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Tim tap mm OiHoe in the Jesup House, fronting on Ciierrr street, two doors from Broad 8?c. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY .. T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Kates. •.Postage Prepaid.) One veav J,2 f. Six months i oo Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per -quart, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to vearlr and large ad *erti*ers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—H. Whaley. Counoilmeu—Dr. R. F. Lester, A. E'er hee, M. W. Sureucv, A. 15. Purdorn, G. M. T. W are. Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. Ware. Marshal—Wm. M. Aust n. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—P v jfh>rd R. Hopps. Sheriff-—John N. Goodbrtao. Ulerk Supeiior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Thx Receiver—J. C. H<tcher. T*x Collector—W. K. Causey. County Kuryeyoj—Nosh Bennett. Const y Ti^'barer—J ah n Massey. Coroner-—D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G. W. Htines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Jsham Reddish Regu ar meetings of the Board 3d Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas”. F. Kin?, Cuairman. courts. Superiot Court, Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon VV. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in M-.rch and September. BMslsar. Fierce Comity Georgia TOWNDIRECTORY. TOWS OFFICERS. Mayor—R G. Riggins. Councilman—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs J. M. Lee, IJ. D. Brantly. Cleric of Council—J M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. D. Brautlv, Marshal—E. Z Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Cierk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. SberiS—E Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serrevor—J. SI Johnson. Tax Receiver" and Collector—J. >l. Pur don!. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llSl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis U'ict, M.. Georg.- T Moody ; 654 District, G. JL, Charles 8. Youmanns: 590 District, G. M., D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Pesoe’ etc —Blaekshear Precinct. 584 distr ct.G M., Notary Public, J. G. S Patterson : Justice of the Pc ce. ft R. James; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z Byrd. Dickson?. Mill Precinct 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Matt.ew Sweat; J stice of the Peace, Geo. J l . Moody; Constable, \V. P. Dicksou. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Nota v Public, Ltwis C. Wyliv; Justice of the Peace. L-wis Thomas; Constables, H. Prescott and A. I . Griner. Schlattervillc Precinct 590 District,G. M Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W Booth. Courts—‘superior court, Pierce county John L, Harris, judge; c-iinen W. Hitch Solicitor G. neral. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court. Biackshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD ?2.00 per day. Single Meals. 50ots CUKKKNT PABAGHAPUS. Southern News. Richmond States: The failure of bo many New England cotton mills and the strikes in Old England among the opera tives must lower the price of raw cottoD, and raise that of the manufactured article, ft should admonish the south that it is not only her policy to grow, but to ppm •and weave the cotton also. Let us profit by the experience. Chattanooga Dispatch : Thirteen flat boats, loaded with grain and meat, ar rived at the wharf Sunday from up the river, They brought about 8,000 bushels of wheat, 7,000 bushels of corn and 25,- 000 pounds ef meat, principally from Union county. Twenty fiat boat have arrived during the week, averaging 1,000 bushels of grain to the boat, Macon (Ga.) Telegraph : The pros pect for good crops in this section were never better. We gather from many who are engaged in agriculture, and others, that the standsot cotton and corn are all that could be asked. The cut worm is slightly iu the cotton in some localities, but no serious damage is ap prehended. The promise of the fruit vrop is also just as good as can be. ban Antonio Herald: There is on* thing very evident, and that is if there is anything in the power of General Ord which will conduce to the safety of the frontier and protection from Indian and Mexican raids; s, he will do it. But his power is far less than is gentrailv sup posed. When the re-enforcements were ordered bare a few months ago, the newspapers