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W. a. H tßit UiLK, ( Editors and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEST.
Robt. Gillatin and G. W. Adame,
wealthy farmers of lowa, have been arrested
at St. Joe, Mo., as extensive shovers of the
green.
At the recent election in the Choctaw
and Chickasaw nations, Indian territory,
Coleman Cole was elected governor of the
Choctaws, and Frank Overton, governor of
the Chickasaws.
Gen. Pope telegraphs Lieutenant-
General Sheridan that the Indians who have
been maranding in south-western Kansas
have gone to the borders of the Llano Estac
ado, a county filled wi th game, and that they
have abundance of ammunition. The three
columns of troops now operating will con
verge on the section named.
News received at Lieutenant-General
Sheridan’s headquarters indicates that the
Cheyennes, Kiowas and Comanches seeing
the formidable preparations made to punish
them for their recent depredations are asking
for peace, and for the military to call it even.
Orders have, however, been is-ued not to let
these hostile bands enter the reservations,
bnt for the troops to follow and punish them
wherever found.
The following telegram has been re
ceived by Gen. Ord from Fort Fetterman,
Wyoming: “A Cheyenne half-breed from
Powder river reports that at the council of
Cheyenne and Araphoes it was decided to re
call all hostile parties from the vicinity of the
raiiroad, and return to the agency ; that about
two hundred lodges of Cheyennes passed
thirty-five miles north of this post Friday, en
route to the'agency; they were very hungry
and eating their horses. I send this rumor
for what it is worth.”
SOUTH.
The president has appointed W. H.
H. Clayton United States attorney for the
western district of Arkansas.
The extreme dry, hot weather, for
the past ton days, has injured the crops all
over the state of Arkansas to such an extont,
that no more than one-fourtli of a crop is now
expected to be raised.
Telegrams from MoDroe, Trenkm,
Farmersville, Shreveport, Baton Itouge. La
Canton, Coffeeville, Camden, Holly Springs,
Durant, Natchez, Meridian, Mississippi, and
points in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas re
port cotton and corn crops suffering from
long continued drouth.
A Memphis dispatch says the exces
sive hot weather of the past week has produ
ced more cases of sunsvroke than were ever
known before in this latitude The board of
health reports fourteen deaths from this
cause. Reports from the surrounding country
state that the crops are suffering very much
from drouth.
The Courier Journal publishes re
ports from correspondents in fifty counties of
Kentucky, representing 75 per cent, of the
crops of the entire state, which indicate an
unparalleled failure of the tobacco crop in
the aggregate. The estimate is deduced that
the crop of 1874 will be only 13 per cent, of
the yield last year under the most favorable
future conditions.
A dispatch from Memphis says, the
men who went to Austin have returned, and
are satisfied that the Austin fight was as much
of a fiasco as Somerville, and there has been
much exaggerated reports. During the entire
trouble one negro was killed and no white man
even wounded. Only one store was sacked by
the negroes during the time they had posses
sion of tlie place. The seventeen leaders are
rather the more bositerous ones, as they
seemed to have no leaders. They were arrest
ed and confined in jail to await trial.
Gapt. A. T. Butler, who was shot by
a negro at Atlanta, Ga., died on the 17th inst.
Tue citizens were so exasperated at the un
provoked murdor that several hundred of
them armed themselves and marched to the
jail, where the Murrell brothers were con
fined, took both of them out, and carried
them to the parade grounds. A jury was im
provised, when both (iabriel and Mike Mur
rell asserted their innocence. After three
honrs’ investigation on the sworn testimony
of eye-witnesses of the murder, Gabriel was
taken back to jail, and Mike shot to death.
The August returns of the department
of agriculture show improvements in the pros
pects of the cotton crop in all the large cot
ton states except Alabama, in which during
Jnly, the average declined two per cent. Vir
ginia also declined 2 per cent. Arkansas 7
per cent., and Tennessee 6 per cent. The
state averages ware as follows : Virginia 78
per oent/of average crop, North Carolina 102
cent., South Carolina 97 per cent., Georgia
94 per cent., Florida 102 per cent.. Mississippi
89 per cent., Louisiana 83 per cent., Texas 105
per cent., Arkansas 87 per cent, Tennessee S3
per cent.
FOREIGN.
Holland and Italy have recognized
Spain.
The recognition of the Spanish repub
lic by England, France and Austria, is offi
cially promulgated.
A dispatch from Gen. Mariones to the
war office, reports that the carlists lost 700
men in the engagement at Oteiza.
A statement of the sugar crop of Ash
land, of Cuba, shows that 79.58 per cent, of
the total exports of sugar and molasses went
to the United Statos or was sent to the United
States.
Three socialist members of the German
Reichstag, Hazlmanu, Rejner and Hazen
clever, were tried at Berlin for attending
meetings of the workmen’s society after it
had been ordered by the police to discon
tinue its gatherings. Hazenclever was con
victed and senten&ed to two months impris
onment. r
Ihe Old Catholic movement is ex
tending to southern Germany. In Bavaria,
at Limbachby, Bishop Iteinkens has just con
secrated anew church, the first budding
which the Old Gatholics have erected in Ger
many. It is stated the Emperor William pre
sented a quantity of metal from French guns
captured in the late war, to be cast into a
hell. An Old Catholic community has just
been started at Stuttgart.
Gen. Marchi, governor of the island
of Santa Marguerite, protests his in
nocence of the escape of Bazaine, and
accuses Col. Villette, the marshal’s aid-de
camp, of having perfected the plan to secure
his flight. Eight persons are now in custody
on suspicion of having aided Bazaino’s es
cape. La Gazette des Trebanaux says that
0:: n 4>ht of Marshal Bazaiue’s escape,
one soldier was twice on guard, and each
time a jailer engaged him in conversation,
and kept him in the sentry box. This jailer
has been arrested.
It. has been ascertained that the plan
for Marshal Bazaine’s escape was arranged six
weeks ago. It was entirely the work of Mad
ame Bazaine. The marshal refused at first to
fly, but finally owing to his failure to obtain
modification of his sentence yielded. He
sailed from the island in the steam yacht Ba
ron Ricasoli, belonging to an Italian company.
The prisoner refused to employ a Freuchves
sel. He was accompanied in his flight by his
wife and brother. His place of refuge is not
known. Some persons say he is in Spain.
The domestics at the fort where the marshal
was imprisoned have bean arrested.
A European correspondent writes that
news has reached Berlin that China has
pushed forward 100, M 0 additional picked
troops to the Kashgar frontier, and in addition
placed large garrisons in the towns of Barko
rot and Olmnis Troojsi have moreover been
concentrated in the north in Taudakatia Ked
do and Ulyasuta which can be readily made
s < ailable for war with Kashgar. It is proposed
to attack the country emiultaneouely from two
sides. At St. Petersburg it is believed that in
THE STANDARD AND EX PRESS.
that event Russia would at once come to the
assistance of Kashgar, the more so since
China is known te be arming also for anew
war with Russia.
The Turkish government is having
trouble with its subjects in Crete. The
Christians and Mussulmans are arrayedagainst
each other, and a strong garrison is required
to keep the peace. The Christians demand
that full political rights be accorded them,
and complain that they are oppressed by the
Turks with impunity in the presence of the
troops. Both parties are willing to be rid of
Turkish rule. The Christians favor annexa
tion to Greece, while Mussulmans want to be
under the protection of Egypt. Conciliation
is believed to be impossible, and a serious
outbreak, it is said, may occur an any mo
ment.
