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Hr JtlTRA MDONALD.
All in the pleasant summer weather
Under the roues, my heart and I
In the olden way took counsel together;
I laid. '‘Oh. friend in the years gone by,
Jbere were nights of beauty—days of delight—
Snnrue and tuneet— mountain and sea—
Bat the fairest past was never so bright
As this sweet summer to you and me;
There's a golden glory round me—I s em as in a
shiine—
Bead me this beautiful mystery, oh, happy heart of
mine.
I beard in the summer silence, the petals fall from
arree—
I utr in tho sonny distance the gleaming mountain’s
snows.
Softly, slowly, as one that Is dreaming,
My heart made answer unto mo;
“ Panties emile and lilies are gleaming;
Nor vex them witli questioning—why should we ?
Ion shimmering veil of amethyst tender
Is lovely as liriit—hut ’neath it wait
The glacier's cruel, treacherous splendor,
And pitiless chasms dark as fate.
Thank God for the golden glory—the tender radiant
rest—
And under tho summer roses, dream on the sum
mer’s breast.
AU in the pleasant sunshine a shadow chilled the
air—
Ifelt the sweep of a viewless wing as it startled tho
waves of my hair.
And I answered. Far above mo
White clouds floated over the blua;
I murmured, “God comfort all who love me—
For as the cloud drift*, so from you
II my life dri ting.” The olden story
Forever repeated in passion and pain—
Crovded with love—in the noontide glory—
Under the roses, Hope is slain.
Hat tears fell on the pansies blighting thlir purple
bloom—
Its stit.lv, gleaming lilies seemed sculptured on a
tomb „
Then thro' the saddened silence thrilled a strain of
tong.
And soothed by its tender beauty, my soul grew calm
strong.
And I said, “For this summer of marvelous sweet
ness,
I will thank God, oh heart of mine;
For years, with change and incompleteness,
Can never trouble its calm divine.
Tho' my life has beeD weak in its living—
Tho' imperfect all I have done—
Thou, my Heart hast not failed in giving.
And the love of the Father by love is won.
sweeter than life Earth's passionate lore—dear
Heaven’s radiant rest—
From the love of Earth to the love of Heaven, I
drift as the cloud to tho west."
And Peace, like a benediction from tho altar, fell
on mo
Aa aoftly as tbs twilight over the summer sea.
The riegn of tho Summer’s Queen is over—
Faded and fled the lilies white—
mpened the grain and brown the clover,
And the purple pansies—the heart’s delight—
Emile from the yellow grass and mosses,
An sit in my room alone—
so more dietured by hopes or losses—
Scarce regretting the eummer flown—
And wait tbe certain coming of the viewless wing
again.
watch for tho chilly shadow—and plead with
tender pain,
And
That the one who holds me dearest, may learn to
1'iok above,
"ben alone, beneath the roses, ho dreams of the
olden love.
To Julia, Swinging.
nr TOM HOOD.
ffhat gleams of white are those—now swift, now
slow—
Among tho avenue’s cool shadows yonder ?
A cloud of butteiflea, that to and fro
Delight to wander?
A NARROW ESCAPE. myself; for several times over I had seen him deep, heavy sleep, from which there was no fear, I climbed out on the window sill, and
■ Til A PA Tn Gh nw in Viva nrmVnl r.r.^ 1. <1 Tr l* i mom*w—*+*mJ3** *
The interweaving boughs are thick with leaves,
whose screen all closer observation fences;
And every fleeting glimpse and more deceives
My puzzled senses.
I» it some rare bird fluttering through tho trees—
An angel o’er the earth ite bright courso winging—
A merry fay ? 'Tis ail. yet non© of these s
Tis Julia swinging 1
0, ewvet coquette! tho swing’s a fitting typo
Of these coy arts and wanton wiles that won me;
For now you lly to me, in beauty ripe,
And now you shun me.
Ah, why thus torture mo with fleeting charms,
That set my heart tnmultuously boating—
Advancing tbns almost into my arms,
And then retreating ?
l’ou eoem to rash to me—O maddening bliss!
As if to mingle into one onr two souls;
And after all but offer me to kiss
Four tiny shoe-soles.
how, flinging all your beanty at me; now,
Withdrawing it as quickly, you hut fool me;
last as your white rose, fluttering, fans my brow,
But doesn’t cool me.
Of earth am I, alas, and you’ro of sky!
I fell it while you fly so far above me.
When I bo lovely am, and yon’re so high,
How can you love me ?
0®*; after all, where is your need of swinging?
First give me that white rosebud as a relic,
And then renounce the cheat, reveal your wings,
And be angelic.
Girl and Woman.
like blue violets, gleaming gold hair,
rarted red lips and wondering air,
*Meh rounded cheeks and innocent brow
a child to whom grief is a stranger now.
{**1 faded eyos and silvering hair,
“fow markod with many a cross and a care,
thin hands whose labor is nearly done,
emile of happiness lost and won.
S®*e'y they sit as the twilight grows,
i°e opening blossom, the withered rose;
p' e ‘>'. for which shall I pity find—
er ufe all to come, or hers left behind ?
Tax following is vonched for as a boy’s com
position : The Horse.—The horse is the most
“* ef ul animal in the World. So is the-Oow. I
had thirteen Ducks and two was drakes
aa a Skunk killed One. he smeltd OrfuL I
a Boy which had 1 chickens but his fath-
*uuld no t i e t him rais Them and so he got
w *\and so he boared a Hole in his mothers
11; tQb ' ® ar 8ftviour rode on * Ass. I wish
M s horse, a horse weighs 1000 pounds.
What a perfect model of a young man that
ono mnst bo who can say with truth, “I have
never done a foolish thing!” I feel no fear of
having my word doubted when Isay that in my
time I have done a good many, ono of which
nearly resulted in my being prevented from
ever relating the following story.
Paris, as Albert Smith used to say, is a “rath
er jolly place—rathefr funny,” but it has its se
rious side. There are the grand Hues and ma
jestic Boulevards; but there are also tho wretch
ed al'eys and *culs*de-8ac;’ the noble palaces,
and the ruinous crowded honse s, each a perfect
warren; the acts in the sunshine of bread day,
and the deeds of darkness.
