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aotlled {or it prlma ftoit avldencs o( in
aatiotntl fraud.
Henet L. Cun tom charges William
it. Vanderbilt $250,000 fox defending
him against Cornelius and .Lord Scott
in the will cate, and in order io make it
more binding has furnished A bill-of
particulars elaborately itemised - .
There is a bill before the Near Jersey
Legislature providing that here;liter the
officials now receiving fees shall have a
fixed salary and no fees. That is the
tendeicy all over the country. The fee
abuse is grievous and it should *$0 abol
ished.
The gold-bearing belt in Colorado is
now producing more gold than p»ny area
of similar dimensions the world over
This belt extends from the northern part
of Boulder county, southerly through the
little county of Gilpin, and the north
eastern part of Clear Creek county—&
distance of thirty or thirty-five miles,
with a width of several miles.
Am ingenious manager in Burlington,
tho Hawkey says, has made a drop cur
tain representing an enormous bonnet,
with sprays of flowers and drooping
plumes. This is let down on the play,
early in the first scene, and is kept down j
ail the evening, and the audience, see
ing about as much of the play as it is
accustomed to seeing, goes away de
lighted.
Three or four bills have been intro
duced in the California Legislature to
VOLUME IV.
8O0 THEM HEWS.
186,000 hocah
Chattanoog a is awakening to the im?
portance of gc »od sewerage.
Negroes are flocking in gangs to Tus-
csloosa Ala., I to see a faith doctor.
Wilmingtoi i, N. C., has one church
building for • very 650 inhabitants.
The State A gricultursl college of South
Carolina w*lL be opened nest July.
Seventeen car-loads of mules were
sold in Atlanta, Ga„ Wednesday,
The losses by fire at Charlotte. N. C.,
during 1879, did not exceed $2,000.
Robert P. Button, Grand Master of
the Odd Fellows of Virginia is dead.
Seventy thousand bales of cotton have
been reoeived at Rome, Ga., this season.
Newborn, N. C., has a hat factory
and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory 1
Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa*
ter^ass over the bar at Wilmington,
A party from New Orleans is about
to start a glass factory at B*y£t. Louis,
Miss.
The city of New Orleans has appro
priated $200,009 for police purposes this
year.
Very largo walnut logs are being shir,,
rod from Southern Virginia to Phila
delphia.
One orange tree at Bay St Louis, Migg.
produced a crop of orange.) which brought
the qwner$30.
It is probable that there will b© ..
organisation of the Memphis Water
works company.
The school population of Tennessee is
regulate the operations of gas companies,> 514,648; the valuo of public school prop
rice of thoir pro- m the 8tato 18 <1,162,684 76. F *
as to tho quality and price of thoir pro
duct and requiring tho greatest public!
to be given, at brief intervals, to theft
financial affairs. There is much feeling
against the gas company in San Fran-
oisco, and the people are determined to
have light at a reasonable rate.
Among all the cities of Italy suffering
from famine and misery this winter Rome
bears the heaviest burden. The trade of
the city has declined sine a the overthrow
of the Pope's Government, and the taxes
are a hundred fold what they we-
they were almost nominal i»- ' -*• i
Popes, as the whole wo-'' the
to enrich the cit- Ootitfibuted
from Turin - -*• Capitalists
what h -nr * MiUh httVd monopolized
^ ‘-as bCctt left of the trade once po -
*«Wd by Roman merchants.
A district has been selected in Cin
cinnati for a test of the Holly system of
supplying heat by steam. Ordinances
granting permission to a company to lay
pipes have been approved by the Mayor,
but it is required that heat shall be sup
plied the public buildings at 80 per cent,
less than the cost for heatibg them dur
ing 187& The compatay also agrees to
furnish steam power where wanted at
Yeduccd Cost. If this system comes into
, general Use the old-fashioned “ fireside,”
( about A'hleh so much poetry has been
Written, and which makes home in win
ter look so cheerful, will bo numbered
among the things that were.
Some interesting experiments of
ploughing by electricity took place the
other day at Noisiel, in France, in the
park of the well-known Deputy and
chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo
tive power was supplied to tho plough by
a Gramme mnehine, itself set in motion
by water power, which is abundant on
M. Menier’s estate. The plough did
about the same work as if it were drawn
by four oxen. It Was a Fowler plough,
With six shares, The motive power was
supplied by a Wire at a distance of nearly
hqlf a mi e. To a profane looker-on it
Was amusing to see a ploug’i propelled by
Un Uttseen ttgency without teams or
'stealth lhe Gramme machine employed
Voi the same that supplied M. Menier’s
manufactory with electric light.
The attention of Edison having been
called to the doubts of some Parisian
critics concerning the stability of the
oarborn horseshoe, and the claim that it
gradually wastes awav by decomposition,
he said: “A complete mswer to that
is the actual result. 1 can state that the
bldoflfc ldmp in my laboratory, after
burning 005 hours, had its electrical re-
*Utnnce measured, and there was not a
• difference of one-tenth of a hair from
the time when it was originally put in
tircuit. The surface of this carbon which
hurnvd 805 hours is as bright to-dsy as
h Wfts the day when first put in, where
as oxidization makes carbon blank.”
