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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE. A. J. HARP, FmblUher. THE NEW8. Interesting 1 Happening* from all I’olnti EASTERN AND MIDDLE HTATKN. Mrs. Horatio Seymour died a le v days since at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Bos- coe Conkling, in Utica, N. Y. She had been very low since the death of her husband, Governor Seymour. A New York kknatk ape -Ill committee which has been investigating the alleged bribery of New York eitv aldermen in con¬ nection with the granting of tho Broadway surface railroad franchise has made a long report The report alleges that the investigation unearthed gross violation of law, in which public plunder, bribery and oorrup tion, railroad speculators, aldermen and others are implicated. Swift and sum¬ mary meted justice, the the report says, should be out to guilty ones, and the fran¬ chise wrongfully acquired should be restored to its rightful owners—the people. At the sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's art treasures, which followed the sale of her eight paintings inches in high, New York, a porcelain vase made in China about 300 years $18,000. ago, brought the enormous sum of Ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee died few days since at the residence of his son-in- uged law, Ulysses sixty-one S. Grant, Salem Centre, N. Y., Niagara years. He was born in youth; amassed county, a fortune N. Y,; in went Colorado, West in his he entered the legislature, where of t he house; served two becoming in speaker territorial delegate, terms Congress as and when Colorado be- oame a State in 1876 was elected United States Senator as a Republican. He lost soD-in-Iaw $500,000 by the Grant General & Ward failure. His was Grant’s youngest son. f^Tdlad^°h’ eK '^d < ad ley ^ neral ^ reWS< * r ’ The schooner Robert Byron, from Port- and, board, Me., for Cape de V erd, seven men on has been given upas lost. A tugboat’s boiler exploded in Boston ba ay and the crew of five men on board were all killed. Miss Belle Finch, residing near Ithaca, N. Y., has been suffering from some nervous disorder for two years, and is said to have gone without food for the last eighty-five days or more. At least 100 of the 105 inmates of the coun¬ oned ty )>oorhouse at Lebanon, Penn., were pois¬ the other morning by partaking of cof¬ fee which contained Paris green. At night twelve persons were reported in a dying con¬ dition. Frank Murgatroyd, of Philadelphia, sneezed so hard in bed the other morning that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in a few minutes was a corpse. MOUTH AND WEST. Mahpi Gras was celebrated this year at New Orleans with the usual ceremonies. There wasagaily costumed procession headed by the King of the Carnival: the city was thronged profusely decorated; thousands of strangers the streets, and jollity ruled. Nineteen men have been arrested within two weeks near Portland, Ore. by United states authorities on the charge of attacking Chinamen. M. E. Grace, a young lawyer, and J. M Brou, a prominent business man, met in thj clerk's office of the United States distric court at New Orleans, and quarreled about a case which the funner was conducting against a triend of the latter. Pistols were drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly kilit'd, and Brou mortally wounded. The B. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate veterans, Richmond, Va., has contributed *‘6 to the fund for the late General Han¬ cock’s widow. A colored boy of thirteen years, em¬ ployed Tams by Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at Cross Roads, S. C.. attacked his employer mid t lien with robbed an ax, the knocking house. He her senseless, lured and lodged was cap- in jail, but a crowd of citi¬ zens took him out and 1 anged him to a gate post. WASHINGTON. Nominations by the President: Samuel E. Wheatley, of Washington, to lie commis¬ sioner of the District of Columbia; V. O. King, of Texas, to be secretary of legation mid consul-general-of the United States at Bogota ; I bile Letcher, of Missouri, to be con¬ sul of the United States at Rio Grande do Sul. Postmasters—Jas. A. Wall at Methuen, JUa s.; Chas. J. Porter at Bethel, Conn., Henry Van Seoy at Kingston, Penn. Senator Vest, of Missouri, has made a statement to the House committee of mves- tigat electric on concerning his relations to the Pan- lie purchased Telephone contjiauy. He states that 100 shares of stock for $1,000, as eive a regular business transaction, and lias re- 1 one dividend amounting to $10 or $15. The President has vetoed the bill to quiet t tl • o| settlers on the Des Moines river lands m Iowa. He says that the jioiut at issue in tins ease was fully settled years ago, and if re n • c l now it would produce legal strife and a.v,uits. FOREIGN. Fearful storms occurred during the last voyage .of the British steamer Acton, just arrived at Queenstown from Baltimore, and two sailors were washed overboard, while another was killed at the wheel. A party of Apaches, supposed to be some of Geronimo’s band, are destroying lives