Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Rat#* of Advertising. . |l 00 «*ohnbwqtMatiMertloo. Met* . or jetrlj cons tncta nudeoD liberal terns. Ocntrsct sdrertising is payable 80 No coMsnaiestion will be pnbltsbjd •■J** by the name and ad- drees of the writer, not neeeamrilv W joblicaUon, bat as a guaranty of good Address, THE PEOPLE, Barnwell 0. H.. 8 0. DR. I. N. r. MILHOUS, DENTAL SURGEON, BLACKVILLE, 8. U. Office near his resldenoe on R R. Ayennf. WiH i fi , Dd lt mor « oomfortaht# to * Z ^ ne “ th " •* ho h«« h soed DenUI Ch. r. Rood iirht sad the w fnLJ!!i Pr0Ted 1 , J > P 1 ' ,n( ' M - Ho should b* ' In. MTf , r * 1 previous to their com. wm eenlrX /"-! <1,K «P^“‘n>ent-thoueh uHs?!. ^ 7 ,e /0U11,1 * t hi * offio# aa 8,lt • » iU co “‘ i “ u « ‘o “Wend ealle throughout Ham well and sdjoinin K cot. a- 1 I*ugl8 1? DR. R. J. QUATTlEiAUM, SURGEON DENTIST, WILL18TON, 8. C. Office oyer Cept. W. H. Kennedv’s stor- Calm attended throuabout Barnwe' end sdjsoent oountiee. PatienU w rb?n t , t ^ t,ie L r * dv »ntage to have wo ’ done at bis oftc*. - DH.d. EYERS0N SMITH, ftuffttive and Mrchaniral leatint. WILl T8TON, 8. c. C * )1 * throughout this and ad. J8CPDt rnunties. hp mort '•''"'•Otorily per. with*VlI ‘ts h |'! P .' ul< ’ r *’ wMch "r« »oppli- With slt the lste«t approved applisnee*. that a (the residence*, ot pstieute. Toprevent dieappcintmeuU, patients i naestedto V '* ,t hi,n . St VVilli * ton »re re iKumr COrW8p0,,d by “•it^'orsle-.r. ? a>e - Isepltf VOL VI. NO. :j». THE SEVEN STAGES, BARNWELL, C. H.. 8. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 31, 1883. T}~ • ‘ Only s baby. Kissed and caressed. Oently held to a mother’s breast. Only a child, Toddling alone, Brightening now its happy home. « . Only a boy, Trudging to school. Governed now by sterner ruis. Only a youth, Living iu dreams, Full of promise life now seema Only a father, • Burdened with care, Silver threads in dark-brown hair Only a graybeard, Toddling again, Growing old and full of pstn. Only a mound, O’ergrown with grass, Dreams unrealized—rest st last. Hiug Street, Opposite Academy ot Music, CHARLESTON, 8. C. R'oms to let at X) ocnti , ni ht M A ee, w iney^ qqof , [ SeMrl< & c .[msr301 C. LESLIE W bolesale and Retail Dealer in fisli. banr. lobhtfw, Tirtlw, Tfir»|»iBR. Ovsters. Etc. Etc. Stall*, No*. 18 and 2<) Fish Market charleston, s. o. * All order* promptly attended to. Term, c a sh v,r City Acceptance. aug30ty] — «T. A. PATTERSON, Surgeon Dentist, Office at the Barnwell Court House. .fi£ tie w"m*l! ed ?“ sllfed. will ntteml calls In anw >»>rt( nn of BRrnweli and Hampton oonoties.— Sstisj^ctinn guaranteed. Terms'cmb. ROBT, O. WHITE marble —AND— granite works meeting stree l, (Corner Horlbeck’s Allay,) UHARLESiON, u e fun«91y] ' 8,0 OTTO TIEOEMJIII & SONS, -WHOI.K8AI.K- fiaters and Proiision Dealeis, 102 and 104 East B»y Street, *®f3Hy CHARLESTON, 8. C. Devereux & Co., DEIAKR8 IN Liffif, ttsueif, utfci, Plater, Hair, Slates anti Marble Maitlcu. Dapot of Hailding Mstssisis No. 90 East Bay Bash, Blinds, Doors Glass, Etc. *F 71 rl 9HARLESTON. 8. C. THOS. McG. CARR, WAS^ION-ABLK Shaiiig aid lair brmiiy Salt*!, 114 Market Street, (One Door East of King Street) mmSOlyf CHARLESTON, 8- C. •w-TRY.-w CMOUNA TOUITONK! THE GREAT REMEDY FOR , PULMONARY DISEASES, COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY. -i A I SURE CURE FOR Malaria and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. ..jaaiy-* a®-For Sale by all GROCERS aad DRUGGISTS. H. BUGBOFI* * CO., ChartMtoa, 8. C. # Sole MaeufMtuera and Proprietor* AN OLD WOMAN’S STORY. Many years ago a girl and her great grandmother sat together—the girl in tears. Said Great-grandmamma Hudson, sitting very straight, not lolling, at her eighty-eight years, as did her great grandchildren of eighteen: Yonng folks think old folks are fools, hut old folks know that voung folk> are.” “ That is because you’re old. grandma,” sobbed Linda. No; if is because I was once young ’’ said the old lady. But he is the only ojie I shall ever love, said Linda. "Papa is cruel to me. Why does he think ill of Lewis ? He knows nothing about him. i shal die if we are separated.” I was going to die, too,’’ said great grandmother, "but I didn’t.” "Oh, tell me, please,” cried Linda, had you a lover; did they separate you? I never knew you had a 1 .vo story—that is, that kind of one.” "Yes,” said the old lady. "J had n lover. You