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V lOBMBimtl 111 ..$1 M Oas year. *lx reoaths Three meaths so 1. Aaj pertoawhotSaaa^paper regular ly from the poatofflos- whether directed to hlaaame or another's, or whether he haa anb- aenbed or aot— ia i eapeabible for the aaionat. 2. If a peraoa orders his papor disoontlnaed ho mast pay all arrearages, or the publiaher may coatiaoe to sead it ttatil payment is made, and collect the whole amount,whether the paper is taken from the office or not. S. The eourts have decided that refuaiag to take newspapers or periodicals from the pestoffiee, or removing and leaving them aaoalled for is prims fade evidence of ia* aatiotuel fraud. THE BUTLER HERALD. ‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.” VOLUME IV. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1879 DEAnwoon is booming. About two mouths ago it was in ashen; now it is livelier than ever. That is, af course, but a repetition of the experience of every burnt-out American city, and ia another example of the innate energy of western life. The town ia rebuilt with large brick and frame structures vastly supe rior to the original ones. All the mer chants are in business again, many firms having over $100,000 worth of goods i stock. Mechanics’ wages, which wer $8 a day, have now dropped to half that figure, and hist but not least Dead wood has T13 gamblers busily plying their cation. Who says Dead wood is not the future great ? It is announced that a now steamship line is to be started which cannot fail to is* of great advantage to the south and probably to the northwest. It is the Mississippi Valley and Brazil Steamship Line. The St. Paul Tress is enthusias tic about the project, and it interviewed ex-Governor Washburn on the matter. The governor thinks that an imn trade can be worked up between Brazil and the southern and western states. J lo considers the obstacles at the mouth of the Mississippi as practically overcome, and he looks on the new line asp splen did scheme. “At present,” continues the governor, “our communication with Brazil is by British steamers and Liverpool. The result is that we I # liltlc trade with that country, while if we had direct communication it would furnish a splendid market for flour and other products, and give us in return coffee Nevada feels the shortened prr of silver, ami the consequent ab sjKTulative tramps makes the capital city dull beyond conception. The tw bonanzas are al>out played out. Their three millions a month is reduced to about a tenth. Nevada produced alto- together fifty-six millions in t 1877, and thirty-five millions in in IS78. In J* we estimate twenty-two millions, vast amount money is being expended in exploring since the Sutro tunnel the mines easy -drainage, and fron pea ranees, ionic rich ore bodies Intel; covered may develop into vcritnbl nanzas and restore Nevada to its f< standing. Nine-tenths of all m charter the in Californi perty at n 100, and new ones; iow. Nine-tenths i ctunl value, and a iiadc of them. i and Nevada value ill ions, in shares of re being issued < re “wild-cnts” e SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. 'flic 'IV * has a bala of $8< left Four hundred Mnr Georgia and Alabama this year. A bunting partv in Dinwiddic counlv, Va., killed eleven deer last week. The total indebtedness of the state of S.ulli Carolina is *7,175,154 01. Morchead City, N. on the Atlantic coast, is to have a $20,000 hotel. Texas is larger than either the Ger man Fiupine or the Austrian Umpire. Four thousand people rode on the street cars at Little llock, Ark., on eir- cu» day. ' A ton-thousand-dollar greenback was paid into the Alabama state treasury Monday. There is a revival among tlv islicn at Bel ial re W. Va. Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., two hundred miles apart, arc connected by telephone. Fast mail,trains are now run over the Atlantic Coast Line and the »South Caro lina railroad. An industrious young lady in Ander son, K C., has ’made a handkerchief valued at $25. They say that all that keeps tlr Au gusta, Gn.*, canal from being a success is too much water. The first store in Grenada, Miss., was built in 1838 by Col. N. Howard, who still resides there. \ The colored people own 13,000 acTes of land iidlalifax county, N. C., and 8,000 in Warren. A contract for building a rnilrodd which will connect Pensacola, Fla., Rnd Selma, Ala., has been let. \ Of the six hundred and fifty/'convict* in the Tennessee penitentiary there is not one sick in the hospital. Gorman carp is being extensively dis tributed in Mouth Carolina by the fish commissioner of that state. Two Gatling guns, with mountings, etc., lmve lieen added to the battery of the Alabama .State Artillery. F.ighteen hundred and ninety-three person* have signed the temperanoe pledge in Atlanta, Georgia, recently. There are two colored centenarians in Spalding county, Ga. One aged 10ft and the other 10S, and lxith arc women. Thirty million cigars were made in Wheeling, W. V., last year, and the number will Ik* largely increased this year. An eel six foot king got into the wheel of a water-mill at Goldville, Alabama, and was sufficiently largo to stop tho wheel. The Little Rock Democrat snystb#/."t ? the lia> life Tiegroos nicy of Arkansas had present. Savannah (Ga.) News: There were in port Friday eight steamships, fourteen ships, twenty-two barks, five brigs and ten schooners. Henry Harris, of Meriwether county, Ga., trapped twenty leavers in three nights last week. Ho sells the skins f< $1 25 apiece. Mome very fine oranges have boon S mwn this year at .Savannah, Ga., and ie Nows is confident of future success in that direction. A traveler in Suinner county, Tcnn., last week saw a man named William Norris, aged ninety-two years, in the for est chopping wood. At the approachingstate fair to be held ih Jacksonville, Fla., a pnftwvwr*/ fifty dollars will be awarded f«A g of oranges exhibited. * Constitution: TU !