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, . ^H IUUDAJS.& SIMS, Vrppviciora. J?UjJ30UlVTl?N. ?911 cAjeai'....,?. 1 mv'? ? \V,v'"^ 50 jSixi ifoiuh.s..;.mwJ;4?..-^..t,ti.oo iliuistena of'tiio ppsuel?.ij.1.00 AuVKU'/tgMlEKTS.' First Insertion.....,....$1.00 JCneli Subsequent Insertion.r?0 ' Liberal contracts hnlile lor ."J inoiitl; innl ova*. ' ' ! JOB O?TFICE '? ? : ? ? .?. ??.:?>Y mil ? > S. .??!>.?.Ii JiaiL'liJUUBKP TO'PO ALL KINDS OK J oT> I?i4iatmg; I , , ^ Apron-Strings. f .. ' ?Young girl, what has become of the apron strings of your niotliers?'j ' ~-2?twsj)a2)er Query. "What indeed! Rare]y does one It eecv now?a-days, the beautiful solici tude gjifj lender ,'cure qf n yquug, daughter which characterized the pe riod of our mother's and grand-moth '.'or's days. Milien,invoider to make' ,tlio ncquaintau^p of c, yquug |ady, il was first necessary to be introduced .to the parents, abd i f limy saw fit, the young gentleman was,ilimited to call. ^JNo^w a girl hi),sx but |,o meet a young ' moAi-oncc br twice tit a friend's House, or on. tho street, perhaps, o,;)d she feels (it perfect liberty to ask him to come and sec.her, ami oftentimes the acquaintance is r.oL made by the hon orable means ol'an introduction either. Muimrm may possibly ask the next morning after the first call.: . fJ-?Vb.Q" was'.here uo late, and laugh . cd so loudly last night, Minnie?" And Minnie will ?nbluslnngly re ....... ply: ?'Oh, Tom," (his given name quite \ put upon :her giddy tongue,) "Oh, i Tom Collins, and he is just loo lovely for anything ; such sweet heeklies and tiny lilllc boots as ho wears 1" Mamma smiles at the girlish enthu siasm, and with no more' enquiry into his-character or morals Mr. Tom Col lins is allowed.to visit little Minnie, lie'meets her on her way home from I school ; carries her books, puts fool ish thoughts into her liend, and stu-1 dibu's . onep out, and iii a sjiort time ! .lie takes her to the theater or matinee, j perhaps, with ice-cream or oysters after. This goes unhand bifbre Ahn- j nie is out of the "?'JSortnul" she is cn-'j gnged/surrepliliously may be, but it! ends in innrijugp with a man about1 whom hei- parents know little or noth- ; ihg; or else results in some wildly, talked escapade whicji mars and soils the whiteness of her maiden plumage; Oh, 'gills, what ha6 become of the apron" strings of )our mothers? And j ypt G'hou'd we condemn or blame the | poor children of the mothers V Oh, no, I i '????? n... ? : }pt us rather find excuse and pity for thctn in our chari able hearts. What j potter do they know ? Jndecd , the j mothers of to-day?not nil, Heaven j be praised, else we iqighl cry pi^ctdj with bitterness, "O temporal 0. mores!" the mothers of v*>oui' girls") to-day are often as'lighl'andTrilliilg as their daughters. What wilii their J art of dressing and beautify ing, and making youthful that which is p it is difficult sometimes lo tell mother j from daughter. Apron strings, iu-i deed! who hears of them now? it is jaunty hats, bepojning costumes, and bewildering coiffures; as for strings, the only kind they think or prate of, are those they tic their pull-backs back und pa nie is ! Oh, mothers,.pause aq instant. Tot jyhal end will this lax fiecdorn in limcj drift your daughters? It is fair and : pleasant and right lo give them your conGdence and trust ; but wo pray you, put on some aprons once more, and fie your girls fast to obedience, dulj*, dignity and honor. Let ns have the old time reign and fashion of aprons?and apron strings !?JJ<m prtBt. I_ , < "Counting in." Honor is honor?right is right? fairness.is fairness?in any man or party. That which wc condemn in others wc should not do ourselves. While it would iifford us pleasure to sec the Democrats in power in Maine and all the other Stales, as well as in ihe national councils, it grieves us lo have to confess that it is quite appa rent to every man that in the recent Maine squabble there has been too much counting. As a Democrat, out molto has been, is, and will over be; a fnjr vole and an honest count. The political stream is muddy and needs fjllerijig-- needs purification. Can we jipt get back lo first principles in this | mittler? |f things do not take a change ip this respect wc fear that; before jEbsfiy -years have parsed wc shall sec our boasted republican fab ric, built on and supported by the will of Uiic people, full into nothing, and be lost.? Yiov.m?. Sigismund K-aiU-paian, Republican Candidate for |>n uiennnt-Guyernpr of Ijcw Yoik |n l?7tJ, is out with a vig oroii8 nildrpss to hi'3 l'ellpw-( Jerinan Ke'pubUcuns, calling upon Ilium lo Sternly oppose.a third lenn of Grant ?'