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“VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.” in. BcoTimW* b ** p <**»!■ Walton county haa a double-tailed *o»t. T» o Alabanraplphfe horn* two lachca Ion*J Bon-Hill* tongue >u dipped without Iota of blood. ~S • y'T r\ (~\ £ The Messiah Is expected by the MahWm dans this year ___ Two eases of small-pox are reported near AmeriCT> VffNw-| t t: 1 t j r\ £7 r ltologna sausage Is the link that u idles nan with tha bode, , . ■' - A * — LA Tlie stock law is working like a chanu In Rockdale county. . and limed hlsbrother.' Georgia, under a new apportionment, Wltl gain a Congressman. t f. the FIT OF DEATH AT PETERSBURG. A lHUe boy in Lee county, 0a., fired at a bird A Death Trap Which- Caught Four Thousand Foderala. n even watchful soldiera would regard the i Two negroes lately died In Shelby ville.Tonn., each aged 110 years The Staked Plains of Texas, once a desert, bloom like agsrdeu now. The wages of the State Road employees have been cut down Jo per cent. F » Some planters in Southwest Georgia have commenced planting corn. The French cat their jackasses, and the Amsrr- eau select thorn to office. Tappan A to., largo mcrchaulaof White Plains in Greene county, have failed. Dakota will probably be admitted soon for tbs btnsflt of the Republican party. Something Ukc a greeu graaahopperla devour ing tho wheat lu Coweta county. A woman awaiting trial with other Nihilists at St. Petersburg has gone mad. in^ kitfw,30*h(ill would be UrOakirt. ijbltdrjufc WM handled by the burial I dav. It would also be the.hour_whgp. party which waa not. Jilt more than , era of t| once, and many of them^ five and six til vft. \'.nea.%JhA m-7 ieo' or four The burraekfc ground in Atlanta waa (old on Tueatlay to John 11. James for $41,000. A hill ha* been introduced in <’ongrets to re duce letter pontage from three to two cent*. Those who think that money willdo anything may !>e suspected of doiug anything for money. Mutilated silver coins Will ho bought by «n- )H*rintendents of mints at the rate of one dollar Mr. linrnum has a baby elephant and he pays ll.uoo a week to have its life iusured one year for $300,000. A Toledo eiitht-year-old boy Iniupht a mous tache cup for his mother or. Christmas because she had a hair Up. Kxperiment* made with sugar beets In Whit man county. Oregon, result in a yield of 5.000 pounds to the acre. A .Southwest Georgia man had a cow to give birth too, calf December 15th last, and another on Jtuh of January. In 150 lodging houses grouped abont Five Points, New York, over 0.000 of the poorest hu- msnity is cribbed every night. The water from the artesian well at Albany, G*.. is hot. We always thought there was a near cut to hades through Albany. A Hoboken woman was too modest to roll up her sleeve to be vaccinated, but desired the doctor to cut a hole in her dress. for signs of the crater. Away to' the left and high In air are the buzzards sailing in slow circles. I found them at Rharpshurg, at Winchester, af Malvern Hill, at Cedar Creek—I saw them hovering over a score of battle fields. That was the first tiling X look ed for as I rode along the dusty high way towards the lighting ground. When the buzzards could be seen there was no need to ask forthor Informa tion. At Malvern Hill there were a hundred of them fluttering over the field where the oorpeest had lain thick est. At Cedar Creek I could have kill ed them as they eat on the breast works and uttered their horrible cries. At Cbaneellorsville I droveone oft the the stone erected to the memory of Stonewall Jackson, and over In the field whore a blackened chimney, rot ting cannon wheels and hillocks of' earth mark the sj>ot where Hooker mussed his guns, halfa hundred of the croaking birds disputed the ground with me. -*■ " w . TIIK CRATER. And so, turning to the left, I ride down a foot-patli running between a cotton and a peanut field and find my self at length in front of a hill covered with pine and peach trees. This hill is the crater. When once you have ciirabed its sides It is no longer a hill. You look down into an irregular hol low a hundred and fifty feet long by from twenty to forty broad, and that hollow will live forever In our war history as the crater. Woods, grass and the young peach and pine trees hide much of the horror of the spot, but one who has time to tarry can place everything as it wasoir that morning of July 30th, 1864, when it wns a hole twenty-five feet deep and full of dead and wounded Federal». ade of LAdlie’a division had niafichod silently down front the pine fqrest and i>f the farm muskets with bullets imbedded in the stocks, gun- barrels with flattened ballets welded The difference between a fint-clasi e sthete nml u flnt-elaea fool is. that it takes Juki twice as many letter* lo spall irsthete. Oglethorpe lost week voted fence, 1,007; no fence, JS4. <'rawford and Bairdstown were the only preclnrtathr.f voted no fence. Wmle Ottinger accidentally killed hla brother Fl.od at Greenville. Tcnn., last week by run ning a pilch-fork through his neck. The County Commissioners of Bibb have le- s.dved to issue no more lieenaes for the aaleof li-inor outside the limits of Macon. An Amerieus farmer caught a negro In a boa. vor trap, who wns rohbing hla potato hank. Tho thief .aid lie was walking in hla sleep. A youth named Harry Gee, nineteen years old, married a middle-aged woman with three children, at Chattanooga the other day. Tea distilleries were tclxed in Gilmer county last week by Deputies Witt and 11 if zdraw, and two thousand gallons of beer destroyed. it l« not because a woman la exactly afraid of a cow that she runs away and screams. It ia he- cause gored dresses arc not fashionable. A man running for office in Iowa waa detect ed drinking water and was defeated by the bif- get majority ever known in the district. The Isw of hanging In the District of Colnm- Ida is the Maryland law. If Gulteau Is hang he will he hung in chains and not by arope. A charter has been obtained and a strong company organized to cut a large ditch on the east side of chestatee river. North Georgia. A Texas Judge knocked >tx month! off a 99 years' sentence, in order to show the prisoner's friends tlint lie was willing to give hla a (how. Mr*. Tankcrslcy, a lady in Cherokee county, A!