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W.'a. mIKalkJ Editors aud Proprietors. NEWS OF THE WEEK. SOUTH. The rice plantations in the vicinity of Savannah, Ga., are overflowed, and much damage to crops is reported. The estimated loss of rice is $ IOC',OOO. A southern bound train of six cars on the Selma, Rome and Dalton road, went through a bridge on the Waubatchie creek, last week, falling sixty feet. The engineer, fireman and several passengers were killel, and nearly all the remaining passengers were wounded, many dangerously. Among the killed is Wm. Boyd, ex-judge of the supreme court of Alabama. The north bound train on the Missis sippi central railroad was precipitated down an embankment over thirty feet, three miles south of Holly Springs, Miss., on the 28th inst. The ladies’ car and Pullman palace car turned over twice. No one was killed, but fifteen were wounded, one seriously, a colored man. The accident was caused by a heavy rain dur ing the morning, which undermined the em bankment. At Vicksburg, Miss., on the 22d, Al derman D. E. Byan, Thomas Donavan and Mr. Smith, a plasterer, were suffocated by foul air, in an old cistern, near Ryan's mill. They entered the cistern to examine it for re pairs. Smith'entered first. Not hearing from him, Ryan entered. Not hearing from Smith and Ryan, Donavan entered to see what was the matter. A negro gave the alarm, but all three were dead before they could b taken from the cistern. At Memphis, on the 24th, the right flue of N. J. Speers’ steam cotton-gin, situated in the vicinity of Vane and Cousey streets, collapsed with terrible effect. The concussion shook houses in the vicinity like an earthquake. Both ends of the boiler were blown ont. U, H. Reckard, the engineer, was blown out of the cotton pen, in front of the boiler, where he had gone to sleep. He was slightly burned by steam and hot water. A stable near the boiler was completely wrecked by the pieces, which were hurled against it with great force. Paul A. Cicalla, of Memphis, aider man of the sixth ward, aud who acted as mayor during the yellow fever epidemic last year, bas instituted Huit in the second circuit court to recover $50,000 damages against Col. Michael Mageveny, Sr., for uttering and causing to be published in the Appeal of Novembor 4, 1873, a defamatory and libelous speech and resolu tions adopted on the same date by the citizens of the relief committee of that city. While acting mayor Cic ilia was charged with the forgery of an order for provisions, and steal ing the same, which were entrusted to him for a widow and eight fatherless children. At the time Cicalla was expelled from the board of alderman, but was reinstated by process of law. He now seeks to recover damages. A United States secret service detec tive of the treasury department, arrived at Louisville last week aud overhauled at the Adams express office a box belonging to coun terfeiters, and containing a large amount of money and implements, all made by the fa mous and extensive organization of counter feiters who have been operating in North Car o ina, East Tennessee, West Virginia aud Ken tucky. Six men, including the one who ship ped the box, have been captured, ho being captured first. Last month the box was ship ped first to two places in North Carolina to the address of Thomas Goefortb, aud afterwards traced to two places in Virginia with the same address. A few days ago it was sent to Cin cinnati to the address of Silas B. Goefortb, and arrived in Louisville on the same address. The box was opened at the express offico aud found to contain $2,100 in 60 cent pieces un finished ; $%4 in 50 cent pieces finished; S6BO in S2O treasury notes ; 32 pieces of coun terfeit silver 50 cent pieces ; 27 silver 25 cent pieces ; 20 half dollar gold coins; one obverse 50 cent steel plate with the Stanton head ; one 50 cent reverse plate ; <juo steel treasury seal plate; four p’ates unfinished and 11 pieces of engraving tqols. EAST. The grand jury of Brooklyn has found a criminal indictment against Moulton in the case of Miss. E. D. Proctor. Two hundred Italians have arrived at Tittsburg to take the place of the striking coal miners along the Pan Handle railroad. In a collision at Smithton, on the Bal timore and Ohio road, last week, a postal clerk was killed and a good deal of mail matter burned. Advices from Fall River report it is almost decided to run the cotton mills on short time, some reducing it to one-half and others to one-third. The representatives of the trans- Atlantic steamship companies having failed to agree upon passenger rates, their late rivalries aie renewed, and tickets to Europe are selling at fifteen dollars each. Lake Weewanafree, New Jersey, has been bought by the Prussian government for three hundred thousand dollars. The lake will be divided into compartments, some for the raising of leeches, the remainder for trout and salmon. The banking firm of Townsend & Cos., of New Haven, has failed, with liabilities of near three milliou dollars, and its affairs aro in the hands of a receiver. The cause of the failure is the depreciation of southern, state and railroad bonds, iu which the bank has in vested heavily. The greatest sufferers are the laboring classes. Humor says depositors will realize about forty par cent. Representatives of the manufactur ing corporations having their headquarters in Boston,[have just voted that the cotton mills of New England should be re duced at least one-third, until the proper re lation between the cost of production and the market value of goods shall be re-established, and the true relation between supply and de mand adjusted. A committee was appointed to recommend the mode in which this result may be reached, the committee to report at a future meeting. At a meeting of manufac turers at Fall River it was voted expedient to join the manufacturers elsewhere in running on short time. Further advices from the mill disas ter at Fall River, Massachusetts, place the total number of killed and injured at fifty-eight. The calamity appears to have been the result of criminal carelessness and inefficiency. In the first place the mill employes attempted to ex tinguish the fire without calling out the depart ment, and so allowed the flames to obtain great headway. When the engines arived at the scene there seemed a total lack of discipline, and no attempt was made to ase the ladders of the department for the rescue of the roasting operatives. The fire escape attached to the mills did not reach the sixth story, where it was the most needed, and for this the propri etors are censured. The deplorable loss of life might have been entirely prevented if either of the three causes had been provided against. WEST. The grand jury at Beaver, Utah, have ikdieted Wm. Fotheringham for polygamy. • A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona, says the Indians who murdered a Mr. Roberts were followed by a detachment of troops and Apache Indian scouts from Verde. They were caught near Head Creek and a battle ensued. Fourteen hostile Apaches were killed and several captured. The troops lost one white scout and one Tonto Bcout killed, and two wounded. 1 The executive 1 oommittee of the na tional fire underwriters resolved that the author ities of Cuicago having failed to comply with the suggestion put forth by the national board on the 24th of July last, this committee now recommend that all companies belonging to the national hoard discontinue the business of fire insurance, either by new policies or re newals, on and after the first of October. 