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TA On* inch, on* iBMrtloB , v , “ riwb tutto^otou mterUon.-tt) Quarterly, •emi-annual or yearly coalmen 'm*<l«on liberal term* Coatracl atir*rt tains is payabl • SO d*y* af ter first insert ion unl«M«th*r*ri** stipulatod No comaiunication will b« poblisbed «■- toss accompanied by (be name *n4 addreor of <ko writer, not aoceesarity for pabtioailon, but as a guaranty of goou faith. Addreas, XUJt I’KOl’LK, Barnwell C. H., 8. C,. =r-^''S --a—; T he weekly news - A -— t't *' ■ WEEKLY NEWS v THE weekly news | * CONTAINS CONTAINS CONTAINS [AL8! HALS! LIVE EDITORIALS ! 0 THE LATEST ' r £bCGKAM»l THE LATEST TELEGRAMS I THE LATEST TELEGRAMS! CAREKrr.LT sclkctkd CARKHILLY 8KLKCTKB CARIfOLLT SELECTED MAIL NEWS! mail news! MAIL NSW§ f Beside the following SPECIALTIES: — -C.— — —-J—--ft - Pris Suirlts! Pil*»* Sutrles ! Prize Storied! ' t.T r Prize Steriee ! Prize Stories ! Prize Stories ! A Chess Column! A Cheaa Colemu 1 t ' A t'heae Column ! An Agricultural Department! Au Agricultural Department! Ad Agricultural Department 1 Record It-oorl tecord of of of Msrriagwo M>vriage| Marriage* aad «ud and Deaths ! Death's I Deaths I Ths Weekly New* The Weekly News The Week'y News Giree More for the Money Gives More for the Money Gives More for the Money Than any other Southern Weekly! Than any other Southern Weealy 1 Thun uuy other Southern Weekly! Hen the Prices ! See the Prices ! See the Prices 1 Single subscriptions, per annum.? 2 00 Five suliaeioptions at 11 75 8 75 Ten subscriptions at 81 50 15 00 Twenty subscriptions at 81 25.. 25 00 Fifty subscriptions at 81 50 00 The Wekklt Nkws will be sent to yearly subscribers to the Daily Edition of The News and Cornier for 81. The Weekly News will be sent for one year u> six mouths’ subscribers to the oaily Edition of The News and Courier lot 81 50. The Weekly News will be sent to yenrly stiiisctibets to the Til Weekly Edition of The News and Courier for 81 50. No reductions will be made In the ptice to subscribers of The News and Courier except as above. Remember ! The Weekly News con tains the Latest News, selected from The News and Courier, besides these speoialtieei-wbieh do not appear in the Daily at all: A Prize Story! A Chess Column ! An Agricultural Department 1 " And a complete Weekly Record of Deaths and Marriages in this State. Any one of these specialties alone is worth the price of subscription, and the subscriber really gets a OrM-class weekly paper beekiea for Bothttv. RIORDAN A DAWSON, Charleston, 8. C. Look NOT OS THE WINE IT IS RED. WHEN Oh look not on the wine when red When sparkling In the crystal cup For. though brtirht hue# round it shed, •Twtn burn thy prioeleaespirit up. The dark browed Queen of Egypt gave Her richest jewels to Its wave, - --- And, h* they perished in the bowl WUI sink the treasures of thy souL Oh, look hot on the crimson wine. Let net its waters kiss thy lips \ For In their gay, delusive stmne There’s hidden death for him who sips. The olden fount the prophet viewed, Gleamed biightjy In thesoll’nde. But soon for him who drank a grave - Was found by Marab’s Mttar wave I > „ Oh, look cot on the trenoheroue wine. When mantling in the jeweled bowl t Tho wreaths and flowers around it twine, They breathe a poison on the soul. The orient Upas proudly wares Its foliage o’er » land of graves: And thus the flower wreathed goblet’s breath Brings d eolation, woe and death! Oh look not on the tempting wine, Paes not beneath Its syren rod. Nor bow before Its demon shrine, The image of ere tlon’s God! It lathe fabled Circe’s howl That dwarfed the statue, drowned the sou'. And by Its sorcery fell, though mute. Transformed the angel to the brute! Oh look not on the wine when red, It W the deadliest human foe; It YriPBath* a cypress round the head And Ipys t|e loftiest tiophfrajoir ; It darkens vlrtae, polsoaa health. Blasts pe coe and hope, and robs of wealth; Crira , pain and famine round It tread. Then look not on the wine when red! , The proprietors of The News and Courier offer 8100, in gold, for the best Serial Story, wiitten by a resident of South Carolina, illustrative of South ern life, before, during or sioca the war. The conditions are as follows : 1. The story to consist of not lees than twenty chapters ; the chapters averaging ten pages of foolscap or the equlvakikt. 