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iviMBirriti utti 31 Three loathe 40 Hl«(|Mper Lew Deelslou, 1. Any penon who takes a paper regular ly from the poetofioo—whether directed to hie name or another’a, or whether he has sob* ecnbed or not—la reaponalble for the amount. 2. If a person orders bis paper discontinued be must pay all arrearages, er the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and oolleet the whole amouut,whether the paper is taken frem the office or not. 3. 'The eourts hare deoided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prime facie evidenee of in- uatiotnel fraud. SOUTHERN NEWS. The erection of a large paper-mill has- byen .qommeuecd at Parkersburg. W. Va. The factory at Atlanta, Gn., now con Hiunta from 160 to tRO bales of cotton per week. The Young Men’s Christian Associa tion of Mobile, Ala., lias 4U0 members, of whom seventy-five are ladies. There arc now sixty-four legal distil- IcrioH in the Nashville district. Whisky made in January, 115,000 gallons. ..The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says tliat thq Eagle and] Plnonix Manufac luring'Company made $254,446.87 bust year. Tlfc fibrnry of Hie ITon. A. IT. Steph en,•*, of Georgia; contains .between 3,000 and 4,000 volumes. They cost about $2t*;O0h. The Gretna (La.) Courier says tlmt out of a voting population of 2,667 in Jef ferson parish, 1,667 can not write their own names. Capitals of Alabama: 1 HI7, St. Steph ens (Territorial); 1818, Caluiwba; 1810, llnntsvilie (State); 1820, Calmwba; 1826, Tuscaloosa; 1842, Montgomery. Grnetli, the Swi$) colony in Grundy county, Tennessee, is in danger of ex tinction on account of defective land titles and multiplied suits resulting. 1 ■ A capitalist from Rome, Georgia, is said to have purchased recently in At* lunta twenty-two houses 'and lots and sixty building lota, upon] which lie will avion build. It is thought that over 100,000,000 feet of-pitch-pine"timber and lumber wtll.be ahip|>ed from tho port of Darien, Ottilia year. A little over 85,000,000 feet wjis shipped last year. Of the fifty-eight men who framed the constitution and declared the indepen dence of Texas, March 2, 18.36,’ one is still living: I)r. Charles II. Stewart , o Montgomery county. The Darien (Ga.) Timber Gazette says that within a feW y6ar.s nearly two doz en murders have been committed in Mc Intosh county, and only one murderer has been hanged. Alabama penitentiary convicts arc lor the moat part Hired out 'to miners and farmers, most of them at $5 month. The sum of #45,000 has- b paid into the .State treasury within two years. .Ahout'forty subordinate granges were represented in the State Grange of North Carolii a A letter was read from the wc rotary of the National Grange, in which lie states “that the business of tldfj office is increasing very rapidly. It is said that in winter in a Louisiana Mvuuiy millions of swallows feed on a species of willow called by the French t wallow trees. I he French and Creoles ii 1 ** the swallows in making jublcs, a preparation of rice and meat, fish or game. The Meridian (Miss.) Mercury reports that negroes are leaving the prairie belt of Alabama in considerable numbers, and passing through Meridian on route to the Mississippi ^bottom and Western liouisiana. Robert Toombs: JcfT. Davis wrote me v picture to put in bis book along W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS, Editors. LET TlIitiRE I5E LIGHT.’ Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME V. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY ‘22. 1881. NUMBER 21. credit for his efforts to restore this right. In nnti-bcllum times juries always se lected their foreman. It is only within the last, ten or fifteen years that the ju diciary has usurped this right of juries. Tho building for the university for colored people, which is in course of erection at Helena, Ark., will have cost, when completed, $36,000. The Pastors' Union, in whose hands the enterprise is, proceeding, expects to complete one wing, at n cost of $10,000, by October 1. The school was originally designed tor tho education of preacher and teachers, but its scope will not be restricted to that object. In Florida the value per acre of clared land is $9 48, and of timbered land $3.03. In Louisiana cleared land is worth $14.