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GENEBiu. DIRECTORY.
Superini- Court meets 3d Monday in
May and 2d Monday in November.
Hon. James R Brown, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Tliomas F. Greer, Judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each month
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
in each month.
TOWN COUNCIL.
J. P. Perry, lutendent.
M. McKinney, x. H. Tabor, 1
J. Hunnicutt, J.R. Johnson, f tjom ’
W. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Co*'t,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
•J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G, W. Gates, Tax Collector,
•Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G. W. Rice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
The County Board of Education meets
at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
justices’ couets. •
Esoth Dist.. G. M., Ellijay. Ist Thurs
day, A. J. Dooley, J. P., G. H. Randell,
.N. P.
864th Dist. G. M., Tickaneteby, Ist
Saturday, J. C, Anderson, J. P., J, vv.
Parker, N. P.
907th Dist. G. M., Board town, 4th
"Saturday, J S. Smith, J. F., W. E
Chatocey, N. P.
•982d Dist. G. M , Cartecay, 4th Sat-
S. D. Allen, L. M. Simmons, N.
958th G, M., Mountaintown, 4th Sat
urday, J. M. Painter, J. P., J. W. Wiih
erow, N. P.
1009th Dist. G. M., Tails Creek, 3rd
Saturday, Cicero M. Tatum, J. P./thos.
Ratcliff, N. P.
1035th Disc. G. M., Teacher, Ist Sat
urday. Joseph Watkins, J. P., Jos. P.
Ellis, N. P.
1091.jt Dist. G, M., Ball Ground. 2d
Sutiirdiy. A-. Al. J. P., JVb.
P. Evans, N. P.
1135th Dist, G. M., Town Creek, 2d
Saturday, E. Russell, J. P., John T.
Keeter, N. P.
1136t:1i Dist. G. M., Cherry Tog, Ist
Saturday, John H.Whitner, J, P., J. M.
Wavd, N. P.
1274th Dist. G. M., Ridgeaw.iy, 2d
'Saturday John M. Quarles, J. P„ W.
iv. 0. Moore, N. P.
13G2d Dist. G. M., Coosawattee, 3d
Saturday, M. C. Blankenship, J. P., A.
J. Hensley, N. P,
13415 t Dist. G. M., Diamond 2d Sat
urday, W, D. Sparks, J. P„ Jesse Hold
en, N. P.
1355th Dist., G. M,, Alto, 2d Satur
day, Maxwell Chastain, J. P., B. H. An
derson, N. P.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.—
Every 4th 8 unday and Saturday before,
by Rev. C. M. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. N. L Osborn.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever
-I<t Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. R
H. Robb.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Oak Bowery Lodge, No, 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday ia each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
I. B. Greer, S. W.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
R. Z. Roberts, Treas,
T. W. Craigo, Sec.
W. W. Roberts, Tyler,
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
:l. M. Bramlett, J. D.
J. W. HENLEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
JASPER.GEORGIA
Will practice in the Superior Court of the Blue
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ELLIJAY, GA.
E. IE COLEMAN, Manager.
THOS. F. QUEER, Attorney.
IL M. Sessions. E. W. Coleman.
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EM.IJAY, GA.
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THE ELLIJAY COURIER
THE xSTEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Paints.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE sTATKsC
A great chess match for the world’s chain- i
piouship and a purse of #4,000 is in progress I
at New York between W. H. Kuketort, of i
Europe, and W, Stein it*, of America, the
best two players living.
The steamship Hylton Castle, bound from
New York for Rouen, Fiance, with a cargo
of grain, foundered off the Long Island coast
during the recent heavy storm. All on board
.wore rescued after suffering greatly in small
boats.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dubois (colored) died a
few days since in Newburg, N. Y., at the ad
vanced age of 110 years. She was once a
slave in Ulster count}-, N. Y., and was eman
cipated in 1847.
Firk totally destroyed a five-story granite
block in Boston, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO in
flour and canned goods.
The New Jersey legislature is in session,
both houses having a Republican majority.
A cave-in which occurred A few days ago
at a mine near Rod Lyon. Penn., buried a
number of miners. Three dead bodies were
recovered soon after the accident.
The four Newark (N. J.) dog-bitten chil
dren who were sent to Paris at public expense
for treatment by M. Pasteur, the hydropho
bia expert, have returned home in Apparent
good health.
The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Mabel Dillaway has been given up for lost
There were fifteen souls on board.
