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For job work or contracts for advertising | [address Watchuta?. and Southron, o^ anply at j the Office, to n. g. os teen." Business Manager. ] I I i i THE TWO GLASSES. Tberesat two glasses filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim ; One was ruddy and red as blood. And one as clear as the crvstal flood. I Said the glass of wine to the paler brother. "Let us tell the tales of the past to each other, j I can tell of the banquet, and revel, ar.d mirtb, >And the proudest and grandest souls on earth, [Fell under my touch a3 though struck by j blight, j 'here I was a Kirg, for I ruled in might, 'rom the beads or Kings I have torn the j crown, j [From the heights of fame ! have hdried men down : I have blasted many an honored name: I have taken virtue and given shame ; I have tempted the youth with a sip, a taste, | That has made his future a barren waste. j Far greater than a King ara I, Or than any arm:.- beneath the sky ; have made the. arm of a driver fail, d sent the train from the iron rail, ire made good ships go uowa at sea, I iQd the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me, . j "or they said. Behold, how great you be. [Fame, strength, wealth, geuius, before you j tali, j For yonr might and power are over all " Ho ! ho ! p.tie brother," laughed the wine, j ."Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?"* j 'Said the water glass. "I cannot boa?t Of a King dethroned or a murdered Lost, Bur I can tell of a heart once sad, By my crystal drops made light and glad? ! Of thirsts I've quenched, of brows I've lave;', ! Of hand* I have cooled and souls I have i saved ; I hare leaped through the va"ey, dashed I dewn the mountttiu, lowed the river, and played in the fountain, : Slept in the sunshine, und drop&ed from the j sky, I And every where gladdened the landscape and ' eye; j I have eased the hot forehead of fever and , j pain, f I have made the parched meadows grow fer- ! tile with grain : I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill That, ground out dour 2 turned at my will; ' I can teii of manhood debased by \ou That I lifted up and crowned anew. I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid ; 1 gladden the heart of man ?ad maid ; ! I set the chain-wine c?ptire free, And all are better for knowing me." The?e are the tu'es they to.d each other Toe glass of wine and its paler brother? As they sat to^e'her, fiile i to the brim, fc-On the rich man's table rim to rim. ! Distances of the Stars. by p. a. towxe. Less than a century ago the scien tists who acknowledged die motion ol j the earth?there was some who re- ! fused to accept the proposition?fan- ; " cied the system of the world as a structure confined to the limits of: Saturn's orbit, a distance from the j central st;n equal to 100,000 times the diameter of the earth, or about fcl'O, 000,000 miles. The stars were fixed to the surface of a sphere at a distance i a little beyond that of Saturn. Out-; side of this there was generallyj nought to be unoccupied space snr nding the universe. The mis ery of Uranus in 1785, completely stroyed this girdle formed anciently j Tiy the orbit of Saturn. At a single fpoaud the frontiers of solar Influence * 'ere carried back to the distance of! 1,700,000,000 miles from the centre of the system ; that is to say, fir be yond the space the stats had been imagined t<> occupy. The discovery of Neptune hi J816, again carried back these limits to a distance that hitherto had b<*e;i bought appalling. The orbit <ie cribed by Neptune is traced at a dis nce of more than 2,500,000,000 miles from the sun. But the attrac tive power of this immense star ex tends far beymd this distance. I>e- j youd the orbit of Uranus, beyond the j path hidden in gloomy distance and lowly traced by Neptune, the cold wastes of space are lighted up by comets: those swift, dishevelled wan derers through the heavens which dash headlong into endless flight, - ifeto^Kgtheir course whenever some af&Ction allures them, and carried byan eccentricity having no parallel an>ng other heavenly bodies, fall into pjabolic and hy perbolic orbits. j S<ne of these remain completely un dr the control of the sun. They <!-> W fly from system to system, but, nevertheless, recede to distances wich surpass by tar. those of Uranus ad Neptune, i'alley's comet is one othese. It penetrates space to a stance of more than three thousand pillions of miles from the sun. Such i the comet of 1S11 wh ch moves off a a distance of nearly forty thousand pillions of miles. Such again is the omet of 1630, whose farthest (1k ance from the sun is placed at eighty housand millions of miles At lha: rast distance the sun appears no lar ger than a star like Sirius Still the influence of the powerful monarch <4' our system is felt. The c met hears is voice. It turns back n>ward him, retraces its path to bathe itself in s of our mighty luminary, after ey that has required more than ur centuries to accomplish, ks orbit comprising 8,800 years, e numbers, great as they are, dly be compared to those j which express the distances of the j stars. In establishing these distances ; the base ol the triangle with which i they are connected has been the diam- \ eter of the earth. But in our efforts i to measure the distances of the j , stars this small base has to j j be abandoned. Happily for our cor- ; reel judgment of the extent of the j universe we are able to find a base ', 1 i extended enough to find the distances of a few of the stars. The earth in ( its revolution an und the sun forms a , circle, or in fact an ellipse, which