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For Sale by 7001818. all GROCERS and H. BISCHOFV A CO., CharlMton, 8. C. X^anafscturers aad Proprietors VOL VI. NO. 44. VSVXR THU TIMM AND THU PLACE Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path—how soft to pace I Thi* May—what magic weather! Where is the loved one’* face ? In a dream, that loved one’* face meets mine, Bat the houm is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine. With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek, With a malice that maaks each word, each sign! O, enemy sly and serpentine, Uncoil thee from the waking man I Do I behold the paat Thus firm, and fast, Yet doubt if the future hold I can? This path, so soft to pace, shall lead Thro’ the magic of May to herself indeed ! Or narrow if need* the honse must ^e, Outside are the storm and strangers; we— Oh. dose, safe, warm, sleep I and she, —I and she. > Bhownino. ‘ BARNWELL 0. IL, 8. C„ THURSDAY. JULY 5, 1883. DID HE LOVE HER? Georgette was bom with a silver spoon in her mouth; indeed, if I mistake not, it was a gold spoon, richly enenuted with jewels and bearing in its bowl a monstrous lump of good fortune. In the first place, she was one of the loveliest girls I ever saw, both in soul and l>ody. Her l>eauty was of a dark, mag nificent type, which suggested to me the diminutive name of “Jet,” by which 1 always called her. _ . She was barely twenty, and heiress - it" fairly takes my breath away to write it —heiress to £60,000. left her by her unde, a German of high rank, but sin gularly destitute of kindred. Georgette’s mother had l>een an Ameri- ean girl who had met young Rudolph Schubert during a summer tour in the Rhineland. They had married against the wishes of Rudolph’s family, who were greatly •hocked at what they regarded as a mi- inllianer. It was only after the lapse of years, when death seemed striving to ex terminate the Schuberts, that the old Herr Uncle, as he was called, q|>em>d his hqart to the orphan cliild of his dead brother. - . ‘ Georgette had been Ixjtrn in the United States, and she was an American to the heart’s core. I remember having thought, -that afternoon when we sat out on the lawn together under the pink awning— that there wasn't’the slightest I race of her father's nationality about her. She was sitting in a camp-chair with a bit of delicate embroidery Tii her hands. There was a table near by on which “ high tea ” was to be served when Ralph Dearing and his. mother aniv. d. Jet bad invited them; but I should have -known they were coming if she h td not told me, for when (lid her eyes, ever shine so brightly, or when were -her cheeks so rich a crimson, ns whoa tliis penniless barrister was near at bad ? Yes, Georgette was in love wt!+i hitn; I saw it very plainly, and it made me uneasy. If I had only tiren sure of_ Ralph I h aring it wuiil^dt hnve Ijothered me an instant. Bnt though it seemed most unlikely that he should not love her, I was haunted by a mortal fear that her money had something to do with his levotion. Loving Jet, as only a solitary old maid knows how to love, it was torture to me catch in her breath, “that has troubled me, too. It Would kill me if t wore to find it out. ” “No.” I answered; “not unless you found it out too late to avert the conse quences.” * “But I oonld not give him np,” she cried. "I wish I were poor, then I would know whether he loved me for myself.” The tears started in her eyes, and her red lips quivered. v ' “Hush!” I said wamingly. "They are coming—Mr. Hearing and his moth er, Jet.” She regained her composure in an in stant. When she gave her hand to Ralph her face was wreathed in t miles. He looked so handsome that afternoon that I would have given anything to have l>een able to Irust him. Within the sound of his musical voice some of my doubts did vanish and, knowing that he had to go away on the morrow, I had the grace to beguile his mother indoors, while ho and Jet went down to the lake after water-lilies— at least that is what they said they were going for. ^ - ' * 7 "I can hardly realize that I am going away to-morrow,” he said, with an audible tremor in his voice, there was no occasion for me to I suppose iR’s an old story tq yon, Miss "I wish do so. Georgette, to hear a man say that hw* • .