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■UMOBimON BATES. One year $1 60 Six months, 76 • Three months 40 BIet»s|M|Mr Law DerlilsM. 1. Any person who takes a paper reKnlar- ’ly from the pontoiDce- whether directed to his nime or another’s, or whether he has sub scribed or not—isiospousible for the amount. • 2,1f a person orders hit paper discontinued be mast pay all arrearage, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount,whether the paper is taken from the office 3. The oourts have deoided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the P0)fl9&oe, or removing and leaving them ttaealWd forte prime facie evidence of in- fcatieeal fraud. “LEX THERE BE LIGHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME III. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1879. NUMBER 152. A MILLION and three-quarters :#f dot Ian hm bats iwbrcrlbed for eharitablt i through the agency of the Now York Ob amber of Cotaaaroa daring tbo pant twenty years. Ths Chicago and northwestern fires in 1871 called oat girts to amount of $1,044,000; the French sufferers by the war of 1870 reoeived 143,000; the yellow fevor fund raised las year amounted to $172,000. The plague of wild beasts and snake In India is extraordinary indeed. Snakes Hloue in 1877 killed nearly 17,000 per sons, and tigers, elephants, leopards and other wild beasts nearly 3 000 more. Ef« forts were made at the same time to de* stroy tho animal, but without apparent reduction of the numbers. Aliout 127,- 000 snakes and 22,000 wild b2aats were . killed, and $50,000 paid in rewards for their di structhm. N Til hue was suipended over the long table in tho cotton exchange yesterday a ti markable cotton plant, received by Mwuis. Gilkeson & Sloss from Rednor A JE ilon of Ladduia, Fannin county, Texas, this plant bore two hundred and twenty* three bolls, some of them open and over* Mowing with tho flseoy product, and altogether it was an interesting object. 'That this numlier of bolls is unusual is demonstrated by a reliable statement that twenty, five to thirty is tho average •range £Ht. Louis Republican. In racing, the efficiency of tho jockey fluctuates just as much as that of the animal he bestrides. He may be all keenness and vigor when he comes to do his work, or he may be more or less dull of brain or lumpy in body, and therefore moro or less of a drag on the beast than what he should bis Often the case is W 'fse. Rill Scott, one of the best riders t» e turf has ever seen, and who rode the winuers of five Darbys, was so drunk the year he rode Sir Tattoo Sikes for the Derby that he had to be lifted into tbe saddle. Yet he came in second, and w uld have won but for his drunken* uess. The London Economist baa been corn- pi ling a statement of gold and silver now lying in various banks in Europe and t io treasury at Washington. The grand total amounts to$1.400,000,000, probably the largest aggregate ever before collected 811 this visible shape, and the amount goes on increasing without check. The quantity of gold and silver in circulation hU oyer the world is a matter of the merest guesswork; but even taking tbe highest of theee guesses ia recent discus sions of the subject in France, this enor mous mam which lies now locked up in a few banking-vaults comtitutcs one-tenth cl the circulating medium of the world. Professor Swing wisely remarks that t will be a great mit-takc and a great uiisfortuno If tho return of gooel times shall bring back tho oil fervor for ad venture and property which made mort gag< s among tho most popular things of tl»o day. “ Mortgages,” ho add", “are a pestilence, and debts are a regular chol era. Estates die undor them. Churches vicken and have to lie sat up with at night; individuals pine away, wives and children become disheartened in the inortgsgc season, and the fiuancial grave nigger is busy day and night. Swamps and dirty houses were the black death of Europo ; debts are the plague of Amer ica.” Carul, the capital of Afghanistan, where the massacre of Oavaguari and the E iglish embassy took place, is not a city whose places and public institutions would allure the elightseer to any lengthened stay in its vicinity, for with out exception a more neglccUd or tumble-down collection of houses, with out the slightest pretence to sanitary arrangements, can hardly be found in A ia. Tho only shops of any interest aro the leather and iron workers and others dealing in skins and stuffs peculiar 11 Cabul. The fruit stalls in the autumn arc crammed from the ground to the with every kind of both ripe and raw fruits. __ There ts only one country in the world in which there is no illiterate peo ple; it is the Sandwich Islands. The population of tho islands is 58,000. They have eleven high educational ins*itu- tious, one hundred and sixty-nine mid dle public schools, and forty-three pri vate schools. The public instruction is under tl o supervision of a committee R| pointed by the King, and composed of fivo members, who serve without remun eration ; the committee appoint a gene ral iiis|K)Ctor and a number of sub-in spectors.) The ^Government takes care that every person shall be able at least to read and write, and pursues energetically all parents who neglect to tend their children to school. The present cattle belt of the United States is about 2,000 milm in length, and 350 in width. It stretches from the Rio Grande to Manitoba. In tbe extreme southern and umthem portion it iif neither highly elevated nor particularly dry, but for the greater portion it lies along the surface of high table lands. It n i ? m that the cost for raising a four- year-old steer, which will sell at the depots at an average of $30, wllfnot ex ceed $3.60. The increase is about 30 )>er cent, a year. It requires, however, a round sum of in ney to successfully start tbe business of cattle raising, which is gradually falling into the hands o large drivers. As valuable as the bull* ion product of Coiqj|to 4s, its cattle product is even more S8»*>io, and all the cattle men are sai^ to be gieater fa vorites at the banks than the miners. One banker iu Denver exprened the Opinion that ho would rather have onto THE BUTLER HERALD. hundred accounts among the cattle dealers than three hundred milling ac- otmota. _ SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. Texas streams are nearly all dry. The Texas school pro rata is $2.09. Tho Kansas exodus has not reached Florida. Augusta, Ga., is to have free letter delivery.