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<£l)£ iHcDuffic journal. A*Re*i live ooiuitry Faper. Published J&erv M'-miug. by WHITE & COxMBS. Terms of Subscription. one copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months 1-00 Ten copies, in clubs, one year, each— 150 Single copies ... octe. £&T 'All Subscriptions invaribly in advance B USTXESS CA BBS. HENRY J. LANG, ATTGftMRY AT LAW. Lincolnton, Ga. H. C. RONEY, ATTOBNKY AT LAW. THOMSON. GA. CS~ Will practice in the Aug:sta. North era and Middle Circuits. noljl PAUL 0. HUDSON, ATTORNEY AT LA IF, Thomson, Ga. Will practice ia the Superior Courts of the Augusta. Northern and Middle Circuits, and in tho Supreme Court, and will give attention to all cases in Bankruptcy. Aug. 20, 1i74, ts Central |)otel. BY MRS. W. M. THOMAS, AUGUST A, GEORGIA Mplltf DR. A. G QUILLIAN, RESIDENT DENTIST, Thomson, (ia. FAV!L!BI HOTEL, Charleston , S. C. G. T. AI.I'ORD it CO., Rates, *8 '■<> per day Proprietors. CHA3. A. LADEYEZE, *. DEi-LFR IN Picture Frames. looking plates, LoOiCtNG OI.ASSES IN F*AMK», PICT CUE COLD AND TASSELS, Porcelain A Glass Head Picture Nails, PICTtKE'', Illuminated Scriptural Texts, RUSTIC and OVAL TRAMI'AS, ■WALL BMAckBTS, 'WALL TOCKIiTS, AC. NO. If? ’Y\SHINGTON STREET, t, , ■ • 3tf.ro r> *.sr> V.tLiß, AUOUSTA, f :A. jaw* raniut n Ho -9IP flhftll l dini ii lib udii uJilj). rpy. undersigned respect-felly informs J[ the citizen-. of McDuffie and surround ing counties that he has opened a shop on Main Street, in Thomson, where he will re ceive orders fir Painting. Tapir Hanging Repairing Furniture, &c. CANINC. CHAIRS AND GLAZING specialties. Patronage solicited. A1 W. It. HADLEY. JUDKINS & SHAW, KELT SUPPLIED WITH \m, BYSTIRS, Gill, VDOET ABLER. Partridges. Doves Squir rels. Ducks, Chickeus, Butter, Cabbuges. Potatoes, Eggs NORFOLK OYS * EAS, m;k etc. CiTOprlers from the country promptly filled. Address JUDKINS * SHAW, IfelritotA Sftreih, neirt to the New Dost Of fice. B2a§ Citation for Letters ofDimission. GEORGIA—MCDtTFFiE Cocxtt. ATTHEKEAJt. Win. P. Crawford, adminis- VV trstof of Charles A. Crawford, re presented to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he ha«f fully administered iflbarles A. Crawford's estate : This to cite all person* con cetned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they *an. wbv said administrator should not be discharged from his adminis tration, atfS-receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in March. 1876. X)ec.6,lh7. r )-3m A. B. THRASHER. *» ' Ordinary B A~N CUOFT ? & ifMIA PROLIFIC HEBLQNG COTTON, THE finest find most prolific of all the improved varieties. Bancroft’s Prolife Cotton. (A careful selection of the Dickson Prolific.) For pjrtieniars and description, send for circulars. EDWARD BANCROFT, Athens, Ga. The above superior seed, can be obtained of the subscribers. WHITE A COMBS. A OEM';. Thomson, Ga. (The imclutffte Oijraiw Jo mural l 11 A us w; u VOL. VI. ro THE Planters, MercMs, AND JKstjrtrFxertrSMSs of McDuffie and adjoining coun ties. VITE would call your attention to our YV large stock of Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Saddles and SadcfleYy Hardware. Carriage Material of every de scription. Springs, Axles, Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Ac., Also, Harness. Upper and Sole Leather. Shoe Findings, Machine Oil. Gum and Hemp Packing, and Belting, all widths, at Manufacturer* price*. CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES in great variety. All kinds of Carriage Rnilding and Re pairing at short notice by experienced work men. at prices to suit the times. Sole Agents for the celebrated JACKSON PLANTATION WAGON. We invite all who appreciate good goods and the saving of money to give us a call. DAY, TANNAHILL A CO., to W. C. Jessup, k24-c*. AUGUSTA. GA. Economy js