•■’V.'J’-vuJL ,clnw,<‘ ’ 111 Georgette. She had been ill, and though the doctor said she had pratioally ire- it before,” she said wredp »hs did not seem to gain a par ticle of strength from day. to day. It would like to spend his life in your society ?” “I have heard slowly; “but 1 have not believed it always." |' ' — His face hushed for an instant, and 7io made a sudden gesture, but he liit his lip a moment after and turned his head away. ‘ ‘Yon know that I love yon, ” he said, iu n low tone. “When I go away to morrow, I will leave all my happiness liehind me.” ,.7 ■ y “One never knows when tobelieveyou men," Georgette said with affected care- lesSness. “ I suppose it doesn’t make much'dif ference whether you believe us or not,” Ubanswered in a piqued tone. “ Excuse ine,” she said quickly, “ but it makes all the difference in the world to me—more difference, infinitely more than it ever could moke to another wo man.'" ii How -* — . r- -y 4 , She paused a moment. “My position is so pecujjar,” she said presently. “If I accepted in good faith any protestations that might be made to me, I would be called upon .to subject them to a trying ordeal—a tfet of sin cerity perhaps stronger than they could lear.” ' man husband, and if I married a for- to think of my darling as the virt .m to- signer T was to the grovelling passion of a moivt'miry " man. _I had never hinted to her the drift of my thoughts, but I Iwd made up oiy mind to do so, attd.l tried it that nf ter noon. Jet opened the way for me, ]>ist as though she had known what I meant to say. “ Emily,” she said, “ what would you say if I were to get married ? ” # “ God bless yon,” Tiin-swered prompt ly. “That is, of course, provided the match was all that it should be.” What—what doyou—think of Ralph Denring?" She was bonding low over her-iaprk,. bnt I saw that-she was blushing. ^ \ " Are yon going to marry him, Jet ?” asked qnickly. “No—0—that is—I don’t know. To tell the truth, he hasn’t asked me. But 1 thinks Ik* means to." “Of course.” "If he were to, what would you do about it V’ “I looked up in snprise, for I knew that she loved him with her whole generous soul. 1 , ' “I think I would try to find oat his motive,” I said blnntly. “He loves me—at least he has told me so,” she answered softly. “And— and I think I can trust him I” J “He told you he loved you, and yet went no farther I” I cried. “That was nnmanly, Jet; I hope you did not listen to him.” She blushed still more deeply. "He would ask me if he dared,” she said, defending him net only by winds but by expression. ‘‘Bnt he—he thinks —I know he feels there is s difference in our positions. ” * ‘ “Decidedly,” I said laconically, for what she had told me gave me livery unfortunate impression. "He is very proud and sensitive,” she added, and would have said more, but I took her hand and spoke to her with great gravity. “Jet,” I said tenderly, -“yon know that I have no other wish than to see you happy. Forgive me, then, if what I say wounds you, but I cannot help feel ing that Ralph Dealing may .' have thought quits aa much of your fortune « of yonraelf.” listen to my suit is nothing more than presumption on my part,” She gave me this with a sarcastic smile. “What does lie moan abotlt yottr itjfclng- your fortune?” I asked when I lind read it. " I told him that my nude's will was mode iu my favor conditionally, atid that if I failed to marry a German I would forfeit my fortune.” * “You never told me that I ” I cried. “No? I never cared to speak of it. I cannot l>car to have questions of in terest and matrimony so closely con nected.” ——— “But,” I ventured to observe, “in that case it would h’aW been folly for you to marry Ralph Dearing. He has his mother to support, and he hasn’t a penny in the world.” “ Do you think I would have oared for that!” she said, with a passionate burst of tears, *‘ If he had loved me I would have gone with him t<> the ends of the earth and lived upon bread and water. ” — — 1 laid my hand gently an her glossy hair. “ Dear iittkylot! ” I murmured, and I felt that I could have killed Ralph Dealing. Three months passed and there came “"You mav “ As for.you, Mr. Dearing,” she intef- nipted hastily, “ I know of old yonr gal lant speeches,^so I do not take'them for more than they arc meant But fancy my position if some day I were to take a man at his word and entangle him in a matrimonial engagemi-Jii t—Perhaps yon did not know, Mr. Dearing, that my nn- cle only bequeathed his fortune to me conditionally ? If I marry an American it is to revert tq a distant cousin. My uncle was bent upon me having a Ger- to was with terrible agony that ,J saw at last that if there were not a speedy im - provemeut her days on earth were uum bered. One morning when we were out driv ing under the doctor’s" orders she' re quested to be taken to the office of Mr. Fanshaw. “ I am going to make my will, Emily,” she said calmly, and I conld not answer her. - * ’ . When we called at the lawyer’s office we were shown into the little room where a gentleman was seated writing. It was too late to retreat when I saw that it was Ralph Dearing. He greeted us affably,’ but I saw a look of horror on his face as he noted Jet’s altered appearanoe. “ Mr. Fanshaw is in his private oflice, Mias Schubert,” he said, opening the door for her; “ walk in.” “ I will call you presently/’ she, said, and then left me alone with Ralph Deal- ing. As the door closed after her he turned quickly and strode toward me, grasping me fiercely by the arm. “What is the matter witn her?" In. asked in nJibarsi' voice. I shook off his hand rudely and answered with great biffernoHH : “ A broken heart, Mr. Dearing.” I could not refrain from saying it, Though I knew Jet would be angry. Ralph Dearing had paled suddenly, and he caught at the branch of a tall shrub ns though he songht its support. ’ ‘What a very absurd proposition?” he exclaimed. "It is no wonder. Miss Schubert, that you have resisted the pleading of so many suitors. A fortune like yours is not to be thrown away for a passing fancy. I was not aware that you held it conditionally. If I were only a German nobleman, now! But, alas! I am only a poor barrister and a free-born American.” He laughed ; bnt there was something in his voice that made Georgette’s heart strings vibrate with pain. He did not know, and she would nol have had him know, that her money would have been as nothing in the bal- ance against his love had she only been sure of it “Shall we go out on the lake?” he asked, changing the subject so quickly that her heart gave a despairing quiver. It was only her money, then, after all, t hat he had oonrted so assiduously. “No," she answered, shivering slight ly. “I think it is too damp this even ing. Besides, the lilies are^ closing. 1 will get some in the morning. ” When they came into the house I b*W by her face that something had hap pened. That night, after Ralph and his moth er had gone,- she came into my room and said simply: ‘ ‘ There is no room for doubt. I have weighed him in the balance and found him wiuilugc*——v " .—^ “■ Three days later she reoeived a letter from Ralph Dearing, from which this is an extract. “ I love yqu with my whole heart, Georgette; but 1 am neither foolish nor selfish enough to ask you to marry me when I know what you would sacrifice by so doing. — "At first I was afraid toaak you be cause I feared you might misconstrue my motives, and my love for you caused me to shrink from the imputation that might have fallen upon me. “Then when I learned that by marry ing me you wolud lose the fortone you were bora to enjoy, I saw how wrong it would be for me to expect or aak R, “ When I marry you I lose half my for tune, but there is still a goodly portion left to me. I would not have any of it, though, Ralph, if I had to live without you/' Real tears started to his eyes and he gathered her close to his h^art. When I came in after awhile Jet wt^ seated on the sofa and he was seabV dose lieside her. Her cheeks were crimson and her eye* shone like stars. “I don’t know what the doctor will say to this,”I said, shaking my head du biously. N “We won't need any doctor now, Miss Emily,” Ralph said with a joyous laugh. “ I have taken the contract off his hands.” He fulfilled it, too; ’’•three months later, when Jot was married her health was licfter than it hail ever been before. The inscription in her wedding-ring was iu Hebrew, and somewhat different from the judgment which Belshazzar saw written on the wall. It signified in onr language : “Thou hast been weighed in the bal and found true.” What He Meant $2 a Year. YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER. THE PEOPLE, Barnwsil 0. 0.. 8. O. THE MILK MERCHANT. Aa EasMwa FaMa wtlh aUva la ft. RKMARKABMC WKATHKtt YEA KM AUO. NOME «t Tfc® Mlart al the PbrniiMrasI Wratherlhat FallaweA a faW *1 rlna la 1810. In a suit before a Detroit Justice the other day the defendant desired to prove that his tin uncial standing wm solid, and when his witness had token the stand aud testified that the defendant' enjoyed the reputation of promptly pay ing liis debts, the opposing counsel asked: “Mr, Blank, you say you consider Mr. White perfectly good ?” “Yes, sir.” “If he owed you 950 you’d expect to receive it when due ?” - “Yes, sir.”. T “If he should ask you for the loan of 925 you'd hand it right out ?” “Y-yes, sir." "Very well—very well. Mr. White* ask the witness for a loan of 925." ‘Mr. Blank, loan me the sum named,” said the defendant, as he reached out his hand. * Mr. Blank grew red and pale by tarns, hitched around like a boy on a carpet tack, and finally replied: t “What I meant to say was that I'd lend you 925 on a first mortgage on al>out 92,(XX) worth of real estate ! Make out your papers !”—Detroit Free Prcu. The Nature of Diptheria. “ What do you mean?’’, He seenred to be choking with his own > > words. “Ought you to ask such a question ?’’ I said pointedly. , ^ “For God’s sake !” he cried passion, ately, “have done with this. You know —you saw that I loved her—worshiped Die grbiiM she trod on. I would give my life for her this instant Whatis lhq matter, Miss Emily? UDo you mean what yon say, Ralph ho ‘Dotom kaov,” 8^8 add, with a though that you Mould .Dearing ?” “As heaven is above us, I do.” “Then,” I said joyously, “it is all a hideous mlaunderstaudingT Georgette loves you. It It that that is killing her.” . - .- _ , If ever a face was. transfigured with rapture, his was that instant “Areyou telling mo the truth?” iried. “Yes, I am,” I answered; “but gc away before she cames out; she cannot bear to see you now. I will prepare her for your coming to-night,” 'Mr obeyed me, and it was not until evening that Jet saw him in her own little sitting-room. When she came in, Ibbking so frail, yet so lovely, Ralph could not utter a word. He simply opened his arms, and thj} next instant her head was on his breast. “Darting,” he whispered, “I told you the truth. Your fortune was nothing to me; but how could I ask you to give it up for the sake of sharing my poverty ?” “Your poverty was nothing to me,” she said, in a voice that thrilled with happiness; ‘‘but yon never gave me a chance of saying *0.” “And will you—can you—oh, Georg ette, my darling I it will be a terrible sacrifice !” I ■■ • ' , ^ ’ “You say kv?” she cried reproach fully, “yet you profess to love me 1 Tell me, Ralph, if it were ten times as much, would not you give it up gladly if you were in my position ?” “Dearest,” he said, kissing her with tender reverence, “I would give up the world for you 1” 7 “Besides,” she added, with an en chanting smile. “ I told a white lie, Ralph. Can you forgive me for it ? I was trying to weigh your love in the balance with my money, and how sadly I miscalculated the result I Bnt—it is only half of my fortune that I forfeit in marrying you. I think we can still manage to live on half. Don’t yon think we can, Ralph ? ” He looked at her in a kind of delirium. “ What-^what ” — he stammered. “Don’t you underetandf” aha said putting both bar Dr. H. 0. Wood, professor ef experi mental pathology in the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the commis sion appointed by the United States Government to make researches into the nature of diptheria, after h iving spent several years iu the work, recently gave the results of his investigation in a lec ture in Pennsylvania. He said that dip theria, croup aud gangrene are identical diseases; that diptheria is by no means limited to what we see in the pharynx; ns any abraded surface may lie trans formed with a genuine case of diptheria. Daring a cold spring, like that which is just now drawing to an end, people generally console themselves with the reflection that the snn will eventually get the victory, and that summer will certainly come at last, though its coming may be delayed. Uncertain as the weather is, the genera! features of the seasons recur with a regularity which warrants the confidence thus reposed in the annual return of seed time and har- vest; but there are instances on record iu which even the suiisons seem to have lost their characteristic 'features, aa if the ordinary laws of meteorology had l>een temporarily suspended. A remark able case of thia kind, and one which the long-continued cold weather of thia spring makes particularly iutercating just now, is that of the year 1816, which lias lieen called “the Jear without a sum mer.” A communication printed in the CongrcgoUnnaliet gives the following summary of the weather of this remark- aide year: January and February were mild; March was cold; April t>cgan warm, but ended ih snow and ice. Ice formed an inch thick in May, and fields were I limited over and over again till it W8I too late to replant. June was the cold est ever known in this latitude; frost and ice were common. Almost every green thing was killed; fruit nearly all de stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten iuchea in Vermont, seven in Maine, three iu the interior of New York and also in Massachusetts. There were a few warm days. It was called a dry season. Bnt little rain fell. The wind blew steadily bom the north, cold and fierce. Moth ers knit extra socks and mittens for the children in the spring, aud woodpiles that nsoaUy disappeared daring the warm spell in front of the hoases were si*eedily built up again. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on he country roads wore overcoats and mittens. In a town in Vermont a flock of sheep belonging to a farmer had been sent as usual to their pasture. On the 17th of June a heavy snow fell in New England. The cold was intense. A farmer who had a large field of com in Tewksbury, built fires around it at -night to ward off the frost; many an evening he and his neighliors took tnrns watching them. He was rewarded with the only-crop of corn in the neighbor hood. Considerable damage was done in New Orleans iu consequence of the rapid rise of the Mississippi River. Fears were entertaineiTthat the son was coyling.Qfl, and throughout New England A young Moslem Arab from the Gulf of Persia, same to Bombay to make hia fortune. He maAgcd in the ancient trade of selling milk. Now, London or Melbourne, Bombay or York, 88 far as the sale of milk is concernsd, is the same place. . Onr Moslem frisnd, af ter saying bis morning prayers And bowing ddvontedly to the East, relig iously watered his- milk, putting in as much water as there was milk. By dint of perseverance, frugal living, devtml praying, and watering the milk, he aooo- mnlated fifty Turkish, or say English, pounds. He then resolved to return to his native Arabia Felix, bay goats and (heep and live happily.^ Changing his money into gold, he secreted his Httit bag of treasure about him, and went on board one of the many native Arab crafts that ply between Romliay and the Gull of Persia. The happy young Arab oc casionally went to a lonely place on the craft, told and retold his treasure, play fully tossed his savings np in the sir, caught them again, and felt himaelf in an earthly Paradise. Now, there happened to be a playful but mischievous monkey on board, the pet of the Arab captain and his crew. Tliis little imp hiul often observed the young Arab’s occupation, and felt an irresistible desire to have a little ploy with the opia. Watching his opportun ity, the monkey snatched the little bag of gold from tho unlucky Arab, and ran that*it is a local and not a constitutional disease; that any sore throat may become diptheritio without any contagion; that diptheritic, poison injected into the blood is perfectly harmless, it first being neo- ess ry to make a wound and keep it in a state of irritation Indore diptheritic poi son introduced into it could produce the desired, effect; that the disease altonnds i t low, swampy places; that diptheria a.i(t micrococci, minute vogetable fungi, are inseparably associated—“no micro- cocSi, no diptheria”—said the doctor; that the diptheritic poison cannot, affect a healthy person; there must be an abraded surface, and- no healthy child can get it unless it has a sore throat al ready; that, in his opinion, micrococci do not produce the initial lesion; that any sore throat may end in diptheria, and the line cannot be drawn where sore throat ends and diptheria begins; and finally, that diptheria is a spoutaneous disease, and not infections, strictly •peaking. An India*’View of White Politics. all pionios were strictly prohibited. ice. Indian coni was nearly all de- stoyed; some favorably situated fields escaped. August was more cheerless, if possible, than the summer months which preceded it. Ice was formed half an inch in thickness. Indian earn was so frozen that the greater port was cut dUwn and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed in this country and in Europe. On the 80th anow fell at Barnet, forty n>iU» from London. Very little corn ripened in New England and the Middle States Fanners supplied themselvdh from corn produced nr IfilfJTor seed tn the spring of 1817. It sold at from 94 to 95 per -UusheL September famished about two weeks of the pleasantest weather of the season, bnt in the latter port of the month ice formed an inch thick. October had more than its share of cold weather. November was cold and snowy. Deoem- ber was comfortable, and the winter fol- 1 owing was mild Very little vegetation him, to the top gallant most head. The frantic cries of the Arab brought the whole crew to his aid. But alsa I the monkey kept tossing the coin in the air, and, not able to catch it, it either fell overboard or on deck. At last the monkey got tired of tossing the coin, and dropped the bag with but a few sovereigns ih it. After s diligent saareh the aufortonate Arab found that all his . earthly wealth had dwindled down to just half its original amount. The other half had been tossed overboard by tho monkey. With streaming eyea and a heart l>owed down in sorrow, the Arab tnrned bis. head to the East and said: “Oh ! Allah, all thy ways are just. An hour ago my whole worldly posses sion was exactly tbs combination of hall milk sad half water. Thy retribution hits overtaken me. What was repre sented by milk I still have, and what was represented by water has gone bock' to water. Blessed is the name of Allah r Oil Region Remlalscenees. When Roberts’s glycerine factory at Titusville, Penn., blew up, away bock somewhere in the up-creek excitement of the sixties, a hole was left in the ground large enough to bury the largest church in Youngstown, 0. The shock prostrated pedestrians who were two mile* distant, and the report was plainly heard forty miles sway. It will never be known just what caused the accident, as the four workmen .TO.m»ver, fpund. In an illustrated article on the Fran