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VOL. II.—NO. 49. pTljf: ptamilton Disifor Bd* W- O- BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. )ne copy one year $2 00 )ne copy six months I UO )ne copy three months 75 y n y one furnishing five subscribers, with lie money, will receive a copy free. Suliscribers wishing their papers changed rom one po-t-office to another, must state lie name of the post office from which thev „ish it changed, as well as that to which must be paid in advance. The paper will he stopped at the end of the line paid for, unless subsciiptions are pre riously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CAtsH ADVERTISING RATES, ■ K ,, iCB " 1 o 3 nios (Turns 12 hum ,-wh —T tli * 4 50 T 6 00 $ 10 00 , “chefs.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 aches . 500 900 15 00 22 00 ! aches . 550 1100 18 00 27 00 l column.. GSO 14 00 25 00 35 00 column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 00 00 1 column.. 22 00 41 00 02 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payments to he made quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agreed upon. ... . Persons sending advertisements, will state the length of time they wish them published and the space thev want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will he re stricted to their legitimate business. Leiiai. advertisements. Sheriff’s Bales, per inch, four weeks. . .$3 50 *• mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 50 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days 3 00 Notice to debtors and creditors of sn estate, forty days • ■ ■ 0 00 Application for leave to sell land, four Wce k ß , 4 00 Sales of laud, etc., per in h, forty days 5 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days ; “ 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days ° 00 I Application for letters of dismission from _ administration, three ninths < o 0 Establishing lost papers, the fuil space __ of three months, per inch ( 00 Compelling titles b ora executors or ad ministrators. -vhere bond has been given by the deceased, the f 1! space of three months, per inch 7 00 Estrav notices, thirty days 3 (ti Rule for foreclosure of mortgage four months, monthly, per inch “ Sale of insolvent papers, tliirtv da,s. . H (Hi Homestead, two weeks ■ 33 uEinosfi* 00-J cSLsi W. T. FOOL, 1) Broad Street, COLIAIBIS, ah... Will visit Hunilton and vicinity or oe a moutii during the -uinmer. All cal spo-mpt ly attended to Fiale work and till* K '• e ia the best and latest, styles. 8 ti.-uuc'nu guaranteed, or no charge. mayb-Gni S A RUSSELL c E RL'SSLU. 11 US SELL at JlfJii.'illLL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Will practice in all the State Courts. Dr. T. J—j. Jenl^ms, Jjlgggg; DEN- TOT, HAMILTON, GA. THOS. S. MITCHELL. M. I)., Resident Physician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to Operative Sur gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases. Terms Cash. ~wTf. TIG-JSTIEEFL, DENTIS TANARUS, OOLUMBUS, • * GEORGIA. Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran' dolph st, near city terminus of N. A S. K. R- Kespecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE, By J- T.HIGGIISBOTHEM. WEST POINT, GA HENRY C. C A MIRON, Attorney at Law , HAMILTON., OA DK. J. W. CAaTiTroIL HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges moderate. ETlnes Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. Ail kinds of collections ream—either way. IIANKIN HOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDVR THE RANKIN HOUSE. Jffnio J. W. RYAN, Prot’r. Hamilton llfll Visitor. ‘DOMESTIC’ FASHIONS. All of the latest stylos in dress furnished in patterns cut to any measure—price from ten to thirty cents each. Send for Catalogue, which is free to all. ‘DOMESTIC’ SEWING MACHINE. The most perfect and reliable mnehine in the world, and capable of doin< work that no other machine can. Send for prices and directions how to chohsc. ‘DOMESTIC’ MAGAZINE. A beautiful Family Journal, published monthly at .t 1 50 a year - intended to make borne happy, ben I for specimen uumhe-r— --price 25 cents. Address DOME TIC S. M. CO., jul3 Cm 27 Marieita st, Atlanta, Gu. TiFF. T- MOOHJO, At Van Riper’s o!d Si and, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Off rs in- services a- a 3P-rT.ot;o4sx*.iT>LjLC'r' to all wan tiny Pi s f:n: oar 1 t • lib size. Old Plot nr -n :-e iwpu-i, erd •> -yud and o!or and in a t nun . in oil or verier leOLu - xperieiu:*' an? urihiirpt*. and ilif'en ellidtle liir O Off*-I' Lt* ;<>♦.! Htdiir* lil* Ilfs JIB iilv ii i-t-rv iu tii- AM vsurk I '.iAiajQ t wl 1 * -Ult • * lit - IT if.'