Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1. la writing to thk oAm on barinw *7^7* row name and Poet offio* 1 Borinom letters and eonmuniei- tions to be published should bo writtoc r a separate sheets, and the object of eaet elrarlj Indicated bj necessary note when required. 8. Articles lor publication shonld be written in a clear, legible hand, and o" • k rnly one side of the page. 1 t All changes in adYertisements mutt rrsch us on Friady. DR. J. H. r. MILHOUS, DBNTAL SURGEON, BLACKVILLE, 8. V. Oftce near his residence on R R. Are nut. Patient, will «nd it more comfortable to have their work done st the oflee, aa he ka< a good Dental Chair, food Jieht and <hr wort improred epplianeM. He ihoald be loformed eerfrel data j rer oua to thrirootn ,n r to prerent any di.appoiotment—thoueh a >11 peoerally be fonnd at Ma office on Sat- urdaya. He wi'l .till continne to attend call, thronghont Barnwell and adjoint** eone- ^ [Tuglt ly DR. B. j. QUATTIE3AUM, BURGEON DENTIST, WILLISFON, 8. C. VOL VI. NO 31. OEOdHAPHIGAL. “Row,” in a Chid ton* aha said. U Iwinb*Frank; ’Uatraa. Although you Arab brUJlaat catch. I do art Caff rayon.” ' “ 0, lady, Dan* to hear my ault— Thla heart U Sort by thee.” ** Nay, Wr. I cannot heed your words. For yon Arnaut to me." “ Welsh,’' she added, freezlngly. Since 81am pressed so far, To Hindoo you no longer here; And ao, good air, Tartar.” “ What Ottoman Hk* me lo do t Bewailed the stricken man; “ IH Finnish up my mad career. And wed the OaUcan.” BARNWELL. C. H., S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 5, 1883. WILJ I8T0N, 8. C. ) J. A, PATTERSON, Surgeon Dentist, Office st the Barnwell Court Houar. Patients waited on at reaidence if de- •ired. W 1 attend call, in any portion of Barnwell and Hampton counties. Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms cash augSlljj ROBT.U. WHIT E M A. R B Tj E —AND— GRANITE WORKS 1 MEETING STREET, (Corner Horlbeck’a Alley,) CHARLES ION, u » iuneSly] C otto mm & —WHOLESALE— Grocers ami Prorision Deale rs, 102 and 104 Eaat Bay Street, •ogaily CHARLESTON. 8. 0. epitof BiiliinjMitaritH Nj.SIEHt Bty Sash, Plikds, Dooaa, Glam, lie. - Devereui & Co., ......DILLE18 IK Um, («•■(, UU<, flitwr, Hair. Slaha ait HarUt laitln, •^P7ly1 CHARLESTON. 8. C. THOS. McGTcaRB, y'A^HIOI* A.BJL.K Stafiif ill liir Irmiig SiImi, 114 Market Street, (Oae Door Eaat of King Street,) maiSOly] CHARLESTON, 8- C. CAR0U1 Mil TONIC! THE GREAT REMEDY FOR fULMONARX DISEASES, COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. riarPBD FROM TIIR TIIMIOROUM PAI'UUN THIH WHEK. Office OTer Oapt. W. H. Kennedy’a store Oa'l* attended thronqhout Ba»pwe aid adjacent counties. PatienU will fin it to tli<ir advantatagea to have mu • re at bis offiae. aep Itfj DK. J. RYERSON SMITH, Oarntin and itrkaairal taaliat, Will atiand calls throughout this and adr jacent countica. Operatioaa can ba more aatiafactorily per- f< rmed at bi* Parlors, which are supplied with ell the 1st eat hoproved-appliaaeM, than at the reaidencea of patienta. To prerent disappointments, patienta io- Undin* to rlait him at Williaton are re qneated to correapond by mail before leer ing home. [aepltf DEMME'S RESrAM 238 King Street, Opposite Academy of Musie, CHARLESTON, 8. C. R'«raa to let at W ecnU a night Meal# ut all bourt—Oyatere in erery atria. Ale*, Wines, Liquor*, Segara, Ac.[mar301j CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fitfc. Cane. Ubttm, tartlp*. Tfmpin, Oysters. Etc. Etc. Sun*, No*. 18 and 20 Fi*h Market CHARLESTON, 8. C. All orders promptly attended to. Terms Cash or City AcoepUnoe. augJOly] THOUGHTS ABOUT POTTEBY. The Hawkcyc philosopher says; Venly, the potter hath power over iUc flay. Therefore, the clay is the pot, but the man who makes it is the potter, rfyo, protest Refined and scholarly joke. This stylo su for a dollar. For two dol lars an explanation of this superlative joke and the Hawkcyc for one year will be sent to any part of the United States or - Canada. Put that in your clear Havana cigar and smoke it. Pottery is the oldest industry iu tne world. Adam was made of clay. But he acted as though he wns only