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PROFESSION AG CARDS. R. 11. JOSES, ATTO RN E Y A T I, A \V, SUffiHTGN, GA. Especial attention to the collection of chums. [ly SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELttERTOH, GA. IT7 ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF VV the Northern Circuit and Franklin county (gg-Special attention given to collections. ,J. S. RA RSETT, ATTORN E Y AT LA W , ELBERTON, GA. JOIIS T. OSBOUS, ATTORNEY and counselor at law, ELBERTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Frompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl?,ly A. E- HUNTER, M. D. PIIACTICING PI n SICIAN Office over the Drug Store, EI.BEKTOK, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL cases. [ Ang22,6m GLBERTOII 111'SI A ESS CARDS. Tr.j' BOWMAN & CO-, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ELBERTOA GA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. Applications should be made to T. J. Bowman. Sepirtf LIGHT CARRIAGES & BOSSIES. ; . A ,^!|Sf* I J. F. .VULD (Carriage m|an ufact r : ELBERTOSr, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, lie hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. . -■ —; • Rood Buggies, warranted, - $126 tq $l6O 1L i : ■ Work done in this line in t. very best style/ The Best Harness TERMS CASH. B y22-l v _ J. M. ISAKFIELI), Mi i 4 fgJ? T H E REAL I. fV E Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. riff 1 ('all and See l inn. ~ THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. lias always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY and PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy. just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. W. C. PRESLEY, lAMIII MAKES, ELBERTON, GA. Will make first class harness to order, war ranted, and at prices to suit the times. Will be glad to show specimens of bis work to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is wished. Repairing Hone Promptly. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE l SIGH PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed NEW STOREY NEW GOODS! i. SWIFT. Will keep on hand FLOUR, MEAT, LARD, SUGAR, COF FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN NED GOODS, &c.&c. And o'her articles usually kept in a tirst-class Provision Stoic, which will be sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. CENTRAL "HOTEL MItS. W. M THOMAS, PRPPRIE'i RESS, YU GUST A GA 1869. New Series. * THE HORSE-DEALER’S STORY. Many years Ago, before the era of railroads, and when highwaymen abounded along the great route from Calais to Paris, a hoted drover, who had been to Boulogne with a large drove of horses, which he had sold for cash, was over taken by night on his return, near Marquise. He remembered a little pleasant that inn he had never stopped at, and he determined to spend ! the night there. j As he rode up to the house the landlord, a j respectable looking person, received his horse j and led him away to the stable, while he invited the drover to enter the public sitting-room. Here he found two young men, one ot whom, from his resemblance to the landlord, he recog nized as his son; the other, somewhat older, from llis manners, appeared also to belong to the j family. Immediately after sujper, (during } which the drover stated where he had been and ; what good luck be had met With,) the son : mounted a horse, and, stated that he was going Ito Marquise to stay all night, rode off'. The j urover, having looked after the comfort of his j horse, soon requested the landlord to show' him j to his room. As t! e traveler slipped off hi3 garments, he ! ; felt for the leathern belt about his Waist, to see j that it wms secure. This contained his gold, ! while his paper money was in a large wallet, : carried in a pocket made for the purpose in the j inside of his vest Depositing these articles 1 beneath his pillow, he extinguished the light i and threw himself upon the bed, w hen, over i come by weariness, he soon fell asleep. i How long lie had been in this state of forget fulness he could not tell, when he was aroused to wakefulness by the sound of some person ' endeavoring to open the window near the head of his bed. At the same time be heard suppressed voices without, as of several persons it? whis- j pered consultation. Startled by this suspicious appearance of j things, the drover reached toward the chair on which he had thrown bis clothes, for his weap ons ; but, to bis dismay, he remembered that on his arrival, when preparing to wash otf the dust of his journey, he had laid them aside within the bar, and had neglected to resume them. Scarcely conscious of wliat he was doing, the defenseless drover slipped from the foot of the bed at and hid himself iu the darkness behind a | lot of women’s dresses suspended from the.wall, and watched the motions of a man. who was now slowly and cautiously entering the room. He even fancied he could detect the reflection of mm j light upou tut upraised ktdfeas the man | approached the bed, with staggering aucl uncer taiaAb?.