Wealth! THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully in forms the public that he is prepared to REPAIR OLD FURNITURE, of all kinds, at a very moderate cost. If you desire your Bureaus. Wash stands, Wardrobes, Sofas. Settees, Chairs, or any kind of room ®r parlor Furniture made to look as good as new, bring them along. Satisfaction guaranted. Can Be found at J. M. Curtis’ Shop. iNTTerms Cash. GEO, C. ATKINSON, al2-tf. Main Street, Thomson, Ga. For Sale lr Rout. IZ A TSA I 8. I. i; With good Dwelling, Store, Ac., Ac.. farm for one to three horses. Also my home farm, with comfortable dwelling Ac... farm for one or two horses. Good neighborhood, healthy, good water, fruit. Ac. V. M. BARNES. tHTApply to Editors Journal. 11-ts. I. S. & P. C. TANT’S .Meat House, SSftfltfSl Augusta Ga. Fine CAROLINA, TENNF.SSE and KEN TUCKY • v \ JE2 jE? JF3 , Pork, Lamb, v eal. Mutton, Hog-head Cheese, Sausage, Mixed, or AI L FORK, as ordered, Corned Beef. Pork, and 'l'ougues. A fuli stock alyvays on hind.. WrigTitfcboro High School. r r I HE Spring Term of this Institution wiH begin Monday, the loth day of February. INTO The Academy building has been en closed and tvid bo supplied with new fumi tc.re complete. Tl* terms of tuitiou are moderate and tho course of study thorough. A complete course of plain and ornamen tal T’e miHLship will he given Ktudents; also to private parties on application to the Principal. K. N. WARE. Meirt I Fib COIAVFY Tailoring and Gutting Notice. rpjlE Kul) criber will L.- preparr-d tc carry jon the busine sos fA§L oR!fi 3 CUT fjh,f? b a)i ds brau: h * .<1 the store of A. <. Adkius 'L ho in son, on and after the first day of "obi-nary, IST*;, His long and \aried experience in the above business warrants him in prorrriaing 1 the greatest satisfaction t- all who uiay favor him with their patrouge. He would especially solicit a visit from the many friends and aeqaaintances which he made while he wns superintendent of the clothing department of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association at Augusta during the war. Respectfully. JOHN NEIL ASMS. Augusta. Ga.. Dec., 1875. We take great pleasure in recommend ing Mr. John Neilep to the community of Thomson and the suiTouliding country as a faithful and competant workman in his line. Having been the cutter for Messrs. Broom and Day before the war. and also connected with the clothing department of the Confederate fctates, at Augusta during the war. j. J. BROOM, CH ARLIE B. DAY, J. M. NEALY. GEO. H. CRUMP. LAST CALL. \T OTICE is hereby given that all persons who are indebted to estate of George O Dillon, deceased, are earnestly requested to come forward and make satisfactory arrangements with the undersigned bv mep rst of March. All who fail to comply by Ihe time specified will find their notes and account# in the hands of an attorney for collection. 11. W. GERALD, Authorized Agent of W. G. Dillon, adin’r estate of Geo. G. Dillon. FeblO’7C-lm. EXECUTOR'S SALE. GEORGIA—McDuffie CouiwrY. * ILL be sold to the highest bidder be V\ fore the Court Hou.->« door :n hom son, said county, on the first '1 ueaduy in March next between the usual hours of bale, the following tracts of land, viz : One in Lumpkin county containing 40 acres, and one in Pierce county containing R*o acres. Said lands belonging to the estate of Aaron Adkins, late of McDuffie county, deceased. Sold by consent of the heirs for settlement. Terms on the day of sale. _Febi<>-4t J. F. ADKINS, Executor NOTICE. r PHE,Books of J. S. Jones Son, C. W. X Arnold A Cos., have been placed in t ie hands of Messrs. Paul 0. Hudson and Hi C. Roney for collection, All notes and accounts not satisfactorily arranged by the first of March will be sued. J. S. JONES & SON. Thomson. Gfp. Feb. lfth, I*7^. M. O*BOWP, Cotton Factor, Grocer and Commission Merchant, 253 BROAD