1874. The land department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad liave just made THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS biDfifi*) * Rj) turn a sale of land along the line of their road to a large party of Russian Menonites, who hav e recently come from Europe. This is the largest land sale ever made in the west to one party. There are now here about 1,900 of them, and they are going on their lands immediately, in Marion, Harvey, McPherson and Reno coun ties, in the Arkansas valley. The tract taken is, in the aggregate, 150,000 acres. The commissioners for the improve ment of the Ohio river have adjourned to meet in Washington, D. C., on October 16. Resolutions were adopted, asking congress to take decided action for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi, so as to meet the wants of the agricultural and other industries of the country, and appointing a committee of two from each of the commissions from lowa, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to obtain from the states the passage of suitable laws ceding to the United States jurisdiction over such small tracts of land as my be needed for the location of locks, keepei’s -dwelling, abutments, etc. The proposition for the construction of an other bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati, a short distance below the present bridge, was condemned. Fuller and later reports received in dicate that the recent glowing accounts from the Black Hills country are entirely unreliable and confirm the opinion of Prof. Wmchol that there are no valuable mines in the country. Col. Fred Grant, who accompanied the expe dition under special instructions to report up on its geological character, says that the rock on which it is claimed gold was discovered is of a metamorphic character, in which no prec ious metals have ever been found. Not over three dollars’ worth was brought under his ob servation during the entire expedition, and it is a question whether this was not imported into that section. The timber is spruce and yellow pine, and valueless for lumber. The area of tillable lands is very small, there not being enough for a dozen good sized farms. The Sioux commission sent to negotiate with Red Cloud’s and Spotted Tail’s bands, went in their explorations to the base of the Black Hills, on the south side, and gave substantially the views of Grant regarding the character of the country and the absence of minerals. The president is emphatic in his determina tion to carry out the orders of Gen. Sheridan to prevent all invasion of this country by in truders, so long as by law aud treaty it is se cured to the Indiana. FOREIGN. Mt. is still in a state of agi tation. Elie Do Beaumont, tlie eminent French geologist, is dead. Charles Swain, the poet, died in Lon d last week, aged 46. Heavy rains have fallen in India, and tho prospects for crops continue most satisfactory. A Carlist dispatch from Solosa reports that Brig. Gen. Peula has carried the village of Biscarun by storm, totally defeating ten bat talions under Gen. Morians, with heavy loss to the latter. The postal congress has approved the plan for an international postoflice. The con gress has resolved to meet every three years, and has selected Paris as the place for its next session in 1877. Members of the Austrian polar expe dition declare explorations in the direction of the notth pole hopeless of satisfactory result, and that reports of the existence of an open polar sea are untrue. The report which was originally pub lished by the Pall Mall Gazette, that Prince Bismarck had made proposals for the incorpo ration of Denmark with the German empire, is pronounced to be absolutely false. The National Gazette says that while the expulsion of the Danes from Sehlesweig was legal, it was only adopted in a few isolated cases. The Gazette says the relations be tween Germany and Denmark are friendly. Empress Augusta has called a meet ing of delegates from all the women’s associa tions of Germany, to be held in Berlin in Oc tober. The queens of Wurtemburg and Sax ony, the grand duchess of Baden and the Princess Alice, of Hesse, have promised to attend. The boundary dispute between Switz erland and Italy, which was referred to Hon. J. P. Marsh, United States minister at Rome, for arbitration, has been decided in favor of Italy, which thereby acquires 1,800 acres of territory. Gen. Concha, the captain general of Cuba, had a narrow escape assassination the other day. His rigorous regulations re garding the taxation of property have made him extremely unpopular, and some of his personal adherents are suspected of firing the shot The Russian government., on account of tbo extensive emigration of Mennonites, proposes to exempt the members of that sect from actual military service, but to hold them liable to duty as hospital attendants. The Mennonites of the Volga district will proba bly accept these conditions. The Uniied States, having joined the postal union, its delegates in the international postal congress are enabled to introduce a uniform rate of postage for the whole territory embraced by the union. Should England re fuse to join the union, German and American vessels will carry the mails to and from the United States. A Havana letter states an attempt was made a few nights ago to shoot Capt. Gen. Concha while at his summer residence. His volunteer guard is suspected. The same letter also says that Gen. Garcia was captured by one Spanish officer while awaiting a con ference with another for the adjustment of some disputed points. The Austrian government will dis patch an expedition to the Arctic regime next year to ascertain whether the land discovered by the expedition just returned and named Francis Joseph’s land is a portion of the con tinent or an island. The expedition will he divided, one half going by way of Siberia and the other via Greenland. A frightful typhoon passed over Hong Kong last week. The steamers Loonar and Alboy and eight other vessels were wrecked or foundered, and mauy are missing. A great nnmber of houses were destroyed, and it is reported that a thousand persons were killed. The damage to property iu the city and harbor and surrounding country is immense. The Mark Lane Express says : “ The fine, summer-like weather of the past week was favorable for potatoes, though rain would have been more acceptable for other roots.” With regard to wheat, the Express says, “The autumnal sowings are certain ot a favorable commencement. We estimate that Hungary has a million quarters to spare. Prices in Germany, Russia and France have declined heavily.” A Havana letter states that the Official Gazette published, on the 18th, articles on the decree requiring the inhabitants to contribute to the government four per cent, of their cap ital for two years. It said there is an urgency for the collection of the first and second tri monthly contribution on capital, in order that the treasury may meet its obligations and cover the deficits which monthly result between income and outlay. The French newspapers publish St. Petersburg advices confirming the report of Bismarck’s overtures to King Christian, of Denmark, looking to the incorporation of that country in the German confederation. Cor respondents say that Russia is greatly irritated at the attempt and will never permit Germany to hold the keys to the Baltic sea. The same papers say that the opposition of Russia to the German policy in Spain is due to this cause. ______ MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs. Barclay, the widow of President Van Buren, died suddenly at Newport a few days ago. The great scull race at St. Johns, N. 8., between George Brown, of Halifax, and E. Morris, of Pittsburgh, for $2,000 a side, was won by Brown. Time, 36:50. The secretary of the treasury has di rected the assistant treasurer at New York to sell $500,000 gold on each Thursday during October. The total amount to be sold is $2,- 500,000. The fanous Stevens’ yacht, Maria, stolen about four years ago, has been seized by the French authorities at Algiers, she hav ing attempted to smuggle a cargo of 200 cases of American rifles on shore for the Car lists. In reply to a letter asking information, O. H. Kelley, secretary of the national grange, says the granger mortgage bank, lately adver tised in New York, is not endorsed by the na tional grange, nor is it recognized by the ex ecutive committee in any shape whatever. The locomotive engineers of the va rious trunk lines and leading roads, protest most earnestly against any reduction of wages at the present time. They expressed the opinion that the Pennsylvania central railroad -company should restore the ton per cent, re duction made by them last January. The postmaster general will doubt less adopt the recommendation of Third Assist ant Barbour and A. D. Hazen, chief of the stamp division, that newspaper postage, under the new law going into effect Jan. 1, be paid by stamps affixed to the memorandum of the mailing stamps, to be of denomination from two cents to sixty dollars, and to be canceled by perforation. The national bank resumption agency