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r M^mumoH mn. One year.. $1 S3 fclix Mouth*, 75 Three month* 40 UK Dmlilm, 1. Any |>tr«ou who take* a paper regular 1 ly from Iho postoffico- whether directed to hi* iinine o. another’*,or whether he has mb- fenbeii or not— la te*po»»lbl# for the amount. 2. If a f «• ion orders hla paper discontinued he must pay r 11 armtagre, or the publisher niny comiuuc vo send it until payment is ninde, and collect the whole amount,whetlae' the pupons taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to kibe newspapers or periodicals from the poetoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled .oris pi imn facie evidence of in- natiotnel fraud. ONEincident of the battle which raged in Hie First Reformed Proaliyterian 'church of Piltal)Urg ln*t Sunday deserves to puwi into history. When the conflict was nt its height a bright littlo Sunday* school scholar was heard to cry out, “Bee my pa—see my pal He’s getting his work in!” What au inspiringbattle-cky for the pious father t From a “study - of the action of teu^ "M r. W. J. Morton 1ms arrived nt these conclusions: As with nny other dmg, there is a proper and nn improper Mae of it. In moderation it if u mild and pleasant stimulant followed by no harm ful reaction. Its continued and immod erate use leads to a very ncrioUa group .»f symptoms, such mhetulnche, vertigo, ringing in the cam, Ircmulousncss, nerv ousness, exhaustion of foind nnd body, with disinclination to mental and physi- cal exertion, increased and liyegiiar ac- tion of the heart, and dyspepsia. Many bf tin? symptoms of immoderato ten-drink* iurfnre such ns may occur without a sus picion of the real cause. , ... «- -fc* H*. \ t A Chicago man lias perfected a ma chine for making from water gas of highly illuminating power.: By it he is said to be able to disintegrate water, nnd bring its component parts together again nnd produce light, heat, or nlunm, as he chooses. The light obtained is a beauti ful and very briliant flame, and cart be perfectly controlled. Its heat is of the most intense cnaracter. By tlio turn of :i valve he can transform the light into steam. The procoss by which this is ac complished is a secret. The discoverer admits that ho generates a tremendous explosive power—a power ns grentns that claimed for the hcoly motor, but ho ulilir.es it at onco in the milliner men tioned. ‘ The financial measures offered in the lious? thus far arc ns follows: A bill to authorise the conversion of national gold banks; respecting the funding of the national debt (one offered by Mr. Wood and another by Mr. Garfield); bills to "ubstitule greenbacks for national notes; bills to declare the meaning of the word dollar; bill to restore gold nnd silver to their full power; bill to amend the re sumption net; one to repeal that act; bills to issue gold and silver certificates and to provide for the redemption there of ; bill requiring reserves of national banks to be kept in gold nnd silver; bill in reference to bank deposits; bill re quiring silver certificates to be paid out by the treasury in lieu of coiuou demand thereof; bill to compel the paying out of all kinds of money in the treasury not needed for 'Current expenses in the ic- dcinption of bonds; bill to restore the legal-tender currency to its constitutional requirement; bill to rcpciil the ten pe r cent, tax on State banks; and Weaver’ bill to issue $500,000,000 to pay soldiers the diflcrence between the coin nnd cur rency in which they were paid. The London Times, in an article treating of the recent marked revival of trade in tin* United States nnd the drain of gold from Europe that attended it makes some very Interesting assertions about the future vuluo of gold which are not without a bearing on the money question in this country. It says: .The annual gold production of the United States themselves, about six mil lions sterling, should also lie sufficient oil the average for very considerable de mands. But making all allowances, the United States’ current requirements for bullion foot on they g< ist lion •eforth at all times af- ncy market greatly, even if further than the absorption in America itself of its annual gold pro duction. We must be prepared, then, in tlio next year or two, especially if Germany should adhere to its gold stand ard, for much higher rates for money on the average than those which prevailed during tlio last period of good trade. The extraordinary demands for gold on German account were certainly very heavy; but they came ujion full mar keter while the annual supply from the .mines was greater by several millions a year than it is now, nnd neither Ger- anany nor the United States were then Sold using countries. There may be some compensation for all this strain upon gold in Franco being obliged to part with its stock of that metal, under, the influence of what remains of its bi metallic law; but wo doubt if it would lie prudent to roly upon France permit ting this, while the strain would be seri ously increased, of course, by any special effort on the part of Franco to recover the stock of gold it has lost. The chances seem all to he, then, that gold in the next few years will lie in scarce supply for all the current demands upon it, and that money will consequently be dear in countries which use gold for their standard. Trade may lie very good, of course, with dear money, ns it wi 1864 and 1805; lint the conditions ii favor will not lie quite the same ns when money is cheap. A Brave Boy’s Deed. A brave lad has just performed a rare feat of courage, common sense and presence of mind, in Berlin, in the presence of very few observers. A milk-cart, containing no one but a little girl about three years old, was being wildlv dragged along the Muhlenstrasse by a furious horse, and no one dared t« rush at the bridle of the galloping beast. A boy, apparently not more than thir teen years old, sprang forward and rolled a large empty tub, which was standing at a shop door, into the center of the road. This brought the horse to aiHn- stant pause, and, when tried to pass at its side, the boy seized the briale and hung on, at the same moment throwing up his legs and clasping them tightly around the horse’s neck. This heavy burden at so unusual a place, brought the terrified beast to a full atop, and the bystanders hurried up and lifted the little girl out of. the cart. While all manner of questions and soothing THE BUTLER HERALD. ■LET THEItE BE LIGHT.' 