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1. Anv person who Uke* » paper reRiiler
) v f«*ru the pnutoflice whether dir-et «l V*i
bin a tine or another'*, or whether lie hsrnuib-
scribe i or not- is lospourible for the eniouut,
2. Ha i er .on order* hi* paper discontinued
be must i njr w• 1 must-agr#, or the
m ty ooutiuue to ner d it until pa
made, and collect the wuole amouui.whether
the paperii l.tlceu from the otti
The courts have decided that refusing
to take newspaper* or periodicals from the
poatofllce or removing
i facie
Fathur Hyacinthk h gradually in*
c.reanng his cougrogatior in Pari*. At
tirat only a few hundreds attended, now
the chief terries, Sunday afternoon, at
tract- regularly 1.000 periont Tne pro
gramme of Uitholic reform laid down hy
-.he Pare, hac received ov -r COO sign*-
tur.a I' is stated that Father Hya-
c : uth- bar had many offers to j > n him
irom prints. He has two a-wisunt*.
Thf. terror that reltjn* in Russia is
indicated with h grtphic fora that no
words could increase During lho sum-
in r, from the central prism at Moscow,
If) 11C |isr.i>»s have been sent iuto exile
in hsiberin. Arl yet Nihilism i.
unchecked, and continues it* work of
uu lerraialug Gi • empire which, with its
coudemimioo of cirnpirators by the
t-imnpu 1, hu . aiak^s puh'ij confession at
once <>■ iv elarm an i incapacity to deal
t unlit
TiIk cotr m crop this year will be
hOU.nod bt'an uri »re than ever before, the
i*-htco i <_r i» 12 0>0 000 jxiunds more
D'Hu v;r b.i.ore, an 1 the «ug*r crop
200,00 1 lioj uh. ad.i more than ever before.
Thai does i»ret-y wdl for a showing of
S mth 'ro ;*r.i«p-:iiy, aud the North tan
m U«di it with an uec Mint of 20,000 000
Im-ii-lsof wly**- and 80 00ft 000 to 100,-
00 »,0 »o .impels of c»ru more than ever
h«* >v. i >f nil the fat years in the history
of the nation, the year 1870 is the 'attest.
An iwsTAKCE'of heredity in crime is
furnished by Kiiau Phillips, of Freetown,
M ith , who recently anpeared as a wit
ii: in a burglary tri n .l, having turned
state's evidence, lie is a great-grandson
m M dbone Briggs, a noted criminal, who
was in.state prism v/iilr seven of hi-
» >im hi oun rim. Briggs’ at.csHiry is
traced back to a noted pirate in the time
of Kiri Bjllamenl, and his branch of the
Imiily have fur ovtra centuiy 'urnished
noted criminals in every c neration.
Tut Nortliern papers are reviewing
th trniy outlook. The Times thinks
the opening moat brilliant, and finds that
the poouUr imp^e-aion is that we are on
the eve of a long prosperity. One of the
m-WL hopeful sigoa is the fact that the
demand now is general for a better class
of go Is at latter p-icea. Indeed in
alai ‘.-t every articlo of giods there is an
i-icrease in price. In furniture this
increase is as high as 10 p*r cent, in
|-rice and twenty per c*nt. in
I mand, and the factories are obliged to
tu i until midnight to supp’y the stock
required. In boots there is an advance
ofl0perc>nt. in prie?; in leather an
advaucc of 2) par cent.; in hardware 15
i». A r cent, etc. Indeed, everywhere
prices are going on from the low limits
they reached dun tig the late hard times.
Tiib grievances of Ireland are ho much
less than formerly, or so cimmon to' all
th-. U.iked Iv.ug 'om, that it is refresh
ing to find a e'eir strain ml of some of
the r.’-tl discriminations against E in in
x recent speech by the L : boral member
of I’arliam nt Mr. MunilelU, at Sh ffi Id.
V »teiH for ono thing, are admitted to
• he sti fir tire on leai liberal terms iii Ire
land than in England, so that in Dublin
and Sheffield, two citie* of equal mz«,
t he number of voters stands as 8 500 to
IOO00. Oily six towns in Ireland have
a municipal nrgau : zition and an adequate
-('Iffgovernmrnt, while there is no law
compelling a tendance upon the schools,
an i half the children aro out of schools.
Thin is due to the popular indifference
an 1 apathy, but these are the very ele-
msnts which it is aoughfc in England to
correct bv law
The Msrk L ine Express e«timates the
wheat crop of Great Britain for this
year at 3ft per cent below the average,
aud that 16 000,000 or 17 000,000 quar
ters wiU bo required from abroad to sup
ply the deficiency. The supply of last
ychTH crop now held throughout the
United Kingdom is estimated at 47,000
quarters less than at the corrt*p mding
Hinson a vesr ago. The tamp'd the
new crop thus far exhibited are inferior
in qua'iiy. The con* qurnce Is an ad"
v.snee in the quotations for the heid-over
• rsin, whi o ranging from 50 to 52 shil
lings. Tue activity in the marki-i is re
port* 1 greiter thsn iu 1877. T ■ re
action that took place iu the mi.idle of
the week has been fully counterbalanced
by the recovery In the market. The ad
vance for the *e»k is reckoned at from
2 to 4 .‘'hillings, and closin' rates were
firm. F »r Amoriean wheat the quota
tions indicate an advance of 3 shillings
p< r quarter. Maize (corn) shared in the
advance, ri ing 6 rence per quarter.