half- baked. His son Cain built the first kiln iu the country. Tiro potter works in the mud, hence we admire his work. His life is one long act of mudder, but he is never hanged for it, though sometimes he is broken at the wheel. All hist work, however good^gpos to the fire. What he bakes you cannot cat, al though you eat what the other baker sets on it. The potter is an aristocrat by nature, and always beloug| to a set. To several sets, in fact. Ho is independent and nms hia own bring He is a base ball star, and makes a bet ter pitcher than the “old Nolan.” He is no deacon, but heposs** the plate regularly. A rigid temperance man, he is fond of his bowl. And he always makes it go round, too. There never was but one blind potter, and he did not stay blind long, for he made a cup and saw, sir. He is always hopeful, for it is in his nature to look cup. He is a geuerous fellow, and what is his is ewers. He behoves in human equality, and thinks the law should make daymen the equals of the clergy. "Who breaks, pays,” must have been originated by the potter. -Although in these perilous times, it is more likely to read, “who pays, breaks.” A pottery is the place where they make pots, but not Jack pots, by a long chalk. The potters make all things of clay, but this docs not make clazay of them, by any n^ans. Thin thing may socm to be running in to the ground. That's where it bus to go, to get the raw material. DENTER TRIBUNE FABLES. A child Awakening from its Sleep in the Dead of Night, cried out to hia Mam ma in affright: “Oh, momma,” said the Child, “I saw a Big Kitty at the Win dow.” “Be calm, my Dear," replied the Mother, “I have been Married too Long to be Worried at anything Short of Snakes iu your Papa’s Boots.” A Dog and his Tail fell into a Dispute as to which should Wag the Other. An itinerant Wasp passing that Way casually Remarked: “Speaking of Tails reminds me that I Possess one which May possi bly be Influential enough to Wag you Both.” Thia fable Teaches that ten cents’ worth of Dynamite is a bigger nmn than a Church Steeple. A Child who ‘ had a Mild type of the Measles invited a number of* her Ac quaintances to a Party. Producing from the Pantry a Bowl of Sweetmeats, she id: “Behold now an Act of Generosity. I will Take the Sweetmeats, and you. Unless you immediately Take your De parture, will Take the Measles.” This .fable illustrates the ingenuousness of childhood. A precocious Boy was once afflicted with a Boil in that Locahty of the Anat omy which is seldom mentioned in Polite society. To him a Playpiate addressed Words of Condolence. “Oh,” replied ie Precocious Boy, "I’m not so Power ful bad off After all. This boil has taught me, in its Quiet, unobtrusive '#ay, what Mantcl-Pieees were Mode for, as you yourself shall Learn if you will Stay and See me Eat my Buppen” Thia fable Teaches that All created tilings have their Spheres to Fill in this Life. } 8U1 Malaria SURE CUBE FOB ia and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. When I saw hei first, I noticed with great satisfaction that a fall of pretty uoe covered her maimed hand, and th&t “Big Charlie” under his rough husk, held a real reverence and affection for her. To these feelings he bore witness everywhere, and when his friends would plav upon him, and say half in jest and hall in earnest: “Ah, Charlie, you’re a fine fellow, ain’t you ?” he would answer with naive conoeit and confidence: “Yaee, Lam; for I hef gommanded a bark of a dousand duns; but den ’s a w ■ i .i . better dan me at home. And ev anybody .For Sals by all GROCERS and says 'Kalstrom’s a vine Yellow,’ you gaa DRUGGISTS, | dell him, ‘Yaae, but Kalstxom’s wife is a rincr,’” H. BUCHOFr Jt CO., CharlMtoft, 8. C. Sola Maaufbcturan aad Piopriaton A Bor will go in swimming and fool around the water for hours together: oe ha will rffca* A VERMONT MYSTERY. H ,w a Great Jaarnallatlo War Had Ita * _ Origin a Few Years Ago. Speak to a gray-haired Vermonter al>out the ** Masonic times,” and you touch the greaU-at political excitement of his life. Some of the whig campaigns saw more noise, while in the ttnti-slavcry struggle there was the great dept h of purpose, but in heat and bitterness nothing since polit ical parties existed has equaled the con tests following the Morgan alxluction. A l*‘lief that the great accret society was p. public aSW ' _ u 1 public affairs, to manage govern ment, protect criminals and what not, caused the forming of a distinct and a iti- Masonic party, to which memltem cf ‘ho order and outsiders who held . . .....