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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1867-1870 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1868)
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C 2.00 69.00j73.00,110.061146.00 I Twenty-one... 65.00 1 72.00! 76,00; 115 00 152.00 j C v.lumn J t 68.00|75.00 79.00i 118.00] 158.00 Parties Advertising will be restricted, I ; their Contracts, to tiieir legitimate business; I that is to say, all Advertisements that do not I f o r to their regular business will be charged I for extra. Advertisements inserted at intervals to be I charged as new each insertion, i The above rules will be strictly adheared to. PROFESSIONAL CAROS. Iff. F. M. JOHN CON Dentist. RESPKCTFCLLY offers Ills professional services to the citizens of Cartersvflle -■ r mdvlcloUy. He is prepared to do w< rk ~tT7 catheat and most Improved style ; fw'Ji extracts J vitro*. (by means of narcotic .^rayV. Vc' < ».l warranted. Office over J. Elsas’ •sire, UARTEKSVILLE, Ga. Feb. 20, lSCS\v5m JERE A, HOWARD, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. | PRITCHETT Sp JFOFFOJin, Attorneys at Law CARTERSVILLE, GA. /VTICE OVER ELS,AS STORE, I [ ) Oct, 17, 186 7, l THOMAS W. MILNER, Attorney at Law, I'IRTERSVILIE. GEORGIA, I Will attend promptly to business entrusted Ii i'.i vare. Oct. 5 wly JOHN I. JONES ATTORNEY AT LAW. Cartersville, Ga. rjrm attcnJ promptly to all business en- H\V trusLtd to ■> c»re. Will practice in ■u, t iarts oflaw, and equity in the Cherokee ■ nit. Special attention to the codec ■ uteluims. Jan. I, 1866. ly John J’ Jones. jFr YTToITes 1 REAL ESTATE AGENT, CARTERSVILLE GA I : an noKoriiud to sell, and have on haml several ■ and Lots, and also numerous building lots In t. ■-a of Cartersville. Also several plantations of van ■ vsln Bartow county. I’urUes desiring to buy or rill do well to give mo a call. All eotaroanlcatlon* answered. July 17. 1866. ItTR. O. PIXKERTOy, B Cartersville, Georgia ■f oT-rs his professional services to the citizens o ■ itfcrsvUte and surrounding country, and will attena Buisu all hours. Office up-stairs in Dr. Samuel Ulay v'i New Brick Building. May 10. 1867,w1y FlTTattillo, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, -; utt.'tul promptly to the Cutting, Repair- w • and Making floy’a and Mcu 8 c J othln F ■ do UlJir * Bradshaw’s store. M ■ CwtirKille, Qa. The Cartersville iJoJel. Bit THOMAS MILAM having HI / charge of this House, would be »»j ■ J (o iCLommodate a few Board- R « <v n J ■ Uh bOAKU, with oi without ■ ''?»ng. Call and sec him at once for terms Hluirtersvillo, Jan 17. HnvW . U. MOIXTCASTGE, Jeweller and WatcU and ■ Clock Repairer, Jhe Front of A. A. Skinner At Co’s store. ■ Cartersville, jan 25 I s. O'SHIELDS) fashionable Tailor , ■WTERSVILLE. BARTOW COUNTY, GEORIGA, Hit k prepared to execute all kinds BJI ol work in the Fashionable Tail- ]yjv ing line, with neatness and in du- . JiJL st yle. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store, ■ krtersviile, jan 23. Errors of Youtli. I Gentleman who suffered for years from ■ 'Us Debility, Premature Decay, and all V 'Sects of youthful indiscretion, will, for she ■ sufieiing humanity, send free to all H need it, the recipe and directions for ft mu the simple remedy by whieh he was ft 1 *! Sufferers wishing to profit by the ft ' -cr’s experience, can do so by address' perfect confidence, ft -IN b. OGDEN, 42 Cedar Street, New IH. PURTELL! MERCHANT TAILOR, ft' lß eßail Street, Atlanta, Ca. THIXG made to order in the very ■' uU “st style and at short notice. 1 W.3U Revenue Tax Notice. ft “ RECEIVE, at my office in ,T. ELSAS’ Store ■ . Returns for 1867, and articles in Sched ft 1 ISC?. The above returns being new due, I ■* •’■urued immediately. SAMUEL T. ANDERSON. U:S Assists ntisiewof. THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. VOL. 6. FORCE'S BOOT AND SHOE House. ARK now reC'dvtPg thoir i; ALL X n-i WINTER STOCK of BOOTS AND j v| PIIOES, the largest ever brongli* to this market. The*e goods cam* direct from the Eastern manufactories, *J I'*’* 1 '*’* ‘rfee* Country Merchants and the Trade a. N . - P expenses added, consisting of Mens , Bovs, Youths, and Childrens’ Wax, K'p.Calf, and Buff Brogans and Buiinora’s—Boots of all styles, thick, wax, kip, ca.f, ,1 of the fined qualities. Ladies’, d.sses ,»ndCWt n?’ .B jots and Shoes, of every ' B. W. FORCE, formerly of Charleston will be giad to see his old customers. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. A GOODJ PEKING BUSINESS. THE undersigned, desiring to change his business, offers to sell all bis stock.. con sisting of horses, buggies, hacks, carriages, wagons, harness, provender, &c. also, to either sell or rent his stable, knowu in Carters villc as the ECLIPSE SALE & LIVERY STABLE, to any one desiring to engage in the Livery Stable Business, no place in North Georgia affords a better opening than Cartersville. It is located in the very heart, of Cherokee Ga ; surrounded by a country rivalled; by no supe rior in the South. A central points for a great area of territory, and Cartersville is one ot the most flourishing town? between Atlanta and Chattanooga, having grown from about seven hundred to near two thousand inhabitants since the war, and is the principal point of trade tor thirteen counties and parts of counties. I his is the only stable in the place, hor further particulars address or apply to 1 J. G. STOCKS, Cartersville, Ga. Jan. 31st, 1868-ts, BRITISH PERIODICALS. THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIF.W TI[K EDINBURGH REVIEW (Whig), THE WESTMINISTER REVIEW (Radical.) THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW [Free Church.] AND BLACKWOOD’S EDINB’G MAGAZINE [Tory.]) These periodicals are aoiy sustained by the contri butions of the best writer? on Science, Religion, and General Literature, and p..and unrivalled in the wot Id of letters. 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TIIE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CD, 140, Fulton Street, N. Y. The L. S. Pub. Cos., also publish the FARMER’S GUIDE, by Henry Stevens, of Edenburg, and the late J. P. Norton, of Yale College. 2 vols. Royal Octavo, 1600 pages, and numerous Engravings. Price $7 for the two volume"--by Mail, post paid §B. January 34, ISCB. Rll SASSEEN. B. W. YORK. li. T. JOUROAN SASSEEN’S United States Hotel Cor. Alabama and Pryor streets, ATL4KTA, GEORGIA. Within 100 yards of the Passenger Depot. , SASSEF.N, YORK and JOURDON, Propr’s. J. W. F. BRYSON, ) > Clerks. R. T. JOURDAN, ) Dec. 20th, 1867-ts. BLACKSIttITHING. 2§|T & H. GOODSON. XTAVING COMPLTED THEIR NEW A™ adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop, on West side of Railroad, Cartersville, Ga.. are prepared to do all kinds of work in the Blacksmithing line. They flatter themselves, that they can do as good work, and at as low piicc, as any like eitablishmcnt in town. They ask a rea sonable share of the public patronage, and promise satisfaction both in the character of their work and the reasonableness of their charges. A. & M. GOODSON. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 31st, 1868-wly. « if \iit for the WAGOFT, and ice-ll all take a ride Wagon-Making and REPAIRING, by J. W. NUNLEY, CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, HAVING completed my new shop on Main Street West side of the Railroad, I am now prepared to put up to order One, Two and Four-Horse WAGONS, CARTS, Wheel-Barrows and Plow Stocks ; also, REPAIRING of all kinds of vehicles done at short notice. Owing to the stringency in money matters av charges will be as moderate as circumstances will ad mit. My work recommends itself. Cartersville, Jan. 23, 1867. To Arrive. I WILL have on hand, in two vyceks., as the Importer of French Glass, 15 ores of Glass of all sizes. Contractors and parties wishing Glass will please call on me as I will sell at lower prices than any one Tn Georgia can. as I am satisfied with the commission paid me by the Importer. Feb. Tth, 1868-wtf. »• »*• KR ;* MRH ’ Ca;teisville. Ga. CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA., MAY 8, 1808. PIANOFORTES! ri IHE undersigned would announce to the J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he is iuily pepared to furnish TTfiT? 