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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. VOL. XX. KILLIKS AJt 8A.01.R.0W 1.. The Dealli Jlrmrle of a BtS Bird With Ejr of Fire. Nat We luts inany’surprises to those who wait on her. One of the great est she ever favored me with was the sight of a wounded Magellanic eagleowl I shot on the Rio Negro, in Patagonia. The haunt ot this bird was an island in the river, overgrown with giant grasses and tall willow, leafless now, for it was in the middle of winter. Here I sought for and found him waiting on his perch for the snn to set. He eyed me so calm-' u- when I aimed my gun I scarcely had the heart to pull the trigger, lie had reigned there o long, the feudal tyrant of that remote wilderness! Many a water rat, stcadug like a -shadow along the margin between the deep stream and the gunt rushes, he had snatched away to death;, many a spotted wild pigeon had woke on its perch at night with his cruel • crooked talons piercing its flesh; and beyond tho valley on busy uplands many a crested tiuamou had been slain on her nest and Iter beautiful glossy, dark green eggs left to grow pale in the sun and rain, the little lives that were in them dead because of their mother's death. 15ul I wanted that bird badiv, and hardened my heart; tho “demoniacal laughter’ with which he had so often answered tho rushiug round of the swift black •river at even-tide would be heard no more. I fired; lie swerved on his perch, remained fora fow moments then slowly fluttered down. Behind the spot where he had fallen was a great mass of tangled dark green grass, out of which rose the tall, slen der boles of tlie tree; overhead through the fretwork of leal less twigs the sky was flushed with the tender roseate tints, for the sun had now gone down and the surface of the earth was in shadow. There in such scenes, and with the wintry quiet of the destjrt over all. I 4n.tnA .. hlii 1.., t,:, , Voiltm to fury ami I prepared for the la-1 supreme effort. Even in repose he is a big, cagle-liko bird; now his ap pearance was quite altered, and in the dim, uncertain light he looked gigantic in size—a monster of strange form and terrible aspects. Each par ticular feather stood out on end, the tawny barred tail spread out like a fan, (lie iminni-e tiger-colored wing wide open and rigid, so that as the bird, that had clutched the grrss with his geeat feathered claws, sway his body slowly fioin side to side— Just as a snake about to strike sways its head, or as angry, watchful rat moves its tail—first the tip of one and then of tlie other wing touched the ground. The hlack horns stood erect, while in the center of the wheel-shaped head tho beak snapped incessantly, producing a sound resembling the clicking of a sewing machine. This was a suitable setting for the pair ol imagnificenl furious eyes, on which 1 gazed with a kind of fascination not unmixed with tear when I remem bered the agony of pain suffered on former occasions from sharp, crooked talons driveu into me to the bone. Tho irides were of a bright orange color, but every time I attempted to approach the bird they kindled into ■great globes of quivering flame, the black pupils being surroundel by a scintillating crimson light which threw out minute yellow sparks into the air. When I retired from the bird the preternatural fiery aspect instantly ■Vanish.—Gentleman’s Magazine. Young I:idr mi Honrdlng School. Al some of the French boarding ectiuoU in Paris, the girls are led on weak soup, two or three degrees stronger than hot water; meat, from which nearly all the nourishment is extracted by boiling; coarse veal, wa tery carrots and gray sour bread. The young lady who comes home after a lew terms of this sort of diet may be very learned, but is pale and poor .looking, lacking vigor and health. Give her Brown’s Iron Bitters—the best tonic in the world for young la dies with impoverished blood—and bring the roses into her cheeks. In no other medicinal preparation have the results of the most intelli gent study and scientific inquiry been so steadily and progressively utilized as in Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It leads the list as a trulyscientific preparation d’or all blood diseases. A ROMANCE. After 30 Tears’ Separation—A Strange Storr from the Nutmeg" State. The simple announcement in a local paper, 11 ;trt (onl, J wne 2. tV. TV. Converse, of Hattfbrd,” gives little clew to one of the most romantic affairs that has over oc cupied in local history. Such roman ces arc not unfamiliar in novels, but in real lire rare. The bridegroom is the President of*ihe Winchester Arms Com pa ay, a great Xe >v Haven cepora tibn of worth wide fame employing 1; 000 hands, ami the bride is a member ot an old Conneeiicut family. Before the war Mr. Converse, then a young man of 20. vaiue from Massachusetts and located in Hartford. lie met Miss Spencer, who was of tine same ago, ami aw euga wnniit hot ween the young people followed. About this lime Miss Spencer’s father a bote! keeper,died leaving (lie family in some what straitened circumstances—so much so in fact, that (lie widow opened a boarding house as a means of supporting herself and tlirej chil dren. Miss Belle, the fittest, was be sought to remain with her mother during tier lifetime, and promised to do so. Her mother was then nearly Hity tend needed other assistance and and counsel. The young girl refused to marry Converse, and a lover’s quarrel ensued, resulting in his re moval to New Haven. He prosnered there,and sometime later, by marriage with Now Haven woman was brought in close relation with the TV ino Hesters. Eventually lie engaged in business with them, anil