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A delightful select musical soiree was held at the
residence of Mrs. W. B. Seals on last Wednesday
evening. The songs and instrumental selections
were very choice. Among the performers were
Miss Fannie Castleberry, of Cuthbert, Ga„ Miss
Corinne Janes, of Bristol, Tenn., Miss Mattie Sevi'
ard, of Thomasville. Ga., Miss Lula Holt and Mr.
Nat Seals. “Drifting” with the male voices chim
ing in was splendidly given. Among the songs
rendered by Miss Lula’s pure, rich tones, were the
quaintly beautiful “Cuckoo,” “Stradella ” an Ital-
ian sons, and the pathetic “Coming #
lane.” Conversation was lively and the delicious
refreshments were much enjoyed.
The Library Annlver»«.ry.-On Tuesday even
ing last the twelfth anniversary of the Young Men
Library Association was celebrated in the^Ope> a
House with an immense audience pnwmt. The
nroeramme though short was exceedingly enter
taining and everybody went away feeling fully re
paid‘for attending. Mr. Julius L. Brown, the earnest
and zealous president, gave a brief, but Interesting
history of the Association, after which three young
contestants in oratory were introduced in turn and
each of them did well, but the prize was awarded to
little Alfred D. Boylston who delivered The Polls
Boy” with remarkable effect. The Hon. A. H. Cox
presented the prize with an appropriate and most
entertaining speech.
Mr Henry Bichardson, the Anniversary Orator of
the occasion, gave us a decided treat and did h.mself
great credit. Selecting as his theme the progress of
the age he led us through many beauteous fields of
thought, and pointed out many of the happiest con
quests of genius drawing at the same time a most
pleasing contrast between the past and the present.
Earnest, selfpossessed and with a flexible voice, his
entire performance was exceedingly good and we
take pleasure in noting his success.
The Library is the pet institution of the city and
deserves the patronage and sympathy of everyone.
Prof. B. Ballon and the Texas Normal
School.—Texas is fast coming to the front In edu
cational matters as well as railroads and other
great internal improvements and is destined to be
the greatest State in the American Union. It has
just appropriated Sit,000, in money for establishing
a State Normal School to be located at Huntsville,
and Dr. Sears gives an additional SOOUO for the same
puipose and it will be opened in September. The
State money is to go to the support and preparation
ol two teachers from each Senatorial District and
four from the State at large and the Peabody fund
will go to paying the professors. The entire State
and the Governor in particular, is manifesting a
deep interest in the institution and it will mark a
decided advance in the educational welfare of that
great commonwealth.
But while we heartily congratulate Texas in this
matter we deeply regret that her educational inter
est have required the services of one of the best and
foremost educators that Georgia has ever had, and
one which she cannot afford to lose. For 25 years
Prof. Mallon has been actively engaged in teaching
and preparing others to teach and the success which
has attended his labors has been marvellous. Al
though a citizen by adoption his whole time and
soul have been given to this great work and thou
sands of witnesses are ready to testify to lirtlVulfy-
fulness and efficiency. And having been Wso long
a time so thoroughly identified with the educational
interests of Georgia he has found it exceedingly dif
ficult to gain his consent to leave the State and has
uniformly declined all offers from elsewhere with
out regard to the inducements held out. But such
persistent influences have been brought to bear
upon him to accept this important charge in Texas
that he has fina.ly felt it his duty to do so and will
leave this State on Monday next to the regret of all
her people. From a long experience in the manage
ment of normal schools he is eminently fitted for
that duty.and Texas could not have secun d abetter
man from the whole catalogue of teachers. The
sagacious Dr. Sears, has long understood this and
for months, if not years, has been trying to press
him into this special field.
But Georgia cannot afford to lose Mallon perma
nently, and in the near future she must and will
have a normal school of her own and we will
then send for Prof. Mallon to take charge of it, so we
simply lend him for a time to good old Texas, and
commend him to the tender care and affections of
all her people.