can have many lovers, but never more than one father and mother, bulks think of that when it's too late. When father said (hat Cecil was Lord knows who, and ho should not come to see me, I remem) wr I almost hated him for it. When mother said she didn’t like him either, I almost hated her. Cruel creatures that stood between me and my young lover—that was what my parents seemed to me then; and I was worse than you, my dear, ever so much worse, for it seemed to me wicked that any one should take it for granted a num was not worthy of love Itecause he was a stranger, and T made preparations to run away with -Cecil and marry him at Gretna Green. Everything was ready; I had my jewelry in my bosom and my little bundle on my arm, and was creep ing out of a side door that led into the garden when a hand came down on my shoulder and a voice cried out: " ‘ My girl, is this the way you use us !’ and there was ray father. My father’s.faee. was white as a ghost and his hand shook as he held mine. _ " ‘ Oh, father, fajher !’ I oried, ‘if you wou.d only let me have my will in this ouy thing. You can't make a girl love or nate by saying so.’ “ He stood, holding me ilrm and fast. " ‘It is Pipeline who has betraved .me, I said; and though they would never admit it I knew the maid proved false. " Well, they locked me up in my room. How often I cr cd out, ‘ I shall die if I am separated from Cecil.’ "I am very old, but when I think ol it tlie old pain comes back again. His eyes were Ike black diamonds, and he had an olive cheek and full red lips, and your men with padded shoulders and thin arms and legs and hollow chests wouldn’t look like men, standing lieride him. " It was a dreary t : me and m^' 'health >Vkc down under it. I had a fever, and >vh\n I was well again the doctor 8a ; d I must have a change ; so mother decided to take me to the seaside ; but lirst we were to go by stage-coach to London and visit an aunt there. "It was the day of stage-coaches and the day of highwaymen. "Going over a certain common on our way coaches had more than once been stopped. The men were armed always and the women trembled when they saw horsemen riding toward them. " ‘Your money or your life,’ was their word, and they kept it. “ Tf we should meet the highway men!’ said my mother; bnt I was not afraid. I didn’t care whom we met or what happened to me. "We rode awajf from our home in the bright daylight, and ’stopped for dinner and to change horses at an inn; then we rode on again. It would be night long before we reached Loudon. I sat in the coach with my head on my mother’s shoulder, thinking of just one thing— Cecil. Should I never see him again— never, never, never? Would he not follow me and carry me off by force? Could 1 not somehow let him know escape from tty aantVfeeme and be married, so that no one could part ns? Oh, I was so miserable—mis erable. Nothing like making plane that eaa come to notkinf andJmxst like bab bles when me have thought them, for fadsd out aaA fth* mw " ‘See what a lovely moon I’ said im mother. But I had net cured to look a' the moon since I saw her over the gar len wall that night I had tried to rut away. Bumble went the Cnoeh, crack went the whip. "Suddenly there was a tumult. " ‘Gentlemen,’ cried the guard—‘gen tiemen, I’m afraid we are to have som- trouble here. See to your weapons, gen tlemen P "Then the coach Came to a stand. "The shrieking women clung together. Four masked men rode to the door. Tin coachman and guards lay in a ditch. One of the gentlemen Was bound; tin- other was old and lame. They were rifling his pockets while he Was scream ing. They took out a gold watch, a purse, and Ids snuff-box with diamond* on it. They had already the other’s money. "Then one—the hugest, the hand somest figure—lient over us. " ‘Don’t fear, Indies,’ he said in n soft voice. ‘All we want is whatever valu ables you may have about you.’ "Mamma tagan to scream. "The lady who sat next toller fainted. "We could not sec the mau’^face, for he was masked, and we were in the shadow''of the couch. " ‘Something shines on your Anger,' he said; ‘let me see it.’ " Ho caught at a chain on which 1 wore a loekot with a curl of Cecil’s hair. “ ‘ Don’t take that!’ I cried. ‘Don’t take that !’ " I clutched it. Our head* were close tog. flier. 1 saw his chin and mouth under his mask. At the same moment my face wits thrust into the moonlight. Amy!’ I heard him whisjier to himself, and I knew Cecil. " Meanwhile something had happened. Two gentlemen had ridden up—the one who had l»een bound Was free. For " Many had good birth, education and manners. Yes, a bad man ! But how could I hate him all at once ? I under- stood that my father had been right in parting us ; but those lips had kissed me—those hands held mine, once the tables had l>een turned upon the rob 1 lent. "Then one had ridden away; two were bound and one lay bleeding. This last one was Cecil. "I knew now that my father had not Iteen wrong. Cecil was even worse than he \thought him. He was a highway, man, a bad man and the' companion of bad men—a creature who cut purses on the public road. "They were not all ignorant men, these highwaymen, by any means. "‘The ladies need said one of the gentlemen. ‘ Those fel lows are not in a condition to mohst them.’ “ Then he said (men didn’t say such high-flown things then); ‘ How merciful is the gentler sex! It is compassionate A WESTERN BANKER. snout SKKTCH OF A VTMi'ONSIN COM; HK-.SWA*. The Hallread Prince-A lexaader •t Mllwnultre. HU. hell to the erring as well as the virtuous.’ " For I had torn my hand from n»y mother’s, and knelt beside Cecil. ‘ ‘ They "thought I pitied a wounded robber—that was all; bnt this is what we whispered in the darkness: “‘Amy, yon know what I am now; but I love you.’ “And I answered: ‘Cecil, I hate, your deeds without hitting you.’ ‘ ‘Those were the last words we ever spoke to each other—the very last.” "Did you ever see him again?” asked the girl. "Oh, grandmamma ! never again ?” The old woman looked into her eyes. "He was a very bad man, my dear,” she said, "very bad; and I never saw him again. I believe he died a shameful death one day at the hands of the execu tioner. But, you see, it was because* I have been young, not liecanse I am old, that I said yon young folks were fools. "It was a good while—yes, a good wliile—alter that night in the s'^ge- eoach before I came to my senses suffi ciently to thank dear papa for his watch fulness over me, and be really glad that I had never been Cecil’s wife; but I did -it last, my dear—I did at last; and I married my good husband, your great grandfather—whom you never saw; and we were always happy. The heart of woman is a mystery and has been since Eve, my little girl.” Among the pedestrians on the avenne recently was a short, stout man in the neighl>orhood of sixty years of age. His face was ftlll, broad and iflassiVe. Eyes gray, sharp, keen, under beetling gray eyebrows. Nose aquiline, mouth large and Arm in outline. The face was clean shaven to the lower line of the heavy jawbone. A shining silk hat was well down upon the head. The rotund figure was plainly dressed in dark clothes. A dork green cravat, upon which gleamed a ruby pin, made the only patches of color in the dark attire of the pedestrian. He carried hU fat yellow-gloved hands down iu the pockets of his overcoat.as he walked stolidly along. This man was Alexander Mitchell of Milwaukee, the President of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul road, and the head of one of the richest bonks in Milwaukee. Mr, Mitchell was a member of Con gress from 1874 to 18?5. He used to have rooms at YVormley’s Hotel. Al though he was worth at least 815,000,- 000 he Used to walk from Iris rooms to the Capitol and return. . He ts very quiet and unobtrusive. Dirring.his first winter few people in Congress knew much more about him than the fact of his being a successful Milwaukee banker. During the great financial debate of Tus tom Mr. Mitchell prepared a speech upon the subject of the wisdom of the resumption of specie payment, Mr. Mitchell was a very modest man, and as no one paid much attention to him in the House he did not expect to have many listeners for his si>eech. One of his 1 friends who heard ho was going to make a sjjeech thought he would prepare a surprise for him. The friend went to the office of the Washington Chronicle and had a paragraph printed merely giving the amount of Mr. Mitchell’s wealth. Then he went np in the reporter’s gallery and pointed out Mr. Mitchell as one of the great ’financiers of the West, Nothing attracts so much nttcntiou as a reputation for enormous wealth. In a few days Mitchell became one of the celebrities of the House. When the millionaire finally arose to taik, if every word was coiuable into a gold dollar he could not