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Charles Archer s ood id the
door of a room, high up in anoi.-y
tenement louse in New Yotk
which he called home. Tt was
not the wedded home he dreamed
* of twelve years before, when he
uttered the valedictory at Yile
r “%vnen Helen Cordon sjjjlgd at
t*' applause tha' greeted ms '\-
■ net on the stage. Nor was
Ironchiug figure in the win
•y do a. in 'he untidy print dress,
with the pretty sullen lace und
|l a uncombed golden hair, u.ucli
like the graceful belle, whose com
pany he had bten so proud, a > h >p
py to monopolize on that golden
day.
“I am going now Helen."
liis wife looked up and caught
the expression of pitying r> gret
upon his dark and handsome fate.
Her heart was full ( f angry rebell
ion u gainst her fute, t gainst him
almost against God.
“Why do you look at me like
that ?" she said peevishly. “I
know that the room bus not been
swept, and ti.at I Lave not made
my lodet for tne day. My toilet?
ahe lutlghedbi telly. “When shall
I make my lode again, I wonder?
I once set the fashion in New Ha
vtn, oh, to think—onlv ta think
what my life might have been bad
I been wise.”
Her husband s face darkened.
“I understand, Helen!" he ex
claimed. “You mean if you had
married Paul Hayden instead of
me.”
blow can I help such thoughts ?
I saw his wife early yesterday
mo'niug when I was out She
was driving to the railway s'atiou
on her way to their country house
lor the summer. I heard the
fpotmau say so to seme one when
he went to buy the tickets for her
Anchoh, what-a difference there
was between us two ! No w< n •
she has kept, her beauty. No Won
del 1 I have lost mine. Beauty
and health, youth and happiness
—they are all going away froth me
because we are sc. poor
“Better days may be eoming,
love," said the husband, after a
pause, I’ve tieurd of a good situr
ationat this time, vou know. If I
gs, it it will be a stepping stone
to other things of greater couse
queue*. And When lam rich j oil
know well, my darling, that I
shall refute you nothing
“Yqjh have thought so many
%me/tha?batler day* were close
at hand—and every time you
: have be*n disappointed and wp
I jived on the seme horrible life,’’
‘ was the discou-sging reply,
k ‘ I know, my deareot; hut this
17s really good news, I trust, and
Hr jjop*. If you will only kiss me and
“ -li me good luck I have faith
THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD
thiir home when poverty entered
the door.
’lhe heat, the dust, the discor
dant street cries without, tliejshab
by, discordant room with'u, Ihe
genersl sense of her own uu'idy
ness, and galling tuemorv of the
fl eshly beautiful summer costume
worn by the wife of Paul Hayden
us she lounged in her carriage the
day previous—-all these things
combined to banish the affection
ate glance for which the husbands
heart go vainly hungered, and to
make the wife’s parting kiss so
cold uud formal that it ltngeied
like ice on the young man s lips as
he turned away.
He sui 1 nothing, but the deep
sigh thut seemed to come from
the very depths of a tried and
overladen heart, silently reproach
ed her.
She caught a lust glimpse of
his face as he closed the door. It
wore alo kof repressed sorrow
that would hauut her to her dying
day. What evil spirit had ttuqit
ed her to try him so? Was it his
fault that, by the failure of a bank
in the "panic,’’ the savings of yeais
of steady toil and labor had been
swept away in a moment? For
her uugrealful stue ha 1 he not
even stooped to mental toil, when
no oiLer employment could be pro
cured?
And now she hod sent him
from her unchcered by a look or
word of fondness. What if some
accident should happen to the
train on which he was to travel?
Wnat if he should never return
For a moment she sal dumb, al
most jiaralyzed by the shock of
that idea Then she sprang from
her choir ami rushed to the door.
She would cull him back aud ask
him to forgive that careless, cruel
parting. She was too late. He
was already in the street. A mo
ment later she heard the shrill
whistle of the train. He was
gone.
