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* - - - - 8 i TRI I-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. FEBRUARY 17. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 AN ANSWEICtED PRYICit. "0, give mne a mesage of quiet,". I asuk in ay nioraing priyer; "FIor the turbulent trouble within tie is more than any heart can bear. Around there is strife and discord, And the storms tihat do not cease, And the whirl of tie world is on une-r Thou only oanit give me peace." I opened the old, oll Bible And looked at a p ige of Psalms, Till tile wiutry sea of ny trouble Was snioothed by its sutner calus. For the words that'lave helped so manty, And the pagda.have seenie il ore dear Seenied new in their power to oomnfort, ni they brought nine any word of cheer. Like mntle of solemn singing These wpris came down to me; 4q' .Lord Is slow to anger, X11l of naeroy great Is lHe; Eacht generation praiseth - Ills v ork of long renown; The Lord utiholdetit all that fall, And raiseti thle boweil down." I-iat gav tine'lie atrength Iwanted' r knew the Lord was nigh; All that was nakling me sorry Would be better hy'antl by. I had but to wait in patience, . Anil keep at any lallier's Milo, And nothirg would really hurt tae, Whatever might betide. Tit UC CU RCFiEW it EtOIN E. It lacked quite half all hour of curfew toil, The old boll-ringer came from under the wattled roof of his cottage ,toop, and stood with uncovered bead in I he clear, sweet-sisented air. He had grown) blind and deaf in the service, but his arm was as muscular as ever, and he who listened this day marked no falter ing in the heavy metallio throbs of the cathedral bell. Old Jasper had lived through many changes. He had tolled , ut his notes of mourniug for good Queen Bess, and with tears scarcoly dry he had rang the glad tiuings of the coronation of James. Charles 1. had been crowned, reigned and expiated his weakness be fore all England in Jasper's time; and niow he, who under urmy held all the commonwealth in the hollow of his band, ruled as more than monarch, and still the old mian, with the habit of a long ife upon him, rang his matin and sorrow. Jasper stood alone now, liftiug his dimned eyes up to the softly dappled sky. The walls of his memory seemed so written over-so crossed and recrossed by the anuals of the years that had gone before, that there seemed little room for anything in the present. Little reeked he that Cromwoll's spearamen were camped on the moor bey ond the village - that. (1rnmwall himieif rnd-n witha hi guardsmen a league away; he only knew that the bell had been runa in the tower when William the Conqueror made cur low a law, had been spared by Puritan And Roundhead and that his arm for Mixty years had neverfailed him at even tide. He was moving with slow step toward the gate, -when a woman came hurriedly in from the street and stood beside him; a lovely woman, but with face so blanched that it seemed carved in the whitest of marble. with all of its round news and dimples. Her great solemn eyes wore raived to the aged taco in piti ful appeal, and the lips were forming words that lie could not understood. "Speak up, lass; I am deaf and cannot hear your clatter," The voice raised, and the hands clasped and unclaped, ind rung themselves to I 41 gotha, palm alid padim. "For heaven's sake, ITasper do not ring the ourfewv to-night.." "What, nia ring curfew! Ye must be daft, lassie," "Jasper, for sweet heaven's sake, for my sake, for one night in all your life long, forget to ring the bell Fail this once, and my lover shall live, wvhom Uromnwell says shall die at ciurew toll. Do you hear? my lover, Ritobard Temple. see, Jlasp~er, here is money to makoyour old age happy, I sold my jewels that the Lady Mlaud gave me, and the gold shall all be yours for onie curfew," "Would ye bribe me, Lily Do Yore? Ye're a changeling. Xo've nia the blood of the Plautaganets in ye're veins as ye're mother had. What, corrupt the bell ringer under her mnajesty,. good Queen B~essI Not for allI the gold that .landy Maud could bring mnch Baibes halve been born and strong men have died before now at the rmhging of my bell, Awat'l awa'!" And out on the village green, with the solemnn shadows ol the-Ilicens lengthen - inig over, it,. a str6ug rman awaito~d the curfew to toll for his death. Hde stood, handsome and bravo and tall-talor by an inch than the tallest pikomnan whe guarded him. What had he done that lhe should die? Little it mattered in those dlays, wvhon the sword that the great Cromwell wvield ed was so prone to fall, what he or others had uone. fle had been scribe to the late lord up at We' castle, anld Lady Maud, forgetting that man must woo and