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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 18, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. OVER THE RIVER. Over the river they bookon to me, Loved ones who have crossed to the further side; The gleam of thoir sunny robes I Boo. But their voices are lost In the rushing tide, None return from those quiet shores, Who oroas with the boatman cold and pale. We hear a dip of the oar, And reach a gleam of the sail, And 10! they have passed from our yearning hearts; They cross the stream and are gone for ayo We may not sunder the veil apart That hides from our vision the gates of day. We only know their barks no more Sail with us o'er life's troubled sea; Yet somewhere I know on the unsoon shore They watch and bookon and wait for me. And I sit and think when the sunset's fold, Is flushing river and hill and shore, I shall one day stand by the waters cold And list for a sound of the boatman's oar, I shall wa'ch for a gleam of the sunny sail, I shall hear the boat as it nears the strand, I shall pass from sijht with the boatman pale To the better shore of the spirit land. I shall know the loved who have gono before And joyfully sweet will the meeting bo, W ben over the river, the peaceful rive r The angel of death shall carry me. The Coffee Pot. Last year I was invited, with two of my studio companions, Arrigo Colic and Ped rino Borguioli, to pass a few days at a country house in the heart of Normandy. The weather, which at the time of our de parture promised to be superb, changed suddenly, and so much rain fell that the roads which we passed were like the bed of a torrent. We sank In mud up to our knees, the soles of our boots were clogged with a thick coating of clay and mud, the weight of which retarded our steps so much that we did not arrive at our destination until an hour after sunset. We were harrassed, and our host, seeing the efforts that we had to make in order to repress our yawns and to keep our eyes open, had us shown each to our chamber as soon as supper was over. My chamber was vast; I felt, as I entered it, as it were a shudder of fever, for it seemed to me that I was entering a new world. Indeed, you might have believed yourself in the days of the Regency, to see above the panels by Boucher, representing the four seasons, the furniture overloaded with rocialle ornaments in the worst taste, and the heavily carved looking-glass frames. Nothing had been disturbed. The toilet table, covered with combs, brushes and powder poxes, seemed to have been in use an hour ago. Two or three dresses of changing colors, a fan covered with silver spangles, lay carelessly on the polished oak door, ankd to my great astonishment a tor toise-shell snuff-box. open on the chimney piece, was full of fresh tobacco. I did not notice these things until the servant, atter placing the candlestick on the table, had wished me good night, and, I confess, I began to tremble like a leaf. I undressed myself promptly, went to bed, and in order to have done with my foolish fears, I soon closed my eyes and turned my face toward the wall. But it was im possible for me to remain in this position; the bed began to move beneath me like a wave, my eyelids were drawn violently back. I was obliged to turn and see. The blazing fire cast a red reflection in the apartment, so that the figures on the tapestry and of the smoky portraits which hung on the walls could be easily distin guished. They were the ancestors of our host, chevallers swathed In iron, councilors in periwigs, and fair ladies with painted faces and white-powdered hair, holding a rose in their hair. Buiddenly the fire became strangely active, a bleared light; illuminated the chamber; and I saw clearly what I had taken for vain paintIngs was a reality, for the eyes of those framed beings began to move and to sparkle in a strange manner; their lips opened and closed like the lips of people speaking. But I heard nothing but 2: the tick-tack of the clock and the whistling of the wind. An insuperable terror seizcd mc, my hair stood on end, my teeth chat. tered, my body was bathed in a cold sweat. The clock struck 11. The vibration of the last stroke sang long in thme air', and when it died away entire * * * Ol! no! I dare not say what happened; no one would believe mec. I shiould be taken for a nmadman. The candles lighted of themselves, the bellows, without any visi ble being touchilng them, began' to blow the lire, rattlhng like an asthimetic old man, wvhile the tongs stisred the billets of wood and the shovel gathered up the ashes. Then a coffee pot boundedl from the table onm which It had been placed, and went hobbling along toward the fire- brands. A few minutes afterward thme arm-chahts be gan to move, and, agitating their twisted feet in a surprising manner, came and ranged themselves around the fire. 1 did not know what to think of what I saw, but what remained for me to see was still more extraordinary. One of the portraits-the oldest of all, that of a fat, chubby, grey-bearded man, resembling remarkably the idea I had to myself of Bir John Falstaff, pushed lisa after having with gtreat effort' fom, d his shoulders and hIs fair, round belly '~we the narow glded border, ho jumnpe tali the frames, one