The Impeachment Trial.—Thursday, 21st
inst, the Senate of the Georgia Assembly organized
itself into a high court of Impeachment for the trial
of Comptroller-General Goldsmith. The galleries
of the Senate Chamber were crowded to the utmost
capacity and an unusual gravity pervaded every
countenance. On the floor below, there was more
than ordinary quiet: the Senators sat silent and at
tentive; the reporters held their pencils with keen
expectancy. President Lester had a seat among the
members, and in his place appeared the venerable
Chief justice of the State, Judge Hiram, presiding
over the court of Impeachment. His imposing
form and grave face—calm and immovable as mar-
ljl e gave additional impressiveness to an occasion
so momentous, as deciding the honor or disgrace of
a high State official—no carpet-bagger, but a South
ern man—who had been trusted with the revenues
of his State and was accused of violating that trust
and appropriating to his personal enrichment the
money.of the people.
Even the tedious preliminaries of the trial were
listened to with attention, and when these were at
last over, aDd the business of the trial fairly en
tered upon, every head was bent forward, every
eye was strained to seethe eutrauce of the persons
connected with the grave drama about to begin.
Comptroller Goldsmith came in in answer to the
summons of the court, attended by his counsel,
Judge Hopkins. Hon. Milton Candler, Judge Jack-
son and Mr. Thomson. He was outwardly calm
and confident, though there was a nervousness per
ceptible in his manner .that increased as the Speak
er proceeded to read out in his clear sonorous tones-
the articles of impeachment in detail, until he was
interrupted by Mr. Goldsmith, through his counsel,
petetioning to waive the readingof these articles
This granted, the court was about to put the ques
tion “guilty, or not guilty.” when the defendant
again interposed through Judge Hopkins, who rose
and petitioned for further lime in which to prepare
the defence.
After considerable discussion, this was granted,
and the time for proceeding with the trial was
postponed uutil the first of September, when it is to
be hoped that the business will be carried through
without delay. *
Caroline Laura Rice, who has just gradnaied
at Wesleyan University, at the head ol a iarge
class of young men, is only twenty years old,
and is a graceful, attractive and thoroughly wo
manly young lady. ‘ One such practicle suc
cess as this,” says the New York Tribune, ••is
worth a thousand lectures on the intellectual ca-
nacity of woman. It should be of service to col
legians to hear that while her male companions
were boating and ball-playing, Miss Rice was
studying.
Answers to Correspondents.
Julia asks: “How can I reiuse a written offer of
marriage in such a way as least to wound the heart
of the writer, whom I esteem very highly ?” Your
owu heart should be able to dictat e such words as
would soften your refusal. It will be perfectly in
accordance with propriety to say how much you
esteem the gentleman, how highly hehascompli-
meted you by his preference and how sincerely you
hope to retain his friendship. Some one lately
offered through the New York Home Journal, a
prize for the best answer rejecting a written propo
sal of marriage. Innumerable missives competing
for the prize poured in upon its editors. The fortu
nate winner, was Snaksperian in her allusions and
signed herself “Portia-” Heranswer was this:
Dear Mr. , I am very sorry; I appreciate you
immensely, but I cannot give the casket without
the gem.
Here are a few of the other replies, some of which
we think, more worthy of imitation, because more
generally comprehensive, than Portia's:
Dear Mr. . Take back your ofler. I cannot
send a refusal to you, the friend I so value and
esteem. Lanark.
Deeply sensible of the greatest compliment that
can be paid to a woman, 1 am yet unable to accept
the offer. ARUal.
Your proposal honors me, but as high esteem
cannot give place to sincere affection, prudence
compels me to decline. Suffolk
, Honor and friendship you gain unasked
obedience and love you will never win from
Gladys Af Tudor.
Dear M.—Believe me, I am as keenly alive to the
value of the love you offer me as I am to my inabil
ity to reciprocate it. I must ever regret that the
pleasure I took iu your society should have led you
to think that I had any other feeling for you than
that of admiration for your talents and esteem for
your character. Those feelings I must ever retain,
and I trust, therefore, that when you find one who
will respect you as 1 do, and love you as you deserve
to be loved, which you surely will do some day,
you will regard as one of the truest of your friends,
your much honored _ ...
Zenobia Barragwenalt.
Please believe that though I cannot accept your
offer of marriage I have a higher opinion oi myself
in having been able, even unintentionally, to win
the affection of one so worthy of a man s best lot e.
Hammond.
Archery asks: “Is it true that Ihere will be a
convention of Archery clubs, and if so where and
when will it be held?” There was such a meeting
held near the first of this month in Boston, but the
representatives of archery clubs came mostly from
New England aud New 1 ork. They formed what
they called the Eastern Archery Association, which
will meet near Boston in September to shoot for a
prize.