* lU‘v ■•'6 H 4 *>y. iu'.o-Cui i~t i kaufman! lit'JkH' 'Rfc IK GROCERIES, Provisions. Liquor, Tobacco, BAGGING AND TIES, And *ll a'ticles in lire Grocery Lise smd it brandies. We sAI #s low as any other House in this city. \. 14 and St., l.’6LUXfcllS, Kb Mr. JOHN W HOIX), of Harris county, i with ns, ami will be please-* to see 1, s ha nds and acquuiut&uces, and take pie sure in serv ing them. J. & J. KAUFMAN J. H. BRAMHALL, WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, and Singer Sewing Machine Ag'i %9 Broad St., Columbus, Ga. MACiC ERASIVE SOAP, Eor removin') Pitch, Paint, Tar, Grease and Rosin from Clothes and Carpets. This soap will also cure nearly all discs- - of the skin th -t flesh is heir to. It will cur.- a burn or scab! t|ui- ker than any other known remedy. Use it for U tter, rimrw-nm. salt rheum, fevers r-s, ulcers, rough skin, tan and freckles, pimples " r blotches on th face erysipelas or neurrigia; *lso for rhavi-jp and shampooing. It is undoubtedly the fines* article for keeping th.- skin white and sof that ha- ever been manufactur. and. I also manufacture a superior article of Laundry Soup- which 1 s. 11 at tnc unprece dented low price of four and a half cents p > pound—warranted to give satisfaction. Address M. McKHIGHAN. sole proprietor .and manufacturer, Atlanta, Oa, out3o--ton HAMILTON, HARRIS 00., GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1874. A TORTURE FOR SI! On.- Gift is guaranteed to one of every eleven consecutive numbers, sso,ooofer ONE DOLLAR KQW X 9 TOUS TOTS. Fortune helps those who help themselves. 500,000 Tickets, at $1 each, num bered from 1 to 500,000, inclusive. The exceedingly low price of tickets brings it within the reach of all. ©2 ©lit In aid of I’uhlie Improvements in the cby of Denison, Texas. TIIU Gift Concert Association WILL GIVE A GRAND CONCERT THURSDAY, DECEM HER 81, 1874 ! And will distribute to the Ticket-holders $250,000 IN GIFTS. DEPOSITORY, FIRST NIT. BANK, DENISON. Distribution to commence immedi tely after the Concert. MaiuurerK of distr lmtlon cliokcu by Ticket-holders and prominent citizens. LIST OF gifts: 1 Grand Ctuth Gift $ 50,000 1 “ “ “ 25.000 1 15,000 1 10.0001 1 5.000 1 2.500 1 1.500 10 .. .. SSOO each.. 5 000 20 250 .... 6,000 80 .. .... 150 .. . -1.500 50 .... 100 .... f> 000 UK) .... 50 ... . 5.000 100 .. .. 25 .. .. 2.500 200 .... 20 .. .. 4,000 500 .. .... 10 .. .. 5.000 1 000 . . .. . . 5 . . . . 5.000 1,500 .. .. .. 21 . . . . 5,750 46,250 1 ... . 4o 250 40,707 Grand i\uh Giftto V-200,000 22 11 zt-H in it l estateaui’t’g to 50,000 49,789 Gifts, amounting to $250,000 REFERENCES. Knowing 1 tiiat tlm nianM.armf'nt of tbb As ’ “i .ton • i:: be 'owjur' <1 a- re; i: • fed, we ic-i • iiJ ■* tewuniii-. 2 U>. • id.c to the public: : J -rneo Leri: a <l, John H.-bW<L JV.bn BMu- D 'uuull, \\ I. Wino. II 'i oe, J M LYok A- e>Aii ii city : fi):•-m g'L .vt. . J . "and Win 1 > Kirk. .) N.’ t iiiH, Cty 1 vwirtiio r Wi> JL s, Lno rliir Ai iils. Wok!. ! linen 1) ni on. L E in ]• i , A? -i,o 11- r 1. ‘i GY ' Yu; >Y, }.* p h,mL \Voi K . .r i '<'• t*iok‘T. j ir- i. Noti- : .1 honk, Deei cn. C i u; liiiviei on m:t>or. D.\i y hi and We!\ly N*w . J)en ; son. ; Bauimc! A Coreal estate luoker. j o*l Tlt Witi rn, real * st-.r broker, j Oil as K Manriee, l' S OonjinLsioner. ! CV>l Satnui l Brooks, Galv-ton, jVxas. i Jos Peiry, Att-onwy M, Iv &T railroad, j J W Jennings, i-x-pos?master l y Set.ate. : <’Jol L W K]:o;il:er<t, Alamo H t• -1 Deni.-on. <Cii (i A Bail US Am\ Kt Griflitl), T. v ( >. li rc out,-' ..m;’.]*] liter*-’ B<nk. J Jettison, i ox. K G E:tdy. L vi ion Supt. M, K k T lai’ oad. i Col V. J Sr ran-', Q V USA. Denison. Tcxa. I Go<aio Stinnett & ('o. •..'•non br k< r UoniKou KDCJuidii k, man Cotton (‘omprebsCo, L/eu’n A of t’ e distribu 1 ion will bepnb **od forwarded to tit M< is, mid all i*j promptly p id filter tbe distribution. 6'40 Bb4 REMISSIBLE PERSONS WASTES io work for the ♦"tere-ts of iliis Association. Liberal Commfhhionh Allowed ROW TO REMIT TO US. Jfonev ahouH bn writ by Expro*-KOr Draft, Po**!-! fftci Money Order or U<*giHtere<J Ltitusv. A‘idre&> 1! connminit’ittiiiijs to ALPHEUS K. COLLINS, Secy, oct23-ld Denison, Texas. / .. ■ -X • tJL m r\.