woman must wait, land giveni ber heart to him without asking, while the gentle Lily Do V're, distant kinswoman and poor companion to her, had, with out seeking, found the treasures of ht true love and 1101d them fast. Tihen nie had joined the army, and made one of the pious soldiers whose evil passionls wvero never stirred but by sign or symbol of popery. Blut a scorned woman's hat red had reached him even there. Euie mies and deep plots had comipassed 1im about and conquered him, To-night lie was to dlie. Th'le baautiful world lay as vivid pie ture before him. The datrk grscon wood above the rocky hill wvhore iobin Ho'xd and Ils merry meon had~dwelt.; the frown ing catstle with its draw bridge and square towers; the long strotoh of rnoor with the purple shadows upon it; thme green, straight walks oh the village; the birds overhead, even the daisies at Is feet he saw. Bunb, ahi more vividly thani all, lie saw the great red sun with its hazy veil hingering above the trees, a though it pitied himn with more than human pity. He was a God-fearing and a God-serv ing man. He had long made his pence wIth heaven. Notning stood between him and death- nothing rose pleadmng troy him but the sweet face of Lily De Yore, whom'he toyed. She had knelt at Dromwell's feet and.pleaded for his life. Bho had weariel heaven with her pray iirs. but all without avail. Slowly now the great sun wont down. Blowly the last red rim was [id behind the greenwood. Tbirty seconds more and his soul would be with his God. The color did not forsake his cheeks. The Llark rings of hair lay upon a warm brow. It was his purpose to die as martyrs and brave men die. What was life that he shiould cling to it? He almost felt the ftir pulsate with the flirt heavy roll of the death-knell. But no sound came. Still facing the soldiers with his clear gray eyes upon them, he waited, The Drinson lbauners in the west were paling to pink. The kinc had ceased their low iug, and had been gathered into the brick-yards. All nature had sounded tier curfew; but old Ja per was silent! The bell-ringer, with his gray head yet bared, had traversed' half the dis lance that lay betwoon his cottage and the ivy-covered tower. when a form went flittiug past him, wilh pale, shadowy robes floating around it, and hair that the low westorn lights tonchad and tinted LW a with a halo. "Ah, Huldiah, Huldahl" the old man muttored; "how swift Pho flies! I will come soon, dear. My work is almost done." Huldah was the good wife, who had gone from him in her early woman hood, and for whom lie had mourned all his long life. But the fleeting form was not Huldah's it was Lily Do Vere, hur ried by a >udden and desperate purpose toward the cathedral. "So help me God. curfew shall not ling to-night! Cromwell and his dra goons come this way. Oace more I will kneel at his foet and plead." She entered the ruined arch. She wrenched from ils fastenings the carved and worm-eaten door that barred the way to the tower. She ascended with flying and frenzied feet the steps; her heart lifted up to God for Richard's de liverance fromi peril. The bats flow out and shook the dust of centuries from the black carvings. As she went up she caught glimpses of the interior of the great building, with its groined roof, its chevrons and clustered columns, its pic tured saint and carved image of the Vir gin, which the in pillages of ages had been spared to be dealt with by time. the most relentless vanquisher of all. Her breath was coming short and gasp ing. She saw through an open space old Jasper cross the road at the foot of the tower. Oh, how far! The seconds were treasures which Cromwell, with all his blood..bought commonwealth, could not. pnmhase from her. TTInaLx tiare. just above her, with its groat aefikzen mouth and wicked tongue, the bell hung. A worm-eaten block for a step, and one small, white hand had clasped itself above the clapper-the other prepared at the tremble, to rise and clasp its mate and the feet to swing off-and thus she waited. Jasper was old and slow, but lie was sure, and it came at last. A faint quiver, and the young feet swung from their iest, and the tender hands clasped for more than their precious life the writhing thing. There was groaning and creaking at the pulleys above, and then the strokes came heavy and strong. Jasper's hand had not forgot its cun ning, nor fbl arm its strength. The tender, ioft form was swung and dasha to and fro. But rhe clung to-and car esssed the cold, cruel thing. Let one strokc come, and a thousand might "ul low-for its fatal work would be done. She wreathed her white hands about it, so that at every p~ull of the great ropes it crushed mnto the flesh, It tore her, and