and property in Northern Mexico. Several, engineers and thirty workmen employed on a Turkish railway near Vianja were killed the other day by Arnauts. Viscount Dgpplin, heir of the Earl of K mnoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day, and is supposed to have committed suicide on aei o.mt of losses at tli gambliug table. ' a1 -paraiso, Chili, has lostan entire busi¬ ness block, l, including the city’s principal "™I IS > y Are; damage estimated at $1,000,- It is announced from Rome that two American cardinals are to be created—the Baitimore P ° f yuebeoaud the Archbishop of Five persons—three passengers and two railroad employes—wore killed and twenty- six passengers injured—thirteen of them trains dangerously—in a collision between two riear Monte Curt the notorious l.u- to; lean gambling resort, 1 UK Princess Helene de Ypsilauti, of Vi- enna, ls announced to lie a bankrupt. She is " daughter of tin late millionaire ban'ter 'iron Hina, and widow of t lie late Greek envoy and minister plonip itouliary to Aus- la Her father at his death left each of his tnfee daughters $15,000,000. Islanders Starving. WOEFl’l, destitution on tiie west¬ ern COAST OF IRELAND. The British government has placed gun¬ boats at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him in his work of relieving the distress among the inhabitants of the islands along the west¬ ern Irish coast. Indescribable distress has been developed the Arran among the people inhabiting having hardly Isles, anything off Galw r ay, who, and beside left but moss sea grass to eat, are without fire and often without clothing and shelter. It is not rare to find girls of seventeen and eighteen years of age kept in enforced hiding ‘fey during the daytime because which are bereft of every thread of clothing, has long ago been bartered away for s ?™ potatoes or roots to feed the smaller children 1 with. ™ P“°ple are slowly dying of starvation by e Rrr ’ rp and measures of relief on a large . > scale have been taken in Ireland. Money nas been sent from America to aid the sul- A BOY’S TERRIBLE CHIME, KILLING HIM FATHER, MOTHER: BROTHER AND NINTER. Ttic Youthful Murderer Tell* the Story o HI* Horrible Deed. Particulars have just been received of tha Murder of the Sells family by its youngest member, a boy seventeen years of age, near Osage mission, Neosho county, Kan. The crime is one of the most horrible on record. Mr. Mendel, living thirteen miles northwest of Osage mission, was awakened about 1 o’clock a. m. by a scream, shortly followed by another coming from the road in front of his house. He went to the door and was met by YVillie Sells, the sou of J. W. Sells, living about a quarter of a mile up the road. The hoy cried out: “Mr. Mendel, a man is at our house with a hatchet and has hurt father and mother. I don’t know how badly.” Mr. Mendel went with the boy, arousing J. I. Uice, another neighbor, on the horrible way. Upon reaching met their Sells’ house a most sight Ill eyes. the the bed in north room lay Walter, Willie’s eldest brother and bedfellow, aged nineteen, his throat cut and the entire top of his head chopped off, exposing the brain. Passing into the main room, where a light was burning, they stumbled over the form of Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost sever¬ ed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells aged forty-three years, her head' mashoil and a fearful gash in her throat. On the lied in the southeast corner of this room lay Ina, Willie’s sister, aged fourteen, killed in the same manner as the other three. Near Mr. Sells’ heal was a bloody butcher knife and on blood. a chair a hatchet, matted with hair and The boy said that he had been awakened by something, with and looking up, saw a low, heavy- set man dark hair, cut close, standing in the door. This man stepped in, and reaching over Willie, struck his brother, Willie who lav in the back of the bed. jumped, .an. and dressed while the man was still in the room. This operation, 1 e claimed, rushed took him of just half a minute. Tile man out one door, while Willie ran out of the other, and started up the road on a run after him. A short distance off stood a man which on horseback, holding another horse, qpon the man vaulted, and both made off. Willie then went on to Mendel’s. After the bodies had been discovered Rice took Willie home with him, where he slept soundly till morning. A coroner’s jury was impanelled rested and an investigation begun. Sus¬ the picion stand. He upon the boy and he was put on swore that he had not washed his hands since the murder, but lns|iection showed that while his hands and wrists were clean there was a water mark about his wrists, and his forearms were deeply incrusted with blood which appears to have spurted up his sleeves. Around his finger nails, also, there was blood, and upon removing his pants his drawers were found to be saturated with spattered blood and his bare feet were also blood-stained. His feet fitted all the bloody footmarks to be. found. The boy stoutly denied being the murderer, and throughout all the trying ordeal main¬ tained a bold