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Georgian, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —AT— BELLTON, GfoY. Bv MYERS & Bl 1< 'E. DK. D. M. BREAKER Editor Office in the Snith building, east of the depot. $1 CO per muii, i-f) cents for six months, in advance. Fiftv numoera Io ’he vr.bift-e N WS CLEANINGS. Ex-Governor Warmoth is now one of Louisiana’s largest sugar planters, and he says the sugar crop will fall otF fully one-half. The Mobile press indignantly howl at the published reports that the city i< on the decay. They assert that the city of Mobile is fast improving. The cotton crop of South Carolina will unquestionably be short as com pared with last year's crop, but there is some reason to hope that the loss will not be as great as generally supposed. It is sai l the Pensacola railroad lias the largest pair of track scales in Amer ica, which are 106 feet long, and can weigh three cars at once loaded with spar timber. Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry county woman, whose arms are cut off just below the elbow, threads her needle by sticking it in her dress and tak ing the thread between her two stumps of arms and forcing it through the eye of the needle. She, does neat sewing, hoes corn well andean pick fifty or sixty pounds of cotton per day. Arkansas Democrat: The cotton crop of Arkansas is much smaller than it was last year. But it must be remem bered that we lost a large portion of last year’s crop by bad weather, and much of what was gathered was of a very in ferior quality and sold for a small price. If the weather continues favorable for picking there will be only a small dif ference in the amount saved as com pared with last year. Mobile Register: There seems to lie a fatal disease among horses and mules in this neighborhood. Within the forty-eight hours ending at dark last night eight horses and five mule- have died. We also understand from Capt. I’. !■’. Albi that, he has several hoises under treatment for the sam< disease, which is an aflection of tin throat. Some apprehension among the owners of valuable animals exists for fear that the disease may become epidemic. The State Virginian : The rains that have fallen in the past few days in nearly every, portion of Virginia and North Carolina will benefit the grass and set the streams to running once more, but they come too late to help the tobacco crop. Indeed,some ol the most experienced tobacco planters are of the opinion that the rain, coming so late at it did, will do the crop more harm than good. But the tobacco raisers will have the consolation of knowing that the de ficiency in quantity will be made up in a measure. ITie Madisonian : There is a negro in Morgan county. Lewis Jordon, who it thoroughly conversant with the rudi ments of the Latin language, knows a smattering of French, and is fa-t learn ing to read and parse Greek. He is a capital scholar in English grammar, and is ready in mathematics. He hat ac quired this extraordinary amount of learning without the assistance of a pre ceptor, and seems charmed when under some great mental task. He hasn’t an intelligent face, but rather the reverse, appearing at times silly in the extreme. He is about thirty-five years old, and feels confident that he can master sev eral languages before his death. He laughs at you when you ask if he could not progress faster if placed under a competent teacher. He is humble, po lite and strictly reliable. Knoxville Tribune : One of the most wonderful phenomena that have come under our observation in a long time is a natural flow’ of gas from the earth, that burns with a brilliant flame when ignited. The spot where this gas es capes is about one mile from Oliver’s Springs, in Anderson county, and im pregnates the atmosphere for yards around with the odor The gas eeems to come from a spring on Coal creek, near the water, but for yaids up the mountain side there runs a vein about a foot wide, which has been fired and at time' burns brilliantly. At the end of the vein, on the bank of the creek, the gas burns with a bright yellow flame and emit’ considerable he it, A pipe is sometimes introduced in the spring and at a distance of several yards burns readily. A traveler passing a few days ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein, put two rocks, one <>n opposite sides of the pipe, and boiled tea from the flame that was produced on igniting. The gas evidently come’ from a coal formation si Ii- a natural curiosity I’ersoei go j.O 6- » * 0 F I ' ’ The North Georgian. VOL. IV. TOPICS OF THE DAT. f Chables J. Gviteau will plead in- I sanity. Tub Jews in Russia are organizing for self-protection. — Rowell has retired from the track , with $50,000 tr> his credit. American horses are carrying off all the honors in England this year. I ■ The country is responding liberally to , the suffering people of Michigan. A Parisian