* ^ ________ Hon. Herschcll V. Johnson is sixty- Heven years old. Montgomery received 75,000 bales of cotton last week. Selma has just raised tho tax on drum mers to $200 per minium Drouth has cut cotton short in por tions of South Carolina. Tho social clubs of Richmond aro to lx) tried for selling liquor on Sunday. Memphians arc petitioning fora Hjiccial session of the Tennessee Legislature. Forty miles in fifty minutes wns the time made by a Virginia carrier-pigeon. A charter lias been granted to the Knoxville Ice Manufacturing Company. Continued fine weather lias removed all fears of a poor cotton crop in Georgia. A Texas man is mnking his way to Fort West with one hundred prnirie dogs for sale. Corn is still selling in some portions of North Alabama at twenty cents per bushel. Aunt Letty Bnldwin, of AshlKiro, N. C., is tho mother of twenty-three living chil dren. Maj. Penn converted two hundred and oghty sinners at Buffalo Gap, Taylor county, ,Texas. Up to Sunday the Hood Relief Com mittee, of New Orleans, Juid received $1,- 088.25. In Macon no child will lxi nllowed at the public school unless its father has paid poll tax. Pecan-gatherers iu Frio county, Texas, get twenty-live cents a bushel for gathering the nuts. Entertainments are being given nil over Texas to raise money Jfor the Ilood children. The total revenue from the drutnmers* tax that has bcon taken in at Austin amount ed to $00,000. A thousand licll-punchcs have l>ecn received at Austin, Tex., for distribution through the State. Tho heavy tax inqioscd by tho last legislature lias pretty much put an end to horse-racing iu Texas. A recent census gives the population of Wilmingfnn, N. C. ( at 17,00-1, an increase of nearly 4,000 since 1870. Over one thousand persons in Clark and Wayne counties, Mississippi, earn their living by the turpentine industry. Now Orleans is uneasy over the rapid increase of houses of ill-repute and their in vasion of the best parts of tho city. There is such a remarkablo plague fo mosquitoes around Fornandinn, Fla., that farmers work in mosquitoe netting. Mr. Sullivan, of Starkvillc, Miss., in tends to turn loose his newly-invented llying- machine on the 1st of November. Says the Advertiser: Seldom has Mont gomery been the scene of as much activity in every department of business os ifow. Norfolk, Vn., has just held a mass- meeting to clinngo the “moving day” from January 1st to some more propitious day. Tltcro arc six murder cases to 1x5 tried at the next District Court term at Hempstead, Texas. The murders were all committed this year. The report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for September slates that the corn crop of Tennessee is above the average in nearly every county in the State. A ghastly-looking gallows, upon which three men have been hung, stares the passen gers by the Jackson route in the face as the train approaches Jackson, Tennessee. A Fort Worth special says a two-days’ fight iu the Texas Pan-handle county resulted in the killing, by Indians, of seven young hunters from Fort Worth and Dallas. The Tuscaloosa (•Ala.) Gazette tells of a uegro who came out of the war witli $114, ami now owns a farm, stock, crop, etc., worth $20,000—all made by legitimate farming. John E. Mason, an old and wealthy citizen of Cannon county, Tcnn., lias ordered his coffin and tombstone made, and is super intending the construction of both in person. It is stated that there are fifty-five au thorized distilleries in the small county of Gaston, North Carolina, and that the price of corn has gone up to ninety cents per bushel. Winston (N.C./Sentinel: The prospect is most cheering indeed for one of the finest tobncco crops that lias been raised in this section since the war. The crop is not only large, but is curing up bright. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: All tilings iu this section must lie prospering; we nrc reliably informed that there is mot a vacant store-house or dwelling-house in either of our neighboring towns, Wetumpkn, or Prattville. In disinfecting Memphis the National Bourd of Health lias used 170,105 pounds of copperas, 9,000 barrels of lime, forty barrels of sulphur, 1,215 pounds of sulphate of zinc, 15 barrels of carbolic acid and 1,200 gallons of zino iron. The following is San Antonio’s small pox record up to 22d ult.: Persons attacked, one hundred and thirty; deaths, all Mexi cans, twenty-eight; houses and jacals under yellow Hag, thirty-three; persons on sick list, forty-three. Aberdeen (Miss.) Weekly: A rcsiden- of this city, a keen observer, who has ret ccntly traveled through the Mississippi bot toms, estimates that sixty thousand negroes will exodc from that section this fall und winter for Kansas and other points. Galveston News: Recording the escapes of prisoners through the careless of the jailers, and accidents from the cnrelessucss of bundling firearms, is growing monotonous. The supply of simpletons sccimj inexhaustible. Fools seem to do us much harm as knaves. Columbus, Ga., has the biggest cotton mills in the South, and yet the Times The Dispatch Icarus that tha Atlanta LuRr* is “chuck full of orders.” W£ ore gl^'jmy hear it, for everything over this.%ay is s * to ordered up that Columbus aaMftjkfdp o° fully Gov. Miller, whoso father fs ninety- two years old, says iu the soimuieighboriiood with his father, in Independence county, Ark., lives William Allen Mo(ijtarjg| aged one hundred and nine yearn. He JKD! walks to Batesvillu and back home, (Ae'ffMtuncc being twenty-four miles. It is estimated that the various cotton manufactories in and nround Augusta, Ga., use $1,500,000 worth of raw cotton per an num. The annual sales ftom their, product amount to about $2,000,000. The product of the Augusta flour and grist mills yields $1,- A00,000 per annum. Wilson (N. <$.) Advance: Our colored people have caught Ac infection, and are now desirous of leaving their old homes, and friends «ud emigrating to the wonderful country, Kansas. There will Til a mass-uieot- ing in this place Saturday in tho interest of the exodus movement. Abbeville (Ala:> Register: Mirny of the colored people bitterly oppose colored’ arresting offioem. They say they will will ingly submit to arrest by white officers.felt feel very much like resistin'* men nf S iuuch like resisting men o^Etf* r. This is strange, when soma, of 45 fojongcomplained that thcymvo uot oecn ullawtfTn share fn the offices. - Judge Fkemfof -soy* the number.