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Jatioaal fraud.
Horace Greeley’s daughters have
an offer of $10,000 for the tract of land
in Virginia, once supposed to bo almos
worthless, for which the great journalist
paid $10,000.
The largest block of granite ever
quarried in New England, has been
taken out at Woodbury, Vermont. It
was 280 feet long, 18 to 18 feet deep, 15
feet wide, weighed 4,080 Iona, and re
quired 673 wedges with- 50 pounds of
powder to start it.
The South will raise this year about
5,000,000 bales of cotton, 200,000 hog s
heads of sugar, and very nearly 600*
000,000 pounds of tobacco. This will be
a half million more bales of cotton, twice
as much sugar, and 12,000,000 more
(rounds of tobacco than she ever raised
before.
The owners of the Great Eastern have
at last determined to convert the great
ship into a meat-carying trader between
Jamdon and Texas. The requisite alter
•ntiona, which include new boilers, wil
involve an outlay of £100,000; but as
the vessel can carry 2,000 head of cattle
or 36,000 sheep .the speculation should
prove remunerative.'
Acx oRbiNG* 4 to -gligiior # Florelli, the
superintendent of ‘the*excavations at
Pompeii, the complete excavation of that
ancient city wilLtakesome seventy years
or more, and will cost about $1,000,000.
A yearly subvention of sixty thousand
francs is voted by the state while about
half that sum is’annually realized from
the money paid by visitors on 'entering.
The Mexican volcano Orizaba, 17,300
feet above the sea level, has been ascended
by M. Athalza, a resident in Pueblo.
Thirteen persons accompanied him, one
of whom died at the top from rarefac
tion of the air, and another a few days
afterward from erysipelas, caused by the
reflection of the sun on the snow. Sev
eral thousands steps had to be cut in the
snow to gain the summit, and the expe
dition occupied four days, one of which
was a blank owing to rain and snow.
Baron Muller, in 1859 first made the
ascent, and he has had very few succes
sors.
The infiltration system of salting lteef
by filling the blood vessels with brine is
attracting considerable attention in Aus
tralia. In some recent experiments at
Brisbane bullocks were treated as follows:
At the instant of killing the animal’s
heart was laid bare and incisions were
made in both ventricles. Into the orifice
of the left ventricle a pipe was inserted,
and a stream of weak brine was forced
through the blood vessels, washing out al I
■ the blood. Pressure was obtained by
having the brine in an elevated tank. Af
ter the expulsion of the blood the right
ventricle was closed by a clamp, and
stronger brine was forced in until all the
blood vessels were full. In this way the
distribution of the brine through every
part of the meat is said to be complete
and the curing perfect. It is pro|K>sed to
send to the Sydney Exhibition a whole
bullock thus preserved.
France is a happy country. While
every other nation in Europe is bemoan
ing over deficits and financial difficulties,
her revenue is pouring in and exceeding
the estimates by large sums. The returns
for the month of September have just
been made up, and they show that the
receipts exceed the estimates by 14,000,-
000 francs. The total sum received dur*
ing the first nine months of the present
year exceeds the estimates by 108,000,-
000 francs. So that, if France continues
to progress financially during the next
quarter of 1879 in the same ratio as she
has done during tire past three quarters,
at the end she will find herself the pos
sessor of a surplus of between $20,000,-
000 and $30,000,000—a sum nearly as
large as the deficit which I/>rd Roacons-
field’s government have created for their
successors to wipe off.
Fortune, never tired of favoring the
Irish, has bestowed upon them another
distinction. In the hands of one of their
race is at last the largest diamond. One
Mr. O’Flaherty has found, we are told,
at the Cape Fields, no tiny gem, but a
huge mass of brightness weighing one
hundred and fifty carats, and promising
to be a very mine of wealth. The largest
every known before when cut proved
only to weigh one hundred and eighteen
and a half carats; the Koh-i-noor does
not boast of more than two-thirds that
weight; yet an Irishman, whose claim is,
it seems, in the very middle of the
diamond mud, has quietly lifted this
large and brillant stone from the earth
and ta^en it down to the Cape. He is
said to have three courses open to him—
he can dispose of it at once to speculators
on the spot; or, bringing it to England,
he can sell it to be cut; or he may have
it cut at his own expense, and take his
chnnce of a colossal fortune or compara
tively little.
w. n. BIRRS, .
IAUBR IS. I
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1879.
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 5.
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For leave to aeil land..
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Notice to debtor* i '
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Sale of periahnble property.
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ance of the advert
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
They are praying for rain in northern
and northwestern Texaa.
Potatoes weighing four and a quarter
pound* are common in Georgia.
An extensive revival is in progress in
the Methodiat Church at Brownsville, Tam.
Ex-Gov. James I). Porter is looming
up ugaiu in Tennessee as a probable Demo-
ratio cundidate for governor.
The rice crop of Houth Carolina for
the year is estimated at 41,000 tierces, and
that of Georgia at 20,000 tierces.
Wild tea grows in abunduuce in
Arkansas county, Arkansas, und the
people will discard the l.'hinese article.
The Arkansas Gazette proclaims that
ere is no yellow fever in Little Rock ami
that there has beeu none there this season.
The re-union of Gen. Cook’s Georgia
brigade, during the Geogia State fair, is all
the talk with ull the veterans of thut com
mand.
For the week ending the 9th there were
4,287 bales of cotton received at Selina, Ala.,
against 6,203 bales received the same week
last year.
The Kaufman (Tex.) Times says that
fifty-six public free schools have been organ
ized in that county for the present year, edu
cating 1,943 children.
The Wilmington (N. C.) Star calls up-
i the next legislature of the Ktatc to puss
i act for the encourugeiueiit of sheep rais
ing. which ean be mudemost profitable there.
