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r whether he hae nub- scribed or not- is i es^outible (or the amount. ‘1. If a person ordera his paper diaoontinued he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher u»»y coutiuue to aeud It until payment ia made, and collect the whole amount,whether the paper ia taken from the offioe or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is primaTs « ntional fraud. evidence of in* Thk deficit in the augur beet crop is rejKirtcd us between 25 and 50 per cent, leas this year than last. . It will have an important bearing on the price of cane sugar when it in remembered that beet sugar is identical with that of cane su gar, and that the beet-sugar manufacture cover* about one-third of the sugar pro duct of the world. sec this very certaiuly the last general conference I shall ever atteud. I have been greatly honored—more certainly than I have ever deserved. 1 Thk late captain general of Cuba, Martinos Campos, is now the premier of Hpain; and as such he is doing his best to secure to Cuba the itforms that he promised (lie people of that island before he returned to ttpaitt, He is encounter ing a great deal of opposition in the cor- tes, especially as to the abolition of slavery and tariff reforms. A dissolu tion of the cortes, or a ministerial crisis will probably occur before the Cuban i ip-c di^osed of|. , , ^ % Ikm'ii left out since the time of my eligi bility as a delegate. I have never done much. I have always felt inclined to retire rather than make myself bold and prominent. I had no expectation, when it was announced to me tliut I was elected to this general conference, that I could be present with you. It may be consid ered as the first instance in history, at least in that of our own ministry, that a man in his ninetieth year has traveled six hundred miles and occupied his seat daily in a body like this; hut God has conferred upon me this very remarkable blessing.” ueasure* ifre o^mos The United Htsi States Economist A constant and steady ^xjwrt of \g|ieaU , and breadstuff* willuccui throughout tho, fall and winter months. As the season ad vances it would < net be surprising if prices would,gradually grow firmer. Jt is unfortunate for the general welfare of the country that great operators ifi'grain manipulate tlio market in wheat as they l e6rner wlieat as they do rail mad'stocks artd thereby unsettle values tp the hindrance„of legitimate Any one who has traveled along the railroads that traverse the coal regions of Pennsylvania, must have noticed the huge black hills that stand beside every colliery. These mountains"arc coal waste, and have hitherto lieen, not only useless, but eumberers of the ground, ft is esti mated that twenty lajllion tonJ of this refuse is produoed. every ycar; &n<^tt liecn'a problem l^pd thought -over by owners, wluit to uo with thlfc waste'. Home years ago a Pennsylvania man put- tented a plan liy which the finer portions of the wastf was to bc)pre*sojl into bricks fit for uso as fuel, btit the expense of manufacturing is greater than the profit accruing, so that plan fell through. Now, er, a locomotive# ha without^ any special.. preparation, c f special, preparation, except screening. is expected (hatter, 100*- 000 tons will lie used this year and when stationary engines get to use t!u» waste, those immense black mounds will rapidly disappear from the laudscapcof Pcuusyl- It is stated that France and England have accepted Austria’s view of the Rothschild loan ; that Rothschild must redeem prior loans amounting to £1,400,- 000 in order to have first security on the surrender of the Klicdival estate. Aus tria and Germany will accept Anglo- French representatives in the conimis- of liquidating, and resulting control er Egyptian financial administration. i pi foiled, Tcinovc!' This agreement, ifacconip t lie thrcatcncncd hitch in tho Anglo- French scheme. The Porte and Sultan arc spending their whole time over the reform question ami the demands of En gland. , The position of the other powers is necessarily orit of reserve in the ques tion, which primarily concerns England and Turkey, and in which marked inter ference would tend to embroil rather than clear matters. Still, ns regards Austria and Germany, it may be taken for granted that their influence is being exerted in support of the demand for beginning reforms as well as toward pre venting any collision. As to joining eventually in measures of coercion, no invitation has yet bcon addressed to these powers. In this respect there has, there fore, been no occasion for giving an opin ion on the subject. The French and Italian Cabinets arc more than usually reserved on the question, while the Rus sian attitude in a difference between En gland and Turkey cannot for a moment lie doubted. Differences of that kiud have always lieen regarded bjr fiisrfa as a most efficient lever for promoting her political designs in Turkey—a lever sale to l*c applied on the pfctfbirt occasion if the complication lift*tlongemiugh togrVe her an oppojtunity Ma people throughout the south will be pained to learn "of the death of Dr. Ixivick Pierce, which occurred ii the home of Jiis son at Hpnrta,Ga.,on Nov 11th. Dr. Pierce was the oldest Methodist preacher in the United States. Ho has held every office in the ministry except bishop. He gave to the chnrch, how ever, a bishop in the person of his son, George F. Fierce, who is to-day one of its most powerful leaders. George F. Pierce was admitted to tho ministry at the first Georgia conference in Mae January 5, 1831. His career is of more recent