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October.
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JESUP HOUSE,
"('A Bre m an 1 (r.iitry
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JimclKiji AtJAstle and Half, *o& Am and Br«a»
wick BaiJ Btsuds.
fh* *twnUan «f s se tr»v4>lin« n«H 5 i« !i a <h!-FCte«R)l
th- taducene »t» i ff re,» ih«m Ivy ih « M XmriK
Tr.e locution »{ this House is on rlevarel irtairt.
MU itlreeity «: i« ris. ft-pyt |Wt It is »eii »•„, I"? jJictJ
win water sthI >.l» t.is-iuitMtotmi »‘«r*i Via«» •»*
ttj ;Hi* it? gae>U tt. comiurt oi Hhuu.
ii® |w*r Nriigly Hvill* fin i fill 1 *;
**v Ike Mttttill run by Hi*
TIBEH4E ftlMOIM TO r.UlltlE.V
i he Tab. k tiM He a Ivst4ii;!i ft cm of ihe ,K £££
Krt5i.se, of sml .Yflmaj i I '}$ sute iiupervi
Urn n* j«* M «*5580,1
-■ was? Ugg**# if tQuai ic u>e W-*t. %j<, ^ ^ * ■re
v«t it and Horn H^tel ami v
t P. UTTUfJ£t0. PfERryvfor
Knowing How to Swim.
Tlie recent'disasters on the water**, have
conclusively proved the advautagea of
the art of swimming. Those who wore
conscious of their ability to swim were
cool in more, than one sense of the w..rd;
for they not onlv were not pauie-strickcn,
hot they did not bore. Even those who
can but float in the water fed that they
haw resource* which others do not Blmre.
Among tin* passengerv of the Seawai -
haha was Mr. Samuel Barlow, of New
York, life who having provided iiimself with,
a preserver, gave it away to another
passeogcr and dropped into tho water.
He turned himsvlf upon ids back and
floated, umnagiisg to keep his nose above
water until he was rescued. Ail the pas
sengers who could swim, or at least who
did the shore in
It would reinfiirc-o person* otlierwfe©
iiable to b© fcar-stricken. with Msanraro©.
cnabling them to take measures for sav- ! .
ing themselves. If, for example, the
water were, not an absolute tenor to one- :
half or three-fourths «rf the passengers,
when a collfeion occurs or a fir© breaks •
<ryt. ...gjefuhiess they would, with Rime degree of :
lowering and delife*ratiuu, act about ,
the boats. They could exercise :
their reaaon aud take precautions, would i
look to see if the plugs were all in. and
would lower the boats, {M>rh«|>S', without >
emptying boats evcryfexly out or S.arragahsett fUUug the i
with water, <ht the ;
one- ping of in the the lx.<at» was lowered while the j
bottom, allowing the rain :
wafer to-run aWay, was out, and the boat
filled* The' patent ping, which, by
pressing foroed bome, of the wafer ou the bottom, is
boats; ought to be used in all
but if fe not. and a little caution
and preservation of the mental batata*
on the part of the pass n r n wooldavoM
these nnat.v * , r % daw rs
is not merely, therefore tliat the art
of swimming will save the lives of vov- ;
agers, but the with the wafer ;
and the consciousness that one can, i-vii
when'hf 1 must take to the wafer, support
himself in hfoi Uim, at least, and un
W ful becomes would prevent the dread
pmucstowhidi more 'ha.it. tin h
Mter Shouldivvny itself, the great kw« of bfe is finer
man, and every woman, and
evsarv awdic chdd that's old enough to learn be
that as anon as they touch ‘the
wafer they could mrpjxirt themselves in
happen# that quite as often tin* it is the W
cannot swim who is drowns while
in bathing The number of swimmers
W.lt 7 Hesttjt Sentinel 4
VOL. V.
AT THI, tUsqiil II UIK.
(
by CAto&m v. i&urw.
ia, w« win g<? to to* t*ii,
Yea and I «ui the rest
The winds sees k ijalet-tor ri.
The heaven* »r« » at litelr test
The Any baa tHWsn «*y with ruin,
A»<1 thmliNng wtUi BAVs'ric* old,
That always silo* conse with their jisia.
When are so wnb w>d col i
But, now that Ui« eloishe are fair,
Wdt T!«s storm i* still in aiy fereaetj
go wills tJfcy masker* r - ttiere.
aad l and the ra»t
Yr-!: neeil*-. ttimel f for s nsssk—
No «.-»!!! guess it, dear
So handsKiaifi a calm—T ’< .1 ask
Autl stofy Iht to guess your lew.
diner? is solemn and wi*o
Bat A wtxulcrftd sight of tile role tiapj.iy for lihu,
eve*
Is making y,u,r own grow
Ah ! rose* of ; - I! and V.im,
There's love au-l inriivvnco, hxi
he pale ones ! cle«:« to-night,
And leave ah the red tor van.
&’Angina I* waiting the white.
I tUltik »‘t> «?-*: dresiKwl to go;
. hw.wt .TtsMie and •lunie stui.'a
Through «»*k* et cariiiSns a;i4 moir,
Amt now the w ool:? are, stilt,
A iu! the skies are at their test,
We'U goto the datiee on the iiSi—
You and I am) tbe rest.
ir.Mtal for the -night,
Wl.iri in confusion around :
SttiiSog anil jectiag uut light
Music and revelry 's sound.