‘of urimes m Wh CnWtym, as shown bt the repords of the coTkrta, is not more IhiAnp that culprits arc actually punished for their crimes. The criminul docket all over the State is very light now. Bristol (Tenn.) Courier: The Swiss colony iu Tennessee is reported very pros perous. It consists of one hundred and thir teen families, seven hundred persons, and they bought 10,000 acres of land at $1 per acre. They have started a cheese factory, devote most of their attention to dairy farm ing and get high prices for their produce. Memphis Appeal: There are some fifty or sixty people confined at the county jail who are said to he entitled to a discharge on habeas corpus, but we have no Criminal Judge, und our Governor seems disinclined to appoint one until the epidemic ceases. We need a yellow-fever judge, one who is natur alized or acclimated, who will stay here dur ing yellow-fever times. The following from a Georgia paper raises a question as to which is the more dangerous end of the mule: One of them in the lower end of Gordon county, a few days ago, got Mr. Reuben Jones’ linger iu iiis moil til nnd refused to let go. After lie liatl kept his unfortunate captive in misery for half an hour he gave one quick jerk and literally pulled the flesh of the linger from the hone. Newport (Tcnn.) Reporter: An old colored women, Anna Duncan, died in Jef ferson county a few weeks since at the age of one hundred and twenty years. She car ried the flowers for her mistress to decorate the bridge at Georgetown which George Washington marched over with his army during the Revolutionary war. The old wo- Alexandria (Va.) Gazette: For some time past the family of Mr. James P. Machen, who lives near Centerville, have been an noyed by tho mysterious opening of a door in their house. By attentive watching the cause of the apparent spiritual visitation lias been discovered. It was found that the house cat was in the habit of climbing up the door, holding to the knob with ono foot while the knob was turned with the other. “ We were shown last Friday,” Hays tho Oglethorpe (Ga.) Echo, “the shuck from an ear of corn, raised by Mr. Fielding Dillard, tbe seed of which he obtained in the moun tains, which is a new variety in this section. The shuck is an imperial purple, and we learn is used by the old ladies of North Georgia to dye yarns and cloth, It is said to make a beautiful and lasting shade of purple. The ears from this corn arc of medium size. Mr. I). is noted for his extensive.and prolific va rieties of corn, he making his business to im prove the seed by crossing the best kinds.” Ilow an Election Was Won. Tho Madison (Ind.) Star says: Some years ago, Russ, our own G. W., lived in our adjoining county of Riploy. Ho was thou a Republican in a Democratic county. What his politics aro now we don’t know, and don’t care, and we think he don’t know or euro either. Wo only know lio is a manly, big-hearted, genial gentleman, and that’s all wo caro about these times. But to tho story. Russ was a Republican candidate for Shoriff in tho Democratic county of Ripley, and, os a matter of course, wanted nil the votcB he conld get. Then, as now, ho was passionately fond of gunning, and always owned a fine gun and dogs. In his country was an old German; we will coll him Joke. He also was a hunter and a power among “tlio boys.” Ho kopt a littlo country doggery, and his “influence” wils worth about thirty votes. In duo time Russ mot Jake, and a talk about hunting, guns and dogs rather warmed tho Dutchman toward Russ, although Juko was a Domocrat. After a whilo Russ saw ono of Jake’s lank, pot-bcUicd pointers, and commenced to giro away taffy. “Jake,” said Russ, “that's a mighty lino dog. Whcro did you got him? ” Joko replied to tho effect that ho raised that kind of dogs. “ WoU, I’ll toll you,” said . Russ, “ I am vory fond of hunting, and if I am elected Sheriff this fall I shall indnlgo myself in shooting to my heart’s con tent. If I am not eloctcd I will not bo ablo to shoot much. I will give you $50 for that dog, Jako, if I want him after the election. Here’s a $5 noto to bind the bargain.” Jako, tickled to death at the fine solo of his dog, which was worth about 50 conts, took tho bill, and as a oonseqnonce his ond of the county gave Russ a haudsomo majority and he was eleoted. barely puUing through. Timo passed and Russ was duly instaUod in tho office of Sheriff of Ripley connty. Soon Jako put in an appearanco, dragging the unwOling cur at his heels. “Mister Russ,” said Joke, “you vos now elected Sheriff von dis gounty nnd bore is deso dog. Gif mo my vorty- vife toilers.” “ Jake,” said Russ, “ I find that my timo will not allow mo to hunt so much as I thought it would; you may just koop tho dog and tho $5, too.” Jake studied a long time, then took a long breath, and said: “ Mister Russ, I peliovo id, py Got, yon buy me and not my dog I Ain’t it?” An Embryo Indii “flay. mister, ci Icon hang upjqJNPtt *F*o got the monoy to pay,” said a small, Bright- looking boy to Pdl(Wr n 'Officcr Houslor, in Broad stroet, Newark, at 2 o’clock, on Tuesday moruiug. Tho officer took tho boy to the Second Preciuct station. Tho boy had in liis pockets three small, old-fashioned pistols, ono of which was loaded; a box of cartridges, slugs,and caps; a dagger made of a rat-tail file and incasod in a tin sheath, atm bugle, and $3.05 in silver. In a bundle the boy carried were a guide book of New York, a package of railroad time tables, a pair of scissors, a brad-awl, a paper of noedlos, thread, pins, and u box of salvo. JHe said his namo was Henry Werkor,and his ago 14. His mother, ho oddofl, is a widow liviqg at 181 Sec ond street, this city. In u memoran dum tyoktlio boy had written: “Hen ry Worker, caro of Mrs. Worker, 184 Socond. street. Cbnrlcs Werker and Prougott Werker; Gus und ’Gertie Werker^CBBThird street; Katie Glis ten, 135yWwnT Fortieth street,4j||tween Eightliftnd Ninth avenues.” He Bara he hud written the names so that il ho got lost in tho West, to whicl\ ho was bound, his friends migh^hear.of him. The boy was aftffhrard taken before Potioe Justice Mills, lie said he hud been reading dimo novels and boys 1 story papers, and had - started from home iu order to hecomo n lmnter on the plains, lie thought he might grow up a great Indian lighter. He bad been for weeks collecting tbo pistols und other articles. lie refused to tell jghcro he got his money.