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tentional frau I.
Mexico he* n mining excitenun
which riviiia the Leadvillc, Colorado,
creze. Tho Ix.uatzi is at Arras, 720
mill a wt-at of Matainorai, and so close to
tho boundary line betweeu Durango,
Crahuita ami Chihuahua, that all those
elates are contending for tho prise. The
pi i era I go vet mm lit baa taken possession
of it until it cm bo decided by actual
i in v«y in which state it is. The minee
lire cri’ed M>*.ad«>, and yield both gold
md tilvcr in luch profusion that labor*
otH me Jcwrting the crops to dig for
them, and the Sever Ihm extended a* far
as Mitaan.as
Enterprise ii sure to reap its reward
sooner or later. Thin ia .Swilr?rland,
U r example. It ii the smallest country
in Euroje, and yit it has the biggest
mountain \ While other countries were
Kiuabbling tbout increased territory,
S'wilx.rlaiid stuck to reel estate, which
it tightly considered tire highest in the
market. This summer over 1,400,000
i trsrg-rs visited the Alps, and a hand
some sum war taken in by the little
country in consequence. This visitation
exceeds that of any other year, and it h
to be Loped that theincretsed patronage
wi'l induce tl e Swies to fix up the Alp#
with all modern improvements and pee
that no expense is spated to metit a con-
tir nance, etc.
When* the pretent Pope was a Cardinal
he concaved the idea of pub.idling a
Catholic journal that should he anorgsn
m hiscl.urcb, and that could be read by
all the people o' Europe and America
in thiir mother ’auguagt. Sines his
(location to the Pontificate, he has ex-
cried himself to start this newspaper,
and now announces that its first number
will be Usued next month. It will be
printed ia k-v n difTncnt languages; it
will uiicuiuthe political and economica
questions of the day, and < fliciatly rep
resent the opinions of the Holy See.
Tire compositors arc to be the deaf and
dumb pupils in the asylums of llomc.
Alitrondo will he the general superin
tendent, and the Pope is anxious that a
Cardinal should be at thd he*d of the
olitoiial department. The novel paper
will start with 42,0C0sul sobers. Very
few of this number arc Italian*.
A y» cko ltar'an, who had been de
ceivcd and nblfd ly sn elder brother
recently committed suicide in Home
This brother was a mar ied man and
had a boy. Now, the young brother,
from the moment that hie elder brother
deceived and rebbrd him, knew no pence
of m'tid for an inUmo temptation to kill
his b otbei's child. To escape thh
trn ptation he determined to kill him*
«H. And fill h trull) e did. wen
to hri one right with a bottle of ether
ami a wine g*ms by his bed aide. Ht
began by taking one wine-glass of the
ether, end then wrote his impretsions
Ho thought that jKuhap* he would
pent of bis wish to kill his brother’s
child. Hut, on the contrary, in propor
tion as ho doubled his doses the wish
increased, and at the end of each phrase
ho repeated : “I have .“till a greater
v.i;h to kill my brother’s child.” This
continued MU tho twelfth glass, when he
wrote: * M ly thh the last. I can
wire no more.” He died.
f 1hk piiv&lh n Si* Gstgtw, Scotland
thii winter promises to be something
terrible. Tne Oljoeow papers are lull of
devices lor miti^atirg the hardship that
already exists there. Here is the plan
which the Glasgow News presents for the
help of the families of the 30,000 work
men who have noth ing to do and no pros
pect of having work or months to come.
The News stys. "O,* n shops, some for
receipt and others for the sale of articles
for the benefit of the unemployed. At
caril center let it be adverted that goods
can tine be deposited—c>j* Is, food,
c'olfccf, :u fact, aught us;ble accepted
with thauks. 8I;ops are too ea*Py got.
as so many are, unhappily, without oc
cupants. Toeiie would bs centers of
industry and c in passion, preventers of
filicide and starvation. In add lion to
central depots for th • more rough, ready
atd needful ar icle.*, let there be a
special department at which ladies’
woik is rec. ive 1 a vl soli. Paint over
the thops, Depot for Untmployed,’ or
’Doeini loye«l sSaleriiop ’ This would
rot Injuroordioa.lv e le'shops topu chase
materia’s to be made up for ours. Such
action would guarantee a f. ur months’
humsnitv baw.”
Eahi.y next year Htllimore will
c li l-rate the comp!etion ol its water-
supply tunnel. The tunnel is seven
miles in lentil at:d ab.mt twelve feet in
dlametrr. Upon the dsy of inspection
the water will ha turned on rradually
at the up|i r end o ! the. lumel and flow
through until about four feci deep at the
lower end. Several long boats will then
be launch' d into the mouth of the tun
nel at the Lake Montebello end, in which
the panv will make the trip through
the tunnel or water. They will be
propelled by paddles or Bh( rt
oars. By the time the party
has made half the distance tho lower end
of the tunned will be completely filled by
the water, which will be slowly turned
on Attheupnrr end during the trip.
Hetdllght* will be plac'd on tho boats
and at tho a-chce, which will have been
erected where the fifteen shafts now are,
brilliant lights will he displayed and
l\rce numbers will designate each shaft.