>**•*■»■ ing house- : n *♦' J. p, Uusa, Sccrd certained. Living is cheaper here tlian in any city of Georgia. Patrick McDonald, not three years old, Bends the Charleston News $1.30 collected by him at Lynclihurg, K C., for the Hood orphans. Tom Day was stabbed to deatli at Knoxville, Tcnn., Sunday, by hisnephe Eil. Day, a mere lad of seventeen years. The lau is in the loek-up. A bank at Borne, Ga., has rcc< $30,000 in American twenty-dollar gold pieces and they are being naid out for cotton the same as greenbacks. A force Is now busily engaged in con structing a telegraph line along the Bhc- nandoah Valley railroad, between Shep- lierdKiowii, W. V., and Front R< Va. The South Carolina legislature is con sidering a bill to prohibit the running of freight trains and to regulate the run ning of mail and passenger trains on Sun day. East Tennessee marble is to be used in the construction of the proposed mon ument t*> the memory of the late Gen. Roliert E. Lee in the city of New Or leans. Sunday two members of the Christian church at Little Rock, Ark., each p seated a title to IfiO acres of land, the l>eginning of a fund to build a church edifice. Jackson, Miss., is building a opera house, capable of scaling 900 jk*o- ple, and it is said that when completed it will be one of the prettiest theatre the south. Twenty-two young men will npplv for admission into the North Carolina *C< ferencc, M. E. Church, at its nextsessii This conference already embraces 170 inemlierH. • Memphis Lodger: Gobi eagles and doll hies were freely paid out by those wh< had debts to settle to-dav. The vello\ icdal will i l»ec the i Pennsylvania have bet n ;in lately. Quite a mini- inployed at the timlici market. Laborers fro coming to Geo lx?r of them a mills of the Georgia Land and Lurabc company. Lynchburg ( Va.) News: The Mid land railroad has a contract to ship. r »,0<)0 car-loads of iron ore to Pittsburgh. The ore is to be furnished fron Riverville, <. tho canal, below the city. A Mr. Stoddart, at Pensacola, Fir has an orchard of 3,500 fig trees, mar of which were imported from Euroii Asia and Africa. Almost every know variety is represented in this orchard. A negro named ix*aeli escaped from jail in Robeson county, N. (’., last week, and a deputy sheriff’ named Cole, while trying to arrest him, wes shot and i stanlly killed. I.each is still at large. Some burglars at Charlotte, N. C., e tored a store on Tuesday night by borii few holes around the two locks on jor, filling the holes with kerosene and burning the door until the lacks dropped off. The Av iclie . that there seer phis; It is within the city’s financial :ope. U is thought that special session of the ennc.-soe legislature will W called coon to pass an act enabling the taxing dis trict of Memphis to levy a tax for im proving tlve sanitary condition of Mom- [this. Brvokhaven Ledger: There is some talk of changing the gauge of the Chica- iouis and New Orleans railroad to four feet eight and a half inches, to make it conform to the standard of northern roads. vl K. Adainsou carries the mail <mi f<H)tbetween Ridgway and Lcnkville, Va., cc of twelve miles. He lias not failed to make a trip for several years, id receives twenty-five cents for each mini trip. The Arkwright Cotton Factory, at ivannnh. Ga., which has been closed >r some time, is likely to l>e purchased v A. Campbell, a capitalist and large iMiufacturer of Philadelphia, who will ■suine work at once. The school children of Georgia pro- >se to contribute enough money to erect monument over the grave of the late Prof. Bernard Mallon, of Atlanta. The suggestion is credited to Miss Laura A. Haywood, of that city. A large steam ginning and milling es tablishment at Mikcsvillc, Fla., was burned on the night of the 21st inst., to gether with 80,000 ]H)undsof seed cotton. The fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Wilmington (N. C.) Star: The house t one Jacob Keaton, colored, on G. /. French’* plantation, at Rocky Point, Pender county, was accidentally de stroyed by lire on Monday last and his fonr children perished in {lie flames. Tho South Carolina public schools were attends} during the last school year " 122.663 pupils, of whom 58,308 ire white and 04,095 were colored. iis is the largest attendance the schools that state have ever hud in one year, fcelgreen (Ala.) Nows: J. G. Moody hi* sent to odr office a cotton boll with fourteen well developed looks of fine staple in it. There Doing usually but foil* locks, this makes the boll we have eqUfll to three and a half of the ordinary cotton. T|ry are killing fish in the streams of Geoigia by exploding cartridges of dyna mite aider water. Mo general has this praeijhb become that fears arc expressed that ifi many places the fish will lie en tirely destroyed. But there is no law to p re vents t, ami the novelty of the 1ms- —ess is Efficient to nmkc it popular. Do CloU (Mss.) Times: When our darkies £ to Kansas, a d other north ern statesibreadstufi's will Ik* cheap, cot ton go u it to twenty cents per pound, stock mi*\g will Ik* a paying business in this set Ion, and treating negroes for their votes Will then Ik* played out. The Peabny fund makes the follow- ng alio warn schools this year: Houston, $2Ml; 8<ui Antonio, $1,200 Sherman. $1100; Branham, $800. After this yffiu the -ustecs pre|>o ■> to confine from that fond to normal schools in Texas. The New ^rk and North Carolina Smelting company are erecting their re duction works hear Charlotte, N. C., where they expert to handle gold, sil ver, copper and wic ores. The capacity of tho works wal lie twenty tons per day. New Orleans J’kayune: Hon. Jldah P. Benjamin, it is ^ported, stands^ fair Knoxville Tribune: Marble quarry ing in cast Tennessee has grown to be a very important industry, and new dc- I Kisits are lieing developed constantly, mmenae quantities are lieinp shipped to the eastern and northern cities, where it is universally admired, and commands a high price. Savannah (Ga.) News: Dr. J. L. Wilkes, of Lincoln county, recently sold one of his plantations to two young ne gro men, who paid him cash for the property. 