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THE CEDARTOWJS RECORD. W, S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1874. VOLUME T. NUMBER *2. •^r-riTsrQ /\p rpTrn TJtrppiT htvo docl <lod t0 hold * great iiitcrnatioya! Will Wo Ur XUXi VV UliA. Catho | lo oongreu in London, with tho object EAST. An illicit distillery iu Brooklyn, New York, liaa boon eoizoil, toRothor with a large amount of whisky and materials for itn man- ufacturo. Tbo property noizwl anil destroyed ia estimated to bo worth #75,000. St. Joe, ft small oil town in Butler connty, PemiHylvania, wan deetroyod by lire lant week. Twenty-five dwellings, two drug stores, and sevorml livery stablea, wore con sumed. Tho firo originated iu a dofoetivo lino. WEST. An Omaha telegram aftyn tho officers and branch societies of Nebraska, in bolialf of tho grasshopper sufforors, are receiving con tributions to moot immediate demands. It is proposed to send a car load a week of provisions and clothing to each of the six principal stations in tho wee torn oountiea, whero tho crops wore deatroyod, of tho lib eral contributions now arriving. Nino cars of supplies have already been forwardod. SOUTH. A InrRO lire is raging iu tho groat Dismal Hwamp. Kftina A Co.Vgrooery, at” Vicksburg, Miss., was burued Oct. 31st. Loss #'25,G00; insured for #8,000. Competition baa reduoed tho atenm- |»oat freight rates 40 per cout. betwo cago and Now Orleans. Tho steamship Ht, Lonia, from Now Orleans for Liverpool, put in at Savanna h Oa., last woek, with cotton on lire. A young man, by tho name of Corwin, at Moran, Ind.. was caught by tho buzz-saw, in tho mill at that place, and was literally sawed in two. 1I« diod in a fow hours. Hon. Jeremiah White, ono of I he owners of tho Houston (Texas) Co. Democrat, was shot and killed by John H. Hubbard, Friday last. Tho act was a deliberate assas sination, no offense, it is allogod, having been given. Tlio fireman's oharitablo association of Now Orleans, Iim resolvod to discontinue business, unless tho city pays thorn by tlio 15th of Novetnbor. They control tlio tiro de partment. Tho city owes thorn ono hundred thousand dollars. A .1 if,patch from Salisbury, N. O., says that Gen. Jas. G. Blount lias Iroon con victed of conspiracy to defraud tlio Unitod States out of a largo sum of money intended for tlio Chorokoo Indians living in that state. I!o is now iu Jail at Salisbury. Tho Louisvillo Courier-Journal pub lishes a roviow of tho trado In loaf tobacco for tho past year, showing Louisville to bo tho largest market for that staplo in tlio world. For tho past year tho sales aggrogatod 89,970 hogsheads, against 53,056 for tlio twelve months previous, tho total aunmut of sales being *7,077,710. A fire at Memphis last week deatroy.il tlio rosidonco of lion. Jacob Thompson, comer of Landordaio stroot and Hernando road. A portion of tho furniture was saved. It is bohovod tlio lionso was first robbod and then sot on Are. Mr. Thompson and family absent, attonding tlio Episcopal convention hi Now York. Loss, *15,000; no Insurance. In tho unit of Wm. M. Farrington against tho Memphis city railroad for *12,000, for services as president, and against which tho company brought a conntor-suit for *100,- 0(H), for allogod damages sustained under Farrington’s administration, tho Jury returned a verdict granting Farrington nearly #12,000, and tlio conntor-sult was thrown out of court. A dispatch from Osceola, Ark., states that a negro named Jack I’hllUpa outraged tlio wife of a planter near there. From tlio treat ment received she will probably die, as she was within a fow weoks of hor confinement. Tho nogro was arrostod and brought to Osceola, tho citizens of which place, both white and black, improvised a court, and after bearing tho evidence, took tho prisoner out and shot him to death. An officer sent from Fort McPherson, Nebraska, a fow days ago, by Oon. Ord, to visit all sections of the grasshopper districts, roports that ho finds no cases of actual star vation, but much suffering, sgmn of which lias been partially relioved from various aonr- cos. Relief must bo given or hundreds will starvo before winter is half ovor. Within ton days many will be without a pound of com or flour. The prosent aid they are receiving is but a drop in tlio bucket. Unless tlio gov ernment aids them thoir alternative is fearful to contemplate. FOREIGN. Tho sister of the Tiohborno claimant have petitioned the qncon for his rnleaso. The Duko of Aborcorn has been eloctod grand master of the Froo Masons of Ireland. At the request of Gen. Garibaldi the subscriptions for his reliof have been |>ouded. Geu- Jovollar has entered Turuol, the Carllsts flying befoie liim. Large bodies of insurgents have offored to surrender at Maeetrazzo. Advices from Cape Town, of the 11th of October, state that the gold fields were at tracting more attention, large nuggets being found almost daily. The crops throughout the colony are in good condition. It is reported that tho relations be tween the Czar and President Serrano have assumed a thoroughly cordial character, and s it is expected Rnssia will, in a short time, for- i mally recoguizo the