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...4 1^5 - S3 April. 1850. j. 2, 1881.1 "Be Just and Feax not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 1866. :SUMTER, S. O., TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1883. New Series?Vol. H. So: 25. its. will be pab tbe fir*t blish *Tbe Cbtoni udod mores, ive g?en ?er Si take service eo *as encourage t and woman L'.-jt?t- coonnoo 8. news-: and to all ,wi? riftitOflHKt; wilb a proper ?x second j tMsi of tbe >age. will be an ?eck week for the I 3TT hmw4 represea are aoi (fist riWe its edi-" toree in Georgia, points in Sou;h The fast mail j Eailroad ' lands the in a?. towns while its f^AtimA bj its sixty ? r-^ksr^ ills .... jir.J?4mted periodical in bot ?kW the largest in bersiifal in Its appear for tbe bout* A . '-S?* Major," by Co* WooUoS. tbe ?at bor of lwJle^?berN amber. I? ? tb> Magazine number. Sp? ths figbter en* staawgb 4*as eip year, 16 06 I; 4* Te*V 7 #b HA??r8 YQVH? 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Then I w^sW, beeasse fcknew that I Bad wasted there full many a precious [eerj"^. ^- . l?aw$ed in pity at m j sij*h, ' Andffcuowing all my thinking, said, with cheer : "Fear not t The Future still shall bring thee leaves ; And if tbou keepest them, but sweet and fidr, Then will I Sift the withered from my sheaves -. And fc-iace, instead, the bright and lovely "there." 1st whet the angel said I was consoled ; I raised my head, her smile upon me ??Lone_wbo an the Awakes and misses some sweet thing he *y dq*s*nedcr ^ SINGLETON'S STLVEB HEEL. -Quaint Bfronrriscenses in the liife of an Illinois Congressman. Gen. ?Farnes W.Singletoa of Illinois is a short, stout man, with florid com plexion and a frosted saudy beard. He has represented the Eleventh dis trict in Congress' for two' sessions. He was anxious to stay longer, bat afters long and stubborn contest he failed of irenomination. He made an independent race'thereafter;awl got ' Many of i fce boytfwho relisti- good suppers ' wit! miss Singleton " next -a for . _ ? ?a been opticus oplimas. and it has cost him many a rheumatic twinge: He ont?!e'; among the iichest of Wes^ferti tariSrOwners, and is said tlill possess a handsome for tuoe. He has a team of stallions in Wa8bingt0n,,said to be worth $10;000. ju?? he keeps a great number of -thoroughbreds at his place near B^$0 ? ^^,a8f ai8e^ somejjof the Is?e*t4r&tiljg< stolk hfifle ^%st. "The story of the way he came into possession of theiamous stall Ion Sil ver Heel, >Se ^greatest horse of his day, ia worth recording. It was two or "three jears. ;before .the race. Singleton wasathis zenith. He was President of the St. Louis and Wabash , an^bhe- wanted to^wn t&e .finest ^Wtfee^frWd. - Hr travelled all over the country seeking for an equine j^^J^^^^^^J^g^^ York ^tote^Xgncoltorari^r. ft came upon Stiver Heel. He ascertained that the rowner was Commodore Vanderbilt. The Commodore told him that Silver Heel could>not ^he .-^ougjit for five "htmired thousand d?>llars. Singleton went back home disappointed and disgusted- Notjong after his return, Wabash stock took a sudden boom. He was surr^rised one day $osee Van derbuilt walk in *>n him. After a lit tle chat the Commodore asked bluntly, 'Siugleton, wheu are you going to let ask _ie such a qoesttoni' was theieply of ?ie General. ^.f 'Well, h>ok here now/ rejoined VanderbMt; /you want Silver Heel, doWyonr ' Ye8. - '' >. -' [ 'Well, tell me wnen Wabash is going to drop and the .horse is yours/ Singleton paused for a moment and : then replied. 'Soli when it reaches ^eighty-five/ . r. The Commodore departed Wa ^hash went to eighty-five. Yandei bilt unloaded, raked in his pile, and in due course of time Silver Heel ar riv?d at Quiacy in a special box car. The General had" now come:.in to possession of what be considered* the finest horse in the world. About this time a jockey club in St. Louis bought St. Lawrence, a well-known stallion, Yor $10,000. . They got up an exhibi tion for the following summer, offer ing $10,000 premium for ( the best ^s^aliiott. -^his oiler coming to Singleton's ears, he concluded that lie would take Silver; Heer dpwn and capture the prize. There were three entries; St. Lawreirce, Mambrino Chief? and Silver Heel. Mambrino Chief was the property of ?James Clay of Kentucky, and was noted as the sire of some very.fleet trotters. When the judges had been appointed Gen. Singleton inquired in what points they .desired excellence. They re sponded: 'In style and action/ Singleton bad a very light harness made and ? very light sulky con structed for the occasion, and inform ed Abrams, his trainer, that style and action, not speed, were required. When the horses came on the track iSilver ?eei was by all odds the fa vorite with tbe great assemblage, but the award was given to St. Lawrence. This enraged the General. He went to the judges and demanded to know in what points of'style and action' St. Lawrence was superior to Silver Heel* They informed him that the former showed greater speed. This exasperated hin; still further. He ac cused them of having purposely mis led him, and challenged them to trot him two days afterward for $10^000 a side. He went further, and offered to put up $10,000 against a like sum, | the whole to go into the treasury of] the club whether he won or lost. He I gave this offer publicity in the news- i papers, and tue club was forced to do j him justice. It would not accept bis offer, but it decided to put up a cup and $500, and further, to allow the judges to reverse their decision if they saw fit. The track was a small circle of one-sixth of a mile,, and the General, knowing the superiority of Silver Heel over St.