1 Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IV. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1880. SOUTHERN NEWS. The shipment of cotton in Bremen is argo and increasing. Charleston, 8. C.* boUglit Christmas turkeys frem Now York. Mississippi’s next legislature Will liaVb ji democratic majority of 103 on joint A. panther was recently killed In Pa nola county, Mississippi, tohiWi torts six feet ldh£. The cxlfA session of the Tennessee Legislature, which lasted for eight days, cost $12,174,31. A handsome pitraeiigcr depot is to be erected ill rerimndinnn Fla., the building to lie of corrugated iron. The Treasurer of Anderson county, 8. C., issued 450 tax executions for tlie collection of leas than $000. From July 1 to December 13, Rich mond, Va., shin;ied to foreign ports, 80,001 barrels of flour, valued ntfOio, 888. Old John Robinson will sell out his surplus rolling stock at Baton Rouge in a few days, Hi» show will travel by water in the future* ReW C, 8. Long, of Campbell county, Tennessee , is going in the firing ns a missionary to Japan, under the Caro of the M. E. Churcnj 8outh, Little Bock (Ark ) Democrat: From fifty to sixty families per day have been settling at Arkadelphia. Curtis and Gui don, Clark county, during the past Week. Mr. J* N, English, of Macon county, On., has picked and sold from one acre on his farm this year two lmles of cotton, one Weighing 474 nnd the other 475 pounds. Mexico (Mo.) Herald; III Murion county n gentleman 'captured n pure white blackbird front n flock of black birds that camo to his barn to feed a few days since. Memphis Avalanche: With munici pal debt of over $5,000,000 nnd a total tax valuation of less than $10,000, Mem phis is not in a condition to try costly cx|ieriment« in sewerage* The law makes it the duty of the Ixra- islana legialnturc just elected to proceed to choose n senator at the session about to be hold, for the term expiring on the 4th of Man’ll, 1883, to succeed Mr. Kel- lpgg, or the gentleman who shall then be the collengue of Mr. Jonas. Knoxville Chronicle: Mr. E. V. Smalley, the well known staff corre spondent of the New York Tribune, is now in Cumberland county, on the line of the Cincinnati Southern railway, as wo learn, with the view to the location of a colony from New York. The Gainesville (Ga.) Gazette suggests that a sugar refinery in Savannah would pay. At present the ealte-grotoers are content to turn their crops into *yrUp. having no mnchincry or means at hand to make merchantable the dark sugar, which only classes as “milado” in tlio ranrkets. Meridian Mercury: N.H, Muhn lives in Newton county, and is a wide-awake and industrious farmer of no small pre tensions, if he is a wee small inah him self. He weighs cighty^hinc pounds and is four and oncdilut feet high. His wife, who la it Leak county lady, is only four feet high and weiglw fifty-seven pounds. Raleigh News: General Joseph E. Johnston was lately in Raleigh, and a gentleman asked him mlhW pointedly why the southern army did not take Washington after the first battle of Man- asms. Rising on his toes, he replied: “There were two reasons—myself nnd the Potomac river. I had reached that age that I know an American soldier could not ford a riVcr a mile wide and eighteen feet deep*” Reidvllle (Vrt.) Times: Mr. Wormby, a very Wcnlthy man, who lived in Ches terfield, Va., lmd two sons, Tom and Jack, both fond of playing poker, blit Jack was very sharp at the gallic and Tbitf 'cry flat. When the old man died he left Tom $90*000 nnd jack only $1,000, but he explained nt the foot of his will that $1,000 was stake enough for Jack to win everything that Tom find, and it was a wise provision, for it so turned out Wheeling Intelligencer t I t is said the counsel fees’and expenses in the suit brought by the bond holders of the White Sulphur .Springs Company to secure a sale of the springs property under the deed of trust supposed to secure tlu'ir bonds, alrendy aggregate some $35,000, and the end is not yet. At this rate the parable of the wise counselor who ate tlio oyster and handed the shell to the liti gants is about to lie still further illus trated. Richmond letter in Petersbug Index Appeal: The debt payers intend to op|iose the repeal of or nliy radical modification in the present laws. Many of the lend ing Read-adjustqrs in both houses arc in favor of arepenlof the Moffett system of raising revenues. A warm fight may lie expoetod to ensue when this matter cornea up. The representatives of most of the cities, whether they are debt- payors or not, will be apt to favor the change. Macon Telegraph and Messenger: last Sunday, nt the residence ofM*. ... O. C. Burnett, Mr. Benjamin S. Good year was married to Miss Burnett, a daughter of Mr. J. C. Burnett. On the 16th inst., Mr. J, C. C. Burnett wn married to Mrs. E. R. Goodyear, motiie. of the young man mentioned above. In this manner the children of the last cou ple were first married, followed by the nuptials of their parents. The occur rence is rare, and interesting. They are good and esteemed citizens of Macon. Petersburg Index-Appeal: Yesterday morning nbout one hundred colored em igrants of all sizes and both sexes arrived here on the northern bound mail train from Goldsboro, cn route for Washing ton, from which place they go to Indiana, this makes between six and seven hun dred emigrants of the colored persuasion who have passed through Petersburg from Goldsboro, N. C., on their way to Indiana, during the past few weeks. Ihese emigrants appear in good spirits, apparently