Kovar* anti gar.aisdwsf) s ■
trailer perfume a* they
And vine jusd tm&x riC* ii
Alike ii B tUt. glace c t the garL
Mmvtn with their of c.&r**,.
Sou!b with iih their burdenb of gjn,
L- mi rfiww fair,
Wait tot ior t titc u. MIC* to B t y heme
AvA y.'.n-, with 5 ? our t’to-a rooI,
And tho rcan’ft over yonr hearty
Uiay out your pififuJ r» ve,
And daijoft tiD tho sad note* part
With eye* m nrrcne wnd cahu.
You RUr.d when? ihe rod flowers glow*
AvA l hmdih ■ ?...... nw cf b, c.u
With pftte.ta of j>v rfum»‘d «n -\v.
But a ru'.A. l>»-fm* »uy iwriflit,
Auti I turn my f!- woV-wrcatltcd
Uroui rin k I* l■ mem s wUltt
A.j«! fl*sdd»g of r mm red.
For ii? ktin-hvnLT hp»
ififea* injdrr n«' .■ ri
Vto'ir Heart in H» <terk ?k cAiyw
Lie* and. r ill m emu
-V.-e tl!« JiSIC V. V ii
Tins' iis* tmm o'i'pr i
Sei;iji«»ii3 a'><i )d wltlU? ■ lint! tj ,4
To the tetsrt* wa-ciiiilk?r.B
Bu! Gilterl ? .-??- ’ ?;■,.?;■ -■
•lessk' stu‘i J'.u.le -a
Il’Asglte The is read
r.T'teo: H - ' ill, ’ iT
t let Isa sii, -s ith t word.
Titt tntoijui rarltor* atoto ttnxms>k
AJ.C tin 4
With are of Urn i«rfun:cl (low
Ah. Kte how fin- piss?-;, ;4‘
Theri-'a Sitrurl?. ail white and
And M ire tvith 1 p MI
And Vie f m
They smlto v. to’, h a it , n?; a«
To throw (town ii nw to -. ms♦jr rwi, "ttil
tor ofl s ? of
W'iifte I msx&XiW arc tieM,
SUCH IN LIFE.
picture Away back m memory’s Smlls hangs a
yet undim med, though years have
•'ome and gone since too days long ago
when I first knew the reality. Au old
brick school-house, formerly a church,
with its _ bread dixws and great arched j
windows, their buff curtains fluttering i
luxily in tho summer breeze, forms tho
princijKil has-y, feature. Mils, A back-ground of
right purple-green and just to the
a group of grand old walnuts,
whore daily wc held our noon picnics,
an d wove wonderful garlands to decorate
the yellowed walls of tiw* old school
room, ami in front the great gaping
ditch, which in a m«rv.,-lotisly-short
space of time would swallow up the
whole school after the bell tapped for
recess; but to me the dearest feature of
all was. til® broad old Mississippi m the
distance, its rolling along ia majestic gntnd
<® sun’s r i i brightest sparkling wavelets catching the
them hack beams, and throwing
into the old school-house
with, redoubled brilliancy. From mv
»ewt amir the window l think I never
»tod o. watching, its bright waves glim
®* 1 ifeauii Ilci> turoiigh the swaying
green to’ct.-s, .gentle reader, it was
®‘ " “twknew Ethol^ Rayrmmd, a tiny,
, "air-nairwl v girl of perhaps mv own
a -ways mad the pnEc-waito dress age,
m isame
lta warvelotis number of tucks, and
olue.si.K waist, with low neck and short
xU'Cvea setting on her fair ©hildfeb beau
ty, though aacby out of place in the
dusty old Khool-room, m was the gen
eEa * from the
tunmd noses and suppressed titter of the i
little calieo-c-fea damsels whose manners I
were not nearly so respectable as their .
somewhat-failed garments. How long !
^ *-iii recess th .t firs? moriiing, j
aB( l whim it cam© how we all bounded ’
off to “our grove,” a»_ we called the wal- j
n with °^fi an *° air snrround of superitw Mat knowledge, Bronson, who, had i
;
imormod us tliat tlie new-comers lived j
“just down by hot houw.-,’ epnfceqoently
was ‘ opposed l spccts.tliey to know must all be afemt^them, awful rich to !
dress m fine at school,” timidly sug
greted little Kitty E*lwards, as soon aa
we^ were sot tuvl.
Iteb, mdeeti { i( sniffed Mat; “poor
** ‘ 4 ’; ss ‘^ ve ® !lu old_shanty
1°** down below our house; aui’t got
®®j4bmg iu hut two or three <*kl cliaini,
a Move; awful stuck up,
. ■? * n ] 14 weut °T er , fedier
vA\ I* 18 *° s ? e w “®* k,n « , '* 1 P^P*«
tn«y were, anti, my lurid : Mrs. Kav
aon “ «ws so high mid mighty she liarel
y her to sit down, tin© said un
*** circumstances she couldn’t lie
*«*> sm-mUc, which means she's too
ain’t to send her
sehool witii her present arrangements
can b w bich means he ain’t g*.t any
«*»« to wear, yoo toow. Pity he curt
w . i ‘ (ir itw&s family white, with about half
out; it wmilil be jmt
, long enougb tor hun; with oh, know,
^ makes quite stylish Sunday you dress
a
^trfl '»• 1 , m Mrt&onsoo, ut
«n h stuff as that, interrupted
“
,, h f aed
a *
«» feu the truth, and tJus is a solemn
cluues shey Yo got *** one of^ uU these thre sowing ^, ma- aud
’ « P m*
&tZTrjssz&i£rGi
thing; as there are only about forty iid, of
3^, of course ^ it will never get out,”
P) na ? C1ijris a wicked toss, Mat
JESUP, GEORGIA, WKDNESHAY, SEPTEMBER * 2 * 2 , 1880 .