republican government of Spain. On the trial of Kullman, physicians \ wore csllod to testify in regard to the wound I of Bismarck. It appears that ho received a sovere nervous shock, and ono doctor testified | that tlio mere exertion of writing now ex- of maintaining tho doctrinos of papal infalli bility, assorting tlio i>oi>o's right to tenijioral as woll as spiritual power, and tho duty of all Christians to return to the allogianooof Rome. It is stated tide determination in tho result of direct instructions from tl*i Vatican, and some of tho highest dignitaries of tho church will attend tlio oottgrosB. Archbishop Manning, in a speech at Westminster, admitted that ills spiritual influence greatly increased sinoo lie lost his temporalities. If arbitration was ovor to eupereedn war, tho pops would bo tho only possiblo authorized arbitrator. Tho Catholic world, ho addod, was throatonod with a con troversy on all docreos of tlio oecumenical council. There was undoubtedly approaching ono of tho mightiest contests Hie religious world had ever seen. Theroforo, it was noc- ooeary to fearlessly assert, through tho froo pross of England, the pope’s rights and his pretensions to world-wide allegiatico. MISCELLANEOUS. Internal revenue receipts for tho month omling Oct. 31st, #921,827 ; for the fis cal year, #35,042,498. Eighty workmen have boeu discharged at the Washington navy-yard. A further reduction will soon tako place. Tho secretary of the treasury has is sued a call for tlvo million dollars of coupon bonds—five-twenties-- to be rodoomod Foil. 3, at which date Interest will ceaso. Tho secretary of tho treasury 1ms directed tlio assistant treasurer at Now York soil #500,000 gold each Thursday during the mth < f Novomber, tlio aggregate amount to l»0 *2.000,000. Gen. Humphreys, ohiof of engineers, lias roconinicndcd tlio appropriation of ono hundred thousand dollars for tlio onlargo- meut of tho Loniavillo and Portland canal according to tlio plans heretofore reportod. It is announced that tho new direct cable company expect to commonoo business this month, and have made a contract with tlio A*(antic and Pacific tolograph company for tlio transmission of thoir messages at tlio end AUTl'MN l.KAVKS. of tho lino. Tho redemption agonoy of tho treasu ry department, which lias been iu arrears for sumo works iu tlio redemption of national hank notes, is now up to date, and, thorofoio, ena- ablod to make prompt returns for all* remit tances of such notes sont iu for redemption. Tho cable of tho direct Unitod States company, which parted and was Inst, wliilo boing laid by Uio Faraday, has boon picked up by that vessel in laUtudo 50:31, longitude 24:19, at a depth of 1,871 fathoms. It was spliood to tho portion remaining on hoard tlio Fi day, and tlio work of paying out lias again commenced. Geu. Benet, chief of tho’ ordnance department, says, iu his annual roport, that not loss than a half million dollars should bo oxpendod at tho natitmal armory, not only as a measure Of oeOfSomy, OWt 1 K> mako a better selection of wos|*oiis in caso of war. Cor- tainly not loss than a half million of tlio best arms should bo manufactured as rapidly as tlio monetary condition of the country will pormit. Oon. Bonet recommends tlio estab lishment of a grand arsenal, in thtf vicinity of Now York, for manufacturing purposes. Tho names of Messrs. Wood and Oox, of Now York, lUwDll, of Pennsylvania, lion-, of Indiana, and Payne, of Ohio, have boon discussed for tlio next spoakonihip. Oon. Banks is also spokon of. but ho does not call himself a democrat, and tills > regarded os putting him out of tho rango 'of probablo so lootlon. Thoro is no prominont person yo spoken of for tho clerkship of tlio noxt liouso Tlio prosout force in that oflico is made np al- togothor of republicans, and, of course, thoro wiil he many changes among thorn. Mr. Bar clay, tho Journal clork, remains under all dy nasties, and in not likely to bo removed. MY UNCLE WAS A BACHELOR. “You havo often wondered, Goorgo, why it is I havo never married—won dered, and most probably rojoiood, for at my death, you know, tho old plaoe will oome to you, ns it onuio to me, freo of debt or oncumbrauoe. I sunpoRo you havo attributed my oouilrraod bach elorhood to Romo disappointment in lovo iu early life, oh ? Ah, well! I'll toll you tho whole Btory. It may serve a warning to you, l wan geiug to say, ly I do not believe in ouo man's ox- pononoo being of any use to another. And as to warning, hah 1 they never save. But I am in a retrospective mood to-night, so if yon care to hoar the sto -y, von shall." My Unole Goorgo and I wore staying np at Barlnig, a small flBhing place of his in tho Highlands, to whioh wo re sorted regularly twice a year for about a fortnight, in pursuit of salmon. 