Kv rearrangement will bo made to
veut accident*, as tho drowning of
the party, which, of course, will inel
the c’.ly h !.«■»«, would be an iusa
c» m .■»p*r.iir* <.f h« great wator-wc
Tro trip ti■» tin’ subterranean river will
bj Uk* fi-.-t .»:i > I th rt kir.d ever made.
THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. If. BURN, I
JAMMU 1*. BUUSj
‘LET THKltK BE LIGHT.”
VOLUME IV.
HUT LEU, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1879.
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 4
SOITIIKRN SEWS,
Texas talk is to the effect that things
thriving.
A silk manufactory is to be established
lit Bayou Bara, Ia.
Arkansas wants river improvement,
ami from the government.
There is much complaint in the South
about irregularity of the mails.
At a negro revival in Pensacola a
woman lay on the floor for two days and
nights, apparently insensible, from excite*
Oranges, lemons, olives and almonds
are to he cultivated in Florida soou hy a
large number of Italiun colonists, on their
way to that State.
The Avalanche complains that the
peoplw of Tennessee have contributed to the
peojde of Memphis during the epidemics of
this uud last year little else than advice.
offensive that the people living in that
vicinity have been compelled to leave their
homes.
It is suggested that, if the supreme
court, of Tenuessee must pay the five millions
of pust-duc debt, tlie business men will pur
chase Fort Pickering and move their business
houses there.
At Rancho Grande, Texas, two high
waymen came into Brown’s store, bought
cartridges for their Henry rifles, turned un
muzzles in Brown’s direction and made him
hand over $500.
At LaGrange, Texas, a saloon-keeper
evades a Sumlav law by assembling drinkers
ill his saloon, when a ehupter or two of the
Bible is read and discussed between copious
libillions of beer.
William Beavor, of Louise county,
Virginia, on Friday last, tired of his wife,
niurdei
i their children are the only wit-
Every one knows that Congress is to be
asked to vote $5,000 to mark the grave of
Daniel Morgan, the hero of theCowpens. hut
few know that the grave is in Mt. Hebron
Winchester, Va., with the slab
ered it now nearly carried off
by relic hunters.
The Monroe (Tenn.,) Democrat says
that at the recent fair premiums were
lied for a yield of 7,332 pounds of buy
one acre of ground. One acre of bottom
land produced 109 bushels of corn and an
re of upland 172M bushels.| -
A wild cat was killed a few days since
nr Thomnsville Ga., after a very exciting
ehase and n hard fight. It weighed twenty-
pounds. Before its death it hint eaten
out of nineteen pigs belonging to Mr.
Sanford.
Two hundred photographs of the late
Jen. Ilood ami wife and their surviving ten
'hihlren have been presented to the New
)rlcuns Hood Relief Committee by a photo
grapher of that city. They were offered for
side at the Hood benefit entertainment Inst
Friday night.
The cotton crop of South Carolina is
nbout half gathered. The average yield per
nere is 400 pounds,twenty per cent, less than
Inst year. The loss is equalized by an in
creased acreage. The weather during Sep
tember was favorable for the picking, but too
dry for the maturing of the top cotton.
New Orleans Democrat: The deaths
in this city during tlie past four weeks were
323; for the previous four weeks they amount
ed to 332. This is the lowest death-rate New
Orleans has ever enjoyed, and the lowest
iiiminer mortality of any city in the Union,
being at the -ate of seventeen deaths per
thousand n year.
John Eckinan, of Fort Bend county,
cxn8., has given much attention to the
rod net ion of honey, nnd isbegining to find
remunerative, lie will have ten thousand
winds of strained honey this season, lie
is taken during tho season 3 2 pounds from
tie swarm, and will get another hundred
from the same hive.
The Picayune closes nu encouraging
view of business in New Orleans with the
following remark: “Prospects were
ever more encouraging for an active
inter, and at no time since the war
has a season opened more promise of enlnrg-
it commercial relations, or more abundant
ssnranee of quick sales and remunerative
prices for our great staples.”
Montgomery Advertiser: A shocking
accident occurred at Sharpe’s mill about noon
yesterday. A little negro boy by the name
of Masoii was carrying dinner to one of the
hands working at the shops near the mill,
when, in stepping across n shaft connecting
the ginnery to the saw-mill, the shawl which
the boy had mound him caught in the slinf-
ting, and in a moment the slmwl and hoy
•ere twisted into a horrid mass. Dentil was
Imost instantaneous.
Major Penn, a legal evangelist is
leeting with unbonded success in Texas,
judging from the following from an exchange
ning a ree
1 of Nat. (,
iiy wed pleased, nnti. uecnuav me necessi
ty for his contemplated resignation in Nat.
Q.’s favor was obviated; second, because lie
was relieved of the necessity, in anv event, of
keeping “Nat. Q." from tearing about over
the world of Erebus; and, third, because the
Devil was now assured of hope for his own
salvation.
Richmond, Va., letter: According to
the books of the First Auditor at this time,
the number of the white voters in the State
assessed for capitation tax is 17,000. Of
these 27,000 are delinquents. The' number
45,000 have not qualified themselves to
vote by paying the poll-tax. One hundred
and forty-seven thousand white voters are
eligible. Against this number we have 05,*
000 blacks who can vote. The total assessed
vote of the .State, both races, is 284,000. Of
this number 72,000 have not made themselves
eligible to vote.