wounded and bruised; but there in tile solemn twilight the brave woman swung and fought with the curlew; and God1 gave her victoi-y. The old bell-ringer said to himself; ''Ayo, Huldahi, my we k is done, The pulleys are getting too heavy for my old arms. My ears, too, have failed me. I uiuna hear one stroke of the curfew. Dear old bell, it is my ears that have gone false, and not thou. I'arewell, old Iriend." And just beyond the worn p)avement a shadowy form agaim went flitting paist himt. Therio wetre dlrops of blood uipon the white garmniits, and the face was hike the face of one who walked mi her sleep, and the hands hung wvounded and p ,werosa at her side. (Oromwvell paused with his hiorsomnen under the dismantled maypole before the vilhge green. Hie saw the man who was to die at suinset standing ng in the dusky air, tall as a kmig and lbeautiful as Absaulom. He gazed with kinitted brow and angry eye; but his lips did not give utterance to the quick command that tr-embled on them, for a girl came flying toward him. [Pikoman and archer stepped aside to lot her pass. She threw herself upon the turf at his horse's feet; she lifted her bleeding and tortured hands to his gaze, and once more poured out fher prayer for the le of heir lover; with tremiblinig lips she told him why Richard still lived--why the curfew had not sounded. Lady Maud, looking out of her latticed window at the castle, saw theogreat Pro teeter dismonut, lilt the fainting form in his arms and bear her to her lover. She saw the guards release the prisoner, and she heard the shouts of joy at his deliverance; then she wvelcomed the nignt that shut the scene out from her envious eye and sculptured her in itsi gloom. At the next matin bell 01(d Jasper died, and at curfewv toll lie was laid beside the wife who had dmed in his youth, but the memiory of wvhom had been with him always. A Ca,,fornia isuuon, In the Green Mountaim claim, near Cedar ravine, Captain Ames, of Cali fornia. found a large and handsome diamondl, larger than an ordinary pea, without defect in color and remnark'ably clear. There is a smiall flaw on the side, but it will dress down to a very fine gem of much value, Of course, no exact estimate of its value can be made until it alnl have n rsd.nem Camps of Snow. The uses of snow for heating purposes, or, more accurately, for keeping out the cold, cannot be appreciated at their true value except among the arctic and semi arctic wilds, where it would be Impossiule to sustain life during at least half the year were it not for the snow. The E',quimaux hut has often been illustrated and de scribed, but there are oti er structures made of snow which, though less proten tious, are of as much value to the moose, caribou, deer and fox hunter as the hut to the E'qumLaux. The three orders of architeteure in snow are the simple .burrow, the V camp, and the snow hut. Of these the burrow needs the smallest amount of training in order to construct it, the V caip but little more, while the snow-hut is a rhing, which to build successfully, requires long practice and skill. In constructing the snow barrow, all that is necessary in order to be perfectly comfortable is a heavy overcoat, a blanket or shawl to cover up the face and nepk and prevent the snow from touctihgi te skim. Having this, find some place wh the snow has drifted rather deeply on tiltz lee side of a rock, a clump of bushes, a tree-trunk, or in fact anything which will seliter the pile in which it is proposed to make the burrow from the wind. Then dig with the hands, or anything else, a hole in the snow, crawling in as fast as It is made. Wriggling would be a better word than crawling, because while getting into tLe burrow it Is necessary to moye along lying at full length, so that, beyQud the disturbance caused by tne passage of the body, the snow shall not be moved. When a person enters in the manner des cribed, as fast as the support for the upper snow is removed by digaing, the body thkes its place. Freshfallen snow-the best to make a burrow in-is very easily ioved, and were a person to make a hole large enough to admit blui on hands and knees, the roof or coverini would fail in, and lie would not be sheltered at all. The blanket or shawl-the writer has known of one case where a vest was used instead with pertect success- must be wrapped around the head and nei-k before beginning the burrow, and the burrower will conse quently have to work in the dark or with his eyes blindfolded. This, however, is of little consequence if he will start in the right direction, and keep going towards the eround as mauci as possiole. The process of burrowing is very simple. The hands make a hole and the head