who was nxde to me and my gal lant deliverer. It was rather dramatic. ‘5°-’?i s cottage. Sti. mother ^nd daughter spoke no word ot -egret fSt the refusal that was costing them so de.>t. Sarah iu her load of i bio suddeu. vftjsJ voice correctly. If th trength of tone is rfs ’lloubled, it will qu*d\ple at the other Four of the masked i-oseeded to the ex press doo> with >fr. Barnhart in charge, a nd witldeveled revolvers foi - ced him to give fla signal he usually employed to gain a {mission to the car, Mr. Miller, the eijl’ess Giessenger, responded to the signal rvjfonms the door a few inches, and tlJKtlled highwaymen grabbed the door, ■ybw it open and covered the as- touislX messenger with their revolvers, and Mck as thought, and before Mr. Mil^F could recover from his surprise tl’^Fentered the car,disarmed him and .red the treasure boxes containing 000 in gold coin. They next tried f/entiirtfufl Career of R Native of Ten- Ilia Home to Become a Iran Field iTtarahat and tfae Hicbesl in Jlezleo. t Tennessee is a weird region, and rt of it is wilder than Hawkins It is nearly a hundred years ’since it sent forth an adventurer ho achieved a great career, passed ough a world of stirring events and ved a long life. About the year 1801, Elias P. Beau, a d of seventeen, started with a party of ftsmen bound from the Holstou to the ississippi. They floated down from can’s station, trading by the way, lost leir raft upon the Muscle shoals, and, aviug purchased a drove of horses, cor- nned their journey overland toward atchez. Here young Bean met the mous frontiersman, Captain Nolan, r ho was about starting an expedition to Arkansas. He joined this party, aling away from his brothers—whom e left to retttni home without him— (vernight. After many ups and downs detachment of Nolan’s command, ^rrfteing our hero, was captured by ic Indians somewhere close upon the exau border. Bean and a companion ^ leaped from the Indians only to be re- c 'tured by the Spaniards, who took the. 1 prisoners to the old town of San Auto&io. Here, after a while, they were released on parole, and, having a ttttti for taking things easy and a genius for work, the yoK iger of the two Americans set himself to learning the trade of a hatter. He succeeded so well that in three years he • became the fashion, be gan to make money, fell in love with a native beauty, and was making strides toward his fortune, when, in an unguard ed moment, an opportunity to escape presenting itself, he yielded to a sudden fit of home-sickness, abandoned his busi ness, deserted his sweetheart, and tied. Fashion Notes. The retention of the princesse style enables ladies to make over their old dresses. , The cuirass polonaise is one of the simple and comfortable models offered for early fall and winter, wear in the house and street. There is but little change iu the de signs of dress, the princesse style re maining the foundation upon which many caprices are displayed. Oddly blended colors, like the rich, and irregular hues seen on the wrong side of India shawls or the right side of Items cf Interest, School boys will regret to learn tl »t J cuffs are coming in fashion. Mrs. Fanny Fancy, of Lancaster, Pa., is 103 years old, and- y~'t does all the I housework for a family of three. A Californiau, whoso family burial lot is close to a i ace-con isc, sells scats ou j his fatner’s monument to spectator- The village priests are newsmongers in Russia. They read to their flocks every Sunday official dispatches from the seat of war. General Grant is getting the freedom of more cities than he knows what to do with. Ho will come home loaded w ith night keys. When a clergyman remarked they were to have a nave iu the new church, an old lady whispered th#t she “ knew the party to whom he referred. ” Dandies, to make a greater show, Wear coats stuck out with pads ai/d puffing ; And this is surely apropos, Eor what’s a goose without the stuffing? If the agilo Turk would only go to a dress of brocaded satin, with high square neck and very long train ; the flowers form a chatelaine ou the side and a chaplet for the hair. There are so many comparisons be tween long basques and polonaises, that, iu first examining a new costume, it is difficult to say whether it is a basque with overskirt or n polonaise. It gen erally proves to be a princesse costume. A great many materials are imported for dress trimmings to be cut up in side gores, panels,. pockets, vests, and collars, and these dresses dispense with all galoons, pipings, and fringes. These trimming stuffs resemble chenille aud plush. A novelty for ladies’ over-dresses is Turkish rugs, are much in vogue. , The latest thing in wedding dresses is ; elee P ancl dream some more of the hour aud, consequently, not be so wide awake, it would please the Russians mightily. Under the stalls of large fish dealers in a New York market are tanks of water three feet deep, in which eels and ter rapins are kept alive, and killed when ordered. They have bold rats down near To wand a, Illinois. They infest the corn fields and destroy the ears of corn by climbing up the stalks and eating the grain off the cobs. A Kentucky girl was given the pre mium for horsemanship at a town fair. Au admirer threw her a bouquet, where upon her horse shied, and the prize horse woman sat down on the ground. Oswego county, New York, has two jjflak tnq.' 1 -pie at the other / the through safes, which contained large*He was pursued, overtaken, brought heart was glad that some yf t],, gratitude was canceled bv Vi* rude persecution ; and Mrs. '^jartley spoke once in terms that quiet<V ^ny pain her daughter might have felt ou account. sum valley White Vid) a village j n the valley of the Glopsu (Srema), -, m \ is practicable for wheeled carriages. ‘2. Troyan f>ass, 4,700 feet, conuects Troyan, a busy Bulgarian towu of 1,700 inhabitants, with Tcke, iu the Giospu valley, and appears to be a mule track. 3. Kailovc pans a mule track, con- Troyan with. Karlovo, a busy maiiinirccUiiji e ~. T i nna 0 f 9 j ooo inhabi- tauts, mostly inhabited by Bulgarians. 4. Rosnlita pass, 0,333 feet, is one of the highest of the Balkans, and the mountains near it attain an altitude of 7,040 feet. It is, nevertheless, practica- for wheeled traffic. It connects Troyau with Kalofer, a busy manufac turing town, occupying an important strategical position on the watershed ^separating the valley of the Tunja from “Sarah,” she said, “I shudder to think of your life iu the power of a who could so wreak his revenge upmi two helpless women. It is fortunate, y l TUllf, i w.rrimaTV g.-.TTO rt No unm who ever loved von could of the Giopsu. 5. Shit &. snipR**—4^320 feet, the easiest prss of this portion •-» Balkans, was held by the Russians. A across it was begun by order of Midhnt tyJ! T^gdk^Jtmt has never been completed. 1^*'' _u.ect» Tirnova ami Gabrovw hi the , liOitli witn ivazamik iu the sc It was in January, a night when rain ; Standing upon its summit w© look dowu was falling fast upon half-melted snow. I upon the smiling vale of suddenly become your enemy. SO 'ess that Sarah came home after a day of fruitless search for work. “Where is your shawl?” Mrs. Hart ley said, as thi girl drew, shivering to the tiny handful of fire. “ I sold it. We must eat or die,’.’ was the quiet response. “I bought bread, milk and potatoes, aud there will be . famous for its rose the Tuuja, gardens, and dotted 0 an triment, the speaking is louder and licate diaphragm is required. The Belles ef the Past. VT - .. Ne |'p°rt correspondent’s letter has I My dears, the belles over with numerous villages embowered ! to-day fr „ very prf , tty young womon> iu groves of walnut trees. Kazanlik has teit it’s a gr^t deal of it fine clothes. ats.-of ■ The belles of c;„„ .i.-. . a population of 21,000 inhabitants, of whom about 12,500 are Bulgarians and so 7,500 Tprks. Shipkn, a large Bulgn- j mt • *11 *• ” ♦f lay time much on vhy did not depend ;e.y wore. They were mostly tall, finely made young women,” rian village of 800 houses to the north of | aml the S 00 ' 1 dame here drew herself up it boasts of two churches aud a fine involuntarily, for sh.> herself was oue of — i \ „ „ these belles m the pa t period “I i enough to replace these for a few days ! schoolhouse. , . f l *--- * ' ! more. Then work may come.” ' «>• T-puriska Polyana pass, 4,230 feet me.” Ab Hhe Bpoke there was a loud kuoek | only about uiqe miles to the east of the a great deli- at the t | oorf am i Charles Everhard came Shipka, connectsTravna,the Nnrcm . g c- cy exhibited iu his kindness since that iu ^ meet a chilling reception. of Bulgaria, famous for its wood mother, that sudden insh to protect But think, Sarah, of the great time. since that His introduction to me was cer tainly a - gentlemanly method of obtain ing permission to call. Then his pro curing this cottage for us upon such forms, aud the work pleasant and surely, Sarah Not abruptly, but by graceful transi- , . re member one of tte.sc bePcs,” she went ou. “She was the daughter of one of the Champlius, a line name in Newport cary. | once; one of them fcl i easy we are doing, so yet so , if we were still as rich -o we were when your dear father