Texas owes $5,200,000, of which $1,600,-
000 belongs to the school fund, and is iu
bonds held in the State Treasury. The inter
file public debt amounts to $4000,000 a
y«»r/
.Selma (Ala.) Argus: Mr. W. D-
Chipley has taken charge of the Pensacola
d Selma rail roadt formerly Selma and Gulf;
general manager ami will have his head
quarters iu this city.
The San Diego Messenger says the
small nox is ou the decline. Very few cases
developed the past week, ’the disease
the decline iu other pluces in Western
Texas bordering on the Rio Grande.
Esuuirc Martin, of Mindon, La., has
held the office of justice of the peace there
for thirty-four years, ami has never had an
uppeal taken from a decision made by him.
e is, in fact, a notable pub. func.
Knoxville (Teun.) Tribune: An ad
journed meeting of the Tennessee Medical
•iety will be held on the 17th of November,
the purpose of
for the meeting of
ion, which occurs in Nashville on the 18th.
Memphis Avalanche: Numerous cases
of absolute poverty and starvation arc brought
rday. As an instance of the
onned that about fifty applica-
ie to Dr. Porter yesterday for
rations.
Memphis Avalanche: It is said that a
negro fisherman, after saving a portion of
■* freight floating bv the city from the
•eked steamer Katie Kouutz. was forced to
vie” w ith one of the river pickets to avoid
pst. A case for military investigation.
Seventy-four pupils are educated at the
Sum Houston Normal School at Huntsville,
Texas, free of charge, to become teachers in
the public schools. The Legislature has np-
riated $14,000 for this purpose, and the
•ody fund gives $ii,000more,making $20,-
i year for this great and beneficent work.
•eal: M
England
laud in bcluilf of the immigration to the val-
• last spring are well remembered, has scdtl
.•enty-fivc acres of his farm, near Staunton,
Mr. II. D. de Hruyn, of Russia, at $47.50
per a
ed, ia 448,91
ol money is
the warrants for this fund will not he
until January I, at which time the interest
itiires. The warrants will also be cashed
that time. Tennessee expends anuuallv
9,513.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: We
pntioned yesterdav that (lie Georgia Legis
lature had reduced taxation about 339,000
dollars in two years in the aggregate. We
misunderstood. That amount is the saving
of only one fiscal year. For the two which
provided for the amount will he double
that sum. It pays to have such General As
semblies.
The Georgia legislature was in session
150 dnvs, and the expenditure amounted to
r 148 v
> the *
p killed c
iwl, lei
Of the
•ing 90
ful I v
signed
The Partner for Mfo.
Many a man hu wen hie choice for a
partner in life in the humble girl Ur
ticneath him in the opinion of the world,
and although lore and pride might have
struggled with him for a while, yet pride
triumphed, and he lought one from the
higher welb of life. In all the viciiei-
tudes of nodal existence, there ia noth
ing capable of inflicting more certain
misery then it aura to follow such a
course. Itdlstractathegsneixl harmony
of our days, misshapes our euds, shortens
the length of life, lessens the stature of
manhood, and ia contrary to the divine
inatructions ofthe Bible; for it dcclarca
where love ia there ia peace, plcutv and
thriftiness. Everything is sure to follow
a happy union. Let not pride interims
in this matter.
ailing.
Baltimore Sun: Tile total armed and
equipped infantry force of Maryland is not
over 830 men. Of these the Fifth Regiment
infantry, 525 men, is in Baltimore city, two
infuntry companies iu Baltimore county, 145
nc in Anne Arundel, sixty-five inen;
Cecil, sixty men, and one in Queen
Anne's county, sixty-four men. Than*
besides a cavalry force of about 200 men,
ie company being each in Baltimore City,
'orcester, Hartford and Anne Arundel
counties.
New Orleans Democrat: Probably Jit
• time since the war has there been a great-
denmud iu this city for skilled labor tlinn
at present. House carpenter*, painters, briek
masons, cistern makers, slaters, and, indeed,
competent workmen in nil tbe trades are iu
demaud. In every portion of the city old
buildings are being renovated and improved
*■ J buildings are being
the prepar
01 traae.
Gainesville (Fla.) Sun: We notice
ere a common practice of selling and ship
ping cotton seed. This is sending out of the
country one of the best enrichers of the soil,
bushel not used for seed should be
land, the enhancement of its product
>aeity will he Niirnisiug. The nest lands ean
ic improved ami the poorest lands can bo
nadc to do astonishingly.'We advise our farm-
rs to save their cotton seed and enrich their
lands with them, and try for a harvest next
year that will largely make up for the deficit
of this.
The lawlessness in Baldwin and Hatt-
ok counties, Ga., is receiving the proper at
tention of the authorities. A Sparta tele
gram to the Augusta Chronicle savs: The
people of Hancock are determined to protect
white and black from outrage, and our able
and fearless Judge, K. H. Pottle, is d<
mined to assert the
throughout his circuit,
people of Hancock an* fully
cause of law and right. To go into further
particulars might defeat the end which every
good citizen wishes to see attained. There
e not more than a dozen men in thn hand,
id the trouble is personal, not political.
The most recent fruits of Southern in-
ntive genius hnye received letters patent
follows: Louisiana, G. Jaconet & Co., New
Orleans, trade mark for smoking and chew
ing tobacco, “Currency;’’ Alfred W. .1. Mason,
New Orleans, construction of privy and other
vaults; J. Auguste LcBlanc, New Orleans,
rain water cut-off. Florida—8. S. Mever,
llawkinsville, fruit gatherer; Toledo «fc flat-
raneo, Key West, trade mark lor cigars,
“Progress/’ Texas—H. K. Necdhan, Denison
City, post hole diggers; A. K. Lee, Galveston,
reissue, process of reducing n.sphaltum to a
liquid. Spanish patent—Alejandro P. DePo-
ladura, New Orleans, curing tobacco.