.'I pules;, they wish to repeat the history pf the decline and fall of Republics. "If we must have a strong man and a strong Government," lie says, "let \)9 return to Bismarck out) lo bid iron rule.'' Cooked Alive. One.of Uie most sickening affairs', if Indeed it is not ,the inoat horrible, which It 1ms been our duty to croni cle, happened last Saturday on the premises of Mr. Solqp Kelly, about eight mites from Huntsyille. There was a hqg filling io progress and two colored men, Hubert and Dennis Patrick, brothers, got into a dioppte about each other's shure iu the year's crop. A large kettle filled with wa ter was near by. Tho water iu the kettle bad been heated to such a high degree that they were waiting for it to cool a little in order to scald hogs iu it. The water ;\yus bo hot i,hat they were afraid it would.'-.set" the hair of the hpgp. This was the high 'temperature of the water when the1 brotbprs began the quarrel. Dennis, who was the oldest, told Rubel t that he would put him jn the kettle if he didn't shut up, apd Hubert, the preacher brother, told Dennis that if j he put him (Hohei t) in the water, be uDciujis) would have to go with him. Dermis caught Robert and pressed 'him backward in the direction of the kettle. 'He pressed him, both of them having their arms locked meanwhile, until they both went headlong into J the kettle of seething ;.v.:iter. Their piteous and awful sereams and moans jsunn attracted others to the place, who finally cxli Seated (hem froiu the boiling cauldron. They retained their ! senses when first taken out and their, ' intense agonies were simply beyond i description. They at once complain ed of their hoi clothes, and \\hcn.J j these were taken from their limps gicut flakes pf boiled flesh went with them, leaving tbsif bunes exposed. The beards fell out and their hair fell from their heads. They bad literally been cooked alive. The sight was such that those who witnessed it were well-nigh paralyzed with hurror. All possible means of relief were tried during the night, but Hohei t died near .day, and Dennis died on Monday. Wo copy the above from the Uunts ville, Ala., In<lcpt!wJeu}> Knights of Honor. From a recent paper wc learn that this order is nowr.only ?ix years old, but from an humble beginning has made remarkable progress. It has now in this country .1,0.0, J lodges with GQ,000 active members. Within the si.\ _\e?*rs of , its existence the order bus distributed and paid in benefits from its widows' and orphans' fund 82.0gT,930..(>! , and its average annual distribution und payments amount to 8100,000. Tho Knights of Honor is a grand, organized, systematic chari ly, with its members chiefly from the middle classes cf ?oeiely. It is also of great advantage by elevating its ipcipbprs socially and morutly, ami is most bcneliciul in its relief of suffer" ing and prevention of poverty, and is therefore a benefit to the whole com munity even uutside of ils own organ ization. Its ptabilily and soundness have been thoroughly tested, and the pledgee p? iia numbers c|pi be relied on, as lias been amply proved, The Knights of Honor's s)stem is much more economical and reliable than the established systems of life insur ance. Ttie Knights paid ??? the yel low fever season of 187b', $500,000 in benefits without difficulty.? Yeoman. Death of Bishop Haven Rev. Gilbert Haven, D. I)., one of the Bishop of the Methodist Kpisco pal Church, died January 3, 1880, at the home of his mother, Mulden, Mass. Bishop Haven was abundant in la bqrs, specially zealous in the inter ests of the colored people in the South, He hud few equals as an off-hand speaker and writer. His ultra views on the race-color problem, vnd his out spoken manner of presenting those vievs, barred greatly bin ac cess to the whites of the South gen erally. His professed convictions us an anti.slavery and race-equality man, were doubtless held in all sin cerity ; while men in the South were equally sincere with a different faith and conscience-Trhpth vtlic result of ?ir^Jl j-V.