died, you could not have been wooed with more ; respect than Charles Everhard constantly : shows you.” “ I know all you would urge, mother, | and yet the fact remains—he does not i love me!” “He is a man who might marry well j in his own circle, Sarah. His father Abraham ings aud pictures, with Maglish in the ! Redwood s daughter, aim omi of the tions, he led the way toT his hope that Tunja valley. When Kanitz visited dancod with Genera,Washington Sarah might think more kindly of the Maglish, the Bulgarians and Turks there offer refused before. He had spoken were ou excellent terms. ■ • xias a .. —O ! at the old Assembly Rooiq iu Church street. The daughter I speat of . , » | eloquently of Us love for her, -CoT ! Sr ondn^H.t S. " well paid. And 1 urge d his respect and affection for her . Hie KaloftrDere to the south of lirnov a, mother, and expressed the most ! far and near at her feet. 1)ro _ j with tlu^ village of Haiukoi ou the «o afraid of marrying as __ ( w — ..... V.U I —s- ... tliey^jR found regret that he had ever allowed his Tunja, and was taken by the detached 1 au ‘l a handsome girl like Sally;,] auger at his first Refusal to influence «vvalry force commanded by General was greatly run after, uo suit. ^ him, as it had done, to acts of enmity. Gourko. • ashamed of showing his preferem* There was no lack of words to prove h is 8 - Tvarditza, or Ferelish Derbend, openly. Sally had rejected a gren ^ sincere affection, as he poured them into 8 »5‘20 feet, is oue of*the easiest passes of : ^ ne offers, when oue day there oa, the ear of the almost despairing girl; the Balkans, bnt the carriage road across proud gentleman, who, meeting the and Sarah, listening for some answer ' t > hke so many other works undertaken hite, did not take it from her own heart, found none. Not l> y the Turks, has never been completed, others, and remom . , r | one throb there bore witness to the truth It connects Elena, in the north, with the ; asked for some more definite reason th, is oue of our leachng lawyers, and your of th e vehement i. . . . P ’or uncle had great respect for Imn ”1 ... so meekly ^ remonstrating with him.’ p >or uncle had great respect for “Uncle Herbert, mother?” “ Yes, dear, who died iu Australia last year. Poor fellow, after slaving there for twenty years, he must have died poor.” “ Why?” “ I am his only living relative, dear, excepting yourself, aud if he had left any property, wcytifeuld have heard of it.” “Yes, I have heard you say so. I wish he had left us a little money. Ever so little would enable ns to throw off this bitter load of obligation. It crushes me. I had ivt’ier be back and know we were independent. Mother ! j Mother ! I cannot marry Charles Ever- ! hard !” resolutely, she before: 4 _ _ ©—> Everhard. I do not love you, and you j P ear ' ,e practicable for do not love me.” “ I do not love you !” cried her suitor. “ Sarah, can you be so blind, so deaf to love, as to doubt mine ? Be my wife, and every hour of my life shall prove my love for you.” “ I cannot be your wife !” “ Do you love another, Sarah.'” “I do not admit your right to ask that! question, but I will answer you. I do uot love another.” “Then love will come. I it tortured heart. The been so kindness of her assertions. Sadly, but ' lower Tunja valley. she had given him for his rejectioi said, as she had said ' 9 * Zupanchi Mesari Balkan, though , Sally was used to a very different man I cannot marry you, Mr. oul y 3 » 600 feet in height, does not ap-1 uer from this, aud nettled at his inde carriages pendence she turned npou him sharply throughout. ' ’ with this answer: 10. Demirkapu, or the Iron Gate, “ ‘ Sir, you seem to think that it is a 3,993 feet, joins theSlivuo road connect- j very wonderful thing fora man to be ic ing Elena with Kotel (Kazan) with jected. I have refused twenty offers Slivuo, more correctly called Sliven, the 1 from this very sofa, sir.’ ” Islimie of the Turks. This is an im- We shouted with laughter at this cli- portaut towu of 21,000 inhabitants, of max, and then oue of the listeners in- whom two-thirds are Bulgarians. The passes further to the west oppose but few obstacles to the movement o troops, though ttiey undoubtedly pre sent strong positions for defense. Adrianople, the object at present of . When Dr. Bradon was rector of Sarah firmly the Russian movements, is a city of G2,- j EUbaqi, in Kent, England, the text he ’ ‘oving 000 inhabitants, of whom about 20,000 one day took to preach, was : “ W1 are Turks, 15,000 Greeks and as many art thou ?” After reading the text, he late when the disappointed Bulgarians. Nearly the whole of the made (as was his custom) a pause, for suitor took his leave, aud Sarah crept fertile region to the south of the Balkans the congregation to reflect upon the into her mother’s arms. is iu the occupation of Bulgarianr — ’ “ Forgive me that I deny you, too, the even iu the towns, Adrianople What became of the man m our attic yearB if it mU8( . 