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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD.
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m> ..ila le»
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cl let dug me cq alone.
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H ! ’ t ”' 1 crlent solnirb, hut a
9 ■cs • nis a laded
Hi m d Tomkins had «
|B much patronized
<>i‘ this locality
|B ‘" l,k ed for
M tarly
H ii*“d by tea and
.' the
jH 11 "!' 1 f' told, at th« pros-:
H" 11 tuv lone- ah
|B ia deep mou min#
IB"l'ar father, and I had
El‘ l embroidered ciape
H through which 1
[■■inmhy see, and thus, as I
not he seen. Tim
H misnomer, f r
i'l'iuvleil o„ stolidly at a
! ,l,t '- mid, as / sat, my
BH- !i v lvvwted sadly to the
KPV ‘‘"'"c, and to I,IV father's
"oi'ds, to file oft
H "'•• of my little
liu must look to Tom.
"inm I am gone.’’
H^-> Ust eighteen, an orphan,
■B' -i '-a, my only brother, or
ialt hr ther. my father's
H fust wife. He was
FB'y-ntyyeani older than I
hm u j u j U( ]j t P y lce i Nva3
■•y' 11 '' old; so, naTur lly, I
H I,; ineinher much about
f | <l *t I | ia ,| row . l U p with
admiration for Tom
lif “ i-nyings and doings;
. 'ha' he was really com-
Ul * wp were to live to-
B. 1 '' Hs grea'ly pleased and
i.ihott was the invalid wid-
J/ 1 general officer who had
o I le,i 111 fire recent outbreak,
■ understood why Tom would
1 11 Y leave her al ne at the hotel
. 1 ut would after a few hours rest,
take her down to her father's
: place in Norfolk.
At last we drove into the court
i yard of the hotel, and I, a shy
i country girl, fait ra her awed and
I nervous; hut I managed to inquire
; whether ATr Hetton had arrived,
and was told hat he had. and that
| tie desired the lady night he
shown to a room where breakfast
was prepared.
I followed the man upstairs
and down a long corrider, and
then ne opened a door, announc
ed “Miss Hetton,” and closed it
quick!Rafter me.
A tall fair man—l could see
{ that through my veil and the tears
that welled up in iuy eyes—was
j in the room.
“Oh, dear, deal Tom! ’ And
j then I found myself with both
arms round a manly neck, and my
tearful face was uplif sd to a soft
! golden moustache wry much high
<r- than my head. “I am so glad!
Of course Grannie could not
come; but she sent all kinds of
messages; and you will never
leave me again; ar d, oh, this is de
licion-! I continued, giving Torn
a most istiriiy embrace.
It s luck me, however, even in
that first agi a*ed moment ihat
Tom did not qui e seem to know
what to do with me; hut then,
poor fello .v, hell nib eo in India
so long. Still even in India I snp
pose men k's-> their sisters.
“Really; mad in, I fear.” he bt
g-iji. when tne d a:r opened, and a
gte.r, tail, gaunt old lady walked
in and slood petrified, gazing at
the spectacle of a gentleman who
was red and uncomfortable, and a
young woman, redder and mote
uncomfortable still, who had just
unclasped her aims from the
young man’S'shouldets, andwhfve
affectionate kissas seemed to he
e hoing stio round the room.
The old lady recovered speech i
first.
‘Nephew John,’ she said solemn
Iv, in « voice with strong Scottish
acoent, ,1 must coufess I am sur
prised ! I had no idea—but this
y, ling lady is doubtless—’ Here
she paused for information.
‘/assure you, Aunt Arabella,
said Nephew John, who looked
very confused, ‘there is some pain
ful—l mem pleasant—at least
some hing. This young lady is—
well, really, my dear aun', I have
not ihe smallest or remotest idea
who this young lady is.’