front. The boy was smuggled into a buggy by Police Judge Lon Cambern and Deputy Sheriff Locke, and driven to .jail in Erie, for fear of lynching, which ap¬ peared imminent. On the way to Erie he said to Mr. Cambern: “Those fellows tried to get me to say that I did it, but I thought hardly it would doubt be best not to admit it.” There is a but that the boy com¬ mitted the dreadful crime, though no motive is known. Mr. Sells had in his pooketbook $100 in gold and $170 in bills, which were not disturbed, beside three watches. John Hall, of Erie, has been appointed guardian of the boy. coroner's jury The was in secret session all day, and at 4 o’clock P. m. returned a verdict charging young Sells with the crime. The boy was remanded to jail, where he was visited by a correspondent. He protested his innocenccaud showed ncmoi c feelim Mian if it had been so many hogs he had butchered. He is five feet six inches high, weighing 145 pounds. though it He has a stubborn rather intelligent expression. face, al¬ weiTS a His complexion is fair and his moderately high forehead is crowned with a shock of light hair. He has hazel eyes, a straight, well- formed nose and large mouth. His hands and arms are large and muscular. The Sells family were highly-respected country Methodist people. church. They Mr. were all members of the Sells was a school teacher. Willie, the son, is undoubtedly the murderer, and the only motive lie could have had was that his brother Walter had been at¬ tending school away from home, and he had become jealous. Willie, Walter had just returned from school and after murdering his brother, probably thought it necessary to kill tha others to conceal his crime MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Joseph Jefferson will begin a spring tour April 23, under the management of his son Charley. It is reported recuperative that Clara medicines Morns is the obliged to take on stage while acting. The music-loving people of Toronto are making preparations for holding a great mu¬ sical festival in June. Young men who play on the flute or clarionet in Santa the authorities. Barbara, Cal., are ruth¬ lessly fined by Thkodore Thomas, conductor of the American opera of company $5,000 month. in New York, re¬ ceives a salary a Saha Bernhardt says that she expects to make 1,600,000 francs, or about $800,000 during her coming engagement in America. Mrs. Dinah Mui.ock Craik, the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” be and writing other famous novels, is reported to a play for Mary Anderson. William J. Furguson, one of the promi¬ nent eccentric comedians of the American stage, was twenty and Ohio years railroad. ago a newsboy on the Baltimore Forepaugh and Barnum have renewed their last other’s year's agreement circus territory. not to Forepaugh interfere with each will show for the first time in Brooklyn. Mrs. Langtry is busy storing away her wealth here. She has gradually been in adding New to her investments in mortgages York city until she now holds over $150,000. The great English tenor, Sims Beeves, is still compelled audiences. frequently As he charges disappoint $500 ex¬ pectant concert, it is estimated that he loses about per $30,000 is per yearthrough trouble to “indisposition.” him. His throat a sore Aitdran, the author of “Mascotte,” has made another hit in Paris. It is descrilied as a very sparkling little comic opera. Its title is “Le Sarment D’Amour,” and it was played at the Nouveautas of Louis recently. XV. The plot is laid in the time The popular song “His Heart was True to Poll,” which Rosina Vokes has introduced to American audiences, the was originally Brougham’s sung by Mrs. John Wood.in late John burlesque of “Pocahontas.” The sougwas written expressly for her by F. C. Burnand. It is said that when the next and last comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan is sensational completed, W. S. Gilbert will try his hand at society comedy. It has always been his am¬ bition to shine as a successful dramatist, but, although he has written many comedies, they have all proved dismal failures. J. W. La n erg an, a veteran actor, one of the best known men in the East, died unex- pectedly at Boston, March 1. He was fifty- seven years old, and was born at Taunton. He began his theatrical career at the age of sixteen. His field of work was chiefly con¬ fined to New England Of late year- Mr. Lanergan has managed a theatre in Law¬ rence and various companies on thc New England circuit, and has given a great deal of his attention to training pupils ior the stage, ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1886. HANGING FROM FREES, THE FATE OF THREE DlHI’F.ltA DOES IN INDIANA. End of the Aliirilrroii* t'nreer of a Fullin' Son and Brother. Three leaders of a gang of desperadoes in Martin county, 1ml., have just received sum¬ mary punishment at the hands of a midnight band of lynchers, Details of the affair aro as follows: mittee Precisely at 1 1 o’clock a vigilance com¬ of about 10 ( 1 , composed of men from Martin anil (Irange counties, surrounded the j ul at Shoals. The lynchers were very quiet and