has called upon the national banks, within the last six days, for about $4,350,000 in legal ten der notes, to reimburse it for their notes re deemed. Other calls will follow at the rate of about $750,000 per day, until sufficient legal tenders shall have been received to justify the resumption of redemption. The date of resumption will depend somewhat upon the promptness with which the banks respond te the call. A Washington dispatch says it is re ported thatthe Porto Rico annexation story has truly drawn the fire of Russia aud the United States, and was in reality only a part of a* scheme of Bismarck to convulse Europe. Russia, being fully advised of the intention of Bismarck to acquire a foothold in America, and with assurances that we will not permit the transfer of colonial possessions in Amer ica from one European nation to another, is prepared to form an alliance with the United States, in the event that Germany determines to force her aspirations. The assistant United States district attorney, who went to Europe last spring to obtain evidence against importers in cases of importations, as alleged, under violations, has returned. He says he found the German gov ernment greatly incensed against this govern ment because, as was thought, it had issued commissions to its consuls in Europe, author izing them to cite importers before them for the purpose of extorting information respect ing invoices made out in Europe. Acting upon that supposition, tho German government had informed the American legation at Berlin that if the consuls of this government attempted to execute these commissions, their exequa tors would be revoked. The comptroller of currency having recently ascertained through the reports of the examiners of national banks, that certain national banks are in the habit of drawing drafts on their correspondents in New York, at sixty or ninety days date, acceptance waived, have advised these institutions that such is sues are in violation of section 23 of the na tional bank act, which prohibits the issue of post notes. Such transactions subjects a na tional bank to forfeiture of charter under section 53 of the national bank act, and it is the intention of the comptroller to commence proceedings, if necessary, to prevent such practice. Other national banks are in the habit of furnishing their depositors with checks drawn one day after date, instead of on demand, for the purpose of evading the in ternal revenue law requiring a two cent stamp to be affixed to such checks. Tlie comptroller will ask for an amendment to the act which will prevent such abuses. The Gift of Readiness. Of all the intellectual gifts bestowed on man the most intoxicating is readi ness—the power of calling all the re sources of the mind into simultaneous action at a moment’s notice. Nothing strikes the unready as so marvelous as this promptitude in others; nothing im presses him with so dull and envious a sense of contrast in his own person. To want readiness is to be laid on the ah If, to creep where others fly, to fall into permanent discouragement. To be ready is to have the mind’s intellectual property put out at 50 or 100 per cent.; to be nnready at the moment of trial is to be dimly conscious of faculties tied up somewhere in a napkin. What an engine—we are speaking of “the com merce of mankind”—is a memory ready with its stores at the first question, words that oome at your call, thoughts that follow in unbroken sequence, rea son quick at retort ! The thoughts we may feel not above our level; the words we could arrange in as harmonious or der ; the memory, only to give time, does not fail us ; the repartee is all the occasion called for, if only it had not suggested itself too late, thus changing its nature from a triumph to a regret. It is such compassions, the painful re collectiou of panic and disaster, the speech that vould not bespoken, the reply that dissolved into incoherence, the action that belied our intention, or, it may be, experience in a humble field, that gives to readiness such a charm and value. The ready man does seem such a clever fellow! The poet’s readiness does not avail him for such practical nses, and does not contribute to his fame or sneoess at all in the same de gree. It is the result—the thought, the wit, the sense —not the speed of per formance, which determines the worth of his efforts. But wo delight in an ex tempore effusion because of the prestige of readiness called into play in busy life ; at least this adds to the pleasure. The poet’s best verses are the greatest, least imitable wonder about him ; but we are apt to be most surprised when he shows his powers under immediate command; and good lines, struck off at a heat, do give us a vivid insight into the vivacity and energy of the poetical temperament, prompt in its aotion, ready at a call, and gaily willing to display its mechanical facilities. There is a speci men of Drvden’s fluency in extempore verse, communicated and authenticated by Malone, which shows that foresight and composite action which a strong imag ination seem to posses*, uttering what it has prepared, and composing what is to follow, at one and the same time—a habit or faculty observed in Sir Walter . Scott by his amanuense. This double action must belong to all rapid complex expression; but the difficulty is en hanced and the feat magnified in pro portion when rhythm and rhyme are ad ded to the other requirements.—Black wood. The genuine Icelandic costume for women is very pretty and becoming, as well as expensive ; a dark skirt, cut quite short, and closely fitting jacket, embroidered in gold or silver, with broad blt of silver filigree-work. The head-dress consists of a sort of helmet of white silk, curving over in front, the base richly embroidered, and fastened to it a long thin white veil, which is thrown back, and floate gracefully over the shoulders. Theke are said to ba more Jews in New York than there in Jerusalem. They have the finest synagogue in the city, and live in the beiit streets. Who knows but New York ia destined to ba codie the New Jerusalem. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. KAMOS. BT BRET HARTS. El Refugio Mine, Northern. Mexico, 1874. Drunk and senseless in his place,' Prone and sprawling on his face, More like brute than any man alive or dead,— By his great pump, out of gear, Lay the peon engineer, Waking only just to hear, Overhead, Angry tones that called his name, Oaths and cries of bitter blame Woke to hear all this, and waking, turned and fled! “ To the man who’ll bring to me,” Cried Intendant Harry Lee, — Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine,— “ Bring the sot alive or dead, I will give to him,” hs said, “ Fifteen hundred peeot down, Just to see the rascal’s crown, Underneath this heel ct mine; Since but death Deserves the man w hose deed, Be it vice or want of heed. Stops the pumps that give us breath— Stops the pumps that suck the death From the poisoned lower levels of the mine 1 ” No one answered, for a cry From the shaft r se up on high And shuffling, scrambling, tumbling irom below, Came the miners each, the bolder Mounting on the weaker’s shoulder, Grappling, clinging to their hold or Letting go, As the weaker gasped and fell From the ladder to the well— To the poisoned pit of hell Down below 1 “To the man who sets them free,”. Cried the foreman, Harry Lee,— Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine,— “ Brings them out and sets them free, I will give the man,” said he, “ Twice that sum, who with a rope Face to face with Death shall cope.