clothing house is running its sewing- machines by electricity. One of Detroit's tough citizens uses nitro-glycerine to blow his nose with. Private board, as a rule, has advanced one dollar a week in nearly all the cities. A St. Lot is negro committed suicide through grief at the death of the Presi de nt. The public debt was reduced ov-t twelve millions of dollars during Sep tember. _ Sixty-eight miles of black cloth were used to drape the department buildings in Washington. - . ■■ r . Traveling by balloon would bo the better and more profitable way in Mis souri and Arkansas. The rice crop of the United States this year is estimated at 1,500,000 bush els, an abundant crop. Reports of the, nut crop say hickory nuts nre more plentiful than ever, but ternuts a failure and acorns short. - - <o rii.av was pleased to hear of the President's death because it put him out ■f pain. This is magmuniuity, indeed. o • \\ eston, of pedestrian fame, is in the employ of the Church of England Tent p rance Society. How men do drift about, .. . Queen Christine, of Sweden, said that she loved men, “not bocause they arc men, but because they are not wo men Owing to the change of administration William Wnlter Phelps, United States Minister to Austria, has asked to be re called at once. —— s - ——— Thebe is little doubt but that tiro prosecutions of the Star .Route con tractors will go right on as if nothing had occurred. We announce, with a spasmodic shiver, that large hoops are being adopted by the leaders of fashion iu the large cities. Girls, to your tents I Unless some terrible penalty is at tached to attempts on the lives of pub lic men, we may expect an increase of crime in that direction. Harrison, the “boy preacher,’’ charges SIOO a week for his services. There is no telling what he will charge when he gets to be a man. —. M ason, who shot at Guiteau, will not be photographed, and persons writing for his picture will save themselves time and i oiK-y by taking notice. The late rains over the country have started a rapid growth of grass, and the consumption of hay, for the time being, will stop to a great extent. No man, perhaps, was ever in a more ' trying position than President Arthur, and all well-meaning citizens can but hope h.- will be equal to the emergency. - - ■ . The Detroit Free Preus states there are 58,000,000 gallons of whisky stored in Kentucky. What a high old time there will be when people find out where i it is. - August Belmont, the New York 1 banker, who spends his summers at I Saratoga, pays SI,OOO a week for board for himself and family of half a dozen > persons. 1 The number of days from the time of Garfield’s election to his death (includ ing those two days) was “329.” Were this a superstitious age, the fact might ! not be regarded merely as a coincidence. > During the past twelve years it has ; | eOSt $302,345 for “furnishing and re . i pairing” the Executive Mansion at Washington, and yet we read that the pi furniture is old and must be replaced. The amount does look rather stingy. 1 It seems to be the case that the Mor -1 j mens supply the White River Utes with ’ atn munition, and it is rumored no ■ that, having plenty of that article, tiicy v A 1 BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., OCTOBER «. ISSI. refuse to stay on their new reservation, ! It would, perhaps, be to the interest of I the Mormons to endeavor to cultivate Uncle Sum’s good opinion. Ex-President Hayes seems to have • nu enterprise on hand about which the public know very little. He owns a farm | of 500 acres near Bismarck, D. T., which cost him from sixty to seventy-five cents j an acre, worth now sls per acre, and the , past year a wheat crop on it yielded him , a profit of $15,000. _— — Hebe is the new Cabinet as it is or- \ ganized iu some of the New York pa pers : Secretary of State, U. S. Grant; Secretary of the Treasury, Levi I’. Mor ton ; Secretary of the Interior, Senator Jones; Secretary of the Navy, Judge! Settle ; Secretary of War, Robert Lin coln ; Postmaster General, Senator Fre- i linghuysen ; Attorney General, Geo. S. Boutwell. — - Young men should take courage. ; Several years ago Jenny Henry, a young ! girl with scarcely enough to sustain her, , settled on a tract of land at Ash Creek, Kansas, and by economy and hard work, , now owns a farm under a good state of | cultivation upon which there is a com fortable house, well-furnished, and other valuable improvements. She will make a living for some man. — Farm products, on flic average, are a third higher than they were a year ago. : Within a feiv months wheat lias advanced , from 87 cents to $1.59, and corn from i 45@47 to 76@80c. Flour has advanced ’ $2 on the barrel. Potatoes that last March were selling at $2.25 per barrel are now bringing $3.35. What price ! potatoes will bring by next March we do ! not like to predict. They will be high I jnough evidently for those