They I>jih looked so helpless
and so bewildered that I plucked
up courage aud said, with all the
djgnit v I could muster.as I took
offmyuulucky ved: “/am Miss
Cotton, and I ceme to meet my
brother, who has just returned
from India and who telegraphed
to me to meet him here at ten
o’clock this morning.’
‘But lam John Hetton, and I
have returned from India,’
said tie.
‘My bio her’s name is Tom, not
John,’l ai swe ed, becoming al
most t< nrful again in my confus
ion, ‘and I am sur,, quite sure
now hat you are no: my brother,
I added weakly.
T have not that honor, madam,
certainly,’ said the gentleman,
‘but /knew Tom He - ton well in
/ndia, and I am delighted to have
the pleasure of meeting his sister.’
he continued with a low bow, and
I actually detected a smile lurking
under the golden inovs'ache.
Here Aum Arabella’ who had
subsif ed into a very upright chair
and who had been shaking her
bead and uttering undertoned ex
clamations in an unknown tongue
began to show signs of becoming
intelligible, when for the iliird
hue. a waiter threw open the
door and ushered in a gen Jeman
who 1 felt at once was iny Tom
but so depressed had my misera
ble impulsiveness made me feel
that I followed ‘Aunt Aiabeda’s ’
example, and sinking into a chair,
looked on htlplessl .
“Tom!”
“John, my old u vine sake!”—and
the two men shook bands hearti
ly. ‘‘Why, how i< this? I have
just c >iue by P. & 0., and h id no
idea you ha 1 left India till they
told me just now that Major Het
ton was here—us usual, I suppose
Lawrenceville, oj-eorgia, Tuesday Dec amber 4 iBB3
| thinking we were relatives.’’
I Oh, I came in the old Himilaya,’’
s*id Major Hetton, “so of course
sitßombiv a week or two um-_
lier!“
“I expect my sister* 1 * said Tom;
1 I)PU He seemed to perceive thai
•.lie-e were ladies in the room, and
made an apologetic bow.
I don't know whether I took anv
nmice of it; but / do not really rJ
member. An earthquake, torpe
does, no liing would have surpris
ed me more at tha moment. 1
felt callous, liar lened.
-Major Heiton! And I hugged
him!
■•lbis indy,-- Haul ihe Major
cheerfully, '-is my aunt, Miss Mas
tagger; and this young lady, is I
believe I tiiink—l understand
—your sister Miss Helton.“
“My little May?" said Torn-s
kind voice; and then I found my
self held very closely in his strong
arms; and, I hid my burning face
on h s breast, I cried as if my
heart would break with pleasure
and annoyance all at once.
When I looked up. Major Hat
ton and his aunt had vanished, and
very comforting was Mrs. Elliotde
symp thy and my brother's goo!
natured banter.
AU'a well i hat ends well; and it
is perhaps needless to tell how
Aunt Ar ibelln and hrarinie and
Tern and John and I all grew
great friends, and had much mer
riment over my absurd contre
temps; but I must, add that I think
it mis quite unnecessary of Mnj r
Yet,lon to say months afterward,
uher he put a littL pearl ring on
my finger, ai d begged just for
one kiss:
“You need not pretend tha yoa
dislike it. darling, for you said
long ago that it was delicious."
>lollie Had a Little Kam
Moliie had a little run as black
as a rubber shoo, and everywhere
that Moliie weiit he emigrated
too.
He went with her to church one
day—the folks hilarious grew—to
see him walk demurely in to dea
con Allen’s pew.
The worthy deacon quickly let
his angry passions rise, and gave
it an unchristian kick between the
sad brown eyes.
Tiiis landed ratnmy in the aisle
the deacon followed fas', anti
raised his foot again; alas! that
first kick was his last.
For Mr. Sheep walked slowly
buck abom a rod *tis said, and ere
the deaeon could retreat, it s'ood
him on liis head.
The congregation then arose
and went for that ore Jsheep. Sev
eral well directed butts just piled
them in a heap. Then rushed
they straighivay for the door, with
curses long and loud, while ram
my struck the hindmost man, and
shot him through die crowd.
