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A V 7 ¥ IIIMCKimol On. ..tl 5ft ninths. 75 Three non tin * Me» ■!»«!> r l.«w Dfel»len*. 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