“Take care of j ourself,-’ was the last laugh
ing address of my friends, as I took my ticket
at London Bridge Station—an address as laugh,
ingly replied to; and that same evening, with a
companion, I was strolling down the Boulevard
des Italiens, smoking a cigar, and enjoying the
novel sights around; the newsvendor's kiosk;
the tall, white stone houses, with their bright
Venetian shutters; the handsome shops, with
their costly contents; the gay throng of promen-
aders; the numberless little marble-topped ta
bles ; and the cool way in which people sat out
of doors to sip ‘cafe noir, eau saucree,' or ‘vin
do Bordeaux.’ Here was a couple playing dom
inoes; there a quartette, evidently tradesfolk,
with a moderator-lamp seated at a table outside
their shop door, happily engaged at a French
version of short whist. Now tho pointed-mous-
tachod-tighhcoated, cocked-halted *6ergent-de-
ville,” with his long thin sword, would take
one’s attention; now one of the manly shabby-
uniformed, bnt active, cat-like sunbrowned sol
diers, one and all carrying their arms Then
tbe white cap of a bister of Mercy, or the starch
plaits of a ‘bonne,” would diversify tbe throng.
Everywhere there was something new to take
the attention, while not the least evident was
the love of our neighbors for display, a3 shown
in gilded railings, bright hnes, and, above all,
in flowers clustering round so many windows.
No gas-flaming, heavy-looking pnblio houses
here, but elegant marble and velvet furnished
cafes, resplendent with mirror, white and gold,
and overlooked by a presiding deity in the shape
of a ‘damo de comptoir,’ throned amidst fruit,
flowers and wine, coffee urns and confection
ery, herself a very model of the latest Paris
fashion.
I slept that night in a confusion of ideas,
strangest of which was a belief that Paris was a
sort of fairy land, where all was perfect; and
I wooke the next morning to a capital hotel
breakfast of long bread, ‘cafe-au-lait, tetris
frais,’ and a string band, recalling borne, out
side tbe window, with the strains of the “Lan
cers’ Quadrilles ” Then came a round of sight
seeing-cathedral, church, picture gallery,
bridge, fountain, palace, opera, theatre and re
view. We lunched and dined ‘a la Francaise.'
and pretended to like the French pots go and
their wines. We played billiards at tbe ‘cafes,’
smoked bad cigars, made ourselves ill, tired our
selves out, and all tho while avowed that wo
were in the very height of enjoyment.
At the end of a fortnight, Paris did not seem
half so bright a place; and, certainly, no bet
ter than London. One day I spent upon tbe
sofa reading the Times and Galignnni; and
that same evening my companion actually hint
ed at it being almost time to thmk of going
back home. But at the ‘table d’boto’ we en
countered a youDg fellow-countryman who put
ns through a sort of catechism upon onr saying
that we were about tired of the place, ending bv
telling ns that we had seen nothing yet. and
prorui.-ingto initate us into a little more Paris
ian life and manners.
We assented to his acting ns guide; and he
certainly did initiate ns—or rather give ns a les
son—in Parisian life and manners—one which
proved qnite sufficient to satisfy me; and two
days after, I was congratulating myself npon
being safely et home.
It was about 10 o’clock at night that, after
spending an hour or two amid the ‘cafe chat-
ants’ in the Champs Elysees, onr new friend
led ns np and down several streets, till he pans
ed at what seemed to be a private house.
“Yon ought not to go back,” he said, “with
out seeing a gambling honse.”
“Oh 1 I don’t know,” I said, hesitating; “I
don’t much care for that."
You need not either of you play,” was the
reply, “we’ll just go in for half an hour, and
then have a look at something else.”
And then we entered a well lit passage, a door
closed behind ns, shutting us in like flies in a
trap, and a well-dressed waiter ushered us into
a brilliantly lighted saloon, wherein were col
lected some twenty well-dressed men, seated
and standing round a centre-table covered with
a green cloth, while another waiter handed
round coffee, ices and champagne.
“Don’t refuse the refreshments,” whispered
our guide" “It will look strange. They are all
free—found by the proprietor, who recoups
himself out of his visitor’s losses.”
I nodded and partook of some champagne, as
did my companions; when, eager to see all that
was going on, we walked up to the rouge-et-noire
table, and looked on.
The stakes were not very high, becauso it was
so eariy in the evening, so onr guide said; men
winning and losing various small sums with the
utmost nonchalance. In effect the game seemed
then tame and uninteresting, and thoroughly
wanting iu that excitement of which I had so
often read. There were half cries of croupier
and tailleur, and tbe faint click and chink of
franc and fivo-franc pieces as they were raked
together; but there were no fierce aspects^ no
knit brows, or sweat-bedewed foreheads; all was
calm and gentlemanly; and I was wondering
how long it would be ere my companions were
place money in his pocket, and heliad, besides,
a goodly heap on the table before him.
At last I grew as deeply intent npon the game
as was Rivers himself, and watched each ven-
fnrfl -frvr r/cnlf nn - A— *
ready to go, when our new friend took a five
franc piece out of his pocket, staked it and saw
it melt away. Another shared its fate, and an
other, and another.
“Always my luck!” he said, coolly, as he
turned to mo. “Lost a louis! that’s as far as I
shall go. Ah! the disease has proved infec
tious ; I see your friend has taken it.”
I turned, with surprise, at his words; fori
bad not missed my old school-fellow. Rivers—a
quiet, steady, thoughtful man, whom I should
have thought the last to have staked a shilling
at a gam9 of chance; but, sure enough, there
he was, placing his money first on one color,
then on the other; and as I drew near to his
elbow, it seemed always changing at the right
time; for be invariably won.
If I had before found the proceedings tame,
they were now most exciting; the game seemed
entirely different since my friend had com
menced playing, and I watched each stake, and
listened to each cry of “Bongo,” or “Noir,”
with an eagerness that 1 canid only have pitied
in another.
It almost seemed A3 though my friend’s suc
cess had been the signal for an increasing thirst
for tbe game, for the stakes gradually grew
higher; gold began to mako its appearance,
bright and yellow, among the silver, men who
had been smoking, drinking and chattering
about the room drew, as I had done, nearer -to
the table, to watoh tho proceeding?; the mur-
awaking him. ~ j looked upwards.
What could I do ? What did it mean—Rivers j I was on the top floor, but the parapet was
being so fast asleep ? Had he been plied with , r.bove my reach, unless—yes—the Venetian
.wine? or was it possible that he could have shutters—each a very ladder—every tliiu bar a
ture for the result with sn excitement only to . been dragged? • step to climb to safety, if
be explained by tho engrossing nature of tho j I half laughed at what seemed to be the ab- Yes—if they would bear my weight.