Edison says he has not told a share ef
hiq BtOCk,
Save the Raob.—The price of paper
has advanced from 6$ to 10 cents all over
the country. If this price is maintained,
the public will be compelled to pay more
* for their newspapers. Many daily pa-
I pers have already increased their price
. from 90 to 30 cents per week, and weekly
papere'from $1 50 $2 50 per year.
The advance in paper can be stopped
if the people will save and sell their old
.paper and rags. Three months’ saving
of rags and old paper by the entire pop
ulation, and selling them in the markets,
would check the advance in paper. Ragt
are worth from 3 to 8} cents per pound.
Every ncwfpapcr in the land should
appeal to the people in this matter. And
they should also 'economize in the con-
' sumption as much as possible.
The water-works of Knoxville Tenn.
are involved in legal difficulties. The
contractors aro financially embarrassed.
The citizens of Macon, Ga., have sent
$700 to the Irish sufferers. It was most
ly sent to Ttutm, one of tho most afflicted
districts.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, a prett^ ,
girl of eighteen years, has bee- ' white
to the Virginia Penitent’* -*» sentenced
htea ing. -* r J *<>r horse-
In selecting r
ton, Ten 1 ’ ’ - Jwry for a trial at Clin-
amin'-' . *i*it week, 491 men were ex-
w 1»efore twelve suitable persons
-ould be found.
One hundred shares of the Langley
Manufacturing Company’s stock, of Au
gusta, Gx., sold recently in Charleston at
$180.50 per share.
One hundred telephones have been or
dered by citizens of Memphis, and the
system may be considered as thoroughly
organized there now.
A large number of tho convicts sen
tenced to the Tennessee penitentiary are
employed in the Scwanee coal mines on
the Cumberland mountains.
The net earnings of the woolen mills
company at Charlottesville, Va., for the
past year, shows a return of over four
teen per cent, upon the capital stock.
A b 11 before the Senate of Mississippi
provides for the severe punishment of
railroad employes or officials and legisla
tors for giving or receiving free passes.
Vicksburg Herald: We heard a far
mer remark yesterday that the loss sus
tained by the spoiling of meat would al
most offset the oenefit from the big pri
ces of cotton.
Donald McQueen, D.D., forty-three
years a minister of the Presbyterian
church at Sumter, 8. C., is dead, after
, « gretti. curiosity, n very
Uftus naturae, a tree half oak and half
elm.. The trunk is about two and a half
feet in diameter, and for the distance of
five feet from the ground is, to all ap
pearances, an oak; above tint have
sprung two large branches, one of which
is oak and the other elm.
An act to prevent and punish the in
termarrying of races, passed at the last
session uf ft ie South Carolina Lepisla-
.. ure „ provides that any person so offend-
.iig shall be subject to a fine of not less
than $500, or imprisonment for not less
than one year, or both, at the discretion
of the court. Any clergyman or magis
trate who shall mute in the bonds of
matrimony persons of different races is
subject to the samo p/?nnilty.
Carterevillc (Ga.) Express: Middle
Tennessee : a rapidly regaining her o|d
time prestige as a mule market. Maurv
county is in the lead of all others in this
respect, and her county scat, Columbia,
is one of tho largest marhtets in tho
world Over $100,000 worth of mules
alone have been shipped from that point
South within the past ten dayB or two
weeks, not counting many dro ves that
have beet} driven routh on foot.
New Orleans Picayune: Tho monu
ment to Stonewall Jackson, to be erected
in Metairie Cemetery, on the grounds of
the Washington Artillery, is now on its
way to this city by rail. The unveiling
and dedication ceremonies will take
S I ace on February 22. Hon. B. J.
emmes will be the orator of the day.
T. L. Bayne, President of the association,
will make the presentation, and Col.
Owen will respond. Tho ceremonies
will be the occasion of a largo militar y
turn-out.
New Orleans Democrat: An CHtu lia
ble and well known young lad|y of thii
city is about to lose her right 41011 as 1
resultrof the boisterous and rude conduct
of one other boy friends. In exhil >iting
his superior strength during a recent
visit, he twisted her right arm in such a
manner that one of tho larger blood
vessels near the elbow was ruptured.
an illness of many months. He was sev- Two days after, the arm began to swell,
every iarmer wno comes to 1
ports that his wheat, crop, is l
injured by tho fly. Cold v
snow are being very badly n<
enty years old.
Alex. H. Stevens is a puzzle to the
medical fraternity. He is stronger now
than at any time these fifteen years, and,
it is said,’will shortly discard his rolling
chair and crutches. |
The State Immigration society of Ar
kansas has decidea to publish, for dis
tribution abroad, 106,000 copies of a.
pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of the
resources of the state.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Almogj
every farmer who comes to the city fe-
* being badly
weather and
ng very badly"needed.
The first locomotive crossed the new
and magnificent iron bridge of the Louisr
iana Western railroad, over the Sabine
river, near Orange, Tex., Tuesday. The
bridge is 400 feet long, with a draw of
20C feet.
Atlanta Constitution: There is a
movement on foot to organize two good
base ball nines the coming summer. It is
the intention of those interested to take
these nines and go campaigning through
the South.
The State Superintendent of Educa
tion, of South Carolina, is endeavoring
to nut in operation a plan by which the
S ramie s hools’dan be kept open fora
onfeer perfo^each year than they have
t>een heretofore.