orderly, and the sheriff was first aroused by the barking of his dog, followed l>v n knock on tho door. He askod who was there, and the answer lowed was a crashing by in blows of the which front door, fol¬ demolished heavy it. The mob then completely went to the jail door and knocked off the lock and were dismayed to find another which would not yield to blows, After .about twenty minutes a man in the ci owd was found who understood opening the cell door. it yielded to iris efforts and the lynchers rushed in and grabbed all three of the intended victims, Thomas, Martin, and Jehu Archer, the latter the smi of is Thomas, the ringleaders of what known us the Archer gang. The mob was provided with the necessary tools, they both to get in and to capture them if made any resistance Several of them had long iron hooks with which to grab the prisoners around the neck if they resisted without endangering their own lives. When tho Archer gang saw the lynchers they offered had no resistance, and they when asked if they speak. Their anything hands to say behind refu e l to ware tied their backs, and they were taken over to the court house yard. They were again asked if they still had any confession lieing given to by make, of and, they no reply unceremoniously any them were 1 abc^t rixf/ ^s strung Xrat y oX , ga^ 8 > < t the of age, brother was Tom, hanged aged first. about Martin forty-five Archer, to years, was suspended next. John Archer, son of Tom Archer, who was about thirty years old, was hanged to a tree with his hands tied be- hind him, about thirty feet from his father, The crimes for which the three men were hanged comprise almost everything in the criminal calendar from murder to petty thieving. For twenty-five years Martin they had been a reigning terror, both in and Orange counties, and had terrorized the community in which they lived until the people did not know when they went to bed at night whether they would be mur- dered before morning or their houses burned down. They never iailed to visit vengeance fora fancied slight, and manv a farmer in Orange and Martin counties has lost consider- able suras ot money by daring robbery, the theft of cattle, or the burning down of barns and houses. ^Martin Archer had i a family living in Southwest Town- ship, yigkdT^teichiuJ^hilin Orange county. " who are e s^ of the country. Old Tom Archer, as he was called, lived in Martin county, Columbia township, and had a large family, every I '110 of whom are under indictments for larceny, SZSt in Columbia “K£’ township, SUTlJnSt and in the past ” year ago and brought to Shoals by Sheriff Padg- | ett. The chief cause for their being hanged was the confession of John Lynch, another I member of the gang, who is in the Washing- ton (Daviess county) jail. He made a con¬ fession and told where the bones of a man named Bunch one of tne vie- tims, were. They were found in two differ- ent graves, the body having been cut length¬ wise, and each piece being buried separate, It seems that unknown parties followed the | officials Buneh when they and went to them the place where j was buried saw exhume the | remains. Word was immediately spread j themselves over the country, accordingly. and the vigilants prepared j j National Education. THE BLAIR APPROPRIATION BI1.1 PASSES THE SENATE. What is known as the Blair educational bill has passed the United States Senate in an amended form after a long debate. The finaj vote upon the bill’s passage was thirty-six yeas to eleven nays. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas—Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Bowen, Call, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom, Jackson, Do!ph, Eustis, Jones Evarts, George, Gibson, Hoar, (Ark.), Kennn, Logan, Mahone, Manderson, Pal- Miller (N. Y.), Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill, 8awyeL^w'ioneiy *Telkw,'Vance/Van Wilson (la.)—36. Wyck,’ Voorkees, Nays—Cockrell, Walthall, Cooke, Frye, Cray, Hale, Harris, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), Maxey, Plumb, The educational bill provides that for eight years after its passage there shall be annual¬ ly appropriated from the treasury the follow¬ ing sums in aid of common school education in the States and Territories and District of Columbia and Alaska: The first year, $7,000,000; the second year, $10,000,000; fourth the third year, $15,000,000; the year, $13,000,000; the fifth year, seventh $11,000,000; $7,- the cj-d, year the 9,000,“On-. eighth the *5,W0,0CJ—making year, 000,000; $77,000,000, beside which year, there is special a appropriation of $2,000,000 to aid in the erec¬ tion of school-houses in sparsely settled dis¬ tricts, making the total fund of $79,000,- 000. The money is given to the several States and Territories “in that proportion which the whole number of persons m each, who, being of the age of ten years and over, cannot write, bears to the whole number of such persons in the United States,” according of oblL^ and 6 thon^aecorcL ing to the latter figures. In States cbfl(hen^^ r nioney sliall°be'pai'/oiiVin'sup- colored schools port of such white and re- Ef ^.drrttw^ twenty-one years old in such State bear to each other by the cen¬ sus. No State is to receive the benefit of the act until its governor shall file with the secretary of the interior a statement giving full statistics of the school system, at- tendance of white and colored children, schools*!