Theue is a lively telegraph war a!
oady commenced between the Western
iT.iiou Mni the new companies, which
k bids fair to continue and will be to tl o
ladvantageof the public in securing re-
[duced rates .*1 telegraphy. .Since the
I pa of Un* U't army bill, which
u'hor'zsl a*». r-ilroad company to do a
•nimerclal ’c '-jraph business, the Bal*
in.ore and Olio Iiiilroad Company has
oabiisbed Unei between Washington
and Chicago, Biltimnre, New Tork, aud
hncinnati. The lh.e to Cincinnati was
list along the Marietta Railroad, but
(the Wist*™ Union has procured an In-
|unction which cuts that off for a time.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
•ented a room in Corcoran Buildinv,
[Washington, and fitted it up handsomely
i telegraph i ffice. They hung out a
n and were about to rtnaounefe
uen wln'n the Wentem Dohn,
pin! la i:e room, in lb,
!, went la Mr. Oorcoriif M# Wfttf
to leave it il the BeXIiore ud
allo-ed I* eamt I* be .
and Mr. Ooreortn
(t>mpany that they must
kpeople i
BUTLER HERALD.
W. M. BEXIfN, I KditorM
ja«m n. iif«»,r‘ a,, * r "'
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 187!).
for new quarters, aud will yet make it
very lively for the Western Union.
The new compauy proposes to give rates
between Caicago arid Washington at
sbout oae-balt as much as the Western
Union charges, and make a similar re
duction between Washington and New
York.
l)e
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
L*r are abundant in portions of Vir-
i'rontier com is worth
Out on tin:Tt
$2.50 per bushel.
The manufacture of guava jelly is the
latest Florida industry.
Corn is selling at eight and a half cents
a bushel in Quincy, Flu.
In southern Georgia caterpillars are
damaging the cottou boll*.
The goober is booming in Georgia, a
splendid crop being assured.
General Chalmers, Mississippi's leading
Congressman, is iu very ill health.
The license fee for selling whisky in
Liberty county, Georgia is $1,000 per year.
Vicksburg is receiving more cotton
hail at any corresponding period since the
Over 200 barrels of
through Corsicuuu, Texn
It is claimed that more than fifty pe
atcr are carried
daily and sold to
:ette lias dis-
oduced by white labor. '
The Franklin (Va.) G
vered a spreading adder w
note, situated near its tail.
In the past three months 41,844 bar
rels of Hour, valued at $203,798, were shipped
ltichiii
nub Amerii
Diphtheria has for years been very fa-
ual iu portions of North and South Carolina*
nd continues to cause many deaths.
John Carman, sailor on the privatee
Wasp in the war of 1812, liv ”
Fairfield
queu
The Appeal thinks four months of
enforced idleness or exile have cost Memphis
$5,000,000.
The colored state troops at Memphis
received $1,000 cash and $2,200 in rations for
' eir families.
Indications point to another big fall-
off this year in the receipts from the Moffett
Sisters in Virginia.
Raleigh lias now three dailv and eight
weeklv papers, and now there are to be one
daily ami four more weeklies,
vid Clark, of Hartford, Conn., lias
iased the entire issue of Jacksonville,
Military bonds, amounting to $200,000.
The Vicksburg Herald says that the
°p pros,.
ilicatn
Mississipp
brighter future than
Ten alligato
six of them very largo
•ut of their holes in Telfair
la., by means < f hooks fastened on
The farmers of Washington county,
’cim., have an “Exchange/' or monthly
nceting, at which sales of surplus products
Hon Otho R. Singleton and Hon. E.
Barksdale, candidates to succeed Senator
Bruce, from Mississippi, are actively canvass
ing that state.
The negro Hart who participated in the
late waging match in New York is a native
*f Georgia, and lived for eight years at La-
Moffett, of hell-punch notoriety in Vir-
ilia, is a candidate fortheiegislr'
itc. His punch, like
Miss Miller, of F
old Rom
< him
i>d her lath.
Ellis county,
dogs and
whom her father
il with the y
had forbidden the p
Notwithstanding quarantine restric
tions, New Orleans had received to October
1st 55,487 bales of cotton, ns against 21,480 at
' i* corresponding period last year.
Postmaster General Key made ^
eoch nt the Jonesboro (Tcnn.) Ceiiteiinin 1
turday, in which lie ileinonstratwl Tenues'
u’s ability to meet all her obligations.
The Little Rock Democrat hn« found
two negroes, Frank Jones and .Sam Ducket,
aged respectively 107 and 117 yen
of whom’ ever heard of George Washington.
.Senator Jones, of Florida, has lx*en
■iinentmg
>roduced
liiiiks with
i the culture of
balls on a » „
; it will grow on the sand
hill*.
According to the Live Oak Dispatch
the orange crop of Florida for the
1879-80 promises to from ten to
per cent, larger than for the season of
1878-79.
Captain Paine, who .succeeded Thoi
burgh at the Milk-river fight,
; the
The “Cat Creek” correspondent of th.
Valdosta (Ga.) Times writes that the negroe
in that section arc selling oft'all their goods
chattels and effects to try to get money
Up to last Saturday there had been i
all fifty-six cases of fever reported to th
Morgan City board of health
the dcclint
id easily handled.
Norfolk Virginian : Governor Jnrvi
of North Carolina, received a letter thcotlu
day addressed to “His Excellency Monsiei
the President of North Carolina, Raleigh,
America.”
The Jackson Clarion says that Adcl-
Atucs, whilom Major General in
il Stati
Governor of Missi
sale cheese house
An ungallant
itself so tightly ah.
ippi
n N
York,
h-whip si
. whole
nke coiled
1 mark—a regular snake
too thereon. She pulled the serpent oft'
out run its efforts to bestow a like favor
the other leg.
