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THE MERCURY. rZna* Second-class Matter at ^tZIcrslnio Postal,ice April 27, Sandersville, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED BY a J. JliRNIGAN, Proprietor and Publisher. THE MERCURY. hjbushbd every tdesmt. NOTICE! A, J. JRRNIOAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO MTERATUBE, AQUIODTiTTTRE AND QENEBAI, INTELLIGENCE. SUBSORIPTtOX•• $1.50 Par Ail Communications intended far thin Paper must he accompanied by the, pull name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, hut aa a yunrantce of yoml paith. ire are <«t no way responsible far the v Ictus or opinions op correspond- cuts. Subscription: $1.00 Per Year,; volume vij. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1886. NUMBER 31. City of SundersTlUe. Mayor. j, N. Gilmore, Aldermen. W. H Thigpen, H E. Houohton, ,T. B Robbuts, A. M. Mayo. S. G. Lano. Clerk. C. 0. Brown. Treasurer j, A. InwiN. Marshal. J. E. Wbddon. THE SOUTHERN STATES. NEW8Y ITEMS GATHERED UP IN PARAGRAPHS. oeouqia. NORTH CAROLINA. A number of wild geese arc reported ou the Catawba river. Tho residence of Thomas Kiunear, in Dublin county, was accidently burned with contents. Loss, $2,500; no insur ance. . , „ —, | A Hat owned by Williams & Murchison, i ort Unities is less than almost any town ] took tire a short distance above Wilminp- of Us size in the etnte I ton> The flnt Bnd cnr>{0 of ,04 , )[lU , g cotton and 178 barrels of rosin, are a CHESTER A. ARTHUR DEAD. EXPIRES SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE. Statistics show that the death rate ol j (illimit, nni of its size in tho state. Over $100,000 wortli of property will be sold nt tho courthouse in Athens on the first Tuesday in December. A, C. WRIGHT, attorney at law, 105 Bay St., Savannah, Ga. JfsTwll'l' VRAOTICK IN ALL THE COURTS. eTs. langmadeT ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. BO B. D. Kviss, J» EVANS k EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE, GA. F. H. SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Will pntetice in all the Courts of tin Middle Circuit and in tho counties vurro uniing Washington. Bpecinl at tention given to commercial law. F. K IIisrs. O. 11 . ItoaEni, HINES & ROGEHS, rneys at Law, SANDER8VILLE, GA. Will iTActiC" in 1I10 counties of Wssliingto 1, Jdtfrn u, .Inlinslon, Emanuel and W1IUI1 eon, mil in die U. S. Courts for tlio flontheru DIs- 1 rt of Georgia, Wi I ml u» egenls in buying, soiling or rent- rc It nl KUnte. Olllco on West side of Tubbo Square. Octll-tf properl,, hands in Washington Wednesday. Prices were still in view of tho coming Wn«h- j ington and Elborton railroad. | It is stated that the cane crop around ; Americas will not come up to what was 1 expected somo time ugo, on account of j the protracted drouth of the pnst sum- I mur. TI10 Canadian Catarrh Cure, Nelson & ; McAfee, Proprietors, of Atlanta, Ga., ] has taken first premium nt the Macon, Gil, Montgomery, Ala., and other state ] fairs. ALABAMA. j 1 "oy 1ms received 21,000 bales of cot- | ton this season. Thirteen now electric lights will bo er ected in Selma nt an early date. All gas- I lights are to lie disposed of. Thursday morning a negro trespasser named Noilly wus found dead on top of | a boiler nt the Alice furnace, near Bir mingham. Mrs Presley Perry, wife of one ot the j oldest and most highly respected citizens I of Marion, was accidentally burned to death Thursday. | Since the IIOlli of September, three new manufacturing enterprises have been started in Montgomery. They are a broom factory, a paper box factory and a sausage factory. Mr. Dan’l II. Workman, an old and respected citizen of Montgomery, com mitted suicide last Saturday by taking an overdose of morphine. lie washed and dressed himself for burial, and then took tho deadly drug. Tile railroad commission of Alabama submitted its annual report to the general assembly today. It says that more miles of railroad are now under construction in Alabama than at any per iod in the'states history. total loss except ten bales of eottou nnd n few barrels of rosin. Insurance $0,000. Governor Scales bus received olHciul information from AV. I). Pruden thnt the survey of the disputed boundary lino between this state anil Virginia, 1ms be gun. The line in dispute is the northern border of Currituck, Camden mid Gates counties. It is thought that it will re quire a fortuiate to complete the survey. 