-tS. .>?. ...Vi. -frivw ? grist <lv education. Here is the only ground from which roenpf differing faith and conscience can judge each other with out contravening the greatest of all laws or principles?charity.?Heigh' bor. Fno&i an explosion of celluloid in Newark, N. J., on l||o 6lh inst., the building in winch it was stored was destroyed, three men were instantly killed and two other sp badly rpanglcd tUqt they puunqt reepvpr. Grantism. There is a desperate effqrt ,ljeing made to give a little notoriety to tlie tact that a lew mulconlontp at the South have, in a wild sort of a way, said that they would bo willing to have Grant rather thau a Radical President. It is more and more up parent every duy that Grant is the willing candidate of the Radicals in 1SS0, hut it is cquully more and more certain every day that there is no such thing as a Grant party at the South. There is tio choice for a Pres ident from the South, cither among Democrats or ' Republicans. Roth parties in this section await the ac tion qf their conventions, which will be lef/t prc.tty much to the dictation of the North. As to the Democratic preference among Radical candidates the South, as a section, is opposed to one of them as urstrlher. To us, Grant is particularly obnoxious and pecu liarly antagonistic to everything Southern. Morally and socially he is nobody, and incapable of ever be ? ing made into anybody, for he has no instinct upon wh,ieh to ,build a decent set of ethics. Ho is VUlruipin'mg" the South, and appears hoio npd there to strike a community conspicuous for a turn .out of a dozen or so prominent1 inen-r-most of them Northern men or West Pointers. Tho town of Benu fort was unique in its welcome. It was our native place, and we are pleased to note that, though Klliolt, Stuart and Yetdier were in the throng, we saw no Burnwcll, .Gibbes, Hamil ton, Means, Rhett anil many others that we might mention. The duties ol the present may call upon us to bury j many thoughts of the past, but why j Beaufort geuljhiino^ should turn put j with Stpalls in a Grant procession on j an emancipation anniversary passes: our comprehension.?liiiujslrw iStitr. ' American Aristocrats. Twenty years ago Ibis one made | candles, that one sold candles und butter, another butchered, ? a fourth carried ou a distillery, another was a a contractor pncanals, others wercj merchants and mechanics. They are acquainted with bc|.h ends of society, and their children will Uo ?fter them, though it will not-dp to say so out loud. For often you. lind these toiling worms hatch butlciilies?aud th^y live abc-u'. a year. Death brings a division of property, and it brings new'financiers. The old gent ia dis charged, the young gent takes reve nues, and begius to travel?toward I poverty, which be reaches before death, or bis chilidien do if he does j not, so that, in fact, though thero is a sort of moneyed rank, it is not here ditary ; it is accessible to ull. The father grubs and grows rich; his children strut and use the money. The children in turn inherit pride and go shiftless to poverty. Nc3?t their children teinvigoialed by fresh plctiian blood un by the smell of the clod, come up again. Thus society, iike a tree, draws ils> sup from the carlh, changes it into seed Sud blos 5hju1s, spreads them aronnd in great glory, sheds them, to fall to the earth again, to mingle with the soil, and at length to reappear in new dress and fresh garniture. Sixteen Sons in the War. Rev. Duniel S. Helton, a Baptist preacher of Roane county, Tenn., ia eighty eight years old, anil is as active as most men of fifty. He recently walked three miles to give testimony at the counlv seat and returned the same day. He suya; "I pan sight a l i?e-guu as I could sixty years ago, ami can bring a squirrel Dearly every lime, and only for a slight tremble in the hand would not miss one shot in u hundred." He had sixteen sons in the war?fourteen on the Federal sidp and two on the Confederate side. He has been twice married, ami is the falber of twenty-four children. He served in the war but draws no pension, It is authoritatively statpd here that ex-Senator Sprqgue, who has been for some wcaks engaged in taking privalp depositions for use in a divorpe Spit which he shortly contem plated bringing against his wife, be corpe satisfied yesterday that he could adduce no substantial proof with whicji/lp sustain his former allcga tiorfl ngalnsi Mrs.' Sprrtgoe, and in structed his lawyers to proceed no further in the mutter. A 1 reconcilia tion between the husband ;\iul wife is looked for as the eventual result of I this.?