-;; LtA mnU.yyy* his relief'when, iu into the bed he had just vacated, was soon in a sound sleep Not knowing wliat to flntke of this strange j affair, the drover determined to dress himself, call upon the landlord, and have this singular ; intrusion explained. He had reached his clothes ! and slipped on his trousers, and was moving toward ‘he door when steps were heard enu- | tiously crossing the outer room. Once more he sought the shelter of the dresses, which com pletely screened his person, and awaited the on- ! trance of the persons, whoever they might be | Presently the door opened, and two men made ; their appearance It was not so dark but. that tbe drover could readily distinguish them to be i the inn-keeper and the man he had seen at the supper table. “Step lightly,! tell you,'’ whispered the land- j lord, “or you’ll wake him up, and then we’ll | have a pretty mess on our hands.” “Nonsense 1” replied the other, with an oath. ; “You are scared, old man 1” “Scared!” repeated the speaker. “No man ! ever told John Gamier before he was scared 1 Here, give me the knife! I’ll show who is scared! Ycu secure the money—it’s under the pillow—l ; saw him put it there, and I'll do the rest.” The old man was in advance, and as lie stood between the window and the drover, lhe latter could see his foim bent over the bed, while his hand seemed to be searching beneath tbe pillow. “Here, Henri—take it Here’s the wallet, and here’s the belt. How heavy it is I”—and lie pass ed the money to his companion before the other i had yet reached the bedside. The old man then pot his hand to his bosom, and the trembling drover saw him draw forth the long blade the other had given him. For an instant the murdetous weapon was poised over his head, and then descended upon the per son of the poor wretch in the bed. The murderer paused in his Work for an in stant, as if to satisfy himself that life was ex tinct ; and then moved quickly from the room. As soon as the sound of his footsteps had died in the distance, the horror stricken drover escaped through the window, and ran with all his speed to Marquise, whrre arousing the peo- I pie of the hotel he told the fearful story. A crowd soon collected about biro, and accompa nied him to the scene of the fearful murder All about the house was still, but on approach ing the stable a light was discovered within ; and, moving noiselessly to the door, and peeping •through the cracks, the two murderers were found in the act of digging a grave beneath the flooring. A rush was made upon them, and they were arrested. At die sight of the drover, who was the first to confront -the guilty wretches, die landlord uttered a shriek of terror and fell to the ground, while his accomplice, as pale as a corpse, gazed upon him with affright, not doubting it was tbe ghost of the murdered man that s ood be-iore them. The party now proceeded to the bouse, bring ging the murderers along with them. Li Ills weie procured, and still keeping the ! piisoners with them, the people entered the | room where lay the body of the man sostrange ! ]y murdered instead of the wife sind daughter followed. When the covering was removed from the face of the corpse and the light of tli* candles flared upon it, a wild cry bnrst from the lips of tbe Landlord’s wife. “Mv son—ttiv murdered son ! Who has done this ?” Arid with a hysterical scream she fell to the floor. “No, no 1 it can’t be so, mother I” exclaimed (lie daughter, as she struggled to reach the bed. But the terrible truth burst upon her as her eyes fell upon the mangled form of her brother, and she also swooned upon the body. The ernes e>l tbe broken-hearted females teemed to mouse the old man fur a moment,; and gazing wildly at the sight before him, he realized also the terrible truth. lie had mur dered his son. Ott investigating the facts before the magis trate on the following day, it was ascertained that the son of the inn-keeper, who was a dU sip'aled young man, had visited Marquise the previous evening, where, with some pf his asso ciates, he had been engaged in drinking and gambling until a late hour ; and being too much intoxicated to remount his horse, and ashamed ELBERTOX, OA„ SEPT’R 13, 1876. to meet his family, some of his fellow-gamblers l ad accompanied him home ; and supposing the room mi which the drover had b'-eii put to be vacant, they had assisted the drunken man into | the window. It was their voices the lodger had 1 heard ; it lid