P* a Y- j surdity of the thought, full of romance &3 it ap. j I shuddered as at that moment I seemed to
For qnite an hour my friend went on winning, | pearedj but the next momenta cold chill ran see the shutter torn from its kinge3, and with
men ceasing their own ventures to watch those | through me as I recalled the words of our friend , me elinging to it, falling—falling with a fearful
of their more fortunate competitor.; and now|who had brought us there, “I don’t consider ; crash to the pavement beneath, and men gath-
this the safest of places!” j ering round to gaze upon the sickening specta-
Wbat should I do—run all risk and go, or ; cle.
ran all risk and stay ? The danger seemed equal j But it was my only chance for safety; and up
on either hand; while how conld I go and leave on the roof I might travel on and on, and elude
my companion in the hands of these people ? I my pursuers, if they could reach my refuge by
cursed the folly that had brought mo to such a j any other way; for I felt assured that they
place; for what, after all, were my winnings as [ would not attempt it by my route. But would
compared with life ? How could I tell what - the shutter bear this weight ?
would be my fate befere morning, unarmed in I I tried one with my left hand, and it shook
a strange house, in a strange city, and sur- j ominously. I Btepped quickly to the other and
rounded by people who knew me to be in pos- • tried it. Firmer, certainly; but what a frail
session of a heavy sum of money ? It was im- road to safety! Would it not be better to stop
possible to help a shudder coursing through my and encounter my enemies, who were nowin the
veins as I recalled the Frenchman’s sinister | room ?
t words regarding temptation. What if it tempt- ! It seemed the lesser evil to trust to my activ-
bnzz as of hungry flies for a few minutes,"and' ed him ?—the man of whom I felt an instinct- ! ity to reach the roof; and softly placing one
then the gaming recommenced; but I followed ive and 0Q e evidently in some way con- foot upon the woodwork, I reached the top of
■P— - ■- • — - - . - **— *■ the shutter, and drew myself up from the win
dow sill, just as a man leaned out and uttered
an exclamation of horror. But I could not look
down at him, nor heed his warning cry to de
scend, for all my weight was now upon the
it was that I covld see greed, avarice, cunning,
a host of evil passiors, flashing from the eyes
around, as River’s heap of. money grew larger
and larger. ^ ?
The tide of Bln success turned at last, and
os I watched him, I saw his brow knit tighter
and tighter, as with inconceivable rapidity his
pile of money melted away, almost without a
single renovating ‘coup’. Then first one pocket
to was opplied and then another, till with a
laugh full of disappointment and annoyance, he
turned from the table, walked np to the buffet,
and tossed down a tumbler of wine.
It required almost an effort to tear myself
away from the table, where there was an excited
Rivers to the buffet, where he was thoughtfully
standing.
“Ought to have left off sooner, eh?” he said;
“or else not hare begun,” he muttered. “But
where are you going ?'*
“Only back to the table for a little while, I
said.”
“No, no; let’sbe off now. I’m sick of this!”
“I stayed all this while for yonr pleasure,” I sum
replied: “I think you*night stay a little while
for mine.”
“Ican’t stand it,” said Rivers; “and lam
cleaned out.” . .
“What?” I exclaimed. “You have not lost
any of yonr own money ?”
“Every franc,” he said bitterly; “and so will
yon, if yon go near that cursed table.”
I hesitated for a few moments, but the temp
tation was too strong; and probably seing that
hesitation, a waiter approached and offered me
some wine. I could keep back no longor; the
low talking at tho tables seemed like whispers
calling me to go and sweep np a glittering pile
of money. Mammon himself summoned me to
his worship, and feeling certain that I saw fail
ings in my companion’s method of play, I walk
ed up to the tuble, threw down a five-franc
piece and saw it raked away.
I threw another upon the cloth, and that also
was swept away.
In a sort of intoxication, brought on by the
excitement, I staked two pieces this time, and
they also disappeared. Half a napoleon shared
their fate; then a napoleon; when Rivers
caught me by the arm it being his turn now to
play the part of mentor and to whisper me to
come away.
‘•Monsieur can play for himself, sir. Why
do you interfere?” said a swarthy individual
with a short black beard, and very close-cut
hair.
“I’ll come soon,” I said angrily. “I can do
no worse than you have done.”
Rivers shrugged his shoulders, and turned
away to take another glass of champago from
a waiter, when the fierce looking Frenchman
whispered to me, “Flay high, Monsieur; you
are more likely to have ‘la bonheur.’ The fickle
goddess likes not bumble offerings.”
Turning impatiently from my would-be-
counsellor, whom I set down as belonging to
nected with tho establishment, for while the
others had gone, he still lingered behind.
“Would Monsieur like a bed here ?” said the
croupier, smiling as he advanced, bowing and
rubbing his hands.
“Yes,” said the swarthy Frenchman, smiling | shutter, supported by its hinges and the holder
in reply; “Monsieur thinks it unsafe to pass I which kept it baok against the stone wall. I
t ^.‘11 1 falf «» . 1 L
through the streets by night with so large a
sum; and of course Monsieur would not like
to leave it till morning in our care. Ah l no;
Monsieur will stay all night, as will his friend.
Is it not so ?”
I hesitated for a moment, and then my deci
sion was taken. I would stay; for I should be
as safe, I thought, in a room to myself, os being
dogged through tho dark streets, ot whose
courso I was almost ignorant. And besides, I
was young and strong, and could remain on my
guard for the rest of the night. It would not
be so very long now till morning.
“Yes,” I said, with an effort, for my mouth
felt hot and dry, and a lump seemed to rise in
my throat; “get me a room ready, and help my
friend to it.”
felt it giving way beneath me; but taking an
other step I threw up one hand, as with a spas
modic effort I drew up my body in what I knew
to be my last struggle for life; and that hand
rested npon the parapet; the next instant my
other hand was by its side; my feet aided me
again for an instant, and then, with a sharp
craok, the shutter gave way, hnng to my feet
for a few minutes, when, as I kicked them free
and clung there, I heard it fall, after what
seemed a lifetime of horror, upon the pavement
below.
The effect of that crash below was almost
sufficient to make me relax my hold, so strange
ly did it jar upon my nerves; bat my fingers
seemed to grow, as it were, into the stone, and
I hung at the full stretch of my muscles, mo-
“Bnt we havo no double rooms, Monsieur,” i tionless for a few moments, when, forcing my-
said the swarthy Frenchman; “yonr friend shall; self by pure mental effort to think of my duty
have a room to himself, and he will be well by
morning; he would take rather too much cham
pagne. But it is light, and will soon pass off.
Here, Jean, Francois, assist this gentleman to
the blue room; give Monsieur, here, the yellow
chamber. Bat Monsieur will not retire yet?
He would like a slight refreshment ? is it not
so?”
