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A Poetical Contrast. The Dove and tbe Raven. Few poems have been more widely read than Poe’s ‘Raven,’ so peculiar in its style and gloomy in its thought and conception. For long years it has hung over the human heart with a dark, despondent chilliness, and where sorrow and loss and disappointment had found a lodgment in a weak and sensitive nature, it has made the gloom darker, the loss heavier and the disap* ment still greater. Echoing through the sad portals of bereaved and lonely hearts, the re frain of 'Nevermore* has been the death knell of hopes that might have been nursed into re* newed life by a more cheerful faith and a bright er and happier visitant from ‘Aiden.’ With this view of the matter in his mind, my gifted friend. Rev. J. H. Martin, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, has written a companion poem, 'The Dove,’ which takes a more cheerful and soul-inspiring view of the ‘dear departed.’ Instead of a dark winged messenger ol sorrow and gloom, a bird of brighter plumage and sweeter voice comes back from 'Aiden' to the silent chamber of the bereaved lover. To all Christian hearts that look beyond mere literary excellence, this ten der poem of faith and hope will prove most ac ceptable. Its author has published a volume of poems and many of his hymns and lyrics are much admired for their purity of thought and graeeful measure. 'The Dove’ is a production that needs no commendation from my poor pen, and I desire only to state that it comes before the public at my earnest solicitation, and after considerable hesitation on the part of the ac complished author. I am sure that the joint study and comparison of the two poems—aside from their literary merits—will do your readers good. It can but serve to encourage and strengthen their faith and whisper comforting words to their bereaved and stricken hearts. Sidney Herbert in Free Press. THE HOVE. A COMPANION TO POES RAVEN. By Rev. J. U. Martin, D. D. Once upon a summer evening, As 1 lay reposing, dreaming, While the twinkling stars were beaming And their light was faintly gleaming, Through the window of my room, Suddenly beside my pillow, Like the murmur of a billow. Or the sigh of weeping willow, ’Mid the shadow and the gloom, There was heard a gentle sound, Floating on the air around. As an echo from above; And I, waking, saw a dove Perched upon the whitened bead Of a statue near my bed. And it seemed with soft, low cooing, My lone heart to soothe with wooing, Like an angel from the sky, Ora spirit hovering nigh. While I lay entranced aad dreaming, Startled by the echo seeming To be whispered from above, In the starlight faintly gleaming, With its form of beauty beaming, 1 beheld the snowy dove: With a thrill of wonder, gazing ■On the visitor,amazing, I demanded: “Who are you ?” And the gentle bird of whiteness. With its snowy robe of brightness, Answered with a coo: •“I am sent,” he said, “from Aiden, By a fair and lovely maiden, With a message unto thee; I am come to soothe thy sorrow, Bid tiiee from despair to borrow Hope that thou her face shalt see; For thy cherished one is living, And her thoughts to thee is giving, On a bright and distant shore; And I come, her carrier dove. With a message from thy love, **-*- - By this joyful news excited, Raptured, ravished and delighted, I, the snowy bird addressing. Asked, with earnest voice inquiring, What my soul was most desiring. That her name to me expressing, He would set my heart at rest— Still the tumult in my breast, And assure me that my maiden. In tiie distaut fields of Aiden Waited for me on that shore— Would be mine forevermore. Then I spoke with greater fervor, I, the maiden's ardent lover: ‘Roes my own departed live? •'T<? the bird of whiteness listening While my eager eyes were glistening, For the answer he should give); ‘Tell me. O thou carrier dove. Of my absent, cherished love. Whom I knew in days of yore; Has she passed the shining portal Of the blessed land immortal, Going through the golden door. Hoes she move in light and splendor, no the graces all attend her, ,9u that fair and distant shore?’ Words and tones andlooks revealing All my depths of inward feeling, Moved, affected by ray pleading, And my anxious question heeding, Thus 1 he dove, my soul discerning, Answer made, these words returning: ‘In the distant fields of Aiden,. On a bright, Klysiau shore. Dwells a fair and lovely maiden, And her name is Ellnoro; ’Mid tiie llowersabout her blooming, ’Mid theodors sweetperiuming All the balmy air around, She arrayed in robes of whiteness, Walks an angel in her brightness, With a wreath immortal crowned. Then the bird, his wings unfolding, Left me, as Hay beholding, ..... Filled with transport and delight, ■With a soft, sonorous coo, Nodding, bidding me adieu. Through the open window flew Out into the gloomy night. But the bright, enchanting vision Of the distant fields Elysian, And my cherished JElinore, As a fair auu lovely maiden. Dwelling in the land of Aiden, Is my light forevermore. There shall I, my loved one greetin ol At our fut ure, early meeting, On that distant, radiant shore, With ecstatic joy and gladness. Free from parting, pain andsadness, Clasp again my Elmore, Cull her mine forevermore! Literary Ladies. 