thus it was that the helpless youth | met Ids death and our friend escaped, i The accomplice of the landlord proved to be | his own son-in-law, Henri Legrand. | From that awful hour the wretched mother of that murdered boy, murdered by bis father’s bund, remained a raving maniac. It is only necessary to add, in concluding this tale of horror, that the drover recovered his monty, and justice claiming her due, the two ! murdersrs paid the penalty of their crime on ! the guillotine. Shortly after this last event, the ■ people of Marquise, to whom the scene of the j unna.iinl murder had become an eyesore, as | sembled and leveled the bit lding to the ground. ! Ttie spot is now covered with brambles and | thistles, and is pointed out to the stranger ns the place to be avoided; for the ignorant assert | that it is haunted oy the ghost of the murdered son. FEED ANDEASY LAW. Win. J. Davis is writing some very intereresting sketches of the early Cali fornia for the Sacramento Bee. We find the following among them. In the olden times, in Plumus conn ty, a man was arrested for murder, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. The case was taken to the Supreme Court on appeal. Pending the appeal, the District Court convened in another county, and the Supreme Court debated quite a while on the case. Finally a decision was filed affirming the judgment of the court below, and directing that the defendant be resen- to death. In those days the Sacramento Union was about the only newspaper circulating in that remote country, and whatever appeared in its columns was taken to be Undoubtedly ( the fact. The issue containing the Su - preme Court decision arrived at .the j country seat, and the sheriff saw it, j and concluded that tho matter was set tled finally. So, walking into the jail, he addressed the defendant with : ‘•Well, the Supreme Court has affirm ed the judgment in your case; its print ed in the Sacramento Union,” “It is ?” said the prisoner. “That’s rough ; but I guess I'll have to stand [ it ” ! *, Sheriff,/T have got to j hangyywffp you have been here a good while—an expense to the county, and j the sooner the thing [is over the bet- j ter/' A'*-*•' , t •• iae. >o' *u ft hrtr •/* said the prisoner; “give* a fellow a chance to get ready.” “How will the first of next week do ?" | asked the sheriff “O, what’s the use of all that hurry ? i Call in the last of the week.” “Well, we will split the difference j and call it Wednesday afternoon,” said the officer. this was acquiesced in by the other party in interest, and at the appointed time ho was taken cut and hanged, j At the opening of tbe District Court • at the following term, Judge R. H. j Taylor, now at Virginia City, who was then on the bench, inquired of the clerk if therejmatter had been sent down, and j being advised in the affirmative, said, “I guess we had better have the pri ; soner up this morning and i resentenced.” He was rather surprised when the sheiiff innocently informed him that the law had already been fully I satisfied, and that the criminal had been j sent before the court whence there could be no appeal. The matter was hushed up, and we believe no mention has heretofore been made of it in print. Albert Rhodes has got himself into business In the September GalaSy he thoughtlessly asked, “Shall we drink wine ?” And now the postal cards are pouring in upon him by thousands bear ing affirmative answers, and asking him to name the time and place. As lor us, not any, thank you, Albert, but if yon have any good old Bourbon m your flask, here’s hoping.—Havvkeye. It was evening. Three meu were kill ing a cat. One of them held a lantern, another held the cat, and the third jam med the pistol into the cat’s ear, and fired shooting the man in the hand who hold the cat, and the one with the lan tern was wounded in the arm. The cat left when it saw how matters stood and that ill feeling was being engender ; ed - An Irish soldier pretending to dumb ness was discharged. He in a short | time enlisted iu another corps, and being | recognized by an old comrade, was ques tioned how lie learned to speak “By Saint Patrick,” he replied, “ten guineas would make any man spake.” .* An Irishman on board a vessel when she was on the point of foundering, being desired (t° come on deck,- as she was going down, replied that lie bad no wish to go on deck to “'sec himself drowned.” Wo believe it was Josh Billings who discovered the capacity of a yellow-jack ets’ nest to break up a camp meeting. In a funeral at Davenport, lowa, Satur day, one of the carriage drivers struck at a haystack with his whip, and cut open a hornet’s nest. Asa consequence the whole procession was broken up, and the corpse alone; of all tho company, preserved the composure becoming the occasion. - “What is the interior of Afri i pviu eip ally used for ? ’ asked a teacher of a pupil. “For purposes of exploration, was the reply. NeW Yotk MiWury.] fcITTEN AND PURSUED BY THE SPIRIT OP A SERPENT. A POISONED LIFE THAT ENDED IN MURDER AND SUICIDE. North Dorset is a pretty hamlet in Vermont, near to Hoosac. The grand Green Mountains tower up on either side, and nestled in the j peaceful valley are the few rambling houses and | workmen’s hats th t go to make up the setth.