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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Arizona Indians arc still on tho war
jfmth.
Northern Hungary is suffering from
famine.
In Florida, phaches were ripe on the
27th of April.
The wheat crop of Ohio is said to be
very promising.
Tho cotton worm has made its ap
pearance in Texas.
Milan, Tennessee, has shipped 84,408
quarts of strawberries this year.
Batesvillo. Mississippi, has organized a
ladies' lodge of the Knights of llouor.
The loss hv recent forest.fires in Atlantic
county, N. ,J., is estimated at $220,000.
Ncady half of West Liberty, Ohio, was
horned on tho 13th tilt. Loss. $200,000.
Crop reports from South Carolina are
favorable, the stand of cotton being better
than usual.
Three tnen charged with murder, were
taken from the jail at Oceola, Mo., on tho
13th ult., and hung.
Mrs. Jennie Richards, of Amhra, Ind ,
is likely to die of hydrophobia, caused by
the bite of ft cat two years ago.
The annual convention of the Protes
tant Episcopal ehurch of Georgia, as
sembled in Columbus on tho 19th ult.
A rattlesnake recently killed in Barbour
C'tinty, Alabama, was 7 feet long,
weighed 42 pounds, and bad 14 rattles.
A black bear lately killed near Tala
ha ssoo, Florida, weighed 530 pounds when
drossed. The fore quarterns were sold at
ten cents a pound.
Fire in a factory at Fond dn Lae, Wis
cousin, on the 13th ult., destroyed
property w, rth |125 000, and throw 150
men out of empl nment.
Two skeletons were found near Ft.
Wayne, Indiana, on the 13th ult. Phy
sicians pronounce them male and female.
Profound mystery surrounds them.
The general assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church met in Evansville,
Kentucky, on tho 20th tilt. About 175
delegates were present at the opening.
Tin present rat -of immigration into
western -in-1 northwestern State, would
entitle them to an additional representa
tive every three months, if the census
were taken so often.
On the 14th ult., Anton Sore-, who
I -I charge of the elevator in the Sherman
hici-e, Chicago, was caught between ti c
fi mi and the elevator, and the uppei half
of his head was cut off.
Cntil July 6th, pa-tengers will he
carried over the Cincinnati Southern
railroad fur two cents a mile. Trains
leave t incinnati daily at s : 4(i AM , and
at 7:15 P. M.: ie.m: Chattanooga at 4:20
A. M. and at s:2!) P. M.
The suit of the Adams Express com
pany against the L uisville, New Albany
Si Chicago railroad, has been decided in
favor of the c-xp i-s company. This
decision compels the railr uni to carry the
cipres* agents, instead of doing tho ex
press business it.-elf.
The long talked of boat race between
Tlanlan and Conrtnay took place on the
Potomac, near Washington City, on the
19th ult. Haitian rowed over the course,
five miles, in a little i- than .37 minutes.
Conrtnay soon tell behind, and only rowed
23 miles, being then i mile behind.
A wildcat attacked a child near its
father’s hou-e, in the mountainous
regions of New York, recently. The
mother sviz 1 a heavy stick, and rushed
up to defend her child. The wildcat
sprung upon her, but she knocked it
down, and soon killed it. It weighed 27
pound ', and men tired more than five feet
from the no.-o to the tip of the tail.
There has been no more fighting ho
tween the Southern Pacific railroad e mi
pany and settlers on their lands, hut the
settlers armour ce tl c-ir delermiration not
to he ejected without investigation by the
United States governu nt. They claim
that the railroad company has not com
plied witn its contract either with them
or the government, and that in fact the
lands on which they live were never
granted to the railroad company.
Tho equestrian statue of Gen. Andrew
Jackson was unveiled on the Capitol
grounds in Nashville on the 20th ult., iri
presence of 20.1KX) pi r-n-r.s. Ex-Governor
Hendricks, of Indiana; Governor Black
burn, of Kentucky; Ex Governor Joseph
E. Brown, General Joseph E. Johnston,
General D. C. Buell, ’an i Colonel John
C. Burch, secretary of the United -States
-enate, were among tho spectators. Five
of .Jackson’s soldiers were present, and
one of them, Enoch 11. Jones, assisted
Governor Marks in unveiling the statue.