1 A letter from tlmt pluee dreaded by navigators—Capo Hatteras—reports that ! the great porpoise fishery located there, | 1ms resumed operations for this season, ! nnd with marked success. In tho first ! six rlnys it 1ms caught 405 porpoises, ; um\ hnnds nrc kept busy. The tnnnors who prepare the aides for market are nil Englishmen. The leather manufactured 1 is said to be superior to any made lit any | other factory of the same kind. Bobberies of poslotllco boxes at Ashe ville attracted attention ami plans were 1 made for the capture of the thief. The robberies began August !ld last. C. E. Graham & Co., were tho principal suf- | ferers. Checks were taken from the i stolen letters, nnd in two or three cases the amounts of these were raised, in one ' rase from $211 to 420. The discovery has 1 been made by the detectives that the I thief is a negro school teacher named AV. i A. Saxon, of Asheville. President Cleveland Order* (be Canal Hl«a« of Mourning. North Carolina Os ill the market. are worth $121.50 G, W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. —TERMS CASH.— CT Outs' at his residence, on Harria street. Apr20-’80 H. S. H0LUFIELD, Plfsician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Oilloo next iloor to Mis. Bavin's Millinery r •, mi Harris street. HUY YOUIt nu mmwLtM from JEB 1TXC3-A.1T. ' °ne genuine williout our trado mark.) °VHAND AND FOR SALE SPECTACLES, HOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. tches, Clocks AND JEWELRY nEl'AMHD BY O UR, 1 department urplied win, b|| tli^i requisites for doing Muds of Job mi l lloolt work In FirsF U.ibs Kljln, Pro.nut v nnd at ltoa- sonnbla Prices. A man who has been living without a ! skull died Saturday at Hurtscll, from the effects of a fall from a train. Up to the hour of his death, which resulted from ; causes not remotely affected by tin nb- j scnco of it skull, tho convulsion of the brain could be easily discerned and its throbbing clearly seen. Jim Stevenson, nil employe of the Lou isville and Nashville company, was un loading n cur of slag in tho company’s yard at Birmingham. An approaching engine struck the car on which lie stood, throwing liim forward on the track, and the engine passed over his body, euusing | instant death. It is reported that Smith & Eastman, of Birmingham, have organized a stock j company with a millioi dollars capital stock, ami will erect two large furnaces immediately. The Sloss furnace company is seriously considering n proposition of a northern syndicate, which offers two and a half million dollars for the plant ! and ore lands. II is generally thought that if tho trade is consummated that the Sloss company will erect other fur naces. George Hurt, of Loachapokit, the mur- i deter of young Waldrop, is still at large. 1 It. was ascot tained last Sunday that he was still in tho vicinity of the crime. ; q'he citizens arrested a negro by the mime ! of Anthony AVilliamson. lie told them i that he was with George on Sunday, and that they were to meet on 11 certain spot Monday night, nnd on the Tuesday night following they would go to Air. Gom s, ; murder him and take his money, j irro woman, since arrested. c< 1 that they had hired her lo go to Mr. Go- i,p H j„ . rdor that site might open the door when they came Then the mur derers were to go to Mr. liny *, hill him and take his money, and leave the coun try. TENNESSEE. The hog trade has opened briskly. Rutherford county will ship n large num ber of bogs this fall. Cheatham county lias one invalid, one widow, and 17 dependents of the late war one survivor and six widows of the war’of 1811—5 in all-receiving nmonth- ly pension of $70. Tho apple crop in Murfreesboro county, in some localities, was fine. Some very choice apples are brought to market now Murfreesboro mcrcbnntB are shipping turkeys and eggs south. nr N E Knox, a well known physician I at Daisyi left for Hot Springs, Ark , and carried with him a large sum of money i * , * Cofnnlav he was found dead in bed l; 0 C& his i ,o(ka I book, money and all vnlun > m « g I death and notified tlmt the body would ,' U.ta't l»r ...V'tor. »"> Over 7,000 bales of cotton were receiv ed in Wilmington last week, against 4,000 bales for the corresponding week of 1885. An earthquake wave visited AVilining- ton on AVcdnesibiy last, throwing down n large quantity of plastering in the con i t house. The state auditor lias completed the work of making out