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GENERAL NEWS
fits saebas root u on s homo in Win
■too, Mias., where a mill has been star
led to grind it
Tilik county, Os, Toted on the
Stock Isw Hoodsy, and gsre a majority
of seventy for “no fence. ”
lx the aonthern part of Louisiana
many plantations will yield this year one
and a half hogsheads of sugar per acre.
ftm-rwo students are registered at
Ike colored National School at the Lin
eoln Academy, at Tallahassee.
Col Km.rmnrw, of Tennessee, has
gone to Mexico to work the Polk mines,
fie says they are worth 83,000,000.
Jr is claimed in Atlanta that Atlanta
people own at least twenty silver mines
in Mexico, all believed to be very pro
ductive.
The Lady Ensley mining and manu
facturing company have purchased 75,-
J|MO acres of oreJUnd in Frank]in,Colbert
and Marion counties, A
It will require four cars to bring the
Escambia, county, Ala., big tree to the
Louisville Expuution. It is 117 feet
long, and wdl be used as a flag pole in
front of the exposition building.
Biss for building the new Navy Hos
pital at Hot Springs, Ark., are rapidly
coming in. There is an appropriation of
SIOO,OOO for this purpose. Work is to
begin bv the 20th of August.
Is a portion of Lake and Attala conn
tin. Ala-, a worm resembling the cotton
Worm has made its ap|>earance. Several
head of moles have been killed recently
by rating oats with the insects on them.
A neap of 4,000 rattle, m<tly cows
and heifers, j visaed through Fort Worth
Texas, the other day, for the New Mex
ico Land and Cat tie Company, a Boston
corporation.
A roHTAJST organized in Washington.
D- lately has imr-'kiwd six thousand
an* <J land in Polk county. Fla., and
wiD raise oranges, limes, lemons and
c4lier tropical fruits.
Tec total mind er of failures in South
Carolina the* past nix months is forty
right. with liabilities amounting to $657,
755. The T:Tinrter of failures for the
anrqnnding period of was sixty
eight, oral the liabilities amounted to
$826,517.
Tee BtarJ of Health have issued a
prorlanito-ti- n that ail vessels from in
fected p-rte arriving at Pensai-ola with
yeOnw fever •> Iwartl shall remain at the
qnaranteen station until ft The re
grot is general that Ship Island station
for tide.-ted vessels has leen closed.
At the United States Tamil Office at
pauwwiille. Fh., during the month
fading Jtmd 90. homestead entries
were made, embracing 17,701.08 acres.
Forty-six final proofs were matte, con
taining 1,977.96 acres. The total re
ceipt* 1 4 lb— other for the month were
fJ5.0P4.27.
Tnx Peter* place at Enterprise. Fla..
Was sold recently, under foreclosure of
nortgage foe sl2,'“>\ bought by Fred
erick ile Buy. The mortgagor had lie
lore refuse i fl’.’.dOt) for it. It is said
Ltml Peters spent to’ much time and
maotj in Jaefamcftvufo te make an orange
grove tacceretfsxl
A iimuß giving att exhibit of the
trtoe at crude and manuf:*etun>d phos
phates in South Carolina shown. the
afaipanemtktif fertilizers to have increased
inm zw 1871 to 130,000 tons in
JfBR The shipments of crude phos
phate* rose from 132.656 tons in 1876 to
365 AU ton* u lVvk Much of it goes
■faml
T. G- Mobile. ha* Knight the
yiautacu a at Vi. F. Higgins, an* mile
him (hind. -41a hr $15,000 rash, and
unii nanofe ham time herd of Jersey rattle
to it He haa me of the finest herds in
the Snath an. i has bought some of the
finest land in North Alabama. It is un-
Htnfacd that he will improve the phwe
for a summer resort.
Saturn P.vßatEK, of Rome. Tex., uK.nt
fas yearaoil. art adopted daughter of M.
L, Jackson. whale rlimbing in the door
of He e*2, accidentally stuck a needle
shade was storking in the i**>m of her
dfccs* igamst the doer, miming the nee
dfa shunt am rru-fa. and a quarter into her
Inset, striking the base of the heart
■(dual attention was procured immedi
ately. but she- died in about an hour
after He arcajnrfc.
Taa ArkaatMuft sheriffs have been in
farmed by Gow. Berry that the sup-mud
teas of the lawlessness now prevailing in
that State must be affected V y their own
wffierte and tfaoar > f law abiding citizens
ef them respeetive evnnties, ThetViv
cner sees no necessity tor calling oat
the maictte to arrest outlaws at a heavy
meperse to the Stale, when the sheriffs
have authority to sqnma n as many per
sons as may be needeil t take despera
ffiees into fusfioiy.
Fuotud* Times. I'm On* of the
best they that has been done by tile
Georgia Bsilrtiml Commissi. m is the re
cent wieffasn ai an amlrr re-purring the
vssTreisTa of that State t ■ tarnish means
far pnintest'ingr —errhitn bee offered for
Wpfi UpTT*, Al* ofa >ci damage by the weather.