^opera^mn^urabe/and teachers, etc. comperisa- tion of y^fr^TtWs’hinTmoromon^than paid out the previous from its own it rev- ha£ schools. year If State enues for common any or Territory declines to take its share of the na¬ tional fund, such share is to be distributed among the States accepting the benefits of the fund. If any State or Territory with misap¬ plies the fund, or fails to comply the conditions, it loses all subsequent apportion¬ ments. Samples of all school books in use in the common schools of the States and Territories shall be filed with the secretary of the in¬ terior. Any State or Territory accepting the pro¬ visions of the act at the first session of its legislature after the passage of the act shall receive its pro mt<* share of all previous an¬ nual appropriations. the right to alter Congress reserves or re¬ peal the act. The bill has gone to the House of Repre¬ sentatives for action. • The word cannibal signifies a brave oi valiant man, and is derived from tin n-ime bv which the Carribees called themselves. By the Sea. C sat by the sea wlien the sun sliono bright And flooded its depths with a blaze of light, And the gulden sheen and emerald green, Liko gems in the crown of a fairy queen, Flashed forth in glittering splendor; And the soft winds sighed on tho shining tide, And the mourning waves to tho breeze replied In tones that were low and tender. I stood by the sea when tho moon was high, And the stars shone out from the midnight sky, And a w, mderous sight was that shimmering light That flashed from the crests of the surges bright, Like the stars in trembling motion; And the moon’s soft ray on the waters lay, And its gleaming track made a bright highway Across the slumbering ocean. I stood by the sea when the lightning flashed, And the waves ran high and the thunder crashed, And the blinding spray that was dashed away By the howling wind in the furious fray, Brought death to the hardy toiler, When his ship, at last, by the stormy blast, A dismantled wreck on tho rock was casts A prey to the ruthless spoiler. The beautiful sea! the treacherous seat A joy and a terror it is to me. A beautiful sight, by day or by night, Is the tranquil sea, by whose margin bright The fisherman loves to wander; A terrible thing when its rage doth bri The angel of death with his sable wing To darken the bomsteads yonder. —Thomas Burke, in Detroit Free Press. AMY’S HERO. A dissatisfied expression was on Amy Carroll’s countenance as she sat listening to her lover, John _ . ... Wentworth, , , cl bhe . had . , |-, een indolently dreaming over Tenny- all , the , afternoon, and , , her tons poems r ,. ;ll see med prosaic 1 compared with ideals, The shimmering . moonlight and j the .. sort ,, zep t- hyrs, j t c perfumed with the breath of June and lilies, failed to cast their , . roses r ’ ® There upheaval ... her soul, was an in Her nature clamored for a life removed from the commonplace, untarnished by fh actU alities of labor, ’ and filled with romance and luxury. The babble and (mull8tl ,.i ,71 ;cV» lfmcrhtpr laugnter floatinc noatrag im up from 110 m tbe me miners’ cottages struck discordantly upon her ear - What romance and poetry was there among those women, absorbed in household cares, and those grimy, hard- handed men? True, those men some- mtmmt. ft.*** but .he, meditated no more upon them than oxen, **« t**-*»» bread. Why could not she have been . born a princess, . instead . , of , the ... daughter , , , of the mine superintendent, without rank and without wealth, though comfortably circumstanced? And what was her lover but an honest, hard-working, mining engineer? ° He looked , , , quite . picturesque, . , tanning . him- . . ge lf j n the moonlight, but he had never performed , ..... a heroic deed, never went on chivalrous quests, nor battled for the fair. She wanted a hero-lover—*;hival- rous, knightly, daring; and he was only a neatly-dressed, intelligent, every day sort of a man, whose greatest ambition was to succeed in his business and to make a cosy home for his Amy. How could she listen patiently to his relation of his plans and of the prospects of the mine, while visions of Sir Launcelot and Sir Galahad haunted her? She was sensible little girl, and did not trouble her lover with her dissatisfied thoughts; but there was an indifference in her manner and a Prance in her tone that he noticed and felt. “Amy, what is the mattqr?” he asked anxiously. ‘ ‘Nothing, ” she answered freezingly. At that moment Mr. Carroll called in an excited tone, “Wentworth, come quickly; there’s a fire in the miners’ row 1” Wenthworth hastily ran down the steps, and the two men strode toward the fire. Amy went to an opposite room, where she found her mother gazing at the rapidly increasing flames. “Amy, let us go there,” she said; per- haps we may be