follows them as fast as possible. It is sometimes necessary to push the snow as it is dug out (town at the side of the body, disturb ing the snow as little as may be, and keep ing it from conlact with the skin. Once in the burrow, the burrower should push the snow away from around his head ao as to form a small space in which 9 lsremneT10 It ite snow is so lighit thitn is unable to do this withoutiits falling in, then le shouli arrange the cavering around his head in such a way as to give him some space inside ot it. i1e need be in no fear of stilling, as the snow allows Mir enough to pass through it to give all lie wants. The one thing to be feared in snow-burrowing is that the weather may not be cold enough outside, for if the snow be wet the burrow, is of no use. As long as the snow is dry the burrower will be as comfortable inside of the drift as lie could be in the warmest feather bed. Uonsiderably more pretentious, and cer tainly more comfortable, because one is not so confinett is the V camp. It is aol Lionm made unless for a number of persons, as it involves a good bit, of labor. Choos. ing a drift not less than flve, and butter yet, seven or eight, feet (eel), the canipurs niark out on the surface a gigantic V. .ilor a party o live this would be about mne feet across the top, and about the satme mb length. The drift inust be what is called "old anew," because new-lallen alnow is too light anid fleecy to give the re quisite strenght to the sidles. Taking their snow-shoes, the muen proceed to dig out the snow, throwIng it Qn the difft, oa time outside and leaving the walls porpen dicular. having g't, all of the sniow out at, the lower or narrow cnd of the V, what is cslledi a "'rise" is mad~e, which is sinmp ly a p~ath trainp~ed down from the bottom of the camnp to the 1.01) of the snow. While two or three of. thbe party are (digging the camp, die rest cut (down 0one or two flr trees, the flat branches of which are trinmed off anti brought to the camp. Somec of these arc p~laced in the "rise'' to preveiit those walking in and out tromi siniking in the anio ". Th'le rest are I id on the groimd~ to form the bed. At thme lower enid 'A the V a lire is built, and( the camip us redy to be occuied. There are few mocre delightful places to sleep. WVyemmg Newu. Six ycars ago an' man camne to Wyoming fromi New Eniglano, andl started in the cattle business on the Laramuie plains with one solitary Texas steer andl a good, serv iceable branding iron, lie now has over 000 nead of stock, the multIplied increase of that one critter. Wiio says there Is no money in the stoca biusinessi A femiale named Calamnity Jane, a characte~r of i8771 and~ 1878 in D~eadwood, who has beon liviig on a ranch for two or three yenia, Is again on the walr-paith. 11er specialty Is dlexterity with a six shooter andl a pelker deck. Jupliter Is now the eve-iing star, and ap. pears na the eastern sky as soon as It is dark enough to see him rise with stately ste p to the zenith, and sinks slowly to the west, glowing in the celestial dome nearly all iighit. Among the unfortunamte callers on Moni day was the y'oung--gentlenmn who called on f mr queens at onie tiue, Hie forgot there was snch a thing as Ikings. A en quiette who meets a fociman worthy of her steel will spare no effort to bring him to her feet, taking the risk of gettiny, snared herself in the endeavor. And when she his him there, andc his scalp fliirat ively speakIng, is lirmnly attached to her belt, she iOses no opportunmity of exhibitinug her conqiuiest to her fellow laborers In the harvest, ild of Ilhrtation. It is one of the m.>st ainusing p~astlhnes of society, but those who go through it wihhout singed wings are largely In time minority. Paiox lias a fall: "Dere ia noe danger of dumblig town," aid a fat pedestri an 3Cesterday. ".I. Ish always in luck; a sort of a Ma.-" The last syllable of the word was never spoken, but some thing vei y like it ini Gernman, with sun (dry additions, was muttered as a police man lifted him on hus adiu. Fish Food For Patnquers. The Introduction of ermau carp into the United States, a fish that will thrive and grow fat and savory on decaying vegeta tion, is a progressive step toward utilizing the millions of small water tracts that dis figure the farms of the country. It is a rare exception when a hundred- acre farm has not a pond, or a pool, where fish culture can be made to flourish, if not with the beauty, with more than the value of the harvest acre. Fresh fish for biecakfast is a great rarity upon a farmer's table. This is the more strange when we consider that many of our most fertile farina, especially those east of the Allegheny beit 11U' niVUg tine