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VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
• Theft afe l,2ir<x>tfvieis ii* te Geor
gia penitentiary.
Key West, Fla., lies 12,000 inhabitants
and only two chimneys.
The first national bank in Mississippi
will be started soon at Columbus.
Tn Florida there are 17,638 white | eo
ple orer ten years of age who* cannot
write their own names.
Mon*fi*jr&ai n has and will be sown
in Soutliwestern Georgia the present
•eason than at any former period.
Tennessee stock traders are bringing
their mules back from Atlanta rather
than sacrifice them at the low price*
prevailing.
There are fifteen prisoners in the Vii*
ginia penitentiary for life, one for fifty*
four years, one for tbirty-e’ght, and two.
for thirty-six.
The Carthage (N. • C.) Gazette says
that twenty pound* of solid pure gold
have been tMce'n from the Cugle mines
in the past two weeks.
Citizens of Alabama pay taxes on
>305,0"0 worth of farming tools and me*
ciianical implements, and on guns, pis
tols and dirks, valued at #354,000.
The Silver Valley mine in Davidson
county, N. C., employs about 80 hands,
and produces about five tons of concen
trated ore daily, which is valued at SSOO
per ton.
The Southern fourth of Alabama is
covered with forests of long leaved pine,
mixed in the northern part with much
hard wood. A comparative narrow belt
of pine runs nearly across the State be
tween latitude 32 deg. and 33 deg.
Chattanooga Times: The Roane Iron
Company is now securing an order of
steel blooms from England. They are
arriving in car-load lots every day.
This order will amount to about $53,000,
the duty on which will be $22,000.
During the year just 'passed 322,934
tons of coal were mined in the State of
Alabama. A few years ago the output
could have been expressed in ciphers.
This industry has progressed more rap
idly ffcan ally tfthfir within the borders
of the State.
A Rome, Ga k iium is preparing,
unique directory. It will c( niain tlie
name, style, whether brunette or blonde,
address and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia who has inirr
own name, or as heir expectant, prop
erty to the amount of $5,000 or upward.
Elijah f haddock, aged 102 yrars and
three months, and his wife, aged 102
years and seven months, of Walker
county, Ga., passed through Chattanooga
Monday en route to Arkansas, where
they will reside in the future with their
son They are hale and hearty, and bid
fair to live several years longer. They
go West, it is supposed, to grow up with
the country.
On Friday last, about ten miles from
Albany, Ga., a tattered, emaciated, half
starved woman was discovered wander
ing in the woods. She was taken charge
of by kind persons, and it was soon found
that she was a poor’French woman, who
had been abandoned bv her husband on
the way from Pensacola to Eulaula.
The woman could not speak a word of
English, and ever since Christmas had
been wandering in the woods, living on
mushrooms snd toadstools.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mr. Al
exander H. Stephens keeps microscop
ically informed of the details at Liberty
Hall. He knows from day to day how
many chiekens. ducks, pigs, etc., he has
in his yard, and takes as lively an inter
est in these home matters as he does in
national or state affairs. He recently
lost a mule that had attained the great
age of thirty-seven years, and he is now
much concerned about another, named
“O'd Beck.” that had become mori' und.
Traveling in Florida is expensive.
'I he hotels range in price from $3.50 to
$4 per day. but are HYst-class in every
respect. Board may be had in private,
houses from $2 to $3 a day. Steamboat
fares are about s<> for a day and night's
travel, including fare and berths. The
boats are very much crowded now. and
cots are used nightly in the cabin? for
the comfort of pgssangers. It is n>t a
good idea to buy retnen ‘tickets on the
steamers, as the discount is small and
the return tickets are good only on cer
tain boats.
When several years old and three or
foup feat high thf palmetto tree has the
precii of a huge growing
pineapplg, with' its luft of g|een, hlaile
like leaves at fire top. Until the tree
aftais& tile freiglitlof several feet it* body
is embraced with successive layers ol
regularly interlaced growth of shuck,
which in color and appearance closely
resembles the pineapple, P fter a eer
tain age they lose this, the trunk assum
ing a firm, smooth surface, which first
makes its appearance next the ground,
gradually eaten tine to the top as the
Ax English baker was known to weigh
thirty-four stone, and would frequently
eat a small shoulder of mutton weighing
Bve pounds, _ _
AoooßDcra to the Kevada City (Col.)