highly elated at the and i idea of traveling to a country of which they have heard so much and know so little. As before stated, a noticeable feature of these emigrants is tlio number of women with infants in their arms. Montgomery Advertiser nnd Mail The Columbus Enquirer’s count shows that forty-seven gin houses hnve been burned in Georgia since August 31, nnd twenty- nve in Alabama. Their destruction in volved n loss of $100,000, for, with each, cotton was burned. Very few were the results of incendiaries. I„ Florida we nave noted the conflagration of somo six or ten. We do not wish our Northern admirers to imagine as they did a few years ago, that these houses were for the manufacture of gin. We mean by houses places for ginning and baili*w ton. We rpmemfir n fon. xrnn• - ■* b WARS WELL AT THE LAST DAT, Dream* have been through all the age*— Dreanii yfanHely vivid have been dreampt Byharda, 1 overt and by aige*, wlio*« fan ole* aeenu-d from naught exempt lliat would gtade historic paged; Or, through oddity, earth would tempt Tet my recital of an uncouth dream Kay be, withal, not flt poeUo theme; And aome may tail#, bat If I tell That earth 1 fancied paaaed away, It atrangaly may tha awe Impel That hoarta will feel lu their dismay,, when o'er Uila worl.1 a vtrtrc shall eweR S To warn ue of the Judgment day— e day when every human soul Mall know . eternal fate—the fruits of what we sow. Dire shapes were mine In dreamland formed: It eceroed life’s work had reared to be, And o’er earth'a an rface blindly roamed Poor mortals In deep misery. The waters skyward madly foamed, Aa rote tho dead from out the aea, Then calmed tha ocean back again and lsft Them atand Who long of lift had bean bereft Of awful sigh's that e’er were aeon Upon tha earth or down beneath, It was thia host In dbrnial aheon. Bo ghastly clothed In shroud* of death. ind causing eyes to gloi A* passed the dead ashore from off the stream. And slow they moved through doubtful light For all aeemrd chaos. I saw no Sent There shone no mooh. udr tiers an height; All seemed like earth when As, Ah rough pale bearaA that v Marched living and tha dead To judgment, ’fora a Judge In Dy whom, condemned w y alght whon each bad learned tl and others bleat r fate, ard their h d a heaven to ahare; anrd In their despair I Beloved ouea damped each other tlghtt Tho partings filled my heart with alllhgs' While a How th n se unfortunates u A pious >tt the right Deplored her sou’s earth's faUlngi; But Hstan claimed him to hla might, Heeding not that mother’s wallings, wivos end husbands of each other were bereft; Dear onos on the right, dear ones to the loft. forsooth, It seemed a sorry thing • For souls that last adieu to speak— farewell, ’twas nflt like bora we sing. Which doth but last a day or week: Bat theirs did untold anguish bring, As touched white ltps a bloodlosa cheek, To seal the truth that they must separate. Sinners wept; the blessed were happy In their fata. Though f hie a dream, 'tls apt to rule When t*'at great day shall dawn in trntb Te mortals, in the vestibule Of that groat church beyond this youth, Prepare your souls while on God’s stool; (For after death there la no ruth); Lost from those you lovo you’re cut forevet Upon the left, o'er thst^Isikllng rlvor I ■ • ~ .V...WUUCI a ie*> JUifg ftj, 0 that v . a Massachusetts paper feoundlv W. HiK-eches were being addressed to her. tured the Southern people on th :Ir the hero of the action quietly slipped . temperate habits. The editor knowing* his nawe'or I from the uuinlsr of .'iu hot 1 burned. judged My Beautiful Client. RT MAUDS A. HILTON. It had been an unusually sultry sum mer day. and I was fretfully anathema tizing the press of business that con fined me to the city during the heated term, while all my friends and associ ates were enjoying themselves in fash* ionable watering places, or rusticating in some plctuesque noox. I was only a poor young barrister, although rapidly rising in tho pro fession, and there was a case on my hands that promised a golden har vest. It is true the courts were not then in session, but the case of Smith versus Jones required a deal of study and “ working up,” and I was kept rather busy all the time* “Confound the luck I’’ I ejaculated, as I tossed aside a brief over which I had been pondering on the particular summer afternoon of which I have made mention. “Confound the luck I I have a great mind to pack up my traps and take a run out of the city, aespite the claims of a hundred Smiths and Jones.*’ While I had been giving way to this unusually vehement outburst, there had been a timid rapping at the outer door, and my office boy Henry threw aside the paper which he had been in tently perusing for the last two hours and admitted a young woman, pretty and pleasant-faced, and with au agree able smile— “ Please, sir, are you lawyer Reavey!” she asked, timidly, and with the slight est possible brogue, betraying her Celtic origin. “ That is my name, madam,” I as sured her, as I placed a chair for hei near the desk from which I had arisen at her entrance. She handed me a note written in a delicate female hand, and insisted on remaining standing where she was un til I read it. I confoss to a feeling of curiosity, and without much ceremony I opened tho daint, pink-tinted note and read its contents, which were brief and to the point Mr. Hugh Rentev* at leisure to wait upon Fi.kxorb Herbert. This was the note,word for word, nnd I confess no Biranger message had ever been transmitted to me. There was something in the tone of the brief epistle that seemed to breathe a spice of romance and adventure, and my idea of a country trip was abandoned instanter. * • “ I am ready to accompany you, miss,” I said to tho waiting-maid;’ aqd watch ing her closely, I could see that my decision pleased her. I found a carriage awaiting at ray door, and silently assisted the young lady to enter it. She made no attempt to enter into conversation with me as I drove through the city streets, and although