Wilmington, (N. 0.) Star: As North
Carolina is, for the present, committed to the
policy of pardoning criminals through the
Chief Executive, there is one change that
might be made, and probably with satisfacto
ry results. A law might he passed that, m
trial* of murder, whenever a recommenda
tion of mercy is made by the jury, this shall
commute thescntcL-'e of the court tv impris
onment for life in th* penitentiary. Years
I ago Judge Hall, of Georgia, drew a bill of
this kind. It was passed by'the legislature.
During the last ^session a grcat.ciamoi-'W as
made to repeal it, but in vain. It is claimed
by I hose thut have watched its workings that
it is an excellent law and is beneficial.
Charlotte, (N. C.) Democrat: The col
ored people ut some of their protractad meet
ing!! in tne eastern counties, have a novel
mode of worship or of mining mouey. They
call it “storming Jerioho,” They form a ring
and walk around a table at which the Bishop
sits. As they march, singing and shouting,
they have to put money in his hat When
they go round for the seventh time a born is
blown, and at this signal they nil fall down
and lie as if dead, when at another given sig-
nul they all rise and go through the sauieeer-
enjonv. The latter part is called the “blow
ing of Gabriel’s horn,” or the Nndgmcut day.
In this part of the state they have “holy
walks” and “cake walks," and enjoy them-
seives generally in a “highfalutin” manner,
sometimes to the annoyance of persons who
want to sleep.
Concerning the proposed Florida ship
canal. Mr. Aspinwall, who represents the
French capitalists interested iu the work,
says: “All that is wanted now is a charter
from the legislature, the difficulty in this
respect lyiug in the fact that the Florida leg
islature does not meet until January, 1881.
They ask, therefore, that the Governor shall
call an extra session of the legislature, Gov
ernor Drew is now in New York, and on be
ing questioned on tiie subject said that his
people were in favor of the canal, and if the
report which the engineers have now gone
over to Paris to make to their principals is
satisfactory—which he will know iu a few
days—and if it be shown to him that the
money will be forthcoming, lie w ill call an
extra session of the legislature to consider
the grant of the charter.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The dowry of the future queen of
Spain has been paid into the National Bunk
at Vienna. The sum is 20,000,(i00f, or $4,000,-
000.
The oldest minister in New England,
Rev. Dr. Moses, of Portsmouth, N. H., has
pleached sixty-five years. He is uinetv-i*
yearsold.
Hon. Peleg Sprague,of Maine, the old
est living congressman, is now eighty-five
years old, and entirely blind. He served his
first term in 1825-27.
Senator Thurman, of Ohio, is by birth
a Virginian. He was elected to the senate
ten years ago as successor of Ben Wade, and
is now sixty-six years of age. His term ex
pires iu Mareli 1881.
In a new melodrama at the Sum Thoa
ter, London, a Thames boatman rows into
sight and uncovers a man painted to repre
sent a corpse just tuken from the river. The
audience goes w ild delight.
The English think of lighting the
mouth of the Thames with tin* electric light.
Two buoys lighted with gas at present make
the night entrance to that river safe.
At no former iteriod has the lottery
been so flourishing in Rome, where there are
no fewer than eghty-nine offices ready
to take in the hard earned pittances of the
people. No where else is tne institution so
demoralizing as among the Romans, who are
wedded to old games, and who, in order to
(day at the “lotto,” will sell'the last mattress
off their beds, the shirt off their backs, or
starve, beg, steal or stab.
A correspondent has sent us a startling
letter from Miss M. Betham Edwards,
from which we give an extract: “I
Bend you the following particulars of a
recent scientific invention, just patented,
and destined without doubt to play a
very important part in our economio
history. I think it must be regarded as
a solution, for once and for all, of the
great coal question, or rather fuel ques
tion, not only among ourselves but
abroad. M. Bourbonnel, of Dijon, the
celebrated lion and panther slayer,
lighted upon the following discovery by
hazard, and after six years’ persistent
investigation, brought it to entire ‘ work
able’ perfection. He discovered, by
means of two natural substances, inex
haustible in nature, the means of light
ing and maintaining a fire without wood
or coal; a fire instantaneously lighted
and extinguished; a lire causing no dust,
smoke or troube; a fire costing onc-tcnlh
at least of ordinary fuel; and, what is
more wonderful still, a fire, the portion
of which answering to our fuel, is ever
lasting, that is to say, would last a life
time. M. Bourbonucl’s invention com
prehends both stove and fuel. The fires
could be on the minutest scale or on the
largest. They would lie used for heating
a baby’s food or for roasting an ox.
Being lighted instantaneously, they will
be a great economy of time. M.'Bour
bonnel at once patented his invention,
and a body of engineers and savants
from Paris visited him and pronounced
his discovery one of the most rontnrkablo
of tbe age. He has had several oilers for
the purchase of the patent in France,
but wants to sell it in England, bis own
occupation being in another line. Any
English gentleman or firm wishing to
■ee his fires or stoves could do so by
writing him a day or two before
hand. His address is M Bourbonnel,
Dijon. ***** i have seen these
fires and stoves. There is no mistake
about the matter. It is as clear as pos
sible that here we have a perpetual and
economical source of fuel,
ears ago the discoverer would
iave been burned as a wizard.”
RcquimnciitH of School Teachers.
In the London Board schools all as
sistant mistresses and female pupil
teachers, after the second year, are re
quired to teach cutting out and all other
branches of needlework for three hours a
week during afternoon school; "iris in
the older clauses are taught four hours a
week. The materials required are sup-
S lied by a requisition upon the head of-
ce, made once a quarter, every toucher
being held responsible for the same, and
required to account for it. Every head
teacher is also required to rii*|K)se to
the best of her auilitv of the articles
made by the children; all these garments
ere sold at cost price, including the vari
ous material put into them, but not the
implements used for making them. In
every school the needlework is in.-pecLed
once’ a year, and specially reported upon
to the board. In this system of teaching
sewing, the great difficulty which the
board lias had to overcome has been iht
finding of competent teachers.