Marshal Bazaine escaped from the
island of St. Marguerette some time during
the night of the 10th, The details of the
manner in which he succeeded in getting away
are unknown except that he used a rope lad
der and got on board a vessel hound for Italy.
The night was dark and stormy. The jour
nals declare that the government. will act
promptly and energetically in punishing all
who connived at his escape. It is reported
that Marshal Bazaine landed at San Reto and
traveled via Turin to Basle. At the latter
place he took the train to Brussels, where he
arrived Tuesday morning. It is believed that
the rope found on the cliff at St. Margurette
was suppended there to mislead the authori
ties as to the mauner of the Marshal’s escape,
which was effected in some other way through
the connivance of the guards.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sixteen million dollars are invested
in silk factories in this country, employing 10,-
051 operatives. There is a shrinkage of 25
to 35 per cent, this year from the amount of
raw silks produced last year.
The attorney-general has received a
letter from Gov. Cooke, of Colorado, in which
the latter states that he has ordered militia to
cross the Rio Grande, if necessary, in pursuit
of the mauraders from Mexico.
Up to last week the amount of cir
culation withdrawn by national banks by de
positors of legal tenders, is greater than the
amount issued since the passage of the new
law by about §1,000,000, thus working a con
traction of currency to that extent. A major
ity of the banks thus withdrawing their circu
lation are located in the south and west.
FAMINE IN ASIA MINOR.
Five Thousand Starve to Death in One
District.
Rev. Dr. Clark of the American Board
of Foreign Missions has received a let
ter from the Rev. J. O. Barrows, of
Cesarea, dated July 10, in which he
gives some thrilling details of the ter
rible famine now prevailing in that re
gion. Mr. Barrows writes :
While ai Yodegat, which is eighty or
ninety miles north of ns rav
ages of the famine, which is very se
vere, and also bevord and toward An
goria, many villages are entirely de
serted. In some only one or two, three
or four families, or parts of families,
remain. In the district of Sangarte,
which is beyond Yodegat, and in which
city there is a Pro*estant church, as
many as 5,000 persons have died of star
vation. But the horrors of ti is famine
are indescribable. Many people have
subsisted on grass for weeks and then
died. Beggars have flocked to the
cities and there many of them have
died because they could not get a mor
sel of bread. Old men, mothers with
babes at their breasts, young children,
boys and girls, are all half naked, beg
ging and crying. Dying bodies have
lain in the streets one, two, and even
three or four days, before burial, and
the dogs have feasted on them. Many
of our Protestant communities and
families have suffered greatly.
At Sungarte some of the brethren
have sold house, shop, household fur
niture, everything, and now must beg
or starve, and perhaps both. In one
village there was one Protestant family.
The father, mother and all the children
but two have died of starvation. In
the village of Ingierlie there was a
pleasant little Protestant community,
several of whom were members of the
chnrch, with a preacher residing with
them, but they were poor. This
preacher went to Yodegat and pur
chased flour, becoming responsible for
the pay himself, and so kept a live six
families. Now, unless the preacher
can be paid, his creditors will take
everything from him.
The Mysteries of Courtship and Mar
riage.
It is a singular fact, says a Parisian
writer, that a man generally requires
very different qualities in a wife from
those ho admires in a sweetheart.
While a lover, he expected to see his
future wife neatly and stylishly dressed
whenever he chose to call, either morn
ing or evening, and the girl busied her
little brain all day in efforts to please
his taste. If he left town for a few
days, he sent letters full of sweet noth
ings that filled her soul with joy. Then
came delightful rambles in the moon
light, and honrs spent in charming
tete-a-tetes after the family had retired,
when the two saw no one but each other
in their world of love.
Alas that such bliss must ever be dis
pelled. Time brought preparations for
the approaching wedding ; for this de
voted couple imagined that their happi
ness could never be complete until the
hymeneal knot was tied.
So the wedding and honeymoon were
soon over, and the parties settled into
the matter-of-fact part of life. The
biide knows nothing of housekeeping.
Since her schooldays she has spent her
time in studying the tastes of her lover,
whicn certainly seemed to incline to
wards dress and sentimentality.
Now, alas! she discovers that his
stomach demands food of the best
quality; and because she knows not
how to cater to his palate his love seems
to be waning. While he is vainly try
ing to appease hunger with sour bread
aud burned steak, little des he appre
ciate the sweet nonsense and honeyed
words which nsed to be so satisfying t©
his sentimental nature.
Ah, men are so unreasonable ? They
expect to find every quality of excel
lence in the women they marry, yet
have not penetration sufficient to choose
the most worthy. To shine in society,
to exhibit every feminine accomplish
ment, both at home and abroad, are
duties which they require in the women
they marry ; and what have they to give
in return ? It seems impossible that
these delicate attentions which charac
terize the lover should be so withdrawn
by the husband.
* The other day when I heard a neigh
bor demanding his dinner in not the
most pleasant tone, I thought, “ Can it
be possible that he ever played the
ardent lover to that pale, dejected wo
man, whom he calls his wife ?”
The lover who could scarcely tear
himself away from his sweetheart at
midnight is the same man now who
leaves his wife to spend her evenings as
best she may, while he passes the hours
in doubtful enjoyment.
Ah ! how foon men forget the solemn
vow to love and cherish till death ! And
how mauy women regret that the charm
iog delusions of courtship were ever ex
changed for the unpleasant realities of
marriage.
Costab has found gold in abundance
i and the Black Hills country is a sort of
j paradise, half California, half Florida,
j Whether the American people are ready
i to take their scalps in their hands and
1 go to develop it remains to be seen.
the; forsaken.
[This poem, by “ Stella ” (Mrß. Estella
Anna Lewie), at tho age of fourteen, Poe said was
“ the most beautiful ballad of the kind ever writ
ten. We have read it,” he remarked, “ more than
twenty times, and always with increased admira
tion.” And on the strength of this opinion we re
print dt.]
It hath been said, for ail who die
There is a tear ;
Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh '
O’er every bier.
Bnt in that hour of pain and dread
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear ?
Who’d watch life’s last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on its way
With holy prayer ?
What mourner round my bier will come,
In weeds of voe,
And follow me to my long home,
Solemn aud slow ?
When lying on :my clayey bed,
In icy sleep.
Who there, by j ure affection led,
Will come and weep;
By the pale moon implant the rose
Upon my breast,
And bid itchier my dark repose,
My lowly rest ?
Could I bnt know, when I am sleeping
Low in the ground.
One faithful heart would there be keeping
Watch all night round.
As if some gem lay shrined beneath
That sod’s col i gloom,
’Twonld mitigate the pangs of death
And light the tomb.
Yes ! in that hour, if I could feel
From halls of glee
And Beauty’s presence one would steal
In eecerey
And come and sit and weep by me
In night’s deep noon,
Oh ! I would ask of memory.
No other boon.
But ah ! a lonelier fate is mine,
A deeper woe
From a’l I love in youth’s sweet time
I soon must go;
Drawn round m e my pale robes of white,
In a dark spot
To sleep through death’s long, dreamless night,
Lone and forgot.
HOW I ESCAPED BACHELORDOM.