7or 7 1-3 PITS a OCTAYE3, Vfi'h all the very latest improve ments, and most elegant style and workman ship, one hundred dollars less than they can be purchased elsewhere south. They will be fully warranted. PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED In the very best manner, and all work warran ted, and shall pleased to give all orders prompt attention. MR, S. T. ANDERSON will kindly give further information at present, and deliver any orders, or you cart address, by mail, F, L, PREFER, Kenncsaw House, Marietta, Ga, He >s also agent for the sale of all kinds of ORGANS, Jan 25wtf EDAVARD BEfUITOLDT, AND CONFECTIONER, CARTERSVILLE, GA. f S PREPARED TO BAKE and keeps on I hand, BREAD AjYD CAKES of every kind, also a fine stock of OONKB'4TK)NfcRIEB, a gen eral variety. FRESH LAGER BEER kept on band, l’artio* and Weldings furnished at short notice.— November 21,1567. MURRELL % IRQ., Resident Dentists, OFFER THEIR PROFESSIONAL SER viues to the citizens of Cartersville and vicinity. Having all the latest im provements in Dental Material, Drs, Murrell are prepared to Extract Teeth with out pain, (by means of Ansesthe.ics), insert on Pivot, Fill wiih Gold, Os Artificial and Amal gam, and put in Partial or Whole Setts of ar tificial teeth on Gold or Vulcanized Base,— Will direct the second Dentition of children, and do anything pertaining to the proflession. All work warranted to give satisfaction. Office over S. Clayton <Se Son’s Store. References :—T. J Young, M D„ M H. ’F’homas, M D and Dentist, W S R Hardman, M, D., Monroe, Ga, Cartersville, Jan. 23, ’67. wly- TO THE LADIES PREMIUM FAMILY SEWING MACHINES. rpilE best machine for every description of family sewing made. Call and examine machine and specimen of work over S. Clayton & Son’s store, Carters ville, Ga. S. H. PATTILLO, Agent for Bartow county. Dec. 13th, t867-tf. o/ /tavc Icmover/my, d/oe^ DRUGS, &C, /Ac d/oic loom textf/ci /Ac BARTOW HOUSE, anc/ am note* /oca/c/ on MAIN ST, necc/ t/00l /o GILBERT & CO., HARDWARE HOUSE. c=/// y J teldona/a//cri/eon id ypetten /o /Ae e/id/iendiny °f EDICI 7ST IE S, ant/ am dc//t,y a// ai= /ic/ed m my /encj due A ad MEDICINES, OIL, PAINTS, GLASS, &C., AS CHEAP ad cadi Ac oj///tc dame ytia/i/y c/jc m<Acie. c=j/ ie- do/ici/ a con/mn= a nee oj? /Ac Aint/nedd a/ /uive Iccerver/ J- IF 1 . IB ZEST- IMZ-.JD. Druggist and Pharmaceutist. Feb. 7th, 1868-wly, Cartersville Ga. N. GILRBATH & SON. GENERAL DEALERS IN Dry-Goods and Groceries, ALSO, Produce and Provision Merchants, Orders for Grain or Provision promptly filled, N. GILREATH & SON, Feb. 7th, 1868-wtf. Cartersville, Ga, SADDLERY AND HARNESS manufactory. THE undersigned, determined to give the people of Bartow and adjoining counties no excuse for goin" abroad to purchase their SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C M and for repairing the same, have opened, in the town of Cartersville, a regular, SADDLE AND HARNESS MANUFAC TORY, where they propose to put up eyerything in their line in the neatest, most substantia! and durable mannor, and at prlceM that will defy competition. They flattertbern selves that they can and will do work, which, in every respect, will compare favorably with any work done North or South, botll in quality and price. Let no one ig nore our work because it is done in the South, nor our pi ices, before giving us a tiial, for that is all we ask to secure trade. o»ir work is all warranted and that is a sufficient guar antee to purchasers. We are determined to build up a name and business in Cartersville that will be a heritage to our children after us, if prompt attention, good work, and mode latc charges will secure that end, Rooms it the front of the Eclipse Sale and Livery Stable, THOMPSON & STOCKS. Cartersville, Ga, Jan. 7th, 