A Frugal Foreign Minister.
(Washington Republic.]
In the matter living, foreign Ministers
In Washington are sometimes very fru
gal. Not long ago a foreign minister of
a first-class power asked a prominent gen
tleman of the city to breakfast with him,
saying the meal would be a quiet one.
The gentleman felt honored, and took a
good appetite with him to the minister’s,
not a thousand miles from Welker’s, the
next morning. The minister was very
affable, hut made some excuse, ending by
inquiring if his guest could breakfast on
rye bread and Rhine wine. Expecting
some surprise, the gentleman said he was
very fond of/ye bread aud Rhine’wine,
ana so the way was led to the dining
room. 8ure enough, there was nothing
on the table but rye bread and a little ‘
butter. The gentleman concealed his I
surprise, expecting, at least, a glass of
superior Rhine fine, and got along the
best he could with the bread and butter.
But b<* di-‘ • get tbe wiue!
altUHIUNCL
tMcret svermore!—
O send# eyes! tint look n
Reading my soul’s swset i
Eyss so serene! of Heaven's Intense*! blust
Sweet violet arts that saints would fnln sdorsl
Wbst magkspell bsvt ys srouud ins cart?
V
To to,
To lot
t gen Us force, nuking s willing slsvi
* net dream, while life Itself shall issi—
i, that ends not In tbo gravef
>uld I flee thy presence, but In vain
I try; y e hold me ever by some spell;
By bonds unseen, some power I osnnut t«
Yet fleeing thee forever would be psln.
0 gentle, violet eves I serene and pure!
1 sui tl.y faithful subject evermore!
HUNTED DOWN.
early
‘Then you cast me from you? You
will not marry me?”
The white-faced man averted his proud
•yes.
“ I cannot,” he said, with inherited
pride, hut half chokingly. “ You know
why, Maude. I need not explain again.
I hope you will clear yourself of the
frightful charge that hangs over your
head. It is an awful thing to be accused
of murder. Why, they are calling you a
Borgia in the town.”
She a Borgia! That lair young girl,
whose hair was a silken sheen of gold, a
murderess!
“ Well, what do you say f’
“I want you to come out.of the fire
with clean hands, Mamie. You do not
think that I wish vour condemnation,
girl?’
“He who !b not bra.vely for me is
aeaiust me!” rung out the clear voice of
Maude Holden, und the handsome man
started back.
“ Against you, Maude? I ”
“Yes, sir, you!” was the response.
“Alfred Bersford, what have you sought,
my hand or my uncle’s money? Thia night
we part forever. My hands are washed
of that old man’s bltfod. Not on my
soul rests the sin of his ruthless taking
off What I believe I will not tell; the
years shall avenge my uncle’s death.
Good-bye, Alfred. Poor, proud man,
Maude Holden pities you. ’
The pretty hand of the girl was held
out to him, but he took it not. That
hand, often kissed by him, was charged
with murder: to touch it now would
contaminate the Bersford name, and tar
nish the honor of a proud family.
Refusing the dainty member, white
and dimpled as a child’s, Alfred Be rs ford
turned away with her last words ringing
in his ears, and with a “good-bye” which
■hould have been a “farewell,” on his
lips.
Maude Holden leaned against one of
the porch pillars with a long drawn dgh,
and watched him till his figure dteiip-
E cured; nor did she move until sho
eard the hoofs of his horse on the
bridge not far away.
She then sought the interior of the
old mansion, over whose threshold tiie
law had lately stepped, und arrested hei
in the name of justice for her uncle’i
murder.
Mamie had been hisprotege situ
girlhood.
The rich man was found dead in his
bed, and the odor of bitter almonds set
many rumors afloat.
These increased when the coroner’s
jury determined that the old man had
come to his death by poison, and, while
it did not declare Maude guilty, it i«
said that the deathly substance hud been
administered by some person connected
with the household.
Maude was arrested, admitted to bail,
and permitted to return to her homo,
there to await her trial.
There, as we have seen, the marriage
engagement between her and Alfred
Bcrsford was dissolved.
But the fair girl was not left friend
less.
Maude had friends wbo believed in
her innocence; among them Basil Bos
ton, a young lawyer, who was to assist iu
her defense.
“ The girl is innocent. She is the vic
tim of some designing person. Let me
prove this, and Heaven willing, the years
and my love will bring my reward,” he
said.
Tocuia long story short, Basil Eustoti,
by a display of legal skill that electrified
the bench, secured his fair client’s tri
umphant acquittal.
Bcrsford did not attend ‘he trial.
He passed the time between hi-, last
interview with Maude and her urquitul
among relatives al the north, und did not
return until the mysterious affair had
Reused to be the topic of conversation.
“ He’s come back to mo now. Maude
Holden is not in my path,” cried a
queenly girl, whose ever lit up with a
proud exultation, as the returned beau,
as handsome as ever, lifted his hat to her
in the street. “Stranger things than,
this have happened. I always hated
you, doll-faced Maude; not for your
gold, not for lands, but because you had
won Alfred Bcrsford. But you arc out
of the way now—getting ready to pay
Basil Kuston’s defense of you with your
hand, while I am free to win the hand
somest und proudest man.”
Alicia (Jorday was as proud as she was
beautiful.
Her father was rich, and his beautiful
estate was not surpassed by another ia
the county.
Since her introduction to Alfred, but
one ambition ruled her heart—to become
his wife.
And now her hopes seemed near theif
long wished-for fruition.
