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NUMBER 48. •tow Mat 1 wteb- BM wJpa JUi* hoiMahae gone to /ibutth* *te>. the proTeJ^aay*, oidjoy, “Vl i now uef temper 1 Oo et once, and get your life ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGE. “ A letter for you, sir 1" I broke the eeal wflhtt|fl dbtbjnslimeM:, r • Ma." BtJWtnf) vroRTHntoTW—ftrf ' Tdrddn theae intrusive line*, and tent aaaurod that thev are from ape who wity evwr ‘be proud to call himaelf tout tincerO friend. Lucy Amea i* not faithful'to -you 1 Ido not write thia to you for toy base purpoee ; fOr,'*inoe I know ko? Will r#ur get won* and noble.flature.l cannot hesi tate when I hco that nature become the inno cent dupe of vile dissimulation. Nor have l boon too kt*ty in communicating to you thu knowledge ; I only fear it i* too late ; hut rest assured that all I have said is true, and can be attested by one who baa an pndoubted personal knowledge of all tho facta. Arthur Wesley, the singing-master, is yeur too-fortunate rival. • This vr&d n$>t the* first intimation I hod hod of Lucy’s inconstancy. I bad soon things .with my own eyes that mode me doubt her sincerity. For a long time nwelcomo suspiqiQB had beenjjrey- fljfcgW l^Sftad eAs csnvioffcn. •. . 4 deuH the truth of it j and klVwrithed.tnwdbdi with torture to think ef it, to admit its truth. It did not, it could not crush me; I braved it to the last; I should haVe been less than man to do otherwise. . I reperusejl the lefte^' calmly—no, not calmly—not in- dMfetontly, but sternly, as though 1t were decreed of fata that I should, not only drain the bitter cup, but should swallow the very dregs. ' And yet I lovod the wayward girl, and gladly, oh, how gladly, would I have forgiven her imprudence ! To her, I went to seek an interview. Lnoy was proud—too proud, to be just to herself; yet ahe was generous and noble, in spit© of all her fickleness. Obstinately convinced that she had preferred another to me, I did not ask or expect any explanations from her ; I showed her, withdtitanyjhesitatlttot^la» letter I had just teqfjSjo,! 4»<l reguMteft her to return me such letters as I liod previously to hgr, iuj3 afijr little keep&k^ which plight in future, prove annofintf to hhr.yShe bestowed on me i look which I snail never forgdt7 "Doyon believe this, Edward !” she asked. " I do,” I replied, without hesitation. * " What unimpeachable evidence ?” sho retorted, with tha first impulse of pride. "J do not reli on the Information epu- tainMiV thiulfitwu-." I iM, “I huyo aeon enough myself without asking any person's advice or opinion,” She immediately left the room, and returned in a few moments with a pack age of letters llfid a sm«H box of jewels, my former presents, saving gayly, as she placed them in my hands : “ By these tokens, then, sinoe it is your will, I absolve you.” , In spite of the smue that played upon her mouth, I thouglitl could detect traces of recent tears, hastily brushed away from her cheeks. In a moment the thought flashed upon my mind th*t she might, after all, be true. Impulsively I was about to speak to her, to ask her if it was not so ; but what should I say ? I had gone too far, and it was too late to retreat. But, as the thought had oome upon me like a flash, it vanished as it had come, leaving no alternative but to pursue the oohrse I had adopted. "Farewell then T’lsaid, with appar ent indifference. " May your future life be ever lighted with the sunshine of happiness l” "Thank you,” she replied. "I toast no act of my own will ever bring misery upbn me.” " Conscience, Miss Ames—con- Krienoa! ” 1 said. ' 1 Will never reproach me,” she replies*. "Heaven grant ifcl” said I. "The Itep you have taken may, in your opin ion, oe just, but let me assure you oth ers do not think so. We do not always see ourselves os others see us,” " 1 have done nothing. Mr, Worthing ton, to merit this,” said Luoy; " you are not only deceived, but impertinent, air; and you cautiously avoid any ques tions that might lead to an explana tion—” VI ask no explanation,” I hurriedly replied, and immediately took my de parture in no very amiable mood, not did I wish to humble myself sufficiently to ask her any questions that might, as •he had suggested, lead to a satisfactory explanation. What a victory pride had won 1 How perfect and complete had been its ulti mate suooess on both sides I I hurried from the door a I turned my steps homeward again. Instinctively I took the usual course in returning home (for Luoy lived nearly a mile out of town), and walked along, no busy with my tnought* as to be utterly unconscious of anything and everything else. There was a high railway .bridge that lay between mo and the town, just wide enough for the lines, the middle of whioh was planked over for the con