J'ranefrript only fire men in that city of
T.OOO inhabitants wear silk hats.
THE JACKSON NEWS.
TOPICS OF THK DAT.
Tn price of stoves promises to go
*
Thb new Garfield postage stamp will
be issued in a few days.
Niagara Falls is trying to get the
contemplated World’s Fair.
♦
Louisville is shortly to make an ef
fort to found an art gallery.
General Hancock has purchased a
large tract of land iu Minnesota.
It seems Mr. Gladstone is still some
what down on the Land League.
W heat in Southern Illinois is reported
in an unusually flattering condition.
The organization of a Produce Ex
change is being urged in Cincinnati.
Dir Sullivan ever tackle the fighting
editor of a first-class newspaper ? Well!
Queen Victoria, by the advice of her
physician, goes incognita to Mentone in
March.
The wilderness in which the crew of
De Long’s boat are held, is eighty miles
in extent.
Lord Granville has taken grounds
in favor of preserving the Clayton-Bul
wer treaty.
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As exchange says that Osoar Wilde is
like Balaam’s ass because he was made
“too utter.”
The Insurgents in Yemen, Arabia,
have proclaimed a descendant of the
Prophet of Caliph.
It seems that the widow of General
Custer has no pension. She paints
plaques for a living.
Judges Gox and Burnet, of Cincin
nati, after fifteen years’ servioe, have ve
toed from the District Court.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
resolutions calling on Congress to
•radicate Mormonism by legislation.
It is safe to refuse silver dollars bear
ing the date of 1843. A dangerous
counterfeit of that date is in circulation.
The weeding out of incompetent
clerks in tlie Treaaury Department lias
caused another rush of oflice-Boekera to
Washington.
A cotmoT in tire Mississippi Peniten
tiary was killed by one of the guards,
and the Court has awarded his wife sl,-
400 damages.
A vaccine farm, capable of turning
out 3,000 points daily, has been es
tablished near Chicago, and is doing a
thrifty business.
The fact seems to be just published
that Cincinnati came out something like
eleven thousand dollars behind with her
Exposition of 1881.
A number of State Legislatures have
passed resolutions calling up Congress
to do something toward the obliteration
at polygamy in Utah.
It ia estimated that more than sl,-
000,000 is spent annually in New York
for cut flowers. As to how much is spent
on the poor no estimate lias yet been
given.
A woman who died in Paris recently,
at the advanced age of one hundred and
two years, had lived a widow eighty
years. She had no man to pester tlie
life out of her.
Recently a pack of wolves entered a
church at Uvarre, Spain, and refused to
quit it until they had killed three
and seriously wounded five of the
congregation.
When a man is sentenced to hang at
Bt. Louis, the man gets in a hurry about
it and hangs himself with his bed
blanket. This saves the Sheriff a great
deal ol trouble.
The retirement of Gambetta from offi
cial life and assumption of the duties of
an editor is looked upon by the Albany
Journal ns promotion—increasing the
size of his audience.
Between the Ist of March and the Ist
of July next the commission of over 850
postmasters will expire—many in large
cities. They are appointed for periods
of four and eight years.
Marvin, the mail with fifteen wives,
made An ineffectual attempt -jto escape
f#ow the Virginia penitentiary a few
days ago. He perhaps had heard of an
other womau who who wanted to get
married.
The Dorsey combination—T. W. Dor
sey L. W. Vail, John M. Miner, J. B.
Sanderson R. C. Rendell and Tiros. J.
Brady-ohurge with a conspiracy to de
fraud the Government, have been in
dicted by the Grand Jury.
A letter from an Alaska missionary
gives particulars of the torture of whole
families for witchcraft and other particu
lars. which indicate that the snper
titious inhabitants of our Northwestern
sessions stand in considerable need
„l school teachers and a humane aooiety.
Oscar Wilde has come out with a
statement. It is this: “ Tho newspapers
uf America are perfectly outrageous.”
Correct. He further says: ' “ The meu
and women of America or* splendid.”
Correct again. The men and women
are not to blame for the newspapers. Its
the nasty little type.
At one time Mr. Bradlaugh refused
to take the oath of office in the English
House of Commons because, he said, the
oath would be meaningless to him.
Now that he has signified a willingness
to take the oath, iu order to retuiu his
seat, the House has refused by a strong
majority to permit him to do so.