Maude, her rival, was out of the way,
aud Basil Elision, her lawyer, was likely
to make her his wife.
One autumn day a wedding ceremony
was performed, and Maude Holden gave
her hand to the young man whose elo
quence had saved her fife.
The wedding was quiet; there was no'
bridal tour; and the young couple spent
the honoymoon on the old estate.
Not long afterwards another wedding
t ook place; but it was attended by fee*
tivities of all kinds, and hundreds of the
elite.
Alfred Bersford and Alicia Corday
were man and wife—“a proud couple
and a handsome one.”
Here, with the marriage of our char
acters, our story might not inappropri
ately end; but we must not lay down the
pen till we write the story of a retribu
tion, which the unwearying years brought
to the guilty.
ford found himself bankrupt.
Accompanied by his baughty wife he
fled north, and in one of the manufac
turing towns, throagh family influ nee,
secured a position on the detective force.
The years and close application to his
new profession made him a marked man
in the secret calling.
Alicia, fair as ever, and as liaughtv,
•pent her summers at the sea side, while
her husband, like the sleuth-hound,
hunted the evil doer, and mercilessly ran
bint to earth
The pair forgot Maude and her hus
band, who lived happy in each other's
love, and resuected bv all.
•i cannot im mistaken,' Alfred mut
tered one day, as, in a disguise, he
emerged from a hotel. “ I have i
dentally found a clue to James Ilok
death. Why not follow it up and sat
isfy myself? ’
The detective at once proceeded to in
vestigate the mystery which n few years
before had startled and puzzled the com
munity.
He had the reputation of being a good
hunter, and for weeks be remained, pick
ing up clue after clue.
He felt that he was on the track of
tbe prisoner.
“ Ob Heaven, it cannot be! ’ he cried,
one night, as be entered his room ana
•hut tbe door behind him. “ I must be
ou the wrong trail. I would give my
right arm if I had not taken up this ter
rible case. Heaven pity the agony of
my soul at this moment f”
The detective had struck the right
trail; but whither was it leading him?
Hi.- blood ran cold wheu he thought of
tbe goal.
He came up with tottering but cau
tious steps, and leaning against one of
the pillars of the porch, looked in upon
the superbly-dressed woman who sat at
the piano.
A fair little girl with golden hair—
the very image of Alicia Bersford at her
tenth year—stood beside her.
“ I am at the end of mv trail,'
the haggard man at the pillar. " Here
ends the hunt for Janies llolden s ]
oner. But God pity the wretched
man! She did it all for me.”
The next moment he held a revo
in one hand against his head, and ar
velope in the other. The report that
followed drove the beautiful wo
from the piano, and the men who
hastened to the scene found the suicide
lyiug near tbe window.
“Borne madman,” answered a mat ,
the white-faced lady inquired into the
commotion. “Some poor fellow
killed himself—that’s all.”
“ But here’s a letter in his hand; it is
addressed to Alicia Bersford.”
The lady listened to the man with as
tonishment on her face, and she stag
gered rather than walked into the par
lor, with the crumpled letter in her hand.
“ l’ull down the curtain, Blanche,” she
said to the child.
Then she tore open tbe envelope, and
with eyes that seemed about to buret
from their sockets, read:
“My Guilty Wir*--Guided by retribution,
I hare discovered th# poisoner of Jauics 11 olden.
My trail cuds at your window. I know
your visit to Holden's home, in disguirc :
you hid in the library--everything. You
til for me, guilty woman ; tore mo from Muude
Holden, and now you bring me to the last ru
of remorse's ladder. Don't telf Blanch
her mother is a murderess. May God t
mercy on year soul I Ai.frzu BxBsroau.
The woman raised her head, and
handed the letter to her child.
“ Burn this darling,” she said, and the
little one held it in the gas-jet until it
fell in ashes from her hand.
As the act was finished. Alicia’s head
dropped upon the ivory keys of the pi
ano, and the music that went forth
drowned the groan that welled from her
heart.
After awhile Blanche tried to rouse
her mother; but her little hands could
not.
Alicia Bersford, the woman tricked
down by her detective husband, was dead.
Eqjoying a Ballet.
[S»w Xork Stu.J
A reporter tackled Charley Hiomaa,
the negro exponent, the other day in
Philadelphia, with this result: “Thomas
had advertised for twenty-five beautiful
young ladies for coryphees, to go to Balti
more. Charley was in good humor when
approached by the reporter, but it must
be said that he is always that way, not
withstanding he had just passed • morn
ing that would put the most frightful
nightmare in the shade, for all the old
girls in the city of Brotherly Love had
visited him that afternoon, and almost
persuaded him beyond his senses that
they were *11 sweet sixteen. But Char
ley knew them, for he says: “These
girls (?) would pass for my grandmother,
und I am not a spring chicken. These
very girls (?) have capered before tiie
foot-lights for years, und have tossed
their chemicalized ringlets at the publie
fora generation, and yet come down to
tne. mind you—fourteen years in the
business—to answer a card for beautiful
young women!’ Charley said he wnsnoi
particularly in search of dancers, ' but *
young woman who could shivei five
minutes on one toe to quick music could
always he made use of, while ladies who
cut imaginary 8s in the air, with the left
limb at the same spinning on the point
of their big right too. wore always ac
ceptable.’ Charley told the story of a
married woman who had come toliim in
search of a place as coryphee in his
‘twenty-five beautiful,’simply because
there was trouble at home, aud the ‘old
man had got on a high horse.’ She
wanted to be rid of this domestic life,
and longed for the Hash of the foot
lights. Charley talked to her like *
father. Then he exclaimed in * horri
fied voice: ‘Suppose *11 the women in
the country whoso husbands stayed out
*11 night should rush to the ballet for
consolation? What would this free and
independent country come to? It would
Ik* a land of ballct-dancersand coryphee*,
and thn men would go home to find the
angels of their habitation pirouetting on
the inverted dish-pan, or nosing, <i la
sprite, in the background. Oh, heavens!’
ejaculated the prince of negro delinea
tors, ‘such a condition of affuirs must
never come to pass while I continue to
draw oxygen.’ ’’
The Coming Novel.