a!! seated the force in this department a? amounting to fully four thousand troops, but the last official returns of the troops now here show that, whiie the organizuions now stationed here caii for thousand seven bundled ana forty-nine troops, the,- are .only two thousand and eight, bandied and seventy tbr*e enlisted men, that < i this number there are but nineteen hundred and sixty men instead of scar ihcawmd. Foreign Items. trance propose? spending*lso,but/, wu on her army, and *45 Ow.iErO on tier VOL. JI. | navy in 1879. The low pay of French soldiers is partly compensated by the fact that they can buy their tobacco from the government on very low terms, and travel everywhere through the country at half price. The present Earl of Leitrim has of fered a reward of £10,600 for information which will lead to the arrest of the men who killed his uncle. This is by far the largest reward ever offered in Ireland. A farmer with a shattered hand has been arrested. Miscellaneous. j Some signs of taverns in London are curious, viz: '©bat and Compasses'/’ | “ Salmon and "Compasses,” “ Anchor and j Bodices,” “ Bull and Mouth.” “ Green i Man aud Still,” “ Pig and Whistle,” Who’d a Thought If ? ” “ The Splendid Shilling,” etc, A Los Angels paper etateß that genuine Smyrna fig commerce has been introduced at Passadena, Cal., where it is almost perpetually iu fruit, Last year it. fruited from dune to January, and this year has already st arted fruiting and will probably ripen from Mav-dav to Christmas. Anew style of paddle-wheel has been invented and placed on the steamer Massachusetts at New York. It was tested and on the first trip the steamer made nearly 28 miles an hour, with less power than usually applied. The wheel works by pressure instead of impact The blades are twice the size of ordinary blades, but the wheels contain only halt the usual number. Eastern Terminus of the Texas Pacific. 1 The bill for the benefit of the Texas Pacific railway, now pending ia Con gress, provides that: “In order to make and perfect the highway aforesaid in such manner as may do equal and exact jus tice to all sections of the country to be affected thereby, it shall be the duty of the president of the United States, within sixty days after the passage of this act, to appoint five commissioner.-, three of whom shall be the three engi neer officers of the United States highest in rank, and ail of them wholly uncon nected with and free from all personal cr corporate interest in any of the proposed routes between Texas and the Mississippi river, and also from all personal or corporate interest in any railroad company from any point on or connecting with the Missis-ippi river and the Atlantic or gulf coast, whose duty it shall be to examine the Missis sippi river and the present constructed road of the Texas and Pacific railway company; anti after considering ali questions of distance, coat and transport ation routes, in view of foreign as well as domestic trade and commerce, and also in view of an eligible connection with the Atlantic seaboard, to report where iri their judgment the proposed addition eastward of the present main trunk line of the Texas and Pacific railway com pany shall connect with the present line, and where it shall connect with the Mississippi river; provided that the point of connection with the Mississippi river shall not be farther north than the city ol Memphis, Tennessee; and that their report, if approved by the president of the United States, shall be final and conclusive in determining the location of the eastern connection with the Mississippi river,” A Baptism of Hundreds. On Sunday morning the roads and lanes leading across Chimborazo park were filled with persons, white and black, male and female, from the gray-haired sire to the infant in arms, all hurrying in the direction of Gillie’s creek, to witness the great baptizing. By 10 o’clock a. m. at least 4,0(i0 persons had assembled ob the York River railroad and the surrounding hills, and the long line of new converts, male and female, in twos, arrived on the ground and stood in readiness on either side of the stream—the males on one side and the females on the other. The females were dressed in white, with white tnrbans around their head, and tne men with white shirts, and white handkerchiefs around their heads, awaited patiently under the burn ing sun the arrival of turn. After the singing of a hymn and a short prayer, the Rev. Scott Gwatbmey, acccompanied by one of his deacons, stepped down into the water and the baptizing was begun. The females were, served first, and they were quickly disposed of to make room for others in waiting. The men outnumbered the women. By 12.30 the ceremony was ever, and 233 persons had been immersed by one man. The con verts for the m ,st part were very quiet and undemonstrative, but cceasionally some manifestation of religious fervor would break out. One old woman, at least seventy years of use, walking on crutches, hobbled to the pool and was among those baptized. She was taken in the arms of a stalwart , deacon and bjrne out to the dresßing room.