23Y THE ROVING PRINTER Mrs. Mary charming St. Maples Dodge, editress of the Xicholas, is a bright-eyed rosy cheeked woman. From her face one would think that she was a stranger to the corroding influences of affliction. In luxurious furnish ing her little office in Scribner’s building ex- cefds any editorial office in the city of New York, while in arrangement aud thoroughness of ap pointment it is thought to be unequaled inthe country. She iB a farmer’s daughter, her father having been for many years editor of the 11 ork- Alfss Alice C. Chase, late editress of the Eire- sid? Visitor, at Chicago, 111.. *ias succeeded in the whole range of journalism from writings serial story to L editorial on Hamer's Bazaar is edited by Miss Alary h. ^ albeit homely, is one of the most Booth, who, Homan nose, and tnrow* -hianoni of the inevitopie ey y f hereditary physician—Dr. Clarke d ohi i d ren. "TKawtfSA-f <■-** *- - in diet and presistenoe in exercise. A Little Fun. A note in a bank is like a rose, because it ma tures by falling dew. A photograph album is a thing for beaux to study while the bell is fixing her back hair. , Tom Scott says railroad business will brighten np in the fall, and the lay of the last riot is heard. The last Irish bull is: ‘If I lived with such a disagreeable woman she should always be alone.’ They are very partioul ar—they wouldn’t al low a mail wagon to Btop opposite the Women’s Hotel in New York. A Washington paper says: ‘This office is closed for repairs. The Hon. David Davis dropped in on us yesterday.’ Mrs. Fortune of Halifax, has given birth to twins—girls of coarse, ‘Miss Fortunes never come singly.’ Dr. Le Moyne offers to cremate spring poets at half price.—Puck. Editors can now utilize their back yard burying grounds for agricul tural purposes. A woman can’t put on auy side-saddle style when she goes in a swimming. She has either got to kick out like a man or get drowned, A New York woman’s hair turned gray at Bight of a snake twenty-five inches long. Had she seen the sea serpent she wonld probably have become a mummy at once. ‘Trnth is not drowned by water nor destroyed by fire,’ but we’ve seen men who’d stand up and make kindling wood of her in order to beat a street car conductor out of five cents. Naturalists are always harping on the intelli gence of bees, but the drove of mosquitoes which waits at the key-hole until the family are in bed are passed over as slightingly as you please. This is rank favoritism. Here is an extract from a little boy’s composi tion: ‘When cats is a swearin’ andablasfemin’, aud a tryin’ the gages of their bilers in the back yard at nite it makes a fellow awful fraid, if he isn’t sleeping with his big brother.’ The Pittsburgh Telegraph has a wonderful story entitled, ‘Saved by a Mule.’ If the Editor of the Telegram has been saving anybody’s life why don’t he come right out and say so, and not go at it in snch a round about manner. Four boys, while whistling ‘Grandfather’s Clock’ and ‘Whoa Emma,’ a few days ago, were killed by lightning. (This is a falsehood—but is it a sin to lie for a good, wholesome purpose ? All of this paragraph outside of the parenthesis should be read to the boys.) Nearly every man in the crowd has had some thing to say derogatory to the eagle on the new dollar. We don’t mean to say anything harsh against the legal-tender bird until we’ve seen him. If our readers want to hear something real funny on the subject, let them send us a specimen. If we don’t make them roar we’ll shut np shop. •Yon wasn’t around where they dealt out hair, was you ? ’ said a red-headed man to a bald-head ed man in a railroad car. ‘Yes, I was there,’ said the man with a skating rink on the top of his head: ‘I was there but they offered me a handtul of red, aud I told them to throw it in the coal-scuttle to kindle the fire with.’ The women of Cyprus, like all the Greek wo men, chew great quantities of mastic, imported by the island of Scio, and deem it graceful to appear always masticating this gum, aud it will soon be in order for a later Byron to remark: ‘Maid of Cypus, now we’ve come, Leave, oh, leave off chewing-gum. Onoe when the lltrald was urging Horace Lotmlw'ut uio iicruia Bent lur yu6 of his editorial writers, and objected to his pre fixing ‘Mr,’ to Greeley’s name. ‘You wouldn’t speak of Mr. Socrates, would you ? Greeley's a greater philosopher than Socrates ever was. The abashed editor promised never to repeat the offence. To the fond mother who has several marriage able daughters, and does her own laundry work, the picnic season is a petrified fact, ihe music which a rustling white skirt imparts to a Picnic ground is altogether different from that which it emits when on an ironing board, being some what more melodious but not so great in volume A young man applied at a newspaper office the other day for a situation. ‘Have you ever had any experience as an editor ? asked the news paper man. ‘Well, no, not exactly,’ replied the ambitious aspirant, oautiously: ‘but I’ve been cowhided a number of times, have been married - nuite a while, have worn borrowed clothes for I three years, and never had a cent of money, so II thought I might work in,’ Be was engaged, I Mr BaciiK'bal— ‘Most convenient 1 I can con verse’ with Mrs. B. just as if I was in my own drawing-room. 1*11 tell her you are here, (speaks through the telephone:) ‘Dawdlesis here —just come from Paris—looking so well—desires to be,’ etc., etc. Now you take it, and you’ll bear her voice distinctly.’ Dawdles—‘Weally ! (Dawdle takes it.) The voice—‘For goodness sake, dear don’t bring that insufferable nooule home to dinner.’ A certain Sabbath-school superintendent was in the habit of making collections in the juve nile department of the school for missionary purposes. He was not a little surprised one day to find a counterfeit coin among the pen nies, and on asking the class who put it there, the youthful donor was pointed out to him by one who saw him deposit it. ‘Did you not know that this was good for nothing ! ’ inquir ed the teacher. ‘Yes, sir, answered the boy. ‘Then why did you put it in the box? 1 didn’t s’pose,’ replied the boy. ‘that the little heathens would know the differenc, so I thought it would be just as good for them as a real one. George Washington.—The true story of the little hatchet: , . „, •George did you chop down the cherry tree i •What did you say ? ’ ‘Did you cnop down the cherry tree t •Ax me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. ‘George, have you a hatchet ? ’ ‘So’s a hen.’ •You chopped down that tree. •Didn’t.’ , ‘Young man commere, to me. ‘What do you want 'i ’ •To play hide and seek.’ So the old man went out to seek the hide. The scene which ensued in the wood-shed beggars description. It was touching in the extreme. Why He Changed.—A dilapidated individual stood gazing at a huge pile of watermelons in front of a Woodward avenue grocery until his mouth watered, and he made bold to remark to a man who was selecting one for dinner: ‘I wish I had five cents to get a small melon; I haven’t tasted a melon for over two years.’ Tne gentleman promptly handed over a nickel and went on with his selection. About the time he had his melon picked out he saw the vagrant coming out of a saloon near by, and he called oat: •I thought you wanted that money to buy a melon.’ * lT So I did,’ was the very courteous answer, i told you I hadn’t tasted a melon fpi over two vmk. and after reflecting a little I found I The. Men. A Chicago murderer shot his beautiful young wife and then went to selling her photographs while he was oat on bail. The Marquis of Lorue parts his hair in the middle and shaves clean. The Princess Lou ise resembles the Queen and looks older than her hnsband. Edison was a few years ago a telegraph tramp. To-day he is wearing, like, a green-bay horse, the laurels of the grand prize awarded him by the Paris Exposition, as the inventor of the great est novelty of the age. Culpepper Ya. News: There is a colored boy livtog on the farm of Major ThrockmortoD, near Cedar Mountain, about seven miles from Cul pepper, whose skin is exactly like that of a snake, the creases and diamond-shaped scales being plainly discernible on all the unexposed portions of the body. John Nunn, a hay-carter, has just died in Es sex, England, from hydrophobia. He was bit ten in May, 1874, by the same dog that bit Mr. Brown, a veterinary surgeon of Stamford Rivers, whose case excited some interest about twelve months ago, when bis death from hydropho bia occurred three years after the bite. The Boston Post addressed a poem to Ken tucky, “the land of revolver and rifle,’the land of rare beauty, where bright eyes are gleam ing. And belles dress in colors that horses would scare,” and the bard of the Courier Jour nal retorts that he’d “rather live in old Ken- tuck, And be a nigger’s brindle, Than to toil for bread in Yankee land, Apprenticed to a spindle.” The late John Sasser, of Big Tree Creek, Ga., was a punctual man. He Bpent one evening last week with his sweetheart, Miss Johnson, with whom he made au appointment for 4 p. m. next day. “Be there on time or I will kill myself,” he said as they parted. She wasn’t and when she did get to the trysting place found him lying dead, with