An incident from a novel to be writ
ten in the future: “There was a loud
noise like the report of an over-charged
cannon; the burst boiler sent the splint
ered iron and steaming vapor high in tho
air. Marianne, the engineer’s lovely
daughter, was carried with the titbrie,
and ascended with frightful velocity in
the direction of the clouds. As she flew
heavenward, the employes held their
breath and closed their eyes—the spec
tacle was fearful to witness. But Young
John, the assistant, wl\o had admi
SUNDAY READING.
accomplish, both in the
:* moral world.—Burke.
f thb
The damning hyjtocriay
that it slights morality j
zeal in mattcraof ceremoi
less without it- pow
it not 1»e imag
•d Christian
1 that the life of
life of melancholy
he onlv
-1 »lo
• pleas
nitely greater.—Pa*
i loo-ely widening ft
' ’ Win*;
r her
einpi
parent!.
often that Chri-tianitv i< onlv Jieeom
worldly.—Pelham.
Many jieople make their own God, i
he i- much what the French nt<
when they talk of Le bon Dieu—v<
indulgent, rather weak, near at ha
when we want anything, but
awav out of -iglu when we have a mi
to di. wrong. Bueh a God is as much
an idol a- if he were an image of 'to
—Hare.
Wonderful love of God t., man.
order to encourage obedience
He ha- annexed a present a-
ture reward to a good life, and haa so i
ur duty and hapine." togetb
man. In
i Hi- law-.
\dl a'fu-
that while
»the «
bliga-
are at the same ti
vision for the oth
aking the be-t p
—Mel moth.
The hearer of the Word who i- not a
doer also, comes to a fatal end. ltecause,
a* the Savior savs, he has built tt|*on tbe
sand, and therefore his fabric in the day
of storm and sand shall U- swept away,
while he who hears the Word and doe*
it i* secure, because he digs deep and la v-
his foundation upon a rock, and there
fore hi* building survives the rain* of
trial from above, the floods of persecution
fruit without, and the my-teriou- wind*
of Satanic temptation
Tin Ik
crack and fall if the gr<
•table: the higher the pin
ltd work
ist bo youi
ly Spirit ;
►del: bv the aid of Hi-
t follow Christ in thi
rl) ri.'tia
up His i
* leadership,
iieing a
ST0RT OF A MARTYR.
A rslksr'i Heroism to Sfrccn His los'i
Not a great while since a prominent
physician of Denver, Col., was called to
attend a patient in the last stages of
what appeared to be consumption, but!
which, upon examination, proved to be
•imply a wearing away of life—a decay
of tne energies of mind and body. Al
though well supplied with money, the
•tranger was seemingly without friends
or relatives. He wrote no letters and
received noue. An alien to the tender
ness and charities which sanctify the
affections, he seemed to be drifting out
of the world, iu which, for him, ail the
flowers of the heart had perished—a
bleak und dsolate old man, hastening
out of the sunshine into the winter of tho
grave. After making a thorough exam
ination of the case, the doctor told him
that although he could find no organ
ized disease, yet he was dying.
“ I know it,” replied the patient.
“ But have you no ioea of what
brought you to this plight? 1 ’ inquired the
interested man of science.
“ I is a curious phenomena. You hi
heaid a great deal about cases like m
—more aa a visionary exaggeration of
the fancy than as an actual occurrenc
—but, strange as it may appear, I ar
dying, as you say, of a broken heart.
“You surprise me!”
“ Yes, I surprise myself. I did not
come to your health-giving climate si
others do—in search of a longc
lea e of life—but to die in peace, and
alone.”
*• But have you no friends?” asked the
doctor.
“None that 1 can claim. My past
is sealed with the shadow of a crime,
an 1 over my nameless grave not
even a memory must hover. I am
al ready dead to'all who ever knew my
name.”
•You t>ay you are a criminal!” pur
sued the doctor.
“ No, I am none. But I assume '.be
itigma to shield another.”
And the other?”
" O Jobnujr, here's p*'* little gunt
Let’s play to war w* go:
Vou be the Hebei—halt, sir I—bang!
'Twiis loaded I Oh dear I *■“*
Was
What was the nature of hi* crime?”
The physician’s curiosity had got the
better part of his prudence. The *had-
ows of the twilight were falling around
them. Through the open window
streamed the >*>ft brilliance of the dying
day. Cloud« 0 f amethyst and purple
Coated lazily on the far-ofl
tTiTM AND WIH&S
Rifi.b practice—pi< •king pock**.
A COLORED sentinel is a blackghard.
The barometer isa great storms center.
The peel of tbe first bella was a fig
leaf.
Light literature
no balance.
There is nothing
The plum harvest is at hau l
plumbers are having full crops.
Those who' work can take o-tit ol
themselves. A kind Providence nuu*t
provide for loafers.
Why is a glass of fresh lager
mad dog? B« can- it frotrni a i*
mouth.
It is all very well to talk about “pluipk
Ing the water, but they often tue bJBt
for water. ’
It is strange, wonderfully strange, ‘hat
a cup of tea was never yet spilled
dirty table-cloth.
“ I’ll join you presently,” «n :
iater to a young couple, a* he
the churcu key.
A OIRI. went back on her bo* -leg:;e<|
beau because she didn’t like to writ!
in brackets.
The joker wbo intimated that he had
some “nuts to crack,” must have mean!
jestnuts.
