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01...... n»ik JT. . a?* tbs X.... paper L«jv DmIi 1. Aay person who takes a paper ref alar* ly from the postofieS-whether directed to hla Dime Or another's. or whether he haa eab* aeribed or not— is laemoniible for the amount. f. If a person ordem bia paper discontinued he mnat pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is madfc and oollect the whole amount,whether the paper is taken from theoSee or not. S. The oourte hare deoided that refusing to Uke newspapers or periodicals from the poatoflee, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prime facie evidence of in 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. Dismission from adininistr Dismission from fuardiauj For leave to aeil land.. Application for homeate Notice to debtor* i ' Sale of real estate by ad executor* and guardian*, _ Sale of periahnble property. Kstray notice, thirty day a.. Amnoumcemkht.—All bills for »< ing iu thia paper a ance of the advert i needed. 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."