The assessed value of real and per
sonal property in New York City is 82,-
00,000,000. This does not include 855,-
000,000 worth of church property, 850,-
000,000 worthof school and library prop
erty, and 815,000,000 worth of real estate
owned by the United States, nor does it
include the reputed wealth of many
millionaires. Further, it is only 60 per
cent, of the actual value of tho property
assessed. New York is no one-horse
place.
A San Francisco correspondent writes
to the Baltimore Sun: “Coal oil is now
so plenty from the wells of Los Angeles
(hat the market is overstocked, and we
want na more from Pennsylvania. The
market price in Los Angeles has fallen
from fifty cents to eighteen cents a gal
lon. It is advertised in five-gallon cans
at that price. The oil belts of California,
from present indications alone, may be
counted the richest in the world.”
It seems now to be a question whether
the Senate has the right to originate a
funding bill. The Committee on Ways
and Means have referred the proposition
to a sub-committee. Should the matter
be decided in the negative, it is said the
Committee on Ways and Means will pro
ceed to frame anew funding bill, and ig
nore entirely the Sherman bill, which
has already passed the Senate.
Since the statement has been pub
lished that Dr. Mary Walker received
the appointment of clerk to the special
Congressional Committee on Woman
Suffrage, Senator Laphatn, of New
York, the Chairman of the committee,
is having the life pestered out of him
by woman suffragists. He avers that ho
has no reat, and to add to it his mails
are burdened with all manner of effusion*
from the tender sex.
Ip alu that is said against the China
men is true, they are indeed a filthy
race. A paragraph on the rounds con
tains the following information : “An
habitue of an opium den iu Virginia
City, Nevada, discovered that the pil
low he was using was the dead body of
a man covered by a quilt. The Coroner
found it to be a Chinese body that had
been dead for two or three days. The
keeper of the place sanl he came in off
the railroad, sick.”
Two men now prominent candidates
for the possession of several tons oi
Government money are Captain Eads
and Mr. Corbin. Captain Eads thinks
that an appropriation of $50,000,000
would be about right with which to
build the ship railroad across the Isth
mus of Panama, the money to be placed
at the disposition of Eads himself, and
Mr. Corbin has got it into bis head that
by a similar appropriation, placed at his
disposal, he would be enabled to run
ships across the ocean in six days. There
seems to he a power in money ia large
quantities about which we know little or
nothing.
The following from Rofcert Bonner, of
(lie New York /Mger, will start anew
boom iu story writing : “ A loan who
looked like a perfect idiot came into my
office one summer afternoon about fen
years ago, end told me he had a story
which he wished to sell to me fer publi
cation in my paper. At first I thought
it would not be worth while to spend my
time to even look at the story, for it
seemed to me that such an idiotio look
ing fellow could not wri e anything that
would be fit to print. He pleaded so
hard, however, to have me just look at
his story that I finally consented to take
the manuscript and submit it to one of
my editors. The editor read it, and it
proved to bo one of the best stories ever
brought into my office.”
To Whiten the Hands. —Rub with
viuegar or lemon juice. Glycerine aud
rose water, equal parts, is also good, but
pure glycerine hurts the skin and red
dens it. Borax and oatmeal put in the
water'Will alko whiten, the hands. In
order to preserve the hand* soft and
white! they should always be washed in
warm water, with fine soap, and care
fully dried with a moderately coarse
towel, beiug well rubbed every time to
insure a brisk circulation, than which
nothing can be more effectual in pro
moting a transparent aud soft sur
face.
Balloon photography, according to a
paper read by Mr, W. B. Woodbury be
fore the Balloon Society of Great Britain,
has not yet proved of much practical
value, though the hope is confidently
entertained that before long it will be
possible to obtain from balloons photo
graphic bird’s-eye viewa of the oountry
beneath. Every Increase in the rapidity
with which a photograph can be taken
increase the probability of success in
this direction.
Devoted to tJie Inter**! oi Jackson and liuttc County.
JACKSON, GEORGIA,* WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1882.
THB HINDOO’S SKA null FOR
TRUTH.
All ttia world oyat I wander, la lands that I uever
have trod,
▲re the people eternally seeking for the eigne end
■tens of ft God.
Westward across the ocean, end northward ay out
the mow,
Do they ell stand gazing as aver, and what do the
wisest know?