after tihe ~i~and all the frames bccntre enlarg as to allow the figures which they ed to pass through with case. Little doll-like abbes, ' fIj e large dowagers, grave maigstrat"e#lrg black roques, pett ma rb silk stock ings and prunello0 bree 1~t~i these per sonages presented su . cd spectacle that in sp)ite of my could not help laughIng. TheM s~ h folk sat' down; the coffee po ufned lIghtly on thc. table, *- They. tmak& ' ad In cups of blue and white Japanese porcelamn, which ran mp sponta neously from the top of a scretary,. each one provIded with a lump of sugar and a little silver spoon.. When the coffee had been taken, coffee pot, cups and spoons disappeared all at once, and -~~conversationbea. otho that Ihveerhadfo'nnofthese *trange talkers looked ht the other while he spoke; 'they all had thoir eyes fixed upon the clock. At last midnight struck; a voice, the tone of which was identical with that of the bell of the clock, was heard saying: "This is the hour; we must dance." All the assembly arose. The arm chairs drew back of their own accord: then each cavalier took the hand of a lady, and the same voice said: " Come, gentlemen of the orchestra, begin 1" 1 forgot to say that the subjects of the tapestry were, on one side an Italian con certo, and on the other a stag hunt wi'th huntsmen, and the musicians, who, until then, had not made any gestures, bowed the head in token of attention. . The maes tro raised his wand, and lively dance music sounded from one end of the room. The first dance was a minuet. But the rapid notes of the score harmonized badly with those grave courtesies, and so after a few minutes each of the couples began to pirou otte like a Dutch top. The silk dresses of the women, crumpled in the giddy maze of the dance, gave forth an odd sound, like the sound of whirring pigeons' wings. The wind filling them from beneath puffed them out so that they looked like swinging bells. The bows of the fiddlers passed so rapid ly over tie strings that electric sparks 1new out. The fingers of the flute players moved up and down like quicksilver; the cheeks of the huntamen were swollen out like balloons, and all that formed a deluge of notes and trills so hnrried, and of ascend ing and descending gamut so complicated, so inbonceivable, that the very demons could not have followed such a measure for two minutes. It was pitiful to see all the efforts of those dancers to catch the time. Thcy bounded and whirled round and pirouetted until the sweat poured down their foreheads over their eyes, and carried away their paint and patches. But it was all in vain, the orchestra was always three or four notes in advance. The clock struck 1; they stopped. I then saw something which had escaped my notice-a woman who was not dancing. She was seated on a low chair in the chim ney corner, and did not seem to take the least part in the world in what was going on around her. Never, even in a dream, had anything so pefect presented itself to my eyes; a skin of dazzling brightness, hair blonde cendre, long eyelashes and blue eyes, so clear and transparent that I saw her soul through them as distinctly as a stgne in a brook. And 1 felt that if ever I came to love anybody it would be her. I jumped out of bed, from which I had not yet dared to stir, atid went toward her, conducted by some instinct in mA which I could not explain. I found myself at her knees, one of her hands in mine, talking with her as it I had known her for twe- ty years. But a strange prodigy, while speaking to her, I marked the music with a movement of my head. It had not ceased to play, and, although it was for me the height of happinessa to talk with such a beautiful wonian, my feet were burning to dance with her. Btill, I did not dare to make the proposition. It seems she understoud what I wanted, for raising her hand toward the dial of the clock, she said: "When the needie shall be there, we will see, my dear Theodore." I know not how it happened, but I was in no way surprised to hear myself called by my name, and we continued to talk. At last, when the appointed hour struck, the silvery voice vibrated once more in the chamber and said: "Angela, you may dance with the gen tleman. if you please; but you know what will be the result." "No matter," replied Angela in a pouting tone. She passed her ivory ari around my neck. "Prestiesimioi" cried the voice. And we began to valse. The boom of the young girl touched nilne, her velvet cheek skimmed my own. Never in my life had I experienced such emiotion; my nerves quivered like springs of steel, my blood Ilowed in my veins like torrents of lava, and I heard my heart beat as if a watch were ticking in my ear. Still this state had nothing painful in it. 1 was in a flood of mneffable joy and I could have remained always as I was, and remarkably enough, although the orchestra had trinled its quickness, we needed no effort to follow It. The bystanders, astonished at our agility, cried bravo, and clapped ther hands with all their might without produc lng any noise. Angela, who until then had waltzed with au' prihing energy and precision, seemed sudicenly to becomie fatigued; she hung on my shoulder as if her limbs had failed her; her little feet, which a minute ago had bare hy touched the floor, rose