has a diameter of nearly two hundred j , millions of miles. This is oar new l, base Hue. , Since the revolution of the earth is i, annual, it is found at any moment we choose to select, at a point opposite ( to that where it was found six months jj bet?re, or to that where it wili be found six months later. In other words, the distance of the earth from any point in its orbit to the point at; which it will be found in six mouths ; is nearly two hundred millions of j , miles. The proceedure then in mea-? suring the distance of a star from the j earth consists in making a minute : observation of the position of the star ; { at an iterval of six months, or rather j during the entire year, and seeing if j the star remains fixed, or if it suffers j a slight displacement from the earth in its motion around the sun. If it j remains fixed, we conclude that its distance from us is immeasurable, or j in other words that two hundred mil-; lions of miles are as zero when coin- j pared to the vast interval that sepa rates the earth horn the star. If it is : displaced, we establish the fact that it! describes a small ellipse during the year, a reflex of the annual motion of tlieearih. Everyone has remarked j in travelling on a railroad car that the . trees, or objects nearest, seem to pass i in a direction opposite to that in which ?e are moving, and the nearer ! they arlithe more rapidly they seem j to pass, whilst distant objects on the j horizon remain stiil. This is precisely ; the same effect which is pi educed in ' space as a result of our annual move- I ment around the sun. Only this dif-! ferenee; that, although we move in comparably more rapidly than an ex- i press train?eleven hundred times, more rapidly; making 1,600,000 miles ! per hour?yet the stars are all bo dis- j taut that it is with difficulty we de-j tect their motion. Our two hundred j millions-of miles of displacement are; almost nothing, even tor the nearest of! them. Could we transfer ourselves j to Japit-r, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune j with orbits five, nine, nineteen and | thirty-live times larger than that of j the rariii, it is evident that the distan- ! ces of a.tar greater number of stars j could be determined than we are now j able to make out. It is only since the year 1840 that: the distances of a few stars have be \ come known. The distance of 01 fJy^T)i was determined by Besse I ii: j l*-lu. It is more than thirty-two tril-! lions of miles from us. The distance of Alpha Lyre was announced by i Strrive after 1840, as more than one hundred and twenty trillions of miles: from us. The star nearest to us is ; Alpha Centaur!, which is more! than twenty trillions of miles i away. Sinus is the largest j "fixed star" in the heavens. It is ' more than eighty trillions of miles fr<>m us Tii-is star is two thousand j six hundred and eighty-eighty times j larger than our sun, and is snr-1 rounded by a system of planets, two j at least of which 'nave been recog- { nized by cur telescopes. The great! star Arcturus is one hundred and fifty ;: trillions of miles from us, and the | Pole star is three hundred trillions of miies off. Ti?e star which has at pre- ' sent the credit of being at the great- j <-st measurable distancerfrom the earth : is Capella, and it is more than four hundred and twenty trillions of mites away. A ray of light starting from ! Capella at any i\ ;-n moment reaches '< theearth seven*y-o::e years hit er. if this star were destroyed in 1881 we should contiuue to admire it until the year 1952 before a knowledge of its | destruction would reach us. These! , are -'among;the t.vcnty stars whose j, distance has been determined and these are the stars riean st to us. Ail j the others are ?ucomparab'y more re- j mete. There ai stars whose light i only reaches us alter a hundred years, athousandyears, i<m thousand years I of inc-ssa::t flight a? the i ate ol t wo j , hundred thousand miles per second, , To traverse the sideral anivot.s.- ofi; which we form a past -the Milky ?, Way?light employs not less than fifteen thousand years. To reach us 1 ( fr<?m certain riobuhe, it occupies more [ . i i i . , * . . i than tnree nuaureu tim?*stu**se Ii!?*-*-ri j thousand years, or live millions of i, yars. It may give the reader sum'- \ assistance in ofh ils to c ?inptehenil . these immense distances ii we com pare a few by writing t:.'- numbers representing them in figures: jj Miles. I i Diameter of the earth, - - - 7,1*20 , Distance of moon, - - - 2 JO,uOM . Distance of sun, - - - 02.^00.000 j Comet of 1680. - - 80 : ?'?.,;-'o j , A IphaCeutaui i2H.O*M>,OUO.O M?,(?on owj , Sirius, - - 8<'.0o0,uon.oofi>(n>o,?on Capella - 1; 1! >. i l! - * i.' ' o < i ;'?(J o r r i j. i:' ( When we remember in coniie'eti >n i with tie s" ili- a.'i'-es. ti'ut some ol the . i stars which we see nigatly twinkling 1 in the depths of spac*. may be large , I enough to Stl the entire riol.ir syst* rn \ even beyond the greatest d.stance of . < the cornet of l^vSo, wo be?;:i to appro- ! 1 ctate the wfindertul pageant discover- 1 ed by sideral astronomy within a few ] years. The telescope <.i utile o has i done more for the heavens d>ove us i than the -hips ol t Ndurnbns lor the j little Speck we call the earth. j< An < ;.] woman in Sr L .*ii> saved ' ^I.lOtJ out of the hard earnings of thirty v?.:ir?. and the other night lost 1 the money in the street Ti news- I papers di scribed tier pitiable grif f, for i she w>s completely prostrated by the * loss, and when she read "ti': of the ac- t counts sin; felt still worse, for she said : sin? uid not want the whol world to I know her trouble. But when a hoy \ came in with the money, and explained ' that he had found out its owner from f the papers, sue thought better of jour- 1 nalisiii. That Bad Boy, REFORMING THE OLP MAN. 4l guess I've fixed pa this time so he will never touch liquor again,' said the bad boy. 