- j ment. It is easy enough to see, at the first j glance, that North Dorset is not a rich place, for i the people look anything but wealthy, the farms ! have an uncared-for appear tner? and the houses j are of the most tumbled-dovn and dilapidated description. A curious anomallyis the preserc e | of marble in every direction : gate-posts, fences, door-steps, and even fire places of pure white marble may be found iu and around these hum ble dwelling; And yet this app.rinL luxury is but the result of tho innate indolence cf the people, for the marble is the refuse of a quarry in the neighborhood, and the North Dorseters, | who are too lazy to cut their' fences and gatc j posts from wood, have found it much easier to j bring marble slabs front the quarry This was the appearance of the place when the writer | went thither in search of piscatorial sport, i I which showed a meagre return of perch, “bull- ! ; heads” and sunfish. The completion of the i i Hoosac tumid has, however, probably improved j poor, desolate North Dorset, as it has improved I other places in the locality. In former, days, small as the place was, it boosted a hotel after the conventional country pattern, which,besides affording entertainment for man and beast, con tained the postoffice, country store and bar-room, in Which the loungers of the place would con gregate and discuss polities and the other gossip of a country bar-room. Altogether, North Dorset was not, beyond what attractions nature bad bestowed upon it, an altogether Wahallan abode. There was a strange child there, how ever, whose fame had gone abroad among scien tific critics, and the little hamlet was frequently visited by students of natural phenomena, anx ious to solve, if possible, the riddle this un'or tntßsUe youngster presented. In the account wiieti follows, the real names of the parties in terested ate suppressed at the request of those who have so deeply suffered through the events that have transpired. The victors to the North Be-rsef Hotel were immediately attracted by the a||||pH*ube-ffA * t,a) alc servants. She tine-five i m m ry**rr oft Her eyes were dark and small, and flora the ex pression in them it was evident that the woman had suffered SRteli, as indeed she had. She had married one of the hands on the railroad—a big, hurley German—who, after the birth of their child,* and a strike of the lianas which threw him out of \voik,hnd taken to drink and abused her shamefully- One night as he was stagger ing home to his shanty, drunk, he was run down by an express train and fatally injured. His death was a release to poor Eunice in some re spects, but stilt she bad herself and child to support, and so being a tidy and industrious woman, found bat little trouble in finding employment at the hotel. Here another mis fortune befe! her. The child, who had now grown to be seven years of age, while playing in tbe fields was bitten by a snake and came crying home, evidently suffering intense pain, and with her face swollen where the poisoned fangs had entered the tempi? over the right eye. What little skill there was in that rude neighborhood was summoned, for little Aunchen had become a great favorite among the people, and strange as it may seem the child was saved from death. For six months there was no ap parent change in her, and then, at the full of the moon, a stream of greenish matter oozed from the little scar that had been left by the serpent’s fangs, and the whole disposition of the child seemed to change. Before, she had been bright and cheerful, but now she seemed to be pursued by tbe spirit of tho serpent. Without the slighest provocation she would give way to fits of almost uncontrollable rage. At these times her forehead would seem to flat ten, her head would roll from side to side, h>. r eyes would glitter with a strange, fascinating, and yet terrifying light, and she would try to bite any human being that came in Iter way. Failing in this, she would run out in the road, | and, picking tip stones, would fling them with ! devilish malignity at those towards whom she | wished to vent her rage. She would continue • in this condition for about a week and then i would supervene a season of almost death like ’ inertia, and she would return to her normal • state of