slowly as if they had been weighted with lead. "Angela, you are weary," I said to her; " let us rest." "Yes," she replied, wiping her brow with her handkerchief, "but while we have been dancing they have all sat down; there is only one chair and we are two." " What does that matter; my angel? I will take you on my knees." Without nmaking the slightest objection, Angela sat down, threw her arms hike a white scarf around my neck, and hid her head in my bosom to warm herself a little, for she had become cbld as marble. I know not how long n e remained in that 'lrtsoim- fo Ef~g - allabsorbed in the contemplation of this mystlerious and fan tastlc creature. I had no longer any ides of time or place; the real world no longer h0isted for me, andt all the bonds which bund me to it were br~ken ; my soul, dis ~ngaged from its earthly prison, was float ing in vague infinity. I understood that which no man can understand; the thoughts of Angela were revealed to me without her nieedinlg to speak, for her soul shone through her body like a lump of alabaster, and the rays from lier breast pierced mine. The lark sang, a pale light played among the curtains. As soon as Angela saw it, she rose pre cipitately, made a sign of fareweoll, and after a few steps she sa amed and fell. Seized with terrol', sprang forward. Mly blood freezes at the mere thought; I found nothing but the .coffee-pot broken ito a thousand fragments. At the sight of this, persuaded that I had been the sport of some diabolical delusion I was so overpowered with fright that I fainted. When I becameo conscious again I was in my bed ; Arrigo Cohie and-Pedrino Biorg nioli were tanding at the head. As soon as I opengd my eyes, Arrigo cried: "Ah i at last 1 For the last hour I have bann rehhing youanemples1 wit s.a do Cologne. What on earth have you been doing in the night I This morning seeing that you did not come down, 1 entored your room and I found you stretched full length upon the floor, dressed in an old Louis XVI costume, and pressing In your arms a fragment of broken porcelain, as if it had been a beautiful young girl." "Pardicu/ It Is grandfather's wedding coat," said the other, lifting up*one of the tails of rose-colored silk with a green figure. "There are the strass and filigree buttons that he used to boast about. Theodore must- have found it in some corner. and have put it on for fun. But what made you faint? added Borgnioli. "That is l very well for young girls with white shoulders; you unlace her cor sets, take off her necklace, and it is a good opportunity to simper and to give them selves airs " "It is only weakness," I replied, dryly; "1 am subject to these fits." I rose and divested myself of my ridicu lous costume. At breakfast my three companions ate heartily; I hardly tasted anything. The memory of what had passed distracted me. After breakfast, as It was raining steadily, there was no possibility of going out; each occiled himself as best he could. Borg nioll beat a warlike devil's tattoo on the window-panes; Arrigo and our host played draughts; I took out my sketch-book and began to draw. The almost imperceptible lineaments traced by my pencil, without my having thought in the least what 1 was drawing, resembled with marvelous exactitude the coffee-pot which had played such an im portant role in the scenes of the night. " It is astonishing bow that head resem bles iny sister Angela." said our host, who had finished his game and was watching me draw. Indeed, that which just now had seemed to be a coffee-pot was in reality the sweet and melancholy profile of Angela. "By all the saints in Paradise I is she dead or alive?" I cried in a trembling voice, as if my life depended on his answer. "She died two years ago from inflamnia tion of the lungs, caught coming home from a ball. "Alas, " I replied, painfully. And, restraining a tear that was ready to fall I closed my sketch book. 1 felt that there was no longer any happiness on earth for me. Easter rilgrims at the Jordan. The earliest scene of the Immersion was in the Jordan. That rushing river, the one river of Palestine, fonnd at last its fit purpose. Although no details are given of the external parts of the ceremony, a lively notion may be formed of the transaction by the scene which now takes place at the bathing of the pilgrimo at Easter. Their approach to the spot is by night. Above is the bright Paschal moon, before them moves a bright flare of torches, on each side huge watchfires break the darkness of the night and act as beacons for the suc cessive descents of the road. The sun breaks over the eastern hills as the head of the cavalcade reaches the banks of the Jordan. The sacred river rushes through its thicket of tamarisk, poplar, willow and agnus-chastors with rapid eddies, and of a turbid, yellow color, like the Tiber at Rome, and, about as broad. They dismount, and set to work to perform their bath; most in the open space, some further up amongst the thickets; some plunging in naked; most, however, with white dresses, which they bring with them, and which, having been so used, are kept for their winding sheets. Most of the bathers keep within the shelter of the bank, where the water Is about four feet in depth, though with a bottom of very deep mud. The Coptic pilgrims