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.- 14 - 4. tIt TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. JANUARY 11. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1847 "T11E NItUIT JOMETR ON.'' Deep down 'inongs the reedy hollows, And away thro' the Meadows low, Swift o'er its shining pabbles, Pausing not In its ceaseless flow, The brook that comes down froin the inountain To the ocean must speed its flight, As the brightness that dawned with the morning Must die on tte threshold of night. he ferns by the brookeido growing, And the reeds as they inurmur and sigh, And the willows and ineadow grasses Keep time as the brook sweeps by, And the ocean Is calmly waiting, But never a ripple will tell, When the wavelets the brook In bringing Shall be merged In its long, low swell. And there cometh a royal stset That lighteth the funeral pyre Of the day as It glides down In the western sky And dies in its crimson fire; And night with its swift wieg ioumtillig, The brIghtness sweeptli away, And settoth the seat of darkness On the tomb of the vanished day. And so it but little recketb How radiant-l(fe's dawn may be; It as surely wears on to the g.oaiing As the brook floweth 'on to the sea. And however fair be Its evening Its brightness will soon be gone, And the waning light and the gathering globn Will whisper: "The night conietli on." LOVE'S SUNLIG irt. Such a weddmng I "No bridesmaids, no muiic, no break fast ! "I declare I should not fool as if I had been married 1" exclaimed Marion Willoughby, throwing herself down upon a low chair in her own elegantly appointed drawing-room, and drawing off the delicately-tinted gloves which served as a finish to her exquisite Par isian toilette. There was only one other occupant of the room, a man, tall and hanisomo, standing with one hand resting lightly on the back of her chair. - She did not glanco up as she spoke, or note that Choster Thorley's face had lost its color. "You are speaking of Mixs; Marvine's wedding ?" he said. "There is one essential to most mar riages you have not enumerated in your list of things lacking. "Was love wanting, too ?" "I believe she loves him. "She certainly must do so to an al most absurd extent. "They are to go housekeeping in a small flat in an unfashionable locality where he must be away trom her from early mornmig until six o'clock. "He occupies some salaried position clerk in a bank, I believe-and she is a girl who might have married anybody." "Honest labor degrades no man, Marion.," was the firm, quiet answer. "Even acolerkship is not always to be found, and I would rather break stones in the street than live on money acquir ed dishonestly or doled out by charity, though in such a case I would ask no woman to share my lot." "This looks like breaking stones, does it not ?" she laughingly answered, lottag her own jeweled lingers close over the man's hand wnere it rested-a hand whose shape betokencd its aristocracy, and which was white and soft as a wo man's. At her light touch his strong frame quivered. He bont and let his lips rest an in stant caressingly on her hair, for this girl beside luni was his aflianced wife. "It could break stones, though, dear: and I don't know but that it would make of me a better mani. "Suppose I lost my money, Marion? "Suppose it all were swept awvay from mns in an hour, and I had a position of fered me, a position which w ould enable me to live but very humbly, very much as your friend in going to live, tell me what you would do ?" "You are only talking to try me, Chester, and I hate such questions. "1n the first place, it is entirely out of reason ; for even wiere it so, papa, you know, is very rich, and our home could always be with him." 'T have said to you, Marion, that I would rather starve than eat the bread of charity. "Therefore, putting this possibility aside, tell me still what you would (do." Her fingers relaxed their hold upon hin hand. I as there significance in thc action~ i lb smiled bitterly as Ito sawv it. His face was very palc no0w. Except that he still stood behind her chair, she must have noticed it. "Yuare utterly absmad this nitr noon, Chester. "Have I not just. tol you that Edith Marvmne's wedding was imore like a funeral than a wedding ?. "Have you nothing more agreclblo you can find to say to mo ?" The man shook off a certain some thing which seemed to envelope him in to an almost visible cloud, and answered with the old courteous grace which suited him so wvell, and had made his power with women almost a proverb. Money always seemed to belong to him by an inherent right. It was so very natural that lhe should be rich. He knew so well how to cxpenll, his wealth. Uo gave it so generously, yet without ostentation, thiatno