and mailing the vouchers issued for .pensions this year, and applicants may call at their respec tive post dices to receive them. There lire now 2,127 pensioners, each of whom receive $14.10 from the itnuuul appropri ation of $80,000. A no- onfessed I’", 1 ' r '7' th0 body w.ns sent, reaching balance, and tntiMiu.Y ^ ;, lgtellll 0 f $85 WEDDING CARDS, VISIT.NG CARDS, BUSINESS CARDS, BALL CARDS, but $40, | there on Tuesday Inst butthu I charges, the amount was $.180. Tho Baltimore and Ohio express- com- .1 of the Queen and ( ^ in b cr 1st. The will take c the Southern POSTERS. handbills, programmes, STATEMENTS, LETTER headings, DODGERS, PAMPHLETS, ETC,. BTO.. BIO - will O , llo youthen >-N-r*s”«r35i m S aggregate f° r t e “ flf )aad( 25,122,- pasl y»r, . ^ r. 11; town lots <2,- 809; value $140,004, J of othcr 500; vnlue ± Vfl0 014; total value $324,- property, $24 000,014, ^ ^ m 000,170; BUde decr ease in state These lo from that of 1885 ,nx of nearly $0,000 ir ^ ^ ^ ,0. S5^ (“o«0h.pr ll.» >»' ** IN AU I UM. A fairer face thau are did fancy frame To moin day-dre amsouthe gracious queens, Who roigu o’er noble realms of song nnd fame Sweeter tho sight than alt imagined scenes, As she stood stately Iu nil autumn Held, Her golden ringlets dancing o'er her brow As sunlight |ilnys about a burnished shield. Tho forest spread about her and each hough Showered its hundred rotors nt her feet, A loaf, blood-red, lay in her dainty hand. And from the lips of lily-mold, n sweet And mellow strain of music lilted tho laud. While o'er the hills tho floods of sunset t ame, And nil the mighty West was to l with flame. —John IF. DaJ'oe, in the. Current. A MYSTERIOUS CLOCK. homo the cows fiom the posture lot, or at night, buried in the bed-clothes wo diseuased it. The preparations, too, lmd to he made in tlie night. Wo nearly broke our nocks climbing out on the roof night after night to arrange our ‘‘etack o’ doom,” ns Fred railed it. Nailing the works of the clock in the parlor tircplacc required nil our skill in amateur burglary. laid each bright silver section carefully in its place in the ebony box which ho had himself made for it. As father tin- ished his question Roger snapped dowa tho cover of the box, and rctoi'todj stiffly: “If you allude to tho duet which Miss Flora nnd I have been pi noticing, I must at least thunk you for as much of your compliment ns includes myself. If you But we managed to accomplish the task- nlluilo to the misfortune which seems to although I was shut up behind tho fire, have overtaken your clock, excuse mo if hoard half tho night, and Fred spriiinod I tell you that you or s >me of your liouse- liis ankle, jumping out of the window hold know more about that than 1 do. when mother came into the room after a I wish you a very good evening, Mr. book. j Slinw. Good evening. Mies Shaw.” At last all was rcadv. Bv moans of a And the wrathful .Mr. Betti ohn turned string which one of its could pull from 0,1 *» iM nccl. nnd a moment Inter the front tho kitchen (whore a bidder was to furnish a safe retreat to terra tirma), n shingle, holding the weight at tint top of the chimney, would be jerked out: and as tho weight began to fall the do k would begin to st ike. Tho next thing was to get tho oppor tunity to put our sehemo in opcrnticn. Strangely, Mr. Pcttijohn’s skillful lent of pulling our door boll just so as to ioor shut behind him with no unco, tain sound. “ ‘Miss Shaw'!” I whispered to Fred. “That's murderous! lie's fearful mnd, or he never would say ‘Miss Shaw'I” Roger did not whistle ns he walked briskly down the gravel path. Wo could just see his form as lie passed in the tlnrk- neis. When we looked again into tho parlor, From news received from different parts of North Georgia, the horse thieves are working very successfully. Thu Dublin nnd WrightsvIUe road hits beeu consolidated with the Wrightsvillo and Tcnnille road. Colonel Win. S. Ropes, of the Central, is in control. The impression is increasing that there will be a lively contest for the presidency of the Central railroad, and the friends of the present management arc working en ergetically. The entire debt on the Pandora, the university annual at Athens, lias been cleared off and steps are now being taken towards issuing volume It in the early part of next year. Tho western extension of the Aumri- cus, Preston and I.umpkin railroad will, in about a week, bo ready for the rolling stock nil the