A portion of the marriage ceremony
regular pr
eh. It wm
I submitted to without n murmur
During the past twelve years Missis
sippi has paid into the Federal treasury over
$10,000,000, and yet has been able during nil
that time to get not more than $500,000 for
il Improving h
harbors.
Pass Christian (Miss.) Hon Shore Ga
zette: There is a remnant of the Choctaw
nation in this county, about sevonty-fm
strong, and the males—about fifteen—will ex
, for the first time, the right of suffrage
t the ensuing election.
scribed: One young ln«ty takes an onion
tbc room, bites a piece out, then a voting
gentleman is admitted, and if, after kissing
all of them, lie fail* to tell which«bit the
onion, they arc all compelled to kiss him.
According to the Jacksonville Union.
ie total debt of Florida is, in round num
ers, only u million nud n half dollars. 8h<
.ftleials w
lay, u hi
•aught fir.
ude quite a hole in the fund-
Plmre
tsippi
diM
f Wilkinson countv
vered a process h'y
ual tlu
which he can make sorghum syrup equal the
finest Louisiana golden svrup. it is elaiiued,
also, that from good sorghum eunc two
hundred barrels of molasses, or eight thou*,
and pounds of sugar, can he made to the
•spondc:
A Little River county
>f the Little Rock Democrii
Ian Daniels, a jet black negro'a few vein
iinee, has been gradually turning white, an.
'nurtli black, his physieiai
years lie will he perfedl;
unlikely that leprosy In.
ing that in
ite. It is i
kfed Mr. D;
Danville (Va.) Post: We have taken
° ,,,tt ti»liaeeo crop from the fr<"
of last week, i
siou that it wi
at first Huppe
disas
t the
that
dcsiroyc.
partial dr
I, and many
local
hole fields being wholly
told us of
Chatham county,
Then
ivs the 1!
ho weighs only twenty-two pounds, and i>
limit the height and sire of a year old baby,
[e is perfectly healthy and quite intelligent.
usually large
eighing at least 180 pounds, Imt his fatliei
as the late Mack Hancock, of Moore county,
ho weighed less than fifty pounds.
Lynchburg Virginian: On Saturday
large bowlder of native white qua ‘
Wilde
mi the
regu
wliei
mark the
oiicwall Jackson received lii.s <
will lie
’ the
.-nth
wound. A simple inscription will he en
graved upon the stone. This service to tin
iicmory of the illustrious dead is due to the
ffort.s of Rev. B. T. Lacy, of Missouri, who
vas Jackson's chaplain. ’
Montgomery Advertiser: Our state cx-
lianges are divided upon the subj-
I the i
othci
tjoy
t tlu
; that
nattering prospi
there had been hut a third of a crop, in
north Alabama the crops generally are re
ported excellent, while in southwest nud
in southeast Alabama the crops arc repre
sented to he very poor. Upon the whole
there will probably he an average crop.
Montgomery Advertiser: The Mont
gomery oil works, the flouring mills and the
ice works are running almost continuously,
day and night, while the hug
its diapason to the rattle
itlu-i
id elan
:uhb
his hands full. The hum of the
busy machinery is spaced and pointed hy the
strokes of the busy hammer and the ehiiig of
the anvil. So much life and activity have
hardly ever been known in the history of our
city, and we rejoice at it as an evidence of
returning prosperity and thrift.
It is stated that diphtheria, in a most
violent form, is raging in various sections of
Oglethorpe countv, Ga., and that a nuniber
of deaths arc reported. One lady, says the
Echo, recently died standing up, while near
at hand two of her children were in the last
throes of death. Physicians pronounce it
very contagious, and shv all remedies fail in
its treatments. Great exertions are being
made to stop its ravages, but as yet without
avail. Greene and Morgan counties have
been suffering from this plague for several
weeks past, and a large number of deaths are
rded.
Speaking of the recent sale of the
Florida Central and Jacksonville, Pensacola
ml Moblc railroads, the Jacksonville Brc«
savs: “Yestcrdav, the Florida (Vi
the Jacksonville, Pensacola ami Me
from the V
Bradley pr.
legal geiitl
hoped is a flnnlit
id tlu
of this lo
■lenient. The purchasers are the Dutch
ndhold.-rs, and as far as these roads are
uceriicd, it mnv he said ‘the Dutch have
deed taken Holland/”
Tnskegee (Ala.) Mail: Never since
ii thi
uJSSB
ter state of feeling betw.
blacks. The Colored pop],
that the laws will \<
whites
Alo,
I'.-ji
■lids,
who, i
that freedo:
st rain I, and
ertv, thev Ii
relv on its x
influences
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Japanese government has in i
service eighty Englishmen, thirly-oi.e Aim
Scans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen Gcrmai
seven Dutchmen, four Italians, three Swii
three Chinese,two Austrians, two Portugue
and one Russian, making 181 feoreigners.
Secretary Sherman sent Win. 11. Va
herhilt a cheek for $-V),tHH) and one of aho
'. Flood. Bo
the:
mode!
orth of four p,
fell,,'
I the.
Paul Hayne,
of making liis li«>
the south shows
nit ho in poet, think-
iionul literary man. lie has been for s«i
•Its with Wluttier, in Ossipc. N. II.. i
enjoyed the hospitality of Longtcli
The City Hall at Philadelphia, all
tilings considered, is probably the most ex
pensive architectural folly on the continent,
already “ ~ ‘
capital has onlv had $9„5ftn,0tX) expended on
it, and Philadelphia building commissioners
want $1,250,000 appropriated for the next
year, and the ontsMe walls are hut half-way
P.ngiish newspajH-r, the Li
x'ews, has for a year past u
ling and seven distributing.,
ring of about $2.tNK) m r an
ed with the
chines earn better wages than their fellows
at the case, while the saving to the establish
ment is over thirty per cent. The machines
ept tabulat' d and displayed work, the iii:
er being set, spaced aud justified with grei
r accuracy and rapidity than by hand lab,
Rules for Action.