* Let him come who dares to hope 1 ” “ Hold your peace ! ” someone replied, Standing by the foreman’s side; “ There has one already gone, whoe’er he be 1 Then they held their breath with awe, Pulling on the rope, and Baw Fainting figures reappear, On the black rope swinging clear, Fastened by some skillful haud from below ; Till a score the level gained, And but one alone remained, — He the hero and the last, He whose skillful hand made fast The long line that brought them back to hope and cheer 1 Haggard, gasping, down dropped he At the feet of Harry Lee, — Harry Lee, the English foreman of the miue ; “ I have come,” he gasped, “ to claim Both rewards. Senor, my name Is Ramon ! I’m the drunken engineer— I’m the coward, Senor—” Here He fell over, by that sign Dead as stone 1 * A JAPANESE PLAY.3 The August number of the Revue des Deux Mondes contains a highly inter esting paper on “ The Theatre in Ja pan,” by M. George Bouiquet, who vis ited the conntry in an official capacity, being charged with a special mission by the French government. This paper, besides an exhaustive account of the technicalities of the Japanese stage, gives several analyses of the Japanese dramas. One of these is a comedy called “Kami-ye-Djiye,” or “Djiye, the paper-seller,” which bears a most re markable resemblance to the “Dame aux Camelias.” The heroine of the comedy is a guecha (singing prostitute) named O’Hare. She is passionately loved by a paper-dealer or stationer named Djiye, whom she loves in return. But he has not the money wherewith to pur chase her and lead her to his house in quality of mekake (concubine), he being already married. He has already con tracted debts on her behalf, is verging towards ruin, and bringing his legiti mate wife and family to despair. An other aspirant, Kahe, has been rejected by the guecha. He is rich, but she treats him as a disagreeable impor tunate. The scene represents tho interior of a tea-house, and the time is evening. Euters O’Hare escorted by a koskia. She sits down with the mistress of the house near a brasero, and in their con versation an exposition of the state of affairs is given. As soon as this is fin ished a koskia arrives with a letter which his mistress has bidden him de liver to O’Hare. It is a letter from the wife of Djiye, the neglected spouse. What says she? We learn nothing. The singer reflects for an instant. Then, as if accomplishing a sacrifice, she writes an answer, her hand trembling with emotion. She gives it to the kos kai after hiding ihe letter she had re ceived in her dress with great care. Hardly had this koskai, whose name is Genroka, gone off then Kahe, the re jected suiter, appears, escorted by his koskai. The scene which follows is irresistibly comic. Kahe pursues the intractable guecha with his declara tions, but he does not figure as a bash ful lover. He takes high ground with the unhappy girl and taunts her bitterly in regard to the poor scamp whom she loves, and draws a tempting pioture of the ease and luxury she will enjoy with him if she will but be persuaded. How ever, she scornfully rejects him. There upon follows a colloquy between master and servant in regard to the strange re fusal. Kahe, despairing of getting himself loved, determines to revenge himself by a biting epigram. He looks round for a guitar. Not finding one he seizes a broom and imitating with amaz ing contortions the sighs of a lover he shouts, accompanied by his koskai, a song of mockery in regard to the unfor tunate Djiye : “ There was once a poor paper-dealer —who was beaten by his wife—in his house they died of hunger—all through the fault of a guecha." “ Enough, enough !” cries the poor girl. “ Encore, encore !” shouts the public. The song is horrible, and the ability of the actor to imitate the squall ing accents of Japanese music shows that ridicule of themselves is not neg lected by this sceptical people. The plantitudes of the formulas of saluta tion are constantly made the subject of most amusing parodies. However, at length the two women begin to lose pa tience, and the gallant is invited to take himself off. But even in returning he plays off one of his tricks. At the door lie lays in wait for Djiye, who he thinks cannot fail soon to be there. In fact, a man appears with his head enveloped in one of the black liooda which are worn by persons who frequent these disreputa ble quarters, in order that they may escape recognition. Kahe and his ser vant proceed to attack the unknown, but he quickly knocks them aside and shows his sabre. It is not Djiye, it is one of the two-sworded nobies. “I ought to punish you for your insolence,” says he, “but as I am in a place of this kind I will pardon you. Go on your ways.” This injunction they do not re quire him to repeat. This unsolicited clemency, however, and oertain details of costume, lead the audience to suspect that this person is not one of the aamourai; but that he is compelled to hide his name and his profession for some secret purpose. He is, in fact, Djiye’s father, who comes to snatch his son, if possible, from this fatal passion. He enters the tea-house as a Bamourai who wishes for rest and amusement. Everything must bow to the desires of a aamourai , and the mis tress of the house calls O’Hare to dance and sing for their guest. But she re fuses ; she is too sad. The mysterious personage interrogates the hostess in regard to this intractable girl. He learns all he wishes t know. To every thing that he sayß to her she gives but a simple reply : “ Which is the best way to kill oneself, by steel or’ by X?” Presently they pass into the >n to take tea. At the other end of the street now ap pears Djiye; his handkerchief is bound round his head, he is pale, his eyes are hollow, his legs tremble, and he exhib its all that physical weakening and those material ravages which are moduoed by a disorderly ;aesion. In a long mute scene the actor exhibits his grief, his despair, his weakness. He oare fully peers around for fear of meet ing those spies who are to prevent him from approaching the beautiful O’Hare. Be sees ho one, however, Iml hearing the sound of voices inside the house he hesitates abont entering. Mangoyemon —the name of his father—in the mean time had drawn from the young girl the secret of her project. “ You will kill yourself in despair, will you?” says he, re-entering upon the scene. “But do you not know that your lover will at tempt to take his own life ? You are going to cause innumerable misfortunes. Besides, have you not a mother who loves you ? Who is to console her when you are dead ?” O’Hare bursts in to tears, but for a long time keeps si lent. At last her mind is made up. “Well,” she says, “come every day for three months at this hoar. He shall see me no more, and will soon forget me." Djiye, who is behind the door, overhears these words. Furious with jealousy he raises his sword and at tempts to stab the girl through the lat tice. Bat Mangoyemon seizes the sword, disarms the attacking party, whom they take to be a robber, reaches through the lattice, and grasping his son binds him firmly to tho post. At this moment O'Hare utters a cry ; she recognizes the sword as that of Djiye. The father recognizes it also, and is struck dumb with astonishment. Kahe now again appears upon the scene, followed by his koskai. They come forward very cautiously, as they fear to meet the samourai again. They nee a man at the door, and believing it to be him they fall back and discuss the situation. But presently they recog nize their enemy Djiye, and immedi ately determine to punish him. They cry out “ Thief!” the police arrive with a punctuality which is in sad contrast vuth their habits in real life, and as usual they begin to hustle and bully those who have called them. Mangey emon now comes out of the house and stops the tumult. Kahe trembles like a leaf. “ Why,” says the false sa mourai, “do you call this man a thief?” “ Because he owes me twenty rios, and will not pay me.” “ Where is the bond?” “It is here.” The father seizes the paper signed by his son, and tears it into a thousand pieces. Kahe thinks he is to be defrauded, but the father pays him the twenty rios, and the cred itor then departs with many bows and compliments. Mangoyemon now releases the prisoner. “You are my benefac tor,” says Djiye. “I am but a poor man, aud I cannot repay yon the money immediately, but give me your name and your address, in order that some of these days I may acquit myself. “My name and address you have no need to inquire, but if you wish to know me, lift up the lantern.” “My father?” Thereupon ensues a long sermon upon the immoral conduct of the son, his disorders, his debts, and the shame which he Das even now brought upon himself, by being called a thief in the streets, and losing his sword. And all this for a woman ! and what kind of a woman ! Does she love him ? Not she, she is ready to abandon him at this moment. At the mention of her name the young man rushes into the house ; overwhelms O’Hare with reproaches for her supposed infidelity, and demands the return of a paper which he had given her, engaging to kill himself with