way to Antioch, a distance . f 48 miles. Tho end of this week finds twenty miles of track laid on the Georgia Mid land railroad. The work is being pushed steadily, nnd it will not bo many days before regular trains will be running over the road. Tho contract for the Augusta and Chattanooga has been let, and five hun dred men are nt work. The line is to reach Gainesville January 1, 1888. When thirty miles is completed, rolling stoeh will be put on. The incorporators of the Stvannahnud Western railroad company, chartered in 1885, and proposing a line of roud from Savannah to one of three points named iu tho charter, Eastman, McYillc or Lumber City, will meet in Savannah December 0th for the purpose of organization. John Ogietree and Kale Ellis, of Lou isville, eloped Saturday. After riding over nbout half the county, trying to get some one to marry them, they came across Rev. Mr. Sargeant, the evangelist of the colored people, who tied the knot. The bride’s mother wants them married again. Mr. W. L. Byers, who resides ten miles north of Gainesville, lost his gin house by fire Saturday. lie lost about 0,000 pounds of seed cotton and luO bushels of oats, besides six or seven bales of cotton, which belonged to Mr. Lewis A. Keith. It was a total loss, there being no insurance. General T. M. Logan, Alfred Sully and J. B. Pace have purchased twenty-five thousand shares of stock of the Richmond and Danville railrond company. This gives them absolutcijcontrol of the Rich mond and Danville, settles all differences and preserves and consolidates the sys tem. General Logan, who built up the system, but lost control in 1883, again comes to the front. VIRGINIA. Brown’s livery stable was burned Fri day at Staunton. A high wind prevailed. The medical hall of tho university of Virginia has been destroyed by lire. The building and contents partially in sured. A standard gauge road is to be built from Lynchburg to Durham. Subscrip tions have been made to the road all along the route, and the work of con struction will soou begin. The road will bo about ono hundred miles long. IIAIITHOI'DI STATUE TO BE LIGHTKK Captain Picking, Secretary of lighthouse board, telegraphed to Com- modre Benham, inspector of the third lighthouse district, which embraces Bed- bje’s Island within its limits, to take steps for tho lighting of the Bartholdi Swvio of Liberty as soon a* possible, Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died I at 5 o’clock Thursday morning at his res idence, No. 123 Lexington avenue, New York city. He lmd been ailing for some time from a complication of diseases, ; principally kidney affection. Arthur bad lived nt No. 123 Lexington avenue for twenty years or more. A i stroke of cerebral nppoplexy, sudden, ! but not wholly unexpected by the at tending physicians, terminated his life. The stroke came in his sleep between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, i and lie did not rally thereafter. His death was painless—a slow going out of a burned down candle. For hours before rite cud came be wns unconscious to his surroundings. His son anil daughter, , his sister, his former law partner, nnd his closest friend, Surrogate Rollins, were at i his bedside. Arthur’s health hod not improved during his stay at New London several weeks ago, nnd on his return, on , October 1st, lie was no belter than when : lie left the city. As time passed, no per manent improvement came, nnd the physicians feared some such sudden stroke as the one to which he succumbed, i In Ids enfeebled condition even a light stnko of nppoplexy would prove fatal to a robust patient. With the beginning of I lie present week n marked chango for tlm better had set in. Tuesday tho ex- President felt better and stronger than at any time since lie was taken sick, and commented hopefully upon tho fact. It was nftor midnight when his atten dant left him alone in his bedroom, and nothing wus heard of him during the early morning hours. IIo was not dis turbed until nis attendant entered his room at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. He found Mr. Arthur lying on his sido, breathing heavily, and could not rouse him. The family answered his summons, but failed to elicit any sign of conscious ness or recognition from the cx-Prcsident. In alarm they summoned his physician, who responded promptly ana at once saw he was suffering from n stroke of cerebral apoplexy. A small blood vessel in