of some aid to the suffer- era. „ They found nearly , all „ the villagers Sobered around the fire, a few squares distant. Men were carrying furniture out of thc bllnlin K buildin * and dashi “g water upon the neighboring houses. Mrs. Carroll and Amy hastened to join the group standing around thc mistress of the eottage, sitting with a babe in her arms and two frightened children clinging to , UCI Blvlru skirts ■ “They can’t save the house,” explained the woman to Mrs. Carroll, “but they’re gettin’ most of thc, things out. They car- ried mammy out first of all,” glancing affectionately at her old, bed-ridden mother. “Yes,” chimed the invalid, “my boy and Mr. Wentworth carried me out easy as a baby.” Amy’s eyes kindled, but something mockingly whispered, “No heroism in that, for there was not the least danger.” Nevertheless, she watched her lover’s cool and energetic movements with admira¬ tion, and gave little heed to the disjoint¬ ed chat around her. At length the building was pronounced unsafe to enter, and the men slowly edged toward the group of women. “Amy, you here?” exclaimed Went¬ worth, seeing her there for the first time. “I came with mother,” she replied, cordially. ‘‘We’ve got ’most tho things out," cried the owner, cheerily, to his wife. “ ’Tisn’t much matter ’bout the old shan¬ ty. I’ll have to build a new house a leetle sooner, is all.” A sudden pallor flashed over his swarthy face, and he shouted, “Good heavens 1 there’s half a hundred cask of powder in the pantry I clear forgot! Run for your lives 1” A sriek of terror sounded; men and women snatched up their children or some household treasure, and ran in all directions, frightened and bewildered, seeking a place of safety. Amy felt John Wentworth wring her hand, heard him whisper huskily, “Amy, go quickly; Heaven bless you, my dar¬ ling 1" and saw him dart toward the burn¬ ing house. “Amy, come—cornel” cried her moth¬ er. “Yes,” she answered, mechanically, but stood still, watching John entering the house. He disappeared—the roof seemed ready to fall—Amy thought him lost, and reproached herself. “I was so wayward, and grieved him. Oh, John! my darling, I cannot live without you,” and her soul wrestled in an agony of prayer. It seemed hours to her before John emerged carrying the cask. Some of the fugitives glanced back, like Lot’s wife, saw him, and raising a wild huzza, heartly returned to aid biro. The mo¬ ment the powder was out of danger, John sank exhausted, and the crowd rushed up, overflowing with curiosity and gratitude; but Amy was first at his side. “Are you hurt?” she ashed, supporting his head. “I believe not,” he gasped; “the excite¬ ment makes me weak. In five minutes more the powder would have caught fire 1” A shudder ran through the crowd at the thought of the devastation they had escaped. “Oh! your hands?” exclaimed Amy, pityingly. He held them up, horribly burned, but he only said, “The cask was hot.” In a few minutes John recovered suffi¬ ciently to walk to Mr. Oorroll’s, where Amy bandanged the poor, blistered hands. “John, did you know how much you risked?” “Yes, I realized it all in a second; but I determined to give up my chance of escape for the small possibility of saving the others. Amy, why did you not go with the rest?” “I could not seek safety while you were in peril.” The next day she told him all her dreaming and discontent of the evening before, adding, “I am prouder of my hero than I would be of Sir Galahad. “Why, Amy?” “Sir Galahad gave his life to a phan¬ tom quest, but you offered yours on be¬ half of humanity.” The Great Seal of the Confederacy. There is a mystery as impenetrable as the authorship of the Junius letters sur¬ rounding the great seal of the confeder¬ ate states of America. Where is it? No man but its possessor knows. It had a curious history. Not until February 22, 1862, did the provisional government be¬ come permanent, and not until April 30, 1863, was an act approved by the confed¬ erate congress for a seal. The design had for its centre a representation of the equestrian statue of Washington at Rich¬ mond, with the legend encircling it, “Confederate States of America, Februa¬ ry 22, 1862.” In a wreath were mingled cotton, rice and tobacco plants, emblem¬ atic of southern products. Below was the motto, “Deo Vindice.” John W. Mason, notorious from the Trent affair, was then in London, and was entrusted with securing the manufacture of the seal. It cost, with accompanying press, wax and wafers, nearly $700. It was from solid silver, and a marvelously beautiful specimen of the engraver’s art. Not until July 6, 1864, was it committed to the charge of Lieut. Chapman, who sailed for Bermuda via Halifax. It was safely brought to Riclunond, and a few foreign documents and very few domestic papers received its impress. It has been erroneously said that it was never used. In the final panic that accompanied the closing of the Union forces upon the con¬ federate capital the seal disappeared.