ever-thoogbtful kindness of our teacher, in his
Who seemed never to weary
effort* entertain and mbom her during
j the long his dark races* boyish time. I ran contrasting »ee them
yet, beaut*
with hers so fair and childlike, Ernest
Emerson, our teacher, had come to m
from aueighboringaciulmy, anil, though
scarcely both more than a boy, had pupils. won his
wny among parents Md A
model of perfection and beauty he
seemed to us children. The jetty curls
lymg in damp mgs about his white
’jvoWj the great lustrous black eyes and
faintly-tinted cheeks made up for his
onlj drawback, a lamenem, which #i~
ways made it necessary for him to walk
with a cane ; but we soon grew to look
»P°» ti!C little rosewood cane as a part
of our teacher, and proliably would never
have associated it with pain and suffer¬
ing had he not one day told ms of a boy
whose reckless propensity for fun and
during exploits of had made him a cripple
at the age 14, and a disappointed man
for life rills told in a sad, agitated
tom- of voice convinced us.that the wild,
reesirts hov was no other than our
gentle only teacher. From that hour we were
8>uipatiictic not his friends, .admiring, but his warm,
and when he took
inUc lonely htad nn<h-r ins especial
care we felt a silent rebuke from one
w hose good opinion we tdJ coveted, and
m the a little snort- time all hearts and when were the opened teacher to
stranger,
her in the seat beside m* w> grew
tusiqwrable, and those long, bright sum
mer days seldom found us apart.
EthePa mother, a delicate, fragile lit
tte woman, seldom went out. Muring
Ethel from school sevend weeks after
the commencement of the fall term, I
begged permission to go aud see what
w:us the matter. Tins I readily oh
turned ; and, as it was the day before
Tlnaiksgiving, little friend also to* iMOTiission spend to invite
my the morrow
uth nit The dead November grass
may have writhed and crackled, under
m,' flying feet, but aped you mav ’Ethel be assured
none grew as I to How
the though bright, eyes shone when I told her!
tiiSEj: speedily intent followed she said by a shade of
u as :
Oil to. 1 if I only could, hot 1 can’t,
Maniaa is sick and, any hot?, I haven’t
anything to wear.”
Oil, veil soon fix that. You know
that red polka dot- of mine? I just hate
it. because I can't breathe but whut a
hook ib' ■ off, and I believe it. will just
fit you, bc'tianse you ain't as fat tin I am,
anti .! know mamma is tired of wing
on hooks, imd will hi ever so j 'L for
there.” me to give it away, so y u're ail ^ ight
“ Oh, hui mamma, you know; she’s
real sick! She just coughs all night,
and is so hot. Sometimes I wake" up
and hear her moan. Then I almost
screa®, I'm so ’t'raid she’s going to die 1”
and the great eyes dilated with horror.
“Oh, Evcryfevdy Ethel; yori'always get scan-d so
ciu-.y, gets sick sometimes,
you know 1 . You come to-morrow, and
when everybody's gone T‘H get my
mamma to come over and see lier and
bring her something know. nice—a Thanks
giving lx* nice? dinner, yon Won’t that
N->w nui and ask her ; 1 must
go. Remember, the dress’ll come to
uignt
The next morning, among he first
arrivals, was my little friend How
proud and happy I felt when I saw how
universally by tin her petted and admired she was
! guests 1 That was a bright
dnv t* us, but wlii'ii mv mother re¬
turned, after accompanying Ethel hom<*,
she threw a shadow into our hearts bv
tlie sad information that Mrs. Raymond's
the was probability a hopeless ease of that consumption, and' and
woulii was Ethel her
.brother be motherless before tiro
“Poor, poor hers children,” she went on ;
“■ that, Harry of is a. noble b«v; as
kind ami gciitl i nurse? as a woman
They oppressed are a very refined family, though
so Raymond -iters by }x>verty. sad 1 v Mrs.
! is a story Siif
told me to-night a gtwd deal of her past
history. whim married, It, -cems she was husband' very youug
as was her H
had a nice little stun of 'money to put
into busini ;-s, bat alt hiaImsiucss qnalifi
cations at that t ime consisted of u ili
Just phuna then from a leading business college
he received what he cons id
oml a very brilliant offer, in the shape
of a partnership with an old, exporh-uoed
busHtess man, wlso hail more business
reputation than cither money or bom-sty.
as it, afterward proved. To this arrangc
meat an older brother of Mr, Ray
mond, wbb was very wealthy, and their
only posed living relative, was violently op
; did everything in his power to
prevent what, ho insisted, must prove
only without a disastrous ©xperimetit, but all
avail; the offer seemed bo very
fluttering, considering Mr. liaymoud’s
limited practical expfwienev, that it was
accepted without hesitation. So tho
new tirtn started, and everything was
suid highly plenty Hsitisfactory for « time. Ifeace
smiled upon their home, and
when little Harrr and Ethel came they
thought their blfes complete. But the
cloud burst nnexp'i’todiy. One mom
ing they wakened to find the new firm
bankrupt, having themseh*<*8 sailed for penniless, Europe the the
partner night
before, taking " with him all surplus
funds.