A STOBY TOLD BY FARMEB BBOWN.
I have no words for her sweetness ; I
can’t describe her; perhaps were I to
do so! or even could I place a picture
before you, you might not see her as I
did aud do. Every eye makes its own
beauty, and to me she was more beauti
ful than any other living creature. Nel
lie Brodie, I mean lovely Nellie Bro
die, whose father was the sexton of our
church, a good old man, but prosy, and
prone to tell one or two good stories
about ghosts, proved to be no ghosts af -
ter all whenever one found him. Many
and many a time have I listened to
them, ont of his little porch, of a sum
mer’s night, with the moon bright above
us, and mysterious chirps and cries in
the bushes, and the smell of the even
ing primrose growing far sweeter, and
sweeter, and Nellie, still and quiet as
a mouse, sitting with folded hand be
tween us.
We are busy folks enough by day; but
we idle away the long summer evenings
together and thought no harm of it. It
is good to be idle sometimes, in that
happy sort of way; and to tell the truth
I liked it. No man could say that I
neglected my duty. A better farm no
man ever had. and larger crops none
gathered, and no starved cattle grazed
in my meadows, As for my dairy—but
that was sister Jane’s doiDg. A good
house. A pretty bright-eyed girl with
a warm heart, and a laugh that seemed
to be catching. Alone together we two
were, and we were fond of each other.
I never told her Hiked Nellie Brodie,
but I did not hide it from her. Nellie
and she were great friends. Over and
over again I tried to find ont from Jen
nie what she said about me—Nellie I
mean—but the girl would never let a
word slip out. A true woman hides an
other woman’s secrets. I knew that and
I built on it.
“ For,” said Ito myself, “if Nellie
disliked me Jennie would give me a
hint, sister-like, and save me from mor
tification. Either she knows nothing,
or she knows Nellie likes me.”
After that, I may say I courted Nel
lie. She knew I loved her, I’m sure of
that ; even if I had said so out and
out, she couid not help knowing it.
But there was other young men in
the place, of course, and many willing
enough to listen to old Brodie’s stories
for the sake of looking at his daughter;
aud mauy a jealous pang I had in those
days ; for Nellie ha ( the same pretty,
kindly ways to #ll, and the same smile
for every one.
I used to think that a “no” from
Nellie’s lips would go straight through
my heart, like a bullet, and I found it
hard to risk the hearing of it. She
must say it to al l but one of us, and I
was not so handsome as one, and not
so witty as another ; and not so rich as
a third. I think I never knew how
plain I was, until I had my photograph
taken one day, by a man who had a
gallery in the village. I thought at
first he must have made too much of
mv mouth and too little of my eyes;
but he showed me plainly that the ma
chine must take a good likeness, be
cause it was a machine, and couldn’t
make a mistake. I took the things
home and put them in a drawer, and
showed them to nobody ; but they took
the little vanity X had out of me, though
I kept saying over and over a grain,
“ What do looks matter for a man?”
I meant, you nee, to give Nellie one
for her album, but I thought if I looked
like that it was not best. I’ve heard
other people speak of the same feelings
since, in -regard to photographers; and
I am not sure now that they are always
perfect.
Waiting and watching, hoping and
fearing, I let the time slip by ; and win
ter came with its frost and snow, and
old Mr. Brodie told his stories by the
fire, instead of on the porch; and the
lamp light fell on Nellies yellow hair,
as she sat knitting, making the pretti
est picture you ever saw ; and I made
up my mind to put my fate to the test
before Christmas, and didn’t. You see
when a young fellow is in love he loses
courage. But one thing I vowed—
Nellie should take a sleigh ride with
me.
Tom Armstrong had said—l heard
him—that he meant to drive the pretti
est cutter, the prettiest pair of horses,
and the prettiest girl in New Bridge.
He meant Nellie by the prettiest girl.
His turnout might be what he chose,
bnt Nellie should never go with him.
She should go with me.
The snow fell last, and by morning
you could see nothing for miles around
but great drifts, though the sky had
grown clear as though it had been sum
mer. I called for Nellie in the afternoon,
aud she was ready, and away we went.
She looked charming, with her rosy
cheeks and bright and sunny eyes and
sunny hair; and I wm happier than I
had ever been in my life.
Going out of the village we met Tom
Armstrong, with a splendid cutter. He
looked daggers at us both—or at least I
thought so, and he went as I beared af
terward to invite Sue Nichol to rile
with him. As he drove out of sight I
made up my mind to ask the question
that would settle everything, on our
way home.
Man proposes bnt Heaven disposes.
Things happened that evening that I
had not thought of. We were going
back, in the moonlight, when I put my
hand on Nellie’a, and made her turn her
eyes toward me.
“I have been trying to say something
to yon for a long time,” I said. “ Per
haps you guess what it is,”
But before I could utter another word,
my horse* became frightened at some
thing, and away they went like mail.
Nellie dung to me screaming. I did
>raf best to atop them. They left the
road entirely and took their way across
he field, and st riking against a stump
the snow had hidden, the sleigh was
overturned, and we were thrown out.
together.
I was mot blurt, but Nettie lay uwenai
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. 1874.
ble. I lifted her in my arras and clasped
her to my bosom, and begged her to
open her eyes and speak one word to
me. But she was like one dead; and in
my terror I dare not take her home. I
carried her, instead, to my sister, who,
frighteued half out of her senses, came
forth to meet me. She took Nellie into
an inner room and bade me bring a doc
tor, and he was there soon.
I spent an hour of agony, such as I
had never felt before; but at last Jennie
came to me, all smiles.
“There is no danger,” she said. “She
has come to herself; she only fainted
from fright. You haven’t killed her, or
even hurt her much, you foolish boy.”
And I burst into tears. Jennie bent
over me.
“ But to think she should be so sly,”
she said. “ A gentleman’s portrait in
her bosom all the while and not a word
to me of it I’ll punish her for it
now.”
And away she ran back to Nellie, but
my tears were all dried up, and my
heart was gall. She was engaged to
some else, this girl who was so dear
to me. Someone had been before me,
and she wore his portrait next to her
heart. Fool that I was not to guess it.
I never asked whose portrait it was.
Tom Armstrong’s or Jack Mayden’s, I
did not care. When Nellie was well
enough to go, in the course of an hour
or two, I drove her home aud hade her
good-bye.
I said, “I regret that I should have
been the means of alarming you so,
Miss Brodie.”
And she looked up into my face with
her great blue eyes, and said, “It was
not your fault; you could not help it.
It was so foolish to faint away.”
And I thought to myself, “ what de
ceitful creatures women are 1” for the
look she gave me was as sweet as if she
had not worn another man’s portrait in
her bosom.
A week from that day I went to New
York, and sought out an old ship-owner
who had been my father’s friend.
“ I’m tired of farming,” I said, “ and
want to try the sea as a common sailor.”
The old man would have laughed me
out of the notion; but when he found
me firm, he gave me what help he
could.
I went on board a vessel bound for
China, and wrote to sister Jennie, tell
ing her to send for Uncle William and
his wife to mange the farm, which I
knew they would be glad to do ; but I
never told where I was or what I had
done. I meant, you see, to throw my
self away, and be heard of no more by
any one. Of course I was mad, for the
time; that is the only excuse for me.