1 >espite the numerous “south ern outrages” on the “poor African,” the colored people are rapidly becoming land-owners anu tax-payers. The Americas ( Ga.) Bepublican tells of a singular quadruped killed by a par ty of tear hunters- It was hear tehind and goat before, a sort of hybrid for which they could find no name. They have the skin and legs, and are anxious that some skilled naturalists will come and give it the right nomenclature. At Corpus Christi, last week, a Mrs Coghel was sent to the city hospital, to getter with her two children, aged three years and eighteen months, respectively. One night she prevailed upon the nurse to leave them in her room overnight, and next morning the children were found strangled to death and Mrs. Coghel was gone. She has not yet teen discovered. Thf tate : The planet Venus created a sensation in Richmond on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered at differ ent times during the day at the street corners, especially on Main street, to see the morning star in the southwestern heavens. It was plainly visible to the naked eye until late in the day, when it set. Memphis (Tenn.) Lodger: A weekly average of about $1,500,000 worth of eastern exchange termed cotton hills has been selling to bankers by cotton buyers here during the past month. The rate paid is from $3.75 to $5.00 per $1,000, and it is from this source that the chief profits of the banking business here is derived. Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercial: There are property owners in this city who have not paid a dime of taxes on their real estate since 1872. They refuse to pay and there is no law by which they can Ik* compelled to do so. They pay their State ami county taxes to the sheriff and keep the State from selling their property, but tho city has no way by which to compel them to pay. Nashville (Tenn.) American: J. C. Rodimer, of Gallatin, a well known rail road contractor, was in the city yester day. J ie says the people of Mumnor, Trous dale and Vmith counties are talking strongly of building a railroad across from Gallatin via Hartsville to Carthage. He says the country through which it would pass is one of tho most teautiful and richest agricultural regions ii State. Tho Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution that A. J. Grant, of Harris couhty, treated this year a crop which yielded eighteen full bales of cotton aiid 300 bushels of corn; besides about 3,000 mdsof fodder, nnd be only ittcd on< le in the cultivation. Another farm .1. A White, iuad© 406 bushel* of n and fourteen bales of cotton, weigh ing 500 pound*, on a onc-horsc farm. ’ tesidtv a trop of fodder, i»cas, potatoes, etc. * Dallas (Texas)\Uw*M : The tide of colored emigrants that is rolling int< Kansas at present from this State is ver large. They are going by hundreds to ‘ id where a great many must die of cob il hunger this winter. Nearly ever; in that goes north carries a lot of them. So far they have been coming ed i-onceudons by the government of Nics ruugs for the protection of said inler-oceauic canal, and will Nccure to naid company the peaceful enjoyment of the rights conceded l»y such concession. Referred to committee on commerce when appointed Mr. Burn side then called up his resolution of last ses sion, reaffirming the Monroe doctrine in con nection with the proposed Darien canal and proposed to speak thereon. At the close of Mr. Burnside's remarks, tin-senate, on motion of Mr. Gurland, went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened, it ad journed. In the souate, on the third, Mr. Beck intro duced a bill to authorize the payment of cus toms duties in legal tender notes; also a bill to amend title of the revised statutes so a.- to authorize the purchase of foreign limit ships by citizcus of the I'uited Slates for use in foreign carrying miittci i film Mr. Bayard in from ami after the passage of this resoiu the treasury notes of the United States s be receivable for all dues to the United St -pting duties on imports, and shall no y of i legal tender, ami , A shall Ii scriptiou. Referred to finance couimitU In the Senate on the 4th, Mr. Carpe offered a resolution declaring that tin sumption of circulation of gold, silver greenbacks as lawful money and the ex tatioii that finances would not lie distui by precipitate legislation, had been folio dustry and general prospe duct of business depen d policy,) and t (the successful upon a stab! in the opinion of tin , during the present session materially chang ing the existing system of finances would be inexpedient At 12:30 the senate went ii> to-dav by Mr. Mori ill to fucTtite the refund, iug of the national debt It is a dupdlicatc o. the treasury department bill introduced by Mr. Garfield At 12:45 the doors were re- opined ami smate apjeurned until Monday. Tlie Hoiinc. On the first, at precisely 12 o’clock, the aker called the r by th. 50 absentee! tho but the nvement is spreading and is beginning I>c felt in this section of the State. Norfolk Virgin iau: Yesterday nil Ital- n was going the rounds of the city with •age of t nincdmice. The little animals gave recognition of their respective names and performed many singular and amusing tricks. Anion”: other tilings, iicc arranged in order a miniature >n, put the cap on and fired il oil', and showed no alarm at the explosion. One of the creatures then pulled his mate, who lav down as if dead, into a cart and hauled him off. New Orleans Picayune: We are in debted to Major A. W. Rountree for specimens of an orange that is both seed less and dqilble. The finest is large, of a rich gold color; keeps well, and is of delight ful flavor. In a hundred of these oranges there will seldom be found a d, and many of them have a pretty miniature orange in the flower end of the large fruit. Tho original tree in this country was procured from the Emperor >f Brazil’s botanical garden at Rio dc Janeiro. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle : There is a society of colored men near Williston, M. Cm that is a law unto itself, so far ns the of larceny is concerned. The men are cotton-pickers, have a president and rules and regulations for their govern ment. A lew days ago one of them issed five dollars. The proof was very plain against a former inemter, who was immediately tried bv a jury of six of his peers and found guilty. He was sen tenced to receive fifty lashes on his naked back and be expelled from the neiety. The sentence was executed to the letter. Nashville American: The city treas urer says that he is out of money. He . unable to pay the street hands, the police, the city teachers, the firemen, the rk-nouse guards, the dump-boat men, the porters at the market house, for the past month. He says the tax-payers too dilatory, and that unless some payments arc made to collector McCann, the laborers will suffer. A great many v tehind, too, with their privilege tax- i, tippling licenses, etc. All the city needs is for those who owo to walk up d settle their indebtedness. The re iver of water taxes has been for three four day* past stopping the water of del inq unite C ONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. The KeiniU*. lo- senate mi the 1st was called to order . Vice President Wheeler at 12 o’clock The vice president laid before the senate the al report of the Secretary of the Treas- vliieh was ordered printed. Just before .’clock the President’s message was re- d and read by die clerk. At its com lii- Mr. Kerry arose and announced die death of Ids colleague, Zachariah ('handler, of 232 members, At 1:30 the Pres ideal’s message was received and read by the clerk On motion of Mr. Wood, of New York, the message and accompanying docu ments were referred to a committee of tin whole and ordered printed The house ad journed. In the House on the 2nd, a resolution uat offered by Mr. Price of Iowa, declaring it tu be tho opinion of the house that no change diould be made in the currency laws at the •resent session of Congress. It was referred, is was also the joint resolution introduced bv Mr. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, pledging the pro tectiou of die government to dieNicaraugunn inter-oceanic canal company, when it shall lmve obtained a grant from the Nicaraugiiau government Mr. Speer introduced u bill nstructiug the Secretary of War to pre nilitary parades and army bands from In the house, on die 3rd, by uiiai onsent the Slates were called as on .\ or the introduction of bills, under all the following was introduced a d by Mr. Wood, of New York, r Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. NUMBER 11. VD ML1XM WIMir. nlaths city all What t And* WlU. V«BI I But raallv. you an getting » Conditionedi Whatofltr l a always CoMttl—ad-a regular stack; Bat I work the* offooaakov or etiMf, And keep myself straight with the M. Clair; fellow* down there. u’d think eo to aw a regular belle; iwHiw And gene off with Wo end et aloe girls and salt And lota of our fellows r*~ Anr saebT Well, you’d Every girl ~ _ All the tons < And other But one of them, Tom, was a stunner; She brought dowu her game <>n the wing, For in leas than six bourr, by Jingo, She had <-»ery man ou a string! Pretty? JUihrr! Her teeth were like pearls, sir Peeping out between confine bars; And her eyes, when ehe smiled on a fellow, J ust twinkled like midoigbt cigars. Such li life; here, I'll show you tha locket She mt« me at part iug; and Will Haa a handle of her’# in his pocket, Wo keep ihem for mcmonbil. As for me, though, I wsto't enraptured, Xu »ptt* of tho ruee tint and pearl, For inuiehow I'm never contented With only a tenth of a girl. And she’s not very younr, let me tell you— Ten years »inee they shipped her from school, And 1 don't tliiuk she’ll ever got married, She can't lud s big enough Toed. Her name? Miss Van Andcl, of Brooklyn,* You met her, you say, In July, You'ro engaged to her, Tom? Oh, the dickens! tiegpar ,1- well, lung It—good-bye! —Acta CtmtiUiUian. id re mg the refunding of the National debt.* Tin bill is as follows: Be it enacted, that si much of the authority conferred on tin* sec retary of Use treasury by the nets of July 14, 137B, Httd January 20, 1871, to refund’tlie public debt to i lie extent of $1,500,000,000 as been exhausted and executed, be and the « is her. the rate of fatten s authorized by tho not to exceed 3L Mr. Garfield Intri the refunding the pat [It.prevMcs ♦bat all Hie* law shall apply bonds bearing higlici four pc odified, (•lids vet •d a bill to faeilit af all existing provisions of apply to any United States er cent bonds < :d bv net of Julv it' is undersir •cd at the treas ii i Hiding (be ti ieh fall due i 0,000,000] In the bouse, the -1th, 4, 1870, for unv si •d that his bill ' • department by > ntains all the pro saetingnny ini- t 1 o’clock, ad- va, declaring congress om.osed to lion in the volume of United M ,voder notes, but on the contrary i of substiuting greenbacks for imti notes, and that it is in favor of fret •ted coinage of 412L ...Mr. O’Conn •cd a lull to r mth their sa men’s saving i Adjournc f South Cnroli •turn to the freedi rings, deposited md trust com pain >1 until Monday. 3:15, d timt the Senate, as a mark t to the latter’s memory, adjourn, which agreed * ~ and the Senate In the senate, on the 2nd, Senator Gordon announced the following joint resolution: Whereas, The project of the const ruction of the inter-ocenmo canal in Niaaraoga, is re* iguixed as a n< owelty for the pronparHyand commerce of tho world and th« davelopnieut of the maritime and commercial interwats of United States, awl, Whereas,—ah «*r Facts About the Human Body. The average man measures about firo feet three and one-half inches. The weight of the average male adult is 1-10 pounds. The human gkelcton consists of more than 200 distinct bones. There are more than 500 separate muscles in the body and an equal number of nerves and blood vessels. The skin contains more than two mil lion openings, which are tho outlets for an equal numDer of sweat glands. Each perspiratory duct is one-fourth of an inch in length, which will make aggregate length of the whole about nine miles. Every adult man has fourteen hun dred square feet of lungs; or, rather, the mucous membrane lining the air cells of his lungs, if spread upon a smooth, plane surface, would cover an extend of fourteen hundred square feet About two-thirds of a pint of air ii inhaled at each breath in ordinary res piration. The