The day passed on sadly enough
Thought after thought came
crowding into her mind to unset
tie and reprove her. They bore
their fruit. In l c ss than an hour
after Charles Archer’s departure
his home wore a very different
a-pec l . By nightfall the room
was as trim and clean as willing
hands could make it. Before the
clean windows a pair of snowy
muslin curtains wei.e drawn. The
stove shone like a inirrowj and
from its open front, a bright wel
come to the ab ent master flasln d
out, flooding the very halls with
warmth and light.
Summer evening though it was,
both light and warmdi were nettl
ed. When sunset came, angry
clouds rose in the south, and the
rain came sharji ly down, with an
accompanying wind that knew lit
tle of its own miud, and voere 1
sharply around continually from
south to east. Ami 1 the wailing
wind and dropping ruin Helen
worked steadily.
The train which was to bring
her husband home was due at
nice. Her lust task was fluiahtd,
when she dished out his favorite
viands and set them, covered with
a basin, upon the hearth to keeji
warm. She leaned from the win
dow, looking out,* through wind
an J rain, for some sign of his com
ing..
SLt wore the dress he liked
best. Her hair was arranged in
his favorite Jstyle of braids and
curls. She had kissed him cold*
ly as he left ke», but now, witli
her heart upon her lips, she wait-r
ed to welcom him back, even if he
returned as unsuccessful as he
went. Whst did that matter, she
ihcught, as she glanced at the
window of her opposite neighbor
who bad been left a widow only
ore short month ago,
“Only let him return to me safe
ly, and I will make amends sot
all,” she half thought, half pray ,
a* memory recalled the counties!
i times in which she bad grieved
him during the past half year
Nine o’clock came and passed,
! yet she did not h ar the usua,
whistle of the incoming train.—
1 Half-past nins, and yet no footstep
cm the st irs ! Her heurt lay like
a leaden weight in her bosom.—
The color faded from her lips and
j cheeks, and her blue eyes grew
wild with silent dread.
ayes
one
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Lawrenceville Georgia,, Tuesday April 29, 1884
At 10 o'clock she could bear flip
suspense no longer. SLe left lor
room and went down stairs, with
a half formed pin-' ose in her mind
of inquiring at. the neighboring
station abr.u' the laggard train.
Dimly in lire darkness, she saw
a crowd of people gathered at I lie
outer door of the tenement hou-te.
They were all talking confusedly,
but now and then some words
broke plainly through the melody
of souud.
“H,s poor wife!" s»i,l one, “how
is she going to beat it, 1 wonder.
It is well for tier that she has no
little ones to look after. She is
nothing mote than a child, her
self, anyway.”
“Make way t here !” said some
one outside. "We must carry the
body upstairs. Yhioli room is il l
And some woman ought to go up
before us and tell the wife."
The crowd surged and parti d.
Between the ranks t-ix men came
steadily onward, followed by a po
liceman. Helen knew him well,
and when he io ik< d op the stair
case and saw the flight figure
bending forward, and the pale face
full of fixed and set-led horror, he '
turned again to the crowd, and
called out :
“One of you women come up
hero to break the news, And take
her away,” he added in a lower
voice, “its no sight for her.”
Good nalured Bridget McCar
tliy came forward, and ran up 'he !
stairs to where Helen stood.
“You’ll come back into the room 1
wid mo, darlint," she sai 1 putting ‘
her strong arras around Helen’s
slender waist. “Sure it’ll destroy I
you entirely to look at the like of
that.”
“Bridget is he dead?’ asked tI:F
]>ule iijis piteously.
“Sorry I am to say that lie is. -
It was the train, my dear. Off
the track, they say, and ten strong
men killed outright, besides him
that they are bringing up from be
low."
Helm fell senseless at the /rislt
woman’s feet.
H..lf an hour later she strug
gled slowly back lo life and loneli
ness again. She opened her eyes
to find herself lying on her own
bed. with the kind old doctor of
the neighborhood bending over
her with an anxious face.