4 fiiialtem or Western radn isl which
faded tv do this would be .x nwfiii ml
behind the tue*, but in the South it is
■cam fe* leave cotta. far euhwe,
caposed to ram. and dnst whii.- awaiting
T*~f~ ■—of coarse gr -at ly t its injury.
By such regalari. ms as this, the OOHULlJß
missisjustify : ngr is* etit-tiv.
FKTOCIU 'OTfN
Tv an ii Taf <i I fa rrvit w ot the prue
peeW of He eutSon. crop, the New York
Frmea Chrwcicle tu> the tub - acreage
this year at 17,449,000 acres, against 16,-
590,000 acres last year—an increase of
5.18 per cent Texas comes first with
3,102,000 acres, and Georgia comes next
with 2,977,000. As to maturity, the
plant is backward, but of late the growth
has been rapid.
The postoffice department has issued
a circular notifying postmasters of the
proposed reduction in rates, which goes
into effect on the first of October. The
object of the department is to have the
present stock of material reduced to as
low a point as possible. The new two
cent stamp* will be ready for delivery no
the fifteenth of September.
The Cremation Society, of Philadel
phia, is gradually growing, and now has
a membership of over forty. The offi
cers say that the prejudice against cre
mation is daily growing less bitter, and
express the hope that with time and
patience they may at length succeed in
establishing a crematory in Philadelphia.
The directors of the Suez Canal Com
pany unanimously approved the agree
ment relating to a second canal arrived
at 1 between DeLeaseps and the English
government, but the scheme grows in
unpopularity in England.
DON. 7 GET EXCITED.
THE irDVE MADE THE SUBJECT OF A
JOKE.
ll* Hearts ts Tell a WontfsHsl Htary an*
Osly Escapes Reiss Isclul Up as ■
l-asstlr by the Ketarn si his Friends.
Judge E. is very fond of relating most
marvelous stories of his exploits, which
are always accompanied by gestures
equally extraordinary.
A few years ago the Judge was “sum
mering” with a couple of professional
friends, who, knowing his proclivities to
the use of tho long bow. determined to
have a little sport at his expense. In
the course of their rambles they stopped
at a hotel near some famous fishing
grounds, and planned to start fishing at
fonr o'clock the next morning. Judge
E., not caring to go, was not to lie waked
when the others started.
Morning came and the two sportsmen
started, leaving their unconscious victim
slumbering peacefully. As they passed
through the office of the hotel they said
to the clerk, tapping their foreheads
significantly, “Keep your eye on that
friend of ours—he's harmless enough,
but old—and don’t let liim excite him
self.”
Of course the rumor that the new
guest was “a little ofl” spread through
the hotel, and at breakfast the judge
was the centre of all observation; but
supposing that it was due to the fact of
liia being the renowned Judge E., he
was rather flattered than otherwise.
After breakfast he strolled into the
office, where were assembled half a doz
en of the guests, engaged iu conversa
tion about the mysterious lodger. Not
noticing the looks of distrust cast upon
him, be t>egan by saying, “Fine morn
ing, gentlemen.” No one seemed to bo
inclined to dispute this statement, and
silence reigned for a few moments.
Suddenly the Judge was reminded of
certain wonderful exploits, and, rising,
he began an account of them, ooufhed
in the most flowery language, and to
enforce his remarks laid his hand on tho
shoulder of his nearest auditor, who,
not fancying the presence of the sup
posed lunatic, retired through the near
est open door with more haste than
courtesy.”
Somewhat disconcerted, the narrator
smoked in silence for a few moments;
hut unwilling that so story should
teiZtiaOßtoldj
he advanced and resumed
the tale, empTi:iz!lig it by vigorous
Mows on the clerk’s desk.
The clerk at once deserted his poet,
exclaiming, “Now calm yourself, sir,
just try and Iw calm.”
“Be what?” cried the Judge, thor
oughly mystified.
“Tnre, now, be calm; don’t excite
yourself, or we shall have to take
measures to restrain you.”
“ Restrain mo 1 Take measures 1” fair
ly howled the victim of tho joke, in a
perfect rage. “I’d like to see you.”
The clerk was now thoroughly per
suaded that for his own personal safety
strong measures were necessary, and wag
about to put his threat iuto execution
when Judge E-’s two companions re
turned, and hurried explanations fol
lowed.
Judge E. could ouly hush the matter
up by a generous “treat.” Even then
the story leaked out, and now the Judge
can be stopp'd in his most marvellous
tale by his auditors saying, “ Now don’t
get excited. ” — Harper's * ‘ Ilraioer. ” •
There It Hung.
fn a Chicago speculator's office was
disclosed a curious object that hail
hung in partial obscurity on the wall.
It was a sort of plaque made of baked
pottery in the high art style now so
w idely affected. It presented a surface
wlneh. on lx'king closer, was recognized
as the Kirk of a tree, and into it were
cut two letters and a heart in a rude
monogram. “Yon see,” said the owner,
"my wife came across the spot where I
bad used a jackknife on an old maple,
down in CYmnectieut, when wo were Kiy
and girl together. It struck her, don’t
you see, that it would lie a novel idea to
take an impression of it, and have it
moulded for a plaque. She has rather a
taste that way. Not so bad, either, is
it * We've got one up at the house, and
this is a duplicate. The heart is pretty
nearly filled up with new bark grown in.