who are com I pelle.l to buy. Ex Minister Chbistiancy doubtless: feels somewhat discouraged. First, a ! divorce suit unsettles his nerves, then comes ti challenge to fight a duel, and before he recovers from the shock, bur glars enter his apartments and steal $3,0111) worth of diamonds that hud been given him for safe-lv epiiig. This i , nliout tin- poiut reached wlu-u of suicide crowd themselves one upon , another. Tin-: Sexton of Lakeview Cemetery, ; Cleveland, • where Gem ml Garfield is I buried, says that one day last full the President-elect and bis uncle, Thomas | Garfield, since dead, and buried in the cemetery, came out to inspect the mon ument of the Garfield family. The old uncle was a jolly fellow, and, while talking, said, laughingly, to the nephew; ; “Now, James, if you should be so per verse as to die, with so many honors thick upon you, here is plenty of room to bury you, and a place left on the ! stone to inscribe your name. ” We have another terror now’ iu aulici- < pation, that of cholera. This disea-e i seems to recnr at intervals of seventeen l years. It visited us in 1849, ami again i in ISflCi. The cable announces tha! it ) has broken out among the /.jolianimi dri’i i pilgrims in Mecca, and also in the ltii>-i> ! Austrian frontier, two distant points on I the road from the East. It may be ! that this is ominous of its return lu re, in 1883, and as sanitary laws are its indy ‘ preventive, it is essential that they I"' strictly heeded. — Corn is now worth eighty cent.- the ' bushel, and the prospects are, that it | will be higher, lyiien tn-e.iey was cheap i and corn brought one dollar the lutshel, : the fact was accorded asan eventworlli. 1 a place in the history of commerce; bill. ' . what shall we say now, with money at | f par, of the price which this product i promises to attain. The difference, lieu • ever, between then and now is. flint ! then the high price, attained was or. in : to the cheapness of money and an nn- ! usual demaud in the markets, whereas | the present status is a result of tin- I | scarcity of the corn pi’oduct. It is of i little benefit to the farm r how high j corn is if he have none to sell. The Cincinnati Gazefte pays the. fol • lowing tribute to the integrity of Ja'- ’ Cooke : The example which Jay Cooke I presents of recovery from bankruptcy t > I honorable solvency, after having be -n hounded from wealth to poverty by I heartless ami undiscriminatirig persecu tion, is not equaled probably in finan cial history. Every lover of integrity and persobal worth will rejoice to know that the great dispenser of greenbacks and salesman of Government bonds in ’ the hour of the Nation’s fiery trial is ; likely to pass the evening of bis days in ! affluence in the elegant home he pro ! vided in days of affluence, which was cheerfully surrendered to satisfy both needy and rapacious creditors, but is . nsw recovered by his recuperated means : to the use of the worthv owner. Br.iu Wilkerson, a Colorado outlaw \ who was kindly assisted “over tin- - range ” by the vigilauts, was highly con ; uected in Indiana, as well as with the limb from which he mode his last ap ; pearaiice iu public. His granduncle was ! Josejfli Wright, who was Governor for i several terms, then United States Sena ' tor, and afterward Minister to Berlin. His grandfather was lor many years a member of the Indiana Legislature. His ■ father was a cousin of the Hon. James i F. Harlin, of lowa. Bert had for sev i oral years figured as a border bar-room ■ hero, and the murder for which his life ; we- taken was wanton, brutal and cow ardly. When about to die, however, his bravado proved trustworthy, lie ad justed the noose himself, remarking,' “Boys, I’ll help you all I can,” and coolly kicked over the chair on which he ' stood. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. When reduced to extremity by hun ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order to allay the uneasy sensations of his stomach. Thebe is a species of crow in Flor ida that gives vent to a series of haw 1 haws 1 in exact imitation of the human voice I A wild elephant may generally bo tamed, bo as to bo conducted from place to place unfettered, in about six months. In the Guildford Endowed Grammar \ School, in England, where the school master is held responsible for every vol ume, which, if lost, ho is bound to re place, one master, to decrease his risk, carefully packed all the books under the floor, where they proved a banquet for the rats and mice. I The curious library of old Samuel i Bepys, the well-known diarist, is im i prisoned in its original book-eases at J Magdalene College, Cambridge. No ! one can gain admission to it except in the company of two Fellows of the col i lege, and, if a single book is lost, the whole collection goes to a neighboring college. The Norwegian lemming is an animal about the size of a mouse. They