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-A.2ST3D COLUMBUS VOL. XVI. UIRER. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1874. NO. 221 DOLLAR OR TWO. With circumspect steps as we pick our way , through * Tliis intricate world, as all prudent folks do, May we still on our.journey be aide to view *u country or town. As we stroll up and down, We are oock of the 'walk with a dollar or two. l)o you wish to emerge from the bachelor-crew, And a charming young innocent lomal© to woo? You must always be ready the handsomo to do, Although it may cost you a dollar or two. For love t‘ps bis dart with a dollar or two; Yovtng a (lections are gained by a dollar or two ; And beyond all dispute The best card of your suit I a the eloquent chink of a dollar or two. Do you wish to have friends who your bidding will do, And help you your moans to get speedily through? You’ll find them remarkably faithful and true, By the magical powor of a dollar or two. For friendship's secured by a dollar or two; Popularity’s gained by a dollar or two ; And you’ll ue'cr want a triend Till you no more can lend, And yourself need to borrow a dollar or two. Do you wish in the courts of the country to see For the right of estate tint’s another man’s due? Your lawyer w 11 surely remember his cue, When hi* palm you have crossed with a dollar or two. For a lawyer’s convinced w 1th a dollar or two, And the jury set right with a dollar or two; And though justice Is Mind, Yet a way you may find To open her eyes with a dollar or two. Do you want a snug place, where there’s little to do. Or at government cost foreign countries to view? A contraot to get, or a patent renew? You can make it all right with a dollar or two. For merit Is proved by a dollar or two, And a patriot’s known by a dollar or two; Civil servlco rules? O! They aro all humbugs, you know ; Just use with discretion a dollar or two. If a claim that is proved to be honestly due, Department or Congress you will quickly put through, And the chance for Its payment begins to look blue, You can help it along with a dollar or two. For votes are sooured by a dollar or two And Influence bought by a dollar or two; And he’ll come to grier Who depends for relief Upon justice not braced with a dollar or two. Do you wish your existence with faith to imbue, And so become one of the sanctified few ? To enjoy a good uuine and a well-cushioned pew, You must freely come down with a dollar or two. For the Gospel is preached for a dollar or two, Salvation is reached by a dollar or two ; Sins are pardoned, sometimes, But the worst of all crimes Is to find yourself short of a dollar or two. A DARKlim WORK. BY MBS. GA8KILL. Arranged from the English. «# [continued. ] CHAPTER IX. The weddiDg went by, ns grand wed- dingH do, without let or hindrance, ac cording to the approved pattern. A cabi net minister honored it with his presence, and, being a distant relation of the Mo- rauta, remained for a few days after the grand occasion. Daring thin time he beoauie mtlier intimate with Ralph Cor bet ; many of their tastes were in common. Ralph took a great interest in the manner of working out political questions—in the balance and slate of partiea; and had pre cisely the right appreciation of tho exact qualities on which the minister piqued himself. In Return, the latter was always on the look-out for promising young meu, who, either by their capability of speech- making or article-writing, might advance the views of his party ; and recognizing the powers he most valued in Ralph, he spared no pains to attach him to bis own political set. %Vhen they separated it was with the full understanding that they were to see a good deal of each other in London. The holiday Ralph allowed himself was passing rapidly away ; but before he re turned to his chambers and his hard work he had promised to spend a few more days with Ellinor; and it Boiled him to go Straight from the duke s to Ford Bank. He left the castle soon after breakfast the luxurious, elegant breakfast, served by domestics who performed their work With the accuracy aud perfection of ma chines. lie arrived at Ford Bank before the man-servant bad quite done the dirtier pert of his. morning’s work, and he came to the glass-door in his striped cotton jeoket, a little soiled, and rolliog up his king apron. Ellinor was not yet quite mg enough to get up aud go out and o aer Uowera for the rooms, so those toft from yesterday were rather faded ; in short, the contrast from entire complete ness and exquisite freshness of arrange- loent stiuok forcibly upon Iiu’pb’s per ceptions, which were always critical rather then appreciative; and as bis affections were always subdued to his intellect, El inor's lovely face mid graceful figure flying 1° meet him did not meet with his full approval, because her bay: was dressed in ou old-fashioned way, and her waist was either too long or too short, her t sleeves loo full or too tight for the at md- ft rd of fashion to which his eye bad been noonstomed while scanning the bride- maids and various high-born Indies at Jktokely Castle. ..... ' But a» he had always piqued hmiself jpon beiDg ablo to put on one side all •superficial worldliness in his chase after r >r, it did not do for him to shrink facing and seeing the incoinplete- of moderate means. Only marriage opon moderate means was gradually he lming more distasteful to him. Nor did his intercourse with Lord Bol ton the cubinet .minister before-men tioned, tend to reconcile him to early matrimony. At Lord Bolton’s house he met polished and intellectual society, and . T ell that smoothness in ministering to the i lower wants in eating and drinking which * > asems to provide that the right thing shall always be at the right place at the right t HUime, that the want of il wha11 n * ver A Impede for an iusiaut the feast of wit or F mason : while, if he went to the bouses of * his friends—men of the same college and ■tending as himself, who had been se- duced into early marriages—he was un- I f comfortably aware of numerous incon- i sistencien