1 had lost my father when I was about four years old. and sinoo that timo his brother, my Unole Goorgo, had boon my father in all but tho naino. Indeed, I think we wore fonder of oacli other than fathers and sons usually arc in these days. It*had always boon a wonder to mo, and to evory ono cine, that Uncle George hail never married. Homo pooplo de clared that ho had boon hopelessly in love with tho beautiful Duchess do , and that il waR for hor sako ho had re mained siuglo; others hiutod *nt some Emigration Statistics. i ono woek in Jnly last 2,000 stoer- pasBongors sailed for Europe from New York. Last Saturday week 500 sailed in a sigle ship. During the year ending Juno HO, 1873, tho outgoing passengers by sea from tho Unitod Htatos were 110,154. During tho flvo years previous tho average annual num ber was 81,000. Of these departing 53,700 were cabin passengers and 05,* 448 were “other than oabiu." Tho ex cess iu the year named is not duo to the Vienna exhibition, for during tho three months of the spring and sum mer, when travel was at its height, tho steamships carried only about 500 more passengers abroad than in the corres ponding period of 1872. For the year ending with June, 187-3, 47,744 citizens of tho United Htatos came home, and 13,388 “ aliens not intending to remain" arrived. Tho whole immigration for tho year was 473,141, exclusive of our returning citizens. The remarkable increaso in the number of people going abroad indicates tho return of immi grants for good. Some havo made their fortunes; some have been dis appointed •/.oven labor has failed. This last cause has operated for the past year more than heretofore, as the returns of next season will show. A dispatch from Hong Kong says the latest advices from Pekin and Yeddo are of a pacific nature. Tho general belief is that war will be avoided. The Japanese government lias intimated that.Chineae residents iu Japan will not bo molested, if war is declared. It is reported that Italy is ubont to issue a memorandum to European powe calling attention to the dangers to Italy frn the intrigues of tlie Vatican, declaring tli the government can no longer tolerate a vo spiracy in its own capital, and urging the po era to discontinue the custom of keeping ai b&ssadors at the holy English Journals. Mr. Bailey, of the Danbury News, has recently returned from a scrutiniz ing journey through tho worm-eaten monarchies of Europe, and wherever he went he ferreted out things about news papers. He thinks that “they are rather slow concerns, are tho London dailies. They crowd thoir advertisers into repulsive limits; they mix up thoir matter without regard to classification ; they publish but a beggarly handful of Americau newB; they report in full the most insignificant speeches ; they don’t seem to realize that there is such an at traction os condensed newH paragraphs they issue no Hnnday naper, and but one or two have a weekly; they ignore agriculture and science, personals and gossip; they carefully exclude all humor and head-lines, and come to their read ers every week-day a sombre and mown fill spectnelo that is most exasperating to behold." Men adore clothes, says a fash correspondent. Tn fact., men have so female weaknesses as well as tho women. A small spirit of envy and uncharitable- ness occupies a man’s breast as well as woman’s bosom, and holds out to the tnuglomunt; wliilo some maintained boldly that Hir Goorgo Wyvillo was married, and that I, his nephew, and lioir presumptive in tho eyes of tho world, should look very foolish some day on tho baronetcy and Wyvillo tie being olaimod by tlio son of my ole’s old oollogo bed-maker. But to all those stories I turned n deaf oar. I know enough of Undo George to fool suro thoro was not a shadow of truth iu anyof thorn. My undo often spoko of tho Duchess do. as (what she was)ono of tho huudsoniost women nnd most finished coquettes of hor day. But I felt oortain ho had novor cared for hor ; ho would not havo talked so much about her if ho had. And as to an ontanglem<*nt or a secret marriage, why, I knew all my undo’s affairs os well as I knew those of Charlie Baynsford, my bosom friend aud brother officer, who had boon gazottod ns ensign nnd lieutonnut in ihe 5th Foot Guards tho same day as myself, a!milt two months before. No ; wlmt- ovor reason my undo may havo had for remaining siuglo, it was ono ho had carefully guarded from tho whole world. I was glad that I was going to hoar it*at last. I refilled my glass with whisky and water, lit my pot pipe, about tho color ing ot which I was so anxious, and drawing ray chair nearer to tho firo, pre pared to listen in oomfort. “ I was about thirteen, Goorgo, when I first saw Nora O’Byrne. I was at Eton then, aud sho was a flowor-girl in tho streets of Windsor. Tho first day I ovor saw hor—I remember it os well as if it wore yesterday—it was a bittorly cold March afternoon, and sho was standing outside the then only hotel in tbo place soiling violets. To this hour I can not stand wooing a girl selling vio lets in tho street. I gavo hor all tho money I had in my pookot. and my heart with it. It is no use attempting to describe hor. All descriptions of hor real beauty arc futile. Sho was simply tho loveliest child, as slio was afterward tlio loveliest womau, I ovor beheld. Day after day I used to see hor. I con trived to meet hor quietly. I did all I could for hor, and it wont to my lioart to feel that I could do so little. I used to givo hor food ; clothing was of no use giviug, for hor mother took it away di