1)e „ can wait, quired after this ? “ He became Miss Sally's husband,” was the demure respouse. But he pleaded iu vain. _ refused to become au unloved, uni wife. i t was a despairing cry, coming from j It was ’ “ young girl had ,— gradually hedged in by the , inio ner mother’s arms. is iu the occupation of Bulgarians, and words, when a gentleman in a military suitor, that she had “ Forgive me that I deny you, too, the even iu the towns, Adrianople and dress, who at that instant was marching scarcely measured her load of obligation comforts of a home,” she sobbed. Philippopolis alone excepted,they consti- : very sedately up the middle aisle of the until she was asked to i.a* -- “ Child, child,” her mother said, “I tute a majority.—The London Graphic, church, supposing it to be a question want no home built upon the ruins of * addressed to him, to the surprise of all your happiness. Have you forgotten to-1 Glancing at the ticket received for the j present, replied: “ I am sir, an officer boy traveling half fare as under twelve, ; of the Seventh Foot in i asked to give her life payment. The keenest pain was in her own ap parent ingratitude and hardness of heart. She asked herself again and again what she could desire in a lover and husband that Charles Everhard did not nff..- w Everhard did not offer her. He was young, uot twenty-six ; fine- looking, intelligent, well-educated. His family occupied a good social positieu, :.ml he was in a lucrative practice in the iii-ighboi'iug town. Yet lie wooed her, a penniless girl, giving her no love. I morrow is your birthday, Sarah ? You are twenty-one. ” 44 And when she arrived at woman's estate. It was all the estate she had.” quoted Sarah, bitterly. There was little sleep iu the cheerless lady ; attic; but the morniug found the Hart- since leys up early, and Sarah preparing t<# go out iu search of work. A bright sunlight made the prospect - .. WA . _ he looked at him aud then at his mother, j party here ; and, having brought my on a recruiting , I party nere ; and, havi „ 0 v then at the ticket, and remarked that he wife aud family with me, I wish to be was 44 a large boy to be riding at half ( acquainted with the neighboring clergy fare.” “ I know he is, sir,” said the \ and gentry.” This so deranged the divine and astonished the congregation that, though they attempted to listen j.ont to u witli decorum, the <Jis<<mrse- ; wart not proceeded in without eotisiderable diffi culty. / 44 put he’s grown a good deal we started.” When last hocj, Sandy, the conductor of the noted slow train, was ou his way to weak to the engineer about it. (imounts, but fortunately they were se- 3ured by combination locks, which cau Lily be opened by agents at each end of ^he line, aud the baffled villains had to content themselves by heaping abuse tud threats upon the messenger, who de clared his inability to explain the com bination. The robbers did not interfere nth the Uuiti d States mails, bnt left the Express car and proceeded to go through the first class coach. In reference to their proceedings on this part of the train a Herald reporter gleaned the following facts from W. F. Srdman, the news agent on the train. Ho says : “Just before reaching the station I board the report of a pistol, and in a lents I heard several more re- ■ncoessioii, aud went to door ot tL» u, ii. -rt leant. About the time I LoomKi o..i sked man stepped upon the platform .nd, presenting a revolver, said: ‘Throw p your hands,’ and I threw them up. e then told me to go back into the car, nd I went. By this time two masked obbers had appeared at the other end f the ear with cocked revolvers, and wo more came up to the door where I ad been standing. One man then came hto the car with a drawn revolver and a ntern in his hand and went down the lisle relieving passengers of their watches and jewelry and spare change. They were very gentlemanly iu their conduct and did not molest ladies or rob cripples. They got about $1,700 in money from the passengers, besides a number of watches aud chains. Mr. Cummings, a merchant of Sidney, but formerly of Omaha, was on the train, but escaped being robbed by throwing his pocket- book and watch on the floor.” 