aud hitches in their menages. Betides, the idea of the possible disgrace that might befall the family with whom he thought of allying himself haunted *him with the tenacity and also with the xaggeration of a night-inare whenever >e had overworked himself iu his search fter available and profitable knowledge, chad a lit of ludigestiou after tho ex- iite dinners he w as learning so well to date. atinas was, of course, to be devoted Dwn family ; it was an unavoidable y, as he told Ellinor; while, if the t be told, he was learning to isence from his betrothed some- f a relief. But the wranglirgs and i home, even blessed by the ’ • Lady Maris, made him look 1 Bank with some- previous autumn; aud bad labored to make all as perfect as she could before his return. But she had much to snuggle against. For the first time iu her life there was a great want of ready money ? she could scarcely obtain the servants’ wages; and the bill for the spring Leeds was a heavy weight on her conscience. For Miss Mouro's methodical habits had taught her pupil great exactitude as to all money mattcis under her control. Tneu, her father’s temper had become very uncertain. Ho avoided being alone with her whenever ho possiblj’ could; hi d the consciousness of this, aud of the terri ble mutual secret which was the cause of this estrangement, were the reasons why Ellinor never recovered her pretty youthful bloom after her illness. Of course it was to it that tho outside wovld attributed her cliang d appearance. They would shako their heads, and say, “Ah, poor Miss Wil kins ! What a lovely creature she was before that fever! To see her now, one would never think that she was almost a beauty only twelve months i*go !” But youth is youth, and will assert itself iu a certain elasticity of body aud spirits; and at times Ellinor forgot that fearful night for several hours together. Aud eveu when her father's averted eye brought it nil once more before her she had learned to form excuse^ aud pallia tions, and to regard Mr. Dunater’s death only the consequence of an unfortunate accident. But she tried to put the mis erable remembrance entirely out of her miud ; to go on from day to day, think ing ouly of the day; aud how to arrange > as to cause (lie least irritotion to her father. She would so gladly have spoken to him on the one subject which over- shadowod nil their intercourse ; she fan cied that by speaking she might have been able to banish tho phantom, or at auy rate to roduco its terror to what she believed to bo tho duo proportion. But her father was evidently determined to show that ho was never more to bespoken to ou thut subject; and nil she could do in her helpless perplexity was to follow his lead on tbo ruro occasions that they fell iuto somotbing like the old confiden tial intercourse. As yot, to her, he had never given way to anger ; but before her he had often spoken in a manner which both pained and terrified her. Some times bis eye, iu the midst of his passion, caught ou her face of uffright and dismay, aud then he would stop, nnd make such an effort to control himself as sometimes ended in tears. Ellinor did hot under stand both theso phases were owing to his increasing habit of drinking more than was good for him. She set them down as the direct effects of a sorely- burdened conscience; and strove nioro and more to plun for his daily life at home, how it should go on , with oiled wheels, ueithor a jerk nor a jar. It wus no won der she looked wistful, and care-worn, and old, with all she had shut up in her poor weary heart. Miss Monro was her great comfort; the total unconsciousness on that lady's part of anything below tho surface; and yet her full and delicate recognition of all tho little daily cares and trials made her sympathy most valuable to Ellinor, while there was no need to fear that it would ever eveu give Miss Monro thut power of seeing into the heart of things which it frequently confers upon imaginative people, who are deeply at tached to some one in care or sorrow. There was u strong bond between Elli nor and Dixou, although they scercely ever exchanged a word but on the most commonplace subjects ; but their silence wus based on different feelings from that which separated Ellinor from her father. Ellinor and Dixon could not speuk freely, because their hearts were full of pity for the faulty man whom they both loved so well, and tried so hard to respect. This was tho state of the household to which Ralph Corbet came down at Easter. He might have been known in Loudon as a brilliant diner-out by this time; but he could not afford to throw his life away in fire-works ; he calculated his forces, and condensed their power us much as might be, only visiting where he was likely to meet men who could help him in his fu ture career, lie had been invited to spend the Easter vacation at a certain country-house which would be full of such human stepping-stones; and he decliued it to keep his woid to Etliuor and go to Ford Bank. But be could uot help look ing upon himself a little in the light of a martyr to duty ; and perhaps this view of bis own merits made him chafe uuder his future father-in-law’s irritability of man ner, which now showed itself even to him. He found himself distinctly regretting that he hud suffered himself to be engaged so early iu life ; and having become con scious of tbc temptation, and not having repelled it at ouce, of course it returned and returned, aud gradually obtained the mastery over him. What was to be gained by koepiug to his engagement to Ellinor? He should have a delicato wifo to look after, and eveu more than tho common additional expenses of married life. He should have a fathcr-in-luw whose char acter at best had had only a local and provincial respectability, which it was now daily losing by habits which were both sensual and vulgurizing : a man, too, who was strangely cliunging from joyous geniality into moody surliness. Besides, he doubted if, in tho evideut change in the prosperity of the family, tho fortune to be paid down on tho occasion of his