srp.E|iT, AUGUSTA. GA. HaYING rte»si}ly rttnrie-I from the Northern Markets, aft h.aving purchased a large and very carefully :-elecicd stock of Groceries, etc... of the first quality. I am now prepared to offer s o my natrons and the trade gc ncr.dly, the following at lowest prices, and of w hich hull make a special ty, viz: Sugar, Coffee. Bacon Lard, Flour, Butter, Clieese, Mclas&es, Syrup Pickles and •Canned Goods, Brooms, Buckets Etc. My stock of TEAS are superior to any ever brought into this market, ami which I offer at Greatly Reduced Friees A trial is respectfully solicited. SPECIAL PERSONAL ATTENTION will be given to all consignments of Cotton. Ac. Commission for selling Cotion, 60c. per bale ; storage, S6o. per bale. I«-f» e II A NOT taoTiiieiirao! C O T T O A O ETI O X ! EUREKA, EUREKA! I will Kell to the cit-izenn of McDuffii* and adjoining counties the EU RE K A GUANO for $50.00 per ton cash, freight added. SOO.OO per ton on time, with Gotton option , at 15 cents per pound, with freight added. THT TUK jR&IEtXCKA» and you will always use it. It is a standard Fertilizer, one of Hie very- beat sold. PAUL C. HUDSON, Agt., a5-c*. Thomson. Ga. Atlanta Millstone Manufactory TO MILL OWNERS. . FOR THE BEST ' MILLSTONES, Bolting Cloth, 3mnt Machines and Improved Mill Findings, Address. WM. BRENNER, ATLANTA, Go, AND MIU FURNISHING DEPOT. JULIUS H. OPPENHEIM, No, 143 Reynolds Streot. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA., WHOLEfIAIiB DEALER IN IRON, METALS, RAGS AND ALL KINDS OF Paper took, Hides, CVool, WAX, Etc. H2-a§ CL J. TL BALK’S, No 180 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Will offer duiiDg tke nexc ten days a large stock of Blankets, Shawls, Cloaks, Worsted Dress Goods, Calicoes. Jeans, and Cassimeres, Flannels, Bed Tickings, Dom estics, etc., at prices that will make it to the interest of the readers of the Journal to send an early order if in want of any thing in that line. Fine white red bound 10-4 Blankets, at $3.50 worth $5/00. Fine silver-grey Blankets, at $2.00 worth $3.50. Fine white ribbon bound 11-4 Blankets, at $5.00 worth $7.50. All woo! red, white and blue Flannels,at 20 and 25c. Two yard square, all wool Shawls, at $2.00 and Good Jeans for Pants, at 20 and 25c. Good Mattress ’j joking, at 10 and 12}c. Ticking warranted te hold feathers, at 15. 20 and 5c Bes* heavy unbleached Drilling, at 10c. Best undressed bleached Homespun yard wide, at 10 and 1 2.j0. Children k knitted Socka. at 40, 50 «t 75c. Splendid black Alpaca, at 30. 40, 45 & f>oc. Good Calico;**?, at 7, 8 and lOc. \ wide, heavy unbleachedßhirtiog. atfije., and many other goods at temptingly low prices. J. & P. Ceate’ Best Six Cord Thread sold to the trade at 67Ac. doz., at C. J. T. BALK, 136 Broad-St., near the Lower Market, Augusta, Ga. THOMSON. GA. M^WCiB76. 777 • m : i v '■ y.-v\ \ ■ *;r tv. • •• ? ’*'l* 'WL < f • - ■■ *. cr dK J. I ’■ ■•...>•• i’ll jm Ilf- Iri hit.; Your better nature spuron To act the spy on him or his— Just mind your own concerns. Yes, mind your own concerns, my friend, And presently you’ll find That all your time is occupied. And you've enough to mittd i > What need you care if Snooks or Spooks Should wed with Sally Joues? What matter if your neighbor 0., A half a million owns ? The money ih not yours, my friend, Though golden stores he earns; So do not envy him in wealth, But mind your own concern*. Yea. mind your own concerns, my friend, It is a better plan Than always to be spying out The deeds of brother man. Remember that all persons have, Though hidden from your view, Thoughts that to them of right belong, And not at all to you,; And also bear in mind, my fiient\, A generous nature worms No secret from his neighbor’s brwist, So mind your own concerns. Burglariously & Feloniously. Wo had just locked .up the saf®, and I bad put tho koy in my