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- WINNSBORO, S. C.,! JULY 24, 1880. -HR AOL.IV.-O.8 They may this life Is barren, dear and ooloi Ever the sama sad song was sung of old, Ever the same long weary Vale is told, And to our lips in held the cup of strife, And yet--a little love oan sweeten life. They say our hands may grasp but Joys de stroyed, 'Youth has but dreams, and age an aching void, Whose Dead-Sea fruit, long, long ago has cloyed, Whose night with wild tempestuous storms is rife And yet a little hope can brighten life. They may we fling ourse lves in wid despair Amid the broken treasures scattered there, Where all Is wrtoked, where all once promised fair ; And stab ourselves with sorrow's two-edged knife And yet a little patience strengthens life. Is it then true, this tale of bitter grief, Of mortal anguish finding no relief ? Lo I midst the winter shinei the laurel's leaf; Three angels share the lot of human strife, Three angeld glorify the path of life. Love, Hope and Patience oher r us on our way, Love, Hope and Patience form our spirit's stay, Love, Hope and Patience watch us day by day, And bid the desert bloom wih beauty vernal, Until the earthly fades in the eternal. Miss Mildred's Warning. "There, girls I" Elfrida Moore held aloft before us a I dreadful image. "A home-made ghost " she called it, laughing at the terrific result I of her half-hour of sedulous occupation. I It was horrible I - We had been reading, that afternoon, I about the Princess Amelia, the ill-fated I sister of Frederick, King of Prussia. One thing brought up another. And I when an allusion was made to the "Woman I with the Broom," who was said to have haunted the Prussian palace, at that time, N Elfrida sought a carpet brush with a long t handle, In the closet at the head of the I stairs, and, standing in the outer chamber t alone, began to dress it artistically in a sheet, by way of showing us her own idea I of the phantom that troubled the rest of r Prussia's kings. We girls were alone in the wing chamber, which had been allotted for our occupancy 1 by Miss Mildred Fay, the owner of the I lovely farni, and the comfortable, old-fash ioned farmhouse, in Western Pennsylvania, f where, with our parents, and other friends, I, we were spending the early vacation months a of the opening summer. One other girl, Elfrida's first cousin, Evelyn Moore, shar6d the wing chamber with us. She had now gone to the village, two miles d1stant, for tie evening mail. And Elfrida, who was somewhat envious of Evelyn's superior scholarship, social position und good looks, declared that she would leave her "woman with the broom" so near the door of our chamber, and in such a position, that It would inevitably t fall against Evelyn, as soon as she entered to bring our letters. "She eays that she is afraid of nothing -that she does not believe in ghnsts andy apparitions," she said to us. "Now let's f try her courage. We will hide in the un finished chamber, outside, where we can see and hear. all that passes between her and my phantom." t While we were eyeing the image from a respectful distance, and feeling half afraid of the hideous face and the fIlaming eyes, which Elfrida had drawn with a few 8 touches of her crayon and a little phos- rl phorus on the white surface of the sheet, a rustling sound and movement in the outer e chamber made us all huddle together, and strain our eyes fearfully toward its dusky el entrance. We all felt relieved, I[ think (I own 'that I did, for one), when our hostess, Miss y Mildred, emerged from the gloom, and en- a tered our room without pausing to knock, a Eifrzda tried to thrust the home-made I ghost Into a corner, quite out of sight. But a It was useless to try to conceal from Miss c the hapless apparition.' n "Which of you girls made this?9 Why did you make It ?" she asked, holding It out at arm's length. Elfrida told her.. "And, please, Miss Mildred, don't tell C Evelyn," she said, boaxingly. "We only li wish to find out whether she Is rea#ly y braver about such things than we are. Sire a says she Is; and she declared the otherr evening that the real 'woman with theh broom, would not have frightened her in the least-If she had seen and heard herg sweeping. I mean, In tho passages of the royal palace." 0 "And did you believe her ?" asked Miss ~ Mildred, bending her keen, gray eyes on Elfrida's eager face. "No; I did not," confessed EIfrlda. "Did you?9" Miss Mildred addressed us. I owned that I had my doubts. Marion Hurst, with a half-averted, timid look at the dreadful object, that was still held by our hostess, declared that she had V no doubt whatever. "No one could help feeling terrified at such a sight coming suddenly upon them," i she averred. f "You are none of you without your fair share of common sense,"said Miss Mildred. it "And yet you can deliberately plan and aid and abet a deed like thuis I" fi She tossed the Image out into the dark, ti open chamber. With an- angry e*clamatlon, Elfrlda was li springing after It ; but she found herself ni held back by a strong hand. h "No, girls I that same thinst has been h done in this very house once before. Wait ki till I tell you what came of It before you try agin to carry It out," .f At the thought of hearing a story, Elfrlda forgot her momentary anger, and crowded si in