uuuriuge to Ellinor could be forthcoming. Ar.d above all, aud around all, there hov ered the shadow of some unrevealed dis grace, which might come to light at any time and involve him in it. He thought he had pretty well ascertained tho nature of this possible shame, and had little doubt but thaL it would turn out to be that Dunster’s disappearance to America or elsewhere bad been an arranged plan with Mr. Wilkins. Allhough Mr. Ralph Corpet was cnpublo of suspecting this rneau crinio (so fur removed from tho impulsive comfiiissicm of the past sin, which was draggiug Mr. Wilkins daily lower and lower down), it was of a kind that was peculiarly distusteful to the acute lawyer, who foresaw how such base con duct as he suspected would taint all whoso names were ever mentioned, even by chance, iu connection with it. He used to lie miserably to:*fiing on bis-sleepless bed, turning over all those things in the night season. He was tormented by all these thoughts ; bo would bitterly regret the past events that connected him with Ellinor, from tlie day when ho first came to read with Mr. Ness up to the present time. But when ho came down in the morning, and saw the fuded Ellinor flash into momentary beauty at his entrance into the dining-room, and when she blush- ingly drew near with the one single flower, freshly gathered, which it had been her custom to place in bis button-hole when he came down to breukfust, he felt as if his better self was stronger than tempta tion, and as if be must bo an honest man and houorul le lover eveu aguinst his wish. As the day wore on the temptation gath ered strength. Mr. Wilkins came down, and while he was on the scene Ellinor seemed always engrossed by her father, who apparently cured little enough for all her attentions. Then there was a complaining of the food, which did not suit the sickly palate of a man who had drank hard the night before ; aod possibly these complaints were extended to the servants, and their incompleteness or in capacity was brought thus prominently before the eyes of Ralph, who would have preferred to eat a dry crust in silence, or to have gone without breakfast altogether, if bo ootud have had intellectual conver sation of some high order, to having the greatest daiulies with the knowledge of the care required in their preparation thus coarsely discussed before him. By the timo such breakfasts were finished Ellinor looked thirty, and her spirits were gone for the day. If bad become difficult for him to contract his mind to her small domestic interests, and she had little else to talk to him about, now that he respond ed but curtly to all her questions about himself, aud was weary of pvofessiug a love which ho was ceasing to feel in all the passionate uothings which usually make up so much of lovers’ talk. The books she bail been reading were old classics, whoso place in literature no longer admitted of keeu discussion ; the poor whom she cared for were nil very well in their way ; and if they could have been brought in to illustrate a theory', hearing about them might huvo hecu of somo use ; but, as it was, it was simply tiresome to hear day after day of Betty Palmer's rheumatism and Mrs. Day’s baby’s fits. There was no talking politics with her forever, because she was so ig- norunt that she always agreed with what he said. lie oven grow to find luncheon nnd Miss Monro not unpleasant vaiieties to bis monotonous tete-a-tetes. Then enmo the walk, generally to the town to fetch Mr. Wilkins from his office; and ouce or twice it was pretty evident how ho had been employing bis hours. One day in particular his walk was so unsteady aud his speech so thick thut Ralph could ouly wonder how it was that Ellinor did uot perceive the cause ; but she was too open ly auxious about the headache of which her father complained to have boon at all aware of the previous solf-iudulgenoe which must have brought it on. This very afternoon, as ill luck would have it, the Duke of llinton and a gentleman whom Ralph had met in town nt Lord Bolton's rode by and recognized him ; saw Ralph supporting a tipsy mnti with such quiet friendly interest ns must show all passers-by that they were previous friends. Mr. Corbet chafed and fumed inwardly all the way home after this un- fortuuute occurrence; be was in a thor oughly evil temper before they roached Ford Bank, but he had too much solf- cotmunud to let this bo voiy apparent. He turned iuto tho ahrubbory paths, leav ing Ellinor to take her father into tho quietness of his own room, thore to lie down aud shako off his headache. Ralph walked along, ruminating in gloomy mood as to what was to be done; how be could best extricate himself from the miserable relation in which lie hud placed hitusclf by giving way to impulse. Almost before he was aware, a lit tie hand stole witbiu his folded arms, nnd Elliuor’s sweet sad eyeB looked into his. “I have put papa down for nn hour’s rest before dinner,” said she. “His head seems to ache terribly.” Ralph was silent and unsympathizing, trying to nerve himself up to be disngree- 1 able, but finding it difficult iu face of such sweet trust. At length be began : “Do yon remember our conversation last autumn, Ellinor?” Her head sunk. They were near a garden scat, nnd she quietly sut down without speaking. “About some disgrace which you then fancied hung over you ?” No answer. “Does it still hang ovor you?” “Yes!” sbe whispered, with a heavy sigh. “And your father knows of this, of course ? Does he ?” “Yes!” again iu the same tone; and then silence. “I think it is doing him harm,” at length Ralph went on, decided!