The city council of Richmond, Va.,
has deposed WilllartrL: Smithy keeper of
Oakwood cemetery, a* it ift believed that
without his knowledge and' permission
the recent work of the body snatchers
there would have be eff impossible.
[ Ga.) EnqutosYflhni •; Sex-
bumed the body of a* young
white woman yesterday that hum been
buried twenty-seven years. She was
buried in a metallic case. The body was
well preserved and looked quite natural^.
Selma (Ala.) Times: Weare aftRitf
that the planting community is going
wild on cotton. There is danger that
food crops may be neglected ana every-'
thing devoted to cotton. If, in such tm
event, the cotton crops should fail, our
people would be iu a deplorable condi*
tion.
Memphis Avalanche: It is a settled
fact that the East Tennessee and Vir
ginia road has secured the control of the
Memphis and Little Rock road. It is
statea that the new bosses intend to ex
tend the line from Fort Smith to Texar
kana, and then connect with the South
ern Pacific.
Shreveport (La.) Times: One <f the
notaries yesterday informed us that he
passed sales of five hill farms, ranging
from 160 to 200 acres each, at an average
of about $3 50 per acre. These same
lands could have wen bought six months
A mew bracelet la made of » narrow
band of gold, clasped with a small
golden owl wnioh has emerald eyes.
The engraving of the owl’s plumage is
very fine and the design quite novel. A
ring is made of a serpent coiled around
four times and with a turquise set in his
uplifted head.
oner,
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1880.
NUMBER 19.
th «‘ our insectivorous birds
ave so deplorably decreased ?
Charleston (8. O.): Hon. A. P. But-
ler, Commissioner of Avriculture, gives
notice that he is ready to receive the
privilege tax of twenty-five cents on
every ten ot fertilizer sold or offered for
sale in this state, and warns those coii-
Oirnea that failure to comply with this
law will subject them to immediate pen
alties. r
Nashville American : The blue suit
for all the employes in the passenger do"
of the Louisville, Nashville
“d Great Southern railroad arrived
here and will be donned on the 2d of
February. The next thing will lie the
Uniforming of men in the same depart
ment on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
SL Louis.
Atlanta Constitution: Plans arc now
being drawn for a new court-liousc, to be
erected at the corner of East Hunter
and Pryor streets. Tho work of build
ing will, we hear, be commenced the
homing summer. The new court-house
tje arranged in the’most complete
style, and will be one of the handsomest
in "the south.
Little Rock Is to bo n distributing
Mepot for coal oil. In other words, an
enterprising Ann has arranged to have
coal oil mippod to that point in spccinl
iron tank can and emptied into a mas
sive tank with a capacity of 30,000 cal-
J 0 "®* "W® R will be barreled and dis
tribute the saving effected being in thu
transportation of the oil.
Memphis Appeal: There is in Elm*
™ PATT— 0W MAT IIIlirULE
Whcp^lha angry poaolon gathering la my molbct'a
And alio lead* in* In tho bednoa-fently laji mo oa
nor knon: •
rhen I kuow that I viil oatch it, and mr fleck la
broechea.
> patter of the ahlagla oa mj
Ever
’ tinklaof tho ahlngla haa on echo tod ■
a thouaar-* —*— ‘ *
aprlng,
thousand burning faacleo Into actira* bcli
_.>rlng,
And ajthousand beea and horaato ’neatfc my coat-tails
As I listen to tho ’patter of the ahingle-Ohl as
warm.
la a splutter comes my ftither—whom I supposed had
gone—
To survey the situation and tell her to lay It on:
To sec her bending o’er me as I listen to tho strain
Played by her and by the shingle In a wild and
-elrd refrain.
Aden intermission, which appears my only
" Strik# gently, mothor, or yoa’ll split my
inday pants."
s n moment, draws her breath, the shingle
dds aloft,
rs: " I bad not thougbtof that—my son just
ko them off." j
Holy Moses 1 and the angels, cast thy pltyfngglances
ml thou, family doctor, put n grind soft poultice on
nd iniy ywith fools and dunces everlastingly com
If ever I say another word when my mother wield
—B*rlltgton Hauleye.
and as mortification is now rapidly set
ting in, amputation has .been tdcclared
neoessary.
New Orleans States: On» of the most
important measures that will come be
fore tho Legislature now ill sessiion will
be the reorganization of our present sys
tem of municipal government. The
adoption of the new constitution hits
entailed the necessity of a complete re
construction of the State Government.
The great reduction in the number of
offices and curtailment of salaries ns well
as the limited rate of taxation, are the
salient features of the new constitution.
The poverty of the people, the burden of
an oppressive debt, and. nil extravagant
system of government entailed upon us
by the constitution of 1867, forced the
people, in their sovereignty, to demand a
revision ot the organic law.
Augusta, Ga., has six ootton factories
in operation,^one is in coimeof building,
and capital is being raised for still .an
other, the last to have 24,000 spindles
and to cost $500,000. The six factories
usod last year 40,000 bales of cotton,
products being worth $4,000,000. Cotton
mill stocks there are quoted at $1.20(n>
1 80. Last year the. mills paid ton to
twelve per. cent, dividends, and put away
handsome sums in their sinking funds
for extensions. The new 24,000 spindle
factory will add to the population of the
city at least 5,000 souls, and will pay to
employes $175,000 annually. These
mills makr, besides what they consume,
a market for 175,000 bales of cot ton,
A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS.