I made no opposition to our being separated,
for I could not, after all, think that anything
wrong would befall Rivets, penniless and with
out jewelry as he was; but I steadily refused to
partake of any repast, dreading that I might be
inveigled into taking something more potent
than wine—such a draaught, in fact, as I felt
sore must have been given to my friend and
asking for a chamber candlestick, I myself su
perintended the removal of Rivers to a bed
to fight to the last, I began to draw myself up,
rising slowly till my chin was upon the parapet
edge, but with the weight of the money seem
ing to drag me down; then one hand was readi
ed forward, to get a better hold, the other fol
lowed, and I hardly knew how, but in a battle
of mind, muscle and weight, I straggled up,
my feet just lending a slight aid as they found
a crevice between the stone courses, and then I
was lying panting in the gutter, feeling that I
had used every atom of vital power in the ef
forts of those few minutes.
Fortunately for me, there conld have been no
moans of exit by trap or door on to the roof;
and after lying where I was for a few minutes,
I crawled along for some distance, going foot
by foot cautiously, for fear of falling; and then,
once more completely exhausted, I lay, that I
chamber before seeking my own, one far np on j should have been at the mercy of a child,
the fourth floor. Daylight, found me by an unfastened trap,
The swarthy Frenchman, who now made no j through which 1 dare not descend; but I sat by
scruple about leiting it he seen that he was : it till the noise from the street told that Paris
about to pass the night there himself, bade me j was wakening into life once more, when, to my
farewell iu the must impressive manner, ap- ! great relief, I wa3 able to attract the notice of
plauding in a whisper my resolve, which he de- j a woman servant, who terribly frightened at
lated to be “ bien ssge,” and then I closed the | first, was pacified byja Napoleon, and consented
to lead me down stairs to tbe front door ; but
B i ° | lareu to oc
■y* proprietary,,1 again threw down aNajpoleon I door,cand'ein hand, with a healingheart, alone. I I .
and lost- Another another another. _ In five i j conld hear the heavy throb of my heart as ! not without fear and trembling, in spite of my
mmnte31 bad come down to my last coin, and! jt seemed to force the blood tbrongh my veins assurance that I was no burglar.
inn. TC ith a power that made them thrill; and it was A “s-—* u “‘-’ — 3
in vain that I told myself that it was from tho
ascent. Such flattering unction could not he
received, and I was fain to confess that, trem
bling and anxious—nay in deadly fear—I was
I stood for a few minutes thoughtful and pon
dering. Should I let that go with the others or
not? Why should I refrain? I asked myself
bitterly; my folly conld be no greater; and,
almost passionately, I threw it down, half turn
ing, at the same time, to leave the table, and
hurry from tbe house.
“ Won, by Jove!” a voice whispered in my
ear, and I was once more in fnnds to carry on
the warfare or to leave, whichever I liked. I
was about to pnrsue the latter conrse, when a
half contemptuous glance from the Frenchman’s
eye tamed mo back, and I staked again and
again; doubled my stake, and won again; again
doubled atjd won; so -that, in the conrse of a
few minutes, I bad piled np a goodly heap of
five-franc pieces before me.
“Give this gentleman some wine,” the French
man said, in a low tone, to a waiter, and a glass
was banded to me, bat, impatiently motioning
the man aside, I plunged, as it were, into the
overpowering excitement of the play, winning
constantly, and with a feeling as of some wild
fever thrilling tbrongh my veins.
Twice over I believe that Rivers eagerly beg
ged of me to leave, bat I refused, and played
on, although at the time there was a strange de
sire upon me to leave off and carry away my
ill-gotten gains. Every stake I laid down was
successful, and in a short time I found that the
greater part of the occupants of the room were
now watching my success with as much eager
ness as they had previously gazed upon my
companion.
Once I stopped as if to take breath, and in
the brief moments which ensued I seemed to
look upon the probable result—the glittering
heap gradually melting away, and taking with
it my last shilling; and yet I conld not restrain
myself, but played on again still winning, with
an insatiate thirst for more of the wild excite
ment ever growing npon me.
Still I won; till trembling for my gains, I
began to thrust the coins into different pockets,
lessening the heap as much as I conld before
A “fiacre” bore me to my hotel; and npon
reaching my room, to my great snrprise, I was
followed thereby Rivers, pale and ill, and con
fused of intellect. He found himself, he told
me, on the Font Neuf, and had been wandering
wondering whether I should see the morning ! abont for honrs till the hotel had been opened,
light- | As to how he came there, all was blank; his
How I cursed my weakness again and again ■ last recollection was seeing me at the table in
for coming, and then for stooping to the indnl- ! the gambling honse, and then his going and
gence of a weak, mad, insatiate passion 1 Why, drinking at tho buffet from a glass handed to
after all, had I stayed? Rivers wonld have been hi m by the obsequious Frenchman,
qnite as safe without me. I was too ill to relate my own adventure, and
Bnt that was no time for childish murmuring j the next morning, when, somewhat better, I
against my folly. I was in a sore strait, if my j was seated with my friend at breakfast, he told
fancy had not been magnifying the danger; and, : mo that his head was still confused, as if from
rousing myself to the emergenoy, I proceeded j some opiate; while in the course of conversa-
to examine the room before securing the door, tion it came ont that our guide to Faria life had
Tne task was soon performed. I had but to
1 jok under tbe bed and my examination was
nearly at an end. No cupboards—no place
whore an enemy could be concealed—no second
left by the early train that morning.
And now what were we to do ? To place onr
case in the hands of the police, or to make our
means of egress.
I I went to the window and threw it open to
look down npon a long, dark, deserted street at
an immense distance below me; and I shudder
ed as I thought of the consequence of a fall.
There were tho usual Venetian shutters on
either 6ide, fastened back, and a light appeared
here and there in some of the houses opposite,
while above my bead the stars peered down
from the soft summer night’s sky.
Leaving tho window partly open to admit the
cool, gentle breeze, I now turned my attention
to the door, to find that there wa3 a lock bnt no
key. Thero was, however, a large bolt at the
top of the door, which I slipped easily into its
way hence to London, the richer by nearly two
thousand pounds? For my part, I felt nervous
and unsafe; and finding my friend willing, af
ter packing my spoil in a little valise, fearing
to place it in the hands of a banker, though al
most afraid of the money itself, we started for
the railway station, glad to be on the way
homeward
There was a little crowding during the get
ting of tickets, and for a moment I, my friend
and our luggage were separated. When we met
again the valise was gone.
Once more there arose the question, should
we refer onr ease to the police, or hnrry home ?
Perhaps we were wise, perhaps foolish. Judge
you who read. We felt strange, unnerved, and
Foreign Notes.