They don’t call them “ soft” you
.a a,
•dal
; o»
now; the distressfully polite think
is tossy, “ They are the down of society/
'Tis pawing strange that amid all thn
mistakes of the world, nobody ever
passed a quarter for a twenty-ceut
Philadelphia barber refused to
Bob Ingersoll’a mustache,
plea that it never should be said <>f him
“ that he dyed an infidel.”
When his wife asks him for a dollar
two for current demands, he smile*
v. tlv and savs. ‘•True love, darling
pks no change’.’
capeil—but uot to evade the vengeance }) ^ believe that if an s h°
of the law, but to spare to him I loved j ca .’ 1 ,n *o the wnetum of the aye
the stigma of a felons death.” «et*on fiend, thut he would cli B
■ Huw long ago wa. tlii.T” | alld P**" thc '“ 011 1
•• Twelve yean." , V.u might aa well back j
“ And you have been wandering ever Bgsinst a beehive and
teemed
shadow
“It was murder’
“ And was fixed on youf'
•‘On me—! assumed it, and then
caped—but uot to evade the
(.'hr;
"l*" 1 <’
lilt upt
j a fun
* Who-'
idat
uncer'
“ Ever since!”
The feeble pulse was fluttering—the
glazing eyes sheathed under waxen lids,
and the sha Itereil form was growing
rigid momemuriiv.
•‘Will you tell menu more?" whis-
pered the physician.
“It is all 1 have to tell!”
The
kick,
itotjJU.
Mi
j pain
list a
The licij-y heart
S'
t. for *1
iod grows.
- a living temple. Extract
.f Rev. O. II. Spurgeon.
How much easier it is t-» I
th all it> cares
of life.
lb.
. the hie:
Wh
id f.»ndlv dm-' i
•d 'IV,t
tipi
How tenderly}
urn back to tlmt
tnder which we pi; .
us it wended its way to the ski,
•hirnnev of the old home»tca
background of light and shadow of
The
irliitg mu
the elo
valle
of da
• tile
rid: th,
ee, I team
. hr,,
•hair, the mother’' fa
light and love, with fathe
gathered around form a pie
that lingers on the memory with a ft
ICRs that defies both age and '.on.
,1,1 iterate.
We ean see the aged father and nu,
ls they stood in the d,v,r. with 1
limnted eyes, as a darling daughter
going away with her new made lui'l
distant home. They turn, a*
i her farewell kiss and is gum
‘ ly fireside and may G,„l to 1
eir darling child
wed with care at
v. until a lotto
tohn, in spit,- of all I,
day aft
iving th
»hn, in spite oi all line
secrated nis new home with family
’ Smiles now cha-ed their tear*
Their child wm> stfe in the keep
ing of one who loved Jcmi'/s****
Our heavenly home! Who can pietuu
i beauty!—framed by the same archi
tect that fashioned the rainlvov and the
flowers? Remember that home when
•kue>s, sorrow and death come; it will
lighten every can* and sweeten every la-
He had kept his seei
his life iu keeping it.
Mad at th© Way She >Yns Saved.
[St. I.ouit Timss-JooiBsl.,
“ Don't go on that log,” screamed tho
musculinc attendent as one of tho
damsels walked out on the careening
limb of an old dead tree,' which lay
diagonally with the hank.
Why?” but she kept on going.
“ It will turn witluyou! " shouted tho
.gentleman, warmly.
* *** 1-tow can it?’* au«l tfie line with a
long (flvcop of the pole descended into the
water.
Just then there\vus akiigiit oscillation
of the log, two dainty, feet swept from
under a cloud of skirts, awrlph-hke form
bout gracefully to the treacherous flood,
and. with a stilled scream, body and feet
disappeared from view, ifut for a mo
ment only. The next instant, like-the
symctrically modeled female continua
tions apprared'above the surface, bobbed
.,. ( j dkippoiiitm n
passing pang:
the gentlei
the
and by good fortune contrived to
got hold of tiie gaiter-clad feet, and was
tugging away manfully itt the direction
of the bank. But the unfortunate lady
appeared to be turned wrong side out,
and dragged heavily, like an inverted um
brella. But a landing was made at last,
and tiie young lady, like a capsized sail
ing vessel, was put right side up with
As i
he had :
Imr.
the heart rciqtoiid' to the men.
onii'! During the war, whentheb
f death had ceased awhile; <
Yankee 1><
retting hrec
of the federal'. S»m
hand resounds and “D
•heered by our boy
Federal lin<
die," came iaft-
', with thcelteers
the confederate
ie” was as loudly
The sili
then broken by the strains of Home
Sweet Home,” when both hands—friend
l f«>e—joined alike, and for a nntneiit
•h heart was away off in fancy, gazing
on wife, children, mother— horn,v So
us, us, Christians, when about to be
?rcom«iwith the bitterness of thb life,
think and *ing of our heavenly koine,
r mansions in the 'kies. Detraction
d misconstruction will never pmvent
front spreading my suite tocatob cve-
hreezo that can waft me <>n t« that
iivenly home.—Gov. Colquitt,offieor-
i, in an address delivered in Ml. Hope
Orchard Hill, Ga., during
Marianne from afar, was alive to the n*,,.
emergency. Sizing a flying machine, *
upon which he had just obtained a pat- ! T _ _
ll.al n.nrnin™ 1,« it l.l, IF *
•ries of
val
•eek*
ned her usual balance, she turned
furiously upon her rescuer.
” You wretch! Why did you pull me
out by the feet?”
“ Because I couldn’t get hold of any
other part of you. You seemed to mo
to ho all legs.’’
“Bir! How dare you?
“ 1 beg pardon, but really I did tho
best 1 could.”
Tho subject was too delicate to con
tinue, but it was evident the lady and
her friends were excessively indignant.
No apologies could conciliate them, and
it was in a tone of inexpressible sorrow
that he said in turning away:
“If you ladies will persist iu turning
Upside down when you get into the
Yater, I can’t help it.'