- 36, and timbered land $3.53. In Texas cleared land is worth $8.98, and limbered land $-1. In Arkansas cleared land is valued at $11.78, and timbered land at $3.48. In Oregon cleared land is worth $21.71. and timbered $4.50. But in Neb raska cleared land is v ortli $8.92, and timbered land $25.85 per acre. Speaking of the proposed reclamation of Lake Okechobcc, in Florida, by drain- age, a procesa which is expected to add 12,000,000 acres of sugar lands to the .State’s arable wealth, the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Messenger says tho soil “will be simply the residuum from <he crops of {successive ages of dccomposd grasses,” wanting density and possessing inflamability. If it will burn to the limestone substratum, it ought to be possible to utilize it for fuel. ' A Petersburg (Va.) dealer shipped to Northern markets recently 150,000 pounds of old iron and 40,000 pounds of bones. Shell shipments nro said by a Petersburg correspondent of the Rich mond Dispatch to be of frequent occur rence, aud it is a mystery wl\oro, such large quantities of old iron and bone* come from. After the war the camps and lines around the city furnished large supplies of both articles, but that source was long since exhausted. Before the legislature of West Vir ginia arc the signatures of nlmut 19.000 people, represent ng every pmt of the State and every variety of religious creed and faith, appended to petitions praying for the submission to the people of an amendment to the State constitu tion forever, prohibiting the manufact ure and sale of intoxicating liquiors ex cept for medicinal, mechanical and m Sen. title purpose*. lb F. Crayton, a Stale Senator of South Carolina, about five yourq ago got a man and his wife from Castle Gar den 1o work on bis farms in Anderson county. ‘The-next season he brought out tWfr children and eight other immigrants from Germany. The lowing season he brought out fifteen twenty other families. lie has at pres ent alio lit twenty of them in his empli mont, and there are, perhaps, as mn more working for his* neighbors. He si . they are the very class needed in South Carolina, and there is room for thous amis of tl cm. other/ T wrote him that I would not lie found in such coinpunv. I will bet him $500 that his book does not appear by the 1st of April, nor while i live. It is estimated that it will only take about twenty years to consume the orig inal pine forest of Georgia, and it is thought to he time for the ‘adoption of some effective measure of protection. The Macon Telegraph and Messenger es timates the consumption during J880 ut n little over 250,000 uercs. Experiments Imve been successfully made in Oconee county, S. C., in plant ing cotton “in checks," laying oil rows three feet each way. The land was plowed both ways, making the work done with t he hoe very light. The chief ndvnntngo is the saving of labor in cul tivation. There are now in attendance at the ty of Georgia 175 students. versity buildings is t he finest of tho the Moore building, which and donned to the State for the univer sity by the city of Athens, at a cost of $25,000. The physical department on the second Hoor contains an amphithea ter capable of seating 200 students. The room can easily lie darkened when re quired for experiments necessitating the exclusion of light. New Orleans Times: Judge Homan, m his charge to r!,c jury in the Burton ease, took a no y departure, or rather re turned to correct principles. In speak- ' the jury about the Selection oi a "Tlmt foreman y. How to Be Healthy. If you want to do well, keep well, if you possibly can. Do not let even your education rob you of your lienlth. It is nliout tho worst thiug you can do under tho whip and spur of a noble purposo, nud it is wlmtyVftat numbers do to their lifo-long regret. When a lino painter took tho butcher to boo ono of lus pict ures, he said, “ Aye, Maister Haydon, it’s a grand picturo, but I doubt whether you could have done it if you bad not enton my beef.” And I think there a grain of truth in the remark. They say that base-bnll is getting into tho hands of the gamblors, and that young men are Bhy of it of a good brooding. I should be very sorry to think so. It is the handsomest game that over played, and ono of the healthiest. Play nose-ball, and pull a boot, and get your chance in vacation at long tramps and hard beds and rough, wholesome fare: eat well and sleep well; be as clean oil through and all over as you drawing-room, and then vou will not only be able to do your ai this world like a man, but when tho years bring their inevitable burden you will be able to say with Adam in tho play : Though I look old, yet am I etrong and lusty, Tor In my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellloue liquor.. to my blood; Nor did with onbuhful forehead woo The mean* of weakneae and debtltt; Therefore my age la as a luaty Frosty, hnt kindly. Remember this, too, that, with health and strength to back you, life meanB hard work, and hard work on long lines, with native ability and good conduct, means suooess,— Rev. Robert Colly er. Si. •V JOAQUnr MILLIB. Oh, day that ever runs before I What has thy hidden hand In store For mlao, tr —* * * Ob, tl <rl wlia t tho r the now T e shall lorget of to-day; t duns, at debts Ob,’ ahulti-r ’froui all prc»out storm t Oh, day In y The taugli-d tr Oh, day tlmt laughs i roubles of to-day I Oh; day elf* ‘ aholli-r... i, day lu wl at, beat day for reform I Hold b Oh, I ahadoi >f tho *1 not thy mystery bo I Jut lead ui blindfolded t foreman, Iv yoursel juries, ti “Bight Away!” When Dickens first came to this coun try he stumblecLnpon a dreadful “ Amer icanism” almost as soon os he hod landed, for a hotel waiter asked him if ho would have something “right away,” meaning immediately. Borne