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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
Ifffl'S FORTUNE!
—on, —
The Stolen Heiress.
H TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835,
SY PROF. WM. HENRY PEON,
AUTHOR or
,f h , r., Secret,’ “ The Tower of Gold,’
‘ ihe Half-Breed ,* “Maroldt Hate,’
• ihe Bride of Barcelona.’ Etc.
( IIA I’Tllli XVIIE.— COSTIM KD.
Mu . „s si!, nt but for a few moment*.
n, !, . l iiiHiiuil rather tl,an raid. with o
~,, ui,on hor grim visage:
> ~ James Bratton kill himself?
110 is 100 moan n onward to dure
his hind against hitnsalf!"
.(Vu.si-n wheeled upon Ihe old woman with
, ,[: jh-rconess, and exclaimed:
-Vrii nro uu ugly-hearted woman. Dame
i , r i: My lale honored master—Hod
h ni wlu rover ho may now be!- was
i, ,i„, brave a man to run away from
f; , ~r to lift lus hand against lrmself.
ij s ’ |tfe was too dear to his wife and Chil
ton, whom he loved so well.
•st ]i linking that bell, l’ettis," he added,
j, itv. and facing the man. “Why ring it
ju,,-', -santly, man? Stop, I say, or I will
t , s t tour head around on your shoulders,
will soon have speech with Mr. lirattou,
he is alive."
\V;:li tins barely uttered, Jansen started
Its ird to rush up the stairway we have
untione I. lint the dame Hashed out her
at,l,:.t Lin 1 , as he was passing her, grasped
is sleeve, and cried, shrilly:
■Whit are you saying, man’ Alive, did
in s,iv Why should l’.ratton be supposed
be (lead? You have just said he was too
io,l t o brave, too foud of his children to
11 himself 1’
•s. I .-wear he was. Dame Grippard,”
ph, ,1 the Swede, tiorcely, as he terked
jsb’i ve from the dame's grasp. "But he
tv have been murdered in this house last
ph: i scent murder in the air!"
With thesj tumble words ringing from
s set te> ill and pallid lips, Jansen bound-
Ito the stairway and vanished instantly
rianl. lbs heavily shod but active feet
®’,,11 hoard loudly ns they clattered on
- -: . r >ay after he had vanished so
riftiy.
D u e Grippajd glared around her in a
,:oI and dismayed way for a few mo
ist', muttering, w.th ashy white lips:
Hive f, indeed, lost all Chat money?
. ,•1 Murdered? I will not belißve it.
i cide? James Bratton dead and I not
il? 1 iftv-five tbousand dollars! All
ill bv his death? I will not believe it!
is ,i horrible lie! Dead, and I robbed by
n. (iii.l ho not punishod by me? I say il
afoul lie!"
CHAPTER XIX.
THE SWEDE'S TEKBOB.
Da*.', Grippard quickly regained bei
:of feature. Laughing scoru
lly, she said:
ihe Swede is crazy, or rather he is an
1 tny one who knows James lirattou ns
So is very well that he would not
an ban -' If. linn from w hat he owes me
luob.i! ,!y Ims. You will see lam not
staken Mr. Ilawkswortliy. There is
: v ,ii nth by murder nor suicide in this
itier.”
i- > reason why murder should be
l •!••• I. dame; but 1 do suspect suicide
- b u committed,” replied Edward,
iv. ly.
! ;* in murderer, if be has been mnr-
M. l • hanged ten times as high ns 11a
dp and 1,,, ten times as long in dying)
i bin not been murdered, nor has lie
Emitted suicide. Upon either will I
iv iii, life. Come, Pettis, and you, my
*f 'in - ' na. and yon, Mr. Hawksworthy,
1 n wili l o so kind, let us all go above.
D -1: at re hero may also come, if they
■■ 1. ' us see whatever is to be seen
I v that crazy Swede. Suicide? Ball!
ul r: 1 ,'sh! Come, my friends. Como
forgetful, in her excitement, of her
gmd decrepitude, she hurried up the
way scarcely lees swiftly than Jansen
and.
I/Ut on arriving at the first landing she
udenly remembered the role she was
'lit to play in public, and instantly re
-1 !>i' u ual slowness and tottering
Iberatc-n ss of step, feigned to be forced
const the wall, as from utter
dincss of all her joints and muscles.
Oh f-h> gasped, panting for breath.
lam about to faint. Ob, me! Oh,
Hiwksworthy, please give the support
’ OQr arm for a few moments! Do! ’
bad li istenod up the stairway after
d'uie. Kdward was near her. lie sup
(d she really was about to swoon. Mind
-0 *y of the fact that she was a woman
J S‘.-.*:ued to stand in great need of sup
1* be at once cave her his arm.
;■ ' * barely able to repress a shudder
dtUstation, however, as she grasped his
J and clutched it tenaciously, forcing
, ’ s! ta>ng, and bony fingers gripiugiy
)u bis flesh.
nler li“ rt she said at th:s moment:
°oi6 day, some day not far away,
• 'a, ] will have my grasp upon you
'l' 1 ;. vo r throat, upon your heart— more
°n‘ ° l: T‘ V l^an ovei ' was claw of a tigress
ue Hc-dj of her shrinking prey. I will,
y 'i , l ' v b-worthy; I will!”
then said aloud, in a gasping voice,
; with many breaks in her speech:
. l ‘‘ ar Mr. Hawksworthy, lam sc
* . ! g dto you. Ob, how silly of
', l1 ? io! 1 bow very old and feeble 1
( n t to remember that my stay up
it .' ,irt *i tnitst bo short hereafter! Oh,
i' u weeks if what my doctor!