Dallas Herald: \V. Hanghmok, a
farmer of Clay county, accidently met his
mother ill Dallas last week, after eighteen
years’ separation. At the outbreak of the
war he left Macon, Ga.. came to Texas, ami
subsequently entered the Confederate army.
At the clone of the war he went to Mexico
with Shelby’s command, and returned to
Georgia after the fnll of Maximilian. During
the worlds mother remarried
of hi
settled in Red river valley, canic to Dalli
yesterday on business, stopped at the hotel,
nnd this morning at breakfast was recognized
by Ids mother. There was a joyous scene.
Ilis mother, again widowed, is a lady of
means. Hanghmok is well off.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The capital dome at Hartford, jost
glided, has an area of 4,100 anoara feel, re-
qulring 07,600 leavea of gold, ioeliea
squire. The gold was 23 carats and weighed
3M pounds troy.
The chief memorial of Charlotte
Bronte is now being demonished. A solemn
closing service was held in Haworth church
a fortnight ago, and in a few months a brand
new structure will rise upon Its sight. The
crowded and hundreds had to be
be turned away from the church doors.
-TTrir Douglas, Jr., of Illinois, nnd
***”*?!¥.• of North Carolina, the
*—? Mtoyken A. Douglas, have recently
cmoam mm possession of about $200,ono by the
in their favor of a suit in the court
pfcJafaMfertho recover)' of the proceed*
from * quantity of cotton belonging to their
father and donfiseatcd in Washington countv
Miss., by the Federal troops during the war!
firat lie kiix*l her," the sutler uiK-iiiun d to iti.idr
the lines to hia Uctlte, a new ... v .:iintau<:<!. The di£
utroui reault it appended U-!ow.|
wistfulncsa in hia quiet, unsteady tones:
“ Mable, did you ever love anyone be
fore me?” he asked, so abruptly as to
startle her.
“ Yes,” she said.
And you quarrelled—this lover and
My maiden effort coufuscil.
The other half mined liicru
And I in anguish drovr a', ay
Psrt frightened at her, more;
And trembling like a blin-k-a
•asp sly and naq ilckly
"•If Ml upon her ear,
elf?’
I clasped her gently yield in-; form to mine,
I pri-M.-d my blonde musliu-lii- unto her peachy
Her pariont in ambush h
he r H|*.
Hit foot preyed me, and
I headlong piling.*! adow
meanwhile,
Waa Dot in idleness, alas!
I beard the watch dog’s hoc
; just aa I stopped to pres*
ike a panther at the pier,
the ataha. Ilia other foot,
aoud, sa I cliinh the garden
it bark In full pursuit!
—Si. Unit Journal.
MABEL’S LOVERS.
“And wo arc to be married in April,”
said Mabel Henry, with a quaint air of
assurance that made Mark Hamilton
smile.
Malnd wasft little, pretty pink-chocked
lassie, in height scarcely reaching to
Mark Hamilton’s wide shoulders.
That gentleman rearranged a dusty
pile of legal papers in one corner of his
private escritoire, and laid a heavily
sealed document upon the table.
“He has proposed then—this sapient
follower of yours?”
“Now, Mark, you’re just boorish! Did
not I tell you he proposed ever so long
ago—almost at the first of our acquaint
ance? And I, loving him, of course ac
cepted his troth, and—we arc to he mar
ried next April.”
Since her earliest remembrance, Mark
Hamilton had formed a part of Mahel’l
existence. Orphaned long before her
womanhood was gained, the guidance of
her earlier life had rested entirely in his
keeping, and she had grown to love him
with a deep, true, steadfast love, such,
she thought, as a child must feel for its
t »arent;for he was thirty-five, and she
mt seventeen this autumn day.
“You wish me happiness, do you not,
Mark?”
“You know me too well to ask that;
but matrimony is a treacherous craft;
you had best l>c careful with whom you
ship.”
Mabel rose from her scat in the door-
“ Not at all; we merely parted.”
“ You really loved tin* man, Mabel?”
qucsiioningly.
“After the fashion of most girls at
seventeen. We parted, however, and
that settled everything.”
“ But if he were to come hack to you
the same man he was when you parted
—were lie to come hack now, asking that
the past Ik* forgiven ”
“ I would tell him that I had forgotten
the past and him.”
* r ;lifT sat down on a low camp stool At
her feet.
“Mabel,” he said, “more than two
years ago I learned to love a woman
with all the passionate fervor of a life’s
first and only love. I wooed her, and
gained her affections. A few months
after our betrothal we differed, quarreled,
parted, determined never to look upon
each other again. Then, after a long
while, I came to Summit. We met, and
the rest you know. Do not think m«
treacherous, Mabel, in asking your love
when I did. I admired you as much as
was possible with the memory of Marion
Maye lying between us. I meant to ho
tiue and faithful to you; hut last night
Marion Mayo came to Summit View!”
His voice ceased entirely; and it was
well for MhIk-1's overtaxed endurance.
For a second the globe seemed reeling
lieneath her. Then she struggled to her
feet, and, slipping his ring from her
linger, dropped it into his hand.
"And you have confessed wrongs, and
righted them. Ah, well, so he it?
There is vour troth, Sir. Aldcn; Like it,
and my sinccrcst well-wishes. I hope
you may he very happy! Good bye!”