—[Richmond State. JESUP, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1878. A LIFE'S REGRET Turning the leaven in an idle way Of a book i was skimunu* the other day. 1 found a line at the * a<l of a coup, Which keeps on beuntin.; mu ali day Joup, With its sweet and mournful mo odv. “ O love, my love, had you loved but me l” Sadder a buuieu c uld never be Thau “love, my love, had you loved but me I” Few wordmind f-lmp'e: but, O, how much l he slower has to a in that little touch I How hard u story of chances lost, Of bright bop a blighted and true love crossed Is heard in tlie wbi.-pered melody. ‘ O iove my love, had you loved but me!” To many a SLrrow the’ fcev may be That :<>. my love, had you loved but me!” T don’t bt Meve In what poets have aald • f heart.-* nai are broken ana lives that are dead ; T Ives well ordered will stand to their course. And h arts of tiue metal ring little the woise; But they still to that roelodv, " O love m* love, had you loved but me!” M y Jiie is wll. but what would it be Sweet “ love, my fore, had jou lond but me " ’’he vorM rolls on and the yvars roll by. Dty dreams vanUh and memories die ; But it sug s up with a restless pain, That fond lost longing evei again Breathed in the passionate melody. 11 O love, my Jove hsd you lovtd but me!" It might have b. e but it cannot be. Y*>t • love, my lovu, had you loved but mo.”’ -[London World. TITIAN’S DAUGHTER. “ Thou dost not admire that picture, Giulio?” said the great paiDter, Tiziano Vecelli, of Venice to his favorite pupil, Giulio Mantoni. “Si, ti, signer; but whose portrait is it? When was it painted ? and where has it been until now ?” “ Thou doßt not ask who painted it. Hast no curiosity, hast no wish to learn this?” “ Curiosity enough, as thou well knowest, signor, to prove my descent from Eve, whose falling that, way lost a paradise to Adam. But I need notask who painted thus, for there is only one who can paint thus. There is only oue pencil which can blend such beautiful eoloiiag with such freedrawing. Signor maestro, it thsu could have thy pictures unrecognized, thou musteven hang them with the painting to the wall.” “ Flattery, Giulio—rank flattery! But I believe thou meanest what thou sayest. As to this portrait ” “ Ay, signor, whose likeness is it ?” “As thou art anxious to know, my Giulia, and often playest a trick upon thy master, metbinks I shall not tell thee. Thou mayest look grave il thou wilt, but I shall not tell thee now. Call my gondolieri; the day is pleasant and they shall row me across the Lido. Addio, Addio!” fjmiunir went on Sis way across thelagune and smiled as one smiles at a lucky thought or a tmccestful specula tion. The nursings were pleasant and as belay “at listless length” within the. canopy of his gondola they found such utterance as this : “He is a good youth, and hath a prop er love for art ; he is studious, too, gen tle iu manner, affectionate, and with a warm heaaf. My Beatrice is a tender dove, and it will be well if she can find a shelter in his breast. How he gazed upon the picture! If he admire tbe original only half as muci, the train will soon be in flames. He is a goodly youth.” And with such thoughts did Titian take council on his brief and pleas ant voyage to the Lido. Meanwhile the pupil employed him self in looking at the portrait more minutely than be heretofore bad done. The renewed and closer examination confirmed his original opinion of its oxs ceilence, not alone as a work of art, but as the representation of a character of feminine loveliness more attractive than he had yet beheld in Venice. The por trait represented a beautiful girl just in the spring of youth, bearing aloft in her hands a massive casxet, and pausing, as it were, in her onward progress, to cast a smile upon the beholder—like a sudden sunburst! The