and eerfulness. With each return of the | full moon would come those strange fits and by 1 and by she became known in tbe neighborhood I as the snake child. | A physician from Troy happening to be at ; North Dorset during the following summer, saw J the child, and was completely puzzled at her ease. He wrote to some others of the medical | fraternity, and very soon there was a consulta- I tion of doctors in the little hotel parlor, discus- I sing the lusus natural. Different remedies were j tried, but without avail. One of the party, i more enthusiastic than th? Jest, allowed Ann j then to bite him on the arm, and soon the limb 1 swelled up and became mortified like the wound !of a serpent. Restoratives and stimulants were applied and he recovered, out a serious attack !of sickness followed his experiment. Baffled in their efforts to discover the cause and prevention | of the strange malady with which Annchen was : affected, the Troy doctors determined to bring I the child to New York, and it was not difficult | to obtain the consent of tho mother to the trip, i The appearance of the child in this city will be | remembered by some of our most eminent physi- I eians, although the cure was never made public When she fitst came into the bustling city, all 1 its strange and novel sights appeared to please : her immensely, and ?he danced.and crowed with j childish glee. The appearance ot the full moon, j however,"brought with it the usual symptoms : J there were the discharge of matter from the scar, I the fits of passion, and the peculiar flattening of I the forehead developed with even greater in i' tensity than they bad been in the quiet hamlet j of North Dorset, and she brought desolation j upon the glass jars and retorts of many a labo ratory. The New York doctors were n much j puzzled as their brethren at, Troy, the case baf- I fling their utmost efforts for its solution, f o deep was the interest taken in her that a purse was made up, and it was determined to send her to Germany, in the hope that perhaps the German physicians might be able to give her telief. ' The mother was still further urged to go by the fact that her husband's father in that j country had lately died, leaving a small estate ! to her. Funds enough were raised to send her 1 and Annchen to Fatherland, and they soon de parted. A few months elapsed, when Eunice wrote, returning the amount that had been advanced Vol. y-No. 20. I for tho passage money, and saying that her child seemed to be improving under the treatment of a celebrated physician at Bonne, who had taken I great interest in the case, and that a full moon | had passed without return of the dreadful mill i tidy. Years passed by and Eunice wrote no j more, while in the hurry of business and Lite occurrence of thiir professional events, the poor Vermont snake child was forgotten, only that occasionally she would be spoken of and wonder expressed as to her fate. Last week her memory was recalled in a most startling man ner. One of tiio physicians who had been in j strumentnl in sending her abroad happened to ! be in the office of one of our large advertising j agencies, and, while waiting tor the party whom ' Ire had come to see, ho took up a German paper '• lying on the desk at his side. Being a good | German scholar, he commenced reading it when ! his eye was attracted by a paragraph describing | a terrible murder and suicide, in one of the , villages of the Tyrol. It did not take him long i to discover a similarity in the description of the i young woman who was the heroine of the trage idy to Annchen of former years. The story re j latcd how this beautiful young girl had been bitten by a serpent in childhood, and how the wound had seemed to change her whole nature. Finally, she had been brought to German}', and, as it was supposed, cured by a well-known, physician at Bonne. Only a year ago she had married a young and prosperous merchant in Berlin. This summer the young couple had gone on a pleasure trip to the Tyrol, where the wife gave birth to a beautiful child. Shortly after this a circus and menagerie gave an exhi bition in the village wlieie they were stopping, and the young couple, >. ilh their nuts* and child, visited the show One of the prime curi osities of the exhibition was a number of Amer ican rattlesnakes inclosed in a glass ease. The sight of these reptiles senied to effect the woman in a most curious .manner. She was rooted to the spot and gazed upon them as if fascinated. The husl-and was also shocked, and astonished to observe a small stream of greenish matter ooze from a slight rear in hi< wife's teini'le. The child was peevish and fretful, an 1 cried, as chil dren will. The mother gave a hasty glance at it, and quicker than thought dashed her