PBEPXBED POB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
Dispatches from various parts of France seem
to indicate that the Paris government is grow
ing unpopular. There have been anti-govern
mental demonstrations in Marseilles, and in
surrectionary movements in Lyons are said to
have been suppressed by the forco of arms.
The Red Republicans oonsider the policy of the
authorities to be too timid, while the more delib
erate classes, the boorgeoise especially, blamethe
government for not putting a stop to the ex
treme tendencies of the ultra party. We ven
ture to assert that with the masses of the
French people the Republic has never been very
popular. . The workingmen in the large cities
will expect from a Republican government a
remedy of all evils resulting from poverty.
Hence their ideas of a Republic are rattier con
fused and strongly tinged with socialistic prin
ciples. Division of the soil, the doctrine that ev
ery Frenchman is entitled to receive an amount
of wages in proportion to his wants, and simi
lar wild, dreamy schemes, have always been the
characteristic features of all French Republican
movements. The well-to-do classes, being nec
essarily opposed to such 'principles, this ques
tion has ever divided France iato two hostile
camps. The first and second Republic has
proved a failure; the third, after a brief, ephe
meral existenoe, will be recorded by history as
only another vain attempt of self-government
in France.
The correspondent of the Boston Post has
furnished an elaborate account, stating that the
German Uhlans were not regular soldiers, but
enlisted only in times of war to live, like hyenas,
on spoils and plunder. Either that gentleman
is lamentably ignorant or he does not shrink
from manufacturing base falsehoods, calculated
to fill the whole civilized world with a deep
prejudice against the German race. There are
no irregular troops in the German armies. The
Uhlans are as regular soldiers as the infantry
or artillery. The Prussian horsemen are divid
ed into light and heavy cavalry, the dragoons
and hussars belonging to the former, the Uhlans
and cuirassiers to tho latter branch.
There is a state of anarchy prevailing in
France. In the departments occnpied by the
invaders, the French authorities have been in
vited to retain their offices trader the superin
tendence of the Germans. The greater part,
however, have declined to do so, from fear of
any evil consequences in the future, after the
departure of the hostile armies.
The tribunal in Nancy, not knowing in whose
name to pronounce sentence, has even stopped
its sittings for eivil cases. Napoleon being a
prisoner of war, the Court declined to pass
judgment “Aw nom de VEmpereur." The
form li Aunom delaBcpuhlique Francaise’’ was
objected to by the Governor-General of Lor
raine, Prussia not having recognized yet the
French Republic. “Aw nom du peuple Fran-
eais,” suggested by the President of the Court,
did, on the other hand, not find favor with the
Prussian authorities which proposed the phrase
“Aw nom de la loi.” The Court having re
jected this expression again, Thetis, the stern
goddess, is slumbering now, and evil-disposed
debtors are safe from the clutches.of the law.
Many German, papers are of opinion that the
mails>. which are said to arrive by balloon in
Tours from Paris, are ' merely a feint of the
French to cover existing underground commu
nications between both cities. They argue that
on account of the winds, prevailing for the last
few weeks, all balloons would fid! into the
hands of the Germans. Those captured and
filled with pretended brilliant private descrip
tions of the state of Paris should impress the
enemy with the. indomitable energy of the Cap
ital. This latter correspondence is also believed
to be composed of bogus letters.
As we had predicted, the Russian Govern
ment has made a demand that the Paris treaty
of peace of 1855 should be revised, viz: that
the restrictions imposed npon Rnssia in the
Black Sea shonld be annulled. We wonder
what course England, which is chiefly concern
ed in this business, is going to pnrsue.
Raspail, the French Republican deputy, has
made a stirring speech to his constituents, call
ing upon them “to chase those hordes of bar
barians from the sacred soil of France.” “Let
,us rise en masse,” he said,- “against these men
of blood; would that the lost vestige of such a
race and the trace of all kings be gone before
I die; they are all formed of the same clay.
Death to royalty—contempt anji pity npon the
kings! Old men, women and children, let ns
march by the side of onr brave soldiers; we
can die only once, but never more honorably.”
The war has worked a revolution in the em
pire of fashion, and Paris has ceased to holdun-.
disputed sway over both hemispheres.
In Germany, at least, a desirable reaction has
set in to emancipate one’s self from “Les modes
de Paris,” whioh, with contemptible servility
have been adopted everywhere, no matter how
ludicrous sometimes they used to he. In Ber
lin the respeotable part of the female popula-
Premlanu Awarded st the Third Aa-
riual Fair of tlie Putnam County
Fair Company.
Field Crops.—No entries were made in Add
crops.
Sample or Field Crops.—Best bushel of oom
on cob, A. Baynes, $3; best buthel wheat, D. H.
Rfiid. Sr. SsLl* Kosl hnoKal nafa John T T\nnn
staple; aud then, as quickly as I could, moving that even our lives were unsafe, and wa gladly
it only a few iuchts at a time, I contrived to. | drew breath once more at- home, both feeling,
place the bead of ibe bed 8gainst tbo door, and that with such nuscrapulous and watohfull ene-
then sat down, panting, to think. !\ mie3 on the “que vive” our best plan was to be
I wanted to take out the money and to tie it content.and thankful for a narrow escape.
all up together—silver, gold and “billets de ! 1 ■— ■
banque”—in.rny handkerchief, so that if the , The California Steam Plow on Trial,
worst came to the worst, I might throw it from : [From the Cincinnati Commercial, 21 »t ]
the window; for 1 was determined that itshonld On arrival .of the special train, about two
stakirg the largest snm that had yet been npon not go to those who I felt sure intended to at- ' o’clock, the machine which had already been
the table that evening. tack me. No; they i-honld nothaveit, I thought, fired up and steam started, was at once pnt to
I placed it upon the red, and it seemed as j for I would throw it through the open window, j a test in the tough sod of the fair ground,
if the result woould never be known. In effect,
there was qnite a pause, then came the an
nouncement ‘Rogue gagne !’ in calm, impass
ive tones; and again I swept np the money, be
fore a score of covetous lookers-on.
But this once 1” I muttered to myself, pre
paring to stake the whole of my IaBt gains, when,
'n a quiet manner, as if there were nothing at
all in the announcement, the proprietor in
formed the company that the play was at an end
for that evening.
“ Monsieur has broken the bank,” said a soft
voice at my ear, and, turning, there ttood the I
swarthy Frenchman.