Cromwell asks: “What sense is there in calling
the Indian “Lo” as I so often see done in print?
What does it mean ?” It is in humorous reference
to the expression iu Pope's poem.
*‘Lo ! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind” etc,
It is geuerally employed sarcastically in record
ing some act in which the “poor Indian” has figured
in a savage or disgusting manner.
Mrs. L. W. says: “I have been for some time
afflicted with a nervous restlessness that prevents
my sleeping well at night, aud to remedy it, I have
been taking chloral. I have been assured by a
physician that chloral is “perfectly harmless.” A
physician should certainly know, but observation,
reason and the experimental researches of scientific
investigators have demonstrated tiiat chloral is not
“harmless” by any means. Though in one sense a
beneficent, it is in another a maleficent agent and
that when used in excess its tendency is to fluidize
the blood, to produce nervous disturbance, and to
lower vitality to snch a degree that some of the vic
tims of the chloral habit (for there is an increasing
class of such victims) exhibit the symptoms Of
scurvy and of jaundice. Physicians have found by
direct experiment, that it acts upon the liydng ani
fflal tissues iu the same way that common palt docs
when used upon beef or pork for the purpose of
pickling, or preserving it. Thediseaseof Chloralimi
is slow and insiduous, aud fastens upon you un
consciously. So far from being “harmless” is this
favorite soothing agent called chloral, that the
physician who was chiefly instrumental in popular
izing the use of chloral throughout the word the
distinguished Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson de
clares that he regrets having taken any part in its
introduction into the practice of healing. *
Movements in Southern Society.
A large party of Athens ladies aud gentlemen,
left for a week’s trip to Tallulah, Saturday morning.
Mrs. Fauuie Sondgrass King late of the Scottsboro
Herald, Ala., is spending her honeymoon at Green
Lake, Wisconsin.
Miss Belle M. Patterson, grand-daughter of ex-
Presidcnt Andrew Johnson, is preparing for the
lecture field.
Miss Georgia Estes, of Augusta, Ga., is the great
belle of Ashville, a fashionable summer resort in
North Carolina.
A delightful picnic was held at Warlien, Ga., last
week, at which there were a number of Sandwsville
belles and beaux.
The entertainment given by the Guards to the
visiting military, in Athens duri ng the Commence'
ineut of Emory was greatly enjoyed.
The Reception given the Senior Class of Emory
College during the late highly interesting Com
mencement of this flourishing University was a
very rehcerelie affair.
Lewinthal-Block—At the Temple “Shaari
Chased,” on Wednesday evening. August 6th, by
the Rev. Dr. James K. Gutlieim.of the Temple Sinai.
New Orleans, La., Mr. Isidore Lewinthal to Miss
Estelle Block, both of this city.
A large eoncourse of friends attended the hyme.
nial celebration. The bride is a young lady, much
admired by a iargecircleoffriends. Mr. Lewinthal,
the fortunate husband, a gentleman of culture aud
refinement.
Mrs. Long Bybee of Locust Grove, Kentucky cele
brated her sixty-ninth birthday very pleasantly
lately by a reunion of family and friends ami a sup
erb dinner. Her children, grand children sons-in-
aw and daughters-in-law were all present, number
ing fifty-seven.
MissLetha Eaton, of Metcalfe Ky„ was lately
married to Mr. W. Nunnally at the residence of her
father Harrison Eaton Esq. Rev. Charles Page
conducting the ceremony. A select numbf o f
friends witnessed the rites and partook of the deli
cious supper that followed.
Mr. and Mrs. Murrell of the popular Murrell House
In Glasgow Kentucky gave an elegant party lately
to their neice Lulie Nuckols. Quite a number
of friends was in attendance aud dancing and con
versation were kept up until the wee sma’ hours.
A number of young ladies an' 1 gentlemen, held a
croquet party in the grove at Mt. Pisgah Church,
near Glasgow Kentucky lately and passed a pleas
ant evening. Misses Bryan and Mackey were
amor g the leaders.
Says the Glasgow Times: Quite a sensation was
created in town last Tuesday evening by the advent
of an eloping Hart county couple—Mr. Wm. Crail
and a Miss Hornback, who rushed up to the County
Clerk’s office, secured their license.then stood up in
the office and were made one, in a jiffy, by Dr. Pur-
cell.