date and is a part of contemporary Methodist history. Dr. Pierce has been a delegate to every general conference of the Methodist church, and iu 184$ was the fraternal messenger sent to the northern general conference, but was refused ad mission and recognition. In 1874 he was one of the three sent in response to those who came to the southern general con ference at Louisville. He was unable to go to the conference north, but wrote a memorable letter upon the fraternal relations of the churches. In May, 1874, Bishop Pierce was in Louisville, attending the general conference, and lust year he was present at the general conference In Atlanta. One of the most notable incidents of the conference in Louisville was a little s])cech he made connection with the fauisacthm of some conferanee business. The aged bishop said: “My Beloved Brethren: I stand before you rather as a marvel in the his tory of'Mcthodist preachers. It would oe very unbecoming in nffe to qoftgrutu- late jou on account of my presence with you, but it is right that I should eon gralulate myself on being permitted t« VOLUME IV. *nTHEK\ SEWS. Jackson, Tenn., has a cbal famine. Oartersville, Ga,, is to have two oot- ton-factories. Corn in feorth.$l per bushel in Goliad county, Texas. range trees in flight la affecting tl Diffiwftit Louisiana. pro working day and night. Union Citv, Tenn., lias just started a bank, with $50,000 capitol. Thera was a state convention of jqiir- itualists in Texas last week. Savannah, Ga., received seven thou sand bales of cotton Tuesday. Grasshoppers have done incalculable injury to the wheat crop of Texas. Chattanooga’s population ha* increased 1,301 duriug the past twelve months. Lady compositors are employed in the offices of a number of Sou tin rn newspa- nh, H. C., The city bonds of Savan have advanced 3.90 per cent, gust. San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat- nt gas-machine iu the AUuio, with 300 ...cKcfidrce Church, Nashville, which waf recently burned, is to be rebuilt at once. Some line jacks were sofd this week to parties near Palestine, Texas, at $375 per liead. The Seventh-day Adventists of Tex: e holding a grand c|mp meeting nr; Dallas. 9 Georgia enjoys the reputat ing the handsomest govern Union. of hav- the . $5#Vfoty-gvo cf i|t$ flef brfsliel has been tw m Memphis ritinre the 1st inst. Paul It. TTaVne, the Georgia poet, de nies that li<j intends to move to the Nortlf. * Golpmbin, .Tenn., is to have a large factory for turning out wooden handles of ali kinds. The public schools were dismissed in Chattanooga, Tenn., to let the children e “Pinafore.” Texas counts up her four million sheep and asks that sbe lie called the ' Mutton State.” The editor of the Key West ( Fla.) Dispatch, a colored man is in jail on the barge of robbery. 000 a > Palace Car c cy for the Pullmai oomfumy. * nrren ibunto, Mississippi, m three years and ldnc gnmiths.has reduced her lndel»tednfc^$114,095. The young ladies of Frankfort, Kv., not to lie behind the times have organ ized a cooking club. Atlanta has eight banking institutions, not including Jim Banks, who is a sep tate institution of his own. Increased attention is lioing given to fish culture in Virginia. There arc now three hatching houses in the state. Colonel ,E. Richardson, of Jackson, iss., hn*given $2,000 for the improve ment of the cemetery in that city. A German colony has settled in Es cambia county, Fin., ucar the Pensacola railroad, to engage in sheep raising. The Americus, (Ga.), Recorder thinks that cattle-raising will supersede cotti growing to a great extent in that section. The Houston and Texas Central rail road is receiving new steel rails witli which to replace those of iron now ii An extra session of flic Florida legis lature, to consider * Florida ship canal lature, to consider the proposition of tb ’ ’ ill, will probably bo held Tli# scarcity of water on the route tlifc Tex as Central railroad is so great as to "interfere with the regularity of tfaiiui. „ • v Tl|e Augusta, Gn., cotton mills ltr capital of $9(Mk0oo, and pay a dividend m twity-sighy per cent. per cent, on the money Invested.* * The Whig records the death in Rich mond, Va., 'of Capt. C. F. Pardigan, a noted French teacher and cx-Confeder- There are thirteen thousand volume, lielonging to the North Carolina State Library, more than the library building affords room for. The New Orleans paper* call upon police of that city to abate the nuis catmed by the illegal sale of lottery* tick ets on the streets. The court-house at Opelika, Georgia, was fired by incendiaries Tuesday night, but the flames were discovered in time to prevent iny damage. The progressive towns i«i Georgia arc striving to secure the location of the •State Normal College provided for by the last legislature. A number of influential newspapers in the south are advocating smaller farms nudjjettei: cultivation as the surest way and prosperity, ifo, Miss., is furnishing Louis iana stock-raisers with blooded sheep. The town is also making preparations to start a cotton and woolen factory. Between (500 and 800 laborers are now engaged in the construction of the Owen- boro and Nashville railroad lie tween Adairsville and Russelville, Ky. The hemp factories at Lexington, Ky., have oloscu on amount of a regulation of the railroad companies raising the cost of transportation for dross homped. Farmers in Chattahooehic and Stew art counties, Georgia, complain of great scarcity of labor, and the cotU crop threatens to be diminished in con sequence. Louisiana sugar-planter* are el a toil over the fact that the'European