her, in case she could not be his. She resists, wishing to keep the paper as a souvenir; and, moreover, it is in the same part of her dress with the letter from his wife, and she does not wish to show either one or the other. Djiye, now as furious as he had before been tender, insists upon her producing the paper. The father seizes her girdle, and out falls the fatal letter. The jeal ous lover wishes to read it. Mangoye mon prevents him. What does he see 1 His son’s wife begs the quecha to give her back her husband and restore peace to the domestic hearth. It is for the purpose of acceding to this request that she bas been willing to abandon Djiye. He is struck with admiration at this devition on the the part of the girl, but it is above all things necessary that Djiye remain in error in order that his cure may be complete ; and the father cries, as he destroys the letter : “ This woman deceives thee.” At the same moment he casts an eloquent glance at the singer, which tells her that he un derstands all, but that she must submit to this last sacrifice. She bends her head in silence. The chorus sings a verse, which gives the actors time to prolong their gestures and pantomime, and the whole audience vociferously applauds them. Mangoyemon carries off his son, and the piece appears to be finished. The Japanese playwright, however, prefers to prolong his drama as much as possi ble. Hardly have the father ana son taken a few steps than the latter wishes to return. “ What is the good of see ing her again if you love her no longer?” “ I wish again to abuse her ; I have not said all that I wish to say.” He enters again, an \ this time he begins with tears. “ Dost thou remember the past? Alas ! I love thee still ! ” O’Hare is overwhelmed with emotion. She is on the point of betraying herself when Mangoyemon again enters. “ Not a word,” says he in a low voice to the guecha. “Not a word, or my son is lost.” Then turning to his son he ex claims, “Thou seest; she is silent, and cannot defend herself.” The cur tain falls as he makes a last gesture of gratitude and homage to the woman who thus sacrifices herself. The Georgia Gold Region. The Atlanta News has been shown a piece of gold ore taken from the Yine branch mines,‘six miles from Dahlonega, worth about SIO,OOO per ton. He had a small piece weighing about one-fourth of a pound, which contained six dollars worth of the precious metal, the ore being worth $200,000 per ton. Mr. Harrison says that there are now three mills in operation, two very large ones building, and by next summer six or eight mills will be running, employing nearly two thousand hands. The mine known as the Big Acqueduot mine pur chased by Mr. Hand, of Ohio, will be one of the largest in this section of the country. The acqueduct alone oost about $500,000. The power of the mills will range from twenty to forty s’amps, and each stamp can pound twenty tons per day. One gentleman has a mill that cost about $15,000, can pound one hundred pounds of ore per day, at a oost of twenty dollars. The ore of this mine averages about one dollar per pound, leaving a net profit of eighty dollars per day. Great preparations are being made, and by next spring Dahlonega will present as busy an ap pearance as our own city. A Five Million Dollar House. Mr. Albert Grant, the donor of Lei cester square, is having built a mansion which promises to be the finest in Lon don. It is situated in the High street, Kensington, and the buildings and ground cover an area of more than fourteen acres. The house is in the Rennaissanoe style, and has a frontage 200 feet. Some idea may be formed of the extent ©f the work from the fact that during the past two years 650 men have been daily employed. The total oost will exceed a million sterling. When completed, the house will con tain a grand hall and staircase in white marble, a picture gallery and three din ing-rooms en suite, a hall-room 85 feet long, and three stories of bedrooms, reached by steam elevators. Thu expense of publishing a daily paper is scarcely guessed at by out siders. The entire oost of the New York Herald, for example, is said to average $2,500 daily, or $912,500 a year. The cost of publishing the Tribune is, probably, $1,500 a day, of the Times $1,300, and of the World, S7OO to SBOO. THE BANKRUPT LAW. What the Amended Law Means Aecord ing to Judge Blatchford. New York Journal of Commerce. There has gone abroad a greatlv mis taken interpretation of Judge Blatch ford’s recent decision regarding the per cent, of a debtor’s obligation which must be paid in order to entitle him to a discharge. We find the decision broadly stated to be “ that when the assets of a bankrupt do not reach fifty per cent, of claims proved against the estate, he cannot have a discharge un less with the assent of a majority of the number and value of his creditors, in accordance with the law of 1868, a pro vision which, in the opinion of the oonrt, has not been modified by subsequent legislation.” What was in fact decided was something very different, though important to undischarged involuntary bankrupts in whose cases proceedings were begun after Jauuary 1, 1869. To such cases the fifty per cent, clause was applied prospectively, by the act of July 27, 1868, and the question is whether the repeal of that danse by act of 1874 releases from the operation pending cases. Judge Blatchford declares that it does not. As interpreted in the above quotation the decision would flatly con tradict the language of the amendatory act, which declares (section 8) that “in cases of involuntary or compulsory bank ruptcy the provisions of said act (the original bankruptcy act of March 2, 1867), and any amendments thereof, or of any supplement thereto, requiring the payment of any proportion of the debts of the bankrupt, or the assent of any portion of his creditors, as a con dition of his discharge from his debts, shall not apply; but he may, if other wise entitled thereto, be discharged by the court in the same manner and with the same effect as if he had paid such per cent, of his debts, or if the required proportion of his creditors had assented thereto.” Judge Blatchford rules that congress meant, in the first part of this quota tion, cases of involuntary or compulsory bankruptcy which may hereafter be commenced, and that no relief was in tended for debtors already adjudicated bankrupt, but remaining undischarged for want of ability to pay fifty per cent., or to obtain the assent of a majority in number and value of their creditors. It may be so. Although it appears to ns no violence would be done to the lan guage of the amendment by a more liberal interpretation, yet the district courts appear thus far to have held uni formly that except where the amenda tory act is expressly given a retroactive effect, its operation is confined to cases which have not yet reached the point of adjudication. Where an order of adju dication had in fact been made b v the judge, but not formally entered, Judge Blatchford held the opening largeenough to let in the amendatory act, and in such a case required the petition to be amend ed so as to allege suspension of payment of commercial paper for forty days, in stead of the fourteen which was enough to allege when the proceedings were be gun. None of the other decisions which have fallen under our notice hinge upon quite so fine a point of time as this. Judgments have been rendered, how ever, limiting the express retrospective provisions of the act of 1874, one of which, regulating the number of credi tors to be joined in a petition, it is en acted without qualification shall apply to all cases begun since December 1, 1873. The circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, in ro Obear, and in re Thomas, reversing the order of the district court, restricts this general pro vision as follows : “ Without entering upon the inquiry as to the competency of congress to annul by mere legislative declaration prior adjudications of bank ruptcy, regularly made, in pursuance of laws in force at the time, under the con veyance and acts thereunder, I m of the opinion that congress did not intend by the amendatory act to overturn or disturb adjudications then already made and in force.” In another case, arising in Michigan, the adjudication was made in April of the present year, and the pe titioning