SO IITH AND WEST.
The steamer Alicia A. Washburn, fcom
Mobile for Now York with cotton, has been
burned at sea, the captain and crew escaping
in boats.
Governor Foraker's inauguration as gov
ernor of Ohio, at Columbus, comprised a
civic procession to the State house and the
deliverance of the inaugural in the rotunda of
the capitol.
Skating has been indulged in upon the
ponds of Florida, a scene never before wit
nessed. The loss to the State’s orange crop
during the recent freezing weather is esti
mated at $1,000,000. The loss to the vegeta
ble crop is immense, some men having sixty
and a hundred acres kiUed.
The Republican majority in the Ohio lower
legislature unseated nine Democrats from
Cn. nnati on the charge of fraud in their
elec: in, and substituted nine Republicans.
The >use was in a continual uproar during
the p 1 ceedings.
Alo ss of $230,000 was incurred by the
burning down of Frederick C. Vehmeyer’s
flour warehouse, Chicago. Four firemen
were injured.
A fire at Burlington, lowa, destroyed the
residence of Charles Buettner, a German nat
uralist, who had the finest collection of birds,
insects and animals west of New York and
the Smithsonian Institute. The collection
burned included 60,000 insects.
Colonel Edmund Richardson, the most
extensive cotton planter in the world, died
suddenly a few days since in Jackson, Miss.,
aged sixty-eight years. The fortune left by
him is estiinated at. bvtweo*’ *5 OOOJHtn and)
#6,000,000. 'Colonel Richardson' had 17,000’
acres of cotton under cultivation, and his
average harvest was 12,000 or 13,000 bales.
Cattle perished by the thousand during
the severe weather in the Southwest and far
West.
Wenzel Lapour, a prisoner in the counj
ty jail at Colfax, Neb., killed his jailer,
sheriff Degman, who had held office only flvo
days. Lapour was taken from jail by
masked men and hanged.
A boiler in the basement of a Catholic
church at Indianapolis exploded, destroying
the edifice, one of the largest and finest in the
city, killing the engineer and a little girl, and
causing a pecuniary loss of $65,000.
A letter has been published charging
members of the last Ohio legislature with
taking bribes to vote for the election of
Henry B. Payne to the United States Senate,
and a joint committee of investigation has
been appointed by the present legislature.
Several members so charged have brought
suit for libel against a prominent Cincinnati
paper.
An old farmer in Arkansas captured six
convicts who had broken jail, and single
handed marched them in Indian file, with
himself and gun bringing up the rear, to prison.
Investigations made by the Chicago
police are said to show a plot of Socialists to
blow up public buildings with dynamite when
“the great revolution” begins.
A reception (was given to Senator-elect
Sherman by the Ohio legislature at Columbus
and he made an address from the Speaker’s
chair in the House, after which he was ten
dered a public reception, presided over by
Governor Foraker, in the Senate chamber.
WASIIINOTON.
About 4,000 bills have already been intro
duced in the House.
In executive session of the Senate, Messrs.
Eaton, Edgerton and Trenholm were con
firmed as civil service commissioners, the
latter two without opposition, twelve Senators
voting against Mr. Eaton. The Senate also
confirmed the nomination of Benj. F. Jonas
to be collector of customs at New Orleans.
The Senate on the 12th confirmed a large
number of presidential postmasters and the
following: George A. Jenks, assistant secre
tary of interior ;Henry L. Muldrow, first as
sistant secretary of interior; Wm. E. Mc-
Lean, first deputy commissioner of pensions;
Jos. Bartlett, second deputy commissioner
of pensions; Robert B. Vance, assistant com
missioner of patents; James W. Whelpley, oi
New York, assistant treasurer of the United
States; Wm. E. Smith, of New York, assis
tant secretary of treasury; Conrad N. Jor
dan, of New Jersey, treasurer of the United
States, and others.
The expenses of the funeral of General
Grant, which were assumed by the govern
ment, have not yet been paid. They amount
only to $14,158.75. although newspaper re
po rtshavp frequently estimated them as high
as $50,000. The money was advanced by
Stephen Merritt, a New York undertaker
who had charge of the obsequies.
Land Commissioner Sparks refuses to
recognize the claim of the Northern Pacific
railroad to a $25,000,000 land grant between
Portland, Ore., and Puget sound.