Soiled the sort of a life a sailor in
the merchant service leads—no very
pleasant one, I can tell you—for a year
or two. I grew no better for it, and no
happier. The other men had mostly
someone at home—mother or sister,
wife or sweetheart—to get a letter or
message from at times; I, of my own
act, had no one. And all the while, at
work or at mess, or in the hours when
watch was kept on deck, I thought of
Nellie; saw her as she looked when she
sat by her father’s side in the summer
moonlight; saw her smiling up at me,
as she whirled through the snow-drifts
that last bright day, and saw her as she
lay like a dead thing in my arms. And
fancy painted other pictures. I saw her
as Tom Armstrong’s wife. I saw her—
oh, good heavens !—with his child on
her knee,
I am not sure but that I should have
turned idiot, had not something hap
pened to alter the circumstances of my
position. This was nothing else than
the total wreck of our vessel, and my
narrow escape from drowning, but with
au arm broken by the falling of a spar.
For a month I lay on a sick bed ; and
then with a softened heart and a feel
ing that I was sick of the sea, I went
home to sister Jennie, to be a farmer
again, if I could.
In those two years she had never had
a line from me. Not an angry word
did she give me, but ran into my arms
and wept on my bosom like a child ;
and then she showed the wedding-ring
on her finger, and the baby lying asleep
in the cradle, and told me whose wife
she was.
She was Mrs. Armstrong, and I had
never guessed they liked each other.
“And I’m happy as the day is long,’
said she, “enly fretting about you.
How could you go away so, Ned? if you
did not think of my feelings, you might
have remembered Nellie Brodie’s. ”
“Nellie Brodie’s feelings!” I cried.
“Nellie Brodie’s ! Don’t laugh at me,
Jennie. ”
“Laugh at you !” she cried. “Laugh
at you my dear ! I haven’t a thought of
it. Did you quarrel that night ? It
must have been a quarrel I think.
Whose fault was it, yours or hers?”
“Miss Brodie and I never had a quar
rel,” I said.
“Ob, Ned,” she resumed, softly,
“don’t try to hide it from me, when I
saw your portrait in her bosom. I told
yon so, I know, and thought it was all
settled and was so glad.”
I started up and caught Jennie’s wrist,
“My portrait?” I cried.
“ Why, Ned, don’t look at me so,”
screamed Jennie; “ what does it all
mean ? Your portrait, of course; one
of those photographs you had taken—
I found the rest after you went away.
Oh, Ned, don’t, don’t look so, dear?” !
“thought you told me she wore an
other man’s picture,”! said. “That
drove me away ; that, and nothing else.
Oh, what a wretched fool I’ve been,
did not know she had my picture ; and
I might have cast her away ! I, who
loved her so, and have pined for her all
these years. ”
Bat Jennie, dear Jennie, with her
kind, motherly face and loving woman’s
eyes, came close to me, and put her
arms about my neck, and whispered,
“ don’t despair, Ned. She has never
liked any one else, and I know, for cer
tain, that she wears your picture still.”
And those words brought my youth
back to me; and the years seemed
blotted ont and I saw the Ned Brown
who fell in love with Nellie Brodie,
once more.
Well, Jennie told the truth; I went to
see Nellie Brodie, and foun i her sweet
and beautiful as ever ; and we were mar
ried when the spring came and the birds
be van to build their neets in the green
orchard. Afterward, when she had been
my wife for some time, Nellie told me,
under those very apple trees how she
had found my picture one day when no
one saw her, and worn it afterward for
love of me—worn it and wept over it
while I was far away, and trying to for
get her—trying, but never succeeding,
for the love I had for Nellie Brodie was
part of my life, and will be, I believe,
part of the eternity, where, when death
severs us here, we shall be reunited.
A few days since, at the Royal Italian
opera, Covent Garden, London, at the
end of the opera, when amid a hurricane
of applause, Mile. Albani, the Albany
prima donna, was ealled before the cur
tain, a gentleman in the grand tier
threw a bouquet and a box at the prima
donna, the latter of which unluckily
struck her with considerable foice in
the centre of the forehead. The author
of this calamity wm observed to throw
up his arms with a gesture of despair
when he saw the lady place her hands
on her forehead and instantly retire to
her private room, where some simple
remedies were applied with good effect.
Perhaps it should be added that the
restoration was a little assisted by the
discovery that the guilty box, when
oj*ened, contained a tiara of splendid
diamonds
Pauls.* and surrender signify the
same thing where virtue is oouoerued.
massacre in china.
Ten Thousand Native Christiana'
Slaughtered.
The French periodical, Missions
Catboligues, of the last of July, gives
the first authentic and detailed narative
of the recent massacre of Roman Cath
olic native converts i% China.
. The account, as translated for the
London Tablet, relates that the massa
cre broke out on the 25th of February,
when the “ literates,”as the persecuting
party is called, opened the campaign by
beheading two men in the service of
Pere Doare, aud a Christian, whom they
then threw into the river. The same
day they burned the three villages of
Trun-Lam, Flo-Vinhand Bau-Tach, and
massacred the inhabitants that were in
them. Those who succeeded in escap
ing to the woods were hunted down
with hounds brought back aud killed
on the following day. The river was
covered over with bodies floating down
it from the side of Lareg. At that time
the murderers were massaoreing the
christains of the parish of Holven, and
were burning their villages. Those
who took refuge in the cliffs of the
neighborhood were hunted down and
burned alive. The grand mandarin of
justioe was at the market of La-Nam
with 800 soldiers, but remained an in
active spectator of the massacre of the
Christians of Nam-Duong, only a few
of whom were able toj escape.
THE LITE BATES,
who were the heads of the militia ap
pointed to massacre the Christians, say
that the work of extermination carried
ont under the eyes of the mandarins
was concerted between the court and
the literates, and was done in reprisal
for recent events. The mandarins have
have just received orders from the
court not to employ any other means
save those of persuasion to stop the
murderers in their career. One of the
chiefs, who had just caused two Chris
tians to be murdered on the highroad,
went on the parade before the governor
of the ci tidal, by whom he was dis
missed with honor. On his return
twenty women and children fell under
the sword of this mau and his follow
ers. He had just come from offering
sacrifice to Ihe goddess of prostitution,
to whom a famous temple, that stands
near the road, is dedicated.
MODE OF TORTT BE AND DEATH.
In several localities they take au en
tire family—father, mother and chil
dren—bind them together with bam
boos and then fling the bundle of liv
ing humanity into the waves. First,
however, they take care to cut off the
man’s head. The multitude of dead
bodies thus fastened together in groups
of from eight to ten block up the prin
cipal river, but to the great surprise of
everybody, does not send forth any bad
smell. There are then five parishes,
containing 10,000 Christians, which have
to be blotted out of the mission—
namely, Lang-Thankhuyen, Nam-Du
ong, Hoy-Yen and Doreg-Thank. Many
ofjthe victims die in the midst of flames.
A village of more than 400 Christians
was attacked by the literates, and soon
became a prey to the flames. Among
these 400 chritians there were 120,
more or less, who succeeded in saving
themselves by taking refuge in a large
village near by. Tho remainder, about
300, were nearly all massacred. Two
small villages of Christians, situated
two honrs’s walk from the place at
which I then was, were hemmed in by
the pagans. The mayor visted each
house, numbered the Christians, and
forbade them, under threat of most
severe punishment, to go out of doors.
