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COLEMAN & KIRBY. Editors aid Proprietors. ELLIJAY COURIER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN & KIRBY. Ifttr Office in the Court (louse 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 Ridge Circuit. Prompt attention to all busi ness intrusted to his care. lands for Sale, Mines fo. Sale, T CSXSSjR FOR SAlxHi, Wate* Power for Sale, LEASES NEGOTIATED BY THE Ml Geortia aid Land Mining AGENCY. We are at all times prepared to negoti ate both purchases and sales of all kinds of real estate, including Mines, Farms, and Town property, W a ter Powers, Ac. Titles to land examined and transcripts furnished on application at reasonable cost. Send for circular, or address THE North Got Land and Mining Agency, ELLIJAY, GA. E. IE COLEMAN, Manager. THOS. F. QUEER, Attorney. IL M. Sessions. E. W. Coleman. SESSIONS & COLEMAN, ATTORNEYB AT LAW, EM.IJAY, GA. Will pizctio* in Bill. Knlg Circuit, County Court Justice Court of iiiliusr County. Ltgal boiinsM solicited. "Proapiusss" it our motto. 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.