She watched him walk down the road
until the bend closed around him -..ml
separated their lives for ever. She cried,
of course; it was only consistent with
her womanhood that she should. By
aml-by the moon crept up, and with its
first streak of light.Mark Hamilton
walked into Mattel's presence.
‘ .Mabel!” said he, in horror.
“Oh, it’s vou, is it?” said Maltel, un
graciously enough. “ Well, lie’s gone.”
Precisely what I thought myself, dear,”
said Mr. Hamilton. “You see, I un
willingly heard a few of your remarks
while searching for a sheet of legal cap
in the hall. I know the whole thing
Maltel, and pity you a trifle more than
you deserve/’
•• I know I’ve been a great fool,” said
self-accusing Mabel.
“And I’m going to he another, just to
“If)
suhjecl
of lu:
will di-
horrible
•ullv
do not •
of hi
Alfred Mcrvin parlieularlv. You'do
know him, Mark, or you would, like
'hestrictest confidence in him '
haps,” said Mr. H.-iinilioii. w
sigh, as he folded together his <L
and trudged away in the direct
office. “But,” reasoned he, . .....
completely absorbed in this six-foot non
entity to think of herotfn good. ’
Meantime, Mabel was blissfully una-
5»re of all things save her lover’s pres
ence, just six foot to a hair’s breadth,
with sturdy broad shoulders and straight
features, with his studies hut hardy
completed, and with no specially definite
idea as to how he was to support Lis
bride—that was Mr. Alfred Mcrvin.
“I suppose we shall get. along some
how,” he would say. “You are not
afraid to trust me, Mabel?”
“Not at all,” Maliel would answer.
And they sang Scotch ballads in tho
■unset, and repeated love romances in
the moonlight, until the autumn days
grew measured, and a sharp breath of
winter in the air.
Then it was that Mcrvin came to her,
his face pale, his voice unsteady, to tell
her a time had come when they must
part.
“Must part?” cried Mabel, a white
pallor coming over her checks. “You
arc icsting—trifling, Alfred!”
“No, dear, I am not,” lie answered.
And then lie told her how the town in
which they lived trammelled, with its
narrow confines, whatever talents he pos
sessed. So ho was going to try his for
tune.
“But,”—and a shade of uncertainly
crept into Mabel’s eyes—“you will re
turn? ’
“Can you doubt me?” lie cried, catch
ing her to him ia a short, rapturous cm
brace.
She decided she could not, and he
wont away.
For a long while after that Mabel
moved languidly about,.nursing her un
happiness, and brooding over Mervin’s
absence. But even his letters ceased
abruptly just a month before the mar
riage day. The winter through they
come with laudable regularity, always
loving, always freighted with words and
endearment.
Of course Mark Hamilton smiled in
his cynical way, and told Mabel that her
idol had fallen to tho dust in her keep
ing. Perhaps it was only natural that
■he should think some evil hud over
taken her lover. But conviction gaine
upon her gradually, and hy the time she
came fully to believe him recreant, she
had ceased to care for him.
Now, next May, fate willed that
one of speculative inclinations should
fit up an old rookery, duhhed “ Summit
View,” and transform tho place into a
aummer hotel.
Fate willed it, too, that Cliff' A Men
should wander that way one golden Juno
morning, and meet Miss Mable Henry,
after the accepted fashion of all heroes
and heroines.
After an introduction
away played a lending part, she had
asked him, unconcernedly enough, if ho
were stopping at Summit View with his
family, when he answered that he had
no family; her feelings rose to a July
temperature. At supper, she detailed
the episode of their meeting in elaborate
rhetoric to Hamilton.
“Mabel, you’re a veritable goose,”
said Hamilton, when she had done.
“ I’m not angling for compliments, if
you please,” said Miss Henry; nnd kept
her own counsel ufter that.
Two weeks of almost daily intercom*?
sufficed to shpw Mable that Cliff’Aide
bad no tendency oj admite* Scotch ballad
or Tennyson. He was entirely Do
commonplace, “ too 'absurdly sensible,”
for her, she decided. And then liked
him all the better for the decision
Did ho propose? Yes; just three
months from the day of their meeting,
and in this wise: —
“ Mnbcl, we arc very ag
like each other, I hop**. Hupp
become my wife!”
That was his proposal; neve
able
he even with you. I know I’m old
Mabel.”
“Only thirty-eight,” protested Malnd.
"Ugly, not over rich, and in love
with you. What say you, Mabel, dear?
Is it yes or no? Come now, no blush
ing and murmuring. You should havo
self-confidence enough to dispense with
all such nonsense.”
Wiiat did she answer? I hardly kr
something of no importance to air
but their happy selves. She married
him.
Mr. Aldcn married Miss Maye.
Alfred Mcrvin? One day he came l
to Bustleton, as poor and good looking
as when he had left. Mabel and ho
met, oi course.
“Ah,” he said, “I thought you had
forgotten me, Mabel.
“ 1 never forget my friends,” said
Mabel.
Then he asked indirectly if she were
still single, and she said “No,” with a
relish.
Rules for Spoiling a Child.
Begin young by giving him what he
s for.
Talk freelv before the child about
urines
om pa ruble.
STANDING UNDER THE NOOSE.
A llrotuann’i Lib S*t«4 by Ilia Wlbl
lAll»r* from Hmm.