full capacity of the lungs is about three hundred aim twenty cubic inches. A man breathes eighteen times a minute, and uses three thousand cubic feet, or nbout three hundredand seventy- five hogsheads of air per hour. The weight of the heart is from eight to twelve ounces. It beat* one hundred thousand times in twenty-four hours. A STRANGE STORY. (Aa Extract from Anna Dlcklntoa's "Esgg.4 R.gisMi.’H T>id I tell them of queer people and strange experiences? Yes, indeed, did I. Can I recall them now? No—ves. One I remember, because It was the most inexplicable affair that ever befell mo—no, aid not befall—but that has ever come tome “second-hand, almost as good as new.” 1 found myself one day at a certain town with no “connection” till aix o’clock in the afternoon—a train that might make sixteen miles an hour, with ninety-six miles to get over. Due on the platform at 7:30 o’clock That wouldn’t do. So, of course, I had to have a “ special.” Place and time—Central Iowa, some time ago. Country just a fiat plain, not the rolling prairie land lying further west; no towns, few villages, fenceless, treeless; a speck of anything easily seen afar had any speck existed. Even the ties were without incident. One af ter .another, on© after notheV, all alike—same length, striking family re semblance, lying on the even ground, without so much as a ditch at tne side* to break the monotony. Nothing of interact without, ao %'■ turned my eyes to inspect'what might be found within. They era generally wide open when they an to lool at ma chines or machinist*. I have traveled behind engine* and on them by hundreds, and have walked about and questioned and gazed and ex amined them thoroughly, but alwaya with fresh wonder and admiration. Strong as Titans; simple, complicated; helpful, merciless; beautiful yet terri ble. And I never look at them without wondering what manner of world this will be when some one learns how to utilize, not one hundred, or fifty, but even fifteen per cent, of steam. As to their manipulators, fools do not abound among them. A man needs brains and logic to be a good machinist. I like to watch a first-class one listen to an argument on a subject with which he may ue ever so unfamiliar. He eees flaws, and shows where the screws are loose, and the sequence ia broken, and the point overlooked or bunglingly made better, half the time, than the combat- ante, though they be no mean ones. If a man knows a machine, he knows how to arguo from cause to effect, step by step of the way, and isn’t easily “bamboozled,” and there’s precious lit tle “ nonsense” about him. My engineer was one of the right sort. A clenr-cvcd, intelligent, wide-awake young fellow from New England—the last man in the world you would suspect of drink or either superstitious ni: flams. He was explaining to me some of the mechanism, when, with his right hand on the lever, he suddenly paused, threw himself halt out of the little window, gazed a moment up the track, then, turning his head, with his left hand thrust up before it as though shutting out some awful vision, drove on. There was no mistaking the attitude nd its meaning. “You have run over aome one here,” ■aid I. Yes—no—I don’t know,” he an swered. His firemen seemed to notice neither action nor answer. I gazed at both with amazement akin to horror. “Am I rush ing through space forty miles an hour in the keeping of madmen?” thought “. “Let us see.” “You don’t know?” “I don’t wonder you look," laid he, and ask. too. Will you kindly oblige ne by telling me if you saw anything off to the right r* “Nothing,” said I, “but open plain.” “Nor ahead of us?” “Nothing but level track.” “Nor behind us? Did you look?"’ “Yes, l looked back. There was noth ing but track and plain.” “I knew it,” said he; “knew it just os well before I asked as afterwards, but couldn’t help asking. Don’t you think that’s queer?” “I think you are troubled/ That is more to tho purpose. Do you mind my asking what nas troubled you ?” “Do I mind? Didn’t I want to tell you, and see what you can make out or itf ’ and he drew his hand over his fore- . 7 ; , . r * . ill anu lie urea nia unuu uver *»*• » nd hi * “ th0 ?« h whole quantity of tho body passes through the heart every minute. The stomach daily produces nbout nine pounds of gastric juice for th« digestion of the food; it* capacity ii about five pints. it were a nightmare that threatened to “TiSAfet letitj^mnSlngly, to cheer his distressed face. “You are too broad shouldered to stand that sort of treat ment from anything.” at which he Witchcraft In Pennsylvania. laughed That belief in witchcraft not only con tinues to exist, but, were in not for the law, would sometimes lead to tho violent death of unoffending old ladies, was il lustrated a few evenings ago. Several girls were brought before a Scranton, Pa., justice, the charge of attacking with ■tones a peaceable old lady who resides in the suburbs of that city, the girls evi dently believing that the old woman was a witch, and regarding it as their duty to stone her to death. Mrs. Shloss, the mother of one of the girls, indignantly charged the woman. Mrs. Wagner, with _ __ being a witch, saying that she could j voices lau| prove eV=r The. «crantonJ?<7>t/6/«Vv7 M says j fellow caL . .ibe seemed intensely In earnest, and with his bat off, a flannel shirt unbut-1 bod built into the wall ii fairly trembled with mtcitcmcnt while ; toned et the throet, and one sl«0Vo loose i ship’s berth. A small ta barling this aocnretfam at the head of the aud hanging, holding a whisky bottle, j and a cupboard complete plaintiff. The aWarman heard the dc- ffie reeteadown thehfll, stumbled and l^^ffi^sscd to tho ~~ tells of the stiango case patient^ and * sly bled, stemek hie font againstaJgrefl^^H^KiU, all 33 eeloftt of tbV sincerity j yr ^Tbetteffi^ tad pjt T ’ “ the little and the fireman re marked encouragingly: “You just pitch in, Ned;” and Ned pitched in. “As for the story—it isn’t much of a story, you’ll say—Dut—well I You see I was coming down the road the other day —a good two weeks ago—a road I’ve been over hundreds of times, and knew every foot of it. I saw off there, at the ight, instead of that pancake region, r egular hill country, wild and green looking, plenty of trees, and among them, on top of a sort of ridge, there was a shambling tavern painted red. “It was growing dusky, and I could see lights in the tavern, and hear loud laughing and rowing. Directly a came plunging out of tho door feet easy enough if it hadn’t been for his cursed whisky^ Dottle; but he grabbed it and held it up so as to save it, and* wouldn’t get his balance, of course, with out both nands, and so pitched forward again, and this time flat across the rails, and we went over him. “It was all done in a minute, you see, and the train stopped, and I starting at cfSfyou Soffit for?” said Jim. “jerking her up like that for nothing.’’ “My God! man, run over a human creature, and mash the breath out of him, and ask what I stopped the train for?” “Run over a man!’’ cried Jim. , “ Are you crazy or drunk?” But I didn’t waH to answer. I streaked up the track to where the conductor was out, and the brakemen and passengers all had the!/ heads out of the windows, and everybody wanted to know what was the matter, and there—well! you know just as well as I, there was the open country and the track as flat as my hand, ana nothing else near or far to be seen. “Drunk! No, I wasn’t drunk. I don’t drink—ever. And it happened just so?” turning to Jim. “Just exactly so,” answered the sooty fireman. “Yes, just exactly so.” echoed the en gineer, “and just exactly so I’ve seen it every day—and done it regularly since then. And I can’t stand it much longer. I’ve got to quit. Look at that!” holding up his strong hand that was shaking in a way that didn’t belong to its muscle, nor to the dear blue eyes that had no drink nor craze in them. “Maybe I can make a change with a friend of mine who wants to oome West. Anyway, I’m going to get out of here, lively.” i sat and pondered. “Doyou believe me?” said he. “Believe you? Of course I do. Tm not a fool. I know when a man has truth in his face, and you’ve got truth in your—voioe, too. for that matter.” He smiled, and thrust out liis grimy iat. “I’d like to shake hands with you for that—if you don’t care.” “But' I do care,” raid I, smiling in turn. So we shook hands. “Can’t you explain it?” “No—no more than I can tell you how a flower grows.” We reached our destination and each went his or her way, and so far kpew there was an end of mystery and explanation. Five years afterward I was at New Brunswick, aiming for the ten o’clock train to Philadelphia. “Drawing-room car,” called I, as I ran down the long, dark platform. “Drawing-room car this wayl’ ■bowted from the rear blackness. “Ah, if it you, Misa Dickinson! Planter of room to-night,” and I scram bled fn About every official and employe on the road knows me. So I turned to see with which conductor I was going, but did not recognize him. “You don’t know me?” “No,” raid I, yet I found something familiar ia face or voice. “You are a new man.” “Yes,” he answered. “Let me seel let me see!” thought Is 1 don’t like to be thwarted. I alwav. remember people’s faces, and always for, get their names. I could forget my own “Who is he? When—where did I evei travel with him?” “You wore not a conductor when I saw you before. I am sure of that,” 1 ventured. He laughed at my puzzled face and answered, "You’re right there.” All at once I placed him. “Ahl” cried I, “how’s the ghost?” The man had a fine ruddy color, but he turned pale at that—pale as this pa per. “Why, you don’t moan that anything did reallv ever come of it?” “Yes, but I do.” “What?” “Well, I’ll tell you all in a breath— that’s the best way, and I don’t like talking about it. You know I wanted to got away? Yos. Well, I cot my transfer, catno to the riiilidelpnia ana Erie road, and my friend went West. “Maybe I didn’t draw a long breath as I got under way that first day, and thought I’d left my bugaboo so far be hind me. Everything about me was so different from what I had quitted, it f iade me feel like a new man. You now the country tho Dhiladeiphia and Erie runs through?” “I know it. Beautiful, fresh and hilly, and full of streams, with a rough look ing road and curving track.” “Just so.” he assented “and I.went along it cheertul as a cricket, looking at everything and full of interest until to wards nightfall—and then—well 1 I shut my eyes and drovo ahead. What else could I do? But my fireman was drag ging at the rope like mad and rousing me, and the engine was jarring ana jolting, and presently stopped. “ ‘What did you do that for?’ raid L “ *My God, man,’ cried he,'/run over a human creature and mRsh the breath out of him, and then ask what I stopped the train for—are you drunk or crazy?* and he nlunged off;and I after him. “I didn’t expect to see anything, but at the right, you see, as the train ran— there was a bit of a hill, and a sham bling old red tavern, with some lighta shining on top of it, and a lot of people with the conductor and passengers gath ered about somethina on tho road, and as 1 came up—there was a man with his hat off, aud open shirt, and the whisky bottlo in his hand, across the track— dead.” -_ , Where Women hover Go. Daring eight hundred years no woman is known to have entered the grounds of the monastery of Camadoii, Italy, except once, when a princess of tho nouse of Medici, who had a great desire to behold the place, disguised herself in men’s clothing and was admitted. But so stricken with remorse was she on behold ing the sacred spot that she hastened to the Pope to confess her fault, and, as a penance for it, was commanded to build a now cottage in the enclosure, which ■he did. The monastery is one of the few institutions of the kind suffered to remain in Italy. A recent visitor rays that what are called cells are comfort able little dwellings. Each is surrounded by a wall, and has its garden twenty feet square. A little piazza, with tho trunk of a tree planed and squared for a bench as its only furniture, runs along the side of the house. Entering the door, you find yourself in a brick paved vestibule, with an empty chamber where His New Flying-Machine. An enterprising