'I scared him .co his bald head turned gray in a single night.' What under heavens have you done ;o him nowT asked the grocer man, m istonisbment. 4I hope you haven't Jone aavthuig vou will regret in after years.' ; 'Regret nothing, said the boy, a? he turned the lid of the cheese box buck und took the knife and sliced S a piece jf cheese and to k a few crackers out v\ % barrel, and sat down on a soap box . by the stove. *Yuu s<" ma was annoy ed to death with pa He would come home full, when she hau company, and lay d&wn on the sofa and snore, and he would smell like a distillery. It hurt me to see ma cry, and I told her I would break pa of drinking if she j would let me, and she said if I would promise not to hurt pa to go ahead, and I premised not to. Then I got my j chum and atiodier boy, quite a big boy, to help and pa is all right. We went down to the place where they sell arms ! and legs to folks who have served in : the army, or a saw mill, or a thrashing . machine, and lost their limbs, and we i borrowed some arms and legs, and j fixed ud a dissecting room. We fixed : a long table in the basement, big enough to lay pa out on. you know, j and then we got false whiskers and j mustaches, and when pu came iu the j house drunk and laid down on the sofa. ; and got to sleep, we took him and laid j him out on the table, and took some trunk straps and a si red ogle, and strap ped him down to the tabie. He slept right along all through if, and we had . another table with the false arms and j legs on, and we rolled up our sleeves aud smoked pipes, just like I read that medical students do when they cut up a man. Well, you'd a dide to see pa lock at us when he woke up. I saw him open Iiis eyes, and then we began to tall; about cutting up dead men. We put hickory nuts in our mouths so our voices would sound difiercut. so he ! wouldn't know us, and I was telling the other b<\ys about what a time wc had cutting up the last man we bought. I snid he was awful tough, and when we had got his legs off and had taken out his brain, his friends come to the dissecting room and claimed the body, and we had to give if up. but I saved the legs. I !oo!:-d at pa on the table, aud he began t" turn pale, and he squirmed around to gei up, but found he was fast. I bad pulled his shirt up , under his arms, while he was asleep), and as he began to move I took an icicle, and iu the dim light of tin- can dles, that were si fling on the table in beer bottles. I drew the icicle across pa's stum mirk and I said to my chum, I *l)oc, I guess we better cut open this ; old duller and see if he died from iu Summation of the stummick. from hard j drinking. u> the Coroner said lie did.' Pa shudder-id all over when he felt the icicle going over Lis bare stummick, and he said, 'For God's sake, gentle men, what does this mean ? I am not dead.' The other boys Looked at pa in astonishment, and i said, 'Well, we bought you fur dead, and the Coroner's jury said you were dead, and by the . eternal we ain't goin to be fooled our of. a corpse when we buy one. are we. ; Doc ?' My chum said not if he know- j ed bIsself. and ;he other stud;cnt< said. Of course be is dead. He thinks he is alive, but be med day before yesterday, j fell dead on the street. and bis folks i said he had beeu a nuisance, and they wouldn l claim the corpse, and, we bought it at the morgue.' Then I drew the icicle across him again, and L said. 'I don't know about this, doctor. I fit??] that blood follows the scalpel as E cut through the cuticle. Hand me the blood sponge, please.' i'a began to wiggle around, an-; we looked at htm, and my chum raised Iiis eye-lid, and looked solemn, and pu. said. 'Hold on, gentlemen. Don't cut into me anv more, and I can extdaiti this matter. [t"s all a mistake. 1 was only 'hunk.' We went in a corner and whispered, j and pa kept talking ?Ii the time. He ' said if we v.o..Id postpone the h"<r kill- j ing lie could send and get witnesses to r?i iv: that he wns n ;t dead, but that ho was a respectable citizen and hail a familv. After we had h? id a consulta tion I went to pa and told him that what he had Faid about being alive tni^ht possinly be true, though we had .nr doubt V\ e bad found such cases before i'i "ur practice Ivisr. where men seemed to be alive, but it was only temporary. Before wc had got them cut up they were den.] enough for all practical purposes Then I laid the icicle acr >ss pa s abdomen, and went on f.. t.-;l him that even if he was alive if would be better f ?r him ! > play that he was dead, because he was ^m-h a nui sance r" his family tha' they did not want him. and I was telling him that in his lif time h was v< ry cruel to bis tn-v. a briiih! little I'.'!low who was at tii" head of his class in Sunday school, tr. . : pet wh< rev-r he was known, wi;< pa iii* TrupT"d me and said, ' Poc please ::>!; that carving knife >.;; iiv stomach. t"i make's tu" nervous. As for that bo\ of mine, he is the c?n lemndest iinb: whelp in thi> town, and iie is tio pet atiywh'ie Nov. you let ip en this dis.-ocfiti' busim v an 1 I will make ;' all right with you ' We r id anotin r consultation and ihen I (?I ! pa that w?' did not f< el riiat i' was iojng }M i to soc'n r v to give up tire n?dy of a notorious drunkard, aitvr we iad ' aid twenty do!lu'i> for t he r .i . [ f tit- re was auv hop- : 11 - - would efor:ii ;ir;-l try and b-a 1 :< on:.f :?t !i:--. r would be dih'-rent, and I >aid to the ?OVs, '<ient.Krmej?, we must do "er ioty ' Then I fo.