dozens of English travelers have since that time been hor rified by the same Yankee phrase, but now they are beginning to find out that “right away,” like pretty much every other “ Americanism, is merely an Au- f licism that does not happen to be at ome in London. A late correspondent of Note* and Queries says of the expres sion: “ I have always supposed this to be the purest of Americanisms, when nsed in tne sense of ‘immediately,’ * * • but only a few weeks since, in York- t shire, I heard a girl say from behind a will select. This right of counter, to a gentleman who wio doubt- iftlfttuthtir own foreman is a ful whether tg carry home the cake he WAS IIE mad; ■ V rUAKLRS K. (iOLDBT. In visitiug tho south of Eugland, have you over gone out of your way to enjoy i fovv hours iu ono of tho many delight- ill, thriving towns which are scattered like corn throughout that sunny land? If not, then it has not been your fortune to view tho sparkling landscape of Hazel- ton, a quaint, quiet village, with modest little homes, whose white point glistens iu the sunlight, aud whose gardens, trimmed and orderly, exhibit blushing roses and sweet-scented flowers peeping from midst douse masses of green foliage. Homo twenty years back, there was situated on the outskirts of Hazel ton, a gloomy-lookiug mansion, snrrounced bv a clump of oaks and cedars which well nigh hul tho edifice from view, Bolton Hall had stood the storms of many centuries, but time seomed only to leepen tho gloom of its surroundings. The house was square iu form, with n turrotod whig attached to its eastern wall. This wing exhibited great signs of decav, and its moldoring walls and prison-shaped windows enhanced the general gloom surrounding the whole place. In this wing were the fortunes of the Bolton race made; here were formulated those thoughts whose execution had raised Peter Bolton, gentleman, from comparative poverty and insignificance to wealth and knighthood; and here was the splendor of tho same maintained by a long line of descendants, terminating, at the tirno of which wo write, In Bir James Bolton. Bir James was a man who hod just turned his fiftieth year; of tall statino and well-rounded form, with a face whose keen black oyen oould cither twinkle with humor or sparkle with the larkest of passions. He hod evidently lived well iu tho past, and his olose-fiting rest betokened a rare appetite for tho delicacies of tho table. Sir James was a widower, his wife hav ing died shortly after their marriage leaving her blessing in the form of u new-born lmlie to her youthful husband. Twenty-four years had transformed the hobo into u broad-shouldered young with blue eyes brimming over with guod-naturo, whilo mouth and chin be tokened tho absolution of the soldier. Arthur Bolton had mot Lucy Grey while visiting a village frioud, und en joyed her socioty in many little picnics and parties gotton up in tho neighbor- if, and had declared his love and been ipted. And now, the two young hearts patiently waiting for tho day tlmt would bind them together in unity and love. a beautiful spring morning. Crisp winter had lifted her fleecy cover- from off tho fields nltd flowers, and nature was once rnoro re-asserting her ly sway, breathing sweet odors through tho sunny atmosphere. Arthur Bolton was strolling through the gardens, idly pufliug clouds of smoke into tho air, ami giving himself up to the sweet reflections which lovo might beget such rosy bowers. A rapid stop sounded behind him, and turning, ho beheld his father. "Good morning, Arthur!” snid Bir .Tames, in a cheery tone. “I am glad I have found you.” “Why, my dear father,’ - replied Ar thur, with a merry twiuklo iu his eyes, “do you seo your wild son so seldom that the pftrtenml heart is warmed at beholding him enjoying a cigar amid ino sweet perfumes of your garden?" “Ha! ha!” laughed Bir .Tames; and for a few moments both gentlomen indulged iu considerable merriment. Bir .TameB’ mirth finally ceased, and a look of deep seriousness settled ovor his countenance. Arthur turned around, and thoughtfully studied the old house which he had never called home. “Father.” he exclaimed, wheeling back to bis former position, “why do yon not have tlmt old, broken-down tower torn auay, and erect a modern wing in its place? I have often thought that it cast n gloom over our home, and this morn ing it seems really forbidding." Sir .Tames raised his black eyes swiftly to tho face of his son, and darted a keen, suspicious glance at him. Seemingly satisfied with his inspection, he replied in his usual tones— “No, Arthur, your father has too fow moments of seriousness to remove, at this late hour, the only olijoots that chain liin thoughts to the past. But, Arthur, my object in meeting you here this morn ing is of far too serious a nature to wait longer. To-day, Arthur Bolton’’—and his voice hoeamo low and earnostr—“the fate of your father and your home lies in your hands!” “What!" -•**** “I am ruined, unless- " “Good heavens, father, what do you moan?” exclaimed the young man