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QUITMAN, A.,
J, C. GALLAHER.
TF.RMS O#* snisnUPl’lOX i
TWO HOLLA US per Annum in Adritncft.
Tllfc LO\G AGO,
'*Oh! a wonderful stream to the Rivtri of Tltiws,
An it nin* through tin* realm* of tear*.
With faultless rhythm and* musical rhyme,
Aud m hmadcr and a irtirgv *nl)lHnt.
Am! blend* with tho of yearn.
Bow the winter* arc drifling like flake* of stum,
Aik! summer, like burin between.
Anri no the year in tho sheal—no they come and
they go
On the river’ii breast with its ebb and its flow,
Aa it glide* in the shadow and seefi.
There’* a magical isle nn Uie River of Time,
Whore the softest of air* are playing;
Then*’* a ehmriloK* akv and a tropical clinm,
Aud a song a* sweet a* a reaper chime.
And the June* with the rose* are staying.
And the name of the ilao is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brow* of beaut v and bomfoms of snow:
Tii ere are heaps of dust, but we loved them ho!
There are trinket* and tresae* of liair.
There arc fragments of song* that nobody Kings,
And a part of an infant* prayer;
There’* a lute unawept, ami a lnirp without strings,
There art* broken vow* nml pieces of rings,
Anri the garments she used to wear.
There arc hand* that wavt- when the fairy riioru
By the mirage is lifted in air.
Ainf we sometime* hear, through the turbulent
roar,
SWwet voice* wc heard in the days gone before, '
When the wind down the river is fair. * j
Oh ! remembered for aye l*e the blessed Use, " ;
All the day of life tfTl night
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile, 1
And our cyo* are closed to slumber awhile.
May that “Grceiiw***! of aoul” be in sight” *
{For the New York Sunday Mercury.]
KNUBBS’ SECRET.
BY SKARMKT tUYSKth
Mrs. Jenkins Kays I'm a pretty man, very em
phatically, but 1 am sure she does not mean it,
Chough whatever Beraphina Jenkins may think, |
Heraphina Scruggs whs proud enough of my ap
pcnruiice when J courted her. It's just like J
everything else. Lifeisi great disappointment. !
W iieii J married Hera phi n a on my salary of two J
thousand a voar l didn't expect Heraphina**
uiother to arrive the next day and station her
self in mv easy chair in front of the parlor grate,
where I did expect to be so <*>*y evening* oppo
site ty own little wife, nor did 1 exjuvt bem
phciM H sister Jane, whose temper was none of
the sweetest, but they c ame, and as it is seven
years since mr wedding-day, 1 got accustomed
to them some tiuwMOca
It m a real trout to see the old lady can t'
and bear bor order the dinners, hlu* enjoyed it
m>. Wt* fiMiMd Jur anirc girl when Hite wasn't
offended, which happened once in u while,
though Mb© had nn immense number of corns,
metaphorical ones, I mean. Of course I wouldn’t
presume to HiM-aik of the other kind on a lady’s
l*ot.
1 don’t care to sit by the tire much of evenings,
and 1 guess Seraphina doesn't either, As 1 was
Having, i mm* used toinother-in-lnw and Jane, but
1 did feel a little put out nlsjut Kmihhs when he
lirst came. i met him at my friend .Smith's.
Hiuith is a good fellow—genial as the day. Told
tue Kiiublm had been paying him a long visit,
mid was just us jolly about it as could be. I
don't sec hw he hOmkl it so well. Introduced
me ; told me be was sure we’d like each other,
Ho made a mistake there ; I didn’t like Knubbs.
He came, though. It was the day after that
dinner at Smith's Hint lie. arrived with a bundle,
a pair of old shoes in brown paper and an
umbrella. We had tea, and after tea a game of
whist- Kiiublm and mother-in-law against Jane
and Sera pit ina. 1 remember that I helped Sera
phima, and Jane was angry because Seraphima
lost a point, aud hutibbs said *; Ahal” (Knubbs
has a disagreeable way at cards gloats so over
every success.) It began to get late. It con
tinued to get late very late indeed ! Heruphina
yawned behind her handkerchief. Mot her-in
law walked uflf boldly with a candle. After a
while Knubbs remarked that it wus ruining ;
that he had a cold ; that In wasn’t particular
a I Mini accommodations ; that, in short, in- would
feel it m great obligation if he might be allowed
to remain all night.
lie did. He remained in the front parlor until
liis mysterious bundle had grown to an immense
size. Ho never took anything out, hut was
always coining m with another pair of old shoes,
unjaipaca coat, or some other article of hi-* well
worn wardrobe to add to his baggage, which In
decently covered with a piece of damaged brown
paper. It was about tins time, 1 think, that
Sirs. Jenkins began to cull me a pretty man !
At last mother in-law furnished a room for
Knuhlr*. That is, she told me what would be
best to get, and I got it. That is the history of
Knubbs coming I’m conscious tlmt it's a long
one, but one can t tell Caesar's history very well
without lirst telling win# Caesar was.
If Knubbs’ intention was to discover every one
of the aforementioned “corns” he was very suc
cessful. For the lirst three mouths aft* r his
arrival Jane was ill a chronic state of bulT.