}'. “I ain afraid it is,” she said, in a low tone. “I wish yon would tell me what it is,” he said, a little impatiently. “I might bo able to help you about it.” “No! you could uot,” replied Ellinor. I was sorry to my very heait to tell you what I did ; I did not tell you because I wanted help ; all that is past. But 1 want ed to kuow if you thought that a person situated as I was was justified in marrying any one ignorant of what mi^ht happen ; what I do hope and trust never will.” “But if I don't know what you aro al luding to iu this mysterious way, you must see—don’t you see. love, I urn in the position of the ignorant man, whom I think you said you could not feel it light to marry. Why don't you tell me straight out what it is?” He could not help his irritation betraying itself iu his tones and manner of speaking. She bent a little forward, and looked full into his face, as though to pierce to the very heart's truth of him. Then sho said, ns quietly as she ever had spoken in her life, “Ralph, you wish to break off our en gagement ?” He reddened, and grew indignant iu a moment. t “What nousunse! Just becauso I nsk a question and make a remark ! I think your illness must have made yon fanciful, Ellinor. Surely nolhiiig 1 said deserves such an iuterpietutiou. Have I ever said a word that ought to lead you to thiuk so? Ou tho contrary, have i not shown the sincerity nud depth of my affection to you by clinging ty you through—through every thing ?” He was going to say “through the wearying opposition of my family;” but he stopped r-hort, for ho knew thut the very fact of his mother’s opposition hod only made him tho mote determined to have his own way in tho first instance; and even now he did not intend to let out what he had concealed up to this time, that his friends all r« glutted his impru- deut engagement. v Ellinor sat silently gazing out upon the meadows, but seeing nothing. Then sho put her baud iuto his. “i quite trust you, Ralph. I was wrong to doubt. I am afraid I have grown fanciful and silly.” He was rather put to it. for the right words, for she had piecisely divined the dim thought that bud overshadowed bis mind when she had looked so intently at him. But he caressed her, and reinsured her with fond words, as incoherent as lovers’ words generally ure. By-and-by they sauntered homeward, and wheh they reached the houso Ellinor left him and flew up to see how her father was. When Ralph went iuto his own room ho was vexed with himself, both for what be bed said and wbufc he had not said. His mental look-out was not satis factory. Neither he nor Mr. Wilkins wore in good-humor with the world in general at dinner time, and it needs little in such casos to condense and turn tho lowering tempers into one particular direction. As long as Ellinor and Miss Monro staid in the dining-room a sort of moody peace had been kept up, the ladies talking in cessantly to each o'her about the trivial nothings of tbeir daily life, with an in stinctive consciousness that if they did not chutler on something would be said by one of the gentlemen which would bo distateful to the other. As soon as Ralph had shut the door be hind them Mr. Wilkins went to tho side board and took out a bottle which had not previously made its appearance. “Have a little Cognac ?” asked he, with an assumption of carelessness, as he poured out a wine-glassful. “It’s a capi tal thing for the headache ; and this nasty lowering weather has given me a racking headache all day.” “I am aorry for it,” said Ralph, “for I bad wanted particularly to speak to you about hnsineas—about my marriage, iu fact.” “Well! speak away, I'm as < h-nr-bended us any mau, it that’s’ what you mean !’’ Ralph bowed, u little contemptuously. “NVhat I wanted to sny was, that 1 ru» anxious to have all things arranged for my marriage in August. Ellinor is so much better now ; iu fact, so strong that. I thiuk we may reckon upon her standing ! the change to a Loudon life pretty well. | Mr. Wilkins stared at him rather blauk- I ly, but did not immediately sponk. j “Of course I may have the deods drawn j up iu which, as by previous arrungomont, j you advauco a certain portion of Elliuor’s fortune for the purposes therein to bo as- signed ; us we settled last year, whon I hoped to have been married iu August?” I A thought flitted through Mr. Wilkins confused brain that he should fiud it im possible to produce the thousands re quired without having recourse lo the money-lenders, who were already making difficulties, aud charging him usurious in terest for tho advances they hud latoly made ; and he unwisely tried to obtain a diminution in tho sum he had originally proposed to give Ellinor. “Unwisely,” became be might have read Ralph's char acter better tlmu to suppose ho would easily consent to auy diminution without good and sufficient reason being given, or without somo promise of compensating advantages iu the future for the pvesout sacrifice asked from him. But perhaps Mr. Wilkins, dulled as he wus by wine, thought ho could allege a good and suffi cient reason, for ho said : “Yon must not bo hard upon me, Ralph. Thut promise was made before— before I exactly knew tho stato of my af fairs.” “Before Dunster’s disappearance, in fact,” said Mr. Corbet, fixing his steady penetrating eyes on Mr. Wilkins’s coun tenance. “Yes — exactly — before Dunsler's—” mumbled out Mr. Wilkins, red nnd con fused, nud uot finishing his sentence. “By-the-way,” said Ralph—(for with careful carelessness of manner ho thought he could extract something of the roal nature of the impending disgrace from his companion in the state in which ho thou was; aud if ho only kuew more about this danger.he could guard against it ; guard others—perhaps himself)—“By- the-wny, have you ever beard anything of Dunster since he wont off to Amorica? isn't it thought?” Ho was sturtled beyond his power of self-control by tho instantaneous change in Mr. Wilkins which his question pro duced. Both started up; Mr. Wilkins white, slinking, nnd trying to sny some thing, but unublo to form a sensible sen tence. “Good God! Sir, what is the matter ?” said Ralph, alarmed at these signs of physical suffering. Mr. Wilkins sat down, and repelled bis nearer approach without speaking. “It is nothing, only this headache which shoots through me at times. Don’t look at me, Sir, in that way; it is very un pleasant, let me tell you, to fiud another man’s eyes perpetually fixed upon you.” “I beg your pardon,” said Ralph, cold ly ; his short-lived sympathy, thus re