with startled eyes and excited tonos. “Unless,” passionately continued Sii James, "you save me.” “Thank God, if it lies in my powfer!” was the glad response. “ But how is it to bo done?” * ‘ My plan is very simple. My credi tors are beginning to push me to the wall. I can stave off the event for a month* rnd in the meantime you can hasten to my plantation in Ouba—my last resoiutee. Straighten out its affairs, which tmve through my carelessness become very much oonfused, and sell it for wViat it will bring. I have no doubt but tl#e sum roalized will cover all my debts, and leave a handsome margin.” A look of glad resolution Vfgblenod Sir James turned slightly pale. Shad ing his black oyos with his hand from hii son’s gaze, he said: " Miss Grey left town this morning, la visit her aunts in London; and besides, Arthur, it is of tho most vital importance that you should depart this very after- "This very afternoon!” Arthur invol- untarily murmured, in a tone slightly saddened, for his thoughts were rapidly traveling toward Lucy, his lovo. Rous ing himself from his gloomy reverie, he replied, with force of cheerfulness “Very well, father; I will leaves note for Lucy in your care, and this afternoon shall see me off.” Aud with these worth on his litis, tho young man retired tc prepare for his journey. For a fow moments*Bir James Bolton pulled desperately on his cigar. Ho was reflecting, and, os tho thoughts chased each other away, tho varying expression of his face was marked and serious. “ Ho is my son,” ho broke out fiercely, throwing his cigar far from him. “ God knows I love liun, and fain would spare him, but tho hand of fate is closing abont me, aud I must succumb. Heaven 1” ito groaned, pacing up and down tho ‘ idfy. “W * path excitedly. “What I suffer! And for whom, for what? For Arthur! Ab. if it were any other human being, I could crush bint to the earth from my path with exultation 1 But now,” ho cried pitifully, tho color coming and going from his face, "lmust stall my own son’s heart to the coro. Must t? Oh, how the chains drag me to tho ground! And yet I must have her. Love, love!” he continued, passionately, breaking from bis strain of remorse. “ Wlint power is this, what chains are these, that binds me to dishonor! Love and honor should go hand in hand, but not with mo—not with me! By Heavens!" ho cried, rag ing fiercely up and down, “I shall have Iter!” And, with a glance toward the blue sky above he fell on his knees nud hissed, “I swoar it!" CHATTER n. There was nothing particularly beau tiful iu Lucy Giey’s face or form—that is, no physical beauty — but there was a stamp on her countenance which God alone had placed there—tho stamp of purity, truth, and virtue. Siueo tho sudden departure of Arthui Bolton, a pansivo sadness had weighted the general buoyancy of her spirit; evei since Bir .Tames had culled, and, taking lior hand in his own, had gently said: “Lucy, I have sorrowful news to im part—news that will break your heart, unless yon boldly bare your shoulders to the burden. Prepare yourself, my dear friend, to hear what J must tell you. Arthur Bolton lma robbed his father, and deserted the girl ho promised to mnko his wife 1” “I can not, will not, believe it!" s cried, with head erect, aud eyes aflame. “Why should I—his father—say it unless it sieie tho bitter truth?” he re proachfully asked. “Too true—too true!” she wailed iu her heart; and from that hour her clioer- fulness was gone, mid a subdued sadness took its placo. It seemed but natural that Sir Janies Bolton should often call, and oxert him self to cheer her; but when, several months later, he had gently asked her to forget the disgraceful conduct of bis son, And become bis wife, she resolutely declined. “Never!" was her quiet reply, and that was the last she thought of it. Bir James returned home from his last visit in a very moody frame of mind. For sevorftl hours he remained closeted in his room, while a fierce battle raged within his breast. Ho bad injured ids son—had aont him on a wild-goose chase into the very midst of danger— bad told his intended wife the double falsehood that bo was a thief and a villain—bad de tained, read, and destroyed, tho loving letters direoted to Lucy in his care, and now should he renounce his purpose or consummate his villainy? His crime had brought suffering with it, for the light-hearted easy-going gentleman of two mouths previous had changed to a haggard, morose, and passionate man. “Shall I give her up now,” he cried, bis bloodshot eyes straining straight ahead, “renounce her now, now when I have consigned my son to misery for hor sake? No! Deprived of her and of my sou,' what is left in life for me ?" It was nearly two weeks after this event that Lucy Grey received a note re questing her to call at t he residence of Bir James Bolton, as lie wished to see her in regard to an important, matter, bnt was too ill to leave his house. The nofe also stated that, ns the subject of his interview would lie his absent sou, it would bo wise to keep the knowledge of