great water nou80, or are furrowed by struntus that will yieldea bountiful supply of coarse, but good fish food. Fish-culture, by its rapid, economic progress duritg the. last decade, -has placed at the will of the farmer a means of providing for hiseiaily need. which ranks in Importance with the raising of ordinary-. finjprodcti tor home oonsump tion. Why t'4, farmer has not found this .0ii long ago ils easy to exilain. ' The -tursuWt* 'dtibh-editiire has been almost exclusively cinfined to those who may be classed, without offense, as professional flsh culturists. These gentlemen have made fish-culture an axt; froni a knowledge of which, the farmer, with his acres of water area, all ready for the seed, has been debarred. Yet all these years fish. raising, for dnestiQ use, has remained one of the sinplest problems that ever a farmer was called upon to solve. (iven a pond, a few fish, a shovel, a few hour' labor, with twelve months o1 patient waiting,-and you have your crop, which, with cie, will become an annual one, without the use of plow, harrow or seed bag. Take the carp as au illustra Lion. If you have a natural l)ond, cove: ing at least half an acre, with an outlet and inlet, its gicatest depth at least eight feet, with a shelving margin, you have your fish farm. Bond to,th fish commis sion of your State for 4 supply of carp, which will be furnisheoi to you free of cost, except that of transportation. Place them in your pond, ficding, if needed, with the scraps from th hitchen, or better still, with the curd -o' sour milk. In twelve months there will be a crop ready for table tse. Fish, like cereals, must have p-otection. Before planting the carp. see that the p-md is cleared of all other kinds of fish, and of frogs, hoth of which will so:mn eat up the young fish, as well as the spawn ot the larger ones. The young fish have other enemies, such as the kingfisher, the blue heron, ducke, water-rats, etc., against which they will need protetion. Put no other flah in the pond with carp, but if you crave a varied lish diet, and have another natural poni, or the chance XM itA# onsu?*Wdzn itsh or ; 1h, 1in ii. Tis Balhi prolects its young, and mecrcascs withi gfa i-apidity, In a separate pond may be planted the lorge-niouth black bass, or the yellow perch may be raised. All of the above nined fish will live and thrive in pon(ds with a muddy bottom, and their growth in size and numbers will be dependent upon the food and fresh water supply. The carp is a vegetable feeder atd will re quire little food s long as the pond is well tilled wit'i aquatic plants. The other fish feed on minnows, rogs, the larva of water isects, fresh-water crustacea, and such other aninial food as co:nes within the reach of their rapacious jaws. By the judicious culture of a small frog pre serve, sufficient food for the black bass can be raised with a surplus of delicious frog legs for private consumption. John1 naara1flndb4Aw-rrne. "Mamie is (iying." These were the words that the tele graph-key clicked out upon thme silence thait had fallen upon the station of which Jolha Heathcote was in charge, And so, as John Ueathcote placed the message in an envelope andl sent it by his ofilce boy t~o an address with which lie was not familiar there was perhaps the suspieiom f a tear glistening in lia honest eye, and imayhap the hand that penned the adldress tremibled a little, for lie hind wife and children of lisa own, had John IHtat hcoto, anitIt came to him with awful torce how cheerless his life would be were one of the little pairs of arms that each miorninr twined so lov ingly arouind his neck to be folded ncross a heart that was stilled forever and the deep brown eyes be closed in the diream less sleep of death. And while he was still thinking there caimi agamn the nervous click of the hn stiumnent, andi as he atnswered the call' be felt, Instinchvely that the message lie was to receive -would bring more bad ne ws, And lie was right. "Mamie is dead; I will be home In the morniing," wero the wordls that came to him over the wires, nd~ then the tears in honest John Heath cote's eyes were lplain enough, and lie was not ashamed that lie had wept at the sor rows of people tall unikno)wn to him. When the morning train from the West canm. thtundering ito the little town where John ileathcoto lived he was standIng upon the platform. is hours of duty had endled somne time before, but he could not bear to leave until lie hiad seeni tIAe man whose namie was signced to the dilspatches of the p)revious night. A sleigh had come to the (depot andi the dIriver had satd incidentally that lie was to meet Mr. Jones. When the train arrived a weary-looking man stepped fr mn one of the cars andl the dIriver of the sleigh ap proaehe I himn. Johii foathtcote was standIng withIn a few feet of them. "Good( morning, Mr. Jone," said the driv -r. "''O d inorning. John." 