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, »« ENT.ERP.Bl is! TI LEY COUNTY 8 A J. HARP, Publisher. jfflfD ALIVE. I II R IlflRHUII.R DEATH OP AN 01.1) PA t It Bit AND HIM WIFE. M,il!.Un K alluusetn Prevent the Very Thl»» Heuecljilll.) that Occurred. A dispatch says that the do* tails of theikvstsriuus death of Mr. and Mrs. ................ morning,,tit} one suffocated aud the other etna ted, make a horrible story. Foul play 18 suwpeefcod, but the circumstances j ‘r oly justify the suspicion. Rooney v 3 seventy-three years old and the \ Rthiest being farmer in Central IHitnds, his s estate valued at $200,000. By *‘ rst wife he Im.l four sons, all of whom are Carried. He never was known to give them Sy much as a cent. Twenty five years ago he Carried his second wife, a childless widow. Plie was twenty years younger than ha It ' ssuined in all the country that she "WUmhcrit tiie major portion of liis estate, H>rltaY~twtie no wiU, but was expected to i i •1 in a Id’ rer after New Year's. by ye i agohe Chicago caused a great sensation engagin a architect to design f or him a r idence which should be not only ni ignificeit in nil respects, but air tight Irom foundation |o garret. He little knew thathe death was careit I ly preparing for the frightful of inself and wife, as the sequel shows, I jouey had a horror of lire, and t was to provide against the fate \ liich befivlis so many unpro* teeted coin try homes that he directed the architee and contractor to spare neither time nor exj nse in making the building as close as a j*o table refrigerator. The neigh- l.ors alt agre 1 that the tottering old man was losing completed his ml 1. When the structure was tb artisan* had done their work so well tba with all tllo interior doors o ..-n {the holt e had sixteen rooms) feather- weight tests i all parts of it failed to show that there wa tho slightest'draught. Ilooaey ami hia wife had a sociable fondness for punch whisky ami often browed their evening with the favored hired man, who also vas allowed room in the ne mansion, and was thoir spoke solitary few guest} Eng Wh Ho words. was a His deaf Bwede and |lecthor room was over tbe kitchen. evening; Hoon ycaine into tho viilagf AfterItieJsttfter |nd bought ti ii ilf gallon of whisky. Mat dishes find been Vi! l: "Zt kitchen, fl ' v,t - v wurii I 1 the iittlo down jug with between his wife them. in V remained r lure is not known. “Ti "IJfii join !f!6lv tfi Swede and retired had ho was punches invited the old folks two with them. When he left they were merry but not intoxicated. “In the luuruiug the hired man awakened with a headache. His pillow was covered with soot and a sickening odor pervaded the Utmospliero of ho room. Descending to the lower ball, the stench increased. Adjoining (he kitchen was the old gentleman’s bedroom, find next to it that of Mrs. Rooney. The door of Rooney s room was op m. Peering in, the i man saw his master prone upon tbe ■V >-ifi^lothing undisturbed. Upon sliakiu; rated form the .Swede found And lifeless. Over the faro of tbo U^Hftirk. dinging to ev -rything in The Hi ■ room, "Hill sticky substance. hire I looked into Mrs. Rooney’s room k "Ij^^^klteUeq, ..af”o the and h failing of to of tin 111! t her it. 'lis one soil-, on • a mi\ a If atl ,| related as i Ost, lie could ,s n;ih, \ his discovery, A party ■ si , iau,» nel rdUjii S|tL, with including tlm hired a pin man a careful investigation of ■tli i „ j vims . Rrare made. (lit tho center table tho baftu||ty jug and the glasses. At oti‘ I lo thin etas a hole throo feet l ng an l ear ieat by 'In 'jt<e candle, burn id hair through burned, the and door. at a ^fcihl^rel leg protruding and muscle. from the Tho shre Is llo»li tab lock io the corner was ,pm ^Kingx. ^n, 1 t|tiike t wa*on cdh had the burn Hoor. -d up The close hingi to the ig ulaftdj ■ « o ofahe ta'de and tlwn «:n iliiillii'h as lia< the small patch on tile door, aliiim.in form Ind wr t icd m the An resff a living 1 10 nation. In the 'o'tfd a handful of <>f vertebral while r.«e», oul- a 'd|k I and part, a I'[t ,in. wale ,'iifrnt Mrs. Rooney 1'Jpk ti*^t was wind- fc Kite* up tic when the candle accidentally |,taki'naJl t #■ .litheliqryjx tlolliing. vfff^Giad i-ffie vy.gs_.dQlhthHS drunk and. ,nik Pfhiug Fhe was a large jcmiiH, Yu unable pound*, to or more- and jJ ■ l *lie was rise, ‘ eating through ne ■mss ranidy 1 clothing to her holy inciner- non “ 'wm' of thm A fire cavity formed beneath her to tho floor and an tbo concave furnace Burned slowly through to tho cellar the (remains were gradually melted into L„ i,” handful Apparently found on <>no the log cement w as extend- floor l' at length ntrffiMsOut-r and burning rim “f off tho just fire, above the foot tho Inkle, Itself vrinn dismembered. Rooney elite-1 siUcated death. Tho hired man