- Washington Post. Acknowledgement. Editor Oravgeburg Democrat: Tdicrc io a line old air beginning, "XjJirLci,m;is comes but once a year." &c., nduch most of. your renders bave beard and doubtless appreciate. But we,do not pi oppose to say much on the musical subject Just now. We re ceived a bandsomc sum presented lo us during the CUriBtruns holidays as a token of appreciation of our musical service a3 organist, and wc take great pleasure to acknowledge ,tbc same through your valuable columns ; and herewith return to Mr. ?arncj) II. Haigler, our young friend and bi/jlh-, er, for the active part he took in this spontaneous effort-, our earnest, sin cere and heartfelt thanks for his kind remembrance.; and through h*m to express the same lo those who have so generously aided him in this work and labor of love. With love and gratitude my heart is llilcd And those w ho thought of my toilsome lot, . S||;|11 never, never be forgot. Wc also received some months ago the sum collected by Mrs. K. K. Oli ver, for the same purpose, and return to her and those who assisted her the same grateful thanks. We have often feit o.ur inability as an organist, yet under the ciruuuistjapcca wc feel n conscience .clear th^it wc have done y.hft w,e cohM. It is extremely grat ifying to know that all, from the gray headed lathers lo ihe little children, and ihosc also whtaRd'o not belong to our grand old Lutheran Church, had us in kind rcmci&Urancci, May the God of love and infinite wisdom rich ly reward them alj for this liberal gift. We had on lud Ja und ay a very, pleasing auii interesting Sunday school sei vice at Moupt Lebanon Church.. A large and attentive con gregation being out 'Lo witness the happy children recejyp tj,ie,ijr pri^e books. The sweet ami tender'similes i that played o'er their faces bespoke the joy and happiness within, llev. o. T. Holluian addreBsedtbe children in his usual plea&Tfl^^ifhiincr, giyln'g them some very beuutiful illustrations! s.^itajblc on such occasious. Then our faithful und fatherly superintend ent, who often gives ihe children a Sunday talk, did not fail on this joy ous season to once more warn and en-; courage his sehooj, in a ypry interest ing manner. Then the sermon. Words fail us heic, and we had better lay our pen away or close our article It was a rare treat and kept us chain7 ed till \vo hud paid a short visit to Bcthlcherm to sec the sweet and inno cent Christ-child wrapped in swad dling clothes lying in a tnapgpr. With a hearty wish IJiaL the editors of J-hc PEMOpitAT had a merry Christ mas and a happy new year, wo bid you adieu. A. M. It. Oak Guove, Dec. 29th, 18711. Luck and Labor. If the boy who exclaims, "Just my luck !" was truthful, he would spy, ?'Just my lay/tncBS \" or "Just my in attention!" Mr. Cobden wrote pro verbs about "Luck and Labor." It would be well for boys to memorise Lhem : Luck is waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will will turn up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the uostinau would bring him news of a legacy. Lubor turns out G o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chances. Labor on character. Luck slips down to indigence. Labor strides upward lo [ndenend juce. Mrs. Meekcn's Horriable Slory. Cincinnati, January C.?A special [Vorn Altunosa confirms the horrible rumor that tho Meeker women were outraged while in the custody of the Ute Indians. This fact was given with details to thp commission, but Llic women begged thut it be not oiado public. Mrs. Meeker now pub lishes a letter telling the whole story, from which it appears that the choice was given them of submitting to the ilcsigns of their captors or of su fie ring ilcalh. 