saloon-keeper Grand River avenue is always on the lookout for any novelty that may draw customers, and perhaps this fact may have been known to a bland-faced old man who entered the place the other day and confidentially began: “ If I could draw a crowd of one hun dred men to your place here what sum would you be willing to give me?” “What do yon mean?” asked the ■aloonist. If it was known that I had in my possession a flying-machine, and that ft was to fly from your door hero on a cer tain day and hour, wouldn’t the novelty be sure to collect a thirsty crowd?” “ Yes, I think so. If you have a fly ing machine and want to show it of] here to-morrow night 1*11 give you a dol lar, and if the machine is a success jier* haps I’ll buy it.” “ Well, sir,” continued the old man in a whisper, “ I’ve got the boss! She flies from the word goT All I’ve got to do is to toss her into the air, and away she rails. It’s right down fine and no chance for failure, and I'll be on hand at 7 o’clock to-morrow night.” The matter became noised about, and next evening there were fifty or sixty people in or around the saloon to wit ness the experiment. The old man ar rived on time, having some sort of a bundle under his arm, und he collected his dollar of the saloonist and received several “ treats ” from tho crowd. When everything was finally ready he stood on the walk clear of the spec tutors and said: “Gentlemen, I warrant this thing to fly. I didn't invent it myself; but I am now acting as State agent to dispose of county rights. Hundreds of men have ■pent years of anxious thought and thou sands of dollars in seeking to invent fly ing machines, but this one leads them all. She will now fly. Please stand back and give her a chance to rise.” The crowd fell back and the man lei fall the cover hiding bis bundle, and gave an old speckled lien a tow into th* air. She uttered a dismal squeak, railed this way and that, and finally bumped against a telegraph post and settled down on the roof of a low shed, cackling in an indignant manner atlxdng turned loose in a strange neighborhood. It was a full minute before the crowd was sure that it was a hen, and during that min ute the old man is supposed to have run a distance of seven blocks. A few tried to overhaul him. but it was no u.e. d Friday nifht tha Pluaivll]* Aar, Tha weekly waah os> Monday. _od, eh I (hart's Barer a llna Aod never a hint of glory." •ha (triad her ayes sad anted her hair, And want to tha ooolereooe meeting— From tha garden gate to tha reetey eta* The eell-eame words repeating. At last the Anal hymn wee eunc. And all the prayers wen ended. When one from tha doorway crowd emeag Her homeward etepe attended. They left at length the rlllege street And sprang the low wall over, To croas through Captain Peaaley’a wheal And Deaoon Eaaoombe’* clover. The moon seemed shining overhead To flood the path with glory; They whispered low but what they raid Was—oniytbarenw old story t —Cambrldf* TrQm* A New Alpine Damrer. On the 13th of September three ladies and two young gentlemen obt the Hotel Pilatus, at Alpnncht, a horse and guide, and reached the summit ol the mountain after six hours’ hard walk ing. They rested and refreshed them selves at the hotel on the mountain, and started on the downward journey, fore leaving the top the guide asked of the gentleman for some cognac, which was refused. It soon appeared that the guide was intoxicated :uid worse than useless. He led the horse on which ono of the young ladies was riding, and so alarmed her by dragging the animal to the edge of the path that she got off and continued to descend on foot. Once the man would, in the sight of the party, have sent one hors* down a S recipice, but the poor beast realized tho anger, and set his feet steadfastly against going further in that dirextiou. It was now getting dark, and to be left to the mercy of a drunken guide half way down a steep and rugged mountain- path was trying enough; but, to make the matter worse, the man appeared de termined to go into danger. The ladies and gentlemen therefore, hastened on and left the guide and horse to follow. After much trouble in finding nnd keep ing to the path in the darkness, they ultimately got safe to Alpnacht. nnd told their story. Tho guide did not come in. The next morning search was made for the guide and horse, nnd lx>th were found dead on the mountain side, having evidently fallen from the path about fifty feet above. The hotel peo ple tried to keep the affair from be« ing public, ana the guide was buried next day without an inquest of any kind; but, having still nil eye to business, the worthy host cooly demanded demnity for the loss of the horse from the persons who had so nearly become the victims of the guide he had s to them. As yet tpe claim has not been paid. 1 could npt ascertain tho guide’s a me. The Bine naze of Indian Snmmcr. Mr. Joel Ben ton haa recently published an elaborate essay, combating the popular notion, which also has a quasi-scientific support, that the blue haze of Indian summer is theproductof ordinary smoke from fires. He argues first that the well-known behavior of smoke is not con sistent with tho various phenomena of tho blue haze. After describing this, he rays, “ If it [smoke] ever seems to wilt or attenuate In some secluded valley, it is never still; it does not even approxi mate quietude sufficiently to cheat the eye; it is not a part of the air, but rather a passenger upon it, and subject to every breeze that blows or summer zephyr that dallies by. I have watched the attitude of a good many heavy volumes of smoke, and I have never yet seen one that stimulates in any of its wrigglings and active transformations, or in its complete repose, that unique enchantment which is wrought by the Indian-summer haze.” If this haze is the product of smoke from fire, “there should be,” he says, “an alarming number of them in tho fall of the year.” But neither the an nual fire statistics nor the newspaper reports show this. Mr. Benton says the heaviest autumn fires occur at the end of the hazy season, which would make the haze precede the fires, and cease after