'tails shaped so long ago, and yet it's all
there—am "t it?—and the initials with it.
An odd thiug to hang up in a mercantile
office, eli ?"
Gebmav Crrves. —The German capital
has a population of 1,122,000 souls,
which is larger by 108.000 than the com
bined population of the four next lar
gest cities of the empire. These four are
Hamburg with 289,858, Breslau with
279,910. Munich with 230,000, and Dres
den with 220. hllL
Lum. —Mr George Augustas Sals
regards it as one of the luckiest and
most merciful things that can possibly
happen to a iuui that he should be al
most invariably unlucky at cards. His
own ren. aibranct's of poker are brief,
but fnT of acute siuruish.
A “foceet otidb" for instruction in
the art ef sw.ii.nn g has been published
in New York. When you fall overboard
and don t know how to swim, all you
have to do is to tread water and read
roar guide.
COROXACB.
Be It gome to the meant*!*,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fount*!*,
When our need is the eorert.
The fount re-appearing
From the rain-drop* shell borrow I
Bat to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow 1
The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears that are hoary,
But the voice of the weeper
Weils manhood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing,
Weft the leaves that ere seerest.
But our flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearest.
Fleet foot on the correi,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Bed hand in the foray,
How sound is thy slumber?
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bobble on the fonntain,
Thon are gone, and forever.
WiLTEB SOOTT.
Ralph Terrill's Courtship.
In front a moonlit, dimpling sea; on
either hand a stretch of level beach,
ghostly and dim ; behind, the mighty,
black-browned cliffs, with here and
there a tree leaning far out, as though
half tempted to
toward the sea I >
sea and cliff a pairoHHBH 1
Happy, yet trembnn™ trusting all t<A
the rosy god, yet dreading to dare pater
familias!
“It won’t do, Nell He’ll never con
sent 1 You remember he told me last
spring that he did not care for money,
but that the man who won his daughter
must have performed some valorous deed
to prove his worthiness of the precious
trust. It’s a queer notion, pet. Why,
my beloved, it is an insult to talk of
winuing yonl I love you, but to win
you I never hope, except by the power
of that love!”
The handsome fellow lnt his face
toward the girl at his side and a suspi
cious sound danced out across the glim
mering waves.
“ But, Ralph dear, perhaps father
■vill—”
“ No, Nell, no ; he never will,” inter
rupted her lover, again drawing her
close to him. “ I know what you would
say—that he may change. But it’s im
possible. Darling, we must either wait,
wait indefinitely, or else—”
A second time he bent toward the
sweet cheek and whispered a few words
in the listening ear.
The girl started.
“Oh,Ralph! don’t—can't! Youknow
that I could never do that! What! run
away—elope? Oh, my darling, do not
speak of such a thing! I shall love you
for ever, but this I cannot do?"
The young man soothed his com
panion with low words and tender, and
plead his love apd longing as a reason
for the proposal, bnt when the moon,
whose blushing face had been hidden
behind a great rift of cloud, peeped forth
again, the lovers had risen and were
moving along the bench toward the
more frequented part of the shore.
Ralph Terrill was only a yonng lawyer
struggling into practice, while Nellie
Trevillion was the beautiful daughter oi
old Jeremiah Trevillion, one of the
wealthiest men in the State.
By chauee the young peoplo had mot,
rod meeting had loved ; but how hope
lessly those only knew who had learned
the foibles of old Jeremy, when over his
wine his tongue was loosened. As Ter
rill had said, ho -cared little for money
with * son-in-law: but for some unknown
reason he had fixed upon a hero for his
daughter’s husbnud. To win Nellie
Trevillion a man must first prove him
self a knight of “ye olden time;” and
tho chances of attaining such fame wore
few enough in the nineteenth century.
Nevertheless, so rau the ediot: al
though Terrill had, by his gentlemanly
'tearing and successful pleading of oer
tain cases, gained the esteem of his de
sired father-in-law, yet he knew too well
that any hint of his affection for Nellie
would at once turn him from the door.
And so it was that the young people
might, as yet, only love and hope, but
not marry.
Oue ally, however, they had in Nellie’s
unde, a retired merchant and on old
“bach”—Dwight Trevillion—and to
him they oonfidod all their troubles.
This sage old party listened and advised,
but as yet no result had been reached
and the future remained dim enough,
were it not for the light of glowing trust
and love. They would watoh and wait.
Early morning on the coast; and as
the bright beams of the happy sun
kissed all the little waves awake, bright
ening the face of the smooth beach, two
stalwart figures were seen to emerge
from a cottage and turn toward the sea.
It was Jeremy and Dwight Trevillion,
the brothers, bound foriday’s fishing.
They entered their boat, spread their
canvas, and were seen sailing gently
away before the light hind breeze—alone
for these gentlemen were thorough
sportsmen, and desired no third party in
their trips. This morning, however, ere
they embarked, Dwight Trevillion had
expressed a half hope that some man
might be stirriug, whose servioes they
could engage, “to attend to the boat
while they fished.”