'S > Matmle is dead?'' asked the mi m. " Yes," was the reptly, in low, agonized tones, "anid she would have beatent 2. M0 next senson." John Ileathcoto want away. Vermont is said to produceo more marble than any other -Btate in thme Unmon or than any country except tis. Tihe business has expanded with mar velous rapidity since 1870, when com paratively little Vermont marble was to be 1omad in the market. The aggro gate amount of the State's production the piesenit year is 1,000,000 cubic feet, valued at over $2,000,900. The num ber of mon employed in the quarries and mills exceeds 2300, and it requiredi 10,000 oars to carry thgi marble away. Nearly $1,600,000 was pauid for time labor of workiingn by the quarry The Indln Mariage Market. Of the curiosities of Anglo-Indian literature there are none more amusing than the stories of matrimonial allianceso in times past. It seems incredible now that a young lady could be shipped off like a parcel of goods consigned to an agent in India; but such was the fate of many a girl, and it must be confessed that It was a destiny not uiiwilHlingly encountered. Nevertheless, wnat must have been the feelings of the young lady during the tedious timo of the six months' voyago to India, knowing that she was just as much sent out for sale as any of the packages among the cargo, and cognizant of the fact that certain pig-tailed and nankeen-breeched nabobs would be waiting at Garden Reach, Calcutta, or the Bunder, Bom bay, to appraise her marriageable value the moment she landed? By all ac counta, the girls thus shipped to the East, along with oadets, the black sheep of their families, accepted the situa. tion philosophically. Those who had no female relatives to look after them wore placed under the charge of the captain, and it is a curious fact, do noting the mannors and customs of the times, that one of the essential qualifi cations for the command of an iLdia man was a reputation in the trade as a I male chapcron of young women. Cer- I tam captains were well known for the care. they took of their interesting but I difficult charges. Nor was the respon sibility a light one. It is to be remem- a bered that even as lately as thirty years i ago the East Iniiamen carried troops, i and, of courso, their fascinating red- i coated officors Ps well; also cadets and I midshipmen, who probably asked for nothing better than the opportunity 4 offsetting the commander's vigilance at i deflanco. Under the circumstances and the surroundings, the poor captain < must have resembled a lien with a brood of ducklings to look after, and he must have been Argus eyed indeed to i have prevented all flirtation betwoen his young ladies and his young gentle men on the voyage out. We catch glimpses oi the good man's difliculties in such old Indian novels as 'Poregrine Pultiney,' and in the sea journals of travelers of the period. TI rst, the girls worei proiy; utherivise, i. wouIld not havo ben iauch use to send them out to the Indian Marriage Market, at heavy expense in the way of outfit and passage; and. secondly, I they were fresh from school and' con- i sequently romantic. So, too, wero the cadets and young offic ers on board. 1 Aud, thirdly, the monotony of lifo on i board ship during a six months' voyago I to India round the Cape of Good Hope 4 was highly favorable to a development I of the tender passion in hearts that I were already fired with droanin (f con quest and glory. No doubt, too, the sacrificial maidens put the future as much as possiblo out of their thioughts, It was no use looking forward to th wizened old judge or the jaundiced merchant prince at the end of the voy age. Better to make hay while the sun: shone-with the cadets. And so the captain had to be alert and ever vigi lant, lest the cadets andl midsh'ipmeni should b)e whispering with the young ladies through the port-holes, or, even, worse, should snatch kisses from themi in the dark holes and cornefrs of hmii fine, frigate-built ship1. In the novel above referred to an amusing account of the advantage taken from a storm is given, The heroine is destined for a wealthy 1 old gentlemn in Calcutta, but gets into a terrible tlirtation with a cadet. And, as they chmoose to suppose that the ship is going to the bottom, they think it no harm to die in each ot.hcer's arms, though the young lady's fwuce iu Cal eutta would probably have thought otherwiso had hie been there to look on. The splenidid marriages, from a wvorldly point of view, that woere made in