-Lawrence, in structed Abrams, his trainer, to hold up for him, and then pass him in front of the stand at least four, times in the mile. - This instructions Abrams ful filled to the letter^ Silver Heel was declared winner amid the wildest en thusiasm. The decision of two days befoxe..wa8 rievetsed, and'the $10,000 premiumvwas awarded to Silver Heel's owner. ....... The General gave breakfast on the following morning to a select party at one of- the principle hotels. James ?lay, tntf* owner of Alambriuo Chief, was a guest. The horse question was^of CgBrTSje^ a prominent feature of conversation, Clay was especially eulogistic of the colts of Mabrino. torfrandHlrat they^o^d x^ntwrue to dojsp; ^.Sisbo?Stfn^ n ettted Single ton~:"after staiibTng it asTong as pos sible'he ripped out: 'Now, look here, Clay : I nave'two colits. here,' Sallie Lee and Swiftness. They are two year olcfs, and neither hag been train ed. I will take dae. of those two colts, giveyou.tbe whole Mambrino breed to select from,, and I wpL trot you on a day to be fixed next'sum mer, for $10,000 a side.' Clay laughed and told him it was ?beer folly to.make such a bet, as he was certain to be beaten. The gen eral refused to receive snch an an swer to his challenge, and they final ly settled the matter by repairing to one of the banks and depositing five thoxsand a piece, the balance to be put np a week before the race. The race came on in the following summer. It so happened that Clay and Singleton were- both elected delegates to the National Democratic Convention which was to meet at Charleston, and which afterward broke up in a row and adjourned to meet in Baltimore. Well, they both resigned and repaired to Louisville, where it had been arranged that the race should come off. Singleton de clared that be would beat Clay on his own ground. When. the. General reached Louisville He fooud that the race was an all-absorbing topic, and that Clay's horse ,was a great favorite. Odds of two and three to one were freely offered.. The general opinion seemed to be that-Clay would have a 'walk over.' Singleton l?ad arranged with some parties in St. Louis to send him what money he wanted, and he telegraphed for $10,000. He failed lo get any re sponse, . It .^as afterward learned that hislfriend in St. Louis, learning ofthe apparently sure thing ^which Clay had, purposely disappointed Sinfgleton, in order, as he thought, to save him. Singleton then went to some friends in Louisville and suc ceeded in raising about $9,000. He had about $7,000 besides this with him. Of his two colts he had selected "Sallie Lee for the race. He went to bis trainer, Abrams, and inquired in what condititiun she was! Abrams replied that she was 'bright as a lark and as steady as the old brown Set ter/ but if Clay's colt could do what " they said, she stood no chance. He inquired what, they said, aud when told declared it a d? d lie, asserting that no Mambrino colt ever had or over would do any such thing. On the morning of the race Clay entertained a party of fifty at break fast. During the meal he said to Singleton. 'See here, Singleton, you aud.J are friends, and 1 don't waut to see you lose your money, I know the ten thousand you have up with me will not affect you, but don't get rash and make other bets, for 1 have a sure thing.' 'Well,' replied the General, 'dou't let your friends aggravate me.' One ofthe party spoke up : 'Gen eral, \ wimld &*ke to aggravate you to the extent of a basket of wine.' The wager was accepted, with another of the same kind, and it ran around the table, resulting in a gen eral bot of fifty baskets of wine. When Singleton got out to the track his trainer sent for hrm and ad vised him to employ a man who was on the ground, and jwho had therepu tation of being a very expert driver. This he positively refused to do, tell ing Abrams that he could trust him, and that he would rely on none other. He then instructed him, if he found he could beat Clay's colt, to give Clay i the first heat and win the two follow- i ;iog. The track on which they trotted 1 lies by "(he side oT the railroad, and i the point where the trains stop is.just < at the half-mile pole. They ' got off '] well together. The race was a very ; pretty one the first half mile. Just as < they reached the pole an engine on i the track outside begau to blow off i steam and its boll rang. Clay's