44 A Texas cattle man on the train had $3,100 & his pocket, but managed to secrete it. They handed back two watches i which they had taken with the remark : I 4 Wedou’t want those. They are snides.’ Dan Fretwell, of Sidney, who is known by the enormous diamond pin he wears, was ou the train, and oue of the robbers remarked to him : 4 Where’s that pin of yours, eh ?’ ” The reporter then asked: 44 What were the pistol reports you referred to ?” 44 The robbers fired a few shots at the engineer and fireman to intimidate them, ! I suppose.” 44 What did the robbers do with Con ductor Patterson ?” 44 When he stepped ou to the platform to get orders one of the robbers put a pistol to bis head aud commanded him to hold up his hands.” We learn from other sources that be sides the coin they got §458 iu currency . rom the express car ; from a passenger, uAined L. Morris, a gold watch, $430 in iii iuey aud a ticket to Chicago ; from other passengers four gold watches aud thirty dollars iu cash aud a ticket to go. They made an effort to get the sleeping cars, but the doors secured, and before they could them open freight train No. 10 aung and frightened them from their pre\. As the train was approach ing they allowed Conductor Patterson to go aud sigml it, the guard escorting him beyond the rear end of the train aud then retiii -ig to join the band. The tire in the passenger engine had been extinguishe and when the freight train t ' erson sent the engine to i : nd organize a pursuing called French cord, and so closely re- centenarians, Hannah Fry, born Sep- I ; 1 uK* inti wer force cam< back, aud, as a penalty, sent across the Rio Grande and over the Mexique raoun- tains to the Pacific seas. In other words, they took him to Acapulco, where he was thrown into prison, He occupied a dungeon iu the ol 1 fortress for six years, his only comrade a scorpion, which he tamed and took into his affections. In 1812, the first Mexican insurrection against the Spanish power broke out. It was led by Padre Morelos, a dissolute priest, but a patriot, a soldier aud ft statesman. Reaching the sad old sea port, where Bean was confined, it re leased him, a prisoner of half a dozen years, but a man of undiminished strength and ardor, a little into his thir ties, and perhaps all the better for his long confinement. He sought the in surgent camp and leader. Morelos, if ore him an American, who stalwart. nativc^a prison arvd eager for active empioymrJi;, gave him first his confidence and then his love. He became chief of staff, next general of brigade, next general of division, and smote the Spaniard hip aud thigh. At length, the contest grow ing imminent, a more delicate, if not a more dangerous, business presented itself. Morelos had loved, seduced and j cajoled from her home a noble Spanish j damsel, whom, for many years, he had j concealed in the mountains. She had ! borne him a single child, a son. In the ; midst of the struggle, and at the critical ; point, she died. The son was too young to go into the field. He could uot be left anywhere to take care of himself. There was really no safe place in all Mexico. So Morelos sent for Bean to counsel what should be done. Bean represented that arms aud munitions of war were wanted ; believed he could negotiate for these iu the States, and proposed that he should kill the two birds with one stone—carry the lad out of harm’s way and bring back the needed military supplies. Morelos was delight ed, and Beau was despatched on the double mission. He succeeded admir ably ; but, when he got back, Morelos laid been captured and shot, aud for the time being, the revolution was at an end, The sou of the priest-president, as the Mexicans delight to call the great Padre Morelos, grew up to be the famous General Almonte, his guardian and friend to be a field marshal, and the richest man iu Mexico; where, at Jalapa, in 1848, our victorious army found him a hale old man, retired from active life and living in vast splendor, surrounded by an extensive progeny. Of his chil dren but one rose to distinction—the black sheep of the family—a fellow by the name of Cortinas, not unknown to fame. Curious episodes, indeed ; but fit out growth of the rock-ribbed ledges dark 44 with the silent horror of death.” serables the corduroy worn by gentlemen that it will brobably be known as cordu roy, notwithstanding the protest of merchants against so fine a stuff ^ving so common a title. Among the colors most seen in French cord are various shades of moss green, olive, and bronze. As these hues are not becoming to all, there are blue, brown, and black grounds brightened by knots, threads, dots, and dashes of bright scarlet, cardinal, pale •sky blue, old gold, and the vivid imperial yellow. Corsages take the most varied habit shapes, even iu princesse dresses. AU tember 10, 1769, aged 108, and Mrs. i Clarlt, of Oswego, bom October, 1770, aged 107. Mr. Edwin F. Grig enjoys the dis tinction of being the smaUcst man in I Iowa. He is nearly tweuty-one years old, is forty inches tall, and weighs forty- five pounds. A man noted for his close-fisted pro pensities was showing an old coin to a neighbor, when the latter asked : “ Where did you get it?” “I dug it out of my garden,” was the reply. 