-k my ieude and be ':m fumbling around the abdomen poi ion o{ pas remains, and my chum took i rough piece of ice and began to saw iis \i}(T off. -'nie the othei boy took Lold of tbe leg and said he would catch r when it dropp' o .-!i \\ ell. \> i kie? d like a ste< r lie saiii ho wanted to uake one more appeal to u<. and we icted sort of impatb nt, bu! we let up hear what he had to say He aid il ,ve would turn him lo"?e be w> uld ufiv<' i>< t' n dollars more tlnr, we panl lor iis body. i 1 hat lie woub] v? i 1 tink another drop as long he lived. I'beu wc whispered bomc more aud then told him that we thought favorably u his last proposition, hu> lie must swear, with his hand "ii die lei: of a corpse we were then dissecting, that he would never drink again, and then Ik* must be blindfolded and be conducted seve ral blocks away from the dissecting room befure we could turn him loose, lie said that was all right, and so wo blindfolded him and made him take a bloody Oath, with his ham! on a piece of ice that we told him was a piece of smother corpse, ami then we took bin: rut of the house and walked him around the block four times, and left him on a corner, after he had promised to send i ( money to an address that. I gave him We fold him to stand stiil tiro tniuutcs after we left, him. then remove the blindfold and go horn-'. We watched him from behind a board f :--e. and he took oii' rf.o handkerchief, look ed at the name on a street lamp, and found lie was net far from horn . lie started off, sayiug : "Thai's a pretty narrow escape, old man. No more whiskey for you.' I did not sec him again until this morning, ami when I asked him where lie was last night he shuddered and said, 'None of your darn business. But 1 never drink any more : you remember tint ' Ma was tickled and she told me I was worth my weight in gold. Well, good da v. That cheese is musty.' And the bey went and caught en a passing sleigh.? Iyrci:'x Snn. Swindling a Settler. About the 1st of October a pioneer in one of the northern counties of \\ iscon sin was seated on a log in front of his cabin, waiting for bis cvcry-otlier-daj shake of the ngue to come along, when u covered wagon drove up. it. contain ed a man and his wife, ami a few arti cles of furniture, ami they were looking for a piece of land on which to suuat. It was nip and tuck which was the meanest-looking man. Ijoth we j rag ged, dow in the mouth, and had chills and fever as regularly a.- sunrise, and neither one had made a cent- in the last ten years. It was also a pretty even thing between the women. One was cross-eyed, and the other had a broken nose. <h:e was almost toothless and the other had a stilf knee. One chew ed slippery-elm and took snuff, and the other smoked plug tobacco in a clay pipe. Stranger/ remarked the ?etiler after the four had looked each other over. '1 haven't any fodder for yer bosses, noth ing to get. up a dinner with, and we git our drinking water from a creek half a mile away. Yer a mean looking fami ly, nod I'd advise ye. t-; drive on." 'Stranger.' echoed the other, 'I wouldn't have stopped nohow bur to oiler ye a trad.-. My oh: woman don't like the woods and don't want to g<, further. How"II ye trade':' The settler got up and walked around he wagon mid whistled 'Old J?an Tucker' twice over, am: then replied : I reckon it's about an even thine. "Yes. nur'y even. What do yoa say, old woman 'Wall, I can't he much wuss off,' she replied as she jumped down. The settler's wife was not over seven minutes packing up. and as the wagon moved off the called back : 'Good-bye. old mat) ! Keeken we don't owe each other nothing.' In less than a fortnight the settler appeared at the county s,-.:[ to consult a lawyer, and great was his indignation as he explained : 'In leSs'u a week after that 'el'O wag ou druv oil that 'ere woman went stone blind and likewise developed consump tion and yesterday morning she sud denlv drapped off her cheer and died with'::: kick.' :Sl?e aid V 'And I've got to bury her and break up and loose my ?ij.uat.. Now, then, what I want is to know if there is any law in thi< State which allows a stran ger to tote a dying female around the keutry and trade her even up i >r an j old woman who could chop a cord and a i bait of wood per day and sot up all ' night to keep the bars from boldiu a i convention in the shanty V The Politer Way. ! On the train between Montgomery, ; Ala., and Nashville. Teiin., there wire j a dozen of us chatting away in the I smoking-car when c:,e of the gentle- I men drew out a pack of cards and pro- j posed a game of euciirc. He soon found j a partner, and after a few hands out. j they began playing for a dollar a point r and ten points for a game. Natu rail v ! enough we all became interested, and mure or less excited. ]>y and by there was a slip somewhere, and the. one j called (Colonel remarked : 'Major, hands oil the card-!' 'lieg y ? pardon, Colon-d, but the ! trick is mine.' 'Major, I hope you will excuse me for calling you a liar 'Oii. cer'aiuiy. Colonel, hut [ take' that trick wsth the king oi spades 'If you d?>, \\ajor, |*H take you with this !* said Coivie I, as his shooter came out. Aim let us see; Colom-J- let us see. \ You led t'ti'- nine "I spades and I put on the k \n j No. M.-.jor : I led the nine -u hearts : and you refused suit.' ' I :..it > so- rha' so.' said the Major he looked over the ranis 'Colo,: i beg your p.iidon f r having taken you for a bh?ei; leg *0h, dou'i mention it. Kxcu> me for having hesitated to shoot you when I believed v?u to ! a (Toraio>:raiiiblei It's vour play. Major ' Ihtn.U )',., /W. __ Poisoner-. \ t the r cej 'ion i'.'