^y opinion—these last derisively called “j:u‘k coutrar ‘jt masons ’’—were opposed, and the fight became so hot that till other political ques tions were quite lost sight of, and it could almost l)e said, that every man hated per sonally each individual on the other side. And at thia time there was a Iwa] “ mvs- sery,” oaily les* remarkable in the devel opment than the one in which Thurlow Weed was ao much interested, and a curi ous chapter in political history it makes. The story has never been fully told since the occurrences, and is now worth recall ing. Joseph Burnham, a middle-aged farm er of tlio town of Woodstock, was con victed two or three years before Morgan's disappearance, and sentenced to u term in the State Prison at Windsor. The woman who made the charge had a bad character, many Ixjlieved the man inno cent, and a strong effort was made to get him pardoned, headed by hisson George who lived in New York’City; but while this work was in progress,'Octob-r 16, 1820, Burnham died iu prison. His bodv was delivered to the son George, two days later, and by him taken to Wood- stock and -Imri'xL There is no doubt that these nre the facts. But soou after the death there came a rumor that a man named Lyman Mower, who once lived in Woodstock and knew Burnham there, ha<l seen him in New York Citv. alive and well, going by the name of 'Patrick Dolon. The matter attracted very little attention until the rising of the excite ment fallowing Morgan's diaapjx;arance, two or three years later, when the veld story came up in ^ most unaccountable way as a Masonic outrage. Burnham was a Mason, the superin tendent of the prison, the physician in charge and some other officers, as well George, the son, were Masons, and tlio belief gained ground that the prisoner hail feigned death and lx>en allowed to escape by the prison officials, while the body of some other jx-rson was buried by his friends as a blind. And in the popular excitement of the time this mat ter assumed a degree of importance which now seems incredible in view of the slender evidence upon which the case rested—the reported statement of Mower, who was known to be an unreli able man. The story, however, grew and grew until in the summer of T820it was taken up by the newspapers and a journalisHc itrSy ensued, the like of which was never seen in Vermont More or since. In the-midst of this Mower published an affidavit Retting forth that he saw Burnham in New York iu the fall of 1828, and that iu 1828 he had met and talked with him often. A man named Cutter also made affidav it that he saw Burnham in New York in July of the current year, and these statements, with whispers of some jxuid- ing developments alxmt the prison, fair ly created popular fury. In Octolx r the Woodstock selectmen ordered the disin terment of Burnham's remains for iJonti- fieatimj. The body was exhmm d, but could not 1x3 identified with certainty, and a few days later the operation was rcjx'.'.t'd in the presence of n large crowd, but with no Utter result But at the same time the matter was taken to the Legislature, as the conduct of State offi cers wxr involved, and then tho truth was established. A legislative committee went to New York and offered Mower ISOO if he would produce Burnham in Vermont, and giuranteed a pardon for the latter. Thcreuixm the whole thing fell through. Patrick Dolan was found, and it seemed that Mower had known him perfectly w-cll for several years and could not pos sibly have been mistaken as he then said he was. The most probable cxpLuuition of the w hole matter. »-that some sem blance which Dolan lx)re to Burnham led Mower to make a thoughtless remark, which was magnified in going to Ver mont, that ns the excitement