These short rules for action in case ol
accident arc good: For dust in the eyes,
avoid rubbing, aud dash water in them.
Remove cinder, etc., with the point of a
pencil. Remove insects from the ear by
—.iter people with taxation, will
,,r ..Wf' ,r O | every h
responsible.
f*na«nnatSnn Antonin rrpnrt ,
yield. Thos,
ment into the car. If any artery be cut,
compress above the wound; if a vein is
cut, compress below. If choked, get
upon all fours and cough. For light
burns, din the part in cold water; if tho
skin is destroyed, cover with varnish.
Smother a fire with carpets, etc.; water
will often spread burning oil and in
crease tho danger. Before j hissing
through smoke take a full breath ana
stoop low. Suck poison, wounds, unless
i your mouth is sore; enlarge the wound,
i or, better, cut the wound out without
I delay. Hold tho wound as long us can
bo l>orno, to a h<J coal, or the end of a
cigar. In case oHnnsoning, excite tom-
by ticklin; the throat or by hot
musG-rt In caso of opium
l>o wh*t la right
Itlgl.t tilings in greit and mull:
I'hen, tlnnigh the sky should fall,
sun, taouu aud (lari snd tU,
You shall bars light.
, , cryJsy
ht*esk what Is true-
Ti ne tilings lu great and small,
i' ..•u, though tho sky should fall.
-ould show tLroufk.
LIP s tourney, through and through,
S|>i-akii!g what Is just and tru.-,
Loiug what is right t,. do
Whj-n you work, and when you play,
Tiicu peat-,- shall gifd your war,
Though the sky should Ull.
A SHOWER OF RAIN.
Down came the rain in a pelting, mer
ciless shower.
At one crossing a miniature lake had
formed, several feet in length and
breadth, and three or four inches deep;
its shores on every side were mud—blaclc,
slippery mud.
It was amusing to see the hurrying
people drenched, chilled, uncomfortable,
impatient to be home, come to a dead
stop at this one crossing and hesitate,
with faces expressive of disgust and
dismay.
What chance had Ethel Thornton’s
poor little weary feet, so small, so mis
erably clad, in such a slough ns this?
.She glanced around despairingly.
And the next moment she found her
self lifted in a pair of strong arms, car
ried high and dry over the mud and
mire, aud set down on the other side,
while her rescuer, raising his dripping
hat, with a pleasant bow and smile,
passed quickly on his way.
She stood where he had placed her as
if turned to stone, following his fast dis
appearing figure with her dark eyes; her
hands were clasped convulsively, tho
color was flaming in her cheeks under
her wet black veil.
“ It was Frank!” she gasped. “It was
Frank himself, and he held me in bis
arms and never knew me.”
A quick sob burst from her lips. O
hard, hard fate! to meet thus—so close
—and part without a word!
Her lover—her promised husband of
one year ago.
Just then her foot struck against some
thing hard.
She stopped and picked it up—a largo
pockctbook.
“ Frank’sl” she said, quietly and hope
lessly; then she wiped it tenderly with
. . wiped it tenderly \
her handkerchief, pressed it to her 1
As she did this, she threw her
aside, for the tears and rain together
nearly blinded her.
I doubt if Frank would have recog
nized her, even if lie hpd seen her face
—it was so worn and weary-looking, and
so stained by the wet black veil
>y
Not much resemblance there to- Hie
pretty, piquant, blooming girl whose love
he had sought so eagerly a year ago; not
much in her appearance just now to
tempt any man to woo her.
So thought Mrs. Benton, the land lad
as she let her in, and stareJ at her utterly
drenched condition.
Glad >dccd was Ethel to reach the
quiet of her own room—glad of the cup
of tea her mother gave her—glad to lio
down and rest.
Flic grojK'd Mindly to her little desk
c d put the po- '.cthcok away.
• “ To-morrow, she whispered to herself
—” his address will be inside—I'll send
it back to-morrow.”
Then sinking wearily on her bed, she
murmured:
“ Mother, I feel so strangely. I wish
—now—that I had taken—your advice,
and stayed at home, to-day—”
The words came faintly, in low, broken
gasps, from her parched lips.
She la;
without speaking for somo
nla ted:
“I failed again—no work—no Impe
ller eyes dosed, her voice ceased, she
fell back, burning and shivering. The
poor child had contracted a serious ill
ness in that merciless shower of rain.
Meantime Frank Merrifield was anathe
matizing his ill luck in losing a valuable
pockctbook with hills, receipts, money
—all sorts of important matters in *t.
“ It must have boon when I carried
that girl over the muddy crossing. I
minute before, and missed it
otic folly! Why couldn’t I miml my
ov.n business and let her alone? Poor
little thing, she looked so wet and miser
able, and something about her somehow
reminds mo of ”
He paused and leaned his head upon
his hands in painful thought.
“ Why can’t I ever forgot her? Poor
little frail, falsi* heart, why can’ll let
lu*r go? Why docs her sweet faee haunt
ine everywhere—not bright and sparkling
ns I used to know it, but pale and rc-
proaehful looking? Reproaching me!
Ah, Ethel, how much I loved you! How
happy we might have been to-day had
you only been true!”
He arose with an impatient gesture,
of one who, hy an eflort of will, puls
vain regrets aside.
“ How to recover the* pockctbook?
