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The Jesiip Mel. Office in the Jcsttjj HftWSt, fronting Bread on Cherry street, two doers from St. JTCBUSHEO EVEKY WEDNK8DAY, BY T P. LITTLEFIELD S ub so r i p t i o n H ate s (Postage Prepaid.) One year........................ 12 00 Six mouth*.... ................................ 1 00 Three mouths................................. 50 A dverttori ng O a t < :*s Per square, first insertion................... $1 qp Per square, t-’ieh subst-ijucut, tast;riiou. vertiwra. sfirtSpeeii al rates to yearly and targe mi TOWN DIRECTORY. sown omnetm. M«r« -W. II. Wh*’*r e.mit !li»,-<c i. n»,i Wii-i, aw <3. tV J isiiwi*, W. a. Mtiiaiei Hi, Ht i (fcei.. Ci^tic ami Tr.-:!.,ur,-t - JVr yon. ts?»rx* Mn?nR*l- J. I, T.-ai couNtr ormotciis. Sllvrsff-—.! Ordinary-— f> Rickard Rnhiawm. B Tlapps. tfierk Bteerirw'-J Saperinr Oourt—BenJ. If.ueher. O Middlstcn T«x C Tji -V (NiUeci a- - AY R Causey. County .Surveyor- •• W 'U Swift, f’-justy Tru'tDu ■ leha Massey Cnroai r • <. Ruteh*. guperwr Court, Wayne romp t Martin I. Yrrabmi, Judge ; Button W Uiteh Sul e,iu>i (tenerftl. Ses» ions b«td tm fourth Monday in Mareli nud Sspii'UJber. BA XLE Y, < i El )RG1 a AWLim Coi-.stY OM lCKiiP. Sheri#—1. <>rdl«iwy—Sila* H, A. Crosby. <Ta>k. Oeuaty t.'htk-- W. W. Graham Treasurer—N. Weatherly. * Tax Receiver—J - J. Hr vis Tax Oalleeior—Siiss itoberson. CottBfr County Co Commistteners— rr.nre — i, Jutiitsc.fi • B, McRachio John O. Hart. Wm. G. Stewart, Jaui-s W i aack, Jaiiam Carter. t osuity i o« i ID iS* Oa'"TS-ss.f*?i I.Tf <X l ^lr.*c«v W. 6. Mi s -iriteri «< "Act'.. ( hitirG^a R gui«r g (if ik* B ,..) thi l W<?4fie»i:ia April July v uAry, , ft 4 < 'X'it./Vl > PJJTS l I x i ,! ( CU4BLVOA WCSTV OfTiCSiSi (iriisiiftfj — Ho) ert. liateher. Sherifl—J oka Br acks. I l*ris- - j. W. beaten. Con vt Calc ncTn'p. T>.’hol«—Seecuid Mteid.iys in March and September. Appling—Third Monday in March and Sepleaiber. Wayne—Fourth Monday in March and P'ep ember. Pierce—First Monday in April tmd October. Ware—Second Monday in April and, f>, tober, April Clinch—Tuesday October. after third Monday in and Coffee—Tuesday aftir fourth Monday in April sod (o-t.iber. May Oftin.len—Tuesday end Nov. after second Mosdar II i.e < •. Che risen —Third Monday hi May mul .No venther. Gijna—Fourth Monday in ti y end Nw vew >.u»r. TH! JESUS’ HOUSE, Verne Urea. iH, j » 1 liSUP, < » ho > R( i 1 \ ,k 'tisn AUna’fe .tr.fi .I M e,:;-. »n,l Uraut. wick LS.ii JvjSiJs, f!i« »H«a >n oi Ui*? Iravi-Hag 4 . itv- mduffr »l* « i (B> them id- * Hi-ae-, Tie- iw:8|i<m <:<} l Mow* j* :n ?)<‘5a.«t r u«b m<i tteo'.U; !*-5V|>t. It : «i o ftvi: sr ren | h ««i »!'•»».• *.»(! is ftOol :a t. ,U« tw very i-ou.fdi t «) a iu-.e (,u t ? fist Rwo’ .!«•« SI All Her S-Oigif .,»< , noti (>< >... n s v * -. re, in. v*.. re v.. MHrtttl, IllMO) M ro riHlui: 1 H.Ttor, l'«*T*ij- * mu te a fa 'er iht' .h$*Uj ]>!- n< r: ir-:;.::-' if'f'f V S -...‘d f ui K pvopi iatw, no iXlMn $tx|>m •*>! I- »pnr> d it® ft iUVii Yi .il. v@ haras e te and fr«m ai d tii*.«. I- p. UmEPIElD. ft 4* w Throwing the Hatchet, t.) f ‘ Fl '* lH X * ” lT? ' " H f tt ‘ f- 'V • m ee lt uf ' ap!,u _of consioeras a-cftic t .anent, thttre were three candidates. A day was ap- - pointotoor piihhc ms^ay o iheir^v era! wnluies. Ihc .i&v candidate, with ; » ft rate, eh -ve-r.y separated the bead of ; tne victim from h» simuhiers lew outdone by the rapid stroke of the see ond, whme-glittering the broadsword struck lerror mto hearts of the surrounding multitiute. 1 he .ford und least prom hda-m hn ha®i4- a shoit and, when the victim was extended with his head on the fata) block, approached iiim, and in a low whisper jnq.t r. d if he ***** a swift runner, and if he could swim well. On tieiug answered in the affirm stive, he desired hun to spring ou his f.-et and cross the river. Tlie esccu tioner then put on a fierce look, swung fos weapon round Im head, hot, m Dto voted a.i creator** making it mek dttoiwitel *ime\ on it the with de force t great into the block ! Shoute of **xmutM» rose from the crowd, and the trembling wonderful wretch, astonished at escape, had ra-nriy gamed the opjutsite bank of th* met before any steps were taken to pursue him Me litid Bcarecly, however, gone ton yards on dry land, when tiie executioner t«k «uch effect that tlie hotly continued TOii rang sometime alter the head was off! From this rather improbable incident the common phrow of throwing the hatehe* is said to be derived. The Wrong Bemedr. Barker read one il v <>«. . wa, who was lieing' choked to death ith a peach atone which hod Wn r,.lodged i Dreiective m his O’Connor, threat, who being saved bv ■‘blow gare him h between tho shoulders thus fore- 1R the: atone from the wind-pira- Hte ’ miail still the war. on atorv » he went down town, and jnst as be reached th« comer of Bovlston and Tremout streets w Haw a Wretch holding evfdentlv a half-eaten ehokini fV .