in the course of years rose to the presidency of the company with a salary ot ♦l2 .000 per annum, lie heard but infrequently from bis cr rly love, and finally a report reached him that she was dead. His wife died three years ago, and last fall he heard dial Miss Spencer was yet alive and and unmarried, and that for thirty long years she had held her promise to remain with her inoi o'er iinfiViVcatli renoFeci her from duty. In November last her mother died at I lie age of 78, and within a lew weeks Mr. Converse called upon the sweet heart of Ins early manhood. He called once, and again and again, and during the last winter an en gagement of thirty years before was renewed. He gave her elegant pres ents, and a wedding trousseau of tlie finest description was prepared. The ceremony was performed last Tuesday week and was a quiet affair with the wedding party limited to a few friends. They were a handsome couple—lie a wcll-pteservcd gentle man of 50; she retaining much of her youthful beauty, although her dark hair was liberally sprinkled with gray, “.’ho wedding trip, like their marriage, was a qniel afi'air—a car riage journey through the beautiful Berkshire bills of Western Massachu setts, never more delightful than in a New England June. After all these years of devotion to what Miss Spen cer held to be her duty, she is deserv ing of tlie congratulation ; her friends have showered upon her for its hap py lerminalien.—Chicago Tribune. WANTED A WEAITUIIK MAN. The Rutland, Vermont, woman who applied for a divorce from her husband on the ground (hat a “weal thier New York man wanted her” probably looked at this life with the cold eye of a practical woman. She was tired of sewing buttons on a poor man's shirts and of trying to keep his home in order for the bare living his hard work gave her, and the little matter of love which ho tried to tluow in lost its charm amid the walls of a humble home. It isn’t the first ease on record in which divorces have been sought for just that reason, although that lias never been the ostensible motive or basis on which any were granted. It takes something of character and pa tient self-denial on the part of a wo man to go through life as the wife of a poor man, am} she echo of rustling silks sometihing haunts her when ar rayed in humbler garb. Some wo men, however manage to do it with out very serious regret and some ap pear to'have been happy while doing it. It is unfortunate for tho Ver rucntclaimaut that her petition was denied, but more so for her husband. A woman of that kind can be easily spared. JLlfc Preserver. If you are losing your grip on life, try “Wells’ Health Receiver.” Goes direct to weak spotß. WASHINGTON, GA.,. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1885* IT MAKES A MAN HASP. TO BOOK, Tile Waves of Tipsy Melt null Shout, of Pretty Women on 1* roadway. “Drunkards and pretty women,” said a stalwart Broadway policeman yesterday “run in shoals. A period ofdititikenness has settled on this town which people must be awaro of if thoy have had their eyes open dur ing the last two weeks. I have boon observing New Yorkers for a good many years front my post right on this corner. All New York passos here at some lime or oilier, and I have got so that I know tlie faces df'half ■ hebusiness m'en in town. About ten ‘ days ago what you might call a rage ofliquor fell on the boys. Every oth er man who walked up and down passed my corner with his head in ihe air. swinging his arms aaid whis tling, singing, or talking at the high rate. Front that lime to this it has been on the Increase. I never saw so many young men under the influence of liquor in my life as during thiajpar ticular time. One of the waiters in the saloon three doors above he."| tells me that that business lias never ‘been so brisk as during this time, and the only reason that tho true state of things lias not come up in tho police courts is because tho drinkers are nearly all gentemaniy appearing fel lows wiio are not fractious or tigiy; at least, few of them are. There are, of course, some who are ugly, and if you should go around to the bounces of the different hotels, particularly of iheHofftnan house, and ask them about some of tho midnight scenes during the past two weeks they might give you a heap of information about prolty well known into. It is hard to account for It, except on tltegnmnd that the sudden rush of hot Prather makes men feel stale and mjeoniforl ahiuand they take a drink toStruighl en tip. You never feel liko eating in hot weather.and so if yon drink imicli, it is apt to be ou an empty atunach. •WrsCoTiM"ifi!f l iS 1 ,, tofnytrffr fUrf'Trr you don’t feel like eating, von n <inr— ally keep on drinking. Tie first tiling you know you are three disets in (lie wind. It is very different in the winter when men go home as soon as business is over and ea their dinner, because tlie brisk air gives the man appetite, and they stay n the house to keep warm.” “But the shoals of pretty wonten ?” “That, boats me. Every policeman on Broadway will tell you that there are, times when pretty women run so thick that it makes a man gafp to cast his eyes along a block, and there are other times when the faces collect ively and singly, arc enough to stop the watches of every policemai on the street. I don’t believe the weath er has anything whatever to do with it for I have known beautiful days to bring out crowds of ugly women, while on other days that are uol!half so pleasant the streets have been alive with pretty faces. There seem to be no particular day of the week, either on which pretty women come out in numbers. I need to think llrat Fri day was the best day for handsome women. That was a sort of trad tlon. But it is a mystery. They simply turn out or they don’t as the fancy strikes them, and the fancy seems to govern pretty women at one time and plain onos at another. A BOV’S ESTIMATE OF Ills MOTH. KH’K WORK, ‘My mother gets me tip, builds tbc fire and gets my breakfast and sends me off,’ said a bright youth. ‘Then she gets iny father up, and gels his breakfast and sends him off. Then she gives the other children their breakfast and sends them to school and then she and the baby have their breakfast.’ ‘llow old is the baby ?’ asked the reporter. •O, she is ’most two, but she can talk and waU as well as any of us.’ ‘Arc you well paid ?’ ‘I get $3 a week and father gets |2 a day”. ‘How much does your mother get?’ With a bewildered lookjthc boy -aid, ‘Mother, why she don’t work for any body.’ ‘I thought you said she worked for all of you.’ ‘O yes, tor us she does but there ain’t no money in it.’ **Rouf(t> on Toothache.” Instant relief for Neuralgia, Tooth ache, Faccacne. Ask for “Rough on Toothache.” Zscs. RELIGIOUS MATTERS. llellgtout Statistics srour cities. The Rev. William Bryant lias been studying somo of tho religious statis tics of our cities and gives some re sults: “Taking tlio thirty-four American cities with ovot 50,000 pop ulation we find that the Methodist Episcopal Church is the largest in seventeen ; the Presbyterian in nine; the Baptist in four; tho Congrega tional in three, and the Episcopal in one, New York, its natural home. The Scriptures In Japan. The eagerness of the Japanese for the Scriptures the past year,says Dr.Natli an Brown, from Yokohama, has boon astonishing. Four thousand Gospels were disposed of and over 10,000 small portions and tracts. Dr. Brown’s principal colporteur has sold and dis tributed over 12,000 books and trap's with his own hands. Christians own Bibles and road them, always turning to tho passages referred to by the preacher in his sermon—not a bad habit for Christians of every race. A View Tlnit USugieitlve. Dr. Smith furnishes the following estimates : A view of the missionary growth of Christianity, at epochs widely separated from tho ascension ofChrist and from each other, ena bles us to show the comparatively ra pid progress made in the present cen tury, and especially in the last tbitty years, which has given the Christ llie first fruits of harvest. Three centuries after Christ, 5 mil lions. Eight centuries after Christ,so millions. Fifteen centuries uflor Christ 100 millions. Eighteen cen turies after Christ, 174 millions. Eighteen rnd a half centuries after Christ's ascension, 440 m.llions. Of all commentaries upon the Scrip tures, good examples are the best and the liveliest—Dr. Donne. llTe robi lif (Tiviiie ilt’e is faith. The chief branches arc love of God, chari ly to man,purity, and humility. These are ‘he highest perfections that either men or angels are capable of, the very foundation of heaven itiid in the soul. It was 1 lie atmosphere ofElkanali’s and Hannah’s godly house that pro duced a Samuel. It was tho wretched sir of Eli’s house which ruined Hopli ni and Phinehae.—Dr. T. L. Cuvier. Perhaps we first.come to love Christ lor what he lias done; but then we go on to love him tor what ho is, to rc joioo in the ever unfolding sweetness of his perfection. Don’t say, “There is very little Christianity in the worldsay rather “There is very little in me.” When you sav the former, the latter is true. —N. 11. Rcmick. Tlicro is nothing which so much distinguishes Ihß Christian’s religion as its opposition to the passions and in clinations of tinman nature.—Haller. The professed Christian who suc cessfully avoids all real self-sacrifice in such a world as this is successful as well in missing an indispensable mark of true discipleship. Massillion hit it when he said that if tho dogmas did not evolve the du ties of Christianity, there would be few avowed skeptics. This is the difficulty with you. When the man you dislike trips and loses hi* balance, don’t rush forward and give him a push with a view to make hi* fall complete. This is trip ping yonrselt. No pastor can do his work without the sympathy ot his people. Give him yours in such a way as to make him feel it. No injurious effecls can follow the use of Ayer’s Ague Cure in the treat ment of malarial diseases. It contains besides a specific and unfailing anti dote for miasmatic poison, other rem edial agents which unite to expel the poisonous humors, purify the system, and leave it in a healthy and reinvig orated condition. Heart Pain*. Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings Dizziness, [lndigestion, Headache, Sieeplesncss cured by “Wells’ Health Kcnewer.” MARBL EL A. R. ROBERTSON, Athens, Georgia. MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF Granite and Marble Monuments & Tombstones A large lot of finished work on on hand ready for lettering. I will pay half freight on Monuments and Tomb Stones delivered in Washington, Ga 1-lr A. H. 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M, Thomas ) Proprietress This hotel go well known to tho citizens of Wilkes and adjoining counties, is located in the J midst of tho business portion of Augusta. Convenient to Post Office, Telegraph Office and Depot and offers inducements to the phbllc such as only first-class hotels can afford* ■ -6 ft THEODORE MARKWALTER’S MARBLE WORKB2 2BROAD STREET, (NEAR LOWER MARKET) AUGUSTA, GA. MOBIL TOMBSTONES MU MARBLE MIS GENERALLY! always on hand or made to order. A large selection ready for lette andring delivery at short notice. Several hundreds of new designs of The Most Modern Style of Monuments, M* Eclipse Engnes, C. A. jvLEXA-NI^ER. Washington f Ga. NO. 27