rose ho lied deliberately from love of mischief and notoriety, and that Cutter did the same. The committees report wns orderedpuU lished iu the newspapers, and the cou- troversv died out, but still so many stories had been circulated and such an issue made of the matter that to this day many persons Mieve that Jo Burnham was let out of prison alive by fellow- Masona, A Philadelphian, detained by busi ness, spent a recent Sunday in Baltimore. In the evening he went into a saloon and t<x)k a drink, several men who were pres ent drinking with him. The next morn ing he was astonished by a summons to appear before the Grand Jury as a wit ness to prove that the saloon-keeper had violated the Sunday law. He acknowl edged that ho had drank in the place named, and when asked if others were present, promptly pointed out two of the jurymen as hia chance companions of the night before. “That will do,” in terrupted the foreman hastily; “that will do, you can go home,” and the Phila delphian was politely escorted to the door by a bailiff. Would Have His Wat.—The cause of Julius Goldsmith’s first qtteippt at suicide, in San Francisco, was the refusal of a girl to marry him, His life was saved, and, impressed by the proof of hia affection, the woman changed her mind and became his wife. But still he was not happy. On three oooaaiona in a year he took uoees of laudanum, and the last OYER THE WIRES. Edlimn't Ekprrtenrr* on a Trlr*rnpkar and Haw lie llrnt Ike Uaya. “What wore the real facts of that Bos ton exjx’rienoc you hod in fast receiving a good many years ago ?’’ Mr. Edison was asked. “Lot me see; that was hi 18(W. I had been working in Louisville, Ky., a couple of years, and went from there to Michigan. A friend named Adams got men place here in Boston, snd T Came over, arriving here alx>ut 4:30 o’cldHt, and had to go to work at 6:80 o’clock. Although it was the middle of win'or I come into the *^|ee with a linen duster on, for I was very jxxir then. A fellow named Jack Viright, who knew me out We t, thought to have some fun, so lie posted the office and had New York put on an operator named Bogl ‘y at their end of the line, with a special of 8'X) words to the Journal. Ho hail had my end switched to a table about the middle of the room, near tlio manager’s desk. Not HUHjx cting any tiling, I sat down and commenced taking it. Soon Bagiev commenced to ‘whoop ’em up,’ and, although I was accustomed to keep six or eight words behind in copying, I thought it beet to close up, especially ns he ctinimenced to send some awful sticking stuff, making l’s of his m’s and contracting his words, sending ‘imy,’ for instance, for ‘immediately,’ I having to write it out in full. Happening to look up, I noticed fifteen or twenty operators grinning behind me. Then I saw it was a ‘put-up job,’ and my blood got up and I determined I would uot break. Oi>cra ters hi New York asked over other wires if I was getting it, and would hardly lx‘lie vc the replies. When I thought he had reached the top of his speed I opened my key and said: ‘Don’t go to sleep; shake yourself and hurry through this !’ “Tho way I managed it was this: I had practiced all kinds of handwriting, and found that by a kind of print hand I could write fifty-five words qxir minute, aud I kuow there was no man who could keep up that speed wuth a telegraph key, so I felt safe if I could only read the ticking. I had no fears ns to that eilher, as I ha<l read all kinds of ‘clipped’ send ing in the West. Another thing that was in my favor is, that I am a little dei.f, so that the hum of an office does not disturb me, and I gave my whole attention to the clicking of an instru ment. “There is a little experience I had out in Indianapolis that may interest you. I was very ambitious to, receive ‘press report,’ and used to sit up until the 2 a. m. ‘press report;’ listening beside there- diving operator, until after awhile I could receive it very nicely, and then I wanted to receive ’pfeas myself. Natur ally, when I hail the real responsibility of taking it, I ‘bulled’ it bad at first, as they sent at the rate of forty words a minute. I