*i 'n-" iiiui.l and stoi- ^ii vere^.* . «i the thv'nJa Barker r»hod up to rave life Druwimr the'akott off ho tin* • Mou tehma Wmith*t sent him U*n feet, aud, following lmn, Barker asked if the atone liad eomo out. In less than ten minutes from that time ihu would be Good Samaritan was as well-whipped a man as could have been found iu a Hatfoath-dayViournev. Both tves were blackened, reposed—uwt two teerii grac-follv were eou* | and his nose left cheek. There,'"sanl -on hi* “ the Granger, m ft satisfied sort ot v.„y, “that will tench you to let a man alone when he feels sick at his stomach. I guess,” mid Barker says that the stranger was per JgjL °° mct ia Ui ‘ rtuutfk .-Boston flic gfesitw Scnfwl V J 11--'' J VOL. V. ; I'O tltT.P.KK, ! *T MBS 1. V, it. K ' ,KS* j Whsn ftf« life'*nan) cm Mv «t-sr. -i'irU sums Id qa.0 ■M luo* ; For ] w Sik wlvk^j bora : W i tUin suy i, ? fibril; 2 qt la ft »«* fovrni t')f jp'.Gir v fiii j m*tt, y a fix tfi, lu-ctarEut iii&l tu-I thx&X ot thee. j Rote Hi fs-fii thy war Uatii f it ifM «*• 15St : >?v it- Phi Ural. kncAt : : iwiiiiriiV-- '» By Ji A -tth.iiri Ut^’ aril « 4 In dTf' Txf ■i-rtoU tbtrt'.*, To Gi-sl hvmtt «t Ujtf.ai-1 thj iitniw an.) ponrod In si >nh aiih v- .-v sR . n ilHxygate’s iiiithro^lai Dow :a \m^Abn\ tr.bj ,i, w* Oi:if th « r *bv,r,, f Vlii) frit: Ps;it na-n, m 'mud* rnft bnrh teims tlsv P T’iiu-ilim. Stoe m i. On lurtnirv w,'.h Aj.il f' it White Oti'I. « MM Tit A t»o;eful, n»svt rest. at it ■i.’i.t'ii' it o>},,-r kS J n« thy iUlr» u i if© 111 4*t‘P tt a Mv h-'-r, g Ti " iV'Vtk tO thof Tby &m a Are to! fti ’he w ^ Va pc a *. • t >A'.t \ m T<W-ih*v TR1 pr.rrMv . ! MtiJJ »:p ; Mill Julies Uje jistl: Till tki'U !Ti 2 h-r-Ft. tDy N ■Ncr ri.uibt a heort :?.h*. ite I’llpray for Uri-Mirav i THK ilt’Slb\ YIPS Sgt'KKlh Dinah “ Not a word. Blind, to I) ail Attn ! ’ Ann hcrkelf, t! di. r’s wife having strolled down the g , T X, • to in tie sweet stdlih-s i>f the snrumsr night, heard these enggestive words as the gig pulled up at til'’ gate, arid her husband descended from it was a pjcasmg little woman of seven or eight mu! thirty with dark brown eyes, a 1 lit. fresh face, and a natural propensity and to take j her own way, in the house out of it. j Drawing well-kept back hawthorn from the gate behind the ■ hedge, site waited > for what was to come next. Dinah “ Not Ann a nurd, ! for your life, mind, to j “ No f.’in replied ft voice, which she recognized as that of hot brother. Harry Le-i* ‘ I know what women are. Blio'd be f.<r—for revolution!;- u* house. ft; el r It i nee let r got i.u ttk ling of fiiis, No foar, Jan 1 Take care, on let your side, that j t don’t lose that--■ or 1 to. ah Aim fiad it “ ratal 8P When are yon com- i ihg to mv, >k print pipe with me? i shall want voui advice “ Oi f these evenings,” interrupted the lawyer,'as he drove i p tin IftJiC, “ Gwa-uight 1 ” James Harbury, subsS.; nt-lal farmer and agriculturist, came through i gat . j and tunmd to fasten it. Hmi 1 fill 1 : the othei v. to the lef) hrete-ii-i i-S t 1 | the right, lie would Itave gee u his wi staading against tine hedge r is close as fthe could stand, Ahnost iut > it. He did I not path *e«' to th»’ her, hou and went When strai i edit toot-ate-v up the i s J had died a wa v, Mrs. Harlmry onndh.-r i light summer gown, tv ver her black silk \ apron,caught.hold of herlilaceajrerrings. hast the cap should fly off, madnui swiitlj up back, the narrow through sidewalk, got roumlto tie went l he house, Set droj her gown, and entered the sitting-room, all calmly, nearly as soon as her bus baud. “Got back!” sle exclaimed, with quite a look of stnrjjri “Just come r. r .... pLi a: .t i tfo. lam-, ,. , s ; u “’wf-frap • Tu m - ri.rJtHttte 1, ' ? you Ju mit - ,; 1 ; j rang and the end - f cv • vthing | j - who Harry seemed had to come,” walking K .id the farm * r ^ to be 4 * about. tov 1 m v r(sU «l, m l : thought of such £ thing as r.,fo -in n to .... salsify his wife’s the qnast- rts. “ He got- a message from Down Farm, to go 1 there without 1 o,h of tim i I might a, w,U conic up with ; him,' Dinah Am-, a ; to 11. M ‘j ’ >q I ' him stack in tie Up-owm of the Taw uy Lion; he didn't enter his 0 gig 0 to be -t 5 'p Ff ltv _ 1 H ,f‘. You’d have t tue reiIis y<»u.i o1 , =ed, k James, I re«c °".’. op ’• s he < *V„ 11 t '^ not n } get *f‘ f ba 11 ! 