live, under the stones in summer, under the snow in winter. They hiss and bile. About once iu ten years they migrate in largo armies. They march in a straight line. They cross lakes and rivers. They go straight through bay-stacks rather than go aror-nd. Nothing stops i thorn, not fires, cascades nor swamps. | If a man stands in tlieir way they will ■ jump at him as high as his knee. If : struck they will turn around and bark I and bite like a dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls, i hawks and weasels will follow them and I destroy large numbers of them, but it does not check them. They continue their course until they reach the sea, into which they plunge, as persistent and progressive as ever, until the waves exterminate them. The microscope shows a variation in the thickness of human hair from the l-250th to the 1-fiOOth part of an inch; but, notwithstanding such fineness, it. is | a massive cable in comparison with other fibers. Thus tiie thread of the silk-worm is many times finer, being from the 1-1,700th to the 1-2,000th of an inch. This, however, is nothing to the ’ slenderness of the spider’s thread, which i has been found in some instances to be i no more than 1-30,000th of an inch in I diameter. The fibers yielded by the ! vegetable kingdom are also of astonish l ing minuteness. Thus, every’ fiber of flax is found to bo composed of a bundle !of other fibrils, which are about ! 1-2,500th of an inch in diameter. Simi lar fibers obtained from the pineapple I plant have been ascertained to be no ■ more than 1-5,000th or even 1-7,000th of I an inch in diameter. In the British House of Lords Lord Brougham once mentioned two some what-remarkable facts showing the ne i cesmty of having a safe place for the deposit of wills. The first ease is one iu which one of his noble friends, us heir- I at-law, lost, and another of his noble friends, as a devisee, gained, £.30,000 a year. How the first lost it, and the last gained it, was by a will being found in an old rusty box, in an old traveling carriage, and which, therefore, might have been very naturally lost by acci dent or destroyed by ignorance. The second case was one, also, in which I some of his noble friends were con cerned, and the sum in question was no i less than £160,000. This sum would have been entirely lost for the purposes for which it was intended if the inquiries : relative to the existence of a will with I respect to it had been instituted in win , ter instead of in the summer. The will i was searched for everywhere, but could nowhere be found, until, at last, it was I discovered in a grate, and stuffed like a ■ niece cf waste paper through the bars; if it had been winter instead of summer, in all probability when the fire Juul been lighted it would have been destroyed. “Gath” says that a public man at Long Branch told him that when Zach Chandler heard of the nomination of Lincoln in 1860, he began io curse in a terrible manner, and said that Lincoln was a miserable clown, and that Sev.ard was the only man in the country lit to bo elected and who could have carried it. Somebody spoke up at the telegraph office, where this talk was going on, and said, “ You underate Mr. Lincoln ; he is a man of int llect; a fine lawyer ;an ex cellent debater, and a man of decision of chnracter and firmness of purpose.” Tn aboul fifteen mimites of such talk ns th! . Zach «■:. . indue, dto send a message • to Lincoln congratulating him. NO. 40. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Whut Ntie Vlore. She wer.‘ a saire-grepii polonaißo, Shirred up behind the back. And several p aite with gURBet loops Were hemstitched in with black. The drab ooreage—that fair cowAjje— Was biased down before; The skirt was simply flounced in gr*y; And barely touched the floor. A coliur-bund of crepe de chine. Or Satinet ccru, Just reached unto her dainty waist, Ami was of mauvish hue. Her hat—but, no, an angel's pen Won- needed on the earth To paint that hat and c xdume 8* They just arrived from W or fh. Tin liiflncnleal We generally picture her as e leader of fashion, stately and beautiful, the center of her coterie. Her moral quali i ties are not considered at all ; and that is where w e err. When the rich woman can show to the. world only a life of fashion mid idleness, she is deserving of open censure and disgrace, so long as there are hungry bodies, minds or souls crying for some of her abundance. To whom much is given much is required. Let public opinion mete out its wrath of censure upon the fasluouable, idle woman, who is a disgrace to her sex because of her aimless, useless life. Let the expression “best society” mean those who do good deeds, who leave the i world happier and better for having ! lived, instead of those who have been most idle and aimless. The “influential women" of every community are those I who are doing amt daring, that the world may bo made