those days must have also been a sore temptation. Fifty years ngo mcin could make fortunes in India-som-e times in a few years. And .the girl who went out a toeherless lass might return in a few years as the wife of ani aIdian millionaire, to astonish Bath or Tunibridge with the water of her dia monds and the lavish expenditure of her lord: The whole thing, in short, was a lottery in which they were valu able prizes and few blanks. The girls carried all the beauty of penniless English families to the market, the gentlemen their Iakhs of easdly-won rupees. Cupid, in the shape of some self-interested hartidan of the Indian fashionable world, acted as a go-bol tween, and my Lord Bishop of Benga did the rest. Shawvls and other Indian curiosities were sent home to the happy parents, who speedily made ready new consignments of sisters to the bride, and so the gamie went on from one generation to another untIl, in some Indian proyinoes, lihl the wealthy or influential people became curiously in-i termarried. Foregn Oapitaui in Georgia. The last ofileial signature of Governor Colqiut, ot Georgia, executed about tea mInutes before the Inauguration of G*ov ernor 8tephens, will brIng $5,*00,000 of foreign capital Into that 8tate. It was at tachaed to the "'ertlfication of a deed trans ferring a tract o'f mining land lin northern Georgia to an English syndicate, for a con alderation of one mIllhon pndsmt.eli.n. The 9irocco. What shall we say of the sirocco? What, indeed[ Only Dante could do ustice to its horrors; only setting itside >y side with the plagues of Egyptcould ightly catalogue it. During the sirocco rou do not live, you exist; and your ex stenee is suffering, All the strength Koes out of your shews; all the stiffness )ut of your backbone. You have no energy, no hope, no cheerfulness, no ?atiencel Your head is burning, your eart heavy as lead, your nerves are mapod and as if lying bare, your temper is a curse to yourself and au infliction bo your neighbors; and you take kindly lo the strange new heresy which makes tUs planet' the place of torment and nnan life the expiation of foregone uilt. At night you cannot sloop; during the lay you can neither work nor play. Vhon you get, up in the morning and see he clouds of dust hanging heavy in the Lir; when you note what has crept in brough the crevices during the night, wd is now lying settled on everything n your room-when you find sand be weei your teeth and rub into your eyes -then you know what Is beforo you, mud shudder at the ielanob oly prospect )f the day. When the noon comes, hot and fierce ike the blast of a furnace; when the air )urns your face, cracks your skin and Iries up your hair till it feels like gritty iay; when the intolerable glare over verything, even whien1 the sun does not hine, makes your eyes ache, and when t does seeni as if it would blind you here and then-you think that your cup s full, and that it would be impossible ;o add more to your tale of suffering. But when the night falls things are iven worse. The iheat is intense, and he earth seems to radiato a dull and )oisonous fire. If you open your win lows you are burned; if you keep them hut you are eulroated, Mosquitoes seem to be made of the inem stuff as those stout "medliums" vho can drop through a roof or two or silings, pass through closed windows Lnd two-inch doors, without more diffi mity than a flashof electricity; nor with dil the windows fastened they somehow nanago to make good their existence tmd to make you aware that they are here. Duing a sirocco they bito like urv; so do the light cavalry, which ibound no a horn o the aust wfifuh -ruinbles under your feet as you walk teross yonr tiled floor; so do the myr ads of flies which infest your apart nent, for the one part, and for the other hey fall about like drunken 'things and iickon you with their heavy loathsome ouch Well for you if these are Your mnly living enemiesi Life is prolific in Sicily; creeping and flying things of all tinds are abundant and ubiquitous; and t would seem its if the native skin were nipervious to assaults which fairly nadden you. Everything suffers during the sirocco. VIhO flowers diuop and iade, and the (rass, or what takes the place of gras )cre-is burned and browned. In the [4avorita, whioch should bo a very carpet voven of all manner of wild flowers, here are not this year one-tenth the isual numbier. T1hie orchards arc stun ed; the moss is parched and dry; many eeds have not come up at all; many oots are withered before Ilowvering; the >range and1( lomion gardens are diseased, md the fruit is covered with fungus, or hie laryss of the little insect which in irusts the rindl with small brown oval pots, and the