beside us, near the chair at the window, hi whire Miss Mildred had now seated her- 51 self.h - She looked at us very sadly. The half- ri light may have deceived me, but I Ihought il then, and I still think, that her keen gray 0 eyes were full of tears, as she began to ai speak. - "I did not alway' live here by myself, girls, In the old homestead," slhp said. hb "Five and-twenty years ago, my dear ft mother and father were here; and I had a I darling brother, one year older than my- ti golf, named Oiver, and a sister,' younger l thn itrof u ,who was atd Iador. P -- P Va V waury tua my m%tner had read, and liked very much, just before ler birth. "I was always tall, and thin, and gaunt, ws yoV see ine now, girls. I took after my father. He looked well enough ior a man, nind you. But his features and figure did aot suit a girl, and I was always called 'homely' from a child "Bit Oliver was handsome, like my mother. He had great blue eyes,and curl tng brown hair, and the brightest color,and he sweetest smile. And Isadore was like Aim, only far more beautiful. You have en her portrait, down stairs." "What! that lovely, that angelic child ? >rled Elfrida. wopderingly. "I thoiaght hat was an artist's Ideal picture. "It was the Image.of our Isadoreat nine rears of age," replied Miss Mildred, trying .o cover the sudden break and tremble In ier voice by a loud "Hein I" "And at sixteen she was far beyond that painting for beauty," continued Miss Mil Ired. Strangers used to stop in the street o look at her and to inquire who she was. But she appeared to know nothing, and to 3are nothing, about her wonderful good ooks. She was good and gentle, and al ways amiable, without the least apparent dgn of vanity. "Ripe for heaven." our good old minus er used to say. I wish she might have gone there then/" said Miss Mildred with i stifled groan. "She did not die, then I" exclaimed El rrlda. "I was so fraid you were going to 'ell us of her death !" "She did not die, God help her !" replied Kim Mildred, with a sigh so deep and sad hat it was almost a groan. "Here,In this rery wing chamber, my brother Oliver hought of it,'' she said, after a loa g pause. "Here lie called me to help him decide iow to carry out the plan. You see, girls, [sadore was like your friend Evelyn-she >oeesed great courage. She seemed to iave no fear of anything on earth. Oliver moy this; so did I. And neither of us ixpected anything more than a hearty augh at her expense, or at our own, when he evening frolic ended. "It was Hallow Eve. Isadore and her learest friend, a Nancy Bruce (who lived hen at the farm just below this one), had greed to try their fate, with 'spelis,' on hat evening. They 'dared' each other to >ne thing and another, and finally Isadore oledged herself to go into the lonely old Lorth rooms, with a candle, at nine o'clock hat evening, and eat an apple before Irandmaima Thorne's great mirror, that ad been stored away there for safe-keep ig for fifty years or more. "You see, girls, the idea was that her Liture husband's face was to appear to her, >oking over her shoulders, in that mirror, s she stood before it eating her apple. "Well, Oliver overheard the girls plan ,Ing this that afternoon, and he told me. Lad, as I said before, I helped him, heie nk this very room. that evening, while he isguised himself in a long white dress,and ,ainted his face all over a deathly white, vlth heavy, frowning black eyebrows that armed a black arch across his forehead. "It changed him terribly, and lie looked D like a corpse in that shroud-likse dress Liat I was half scared myself at him. But either of us thought of I8ador-e'8 being rightened. "And so we stole into the north room, nd cor.trived to get the mirror out of its rame. Oliver put Lis face into the vacant, pace. I hung a drapery around it, and harged him to keep perfectly still, and lien stole away, to watch for Isadore in lo hall. "In a few minutes she came down the tairs with her candle and apple in her ands. She was smiling roguishly to her 31f as she opened the door of the north om and went in." "And what happened?" asked Elfrida, agerly, as Miss Mildred paused. "Where was your mother ? How could to let Isadore go Into that dreadful room?" 'reathied Marion flurst. "Father and mother were both staying rith a sick neighbor as watchers that ight,"said Miss Mildred ; "and 1 watched ad -waited, in the outer hall, till Nancy ruce ermie crying,. down stairs, to tell me one what they had planned to do, be nso she thought something awful had appened to keep Isadore so long in the orth room "When Nancy saw me she -caughit hold f imc an<t dragged me with her to the door ! the north room. We went In. The itndle was burning on the table. The ap le had fallen to the floo). B3esu e It my rother Oliver was lying senseles', in a fit. lIs face looked like white fire, In the half. arkn: ss. The poor foolish boy had ibbed phosphorus all over it, after I left im to make it look still mocre ghostly and host-like." "And Isadore--where was Isadore ?" eled Marion Hurst, bekinning to shiver 'ith nervous dread. "We found her huddled down In a heap a distant corner, with her face to the 'all. She knew no one. Oliver told us, mug afterward, that she stood gazing at [in ix silence so long that he advanced Is ice toward her, through the mirror, mean ig In play to