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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1881)
xnmirma bates ®** "r »i i W* ■mtha, 1JUM month „ I«»H|Sr Ui SMIStM 'l i or aaoiaara, or whether do •w •»««■ or not—»if responsible for the mum Lila person erdenhle paper discontinued h* “*»l P*7 »U vrunfM, w toe publisher our eootiiic to Hnd It until payment ia DM«e, and oolloot tho whole amount,whether the paper U takoo from tho offlee or not. *• Tho eourfts hare decided that refuting to take newspaper* or periodicals from the postoffloe, or removing and leaving them nnoalled ter la prime raoie evidence of in* hatiotnrl freed. NEWS CLEANINGS. Extensive smuggling is going on along Ihe Rio^Grtthde, • A Marietta, Georgia, boy ban a roller* tion of 500 birds’ eggs. There art thirty-twu colored Baptist churches in the District of Columbia. Augusts, Georgia, will have a first- class theater. Of the forty '•GflSiprnls furnished by Texas to the Confederacy thirty arc dead. • The negroes of Wilkes county pay taxes on 3,000 acres of land, and $12,- 000 worth of stock. Cedat Key and Ocala, Florida, are said to Im outstripping any towns in the SUte iu growth and enterprise. Alexandria, Virginia, has loaded a bark with grain direct for Europe, and s «*a herself invested with a halo of com mercial glory accordinglVi Blind Torn is said, when at his home in Georgia, to remain. alone with hip piano and play day and night. He plays about 7,000 pieces by ear, and picks up net; ones every day. Paul Viallou, of Bayou Uoulu,. La., has 500 stand of pure Italian bees. Ho raises and sells many barrels of honey at from seventy-five cents to ninety cents per gallon. Tho colored people of Nashville have formed a'society for the suppressioh 1 of miscegenation. It is said that the society has so far caused the arrest of eight per- Hons charged with tills offen*e. Hannah Faust, said to he 111 years old, died in *Columbin, P. C., recently. She wife born a faw miles nboye that pity. Her daughter, said to be near ninety, lives in Columbia also. Vicksburg v* justly indignant at tho suspending - by the National Board of Health of the inspection station at the Point. The station is a protection not only to Vicksburg but the whole Missis- ■MTffe./ It is said there is not a mechanic or workman in Mapon who i>j idle for want of ,£he ruslj of improve ment* and the c^piand for builders and building .ip^^eiiRl have never lief ore been equal] VOLUME V. BUTLER. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1881. NUMBER 48. TOPICS OP THE DAT. Grant's iucomo is reckoned at $50,- 000 a year, TttB Frenoh elections will bo held August 21. Parnell, tho Irish Home-Ruler, will again visit this country in November. The Arabs aro entertaining tho French in Tunis and Algiers to their lioarfa’ content. Da. Tannkii lias settled down nt Corry, Mich. His lamp didn’t burn very long, poor man. Tennyson and Huxley delights in clay pipes. This iB encouraging to the cor ner loafer. Mauy Andruhon, it is stated, dislikes sea bathing. Well, .an occasional ablu tion will do her good, anyhow. In OatiTFounia unskilled labor is i.i demand at $2.50 a day. Times have changed somewhat since Kearnoy was at tho helm. Thr inventor of the toy pistol may not bo a common murderer, but theu he is accountable for a good many little hoys prematurely becoming angels. It is rare for the fruit market to he as scantily stocked as to quantity and so poorly pa to quality. Btit fruit of all kjjnde is scarce, and there is no deny- hi grit.' • • Georg* WmiiiAM Curtis is of the opinion that to raise a fund for Mrs. Garfield while her husband is alive and remains President would be eminently A temperance petition GOO feet long, and containing 60,000 signatures, wus preseuted to the Georgia Legislature tho other day. The members turned pale as death. Therh are now more British troops iu Ireland—86,000—than there aro men in tho United States army. In addition to these regulars, there is a strong force of armed constabulary. Lovers of genuine imported Havana oigars will bo pained to learn of a pros pective shortage in their favorite luxury. The tobacco crop of Connecticut will be almost a total failure. lie Mormon'Jicitenient issxflr obot- ing a hit in Western Coosa, Ala. New missionaries arc doily ox . converts to the polygamoui daily *dding their names to the brutaliz ing imbter-Joll. _ _ A * ’gator, weighing 300 pounds, was •caught in Pataula creek, Geol^hf,*tiie other day, which contained “a rock weighing scVefal pounds, a large soft- shell turtle and a heaver weighing fifty or sixty pounds. The beaver was whole except that one leg was missing.” The pastors of all the churches in Al bany, Georgia, without previous under