horse, having been trained here, paid no attention, but Sallie Lee's head went into the air. Fortunately she did not lose her feet. Abrams brought down the whip three times. Still she kept i her feet, and came to the three-quar ter pole like a frightened deer. She had widened a terrible gap between herself and Clay's colt, and as she turned into the home-stretch her pace seemed to increase. She came to the wire like a hurricane Abrams foigot his instructions about heats, and let i her have her head. She not only won the heat, but distanced her compe titor and won with ease. T*he excitement and enthusiasm were indescribable. Singleton order ed the fifty baskets of wine, and i enough additional to give charapague to every lady on ti e grandstand, lie gave free whiskey to the entire crowd on the track. His liberality that day cost him heavily, but he went away i from Louisville $18,000 ahead, after i paying all expenses, and he hasn't bet < a dollar on a horse race since that i time. - If you should happen to drop into the House of Representatives at Washington and the General is not in his place, look around and you will find some of the other members ab sent. Then drop over to the Con gressional restaurant, and you will probably find a select party discuss ing canvas backs and terrapin, washed down with Fomery or Yellow Label. ?New York Sun* BILL AEP. On Children, Peafowls, Pigs, Chick ens, Etc. Monday last the summer bats were flying around the house and the sum raer frogs were croaking down the branches. Tuesday and Wednesday there was snow and sleet, and Thurs day there was a freezing north-west wind. We are having a variety of climate now,asd can suit most any body from Maine to Mexico. It takes a good load of wcod a day at our house, and keeps me busy catling it up and toting it in, and by the time I get set down to be comfortable Mrs. Arp thinks the ashes need taking up. again, and so I go after the pan. i never did believe in taking up the ashes more than three times a week, and I want to leave some there, but some folks go for 'em about three times a day, and won't leave a .dust, and they sweep, and move out the dog-irons to get it all, and there's not enough left at uight to keep a chunk alive till morning, and it's hard again to start a fire. It is a good thing to clean up and have everything uice, bat I don't see the use of sweeping the dirt off the ground. This is hard weather on the children, for they have to stay in the house, and we have to entertain 'em, by telling 'em about the old pictures, and help 'em to make big letters and horses and dogs, and steam engines on their elates. They never get tired of having us shut our eyes and drawing pigs and puppies at a venture, aud I would like to sec friend Moser try it. Our old nurse come on her annual pilgrimage to see us .the other day. She had the care of seven children, and she loves 'em now like a mother, and it is a comfort to hear her tell of their youthful pranks. 'I always had two 'em on hand,' said she, 'and there wasn't much differencebetwixt 'em, and they wa? never still, and when one was a-coming' the other was a-going' jes like two little antses.' Brt the war carte along and the nurse set up with her husband and now he's quit her and she is all alone in the world, and wants to 'come back and take keer of de chickens and look aroun' de big house too.' Our three youngest havent had much worrying and get along pretty well, but like all the oth ers they are raised and are fighting their own battle of life. The mother's anxiety never ceases, and she would hover them all under her wings if she could. I never hear of a boy or man coming to grief but what 1 think first of his mother if he has one. He may break her poor old heart; but still she is her friend, and 1 can see her weep ing in the chimney-corner, and in the dark watches of the night and hear her sobbing like David, 'My child, oh my poor child.' I was ruminating over the many pardons that Mr. StepherfS has grant ed, and thought that maybe when mothers and wives and children brought their tears aud troubles be fore him, his tender heart could not look upon the picture and be firm. I'm not going to find fault with him for making a mistake on mercy's side. Every convict has a history and there is some good in it, if we knew it, and some paliation that Heaven knows, and has not forgotton. Most of us have been sorely tempted and narrow ly escaped committing some crime or other?committed in thought and wish if not in deed. I know men who have gotten rich by questiona ble means that will not stand before the judgment, but they never cross the line of the law. They have cheat ed and swindled aud concealed tbe truth. They have taken advantage of the poor and tbe ignorant, but they were smart and kept on the safe side of the criminal code. There are more criminals outside the convict camps than in 'em J wish everybody could be good for a year?just one year, if no more, so as to let everybody see what a difference it would make?no