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MATTIE’S TROUBLES- BY HELEN F. GRAVES. And must l live here always?’ said Mattie Fox, despairingly, as she clasped her hands on the low ledge the open window. ‘Here' was no earthly elysium, to be sure. A lonely farm house, perch* ed half way' up a desolate mountain ; whip-poor-frill moaning on the edge of the woods; owls hooting solemnly by the lake ; mournful winds sighing through the tree tops like the rush of an unseen garment —all this was so j different from the crowded city life to which she had been hitherto- accus¬ tomed. And even 'as the tears of vague homesickness rose to her eyes ’ the voices of the old farmer and his wife, in the room below, rose audibly up through the stovepipe hole which had not yet been sealed for the sum¬ mer months. ‘ IFhut are you going to do with her?’ said Mrs. Fox. ‘We must do the best we can,’ said Elihu, her husbaud. ‘She’s my brother’s orphan daughter, and she’s got no where else to go.’ And why in the name of goodness,’ queruously demanded Mrs. Fox, could she not stay where she was, instead of rushing out here and taking us all by surprise.' ‘Well,’ slowly answered the good farmer, ‘I ain’t quite clear about that myself, been djsapp’inted in love. She was a shopgirl, Rhode, don’t you know? And it seems there was a genteel j/oung man used to come there to buy neckties and ribbons, and such fool-de-rols. And this girl she s’posed he was dead in love with her, and all of a sudden it come out as he had another sweetheart as he was going to be married to this very next week.’ ‘Bless and save us!’ said Mrs. Fox. While Mattie, sitting as silently by the window as if she had been frozen into stone, felt a peculiar sensation of dull curiosity 7 to hear what would come next, as if all this were spoken about some other person, entirely different to herself. •And she is a proud girl, Mattie is slowly went on Elihu. Tt runs in t e Foxes to be i roud, and s. e -vou d fc stay here tube jeered and made game of by the other shop girls. So she came here because she had no other place to come to ; and that s all 1 know about it. I guess we’d see as the doors and windys is all safe and go to bed*, for its past ten, and them haying hands will be here afore daylight to see about cutting the twelve acre medder.’ Mrs. Fox had a talk with her niece the next day. ‘Mattie,’ said she ‘I’m going to show you how to bake apple pies this morning ; because, if you stay here of course you'll want to make your¬ self useful.’ ‘Of course,’ said Mattie, listlessly. ‘And, as it happens, I hain’t no girl,’ went on Mrs. FoX; ‘aud there’s the work people and my summer boarders are coming next month.’ ’Summer boarders?’ Mattie looked quickly up, with a red flush over¬ spreading her cheeks. She had come here for solitude, for rest, for utter isolation; and now almost before she had unpacked her little trunk, a horde of city fashionables would be upon her. ‘Oh, Aunt Fox, do you keep summer boarders?’ ‘Every summer of my life,’ said Mrs. Fox, briskly. ‘They come in July, and mostly goes away in Sep¬ tember, with the first frost. Their ain't many wavs for us mountain folks to earn a bit of spendin’ money you know Mattie; and of course, if you help me, I shall expect to divide with you square and even. And remember it’s sinful to spend your time weeping and wailing and guash- jng y 7 our teeth for a lost beau, piously added the good woman. ‘There’s as likely fish in the sea as come out of it; and p’raps one of the hay hands will take a shine to you—who knows? And thus Aunt Fox dismissed the question of her niece’s heart trials After all, perhaps it wa» the best treatment that her poor festering wounds could receive. A sharp, cauterizing—a merciful cruelty 1 And Mattie set herself diligently, if spiritlessly to work helping to the huge, hungry farm bauds, to shine the glittering rows of milk pans—even milk horned beasts, of which nra OCCOA NEWS kw By Edw SCHAEFER- \ was at first so nervously afraid. She learned to bake white, sweet loaves of bread, to chum butter, to raise young chickens, she gathered wild flowers’ and made a rude wicker cage for a blue bird, which she found with a, broken wing and treated success- fully. And she began to smile now and then, and Mrs. Fox remarked complacently, ‘that Mattie was really a decent looking girl now that her color had come back a little.’ But one day the mountain stage, lumbering slowly over the rough roads with its four horses And luggage covered roof, stopped at Mrs. Fox's porch; and down came the avalanche of citj guests. Mattie was straightening the mus¬ lin curtains of the windows, and hurriedly filling the large blue pitchers with water when the trunks were brought in the house. ‘It's Mr. Basset and his bride, all the way from Boston, said Aunt Fox^ complacently. ‘Is everything ready? Because they are coming up stairs directly. And I never did see any one dressed as genteel as she is. A regular beauty too!’ Mattie stood quite pale and silent, with the homespun towels iu her hand. ‘Basset!’ she repeated, ‘and from Boston I Oh, why, of all places in the world, did th^y come here?’ AndJ-he next moment the home- spun towels lay like a drift of scat¬ tered snow at Mrs. Fox’s feet, and Mattie was gone. ‘A/erev on us!’ said Mrs. Fox, stooping to recover her lavender, scented treasures, is the girl gone erazy? The soft, crimson glow of the sunset was irradiating the lonely glen, when Harrold Basset parted the overhanging b ,u hs with one hand, and plunged into the leafy wilderness, where on one side, the mossy rock rose almost perpendicu¬ larly, and on the other a brown waved block ran, with clamorous gurgle. ‘Mattie!’ he exclaimed, stopping short, ‘Am 1 dreaming?’ Mattie Fox sprang aftgrily to her feet. Would they leave her no solitary spot of refuge? Must she be thus hunted down like a wounded deer? For Harold Bassett was the man she had allowed herself to love—the soft-voiced, violet-eyed deceiver who had fed her with soft glances and whispered words, until—that dark day when the qther shop-girls, with % sidelong look, and tittering whis¬ pers, had told the story of this approaching marriage to Mis Belfort the Boston heiress. She made an involuntary movement to escape, but he placed himself directly across the narrow gateway ol rock, which alone afforded an egress* •No,’ said he, firmly, yet not without the lurking shadow of a smile around ; his lips—‘you shall not leave me j until you have explained all the mystery of your sudden departure from Boston, leaving behind you neither name nor address.’ T am not rseponsible to you !’ she breathed. ‘\ou are nqt responsible to tne!’ he retorted. ‘I loved you, Mattie Fox, and you knew it.’ ‘This is simply folly,’ cried out Mattie, ‘if not something worse! Go back to your bride, Mr. Bassett. It is to her ears only that you need whisper love !’ The young man opened his violet ! blue eyes very wide. I ‘Mattie,’said he, ‘what on earth are E ou talking about? My bride? i; have no bride. I never shall have any bride but you; ‘Who is the Mrs. Bassett who came to my aunt’s house this morning?’ gasped Mattie, marveling at the ! hardihood which could thus deny an j absolute and apparent fact. j ‘qW said Harold, is that' what! Devoted to News> Politics. Agriculture and General progiess* TOCCOA, GA., JUNE 10, 1882. you mean? It is my brother’s w ife, And she and her husband arc putting up their hammocks and establishing their rustic tables under the pine trees back of the house, at this very moment. Of course, I couldn’t remain with them. Is not a third person always de trop when a young couple are on their wedding trip? So I came here, and I think Heaven di- rected my footsteps; for the very last person in the world whom I could have expected to see was you, dear Mattie!’ ‘And you are not married]’ repeated Mattie, with a great, overwhelming thrill of happiness at her heart, ‘No!’ he answered, with emphasis, Lind it was your brother who was really to be married, when 1 believed it was you, and broke my heart over what I considered your treachery and deceit?’ she pursued. ‘Well, it certainly was not me!’ declared Harold Bassett; ‘for now and here, at yotir feet, dearest, I speak the first declaration of love I ever spoke. I love you, Mattie! 1 have been wretched in your absence. Let me take you back to Boston with me as ray own treasured wife?’ So Mattie, shy and beautiful as some drooping wild flower, was brought back to the farm house, to be presented to the city bride and her husband as Harold's engaged wife. Mrs. Hardy Bassett put up her eye glasses and smiled condescend- ingly. ‘Very lovely 7 ,’ said she, in an audi¬ ble sotto voice, and so sweetly unsophisti ated ! I can always tell these country 7 rosebuds at the first glancci ‘But I’m not, country rosebud,’ said Mattie, crimsoning. 'I have only been here at the. farm house a few weeks. 7 am a shop girl, Mrs. Bassett.’ The bride stared first, then sim¬ pered. ‘How very 7 romantic!’ said she ‘Exactly iike a novel.’ Mattie might almost have been vexed, if she had not caught the suppressed laughter iu Harold's cy 7 es. And Aunt Rhoda declared that the Fox farm house had never been so lonesome as it was after Mattie went away to be a grand city lady. ‘But she has promised to come back every summer,’ said Mrs. Fox. ‘She says the old farm will always be the dearest place in the world to her. MRS. GARFIELD. [‘Gath’ in Cincinnati Enquired.] ‘How is Mrs. Garfield?’ ‘She j s j us t ag modest, qniet a little woman as ever, though she is a rich woman now. That is to say 7 she is , so much richer than she ever was before that she is considered rich by 7 hergejf^ her friends and her r.eigh- bors. I would like to take you around to see her if you come to Cleveland. She is a great pet in our town, though she does not seem to know it. Cleveland worships the name of Garfield.’ ‘ What is Mrs Garfield worth?’ ‘Well, you can sum it up. She has $300,000 in government bonds, the result of the subscription. Then her husband’s life was insured for $50,000, which she promptly received, j^e a } so was paid the salary of the p r<?3 ident for the unoccupied first year, amounting to about $20.00o. That makes $400,000, does it not? Very well. Then add to it about $30,- 0 00 , the total value of Garfield’s estate. That was the total amount, a fter all the abuse that was that he was able to accumulate in a life of fifty years. I suppose that the income from this total of more than $400^00 will be perhaps $16,000 a year. She is also on the pension list at $5,000 a year. So she is comfort able, and can raise her children well; but the loss of Garfield is a blow that will leave its sear as long as she lives. Just think of that little Woman, almost dying at the IF kite House, when lie took her to the seaside and returned to meet his death wound ; and she then rallying, watching t>ver him for months, surviving him and beiug well to day !’ ‘What is going to be done about the Garfield monument?’ ‘My understanding is that there is now $125,000 in the hands of the treasurer, and no monument fund has probably ever been put in more careful hands. They desire to erect something that shall typify the wonderful hold that was obtained in a few months upon the universal heart in this country. His memory is not only deeply beloved in North¬ ern Ohio and throughout all ot.r state, where he lived so long ; but it is the rallying cry for the moral and independent forces in the country, and you can hear his name shouted in Pennsylvania to day stronger than all the living forms of political power. People felt what was the fact—that lie was a loving man, with a warm, boyish heart, and affectionate like a Woman, and he took his instincts from the people, like Lincoln.’ THE GUiTEAU HANGING. Washington Taper. The number to be present at Guiteau’s execution is very limited, according to th© law of the District. A few representatives of the press, a jury of twelve citizens, the attorneys in the case, and the officials at the jail will make up the audience. During the visit to the jail yesterday, the wooden door was open and Gui- teau stuck his face out and called in an imperious way to Rob. an attend- ant. The visitors were thus enabled to obtain a good look at him, as he stared very hard at the audience and appeared to be urging tue officials to allow him to have a talk with the visitors, but the doors were quickly closed and the assassin was taken back to his cell. His lace is very lat and full. He has the look of a very well fed and well kept animal. The iail officials who have him. in charge say 7 that lie has not indicated since the trial the first evidence of insanity, that he is as quiet and reasonable and clear in all his methods of bus¬ iness as any' prisoner they have ever had in their charge ; and as one of the jail officials said yesterday in some ways he is a very able man He is one of the most cunning and astute persons we have ever had m charge, and excepting one or two of his peculiarities, could not be Consid¬ ered in any sense of the word an insane man.’ They prophesy from now on, however, that he will con- tinue to go down in his physical and mental condition. The depression of the last week Or ten days, even when buoyed up with the hope that the court may 7 give him a new trial, will deepen and become abject despair when he knows that he has no hope. The struggle of the people at the jail now will be to keep enough life in him to gc to the scaffold on tke 30th of June. They prophesy a complete break and an abj«ct spectacle on that day 7 . GIRLS IN CHINA. Moving Edwin, a Burmese, in a late lecture in the city of Baltimore, speaking of how women are treated, and what a light value is placed on them in the East he said: —‘Girls in China are believed to have no souls and to kill them is not murder, and therefore not to be punished. Where parents are too poor to support the <rirl children, they are disposed of in tbe following way: at regular inter- vals an officer goes through a village and collects from poor parents all the 75 <nrl children they can care for, when i TERMS-$1 50 A YEAR, NO. 48 they are about eight days old. He has two large baskets attached to the end of a bamboo pole, and slung over his shoulder. Six infants in each basket, and he carries them to a neighboring village and exposes them for sale. Mothers who desire to raise wives for their eons buy such as they may select. The other j ara taken to the government asylums, of which there are many, all through the country, if there • is room enough they are taken in ; if not, they are drowned.’ Think of it at once, and study it out, China has two hundred and fifty millions inhabitants, the United States but fifty millions CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. American Register. With the approach of summer we may hope that congressmen will be warmed up to the business of the session and the demands of the coun¬ try for the speedy 7 enactment of necessary laws. The last week was more fruitful of results and accom¬ plished more real legislation than any other two weeks of the session. The tariff commission bill has become a law ; the bill to extend the charters of the national banks has passed the House of Representatives, and it is thought will pass the Sen ate with but slight amendment if any 7 , Leading democratic members, in their discussion of this question, while admitting the advisability 7 of the measure, are clearly of the opin- ion that subsequent legislation will be necessary to relieve the coun¬ try from the financial complications which are impending. It seems to be au admitted fact that a funding bill of some kind will have to be matured and passed in order to make a sub¬ stitute for the 4 per cents, which are the only available securities which can be used for banking purposes. The general appropriation bills are all awaiting action in both houses, the largest of which is probably the one appropriating $100,000,050 to meet the demands of the Pension Department. The Geneva award bill pay the insurance companies for the losses sustained by the Confeder¬ ate cruisers, etc., was passed by the Senate on Monday, the 22d, which, when it becomes a law, will, we hope, be a finality of legislation in that direction. The Senate has on the calendar a bill for the admission of Dakota into the Union, which