'lbp examination further dis? closed tl.af.they wero permitted, as a lufjt alternative, with the exception of Mrs. Meeker j to choose from among thp phiefs whp should cohabit with them during their captivity following the massacre at the agency. Putlo Death -by-Pirates. Chicago, January 2.?A dispatch rrohi Battle Creek Mich., announces the dcatli of an old sailor in the poor j house at Cassopolia, who,,in Iris last moments' told a most remarkable story of the mysterious fate of Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodoala Burr Alston, nearly three-quarters of a cen tury ago. Mrs. Alston was the only daughter of the Slatesmdti-ss-tt woman of beauty, refinement and most, amia ble character. She eailecj from Char leston, S. C, on December 30, 1812, for New York, in the Patriot. The vessel was never heard1 from again. It .\vas never known whether she w.cut ?iO\v.i at fea or was captured and destroyed by pirates. The death bed confession of Benjamin' F, Beri* driek, the sctl?r mentioned, solves the mystery, Berulick, who has been an inmate of the Cassopolis poor house for some time, died yesterday. .Just before lie died he sent for the keeper and other pcrsonsiohncctcd with th.e establishment and told them he bad a So'cmri confession to make. His statement, which was taken in detail by bis nsttiriiihed hearers, was in ef fect that the Patriot was CRpt.ujed by a crew of pirates, of which he was a member, on January 3, 1813. They took possession of the vessel arid forced the captain, crew and passen gers to walk thi plank'. Mrs. Alston was one of the doomed passengers. She begged to be spared, but her entreaties were unavailing. She dressed herself all in while, and with a Bible in her hand, waited calm ly, but with a 'blanched face, for the fatal order. When it came she mov ed silcntlv' and with a steady step from the group on the deck, clasping her Bible to her breast. She stepped upon the death plank without n tre mor. It was Benedict's lot to pull the plank beneath her. The dying sailor BttjS the scene has haunted him ever since. The white face of the doomed w.oman walking calmly to her death 1 was present in all his dreairs, and scarcely ever loft his thoughts. He expressed penitence for his part in the crime, saying he was fprced to obey the decision of the J.Q.t at tho peril uf his |ifc, 1 : ? A Beautiful Thought. W hen the summer of youth Is sipw ly wasting away on the nightfall of agej and the shadow of *'ie path be comes deeper and life wears to its close, it is pleasant to look through the vista of lime upon the sorrows and felicities of our early years. If we have had a home to shelter, aqd hearts to rejoice with us, and friends have gathered round our fireside,' the rough places of wayfaring will have been worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life, and many dalk spots we have passed thtough will grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy, indeed, are thpse whose intercourse with the world bns't changed the tone of their lighter feeljugs, or broken those musical chords of tho he^rl whose vibrations' are so melodious, so tender aijd so touching in the eve ning of their Jives. Bloody Mexico. Bio Gkandk, January G.? Rumor;; of a resolution in the State of Durun go, Mexico, have reached here, par- , ticulais, however, are meagre. Some time ago General Trevino waB order ed from Monterey to suppress the in surrection in Durango, and news was received yesterday that he had been defeated by revolutionists and was calling for assistance. All available troops at Monterey have been sent to his aid and the government is raising incn. The prevailing opinion is that lips revolution will be general, us it is well planned and extends, it is un dcistood, throughout the greater part of Mexico and will have gained im mense proportions by the jst of March. TiiERK were neaijy five hundred "mystciipus disappearances'* in the United Slates last year, and in many eases no trace of the missing party was ever found. In connection with these statistics is tho statement, that a largo majority of thoso who disap peared and left no clue behind were married Ittf-Pi Vut whether this addi tional fact is simply intci)cd in Ihc way of information or is meaut to re lieve the police generally pf responsi bility for not unravelling the myste ries by insinuating that most of the cases were hen-pecked benedicts