man envied hinm it. Yet he knew a half-hour later, when lie loft his farewell kiss on Marion Willoughby's beautiful lips, that it was farewell to all fise hopes and happiness. The blow had already fallen. He was a ruined man, with seare a dollar he could call his own--ho who had had no wish ungratified money might procure in all hin thirty yoars of life. It had fallen, too, through no fault of his own, though tuore was feeble com fort in that. There was comfort, howvever, i the knowledge that lie owed no man, and that he might start afresh In the world, with no burden oni his broad shoulders or oonsciene. True, there was a deep wound ill his heart. Xe had loved Marion go well that to taive hey up was to voluntarily renone. But all her lifelbad been spent amid luxury. It was to her a necessity. Deprived of is she would fade and droop ; and better any lot than to watch her ntirggle, and know that he had brought it upon her. Besides, she had made her choice. To her a wedding meant flowei s, music, friends, the toilette of the bride. The future, the communion of two hearts. the solemn responsibilities in curred, were but secondary considera tions. "Good-bye. my darliu I" lie said, as they parted. But when she added, "Until to-mor row," ho answered neithor yea nor nay. "To-morrow" the world know that Chiester Thorley's ship bad gone upon the rocks. Many of his business associates would have held out to him a helping hand, but firmly and kindly he rotuseid every offer. He wrote Marion a few lines. recalling to her mind the conversation of the day before, and releasing her from her vows to him. Two years passed, and the little world which had known Chester Thorley so well, knew him no more. He had entirely disappeard. Marion Willoughby was Marion Vil loughby still. If she sufferod she made no sign ; but those who had seen the one sparkling stone, whiah had been the pledge of her engagement to Chester Thorley, noticed that she wore it still ; and others, yet more narrow watchors, observed that always, when she entered a crow ded room, she would take a hasty glance about, as though expetitig to find some one not thero. She was as yet )ut twenty-two, a belle and a beauty still, The third winter of his absence she went to spend several weeks with an aunt. "I canlot spare you," her father had said wIen the invitation had come. But she, going close to him, and lay ing her head a moment on his breast, had said "I think, papa, it would be best." They were simple words, but ho in torpreted them aright. Tie old wound would not ceiso its bleeding. Sho wanted to go amid new scenes, so ho only kissed her, and bade her re member that the old father awaited her return. "You have not beenthrough the steel works," some one said to her, one day. "It really is a most interesting sight. "Will you join a party, it we make one to visit thom, liss Willoughby ?" "With pleasure," Mhe answerd lightly. And her aunt, charmed with the bril liant success of her beaubful niece, smiled at Clay Clayton's numerous do. vices to en-lnuro Marion's society. He was tho great 'catoh' of the place, She had heard something of some early disappointment In Marion's life. It would be a silendid triumph thus to obliterate it, and aiready she felt quite sure that the fit lay in the girl's own hands. The morning appointed for the expo dition dawned beautiful and bright. They soonied indeed lito drones, in truding upon somc busy hives of work ers. as they entered the great building and looked about them. Department aitor department they visited, watching with interest the deli cata, subtle maehinery and its wonder ful workmigs. Marioi's cheeks flaished with intorest, and Clayton, nobioing it, thought le had never seenl her look more betautiful. To-day lhe determiued lie must speak, when 'suddenily he he.ird a little cry, and glincing up, saw heri standing quite apart tromn the group, her eyes ablaze, her Jips quiyermg. At ai lit tle distance~ f romi her, adjust ing somne picco of machinery, was a man in a working blouse. Her cry also attractedl himt, anl lie looked upj. Their' eyes mot. His fac grew deathly pale, but lhe gave no0 other sign of recognition. She went straight towvards him, obli.. viouis ot all, with hand outstretchied. "'Chester !" she said, in a vo(ice scaire louder than a whiisper'. "'At last I' 9 le bowed low iu respouso, anid took no uuiiecUt i he nand but ihe old, dhaunt less bride was1 ini the ulil t hcad and fearlesa glance. '"Did you know thtat I n as hero ? ''she queWstione~d. "'No,'' he replied. "'I amn no longer in your world." "You wiill come to see mec ?" "1 cannot.." Here his voice broke a little. "'Mr, Clayton," she said, "'let mro p~resenit my I iend, Mr. T1horloy.'' Spite of