“ What to do the young husband and
wife km w not. but, after numberless
uiwucc-sful attempts to find emplov
nn to tho nt, Mr. older ILmnoml brother, and decided received to appekl
m re
\ ply offered a f^w wonls, mrting only tli&t, as he lia»l
advice before to la* rejected,
he oertuinlv would not have the irn
i ? 1- jdy rtiire-no. say, as toto he. had moo fumfehed , but the a onld capital sun
. H he nd his p.rtm r tin -.pi i one, it wL to
both, pumacaed he tiie result was satfefectorv
to as could now boast of tire ex
\ iovum‘' i u- re- , re,iLT . , arnlln t , ,.
; queue"cf ; ( u iIkm* kSw “a
t)n4 ex, for , ore
^
! LirtrWr ^ ac^UidSniVto a bw^fevs
t j l( . yo u ,, K motlier with her t W- > little
I her door tell, on account of failing
| health, who was forced to seek change of
| climate, but too late ; as the winter days
j morning wore on she in the grew «ar!v worse, spring and there one bright flat
.
J \ tered breeze from the heavy the door black in the soft, balmy wliieli
| fold the news’ that death crape, had
sad entered
j the little cottage and left Harry and
: Ethel motherless, but. not without a
! friend; Rome one, whom we afterward
j learned was no band other than Eugene kind, delt- Em
croon, ever on with some
cate attention for the invalid, had writ
ten to the brother, and at tho funeral
tlie little mourners were led bv a tall,
st&Mvdooking gcniJemm who,* it was
whispered, them was their rich undo, come to
take awav, which proved truf
j almost The next bursting morning, with our chiklt-.lt Ethel hearts
saul good-bys grief, and I
our oyer and over again
ere the great lumbering old stage coach
earned her away to be. the daughter of
her rich uncle, who expressed his infcn.
being tion of adopting both the children, a,.
childless and eutirely eloue in t. h
world.
Years glided by and an oeeamonal let
life, tor from speaking Ethel descriptive first, kindly, of and the new
at the)*
afTectionately, of the uncle, whom site
soon learned to love and who, .-die a -nired
«*. through unselfish kindness and ailee
turn, was children endeavoring to make amends
to the for neglect of the p.tr
ents.
Mince that bright spring din w hen I
bade Ethel good-by lm*l rolled twelve
veors, when one morning a letter from
| Kthe.l was placed in m\ hand—still
! Ethel Raymond, but instead of the
i lovely tifol and child of poverty a inSHiant, be,m
! and the accomplished woman, an heir
j ess pel of society. Just having
; returned from r,uro)w>, she had written
j to me to come to her.' It was. an nfl'e'c
to.mite, merry letter, descriptive of the
guyotw s society life, cnt.iinimr n full
account of the bust conquest, etc., b„,i
finally ma:ut ending up with an imperative <lo
for my presence at her lmm©
given Thanksgiving, her saying liberty her unde had
full to invite what
guests -die chose for that day, ‘’which will
be te'u; ■if, unde, brother Harry and
myself. You see I want only those
whom I love tor my first Thanks
giving —kind, at of home after so long un al mm
And a diHireat,” family renn v ? iu know
now, id added, null
you wish to entail a E along misery up
on your old friend vo - j-mtsf be sure to
{‘owe.
I handed the letter over t mamma
with a smile, who, after n bug it
dear, tiitongb, i think quietly remarked, ” “ Well’, mv
you can go.
“Ob mamma *** T oto! ivc’ar’ f I,? ,
I haven't a thing fit to For the
aam© yeara that had brought wealth and
luxury to Ethel lvapuiond had brought
1K wei'i “ MvE'l ’io think Jo, von si. k k r tl li r
1 intov V i;V? v 1 «°v to u -TTu !!*
me tj wVieh mi *u-;h . * ,. ; 111 ! ./ ;a /* K
eashm ft iin wr, tor
street and church wear. I know, of e<nii'se
TTi.it your wardrobe is not what a young
ionable lady would wish on entering fash¬
have society, and, bttt, ray dear, it is fill
you ; you know fadv will
appear Go, child, a lady and under all oireumstai **
You enjoy a once" Toil
remember Ethel spent a
circumstances, Thanksgiving with you under similar
thenand I only you were children
presume she has not forgot
t. , it, and , week .
a « or two later tonnd , me
domiciled with my fmnd. Oh. the hap
py sacmipremuete days lived over again within the
of otus oVu room! It
m\s h.-re, the moming of that m* mor
able Thanksgiving, that we had both
Ruddenly of extended subsided into silence after one
our conversations. Ethel,
seated Upon a low ottoman, just opj «-?!■
my favorite porch on tha side of the bed,
heavy was busiiy braids engaged <>f fur in undoing the long,
hair, ul.idi. nhui
loosened, fell in great golden waves about
her shoulders. Suddenly turning, she
merrily orbs of cried: “ Why those pfennig m«»ibl
this midnight darkness fixed
innocent countenance, as if t?. pierce
the very dei.th of mv inmost soul '- 1
“ Don’t be tragio, dear, 1 was onlv oven
pi.Hl with my own thoughts,” I niter
rupted.