standing, prayed for rain last Sunday, arid n writer in the News says hardly had their benedictions been pronounced when a little cloud gathered over the sweltering city, others gathered to it, and a refreshing, plentiful shower descended. A little girl named Malcoinh, living in the ncighlKirhnod of Doc Hill, Virginia, went out to the woods to play, accom panied by her dog, one day last week, when she suddenly came upon u num ber of wild turkeys. The dog gave chase, and, in the affright, a very large gobbler perched upon a fence. The lit tle heroine seized it from Inflow, dragged it to the ground and boro it home in triumph. The turkey weighed ul>out twenty pounds. In Walker county, Alabama, is. a nat ural bridge said to rival that of Vir ginia. It is in the sandstone called millstone grit, which underlies the cara formation. It spans about 120 feet anil its height is about seventy feet. A small bridge connects it with the bluff beyond The lines of stratification ot the sandjijQne give the structure the appearance of having been artificially built up with massive blocks. It is in the midst of a region of wild and romantic beauty, high escarpments of the same sandstone being seen standing out in the face of the hilltj around. Taa iAftdonpapen ai There are enough reputable citizens in every oamraunity, however, aud-?kiore than fQongh, who, if they obooHcvtolfike a littfftrouhle about election tiina/eoirid put to .end to ‘*bo8s’\ pnictiees apd purgj&Jl elections.:.F« Anstaupe, .tho f irimarvs aru usually taken possession of iy the lowest grade of corrupt politi cians, the henchmen of the’ “bosses," and clgnn hauded citizenp antl joteuuqnF taxpayers generally g^ve. tfimU (I j> beirli because of tneic^ouluess. There is no necessity thus to surrender primary or nominating coventiufis tothe-Wrds of prey. Combinations of citizens deter mined! upon clean business* ftpu t/ake p<M-. sc Bfffdn of these Bodies, as they are in duty.lmnnd to do, a id wnmel tfiora to be representative of the voters!. By desire of the late King of Prussia his heart was interred ,im a hewt^hfpen marble casket at tne toot bf his parent*’ Donn Piatt has been twioed caned, three times horsewhipped and twice shot at, outside of several smull affairs |in which ho was knocked down and left [or dead. Yes, be is a newspaper man. are advising their to emigrate to they get better pay and finally a*|krfto$niisband. Affortuqr husband uj jafrap for English girls. Falatin^ sett the richest village of its size in tne world. It lhas about 500 inhabitants, and it is said that pver thirty of these ore worth from $5,000,- 000 to $20,000,000, while six are said to be worth over $20,000,000. The Cincinnati Gazette openly and badly advises the female sex to hang a limb on either side of the bicycle and ride to health and glory. If the editor of tho Gazette wero not a deacon, we should feel shocked. Adulterated beer has so stirred up tho State Board of Health of New York that a ortisade is to he mado against it. The analyst of the Board intends to manufacture some ptfre beer as a stand ard for comparison. Says that exceedingly modest pa per, Harper'a liazar : “The bathing dresses worn by tho little hoys along the wharves aro very simple. They consist of a stone bruise on the heel.” Isn’t that just too awfully awful. The Daytou Journal does not believe iu supporting common butchers at the expense of tho Government, and in this connection, speaks of tho Apache In dians in tho following positive terms : “ There is nothing to ho dono with these wild boasts hut to exterminate them. If tho Mexicans who protect them do not do it, tho United States should. They aro wild beasts, and nothing else.” A Southern philosopher says that millions of pistols aro manufactured; that infantry in war do not uso them; that cavalry can not turn them; that hunters find • them of no servico, and they nro used only to mnko an infernal noise on tho. ith of July or to commit murder all tho year around. That is truth with a golden rim tacked onto it. Two Italians closed thoir candy store at Savannah, Georgia, paid tho rent three months in ndvauco, told tho owner that they wore going to Italy to got a stock of goods, and oautioned him to lot nobody enter the premises until they returned. Thoy lmd murdered a ped- dlor, taken his $2,000, and hidden his body in the store; hut their ingenious way of covering their flight prevented tho discovery until tho three months had elapsed. The Now York Home Journal in an article ‘on rich American laud-owneTS, says there is a group of seven estates in Islip which comprise in all nearly 13,000 acres. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has over 2,000 acres, Christopher Roberts has 1,400, George Lorillard has 1,000, General William Ludlow has 800, Fred erick Nelson has 450, and William Nicoll has 0j)00. Nenr Islip is a beauti ful little church built by William H. Vanderbilt. _ Mr.. Redpath’s letter from Dublin gives an interesting, if sorrowful, pic ture of tlio situation and condition of the Suspeots in the jail at Kilmainham, detained under tho provisions of a law which is effective only by tlio abrogation of tho holiest rights of humanity. In “free Britain ” tho law of might is of far more weight than the guarantees of the Magna Charto. “They cou’t put a man off a railroad train for not paying his fare," onoo said a tramp, “ but they do." The London Truth remarks that it may not, perhaps, ho known that a man wearing dark clothes is moro liable to infoqtion J/fra contagious fli^epscs than lto wllq'wears lighVc'oloml garments, lieaaaso particles winch emanate from dnPMvd or docaying-. bodies ore much —""™sr OWIN’ HOME TW DAt. My hustnew on tho }«ry’* dono-the qulhhUn’ is all •lirough- I'tp wntelnit Uio lawyers right uni loft, anil glren t •• urk ho long unto my chair, t thought f wouli crow In; Audit 1 .to ■»*. know myself, they'll get me there But now the court'* adjourned, for good, and I’ve I’m In™, thank til. Lord, I’m going Pro Bomeltow felt uneaiy like, elnco the flrst day I It is an awkward gamo to play the gentleman in And this 'ere Sunday imit of tnlnoon 8undny rightly Bill whcu’l wear the stufl' a week, it somehow galle and fret*. I'd rather wear my homeapun rig of pef»p*r salt and I’ll have U ofl In half a Jiff when 1 got home to-day. 1 linre no doubt my wife looked out, a* we'l * iny As well us any woman could—to *ce that things were Tor though Melinda, when I'm there, won’t set her foot outdoors She's V”ry caruful, when I'm gone, to tend to all tho But nothing prospers half so woll wbon I gooff to And 1 wi’lf put things Into shape, when I get homo wily u my h t came away, we had a little limit; i up when she I i kiss when I g For what l sold i And she was iiiw’a But then sSie's drst iM,hnw”f’racM to-day. My little boy—I'll gtre 'Sin loatre to match him, if It’s fun to see him strut about, and try to lien man; The games!, cheeriest, little chap you'll ever want And then they 'idiigh, because I think the child re- Ihe little rogue! he goes for me, like robbers for their prey; He’ll turn iny pocket* Inside out, when I get home to-dar. My little girl—I can't contrlrc how It should happen That (Jod should pick that swoet bouquet and fling it down to iis! My wife, she says that hatjdwnne face will some day And then I Uugit, because she thinks the child re* sonrbles her. iheMl meet me half wny down tho hill, and kiss me n upon the earth, a fellow from homo a week, and h, the day. i just fellow meets his folks, and hugs'. d be wright or wrong, or be It a me -I'm going home WiU Cartoon, in “Farm Ballad*.' THE CONDUCTOR’S STORY. AN KPINODK OP lUDWeiiL’S .RAH. I think it is Emerson who sn}-8; “When you pay your tiuket atul get into tho ear you have no guess what good company you shall find there. You lmy much that is not rendered in tho bill." I lmve found this remark eminently true on several occasions, particularly when my lifo-long friend Ruth hen oompauy. "* tlio most unconventional oj Ruth i xpoiwiL'.a IlfUi’ aud a* dork c6kt to thb I wonion. Slie trifi’cls as she fli 3, of. Pi* Avp miuntc8, anfl i thing else, with whole-souled •«[tiJiLAk.oae | ly, being in the rear car of tho long train, she preferred standing upon the ,Bger. I platform and drinking in at one draught * ' : —' 1 1 that nmgnifiecut vullcy through which wo seemed flying than by tantalizing sips, as ono has U> do ftom behind ’ fchmi * othori of tpbacdb , t Midi U will retain tho odci Jamb8 Parton says : “ There is no ^ork ih* the world whioh expends vitality _ , ■o fast ail writing for tho public. It is a ; narrow car window. Work which is uevor done. It aocom- I followed her. I alway " T * . ,, „ _ iU l I holding .on to tho narrow railing, a man upon Ins walks, goe. with , BO ® 0 , v | m tlike two lost comuts whirl. And, Rev. T. H. Tibbles, who has so long championed the cause of the Ponca In dians, needs offer no explanation why he was so zealous in their behalf. His mar riage to Bright Eyes, the accomplished and beautiful Indian girl, is exouse enough. Thr sign, No Dogs Admitted,” in the Cincinnati street cars has produced considerable oonfusion. Mon got up aq leave tho car without just thinking Whit th^y are doirig 'and only discover when it i^too late that the' thing is a dead give away. Rrhqrutiko a general thanksgiving over the recovery of tho President, Lieu tenant Governor Storey, of Texas, says if ‘a ttniteffcnll i* nitfe *roj& Ufe wflf issue a^ocjjinafeian to A*, whole States -regardless U the attitud^rt <^ot* ^.oiBobertB, 'I - A mono the, dispatches of .congratula tion received by Senatof, Lapham, was Jhefolloi|»Rg-|rqm^aJi\^L>r«- r x.