leaves are shariveled and >hghited. Day by (lay you pant for the rain vhichi never comes, and without which dll thungs pine now andl die hereafter. En normal seasons thme sirocco lats for bhroe days, and then~ passes off in rain; his year it blows for more than its al oted term--blows ahnost continuouly, mud no rain falls. Night by nmght the mnn sets in flory tapors, which presage torm and deluge; dhay by dy the morn ng sky is overcast with clouds which mywhere else would moan a heavy lownpour. But by noon those haye 'teared away, and the sun shincs ree of all obstacles, save that light >rowvn veil of dust the b)1uo haze whioh iesacentless over the town. Io~w A 14ian Dropin1g 1,000 Fe~et Feuis. With regard to thle recent sad suicide of Sgirl by leaping from one o' the lowers >f Notre Dame, Dr. Blronardell's expressed riow that asphiyxhation In the rapihd fall nay have been the cause of death, has tiveni rise to some correspondlence n fLi N{ature. M. Blontemnpa points out that the tepth of fall having beent about sixty-six lietres, the velocity acquired mn the time less than tour seconds8) cannot have been iio great as that sometlimes attained on railways, e. g., thIrty-three metres per second on the lino between Uhalons and Pais, where the effect should be the same, yet we never hear of asphxlation of engine. Irivers and stoirers. He considers It doe sirable thsat the Idea in quest:on should be 3xploded, as unhappy persons may be led to choose suicide by fall from a height, tmnder the notion that they will (lie before reachig the ground. Again, M. Gossin mentions that a tow years ago a man) threw himself fromu the top of the column or July, and tell on an awning which she: tered workmen at the pedestal; lie suffered nly a few slight contusions. M. Rlemy says he has often seen an E~nglishmanm leap !rom a heIght of thirty-one metres (say 108 feet) late a dleep river;, and he was shown, in 1852, in the Island of OJahu, by missionaries, a native who had tallen from m verified height of mnore than 800 metres :say 1,000 feet.) Hits fail was broken aer the end by a growth of ferns and )thier plants, and he had only a few wvounds. Asked as to his sensations in alhng, laie ( ho only felt dazzled, 1876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the MORNING STAR SALOON I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior facilities for sup plying everything i my line, of superior quality. Starting business In Winns boro in 1876, I have in all this time given the closet attention to my busi ness and endeavored to make my estab lishnient FIRST-CLASS in every par ticular. I shall in the future, as in -the past, hold myself ready to serve my customers with the best articles that can be procured in any market. I shall stand ready, alI, to guarantee every article I sell. I invite ano.sspeotlon of my stock of Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. TFW. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey's). A. Bin Laubort and Marat Cognae Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Fish Gin. Ross's Royal Ginger Ale. Jules Mumm & Co. i Champagne. Cantrol & Cochran's 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. Th6 Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned btandard Rye Whiskey. Jesse Moore Vollmer Rye Whiskey, Old N. 0. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey, Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy. Now England (French's) Rum. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Braudy. Pure Ginger Brandy. Boston Swan Gin. SUNDRIES. Rock and Bye. Osceola Bitters. Hostetter's Bitters. Bergner & Engel's Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught, New Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider. rolu, Rock & Rye, Lawrence & Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Rock and Oorn. Cigars and Tobacco Syndicate Oigar, S cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2} cents. Miadeline (Jigar-All Havana--10 cents. Don Caries (Nub)-all Havana-10 cents Minerva Cigar-Havana filler-S cents. Cheek Cigar-Havana ller--5 cents. Our Bost Cigar-Havana filler-S centa Luoky Hit Oigar--Havana fier-- cents. I'he Unionm Self-Lighting Cfgarette, (Amber mouth-piece to every 4 ten packages.) The Piekwick Club Cigarette, (Shuok mouth-inieces.1 '1ha~ .Richmond Gem CIgaretto, .(Light smoking.) lor ill Tomll ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for the use of my customers. I wil also keep a supply of FISH, OYSTERS, &O., for my Restaurant, which is always open from the first of September to the first of April, I shall endeavor to please all who give mue a call.' Very respectfully, F. W. HABENICUT. OPPOSITE POSTOFF(E.