I was— aa the ladies say—“dying to know” something of her mistress, I did not stoop to question. I heaved a sigh of intense relief, however, when the carriage drew up before the entrance to a Buperb resi dence on Madison avenue, and my com panion announced that our journey was at an end. A solemn-looking man-servant ad mitted us, and in answer to some low- spoken inquiry of the maid, informed her that the mistress would receive the gentleman in her boudoir. With a growing sense of my own im portance, I followed the girl up tho broad, richly-carpeted staircase and into a room that waa like the home of a fairy, so beautiful and pure-looking, with its furniture of white and gold, and delicate hangings of snowy silk ana lace.” “Lawyer Reavey, Miss Herbert, announced my companion, and a lady arose f'rOta a couch near the window, Came forward to meet me. I could with difficulty repress an ex clamation of astonishment, for my eyes had never beheld anything so exauis- itely lovely aa the lady addressed aa Mra. Herbert She oould not have been more than eighteen years of age, and looked even younger, although there was nothing of the child in the expression of the sadly beautiful face or in the blue depths of the fair, shadowed eyes. Bhe motioned me to a seat near that she had lately occupied, and I could see that she was visibly embarrassed and at a loss how to proceed. Her hands moved restlessly from place to place, and I oould see the color fading out of her perfect face, and she at last summoned courage to address me. Her brother had been my friend, she told me. and when she mentioned that brother's namo I started, for it was in deed that of one of my most valued friends, who had lately died very sud denly. My poor brother bogged me, with almost his last breath, to go to you, and ask you to take my case in hand for the sake of your old friendship.” The beautiful woman faltered; and it is needless vo say that I answered her she had but to state her case, and count on a willing champion. Bhe tiranked me with a simple grace that was infinitely charming, and then told me the story of her life. . Sho was uttlerly alotie in tho world since her brother died, and tied to a man whose cruelty was killing her. Charles Herbert was a strange char acter, thought peculiar by his friends, but believed by those who knew him best to be developing traits of mad ness. Iu the presenoe of strangers he waa remarkably kind and devoted to hi* beautiful young wife, but in the sanct uary of home he was actually brutal in hia cruelty to the unfortunate girl, as was evident from the livid marks Upon her white arms and shoulders. “ I want to be freed from him—I am in actual terror ol my lifel Oh, Mr* Reavey, can the fetters which bind me to this terrible man bo broken? Give me some hope, or 1 will no longer live in this agonizing suspense!” she cried, aud I was frightened at the expression of her face an she stood before me, with her small bauds clasped in an sgony of supplication, and her behutiful eyes glancing hastily around her every min ute, as if dreading the approach of her tormentor. I was at a loss for words to answer her appeal. 8he wanted to bo freed from the hus band who was cruel to her, and she evi* dently believed that I had but to write out a couplo of siieets of foolscap, and pronounce her the divorced wife of Charles Herbert. How waa I to un deceive her?" How was I to tell her what a work of time and trouble it would be to obtain a legal bill of di vorce? I told her I would exert every means in my power to aid her, and I resolved to watch tho movements of llcrbert closely, while t he lady prom ised to communicate with me sheuld he attempt any further violence. I Icit that house Hire one in a dream, my heart filled with pity for her hope less condition, and my brain puzzling itself-over innumerable ways and means of obtaining for her tho release she sought. True to my first resolve, 1 sought out Charles Herbert in his usual haunts about town, nnd ntiulied him In secret. Ho was a polished gentleman, dark- faced and handsome; but I did not like tho glitter in his dark eyes, or the treacherous and oft-recurring smile that played about his full, sensual lips. I met him in society, where he was all attention to his beautiful young wife, and apparently devoted as the fondest lover. I shuddered as I thought of the life to which beautiful Klenore Herbert | Beamed hopelessly doomed, for with tho ! cunning of a fiend, her husband wore | his mask; of smiles, and gave no chanco to the most suspicious observer by ' which he might bavo been condemned. > I noticed, with an inexplicable feeling of pain, that my beautiful client was growing more fragile and worn-looking every day, and the look of haunting terror was deepening in Iter dark blue •yes. One night I saw her wandering alone through the fragrant aisles of a con servatory, having stolen from the bril liantly-lighted parlors and from the midst of the gav throng in whose so ciety her husband lingered. Watching a favorable opportunity, I joined her unobserved, and had the satisfaction of seeing a momentary look of gladness sweep across her beautiful face at my approach. She questioned me eagerly ns to the progress I wus making; but something in myface must have told her how lit tle I could do for her, for she threw out her tiny hand with a gesture supreme in its agony, nnd I could see the quick shudder that ran through her frame. “ What is it? Has lie repeated his cruelty?” J asked, huskily; for some how tho indignant blood seemed to rise in my throat and choke me. and I felt like strangling tho wretch whose cun ning baffled me. She did not speak again, but looking into her pale face, I could see her lips forming the word “ Hush!” anti looking up quickly, I saw Herbert sauntering toward us through the avenue of ferns with that disagreeable smile on bis lips, and that strange, glittering light in nis black eyes. “ My dear Nellie, I have been search ing lor you;bow imprudent of you to stay out in this