The Mississippi Valley Planters’ As
=oc:aticn met in New Orleans on the 10th
ult. Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Tennessee, were repre
sented. Numerous specimens of im
proved farming machinery were displayed.
The resolutions which were passed in
dorse the Missis.-ippi river commission,
and the barge line system of river trans
portation, claim the right to representa
tion in the t-tate and national cotton
exchanges, condemn the sale of cotton
seed, and speculatiota io cot; .■ futures
by factors ■
VOLUME VII.
Till: SECOND PLACE.
Unto my loved onea have 1 given all;
Tho tlfoloas service cf my willing hands,
The strength of swift feet running to their call,
Each pulse of this fond heart whoso love com
mands
Tho busy brain unto their use; each grace,
Each gift, the llower and fruit of life. To me
They give, with gracious hearts and tenderly,
The second place.
Such joy as my glad service may dispense
They spend to make some brighter life more blest
The grief that comes despite my frail defense
They seek to soothe upon a dearer breast.
Love veils his deepest glories from my face,
I dimly dream how fair the light tuny bo
Itoyoud the shade, when l hold, longingly
The second place. •
And yet ’tia sweet, to know that though I make
No soul’s supremest bliss, no life shall lie,
Ruiucd and desolated f<% my sake.
Nor any heart be broken when 1 die.
And sweet it is to geo my little space
•.row wider hetir by hour, and gratefully
I thank the tom or fate that granted me
Tho second place.
—February Atlantic,
FROM TIIE DEAD.
“It is provoking.” Mrs. Loril said. “I
have a letter here, asking me to provide a
suitable governess for two young ladies,
of 16—”
“Provoking?” said Ella Jones, “when
you are wishing so much for a situation
for Agnes?”
“Hear me out. The situation is charm
ing. My correspondent writes that the
home is all that the heart can desire, the
I upils amiable, the house under the con
trol of a housekeeper, and the father a
widower. But a condition most impera
tive is that the governess must he middle
aged.”
“And Agnes is 20.”
“So you see she will not do.”.’’
“Suppose I go?” cried Miss Jones.
“Y u!” cried Mrs. Lord.
“Yes. lam 35, and look 45.”
“But what will become of me?”
“Give my place to miss Hanny; and
advance the other teachers, giving the
test, place to Agnes.”
“But ”
“1 will not hear objections. I want a
change; and when those young laities
cease to require a governess, if you want
me I will return to you. ”
“l thought you were happy here,
Ella,” Mr-. Ltrd said, reproachfully.
1 am. 1 always have been. But I
want to ea glimpse of life elsewhere.
1 can never forget yotir kindness to me:
and vet I want a change. W rite and
ricmniucttd me for this .ituation. ”
“If I mu- 1, I must. But promise to
return here if you ar not happy at Mr.
Russell’s. ”
“I promise. ”
# * a * # *
“1 wonder what sin’ will look like,”
Jennie Bussell said to her sister Maud.
“Wo shall know very soon,” Jennie
said, half pouting. “Hero she is.”
It was only natural that the girls should
scrutinize the lad, who alighted from the
vehiole which had been to meet the train.
She was tall, with full, commanding
figure, a noble face, full of intellect and
refinement, and with brown eyes, and a
smile so winning, that her pupils advanced
to meet her with hearts already eager to
give her a loving v elootno.
“VYoare Jennie and Maud Russell,”
Jennie said with courtesy. “This is
Maud, and 1 am Jennie.”
Miss Jones replied pleasantly, kissing
her pupils, and seeming deeply moved by
tlmir cordial welcome, The old house
keeper, Mrs. Long, was in the hall, and
a cry rose to her lips as she came forward.
But Miss Jones greeted her as a stranger,
and she drew back, muttering, “Well,
wed, if that ain’t a curious thing! I
neversaw two people so alike!”
James Russell remained abroad, and
El a was niLstioss of his splendid home
and instructress of his daughters, who
gave her almost worshiping love.
It wr marvelous to sec how she seemed
to grow younger in her new heme. Her
great beauty was of the typo that does not
fade early, and, in the pure air, her color
brightened, her eyes grew softly luminous,
and she had ever a happy light in them,
more beautiful than their old serenity.
For many years there bad lurked under
tho peaceful expression the traces of
sorrow overcome, of a life-battle where
the victory was won by fierce struggle;
but all sadness left the noble face at
Sharon, as Mr. Rus.-td called his place,
and the peace brightened to happiness.