are curinusly distinguished from the rest by the boldness with which they dart into the main current, striking the water after their fashion alternately with their two arma and playing with the eddies, which hurry them down and across as it' they were im the cataracts of their own Nile; crashing through the thick boughs of the junigle which on the eastern bank of the stream intercept their p)rogress, and recrossing the river hiirher up, where they can wade, atssistedi by long poles which they have cut from the opposite thickets. it is remarkable, considering the mixed assemblage of men and women in such a scene, that there is so little appearance of levity or indecorum. A primitive domestic character pervades In a singular form the whole transaction. The families who have come on their single mule or camel now bathe together with the utmost gravity, the father receiving from the mother the Infant, which has been brought to receive the one immiersiohi which will suffice for the rest of its life, and tius, by a curious economy of resources, save it from the ex pense and danger of a future pilgrimage in after years. in about two hours the shores are cleared ; with the same quiet they re mount their camels and horses, and, before the noon- day heat has set In,.are again en camped on the upper rlain of Jericho. Once more they nmay be seen at the dead of night ; the drum again wakes them for their Lomeward march. The torches again go on before ; behind follows thme vast mnultitude, mounted, passing in profouind silence over that silent plamn ; so silenit that but for the tinkling of thme drum, its derpart ure would hardly be perceptible. Flower Ganrdon and Lann A M Thme planniing for time planting of orna mental trees should have been clone before the time for setting them. Evergreens may be left until later, and will iieed more care; their roots should never be allowed to become dry. The lawn will need a dressing of some kind; ashes, guano, or some other fertilizer may be applied; use mannre only when it Is ilne and thoroughly rotted, with no weed seeds alive in it. For new lawns upon a heavy boil, sow Keon tucky blue grass; on light sandy soil, red top, with white clover is best ; all the way from three to sIx buishiels to the acre are advised. Bow half the seed In one direction and cross-sow with the other half. T'his work should be done as soon as thme land has been put In proper condition. Where sod ding Is to be done, first thoroughly enrich the soil, make the surface even, andi to press the sodis down firmly use a board and heavy pounder. If the walks and drives need repairs, attend to them when the ground Is more settled. Beds of bulbs may be uncogred as soon as the frosty nights are over. if beds of flowers are to be planted the desIgns should be made, and their location in the grounds and other do. cidd nnon befrehand. A Mangled Ivreck. On the Bay City train Michigan, the other day was a woman with a baby about eight months old, and In the next seat back was an old man who couldn't sit still until he had said : "That's a baby you have there, isn't it 7" "Yes, sir." . "About a year old, Isn't he ?" "Mercy, no I Ile's hardly eight months old yet I" "Isn't, eh ? Well, I'm the father of nine children, but it's been so long since I've seen a baby that I've forgotten how they ought to look. Is he a girl ?" "No, sir; he's a boy." "Just me, agin. I never can tell one from t'other. is ie plrty healthy?" "Oh, yes." "Squall much nights?" "Never squalls at all." "Don't, eh i That's the kind of a young 'un I like to see around. My Samuel did nothing but howl for the I rst two years, Barah was allus sick. Moses fell out of the cradle and broke his arm, and something or other allus ailed every one of the lot. Hlave you named this baby yet P" "No, sir." "Haven't, eh I Say I" "Yes, sir." "'Sposen you call him arter iI My lust name is Jefferson, and they Jeff mie for short. I've got two $10 gold pieces here for him if you want to call him Jeffer son." "i'll do it I" prcmptly replied the wo man. "rhat's business. Here's the cash and the boy is naied Jefferson, arter me. Lemme kiss him about four times." rhe baby was duly kissed and congratu lated, and at the next station he left the train with his mother. The old man was tickled half to death over the matter until the conductor came along and asked: "Did you pay her anything to iame that baby after you?" "Yes-twenty dollars. 11's a clipper, and don't you forget it." "And so is his mother. She's down in the Detroit House of Correction, and the woman who had him takes care of him for two dollars a week P" "6N-o at " " Fact. " The old man's jaws fell, his eyes re mained fixed on the ceiling fir a minute, and then he fell back in his abat with the excla:mation: "'hiaw me I Everybody ha's called me a fool for the past twenty years, and now I know they were right I Conductor!" "Yes," "Pleese mop the floor with me and break my neck, and step on me a thousand tines and then throw the mangled wreck into some swamp, for I won't be no more good in this world I" Industrial Secrets. A century ago what a man discovered in the arts he concealed. Workmen were put upon an oath never to reveal the process used by their employers. Doors were kept closed, artisans going out were