1 rd. ’ that! as u .us p n , ’./tot ? T 1 ®' 1 A nll s ’* Hung l ^ > V*^ Ut artn < ' “ < ' the 1 Down 1- iirm. A nvikers-^amf ^ V^k von lie'Ac'ti kii.rv 'vd ^ *'V * whe* .q / ‘ - * * ffi *{ { int tl 1 r ' { 1- . . : l 4 4 . “a.’» Jd 1 Hmt U ^ *-' wlt 1 < m,lkt hw bls a dn ted, *ulfnl tb-tew ('* i Dinah ten <’« ..... » ' ’^h , „ " ,ta .dfomr cm *" p .. . , \,V c'Slf . * “ tia 'fTb. y U1 >iu “ 4 " hm V1U1 . ih tnongn ifte it i« tau. htl !t, N .and missetl 1 my tea, so i v., foul . siHee « c.. »-k dinner. V, he- 1 F 1 1 ' ls !t \ J Ust and tasc a , Ti tuc* Bcre , H ngltt, - .. m-.vi Mr- . Harbury. thinks r , “ Ho mneh tenter that F.v:m No yon might have ridden her iu .to ««y. weed to go and w-e her now.” *? * lu;? 1 should like to ^ ■ }l ‘; r ** look. H f IT which still la* ■•.. „ t,J<: -**«»» out. M- Maroun ,u 7 ? er *‘ of Briber inind, .ib ■*. I ^on te-jmve _h« w gone to lorik at rt .Ti’ »W«Iu«H.'d she. “ Hod not ^«rb ngbt And h. r now no.v absent he tenirs and, fi.jg. ate is ty ml he Tlioro ia scorn mystery agate, n ‘l 1 -should like to know what it is. I ^•“fo r whcUuu - f should not think oat ^ to meet aomeboay, she eutjeludfid, en ***** ° f ** i-iew stem l uFrai k,tc, ,< ' n .*?* 1 c !r bre ^ to Ihotbe , almnt , the P 1 *^ V"K that bnug m the back pas **««, tlrrew it«m to hideber light dress, re* l< Ji ?’*? pf - ’ tlJfine ntobtoof^ 1 re T eHiW ^ ft " U1 iwlto- “ F*w inm tl fw n^n' re* hui - **£ , „ rnn ¥ , r 1 \ som^ iScoi^iSv Js^ » * to‘forelo 1 ^, , t to iS$7»£ induce a iranu, i kind t T ao do ironaet w**nder what «W secret *k' they « .!ESl’P, i iHOHGI A, WEDNKSHAY, OCTOBER 13, 1S80. have between them, Dinah ‘Not ft word, ha for your life, mind, to Ann,’cries ‘ No tear,' answers Harry. ‘ l know what m«m-a art;, and she’d im for revolution v-ing . no Iiooko and herself, too,’ Yes, that I should, but it’s them I should revolutionize, not uiyse-lf," she omphati ••ally pronounced. “ It may lw that old love affair cropped up again ; that worn ais who threatened to bring an action for breach of promise when .Tame* married i: Perhaps she had been writing let tors to bun. ‘ ..Mind you don’t let. Dinah Ann find it,’ says Marry,; or perhaps— perhaps James ha* been foolish enough, to let her meet hmi. Harry, not a mar Tied man himself, and a lawyer, would loud himself to any earthly thing without sepipk-, All lawyer* do,’’ This mrnl district, remote from the haunts of wily men of the world, was given over ntire.lv to farmers and fa * :.i mg interests; simple-minded and simple in.au a l people, who live out their tm event) i! lives iu the routine of daily dn ties Tim small market town of Northaro, four miles distant, was sleepy and primitive*, never awakening weekly from its TO — we on the market dm It had its par son, its doctor, and its lawyer-—IL utv Leeb all three of tlimn being nearly as simple, fi.s flu SVnrlt:) Not simple in the point of in hi.’ami telleet, it must, lie underatood ; but as to manners. This Thnrsdn v waft market dftV. James hr-itlier Harbury had tenner. gone Peter to it in the hi« gig of a wbicU eitiier ixt&e Hall, drove own mie he or .Tally, bemg sick He was a tall, del' man of 31) years, very fair with 'Xi A.dingly bund-, me features and mild bin. looking as unlike the popular notion of a tanner as a man could look, and presenting a marked contrast, k> his asrieiiltnral neighbors to. far «s tip p. amnee. went i of tb.l psxxr o ' rich , could, vie with Jainea Harbury, and i temper and Jus bearing were alike itl Ho :had one fault, though, jwrhajis, til people would n ill it a fault, love m t. That he was on. of the earn -re” fanners in the district was aim 'idly believed, and the most sav tug of men Tuo saving, his wife Mould tell lata, and where was the us she would rek., considering she had uoiUier chick nor child? And evsry 1 “ » tid then -h. wonl.i make the money fly, for sdu'was a dear lover of smart at re, and of having pretty things aliont s' i,, r. Jam* - would w'ince, and bid her re-red; but ho never went the ieurfh ■ Selling her she had spent too He was fond of her. and she of him. “ Neither lick liar i.ild Ill that fact had h n a sharp sting. They hml iHaut Hiamod eight yeaTs now, aiui tl sting vre.h wearing its.. If away Tune HoUeaia all thin lb. d never given T C, >r an imhapjiy though) until ht He hod never had any secrets f •in her ore- pt that lu never could lie i ight: to tell her what the exact sum Waft tbfvt 1 iC was i mil,led to put by o’ the end of h year Dinah Ann Harbury did not <• for that; she knew that, however much it might be, it was all for her. t she did care for this.....tills lavs •)< ls secret which had come to her la ring to-night. Sin- knew how good ftinws was ; how universally ho was liked bv man and by woman, and bat I kind heart l.e had - she put it ‘‘ son something like jealousy began to torment her spirit, AVheu J mm - came in again the mip i>,,, ih was at one end of the table, j,/ and , Vm at! wmmA 4 ht , her ^ ^ !