“We shall do nicely now,’’ be!
said making a warning gesture to !
some one in ilm background.
Helen gave a great sigh as he !
took her hand.
‘•Oh, why did you bring me
back, doctor* I have driven my
husband away to his dea h, and I
hoped 1 could die, too, I blamed
him because we were so poor, doc
tor, and I scarcely kissed him
when he went away this morning
to look for another place. Oh, I
have been so cruel! And now,
just as I was trying to be a better
wife, Gcd h,.» taken him away
from me, sad he will never know
how bitterly I repented.
“How do you know be is dead,
my dear?” asked the doctor.
“Oh, I saw them bringing him
up the stairs 1 And I heard them
talking about me.”
“Not about you my, dear, but
about poor little Mrs. G ray, wh
lives in the room at the back.
Her husband was badly hurt on
the train when it ran off the track
ibis evening. We thought he was
dead at first. But since then ho
has revived, aud I feel sure that
by Goa’s mercy he will recover
before long.”
“But where i> my husband
then?” cried Helen's ailing up.
“Gog has bpen veiy good to
you, too, my dear, ” said the old
physician.
“I« he alive? Where is he* Oh
tell me! 1 ' her very gesture si rug
ling beiween hope and fear.
-Here.”
The doc or stepped back. From
a dark c a imer of d.e room ata 1
figure rushed forward and clasped
the wondering, weeping wife in
close embrace.
“Io it you? Oh is it realy you? - ’
she esc) aimed bursting mho tears.
“ObjCburles! I've been so misera
blejsinee youweut away. How canid
I treat you so? You never can
forgive me or lo7e me again?”
“As if I couli help loving you
as long as I live, //elen! You
shall be so Loppy after this 1
DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITF.HATUBF, AND LOCAL AFFAIRS
have found a good place. I shall
have a good salary, and to mor
row if you are well enough, we ll
n. ai,c a trip into, the country and
find some pretty little collage to
amuse your self all through this
beatiful summer among the birds
and flowers.’
“I don't want a cottage. L
want nothing but you, Charles,
and now God lias given you back
to me, lint will lie enough to
make me happy,” said his wife,
giving him the tender kiss .which
sh# had refused him that morn
ing.
Nevertheless the cottage was ta
ken. and Ihe summer was as haj>‘
a time as mortal may ever nope to
enjoy this side of paradise. Occe
on their journey thither, after a
sloping excursion tojtbe city, they
chanced to be over taken by the
manificent varriage of Paul Huy
deu, Millionaire. Mrs. Hayden
reeplendant in a toilet frdm wordi
sat therein. She was yet brown
eyed end pink cheeked very hand
some. Yet her face looked worn
and wearied. It lacked the look of
true and perfect happiness that
Helen’s wore.
Helen caught the somewhat anx
ions look that her husband turn -
ed ujiou her, as the great lady
dro\# slowly by.
Site smiled. Under cover of
her preliy silken shawl her hands
stole into his.
Never for one moment hart she
forgotten (lie lessen of *liat long
summer day. Never did ;he cease
thanking God that it Ural been giv
en her, altln ugh It. lmd heeu giv
en "almost too late.”
■ —« o • mi
People who wniiLyottio drink
w ■
hurt you/’but don’t you believ
them. There is a fable about a
serpsut in a circle of tire. He
cried out to a man who was pass
ing, “Help me out.”
“If I do you’ll bite me.
“Oh ! no, I wont’t
“I’m afraid totiust you.”
“Help me out of tne fire or it
will consume me ; and I promise
on my word of honor I won’t bite
you.’
So llie man took the snake out
of the fire anil threw it on the
ground
“Now,’ said the snake. 11l bite
you.
“But didn’t you promise me that
you wouldn’t?
“Yes; but didnt yon know it is
my nature to bite, aud I cannot
help it ?” So it is with intoxicat
ing driuk: No matter how much
people tell you it will do you no
harm, it is their nature to bite, to
poison the body, to make you fool
tsh and era/.;, and they can’t help
doing it.