On a hot day in July, 1860, a herd*
man was moving hia cattle to a new
ranch further north, near Helena, Texaa,
and passing down the hank* of a stream,
his herd became mixed with other cattle
that were grazing in the valley, and
some of them failed to be separated.
The next day about noon a band of
about a dozen mounted Texan ranger*
overtook the herdsman and demanded
their cattle which they said were stolen.
It was liefore the day of law and
court-hou.-K «in Texas, and one had better
kill five men than *tcal a mule worth $6,
and the herdsman knew it. He tried to
explain, hut they told him to cut it
short. He oflerea to turnover all the
cattle not his own, but they laughed at
the proposition, and hiuted that thay
usually confiscated the whole herd and
left the thief banging on a tree as a
warning to others in like casca
The poor fellow was completely over
come. They consulted apart for a few
moments and then told him if he had
any explanation to make or busine* to
do they would allow him ten minutes to
do so and defend himself.
He turned to the rough faces and
commenced: “How many of you have
wives?” Two or three nodded. “ How
many of vou have children?” They
nodaed again.
“Then I know who I am talking to,
and you’ll hear me,” and he continued:
“I never stole any cattle; I have lived
in these parts over three years. I came
<• Hampshire; 1 failed in the
fall of ’57, during the panic; I have
been saving; I have no home here: my
family remain East, for I go from place
to place; these clothes I wear are rough,
aim I am a hard-looking customer; but
this is a country ; days seem like month*
to me, and months like years; married
men, you know that but' for the letters
from home—(here he pulled out a hand
ful of well-worn envelope* and letter*
from his wife)—1 should get discouraged.
I have paid part of my debts. Here are
the receipts (and he unfolded the letter*
of acknowledgement). I expected to
•ell out and go home in November.
Here i* the Testament my good old
mother gave me; there is my little girl’*
picture, and lie kissed it tenderly and
continued: “Now, men, if you have
decided to kill me for what I am innocent
of, send these home, nnd ns much as you
can from the cattle when I’m dead.
Can’t you send half the value? My
family will need it.”
“ Hold on, now ; stop right thar!” said
a rough ranger, “Now, I say, boys,” he
continued, “I say let him go. Give u*
your hand, old boy; that picture and
them letters did the business. You can
go free, hut you’re lucky, mind ye.”
“ We’ll do no more than that,” said a
man with a big heart, in Texan garb,
and carrying tlie customary brace of
i iistols in his belt; “let’s buy his cattle
icrc and let him go.”
They did, and when the money
paid over and the man about to start, .
too woak to stand. The losing strain j to il
Chapter on Flies*
You can sometime* catch a hast
n a fly.
The most Irritating fly is the fcpi
ball
The Terrors of the Gorge.
tvs paper correspondent has beeo
ploriii'/ the gorge below the Niagar*
• Falls, and relates his experience in tlie
fch following manner: The terror* of tho
fly. gorge below the Fall* are known to but
The Latin name for a certain kind of few. Indeed, the foot of man scarcely
fly is temjnu ftojit. j ever tread* this infernal region, where
You can always at this season of the almost perpendicular walls rise on each
year find flies on toast at the rcstau- „idc of the verge of the river from 270
rants. to 300 feet in height. Here the c-n-
Flies are always on hand early in the tinned crumblingof the rocks has form- d
morning. j a precipitous pathway in places on th*
You have all seen a kite flv. ; river's edge: elsewhere one mu»t cling
Some flies arc always in jail. to crevices in the rock, to, jutting crags
Longfellow speaks of a fly as a bird, 1 or otherwise, to get along. A party of
when he guvs: “ Fly, proud bird of free-, four of us made a survey of the interior
dom.” * [ of this canon from Lewiston to Sutpea*
people employ the blind to keep! Hon Bridge. With great difficulty wa
* ’ ’ : clambered along. It was a fearful yetex-
Irop of | citing exploration. At times the liver
molasses better than with a crayon. j would rise suddenly, some ten or even
I have £?ten seen flies hand-cuffed. i fift»-« n feet, as if a great dam above had
The spider is the only creature which broken, causing a nasty retreat of the
invites the fly to his parlor. parties up the sides of the canon. From
fly—"Shoo-fly.” i points alxive rocks and stones frequently
ising lively apprehension, ana,
) the catalogue of embarassments,
ional rattlesnake attempted to
ur progress, and one of them ’
j killed, and his rattles preserved in C(
the flics from the room.
The
Flies are
dammed.
A conjugal quarrel a promote!
hair flies.
Htage flies are painted.
A fly is conservative in his reading;
always sticks to his own paper.
Butchers and grocers exhibit flic:
their window*.
You can t drown a fly in the r
human kindness.
Although flies don’t stay lone
place, thev nh\avs can va trunk.