18G8-wly, N. GILREATH \ SOii Are receiving a new stock, of Spring and summer goods, se’ected by one of the firm in person, consisting, in part, of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Ladies’ Dress Goods, Reatly-Jllade CTOTHIJi'Cr, laius’, JRisjsts’ an& (sfnts’ Slats, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, QUEENSWAEE. Also, a well selected stock of GROCERIES, To which we invite the attention of our friends,and beg them to call and examine—especially to buy from us, as quick sales and short profits is our motto. N. GILREATH & SON, apri! 9,1868. Cartersville, Ga. “ To Wheat Growers.” On for the coming Ssjasorr, Wheat Threshers and Fans, Railway ana Lever Horse- Powers, Reaping and Mowing Ma chines, Grain Cradles, And, in fact, every thing needed for harvesting and Cleaning the coming Grain Crop. P. W. J. F.CnOI S The Horse-power Threshers and Fans I bought of you for myself and neighbors, last year, gave perfect satisfaction. On the Railway pow er, though working constantly, my mules fattened, while my mules that were pi owing were falling off. J. F, SHIPP, Social Circle, Ga. ‘•The four-horse lever power and thresher and clean er, bought of P. W. J„ Echols, in 1867, we unhesitating ly say is the best we have ever seen. Though rather late in the season when we received it, we threshed over 7.000 bushels of Grain.” BEGGARLY A, HUNNICUTT, Coweta eonnty, Ga. Aay amount of evidence given as to the quality of these Machines. Call and examine or address P. W. J. ECHOLS, Georgia Agricultural Warehouse, Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga. April 9,1868. Hardware Ac Iron STORE! HARDWARE, STOVES, Iron and Steel, .A. X-. T-A-IRaA. Xj IMPLEMENTSi Direct from Manufacturers, LOW FOR CASH. W II GILBERT and GO Cartersville, Ga. April 9,1868 wly Gun-smithing* Cartersyille, Ga. TAKE AIM! READY! F-I-R-E! J-no. IF 1 . HAiIWFLL. Is still hammering away at his old tricks re pairing I'lnloln and Guiin, Thresh ers, Gins, and all kinds of metalic ma chined , also any kinds of work done in Iron, Steel, Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass or Zinc,-- Shop adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop. april 9th SMITH & RICHMOND, Wholesale Tobacco AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Alabama Street, Jlll(itlttt) Gtt. PROMPT attention given to filling orders and the of merchandise, produce, etc. March 26w6m DICK THOMPSON, ANNOUNCES to his former patrons, and. all others, that he has returned to Cartersville, \nd is pre pared to do anything iu the line of House, Sign arffcl Ornamental Painting* with cheapness, neatrc3» and dispatch. Only try me and be satisfied, Pattisfao.lon warranted in every in stance. april9 1869 vtf MY MIDXIGUT PERIL. BY AMY RANDOLPH. The night ot the seventeenth of Oc tober—shall I ever forget its pitchy darkness, the roar of the autumnal wind through the lonely forest, and the incessant downpour of the rain ? I had heard of lone!) wayfarers being lost in the woods before ; I had pitied them ; but now I fully realized the terror, the undefined danger which broods over the lost! “This comes of short hours,” I muttered petulantly to myself as I plodded along, keeping dose to the trunks of the trees to avoid the deep ravine through which I could just hear the roar of the turbulent stream some forty or fifty feet below. My blood ran cold as 1 thought what might be the possible consequence of a misstep or a move in the wrong direction.— Why had I not been contented to keep in the high road? “ I should have reached the railroad station an hour ago if I had not fool ishly imagined the wood path U’oulu he more direct ; now 1 have wandered oiY, nobody knows how many miles out of civilization, and if I escape with a whole skin and sound bones, I shall consider myself particularly lucky, rkold on—was that, a light, or are my eyes playing me aa false as did my common sense?’ 