the innate breeding of the man, sonmc of the instictivo surprise at hearing a steel- worker ad dressied by Miss Willoughby as friondl made itsel f apparent mn the mnaiimi~ he yet strove to conceal. Then the pairty passed oin, H-e wondered, liewever, why Marion lingered a moment mn the ollico to ad dress the superintendent some quest ion as they camp out into the air. Hie had meant, too, to ask her on the way home the question whieh all the dlay, and for many days, had been tremb ling on his lips, but there was a now ox pirossion in her eyes and about her mouth which instinctively told him that this was not the time to p)lead his cause. ilad that fellow inside, who bowed so like a gentlemaii, been any other than ai workmanii, he might .have suispecte'd him as in some way responsible. IL was quite singular enough as it wasu that Miss Willough by should have adl dlressedl himi as friendl. Doubtless some man who had seen better days, aiid Ior whom she felt a wonmanly symp~athy. "Can t see Mr. Thorley ?" The mistress of the liumzblo little cot tage looked up. amazed, at tihe beauti ful young lady who asked the question. ".Indeed 1 suppose yon may, miss. "He's goe up to his room where he spends all his eventngs, arid not a bit of suapper to-night has he touched. "M3hnll '1 eall him Aon 2" :No, lot me go to him." "It's the first room to the right of the stairs, miss. "He's the only lodgor I' have, aid you are his first visitor." But the girl heeded not the words. A strange vision she surely was as she Ftood an iistant outsido his doors, clad in costly velvet and rich furs. Then she softly turned the handle and entered. He did not hear her. 1ie had thrown himself upon his sofa and buried his head in its cushions. He was so still, so motionless, she thought he must be sleeping. Sie swiftly crossed the room, and laying her hand gently upon his shoul der, called his name. "Hcavons I" he cried, and would have started to his feet but that she held him back, falling on her knees be sido hiin. "'Chestor," she pleaded, "you would not como to me. "My pride is ht s than sours. -wy lovo greater. "I have como to you. "Did you think that my heartuttered the unworthy words for which you have plnished me all these years ? "I have tried so long to find you-so long und so hopelessly. And she bowed her beautiful head and sobbed outright, ''Hush, dear, hush. "You should not havo conoe here, Miarion. "It might compromiso you. "Compromise wo with my futuro husband? "Sce, Chester," and she held up the hanid on which gleamed the ring. "I have nover had my freedom." "My own brave girl," he said, his voice softening even while he girded himself up to the strength of which he stood in such need. "But the heaven yon hayu opened to me cannot be. "1 am foreman in the works where you saw me to-day, Marion, "My knowledge and love of mach inory stoodi me in good stead. "L hard of this opening and secured it. "To-day I was adjusting some difll cult piece of work I dared not trust to the workmon. "I am im receipt of a liberal salary, which I am laying uside, dear, living as poorly as I canl, hcpmg One day to buy an interest in the bubiness. "One or two improvements I have made are rapidly advancing me towards this gaol : but it is still far off. I can. not ask you to wait, nor to forget the years of iabor which have helped me reach it." "1 have waited already too long, Ches ter," she whispered. I am ready now to vecome your wife." His tace grew deadly white. "Do not tempt me," he said hoarsely. "Oh, hoester," shte said. "Whon I have so much money, why are you so cruel an11d so proud r" "I11 cannut go back to a life of ease and dependence," he answered- "even with you, dear love, to brighten it. Bi.s you for coming to me Marion. Bless you for showing Ine all that ia no ble woman may be. The memory of this hour will lighten all my luturo years." 'Chester, gou (to not understand Inc." she persisted. "I ask you to return to no life of deponidoluce. "I will forget that I have a single shiling in the world except what you give ie. I will sharo whatever homo you oIer me-even this. "For better, for wvorse, darling, we pledged oursaelvcs, as sacredly as though already we had stood bef ore God's altar. In God's sight I am your wife. "I elaim my right to share your dark (days, as wuell as those on which tihe sun) of prosperity may shine.'' Hie strove to answer her, but his voice broke. Shie had conquered ; but woman-like, she gave to himi the glory of her victory as she sobbed out her happiness uponi his heart. A month later there was a quiet wedt (1ing, at which were neither fhowers, nor bridesmaits, nor music ; but Marion Willoughby missed nothimg. It was alter the ceremony lied been perfrmed that Uhester showed 