Three years after the June day when
the sisters watch, and for the arrival of their
governess, the happy trio assembled after j
ti a, chatting in tho twilight. In October, j
Ella was to lose one of her pupils- Maud
was to go to her aunt to enter society, and
Jennie would remain two years at
Sharon.
“Tell us a story,” Jennie said, sitting 1
on the porch step, and leaning hack
against a pillar; “a love story, please,
Miss Jones. ”
“A love story 1 Let me think 1 Once j
upon a time ”
Maud laughed musically.
“It ought to be a fairy story, ifit opens
so,” she said.
“No; it is a love story,” said Ella; but
she did not smile. “Once upon a time
there was a very rich mao who owned a
magnificent estate. Ho had married late
in life arid lost his wife, whom he idolized,
soon after their marriage by an accident.
She was thrown from her horse arid killed
before his eyes.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1880.
1 For years ho shut himself up iu his
splendid home, seeing noetic, leading the
life ol’a hermit. Rut his sister died and
left him tho care of a boy of 13, while
almost at the same time the sister of the
wife ho loved so dearly, even in mum iry,
also died, leaving a little girl of 10 utterly
friendless and penniless. The two
children went to their new homo on the
[ same day. and, as their kind friend and
relatixo did nothing with half a heart, he
threw off, iu a great measure, his roserv •
ami melancholy, to make ihtir home
pluurant to them.”
“What were their names?” asked
Jennie.
“You may christen them.”
“Well, papa has the preUiestjname in
the world—James? Maud, you may
name the girl. I call the hoy James.”
“I will name tho girl, after you.” said
Maud, “Sti they are James and Ella!”
Had tho light been stronger tho girls
might have noticed a sudden pallor on the
face of their governess, hut her voice was
steady as she continued. Not one of the
three had seen a tall figure cress the lawn
at some distance from them, and enter
tho house by the low French window at
the hack of the di lwing room. Neither
did they see him cross tho room and seat
himself behind the lace curtains in the
j darkness, so near the group chat he could
have touched any of tho trio by stretching
out his arms.
“James and Ella, then, since you so
name them,” said Miss Jones, “lived n
life of complete happiness in their lux
urious home. The undo loved them and
they loved each other, and their only
sorrow was the separation of school life,
as they passed from homo instructions to
the seminary.
“It was after their final return home
that their uncle told them of his wish that
j they should marry, and inherit hiifortuno
and homo together. Ella asked for no
greater happiness than to become James’s
wife, and for a time believed that lie loved
her, hut as she grew older became con
vinced that she did not hold James’s heart
as he held hers. She was jealous of the
daughter of an old friend w ho came often
to visit them.
“As wo aro confining our names to
those near at hand, we will call her after
you, Maud. She was very beautiful—not
as tall as Ella was, not quite as fond of
music and hooks, hut a fairy-like blonde,
winsome and tender—the very woman to
win a man’s heart and hold it iu silken
bonds stronger than iron. James loved
Her. ”
“And Ella loved him,” fighed Maud.
‘Oht dear!”
“Before the undo know of any cross to
his plans ho died. But in his will ho left
Ids property to his nephew and ward only
upon condition <f their marriage. If
either refused the marriage, tho money
went to a public charity, th e house to be
gold and tho proceeds added to the turn.
But if either died the other inherited all.
It was a cruel will, for it became more
ovident to Ella that her Heart was given
to one who found tho.gift a heavy burden.
The soul of chivalry, James tried to con
ceal his aversion to the woman he must
marry, unless they both became beggars.
She loved him so well that his grief be
came hers, and she tried to imagine some
way to free him. Only her death could
i release him, ho she resolved to die.”
I “Oh!” gasped Jennie.
! “She wrote a letter bidding him faro-
I well, and left tho house. There was a
j small boat in which she often rowed upon
the riqer alone. This waa found turned
! upside down, and her hat floating near it.
j James advertised for tho body, for any
j news of her, hut none came, and after a
i year the law gave hint the sole control of
; his uncle’s pr< perty, It ought to he his,
[ for Ella was not related to the old man,
I although she called him uncle and loved
i him so.”
“Hid ho marry Maud?”