2. The manuscript to be sent to the proprietor* of The News and Courier not later thao.Apiil 1 next. 3. Each manuscript to be nooonopa- nled by a sealed envelope containing the real name and the address of the author, atid bearing <*n the outside a motto, which shall likewise be placed upon the manuscript ; the sealed en velope to be opened only when the award has been-made. 4. The stories to be raad by a Com mittee of tBree resfflente of Uharlee- ton, selected by .the proprietors of The News and Cornier, who will inakethelr decision on or before April 15th. 5. The story which shall be declared to be the best to be the absolute nro* perty of the prnfrjafcors of The News and Courier, and- published as a serial lu The Weekly News. Rejegted omMmi- scrlpts to be returned forthwith to the “■It * fl! f ^ 1 Cd . »Bi making this proposition (ha ob ject Is to encourage, as far as practica ble, the development of literature la South Carolina, and to give,tb+ feed lag public, through The Weekly^ewa, tales of Soutberu life which shall pre- aerve the recollection of tfaite of coitr- r and social pecuHatiUekra|i<f tab st pasting awaf, and keba brior* ’rising 1 generation the memory of« ggle more glorious tbaa that of the RevoldUM^uMtfaalfcrla^aprc**- er than those Which were borne by tlie tpen of Scveuty-alg. Should the ex periment now made prove aoceeesfni, the proprietpra of The News and Cou rier wfll hope to extend the literary field hod enlist aa contributors to Tba Weekly News the moat brilliant wri ter* in the whole South. SBLJgCT STORY. TAKING A MEAN ADVANTAGE. July, 1876, was hot enough every where, but certainly it could scarcely have been hotter anywhere than In a certain little village lying under the shadow of Mt. Tom, in the fair valley of the Connecticut. Aa early as seven in the morning the heat was wittering. The air like a sponge absorbed all the vitality of the body almost at the first contact. Ladies sut all day io datkeo- ed parlors, wearily faouiug themselves and woodeiiug If It were possible that men could be actually working iu the fields. They made as much fuss over their hushxnds and sons going to their business iu the morniug as if they were soldiers going to battle, and welcomed them at night like return ing veterans. Nor was this feeling wholly unjustifiable In view of the lists of deaths by aunstroke which the pa pers published every day. Not till evening, when the panting earth had begun to cool ter bot face in the fresh bosom of the night, was there the least sign of social life about the dos ed houses. Not indeed that the first i ours of evening were much more tolerable than tboee of day. The ground, the trees, the walls were saturated with beat, and after the sun went down be gan to give it forth lu such auffoca- ting volumes that for a while the earth reminded one of an old-fashion ed brick oven, from which the fire Is drawn only when It is hut enough for baking purposes. It was not till the huge umbrella of the earth had been interposed between the village and the sun for several hours, that lb* almoe- phere became at all tolerable. In deference to this extraordinary state of the weather, nloe or ten lo the evening had become the fashion able hour among the young folks fot croquet parties. The present narra tive opens on one of the warmest evenings of the month, and just as the paper mill bell had sounded the hour of tco. The lawn of one of the most elegant residenpea in the village Is at this moment brilliant with Chi nese lanterns and lively with groups of laughing players. A lunch-iaWe, blight with silver, gleams through the low doof windows of the parlor, which open upon the veranda and the lawn, while close about the pleasaht scene the dense, soft-darkness broods cosily. One