1 ir • t * rue * * ttm c ®rtaiii they dc
rit nil n ~ oup bew Vorneena will in
‘'be great property that is miuo.
i‘ V , wksworthy, she is the sweetest
| ov „ ( 1 ov,r bloomed on this earth, and
hinu-' ' Vo^e dly. Oh, lam so bappj
r. IU " biat so noble a young geutle
e!* (T has won her heart's firsl
y 9 i A] l, lua .y heaven bio s you both al*
■rried* ! f you happy after you art
<1 lj : . 1 you are married—as I hop<
l e tev - you and she were surely bore
C v : ' not hor flight of stairs, Mr.
iert, üby* u by* and after ibis we have an
giad v * i;(, ‘ dear me! But lam
ito h>° 1
trriei m n \ a , n wife. After you are
ei-a a v ‘ , a wksworlhy, I will give Ver
i.h ,/ ly birge sum of money, and
• b ut ]~ ' ;St:Ue - Oh, yes; she d-serve*
r. ]i av .'.' / l> a| l Ibis to yourself, my deal
l lm>bu U ‘ y . hen you are her dot
'vi, i, 1 ' 1 a: 1 know you will bo—you
ri l;8 “a, (1 0 tLo world, if you like.”
in.i,. ' t ,I:il ch in a similar strain did
hisp r rapidly into Ed-
Ia Ibey contintltd their ascent
lw< biug-floor of the Bratton
*••! , "\ i ff°, il< !* ve< l l h° c k\me and Edward
, l ' ia mu and n ascended Pettis
O'U.l ie!. ,V whose curiosity to soe
Th p:o ~!n 011 ward.
s °f all was much slower than
! r ‘ '1 tin) ) 'i U ' u . hud made since we
1; “ ; t.....j 1 . mu 1,1 the counting-room,
tbir i b;l o 1 at last before a dooi
II \v;u < h- main building.
[.■ 1 i't the uppermost
”b-i) th ! V r ° 1 ' , udssing late mister.
j.' ! ‘“ hilted sin? released Ed
n u ' r clutch, much to his
der e j, j> . ‘‘ B ‘id.
J a bed-room, MfcHawks
worthy. Yes, his bod-rootn. The door
wid' open- and, you see ns no have
aot yet hoard anv news from tU it Swedish
1-s, of course il,. dill not Hud Bratton iu
.bis room I mil him iuthis room, tudeed!
laiims Bratton is at thin nituuto many a
nile from Now 1 oik ’ On the way to Cuba
>r Camilla, no doubt. But lot us taken look
Jito the bed-iooui." N
S,b ■ ndvauced slowly and limiAagly Into
be apniiiueut. Ihe uth >rs followcil her.
I lie a [i.iltmoot \i:\a spacious aud well-fur
lislied.
1 ho windows nil faced the gate of which
ve 1 nve of cn spoken.
I hey were ruitaiuod with thin shades of
Glit Stull' which were so drawn as to ob
icuro the daylight. 'lhese curtains wore
d.os.- through which Pettis saw light of
m unles or lumps during tho preceding
light.
'1 wo extinguished candles, burned down
to their sockets, and a lamp dimly burn
ing, aud many s Mitered j ajiers were upon
u writing table near the canter of tho room.
It was plain that ihe bed bad not been oc
cupied during the i ight. Nowhere was
there tho slightest sign of disorder to be
seen.
After a keen and swift survey of the
apartment, Dame Grippnid struck the car
peted floor viciously with the point of her
stall, aud snurled:
"Ysih! You sec lie has run away. He is
posse! Now may my most bitter curse trip
n.ra Solus death while he llees! May ho
five to be hanged, anil may I be theie to
see him strangle! Bull up those shades,
Pettis. The light you saw ehiuing through
them last night deceived you, Pettis, lie
left tho candles aud lump burning to de
reive any one who might be on the watch.
Canning villain! Oh, liow I wish he was
right now in reach of this staff! I’d pin
him!"
Pallid and shaky again from ungovern
able and impotent rage and disappointed
avarice, tho dame sank into a large arm
chair, glaring at even thing around her the
fury she could not gratify.
All present wore silent, gazing curiously
at her. Pettis soo i advanced humbly, and
bowing low. He said softly:
"My dear Dame Grippard—if I am per
mitted to speak on this grievous subject—
it seems to me that it is possible, barely
possible, that that—that yon may be a lit
tle— i very little—mistaken—that is, lias'.y
—if I may presume to uso so strong a word
in connection with one so wise as yonr
jelf ”
“Pettis,” snapped the dame, fiercely, “you
are simply the greatest ass that ever brayed."
“Tbauk you, Dame Grippard. It may be
truo that I am, as you are pleased to call
me. I would not presume to dispute your
opinion of any one. But we have not
yet—’’
“Pettis,” interrupted the dame, “you are
a deceived idiot. ”
At this moment a middle-aged and neat
ly attired mulatto woman, who was one of
Mrs. Bratton’s servants, |aiused on the
threshold of the room, and looked toward
Dame Grippard w ith a face full of terror.
This woman had just arrived at Old
Anchors, and heaidbeiow that her master
had run away, or committed suicide, or
been murdered. Her usually yellow visage
was now tallowy white. Her eyes rolled
with wonder and alarm in evory glance.
Dame Grippard darted fierce eyes and
words at the woman instantly.
“Ho, Eunice! Are you there? No lies
to me, remember. Ha! No lies! Off goes
your head if you dare to lie to me! You
know me. lum not n person who likes to
be deceived. Now tell mo when \on last
saw Mr. Bratton. No lies! remember.”
Tho woman was so terrified by bar sur
roundings, and by what she bad been told
of the dame's character, that she hastened
to reply, and with a trembling voice:
“I last saw Mr. Bratton here at Old
Anchors yesterday morning. Dame Grip
pard. 1 expected to find him on the place
—in his office—when I came here just now.
All tho family but him went to Harlem—to
Mrs. Bratton's cottage there, yesterday
hut Mrs. Bratton let me stny in the city with
my sister last night—here is my sister be
hind me. She camo with me to help me
pack up furniture and things, as Mrs. Brat
ton wanted us to do, to have them sent out
to the Harlem cottage to-day. We are to
oack up all the bedding, clothing, and
things generally—the kitchen things too,
rad ”
"And you are not to dare to touch a sin
gle thing on the premises!" snapped the
dame, before the woman could say more.
“Not a thing —not even a dish-rag. mind
you, or into jail will I have you clapped!
And there I mean to clap Mr. James Brat
ton, just as soon ns I can put tho grip of
the law on his miserable hide. All on the
place is mine, and ”
But hero Jansen suddenly appeared in
tho hall behind the muluttri sses, thrust
both aside with on impulsive push, and
rushed into rather than entered llie room.
He halted near the door immediately
at,or entering, as if in great need of hicaih
and strength. His usually rosy and h uff
visage was now as pale as that of a corpse,
and replete with horror. He conceded his
hands bohiud him, so that those within tho
room were unable to see them. '1 he two
mulatto women whom he had thrust aside
and and not observe the appearance of his
hands, clasped together as they Were.