offer her a kiss. "The light, the life, the ielligence, all 'ent out of her own face at that moment," a said, "She fled and crouched down in ie corner ; and he, believing then that he Rd fatally injured her, fell fainting to the "Poor fellow I" sighed Elfria. "Where he now, Miss Miidred ?" "In heaven, I hope I He was one of our rst volunteers from this town, and one of is first officers who was killed In the last ar. They told me that he exposed hIs fe In leading his men into action. I did ot'mourn for him girls; 1 know how glad a was to go. Our parents died heart roken, one year from that fatal IIal swe'en." "B4t Isadore, where Is she ?" asked El 'da, half fearfully. "At the State Lunatic Asylum. At first, ie seemed only Idiotic, and I kept her at ome, devoting my life to her, as some naIl return for the wrong that I had elped to work. But she Is now a ragIng, vi ng,dangerous maniac ! Oh,girls- tihere nothing left now of the beautiful child, rof the.lQvely girl! It was all our fault!" id poor Miss Mildred, bursting into tears ad hurrying out of the room. Elfrida's, eygs were wet, like ours, as she rought back and silently demolished the ~arful "woman with the ,broom." And velyn Moore, returning alp hour later with 15 letters, never know why we girls greeteti or so kindly and lovingly, upon, that one ar'ticular majht A Russian contraOow. The millionaire Nicoli lvauoyitch Puti, loff, who died a fev days ago at St. Peters burg, was in many respects, an excellent representative of a class of men indigenoui to Russia. Up to the outbreak of th< Crimean war he was simply a naval officer, devoted to his professio, but, at the same time, on the outlook for any shor cut that might lead to fortune. Tie arrival of th< allied fleet In the Baltic afforded him the chance he had long been waiting for. le obtained the contract for the constructior of the gunboats that subsequently tried th temper of England so sorely, and within a couple of years had turned out at Cronstadt by means of an elaborate system of piece work, eighty-one i:unboats and corvettes provided with An aggregate of ten thousand horse power and armed with 297 guns of the largest caliber. It is almost unneces. sary to say that Putiloff made a fortune out of the contract, for the epoch of the Crimean war was remarkable, even in the annals of Russia, for the enormity of oi. cial corruption. After the war was ovei he went north and built three iron rolling mills, worked by water power, obtaining from the Finniak government a mining monopoly over an area inclosing 885.lakea and 40,000 square miles. Transferring these to a company, he started with Obou. choff, the huge "Obouchoff steel works" al 8t. Petersburg, and, after receiving a large sum of money in the shape of subsidies, h< sold the concern to the war department it 1878, by whoe excitions half a dozen big guns have been turned out, at a cost esti, mated by the Novosti recently at ?1,500,. 000. Putiloff's next enterprise was th( ivon rolling mills bearing his name at the mouth of the Neva, where 5,000 men are employed and ?840,000 worth of iron and steel rails turned out every year, besides a thousand railroad wagons. This little business was converted into a joint stock concern four or five years ago, when Puti. loff secured the contract for constructing the great sea canal from Cronstadt to St. Petersbirrg. Of the 7,500,000 roubles voted for the project, a large proportion is said to have already passed into the pock. ets of Putiloff and the government oft1. clals without either having done anything to show for it. The Finnish rolling mills long ago collapsed, the Obouchoff steel works Is a by word for a gigantic govern. ment job, the smash of the Putiloff works is daily expected, and it is believed that the colossal fortune of Putiloff himself, ravaged by extravagance, will be found tc be in as rotten a condition as the great sea canal scheme at St. Petersburg. The Daily Life of Admiral Porter. Admiral Porter is a nian of the quieteal habits. le never goes to the Navy De. partinent, and really does little toward the actual command of the navy. He is, of course, Inspector-General of the Navy, and has a board of officers who inspect every ship when she goes out or conies in. Ex. amining the reports of his officers and giv. Ing orders constitue the larger share of hi work. He'ias a secretary and a staff ofli. cer, who come every day to his oflice, and their duties, no doubt, are quite onerous. The admiral is not one of your early risers. He Is much like all other good people who live long, xcedpt in the matter of cai ly ris. ing, le generally turns out (how easy it is to become nautical 1) about eight or half. past eight, and by nine or ten he is in his ollice. The latter part of the day he is less busy, and he will smoke a cigar with a friend in his free and easy office with en tire freeeon. He sticks close to his house, and is rarely seen in the streets. le owns good horses, but when he is out he is as likely .to be in his daughter's pony phaeton as in the dignified family carriage. He enter tains handsomely, but mostly at dinnere. He goes out only enough to keep him in the circle of society. In appearance Ad miral Porter has not a military air, and he looks no more like an old salt than any business man. He is about five feet nine inches high, with a figuft well knit and straight and just stout enough. He weighs about 180 pounds. His full trained whis kers are turning gray slowly ; his hair is full and black, with a few hairs (too many) turning gray here and there. He is not a particularly striking man, but if you talk with him you will find that lie reads and thinks, and that his Ideas are nearly as right as they can he. lie is now sixty-five years old, but lie looks fifteen years younger. lie has been engaged for several years in writing a history of the navy during the war. A Thralling Homance. 