face was one of exquis ite beauty, but the naiv* and cheerful expression, the hearty joyousness, the guileless end trusting eloquence of aspect, formed a part of intellectual loveliness far gxeater than usually accom panies mere beauty of features. For— though to say so would be treason against the majesty of that sex whom we gener alize as “lair”—l fear it is but too true that the perfection of personal and men tal beauty do not often meet inone. Yet even now do I remember to have met that union. The young artist admired the portrait for some time and then tell into a medi tative humor—a thing unusual for him, fir, though he was 3 Spaniard, he was a youth of quick imagination and lively temperament, and it is not the wont ot such to anticipate the contemplative thoughts which they believe belong to the maturer season of manhood. The youth thought and thought and thought until, when Titian returned, he found his pupil seated opposite the portrait, with Itis pencil in bis hand and hie bead downward drooping—even as in bis mood of poetic thought T have seen that i of Wordsworth, the great master of the | lyre. Titian came near, but Giuiio did -not stir: nearer still, and Giuiio was ; breathing heavily; close to him and | touched his shoulder. The youth up i started! He had fallen szleep before I the port!ait! Oh. what a very unlover-likeaccident! j But a siesta )“ a treasure to the Spaniard, i anil tin* day was dull, and it wt wcari j some to alone, and, if the truth roust | be told, Ginlio, who had all a painter’s eye for beauty. Lad heei. up half the preceding night, serenading a beautiful dama. whose bright eyis had fascinated him one evening as lib passed beneath . the windows of her father's palace. Giulio Mantoni lutd been Titian’s pupil tor some six months previous to the incident of the b.rtrait and the -■lnmber. Without buy introduction had he come, but haw paid a large sum for the privilege of instruction, after a time his gentle mannsra, his love for the I art and his rapid progress in it had so far won uporiTitian—a lone and widow ed man—as to make him solicit that j Giulio would become an inmate of his ! house. Titian was a aoii’ary, for his son was a wjld youth. JSjftd loft. Venice for Cyprus in thd suite of the admiral, and his daughter Beatrice was in a cou vent in the Friuli, of which one of hi relatives was lady principal. Giulio Mantoni accepted the invitation, and tor I three months preceding the day on which this slight tab commences he had been to Titian affectionate, kind and obedient as a son. He was so skillful with hi pencil, too, that Titian was reminded by his skill and enthusiasm of what his own son had been at the same age, some thirty years before. Some days passed on and the portrait still remained in Titian’s studio. Giulio often looked at it but never spoke of it, and Titian did not err when he thought that there was a meaning iu this silence. But tbe grand festival day of Venice was at hand. This was Ascension Hay, of which the doge p*rformed the annual ceremony of signaling the maritime power of tbe signor,, by casting a golden ring into the wat rs of the Adriatic. The custom was, at this proud eelebra thru, for Venice to -bud out her popula tion of all degrees and it was certain that at such a time .he fairest daughters of Venice never we e absent. The short voyage of the doge from the quay of the ducal [ dace to the boundary of Lido and Maltni icca was always per formed on this occ.‘ don in a stately ves sel called the Ilur utaur. a galley said to be of equal anti ,uity with these mari time nuptials. This magnificent vessel always bore a frt girt of some import ance; for, besides the doge, the council the chief oflicers < ( state andtheadmiral of the port, (who . cted as pilot, and was bound by oath to bring tbe vessel back to her harborage ' >tl;o arsenal), it bore tiic - Aitu . -ss.,..us C l_ ll tries in alliance with the republic Sometimes, besides the mb Umimi and the state officials it bore citizens of worth, and at times the doge was glad to see by his side the great painter, Triziano Vecelli, whose pencil could confer such immortality as earth is proud of, .■ ■; whose works reflected more fame upon Venice than Venice in all her glory could bestow upon him. Giulio, with others of his age, followed in the procession, for it was a scene of matchless beauty and magnificence, well worthy the attention of a painter’s aiirid and eye. The Bucentaur was swept on in a stately manner by the rowers, and Giulio’s light gondola came near it, within full view of the gaiiant company beneath its gorgeous canopy of crimson damask, richly embroidered with gold. To Giulio’s am nr..