creditors, supposing it neces sary to amend their petition in accord ance with the amendatory act of June, sought leave of the oourt to do so. The court, however, decided that amendment was necessary, saying : “ The decree of adjudication having been rendered prior to the appioval of the amendatory act, it will stand as the decree of the court. It is not in the power of the legislative department of the government to so far interfere with the judicial department as to vacate the judgments and decrees of the latter.” The United States dis trict oourt for the western district of Wisconsin also says : “It is not neces sary to amend the petition when there has been an adjudication before the amended act took effect. An adjudica tion removes the cases beyond the do main of legislative control.” (In re Raffanf, 6 Legal News, 841.) The east ern district court of Wisconsin has like wise decided that the amendment mak ing it necessary in order to avoid sales alleged to be in fraud of the act that the buyer must know, and not merely have “ reasonable cause to believe,” that they are fraudulent, is not available in cases begun before the Ist of December, 1873. Under these decisions accordingly, there is room for the enactment of a sort of general amnesty to relieve debtors who remain undischarged while other debtors of the same class, under the later act, go free of their obligations. There is no justice in maintaining this ungenerous distinction. The Southern Planter. There must, and will be, a radical change in the conduct of the rising gen eration of planters. The younger men are, I think, convinced that it is a mis take to depend on western and northern markets for the articles of daily con sumption, and for nearly everything which goes to make life tolerable. Bat the elders, grounded by a lifetime of habit in the methods which served them well under a slave regime, but which are ruinous now-a-days, will never cor rect themselves. They will continue to bewail the unfortunate fate to which they think themselves condemned—or will rest assured that they can do very well in the present chaotic condition of things, provided that Providence does not allow their crops to fail. They cannot be brought to see that their on ly safety lies in making cotton their surplus crop ; that they must absolutely dig their sustenance, as well as their riches, out of the ground. Before the war, a planter who owned a plantation of two thousand acres, and two hun dred negroes upon it, would, when he came to make his January settlement with his merchant in town, invest what ever there was to his credit in more land and more negroes. Now the more land he buys the worse he is off, because he finds it very hard to get it worked up to the old standard, and unless he does, he can ill afford to buy supplies from the outer world at the heavy prices charged for them—or if he can do that, he can accomplish little else. As most of his capital was taken from him by ishe series of events which liberated his slaves, he has been compelled, since the war, to undertake his planting opera tions on borrowed capital, or, in other words, has relied on a merchant or mid dle man to furnish food and clothing for his laborers, and all the means nec essary to get his crop, baled and weighed, to the market. The failure of his crop would of coarse cover him with liabilities ; bat Bach has been his fatal persistence in this false system that he has been able to straggle through, as in Alabama, three saooee aive crop failures, The merchant, 1874. somewhat reconciled to the anomalous oondition of affairs by the large profits he can make on coarse goods brought long distances, has himself pushed en duranoe and courage to an extreme point, and when he dare give credit no longer, hosts of planters are often plaoed in the most painful and embar rassing positions. So they gather up the wrecks of their fortunes, place their lares and penates in an emigrant wagon, or car, and doggedlv work their way to Texas. —Edward King, in Scribner’s. The International Shooting Match. Tho international rifle match took place on the 26tb, at Creedmoor. Maj. Leech, captain of the Irish team, and Col. Wingate, captain of the Americans, were chosen referees and Gen. Shaler as umpire. The firing was begun at 800 yards’ range, each marksman having fifteen shots. The shooting was witnessed with the most lively interest among the buils eyes, exciting loud murmurs of applause among the spectators, who at first also hailed them by a round of hand-olap ping. At the earnest request of the captains of both teams, these demon strations were subdued, as ha vine a tendency to disturb the marksmen. The result of the competition, which lasted an hour and a quarter, was in donbt al most up to the close, when it wr s found that the Americans were winners by nine points—326 to 317. Fulton, of the Americans, made 58, and Hamilton made the same for the Irish. * The result of the first oontest gave encouragement to Ihe friends of the American riflemen, and many confident ly predicted their success in all the trials. The betting was now 8100 to S7O in favor of the Americans. The shsoting was followed by an in termission for lunch in one of the tents, where congratulations were exchanged, and in a complimentary speech Major Leech presented to the rifle association, on behalf of the Irish team, a handsome silver vase, as a trophy, to be subject to annual competition, and as a memorial of the international matoh. A handsome silver badge was at the same time pre sented to Col. Wingate, captain of the American team, by Capt. Leech, Soon after two o’clock firing was re sumed at the 900 yard station, and the result was in favor of the Irish team by two points. Both teams immediately moved to the 1,000 yard range, and the result of the firing here was also favor able to the Irish by four marks, but these latter triumphs were not sufficient to overcome defeat in the short ranges, and the Americans won the match by three points. A Plnnec in the North Sea. M. Durnof and his wife, who recently made the perilous ascent from Calais, have been rescued in the North sea. As one of the attractive features of a public fete given at Calais that day, it was announoed that the adventurous aeronaut and his wife would go up in their balloon, the Tricolor, and if the wind was favorable, they proposed to make au aerial voyage over the channel and land in England. The wind was squally, and, moreover, blew in the wrong direction. With a south-easterly current, the attempt would have been made, but it blew variously south and south-west, and the only prospect before the voyagers was a descent in the Ger man ocean, unless they could reach the distant shores of Denmark or Norway. The authorities forbade the ascent, but part of the crowd, disappointed of the sensational episode of the day’s amuse ment, taunted Durnof with cowardice, and, stung by their taunts, he and his wife made the desperate effort to carry out their engagement, and Le Tricolor was seen rising in the clouds just as night was closing in, and drifting over the Straits of Dover toward the open sea. So it continued to drift fcr ten hours, when the gas being partly exhausted, it fell into the North sea. Then they saw and were seen by a Grimsby fishing smack ; the crew hast ened to their rescue, pursued the car, which dipped and rose out of the water like a flying fish, and finally, after a chase of two hours, saved the half drowned aeronaut and his wife in the middle of the North sea, some 170 miles from the Spurr light-house. Aocording to these data it would seem that the balloon had traveled about three hundred miles in a direct line, its rate being between twenty-five and thirty miles an hour, or about twice the average horizontal motion of the air. —London Ttlepraph. Pleasure Without Pain. Among the mauy “ mosa-grown er rors ” which is the delight of philoso phers, moralists, and poets, to forever keep repeating, there is none which more needs exposure than that about pleasure always eluding the grasp of her pursuers. So often has it been re peated that the mere attempt to t njoy one’s self is enough to render enjoy ment impossible, that it is a wonder that people have not, by the mere force of authority, given up altogether all essays at pleaanre-seeking. “ There can be no pleasure without thought, or without