“Oh, yes, they were married."
“But poor Ell-.?” sighed Maud.
“She did not die,” said Miss Jones.
“She shrai k from the crime of suicide.
Bo while they were hunting for her body,
she was in a large town, earning a com
fortable living. She conquered her love
years ago, and her life is a tranquil, happy
and useful one.”
Tho sisters went to their own apart
ment, while their governess went into the
drawing room ta get a book she had left
there. As she lighted the gas, a tall
figure rose from a seat near the window,
and came forward. He spoke one word
only:
“Ella!”
And she staggered back, and would
have fallen if his strong arm had not
caught her.
“Ella,” he said again, “I heard your
story, hidden here, to see my children,
unseen, before they knew of my return
home, Oh, you were wrong; l always
loved you, but your own doubts made
you so cold that I thought you would
marry mo only in obedience to my unde’s
will.”
“You did not love Maud?” she asked.
“I loved you—you only. But when I
believed you dead, her sweet consolation
won what was left of my sore heart.”
There was rapturous greeting for papa ;
the next morning; but the delight of the
girls was increased when he said to them
gravely:
“L will finish tho story your governess
began last evening. James's wife died,
hut lie found Ella and loved her. Sho is
hero, and you must give her a place in
your hearts as my wife, and your
mother.”
N V rOI.KONIC Tit A ITS,
Tho Emperor walked everywhere,
speaking to right an'tl left, preceded by
si mo chamberlains, who announced Ids
: presence. When ho approached thorn
was dead silence, everybody remained
p.uteotlv still, the ladies rose and waited
for the insignificant and often disobliging
(remarks which he was going to address to
then!. Ho never remembered a name,
and ttlrnos i; its quet tion wau
“What is your name?” There was not a
lady who was not charmed to see him
depart from ths place where t-ho was. His
ministers, for himself ami in his presence,
were nothing but agents more or less
active: “I should not kuow what to do
with them,” ho said, “if they had not a
eei tain mediocrity of intelligence or char
acter. ”
If any one of them felt himself supe
rior in any point, he would feel idleness,ary
to dissemble, and, perhaps, as th# feeling
of danger warned every one, they generally
alibi ;1 a feebleness or nullity which did
not belong to them. In a fit of frankness
in Which he sometimes indulged 1 heard
him say that he did not like to confer
glory except on those who could not carry
it. Hence, according to his political
attitude toward tho chiefs under his orders
or the degree of confidence which they
inspired, ho kept silence about certain
victories or changed failure into success
Sometimes a general learned in a dispatch
an action which lie had never performed,
or a speech he had never uttered. * *
It was in vain to protest against neglect
or misrepresentation; the past was already
wiped out by fresher news, for the rapidity
of Bonaparte in wav brought something
now every day, lie imposed silence on
all remonstrance, or if he found it neces
sary to appease a deserving General, a
sum of money or the grant of some favor
ended tho difference. * * * l cannot
say whether he was a Deist or an Atheist,
lie was ready to scoff' in private nt every
thing connected with religion, and 1 think
that lie gave too much attention to all
(hat happened in this world to care much
about the other. I would venture to say
that tho immortality of his name seemed
to him much more important than that of
hi : soul. Mum. I)e fiemusat.
I.UCK AT < Kl>*.
One word ns to luck. Whether wo
believe it nr not, there is such a thing a.,
luck. Wo see ouc man for a Beaton per
sistently holding had cards, losing rubber
after rubber and invariably being found
by his partner with nothing in his hand.
Nor is such misfortune due to bad play.
As long as honors count for what they do
in tho rubber, a first class player, it is
calculated, has only the advantage of one
point in the gamo over an indifferent
player. Still, in spite of men grumbling
about their luck, and assuring everybody
that they in variably lose, take a cycle of
three years und it will he found that luck
is very even in its operations. I have
seen men who have lost steadily through
out a whole year, yet iu tho next year
they have more than rteoved their
losses.
i. have seen a man lot c thirteen rubbers
running; yet, shortly afterward I saw him
win every night for a whole week. No
man who has ever made legitimate whist,
the occupation of his life, has ever come
to much grief. The men who have been
broke aro those who play for points they
cannot afford, and who have not the funds
to stand a heavy run of had luck; hr those
who, not content with tho points, hot
largely, backing their luck when they win,
and plunging deeper and deeper to regain
their loises when unfortunate. But the
legitimate whist, that is, whist at points
1 that a man can afford to lose and r.o bets
-is tho cheapest pleasure that can he
indulged in. It offers one an agreeable
rest after the day’s labor, a healthy form
of excitement and intellectual exercise
without fatigue. My advice to all is that
of Talleyrand:
“Riay whist, and you will ho spared a
sorrowful old age."— London Society.