courts, no juries, no jails, no cheat ing nor lying, no slauder, no fighting or quarreling, no legislature, no tax to pay. Just think of it. A million dollars saved in state and county tax es. In ten years of good behavior it would be ten millions. There has been enough-spent by good men in lawing bad ones in the last fifty years to build a school house in every set tlement, and pay the teachers good salaries, and macadamize, all the roads, and have turkey every day for dinner besides. I saw a trial going ou in our court the other day?nobody but a poor nigger and he hadn't done anything but steal a trunk, and it took nearly all day, and there were a hun dred men at least waiting en that case, aud their time was woith a hundred dollars. Thai darkey has been in jail three months eating and sleeping and waiting for justice. Crime is a terri ble calamity on a people, but it looks like we can't help it and have got used to it, but some how or other it seems to rne we have most too much court and too much jury. Five men are enough to try most all the cases, both civil and criminal. In fact, the presiding judge ought to determine most of'em without a jury like he does in Alabama. If a lawyer there demands a jury, it is a sign that he doesn't want justice to prevail. 1 would rather submit my legal rights to Judge Fain than any twelve men unlearned in law. Twelve weeks of court in a year in a country like this is too much. It's a bad sign. It don't take but two weeks in counties off from the railroads. I'm afraid we live too near the depot, or too near Atlanta, or some other place Joel Brown says we do. But maybe the milieniom will come after while, aud everyboov will be giving away not only their coats but their cloaks also, that is to say after the winter is over. I don't want anybody to ask me for mine right now. We dined at a nabors the other day and had a good old-fashioned time. We dined on a big fat turkey that hadent been boiled, and when our lost got through one side he turned il over and begun on the other. That's the kind of a woman his wife is. She don't want to save one side for next day. She goes the whole turkey or none. She wants every body to feel like that turkey was cooked to be eaten, and eaten right now. I've seen folks who were mighty par ticular about the off side of a turkey, and I never eat much on such occa sions. Mrs. Arp has got a pair of peafowls now aud is happy. She is going to raise feathers for fiy-brushes. 1 suppose that I've got to watch 'em all tbe time, for I'm told they kill young chickens as fast as they are hatched, and so I'll be kept mighty busy this spring standing guard with a stick. 1 bought a sow the other day?a very fine sow and she has turned out to be a regular chicken cannibal. I told the man about it and he langhed like it was a good joke, and sa'd 'of course she'd eat chickens if she can catch ?em and that's one reason why Isold her,' and he laughed again. So between the old sow and the pea-fowl and the hawks, I expect to have a good time raising chickens. But such is life and I can't help it? can you ? A Romance of Two States. Why H. G. Porte of Marion, S. C.% Ran Away With Another Mans Wife. Atlanta, Ga., January 19.?A highly sensational aud romantic case has just been brought to light on the issuing of a warrant by Governor Stephens on the requisition of the Governor of South Carolina for the arrest of H. G. Forte About twelve years ago Porte moved from Marion County, S. C, and settled near Pal metto, in this State. He was accom panied by a woman who was supposed to be his wife, aud by two boys, pre sumed to be their children. He proved to be a man of industry, and won the good opiuiou of his neighbors, who refused to believe in his guilt when the Sheriff arrived with a warrant for his arrest on a charge of kidnapping and obtaining money under false pre tenses. Porte was taken to Fairburu, where, without reserve, he made the following statement: He and a man named Smith and .a woman with whom he had been living were raised in tbe same neighborhood, and when they were young Forte and Smith were rivals for the woman's affections, but by misrepresentations Smith alienated her from Porte and married her. A short time thereafter Porte married, and tbe two families settled near each other and lived several years as neigh bors. Porte and his wife lived happily together until she died. Smith and his wife did not live so happily, fre quent disturbances occurring between them, in which Smith often beat her unmercifully. The death of his wife caused the old flame for his former sweetheart to burn afresh in Port e's breast, and he sympathized with her' on her cruel treatment received at the hands of her husband. She knew that Porte still entertained kindly feelings toward her, and frequently importuned him to take her away, to some strange place, avowing that she still loved him and expressing peni tence for the way she had treated him in marrying Smith. He refused t<? be anything more than a sympathizing