1t was the wild midnight. ThIe tame midnight was off watch and had gene to bed three hout's betore. A storm brooded over the eastern heavens. Hop brewed, for it was coining from the yeast. Hawk Eye creek was rolling tumultuously in its sandy bed. Bugs, probably, or it might have been nervousness. A, litt,e form cowered at tihe garden gate. Many a manly form has been cowered at just such gates, ever since summer nights and gnats and beauty, and love and June bugs were invented. "Hie does not come," she murmured softly, as she peeped into the darkness. "I cannot see him, I will call him." She was wrong. If she couldn't see him, she certainly couldn't call him with the same hand. A manly step scraping down the sidewalk. It was Desmo,nd. She threw open the gate, and the next instant he clasped in his great strong arms, twenty-seven yards of fourlard, three yards of ruching, seven dozen Breton buttons and a Pompadour panier as big as a dog house, it was all his own. "All is lost," lhe exclaimed: Constance do B3elvidere, the Russians have crossed the Balkans. "We must fly." lie wanted to fly to some lone desert Isle, but she submitted an amendment pro viding that they should fly to the ice-cream saloon. They flew. To the crowded saloon, where the soft light fell upon fair women and bravo men, and the Insects of a summer night fell in the ice-cream freezer. They spoke no word. When two sentimental human beings are engulfing spoonfuls of corn starch and eggs and skim-milk, language is a mockery. At length Desmond broke the tender silence. H-e said: "More, dearest ?" She smiled and bowed her lovely head, but did not speak. She was too full for utterance. Desmond gloomily ordered more. And more when that was gone. And a supple. ment to that. And an addendum to thaut. And an exhibit to that. Gloomeat enthroned upon hib brow. Con stance saw it. She said: 6"What is it, dearest?" He spoke not, but sighed.; t A dreadful suspicion stab ' her heart I like a knife. "Desmond," she said, u are not y tired of me, darling ?" . He denied it bitterly, and ade her re main where sie was while h settled with d the man. r She, guided by the unerrin instinct of f her sex peeped through the cutalus of the t saloon. She saw her Destnd holding 11 earnest discussior 'th the m4n. She saw Ii the man shake h ' resol tely in an swer to Desmoy ng aooks and ap pealing gestures. IW mi lock the door; take out the - ut it n his pocket a and lean up against the d r. She saw 3 her own Desmond draw m his own I pockets and pile up on the unter a pearl I handle pocket knife, six Ickles, four 0 green postage stamps, a ke , two lead 0 pencils, a memoradum boo , a theater a ticket (of the variety denomination,) a I pocket comb, an ivory tooth Ick, a shirt stud, one sleeve -button, a otograph of I herself, a package of trix, t o stecet car%. X checks, a card with a funny ( Ickcd) story 0 on it, a silk handkerchief atid a pair of t gloves. And then she knew at Desmond ' was a bankrupt, and when th man swept t the assets of the concern into the drawer t and opened the door, she sobbed convul- 0 sively. "And it was my 'extravagance which hath done this thing."', c They did not talk much oti their way a home. Once she asked hih if lie was t rich, and he only said: t "Enormously." Such is life. a . I i A Monkey int Cour4. On the arraignment of the prisoners in e the 'rombs Police Court, New York, a monkey approalled the bar with the rest. He wore a scarlet coat and a velvet cup 6 trimmed with gilt lace. He pulled hard 8 at a string by which an Italian held him, V V aid, being led in front of the bench, climbed nimbly to the railing that separates prisoners from the presiding magistrate. Steadying himself on that perch by en circling tihe iron with his tail, he turned his wry face towards Justice Flammer, V chattered volubly, pulled off his cap, and bowed witu profound gravity. The gray hair bristled thick on the top of his head, a and his face was wrinkled, so that he look ed astonishingly like a very small and very r old man. "What is this?" Justice Flammer i asked. "A prisoner," replied officer Hatton. "Hisname is Jimmy Dilleo. I arrested him for assaulting Mary Shea." a "A monkey arrested for assaultl" the justice exclaimed. ] Jimmy blinked his eyes, showed his teeth and bowed a -goot many times, as t though the proceeding, as he viewed it, was very funnyindeed. ' Where is the complainant I" the Justice asked. r Mary Shea step forward. She took her d right forefinger out of a handkerchief and showed that it was lacerated. She said 0 she was a neighbor of Jimmy in Bottle t alley, that notorious adjunct of Mulberry 6treet; that she kindly offered him a stick of can-ly, tivt lie grabbed it greedi y and bit her finger. Jimmy sat on the