But his brother langhed him to scorn.
“Bosh, Dwi! Why should we need
a bothering ignoramus with us to-day
more than on Tuesday last, when we
went crabbing? ”
“ Oh, no reason,” replied the other,
hesitatingly, “only I thought if we
wanted to go far from our boat it would
be better."
“Well, we can toss her anonor over,”
replied Jeremy, “and she'll wait for us.
Don’t let us have a man.”
Just as the chimes of the for away
village clock rang across the smooth water
for six o’clock the Seagull ground her
forefoot upon the fine white sand of a
-mall sanubiuik, perceptible at low tide,
and the Trevillion brothers embarked.
“ Now for a jolly day,” said Jeremy,
as he prepared his tackle, undisturbed.
Stick that little anchor in the beach,
Dwi, and we’ll go to the lower point.”
The other obeyed, and with rods am
lines the gentlemen strolled away to
ward their destination.
A. little later two young people met
upon the cool piazza of the Trevillion
cottage.
“My darling!'" whispered Ralph
Terrill' stealing a kiss ; “ your bright
sweet face pales the beauty of this
glorious morning, even 1 ”
“Oh, Kalph!” cried Nell, laughing;
“ what a Persian compliment! And, my
love, may I not say that the brightest
morning*is dull until I have seen your
face?”
“My queen!” ejaculated the yonng
lover, his eyes dancing. “But, dearestl
this day more than all others will, i
trust, be a bright one to us. Come,
sweetheart, sit here a moment and I will
toll you." And he drew a chair to her
side. “I have a plan. If it succeeds
your father will have given his consent
to our marriage before another morning
brightens the earth 1”
And with Neihe’s hand clasped in his,
Ralph half whispered the modus oper
andi in her ear.
“ Splendid!—splendid 1 Oh, Ralph,
von darling!” And her white, plump
arms wereabout his neck and two soft,
ripe lips repaid the recital “ Oh, my
love, then you will be with me always !”
she continued, with a charming blush.
“ AvLUmjle l)wight helped to contrive
"Yes, sweet, it was ms plan, l am
bnt a factor in it. But it will be sure to
succeed if the weather remains fair.
And now, silence. Not a word of it until
the end cornea. Once safely wedded, if
your father must know, we can tell him.
Bnt a hint of any conspiracy now would
lose the day forever.”
With mutual promises of secrecy the
lovers parted.
Slowly the day wore on. The morn
ing gun grew older, and proud of his
strengtfi/Tjeat upon the earth beneath
with noon-day beams; then regretting
his passion as the hours flew by, he drove
rapidly down the western heavens—half
in sorrow—fleecy clouds attending him,
until just as the crickets began to chirrup,
and the tide come in, he sank to rest m
a bank of rose-colored vapors far in the
distant horizon.
Jeremy and Dwight Tro
jjpgs fished, lunching beneath the
Hof the single point of rock that
Mpfabank boasted, and continuing
them until the shadows of the
coming night and the swift-rising tide
warned them to desist Once during the
afternoon Jeremy had proposed return
ing to the boat, but to this Dwight ob
jected.
“ There’s no need. It’s high and dry
now, and will be until the tide tui as.
Let ns improve our time while we may.’
And so, the fishing being good, they had
remained.
Now, however, they had waited too
long. Night was at hand and the tide
too. They must need hurry.
“Wemnstwalk fast,” said Dwight,
as thev packed up their tackle and fast
ened their creels upon their shoulders ;
“ the tide is higher than I thought.”
“But you fastened the boat?” said tho
other, in some trepidation. “ You
dropped the anchor ?”
“ Yes," replied the brother, “but it
was tripped, you know, and when the
waterkwings it clear there’s nothing to
keep the.bont at her moorings.”
“ Yon don’t mean to say that there ’3 a
chance of such a thing happening ?”
said Mr, Trevillion the elder.
“ Indeed, I do 1” replied the other,
hurrying onward, “ for the sea is com
ing up rapidly. You know the tide cov
ers this place entirely. We must get to
the boat!”
“ Good heavens !” cried Jeremy; “this
is horrible! Are we to drown, then ?”
The surf was now breaking upon the
little bank in' long, steady waves;
each moment the strip of sand grew more
narrow, and behind there could lie heard
the roar of the ocean among the rocks
where they had eaten dinner. Retreat
was no longer possible.
11 1 meau to say this,” said tho younger
man; “ye are in a trap, and unless we
gain our ooat, or succor comes from the
shore, within twenty minutes the sea will
be upon us.”
• Nellis!” groaned Jeremy;
and together they ran onward.
Suddenly Dwight, who was in advance,
stopped with a sharp, “ Look!”
Through the night they could ee tie
fore them the outline of their boat. She
was twenty rods away, rocking upon the
swells and drifting from them I
Trevillion uttered a long, hoarse cry,
and threw up his arms in despair.
“We are lost!” he groaned; “we
shall both be drowned I” And the waves
lapped their very feet.
“ Hold on I” said the brother; “ we’re
not lost yet, Can you swim ?”