friend on account of the friendly rela tions that existed between Smith and himself. Smith had been prosperous in business until he became dissipat ed, when he got financially embarrass ed, and reposed confidence in his friend Porte aud asked him to assist him in saving part of his property from his creditors. He had turned over some cotton to Porte to sell for him in his own name. Porte sold it and took the proceeds??200?to Smith's house to deliver it to him. When he arrived Smith was just leav ing the house, and on going in Porte found Mrs. Smith prostrate on the floor bleeding from wounds received from her husband. He helped her up and washed the blood from her face, paid the money to her for her hus band, and started to leave, when she clung to him and begged him to take her with him and flee to a distant country, promising to live with him if he would do so. Yielding to her request, Porte took Mrs. Smith and her two children and eloped into Georgia, where they have lived in undisturbed happiness for twelve years. Smith having learned of their whereabouts, he made a proposition to Porte that if he would return the children, furniture, and the $200 he would compromise the case. The grand jury, however, will have some thing to say about it.?New York Times. Early Marriages. Tho editor of the Rising Town (Ga ) Gazette gives his idea of early marriages as follows: "Nine-teuths of the unhappy mar riages that occur are the result of green human calves being allowed to run at large in the society pastures without any yokes on them. They marry and have children before they do moustaches ; they are fathers of j twins before they are the proprietors of two pair of pants, and the little girls they marry are old women be fore they are twenty years old. Occa sionally, if one of these gosling mar riages turns out all light, it is a clear case of luck. If there was a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they cut all of their teeth we suppose tbe litile cusses would evade it in some way; but there ought to be a sentiment against it. It is time enough for these bautams to think of finding a pullet when they have raised money enough to buy a bundle of lathes to build a hen house. But they see a girl who looks cun ning, aud they are afraid that there is not going to be girls enough to go around, and then they begin to get in their work real spry ; and, before they are aware of the sanctity of the marriage relations, they are hitched for life, and, before they own a cook stove or a bedstead, they have lo get up in the nigjit and go after the doctor, so frightened that they run themselves out of breath and abuse the doctor because he doesn't run too ; and when the doctor gets there there is not enough linen in the house to wrap up a doll baby." Too Many Degrees. A middle aged lady wiih a black alpaca dress, worn shiny at the el bows, and a cheap bonnet, and her hands puckered up and blue, as j though she had just got her washing j out, went into the office of a promi nent Mason a few mornings since and took a ?rhair. She wiped her nose I and the perspiration from her face on j a blue checked apron, and when the ! Mason looked at her with an interest ed brotherly look, as though she was in trouble, she said: 'Are you the boss Mason V He blushed, told her he was ar Mason, but not the highest in the land. She hesitated a moment, fin-1 gering the corner of her apron, curled j it up like a boy speaking a piece in school and asked : 'Have you taken the whole 233 de grees in Masonry V The man laughed, told her there were only thirty-three degrees and that he had taken only thirty-two The other degree could only be taken by a very few who were recommended by the Grand Lodge, and they had to go to New. York to get the thirty third degree. The lady studied a minute, unpinned the safety pin that held her shawl together and put it into her mouth, took a long breath, and said: 'Where does my husband get the other two hundred degrees, then V The prominent Mason said he guessed her husband never got two hundred degrees, uuless he had a degree factory. He said he did't un derstand the lady. 'Does my .husband have to set up with a corpse three nights a week V she asked, her eyes flashing fire. 'Do you keep a lot of sick Masons on tap for my husband to sit up with the other three nights V The prominent Mason said he was thaukful that-few died, and only occa sionally one was sick enough to call for Masonic assistance. When a Mason was sick and away from home, or when his family desired it, the brethren were only too glad to sit up with him; but there were so many Masons and so few sick that it was only once in two or three months that a brother was called upon to sit up with anybody. 