A few of the Christian women attempted
to go to market to keep themselves
from starving. They never returned.
Some pagan women who went with
them say that the Christian women were
captured and beheaded. Two men
from one of these same villages haz
arded a flight during the night. They
passed the great river by swimming,
and camo to me to tell their misfor
tunes.
“Alas,” writes Archbishop Gauthier,
from whose letters this information is
chieflly derived, “I couid do nothing
but weep for them, being unable to do
anything to succor them.” Two or
three days afterwards I learned that all
the ineu in that village had had their
heads cut off, but the women aud chil
dren were spared. And, as their houses
were intermingled with those of the
pagans, it was forbidden to burn them
down.
Two Rich Men.
A New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: “ The ehief
holder of personal estate in this city is
Commodore Vanderbilt, who is esti
mated at $40,000,000, the largest part of
which is in railway property. He owns
enough in the Connecticut River and
New Haven roads to be a director in
each, and he also owns the controlling
interest in the Central, Hudson, and
Lake Shore, besides his stock in Ohio
and Mississippi and other important
roads. It was said of George Peabody
that he made almost the entire bulk of
bis enormous wealth after his fiftieth
year. I think a stronger statement can
be made of the Commodore, for he has
made the largest part of his money since
he was sixty—that is, within the last
score of years. I suppose that when
the war broke out he was not worth five
millions. The incessant and enormous
increase of railroad values and the col
ossal extent of his operations have
brought an increase so stupendous
as to remind us of the old stories of
Oriental magic. The only instance in
which real and personal estate is com
bined almost equally in the vast pos
sessions of one individual is found in
A. T. Stewart. He owns enongh in
each of these shapes of wealth to make
a dozen men rich. In point of real
estate he has two dry goods establish
ments on Broadway; also the Metropol
itan hotel, and the former Unitarian
church. Add to these the Baptist
church in Amity street now used as the
stable of liis business teams, the De
peau row, in Blecker street, and above
all his Fifth avenue palace, which cost
$1,000,000. In personal estate is his
stock in trade, oapital and bills receiva
ble, which must he $10,000,000, and
also a large quantity of bank stock. In
this manner Stewart wields both
classes of property. He has dif
fered entirely from Vanderbilt in this
point. The latter has invested almost
solely in railway stocks, while the
former ha* eschewed this form of prop
erty in a very peculiar manner. He
has a strong affinity for thoee things
which pertain to trade and to this alone.
It is said that his estate cannot be less
than $30,000,000.
An Educated Chinaman’s Ideas.
Hong Chin Foo, a Chinese exile, who
has been educated in the United States,
has leotared in Rochester. He said that,
of all the people the Chinese came in
ooctact with, the Americans were most
liked. While hundreds of youug China
men were sent to this country to be
educated not one was ever sent to Eng
land or France. The people who came
to this oountry, as a rule, did not prop
erly represent the Chinese nation. They
were low and ignorant, and- the treat
ment they received here from the lower
classes did not give them any compli
mentary or truthful character of the
American people. He explained the
reason why American missionaries la
bored under such great disadvantages
in China. He said that the Chinese had
been taught by Confucius to regard
propriety of conduct as of ttie utmost
importance. There was but one way
for their clothes to be fanhkmcd, one
way in which to sit, stand, walk, and
but otie formula to be observed in the
duties of life. In this country the
speaker had observed the utmost free
dom in these regards, and Americans
taking tbeir habits with them to China,
greatly shocked the sensibilities of that
nation. For instance, they would speak
to the ladies and hand things to them—
deeds which were gross insults in their
eyes. Then they would hold conversa
tion with people of the lower classes,
which effectually debarred them from
intercourse with the upper circles of
society.
business Since the Panic.
One of the most marked effects of the
panic in the country has been the re
markable decreaso in the consumption
of foreign goods. According to the
last ret urns of the bureau of statistics,
the imports for the ten months ending
April 80, as compared with the same
ten months the year before, are as fol
lows—the valuation in gold :
1878 4. 1872 3.
Merchandise *479,769,679 *538,066,910
Specie 25,534,697 18,560 508
Thus the imports of merchandise are
$68,237,222 less for the ten monthsend
ing April, 1874, than for the correspond
ing months ending April, 1873. The
imports of specie on the other hand are
$6,974,189 larger, leaving the reduction
$61,263,033. There were in warehouse
on April 30, 1873, goods valued at $77,
646,579 ; on April 30, 1874, $58,475,974.
These figures represent the amount of
imported goods, not the values con
sumed. To obtain this we must remem
ber that there were in warehouse on
April 30, 1873, imported goods to the
value of $77,646,579. On April 30, 1874,
the goods in warehouse were valued at
$28,475,974. It thus appears that the
amount of imports consumed in the ten
months ending April 30,1874, was $488,-
940,284, while for the ten months end
ing 1873 it was $588,682,908. Fully
$100,000,000, therefore, represent the
amount of economy in imports alone
consequent on the panic.
Our reports for the same period were:
1873-4. 1872-3.
Domestic merchandise $479,773 710 $220,765,311
Foreign merchandise 13,693,281 13,418,200
Total merchandise $493,468,691 $432,183,621
The export of specie, domestic and
foreign, was $44,184,567 for 1873-4, and
$73,879,426 for 1872- 3, making the total
exports in the one instance $537,653,558,
and in the other $507,562,946. These
figures show that we have exported in
specie and goods $30,090,612 more dur
ing the ten months ending April, 1874,
than during the ten months ending
April, 1873. The New York Daily
Bulletin thinks that these figures are
an evidence of economy on the part of
the American people. We wish we
could look upon it in the same light.
To us they are evidence rather of pov
erty. We imported $100,000,000 less,
simply because we had nothing to give
in exchange sor that $100,000,000 worth
of goods. And, if we exported more
by over $30,000,000, while our importa
tions not only did not increase but de
creased, it is because we have been
largely in debt to foreign countries and
had to pay it in exports. On neither
fact have we any reason to congratulate
ourselves.— Chicago Tribune.
dramming Poultry.
It is altogether a vitiated taste that
creates a demand for over-fattened meat.
There is no nutriment in fat, and with
the large consumption of sugar, syrup
and starchy food, that is common amang
us, the necessities of the system for car
bonaceous food are fully, if not over
supplied. The use of excessively fat
food theu is a waste of material, and it
probably induces some of the billious
disorders which are so common. With
regard to poultry these remarks are es
pecially applicable. The markets of the
cities are filled with fowls that are lined
with fat, a useless addition that is a
loss to the consumer, and its production
has been at the expense of a waste of
food to the feeder. Besides, housekeep
era complain of these over fat fowls,
that they are deficient in delicacy of
flavor, and are coarse and greasy, thus
losing in quality as well as in weight.
This matter is in the hands of farmers
to remedy. They alone decide ns to
what degree of fatness their fowle shall
be brought, or rather, not knowing ex
actly how fat they are, they continue to
feed them much too long for their own
profit. Avery thin fowl can be brought
into good condition for the table in
three weeks’ feeding. Generally a fowl
from a grain-stnbble or barn-yard at a
time when waste grain is scattered about
liberally, as well as at other times, when
the housewife undertakes the feeding of
the poultry, is sufficiently fat for the
market, without extra feed. If poultry
is marketed at the age of two years,
and none older than that kept, tne qual
ity of the flesh will be all th‘at can be
desired, without any cramming of extra
feed, and the extra fat that is laid upon
an old fowl, is no addition to its good
ness, but rather adds to its bad qualities.