There were two of ua chatting and
smoking cigarettes at the corner of
Canal and nt. Charles streets in that
S |uaint and strauge old city, New Or
gans—a city of nevvr-ending charms
aiM queer phaseo of l«fe and mysteries
withoiftnumber; a miniature Ptv is, with
its bijou theaters in the French quarter,
where tho play is in French and the
English language is a foreign tongue,
and where the men wear their hats and
the ladies sip absinthe and^ puff dainty
rings of cigarette smoke from pretty
mouths.
“ Where shall we go to-night?” Mor-
lan asked me.
“Grand Opera-House,” I suggested.
“Aren’t you tired of Janauschek’s
diamonds yet?”
“ Well, say the Varieties.”
“ Nothing there but frescoing in the
lobby.”
“ Academy.”
“Bah!”
Wo smoked awhile in silence, and
finally decided to see Mile. Matliilde at
Le Petit Theater Francaise, away down
on Chartres street. “ If Goison is in the
crowd,” said Morlan, “ we’ll appropri
ate him. Aha! there he is now. Goi
son, come hither!”
A number of the young men had
crossed Canal street, and were passing
up St. Charles toward Common, others
continuing their way along Canal to
Baronne. A handsome, small, delicate
student emerged from the crowd. He
had hands as white and small as a
woman’s, long black hair, a pale,
thoughtful face, and large, calm, ex
pressive eyes. I was introduced to him.
and he grasped my haud warmly and
firmly.
“ Have you anything to do to-night,
Goison?”
“ Any tiling to do? Oh, yes, some in
fernal thesis, I believe; but hang the
thesis—and by George 1 the disseotion
too. "Where are you going?”
“To La Petit Francaise, we were
thinking.”
“What! the absinthe and the head
ache? Come with mo to the college.
My little girl will do the tight-rope
from the roof, and I’ll introduce you’ ’
We turn up ht. Charles street to
Common, down Common to Baronne aud
the college. Crowds were beginning to
gather at this point. We threaded our
way through the throng that pressed
against the Tailing around the college
yard, and entered a small door at the
side. We climbed four flights of dark,
diamal stni rs, and stumbled at the turn
ings. We felt our way along a hall,
pervaded by a stifling blackness aud a
UR*
} dim. outline of a perpendicular
ladder near t&e extremity of the hall.
We climbed the ladder and erawled
through a hole ih the ceiling. Here
the darfc»*8fl was intense. W© found
another close at hand, and by feeling
for the t rungs, gained the top and
emerge ri upon a steep roof covered with
slate. We looked around. New Orleans
lay at. our feet in all the glory of a
starry/ night. Ou the south, we could
trace , the river winding in a crescent
foriri around the city, and reflecting the
colo red lights from the shipping. Away
to t’ ke northeast could be seen the dark,
flat Burfaoe of tho lake. To the south
east lay the French Quarter, with its
tall, old-fashioned houses and its nar
row streets. To the westward Upper
To *n stretched its wealth and grandeur
ov er a large area. Under our leet was
th £ glare from Canal, St. Charles, Camp,
C ouunon, Carondelet, Tchoupitoulas
7md Baronne streets.
A parapet about, twelve inches high
was all tliat could have preserved us
I from tho morgue, if the treacherous
slate had broken, or the foot slipped an
ui wv , wiivuu .slipped
whidVrequ'i'reH 'tS.OOO.OOo'mi'mialiy '^ J >? ch - I' 6 ™™ 8 * ere standing
, ” ' ll amtror ntminut. th« imrsiwt.
handle.
figures paid yestei
Memphis Appeal: According to Sholes’
directory census, the population of the
city is now 40,927, as against 48,497 last
year, a lo» of 8,000. But against this
we are able to put the fact of a greatly
increased trade, our receipts of cotton
being 60,000 bales more than last year
and 6,000 more than in 1878.
Columbia (S. C.) Register: The very
first thing the plantation “ nigger ” did
__ ___ __ after “freedom eeane in,” was to get aij
Milker, of the »udienc£T the amy musket and tr < to kill off rr«y
return inn —■• ‘ ur ■ n 1 National ^
the gutter against the parapet,
thebe, tv»o were rough looking men; the
third was a woman m tights and short
skirts, and covered with spangles and
tfrars aud gold lace. The men were en-
giged with certain pulleys and cords
».i drawing to a greater tension the wire
a:able that stretched from the parapet of
the college to tho building opposite.
The woman was standing in tho shade
of the parupet, and looking down ab-
atractedly upon the thousands of human
beings who packed the street, and whose
upturned faces, expressive of anticipa
tion, she seemed to be studying atten
tively.
“ Already here, Zoe?” asked Goison,
in his soft, smooth voice.
The woman started and turned
quickly, an expression of intense happi
ness lighting up her face.
“ I was looking for you below,” she
said. “ I was afraid, but I am strong
now. You don’t think I’ll fall do you ?’’
“ Certainly Dot. You are very foolish
to :u>k such a question.”
He introduced us as his friends, and
she shook our hands pleasantly. She
had a rather agreeable face, though we
could not see distinctly, the only light
boing t hut of the stars and the faint
f low from the lamps and torches below,
n any event she nad a pleasant voice,
and that was sufficient. She also was
small, and delicate and young. A shawl
was thrown over her bare shoulders and
arms, but her little hands were cold and
she shivered in the night air.