tho usual mountain fires have be gun, which consecutive facts he haa noticed. Besides, all the woods of the Hudson River counties, if they should be on fire at once, would—if smoke could cause the haze—make no appreciable part of it; and the simultaneous appear ance of it over a whole continent makes it impossible to be caused by smoke from any fires that were ever known. It reaches from the Arctic Circle tc tlia Torrid Zone. Its occurrence In the northernmost region, if it is caus'd by smoke, could not happen there e*a»pt through “ a,conflagration of iceberg* 1 ' waifs and whims. a scandal monger Is a person td add* mire. Does a standing joke ever require! ■eat. Are men who fit counters in boots counterfeiters? The sawmill runs to the tune of • log-a-rythm. Sound logic—arguing through the telephone. A professional beauty, though two words, is really only one silly belle. A thumb on the hand is worth two in a dog’s mouth. The editor’s position is one of trust. He has to trust nearly evervbod j. It is a fallacy to suppose th-.. a baby is being shampooed when he is cl. istene* by the minister. It is « untakt “Genius finds its or. ruad and ragriei it* own lamp,” rays tho Ev« • raffilir Journal. Been watcnir.g us, have you? —Kentucky New Era. It was a mean trick fur the Bucltt t State to hold an election while the Dem ocrats were away attending prayer meet- fi'jTE man that bought a “salted” gold mine in the Black Hills was a hole- sold fellow. Depend upon it, “ there’s a time for all things.” The time to leave is when she askh you how the walking is. An individual who cslVd his first daughter Kate, when his a fe had an other girl, christened her Duplicate. Many a man who prays n>>t t*> Ik* led into temptation would be u» fully -ap pointed if his prayer was granted. “Bob Injureboul” is one of the frightfi i results of the Chicago Tribtmdf new nut hod of spelling,. ▲ newspaper reporter says that one __ of the ladies at the late haa, “took % ^ everybody** eye.” What an sye-dsarl * T Young Lra!y—“Have you any dressed £ kid gloves? - ’! Cleric—“No, miss, we’fto J nae kid gloves.” The man jwho starts for the river to drown himsdf will run f ir t place off safety if he res a cnihs lull coming. The father with uine marriageable daughters mast have been engaged in the belle foundry business.—Cincinnati Commercial. “ TnE evil of men’s wives lives after them, while the good which they do ie seldom spoken of with safety to a step mother.” A newspaper reporter who died re cently, left a large sum of money behind bim. * In fact, he left all the money in the world. The best lip salve is a kiss. This rem edy should be used with the greatest caution, as it is very apt to bring on an affection of the heart. Thoz hoo r advokatingafonetiksistem ov speling seem to want toinstituta “g« az u pleez” orthografy.—Detroit Free Preu. There is a difference between light ning rods and enlightening rods. One takes the mischief out of the clouds, and the other out of the bad boys. " Two aoula vlth bat • cinglo thought, Two heart* which beat aa ona." Old fdka abed—tha lamp turned out— Oh crackey! warn’t It fun. — WkilthaU Timti. In tho room of a railroad depot fn Iowa is the following plaeard over the clock behind the counter: “ This is a clock—it is running—it is Chicago timo —it is right—it is set every day at 10 o'clock—now keep your d—d mouth shut.” “ what so rare aa a day in June?” sings tho poet. A day in January ie not only rarer but sometimes actually raw. — New York Newt. Well done. Lukens! Couldn’t have thought of anything half so rarefied have tried. A man who was a great stickler for etiquette, having married a widow be fore her term of mourning had expired, soon after made his appearance with a weed on his hat. On being asked aa to his reason for it, he remarked that ha, considered it no more than the 'ABd-* some thing toward his ’interned \ redo- ^Servant (answering door-bell , ulled by little ragged boy)—“ Dome, g»* right away. We have got nothing ter you.” Boy—“ Haven’t asked you for i.ething vet, have 1?” Servant (banterinriy)— “ Well, what would you have aakcator?” Boy—“ Didn’t know but this house was for sale, aud if it wo* I wanted to buy it.” Young Poet—You have some poetls fancy, but your poem will never be ao ceptea by an magazine in the world. If is sufficient to ray that anybody can understand it The poem of the period must be an enigma, a rebus, a conglom eration of the vast, the infinite, the homoeopathic, the perpetual, and the ■erio-hicroglyphic. You take our mean ing? Write tor lunatics, not for men ol sense, and you will succeed. A lady walking down street *he other day, while she cast fur-tive parcel at the store windows, was hear 1 tv* re mark: “That husband ermine '^ofc an old muff he won’t get mo a n. w sell*- j this fall. I’ve a notion to gopher » nsfe| boa that sable to fur-nish such things a* he had otter. He’ll have to bravery careful; if I catch him trading witk young minx again. I’ll make him pull bis weasel, or seal his destiny for hiiBi I won’t bear it any longer, so now!” A Smart Trick* [r.rt* Utter.) A few days since a young man In tie height of fashion came, the other travelers, out of the which had just reached Paris left, and ihe living rooms on the right These consist of a study just (sleeping i ^Ik* Zulu Female Reserve. ai>cr recorded Ale fact that Abe brought up a :ui(l>» itioiicd them Mpreeent car when ho was accosted courteously M l>0 you wish a porter, sir?” "Tn* very thing I was looking for. Will yo« take this valise and show mo tho way If Hotel do la Rounmania, Boulevard P" Michel. As this is mv Aral visit Paris, I prefer going there om “A t your service, elr.” On they tn fVlum they had crossed Point St, I ihoporter, instead of followltg Boil, dn Plalain. turned to the left, went < Coal de 1 Horologe and entered thf freture of Polioe. He said to the 4 of the valise: “I am going vou to tho master of the 1. ushered him iuto the office of . detective. The latter eyes on tho a* « “‘v **w*K* r *** 'JVhy, good itf, Won. Van' lave ju.t com. from Am — ~ >00 .to). . lam tom ol njum^-dodgiapy J ■,ready ipotU^fiv. — want to ia. wT