a rifle bullet through his heart. Worth, the Paris man milliner, is not a Erenchman at all. but a Protestant Englishman wish a Catholic and Parisau wife, and two sons just out of College. His home is at Suresues, a suburb of the gay capital, immediately under the guns of its chief defence. Fort Mort Vale rian, which the Germans failed to reduce in 1871. Here he he plays the genial host in an elegant chateau, planted in the midst of exten sive grounds, which are fenced ia by high buck walls. One day aud night each year house and grounds are thrown open to Worth’s employees, the women appearing in dresses given them from his store, and each trimmed according to the great milliner’s directions. The late Cardinal Franchi was a confirmed smoker. Daring his visit to Cardinal Man ning in London he would keep the dinner- table in a roar, and after dinner coolly take out his cigar case and offer cigars all around. Now. smoking was particularly obnoxious to the English Cardinal, but he bore the fumi gation with exemplary patience. Patience, however, has its limits, and the limit was reached when the illustrious visitor from Rome took to smoking in his bed-room. The Ital ians have a custom of branding their cigars with the names of popular Ministers of State; and when Franchi was asked in Rome a few months ago what he smoked, he replied with ready wit, “Oh, I only smoke Italian Minis ters—Cavours, Minghetis, etc.” Yellow Fever. years, and after reflecting hadn’t tasted whisky for over three. Therefore, I cave the whisky a show to catch up with tne melon, and start off square. Nothing mean abont me, Bir—good-bye! ’ Domestic Affairs* uuy auu uu me cup wlthTIjU'ok sour cream; take one cup sugar, one teaspoouful cream tartar, one half teaspoon soda. AGATHA Lemon OuMBLES—One egg, one teacupful sugar half cup butter, three teaspoonfuls milk, one of cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda, two small lemons, juice of both and grated rind of one. Mix rather stiff; roll and cut out with a cake CUtter * H. C. M. To Clean Lamp Chimneys—Hold them over the lose of the teakettle when said kettle is boiling furiously. One or two repetitions of this process will make them beautituily cleai. Of course they must be wiped upon a clean cloth. Grafting scions should be cut in the fall, buried in the sand until spring, when the graft may be inserted. Catawba grape is first-class for table use. Any reliable nurseryman can give you. the information you want in regard to fruits, etc. Nice Glossy StarcU—To three cups water take three rounded teaspoonfuls ot starch, a pinoh of salt and one teaspoouful of powdered borax. Dissolve your borax in part of the water then add starch and salt; dip your collars, cuffs and bosoms into the starch. Your irons must be good; rub them with beeswax, and I promise you a stiff, glossy surface with never a failure. Loaf Cake, with Fruit—Two large cups of powdered sugar, one and a half cups of butter, stir to a cream, five cups of flour, with three teaspoonfuls of Dooley’s Yeast Powder, one cup of sweet milk, half pound of raisins, two ounces > of citron cut in small pieces, one grated nut meg, one wineglass of wine, one of brandy, eight eggs, add the flour with the milk, sugar aud butter, the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the whites well beaten, then the wine, spice and fruit; make this into two loaves; bake slowly one hour. Daring the winter season it will be found a very good plan, twice or thrice a week, to drop an even teaspoonful of common cayenne pepper into, say two gallons of water given to the towls for their daily drink. This is a grand tonic, asd it works very kindly toward warming the blood on chilly days. Another excellent pro vision is to place at the bottom of the pail or vessel containing their drink a bit of assafoet- ida. This impregnates the fluid with its tonic qualities, and it is very wholesome for fowls in ttie wintry days. Fresh water should be given, however, daily, and your birds should never be without this, when in confinement especially; for they imbibe a goo i deal if they have it always at hand. How TO BOIL meats—The way to cook salt meats and vegetables is this: Having procured salt pork or beef, put it on in cold water over a slow fire: by the time it is cooked the salt is nearly all out. All boiled salt meats are served with vegetables, except corned beef, which is sometimes served without. The ordinary cook, while the meat is boiling, puts in the vegetables all at one time, which ia a grave mistake.—Cab bage should go in first and should cook the whole of the last hour the meat is on. Twenty minutes after the cabbage is put iu add the tur nips and carrots, cooking them forty minutes, aud in ten minutes more put in common sized potatoes and parsnips.—In this way the peculi ar flavor of eaeh vegetable is preserved as well as its strength.