pulsed. giving way to his curiosity. But he waittd for u minute or two without during to renew tho conversation at tho point where they had stopped ; whether interrupted by bodily or mental discom fort on the part of Ids companion, he was not quite sure. While ho hesitated how to begin again on tho subject, Mr. Wil kins pulled tho bottle of brandy to him self nnd filled his glass again, tossing off tho spiiit as if it had boon water. Then he tried to look Mr. Corbet full in the faco, with a stare ns pertinacious as he could make it, but very different from the koeu observant gaze which was trying to read him through. “What were we talking about?” said Ralph, nt length, with the most natural air iu the world, just as if ho had really been forgetful ol some half-discussed sub ject of interest. “Of what you’d a d—d deal better hold your tongue about,” growled out Mr, Wilkins, iu u surly, thick voice. “Sir !" said lia'ph, starting to his feet with real passion at being so addressed l>y “Wilkins tho attorney.” “Yes,” continued the latter, “I’U man age my own aff airs, and allow of 40 mod- thing and no questioning. I said so ouce before, and I wus uot minded, and bad dcuuie of it; nud now I say it uguin. And if you are to como hero aud put iwperti- ueut questions, nnd stare at me as you’ve been doing this half hour past, why the sooner you leave this houso the better!” Ralph half turned to tako him at his word, and go at ouce ; but then be “gave Ellinor another chance,” as he worded it in his thoughts ; but it was in no spirit of conciliation that he said, “You’ve taken too much of that stuff, Sir, and you don’t kuow what you’re saying. If you did, I should leave your houso at once, nnd never to return.” “You think ho, do you ?” said Mr. Wil kins, trying to stand up and look digni fied and sober. “I say, Sir, that if you ovor veutuie again to tulk and look as you have done to-night, why, Sir, I will ring the boll and have you shown tho dour by my seivauts. So now you're warned, my fine fellow !” Ho sat down, laughing u foolish, tipsy laugh of triumph. Iu another minute his arm wus held firmly but gently by Ralph. “Listen, Mr. Wilkins!’ I10 said, iu a low, hoarse voice. “You shall never have to s«y to me twice what you have said to night. Henceforward we are as strungers to each other. As to Elinor”—his tones softened a little, and he sighod iu spite of himself—“I do uot think wo should have been happy. I believe our engagement was formed when wo were too young to know our own minds, but I would Lave done my duty and kept to my word; but you. Sir, have yourself severed tho con nection between us by your insolence to night. I to be turned out of your house *>y your servants !—I, a Corbet of West- ley, who would not submit to such threats from u peer of tho reulm, let him be over so drunk!” He was out of tho room, uluo-it out of tho Louse, before ho bad spoken tho last words. Mr. Wilkins sat still, first fiercely angry, then astonished, nnd Justly dismayed into sobriety. “Corbet, Corbet! Ralph !” ho called iu vain; then ho got up uud went to the door, opened it, looked into tho fully- lighted hull ; all was so* quiet there that he could hear the quiet voices of tho wo men in the drawing-room talking togeth er. Ho thought for a moment, and weut to the hat-stand, and missed KuJph’s low- crowned straw-hat. Then ho wont back and sat dowu once more in the dining-room, and endeuvored to make out exactly what bud pasted ; but he could uot believe that Mr. Corbet had come to any enduring or final resolution to hreuk off Ids engagement, and ho had almost reasoned himself back into his former state of indignation at imperti nence and injury when Ellinor came in, pale, hurried, and anxious. [To bo continued.} —At Bahia, in Brazil, the timo-bonored Bahia sedan chairs carried by uegroes— which for more thau a century has been the only moans of reaching the upper from the lower or commercial town—has at length been superseded by a powerfully hydraulic elevator. From 4,000 to 5,000 persons use this elevator overy day. —A man in New Orleans was recently recommended for a position on the police of that city whom the detectives had been searching for some lime on a charge of robbery. M ILITHTC XOTLN. —J. M. Merrick, the chem'st selected by the Boston B mrd of Health to make analysis of articles liable to adulteration, reports thut the Adulteration of ale or beer, beyond i\ little harmless coloring, m this part of tho country, is one of the rarest occurrences. Mr. Merrick is au thority ou such a question. —A few drop* of oil of bitter almonds on a little saw-dust will serve ns a good preservative of insects. I’laco tho in sects, with the prepared sawdust in a hermetically sealed flask. Insects have, in this way, been sent from Ceylon to France, and, when they reached their des tination, were still so flexible as to permit of their being prepared nnd mounted, though they had been collected months previously. —Wheu Orfilu, tho celebrated French chemist, was ou one occasion a witness at a trial for poisoning ho was asked by the president if I10 could stato the quantity of arsenic requisite to kill a lly. “Certainly, M. le President,” replied the expert, “but I must know beforehand ttio ago of tho fly, its sex, its temporamout, its condi tion and hahits of body, whether married or single, widow or maiden, widower or bachelor.” —Otto IJlo says tho progress of scienco does not consist merely in the discovery of new facts and tho onlurgomout of our knowledge, or even iu the ingenious con clusions thence drawn, uud which from their universality, acquire tho character of laws ; its mightiest work is tho change it brings about in our fundamental con ceptions, and tho consequent revolution iu scienco itself. As science advances, it gains new principles, new arguments ; its problems uud its aims multiply incessant- ■y- —In Sweden, a course kind of cloth, which is strong, white, end durable, is manufactured from the fibre of the stems of hop plants. These are so tough that they have to bo gathered in autumn, aud steeped