. n after th" mar ri:? '< ' 'lap ie< I., unio i and ! i Nellie IVttirt Thursday night, at Wabash. Indiana, some < i the 1.1 : .. i red containe i :i poisonous sul stam . About a humlp d gu wie? ! ad \ ir |:e :. >l' the lend wen - :/ with int cramps in toe stiou.-o h 'ianv are piite sick and some !ik< Iv on \ n arlieie -titb i ' liew i i Wa h the i?aby' is i.'"iti~ 'he roan i- the pto>s. IVrsons who read it will be surprised f<> learn that tie- iuf; M i- washed with water, but is not run through a wring ing machine and hung out on tin: line to dvy.?Norristolen IU raid. A Lively Corpse. . I M'd'ilci'c l X'\;} <> CjurnCii '" L/rft> and Stjoopti* iii Tc:*' tf'j JjoUews and an Kid* rpi'Lititu LU nor let'. On Saturday night two young ne gro meti named William Davis and Hill lard Pressly, who had closed the labors of the week, sat ti??tvn ;n one of the houses, on the Arthur place with five c??ms, which, to the initia led, arc understood to b" a handy plantation substitute for dice or other garniiig implt uieiits. A dispute arose oil the progress -.'I the gam?*, which was qipckly settled by Davis knocking his antagonists in the head with a bil let of wood, the blow apparently pro ducing; immediate fatal results. A runner was sent to town, a physician summoned, the Sheriff notified that a murder had been c uumittcd. and all arrange.nenfs made lor a tirst class criminal sensation.. The ever alert correspondent of the News and Cou rier waked up the drowsy operator and wired the particulars of the ter rible deed to Chariest -n. when a sui table head was put. on it by lite sk;':i ful artist who dues duty in that de partment, and the terrible deed was read on the streetsyesterday* at noon, eighteen hours in advance of its pos sible announcement by the heal paper; 'file Suet iff visited the scene early <e: Sunday morning- and found the wounded man apparently unconscious and to all intents den !. and as tie1 slayer had skipped ::: the direction of the city the police wert? instructed t-? look i r.i for him. J u the e uirse of tie-day Davis was arrested by Ser geant Hamilton and put in the Guard House yesterday mo ruing. The Sequel f>f tiie affair was that there was no dead nigger in the case, but -about the time the murder was being devoured by the crime mongers the cunning uarky wln> had g< t left !n ihu corn game, but iiad so success fully shammed death, was quietly pocketing $2U as a compromise, which tiieanxious father of "Davis was only too giad to pay to got his buy out of a very bad scrape. The monoy paid over the boy Davis returned home, happy in the discovery ei* a new way to turn to account a i unstic Cesslul gambling op.-rai on wito a incidental head punching.? (.' kuuLi'ci Tieyider. Jupiter Cooling Out. J/tscnstcs n Jit'/ Spot fin h v / ''.*/. { '1 he American Astronemiea! Socie ty met in the directors' room el* tile tirouktvn Aca iemv of ' :>ie last n : hr. Mr S."\*. Whiio.'the President, being sick. Mr. iVm. T. Gregg, the Vice President, p; He J. 'i"i)e special sub ject under consideration was tier re cent physical changes in Jupiter. Messrs. Parklmrst an j S rviss describ ed their observation- of the great red spot, which made its apty aranco ,;n Jupiter's disk iu the summer of 187$. and within a few weeks has aim >=: firelv "disappeared, 1';<:". W. LcConte Stevens. Prof. W. C-.Al Davis-a. Messrs. iiadie. Deekham. Hopkins, A. C L'errv, tiregg, and others took par! in the discussion-. The general opinion expressed was that rJupit? r is a world which is ye! in verv eariv stage of ;ts geological histo ry, and that in the great re i : :. and iu some other remarkable spots winch nave made their nppearanci upon its surface, evidences are sec:: :!.-.: the planet either has already a sdid or liquid surface, or that :!;< : <:m;.:i >u of such r. surface has begun, \ c r.. i theories t > account fur the great r~d spot, which was upward ";,(; miles long by ?.t'O? or S.O'J.'J miles wide. were suggotcd. One tv rv was that some volcanic action may haw been taking place which threw up iin" tht atmosphere a mass ot smoke ana eruptc>{ mart-rials which formed ihe red * spot. Another theorv was that the crust of the piano; where the s{ ' ap peared mav have been exc-otiocailv 1 beateu so that ii;-- atmosphere above ?i was kept tree trom eauias. A third tin orv regarded the n d sn -: as pessib!; ' a solidified ma-s thrust up through its ' gaseous and liquid surroundings and forming, perhaps, the nucleus one of * lee future continents ol the giant ' planet. The society adj ?urned to mc.-t o;> ih ' lb ! Monday in April in the physical ! laboratorv of the ! a-iker [ustif ute. \t that time special [?ap- rs: will he read r upon the Coiznecliiu: het'.voen san .-.- -.> and terrestrial muten roi-gy. ? A }'. ' Sttn. Pursuing an Unknown I&on- ' ster. - i Am:x, X C, March 7 ?The up- 1 pearance I an unknown animal around till ? place i.a- caused gi'e.ai exc?f< uient huotprin;.-) eight iuclies b: i?ad and twelve 1 lueli rs io;:g i>; Soiin: m-.?i.ster Had i n ubserveu on the trains and had been va riously iiiierpietcd. Some though: ? jok:< r was auii.-i;.ating th : 1 si o! Apr l - \< an i cndeav<>:mg r." scare people. (libers accepted ;!.? facts as j-r-vinj . pres?:uci:,o{ som? gyascutis or jihiu jiaih- " osay, but many obdurate men ?. ri-'ied tbe footprints aitora-ther V\ i.r .. h .? .-. ever, thrt .'aiuaM<- l???pse> wr-ie kiH i v thing around, but e< '.' nd- ; (hat it v.a - '' a wild I? :ast iet l.iio.se bv a emm- evnrn panv eager for t; a.lv..