That’s the present question. There was
money in it; the finder is welcome to
that; the bills and papers arc what l
want, and—her portrait. Yes—there’s
no use in denying it to myself, I am fool
enough to care for that. I’ll advertise
in the papers. Confound that shower of
rain!”
“ Three weeks, mamma? Three weeks
lying here delirious? Why, what could
have made me so ill? My head is so
strange I seem to forget everything.”
Mrs. Thornton gazed anxiously on the
girl’s wasted face—almost as white as
the pillow on which it lay.
“ You got badly drenched and chilled,
my love, m a shower of rain ”
“ A shower of rainf ’
The weak voice rang out clear and
strong—the dark eyes flashed excitedly:
she clasped her. hands, while a vivid
crimson suddenly dyed her cheeks.
reach mo my dc_.
Then she tc >her mother her «dvei
lure in the rail. and drew ottt of tho
disk Frank’s por -Rboofc.
r head doubtfully and sadly,
She shook
snd said:
“You love Frank still, Ethel—n
don’t you?”
face was hidden upon the pillow with a
great sob, and a little hand stole into
the mother’s pleadingly.
Mrs. Thornton caressed the hand and
put it to her lips.
“If he were worthy, dear, I should
say nothing, but he abandoned
Ethel. O child, where is your pride?
aaugh-
You are hoping against hope, my
ter. It would be cruel in me to entour
age you. Mr. Merrifield could have
found you had he wished; our address
was left for all who might enquire for it.
He has not even written to you since
your fortune was lost. I remember well
that his last letter arrived just as we
were* going to your cousin Ethel’s wed
ding—that was just a week before our
trouble came.”
Ethel made no reply.
Her face w’as hidden again, and sobs
shook her slender form. Mrs. Thornton
continued:
Would that you had never seen
Frank Merrifield! He forsook you in
poverty, and even when the far greater
sorrow of your poor father's death came
upon us, he gave us not on*sympathizing
word! O Ethel, think no more of him,
but rather try to reward the true and
devoted love that has proved so true s
friend to us. Dr. Jones has been like a
son to me through all your sickness.
is infatuation for one so unworthy,
and reward a devoted love as it de
serves.”
Edith looked up wearily.
“ I don’t love Dr. Jones, mamma,
though I esteem him, and am grateful;
oh! very grateful for all his goodness to
us both. But I shall never love any
man but Frank! .Some day Iwill tell the
doctor so, and then—if he chooses to ac
cept esteem and gratitude—I will for
your sake, mamma ”
She stopped, and quite broke down in
a storm of sobs and tears.
Her mother soothedher, and presently
she became calmer.
“Don’t lotus talk of it any more,”
said she, sighing. “ Let us find his ad
dress, and send him his pockctbook.”
they opened it and examined its
contents.
Notes, hills, memoranda, receipts, a
considerable amount of money, but no
add re
At last in an inner pocket they found
letter, and in it a photograph. Ethel
vn picture.
took it out; it
“ Mamma, mamma, look here!” and the
poor girl’s trembly lingers clutched at a
scrap of newspaper that was fluttering
to the ground.
“ O, what is
Bending their heads together they
read the following notice:
14 Married.—On Juno 4th, at Graco Chursh.
Henry Rollins, Esq., to Miss Ethel Thorn.'^n.
immediately after the ceremony tho happy
couple started on a bridnl tour."
Thornton looked up in bewilder-
out.
Why, what is that doing here?” said
sue. “ It’s the announcement of youi
cousin Ethel’s marriage.”
“ Yes, yes! and Frank thought it was
mine! I see it all now—he has believed
me false to him! Oh, my poor Frank,
he has l>een suffering, too*! The photo
graph—-see, what is that written under
neath it in his own bandwriting. Oh,
look!”
Again they read together.
This time 8hakes|>eare’s lines—though
slightly altered:
44 Wert thou but constant thou wort perfect—Hint on«
Fills the with faults."
“Oh, my poor Frank!” cried tho
cousin Ethel and I named the samel
And Frank never met her. Don’t you
see, mamma, how the mistakes have*oc
curred? And it might have remained
unexplained forever but for that sliowei
of rain! Look at that letter, mamma. I
must find his address now.”
The letter was examined, and, happily
for all, supplied it.
Next morning a little note came by
mail to Frank:
44 Sm--My daughter, whom you kindly as
sisted dining n shower of rain threo weeks ago
Bstoro your pockctbook, which she
kness haa prevented our attending
iddrc
sgivei
Mr. Merrifield stared at the name,
“ An old coincidence,” thought lie.
“ There arc plenty of Thorntons in the
world, of course,” and he set oft’ to re
claim his property.
A lady in deep mourning received him;
he stared violently.
“Mrs. Thornton!” he cried, “can it
be really you?” and stopped, confused
and angry.
She was nerfectly self-possessed.
“ I thought you would have recognized
the name, she said, quietly, “ though
our circumstances have made a change
of residence necessary. It was Ethel
whom you carried across the street; sho
has been ill since then, or ”
He interrupted her in surprise:
“ Ethel ill! Ethel whom I
Then getting more and more bewildered:
“ I thought that Mrs. Rollins was abroad.
I understood ”
“ Mrs. Rollins? Oh, certainly! Mrs.
Rollins is my niccc. I was not aware
you wero acquainted with her. It was
of my daughter Ethel I was speaking.”
Frank started to his feet excitedly.
“ Your daughter Ethel? What doe*
this mean? I heard she was married.
Oh, madam, have pity on me—have I
been deceived? You know of our love and
our engagement. Arc there two Etbeb,
and can mine be still true?”
A cry answered him—a cry from the
next room.
Mrs. Thornton flung open the door.
ered.