exertion, that does not aim at pleasure, or the exercise of the moral powers,” says a religous con temporay. Is it possible that the writer of those sentiments never went to sleep at night with an easy coascience, never took, an afternoon nap, or enjoyed any slumber “on purpose? ” Is it possible that he never went a-flshing and had a good time, and caught quite a respect able “ string,” without any exercise of the moral powers ? What have oysters at their season, or watermelons or roses, so curious in their constitution, that you must pretend to be going to ohnrch when you are really going to market, in order to prevent their losing their attractions for the senses ? Exertion must aim at something else in order to hit pleasure, forsooth ! If there be any man with a life dreary enough to write this specious sentiment of the schools sincerely—a man who has never sought and gained pleasure through sight or hearing, and gained it consciously—then let all men pity him ; it is full time that he began to eat his bread with joy, and to drink his wine (metaphorically) with a merry heart. Remarkable Movement in China. The violent opposition of the Chinese of Canton to Christianity has nearly ceased, it is said ; and many of them have beoorne earnest supporters and as zealous in good works as the missiona ries themselves. “A system of free schools is being inangurated which takes large numbers of scholars from mission schools. On this aeconut the London Missionary Society has been compelled to relinquish the school they had at Fatschan. The children preferred the schools of their own neighborhood, tanght by men of distinction. Hospitals, too, are erected, at which medicines are dispen sed gratis, and the sick receive medical advice without charge. The poor find support from a fund for the purpose, and widows and orphans a home. Preachers are being sent out in imita tion of the evangelical missionaries, who are to preach both through the city and country adjacent. To these enterprises public men of wealth are contributing their thonaands. Rev. Dm. West, lately of Danville, Ky. t avers that the Rev. Dr. Swing, of Chicago, is “ simply a pantheistic Arian of the Eutychian type, a mcmophvsite, a monothelite, and does not preach the Apangasmal brillianoe of Godhead’s glory, bmt is a Macedonian,” TOPS! TUMBLE. A Little Street WeW, ant WDat Became ut Her. She wasn’t a bad sort of a girl foi' one who had been brought np in an all< y all her days, living with old Mother Hart ever sir oe she was large enough to g ther chips around the ship-yard. The boys called her Topsy Tumble, and noliody knew anything abont her parents or re latives. ” Her hair was long and mat ted; her face tanned to a brown ; her nose always bore a stain of dirt, and she had stone-bruises on her feet, and chapped hands and sore heels, just like the rag ged boys with whom she played. The “ society” of the alley rather cut Tt psy Tumble” but she was independent, and she made faces at “ society” from the top of coal-sheds, and allowed herself to be harnessed up beside Bob W ute when the boys wanted a blooded team to draw a oreaking cart down around the railroad crossing. The alley was unusually quiet the other week. Topsy Tumble was sick. Mother Hart said so when Bob Wiite went to Bee if Topsy wanted to trt de her old jack-knife for a small dog which he had pioked up on Atwater street. It was a strange Bring, her illness. For eleven years she had rolled in the di't, waded through the snow and plash ;d around in the mud, and nobody had ever heard her complain of anything more than a stubbed toe. Bob oouldn’t make it out. He and Bill Davis and Sam Sharp and Chip Larkins sat in the shade of a truck wagon going to decay aid talked it over. It would be rough cn Mother Hart to have sickness aod beir a doctor’s bill, and they wondered f Topsy would get well in time to go out with them the next week. The doctor said it was a bad fever, and most of the folks in John Browa alley oalled in to say that they would sit up nights and do anything they could. Topsy was out of her head, talking Grange things, and, after look ing at her flushed face and listening to her mutterings, Bob White called tho boys together on top of a coal shed, and there was a lump in his throat as ho whispered : “ Boys, Topsy’s a-goin’ to die !” The boys looked around over the shedn and made no reply, and by-and-by they slid down one by one and went home There was ro more dog fighting in tht alley—no pounding of fire alarms or the old steamboat boiler and then rush ing the “ masheen” np to the corner. Columbus Jones brought his rooster down and wanted to bet a kite that it oould clean ont any chicken in John Brown alley, but the boys had no en thusiasm. Topsy grew worse. The doctor called twioe a day, but his medicines didn’t touch the case, and he told Mother Hart that Topsy must die. The old woman felt a little weak, and her eyes grew misty. It had been a score of years since Bhe had wept for gnef, and Bhe coaid not remember when she had thought of death. The neighbors came in, and they tip toed across the room, and kept their babies still that the dying girl might hear no harsh sound. Bob White and his chums hung around the door awhile, and finally gathered oourage to pull off their hats and enter the house. Mother Hart motioned for them to take seats on the bench at the foot of the bed, and she whispered in a weak voice : “ Bob, I’m afeard we’re going to lose Topsy!” ... Bob wiped his eyes and his chin quiv ered, and gome of the boys broke clear down and wept. Topsy was unconscious. The boys wondered at the pallor of her face and the whiteness of her hands, and they saw that her matted hair had been cut short. The women shed tears. Mother Hart kept wiping her eyes on her apron, and the boys wondered if sitting there wasn’t something like going to meeting. She was a good girl, Topsy was,” whispered one of the women. “And so willing to help her mother," said another. “And she stood up for John Brown alley !” added Bob White, a sob in his throat Darkness settled down and they al most lost sight of the white face. No one moved. Some of the babies fell asleep, and the mothers trotted them softly, and the boys almost dozed as they sat crooked up on the bench. The shadows of night grew deeper, and the rattle of a truck going home sounded painfully loud and harsh. Mother Hart moved softly over and lighted the little old lamp, and as she held it up the wo man said : “ Poor dear !” and Bob White leaned over on Chip Larkins’ shoulder and sobbed aloud. Topsy Tumble was dead ! The little soul, never washed by a mother’s tears—-never made > etter by a word about heaven—never drinking in. the knowledge that only the body dies —crossed the dark valley alone, having only the tears and heartaches of the dwellers in John Brown alley to plead its case with the angels. —Detroit Post. United States Wines. The manufacture of wine has become an industry of considerable importance in the United States. In 1870 the pro duction amounted to 12,450,000 gallons. Of this, California yielded 7,000,000; New York, 2,225,000; Illinois, 1,200,- 000; Missouri, 1,000,000; and other states, 1,000.000. At the exposition in Vienna, the United States stood ninth in the list of exhibitors. The fjur leading oonntries in the catalogue were Austria with 1872 kinds of wine ; Hun gary, 1574 kinds; Spain, 1200 kinds; France 920 kinds. The United States displayed eighty-two specimens, sent by seventeen manufacturers ; and received two medals of progress, four medals of scienoe, and three diplomas. The re port of Dr. Adolph Ott, member of the Swiss commission, says that the United States “sent ordinal y and spurkling catawba, Delaware wine, and cham pagne, sweet and dry.” The last named received much commendation, and was declared to be equal to the best Spanish and Portuguese dry wines. The sparkling wines were also mnch approved. It is well known that the European vine, vitia vinifera, does not flourish in America, on aooount of the severe changes of temperature, and even the bastards obtained by hybridization are worthless for the production of wine. On the other hand. North Amer ica possesses more than 800 native va rieties, mostly of the vitis labrusca, of which, however, only a small number are cultivated. Mr. Frederick Hecker, who has experimented with fifty-seven varieties, has settled upon fourteen. The American varieties of vine flourish exceedingly well, never freeze, and are almost indestructible. For instance, the catawba, the blue Isabella, and the blue Madeira, are known in Europe. Some kinds bear enormous grapes, as the Concord, North Carolina, and oth ers, which, according to Hecker, are very well suited to the Rhine climate. Upon the character of the American wines Mr. Ott remarks: “ The odor and taste of nearly all the labrusca va rieties is similar to that of mnscatelle, and varies between vanilla and straw berry. The aroma, which is different from the flavor of European wines, is generally weak, and diminishes with the age of the wine. Still the wne ob tained from the bine Isabella (cape grape) ia distinguished by a superior boquet, which fills the surrounding air with a spicy essence; for which reason this grape Is well fitted for admixture with less aromatic grapes.” Those stormy petrels of social life— Wood-hull and Claftin—are back again. Now for the next unfortunate. man'A (ina ciflAan HfloTtflS I .A .'UIOTKIX j , AMU! A H .H mwtajkv ,T wdotoO YAftssrw JohhKl if IT ,iw.