John Sherman has been re-elected to the
United States Senate in joint session of the
Ohio legislature, receiving eighty-four votes
to sixty-two for Allen G. Thurman.
Fifteen vessels were wrecked within the
scope of the operations of the Life-Saving
service during the recent heavy storms. The
crews of fourteen of them were rescued, while
that of only one was lost.
President Cleveland, on the 14th, gave
his first State dinner in honor of the cabinet.
Secretary Lamak has decided against
the validity of the Bell telephone patent of
March 7, 18,6. The case has excited great
attention among telephone companies.
foreign,
A hoarding house at Gra veilhunit, Can
ada, caught Ore during the night, and veo
ti-eii men had a narrow eacape from death, all
U-lut more or less burned and compelled to
(tee ill a HMIIIi-lludc t lie, h ilh til,, tlieflllollle
ter t went}’ degrees lielow zero
“ .A. Map of Busy Life—lts ITluotuntiona and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4,1886.
There is an outcry against cats in Lon- j
don, a hoy having died from rabies caused
by a tabby's bite.
Germany has seized the Samoan islands in
the Pacific ocean. The American and British
consuls protested against the seizure
The British parliament is again in session.
Gladstone and Bradlaugh were loudly cheered
at the opening.
A large part of Montreal has been inun
dated, entailing terrible suffering on poor
people, whose houses in many instances are
masses of ice. The thermometer was twenty
six degrees below zero.
Farmers in Wales are demanding a per
manent reduction of twenty-five per cent in
rents, fixity or tenure and compensation for
making improvements on their holdings.
PERSONATMMrnON. j
Prince Bismarck's gross annual income ia i
a trifle short of SIOO,OOO.
Sam Jones, the Southern revivalist, has !
saved money enotlght to biiy a farm.
Mr. Gladstone’s personal mail pouehcon
tains about 3,000 letters every month.
General Beauregard is one of the most
active members of the New Orleans Crema-
tion society.
General Berdan, the famous sharp
shooter, will before long return to this country
for an extended visit
Senator Stanford has bought Aaggie
Sarah, a famous Holstein cow, with a record
of 16,933 pounds of milk in one year.
Under the influence of big dinners, idle
ness and high life generally, Lieutenant
Greely, the explorer, is becoming corpulent
D. A. Clark, of Montana, went to the cat
tle range in 1864 with about twenty-five
cents, and he now has an income of $2,000 a
day.
John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the
■Oneidß community, is .very ill at his home
near Niagara Falls, and is.not expected to re
cover.
It is noticeable that the queen, after re
turning to Windsor from Scotland or else'
where, always pays a visit to ex-Empress
Eugenie.
The hobbies of De Lessepsare children and
eanals, but he doesn’t love them in equal pro
portion. He has twelve children and only
two canals.
It is probable that Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s
offer of $250,000 for a public library in Pitta
bur will be accepted and the terms complied
with by that city.
Thomas P. O’Connot, M. P. for Liverpool
and Mr. Parnell's most trusted lieutenant, was
at one time a book reader for the Harpers’
publishing house, New York.
Minister S. B. Cox announces that he has
begun an historical work on the Ottoman in
vasion of Europe.- He expects to obtain full
access to all the Turkish archives and li
braries.
M. Grevy says that he thinks ho shall
.ive out his new presidential term of 6even
years, and that he has no doubt the sunshine
of tranquillity will overspread France in
1893 as now.
It is announced that Mr. Barnum has pur
chased "Alice, the wife of the deceased ele- ,
phmt Jumbo.” Alice : nearly as big as her I
ddfuncrspotisp, an is jtfvffnteWfchw j
London Zoo.
Senator Beck is as well posted on horses j
and their racing records os any man in Ken- fl
tucky. There is nothing he likes so much ns a !|
good horse race, and this is the only thing
that will take him away from the Senate dur- ;
ing the session.
“Diamond Joe” Reynolds is one of the
millionaire curiosities of Chicago. He in
variably wears a plain gray suit without an
overcoat, a hat several seasons behind, pru
nella gaiters that have been out of style for
years, and always has in his shirt front a
first-water diamond as large as a filbert and as
brightr as a dewdrop. He owns more grain
elevators than any man in the country ar.d '
ships more grain than any two men on the "
Chicago board of trade.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Ohio’s public schools cost $10,093,938 last
year.
Hothouse strawberries are selling in New
York at $4 per box.
The Missouri Cremation society has 400'
members, twenty-five of whom are women.
