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W. F. SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME IX.
NiWS GLEANINGS.
Ex-Governor Warmoth is now one of
Louisiana's largest siyjar planters, and
ue says the sugar crop will fall off fully
one-ha* f.
The Mobile press indignantly howl at
the published reports that the city Ison
the decay. They assert thatlhe city o"f
Mobile is fast improving.
The cotton crop of South Carolina
unquestionably be short as com
plied with last year’s crop, but there is
* ,me reason to hope that the loss will
not he as great as generally supposed.
It is saol the Pensacola railroad has
the largest pair of track stales'in Amer
ica, which ate 106 feet long, and can
weigh three cars at once loaded with
spar Gmber.
Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry
■county woman, whose arms are cut off
just below-the elbow, threads her needle
by sticking it in her dress and tak
lng the thread between her two stumps
of arms and forcing it through the eve
of the needle. She does neat sewing
iiocs cooTi well and can piek fifty or sixty
pound* of cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat:' The cotton
, ro P of Arkansas is much smaller than
it was last year. But it must he remem
bered that we lost a large portion of test
year’s crop by had weather, and much
of what, was •gathered was of a very in
terior quality and sold.for a small price,
sf the Weather continues favorable for
picking there will he only a small dif
ference in the amount saved as com
pared with last year.
Mobile Register : There seems to be
A fatal disease among horses and mules
this neighborhood. Within the
forty-eight hours ending at dark last
night eight horseft&nd five mules have
dieil. We also linderstsind from Capt.
1 • l' Alba that he has several horses
under treatment for the same disease,
tyhieh is an Affection of the throat.
Some apprehension among the owners of
valuable animals exists for fear that the
disease may become epidemic.
Idle Statfs Vkginian : . The raius that
have fallen in the past few days in
nearly every portion of* Virginia and
>h>rth Carolina* will benefit the grass
and set tire streams to tunning once
more, but they lune too late to ..help the
tobacco crop. J.deed, some o 1 the most
experienced tobacco planters are of the
"pinion coniing so. late* as
t did, will-score harm thAn
good. Risers will have
die eonsolaWf “'knowing that the de
ficiency in be made up in
ft measure.
The Madisonian : There is a negro in
Morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who is
thoroughly conversant with the rudi
ments of the Latin language, knows a
of French, and is fast learn
ing to read and parse Greek. He is a
capital scholar in English grammar, and
R ready in mathematics. He has ac
quired this extraordinary amount of
learning without the assistance of a pre
ceptor, and seems charmed when under
*ome great mental task. He hasn’t an
ntelligent face, but rather the reverse,
appearing at times silly in the extreme.
He is about thirty-five years old, and
teels confident that he can master sev
eral languages before his death. He
laugljs at you when you ask if he could
not progress faster if placed under a
o.Mnpotout *coohfcr. Ilrhumble, po
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribune : One of the most
wonderful phenomena that have come
under our observation in a long time is
ft natural flow of gas from the earth,
that burns with a brilliant flame when
ignited. The spot where this gas es
capes is about one mile from Oliver’s
Springs, in Anderson county, and im
pregnates the atmosphere for yards
ft round with the odor- The gas seems
to come from a spring on Coal creek,
near the water, but for yaids up the
mountain side there runs a vein about a
foot wide, which has been fired and at
times burns brilliantly. At the end of
the vein, on the bank of the creek, the
gas burns with a bright yellow flame
and emits considerable beat, A pipe i?
sometimes introduced in the spring and
at a distance of several yards burns
readily. A traveler pasaiifg. a few days
ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein,
put two rocks, one eu opposite sides of
’he pipe, and boiled tea from the fiifme
that was produced on igniting, The ga*
evidently comes from a'ooal formation
‘Hi lin k itutoral curiosity reels# go
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TOPICS OF THE HAT.
Charles J. Guiteaj will plead in
sanity.
IHE Jews in Russia are organising for
self-protection,
Rowell has retired from the track
with $50,000 to his credit.
American horses are carrying off all
the honors in England this year.
The country is responding liberally to
the suffering people of Michigan.
A Parisian* clothing house is running
it ; sewing-machines by electricity.
One of Detroit’s tough citizens uses
nitro-glycerine to blow his nose, with.
Private board, as a rule, has advanced
one dollar a week in nearly all the cities.