beet sugar crop for the present year i* twenty-five or thirty per c;nt. below the average. Mrenphi* Appeal: The city la hoc ing haunted with drummers. They t. thiiik Memphis is a great city, although luring the epidemic they gave her a berth. Flemingsburg ( Ky.) Times: Wo have no big pumpkins, but D. B. Hinton has a gourd that is lot years old. it was lit from England to Virginia in the Tho Little Rock ga* company has re fused to furnish gas to the city for its streets and public buildings umil the ity puts an end to its indebtedness to the ampul In Lonoke county, Ark., last week, a 1 between Me Armstrong, Justice of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result ed in the shooting of the latter. Death occurred instantly. The past summer in Key West, Fla., was the healthiest which the inhabitants of that city have experienced in thirty years. The mortality was less by one- third than in any year since 1801. Mr. W. C. Cotton, of Harris county, Ga., raised a stalk of cotton this season that is now bearing nine hundred and eighty-seven bolls. The cotton is the Dickson variety. The Catletslmrg Ilem., says that Win. Christian, of Lawrence county, claims to have fallen heir to Fountain square, iu Cincinnati, and that he has refused $140,000 for his interest. Frank Smith of FayMte county Ky., has shipped to New York for the eastern market one hundred head of cattle that averaged 1,800 pounds. Foqr head averaged 2,120 pounds. •Savannah News: Pensacola is elated because she owns tho steamship Escam bia, of the capacity of (5,500 bales of cot ton, which is intended to ply regularly between that port and Liverpool. Ex-Governor Alcorn is building a fine residence on his home plantation, in Jonestown, Coahoma county, Miss. When finished it will Ik* one of the finest and best arranged dweliugs in the State. A colored woman died at New Orleans the other day whose age wasgiveu at 100 years by the coroner, but she was sut>- l bv those who knew her liest posed by those who knew her liest to nave lieen at least thirty years older. Belgreen, the new comity-seat of Franklin county, Ala., though founded only eight months ago, has a nice, new court-house and county offices, and a brand-new paper—the Franklin New*. In Walter countv, Tex., the District Court rendered a verdict of $14,000 damages against the Central railway in favor of Mrs. Fowler,* whose hushaud was accidentally killed atllowth station. Mejnpbis Ledger: Nearly 400 bales of cotton, haVe bdeii shipped from Captain William* Forrest’s President's bland plsntation. The crop will not pH bo gathered before the end of Jlic pireseut Columbus Times: Bans have already lints for the spring l the ops in ip. Efforts will be putatioti of raising southwestern Geor- Aoonrding to th<* Banner, tlie ybar’* ojierations of the Nashville cotton fac tory, closing on the 30th of September, indicate considerable prosjierity. The amount of wages paid was $2,807.90, and thenuodtarof yards of cloth produced was 5,424,927. Little Rock, (Ark.) Democrat: The juryln tho Tom David murder ease was hung liy ji’oolored man, reported to Ik- a harbor. The oilier* jurors were white. T vii : tim a white m;ui. Holly Springs, (Miss.) Rejxirte dedication of the monument, erected to the memory of Rev. Father Oberti and the Sisters of Bethlehem Academy, who died of yellow fever in this city in 1878, took place Mom lay. The News snvs that a young man named Randolph Watts, of Savannah, Ga., who recently appropriated $l,350of his employer’s money, and left very sud denly, has returned and voluntarily giv en himself up to the authorities. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : In the death of Paul A. Botto, of the Natchez Demo crat, the press of Mississippi, has lost one of its worthiest memliers. He was liorn in Italy in 1840. hut has resided in Mississippi since his childhood. Little Rock ( Ark.) Gazette: Sever al wood eases canto up before the United States Court yesterday. Cutting wood from government lands has caused a great deal of trouble, and as ignorance of the law excuse* no man, the jienalty is inflicted. New Orleans Picayune: The British steamship Ashburn, Capt. Hall, was cleared yesterday for Livei|iool with a cargo of 7,120 bales of cotton, 1,378 sacks of oil cake and L,0S0 piece* staves. This is the largest cargo of cotton ever ex ported on any one vcs*rl from this isn't. One of the brightest voting lawyers in Arkansas, J. P. Woods, of Johnson county, has been sentenced to the peni tentiary for stealing a pistol. The pis tol was . taken a bile he was drunk, lint the" worst feature in the ease was that Woods di<l not tell that he had the pis tol after he lioeame solier. Charleston News: The United States Government employes are removing 10,000 tons of granite from the quarries nefto Columbia to Wilmington N. C., to lie used mxin the public works in that lmrlmr. It is greatly to he regretted that tLb< stfmc can not Jk: mod upon the CliurlMon■‘jetties simply becaiise'Gic're ommuniention b\ ter’sedge. Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The tv this vear wifi rcaclil $l?KHt,0(K>. follows: Wheat, $200,000; cotton, $<><Ml,- 000; mules, hogs and lieef, $200,OHO, This,* with a population of 32,000, givei uk nearly $3(8) cash per capital for l child, black ami white in the county. Certainly there is lift in the old laud yet. One of tho unsung heroes of the Mem phis plague is John Walsh, an undertek- there, who luw remained pluckily at his post for two years. At times ho ha lieen left absolutely without assistance and at times he has buried 150 bodies iu one day. A young lady, Miss Caledonia Linton, Texas, residing on' Cottonwood Creek, while walking in the woods met a large alligator. Hhe got n rope, tied it around tho alligator's neck and dragged it two miles to her homo. The brute ci near striking her several time*. The Georgia gold mines yield #1,000,000 a year. The Magruder mine, just in the edge of Lincoln county, is worked day and night, and yields 100 pennyweight of gold per hour, or $800 a day, and the Georgia papers think that their State will eventually rival Colorado’s mineral richness Memphis Lodger: To bo collared by an official and charged $10.25 cvcrv time he comes hero, makes a commercial t i*t roar, and sonic get off in a hurry. Four rnnio in a few night* since, and up- tin seeing bow it was, they packed, and the next train ea out of town. ft i. I'd tile, Mcmpli ored (hat there is to be no Mnrdi-Urn*display here also current that l* intended by the next spring, and it the pageant, at one ( Mcmphi for the 10th of Kebruajy next, lists been sold, and that it paraded the streets of Ht. L*ui* a few weeks iu*o u der the auspices of the Vailed PiCphe A' house near^Viudsor, 8. C by two trifling women, each the. of several children, was burned the er night, and three little^hild ished. The women are strongly suspect ed of having started the fire. One of the nee before imprisoned for a nilar said all her trust was in ( : <>«! ed he r husband, kindre'- am sieet liar fit heaven. ! or tw< "■»« m due to ' alleviate Jier si were v ry great, saying -li in Der sens***, which she did. ug kindly ami lovingly to all pre- itu offering her hand to husband •them when she could no longer ■peak. The household she so much loved now weep for Aunt Clara, and hoj. meet her sf Col. Wm. H. Caruthers, a prominent citizen of Virginia, died iu Nottoway countv, oil the Pith of October, at the age of eightv-three yearn. Though a gen- •f thorough education ami fine address, and qualified for a brilliant law- •, he devoted his life principally to agricultural pursuits. During the late vil war he filled the place of major in Virginia regiment. Cliattanooga (Tenn.) Titles: L. F. Johnson met a singularly,sad and tragi cal death at Washington and Ix*e Col lege, Yu., last Saturday. He and an in timate friend named Poigner were play ing croquet when thev lH*gan (piarreling, and Poigner struck Johnson lightly on the hack of the head with.a croquet nail- let. Johnson died a few hours after. The grief of hi* brothers and of his unfor tunate slayer was heart rendering. Poig ner is in jail. Master Joseph Brand, son of Mr. E. M. Brand, of Logainville, La., was the victim of a most shocking accident at his father’s gin in that place on Tuesday of last week. While putting some tur pentine upon the band leading from the steam engine to the gin, to prevent it* slipping, hi* left arm was caught and so torn ami mangled that it necessitated the amputation of the limb near the shmfl- der. Tlie lad suffered most excrucia tingly and died shortly afterwards. Brownsville (Tenn*) States: Last spring, a colored ohm in this county rented a place and planted a little crop. He had but one mule, and that turned up its legs and died just as the cotton com menced coining up. In sore trouble lie applied to bis mercluuit lor advice and help. A mule was bought for sixty-five dollars and the crop was faithfully worked, gathered aud sold. The colored man has paid his rent-^mo hum I red dol lars—paia for his summer’s supplies, paid .for his mule and hasalmut three hundred dollars left. Mr. S. Brocker, one of the estahlishers of tho Little Rock Democrat ami for several years connectdil with the Gazette, died of dropsy on November 9th. He wah-e nallra of Cumberland, Md., and was all nit 58 years of age. lie served throughout thf xivil war as an officer in the confederate "light artillery, and was a maji lnmanding a battalion ut the in tlie Btfioks-Baxter trouble in 1874 he was appointed brigadier-gener al. He was for MCVuraLycaig secretary and gland master bf tluv MtDbns in Ar- Mavsville (Ky.) Republican: Last Saturday an aged and decrepit weman, carrying upon nor back an idiotic child, about ten years old. j»a«setl through this •1(1. J»fl! to Kfl she expect* to’join her husband, who loft herfur Jjmt place year-ago. ^Hhe was an o^oefof pity and eonimiscration* as she trudged ;dong with her burden itpou her mg*!:, <>u her \< iramp w w pwx straugdr* forn was from Martin county. After remain ing over Huiidav at the station-house, resting and recuperating her strength, she started again on Monday morning for her destination. Dr. M. F. Stephenson in Oninoslioro Southern: “One of the most important discoveries lias recently been made by Professor Hayden, six miles northeast of the city, in Harrington vein of chloride ami bromide of silver, the first found in d gives promise of immense ' She said she •igh- •. The range of assays of sil the hundreds, and the gold from twenty to foriy dollar There are three \\ Ins in this r lmrliood which are argentiferous, “ Harris lode,” the Keltan vein and the Harrington vein; in addition to which isn ledge of white niRrble, and near by, on Dr. Ham’s land, is a dyke of porphyry; associated with it you find a vein of magnetic iron and manganese. Mr. L. J. Dupree, editor of the Austin, (Texas) Statesman, thus writes of a (ieorgia town: The Augusta Georgia News says “the third crop of fig* in Ogle thorpe county is nearly ripe, and there has not lieen a fight or quarrel in Lexing ton since last sprjng.” It was of this ancient village that Bob Toombs said forty years ago that it was “finished and fifty More