A good judge of poultry looks to the
age of a fowl, and passes by the old
birds that have been crammed to fit
them for market. — Agriculturist.
Circumstaiicial Evidence.
“ There is always a terrible uncer
tainty about circumstantial evidence
where unman life depends upon its ac
ceptance,” says the Boston Post, in re
ferring to Frank Wagner, arrested by
the police the other day, for the murder
of James McCann, at Jersey City.
Against him the evidence was apparent
ly strong to conclusiveness. He was
proved to have been near the scene of
the tragedy shortly after its commission;
he gave signs of great fear on being ar
rested ; he denied being out that night,
which was at once proved to be a false
hood ; he was known to have exhibited a
pistol at a saloon close by when the
murdered man was found ; and, finally,
a revolver found in his room was shown
to have chambers just fitted for bnllets
of the size taken from McCann’s head.
Now, however, a man named Thomas
Brooks comes lorward to say that
the deceased died by a pistol shot
from his hand, fired at him as he at
tempted to board his team, as he be
lieved, for the purpose of robbery. As
he fired his horses started, and he could
not pull them up for half a mile, and
had no idea that he had killed the man.
Reading in the papers of the discovery
of the dead body on the spot where he
fired, he delivered himself up and now
awaits trial. Wagner was, of course,
discharged, though he evidently owes
his liberty entirely to Brooks’candor.
“feme Home; the Beans are Burning. ’’
Last Sunday morning a family liviua
in the suburbs of the city went to a
suburban church, leaving a little gill
about seven years of age and a boy
abont twelve years of age in charge ol
the house. The church was situated
bat a short distance from the house.
The family were to have lieans for din
ner, and. these were left in a vessel o<i
the stove to cook. The little girl while
playing, saddenly began to smell the
odor of burnt beans, upon which site
rushed out of ths house over into the
church where the pastor was gravely
and earnestly preaching the profound
word o 4 God. The first person of the
family the little girl espied was a young
lady oousin, and to her in a loud voice
which startled the assemblage consider
ably, she cried, “Come home, ourut
home, the beans are burning,” and im
mediately rushed out again. The as
tonishment was great, and all the solem
nity of the preacher ae well as of the
congregation disappeared beneath n
broad smile at the ridiculousness of the
mattei.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
How to Look at Pictures.
Most people understand the principle
of the stereoscope. They know that
when nature is looked at with both
eyes, each eye sees a somewhat differ
ent view—though from the way in which
these views are combined the difference
is not generally recognized—and that
in order to give the true appearance' of
objects, receding aud ctending apart
from each other (as viewed with both
eyes), two different pictures must be
taken, which must likewise be com
bined by means of lenses, as is done in
the stereoscope ; and when thi3 is prop
erly managed, the pictures no longer
look like flat surfaces, bat like the
things themselves they are intended to
represent, the object all appearing to
be in actual buna fide relief. That a
great deal more is seen with two eyes
than with one (alien looking at things
around) can easily be shown by simply
holding up a finger at a span’s length
from the face, and at the same time
looking at a small obj ct behind it
(such as a thimblei at a distance of a
yard or twe .off. It will be found im
possible to make the finger hide the
thimble with both eyes open; but if
one eye be shut, the finger can at once
be made to oonceal the thimble from the
sight. Again, should a single painting
such as that of a statue in a niche in the
wall, may be so well executed that at a
considerable distance it is almost impos
sible to decide whether it is a statue or
only a representation of one—and peo
pie have been deceived by such mural
paintings when looking, for instance,
from the boxes of a theatre to the walls
opposite, under the influence of artifi
cial light—still, there are no means at
present known, or likely to be known,
by which a single drawing, (of landscape,
scenery, shipping, buildings, and so
forth), whatever its truthfulness or ex
cellence, can be made to represent at a
distance, say of from two. to five feet,'
what would be seen with both eyes when
looking upon the shipping, buildings,
etc., or what would be seen when two
stereoscopic pictures are combine
though a single drawing can, and often
does, represent very exactly the scene
presented to one eye by nature.
The conclusion to be drawn from this
is that the proper mode of looking at a
drawing or picture is to do so with one
eye only, for if looked at with both
eyes, you oan immediately detect that
it is a mere picture on a flat surface (be
cause, as before stated, there must then
be two pictures to make a perfect de
ception), whereas, if only one eye is
used, aud the head is held perfectly
still, then (as the mind is und* r precisely
the same circumstances as it would
be if the real objects themselves were
being looked at with one eye, and hav
ing no means of detecting any differ- - ,
euce between the representation and
the real things represented) at a short
distance a drawing, after a few seconds,
does almost seem to be stereoscopic, or
no longer appears as a mere flat surface;
and this is the point to which we wish
to draw attention. The same reasoning
will of oourse apply to photographs and
good sized engravings, especially to
those of buildings (such as the Forem
at Rome), cloisters, and interiors, and
views of bare trees. Whether the fore
going explanation accounts for the phe
nomenon or not, there can be no doubt
that the pleasure of quietly studying
good drawings will be greatly enhanced
by looking at them with one eye only.
Scandal.
There is nothing in social life more
ignoble and contemptible than what
Byron calls “the abominable tittle tat
tle” of those who delight in circulating
scandal, who gloat over, even while
they profess to deplore, the details of a
slanderous story, whose very manuer of
deprecating credence in the tale con
firms the listener’s belief in its truth
fulness. How many there are of these
mischief-makers in every circle, who
know how, with a skillful touch, to
heighten the tints of n. slanderous rumor
with insinuations worse than open lies,
because they can not be met by open
denial; by mingling sneers with smiles,
and by a pretense of candor. And the
pity of it is that they sliound find so
many people willing to listen ; that so
many would rather believe evil than
good of their neighbor. Nothing spreads
like a scandal, and the worse and more
unlikely it is the more readily it ob
tains circulation and credence. Society
is quite as much to blame as the scan
dal-mongers themselves. It is as mean
and disgraceful to listen to a slander as
to utter one.
It is a common trick with slanderers
and scandal-mongers to scatter their
vile inventions broidcoat among the
community, and the* point triumphant
ly to the wide circulation their stories
have obtained as confirmation of their
truth. Theybespatter ajman with mud,
and cry out upon him for a dirty fellow.
“ Calumniate ! calumniate !” is their
motto; “ some of it will stick.” Per
haps the most effective, as well as the
meanest,, way of slandering is to do it
with affected pain and reluctance, as if
well-nigh heart-broken at hearing evil
things whispered round about a man so
dearly loved and honored. An adept in
this method of slander can work infinite
mischief.
There is something marvelous in the
vay a slander grows as it passes from
mouth to mouth, well illustrated by the
the well-known story of three black
crows. Without intending, perhaps, to
exaggerate or be untruthful, each one
who repeats the story adds something
of his own, and by the time it has gone
the rounds of society it has grown into
a hideous Frankenstein, a monster of
untruth and malignity. This may be
tested by the game of “exaggeration,”
where one whispers a story, couched in
as few words as possible, to the person
sitting next him. He repeats it in the
ear of his neighbor, and so on through
a circle of ten or twelve, each one try
ing to tell the story just as he beard
it. The last person in the circle tells it
aloud, and in nine oases out of ten it
will be found that it has gained some
thing every time it has been told. The
moral of all this is expressed in the lin<
already quoted from Tennyson, “Speak
no slander ; no, nor listen to it.”