thought the matter over, and worked out a little plan to have the ‘register’ indent some tin foil as it c.une in, and then had tiic boy turn it through another instrument, which ticked it off at tlio rate of about twenty-five words per minute, which T read and wrote of! very easily. The only trouble was that we got ‘33’ (good night) from the East about 2 3rf4/in., while it was sometimes an hour or more later when we got the last sheet to the newspapers. The} com menced to growl after awhile, and our manager dropped iu rn us one morning and discovered our little game iu full blast. “By the way, there were several valu able inventions wrapped up in that office trick. Talking of the tinfoil reminds mo of another incident. There was a fast- sending tournament gotten up once, in which the judges were to lieatSt. Louis, aud the fast-senders throughout the Slate were to send from their respective offices to the central office iu St. Louis. Now, although I have a reputation as a receiver, I have just the opposite reputa tion as a sender, and when I entered my name iu the list to com)X3te there was great •hs-haing’ over the wires. We were given a chapter 'D the Bible to send, and, w hile the other men were prao- ricing sending it. I worked out the chap ter on the tinfoil, and fixed everything already to turn the crank at the rate of alxmt fifty or fifty-five words per minute,' getting our boys to keep quiet about it For some reason the contest never came off, and I did not have the pleasure of carrying off the prize.”—/Won Herald. The Oldest Cow on Record. £ The Hawkins vibe Dispatch says: The most aged cow in Georgia—pernnps in the United States—is owned by a citizen of Hawkinsville. The owner assures us :iat the cow is 100 years old, and is now iving milk. When we mentioned the improbability, in fact, the almost impos sibility, of bis cow being 100 yeaxirofal; the gentleman assured us that she has belonged to his grand parents, great grand parents, and other ancestors, and that there is no doubt that the oow is 100 years of sge. We can say for the owner of the cow—the gentleman who makes the statement—that he is one of our most esteemed citizens, one not ac customed to exaggerate, and whose word has never been dhubted. The gentle man is fifty years of age, and is a mem- l>er of one of the old and noted familiea of the State. OIUOIN OF PETROLEUM. ^Faw Thrortra a* l» Haw It ('tint lata 13: c latmre. A matter of almorbiug but still unsat isfied curiosity, says a letter from Brad ford, Pa., to the New York Evening Post, is the origin of this petroleum or “rock oil," gushing up from a thousand or more feet Mow the surface, and tid ing so large a place in our commerce and industry. Science, on many points so precise and positive, gives us hero two divergent tlumries. By one hypothesis it is contended that the pjrous sand- rock which underlies the oil regions on an average about a fifth of a mile Mow the surface is the original source of the oil deposit. In these sand-rock strata, so it is said, formed from lmils and shoals of rivers, there were ages ago deposited vast mosses of vegetation. These, under certain conditions, pro duced coal which iu its chemical con stituents much resembles oil; but under conditions a little varied they prixluced oil which, with gas, is held susjx'nded in the stingy stone, aud now and then gathers in cavernous magazines, where it is held fast imder the immense pres sure which, when relaxed by the oil digger's drill, drives the fluid to tie- sur- foee in a jH of oil and gas. A second theory asserts that the oil is not gener ated in the sand-rock measures, but in the CiirMiiferous shales far Mow. Here there is developed by heat a gas which, forcing its way upward through rMiy fissures, reaches the colder sand-rock strata, whore it is condensed into oil, and this oil is held down under the harder upper crust of sand-rock until the drill gives it exit. This last is, I be lieve, the hypothesis most generally ac cepted by scientists of present fame. Whatever the origin of pctroloim, there can be no doubt of the magritutle of those operations of Nature