have had more profound at tention. Mr. Mitchell arrived here last week from Florida, where his wife has a great orange plantation. He came here in a private palace car. Ho was ac companied by his son and heir, John fear no longer*^ ^Mitchell,a swarthy-bearded man of forty- five. Mr. Mitchell came to this country a poor Scotch lad and made a great for tune. One may think he owes h» wealth to the great opportunities he found here. It is doubtful. A school friend of his who remained at Glasgow is worth forty millions, and he, too, startid poor. Such men as Mitchell cannot help getting rich. Sev ern] yours ago Mitchell went to Europe. In France he met his old school friend, the Glasgow banker. The two went about together all day, 1 The Glasgow man paid all the bills. At the close of the daar, when the two sat down to dinner, the Glasgow banker pnll^l out a card, and turning to Mitchell said : " Sandy, you owe me $1.65.” This was Sandy’s share of the expense of the day, and he promptly paid bis share to the exact penny, as a matter of course. This rigid exactness in the smallest of expenditures is one of the common elements in tha character of these two very rich men. Yet, with all this exactness and can', no one has ever dreame<l of calling Mitchell stingy or close.— Washington Sunday Iterat 'd. Too Honest to be Trusted. A i’crsonal Favor. ‘ Here is a characteristic story of an old mao. A short time ago, when alniut to enter his carriage, an acquaintance was passing his house in Fifth avenue. It was a prominent Hebrew financier, weighing about two handled and fifty pounds. "I will drive you down town,” said the old man. "Many thanks, Governor,”, was‘the answer, "the doctors order every day to me to walk reduce my down town flesh.” "Never mind the doctors; you just get in as a personal favor to me. ” The two handred and fifty pounds got into the oarriage and down town they went at a rattling fkoe. When they ar rived at Exchange place, the old and said to his two handred and fifty pound companion: "I asked you to drive down w th me because this Is a new carriage and I wanted to give it a trial.”—iV. Y. Hour. . Hot to a lary man —Endow a free bod in a hospital and occupy it yourself. -4^ A gentleman stopped his borne at a tollgute, and not seeing the gatekeeper went into the house. Finding no one he l>egan to setfrch, and finally discovered the gatekeeper out iu the field at work. .VIthough the old man was quite a dis tance away, the gentleman went intolhe field, approached the old man and said: "You are the tollgate keeper, I be. lieve?” . "Yes, sir,” the old man replied, turn, ing and leaning upon his hoedumdle. "Well, I want to go through the gate.” "Ain’t the gate open?” "Yes.” "Well, why don’t you go through? It’s my business to be there. ” * ^ "Because I want to pay you.” "And you came all the way out here to pay me five cents?” "Yes, sir,” said the gentleman, proud- by looking the Old man in the eye. “Couldn’t you have left the money on the table? "Yes, but I wanted you to know that I l>ajd you.”- “You are an honest man.” "Yes, sir,” replied the gentleman, < while a pleased expression spread over his face. An Animal's ftitrilltfenc*. In the summer of 1879 a three-year- old heifer of my ihorthorn herd sudden ly dlsapiiearcd. Diligent aeamh foiled to find her anywhere on the premises. Late in the day my herdsman, to my ut ter amazement, inform* 1 me that “De heifer is up in de bam chamljer." Sure -nough, there she was. She hodclimlied a steep flight of stairs of fifteen steps, turned a sharp comer and landed safe and sound. She did not jump out of the window, is at the time I was wishing she would. What induced her to attempt the peril ous feat 1 know not, for nothing was there to attract her. Very’ probably in escaping from the horns o( one of the others she hod started up a few stops, and tn'lng unable to turn had been forced to continue on. I was compelled to have her thrown down, her heels tied, and to slip her down stairs on a smooth plank. But this is not all. The next fall, attracted by the com stowed there, this same heifer went up a second time and took two cows with her. You can imagine my disgust when I found them there quietly munching the com just as if they had l>een accustomed all their live* to walk Up stairs to dinner. On this oc casion I was jiossessed of engineering ex- perience. To throw them down, Iming as tamo ns dogs, to