Sometime* she wouldn't speak to any one but
mother-in-law for two weeks at a time, and re
fused to cotrn- to table until Jane and 1 and our
domestic had been up several times in relays of
ooe to;fetch her.
If they wouldn’t have insisted on playing cards
•very night the kutiM might have been bear
able; but they would, Kegularhr, every evening,
but Sunday, they brought out the cards, and
whenever ftnubbs won he was sure to say “Aha!”
and whenever Knubbs said “ Aha ” Jane flew into
a rage. It wasn't very much letter when he
loot, for then lie would renieittl*.-r that someone
hod looked at the trump. He wasn't willing to
let it go. He hadn't ordered anew deal, though
be might; but, of course, no one could phiy with
*ueli cards. Then Jane would want to know if
that was her character, and mother-in-law would
say that men were polite iu ln-r young days, a*d
Knubbs would say :
•‘Hut, madam, reason is reason,” (whatever he
meant by that), and Seraphina would burst into
tea m, and say :
‘•Don’t Jane!** thereby bringing Jane’s wrath
down on her own devoted head, and the rest
would separate, looking daggers at each other.
Many and many a time I was sure it would
come to murder.
Kntibifs wore a great deal of yellow flannel
about his neek, and a yellow brown coat, and a
red velvet waistcoat, and about three pairs of
trowser* -this ln*t I can vouch for, because they
always appeared in tiers, the smallest outside.
I never consider' and him a model in dress, and I
must say I was a little astonished to find Jane
and him disputing on the subject.
“ Look at me, madam,’ said Knubbs, standing
tip, the better to display his toilet. “I never
troubles! myself about my dress ; but look at me P
“ I have, said Jam in her peculiar way.
“Well, madam, what fault have you to find?
Do you know anybody that dresses in better
taste, more comfortably, more finely, wore
cheaply, at the same time, than I?”
“ Yes,” tmvd Jane, and Knubbs sat down help
lessly, as if be bad been shot.
Thev didn’t drop the subject—they kept it up*
I heard them long after I had retired, fierce aud
hot.
Next morning tliere was a note slipped finder
niy bedroom door, evidently in Jane’s hand
writing, addressed to Seraphina, and signed
“ your loving sister, Jane Scraggs,” ns was her
custom. We did not doubt at the time that it
was Jane’s. Thus it ran •.
“ Dear Sf.ra :—I have made up my mind to
visit the Bartons, and shall not be back for a
couple of weeks.”
That very morning I began to notice; thwt
Knubbs acted strangely. He lidgetted in his
chair, especially when mother-in-law x looked at
him. He answered everything in jerks, a word
at a time. He seemed "as ill at ease as if the
apartment had been peopled with ghosts. We
found ourselves watching him. Presently he
took a pinch of snuff and flourished his yellow
bandanna. We waited impatiently for his ques
tion. Mother-in-law fairly snorted and inquired
of some unseen being why the man couldn’t
speak out. ,
“ Miss Jane has not been down,” he said, at
last. “Is ahe—has she—that is to say—why
not?” # . ..
“Gone to pay a visit,” explained mother-in
law.
“ Yes, of course. Where ?” asked Knubbs.
Seraphina gave the required information this
time. As for me, I could do nothing but watch
Knubbs. I became uneasy. I remembered the
conversation of the night before, and how Angry'
Jane had been. She bad not made her appear
ance among us since. An awful thought crept
into mv mind. It haunted me. I awoke in the
night with mv hair on end and my flesh creeping.
I sprang from my bed, dressed, went to the tele
graph office and siut a me 'f-agt to Jane bcraggs
at tue Bartons.
fallal )tf§ Jnftcpeniieni
VOL. 11.
i Ooiuing Inune, as I opened the street door
Iwi t h my latch key. a sound caught my ear,
distant and faint, but undeniable. Again it
| came. Neare r. It had been in the sub-c ellar, a
decpiuulawlul place, not evou list'd tor rival vaults.
Next it came from the roller, the sound of foot
) steps approaching. A light fell upon the*wall ~
i a stealthy creeping step dose at hand. I nulled
| the vestibule door shut, and stood outside,
i Knuhbs in his night gear, with an old-fashioned
| cloak around him. knubbs with a candle. Not
j sleep walking—wide awake, shivering, stairing.
I I shivered and stared, too.
j Up the stair* he went, slowly ami stealthily,
I candle in hand. He was out of sight. What
j was Knuhbs awful secret? What mystery would
the sub-cellar reveal ? I crept to my own room.
{ i seemed to feel,two spectral hands stretched out
to grasp my coat-tails. I seemed to see white
lace s rising up tluough the darkness. Tho next
morning I said to Knuhbs. quite casually:
** Up in the night, Knuhbs?”
I Yes— no,” he stammered. “At least—that is
| to say- I did get a drink of water.”
; “ Water in the sub-cellar! Ah, Knuhbs!”
j There was a peal of the door-bell. The tele*
i gram at last. Knubbs loft tin l break fast'■•table at
I that moment. I signed my name with trembling
j Angers and read ? “Jane is not here."
i “ Great Heavens!” I crie and, falling back in my
• chair. Mother-in-law and Juno rushed forward
I and snatched the paper* ottering fearful Shriek*.