is as ;.b)d to exported to live, llio ,w and not divided tho ropery will probably bo among iur without inquiry or contest." BOASTED t© death. Terrible End of a Ne«ro MUrrrniu rw , in Alabama. Friday week, at Gaincst -wn, Clark,, county, Alburn,* young ally, Miss Carrie, Hover, .iwvontec-n, was waylaid while on ter way , m , front a neighbor’s. She was foui,Llj i ; , K ' , tho hack of her neck, and *1 h ,, . U i!et hole in |, | gkull crushed in. A broken Kin-stock I li'll, 1W 'ying in th blood upon it,was found r„„<l. ti ender . ami-stack whs recognized as Iw.i.njing to V Iteid, a negro living near at, ami. Jed when til avengers called f, him O broken gun w s fot„l i„ V,,, ill'# barrel of the and hair I, turns'. It had blood U],I, it,. , , V ,])'.e mid "f t black-, liike and organized adjoining a hunt (-tallies, ir the ", ,i, white captured him ln,rs- i(,,vr. It two negro: # Ill march t:> Cine#. the countv liu . ■ I u»rt'i#»> ted in by hundreds of mm. m.ralp'aeos a ong the route the i-uln. ' tmmd out and demanded a lymiug. tho garni pss-cd on in silence uni the jlOt ' Will reached where tin crime wa* ,.* led, At two o’clock on Sunday Kot was ),, llC Uc abne. dte 0<nibB* e d Ihnt 1 hiei "mil! llie dat'd, it, but that his gun went nftioei- j and » h<- was fared l>.v oi-niii- ‘••sm-es to pOTiii'ete the murder. The man iji ,i built it (a a i.:' iglitwood around ihe -i,n- "i * ■ iioitkc mniK-re wet« s meanwhile tattered aniha.-w Miffing „ , uilt ag'liv. up. the iiegto «im£ Tie prni-cw was o p,ted !, hi fore death reiiovod him. JrK * —-------- we-- ■ I Moulded . „ Snow. HEP™ 1 in l Mi 1 IIOUIUBLB ¥ „ ________ ro»nWTtl»\in, ., (W1T |,, N in wi, I 1 TWO BODIES Vt Elite POEM). • li' bodies of Burke Hovey atvl ,|. j,{.j tho Prodigali»Son —*rs-..re. mine, near btlvelem, ( 3 a few day* since, by a snowslide, wpm f u ,„j at the bottom of the shaft. Both bjdios v ( . r a f jiackedln t,ho snow as in a mold, loveyiv#* hWtk 't'evito-ateteAh-.A"tVr,ril haml win, hand'and " as shading his i, s right an I lookias 11 V a * though t#'We what ifwaseomhjg ttewn the mtna peon ap- pfaram-es, tliatc dea.^ Woodlo-.lt, fi ,.f (l ^ # “tei*rand _ 1 Hovoy from y c w ,* $ unswick. | THE NEWS. , interesting Happenings from all Point*. eastern Anii mouLtt ntAtEn. A CHINESES girl baby, the first infant of the pig tail nation —. t,, Philadelphia, has just been added to the Ch. oso colouy in tl1 ® Quaker city. I HE number of emiprantH ai riving at the ’“.IT,.?*_y .s."!i5, ln a ^ ln K “ "" u '' . , ' , fishermen. Five vessels and eight lives have reported 1. «t Ten men were badly burned by an explo- ^ p"“‘ urnl *“ at “ «** wel1 near Kittan- Ahihnrv' eartbqii l.-tfshocka *"*** * -ever i ". Many .. nerd< . . of f rattle being killed in are snveral authorities, i eniiNylviiflbi because counties of by order of the State pleuro-pneu- PeterB Sweeny, the brains of the no furious Tweed ring, has returned temporarily to Now York after a long absence in l’aris. ilKHKi-CA Uatteiison. said to lx- I IT years old, died a few days ago in little Falls, N. Y. NOllTtl AND WEST. Alexander Reed t colored man, brutal¬ ly murdered Miss C'n tie Boyd, at Qaines- town, Ga. Reed the was captured the by two colored tied men, taken to scene of murder, to a tree, wood piled around his body, and in the presence of »X) people he was burned to bath. mail AceonniSit dozens of to familic< a prominent have been Arizona massacred ranch and by Apaches the news itl of distant their death parta has of the never Territory, spread beyond the immediate vicinity, owing to tho long distance and a separation from the out¬ side world. A tike at Greenville, Miss., destroyed lubes a large oil mill, together with 2,4tKJ of coturn and ten small buildings, causing a total estimated damage of ♦200,000, The wife and two children of Ferryman James Saunders, were drowned by tho cap¬ sizing of their boat near Nicholasville, Ky. Hon. James E. Hailey, Uuitefi States Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to Tenn., 1881, ,iied a few days ago at Clarksville, aged sixty-two years. JaMes Tt'HSEil, a nephew of United States Senator Brown, wits run and over killed,, by a freight engine in Atlanta, Ga.. Two negroes, caught setting fire toaqtiftn- tity of cotton near Crawford, Miss., were taken from jail by a crowd and hanged to a tree. A CUIOaOO {taper states that the total length of main lines of railroad laid in 1885 was a. 113 miles, which is about 700 miles less hau in 1884. WASHINGTON. Mrs, Della Benner, the widow of the gallant officer who sacrificed his life while endeavoring to relieve the yellow fever suf¬ ferers of the Lower been Mississippi postmistress river several of years ago, has appointed the village of Rogers Park, III. President Cleveland has written to Senator Voorhees expressing a desire to aid in lat*V the ieo-President proposed erection Hendricks of a monument at Indianapolis. to the The government will dispatch the revenue steamer Rush from San Francisco to search for the lost whaler Amethyst. Mil V, P. Snyder, of Hudson. \. Y.