‘‘A penny for your thoughts, thou.”
“Well, my dear, I was just wonder
ing how soon that ardent admire, „f
yours, Col. Blackwell, of the milium and
mustache Z !!: is to !i claim ! “ th«t little V
andhis tiine , o^c" wefrepiSeT” I lg ’
yon mean? That will never Vie. No,
never! she. addwl, with a little shiver. 1
presumeyonhavedfecoveredtin-(!olom>Ts
standing anxious with my uncle, who hauls* -on
f.»r years for an alliance be
tween the two families. The Blftek
wells, you know, are a very aristocrat!
\ and wealthy family. The Colonel is
handsome, in fact that intelligent, good, everything
iht* world would umouniousfr
vote added,'with a good match; but. mv a’bitter dear she
I foolish Rome tiling of smile,
am so as to think that tic to is
anotlmr world nsnallv requisite leaves to happiness which tht
oat of consideration
and that is love, and a* I posses# none
of that (to mv happiue&s, n.wessarvi
commix!itv my uncle’s ambition must
besacrifiwd and “ mv exwet '‘ tto ' frfen fe
dfearvteabNl”
- Wffil Ethel t.rav UiA inform JA us what
kind of a m ui in -1 B .
elegant- Colonel’fail* aceomnlished 1 ami fasefemtine 8
”
** W*»U I am sure I <Vm't knew T
sometimes think that. necessmw litlle m
gan eallcrl com,awitio“ the hour! v .s 7 ft < nre- v „c
of mv ami ir- Li n v
doubt a capability of uni am- rVi.e Us mi
amount of aftivtion and, cto
! cuinstaneea, it wer.* lietfer for EtVt
!-fo Raymond to tread life's ,!■ pathway Mono
tm-. an lln t.~„ „ L.Lbtilhnlvmt'to , *.
i husband ‘and elegant Jm
tho contrar 1 o y n kn 1
i^ “ Ah. indeed !” I interrupted, with
> augh all, a
merry t1s “So, alt it t> not
* K «‘ff«-cti..n that i- .so disastrous
j “No, no; you are too fast. I was
! on Jv 8» JittI*
j remember.* Well,
i then I am to understand tin
j t only serious affection effect then was to destroy
any germ of which might spring
I Micro you id
things ways did down pomess fine the point,'' faculty of Whig
to &
‘•Where is lie?” I unround. “Do von
know anythin" of him*•>” "
“I have heard nothing for a long
time. He used to write to me. occasion
ally iu my childhood days, and once
when in the city had the audacity to
call, as my uncle expressed jt. .Sometime of which
fact 1 was not inform.,! for
after. Then my uncle told me that, he
thought >uM it best that our acqiuunbwieo
s! it end, and, I presum gave him to
understand the same, as have never
received any letters since. He is now
in editing a connby newspaper. RomoWre
| ally the find West, articles I believe, from and his I occasion- in
leading wientific journals, pen our
1 uncle is which even
forced to admit are very fine,
i : But come, my dear ; if we go to church
j this morning'we must hasten oar pre
pnrations." In
a few moments I was ready wait
ing for Ethel, who, in her navy blue
silk, velvet cloak, ermines, and jaunty
hat with its long, picture^to wuviug white plume 1
was indeed a fair look upon
as she caught up the long train of her
( I elegant preparatory to starting
Little we thought of the disaster tlmt
j was to befall that same train ere our
return,
When service was over we started
home in a great hnrry, as it was vm
late. ! had jttst landed safely on the
i other side of the crowded street when,
j driver, k«*ring I n terrific whoa from the car
turned just in time to s ce Ethel
««o«J‘t olic luul fryni iiumodly under crossed tho very tho horses’ track f,vt. just
in front ol the cm when her ilress caught
aud jcrkwl her back, and iu another
moment rite wi.mld have been trampled
under the horses had not a strong arm
i«g caught her while the car passed on, tak
almost the whole of the soft, shim
Ethel roaring train released, with it, Ar.nl, as soon as
her was and joyfully was surprised to
turn extend both
cuds to tho stranger w ho hud so gal
I ant I v rescued her. 11‘tiiiiiing one of
the hands, lie placed it. in his ,.nu, anil
in it moment they wore besitlt to
glance at her escort assured rue that he
v.as no other than the subject of our
morning discussion Ol course we took
l** of our old friend, and, culling
ft home, carriage, ft were soon indeed, safely depioath-d at
v. toss, a happy little
PHriy ttiat gathered ai-omul the dinner
toW f ,bat da v ’ Even Ethel’s haughty
-
“ wa9 Vl> ry gracious and grateful,
’tod , gave our fnend a warm welcome.
