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Arriven 10 a in, Je ns 1 p m.— Ouily ftftow KIVKH - Vnivey I 2 111., Je rti 0 a in„\V v lu.'sdoy an.l saluiouy W II II aRVKY, I*. , . CHUacUKS Mkthodimi' H, v.l K King, t'ustoi. rtitrj on the Ist ami till Sundays. ItthDAY SctlOol.. A T I’utlillu, Siijd ■rj Sunday al d p in PsSSSVTSKUN - ltiV J L Mi r l.'llatld, I'or,Services on did Sntalai in can till. Smdai Smoot. I I: I’.iw.ll. Supt if] Snuduy at a..'i t a ar iiniM KVii.n: Masonic 1.0ii0.; -1! Winn, VV M . S A llag.aid, S U,, ;Wn.n .1 W. Meets on Tuesday bt .>» or Wo e lull nton.i in eucT. it V’fsnos i'iuptkh, \H dp. I; \ -J 0 Spence. IIP, \ | Pullilln '• Meets did Fiiday in each month Iwisnktt Si rkhii.ii Cm kt \. |„ tebins,Judge. Convenes on the l»t «!•] in March and Seplemhor. ceil MY ( KUCKRS 'im«imi(.nxm--.J I) gpence, ( hair Hetk. X Bennett, ,f, fleivonßritt,.l Hnpiins, J K outn—J M Patterson. irdin.arv- J T J.amkm. Likk S C-H I Cain, Tx |'hair, h b'uLuerokC Lowety. •HAsiitiß. -It X Hubinson p Mr, ILL ■»*mg mvutiy hunted in (iwin wiuuuiy lenilt rs Ilia piotVssioiud Knit*! 1 . 11 l !V vs “ iH “ 1,1 Hi'' >iiizfii« ■7ggtentiuiilo all ~a | l s „ |„. H, ' *" 1 ! I'csifleiicr at I In- IV.-i * U '" " U l *" 11 u 1884 -Omo Loans. loann on improved ■“!“ Middle and Northern. D() gotiulmi on cheaper ■““tUn any one in Atlanta. ■ Mures, ■ F RAN(3Is FONT At NF, ■ Filter Building, I aun v \' A’,] 7X L /<:. GA ■ du, tt.th msr., ihe will open the Globe reD( ' 6vill ‘ , > f ‘ ,r tbe ac of ihe I' ■ to offer tirsi :| So »S?IU| lil,nH U " (l J )ro, “* >t H H ‘‘ "ho pai I'omze die I House. I„ A --GL. BATHS. H lat h- ’B3- -ts. J* 1 ! ..Ill" ~ ■'“H-u.r.i.M. Tl.. ,iw.l ti 1 n - 1 1 TIIE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD A Second Mode* l„g|it,’ In 18.3t>, three negroes in Frank lin County Ga.. committed ti Lru tit! assault upon u young white woman, a Miss Stowe, and nfier their hellish de J murdered bet in a most heinous manner. After cut. ing htr person with knives, .Hid finding life still tot extinct the lituJs placed ihe ciris ueck he ween a chestnut stump suiL. rooi •tml endeavored to break lier neck Failing in this, too, the negroes With their hands deliberutoh cLok cd her to death, and concealed the I'ody in a dense copse of woods. The Vietiui was a poor girl, uud a domestic in the funiily of a man mimed Shockley, a merchant. The girl was soon missed, an 1 a search instituted for her. It was con in uad unsuccessfully for three days. Mr. Sunon Marks, of Athens, bo ing one of die parly, and > v as pres eut at the finding of the body.- Ihe sealch hud almost been giv en up, when a young negro boy, wbo was pre.en , remarked to tiie men that if (hey looked in a ctr tain skir. ol woods they would linil the body. They did so and found the poor girl just, as the b>v stat 1. Her holy i_liow.nl signs of the most horrible treat ment, and ttie indignation of the »• unity was at fever heat. The boy wbo told where the body could be found was at once arrested and placed in the Carnesv.lie jail, but lie bi torly denied knowing any hiug about lie murder, Deiec t ves Were set at work, and .it was not long before two other negroes an old man named Lank and his son Jerry, were arrested. They belong, d to a Mr. Mangrutn, and the only evi lence against them was that the dead girl, in compa ny with another woman, was seen t) pass wnere they were at work, when t lie negroes jumped over the fenc ■ and followed them, soon afterwards Miss Stowe's compan ioi. parted company with her, and this was the last time the pool g'r) was seen a ive. The negroes were put ou triai, but they bitter ly denied their gniP, and state 1 that, a wlii'e man was at the bot om of the murder Lank and his son Were convicted, however, and publicly executed in Caine viile Tney died protesting their inno cence. The negro boy was next put upon trial, and Gen. Tom Cobb, after promise of a half interest in the negro, made an earnest but fruitless effort to save his life.