—New York Sun. Canada has abandoned special efforts to indneo immigration, and her agents abroad, who havo for yoars beon hold ing out all sorts of allurement, aro to bo recalled. The trouble about tho busi ness has been that, while Canada paid tho heavy expenses, the United States reoeivod a largo shore of the benefit. A ZOOLOOICAL ROMANCE, [/fepfrvd hr an Umuual Flow of Animal A N» «WMter Rlrl owe *vor *na That Betty Marten** danghtcr Sue. With a*bl* hare, amall tai>lr walnt. And lips jrau’d gopher mllo* to Imm; Bright, lambent oyoa, like the gazclla, Sheep pertly breught to bear so woll{; Apo pretty lass, it was avowed, Of whom her marmot to be proud. I’ll starvo yon down, my aallor One, DnUl for bcon and porcupine 1" And, fairly horae with llendiah Ianglite Would aay: “Henoeforth, mind what giraffe U»!" In abort, tho many rlska be ran Right wall a llama braver man. Then he waa wrecked and castor ahor* While fcably clinging to anoa. Hyena cleft among tna rocks He crept aana shoes, and minus os: And, whon he fain would go to bod, Ha had to lion leaves lnstoad. Then Sue would aay, with troubled fins: “How koodoo live In auch a placeT " And straightway Into team would melt, And aay: h How badger muat have feltl * While ho, the brute, woodchuck her chin, And aay.'^'Ayo-ye, my lata I “^and grin. Eionae thoeo atoera. • • • It's over now; Thare'a naught llko grief the hoar! can cow. Jackaaa'd her to be hla, oad aho— She gave Jackal, ami jilted mo. . And, now, alaat tho litUo minka Is bound to him with Hymen's lyma. —CAarUa F. Adami. KISS AND WED. O, “Kina and wed” 1h often said, Not often wed and kiss— It should not try tho dullest head To Hud what's hero amiss t If klsa and wrd la all that's said, If lovo no further gnenl If when its happy summer's fled o bloom li It B' To chooso a thriftier flower— Aro bul Its summer's but tho trys When lovo and beauty u And what moro worthy closo could be To its consistent rhymo, Thau when tho fruit hnngs ripening In golden autuiuu-timoT Then lot lovo bo llko - he last; . " Wod and kiss,” and you'll not n Tho best keep for the lost; Howard Qlyndon. In llnhlirln's Monthly, HOW VAN DYCK WON 1118 WIFE. In ono of tho splendidly decorated saloons at Bt. Jumes’ was assembled a group ol youug and lovoly girls, whoso dolicato fingers were busily engaged in different kinds of ornamental ncodlo- work, which, undor tlioir skillful ar rangement, formed bouquets which rivaled nature in tho brilliancy of their colors and accuracy of shades. They woro tho Queen's maids of honor, and botween their gay chattering and busy flngors employed tho time whilo waiting for her rising. Tho only gruvo person in tho ossombly was tho Dowager Duch ess d’Alby, the chief of tho ladies of honor. Among tho blooming group tho youngest was remarkable for simplicity of dress and tho quiot modesty of her whole appearanco, Her attire was a dress of block volvot olosod to the throat, but of which tho skirt, open in front, disclosed an undress of white satin; the sleeves enrao just below tho elbow and coquettislily disclosed the arm and hand of the most dzzling white ness. A plaited tucker encircled her graceful ueek, on which hung a chain, to which was attached a largo cross, and tho luxuriant linir, simply parted on tho forehead and confined by a largo scarf, completed her costume. This was tho daughter of one of tho most illustrious families of Scotland. Her father, Lord Rnthven, united to princely fortune a pedigree of whioh ho was more proud than of his wealth. Lucy, his daughter, had secrotly arrived at the English Oourt on her appoint ment to a post in tho Queen’s honse- hold, tlioro to complete tho education which hod been carefully guided by her father. Rotircd and simple in her tastes, her mind instinctively sought tho sublime in tho works of nature and art. She exceUcd in painting, and her genius hod cveatcd a world of her own in the dailv contemplation of tho productions of tho host masters, which adorned tho S llories of her father. Paul Yeronose, uido, Rubens wero of the number of her friends, andfsho vowed them eternal gratitude for the light their talents shed on her solitude. Tho habits and manners of Lucy con trasted strongly with thoso of her com panions, who had boon habituated to moro independence and liberty. Gentlo and timid to excess, she scarcely at tempted to answer the sportive and often mischievous saUicsof her compan ions. Tho largo clock in tho saloon chimed tho hour of 10. AH eyes woro directed to it, aud several voicos exclaimed: “He’s vory latol” just as a domestic an nounced, “tho pointer, Van Dyck.” Tho announcement caused a general agitation among tho smiling group. Each ono changed her positipn on lior Velvet seat, rearranged her dress, and, oomposing her countcnanoo, sought to givo additional graco to hor aspect. Tho young pupil of Rubens, alboit ac customed to tho spirit of boauty, could not suppress a murmur of admiration at finding himself in the midst of this brilliant cirolo. The old Duehoss, supposing the young painter’s embarrassmont to ho caused by her own imposing appearance, to on- oourage him addressca' him in thoso words: “lam told that yon have tal ent, young man.” Those who have so informed you do mo too much honor, madam. Doubt less, they judge mo by my intentions; but I havo as yet produced nothing worthy of attention.” There was os much confidence and noble prido in the reply of the painter as thore had been arrogance and imper tinence in the address of