*., ’tm* murdered by her two nephews for the money she had saved, and her remains burned with lier house. A Now York tourist who ate an aligatorbeef steak in Florida didn't get the taste out of hls mouth until he had eaten a peck of onions and pint of assorted guanos. There aro three prominent phases of a wo man's life all visibly cot neeted: As n baby she's lugged; aa a young woman'! ihe a nagged as a wife she's humbugged. A gang of eight youths, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-two, brutally assaulted an old lady, sixty years of age. named Bridget Callag han. near Shenandoah, Pa. Misers are queer creatures. One of them, woman In Boston, starved herself to death one day last week, and yet aha had <*.900 in cash do- ' posited in one of the pity banka. Deputy Collector G. W. Ware slates that a m inor baa gained circulation to the effect that the body of Wm. Rice waa found near a distillery in Gwinnett county, cut nearly In twain. There waa a brutal prize fight last week In Mississippi between Sullivan and Ryan, two New York roughs. SuUivan was the champion. About (J.VOOO changed hands on the remit, A rich man and a poor .man had a litigation over a eow In Alabama some time since. In the end the roala amounted to 41,000, the poor man being utterly Impoverished, and tha rich one moving away to get rid of the afTair. When the "Independent," so-called, begin! rail and eject hit saliva at Bourbons and Bour- bontsm, it is not to be understood that he ia ferrlng lo the county in Kentucky where a cele. hrntod brand ol whisky la largely manufsetnr* ed. Not much. THE MINE. Tho mino can be traced from the cra ter to the spot where the Fetlerals turned tho first sod. The long gallery is marked l>y a caving in of the earth, and the shaft has caved in and filled up nntil one would not know what it waa. flight at this point, and what first suggested the idea of the mine, the lines are so close together that one can stand at the eruter and hurl peach-stone into the thicket where the Federal pickets were stationed. At no other point in the lines around Pe tersburg were Federal and Confeder ates able to look Into each others’ eyes, It is hardly twenty steps ncross the cotton-field to the edge of tho thicket, and here for months not a hand could be raised that a dozen bullets did not whiz for it. When there was no fir ing, the Confederates in the fort and the Federals in the thicket could con verse in ordinary tones of voice. When Qrantswungaround he push ed on until Lee checked him, and then stopped right there and began intren ching. This 1 made a very irregular line. At the crater the Federals held the thicket along the creek, the rail road behind it and the forest still fur ther back. -Hardly eighty rods above the Confederates held the same thick et, creek and rail mad track. - THE ORIGINATOR. It is said the idea of tunneling un der the six-gun Confederate fort at this point originated with a Pennsyl- anla miner who was serving in one of the regiments in Burnside's corps. A lieutenant in a New York infantry regiment is also mentioned, and had the mine been a success probably a dozen men would have stepped for ward to claim the honor. No matter who carried the idea to Burnside, he grasped at it. War means horrible wounds and slckeniug sights and death in a dozen terrible forms, hut in a war between civilized nations men do not look upoli such weapons as mines with much favor. A direct at- drawn upin column for assault, with- to thorn, and dozens of other evidences in half-pistol shot of the fort; other! to prove the truth of the words of one brigades followed, and in the gray of 1 of the Federals who came out alive: morning there stood liurnsido’s whole ! “If there Is any hell hotter than corps in battle line, eferj man know- your old rebel crater, X don’t want to ing of the mine and every man believ- j get wlthina million goalies of It.’! ing that success was sure. The last regiment down had been standing in ! line half an hour when the ators pal- ‘ ed, a dim light crept over tho fields, and men whispered to each other that they cotildsee the flagon the fort. The moment had come for the explosion and a wholocorps was trembling with excitement. * THE FIRST BLUNDER. Men who had planned, excavated and placed the powder could surely be trusted to lay the fuse andlight it, but either fear or carelessness upset tho whole plan. The fuse burned a .little way and thou the fire died out. Day light came faster and grow broader. From being barely able to discern the flag flying over the sleepless fort, the soldiers could, at length, sec the roofs and spires of Petersburg, a mile and a half away, fleveille was sounded all along the Confederate lines wtyeu a volunteer descended the shaft, replac ed the fuse and made sure of his work. the explosion. There first came a slight heaving of the earth, then a sinking down, and all at once tho fort rose in n cloud of flame and smoke, anil the ground shook for a mile around. Even before the sod and dirt had ceased failing the New York Fourteenth Artillerymen were (lashing into tlie cloud of smoke, closely followed by a whole brigade. WHAT THEY sAw. As the men rushed for the spot where the fort had stood they found the ugly hole which lias since been known as tlie Crater. The burned, blackened and mangled bodies of nearly 600 Confederates were lying in and around the pit. some half buried In the dirt, some gusping in agony, and some crushed to pulp under the heavy guns which had followed them into the air and fallen back to earth with an awful thud. The fort had been swept away, and here was the gaji, but to dass through Lee’s lines the Federals must jump down those rug ged banks, clamber over tliat horrible debrit, and scramble up a height of twenty-five feet and reform. Those who had planned the destruction of tlie fort had not planned this horrible death-trap for Federal soldiers, hut "it was to prove one just tlie same. “forward! forward!’ AVild with excitement the officers eried "Forward!” and company after companyand regiment afterregiment tumbled into the pit on one side and tried to climb out on the other. All organization was at once lost,and the horrible sights in the pit dampened all enthusiasm. It was a mob in the Crater—a shouting, struggling mob, and when one got out three fresh men charged in as the assaulting column advanced. IT WAS A SURPRISE to the Confederates, even when so many were awuke and daybreak had come. Had the explosion taken place as planned, Lee's lines would have brokeu. As it was, tlie men in tlie two flanking forts were so dumb founded anil dazed by the shock that not a gun was fired until the rumble of Grant’s cannon had gone down his lines and back anti the Crater was full of Federals. Then the Confederates realized the situation and acted quick ly. The fort was gone, but tlie paral lels had not been disturbed. Moving to the threatening point from right to left they soon had force enough toitoid the gap. Indeed they soon held tlie JtraaBs^lbwitz, one V of tiw brief but burningTtusslali i mer. Repletion may have had some thing to do with the heavy, buflhlo- like glare of hls eyes, as he lounged moodily upon ■ s carved and gilded couch,..teasing his limbs into tsiqiie knots, after the fasliior pliable acrobats who pack th< into hampers or violoncello cases. Ivan was a gross feeder. He rather favore$Me*Co8sackL stylo, afoowhary; nor, if we are to believe the private reminiscences of some of his' cotem- poraries, were the strong preparations of the Kalmuck epicures'altogether excluded from his table. Hls break fasts wCtti heterogeneous if not whole some. Ixibster, boiled in. a peculiar and highly flavored oil, was hia favor ite dish. Several kinds of hot bread, caviare, sausages, and pickled shell fish, formed tlie staple of. Ills morn ing repasts; and when we add that all these were washed down with large draughts of sour milk strongly im pregnated with arrack, It will be read- yoti tlie mi mb mlyaifoctedlfy tin dyspepsia. On tills account Ivan re quired amusements of a stimulating kind to prevent him from failing into a state of lethargy that might have been prejudicial Kidds health. Ivan had just breakfasted, and rais ing himself on one elbow and ringing violently the silver bell' that stood upon a purple velvet cushion near his right bund, he sat up and glared about him like a roused hyena. In the corner, close by hls couch, there was a rack containing various weapons, of curious form and rare workmanship. From his rack he drew his favorite instrument, which was a long and heavy staff of lignum vita;, mounted with silver and provided with a short, sharp spike at ihe thick end- With this blade he had a spor tive way of pricking his attendants, to whom the hateful club was known as “Devilspike. “What prisoners are in from Livo- via'Ahis morning?" asked Ivan, wouhding slightly with Devilspike the knee of the wretched aid-de-camp in waiting who came to his summons. “May it please your Imperial Maj-. esty,” he replied, “a detachment-ar rived last night with twelve officers of rank in irons, eight of them are Li vonians; the other four are captains of the Finland army.” “Good!" grunted Ivan, witli a boar- ish toss of his head. "The physicians tell me that violent exercise is indis pensable to my health. Tell the caj>- tain of the guard to man the foot plank and make all ready for a walk in.’’ The “foot plank’! was a sort of gang way rigged out from tlie jetty in the rear of the main guard house, in such a way as to project over the water at a downward slope. What a "walk in” meant we shall presently see. The path leading from the guard htiuse to the river was lined by a row of soldiers on each side, the lines ex tending down the hand rail of the walking plank. So deep was the si lence that the word “attention!” giv en by the officer^ command broke upon the ear like .tlie bqrst of sltell. Then a band of huge brass horns, sta tioned in the front yard, boomed out on the calm summer air witli solemn strains of a funeral march, and the twelve prisoners were. inarched out frtyn the cell attached to the guard house, hare headed and witli their arms pinioned behind. Each of them had a four pound cannon ball swath- en upon hls chest with" strong' band ages of canvas, and they were drawn up In single file at the head of the av-. eflue formed by. the soldiers. Now Ivan appeared upon the scene, poising Devilspike lightly between finger and thumb, ns he approaolted the prisoners.'^ >» “By my faith, a brave looking lot!” he exclaimed, os he walked aloug the rank of the condemned twelve, pok ing in his redoubtable baton here and there, and sometimes bringing It down on the head of a victim with affected playfulness, but stilt with force enough to leave its mark. Scowls of hate and defiance flashed upon him from the eyes of the prison ers, who were all men in the prime of life. To hfs taunts and questions tilts was the only reply made,by them; not a word fell from their lips; U ( - r i l “Tell them off from the right, one by one,” said Ivan, addressing the commanding officer. Number one, a handsome, well built Livonian, was jerked from the rank by a file of soldiers, and ordered to walk down tho path leading to the water. As he neared tlie gangway, Ivan burst upon him from behind the guards, and having driven the spike of his baton two or three times into tjje back of his victim, struck him a crashing blow with it upon the tem ple, as he instinctively turned upon his assailant. The stunned soldier fell Ws body, heavily upon the plank, which was instantly lowered by turning a crank, and the body went down into the deep water, with a muffled splash. “There’s nothing like keeping one’s hand in!” criedlvan, gayly, as he ex omined the knob of Devilspike, to THE HARD-WORKING FARMER. You may envy the joy* o* the farmer, Aa* fancy hu free, easy life; You may sit at his bouutiful table. An* praise his industrious wife. Ef vou worked In the woods in the winter. Or followed the fnrrer all day. With a team of unruly young oxen. An* feat heavy loaded with clay: Ef you held the old