A St. Lotus negro committed suicide
through grief at the death of the Presi
dent.
The public debt was reduced ov n r
twelve millions of dollars during Sep
tember.
Sixty-eight miles of black clotli were
used to drape the department buildings
in‘Washington.
Traveling by balloon would be the
better and more profitable way in Mis
souri and Arkansas.
The rice crop of the United States
this year is estimated at 1,500,000 bush
els, an abundant crop.
Reports of the nut crop say hickory
nuts are more plentiful than ever, but
ternuts a failure and acorns short.
Guiteau was pleased to hear of the
President’s death because it put him out
of pain. This is magnamiuity, indeed.
Wesson, of pedestrian fame, is in the
employ of the Church of England Tem
perance Society. How men do drift
about.
Queen Christine, of Sweden, said
that she loved men, “ not because they
are men, but because they are not wo
men/’ '
- ,
to the change of administration
Wilfyam Walter Phelps, United States
Min&toi' to Austria, has asked to be re
called at once.
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These is little doubt but that the
i>J&s£cutions of the Star Route con
tractors will go right on as if nothing
lu^fujauired.
?We Announce, with a spasmodic shiver,
that large hoops are being adopted by
the leathers of fashion in the large cities.
Girls, to yonr tents !
Unless some terrible "penalty is at
tached to attempts on the lives of pub
lic men, we may expect an increase of
crime in that direction.
Harrison, the “boy preacher,’’
charges SIOO a week for his services.
There is no telling what lie will charge
when he gets to be a man.
Mason, who shot at Guiteau, will not
be photographed, and persons writing
for bis picture will save thomselves time
and u oney by taking notice.
The late rains over the country have
started a rapid growth of grass, and the
consumption of hay, for the time being,
will stop to a great extent.
Xn mxv, perhaps, was ovor in a moro
trying position than President Arthur,
and all well-meaning citizens can but
hope he will be equal to the emergency.
The Detroit Free Press states there
are 58,000,000 gallons of whisky stored
in Kentucky. What a high old time
there will be when people find out where
it is.
August Belmont, the New York
banker, who spends liis summers at
Saratoga, pays SI,OOO a week for board
for himself and family of half a dozen
persons.
The number of days from the time of
Garfield’s election to his death (includ
ing those two days) was “329.” Were
this a superstitions age, the fact might
not le regarded merely as a coincidence.
During the past twelve years it has
cost $302,345 for “ furnishing and re
pairing ” the Executive Mansion at
Washington, and yet we read that the
furniture is old and must be replaced.-
The amount does look rather stingy.
It seems to be the case that the Mor
mous supply the White River UtUS with
aaimunitrcn*, audit is rumored.now that,
having, pl&nty of that article, they.will
il e • i
refuse to stay on their new reservation.
It Would, perhaps, be to the interest of
the Mormons to endeavor to cultivate
Uncle Sam’s good opinion:
Ex-President Hayes seems to have
an enterprise on hand about which the
public know very little. He owns a farm
of 500 acres near Bismarck, D; TA NARUS., which
cost him from sixty to seventy-live cents
an acre, •worth now sls per acre, and the
past year a wheat crop on it yielded him
a profit of $15,000.
Here is the new Cabinet as it is or
ganized in some of the New York pa
pers : Secretary of State, XT. S. Grant;
Secretary of the Treasury, Levi P. Mor
ton ; Secretary of the Interior, Senator
Jones; Secretary of the Navy, Judge
Settle; Secretary of War, Robert Lin
coln ; Postmaster General, Senator Fre
linghuysen ; Attorney General, Geo. S.
Boutwell.
You no men should take courage.
Several years ago Jenny Henry, a young
girl with scarcely enough to sustain her,
settled on a tract of land at Ash Creek,
Kansas, and by economy and hard work,
now owns a farm under a good state of
cultivation upon which there is a com
fortable house, well-furnished, and other
valuable improvements. She will make
a living for some man.
Farm products, on the average, are a
third higher than they were a year ago.
Within a few months wheat has advanced
from 87 cents to $1.50, and com from
45@47 to 76@80c. Flour has advanced
$2 on the barrel. Potatoes that last
March were selling at $2.25 per barrel
are now bringing $3.35. What price
potatoes will bring by next March wo do
not like to predict, They will be high
enough evidently for those who are com
pelled to buy.