oi two whitish biotohea loofn out of the night along the top of tbs fence separating the lawn from the street. They ate the faces of pedestrians, who ta paMlag have paused to admire this glimpse of fairy \,ac<f. TwO yotfhg ladies ate not playing croquet, but tit talking under a tree at a little distance from the players, (fas of them Is Violet Hazen, the hos tess of the evMtog, a tall young lady whole $#eet, fllrong face #oj|ld j ||vw the imp^fcesldn of unusual self-poise hut for the depths of loving weakness in the brown eyes, which be tray dangerous possibilities of aslf-de- votfon. Tbs young laAi with bsf ls Mary^Coates, a clear-eyed, fresh com- plexlshed girl, Violet's sole and un- 11 mi ted confidant Isbe knew all about the latter’s engagement to Will Ron- aMs even before Violet's dwn mother, It H ha of whom the two chance to be talking just now. ^ “ Where lo the world oaa Will be so late 1" Violet is saying as tbs reverber ations of the bell die away after thllaat stroke of ten. Mary was casting about for some more or lees probable excuse to allay her friend'i anxiety, when she beard some one pooplBg op the garden walk from the street “ That's he now, I fancy, M she re marked. Violet listened a moment to the steps which were now quite audible, although the comer was atllj in the dark, and then shook her bead laugh ingly, saying; “ I have listened for his steps oftecer than yon, and that’s not It, nor anything like It I wonder who it can be ?” 1 Mary, wbo was sitting with her face ia tbe direction of the path, while Vio let bad her back to it, could already descry the outlines of the approaebtag ; figure, and said mischievously: M Don’t [look around. Will you bet a box of gloves it isn’t Wili?" M Of course I will,” said Violet, “ ten H you like. Don’t I know bis step ?” But even as she finished speaking, a change in Mary’s expression caused her to turn quickly. It was Will and yet It was not His gait, although not staggering, wee uncertain, a little like a person wading, and marked by an exaggerated attempt at a bee-line. As its drew near, be began amlllngin that loote propitiatory way peculiar to per sons whose eyes are deprived by al cohol of the power of focusing the gaze, so that they can only make out tbe general outlines of persons until quite near, and consequently have an awkward feeling of being Inspected be fore they can inspect. Mary had instantly, recognized his ooodftlon, and ns she did so glanced involuntarily at her friend. How would she bear it? Violet’s first look had told that something strange was the matter with Will 8he had n. ver seen an intoxicated person In her life, but she fnstlnctlvly apprehended the truth. Asshesal motionless,half turned in her ebuir to look at him, her bright young face grew ashen, and a fascinat ed look of fear sprung from the depths of her eyes. Me sat down with a lurch on the chair by her aide and now she «aw a elaa»j film over his eyes, and observed a peculiar poffuess beneath them and about tbe Hits, and noted a eiugulur pendant cast of the cheeks us if the muscles that keep tbe features in place had grown tired. Will was not very far gone. He had observed that both girls looked at blm oddly, and that Violet made no reply to bis greeting except that decidedly unpleasant stare. He knew that he had been dtluklng a little too much, but If they thought he was Intoxicated he would convince them of their mis take, and with that intention he be- : gnn to talk rapidly. But bis voice sounded as if bis tongue bad swelled to double size and he stumbled sadly against the corners of .words. Certain consonants were like fire-barred gates across bis path, making a detour ne cessary. When It came to this he had 8> nse enough to relapse into silence, although with a sentiment of Indigna tion at bis organs of speech for be traying him so causelessly, and a firm conviction that be was really much clearer in bis mind than woold appear from their testimony. After bis conversational failure, still moved by the feeble cunning of an in toxicated persou desirous