New Year’s Day four years hence will
begin the year 1889 with a total eclipse of the ‘
sun.
There are 594 pupils at the Indian school
at Carlisle, Penn., representing thirty-six
tribes.
At least four incorporated towns in Colo
rado are at an altitude of over 9,000 feet above
the sen.
A widower and widow, recently married
in Niles, Mich., start out with twenty-five
children.
Mr. Thomas, ex-minister to Sweden, is
turning loose in northern Maine 10,000.
Swedish emigrants.
Tutors of Harvard receive salaries of
from sßoo to $1,200 a y&ar, while the trainer
in athletics gets #2,000.
Danbury, Conn., makes one-fourth of all
the hats worn in the United States. It turns
out hourly, on an average, 1,343 hats.
Ole Oleson, Jr., is the only native bon*
Dakotian of constitutional age belonging t 0.,,
the present legislature of that Territory.
A German paper estimates that the out
lay for armies and navies to maintain the
peace of Europe is 7,500,000,000 marks an
nually.
The California quail is successfully domes
ticated upon several English estates, but our
Eastern variety resists all attempts at acclima
tion in Britain.
According to G. A. Sala, workingmen in
Australia earn eight shillings a day of eight
hours, and have meat to eat three times a day
—if they want it.
The total receipts of the New York post
office last year were $4,344,345.96, the total
expenditures $1,548,866.47, giving a net reve
nue of $2,795,479.49.
Over $6,000 worth of feathers have been
sold from the twenty-one grown ostriches at
the Anaheim ostrich farm, Los Angelos, Cal.,
during the past 6even months.
A large hospital has been opened at Hang
Chow, in China, by the Edinburg Medical
Missionary society. One large ward is to he
devoted to opium patients; it was filled on
the first day.
California lias been having a remarkable
rainy season, though it does not compare with
that of 1849. In November over eleven
in nes of water fell, half the total rainfallfor
the wet season, winch in California lasts six
moil hs.
.n Chicago street corner lot that was
bought thirty years ago tor less than nine
thousand dollars has just been leased for
nin ty-nm<; years at an annual rental of $35,-
***.’•. A ton-story budding, to cost a round
million, wili tie erected u|joii it.
Massachusetts registered over 6,000 in
>ane |iersons in her asylumn and hospital*
during 1885, an m ,v, ~f Jiet over the
preu .us ymr. I'U annual isist to the State
<•1 tills lor In oi renej i-nneiiii not
I iekoiniig Uw#;.M,Wni mi.-i’i -ton Urn value
1 Of huiitlWK, cte.
THE METEOR
A flash—* gleam—a line of light
> Drawn through the lonely sky,
A glow of light—a hurrying flight—
The meteor hath gone by;
Unmoved, in silence, broods the night
Save that the soft winds sigh.
No sign—no trace—the veiled intent
No whispering voice reveals.
To what far goal that flight was bent
The truckles heaven conceals.
Bat to the conscious pondering heat
A That blaze speaks from afar,
nought gently leads the soul apart
Communing of that star;
Thai flies vain life's deceiving art
By which we dream we are.
-ft. B. Wilson, in the Times-Democrat
KISS CAREW.
,*
She was so unobstrusire, so easy and
that sho would have been unno
ticed if hature had not illustrated tbo
law of compensation in a manner so pro
nounced that everybody saw at a glance
the thing to be compensated. If ever
nature and sound home-training; if ever
biood and brains combined to fashion
andrefineawoman.itwasMissCarew. No
ono could look a second time in her won
derful eyes without seeing the woman’s
soul shining through them. Most peo
ple did not care to look the second time.
The coarse-grained and unsympathetic
saw only the deformity; the selfish side
of the world looked no further. If they
remarked Miss Carew at all, it was to
wonder in the stupid fashion of intensely
vulgar people if it was not very annoy
ing to nave a hunchback in one’s set
Miss Carew, a head shorter in inches
than the average woman, was so far
above average women in mental stature
that they could not have reached the
crown of her head though they made
pyramids ten figures high.
When Miss Carew, during a lull in the
conversation expressed an opinion
conflicting with the sentiments smooth
ly flowing in one current—that on which
Laurence Springer lazily floated in his
grand, all-sufficient way, the ladieß 1
stared at her. Mr. Springer was bo
trayed into something like energy. He
quickly recovered himself in time; in
stead of asking Miss Carew if she was in
when he turned his head, it was to re
mark in the manner of a weary man:
‘Of course, exception proves the rule.