1 1 stopped, holding” on to the low, re sinous boughs of a hemlock that grew on the edge of the bank, for it actually seemed as if the wind woukt seize me bodily and hurl me down the precipit ous descent. It was a light—thank ProvUleuce, it was a light, and no ignias latus or corpse-gleam to lure me on to destruc tion and death. “ Halloo-o-o-o My voice rang through the woods like a clarion, strengthened by the en ergy of desperation ; the light hesita ted, oscillated back and forth, and fi nally stood still, I pivtngetb onward through tangled vines, dense bria'rs and rocky banks until, gradually near ing, I could perceive a bent figure wrapped in an old oil-cloth cape or cloak, carrying a lantern. As the dim light fell upon his face I almost t ceoiled. Would not solitude and the woods be preferable to the companionship of this withered, wrinkled, bidetuis old man? But it was too late to recede now. “ What’s wanting ?” he snarled, with a peculiar motion of the lips that seemed to leave his yellow stumps all bare. “I am lost in the woods; can you direct me to R station ?” “ Yes ; R station is twelve miles from here.” “ Twelve milps ?” I stood aghast. “ Yes.” “ Can you tell me of any shelter I could obtain for the night ?” “ No.” “ Where are you going?” i “To Drew’s, down by the maple swamp.” “ Is it a tavern ?” “ No.” “ Would they take me for the night? I could pay them well.” Ilis eyes, gleamed; the yellow stumps stood revealed once more. “ I guess so. ’Taint a tavern, but folks do stop there once in awhile.” “ fs it far from hero ?” “ Not very ; about half a mils.” “ Then let us make haste and reach it. lam drenched to the skin.” We plodded on, my companion more than keeping pace with me, though he must have been nearly seventy-five years of age, and bent with innrmity. Presently wc left the edge of the ravine entering what seemed like trackless woods, and keeping straight on until the lights of some habitation gleamed fitfully through the wet foliage. It was a ruinous old place, with the windows all down to one side as if the foundation had settled, and the pillars ol a rude porch nearly rotted away, yet Aladdin’s castle could scarcely have looked pleasanter or more wel come to me, wayworn and weary as I was. A woman answered my fellow-trav eler’s knock —a woman apparently about thirty-five years ot age, with reddish brown hair, wound in thick braids about her head, and curious, half shut eyes. My companion whis pered a word to her, and she turned to me with smooth voluble words of wel come. “ She regretted ihe poverty of their accommodations ; but l was welcome to them, such as they were.” “Where is Isaac?” demanded my guide. “ He has not come in yet.” I sat down on the wooden bench be side the lire, with my vvlise close to me, while the woman threw or. fresh logs, drew’ out a round pine table, and produced bread, cold meat, and a bot tle of some spirituous compound. I ate a few niouthfulls of llie bread, but did not touch the other articles. “ I should like to retire as soon as possible,” I said, lor my weariness was excessive. “Certainly.” The woman started up with alacrit)’. “ Where are you going to put him ?” asked my guide, “ Up ohamhei.” “ Put him in Is-jac’s room.” “ No.” “ It’s the most comfortable.” “ I tell you no /” But here l interrupted' the whispered colloquy. “ I am not particular—l don’t care where you lodge me, only make basic.” The woman’s smooth apologies were iprofuse. “She only wanted to make me comfortable, and Isaac’s room al ways leaked in wet spells.” So l was conducted up a steep ladvft t; that stood in the corner of the room, into an apartment ceiled wiih- sloping beams, and ventilated by one small window, where a cot bedstead, crowded d,ose against (he board partition, anil* a pine 'table, with one nr two chairs, formed the sole attempts at furniture. The woman set the light—an oil lamp—on the table. “Anything f can get for you, sir?” “ Nothing. I tliaak you.” “ I hope you’ll sleep well, sir— when shall I call you ?” “At four o’clock in the morning, if you please. I must walk over to R station in tiujp for the seven, o’clock