-, Titian had by his side a young lady, and when she turned her face for a moment Giulio saw to Ids sur prise and delight that she was the fair original of the portrait. The ceremonials went on, and Andrea Gritte, the doge, wedded the sea (an un stable and fickle mistress, with theaccus tomed words, “ We wed thee with this, in token of our true and ix-rpctua! sovereignty. Ihe moment these words were uttered, arid the ring cast into the sea, it was strewn with flowers and fra grant herbs, in the fanciful idea that (bus the bride was crowned. The pageant ended, Giuiio speeded to Titian’s house. He found the great artist before the easel, busted, as usual, iu some work for immortality. They spoke on various subjects, but Titian made no mention of the young signora, of whom Giuiio had just one g ance. At last Giuiio said he had seen Titian on the deck of the Bucentaur; but this, though it challenged Titian’s allusion to the Jady, j drew no remark from him about tier, so I that, at last Giuiio ventured to say that; he thought the signora much resembled j the portrait which he had admired from j the moment it first met his view. “ Admire it, Signor Giuiio Mantoni?! Fall asleep before it in excess of admira- | tion ’ Well, well, thou needest not blush. ! ’Tis my daughter Beatrice, whom thou j sbalt meet anon. But signor, if thou ! sbouldst admire her, or if thou shouldst i not, it would tie well for thee to take thy siesta ere thou meetest her. Women, as thou knowest, like not cavaliers who are j drowsy. Now, I have not told her that. She saw thee, and asked who tfiou wert, and 1 told her Giuiio; but not that thou didst gn7/' thyself to deep Wore htr portrait. Now, let t;s within. Thou wilt like my gentle Beatrice. Bbe re minds me ot what lew fair ami loving mother was.” And Giuiio dm very muen like Beat rice Vecell’., who, in turn, admired the manly beauty and ihriairous bearing of the .Spaniard. Admired ?—ala, that is a word a too w.-uk Woman scarcely know- medium, in her intercourse with ci;; - x. between the coldest indif- ference and the warmest love. Long before she knew it Beatrice was deeply i>nd devotedly attached to Giulio. Her father saw this and did not check it; be already loved Giulio Mantoni as a son, and cheerily anticipated that, in the natural course of time and circumstance, lie would become so—with the consent of Beatrice. Very much did Giulio admire the loveliness, the grace, the innocence of Beatrice Vecelli, but he did not love her with more than a brother’s love. To do him justice he was all unconscious of the feelings which his attentive kindness bad awakened in her gentle heart. He read to her aud talked with her as if she were his own dear sister ; aud she made the too common mistake of thinking that these general courtesies, made most kind through the suavity of his manner, had a particular application. So, thesignora was iu love I Two months had passed by since the return of Beatrice to her fatiier’s bouse and during this time the young maiden, flushed with her growing passion (inno cent as it was deep), and buoyed up by the hopes which her youth aud sex might well he excusod for forming, and drank, in draughts of delight (lor hope is the Hebe of mortality and |K>urn from a gold en vase!) which made her happy-hearted beyond what she had ever been before. Then it was that her father completed that picture which lias been known as a c/i>/ d'nurn' in portraiture, which the pencil of tbe painter and the burin of the engraver have multiplied through the world. And during all this time which passed on happily for Giulio also, he was not iu love with Beatrice. They sat together now, in the month of July, with a deliciousbreezesweeping up the Adriatic and tanning the cur tains of the room like the sails of some rapid bark. It was now midday, and all was calm in Venice as in other cities at the hour of midnight, for the heat of the room kept even the gondolierie within doors. But it was cool in the room in which Beatrice and Giulio wore sitting, or the long blinds bad been drawn down, excluding the sunshine and admitting the breeze. She had been singing, and it was from the Hush ut her cheek and the tenderness of her tone as she (dosed the cadenza that Giulio now first surmised what might is- the nature of her feelings lownrdo him. This was the song . Oli. sub not though (or fortune'll riowei Wita lordly ]>otU|> to gild thy tat**, Nor turn of void, t mhliiouD |wor, I’o orown lh*o wiin u Mu<n!