The minister had often heard
that kindness would sub lue the
fiercest best. “Alas!” he says, “I
II try that game on you.”
And so lie kindly, gently called.
“> 'ome, rammy, ramrny, ram; to
see the folks abuse you sh I griev
ed and sorry am.’’
With kind and gentle words h e
came from that tall pulpit down,
saving: “Hammy, ran my, ram—
best sheep in the town.
The ram quiet cropped his hum
ble air and rose from off his feet
and wuen the parson lit he was be
neatb the hindmost seat.
A- he shot out die door, and
closed it with a slam he name 1 a
California town—l think twas
“Y r uba Dam.”—Baltimorean.
.1 Tall Kabltit.
Exeep ing ibe Irishman's hare,
which was no hare at all, bm a
donkey, ihe polar hare is the lar-;
gts’ of the long-eared tribe. It
equa's the the fox in size, and
will sometimes reach the height j
of a man’s knee.
Tne f olden eagle end the snowy
owl are both pardcularly fond of
the preity creature, but it is a
fondness which tbe hare has no
desire to encourage and therefore |
when it spies one of these great 1
birds sailing through iheaT, with
its sharp eyes searching about for
something tp devour, it instantly
sinks upon the snow as motionless
as if dead, and thanks to the white
ness of its fur, it can hardly he
distinguished from the material
it rests upon.
DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE AND IAH AI, AFFAIRS
Mr. and Mrs. Spoopeud.l ke in
Trouble
••.Sly dear," wh tnpered MrSpoop
endvke, hobbling into his wife’s
room and throwing himself into a
chair with a desolate expression of
despair on Ms visage. “My dear
i here is something the matter with
my foo l , and I cant, make out what
the trouble is.”
■ Maybe it's a s one bruise,’ sng
gested Mrs. Spoopandvkc.
I ''That s ail you know pibout it.”
grunted Mr Spoopendyke, who
was not lo be put off with so email
a disaster as a stone bruise. “I
tell you that I have got vome
trouble wiih my fool that threat
ens iuy life, and you stand around
there like a cork in a bottle, and
laik about Has though I hadn't
got one leg in my coffin as far as
my hip.”
“Are you sure it isn’t a corn
hazarded Mrs Spoopendyke, timid
Iv. “Sometimes corns hurt worse
than anything else; bu> I never
heard of people dying of them.’’
“No, it isn’t a corn!” howled Mr
Spoopendyke, nursing his foo; and
glaring at his wife with a mingled
expressionofrugeaudpain. ‘When
did yon ever hear of e corn that
reached from die heel to the km e’
Which of your friends over had a
corn that hurt clear to the ear 1
and Mr Spoopendyke touched his
foo carefully to the door and eyed
bis wife narrowly to see if she no
ticed the expression of agony on
hie face.
“If > a-'t s tha "a y it must be a
bunion!" exclaimed Mrs Spoopen
dyke triumphantly. “All you Lave
got to do is to take your b >ot off
and put your slippers on.”
“That's i ,” yelled Mr ’Jpoouen
dyke hauling off his b )ot and fir
ing it across the room. “When u
man is dying of inflammatory rheu
mutism, it’s a bunion! You’ve go 1
it! A pain bint Jtans ri the toe,
runs to the back of the neck and
tbs in a hard kuot over the spine
is a bunion! Shotv me the buri
i<?n!” he continued, sticking his leg
out straight and pointing his fin
ger at the offending foo'. “Take
this digit in your lily white hand
and place it tenderly on the dod
gast“d bunion before I die and for
get what killed me! l’ick it ou 1 of
the surrounding anatomy!” he yell
ed. wriggling his foot pud bounc
ing up and down in his chair in a
delirium of rage. “Pluck the bun
ion from its mountain fastness on
the hoof of Spoopendyke and hold
it up to the gaze of the same !”