fieo ing from broomsticks and pokers, is j left to conjecture. insolent und Unfounded,, Tho following article from the New York Sun deserves unqualified con demnation, .for it is both insolent to the South and without justification ?in the facts. It the Sun is only as true to Democracy as tho South is there will be no complulnt as to its course. '1 his paper, however, scams to lake pleasure in abusing tjhcSonib and our people whenever opportunity affords, and has done tho Democratic party and the country as much harm as-any paper in the country by its persistent abuse and misrepresentation. The article given below is n fair sam ple of the fabrications which em ntnito fi;o.m its columns: MMr. Don Cameron was made Chair man of tho Republican National -Com mittee, not only because he is bold, rich "find powerful, but because be is personally' on tho best terms with many of the Southern lenders. This j.s remarkable, but it is also true. lf.o .wjnes and dines them, and trans potts Uie).h free lo horse races and other entertainments. Resides, Mr. Cameron is always ready, as his father' was before him, to grind a little axe for any of them ii? a strait'; to get an appointment made, a contract protect;, ed, or a railroad pass provided. Those who think these relations of no importance may remember how be shouldered iplo. the JJppuldican Sen ate Gen. liutlcr, of South Carolina, when all ihe organs were denouncing inm ns the author of the JJamburg massacre. The conspirators of the third term look forward to a period iu their game when they may need Soulhein support, and in case It should be , necessary to count Grant in, and 6cat him by force, they want the Con federate long-swords on their side* This is the meaning of the Grant dem onstration among the worst of the late rebels. With the existing Administra: lion, with the regular army under Sherman and Sheridan, and the Sow er of the Confederate brigadiers, the,, conspirators think they* would .'be strong enough to defy the people, North as well as South. The Confed erates traded with Hayes, and why should Ihcy not trade with Grant ?*' Concealed Weapons. If there was a luiiv in the State pun ishing men for wearing concealed weapons, says the Georgetown Times, the practice would be checked, if not entirely stopped,and our courts would have fewer of those blood-euidling crimes to deal with, which are so re volting to human nature, and which generally brings sorrow and distress Lo some household, it matters not how poor or humble the unfortunate victim may be. The editor of the Abbeville Medium, writing cn the same subject, remarks: "Every at tempt made by the Legislature to prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons has been a failure. Why wp cannot tell. It is no sign of bravery or manhood to go through life with a batttery under your coal tail and it is not much of an achieve ment to kill a nigger or shoot a bad dog, but the General Assembly seem to think there is no use for lagisla tion on this scoie. Public spntimenl pould t fleet a cure of this abuse if it would take proper hole) qf tpp sub ject. There is absolutely no necessi ty for any firearms at all in 03 peace ful a country us this, where the laws arc in force, and the courts are open for the trial of every offence against one's person or property. If we were desperadoes or all our neighbors out laws, liiere would be some sense In going around like walking arsenals, but it is a slander upon our civiliza tion and a disgrace to our ru.anhood logo through life armed with pistols and murder in our hearts. The Leg islature should make it munslaughtpr for any man to even carry a pistol, or pass an act requiring every man de siring to go armed, to get a license from the clerk of.the Court, paying therefor twculy-fivo dollars a year lo bo turned over to the County Treasurer for the benefit of the public Bchools.". Nothing like a family quarrel to disclose family seercts ! Hero arc the Brooklyn Republicans accusing each other of treachery and bargaining with the enemy in the late election and in the"heat of lue light up rises c.x-Sherill Dngget, who is ireasp cr of v!?e Re pubiioan organization, he djscloses the details of a bargain with John ! Kellcy by which the Republicans gave seven thousand