\ m c r A\T:T, ""■'■fP?- ESTABLISHED IS YEABS. A STANDARD INSTITUTION. largest, cnr-Arwi axd bjsst in the south. The only Business School in the South con ducted 1-y an experienced Merchant and Prac tical Accountant. 'Hie actual exp-rscs of students arc from fifteen to twenty per cent less than it will cost them to attend second class, or imported institutions. The ( ’..him-of Study is conducted on Actual Business Principles, supplied with Banking and oilier offices, combining -very known facility for imputing a Thorough Practical Business Fyfu- ation in the sh'-rb-st poss'l-ie time an-i at tec least c\, cns-*. fir-i'-uates --f this institution, as pr u.Tie,; acco-.nunis. stand pre-eminent over those from any other Busi ness School in th - c* unt-y. The cstaidisked n put uln of tl.i- Institu tion. the thnrouyb. prnctfcal course of in study, and the success of its Graduates, ranks it the leading business school in the south. Our course of acm at. justness training is the lest and most practical of the age. No vacations. Students admitted at anytime No classes. Business Advocate, containing full particulars, maileil to any address. B. F, MOOEE, A M., President. TII K II HIM GUT EX PRESS. A Thrilling Sketch. Dick Archer was the station agent, and as there was little to do, the place just suited him, as he was fend of fishing and hunting. Resides Dick, there were a peter and a hov. The porter was a quiet, lethargic man, ihe Soil of one ol‘his lordship’s woodmen; and 1 don’t know how the station would have get on at all, little as there was to do, if it hadn’t been for the boy. That boy was a perfect treasure. I never saw any boy like him for energy and firmness. One day Dick came and told me that (hero was to hr a pa v ty up at the Hall, a sort of . , t servin'-’ party. At fifteen minutes after midnight the up express passed thiongh at full speed, ahd it was Dick’s duty to he at the station to see the line all clear. Half an hour before the ex press, came a goods train usually, but it rarely stopped. Our siding was not long enough for ii to shunt into, and if there wasn’t a truck for it to leave, it ran on to Greatford, a prin cipal station on the line, where it shunted for the express to pass. Af ter those two trains had gone by there was nothing more for the station master to do. I li<l not care to go, but went to please Dick. Near the Hall was the Burford Arms inn. The landlord had a very pretty daughter, too, Ellen Lanford, and in his quiet way Dick was very fond of her. Between ourselves I liked her too, and thought about her more than 1 should have cared to ac knowledge. I was rather sorry for Dick, bo cause I could see the girl didn’t care tor him. She was really a nice girl, I assure you, well brought up and : educated, and there was a charm i about her that seemed to entangle one whether one would or not. However, 1 wasn’t go ng to interfere with Dick; it would have been a pretty return for his hospitality to I have eut him out on his own ground, | even if I’d Id a eliamfe of doing it. 1 fancied tli-.t Dick had made lip his mind to bring things to a crisis this particular nig!it. He’d got him self up very spruce in a dress suit and embroidered shirt, and altogether looked very well. The Lanfords were g< ing up to the Hall in one of their own flies, and were to take Dick with them; so we walked up to Bnrford Arms tog* I her. There slot <1 the fly w dting at. the door, and Mr. Lantord dressed in a I>iu , coat and brass buttons, cap-remus while silk waitcoat, silk stockings, and shorts. “ Where's Ellen V” said Dick. “Ob,” said Hr. Lanford, “she’s prot a bad cold and won’t come! Jump in, Mr. Archer.” Dick’s face ft!'. :- .and lie ' -ft?*. -1 a a if he’d a mind to say he woul-in’t go either; hut lie couldn’t exactly do it, and he crawled into the fly- and went oiT with old Lanford, as woe-begone. as if he were going to execution. I stood in the porch of the Burford Anns, Dot thinking of going in, when all of a sudden the thought came into my head that Ellen had done this on purpose. Dick had made such a fuss about this party and her going to it that she had come to the same con clusion as myself, and Lad made up her mind that he was going to put a certain question to her that very night. Now her not going meant that she didn’t want the question asked. I can’t describe what a thrill went through me as I thought of that. The coast was clear. Dick’s