->■ near the hoop, having _ knitting. taken up her The. farmer’s general manner was easy and placid, though he had certainly '' coined restless after leaving the gig, hut now he was ealu* agsiin. “ Well ebe said, as he cut himself a sli f the cold tested beef Ui.i how did you find White B.*ss “Ob. she seems comfortable,” he re I#* I*1 mh 1, looking round for the mustard “Ton deceitful villain ! You know yon did not go near the stable,” thought hi* trite. “ You are sure you tinuk so?” she added, aloud. Aye White Boss will be all herself ftg; to-morrow, Dinali Ann it T mam than 1 shall 1>. thought Dlufth Ann, “unless I can come to the bottom of He ; to his supper nearly in silence, d !i: -1 h 1 :.-oi -nj*o.-i win ^ .s mentally" preoccupied, • it, Ux> f for ho wm very } »Ui«rv «lo you ever hear anything now of thatEintea Land ? ” James Harburv laid down his knife •* j i surprise it th. question, and fook-.-ri acre.-, at Jus wife, whose face w b> r i-e- kr-dtino “ Hid 1 h.-ur anything % of Emma ever Land > ” he reiM*iit.*d “ WlVni m n ms " iAc u • .* \ybat am make n.e uak it? r don’t ]. !t<nv Tie: query happened to come into my J mind.* Whv Why should should 1 I not not aak ■ sk »” “ There’s T no seise in it tint that I 1 sc.*” 8Ct - ,, flown, , Do I what ? I.-w.-i hear ot h-r ; V ny, you know she went out to "‘..-re wes it? - the Most Indies, .1 t-hrak •- o, her tnends tl.er. -ever so long og;o. ) hnm. ! u D’nf*ght years ,t must be. Yon >!«• did, Dinah Ann. bat die may write from the West write to you lerhaps r abe doeo. Does she He shook his hind to imply a nega Dve, and occupied himself with bio aop per again, .rimma Land had once upon «* time !jd!w fn-eu a aouiewhalHiore A subjortW “" “’** lli to foe oKl H * ^ 'T who? ^ ^ ' h ™ C * r ' „ l f ou t think Eo what ? raft has Hand.” all j lto can put this “ How V0 P it?” r Haight. Dinah Ann. is “ But do you?” “ D..» I what?” 5l « ? “ Why, K how could I we her r re T*? that hw wife, iu fully a sort thought uf put to »N * was oo. ! hi ” *« Hie West Indies, and f ^ he fffo ! ^ “ ** West Indi * i-* m.w” 1 '.,’, ■£ don’t .... know where , sb« , », She’s there for all I know; and I’m sure it does not matter.” “ ‘ Ask no questions, and wile, you’ll hoar no stories,’ " thought her his school-girl quoting the line familiar to in her days, “ I should not at all wonder, Janus, but Emma Land has come back again.” “May she tw. Two or three years.ago we heard was married out there........’’ “ Who heard it? Who said it?” “I know I heard it; J. remember it quite that- well. But as to who said it. I for hhe get -v..ur brother, I think That had married, a cousin.” “Oh! not that that’s unlikely, for she was ready to marry anybody, Hfae'd have married you, you know. She laid item ter you.” That’s a trout true, 1 believe; but I did not f»U into'them, Dinah Ann.”' ' And, laughing good-naturedly, James Harbury turned from his supper-tray to reach his pipe Dinah Ann rang the bell, resumed her knitting, and tell into an unpleasant, reverie, * * * * * A few days passed awstv, tilings going on smoothly at she farm. Dinah' Atm had recovered her feinj>er—nt least, dh«* ' dispi.iy.al ... no signs of . ,ts hung ruffled ,,,, . ^ /I thoughtful One afternoon he went up sfoustech^ Vm- " 5 U-tter .. W „.re quicklv, are von going? ” cried Mrs Hwbnrv, us he came down Only into Xortham, I shall he home arh Into North.mi ! It’* not market day “ No; but I've got a little business tilCTf out tii Hi. of,, you know, Dimih Ann l shall get them st mv own pri after all. “Of mse you will, I told you m all ite m, But, I do w.iiider vou could not wait until e morrow, “ Oh market-day’« always a bustling lav: one forgets half eme’s btismess , ,,,. has lot tNile to do If Ail’- Vre ** , ' tlmuffht Fd <us in this afteriMum'” " I should like to go with you, - lam - Hr. Harburv ved tho imptiteive wish with a blank look, and had no ready I answer at hand, “ want to buv i new -dk gown, ami to things. order Yes. n host Tap, ■ and ev.-r .-.many -I. I will go with you, Jaui. I won’t be five minutes getting r.mlv ” “But-Dinah hot ' Amt- - to-dtw ’ i can't fake vou thi- nfo rtxam. You'shnll go to-morrow, umfeud. ' Why ui t you take me?” “ B isiness,’’li,. slu rtiy replied. And, his gig being just then brought round White Bess in the shaft lie gut into it . without more ado, ind drove away, call ing out “ G Hhl-l.v to his wife. “ I’d be even, with % i, Mr. James, nodded she. The sun was setting when he drove iu again liOftving and round to the stable Evan, yard. his horse trend gig with he was crossing to the house when Ms* attention was caught by a huge wilurn of black smoke pufHiig imtof t‘ it* chim b“.y of a narrow building that was foi¬ merly mrnle to serve as brew-! ise and wash-house until the lari one was built ** i ' ' iS Ml *t of use now, was not in fact UH °d for any purpose whatever, oi •'■to u ' n ‘ d by anybody from mouth’s end t a month’s end, Mr. Harburv naturally thought at tire He rushed to it like a madman. In tho fire-place under the furnace a five Have,! aw ay, upon which more o •; d bad recently been thrown. Whiter than „ death, James Harbury while made one frantic move toward it, a veil of what really seene'd like terror broke fr . him. Another yell succeeded, and still another ; then he colhq.