iu water during tho whole winter. The fibre is thou separated, dried in an oveu, and woven like flax. Tho young shoots of tho hop are uu excellent substi tute for asparagus, and are so used in England by tho country people. Pliny, who was tho first to mention the hop, atatos that it was cultivated in tho gui dons of Rome, nnd, when boiled as a pot herb, was highly cstoomed. —Language changes even wheu thoro has been no displacement of population, and nil the rnnro when immigration inter venes ; if mixtures occur, tho language will be altered, nnd a new language will arise. This new language nmy differ so much from the primitive one as to appear at first to havo no resemblance to it. This may happen not only for on© people and for oue language, but for many. A lan guage may also become the mother of many different lahguages. But these daughter languages always preserve som« - thing iu common with thut from which they dosceuded. —Tho hop is a native of Europe nnd of some parts of Asia, aud possibly of North America. Its cultivation was introduced into England from Flanders in the time of Henry VIII. For some time after it was employed iu brewing, tho people were prejudiced against it, and Anally they presented a petition to Parliament for its disuse, representing it us “a wicked weed, that would spoil tho taste of the driuk and endanger tho people.” Now 50,000 acres are dovuted to its culture in Enghtud. Tho oil of hops is sedative and narcotic, and the bitter principle is tonic. It is the combinu'iou of these two quali ties which makes it more valuable than any other bitter in the manufacture of beer. —The Biids-of-Paradise received they; name from the idea, entertained nt one timo, that they inhabited tho region of the Mosaic paradise. They live in a small locality iu Australasia, including Papua or New Guinea, nud a few ndjaceut islands. They aro uot easily tamed and kept confined; and few have been brought alive from their native locality. Mr. Beale hod one at Macao, China, that hud been in captivity ujno years; but very few have boon carried to Europe, although specimens of tho skius and prepared birds wore taken more than .‘1(H) years ago. In form and sizo they somewhat resemble our crow, or blue jay; but somo are smaller. They are usually included in the tribe of cone-lulls, though their bills are quite slender for that group, and u little compressed. The bills are covered at tho base with downy or velvety feath ers, which extend over the nostrils ; their wings are long and round; the tail con sists of ten feathers, two of them, in some species, very long; legs and feet very long, largo, and strong; outer too longer than inner, and joined to the middle <mo townrd tho base; hind-toe very long; claws long and curved. But they are chiefly remarkable for the wonderful de velopment of various parts of their plum age, uud for tho metnJlio splendor of its rich hues. Tho sides of tho body, and sometimes of the head, neck, breast, or tail, aro ornamented with lengthened, pe culiarly developed, and BUowy feathers. Railload Train Timur.—An ingenious invention has lately been successfully tOHted ou the Vandulia ltr.lroad, Ind., which records the motion of railway cars. There is a locked iron box, attached to one side of the car and containing lock. The mechanism of the inn r can*. ; a Hmall drum, on which is woun 1 n she of paper, to travel at a const an. rate. With tho nxlo, by means of rods and gearing, 11 pencil touebiug this paper i- connected. As tho ; encil is moved slowly across the paper, by its mejhanism governed by tho axle, Mid as the paper is slowly moved forward, the pencil point inscribes a di agonal line back and forth. The p*por is ruled in very small sections, every fourth line being dotted arid representing one mile ,* so that, supposing the o»r goes n mile in four minutes, the line will oross just four sect ions diagonally from one dotted line to tho next one. If the car stops, the lino crosses the paper diieetly and shows tho number of minutes thut the train is at rest. The names of tho stations aro written at tho proper places on the paper, and thus the exact rate of speed made at any point on tho lino can be subsequently noted. Tho nppurutus thus affords an ex cellent chock on the train officials, as, if the train bo run ahead or behind time, tho fact is sure to be detected. Don’t Givk Liquor to Children.—One j of tho first literary men in tho United j States said to u wiitcr, after speaking on 1 tho subject of temperance: “There is j one thing which, us yon visit different j places, I wish you to do everywhere— that is to entreat every mother never to ! give it drop of strong drink to it child. I havo hud to fight as for rny life all my days to keep from dying a drunkard, be- 1 cause I was fed with spirits when a child. | I acquired a toste for it. My brother, poor fellow, died a drunkard. I would not have a child of mine to tako a drop of liquor for anything. Warn every mother, wherever you go, never to give a drop to a child.” —Tho youth who will one of theso days be Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and is now a student at Leipsic, was in the railway station'at Dresden. He preferred to sit on the refreshment table, and assaulted mine host for remonstrating, whereupon the crowd turned the embryo Grand Dnke over and used him roughly. DRKNNIJKDi' 1 —Wan Log, a Cleveland “Chineser,” , looked up at Brut'. King’s balloon tho other day, and asked a policennn if that was the “dumuio Bkeoher-Tilton” ho had hoard so much about, i —Though (ho peach crop is scant, there is comfortable cousolution in the know) odgo that the potato yield promises to be almost unprecedentedly numerous 111 tho number of bushels to tho acre. —A Jewish rabbi iu London is said to be attracting large congregations, Gen tiles as well ns Jews, by tho fervor and eloquence of his preaching. Ho is named Hirsh Dufnan., —Tennyson and Swinburne are re Rpootivoly dependent upon Tom Taylor and John Oxonford to put “Boadicea” and “Bothwoll” iu shape for dramatic representation. —Mr. and