express.”" She withdrew, leaving me alone in ‘the gloomy little apartment. I sat down and looked around *me with no very agreeable sensation. Wearied as I had become, I kail no inclination to sleep—in fact, it seemed as if I had. never been more wakeful in all my life. I walked up and down a lie narrow room ; I laid down on the bed, trying to woo slumber by listen ing to the ceaseless drip, drip of the rain upon the rool ; but all in vain ; my brain seemed preiernaturally ac live. “ I will sit down and write to Bere nice,” I thought. “That will soothe my nerves and quiet me, perhaps.” I dscende.l the ladder. The fire still glowed redly on the stone beneath; my companion and the woman sat be side it, talking in a low tone, and a third person sat at the table eating ; a short, stout, villainous looking man, in red flannel shirt and muddy trowsers. I asked for writing materials. A bottle of ink, a stumpy pen and a couple of sheets of soiled paper were brought out of a little cupboard in the chimney, and I returned to my room to write to Dty wife. “ My Darling Berenice .” I paused and laid down my pen as I concluded the words, half smiling to t kink what she would say, could she know of my strange quarters —she, my fair Italian flower, now regaining the lost roses under the blue balmy sky of her native land. Sweet little Berenice! She, at least, was spared the perils of this stormy midnight! Not until both sheets were covered, did I lay aside my pen and prepare for slumber. As I folded the paper I hap pened to glance toward my couch. Was it the gleam of a human eye observing me through the cracks of the board partition, or was it but my own fancy ? Whatever it was, it sent a cold chill through the very morrow of my bones. I took my light to recon noitre. There was a crack there, but only blank darkness beyond; yet I could have sworn that something had sparkled balefully at me. I took out my watch-r-it was one o’clock. It was scarcely worth while for me to undress for three hours sleep. I would lie down in my clothes and snatch what slumber I could. So pla cing iny valise close to the head of my bed, and barricading the lockless door with the two chairs, l extinguished the light and laid down. At first I was very wakeful, but gradually a soft drowsiness seemed to steal 'over me like a misty mantle, until all of a sudden, some startling electric thrill coursed through al! my veins, and I sat up excited and trembling. A luminous softness seemed to glow and quiver through the room—no light of moon or star was ever so soft or penetrating— and by the little window l saw Berenice, my wife, dressed in a floating garment of white, with her long golden hair knotted bark by a blue ribbon. Apparently «he was beckoning to m# with outstretched hands and eyes full of wild,. anxious tenderness. NO. 44. I sprang to iuy {pet, and rushed to wards her. but as l reached me win dow the fair apparition seemed to van ish into tha stormy darkness, and I was left alone. At the self-same in stant the sltarp report of a pistol minded —I could see the jagged su,iajc of fire above tjie pillow—straight through the very spot where, ten sec onds since, my head had lain. With an instantaneous realization ol mv danger, l swung myself over the edge of the window, jumping some eight or ten feet into the tangled rose bushes below, and a*. I crouched there, recovering my breath, I heard the tramp of footsteps into my room. ‘ls he dead V cried a voice up the ladder —the smooth, deeetful voice of the woman with the half closed *vea. *Of course he is,“growled a voice back ; ‘that charge would have killed ten men. A light tVre, quick ! 'ud tell Tom to be ready to dispose <>f it !’ •It !’ A cold, agonized shudder ran through me as I recalled what ‘it’ meant. What den ol midnight mur derers. had I fallen into ? And how fearfully narrow had been my escape* With a speed that only mortal 1 terror deadly peril can give, I rushed through the woods, now illumined by a faint Sgliuwner of starlight. I knew not what impulse guidled my footsteps—l never shall know how many times I crossed my own track, or how close 1, stood to the brink of the deadly ravine; but some merciful Providence com passed me with guiding and protecting care, for, when the morning dawned, witih faint red bars of orient It&ht against the ear-tern, sky, I was close to the high road, some seven miles from B . Once at the town, I told my story to the local police, and a detachment was sent to the spot. After much search ing, and many false alarms, we suc ceeded in finding the ruinous old shan ty ; but it was empty and deserved. Our birds have fiowu ; nor did I eves recover my valise and watch and chain, which latter I had left UQ&f ,n y pillow. ‘lt’s Drew’s gang,* said the leader of the police ; ‘and they’ve troubled us those tv/o years. I don’t, thiols though they’ll come baok here just at present. Nor did they. But the Stranges part of mv story is to come yet. Home three weeks subsequently I received a letter from my sister who was with Berenice in her Italian home—a letter whose in. tclligence filled me with suprise. ‘I must tell you something very, very strange, wrote my sister, ‘that happened to us on the night of the 17th of October. Berenice had not been so well for some time ; in fact, she had been confined to hep bed for nearly a week, and I was sitting beside her reading. It was late ; the clock had just struck one, when all of a sudden she seemed to faint away, gorwing cold and rigid as a corpse. 1 hastened to call assistance, but all our efforts seemed vain to restore life or amnia, tion. I was just about sending An tnnie for the doctor whether sensei re turned as suddenly as had left her, and she set up in bed; pushing back her hair, and looking wildly around her. ‘Berenice,’ I exclaimed, ‘how yoy have terrified us all ! Are you ill ?’ ‘Not ill,’ she exclaimed , • but 1 feel so strange. (Iraicic, I have been with my husband !’ ‘And all our reasonings failed to convince her of the impossibility of her assertion. She persists to this moment that she saw you and was with you on the night of the seventeenth of October, or rather on the morning at the eighteenth. When ami how she cannot tell ; but we think it must have been some dream. She is betternow, and I wish you could see how last site is improving. ’ This is a plain, anvarnisheif talo. i do not pretent to explain or account for its mysteries. I simply relate facts. Let psychologists unravel the labyrin thyeat skein. lam not superstitious, neither do I believe in ghosts, wraiths and apparition ; but this thing l do know —that although my Italian wife was at Naples, in the body, the morn ing of the eighteenth of October, her spirit stood beside me m the moment of the deadly peril that menaced me. It may be that, to the subtle instinct and strength of a wife’s Indy love all things are possible ; but Berenice sure ly saved my life. iNFORMATion VVANTed. —VVe find the following item in the eolumbue papers We saw, on Saturday, at our friend* Herring & Leyden’s Tobacco House, on Whitehall street that extra brand of smoking tobacco, “ Fruits and Flow ers.” We are not much on the smoke but after trying two or thren hundred and fifty pipefulls, we give it as our opinion that it is splendid. They have lots of it to sell, besides many other brands. — Opiniot\ . _ ‘ . . % MY LOT I’ERY TICKETS. ls '/wl they cost and what they i ed to. Il was Saturday night, and the little woman who bears my name and mends my stockings, was silling in her low ohair by the life, zealously yulli*#* palvih upon the knee oft liuio lom a trowsers, turning the piece gs cloth this way and that, and holding- her head on, one side U) watch the effect. But thy, 'stripes would;all run the wrong way, while the colors were provokingly bright compared, with the faded gar-, menu “Never mind that,. Mary,” said ft “here’s a chance to. throw away yoi|jQ patches. Hurrah for a lovely country <eat on the Hudson, fifty shares ofbank stock, a house in town or any thing, else you wish, and all for a dollar!”