railing with his head oii one side and constantly taking off his cap and putting it on again, as though suc- f cessively forgetting and remembering that he was in a court of justice. "What do you think ougit to be done with Jimmy ?" said Justice Flammer. "Why, sir," Mrs. Shea answered, "I think lie opight to be locked up." "But we can't imprison a monkey, you know. Your remedy is to bring a civil suit against the owner for damages." ivi "And ain't there any justice to lie had againat the miserable brute ?" "I doin't know any law that makes a monkey criminally liable for biting." C Mrs. Shea was exceedingly indignant, and as she wrapped her hurt finger in her handkerchief, she exclaimed: "This Is a a nice country for justice." Casseo Dilleo,g the owner of Jimmy, said that the monkey was wildly fond of candiy, and in his fran ic delight liad unintentionallj bitten Mrs. Shea. "Hie is discharged," said the justice. Jimmy gleefully tried to climb up theh gas fixtures on the justice's desk, and to sit I on the glass globe. Then lie reached to a shako hands withl his Honor, but, being hi repulsed, he screamed loud and long like a hurrah, took off his cap several times in a second, and bowed so low that his feet shipped from the railing and he hung by lis tall. Ils owner carried him out of thea room. A Rnuusian Robbery.(h The robbery at the Imperial Bank at i Khierson in Russia, in June last, was one of the most audacious things in the records w of crime. Later developments in the case, e as given in the foreign mails, show that tc the aum stolen amounted to nearly $1, 000,000, and that the robbery was comn mitted under the direction of an enmlneer named Saschika, son of a General in the K Russian army, who had hired a house op- C1 posite the bank aiid driven a tunnel unoer- P noa th the strect into the cellars of the bank. TJhe entrance was effected on a Sunday, when the bank was closed, so that the rob- Ei bery was not discovered until the next day. It was at once taken for granted that the Nihilists were concerned in the robbery, as tile moniey taken all belong to the State, he while several large deposits belonging to ori private persons were left untouched. The si researches of the pollee in the villages es around Kherson resulted in the discovery pe of tile greater part of the money, which thi was concealed in a cottage, and In the ar- 1lii rest of sonpe fifteen persons suspected of so complicity in the robbery, though B3aschka hii himself, who is believed to have had a hi hand in the recent attempt to blow up the thi Czar's train near Moscow, has not since at been heard of. Th~ese persons, who were ar recently brought bezore the court-martial um sitting at Odess, comprised the Baroness M Vitten and three young ladies of good fam- bi hly, who were described as the instruments fc of Saschika several other women, and about pi twelve tradesmen and peasants. The ac- 0 cused, who made no attempt to deny the b< charge, indignantly repudiated having been T actuated by mercenary motives, declaring ot that they were engaged In political a work. The Baroness Vitten was sentenced Is to penal servitude for lif e, and ten of the Ihi others to the same punishment for terms Ifr ranging frofm fournt ifteen eas li Soldier*' Dreams. A week previis to the battle of Fair Oaks a New York volunteer who passed Lie night in a tent of a member of the third lichigan infantry got up in the morning oking very glum and downhearted, and rhen rallied about his fancied homesickness o sai: "1 have only a week to liveI I had a ream last night wLich has settled the busi em for me and lots of others. A week rom to-day a battle will be fought and tiousands will be slain. My regiment will )so over a hundred men, and I shall be illed while charging across a field." The men laughed at his moody spirit, but ie turned upon them and said: "Your regiment will also be in the fight, nd when the roll is called after the battle on will have nothing to be merry over. 'he two sergeants who were In here last ight will be killed among the trees. I aw them lyhig dead as plainly as I now Be you. One will be shot in the breast, ud the other in the groin, and (lead men filI be tick around them." The battle took place just a week after. 'he dremer was killed in full sight of every ian im the 8d before the fight was an hour Id, and within twenty minutes after the No sergeants and six of their comrades rere (lead in the woods, hit exactly where :ae dreamer said they would be. More )an fifty men will bear witness to the truth f this statement. Just before the battle of Cedar (reek a amp sentinel, who was off duty temporally nd trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed lant he went out on a scout. A mile to ie right of our camp lie caine upon a log arn, and as it began to rain just then he )ught shelter, or wais about to, when he eard voices and discovered that the place ras already occupied. After a little in esigation he ascertained that three confed rate scouts had taken up their quarters for to night in the place, and he thesefore toved away. The sentinel awoke with ich a vivid remembrance of details that lie 3ked permission to go over and confer 4lth one of the scouts. When the log barn ias described to this man he located it at ace, having passed it a dozen times. The reamer described