But no; I dared not take it from my pockets; i which has been paoked and tramped for years
the clinking would perhaps be heard, and if my by the thousands of equine, bovine and human
fears were baseless, wonld, after all, excite the feet The grass was matted and close, and
enpidity of some ono in the honse. good judges asserted that the best two-horse
„ Of conrse I did not undress, bnt sat for & team and plow in tho country would not be
long while debating as to whether I shonld pnt capable of breaking it up, yet this machine, run
ont my candle—a point decided by the short by steam, made rapid headway, with a gauge of
piece burning ont, so that soon I sat npon the six feet, and provided with three arms of cut-
edge of the bed iu utter darkness, listening at- ters containing twelve knives about eight feet
tentively to evory sound, and seeing, in my long. These arms made rapid revolutions, tore
imagination, the swarthy Frenchman, stiletto np the sod in the most wonderful manner, and
armed, slowly ascending the stairs. pulverized the soil as fine as the best harrow.
I had no difficulty in keeping awake, for my The plow went over part oLthe ground twioe.
i nerves were strained to their greatest tension and in the seoond round a Buckeye grain drill
IL | with the excitement, and a cold damp collected was attached, and drilled oats, covering the
I started from this man as if I had been upon my forehead and in the palms of my hands, grain finely, and to the satisfaction of the spec-
stnng; and hastily gathering up my treasure— ! as at last, after several false alarms, I heard a tators. The ground was pulverized so finely,
so much that my pockets conld hardly hold it faint breathing noise apparently just outside tho even in the tough sod, that the drill followed
—I turned my attention towards leaving the , door. with the greatest ease and distributed the grain
place, already half emptied of its occupants, i Rising softly, and with my heart beating at- without choking.
Bnt my eyes first sought for Rivers, who, to my most to suffocation, I stole to th.9 window, and The rate of speed that the plow attained with
great surprise,I saw lolling back nponafautenil, stood once more listening, as there came a faint Ihree arms of cutters, in a gauge of six feet, on
evidently half asleep. gliding, grating noist; and though I could see the first round, was about two feet per seoond,
“Monsieur, yonr friend is tired,” said tbe nothing, I felt that ono of the panels of the door or one hundred and twenty feet per minute.
Frenchman, who seemed determined to force was so contrived that it would slide hook, and I In a gauge of ten feet, with all ths cutters (five)
upon me his society. “The salle has been hot, seemed to bo gazing the next moment npon a in use, 2.15 acres can- be cut in one hour. The
and disappointment wearied his brain. Mon- hand thrust through, to.be laid upon the bolt. test yesterday was of a six-foot gauge, cutting
sieur wonld do well to rest too.” | The darkness was intense, bnt I was, I felt, from fonr to six inches deep, and the machine
“In my country, sir,” I said, turning npon right, for there came the gratiDg of the iron, tore np and pulverized at the rate of 1.29 acres
titvn sharply, and not, I am afraid, speaking in and the bolt was softly shot back from the staple, inan hour. The plow is said to be capable of
very pure French, “we only take advice from ' and the door pressed inward, against the bed- doing the work of ten ordinary plows, and phi
onr friends.” _ _ : stead.
“Precisement,” he said with a smile, and a J What could I do ? That I should be mur-
shrug of his shoulders; “it is a friend I offer dered if I stayed there nnarmed, I felt assured,
verizing the soil like a harrow as it tears it up.
mur of conversation oeas-id, and°play seemed! you my advice.” j and even if I conld elude my assailant in the
now fully the order of the night. He pushed his face close to mine, as her spoke . dark it would be only for a few minutes, for I
We had been in the ffamblint? house now auife : now in a whisper. must be hunted down at last. There was no
Peace Negotiations.
London, October 18.—The Queen has been
advised by representatives from tbe Prussian
court to take an active part in urging her min-
an hour and a^Mf^whon^atter^hnp^iently i “The hour w late, the streets are unsafe, escape, I told myself, -and as the bedstead iater to make an_effort in securing a treaty of
hinting several times that it was quite time to Twenty men desperate with their losses, have creaked with the pressure against it, I knew ****
bo gone, onr friend who had brought ns there, ' seen yon win—win ‘ma ftL as I never saw _ that it must, in a few minutes at most, give Grown Princess of Prussia has addressed
-Rt’cci-a from fViA laliln savins'. “Yon have • Dlaver win before. It woulf ’ ' *H
drew Rivers from tbe table, saying, “You h»ve player win before. It wonld be temptation— J wa y sufficiently for a man to pass in, end then
won enough now—take my advice and come throwing temptation in their way—putting ideas would come the struggle for life.
away;”.but Rivers only shook him off with a
half laugh, and returned to the table, after hasti
ly swallowing a glass of champagne.
Meanwhile oar. guide to the mysteries of
Paris turned to s&6.
“You had better bring him away now,” he
said ; “perhaps you have more influenoe over
him. I don’t consider this the safest of plaoes.”
Feeling uneasy, I turned to Rivers and whis
pered to him that it was time to go, bnt only to
get for an answer an impatient shrug. Our
friend stayed some little time longer, and then,
nnperoeived by me, he left the room, for the
feeling of interest in my friend Rivers pray
had now grown most intense, since he was still
winning, and it was -as muoh as I eoold do t
keep from placing a small stake npon tbe tab
in men’s minds, when they would otherwise go
quietly home. Is this just, Monsieur; are
mine the words of friend or enemy? Take my
advice, if it seem a friend’, and stay here; if it
seems an enemy’s rouse your comrade, and go
inpeaoe.”
He tapped my breast with his fingers, whioh
flame in contact with the napoleons in my pock
et, and smiled meaningly, but with a leer in his
eyes which troubled me, and made me torn un
easily to look at Rivers.
Crossing to him, I shook his arm, but only
obtained a few unintelligible mutterings, though
I earnestly besought him to wake up. His arm
dropped nerveless to bis side, his head sank
lower upon bis bosom, and breathing stertori-
onsly the while, he seemed to be plunged in a
Orown Princess of Prussia has addressed a letter
to her mother on the subject of the war, which
moved the Queen to insist on an interview with
A suffocating groan forced itself from my Earl GranvUle and Gladstone on Saturday Ac-
breast, and a g?eat trembling seized upon m4 «<» *«“« **“»£• Pr ^ an Minister atBras-
bnt even then I did not think to offer themoney eels sent a<irepstch yesterday to Count Beras-
as a ransom for my liberty, bnt hurried from torff, ^hich led him to request an raterriew to-
oue end of the room to the other in search of a Foreign Minister. Similar
way to escape. Then I stopped short, for there requests were ad^essed to Granville by the
was a whispering outride, and a thought had representatives ofFrane^Anstria, Rusria, Bel-
oocuraed tome. Could I escape by the window ? gram and Holland. In «»poMe to these caUs,
Four stories high, and the cruel stones be- Granville to-day saw all tfie towip ministers
neath' enumerated. It was understood to-night that
But the bed-clothes—could I knot them to- tbe French, Spanish and Dutch Minister, had
aether and slide down ? “protesting against any charge In the
A moment’s reflection told me that the idea exieitirxg t«ratorinl arrangements of Prance, Hol-
was madn«*«; and I leaned ont, to listen if land and Belghun.—Special Jr. Y, World.
there was any one below to whom I might ap- A Milwaukee youth has gone into poetry
peal for help: but all was sfill, and.my .tongue since his failure. His failure was in trying to
seemed to refuse its office. Almost mad with make a fall hand beat four sevens.