— He, too, was hanged. Soon aftei the execution of the negroes, atradge stories were told about the place where the body of Miss Stowe was found. It is a lonely and desolate spot, and unnatural sounds were beard there at night i.ud mysterious figures seen. Tito eiera by night would avoid it, and it became known its the “Haunted Hollow-” But these sounds and ghost ly figures were never traced to any authentic scource. There was howeve’’, one sight iliat Was witnessed on ihe night after the' negroes were executed, and it is said to be seen to this day. A ball of firs, at a regular hour, is seen to rise from the very spot where the body of Miss Si owe was found and float {pi hours through the woods. Time and again has it been followed, but the light titts before the approach of man, and can never be approached except ut a certain (list"uce. It advances or retreats just as the person walks. We have this week con versed with several rcsponible gen tlemen from that, secuou cf Frank iiu county, and they toil us they •have seen it many times. Th s light does not have any power f illumination, but is simply a bail of “dead tire,” as some express it, suspended |in the air. Lieuteu aut (loodruui, of the Athens po_ Jioe force, tells us that ht has seen this light hundreds of times, hav ing lived in sight of the fated spot for a number of years. NY hen he lilst moved to the settlement the people told him that the firm lie Occupied was haunted, but having no superstition about him, he did not credit the story. But on the tiiHt night, in throwing his eye to the clump of woods where the murder hud been committed, he distinctly saw the red ball, and for nearly every night, rain 01 shine, vi Idle he lived on the place Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday May 13 1884 J; never approached the house dr ‘eft its usual bent, and hence tim sight gave him no uneasiness.— Sti ungere in passing along the road have often been startled bv the light, but the people living i ear had grown so accustomed t > '■he vision that they quit talking about it. Bud he would never have thought of it again, had his atten tioa not been directe 1 'o the 4 /fainted Hollow by reading an account of ••Jude s Light,” near A lant-i. Lieut. Goodrum says that the last tit e he conversed with a gentleman who lived in hat neighborhood lie stated that the light continues ‘to appear. 11 e gentlemen with whom we corners ed are altogether reliable, and there is tin doubt •• bout the truth of this story; but whether it is caused fro u supernatural or ordi nary causes we leave to the teat er. A Leap-Vcs»r I'pisoilc. There was a parly across ihe river ilie other night. Toward the close she slipped to his side and sweetly Said : “6*(.ing home by yourself, (lhar lie V “Cuess so," he said. “Would you like some one lo sec you homo ?" “Depends on who it is." His answers were very shot! and etnsty. Many a one would liuve been disheartened, but Lticv was not one of that kiml. She dill pers'vered : “Some young lady. I mean." “Deutntls on who the young In dy is,” said the brute ‘‘Some otie about my size.” t ei. sisted the angel. “There is only one exactly my size.” “See here, Lucy, ’ said Charlie, •‘if you wall' to take me home you may.’’ “Olshe replied, “I've no par l.icular desire to take you home, hut as I was going ymr way I thought—” He inierruped her with “All right.” and togither they left. He was leaning on her arm,and silently they maundered over the frozen streets. They s opped at his door. He invited her in. “No, Charlie, I won't go in, bus I want to tell you something.’ By the light of the street lamp on the corer Charlie's face was seen to grow yule us she contin ne .l ; “I am abundantly able to sup port a husband. I have a bank account, of a good size, I love you, Charlie, and can give you a good home. Will you be mine, dearest “Lacy,” gaspsd the bruta, you have no idea what it take; to sup port, a husband— ’ , She in errup ed him. “Darling, if it should be lieet-b --;ary, 1 would work from morning until night, and even take in wash tug amt sewing: you shall want for nothing. Orly say you will be mine.” “No, Lucy, it cannot bo; I shall always love you as a brother.watch over your pathway .hr,nigh life, and should you e and iu need id advice or assistance, you cau rely ou my wiiliuguesa to assist you ; but i can never inarr \ you “Theu vou refuse mo ?” “Yes.” “Base wretch!” she exclaimed, “you will live to repen; your has y decision, for to-morrow my dead body will be found iu the cold via tors of the nver.” And, clasping him in her arms in one conclusive embrace, she lied iiuo the outer darkness. —Oil City Derrick. “Billy, L Lear you were married a few lays ago.' “Yes, teat's so. “Well, how do you like married life r “O, puny well.” .“Anil your wife —how do you like her “O, tolerable. ' But I ain't got used to her yit very well: mebbe as or i git use to her I’ll like her better. She’s get some doggone c urious ways which I didu t know of afore married." 1 tis often better to have a great deal of harm happen one than « lit tic it may arouse you to re move what a little would only ac custom yon to endure. DKVO’I'T) TO N KAY'S, LITFKATI Jti. AND Lot Al, AFI’AI I.