the 'lia^ry" and I--a« wc
" :!t warm glow of the bright grate
tln kfriug light we would not
huighcd, tlifer dimmed cliattercd, by lighted gas; how we
and finally drifted
buck to (m* days of »«*. A regular ex
pi'rienee ius meeting w& had, each relating
or her own varied fortune. But
another story I read in the eyes of out
friend Lugeno as I slipped away, tmon
l° ,,0 ' ve< l by Harry, who found his pres-
11 !. Thto i! S'oLtoteu-v, lie had which I afterward
ann come from bis far West
eru home to fell to the blue-eyed Ethel,
whose image his heart had ever held:
nrnl a few weeks later 1 stood beside my
friend that smnv-elnd Ohristmaa moni
ing with in the softlydigbted parlor, fragrant
the breath of the love !v white blos
sums nestled peeping out from every hofiy niche, and
down among the and ever
green, silent witnesses of that short, im
preosive Ethel ceremony 'to which gave Eugene
and hack each other after the
many lost days when each had thought the
other .—-Chicago Lexifier.
A Possible Relic of tic Soto,
, rn Hie ratlahassee (Ha.) f londtao . ... says:
, Sow years ago. about two males cast ol
! ™ a ponderous spur.
,lf muouo and curious workmanship, the
lik ", o{ whieh b « I! aeen ,n
modern tunes, ihe burr was one and , a
half inches m diameter and the bar pro
pirtionately heavy. On either side of •
the rowd dangled xrnall pendant bells, j
that gave forth a tinkling sound in _ re
toeaehstepoi the wearer --doubt- :
less some steel-clad and lKtnueted warrior •
O nielongago. Not many days since,
' !\ hi! */. M iU ' ti, T “ car the J
! mation, proved to be an iron stirrup of
iic'eut ’ mttorn t ra * as heavv av ' and M as a ‘ massive “'T 1 '.
: <"md 1,1 firady imbedded “ >;-• m S a P^ tiuek , U coating oi first,
j foi CUV, di-Ki rn.Bt*. \S lu’U this was re
: mtivetl ihe Mirrnp nw found to bo hx a
I ivmaiiodi.y good state of
" >:,, cn represent two I. inopian tig
. ures standing upon the foot-rest, while leamug
forward facing each other, they
rq.port with outstretched arms what
tonus , the top of the stirrup, or that part
u uv'.i ixytmec vd «i.h the leather,• ™
! «nhke are situ them- relics to anything
: known to the generations of this day and
! toe ’ ftnd > both lanng unreasonable found so near the
I T'lsoe , it w not to , a»
: them te> the same era and indmd
: i ' v ,robftbl '\ A* S * A Rt oue supptx^rtaon o{ il A kinghtlv at. all fob nn
>w.esof D-? , hoto, , lured on through this
‘
unkuowu region and wilderness,
wko that dauntless sou of Spam, by a
i ^drst ior th«.? yellow lieaps of
■ ff'dd that loomed up ahead of them ni
vain visious aud heated fancies, here fell
a victim to the tomahBwk and scalping
; k.uie of the wronged amt revengeful red
f ul m ’ J l T'b T,’ m A & tbB
l -ol dnissce l ube of which : I ig*’r
A >1 d T djremnUnt,
-. iwa-sted. , m he displayed , , at his belt a
I yet bloody w» 1 r that he hail “killed a
^i, , ,. i; -“d' £ wit' ‘whut' uTi 1 they oi can^w-rraTs e,’-h'
v .ith a man iiv- and a half'feet hmi
‘ ® nt H® X mUes 111 tl * xm
• bourn.
NO. 4.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Texas boa begun to export black walnut
j umbei
j lRXAa daily Uews '
! ami 100 ’ wek “**
j Tbs oflieial constia return* place tho
I population of Charleston at 50.043.
i ... 1 Shelby ,, <*>unty(Tennes«ee)Grango ,, . .,
j WJ> _ »R "* lu * M exum&zw fair ilia* year.
: '
j Kkhitkex postmasters in Mississippi
i | draw salaries of |1,000 or more, each!
! ‘"hue 3*° > r , bathing , , m Whst irehciau* 7™ , T'-'T lorish, ,
j T’ a
; -
j Petrkhbt'ro. Vs, , has six cotton factor
i lies ’ giving * er lovmrnt to nearly 1 00!)
. .
i 0 E,,
H,: I,kwn ( ° ,lilCl1 of f »>‘«n!tete«i, , <m.,
“*« , increased the retail liquor license
;
i from #100 to $800.
j Charmwtf ' -s the onlv h 1 town in ’ North
> ,< . whore physic.mns have
j '••anuiua to pay
I f, w license to practice their profession,
1 In 1874 the entire orange crop of
I Florida was represented bv 2.60B hid
! barrel cases, In 187!) it amounted
! . oootwinww,
! ( ' F : W * W men . FUmd ri , * dr,VP . . a lu, rn :
rive .. business catching , rattlesnakes | 1 and
I
i dipping them North. Tho market
i quoted, at $5 apiece for good-sized rat
j tj,, rs
Sevkuau newspapm’s of the Smith tell
i <^eae«*"W poisoning from I'ating water
' melons and pumpkins which were raise*
j in cotton patches where Pari* green had
i been used to kill liull worm?
| A utI , ciu Texas, on the Bw/,.s Liter,
,H ,,f > ' h, v ^ hv , th<> DW * L,,on "« , , Ul
i P 0 * 8 ® 8 * curative powers. A s|>eculat<ir
j has bought it with the intention of sell
, ing the earth for medicine,
j The .Episcopalians in Savannah have
| five large and flourishing churches, with
! families,
j 945 XU! Sunday-school pupils,
1,192 communicants. Last year the con
ti’ibutiona for various church purpose *
amounted to $28,611.67.