-:"is:ug. It: th- llu-aUl IIIO lie m who li.oj ! -;. t!je:i g hprs? s organj/Ved a g:a...i nun? (? ? the Unknown Uronste . ulo-. n on?i< 'hat) ,l ;;n<- !>utj ire?l -n lia\e <>v, i i.. ? i ?! ..ejiapii no tni:n ' ha;. be n recived, i, < ..i tin- bunt- ;? i ii-' i fher dav i It:o?< r. > Ii ! i gi i".id cf army < i \ < . \< u u bad been ha .gin: about 'he house i< After looking at bun auhoe !o- Sir, d \ -IX shots auvj I i?<: ("i! wai .?'?1 awa v. a \ iiio he was loa-iitig up (or tie i- v. StiYlCtioU, th?- shot '?t s small boy , ; >jiiir< 1 : 'I 'id von ?-vei kill auv one a ui ie V?)l| W?-t*e IU the :irt!t\ . "i -?j - ,. pose so. my .-on ' \(i i a long pa:: (he bov e uiiinued : " l ln n you mus! have got near oiiOUgh to em with a: -i axe., didn't wu'"' iT than i. jovcr nd to be aboui school Ltuic. u LITTLE AH SID. I/Ht!*- A!: Si?I Was a t:s-;.tr? kid ? With eyes fall or' fun A n<i a ?f - Jlutt ot-^rnn hjgh.1 uii a: tie roots < !'i.i-> hair. v an As !.e played through the long summer day. j An-.] h raided his cue i As his father >.=ed to j t >;., . o'er a iawn i Thar Ah Sid played upon | A banablf-he'j flew in 5.;.:r.p: :;Memv.:i butterfly | Sod he with winking eye. Me cateh eg ami pull of:' uni wing.''' ; Then with his can ife sts uck it a rap? '. his innocent hatre.ik-bec? An i au: it? remains hi the Seat oi his jeans ; For .1 pocket there had the Chinee. Down (j;: the green 5>.-?t tnc littjc saraine a ft style that was strangely demure, And said witii a grin j Thai was hrimtul of sin, S-Mc niusin.*: tin '.?u'terfly sure.5' Little Ah Sid i Was only a kid. i scr could you expect him to guess j What kin? of a bm: ! He was holding so snag j a the ft ids of ids ioOiS-litting dress. "K.-}':: ' K\-\ ip-ys '. Ah Si.l cried, us he ' Ka-yi ! Vak-a-k.ta ! r .i r;i urn Meitcau man? L*m "oatierfiy h< ily much hot !*' ?$:n Francisco Wuij>, Hanging the Wrong Man. l'.'U* sec, William Bovers was as iiuch tc blame as any of us, and being ie was the man who was hung;, he night to have, entered into particulars j I a lY-i rher extent than he did. 1 shall always blame him that he j didn't. j William was placid. I knew him for 1 ihre? years, and only three times did j i know of his countenance under- j going a change for even a second. j Unco he met a grizzly face to face: ; an I that placid expression gave way j to a look of surprise and interest. lie i was nursm-d <m another occasion by j : wenty-four Indians, ami his counto- j nance rxpress*'ii htuh.e.sickness. The third change is what I am going to i tell y-u abgilt. ! '1'!: ';*e had been a gnod deal of rob- j hing and killing around the camp that i summer, and souieh.ow it ha ! b 'en im j possible to lay a hand 0:1 one of the j pen ?et raters. Th*} men had become I ;-!:ed and-desperate.-and ,t was gene-j rally understood that the first offender 1 who feli into mir clutches wonid stop 1 >fl the head ofa barrel to be brought j up stiild'-nly by a rope and a limb. j Oi.e day when s me of the boys , were retnr.uing frmh IM l,t:-k Creek | with flour and pork, thev came upon die placid William Rovers in a bad I situation, lie was bending; over the ] !>ody of a man named Powers, who ad le er: sotted by the thrust ofa! D"wio. and his hands were bloody. i he placid V\ illiarn was nabbed. What did Im do? Nothing at all. Wba1 did he say ? Why:, when the . ys !ai} h ?nds on !iim he quietly re narked that he discovered the body > uily live minutes bet?re, and was in- j m ' 'ting it in hopes to discover signs 1 : .. 1 too ;tun. And too placid to lit that crowd. j The camp didn't waste any valua- | ile time over \\ tiimms cast;. \\ itii u ii:-.- hour a Co tut convened. Willi an .vas arraigned, and the dead, body j vas placed in sight of ail. C treu in-! stances was against the prisoner, but here were;" so mo things we fo rgotv-j A nimm had been a quiet, honest, rivii resident of Diamond Uulcji. He ia i trover been known to Carry a lowic knife. 11-' had been down the i rail to wash si i::- shirts, and had dis mvered the body on his return, fie j arareolv knew (he murdered man by | ::ght. : d e.- 1 I bore fore have had ! 10 g:a: a0 1 .. ?I him. Ihe vrctitn j m i little or 11 o money, while the ae-1 us.-.', had the biggest pile of anv Int placid Wiiiiam should have V\ hich he didn't do Worth ;; cent. i<- plead not guilt i* in a catch ss, in- j liller.eni manner, as i! the resui was >i ! " p 1 rl icui :r e<mse. Ueuce to him. , uirls. and. of the tinding ?\ tin- body, j ml there was nothing anxious about im. i! um! bclie\ e me ' t me go : if ] u d m't believe me bi ing on the That was the sum and. substance of I is del? :.ce, an t !t Was bud W :. in ?11 ; ' When it was too late we saw wdicre 1 cuhl have p-. -ed his i:cCv>rd chmr ; 1 f he !, - ni, d'to. but we had sent 1 im t.. inswrr bei'.-re the high? s? . ;:tt i>! a!i. We!:, the .-.mi' c-mM scare,dy fail ' ? C'Otvij i und'-r t!i?- ciTc?insstai?.CeS. : :: j ! ! : ss th...i an hour it became ! i ;:; .! dut V of tlic iudge to ai jse 1 ' \ >:i r.av e be,-n letind 0 ]\ v .' fiiur.l 1. I -s ;t make any .. a! .I ll'Mem*e to v-uj win th. r v.ai 1 ,.. ie.ire- lidsatV..,:.'., ?r i.-nnur-'w t . \ ;. <.\ ! we mav mo have - m h an !!?-rre- ' i: n I- t a Weeix. 'j ! pi i Wiiiiam replied thai be ' ...ui i :> : a !\ in halt an houi. and | Iw ::t l" shanty, ren'omr-at: d bv C o. Smith, and when he had ? is!.<'< i ' ' ie.. :.. 11 v .0, ! 1::t?m t ;. ;t< r t" !: tends in ?he K ist. I j'k.-.j .-.-..iv mi the gallows tree, t lounted the barrel, and m-v.-r winked ? u eye when the .sev'Se was slipped V ?