venience of pedestrians, as there was no other bridge over the river for some miles. Outside the lutes it was impossi ble to walk. One of the planks, whioh was very thick and heavy, had been partly raised for some purpose, and left in that posi tion. In endeavoring to pass it, I struck my foot against it, stumbled, and, in recovering myself, forced one leg through the aperture, and, striking my otherfoot with all the foroe required to regain my equilibrium, replaced the plank in such a manner as not only left my foot protruding through the narrow crack, but, threw me on the line, and promiaep to present a difficulty in re moving the plank. I smiled to think how curiously I hda been in trapped, and stooped down to remove the plank and free myself from so dangerous a position. The task was not ao easily performed as I had imag ined. The plank was wedged in, in such a manner that no effort of mine eould rsmcrru il I strove with mj ut most power, but it was In vain; nor oould I extricate my foot, whioh was laoerated and smarting with pain in its close confinement. At first I , did not consider the extent of my peril,, but I soon began to per oeive the danger of my aitimtion; and I shuddered with honor to think that I should be obliged to remain there and be crushed to daelh by th«.jmxt train ! It WM a oold dbrtn December, and yet the beaded diop* burst faomUvery j*ore. A moment of frenzied delirium succeed ed, a&d when I rallied again I found my self lying on the rail, my foot stiL a prisoner, and no prospeot of delivery led at my w%Wh; it weft half-past express would go pp. a^half-past 5 ; and at half-past 4 it would be dark. It wf* possible, nay probable, that some one would pass by before it should be too late. This way was nearer to the towh then by the bridge I hare men tioned, though always regarded as more dangerous on account of its narrowness, from whioh there would be no possibili ty of escape in case a train should come in sight while passing over it. Already one person had been Killed by endeavor ing to cross at a time when the train was due ; and should I be the second to per ish there ? How the thought tortured me, and onoe again I tugged at the re sisting plank. With all my strength I tried to withdraw my foot and leave the it; but impossible! “ was 4rln|jbok-§tj^ half afif hour it rhour, afid death 7%ted for<$fl$ but half a mile, Aid Again and again I shrieked, wnile the despairing echoes reverberated through the distant wood, as though they would mock me in my misery. And the/i, jrith all the accumulated strength of mad ness; I wrenched the ulhiik, but otmld not move it from its place. Surely it could not be possible that I should be obliged to sit there and be crushed to death, when human aid was so near. Had I been in some isolated forest, some depth of oountry, distant from town or cottage, my doom might have been more certain. Onoe again I shrieked with agonizing fury; wildly, desperately, the soum of my voioe rang out on the chill ing air; while nothing but the mocking echoes made reply. The sun had set. and the darkness was fettering '/mI orerlhfc valley below. WreS$y the lait redlining glow of sun shine was gleaming on the tons of the fordjl trees. Irrevocable destiny be- oaafr every mopriht more and more ap- iJark I lif iaYHe train. * No,’ 4 fio ! I stretched forward, and listened with breathless eagerness. There was not a sound to hresik tho silence; I must liave nearer came the train. The rising moon disclosed to n*e the white column of •moke and steam, rising above the hill beyond the curve; abd now the regular ly beating puff .and oough of the engine stack my Rv likAthegldbtiog ehuoklo of some terrible monster regarding his victim. How like a foamy the thought oame on me that it wee now too late for Assistance! No human being would venture on the .b^ge when the train waa within hearing distanoe, when it was too dark to 1 dfttiftgiitih objects in time to stop the impetuous ‘fire-hone; and yet, furious and frantic at the thought of suoh a death, I stretched my trembling limbs to their utmost, and shrieked again and again until I grew hoarse, ana the thundering train drowned the feeble efforts of my voice. And now delirium seized me. I fancied some giant fiend held down the plank whioh I vainly tried to wrench from its firm position—I oould hear the chuckle of satisfaction that it gave to think it had me there ao safely in its power. The loud roar that now reached my ear announced that the traih had struct the bridge—there came an end to hope —90 power oould avert the death that stared me in the face! for an instant I saw countless demons hovering through the air, I made a superhuman effort to move my body off the the line, fire an4 smoke enveloped me—there was a crushing blow, a convulsion, a