rectly, and pawned it to buy gin. I need scarcely tell yon that Nora no common beggar girl. Her father had boon a well-to-do workman, and during hiH lifetime sho had boon to school, and had learned how to road and write ; bnt after his death she had been reduced to beggary through hor moth er’s fatal propensity for drink. For nearly two years of my life I spent ev ery shilling I could spare on that child, and I loved hor as I havo never loved ony other human being. And what is more, I kept my boyish lovo a secret from every one—no easy matter as you may imagine. “ When I was fifteen I had a bad at tack of typhns fever. I was staying at Wyville at the time, for the Hammer vacation with my unole, Sir Rupert. Ho had a perfect horror of sickness, of fever especially ; and direotly I was ta ken ill, ho left the house to pay a visit lo some friends near Windsor. He promised mo that when tho school met again ho would rido ovor, and givo tho follows at my house tho latest accounts tho Girards. My mothor (took a liouso in Hertford street, aud I lived with her. I went everywhere, and „waa mado much of. I was heir to Wyvillo cnBtlo nnd fiftoeu thousand a yoar—to say nothing of tho baronetcy; nnd I could havo marriod—as my undo aud mother was alv7nys tolling nio-*-almost anybody I chose; bnt I did uot choose. “Straugons it may appear, I novor met a girl I could enro for—novor mot anyone who could make me forget for ouo moment my ohildiah Jove.. I grow tired of everything soonor thnu moBt mon, aud at twenty, having obtained several months lonvn of absonoo, I started for n tour iu the oast with my old friend Baynsford, who wbh thon Captain Fellowcs. WJj«o wo were at Smyrna l received n letter from rty mother, telling mo that my nnolo was going to 1m) married.*- sra-T had boon taught from ehildhood to consider myself his with what the intelligence. My mothor wrote very illegible hand, and, nioroovor, al ways crossed pages, oonBcquohtly do- ciphering hor letters was no oasy task. I could uot make tho namo of my un do's fiance, although Fellowcs nnd I sat up half tho night trying to disoovor it. My mother said Hir Rupert had met her in Paris, and I thought the word wo oould not dooipher looked liko n French name, “ London was no plnoo for tno now, I decided, nnd determined to lonvo tho Guards and exohnugo into some* rogi- mont going to Canaan— a country I was particularly anxious to sec. Wo linger ed a good donl on our way homo, and wore a great part of tho time iu out-of- tho way places, whore wo saw no news papers. TIiuh I missed rending tho an nouncement of my trade's marringo. When 1 arrived in town I hoard of noth ing bnt tho extraordinary beauty of Lady Wyvillo; nnd many were tho warnings I received—half in jest, half in earnest—not to full in love with my aunt. It was very odd, but I paid no attention thereto, until, nt a hall whioh I rove nftor attended, the duchess said to mo, ' Sho is porfootly heautiful.’ “I made sofno oommonplnoo reply, Hiioh as that ft was only very projty wo men who ovor ’mlmitto^ beauty in oth ers, and thou, with tho littlo duchess on my arm, I wont to groot my undo nnd his bride. “ She was drossod nil iu whito—not tho faintest trace of oolor about hor— and hor lovoly face turnod as whito as hor bridnl wreath, ns alio onmo face to face with mo. It was Nora—Norn whom I had last soon iu rags, barefoot ed, asking alms from the pnsHcngorH, and now mot again thus— at .an ombos- sndor’s ball aud talking to a foreign priuoo! “My unoLo introduced me to his bride, and I mado n profound bow, and with a fnco as white ns hor own congrat ulated hot on her mafringo, nnd express ed' the gratification'^44* nt nmktnf^her acquaintance. T - “She gavo mo snohnlook, poor girl f I know tlion that sho find novor forgot- tou me. I passed on with the dnohoss into tho ball-room, ami I felt rather than saw that Norn turlod to look after RAVAGES OF A PESTILENCE. How (lio Indiana Wore Destroyed lit umiruntln In Tlio following npponrs ns a communi cation from Mr. J. J. Warren, iu tho Los Aiigolos (Oal.) Star : I havo road of tho horrors of tho Loudon plagno, and of tho more than decimation by postilouoo of tho inhab itants of various pnrtH of tho world, in differout ages, nnd of tho destruction of mankind by tho angels of tho Lord aud by dostroying angels ; bnt I havo novor road or hoard of suoh a gonornl destruction of n pooplo by any angel, good or bad, or by plague or postilouoo, ns that whioh swept the valloy of tho Snoramonto aud San Joaquin in tho summer of 1833. In tho autumn of 1832, n party, of wliloh tho writer was a member, trav- olod from tho mountain down along tho lioir, you may fancy, Goorgo, bnnkB of tho Son Joaquin rivor, and up feelings of disgust I reooivod thoBO of tho Sacramento to somodistauoe “ abovo tho oonfiuouoo of tho lnttor with Foathor rivor. Tho nnmbor of Indians living along aud in tho vicinity of tlio banks of tho rivers was so muon greater than I had ovor soou living upon tho same area of country, that it prosontod a constant source of surprise. Tho con clusion was thon ronohod by mo Hint thoro was no otlior plnoo ou tho conti nent, north of tho tropio. tho