cl.iuce was gone. Was there a chance for me ? Was I doing a sneaking thing? I wondered, as I opened the door qui etly and walked in. As I went down the matted pas-age my heart went loudly pit-a-pat. I had come to a re solve on the instant, and every faculty I had was working hard to justify it. Here was a girl whom ! hadn’t known for more than a fortnight in a posi tion in which of choice I should not have looked for a wife, and yet I knew that I must needs go on. I had set, my face that way, and there was no turning it. The re-nilt of it was that before I left the inn I bad told Ellen that 1 loved her, and had received her as suranee that she loved me in return, and I was most happy. I left the inn and -calked to the sta tion. Dick was there, not having attended the party. “Dick,” I said, plunging at once into the middle ol the subject— “Dick, would you be surprised to hear that I was engaged to he mar ried ? ” It was the parraffine lamp over his head, no doubt, that threw such a yellow, sinister glare into Dick’s face as he slowly raised his eyes from (ho paper before him. “To be married,” said he —“ to be married, eh? Who is the fortu nate fair, 1 wonder?” I was rather relieved to find that Dick was taking it thus lightly, and I went on: “I have proposed to Ellen La nth rd to-night, and she has accepted me If I’ve interfered in any way wi h you, Dick, I’m sorry; l didn’t intend in, but”— “ liiit-i lei-ed with m< ?” interrupted Di k, ci ha • • o* sneer. “ V’.' hat n . arth should make you think that ? I m .y have flirted a little with her, but that’s my way with girls. I assure you I had no intentions except a little diversion.” “That’s lucky,” said I, coldly, for I didn’t like his tone. All of a sudden w e heard a low, murmuring sound, caused by the hum ming of the wires of the telegraph overhead, and the gentle vibration of the wood-work about us. “It’s the express,” cried Dick, bis face turning quite livid, “and I haven’t locked up the point* 1 Gome and help me, Ned. The ‘goods’ drop ped a truck at. the siding, and I never locked the points.” He hurried out upon the platform tend away to the switch that, turned the points oft and on. I followed him closely, not expecting that my i services would bo required, as the affair was only one ol an instant. Dick ran to the switch, and I stood by the line watching him and look ing out for the express. The line, us I have said, ran through a wood ; and just beyond the station the ground rose a little, so that there was a cut ting twenty or thirty feet deep. At the top of the bank was the distance signal, which now allowed a white , light to the up lino. Beyond that the track ran straight away over a broad, level country. It was a fine I piece of engineering that; a road as straight as a dart, spanned here and there by bridges, converging gradu ally till it vanished to nothing on the horizon. Five miles or more away you could discern the lamps of an advancing train on a clear night. I could see the lights now, merged into >-ne yellow point that twinkled like it star in a mist; and the hum of the at preaching train *as distinctly to be heard, and yet she was two miles away. Two miles away ! ’1 bat meant two minutes—that was her headlong speed; for every throb of one’s heart that mighty moving mass had leaped a flying stride some sixty fee!. An-1 behind this rushing coil 1 of i on, fi e and hot, scalding vapor, luxiji: * t- ;mJ (.It limbed vvomeii s i ,i do--”! -ay the moments — rea-i'mg, p• 1 n-, or bury at some trifling task, of ulking drowsily, the lamp- shining softly down upon their heads; and here in this quiet Country nook, the moon looking placidly down and the slant twinkling through the rifts in ihe white, fleecy clouds, lurked death in wait. “I can’t close the points, Nod!” cried my friend, in a hoarse, excited whisper; “come and help me.” Had 1 thought for a moment 1 should have rushed to the handle <>f the distance signal and tnrne-1 it to “danger;” but 1 was confuse-! by the imminence of the peril. “•There’s something between the points,” he said, “ that prevents their closing.” I ran along the track where t.lie two sets of rails converged—the main line arid the siding. The siding w as now open, so that the advancing train would be turned from the line, hurled against the earthen bank and massive timber structure at the end. Stay; I bad found the source of the mischief —between the end of one of the moving points and the iron flange that acted as a stop when it w as fully closed, was a round, white stone. I kicked the stone away with my foot; ihe points were spring ones, a-*d closed sharply with a clang, pinning my foot between the flange and the ii on i ail. “Dick,” I cried, “open the points; I’m caught I I saw bis face in the moonlight; it was iike the face of a corpse, but Lis .