Here In thia mystical India the deities hover and
swarm
Like the wild bees heard In the tree tops, or the
gusta of a gathering storm;
In the air men hear their voices, their feet on the
rooks are Been,
Yei we all say, “ Whence la the message, and what
may the wonders mean T ”
▲ million shrines stand open, and ever the censer
swinge
▲a they bow to mythioel eyiabole or the figures of
undent beings;
And tho Incense rises over, and rises the endless
cry
Of those who are heavy laden and of cowarda loth to
dla.
For tho destiny drives ns together, like deer in a
pass of hills;
Above ns is the sky, and around us the sound of
shot that kills;
Pushed by a power ws see not, and struok by a hand
unknown,
We pray to the trees for shelter, and press our lips
to a stone.
Here are the tombs of my kinfolk, the first of an an
cient name,
Chiefs who were slain on the war field, and women
who died in flame.
They are gods, these Kings of the foretime, they
are spirits who guide our race
Ever 1 watch and worship ; they sit with a marble
face.
And the my rid Idols around ms, and the legion of
muttering priests,
The revels and riots unholy, the dark unspeakable
feasts—
What have they wrung from tke silence? Hath even
a whisper eome
Of the ►euret—whence or whither? Alas! the gods
are dumb. %
fehall I list the words of the English, who eome from
the uppermost sea! •
“ The secret, hath it been told you, and what is your
message to me ? ”
It is naught but tho world-wids story, how the earth
and the heavens began.
How the gods are glad ana hungry, sod the Deity
once was a man.
1 had thought, “Perohsuee in the cities, where the
rulers of India dwell,
Whose orders flash from the far land, who girdle the
earth with a spell,
They have fathomed the-depth we float on, or meas
ured the unknown main.”
Badly they turn from the venture, and say that they
quest in vain.
Is life then a dream and delusion, and where shall
the dreamer awake?
Is the world seen like shadow* on water, and what if
the mirror break ?
Bhall it pass as a camp that ii struck, as a tout that
is gathered aud gone
From the sands that worn lampiit at eve, and at
morning are level and bneT
Is there naught in the heavens above, whence the
hall said levin are hurled.
But the wind that is swept round us by Hie rush of
the rolling world?
The wind that shall scatter mr ashes and bear nae to
silence and sleep,
Witb the dirge, and tho souada of lamenting, and
voices of women who wb©p?
The Invisible Girl.
Having decided to finish the year in
Italy, I looked around ine for a dwelling
to be had on reasonable terms. I found
what I wanted in tlie ancient city of
Lucca, one of the loveliest spots on the
peninsula. The house wa quite new,
and in every way desirable, while the
rent asked for it was ilmurdly low. I
questioned the agent in regard to this
circumstance. Having my money safe,
he could afford to be truthful.
“ There is nothing against the house
Itself, but the grounds have the repu
tation of being haunted. Strange sounds
are said to be heard near that ledge of
rock in the park yonder, We Italians
are superstitious, signor,” he added,
with a bow, “but I presume to an
Americana ghost is no objection.”
“So little,” I replied, lsughing, “ that
I am obliged to you for tie opportunity
of making the acquaintance of this one."
Such superstitions art common in
Italy, and the agent’s story made very
little impression upon ne.
During a tour of inspection around
the premises I came upon the rock in
question. It consisted A two walls of
granite, perhaps twenty feet in height,
meatiug at an oblique angle, covered
over their greater extent with wild vines.
It struck me as an exceedingly beauti
ful nook, and appropriate for my liourr
of out-door lounging.
On the following merniug, provided
with a book and a cigar, I went thither,
and disposed myself comfortably in the
shade of an olive. I had become ab
sorb'd in the volume,when I was startled
by the sound of u voice near mu. It was
evidently that of a woman, wonderfully
soft and sweet, and was singing one of
the ballads of tbo country. I could dis
tinguish the words as perfectly as if
spoken at arm’s length from me.
I started up in amazement. I had no
visitors, and my only servant was an old
mau. Nevertheless, I made a thorough
exploration of the neighborhood, and
satisfied myself that there was no one in
the grounds. The orily public road was
half a mile distant The nearest dwell
ing was directly opposite, across a level
plain—in sight, but far out of ear shot.
In a word I could make nothing out of it.
I observed that when I left my orig
inal position under the olive tho voice
became instantly silent. It was only
within the circumierence of a circle of
about two yards in diameter that it was
audible at all.