‘. ha* i ! heeii appointed deputy comptroller “» ’ currency. routed A detachment large hand of of Mexican United States revolutionists troops j a who had taken possession which of an belongs island in the Rio Grande river to our government. -— FOR KIRN. A severe storm lias caused many wrecks along the New Brunswick coast. Jules Grew has been re-elected president chamber France by the French senate ami deputies' ballot being at Versailles, 185. his majority on joint It is stated that Russia and Austria are se¬ cretly arming, and that both countries have sent orders to England for large quantities of for their respective armies. Great distress prevails among the fisher¬ men of the west coast of Ireland ow ing to a lack of food, and many condition. families are reported to be in a starving The eccentric king of Bavaria is a bank¬ rupt.. Captain Holleys, long the American iu Culm, has committed suieido in Barbndoes. An Italian organ-grinder was struck dead while leaning against an electric light touched pile in NeW Orleans, and a companion shock who which his body also received a knocked him over and burned one hand to a crisp. i King Al¬ Queen Christina, widow of fonso, has 1 >«oii sworn in as regent of H|miu. THRICE A MURDERER. Dtek Townsend,the Murderer q£Tlir(fOMen, The negro, Dick Townsend, who has mur¬ dered three men recently, and for whom a re¬ ward of $800 has been off. red, was captured in Mitchell county,Ga., on the turpentine farm o: A. M. Collin*, about thirteen miles from Camill*. A short irhi' ago he killed K Mr. Cohen, of Bradford county, Florida. Af it 11.at lie killed in tie same state a negro, Luki McCormick and about a week ago he killed in LownddJ county, Ga., the sheriff of Bradford county, Florida, who was in pursuit of him When captured lie. g.,vo iris name as Richard Bell, but on arriving at. Camilla ho was Townsend, reeo :■ ii zed by several in grocs as Dick n.d tl t-n he contV s,od having killed two of the ni' ii, the negro McCormick and the sheriff ol Bradford. Townsend hag been hotly pursued f.w s >eral days. Hh captors are Messrs Joshua Dees, of Valdosta, and Judson Oobbi 11 ( Muilla. (Jropts of the Country. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT K8TI- MATES FOR TIIE PA »T YEAR. The estimate* of fho statistician of the do- pigment 1 of agriculture for the principal cereals for 1885 are computed, and , the aggregate bushels are as follows: In round millions: Corn, 1,886; wheat, 357; acres; The value of wheat of com 84,000,000; averages of nearly onta gMMD.OHO. 83.rents a bushel, and makes an aggregate of of ♦&.«,»»,- the last IKK), $5,000,000 less than the value wheat in-op. The decrease in tbe product of is 80 per cent an,l only 17 percent in valun- tions,which Is $275,< 100,000. The valuation of »atsis*180,000,000. Tho reduction in Wheat is mostly in the valleys of the Ohio and in California. The Slates of Ohio, Indiana, ]1Un , )iK _ Missouri mid Kansas year*),000,<W0, last year pro- dum { 170,000,(JOfl of 00.000,000 bushels, this bushels. The pre- a reduction bushels to diction of all cereals is flfty-Wree b 1 . I MME. AdELIni PATTI will . . , be UiHirted L U to Big-NicoJini in June next—that is to »m*. 1^1 MSodot ^ »“tn. .'(UfK..''<‘r i d Wua y„ t [m hUm^'iV ’btlKiJ ip Nicholas, and he belongs to a he ren ch family. Hie wife, from whom {.„d , as been divorced by mutual con.-ent, from whom he bad been separ.ved named Many years, is an Italian lady itlaria Annata. ELLAVULLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY > 18S6. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tint nvorage cost of a session of Congress is 13,000,001). Tint Prince of Wales has entered on his forty fifth year. J BNakW poison, it is stated, kilts at least 17,000 people per annum in India. in An Indian Bernardiue high school Is to Is. established Nan comity, California A wild stall ion has killing animals and scaring men near Cheyenne, YV. T. The Missouri Cremation society has 40® *..................... u' V f l o! '! I* ver ? h ‘‘arce in some parts with!' " 8en ° Usly iaU ' rlVmi The new town of Punreith, in Dakota, of¬ fers $300 and a town lot to the first boy baby bom in the place. The Burnt esc capital. Mandalay. Is said to , be tufested by hordes of small black pigs, which are protected by the government as xeaven- gers At the (^n.iiing of last year Vermont had thirteen ex-governors living, but four of them died during the year. Nine ex-governors still live. The Congregattonalist church at Walling¬ ford, continuous Conn., period has had of two but