Ex-Minister Christiancy doubtless
feels somewhat discouraged. First, a
divorce suit unsettles his nerves, (hen
comes a challenge to fight a duel, and
before he recovers from tlie shock, bur
glars enter his apartments and steal
$3,000 worth of diamonds that had been
given him for safe-keeping. This is
about the point reached when thoughts
of suicide crowd themselves one upon
another.
. The Sexton of Lakeview Cemetery,
Cleveland, where General Garfield is
buried, says that one day last fall the
President-elect and his uncle, Thomas
Garfield, since dead, and buried in the
cemetery, came out to inspect the mon
ument of the Garfield family. The old
uncle was a jolly fellow, and, while
talking, said, laughingly, to the nephew :
“Now, James, if you should be so per
verse as to die, with so many honors
thick upon you, here is plenty of room
to bury you, and a plaoe left on the
stone to inscribe your name. ”
W e have another terror now in antici
pation, that of cholera. This disease
seems to recur at intervals of seventeen
years. It visited us in 1849, and again
in 1866. The cable announces that it
has broken out among the Mohammedan
pilgrims in Mecca, and also in the Russo-
Austrian frontier, two distant points on
the road from the East. It may be
that this is ominous of its return here in
1883, and as sanitary laws are its only
preventive, it is essential that they be
strictly heeded.
Corn is now worth eighty cents the
bushel, and the prospects are, that it
will be higher. When money was cheap
and corn brought one dollar the bushel,
the fact was recorded as an event worthy
a place in the history of commerce; but
wliat shall we say now, with money at
par, of the whiolx thia pr-ulnoi
promises to attain. The difference how
ever, between then and now is, that
then the high price attained was owing
to the cheapness of money and au un
usual demand in the markets, whereas
the present status is a result of the
scarcity of the corn product. It is of
little benefit to the farmer how high
com is if he have none to sell.
The Cincinnati Gazette pays the fol
lowing tribute to the integrity of Jav
Cooke : The example which Jay Cooke
presents of recovery from bankruptcy to
honorable solvency, after having been
hounded from wealth to poverty by
heartless and undiscriminatiug persecu
tion, is not equaled probably in finan
cial history. Every lover of integrity
and personal worth will rejoice to know
that the great dispenser of greenbacks
and salesman of Government bonds in
the hour of the Nation’s fiery trial is
likely to pass the evening of his days in
affluence in the elegant home he pro
vided in days of affluence, which was
cheerfully surrendered to satisfy both
needy and rapacions creditors, but is
now recovered by his recuperated means
to the of the worthy owner.
ihuti WtuKEBSOK, a Colorado outlaw
who * was kindly assisted “over the
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
range ” by the vigilants, was highly con
nected in Indiana, as well as with the
limb from which lie made his last ap
pearance in public. His granduncle was
I Joseph Wright, who was Governor for
several terms, then United States Sena
tor, mid afterward Minister to Berlin.
His grandfather was for many years a
member of the Indiana Legislature. His
father was a cousin of the Hon. James
F. Harlin, of lowa. Bert had for sev
eral years figured as a border bar-room
hero, and the murder for which his life
was taken was wanton, brutal and cow
ardly. W hen about to die, however, his
bravado proved trustworthy. He ad
justed the noose himself, remarking
“Boys, I’ll help you all I can,” and
coolly kicked over the chair on which lie
stood.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
When reduced to extremity by hun
ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order
to allay the uneasy sensations of his
stomach.
There is a species of crow in Flor
ida that gives vent to a series of haw !
haws l in exact imitation of the human
voice 1
A wild elephant may generally lie
tamed, so as to be conducted from
place to place unfettered, in about six
months.
In the Guildford Endowed Grammar
School, in England, where the school
master is held responsible for every vol
ume, which, if lost, he is bound to re
place, one master, to decrease his risk,
carefully packed all the books under the
floor, where they proved a banquet for
the rats and mice.
The curious library of old Samuel
Pepys, the well-known diarist, is im
prisoned in its original book-cases at
Magdalene College, Cambridge. No
one can gain admission to it except in
the company of two Fellows of the col
lege, and, if a single book is lost, the
whole collection goes to a neighboring
college.
The Norwegian lemming is an animal
about the size of a mouse. They live
under the stones in summer, under the
snow in winter. They hiss and bite.
About once in ten years they migrate in
large armies. They march in a straight
line, They cross lakes and rivers.