did recollection of keen pains shooting through my imprisoned limb, and all waa darkness. I knew no more. When I returned again to oonsoious- uesa.I was lying on an easy couch, in a room dimly lighted, but neatly ana tidily furnished. While wondering where I was, and trying to recall what had passed, the door was slowly opened, and Lucy Ames entered the room. In a mo ment she was by my bedside, watohing the motions and the expressions of my countenance, doubtless imagining that I was still delirious. "Lucy—Miss Ames?” I said. She started back as I uttered the name, as though unwilling that I should discover her real thoughts; but, in a moment recovering all self-possession, she looked calmly toward me. and asked, with a tone of affected indifference; Do you feel easier now?” „"Be»! .telW! telur I cried, and eadh tim# I abgSudihe wards I soemod, in despair, nerved up to greater power of speech, and called louder and louder each time. * Did he hear me ? There waa no answer—all was still. Oh, merci ful He<IMh 1 wfcs this 1441. chance for lifedenfattuitt: Vl ! W J ? * • "Hall-oo! ” shouted some one. The voioe was distant, but, oh, how my blood leaped with joy. at the sound ! Again I balled with all the strength of my lungs, and again I was answered. In a little while a figure appeared advanc ing toward me, but it was growing all ready so dark I oould not recognize him, nor did I care to do so; bnt when he oame oloee to me, one glance showed me it was Arthur Wesley. Should I let him pass by, nor ask him to assist me ? Would he do so ? As he approached’he asked : • "Is that you, Mr. Worthington? Bleu iae. are you hurt?” "No, thank you, not mnoh hart.” I replied; " but tee, I am so nicely trapped here that I oould,not free myself alone, and I think'it is nearly time for the ex press train to be doe.” It waa growing dark very fast; so dark, indeed, waa it that I found it im possible to discover whaf time it was by my watch. He never hesitated a mo ment, bnt seized the detested plank with both hands, and at the same instant I also imitated liis movements. The ac cursed thing resisted all our efforts, and remained obstinately immovable. What oould. be done? In half an hour the tnun would be doe. Would there be time to go for aaeifit&noe—to bring an ax and liberate my foot ? Ha would try. " For Heaven’s sake, Mr. Wesley,” said I, m he started to go. " be expe ditious. It is too terrible to be obliged to sit here and face death unwillingly.” I wm alone again. ThA^rinds sighed mournfully about me, but I felt relief. I even forgot my danger, and turned my attention onoe more to the thoughts with whioh I had boon eooupaeri when I had nnwiltinily Bfcmhlad info my pres ent diffl4Ultif.\ ^ Nevertheless I wm apppahekfeive that he might bf delayed until the trait should paa*.\ In fact, I , had. mo assur ance that he had tfan to go to jit. Ames’ and retatbdufopfc it would :be too late. AdotlMr tpought' rushed ■ through my frantid brain,. Had hedapatved me 1 Would ha not ba only too happy in be ing thu* easily rid *4 .my unwelcome presence? I felt be, never woiOd- oome to me aaraia htrvrtTmd leave me to the mercy‘Oiauoh a cruel death. , .Heavens ! there is no mistaking that Sound—the whistle at the Forest station, only five mileti distant I How well do I remember the thoughts that passed through my mind ps I pa tiently awaited' the Vetnrn df. Arthur Wesley; for, although I had every rea son to believe he would not oome, still I instinctively awaited him, and hoped, oh, how I hoped he would return 1 Nearly two hours had I eat there, and now I wm still waiting and vibrating be tween the hope of delivery and the al- moet-oertain conviction of destruction. The fearful ohlll of despair wm creep ing over me; my trembling limbs al ready announced that my nerves wpre risking in exhaustion. At evejy mo- hj.^psia*. footsteps, Dot no weacome aosaa mu as Rark I it il the train I Thalow, db- Unt UmadraoMPQt iwblTk — flop. It will b* hor* in » f.w afcntak.. i "Help! h«lp I" I ST TP. wtOUg "T ud thaw wm no ini**. Loote land ~ hnadar; atmwLui mSlXtbiS*W l»' *UI tMir Irtfcahon. my IMinotapidiy ■ogoMiUd.