—Fresh meat and vegetables should be cooked separate. Unlike the salt meat, fresh meat should not be put in until the water is boiling, for now we want to close the pores and preserve what is called the juice. Joints, flank and leg of matton are the pieces usually boiled. Delicate soup may be made after taking the meat out, by adding rice, and maccaroni to the broth, which is often igno rantly thrown away. Sanitary Measures for Atlanta. Having given some attention to hygiene and sanitary matters, I propose to offer some sug gestions as to the improvements of the sanitary condition of our city. But, before doing so, let me say a few words with regard to the yellow fever—the cause or occasion of this sanitary re vival or excitement. If anything is established in Medicine, the following are established facts: 1. That continued high heat, (about 80 deg. for one or two months) must precede an out break of yellow fever. 2. This heat must be combined with an excess of moisture or humidity in the air. 3. Proximity to the sea or a large river is nec essary for its origin and propagation. 4. That filth and decomposing organic mat ters have more to do with its origin and spread than any single cause or combination of causes. 5. That the contagiousness of yellow fever is positively disproved;- and that its infectiousness, or communication from person to person through the atmosphere is denied by the best medical authorities. 6. That the material cause of yellow fever is never generated or multiplied in* the bodies of those Having the disease; they may be taken anywhere without fear of communicating it, any more than well persons. In view of these facts, we have no cause for alarm on account of the appearance in the city of a few, or even a large number of cases that may have contracted the disease in other places. But as filth of all kinds is detrimental to health, a reproach to any city and a cause of va rious epidemic and endemic diseases, I agree fully with Dr. Logan, that this matter should recieve the immediate and continued attention of our city authorities. I agree with him also, in the position that the natural conditions of underground sewerage, or water-carriages for the excrementitious matters of the city are want ing in Atlanta; and that this system must be supplemented by another, for the removal of the filth beyond the city limits by means of carts, or some kind of land carriage. But, I do not coincide with him, in the view that the danger from sewers arises from the diffusion of poison ous matters through the soil. He is reported as saying, ‘by absorption, infiltration and ex halation the soil of all portions ot the city where tney (the sewers) penetrate will become a per fect hot bed of disease.’ In my view, the dan ger is not to the soil, but to the atmosphere— not from absorption and infiltration in the city, but from exhalations Into the atmosphere and especially at the initial and terminal points of the sewers. The absorption and infiltration could certain ly be prevented by having well constructed sewer pipes; and the impregnation of the soil would be a small matter, even should it occur, provided our citizens used city and not well water. But the trouble is in the atmosphere poison ing—in the open eyes of sewers throughout the city, in the immense volumes of gases diffusing themselves from the termini of the sewers open ing at every point of the compass; and in the regurgitation of these gases into houses, having sewer connections, unless something better than the ‘traps’ now in use could be devised to prevent this. To sum np then: Yellow fever is not commu nicable from person to person, and in this sense is neither contagious or infectious; the combi nation of causes neoessary for its origin and propagation does not exist in Atlanta and there fore we have no reason to be alarmed because some come here with it; filth is a cause of vari- ne 8 Removed 0 g£y d ogft d ?HK$f^i means besides sewers, which, in the absence of sufficient water to carry off this filth, will be the greatest evil that could be inflicted on the city. I will only add that all sanitary measures should be executed by the city authorities. Lit- tie need be expected from individuals in this matter, when regularity, system and order are essential to success. ~ Jxo. Stainback Wilson, Yl. D. All The World Over. TIIE WOMEN. Shooting women from a cannon, is the new attraction of a Paris circus. They are thrown some thirty feet and land in a strong netting. A Massachusetts woman ha3 pledged 25,000 for the endowment of a professorship in the the ological department of Oberlin College. A New York woman says: Were it not for the self-sacrificing women of the land who marry and support so many men,the number of tramps would be largely inoreased. The legislative assembly of Vancouver’s