“ No r
“ Neither can L We must shont. Per
haps some fishing smack or passing boat
may hear us. Come, together—now !”
Their voices rang out long and loud
over the growing roar of the surf about
them. No answer.
“ Again I” whispered Dwight, gather
ing his breath.
A second shout went blindly out into
the darknoss. This time it was faintly
answered Jeremy seized his brother's
ana.
“ Listen 1 Someone comes 1 Heaven
be thanked 1”
The old man was trembling from his
terrible flight. Another call brought a
second answer, and then, as the cries of
the ( wo men continued, the sound of
oars was heard near and still nearer, un
til a small boat containing men could
be distinguished in the gloom. It stopped
outside the surf, whioh was now break
ing with a heavy roar upon the low sand
>anks each instant rising higher about
the Trevillions.
“ Boat ahoy 1” cried Dwight; “come
in and take ns off! Our craft has drifted
away and we shall drown !”
“ All right, sir 1” responded a cheery
voioe, “we'll be there direotly 1” and
again the craft was headed toward
them.
“ That’s young Terrill I I know his
voice, "said Jeremy.
“ A fine fellow, too,” replied Dwight.
“ He’ll lave us now, surely. Ho is bravo
—Loowout! Ah 1”
The rescuers’ boat had been caught
by the tumbling surf and overturned.
Its occupants were seen clinging to the
3ide as it rolled and tossed in the break
ers.
There was a moment of wild strug
gling, and then, borne upon the crest and n
coming wave, boat and men were hurlec
into the sea of foam that frothed about
the Trevillions Jhd four half-drowned
adventurers stood knee deep in the rising
'♦can.
“Great heavens !’’ cried the fair Nel
lie’s father, as he strove to keep his feet,
and grasped the arm of his would-be
son-in-law. “Great heavens! now we
axe lost!”
“Not so, sir !” cried young Terrill,
peering across the white line of breakers
into the night beyond—“not so, sir.
Deputed by your fair daughter to row
heie and see ‘that you were safe, I em
ployed this honest boatman and came—
same to find you in danger and to seek
to save the life of one precious to hei
whom I love better than life itself! And,
sir, my mission shall not be in vain !
Stand here, Owen,” he continued to his
boatman, “and assist these gentlemen.
As for me, I will swim to yonder boat,
which I can see tossing beyond these
cruel waves, and return with it or perish
in the attempt I Not a word, sir,” he
went on, as Jermev Trevillion would have
spoken. “I love your daughter. Let
me show how much love cap do for love’s
sake. Because I love her I will risk my
life for yours, sir! I will gain that boat
and save you, or die f”
And with these tragic words, Ralph
plunged into the sea.
“Brave boy!—brave boy!” sobbed Mr.
Trevellion, as the dauntless rescuer dis
appeared. “Oh, Dwight!—Buch a man
is a hero! Such a man is worthy of Nellie,
and she shall marry him if she will, do
we bnt live to see the shore again.”
His brother only pressed his hand,
and the three figures stood silent, braced
against the Hurrying waves that each
moment burst against them, rising
higher and higher. Suddenly a shout
rang in their ears, then another, and al
most before they could believe it, the
boat loomed through the night before
them.
“Men ahoy 1 Stand by to take hold of
this line!”
“Ay, ay, sir !”
A rope whirled through the air. The
boatman caught it, a little craft plunged
into the surf close at hand, there was a
general scramble, a flap of sails, and
then the Seagull bore away with four
drenched but happy men aboard, and
breakers tossed alone upon the shal
low.
Ralph had won his bride. The praise
of his prospective father-in-law knew no
bounds; nor did he offer a word of objec
tion to the proposal of the longing lover
that their nuptials be oelebrated on the
earliest possible day.
“Take her, my boy. Yon have won
her,” said the happy old gentleman, on
the following morning, when the two
young people stood before him.
But to this day Uncle Dwight has
kept silent as to* his part in Ralph’s
courtship, and his brothel will never
know that he purposely tripped the
anchor short, so that the Seagull might
drift away; that Terrill was to lie on
hand for a rescue, and that the tide
never covers the saudbank to a greater
depth than four feet, except in the most
furious storms.
The Outer Hebrides.
One mile from Mingalay lies South
Bemera, the southernmost of the isles,
a bold mass of gneiss, about a mile in
length and half a mile in width, Bioping
gradually downward toward the east, but
presenting to the western waves a pre
cipitous front of about seven hundred
feet in height, crowned with a magnifi
cent lighthouse of granite and iron, such
as may defy the wildest storm, and warn
all mariners to keep ac far as possible
from the deadly coast. It is said that
this blessed light can be discerned at a
distance of upwards of thirty miles, but
practically the height of the crag on
which it has been placed iB found to lie
a disadvantage, as its light is often
Bhrouded in mist, while all is clear be
low.
Lonely indeed is the lot of the men in
charge of this bcoooa light, left to their
own resources on this uttermost isle,
their only communication with the outer
world being when, twice a year, the
lighthouse stores are brought by a
steamer, which can only lie to for a few
hours, for there is no manner of anchor
age, and the ouly possible landing-place
is a shelving ledge of rock, on which he
who would go ashore must spring at the
moment when his boat rises on the crest
of a wave, and then make the best of his
way to the summit by scrambling up a
slippery, shelving rock.