'But why do you a6k these quest ions, madam V said the prominent Mason. The woman picked the fringe of her shawl,^ung down her head, and said : 'Well, my husband began to join the Masons about two years ago, and he has been taking degrees or sitting up with people every night since, and he comes home at all times of night, smelling of beer and cheese: 1 thought at first that the cheese was the' result of his going to the morgue to help carry brother Masons home after they had been found iu the river. He has come home twice with the wrong pair of drawers on, aud when 1 asfted him how it was, he said it was a secret he could not reveal under penalty of being shot with a cannon. All he would say was that he took a.degree. I have kept a little track of it and I figure that he has taken* 233 degrees, including the grand Sky Fugle de gree, whit-h he took the night he came home wiih his lip cut and his ear hanging by a piece of the skin.' *0, madam,' said the prominent Mason, 'there is no Sky Fugle degree in Masonry. Your husband has lied to you.' That's what I think,* said she, as a baleful light appeared in her eyes. 'He 6aid he was taking the Sky Fugle degree and fell through the sky light. I had him sewed up and he was ready for more degrees. After he had taken I think about a hundred and fifty de grees, 1 told him I should think he would letup on it and put some pota toes in the cellar for Winter, but he said when a man once got started on ? the degrees he had to take them all or he didn't amount to any thing. One time 1 wanted a new hat with a fea ther on it to wear to church, aud he said feathers were nonsense, and the next day he brought home a leather case with a felt coal scuttle in it. and a leather on it that couldn't have cost less than ten dollars, the way 1 figure millinery. A:;d when he put it ou, aud 1 laughed at his ridiculous ap pearance, he bewail to throw his arms around, and I asked him what was the matter, and he said that was the grand hailing sign of distress, and if 1 didn't look out an avenger would appear from a dark closet and run a toad slicker through me for a sc?>fi*er. Ue must have spent a fortune on the last hundred and fifty degrees. 'One morning he came home with j his coat tail split up the back and his pants torn just as though n dog had chawed him, and one eye closed up and a wad of hair pulled right off his head, and he said he had been taking the 200th degree, but he wouldn't tell me how it happened because it was a | dead secret. Sometimes a brother j Mason comes home with him eaily in j the morning, and they both talk about a 'full flush' and they both act full as \ they 6taud on the steps and talk about their 'pat hands' and 'raising 'em out' ! and 'calling' and 'bob tail flush.; On3 night when he was asleep I heard him I whisper, 'I raise you ten dollars,' aud j when 1 asked him what he meant he j said they had been raising a purse for a poor widow. Another time he raised 1 up in the bed after he had been asleep i and shouted, 'I 6tand pat,' and when \ I asked him what it meant he said he ; was ruined if I told of it. He said he j had spoken the password,, and if the j brethren heard of it they would put; him out of the way. Mister, is 'stand j pat your password V The Mason told her \l' was not. i The words she had spoken was au \ expression used by men when playing ; draw poker, and he added that he j didn't believe her husband was a Mason at all, but that he had been j lying to her all these years. She sighed and said : 'That's what I thought when he came home with a j lot of ivory chips in his pocket. lie said they used them at the lodge to 1 vote on candidates, and that a white chip elects and a blue chip rejects a j candidate. If you will look the matter j up and see if he has joined the Ma-1 bops, I will be obliged to you. He says he ha8 taken all the 233 degrees, and now the boys want him to join the Knights of Pythias. I want to get out an injunction to prevent him from joining anything else until we get some underclothes for Winter. I'll tell you what I will do. The next time he says anything about Sky Fngle degrees and consistory none sense I will take a wash board and make him think there is one degree in ; Masonry that he has skipped, ^and now good-by. You have comforted j me greatly, and I will lay awake to-! night until my husband comes from j the lodge with his pat hand, and I | will make him think he has forgot his I ante.' The lady went out to a grocery to [ buy some bar soap, and the promi nent Mason resumed hiR business j with a feeling that we are not all truly j good, and there is cheating going on all around. j An Appalling Railroad Acci dent. Sax Francisco, January 20.?A great railroad accident has occurred near j Tehachapi Station, on tbc Southern j Pacific Railroad. Shortly after midnight the overland I express by the Southern Pacific, which j left here at 9 20 A. M , yesterday, stopped near Tehachapi Station to cut out an extra engine taken on at Sumner to assist in palling up the Tehachapi grade. While making the change, by some means yet unknown, the train got away and started back Northward down a grade of 120 feet to the mile. The traiu consisted of two engines, express, mail and baggage cars, two sleepers, one coach and a smoker. It went down tbe grade at a