The next instant Ethel was clasped in
her lover’s arms.
Who shall describe this meeting?
Suffice it thnt they were as happy aa
thev had lately been miserable; all mis
understandings were cleared away, and
confidence returned.
“ And as soon as you are strong and
well again we will be married my dar*
“Thank God for tho storm!” cried
Ethel, earnestly. “ And God bless th*
dear muddy crossing! Oh, Frank, it
53&JS. £,.AVtS&JXto
shower of rain I”
. A NotH 1
r I Ft*Urartu# Vgs^h
No man knowshoi\ltw(£/
but from the tone;
THE HORRORS OF tilIIEUIAN EXILE.
A Tkrllllus DMrrlpIloa of
Of*the treatment of political exilea in
Siberia, I have a thrilling description
from tbs pen of Mr. Robert Lemke, a
German writer, who has visited the
various penal establishments of Russia
with an official legitimation. He had
been to Tobolsk; after which he had to
make a long, dreary journal ( ?) in a
wretched chr, until a high mountain rose
before him. In its torn aud craggy flank
the mountain showed a colossal opening
similar to the mouth of a burned out cra
ter. Fetid vapors, which almost took
away his breath, ascended from it.
Pressing his handkerchief upon his
lips, Mr. Lemke entered the opening of
the rock, where he found a largo watch-
house, with a picket of Cossacks. I lav
ing shown his paj*ers, he was conducted
by a guide through a long, very dark
and narrow corridor, which, judg
ing from its sloping descent, led down
into some unknown depth. In spite of
his good fur, the visitor felt extremely
cold. After a walk of some ten minutes
tnrough the dense obscurity, the ground
becoming more and more soft, a vague
shimmer of light became observable.
We are iu the mine,” 6aid the guide,
ointing with a significant gesture to the
igh iron cross bars which closed the
cavern before them.
The massive bars were covered with a
thick rust. A watchman appeared, who
unlocked the heavy iron gates. Enter
ing a room of considerable extent, but
which was scarcely a man s height, and
which was dimly lit by an oil lamp, the
visitor asked:
“ Where are we? ’
“ In the sleeping room of the con
demned! Formerly it was a productive
gallery of the mine; now it serves us a
shelter.”
The visitor shuddered. The subter-
rannean sepulchre, lit by neither sun nor
moon, was called a sleeping room. Al
cove-like cells were hewn into the rock;
here, on a couch of damp, half-rotten
straw, covered with a sackcloth, the un
fortunate sufferers were to repose from
the day's work. Over each cell a cramp-
iron was fixed, wherewith to lock up
the prisoners like ferocious dogs. No
door, no window anywhere.
Conducted through another narrow
lassage, where a few lanterns were
'laced, and whose end was also barret!
•y an iron gate, Mr. Lemke came to a
large vault, partly lit. This was the
Subscription, $1.50 R Advance. *
NUMBER 3. ! UnsedeS
Executed by Electricity.
Some German writers have long di% '
i tne evu lnnoencea of puAJ^dB^
u, whioh i>oMe«s th nation of
isationn. ^ to th*E ignorant
s, and i- ’ ul e *\'lh toe bru-
°f th^. iU „d of <M*ath. The
d the evil influences of j>uAJi#i
cutions,
a sensation
masses,
tality
garrote, thqT anj^'nlany other
improvements ,;^ r , e ccii£d due consid
eration, but g,,. v .tununtaliiiU have at
last concluded $ Jk-mn killing by
electricity is if, ro jJ thing. The
S resent plai^r m ,. ; . * exlates ute mur-
er by tlieWed itioiAr do an
other, but£*A <•!«. tnciyl can be made
to do the/i/iing - euiueientjeusly and
“ officially. 1 ' Tho walls of •tyi e room
shall be draped in black,
elude all iighL i’he only Article* of
furniture in the apartment mail be the
Judge’s d«ak and an arm cluir. In the
midale of the room shall lx an iron fig
ure of Justify-, with her scales and
sword. This <&gy shall hiwe, in place
of bowels, us powKfull an electric bat-
hammers. There ho saw
wretched figures, with shaggy beards,
tery as may be necessary. The battery
shall be connected wifu the armchair,
and governed by a meclr.illaan in con
nection with the sejiles. '/he scen'e shall
l»e lighted by a single tovdi burning oa
the Judged desk.
The only persons admitted to the exe
cution shall be tho Jidge, jury and
other officials con cornet in the condem
nation of the victim. That person shall
be brought in and seattd in the chair, to
which he shall be matacled immovably.
Then the Judge shall read the story of
his crime to him and reiterate his sen
tence. This performed, he shall break
a rod of office and t<*s it into Justice’s
balance.
The scales shall be weighed down by
this, and the electric current thus set in
circulation. As the balance descends
the judge shall extinguish the torch,
signifying that he thus puts out the
victim’s fife.
Thus the criminal will expire in
dreadful darkness, without a chance of
the sort of sympathy which so often
adorns the scaffold. It will be as solemn
and awful as the doom of impalement
that the cburrii inflicted on recusant
nuns.
Th# Buro and the Bear.
The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald says:
John A. Rockafellow, of Mount Morris,
is with William A. Hart, of this city, in
Southern Arizona, and writes to a friend
in this city an account of a very arnus-
gate, Mr. Lemke came to a 'sing adventure he had with a cinnaynu
' bear. The latter is a very ugly customer
to close with, hut our friend wa* deliv
ered in the most unt-xpeefc •* ainner, us
will be seen bv the folk
sickly faces, reddened eylids; clad
tatter*, some of them barefoot, others in
sandals, fettered with heavy foot chains.