Tf nobody objected to what appears to
’■/ft the universal verdict, we might have
mason to think our reasoning at fault.”
wsvyvU, pfllitiveHf smjr word
Tne superb creature utterecFas ne stroked
bis handsome beard and very slowly re- ;
tired. He did not even glance at Miss
Carew, whose objection promptly illua- j
trated, apparently to h s entire satisfac
tion, the force of his logic. If Mr.
Springer was not logical, he erred in
selecting a profession. A man who
could be tripped up—laid on tlio broad
of his back figuratively speaking, by a
woman with one brief sentence, after he
had talked half an hour, was not the
man to awe, influence or convince a
jury.
The conversation was very tame after
that. And so many were charmed with
the easy, decisive manner in which the 1
young lawyer led it. It was a weighty sub- .
jectairily,dolicatoly,l might addfastidi- ;
ously handled by Laurence Springer,
voted the handsomest man on the
aground. Estimating the Presidents of
the great republic. Simple words these,
and very harmless to look at. A
moment’s consideration will convince
the readci that unless brains are balanced
against them clevery, the task is one
tnat speedily reveals their absence.
No matter what Miss Carew said. If
it was not original, it must have been
new to the little knot gathered about
the young lawyer. The majority of the
ladies marveled at Miss Cnrew’s “odd
ideas.” They seemed to regard her as one
who harbored “odd” ideas. Her views
of life; her estimate of generations past
and present gave some of her auditors
an odd sensation. My room-mate, Mias
Playford, actually shivered, as she put
out her hand nervously on mine upon
rising.
“Miss , did you ever hear any one
talk as Miss Carew does? I wonder if
all deformed people have odd ideas;
I replied carelessly, that I should not
wonder if they had, and abruptly
changed the subject.
That very evening some of the strong
minded sex discovered something to talk
about in an article published in a lead- !
ing magaziue. The would-be-clever
men with opportunities within easy reach
were interested. The men who were
regretfully relinquishing places in life
requiring energy and endurance were
much more interested in the article.
Indeed, the interest manifested by these
was communicated to those who were
waiting for their shoes, and these last
communicated it to the very young in
the sense of inexperience. The maga
zine article enabled people to air their
history; it also revived recollections of
old families, and it placed some of the
old families in anew and whimsical
light. The article was widely discussed,
and much curiosity was excited concern
ing the author.
The next evening a hop, a very lan
guid affair, was in progress when I
seated myself beside Miss Carew. The
elders scarcely looked in. Beardless
girls and boys occupied the floor. Be
tween the waves of sound, I caught
clearly and distinctly these words:
“1 marvel that she does not withdraw.
On the contrary Miss Carew seems to
enjoy look ing on more than any one elae. ”
I looked at Miss Carew. There was
nothing in her expression indicating
wounded sensibilities.
She was looking at the dancers with a
smiling face; with eyes as free from dis
turbance ns the placid water* lying in
the broad moonlight.
“If it wasn't for tie broken back the
would be a fine looking woman. I never 1
can look on a woman with crutches, or ■
a hunchback.”
I looked at Miss Carew agaiu. Her
face was Illuminated with a smile. Some
callow youth blundered on the floor,
creating diversion. There was a ripple
of laughter, in which Miss Carew joined.
She was cither fortified by rare experi
ience, or rich in a philosophy that took
no note of things that constitute the
world in most women's eyes.
An hour later MF. Springer sauntered
past in all the glory of six feet, high
health, a superior figure and easy car
riage. He turned upon seeing us, in
clined his e’egant head, and appropriat
ed a vacant aeat as a matter of course.
The usual order of events in this hum
drum, matter of-fact world would have
cast upon me the burden of conversa
tion, or made me second, at least. I was
neither first nor second. In short, I was
nowhere. Somehow, from the first Miss
Carew glided into the talk, and alto
gether away from me. I seemed to be a
sort of fence, from either side of which
j good natured raillery shot its darts.
Then reasons were submitted for my si
lent indorsement, and—it had to come
sooner or later—finally I was freighted
with sentiment which, however, 1 was
relieved of the trouble of accounting
for or transferring. Mr. Springer for
once talked like a responsible human
being. When Miss Carew was called
away by her cousin, the belle of P ,
whose arm she clasped, Mr. Springer
startled mo by the energy with which he
said:
“What a pity! She talks charming
ly.”