“I was thinking, Goldy,” she said,
“that if I should fall,”-and a more de
cided shivering shook her delicate frame
—“I wonder what they would think,
and how they would feel down there?”
“ Nonsense, little Zoet”
She laughed softly and put her arm
A Detroit man wu astonished the ! through Golson’s, and looked up into bia
other day to find the telephone could face with a touching tenderness and
talk French- He aald he tnooghtit was | reliance, She again scanned the crowd)
M«n|U|JiiaT»U0a. l and wu thinking.
Le*m Abont the Pulse.
Every intelligent person should know
how to asceifcain the state of the pulse
in health; then, by comparing it with
what it is w\ven he is ailing, he may
have some idoa of the urgency of his
Parents should know the heal>bh pulse
of each child—jas now and then a per
son is bora wfth a peculiarly stow or
fast pulse, and the very ease in hand
be of that peculiarity. An infant’s
R aise is 140; a child of 7. about 80; and
om 20 to 60 yean, is 70 beats a minute,
declining to be at four-score. A health
ful grown person’s pulse beats 70 times
a minute; there may be good health
down to 60; but if the pulse always ex
ceeds seventy, there is a disease; tho
machine is working Itself out, there is a
fewer of inflammation somewhere, ajnd
the body is feeding on itself; as in o<»n-
sumptiofi, when the pulse is quick, that
is over 70, gradually increasing, wilth
decreasoi chances of cure, until it
reaches 110 to 120, when death coaxes
before nitany days. When the pulse is
over 70 for months, and there is a slight
cough, the lungs are affected. There
are. however, peculiar constitutions in
which the tmlae may be over 70 in
health.
•COHUUDSim! One* it If you
And tellme, John, the answer-
•Wherein a clumsy prli
•- • * l
1 You hr
Is like an honest dancer 1’
■“I bar* It. Jane!" “ "
“ I'd make a dozen bets—
One of them »et* the forms, you know
The other forme the sets!”
•• Sharp aniwer, deer, hut not the ona
Wrought by my mental caper—
One of tnem pay tho piper, John,
Tbs 9tier plea the paper I”
Well, but
wt .
a little fool, and it served
. .. I should. Do yon
think they would eare? Or would they
her right? 1
•‘ What is the matter, petf ’
!! , not bing— nothing whatever,”
and she langhed again musically, “I
was simply thinking. I remember that
a long time ago, when I was a child,
and my father was letting me stand on
his head while he rode two homes bare-
back around the ring—and I was
terribly frightened once when the
horses became wild with fear or some
thing, I don t remember what—and he
caught me strong and close in his arms
as 1 was falling, and kissed rily- lips, my
cheeks, and eyes, and forehead, and held
me in his arms quite n while, and called
me his dear, precious baby. What was
I going to tell you? Oh, yes; about
the man who fell from the tight-rope.
That was terrible I One emd of the rope
was passed over the • rqof of a house,
carried down the side, anil made fast to
a wooden block underneath. It had so
happened that the block had rotted off
next the ground, and there waa no
weight upon it whatever. Well, any
how, they tied the rope around the
block, and the professog was half-wav
across the street when he began to give
an exhibition of jumping. Suddenly
we saw that the rope was giving way.
The jerking had pulled the block from
under the house, and was dragging it
up the side. The professor turned quite
pale, and stood aud waited. He came
down slowly with the roipe. It seemed
as if it would never stop slipping over
the roof like a long ugly snake. It soon
became slack, and it was, of course,
much harder to balance on it; but he
never lost his presence of mind, and
stood perfectly calm and straight.
When the block had nearly reached the
roof—it was a two-story house—the
, _ slipped off, and I heard the block
drop to the ground. I hid my face and
crouched down agaimt a wall, and I
heard him strike the grtmind like some
thing dead. Oh, it waa so horrible!”
She peered around into Xhe darknes and
shuddered. “Po©»fellow! he fell flat
on his face. It was tlhe cruelest thing
that ever happened.”
She
crowd
Did it kill him!”
No, not quite, but he was delirious
for several weeks. When they picked
him uf> the blood gushed from hia
nose, his eyes, and his ears, and a
bloody froth came from his mouth. I
was a little child then and i dreamed of
him every night for two or three yea/.’s.
I dreamed of him again last night for
the first time in a uroat while. 11hour-lit
I went to pick him up, and could feel
his poor broken boueA grating against
each other, and hia poo
stared wide and cold at
“ You pbt well to night, Zoo,”
said the man of science, examining her
pulse attentively. He became thought
ful. “ I don’t think you ought to risk
it,” he said.
“Oh, I am not afraid now that you
are here,” she replied in her charming
way.
“ I think you had better wait.”
“ Now, don’t get naughty. I mtut go.
I want to go. Why, there’s two hundred
dollars in that crowd, any my mnuager
would be crazy if I didn’t walk. Beside,
I contracted to do one street walk ev.^ry
two weeks in Addition to the lofty centre-
pole walk every day. Why, I’ve dune
the lofty five hundred times and never
lost my head, and why is there danger
now?”
“But it’s more difficult to see the
rope at night.”