— New York Sun. Mind and Body. Healthy body, healthy mind; or, healthy mind, healthy body. Keep the body healthy, the mind will be healthy; keep the mind healthy, the body will be healthy. A worred mind wearies a young body into an old one. Old age often comes of rust, treadmill, living in ruts, learning nothing new, in¬ sisting one it too old to learn. A young man marries at twenty-three; the woman ditto; they give up recreation, get into the social treadmill, turn their lives into business, housekeeping, calling and re¬ ceiving calls. At forty they are mere machines. Now they begin to lay up for old age; they begin to feel old—get old;* think old; and they are old. Ericsson is active with work and inven¬ tion at eighty-four; Gladstone, in his seventies, is ruling England; DeLesseps, canalling at eighty. To remain young we must act, feel and hope like the young .—Dio Leu>i». The Pump. There the familiar pump, who makes the business of his or her life to rout out every disagreeable circumstance connect¬ ed with every family and retail them around the neighborhood. People speak of her or him as “knowing everything,” but this supreme knowledge is only gain¬ ed by the greatest perseverance and sys¬ tematical pumping. The pump is detestcu and feared; she generally makes her attack upon the youngest and softest members of a fami- ly, going to work after this fashion. She meets little Mary, whose brother George has left the country (as she thinks) sud¬ denly and suspiciously. After kissing the dear child, she takes her into a shop, expends a penny on sweets, then they walk hand in hand, and the pumping commences: “And so kind brother George has gone away?” “Yes.” “And dear little Mary Is very sorry ( isn’t she ? Yes, I know she is. And how’s mamma?” Quite well, thank you.” “Ah! not quite well, of course; but she was very glad for poor George to go, eh?” The pump glances sharply at the child but the little face is unruffled, the sweets are good, and just the suspicion of a smile plays around her lips. “Oh! yes; because it was for his good, you know.” “Ah! he left the bank rather sudden¬ ly, I think.” “I don’t know; I did not see him.” The pump looks baffled and vexed— was it for this she wasted her substance in pear drops? But she continues: “And so poor mamma cries very much, and dear papa was angry with George?” ‘ ‘No, he wasn’t; there was nothing to be angry about.” “No, dear? I thought you said that when poor George came home unexpect¬ edly mamma cried and papa was angry.” The pump had met her match for once; the child looks and laughs. “I didn’t say anything of the sort, and George told me to tell you if you asked any questions that there’s an iron pump in our garden and you can exercise your¬ self there if you like.”— Tinsley's Maga¬ zine. Intelligence in Dogs. At the meeting of the British Associa¬ tion at Aberdeen Sir John Lubbock read a paper on the intelligence of the dog. Sir John remarked that it was surprising how little we know about the true nature of animals. This, he thought, arose very much from the fact that hitherto we have tried to teach animals, instead of to learn from them; to make, for instance, the dog understand us, rather than to under¬ stand the dog. He suggested that some such system as that adopted with the deaf mutes, and especially by Dr. Howe in the case of Laura Bridgman, might be tried with advantage. For this purpose he had selected a black poodle, Yan, and then presented pieces of card-board ten inches long by three feet wide, on which he printed words such as “food,” “wa¬ ter,” “tea,” and no one who had seen Yan look down a row of cards and pick out the one he wanted could doubt that he was able to distinguish the different words: and quite understand that a card was equivalent to a request. The cards were certainly not recognized by scent, because he used a number of each. He suggested that some one with sufficient leisure might carry this much* further, and that the attempt would be well worth making. Professor Flower mentioned that he had seen within the last few days a dog which knew the return of Sunday. Nothing could induce the dog to go out with him, though on other days, when he took his stick and hat, he showed great anxiety to go with him. Professor Flower attached great importance to kindness in the teaching of animals. Miss Katherine Wray gave an interesting account of how, in three weeks, by means of a bone attached to the door-bell, she had taught the dog to ring the hell. C. C. Walker mentioned that he knew a family which had taught their dog to howl at the late Opposition and show great interest at the mention of the late Government. Mrs. Stokes thought that some animals seemed to have a greatei power of communication with animals than others, and she mentioned an En¬ glish professor who seemed to have the power of calling birds from the sky. A Place for Everything. An Eastern man in Dakota said to s citizen: “Is this Mr. Bulge?” “It is,” said the citizen, suspiciously. The Eastern man put his hand in his pocket, and immediately the cold muz¬ zle of a revolver was pressed against his nose. “None of that!” shouted Mr. Bulge. “Throw up your hands! I've got the drop on yon!” “I w-w-was only g-goingto offer y-you my b-b-business card,” said the fright¬ ened stranger; “I’m from Boston.” “Then I beg your pardon,” apologized Mr. Bulge, lowering his pistol; “but when you are in Dakota, stranger, you should never carry cards in your hip pocket.”