Mrs. Algernon Satoris will not eat their Thanksgiving turkey at the White Houso, but Nellie says sho is film ing homo to boo tho old folks some time next winter. —Bradford, tho American paiutor, has just finished a picture of a scene on the coast of Labrador for tho Baroness Hur- dett Coutts, for which ho asked her 800 guineas, uud for which she scut him a check for 1,000. —One of the most extraordinary phe nomena of modern titnos is thus recorded iu a Savannah paper : “If a pond of wa ter bo placed witbiu six inches of either side of tho stem of a pumpkin or vegeta ble marrow, it will, in tho course of tlie uight approach it,” etc. —Tho mushroom crop iu Anglesey was so heavy this season that for three day the Loudon and Northwestern Railroad Company were obliged to run special trains for the conveyance of tho crop to tho English market. —A terriblo punishment was that in flicted upon a man in Delaware, who was found untyiug another mail’s hoist* at midnight, by two meu who made him kneel ou tho barn door aud pray his level best for seven straight hours, —Mario, prince of tenors and Marquis of Onudin, has boon arrested at Venice for violation of (lie press law, nud taken to Turin for examination. Tho chorgo is so vaguely stated that we are left to the most painful conjecture. —It is uot often that tho bearer of*bad news roceives his reward, but each of tho four meu who first gave intelligence of their danger to the inhabitants of the doomed villages in tho Mill River Valley is to have an elegant gold medal appro priately inscribed. —Mine. Bazuiuo is superstitious, like all Mexican women, and has given a neck lace of uinhur beads, which sho wore nt the time of tho “evasion” of hor husband, to her little daughter. She is sure that, under tho circumstances, it will bring tho child good luck. Several days ago a Mr. Potter, of Amsterdam, N. \., returned to his house after n short nhsouoe and was met. by hiN little girl, who said sho did not. ltko to stay with her mother, because she looked s*) white. Mr. Potter, on entoring the house, found tho lifeloss remains of his wifo, w ho had expired from heart diseaso. —The little island of Jersey, in tho English Channel, sent to tho London markets in two months, this spring, .*jjtl,- t'00,(i(K) worth of new potatoes. Thu sea son’s crop of this vegetable gives for tho total area of tho island an acre. It is believed that an equal success could bo had in tho southern counties of Ireland, if there were energy and enterprise to try it. Why He Smoked.—George Column, iu his Handout Jteoord*, tells a oomicul story of a parcel of school-boys, iu the time of James I., of England, who smoked to ox- “This, of course, was concealed, as much as one c 111 conceal 11 smell, from the Dominie; till oue luckless evening, when the imps were all huddled together round Dio fire of their dormitory, involv ing each other in vapors of their owu cre ation, lo ! in burst the master, and stood in awful dignity before them. “‘How, now !’quoth tho Doiuiuin to he first lad, ‘how duro you be smoking tohucoo?’ “ ‘Sir,’ said the boy, ‘I’m subject to headaches, and a pipe takes off the pain.’ “ ‘Andyou?—audyou—?—and you?—’ inquired tho pedagoguo, questioning every boy in bis turn. “One bad a raging tooth—another the colic—-the third a cough—the fourth—in short, they all had something. “ ‘Now, sirrah,’ bellowed tho Doctor to the last boy, ‘what disorder do yon smoko for?’ “Alas! nil the excuses were exhausted, whon tho interrogated urcliiu, putting down his pipe after a farewell whiff', and looking gravely in tho Domiuie’s face, said in a whining, hypocritical tone, ‘Sir, I smoke for corns.’ ” REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JOHN BLACKMAR, St. Clair Street, Gnnhy's Ituililinir, next to Freer, lllgos be Co. Real Estate-Brokerage fit Insurance. nr.FIR, IIV.PEKHIHHION, To Mm-liiiiim' mill MutliUiiicii' flank, tl.li city. FERN M. WOOD. Attoi-ne.y sit 1 .aw, Opelika, Alabama, Wm. A. Utti.k. IS. H. Oiiawkokd. LITTLE & CRAWFORD, Attorncj s at Law. / .NIC or l.otli imonlxr. of till) nrm will ut- V J ti-ml tlm •c^inns <>i i.<*. Super tor Unurt, soon toiel i : . the ■ unite*ol Tulbot, U mu latiooulici Ta j I'*-, ll.rri**, Marlon uud Stewai t, Hint Will Kb.U |.iriicular innl porao oil attention to cl ini* <,r oihi r I.uHiicm cutruatcl to u.ctu. Hilda 7t Kill the Cotton Worms ! WITH ROY ALL’S COMPOUND, Paris Green and Arsenic. FOR BALK BY E. C. HOOD & BRO. Young’s Rust Proof Oats. M V RUST POOF OATS ARE NOW ic.i'iy for market. Call at tho (iuuno Doj.ot Mini secure thorn. They aro put up lu flvo i.ushel KiekH. at $l.&0 par bushel. A Treatise on Cultivation of Oats will ucuoiu. pan/ cue., or.lor. imps (Ifcwitm W. H. YOUNG. I^BSOLUTJS l»I VOllUKS OflTAINKD FROM courts, of different BUtm, for desertion, Ac. No publicity n«|Uired. No charge until divorce grunted. Address, M. IIOUBB, Attorney, my'Mi dkwty 104 Hroadwuy, N. Y. To Arrive * A 1'ROIU 8UPM.Y OF VIBOtNIA A. UA8S1MESES. ud » full line of K'hi.I. m every Department, for the FALL TRADE. PEACOCK A SWIFT. Mpt Lawyers. ■IOSKF1I F. Foil, Attorney at Law* »iul Jiuligo of County Court* trticeri in ull other Courts. « ever store of W. U. Italians A Co., Broad »t 1 8AHIJKI. II. HATCIIEB. Attorney at Law. d Offlco over WlttUh A KIuhcI’s. J. At. McNKILL, Attorney anil Couneollor at Law. 'iirts of GeorgiA and AUbrnnn Martin J. Craw roue. twroRD. INC1RA9I A i'BAWI'ORDN, Attorneyi» at Law, Will practice iu the State nnd Federal Courts ot om« r Broad a Or. r, lllge. , northwest Olair Sts. A. A. IMMIKR, Attorney and Counsellor at tew, I'l'uctices iu 8tate aud Federal Courts iu Uvorgia ,0a. JaO Mark It. Ui.ANnroRDb hums F. Garrard. llLAN»roRI» * UARKAKI), Attorney* and Counsellors at tew. Office No. t)7 Broad street, over Wittich A Kiu- sel’s Jewelry Store. Will practice iu the Stale aud Federal Courts. Jah. M. Kuhhrll. Guam. J. Bwiit. KIMftKLL A fttwirr. Attorneys and Counsellors a> Law. Will practice ill the Courts of Georgia (Chattahoochee Circuit) Uud Alabama. Office over C. A. Hedd * Co.’s Hton Broad street, Columbus, Oa. jal I.. T. UOWNINU, Attorney and Mollcllor. and Register iu liuul r Brooks' Drug f<tore,' l»EAllODY «& BRANNON, Attorney* at Law. over J. Knnis A Co.'