natural productions of whioh oould supppot so largo n population as was thon living iu tho section of country to whioh I have referred. Tn tho lnttor part of tho suminor of 1833 wo outorod tho northern extremity of tho Snoramonto valloy from tho Kin- mntli-lnko and I’itt-rivor oountrios. Wo found tlio northorn part of tho valley strewn with tlio skolotons nnd frngmonts of skelotons of Indinus under tho Blind ing treos, .around springs and the con venient watering places, upon the banks of tho river anil ovor the plain, whore wolves nnd ooyotos, waddling from troo to troo or ovor tho plain, their liidos distended with unnatural fatness, had dragged aud donudod thorn. From tho head of tlio valley to tho Araorioau rirer bnt ouo living Indian was seen, and ho was tho mostporfaotporsoniflon- tion of solitude that was over prosontod to my view ; his wasted mnsolos, his eyes deeply sunk in thoir sookots, as if thoro wero no brains within tho ornui uni, oinitod n dull, vaoant pazo, astonished to boliold a living boing, whon ho boliovod that all, all wore dead, nnd lie ulono loft, tolling most emphati cally of his utter loneliness, of how ho l»d soon tho destroying angel ongngod in his work of donth on ovory hand, nnd wherovor his oyos wero turnod, until ho himself was prostrated, not killed, but loft to riso upon his foot, niidnvandor about among tlio bones and fostoring bodies of his folk. Tho dwellings of tho Indinns iu tho numorous villages te- oatod upon and along tho banks of tho Snoramonto rivor aiid its tributaries -worn void, nnd no foot-trnokH.but those of fowls nnd wild bonsts wore to bo soou iu tho lonely villages. As wo trnvolod southorly tho skolotons wore of a froslior npponranoo, nnd be fore reaching tho bnttos, nnd from tlionoo southorly, tho outiro or pi dovourod bodies of the Indinus, stages of (loony, wore so invariably found in nnd about nil the oonvoniont nnd dosirnblo camping places that it hoontno nocossary, in ordor to oacnpo tho stonoh of decomposing humanity, to sook our night’s ononmpment upon tho opon plain. Aftor crossing Foathor rivor. those villages nlong tho Hnoraraonto whioh in tho wintor previous wore oach inhabited by hundreds of Indians, wore dosolato and the nbodo of ruin. Tho samo ap palling proofs of tho dire calamity wore constantly presented to us as wo trav eled up tho Han Joaquin. Neither biblical nor profauo history lias por trayed snob mournful results of tho mnroli of a dostroying angel as wore prosontod to our sonses ns wo ropassod through, along by and around those sllont and vacated villages, whioh somo ton months boforo wo had soon swarm ing witli Indian life, nnd rosaiindiug prooodod tho dnrkuoss; gloom onmo upon their labors siloutly ns n thiof in the night, ami it was uot until the wholo of tho mines prosontod a sulphurous appearance Hint tlioy loft thoir work. A Mid-Ocean Hock. Tho Mercury publishes n rather sen sational report of a rook iu tho middle of tho Atlnutio ocean ns a solution of tho mystery regarding tho fate of tho steamBhlns City of Boston, President, Pacific, United Kingdom, tlio Ismailin nnd other vosnols that have novor beou hoard from after lonving port. Tho rook, it npponrs, lion in latitude 40 north and longitude 02.18. It woh discovered by Onpt. Pioasso, of tho Italian bark Teresa, whioh arrived at Quoonrtown Ootobor 2, from N«w York. Onpt. Pi- 00880 makes the lollowiaaijoport of bis disoovory: On tho ninth of Hoptcmbor, at ono p. m., wind northerly, very light and dear weather, with son porfootly smooth, ob- sorvod ou tho horizon a largo rook in tho slinpo of a trnpezoum, about four miles to tho windward, in latitude 40 north, lougitudo 02.18 west; triod to boat up to it, but, owing to tlio lightnoss of the wind, oould uot do so. Tlio rook lay north and south, and wan of a red dish-brown oolor; disoornod thoscawood ou it plainly with n glosB. Tho dimou- sious are ns follows: Length, 100 motros, 3 foot, 3} inches por metre, ou tlio south «» 1UUI>,0] lliuuun (HU IUUHU, UU lUU OUMkU part; 14 motros broad, and 0 metres out of tho water, whioh was low about half- past two i». m. Tho rook bore north, nnd wo made, by chronometer calcula tion, tho rook was iu tho exaot position of lntitmlo iO north,J longitude (12.18 west. Onpt. PionsHO states that lio lias n chart of 1848 by Nouoys on board, with this rook marked on it, but thoro are two (legreos difference in lougitudo. Thin, ho says, is accounted for by tho inoor- reotnessof thooldohronomotors. Ho was surprised nt not fludiug this rook on an English chart by Wilson, dated 1872, ami also on n French chart, samo date, whioh is ou board. Ho states that ho triod for soundings, but oould got none in tho vicinity of tho rook. Aooordiug to Onpt. Picasso's roport, tbo rook is within a few sooonds of tlio samo dogreo as Now York is situatod in, aud ou a straight liuo from west to oast, lying about 550 milos from our harbor, and of i The ohief aqthorities of the church | last years of life into the bargain ! I did not return to Eton till after tho Christmas holidays, and then Nora was gone—where I could not loam. In vain I made inquiries of different peo pie in tho town who know tho girl by sight. All I could learn was that neither she nor her mother had been seen since the boginning of September, I was nearly frantic with anxiety. I give yon my word, George, that never but once in my life have I folt anything like the utter grief and desolation of that time, when I thought of Nora, with her extraordinary' beauty, thrown upon tlni wide world with no other protection than that drunken old mother. “ Well, time passed on, and when I was eighteen I left Eton and went into Is sho not boanBful ?’ my com panion asked with lofity. ‘Ah, I waH right. T oould son von wore dosporatolv opris with hor. Whatis it you English onll it? Lovo nt first sight ? Toko my lulvioo, mon ami, ami do not floe too mnoh of your lovoly mint.’ ‘“I shall follow your advice/ I said ; ‘I moan to soo ns little of hor ns possi ble. ’ “Something iu my voico mado my companion glnnoo up f and thon, with triio tact aud good breoding, sho has tened to change tho subject. Bho was a kiml-licartcd littlo woman, in spito of hor trifiiug language. I know that novor again to mu or nny living being did she recur to wlint slio hnanotiood that even ing ; nnd that sho had noticed more than slio chose to say J folt oortain. “I novor saw Nora again so ns to spunk to hor during ray uuolo’s lifotimo. I 'exchanged at onoo into a regiment under oruors for Onnadn, Thoro I re mained three years, until tho death of 1 Hir Rupert rocnllod mo to England. Nora had no children, so I was now Sir Goorgo Wyvillo. ‘ Hho might ns woll havo.waited for mo/1 thought bitterly. I mot her onoo at ou* solicitor's, ou business, just aftor ray return homo, and that was tho last timo I ovor saw hor in the world. Hho lived entirely in London, doing an immonso deal of good, I believe, among tho Irish poor. “But hor career of usofolnoss was a short ono. Hho only survived Hir Ru pert four yours. To me she died the hour whon she bcoamo liis wife. Hho wrote to mo onoo after slio was a widow, tolling mo nil tho circumstances of hor marriage—how that Hir Rupert had rescued hor from a life of beggary in tho Btroets, nnd sent her to school for four years, and that she had felt herself bound in honor and gratitude to marry him. “Hho concluded hor letter by ex pressing a hope that we might still bo friends. Friends! I had no more friendship to offer her than I had lovo to offer any other woman ; and my un cle’s widtfw was sacred in my eyes. “ I nover saw Nora again. “ I beliovo the world talked a good deal about my strange oonduot toward my aunt, and pronounced it to bo ' very bad taste/ now that I had come into tho title and estates. Only tho Dnoh- esse de , I fancy, gave mo credit for having some good reason for thus avoid ing Lady Wyvillo. “There, Georgo, you know tho story of my life—why I havo remained a bachelor all my days. I am not aware that there is nny particular moral to bo deduced from my tale, unless it is ‘•nly to fall in love in your own rank of life/ a piece of advice that was very frequently given to me when I was young. I hope you will profit by it better than I nave done." nonrly iu the oourso of tho ooeiui steam ers, in wlint is known ns tho soutliorn pnsflftgo. ■ Magnetic Women. In tho intolleotual ns iu tlio physioal world, thoro are natural and nrtiiloial magnets—tlioso produced by those. Most women are tho nrtiiloial, gnining by onltnre, adaptation, training, iu- fiation, imitation, a portion of wlint a fow woraon—tlio natural magnates— havo by inheritance. Magnotism may bo oommunioatod by oontoot, oitlior material or social, mid.it often is, with out intention or violation. Unless thoro be organio opposition, a really magnetic woman may impart something of nor powor to hor intimates, easily whon thoir sympathy is so oomploto The Frisky Flea. The avorgo woman hates a flea with an intensity almost diabolioal in its na ture. Hho will pnrsuo ono of thoso littlo lnnoooiits with tho remorsoloss- uoHH of a (lend, and if yon ever oxpoot to soo a beautiful oxompliiloation of womanly traits novor look for it when she knows that a flon is about. And in proportion ns tho woman hatos, tho flea seems to lovo, and is novor enjoying ecstatic bliKS unless favored with hor sooioty. Ho likes to sook hor oouoh in tho stilly hours Of the night, woo her from slumber, aud ‘ftatfu a sheltered nook witness hor foverish osoopo liis caresses; h i porlinps be doos not renoli tlio acme of enjoyment until lio can slyly nooompany hor to ohuroli anil not mako liis prosonoo known until she has satisfactorily set tled her furbelows and flonnoos on tho ousliionod sont nil rondy to bo admired nnd mako note of how othors look. And tlion tho lien bogins liis manipula tions, knowing!full woll that lio lias his victim nt n disadvantage. Here there onu bo no hasty flinging of skirts, no assuming of unboooming postures wliilo making frnntio grabs nt tho raisohiovous aud innncossiblo monster. If yon note tho woman olosoly, yon will soo a com pression of the lip and look of linto nnd pain orooping into tlio face whioh , sho would fain conceal nnd not reveal, for are not many oyos upon hor ? Ono momout sho sottlos herself a littlo more firmly on ono side, ns