They go straight through liay-stacks
rather than go around. Notliing stops
them, not fires, cascades nor swamps.
If a man stands in their way they will
jump at him as high as his knee. If
struck they will turn around and bark
and bite like a dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls,
hawks and weasels will fellow them and
destroy largo numbers of them, but it
does not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the sea,
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever, until the waves
exterminate them.
The microscope shows a variation in
the thickness of human hair from the
l-250th to the l-600tli part of an inch ;
but,< notwithstanding such fineness, it is
a massive cable in comparison with
other fibers. Thus the thread of the
silk-worm is many times finer, being
from the 1-1,700 th to the 1-2,000 th of an
inch. This, however, is nothing to the
slenderness of the spider’s thread, which
has been found in some instances to be
no more than 1-30,000 th of an inch in
diameter. The fibers yielded by tlie
vegetable kingdom are also of astonish
ing minuteness. Thus, every fiber of
flax is found to be composed of a bundle
of other fibrils, which are about
1-2,500 th of an inch in diameter. Simi
lar fibers obtained from the pineapple
plant have been ascertained to be no
more than 1-5,000 th or even 1-7,000 th of
an inch in diameter.
In the British House of Lords Lord
Brougham once mentioned two some
what-remarkable facts showing the ne
cessity of having a safe place for the
deposit of wills. The first ease is one in
which one of his noble friends, as heir
at-law, lost, and another of his noble
friends, as a devisee, gained, £30,000 a
year. How the first lost it, and the last
gained it, was by a wdll being found in
an qW rusty box, in an ola traveling
carriage, and which, therefore, might
have been very naturally lost by acci
dent or destroyed by ignorance. The
second case was one, also, in which
some of his noble friends were con
cerned, and the sum in question was no
less than £160,000. This sum would
have been entirely lost for the purposes
for which it was intended if the inquiries
relative to the existence of a will with
respect to it had been instituted in win
ter instead of in the summer. The will
was searched for everywhere, but could
nowhere be found, until, at last, it was
discovered in a grate, and stuffed like a
piece cf waste paper through the bars;
if it had been winter instead of summer,
in all probability when the fire had been
lighted it would have been destroyed.
“Gath” says that a public man at
Long Branch told him that when Zach
Chandler heard of the nomination of
Lincoln in 1860, he began to curse in a
terrible manner, and said that Lincoln
was a miserable clown, and that Seward
was the only man in the country fit to be
electee and who could have carried it.
Somebody spoke up at the telegraph
office, where this talk was going on, and
said. “ You underate Mr. Lincoln ; he is
a man of intellect; a fine lawyer ;an ex
cellent debater, and a man of decision of
char;, df r and firmness of purpose. ” In
alfcoU* Slteeii ndilutes of such talk as
tun, Zach was induced to send a message
to Idiicaiu congratulating him,
GOSSIP F&R THE LADIES.
tVha* She Wore.
She wore a sage-green polonaise.
Shirred up behind the back,
Aud several plaits with gusset loops
n ere hemstitched in with black.
The drab corsage—that fair cot-cage—
Was biased down before}
The skirt was simply flounced in gray J
And barely touched the floor.
A collar-band of crepe de chine.
Or Satinet ecru,
Just reached unto her dainty waist,
And was of mauvish hue.'
Her hat—but, no, an angel's pen
Were needed on the earth
To paint that hat and costume as
They just arrived from Worth.
The Influential Woman.
We generally picture her as a leader
of fashion, stately and beautiful, the
center of her coterie. Her moral quali
ties are not considered at all ; and that
is where we err. When the rich woman
can show to the world only a life of
fashion and idleness, she is deserving of
open censure aud disgrace, so long as
there are hungry bodies, minds or souls
crying for some of her abundance. To
whom much is given much is required.
Let public opinion mete out its wrath
of censure upon the fashionable, idle
woman, who is a disgrace to her sex
because of her aimless, useless life. Let
the expression “best society” mean
those who do good deeds, who leave the
world Imppier and better for having
lived, instead of those who have been
most idle and aimless. The “influential
women” of every community are those
who are doing and daring, that the world
may be made purer and better, whether
they are fashionable or unfashionable it
matters not.
A Woman’s A r<>.
A case was decided not long ago be
fore the appeal court at Metz, in Ger
many, which shows how a lady’s age is
a matter entirely within her owii control.