the highway exactly as , was, giving every hill and turn, and the :out put such faith in the remainder of the ream that he took four soldiers, one of hom was the dreamer, and set out for the lace. Three confedera'e scouts were deep in the straw, and were taken witli it a shot being'fired. The dream and Its mults were known to hundreds of Sheri an's cavalry, and has been allided to at lunions. The night before the cavalry fight at rantly Station a trooper who slept as his )rse jogged along In column dreamed that certain captain in his regiment would be ahorsed in a fight the next day, and while sing from his fall would be wounded in to left knee. Everything was so clear to to dreamer that lie took opportunity to ad the captain and relate his dream. "Go to Texas with your croaking," was i the thanks lie received, but lie had his venge. In the very first charge, next ay, the captain was unhorsed by the break ig of the girth, and was pitched head ver-heels into a patch of briai s. As he ruggled out a shell killed his horse and vo men, %nd one of the flying pieces of on mashed the captai'sleft leg ton bloody alp. He Is now a reAident of Ohio, and is wooden leg is indisputable evidence tat dreams sometimes come to pass. While McClellan was besieging Yorktown ke fun was not all on one side. The con (ddrates had plenty of shot and shell, and tcy sent them out with intent to kill. ne morning a Michigan man who was in te trenches walked back to a spot on hich three officers were eating breakfast id warned them that they were in great Dril. On the night previous lie had dreamed at he had looked at his watch and marked iat it was a quarter to seven, when a shell t the ground behind him and tore up the irth in a terrible way. It was now twenty inutes of seven, and he be-oughit tihe offi rs to leave the spot at once. is earnest anner induced them to comply, and they id only reached cover when a confederate aell struck the earth where they had been -ouped and made an excavation into hilch a horse could have been rolled with oin to spare. Three dlays before the affair at Kelly's ord a corporal in the 6th Michigan caval y dreamed that a brother of his, who was sergeant In another company, would have a horse killed in action, and would almost imcdiately mount a dark bay-horse with white nose. Within five minutes both >rse and rider would be0 killed by a shell, lis dream was related to more than a ore of comrades fully two days before the ght. Early Ia the action the sergeant's rse was struck square in the forehead by bullet, and dropped dead in his tracks. was scarcely three minutes before a hite hoise, carrying a blood-stained sad e, galloped up to the sergeant and halted. e remembered the dream, and refused to ount the animal, and soon after picked a black horse. The white-nosed animal as mounted by a second coporal an an her regiment, and horse and rider were rn to fragments by a shell in full sight of urn companIes of the 6th. These things my seem very foolhsh now, but there was Limne when a soldier's dream saved Gen. ilpatrick's life; when a dream changed later's plat.s for three days; when a dream evented Gen. Tolbert's camp from a suar i.e and capture; and when a dream gave mn. Sheridan me re accurate knowledge of wrly's forces than all the scouts. ' teint 'thun,cer A romantie young nan asked his sweet art to take a walk with ham by moonlight the river bluff in East Dubuque, iowa. e went gladly. When half way up the tension they halted to admire the pros ct. Suddenly a atone slipped underneath a young man's feet, and lie went down :e a curtain stick. lHe caught hold of me vines which clung to the rocks and ing on for dear life, expecting to fall a indred feet and be dashed in pieces on o' rocks below. The young woman could t pull him up. so she fell on her knees *d prayed for him. The young man dlted with her after thas fashion: "flelp I under I Oh, Lord I I know- 1'll be all eke up!i Now I lay meli Confound it, I rgot. Oh, Jerusalem Ii 've got to let go etty quick!i Give us some daily broad I li, that ain't right!i Oh, Lord I Send some. dcy to help me-out of this scrape I Help! launder!I" At tise point lie could hold no longer, but went down. But notI hundred feet. Only a few feet, for heI nded on a ledge which neither he nor she id seen in their excitement. A small agment of cuticle rubbed off his knee wais a sole injury. JaCking for Angle-Won. As a reporter wa hurrying acrots the Battery, at New York, his attention was an attracted to two lights that, at some distance from him, moved slowly, with the. irregu- Vi1 larity of a will-o'-the-wisp, close to the Oth ground, over one of the grass-plots. yes "What are those 1" he asked of a passing - policeman, pointing to the lights. ai "Worm-hunters," answered the guardian cer of the peace, passing on without deigning des further Information. "Worm-hunters," said the reporter to Ne himself, as he walked toward the dancing Re lights, his mind reverting to the hours of mO hard digging that in his boyhood he had - found necessary before worms for fishing So could he be beguiled from their deep-hidden lie] haunts. "Worm huntersI I thought $32 sparrows were the only worm-hunters in - New York !" dr< As he drew near to the mysterious lights fro he saw that they were primitive dark Ian- ret terns, made of cigar