“Does it hurt— V' commenced
Mrs. Spoopendyke, shoothingly.
“Hurt!” roared Mr Spoopendyke
scringing from bis chair and dune
ing around the r om like a ilea.—
“Of course, it don’t. It tiokles.
Hurt! It's a picnic. Say my dear ’
and his voice was low and tender.
Sa', my d*»ar, instead of going to
the country next summer we’l! lay
in a stock of bunions and wear’em
around for our health and recrea
tion. Hurt! Hurl! It feels like
a band of music! That’s what it
js, a bunion! It took you to hit it!
When I get time to tit you up with
a full bea.d and a bottle of whis
key I’m going to start a dispensary
with you. If you'd only improve
your mind until you rea died the
standard of intelligence of a mod
erate donkey you’d only need a
stolen corpse and a Imd smell to
be a first class medical college.
“Say, dear,” observed MrsSpoop
endyke. who had been exploring
carefully her husband’s boo'. Sai,
dear, I think I have found out
wha'. the trouble is. I' ij’ut u bun
ion after all. Here’s a peg stak
ing out here about a quarter of an
inch. If you will have 'hat taken
out I don’t believe you’'l suffer
any more."
Mr. Spoopendyke jammed his
hat over his eyes, shoved his feet
into h's slippers, grabbed the ob
noxious boot and started for tin
door with a withering look a s lib
wife as he went out.
“I don’t care,” murmured Mrs
i Spoopendyke, as the from dooi
j slammed vindictively; “I don’t
I care. If he has it out, he has to
; admit that I was right, and if he
i dosen’t it will hurt him till he dies.
II don’t kmw wbbh will be the wor
;ss for him, but be will have ‘,y do
| one or the other.”
There are, it is computed, ne»r
ly COO millionaires in Beilin.
< hooding a llnabniii
Mixed with tht humor and non
sense of the following selections
are in any sinewed and valuable
hints to tdiose young ladies whose
minds arc prom- to t ougli s of
love.
First ca ch your lover.
Hold him when you have him.
Don t let go of him to ea ch ev
cr.v new one that, conies along.
'{'ty-to get preity vv ell acquain
ted with him before you take
him for life.
( niess you intend to support
hnu. find out whether he earns e
uongh to support you.
Don t make up your mind iliui
lie is and angel.
Don t palm yourself on him as
one either.
Don’t lei him spend his salary
on you; that right should be re
served till after marriage.
Ii you have conscientious sent
pies against marrying a man with
a mother, say sn in time, tha- he
may get rd of her 10 suit you, or
lid of you to oblitxo her, as he
thinks best.
It yon object ca secret soe’e
ties and tobacco, L is bet'ev lo
come out with your objects now
than :o reserve them for cur ain
lectures hereafter.
If your adorer happens to fancy
a certain shade of hi ir, don’t col
or or bleach to oblige him. Re
ua< ruber your hair belongs ’o you
aml he <Li.- n’ l .
Be share it is the man you are
ill love vitli, and not the clothes
he wears. Fortune and fashion
are both so tickle, it is foolish to
can afford to believe him hope in
him, love him, marry him.
If your lover is one that hap
pens to get intoxicated don’t get
angry, but talk kindly t > him a
bout it iml if lieeares for you he
. •f-tLudop drinking. f
'lt you intend to keep three soi
vants after marriage settle the
matter beforehaad. The man who
is making love to you may expect
you :o do your own washing.
Don't try to hurry a proposal by
carrying ou a fiirtation wi‘h some
o*lier fellow. Different men are
made of different material, and the
one you want may go off in a fit of
jealousy and forget to conge back
If you have a love letter to write
don’t copy it out of a "ie. ter-writer.
if your young man ever happened
Co consult the same book lie would
know your sentiments were bor
rowed
J
Don’t marry a man to oblige any
third person in existence. It is
your right to lU't yourself in the
matter. But remember ui the
same tune that love is blind, and
as little friendly advice from one
whose advice is worth having may
insure you a lifetime of happtnes 1 ’
or prevent one of misery.