No song, no whistling. Now and then
they shyly looked at the visitor and his
companion. The water dropped from tha
stones; the tatters of the convic:
thoroughly wet. One of them,
man of suffering mien, labored hard
with gasping breath, but the strokes of
bis pickaxe were not heavy aud firm
enough to loosen the rock.
“ Why are you here?” Mr. Lemke
asked.
The convict looked confused, with an
nir almost of consternation, aud silently
continued his work.
“ It is forbidden to the prisoners,”
said the inspector, “ to speak of the
list* of their banishment.”
Entombed alive; forbidden to say
why!
“ But who is the convict?’’ Mr.
Lemke asked the guide, with a low
voice.
“ It is Number 114!” the guide replied,
iconicallv.
“This I sec,” answered the visitor,
but what are the man’s antecedents?
To what family does he belong?”
“lie is a count,” replied the guide;
a well-known conspirator. More, I re-
cret to say, I can not tell you about
Number 114!”
felt as if he were stifled in
the grave- like atmosphere—as if his chest
ressed in by a demoniacal night-
lie hastily asked his guide to re
turn with him to the upper world.
Meeting there the commander of the
military establishment, he was obligingly
ked bv thnt officer:
“ Well, what impression did our penal
establishment make upon you?”
Lemke stiffiy bowing in silence,
the officer seemed to take this as a kind
of satisfied assent, and went on:
Very industrious people, the men lie-
low ;
? they
after tho
dual
But with what fcclinj
answered, “ must these
look forward to a day of
week’s toil!”
“Rest!” said the officer. “<
must always labor. There is m
them. They are condemned to p
forced labor; and lie who oucc enters the
mine never leaves it!”
“ But this is barbarous!”
The officer shrugged his shoulders, and
said: “The exiled work daily for twclvo
hours; on Sundays too. They must
never pause. But, no; 1 am mistaken:
Twice a year, though, rest is permitted
to them—at Easter time and on the
birthday of his Majesty, the Emperor.”
Duration of Eternity
Various illustrations have 1
gested to convev to the mind
of illimitable duration. It ha:
said, suppose one drop of the ocean
should be dried up every thousand years,
how long would it be ere the last drop
would disappeared the ocean’s lied be
left drv and dusty? Far onward as that
would be in coming ages, Eternity would
have but commenced.
It hai been said, suppose this va«t
globe upon which we tread were com
posed of particles of the finest sand, and
that one jparticle should disappear at the
termination of each million of years, oh,
how inconceivably immense must ho tho
period which must elapse before tho last
particle would begone! And yet Eter-
would then be in its morning twilight.
It has been said, suppose some little
insect, so small as to be imperceptible to
the naked eye, waa to carry this world
star the nana ol Goa lias n!
heavens. Hundreds of millions of years
would be required for the single jour
ney. The insect cooNMuoet on the leaf
of a tree, and takes its little load, so
small that even the microscope can not
discover that It is cone, and sets out on
its almost endless journey. Altar mill
ions and miUkfll of yean have
ght I was con ing up from the Santa
Cruz Valley, eighteen miles bcloiv I
waa riding a buio (jackass), but on com
to a very steep hill, dismounted aud was
slowly walking up when I came on an
immense cinnamon bear, lc.*s than
twenty feet away Of course to run was
out of the question, so I stood and eyed
the pld fellow and he stood and eyed me
as I slowly pulled out my six--hooter
from the holster. Old bear hunters -ay
it isn’t safe to tackle a cinnamon with
a rifle carrying less than seventy gra
of powder, and then give him a dead
6hot, as the cinnamons are worse than
the grizzlies. I didn’t have my rifle
with me, and as my six-shooter only uses
twenty-three of pokrder. I concluded I
not looking tola fight unless the
bear was. Whatever his intentions
were I don’t know; but my buro (jack
ass), who was some distance ahead, just
then caught sight of him snd—instead
of running away as one would expect—
started for Mr. Bruin with tail ami ears
erect, and to cap the climax commenced
to bray. This was too much, and the
old bear started as if he was shot out of
a guu. lie just tore up the ground, and
when he couldn’t run fast enough ho
rolled down the mountain side. ‘Old
Baa lam’ has played that trick hi* fore
with me when I have been trying to get
up on lo a deer, and 1 have always
pounded him for it, but last night I con
cluded 1 would give him a leather
medal.”
The oldeat Metl
&i*land b located .
id has been sold for |60. X
A Congregational churc in Illi
nois has refused a candidate its p*d*
pit because of his use of tq^Mice.
v uu uv.-u.u. »uv uv.w.uu-iCfffc M
r Jneral resources of the Bjick
_ only begun.
T.»ut salaries of fourteen of the pri*J-
pai officers of London aggregst* $124,*>
The Lord Mayor, in addition, rece««
$50,000.
The Erie Railway order prcscribin a
certain uniform for it station employs
creates, it is said, somo consternate
among its female assistants.
S-VoiMiRASs has the fault of abiuff-
*ss. He says if you doubt whether to
ns a pretty girl, give her the lem:fit of
the doubt, and go in.
A Scotch paper says that twD gen t Ic-
en. had a narrow escape from h<*ing
killed one night lately bv the fail of tho
hour hand of the town clock of Ayr
When Madame Celeste first viM’"l
this country, and was desirous f *
“ puff,” she wrote to au editor rSjues ing
him to give her about ten dollars’ w<>i ’ :i
of “humbug.”