ciscan Missions of California, in the June Century, one effect of white exam ple upon the Indian is described thus: “ In a curious pamphlet left by one of the old friars, Father Bosoana, is told a droll story of the logic*! inferences some, of them drew from the political situa tions among their supposed betters. It was a band of San Diego Indians. When they heard that the Spanish viceroy in ths city of Mexico had been killed, and a Mexican mads emperor in his place, they forthwith made • great feast, burned up their chief, and elected s new one in Us stead. To the stringent re proofs (rf tha_ horrible friars thsy made •newer: 'Have yon not done the same in Mexico? Ton say year king was not good, and yon killed him. Well, oar caption was not geodt and vs burned him. If the new one tarns out bad, we will burn him, too,’—-a memorable in stance of ths superiority of example to precept.” A tocno city fellow, dressed in s fault leas suit and s pair of shoes that tapeted to a point in the most modern style, was visiting in a rural district. A bright little boy looked him all over until hia eyes rested on those shoes. He looked at his own chubby feet and then at his visitor’s, and then looking up, said: “Mister, is all your toes eat off but one ? "—LouitviUe Journal, , ^ was matured in the Eastern And Middl mates, 'me suns rays seemed to lx destitute of heat during the summer ; all nature was clod in a sable hoe; and men exhibited no little anxiety concerning the future of this life. The average price of flour during the year in the New York market was 913 per barrel. The average price of wheat in England was 97 shillings per quarter. Bread riots occurred throughout Great Britain iu 1817, in consequence of the high price of the staff of life. A Peris Tragedy. A tragedy which has caused s great sensation was enacted in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis. While a marriage party was proceeding along that thor oughfare on the way to the church where ine marriage was to be solemnized a ri val of the bridegroom suddenly api»eared on the scene and, to the horror of the party, shot aad killed him. The assas sin poisoned himself instantly after firing tha fatal shot. A Temperate Place.—Bill Nye says that Greeley, Colorado, it apparently an oasis in tha desert It looks like s fer tile island dropped down from heaven in a boundless stretch of buffalo grass, saga hens and cunning little prairie dogs. And jet you conld not come bare as a stranger and witliin the colonial barbed wire fence, procure a bit of cold rum if yon were President of the United States with s rattlesnake bite os large as an egg soaoeaJsijUtot your ’Ihe most remarkable feature of thia ex plosion was this: Every loose or semi- buried pebble and rock that lay in the fields surronnding the factory was lifted from its resting place sod shifted exactly eight inche* eastward. . In the year 1878 a nitro-glyeerine msg- azine exploded near Bradford, Peon., and to this day it is not known whether five men or seven were killed. In those days “moon-lighten” abounded, and as they did all their work under oo*9r of darkneas in order to keep screened boas the eyes of Roberta’s paid “spotters/ time. One night a couple of gentry thought they would steal enough glycer ine to “shoot” a well, and they repaired to the above mentioned magaame 00 Tuna Creek. They tried to bunt tha door by exploding a small portion of the stuff in the lock, bnt from some cause the explosion did not take place. Whih they werfl atill at work trying to burglar ize the place, one Of the ownentof the along. As they advanced tha would-be burglars retreated, and in a minute or two the explosion occurred, probably 00 account of the action of. tha key In the lock that had been filled with the explo sive material A few •craps of flash were found, bnt nothing that ’ soy clew to the identity of the 1 nate parties. A day or two afterword the trank of a man’s body was found 900 yards away, beyond a hill seven hundred feet high, showing that the body hod been carried up into the air probably s thousand feat, foiling at the qihtg aide of the mountain. There were’ sevural men missing about that, time, hut the exact number that perished determined. A DOUBLE DISOOPIIT. The Richmond, Ya., Religioxu Bar* aid, says: We heard Brother Hoboes of Savannah, Go., tell * good joke on a Richmond hotel man. He raid that when Dr. Price, of Wales, waa attaudmg our June meetings, some yean ago, ha stopped at Ford’s Hotel and when ha asked for hia bill, Ford said: “We knock off ^olf the pries, aa you non minister.” Dr. Fries thanked Mbs, and saked': “ What do you taka efte aft. tore?” " One half for editors, too/’ww the prompt reply. “Weil,” the doctor. “I am editor an preacher; so I am antitied halvas, and' The hotel m •*. n * ^ ■■ft-