-. d utterly, and fell upon » low wocalea stool in wild despair As n, <h^l who had heavens!” been stooping exclaimed Dinali over some blankets in the far corner, “what m the world is the matter ? Is it spu-ms, Juraef.? Let me. run for tho camphor.” unhappy “ Camplior, indeed 1" exclaimed tire Poison. man. You’ve “Bring ruined poison rather, me.” “He's Off Ills iiead,” was her suggestion. “ Let me nil) you, James. Where is tho pain ? In the chest ?*' He flung his arms around in all direc¬ tions, so that she could not get to his chest, or to any other port of hh tt. “Who lighted this fire. ?” he giusjari. "Phceb© lighted it. 1 ordered her. The flue in the proper wash-house has SSuhT “"J <« "»«*<«« 0 U T <l U, \ In ° n Tlie \T' A 1 ' 1 111 Konk to-nwbt. * t But what n* the me , to you, ■huncs, that you should te put out about it ? swerul. N ^red HW rue hundred .‘te’? pounds 0 has been burnt up in it.” Rising up from the stool—-and Dinah wondered the creaky oJd thing had not come down with bus weiglit^—he f»y haste C ned in-door?, sat down the table, f** 11 huried lirn face upon it.. She found ton so, his face hidden in iiin hands this “ Now, James, just tell me what all means—-if vou are not quit, out <•; your senres. Come! 1 intend to know.” »Yes, you may know despair.’ it now,” he said, lifting his im-.- and it, “ I had placed in the fireplace ..f that old fur nsre.in my old green P <«-ketlsmk, £500 in bunk notes. And and-thev are burned! Thoyare burned, Dinah Ann!’ Dinah Ann paused. “ Where did th* notes come from > w •• e-rem v-.nr i.r..tt--r ... vmT'l * kni-w wl ,jj before 1 font t' ,1/ a fnend 1‘ ov< 1 r fia jiarai .tr iS rr ,'J ?-? a H ‘ ‘ ** down « a ro-uu 'Buthete not no «« r 'there, Eim andl . i, ha, mnde his fortune out 'back again in Loudon now, and bust week he traaamitted the debt and inter cut to your brother for me—£500. I ! brought the notes home the night Harry drove me here ” ‘ “And now lust tell me Jvnes ’notea how i you ir.*o could think of putting bank ! M.ch a place as a furnace fire hole?’ ! 1 » (or safety. Nobody ever j went in there, aud the furnace *«i never uscl.” ! 'Kf&TJ* "Safely! Was there not your bureau the 1 ' inat s never locked. « Why, it’s always locked,” of “ it Any way, the key is never taken out “ Ah! I see what it is. You wore afraid I should see the money and want tO h). lend it.” And ao yon would, Dinah Ann—-a sum like that coming unexpectedly,” and*frills, ho meekly rejoined. chairs “Bonnet-, tables—-you’d and fresh and not have known where to stop. ” “ Well. T must say, James, you have been rightly served for your want of confidence. No husband ever lias neon eeuhueni from his wife, if ahTs a good wife, but he’s sure to Vie. paid out. It is a loss, He though, £500. ”, groaned. 1 ‘ My btriinews in North&m Ibis after¬ noon was to consult with your brother about a good investment for it.” “What’s this?” asked she, placing before him the identical green case with the bank, notes inside it James gasped. “Dinah Ann ! My dear Dinah Aunt’ “Ah! it‘» my dear Dinah Ann now— and where would you lai without mu? I have given yon. a good fright, however. Don’t you conceal a tiling from mo a 8 au, » James. “ I don’t, think I. will,” he said, “How ha8 it ail winie ftboatf - “ Why, J have just been playing a lit tV m T el1 **■ ’V' U ' 1 ?'T at lu ' P^ 0 ,;ist Jh \ l> ^ h S m « ht * mi i > on s„ul to Hurry as you got ont.of the gig. \ l nclUd m * M,s I‘ lcloUH and n ‘*v curios Hut what did I «v?’ asked the farmer, really not rernemSiering between the excitement cl the past misery and the present ‘Not happines:-. miud, Dinah “ a word, to Ann, Not « word, for your life, mind, to Dinah Ann! Short Snake Stories, At Aim i man named Schulz fell dead of heart die. uised fright The at a snake. lif t,! i; of Henry Leals, o f Fat bwuburg, rattlesnake. Kan died from the bite of a A son of Jofieph Thompson of Butler ‘‘"“'iY. Kan., died a horrible death from tiiG Luo of a ooppernritn Muak^. Thotaan Bherlwk of Bedford, Tml, ft'hed a spotfeu snake m his gardea that : urcdti feet 7 inches in length and A inches in diameter, " Five Italian woodeiittei's near Chero k C, New M. X -< l a lot of wire uoosca d , and ^ to cat 1 rnrreb found in oxu trap n imnious..