her coll strictly private. This note quite astonished Lucy, but as she did not know what importance might be attached to it, site determined on acceding to tho request. It was about the hour of dusk that Lucy Grey, with a cloak completely enveloping her, pre sented herself at the door of the Bolton mansion. The servant had evidently re ceived hia instruction 1 *, for without a word he lod her to the favorite sitting- room of his master. Befow a low table whoso marble top was hidden beneath gilt-edged volumes and musty papers, sat Sir James. His face was slighty pale, and his ey os shone with unnatural brightness, as, rising from his sent, he cordially extendod his hand toward his visitor. “You cannot imagine, Mias Grey,” he said, in soft, melting tones, “what pleas ure it affords me to have my request promjillv granted. My dear have suffered now for a long fered through the cruelty end brutality In vain ehe strove to wrenoh herself from his grasp. “Cease!” he cried, in husky, passion ate tones. “You must, you shall hear me! Miss Grey—Lucy ^-darling—" and his hot lips almost touched the cheek which had become as alabaster; “my sou has deceived, deserted you—tram pled upon tho tender love of your heart, and not only yours, but mine—hia fa ther’s. Heaven!" here the strong man shook as with palsy. “That my sou should be so baso. so cruel! Lucy, the sympathy which I, as his fathor, have felt for you has turned to love—idola try." “Monster! away!" she gasped, with a convulsive spring backward, wltile her eyes flashed, her cheeks crimsoned, and her bonds were clenched. “You—his father—to insult me—let me paeeJ” “Never!” he hissed, springing toiler side again. “If not with your will, then without it, you shall be my wife!" Aud, Ruatc-hiug a moistened handker chief which had been lying on the table, he pressed it firmly to her nose and month. In a fow seconds Lucy Grey sank senseless to tho floor. Gently lift ing her in his ai ms, Bir James carried his senseless burden through the gloomy, intricate halls till he stood before a heavy door rusty with age. Unlocking it, he entered a largo room with diminutive windows, through which a single ray of light threw its lmlo over swords and weapons mouldering into dust. De positing his burdeu ou a large square lied standing in a corner of tho room, he silontly withdrew, and, an hour later, was strolling moodily through the garden below. ciiaptf.r ra. “Good morning, father!" exclaimed a hearty voice, and, glancing up, from his paper, Bir Jamos Bolton beheld his son. Bnriugiug excitedly from his seat, he exclaimed— “You, Arthur? Where—” “Why, father,” cried Arthur, “you do not scent very glad to seo me. ” But Bir James, recognizing his rash ness, had recovered his self-control. Ex tending his hand, he exclaimed: “Pardon me. Arthur, hut your return was so unexjiectod, and so weloomo, that I—" “Enough, father dear," the young man gently returned. “I know tliat I am weTeome, especially when I have n satisfactory rejiort of my work to hand in. But I can not stay with yon long. Associations hero nro too soil, too bitter." And his blue eyes looked inconceivably unhappy, for lib wits thinking of her who bad written him soon alter his arrival in Cuba, one short, cutting note, declining bis lovo. Bo it was arranged, greatly to Bit James’ satisfaction, that Arthur should start tho. next morning, to spend a r jeors traveling in the now world It was evening. Tho clear blue sky was studded with twinkling stars, whose soft glimmer melted into the stronger lmlo of tho moon. ’Dio garden of the Bolton mansion was bathed in a grayish mist, which flickered among the tall trees, aud cast weird shadows or bid castle. Arthur Bolton was slowly strolling through the deep paths leading iu put among tho shrubbery. Tho tire ol his cigar burnt fiercely as he pulled nervously away at it. Iiow often he lmd walked here with buoyant stops and light heart, looking toward the future, when Lucy Grey was to have become his wife! “How cruel!" he murmured. “Cruel cruel! Oh, how shall T bear it—how Ahull I endure? Would to heaven that here and now I could lay down tho bur- don of my lifo and sink into obliviou! Luev, who was my life and love—who is, and* ever shall lio, my lovo—is not false—but tho note!" Hour after hour passed away, and still ],o staid. It was about midnight that h# stopped opposite the old tower. “Hark!" he exclaimed, springing (< ward and assuming a listening attitude. “Arthur! Arthur! Have me!” Liko lightning his blue eyas sent gleam up to the window above. A whits object fluttered a moment, and then fell at bis feet. Picking it up, lie read faintlv penciled characters the folio . erv iipporlant one, which judicial on- hftd J n * fc Purchased: “J* h . e deliv ’ .. . . . s er.iu.4im I . , \ V 0 ° ! ered directly, sir; tho liny is gotug past! the face of Arthur as lie replied. 1 '• - .iiinoo opjplelely »up. y 0ur door right away."