> Bt#U' ! Hook not for coinjnpht lo •*(< 1 wine Kiisjujuuliiftl IninHh lo the hair Hut llrtfn to ihis lav of Hiiiu* i htaoi iuon thin anient |>raye*'.' Of love mo, love iu-j !” Oh, if the noontide of thy heart With hoi j o'V weie o eionat, it ih f bad done Ira defldllont |..r| I ill joy we e of the |aHt. How gently ’mid auch tfloom would lull The bill limy of hojMM joy-Hhlnn, When thouKhton ihfti nt would utlJl iccall When first fond lips were presM'd to thine, With “ love ino, love mei ” Tiie song had ceased, i t was a simple mel ody, but there was a startling expression of earnestness in it which struck to Giulio's heart. For a brief space lie sat in silence, and then thus spoke to (he beautiful cantatrice: “ Lay aside the maudlinn, deur Beat rice, and let us talk. You have never inquired who nr what I am, I consider you as my sister, and it is not well that you should be in ignorance of this ” 11 Nay,” said Beatrice, with a smile and a blush, “ J will not own yon as a brother, and I will have no unraveling of mysteries. [yet me sing this barca role.” “Beatrice,” said be, with a grave air and earnest tone that suddenly chilled , her mirth: “ Beatrice, this ih the time, for your sake as lor my own, to have the I mystery umavelhd, if i : 1- worth the | name of mystery. lam not quite what ] 1 appear; in a word, I am of the royal j house of Spain ; my mother whs the J daughter of a noble of Alrriaino; my ! father it the Emperor Charles To avoid a marriage of his choice, heart and : hand being plighted to a lady-love of my own, 1 fled from Spain and became a pupil of your father’s, as much from love j of the art as to give mv leisure pica-ant occupation.” T’.ul hi! spoke to ears whim heart) hirn not, for ere be hat! concluded Beatrice was in a swoon, Bbe was speedily recov ered arid thus earnestly spoke to hirn : “ I did not know—l could not--that we hada prince beneath ourhumble roof; but whatever you arc you must quit Venice, ft was but yesternight I beard at the ridotto at Signor Barberigo’s that the prowditori had an order to arrest a Spanish prince who was disguised arid concealed in Venice. I heard it by the merest chance, as I stood near two mbili who were talking together, and that the arrest was to be made to-morrow. You must fly,signor; it neither suits your safety nor vour honor tha* you remain here. Venice wars with the Emperor Charles my father, the most honored citizen of \ eiiice, has been distinguished bv the einper r, and the suspicion of having wittingly harbored you would only be equaled by the misery of your capture here.” f'iuiio. or, a.- lie should rather be called, i’rinoe Anthony of I.eon, seemed astonished at this intelligence. ‘ And vrhithcr can I t!y?” demanded he seeking counsel In this hour of peril from Beatrice. ' V i roiincd- you -eet>. ol— you have oue to whom your faith la plighted ; she must ill deserve It if she will not shelter you.” “ You speaa wisely, Beatrice,” said the prince; “it is the daughter of Sforzi, Duke of Milan, and with him. albeit he is but a cold friend of my house, nor has he much cause to lie otherwise, I shall find safety. And yon, Beatrice?” “Of me—nothing—not a word now not a thought hereafter. Here,” added she, tearing ofTa necklace, “ here, if you want the means wherewith to reach Milan, fake this, 1 have no more need of costly ornament." This offer was declined, for the prince had jewels with him more than sufficient to pay all charges. He saw the urgent necessity of speedy flight, penned a hasty billet of leave and gratitude to Titian, and then returned to greet Beat rice with a farewell. He did not mark that her lips were as pale rm death and her eyes glazed, and her cheek and brow as if astonled. Her hand scarcely trembled when he pressed it, and, gently as oco would embrace a sleeping child, he kissed her fair, cold brow. He was gone I And with him went the terrible de termination, which in this wreck of her heart’s hopes had nerved her to act this dreadful part, to simulate indifference while amid despair she felt the immor tality of love. She never moved nor spoke, and when at eve her father re turned he found her statue like. For weeks she lay helpless as an infant, and at last she died. Her heart was brtneen- She died, and with her died her father’s hopes and pride. Within a month after Giulio’s departure she had ceased to be. Henceforth, and he lived to extreme old age—Titian lived but for his art; that was his wife, daughter, all to him! Of ttie prince we have no further rec ord. The annals of Venice record not his capture, so it may be presumed that I he escaped. But whether he reached his j lady-love, whetne. - he married her, and I whether in alter life, he ever paused to j think upon Beatrice, is unknown ; but I he was kind and gentle, so >1 is impose!