the noblo dame. Luoy, who possessed tho high spirit of hor country, was also shocked at tho insolent tono of the Duchess, and now Unshod with pleasuro at tho reply of Van Dyck. As her soft eyes rosted ap provingly on his face bo understood hor feelings, and thanked her by a look for hor genorons sympathy. “ Well, weU, we shall see. Hor Maj esty wishes to ronow tho ornamonts of her chapel; so you will bo fully em ployed. A residenco will be assigned you in yonder monastery, whore you will copy undisturbed. In summer, also, you shall havo a fit residence, be sides a pension from the Government. Tliis, I think, is paying an artist pretty well,” “Art cannot be paid for my Lady Dnohoss, and, if I purchased tho talents to whioh I aspire, the favors which yon boast oould not purchase them.” “ This is all vory well—you are proud and wo aro noble, but, nevertheless, these honors are conditional. You will be chosen painter to the Queen if you succeed in gaming tho prize which ia offored for the most perfeot hood of tho Madonna.” “ Ah I madam, if the pntroungeof her Majesty is offered me only on those con ditions I shall not obtain it.” “ Aud why not?” “ Becauso I shall not gain tho prize,” replied ho, with an expression of sad ness which was instantly reflocted on the face of Lucy. “ Why do you refuse this honor ? Do you fcak to fail ? ” “ No, madam; but how shall I repre sent as she should bo represented tho mothor of the Savior? Whero shall I find a model?” As ho pronounced these words his eyes rested on tho an gelic face of Luoy. “ I have hitherto sought in vuin the combiuutton of mild ness, sweetness and candor which should characterize tho Queen of Heaven.” Tho fire of goniuB which illuminated tho handsome countenance of Van Dyck elicited tho admiration of aU ob servers. “But I should imagine that there would bo no difficulty in obtaining mod els of painters.” “ Tho models which can bo obtoined for hire aro beautiful, without doubt. I havo sought in vain for tho dignity and purity which I havo never scon uni ted but in a noble lady who would dis dain to sit to a poor artist.” Tho animated and ardent glaucc of Van Dyck embarrassed Lucy; it told hor that he had at lost found tho object his fancy had dopictcd. Tho Duchess, however, had not observed it, and 11 Who is this noblo lady ? ” “Tho Virgin horself. madam I” Bow ing profoundly and giving a parting glunce at Luoy, he added: “ If I gain the prizo you shall seo mo again, mad am, if not I leavo England.” He took immediate possession of his apartments, where ho could at the samo time paint liis Madonna and copy tho frescoes for tho oliapel. With his* mind full of tho celestial fate ho had just seon, ho seized his pencil ami endeav ored to troco her lineamouts. But the oxtremo sensibility so useful to art whon timo has calmed it was now liis chief obstacle. Ho felt too deoply to succeed in expressing tho idou which filled his soul. Tho day passed in fruit less attempt and the night surprised him, dissatisfied and despondent. In tho meantime Lucy lmd suffered severely for tho proforenco shown her by Van Dyck. Tho envy and jealousy of hor companions found vent in im pertinent sarcasm; so that, on separat ing for the night, hor mind was filled with liis idea, and, after hor nightly G rayer, his name was the last on her ps. It was midnight. Tho heavens shone with a thousand sparkling sturs, and a dark light spread itself on tho old abbey, which stood solitary and alone among its ruins. A window of tho palace opened, and a shadow passed slowly along tho bal cony and staircaso, crossed along the court and reached the monastery. It would be difficult to say how this figure had loft the polaco and pene trated so far; but she must havo been well acquainted with all tho turnings, for in a short timo sho crossed tho long avenue, and, arriving at ono end of tho gaUorica of the ehapol, sho found her self in the painter’s work-room, aud, passing lightly on. seated horsolf, with out looking around her, immediately in front of his easel. Oh, surprise! Oh, joyi this being so calm, so beautiful, is Lucy I Tho de sponding artist who hod been unable to retrace her features on his cunvas now behold a living model before his eyes. What oould havo induced her to como? Wlmt idea could havo givon hor the conrago and resolution ? He threw him self on his knocs before her, bat Luoy, motioning him to riso, pointed" to hie pencil. Her look ponotrated him with a flame so pure that ho forgot tho real ity of his vision —liis astonishment seemed to him a want of faith. Trans ported by his imagination to an ethe real sphere, he scorned abovo tho earth and in tho midst of the sublime con certs of angels; he beheld Mary en vironed by divino rays. He was no longer the powerless artist who had just thrown at his feet his unsuccessful pencil—the artist replaced tho man. Muto and breathless, inspired by mys terious strength, he soizou his palette. His colors gavo the form and his soul the life—in a fow hours ho created the most beautiful and most puro of vir gins. When tho young girl saw that after tracing her features ho was occupied in impurtiug to his picture tho soul which auimatcd him, she roso silently, and, with a culm and assured step, left the monastery by the samo road sho hail como. Van Dyck, with wondcriDg eyes and oppressed breathing, made not the slightest effort to detain her. In his eyes bIic was no longer mortal, and in hor departure ho thought ho saw tho Madonna returning to her nativo skies. Enehunted l>y his execution and excite ment, ho fuU asleep in his arm-chair. On awakening, his first thought was to exomino tho canvas. Transported with i 'oy ut his success, ho thanked on his :nees tho angel or woman who hod so fuvored him. Iu vuin he endeavored aguin to import the ideality which ex isted iu his imagination. He had so combined the thouerhts of the Madonna ana ol Luoy that lie accormmea to ais- cover tho truth, and wroto tho following biUet to tho young girl: “Tell mo if you aro indoed an angel; if you do not wish to deprive of life senses tho poor artist to whom von have condescended to appear this night, teU me if you aro tho Virgin or a mortal.” It was a part of tho duty of the