has been laid aside several times and which dees not seem to have vitality enough to assert its rights to a hearing. The South Carolina contested election case has held the House and all other legislation in suspense for the past three days, and the princi¬ ples involved are considered by the democrats sufficient reason for their action in the premises. The republicans wish to bring the matter to an immediate vote upon the record as it stands, with the certainty of seating Mackey, but the democrats claim that an investiga¬ tion must be had of the implied fraud in the records before a vote can be had upon the main question,, the right to the seat. The democrats are ready and willing 8 to go on with all legitimate , . . leg,elation, i . , . but , , they can „„„ notconsent to let this case be tried without a full investigation of the forgery is had- The army retirement bill is before the militarv committee of tbe senate. As this bill affects the most prominent „ officers, from r. t * ie General down, it will require a very- thoughtful consideration from committee. The house committee on naval affairs have determined t0 report adversely on ad bills looking further searches in tbe Arctic regions. The comptroller of the Mr. Knox, f» before tbe Senate finance -wwmittee on Wednesday and suggested several amendments to the bank charter bill. ^ A resolution appropriating *I»V 000.000 to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for army pensions for the current fiscal year, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. Ifc is stated on good authority that the President will not nominate the tariff com mission during the present week, as he wishes to consult some friends in New York before making, the selections. BOSTON’S BANCO STEEPER. IIow Charles Frascts Adams was Enticed into a Dln and M VUE a Victim. A special dispatch from Boston, Mass., on the 25tb. says: “The Superior Criminal Court room was crowded to-day when James Fitz- gerald, alias ‘The Kid,’alias Morri- son. was brought to trial before Chief Justice Bingham on a charge of obtaining money from the Hou, Charles Francis Adams at a game called banco on March 28.’ The most interesting portion of the trial was the recital of Fitzgerald’s story or confession. 11 c went to the office of the Hon. Richard Oluey, counsel for Mr. Adams, on April 3, in company with a private detective*, under promise that he should not be arrested there. Mr. Olney and Mr. John Quincy Adams described the interview. Fitzgerald was smiling gaily, and seemed to be enjoying himself, lie tipped his chair against the wall and remarked : ‘This is disagreeable business, Mr. Adams. I am a banco sleerer, and don't suppose there is a man in the United States who has done so much ©r knows the business as well as I. When we go to a city we find out all we can about our intended victim, his character, acquaintances, habits and resorts, and watch an opportuni¬ ty to get into conversation with him. I knew Mr. Adams and watched for him. When he came out I let him get in advance, and then went up, told him I was the son of an old friend, and that it would be a great favor to let me walk by such a gentle- man as lie. Mr. Adams had the reputation of being unsocial, bat I did not find it difficult to get down into him. When 1 once get into conversation the rest is easy. I drew him along to our rendezvous, and then, pulling out this lottery' ticket, told him there was $1,500 due on it, and asked him to go in aud identify me. There was no difficulty in per¬ suading him to go into hi3 office, where the ticket was presented, and nearly $1,500 in bills handed to me. I objected it was not right, and the man explained that they always deducted a -percentage, but that we might have for that soma tickets to play on a board or table.’ Fitzgerald described the game with great gusto, turning frequently to the detective with the remark: ‘You know, Heath ; you know how it is.’ He continued ; Q permitted Mr. Adams to play forme, lie drew $2,500, and it was explained to him that he must give a check to the bank for ten per cent., and he drew one for $250 and shortly after another for $G50 by the same method. Finally he got into the dilemma ol drawing a blank, which subjected him to a loss of $17,000. We then charged him with gambling, when the poor old man threw up his hands and said that no such charge was ever made against him before, that lie had represented this country in England and never did anything to be ashamed of, and exclaimed; ‘Oh, what would my-boys say if they should hear of such a tiling as this? ] pitied the old man, for I had a great respect for him, but I acted as his friend, told him / had lost the same as be, and begged him to pay the money an t save me from ruin. We induced him «a to 4 sign tue check, and I ^ grieved ^ bitter]y and bitn how J was that I been the innocent means of his trouble. I went home with him, soothing him all the way. I have roped in forty men as shrewd as Mr. Adams. They ail paid tne checks, yhis chccA will be paid. Xh e jr always pay. They kick as you are kicking, but they pay. The Adamses would not let this story get into court for C amount We always have tbe re ^ere crular check of every bank in the we are. It is part of our bu3lness * Mr. Adams testified that his fath- er s mental condition was not very cnabl^'to do any ^ as j nea g Q f i a te except to take mem- brauda of orders from the house to the grocery store,