chilly place without your wraps. Ah, Mr. Reavey, I shall question your gallantry; see how my little wife shivers. Come, darling, I think we had beBt return home. He spoke lightly, and with his arm around his wife’s waist: but I could not banish tho impression that ho had been olavinx the BDy: and,to confirm the im- f *restf..ra, 1 caught the gleam of abso- ute terror that Elenore Herbert threw back at me as ho led her away. “ That man is mad; there is danger in his eye* to-night,” I thought, and impelled'by some Irresistible impulse, I found myself hurrying in the direction of her residence half an hour later. Was it fate or providence that guided my wandering steps7 I do not know; it was all bo strange and unreal; the events that followed seem to me even now, looking back into the dim vista of venrs, more like tho incidents narrated in some sensationa\ novel than an oc currence in real life. I had just turned into the block on which the Herbert’s resided, when a wild, thrilling cry dis turbed the silence of the summer night, r cry that came from the lips of a woman, and from the direction of the house in which Elenor Herbert passed her miserable life. “Father in Heaven, save her!” I cried, and no such fervent and heartfelt I irayer had crossed my lips since I rnelt at mother’s knee. I cannot re member how I sprang up the steps; Sadie, the maid who UHd brought Mrs. Herbert’s note to my office, waa in the hallway, wringing her hands and giv ing vent to the wild screams that had attracted my attention to the sj>ot. 1 dial not wait for her explanation, but dulled up the stairs and toward the door of the white and gold boudoir from whence came the sound of maniacal laughter and low groans of pain. Al most marl vith tqjror I forced my way hetweefi a group of frightened and use less Herfams. and threw myself wildly against the door. It yielded, And if I live for a hundred years I shall never forget the sight, fllirented to my view. Beautiful Elenor Herbert lay prone upon the flaor, her white silk evening dress dyed crimson with blood, and her face rigid and pallid as that ol a corpse. Her mad husband stood over her with a d uel-looking knife in hk hand, chuck ling gleefully. At sight of me no burst iuto a terrible peal oflaughter, and be fore a hand could be put forth to atay him, plunged the knife in his own heart. “ Ha-=*-hal” he cried, “see how nobly I hnve foiled you! You would have stolen her from me—take her now—she Is voitrfl.’* lie fell to the floor dead, With the last works on his lips, and at the same moment an officer, attracted to the spot by Sadie's cries, rushed into the room to ascertain thb cause of the disturb ance. I can. never olearlv remember what immediately followed. I only know that the words CRme to my ears: “The lady Is not seriously wounded.” Then I must have fallen 111, for when I recovered myself the remains of Charles Herbert had been laid in the grave and his wife was slowly recovering. Years have flown since that terrible night, and looking up from the wfitteh pages before me, my eyes fall upon the fair ace of my wife. “Elenore, my darling!” I call softly, pnd she comes to meet me gladly, more lovely than wheh.taaW hbrflrst In that fatal room o! white and gold, far more beautiful, with the love light giving place to the look of hunted terror In her violet eyes, And a npileof infinite peace Upon tho perfect lips. “My wife—mv own!” I murmur, fondly, and perha’ps Bhc guesses why 1 kiss her face with shch passionate ten- dernoss, for she shudders and nestles closer to me, with her golden head upon my breata, and her mind straying back to the tragedy of the past, that is dead. A Street-Car Episode. “ Driver,” I cried, “ be so kind as to stop until these ladies get on board.” Ho was kind enough to do so. On marched the enraged threo. The face of two showed indignation, the face of tho umbrella one showed vengeance. “ You think you’re smart, don’t you?” she snapped out at me a9 soon as she got her breath. I modestly confessed that such was the case. “Do you think I’m going to run all over town after a car and then pay for it?’» “ I wouldn’t if 1 were you—it’s too hot,” I replied. “ I won’t have any of your impudence, sir. I'll report you to the company, my man, see if I don't.” “ Madam,” said I, “it won’t cost you a cent more to Bit inside the car than to stand on the platform, and you must admit it would be more dignified.” “There’s your fifteen cents,” she cried, “ and don’t you talk back to me.” Willing to appease the woman I walked the length of the car and put tho fare in the box. “ Let me off at Lincoln avenue,” she called out to the driver. “ Thiscar don’t go to Lincoln avenue. This is a Woodward avenue car.*’ *.What!” ahe cried, “isn’t this a Grand River car?” “ No ma’am,” said the driver. “Any one can tell a Grand River car from a Woodward car, and tho other cars have conductors.” “ That conductor took my money and I want it back—stop this car.” “ Madame,” said I, “I put the money in—” “ Give me that fifteen cents.” “ I say that*-*-” ' “Give rao that fifteen cenUl” “ Why, I ” “ Give me that—” and here her um brella came so violently in contact with my hat that I.missed the rest of the sentence. “ Give mo that ” " Certainly, madam, here is twenty- five; never mind the change. You might miss the next car.” We never met again. Rather a Long Lived Family. Some two years ago a physician in Secretary Evarts’ favorite Village of Windsor, Vt., was called to visit a pa tient living Borne miles out of the vil lage. Ho drove out, and as he was hitching his horse the door opened, and a young woman with a child in her arms came out. They greeted each other, and sho said, “Oh, you are the doctor, come to see grandmother. She’s pretty sick. You’ll find her in the house.” He went in and found a wo man nbout forty, who said, “Oh, you are the doctor. You’ll find grand mother in that way.” In the room to which he was directed he found an aged, white-haired lady lying on the Bed, with her face the other way. She