Is land has modified the bill imposing a tax of fif ty dollars on each Chinaman in the province, reducing it to forty dollars. The anti-Chinese element are rather disgusted at this evidence of weakening at the outset. Mr. Roberts, of Estell County, Ky., had a cow that four months ago, just before calving, got frightened by a monkey that an organ-grinder was showing. The calf she soon after produced is very small aud has a hump on its back, and its movements, expression and formation of head and face are those of a monkey. A Mississippi judge was just saying, that no one but a coward would carry a pistol, when his own fell from his pocket and was discharged aud the bullet hit a lawyer in the leg. A man in N. I. committed suicide because Bob Ingersoll, the anti-hell man, went to Eu rope and he was left behind. ‘There’s no hope for me, Ingersoll has gone to Europe,’ said Mr. Trull. ‘I shall drift back now into believing in hell.’ So he blew out his brains and went to find ont how things were for himself. A Precious Meteorite.—The San Bernardi no (Cal.) Argus says: ‘While on the desert, Mr. Sweet was the fortunate witness of the fall of an aerolite. The rock contained mineral — gold, silver and copper—and weighed abont 250 pounds.’ A Novel Mode of Discovering a Criminal.— The magistrates of the village of Awa, Japan, being unable to discover the author of a series of mysterious crimes opened a poll, inviting every citizen to name on his ballot the person whom he thought guilty. One notorious ne’er- do-well was elected as the culprit by a. g. m., and having confessed his crime was promptly executed. Mrs. McCheney, a Cleveland, Ohio, paralytic, had one of her thigh bones snapped asunder when about to sit down, and, as the doctor was moving her to her bed after setting it, one of her arms broke in two; when that was fixed au ankle gave way,and the doctors despair of keep ing the woman together. The family of George Andrew, Creston, Iowa, had a keg of nails in the house daring a thun der storm last week, the lightning melted it, tore a hole through the roof, stunned a child and scorched the hair of Mrs. Andrew. The man who believes in weather predictions had better prepare to get himself inside of about seventeen different undershirts. The weakest and mildest prediction calls for weath er which will freeze Lake Erie twenty feet deep. Selina Wadge—the woman of Launceston who, last July, murdered her little child by throwing it into a well—was hung last week at Bodnim jail. No spectators were admitted into the jail yard. She sobbed violently as she walked from the cell to the scaffold, and on ascending the steps was heard to say: ‘Lord, deliver me from this miserable world.’ Mar wood, the exeoution- er, gave a drop of eight feet, and Wadge died without a straggle, grasping a handkerchief tightly in her hand. She had murdered her child because her lover had promised to marry her if she would get rid of the little one. Great exertious were made to procure a reprieve,look ing to a pardon for her, but it was refused and very rightly, for surely the murder of a little child by its mother is the blackest crime hu manity can be guilty of. Miss Jennie Quiilian,an amiable and univers ally beloved lady of De Kilb county,met a sad den death this week by being thrown from a carriage. She f 11 to the ground with great violence, frf'■ ’. >• s- .il aad c.»nsi..g Awful Ocean Calamity.—London, oepieui- ber 3.—The excursion steamer, Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend this evening with about 800 passengers, was run down off Barking about eight o’clock by a screw_ steamer. It is reported that between 400 and 500 persons were drowned. The drowned included an extraordi nary proportion ot women and children. Sev eral survivors speak of having lost as many as three, five and six ohiidren. The water was cov ered with hundreds of shrieking people; near ly all of the crew were drowned. All the police of Woolwich Town and Arsenal were engaeed last night labeling corpses, ohiefly women and children, which completely hlied the board- room at the Steam-boat Company s offices Woolwitch. ■ Horrible Case of Murder and Suicide in Westchester County.—New York, September 3. —Westchester oountj furnishes its tragedy to day. Isaac Robipson, a negro, living with his wife and three children in a shanty, quarreled with his wife last night. Ho had several times aooused her of infidelity and latterly took to drinking. He was drunk and quarrelsome jast night, Early this morning he awoke and renew ed his censures, finally, becoming thoroughly A wonlan Of Steele Ootiiityi Minnesota, had her husband and son hilled by lightning five ,, „ years ago. She married again and her second . enrft „ ed fc e ordered ihe little children to run lord was killed by lightning a day or two ago. j ou j. doorS) a8 he was going to kill their mother. A New York dressmaker employs three men ; j u their 61ff ht he then tod^ razor, and despite cutters, goes to Paris for styles every season, owns a house for which she paid^ $35,000, aud keeps her carriages and horses. She has made her way entirely herself. the woman’s desperate resistance, cut her throat. She expired immediately, bathing her two-year- old child in a pool of blood. The man then thrust the older children out doors, got his shot Said he: ‘Matilda, you are my dearest duck.’ gun, placed the muzzle to his head, and pulled Said she: ‘Augustus you are trying to stuff me.' i ;he trig.