pocket—[ am tha accountant id the North and South of England Bank at its Pudsey Branch, W. it. Yolks— i had got my lint on, and hail taken Hp my umbrella, when a man came running into the bank with a bug of money in his hand. “Am liu time? ’he cried. I shook my head. “Donee tides it 1” he said; “and I’m off to Liverpool by the n oik train, uud to America.” “Sorry for it," I said ; “hut wo can't tuko the money.” “Well, then, what is to ha don.!? Here’s twei.ty-two thousand pounds in this bag, and those drafts of mine come due in a couple of days. \vvlf, you’ll have to take ’em ivo,'' 1« isuid ; 'id imn’i, unless you take the motjFv in to-night." I know that those drafts were coming due, and that our murnurer was a little anxious about them, for they were rather lieaVy, and the other names on them were not very good. Black, too, (that was the man with the money-bag)—Black was a upitsil customer ; and not only a good customer himself, but he brought good accounts with him, and we were, a young branch and on our mettle. Well, here was the money to meet the draffs, anyhow, und I should have been a great fool to send it away just because it was after hours. So I counted it all over; there was about nineteen thousand in chocks and notes, and three thousand iu gold. “Gome and have n glass of beer with me,” said Black, “on the way to the station.” I put the bag of money; in my desk, nnd locked it up. I would come back presently, and have it plated in the safe. I walked to the station with Black; we had some beer together) and then he went off Ainericaward, amt I am on the way to Nomophillar Vilifiß. Yon see, X was rather in the habit (if calling for a glass ol beer as I went liome, and then going on ; and, consequently, from the force of habit, I’d ilmost got home be fore I remembered the bag of money. It was vexing too, because we had a tea party that night, the first since our mar riage, and it begau at 6 o’clock, nnd I'd promised to lie at home at an hour earlier, to draw tho corks and help to get things ready. And here it was 6 o'clock, and I had to go all the way hack to the bank. All the way back I went as hard as ] could pelt. However, the money was a l right in my desk, aud now I’d put it in the safe. “Tell Mr. Cousins”—our man ager, you know-I said to the servant who’d let me in, “that I want the key of thesafe.” But,you had it in your pocket, say you ; which shows that you are not acquainted with the rules and regulations of the North Rnd Soutf- England Bank, which say that _kWt or cashier shall be |«Bue custody J# It-: the daytime, ft all anil securitiesvlly secure.! within the ph shall secured by which shall be the .utnager, •he second in io nktconnlaut m cashier. But you had one ttn< ‘' id you want with two? Thej^^pggoregulations are obscure. Th<ff }rawu up by somebody without® tW * in ®vry skill; if they’d consulted me t ./ ’em, I could have suggested a go /n many improve ments. What they .Jcanl to say was, that the safe was to Y. secured by two locks, and that a key of each, not iub r chaDgoabla tho one with the other. Vlin to be iu the custody, etc. No*you un ' derstand why I wanp-d Mr remain* key. “Eh, my !” said the servant, opening her month wide, “and what might you want Mr. Cousins’ key for?” Just as stupid as you, you r,ce. I was mad with the girl. I own I always get out of temper with those Yorkshire ;peopK If you ask 'em the simplest question, first they open their mouths and gape at you. When you’ve repeated the question twice, they shut their mouths and think for a bit. Then the idea seems to reach the thing that does duty with ’em for brains, and excites a sort of reflex action, for, by jingo I in stead of answering jour question, they go and ask you one. And that makes me so mad. Oh, they’re n very dense race, those Yorkshire people. “Why, to open the safe, yon