searched, visitors were rigorously excluded from ad mission, and false operations blinded the workmen themselves. The mysteries of every craft were hedged in by thick-set fences of empirical pretensions and judicial affirmation. The royal inanufactories of porcelain, for example, were carried on in Europe with a spirit of jealous exclusive ness. His Majesty of Saxony was espe. cially circumspect. Not content with the oath of secrecy imposed upon his work people, he woulI not abate his kingly suspicion in favor of a brother monarch. Neither king nor king's delegate might enter the taboobd walls of Meissen. What Is erroneously called the Dresden porcelain -that exquisite pottery of which the world has never seen its ike-was produced for two hundrc d years by a process so secret that neither the bribery of princes nor the garruhity of the operatives revealed it. Other- discoveries have been less success fully guarded, fortunately for the world. The mianufacture of tmw~are In England originated in a stolen secret. F~ew readlers need~ be informed that tinware is simplly thin iron platedi with tin by being dipped into the molten metal. Ini theory it is an easy muatter to clean the surface of iron, dip It Into a bath of boiling tin, remove It enveloped with a silvery metal to a place of coling. In practice, however, thme pro cess is oiie of the most dlifllcult In the arts. It was discovered in 1101 and, and guardled from publicity with inhe utmost vigilance for more than half a centuly. England tried In vain to discover the secoret, until James Bherman, a Cornish minor, insinut ated himself master of the secret, and brought It home. Thme secret, of manufac turing cast, steel was also stealthily ob tained, and is iiow within the reach of all artisans. Fodder Up. le gave thme hackmen at the Union depot a stand off, brushed the boot-blacks right and left, and shouldered lia sixty pounds of baggiage and started up Jefferson avenue In search of a tavern. ie wvas a rIght up and down man, and lie wanted to strike a tavern where they had an old-fashioned boiled dinner. "Just come in from L~ansing," lie ob served as lie fell In with a pedest~iian. "Did, ch ? Been out to the Legisla ire I" ~ '~~mave 'ni q~ member, but I have maetig unth2,$1W same." "liave a bIll?" "Not exactly. I come (down from --- county to take the kinks out of our memi ber. Hie was sailing In with a high head, and If i'd waited ten (lays longer, he'd have been bossmg the whole State. What d'ye think ?" "'I dlunno." "ie wouldn't speak to me when I first got there I Think of that I Up home there we rated him about No. 4, and senit him down to Lansing miore because none of the rest of its couIld leave, and lie wantedl to cut me colder'ii a wedge 1 Wha't (10 you think I'' "Rather mean." "You bet I But I lowered his nose a bit. We'd heard how he was pranicing around and putting on airs and making out that he run our county, and a fe# of us got together and wrote him a letier. It didn't seem to do any good, amid so we got together again and they sent medown to p~ut on the currycomb.'' "And you did I" "Didn't 1? He'd put In about dozen bills affecting onuaer conry nd I ..aae ILI It Lw. liCW6 'a aidt Iinselt~5n~o six or seven speeches, and I mashed all bu one. The first day I got there he was sup porting motions, and moving to amend an< strike out, but I mighty soon let him under stand that no such chaid passed for oralorj with us. Ile tried to bulldoze me at first but when he found that his constituenc] had got after him he calned down. lie'( been fooling with the game la'v, and hac got mixed up with a dog tax bill, and I saw-log law, and a bill about inland fish ing, and 1 don't know what else. I tool him out behind the State Hlouse, and say 1: 'Now, my boy, you squat I Your con stituents demand that you caln right down, We don't want no Cicero in ours, and w won't have it. We sent you down here t< do a little quiet work, and not to pranc< around and iniagne you've got Patricl lenry's hat on. We are humble people, taking kindly to log houses and Johnn3 cake, and we don't go a cent on big wordi and long flourishes.' That's what I tolc him, and lie calmed. 'Did, h " "You bet he did I and if we hear any thing more about his rising to explain hit vote on the dog tax, or moving to recom. mit the muskrat bill, our county won't b( no place for him to return to. This is the place, el " Well, I'll fodder up and takt the train for home." A Wonderful River. The Mississippi Is a wonderful river, says Air. Ilanvard, and, although I hav traveled through the four quarters of the globe, 1 have never seen its compeer. The Nile, so famous in history, is insigmficant in comparison. The Missisippi is sui gen. eris. Its restless current is constantly making changes In its hydrographical feat. ures. The working of the currents and their changes are unobserved by the ordinary traveler who ploughs his way over the tur bid surface oii a swiftly moving steamer. All are hidden from him. It requires a jesidence of years on its banks to rightly undlerstand the peculiar philosophy of its moving waters. Thus I attentively stud. ied during the fifteen years 1 was trading in flatboats among the Indians and settlers along its banks in my early life. One ot the most striking peculiarities of the river is the mniformity of its meanders, or bends. Some of these are so umform and regular that they have the appearance of having been described by the sweep of a compass, and consequently the course ot a stream is very sinuous.