1her a document which had been his wedding gift from the firm he had served so faittu fully, and which admitted him as a junior p~artnier from that date. But she smiled half-4adly as she look ed at it through a mist of tears. ''You said once, clear," she wvhispered, "that Liowers, to liye, needed sunlight. "My darling, I had not then made the wonderful discovery that 1:>yd makes sunlight everywhere. "With your heart my home, be its outward adornments what they will, I envy no klig his palace, no queen her [eail Artlenc. Th.e Post-Oflco Dopartment lies or dered the sale at auction of -artioles ae cumulated in the Dead-Letter Office, and a catalogu is published which is in its way a curiosity. Thore are 12,000 lots, and probably not less than 40,000 articles ; and such a variety can rarely before have b)eoa seen together. Be sides several thousand books, and some Iiundlreds of articles of jewelry, there is a list of miscollancous erticles which seems to include almost everything uni dier tihe sun that could b)e put into a mail-bag. For instance, there are cor sets, files, 15-puzzles, carpet-stretchers, stockings, spatulas, trousers, hypoder mic syrinages, hammers, fishing tackle, ostrich-feathers, door-knobs, fiddle strings, oil-stonles, liver-pads, pipes, Ilats, padlocks, pistols, mouse-traps, galvanic batteries, garters, tobacco, tea spoons, garden -spr inklers, screws, stir rups, rugs,'shirts, courtship-cards, nurs ing bottles, strengthlening plaster, arti ficial flowers, cam paign-torches, boots and shoes, harmonicas, bullet-molds, walking sticks, and even. washing ma chines. Builalo 0111 ana Custer. In 1867, says Iluffdo .Bill, I was pon guide and scout at' Fort flays, Kansas Before that titme I had meut General Custe when he was stationed at old Fort Fletche but I was not well aeuiainted with him One evening early in June he came iltt Hays with'only a liplit escort and .was 01 a forced march to Fort Larned, which i sixty fvo ni,ep froli the former place. A that time there were,ct course, no railroa< conlnectiohls. When the General expresse< a wish for some gu l'e to accompany hni the commanding ofier detailed ie, apt orders were given Id start tt daylight th following'mprinlg.. - ..M.the time no hes long-distance hoise was a big, mouse-c6l ored mule, and as I had heard what i lightning traveler Costea was t know tha only my best rungq Would do to keel ahead of the 'Whirlkind,' as the Jndilan 'called him. I tbought I would be protiip and ahead of the Generat at daylight, bfi when L arrived he: was already on' the ground with his staff and orderlia. Whe I rode up I noticed him eyeing theaninia I was riding and when I announced tht was to be his guido lie assented, but said would have to get a [letter horse, It. would I would find, take something better Ahau an old mule to keep ahead of him, Ivig orously maintained that the mule wouhd get over the sixty-five miles as quick as any horse he had, and lie seemel to b< satisfied when the post commander spokc up and contirnod what I had said. Foi the first ten miles I had to use the spur lively to keep the General from riding ovei me, but after crossing the bnioky Hill river and getting on into the sand-bills th< mule got his second wind. ie commene. ed to leave Custer's Kentucky tuorough. bred,sud the soldier in time acknowlodget that I was riding a pretty good horsn. 1ot a long time we kept up this rapid travel. ing,. his escort being scattered, out for miles behind, and as the country was dangerouh the General calldd h halt, to let his mae close up and become less convenient tar. gcts for vagrant bands of Indians. Wher we started again I madei up my mnind to show him whet a good mule could do,aud I struck a gait which astonished him ac much that he did Dot call for anothoP halt, We lett the escort to follow as best they could, and before noon the General and myself rode Into Fort Larned. The escort straggled in for hours during the day._ Th< next day I returned to 11ays, while hI touk command of his regiment and soonm after had his big fight at I'awneo Fork creek. I met him freqtiently after that and guided him in neveral expeditions. Poor Custei I 1 was thirty-five miles from hum whcn'ht killed himself, Yes, killed himselt I I The Indians.who were in the ilght of the Litl< Big Horn say Uuster killed himself, al( froi the Indian religion I am conviucel that they are right. H3 was the only one who was not mutilated on the bloody field, nud the red warrior will not mutilate the body of a man who lIces his own life. ] think that Custer fought till all his brother iflicers died, and, no leno to support hi he died by his own hand and ended t1 career of as brave a man as ever wore spurs." They Can't ba Beat. At