-wnd'U kUlOrt time I wm Kin ioat in tha nnocmnfltoun delirium qf feaer. In my ragda Bienm- iliga I wM again on the narrow bridge, bending erery aflfort and >training awon nerve to recnova the piece of, wood that bound me theta. Again I;wm chained to tho huge Wok, in wlileh nnoonaoiowa laiKHrera WOe drilling holed whiph they tilled with pswdec.imiilaw the nnaeomlr o<> the rack, ohueklmg again mcaaaredpoff of the ttiginfct'bhd'ktld- tcrvals WAppBd''M* ofila the chain closer, until ihe links feeteeed ipty thb very fl^ph, .and tmned,mr Blood logmH with ike poison in whioh they had been dfiipoL ' Gavcrna yawned cm every side to receive ni« * IHf fcf ^moe WM Heai-d the long shrill whittle of the engine, and voices, that seemed the very agony of despau:, screamed on every aide of me, The train 1 the train 1” But all this passed away. I wm well again, and oould walk about the house wifh tho aid of a crutch, for I had left one foot suspended in the bridge where I had so miraculously escaped death. Lucy hod reassured me of her love f not indeed by words, but by her actions. Long and patiently she had watched by my side ; and to her more than any oth er do I owe the preservation of my life. No words had passed between us in re lation to the subject which had so nearly separated,up. yet there seemed to he a tacit acknowledgment of the error on my •part, and a cheerful forgiveness oo hers. But one day, when we chanced to be alone, I recurred to tho folly of whioh I had beon guilty, uud more formally Mked her forgiveness. " Freely do I forgive you,” she Mid, " if indeed you have been guilty of $ act which would seem to require You doubtless acted according to y< earnest inclination, whioh I would ) wish to oppose. I supposed your onlv object was to secure the hand of another in leaving me, and that ” “ Lucy, Lucy I” I exclaimed, "it was t a nia<L:. I was ft<pol l I ho- (Ltiio it*W.Y, but now x .will telflbkp nothing, I will not .even credit what I But .tell the. Lucy/bow it hap- peqad that on one or two oooaaiona, after excusing yoursejf -from aoeotnpanying me to an evening's visit or party, I shojila afterward meet you returning mphny with ^ir. W*s!e/?” Sous, I sec,’’said Ijikey. : , M I replied ; "but—— "Lhten then,” she said, intarruptina me, "ima I will explain all Irhkh I might have done sooner bad von re- quaated it. I WM amriflu* to the only opportunity I should 4ver have. I had engaged to tax* private lessons of Mr. Westey. I did not think it neces sary to tell every one why I wm so often seen in the company of that gentleman, who, I must assure yon, is not only a very amiable young man, but ti engaged to my eouain, with whom nq inducement oould oause him to break hi* eotnpacl” But whjTdid he deity eo long |d when I wm about .rein?” make «B the haste led Imj; "but, in brother, arrived a when it would have wm deep and rapid and consequently free from ice. They hastened to the bank of the stream, and in a few mo ments succeeded in rescuing you from this second danger and bore yon to the house.” "Friends, thank God; all friends I” I could not help uttering after listening to Lucy’s explanation of all ibat had trans pired. I was happy again, though maimed for life, a fact which Lb6y,gen- arooely seemed to auits overlook, m she did not hesitate to beoome Mr*. Worth ington in lose than a mouth after my perfect convaleeoenoe. Dueling In St, Louis. The first duel in 8t. Louis wm that of Thomas H. Benton aud Charles Lucas. The difficulty between the parties orig inated during a trial in which both were engaged as counsel. Col. Benton, be lieving himself insulted, sent tho glove to Mr. Lucm m a challenge. But Mr. Lucm, having no taste for such sport, de clined on the ground that statements made to a jury could not properly bo considered by a goutleman a cause for such meeting, and furthermore Col. Benton was an excellent shot. They again met in controversy, and Col. Ben ton branded him os a coward. Lucm id he would meet him on equal terms, id the choice of weapons were selected by Lucas, they Wng shot-guns, to be loaded with twelve No. 4 buckshot at six paces. Obi. Benton, well knowing that this would insure sure death to,both parties, threw up the sponge. But it waa not long until a cloud passed their threshold once more, and in this case Mr. Lucm. in order to protect his honor, was faroed to challenge Col. Benton. The meeting took place on Bloody island, just opposite St. Louis, on tho morning of Aug. 12, 1817, pistols being the weapons used. Mr. Lucas fell, se verely wounded in the neck, and was withdrawn from the field. A temporary reconciliation followed, opd another duel took place on the same grounds by the same parties, as the feud broke out afresh, whioh resulted in the killing of Lucas, at the ago of 26 years. iaplorable encounter took place on Sept, 27, 1817. Young Lucas loft to mourn his life a young wife, having boon married but four months. He was wed ded June 24,1817. During the following year another duel occurred, tho combatants being Gapts. Martin and llamsey, of the United States army, who were stationed at Fort Bell Fountain, on the Missis sippi river, Bloody island being tho soat of war. Ramsey was wounded, and died in a few days afterward, and was buried with Masonic and military honors on June 80, 1823. Another honorable meeting occurred at the grounds be tween Joeliua Barton, Distnot Attorney of the United States, a resident of St. Louis, and Thomas 