tho brum had burst, and paralysis of the right sido had ensued. From the moment the discovery was made nil hope was known to be in vain, but no efforts were spared to bring the patient back to consciousness. They were all alike fruit less. Mr. Arthur lay motionless nnd speechless nil day. Ho knew wliat wits going on about him, for lie squeezed his doctor’s bund and put out his longue partially when asked to do so; but he never spoke nor gave any other Nign of consciousness. Wednesday at 0 o’clock enfeebled pulse, more difficult respiration, and other signs of physical failure, indicated to the watchful eyes of his physicians that the end was drawing near. The change for the worse came on rapidly, and his sister and children gathered at his bedside. Dr. William Valentine, Dr. Peters and partner, and Surrogate Rollins stayed with them during the night. Mr. Knevnls went home nt mid night. Mr. Arthur’s strength ebbed out slowly, nnd with it his life. It was 5 o'clock Thursday when the eud dime. He had been entirely senseless for hours, and died without a struggle. THE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE. I1Y J. A. Till KHOKI.T.. It was not until father’s patience hud toil'cd to be n |olite virtue tlmt Fred nnd I decided lo cany out our plan. He lmd said so niBiiy times at breakfast. * ■ — . ,,,, , - . ju»t ns belaid down tlio carving knife , cause tho b.U to ring out three dial in: t -'unt L.unbent, prim and s might, In and fork, n I tot- waiting on us all: laps nnd no more, was not performed for her morning wrappe, candle in hand, “Flora, my daughter, 10 o'clock is late a l ull week. Fred and I were in tn u tnl nni * her eyes snapping and gleaming like enough for tiny young mail to stay on an dread overd day that our preparations a cats s back in the dark, stood lietwoen evening!nil.” would be discovered. Anv day father and Horn, looking' inquiringly And Horn lmd ns often looked uu ini might take a notion to clean out the front ono to the olh:r. Mother had also ploringly, her pretty fneo on lire, nnd ■ parlor fireplace and the chimney. Fortu- conic into Urn room, her face the picture said: “Why, papa, how onn I help itt" nntely lie did not, nnd Mr. Roger’s of^bcwilderniont^nn'l despair. To this defensive inquiry father would peculiar ring nt the door-bell nt Inst " ' * not deign to reply, while mother. Aunt pealed on cars that were most intently Eli/abelli nnd we bovs maintained a pin- li-toning for tlmt wclcomo sound, found silence, each doubtless pondering We boys slipped out of the kitchen, how the ditlicu t question might be where we lmd been engaged iu a litrco reived. debate with Aunt Klizaboth on a prop >• Roger PcttijoUn was a sophomore in sition to keep our pet chickens in the the collcgo town in which wo lived. Ho cellar next winter instead of in the barn. ‘ l| ed his class,” was the son of his father, Dur first impulse wus to plant ourselves Judge Petti,joint, n d it general favorite in |>' sition on tlio roof of the kitchen with the young people. Fred and 1 ready to pull ihc string. On second rather liked him; his boats were always thought we reflected that our intended at our gem o, nnd it was one of oitr victim would probably spend the even- choicest pleasures lo spend nn hour in h'g> and wo concluded to make the l est the study which he lmd fitted up iu one °f oar situation by waiting until we of ihc college dormitories, to “bo with thought lie ought to be getting ready to tlio boys.” There whs no end of curious depart. The better to ward off suspicion things there, for Roger was not a mere spent tho evening several blocks “dig,” b t an enthusiastic student of away, with some of our boy friend-, nttltir •, and a fnmoii'good pitcher in the As wo approached tlio house, a little college nine. Hi sides a well-stocked before Ion o'clock, wo saw tho 1 ght nquiuium and it largo collection of stuffed streaming from tho parlor window, and birds, his room was decked out with knew our prey wns stdl there, fencing foils, patent onrs,boxing-gloves, I took my place at the string, t,em it lino pair of antlers rout him from bling with" expectation of Hie critical “™ lu !'