purer and better, whether they are fashionable or unfashionable it matters not. A Woman'** A%<-. A ease was decided not long ago be fore the appeal court at Metz, in Ger many, which shows bow a lady’s age is a matter entirely within her own control. Fraulein Catherine Maid was engaged, to a desirable partner, to whom she. had i imprudently declared her age at six i years less than it really was. As soon as the moment arrived for producing the ; certificate of birth, she was aware that her little deception would be discovered, and she feared that4ihe match would lie. I broken off. She, therefore, took the I liberty of altering the oflie.ial document so as to make it correspond with the I statement already made. The cere- i moiiv took place, and the husband was duly united to a lady whom lie believed to be quite a jeunc infj'iuie. Unfortu nately, the certificate, in passing through Sv.me office, happened to lie minutely examined by one the clerks. The bride was charged with tin- offense of falsify- i ing a public document, and condemned to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least I three of the first mouths of her married ; life, in prison. She had the courage to uppeid from the sentence, and cause the I ease to be argued out before the court I of Melz, which reversed the decision of the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the. j lady on the gfound that she did not in tend to commit an illegal act, but had been actuated only by “female vanity.” Three ,H;iid<-us u»<l Cenxitn. The Misses McFarlanes are three i maiden ladies—sisters. It seems the . one would not trust the other to see the 1 census paper filled up, so they agreed to bring it to mo to fill it iu. “ Would you kindly till in this census i paper for me?” said Miss McFarlane. “ My sisters will look over and give you j their particulars bv and by.” Now, Miss McFarlane is a very nice i lady, though Mrs. Cameron tells me she' ' has been calling very often at the manse ■ since the minister lost his wife. Betbat ■ ' as it may, I said to her that I would be > I happy to fill up the paper, anil asked I her in the meantime to give her own par- : i ticulars. When it came to the age col- ; umn, she played with her bobt on the ! carpet, mid drew the black ribbons of j her silk bag through her fingers, and whispered: “You can say four-aiid thirty, Mr. McLauchlin.” “All right, ma’am,” says I, for I knew she was I'our and-thirty at any rate. Then Miss Susan came over—that’s the second sis ter, really a handsome young creature, with tine ringlets and curls, though she is a little tender eyed and wears specta , cles. Well, when we came to the age column Miss Susan played with one of her ringlets, and looked in. my face sweetly, and said: “ Mr. MeUauchlin, what did Miss McFarlane say? My sister, you know, is considerably older than 1 am—-there was a brother be tween us.” “ Quite so, my dear Miss Susan,” said I; “ but you see the bargain was that each of you was to state your own age.” “ Well.” said Miss Susan, still playing j with her ringlets, “you can say- age, 34 years, Mr. McLauchlin.” In a little while the youngest sister i came in. i " Miss McFarlane,” said she, ‘‘sent me over for the census paper.” “Oh, no, my dear,” says I; “I can not part with the paper.” “ Well, then,’’said she, “just enter my name, too, Mr. MeLauchlin.” “Quite so. But tell me, Miss Kobina, why did not Miss McFarlane till up the paper herself?”—for Miss Robina and I were always on very confidential terms. “Uh,” she replied, “there was a dis pute over particnlaiH ; and Mis- McFar lane would not let mv other sister sec how old she was ; mid Mis- ffe -iu <•<- I fused to state her age to .Mi McFar lane; and so, to eml t ic quarrel, wo agreed to a-k you to lie so kind mt to till - in the paper.'’ “Yes, yes, Mi-- Kobina,” said I, ■ “that’s quite satfistactory; and so I’ll fill iu your name now, if you please." “Yes." she said, with a sigh. When we came to the age column—“ Is it -is solutely necessary,” said she, “ to fill in the age? Don't you think it in a most !!■■■’ \oYth ({eorgiaiL HATES OF i ni? in mosh mo’ll i'r. onetncli, TsilTyTsollioio l«.. Hli-hto, 375 - 5,,> ,om ISOA Thrifeji clusj, | 0U; In on 12 5(1 rood " I'll 12 SI 15 OI 25 Oil S’nurt'l e..l Km,, 75, : 20(0 5U (XI HhU' rolir. u. || h IM ui KI0(o 51(10 (L 0 oolonui, i.. o ■ no c co ooltflo On All bills due alter ti st in ertiou. Trm sient islvertiseuifutu (strictly in ad vance) 11 per inch for the first insertion; 50 cents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Annonuc nieuts $5 each. Ma-riage noth- sand obituaries exceeding six lines will be charge i for as advertiaa me n is. impertinent question to ask, Mr. Mc- Lauchlin ? ” “ Tuts, it may be so to some folk, but to a sweet young creature like you it can uot matter a button.” “Well,” said Miss Robina. “But now, Mr. McLauehlin, I’m to tell you a great