- rattlesnake with sixteen rattles. I: it. adiii Fa. co]>|K>rhcad snake Uia -t v., it inches long was found to con bun igat young sunk all aliv % and four to six incht s in length, when it was killed Mrs. AVi-siman. I Walk, item, Ind Will Hacked by an enormous t U .h snake. B1 seiswd the reptile t id >out thh ncek and hch ‘ n ereai 1 for The snake was 7 feet in length If. L. Fatty while ruling im letM k in tin-. Santa* iiion, came upon rat. ke ui the road and had just taken Ins Coot from t he stirrup when the snake struck, imhedding its fangs in the stirrup lent ho Mr. Patty killed the Hiinice, win was one of the largest of ite spec les, its body being as thick m a man’s Williioa leg. Y., Drake, of Warteborough, N. while m the mountain near the vil iage, came uj a rattlesnake, who ini mediately chance eftofijie showed fight Th--r.* was no of for Mr. Drake, Keep¬ ing up an incessant rattling, the snakr struck at Drake rejieiitcdly, but iu every iustance he managed to avoid its stroke and in hull an hour killed tl reptile. It measured six foot five and one-half inches in lemrth 'K' 1 *. While pi eking blackberries on the Miire Hill mountains, Mary O’Brien Black valley. Fa , f.-lt something rub fong against, one < f her Btoekingg. Slie continued picking berries, and next felt springing #F ar P and aud.ten from pain tlie in that lies, limb, she out : Sts ** eopfs’r h. ad snake over a yard «* without length curled instant’s about loss her teg; "and, an of self-control, s he t.sik tire snake by the tail, nnd, after unwrapping raid then it, .iushtsl it to the earth, beat it to death with a chib. John Geer, of Basket, station, Pa,, has killed over 100 rattlesnakes witliiii tho past three months He always carries a erotehed stick When ho comes ujh.h a snake ho carefully places the crotch over the reptile’s neck, just back of the I--ad fhcji, if he desires to keep the snake* alive, he remov th poison by instnimenta made for Hie purpose, He he very valuable, an.l sella readily for si Wtl.. lt is said to have great curative powers, .......... ................ Surprised to Death, ()ld John , . M, ,, m a T Lnthre .... „ . hit. .ii«m to. id«a ot l.tnmj auti-hihous compounded as luuteclarcd, accord J"* t0 \, rt ‘ cl |T ‘’“f uned of ,oe long He s.fo a.,me to a woman who dud m*h attoi foaing < *>-m. John was urrehb-d and taken to the court, where tire following did dialogue look place; “ IV here you get tne medicine you s;*v.- the ucuuui > ! made hit- from d/^ri«iw ^ utbr me by Dr. Tanner Hit s made » r { out... "* <*™l***»\ route from the !«««? gronn Wul leil v, ' s £ ™ra do treos. Does yer • - wanter . l.uy a teatle, Jedge? “No, sir, H*'<teu*» against yon is a serious one.. VI hat, made your nre.lic.nc : k “ “ TTn”)'n > V5l v - de kill th© m . nnabeine , dub-1 cum “What killed died ol.* her?” de surprise. “Why, Yer Jedge, de’oinan she • see bad h ”’ u <^in’ eberyvhing in the medical siTdntehdi oh e man bal> much Sb oonniieiiee ±ffe * ™ in if** to 1 y ? ,fo‘V h ftntV m t ? n< V ht Vn ,‘ rk t \ >rtIlu at ! * If ‘’J ?f . r .’L** . i il tor ,I lV )IU 2^* R u Mn f* f dtath ' pn oman to , ker can ., t hole , 8ur Pl^{ a U> dvAt \ I: ' f 1 oom<> au tells you a good piece . ob n<5 " s - an you falls dead, do law can’t , “ >W s ! KH!S!l>!e - Au eordin ter do ■ s ftm« stouomy, if I gins , a woman a dose «»b medi«...e ,a»d hit murpru-- her mr * -P ut de T' 1 W «« . m "‘ jkc its . of John s argument, but John is " Uil 111 Jal! l___________ ________ test time Smythekins went to sen Ifisgir! betook some oranges. H»<«Ued it sudL-it court, NO. 7. SOFT HERN .NEWS, Geoboia has 016 li- used distilleries Tutans is a hair oil spring at Eureka, Vvk An, * sun has $95,000 worth of public school property Pk'.s.vohv has two tek-grapk lines and two express com pas lies. Thu persimmon crop is the biggest thing in DlngluM County, Ga. Nr.w OiUitivN-s e\p ; t.s f.o Ajip 30,000 OOo bushels of grain thi )ir. Bcukven Cm (hi, in voted against lit tig the sate of whisky In 1 iiisisuia good huiidi (ike frem $2.60 to $3.i>0 per day pinking eoUon, Tub completion of the Mississippi River improvements will require $1,200, oqq MtSStNNIJPl has had twe y-six Gov rnurs aid <t whom twenty-two wen lawyers Texas expacts to jirodni •fourth of the entire eoth •r.>p of the South tliix year. Gronoi.t has only .500 Univ< rsalists lint they claim, to lx; increasing in nma hers of late. Neakta' one hundred a Tu ultura] en gim-s are* iu use, iu Ami. IXOB (' -ill'v. South Caredhia. SomiRnN plauteps l»oj to lind Uu English sparrow in efhcient reim* Iv fur th vages of cotton worms. A teuiv at Ctilnaibus, Ga , on taking a plant from a flower pot, found nine smdios in the earth at. the bottom, of tin rrox budoru's m the Sonin save freight sind iusurat e, and the profits of middle men id avoid th inroxsion J cotton, lH:VT \ Miss “ Kivs a malarial epid •mu Ihovo ih haitJlv a man, woman or ohi!