hundred five pastors in of a church life. years The value of the pig iron produced hi this country in 1H85 was $73,000,01)0, or nearly as much as tho combined values of the gold and silver products. As watermelon fall approached a that Georgia farmer pulled up a vine had lieeit bearing all summer aud transplanted it into a green¬ house. It now carries half a dozen melons, which will average twenty pounds each. J. M. Walker, who had a fifth interest in the fa n ms “bouauza firm,” was worth so much money once that he thought poverty never again though would knock at his door. But it does, for, once a millionaire, he is now moneyless. The largest vim- in the world is said to be one bearing growing since at Oys, 1802. Portugal, Its which has yield l>een in produced maximum was in 1804, in which year it a suf¬ ficient quantity of gra)ies to make Kid gallons of wine; in 1874, 1441 1-8 gallons, and in 1884, or.lv 5,Mid 70 1-1 gallons. and It covers an area of square feet, the stem at the lw.se measures 0 1-2 feet in circumference. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Juvenile “Mikado” comjmnios already hive sprouted up. “U and I” is the title of a new farce pro¬ duced recently in Boston. Queer companies and queerer plays are tumbling all over the country. Patti is said to have lost $15,000 in by Hol¬ not being able to keep her engagements land. Mr. J. H. Haverly is now quietly Han Fran¬ man¬ aging a comic ojiera company in cis, s>. Kaure, tho great French baritone, is on the (mint of publishing a work on the art of singing. Prince’s Mrs. Lanotry has leased the theatre, London, for six months, and open* the new year with a new play. Miss Genevieve Ward has ended her Australian tour and celebrated the 1,000th pic¬ performance of “Forgot-me-Not” by a nic in the bush. Miss M argaret Mather accomplished p iu formidable task of writing her name on 2,000photographs. They were performance given assou- of venirs of the seventy fifth “Romeo and Juliet” in New York. _ -v. Adelina Patti contemplates Craig-v-Nos re¬ tiring to her Welsh estate at on the completion of her European tour at Faster. She wishes to leave her professional full vigor, life while her voice is still in and she is still the idol of the musical world. “Harbor Lights," Messrs. Sims and Pete tit’s new melodrama, has been successfully The produced at the London Adelphi in five theatre. acts and work is a romantic drama, eleven tableaux. The deck of an ironclad with all its details faithfully represented, fur¬ nished one of its striking scenes. One of Thebaw’s last acts as king of Bur inuh, was to receive a party of Parses actors. After witnessing their {flaying he arranged there on a table as many silver cocoanuts as were actors, each nut containing a handful of precious stones, aud invited each player to take one as a token of royal appreciation. Miss Bertha Ricci, the priina donna, is a finely educated young woman. She speaks and writes German, French and Italian with gramntical precision, and is at home with the classical literature of all three languages. A portion of her daily leisure is devoted to study. She is a close reader of the daily papers aiid evinces a strong interest Before in poli¬ she ties, both of home aud abroad. determined to study for the operatic stage she was an overworked and underpaid 1 earned school $1100 teacher in St. Louis. "Then a year,” she remarked, laughingly, “now I ma ko $15,000." Several of her relatives are ungrudgingly supported by her vocal notes. The stage obituary list for 1885 is a long one, and includes several names of eminence. The stage has lost since last January Edward Arnott, Mine. Sainton-Dolby, W. H. Bcek- mnn.John Parsello. Ryder, Mrs. George Vauderholf, Thomas E. John George McCullough. Browne, The death Morris and John list also includes .Sir Julius Benedict, the dis¬ tinguished composer; Dr. Damrosch, tho ad¬ mirable conductor of German opera; James \V. Davison, the famous musical critic of the 1/mdcm Times, and Richard Grant Hugo, White, wha the Shakesnorian scholar. Victor is claimed by tho stage as well as by literature, has also dittd within this year. thrice a mubderer. ntek Townsend,the Murderer of Three Men, ('augiit. The negro, Dick Townsend, who has rum- ill red three nu n recently, and for whom a ri ward of $800 has boon offered, was captured it. Mitchell county, Ga., on the turpentine farmo A. M. Collin-, about thirteen miles from Camilla. A short rime ago he killed a Mi Cohen, of Biadford county, Florida, After that he killed in tin same state a negro, Lukf- McCormiek and about a week ago he killed in Lowndes countv, C5a., the sheriff of Bradford county, Florid*, who was his in pursuit Richard of him W hen captured arriving he gave at Camilla name he aH was recog- Bell, hut on several Dick