dow ager Duehoss to open the bUlots ad dressed to tho young ladies confided to her eliorgo. What was hor astonish ment at roading this epistle I “Horror!” criod she. “A child of high family to violate hor duty in Booking a painter at midnight I” Sho rang and sent for the guilty one, but hor rage redoubled when Lnoy, with hor customary gontlonosa, denied aU knowledge of the cause of her re proaches. Tho Duchess, who expected to witness in hor great oonfusion or a candid avowal, would listen to nothing. Tho alarm was given in tho palace and. it was decided that Lucy, disgraced, should bo sent home to her father. « Her prayors wero/f no avail; a singlo night of respite ^6 alone acoorded her, and she won compelled to sloep in the apartment of tho Duchess to avoid fur ther scandal. At midnight, Lucy roso as before; tho Duchess was aroused from her unquiet sleep, aud called ull the ladies to wit ness tho confirmation of hor suspicions. With lighted flumbeuux, tho Duchess, attended by a numerous suite, followed Luoy, who traversed again the long hall and numerous passages aud arrived at tho door of tho monastery. Her culpa bility could no longer bo doubted, but they foUowcd her even to tho painting- room, where sho was already seated be- foro tho easel. Tho noise around her and the brilliancy of tho lights awoko her in a fright. Sho was a somnambu list. Thus nnlonsciously had she served as a model to the artist, who fuUy re paid in lovo whut sho had given him in renown. Ho obtained tho prizo and was loaded down at the court with hon ors and riches. A few days afterward there was cele brated at St. Paul's tho union of Van Dyck and Lucy, the daughter of the noblo Count Ruthvon de Gorry. The Detective’s Dream. Mr. George Tan, the Illinoia detec tive, who has been engaged in the search for the murderers of Dr. David Pienon, of Augusta, performed a feat whioh surprised himself, on Friday night, and which is partially attributed to the long search and the excitement attending the arrest of Edwin Fergu son, one of the accomplices in the bloody conspiracy. On Friday evening, after the return of Messrs. Hoy, Tan and the prisoners from the chopping camp, near Montrose station, the two dotootives, accompanied by Ohief Mun- f er, strolled around the oity for an our or two, and then Mr. Tarr retired to his room at tho Windsor Hotel. Ho soon fell into a heavy sleep, but it was disturbed by an unusually lively dream, in which his prisoner, Edwin Ferguson, escaped and ran off at tho top of his spoed. Tho detcctivo evidently fol lowed him—in his sleep—and with sur- f irising suddenness and agility Turr eaped from his bed, and, with ono bound, passed through tho window of his sleeping apartment, currying the sash witu him, and falling a distance of several feet, but miraculously escaping severe injuries. Ho was fully awakened by this somnambulistic tumble, but was naturally startled and confused. Being in a strange place, aud not clothed for an extended journey in tho night air, he impulsively concluded to climb up the side of tho houso to his room, and gripping tho corner with ono hand, and clawing the outsido boards with the fingers of his other hand, and free use of his toe-nails, he actually succeeded iu climbing up tho wtdl like a scared cat, and entered his room, without awakening any of tho people about the' hotel. In his ascent ho “clawed” the boards so violently (but succcssfuUy) that ho loosened some of the nails on liis hands and feet, and tho blood flowed from them upon the sido of tllo build ing and tho furnituro nnd bttldiug iu tho room. Mr. Tarr himsolf states that ho had not fully recovered from the cx- citemont attending tho imaginary chase after Ferguson, and could not again perform tho feat, oven if his lifo de pended upon its successful accomplish ment. Mr. Thompson, tho proprietor of tho Windsor, states that tho marks of Tarr’s nails aro plainly visiblo on tho sido of tho building, where ho clambered up ward, and tho blood spots still remain as proof of tho striking reality of the Illi nois detective’s dream. Mr. Thompson states that ho would decluro tho feat a physical impossibility, if ho did not know positively that ho had ono guest able to scalo tho sido of n houso like n cat.—Paul Pioneer-Press. M»j. A mil e. In a lecture before the Workmen's Club und Institute Union, iu Loudon, the* other day, Dean Stanley spoke of Maj. Andre. The memory of this young officer, he thought, was hardly so well preserved in England as it was iu America. The story of Maj. Andre’s striking adventures and their tragic conclusion was graphically narrated in tho lecture. Every American, said the Dean, who saw Maj. Andre, at the time of his trial und up to the moment of his execution, was so captivated with liis courage and his chivalrous behavior that, if they lmd allowed their feelings to overcome their sense of duty to tluiir country’s cause, they would certainly havo granted his ropiest that he might be executed a soldier, if they had not released him altogether. When lie (tho Dean) was iu America it was sug gested to him that he should bring back a wreath of leaves from tho hanks of the Hudson river, which wero then in all tho extraordinary colors which they beur in the full, and this wreutli, which wns taken from muplo and oak trees overlooking tho spot of Maj. Andre’r death, lie had brought buck and placed abovo the tomb in the Abbey, where ho trusted it would long remain ns a token of tho kindly feelings that might bo culled forth by such tragic events. An AuiniateU Rat-Trap. Animated rat-traps are the latest things boforo tho public. At the Ocu- tral Hudson railroad freight house,'Wm. Wilson observed sometliiug llrrnly held in tho shell of u Clnm L which won packed with others in a barrel. On inspecting it he wns rather surprised to Asia a rat’s toil. In tho barrel were- several holes for ventilation, and it is surmised tho rat put its tail thrdngh ono of these to get it saturated with tho juice to obtain a variety in its bill qf faro. But a vin dictive clam seized ypon- tho caudal ap pendage and held it ton ac ion sty. The rodent pulled desperately, anil finally the toil came out by the roots. An inoh of the toil was inside .the shell und half an inch oL-Hie skin inside, and tho bore tendon extended four inches fur ther. Tho rut must havo hud to pull strougly and suffer excruciating pain, but tho rude amputation was complete. Could tho clam havo boon drawn from the barrel tho rat would have drugged it to his hole, but tho uperture was only half an inch in diameter, aud tho rut’s strength was not sufficient to enable it to haul off the barrel—Auburn Ar* burnian. a* Bitot. In one ol Detroit aehools the other day a olaot ilk Baflkh. history wore being qneationad bv the f about Henry tha VIE, anc ifce asked: “ Did Anne of Olovor (only's foi wife, die a natural deai* There waa an awful minute, and then one ont: No, ma’am- SABBATH READING. O, moaner, miking thy pltooai ■ “Whit itaill 14oT Bow era I go Down through tha desolito dtya iloMl* Wilt tor Um righteous light to ■ Wilt ind the diwn thill grow Om hr one come thi decolito diyi; It IS onlr to-diy tint toucheth theo Look itnlght before theo I lomo guiding i “■* w on thy pith. Go on with ‘ ' light tint thou cinit im. It tl cnlr to-diy tint toucheth thee: t>ok itnlght before the* I iomo guld Hblno now on thy pith. Go on with prate* In thi light thit thou cini* ~ —Am. Wathlngton Oladdtn. Choice Saying* of Matthew Hoary. Divine vengeanco comes with feet of lead, bat it strikes with hands of iron. Men may die like lambs, and yet havo their place with tbo goats. It ia common for those who aro farth est from God to boost themselves most of living near the church. Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, whieh is blind, but bv tha wheels of Providenco, which aro full of ayes. I reckon him a Christian indoed that is neither ashamed of the gospel nor a shame to it. Those who pray with an unforgiving spirit curse themselves every time they ■ay the Lord’s Prayer. Nature is content with littlo, graco with less, bnt lust with nothing. God’s presenco with a man in his honse though it bo but a cottage, makes that honse both a castle and a palace. Length of days is wisdom’s right- hand blessing, typical of eternal life; bnt it is in her left hand that aro riohos and honor. It is good to bo early at our devo tions. Tho morning is as good a friend to tho graces as it is to tho muses. We ought to know tho scriptures os tho physician does his dispensatory, tho lawyer hia books and reports, and the sailor his charts and compass. God’s laws wero never designed to bo like cobwebs which catch tho littlo flics, bnt suffer the largo ones to break through. Venture not into the company of those who are infected with tho plogne; no, not though tlion think thyself guarded with an antidote. As when we are in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will novor be brought low, so when we aro in ad versity we ore ready to think our voUey wiU never be filled np. We caU the propnets the penmon of scripture, whereas rcaUy they wero but tho pen. The tongue of the most snbtlo disputant, and tho moat eloquent orator is but the pen with which God writes what Ho pleasos. Tho woman was not made out of man’s head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. When Christ was about to leave the world Ho made His will; His soul He committed to His Father; His body Ho bequeathed to Joseph, to bo decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother Ho left to the care of John. but what should He loave to His poor disciples, that had loft aU for Him? Sil ver and gold Ho had nono, but Ho left thorn that whioh was infinitely better— His peace. Quiet Iloar*. “I feel as if I wero so useless,” said ono who had passed by several years tho Psalmist's limit of thrce-scoro and ten. “And, if by reason of strength they bo four-scoro years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, said David; and ob servation confirms tho truth of his words every day. When ugo with its infirmities has come thcro are fow who preservo tho buoyancy and vigor of carher times. But tho old should never coll them selves useless. Wo younger ones do not think them so. Wo go to them for counsel, nnd wo prize their gathered and ripened experience. Wo lovo to sit at their feet nnd listen to their stories of lifo nnd lovo, their rcminisconces of childhood, and their recoUections of the heat and burden of their noonday. Even though they must sit with folded hands, lot them not complain, for theso quiot hours havo many compensations, and mneh to mako thorn delightful. It is always ngrceahlo to bo tho recip ient of courtesy and refined nttontion. By common consent, in Christian house holds, tho easiest chair, tho coziest corner, the best sent at tho table and most desirable plnco everywhere is given to tho grandparents. Tho voices of others aro hushed to hear thoir tremulous accents, aud tho strong arm, the quick step and the alert facul ties of youth are at thoir sorvioo to command. If grandpa cannot seo to read his papor, Edith oy Mary is ready to tell him its contents or road them to him. If grandma cannot tbjead hor needle thero aro bright oyes and dimpled hands which are eager and deft, and very swiftly do it for her. There aro many homes hero in whioh such a picture as Mrs. Field draw of the grandmother in Franco would would be true to life: “Grandmother—the queen of that little roalm.. How charm ing sho is, with hor white hair, and that littlo cap, so mutronly and becoming I She is still young in hor footings. She is the ono of whom the yotwg married conple take counsel; it is into hor dis- oroot ear that tho son, jnst homo from ootioge, confides his first attempt at po etry or oloquonco; ’to her tho young girl whispers tho secret of her first love” Take tho comfort of your quiot hours, dear agod friends. Alroady you are invested with somo of tlio radiance of the bright heaven to whioh you are go ing. Wo look at you rovorentially, and avorv day you spend with us is precious. —Christian at Wbrk. A Parisian Tragedy. Paris is const antly edifletf by domes tic tragedies. Ono of tho latest is thus recounted: Six mouths ago a nowly- murriod couple took up their residence on tho fifth story iu the Rue Gondorcet. The husband, who was of Swiss origin, was employed in a bank. He was 26 years old, and of a sad, taciturn temper ament. His wife, four years younger thun himself, was, on tho contrary, of a S ay disposition. Tho couple ap- to live happily together. On re- rjiomo one night tho young man found his wife dead on tho bed. A let ter bn the table announced that she was abont to poison herself. Struok with horror and despair, ho soized hold of a revolver which ho kept in a drawer, and, after discharging four shots into his breast without fatal effect, fired Uxe mllets into his >is brains LMAl ABVI Will be inserted at tha l_ , Sheriff sales, par square Sheriff*! luortgagt.salM Application for letter* •( edalatra.