— Chicago Inter- j “J will run over to the M.eadows and pressed. .1 ml t Roniun j s entitled to * OuMlL see Lucy to-morrow, and tb.eu gwav!” “To the person finding this handker chief. For the love of all you hold dear in this world or tho next, take this tc Dr. Uroy of Hnzelton, and tell him that confined a prisoner, by Bir Jnine Bolton, in the big room of the old tower and that lie swears I shall not receive m, eedom until I become his wife.” Without reading further, Arthur Bol ton sprang liko a blood-hound toward tho house. He knew it all now. Bir James was suddenly awakened that night bj a terrible crash, and hurriedly throwing on his clothes, ho rushed toward the big room iu tho old tower. Crash! With a wild shriek, ho sprang forward. Crash, crash! And down flow the door, rotten with age, and Bir Janie; arrived just in time to glare through the open space on Arthur aud Lucy, fondly clasped in each other’s arms, while the young man’s hot kisses were raining over tho brow*, check and nock of her who was liis lifo and lovo. “Fiends!” screamed Bir James, while tho blood rushed iu torrents to his head. , , ,, With ono wild bound the old man at tempted to roach the pair, but, falling short, ho tottered, fell, aud remained as ^Tenderly he was laid on tho bed. Al- rcady Artnurand Lucy had forgiven him, and for many a week, hung over his pil low; and when he became convalescent, none were happier than they. But the punishment came. Sir James sight had gone ’ How a ffireat Engineer Got Ills HUrt. James B. Eads was bom in Indiana in 1820. Ho is slender in lorm, neat in genial,, courteous ind nearly sixty of ago. In 1838, his father stArtea down the Ohio River with his family, proposing to settle in Wisconsin. The bout caught fire, and his scanty furni ture and clothing were burned. Young Eads hardly escaped ashore with his pantaloons, shirt aud cap. Taking pas sage on another boat this boy of thirteen lauded in Bt. Louis with his parents, his little bare feet first touching tho rocky shore of the city on the very spot where he afterword located aud buil. t lie largest steel bridge in tho world, over the Mis sissippi-one of tho most lifllcult feats of engineering ever performed in America. At the age of nine, young Eads made a short trip on the Ohio, when the en gineer of the steamboat explained to him so clearly the construction of the engine, that before he was i. year older ho built a little working model of it. so perfect in its parts and movements that his schoolmates would frequently go home with him after Bchool to see it A locomotive engine, driven by scaled rat, was one of bis next ju venile feats iu mechanical engineering. ~rom eight to thirteen lie attended bool* after which, from necessity, ho as placed in a dry goods store. Over the store, iu Bt Louis, where he as engaged, his employer lived. He as au old bachelor, aud having observed the tastes of his clerk, gave him bis first Look ou engineering. Tho old gentle- nan’s library furnished evening com panions for him during the five years lie was employed. Finally, Ins health fail ing, at the age of nineteen, he went on a Mississippi River steamer, from which time to tho present day that groat river lias been to him an all absorbing study. Soon afterward, he found a partner ship with a friend, and built a small boat to raise cargoes of vessels sunk in the Mississippi. While this boat was building ho made his first vonture in submanno engineering, on tho lower rapids of the river, by the recovery of oral tons of lead. Ho hired -. scow or flatlniat and anchored it over tho wreck. An experienced diver, cln.l in armor, who had boon hired at considerable ex pense in Buffalo, was lowered into the water; but the rapids were ro swift that tho diver, encased in strong armor, feared to be sunk to tho liottom. Young Eads determined to succeed, aud finding it impracticable to use the armor, went ashore, purchased a whisky barrel, knocked out the head, attached the air- pump hose to it, fastening several heavy weighs to the open end of tho barrel, then swinging it on to a derrick, ho hod practical diving-bell, tho best use I ovor heard made of a whisky barrel. Neither tho diver nor ray of tho ( ould go down in the coutrivnnoe, sc ilauntloBS young engineer, having full •oufldoueo in what be lmd rend in books, .van lowered within tho liarrol down to the liottom, the lower end of the l.ancl being open. The water was sixteen feet deep and very swift. Finding the wreck, ' o remained in it a full hour, hitching >pes to pig-lead until a ton or so safely hoisted into his own boat; then making a signal by a small liue attache, to tho barrel, be was lifted on deck, and took command again. Tho sunken e soon successfully raised, and sold, and netted a’ handsome profit; which, increased by other successes, nbie.l euegotie Eads to build larger boots, with powerful pumps aud maeliiuer, i for lifting entire vessels. Toting QiiAllfleatiouft In the State ol Khode Island. The franchise iu Uhode Island not being very well understood by the gou rd public, tho following explanation of in matter is made ns brief and suociuct . possible: There are two classes of .tors in Rhode Island, property and ..