hi other The assertion ha* lieen applied t fossilized town* but owes paternity to Bob Toomlis. But Lexington is a his torical spot. Little, lifeless, rose-embow ered. its sliiiftng white cottages and resi dences going to decay, its store houses nd courthouse n dilapidated hapless as its fortunes may lie, deserted its bar room, where the vs says there “has not lieen a fight e last spring,” IiOxington is still a mating spot—for an arehieologist. Thu voice of Wm. 11. Urawf. lg spo e of Wi familiar on its street" form. He s:it. in h Ik-uoIi. . His old lion that of Joseph Henr ” irgc R. (illme hit gigantic i old age, on the ? i* hard by. and - Lumpkin and of l of the builder of the great public bail of Athens. These old homes of worth and greatness still constitute monument* to the ancient glory of J/exington. Then Tom ami Howell Uobli ami Bob Toombs and Bill Dougherty and Jack Greer and Alexan der 11. Stephens, were Imys, loitering idly aliout tlie village preen of taxingloii. No wonder the "third crop of figs this season rilion* in Ix*xington.” Figs hav less to do there than in any spit of s lenee, white sand, and sunlight and sol tude on God’s foot stool. In the last numlier of the Monroe (Ga.) Advertiser, Dr. A. C. Rogei-s pay the following tribute to one of his forme slaves: Aunt Ulnra Rogers, one of the liest ami most unexceptional colored women the writer ever knew, died last week She was a faithful and trm vant.in slavery, obedient, honest, confid ing and lovintr: true to her master mistress, and a kind nurse. There not one of the children that did not lov her. Hhe nursed them nil; cared for them, and called them her children; and woe to the dnrkev that dared to offend one them. After freedom she was tho kind and faithful friend and servant, living with her former mistress most the time, and loving her anil her child si* in davB of yore. Nothing existed among them all nut the kindest word* and feelings. When her miitress sicken ed and died, sbe sat by her bedside t« wait on her and see the lost breath de part, ami then-she Wept with the dren and lamented'hfw death the*! Her di> the fatal dark river." Ida re well departed kind ve bellevo j ihining white of the obe tlier II Is MISCELLANEOUS. A^rtdo- A list Te take. of age, resiil i i of stock 1 300 head of cattle. John Arnold, of Mineral county, West Virginia, raised thin year ten barrel* of rn from one car’s planting. Mrs. Charlotte Letcher, the widow of :-Governor Letcher, of Kentucky, died at Frankfort on the 29th of October. whole number of Methodists in ille, Kv., in 1865, was 1,424. The r at the close of 1«78 was 4,882. Ashville Citizen says: President 1 Superintendent Jlerliert will n hav gia railrc ml of the North ( m pie ted. W(mm1 eountv, West Virginia, lias *liip)Hil this fall 290,000 ixiunds of grapes, besides the quantity sold at home, yielding in all a revenue of $10,000. A correspondent in an exchange gives hi* experience in favor of cotton seed meal for milch cows. He feed* three- fourth* of a iMiund, morning and night. Under this feed one cow gives an extra yield of three quarts and another of two and a half quart* of milk. A cheap and simple .piece of machin ery ha* ju.-t been invented and isinwp- eration at Wcschestcr 8. C., whic h spins seed cotton Into thread. It is claimed that this invention will add 100 per cent, to the profit of the planter, as it saves him the expenae of ginning, baling, bagging and ties. “ Dat cull ud pusauB on de jury, him’s do mail l objec’ to,” said a negro when put on trijil in the Marion, H. C., Court the other day. The black, good man and true, was unseated, and the prisoner given acquittal. After his release the darkey was asked what lie bad against a jurvnmn of hi* own color. “Nulfin at all, 1h)s*,’’ said lie, “but, vesee, I knowed f I flattered the prejudu* oh de odd- lat I get off, an’ golly I did jurymen dat I get oil’, an golly I ' iVidiMn- Lnnief. tho pmst-imiiicinti, is lecturhe at tbisb.lms Hopkins Hui'B'i*- •HitAs in Baltimore-, <«n “ HngWsI the lecture treating especially of Hhaks- peare’s-verse. Mr. Lanier will endeavor to show tlie artistic glowtta obBervablo in Sfiakapchre"* later work*, a* com pared with hi* earlier ones. The final .lecture will uinkq,qpiiiiiarL*ons liet\y#cn J*’Hi® Tern|» st,’* wrfttcta after $61^':iml “ A Miduuimner Niglit^ Dream,” writ ten 1590. stunaici ii Jlh r th Uiithouglit of Statistics. TJie Bpstuii groufR^o- gethet some statistics of the kiiitrwMeh almost everybody might know if any ono took Umd to think of two square feet to each persbli£i_ population of Boston could ^tam public garden, with a good to spare. The entire )K>pttlatiuuof tlio United Htatcs could stand in Boston proper (not including Brighton, Dor chester and West Roxbury.) The entiro population of the world (now usti at 1,440,000,000) could stand island of Martha’s Vineyard, o: space occupied by tlie town* of Boston, Brookline, Newton, Needham, Dedham, Hyde Park and Milton. The state of Massachusetts would in thii way accom modate seventy times the present popu lation of the world. The entire popula tion of the world, placed side by ride, and allowing two feet to each potton, would encircle the earth twenty times. The states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, taken together, are ns largo as England. Any ono of the states of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa jind North Carolina, is as large as Engfftnd. Kansas is a* largo ns England and Scot land together. Ireland is about rtiesize of Maine. France is more tluiu thrice large England, Wales and Hcotland together. Texas