boxes, minus covers, - held perpendicularly, and each with a fus lighted candle inside made fast to the bot- 'in tom by four shingle-nails. Behind each of $5, these lanterns was a small boy holding it - in his left hand, so that the light was thrown mo on the ground directly in front of him. ute With his right hand each made frequent irt and vigorous clutches at the wet grass, and - with nearly every clutch drew out a long saiq shining object that he deposited in another dol cigar box at his side. They work their by way across the grass plot on their knees, - and were so intent upon their pursuit as ser not to notice the presence of a si.ectator. Ing "What are you catching " asked the re- to 4 porter. "Worms," laconically answered the his smaller of the boys without looking up. ma "What for I" asked the reporter. not "Fishing," answered the boy. "What fort" "Eels." we "Where?" coE "In the docks." of "Why don't you catch them in the day time ?" i "Cause they only comes out in the night b1h after a--there! now you scared him in. e Can't yer look out!" "After a what?" wh "After a rain. An' they are mighty we scary, an' if you don't catch 'em first nab an1 they're gone like a streak into their holes." - "Can you get as many as you want here Th in the BOttery ?" toJ "Course you can, gobs of 'em." And it fire looked as if he could And "gobs of 'em," san for his box was nearly filled with a writh- - ing mass of large fat angle-wormsfit to de- cor light the heart of the most epicurean eel. fatl The policeman did not order the boy away, his for, as lie afterward said, "it was good for she the grass to have a lot of them pesky worms - rooted out." gre Beat at His Own Profession. Col me An English paper tells a pleasant anec- - dote of Pattridge, the celebrated almanac mo maker, about one hundred years since. In le traveling on horseback into the country, fro he stopped for his dinner at an inn, and sue afterwards called for his horse that lie - might reach the next town, where he in- ace tended to sleep. the "If you will take my advice, sir," said fift the hostler, as he was about to mount his of horse, "you will stay where you are for the ber night, as you will surely be overtaken by a - pelting rain." wrl "Nonsense, nonsense," exclaimed the "T almanac maker; "there is a sixpence for wri you, my honest fellow, and good afternoon leu to you." for, He proceeded on his journey, and sure . enough was well drenched in a heavy at shower. Partfldge was struck by the man's ver prediction, and being always intent on the Pet interests of his almanac, he rode back on anc the instant, and was received by the hostler Sta with a broiad grin. a". Well, sir, you see I was right, after frli all."ma "Yes, my lad, you have been so, and pla here is a crown for you; but I give it to Ox you on condition that you tell me how you ist( knew of this rain." "To be sure, sir," replied the man; ow, "why, thertruth is, we have an aluanac at our wkc house caled 'Partridgs's Almanac,' and the tati fellow is such a notorious liar, that when- are ever he promises us a fine day we always liar know that it will be the direct contrary, est, NoLw, your honor, this day, the 21st of - Juno, is put dlowni in our almanac in-doors san as 'settled tine weather ; no rain.' I looked wih lit that before I brought your honor's horse Th~E out, and so was enabled to put you on your in guard." are oft The Exhibition at .Rio. - Preparations for the permanent American I'ri exhibition at kio do Janoiro, South Amern- me ca, have fully commenced. The whole en- are terprise, it wlli be remembered, is under mci the auspices of the Philanthropic and Mu- son tual Protective Society of Rio do Janeiro. - The Iron, which will largely enter into the wc. construction of the buildings will be -or- hui dered by the society, through the resident bor agent in Now York. The machinery hall, as which will consist of three buildings, will anti be hn the suburbs, on ground given by the WI. Giovernment. Samples of everything _ adapted to the country are solicited, as well oha appear from an address to the Government Am of the United States, signed by the leading Ros citizens of the country, endorsed by the aey Emperor and his parliament now in course cha of preparation. Branches of the main ex- con bibition are being inaugurated in the differ- Boa ent provinces, with the view of 'utilizing af te avery product or invention from the United - States as widely as possible. The import- moi ing houses and commission firms are said Ua. to be greatly alarmed, but the Empe- IRo, ror and directors of the Society are de- 529, termined that the trade of the country shall ain< cue longer be controlled by a few local mer- ln i chants who are hostile to anychange which the promises lower prices and reduced profits, ma! regardless of the welfare of the consumer. . *** Gra The Kangaroo, trat A curious story Is told about the naming u af this animal. When Captain Cook dis- The covered Australia, he saw some of the na- a re Wies on the shore with a dead 'animal of be some sort in their possession, and sent tori mailors in a little boat to buy It of them. anti When it came aboard, he saw that it was - bomething quite new, so he sent the sailors plot back to inquire its name. The sailors asked, ens but not being able to make the native sun- 82,8 derstand, received the answer, "I don't on i know," or in the Australian language. 