stupid," said I. “Where is lie ?” “Don't yo know,’ says she. “Know- ?” I cried, in a rage. “What should I ask you for, if I did know?” “Didn’t thau know he were at thai house ?” Ah !so he was. T’i nearly forgotten that he was one of the guests at my wife’s party. Clearly, I couldn’t get the safe open, and I didn’t like to lei.ve tho mon ey in my desk, so I put it in my pocket and took it home, thinking I’d give it to Cousins with my key, to put iu the safe when he returned. A nice mess I got into when I reached home; for you see it had been arranged that I was to go up stairs aud dress be fore anybody came; and that then our room was to be made ready for the ladies to take their bonnets off—for they were not all carriage [ample. Well, you never saw such a thing! When I got homo ami crept up stairs to dress—the people had all come, as the servant said—there were six muffs, anil four hoftnets, aud five pork-pie hats,’and half a dozen every day curls hanging over the looking-ghr s. Upon my word, 1 really didn’t like to perform ray toilet among all these femi nine gear ; and there was no lock on the door; and ray dress clothes were alj smothered up among these muffs and things. But 1 got through pretty well, and had just got one of my legs into my trousers, when bank-atrop-dop-dop ! such a rattle at the knocker, aud I heard ray | wife seutling away into the hall. They I were the Markbys, our trump cards, who j kept their own carriage and everything grand. “So kind of you, dear !” said my wife, kissing Mrs. Markisby most affectionate ly; I could hear the reports where 1 stood. “£)o delighted 1 Beally, how nicely, how benntifitl you arrairge V/erythiug, I can’t have things so nice, with all my servants, and"— “Ituu up stairs, dear, do!” said my wife; “you know the room—my room, right hand at the top of the stairs.” I heard a flutter of female wings on the stairs. What was Ito do? If I could lmvc managed the other leg, I wouldn't have moi led, but I couldn’t. I hadn’t worn those things for a good while, and I don’t get any thinner as I grow older. No, for the life of me, I ! couldn’t dispose of that other leg at such I short notice. What could Tdo ? T could i only rush to the door, and set my back against it. Did I tell you this was our house-’,wanning party? 1 think net. Did J tell you our landlord altered the house for ns, making our bedroom larger by adding a slip that had formed a sepa rate room ? 1 think not. And yet I ought to have told you all these cireum stauces to enable you to understand the catastrophe that followed. In a word, the door opened outward. I’d forgotten that peculiarity, never having had a room no constituted before, and never will again. The door went open with a crash, and I bounded backward into Mrs. Marksby’s arms. Smelling salts and sal volatile, was there ever such an untoward affair ? Kum-tid-itimity-tnm-de-de! The music struck up for the dances as I hopped back into my room. I hid my head amoug the bolsters and muff’s, aud almost cried ; for I’m such a delicate-minded man. Yes it hurt me a good deal more than it did Mrs. Marksliy, for, would you bolieve it ? She told the story down below to the whole company, with pan tomimic action, and when I showed my self at the drawing-room, I was received with shouts of inextingnisbed laughter ! I think I called the Yorkshire people dense just now, didn’t I ? Well,YU add another epithet, coarse, dense and coarse. I told 'orn so ; but they only laughed the more. The guests were gone, the lights were out, slumber had just visited my; eyes, When fight into my brain, starting me up as if T’d been shot, came a noise, a sort of drill bursting noise.