‘gistrv voters. Both can vote for all general officers, Mayors and general city officers, and Presidential Electors, but oulv property voters can ballot for mem bers of City Councils in cities, tho idea governing thi* latter franchise being that only property-holders can have au inter est in tho question of taxation. (Jiialill- oations of voters are distinct. First, natives of tho United States can become registry voters by a residence of two years iu the State and six months in the town; or they become property voters by a residence of one year and owning $134 value of roul estate. Second, those born in foreign countries must be naturalized, must live ono year in the State, and must own $134 worth of real estate in all onseH. They cannot become registry voters, nor voters in any way, except by owning real estate, but when made voters by owning such real estute, tliev vote for officers of every kind. It is tlds imperative datum, that in Rhode Island naturalized citizens must own real estate to tho value of $134, which is not generally known. Be sides the qualifications for registry voters, these persons must have their names duly entered in the rogiatiy list beforo tho end of December of the preceding year, and must pay $1 registry foo beforo the 10th day of Jauuary of the year in which they intend to vote. Reg istry voters of American birth can bo- oome property voters by paying a tax on $134 worth oi property, rent or personal. Mon native born, without property, rsal or personal, may be taxed for a nominal sum of $300 personal property, so called, and thus become property voters. hiB illness, and henceforth, all that made lifo worth tho living to him, j was to sit between Arthur and Lucy, who had become man and wife, with a hand | of each clasped tightly ‘ of— “Stop, Sir James!" flashed Lucy, confronting him with scornful eyes. “I did not come here to hear his name dragged again in the mud, nor do I ask for pity. I am . womui, air, eacI ic,a.p«, u K u.., ^ ...... such you should reapect the motive which | henr ttem declare their forgiyeneas and prompted me to come here. Now, Bir ! j James,” she cried, advancing a step for- ! l< - . ■■ — 1 fard, while the color dyed her white | orrect speech is such an indisputa- oheats at the thought of her rashness in , ^j 0 mar k Q f a lady or gentleman that it being drawn into so delicate, a position, ; rann ot be too often repeated that the “you have stated that you had some- trno 8 tandard of pronunciation is ono iu thing of lmportanoe to communicate to 1 which all marks of a particular placo of me. What is it?” 1 birth and residence are lost, and in Boldty her blue eyes met the pieroing which nothing appears to indicate any gaze rifvited upon her. For a moment habits of intercourse other than with tho Sir .Ttpaiea paused; then, with an impetu- weli-brad and ' ell-informed wherever out iTpripg, Ut ctvsUt Lucy by tbs btnd. I they may bo lQuml. Ilad Much Pretty Wajs With llor. “She had such pretty wavs with her." That was the reason an honest, hard working man gave for marrying a girl of whom ho know littlo else, but who was really a professional bigamist, traveling about tho country nnd marrying hus band after husband as a matter of specu lation. It is the “pretty ways” cf woman which has ruined many a man of every age, including tho greatest of Generals, statesmen and philosophers. If the “pretty ways” come from the heart it is all right. If they are the result of cold, selfish, calculating ait, woo is to him who falls their victim. Nothing is truer than that women are both better nnd worse than men. A man could hardly bo 60 bad as a woman is wheikshe puts ou the prettiest ways of hor sex for mischiAf. sequences bo upon your own heads if this results in murder ! ” He was at once arrested for threaten ing the lifo of a witnoss, but was released amidst shouts of laughter, when he ex plained, saying: “ Gentlemen, I am a regularly gradu ated physician. Iu the twenty years I have nclil office my profession lias beon sadlj neglected. In consequence of present necessity I am forced to resumo tliat profession to support mysolf.” It is safe to say that ho did not win K - ’ its from among hiB audience by bi» confession, if ho did get tho laugh on his enemies. Mr. Weedleu and His Girl. The dress circlo waa adorned by a dys peptic-looking girl, with big feet, who had a brown wart on hor faoo and a cer tain look about her wliich plainly told that she was fresh from boarding-school. Beside her sat a long, gawky young man, who was from tho country, and evidently smitten with the charms of tho young lady by his side, upon whom he would ever anil anon bestow the. most, tender glances. During an intermission in the play ho turned to her, and, in a voice as tender as a sirloin steak, said : “ Don’t ver think it’s awful warm in this ’ero theater, MisB Mary? ” She let fall ou him a languid, pitying glance, and then replied : “ Ah I yes, there exists a certain de gree of closeness which is deleterious to the comfort of one’s physical