- •. «• ofccAoW, JBtyM. Three cheers and congratnlations of the faqtily. , J. 7. Barnaiid, “ ‘ Me too.’ Jane Lapham Barnabd.” ' It ia proposed to Issue a neW species .of pQstol. mcney order, whereby smajl amounts maybe sent by mail as conven iently as in the days of paper fractional qurrenoy.. When Congress authorizes such; a step, Cite hleesiugn ct tlie iriiolo; couujr^r will be showered down upon it. itig through space. Hoon tho d< hiud us hanged, aud a gentl midsummer of life, with a face as classi cally beautiful ns Edwin Booth’s and r waist of Falstnflinn dimensions, joined us. Ho beamed on us almost literally. From tho dimple in.his fair, softehin to tho rin^f of brown, silky hair which lay upon his broad, smooth forehead, tho expression scintillated with intelligent good nature. Withal, there was such a retrospective background to tho sunny brightness that al ter a few coni mon- places Ruth, the during, honest, impti- dent creature, said, looking tip mean while into his foee with a smile so honest and kindly that ho would have been a Berserker not to have reflected it: “Sir, permit me to remark that you aro a physical incongruity." “Not so had as that, umdame, I hope. I am merely a conductor, ns by this time you have discovered, ami a pretty well balanced one, independent of avoirdupois" “But your thoughtful face, sir, that is what perplexes me. It should belong to a liody hut one-third tlio weight of yours,” suggested Ilutli, the wise disci- “tt appeal's to me," snhl Rutli, meas uring tho most precipitous sides of those lofty and mysterious hills, “that when a man aspires to touch the sky he would want a higher guerdon than mere gold, not, however, that I hold tho metal in contempt." “t hail, mndame, and that was tho whole matter. I was desperately in that was a solemn fact, expressed few words as possible—nnu I be lieve that she loved me, but the top of Mt. Hliosta was not more unattainable to mo than Jennie. Her father, an old Philadelphia druggist, had money, and I had none. He was as proud os Luci fer, and as ambitious for his daughter as he was proud. I felt that I could ‘move a mountain,’ if 1 could find a mountniu to move; so Jennie and I said good-bye one afternoon under an old oak. in Fair- mount Polk, aud in tho very depths of my heart I believed that she would ho true to me. It was not a se vere seven days’ ride in a palace enr from Now Yolk to Han Francisco in those dayp, and the tall, slender, hungry, Dcimilofls lad who tramped along lu re twenty-nine years ago, seeking his for tune like another Dick Whittington^ was a weary and homesick ono as well.' “By 'here,' which you have twice used, do you mean tills veritable Valley of tlio Hneraiuento?’’said Ruth. “The Very same. My objective point was a place now famous In the annals of that period, called 'Bidwell's Bur,’ «»n nccolint of a rich bar in tho Feather niver, full of golden sand, which wns discovered by General Indwell. The place was many miles from tile; Mw conutry was thinly settled; I did not know a soul (for even tramps wero scarfo in those early days), and so my cournfo and my legs gave out together, Pulling boots about 5 o’elodk (ho day, t hnt'ed my blistered feet cool evening breeze, and, a clump of young asleep, fioj * creeping info „ mojznuitas, foil ’toping that I would never nwnko ugnin this Ride of tho stars. I did, how- over, conscious that my toes wore being licked in n gentle fashion, and discovered that it was being done by a brown setter dog, about ns hungrv-looking nmljgeiicr- nlly dilapidated ns I was myself. “Where he came from t never knew, but, looking into his half-human eves, wo speedily entered into a sort of dumb coinpaet to trudge on together. T r that the poor fellow (I no I found could call him a brute) had a Bore knee, inflamed and bleeding. I tore a strip off from my last handkerchief to hind it up, and, iu place of the Good Samaritan’s gave him my last scrap ot cold It is strange, hut forlorn »s I in those days, I recall them with a was in those days. I recall them wi*u n tender pleasure almost unaccountable. If 1 had been raised n Brahmin I would have believed that some immortal spirit of unfailing cheerful’tots and nnondiug resources was imprisoned in tluil Jog's body. Did you . v«r rend the fairy le gend of the 'WhiM Hat.’ who, after she hail persuaded tl»e young Prince, her lover, t<» out off her head and tail and threw thorn in the Are. ly stood before him a wonupi, as at Fritz, for that which I called the dog, looked with Jei bro eyes. him to the theater, gets iiito