Scene, barroom. Time mid
night.
Wife.—“l wish that man would
go home, if he bus got one to go
to.”
Landlord.-—“ Hush! hush! lie’ll
call for something directly. He’s
taking the shingles off his own
house and putting them on ours.”
At this time he began to come
lobis right sei ses, and commenced
r ubbing nis eyes, si retching him
self as if he had just awoke, say
ing :
“I believe I’ll go
“Don’t be in a hurry, James
said the Landlord.
“Oh ! yes, I uimt go,’ said James
as he started.
Afier an absence of some time,
(,hs landlord met and accosted him
with :
“Hellow, Jim, why aint you been
to see us?”
“Why I had taken so many
shingles off my house it began to
leak, so I thought it time to stop
tlie leak, and I have dore it,' said
James-
Young man, whose l oust are you
shingling ?
Novi it’s the “bruial fox-bun
ters.” It does seem a brutal pass
lime for a man to go and chuck
himself head first off a horse into
a ditch. t
The re are six congressmen from
California aud not ori6 ot them ii
a native of the Mate. Yon see a na
tive born Californian is two proud
to go to congress.
Blessed is he that cousidereth
the poor.
Hew I.llllc 4.1-ueie rlwnetl n Nil
loon.
Grach* whs oi ly six years old
but beautiful and loving. When
her father wanted her to come in
to his that lie might intro
dnoe lie*(u th« men lounging tnere.
and bealiihem praise her beauty
she wowd say : ‘‘No. papa'
make /Its naughty men go away,
and therf.i’ll come.” There whs
a Children’s Temeranee Socisty
in the town, in charge of tne Wi
m n’s Terajiornnee Union, and lit
tie Grade and her _ brother, si ill
younger, wet* invited to attend.
The father consented for Ve liked
(o see Grade dressed up and have
pi ogle notice her.
Grade had never seen any one
pray before : and whan the leader
talked about God, and asked them
all to bow their heads in prayer
tirade bowed, awed in ihe mo t
solemn reveience. Months passed
Grade had learned to pray, and
often talked to a her futlier about
the Christ child, and wanted him
to pray ; but lie only laughed and
called litr a little saint. One day
Gracie was taken very ill; the
doctor tvas sent for, and when
ho saw her he snid she was very
sick. “Mill I d ; e?” “I hope not.”
"You needn’t be afraid to tell me
’cause I’m ready I asked .Testis to
take me if he wanted me.” The
father, who stood at the foot of
the bed, sobbed out, O, Grade !
you don’t want to leave your papa
do yon?"
Yes, I do if He wants me to
come ’cause He has the best rigid
to me!"
The customers came and went,
but the saloon keeper herded
them not, for his dear Grade
wan ou her HvAo bsd jMiotug her
life away. || 'hat cared he for
money now that, the light of his
life was going out ' One day oil
his coining uja out of the saloon
Gracie opened her eyes and turn
ing upon him with un imposing
look slid :
“O, pajm, is the paloou oj>e*i?
Are the men drinking ? Do close
it up, pajia, I know I will feel bet
ter if you will.”
“I’ll do it. darling—anything to
make you feel better."
The .saloon, keeper's heart "'as
almost breaking ; the bar tender
was ordersdto dearth* saloon ami
close th« doors.
“Darling, the saloon is closed,’’
he said, bending over her a few
minutes luter. *
“Thank you, pnjia 1 It makes
me hapjiy and better already,” and
a glad smile came or r her face.—
Every few hours dracie would ask
"Is the saloon closed now ?”
“Yes, darling."
“Are ‘lie shutters up? ’
“Yea dear they are up.”
“O, jiapa, I wish you'd never
never ojaen the saloon again.
Mamma, can’t you get papa to
promise me never to open the sa
loon again ?”
“O, George, do promise
your dying child,” sobbed the
mother, who had never favored
her husband’s business.