dollars to Mr. Kelly j and kept the independent Dem ocratic ticket iu the field. Sad-Hearted. As a sample of the-strange things Hint often,find their way into a-news, paper office, we append the following, sent to us by a lady with the state ment that it had been found among some old letters of a lady who died of hasty consumption about a year ago: *tf would to God I had never met your! Then the deception you have .practiced on me would never have taken root so deeply in this poor, sore heart of mine?you, who knew well that your heart wasguveu to another ; you, who knew the .weak ness of human nature, having boon in my company three .or four limes a week for the last two years, knowing my disposition and nature aaoniy one who baa won the coincidence and trust can know. Still, you would go on day by day leading me to believe you thought mere of me than any j other of your many lady friends, j Once I believed you all honor, and ^ that rather than give another pain you would deny yourself almost any en joyment \n Hie world, J wish you joy with your new love, but I pray \ou will once in a while let your memory drift back to days gone by, when you and I woudercd over hills and through Acids with ouly one thought and that for tho welfare and happiness of. the other. Pray do not strive to forget jthem. I pray God to forgive you. I will try to. As for me, I shall go on day by day, work ing as .though not a care or a sorrow ever troubled my weary life, and no ooo wiJU ever know a paor^ tired, brokcK heart lies buried in my bosom, When i think of the many, many times you could have told me of,your love, for another, that J might liavo mastered my.own he?yt rind schooled myself to believe that my pjace in your affections was only a small bit compared to the tender feelings you cherished for another ! IJuc still you led we blindly Qni HuQwing dip while yp^.wcre duing mp a wrong tbaVyou could neVps remedy. But1"we'fpu'stf livp and learn. Perhaps the lesson yap have taught me I may profit by in years to come. One thing : I will never place the confidence in another man that I have in you, even though; he were ray husband. J find ih;\t even ray best friend would not liesU talc a moment to gratify his own pleasure at the risk of wounding my feelings. You, v, ho alone could have savpd me this pain, have taken all the brightness out of my life. Qoil grant that you iqay ever he happy, arid never know the pain J have suf fered."?Exchange. How a Colonel Won a Bridle. The Hartford (Conn.) correspond ent of the Springfield Republican tells the following story of Gen. II. W. Birge, formerly of the Thirteenth Connecticut volunteers: Birgc was over a fine horseman, and it was while he was recruiting his regiment that the incident occurred. The colo nel?:as ho was then?was riding down the street when hb saw in the secoud story window of a harness shop on elegant bridle. "What will jou take for that bridle 1" said $irgp to the propriptor. "You may have it frep if you will ride tip [here apd get it,'* was tho reply, 'j'his was. no aopuer said lliau the pojqnel turned his horse's head and spurred him up the wooden staircase that led to the sec ond story, seized the bi idle, tu med and rqdp down again?this last being as Birgc phrased it, "the only tick lish part of the job." The horse that performed this feat was very highly valued by the general, and was tcn de:ly cared for as long as he lived. Defalcation and Suiojcje, Frauds on the Produce Exchange, New York, to the amount of ?31,000, have been discovered. The defaulter was Benjamin F. Bogert, Avho bo^ been Ticasurer of the Exchange lor many years and was a highly res pected merchant in whoip geneial confidence was felt. Bpgpft did upt appear at the Exchange or nt his office* alter the discovery was madp and died very suddenly on the 8th inSt. at the house of a friend in that city. U is thought that, unable to bear his disgrace, lie may have com mitted suicide, There dipt) feepnf,|y in Kansas Nich olas Wyk er, vi hp used to he a cleigy tnan in Burks county, Pa. Ho mado it a ruble cany $1,000 in cash around with him in an old carpet satchel, keeping up the habit until his death. He had read the Bible through from beginning to end just ouo hundred times, and knew much of it by heart.