At Odd Orchard Beach, on the coast
of Maine, a quaint old custom is still
observed with annual regularity. A
belief prevails among certain classes of
the country folks in that vicinity that
the water of the ocean possesses some
peoial virtue on the 26ih day of June
for the curing of chronic diseases. And
so on that day there mav always bi
seen a constant stream of odd-looking
oonntry vehicles, filled with the “lame,
the halt, and the blind,” all going sea
ward to avail themselves of the tradi
tional benefit of bathing on that par
ticular day. This custom dates back
to 1809; and the legend is thst one
Mrs. Dormer then recommended sea
bathing on the 26th of June for sonn
children afflicted with a bad humor
They went into the salt-water, ant)
were oared. This established the cus
tom.
Speaking about races and racers,
what a terrible amount of interest is
evinced of late years by the ladies who
visit Saratoga in the success of their
favorite horses. Formerly they limited
their debts to a pair, or, perhaps, a box
of kid gloves. Now a days, however,
they purchase their French pool ticket
just as carelessly—as the greatest gamb
ler, whose living depends upon his fa
vorite coming first. Last, season I re
member well seeing a very hansome
widow lady drive out each race day in
company with a grass widower, aud
taking her petition on the grand stand,
select her horse, and then send “ Old
Baldy” down to the pool-shed, to buy
her one or more tickets. —Saratoga
letter.
Defuultiug Rail Maya.
There is a busy time just now among
lawyerw, donrts, and jnrios in the way
of ' foreclosing railway mortgages.
Something over three hundred millions
of American railway bonds have gone
to protest cn their interest coupons,
and the holders, at first shivering with
alarm at not receiving their expected
inoome, and then wrathful at what they
deemed the dishonesty of the borrow
ers, h;ive begdn.fK.W, for the first time,
to examine their legal remedies, and to
inqnire into the nature and value of
tho assets which oonstitute their secu
rity. In some eases they find curious
provisions lu the mortgages, preventing
them from taking any steps to realize
until the expiration of one, two; or
three years after default—also provid
ing that no foreclosure shall take place
except on petition of a majority of all
the bondholders —and other cunning
devices which really put the lenders in
worse plight than they would be at
common law. In still other cases they
find that the trustees under the mort
gages are loath to perform their duty,
thus raising the presumption that they
are acting in the interest of the mort
gagors rather than of the mortgagees.
It is found in a few instances that the
money borrowed to prosecute or com
plete a certain road was diverted to
some other road with the oonnivauce of
the trustees, and that bonds said to be
payable in gold are really payable only
in currency. Various -other forms of
swindling have been developed, bnt for
the most part the non-interest-payiug
railroads have resorted to no tricks,
either before or after the default. Most
of them, it is true, were built on the
Credit Mobilier plan, but that was well
known to the lenders.
The holders of these three hundred
and odd millions of defaulted bonds
are mainly inhabitants of the United
States, Germany, and England, and the
ratio of their several holdings is prob
ably in the order in which they are
here set down. All the Nofthe.ru Pa
cific bonds were taken in Canada and
England. Nearly all the new railways
in Michigan were bnilt by New England
capital. Bjston and its suburbs are
carrying from thirty to fifty millions of
protested bo: ds. Several eastern brok
en down inilways, like the New Haven,
Middletown and Willimantic, the Os
wego Midland, the Canada Southern,
and the Chesapeake and Ohio, were
taainly constructed with money ob
mined in this country, and a great shoal
of seoond mortgage bonda were sold at
home after the first mortgages had been
taken in Germany and England.
The effect upon American credit of
this enormous failure to meet obliga
tions is disastrous. The good aud the
bad suffer alike in foreign markets.
Even those securities which have regu
larly met their interest have suffered a
heavy decline. Germany is full of
American railway bonds bought at 85
to 95 cents (gold) which can be bought
back at 25 to 40, with the hearty thanks
of the present holders to anybody who
will take them at those prices. As for
negotiating new loans there, you might
as well attempt to sell lava on the sum
mit of Vesuvius. Not only is the mar
ket for railway securities destroyed, but
the ordinary real estate mortgage, the
highest form of security next to govern
ment bonds, finds no takers. The bot
tom has tumbled out of everything ex
cept governments. Can anything be
done to re-establish our credit?—Chi
cago Tribune.
A Saratoga Belle’s Rig.
Here is a picture of the belle of Sara
toga as she looks to-day : Hair scol
loped in front and braided down behind
in one straight braid ten inches long,
which hanging from the hat looks like
the handle of a dipper. Hat on back
of the head, with narrow brirned turned
np and down aud sidewise, and skewed
and twisted around as if it had been
run over by a locomotive. Face veiled
well with tulle, which is also muffled
around the neck so that the chin rests
on it, and flic head looks like a hen on
a nest of down. Dress black or
grenadine, short enough not to touch
the floor, straight down in front, but
long behind, aud pulled back over the
hips. No hoops, and the bottom of the
dress so narrow that the young lady
cannot take long steps.
How does she walk ?
She don’t walk ; she wiggles along as
men do in a sack race. This dress shows
the form beautiful, and is a great im
provement on the old flowing skirt.
Young ladies are now stauding perfectly
erect. Their chests are expanded and
shoulders are thrown back. The shoes
worn are the only part of the toilet sub
ject to criticism. These are narrow,
high-heeled bunion makers. They canse
the yonng lady to limp, and they must
also be the cause of a great deal of pro
fanity when the young lady is left alone.
The parasol is a big black or bine or
brown umbrella, bordered with lace.
Fans are ordinary, and more for use
than ornament. Hair is worn natural,
and as yet no young ladies here appear
ed with saffron-colored locks. Beanty
is not of the Lydia Thompson school,
and only the demi-monde dye, paint or
powder. Gloves are from three to six
buttoned. No lockets, neck chains or
watch chains are worn; the. jewelry be
ing rings, a plain pin and a chateline
braid or oxidized silver chain hanging
from the belt, to which is suspended
oxidized smelling bottles, pocketbook,
or anything else which fancy may
attach. _
The Mormon Uirls.
if he following is from Capt. Codman’s
recent work on the Mormons. It is the
story of a Utah teamster, and shows
that the Mormon girls have some pecu
liarities of taste on the marriage ques
tion.
T never tried to get married bnt once,’
he said, ‘and that was to a Mormon gal
up here to Logan. She was just about
the slickest little critter ever you see.
Fust time I come across her was where
her folks and I camped one night right
about here. I followed on her trail
pretty dose for six months, and thought
I was going to trap her gure. She
wanted me to be a Mormon. I wasn’t
pertickler about that, for I didn’t like to
join any church. I never did belong to
a church nor an engine company in the
States. However, I told her finally, as
she crowded me, that I’d swaller Brig
ham, tabernacle and all, for the love of
her. So we got things about fixed, and
if she hadn’t gone too far I must have
been a bishop by this time. Bat she
had an old maid sister, an 1 she wanted
me to marry that Susan Jane, too —
that durned, dried up, Susan Janel
* Emmy,’ says 1, * I can’t and I won’t.’ i
So I sot my foot down, and there’s
where we split. Yon see the old man
was kiDd of sickly, and jnst as sure as
I’d agreed to take Susan Jane, when he
died I would have had to marry the old
woman too. I hain’t hunted after a
wife sence.’