It is now considered certain that the
Memphis Si Charleston railroad will very
soon he consolidated with the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, and
that Col. E. W, Cole, late president of
the Nashville, Chattanooga, <fc St. Louis
railroad, will he tho president, with head
quarte rs in Chattanooga. Tho Memphis
A Charleston road at present uses tho
track of the Nashville & Chattanooga
from Chattanooga to Stevenson, 40 miles:
surveys will at once bo madu for a track
irom Stevenson to Chattanooga by way of
(he Cincinnati Southern bridge, six miles
above Chattanooga, and from Rod Clay to
Ooltewab, connecting the two arms of the
E. TA NARUS., Va. & Ga. railroad.
A New England journalist married a
lady, who, by her own work and in her
own right, had acquired much fame. Orio
morning ho found that ho was a widower.
Calling to the doctor and tho nurse he said:
“Keep this quiet for two hours, and we’ll
get a beat on tho other papers.”
I’AVIM) FOR KISSItS.
Mr. Eddy gave Miss Ilinfzloman a fine
sot of jewelry, at ‘Newburn, N. (’., and
sho wore it for several weeks. Then he
brought a suit to recover it on the ground
that ho had simply lent it to her. Sho
testified that, by the terms of a mutual
agreement, sho wa to pay for the jewelry
by kissing Mr. Eddy every morning fora
hundred days. Ho oallod and got his
kiss, on his way to work every day for
about a month. Then lie grew hold, and
wanted to lake a ling as well as a kiss.
There was no provision in the bargain for
hug-ting, and sli ) repulsed him, oven re
striding his kissing to a mere touch of his
lips to her cheek, lie thought, ho was
being cheated, and hence his efforts to
recover. Ex.
i:.\ e: m ii.
Have you enemies? Go straight on,
and mind them not. If they block up
your path, walk around them, and do
your duty regardless of their spite. A
man who has no enemies is seldom good
for anything; ho is made of that kind of
material which is so easily worked that
every one has a hand in it. A sterling
, character—ono who thinks for himself,
ami speaks what ho thinks—is always
sure to have enemies. They are as
necessary to him as Irosh air; they keep
him alive and active, A celebrated char
acter, who was surrounded with enemies,
mod to remark: “They are sparks which,
if you do not blow, will go out of them
selves.” Let this bo your fooling whilo
endeavoring to live down tho scandal of
those who are bitter against you. If you
stop to dispute, you do hut as they desire,
and open tho way for more abuse. Lot
tiie poor follows talk; there will he a re
action if you perform but your duty, and
hundreds who were oneo alienated from
you will flock to you and acknowledge
their error. — A lexandcr's Messenger.
mUTCiS ROOM.
The colored boom is raging. It beg'ns
to look as if the more intelligent colored
voters were resolved upon a division of the
spoils, or at least of a share. According
to J. Milton Turner tho colored Ropufcli
! om voters number quite 600,000. VVctnko
j tlii to be iin under estimate, lie thinks
I it fair that the Vice-President should bo
jof his race and color. Ho favors either
Fred Douglass or Bruce. This kind of
talk is very annoying to tho Republican
leaders. Why should it, lio so? Is not
“the man and brother’’ every way their
equal, according to their nice theories?
Have they not striven to force “social
equality” upon the Southern people? Arc
they not fusing about West Point now?
Why, then, think it so monstrous, so
degrading, to put such an able man as Fred
Douglas on their ticket? He is a man of
brains and character. He is infinitely
superior to dozens ot Republican members
of Congress we could mention. And yet
the whites aro simply horrified at the
mere mention of a negro candidate for
the Vico-President.— Wilmington (N C)
Star.
——— — —• ♦ ,■
1 11 ICY QUIT WINIllM).