{S A Xuii KiLeil by Goals The first instance ol death from gnat poisuuing to human being is re| o, ed as occuring ytsterday near Wynn stat'ou on the Helena branch of the St. Louis, /ron Moun l aiu aud Southern rtilroad. J tines Winters, a farmer residing near tlitre, had gone out tu pile brush on a piece of new ground about a mile distant from his house. Fussing over a bit of low baggy marsh laud the gnats swarmed fil ing Ins nose. ears, and mouth, get ing down his collar and scttleing alt over Lis head and neck in such nurnbejs that Winters was una ble to fight diem off' Their stings became unbearable, and he Hart ed for home at full speed. Befi 16 reaching t.ie house lie was so badly stung that all rented ies failed to relieve him, and' he died in a shot 1, time iu great ago ny, his face a d neck having turn ed almost black. This is the first case of i s kind eveV known, aud is vouched for by a gentleman of inimpeachaple veracity. Memphis Av dandle. (Joreil lo Deuib It) a Hull The Walker Comity Messing"! say s; FJTFatton, a prominent farmer of Transylvania county, N C., and an nude of James E Ful ton of Lafayette, was fatally injur ed ihe 12th imA. He had gone to lid lot to water his Jersey bull, when it made at him and gored through his body. It;A l.e strug gle which followed. Mr Patton was tin own down, When his wife and little hoy heard the noise and cuine'out, they found him un der the hull’s fee', but partially controlling iho mad animal by hiving hold of the ring in his nose. Bv his three ion his wife as sisted him in holding him while his little boy tried to cut the brute's ihroat. -Some hands then came up and rescueu Mr Patton He died the following day. Mormons iu Georgia Silii a, Sevia Co., Utah, April IGth. 1884 -Editor Union &. lieeor der.—Dear sir : I hope you will - timl_a place in your paper ; to notice 1 wo scoundrels that have been sent to your state from this place o proselite for the foul Mormon religon. The older one is from your state ; his name Richard Humphrey. He has just mar ried his own cousin as second wife. He is a low contemptible cur. rhe other is a Utah raised boy, whose name is Willatd Robinson. I would advise your people to make it too warm in thats ate fo r them to remain. Pass them around and send them homß with S. D. Gilson. The Girl lie f.ef't It liiml 1 hem (l a gentleman who was a member of Gem Hourv L Ben nine's brigade tell the following : ‘•One night during the war, while Beuniugs brigade was en eampet in the Wilderness near (Uiaucellorsvilte, Ihe second Geor g : a baud, which, by the way, was one of the hast hands of music in the whole army. -If we are to be leiye ihose who listened ‘o the sweet strains—weLt out to sere unde their old General. The band played a great many line pieces in their most accomplished style ami then prepared to return to their bivouac, when otit Benning walk ed out of his tent in a calm aud digmli. d manner and exclaimed earnestly, (load! good! good! N.w hoys, p!uy "The girl I leT behind Me.” That which made sm n a i impression on the soldieis who were witnessing the scene was that such an old, stem, war like mar* ns he wus at that time should have been thinking of the girl he hit behind him. He and the girl lie left behind him are now numbered with the dead. The world may have produced better men than the above old hero, but never a braver one.”—Oglethorpe Echo. There is not much in common between the devil and the press ; but the average politician had just as si on hove the devil after him as a right vigorously conduct ed newspaper—Sunday Record. 4 lv!l Right* Incident on Tlie Air l.iite Allanta April 30 >->Mr. Walter K. Bi own. of this city, relates an inrideut which reflects no credit on the Richmond ami Danville iailr&#). land is ol some interest 'O the piblic especially to ladies who have occasion to travel over that read At dre depot in Allan a, on Sutu rday 4 rreFroes, three men and one woman, tfferhledly African, scat ed themselves in (he ladies’ coach of Ihe regular Ait-Line pattern er train, nithc ngh there was a car set a apai t for the people of thatculgy. Of this the conductor was notified before the the truin left the depot, and he promt ed to movethem to their own car After the train Btnricd his a tention was again called to the matter and he approached the dark cs ami in gentle tones asked them if they would not go into the forward car They would not- They remained in the coach, mads free ol its privilege and yon in some instances Of other passengers aud to the and disgust to all. Tfyere were a number of ladies and gentlemen in (he car some of them from other states, ami the negroes were so objection able in theiV general apperauee, in the manner in which theyd< ■.