Townsend, u'zed by negroes having as killed two of the and then he confessed sheriff men, the negro McCormick and the of Bradford. Townsend has been hotly pursued Messrs. for several days. His captors are Joshua Decs, of Valdosta, and Judson Collins, of Camilla. Crops of the Country. AGKICVI/NIKAl. DUPAUTMENT ksti. mates for the past yeau. The estimates of the statistician of the de¬ partment of agriculture for tbe principal cereals for 1885 are computed, and the aggregate bushels are as follows: In round millions: Corn, 1,986; wheat, 857; oats, 629. The area of corn is 78,000,006 acres; of wheat 34,000,000; of oats 23,060,000. The value of corn averages nearly 83 cents a bushel, $.3,000,000 and makes less an than aggregate the value ol of SO-teuOjK) the last - (too. in the product of " iw«i croii. The decrease cent valua¬ is .'id per cent and onlv 17 i*-r iu tions',vltaii is $275,000,000. The vnluat ton of is mostly in the valleys of the Ohio and iu California. The States of Ohio. Indiana, IUiuois, Missouri and Kansas last year pro- duced 170 , 0 (X ),000 bushels, tins venr so.tioo,ooo, The a reduction of 90,000,000 bushels { du<-rum of all cereals is fifty-three bushel! s to each inhabitant, and the aggregate \o,aiu€ is larger than any former year. □ Below the Sea. Deep in tlu> Imy llie old church lio, Beyond tbo storm-wind's (lower, Tho wind* tint whelmed it uvorplny In ripples round the tower. And if you look down through Ilia tide— Many and many u time— Yon tuny ontcli the glimmer of thu stones, Or hour the sweet hells chime ! For they tlmt dwell deep in the sen, Below tlie wind and rain, The Mermen and the Mernmidens, Have built it up again ! They have made lust the ruined walls Willi their immortal hands, And strewn the aisle with red soa-flowets, And with the wet sen sands. And when a drifting heat comes hack Hock shattered to dio shorn, With never captain at the helm, Nor sailor at the oar, Then dow n lieiow the stormy fomu The sweet old halls ring tree, They cal! upon the mariners That come no more from sea, —May Kendall, in Magazine of Art. ‘’A Secret of the Sea.” The following story was told me a short time ago by a friend, who had it only at second hand from an eye-wit¬ ness of tho whole affair. My friend began thus: “The strange thing I am going to tell you is true; 1 know it because 1 have it from a friend, or, rather a re¬ lation, of one of the officers on board the ship. “Some years ago, before the exist¬ ence of the Suez Fan el, a large East Indiaman was making her way easily, with light Summer winds, along through the Indian Ocean to Calcutta. The Cape had been passed several days before, and now, with charming weather, officers and passengers, to say nothing of the crew, were looking for¬ ward to the end of what had been a pleasant, though quite uneventful, voyage. “They had had nothing more serious than a ‘half-gale o’ wind,’ had met only three or four ships, homeward bound; and in spite of a score or more agreea¬ ble passengers, in spite of the last sen¬ sation novels, of musical entertain¬ ments, of flirtations by moonlight on deck, and even in spite of unlimited gossip, the days had grown very mo¬ notonous,and the weeks unaccountably long; even light-hearted middies bad begun to chafe and fret over the long confinement on shipboard, and the young ladies to sigh for an excitement. “I take it for granted t hat, you know that the service of the East India Company’s ships was like the Naval in its organization; there were captain, lieutenants, midshipmen find petty of¬ ficers; the ships were mounted with heavy guns, and were well armed, and manned with men trained for fighting. The voyage was long, and in time of war the Indiamen were regarded as very desirable booty. The ships were large, strongly built and very commo¬ dious, and often luxuriously fitted up. “The day had been hot, and the light wind had died almost entirely away; the great ship rose and fell on the waves, and her sails hung loosely from tho tall masts that slowly swayed buck and forth with monotonous, cracking sound one knows so well who lias been much at sea. It was ‘sundown,’ and the short twilight of the tropics was fast deepening into night; everybody had come upon deck to enjoy such whiffs of air as might be stirring, the passengers and officers on the quarter¬ deck, while the crew were hanging over the side or lazily lounging on the neat coils of rope about the deck. “Suddenly a faint, very faint sound —so faint, one knew not what it was wheneo it came—or scarcely if there had been a sound at all. People asked each other about it; some had heard it and others had not; and after some discussion it was decided there really was nothing at ali. And just as they reached that conclusion tffe sound came again, and a little clearer, more positive than before, so that every one heard something. ‘It was the moan of the breeze through the rigging 1’ ‘No, it was the bell for’ard !’ It was fifty most ordinary sounds in tho world, and quite a matter of course that it should have been heard; and then— again it came—as if it dropped from the air, and were the sob of some sad- hearted spirit floating by. And then the thing was talked over and over, and everybody had a theory, and nobody was satisfied with any of them. “Meantime L grew darker, and the great stars of the Southern World started out, making the night lumi¬ nous with their wonderful glory. A silence fell upon the busy tongues, and all eyes were gazing upwards, when suddenly through the hush broke the tone of a bell. Full, clear, musical it rang out, then died slowly, seeming to go further and further away, until the last faint sound came from a long dis- tance off; then again silence, and ne<>- pie louKuu suangeiy at each other, and almost us if they were fearful (,f break- in . lfiat .. . stillness .... . by speaking . the h £ . words that hung on every lip. At last Captain Stanley hailed the mast- head. “ ‘No, sir, nothing in sight. It’s a little misty up to windward.’ •• ‘Keep a sharp lookout -d’ye hear?’ H t Ay, ay, sir !’ “A slight jmiT of wind blew past the ship -just enough to bear the distinct, tone of the mysterious hell, and also to tell from which direction it came; it was deeper, clearer, fuller than before. The mystery deepened, but Captain .Stanly said, quietly: ‘That mist tin- doutedly holds the solution of the af¬ fair; it is some ship’s bell, as wo shall see as soon as It lifts a little.’ But hour after hour went on, and still the midst hung low on the water, and still the mournful sound of that bell was borne to the ears that listened all hrough the night on board the Hare. Few left the deck, and all night long that sad, weird tolling kept them com¬ pany—now seemingly closer to them, and again so faint and far away. It was uncanny, and to the sensitive ones sounded like the strokes of doom. “Just before the early dawn, while it was yet only a clear starlight, the mist lifted, and at once came the cry from the masthead: Somethin to windward.’ ti t What is she lik “ ‘Weil, it’s a queer sort of a ernft altogether.’ ti t Mr. Crabbs, will you go up and see what you make cf her?’ said Cap¬ tain Stanley; and Mr. Crabbs, a light- footed young middle, sprang up the rigging, and in a few moments re¬ turned, saying: .. . She, or it, is a very queer-looking thing, sir; it is pretty dark yet, but, as well as I can see, it looks like a big ilatboat with a sort of house on it—it floats low in the water. Aud that bell sir—keeps on tolling sir,’ said little Crabbs, hesitatingly.’ “ ‘Yes—yes—we can all hear the bell plainly enough, Mr. Crabbs!’ and turning to the first lieutenant, Cap¬ tain Stanley went on; ‘Mr. Fraser, see a boat lowered away at once: send Mr. Crabbs in command of her, to board this stranger and find out what this means.’ “ ‘A few minutes later' one of the ship’s boats, manned with a crew of six men, and little Crabbs in the stern, was pulling towards the flatboat, which had become visible, Irom the ship’s deck. There was no steady wind, but a slight puff or two had been made the most of to draw a little closer to the strange thing, and the Dare now lay almost or quite becalmed about two miles distant from it; the house or cabin—the top of it at least—could be seen, and a sort of crossbeam arrange¬ ment on which hung the bell whose solemn voice was heard as the boat rose and tell with the waves; but no living soul was visible. Every glass was directed upon the little boat its it came up alongside. .Mr. Crabbs was seen to climb up the side and instant¬ ly disappear, while in the same mo¬ ment the boat pushed off and made lor the ship, pulling in a disordered, hesitating manner, stopping for a few minutes’ discussion seemingly, then their way with a long, regular stroke. “Arrived at the ship’s side, they came on bo;mi in a dazed sort of a way with white scared faces; and upon Captain Stanley’s stern demand for an explanation, they managed to tell their story. “They saw no human being, they heard sound of human voice m that haunted thing; but as Mr. Crabbs stepped upon the top of tho high bui wark, a largo black figure readied up and seized him with its long arms and dragged him down; and there was a sound of rattling of chains and shrieks and yells of fendish laughter; and the tiling was loaded with devils, and the Foul Fiend himself had got poor Mr. Crabbs, and they got away as fast as they could. “And sad and terrible enough it all was, and that horrible bell went on tolling an awful knell for poor, blight- hearted little Crabbs. There wore sobs and tears, and pale cheeks, and mourning for the lad; and after a lit¬ tle the captain said, with a hard voice, and a set, stern look on his pleasant face: <t < Mr. Fraser, send that boat back with a fresh crew; or, rather take com¬ mand yourself, sir—take the best men and plenty of arms.’ “And in a few- moments the little boat went back, carrying men who had rather fight a man-of-war twice their size than face a foe that was un known, and doubtless belonged to the unseen world; but they went, and res¬ olutely, for everybody loved little Crabbs. “JIow earnestly and anxiously they were watched from the decks of the Dare one can well imagine. Mr. Fraser an.' the boatswain. ' vuU and revolver in hand, climbed cautious¬ ly up the sides of the flatboat, and were seen to raise their heads slowly above the bulwark. And this is what they saw: a magnificent Bengal tiger of the finest breed just finishing his revoltingmeal ! They fired together, anil the great creature tell over a nil died without a struggle. “Then the heat’s crew were ordered to come up, and they carefully climbed oil board, Mid with .t pistol in c;uh hand, began an exploration of the cab- in; there was indoor to it, and as they entered (lie wide doorway, there right before litem they saw two skeletons— of a man and a woman, chained, one against each side of the re. mi. Be¬ tween them, in the midst, whs ti brok¬ en chain, one end still riveted to tho tloor—the other hung to the ock of the slain tiger! “Fronting the doorway, on the wall was written in Arabic: ‘Such is my vengeance upon those w ho rouso nty jealousy.’ The ghastly tale was told. “Silent from horror, they gathered together all that was left of the gay middie, and covering them with a boat-cloak, the Date’s men rowed back and told their story.. “Lieutenant Fraser told it all to the person who told it to me, and strange and horrible as it is—well, you know ‘nothing is too strange,’ or too horrible ‘to be true’; and my story is true.” Great Salt Like. Great Salt L ike is in fact not a branch of the Sea at all, but a mere shrunken remnant of a very large fresh water lake system, like that of the still existing St. Lawence chain. Once upon a time American geologists say a huge sheet of water, for which they have even invented a definite name. Lake Bonneville, occupied a far larger valley among the outliers of the Iiocky Mountains, measuring 300 miles in one direction by 180 miles in the other. Beside this primitive Su¬ perior lay a greet second sheet—an early Huron—(Lake Liliontan the geologists call it) almost as big and of equally fresh water. By and by— the precise dates are necessarily indefi¬ nite—some change in the rainfall, un¬ registered by any contemporary, made the waters of the big lakes shrink and evaporate. Lake Lahontan shrank away like Alice in, Wonderlaud, till there was absolutely nothing left of it; Lake Bonneville shrank till it attained tl»© diminished size of the existing Great Salt Lake. Terrace after ter¬ race, running in long parallel lines on the sides of tiie W’ahsatch Mountains around, mark the various levels at which it rested for a while on its grad¬ ual downward course. It is still fall¬ ing indeed, anil the plain around is be¬ ing gradually uncovered, forming the white, salt-encrusted shore with which all visitors to the Mormon city are so familiar. But why should the wa'er have become briny ? Why should the evaporation of an old Superior pro¬ duce at iast a Great Salt Lake? Well, there is a small quantity of salt in solution even in the freshest of lakes and ponds, brought down to them by the streams or rivers, and, as thu water of the hypothetical Lake Bonneville slowly evaporated, the salt and other mineral constituents remained behind. Thus the solution grew constantly more and more concentrated till at the present day it is extremely saline. Prof. Geikie (to whose work the pres¬ ent paper is much indebted) found that he floated on the water in spite of himself; and the under sides of the steps at the bathing places are all en- encrusted with short stalactites of salt, produced from the drip of the bathers as they leave the water. The mineral constituents, however, differ considerably in their proportions from those found in true salt lakes of marine origin, and the point .at which salt is thrown down is still far from having been reached. Great Salt Lake must simmer in tho sun for imfhy centuries yet before the point arr'ves at which (as cooks say) it begins to settle.-— Cornhill. . fche Paid Extra. A widow, whose age might have been forty, went into business on Grand Itiver avenue a few weeks ago, and the first move was to get a sign painted. The services of a sign painter were secured, and when he finished his work he put on his “im- print” by placing his initials ‘W. A. H.” down on the left hand corner of the sign. When the widow came to criticise the work she queried : “What does ‘W. A. II.’ stand for?” “Why, ‘Wanted, A Husband,”’ re¬ plied the painter. "Oh, yes—I see,” she mused. -“It was very thoughtful in you, and hero is a dollar extra .”