The next day, tho sober second
thoughts on the magazino article were
exchanged. There was considerable
speculation concerning the author. The
initials fitted half a dozen public men;
the ideas, however, were not in keeping
with the actions of any one named. Every
body was of of one mind on the point—
that the entire subject was handled in a
masterly manner.
Just when speculation was at its
height, a little group formed at the main
entrance of tho hotel one evening, in
which the superb Laurence Springer and
1 Miss Carew were the conspicuous figures;
he by sheer force of physical beauty;
she because she looked like a child sit- j
i ting beside other women. Mr. Springer
was in one of bis grand moods. He re
viewed the reviewer to his own satisfac
tion. It was a complimentary perform
ance in the fullest sense, composed
chiefly of purely conventional terms, and
irreproachable views, whereas, the article
discussed drew parallels in the lives of ;
the Presidents that excited hostility, i
Questions that were met boldly anrd~d > te
: proved of, and matters of great moment, j
requiring decisive action that were tern- i
i porized with in a cowardly manner, were
i presented in a light that placed the prin
cipal actors on a level with the maas of
their fellows.
When Mr. Springer paused, somebody
' asked Miss Carew what she thought of
it. To the evident surprise of Judge
j B , manifestly to the surprise of
tyerybody else. Miss Carew, speaking
as unconcernedly as though she referred
fo a dress-pattern, pointed out an over
sight in the much-lauded performance.
The oversight once acknowledged,noth-
I ing could be clearer in her mind than
| that a portion of the article reflecting se
verely upon a dead President, should be
modified. Mr. Springer was up in arms
at once. Having committed himself un
reservedly in support of the entire arti
| cle, he could do no less. Involuntarily
he dropped into the legal habit—pro
jected in swift succession categorical
questions that wer,e answered so prompt
ly, clearly and satisfactorily, that the
questioner sat stunned and silent Then
Judge B mildly came to Mr. Spring-;
er’s rescue, hut Miss Carew with her j
silvery laugh and incomparable smile j
routed the judge from his last trench.
! She maintained supreme possession of a
; fairly fought field. Finally, Mr.Springer,
piqued by the turn affairs had taken, as
a last resort hazarded the danger
ous experiment of questioning
the value of opinions not
based upon actual knowledge or
experience, as compared with views pre
dicted upon research and advanced by 1
men familiar with every phase of the
questions involved. In short, did Miss
Carew, who did not hesitate to point out
flaws in the much discussed article, rec
ognize the fact that she had, whether
designedly or not, arrogated to herself
the degree of wisdom required in the
supervision of future performances by
: the same author?
I shall never forget the look of dis
; may that overspread Judge B 's face,
| or the crimson cheeks and brow Mr.
! Springer turned to us when Miss Carew,
1 with a merry laugh, said she would take
I the matter into consideration immedi
ately. She then bowed to us, and beg
ging her friend, Judge B to excuse
\ her, withdrew.
Among the late arrivals that day was
a literary lion of unusual proportions, a
friend of Judge B . Little Miss
Carew had barely gone, when a well
preserved gentleman of middle age ex
tended his hand to Judge B , aad
hurriedly inquired where Miss Carew
was to tie found.
“Little Miss Carew!” said Judge B.
the was here a moment ago. What
can you want with my triena Miss Ca
rew?”
“Send that to her at once,” said the
lion, handing the judge an envelope. The
judge, with irritating deliberation, turned
the envelope slowly over in his hand,
read the imprint we all saw plainly in
one corner, then calling a servant, dis
patched him to Miss Carew’s room with
the letter.
I had an errand to Miss Carew’t room
an hour later. She was bending over
some narrow slips of paper when I en
tered. They were swept aside, then
she banded me one with a frank smile,
saying;
VOL. X. NO. 47.
“There, I need not make a mystery of
it with friends—all I dislike is the pes
tering of strangers. ”
There, before my eves, was the con
cluding article on the Presidents, with a
letter from the editor, “hurrying Miss
Ciiiow
“I think,” said Miss Carew, “I may
be pardoned if I see defects in my own
work. Defects I shall endeavor to reme
dy in this paper. You are at liberty to
speak to all my friends. And you can
say I am accustomed to criticism, for I
have written much that failed to please
publishers, and never satisfied me.”