In love affairs always keep your
eyes wide open, so that when the
right Ilian comes along you may see
him.
if you Lave no fault to find with
him perumally, morally, religouslv
or any other way, he is probaly per
feel enough to suit you, and you
lake a stilish suit of do thes for
better or worse.
For Young Hen
’ ’That clothes don't make the
nf in.
'That if they once get in debt
they may never get cut of it.
That parting the hair in the
middle brings on softening of the
brain.
That to deal honorably with all
rneu they Leg n with their washer
woman.
That they need something more
substantial than cigars, kid gloves
and a taue to start housekeeping
with.
That they cau‘t reckon on their
father's fortune to bring them
through life. Fortunes are slip
pery things—better have some
thing besides to fall back on .
That a girl who decks herself
-n the >atest things out and pa
rade t in the street while her moth
er does the washing, isn't worth
casting much love on.
That a fdlow who deliberately
proposes matrimony toagirl when
tie can’t support himself is either
afi.st-classfraud ora fool—unless
he marries lor money and becomes
her hired mar.
A Horrible Krvrnac.
this of the ablist and shrewdest
and cruellest of dm Florida fridi
ans was a coal biaek negro named
Abrahitiu. V niece of h.s, “old
I Auut Jinny, is now living near
Dead Mail s Bay. F’orida. She
says*! ai her uncle Abe was it short
chunky negro, ot most repulsive
teat tires, very sullen and taciturn,
only happy tvhon be was annoying
ni torturing some of the animals
o,i the place, aiul tlm: his insolence,
continually got him in trouble,
j Ho was owned by a planter mini
ed Dickson, whose only sonFiank
was the immediate euitse of A bra
bam running away and joining the
Indians. Frank, the young son
was very fond of practical jokes,
high spirited and full of wild anil
» prorioiis fun. These traits event
fully cost him liis life and in a
very cruel way. Returning with
a few comrades from a hum one
day—tha spoil lining a tine buck
—they determined to have some
fun with tbe negro hoy Abraham
vvhe had given them some inso
lence as they passed him. Afte r
skinning the deer they caught the
negro and fastened the hide oil
him, with I lie head and h irns at
tached. Tbe young dogs were
then set on him, amid the uproar
mis laug her of die young men,
and dm jarring ivmarks of the
other negroes who had gathered
around. The dogs were not al
lowed to hurt him, hut t lie grotes-
quo. nature of the putiisl ment
aroused tlie deepesi resentment of
the negro. A few nights beer he
disappeared, and although search
was made for him ii was of no
avail. He Had 'o the Indians,
where his great s'rengih, knowl
edge of woodcraft and deep seat
ed hatred of every hiffif-UgtrAvure
a white skin made him the recog
nized leader ill the foray and ilie
council, Brooding over the in
sult he had received ut die hands
of his master he bailed the general
outbreak of the Indians wi*h ti.e
greatost deligli , s lie wiv there
in a chance for ampler, venge.
Soon after, at the head of a piv
ty of iStminohs, ho raided the plan
talion of iiis former ownerin broad
daylight, and killed every while
pci sen on i lie place, wiih the ex
ception of the son, Frank. He
was reserved for a teriiWe fate.—
A bull yearling was hastily killed
and skinned. The skin was placed
upon Frank, stakes were fasted to
his arms and legs, forcing him on
all fours, his eyes were put out
with a heated knife, and then, a
rope being tied around his neck,
lie was dragged over life ground,
the Indians shooting, arrow afier
arrow into his quivering body.
He was then scalped and left where
he fell, still fastened in the hide, a
dainty feastior the buzzards and
wolves thaf always followed these
marauding parties. It is said that
this negro Abraham excelled the
Indian in devising tortures foi
such whites as were unfortunate
enough to escape death and he
captured alive.