Once a year, too, a priest from Barra
comes here to visit his little flock, num
bering about two score—a flue, harvly,
self-reliant race. Their isle supplies
pasture for cows and goats, so they have
tho blessing of good milk; otherwise the
sea-birds who congregate on the cliffs—
puffins and auks, guillemots and kittc
wakes— supply their larder with fresh
meat in Bunnner and salt meat for winter
use; also with oil for their lamps and
feathers for bedding. When fishing is
possible, the boats go off to wrest a
harvest from the sea—cuddies, haddock,
herring, flounders, lythe and syt'ie, rock
codlinga, and skate. Eols they will not
touch, but dog-fish are welcome, and are
salted and dried for winter store.
In the spring time thousand of eggs
are taken by bold cragsmen, who adven
ture and sometimes sacrifice their lives
in this quest. —All (he Year Hound.
A Dynamite Story.
In 1865 a prisoner, who was con
demned tadiard labor in a German mine
(a fate that befalls many evil-doers in
Rhineland), managed to effect his es
cape. He had held a position of some
little confidence in the mine, and when
he decamped ho succeeded in taking with
him a small can containing about three
pounds of nitroglycerine. Profoundly
ignorant of the nature and fell destruc
tiveness of the explosive, and believing,
from the care with which he had always
seen it served out in the mines, that it
was of considerable value, he clung to
his treasure with tenacity and eventually
embarked for the United States, carry
ing the can with him and using it in his
long sea voyage as a pillow. Arrived in
New York, he sought accommodations
in a Greenwich street sailors' boarding
house. There, pending his search for a
purchaser, he put the can in the public
barroom, where it was used by the
boarders as a foot-rest when they blacked
their hoots. This went on for fully two
weeks, and probably the little can was
knocked about by careless mariners,
who knew little the danger they were
incurring. One day there was a fight
in the barroom, and the can vns kicked
by a stalwart German in his effort to
reach one of his opponents. The fight
[ ended instantly. Simultaneously with
the kick there was a general scattering
of all the inmates of the room, a crash
ing of falling bricks and splintering tim
bers, and a report like a seventy-four's
broadside. A horse that was passing in
the street was struck by some of the
bricks hurled from the building and
pieces of an iron pillar that had been
shattered, and was instantly killed; but,
strangely enough, the men in the bar
room escaped with slight bruises, the
kickers even being only stunned by the
shock, —Philadelphia Pres*.
A Homesick Horse.— Blair, the horse
trainer, says: “Leesburg is a stranger to
the turf, and has no record. When I
first took him away from his home some
time ago he was the most homesick
horse I have ever had to deal with. For
two days it was worth as much as a
man’s iife to go near him, but finally he
calmed down and allowed us to attend to
him. Then it was that I found that,
while kicking and tearing things about
in the car; he had 1)sully cut one of his
hind legs."
Wb never knew a man who could ap
preciate the blessings of prosperity as
did a Boston printer, who long since laid
by stick and rule forever. A “fat take”
of poetry fell to hint. He seized it with
avidity,'gazed at it long and tranquilly,
then called a “ sub,” put on his coat and
went off. “ When a man gets such a fat
take as that,” he said, “he can afford to
loaf for a day or two,” —Boston T>-an
script.
THE ACT OF DYING.
B*w People Feel Whe. Lite’s Laac I'freed
Simla*.
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Professor of
Chemistry in the University of Oxford
and an eminent English scientist, in an
interesting work, entitled “Psychological
Inquiries,” gives the following resulis of
his professional experience of the last
moments of life:
Really, according to my observation,
the mere act of dying is seldom, in any
sense of the word, a very painful pro
cess. It is true that some persons die in
a state of bodily torture, as i<* cases
of tetanus; that the drunkard dying of
delirium tremens is haunted by terrible
visions, and that the victim of that most
horrible of all diseases, hydrophobia, in
addition to those peculiar bodily suffer
ings from which the disease has derived
its name, may be in a state of terror
,’ron the supposed presence of frightful
objects, which are presented to him as
realities, even to the last. But these
and some other instances which I might
adduce are exceptions to the general rule
which is, that both mental and bodily
suffering terminates long before the scene
is finally closed. This as to the actual
fear of death : It seems to me that the
Author of our existence, for the most part
gives it to us when it is intended that we
should live, and takes it away from us
when it is intended that we should die.
Those who have been long tormented by
bodily pain are generally as anxious to
die as they ever were to live. So it
often is with those whose life has been
protracted to an extreme old age, be
yond the usual period of mortality, even
w hen they labor under no actual disease.
It is not very common for any one to
die merely of old age:
“Like ripe fruit to drop
Into bis mother’s lap.”
Rut I have anown this to happen; and
a happy conclusion it has seemed to be
of worldly cares and joys. It was like
falling to sleep, never to wake again in
this state of existence. Some die re
taining all their faculties, and quite
aware that their dissolution is at hand.