‘Tgn©o> v*/ JJ3MMAJir.iI ,J J 'JITAJITO H3HI r. ff eiK>r/ v oi/p # Incidents of the Fall Elver Fire. Incidents of the .Bftrrflifl some of them being of' t4i; moat heartrending description. Dtirieg fße height of the excitement a gwjs, scarcely in her teens, appeared m> ooa of the upper windows gazing npofl 'the> horror-stricken people below. All Wear were directed to her, in the expectation, of seeing her follow the example of others who had jumped from thewfcu dows at the risk of life and limb. Those who were holding beds beneath the windows grasped them more firmly to receive her, while seorces of voices shouted to her to jump. The light shone full npon her face, which was wreathed with a beautiful smile, aa though she had caught a glimpse of the other world already; as the people gazed she slowly turned around and disappeared forever from mortal view. Whether she became insensible from the smoke or whether the terror of the moment bad deprived the poor child of reason, will never be known until the dead give up their secrets. Another incident that has been narrated as an actual fact, but which I have been una ble as yet to substantiate, is almost in credible, though not beyond the range of possibility. It is said that a little fellow, scarcely a dozen years old, jump ed from one of the upper windows to the ground, and when the spectator* rushed forward to pick up the mangled body, they were astonished to see him spring to his feet, apparently uninjured, and start on a ruh for his home. Burst ing into the house m breathless haste, he shouted to his mother, “ The mill is all on fir# !” and then he suddenly drop ped to the floor lifeless, the fearful sixty-foot jump having resulted in fatal internal injuries which the excitement of the moment prevented his feeling. It appears that many of the deaths and severe injuries were caused by the peo ple striking upon the ladders which were run up to the third and fourth stories. One girl struck between two rounds in such a manner that her back was instantly broken, and her head hung down swaying back and forth, and while the body reclined in that position a man and a woman in turn struca against it, bounding off again to the ground. All the persons who at tempted to escape from the attic did not mat, a a clean jump to the ground. A rope was thrown out of the window by somebody, which reached a good part of the way to the ground, and quite a number slid down this rope as far as possible, and then dropped the rest of the way, thus escaping instant death; though all were more or less injured. Two of the girls—Alice Stafford and Nancy Mullen, who were among tho*e who used the rope—had their hands badly burned by the friction, and the former had her back injured and both ankles dislocated by the fall. The per sons who availed themselves of this rope would have esoaped serious injury had not the rope caught fire by the flames bursting out of the windows and burned off some forty feet from the ground.— N. Y. Herald’s fall River Special. terialistic Joke. A lecturer on materialism and a city missionary met the other day in England to discuss before an audience the tion of responsibility. “Science,” arid the philosopher, “ has proved beyond doubt that at the end of a few years not a particle in my body or brain remains; every atom has passed away, and the new matter forms anew man, who can not be held accountable for the conduct of another.” The audience seemed en chanted. Then arose the city missiona ry and said ; “ Ladies and gentlemen, it is a matter of regret to me that I have to engage in a discussion with a man of questionable character, with one, in fact, who is living with a woman to whom he is not married.” Up rose, in wrath, again the materialist. “ Sir, this is shameful, and I repudiate your insolent attack on my character. I defy you to substantiate yonr charge. I was married to my wife twenty years ago, and we have lived happily together ever unoe. This is a mere attempt at evad ng the force of my argument.” “On the contrary,” replied the city mission ary, “ I reaffirm my charge. Ton ware never married to the person with whom you are living. Twenty years ago two other people may have gone to church, 1 tearing your names, but there is not cne atom in your bodies remaining of those which were then married. It fol lows inevitably that yon are living in concubinage, unless you will admit that you are the same man who was married twenty years since.” The philosopher vas compelled, amid great cheering, to allow that, somehow or other, credit and discredit for past actions most be grant ed even by materialists. A Kentucky Beauty. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes: “ Four y -ars ago Congressman Reek’s daugh ter, Miss Maggie, was one of the ac knowledged queens of Washington so ci 2ty. Byron describes her type in his Dadm Without exception, I think she hid the most exquisite neck, arms, and shoulder I have ever seen. No marble from far-famed Carrara was ever more tr rasparently white, and no sculptor’s chisel could have added a perfection. Hir hair was dark and lustrous, and long black lashes shaded eves of that peculiar blue-gray which Miles O’Rielly im normalizes in his poem to his lost Janette. The ‘Blue Grass’ state is very prodigal of the charms it bestows upon its daughters, and it heaped them bountifully upon the person ot Miss Maggie Beck. At the close of her third season, James Corooran, nephew of th wealthy banker, won her for his bride. At the end of a month of married life she was dressed a second time in her wedding costume ot lace and pearls and shimmering satin, and from the parlors of r,he Corooran caatle she was borne to the cars which carried her to a grave in her native state.” The “ War Governor” Vanquished. The Washington Capital relates the foil >wing anecdote of ex-Governor Den nison, of Ohio: ‘‘On the night the Neil house, Columbus, was burned Gov. Dei nison, not believing the hotel to be on fire, mounted upon the balcony to address the crowd. It was an immense ooncourse, for the alarm was given at a very convenient hour, immediately after sup’ier, and it was too tempting for Wil iam to resist, so he sang out in that clear, clarion voice of his: ‘My fellow citizens, the conflagration is not here, it is elsewhere. But it has been sug gest and to me by friends that, in view of your promiscuous, unexpected, and I may say startling assemblage on thiß occasion, it will be well, while the con flagration, wherever it may develop its lurid torch, is manifesting itself, to dis cuss a few of the momentous issues now diviiing the people of this ensanguined land ’ Before William could reach the said issues the fire scorched his ooat tails and he was knocked over by a truniu” Tee Alaska Herald’s enthusiastic as sertion, that, in two hundred and fifty yean from this, Sitka will be one of the ieadi Qg-ship-building cities in the west, has failed to create any perceptible rip ple of enthusiasm among the present gene nation of Sitkans. Ah old lady with a large family, liv ing rear a river, was asked if she didn't live in constant dread that some of her children would be drowned. “ Oh, no,” she replied, “ we have only lost three OT four in that way,”