Charleston I met a man from Bing. h1amuptcu, N. Y., who was agent for somi sort of cotton machinery, and alimost thc first thing he said to me was: "flow (to you manage with the hotel waiters?" "Why, 1 have to fce them, of course." "That shows how green you are. I an going to stop here four days, and 1 won't pay 'em1 a cent." "Then you won't get much service." "I won't, ehl Well, you Just watch mt and learn a thing or two. Bee that?" 1t was a lead half dollar, neatly covered with gold foil, and at first glance it seoem ed to be a twenty dollar gohld piece. WVheis the New Yorker's trunk came un etaire and the two darkies lingered arouixa for ii quarter apiece. that ''twenty" appeaied Ic view, and he said: "Smiallest I've got to-day. ll see you: before I go." Trhe same thing~ was worked on the tabh waiter, on the waiter who brought up ict water, and on several other colored indl vidluals, and when we were all readly tc take the train for Savannah. the trunnku went down on the wagon and we walket to the depot. Two mintea before th< train pulled out the New Yorker turned tc the Africanm with his gripsack and said: "James, will you takhe this coin anm sgiare uip with the boys for minc" "Yes, sah.'' "Pla2e it carefully in your pockuet am don't lose it." '-8he's dar, sahi. Ize milyuns o' timea obleeged to you." "~Never mind that. Well, we are off.' All the way down to Savannah that eve ning my companion chiuckled over hiz keenness in beatmgt the colored populatio: but when we reached the latter city hi ohm took a drop. We were not clear ol the depot when ho was arrested for pass ing counterfeit money, and all lis explan ations did not prevent his return to Char leston by the next train. I met him after ward in Alabama, and he told me tin afinr cost him $65. A London Tonsorial Saloon. According to a correspondent, Londor barber shop aro,queer in conveniences, went into one the other day and nearl3 broke my baek tryiig to pbse for a hill cut aud and a shave in an ordinary woodl en chair. Trho barber is proverl-iall3 loquacious everywhere, and very muchi concerned about the absolutencedse of yoni head and hair. Mine Informed me thai that my hair was very thini, and needed singeing. I deomrured. Just. as I wat abodut to rise, however, lie said: "You won't be satisticee unless you have that hiai singed." Determined to get as much ex perience as I coul In a short time and to: a little money, I reeurned my back-aching attidfudo and the phagos lighted his taper, graspedthe comb, applied his torch, and in an instant my head waa covered, likt little lulus's, with a lambent flame. You shouki have heard that unfortunate barber squeal I You see ho had spreadh the~ bay rumi and tonic pretty thickly before I mnadc uip my mind to undergo the singsing,with. out washing his ha'nde, and hair and hauda were victims of a grand pyrotechnic die. play. I rose with some haste and great indignation, and trusted that the young man was satisfied. kilereafter I shall havt my own way In that shop, cad that youni man won't be so prfu'e Wh hide reeom. mnondation. The Gsve-Away Glame,1 " Do you know, ' said a man who was Eelling jewelry from a dry goorei b;x to a reporter, "that the Ainericans are the easiest humbugged of any In the world I It is true, and I have helped to humbui: them'about as much as th'i average iman." Somebody had. -just been reading an at: count of the Loniavill lottery drawing, which brought lorlh this speech. "Can't you till us soio of your exper lence in that line ?" asked a mali near. "Well 3u011 *ld laugh to know whit 61fbs p'jc0meimake of themselves some. tiines. A lodt tw.o weeks ago I was (own i Urunsw(ck, wlcre I saw a fellow run ning a perfedtly'Dquare game, but which Lwa th'e most out-and-mit. steal I ever heard t of.- 1114 plar was <simple, and hundreds of the very best. people of the town flock o ed to give hin i. trial.;- He rented a store and put a show case across the counter in the center. In the show case lhe had, I know, my hat full or $20 gold colis, piled in one corner, and in the other about the I sanme sized pile of silver dollars. A dice I box apd six dice completed is outfit. By I paying fifty cen'ts a man had ofie throw i with the dice. If he tirow s'x sires he took the entire pilo of gold; if he threw I six aces he was entitled to all the silver. Ut bourse 'lie knew no one over throw all the sixes, neither was it possible to got the sixes to coio all in a bunch. A man a might as well capect to get struck by 1 lightning from a cloudless sky at noonday 3 as to throw six aces ; it Ma alnost an imn possibility, that's, all. Well, the fellow made several hur red dollars and left. ",Did you ever hear how easy it was to f fol a man with soap?" continued the