* Atom, Broad Ft., !)J Want Sidr. * K. J. MON KM, Attorney nud Conuwnllor at Law, Doctors. UU. J. A. EKaVKAKV, Olflco removed to tho Drug Storo of E. U. Homl a Brother. Sleeping apartment at former roaldonce, on the cue tier ol Uatulolph ami MciutoMi e.ruets, (•ppo.ilto tho roHldenoe of Air. Win. Bonoli. fcopfi UK. COLKKY. llesldonco nud Office comer of 8t. Clair and Ogle thorpe sts. Office hours—7 to U a. M., 12 to 2 r. u., ^ •» U v. M. sop27 dtt UR. M. II. LAW. Office coruer Broad and Randolph streets, Buri ns’ building. Residenci JaO i Forsyth, three doors below St. Clair. UK. J. €. COOK, Kills A llnrrisou's Commission House, Druggists. J. I. OUIVFIN, Imported Drug* and Chemicals, ri'Mcriptioiis carefully prepared. IB No. 108 Broad street. JOHN L. JORDAN, Urugglst, Two doors below Geo. W. Brown’s, Broad Street, Columbus, On. Ad' Night Bell right of south door. •epf, A. M. BRANNON, Wr.HT Buns, IIhoad Struct, Coluhuus, Ua., WIiolGwale and *Retall Dealer In Drug* and Medlelaaea, T’uilH Article* and Perfumery. Cotton Factories. Sheetings, Shirtings, and Mowing and Knitting Thread. Curds Wool and Grinds Wheat tud Coro- Office in roar of Wittich A Kins el’s, Randolph at, JuiH It. II. ctllLTON, President. MIJJM'OUKK MANTl'AtTHKINU CD. Manufacturers of HIIKKTINUB, fell Ill'll NOB, YARN, ItOFB, Ac. COLUMBUS.UA. U. |\ SWIFT, President. W. A. SWIFT, Secretary A Treasurer. octal ly. Watchmakers. a SCI!OM ItUlMl, cl leal Watch maker and Jeweler, Successor to L. Gutow-ky, ©. U. LKUt/IN, Watch maker, 1H4 Itruivl street, Columbus • sand Clocks repaired in l Tobacco, Clears, flee. MAI Lit UOU.V. enjoy a go ul smoke, go to Ins o aud Muscogee Home. J“8_ V. 1.01* LIB, •tattler In aud Manufacturer of Fin* Clgarft, road Street h<-put. Barber Shops. .01)18 WELLS* SHAVING SALOON, (Successor to II. llenes,) Under Georgia Home Insurance Building. Prompt aud polite barbers iu utteudanco, ^ ALEX. A NAM, ED. TEItltY, liar her, iwOird St., uuder Ratiklu House, Columbus, Ga. Piano Tuning flic. E. W. III.A E, Itopairor nnd Tuner of Fiunnos, Organs and Accordcoiifl. Sign Painting also done. Orders may bo be left at ,1. W. Pease A Norman’s Book Store sepft Hotels. Dress-Making. MINN si. a. uoumuiiwmmi, Dt'ewtf-Mukliig, Cutting aud Fitting. Terms cheap Residence uudshup lu BruwuovUlo. Feed Store. joiin rrrzuiBBoNN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hay, Oats, Corn Uacoa, Ac., Oglethorpe St., opposite Jal Temperance Hall. Confectioners. I.*G. HTKUFFKK, Candy Manufacturer and dealer in All kind* of Confectionery nud FriiiU, Stick Candy IS cent*. Full weight guaranteed iu each box. iw2-l Boots and Shoes. WELLS A CURTIS, No. 73 Broad Street, flavu always * full stock of Boots and Shoe*, Upper, Sole and Rap neea Leather and Hadlaft of all kiada. . ( _ Keiiabi* good* I EnoaaMe prim t ^ N. B -Bpeolal atwatioa towtoiftp Bs^raas, PLANTERS* HOTEL, Next to Columbus Bank Building. Porters at all tho trains. Builders and Architects. J. «. CHALMERS, Honae Carpenter and Builder. ’ Jobbing done at short notice. Plans and specifications fiirniNhad for all atylaa nf buildings la9 Broad Str< Dentists. w. V. TIGNEll, Dentlat, Opposite Strapper's building, Randolph St. fobtta daw T. W. 11 ENT*, Dentist. Ovor Joseph A Brother’i afore. W, T. POOL, Dentlat, nov2’.q 101 Broad Hi., Columbus, Ga. W.J.FOOLK, Dentist, »opr>) Georgia Homo Building, Columbus, da. J8L Livery and Sale Stable*. ' ROBERT TUONPSON, w IJ very, Male nnd Exclmuge ff Inkles, Ouletuokpk, North of Randolph Bra., Columbus, Ga. A. UAMMEL, Livery nnd Male Ntables, OautTHORPs 8t., coumucH, Ga. Particular attention given to feeding aud Sal# of Stock. Horse* and Mulos boarded in stables by th* mouthnr day. oot89 Restaurants. UAHRIM COUNTY RESTAURANT, No. 32 Broad MtreeL Tho best of Foreign and Domestic Lion Cigars. Minis at uil hour*, foe IP J. j. ULAK ELY, llrop’r. n4 Freeh Meats. J. W. 1’ATllICK, 814.11. No. i! Mini 18, Market Horn. recall Menu of every kni'l nnd l"-«t quality, J'.l 1 alwaya Ml hand. A. T. COOK, r«»lt Meat. «r All Kind*, ■“I’ll > Hlalla Win, Is ami 17. Cun and Locksmiths. PHII.I1* KIPl.EK, Gnu uud Loukswith, Crawford street, uoxt to JuhuHon's corner, Columbus, Gg. Js« WILLIAM SC1IDBEU, . Gun uud Locksmith uud dealer in Guiiulug Ma in Mi rials. Opposite i.nijHirer Office. Crocers. UAN’E R. Iliac, lieuler lii Family Groceries, onliryftustrMt.be- Xwoou Oglethorpe A Jackson streets. A*- No charge for drayage. derf J. II. HAMILTON, Wholesale and Itotall Groeer, Junction of Franklin, Warren A Oglethorpe St*. No charge for drayage. MV pgf Tailors. G. A. KCEHNE, Merchant Tailor and Cutter. A full stook of French and Knglisli Broadcloths, Cussimeres and VeHthms. No. IM Broad Street. HENRY BELLMAN. Cutting, Cleaning aud Repairing Done iu the bust stylo. npr24] Coruer Crawford and Front St*. Boot and Shoemakers WM. MEYER, Root and Shoemaker. Imal.rlu l.eullii.r and Umlluit*. NoltluC.A. Redd A Co.'s. Prompt uud strict attention given to order*. Jail Tin and Coppersmiths. WM. FEE, Worker In Tin, Mhoet Iron, t opper. Orders from abroad promptly nil ended to. J‘ l7 No. 174. hroad Street. * Painters.' WM. SNOW. JR., Ac CO., House and Sign Fainter*, Old Oglethnrpo corner, (just north of postofflee) Columbus, Georgia. Will contract for House and Sign Painting at reasonable price*, and guarantee satisfaction. Holer to W m. Suow, Hr. [apr5 LAWYERS. W. F. William*. Cua*. II. William*. WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, Attorneys at Law, C'UI.L'.HIIIN, UA. ■■* Offlcu over Abell’* store. jy 17 W. A. Farley, Attornoy-at-Xiaw tMJSSETA, Ohattahoooijhb Co., Ga. ■■"Special attention «ivt>n to enllectlonfl. HINES DOZIER, Attorney at Law, HAMILTON, CIA., W ILL practice lu tlie Chattahoochee Circuit or any whore else. All kind of colluctinu* Cotton Factory. A. t CLEGG A CO., Columbus, Ca., Cotton Checks, Cinghams and •tripos, ,’aud of tie »luw'«nn t! St. roit n4 HdoA vat. OSeeoa Jack»ou •lawt.