The pouch orchard of John H. Pnrnell.
in Troup County, (M.» is the larged in
the world. It covers 250 acres of land,
and will probably yield $70,000 this
year. Its owner is a near relative of the
celebrated Charles Stewart Parnell, M. P.
T «« company that has been experi
nmnting in Florida with palmetto for
making f»i>er has mot with such gratify
j„g aU0CttMI that they will erect about
J we “g j™*"'* ,nilh j' 1 '" ri f ,w V f
lhat stato » whero ixdwetto trees grow in
almitdaiic© and where tho traus{>ortaUon
facilities are good.
Turn nworda «f the Charleston
t 'Oitrt **how that the eeloml folks do not,
as 11 general thing, get along well to
gether in the married state, but what is
singular is that tbo cases brought Jwfore
the court-are almost invariably charges'
°* ' ,bn * h «" d Jt is thc
wlfe who makes most business
f° r the Itecorder.
Drjarnfttk. the young Virginia gen¬
tleman who murdered life -istcr, in order
o> maintain the ., honor of , , Jus . family, , , has .
published a letter, in which he confesses
that his treatment of her was brutal and
barbarous, but that his love for her was
as strong as life cruelty was shocking.
He savs that the conduct of his sister
caused him such grief as to destroy his
reason. and that tho report that the
crime was committed for the sake of tho
family honor is without foimdafion.
Mks Nancy Who. ax died near Witt
Springs, Ark. , at the age of ninety years,
She was bora in North Carolina dnrin
the (>crii«l of the Indian troubles, and
learned to handle the rifle w ith great deii
ferity. She clioppod down trees, cleared
fields and made rails, plowed and dnl other
O iit-door work. At the age of seventeen
J “ A*'*" a Baptist preacher \ aud rc
moved to lonnessoe. i m \ had tinr
teen children. Mrs. Wright is saul to
have been a very handsome woman in her
Major Poous, while on a trip to New
Y<*t, noticed at Port ltoyal, the taking
on board I„,„ r 1 of „( thirteen thuteen half half-. casks* of ol white white
cky. from th© Kaolm works m Mouth
(’arolina, near Augusta, Georgia. He
] earneil that the clay wan 1 wing shipped
Ma ju ar j the great French
maiiuwciurer nifacturer of UI New Y rwn r ork Oitv uiv, where »u <«
it is sweetened, colored and doctored, and
shipped back as pure French candies
which find ft ready sale, and are eagerly,
devoaredby j the little ones. - Ta Uahaxsr t
^ l
---
A Fftt lh) ^
People who have no regard , , tor tratn ,
are choice sometimes of lies to not very point; happy and iu then
gain a after
they have told the wrong one, it is gen
orally too the late. old The story Kasnebeo of the boy Journal
revives who
brought selE the Uog-«ki» to the burner to
'
“Mas he a fat dog? asked , the man of
leather
“» he Vafy fat?
'«*•
. , How fat wm he?
• “ He was the fattest dog I ever see.
| Ut* .“Well, hide my boy, worth if he was thing.” so very fat,
is not any
-
n i,!k ’ w,th ludtwl tu - id,d *
^ tllia , ™i two or three times
a
<1 *'‘ 1U H ftfc < ? ne °I "hole
as pro
smibed they will be fat enough h or mar
1 ket.
SCIENTIFIC ROTES.
Tent growth of the coral reefs, accord¬
ing to a largo amount of observation*. ia
about mix inches in a century.
Thr experimental works for the tun¬
nel between Dover and Calais are still
going on. A second; shaft is to be sunk,
Oi vpowDEtt in oonUet with metals is
found to undergo considerable decoin po
sit ion in the course of y ears, by which
change its power is very much dimin¬
ished.
Carbonic acid in a liquid form has
Ihhu) found in tin* jxwet* of the Uraliay
’ amethyst. The pressure which must
i f hays acid is boon imated i x-Ttcd at to seventy-three liquifv the earbolia
est atmos
! ph< res.
Oaki.and, Francisco, Cal., the growing rival of
Han has 35,WX! population,
against 10,500 ten years ago, and the
county the chief of Alameda, of which Oakland is
237 in place, lias 59,000, against 24,-
1870,
j ' m . A a B( * nc!Cr whose bottom in wine iscovered and placed with
i !l smab quantity of water, will not color
,fa< ; w **!’ r ,0 f ” 'F^der or half an hour,
i unless the wine is adulterated, when it
, will begin to color it at once,
j The German African Society ban »
1 pre.-ent not less than six different expr
j dittefts engaged in exploring Centra
> tfriea. Add to this the w ork being fleldf per*
j it well by others in the saoie and
may seem that the ‘‘dark conti
| nent ” most soon give up it* secrete.
Two eggs of the extinct great ank were
; recently £100«uad sold by auction other in Edinburgh,
ono at tho atJ02 g.iineae.