All in the room turned their eyes upon
him as he halted. The lame, somewhat
startled by his abrupt entrance and by his
aspect, snapped at him.
• Now then, you foreign idiot! Vthat
are you about? You are ns pale as a
scalded dead pig! W hat do you mean,
you fool?"
The Swede was evidently labeling under
a weight of mingled terror and horror sel
dom if ever belore known in his sturdy
nature. He glared at all in the room, and
seemed to have lost power of speech.
•’Have you found Bratton?” demanded
the dame, suddenly.
"No!” gasped Jansen, breathing hard
and fast. "That is, I have not seen him.”
"Have you heard him, then, you simple
ton?” asked the dame.
“No!” gasped the Swede. "That is—no
X have neither seen nor heard Mr. Brat
ton—but—but ”
“But,—but, —but! Well —but what?
With quick nnd spasmodic gasps, but
rapidly gathering strength of utterance,
Jansen then replied, with his gaze fixed on
the dame:
"Hear me patiently, Dame Gnppard. I
came into this room first when I united ou
this floor, seeking Mr. Bratton. He was
not hero. Then I went into every loom ou
this floor. Then into every room nbovo—
into every closet on each floor—every
where large enough to hide a cat even. 1
did not lind him, I did not find any sign
of him anywhere!” .
He paused to catch breath, ihoimpa
tient dame cried at him: . ,
"And you were an ass to ex| ccj to llutl
him, or tiny sign of him, Jansen! He is
many a mile away by this time. Ban. me
dou!”
Heedless of what sbo said, Jansen con
tinued, with bit bands still behind him,
and their position 11s yet unnoticed Py an.
“Not finding him anywhere below I
fancied I might find him in the cnpola
"lu the cupola!'’ sneered Dame Onp
pard, “And did you expect to find him in
the cupola! What a colossal ass you are!
Still heedless of her words, Jansen now
said, almost in a xvhisder, so intense was
hl "l°mu up the ladder stairs that lead to
the cupola from the little room under it.
X remember, and that iu hot summertime
some very warm nights, you know not
though in cold nights—but of that I did no
then think he need to Bleep u? ‘herofor
the coolness of the air. 1 - tom 1 the trap
do ,,r closed but njttoHf on £
it B ail^oor
1 If i'.ii. L fists I thought he might
have fallen asl. e,. up ohmg
do.in the trap. It h(J p alK u 0 0 f my
great clasn-kude.' ? wonder if you heard
those blows? 1 struck very f.i-t and liurd."
Again lie paused to oaleh breath, Tho
dame snapped at him:
"No, wo did uot hear your blows. You
are a fool. finish your story Jam very
suro that Brat ou did not he ir tli-on cither.
Did you force up the trap doci ? ’
“I did not. 1 could not. loti men leu
times m strong as I um can n it force up
ward that tnqi-iln >r without tools, diinie. I
resolved to get t ols inuned ut-ly. There
toe plenty of tools of many !nuds in tho
' ffioc below. I tan from the room under
the i upola, u my way as the office I was
nearly at this door, and out in the ldl yon
der when 1 chanced to look at ni,v bauds
for the first time siuco l had b aten tho
under si 1 • of the trap door with them.
Look at my hands, dame."
Here Jansen suddenly flashed his lmuds
from behind him ami extended them, e ell
wide open and rigid iu finger, tow ud tho
dame.
Both hands were smeared w:d dico-Lr-d
with dark red spots and stains. They aud
Jansen’s aspect were terrific.
ITO BE CONTINUED. 1
Wluit Are Shooting Slarsl
What do wo know as certain facts
with regard to shooting stars? 1. They
ire vastly more numerous then any one
has nil idea of who lias not watched
diem continuously for many nights.
Astronomers who have kept a record for
many years assure us that the averago
number seen by one observer at one
place on a clear moonless night is four
teen per hour, which is shown by calcu
lation to lie equivalent to 110,000,000
iaily for the whole earth. 2. They are
not terrestrial phenomena moving iu the
lower atmosphere, but celestial bodies
moving in orbits and with velocities
comparable to those of planets and
yoracts. Their velocities are seldom
under ten miles a second or over tifl y,
Slid average about thirty, tho velocity of
the earth in its orbit round the sun be
ing eighteen. 3. They ure of various
join position, comprising both a largo
majority of smaller particles which are
u t ou tire by the resistance of the earth’s
itmosphere anil entirely burned up and
resolved into vapor long before they
reach its surface, and a few larger ones,
known as meteors, which arc only part
ly fused or glazed by heat, and reach
ihe earth in the form of stony masses.
1. They are not uniformly distributed
through space, but collect in meteorio
■warms or streams, two at loast of which
•evolve around the sun iu closed rings
iiliich are intersected by the earth's or
oit, causing the magnificent displays of
ihootiug stars which are seen in August
md November. 5. They are connected
with comets, it having been demon
strated l>y Schiaparelli that the orbit of
tho comet of 1066 is identical with the
August swarm of meteors known ns tlio
Perseids, and connections between
somets and meteor streams have been
found in at least three other cases. The
fact is generally believed that comets
are nothing blit a condensation of mete
orites rendered incandescent by the heat
generated by their mutual collision
when brought into close proximity. 6.
Their composition, ns inferred from the
larger meteors which reach the earth, is
identical, or nearly so, with that of mat
ter brought up from great depths l>y vol
canic eruptions. In each case they con
sist of two classes —one composed main
ly of native iron alloyed with niekel,
the other of stony matter, consisting
mainly of compounds of silicon and
magnesium. Most meteorites consist of
Bompounds of the two classes, in which
the stony parts seem to have broken in
to fragments t y violent collision and be
3ome imbedded in iron which has been
fused by the heat into a plaster or pasty
jondition.— Con temporary Review.
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
The Question of Charity Fairly Con
sidered.
“I war 1 axed las’ night how tlis club
stood ou the queslmn of charity,’’ said
Brother Gardner as the meeting opened
in due form and tlio thermometer mark
ed 120 degrees in Elder Toots’ corner.
“De club stands jist whar’ it lias alius
stood. Nutliu’ lias occurred to change
Diir minds.
“When a poo’ man meets widaceident
ar sickness dis club Ims sunthin’ to help
him along.
“When de wife of a poo’ man am left a
helpless widder, dis club am hound to
help her.