<l i n the town thkt has not faiteii a prev to jfo ing,teuc« Gim, (edmore s estimate o f the cost of the 1 rida ship canal, So-l.CKKi.fijil, i-, k 1 by maav inf t pari; • to be too high. JfrMiunft merehaufo an .orally at t.lelll r steam ji«nver to their eh vators to t.l • the place of the water piuver form. v in use. A ot, watch ha:* 1 •ii plowed >n thi Ilattle field at Chiekarmui) ft, am) with slight repairs will 1 ft c d tinn keepe tgaiii. The St. f,.ouis cotton oxcha; offer a prei itm of fo.QOO to th »k; f H*r euil m from Texas to that market this season Thk tobacco g •wm of Virginia elnira the adoption •f tlic Barnett n of ouriog totem, will save §5fil),fKX) a.u mmuy to that .State It is es timated there are 500 en *s of l.ireftk-boue fev in Savannah bet) in August*, and 2,(K.HI in Charleston, and it is epidemic in New < h i ana. The i J National Bank lew been es tnblishod in 1’ensacola. Du» makes the * Be0Iul vuufotud bank in Florida the other being iu Jacksonville, Each citizen of Edward Mins,, iff, sesst-l fill annuallv for th, improvement "* ^streets, lc * and wor in oti default tho streets ot pay- for * teu davs Thbur is prospect of m abundant v j,,].i ' " rfcla tns Y ear I’he - ,UVi ‘ l,evwtetl , *’» 1! ‘ f ’ cultivation . of this w*H douhtJess be largely » ami iu the future, Thomas Poutk, the Mayor v 1 of in Macon f ' - - ,uitt»., gives ... notice that lie will strictlv eMoreo tile law of the State against pro time swearing in piibli Tire penalty « SIO for each offense. At Mollohon, ' S. C., ; Young Jacks K > and <MUt x los . wife , I.-it their . infant , in charge of s negro l>oy, who fell asleep, when n dog attacked the child and was eating its vitals when discovored. The child m not expected to ' Hvc ‘‘ " J irREe t.ungs have recently given New Orleans a “ bopm ” which promises to be jjornianent: The jetties have proven to bo successful, the Texas railroad has been completed, and She National Quar antine has kept out the yellow ft;ver. Tire (Joorgia law that no license to re tad liquors shall Is* granted without the written consent of tw*-thirds of the free holders living within three miles of the place in w hich the liquor is to be sold will probably close every saloon ill Ogle¬ thorpe G>unty. MECKXEvBttKa (Vsontv, N. ha* seventy-fir* churches, of which twenty four arc composed of colored jieojde, The leading denominations are the Moth odist Kpiscopftl, which has thirty-thres, and the, Presbyterian, with tw«iity-two, churches. Bince tho salt* of liquor was prohibited in Cio-roHton, Go., five years ago, the an¬ nual trade of that place has Increased from f'itKt.OOO to foiKi.iMM), and it is sail .hut there is not one merchant of tho thirty in that towu who would not vote .,*.*«*» against »u tho whiskey .. . traffic * ,n on purely business principles. A cKNsua enumerator of Bedford County, Va., traveled nearly * two day* without xt , Hr seeing a pair of shoes on a nmn <*r Woman. An enumerator iu Dmwiddie Gotisty eui«m<ni.t.e.l two persons, in -•rah of which instances ire found them .1,..,.,. oc.iup.uK tu.-ir md fduij .d them alone and dead. He enumerated them and shronnded them iuiiisvit At Nagogdnohes, Texas, Mrs. Burke died, and while the body was being in terred in Ure graveyard a thornier-storm aro*e As tire group of friends stood around th.' grave a bolt of lightning d*« !• d iu their midst, and struck fttnl in¬ stantly killed Bov. Air, Hearn, who wan in the act of praying It, also knocked his broth the ground, senseless, and knocked down (5. If. Weaver, Tames Shaw and Guoj Roger* Tv Mississippi during the year ending It i.-<vrubor hi, 1879, there were 201 oaa vietion# for murder, Of this number thirty-nine were ox, tented by hanging, white 162 were punished by imprison¬ ment ter lit in the penitentiary. I hiring the ;-tme t ime there were 121 convictions for the crime of manslaughter, punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for terras varying from tw to fifty year*, Aboat ten 'ears would be a. fair average. Tolitie- In the Hall-Boom. “ Well, y.” said one of our best yotuig men at i North Hill hop tin. other ink Hancock eveoiltg, Weil. you know 'limit this tel ? « y, he ain't same Do that’s Pre-side til i an insurance ,, ompanv, is he? Writes awfully cuirsi baud, you know ?” “ Naw.' replicti the best young man addressed lie nhn that signed OR rtitution of I'uitcd Ht.ates; great poii lifian, 1 reckon. Had a row with Get). Washington til hatl.lc of Monmouth.” “ Haw, no," interposed a third U;st man,” 'tftin’t that feiinh, (ted, he’s dead, Bum ; ’(ton mv soul be is.” “ Well, sav , exclaimed the first bent young man 1 when’ll he dit “Can’t >av, ‘ni sut replied the third cst young man, who appeared to be a young uni { brood information on gen This end Hnm topi. “ but 1 know he’s