A somewhat romantic marriage took place last
week at the White Sulphur Springs. Miss Hattie
Rice of Atlanta and Mr. Kd Herring formerly °f the
same city were privately married by Rev. O. L Sim
mons, with the underatodiug tot the marriage
was to be kept secret, lor a month, but it leaked.out
c j some way, and the young contractors blushingly
acknowledged themselves mated and received the
iongratulations of their friends.
OFF-HANDJALKS.
By Slim Jim.
Feminine Fashions for Fall.
Ladies will wear clothes, as nsaal this fall.
But strange to say, there will be a number ot
changes in the manner of wearing them.
Clothes were invented in Europe, for the
purpose of having something to attach medals
to; and are now pretty generally worn all over
some parts of the world, even by people who
can‘t pay their tailor’s and dressmaker’s bills.
The new fall dress is a deep blue pink, cut
square in froDt, with a two foot yoke, slightly
gored and considerably squashed with bias
trimming running up one Bide and down the
other, set off by forty-two rows of pearl buttons
extending diagonally to the southern bounda
ry—to the lower boundary—extending diagonal
ly to the forty-two rows of pearl buttons extend
ing to the—to the—diagonal pearls buttons
extensively—diagonally
Well, it’s somehow that way—I don't profess
to be eloquent in regard to such matters,
have appeared lately, is a new and elegant white
sacque.
White sacktually beautiful !
It is trimmed with something or other, and
faced round the edge with something else,
while the neck is cut in a different way, and the
—and a -and—
But I don’t believe it will be worn much.
It is too mnch in the shape of a man’s vest,
and for that reason yonng ladies of correot taste
will disdain to wear it
They like a vest well enough when there is &
yonng man inside of it, but as soon as ii is di
vested of that charm it becomes a very common
place affair.
‘Mortified bruise’ is the name of a new color
in feminine finery.
I snepect it is a shade of green—gangrene.
I should think that a lady would be mortified
to be obliged to ask for snch a color.
All dresses imported from Paris will be rated
at what they are Worth.
Muffs have so nearly gone out of style that
they are now indulged in chiefly by base-ball
players of questionable skill.
Every yonng lady will wear warm mittens,
and will keep a good snpply on hand for free
distribution among her male followers.
The jewelry worn this season will, in most
cases, be solid gold, heavily plated with brass.
Diamonds will also be worn, more or less —
principally less.
I have been informed, by a prominent jew
eller, that ‘the price of diamonds was never so
low as at present. ‘
This is weloome news.
I shall take my market-basket this evening,
and go oat and purchase my next winter’s
stock.
The latent novelties in eaa-rings and bracelets
are various designs in silver filigree.
Bnt if you can’t make your Phil agree that
they are cheap enongh, perhaps yon had better
try something else.
A new faDcy is toAvear a stuffed swallow, con
spicuous among th f'runnings of the hat, and
some of them look i o natural and lifelike that
l>, try the experiment of
tr tails.
>e in swallows to some ex-
ar nothing in their hats
‘.color for bonnet trimm-
ditors in the country
has invented some-
<imery.
?th all the old brands
.n favor, and now satn-
ef with the commonest
as if there was a man
yon are inclined
sprinkling salt on
Men will also in<
tent bnt they wil’
except a plain bri
The most fashi
ings is lilac.
At least, I sup
If not, all the .
li-lao blaze*-.—
An elderly ma
thing in the way
Sue has dispe.
that have hithertc
rates her handk
kind of whiskey.
This makes it so
around all the time. .;
And so keeps h'eivtj .urage np.
It will be the fashlf n during the fall and win
ter, for the wife to wit np and make the fires,
while the husband takes his morLing nap.
Don’t forget this, if yon desire to be in style.
Mrs. B. is a very stylish woman in this re
spect.
Some of the leading jonrnals of fashion an
nounce that ‘knotted damassea are mnch in
vogue now. ‘
It is not quite clear to me what is meant by
‘damasses'bnt I suppose they have referrenoe to
the yonng men who part their hair in the mid
dle.
Walking dresses are now worn short, the
train being entirely dispensed with.
Ladies who now desire a train will be obliged
to go to the depot.
Kid gloves are also deprived of much of their
length.
There are now only eighteen buttons to each
glove, and they reach only tc the shoulder.
Even pocket-books are worn short this season.
Yonrs fashionably.
An Oceanic Bonanza.
[San Francisco Call.']