plow—I’m a think In’ ou’d sing in a different way. You may talk o* the golden-eyed daisies, And lilies that wear such a charm. But it gives me a heap o’ hard labor To keep *em from spilin' »▼ farm; You may pictur’ the beautiful sunsets. An’ landscapes so full o' repose, But 1 never get time to look at 'em, Except when it rains or it snowa: You may sine o’ the song bin 1m of aommer— I'll attend to the hawks and tho crows. You may Iom for the lot o’, the farmer. An’ dwell on the pleasures o’ toll; But tho good things We hev on our table All have to be dug from the soil; An* our beautiful, bright yaller butter, , . IVrhaps you may never hev learned. • Makes heap o’ ham work for the wimuiin— It hex to be carefully churned; An’ the cheese, so plump in our pantry. All hev to be lifted an f turned. When home from the hay-fu ld in summer, With stars gleamin' over my head. When I milk by the light o’ my lantern. And wearily crawl into bed; When I think o’ the work of the morrow. Ami worry, fur fear it might rain; When I hear the loud peal o* the thunder, An* wife, she begins to complain— Thi n I feel ex if life was a burden. With lcetle to hope for or gain. The hay must be cut in the summer. The wheat must be cradled and bound, For we never are out o’ employment, F.xcept when we lie in our bed: Fur the wood must be hauled in the winter An’ patiently piled in the shed. You may envy the joys o' tho farmer. Who works like a slave for hi* bread. Or. niebby. to pay off a mortgage That hangs like a shade o’er his head. You may sit in the shade o’ the orchard. Nor think o’ his wants or his needs: Yon may gnze at his meadows an’ corn-fields, An’ long for the life that he leads; But there’s leette o’ comfort an’ pleasur’ In lighting the bugs an’ tho weeds. But the farmer depends upon only The things that he earns by hls toil. An’ the leetle he gains i* got honest, By turnin’ and tillin'the soil. When hls last crop Is toted to market, Willi h conscience all spotless and clear. He may leave the old fans boose forever, To dwell in a holier sphere; An’ the crown thst he wears may be brighter Because of his simple life here. 1882, INSTEAD OF 1881, THE END OF THE WORLD. .hty.h M3 *iTa:ivaa wax nxztexaztujjJI LDWIN AGAIN. , tatcaa a Count, of "Or. tlHWPfflJAdlihriieforo Christinas, iking 'tlw tfzpSim-fdr a' fortnight, and T&rybody hmd_J.Konglit the campaign ■ teSSlssa -dWitglt quarter* had been cuttier..had come, and aarched and fought the ong summer Congratulated' themselves jon *i»ea«on of peace and rash The pickeCuaea wax» about a half a in He ISertfanlalw. Confederate* XitjnMnl vmtnoUp aftUtafl d«*r*t ia hyl tt ter quar- i porri J Iti tva^fi Stondwafl. Jncksotiha old DbVfffnUk btv'keil by*/that of ) , , ,, , , . ., pit witli its mob of disorganized »ol- tack upon this six-gun fort wou.d | ^ ^ ^ a man could raisu his head without receiving a bullet. have resulted in repulse. If it could be blown out of tho way there would be a gap in the Cenfedcrate linos through which whole brigades could pour. One brigade through that gap and Lee’s lines were gone. THE WORK. “FORWARD TO DEATH'.” At Fredericksburg, when Burnside found his assaults upon Mary’s Hill resuiting only in horrible slaughter, he appeared to grow wild and reck- | less. At-the Crater, when he found The Work was dona by old coal ml- , . ., , _ ’ . . .. .. his eoltmnB of assault checked by the pit, Jto continued to add to its horrors by, urging forward other columns. space between the fort and the thicket was then a plowed field, bar ren of even a bush. Tlie space was ners working in regular-gangs, and the shaft was sunk about 500 feet fro: the fort, and went down twenty feet before the gnllory branched off. This gallery was wide enough for two men to work abreast, and over four feet The Mormon Missionaries are uard at work t'nion county. East Tennessee, and have secur ed quite a number of convert!—notably some necroes. The community is wroujtht up af alns 1 them, and there are threats of lynching them they do not leave. A married man recently went to Wichita. Kansas, tsV'ng with him hls little boy of four years. When they returned tho next day his mother asked of the boy: "Who did you sleep with last night*" The boy very innocently re plied: “With papa and another woman." The Jackson Herald aaya: There Is but one newspaper man In the field this week, and that is our old friend Ed Klnnebrew, of the Watck* man. We commend him to our citizens. The Watchman waa once the favorite paper in Jackson county, and Ua many friend! will be glad to learn of Ua recuperation. It Is now well worth your money. That colored postmaster Arthur cave Emory Speer to help him whip the "Bourbon Democ racy" In the old Ninth afaln. will ba anythlnf cite hut a winning card for the aforesaid Emo ry. He polled a routine majority In old Clark# at the leal election; but If we know the people of that countv—and we think we do—"the boot will be on the other leg" next time. Emory will he retired by an overwhelming majority, so tar as that county Is concerned.—Ddfoa CUistn. _ , soon covered by the guns «f the Con- high. One of the greatest troubles was federut and d had in surveying the route and striking L ^ dead Thera .was a the proper distance, and even when] , „ the gallery was under tjUv fort no one felt exactly sure within” sYx or eight feet. A little science, however, and a great deal of guessing struck the right stop, and galleries were then dug to the right and left, for a distance of | * j*' thirty feet, _ tJNBUBPHCTING VICTIMS. general retreat to cover. The brigades which had flanked tlie Crater had not come prepared with axes to tearaway the ehmrttT-de-frite protecting the earthworks, and as a consequence not It 6eems almost past belief at this day that after 4,000 men had been slaughtered in nnd around the Crater, and while ot |enst a thousand The Confederates within the fort 1 Jiving ones were eoop6d up in the pit were totally unsuspicious of what was I ancl unable to got out, Burnside order going on beneath them. Once when I ed up the negro troops and piled them one wing gallery was being excavated, jin on top of the vetofans who had gone a soldier who was lyingon the ground 1 'before.'