speaker. "We street men know that as an old story, of course. I was down to Troy several nfifiths ago, when a fellow came aloug aliost strapped. le went to & a grocery store, bought a few bars of this 0 transparept soap, cut it into small pieces about the size of one's thuinhi, Wrapped it in tissue palier veryn'ently, and then cov ered the package with tin foil, sprinking z the whole with a bottle of. cologve to give it a good smell. Well, sir, that follow got on a box and soon gathered a crowd by I somo nice talking, and proposed to take t out all the grease froni hats, coats, etc., t that Could be brought In. The first, caso presented 'was that of the city Marshal, who walked.up with a great spot on his ooat, which he wanted taken out. The tellow carried a Epongo well saturated with benzine and arnica, which of itself will take out abuost anything, and by using a bit of the soap soon had the Mar. shal's coat free from grease. That started the soap sales, and In two or three hours, it being uiaturday and a crowd in town, the sol) man had sold '$06 wot th, nearly all o I w hich was clear protit." 'NIopping to draw a breath the jiwelry man.contiutigd hii4 ntcresting story. "I tll you you can liuiftaig ani body. I am not ituie the lost. of the wosld. I he. lieve I would bito at my own tricks if I o-mitd get in the crowd While I wis at I Brunswick. Ga.. I took revenon on tih-, t6wn byfp',ilhg N'flAt we teru a give away racket.' i, is a mighty fine thing to lahy, but a very dangertus one in same ( locahucs. I had been ung a big uibrella iarize enough to cover fifty people, when Ino 1ight on the street it crowd or -ailors, r led on "y some ot the town boys. threw rotten eg-gs at the umbre'la and broke up I the crowd. Then I resolved on the 'give. C away racket.' A fellow has to be mighty I ca eful about working it, or Ito .will &et caught out. It can only be played once I in a town. "The way to do it'is this : Get a lot of line gold rings, which cost about $1 a dozen, and propose to be adveriising sonic bi gold concern in New York. I called mino the brazen gold of ban Fran cisco, statedl that I would show the crowd a thing or two, and soon got them inter. (estedt. First, I made a speech mn which I a statedl my business, then I commnenced to e offer the rings at any price from two cents up, teliing them that they conld not ho i bought for less than $4 aicca at a jawel er's. I let out about twenty rings at two cents, and then aked everybody who had 1 bought, rings to hl)d them up. linstant' y I every ring was in the air. 'Nw, said I, addressinig the crowdl, 'this is your money, is it ?' 'Yes,' 9sa1d a dozen. 'And yotu 1 give it trcely for the rings?' 'Yes,' camne 1 again ini chortus. 'Very well, here's twenty ~ cents for you, sir, and twenty cents for you, sir,' and so onl around the crowd,. Tlhey commenced to wondet- what in the world 1 meant ; saidl I was crazy, and a lot of other things, but I only told themn 1 t was adivertising goods for my house, and' l'ad lelnty more things to gIve away. Next I took up some o1 my handsome dmmanond studs, which 1 exp~lainedl werer Lake George diamionds, equal to any onr earth, etc., and that I was gomng to sell them for twenty.five Cents tip, the moreC one piaid the better It would be, of course, I for him. Twenty stud~s were soon outC and the same speech made. Then I made the crowd hold( up the diamonds, and cach 6 man got fitty cents back who had botughit. "The thing began to get very interest ing, and the crowd nmbered 800 or 400. Then I got ouit soic beauitiful gold-piated . sleeve buttons, whien I explained could nfl be bought for less than $12. These I proposed to sell for- fifty cents each, giving ~ to adl who bought a dlollar additional as before, each time doubling the money gift. The buttons soon went off, as had the other things, and I was ready for the final 'bite' at the crowd. The twenty pairs of sleeve buttons had been sold for y half a (dollar, and~ 1 had given back twenty a silver dollare. 'That fellow's a darned ( fool,' I hoard all around me, but I replied t to this by sayIng that last week, In MIacon, c Ilhad given away $i,600O, and ttiat I wast readly to do it again. "The crowd was perfectly crazy to see I what came next. . it was watch chains. I 'Lhe chamns wefe sold at any price from I $2.60 to anything above that one wanted I to give, I telling them the while tkat the more they paid the better it would be for I them. I hinted that thme watches woti- I come next, and this led them off like a ho'. i of madmen. 