Among the passengers who boarded
the ea: abound trainat Holly the other day
were a bride and groom of tho regular
holly-hock order. Although the car was
full of passengers the pair began to squeZ A
hands arid hugassoon as they were seated.
This, of course, attracted attention, and
pretty soon everybody was nodding and
winking, and several persons so far forgot
thciiitclves as to laugh outright. By and
by the broad-shouldered aid lcd-bandcd
groom became aware of tho ‘act that lie
was being ridiculed, and ho unlinked
himself to tho height of .it feet, looked
up and down tho aisle and said:
“There seems to be considerable nod
ding and winking around hero because I
am hugging the girl who was married to
mo at 7 o’clock this morning. If the
the rules of this railroad forbid a man
from hugging his wife after he’s paid full
faro then I’m going lo quit, but if the
rules don’t, and this winking and blink
ing isn’t bitten short off when we pass the
next mile post, I’m going to begin on the
front seats and create a rising market for
false teeth and crutches!”
If there were any more winks and blinks
in that car the groom didn’t catch ’em
at it. — Free. ! Dsn.
UHAIMTY.
Night !.isscd llic young rose, anil it
bent softly to sloop. Stars shone, and
pure dewdrops hung upon its bosom and
watched its sweet slumbers. Morning
came with its dancing breezes, and they
whispered to the young rose and it awoke
joyous and smiling. Lightly it swung to
and fro in all the loveliness of health and
youthful innocence. Then came the
ardent sun-god, sweeping from the cast,
and smote the young rose with its scorch
ing rays and it fainted. Deserted and
ai uost heart-broken, it dropped to the
dust in its loveliness and despair. Now
the gentle breeze, which has been gam
boling over the sea, pushing on the home
bound lark, sweeping over bill and dale,
by the neat cottage and still brook—turn
ing the old mill, fanning the brow of dis
ease and frisking with the curls of inno
cent childhood—cume tripping along on
her errand of mercy and love; and when
NUMBER 19.
•sho fondly bathed its head iu cool, refresh
ing showers, the young rose revived, and
looked and smiled in gratitude to tho kind
breeze, hut sho hurried quickly away,
singing through tho trees. Thu charity,
like the breeze, gathers fn tiaue • IV m
the drooping flowers it refreshes, and
nnconsoiem ly roups a reward in the p a
formunco of its office of kindlier.
• -•* ♦ 4-•<*
HE FOUND SOME MONEY.
The other day a very common lookimi
man, dressed in very common eloJie--,
entered a saloon on Woodward into at
a i ent when tl propri alot
and asked him to lock the door tbr a
moment and count tho contents of a
poeketbook which he hud just picked up
on the street. Tho door was looki and, and
ana fat-looking wallet was handed out
the stranger said:
“I can’t read nor write nor toll lip ■ is,
but 1 know you won’t cheat me.”
Tho money counted up just one SIOO.
I hero wore two twouty-dollur hills, and
tho rest were of smaller denominations.
Tho stranger said he would hand th
wallet over to (In: police, and thanked
the saloonist and departed. In about a
quarter of an hour he returned and con
fidentially said:
“I gave up all tiie money hula ton
dollar hill, which I'm going to keep fur
my honesty. Let’s drink. ’
He three,’down one of the 320 bills and
diank his beer. It was remembered that
he had said he couldn’t toil the figures on
i fie bills, and he was given change for 310.
“Was that a livo era ten?” he asked,
as tho twenty was ; ut away.
“Oh, that's u ten,” wa the reply.
The mail drunk once in. re, and then
took his luayc. In tho course of an hour
a detective was looking lor him on eh a; v
of passing a counterfeit hill, but ho could
not he found. May ho that sal ion:
310 out of him, and may ha ho didn't,
Detroit Free Frexs,
A corps of engineets from the. Texas
Pacific and New Orleans Pacific railroads
has just reported the result of a thorough
inspection recently made of the Hob
jettle iat tho mouth of 'he Mi ippi
river. This report stales that (ho So h
Pi. r, which five ye l • ago wa in
imaigablo for ves: i-l.i drawing over ix
feet, is now a magnificent stream one
thousand feet in width, with a central
channel varying from two hundred and
fifty to five hundred feet in width, where
twoniy*kix feet in the lea t depth tie
outer edges, and where thirty-five; f a t, ;
the average prevailing depth of the
middle. This channel, also, has pmi -ti •
itself beyond the jetties, for at a distance
of five hundred feet outside tho sea wall,
there is a well defined channel one thous
and feet in width, with a depth of twenty
six feet on tho edges and of thirty-m
--aud thirty-seven feet in tiie centre.
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About seven years ago the body of Mr.
Win, Blandfhrd, a police officer, who died
at the ago of 70 years, was interred in the
north side of the Philanthropic Uemetcry.
at Pussyunk avenue and Morris li-ept.
Last week the body wss disinterred with
a view of its being taken to the Odd
Fellow's Cemetery. Its extreme wei.-l t
(over J'! 1 ) pounds) prove!- ed remer’ ; a!
investigation proved that the body wa
entirely petrified. The sup riutenderit ef
the cemetery recalls tho fact that about
twenty years ago, when tho body of a tnati
which had boon buried three year,-, was
disinterred, it was found as hard as stone
and so solid that Iho corpse could ha; -
been placed in a standing potiiimi like a
block of marble. It is supposed that
there is some mineral substance in the
water which nets upon tho bodies mid
produces petrifaction. Ehifadcij.lu'a
Record.
A committee of the New York Bar
Association has reported some : "aw
charges against James lb Ber.no tf, a J edge
jin the Marine Court. By this repc.it he
!is charged with drunkenness on the
bench, with acts and language that only
men who are metaphorically half: easuver
ever indulge in. On one occasion, when a
bond was brought to him for his approval,
ho held it up side down and in-i led on
signing it that nay. lie gave as his re.am.n
that if he signed it right side up he would
bo taken for a Notary Public.
The Alabatn A (ircat Soothe' n railroad
(formerly the Alabama A (lhattaneoga
railroad) uses the track oft! eNi shvil.'i
A Chattanooga railroad from Chattanoo
ga to Wnuhatchie, six min The new
track will be about five miles long, tunnel
ing Lookout Mountain, arid is estimated
to cost §187,000.
The negroes that have been colonized
in Indiana lor the purpose of inflating the
Republican vote next fall are dyim
rapidly of hunger and from the effects oi
the change of climate. By tho time the
election comes off there may not lie
enough left to effect any change in the
result.
People who have the Texas fever
should note those two facts—that corn is
selling in eastern Texas at §2 per bushel,
and that grasshoppers have appeared in
Dallas county in that State,
all sonm
A spanking team—pa and tna.
A dead lan,qua ..: —cold longue.
A well-known fluid olfianr —a kernel ot
corn.
Making light of iroubl, s— burning up
your unpaid hills.
A report till: can’t !. - lontradictod—
the report of a gun.
lions ar : ; exao.ljf lazy, and yet they
ace always laying 'round.
Th, teui; that make.) young people
strong i. iiioitil courage to do right.
Tho me . useful podustri ..t is the man
who walks up and down tho room all
night with the baby.
''You're a man after my own heart,”
the blushing t eiideu confessed when her
lover proposed marriage.
Now ~-ni, ti..: , .ei v, lion one had
rather bo wrap;' lin lb flan-ie! under
shirt than iii the. arm tof id ; sweetheart.
A young s a : i by the nan, if Neck was
recently marine 1, .a Mi.. ;fools, they aro
now tied n- ok r-1 heels t. :• ther.
A sud'bs I hi-3 mad : a y<.".tig lady iu
Indiana insane, but th t test case,
The usual na ult is a dr.-. iru tor an, :.
Tho dearest spot on earth is home,
sweet In me, nit. n bu'ler is hi emits per
pound, and sho belongs to a benevolent
society.
“'J an ahr- :. t . te.-t?” is tho
mouieiv eu- qn,” , rent on: by the Harvard
College to take the I luce of tho No. 15
puzzle.
Tho, Flo-1 ; s -r alii • or: r. fils -I to
tackle Paul Boyni :i. An Ai, at, r doesn’t
want to get vly -p e ia any mere than a
man does.
A oru-sy old hache’ :• says that love is
a wretched husiiuv , eon i s.ingof a littlo
.sighing, a little cry!:;; ••. little dying, and
a deal of lying.
It ia believed that cuts can ho mado
tender heart -1 by pl.tyin; soft, sad mumo
to thorn, but ii,*vy me h i a.-ior it is to hire
a boy to chuck ’em ofi the bridge.