It appeared to proceed from tlie angle
between the two walls of rook. The
minutest examination failed to reveal
anything but the bare rock. Yet it was
out of this bore rock that the voice
issued.
I returned to my former station in
downright bewilderment. The agent’s
story occurred to me, but even now I
attached no weight to it. lam a prac
tical man, and was firmly convinced that
there must be some rational explanation
of the mystery, if I could but discover
it. The voice was certainly that of a
young girl. But where wa* she? Was
the old fable of the wood-nymph a truth
after all? Had I discovered a dryad em
bosomed in the rock? I smiled scorn
fully even as these fancies ran through
my head.
For more than half an hour the sing
ing continued. Then it ceased, and,
though I waited patiently for its re
newal, I heard no more of it that day.
When I returned to the house I made no
mention of the matter, resolving to keep
it to myself until I had solved the
mystery. . . , T
The next morning *t an early hour I
returned to the spot. After a tedious
interval the singing began again. It
went softly aud dreamily through oue
verse of ft song, then csssed, PreaeutW
I heard a deep sigh aud then iu a slow,
thoughtful tone the voice said :
“Oh, how lonesome it is I Am Ito
pass mv whole life in this most droarv
place?’ 1
There wai no answer. Evidently tho
person was merely soliloquizing. Could
she hear mo if I spoke, as I heard her ?
supposing her to be a living boiug at
all. I determined to hazard the experi
ment.
“ Who is it that is speaking ? ” I
asked.
For some moments there was uo re
ply, then in a low, frightened whisi>er
toe voice said:
“ What was it ? I heard a voice. ”
"Yes,” I answered, “yon heard
mine. I spoke to yon."
“Who are you?” asked the voice,
tremulously. “Are you a spirit ? ”
“I am a living man,” _I returned,
“Can yen not ee me? ”
"No,” answered the voice, “I can
only hear yon. Oh, where are yon?
Pray do not frighten me. Come out of
your place of concealment and let mo see
you.”
“Indeed, I don’t wish to alarm you,”
I replied. “I am not hidden. I am
standing directly in front of the spot
whenoe your voice seems to come. ”
“ Yon are invisible,” was toe trem
bling answer. “ Your voioe comes to me
out of the aii-. Holy Virgin ! you must
boa spirit. What have I done to de
serve this ?”
“ Have uo fear of me, I entreat you,”
I said earnestly. “It is as much of a
mystery to me as it is to you. I hear
you speak but you are likewise invisible. ”
“ Are yon a real living being?” asked
the voice doubtfully. “ Then why do I
not see you ? Come to me. I will nit
'here. I will not tty.”
“ Tell me where I am to como," I said.
** Here in my garden, iu the arbor.**
“ There is no arbor here,” I returned,
“only a solid rook out of which you
seem to be Bpoaking. ”
“Saiuts protect mo,” außwcred the
voioe. “It is too awful. I dare not
stay here longor. Spirit or man, fare
well.”
“ But you will come again,” I plead
ed. “Let mo hear you speak once
more. Will you not be here at the same
hour?”
“I dare not—but yet your voioe
sounds ns if you would do mo no harm.
Yes, I will come.”
Then thero was utter silence, the mys
terious speaker had gone. I returned
home in a state of stupid wonder, ques
tioning myself if I hud lost ny senses,
and if the whole occurrence was not a
delusion. I was faithful to my appoint
ment with the voice oil the following
morning, however. I had waited but a
few moments, when the soft, trembling
accents broke the silence, saying :
“ I am here.”
“And I, too,” I answered; “i am
grateful to yon for coming.”
“ I have not shmt the whole night,"
said tlie voice, “ I was so terrified. Am
1 doing wrong to come ?”
V Are you still afraid of tne ?”
“ Not exactly, but it is so straugo.”
“ Will yon toll mo your uane?”
“I don’t know—Lenore. Wlmt is
yours ?”
“George,” I answered, imitating her
example, and giving iny first name only.
“ Shall we be friends, Lenore ?"
“Oh, yes,” answered the voice with a
silvery peal of laughter. Evidently its
owner was getting over her fears.
“Don’t bo offended, George. It is so
strange—two people who cannot see
eanh other and perhaps never will,
making friends.”
“I will solve the mystery yet, Le
nore,” I answered, “ and find out what
you are. Would you be glad to see mo
in my proper person ?”