dead, M t miUtsny man : Colonel fa thi army, arid (.overnor of some island a. r; New Y,«fc.” Tin oilier best young men gathered around him with iv common expression .if tlic liveliest interest. Finally one of /hem asked: “ Well, *ay, w!eit’s he want to run for President for, if he’s Governor of an id Don’t know,” said the well-informed it nig man, “but guesi he has to. bl-v ifter u. fellah’s been Governor of . ftU retire laud ter if bout he ftdjbng can’t a« he has im .tent y hete an hasti't get to be Fresi de know 1. got nothing to on don’t know just how i t is “ Well. y, wb tltis (iroacher fob .rev, O.irf'u'ld, that’s rimnin* th Demo iwats for Ft lent ?” asked the first best young uuui, after much im intelligent pause know ’bout hii mud tlie we]l-ri,:foruied young man; lias u IV. suleut oiice, I know,” T in’ man or dancin’ man?” naked tl: 1,1,.,I text young man. 'Ohio man, I b’licve they cull him," , in. well-iiitormed best young man. \V hat s that ked tl ititer best men in intelligent chorun. T m I don’t know,’ 1 replied tl: ;!!- f. s'lised best young man, t iki Borne kind of a er, ah—e.r kind of a man- 1 don't know 'm -m* Viol jitsl then the 1 >aml struck up. t 1 best waltrerH in the room 1 talking pel it ind al -aadoucd l study of statecraft to loin 1 id.lv m a of the datum. Th* glory of the land of freedom ami th<* piido “f suciety is .its young men.— i a The Old Header Farm, The surrounding of the old Bender place have cliMUge fantili d so since 1874 that one who was with tho farm and h i much v I d j if . j ml sen then would not rre. Ogti them mv Instead of being situ, sited lit the into 'etion of two highways, the plae. where tin.* murderers lived i« now near a ren country road. The nmiti rood is i.- ariy a mite, distant- from the site: of the l.ovwo. Bender entered 1 re) acres of land. He broke part of it. He set out a few apple trees near the j; , After the family took their de¬ parture tiic farm lay idle till days and months became years. Then a man named Hi Ycazcl took possession of it and lures since operated part of it, A tract of about ten. acres, comprising the old yard, has never been tonehed by the point of the plow since the day when the. fugitives with last tilled, it. There it lies, over grown rank fields grass tout weeds, bat surrounded by of grain. On ac¬ count of its uncultivated state the land as if » lion had been sent upon it. Bupersti'iou.s people* w ill not go in that vicinity after dark. Colored people who live about (flierryvale neglected tell frightful st ones about the, spot and do not liket it even in daylight. It is ^ noticeable fact that no darkeys live iinywiiore in H the Bender th<) neighborhood, the la tili ? T T™? 'r "?'' tho * ory ot those wk> beheve ihitt no»«uft . nl nte arc a vegetable form of evil is verified. Tlie site of the,-stable is slightly elevated above the prairie. On 'thismot there is so t hick a growth the great stalks *5 S u,i ' lt f T !!“' to P mien of the vl^VHfion till then? is not room enough for ft snake so crawl Ixv tween the stems. I |kju On* ph*'« where flowers «to<xl the dwelling tho thick. weeds Tiny and sun are not so grow around a great l»ote flint was once the death .cavity, into which victims were put The through tho trap door in the Hoot writer dismounted from liis buggy, and largo jiu.sliiug cornstalks, aside the woods, mad* life i-hat were as as way to the edge of the holt Fite place makes one feel “shaky.” The words of the poet, luxuriance “Those crowned, poisoned fields with rank where the dark scorpion gathers death around , came vividly tl«s to the writer’s mind, Into the : hole sides h»ve caved The cavity is still about month, five feet deep and seven fret ha* wide. Its once rot-angular, now, circular. by reason of the caving, yard become al¬ most In the south of the house and stables urn three gaping botes, from which bodies have lieon dug. -Kan City Mail. The Story Disproved. A leading officer in one of the courts wna bed sob charged Of with never he inoiguftsitly going to * t nine denied tho soft impeachment, nnd he gave the particulars of a ptirt icuhu- night 1 m props'. Wo quote bis own words: j. Boon after 1. got in laid, my wife said; “Why, husband, what’s the mutter with i you? Yon act so strangely.” with" “Thereis nothing tho matter mo,” said 1; eaij "nothing »he; at all.” don “ I'm sure natural there is all. ” “you t act it, , SWt £ up aud get something for Vl>u 'y ,\Tid she got up. lighted look the can dt<; imd came to the bedside to at mo “t ^raling the fight with one hand. knew tlie re wm tomethuig soberP’-W* mm.% you/ wiu! flb(; . » w i:y, ' you are f a io Krpn-nt. orchard of John H, Par land, and will He probably yield $70,000 this year. owner ia a near relative of Charles rite wart Eanieli, M, I*.