Reid, Sr. $3; best bushel oats, John T. Dennis,
$3; best bushel field peas, D. A. Weaver, $3;
best bushel Irish potau^a, Wa little, $3; beet
sweet potatoes, T. M. Collin a worth, $3; best
bale of hay. \V. T. Young, $5.
Flour, Meal and Bacon.—Best Georgia raised
Hams, W. F. Little, $5; best cake soap, Mn. W.
F. Little, $2; best bushel meal, W. F. Beall, #5;
best yoke oxen, A. S. Reid, Jr., $10; best milch
cow, A. S. Reid, Jr., $10; seoond beat oow
calf, A. S. Reid, Jr., $5; best heifer, A. 8. Retd, *
Jr., $10; best bull, J. H. Bullard, $10; second
best bull, A. S. Reid, Jr., $5. y
Sheep and Swine. - best ram, W. C. Ander
son, $5; best boar, T. H. Word, $5; best oow
and pigs, W. O. Anderson, $5: best lot pork
hogs, S. B. Marshall, $5.
Poultry.—best Turkeys, Wesley Hawkins,
$2; best pair chickens, Miss Ann Reid, $3.
Dairy.—Best lot of Butter, Mrs. F. L. Wal
ton, $2. . . -.
Household Department.—Best light bread,
Mrs. A. S. Reid, Jr., $2; best light rolls, Mrs.
W. T. Young, $2; best crackers, Mrs. H. A.
Wynn, $2; best plain cake, Mrs. F. Leverette, ”
$2 ; best sponge cake, Mrs. A. 8. Reid, Jr., $3.
- The Committee desire to make honorable
mention of light rolls, made in the form of *
heart, made and baked by Miss Mary L. Adams,
not yet fifteen years of age.
Best specimen jam, Miss Ann Reid, $2; bwt
Specimen jelly, Mrs. Mollie' Soott, $2; beat
canned peaches, Mrs. K. D. Little, $3; best lot
canned fruit, Mrs. S. O. Pruden, $3 ; best pM
served fruit, J. A. Etheridge. Jr., $3; best en
cumber pickle, J. A. Etheridge, Jr., $2; beet
mixed pickles, Mrs. W. T. Young, $2; best
cabbage pickles, Jas. A. Etheridge, Jr., $3;
largest variety of pickles, Jas. A. Etheridge,
Jr., $2 ; best catsup, Miss M. Cogbum, $2;
best souppernong wins, Mrs. Christine LitUe,
$2; best blackberry wine, Mrs. S. M. Morton,
$2; best cordial, G. Leikens, Baldwin, $2; best
sewing machine work, D. B. Woodruff, Agent
for Weed sewiiig machines, $2; fce-t five yards
of homespun, Mrs. B. F. Hubert, $2; best pair
stockings, Mrs. B. F. Hubert, $2; best worsted
quilt, Mrs. B. F. Hubert, $2; best cotton quilt,
Mrs. Mollie Soott, $2. - -
A worsted hearth rug, sent in by Mrs. M. E.
Geary, of M-icra, is spoken of in the highest
terms of commendation. ->» '•"* '
Best cotton embroidery on linen, Miss Emms
Scott, $3; best linen embroidery, Mrs E,
Thomas, $2; best silk embroidery, Miss Emma
DeJarnette, $2;-best cotton embroidery,- Mrs.
A. S. Reid, Jr., $2; brut worsted embroidery,
Miss. M. Cogbum, $2 ; largest Contribution to
the Domeatio and Household Departments by
one person—eight entries. .:-r.J7
Vegetables and Fruit.—Miss M. Cogbum,
$ 10; best lot vegetables, Dr. Habersham, $ S’;
best lot cabbages, Mrs. T. M. Collinsworth,
$ 3; best barrel apples, K. D. Little^f 3! ' tg;
Ornamental.—Best artificial flowers, Miss
M. Cogbum, $ 2 ; best wax work, Mrs. J. D.
Champion, $ 2; best and handsomest bouquet,
Mias Ann Reid, $ 2.
Manufactures—Best single set buggy har
ness, G. Bernd & Brother, Macon, Georgia^
$ 5; best double set buggy harness, B. Rioe
$ 5; best donble.set wagon harness, G. Bernd
& Brother, Macon, Ga , $ 5 ; best plantation
wagon, S. O. Talmage, Monti cello, Ga., $ 10;
best cotton planter, J. Shirloek, Agent for T. - .
W. White, $ 5; best cotton press, W. W. Par
ker, $ 20; best cotton seed holler, W.. W.
Parker $ 10; best cotton gin—Pratt, F. S.
Johnson, $ 10; best guano distributor; J.
Shirloek, Agent for T. W. White, $ 5 ; best
stump puller, W. W. Parker, $ 10; best plow
stock, Louisville, Ky., Brinly, Miles & Hardy,
$ 5; best one horse turning plow, Watt &
Knight, Richmond, Va , $ 5 ; best two horse
turn plow, Watt Sc, Knight, Richmond, Va.,
$ 5 ; best snbsoil plow, Watt & Knight, $ 5 ,
best sweep. Watt & Knight, $ 5.
Stock.—Best stallion, open to the world, J. -
S. Stewart, Jones county Ga., $10; best stallion,
Georgia raised. J. S. Stewart, of Jones, $10; ,
second best stallion, open to the world, T. H.
Ward, $G; beat jack, open to the world, E. J."
Mspp, Greene county, $10; best jack, Georgia
raised, E. J. Mapp, Greene county, $10; best
mnle, open to the world, A. S. Reid, Jr., $10;
second best mnle, open to the world, B. E.