The mao wh > thi e ••• , • lii-di lo n ward
his wile's devnli-a) ~d:L kind ward; and
oarc-se , is the . .into one who wonders
why it is that women mi - times go wren*.
A to. idyiif)';'- h.i ’ vi-adjudged
■I. a:V . : 1 o with a
ciA -o : ■ -r. '' ’ n't very com
■ lime; e 3 'acuby there
abouts.
A tolen I ■ I into a i. eon bar
room, wh ■ :’ • t- ; -i. i was drinking
with the man who bt i • m tiie Animal,
being in igam-anao of th Vs t. The thief
quickly -ki| ; : !.
A ; .id, “No man
with -i heart in him c ■ .id r, fuse the kies
ofuehiU.” No! th.-if is ti uc, and more
especially -si the child is : mno sixteen
“And iv- : l A;,vo the ~ :ny dearest;
Angelin;:?'’ “Yetli, dear Gustby, you
had h-.tter take a turn wiih Mith Thomp
ton, juth to keep people from talking.
You cun come hack, you know.
An Oil City man calls his wife the red,
white and blue, lee.vi; o . he bin re 1 hair,
white teeth and blue ey It might.also
ti itiei'l. tit illy o.t SIM i, and that when ho
see 1 1- 11- tie id ant of : 1.0 window
at. inidiii;..ht. he kra"t > at v, e that tho
Hag mean ; a .signal of danger.
Mrniphi, is tend, r-hcarted. A team
ster has hi. i. gro ,11-ing r > .-tie ■ head with
the butt end of a hickory whip, and several
citizens have ru.-hcd into print and
demanded a Ben Ii Society. In many
parts of the country it is believed
that mules rathe, enjoy that sort of a
thing.
“There - -' apn vv of grip fur', brud
tlern, that's iuipi-v.-od mo much, very
much; I’ve thought on’-, and I’m alluz
thinking ”u't. I. i ir-ivinibgi- just whar
it is, ami, r. for Vs: iu:-.:?cr just what
i; is; Ini 1 you ain't tell how muoh of sollis
it is to me on my journey through thia
vale o’ tears,”
If lie pel., hi.-; aim. iround her iike a
hear and, step.- her breath when ho kisses
hr, ther arc not a,arris !, but are likely
to he. If lie puts bis hands on her
si; si! v. : m !’ :I a lit ! 10, snatches
llie pii;v‘ -u;d f;i ! h-n-k, they have bee”
nupv,. • item.". If he comes up
I h l:;, 1 in hi- i ■ • 1 s looks out
of the window, and t;. “Well, good
bye.” ■ - her a ta;; dee . smack and
I'll e : ii', they have Wtl Illumed two
years, and life is a desert.
Ileal - ' ' fie i.r ju..t J ltd . : lit hin
Hungary: , me :,::e ego a man died
bankrupt, and though ho did not leave
his \.l lo.v . In '• is uny, lie bequeathed
her a ’. uy largo unpaid 1,111 at a local
public house. II is creditor did honor to
Ids m< inory by Pinging an action against
ids widow dor 'ho payment of her hus
band's did kinv account. She proved that
site was at. Mutely pentad: but tho
Jndg" ~oudi mm.' i her to: ay the costs, on
the ground that by her evidently capricious
and iiupraeiit able tommy she had driven
her la nI, h i"! o> t h ; piddle lieu •, in
order to and .P re the eomfoit and peaeo
which wore denied hi.,l :n heme!
In the haekvoi/l.i of Pi.: que Ldo enmity,
Wi seo a.sin, is a town that lias just elected
it-, first Justice of the Peace. Like tho
re. t of the residents he is a rough lumber
man. The first ease brought before him
iva ■ that of e. iult committed by a noto
rious brawler. The Justice had no diffi
culty in pH e.i • i him guilty, but how
to puni.-h i im v. o a harder question, for
he had no money with which to pay a fino
mid li A-1 nil ;jl in l.ieh to imprisi n
him. Afu.rJuli •• ation the Justice said:
“The cofiipiainunt's got to pay me for
costs. I sentence tlt.i piisoner to be
whipped, and : j mice officer. I’m going
to do the punishing my,, HP’ Then hu
rolled up hi. alcoves and thrashed tho
culprit.