tie their feet and slip them down as liefore, unharmed, was only n question Of hands and rope. A Laughable Mistake. The Boston Adverth er says that a laughable incident occurred daring the recent visit of the American Society of Civil Engineers to Lowell, where they were the guestf of Mr. J. B. Francis, whose residence is in close proximity to that of Governor Butler. Mr. Francis had provided carriages for the convey ance of his guests (uliout seventy in nam- Imr"i from the railway station to his dwelling, and as they moved slowly In the direction of Governor Butler’s place many rumor* were set afloat regarding the nature of the delegation they con tained. When within % short distance of the Governor's house a lady, "who also re sides in the neighborhood, relieved the curiosity of the inquiring crowd by ven turing the observation that the visitors must be the convicts from Concord Prison on their way to pay their respects to Governor Butler for his kindness and leniency toward them. This "news” spread like wildfire and a stampede was instantly made in the lirection of the Governor’s house to see them alight and enter in. The disap pointment of the would-lie sightseers when they discovered that instead of the Concord convicts the carriages contaiued only a lot of civil engineers paying a visit to the ex-President of their society can easily be imagined. He Thought He Wm at Home. Those persons who enjoy seeing t haughty spirit suffer a fall should hav< been on board one of the sleeping cun attached to a through traimfrom Chieaac to Boston, a abort time ago. Amon the passengers were a middle-aged mai and woman from the remote West, whi had evidently oome upon sudden riches, and were devoting all Iheir energies U advertising the fact. They were gor geously dressed; the woman sported an* quantity of diamonds, and no occasion for informing the other pa*Hengers of tht wealth and position of their familv war suffered to pass unimproved. They had with them a plug of a boy, about four teen years old, whose restlessness and general bad maimer* made all the in mates of the car except hu fond parents wish him dead. One morning after the parents bad dressed themselves, they discovered that their hopeful son was still slumber ing, and the mother set to work to arouse him. Repeated calls failing to have any effect, she finally bod recourse to thump* and digs in the ribs, whereupon the Ikjv, evidently dreaming that he was al home and 1 icing stirred up to perform some accustomed duty, howled out; "Yon let me alone and go feed the hags yourself!” A joyous smile enlivened the features of the rest of the traveler* at this unexpected and complete " give away.”—Boston Journal. 8TA!fl/ET AND HI* RIYAI. Fi-rm-SiMrn Aaftl*** almat M-<fo Brassa's It freiMlea aa lb* Caaea. A letter from Paris says : In spite of the aliaorhing nature of political affairs iu Paria at this moment the journals find time and space occasionally for the con sideration of the doings of Mr. Stanley and the conflict that it is presumed most eventually take place in Central Africa between him and De Brazza, tha repre sentative (when he gets there) of the French flag on the Congo. Mr. Stanley is doubtless liy this time on his favorite work ground again. He left - Europe hurriedly. “ He was already in view ol the African coast,” says the Figaro, "while we were dreaming that he was still in Madrid. It was necessary to get there ahead of De Brazza at all cost and to prepare for him there a reception which he doubtless does not expect.” To show yon that Frenchmen believe that a conflict is probable qr even inevi- vitable between the two exidoiers, I may quote the substance of abetter published by the Fiyaro recently" from a cor respondent in Brussels. This gentle man says that:—"Persons whose author ity and sincerity can not lie questioned, assure mo that an insurrection prevails at this moment among the natives of the higher Cflfigo, wndThnt atantgy wifi have a very laid reception when ho gets their. All their sympathies are for De Brazza, who won ttefr confidence in a manner very different tlian by the rifle bullet. In order to counteract this state of things the International African Association is sending at this very moment a ‘veritable small army to the Congo.’ The army has been recruited to a great extent among the officers of the Austro-Hun garian army, "to whom the superior posi tions have been given, and many have recently passed through Brussels on their way to tlie Cofigo. It is to lie a mititary occupation of the Congo. " Two days ago I met a Hungarian officer who has been engaged in the as sociation for an important position. His name is Carl d’Obner, and he brought on autograph letter from Crown Prince Ru dolph to His Majesty the King of the Belgians. King Leopold was prevented by-sickness from receiving the officer, but the latter hod an audience with the Queen and with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Frero-Orbau. The Officer left Antwerp on the 7th, on one of the steamers of the association. Communi cative as are all Hungarians, he made no attempt to conceal the fact that the ob ject of his mission was to assist in thwarting M. de Brazza’s projects and even to capture the French explorer. ‘ Ich voft'de ihm bald fangen ’ (‘ I will soon catch him ’) were the w ords he used. These words, spokeu by an officer iu the service of the African International As- sociation, scarcely harmonize with the alleged pacific and civilization mission of the latter. Belgium is seeking to estab lish herself firmly on the Congo, and the Belgian authorities evidently think that tlie treaty made by Do Brazza with King Makoko and recently ratified by the French Chambers is of no value what ever. M. de Bruy& will have to be on his emord. ” JAY GOULD* FLAX. is Fstetlws Tot* Is His Istersst Is An interview with Mr. Jgy Gould to printed in the New York Times, in whtofa ho is reported ae sayiag if hto yacht to finished by next Jane he will probably sail a month after. Tha yacht will a# commodate a party of twenty betodee the erow. Mr. Gould does not yet know who will accompany him. He win whiter next year in the Mediterranean. His ob ject is to visit the East and India, and nis second winter will be pasted in the latter country. He does not know how long he will be away, bnt baa arranged liis affairs so that everything will go on smoothly. Being asked if he thought his absence would have any effect on tha stock market he said: "Not the slightest effect I have not been an active operator in stocks for two years. I am interested in certain cor porations, and am contented with those.” "Shall you take any active interest in the market or business affairs while on your trip?” "I do not propose to think^of bnafrisas while I am away. I have pat things in snug shape so that they will run ah** smoothly until my return.” -He was asked if he proposed to "get out” of Western Union, and said; "My interest in Western Union is sim ply as an investment. I never had an important voice in its control Ex-Gov ernor E. D. Morgan, Augustas Schell, Dr. Norvin Green aid Harrison Dnrkee The Blarney Stone. / The expression, "He has kissed the -Blarney-stone,” is applied frequently to •a flatterer with a smooth tongue and ready speech. This famous stone is in the parapet (A the large square tower of Castle Blarney, In Monster, Ireland. When visitors ask for the identical stone, the guide points to a stone several .’eet below the one usually sainted. The la 1 - ter may be kissed without effort, bnt if a man wishes to kiss the real "Blarney.” he moat get acme strong person to hold him by the heels over the wall Tme Alkkmsrtjl—A man having pub- ”‘Y’<m would have walked three times as far to have paid me that five cents, wouldn’t you?” "Yes, air, I would.” "Here, John/hthe old man called to a boy that lay in the shade, "call the dog and go along and* watch thia toilet till he gets away. Bet a hundred doOa# he steals something 'fore he leaves tbf ptoee. Arkansas Traveller. j ., ■ * wbo exploded the torpedo which sank the Confederate ram Albemarle, tht Navy Department, at the request of Pay master 8wan, gives to the public the report of the late Command# of the destruetfem, and also ait, sworn teatunony of his giver in WMhingtan-eeveral yean later, show the She Raised Them Ail A past city official, says a Boston paper, was entertaining a number of members of the city government at his hospitable residence. The day was Sat urday. Supper had been partaken of, and at its conclusion "a little game ol draw ” was proposed, and before many minutes the entire party were deeply en gaged in the mysterious and fluctuating fortunes of " poker,” as laid down m Gen. Schenk’s roles for the government of that ailnring bat fickle game. The time flew rapidly and merrily, the