of conceal ing his coiKlitlon, he took a cigar from his pocket and put the wrong end lo his mouth. Some moments later re calling that it was not lighted he be gan to hunt for matches in bis pockets, a quest that promised to be endless, for ev*ry time he made the rounds of trousers, vest and coat he forgot where he bad begun, and so had to make the tour again. In order to lower bis discomfiture and if possible distract Violet, Mary launched Into a string of acrimonfoua personal criticisms on one of tbe cro quet players before them. She was so abusive that Violet was oodscIous of a taint colorless sensation of surprise, St hearing such language from the most benevolent and charitable of girls. But it did not strongly Impress her seem ing to bs quit* la kaepiug with the general shook she was sustaining. Bdt Jhere was now a diversion that brought tbs sitnatioo to a or Isis. Tba croqueteeta came up, mallsU in hand. On* of thnif party bad retired from tbs game and they wanted Will to take her place. As she gait.them com ing, Violet, by a heroic effort, trans formed tbe look of aagnlsb on her face into a smiling air of interest in what Mary was saying. Her only idea now was to hide Will’s condition from the others. M Come, Mr. Ronalds,” amid Bade Al len, the prettiest of the new-comers; “ Laura won’t play any more and you must be my partner.” •‘Come, Will” m “Do some.” > She smiled into the foolishly grioning faoe of bei; lover end eaid with an air of coquettish challenge : ** Yon would rather take a walk with me,than play croquet, wouldn’t you, WHIT” The poor fellow bad just sense enough to nod aeeeot without removing the uollghted cigar from hie lips. Mary Inetantiy came lo VlohA’s support by eagerly declaring that she wanted to take Laura’s place. ” Why, Mary, what's come over you ? I thought you bated croquft sod nev er played/ eidalmed Bade in surprise. But Mary’s only reply was to seize a mallet and rash off to tbe play-gronnd, whither the others had to follow her. Ooce there, by gross blunders and loud talk she tried to engross their at tention, but these young people were not dull, and while they 'Appeared to be quite deceived by the ruse, every one comprehended the pathetic mean ing of the eight, as Vlolst, trying to st>ady his lurching gait, slowly led her lover away. A half hour later she returned alotoe, and at lunch presided with perfect self posseeaion. The par ty, however, broke up earlier than common. It is evidence of the unus ual powers of reticence possessed by. the young ladles who were present at tbe croquet party, that it was full a day end a half before all the circum stances of Will’s escapade were known to every person in the village. Of course no one ventured to speak to Violet of the matter, but she under stood perfectly well that it had become common gossip. She would have known that merely from the new in terest with which people looked after her as ahe walked about the atreets, and from something odiously sympa thetic in the expression of countenance with which her lady acquaintances greeted her. But she made no sign, carrying herself quite as usual, and only her mother and Mary noted how rigidly the muscles rose through the thin smiles, and how sadly the red veins about the eyes showed in certain lights. A week after tbe croquet party there was a little party at Bade Allen’s. Mary and Violet were there, and Bade was careful to give the latter to understand that Will bad been invited. He was not, however, present. Violet occa sionally took a spasmodic part in the conversatlon.Tjut for the most part sat In a wrappep up-eilence, with an air of •elf-absorption such that those who glanced at her with a word to say turned away without saying It. Fin ally she was missing from the room, ami Mary a while afterward found her leaning on the front gate all alone. My poor little girl,” she said, put ting her arm around her and drawing her head down to her shoulder. Oh, I am so miserable,” Violet whispered huskily, and aa If the words bad been tbs dam that stood in the way of her