The strong man shook like u
reed. JHe could not sjieik for a
moment! Then coming and
bending over her, lie said in a
strange and husky voice ;
“My Gracie. jiapa, will never
open the saloon again.’’
“Oh poor! what a spooney you
are, Jack! Beer went hurt any
body!”
“Oh, yes, I know,” said John
‘but I don’t want to Le pickeled
and soaked in beer. Besides I’ve
signed the pledge.”
“Ob, Jack, what a fool! ’ inter
rupted his companion.
Now John did not like to be-cal
led a fool, but he kept quiet and
said, “Shall I tell you why.
“I suppose some of those temper
auc# folks have got after you.”
“No, not exactly that; but my
father died a drunkard, and a sign
ed the pledge over his collin wi b
my poor broken-hearted mother
Do you wonder I never drink ?"
An article containing a dozen
biuts on how to take care of a horse
is goiDg the rounds of the press
bu* there is not one hint as bow to
get the horse.
To endure and to pardon is the
wisdom of life.
Willi uo Ili-op or Ncuro lllootl
The Selma, A 1 a.^'imeiTteHTTlitt
following singular story ;
Mr Isaac Frank, a white man.
was indicted by the last Grand
Jury under the charge of living
in unlawful wedlock with a negro
woman. Mrs Mary Ann Frank,
wife of the accused was present ;
also h-r alleged mother, Lucinda
Weaver, colored. Lucinda was
sworn, and put up< u 'lie witness
stand. Her testimony throw new
lit;ht upon the case andj caused a
little flutter of excitement ami
snijnise among those present.
Hhe spoke in a straightforward
manner. Notwithstanding Lucin
du has always been known as the
morln r of Mary, it turns out that
the young woman’s parentage is
purely white. Lucinda testified
that she was not the mother of
Mrs Mary Frank and that Mrs
Frank was giveu to her when an
infant three days old; that a prom
iuent gentleman in South Caroli
na In-ought Ihe young child and
presented it to Lucinda, request
ing that she raise it as her owu.
She stited further that the child
was the illegitimate offspring of
an aristociatic woman, and it was
her brother who gave the infant
to dio old uegress to shield liis
sister s rtpufalion and conceal her
shame The old uegress brought
her charge to Alubamn, claiming
her as a daughter, and the real
truth of mallets very probably
never would have heeu uncovered
to the world but for Mary’s mam
age to the while man ami the i*
diriment issued against him. Mrs
Frank, now grown into woaien
ltood. has light, straight liair, a
fair complexion, and dear, blue
eyes, and doesn’t bear tl;e remot
est trace of African blood. A mini
her of gentlemen visited her i t
ceutly, conversed with her, uud tie
rilled that she was beyond doubt
a white woman. After Lucinda's
testimony was heard, Solicitor
Pi Its agreed to a verdict of no
guilty and i l »c linppy twain depart
ed in p ace.
A Vest Ivutvrpriae.
U is now proposed to connect
the railway system of America
with those of Asia and Europe by
means of a ferry conveying loco
motives and cars across Bearing’s
Strait. The preject is to extend
Ihe Canadian Pacific, now being
constructed through Manitoba,
by building u branch to Alaska un
til it reaches Behring’s Straight.
There it would meet with the rail
road tracks to be sonstructed in
Siberia, which of course have
tlieii direct relations witli the rail
way system of Hussia and Eu
rope A line to Pekin is talked of
This having been done it requires
not much further stretch of the
imagiiiat ou to see with Pie mind’s
eye the long rails stretching out
under the shadows of the Himala
yas until they make connections
with the proposed line in the .lor
don Valley, and thence with the
European system. This may B'-eut
wild, but stranger things have haj)
pened in this wonderful modem
world of ours.
To Husbands
Always complain of being tired
and remember ti nt nolmdy elee
gets tired.
Your wife she nld have every
thing injreadiness for you, but you
should not do anything for her.