being ; but, my dear Mr. Weedles. yon aro no doubt perfectly aware of tho fact that chemistry teaches us that tho exhala tions of so many individuals carbonizes tho entire atmosphere, vitiating it to a degree which renders it poisonous to tho respiratory organs, as well ae to tho corpuscles iu the blood, producing nau sea, and in some cases syncope. You can see at a glance, Mr. weedles, that this is caused by tho lack of oxygen.” “ Yes, I know ’em, that is, I’ve rend of ’em, but hain’t never seen any yet, as I know on ; but when Bill Wilkins, at their protracted meeting down ou Gooso creek, said that tho heart was a part of the stomach, I told him it was the derndest lio ho ever spoke.” “ Oh, dear! how absurd it was in him to mako such a statement. Why, don’t you know that tho palpitation of tho viseuH generates a subtle electrical force which is the most mysterious, wonderful and startling power which propels tho anatomy of the genus homo V ” “I—I have—-yes, I’yo heem tell of it afore, but I don’t stick myself up as knowing every tiling. I ain’t that kind of a man. Tho folks used to say—ami was powerful proud of it—that I woni’t no sloucher on grammer; but won’t you have some peanuts, Miss Mary?” and ho wiped the cold perspiration from iiis brow, and trembled with nervous- “None, thank you, Mr. Weedles; peanuts have a strange effect on my gastronomical organs.” “ 1 didn't menu to hurt your feelings, Miss Mary, liocauso you recollect beforo yon went oft' to school that I used to bring vou peanuts, nnd wo used to sit astraddle the garden fence nud oat thorn. Don’t you remember bow your old mother used to say that now peanuts were awful colicky ? Thom were happy dajs, Miss Mary, nud the humble lover sighed ns low ns a note on a bass-li.ldle. “Oh, Mr. Weedles!" slio said, blush- ingly, *' I want to ask yon something. Did you not say ou one occasion that 1 was possessed of a moiety of the divine afflatus, aud that you thought I was r. lieing entirely too seraphic anil ethereal to exist oil this mundauo sphere?” “ Miss Mary,” said the lover, and bis eye flushed and breast heaved, “it’s a mean, underhand lie. I never said a word ag’in.you in my life, aud I’ll just bo eternally goldurucd if 1 ain’t just naturally walk the log of any man who trios to scandalize me behind my buck. I always said Miss Mary Jones was tho sweetest girl iu the country, und—" But the curtain went up, and the rest of the conversation was lost in the crash of the orchestra. How to Get Around tlio World iu Twenty-fiinr Hours. An eccentric Berlin philosopher an nounces that ho lifts discovered a way to make a trip around the world in twenty- four hours. He says that lie is informed by the Captains of ships tliat birds nro Amiut sea a thousand miles or mom from laud, nnd pronounces it self-evident that they must reach shore in it very short time, since they cannot find a rest ing-place in mid-ocean. From this ho conceived the idea that they merely raise themselves aloft, and, with only enough motion to keep afloat, remain ns nearly stationary as possible, while tho earth revolves around under them. All they then have to do is to wait uutil tho desired spot on tho earth’s surface comes along, and thereupon comfortably to lower themselves to solid ground. This ingenious practice on tho part of birds the Berlin man proposes to imitate for mankind with tho assistance of a balloon aud passenger-car of peculiar construc tion that be has invented, and which will aloft and remain stationary, whilo the restless earth rolls on below. - . l does not appear that lie has successfully tried a triji with his balloon himself, but ho has laid his theory beforo the l’olyt* oli- Bocioty of Berlin, and given au elab orate exposition of it. Tho society re ceived it apparently with levity, but tho veutor is in dead earnest. _ Commercial Courtesy. There aro some, merchants who regard drummers ns a nuisance, and refuse to talk to them, or if they sav any thiug at all, it is only a request to look at a con spicuously posted picturo of a mnn in a coffin, with tho legend underneath, “This man was talked to dentil by a drummer." But oldTwoporcont, whose placo of business is on Galveston avenue, is not that kind of a merchant prince. A New York drummer was passing his place of business, when ho called him across the street and askod to look at his samples. The drummer could hardly believe his senses. He had never been treated that way before in Texas. It was hardly ft minute beforo lie had his samples spread out in anticipation ’of a $5,000 order. Old Twoporcont got tho very bottom pnoe of everything asked him L some of the goods the reply was : “Not mooch. Yon do not shupposo dot is vot I called you in for ?’’ “ What did you call me in for, then l asked the drummer. “ I only wonted to see vot your nggors vos, so ash t.) find out if I vas not sell ing my own goods too low."—Galveston News. Ai/TnocoH it is thought that the pa wn broker is an imposition on the pub.ic still ho will thrive so long as people c->n tinuo to “put up” with him,