'the trIck now was to sell as r many chains as possible at $2.50 1 had a devil of a lot or chabims, anudeo I sent I them ouit right and lett. The dollars camne rushing blindly at me and I raked themi in lik'e chaff. Then I got out of chaine, . "Previotisly I had prepalred ti4o bi -red I Qilk ,bqnd~aerchiols,.exactly alike, an . as I doon as the chais were all sold out I took ( the mtoney, and,,.in the presence of the C crowd, tied it all up together, and after C miaklng a speech, proposed to throw the a blitmdlo Mt' th$ cro~cd fur the best man to ? take, WhIle talking irso yi dr,-pped~ I the bundle Into my bx by my sido, in which I i'ad the other lindkercliet. In this was $10 ino silver and some paper to make it st and out. likq the'one I had drop ped. All this had been arranged before banvd, of courso. - With a whoop I. swung the bag around my head after stopping to pick it I) where I first dropped it, and up it went Into the air. Great, Iayens I you hoult havo son the mob 1I never saw anything like it. They fought like tigers Dver the handkerchief, while 1 took occa alon to leave the spot. I had also arrang ed to bring the thing to a climax about the time the Alhauny traim left, so I was driven it once to the depot. I was just $280 thead. But I got very weak in the knees I while waiting at the depot. I was a little oo soon, and about a dozen young men ame up. raiisingr tile very nmschief of a noise, which I thought was for me, and it 1 prcved to be trite. They baw nax and came tround Ine, laughing and knocking .each xhcr like crazy n.en. I didn't know what I )n earth was the miatter until they finally I old In It was tino best joke that had ever >een played on Brunswick, and although hey had been victimized, they wanted to ssure tie it was all right. Il had Pokt the chains to nearly all the lest mnen of Birnnswiuk, some of them 1 laying ie as high as $5 for them. I was atisfied to leave, and had my revenge. (ou miy put It down for a fact that any verago Ainerian crowd can bo hum mgged the sam- way every dlay in the enr." A Blind Coloired Maln. Tiere is, in Selma, Alabama, as hostler, ;ardener and general workman a negro namiet Dick, t wenty-four years old, who, ince uils fifth birthday has beeu as blind s the proverbial hat. Tie amount of vork Ie does and the neatness, accuracy Ind dispatch with which all his chores and dd jobs are done are simply marvelous. ic attends to several horses, feeds them, vashes their harimss, and, when occasion lemanus, can hitch up a oam as well as voli as any one. His stable yard is at oadel ot cleinliness, and tho garden is vell wored. le wasle.j the cairriages, oi a05 ind wiagons, oils vehicles and sece hat they tre all right, before allowing hei to be takena out of the lot. lie is as ight heiairted as most Africans, and can en oy a1 joke anood laugh at it, though he eastes but few moments in idlenena of iny vatiety, his old variety, his whole iind seemingly being beat upon a careful lischarge of his various duties. lie is as tout ats an ox, and is a bad man to tease, n a bantering lo:ufer found out to his sor ow not, long siee. Ile had been tormen. ing Dick uitil the latter's stock of patience :ava oit, when he turned turiously on his orinentor, amid the first thing thi individ iaidl knew he wais landed, all bruIsed up, in , heap tiname 3 aids away, i'erhaps the nost reimilmbe gift the man hais is hIs .bitity to tell within at few moments the ime of (lay. Day or night, when asked Ythl time it is, lie replies without hesita iou, amid iarel fI urther olf from the ek (t maIking ot tle dial than ten minutes. j To tcot thij gilt, after having talked vi Ii him about, his work the reportor lutc1'ly askel: "What ti:uCn is it, Dil'k?" "lIall-ptit t c," aiiio the imuiediate elpl'e. A lhooi at the wai'ch showed that at that na;tant It w s 10.'20, within four minutes ft he tine guesed by the man, who ,robably knows not the appearanco of ither wuat ch (r clock. lie goes to his otou nome blocks (Is, ant to remain during he night, but is always oi hand bright ud carly as the Iimrning sun to began his lay's work. In all sorts of weather be ever fails to be on time. le is celdon ick, and then only slightly indisposol. Thm Fni,,ltti tit Finworm. 'The decrees of lashion in flowers are Inmost, as inexorable as those respecting ress-partiacularly in'thie nn'nner of wear ag them. A young mani~i who should no0W pp~uar in wide trouasers, ins~aaa.i of those [ rhicha clung to the I 'g, would be subject o ridicule; so wvould lie be frownie:i on it *e wore a redi rose when it was the proper 'ung to wear a while one. Jnst now men, vear large white rosebuds in their button oles on evening occasions. Tlhils fashion acks originality. The ment are wearing irge white roschuds in London. Last eason the muan of faishlon hero wore the miallest white flowers he could find. TIhe lower most in use att present Is the rose, iter of a dlelic'ato pinik shade or white. When