If Miss Careiq had suddenly been en
dowed with all the graces and inexhaus
tible wealth,a greater change in people’s
estimate in her could not have been
i manifested. The elegant Laurence
Springer from that day. was her self
constituted chevalier. I wondered how
it would all turn out, I was, by turns,
inclined to wish him success in his shit,
and indifferent. 1 was, I believe, the
first taken into her confidence.
“I have accepted Mr. SpriDger, Miss
D—. I could not help it. He would
not take no for an answer—and, oh! I
said it so often.”
Doubtless she did, but as I see them
every year, the husband exhibiting that
rare devotion displayed in the thousand
and one little things unnoticed by the
bustling world, I know neither could
ever have been ’as happy with other
mates. —David Lowry, in the Current.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The latest list of American beetles de
scribes 9,400 species on this continent
alone.
Grindstones are made from natural
sandstone, the stone being cut into shape
and afterward turned.
A milk white alligktor was discovered
in a pond at Escambia, Ala., lately, sod
also one that is parti-colored.
In Lincoln county, N. M., near the
Pattos monntain, can be traced what
were once the walls of a large city. In
side the walls are growing monster cedar
trees, said to bo thousands of years old.
The gold dug from the mines in Thibet,
writes a missionary, is so plentiful that
it is used to cover the pinnacles of the
pagodas, and is made into idols, chairs,
couches and ornaments for the people.
A watchmaker in Newcastle, England,
has made a set of three gold shirt studs,
in one of which is a watch that keeps
correct time. The three studs are con
nected by a strip of silver inside the shirt
bosom, and the watch in the middle one
is wound up by turning the stud above,
and the hands are sot by turning the one
below.
Near '.MuryaviHe. Cat., thr.jc, a large
gravel pit in which there are nSny fish,
and into which flows the ref matter
of a winery. Ever since grape crushing
began this year the lish have been af
fected with drunkenness and come to the
surface of the water, where the China
men take them in with rakes in great
quantities.
The heavy copper consumption of India
is due largely to a religious rite of the
natives. At certain seasons of the year
small cups of sheet copper about an inch
in diameter and an inch and a half deep ~
are filled with rice and are thrown into
tho rivers as an offering, with religious
ceremonies. The quantity of copper
thus annually consumed is very heavy,
India sheets being an important article
of commerce.
“Indian summer” is a term applied to
an indefinite autumnal season of fine,
fair weather with haze. Some date its
beginning about November 15, but that
is arbitrary and not warranted by tho
season itself. Such a brief season is apt
1 to come m November, as every American
i knows. In that “summer” the Indians
used to gather their corn and scour the
! woods for nuts. They thought the mild
ness due to the “God of the southwest”
wind, which god they looked upon as
their benefactor. As he smoked his pipe
l the blue haze curled upward from the
bowl thereof and was blown benignantly
i over the land.
Bridge-building brotherhoods were re
ligious societies that originated in the
south of France in the latter half of the
twelfth century. Their purpose was to
establish places of refuge and entertain
ment for travelers at the most frequented
fords of large rivers, to keep up ferries,
and to build bridges. During the.mid
; die ages the church regarded tHP mak
| ing of streets and bridges as a most meri
! torious lelicioua service. The founder
! of this brotherhood is said to have been
! Beneget, a herdsman, subsequently can
onized, although this fact is not authori
tatively vouched for by historians. The
fraternity was sanctioned by Pope Clem
ent 111., in 1189. Its internal organiza
tion was similar to that of the knightly
orders, and the members wore as a badge
a pick-hammer on the breast. They
labored very actively in France, but
were gradually merged into the order of
St. John. Similar organizations, under
different names, existed in other lands.
A Remarkable Clock.
One of the most remarkable clocks
has just been constructed in London for
a banking establishment. It is on the
twenty-four hour principle, and is nota
ble as possessing probably the simplest
method which has yet been resorted to
for indicating time according to {(the
new enumeration. The clock in question
has only one hand, the long minute hand
and the figures around are placed at
heretofore. Instead, however, of Indi
cating the hours, they indicate the min
utes only, which are marked from five
to sixty. Tne hours are shown on a
sunk dial revolving under the upper dial,
a space being left in the upper dial in
which the next hour figure comes for
ward instantaneously on the m nutchand,
completing its circuit of sixty minutes
—that is, In a word, the solitary hand
marks the minutes, and the sunk space
shows the hour.