- The bends are conseqjuently doubling on themselves and ferming what are called "cut-offs," and the river is traveling about in the alluvium, after changing its bed many times, as well as its form. The lied river bend swept around some fourteen miles; Walker's bend, sixteen miles. The lied river bend broke through, cutting eff its extent of fourteen miles. The State afterward set men to work to cut off Walker's bend into Tunica bend, thus reducing apparently the length of the river sixteen miles or more, a total in the two cut-offs of about thirty miles, which entirely changed the hydrography of the stream and gave it this form in. stead of the very crooked, one it had pre viously. This also brought the mouth of lied river some ten miles lower down than its origi nal position in the bend. When these "cut-offs" occur, the channels of the old river, or rather the opening of the old river into the new, closes, or, as the people call it, "grows up," and in a few years the old river is shut completely out of sight and forms a lake back in the forests. These lakes or "old rivers" are traceable all along the lower river. This "growing up" is another peculiarity of the Mississippi and would not be noticed by an ordinary trav eler, unless a bend or island that was un dergoing this process was poited out and the phlilosophy explained to him. The exlianation is this: Wh(en a bend1( breaks through an eddy is formed directly under the point ot the ''old river.'' in this ceddy a sand bar forms and on this sand bar, ini a short time, the alluvium, held( in suspension by the waters, is p~rei. p'itatedl, whlen immediately the young cot tonwvoodl trees begin to grow. Every year a newv line of trees makes its appearance and so on year after year and shuts the old river out from viewv. Tihme rows of cotton. woods in their growth are so exceedingly uiniform and regular that they have the appearance of having been set out by human hmand~s to ornament a p~ark or pleasur3 gar (len. Th'le different growths, year aftei year, caii be counted ini regular gradation from the sapling of the present year up to the most maginificent tree of the forest of flye or six feet in diameter. That Wickced iU .ag. Three or four years ago when there was a grip on the potato mnaiket there lived near an interior village In this state a farm. or named Peterm. lie raised good crops, paid hIs debts, and was down on rings ol all sort. Tihe price of potatoes kept going up and up, and the old farmer grew un, easy. lie caine into the village every evening to see how the market stood, and althouigh lie never said much It was evi. dent that lie would burst his hoops pretty soon if things pontinued on that way. Al length the climax came. One evening thu old man and his son had a warm corner ir a grocery when a citizen entered wIth newspaper in his hail and said: "TIhis New York 'I ily says that thei price of pot'-' - .-e' we *e unin' " " '~mn t'U4hioeii 'Si'W if' to advance ambefore the week is out." "What I" exclaimed P'eters, "anothe adlvance In 'taters ?" "Yes, the Lord only knows what is ti become of thme poor if this potato ring lsn' blursted." TJhe farmer arose, buttoned his 01ld whiti overcoat clear to his chin, brough his fist downm hard on the cheese-box, and sternml saId: "The time has come I P've stood Ii --and stood it, as long as I can, and noii I'm goIng to act I George, we'll go hom< and get ready to throw flfty-six bushels 01 p mnch-blows on thme market to-morrow, and bust that wicked 1-ing all to pieces9 " -Over 12,000 Riisslan convicts are about to be sent to jiberla. -There are rumors of a Chillan prc teotorate over Poru. The estimateofor the new Tay bridge Scotland, is elose on to $3,50J0,00&u. -Theo famous copper mine of Fahlun, Sweden, has been worked 1,000 years. -The Phi adelphia banks Day about $000,000 in dvidends in May, -Dr. Tal a e made five hundred "converts,) In hi...v!..ml Winneniuce The Apache. In the Min'ichaha, Santa Fe, a placc devoted to faro, rouge et noir and the sale of various liquors in the city, there haugs a bow and arrow, and beneath it is a placard announcing that it was a trophy taken from the body of Winneiuc, the. Apache chief, by James Morris, in 1873, at Alamosa Canyon, for which the said James Morris received a medal and a vote of thanks from Congress. Wiuncnuc was one of the most desperate of the old time raiders. lie was a war chief among the Apaches when Vic toria was only a sub-chief. Ile is credited with having killed thirteen white men with his own hands, and innumerable Mexicans, aid this, too, at a time when the Apaches were more familiar with bows and arrows than with improved Winchesters. Isolated settlements, lonely teamsters and herders shuddered at the mention of his name. It meant an ever-present and terrible danger to them. lie had the Apache habit of slipping off the reserva tion with fourteen or fifteen braves, mak ing a rapid dash through the country, burning, stealing and killing End then re turning to the protecting care of a benign government before