^ ’-Such was tho case, however, suddenly called out that he could hear j mid white and black, private and offl- the sounds of digging, but those to tier, were mixing together in a terri- wkota he appealed said that It must be rats burrowing their way in to get I fled mob and. held prisoners in the hole until Gen. Bartlett raised the at the provisions. AgaU^r a gram I 'white flag and surrendered to the Con- who had been within Burnside’s lines I federates. . . z reported seeing the shaft, but tlie men I supposed the Federals were digging a | well. PJ.ACING THE POWDER. FIRING.rSTO TICE CRATER. After tlie Confederate fire had been trained upon the space between the A tenth Carolina negrohaa been doing a proP liable huilnti! with a phonograph . /He put one of theic talking Instrument* Itialde a rude fig ure of a derU. and attached a spring in such • manner that thu oyUnder would revolye on be ing started without the use ot a crank. Thui provided, be let up aa a fortune teller. The ne groes had never heard of a phonograph, and ita voice filled them with auperaUtloua awe, particularly when tha eeer. haying drawn from hla dopes aome information on the (Object ot their calli, and filledthe machine with aiton- lahlng answer*, made it (peak oracularly. When "the mine had been finished * hi j«* d C ™ t * r ’ those who at- Grant suddenly discovered thst it was » en JP ted t° retreat frola tUe h*“« nlet «2Ll thing and certain Som * of the killed on though during its progress "Burn- J^ is ®f K)t .^ d l° ur ^ u1 ^ 8 m side’s Tunnel” was as much jeered at Th * Confederates at length crept close as Butler's Dutch Gap Canal. Powder cn ° u *h to shoot into the Crater itself, was brought up for it and carefully <u T the “ the carried through the long, dark hole among 016 ne S*° troo P s - The y had until eight tons were heaped under 00016 ,n last - and were consequently While we are congratulating our selves at the non-fulfilment of Mother Bliipton’s jiroplieey that tlie world would come to an end in 1881, and feeling secure in the belief that the false prophets had at least in regard to tltat subject been silenced, we are in formed that the whole Mohammedan world is excited over the expected end of the world tills year, A. D. 1882, or thereabouts. Tlie Moslems say that most of the signs which are to precede that dread ful hour have already been accom plished, and that but two more are wanting. Those inf which they profess already to see the fulfillment of propli 1 eey nrc ninny, some of which are tu mults and seditions innumerable, earthquakes and eelip-es, and the de cadence of faith among men. In the late war between Turkey and Russia they see the fulfillment of the prophe cy that Gog and Magog, the fair-liair- ed tribes of the North, should, break forth across the barriers which Dhu’l-Karvein built against them in the mountains of Armenia. In Glad stone they see the anti-Christ. The two signs wanting are the des cent of Jesus upon the earth and the upparition of the Molidy. In aatkfij tion of the early coming of Cfirlqi | cleansing and repairing of the cjA I minaret, called the Minaret OfJssUS,'! of the great Mosque at DadtMOus, %aai begun about two years’a%& Tho ap-' parition of the Mahdy ie. however, re garded as the greatest of .aft tho signs foreshadowing the end of the world. Mohammed, it is said, prophesied that the world should not have an end till one of his owu family. should rule over Islam, whose name and whose father’s name should be the same as his own and his father’s own (Abdul lah). It has long been the belief of the Moslems that a descendant of the Prophet of the tribe of the Krcisle will rule over the Arabs about the begin ning of the fourteenth century of the Hegira, and that at that time the Mah dy will reveal himself at Mecca, and the era of tlie Caliphate be brought to an end. The beginning of the four teenth century is near at hand; the Caliph of Mecca, Abdul Mutallib, is reported to have raised the standard of rebellion and proclaimed himself ruler over the Arabs; and to cap the climax, so to speak, the Mahdy him self has appeared at Mecca in tlie per son of Abdullah, the son of Moham med, by a mother of the name of Em- inch. The names of the Prophet, his father, andmother are properly group ed together, and the circumstances of time and place all answer to the proph ecy. If anything else were needed to convince the faithfril that the end of the world is at hand, it may be found in the cholera now raging at Mecca, and which the Arabs call “the yellow wi nd of fire,” and this is the fire which, according to prophecy, shall consume the Hedjaz at the moment when the Mahdy makes his appearance. These things are now regarded by the Mohammedans os of greater im portance than the settlement of finan cial questions, government reforms, etc. Indeed, in comparison, those things which so deeply Interest other people are the merest trifles to Mos lem nations. the fort. Then a single sentinel was placed until Chant should' be ready. ~ ORANT WAS READY most exposed. When Bartlett surrendered there were 800 or 900 corpses in the Crater, with over 1,000 muskets and a wag- On the 30th of August. He ^tad sent a I on-load of other accoutrements. All force to thp north of the James to com- I were buried out of sight by caving in The pesnrahwm recently had ae. ^f jpidy^ilnhhy RjU« abOn^Qg' „ ^ ^ ^ ehaneter yho iw« K cri shout the CojoradoJ pel ^ee to draw off some onus fore 0 1 the banks toflll up the pit and ro-es- waa ordered to open Are from every BIB vm having been driven into theVolga by his myrmidons in one day. The Archbishop of Novogorod spar ed by the great clemency of Ivan, wished to show his gratitude to that monarch by giving him a splendid banquet at the episcopal palace. While the guests were yet eqjoying themselves, Ivan sent word to his sol diers to pillage the rich cathedral of St. Sophia and the other churches of the place; then, on word being brought to him. that hls commands had been obeyed, he turned to the prelate: “Eat, drink and make the most of the good things before