0. Roc tor. Tho par ties met, in the evening, and Mr. Barton fell mortally wounded. An artiole whioh appeared in the Republican charging Gen. William Rector, then United States Surveyor, with corruption in office was tho cause of the fatal auol. The General waa in Washington at the time, and his brother, Thomas 0., warmly defended his cause, and, learn ing that Barton was the author of the charge, sent him the challenge whioh resulted so fatally. In August, 1831, another most shock ing duel took plaoe on the same grounds. Spencer Pettis, a yonng law yer of promise, was a candidate for Con gress, his opponent being David Bid ale. Mnj. Biddle made somo sevore criticisms on Mr. Pettis through the newspapers, and a challenge followed and wm accepted, and they fought at five paces distant, aud at the first fire both fell mortally wounded. Young Pettis died in about thirty hours, while Maj. Biddle lingered only a few days. Pettis had just gained his election. Maj. Biddle’s tourii may be seen in St. Louis, at Biddle Square. This ended the code of honor at St. Louis. Large Crops of Corn Fodder. Several correspondents in a late issue of the Country Gentleman seem to have given from actual weight on small patches of their fields, pretty reliable estimates of the amounts which were rrown per acre, previous to the curing of the corn. They state these weights at 28, 36, 36, and 46 tons, respectively, tier aero. The latter was sowed in drillH three feet apart, using three bushels of seed per acre, and the sgpson was jierfeet in every respect bow M*dn*M 4o hav# mm oo a# ISKSSfiSBBK for its growth. They do not state what the weather was when tho corn was cut, or the time of day it was done. To be fair in such a trial, tho weather ought to be sunny two days before, and the stalks not cut till all the morning dow was dried off. Dr. Bailey, of Massachusetts, as serts, that he can grow 76 tons of corn stalks per acre. If ho does, we think he will have to resort to the Cuzco sort, of Peru, which grows there 26 feet high more, and is three inchs in diameter, so, at'the butt. This would be about eatable and digestible as cord wood, un less his method of ensilage can transform it to palatable fodder. He is now culti vating a mammoth ensilage corn, of which he thinks highly. Wo hope when his crop of tliis has been gathered and fed to his animals, he will give not only its yield per acre, but the value of its fod der to his stock in comparison with the ■mailer sweet oorn.—Rural New Yorker A Forest of Lightning. The "St. Elmo's Fire,” or electrioity seen playing on the bayonots of morch'- ing armies, and around tho spars and masts of ships, comes from the preeenoe of a "charged” cloud in the air, from which the pointed objects draw the lightning. A splendid instance of this same phenomenon was witnessed in the Jura at 8t. Gergnes, where a whole foreet of pine trees was seen to bo aglow with light, like a pliosphoreaoent sea in the tropics. A thunder-storm wm raging at tho time, and at every flash of ligntmng the illumination entirely disappeared, but soon shone forth again until the next flash came. Before the appearanoe of this Bt Elmo’s fire, heavy rains had fallen and soaked the forest, so as to render it oon- duotive of electricity, and the thunder cloud overhead, heavily charged wfth electrioity, had induced an opposite charge on tRe ground bffiow, whioh dis charged itself mto’the fir by the paint ed boughs aud needle* of tha pine SOUTHERN NEWS. Gboboia hM 2,372 whisky dealer*. Many Swedes are settling in Arkansas. Tup.re are sixteen colored schools now open in TensM pariah, La. More than one-half of the population of Aiken County, S. O., is colored Darlington County, 8. C., is the largest cotton-producing county in the Unite l States. Two Georgia formers grew 600 bushels of Irish potatoes on one acre of land aud sold them for 840. A mtll at Fsnnsaeola, Fla., hM dosed a contract with a firm in France to fur nish 2,000,000 feet of pine lumber. The soft blue-stone rook which under lies a wide part of the prairie region of TexM is 000 feet thick in many places. Dr lima the lMt ten years the Treasurer of. Georgia hM oollected $3,000,000 in cash from the lessees of the State Road. With a population of 26,650, there are only forty-seven white men in Newberry County, S. C., who are seventy years oVh The first cotton factory in the South was built on Mill Branch, in Lincoln County, 8. C., in the year 1815, by Michaoi Seheuok. Hamilton, Allen A Co., have leased the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a term of six years, for $30,420 per annum aud all expenses. The taxable property in Bibb County, Ga., in which is situated the city cf Macon, has increased in value nearly ten per cent within a year.