which—scien tifically rather than commercially speak ing-have l>een going on over an area of some 4,000 square milt's in Pennsylvania alone, which have lt3d to the sinking of some 30,000 wells, easting on nn average at least $2,500 each, or $75,000,000 alto gether, and whirh have been so wantonly abused by the improvidence of man that the shadows which porteud the failure of our coal-oil supply have already be gun to faiL The crude petroleum, as it issues from tho Bradford Wells, might very n adily be mistaken for dirty water. It is yel low in tint, takes lire like other oils, foams easily when ignited, and seems more viscid and less strong in smell than the lower grades of the refined article. If the reader will take a small vial, fill it with water, add a little sweet oil and yellow dirt, then shake up the compound vigorously, he, will have—barring the smell—a pretty gixxl likeness of the crude nwk-oil of tho Bradford region. In refining alxmt one-quarter of the crude petroleum passes away, largely into more solid products, which arc so far utilized now that petroleum may be regardud aa a complex product with every port val uable. Few poople appreciate its place "ffh our export trade. In the fiscal vow ending in 1881 we shipped to foreign countries petroleum and petroleum pro ducts worth $40,315,000. It ranks third in our export trade, following bread- stuffs and ootton, and the exerts rep resent only a fraction of the wjiolo pro duct, In this connection I may say that, according to trustworthy estimates here in Bradford, tlio notorious Standard oil monopoly which controls tho trade can produce refined petroleum at five cents a gallon. Householders, there fore, can estimate’ for themselves, from the lcx*4il prices they pay to their grocers, the intermediate costs and profits. Hero iu Bradford the best refined jxjtroleuni sells at ten cents a gallon. Tajlug a Bet. Bad as a thing it, It may be won*. A bulbous nose is not e pretty feature, bat £ ua, xa-. No# it » good time to The Committee on Harmony, of the Lime-Kiln Club, FD{>orted that the Lime- Kiln Club was at peace and harmony with every government on earth except Greece, and with every organization and association in America except tho Con cord School of Philosophy. During the quarter tho committee had taken action in twenty-four instances where members of the club had differed in opinion, and the only case left liras thaf of Whalebone Howker vs. Clay Bank Tyler. “ What am dat case?” softly inquired the President. It was explained that Brother Howker hod won an election bet of Brother Tyler, bnt that the latter refused to square up. He was asked to stand up, and when he was on his feet Brother Gardner said: • ' “Brudder Tyler, did you bet anew hat dat de Republicans would cany New -York by a millyon majority ?” “Yes, sah.” “ Has you paid dat bet yit ?” “No, sah.” —'-v ' “Was you waitin’ fur anythin’ in pertickler to happen befo’ ypu paid dat bet ?” “No, sah.” “ Den you had better settle de matter befo’ de nex’ meetin’ occurs. A man who am fool Duff to bet on leokshun should be idiot nuff to pay what he loses.”— Detroit Free Press. - $2 a Tear. Attn* Twentf-flre Tear*. General Roger A. Pryor, now of New York City, when asked by a reporter for hia rcmininoenocii of the challenge to fight a duel with Ixmic knives in a locked room, sent him Ky John F. Potter' a Congressman from Wisconsin, who is now dying at Milwaukee on tlio Poor Farm, as well as tho trouble preceding the sending of the challenge, spoke as follows: “ I am unaffectedly reluctant to talk alxmt the matter, and for twenty-five years I have silently submitted to an in- wcurate and injurious statement of tho affair. The version which p:irty feeling gaveJb> tho aff.tir has gone so long with out question that I doubt if anything from me will now vindicate tho truth. Nevertheless, hi reply to your inquiry, I will give you in a word tho facts of tho case. “An angry debate having occurred Ix-twoen Mr. Potter and myself on the flixir of the House of Representatives, I determined to send him a challenge. I prepared the paper and left it in tho bonds of a friend