blind goddess favoring now one and now an other. At length it was noticed that the hands of the clock passed the hoar of midnight, and the players were encroach ing on the first hours of the Sabbath. Bnt what cared they for that’ There were large sums of money on the table, and the “pot” was one of formidable proportions. "I’ll raise you $5,” exclaimed one of the phyers. “I’ll see that and raise yon $10,” shouted another in his excitement. "I’ll raise the whole of you out of this,” was the cry of a newcomer, as a female was seen enveloped in her night clothes and with a horsewhip in her hand There was an immediate break made for the door, and some even found by the window, abandoning the "pot” and whatever other money there was on the table; and ’tis said that some of those city officials are running from that little game up to the present time. The lady of the boose admonished her liege lord, not over gently, it Is to be presumed, on his desecration of the Sabbath, quietly swept np the money and betook herself once more to her bed. There is good reason to believe that the money was finally disposed of in charity. " FooffTAWL—In addition to bOXglan and footpada at Nice, acme highwaymen have made their appearance in that town. It it reported that a rich family, retarniDg to . their late at night, had thdor carriage by mounted men, end were ad el their money and jewelry. The have long been the controling spirits ol Wentern Union. Ex-Governor Morgan, who died lately, was the second stock- holder in it. He told me Saturday, the last tiny that he wm down town, that it was Ihe soundest investment he could think of. I was much saddened by tha news of his deltb.” " There is snother story, that yon con template taking control of Union Pacifle again.” " I am a director of the Union Pacifle and I have a moderate interest in it, which I do not expect to part with. The gentlemen who are managing Union Pa cific, Messrs. Dillon, Ames, and Atkins, are among the soundest practical busi ness man we have, and I can suggest no improvement” Y' " How* do you regard the market ?” "The- outlook is good so far m the business of the country is concerned. The exports are larger than the imports, and the balance of trade is running largely in our favor, and likfely to in crease during the coming summer. The changes in the tariff and the effect on (he commercial and manufacturing interests are unsettling. The action of the State Legislature sdds something to this fcel ing, bat it is only a ripple. Tha coun try will go on and beep growing.” "Do you fear disaster?” "No, I do not The country is too rich. I do not think there will be enough securities made in the next twelve mouthe to supply the regular home demand. There are now teas of the dividend-pay ing stocks hi Wall street then I here ever known before. The securities are held for investment The Govaramaut lua been calling in its bonds and that money has gone into dlvtoand-payig stocks sad bonda.” "How do you look open Amarloaa securities?” "I regard them aa the beat we have.” " And American railroads?” "The American railroads am equal to the best roads in Europe, both in respect lo equipment and superstructure, and are built at less cost” Do you think there is aa excoM of railroads?” " I think a percentage of the new roadf lire useless. Competing parallel roads ire a waste of capital The majority of the roads, however, are pretty well situ* ted and will pay." The AshUml Manler. The jury in the ease of EOie (heft, one of the Ashland murderers on trial aft Grayson, Ky., after a brief flslibaratieu, found the prisoner guilty. Two nights before Christmas, 1881, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gibbons, living hi Ashland, Ky., went visiting, leaving aft home their son Robert, sdsughterPaany, aged fourteen, and Mias Emma Thomas, sged seventeen. In the night the house was entered by men, who easaulted tha girls and then mnrdered them. Robert Gibbons wm also killed. The heads of all three weee split with a haftahsh Thu men then saturated the girls’ ebttlag with oil and set fin to the boose, wftiMl was burned to the ground. Neal and George EUk, married ■«* E&s Craft, a single man, wen ■meted on January 2, 1882, am George Elbe made a oonfeeefc# to stable Heflin. On November I* while the troops guarding the were on their way to the State they were attacked by i Ashland another attack wounded. Gunuau Ya