was quite deaf, and did not notice bis ap proach until he sat down and began to feel her pulse. She turned and said, “Oh, you are the doctor. I’m not sick. It is mother you want to see. You will find her in that room.” Bo into the next room he passed, and at last he was in the presence of his patient, whose daughter, grand-daughter, great-grand daughter and great-greatqzrand-daugh- ter he had encountered. He found ner so reduced by disease and old age (she was ninety-nine) that he saw no chance of her living more than a week. He told the family so, but at their reauest left medicines and directions, some three weeks after he was driving by and saw a woman picking up chips. He pulled up his horse, intending to ask when his patient had died, when she looked up and said, “Oh, you are the doctor who came to see me when I was sick.” Bhe is still living, as “ chipper” an old lady of ninety-nine as you will often see. The Plaguy CroojreJ Letters. The following conversation between a senior and an inquisitive freshman waa overheard in a New England college town the other evening: Freshman (confidentially)—"! BAy, Smith, didn’t you find Greek plaguy hard when you were a freshman? ’ Senior (nonchalantly)—“Greek? No. Greek came pretty easy to me. Freshman (awe-struck) — “ What! Didn’t you find Greek hard ?” Senior (meditatively)—“Hold on. Lem me see. Greek? Is Greek the stuff with the funny little crooked let ters?” Freshman (in astonishment)—*' Why, yes!” Scnor (emphatically)—“ Oh, yes, Greek waa deuced bard!” Those who quit their proper charac ter to assume one which Iocs n6t)bclong to them, are for the greater part ignor ant both of the characar they leave and of the cnaracterther assume. ALKAA!U>£II STEPHENS. Alexander If. Stephens still remain- the wonder of Congress from the persists cut manner in winch ho clings to life, and the fact that his mind seems to re tain its old time vigor, even while the body is apparently fiend. His is a remark able example of will po Vcr J he lives more Wcause lie wills it . than because he has nny natural right id. Your correspondent railed upon him at his rooms nt tlio National hotel, Where lie Ira* stopped when in the city for many years. j he u.;.cre*' ,n old t statesman was found seated in his wneel ch«»r, which lu* occupies on the floor of the Ilou-e, wheeling himself pruuiul from one pari of MiC tiftiy to mother. His greeting was cordial, and conversation opened. M .rshall Jewell, when in the city, had said that in his state (Connecticut) they . talking of a presidential ticket with Grant fir-! Jitfu e, and A. M. Stephens for second. Frve, of Maihe, said lie had heard of such combination, and the ob ject of my call uinin the old Georgian to ascertain his views upon such a ticket. He declined to discuss politics, hut said: “ I shall never occupy any por tion other than til': 1 do now, and I don’t expect to hold that initch longer.” Upon iny expressing surprise at that, he said: “I don’t cxiK*et to live through anolliCL presidential election. I don’t expect to live hKl*** month- longer.” I.OOKINO FOR THE END. It was suggested that he might lie mis taken till- trine, as his friends had been so often Indore. “No,” *nid lie, “I think not; I can fed that my health is rapidly declining : I notice it myself. I have held on now far beyond my time, nnd have outlived my generation. I alway NUMBER 14. Advice to Young Men. And then* remember, my son, you have to work. Whether yon handle apirk or • pen, a wbeelbarroT.’ a *■*’ of books, digging a ditch or editing a pitpt'L ring^l ing an auction bell or writing funn^ thing*, you must work. If you wi look around you, son, you will see tk.^ the men who are the met able to li the rest of their day* without ' the men who worl ed the hardest be afraid of killing yourself with evi work, son. It In beyond your power do that. Men cannot work so hard , that on the »unny side of thirty. The, die sometimes, hut it is because they quj at 6 p. m. and don’t get Immeuntil 2 a. It’s th«* intervals that kill, my soi work give* tOU an appetito fo meals, it lends solidity to your si it gives you a perfect and grateful] ciation of a holiday. There are" men who do nrt w.»rk, my nfen who muko « living by eud of a cane; whose entire mental < oprnent is insufficient to tell them side of a postage stamp to lick; ycl men who can tie a nocktie in eleven! ferent knot.* and never lay a wrinkle it, and then yet into a West Hill strel car to go to Cnic*.tro: who can spend i money in a day t*..:n you can cam month, eon, and who v' 1 uo tho Sherifl’s to buy a postal ca. . and apply at the office of Street ('"it. issioner for a marriage license. But the world is not preud of tlivm, son. it doc* not know tkelrasinij even; simply sp<\'.ka of them mold Scandso’e hoys. Nobody likes them ; nobody hate# them; the great busy world do»-n’t even know they are there, and at the fcfrcat day of resurrec tion, if they do uot appear at the sound of the trumpet, and they certainly a ill but still t halo and hearty , ami woMieintes in t’oiigrcs by the Wat. f < nlep « lived while liong John not unless »omebmly will tell them what it i* for and what’to do, I don’t think Gabrialwill miss them or notice their ab sence, and they will noth** sent fur, or lited for, or disturbed, 'lhingswill go ju*t as well without them. S'* find out what you want to be nnd to do, BUceesI A negro at Little Rocfl wens and warts cut fro! They weighed eleven pouJ A farmer aaks the beets pay.” In our c found that, usually,i beat their way. j A young lady parties should haveUH until she is able tof“‘ her own. / It very fre<|utnt[ hafl ei: dust s nnollici*, Ram sey. Jhc now Secretary of »7nJ\ v ira there and some twelve others, that I counted up the other day, I never shall forget that Illinois delegation,” Ami the old man laughed a little .