“ Yes,” was the reply, “ I should like
to see you.”
“ And I would give a great deal to see
you, Lenore. You must be very lieau
tiful if your face is like your voice.”
“Oh, hush 1” was the agitated answer.
“ It is not right to speak thus.”
“ Why not ? Do you know, Lenore,
that if this goes ou I shall bo falling
in love with you, though I never see
you.”
“You are very audacious,” was the
reply. “If you were really here, before
me, I should punish you for it. As it is
I am going now."
“But you will come again to-morrow,
Lenore ? ’
“If you will promise to be more dis
creet, George, yes,”
Aa may be imagined, I did not fail to
keep my engagement with roy invisible
friend. For many couseeut.ivedays those
strange meetings continued. As absurd
as it may seem, the voice was beginning
to make a powerful impression upon me.
I felt in its soft tones the manifestation
of a sweet, refined woman’s soul.
True, I had made no progress toward
unraveling tho mystery. Nevertheless,
I was confident that through some inex
plicable dispensation of Providence l
had been permitted to hold communion
with a real, living, lovely woman, from
an unknown distance. She had not yet
told me more than her first name, and
I did not press her for more as yet.
Her only answer to my question as to
where she was was “In tlie garden. ” She
did not seem capable of grasping the
fact that I was not invisibly near hear.
Bho seemed content with matters as they
stood, ami for the present I could do no
more.
I made no one mv confidant as to my
daily occupation; itret, because I knew
that I should be regarded as a mailman
upon my mere statement of the facte,
and next, because I shrank from having
an anditor at my mysterious conferences.
Will it be believed? I was in love with
the invisible girl—in love with a voice I
Absurd, of course, but I am not the first
man who has fallen in love with a wom
an’s voice. Besides, I was confident
that it was only a matter of time before
I should see the girl in person.
Oue day toward the end of summer,
we had lieen talking as usual, and I had
•aid:
“My stay in Italy is nearly over,
Lenore.”
“ Ah,” was the quick reply, “you will
leave me, George.”
“No, Lenore,” I answered, “not if
you wish me to stay.”
“ How can I help it, George, whether
you go or stay? I have never seen you
—I never shall see you. What am Ito
you? ’’
“All in the world, Lenore,” I aa-
•wered. “Ours has been a strange ex
perience. Without knowing each other
os people ordinarily do, wo have yet
been close friends. You are more to
me than uny friend, for I love yon, Le
nore. ”
There was a quick, suppressed cry, no
other reply.
“Be truthful, Lenore. Tell me-your
heart. If you love me, trust to mo to
discover your whereabouts and como to
you. If you do not, say it, and I will
spare you the pain of meetiug me, and
let us uever speak again. ”
There was a pause, then she tremu
lously said:
“ I have uever seeu you, but my
heart tells mo to trust you, I know you
are good and noble, and I am willing to
leave my fnte iu your hands. Yes,
George, I love you."
Even as sho said the words she ut
tered a cry of alarm. Then a gruff man’s
voioe spoke:
“Go to your room, Lenore. As to
this villain with whom yon have been
holding these secret meetings, wo shall
soon find him and punish him os ho
deserves. Search for the rascul, Anto
nio, and bring him to mo."
There was a quick trampling of feot
aud the sound of crushing shrubbery, aa
if the men wore breaking through it,
Thou another mail’s voice spoke :
“Ho has disappeared, your F.xeel
lence. ”
“ Very well, wo shall find him yet. He
cannot escape me. This is a fine piece
of business, surely—the daughter of
Count Villnni holding socret meetings
with some common vagalsind. Lenore
shall take the veil."
“ Yes,” I cried, " tlie brutal veil,
Count. I shall pay my resjHMds in per
son to-day.”
Then, leaving them to get over tlissr
astonishment as best they might, 1 re
turned to the house in Ingh spirits. The
name, Count Viliam, had given me the
clew to the whereabouts of Leuore. The
dwelling of which I have spoken as sit
uated across the plain and opposite the
rook was the residence of Count Villani
I had mot the old gentleman in the city
and formed a tqieskiiig acquaintance
with him. As neither of us had men
tioned our private affairs, I had no
means of connecting his daughter with
my invisible girl.
That afternoon I presented myself to
the Count, and, after amazing him.with
my story, which a few tests convinced
him was true, formully proposed for his
daughter’s hand. As my weulth and
social position wore woll known, lie
offered no objections and his daughter
was sent for.