-1 i' .: i. I. ' i'., ,1 < an:e a painful pri-nSe Wihiam was aivut to be launclied f tie the i^:a\at unknown It is a serious tiring to kick a bar- ! ?1 fi un under ihe feet ofa fellow man j t ; .::'! let a rope catch and choke him to death. We felt ii so: and when the pans" came we could hear each other's ::;;! i! breathing. 'William Rovers 1' solemnly re marked the Jmlge, 'you arc about to hang !' 'Yes,' calmly replied the prisoner. 'And now once more I ask yon if yon arc guilty of the awful crime.?' 'No,' was the ceuaily calm reply. lint he had been tried, convicted and sentenced, and '.;;? sentence must be carried out. It was whet, the man advanced to pull away the barrel that William's countenance lost its placidity, l or live second-; he seemed a stranger to us all. A white shadow crossed his face, a look of fear crept into his eves and bis jaw fell. Thou placid William was himself again, lie braced right up, shut his teeth bard and he died with a counte nance as unreadable as a stone. A week afterwards a robber who ?v.;s fired on and fataliy wounded con fessed that lie was guilty of the mur-1 der for which William Hovers ha i been bung. ! hat was a nice mess for ' us, and there were many solemn laces, as we gathered around the judge aud asked him what could be done about ! it. j 'Wall, I reckon we'd better hare an I inquest, ii' thar be no objections,' j was the reply, und we bad one. We viewed the rope, the barret, j the tree and the grave, and the ver-; diet was : i 'Hung'lie wrong man and sorrv for i it.7 i But placid William was half to | Mame. lie should have seriously ob-1 jected to being hung ? Del rod Free I're.i.i. The Cost of Living, the wife of a man" who gets ?10 a j week Tr.M.s in::'. s:i>:-: of the stout. New I"/-/; Sun : I have read James; Short's communication to the Sun 1 concerning* iris method of supDortiug i bis famuy Comfortably on sio a week, ; ami 1 have been surprised to sec bow : bis assertions are discredited, veali- I zing as I do. how easily three can live on such a small salary. Tlie j 'Co*i;inuuistic Tailor/; said to a >?nt importer : "it can't be done, i tell you. j I'd like to hear the woman's side ofi the story, i'li bet she is a bouse-! hold drudge.'' {/-ton to hie, tailor, j and you shall bear the woman's side J of the story, fori am the wife of a! man who has a salary of only ?10 a! week. j I am not a household drudge. On ti.e contrary. I haven't enough work, j We have a .comfortable home oi four I rootys, nicely furnished. We dress I well and have plenty of good food to j eat. 1 am a musician, *o we- rent a j piano, and indeed i feit quite like a] lady until I was sneered at. by those ! having more menev than we. But! they cannot make me discontented.! 1 have always been satisfied with our! small salary, though before marriage ! i was accustomei! \..< an elegant i: ?me j and Wealth. We have Ho children, i bet ray sister is !:v|;:g with us. V? e j Iced but do no! ch?tbe iierotit of our j ten dollars. \\ k pay tniee dollars a week for our rooms. Our table sup-1 plies'do not cost ever lour dollars a; week, ami generally less We do j not eat as many beans as James and ' Jennie, but we eat considerable oat- j meal and cracked wheat, not from ne- j eessity. but because we are very ; fond of it and know jr ,, uv health fui j We generally eat oatmeal, with milk ] and sogar. for breakfast, and have ; cel?ee-, bread, butter and cake. For ; dinner we have vegetables, meat often : but not always, and tor dessert pie, j pudding or cake, sapper's bill ofj fare is the same as for breakfast, with I the substitution of cracked wheat for i oatmeal, and with the addition ofj saue?*. ! do not know whether living ex-1 penses are lower here than in New! York or not. I fancy there is not \ much difference Uents and eatables | of almost every description are aston- | ishinglv higdi here at present, and have been. I wish to describe my wardrobe to ' further show these unbelievers in! what a genteel manner two can live ' on Sl!) .My best dress is a oomph to suit of black satin, sty lishly made 1 have, besides, let;:' or five good suits, for which i paid from ;"(' em's t<? ' S! ;">;) tier vard. Some oi ! .em i : iii. d made : the rest I made i iiy.se.! f. 4 am always w.-!| supplied with kid gloves, bats, shoes and w".;ps, and never look shabby when dressed for company, calls, or the street. ! 11?.w. new. tailor? Y?_?U dare not j toll mc I haven't t?dd the t: nth I am j curious \-< kn?>w what y. u vv 11 say meiceming my statements, shall 1. have t!;.> pleasure. Tin? h.ngsuoicm.tn said be wouUj: like- t?? shut James .-'h.-rt up and feed iiim on bis own biiS of ?..;c ;six ' nonths. I .tare sav . .lines wotibl be ! : , .... . <m i ie.-tiy v. .ii ug- lo l?c tn ated s<\ ui'vided th-nnv woult! be the ?'o .k. h A great deal ?iopeiids on the cooking I t i alabh s. cheap : '-.vp 'usive. as I - ; wle'ther i" ev arc satisfactory, j ' Tiouo is one thin l forgot \o men- ; ion. i get my wast dug and ironing hme everv fw.? weeks i : < n * debar. nevet <b' mv ? u washing i gl'CSS tow i .i\ ?* said en en-. ';,. a d Will , ilake mv bow and i? !.;< , in ping my j ctii.itks will ? Hoi; iio?;urs?*s; l have j lot exaggerate*] tn>r b? en null?:l?i!til j n i he least '.eg; ? :. : i?i CK" \ r (It?:;., j I 11 -i!'-;e! : i ICC?. ( le\ ciiOnl 1' : .o. I'eb I I Counter Irr 'ion. s t nrte '; >-.- an 1 i\; > a hit d's- c. were ? iliiii'- 11:o it:?.-a when \ i kHi" a v. i ii; v ;.-\ - ii a yoc.?ntui /.ti.t: ?e.M ort- i .? be l'.usoii |yb'?ls?e's bov. \brain hin- a . i; 111 t -p .; ; l> \ is ^u,.e to catch com, C aitl (>ld Mose. i ;| I it's a warmnoss ho is gvvine tcr i ateb " t '! n:i :ms a cold in ? boa 1. j: And ! means warmiu.