[ Instead of Chinoao, and to replace tho negroes who have left Louisiana m exo- dusters, the planters of that State are imiKirting Spanish laborers. A woman in Stanley County, N. C., only thirty years old, has been married three times, and has sixteen living chil dren. They Were all twins. Twenty-five dollars are offered for a s}»eciinen of the three-cent stamps issued from the post-office at Madison, Flo., in 1861 and 1862 for the Southern Confed eracy. Farmers in the western port of Dallas County, Texas, secure artesiah wells, flowing six feet above tho ground, by lNiring to a depth of between sixty and seventy feet. The Oates Cotton Factory at Char lotte, N. 0., will be ready to work up the new ootton crop. Ten machines of thirty- four cords each, aud five waif-mifis, have been recieved. A Plantf.rs' Cotton Seed Protective Union—the beginning of an organized movement against the sale of cotton in the seed—hna l>ceu organized at Edge- field Court-house, 8. C. Mohr than 300,000 acres of land along the Air-line Railroad in Georgia, North Carolina nnd South Carolina have been registered for sales at low stationary figures for the next two years. A young lady in Covington, Ga., who is worth of $20,000, broke an engagement with a young man during commencement because he paid seven dollars for a horse and buggy to give her a ride. She argued that a man who would be so foolish as to pay that much for a few hours’ pleasure was not the kind she wanted for a hus band. Revenue officers have *o entirely de stroyed the business of illicit distilling in the Fifth Collection District of Ten nessee, that scarcely a wild-cat concern can be found anywhere. As Deputy Collectors have been stationed in the localities where whisky hM been dis tilled in defiance of law, it is not likely that it will be revived. The Mississippi Valley Cotton Plant ers’ Association has decided to hold series of inter-State fairs in Memphis, Little Rock, Now Orleans and Mont gomery, to create a fund for the encour agement of inventors of improved planta tion machinery, and to put Mveral lec turers in the field, whose especial duty it shall be to travel over the ootton State! and form branch associations. The Tennessee Historical Society hai been presented with a oopy of the “Con federate Htates Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for 1864.” It wm published by H. 0. Clarke, of Mobile, Ala., and devotes almost its entire page* to matters of interest to the late Confed eracy, including the Constitution and . Government of the late Confedrate States, and also a chronology from the 1st day of January, 1861, to the battle oi Chattanooga, September 1863. The botanical depot at Statesville, N. C., is said to be the largest in the world. The firm which oontrols it Iim now in stock 1,700 varieties of roots, herbs, bark, seeds, flowers and moesee, and all sorts of plants for herbariums, in quanti ties of from fifty pounds to86,000 pounds of each kind. They pay the collectors, who are mainly Cherokees, either in cash or goods, and lMt year disposed of in tips way $400,000 worth of merchandise, shipping 1,000,000 pounds of roots and "varbs.” The Maoon (Ga.) Chat-light and Water Company hM undertaken to fur nish that city with water-work*. The supply of water will oome about one mile from the city limit*, ‘ and will be con ducted to the reservoir by and will give 71 Six por 000, * on the water- the gas-works, as well works, themioAves. General Robert Toombh is not the eight feet away, only Georgian who is entitled to the din- times out of five they think he’i tinction of not being a citizen of the ful cute.” United States. General Henry R. Jack- "Our time is indeed brief,” Raid ,, of HivilhuiUi, ki«nin(k>n<Tnl ToomU* Tlinmmon, --but before we ffi out of company u. this regard. General Jack- was a Colonel in the United Status Army at the age of twenty-three, then a Federal Judge, Minister to Austrin, and afterward Judge of a Confederate States Court, and on that occouut PASSING SMILES. Cabinet-Makers in Illinois are kept busy making furniture onoe owned and used by Abraham Lincoln. Tn* je w el of a servant girl is the one who hangs all her mistress’ embroidered underwear ou that portion of the line which is most conspicuous to the neigh- 1 Kirs’ eyes. Augustus Dabble (artist) — "Don’t you think it is about time I .exhibited something?” Severe critic (examining Dabble’s latest production)—" Yes, a lit tle talent, for instance.” A man may object to wearing button hole bouquets, but it’s astonishing with what f« >rtitude he goes through the or deal of haring one pinned on. if the donner happens to be young ana pretty. Worn a Cheyenne young man wants to amuse thu girls at a picnic, he ex- ‘ dread- Wabash River, or hurst that infernal river to everlasting smash in the at tempt”—Punch. When