Fraulein Catherine Mahl was engaged
to a desirable partner, to whom she had
imprudently declared her age at six
years less than it really was. As soon
as the moment arrived for producing the
certificate of birth, she was aware that
her little deception would be discovered,
and she feared that tlie match would be
broken off. She, therefore, took tlie
liberty of altering the official document
so as to make it correspond with tlie
statement already made. The cere
mony took place, and the husband was
duly united to a lady whom lie believed
to be quite a jeune ingenue. Unfortu
nately, the certificate, in passing through
some oflice, happened to be minutely
examined by one the clerks. The bride
was charged with the offense of falsify
ing a public document, and condemned
to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least
three of the first months of her married
life, in prison. She had tlie courage to
appeal from the sentence, and cause the
case to be argued out before the court
of Metz, which reversed the decision of
the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the
lady on the ground that she did not in
tend to commit an illegal act, but had
been actuated only by “female vanity.”
Three Itlaidens and Census.
The Misses McFarlanes are three
maiden ladies—sisters. It seems the
one would not trust the other to see the
census paper filled up, so they agreed to
bring it to me to fill it in.
“ Would you kindly fill in this census
paper for me ? ” said Miss McFarlane.
“ My sisters will look over and give you
their particulars by and by.”
Now, Miss McFarlane is a very nice
lady, though Mrs. Cameron tells me she
has been calling very often at the manse
since the minister lost his wife. Be that
as it may, I said to her that I would be
happy to fill up the paper, and asked
her in the meantime to give her own par
ticulars. When it came to the age col
umn, she played with her boot on the
carpet, and drew the black ribbons of
her silk bag through her fingers, and
whispered: “You can say four-and
thirty, Mr. McLauchlin.” “All right,
ma’am,” says I,for I knew she was four
and-thirty at any rate. Then Miss
Susan came over—that’s the second sis
ter, really a handsome young creature,
with fine ringlets and curls* though she
is a little tender eyed and wears specta
cles. Well, when we came to the age
column Miss Susan played with one of
her ringlets, and looked in my face
sweetly, and said: “ Mr. McLauchlin,
what did Miss McFarlane say ? Aly
sister, you know, is considerably older
than I am—there was a brother be
tween us.”
“ Quite so, my dear Miss Snsan,” said
I; * * but you see the bargain was that
each of you was to state your own age.”
“ Well.” said Miss Susan, still playing
with her ringlets, “you can say—age,
34 years, Mr. McLauchlin. ”
In a little while the youngest sister
came in.
“Miss McFarlane,” s/iid she, “sent
me over for the census p£per.”
•‘Oh, no, my dear,” savs I; “I can
not part with the paper.” ‘
“Well, then,’ said she. “just enter
my name, too, Mr. McLauchlin.”
“ Quite sq. But. tell me, Miss Robina,
why did not Miss McFarlane till up the
paper herself ?”—for Miss Ilobina and I
were always on very confidential terms.
“ Oh,” she replied, “ there was a dis
pute over particulars ; und Mias McFar
lane would not let mv other sister see
how old she was; aud Miss Susan re
fused to state her age to Miss McFar
lane ; and so, to end the quarrel, we
agreed to ask yon to be so kind as to fill
in the paper.”
“Yes, vCs, Miss Robina,” said I,
“ that’s quite satisfactory; and so I’ll
fill in your name now, if you please. ”
“Yes,” she said, with a sigh. Wh£n
we came to the age column—“ Is it a‘>
•solutely necessary,” said she, “ to fill in
the age ? Don’t Jpou think it is a most
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SUBSCRIPTION—SI.SO.
NUMBER 8
impertinent question to ask, Mr. Mo
j Lauchlin ? ”
Tuts, it may be so to some folk, but
to a sweet young creature like you it ea
not matter a button.”
“Well,” said Miss Robina. “But
now, Mr, MeLauchlin, I m to tell you a
great secret,” and shp blushed as she
slowly continued; “ the minister comes
sometimes to see us.”
‘ * I have noticed him rather more at
tentive in his visitations in your quarter
ot late than usual. Miss Robina. ”
“Very well, Mr. McLauelilin; but
you must not tease me just now. You
know Miss McFariane is of opinion that
he is In love with her, while Miss Susan
thinks her taste for literature and her
knowledge of geology, especially her
pamphlet on the old red sandstone and
its fossils as confirming the Mosaic pe
riod, are all matters of great interest to
Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that he
comes so frequently for the privilege of
conversing with her. But,” exclaims
Miss Robina, with a look of triumph,
look at that 1” and she held in her hand
a beautiful gold ring. ‘‘ I have got that
from the minister this very day.”