is thirty-live times as large ns Massachusetts, and as la rue as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas sachusetts, Rhode Island* Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Eennsylvnnia, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio nml Indiana combined. The entire population of the United Htatcs could be provided'for in the state of Texas, allowing for each U in xuAH*,uuuwiug Vi wwi mmi, and child, four notes of land. The entire population of the world could be provided for in the United States, allowing each persflh ono ami a half acres of lund ri< nds weeping " f the dear departed, their team for the living for you, got . Maggie,” ly said one day, about eighteen months after he gained his commission. “ Guens what it i».” They were walking along the green lancesof Perlock, listening to the ccaselcsa murmur of the sea, as, at intervals, they had walked and listened ever since they could remember, at any rate, for she was six years younger than her former playfellow. “ You are going to be promoted,” she said. “ Promoted, you little goose! No one ever gets promoted in the Birtish army. Guess again.” . “ You are going to marry an heiress.” lump iu her throat us sbe id it. Wrong again. No inestimable young m, with green eyes, a turn-up nose, •ptiblc heart, and fifty thousand a , has turned up yet. But it’s some thing nearly as good. I’m ordered to China “ Oh, die casped, and burst into tears, it was very foolish of her, but then she was only sixteen, and had net yet acquired the praiseworthy art of concealing her feelings. “ Why, whatever are you cryiug for?” he asked, and kissed away her tears. He'd kissed her tver aim <* she was five, and thought no more of it than if she had been his sister, or the cat, excepting, perhaps, that it was nicer- -which it was, no doubt. “ I shall be nway five year*, at most, and when Iconic back I’ll bring you a pig tail and an ivory tooth-pick, him! a whole lots of thing, and—” . “Yes?’ she auid, listening alien' lively. “But then you’ll ben young woman— I forgot -and ‘out* and all that sort of thing, and won’t condescend to sj»eak to a poor lieutenant; you will have all the ’squires :iud fox-hunters about the place at your feet.” “Oh, no! indeed I shan't, Alic,” slio ■aid, eagerly. “ But I tell you, you will. I believe you arc a borii little flirt, aud I shall come back and find—” But she bust into tears again, and put up her pretty litile hands us if to stop his teasing, which she could not bear just then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh and joke when he was going away for five years. He did not seem to care a bit, and she could have broken her heart on the spot, and would have gladly done so, and thrown the pieces away so na never to be bothered with It again. Then, seeing her mournful blue eyes, h« was merciful. I believe I shall > litt are wow, awd if we’ll get niarrie. after, and if we li. and stnrv the heiress turns up.” “Oh, I hope she won't!” sai like a truthful idiot. “Shall write tome Alic. dear?” e back and find e darling a* you got any money, ive happily over after —u “ Yes, of course I shall, and I shall ex pect you to write luiek six pages crossed and all that sort of thing, you know.” So Alic Granger went to China, and Maggie waited hopeful enough for a let ter, but a year passed and none came. “ Perhaps lie’s ill, or it’s miscarried,” she said, tearfully, half wondering if it could bo possible that a Chinese heiress had turned up, and that was the real reason of Alic’s silence. And the days and the ninths .went by, and Mag- • A Now story. Modjeska is writing a story for Scrib ner* * Monthly. It is a lovfl story. Tho heroine’s name is Griscldavitch i'owjde- watehkit/.ky, and the hero’s Vladimir Tschczarotsh. The scene Is laid in’tho quiet little Polish village .Stimtupit- visch, on tJic banks of the classic' lljvci MuddihscliKy, in the region of the Kot- zcnbutitzclosky Mountains. We extract a passage from advance sheets: “ With in her wan hands she had her face con cealed, when to lmr Vladimir asked if she did truly lofe him. “ Yea, I lofo thcc; by yonder bale moon I adjure it.” “Let us,’then,” said he,“ flee!” But she hesitated bv reason of her trunks, which being still unpacked. The tears wandered from her eyes, but meanwhile Vladimir repeated what for she would not. bo coming pretty soon, not having been aware of the gash the words of him made on the inside of her heart.” sign came from Alic Gran; and at length she gave him up a gethcr. Maggie was twenty years when her “No,” said sentimental Emmeline, “I would not marry Mr. Brown; when he proposed he didn’t pile the agony high enough. Whgn I give my hand to a wooer, I want him to call upon the gods to witness his deep devotion to me. I want him to kneel at my foot, take one of my hands between both of his, and, with a look that would melt an adaman tine rock to pity, to beg mo to take com passion oil his dreadful sullcrings, and then 1 want him to end by swearing to blow out his brains oil the spot if 1 did not compassionate bis n^serv.” The shirred fan bataue revived during the summer for thin dresses is now seen in the thickest winter stuff*, which are made soft and pliable enough to permit these voluminous gathers without add ing much bulk. Sometimes there are three pleats spreading out on each shoulder, and the shirring i« only at Uie waist line; other dresses have ^ the shoulders aud neck shirred also. Home waists have tho fullness only in front, while somo others reverse this, and con fine it to the back. The over-skirt worn with such basques is