tears she began to cry. Mary let her cry a while, and then merely said what is after all perhaps the best argument against ssrrow : ” Don’t cry, dear,” and soon Violet stopped, not being of tbs sort whom ocylng makes cry, who cry mostly at their own tears. a Have you seem him, since that night ?” she asked. “ No doubt he ” Keep it I” repeated Violet proudly, " Will never breaks a promise,” and then with a sudden change of tone She cried, “ But op, where is he ?. It’s week since t’ve heard a word from him. I’m afraid be has done something to him self or gone away. I can’t sleep. It makes me sick. I ean’t bear up any longer,” and she leaned her head on the gate and cried. “HarkI What’s that?” exclaimed Mary. t It was a hoarse cry down in the vil lage that bad caught her ear. Now it rose on the stiU night air. “Fire! Fire!" fxq BK OOFTISUED.] THIS tUTPKKJlE COURT. .■ Import Wat Iteclnlow la tke ttaak Hill Cases. * / $ Colombia, March 4.—Tbs Supreme Court to-day delivered the following opinion in whiob it is held that writs of mandamus will not issue to compel tbe reoeipt of bills of the Bank of the State for taxes, and that the “ Act to facilitate tbe collection of tax-s” does not violate the ebiigation of a contract and Is an adequate remedy : Supreme Court—November Tprm.1878 The State ex rel. Douglass & Jack son vs. Gaillard, County Treasurer- Petition for Mandamus. A rule was heard-in this case re quiring tbe respondent to show cause why a wriV oTmandamus shauld not issue, compelling him as county treas urer to receive the Bilfs of the Bank of the State In payment of taxes due the State by the relators. The res pondent moved to discharge the rule on the ground that by a recent statute of this State the right to resort to such a remedy in such cases had been taken away. The relators contend, first, that this Court has a constitutional Jurisdiction to issue the writ in all cases in which It was Issuable at the adoption of tbe Constitution In 1868, which cannot be taken away by any act of the Legisla ture, and tecondly, that there is a con tract between the State and the rela tors by which the State bound itself to permit the relators to discharge its tuxes chargeable against them by ten der and payment in tbe bills of the Bank of the State, and, therefore, that the said act of tbs Legislature in at tempting to take away tbs remedy by mandateuos for enforcing each dnty specificallly is invalid under the Con stitution of the United States, as. ten ding to impair tho obligation of a con tract. The first question is whether tbe force and effect of the following lan guage of the Constitution establishing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court Arc (IV, Sec. 4) viz ; “ The said Court shall always have power to Issue writs of Injunction, mandamus, quo war ranto, habeas corpus sad such other original and remedial writs as may be neccesary to give it a general super visory control over all other Courts in this State,” confers on this Court power at ail times to issue writs of mandamus in sil cases lo which they had been issued at and before the adoption of such constitutional enact ment. If so it was clearly beyond tbe No,” said Mary. “ No doubt he K Mompatanay of the Legislature to taks ashamed to show himself. It will do the JiHgment of tbe Court in a sepa rate opinion. As to the first question discussed by the Chief Justice, he aayj: “ As I regard tbs question set Usd by tbs ohss of the State vs. oouni ty treasurer, 4 & C. Reports, 620, I am bound to yield my opinion to this ex press adjudication, which, until it id reversed, is as binding upon me as if I agreed to every proposition which it announced. * * • But when It proposed by a simple act of the Geoo ral Assemby to destroy or abrogate a remedy provided by tbe Constitution, by denying to this Court tbs right to exercise a pdwer expressly granted by the Constitution, it is difficult for me to understand how the constitutional ity of such legislation can be vindi cated.” Associate Justice Haskell concurs In tbs opinion t&at the act of the Legis lature impair no obltgarioa, sad that it affords an adequate remedy. Rule discharged. Messrs. Si men ton & Barker for relators; Mr. Attorney- General Youmans for the State, res pondent. • • ■■ ■ ■ m ■ , i... .. . ^ CXOSI-VG OF CONGRESS. Aw Extra Messlaaito fee Calto4 am the 18th last. o Washinotob, March 4.