hand through the glass ease and seizing one of the writhing reptiles applied its mouth to the child's forehead. The husband sprang forward in an agony of terror, and seized bis wife’s arm, but it was too late, for the venomous rep'ile had bitten the child. There was‘groat excitement in the show, and a general scattering in the crowd That night tbe child died, and as it lay in its little bed, its poor body bloated and swollen from the poison, the mother bent ove: it, kissed its checks, and then, before site could be stopped, seized a knife from a table standing by Her eyes glistened, and her forebcao, so the by standers said, seemed to flatten. While they were wondering wliat she was about to do. she raised the knife, and with a quick and determined mo tion, plunged it into her heart, and fell dead on the floor. The physician, on ret ding this ac count, was, as may readily be supposed, much shocked to hear of so trstgic an ending to the pretty little Annchen of former years, and in relating the to "urns ”nfmost a Homes’ ideal “Elsie Tenner,” — About 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon a citizen climbed tiio stairs leading to a Detroit lawyer’s office, pushed open the door with an impatient slam and angrily inquired: “Why didn’t you call on me as requested?” “Call on you ? 1 didn’t know that you wanted to see mo,” was the surprised reply. “I left a note on your table an hour before noon/’ contin ued the citizen. “It was enclosed in an envelope directed to you, anti I wrote tho word ‘private’g across tho end.” “That explains it,” answered the lawyer, sinking back into bis chair. * “My wife came down here this morning, saw that letter, and I'll bet she wasn’t the fifteenth part of a second putting it in to her pocket, I hope for the Lord’s sake that yon wrote a large hand and signed your full name.” A Husband’s Ruse.— The man who, uays the St. Louis Republican, wcarry of his wife’s absence on a visit to her moth er, Lad a photograph of his house taken with himself and his neighbor’s wife standing on tho porch, which he sent to his better-half, has a rival in the one who simply saw that his letter contained, as if by accident, a red hair a' out three feet long. His wife wouldn’t have wait ed for the next train to get home, could she have sent herself by telegraph. The Flutes about Virginia, Nov , are in a high state of excitement over an in fant in their tribe which is haif dog, hall j Piute, and somewhat more dog than In dian. It is looked upon by the wise men as the forerunner of some serious calam ity. The squaw who gave birth to tho peculiar anatomical combination tli'spcr, : ed of it by dropping it down an old shaft. An old miser, saying he never ft It j so mean as bo did just after bis last fit of illness, was asked, “Why so.-” “13c- I cause,” said he, “thinking I was going : to die, I paid several bills, when if I’d | waited I might have kept tho*money no | body knows how long.” * ♦ j “Cuba wants to borrow forty million dollars.” We have only thirty nine mil lions in cash, and we don’t want to mort gage our printing office to make up the balance, heuco Cuba will have to seek ; relief from some other source. — * ♦ Statistics show that thus far iu this ; centennial year two boys have been born ■to every girl, and a very fine article of j boy in eve.y instance, too Does this 1 mean another war, or merely less talk ? ——— ■•' ■— ♦ jrO- ♦ It was rather personal in a Califor ' nia newspaper man to chronicle the | purchase of a mule by a brother editor I as “a remarkable instance Of- self-posses ; sion.” j A tin camp case, containing bottles I and tumblers, which was used by Gen’l I Francis Marion during tho Revolution, is offered for sale or raffle in Charles ! ton, South Carolina. yfilu that wears a tight boot is likely to have a narrow understanding. “BIBEOOA OF IVAIuIOh.” * From tlw San Fran.:; oo Chionivle.j “Miss Gi ur:dy says that Lug -.- igiual of Sir Walter Scott's Rebecca, in tho novel of Tvanhoe,’ was ttj Puiludulphia Jew ess. whes 3 picture Washington Irving showed to Scott ” Thin ; üblieation has called from a well informed c< irrei j ond< n particulars of the part taken by Irving hi supplying Scott VritU tho interesting literary picture from real life, including tho American author’s early lo /e, disap pointment, and the mutual vows of ce‘i bacy taken by himself and the lady wl; > loved but v;;3 not permitted to wed hit:-, and who is reproduced in N. otfc s charm ing character of Rebecca. Our corres pondent ha Li information from a rela tivo of the lady in question, an tho al ready known tacts leave but ii tie room to doubt that these freshly published details arc substantially correct. Tho story, as our cm respondent relates it, is as follows: Washington Irving, iu