“ I never look ht my feet, anyhow,
when I walk.”
“ You are feverish and nervous.”
“ It will make me ail the more care
ful.”
“ Well, walk then.” said Goison, with
a shrug or the shoulders.
“ Now, Goldy, don’t look that way.”
He became cheerfu land beaming in a
moment. The manager appeared on the
opposite roof and beckoned the girl to
proceed. Tho attendants at both ends
examined the fastenings of the rope to
see that they were properly secured.
They produced trays in which to burn
colored fires, and heaped lumps of the
combustible material upon the parapet.
Zoe mounted the parapet with an elastic
step, and threw kisses at the shouting
crowd below as the red fires brought out
her frail form. She looked very charm
ing and pretty, standing, smiling, in the
intense red glare of the light.
e the pole,” she demanded,
jf Goison, holding out a
small hand aud dimpled arm.
He picked up the cumbersome balanc
ing pole and placed it in her hands, fehe
found the center, shook hands with Goi
son, threw us a smile, rained a shower
of kisses upon the crowd and stepped
firmly upon the rope. She soon found
a safe pose, took a tew steps, and halted.
She glanced back at the attend ants, and
egarded the pile of fire.
“ You are burning it too fast,” she
said. “ Good-by, Goldy,” and she picked
her way over the narrow bridge that
spanned the yawning chasm beneath.
She was graceful and walked with con
siderable ease apparently, stopping oc
casionally to shift the pole and Bteady
herself.
“ She is walking slow and shaky to
night.” said one of the men.
“ Sne i» not walking as wellas usual ?”
asked Goison, hurriedly, and looking at
her steadily. His glances never left her
a moment.
No; she can beat that. I think she’s
In the sulks.”
Goison paid no attention to the insult,
and watched her with fascinated gaze.
His face was somewhat paler than usual,
in spite of the red glare. He did not
movo a single muscle. Zoe had passed
the middle of the street—the most dan
gerous place—and continued her walk
toward the other end. She toiled up the
incline^ the rope depressing under her
tiny, nimble feet, and at last jumped
safe and sound upon the opposite roof
A tremendous deatening snout aroee
from the mob, and the plucky girl threw
a bunch of kisses at Goison. The color
had returned to his face with unnatural
intensity, and the look of absorbing
anxiety had passed uwav. His chest
was broader and his eyes brighter. Ho
simply smiled at Zoe, and did not even
applaud her.
The shouting below continued. The
meu made no preparations to remove
the ropo, but Goison started for the
ladder.
“ She’s cornin’ back,” said one of the
men.
Goison stopped as if he had been shot
through the brain. The hard, anxious
look returned, and the deathly pallor
came back all in an instant.
“I didn’t know that,” he said, calmly
and resignedly. He resumed his old
no ition, and watched the girl with
intense interest—with & gaze iu which
were concentrated his soul and heart
and mind and itrength—a look in which
o^ed
was expressed the profoundest feelings
of a strong nature.
Zoe rested a moment, and again
stepped upon the rope. She had pro
ceeded about ten feet, when one of the
men remarked:
“She’s scared.”
Goison noticed it; we all saw it. Hei
teeth were so tightly compressed that
in the dazzling light we could see
rMgcs in her cheeks. Her nostrils were
expanded, aud she stared fixedly ahead
at the rope. Her breathing was short,
and u tremor appeared in her arms and
knees. Instead of her usually erect
carriage, there was a perceptible lean
ing forward. When she had made but
a dozen steps she stopped and appeared
to be in doubt. She then apparently
made an effort to walk backward, but
was evidently afraid to undertake it.
She stopped again, mustered her cour
age. threw a quick glance at Goison,
and recommenced her dangerous jour
ney. The rope trembled and swayed
under her feet, and in this way caught a
swinging motion that tries the nerve o!
the most experianced balancers. When
she had reached the middle it was im
possible to proceed. She might have
crossed safely, but the fire on our side
vas exhausted. She had walked more
lowly than usually, and the fire was
consumed too soon. She could not see
the rope distinctly enough. She stood
still for several seconds. The light be
hind her continued to burn, but it was
assistance to her, and immediately
afterward it was also exhausted. We
could distinctly see the poor frightened
irl by the light from below, but her
ace yras obscured. The crowd sent up
isses and groans. The rope-walker at
tempted to take another step, one suc-
:led. She tried a second and failed.
Her foot suddenly slipped, but she was
active and alert, and caught upon her
knee. Her fright increased, and in the
terrible excitement of the moment she
dropped the pole. It struck the rope,
balanced a moment, and slipped off
upon the crowd below*. There was a
great scattering, and the crowd realized
that the young girl was falling. Every
sound was hushed. The child steadied
herself wildly and instinctively a mo
ment with her arms as she knelt on the
rone, and then fell.
Golsoua appearance was painful and
•itiable. Great cords stood out upon
ds face, which was overspread by an
agony of ghastly pallor. Hia muscles
swelled with ridges and knots, and his
hands assumed the appearance of an
pagle’s claws. He gazed at the rope
where the girl had a moment ago stood.
She had caught by the right hand, and
hung suspended over the cobbles. In
another moment she grasped the rope
with the other hand, and hung per
fectly still. Goison waited but a few
seconds, when he saw that fright had
taken the strength from her arms, and
that shp could not climb upon the rope.