bed with hlni and possesses liim in liis dreams. If he stoops to kiss tho baby, before ho has reached tho right angle a point oc curs to him, and he haugs in mid-air, with vacant face and mind distranglit.” Parton.ought to fully understand the subject matter. Ho is a prodigious writer, and bus spout a long life at news paper work. A Fiji Island newspaper is responsi ble for the extraordinary story that comes from tho Tino or Drummond Islands. This is to tho effcot that a Sandwich Islander wont ns a missionary to Taputcona, ono of the Tino Islands. He was so successful ns to prevail upon tho natives to givo up all their weapons and to live peaceful lives. Thoro were mauy backsliders, however, and after trying in vain to have these retaru to his fold, he ended by preaching a ernsade against them. Arming his own followers, he encouraged an attack upon tho apos tates and it is reported that nearly a i»lo of Lavuter. tbmiHftnd men, women and children wore 1 “My toco is all right" he replied, murdered Tho island whore all thin is "‘ r " kl "K L , ls " ml <; lun wlth “ n “‘ r mmuereu. ....... . . . oi marvelous self-eomplacenoy. “It said to have occurred is thickly populated, , Btoi)ped Rrmv i ng ton years ago, but it is and Sandwioh Island missionaries have here;" touching the region of his dia- been working among the people since ' phrngm with the tip of his forefinger, 1857 Tho roundabout way in which “I hat contentment and my good luck show themselves. Once I was ns thin as Peter Hchemmel'8 shadow^, and”—he paused, looking into Ruth’s clear, gray eyes as if ho would sound her soul’s depths—“I am strongly tempted to tell you my bit of a romance, for there is a long stretch ahead, and you look like one of the kind to enjoy 1 tymolv, of nature. Isn’t-it so?” Tho conductor had strdok the very key note of our needs. We were pining for a veritable California story, torn iu an un conventional way, outside of the well- read romances of Bret Harto aud The Argonaut. To bo told, too, under such peculiar circumstances would bo an ad ded spiqe, and thus besought him to im- inediatly yiold to temptation. “I am an old stager,” ho said, “at least as far back ns tho spring of 1850. With a blanket strapped upon my hack, fifty bents in my pants' pocket and the biggest stock of 1 tope and unused ener gy that ever made a loti’s heart as light as a balloon, I tepiqocd along hero in my search for the ‘gold diggings.’ My ambition was higher than those. buttes yonder by thousands of foot, and the top was to ho capped by *olid gold,” point ing ns ho spoke to tho tbreBSh^gilnr and isolated peaks we tfafejhstrtocn passing, kiiijwii tui the, .Marysville. Buttes, wIiowj uoigj^I'wjkyfl hshnincossiblo to the story reaches tho public givos it a fishy oharacter. A Dog Dying of a Broken Heart, Prof. Calderwood, of Edinburgh, tolls of a Presbyterian minister’s dog, which one Sunday killed some fowls while tho family were at church. On the minis ter’s return the dog was shown the havoc he had made, and then taken into the study, where the minister addressed him as follows, in a tone of greut solemnity, .looking at him at the same fitnc re- nroaclrfully : “ Dog, yon are a mfnts- tcr’s dog, and ought, therefore, to have been an example to other dogs. This is tho Sahliath day, and, therefore, on this, of all other days, your conduct should have boon most, correct. But you have killed the fowls and disgraced yourself!” The dog was theu jgnorainjotisly turned out of the room. ’The next morning he was found dead. A veterinary surgeon who was sent for declared that the dog had died of a broken heart. “What a rough fellow that Sniggins is!" petulantly exclaimed tho Hnpedaln girl after a struggle with the aforesaid SniggitiHut “Copeubugop." ly Hiuolhefpd.gie!” “And did ypp kp* ( him for his smother? Risked tl^p , jjA horisiu miss', naively. rose and went out. I soon heard him pawing and scratching and tearing tho earth aU*ut six feet from me, ns though lie were under sou tract to dig a tunnel to Chim hefon daylight. Thinking ho hnd foul il the lurrow of a wolf or fox, I called hi a off; lut ho was ns deaf as a rock to i iy voice. Seizing the cnndle, I hurried o the spot, around which lay a half bus el of gnv.