to deliver, while to escape arrest or interruption I went im mediately to Alexandria, Va., in conceal ment. I heard nothing more of the ■matter until I received a message from my friends that the thing was ended and that I shonld return to Washington. Then, for the first time, I was told that Mr. Potter, who hail not left Washing ton,Tia<T proposed a fight with bowie knives, and that my friends, for reason* satisfactory to themselves,' hail perempt orily rejected tho proposition. The friends who acted on my Minlf were Mr. Miwcoc, R. H. Garnett, of Virginia; Mr. Wm. Porcher, Miles and Mr. Law- lence M. Keitt, of South Carolina. These gentlemen rejected the proposi tion without coininnmteating with me and without my knowledge. Indeed, I nqx'ftt that I did not know of the propo sition until it had been rejected. Upon consultation with friends whether I might uot yet accept the proposition, they unanimously advised that I could not disavow the action of the gentlemen to whom I had entrusted my interests. Accordingly, I had no alternative but to acquiesce. Do uot understand me to question the propriety of tho conduct of these gentlemen.” “What was the altercation between you and Mr. Potter ?” “I do not remember; and if I did 1 should not care to talk about it These are escapades of my youth, of which I now sec the folly, aud which I prefer to let drop into oblivion.” \ THE ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. Addren, THE PEOPLE,,, BcnwaUG. &.B.CL : mmm —“We observe, end we ere glad to •beetve it,” say* the New York Sum, M theroar yoonw mee of fashion eowa> dap* ace ranty addicted to hard driak- *'■ ~ “ ia gninf IfiMto The verdict of the jury which finds Csrlotta Teresa Bturla, of Chicago, guilty of manslaughter and the sentence ]>asst-d upon her of one year’s imprison meat end a trial full of romance, start-, bug incidents and dramatic situations. The evidence on the trial showed thal Charles Btili s met this girl when she was about fifteen years of age, and after she had already—with the early develop ment incidental h. her Italian blood—en tered upon a life of degradation. With his promise of marriage to encourage her she followed him to Chicago, and there entired upon the duties ol a wife. She U>ok rooms with him, kept boarders, washed his clothes, and worked from morning till night to keep a home over her head, with an evident desire to lead a worthy life. Hut her brutal lover, not content with a humble home and a faithful slavey drove her to her old life in order to sup ply him with tho means to gratify Ids depraved tastes, which seemed to have 1/cen unredeemed by one good trait. Not content with the depths of moral torture to which he flung the girl—who seems to have hail a repugnance to the life to which want bad first driven her— he struck her violent blows, kicked her, throttled her and covered her with bruises. Nor did his fiendish cruelty end there. Knowing her to bo nervously timid and superstitious, lie would take her to neglected graveyards and to lonely spots, and after nearly throwing her into convulsions by working upon her fears, would abandon her and leave her in the dark to escape as best she could. One night, thus abandoned, she crouched Ixdiiud a vault for hours, till daylight relieved her terror; On another occasion he took her to a lonely hotel, and after dining sumptu ously on the last tnoney she had, drove away, leaving her to walk home eight miles through drenching rain and a bit ter wind, on a dark and lonely country road. + m. m Sinking the Shop. When the English take a vacatiou they aink the shop. An EagHahman travel- mg in Switzerland met a French lady with her daughter. They ma<V> op a party and did Hie lakes together. The young lady waa suddenly attacked with tho toothache, and the party traveled twelve mile# to find a dentist, who ap plied a little laudanum. Subsequently »t waa ascertained that the Englishman waa a dentist. When asked why he had n^ relW tlm«r 1 >alwit, hhai^rS pbed, “ I am on a vacation. I haven’t practiced for six weeks.” MIT AND WISDOM. t " " '' r - It is always “pot op or ahut «p” wftll the umbrella.