■pol led heuiseWes, and in the air of insolence they assume,«, that 'here was a general protest made to the conductor, who said hat lie could do nothing further and ref us ed to remove them into their own car as a eo-eqnence Severn; passengers left the car iu disgust. The conductor caiue through tak ing np t'cketi. Ho punched ick ets of the negroes wi'hout a word. When he fame to Mr. Browri that grntlemsn produced a ticket ei ti - tleiug him a first class fare, and in formed the conductor that he would surrender the ticket when the road complied with its con tract to give him first class faro —either put him into a car whom there were no negroes, or le move the negroes from the ladies coach . Other passengers very heartily approved this stand taken by Mr. Brown, and expressed a regret that they had given up their ticket The conductor replied that he wou Id give the gentlemen to the next a'atioD, when be mu t ei there surrender his ticket or get off. Mr. Brown held his grounq and resolved to make a lest case of it if 'he conductor insisted on ejecting him During this time the negroes stolidly and inocent ly looked on At the next station he tame ard invited Mr. Brown to ride in the xiceper without extra charge. Mr. Brown got off the train at Lula, whtn the negroes were s ill in the ladit-s’ car.—Con stitution. Among the confused mass vvlm were strugliug and screaming when the Columbus was wrecked were noticed a middle-aged man and his wife. Their conduct was in marked contrast with that of tLe other pas «<-ngers. 7'he panic which had seized the others was shared by them, but their blanched faces told that they realized the peril which surrounded them. The only movement of unis cles or nerves was produced by the chilling atmosphere. They Mood close together, tutor hands clasped each,other, asif to con tun plate suicide together, and thus fulfil the marital vow of standing byeaoh other in the varying fide of life's fortunes and misfortmi us As the wreck carreened with the gale from one side to Ihe other, and while the spray and waves were dreenching ihem lit every moment, ihe husband turped and imprinted a kiss up on the com panion of bis life and while thus embraced a heavy reti broke ovei ihe wreck and both were washed away and not seen afterward. Mr. (look says flic scene was one which will remained indelibly im pressed upon his memory until his his diyiug day. —Bo ton Her ald. Not a clerk iu the Pension of fire draws less than a SI,OOO a year salary, the average for the 1,173 clerks being $1,294. Even the copyists get S9OO a year. These clerks have light labor and short hours. The average salary of the railway post office clerks throughout the eountny is only $977 a year. These men work hard, at the most trying labor, and have long hours. * Soim fht'tig wtuy ed his feet; flier a was a fife i n dm grate within—for 'h« night was chilly—audit lit up the little parlor and brought out in startling effects the pictures on the wall. But these were ns noth 1 m£*to ihe pic ft to r n tin hearth. Ihe'‘e, by the soft glo v of the ! fire-light, knelt his little cliil I at bet mother's fir, its small bands clasped ill prayer, its fair head botved.ifnd as its'rosy bps titter ed each vffcrd with childish distin ctness the father listened,' spell ■ bound to 'he ffpW “Now l lay me down to sleep, 1 pray the Li id my soul to keep; It I should die before i wake. I pray the L i d my soul to b ko." Sweet innocence. The min him self, who stood there with bearded lips sliui tightly together, had said that same prayer at his moth er s kuue. Where was that math er now 1 The* sunset gales had long ago unban ad to lei her pass though. But the uhild had not finished; hu heard her “God b/ess mamma, pupa and my ownself'' then there was u pause, and she lifted her troubled blue eyes to her mother's face. “God bless papa,' prompted the mother, softly. “God bliss pa]iu." lisped the li lie one. "And please tend him home so ber. He could not hear the mother, as she said this, but the child followed in a clear, inspired tone; *5 . •* “God -bless papa—and please send him home sober. Amen..’ Mother aud child sprang to the r feet in alarm when the (loir opened so suddenly, but they were not ufraid when they saw who it was ro'urncd so soon;' but tliut night, when little Ma uie wots be ing tucked up in bed, after suck a happy romp with papa, she said, iu the sleepiest aud most con tented voice: “Mamma, God uuswe-ed my prayer quick, didn't He t' An exchange says: Jol.u Thomas convicted in Georgia of murder, has been sentenced to be hanged. He was ordered to he confined in the Atlanta jail until the date of hanging. While waiting T r the train a ihe railroad Matron at Palmetto, his wife sat by him htr head on his breast, sobbing vio lently. His three little children gathered at his knees, kissing his hands and begging tiini not ;o go. At length oua of them noticed the steel manacles at his wrist, took hold of them, ami pulling them vigorously, said: •'Pupa, what have you these on for ?” The child kept trying to pull them, ignorant cf »be dreadful truth of why they were there. F’ailitig to release him. the child ap pealed piteously: “Papa, do please take off’ these ugly tilings. I don't like to se< them on you. T ake them off si y ou i tn lift rue up *u your lap.' Bv tins time the other children j >in<;d hi the appeal, and the crowd of persons surrounding could not repress thi irtiars At length the train rolled up, the murderer wai taken from Ins weep ng family sun was soon on his way to awin' a terrible doom “ Yes, )es, you'e got a handsoim ly furnished place," said Porkim 10 his friend Gregg, after they Lau 1 ram peel all over the hoaso, in, pet ting the new outfit. “But you haven’t seen the cliiu « i .1 it .ill, auivvera.l Gregg, 1 u l-iiig ir.i l bands iuget..ei joyJuin, for he prized Perkins’ opiuioo very high.) . “Co. llo. and ITt show that to yoh.” Togo Let tilt -two Sought till p rior, wirefe workmen tt«tt> put ling down 11 rich .carpet. “ There’s tli clravmer,” excitedlv ft ic'd Gregg, “djw, tell me, Puey old boy, ain’t that he prettiert thing y ,u evu' saw ?'! “Yus tb.iv is light gooh-jo’Kiii ■ n plied Perkin.;, examining 1 'carelessly, “Im: I've gut some thing ai homo hat cau craw! ovei it” Gregg was taken down, l>u! lie managed to ask: “'A hat is it f" With a new moon simile, Pei kins 1 eplied: “An eight months old boy.’— B »t- n Globe. “No. L.urn, no. They do rot open the campaign with a can opener. They do ft with a cork screw. How little, alas, do vo men know abort politics.” A Washington dispatch of t lie I 2GtLi lust. says. j The colored ineu have been verry successful iu defeating some of the old political leaders in the j i ace for representatives to ihe nn* , tioual Republican Convention, j Robeson was defeated in New Jer j sey by a negro as an alternate. Col Bob Ingersoll was compelled 10 surrender to Ferry Curaon, the I colored man who, as bailiff of the i court, had chilige of Uuiliim du | t ing the triul. J Warrou lxtifer has faded altogether to be chosen as a delegate from Ohio. But a colored man from his own county lias been sent as an alternate. Keifer had opened headquarters iu Cleavelunil, and luid announced that, in accordance with the re qua t of the press, lie would be a ! candidate for delegate at large. One ot (die leading colored men in this district, speaking of tl o prom inenoe given to the colored men in Ohio, stiyH : “It was quite nee ossary to do that iu Ohio Last year ilie Democrats nominated Hoadly, who, on the issues of the war, /was known to be as good a Republican as (he colored men could want, lie was supported by some of the most influential colored men there, ami there was a great disaffection of negroes from the Republican party. Tne Republicans tire endeavoring to prevent that this year by move ments of ihis sort.” II was a Cincinnati reporter j down South to feel the political pulse of the people. When lie i reached Birmingham Ala., he ask jed a policeman for the wherea bouts of a free trader who would he apt to “p u out" on an inter view. The officer walked him | about a half mile and turned him i over to a second, and the second passed him to a third. The third | was walking him to the city lim | its, when the reporter inquired : | “Dots he live far from h: re ?” “Live? Why t lie man's dead.’ | “Deadt” ''Certainly; i thought you want cl to see the tree ou wl icli ho hung himself. He got so Ime some here that he even spoiled a good pair of hai ness to get a rope :to choke himself with. ’ Mamma, what is that buil ding * A bank building, dearie. that where papa keeps his money ? Yes. Mr. Faro keeps it, don't ho mam ma ? Why, no, 4earie! What a ques tion ! Well, I heard papa say he’d left a thousand dollars at Faro's Bank Saturday night, anyway, He did, did he, (aside) Well that’s one safe deposit hem made anyway! I kuow now why he re fused me a new dress, new gloves and new hai yesterday. Oh! but Pit make him regret the day he was born ! What's the matter, mamma ! Nothing, dearie, otily Pm go ing to iiave a few words to say to your papa concerning Mv Faro s bank Tlie other morning when it was raining pretty liaid, unit every thing was very gloomy, a diner a 1 i boarding house table to the wuiter: “Will you just open that shut ter, Montague?” Tiie waiter opened the shutter “Will you now light (lie gas?” “Ii has bee* turned of!'