He dashed off his hat, and grasped the
rope with both hand, and threw one leg
across it. He crawled along carefully,
that the shaking might not cause the
girl to lose hold. The crowd watched
him in breathless silence. Th* rope
swung lower under the double weight,
and the fastenings creaked and groaned.
“Hold tight, my child,” we could
hear him say to the fainting girl.
“ Hold on, for God’s sake, and I will
save you ! M
She raised her head and looked at him
for a moment, and then droi
again between her arms,
preached her slowly and painfully, for
be was a stranger to the situation, and
was afraid of shaking her off. At
length he reached her. He whispered
something to her, and she looked him
full iu the face. He allowed his right
knee to remain across the rope, threw
his right arm over it at the elbow, and
twisted the right hand around under
neath to secure a firm hold, and passed
his left arm around the girl’s waist.
The strength of pix men was in those
supple limbs and clean-cut muscles.
He drew her toward him. She released
her hold, her head drooped, and she
fainted.
ly out at the oolleje end!” he
shouted.
His feet were in that direction. It re
quired four of us to let it out. It slip
ped over the parapet slowly, and the
suspended pair began to be lowered.
“ Pay it out I” he shouted again.
We let it go more rapidly, and he ana
s swooning charge were against the
building acro*s the street. He let him
self slide gradually down until he
reached the sidewalk, where be was met
by the manager. The latter took the
girl to her home.
The crowd gathered around him with
wild shouts, but he slipped away, and
met us at the door of the college.
“ Where is that scoundrel who said
e was sulking?” he demanded, with
i angry look.
We pointed him out.
Goison walked up to him, explained
his business and gave him a ringing
blow in the face that sent him rolling in
the gutter.
I met the dear old fellow on California
street the other day, and his little wife
'th him, charming and pretty as
She laughingly remarked that
she liked to see the circus as much as
ever, but that she always feit a horror
for rope-walking. I almost believe that
her dimples are as pretty as on the
night she threw kisses to a great crowd
in the street.
Met with His Match.
The clever Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh,
met with his match while examining a
student:
He said: “ And you attended the
class for mathematics?”
“ Yes.”
“ How many sides have a circle?”
“ Two,” said the student.
“ What are they?”
What a laugh in the class the student’s
answer produced when he said, “An in
side and outside.”
But this was nothing compared with
what followed. The doctor having said
to this student, “And vou attend the
moral philosophy class also?”
M Yes.”
' Well, you would hear lectures on
various subjects. Did you ever hear one
ou cause and effect?”
“ Yes.”
“ Does an effect ever go before a cause f *
“ Yes.”
“ Give me an instance.”
“ A man wheeling a barrow.”
The doctor then sat down and pro
posed no more questions.
Ministers are paid to work, and
originality in sermon writing is the
leading part of their work. If a con
gregation merely wished to listen to an |
old sermon there are thousand// ^ ad
mirable ones in print which could be
read by any good elocutionist"
congregation, aqd the minister^
be entirely sav<
STAGE AND ROSTRUM.
Mrs. Scott Siddoms is an Indian by
birth. . J'
R. E. Stevens now manages ^’anny
Davenport.
John B. Gouoh makes $20,000 a
year.
Maplesom thinks of engaging Brig
noli to take Aranburo’s place.
“Enchantment’’had a run of 111
nights at Niblo’s, New York.
Miss Bijou Heron will probably
visit this country during the coming
summer.
It is currently believed that a woman
is a hard thing to see through. And so is
her hat at the opera.
An Australian correspondent in an
insane moment attributed Uncle Tories
Cabin to Henry Ward Beecher.
Maplebon had to piank up 910,000
with the liothchildB to induce Mile.
Marimon to come over here.
“ My children,” sayc Sara Bernhardt,
“ your mother can go* no father in this
business.”—New Orleane Picaynn* *
Mibs Hattie Richardson did not
join the Weathersby-Goodwin Froliques,
after ail, though she was offered a sea
son’s engagement at a liberal salary.
Messrs. Gilbert and SullivAii con
template, it is said, a permanent resi
dence in America, as the managers of e
vaudeville theater.
Mr Ferdinand Dulcken, the pian
ist, has severed his connection with the
Cariotta Patti Company, and returned to
New York.
Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day in the year. No
man haa learued anything rightly until
he knows that every day in the year is
doomsday.
Wm. Seymour, at present stage ma
~ Museum, wul pro
ager at the Boston Museum, will prob
ably take a similiar position under Law
rence Barrett, at the California theater
commencing June 1st, 1880.
Mm Maurice Strakosch has en
gaged Teresa Sinsrer for next year, aud
in spring will take the kalian Opera
Company to London for a season of two
months.
The celebrated Townley collection of
sculpture, for which Parliament paid
$100,000, has remained for twenty-five
S ara in the cellars of tLe British
useum, and has only been viewed dur
ing that time, by lantern light, by a few
people who insisted on seeing it
Josh Billings has engaged to read
his lecture, “The Probabilities of Life,”-*
(perhaps rain, perhaps not), one J
ared night the present winter, bei$
Eastpart, Maine, and Pittsbuy
and has already filled fortjg
nights.