Aa slio entered the room, I saw that
my idea of her had been less than true.
I had never seen so lovely a woman, nor
one who so perfectly embodied my high
est conception of grace and beauty. Her
dark eyes, still wet with tears, met mine
inquiringly.
“Lenore,” said I, “I have corue as I
promised.”
“George,” she cried, with a radiant
smile, “is it you?”
“Are you disappointed ? ” I aMked,
“am I what you expected V ”
“You could not be more,” she an
swered naively, “you are no less.”
“Now that we meet as solid arid ma
terial beings,” I continued, “are you
willing to ratify the contract we made
when we wore only voices, Lenore ? Your
father gives us permission. ”
It may bo supposed that I received a
satisfactory answer, when the good
natured Count found it discreet to turn
away his eyes during my reception of it.
As to tho strange circumstance which
was the meauH of uniting us, a series of
tests revealed a remarkable acoustic
property in the rock, by which persons
standing in certain positions with refer
ence to it were able to hear cacti other
with ease, more than a quarter of a mile
apart. It is a very matter-of-fact solu
tion of the mystery, but Lenore and I
are none the less grateful for the good
offices of the rock.
A Beggar Woman With a History,
An old beggar woman, long known at
Courbovole and the environs of Paris on
that side, died recently in a stale of com
plete penury. On her arms were found
several tattoo marks, and among them
were the names of Marie Birou aud of
Petit, lovingly interwined together.
These names soon suggested the recol
lection of u strange episode long passed
almost into oblivion, aud threw an un
expected light upon the rsal name and
character of the old woman. It is re
corded in the auuals of the French
Newgate that in 1847 a man named
Birou died uudor suspicious circum
stances, and the wife, together with a
man named Petit, were tried for having
iroisoned him, and convicted of murder.
The mule convict was executed in due
course, but the woman was sentenced to
imprisonment for life, and was in the
jail of ttt. Lazars when, iu tlie month of
February, 1848, the revolution broke
out. On the 24th of that month the
mob broke into the prison aud let out
the prisoners, aud among them the
woman Birou. From then ahe has led a
checkered life, being at one time em
ployed as a servant in a house of busi
ness at Montmatre. Here, however, tlie
atmosphere of crimecontiDuod atill to sur
round her, .for the man by whom she
was employed had a brother who was
also condemned to capital punishment,
aud suffered death by the guillotine at
Versailles. This incident caused the
brother to break up his establishment
and turn Marie Birou out upon the
world again. Hire managed, however,
still to elude the pursuit of the detec
tives, and obtained an appointment at
Gotirdevole, where, after she was too
old to work, ahe continued to exist prin
cipally iqron the charity of her neighbors,
until denth at last revealed the secret of
her identity by discovering the tattoo
marks on her arms. - Parisian.
Asa general thing I am opposed to
banging, but whenever it shall be round
to be necessary for the preservation of
society, there is no more reasou why you
should not do it than that you should
not pluck up a weed. Society will be
the better for it, and the eulorit uo wot*
off by being aent on. Send him ou,—
Bucher.
! SKIS: tI.M per iuu.
NUMBER 25.
HUMORS OF THE DAT. i
A counter attraction—a pretty girl
clerk. ~
Always ready to take a hand in con
versation—deaf and dumb people.
“ There is no rest for the wigged ” is
what a bald-headed man said when he
chased his false hair up the street in a
gale.
You can always tell the fastidious man
by his sending twenty-seven cuffs and
collars to the laundry, accompanied by a
single shirt.— Yonkers Gazette.
The truth always pays in the end”
is an old saying, and that is the reason
probably why there is so little of it told
at the beginning of any business trans
action.
A young lady bearing the aristocratio
cognomen of Jardine recently deserted
her lover, because in an impassioned
sonnet, lie made her name rhyme with
“sardine.”
“ Well," said a oow-boy, as he looked
at Sookey, when she had come through
a woody stubble-field. “Well, old gal,
you ain’t got wings, exactly, but you are
a burred of passage, all the same.”
Poverty is the mother of rest. An
editor is proverty. Therefore an editor
is the mother of rest, but he never gets
very well acquainted with his offspring
on this terrestrial sphere.— Lampton.
The gentleman who oaught a severe
oold from pressing his lips to a maiden’s
suowy brow, recovered quite rapidly
while basking in the sunny smiles of an
other fair damsel.— Toledo American.