The two hundred and fifty sulphur
mince in Sicily are fast being exhausted,
and it is estimated by the Italian gov
ernment officers that in from flftv to
•ixty yean there will be no avaiiablo
sulphur left on the islaod. The meth
ods of working the ore are so defective
that although it contains from fifteen to
forty per cent, of -pure sulphur, only
fourteen per cent, is actually obtained.
The prediction that iron pyriie will ul
timately replace sulphur for many pur
poem it likely to be verified.
VOL. 15—NO. 35.
SATITiS AND DOISBS.
A Virginia paper laments that the
j raccoons are gradually but surely dying
out in that state. One by one*the rac
coons fade.
A Japanese young lady who had come
I over to our shores three years ago, bore
I off four of the higest prizes at a Wash
| ington seminary.
They have now found an old finger
ring with “ General Lafayette” engraved
on it, and the next congress should
make an appropriation.
A Delaware mm thrashed his wife
almost to death because their babv
didn't get a prize at a baby ahow. and
then he offered to trade the bady for a
pig-
A gentleman, on presenting a laoe
collar to his adored one. said, carefully:
“Do not let any one else rumple it.”
“ No, dear,” she replied, “ I’ll take it
off.”
Among the modern improvements in
Persia which the Shah has ordered is a
guillotine, a gallows and a corps of bal
let-girls to be shipped to him from Eu
rope.
A Missouri writer speaas of ore of
his contemporaries as a “ poor old skin
ny-bony, whose knee and arm joints
have been held together for twenty
years with cotton twine.”
One of the most cheering signs to in
dicate that the panic is over is the fact
that a stranger can display a fiftv-cents
shinplaster in Chicago and not be hauled
out of the river next morning.
The Detroit Free Press mentions a
Kansas farmer who declares that a
grasshopper sat on the gate-post and
threateningly asked : “ William Bryant,
where in thunder is the balance of that
cold meat ?”
To ere is human. No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
of God’s human creatures can, without
a great stretch of memorv, recall the
time when they got hold of the wrong
end of the poker.
Omaha has a mvsterious and ghostly
“Woman in White.” She fiequents
the cemetary, hits the sexton on the
back, asks where her children are,
and sinks into a grave. She has been
twice fired at without effect, and the
sexton talks of resigning,
Milwaukee Sentinel : “ Notes of
the storm still come in. A visitor
from Louisville was struck by the
wind, and as he fl<?w up Wisconsin
street with his ear nnfcrled, a gentle
man remarked, * I kne\’ that wind
would fetch the circus-tent.’ ”
Epigram.
A waggish wight; (a shrewd one. too,)
Once told me that he really knew
A girl that put her homers off,
And ceased to scold, to laugh a id scoff,
To weep and sorrow o’er romances.
And went no more to plays and dances.
I doubted long—at last he said.
“The reason is. the woman s dead.’
Three giraffes jnst from Abyssinia
have reached the garden of plants in
Paris. This animal threatens to be
come extinct. He is taken now in a
very small district, and has resisted all
efforts to domesticate him as made in
Africa, though these efforts are partly
successful in European menageries.
A Madrid letter srys : “ Concha died
poor. He left behind him little but his
great name. His will declares his only
child, the Marqnesa de Sardaol, heiress
of his little residue. He had for years
been a great patron of agriculture, and
had spent his fortune in sugar growing
experiments in the neighborhood of
Malaga.”
Civilization and Christianity are ev
ery day penetrating into Japan. One
of the latest signs of the times is the
offer of various idols for sale. The
journals of the country contain many
advertisements on the enbject. Here is
cne : “ For sale, at Kama-Knra, a very
fine idol, with six arms. It is fifteen
feet high, and was cast in bronze —at
Sheffield.”
During the official life of Police
Chief Savage of Boston, that city has
had at one time free rnm, at ano a
license law, at another a prohibitory
law badly enforced, and yet again for a
time a prohibitory law rigorously en
forced, and yet he says there is no vari
ation in his statistics furnishing the
least indication of when any one policy
prevailed.
Now the best way in the world to
seem to be anything, is really to be
what we would seem to be. Besides
that, it is many times aa troublesome
to make good the pretense of a good
quality as to have it, and if a man
have it not, it is ten to one but he is
discovered to want in, and then all his
pains and labor to seem to have it at
last.— TMotsou.
It is asserted that, for fall goods,
browns will take the lead. It is a tint
which makes the complexion appear
finer whiter and clearer than any other
color, and is selected by both blondes
and brunettes. Combinations of purple
and grey are also predicted--the grey
being rough in texture, and the purple
of silk or poplin. Blues, too, from the
de? p navy to the clear Mane Louise
will be popular.
A write who has flirted with the wo
men of Paraguay says : "Only imag
ine yourself about to salute tl e red
lips of a magnificent little Hebe, ar
rayed in satin and flashing with dia
monds. as she pots yon back with one
delicate hand, while with the other she
draws forth from her month a brownish
black roll of tobacco quite two inches
long, looking like a monster grab, and
then, depositing the savory lozenge on
the brim of your sombrero, puts up
her face and is ready for a sa'nfe. How
ever, one soon gets used to this in Par
aguay, where you are, per foroe of cus
tom, obliged to kiss every lady you are
introduced to.”
The fact that Patagonia abounds in
rich gold mining districts has been
known for years ; but it has been too
liazardous an undertaking for miners
to go and get in. Information has been
received from the party sent out bv the
Argentine government to explore Pata
gonia. They went np the Salinas river
about fifteen miles and then followed
up the Santa-Cmz three hundred miles
to its source—a lake twenty-seven miles
long and one hundred in circumference.
The river is navigable its entire length,
and at low water has not less than nine
feet in depth. The lake has another
ontlet that empties into the Pacific
ocean, which is but thirty-two miles
distant. They brought back with them
snch samples of gold dust and coal, and
at last accounts had started off to ex
plore the Galegoe river.
Annie Frank rvi in court : It wasn’t
her first time, and when recognized by
the Jndge she didn’t seem to feel flat
tered. “ Got drunk, eh ?” he asked.
“No, I didn’t get drink, eh ?” she
sneered. The officer said it was the
meanest case of drunkenness he had
ever seen, and he had seen abont three
thousand cases. Whereupon Annie af
firmed that his father was a pirate, his
mother a smuggler and all his relatives
were horse thieves from Texas. His
Honor said he feared she had an evil
disposition. She said he was a sea
walrus, a hippopotamus, a sturgeon, a
rhinoceros, a giraffe, a buffalo, an ana
conda, a flamingo, an ostrich, a Rocky
Mountain wolf, a sea serpent, and a tel
egraph pole. He replied that he would
make it S2O. Bhe said he was a whale,
a gas retort, an elephant, a saw-mill,
a tug-boat, a tyrant, and an old red
barn with the ends caved in. He said
he’d make it S3O, and she shot np and
listened to a long lecture on the subject
of “too much blab.” — Detroit free
Press.