—Congress ad- jouraed at noon without passing eith er the legislative or the army appro priation bills, although the oonfersooee on both were repeated and protractsd. The Democrats from the beginning de clared that they would agree to no settlement of tbe differences on the army bill which did not require tbe Senate to snrrender its amendment authorizing the presence of armed sol diers at tbe polls at elections. This It persistently refused ts d<k The Sen ate demanded that In tbs laQlelqiive bill the House should recede from Its demand for the repeal of tba furors' test oath and the laws relating tOM’ pervlsort of election, and the Demo crats of tbe House refusing to do this, the deadlock eu both bllle followed, resulting to their ultimate defeat, and the call by the President for an extra session March 18. ^ -• • The river and harbor bill, as signed by tbs President, gives Charlseton Harbor 8200,000, the conference com mittee hasipg ouwdowa tbe Senatfl*# amendment 850,000. It also contains surveys for the two Pee-Des Rivera, the Santee, Water#*, Ceogsrse and the Broad. *9* Tbe contingent expenses of the House show that Mr % Congressman W. W. Garth had bis pocket-book mended at a cost of twenty-five cents, a bit of wild extravaganoe for which the people ars called upon to pay, and for which they wfll b# made to pay 1 If they do not at one* demaad an in vestigating committee, with instruc tions to hold their sittings in San Francisco and in Portland, Oregon, and with power to send for persons and papers, and champagne and cigars, and have this stupendous gouge into the Treasury probed to the bottom, then we may expect the villainous work of public plunder to go on. 1. Ia writing to tbi* office on Hfinw at. woytglveyosr now* and Fo*t Offie«*d4r«*a. 2. Bu*'in**t letter* and communication* to be published thould b* written oh Mparst* •beeu, aud th* object of each clearly indi cated by neceeaery not* when required. V. Article* for publication ehould be writ ten ia a clear, legible baud, sad on only on* lido of th* page. 4. Ail ehengo* in edfertitesienta must reach u* on Friday. =**==== GE.WERA1, HEW*. Eli Perktna is said to have aa en gagement to tell 2,700 lien in 2,f0O con secutive hour*. l> ii; • TTi!usual rainfalls on the Pactflc slope have Insured large crops of ce reals. The wheat crop of CaliforniaTh becoming more valuable than the pro duct of the precious metals,.... . ,* .‘«i t A Council Bluff* girl, on suicide fo unt, asked for morphine in a drug store. Tbe clerk suspectad her par- pose, and sold her a powerful emetic. She returned ad hour afterward, ex pressed her opinion of a man who would deceive a distracted girl in that Way, and demanded her money back. In the tenement bouse sections'of New York there are 6,000 persona to the square mile, while In the other portions of the dty the average ia only 750, Scientist* and humanltarlana are trying to devise some practlcabls mode of relief from an evil that is terribly destructive of life, health and morality. The return of the Hoo. Zachariah Chandler to active polities, recalls tbe laet speech which ho made before his retirement. It referred to the present occupant of the White Howe, and Was as fellows: “ Why, the damned tool woudq’t have been President at all but for me; It was I that gave him the votes of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.” " It will spoil the game If yon don’t,’* said others. , tffl . WIU knew enough to ha swan that K woold be sure detection for him to go, but being too stopAd to Invent any excuse or to say ao ha was just about yielding to their importunity. But | Violet waa equal to the emergency. blm good to be thoroughly ashamed of himself.” “ I am so sorry for him. I know be feels