-s somcwhars t he.'- ('''rieften Xi r t. i News and Gossip The Charleston Kridiro Company will soon ?et <,ut the contract fc building p. bridge across the Ashley connecting the city with St. Andrew.- Parish. It will cost ?G5/jO0 and will be completed iu August. Ib-. S. S. Marsbai?, - prominent and useful citizen of Greenville, was acci dentally shot and kilb;d on Tuesday at hd? plantation in Madison County, Florida. Ho was a native of Abbe ville. Whi-kcy has been declining in price recently, tied yet but fjw m**u decline the whisky. A big Pennsylvania dis tillery was burned the other day, and the loss has put some men completely or. t of spirits, The money value of female beauty has just been rated at ?150 by a Phila delphia jury. The 'prize beauty' whom rorepaugb paraded at the head of his circus procession sued bun for ?10,000. 1 he jury, after taking all night to con sider tae subject, returned a verdict for fjl?O damages. The beauty whh-h parades itself least, is most highly val ued in this country. Lexington, X. ('., March 7.?A desperate affray took place after the elosiug excrci*- s ofa public school near this place, betwsen rour brothers named Franks, and two brothers John and Alvin lied rick. The latter were beat en with clubs and stabbed, oue of them mortally. Of the Franks brothers, one of them surrendered to the authorities uad the others ?cd. Galvestgx, March, 7.?A sp-cial to the lYcics fr on Huhhard City says: J. 11. Land, a wealthy stockmau, formerly of Wisconsin, has h^eu shot and killed by a man named Voreell. The latter made improper advances to Land's daughter nt a party, and when Land ordered him to leave the premises he shot him. At a fancy ball recently at Sydney, New South Wa-esvMrs. J. M. Sweet, the wife of the editor of the Morning Herald, appeared as the 'press' in sev eral pages of the paper named, printed in colors on a beautiful white satiu. Every column was in a different color, and each was brought out as distinctly as if printed on paper iu the ordinary is sue. The body, was represented with dags of the various colonies?all in their proper colors. The head dress was that of Minerva, with the words. The Press, in bold relief, printed iu thirteen different colors. The costume was much admired. The Stock Law. In reference to the Act of the last Legislature proposing to exempt certain counties and townships from the opera tic of the stock law by taxing the stock to pay for the fence, the Keowee Courier s;iys : We doubt if any more unwise Act was passed by the last Legislature than that proposing to exempt certain coun ties from the operations of the general stock law The Act is so impractical as to be scarcely specious, wearing on it.- face rather a legislative deceptiou than any relief or intent to relieve the dissatisfied element in our ceuntv. * * mf The Act scarcely de=erves the merit of being a tub to the whale, for on read ing it and thinking a moment no oue will seek or attempt any rebel onder its provisions. Five Bales to the Acre. In 1S74. Mr. Wartuen, of Washing ten countv. Georgia, made five bales of cotton on one acre of land. The lot was planted with a view of a premium offered by the State Agiiculturai Socie ty. It embraced one and a fourth acres, and the yield of seed cotton was G.SU1 pounds ; of lint. 2.?v!2 pounds. The laud had been planted centiouous ly in eoltvu from the close of the war to the date of experiment t.lS7-S ) The seii was s.v. dv. with clay subsoil, in cultivation sixty or uiorc ye:?rs. about half of it an old dunghill The other halt" very peer. The manure applied was L.4?/0 pounds of Peruvian phos phate. : ? ox cart loads of raw pine .-craw troai the w<?ods. (*??. bushels green cotton see l ami 400 bushels of well rot ted Stable manure?the last three put in Januarv and strewn broadcast and turned under with a two horse plow running eight inches deep, followed by a sixteen inch 'C;>?ue:\ ;n he same tur r-w. break!: z in ail from thirteen to fifteen inein - deep. Put the guano in the furrow behind the securer, which w tie re ere covet ed by rlie n.-xt fur -.v. in Kobruary rep: :ted the break ing in same i; .em r. but not applying anv mauere. In March repeated ploughing hi saw manner, crossing the last ploughing each time In April harrowed hod twice. On loth , ;' M-:y checked iand thiee feet each v.av \. ill) smaii nil tOfi^U<\ ami drop ped s:v. or ciiiht seed in each check, i covered with foot : variety. Pick son's ela.-t. r cotton. It wast hin in a to one stalk in June, two to the hill being left in the outside row Then plowed very diallow. i ' enough *o kill the weovls, Iv'iih twenty-two inch Eicksen sweep, mo furrow to the row. T" i net use ihe h- .-. had v..) m od for it. the cotton _ ?v-oi: s.< rapidly as to -prevent all Too Troo, Too Troo. Man that is married to woman is { : :\nv davsa' d I'd! of trouble. In ! morning, he draws his salary, ami u the 'even.:ig b< hold it is a ' gone. It s a tale that is told, it va .isheth, md no knoxwth ?vhither it j^oeth. I le i ise: up clothed in the chilly . .imerits <-t the night ami seeketh lie son.mm ::t paragoric wherewith to ical the ooiick\ bowels of his ofl -> ing lie ;m ateth the horse <u \. am! draweth 'die .-ha' *t of bis ?osteriiy lie spendeth his shekels u t'ne purchase ?>f fine linen and pur >le. to covoi tin bosom of Iiis family, el In- himseii is seen at the gates of he c.ty with oue suspender. He 'omcth forth as a flower, ami is cut lown There ;< In pe ofa tree when t is cut down that the tender mots hereof will spro-nt again, but man j-oeth to his home, and what is he hen't Yea, be is altogether wretch id