usually shirred down the. front, and often there is a broad clu*ter of shirring in the mb Hilo «f the back. d p il she and her mother sold out. Dunlop was offered a home in Lon don by a *sistor who was well ofV and bad-tempered, and it was thankfully cepted. Maggie was informed that slio must get her own living, which, beinj intention, slio advertised for a situa tion as governess. Now, Maggie had a come and tell you, so that you migl practice for an hour or two till after dinner,” ami she sailed out of the room, evidently considering the matter settled, and Maggie meekly proceeded to prac tice the Mabel waltz aud the Flick and Flock galop. Then she put on her shabby black evening gown, and ay of white flowers into lir, and waited patiently for . summons, hoping she would wait in •aim It very soon came, and with a roll f music under her arm, and a flush on ier innocent frightened face and a scared, almost hunted expression in her eyes, almost hunted expression in her eyes, she descended and timidly opened the the drawing door, and there stood still fora moment, staring iu astonishment at the scene before her. There sat the heiress, with an eager, pleased expression on her face, and leaning over her, talk ing and laughing, and more hand some than ever, and sunburnt and sol dierly-looking was Alic Granger. There was no mistaking him. The color rushed to Maggie’s face as if to say a hurried good-bye, and then left it altogether. If-possession, how and walked with what she flattered her self was great dignity towards the pi ano. Hhe felt rather than saw him raise his head and look at her, and the next moment he was by her side. Maggie—my dear Maggie! Why, fancy you being here; where did you come from? I have been trying to find you out for months.” “ I thought you’’—and then slio did not know liow to go on, so added, al most piteously, “ I am the governess here.” “Are you! Oh, I see, that is the reason I have not seen you before, I suppose.” “Do you really know Miss Dunlop?” the heiress asked, coming up and speak ing in her coolest manner. Maggie wished sincerely she could liuk into her shoes and bury herself. “ Why, of course I do; we hav# been E lay fellows ever sinec we were born— aven’t we, Maggie?” And Maggie, feeling that she was backed up, auswered bravely: “Oh, Indeed! How interesting!” Then turning to Maggie: “Will you be so good a* to begin a waltz, Mis Dun lop? This was to be our dance, I think,” to Alio, and she glides ofl with him tri umphantly. He came to her directly after the dance “ I went down to Perlock to try and find out where you. had gone to,’ he said. “ hut nobody knew.” “It didn’t mat-tcr,” she said huskily, letting her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to make believe she wasn't very much interested in what he said. “ Yes, it did—it mattered a great deal. Why, I’ve got a box full of curiosities for you—clubs to fight with, a littlo heathen god or tw<», and a statue of Bud- dah and alls »rts of things. I told Do you livelier®—I mean iu this house?’ He said the last word* under his “ Oh? but Alio “ Oh, but stooped and kiai more could be said, "1 and there stood the ^ stood Maria l’attersofl “ Mfro Dunlop!” hc^ ror struck. * “ Mr. G range rj ir. astonishnienf “ Hoitv-toitj| onel, ‘ what “ My dea^ “it’s all m so did tl)4 house m\j Dunlop gaged, bl other wti miles bel moment . last nightjl calling or" were just i week when j Quite ri]| Granger,” sou “ you shall be i “Oh, pleaaS let me go at oncri ing her little tou “ I think it w< factory if Miss ] relations,’ said i So thev all agreed, i ternoon Maggie packet belonging* and all thd went to the well-off ana aunt. Tho bad-tempered aur] niece very graciously , she was going to mariyn week. It is amazing hod of rich relations, even 1 concern them little j your before their wedding 4 “ Nothing, Alic, onlr away I used to thinJ perhaps, you’d marry I with a pigtail.” I “ The sort of thing! he said, grandly; “as ft is^l going to marry a little gi jiigtail, and I am very happy^ “ Very, very,” she said. And sheJ rniTrr* t iiR. 11 hr losiden's rpotlea fama jit Iw th* <tii«fu! rumor; in hrart mar tx> (lie maid; i. n>*>'■»•* world will whlsfwi •vTKTamT To ask a /in to 1^ ud m <lu/ ' A bill is as ensl :luur - The oyflook in Washington-1 •vato/r. modest idea of her own merits, ami fore only asked for £25 a year and ifortablc home, so no less than five answers came to her announcement that she could teach English, French, music ami the rudiments of drawing. One of these answers cauic from Wool, wich, and stated that Mrs. Marshall re* quiroa n governess lor her three little girls. Mrs. Marshall was a stiff-necked irt of a woman, and stared at poor little twice as pretty as ever) through double gold glasses Col. Marshall, her husband, was a nice old man with a gray head and an iron-gray mustache, and there was a grown up daughter, a Miss Patterson, Mr*.Marshall's daughter by her first husband, who was really the mistress of the establishment, for Maria Patterson had a strong will, and she was an heiress. • One evening, when Maggie had been about a year at Woolwich, and she sitting alone in her school-room as usual, for her pupils had just said good-night, and been delivered up to the tender mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson walked in very much dressed, and rather flushed and excited. “Miss Dunlop,” she said, “we shall hnvo n few friends this evening, and I know one or two of them like an iim proniptu dance; will you bo ready to OMtuo into the drawing-room and play, if we should want you?” next minute he was cjirried roith