you,” he sold, “for to-morrow, priest, shall dawn upon you a beggar. What is a bishop without a cathedral but a beggar? And yours Is but an empty shell to night. Off with your robes, then, and paftte fefttflWaefcetoqwana very* for the fallen archbishop, on which instrument he was forced to practice daily until lie had become a proficient •‘Drum- different >arts of the Union, three of whom, F. 3. BaWwln, df Botflra; Joe HqU, of Savannah, and F. M. Whitcomb, of Bt. Louis, met at the .clothing house Of F. A. Gyles, and arranged with Raiford, the clerk, to have a "snipe hunt” that night. After the consul tation at Gyles’ store, it was decided that the St. Louis man was to hold S e bag, as he was initiated in the de- jhtful and fascinating sport, but to tnake the deception more complete, three sacks were procured. All but Raiford being strangers, he became marshal of ceremonies. About ten p. m., the party sallied forth from the hotel under the soft beams of a clear silvery moon, and ■Were taken by a circuitous route to Barlow’s mill-pond, some two and a half miles from town. After travers ing the different by paths to and fro that the entanglement Blight be more complete, Boston (acoordlng to previ ous agreement) 'was stationed with the firs* sack, receiving instructions from B. Savannah was placed far ther up, and St. Louis still further, a few hundred feet In the dense under growth, with ids bag - held open, be; In jomq.of fiHhlfnahl. hesrmuste f iDformed that thcblrd. would be of the day. A bear bom the imperial] ■ hoQn ta ^ lh the right direction, and as everything had to be done stealthily, the utmost qui et should be preserved. In stationing Boston and Savannah, Raiford had asked, secretly,that theyremaintome half hour or so in their places, that St. Louis might, at different times be sig nalled, and then they were to start ^>ut and meet R. at a point previously agreed on. . The parties being all sta tioned, Raiford steals out to the road gardens was then selected for hls trav eling companion, and he was sent to wander through the country during the pleasure of the lively monarch, whose minions had orders to levy a 'itlie upon the profits of the show for the benefit of the imperial purse. There was no limit to the avarice of Ivan Basilowitz. He would make long journeys from time to time through ills empire, on which occa sions it was understood that rich and , avalta dovelopment8 . Firat to poor were expected to throng to his wa8 Boston, calling In subdued feet with offerings of such presentsias \ Um J fot Ralford) into the they could afford to give him , and his ga near by where the latter was se- proeeedlngs with regard to these rev- l reted (wn hefltnmbled| ^ning to enues were characterized by a certain ^ bottom of & buga gulcb? wallow . grim humor. . ing In the mud and water, and scram- On one of his journeys a poor shoe- M f n out a volumeof complimentary maker presented hlm wUh a pair of 1 epUhet8 mea nwhile issuing from his shoes, adding also a gift from hls pr-1^^^ he presented a picture of a den, in the shape of a turnip n ro " mud-man perfectly. He was covered markable size. Ivan, who happened I t wm Georgiaclayi andcol . to be in sweet temper that nunning, L^ing himself up, not knowing hls ordered his people to elevate the poor bearing8i «*** off in the direction of cordwasner to tho dignltyofcourt j g mithvl „ e . Raiford then returned to shoemaker, and to deal with him at ^ hot€l alone to awalt results. Hull double prices, on pain of death. H ®f- reported at 2:30 o’clock, a fine sixty ing of this bouuteneons act, a wealthy doUar 8uit Jn a bofTiWe plight. St. residentof the neighborhood thought Loub . fiame j n about three and a half he, too, might profit by a judicious I, clockt very bnngryt sleepy gift to the imperial vtsitor, to whom, and br&ken of all de8lre to hunt snipe accordingly, he brought a valuable ^ Georgia swamp. Boston, after horse. Ivan received the gift gracious- travere ing the country for miles ly, conversed affably with the donor, around> flnttUy dropped in at daylight and on dismissing him presented him l xbauated 6eeb8 his couch without Mia ahnsinfllrfry’BDrlfyftntlft tliminin fit- ... . . « the shoemaker’s gigantic turnip in ex change for his noble steed even taking the trouble to undress. The parties received many calls du- Accordingly, as years advanced L ing Sunday morning, and Savannah upon Ivan Basilowitz, his ferocity ap- lnglgted 0 nAlf Bell driving him to the peared to diminish; at least so we are he might be better acquaint- toldby one of hls biographers, who 1 r - - — has preserved some very curious stances of the improved imperial position. He became very mild In dealing with the poorer class of his subjects, and instead of trying the point of Devilspike upon hls attend ants, confined himself to sticking it into the legs of the haughty nobles of his realm whenever they approached him. It is said that he often formed his opinion of a man’s character front the fortitude with which he bore the ordeal. The eccentricities of Ivan i caused - a good deal of amusement among the foreign residents in Russia at the time, but it was generally con sidered judicious by them to be reti cent on the subject, and to confine their remarks to the most confidential and trustworthy circles. Certain En glishmen, however, whose sense of humor overcame their discretion, vio lated theis conventional decorum with regard to things imperial. They were seized by order of Ivan, who caused them to be turned naked into a room, Upon the floor of which sev eral bushels of peas were strewed, which they were ordered to pick up, one by one, and deposit in baskets. When they were thoroughly exhaust ed by this uninteresting exercise, he caused refreshments to be given them, and dismissed them with a fatherly admonition to be less funny in future ed with what he had gone through. It is hardly necessary to say that Raiford made himself mighty scarce during Sunday. , - THE HARDEST TIME OF ALL. There art rtayi ot deepcit sorrow In the seasons ot our life, There are wild, despairing moments, There are honra of mental strife. There aro times of etormy anguish When the tear* refute to fall: But the waiUng.time, my brother, Ia the harden time of all. Youth and lore are oft Inpatient, Seeking thtnyi beyond their reach, And the heart grow# sick with hoping, Ere it learns what Ufa can teach. ■ 11 Bnt before tho fruit ta gathered Wo muet tee tho bloeaom* fall: a • And tho waiting time, my brother, Ia the hardeat time ofall. Loving once, and loving ever, It la ndlo vitch forrMn For the light, whose 11 Jot shining, Make* a rainbow or our tears. It ta sad to eonnt at morning aii the hours till evening foils «sw^S. rou,ori For it wears the eager apirit Aa tho salt wave wears the atone. And hope’s too* On"firing, by the picket*- War’s x>ld-blooded murders had been replaced: by a spirit of peace, and the men who C left-the tiger's thirst top blood, now id nothing - 'more than rest undis turbed. ipi . !’ .:•< .i . lltWl ; > Such-wah the afternoon, when, j'uftas fho gloom of that - night before Christ mas settled down over'friend and foe, my: company was ordered out under - arms.- : It afterwards appeared flint in formation had beeu received to thq ef fect that General Lee and General Johnston were atafarm house just with in the Confederate line, and our mission was to capture them. Therefore, in the gloom of the winter evening, with dark banks of clouds racing across the heev- ens, and snow-squalls skurrying down Upon us at intervals, we mounted and set off on a trot for a ford seven or eight miles above tha camp. Tho lower one we knew to bo heavily guarded; the up per one we hoped to bo open. And so it waa. The cold, swift river, already cov ered with floating ice, was ’guard enough, the Confederates thought, Tho water was breOst -high to the~ r p<>or hor ses, tlie moat of them shivered likoa man with the ague as they reached the opposite shore. It was only mercy to them to indulge in an hour’s gallop. Afar off we saw the light of a farm house—not one light, butevery window towards us was illuminated, proving that even iu the shadow of war’s ghast ly horrors somo one was reinemiiering that Christmas would come with the morrow. That house was our ohjectivo point. The higli-way led directly past the door, and a sudden dash must sur prise all who met there. I knew what our men were thinking of aa they formed in a column a quar ter of a mile away for a charge. Every father’s thoughts went hack to hU home,to his wife and children as Santa Claus and little stockings hanging lip for presents, and I believe every man truly hoped that we might not lire a gun or shed a drop of blood on this night, which belonged to peace instead of war. As the word was given, we swept for ward at a canter, nnd in three minutes we had encircled the house. I was one of the dozen troopers ordered to dis mount and secure tlie prisoners, and I was the second one iusidc. This was the sight we saw as we dashed into the room: A gray-headed grandfather and grandmother, a soldier with Iiis arm in sling, a wife and mother, a half grown daughter and three or four men and wo men who must have been neighbors. There was an open Bible on the grand fathers lap, three little stockings hung by tho chimney, and In the room be yond was the table where they were all about to sit down as we entered. It seemed a full minute before anyone moved. We had surprised them. Our information hod been false, and we had made a ride of a dozen miles to burse in on.a scene of peace.’ We were all stand ing there speechless witli surprise, when there came the sudden pop! pop! pop! of musketry, followed by shouts of men, orders aud the clash, of steel. 1 had no sooner mounted my horse than I saw that we were surrounded by infantry. We charged straight at tlie mass in tlie road before us, but were driven back. Then we charged up tho road and ran upon a batteryof three pieces. As we were forced back we whirled round and round the farm house. There was a dozen to one, and though we charged again and again, in ten minutes the fight ended. Of tlie eighty-five men who had left camp ten bad broken through, fourteen were prisoners, and the remainder lay .dead on the trampled snow, along with a score of Confeder ates. The stark cerpscs of men, tlie agonized groans of wounded horses, tlie suow A ^Wri5«t , n^To”; thre,dbm I melting with the warm stream ot Then raid your abtnlnr ttesoeo Silent snow* brain to rail: Ah! the watting thee, my brother, Ia the hardeat time ot ell. Tot at last we leant the tenon That God knoweth what is beat, A Makea the iptrBcmln 1 and blert^ For perchaace a day la coming For the changing of onr fate, Whan am heart# will thank Him a That he taught ua how to watt. ■oekly A Street Caur Which Carries It* Track. Chicago Timu. The Accommodation Car Company AtVength thc'crimesoflvan brought I “*8 begun operations here with a cap! their terrible retribution witli them. Overwhelmed withjiOhbta and fears, | tal itock of $1,000,000, divided between the patentee, T. T. Prosser, and F. F. blood—that was war’s chances. I looked into the house through a shattered window. The grandfather lay stark and stiff on tho floor, bis blood staining the Bible as it poured out. The grandmother was lying at his feet, her snow-white hair matted with blood, and her eyes closing in death as I looked ’upon her. The soldier and his wife were unhurt; but they had better been dead. The three little stockings hung as before; bnt one by one they brought out the three curly little" heads that hung them there, and they were threo hair and book-akin clothe*. Seeing a clerk In e store insult a gt»L he made her alt on the coun ter. while the tnaulter, coerced by the proxlmV ty of a cocked pistol, did penance by licking the soloo other ahoee. Airw days after a se quel to thti story waa printed. The clerk came across Comanche BUI In a s*\acm. when both were unannefl, qqQthe apeotator* wen Impar tial, (hd Ooatly gave him hls choice between an apology and alight.. Tho desperado Media vein to eeoape. -q&dreoetyed a tound threshing, to which ^hPAra&CBly afeebUrwlsttaw. • Lighting the Suez Canal by Electricity- There is a fair proopeot !of the Suez Canal being lighted by electricity, so