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 30, I865, the
steamship Brother Jonathan,while on her wav from
this port to Portland, Or., struck a rock off Point
St. George, three miles north of Crescent City, aud
sunk almost immediately. There were on 'board
iSS souls, of whom only seventeen were saved,
among the passengers lost were General George
Ii right, U. S. A., Governor Henry, of Washington
Territory’, and Janies Nisbet, of the Evening Bullet
tin. Few marine disasters have occurred upon this
coast more destructive of human life or which car
ried gloom to a greater number of San Francisco
households. The Brother Jonathan had in her safe
at the time she sunk?540,000in United States Treas
ury notes and £500,coo in bullion. The currency
was intended for the payment of troops in the
Northern Department, and had been shipped direct
from the Treasury Department in Washington, via
the isthmus, to this city, and hence transferred to
the Brother Jonathan. It was packed in water
tight rubber bags, and these were again packed in
tin cases and hermetically sealed and deposited in
the steamer’s safe. There have been several at
tempts made to locate the wreck, with the hope of
being able to recovet the treasure, but heretofore
without success. Last week, however, W. C. Wood,
of this city, and Captain R. Hillyard, of Crescent
City, making diligent search in the neighborhood ot
where they hoped to find it, succeeded in discover
ing the wreck 100 yards from the rock where she
struck—the rock bearing S. S. E.—in twenty-two
fathoms of water. Mr, Wood immediately return
ed to this city and made his discovery known to
several parties in whose behalf he had undertaken
the search. They immediately decided to fit out an
expedition and endeavor to recover the contents of
the ship's safe. Mr. Wood is the owner of a schoon
er and diving apparatus, and as soon as the vessel
is provisioned and fitted she will sail for the wreck.
As the ten vears within which the Government
could claim the moiety to any treasure recovered
has expired, the wreckers will be edtitled to all
they may bring to the surface. The parties en
gaged in the enterprise are John Malloy, John E.
Miles, W. C. Wood and John VogeL
France has 1,800,000 marriageable girls. Now
jnst think of that, and Massachusetts with sev
eral hundred of thousands more and yet a fel
low will go and make a fool of himself about a
pretty face without five grains of sense behind
it, and think there is not another woman in ore-
ation.—N. F. Com. Advertiser. It is Kismet—it
is fate.
(CONCLUDED from first page.)
having the pleasure of escorting her to the different
places of amusement, and npon excursions up the
rivers and down the bay. Of course Mr Brasmuch
saw no harm in this as I was her brother.
But I observed one singular circumstance about
Bessy whenever we went abroad. She invariably
wore a thick veil, and never by any chance suffered
her face to be seen. Mr. Brasmuch noticed this,
and was much pleased at it. He attributed it to
her innocence and modesty, the old fool was com
pletely wrapped np in her. His amorous cooings,
which he took no particular pains to conceal from
her brother, made me sick and mad.
It was as much as Bessy could do to keep within
bounds, and prevent an explosion, which would
have ruined her scheme, whatever that might be.
It was a trying time; and I wonder now, looking
back, how I ever got through it.
There was a peculiarity about Mr. Brasmuch,
which, for 1 am singularly careless about other peo
ple’s affairs, I should not have.noticed myself, had
not my attention been called to it by Bessy. In a
corner of the apartment which he used as a library
and office, and which was the scene of my labors,
was a small Herring safe, of which he kept the key,
and which he never suffered anybody to go in but
himself.
It had got pretty well into the dog-davs; and one
afternoon, when I was sweltering over my desk,
Bessy came into the office. This was a general
habit with her, as Mr Brasmuch always took a late
breakfast, went down town to his office, and did
not return until six o’clock to dinner, so we had the
house from twelve till that time to ourselves. When
Bessy had put the house in order, and the servants
at work on the dinner, she brought her sewing and
kept me company.
I scratched away,—the oil-fever was very strong,
—and Bessy stitched in silence. I looked up sud
denly, and there she sat like a statue, her work in
her lap, and her eyes riveted, so to speak, on the
safe in the comer.
“Why, Bessy, what in the world are you think
ing about?”
She stared guiltily, and colored to the very tem
ple. I was surprised at this display of emotion in
one so emotionless.
’‘Harvey,” she said at length, drawing a long
breath, and casting a cautious glance around, “I
would give ten years of my life to be permitted to
examine the contents of that safe.”