“When a man who has lost a limb
ippeals to me for bread 1 shan’t refuse
him—not onless his breaf smells of
liquor.
“Our charity goes dat fur an’ no
furder. We have no use fur de tramp.
Every piece of bread handed out to him
jr’ simply a premium on laziness. He
tramps bokaso he doan’ want to work.
He ar’ a human sponge. Instead of
lookin’ fur work he ar’ lookin’ to escape
work.
“Ebery nickel handed out to a beggar,
large or small, is an ineouragement to
nvoid honest work. Ebery penny in
courages vice an’ indolence.
“Wo Ilex” gone to an expense of tens
of thousands of dollars fur a county
house, but yet we mus’ raise tens of
thousands of dollars ebery y’ar for a poo’
fund to take keer of de people who am
too high-toned to go out dar’, but low
toned huff to walk boldly into de Poo’
Master’s office. Ebery dollar we raise
is a premium on indolence, poverty and
rice. So long as charity will pull two
or three hundred families through six
months of de y’ar, de husbands nr’ not
gwine to break dar backs lookin’ fur
work, an’ de wives ar’ not gwine to wor
ry about to-morrer.
“If de heathen am not all right, it’s
not our fault. Ho Lawd made man an’
pronounced him perfock. Ho made de
heathen jist as we find him to-day, an’ I
(loan’ propose to interfere. If dis club
liad any heathen fund sot aside, I
Bhould lie in favor of usin’ obery dollar
of it right heah in enlightened America,
whar de Lawd’s Sabbath day is given up
to lager beer, sliootiu’ matches, base
ball an’ excursions.
“Dar’ am mo’ downright fraud an’
swindlin’ bein’ practiced frewout de
world to-day in de name of charity dan
under all odder disguises, an’ it ar’ high
time dat people ob sense put deir foot
lown. Let us now attack derog’lar or
der of bizness.”
It Was Dawn Stairs.
He was having his boots blaeKed on
the Post office steps, and iie suddenly
asked of the boy:
“Is !he:e a custom house in Detroit?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where is it?”
“Right up s’airs.”
“Fns it any | articular custom?”
“No, sir; the particular custom is
flown stairs ”
‘ What is it? ’
“It’s our ni-tom to charge double
price when a fellow wears over No. 10’s.
A dime, if you please.”— De'nit Fret
Pc.*.. ,
"MY COUNTRY MAY BUR RVKR BU RIOIIT. RIOITT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY." —Jeffemrm
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH S. ISBB.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTEIIESTI \U DOTS ABOUT OI K
lMill> STATES' OFFICIALS.
I'**" a Abtitn 1 1, r White llun.r Arinv anil
>nv Until., H Our ItflmluiK With Other
t'uiinirle. unit Million..
CONORKSiIONAL.
lii the Senate the resolution reported
ay Mr. Slivrmnn requesting the I‘resi
lient to negotiate a treaty with the em
peror of China, to contain a provision
that no Chinese laborer shall enter the
l nited States, was taken tip, discussed
mid adopted. The pension bill was taken
up, the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Mr. Wilson, of
lowa, to add the words ‘'from infirmities
of age.’’ Mr. Reek said that he under
stood the meaning of the amendment to
la 1 that every one who served iu the lale
War or in the war with Mexico,on in any
Indian war, and w ho w as suffering under
the “infirmities of age’’ w ould be entitled
to a pension of sl2 a month....On mo
tion of .Mr. Dargan, of South Carolina,
the Mouse passed the Senate bill author
izing the Secretary of War to transfer to
the trustees of Porter academy, of Char
leston, S. certain property belonging
lo the government and formerly used as
ill arsenal. Mr. Belmont called up the
joint resolution authorizing the President
to arrange a conference to be held in
Washington, in lSsy, for tho purpose of
promoting arbitration and encouraging
the principal commercial relations be
tween the United States republics of
Central and South America aud tho em
pire of Brazil. Nobody opposed it and j
it was adopted.
In the Senate several petitions and re
monstrances were presented against any
revision of the present tariff or any legis
lation tending to cripple the industries
of the country. The dependent pension
bill was then taken up. .Mr. Wilson, of
low a, moved an amendment to insert the
words “from infirmities of age,” so as to
pension all ex-soldiers suffi ring “from
iufirmiiicß of age,” or from mental or
physical disability. In the debate which
took place on the amendment, Mr. Plumb
delivered ail eloquent eulogy on the army,
referring particularly to the fact that
when the War closed, the army could
have placed oi.e of its leaders at the head
of the government aud could have die
luted its own terms, but had asked noth
ing except lo be permitted to disband
mid return to peaceful pursuits. Mr.
Test delivered a long speech saying that
if the 2,300,000 men enrolled as soldiers
during the four years of the War, there
were application from 1,20(1,000 for pen
sions ou account of disability. Such
military execution, lie said, had never
been known in the history of the whole
world. The Confederates had thought
that they had poor powder and ordinance
stores aud yet making due allowance for
the effect of climate iu producing disa
bility, it would appear that one Confed
srate soldier, half-clofhcd and half-fed,
mid disabled three adveisaries.... In the
Mouse, Mr. Holman, of Indiana, from
the committee on public lauds, reported
bill to secure to actual settlers the pub
lic lands adapted to agriculture,
and to protect forests on the public do
main. Ordered printed and recommitted.
Mr. Dockery called up and the House
passed, the bill relating to postal crimes.
It provides for tilt-fine and imprisonment
of any person who gives false evidence as
to the character of any publication for
the purpose of securing its admission to
the mails as second-class matter, and for
the punishment of persons forging or
fraudulently changing money orders and
|K>stal notes. Eulogies upon late Repre
sentative Moffat, of Michigan, were then
pronounced, and the House adjourned.
(iossip.
An order was issued for the discontinu
ance of a number of signal service sta
tions. Pensacola, Fla., is the only one
discontinued in the South.
The President has directed that the
new military post at Highwood, near
Chicago, 111., be known and designated
as Fort Sheridan, in honor of Lieut.-Gen.
Sheridan.
Secretary of the Interior Vilas has re
organized the force of hisofhee employed
on the land appeal cases, with a view to
greater efficiency. The office is at pres
ent 1,900 eases behind.