There are musical flies, l'c.ple
■peak of that base lly.
moration of the event. Getting into
the canon at Lewiston waa compara-
y, hut inakingone’awayout wa*
thing. Nearly a mile below
k of | iK veaux College, whicn is situated half
a mile north of .Suspension Bridge, the
one ! i.o*dbility of making our way along the
: river’s edge ceased. Night was just ai>
ften proaching, and it was a day’* hard wort,
n.-arly, to make Lewiston. Above, the
lowered nearly three hundred
We had the alternative of remain-
[X*w Tork sun.. ! in_ r in this alKule of terrors over night,
The Rev. Mr. Munson, who performed n i. l returning to Lewiston the following
before the day, or of lighting an almost impossible
pa-sage to the steps leading down from
Mesmeric Matrimonial Miseries.
his own marriage ceremony
Adventist congregation at Worcester,
Mass., and is now in jail on the charge of the colic
horse stealing, has finally lost the sym- the latte
We determined to accept
After an hour’* climb we
_y to within one hundred feet
r that he controlled her by me* 0 i tin- *->p. where just a narrow ridge,
meric influence, and absence from him f,, nm .d |, v the crumbled debris, seemeu
has broken the spell. Their union was ,xu-m*l. We f«.!lowed thi* pet haps
brought about by correspondence. Mwn- hail' a mile, wmi it came to an abrupt
son, who then lived in Missouri, wrote to termination. Sieve.. ’ rods bevond was a
tlie Dansyille. fN. Y.) Lntn o[JJ/e that hi...id pathway lending .:p to the college,
* * ' ' the hare call*
from the
hundred
ithe interval>
be wanted* “hygienic wife.” The editor bit
published the* following comments: 0 f r*>ck, almost perpendicuh r
“ This gentleman wants to get married, top to the rushing wi :« r. two
wants a * hygienic wife,' and want
to introduce him. Now, I don't know
the gerileman, except as he states hia
own case;-Aiu, jf there be any girl or
woman wly> herself wants Ho get married,
and would like to be addressed by
a m.m who claims to be a gooti
Christian, but docs
many oue who lias not a conscience jutting* of the rocks. The vanou* im*
toward, and an intelligent love f<
laws of life and health, she can address
this person as above. I give this notice
at his request, and trust that he is sin
cere in making it.” Miss Eaton an
swered the clergyman’s appeal, a large
number of letters passed between the two,
and at length ho went to Worcester to
see her. f'he did not like him at first,
ph ments of the party were divided up,
n heavy theodolitt falling to your corres
pondent, which was scraped on his back.
The tallest clambered up the crevic*
first, the others assisting ah4 following,
and the writer getting up last. Then be
gan a perilous struggle to reach tl* path
way beyond. All arrived there
J ‘ with to*
and fear
idei
the sudden delivercnce from death, had
combined to render him helpless as a
child. He sank to the ground complete
ly overcome. An hour later, however,
lie left on horseback for the nearest
staging route, and, as they shook hands
and bade him good-by, they looked the
happiest band of men I ever saw.
see her. Mic did not like him at first, when your correspondent, with to*
was | but gradually he gained complete control heavy burden on hi* back, wa* but mid-
, he! of her, and she did all that he told her wav across. Here a sharp rock just at
’ 1° cutting off her uncotu- the height of the breast impeded the
lomy ucamiful hair. wav. In attempting to get around this
Yon’U Have to Take it Out of That.” l!!' 1 ’,' I> ‘ lt . fail ??..!?_ bnd . “ re ! t A"?l p J r ""
Till I* I.HallTI.Y.
The heavy instrument was pulling me
. *'.'ll' V‘ “Viw. i.;ii- „ i off' inv balance. The fingers were losing
,,o w bviK ri'r-i v'i; ";z
fidcntial vhiaper that he would u kr »'wa. going down, . mid aw over the
riTrJir it i t s-'teL-wi: • vS;
instantly in tf.e hands of tho young man t “J^nck and drew mea roundi to
r , . l. ‘ ..„i„ a safe standing place. In a moment
examined theobveneto see if tho ; more tho Mthway wa. reitched.i.d the
,n • . . „ i i *| irt ; safety of all insured, but never will the
‘ UrC ThSSM -neloavo tl™. One of
e i„..„ ti. .. i,« the partv saw tho dancer and rescued
e stamp clown and aaid 1m tvJld • ^pamcinant or else tho goo^berry
1 u.. .i - the savins means—I hava nev
tood which.
t U-low, met the
l-pairing gaze of our party. Just above
ii r heads was a crevice *ip the rock*
hich seemed to cross the intervening
>.*ite. With r.lmost certain doom star%
directlv jn the fac^ we aeler-
bjf*ianding tip-
^‘iimbin^ to the
. i bush t
3. Tell him that he is too much foi
you; that you can do nothing with him.
4. Have divided counsels, as between
father and mother.
f». Let him learn to regard hia father
as a creature of unlimited power, capri
cious and tyrannical; or a mere whip-
ping-mnchiiic.
ti. lid him learn (from his father’s ex
ample) to despise his mother.
7. I)o not know or care who his com
panions may be.
8. Let him read whatever he likes.
!>. Let the child, boy or girl, rove the
streets in the evening.
lu. Devote yourself to making money,
remembering always that wealth is a bet
ter legacy for your child than principles
in tlie heart and habits in the life, and
let him have plenty of money to spend.
11. Be not with him in the hours ol
12. Strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel: chastise severely for a foible and
laugh at a vice.
13. Let him run about from church to
church. Eclecticism in religion is the or
der of the day.
14. Whatever burdens of virtuous re
quirements you lay on his shoulders,
touch not one with one of your fingers.
Preach gold and practice irredeemable
Greenbacks. The rules arc not untried.