4 4 It is a pity you didn’t find it in the eemeterj,” said the neighbor. “Why the plastrons, Breton vests, revers, and ’ ,, . “^ „ ♦« , 1 ’. ’. ’ , , so? asked the coin owner. “Because fichu ornaments are seen again, and but t ^ . . . . , _ one thing seems obligatory, which is, that the trimmings shall be ns Hat as possible, and add nothing to the appar ent size of tlm most slender figure. Bias silk folds in long perpendicular clusters are added to the back and front of plain basques to give the appearance of a pleated basque. One Frenchy touch in such dresses is to have a ribbon belt and bow with ends crossing these pleats back and front, but stopping there instead of passing around the waist entirely. The fabrics hitherto known as bour- ettes have increased in number and name, and ‘merolin***** «re fast N making suoli-titlos as Plevna impm irJs Servaau ueige pomtille, jongleur, and cheniiL - r i©«>. you could have naV^TT the hole to be buried in.” In the Mexican circus in San Antonio, Texas, a while ago, as Abram Zerrata, one of the gymnasts, was performing bin last act on the trapeze, kneeling on his knees on the treacherous bar and at tempting to rise to his feet without the assistance of his hands, lie suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground, striking with such force as to break his neck. The latest Prussian census shows a population of 25,742,404. Of this num ber 16,(536,95)0 are Protestants. $8,625, 840 are Roman Catholics, and 339,790 Jowish. All other sects and creeds, in cluding Greek Catholics, R^'ormed Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Moth- arrived Mr. 1 give the alar party. "\ a Wounded Soldier. ring near the roil- o.inty, Vn., we think) Odd Freak There is a maif road (in Orange who belonged to a ^Fk rida regiment dur ing the wrr. He utBh wounded : iu oue of the numerous batXlea fought iu that part' of Virginia. That rurgeou told him he could qever reco^r the use of his leg. “Tlieu,”^ leave tnig l\itt his vord. at hi' cab J by. His | I shall never.* ndhe hag kejj itch has a lit iug unj Bachelor Authors. The bachelors of literature are a nu merous throng, and their respectability is still maintained against their more numerous brethren of the Benedict order. There were Goldsmith, and Gray, aud Thompson, and Collins, and Mar lowe, and Macaulay, and Irving, and Lamb, and Pope, ami Otwav, and Cow- per, aud Ben Johnson, aud Hume, and Gibbon, and many another, among whom the misanthropic and cynical Swift must now be counted, the late Mr. Foster having demolished the theory of his marriage with Hester Johnson, his ‘•Stella.” Goldsmith’s happy-go-lucky career may well be contrasted with the home miseries of the bard of Avon ; but it is questionable whether Gray, tum bling dowu his fire-escape into a hogshead of water, carefully placed for his reception by jocose under-graduates, had a happier hearth than the less able, but more genial, Southey. Benedict or ihelor, it is the man that makes the LsJe tht man. |migrants to iro jL-hi-m court, i being | Senators whose Terms Expire. At the close of the present Congress iir 1879 the terms of the following Sena tors will expire: Spencer (Rep.), Ala bama; Dorsey (Rep.), Arkansas; Sar gent (Rep.), California; Chaffee (Rep.), Colorado; Baruum (Dcm.), Connecti cut; Conover (Rep.), Florida; Gordau (D'em.), Georgia; Oglesby (Rep.), Illi nois; Morton (Rep.), Indiana; Alison (Rep.), Iowa; Ingalls (Rep.), Kansas; McCreery (Dem.), Kentucky; Deunis (Dem.), Maryland; Bogy (Dem.), Mis souri; Jones (Rep.), Nevada; Wadleigh (Rep.), New Hampshire; Conkling (Rep.), New York; Merriman (Dem.), North Carolina; Matthews (Rep,), Ohio; jVfitchell (Rep.), Oregon; Cameron (Repj, Pennsylvania; Patterson (Rep.j, South Carolina; Merrill (Rep.), Ver mont; Howe (Rep.), Wisconsin. The Louisiana seat now iu controversy be comes vacant in 18"9. Of the outgoing Senators eighteer are Republicans and six Democrats. - c cloth. These are all