-yes gleamed with ferocity and mal ign triumph. Deliberately he fas teued the chain and padlock to the switch and locked it up; then he made a few quick strides across the line and threw his arms around my struggling frame. “ You’ll bo married, will you,” he hissed into my ears, “to your pet, your darling, your Eilsn ? ” In that moment I remembered her face, ami that I was then speaking < some such endearing words. Then f*”d now! All my new-boni happi ss seemed to return to me in a flood f sudden, unspeakable bitterness. Yonder came the train, the earth quaking at its passage, rushing upon us wiih horrible, staring eyes; whist ling. shrieking, roaring, frothing out great gusts of white, hot steam, the glare of its furnaces sweeping like lightning flashes across the dark, steep cutting, i'inued to the ground by uty fool, the slroo ; ~pasp cf a madman about my arm.', I made one desperate, im ileetu;;! druggie, gave one despairing cry—l remember no more. Ollier hands must tel! you the rest. ELLEN CONTINUES THE STOUT. After my dear Ned had left me on the night ho first told me that he loved me, I reeled fir some time on tile sofa, feeling tired and'quite sad somehow, and yet. veiy happy. Then I put out the candles and wan guiug lo bed. I was parsing through the bar when I caught eight of a slip of papei' twisted up aud addressed to me, in large blotched loiters. It was from Richard Archer. I declare I never gave Mr. Archer any encouragement —at least not more than any girl might have done to a young man who was trying to make himself agreeable; certainly never since I saw Edward, and felt how vastly superior he was in every way io this Mr. Archer. The note was short and rough. “ Ellen,” it began—not'list he had any viglii to address me in tiiat way —certainly I was not and neverj had been “Ellen” to him, hut so it was — “ Ellen, you have deceived me, you and Ned Walters; but I give you warning, it is for the last time. You ! and he shall never marry; 1 will see you botli dead first.” I was dreadfully frightened when I read tlris; but I came to the con* clusion that it was more rodomontade when I began to think it over calmly. I laughed at the idea of that whipper snapper, little Archer, doing any damage to iny Edward, and yet I was uneasy. Then father came home in rather a bad temper. The party had been a failure, for everybody had been upset by that young Archer, who be haved like a madman at the hall, told everybody of his troubles, and abused father to all the company, and at last went off to walk home to the station, seeming quite wild and dis turbed. “It’s all your fault too,” said father, “ flirt ing and encouraging that young chap to come here.” Father went to bed and bade trie put the lights out and go to bed too. But still I could not get rid of my uneasy feeling; I couldn’t make up my mind to go to bed while I v/as uncertain us to what might he happening at the station when Richard and Edward met, as they would he sure to do. I ran down the guidon and opened ihega'e gently and went along the path. In a mo ment I stood upon the bank over bunging the lie, and then 1 heard the express whistling and moaning a long way off. I made up my mind to stay til! the train went by ; and I watched it coming ori, its lights grad ually growing more distinct, and tho w reaths of steam it threw off looking like white fleecy clouds in tho moon shine. All of a sudden I heard a sort of smothered cry in the direction of the station, and, turning round, I saw two men were struggling upon the railway line, right in the way of the express. They were Edward and Archer; and then in a moment it struck me that Arclier, mad with disappointment and jealousy, meant to murder hi-- friend anil kill himself at the same time by means of" the ex press train. The train was just upon me; in another half minute it would bo over them. I could do nothing; I could only scream and look up to heaven. And then I saw a light above my head, the distance signal of the station shining “All right,” t > the