*^ Application for litters off aardlaaaf* DisinisBiaairom ftdmiaisnjatiea .ft DiamiMWTrom fUarffiaMnip . For leavo to aelllaaiL Application for homestead... * Notice to debtors an ’ — Sale of real estate AMNODBCffMBinr.—All bill! for PITH AND POINT. A lost star—A Bailor overboard. A bham-too—Affected contempt. Theiue is no disgraoe In being poor: the thing ia to keep it quiet, and not let your neighbors know anything about it. “Tad book the heart that thou gaveet,” aa the gambler said to hie pal, who had paaaed him under the table the wrong card to fill the flush. Oxoi they started a girl’a seminary in Utah. It flourished well; but, Justin the height of its prosperity, the princi pal eloped with the whole aohool. A ooRMBPOND^fck explains why ha hadn’t writtsnby saying ha “oould not |et tftamnough together” to buy a postsl-oamA-Fond au Lao Reporter. “Pa, what does ftlobby’ meant” “Stylish, my dear.” "Well, then, pa your nose must be very stylish, for grandma aays you’ve got the nobbiest nose in town.” With feeling not benign; And, when npbrsldod by her frleodi, Exclaimed, “ Thi* hair Is mlnol ■ — ClaudM <U Haven, Thebe are too many women in the world; 60,000 moro women than men in Massachusetts,” growlod tha husband. “That is the ‘ survival of the fittest/ my dear,” repliod tho wife. An illiterate farmer, wishing to enter some animals at an agricultural exhibi tion, wrote as follows to the Seorctary of the society: “Enter mo, also, for a jackass.” And he took tho prize. Ann now tbe gay and featlra frog Within the marsh ia seen; Tha loafer aeeka a aunny spot Upon the village green; Tho trade In patent livcr-plUa Becomes a ateady thing— The rbymor, with a penalva air. Indite* an oda to spring. —Toledo Commercial. An ale guzzler doesn’t stop to eon* aider that overy time he drinks *“ adding an ale to his coffin.—7 Post. A result, no doubt, ow‘ tacks on spirits.—New York dal Advertiser. The people of Ceylon bake and bees. If wo were going to indul this kind ot provender wo should to know that tho baker mnlerstoec business, for if a bee should after ho had been swallowed 1 The Woman's Journal asks,” is a sadder sight than to see a bride siek at heart? ” We hare teen bat ono sadder sight. That on an excursion to Racino last summer. Thero was a brido sitting on a coil ol rope just outsido our stato-room door. She vos sick at tho stomach. Sadneast Lordy, thero was a pail full of sadneaa, and red lemonade, aud ice-croam. The Wovian’s Journal ought to havo been thero in our stato-room, and sho would nover talk about heart sicknoss any more.—Milwaukee Bun. s laiin that Hwect and balmy Bpring ia Orim winter hasten* to Ida Polar lair, Knd-lDoy! )u*t nee If my umbrella’* bore.) Woo blades of green hide Inld tho faded grMa; The brooklot laughs to And itself roloaaod; Tho zopliyra whisper coyly aa they paaa— lA-tbero/ a cbercf Tbe ylayuey \clnd U eattl) ploaaaut is ft la these vernal day* study nature, Mwero igh wood* and field*, (Confound my luck I lliflmy rubbtre bo vcot anringtimo, thon art wolcomeonce * Tho pleasure* of our brief “ (Ifc//, here'* a a n -' What Through v Tho pleasure [ ire//, bere'eut tee soaked r, r brief llvoa to enhai t feel a : spoiled my Frank O. Bangs, the tragedian, tells tho Philadelphia Press that America’s great actore thirty years ago wero Hamblin, John R. Scott, Gns Adams, and tlio elder Booth; that Edwin For rest took entire possession of tho tragic stage a little later, and hold it until Ed win Booth took it away from him; that noither Edwin Bootli nor Davenport over showed a spark of genius, although very artistic actors, whilo Edwin Adams was a “child of geniusthat Barrett is cold and conservative, and that McCul lough may Vecomo Forrest’s suoccesor. The Next Census. Gon. Walker, Superintendent of the next census, tells a reporter of the New Haven Register that the main body of tho work will bo undertaken next fall. Thore will be two or three months of preparation, and the oensus itself will be taken in a month’s timo. The statis tical matter in referenoe to the popula tion of cities and towns he will rive the public in a very short time. The last census ho gave in nrinted form in 1872; this timo the period will be muoh shorter. Ho contrasts this work with previous censuses, which were of tittle practical value. The census taken in I860 was nominally published in 1867, bnt really not till 1868. Tho census taken in I860 was not published till 1859. Thore was nothing but historical interest to work done in that way. The country was growing and the population changing so rapidly that such censuses woro far from tho actual stato of tho country when published. Tho now Oonsus law, he said, put. extra work on tho Snporin- toudent. Tlio month the census was being taken ho likened to u battle, when ' tho General must bo at his headquar ters. Having taken ono cousus, he was bettor qualified to take another, for ho knew whut improvements to make. This was ono reason why ho could com- pleto the census much more rapidly than before. When the work was being dono ho could bo ut Washington with his lingers on tlio telegraph keys, so that if there wero a break hero or there II ould instantlv be repaired. WH1 Bloed Trill Dr. Heitzman, of New Yad tho announcement that ft . man’s blood plaoed vsdft scope will tell just what 1 and constitution map be. tracted study of 1 ceme to Die oon danos of large grant] constitution; on the < granules were few i tire body .4 th« oo . evideaoe of • poor frequently noticed tlut J white blood eorpnqoka i inoreMed idter » M ao much ao tiut it I whether • run lud l rest e* not I It < ‘