secret,” and she blushed as she slowly continued ; “ the minister comes sometimes to see us." “ I have noticed him rather more at tentive in his visitations in your quarter of late than usual. Missßobina.” “ Very well, Mr. McLmiehlin; but you must not tease me just now. You know Miss McFarlane is of opinion that he is in love with her, while Miss Susan thinks her taste for literature and her knowledge of geology, especially her uamphlet on the old red sandstone and its fossils as confirming the Mosaic pe riod, are all matters of great interest to Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that he conies so frequently for the privilege of conversing with her. But,” exclaims Miss Robina, with a took of triumph, look at that 1” and she held in her hand a beaut iful gold ring. “ I have got that from the minister this very’ day.” I congratulated her. She had been a favorite pupil of mine, mid I was rather pleased with what had happened. “ But what,” I asked her, “ has all this to do with the census?” , “ Oh, just this,” continued Miss Ro bina. “ I had uo reason to conceal my age, as Mr. Fraser knows it exactly, since he baptized me 1 He was a young creature then, only three-and-twenty; so that’s just the difference between us.” “ Nothing at nil, Miss Robina,” said I, “ nothing at all; not worth mention ing. ” “ In this passing and changeful world,” said Miss Robiua, “ three-nud-twenty years are not much, after,all, Mr. Mc- Lauchlin.” “Much?" said I. “Tuts, my dear, it’s nothing—-just indeed what should i be.” “ I was just ,31 last birthday, Mr. McLauchlin,” said Miss Robina, “and I the minister said the last time ho called ! that no young lady’ should take the cares and responsibilities ot a household ; upon herself until she wa?»—well, eight- I and-twenty ; and be added that 3-1 was late enough.” “ The minister, my dear,” said I, “is i a man of sense.” So thus were the Miss McFarlanes’ schedules tilled up; and if ever some one in search of the Curiosities of the Census should come across it ho mav think it strange, enough, for he will find that the three sisters McFarlane are all one year’s bairns. — C/iamln rs’ Journal. ffnvcstlgatlug Tlis Historical t.-rarning. i “And ho you ore studying American I history?” asked a fond father of his ■ hopeful, “Yes 1” reslionded the lad. “Good enough!” roared the delighted parent. “Now tell us Who George Wash ington was.” “ He ivns nurse to a lot of old colored women,” sang the boy. “ What was ho first in ?” “ First ashore, first, to leave, and first in the carte of the hungry man.” “Look here, you scalawag,” said the : old man, riling up, “you want to get this thing straight. What was it Wash ington couldn’t do? ’ “ He couldn’t lie 1” snorted theyoung ' Bter. ‘•You’ve got the right man. What fight did he win?’ “Ho licked Hunker Bill on Boston j Common, in three rounds,”' “ What was it he cut when he was u I boy?” i “He ent his father’s cheese, aud ex ; claimed, ‘Father, spare me; I cannot tell i u hatchet from a lie 1’ ” ! His father graduated the boy at once, • M>d he now makes a living selling papers- a Curious Love Story. I'here abides in the mind of woman au overwhelming sense of the importance of having an ample trousseau. Witness the ease of a young woman in Dort mund, Germany, a short time since,who wins arrested lor stealing a gold watch and chain from her affianced lover, who on discovering his loss, had placed the matter iu the bauds of the police,with out the faintest notion as to who was the tbi'-f. The maiden, with many tears, eonfessed that she hud taken the watch, so that, by pawning it she might raise money enough to buy her wedding dress, which she could get in no other way. Thereupon tin l despoiled but magnani mous bridegroom spoke out in court, declared that, “the pri-oner wasbisouly love; and that bo would marry her out of hand if riu judge would consi nt to set In i at liberty.” Without d. lay the trib niiiil annulled the arraignment, mid the eer., i ins l<n-r carried off his liberated luicciiist iu triumph. How He Proposed. A bachelor too poor to get married, yet too susceptible t< i let the girls alone, was riding with a lady “all of a sum mer’s day,” and accidentally—men’s arms, awkward things, are ever in the way--dropped an arm round her waist. No objection was made for a while, and the arm gradually relieved the side of the carriage of the pressure upon it. But of a sudden, whether from a late recognition of the impropriety of the thing or the sight of another beau com ing never was known, the lady started with volcanic energy, and, with a flash ing eye, exclaimed: “Mr. 8., I can support myself 1” “Capital!” was the instant reply. “ You are just the. girl I have been looking for these five years Will you marry me?” “ Do you expect, to travel tins sum. ?” “Yes, some,” “It will cost some.” “ Yes, quite a sum. ’ “Do you possess th necessary sum ?” “I have some.”