A delegation of distillers and whiskey
dealers from tin- West are in Washington
for the purpose of asking Congress to
pass a hi 1 granting ail indefinite exten
sion of the bonded period.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina
tions of TANARUS, J. Moreno, United Stat s
Marshal for the Southern district of Flori
da; Commodore Glierardi to be rear
admiral, and a large number of naval and
military promotions; and Ella Lewis, to
be postmaster at Gallatin, leun.
The will of the late W. W. Corcoran
was offered for probnic. The greater
portion of the estate, which is valued at
fi1,000,000. is bequeathed to his tluee
grand-children. The sum of $1,900,000
is left to the Corcoran art gallery, the
will stating that a million and a half had
already been given to the institution ; and
$50,000 to the Louise Home, a half mil
lion having already been devoted to it.
In the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, considerable attention is de
voted to the subject of farm animals in
the various states. The State agent in
South Carolina reports that live stock are
in a* normal condition, and there is a
marked improvement in their care and
keep. In North Carolina stock-raising is
beginning to attract the attention of
progressive farmers, and the result lias
been the importation of some fine stock.
Tho cattle, horses and mules are better
fed and housed than formerly. In Geor
gia there is a tendency to increased care
in the breeding and general care of stoik
of all kinds. Owing to the effect of the
adoption of what is known as the local
option stock law, there lias been tin abso
lute reduction of the number of cattle,
but complementary to this result the
value has been increased.
AT LAST.
Oscar F. Beckwith was hanged at the
court house in Hudson, New Y ork, for
the murder of Simon Vandercook, at Au
sterlitz, oil the lOtli of January, 1882.
This case lias become celebrated from the
fact that the condemned mail had been
sentenced to death six limes. He h:i
had two trials and his case lias been twice
passed upon by the general term of the
supreme court and court of appeals,
aud finally application was made to the
governor for executive clemency, which
was denied.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
IIOII.Fh DOW\ FACTS AISO VAN
•HIS INTEBESTINULY STATED.
Airirient. on l.nnd null on Srn Nrw Kilter-
Miifitlra • |{dl(loii. Temperance
niitl facial flutter*.
Plans are on foot for a city hospital iu
Athens, Ga.
Eighteen persons escaped from tho
Wirevoport, La., jail.
George W. Barber, of Milwaukee, NVis.,
his bought a large tract of Bartow lands
in Georgia.
The thermometer at Lynchburg, Ya.,
recently registered eight degrees above
Zero —the coldest of the w inter.
. The monument to the memory of the
ls'e Bishop Pierce will lie erected in
Hj rta on the Ist of next September.
• "urge S. Haines, brother of Fob 11.
18. Haines, lias lieen appointed superin
tendent of the Brunswick & Western
Railroad.
The ninth annual commencement of
tin .Southern Medical College took place
in Atlanta, Ga., in the presence of an
immense crow and.
Peter McCartney, a veteran counter
feiter, lias been arrested in New Orleans,
La., for passing one dollar silver certifi
cates altered to fifties.
Norman I.awshe, a sou of Col. Peter
Lunshe, formerly of Gainesville, Ga..
committed suicide in Atlanta, by shoot
i tg himself in the head with a parlor
title
Dr. W. H. Tutt, who has recently re
turned to Augusta, Ga., and is building a
handsome dwelling, offered to put his
valuable residence site in as $13,000 in
stock of a Summerville hotel company.
Sa'es of lent tobacco in Danville, Va.,
for February, amounted to 410,000
pounds. Total for five months was 14,-
800,000 pounds, or nearly 0,000.000
pounds more than for the same time hist
year.
The Georgia Midland announces a re
duction of rates between Columbus, Ga ,
and Atlanta to $2.90. This is about out
dollar lesi than the present rate, and
means aw ar between the Georgia Mid
land and tlie Central system.
The wagon and oxen that were confis
cated by United States officers a lew
days since at Anniston, Ala., with a keg
el illicit whiskey, were stolen from the
stables of t>. Kelly by unknown parties
and gotten safely away with.
, A convention is in session iu Atlanta,
Ga., to effect a permanent union of some
fifty Congregational Methodist churches,
1 several Free Protestant Methodist
churches, with the Congregational
churches of Atlanta, is one that w ill at
tract attention throughout the South.
The Georgia railroad commission, at its
r ting, issued a circular which will
ha> c tlie offer! ot bringing the cent into
general circulation throughout the state,
for alter the first day of May all railroads
w ill collect exact mileage for passenger
fares, thus creatiug a demand for the
Cent.
The Presbyterians of Atlanta, Ga., arc
discussing among themselves various
plans for establishing in that city a Pres
liyteri m college. The idea seems to be
to establish at Atlanta a Presbyterian
university of the South of such high
character as to attract patronage from
other states.
Revenue Agent A. 11. Chapman, and
Deputy Collector Colquitt, assisted by
two Alabama deputies, made a raid in
Franklin and Monroe counties, Alabama.
They seized six large distilleries, with
six stills and fixtures, and destroyed 102
fermenting tubs, and 11,000 gallons of
beer nnd other things.
Dr. John J. Davit, once a citizen ol
Carrollton, On., having practiced medi
cine there a number of years ago with Dr.
W. IV. Filts, was accidentally killed in
Cass county, Texas, where he lias been
living for a number of years. He was
out hunting, and while getting over a
fenee he fell, his gun was discharged, the
contents lodging in his head.
The dynamite factory of the Dixie
Powder Company, located live miles from
Chattanooga, Tcnu., was the scene of an
explosion, which resulted in serious in
jury to George M. Perry, the superin
tendent and one of the proprietors. Per
ry was soldering in a tin funnel used in
tin cartridges, when the red-hot iron
come in contact w ith a small quantity of
uitro glycerine, causing it to explode.
F. A. Btyuner, a drummer represent
ing the Celluloid Novelty company, of
New York, was found in room l:J of the
Planters’ hotel, at Augusta. Ga., with
brains and blood over Ids face, the pillow
nnd the sheets, and a Smith & Wesson
pistol in li is hand. Blood was congealed,
showing tluit the shooting had occurred
during the night. The coroner found
sls, a silver watch nnd a diamond scarf
pin oil the dead body, but no clue to the
entitle, of By liner** mysterious death.
Some excitement was reported at New
berry, B. C’., on account of the presence
of 1!. A. William, representing himself
as the traveling agent of the Memphis A -
Little Rock Railway. His miss on was
to get negro emigrants for Arkansas and
take them over his line. He went about
his work rather mysteriously,and excited
the ill-will of the farmers, who are hi -
terly opposed to any negroes being taken
away, lie left the place, taking about a
dozen negroes with him.