Many parents have proved them, with
substantial uniformity of results. If a
faithful observance ot them dues not spoil
your child, you will at least have the
comforting reflection that you havo done
what you could.
A Blind Rat Led by a Straw.
(Columbia lOb.jSun.]
Since our notice of the extraordinarily
large rat at the polico station with a
voice like a human, we have heard
many rat stories. One told by a relia
ble gentleman we think worthy of re
peating. He says some years ago, he
was living at a farm, the ham of which
wn* burned, and with it many rats.
Some of the little fellows escaped, how
ever, with seriouvnjurics, and look up
their abode under piles of lumlier near
a creek. At this place the strange cir
cumstance ho tells of occurred. One
came out. drank, and returned with a
straw in his mouth. Walking un to the
lumber, he pushed this straw under, and
presently another came out. holding the
other end of the straw. The first then
started for the creek, leading his compan
ion (who was afterward found to be
blind) to the water. After the blind
one had drank, they returned in the
same manner. The gentleman says lit
witnessed the proceeding, and will
vouch for tlie truth of the statomeut.
A St. 1x)uts doctor, speaking of his
wife, says: “ I don’t love her; I havo
never had a kind word from her fot
years. When I come in from my prac
tice I want a pleasant face and a kind
word. It isn’t the woman’*fault, I sup
pose. G»»d Almighty himself couldU*
live with her, and Ho made her.” Had
the doctor no hand himself in making
her what she is?
insufficient';
laid the
take it, with" the air of a man ...
bound that uo one shall get the hotter of | cr u
him in a trade. Postmaster Mayo looked i
up and smiled assent — although
thought he smiled four dollars’ wort
while the purchaser began to hunt up . , IJ’wnutur.i
the money that was demanded in ex- Buying the earliest yuan of Sail
change for «Jnclc Ham’s little chroma | Bernhadt’s fame a gentlemw to
Through sevencompartim ntsof a ler
pockt tho >k the young man rumms
; How Bernhardt Masters t
John Sheminn’s First Financial Mot*.
Gen. Sherman said, the other day, bt
his brother, tho Secretary: “After
some years’ employment in the im
provement of tho Muskingum, under
Gon. Curtis, John was taken into the
office of our brother Charles at Mans
field, to help aliout the office and moke
himself as useful as he could. John
continued there until one day in his
2l8t year ho asked Charles for $60.
Charles was alarmed. What oould this
go* to Columbus to be ad
mitted to tho bar. This was still a
greater surprise. Tho boy had never
asked his brother to train him for the
law, nor did he appear to be training
himself. So OharleS*said to him, ‘ Yon
cannot be admitted to the bar without
knowiug some law.’ John insisted that
lie knew more law than some others
who had passed an examination, and
that bo was determined, if ho oould
raise tho money. ‘But why do you
want so largo a sum? was the reply.
John explained that in the first place
lie must have respectable clothing, and
that the balance would be required for
hotel and traveling expenses. The
cider brother assented; the clothes wero
ordered and on the very day that John
was ‘21 ho presented himself before the
proper authorities at Columbus, and
passed a very flattering examination.
On returning to Mansfield he notified
Charles that ho was going to Iowa to
practice law. The latter remonstrated,
on the ground that thero was room
enough in Mansfield for them tioth, and
that, too, in his owu office. This re
sulted in articles of copartnership, and
the painting of John Sherman’s name
on tlie sign as an attorney-at-law.”
like a woman after a
pockets were explored; his vest vault
were made to disgorge their freight «»
silver and bills; and vet he had no
found such denomination of money as li
>mcd sure of possessing. After on
more dive into the caverns of his poekd
book he gave up in disgust, and ivachinj
into his trowsers pocket, pulled out .
nickel, and said, with sn air of sever
disappointment, “Well, you'll have t
take it out of that!”
Taking Her by Storm.
A novel courtship occurred at At-,
lanta, (ia., the other day. While a
lady was waiting in the railway
station tor a train, a strange gentleman
walked up to her and poured out a tale
of love with such volubility and ardor
that she could not stop him till ho
wound tip with an ofl’erof marriage. Ho
informed the ladv that he owned one
acres of land in the western
part of the state, and was the fond parent
of two interesting children, aged seven
and eight years. He begged her to
marry him at once, and if she could not
do so. then to register a promise that she
would not defer the nuptial ceremony
longer than the ensuing Saturday. When
the lady got a chance to speak she re
plied that, never having seen him before,
and not even knowing his naui
could not for a moment think of
ing him in such haste. Upon this tho
passionate lover granted her a brief hour
tor reflection, and walked awav, hut re
turned promptly before the departure
of tho. train, and taking a seat Is’liind
statement that her hair
diencc had one night the exceeding bed
taste to persistently hia* h«r. Sbe-
“spotted” him, found out hisfeddiM^
called at his house, and had an interview
with him. I wonder how he liked III
Then and there she told him it wae al
ways her endeavor conscientiously to do
her d\ity as a histronic arJet and to
please the public; that the regretted
anything like failure in the duty, and
that she should feel greatly obliged if
lie would kindly point out her defects,
in order that she might correct them.
This spirited conduct won for her an-
doiiate admirer. Another day
n n certain Parisian paper the
< false, and
that her teeth were far too good to be
genuinc.Next day the dramatic criticwa*
amazed to behold a lady dash into his
room, and let down her hair in his pres
ence. “ Pull it!” she exclaimed, as she
placed a luxuriant tress in one of his
hands. “ Is this real hair or not?”