Others offer no recognition of external
objects, so that it is impossible for us to
form any positive opinion whether they
do or do not retain their sensibility; and
others again, as I have already stated,
who appear to be insensible and un
conscious when carefully watched, are
found not to lie so in reality; but they
die contentedly. I have myself nevei
known but two instances hi which, in
the act of dying, there were manifest
indications of the fear of death. The
individuals to whom I allude were uuex
pectedly destroyed by hemorrhage,
which, from peculiar circumstances
which I need not now explain, it was
impossible to suppress. The depressing
effects which the gradual loss of blood
produced ou their corporal system
seemed to influence their minds, and
they died earnestly imploring that relic'
which art was unable to afford. Seneca
might have chosen an easier death than
from opening his arteries.
“What I have said refers only to the
fast stage in the process of dissolution.
There is no doubt that a pure and simple
religious faith, and a firm reliance c n
the being who has placed us here, con
tribute more than anything besides to
disarm death of its terrors, deprive ‘the
grave of its victory,’ and smooth tho
passage of the humble and sincere
believer to the termination of his
worldly career. Nevertheless, according
!<• my own experience, and what I have
h-nnl from others, the influence of
religions fosHuga i. for the most part,
not so much peroeptnue at the moment
when death is actually impending, as it
is at an earlier period, when the indi
vidual, who was previously in health, or
supposed himself to le so, lust discovers
that it is probable he will die.”
How Colds are Taken.
A person in good health, with fair
play, eays The Tancct, easily resists
cold. But when the health flags a little,
and liberties are taken with the stomach,'
or the nervous system, a chill is easily
taken, and according to the weak spot of
the individual, assumes the form of a
cold, or pneumonia, or, it may he, jaun
dice. Of all causes of “cold,” probably
fatigue is one of tlie most efficient. A
jaded man coming home at night from a
long day’s work, a growing youth losing
two hours’sleep over evening parties two
or three times a week, or a yonng lady
heavily “doing the season,” young chil
dren over-fed and with a short allowance
of sleep, are common instances of the
victims of “ cold. ” Luxury is favorable
to chill-taking; very hot rooms, soft
chairs, feather beds, create a sensitive
ness that loads to catarrhs. It is not,
after all, the “ cold ” that is so much to
ho fared as tbe antecedent conditions
that give the attack a chance of doing
harm. Some of the worst “ colds ” hap
pen to those who do not leave their house
or even their bed, and those who are
most invulnerable are often those who
are most exposed to changes of tempera
ture, and who by good sleep, cold bath
ing, and regular habits preserve the tone
| >f their nervous system aud circulation.
Probably many drills are contracted at
uight or at the fag end of the day, when
tired people get the equilibrium of their
circulation disturbed by either over
heated sitting-rooms or underheated bed
rooms and beds. This is specially the
ease with elderly people. In such cases
' the mischief is not always done instanta
neously, or in a single night It often
takes place insidiously, extending crvaJ
days or even weeks. It thus appears
i bat “taking cold ” is not by any means
i simple result of a lower temperature,
but depends largely on personal condi
tions and habits, affecting especially the
nervous and muscular energy of the b<xK
A National Question,
A correspondent of the New York Sun,
writes the editor: "I am a great big fel
low; my better-half is hardly half my
size. Our baby took after its father in
physical proportions. Attracted by the
line weather last Sunday we thought we
would take the hope of the house out,
and it was agreed, after he had been
carefully wrapped up in his cloak, that
I should carry him. I received all nec
essary instructions regarding his being
properly held to prevent his taking cold,
and everything went well enough until
we heard a passer-by remark to a com
panion : ‘How funny to see a big man
carrying a small baby!’ After that my
wife insisted that I must' surrender the
baby at once to her. Now, the baby, by
comparison, looks small with me, but
very big with her, and we had not gone
far before we heard this remark: ‘Look
at that big fellow loafing along and let
ting his poor little wife carry that great
big baby!’ Now what I want to know
is, who should carry the baby ?”
Tub Irishman had a correct apprecia
tion of the fitness of things, who, being
asked by the judge when he applied for
a license to sell whisky, if he was of good
moral character, replied: “Faith, yer
Honor, I don’t see the necessity for a
good moral character to sell whisky.”
HAD SEQUEL TO AN OLD STORY.
a Wife Bmnn Inu.f While Cell* te
Meet Her Arqoiue* H**kuf.
A dispatch from Milwaukee. Wis.,
says:—The police wagon was called to 1
the Union Station recently to con
vey to the Central Poltce Station a
young married lady who was suddenly
taken insane while on the train between
Chicago and this city. Her name is
Mrs. Mary A Cos wen, and she was on
her way from her former home in Boston
to join her husband, Corp. Cowan, of
the Twenty-eighth United States Infan
try, stationed at Fort McGinnis, Mon
tana. There is a sad story connected
with the young woman, with which,
three years ago, the papers of the East
were filled, The lady’s name before
marriage was Hampton, and she lived in
a suburb of Boston. H. G. Hampton,
the lady’s father, was a roan of means,
doing a heavy real estate business in Bos
ton. In the coarse of his speculations
he became interested in Montana mines
and purchased large tracts of rich ore
abounding lands in that. Territory
Three years ago, owing to complica
tions in and difficulties exper
ienced in securing a proper settlement
of certain transactions in the West, he
was called to Montana, and in the jour
ney was accompanied by his daughter
Mary. They were visitors at Fort
McGinnis, the guests of the command
ing officer. During their stay there the
daughter made the acquaintance of a
private in the ranks. They were thrown
together constantly, and finally became"
engaged unknown to the father and the
officers. Knowing that the wealthy par
ent would oppose the marriage of his
daughter with a common soldier, arrange
ments were made for an elopement.