-l which lie had loos ened, wl -il my eye caught the gleam of a dull, r4l streak that veined a piece at quartz about the size of an egg lying among tll> fresh earth. Would you be lieve it? That streak wns worth $50, for it was viitin gold. Nor was it the only one upontthat hillsirK Fritz had found a tody < thanks to the gopher >, and I thereby tud found a fortune. As soon »s possible L hnd tlio gold of that preCMUs stone wrought into a ring of my o'M designing—nil of it, at lEast, but the contents of ono Hunt corner, which, ii its native ronghnew, I had mounted as a brooch. Hooding these to Jennie. I—" ‘An ao| of great generosity, sir. I _uk glint thought jou d have preserv 'd snob u pi.’ce of mt o go«id fortune as a memorial and ato\e." “You Mitif’pnte mi madam. Tt. w«g as a n. inoviu tliat I n ut mv first bit of tfCfisitic but expected to get it oaok again Withiu two years, and the girl with it.” “And did yon?” “No. nor even received a line of nc- knowledgcoien* that my offer had been accepted. Nothing finds gold quicker than gold, when a man hits once got a fair siiaio ct it. and in two years 1 hod, iu various ways, Secured $20,000. In vesting it, ns I thought safely, I returned to Philadelphia in all the pride of a cou- qnoring hero. My stoiy ought to end here; to wind tip with the chime of wed ding bill* aud a 'beautiful Rachel’ as my toward for faithful serving; but I hnd scarcely arrived triton I heard, incident- that Juuni* had gone with tier ■ to Europe, nor left no rign that ally, futhei half roguish, half thoughtful, and to- gctlier wo resumed our journey. Nor would T have followed iu tlui w.ike.of tho young Prince, even hud T known the re sult would have boon si ini tar. for Fritz, the dog, was invaluable just us he was. All lonesoineiioss was gone now that lie rarely left my side, and. nit hough our shadows had grown less by tlio time wo reached the ‘bar,’ our immaterial entities were iu prime order tor everytliiing in tho shape of adventure. ‘Uuve never seen any gold dug.’ Then Til n >; at this late day spoil your first imprt ssi ns of a min er’s camp by describing ni no as I ap proached BidwelPs Hi , I may say. though, that one might lm o snp|»aSed an earthquake or toruad .had been there, tearing up tlio hundreds of thousands of cut lie feet that hud been n»v«d and re- moved by mortal hands iu their frantic and persistent search for grid. “The ‘liar’ was a world .a miniature. Almost every nationality v i>s there repre sented, and almost every nature of hu man kind but humanity. Armed with a pick, pan and shovel, I. I ke hundreds of others, began to dig iti l utirrow and wash dirt. But my lal-p’ and its results would not balance, for a* rneliow my lit tle ieathor bag of pol dust got no heuvier, toil as I would Wages being good, I stopped digging and hired my self ns a camp-scullion. I did every kind of jobbing within the range of a miner’s wants. Washing dirty flannel shirts and cottons overalls, patching leather trou sers and cooking flapjacks is not tlio most dignified and flower-strewn path to fortune, you must kiimv; aud to a hoy whose ideas of chivalry, independence and deeds of knightly valor were purely and intensely ByroiMC. such a fate you must acknowledge, was a sort of poetic injustice. My aim, t! oaflh, was to oarn enough money wiih which to buy a cer tain claim of wlii<h 1 knew, and that I hnd, in advance, IsMed 'Bonanza.’ “I might have sm needed, but I was prostrated by a malarial fever, and for days and weeks lay tmoaJietfouB at tho tender mercies of a few »o«gh Welsh minors with human hearts. My little hoard of money and pjjr energy molted away together like spring snow. But f< Fritz Fa have (te a dMhppuiutmeut alone. He had aoopted the ‘Never say die’ mottof —*\ m 4 uftse rend in his glorious eyes the sfa}(e^, ‘You great coward! At him a rain!’ ka a tender and apprtM’iatiVDBytii! uttiy which the gift of speech could not have made more OHsur- iug. My purses had pitched mo a tout on the south' side of a low Iitll, and hnd loft me to get well at my own leisure. Mv ‘iKittom dollar’ hnd dwindled to tlio value of a dime, ray legs to thickness of apnir of tofign (for all appetite wns gone,) and.one evening hop.i failed inn Believiqg I was going to die, 1 resolved to do the fair thing by Jennie, apprise her of the event and advise her to forget me. By the flickering light of n hit of tallow caudle I began the letter, the first I. hod written for mouths. I thought aloud and wrote. Fritz lay hesiqe tne, his nose wedged between his paws, but I know by the twitch of his ears that ho understood every word I was writ itig. “I had reached the climax of renun ciation and wretchedness-- of, rather, my expression of it—when ho suddenly for the sake of the old friend who L gone where I hope one day to meet human of him. I .wish you oonld sWL off a bit and see my wife. Queer, isn tril that I should have introduced this bit> of private liistory upon you ? But the truth is—. Yes—coming! I’ll be with you again; ladies.” A hrnkeman beckoned him inside, and we had seen the last of our handsome conductor. Tho evening shadows had begun to lengthen. Tlie setting snn lmd turned the vast plain of tho ftaemmento Valley into a “field of tho