Mrs. Somebody, at the other end of the room, but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Soon after that Miss Pntt<yw»n on mo up to the piauo, and saying she wished to play herself, r.nd that Maggie looked tired, dismissed her without being able to get even an other look at Alic. The next niornincr, to Maggie’s very great surprise, Miss Pattenon came into the school-room before the children had assembled. “Miss Dunlop,” she said, stiffly, “I should like to know where you say yon mot Mr. Granger?” “ At Perlock. His unde lived next door to my mother. He is a very old friend, indeed—” •• Thank you. I merely wished to in quire, because, of course, you must be aware that it is not usual for a person in your position to make herself icmarkable by having long confidence talks with any gentleman who mav visit the house.” “I don’t know what you mean. Miss Patterson!” Maggie said indignantly. But Miss Patterson bad swept out of the room without deigning to reply. Then Maggie went to her own littlo room, the one place she had in tho world entirely to herself, and cried till her eves were red and her head ached. The lessons did not progress that morn ing. Maggie was thinking of Alic was no doubt strolling about the inon, listening to the band ami making love to the heiress. The children were more than usually stupid, too, and all tho world seemed upside down, and all its ways turned crooked. Suddenly, at about 12 o’clock, just when Maggie was in tho middle of expounding, ns best she could, the eccentricities of the French grammar, there was a knock at the jcliool-room door. • “Come in,” she said. The door opened, and there stood be fore lier astonished eves the form of Alic Granger, and behind him was a man— evidently his servant— with a box on his 8houldars “All right, Tim, put it down; that's right; now be off. There, I’ve brought the curiostics round, Maggie; I thought you’d like to see them.” “Oh! What will Mrs. Marshall and Miss Patterson say?” said Maggie in con sternation. “ Nothing to you for tho next half hour or so, for I have iust seen them safely on their way to Woolwich, and thought I should just get a quiet chat with you. My dears,” lie said, turning to Maggie’s wide-eyed, oiien-mouthea pupils, “ I’m quite surd you’ll like to lio let off your lessons, so I’ll let vou off for an hour; run along,my little dears,” and he cqiened tho door for them, and shut it after them. “Oh, Alic!” she said in fear and tremb ling. “ Oh, Maggie!” ho answered, mimick ing. “What did you mean by going away from Perlock, and uot leaving any address?” _ “ l couldn’t help it, and you novel wrote,” she answered helplessly. “ No, I never write lotters; don’t know how to 8j>cU well enough. But I have boon hunting for you all over tho place, and never dreamed of finding you here. Now we’ll unpack the box; I had it opened before I camo, so it is only fast- cued by a lock.” “ But, Alic ; they’ll never forgi Ch/kity begin^At home, a a foreign miaatan * ^ ^ TuKouly * A womc in tho oheetnnt is ^ in tlie mouth. They callodibe old i r bemuse big food talker “ To lie continued fond youns mother the woes of her To use the new fashioned rub. A MitftcnrAftY wnis rich blind girl, Mid he crawatt •<& “ Wonder whether Na down on a pin withou' Jiazar. It doesn’t require blows to pound a man 1 jelly be not too solid.—CY; day Night. The reason that some m«n such hard, bitter things, most ink is usually mnd< gall. The girl who is called a “ dough nut’ ried, is usually swi “do naught” after A FRIEND of • reason the softer is localise they hi Logic by the armfi “ Ho ends my h tlie taiy, at the sa practical illustr^ I f- >ar 1 cannot play dance music 11: I now r keep time,” said Mag- id thought I would Never mind; it doesn’t matter, be cause if you arc good I'll take you away next week. Besides tlieyjl fe^y me anything. — — OHdy< ved the'Colonel* -*♦1 » you think ducted bui A little boy ntly and said: * Mam mi ink' that if I was made mid got muddy in*ide when I J \ME8 PARTON and Bob II joined hands. I hoy sire sb] heaven, becaifii “There’ll lie no Parton th3 A poet sings, “And I covAd her up with tho kis* I gave.” He mu - *-, have lieen a coachman and put her under tho 'bus —Oil City Dfriick.. We arc offferir.g a chrpmo for a book * agent who is not selling the finest work ever liefore presented < r fdr public pat- Mawy persons belie* all tha snake stories printed In the hew papers, and refuse to placo any creder ’ *" , B . . moo in the Mr- pent story to be found to the first ohap- tars of the Bible.—Nonidotcn Hrnmld. He said lie wanted her to be hiahelp )li# f meet, and she replied that iho could never be more than roister to him.— Lot ton Post. Tim New Orleans PicoyMe says: It takes twenty able-bodied man to stand | and look at one poor lit!.-) sign painter I while he is st work. The Puris fashion of Is iro taking teal in bonnets and gloves doesn’t seeflfl boy wh# often drinlT absurd tot reowstoa water frontois A Citrctoo man Ao _nk litmarw out to shadow^ his wif( on the beoiyotn wall, instead ol earthly moihter with fbaa horns. “It is caper to raise raise n dimer said a youn who has topped shavi Derrick, \ “ Yes,” *dd Joluroy, “ th* Latin ftr ‘riip/bat when mother taps us itfpaally ■lipiier. r OA i.led twice snd found you oi Mrs. Jones. Mr*. Hraith; " I hod irocceded to pull out the content* of th# *■ * ‘heschool-rooir Jr Btrldha, 1 the mutter, Mag- them, thorn’s gic?” i Nothing, only yon will get mv in •ndful trouble—you will, # indeed. Miss Patterson came in thi^mqrelng, A Meriden wm Confitaion.” , R on tv mali- found it. O'* A iuaow A 1 j /