-brill querulou* laugh at the recollection, “'there was Stephen A. Douglas, John entnortli. John J. Harding, nhd Bob Smith. They all got the Presidential idea iu their head. 1 remember at that time the p<*|>- ulritlon of Ohicngo was 0,000, and they all used to mention the fact with pride. Well, one session in particular they were ail very active, speaking when ever they could get an opportunity; all striving for prominence. ad take oft your coat and i the world. The binder you are the less deviltry you arc to get into, nnd the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter aud happier your holidays, and the l>ct- er satisfied will the world bo with you. keep tiic people. Every hill that c them t" their feet, and c the Illinois delegation * a speech. QUITE A JOl ‘ up brought “»g the questi House ns to the proper pronunciation of tho word Illinois. Some thought it should he Illinoy, while others argued Illinoi. At last some one proposed to refer it to the venerable gentleman from Massachusetts, (that was John Quincy Adams.) He arose and the House at once became as silent as death. Adams waited a moment, and then, with great seriousness and deliberation, began a quotation from Virgil, “Why should I lie chosen to decide such a grave prol>- Ioin? v - Then he said, “I feel that I am hardly competent to settle question" of such grave importance, hut if left to me I should say, judging from tlio demon strations witnessed in this House of late, that the only proper aad appropriate pronunciation of the word would he ‘All Wise,”’and at the recollection of the joke, perpetrated so many years ago, hut still fresli in his memory, Mr. SteuhciiH Ikudied as heartily as though lie had jitfft heard it for the first time. He then spoke of Stephen A. Douglas in thg hjghost terms, a.* one of the first men lie had ever met, possessing more of the element of true statesmanship than any other fnan of his time.—[Cor. Chi cago News. Living With a Bulletin His Hcnrt. [Hartford Courwil.] In July, 1878, Amos June was shot at Greenwich by Eli Carpenter, a colored boy. The hall entered his left breast and remained in his body, the last day of August, 1878, while working in the field, June instantly died. A post-mortem examination was held, when, it was ascertained that the ball had. passed through the left lung, ruptured.the pericardium, and into the heart, wWe it was lost. The bullet was not found, and on account of the peculiarity of tne case, Dr. Holley took the heart for further examination. An inquest was held, and a verdict rendered charging Eli Carpenter with criminal negligence. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he was not to be found. In March of this year a report of the case above mentioned appeared in London Lancet. From this it learned the missing bullet was found imbedded in the heart of the deceahod. The fact that the boy had lived fiftj^ four days in this condition introdi the case as an exceptional one to tho medical fraternity. Upon further quiry it was ascertained that Dr. Holley had taken the heart to Dr. Gibs, of Stanford, who subsequently took it to the Pathological Society in New York, by whom it was found. On Wednes day, 29th, the ex-I)eputy Sherifi’ New man discovered the boy Carpenter, passing through Mianus, and imme diately took him into custody. He was committed to Bridgeport jail, to await the action of the Superior Court. Chandler on the Emergency. Among the anoedotes of Zack Chan dler the Milwaukee Sentinel tells the fol lowing: Senator Chandler was for forty j-orsa lHHitiemn, and gained national promiucjice by his remarkable energy in war times urgivig tho prosecution of tho war. Lacking^ 1 * Itivntion and book edu cation, he was pos«< seu'.of nn"*ual irood sense, which was at tiuna of immensu value to the government. Senator Car penter tells tliis of him: When the Ala- Damn claims were under discussion by the “high joints,” England submitted a proposition that waa very severe. In resjtonse to a cable dispatch, the Eng-1 lish members of the “high joint” were j told to withdraw entirely if the proposi- j tion was rejected. In great distress Secretary Fish sent for Senator Chan dler. The point was explained to him by Fi-h in the presence of Grant and the whole CahincL and Chandler was m*kcd, “What shall we do?” Old Zacli replied, “Tell ’em to go to hell—put it in diplo matic language, of course.” That is just what was done, and it answered the pur pose entirely I’rrak of a Judge's Wife. [Meidville(fa.' R»j-rH*r.) Social circles in Cleveland have been considerably stirred up wiihin a day or two past, by the announcement that the wife of Judge R. F. Paine had left him to go on the variety stage. Judge Paine was nearly GO years old when, five years ago, be married his wife, who quite a young woman—not over 28. _ . name waa Humphrey, and jho had played on the stage iu minor parts through Michigan prior to coming to Cleveland. She was al*o well known as reader in thia city. She found em ployment as a copyist in the Court House, where the Judge, who was on the bench, met and married her, ahe be ing hia second wife. Their married life was supposed to be happy, and, as ahe was surrounded with everything that money could buy, there was Reeraingly nothing to tempt her to leave her home. The truism, that any one who pos sesses histrionic talent is miserable when not exercising it, seems to hnve been exemplified in the case of Mrs. Paine. For three years she has been secretly studying for the stage, and a few days aeo, after receiving a consider able sum ol monqf from the Judge, she departed for St. Louis, and it is re ported, has made an engagement at a variety theater. It is said that she was Accompanied by her husband’s son, who recently married a sister of Genevieve Ward, the actress, and that all three are now together in St. Louis. Mrs. Paine is a woman of rather fine aDj>CKr- ance, possessing a good figure and a pleasing face. Her hiktrionio talent l:a» lways been admired in thoso circles hich she occasionally favored with readings. Her desertion is said to be a severe trial to the J udge, who was an indulgent husband nnd ullowed his wife every privilege. Why tho Law is Uncertain. Language