Nu|M-rnllti<HiN Mormon Women
A ghastly burial ceremony that,
is practised by the Marmons riv
ets the hold polygamy has on the
superstition of these creatures.
Every wife that buried has a black
elo h laid on her lace, and the
Mormon women are taught to be.
lieve that on the resurrectit n day
when the righteous are called in
to the joys of their Lord, no hand
but that of a husband can remove
the cloth.and'bat unles the cloth
is lifted he his hind she must re
main in outer darkness forever.
A woman who believes that'—and
the Mormon women belive it—-can
help behaving herself, no matter
how many wives her husband
takes. She has to keep on th 6
light side of the only man who can
take off’ his cloth.—Chicago Trib
une.
The election of Itmdall to the
speakership is a fore gone conelus
ion
A bloody shirt was found in a
ditch at coweta, Ga , Perhaps it
was lost by Mr. Sjieer.
Elippor has resigne 1 his po«i
--: tion in a loundry and gone o Mex
ico with a smuggling parlv.
A cutaway jaiiet is the proper
costume for an elopement.
t Ibuice Axiiinwl Hares
An invention f< r protection;
from bores lias been devised by a
gentlemen ot ittrary habits in j
lli s city, which may safely he re j
commended to those who are ailin' l
ed with the attentions of tins:
well -known pests of society He
has liis study in the lop of one of
our public buildings, and nearly
every day a prominent represenm
five of the genus bore climbs m
tlm ,-tairs mid knocks at the door
and after entering he sits himself
dovvu and smokes the Incrarv
man’s cigars and discourses sec
oinl hand opinions to him during
the grea er p irt of the day. The
literary man lias been for a long
timo casting about fora remedy
and at last he said: ‘‘My dear
Jones, I want to tell you some
thing in cotnlence. lam fright
fully troubled by people dropping
in on me whom ( dout wish to
see and so I am going to keep my
door locked hereafter. Now, of
course, there are some whom I
am always delighted to have call
and you. my dear Jones”—slap
ping him on the back—“as I don’t
need to tell you, are one of them
So 1 arn going lo arrange a private
signal with those vvh uu I shall al
ways be glad lo admit to my room
anti I want you, when you corns,
knock thus, two slow raps an d
livoo puiek ones—see?—and then
I shall know who is there.” Jones
commended the idea as peculiarly
ingenious, and has since faithfully
acted upon it, bill was heard the
other to remark very innocently
that it wuh deuced odd, but of late
i- was vern sold >m dint he could
find his literary friend at home.—
Boston Journal.
—— UIIALU %l. \K.HS
Girl in Harumo^PAnu
Reading book, \
Catches ihan
By hook or crook.
Girl m kitchen
.Scrubbing pan.
Cannot gobble
Any man.
Ten years later
Head iu while.
VYi.lied he’d 'aken
Kitchen girl.
The leaf hath lief to leave.
Judge no man by his disappear
a nee.
Mrs. Noah must, have been an
ark-angel.
About the only troubles that
come singly are fussy old maid*.
A negro man died in the bar
rack* at Macen.
The fashionable Susan now
writes her nickname Sioux.
Eggs are SL.. r >(i dozen in some
parts of Moutana.
Silk cult ure is fast becoming one
of die imlusK'ies of Utah.
A railroad is to be built to the
top of Pike's Peak Colorado
Artesian wells are being bored
in New Orleans to ohvhFe drouth.
A physician in pretty ac’ive
practice iu Union com ty, Ga.. is
93 years old.
Colonel Pinckney S'arkc, of
South Carolina ,is writing a life
of John C. Calhoun.
A new style of letter paper is
called “DudeA It is a kind of
foolseap.
A kingston man has a nose so
long that he can pad his beard
with it.
Diamonds are a good deal like
hens. Much depends upon their
selling.
Red is the natural color of a
young baby, but afterwards it be
comes yallow.
The question is, “Can a girl who
don’t uise powder make her hair
bang?”