A terrible burning occurred near Dean’s
crossing, near Greenville, S. C. Robert
Perry and his wife, two colored people,
and their children, left their homes to
visit William Williams, a neighbor.
After being at Williams's house for a
short time the children, accompanied by
Joe Williams, went home to build a lire.
After a short time an alarm of fire was
given. Perry and his w ife ran to their
home and found only the burning em
bers nnd the charred remains of the clot
■lren.
FORTUNE WIPED OUT.
The furniture factory of Potter &
Stvmus, at Forty-second street and Lex
ington avenue, in New Y’ork, caught fire
and was destioyed, with other buildings
adjoining. The losses approach a million
dollars. When the firemen arrived they
saw what a formidable fire they had to
cope with, and Second Assistant Chief
McCabe, without a moment's hesitation,
sent out the ‘ three sixes” alarm, bring
ing to the scene twenty-one engine com
panies, eight honk ami ladder companies
and a water tower. It took the firemen
three hours to get the fire under control.
Of the entire block bounded by I bird
and Lexington avenues. Forty-first and
Forty-second streets, there remains stand
ing only a short row of houses on Third
avenue.
SOUTHERN PROQREBS.
I'nrtarlea. Canon tllllo, Kerilllxrr Marks,
Car shall*, rubilf Ifullilinai o Km.
A company is being formed to start a
cotton factory at Evergreen, Ala . .W.
T. Conn A Cos. contemplate starting a
cracker factory at Milledgeville, Ga ... j
(’. C. Sheppersou will start the manufac
ture of clothing at Columbus, Ua ..
Philip Dolm & Sons will erect anew fur
niture factory at Macon, Ga W. S.
W alker contemplates establishing a soap
factory at Jacksonville, Fla ..There are
prospects of a sho# factory being started
at Lynchburg, Va ...Efforts are being
made to start a canning factory at Char
leston, \V Va. . . There is talk of aioin
pany being formed to start a fertilizer
factory at Raleigh, N. C ...Efforts are
being made to organize a cotton mill
company at Greensboro, N. C... .It is
reported that • clothes pin factory will
be started bv Couch & Allen, at Ke.ner,
X. C The Bessemer, Alabama, Cotton
Manufacturing Company, capital stock
$200,000, has been incorporated to build
a factory . Isaac Stephenson, of W is
eotisiu, and others, have purchased 30,-
000 acres of pine timlter lands in Louisi
ana .. It is rumored that the spoke and
handle factory at Cniern. Ala., will prob
ably be moved to Anniston .... It is re
ported that C. E Price, mid others, con
template erecting an ice factory at Talla
poosa, Ga. ... It is reported that 11. W r .
Wadleigh. of Boston, Mass., is negotiat
ing to establish a tannery at Gadsden,
Ala T. S. it F. A. Crapp, of I.aFay
ette, Iml., will move their saw mill mid
gash, door mnl blind factory to Talla
poosa, Ga.. .. A building to cost $25,000
is to be erected for the Macon, Ga., public
library, mnl work is to be started at once.
j’. W. Moon, of Muskegon, Mich.,
will start a factory to manufacture
ice chests at Fort Smith, Ark.... It is
reported that the Chattanooga Scale
Company, of Chattanooga, IVnn., are ne
gotiating to move their works to Cartrrs
ville, Ga.. The De Fiiuiak Springs, Fla.,
Lumber Company are adding a furniture
factory to their mills N. G. Olds &
Sons, of Fort Wayne, Ind., are contem
plating starting a branch spoke mid han
dle factory at Charleston, \V. Va .. ihe
real estate agency is raising money with
tlie ultimate view’ of starting some kind
of a factory at Fayetteville, N. C .. .W .
C. Scott, and others, have chartered the
Mutual Loan and Trust Company, capital
stock $30,000. to deal in and improve
lands about Birmingham, Ala .... Eighty
thousand acres of pine timber lands in
Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, have
been purchased hv A. G. \ anSchaick, of
Chicago, 111., and associates .. The Mari
etta aTNorth Georgia Railroad Company
contemplate building a branch road from
Marietta to the Georgia Pacific Railroad
at Austell... .The Waco and Brazos Rail
way Company, capital stock $1,000,000,
has been chartered to build a railroad
from Waco, Texas, to Cameron W. J.
Griffin mid W. O. Temple, of Elizabeth
City, and M. J. Sawyer, oft am (Ten, have
organized the North Carolina Pine Lum
ber Company to deal in and develop tim
ber lands.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Work on Kissimee’a new Episcopal
Church will be begun soon.. .. M. Willis,
of Maine, has purchased the H. M. Miller
place at Altoona (’. 11. Bo iaril, of
Arcadia, thinks of starting a hack line to
run from that place to Fort Myers ..
Work is to lie resumed nnd pushed light
along on the Florida Midland Railroad
till Kissiniee is reached... .1). M. Berlin,
of Orlando, has assigned to L. M. Auld,
of that place, with assets of $1,250, and
liabilities of SBSO .. It is generally con
ceded that there are more orange blooms
on the trees in Polk county now than
there has been in n great many years be
fore... J. 1). Brownlie, of Ban Diego,
Cal., is at Panasoffkee purchasing orange
trees for parties in California The re
cent rains have tilled the creeks and
branches in Gadsden county w ith water,
and some of them have been impassable.
Little River inis been on a boom, but no
bridges have been washed away ns yet.
.... The starch plant and grist mill be
longing to C. K. Duttor, and located at
Seymour, one of the convict camps,
about ten or twelve miles south
of town, was destroyed by fire....
The Casino at Huntington is to he used
ns a school house. ... Charlotte Harbor
desires to be incorporated.... The
Sparkman grove nearOrangi City yielded
700 boxes of oranges from 200 trees.. . .
The Ocala Jii/wer makes the statement
that a year ago Mr. F. B. Jordan, who
owued quite an extensive nursery and
grove near Ocala, offered the same for
$10,0! )0. He found no purchasers.