Miss Minnie Cummingsj
has written a play entiU|
The plot, we imagine, ic
upon the idea of a wor
healthy boyB, whe suspect
being the authors of the
lowering of her doughnnt-ji
Emmie Young, the daua
ham Young, who forced tl
of her father’s will to hand
heirs about $75,000 more tha^
intended to, is soon to open at ,
Union, a minor theater in Sai
cisco, Cal. She haa married t
ager, W. O. Crosbie.
Mr. Carte has altogether five opera
companies now playing “Pinafore"—
one iu London, three traveling in the
provinces in England and one in New
York, and he gave with these different
troupes Saturday no less than ten per
formances of the work, morning and
evening—two in New York, two ia
London and six with these three trav
eling companies.
Boucicault has evidently recovered,
for the Boston Herald tells ns that Man
ager Field, of the Museum, has closed
negotiations for a long engagement with
that gentleman during which an entirely
ndw comedy from the author-actor’s
pen will have its initial production, and
The Shaughratm, will be performed for
the first time at this house. Mr. Bouci
cault haa just completed the comedy,
and will $ive the rehearsals the benefit
of his assistance.
linflerllnlng.
The use of italic* in letter writing—or,
to speak more pioperly, the practice of
underlining words—to which, as every
one knows, the fair Bex are particularly
addicted—has been treated in every
variety of style by critics of a more or
less hostile order. The ladies—or, at
least, the English ladies, who, of all
others, seem to be most devoted to that
species of eccentricity—have been lec
tured and toughed at, exhorted and
satirized, in so many publications that
now no caricaturist who ventures to
imitate a lady’s letter can afford to do
so without embodying in it a handsome
sprinkling of italic*. Equally certain
is it, and equally well acknowledged,
that the failing, if it be a failing, is
not Bhared to any great extent by the
sex which grammarians call more
worthy. Thus much we all admit, ajid
have for years admitted. But the itV
son of such a distinction between one
sex and the other iB less obvious and in
telligible; and the most acute philoso
phers are not all agreed in accounting
for the phenomenon. Probably the
most generally accepted theory is that
women, endowed as they are with so
much more than their fair share of
“feelings,” are constrained by a natural
instinct to allow the afflatus of them to
express itself in dashes, and to transmit
to the reader by such means, imperfect
as they are, the emphatic meanings
which, if they were speaking aloud to
him, they would convey by the aid of
looks or gestures. According to this
doctrine, the underlining in letters
would be a mild form of hysterical affec
tion not altogether dissimilar from the
nervous tendencies to which the sex is
prone. Nor is this explanation verv
much out of harmony with tho much
more rude and startling theory that has
just been enunciated by a French jour
nalist of distinction. Aurelien Scholl
advances the original proposition,
founded, as it is said, on medical argu
ments and observation, that the practice
of underlining is a sign of incipient
madness. We will assume, of course, as
in gallantry bound, that the . practice
mentioned here is referrt d to only when
indulged in by men: but still the opinion
will, no doubt, be interesting to letter-
writers both of the one and the other
sex.
but afte)
standing
together]
ch>c of Eblj
any rate, t
One of |
Sunday
any of us I
hearts thul
tur fcllowfl
woman i
young wort
“Maria!
he was pJ
ain’t no pal
A professor of the Iowa University
is charged with placing eighty kegs of
beer where they would do the most
good in .electing him to the State
Senate. 1
Miss Rogers, a cousin of Richard
CoHden, has just been distinguishing
herself greatly at Oxford, where her ex
aminations have been the wonder of the
University. It is said that she writes
Latin prose “dh brilliantly as any Don
in tfce’Varsitv,” ami her Greek prose is
also admirable. The young lady has
just been appointed lecturer at Somer
ville Hall.
“ Now, then, who is the plaintiff in
this case?” asked his Honor, as'a case
•waa called. “I don’t know anything
about plaintiffs,” replied a man in a
corner, as he bIowIv rose, “ but if you
ask for the chap who was chased a mile
and a half and then mopped all over hi
own barnyard by two desperadoes, I’r
your man.’*
Fashionable he- d gear i
divided between the largi
and the small feather or
The hats are worn most I
ladies as sported tho <™~
bonnet by sujh young*woSI
liko the hat, aud wu*~
longer young. There
to be said of the bonnets than
said already.
Still another cheap lace ap
a rival for Breton, and it cal]
Languedoc, a name which ^
worse trial to tho salesmen tl
which they called Brettoon,
Languedoc has its large figured
in with cord and shaded wjj
thread, and is made on imitatip
ciennes and thread ground#
white a. T -ev«ir«il .iliadta of cieail
A VERY beautiful young lady
hurrying through the streets of ]
more, turned, and in pathetic accefl
asked a gentleman walking beside f
to knock a pickpocket down wjio i
following her. Th© gentleman oblj
ingly complied. As soon as she sa’
fight fairly begun, she chuckled /
aud skipped away. The man l
down was her husband.
The First" Banks.i
We are generally told in
banking, as, for instance, ij
bart, that the first Natiq
that of Venice, founded i
but I agree with Mr. Md
institution was not $t )
a true bank. Tbe Stall
yolved in debt, itif
into a corporation!
transferable, like!
not until 1687 thA
to take money 4,
positors receivedl
books £qual to I
bullioP placed t$
undertook to kc
and to repay the
or to transfer i
earliest real bnij
1401
it real
founder in
funds were in
monest; intrus
only iecei