0101 "Kan-.ga-roo." The saihorb supposed this nun was the name of the anhnal, and so report- oral ed it. Thus the name of that curious ani- the mal is literally I don't know. pom BRIEFS. -England has nearly 20,000gypslel, I most of themneannot read or wr.te. -Fannie Blue, a black woman from ginia, died In Now Orleans the er day at the alleged age of 125 re. -Abell, of the Baltimore Sun, has an iual income of $120,000. He recent tly paid $450,000 for a country real wce. -George Francis Train's villa at wport, R. 1. has been let to Mr. men of Paris for $3,000 for three nths. -During 1879 the American Bible iety di'bursed $244,233 In the home d and $03,903 abroad,-a total of 8,180. -It is said that about twelve hun d of the colored men who emigrated m Alabama to Northern States have urned. -The Lords of the Treasury have re ed to lend the municipality of Dub more money. It already owes over )00,000. -Contributions amounting to a little re tU:an $20,000 have been distrib d among the sufferers by the recent i In Hull, Canada. -Chancellor (now Bishop) Haven is I to have added $100,000 to the en vment fund of Syracuse University his persional efforts. -Utica. N. Y., was ten months sub [bing $4000 to flisih a church build , and only four days raising $50,000 istablish a new brewery. -The Earl of Ashburnham, now In thirty-ninth year, is engaged to rry a young lady whose name has yet been publicly announced. -Rome sticks to its project of a rlt's fair for 1885-0. An English ipany has offered for twelve millions tollars to guarantee its success. -Mrs. Daggett of Greenbush, Mich.. 0 years old; yet, rather than Jet her id husband go to the poorhouse, she ipped six acres of timber for $26. -in 1877 two-thirds of the persons o fell sick In the Russian Empire at into the hospital for treatment, I only one-third remained at home. -The first steamer was een on the ames in 1815; the first steam vnyage [ndia was accomplished in 1825; the t English railway was opened in the 1e year. -The question is to be settled In irt at Endeld, Conn., whether a ter can legally burden a bequest to daughter with the conditiun that shall never marry. -The second competition for the at statue of the French republic t is to be erected by the Municipal insel of Paris has resuled in the nel of M. Morice being chosen. -Between 1875 and 1879 Lord Fal uth's turf winnings were $633,995. never betted, yet he has retired m the turf, possibly thinking that h good fortun3 could not last longer. -Secretary Evarts and Ramsey have opted invitations to be present at celebration of the two hundred and ieth anniversary of the settlement Boston on the 17th of next deptem -"Longfellow's Psalm ot Life" was tten on a suminer's morning in 1838. lie Wreck of the Hesperus" was ten at midnight In 1840. A vio t storm had occurred the night be -Mr. Gladstone entered Parliament 23, a year after leaving the uni ofty. woyears later Sir Robert I made him a lord of the Treasury, i within a year Under Secretary of to for the Colonies. -It Is proposed by Mr. Ruskin's inds to raise a subscription for a inificent statue of that author to be uod in the School of Drawing at rord-the school which owes Its ox nce to his generosity. -The Czar Is the only crowned wid er and VIctoria the otnly crewnted low among the European poten as. Aifonso and UhrIstine of Spain the youngest wedded couple; WIl a and Augusta of Germany the old -Rome spends two hundred thou. [I doila,rs on Its public schools, of ich tetn years ago it had none at all. a Riomans now evinee great alacrity attending the schools, and- the latter entirely Inadequate to the demand he population. -The report of the English Board of do on the subject of marine disas I shows that, in spite of the improve its,that have beeni made In naval htiteccure, the ratio of loss Is by no mns reduced, but, if anything, is eowhat on the increase. -Mrs. Eleanor Williams. a colored nan of Syracuse, New York, Is one idred and two years old. Sbe wvas n in Maryland. Her hair Is whIte mow. She fell about a year ago, has been crippled since, but other e she Is as well as ever F. HI. Hart, who has won the tnpionship among pedestrians in erica, is anxious to meet Charles yell agair. in a sIx-day race, and has >rdingly challenged the English mpion to a race for $5000 a Bide the test, to take place In New irk, ton or Chicago wIthin three months r signing articles. -One of the richest and most famous tnsterles In Italy is that of Monte luo on the line of railway between no and Napies; It was founded In and has continuously existed ever me. Its library is wonderfully rich vritten and printed documents, and rents of the domain are adequate to ntain the Institution. -More than 100 years ago Harrison y Otis, of Boston, owned large ts of land in Maine, and three ns were named after. inim, respec ly, Harrison, Gray and Ocisfield. citizens 01f OtisIleid.Intend to huold union next August, to which are' to nylted all persons who have gone h from the town and their descend.. The great map of tha moon, corn ed by Dr. Julias i3childc, of Ath .after 12 years of labor, shows 58 craters and rlnn-llke formations he lunar surface, and 8348 r is and ts. Dr. Schmidt inte 61 e iber would be l4i$eI moon an seen wit er of 600