sufficient preparations could be made to pursue and punish him. lie was a magniflcent specimen of Indian manhood-six feet three in height, and turning the beai with nearly 250 pounds of bone and nmuscle-and in a hand to band encmunter was a very ugly customer. He had all the cuteness and deviltry of the Apache, and he used them after the most approved Apache methods. While lie lived he was the terror of southwestern New Mexico. " Long Jim Morris," the man who killed him, and whose exploit is immortalised on the walls of the Minehialia, is a 1)ohcc man in Santa Fe now. 1le went into the United States service at the breaking out of the civil war, anu remained in it con tinuously for sixteen years. For the larger portion of this time lie has been in the bor der service. Morris Is a good-natured, handsome fellow, over six .feet in height, and very powerfully built. In 1878 he was Sergeant of the Eighth Cavalry, stA tioned in this Territory. One day news cane that a Mexican herder had been kill ed by Apaches, and Morris and ten men were detailed to pursue the Indians and punish them if possible. It was in the heat of sunmner when they started out, and they soon got on the trail, At first it was comparatively stale, but by hard riding they hoped to reach the murderers and surprise them before they suspected that they would be followed. It Boon became evident, however, that the Apaches themselves were traveling with unusual rapidi-y, and so decisive and in teliigent were their movements that tne suspicion grew that Winnemuc was at bheir head. The pursuit was a hard one, as Indeed all pursuits of the kind are in this country. The soldiers went mile after mile' over the weary wastes of the sand hills, sometImes traveling for long hours under the vertical rays of the sun without water, and with no vegetation about but the monstrous dreariness of sage brush and greasewood. At the end of the third day their rations were almost exhausted, but the trail was becoming fresher, and this encouraged them. The next (lay they rode until evening without water, and when they (lid come to a little spring, the horses, which were suffering more than the men, could not be held, but rasled into the water and drank it eagerly muddying it in such ft way as to make it distasteful to the thirsty soldiers. On the fifth day the trail became exceed ingly fresh, in the afternoon they reached the mouth or Alamosa Canyon, 285 miles southwest of Santa Fe. They entered the canyon cautiously, and could hear the In dians, who had by th's time given up the Idea of puirsit, shouting ahead. Theli can yon was on the reservation, and the Apaches, knowing that there were three or four hundred of their tribe but a short distance away, felt entirely safe. T1he' soldiers were armed with carbines of the old fashion, and with Remington pistols; which might go off once, or six times at once, or not, at, all---it depended upon chance. D~etailing three of the men to hold the horses, Morris placed the rest in Indian file, with himself at the head andt followed noiselessly. At a turn In the canyon lie canme upon Winnemnuc and thir teen braves, andi with a yell the soldiers charged through them, firing right and left. Surprised at the sudden onslaught, the Apaches sprang from their horses and dashed uip the canyon, followed by the troop~s, whose balls were doing considera ble execution. WI nnemue had separated hinself somewhat from the rest, andI was running up the mountain In a (diagonial dIi rection, turnIng every nowv and then to send~ an arrow at the soldiers. Ihis bow andh knife were his only wea pons. Morris ilcked him out andt startedl In pursuit. lie followed the fleeing chief for about fifty yards, when Winnuc wheeled and shiot at arrow, which struelt Morris in the neck, lie diropped instant ly, and the Indian, believing that his ar row had done serious damage, drew his knife from his belt, andt with a whoop, ran back to finish his work, It was an unfor tunate move. Morris had dropped as a ruse, and when Winnemuc came within a few feet of him he arose on his knees, aihn ed with his Rtemmngton pistoi-andi it would not go off, The Indian, somewhat startled at '' W.'-" 'ergery, would ,be--, deneto P Wui \A .enrich th( blood atu bc but the momentum of his run was toc great, and, bielore he could do anything, Morris had dropped his useless pistol, seiz ed him by the legs and thrown him for ward. He struck his head with such force upon one of the rocks that lie was stun nedl, and, taking the revolver, Morris liter ally beat his brais out, Winnemuc was hastily scalped, his bow and sirrow takeni, what provisions the Indians had seized, and the heads of the horses turned toward Fort Craig. Only one of the soldiers--a corporal-had been killed and two wound ed, while none of the Indians had es caped. Tihe ride back was a far more dangerous one thau the puirsuit, since it was certain that other members of the tribe would dis cover the bodies and follow. Fortunately, however, the troops had such a start that they reached safety before the Indians came up. The body of the dead corporal was thrown across Morris' sqddle and broughit in to be burhedu Morris was men. tioned favorably In the report, and a bronze medal struck off for him, and an ether which was sent to