Butts, Hanooek eouuty, $5; best mule, Georgia
raised, B. E. Butts, $10; best pair of mules in
harness, Anderson & Ballard, $10; best mare
and colt, open to the world, W. C. Anderson,
$10; be3t mare and oolt, Georgia raised, Jesse
T. Batchelor, $10; best colt, 1 year old, Georgia
raised, N. H DeJaruett, $10; best oolt. 2 yean
old, Georgia raised, L. D. Rogers, $10; beet 1
colt, 3 years old, Georgia raised, W. G. Little,
$10; best style horse, Anderson & Ballard, $l'o;
tion has banished the chignon, that abominable ' premimum recommended to Mr. J. L. Danes,
hair-dress, rendering the most beautifully : for best Btyle_horse, Georgia raised; best model
Bhaped head hideous. They are only worn by
ladies of a doubtful character now. At a meet
ing of the hat manufacturers held iu Berlin, the
members passed a resolation to confide in the
future in their own tastes instead of imitating
all absurd Frenoh modes, simply because they '
are fashionable in Paris.
The Belgian journal “Echo du Parlement”
reminds its Brussels cotempoiarieB which de
nounce the Germans as “barbarians” for levy
ing war-contribntions in France, that, when the
French occupied Belgium after the battle of
Fleurus, in 1794, they not only demanded, and
obtained enormous requisitions of provisions
and clothing, bnt they also imposed npon the
impoverished country a contribution of eighty
millions of francs, of which five millions were
to be paid by Brassells within twenty-four hoars.
With great exertions the unfortunate city raised
half a million in two days. The Republican
conquerors, who had proclaimed the fraternity
of nations, then proceeded in a manner lament
ably lacking fraternity, by throwing 152 citi
zens into prison, where they remained 7 as hos
tages, until the whole sum had been paid after
two months.
The French press are rivaling some of their
American coletnporaries in the publication of
wonderful reports. “ The Journal de Macon ”
lately treated ite readers to a report, stating
that Berlin had been burnt by forty thousand
men belonging to the French fleet, aided by
the French prisoners of war in Germany.
The “Frankfurter Naohriohten” announces
that the civil authorities of Frankfort-on-the-
Maine have been requested by the Government
to furnish & list of antiquities, piotures or
statues, and other valuable objects, whioh were,
carried away from Frankfort by the French, at
the end of the last and beginning of the pres
ent century. There is a prospect that all ob
jects of att which, daring the Napoleonic era,
were carried to Paris from Germany, will find
their way home again before long. Jarno.
Women are now represented in every depart
ment of the University of Michigan. There are
fifteen in the Medical Department, nine have
been admitted as literary students, and one
has recently entered the Law Department. One
of the female medical students is some thing
along in years, and isn’t ashamed to let people
know it, having registered herself as 52 years
old.
Hall, a queer genius, had made frequet prom
ises to his friends that he would put an end to
himself. One stinging cold night he vowed he
wonld go out and freeze to death. Abcmteleven
‘clock he returned shivering and snapping his
fingers. “Why don’t yon freese?” asked a lov
ing relative. “By Jove I” said tbe pseudo sui
cide, “when I freeze, I mean to take a warmer
night than this for it.”
The mosquitoes are so plenty in the Adirtm-
dacks that they can’t all get on a stranger at
once, so they stand around in reliefs and wait
for their torn, like customers in a barber shop.
They exhaust a man in three days, and then let
him alone, like a deserted oil well, to aecaxau-
late more, blood.
Mbs. Thomas was shot and killed, in Chatta
nooga last week, by a potato thief, wheat she
was endflavoring to frighten out of her garden.
horse, J. S. Stewart, Jones county, $10; best
pair of model horses, M. H. Blackford, Ken
tucky, $10; best and handsomest turnout, Gap-
tain T. L. Wallace, $10; best single harness
horse, Georgia raised, John L. Dance, $10; see-'
ond best single harness horse, Georgia raised,
Frank Leiverett, $5; best pair of horses in
double harness, Georgia raised, J. H. Carlton,
Greene county, $10; fastest pacing horse, J.-
W. Swan, Greene county, $10; best saddle ■
horse, open to tho world, No. 2. Anderson &
Ballard, $10; best saddlo horse, Georgia raised,
Henry C. Lawrence, $10; Fastest trotting
horse, open to the world. Premium awarded
to O. M. Sales, Kentucky. Time 3:36. S. Mo-
Comb’s horse, $50; fastest trotting horse, Geor
gia raised, time 3:41, R. H. Akin, $10; bead
pair horses in donble harness, open to tha
world, Ml H. Blackford, Kentucky, $10; fastest
pair of horses in double harness, open to thfl
world, J. H. Mitchell, Greene county, $10; best'
combined horse, Anderson & Ballard, *10{
Best single harness horse, open to the world.
The committee found great difficulty in decid
ing, when so many were excellent. The awsrd
for 1st premium, to Samuel McCombs, Milledgw-
ville, $10; Second best horse in single harness,
open to the world, Anderion and Ballard, Ma
con, for thimble skein wagon, churn power aad.
com shelter; to J. B. Honsely, for ridiog bridle;
to Mrs. S. M. Morton, for the best and largest
variety of wines; premiums to W. W. Coll ions,
of Macon.
Honorable mention made of the following:
A patent portable fence, exhibited by Rev. 9.
L. Rogers for Mr. Tiliinghast; a cider mill, oat-
ton pickers wallet, straw cutter and farm grist
mill, exhibited by W. W. Parker, Macon Ga.; fl
pair of pigs, four months old, exhibited by Jnto
O. Cowles; home made muffs and dress nbetrp
skin, exhibited by J. L. Atkinson of the county
of Greene; cotton scraper, exhibited by. Watt &
Knight, Richmond, Va., eotswoid Berkshire
sow, exhibited by T. H. Ward, brick machine
by the same; Weeds sewing machines, exhibi
ted by D. B. Woodruff, agent, Maoon, Georgia;
a fine collection of tools and agricultural imple
ments, exhibited by Carhart Sc Cord, Macon,
Ga; a fine top Baggy, exhibited by B, RiMfe'
Eatonton, Ga.
By some mistaken the premiums did not ar
rive in time for distribution. Bo soon as they
arrive the Secretary will inform the recipients^
either by letter of through these oolumns, theft
those living near may call and get them. Ttz
those living at a distance they will be seat by
express at our expense. ' '
Bobbrt Youno, Jr., Booty.
An Eye Knocked Out in a Ball Game.—
During a game of base ball to Elisabeth, H. 4,
on Saturday, between the “Aquilias,” of Want-
field, N. J., end e New York club oomposed at
bankers and brokers, Edward Ooiy, of the Mi
ter, bed one of his eyes ksocked-cot by e bite
from a club whioh an outsider wee laieluatfy
handling.
Tub total value at trading arUMee
into CineramaMW-mM
period $260,000,000 of
disa of all kinds—aa increase at i
attain
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