that ships may pass through it at night, instead of coming to am anchor as at present. Major 8trntt, managing direc tor of the Eastern Electric Light Com pany, is at present in Egypt with M. Leraaason, tlieengineer-hj of the Canal Company, for the of parts of the canal, so that _ . . operations may he carned-on ai night tremendous effort, struck the “ ' if fm>sent ! " Siberia, for a prison. A Lizzard Under Hie Skin. he ultimately assumed the monkish Cole, a real estate man. The object of corpses! Bullets meant for enemies had cowl, and hid himself in ft cloister, company iatp build and equip a sought out these little innocents as they where he died hobelesslv and in a thousand cars and put them upon the I slept and dreamed of Heaven, and men Such was the end of Ivan, the Ty- Mr. Prosser, and as regards pres- unmoved, shed tears as the little: bodies rant, Emperor of Bussia, who con- appearance is a queer, oglesome- were laid on the floor just undra tto entered the cold and dreary realm of looking oraft* which carries ita track J stockings Santa Claus was to fill and with it,and'to all intents and I '’ring joy to their hearts. It was tn.d- purposcs Is designed to traverse any and I night now. Christmas had dawned upon dl Unes of streets. Thecar, which isof I white hairs stained with blood—childish the ordinary kind,’ 1» mounted, In the] hearts stilled by murder—men groaning There is a colored man in New Lon: l middle, upon a truck which sits on four 1 in angnlsh women withbreaklngliearts don, Mo., who for years has claimed that I wheels, each abont one-footin diameter, j —God’s mantle of purity blotched and tie had a scorpion under his skin and | These wheels run ground tho inside drabbled and crimsoned, until the jwm- that it crawled from place to place over I two steel tires, each ten feet in diameter, - — - —‘ , ‘ his body. A short time since Drs. and which rest upon ; the ground, and Sprague and Rails, of London, a couple 1 are: held: only to the: ear by a set of of scientists, eoaxed the man to submit [ wheel-clamps. The car ia designed to to a surgical operation for the removal hold fifty people, and the owners claim' Of the varmint. They distinctly traced th* * the more it carries the eailer i* the animal under the man’s akin from | run*. 1 It will he stopped In the uaual ner/and two hones will be required teF moon crept behind the -.lark cloud* to hide the spot In shadows. his waut over the left shoulder, am thence hack again to a posltton between ,T\vhere tho animal seemed to he, thyy Wild Beasts and SnaVes in India. Chamber*' Journal. It is with somewhat more than or dinary interest that we have for some years past awaited the annual recordB next!” Several of tho victims that were now w ; ,e . r * ministered chloroform to the man, and] for. $1. years pasr uwaueu uie uiuiuui imura they intendj setting forth the fearful ravages itting . the jjorg, the principal wroug ht by tigers and other wild uni- ■e«f?>,®nhft^tty and placing thanaah mal8> aud by snakes, throughout our fare at 4 cents and gelling thirty ,ritjgg I Twdton empire. Front a brief notice marched down to the fatal plank made ministerea cnioro.o™. ««.4forj|i ' ' which appears in tlie columns «o- guch resistance aa they coffin thefr’ J> ^ £2 frontS damthsganiMroy*Bat of -looiiol. Sild thcdoc-^-SftfnlrpuT’o.nn' 1 snim " 1 " destroyed tl^ougliout Hin- ‘“The’last of the’.victims waa no* with thl. animalererSince. - ^.'W< turned into the pathway of death. He ; a Fallen fountain, was (Stall, athletic young Swede, a riapner from the army of Fi.Hand. ^ bavQ prevaUed As -he neared the plank, and Indore, for thirty *he iron spike of Ivan was _brou«ht : to JMJSraftto goth ffit. Tho po-j i their bodies. Abont six teen of tho children were stated to The most remarkable result of tholiftye been^hug ttoatof Ainu which have prevailed almost wro.wlnfonU, anil pzte snakes. Thus, whereas in the year ffrafc named. there were destroyed in — " ' ^ i fewer than 23,429 wild 1 the figure? diminished 16 “fRte 00 1 14^86; but, during this same peri- 1 “ Uow “ I od, the number of human beings who . represented to have Gren so terrified I bave jogt their lives lias mounted up IreFsanok hWte hd DU ~~ °»° satisfactory r e * r ’Jrrfc ibeakof UmBoffalomountainslhEaaHf4 trt y^* o y > T~ ga> v >t *. d * l ~ >t ”f W fefttnr°e)i““»w<tifie in the present an- undiand bursting hls bond^tfif a' * npluu ^ kllown -tufa*? : , SOME STRANGE sit:UTS. Tn tha nnrmu- unnr>zv ssnnv the traffic is very ihujili impeded by the the fitog, e: dredging operations; There hfcfti psfr 'that fcr gun at a given signal. It was hoped FederaisTosTnK thst this terrific fire would keep the I™ ‘ Confederates from rallying to repulse the columns of blown up. ’iM Hag 4,000 men and the Confederates over when flag of truce Mid asked permission to bury hls dead., he found them corded up on each side of tho ftatthefort to he 1 ’ 000 - 0n BUndBy m0rn,ng it at the fort to be Grantaen t in a flag of truce and At \pftfcpggt 3 o’clock on tho morn- trenches and wattibglorhim. Hard- JBStoUt 1 • hifteadot in the day’ttme. ytt ^ ^ f-?* motion, being a 'edge of white rock | In the narrow space, scarce forty prbspect of a contract being entered ' 1 * J ** ' * - * ' ' F into eventually bjg|re|n(j^^P Mtorn Electric Light Company and the Suez Canal Company for the lighting of the whole Of the canal by the Brush system. There is some prospect also of the light- fog of. ~ the P< City for Tennessee, known as peak, on ftocount of it* uaeKMsitoaMMMs^ motion, being a’edge of w jaS^@5BJS ^ and,i ’ aifo®’tot miles, and tf.fi 1 whole k nJ'nnw iSuftkK country was ah«§6H4 < : mi ting piountatag. smdf feature observable.,in ( mmdi "Ff* n ? latin ci? , th ® too badly blistere* thk* Ejppmherofsnakes "‘ay Presidency hot "hit * dawn. Wifoti] ! the hoard of ma lone. Qf cotfrge, lt,muat be a matter I of impossibility to suggest an antidote Ire mortal injuries inflicted by a “i” .. w r^^7^1 wild beaatsuch as the tiger; but there itustard-phutex punishment, repent- would S g eni b o a, good field now presented for tUo.furthet prosocuUon Iby the parenla of some dy inode by with a