When your wife asks you for
money give her a nickle ; ask her
what she wants with it, and when
she tells, aak her if tiie can't do
without it. Tk«n go down (own
and spend ten limes the amount
for cigars, for theyar3 a necessi
•y
--(do down town of an evening,
stand on the street corner and
talk politicsi its more interesting
tlmn to stay at, home with your
family.
Charge your wife not to gossip,
but you can spin ns many yarns
as you wish.
Have your wife get up and
make tires, but don’t get up your
self till the rest of tbe family are
•a ling break fuel, as you might
catch oold,
A Scientist asserts t hat a bee
can only sting once in two min
utes. We would add that that’s
all it need to.
i Wasnington Correspondence
Washino'i-is I) ('.
April 21, DSB4.
With escli sncceedi ig day the
prospects of Dcmncrmic success in
November grow brighter, and
• his is attributed largely to the
demorali/a' ion existing V die lie
publican ranks. The dire di-as
ter* that were to overtake the De
mocracy on account of the Pledg
ed factional fights, personal ambi
tions and bitterness are being re ■
alized by the grand old party of
high morality, (?) indissoluble uni
ty and star route purity. To be
be placed where you are compell
ed to listen to the statements of
Republicans, themselves, yo tt
would be convinced, that while it
is said "there is honor among
thieves," there -s none among the
leaders of the g. o. p. Not only
so but it would further appear
that nominate whom they may,
enough will be found ready to bolt
to leave the nominee in a woeful
minority.
It is a fact marked and comment
ed upon that in all the abuse, vilifi
cation and denunciation of tin
leading candidates for Republican
nomination, the Democratic press
and politicians take no p,\rt; they
merely stand by and look with ns
toiiishincnt, it may be with pleas
tire, while the other members (?)
of the Republican jiress and jmrtj
are destroying the images that
they have heretofore set up within
their temple. Republican abuse
of Republicans is funrsLii g file
Democratic party with all the am
munition that will he needed for
me in the next campaign.
The disasters to flow from the
consideration of the Morrison tar
iff bill are not perceivable, on the
contrary it will be developed, ere
the matter is finally disposed of,
that the Democratic party is sub
stantially a unit ou the question
of revenue reform and that the
Morrison bill is bnt one step in
the diiectien of bringing the j>oo
plc and to a real
izing sense of the great wrong
that is being inflicted on Ihe ccuu
try by a continuance of the war
tariff.
Wisely there is a sjiirit in the
Democratic party to-day to take
Republicans at their words rela
live to llieir lenders and to sink
all ambitious, all personal likes
and dislikes, to secure the great
aim aud end of relieving the couu
try, through the only sure chan
nel, that of Democratic supreme
cy. It is true State pride, uatu
rul leanings toward purricular jier
Kontil preferences and a desire to
return ju-rsonal favors received,
have their weight to wanu men's
judge men ,in a measure, but all
are actuated and will be governed
by a desire in the ap mooching
cumpaign to secure a winner. Be
iug in position to see and know,
converse and become acquainted
with the leaders of public opinion
in the Democratic party, we cun
say never before has there been a
more egrdial disposition to fight
unitedly for success under the ban
uer of whoever the party iu con
vention assembled shall designate
as iti leader. All that is asked is
a clear showing of hands and that
every man shall stand on his own
merits.
While this is the case, it is equal
ly clear that the heart of ihe party
is today more strougly with | 'am
uel J. Tilden lhan it ever has been
atd that one single intimation
that he would or could accept the
nomination would clear up all
doubts as to who would be nomi
nated in July. He know* it as
well as do others> and that with
tiis consent the convention would
only meet to ratify the will of tlm
party in his nomination, to be rati
tied by tin- people’at the pills in
November; bu', unforutnately for
biin and for the country, this can
not be and toothers we must look
to bear the banner he cannot fake
up.