The colored brother in a Virginia
church hit the nail on the head when V
prayed at the close of the white brothe/*
sermon: “Lord, bress tho brudder'/f
w hom we has listened to so patient/-
Disraeli, in his “ Curiosities of A u :
thors,” mentions a student who deyU “
himself so assiduously to the sti»y ^
the Oriental languages as to e/ ire ‘y
forget his own. I
The annual rate of mortality in Eng
land and Wales was 22.26 from 1^40 to
f if
/
1
*V J\
1850 ; 22.24 from 1850 to 1860;(22.61
from 1S60 to 1870; 21.64 ori .1*70 «f
1877. .. ‘ Vi
THE.friends of a Texas r m <e4m-
rff.ucd l>y
ply advlasd^thgt his death v i ar.i*-'d by
uis suspender. It' wasn’t At .oned
that his “suspnders” were mea-torA^
a vigilance cromitte. * ‘
“HEALTHYplace here? ’ asked a vist-
r who was nrosnoctimr in the neigli-
Colorado.
‘Stranger, yes,” was the replr- “TtaJ
ii, uu ».„ 0 men to
ago ws had to kill two i
set the cemitery a-going.”
An exchange says there arc six men ill
Sfc Louis wio have killed women. W6
will venture the assertion that there an;
six hundred, tho ouly difference beingj
oue lot did it openly, while the r*
did it with worry and bot^“
kinJne* generally.
A x’ompadoub dance is
name for what would be <
bull in Antaa^ca. An aft
her.
tuinmentof this £i
in the Iale of Wight,
was declared to be
pretty.”
To ascertain the year in
Congress closed, double tl
the Congress and add 1,7:
duct.—Boston Advertiser.
the virtues of the present
vide 1879 by itself and —
Cincinnati Commercial.
A New Bedford woi
a Spiritualist medium t’
bou^ had been stolen,
“formiaous best know
to accept the
tion. But she had
«uyi found
Edwin Booth in London.
The most important and interesting
theatrical news that has reached us in
many a day is the news that Edwin
Booth intends to act in I*ondon,and that
negotiations are even now in progress,
between Henry Irving and himself, with
• view to his appearance in that city.
Edwin Booth is our greatest tragedian.
He is in the prime of life; ho has been
thirty years an actor; his name is as
sociated with some of the noblest
dramatic undertakings that ever wero
attempted; lie has been of incalculable
benefit to the stage, equally by liis pure
life, high-principled conduct', dignity,
integrity and rare geniu>; he never has
had an c«|iial,on the Aim.-rican stage, in
Hamlet”
adieulie stands
alone in thos* characters which are
colored with romantic weirdness, and of
which the central attribute is spiritual
pathos; he has boon accepted in a larger
repertory of great characters than any
contemporary actor has even attempted;
and he is a better actor to-day than at
any previous period of his life. Edwin
Booth on the Loudon stage, accordingly,
will lx* a very prominent and pignifi'-ant
figure—for he will illustrate to the
British public not alono his own genius
and aeeonipli-hincnts, but the condition
of American taste and scholarship with
reference to the drama in its highest
branches. That public has already seen
our greatest comedian, Jefferson, and
has awarded to him oven a higher rank
than was claimed for him here—not
hesitating to name him w ith the best
artists of the best school iu France.
When it has seen Edwin Booth it will
fully understand to what a degree of ex
cellence the art of acting has been ear-
ried in the New World. “Mr. Booth will
go over next spring, and it is not unlikely
that Mr. Irving, a little later in the same
ycur, will make his long-con tern pio led
visit to America.
The Afghan Rebellion.
England has reminiscences to make
her regard the outbreak at Cabu! as
alarm og. Repeatedly has she found
that it i' one thing to invade Afghanis
tan aid mala; terms, huf another thing
to hold'L Hh$ * has found before, that
the na^r* cbWf who makes terms
her byeven f n appearance of a sac
dence,
If we wish to know who is the most
degraded and must wretched of human
beings—if it Ik* any object to gttage the
dimensions of wretchedness, and to see
how deep the miseries of man can reach,
look for the man who has p; ictf
vice so long that he curses it and
to it; thnt uc pursues it became hi
a great law of his nature drivi ighin
toward it; but, reaching ft, k.iowa I
it will gnaw his heart, and tear hiavil
and iuuko him roll himself in the
in anguish.—Sydney Smith.
Georgians have discovered
mules are uol deficient in intelli]
A few days ago a mule at Coli
trotted up >n a limj
Mui'h elioi* and dnfil
Iti.sections ol a practical man:
“ n e are going to have a bad your. I
must undergo some hardships and make
some sacrifice?. First, 1 will lower my
servants’ wages. Crc-nd, I will give no
more tips to tho
Third, I will get ii
as often as possible
filed
rugs
ficient to combat all sorts >f
During the last Turko-Russian •
medical staff of the Russian armvc
dered 38,000 pounds of quinine, lB.ft'
pounds of chloroform, 130,000 poundr
castor oil, and several thousand poom
A opium, gum arabic, camphor and ca*k
bolic acid. With these they felt puts?
pared for all emergencies.
Here is what they sing at public
school examinations in a Vermont*-vi]-
Inge, to the tune of “ Yankco Doodle,
’ 'iters and aU joining in the chorus:
Ii anything on earth can make
A great and moral nation,
It is to giro the little ones
A thorough educatiea.
And fire Unit s eight ore’fori
Till8 is what the witty edit*
Milwaukee Sun anysof the “into
or royal courtship of A1 foil
and Mario of Austria: *' ’
do for us to be a Prince
Alfonso - J ^*>ui
“ It would J.evi
5 Royal, una hai
to court a girl in tho presence of
baasador. We should ‘lose our cud,’
We shfu'u - - ,
and throw him out of the window.
There is little pleasure in being a prince,
and no young American with any sand
in him would take the position and
court a girl with au ambassador looking