they can’t ma’|e an Albany baby quit crying’ in any other way, they let him crawl under a bed ami make him those excepted from tho general amnesty believe they think he s lost, aud are look- - ~ ing for him, and ho will keep quiet for In Trinty County, Texas, a little white boy, aged about twelve years, the son of Mr. Dwire, was hoeing in the field in company with two negroes, when a third boy, Bud Evans, sixteen years old, ap proached tho parties at work, armed with au Enfield gun, and one of tho ne groes remarked: "Here’s Bud. If he’d been the Sheriff he could a ’rested every one o’ us.” The negro Evans re plied, "Yes, and here’s the way I’d a done it,” raised tho gun, took dolil>erate aim at tho innocent little wliite boy, and fired, the shot passing through the ohild’s body, aud ho died from the ef fects of the wound about three hours afterward. Tho negro claims to have done the deed by accident, and says there was no cap on tho gun, but investi gation proves his assertion to be false. The negro has been arrested. two hours. Some people a s affected differently by _om what other people fleeted similarly by an h unto tho same kind ling proportion to the Hhnati Gazette. Liar!— agcncyj&i&i* of an agent o first cause!—C Peek's Sun. A Tennessee suitor wrote to Iris sweet heart os foIIewB: "Your father kicked me lost night, st*l (forlnrie metlu* house. If I whipped him would it lessen your love for me?" She repl^l that it would not, aud the \~rout wm soundly thrashed. • A YOUNQ lady, not ‘•oenstorae. waltzing, at the naruost solicitation d friend made the uttempt in this city i ccutlv. Whefl the music ceMaed anothe friend approached and said, gavly: "Well. I see you got through all right” "Yes, was the reply, "out it wm a tight squeeze.” One Scotchman, afflicted with a very bail cough, meeting another Scotchman, profanely remarked to him that ‘Hhia — Bringing Them to Time. cough would certuinlv carry him off some There is no foolishness a1>out some ol day like a rocket.’ "Aye, ave,” ob- the fathers of Dubuque county, Iowa, who ’ served No. 2; "it’s my opinion, however, have marriageable daughters, nnd they if you (liana mend your manners, ye’ll know how to precipitate business when tak’a contrary direction!” the fruit is ripe for plucking, and hangs, Sarah Bernhardt is said to be of a wasting its sweetness, when it should lie revengeful disposition, and, as she is plucked. Matters wore brought to a climax with a rush at a certain farmer’s ‘ residence in Vernon township, recently. A young tiller of the soil had for moutns lieen paying most assiduous attentions to or his daughters, hut he was such a bashful, modest ohap, never having teen much in the company of girls, except this one, that he had never been able to raise his courage sufficiently high to pop the question. He had gone to the house in which the lady lived at least on twenty different occasions resolved to know his fate, but when ushered into the presence of the fair one, in whose keeping ho had placed his heart, his courage would in variably "go book on him," and he would return to his lonely room in great er suspense than before. Upon the evening in question lie had determined that, come what would, he would tell his Mary that he loved her. Ho would, once for all, decide the matter, but, as upon each former occasion, he could not get the proposal farther than his tliroat. There it stuck, and ho determined to gulp it down and gi ve "P the siege, when the door opened aud in walked the girl’s father, who advanced to where about to visit this country, wo want it distinctly understood that we never said she was thirty-six. We don’t believe she is over eighteen, and she certainly doesn’t look as if she was just sixteen. This last statement we will make affidavit to. —Jiostun Poet. An Awful Crammer.—Proprietor of tearding house (taking stout gent aside,) "You’ll excuse me, Mr. Sluuq>e#t, but your appetite is bo large that 1 shall be coiupelled to charge you a si tiling extra. It cuu’t bo done at two shillings]" xjiner —"No! Forbeaven v • ’.*• dou'tdo that! I can-eat twvshillings’ worth easy; but il I have to do throe—I really—’afraid I should—but I’ll try!”