— New York Tinies. VOL. I. NO. 25. CIIILI1RKVS COLUMN. , IVnlliiiiK l.lkr Mother’* A kiss wlien I wake in the morning, A kiss when I go to bed, A kiss when I burn my tinklers, A kiss when I bump my Head. A kiss when my hath is over, A kiss when my hath begins, My mother's as full of kisses As nurse is full of pins. A kiss wlien T play with my rattle, A kiss when 1 pull her hair. She, covered me over with kisses The day that, I fell down stair. A kiss when I give her trouble, A kiss when I give her joy. There's nothing like mother's kisses To her own little baby boy. Jnmho in * Criidrin.ii. Mr. linruum sends the following short account of Jumbo’s introduction to his herd of elephants; “The day after Jumbo’s arrival at Madison Square Garden -we resolved to introduce him to the thirty-five Indian elcphenta which we had there. Some of us feared the result, but Scott insisted that Jumbo was too much of a gentleman to misbehave, So we placed our thirty- five elephants in a row, each being chained one leg to a post, and then Scott led Jumbo in. He passed in front of the string of elephants, looking at first a lit¬ tle surprised, as did all the other ele¬ phants when they first discovered him approaching. But Jumbo and all the other elephants at once looked kindly, and each extended its trunk as Jumbo passed, which he fondly took with Us own trunk, giving each elephant a kind caress. Mutual affection seemed at ones established, and it extended without in¬ terruption till the day of his death."— Harper's Young People. A Chlneie fiame-Sonf. “ Loy Yow, a bright, red cheeked Tit¬ tle Chinese girl, “blinded” her eyes and eyes and the rast of the players fell into line with their hands Held open in cop- shape behind them, while Wong Hay circled around the line lightly touching the open hands as she passed, and croon¬ ing in a peculiar Chinese sing-song tone the following little game-song, much as American children sing, “ Tread, tread the green grass,” or “ Green gravel, how the “ Come maidens all, and stand In line, back your flower-like hands to mine The pledge now flies, it flies away To the Eastern land—to the land of day. ’Tis the lantern feast! Ninth moon commands! Now, maidens, lift your flower-like hands. 1 ’ To Loy Yow, whom they now called “Hide-Your-Eyes,” Wong Hay now sang: “Come, thunder-shower, with all vonr power, And open this four-fingered. flower!" Meantime, as she sang, she had drop¬ ped in one of the hands the little pledge —a thimble or some Uttle keepsake selec¬ ted for the occasion, much as American children use a button in a similar game. At the words, “ Maidens, lift your gold¬ en-flower hands,” as it is literally trans¬ lated, all the hands were raised high above their heads, but closely shut, so that none could tell who held the little pledge. At the words addressed to "Hide- Your-Eyes,” Loy Yow came out fromthe shed, and, using a long stick as if it were a wand, pointed to the one whom she suspected of having the little pledge. She was not successful, however, for the hands opened and nothing was found there. So ohe had to try it all over; while Wong Hay walked about again, and sang the little oriental melody. The second time, she looked very closely in the faces of her Chinese play¬ fellows, and she saw so funny a look on Qui Fah’s that she i mm ediately pointed her out. Qui Fah’s hands were opened amid much laughter and merriment, and there was the sought-f or keepsake I Then they changed places, and Qui Fah be¬ came “ Hide-Your-Eyes.— St. Nicholas, An InterstlBgr Discovery. General Meredith Read, in his speech at the banquet given in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Historical Society on the 200th anniversary of the introduction of printing into the middle colonics, an¬ nounced an interesting discovery which he made when United States Minister in Greece. In speaking of Franklin he said; “Wherever types are set, or the electric spark may Wander and. work, Franklin’s name is commemorated. The most re¬ markable result of Franklin’s discoveries, the electric telegraph, owes its name to that mother of civilization, the QreoK language, and it is a remarkable fact that the venerable rocks which watch over the violet-crowned city of Athens have assumed the philosopher’s features. For I discovered many years ago, while daily scanning the outlines of the ancient Acropolis, that the northwestern profile looking toward Mars Hill and the sea is as perfect a likeness of Franklin as the southeastern is of Washington. It is a happy and a striking coincidence that the father of our country and the man whose key unlocked the mysteries of the universe look down from that classic hill from whence flowed the influences which gave to mankind the sciences and the art of not governing too much.” A liquid black lead for polishing stoves is made by adding to each pound of black-lead one gill of turpentine, one gill of water, and one ounce of sugar.