cloth of gold,” ana the dir- tant peaks of the Sierras, clad in eternal snows, but now rose-tinted and glowing, seemed to cleave tho azure above them as with a wedge of burnished silver. It wns starlight when we reached the end of our car-rido and wero registered for tho night. “Tho conductor’s story was a pleasant little episode, Ruth, wasn’t it ? Do you believo it all happened ?” I asked, as I leaned from my pillow to hor’s to leave a good-night kiss on her round cheek. “I like Fritz," wns the sleepy answer. “There's an instinct abont some dogs that the half of mankind cau neither appreciate nor maintain. I trust a man whom a good dog loves. ” HIM OHS OF Tlie DAY. Bad spectacles—Broken glasses. Men who aro born equal—twins. Opbrino a boilr-tokiug off tho tea kettle lid. A Civil engineer—One who gives a fi*amp ;t free ride in a caboose. Remaking of avarice and generosity, b rife bee as stingy ns tho wasp?—Stcu- bt nuitlc Jlrratil. here Statesman. The clown who got caught in a heavy, rain without on umbrella, was a damp fool, wasn’t he?—Stucbrnville Herald. It has been established at lost that the only disease to which you may not • second time be liable, is the one that kills first. Teacher to small boy—“What does 1—y about tin 1 — 3 who livo in Hmall boy"—Pull down nembred “You certainly did not let that fact dampen t le ardor of your pursuit?” queried Rath; “you followed her, of course.'’ “I did ;iG such thing, mudnm. I re turned to Ban fVnncisco, and plunged into tlie excitement pf gold hunting with a recklessii -ass that a woman can not understand Hix months after and I lost every dollar, hut by that time I had learned that experience is worth nothing os solid capital until it has been dearly bought. | whistled my rhyme: “Los* hi I gain, pleasure and p»n, iJatani' tho neo-saw of life, iu the sotiiitive ears of my faithful Fritz, hugged Its brown head dote to mv shoulder—Hlou’t lmtgh, that dig was*my friend— up my sleeves. *ud agnin went to work with a vigor tl-ft I know mount certuiti sneeess if the Vein belli out. It did, and five veins afterward I had a bank account which ran largely into t!u> tlio lMnnds. I : iiVested it iu land. Ry tUut time I WM a bachpltmof thirty. Hard kuocks aud mv ope big diRUl'pointnnnt lmd shulcra ill flto romance out ot mo, and wh'in | again went East it was on business ctinectod with the corstmotion of tHiis rm.road.” “Aud yot have quite outlived your boyish fancy, as heart liogan ttt lose its youth?” sail! Ruth, with the tyast bit of cynicism ill ^er tone. ‘“I think .Fritz know,” said tho con ductor quietly. “I hnd become almost misautliropd for liis sake. If J loft him to go into Sipioty -such as wc htul—for a few hours, 'ic cither whined like a sick child or kcjt up such an increasing harking and Imying that to save him be ing shot as a inisance I went to no jilneo where it was impossible for him to ac company mo. 'l lie old follow went with me oven to New York, and on the journey I often caught myself cogitating how he— born in a wilderness of wild mustard, and as fond If camp-life ns an Indian— would take to the constraint oi an old city Well, 1 had not been in New York a week before there was a strong tugging at mv heart t« ran down to Philadelphia. Not that it vas homo for me, for mv parents had died before L first left it. I called the dfldro 'the charm Of associa- tion?* and it li d me. . . “There, ns t went down ArOh street, my poor dog fost his wits and the solior dignity of Ins maturity. He had a re markably fine scent. I nlwi^vs know that; but no leoner had wo tufiied into that particular street than, with nose close to tho drouml and rigid tail, he ran zig-zag to anu fro, as though he was on the trail of n^ erratic fox. I called him, but ho gave kobeed. People got out of his way. Tuo gamins shouted, and, with a wild, Vhrill bark, ho suddenly bounded intojtl’O door-way of a large dry-goods stive. I bounded after him iu tiinc to soiihim rush up to a loily in black, who wks examining some gloves, aud danood alound her with signs of tlio most oxtravaoant jov. There are tones that live without tho aid of photographs. ‘Roy! Roy! bpar old Roy, wasalj. she said, but I’d nave sworn tlio voieo was Jonnio’s if I hid heard it ou tho summit of Mount Rhine. A white hand was laid njion his head and my ring was on tlie hand.” He paused. “Yours? Sir, T hope you did not claim it,” sail the practical oolloou- tor. “I did, and the hand wlfieh wore it, just as I originally intended.’’ Nor did Alexander, in liis hours of conquest, over smile ii more sordid approval of himrtolf than our conductor at this stage of tho S “But the conduct of Fritz, and tho lady’s silouoe, and all the quoer concom itants which exist only in lictiou—h»Fl do you roconci'e tticrn mth »n "W r true; tale?” said Rutli, tho truth loving. “Fritz was Roy, the Rov who had often been caressed by.teniiinbefore his vouug master, Jennie’s oousim got tho ^(,1,1 fever, when T did. %anq eamo td California, nevur to return. J«nnic kul written, but; h*r..lqttora m hid never riaehedr . t he dog camdflto “m, *w! dit$l, is one moong thtet*sirfA«a ,of ray life which T will disentangle in the here- ftfb>r. ' • • J “And (<• Jagr whoj»(is she V TT«‘ stood, waiting for tho answer. the proverb s glass houses ?' f the blinds.” “Do you drink brandy?” “No, I do not drink brandy, but my brother Andy, who is guite a dandy, drinks brandy, mixed with rock caudy.”—Steubenville Herald. She was sweet sixteon when she re ceived a box of caramels from her dear Claude Augustus, and she was sweet sickteen when she turned her tired oyes upon ita emptiness. Wab history: “Wlmt is the greatest charge ou record?’’ asked tlio professor of history. And tho absent-minded student answered: “Seventeen dollars for lvick hire for self and girl for tv ^ hoofs. ” J ThunK is a good deal of gush over % drifer on one ut the street care In Kan sas'City, who was formerly , a lawver. Tips is all wrong. If the nvyi is ti/fng to/do right now, why bring up his past lif) against him ? “IjViLL the coming man use both mnds?” is a question asked by a scien tific exchange. Wo do not see how the fuming man can use both bauds uulcss the coming woman drives the horse.— peck's Hun. “How como you to fail in your ex amination?” asked tho tutor. “I thought I crammed you thoroughly.” “Well, you sec,” replied tho student, “the fact was you crammed nre so tight I couldn’t got it out.—Yale College News. “Do you know, Mr. Smith,” asked Mrs. S., in a reproving way, “that that cigarette is hurting yon; that it is your enemy ?” $K*¥s" replied Smith, oalrnly ejecting a flcccv cloud; “yes, I know it. and I’m trying to smoke the rascal out.” t Were wouicu's looks. And folly's ull (hey (aught n ad thor n'd 1.1 Their j.n tty biudlnga caught n —Slnibinx Now look at ine umge they wrought me. -Drtioit "Chaff. And yoi —SlmbinvilU BetaId. Bllm o thoy'Te brought me. -Hund.v Capital. A boy was eating a wn v at a big cocoannt that had been cracked open with a brick bat, when a pedestrian felt it his duty to halt and remark: “Boy, don’t you know that too much of that stuff may givo you tho colic?” “1 guess so," was the‘reply. “Then why do you oat it7" “Well, if my chum, who lives next door, can stand the small pox for six weeks, I guess I can put up with the colic for three or four hours!” was the reply as he hit off another big hunk. • 1 heard two damsels collaborating fc produce a piece of poetry to a bunch of dandeloins. With their eyes intent upon tho source of inspiration they achieved two verses: •• Dandelion of g»Mcn hue, What a lot there urunl von." J - Wic »Wk jtolrr. A bewino machine agent in Litchfield proudly flings the following to tho Domestics For Halo and Repaired ITere. —Dunbarf/ WQW9, Emperor of llmril. The present Empt ror of Brazil, Pedro II., is descended fr.-m the royal lino of Portugal. iPYhun tlio French invaded that country in 1807, the royal family fled to Brazil, which wTu» raised to the. rank of a kingdom in 1815. .-ater diffi culties with Portugal, th* i father of tho reigning sovereign took tuo part Bra zil, and was proclaim d pforactor and perpetual defender o ' iMit' • Wmritry, which wus declared ind ip udwoljn 1822, and he was proclaim <1 constitutional Emperor and crowns. 1 JTti the-death of his father, Dorn Peril' * sWiffted the throne of Brazil in of his. int mt daughter, and returned t<» Portngal assn mo the ofilco of h*Vig. ingtho residence of Dom .Pedro I. ^n Brazil that Item Pidto 11., thepri$ent Emperor, was h orn , winch event ocourrc 1 December 2, 1825. He wu4 Orowne July 18, 1841, and ^WAK Married “Sept. * 4843, to Prince** .(Jhriftina . daugter of Francis I., Kingrn tho Tv Sicilies. Their ode : ’ surviving ■' ctiilu. Princess . Iaabellij,, m .horn | July, 29, 1840, and v as married in lbo4 to Pnnpe Louis of Orleans, (fomte 1 <d’Eu, eldest aon oi tlie D\ic »W‘ Nemours, of the ex royal house of Botirbon-Orleartfc. 1 The Empire of Brazil has greatly improved uudur Tjfdo U., slavery has been abol ished, immigration invited, railways built, and the finances aud other depart ments of tlm government put ou a firmer basis. ThirBniperpr traveled in Europe for some tiiiieduring J87l;and 1872, and not long since visited t ho United State*, where ho Wks Vferv’ eordihlly raiteivefl. , ■ u ' -.Si flip. fsOfl. :-i .1:09AM i aHj il V! Evxm, tR9l possibly re*. . wi‘,Ui nsne Ipeito: aU-'thfc&ttfo? phoation. ‘ ^ “ , iIj;1‘H'i|H(H M . v . >... !.toi«i oldfiujantK'. ..