I congratulated her. She had been a
favorite pupil of mine, and I was rather
pleased with wliat had happened. “ But
what,” I asked her, “ lias all this to do
with the census ?”
“ Oh, just this,” continued Miss Ro
bina. “ I had no reason to conceal my
age, as Mr. Fraser knows it exactly,
since he baptized me ! He was a young
creature then, only three-and-twenty;
so that’s just the difference between tis.”
“Nothing at all, Miss Robina,” said
I, “ nothing at all; not worth mention
ing.”
“ In this passing and changeful world,”
said Miss Robina, “ three-and-twenty
years are not much, after all, Mr. Mc-
Lauchlin.”
“Much?” said I. “Tuts, my dear,
it’s nothing—just indeed wliat should
be.”
“I was just 31 last birthday, Mr.
McLauchlin,” said Miss Robina, “and
flie minister said the last time he called
that no young lady should take the
cares and responsibilities of a household
upon herself until she wa? s —well, eight
and-twenty ; and he added that 34 was
late enough.”
" The minister, my dear,” said I, “ is
a man of sense.”
So thus were the Miss McFarlanes*
schedules filled up; and if ever some
one in search of the Curiosities of the
Census should corqe across it he mav
think it strange enough, for he will find
that the three sisters McFarlane arc all
one year’s baims.— Chambers' Journal*
Investigating His Historic*! Trrarnlng.
‘ ‘ And so you are studying American
history?” asked a fond father of his
hopeful.
“Yes 1” responded the lad,
“Good enough!” roared the delighted
parent. “Now tell us who George Wash
ington was. ”
‘ ‘ He was nurse to a lot of old colored
women,” sang the boy.
“ What was he first in ?”
“First ashore, first to leave, and first
in the carts of the hungry man.”
“Look here, you scalawag,” said the
old man, riling up, “you want to get
this thing straight. What was it Wash
ington couldn’t do?”
‘ ‘ He couldn’t lie !” snorted the young
ster.
“You’ve got the light man. What
fight did he win ?”
“He licked Hunker Bill on Boston
Common, in three rounds.**
“What was it he cut when lie was a
boy ?”
“He cut his father’s cheese, and ex
claimed, ‘Father, spyre me; I cannot tell
a hatchet from a lie !’ ”
His father graduated the boy at once,
*nd he now makes a living selling paper*-
A Curious Love Story.
There abides in the mind of woman an
overwhelming sense of the importance
of having an ample trousseau. Witness
the case of a young woman in Dort
mund, Germany, a short time since,who
was arrested for stealing a gold watch
and chain from her affianced lover, who
on discovering his loss, had placed the
matter in the hands of the police,with
out the faintest notion as to who was the
thief. The maiden, with many tears,
confessed that she had taken the watch,
so that by pawning it she might raise
money enough to buy her wedding dress,
which she could get in no other way.
Thereupon the despoiled but magnani
mous bridegroom spoke out in court,
declared that “the prisoner was his only
love; and that he would marry her out
of hand if the jndge / would consent to set
her at liberty.” Without delay the trib
unal annulled the arraignment, and the
generous lover carried off’ his liberated
larcenist in triumph.
How He Proposed.
A bachelor too poor to get married,
yet too susceptible to let the girls alone,
was riding with a lady -“all of a sum
mer’s day,” and accidentally—men’s
arms, awkward things, are ever in the
way—dropped an arm round her waist.
No objection was made for a while, and
the arm gradually relieved the side of
the carriage of the pressure upon it.
But of a sudden, whether from a late
recognition of the impropriety of the
thing or the sight of another beau com
ing never was known, the lady started
with volcanic energy, and, with a flash
ing eye, exclaimed: “Mr. 8., I can
support myself 1” “Capital!” was the
instant reply. “ You are just the girl I
have been looking for these five years
Will you marry me V*
“ Do you expect to travel this sum. ?”-
“Yea, some.” “It will cost some.”
“ Ye*, quite a sum.” “Do you possess
tiu necessary sum ?” “ I have some.”