-’ 1 Y7‘ Texas, and a good many things that moment,when Fred, who had station d tho valedictory, It o'la'gest m | would interest boys, 3 b himself in the Ida : bttsl.es under tho Roger senrd neatly attached with a blue But the one drawback to our enjoy- south window of tho parlor, should gin; ment of linger I’ottijohn was that ho nm the signal by throwing a pebble on enmo to see our sister Flora not less than the kitchen roof. three evenings in a week, and the town Time, always slow when waited, was clock usually struck II ns lie wont whig- never so slow, it scented, ns during the tling homeward. Not tint we boys or full hour I waited for the thud of that tho It nsehold wore at all put out by his pebble on tlio roof. The night train cnlls. We never heard anything from came thundering up the valley while 1 tho parlor, suvo the subdued murmur of sat there, and I counted echo after echo talking or rending, nnd now and then of the shrill whistle of its locomotive, tl'.c melodious tenes of piano or llutu. nnd traced its snnke-liko line of light uti- Rut it wa> ono of our little domestic tc- til it wound nroiuul a distant lull and crets that Flora was working for tho was out of sight. How tho dogs barked valedictory in her class nt tho Academy, thnt night! I busied myself in distin- " and we all knew she could take it if sho gnisliing the score or more of cnuiiic IVonltli In Waste, could got time to study nt homo. But, voices whoso nightly lmyings were fntnil- , A peculiar class of book hunterslinhnt with all tho numberless housekeeping lnr in our neighborhood. Now nnd then ! tho largo junk shops in search of rare or duties which sho took upon herself, old Uoze, our fnm'ly horse, would shako odd books nnd the popular monthly there was often not much of a study hour himself in his stall and munch his pro- magazines. These genteel chi lion loros, left her. So Roger Pcttijohn's cal's, on- vendor for a moment or two, nnd tlion if tlioy may bo called such, occasionally joynblo as they might be, were not sn cease to make it living sound. A long strike vnluahlo finds iu old literature, cordially thought of or mentioned in tho stoiy could bo told of the pictures that ‘ which costs thorn at tho rate of <1 conts family circle . s they would have been wore cnllcd before my mind by tho noises per pound. Another class of buyers look had they been fewer or shorter. I heard in thnt single hour. up tlie monthly purls of magazines, nnd AH this accounts for the plan which Suddenly, in the midst of one of these upon completing the set dispose of thorn, Fred and I determined to carry out. mental pictures, Fred’s pebble foil, strik- usually to tho (’ornhill second-hand )\ e said t at Mr. Huger Pettijohn tug mo so that I pul e l the string with- book-stores. These buyers often tncklo should be made aware of the (light of out a thought of what I was doing, time, if such a thing were possible. Hurrying down thu ladder, I found It was several days before wo hit upon Fred iu the lilacs, n scheme that suited us. Any number Tho old clock was striking with a nor- ot rude jokes that might easily be votis staccato thnt fairly |nado ns dance worked out came into our minds; but we f„ r j 0 y. it had then struck up to eleven, were not sure that wo should enjoy rude Fred ha 1 given tho signal just as the sit- jokes ourselves. ting-room clock began to strike. Une day at school h rod looked up from Flora and her caller were engaged in his algebra with a pceulini grin. In a „ d „et, she nl the piano and ho with his few minutes I snw a nolo working its fl ldc _\ s long ns the music lasted we way from desk to desk toward me. At hardly oxpectcd thov would bo disturbed , last it came, nnd I eagerly opened it al m. tho clock Wu tho iglit it wns time to drew tho curtain on onr joko. Wo carefully low ered the window, and taking a Inst look at tho distressful tableau, hurried into the kitchen, twitched off our boots, and hastened up stairs In a minute wo went well abed. The cluck was striking ns we dropped off to si cp. Our experiences next morning do not need to bo described. Wo wore found nut, of course. Flora wore an injured air for a weak. Father wm stern, but wo half suspo tod that ho indirectly ap proved our cour-o Roger Pettijohn’* ring did not disturb our door bell for months. When it was certain tlmt Flora had vanquished all competitors for the bend of her class, Fred and ( managed to lei. him know how “misfortune” came up in our clock. \\ e put the works back into the case, nnd with proper ceremony made him it present of it, and it was given tut honored place in his ro in. Wlieunt tli* academy commencmcnt Flora boro off ribbon The funnio t part of the affair wa* that lien tho