Since then he lias sold SII,OOO worth of
stock, estimates fully SIO,OOO more in
sight, besides the ten-acre grove, which
is doing splendidly, and is not half ns
anxious to sell the property as he was a
year ago. . Marion’s tnx coll ctor gives
bond in the sum of SOO,OOO, and receives
about S7OO, out of which he pays all the
expenses of his office, etc.. . Tiie Uover-
U' r has appointed Messrs. A. H. Wilson
and Lew is 1). Marznni to be inspectors of
timber, etc., in and for the county of
Escambia... .8. B. W. Stevens, near
Fellowship, lost two of his horses in one
day recently, both dying in a short time
after being attacked by an unknown dis
ease. .. The drill in the Ocala artesian
well has struck a flint rock, on which it
can make no impression. Dynamite will
be resorted to. The water basin is about
completed. It will hold 200,000 gallons.
... .A New York capitalist is erecting a
fine building 40x00 feet, two stories
high, at Silver Springs Park.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The colored university of Alabama, re
cently located in Montgomery, received
an adverse decision recently from Ihe
Supreme Court. The last General Assem
bly passed an art'in February, 1887, ap
propriating SIO,OOO for the pur|>ose of
erecting the university, and also the sum
of $7,500 annually for the support and
maintenance of the institution, the money
to be taken from that part of the general
school fund set apart for the education of
negroes. Last Summer, W. E. Ellsbury
and others, as citizens and tax-pavers,
filed a bill in the city court praying for
an injunction against the governor, state
treasurer aud board of trustees, to enjoin
them from using the money appropriated.
WHAT CAUGHT HIM.
Third-class Fireman Hammond, who is
running an engine on the western divis
ion of the Hannibal A St. Joe, stated he
was S4OO in debt and must work. The
Brotherhood of Engineers’ committee
offered him the amount of his indebted
ness and three months' pay if he would
quit. He was inclined to accept the
proposition, but when the superintendent
offered him SI,OOO and u life-time job he
took the engine.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF AIILE AltTl'TS.
M l,ai I, doing on Norik. Knal mnl Went
■ml trroi* I lie Muter Tlie l amina t'n
ropemi Mtorni.
Snow storms of unasunl severity are
prevailing in northern Italy.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at Sun E'rauciseo,
In the New York Court the complaint
against Gould and Sage have been div
missed.
Judge Gilderslteve, of New Y’ork, has
decided that Dynamiter Mooney must go
to the Utica insane asylum.
The Gloucester, Mass., Council lias
passed resolutions protesting against tin
ratification of the fisheries treaty.
Clara Louise Kellogg is suffering
barfly, at Fish kill, N. Y , from bronchi
tis, complicated with whooping-cough.
Surgeons at San Remo now take n
gloomy view of the Crown Prince’s con
dition, owing to the depression exhibited
by him.
An avalanche in the valley of Morohia,
Switzerland, has killed ten persons and
many cattle and destroyed a large number
of houses.
Five shares of tlie New York Sun Pub
lishing company, par value SI,OOO each,
w ere sold at the New York real estate ex
change for $3,350 each.
The roof of a nearly completed hotel
nt Kansas City collapsed and crushed
through eight stories to the ground. One
workman was killed and alKiut a dozen
injured.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de
clared inoperative the law enacted by the
last Legislature, which permitted habit
ual drunkards to be confined in an osy lun
uot to exceed two years.
Dispatches from Mnssowah says King
John, with Rasslnln and a large army, is
advancing tqion the Italians, and that tlie
advance guard arrived at Osmara to pre
pare quarters for King John.
The Democratic National Convention
having been called for the same date upon
which the National Prohibition Conven
tion is to assemble at Indianapolis, it i
probable that the date of the latter wil
lx 1 changed to a week earlier.
The Venezuelans are expecting in
armed expedition of the British to tin
gold fields of the Y'urnari, and that they
are preparing to resist the invasion ot
their territory. The richness of tlie gold
mines in the disputed territory is almost
marvellous.
M. Wilson, son-in-law of cx-President
Grevy, of France, who lias been on trial
for complicity in the legion of lionoi
decoration scandals, lias been convicted.
He was sentenced to two years’ imprison
i incut, to pay a fine of 3,000 francs, and
I to lx deprived of his civil lights for five
I years. The sentence is generally ap
proved in France.
The Union Square theati?, with all its
I contents, ju New York City, was des
troyed by fire. The Morton house, ad
joining on tw o sides, was badly damaged,
and the Star theatre was in imminent
danger for sonic time, but it received nc
damage, except to its interior decorations
from smoke. Five firemen were injured
by falling timbers, but not fatally. The
Henrietta company had finished a rehear
sal only a few minutes before the lire
broke out.
A Southern Pacific fast train, running
at a high speed, struck the bridge over
the Condo creek, in Medina county,
eighty miles west of San Antonio, Texas.
Tlte structure was apparently all right,
but as the engine reached the further end
the timbers gave way, and the remainder
of the train, consisting of a heavy loaded
freight ear and the caboose, w ent down,
crushing into the creek. The cars fell
fully fifty feet before they struck bottom,
and were shivered into splinters. Or. F.
Etheridge, a well-known stock man,
wns instantly killed, as well
as George Hardcstey, brakemnn, the
latter being mashed to a pulp. Conduc
tor George Davidson and Brakemau L.
Hall, had their legs broken.
STILL FIRM-
The Kn.tiieiWH ol Ihe t'. It (V l ltnllroH.l
I nvlelilina ( oiiip Oil! n ■ I‘eob , h'r
Twenty-five engineers from the Head
ing Railroad arrived at Chicago. 111., in
charge of Pinkerton detectives, to take
the places of the strikers. Dispatches
from points mi the main lines nnd
branches of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railro ul are all of the same tenor.
They show that the movement of freight
trains lias censed, no attempt in that
direction being made by the company.
Passenger trains arc being run on many
of the lines, but with great irregularity.
On some lines men cannot be found to
man the engines, and even passenger
traffic has been blocked. I lie Brother
hood of Engineers remain firm, and the
men at the throttle were as a rule shop
hands, master mechanics, yardmen and
others of little or no experience. Asa
result, the running of trains was attended
with great difficulty. Notices have been
posted at all the leading points notifying
the strikers that unless they apply for
work at once they may con
sider themselves discharged from
the company’s employ. 1 here is
no report that any considerable num
ber have complied with the order.
The great strike on the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Railroad will be ended
soon according to the latest dispatches.