Eight sledge doge will buy a
wife in Siberia. One puppy will
often get one here.
ilobcaygson has a man who
Miayed under water five hour* at a
stretch. He is dead.
It is no longer considered «n
- bias the bride at a wed
ding. Take it out on the brides
maids.
Sarah Hern hard t is almost six
feet high. Her favorite character
at a mascnrade ball is that of a
| bean-pole.
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Die Elborton wotion seed oil
mill is nearly ready to go to work
Ex-Senator Dorsey, of Star
| R< ute notoriety, has given $5,000
1 to the I Diversity of New Mexico.
Oov. rntr Waller was the first
voter at the polls in New London
t onn,, on Tuesday morning last.
A negro vvotYmn—a cook—of
Augusta. Ca , has made a bequest
in her will of *f>oo to the Paine
Instilu e.
I lie postollicp at Haverhill Mess
win burglarized a few nigh's since
ami 97,500 in money and stamps
carried off.
IMiiinu papers report the death
of .Mrs Sallie (triffiu. in Raymond,
that Stale, one day last week at
the age of 104 years.
Kentucky people lost their pa
tience when a well to-do traveling
Englishman asked Judge Harlan
who Henry Clay was.
The youngest grandfather on
iccord lives in Trinidad, Texas
Hih name is Jesse Butler, and he
is thirty years old.
It is estimated by the Commis
sionerof Pensions that $40,000,000
will be required for payment of
pensions during the next fiscal
’ ear. .
A gang of juvenile thieves was
arrested at Waterbury, Vr., Mon
day. Two eases of stoleu goods
were found. The boys are from
nine to twelve years of age.
The Camp Creek half breeds
are creating trouble ut White
Earth, in Dakota. Many ranches
have been plundered and a non
her of cattle driven off and killed.
Another discovery of gold has
been made in Clermont, couniy
O, about three miles from the>
place worked for gold
Much excitement ox’ pboa:
cifltTV — i “ 4 ~
Pennsylvania has 3,71(1 post of
fices—the largest number of any
State in the Union. Lancaster
oounty has 158 post offices—more
than any other county in the
United .States.
A church elected by English
settlers in Isle of Wight county,
five mile 4 from Smithfield Va., is
said to have been built in 1832,
and to be the oldest church now
standing in this country.
A steel armor plate, weighing
over four tons, while being hoist
ed on board the Tallapoosa at the
Navy Yard ot Thursday, fell ami
crashed through the deck, cutting
a hole about seven feet across.
A plot for t he escape of convicts
in (lie linliaiii penitentiary at
Mining in City, was discovered
and frustrated on Sunday. A tun
nel had bent constructed for forty
feet under the walls of I he prison
The ship Seminole. Captain
Holmes, which arrived Saturday
lasi from San Francisco, made the
voyage in ninety-four days. This
is one of the quickest passage*
lie ween San Francisco and this
port, made of late years by clipper
ships.
A Missourian has succeeded iu
domes:icatiiig a flock of quails.
The birds feed and chirp about
his premises as gently as chickens,
and it is said they will imitate al
most any bird they hear. They
fly away daily, but always come
back at ihe proper time.
Governor Roberts. of Texas, re
fused to issue a Thanksgiving
proclamation during his term of
office, saying he would do nothing
to “blend church and State.” Some
curiosity is felt in the State to see
what course Governor Ireland, his
successor, will pursue in this rea
ped i.
A remarkable wedding occurred
recently at Chattanooga Tenn.
Three sisters,- named McClure,
Members of a well known family
were married at the same church,
by the same minister,‘and all were
united by one ceremony. The
three couples latt on their bridal
tour together.
Three or four thousand letters
intended for Chinamen living in
this country were recently seized
by the postal authorities at San-
Francisco. They were in the pos
session of Chinese ou board a
steamer just lauded from Hong
Kong, and were sent over in that
way to escape postage.