a bride doees not wear the tradi. ionatl orange blossoms she adorns herself nith white toses anal halt opeed buds. Lihe bridesmaaids carry colored roses, most f at pm1k tint. Tlhie groom wears a white j osebudi~ when the bridJo carries white oses, anid the groomosmen have flowers In n their coals corresponding to the bouquet C araied b~y the ladies they escort. Corsage c otiquets for evening parties or street wear ounsist simphly of pink or whito roses tied I aa loose bunch. If more than one kind f buds(1 are usedi those of the samne color rc gr'ouped together, Alt flowers must. ave their own stems, which..Athould be :rng. At diannera.einocad ol' bouquets at Ach-phae, smiall baskets of flowers are laced ini frorat of each guest. At lunch on parties there Is usually a bunch of oses for each guest, wiech is fastened on 'to corsage after luncheon Is over and wern ont the street. Capitol Paintings Daagea. r Onie of the great p~aintlings In the Capitol thich as nineteen feet by fifteen in dimten ions, was very badly scorched dluring the larfield fair and the pigments seem to ave been on the point of takinag fire. A lose wall of pine boards wva erected inside lie rotund~a in ordlor to protect the picture rom mutilation during the fair. Near the >ainting of the Baptism of [Pocahontas was large register, through which heat comes ip from the furnaces to warm the vast rca. The board wall above alluded to 11 vans set just outside of the register, so that a he hecat was carried tup by means of this mnproinpt~u flue directly over the canvas, nttod of being diffused throughout the 0oom. The consequenco is, that by thisng toady aplihcation of intense heat the alntiing has changed color and cracked ini c thousand places. 11, Is valued at $10,-.g 06 a-id will have to be taken down and oto~uchted, which will be the work of nont hs, to repair the damage. Another ri aunting w"as Pcorocl a little, upon. the' ~t'cr side of the rotunda, and the canvas f still aniothier, whi'h represents the dii overy of the Mississippi by D8 Boto, had hole punched through the sky by the arpetiteta'idi takihfdo'at 'the woodbi' i uhlnh hard bena.taen e..li frs ofIt [876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the IORNING STAR SALOON I respectfully call the attention of the >ublic to my superior facilities for sup dying everything 11 my line, of superior Luality. Starting business In Wians. )or6 i 1876, hav' la all this time riven the closet attention to my busi ices and endeavored to make my estab isihment FIRST-OLASS in every par icular. I shall in the future, as in the mnst, hold myself ready to servo my 'ustomers with the beat artinles that can >e procured in any market. I shall t tand ready, also, to guarantee every rticle I sell. I invite an Inspection of my stock of Vines, Liquors, Tobacco Cigars, etc. F. W. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey's). L. Bin Laubort and Marat Cognae Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rottordam Fish Gin. Ross's Royal Ginger Ale. Jules Mumm & Co.'s Champagne. Cantrol & Cochran'a Ginger Ale. Apollinaris Mineral Water. Angustora Bitters. Old Sherry Wine. Old Port Wine. DOMESTIC. Ginger Ale. Soda Water. Sarsaparilla. Old Cabinet Rye Whiskey. Old Schuylkill Rye Whiskey. The Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned btandard Rye Whiskey. esso Moore Vollmer Rye Whiskey, )ld N. 0. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey. Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy. New England (French's) Bam. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Brandy. Pure Ginger Brandy. Boston Swan Gin. SUNDRIES. Rook and Rev. Osceola Bitters. Hiostetter's Bitters. ergnor & Engol's Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught, rew Jersey Swee't, Sparkling Cider. olut, Rook & Bye, Lawrence & Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Rook and Corn. Digars and Tobacco Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2j cents. ladoline Cigar-All Havana-10 conts. )on Carlos (Nub)-ali Havana--10 cents lnorva Cigar-Havana flleor - cents. heck Cigar-Havana flller-5 cents. lurfBoast Cigar-Havana filler-S cents uckylHit Cigar--Havana filler- as,~ he Unionnm Self-LighMnigart'e .(Am~ber uiouth-piece to every ten packages.). The Pickwiok Club Olgarette, (Shuck mouth-mioces.) I'CiII1*(nfnd Gecm Gigaret te, (I ighit smoking.) le 0111! Billiara and Pool Par lor in Town. ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for the cc of my customors. I wil also keep a npl)y of FISH1, OYSTERS, &O., >r my Restaurant, which Is always peni from the first of September to the rat of April. T aball endeavor to please all who give ie a call. Very respectfully, . F. W. JABEICHT. OePPoSY'IoTO5TOFFOE, t -4