“ Certainly, certainly,” stammered the
nun. Catching hold of his otiier hand,
she opened her mouth—hut happily not
to bite—and made him finger her teeth.
“Arc these false?” shrieked the lady.
“ No, they are the most beautiful real
teeth I ever Ix hcld in my life,” declared
the terrified victim, who would willingly
have sworn that black was white if it
would have given his visitor the least
satisfaction. “I am Sara Bernhardt,”
|, 0 proclaimed the lady with as much
when — r- *'n
panied by A*
Statistic* r—
4. cay at an c*
^•clusively
monoAujurious t
’ F-*
—Rochester Express.
spo’s out of the above:
Fly
Bourn Journal of (
DoiUt you think
in a mild form of r?\L .
‘that women are poflKHSch'l
‘ Yes,” was theq
as tb jy are marriei
A .kan who* will coolly %
fellow beinjj trjr to 1
—t with lus nijr Ui *"
_ was built eu a
tion, und needs overb.iu
They told the old m
keeping a milliner stori
went home and told it, t
wondered what she kept *
store for. : . a
“ Don’t be afraid to
vants when they deserve IVy
exchange; but the minuth/
trios that on tho b' * J *
bunt for another *i1
lA»RI> BEACONSnXLD (|
itedby
trin
to lie 1(]
way
said i
to his (
I do, sir u
the other J
the youndhopefuL
dong.
Who* Mrs. y
nity as she could possibly put into
voice, and the wretched critic made
his mind for the worst. He, too, has
•e become one of her most devoted
sals, though, indeed, I do not know
o, r t T , an, taking »
h, ' r "> >" H'o «ir, he rcaume.l his plead- . ... * ...
»;* wt» nf.au,
* rriSjiinr"* k "’ 1
Aad quicklrTw mrihmJm*|
ft! £"**"“*
And she m«to ill I
H-r^KH Wi-Mrtrd a
Tldrty SI* b
Dnion.AR, hn$|
street car <
anxiety come >vetjj
clear at the otner
rnent she begin* \
long before she is |.
hi* wife down on he
round in the strair fed ^
she had droppod/untPlbe 4riv<
the lines about lAehtetogadi
help her.—I/awtt'
ings in the most ardent manner
thus engaged as the train pa*
and i
d out of
the station. It would be interesting to
know the result of this strange lo\e af
fair, but the Boston Journal thinks the
chances are that the ardent wooer won
the widow.
Paris, he may lie sure that, sooner or
later, Sura will go for him.
A Hardened Parent.
Charles P. Smith, of New Wind-
bid., forged a note, fled In
bee
eklos:
Effect of Eloquence.
A story in told to the effect that Rufui
Choate once moved a client to shed tears.
Tlie man, who was on trial for some
offense, listened to the eloquent plea
until overcome. He said, weeping, to a
fii. nd: “1 didn’t know I was such an
and rt
resolved t
ted Ids old ho hut l.isf
imI him awav, and declared ,
no more of his hndv until
IiOnrioii'g Expenses*
Tho principal officers of the corpora
tion of London arc paid as follows:
Th« Rccont.'r (m JihU* ni (Vntrol Criminal
Court and at lxtnl Mavnr’* Omil) 118,000 0 „, „f i, <
Ilrgtsinv ’4 Mayor * Court, who l* al»o A*- " a “ , 1 ,
»T.«.,nt jii.iv.- 13,17* I Stricken down by eo
Tli<* Omirn. II .Vrs.iuil •••••;•• 12,780 | hftllliOCk, Pa., and Rev. Ircoljl
TZSZISSJ ~ .uJ f who* lw tola Ilia «ion
Com^lrollc^iiJ Frolhonoliirjr.l«!vw ! new* to hi* father. wln> dei
’""““and see him. Tht! clerg;
injm
i-mnptio
1.1.
Head M.ut*
Br”l*trar „l
Fruit Mot
8*>li« i
The Lord Mayor i* v
sum of $60,000, free of
maintain his position; j
to this he ha* hi> robesy
has the ^npaion lb
live iu
graphed: “ lu God * name relent.
7. -0; take pity on the iv*»r, (lyinn lmv. e
' * Luke xv., 11-32,” qdjM-tetel!-. ;hr
| purahk: of the Pnltpl rion? hut tlu ie
$J»swerjA(Vpt tbi request t.. for
^UMin* when Chailc., \
lar effect is >wid to havo been
produced on •« horse-thief, by the elo
quence of ' Governor H , of North
Carolina. At the trial the-Governor
made sueh a touching address’ that i
jury acquitted the prisoner.
“Jem,” said nnoldncquaintance.aftefl
the prisoner had been discharged, “tnera'si
no danger now; but didn’t you stenl j
that horse” .
“ Well,” replied I’ve all ale
thought I ‘.<K)k ihAtS^gg^but
heard the Gol'fl
believe I did.”
Wrong influence of thls^
to react on the person utingl
ity is tho only thing that 1
confidence. Abraln'
^ t In doubt bow to act, don’t act
Just let things eort o’ work and clurcd that lid had never.
G low and keep a good “ watch in who*
Time*. believe.