frightful speed for about four miles, when the hiudermost sleeper jumped tbe track and went over an em bankment about 15 feet high, carrying with it the other sleeper and the mail, baggage and express cars, which were piled in a shattered heap. They took fire and were consumed. Tbe coach and smoker kept oo the dowu grade and were stopped without leaving the track about two miles further on. All on board the latter were uninjured. . The scenes following the wreck were terrible. A number of persons were jammed amid the ruins of the train and roasted to death before the eyes of those [ helpless to save them. A dispatch from Los Angelos says it j is ascertained that at the time tbe train ! broke loose and ran down the grade, the j air brakes bad beeo taken off, and tbe j men who tended the "hand braked were away from their posts, one attending to tbe switching engine and the other re lighting his extiugcisbed lamp. The train gathered headway quickly, and was soon dashing down the grade at :hc rate of a mile a minute At a sharp j curve of the road, the coach and smoker, I which were ahead, broke a coupling and separated from the reat of the train, j making tbe tum safe The sleepers and the mail, the express a?vi baggage cars were dashed against a high bank and thrown back, rolling dowu an .embank ment. The lamps and stoves at once set fire to the wreck, which was instantly iu a blaze. Harry Connors, the news agent, who was sleeping in the baggage car, was awakened by the movement of the car and aroused James Woodhull, the baggage master, just as tbe cars made the jump. Tbe roof of the car was split open and both men were thrown out and severely bruised. Con- j uors, while lying on the ground unable ] to render any assistance, saw tbe train j enveloped iu flames and heard the j sbriek.s of.thc dying victims and saw them vaiuly endeavoring to struggle from the burning ruins. Porter Ashe and wife, who occupied the drawing room of oue of the sleepers, were awakened by the crash. They succeeded in gettiug out wilh- | out injury, hot of sixteen other occu- i pants of the car not one is believed to have escaped. Meantime tbe occupants of the coach, which kept on the down j grade, succeeded-iu stooping it, thereby saving the lives of some forty occupauts of tbat and the smoking car. They im mediately walked back to the scene of j1 the accident but found only tbc smoul dering remains of the train and the few ! who had escaped with their lives, lying ! beside it and bleeding in tbe darkness, j shivering in tbe pierciug cold night air, ! or rendering assistance to each other. - - A Complex Accident. Denver, Col , January 21.?The ! Tribunes Albuqueique special says:j; Thursday evening an engine on the < Atlantic and Pacific Road, while mak- I iog an effort to force the blockade of j, snow between Cooledgc and Fort Win- j ] gate, jumped tbe track. A second j < eugiue in the vicinity came tu the: j rescue, bat not being able to reudcr the i ] needed assistance two more ^ngiues \ j were telegraphed for from (1oolcdge. I These started for the scene of the acci- I deut at full speed in a blinding snow, j < Nothing was seen in the way, when j < suddenly there was a tremeudous crash j ( and tbe fragments of four 60 ton cngiues j, were piled up on the road bed. \ \ Chailes Lakiu, engineer of No. 6. j s and his fireman were seriously bruised j ] aud several others were slightly injured. Yesterday afternoon tbe men working ;; on the wreck being exhausted from j ] fatigue aud cold, Cooledge was agaiu I ( asked for assistance, when two more ', engines with a way .car loaded with workmen, started for the sceuc of the accideut. The snow was bliuding, and the wind blew so terrifically that no object could be seen aliead, aud the rescuing train, sweeping along the track, went I crashing iuto tbo wreck of the other j four engines, adding ten-fold to the i confusion already existing. Both the engine aud the way car j ' were completely wrecked, but no oue j was seriously hurt. The storm was the ! worst knowu for years The danger i' lights were completely covered up and i the intense cold made it impossible for i the signal men to be out. It is gettiug so the doctors can re build a man as easily as a carpenter can a box. A Georgia doctor cut out a man's diseased liver and put in a mule's in the place of it, and now the man is the champion foot-ball player*of that region. News and Gossip. Fires last year in the United States destroyed ?70,000,000 of property, of which the in sc ranee companies lost ?25,000,000. ( , During the last five years there have been 2,400 divorces granted in Maine, which is just one separation in every, ten marriages contracted during that period. It is said that tbe male inhabitants of the United States consumed on an average seven gallons of whiskey ' laafc year, and yet we know lots of men'who were all sober all through tbe year. r The Georgia Legislature has reduced the rate of State tax from three miHs on the dollar to two sod a half. That 'half mill" is