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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD. ByLKK M. PKtC’LKd. i ■ H, s s&TT H&K \ Lb B§| —•' IB - V TtV.SDAV HV ■ , ; - : p L r,S * BOWLES. -i;n* X l ' l: * : f&m .<•.••,» I in advance. •' in advance. H 50 iu advance. ■ EnoUS li for Everybody H‘. : V v - ■ * k ■ H ..i r:i a ic. lam ct iai'n’." 1< x ■ 1. •*>>' H ~ , as I «aiv |H cilia 1 qo.c.Lly up .. aU .t 1 ' !*'tellers, (bail ■;, ,i d maid, (Vmid reae’n |B, !. ! •')>■ 11 tin • iTum the 1 id. |H.m:ad 'nack ;u "In' morning H - a:'*.; lie ■ ,v i" mi*' ll< ; n ' ,u H . . «-:,-iriimr del* 1. [•*•« H 11VC Ml - * Kill -1 d ar. evi d, H conteu s.’ "it h H««- l ,lm 1 v. on dei i, H Hot,! kto :a it .w morn ■ \ii-d ■; d "just |H I. i closed |B ~ Him D” H g.wious, t xcdoia |Blinii.n{iy. "I t root all about IB v: morn i m de a *• -4* into the hall dismiss Jad was the 88, in. s' in, stal then I |B iii'i'i'd to Grannie. miner iiians tor inv journey iu ru ' n o owing to certain IB n H :*rro<ig-d. In tjic fir.-tpLice IB' 1 " a i’le'ty saliurhan de c. ;g a long drive from ■B >L ' L’ross. As a m tt'-r m> ..ila le» |Ba-’iy. Gnmuie • lid Tot like cl let dug me cq alone. 1 ’ii B >a oliday, and o d An M tncgai l ner IB ven lift moon dee la-1 -1 Hit I>y an "ftu-.m.aties." so it was » H at ■ in our prei 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. ;Vol. XIII.-No. 37 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.