From the long lint of worthy
Democrats the party must choose
and whither it be Carlisle. Morri
son, McDonald, Hendricks, Fayne
//oadley, Kandall, Flowtr, Cleve.
land, Bayard or others that might
lie mentioned, the party will be
found unitedly lighting in the in
terests of the people and of good
:Vol. XIV. —Do 5
Igownaunt As public „p in , OD
18 IM9, "K foruwl, moulded and be
coming rrJsiaTT/«I ,w« will eu
deavor to keep yon ported as to
Lw as seen from tl.«> a aud
pcint.
"asliington liih three full
rte,l K*l flu''", «wo profession
1.1 bii " and one Logan
bo''" l on p* h*.de m ,„p poit .
’’l"* wi N Hit aid of (he
culuted man and brother, be rendi
l.v maintained during the brief pt
'•iud of it, iurtl er feeble existence
1.1.1 it.wiU he a pret'jr Leary tax
upon i lie inmally impecunious
Government clerk to keep up the
former.
1 bo report, that the House ( o»i
mittee on Appropriations will re
fuse to recommend an appropria
tioii for the Civil .Service Cominia
sioiihsa Imetisbotvn’tn be fallacious
hy a letter from Randall, who is
in Philadelphia, slating that hia
coiumii tee would not attempt to
nullify any existing law by refits
ing to umke an aj piopriation.
l’Le House Committee on lie
form in the civil Service uas con—
eluded to report adversely the
hills for die repeal of" the civil
service laws ami to reduce the sal
ai'ies of the President, Cabinet of
fleere, judges of the courts and
metubera of Congress. *
In an interview the other day
with Kx Congressman De/.endorf,
of Virginia, the leader of the
straight out Republicans in tliai
State, lie said to yom correspond
cut that lie had made a statement
before the Sherman investigating
Committee Mist if Kedcul patron
age were wit held from Mulione lie
could not keep Ida party together
for tifteeii m ; notes, ‘-j POU y
farther now,” lie continued, “and
way that even with all the Federal
otlic.es in Virginia at. his disposal
he cannot keep die Readjuster
party under bis dnversinp from
going to pieces. f,ook at it! lu
Albemarle county, which gave the
largest Reidjuster majority of
uny couuty of the State, at its
meoiing the o/lier day to appoint
delegates to the Readjuster State
Convention, there were twelve
persons present, and it is entitled
to twenty two delegates ! In Nor
folk nearly all of the .primaries of
die Mahuueites have broken tip
in rows Over in Portsmouth at
one or "two meetings the
delega'es, disgusted with Ms
lione’s dictatorship, just left the
Imll uml went home without doing
anything whatever. Ami so it is
going all over the Stale. Ma
hon* rule in Virginia is forever at
an end.'’
On Saturday last the House of
Representatives passed a bill even
ling a bureau of labor statistics.
Mrs Serita Morrison Hutchins,
wife of Stilson Hutchins of the
Post, died at her late residence in
this city, yesterday morning. She
was a mast estimable lady, of high
literary culture, refim* and brill
- S. 15.
Judge not thy fellow man till
thou art similarly situated.
It is manly to resent au injury;
Cod like to forgive it.
The beSt hand ib liolJ in the
game of life is dud of your best
girl-
Herr Meyer, I supose you un
derstood that every oue was to
bring along something to the pic
nic. W ha'have you brought ?"
Herr meyer—“My two boys as
you see."
It is sanl that color badness
is almost unknown among women
This explains why a wife can de
tees approach of a rich coloring
on the tip of her husband’e nose.
- —i
“t'hitr (loaders’ 1 is the name ap
plied by Tbe Home Sentinel to
tluise gentlemen who infest hotel
reading rooms, getting heat a
comfortable seat and the latest,
news for nothing
» ,M> ' —■
» A Facetious swell who danced
with a couple of Chicago gilds
recently roftiutked that although
lie liked lings on his lingers lie
cmildfi’t stand belles on his loes.
. 11 »«»» m '
Heard on the rink ; “Jan that
girl skate “I think not. “Theu
you lmd be'ha.' escort some bedy
else. “But wliat shall ldo with
her?" Oh, jual let her slide.’ t