.’' “Have yon an electric light con neco 1 with the place that you could five up 7 asked the board or. “No, sir.” “Could you run across the greet and borrow from Doctor Smith that magnifying machine 1 hilt 110 looks into people with ?" “I can’t leave the table.” “Have you a single barrelled •ye glass?” “No, sir,’ “Opera glass?” ‘‘No” •Telescope?” “No,” replied the waiter. “Well, you ought to hive all these things, an-i lots ot light, ti enable the boarders to see the food on the plates; or else you ■ light to give them enough to be detected with the nude eye,” And the waiter sneaked away; .ad the boarder went ou eating iiis food, which he got hold of by fueling for it with his fingers— Pack. iVol. XIV.—No 7 GF.NE&KL XK IKY. I lie King of Spain is sick with lever ( aliforuia promises to go demo, cratic nex‘, fall. Keu’ueky goes for TUdeu, aud tdler Inin McDonald. Twenty nersona"ere killed by* tadroad accident in Spain. Three cbildreu were drowned by a ferry boat at Montreal. The negro oonvendon at Fitts • burg denounce Fred Douglass. John W. Nelms is out in a » rv weak reply to Fiddor Johnson •Tie beating rains have caused IVxus farmers to replan* cotton Another fillibustering schooner has suilajl from Kvy West to (? u ba. 1 lie th alers are shipping a great deal of whisky out. of the coun try. •Tie manufactories iu the North are shutting down and laborers are striking. Flunk James has arrived at Booue»illo, Mo., and released on a #!>,UOU bon I. v '»’ A. Fledger has issued a call for a colored convention to meet in Richmond, Va , on July Bth Many houses iu Havana wete wrecked by the explosion of the powder magazine at San Antonio. Frank Hurd; of Ohio, made a speech in (he house Tuesday, on the Morrison rurifl - . He advocated free trade in its simplest form. Postmaster General Gresham I as finally succeeded in crushing out one of die lotteries which iiourshed in Kentucky \ boy near Dalton, Ga., was in stantly killed Ly blowing in his gun, while out hwoTing. Nt> one was with him at the time, The laborers in the South Afri can diamond fields have struck he oatiso they were searched at the end of each day's work. Last Monday, a destructive cy clone swept through Ohio, destroy ing a large number of houses and killing several people. Two clouds met. organizing a water spout and tornado. In the Spxnieh elections, which took place on Sunday, the ininiste rialists were generally successful 1 he elections wtre quietly conduct cd, which is an improvement for Spain. Johnson is a negro, and is to be hanged in McDonough, Henry county, on Friday, May the 23d. A littk more than a year ago John son was arrested, charged with outraging a white lady. PbildeJphia, Pa., April 28—An insane mau named Max Miehael, aged 40 ye irs living at 945 Lithya street, set tire to the bed in which he and his one-year-old child were lyiug and both were burned to death. The anarchy iu Egypt grpwa greater. Every dispatch brings ad ditiuliaj evidences of the spread of the rebellion. The fall of Berber, which hu» been prematurely an nounced, is only a question of time as the rebels iiave it about as close ly hemmed in as they hate Khar touui. El Muhdi has ordered the Egyptian troops to leave Aeaouau within ten days. t ort) Years auo Coffins were very plane and bu i ml caskets weio unknown. Tombstone had larger "epitaphs mid more verbosity engraved up on i hem. r Lggs were a shilling a dozen and •hotter was considered high at iscis per pound.. Much of the silver levies and dollars was of Mexiceu and Spanish ciau-ige. Ihe country retail trade was much letter, as people could not so easily run to the city by rail. I business letters were mote \o luminous anil lormal, anil were written iu a precise round hand. There was York currency, eight shillings to the dollar, and .Yew ling land currency, six shillings to ih* dollar. The diet was more surcharged with grease, the winter breakfast usually being made of salted lmni and hot cakes. Dinner jvas simply a asty lunch at noon, and little importance was attached to the necessity for good digestion or a rest after eating.