—Boston Bulletin. It ia the sure badge of a down not to tniiiA whatploaaaa thoas heEwEIr It mat be set down as an afamEtol when a person grows fat he grows wefat ful. Josh Billings aaya: "N&xJ fo a clear an old shoe.” Have you ever seen a mermaid, cap tain r asked a lady on a Staten TafawA boat “I’ve seen a good many fish- women, madam, if that’s shat yon mean," waa the reply. “When’ll you be bask, mydearf’ in quired a wife of an angry husband who wan going off in a hurry. “ Whenever I please, madam r- ” Do try and not be any Liter than that, if you can hetp' it 1” was her meek reply. A Young Ixvkntor.—The youngest inventor on the records in Wmbington to Walter Nevcgold, a lad IS yean of age, of Bristol, Pa, who has patented im portant improvements in rolling adD machinery. A young man in Dm Moines loved « girl so wildly .that he wrote her letters a day for five weeks. At the i of that time she eloped with fellow as a matter ol self-protection.— Boston Post, A Philadelphia man has bought a schooner and gone in search ol aeato. His wife wonts a sooque for the If winter, an’ he calculates to aava sev eral hundred dollars by getting the material in this way, _ . _ We are willing to take a «—*■*» amount of stock in newspaper aoeouoto of Western cyclones, but when m sss paper tells about a zephyr oanying a bed quilt sixty-one miles, and then going bock for the sheet, we ain’t therev One sign of prosperous tunes to the activity among dealers in patent nHII- cines. Or. is it ea indication of herd times on the theory that the people have leas time to fuse over their ♦ m ****d ali ment when they get busy?—AotoM Transcript. I Health journals say that to ratoina sound constitution a man must lie Ott Ike right aide. Yea, but which to the right side ? Every lawyer, preacher end edi tor in the country thinks the aide he to lying on .to the right one.—71 ear BfU ings. Hereafter, when yon are in Hew York, don’t drink. One of the Owtod Park ostriches swallowed f glees of lager beer the other day, aad died * 1 " vn ** to* mediately. It doesn’t do to tooeh New York liqnor unless you were born to the place, and weaned on iL—Lovell <M- -1- -i izcn. Dean Stanley is said to have hod great love for children, though, he WM childless. As the Dean might at any time have drawn on an orphan aeyfom for fifteen or twenty little peettlere, and as he never did do so, it to fair totokt that the Dean was a gentleman sf re markable self-control, and that he allowed his affeotione to ran i him. Oscar Wilde lost hia a lecturing tour last fall, and hi* top were in a state of perturbation patam to see. “ ’Ere, ’Airy I ’Any I ’Ere’sa joty go, I say I I ’ave the browses for the luggage, and the blooming conductor *ae gone and shunted the luggage ’ another line, don’t yon know I the bloody luek of it; I eawn’t see any th ink in this howling country bnt trookto^ you kuow. Burlington Hcnokeye. ' The modern .Stoop: A father had low sons, who were very naughty, and often gave the neighbors cause for aeriaai dis satisfaction. For this reason he som* monod them in hie presence i them four twigs of haieL my sons, that if I should strike yon with one of thes^ twigs alone, you would lari little; whereas, if I should bind them el together, it would cause yon | And hereupon he tied them t gave the boys a sound f gende Blatter. k Ledy Whs to “Only - Ecewtol*.* People seem to thfat that person ia not dangerous nntil ] commits some deed of actual saya a New York correspondent ef th* Philadelphia Record. " 9 * v * mm * I know of a woman whose L that she to not insane, but who | the parlor whenever her “ company and drives the _ out into the streets. Tfcto riagntor tot- man has taken an avemfon totda. sad for a long time there hm ^ the family table; bnt one «fr A Boston policeman, on why he did not interfere in a „ marked that ha wm never pragmatical A £>!?* * thought that if the son, a young man of two-am felt a longing for pia that be i resist, and he had 'the baker’s. The Waiter placed it on that aa great unooueera m toe and stepped back to await i mother a eye fell unoa the r "A pie,” she screamed: pie for my table F*