wool or else partly I adis-e,-ce'»*»“Si - andJMcflnonites number silk, with knots, snarled cuds, loose about 125,000. The Free Thinkers arc fleece, or else mere dots or flakes of > estimated at 17,000. color on very dark grounds. The solid, A New York Graphic correspondent drabs, browns, and grays of last year’s 1 Baj B the city of Deadwood offers $250 for costumes, are seldom seen, , ti ie gcalp of au Indian of any sex or age. —~— “ Five thousand dollars for twenty scalps Lcmon.s Would Not Settle It. arc g 00 q wages, and any enterprising Au old man with an exceedingly bald ' young man might make that sum in two head, a remarkably bad hat and no coat days—if the Indians would only hold to speak of, holding a large basket full still and not insist upon embarking in of lemons ou his arm, stood before his the scalping business themselves. The honor in the Jefferson market police scalps of cigar store Indians don’t count, court yesterday. “John Johnston,” said the 44 the officer charges you with drunk. ” “It’s all a mistake, sir,” said Mr. Johnston, setting his basket of lemons down between his feet. “ By their fruits ye shall know them,” said the court. “Good fruit, too,” said the prisoner, picking up a lemon; “ sour as the deuce, sir.” “Mr. Johusou!” exclaimed the court, reprovingly. “’S jus’as I tell you, sir,” said the prisoner with a solemn shake of the head; 44 ef you don’t believe it—suck it,” and he thrust the lemon toward the court, “ I was not referring to the fruit you sell, but to the fruit of your life,” ex plained the court. “Ye’r right, squire,” conceded the prisoner, graciously; 44 ye’r right thar ; ef a grapevine was to bring forth a poor quality of thistles, or a peach tree au inferior v ! rie*y of potatoes, or an apple tree—a—” “ That will do,” said his honor ; “ 1 don’t think you are quite sober yet. Teu dollar* or teu days.” “ Take it iu lemons?” An Attempt to Starve. A correspondent in Minnesota writes : as follows : “ I accidentally heard of a little incident connected with our State’s prison at Stillwater, which will not he nuinteresting. Among the large uum- ! ber of convicts now confined there, is one Cooney, who is serving ont a life sentence for murder. He is said to bo oue of the most polished and gentlemanly i convicts in the prison. His voice is ! smooth aud pleasant, and his general | manner would lead any oue to pronounce him a gentleman, bnt he is cousidered oue of the most ugly aud dangerous men within those walls. A few days ago a quarrel arose between him and another convict, and they were soon involved iu a rough-and-tumble tight ; but Cooney’s antagonist was too much for him, and he i was soon down on his back, with the other man on top of him pounding with deliberation. They were shortly parted, hut as soon as they became free Cooney seized a hatchet and flung it at the other’s head. It missed its aim. Cooney was then grappled and thrown into a dungeon. Now he was mad, aud he sat in his cell with forbidding sullenness. He was kept in the dungeon oue day, . when he was transferred to his regular But the court refused to take it iu ^ At eacli meal it was noticed that emons. i cn or World. the food placed at his door remainedjnn- touched. It was quietly removed, mid at the uext meal-time a fresh supply was curried to his door, and again removed. This was kept up day after day, and it became known throughout the prison that Cooney was starving himself to death. The singular mau said not a word to any oue, but sat sullen aud de fiant. Toward the eighth or ninth day he began either to pretend that he was crazy, or he was really out of his head. He stood hour after hour before the pic ture of a saint, with hands tightly clasp ed, aud a varaujptare.. Thus he stood until th^ circuit ion iu his fingers had ceased. ? his wliGle appearance ■ ghast’^F day,.wh‘ ate. U eludes that w 44 He’s grow , n to IkLi polished gentle man, anyhow,” said cfn old lady, gazing jcidjv, as she spoke, a* the shining of Jje. s(/u just retail.‘xl after Hi * held out until the tenth i I is spirit failed him, aq<y begins to live again, au;f -on- takes him to^ Lag to" die in This same man has been fired at several^tlines by tin guards for dis play > of his 1 ugly temper. Once he at tempted to stab the gnarg, btlt the latter evialed Him,and fired it the'viTlaiu, who sp\ang to a huge pile of 'jjtiils iu the ream and clambered over theq> like a cat; thence he flew about jaie room, overturning cverytMpg^wJj^^le guard st II lived, bnt was and thus he escape-] existence.” THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM