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j\orth PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT- BKLLTON, GrA.. By JOHN T. WILSON, Jr. Tbrmi— sl.oo per anaam 60 ceat* for tii mouthi; 25 cents forthree months. r*rtie» away front Bellton aie requested to send their names with anob amounts of money at they nan pare, "rem 2cc. to $1 NEWS GLEANINGS. Firemen who have served five years in Charlotte, N. C., are exempt from jury duty. A farmer in Thomas county, Ga., is going to plant 300 acres in corn. More corn in the cotton region is desirable. The bonded debt of Selma, Ala., is said to be about $400,000, or about twenty five per cent, of the assessed value of real estate. It is estimated that the amount of damages done in Georgia during the re cent freshets will amount, in round numbers, to more than $1,000,000. It is predicted that Mississippi will be visited this year by the thirteen and sev enteen year locusts—an event which is believed to occur only every 221 years. For the purpose of protecting sheep in Buncombe county, N. C., Commis sioners are allowed, by law recently en acted, to pay S2O for the killing of a woli. Tire Legislature of North Carolina has passed an act to prohibit the sale of ardent spirits to minors. Right of action is given to the parent or guardian or employer of such minor. The New Orleans Times says that there are 150 Texas veterans of the Mex ican war, who served from 1835 to 1837, living. They will each receive from Texas 1,280 acres of land, under the new law. According to a San Antonia (Tex.) correspondent of the New Orleans Dem ocrat, San Antonia contains about 7,000 Americans, 5,000 Germans ami 5,000 Mexicans, with a liberal sprinkling of Spaniards, French, Italians, Hungarians, Irish and Poles, aggregating altogether I about 21,000 population. A mass-meeting has been held at Dor- i Chester, Liberty county, Ga., to consider j the question of introducing steam navi- I gation on the Ogeechee, .Sunbury, Rice ' boro and South Newport rivers. There ; would be freight to and from Savannah, and fruit and vegetables could be raised I for the Northern markets. Only $5,000 is wanting, the Richmond 1 Dispatch says, to secure to the Univer- , sity v! Virginia the gift of the finest tel- | escape in the world, an observatory, and I an ample endowment of the chair of as tronomy, the whole valued at $120,000. ' The amount must be secured by April ; Ist in order to comply with the condi- I tions of Mr. McCormick’s gift. Steamers can now transport freight in | unbroken bulk from St. Antilony’s Falls i to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of j 2,161 miles, and from Pittsburg to Fort | Benton, Montana, 4,333 miles. Lighter craft can ascend the Alleghany, an ex- i tension of the Ohio river, to Olean, New | York, 355 miles above Pittsburgh, and i the Missouri to Great Falls, near where that river leaves the Rocky Mountains. . The Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer i says that the counties in which the dog law recently passed by the Legislature is now in force, by which a tax of fifty rents and one dollar is imposed respect- j ively upon male and female dogs, are as I follows: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, I Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock. Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Mar shall, Morgan, Ohio, Pleasants, Ritchie , Roane, Randolph, Summers, Taylor, I Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wirt and Wood. Tn the other counties the law is left op- , tional, to be submitted to the people on the petition of 100 voters. Scale of Titles. A writer in Chambers’ .Townal, who , has traveled in the Western States, has I discovered the scale by which titles are | given: A speaker at an American “Conven tion,” being addressed as “Colonel,” de- ; dared he was not even a captain. “Don’t you live in Missouri?” he | asked. He owned that he did, and in a house j with two chimneys. “Then I was right,” exclaimed the I man. “Over there, if a man has three chimneys on his house, he's a general; if two, he’s a colonel; if only one, he’s a a major, and if he lives in a dng-out and | has no chimney, he’s a captain, any- : how. ” A gentleman who is fond of horses attended church where there was a somewhat prolonged service before they came to the sermon. “How were yon pleased with the services?” asked a friend. “O, very much, though it did strike me that there was a good deal of scoring before they got off.” The public debt of the Unifed States is S6B per head; of Spain, $154; of France, $136; of England, $117; of Hol land, $114; of Canada, S2B; of Mexico, $39; of Switzerland, $2. The whisper of n benntifnl woman enn be heard further than the loudest call of duty.— Jialzac. I The North Georgian. VOL. IV. The Match Monopoly. The most complete monopoly now ex isting in the United States, according to common report, is the manufacture of friction matches. Some time during last winter, it appears a New England corporation of large means bought every factory then in operation, amt it is not known that there is in the country a sin gle establishment now engaged in this business except those controlled by that concern. The law’ taxing the manufac ture of matches was ingeniously con structed to convey the impression that a purpose existed to make the burden as light as possible upon match-makers of limited means, and thus prevent them from being crowded out of the bus iness. In its practical application, how ever, the law was operated most effectu ally to the advantage of the wealthier men in the trade. It permits the pur chase of tax stamps on a credit of sixty days, the buyer giving bonds to secure the amount. The ostensible purpose of this privilege was to give the poorer manufacturers an opportunity to realize the tax by sales before the time at which payment to the Government had to be made. But the owners of extensive con cerns found important advantage in the arrangement. The Government credit gave them liberty to use their capital in extending their business and pushing their product on tho market—a process which is essential in the prosecution of any successful enterprise in these days. Another and more objectionable fealuro of tho law has operated directly and strongly against manufacturers whoso means were small. Persons purchasing not more than SSOO worth of stamps nt a. time are entitled to a discount, of 5 per cent., while upon larger quantities a dis count of 10 per cent, is allowed. This discrimination, fur which there appears tube no other reason than a desire to lesson the labor of internal revenue offi cers employed in selling stamps, would of itself suffice to give the largo Con cerns control of the market. With these advantages, it is understood, the large manufacturers have had another of some importance in the ownership of pat ents employed in making ami boxing matches. And so it has come about that a single a-: ■''. iati al of capitalists now controls tin- match market, and establishes the pi.ee which the public must pay for tho privilege of lighting lamps and kindling fires. The thought of such a monopoly is annoying to the people, even if the tax it contents itself with for the present is net particularly burdensome. Popular repugnance to it is exhibited in an urgent d< maud for the total repeal of tho match hr;, the general belief appearing to be that, if this obstruction was removed, persons of moderate means might, be en couraged to re-engage in the manufac ture, and thus secure the benefits of competition in restraining the rapacity of tire mouoplists.— -Chicago Tlihcs. Remarkable Accident. [Virginia (Nov.) Chronicle.l A most remarkable accident happened at the Hale A Norcross mine last night. A cage with sbe men was coining up the shaft at I I —the hour for chang ing shifts. When about 600 feet from the bottom, at a point where there is an irregular pl.ice in the guides, the cage suddenly lurched to one side, throwing the men to the other. Patrick Holland, who was on the outside, was crowded oil' Instead of falling to the bottom and being dashed to pieces, he was safely lodged on a wall-plate. The, other men on the eage supposed he had fallen into the sump, of course. When they reached the surface they got the usual sack and boxes and started back to the sump to gather up the fragments of the body. As they approached the place where the man was thrown oft’, they heard a voice below them telling them to go slow They did not know what to make of this strange discovery, never supposing it possible for Holland to be anywhere cl-e than at the bottom. When they saw him safe on his narrow perch they could scarcely believe their eyes. Any one who has ascended a saft knows how rapidly the wall-plates flit by when the lantern is held so as to bring them to view. The cage from which Holland was thrown was coining up at the usual rate of speed. How the dan could possibly have been lodged on one of these pieces of timber without being jammed by the cage or knocked off as it went past him is a wonder. The wall plate is a square timber, fourteen by sixteen inches, so that there was very little standing room for Holland while he was waiting for the cage to come down and rescue him. If the shaft had been so light that he could look down any considerable distance of the 600 feet between him and the bottom, ho would scarcely have had the nerve to cling to his narrow footing. The dark ness of all mining shafts is a point in favor of the miners, preserving their coolness when placed in ticklish posi tion. A couple of pumpmen will throw a foot-wide plank across a shaft 2,000 feet from the bottom. The darkness of the shaft prevents the thought of the awful abyss below from being constantly pres ent. Not Married. The street-car was crowded, and the driver was just about to start, when Gil hooly remarked to a friend, “Jones is not married yet, is he?” “Os course not.” “I thought he was not married vet, for I saw him carrying home a broom yesterday.” A red-faced woman snapped her eyes at Gilhooly, and pushed a cadaverous, timid-looking man ahead of her as she got out of the car. If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be abed in that way. BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., APRIL 7, 1881. Sawing Wood. No one ever hears a boy complain about the back-breaking, soul-killing hardships of wood-sawing. All such talk is confined to adults, and it has no real foundation. There is only one way to saw wood and take comfort at the same time, and every boy has that way. Yesterday afternoon half a cord of four foot wood was Hung down at the gate of a house on Second street, and the wagon had only departed when a boy fifteen years old appeared with a bucksaw in his hand. All his actions indicated his purpose to go through that wood-pile like chain-lightning, but it took him ex actly seven minutes to discover that ho had left the saw-buck in tho wood-shed, and five minutes more to bring it out. Some boys would have dropped the saw-buck wherever it happened and pitched right in, but this boy spent five minutes in selecting a locution of the first water. By this time he had tho pres ence of three other boys to cheer him on to victory. These three boys made the following suggestions in the order given below: “I’d hire a masheen.” “I’d run away and fight Injuns.” “I’d let the old man do it.” But the hero went right ahead with his work. In twenty minutes after his first move he had a stick of wood on tho saw-buck. He turned it over four times before it settled down to his satisfaction, and then he picked up the saw. A buck saw is a simple yet ingenious piece of machinery. Men who were sawing wood by the day have been known to stand and gaze at the saw for an hour nt a time without being able to solve its mys terious points. This boy picked up the saw and carefully examined it. In the course of seven minutes, with the aid of tho other three boys, he was enabled to discover: 1. That the teeth were all there. 2. That the frame-work was of beech. 3. That it was in perfect, order, as far as a boy could judge. When these discoveries had been made, a discussion arose as to whether a boy could saw faster by sawing left-handed. The vote on this question was carried in the negative, and now the moment ar rived for action. The boy spit on his hands. He removed his coat. He humped up his back. He pulled bis cap over his ears. Ho had his knee on the stick and the saw in hand, when a little three-cent dog down on the next corner run out at a passing gout. The goat riished into a yard and a girl was heard screaming. The saw fell to the ground, the saw-buck was up-set, and the boy went tearing down to the corner like a cheap whirl wind, and when darkness began to settle down over ’ the face of tho earth here turned to carry the. saw and buck into tho woodshed for the night.— Detroit Free Dress. Training Circus Horses. “How long,” asked the reporter, “does it take to break a horse in?” “From eighteen months to two years, for good and sure pad-riding. Caro has to bo taken that ho does not shy, or break his gait, but goes round the circus ring nt an even pace, so that tho per former can do whatever he wants, by time. If this is not secured the per former can never tell where ho is going to jump. Much, however, depends upon what the horse is being trained for, all the best horses being used only for a special performance. In most cases the riders, if they arc experienced, train their own animals, and thus, when they are ridden, they understand much better what is requinfl of them. Ducrow, Aladame Dockrill, Melville, Sebastian, Stickney, Cooke, Reed, and tho like all train their own horses and own them. This system of private training has only been in practice for a few years. Man agers of a circus, under the old custom, were always expected to furnish pad horses, and those required for two and four-act performances, so that a per former going from one company to an other would always find a horse ready for him to mount, and in a short time horse and rider would be able to under stand each other. Nowadays some ol the crack stars have as many as eight or ten horses of their own, most of them trained for a special performance. They are very valuable, most of them being full blooded, and imported from En gland and France. Great care has to be taken of them, as they are, extremely li able to take cold after a ring perform ance.—. New York Evcninn Mail. Responsibilities of Heredity, Son and heir (suddenly dissatisfies with his stature, his personal appearance, and the quality of his intellect) —“Aw what on earth evali could have induced you two people to tnawwy ?” Sir Robert and Lady Mawiali—“Tin old, old stohwy, my dear boy ! We fell in love with one auothah—aw—aw ” Son and heir—“ Aw—well—you’re both such awf'ly good old deaws, that 1 forgive you. But you weally should have had bettah taste, you know, ami each have fallen in love with a diffewent kind of person altogethah, and given a fellow a chance ? You see, it is all owin' to your joint interfeawence in my affunws that I’m under five foot one, and can’t say boh to a goose, and—a—justly pass for being the gweatest guy in the whole country—aw ! just look at me, confound it. ” [They look at him and then at each other—and haven’t a word to say. 1 A citizen of Richmond, Virginia, being asked in London how bis town had flour ished since the fall of the Southern Con federacy, replied: “Oh, exceedingly well; we live on red herrings and glorious recollections!” Might Take the Croup. Several months ago Mrs. La Rubble died, and since that time La Rubble has been paying attentions to old MissWhce zer. a rich old maid of Cleveland. “ I do wish that you would bring your little girl to see me the next time you come,” requested Miss Wheezer, the other night, when La Bubble was taking his leave. “ I will bo rejoiced, but she is such a little romp that I am afraid you will be tired of the visit.” “Oh, no,” answered Miss Wheezer, with a sudden unbending of frame char acteristic of a heave, “I ean never grow tired of a visit which involves your own presence. ” •• Thank you. Good night;” and after lingering one moment more to squeeze a prudish hand, La Rubble left, and, as the young novelists say, strode down the street. Next evening La Rubble and his little girl called. Miss Wheezer pressed the child to her—well, say bosom—and cov ered the little upturned face with kisses. Releasing herself, the child ran to her father, and, leaving him, went on a mis cellaneous excursion around the room. “How did you like Endymion, Alias Wheezer?” “ Oh, splendid 1 and do you know the work should endear itself to all women, in that it places our sex so high in politi cal Influence.” “ We had eggs and chicken for break fast when my ma died,” exclaimed the little girl. ‘.‘Beaconsfield well knew the influence of woman,” said La Rubble, sending a reproachful glance at his daughter. “ I have been a close student—” “ Aly pa talk my ma’s clothes to a place where there is three great big gold balls, bigger than I could lift, and—” “ But do you think,” remarked Miss Wheezer, “that in vivid portrayal Endy mion is quite equal to Vivian Gray ? ” “There is tho same outcropping of almost insatiate ambition, but—” “One day,” began the child, “one day—” “ As I was saying, the same ambitious outcropping—” “ One day my—” “Ambition that ever swells in—” “Ono day my pa come home— ’’ “Hush, Lena,” said La Rubble with poorly counterfeited tenderness. “Hush, you are not well. I don't know what’s the matter with that child.” “Croup, probably,” suggested Aliss Wheezer. “ r *hat amhitiou,” eo'itinucd La Rub ble, “ which boils in the cauldron of hu man nature—” “One day my pa came homo so sick ami my nm shoved him over on the bed and pulled off his boots and my pa struck at my ma and hit his hand on the bed post and said the av.fulest—” “Come, dear, you are not well to night. I should not have brought you.” “ It was no doubt injudicious to bring her out into the night air,” observed Afiss Wheezer. La Rubble walked so fast going home that tho child could not keep up with him. Next morning he received a note which read very much as follows : “ Dear Sir—Yon needn’t call any more. I am not in very good health, and my friends think that if I expose myself [ might take the croup.” Cleveland Leader. Rich People of the Olden Times. That we have some very rich people in this country there is r.o doubt, but where are they, asks the Cincinnati Star, as compared with the Roman aristocrats ? Vanderbilt may be able to give his check for $50,000,000, but when Cyrus returned from the conquest of Asia he was rated at $500,000,000. Mrs. Astor may give an entertainment at the expense of $25,- 000, and Airs. Mackay may give dinner parties that cost $50,000. lint a festival given by Ptolemy Philadelphus cost $2,- 230,000. Alexander’s daily meal, frugal as it was, cost $1,700; and money was of so lit tle account to Claudius that he once swallowed a pearl that was worth $40,000. James Gordon Bennett has been known to give many thousands of dollars to people for whom he had acquired a fancy, but according to Tacitus, more than $97,000,000 was given away in a similar manner by Nero. Queens of fashion in New York and San Francisco have ap peared at bails wearing jewels estimated to have cost $200,000, which pales into insignificance when compared with the alleged fact that Lollia Taulina wore jewels valued at $1,662,500, and that when she wore these it was only on the the occasion of a plain citizen’s supper. Over $50,000 was spent in providing a funeral for an eccentric New Yorker who left directions how the money should be spent, but the obsequies of Hephaes tion cost $1,500,000. Americans have died and left millions to their sons who have squandered it all in a score of years, but Antony “got away with” $735,000,- 000, and Tiberns left the snug little sum of $118,000,000, which Caligula squan dered, to the last penny, in less than one year. The late lamented Sothern is said to have spent SIOO,OOO in a year in good living, but it is said that Pegellus, the singer, spent money at the rate of $40,000 a week. And then there was a Darius and Heliogabalus and Lucullus and Lentalus and—well, this will do for to-day. There are a great, many men born in the world who imagine that they were born with genius, and lie down on the sofa and wait tor an inspiration until some other fellow, who thought himself a dunce, rises by hard labor to a compe tency, buys the sofa, and leads the wait ng genius out by the ear. This is not a joke; it is a fact. _ Whoever is suspicious incites treason. Voltaire. Expense of Fuel. One of the discomforts of a winter in Continental Europe is the lack of such fires for heating as wo think essential in American houses. If one has a long purse, and does not mind the expense, they can be had there as here, but were one in Paris or Rome to indulge in such roaring fires as we keep constantly going in furnaces and grates, it would be re garded even by the wealthy as an ex travagance surpassing that of the Roman Emperors. To be sure, the houses are so built as not to be as susceptible of changes of temperature as those in which tho majority of our people live. The walls and partitions are thicker, the windows and doors closer fitted, and they retain the heat longer. Then the stoves in use there for heating are constructed so that a comparatively small part of the heat is wasted. But even with all these precautions an American, accustomed to generous and blazing coal and wood fires, finds tho apartments warmed suf ficient for the comfort of the native, cohl and uncomfortable, and shivers as he re calls the fires blazing on his native hearth. He learns with surprise in Paris that the wood with which his dinner is cooked or his shins warmed is sold by the pound, and is weighed out to the purchaser as carefully as butter, sugar, or coffee. A handful of twigs, such as in America would be allowed to rot, costs five cents, and better wood at proportionate prices. So fires on tho continent are a luxury, and in many houses, except for cooking, no fires are seen the year round. But if fires are expensive and fuel scarce and high in Continental Europe, what shall we say of Japan, where char coal, split wood, bnish and dried grass are used for cooking and heating booths, and is hardly ever used outside the cities, for purely heating purposes. The char coal is made in wooded regions, and car ried to the settlements in straw sacks on the backs of men and horses. It cost from twenty-five to fifty cents the 100 pounds. Cut wood is sold in small bun dles of six sticks, each stick being about eighteen inches in length by two inches in diameter, and is sold at about one cent a bundle. A good comfortable fire, such as our people must have to keep them warm, would cost several dollars a <lny. But our extravagance in fuel dimin ishes with the years and the increasing cost of fuel. We will travel a good Ways, and have then to seek communities re mote from railroads, to find such wood tires as kept the log cabins and thin frame houses of the pioneers warm. The great fire-places, with their- wide fronts and immense chimneys, their great andirons, back-logs, fore-logs, and sec tions of seasoned split wood four or five feet long, piled high, are hardly known save in remote settlements. But we make almost as extravagant use of coal as our fathers did of wood, and will probably continue to do so till the cost of it compels a study of economy in the methods of heating houses, and servants are instructed how to manage fiffes so as to secure the most heat with the least amount of fuel.— Cincinnati Commer cial. If elastic gum is warmed, then ex panded and wound in a spiral upon a glass tube or wire, and cooled for a short time in a cooling mixture, it shows no tendency to contract; but when it is sub mitted to hot water it returns quickly to its original length. The phenomenon can also be made to appear without the use of the cooling mixture. If one holds heated gum a second in an expanded condition it shows no disposition to le turn to its original length, but if one im merses it in hot water it contracts to one fourth or one-fifth of its original length. Maxwell has found that similar phenom ena are produced in gutta percha. For the purpose of determining the capacity of a horse to undergo the priva tions incident to a state of siege, _ a series of experiments have been made in Paris. The results show: That a horse may hold out for twenty-five days without any solid nourishment, provided it is supplied with sufficient good drinking water; that a horse can subsist on barley five days without water; and, thirdly, that if a horse is well fed for ten days, but insuf ficiently supplied with water throughout this period, it will not outlive the eleventh day. A horse which had received no solid nourishment for twelve days was nevertheless in a condition to draw a load of six hundred pounds on the twelfth day of its fast. A New York boarder asked a diminu tion of his rent because of the dampness of his house. It was naturally refused, and tho boarder gave notice that he would leave. He got even with his land lord by planting a beautiful mushroom in his bed-chamber, and whenever any one came to see the apartment he would call to the servant girl: “Bridget, see here, what ia thia mushroom doing in this room? It seems to me that I told you to take it away;" to which Bridget answers: “I did as you told me, air, but another must have grown there since.” Judge Caldwell, of North Carolina, at one time was obliged to call upon an old darkey to open his court. It was evidently the'first time he had acted in the capacity of bailiff. He began: “O, yes! O, yea! O, yes! De hono’ble, de Co’t is now on de bench.” Then, after hesitating a moment, as if not knowing what to say, he seemed to hit it, and ended by exclaiming, “An’ may de Lawd have mercy on hia soul 1” Caldwell re torted immediately, “That’s right, my man; that’s right; if there ever was a Court that needed the mercy of God, it's this one.”— Harper's Magazine. Some men are ao improvident that if thousand dollar notes were selling fora cent a piece, they couldn't lift a mort gage on a two-cent postage stamp. Published Etekt Thumday at BELLTON, GEORGIA/ - .„. . , ■ > - RATES OF '.SUBSCRIPTION. Oae year (52 numbera), $1.00; aix noatha numbers), 50 cento; three months (13 numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Carter building, west of the depot. M). 14. HUMORS OF THE DAY Damp cellars—bar-tenders. Ice cakes should never be served hot. “Give us a song!” is a plcase-sing re quest. The highest priced coal is about Le high. A misplaced switch may ruin a loco motive or spoil a boy. What is the prime object of soldiers’ drill? To make holes in the enemy. Nothing keeps a man from knowledge and wisdom like thinking he has both. A jot-tina'l heads an article, “A Luna tic Escapes and Murries a Widow.” Es caped, eh? We should say he got eaught. The condition of the Utes is said to be one of discontent. The last lot of paper collars sent them had the button holes omitted. Adjectives are the millinery of litera ture, and, like tho trimmings of a dress, they should not be allowed to obscure the original fabric.