—London Punch. A certain young Boston bachelor, wealthy but modest, was tuking his bath oue morning when his telephone called him. He sprang from the tub and wm horrified to hear that a lady, wife of a distinguished New York Democratic banker, was at the other end of the wire, a mile away. It would never do for Him to carry ou a conversation with a lady in his present condition. "Excuse me. A thousand pardons!" he cried, aghMt. He donned his pressing gown * or never. "Well—but, father, don’t you know- if you'll only wait, and—” " Dry up : answer yoa or no. Speak 1" roared the old gent. Well, then, yea 1 There, now,” and ‘ i hid her face, business ; that’s the way to talk. Now, John, look hero-look up tho philanthropy “I under.tmdjoiu' Onoe for all, yes or no ? ” 'Well, yes, sir. 1 have been pre- ptuous enough to hone that I—•’ N “I camo out to put a atop to this fool- “W*ur„ my man," mid a philanthro- iahneas. It ain't countin’ expenses that pist to a hardened-looking chap confined rm lookin’at, for coal oil is cheap, aud in tho Now Orleans parish pnaon, “what wood can be had for the haulin', but I’m «•>, }'«'>, 111 “ Iu for I aick and tired of thia billin' and cooin' reckon wud thenrwnncrmllonly. -'No, like a pair of sick donee, keepin’ me Wlmt offeuae did youoommit. awake of nighta, and if. got to bo "Dldn t oommit wUiing. The Judge stopped right nere. Do you love John committed me “Well, you mu.t have Homrwen enough to marry him?" been aoouaed of .ome crime? “Oh, yea; “Why, father, I-I-you must—" I waa accured of trymgto get on tho " Stop that silly fooliahin’,” yelled the police. Nonsense. Tn-mg to get on old man. “Anawer yea or no. and tho police m no crime. I have myself quick, too. It’s got to be settled now recommended many worthy men for po sitions ou the police foroe, and have helped to get them on." "It is a fact. That is all I was sent here for. You see. there were two of us, and we both tried to get on the same policeman. We had him down, but some of the other peelers thought wo were crowding the man too hard, and—” "That will do air," said few tracts perfectly. you want that gaf o' mino 'for a wife ? improvement of your mind, Speak out like a man now.” " Why, Mr. { ain’t this rather a " Speak it^out, or out of thia bouse Traveling in Ar*bl*c you’ll go, head foremost. I won't wait Camels and dromedaries are amazingly a minute longer. Thero’a the gal, and adapted for traversing tho dry and there ain't a likelier gal in the State, an' parched deaerts of Arabia; for they ore you just heard her My that she wanted so formed that they can throw up the you. Now, John, I won’t stand a bit of liquid from their stomachs into their foolin’. * * “* 11 1 throats, by which means they can travel six or eight days without water. The camols usually carry 800 pounds’ weight upon their backs, which is not taken off settled now." "You two fools would have during the whole of the journey; for teen six months more at the job that I they naturally kneel down to rest, and have done in five minutes. I never saw in due time rise with tho load. The iuoh foolin’ as there is among young dromedary is a small camel, with two people nowadays. Ain’t like when I bunches on it* back, and remarkably wm young—an* now, good-night. You awift. It is an observation among the Jalir the thing over, an’ you an* me, 1 Arabs that wherever there are treee the John, 'll go up to town an’ get the water is not far off; and, when they draw license to-morrow. Soon be time to get near a pool, their oamels will smell at a to plowin'; no time for love-makm’ 1 Aimi A then. Good-night, good-night; I hope I wMn’t too rough, but I waa determined to fix the thing one way or t’other,” and the old man went back to bed. Now that the ice wm broken the The Partner for Life Many a man has seen his choice for i partner i ’ Kf Job^felt tat .‘utUaSdrt ! “Wth him ’iu tho‘ophllmri the’ wnrlt Ktw loot,* -when ’mbt? ! «**&*&* P-Me. might h.vo . , , . . , ...... - , struggled witli him for a while, .vet pride looked up .t him .hyijr, ond raul : ^ | triumphed, ud ho Bought ,mo from tho walks of life. In all the ' ? "This would have been all right i akeery. I knowed all the timo that you wanted to aak me, but it wasn’t my plaoe to mj anything, you know." highe tilde* social existence, there is nothing capable of inflicting more certain misery than is sure to follow such a course. It distracts the general harmony of our days, . mis-slmiies our ends, shortens tho length >ew Railroad Brake. ^ ' of life, lessens the stature of manhood, A railroad brake, which is instantly I and is contrary to tho (livino instructions died and continuous iu its action, and j of the Bible; for it .declares where love ich the inventor proposes to render in there,is peace, plenty and thriftinoaa. automatic, is dcscrilxHl by Mi ier, in La 'Nature. It is worked by means of two of the secondary batteries matter, of M. Plaute, each of these being charged by three Daniell cells. The action of Everything i* sure to follow a happv iom-^Let not pride interfere in this iter. j , "T am on independent voter, and I toe apparatus is dependent upon toe ad* c» n ’J J p .'* ^31 kreion of »u elmtio-muKUut to the ul. platform* «1««id. « «* u.. wk-u fA.m.MuTof whioh two •poamg, A oonplo ft .h«ra Utor it 'levore oarryiu* trio- j Oaw Iuxl, upon th# yoiu I u»u a (Ob. 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