so badly. If I could only tell him that I forgive him," Violet said pas sionately. Mary replied after a pause : “ If you marry blm aud be is intemperate it will make yon utterly miserable.” She was surprised sod a little Indig nant, to see Violet’s resentment at his conduct bad so quickly dissolved in compassions#! tenderness. “ It wllft kill me,” Violet answered with quiet oonvlutloo. It seems to me that I’d never mar ry a man wbo wouldn't take tbe pledge or my sake,” sold Mary with some asperity. “It’s clear you’ve never been in love," replied Violet dejectedly. Why don’t you tell him that you won’t marry him unless he takes the pledge?” Because it wouldn’t be true. I’d marry him anyhow. Perhaps I might Influence blm aftef Wards." “ Fiddlesticks 1” said Mary. “ If you can’t Influence him before, you may be sure you can’t after.” Then she continued : “Anyhow, af ter what’s happened now you’ll be in a position to insist on hie taking the pledge, and tf you manage things properly, It may turn out for the beet after Ml that his pride has had this fall. J ust act as If yon take for grant ed that he will sign aa tha only amends he can suite. He wont have the face to refuse. I went yow,to promise me solemnly, now, Violet Qhxpn, that you’ll do this, and not let everything go f6 one of your gushes of forglve- mmP •> -TH do my boat," replied violet " I’ll ha #• flpfW* MI koow how." * U h* takes tha pledge he's the sort of fellow to keep It," observed Mary. away any such authority, and the aet io queetlon must be regarded as in valid. The Court under the authority of their dec'alons in the case of the State ex. rel South Carolina Society vs. Gurney, county Treasurer, and the lebrew Orphan Society vs. Gurney, county treasurer, 4 S. 0. Reports, page 520, concludes that the Statute does not encroach upon the constitutional powers of this Court la the manner lere contented. , t The next question Is, whether such Statute, tended to violate tbe obliga tions of the contract alleged between the £tate and the testator by taking away the remedy by mandamus. In elaborating his views In the nega tive, the phlef Justice, delivering the Opinion of tbe Codct, says: “ All the authorities agree that man damus is not a writ of right, but may, Id tha exercise of a sound discretion, be refused on tbe ground of public convenleaoe. Tbe limits of that dis cretion do not appear to be well de fined, but It is dear that on general prindples It Is competsot for the Leg lalature to define the oondRlons oa which It shall be granted or withhold consistently with tbe nature of tbe writ as resting on sound discretion. Mandamus to eoforos a public duty tw which an individual has aw Interest la, when allowable, regarded as a remedy permitted to oweh Individual, and pro ceeds In th* osifi* of the State, and lo the right of the Bute also. Aa th* In dividual oaooot claim In a epeetfio remedy of tbi* meat depend apoo a concession of tha right to was a remedy that primarily bwlowgb to the State alone Ja virtue of Ha sovereignty, be Me take that rem edy In atriot sabordloaMow to th* wfll of tbe State, whiab may graat or with held ft at pleaaera” Associate Justice Mol ver concurs in Prof.. Graham Bell waa asked in Lon don why the Americans surpassed all other-nations in their inventions'. Mr. Jell aays that it lies chiefly in the wli- iingnees of American machinists to maks for the investor any kind of ma chine under the sun .that may be de sired, as long as tbe money la paid for t. Au English workman, on tbe contrary, will not move out of the beaten track. Mr. Bell found it next to impossible to get an English Intru- ment-maker to do anything out of tbe usual way. and when be did he was ap palled at tbe cost. Americana are al- Queen Victoria wfli leave London tot the Continent at the end of March. She will rest one sight at tbe British Embassy in Parts, and proceed theooe to the Italian lakes, where ahe will be met by the Duke and Duobesa of Con naught, who will then be on their wed ding toor. From the lakes ahe will go to Germany. Mr. Gladstone,' Although he has passed his sixty-ninth birthday, wields the axe with great fores, and is mors than a match, aa a walker, for aotive and alert men twenty years youager than he. Gout and rheumatism have no terrors for this busy man, and one of his moat intimate friends used to my that ** wonderful ** Is his mind, it la nothing tolls body.’