— Hostap Courier. A sakcastic writer speaks of an enemy who “is but one step removed from an ass.” He'd better make it three or four. The animal has a long reach backward. Did you ever see a woman slip down? Os course you never looked, but then you've seen them. She didn’t flourish around like an intoxicated jumping jack, filling Hie air with arms and bad words, ns a man does; but, fche simply abbrevi ates, so to speak, like a ei'pshed hat or patent drinking cup, while .you stand by and wonder you never notided that hole in the sidewalk before. CONCNDBVMS. ’Twas Hurry who the alienee bloke: •• Mi.-s Kato why are you like a tree ?” 1 !• tuse. brcause—l’ni b<Mird, she spjke. “Oh, nn; herauee you’re woo'd,” said be. “ Why nre yon tike a itee,” she said. • I havo a- limit ? ’ he io low, Jit r iuiswt'i- made tho yr tine rnim red: * I'ccjuise x uu’re eJpj'.v, don’t you know ?” “Oid e UDirp/’ she nfked, “ why are you now A tree Jlc couldn’t quite perceive. “ l leave sometimes and ninke a bow, And you can ylways bowr-and leave.” JI. C. in Whitehall Timet. “You look so happy that I suppose you have been to the dentist and had that aching tooth pulled,” said a Galves ton man to a friend with a swollen jaw. "It ain’t that that makes me look happy. I’he tooth acres worse than ever, but I don’t feel it.” “How’s that?” “Weil, I feel so jolly because I have just been to the dentist, and he was out,” and the happy man ent a pigeon-wing on the sidewalk.— Galveston News. 1 discussion arose in a coffee-room as to the nationality of a geiideman at the other end of the room. “He is an En glishman,” said one, “I know by his head.” “He’s a Scotchman,” said an other, “I know by his complexion.” “He’s a German,” said another, “I know by his beard.” Another thought he looked like a Spaniard. Here the con versation rested, but soon one of them spoke. “I have it,” said he, “he’s an American; he’s got his legs on the table.” They were watching the seagulls whirl ing in graceful circles above tho waters of the bay, while the rays of the sinking sun covered the landscape with a flood of gold. Finally he turned to her, and with a voice trembling with emotion, asked: “Darling, if ive were seagulls would you fly away with me and be at rest ?” To which she answered, with her gaze fixed on a far-off mass of castellated clouds: “No, George; I’d let you fly away, and then I’d have all the rest I wanted here.” A Soldier’s Dream. Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a camp sentinel who was off duty tem porarily and trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed that he went out on a scout. A mile to the right of the camp he came upon a log barn, and as it began to rain just then, he sought shelter, or was about 10, when he heard voices and discovered that the place was already occupied. After a little investigation he discovered scouts hail taken up their quarters for the night in the place, and he therefore moved away. The sentinel awoke with such vivid remembrance of the details that he asked permission to go over and confer with one of the scouts. When the log barn was described to this man he located it at once, having passed it a dozen times. The dreamer described the highway exactly as it was, giving every hill and turn, and the scout put such faith in the remainder of the dream that he took four soldiers, one of whom was the dreamer, and set out for the place. Three Confederate scouts were asleep in the straw, and were taken with out a shot being tired. Three days before the affair at Keeley’s Ford a corporal in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry dreamed that a brother of his, who was a sergeant in another company, would have his horse killed in action, and would almost immediately mount a dark bay horse with a white nose. Within five minutes both horse and rider would be killed by a shell. This dream was related to more than a score of comrades fully two days before tho fight. Early in the fight the sergeant’s horse was struck square in the forhead by a bullet and dropped dead in his tracks. It was scarcely three minutes before a white nosed horse, carrying a blood-stained saddle galloped np to the sergeant and halted. He remembered the dream and refused to mount the animal, and soon after picked up a black horse. The white-nosed animal was mounted by a second corporal in another regiment, and the horse and rider were torn to frag ments by a shell, in full sight of four companies of the Sixth.— New York Commercial Advertiser. K man in a Pennsylvania town has twenty-nine children. Strangers pass ing tho bouse on washing days «re at a j loss to determine whether it is a school or a laundry. _____