—Detroit Free Press. The Student’s Recommendation, Professor to medical student: “We will suppose another case. By the blunder of a prescription clerk a man taken twenty grains of cyanide of potassium? What would you recom mend?” “I would recommend that the ob¬ sequies be conducted in strict accord¬ ance with his bank account and stand¬ ing in society, sir.”— Chicago Ledger. VOL I. NO. 1 Ycaring for (lie End. Breathe soft and low, O whispering w.ad, Above the tangled grasses deep, Where those who loveil me long ago Forgot the world and fell nsieep. No lowering shall, or sculptured utn, Or mausoleum's empty pride, >j- e {i„ t0 ,| M , C uifon* passer-by Their virtues or the time tlioy died. I count tbo old, familiar names, O’ergrowii with moss and lichen gray, Where tangled brier and creeping vino Across the crumbling tablets stray. 'fiio summer sky is solUy blue; The birds still sing the sweet, old strain; But something from the summer time Is gone, I lint will not come again. So many voices have been hushed. So many songs have ceased for tiyo, So many bands I used to touch Are folded over hearts of clay. The noisy world recodes from mo: I cetvse to hoar its praise or blr." The mossy marbles echo back No hollow sound of empty font I only know that calm and still They sleep beyond lifo's woe and wail, Beyond the fleet of sailing c .ouds, Beyond the shadow o( the vale. I only feel ‘.hat, tiled and worn, 1 halt upon the highway bate, And gaze with yearning eves boy On fields that shine supremely — i’h ilti'h I[ihin llccnrit. 10R0U8. The proper dessert for an under¬ taker is ’wirry pie. A man Isn’t necessarily related to b hen because he lays bricks. An astonishing sign at a tobacco¬ nist’s in Paris: “No Smoking.” The school ma’am who married a tanner had evidently a glimmering of the fitness of th'ngs. Notwithstanding the depression in business circles, the business of the thief seems to be picking up. What is the worst thing about rich¬ es?” asked the Sunday school superin¬ tendent And the new boy said, “Not having any.” “The way to sleep,” says a scientist “is to think of nothing.” But this is a mistake. The way to sleep is tc think it is time to get up. A contest between two dentists as to which of the two could take out most teeth in a given time resulted, as was expected, in a draw. After all, it is the condition of trade that regulates the fashions. Nearly all kinds of garments are worn longer in dull times than in prosperous times. A young man who was jilted f>y his girl, and subsequently married her, says she treated him like a bottle ol patent medicine. He was “shaken” before taken. A writer has discovered that per¬ sons in captivity live a very short time. This may be a rule, but we know of some married men who have attained a remarkable age. Naturalists say that the feet of the common working honey bee “exhibit tiie combination of a basket, a brush and a pair of pincers.” This may be true, but wo never knew before that a basket, a brush and a pair of pincers were so warm to the touch. Kelic-Huntcrs nt Washington. Oh, those relic-hunters! They seized on everything that they could pull apart. At General Grant's first inauguration, the President hat) scarcely retired from the grand stand, when a crowd of citizens clambered up the sides from the ground below, and, witbiu a minute, the chair which the Chief Magistrate had occupied was split into a score of fragments,-- one man capturing a leg of it, anothei an arm, another a part of a rung, and all marching away with them as tro¬ phies of the event 1 After tho funer al ceremonies over Senator Sumner, the relic-hunters sought to obtain pieces of the mourning emblems around his vacant chair. The crape was cut into bits by a score of knives. Indeed, the jack-knives even attacked the mahogany of the desk Itself, and a policeman had to be stationed at the chair! The relic-hunters go to Mount Ver¬ non to visit the tomb of Washington, and break the mortar and rocks from the walls of the old vault, cut twig; ; from the shubbery and trees, and car¬ ry away any little thing that wil! serve as a memento of the place t— Nicholas. What <he Matter Was. “So Clara Felton is married ?” said one Clifton belle to another. “Yes, married last week in New York.” “Who was tho man ?” “Mr. Clarence McSpouter.” “What, that fellow we met at B:u Harbor ?” “The same one.” “Gracious me, bow did she come t< mar-y that green thing ?” “Oh,” w;ts the reply, in a commiser ating tone, “poor Clara was always a little color blind, you know.—Aft)-- c hunt Traveller.