though hoping to crush tho aggressor, bnt the noxt mo* mont'.feols him scampering upward, when sho sottlos backward quioltly to ontoh him botwoon hor baok nnd tlio rail, but all in vain—his flag is still tliore. Ono dainty gaiter may rub up against its follow ns far iib may bo done without disarranging drapery, anil tliore may bo a quiot, yot novortholoss vioious olutoh of a jowolod hand under tlio protonso of arranging flowing drnpory, bub all in vain. And tlio flon, how ho doos enjoy it. Ho roams hither and thither at his own sweet will, unoaring for tho boiling wrath whioh fairly makes tho whito flosh upon which ho plays shiver bo- nontli liis light trend. And perhaps the ilea has his mi to, aud then tho an guish is doubled. At ono moment thoy are playing tag ; at another hido and sook, nnd wliilo tho ono is cosily nestled away, tlio otlior rushes liitlior and tliither to And it in n way whioli is maddening ; and tliou thoy aot tho part of explorers, and prospoot ovory hill and dale of tlio form divine. Bnt ono thing thoy do not do, thoy do not go to sloop. And during this hour of martyrdom how tlio wrath of tho woman gathers, and liow only thoughts of diro <?vongoanoo mako tlio briof agony ondurablo. But at last Goethe’s ideal of married life, and ono to whioh ho striotly adhered, is de scribed by himself as tho union of two persons of cultivated faculties, identical in opinion and purposes, between whom thoro existn that best kind of equality, similarity of powers and capacities with reciprocal superiority in thorn, so that one can enjoy tho lnxury of looking up to the other, aud can have alternately .. . . i i j i with voices from hundreds of human throats. Around the nakod villages, graves, and the ashes of funeral pyres, tho skol- otoiis and swollen bodios told a talo of doath, suoh as no written record has ovor revoalod. From tho hood of tlio Haoramonto valloy until wo readied tlio month of King’s rivor, not exceeding live livo Indians wore soon, and lioro wo fonnd encamped a village of Indians iflhong whom tho destroying angel was sating hip^oed of human victims by a .ghastly carnage. During tho ono night more than a score of victims wore added to the hosts upon whioli ho had beou feeding. Tho wailing of that stricken village during that night was incessant and most terrible. The sword of tho destroyer was a remittent fever, with whioh tho victims wore first strick en down, to bo finished by a hot-air bath, followed by a plunge into a cold water ono. It was ovidont to ns, from the signs wo saw, that at first tho Indi- dians buried thoir dead ; but whon the dead became so numerous that tho liv ing oould not bury them, resort was had to the burning of the dead bodios, and whon tho living, from diminished num bers, wero unnble to do this, thoy aban doned their villages, tho siok and tlio dy ing, and fled in dismay, only to die by tbo springs and pools of water, and beneath tlio shade of protecting trees. Tlio Total Eclipse in Africa. A copy of the “Capo Argus” g the following account of tho ideas of tho natives regarding tho recent eclipse: In Natal the Zulus stopped work when tho oolipso began, and resumed whon it was over, demanding two days’ wages, tho eclipse, in their opinion, having been a short night. At the diamond- fields the natives rushed ont of their claims, horror-stricken, and said tho sun was dying. Tho grandest living tableau over soon was the great gathering of horror-stricken nudes watching, witli foarfnlly rounded and glaring oyos, mouth opon, and fingers pointed at what they boliovod to bo tho (lying moments of the almighty luminary, whoso ma jesty is tlio only God thoy know. Tlio effect of the eclipso on the imagination of tho natives, as depioted in tlioir coun tenances, was terrible. They grouped together on tho heights ofjthe partially and notivo as to bogot homogeneity, is, in all Human magnotism moves in circles, returning in added force to its point of emanation wliilo youth and vigor last. Fitness dwells in this, for a circle is tlio form of grace, tho symbol of continuity; aud magnetism is compulsion fairly cloaked ns tlio continuity of grooo. Man ontolios not a littlo of his magnet ism, whon not inherent, from his fom- iuino associates. Ho is molded ; roflnod, rounded by tliom through tho inflnonoe of that porvadiug property. Ho is rarely amiable or interested who is nn- nooustomod to tho sooietry of women, Hho can oonvert clownishness into com plaisance, selfishness into benovolonoe, so serenely and skillfully that he hardly knows lie has been translated. Her magnetism daily performs miracles, which, from thoir commonness, get no orodit. Half tlio suooess of man with man ho owos to tho lessons whioh woman lias taught liim, and, by n strange perversion of justice, by a ma lignant violation of gratitude, mosc of his success with womau likewise. That sho should givo into his hands the weapons lie turns against hor, and in struct liim in thoir eflootivo use, reveals tiio sarcasm of hor destiny.