advancing train. Instantly there came into my head one of those in spired thoughts that seem to be com municated by Providence in moments of sudden danger. The wire of the signal by which it was moved from the station ran along little posta along the side of the line. If I could only reach the wire and turn the signal to danger, I night yet save my lover. $2.00 A YEAR. I dashed down the bank and over the ditch at the bottom, and there my foot struck against the wire of the signal, and seizing it with both hands, I dragged it with my utmost strength; but it would not move— no, I could not move it an inch either way. I know tho reason after ward. It was one of those patent signals that always point to danger unless hole! at safety by the wire from the station ; and this wire now being hold tight by the lever at the station, which was fastened in its place, nothing could move it. The ground was now beginning to tremble uudor mo with tho swift rush of the train, and still the terrible wire mocked all my efforts. In a transport of frenzy almost, I cast myself upon it. It broke—yes, it broke with my weight suddeuly thrown upon it—and with a clang and clatter the signal-lamps went round. An indignant roar of whistling from tho engine told me the signal had been seen, but with hardly abated speed the train now went past me. I shrieked loudly and waved my hands, and I saw the tire fly from tho metals, and heard the discordant scream of tho wheels against tho rails. Then I rose and ran toward tho station. The traiu had been stopped just in ‘time; the buffers almost touched poor Nod, who was pinned there, un able to escape. lie was dreadfully bruised, too, by the iron boot in which his foot had been fixed, and we feared at one time that tho shock of those dreadful few minutes would have been too much for Lira. But wo took him to our house, where he had oareiul tending, I assure you, and be fore long he was his old self once more, and doubly dear to his Ellen for the perils he had undergone; and I never can be sufficiently thankful that ho was spared to rue, for ho is ono of the dourest and best— CONCLUSION lIX TUB 0111(1 INAL AUTHOR. Rather than listen to my wife’s rhapsodies, I daro say you would like to hour about my poor friend Arohor, whose sudden frenzy had so nearly boon fatal to me. I must do him tho justice to say that I don’t believe tiiis outrage of hiu was piemed'infed. It seemed that on this night the goods train had dropped a truck at tho siding, and tho porter, to save him self the trouble of running backward and forward to tho switch, had jam med a stone in to keep tho points open. Tho porter had gone off home, forgetting that he had left the stono there; and knowing that the points were self closing, and that it was tho station-master’s business to lock them up, Lad thought no more about tho matter. The station-master, his bead full of other things, had forgotten to go and lock up the points till ho heard the distant roar of tho express; and then, sudden opportunity pre senting itself to his warped and jaun diced mind, he hud clutohed at tho opportunity ofiuvolving his miserable self and his successful rival in one common doom. After that Dick went raving mad, and was confined iu an asylum. He was discharged cured, and went away to Antorica, where ho was soou after killed by an engine on a level cr--ssing. I always made out that it was an accident my being fastened in the points, and that Dick was trying to save me; but ow that lie is dead, there is no harm in telling the whole truth. WIT and HUHOK. Which limes are tbe best? Meal times. Easy shaving. Taking the beard off an oyster. A set of bad teeth, like a farm, has many ackers. A musician is an airy fellow, but he can’t holy it. The best way to rise in a woman’s estimation is not by stares. What is better than a promising young man? A paying one. A man cannot expect a half a laof when he loafs all of the time. When is money damp? When it is dew in the morning and mist at nigur. It is said that bleeding a partially blind horse at the nose will restore him to sight: so much for the horse. To opeu a man’s eyes you must bleed him in the pocket. His name was Wrath, and when he asked his girl to marry him, she gave him a soft answer, and the soft answer turned away Wrath. A boy jockey in California, wbo, during the past two years, has ridden horses in several races, was lately discovered to boa girl.