C. E. Perkins, president of the road, per
sonally met P. M. Arthur, chief of the
engineers’ Brotherhood, and reached a
partial understanding. M hen they sepa
rated. it was with an agreement that they
should come together again, and in a
friendly spirit resume consideration of
file difficulty between the committee and
its men, and bring, if possible, matters
to a quick and mutually satisfactory con -
elusion. The only persons present at the
meeting besides Messrs. Perkins and Ar
thur were Chief Sargeant, of the firemen,
Mr. Perkins's private secretary and a
prominent Knight of Labor. It is under
stood that the latter person, whose name
is withheld, was to a large degree instru
mental in bringing the meeting about.
One hundred and seventy-five skilled en
gineers arrived from tile Last over the
Fort Wayne toad under contract withthe
Burlington road. They arc Knights of
Labor from Reading, Pa
WILL BE WELCOME.
The Toronto, Canada, Mail says that
last year, 577 families left one consular
and strict of Ontario for the United States.
It cites the case of <no family who left
for Virginia, taking with them hou- hold
effects. I floode 1 stock and cash to the
amount of $25,000.
NUMBER 18.
OLD SAWS IN RHYME.
Turn over anew loaf; forgive and forget;
Kv’rything'* fl*h that come* into his net.
Strike while the Iron in hot; live and learn;
In some people’* pocket* their money will
burn.
Wlmt'* one person's lon* i* another one'* gam.
He don't know enough to come in from the
rain.
Whom tlie god* would dffltroy they first ren
der mad:
Temper Justice with mercy; he * gone to ike
bad.
With leaden heels justice doth travel al*out;
Cheating don't prosper; wine in and wit out.
A cat e'en may look at a Iviug; splitting
hair*;
What's everyone's business is no ones affairs.
Nimble sixpence is better than shilling that's
•low
Fools learn by experience: pay s* you
Receiver is worse than the thief; hard to
beat;
The bitter in life you must take with tl*
sweet.
Devil take the hindmost;comparisons Are
Odious always; so near ami so far.
Man's house is his castle; a boy never send
Upon a man's errand; never too late to mend.
Never too old to learn; order's Heaven's first
law;
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Murder will out and dead men tell no tales;
Justice is blind, but at last she prevails.
The fly on the wheel think* he turns it
around;
’Tween two stools one often falls onto tht
ground.
You can't ride two horses at once; a cat s
paw;
And truly necessity knoweth no law.
Roys will be boys; keep a stiff upper lip;
All sound no sense: of the old block a chip.
Cleanliness is unto godliness next;
He's not disappointed who nothing expects.
Don't jump at conclusions, look well ere you
leap;
Before one can walk he must first learn to
creep.
Variety's spice of life; bear and forbear;
’Tisar: ill wind that blows no one good any
where.
Kisses by favor go. best friends must part;
In front of the horse never fasten the cart.
— H. C. Dodge , in Detroit t ree l*ress.
PITH AND POINT,
Tobogganing is the latest method of
teaching the young idea how to sliute.
If sealskin sa ques could lie plucked
from a lir tree the avers ye husband would
lie happy.— Hm'ori 1 ' ■ ■ o*.
The English turist who recently visited
Leadvillc, and brought a tin hath tub
with him, found it very useful. They
buried him in it.— Puet.
“Too much absorbed in his business, ’’
was the comment of a newspaper on the
death of a brewer who was found
drowned in a tank of his own beer.
The Chicago burglar who drugged a
doctor and then ransacked his hoi.se
should be arrested for practising medi
cine without a license. Vhinjo -V ere*.
There is one thing to lie said for the
brass band. It never bangs back and
blushes and protests incouip tency when
it is asked to play.— Burlington Pie ■
Prert.
“A sea-green glass vase, nine inches
high, supposed to be thirteen hundred
years old, has been found in Bologna.’’
That settles it. We shall eat no more
Bologna. —Xorrittoion 11 r hi
Drear are the winter's sounds and sights,
And cruel ih the north winds’ ire,
But lovers on these h.ttng nights
Sit closer —to tho lire.
lreteoit Free Frexs.
Miss Prude (aged forty, going to bed)
“somebody’- under my bed! My
goodness' (anit be Fidof Fido! Fido!
(She holds out her hand under the tied,
and the wise burglar licks it.) Oil! all
light! It is Fido. ’’ Retires, reassured,
and sleeps through the burglary. ■ French
Me.
A. (writing) “How many g's in ag
gregate :’’ 1!. (supposing the query
refers to Ihe liist syllable only)—“Two.’’
C. (who is nothing if not accurate in
computation)—“ No ; three.” B. (see
ing the pointi—“ Ye-, altogether.” C.
(still particular)—“No, not all together.”
— llosto;i 2'rimivrijjf.
l)o Horses Have Horse Sense!
A correspondent in a Chicago journal
thinks the intcl igeuce of the horse is
greatly overrated, and submits the re
sult of some of his observations as fol
lows : |
“I have seen horses walk around a
post until they bait wo ind up the bridle,
and then stand all day with their heads
bound down to the post, because they
didn’t have sense enough to walk the
other way an 1 unwind the bridle. 1 have
seen them get u foot over the bridle,
when tied to a ring in the pavement, and
then go into fits because they didnt’t
have sense enough to lift their foot over
the bridle again. I have seen them
prance around in a burning barn, with
their tails and manes on fire, and burn
to deitli because they didn't have sense
enough to come out. Anybody can steal
a horse without any objection from the
horse. A horse will stand and starve or
freeze to death, with nothing between
him and a comfortable stall and plenty
of oats, except an old door that he could
kick down with one foot, or that could
he opened by removing a pin with his
teeth. If this is a high degree of intelli
gence, even in a brute, then I am lack
ing in that article myself. Compared
with the dog, ttie elephant, or even tho
parrot, the horse seems to me to be a
perfect fool.”
Geniuses Who Were Dandies.
The foppery of great men has always
been a source of amusement—sometimes
of disgust to their contemporaries. The
curled ands euted ringlets of Disraeli
were laughed at by his political friends,
and it is very probable that Julius Ciesar
was also laughed at, because he set the
fashion of wearing earrings, which be
fore lhat had been confined to women
and slaves. Disraeli's letters, however,
proved that lie could laugh at his own
foibles in dress. Like Byron, the great
Duke of Mnrlborough was a dandy when
young, but lie lived to see the folly of his
ways Whether the present generation
is wiser than its ancestors is, perhaps,
open to question, but there can be no
doubt that foppery us an institution is
dying out, although mild specimens of
the germs may probably exist until the
,ud of time. Chamber*'* Journal.