“Curiosity, thy name is—woman!’’ I returned
sententiously. “Remember the fate of Bluebeard’s
wives.”
“It is not altogether curiosity that sways me; but
a deeper, stronger motive. I must see the contents
of that safe.”
“Steal the key, then,” I answered carelessly.
“Impossible.”
“Why so? Don't you know where he keeps it?”
. “Yes; he keeps it upon his person, never leaving
it for a moment. Oh! if I could but steal it, just
for one half hour.”
Here was a new phase in Bessy’s character. She
had designs on Mr. Brasmuch’s strong box.
‘My dear Bessy,’ I said a little ironically, ‘don’t
you think we can get along without robbing Mr.
Brasmuch of his money ?’
‘His money ?’ she answered, with infinite scorn.
VV hat do I care for his money ?’ That safe contains
nothing but papers.'
‘Papers ? Well, what then? How in the world
can they concern you ?’
‘More than you think, Harvey. No qnestions:
my lips are sealed, and will be until you help me to
open that safe.’
‘But how- can I open it ? I am not a locksmith.'
‘1 have heard of impressions on wax being taken
ftom a keyhole, and a key thereby made to fit the
lock: why could it not be done in this case ?’
‘It might.’
‘Then do it,’ she cried impulsively.
‘Look here, Bessy,’I remarked, laying down my
pen, and mopping off the perspiration from my
forehead. I was hot before, but her words put me
in a perfect stew, ‘Look here, Bessy: are you
aware that you are suggesting a nice little scheme
that will send us both to the state’s-prison,if we are
found out V
‘I do not think so,’ she answered coolly. ‘If that
safe contains what I t ■ ink it does, Mr. Brasmuch
will not dare to lift a finger against us- and if it
does not, he is too much in love to proceed Awaiust
jiio. -I will bear all the blaufu; your compi!ciT\ in
the affair shall never be known.’
‘It is a very ticklish business,’ I hesitated. ‘I am
already in his house under false pretences; and, if
we should be detected breaking open his private
safe, I do not very well see how we could get out
of it,’
‘Harvey,’ she said earnestly, more earnestly than
she had ever spoken to me before,‘the happiness in
life, the honor of a once respectable family is at
stake. That safe must be opened, or I can never
become your wife; for I never will wed you while
a stain rests upon the name I bear.’
‘Are there no other means ?’
‘None; that safe contains the solution to all my
mystery. Open it. and you shall know who and
what I am.’
It ended as all our discussions ended,—in my
agreeing to do what she required. Besides, I began
to get a glimmering of the truth. Short as my ac
quaintance was with Mr. Brasmuch, I had discov
ered that he was a rascal. Undoubtedly he had
wronged Bessy in some swindling scheme of which
she was seeking proof among his private papers.
So I agreed to open the safe.
I had arranged a very simple plan to accomplish
that. It was to go to a safe salesroom, and tell the
clerk that I had lost the key of my safe, and request
him to send a man to open it for me,—appointing
an hour when Mr. Brasmuch was sure to be out.
If the safe contained what we sought, well and
good; if not, we would leave it open, with its con
tents intact, leaving Mr. Brasmuch to believe that
he had accidently left it unlocked. Bessy entirely
approved of the scheme.
’Had I known it was so easy,’ she said, ‘I should
have done it myself without calling you to my as
sistance. Two heads are better than one, after all;
aud if I find what I want in that safe, Harvey, you
are welcome to mine for the balance of my life.’
The next day we put our scheme in operation.
The man came and opened the safe: when I gave
him an order for a new key, and he departed. We
were alone in the office, the safe was open, and we
stood before it, trembling with excitement.
‘Now, Harvey, quick,, cried Bessy, ‘Find if
there are any papers bearing the name of Main-
wright.’
.. I plunged into the safe and began the search,
cautiously replacing things as nearly as possible in
their original position. At last after a thorough
search, Bessy growing more feverish every mo
ment, I found a small package marked with the
name of ‘Main wright.’ I took it out, and placed it
in Bessy’s ha- .ds. She examined it eagerly, and ut
tered a cry oi joy.
‘You need 'ook no further, Harvey,’ she exclaim
ed. ‘These are the missing securities; my task is
over, and I have triumphed.’