clock began to strike on Hint m. tnor.ilile evening, Aunt Elizabeth began counting the strokes, according to her invariable habit, nnd, although she went down into the parlor and tc i timed to her room lifter half an hour,she averred that site had counted every stroke, and that thu clock struck exactly nine bund ed nnd ninety-six limes. Nino hundred aud ninety-six o’clock becaiua a family by-word - -Aryohaut. most m plain sigh, of the Argus-eyed Mr. ,, sevorIl , minutc , piano, tlutc and M inter, who, wo thought, spent more imd dock kcpt the peculiar trio, we of lus time in prohibiting “evil commit- b • elljovIn £ it ^-itl. gieantic grins and mentions,’ than in explaining o puitunis ' u , nv Vi..7< kH-s. Through a fold of and construing our difficult Latin scu- • 1 ■ - t ‘nces, Fred's note was as follows: “1’vo got it! You know tlio old clock' Well, I’ll make it strike P. so hard lie’ll un derstand. Don’t forget tt. More later. I hardly understood; but I gave my consent without hesitation to Fred's plan, whatever it might bo; for he had what wo boys call “a long head and a safe heel.” ’ Among the treasures in our workshop was a worn-out clock. The old time- n pit • of old paper stuff that keeps them busy for a week or longer, and it is of ten the ease tlmt their lali a - is unre warded. The law of cumpcnsati >n scums to be a factor in the old junk business, for many people get a good living from other people’s waste, and some oven get rich out of it. Even the old tin cans, which were formerly condemned us use less, and millions of which have been planted in l he creation of the Buck bay district of Boston, arc now utilized, and the metal sheet made from them can be japanned, or tiuucl, or galvanized, or treated in any way that tho material mad - from -the original ore is treated. Out of the iron are made buttons, shoe lace ends, show cards, telephones,electric lights and loiter boxes, small ware, etc. There are parties in Boston who make tlm collection of old tin, tin cuttings nnd old ini cans a regular business, and make money out of it. The material is 3cnt to New York, where it is utilized. So the piece lmd come down from another generation, and had been in its day f , , d Mt with „„„ bund quite valuable; but in the days when , ift , f |. om piano ’ koyg listening Roger Pettiiobn came to see our i.ater mjd wondcri ^ rly ' fho ured striking, which now seemed louder the window-curtain wo could sec the faces of our victims. “Ha!" whispered Fred, “Flo hears il! See! She thinks something’s wrong with thu music.” Tlio players kept on n few minutes longer, when suddenly Flora stopped. , . • . . ... , , The lllute and the clock now had it alone utilization of tin-plate cuttings and be for a moment, and then the sound of the recovery of the tin has grown o.^t of the clock was left master of the situation. b"'™ cliunm-1 ot sc,entitle thought and \Ve were, where wo could see Roger’s experiment that long ago took the rags fane plainly. Tho puzzled expression that f lom the dunghill unil conver ted passed over it- and lingered a moment into sheets of paper.- Wen Herald. was indescribable. Mora had not moved Flora, an old-faahioncd, tall clock was I’rlxca Offered Tor !->kuts by Hlndenia In Nenior Clnaa ol Colleges. I’hc executive committee of tlie Ameri can Protective Tariff League of New York, have decided to offer to student of the Senior classes in all leges u series of prizes for says on tlie subject of the of a Protective Tariff to tlie the Industries of tlie United each essay not to exceed 10,000 words, nnd to be on or before be made the best essay $250; for the second best $100; for the third best $50; and for other essays deemed especially meritori ous a handsome silver medal designed for this purpose and representing the most artistic American workmanship. The league reserves the right to publish, at its own loss, any of the successful essays, nnd to include the first prize essay in the annual publications of the league. not so highly prized a- now. Bric-a- brac hunting was an unknown mania, and a ebek that would not tell the time ot day, no matter how ancient nnd hon orable its history, wns well out of tho way iu u boy’s workshop. This old clock Fred aud l had taken S tilth African Gold Dis reveries. The gold lever that Inis laid hold upon South Africa threatens to rival in its heat and intensity the earlier dins of tho Aus tralian aud ( aliforuian gold fields. Every than ever. Then we saw Roger's lips move, and Flora tun said something which, could not hear. Wlmfot did not seem to understand ,. . . . f . any better than we did. delbcrg and M aterberg d.sti ets of that All nf a sudden both faces turned Repub te. Discoveries are also reported • .V Yc f.i v ’. lum would slowly come to a standstill, .j "',,, jc sent to the office of the league ! , .. _ / ... a,™ hear. It must -fore May 1. 