* : I wasn’t really Certain at first whether I had heard a noise 6r ouly dreamed of it. 1 sat tip in lied and listened intently. Was it only mv pulse thumping in my ears, or Were those regular beats the tramp o'. somebody’s muffled feet 1 Then I heard an unmistakable sound—creak, creak, creak—a door being opened slowly and cautiously. AH in a moment the idea flashed into my lie.-ui—Twenty-two Thou sand Pounds. You see, all this dancing , u; d junketing, and laughing and chafing ,'md completely driven out of my mind • all thought Os the Sum I had in toy pos session. 1 had left it in my greatcoat pocket, which was hanging in the hall, ilmvn I Puff I a gust of wind came through ! the house, rattling the. doors gnd win i dows ; and then I heard a door slam, ; and a footstep outside or someone steal -1 iug cautiously away. (Away down stains I went like a mad man, :nv one thought to put my hand oa that greatcoat, ft was a brown great -1 coat w ith long tails, and two pockets bo | hind, and a little cash pocket on the left | hand side in frUut, and this breast pocket \ in which I had put the bag of money. This pocket wasn’t, as is usual, on the left-hand side, but on the right. Thera was no other coat hanging on those rails, ouly my wife’s waterproof. Wlmt? j whoop 1 mode to get hold of that coat, I (lent heavens! it was gone ! J I had carefully haired and‘Chained the ; rant door before 1 went to bed—now it i tiuiastcned; I ran out into the -t, and looked up and down, hopeless slid bewildered. It was a'dark, damp ght ; the lamp at the corner threw a long, sickly my down the streaming pav ement, hut there wasn’t a s. nl to be seen. Everything sti i, cold arid dark, rim money was clean gone ; y..s it was gone. 1 repeated these voids mechanic ! ally to myself, as 1 crawled lip stairs, j All the r'-stilts of this loss pictured them | selves clearly Inf re me—dismissal from ; the bank, ruin of all my prospects, utter ! ruin, in fact? What could I do? to I what turn ? The blow that bad fallen | upon me was so heavy that it had be j numbed my faculties. | Then the thought came to mo ; should T go to bed and say nothing at all about ! it ? No one knew of my having received j that money, not a’setd but H ack, the j man who had deposited it. I had given ! no receipt for it, no acknowledgment. ! Black haul gone to America—a hundred ■ things might happen—he might never j return ; ut all events, here was respite, | immediate relief. I could go to the bank | next morning, hang up my hat as usual, | everything would go on as before, l! I Black returned, my word was as good as l his. The notes and checks could never Ibe traced home. But I don’t think J j retained this though*, iou". Do you evo | consider how much resolution and force j of will if takes to initiate a course of crime aud deception ? I’d neither til" I one nor the other ; I should have broken : down at once. I couldn’t have met that | fellow's eye and told him I had nev«r ! had h a money. I I woke my wife—she’d slept through ' all the trouble, “Mary,” I said, “we’ru I ruined—there’s been a robbery.” I “A robbery 1” cried she, clasping her | bands ; “aud arc the men gone ?” ' “Yes,” I said. i “Oh, thank Heaven,” she said, “then we're safe 1 Ne ver mind the rest, Jack, ; as long as our lives are safe. But there's |my Water-proof. Jack I —oh, do run ur.d . sea if they've taken that.” Then I told her the story of the twen ty-two thousand pounds. She wouldn’t, believe me at first ; but when she heard the whole story she was frightened enough. Yet she had wits about her more than I had. “You must run off to the town hall, i Judt,” she said, “and set the police to; work. They must telegraph to all the 1 stations, to London, and everywhere ! Oh, do go »t once,'Jack, this very mo ment,, Every second lost may be rain to us.” Away I went to the town hall. This was a big, classic place, with an immense porlieo and a huge flight of steps ; but you didn’t go into the. portico to get to the police office, but to the side, which wasn't classical at all, but of the rudi mentary style of architecture, and yon went along a number of echoing stone passages before yon reached the Super intendent's office. When I'd told the superintendent the story—“Ah,” lie said, “I think I know who did that job.” •‘Oh 1” said I, “how thankful I am 1 Then you eau pnt your hands upon him and get back the money ? I want the money back, Mr. Saperintendcnt never mind him. I wouldn’t mind, indeed, rewarding him Cor his trouble, if I could get the money back.” “Sir !” said the superintendent severe ly, “the police ain't sent into the world to get people’s money back ; nothing of the sort. We aren’t going to encourage composition of felony ; and a* for putting our hands on Flashy Joe—for he did the job, mark yon—well, what do you think the liberty of the subject is for? Where’s your evidence ?” I was obliged to confess I hadn’t any ; whereat the superintendent looked at me contemptuously “Now, let's see into this matter,” Said he after he’d made some notes on a bit of pap :. “How came they to know you’d got the money in yonr coat ?” I said I, didn’t know. "Ah, but I know,” said the superin tenddiit. “Y'ou went to get a glass of ale after you loft the bank, young m.*.u ?” I was obliged to confess I had done so. “That’s how property gets stolen,” said he, looking at me severely. “And what’s more, you had a glass with a frieud? Au 1 1 knew you had. And perhaps you got talking to this friend of yours ?” “Yes, iudeed I had.” ‘•Very well ; and mentioned about the money you’d just took ?” “Veiy likely.” <>l it: are. first inserti**/....• HuhHeqnent insert :o:i 7 . One square three months io r«o Otic KvjdaM .six months...... ..... j.> cu Olio square t\veir« month*.;.- • s*) Cos Quark i column twelve month** 4o <*> Jf Jf column six iuoD.lis. % »;n to Half utftfiUts..73 <.y hut oium.i twoJvc mouths.. !... \j.:> (o -I.4*** iuifiiyij a All fraction* of squares are c«/u:>U and a- n»ii NO. 9. I J -—gr-y.-y.,^ •‘Then this Joe, depend upon it, was in the crib at, the iiuie, uqd he heard yon : and he followed you back io the bank : and yon haven’t got blinds, hut u wire-netting over the w indow! and iuv ‘>odv outside can see you counting gold and silver. ” •‘That’s true,” I su'd. “Yes ; I see it ail,” a.i l the siinWui teudeut, “just as Jog saw it. lie. follows you up from here to yonder, and ho aces you put your money into your coat pock et, aud then lie follows you lidfaie, and whan all’s quiet, he cracks the crib. Oil, its ail iu a nulshuil ; ami that's how property goes. And then you come to the police.” “But if you know it's Joe, why don’t yolf send after him and Caleb ilim V” “Oh, we know mif»,wu business, sir ; jam leave it «il to us ; vY shall have Jou right enough, if not ion yiK job, anyhow lor the next. We’ll give biih« bit of rope, like. ” ;\y ~ I couldn’t put any fire into the ityui, I<> what I could ; he was civil; that, is, for a Ybrkshiivmau ; impassive ; he'd do what •was right. I’d given the iufor;na iiou ; very well, all the rest was his busi ness. So I carae homo miserable, despairing. 11 was just daylight by this time, and as I opened the shutters, the debris of, our feast was revealed ; the lees of the lob ster, salid, the picked bones of the chick ens, the melted residinum of die jollies, while about everything hang the faint smell of sour wine! I sat down amid all this wretched mess, and leaned my head on my arms in dull miserable lethargy. Then I sprang up, and as I "did so I caught sight of myself in the lookiug glass. Good Heavens 1 was this wretched j hang-dog fellow myself F Did a few | hours misery chango a man like this ? j Why, I was a very felon in appearance ; and so I should be thought to be. Who would lie!.