is nn imperfect instrument for tho expression of ideas. Not a few of its forms are ambiguous; that is, they speak in two ways. Reader and hearer loft in old Isaac’s perplexity. Tho ec is that of Jacob, the hand is that of Esau. Many t|Bkc terms of languago are cquivocLSjTflWy havo two meanings, so that the reader is in doubt as to tho mind or intentiou of the writer. Those who draft statutes know how difficult it is to frame a law which shall he free from ambiguous expressions equivocal terms. Judge Story onco told a personal incident, which illustrates this difficulty. He was employed by Congress to draft an act. So important was it that ho spent six months in trying to perfect tne phraseology. His purpose was to make the statute so clear that the most astute lawyer should not he able to car. tho shadow of a doubt upon its mean The draft proving satisfactory to tl o lawyers in Congress, became a law. In less than a year, a suit, involving tlio interpretation of this very law, enmo before the court over which .Tu/dico Story presided. Having heard the ar guments of tho able attorneys, the J udge confessed that ho was unable to decide upon the meaning of a statute which ho himself hud framed. He of course, know what he had meant to put Into the law. But the criti cisms of the two lawyers showed him that he had used such ambiguous ex pressions that it was doubtful if ho had said what lie mqant to havo said. 4 _irl who has the mi, t has the Lkg p st holet’vn ’ stockings. ^ L'o they call the the p.-eacher spe»k» finjj c»u«e Ikr tries to pull JI pltlroAtl»tpom*r-“ Now wt« ‘ 'rev? gun, «ndl6»e» ' fun, step**™ 1 lone. . “ SlNhLB niail^to* _ yer as the witness took his place. ^ air, ’ was the reply. Lawyer—“i living';” Confualon nmnrapidexpli tiona. A Connecticut woman sued j for taking off his hat (f.i the street a the jury gave her damages. T) don’t put on any^scollops in Conndj A Syplion Boot. Thanks to the good office* of a rich friend, a povertjr-strickcu young artist obtains a commission to paint the por* trait of a rich young lady Upon going to wni< upon the lady he manages to get himself up very credit ably as to hat, coat and pantaloons, but his boots—ah, his l^nt*’ « «u nSiicf in fashTona apart*vw it*- too of each where the •ole nas parted company with the upper. On t.hn mod fn llm lurln’ii mon Jinn A cut. “ Darling Ki?a My Eyelids Dowjj is the latest moonshine song, kisses themwip and down and ci and then Rettku on her lips t thing.—SHUicamc Lvrihtnnann The latest thing at churen to serve a search warrant with i cyster soup. It^ffifesn’t aid digei materially, but it renders valuable! Biatance in finding tho oyster. It is not strange that writers ) times get puzzled In their tween “ that,” “ which” and Relatives are always more or less troul some.— Tratiscript, The youug lady who Mpires to bi mitted to ti e rank! of the lo gal pr sion, does nat reflect that tho gral tion of her irabiti’oa would onlyf her a bar-n^krl. / YB8H, I suee,” Raid a moral \ry to a tramp, ‘ you want to go an, whisky.” “ Well, yes, I did \ asked you,” waa tho reply, “l> ‘ of yourbrea/hhasaneweredthi and I’m j™*’ “ Two-fort ““the a slang phrase‘ iu ‘ 1 ago,” either. the non trot n mile ‘ l *“ th * n hardly bo U, 10 n “ta/mai world ispTO e » 1Q K a 2.20 rai Oirlp ]<* out! It isn’t alwi youug me vho wear tlie 8Weeleat and uearl break their flecks ni oarth plr-ant for you during the ■ ship sea a. who arc the quickest t] up of a Jd rooming and build during Anted life. iW*-fivb thousand goUTea]? cnmeo/</in one steamer rccenYiy. Tl is the *»ml of bird wo want to coj home roost Ho strange that the widow of Boi diaco-irer of the Bodie mining distric’ ahou. hear, at her homo in Now wiclr that tho remains of her In whoperished in the great Nove. ,nor storm of 1859, were discovered C Qu.y, near the town which beafl nn*o. Fact is, indeed, strnngerj ftcion in many instances. A young lady who bad been^. n ittle over a year wrote toheri oJftct old father, aaying: “ W tie deareat little cottage in til rnmented with the most jr •tl-- creepers you ever saw. Q ^hii rend the lettor^rftnd * Twins, by thundorf' _ I" Holland Bays a man's chaw may bo judged by his cravat, wears no cravat, we suppose he hea^I. . any.—Buffalo Express. Bailey, yom <tf ' the Danbury News, will you stand thief —Norwalk Hour. You ought to eaeloet a stamp when asking for informatiopf- Danbury News. Mrs. Foozle (improving sion)—“ Is it not sad, my aea f our friend Mr. Buffies dri ntoly? I’m told his only e~ loss of his wife.” Mr. Foozl —“Only excuse—only ex _ And a very good oxcu~ are many men who w~ liavo the same excuse.” The Judge at i recently sentenced five years in the S was communica* mother, whh^juui • tude of the sente t fpr?” sh ,rs! >V i?je thr •quar^ On the road to the lady’s mansion _ sudden ahower came up, flooding the i^de-walks, and when he enters the draw- ilg room he perceives to his horror that Hs boots have turned into pumps, and ,l “* at each step the water withiu them rated forth over the costly carpets asttf from the blow-holes of lively young "’■Ties. ie, however, is not disconcerted, but " gracefully to tho young Indy of the sion: ^non my word, madame, these sy- phen boots that are all the fariiion aud aroW> highly praised may ho nil they nre ~“ ! '\to be for outdoor use, hut for wear- the house they will never answer at nl, nt all.” are Ornamented along the se edges with feather nnd briar stit in bright oontrastin^colors of emb ered silk, and with panels or bauda ecru colored silk canvas worked quaint designs with sampler stiU The edges have also n fringe of ta of embroidery silk, matching the oolo of the embroideries on the mat A poor but highly respected youn- man rescued au heiress from a water grave nt ono of tlio seaside resorts a fe’ weeks ago. The next day her preserve received a delicately •rfumed note froireg the young lady, ami iiTOovemberabl will mnrry. N’>, not the young man%h{ saved her life, but a man who has a cai 1 novels. turns out that way—but not i