- j ble that )u could have readily forgotten j one so beauliuu, eo gentle as her. There b no more to add. This is the i whole toiy, so lar as it can now lie known, ol 'I Ulan’s 1 laughter. Win in tlie London Tele graph Office. Eight hundred young women at work, nil in one room, looking comfortable, most of them looking pretty, earning fair wages at easy work, work fit for women to do ; work at which they can sit and rest, and not lie weary, with a kitchen at band arid a hot dinner in the ; middle of the day, with leave of abse nee without stoppage of pay every year, with a doctor for sickness and a pension for old age (for the young women as years roll on will become old) with only eight hours of work, never before 8 o’clock in the morning and never after K at night, with female auperinlendenta, and the i chance of rising to boa superin tendent open lo each girl. This is a govern ment office, under government sur veillance, and all this has sprung into existence during the Isst eight years. I he general poatoffice is in St. Martin’s le-Orand, near fit. Paul’s, and there are now two great post offices at the same place, facing each other, the Idor one having been found altogether insufficient for the purpose required, although when it was firstopened, about forty-five years ago, it was supposed to be absurdly large for any possible requirements which the country could have for such a building. Those who pass from < heapside into New gate street, afier the lamps have been lighted, may observe, on hsiking up, that (he whole top floor of this new building is illuminated, ft is hero that the 800 young women are at work, and their business consists iri the receipt and dispatch of telegraph mes sages. After discovering that at least 800 women can keep a secret (secrecy is essential there) Mr. Trollope asked : “How many dismissals did you have during last year V” for I hail known much of the civil service myself, and had been aware that, in dealing with large bodies of men, the exercisers of diseip line must have recourse to that last means of declaring that obedience and order are indispensable. ‘‘Dismissed?” said my friend. “ Yes, we have had a dismissal Miss— was dismissed. But it stems to me a long time ago. Tll get the books. ’ Tbe books were produced, and it appears that the unfortunate one named had been sent away, at some time in 1871). From a body of public ser vants as Large as a regiment, there had been no dismissals in four years.—[An thony Trollope. . It indicated a want of education in natural history, hut it was certainly very 'unny, when the young lady wrote from the country to say that the cows were all in the habit of chewing gum bhe had watched them, after their day’s pastur ing, lying down in the barnyard wi h their iaws in constant motion, and very naturally jumped to a conclusion It may is- encouraging to the small boy to learn that -senator Morrissey was not only self-made, but that he was at one time n pe.rtn- rin sixteen faro tanka. WAIFS AND WHLUS. : - Sixty years ago the iaSte^-horWs only made a mile in {'ireSffiimr , ’ ..A little boy’s first pair tUFtthmsew always fit if.the poc.ets are deep enough, i Professor Cope, of Philadelphia, the geologist, has found specimens of verte brates in northern Texas heretofore-un known .. A guilty conscience makes you feel that every man you meet has just learned your secret and is looking at you with scornful cariosity. A railroad eating-house is a place where trains stop long enough to allow a pious-looking mau, formerly a colonel, to collect one dollar from each passenger. Bishop Haven told a class of young men who were learning -the occupation of preaching that warmed-upold sermons i were worse than warmed-up buckwheat j cakes . A sailing car is used for pleasuro on the Kansas Pacific railroad. It is sloop | rigged, has four wheels, and will run | forty miles an hour when the wind is | favorable. .. Death bed repentance is like those sailors who throw their valuables over ■ board in a storm. They wouldn’t do it if they could help it. and are sorry that they must. . .St ur ’■ oks mule the time term leng but when the heart is cheerful the hours are only notes in a meiry piece of music, which leave it pleasant echo behind as they trip away. The higher education of women Gentleman (literary conversation) “ After all, I prefer the ‘ Vicar of Wake field.”' l ady--" Dear me, you surprise me. I never read religious books.” . Fish iu Germany are seldom broiled; tbey are boiled. The size of a fish that need not be returned to the water when caught is fixed by law. Thus a salmon imiHt be sixteen inches long, a perch five, and an eel fourteen. Germans do not fish for sport as a rule. NO. 39. THE •* MAN KATE It ” SHOT. A Stallion that has Killed throe Men and Dis figured Twenty Others. A dispatch Irom Middletown, New i York, says : The llambletotiiau stallion “Rising ham,”one of the jiuest bred horses in Or ange county,was killed by his owner,Dr.,f. A. Schultz, in this place last, night. This horse was tvivniy-one years old. An offer of $7,000 was once refined for him. At two years of ago he was considered the coming successor of Old IJamble tonian, his sire. Nineteen years ago, however, he began to exhibit signs of vieiousness that increased as he grew older. Finally he became almost entirely unmanageable, and has since been known as the “ man eater.” lie had killed three men, and wounded, crippled and disfigured twenty others. For fourteen years no one dared to put him to a wagon, until a short time ago. Dr. Scbultz, wbo had owned him but >• short time, with the aid of several men, got him in har ness and to u wagon, and tried to drive him. it was a dear experiment. The stallion broke everything to pieces, and the Doctor was himself saved by the merest chance. Manyof the leading horse trainers of the country had tried their skill at subduing him. He conquered them all, and nearly killed one ol them. * >ne of his latest exploits was the seizing of a negro groom who had undertaken to keep him, tearing ofi the man's cheek and destroying the right eye, and stringing the fieHh irom his right arm. The groom became blind and paralyzed. The three men who preceded the negro as grooms nil narrowly escaped with lives. (inn lost an car; another had three lingers and a thumb taken off; the third left his arm from the elbow in the jaws of th horse, ft became impossible to get a groom for the stallion. So one knew at what moment the brute would attack him. Dr. Schultz at last made up his mind that Risiugbam was chronically insane, and concluded to kill him before be maimed another victim. As Risinghain stood in his stall glaring over the manger at the spectators who had entered the stable to see tbe man eater die, five large pistol balls were shot, into his head, directly between bis eyes They failed to bring him down, and, uttering the fiercest neighs, he made frantic efforts to get over the manger among the bystanders. Asa man drew the attention of tbe horse away, Dr ’■'ebuitz, by a skilful thrust of a long knife, severed bis jugular vein, aDd the blood spurted out in a large stream. For a long time Risingbam stood up under the great flow of blood, relaxing no effort to get at the men. A t length he settled to the floor, but to the last maintained his fierce disposition. The lastmovement he made was to attempt to seizi Dr. Hohultz with his teeth, the doctor having gone into the stall, dorse men say that but for the temper of thishorse he would have tieen worth f.30,000. Reversed Speech. Messrs. Jenkins and Ewing have recently made some investigations into the capabilities of the phonograph for revereing sound when turned in opposite directions. They state that both vowels and consonants are unaltered by being spoken backward, and that, whether tbe pulsations o r air be made in given order or in reverse rrd-r, the ear accepts tbe sound as indicating tbe same letter. Consonants betn n single pairs of sylla bles, as nda, übo , are identifiable quite as well backward as forward. Ab, how ever, said backward b.-comes ba, and thus the investigators suggest we have here standard of what does’really con stitute a single letter or element of articulate speech ; it is any one reversible p.irt. '1 ne word nohtccwiaa pronounced , in the phonograph is reproduced very cleariy s. association.—’Scientific Amei ! lean.