The young couple, evading the watch
fulness of the father and the authori
ties, finally ran away to St.
Paul, Minn. They there were
married and lived happily together until
the officers sent in search of the deserter
snccecded in finding the newly wedded
ones and arrested the groom. The
young wife was taken to her home in the
East by her father, and Cowan was re
turned to Fort McGinnis. The young
man was tried for desertion before a
court martial, but was acquitted. TTia
young wife was informed of the fact and
letters were sent to her asking her to
start at once for the West. Despite the
remonstrances of her father, she started
from Boston the first of the week, but
mider the long strain of trouble and anx
iety her mind gave way. She raves and
moans and at times is utterly uncontrol
able.
Amasa Stone’s Fortune.
Gath writes to the Cincinnati in
quirer as follows: The great wealth of
Amasa Stone, who committed suicide in
Cleveland, Ohio, now falls into the
hands, in part at least, of a yonng man
who was bred on a farm in Illinois, of
poor, plain parents. Possessing a sym
pathetic nature, good sense and talents,
he fell into the way of Abraham Lincoln,
who gave him a Secretary’s place. He
remained with Mr. Lincoln during his
whole term of the Presidency, and was
then sent to varions positions in foreign
countries, acquitting himself well at all
of them. He was our Minister virtually
in France, Spain, and, I think, Austria.
Finally he concluded to give up these
honors that he hod worn so well, and
plunged into the hard life of the press.
For a time he edited a newspaper at
Springfield, 111. I frequently received
notes from him in those days, comment-®
ing upon or encouraging publications eft
mine in the Chicago Tribune,. At an
other time he returned from Europe and
began to write on the New York Tribune,
making his column or two every- day,
and lecturing a little meanwhile. ’ Here
his eyes began to fail. In this discour
aged condition he met tho wife of A. B.
Stone, brother of the late Amasa Stone.
Mrs. Stone, though her husband was re
puted to be worth a million or two, ad
mired men of mind and career. She had
a blooming niece, whom she introduced
to him. The yofing lady whs delighted
with him. as women have been in every
land. When they married he took his
bride out to see his parents ou the Illi
nois farm. Persons have described to
me his anxiety as to how his wife, reared
m the lap of millions, would appreciate
the plain homestead where he had been
nested. Without any hesitation she
called them father and mother, and gave
them a daughter's kiss. Had she looked
back but a single generation she would
have seen that her owti father began life
as poor Joseph, the carpenter. Col.
Hay settled down opposite lug father-in
law and liecame a favored son. Children
were born to him. Even he, in the
midst of youth, felt that money is not
the whole of life; and at t mes he has
had to lay down his little portion of the
heavy load that Amasa Stone carried of
inevitable, inexorable business. He was
on one of these journeys to recruit his
health when his father-in-law passed
away.
A Naval Cadet’s Trouble.
. ■ _j
The most unfortunate case of klepto
mania has been brought to light at tho
Naval Academy, Annapolis, which may
result in the ultimate dismissal of one ot
the “ star ” members of the first class.
It appears that for some time past the
ladets have been missing from their
rooms articles of wearing apparel, trink
ets, eto. It was supposed that they J
had been stolen by some of the
employees, and some had even Been dis
charged on this acconnt. But lately
suspicion fell upon Cadet Bowman, of
Michigan, a member of the graduating
class, which was promptly reported to
the authorities. It was not deemed ex
pedient tcMOct, however, without further
proof, and in the meantime a quiet watch
was instituted. It was ascertained that
a box had been taken from Cadet Bow
man’s room in a surreptitious manner.
An orderly was dispatched to the ex
press office, where it was carried, and
the box was returned to the Academy!
under authority of the commandant or
cadets. It was opened in the presenoa
of Lieutenants Potter, Manney, Green
and Cadet Bowman, and the latter did
not deny that some of the contents did
not belong to him; in fact, the strange
demeanor led those present to believe
that his mind was affected. Bowman
was regelated to the hospital for further:
orders. fie is a bright young ma
standing No. 3 in the first class, an
much sympathy is expressed for him!
It is believed he will either be dismissed
or allowed to resign. It was stated that
a pistol had been taken from him. Fear
ing personal violence a guard watches
over him.
They were talking about a young lady
acquaintance. “Yes,” he said, “I ac
knowledge that she is witty and accom
plished, and that is just the reason why
I would never think of marrying her. I
don’t want a wife that would always get
the beet of me in an argument I’v
seen my own father suffer too much not
to be cautioaa.”