* “Mow Thomas,” said she, and when* she wishes to be severe she always 'culls me Thomas, “what aw you luljv* ing about?” “A gift enterprise, Molly—tickets ‘only ■« doUuu a:;,d sure to draw a prize.’ I read the heading, and 1 displayed' tho. long list of prizes. “What do you think of that?” !-shouted a iiunphantly. “I think,” she said, laughing, “that if you make so much noise you will wake the baby.” Then seeing that I looked l annoyed, she added, “but l do not think lotteries arc just right, espec ially for church mauth-rs. Do “O, nonsense! I never saw a church fair in my life that di.di not have grijh boxes and lotteries. I shouldn’t dare to say how many dollars l have spent oa them, and never drew anything either.’ She Looked roguishly at roe. ‘Don’t you think, then, you arc njpst, too o),d to begin!;’ “It may as well be 1 as any one, and it is no great matter, only a dollar..” “i know, Ton*,” aryl the wise lit tho woman looked; grave, ‘-but we haven’t many dollars, to throw away;’ and she. holdup the baby’s seeks with a good sized hole in each heel. “And little Tom's school bill conies in next week. I laid down iny paper and tried to. speak convincingly. “Now Mollie, it is all very well for a Qj.an to jog on day after day,, e-twlng and- spending just so. much, but he likes to make a venture, once in a while ju.at for the excitement of the thing, if for nothing more.” “Yes; but Toni, don’t you lenient-, ber the nhatc lu the oil well?” “Y-e-s,” said l, slowly, ‘for it was; rather an unpleasant topic of eonver-. saticn to me. I had invested the. little sum left me by a maiden aunt iiv an oil company against Mary’s good judgement. Capital a million dollars-, more or less; oil well, flowing day and night on the land of the next company just over the fence. I was very much elated, and promised Mary /among oth-_ er things, anew black silk dress we. had seen displayed in some shop win-, dow. Well they bored and bored v throwing up a great deal of dirt and a great deal of water, bust not a drop oft oil; and just as they were about to he-v gin in anew spot the treasurer, or some, one eke, ran away with the funds, and that ended the whole affair. Mary lika a good woman, never reproached me v hut when 1 came one day and found her turning her old m.ofino inside out and upside down, I felt—well I can’t, fell just how; but I thought of that silk dress. “And oh!” she continued, “don’t you remember the patent for the flour sifter?” and she laughed outright. Sit did I when I thought ol the spectacle I presented when I chanced to turn the prank the wrong way and the flour flew in every direction. But I had made up my mind to buy one of these tickets; so, though Marv sighed, she said no more. I invested on my way down. I thought I might as well buv one for Mary and one for little 'Pom, too. 1 showed them to her when I went home to dinner, “Not three! O, Tom, how could von?” and looked really grieved % while I, thinking it a pity if I must ac count for every penny I spent, assumed the dignified air which the occasion seemed to demand, and the meal passed in silence. I went home at night to find her sewing as usual. My consci* once gave an uncomfortable twinge as she looked up pleasantly, and then turned to the great basket of work.—. If she only had a sewing machine!—. Perhaps I should draw one, and I grew quite happy over the thought, imagin', ing her surprise when I sent it homo unexpectedly. She would not thinlc me unwise, then, in having bought the tickets. Little Tom interrupted my reverie With—‘o, father old Susan, who used to work for us. has been here to day. She lias burned her hand so she can’t do anything. Mrs. Smith gave her a dollar. Mother said she couldn’t give her any money, but she put some salve on her hand and gave her something to cat.” 1 did not look at Mary, but con trived to turn Tom’s thoughts into aiw other channel. Nor was I any more cQmfmfa&ta. <ri» passing through th? haU the n<*" (/*>?»?hfodon /*»•**•" *‘ l da r v .„*/t