John bad a " pop’ of thunder-tone,
He loot young Billy Smith it,
The “pop” went off, but not alone,
Sinllh’l Anver w*nt nff with if
A New York lady who was traveling
in Ohio gave a baby her gold watch to
play with, and the baby gulped it down
and cried for more. What they can’t
swallow in that State must be over a foot
in width. — Detroit Free Frees.
Youno man, look not upon the oliuroh
sociable oyster stew when it is red—
with pepper; because at the last it sting
eth like an adder and bitoth a hole in
your pocket-book to a considerable
amount. Williamsport Breakfast
Table.
Sa id the sailor to his sweetheart: “I
know that ladies care little about nauti
cal matters, but if you had your clioico
of u ship, what kind of a one would you
prefer?” Bhe oast dowu her eyes,
blushed and whispered: “ A little
smack.”
The latest marvel of soience is instan
taneous photography. By the aid of this
process it is p<<ssible to obtain a picture
of yourself and girl in the act of being
thrown over a stone wall by a runaway
horse. Tills picture can lie placed on
the mantlepiuue in a maroon velvet
frame os a warning to young men to
never let go the reins witli both hands.—
New Haven Register.
Shu wanted to test his affection, so,
picking up the rovolver and putting her
eye to tlie muzzle, she said, innocently,
** I wonder if it’s loaded. ” “ Oh, don’t, ”
he exclaimed, with manifest agitation.
It satisfied her that he loved her and
she asked, indifferently! “Why not?”
"Because," he answered, “I’ve got
house rent to pay next month and a
funeral would embarrass me. ” — Brooklyn
Ragle.
Anew boarder at the Occidental gazed
at his plate, the other morning, and then
said: “Is there a reliable physician
stopping in this house?” “Yes, sir,”
said the water. ' Good surgeons, too,
eh?” “Believe so, sir.” “Then just see
if he is in bis room before I start in on
this breakfast. I had a brother choked
to death on a steak like that once, and I
am hound to take all the necessary pre
cautions. ” —San Francisco Dost.
Mercenary Wars.
Capital, already red with crime, ha*
added another sin to her bloody list. It
is perceived, since tho battles have been
fought and made their slaughter, that
the French war in Tunis was caused by
the French money sharks, who desired
to extend their * financial operations.
The “ Credit Foneier ” of Franoe, which
may answer to our “Credit Mobilier,” is
responsible for the Tunis war. Govern
ments ought to be above these soulless
corporations and able to resist their
selfish aggressious. Tne industrious
Italian went into North Africa, and be
gan to construct railroads. The French
capitalists became possessed with the
idea that they would speculate in these
shadow representations of wealth. They
invested. They became entangled in
the net, and hence the war. French
capital appealed to French arms for
protection. France answered the appeal
affirmatively and went to war. A more
mercenary campaign was never waged,
under the banners of a civilized nation.
Heaven knows that wars, under whatever
auspices, are cruel, barbarous and
brutal to the lust degree. They repress
tlie mau and develop the brute. They
smother the good in humanity, and
j throw to the surface the evils of the
\ race. Ferooity takes the place of force,
! and savagely usurps the place of bravery.
As General Sherman laid, “Iu whatever
light we look at It, war is hell.” One of
the great work* of civilization yet to be
accomplished, is to disarm the world.
To go to work to gratify ambition is a
terrible sin ; to take up arms to use in
anger is weak, aa well as wicked ; but to
go to war for plunder, for mercenary
ends, is to ba unspeakably depraved.
The men who sent the army against
Tunis were the money sharks of Paris.
Government ha* the right to follow her
citizena and demand that they be pro
tected, but have they not a right first to
ascertain the character of the capital
trader which they intend to go to war ?
Nations should not be plunged into war
to gratify the nocketa of men who project
Panama canals, Tehuantepec ship rail
way enterprise*, nor for those who
speoulate in railway atooka in the north
of Africa. The atateamanship of the
world will be larger and wiser when it
refuses to be influenced unduly by these
corporations, whose rights should be
settled without involving the country in
war. The money and blood of the peo
ple should not be put up for the benefit
of the people who organize in corpora
tion*. What patriot cares to lay down
his life for a soulless corporation? The
mercenary wars, and the others too,
; should come to an end ,—lndtanapolte
Herald,