the family of the corporal. NEWS IN BRIEF. -The Suez Canal is again open. -Spurgeon has 5,284 members in his church. -2,000 French troups are occupying Bliserta, in Tunis. -Queen Victoria's gold and plate Is valued at $16,000,000. -Some of the sheep-raisers of Aus tralia own over 500,000 head of sheep. -Three or four ounces of oil can be extracted from one hundred pounds of water. -Queen Victoria received last year $205,000 clear cash from her duchy of Lancaster. -A dealer in Vermont has an order from the West for 2.000,000 pounds of maple sugar. -Milils, the English painter, has commissions lor portraits amounting to $200,000. -A new puzzle la to find the letter "M" three times on the legal tender sliver dollar. -The statue of Gen. McPherson Is to be unvolled July 22, the anniversary of his death. -The records of immigration at New York shows 60,000 arrivals during the month of April. -A thousand workingmen are want. ed in Iowa this spring. It is a good State to work Into. -Emiployient is given by the rail ways of Great Britain and Ireland to about 500,000 persons. -The velocity of the electric waves throughthe Atiaitic cables is from 7,000 to 8,000 miles per second. -Japan has 4,337 postofices, and the aggregate length of its mail routes in oporation is 42,203 miles. -A Maine worian has made a con tract with a Boston Ilrmi to supply 15, 000 dozent pairs Of mittens. -Cincinnati has 4000 liquor saloons, which pity neither licence nor tax ex cept to the general government. -The business of the Supreme Court of the United States has increased 500 per cent. In the last twenty pears. -France spends $110,000,000 annu ally to maintain her military system and $1,800,000 for free primary educa tion. -Tite shipment of corn since Sep. tenber 1st, total for 1881, Is 53,200,00 against 53,600,000 last year fron fI points. -A inagrnet weighing two ou es sustalus a weight of three pound wo ounces, or twenty-five times I own weight. -Col. Thomas Scott, ex- resident of the Pennsylvania Railro , is said to be worth from $20,000,0 to $80, 000,000. -The total acreage under cereals, potatoes, tobacco, hay and cotton in the United States in 1870 was 142,474, 000 acres. -The Jewelry trade in England reviving, and Birmingham is turning out silver bracelets at the rate of 10, 000 per week. -The Maryland Historical Society has nearly complete tiles of every im portant newspaper published in Balti. more since 1773. -The Mational Industrial Exhibi tion at Toklo, J apan, was opened by the Mikado March 1. The attendance is said to be large. -The Sultan writes to the powers that he accepts, without reserve, the proposed settlement of the Greek Frontior question. - -Three firms are now engaged In canning Boston baked beans, and their annual produiction is not less than 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Cans, -TIhe lumber cut upon01 the Wiscon sin shore of Lake Superior has In creased from 4,000,000 feet In 1874 to over 22,000,000 feet in 1881. -Alligator-akini boots and slhces have beome so lpopular that 25,000 hides were eonsuimed in their manu facture last year In this country. -The two colossal bronza sphinxes whiich are to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's needle on the Thames Em bankmnent, will be finished by August next. -Th'e exp~orts of flour are 1.500,000 barrels greater since September 1st this yoar thani Jast, being 5,00,00 bar reils I rom the ports against4,100,000 for 1880. -TIhe total loss by fire in Chioago during the year 1880 was $1,130,816. TIhe report of' the lire marshal places the number oh buildings in the city at 132,942. -There were 0,800,000 bushels less wheat exp~orbedl to May 1st, this year, than for tihe same time In 1880, the ag gregate being 73,500,000 and 80,3J0,000 respectively, -The Empress of Austria recontly sent to a reporter a dressing case, em bossed in silver, as a mark of her plea.. sure at his account of some of her ex plolts In tihe tli ~ -The extraor ' Ne in tho receipts of the ---- ' is natu rally - al'eaa joleing)/hi;AUTIIFJ UL'ldiiways V*InS$ met' ujeet of sincere re-' ..Mt . *.a t' dIewspapers. Tihe aug.. irify .j ationi for that year reached no less 'a sum than 114,000,000 f rancs. -TIhe ratio of vote to population in Ne w York, at tihe IPresidential olh otlon, was about one to five; in Philadelphia and Chicago, One to six; Bosten and St. Louis, one to seven - in New Orleans, one to nine, and in Proyi dence, one to eleven. -Thie consumptoon of opium is rapidly increasing in San Francisco. T'here arc 450 places where opium is sold1, and each one of thoem receives an income averaging $75 a day from the trafilo. The religious and seeular press are calling~ attention to the matter. -The death of Lord .Deaconsfield leaves Mr. Gladstone the one living Englishman who hase held the office of Prime Minist~er of England. Since 1702 only eight statesmen have occupred this position for a longer period than Mr. Gladstone, who has already held it six years and three-.months. -From two groves of maples in North Ilarpersfield, Delaware 00unty New York, the yieid this year hias been seven tons of maple sugar. The' groves contain 4,200 trees, ia 1876 the town of Hiarpersfield produced 200,000 pounds of sugar, an amount which this year's crop i8 thoughg to 9X0ed,