the proof of good ^govern* ment. It shows a growth in wealth, and economy in expenditure ; both ex cellent things and much to be desired. Philadetyhia Record. It has been discovered that the clerk ship of the Unfted States Supreme Court is worth anywhere from $20,000 to ?50,000 a year in fees, and an effort is to be made to put the incumbent un-_ der a salary of $6,000 per annum. Ooe of the late clerks left a fortune when he. died of half a million?all made from fees. Rev. W. W. Hicks, to whom, Guiteau bequeathed his body, has made a formal conveyance to the United States of the remains. Tbe skeleton it now at the Medical Museum. Mr. George Scoville, who arrived at Wash ington on Friday, says be has oo farther interest in the matter, but, hopes tbe re mains will be decently buried. It is understood that the skeleton will be preserved at tbe Museum. Tbe Ohio Legislature is likely to make a special effort to stop the adel te rat ion of food, and formidable lists of abuses are being printed. Thus an eminent Cincinnati chemist says .that the liver and kidney complaints which destroy so many lives are largely due to the u-e of sulphuric acid in sugar manu facture : the aim is to extract the sub stance in its final processes, but that cannot be done perfectly. Then, among smaller matters, hooey-comb is made artificially, and bees feed on glucose to fill it, and even eggs are produced me chanically, but so far without shells. St aveless barrels are made by a .Mich igan lumbering company by catting a log into barrel lengths, softening them by a steaming process and then shaving each piece into a long sheet-unrolled like a carpet. Each sheet is tufen cross cut into such a length that wheTs two ends are brought together it is given the size and form of a barrel, without heads, the whole being done by ma chinery. This has proved a great im provement over the stave barrel in cost of manufacturing as well as in merits for use. The only drawback is .that clear timber is required, all the knotty timber being rejected. It is a singular thing that Qpelika, Alabama, remains in each a state of dis quiet. The latest is, that another riot took place there on Monday evening, because a marshal attempted Co arrest a man for violating the laws : The mob arrayed themselves against the authori ties of the town and county, and over 1.000 f:hots were fired ; bat, strange to say, oo one is reported as being even hit by a bullet. The'Governor sent; the Montgomery Grays to the# place, and things had quieted down on Tnesday. This town has already made an unenvi able reputation, and now it is maintain ing it. - -??mmm Arthur's Choice. Truth of New York has the, following from Washington. The stars and stripes and the Union Jack are. likely soon to entwiue sensationally in a matri monial way. President Arthur has evidently become smitten with. Miss Sackville-West, the daughter of the. British Minister, who is heir presumpt ive to his brother. Lord Sack vi He, who has been six years in the British Peerage. The British Minister is a diplomatist of thirty years standing, and he married when Secretary of the British Legation. at Madrid, twenty years ago, a most charming Spanish lady of excellent family, but in reduced fortune, who ia ow dead, and who had been for a brief time on the stage. In the event of the marriage, President Arthur can, at the eud of his term, cs ry into effect what is understood to be a long cherished wish on his part, to travel extensively. abroad. Indeed if he choose to perma nently reside abroad in England or. Paiis he would, throughout his life, re :;ive very much more attention, aid live a much more comfortable, and it> ieed more of a public life than (to judge Vom the retired lives of the previous Presidents) he could enjoy ia this coaa :ry- _ Mi.<s West is not yet of age, but has ill the charms of person that add to the lignity aud presence of a much older woman. Oddly enough, the President. )f the United States is a British subject ander British law, which extends the right cf subjectship to the son or grand-, son of a British-born subject, although " ie is born abroad ; aud President Arthur's Either was a British subject,, tnd if the ex-President ever resides in. England he would, by the courtesy )f the Court, take precedence along with :x-sovercigns. Sausage Meat. We find the following advertisement iu the Washington Evening Star of January 17: To the Sausage Makers of Washing Ion : Having recently purchased a cou-, pie of parlor rifles we are prepared to. supply you with any number of cats that you may require iu the prosecu tion of your business The following schedule will show a small figure below the usual market prices: Old Toms, , 25 cents each; Young Females, 50 cents each; Half-grown Kittens, 30 ceuts each These cats will be deliver-. cd by two ex detectives, who will re-^ ccive and receipt for the money paid and nothing said. PrxKS & Co? - mi i *w ?v" The light of friendship, like phos phorus, is *ecn most plainly when all around is dark.'