* The beat Japanese barbers are wo men* is lo a Japabbta family the shaving of the ehildrea’a bead* is a duty, as Imperative mi the Saturday night’s general a^Qtiona are amongst families where Sabbath and Sunday Schools are inatiiuiioas, so nearly all Japanese women acquire a deftness and delicacy of touch with the rasor that rival those of masculine barbers. Columbus Timm: “ We hava beard of a good deal cf meanness of late years, among other things stealing the Presidency, stealing from ’ Unde Barn’s ’ treasury, salary grabs, steal- lag Stewart’s remains, and stealing generally of all sorts and descriptions, but th*'meanest steal we have ever beard of, was that of a whit# man (so- called), lately In Russell county, Ala., teaUng from a negro his lawful wife” little has been said of lata regard ing tha tunnel between France and England, but preparations for tbe work continues. Seven thousand Ays hundred and seventy-one soundings have taken place within six hundred feet of the French coast, with a view of ascertaining the form and geological nature of the ground, and. 3,276 speci mens have been obtained. Similar sounding* have also taken place on the English side. Vlc#-Pre*Meut Wheeler’s oousin, Mr. Xenophon Wheeler, Is to be appointed District-Attorney tor the See tern Dis trict of Tennessee. He Uvea in Chat tanooga, and is a waim friend of Judge Key. Last fall be was tbe HepiftUean candidate for Congress from the Third District. He is an Ohio man by bitth, and a graduate of 'Yale ; served In the ways. ready and willing to make any , thing at %.allght advance oh cost, and Union army through the war, and has are invariably thankful for new ideas. 8lnc ® ^ ceD bf Tennessee and very popular with all partiea. Henry Ward Beechsr expresses a desire tomako k tour through tha Sooth. He would not lecture for mon ey among the Southern people, so la- poveriened by the war, but if Re makes There was a disgusting seen* In New Orleans on .laturday night Two or three weeks ago it was mentioned that a noted ruffian, named Harry Jennings, bad sailed for New Orleans . . . from New Jork wltb . Urg, aumb.r ^ “ ur lbpjrc**rcl ol Oghtlug do*.. It seem, th.t o.J“* ‘• 0, , ur ~ 10 ‘ . ’ Tborotoo bM taken , keooel of Bo.-1 ■chool.^pj ottor pabMo too doit, to Nsw Otleao. fot th« ..m. I »• ••I* !» putpoM.' Od SaUrdiy night» b.G. r 6 " W b “ Appointed If ant kindly to J .T£t.~ndog, mntefi to^b.‘“I ‘”,‘“7 by tbeee two men. cmn off .t Mot- b * "““J pbf. conkplt In lb. upper part of He. p^lpbnt. tb. ..r .nd to I™. Orhum.. Two unfortunate dog. ^ tb. el..«. It doo. Id th. eplrtt of 1 the doctor who uses a knife on a pa tient to eradicate cancer." A New York husband waa before one of the courts the other day, charged with whipping bis wife, hot “ was dis charged upon tho ground that hiaiife waa subject to ooaVulalcBa spl had several bdnloos.” W« Ml •OUtetij sea how they make eoa^tfeioas made to tear each other for two hours and seventeen minutes. Each WSs mors than once.thougbt to be dead, bat the poor creatures seem to have survived the struggle, although both were terribly mutilated., There was a dispute about the victory, f>ut the prize money—twp bqndred dollars—waa fln- his own right aBy Paid over to the exulting ownW' of *** 1, ® w U * ey 1* nature, and the Boston dog. Sunday afternoon ha- t u <l ®* u ®*‘^ - ^. -* other dog fight wan arranged for In I w # h * >0 * the same den, but It was broken up by the police. X lawanlt, bsq been begun. I tng^oitarhqaUmd •«*'<**• binging upon the Constitutionality of I aa to Indulge hot only la tha police interference. but in bunion* alN£ tW --YMfcr J rived- T At last aooodnts Hardy Solomon was justioe* Snakes bar o’ to Baraka. ’ In*. r~ -W-