1837, the awards to | if %^ l ^dc disan vcr, "‘ for Flc i i “• *i 1 cioiv t 11 t* i woiilu stare at- us us it in olanlv ciis*ip nn/i n rii e June loth 1887, as follows: lor ; poilltment at bein „ ) e ft behind in tho “ d pointraent at being march of time. But, worn out and use le's as it wns us a time-keeper, it could Fred and I began to realize that « strike as loudly a-d boldly as in its were in something of a scrape younger days; and we had no small hnve been something se- free State. Such a liir.ng miners name* lorn blushed redder than as “Queen of $hebn Roof, ■ ‘ I ho \S heel desperate gleam came into of Fortune,” and ollie s, nre upon tlio Roger's eyes. betrau to realize t _ of a scrape. But we were bound to en joy it while we could. tongue; of every one. and s) cculation grows rampant. It is to be said, to tho credit of South African newspapers, that they are warning their neighbors to ex ercise caution. It is pointed out that of yuuuua uu>n. ohu ***/ “tm uu * .- x un:iluuuuu. u is bh huu nuiu ut amount of f tin in turning the wheels so hear thousand people now in tho Trans as to hear its silvery ring and asthmatic wheeze. After school we discussed Fred’s plan thoroughly and enthusiastically. It is to pry up the window so we could hoar ^ , fle|ds only „ slim! i proportion what was going on. _ . are earning wages, aud many will return to die of starvation on the road. It is a ‘What eartli does this menu, doubtful if wc enjoyed its fruition more Poor Flora had buried her blushes in her hands, and gave no answer. THK HOC! AI L’KOI’AGANOA MANY. IN CiEIt- In spite of the closest watch kept on the barracks at Berlin, Spandan and Pots dam, thousands of copies of Socialistic pamphlets have been found among tho tioops. The matter seized consists mostly of a newly issued appeal to soldiers to join the workingmen hasten ing a social revolution. The source of the pamphlets has been traced to men frequenting soldiers’ beer houses, and several men have been arrested, Japan has 108 Protestant, f.hurghos, with a fpotabcrshlp of U,878. J" characteristic of t-outh African gold that ... . it is usually found iu quartz reef, anti than we did talking it over, aud eagerly herlmtKl 9 , mm gavo no ^ r ' o powerful crushing machinery is there- adding suggestion after suggestion unuil ( 00 ™ et f n ? ‘ fore demanded for its extraction. Tho it was? in our estimation, perfect. *nd back to Flora again, and said, louder consoqUBntly lvr0 „ ot likely to “The plan is just this, Jamie,” said than Dexore. afford great facilities to the small digger Fred. “Take the works out of the case, ‘ ‘I want an answer; what does this all ^ hj< own claim.—9(. James's fasten them in the fireplace, put a long, lne ® n ! , ,,, . , ,, T stout string on in place of the striking- Oh, father, cried l lora, I don t weight cord, wind the reel on the strik- really .know unless the sittmg-room ing side as full as we can, then pass tho clock is bewitched, line up over a pulley at the top of there I have sopped every clock m the chimney, mnl put on the weight. The j house,” replied lather, in stentorian old thing will strike as long ns it takes tones. .... , . , the weight to ran down.” i Roger b face turned white ana reel by It took some lime to get everything turns; but he did not attempt to say ready. Iso spy was over more secret or anything. Father turned to him: cautious in his movements than we. We j “Mr. Pettijohn, cun you tell mo what never talked of our plans whore any one | this unearthly din in my house at neatly couldheur. In the workshop, with doors ; midnight means?’ .... . , . •hut and locked, or at mndown, driving J Roger had disjointed hi> "UvS, wd Gaiette. Eve, Midnight anil Next l)ny. Thesuiall boy, with complacent mien. At twilight eats tho npplo green. Tho doctor pours, at midnight dint, Jamaica ginger iuto'bim. He vows, while in the colie’s power, No more green apples he’ll devour. Next day, recovered from his pain, He hankers for the fruit again,; —Ckarkstown Enterpr n