early life bccauto acquainted with a very intelligent beautiful Jewo.v i lad ... ’\ft o name of l!el acca Gratz. This acquaint ance ripened into love, hi which both shaved, and Irving proposed . . and was accept and c . c ... t tho parents of tho lady would consent to tho union of their daughter with a Gent lo The Hebrew religion forbade such a marriage, and though the parents cs teemed the suitm 1. ;i.U Li. y tot, .1 not bring their mind.; to consent to a viola tion ol’ so sacred a regulation of their faith. Tho attachment vm. so strong between the lady and riving that Uolu ing but their elevated ... o the duty of a child lo parental authority kept them from wc<L ing. ley , Ived however, that in sentiments they would remain true to each other through lifo and never wed. It was during this state of their rent lit is that Irving • rst visit to Sir Walter Scott. The latter had al ready made for In. dt a-i undying rop ut-ation as an author, ur.tl tho former, with bis literary i rod lotions, had attract ed the attention of the ‘.'Wizard of the North,’ who was at that time incubating in his mind that wonderful story, of “I van hoe” Personal intercourse with filing so won upon Scott’s’confidence tlji.t he Fetched to him the • plan, of tho story, confessing at the same time that ho felt the need of a heroine other than Rowcna. Irving’s heart and head were full of his romantic love for Rebecca Gratz, and lie modestly proffered to fur nish Scott with a heroine, many of the incidents connected with whom should be drawn from real life. The offer was accepted, and Irving’s Rebecca, mutually • pledged with him to unwelded earthly fidelity, stood as the model of the im mortal Rebecca of ‘Tvanhoe.” Scott, of course, adopted it to the exigencies of his story but the great ideal as funrishod by Irving was unchanged. It was known to every one that Irving never was mayrtsd, and. those who were mail , rnm •rriT^S;r'-'r' r^ ment,- about Which a cloud ’ofWfitfmy hong, ion,lining him insensible to tho blandishments and char;/'? -t*—.... women, by whom he was highly esteem ed, and in the breasts of some it was supposed a warmer sentiment existed. Rebecca Gratz, geutlo and loving, with heart and baud ever open to suffering and sorrow, remained true to her plighted faith, and, like Irving, died unwedded EVILS OP EARLY RlSDfftf. Tho attention of medical men in this great republic, observes Haw key e Bur dutte, is called to ; the injudicious and absolutely hateful habit much iu vogue in tho rural districts and among early risers in tho city, of getting up in the night to eat. This nocturnal meal is faintly disgivsed under tho name of breakfast, and there is no doubt it is creating, spreading and sustaining tho national disease, dyspepsia. The cus tom is sometimes visited with severe judgments, but nothing seems able to deter its votaries from continuing its practice Wo once took summer board ing with a man who eat in the night and roused up all his household to share tho unnatural meal. One night ho stirred us all up at 4:30 o’clock to cat. We roso and ate. That very day his best COv/ immolated herself on a wire fence, one” c f his horses bit himself with a rattle snake, a reaping machine ate up Leri best farm hand, a distant relative sent ! his youngest boy a drum, his wife to-.-k to writing poetry, and one of his most popular talented and handsomo board*- ers flitted, leaving an unpaid summer’s board bill to remember him by. Tho j latter circumstance is indellibly impress ed upon our memory. We*t>ften trick ,of j-t in connection with tbe somewhat striking coincidence that wo never haver been in that country since. - ■ -—.....—.... OSCULATOSY BARGAIN.—In the* L'iClth part of the city, as a veracious repo ter reports, a young lady and a young man get on the eteps cf a Sunday evening and enter into a contract. F* v each shooting star he is to receive aL. 8. On cue of these interesting occasions a 1 alf hour passed away and not a solit.uy sUr shot across the sky. But after a hi!a the cherry lips of the young lady parted, and she called her young man’s alto iti-m to the flying meteors that were abi at to escape Ids observation ; then she' got to calling his attention to the lightning bugs, and finally got him down to steady work on the light of tqlanternyi r..r n was carrying about the depot where the trains were shifting. Artless girl! [lowa Regi tor. ♦ “We go to press at two irtefoad of four to day,” said a Tcnnessc' p©} r, “in order to attend to some bus: teas of im portance in the country.” At precisely five minutes before four, two high or! looking men with shotgun, called and wanted to know where tho editor i\ as. A Detroit husband whipped his wife because the baby didn’t take tho li:,-. ’ prize nt the bal v Mow