Imports and Exports
A succial from Washington savs:
‘Tho Bureau of Statistics lias re<
bv f
smiling s
I may at last I
Edison ha?, not p:
people are traveling from Be
York by telephone—at least they
all the rejorts from Collectors of < us*
toms concerning the imports a ad. \j • i ts
of the last fiscal year, ending June :»0,
1879, which show the balance «>f nadc
in favor of tho United Bia*,** to l>a
nearly $265,000,000, asagain-* r-’‘»7.«»u0,.
000 the previous year. The t<>t;il value
of exports were $710.000,W0, and im
ports $445,000,000. Nearly $.\0oo,t>w
more of coin and bullion wa> expor
ts ut year than imported. For the li
nine months the import* were grra
than the exports, but iu the last ih
months tho exj«,rts have merea-cd v,
largely, turning the balance. There was property in tho Ilnitt
more sugar imported than any other - in- f354,000,000, while cv
nil:.
t li*!
*bir t ^i n v 1, Sc h k c '. , „ t d r ‘ p .ci‘ 0 '! 1 ;. 1
broad, manly back, and spreading 'Ve haring overloaded the stomach, |n '
wmga of the machine, vowed he would , “ ,
rescue the girl of hla heart or die. On
he flew in the direction his lovrd ono i imping reas^mful of common “»
It wa, but A. work of £ mome.'.'^o "‘J, 7tT.
clasp her to hh bosom. •Saved!’ came Klrct ,' dowB it begins to come
from the crowd bviow, who tm.i been U p brincir.B with it the remaining con-
watching the scene through telescopes, 0 f .tomsch; and lest there be
•to., etc. . any remnant of the poison, however
small, let the white ora te»-
A TIMID person aays she fancies every spoonful of strong coffee be swallowed as
man sho meets now-a-days is probably a *oon as the stomacD', Unquiet, because
murderer, u defaulter, or a detective, these very comty:^, (jjj'
gle article of
the previous year Tho next art . • in
amount of importation wit* coffee, v liith
also toll oft’ about two million o>i!.tra’
worth. Imports of tea toll oil’two per
cent, during thcy.tr but the ini| ort of
fancy articles, silks, dianvmd* »• .di other
Wiiat iy’ieaven s best gift to
itynsj lady on Sunday
eetly on ncr male comj
replied the young
prudence.
Experience teaches many tilings,
prominent among which,
that it is safer to run your chance with
a Igalky mule than to dictate * to a
woman on wash-day.
While Charles Harris, of Texas, was
being hanged, a very large crowd sang
“ Sweet By-and-By.’ Mr. Harris’s last
words were, “ For heaven’s sake swing
me off! I ought to have been out of this
two hours ago.”
MirsMadeui’ Oi.dual: “ Yes,I love
the old oak; it is associated with so
many hours spent beneath its shade. It
carries me back to my childhood, when
—when” Young Foodie: “ When you
—er - planted it?”
The Rev. Mr. was once called
upon to marry a ntan to his fourth wife.
As he approached the couple he said:
“Please to rtec.” Tho man wiggled
about in his chair a moment and finally
■poke: “ We’ve usually sot!”
Tub young girl who sings for company
in the front parlor, “ You must wake,
and call tiie early, mother dear,” is the
creature who expects her mother to
make the tire, g<‘i
her breakfast up t<
Melancholy barber (with soul above
his Htt.'ineas)—“ 1 don’t get much of a
livin’ by it. nr!” Customer (through
the lather)—” Then—you ought—for
you -crape—hard enough—for it!”—
Vw-4.
A Miciiioan tramp who has shot at
fiv- times by farmers’ wives, say* he has
onlv to watch the end of the gun to
1.1 the contents, as a woman always
s!mt« both eyes when she pulls tfie
trigger.
1.1 i me supply the bustle* of tho
women, and 1 will have the largest
circulation in the nation!” was the
laudable ambition of an editor. But
he never thought tbe whole sex would
•it down on it.
They had a very sad affair at West
Point A Indy at Oozzen’s told her
mamma that the cadets wear pants; and
a man said: “So do their sister*, and
thcii cou.'ins, and their aunt*:” and he
wns .-hot through the heart.
The ” Editor’s Easy Chair ” is all in
your mind. It’» a piece of furniture
that’s used only by those that wear the
honors—the ones tnat do tho work don’t
nothing easy. Put this in your
p-book, among the anxious.
rATHTics show that all the church
tho United States te worth
rear $700,000.-
. haudtee. although .he j 000 arc spent for drinks. The newspaper*
have often protested agnin.-t the practice
of building such expensive chutghes
Drop Cookies.—Otw-balf cup of but
ter. one cup smr«i two-thirds cup sweet
milk, the .r*'(k of an egg, one toa-jHion-
fui *-«•. ,w " °f creaiii-tetrLtr. two and
i cupa of Jli.jff Duflta with
fancy china ami .‘.‘.-thcuwiU'd s -00*1, an i put a tjjw’i it* t
• te,. •iici-eascd largely. The n* I l ake quit*ly a litU)J>wwiK - * *
croasfc In-•fp‘ > iF»i’ n If wheat, ^
which went ♦: • from $v$,ofl0,«« • in 1*78 i A Wtft Jftr.T ut*i. 1
to $130,000,00»In J 87$. TW -'1 octe of ; ttoguiaber. •
and thatouc is just as bad as the otbef. i large number
r
whect flff*»r. tncrenmt
horned r/ *7iibo"» -ixty per «ci,t iron
a te'41 lykrti CV l>e r Cl u t., and tub *ceo
ahs^vecia'i I ho •sport* o! put-
tlJi-Atv' .1- ^intc but th, ex-
rU c#\*on we oil fell off."