The latter is probably the largest sum
; cepti.-n ewr p a jp of f or that a e j U gj^ tf «g with the ex
of tho inoa, a single
j -pecimen of which watt sold at the same
place in 1W55 for £200.
A mono the animals inhabiting the bot¬
tom of tho Gae| Sen are found several
- prcit«a having well-developed organs of
‘ ight This is taken a* an indication
that even at great depths light is not
tins completely of animals abeos laid, m reduced in total dai'kueea
eves are to a rudi
meittitrv form.
It h»s been estimated that a single
pair oopio of Cyclop* qutuMcornit, a micro
ernsta,•.•!«!, will produce a prog
cdurao ,, uy numbering of six months 4,9O0,OOO,Gi'JO This in the
but of the marvels is, wliioh however, the
one many
microscope world has shown in tho unseen
around us.
The Azti'o C.u.Bvnvn 8-rotot.—On© of
the most remarkable of these antiquitioe
is a j'uc nimble, of the stone re presenting
the calendar of the Aztecs, It was dis
covered in 1700 near the foundation of
the Cathedral in the City of Mexico, It
is description simply imp- of the ;iible to give an bite adequate in this
numerous
rare and wonderful collection.
The mixture used by Mr. Hannav in
the prodnetton of his first artificial dia
: tnouds consisted of ninety per cent, .
rectified bone oil, ten per cent of paraffin
; spirit, and f.-ur grams placed of lithium 1'hoM
; substances were in tube four
with a
inches in diameter, a bore of half an
inch, and alter the open end had been
securely welded up the tub© was expo* 1
to a red heat for fourteen hours.
Er.j*Ki!i.Mi:NTshav« proved that wooden
posts put in the ground in the same poai
tion as that in which they grew, top up¬
wards, will become rotten several placed years
sooner than they would if top
downwards in the soil. The theory if
that the capillary tabes in the tree are *
adjusted ar to oppose the rising moistu? -
when the wood is inverted.
j Snt John Lubbock has just given to
the Li unman riooicty another installment
: of n -uUm of tho observations made on
wdn. One question that he iiaa
to determine Ui whether them ia*
mimieiition. sect.- hay© a language A dead bluebottle or means of fly com*
, was
j , ant pinned with down, reference and the movements watched. of an
t i, were
At first, tho ant tried to remove the fly,
but wur unable to do so. It then went
home, and soon reappeared leading «
seemed body of somewhat re-finfon-ements The latter
while incredulous, and after
a turned back The first ant,
comrades however, again approached his doubting
and succeeded fn persuading
them to go and help him with the fir.
The friends wv-re undoubtedly brought
out have by been tig-first done ant, through and this could only
*om© means of
coin mumcation. I Several cvpcrimcnta
wore made with different species of ants
and under varied cimurmtancos The
results indicate, in the opinion of the ob
icrver, that ants posatres something a-p
preaching summoning language, and have the power
of theirfriends to Jiclp tliem.
Bit* John further ex pcrimenf.Ml with the
view of testing the. recognition of rela¬
tions among these insect Young ants,
j Us t having reached maturity, were in
trod ccd into the aost among old arils,
ir latter had never beforts the
f. h •r, y<:t i« every case they recog¬
nized thorn us belonging to the commu¬
nity.
Trupidm; (riqihers.
The Santa Ana (Oal.) Time* says
that tho farmers of that valley tiro
catching th© gophers in the following three
manner ; “A trench ' : : dug about
feet entire deep, by two and fee barrels, wide, across boxes, the
premises, placed or
cans are at convenient ilfetanm.
wludl fir© sunk deep enough So that
f)i(i Ul * with tJu! , K , ttom
of tll!i tmlch< Now, in device a trench
three foot and deep, the subterranean the gophers pas¬
sage® general ran of
are cut off and left open in tho trench,
and, 1 as tlio gopher does most of his
LSlVSs^ , qi,,,, , n n, „m i, \\lu
into the ditch’ >u
there, life next move, naturally
enough, whi fe ho to hunt contiano for another passage
md reby tb J may ,V hia journev, he fob
cons( , t ri( , , s ar „ that
lows the ditch until lie comes to one of
the boxes, barrels, or cans, which he
tumbles into, when to, and behold, he
is caught in ft manner from which there
fe no escape. Very often tho farmer
will make a haul of fifty or sixty of a
morning, gophers either.” and not a good day for
<4 Yok Iutv<». a grefit deal of tlnnt bere hi
Sail Francisea*’ “Yu n-s.” drawled Ihe
hot. 1 clerk; “1 niter from it mvsclf.”
o Woak ,, v ^ r wqnued the stranger.
“No. So.” “lour lungs affected,
H.enr “Not m mb!" y awned the clerk.
“In what way tlu-n do you suffer from
th. dustv" asked tb. nomev Uat suvp.ruwd
■ | a,,..,-...,;, oii v t., Who .-bout sixty
times an hour every fool comes in
h .. lv . ;l c, “You hare a g--d deal of dud
....................
cife- > A'.. fc.< Letter
......
ripened, tu-se and pods piaut.-d th, seeds saved
from year after year, tor
three years, and tin- fourth year had
Seeds of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, en
cumber, peas, com and many other* can
be much improved by the same cere.