-er with his foot,blowing out his brains. She was too sage for him. j The children ran shrieking to the nearest neigh- Mrs. Cline of Dexter, Texas, was a bride of a bor’s and told what they had seen. y month. One night last week two men cr-_i • io i the window of the room where she slept an t di cing the mnzzle of a shot gun against her hus band’s bead blew it off. His young wim sj- .-ang up to find her husband a bloody corp. t and by the light of the moon saw Lucius N r; 1. *■ ager, a former suiter, with another assa .*» running off. Mrs. William Glassford lives during tbe win ter with her second husband ju *e Illinois shore of the Mississippi opposit t uarleston, Iowa. She spends the summer with tier divor ced husband, Mr. Wily,at Charleston. Both men are aware of all the circumstances. A Parisian milliner has devised for an Eng lish ladv, an original costume of fine sheeting, the tunic turned up with linen canvas embroid ered with cocks and hens in red crewel wools; the waistcoat studded with birds of a feather or rather of a red crewel wool embroidery sim ilar to what is seen on Russian towels; red fou lard necktie; tusoan straw hat a la creole', cambric handkerchief worked with red cooks and hens, and red silk stockings. After the campaign of 1812 Napoleon gave the hat he had worn to Evrard, his valet, in whose family it has ever since remained, with docu ments attesting the genuineness of the relic. In 1852 at the sale of the estate, one of the heirs bought it in for $700. That was at tne time ol coup d'etat. Just now imperial stock is down, and the hat has just been sold to Aruiftad Du- maresoue, a painter of battle scenes of the Fust Empire, for S35. P T Barnum says: ‘I tell you as a showman, you can’t make animals drink whisky. They know better.’ The showman is mistaken. We onoe heard a woman call out of a second story window to an object that for nearly an hour had been trying in vain to unlock the front door. 'Drunk again, you old hog, are you ! And if t hog isn’t an animal, what is it? It is better to have loved and to have buBted up somewhere daring' the correspondence than 1 never to have loved at all. . tound playing with the dead body of its mother wheu the officers arrived at the sicken ing scene. Robinson was considered a good and steady farm hand and did well until his do mestic difficulties begun. TUG XEWCUKIST. London, August 24.—The Roman correspond ent of the Times gives the following account of the Grosseto fanatic and the circumstances of his death: The Lazzaretti affair has turned pub lic attention for a time completely away from European politics. On the hill near Grosseto, a little town off from the railway between Leghorn and Civita Vecchia, a semi-political and religious sect has established itself under David the Saint, (as Lazzaretti wa3 called,) who declared himselt to be Christ cone again. He had chosen twelve apostles and surrounded himself with a large number of proselytes, who required the surren der of all property for common benefit and tha labor of all alike for the society, the latter undertaking to maintain them and their families and educate their children. Their creed is an extended paraphrase of the Nioene creed, with some alteration in a Protestant sense. The other tenets are of a socialistic character. On the morning of the 8th instant the prophet, at the head between 2,000 and 3,000 followers, started for the village of Arcidosso. His purpose is not known, bnt it is said it was not peaceful. A hundred believers, dressed in white tunics, like ancient Jewish priests, led the column. At their head walked David the Saint, attired in a half regale and half pontifical costume, with a dead ewe ou his head and an iron-studded club in his hand. The prooession sang a hymn, with the retrain, * Long live God and the Chns- tain republic,’ ‘Praise be to Christ,come seoond time on earth.’ The mob was met half way by a delegate of polioe accompanied by nine Carabineers, who invited them to dispers/ Upon this David oried: ‘ 1 am the King! a’ ordered his followers to disarm the soldr As he spoke a discharge of firearms was t upon the polioe and a shower of stones for The procession was finally broken * among the dead was the New Christ.