-eve this story of n robbery ? Why, the police didn't believe in it, else .they'd have taken a different tuue. No ; I should hi, looked upon as a thief bv all he world. Then toy wife came down stairs, aud with a few touches, restored a little or der end sanity, both to outward maltem and my mind. She brought me some bread and butter, aud.nlter I had eaten amt drank, f didn’t fuel quite so bad. “Jack,” she said, “you must go to London at once, au 1 see the directors. Have the first word, and tell them nil about it—all the particulars. It was ou ly a little bit of carelessness, after all, and perhaps they'll look over it.” “Yes, that's all very well,’’ I said. But how am Ito get there? I've got no money. This v.retclied party baaoleared 'it’s right cult.” “Borrow some of Cousins.” “He asked me to lend him a sovereign lust uiglit, and I couldn't.” Now, you’d say -. “Here’s a man with out resource. Y-’hy didn’t he pawn his watch ?” To tell the. truth, that’s what I did the week before, aud the money was all gene. “Theu these circumstan ces,” you'll add, “it was immoral to givo a party. ” But,' you'll bear in mind, the invitations had been out for a fortnight, and then we were in funds. “Weil, Jack,” said my wife, “you must get the muu—the P. B.—to give you some, more money on the watch. Sell him it right out. It must be worth ut least ten j nnds- for it cost thirty, and ymf ve only had five upon it. Sell the ticket. ” Yus ; but where was the ticket ? Why, iu tile iitlle cash pocket of my brown greatcoat. Still, 1 had heard, that if you’d lost a ticket, you could make the man give another ; and Brooks, the j pawn-broker, was a respectable fellow, | who perhaps, would help me out of my : difficulty. 1 went to him, anyhow, on Imy way to (lie station. 1 felt l,ke a i licket-of-leave man as I weut into bia shop, but 1 put a good face upou it. “Brooks,” I said, “that watch—you know the ticket—it's stoieu.” Brooks gave a most porleutions wink. He was a slow-spceched man, with a red face, and a tremendous corporation. •iNny,” lie says, “my lad. thou’rt wrong there." “Vv hat do you mean ?” I said, color ing up furiously. Every one suspected me, i’. seemed. “vVUoj, it might ha’heeu stolen once, hut it aren't now ; aye got it here. This is how it were. A cadging sort o* chap comes in, and he says ; “Master, what'd yon give me for this here ticket ?" Now, you know the hact don't allow us to give nought in tLat kind of woy, hut I says to tne chap : “Let's have a look at it aiiu theu l saw it was yours, aud I said to the min : “.My lad, you aren’t come houest by this.” “And you gave him into custody—he’s m prison ? Old Brooks, w Vat a capital teiiow you me 1” “Nay, ’ he said ; “I know’d better nor that, D. you Hunk I’d hexposo a cus tomer ? I know you gents don’t care aboii t these little matters getting abroad ; and so I maps my list on the counter, and I says < ‘Hook it !’ just like that. And away he went like a lamp-lighter.” I sank down on the counter, overpow ered with emotion. “And what's more,” vent cu Bioojoq “he never took uia the money I’d tent him for the coat f” “V. hat Cl■at?" I cried. “Avery nice brown coat he put up with me. About fit you, I should thifik. See, h-ero it es. ” , , ~ , It was my identical brown greatcoat, wrapped up in a I nSdle, and tied round with my oiiu handkerchief. I made a dart at it,-opened it, plunged my hund into the breast pocket—there was the money, there were the twenty-two thou sand pounds. How did I get to the bank that morn ing, ov legs or wings ? And how cud I get home, as soon as I put the money sate away ? Mary knew by my face it was ad right; and didn’t we have a dance of joy all round the house. My burglar had been only a sort of suenk after all, who got in at au- open i window and bolted with the spoils of the . hall ; but if lie had taken the pains to i look into the pockets of the coat', I ' should have been utterly and deservedly ; ruined. J