‘But what does it all mean? 1 1 ask. ‘And what is
this Mainwright to you?‘
‘John Mainwright is my father, ‘ she answered
proudly. ‘These securities were stolen from him
by Richard Brasmuch, his clerk; and their loss caus
ed his ruin. I was then at the semina-iy at Troy. I
returned to find my father a beggar. He suspected
Brasmuch, but t o have accused him, would have
led to the destruction of the securities, and with
them all proof. I devised my present scheme
with my father’s sanction. It was he who aroused
your jealousy by embracingme in the wood,
where he had come to hear how Ihad progressed.
My scheme was to make the acquaintance of
Caleb Dribrats, and, through him, of Brasmuch.
Neither had seen me since I was a child: hence
there was not much fear from recognition. So
I came to the little hotelj to wait on Harvey
Pastern, and fast mate him first of all. My task is
O/er, my father’s f01 tine an 1 cred t will be
restored by these, and I shall not come to you a
dowerless bride; for, if a man ever truly and fath-
fully won a wife, you are that man.’
I waited patiently for the end of this'long speech,
and then gave the brave little soul a tremendous
hug. We left the Brasmuch mansion atjonce, and
went to the humble dwelling where Mr. Mainwright
was living in retirement. He was put'in possession
of the facts, and I received a cordial welcome. He
concluded to call on Mr. Brasmuch, 'and see what
he had to say for himself. We all went together.
We found Mr. Brasmuch contemplating his open
safe in a melancholy attitude. He surrendered at
once, disgorged his plunder, and was let off, as we
had a repugnance to making the affair public. The
restored papers were enough to exonerate Mr.
Mainwright, which was all he cared for.
A short time afterwards I sent; a letter to my
mother, of which the following is an extract:
‘As I am going to be married to Elizabeth Main-
right, daughter of John Mainright, the banker. I
thought you would like to wituess the ceremony ’
She did wituess it; and, after it was all over,' she
said to me;
‘What became of that artful trollop that you
were in such a hurry to marry, and would, too if it
hadn’t been for me? What would become of these
boys if they hadn’t mothers?’
‘She is non eat inventus,' I replied. But, as my
mother does’nt understand Latin, she gravel}- shook
her head.
Mlit and •Humor.
A clerical error—preaching a long sermon.
A kiss withont a mustache is like an egg without
salt.
A very natural question has lately eoone up as to-
how much is Mrs. South worth?
It was a wise and cunning Jew who said, “I tell
youvatitish, I buys my experience tresh every
day.”
A two-legged brute says the height of good luck
s to bury your mother-in-law the day befo re you
are married. •
Law is like a seive—you may see through it, but
you must be considerably reduced before you can
get through it.
The White House—The place where the President
gets lodged at the government’s expense and bored
at hi6 own.
Metaphysics are the Mbs..Winslow’s soothing syr
up of the mind, with which old fogies talk young
listeners to sleep.
In Troy, N. Y., they designate the temperature by
its effect upon paper collars. It is just now “three-
paper-collar heat.”
A wit once asked a peasant what part he per.
formed in the great drama of life. “I mind my own
business,” was the reply.
The man who minds his own business was In the
city yesterday, but was very lonesome, and took an
early train for the seashore,
A newspaper correspondent writes; ‘There is not
a solitary beautiful woman in San Francisco.” We
suppose the wag means they are all married.
The epicure who finished his dinner with the
“dessert” of Sahara, found it rather dry eating.
Wonder why he didn’t partake of the sand-which-
is there ?
The class iu German grammar is on the subject of
genders. “Miss Flora, why is‘Moon’masculine iu
German ?” “So that she can go out alone nights, I
suppose,”
Guilty ot Wrong.
Same people have a fashion of confusing ex
cellent remedies with the large mass of -patent
medicines,’ and in this they are gnilty of a wrong.
There are some advertised remedies fully worth
all that is asked for them, and one at least we
know of—Hop Bitters. The writer has had oc
casion to use the Bitters in just snch n climate
as we have most of the year in Bay City, and has
alwai s found them to be first-class and reliable,
doing all that is claimed for them.
No more Hard Times.
If you will stop speudirg so much on fine
clothes, rich food and style buy, good healty
ood, cheaper and better clothing; get more
real and substantial things of life every wav, and
especially stop the foolish habit of employing
expensive, quack doctors or using so mnch of
the vile humbug medicine that does you only
harm, but put vour trust in that simple, pure
remedy. Hop Bitters; that cures always at a
trifling cost, and you will see good times and
have good health. See another column.
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