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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1880)
... .. NBOTiBI —. 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