—Junius Henri Brown, the pleasure of leading and being led in Kopje, silent awe-stricken. They the path of development, | knew nothing of the ghastly light that UotliHclilld'H Maxims. Tho will of tlio late Baron Rothschild consisted of twenty-five articles, of whioh paragraph twenty, remarkable for its beautiful lessons of filial obedi ence and brotherly love, is as follows : 14 1 exhort all my beloved children al ways to livo in harmony ; never to loosen family bonds ; to nvoid all differences, dissensions and litigations ; to use for- boamnee toward each otlior, and not to allow temper te get tho better of them, and to bo friendly in their dispositions. My children possess a good example in their excellent grandparent. Friendli ness was always tho sure condition to tho happiness and success of tho whole Rothschild family. May my children now and nover lose sight of this family tradition, and may they follow (he ex hortation of ray Into father, their grand father, oontained in paragraph fifteen of bis last will, always to remain true and faithful, and without changing, to the paternal faith of Israel/’ tlio sorvioo wlnoli has seemed so long is ended, and with os mnoh majesty as hor writhing form will permit, she sails homo without loitering, you may bo sure. Tha house reached, with ono bound sbo is within the privacy of lie* own oh amber, aud there all restraint in oast aside. With lightning haste off oomo tho barricades behind whioh the flea found intrenobmont, and at last she stands liko a gladiator stripped for the fight, nnd then tho fate of tho invader is sonlod. Ho is pursued with remnrse- Iohb fury, and tho battlo does not end until tho victor shakos aloft tho soalp of tlio foo, and vows that so perish always tlio flea who dares to invodo tho snored torritory of hor person. Don’t Dio Youiiff. * Ouo of tho most curious discoveries mndo during a rcoont investigation of tlio almshousos of this state is that tho paupors havo an obstinate wav of not dying. Tlio average length of life after admission to thoir comfortable ostab- ments is said to bo twenty years, though tlio inmates are, upon entering, most of tliom, woll ndvanood. Suoh is the ad vantage of boing free from Ixithorntion, worry, frot, trouble, anxioty, disap pointment, and the like tilings, tho namos of whioh may bo found in Dr. Roger’s Thesaurus. It was long ago settled by agreement of the moralists and tho physiologists that fuss kills more than fevor, and s^ds greater numbers to an untimely sepuloher. Tho wise pauper may say, if bo takes tho troublo of saying anything: i havo mado n snug harbor at last; I have all that the richest man is sure of— three moals daily, a bed nightly, and clothes to put on when I got up in tho morning. Good-by, hope l I have no further occasion for your anohor, my lady I Farewell, oare ! You shall not kill mo as you did tho oat! Nothingto do but to live ; and, by George, I will live as long as possible. Old boy, you havo got into a good thing! Don t mako a donkey of yoursolf by prema turely exhaling! ” He doesn t it seems —and why should he ?—Now York Irlbunc. Weather Signs, Farmors prediot a hard winter beoauso rabbits arc burrowing far into tho ground. It is wise in a rabbit to do this. If lie didn’t some young man wonld have him out of that with a forked stick pretty quick. However, if that is a sign, it oan bo offset by tho notion of certain cockroaches around this office. Not ono of thorn has ovon commenced to dig yet. Thoy ramblo around as if they expected op- plo trees to blossom in January, and sort o’ turn up their noses when thoy hear any thing about oold weather or tho wolf of starvation. They don’t seem to care a cent whethor they swing on a gas burner or roost on the steam pipes, andjtheir utter recklessness goes to show thut tho coming winter won’t bo of muoh account.—Detroit Free Press, The peanut crop amounts |to only 750,000 bnshols this year, and after tho fomalo colleges have been suppliod there won’t be a pint apieoe for the rest of us, Two Strange Human Beings. X W08 onoo Bitting in a cool under- ground saloon at Loipsio, while without people wore ready to die from heat, when a new guest entered and took a seat opposite mo. Tho sweat rolled in*«, great drops down his face, and he wnj kept busy with his hnndkorohiof, till at last ho found relief in the oxolamation, “Fearfully hot.” I watched atten tively as he called for a oool dnnk, for I expected evory moment that ho would fall from his chair in a fit of apoplexy. The man must hKVo noticed that I was observing him, for he turned toward me enddenly, Baying, “l am a . of person, am I not? Why? I asked. “Beoanso I perspire only on the right Hide." And so it waa; hia right oheek and the right half of hifl forehead were as hot as firo, whilo the oertain cockroaches in my astonishment, was about to enter into conversation with him regarding the “ Then wo are tho opposite and oonn torparts of each other, for I perapiro only on tho loft sido." This, too, waa tho faot. Ho the pair took Mate oppo site each other, and shook hands like two men who had just fonnd eaoh his other half .—Popular Soienoe Monthly. —It is asserted as a faot that DiBraeli is quite spoony on tho Empress En- gouio, and all because tho prenuer has taken to wearing forget-me-not, in bis button-hole,