I “Poor Jam !” cried Heraphina, wringing her
j hand*.
; “Hold me! I shall die!” said mother-in-law,
I faiutly.
I wasn’t in condition to do so, for she is a head
' taller than I and twice the- weight. ,
| “ Listen!" said I solemnly. “ The night before |
last Jam: had u furious quarrel with Knuhbs. j
[ Jan eis not at tin- Bartons. Last night Knuhbs j
was in the sub-cellar in the dead of tin* night.” ,
1 won’t describe the scene that followed mv !
words ; but presently l heard Knuhbs descend- i
i ing the upper stair*. I rushed up in haste to sec
his coat-tail disappearing through the: street
door. 1 called to a neighbor’s uoy who stood
upon tho pavement —
“Fallow that miscreant, boy! Report to me
I what he does, and 1 11 reward you well.”
Mother-in-law is a splendid woman. She
looked absolutely like a aruidical priesto**, or j
something of that sort, a* she handed me a j
lighted caudle, aud said, in a majestic voice of j
command:
“Go! Explore the sub-cellar. Tell me what
you find. 1 will try to bear it.”
It was sublime. She couldn’t understand my
feeling*. My marrow congealed on the way
down. It froze when l found, in tho darkest
corne rof the cavernous fault, a place whore the
earth had been freshly stirred, a broken spade.
C). horrors 1
“ Hister, thou want mild and love ly,” I mut
tered, trying to think of something pious. I
knew that wasn't exactly it. for Jane had her
teinner, poor thing ; but mv mind was disturbed.
Wneu l reached the earth tin: neighbor’s boy
bad returned.
“He went to the telegraph office,” said lie*
breathlessly, “and sent it message.”
What ?*’we shrieked in chorus.
“* I have* dug it up. Meet me at noon.’”
“ Who was it sent to?” asked 1.
“ l don’t know,” said the* boy.
“Then we have lost our only clue,” said I.
“ Knuhbs does not me an to come back.”
Ktiubbs did not come. We prepared to issue
a warrant for his arrest. We had our advertise
ment written when a letter arrived, which put
an end to this awful tragedy, but not to my lies-;
pair.
“ ]>KAU MoTHKK AM* SmiAIHINA.- I told ft
little Mb when 1 said 1 was going to the Parlous.
The fact is, lam married to Knuhlm. Wo will be
home in a fortnight. And, Knubbs says he thinks
it would ho only right to write bis dear sister mi
such an occasion. Vcutr’s, truly, Jane Kiiublw.
“ I*. S. Knubbs looks so sweet in his new
clothes!”
We stared at each othe r. Tie lette r was cer
tainly genuine. What then had Knubbs dug up? I
Whateve rit was, it wasn’t June, and mother-j
in-law and Herupfiiim embraced. It was a!
Kecrc I hoard of money, us Me discovered after-i
ward, which Jam* had i*c*rsiuwled him to expend.
Vy*at inflm nee a woman has, to be sure! So
.fniir and Knubbs oiinc* home, so did Knubbs' |
sister. 1 wonder if Inotler- in-law can a fibril a j
larger house mmy present salary, 1 wonriei no, 1
I've done wandering. Home body asked me ut tin- i
reception if 1 was going to stay with tho
Knubbsua.
(For I lie N. Y., Hunday Mercury.]
l>Mi(.on or I’cnlon.
Y caitais cn.iki.i:* iiowahp.
*
“His name is Reuben Denton !"
“His name is Andre Fenton!’’
The Speakers, two good looking, keen-eyed
men, .-at in a small room on the third floor of ii
•Southern hotel. The apartment was darkened,
but light enough was admitted to reveal wine
bottles and goblets on the- oval table, upon which
the men’s feet rested.
“I s* * we euimot agree on the identity of the
■ assassin,” remarked one of the twain, seriously,
after the laugh that followed the sec ond deelara
i tion had subsided. “Wliut dot fin propose?”
“I propose to hunt Andre Kenton down, and
hang him for the murder of Darke Beadle. And
iynu?"
“Ijiropose to catch Reuben Denton, and hang
him for having sc*nt Parke Beadle into the spirit
world before- bis time.”
“J am confident that you will never bang your
! man.”
“And I with equal confidence will wager my
I he ad that you will never hang yours.”
“ 'Nous verrons,’ as our foreign friends say,” rc
i plied the second speaker, with a smile, reaching
J forth aud taking the-, brimming goblet which his
j companion extended. “To what or whom shall
we drink V”
“I propose the speedy capture of the right
| man
‘•Whose name is Fentoft.”
“Your panicm; hi# cognomen in full is Reuben
Belknap Denton/’
Amid much mirth the goblets were drained, and
a few moments later the little chamber was dcser
ted.
The two men, as tbo render basdoutless divined
i ere this, were* detective's, and a very mysterious
affair bad brought them together in Mobile.
Let me recall it, which I will do in a tew words,
for I intist hasten to the hunt of the detectives
: for the man whose Viands were red with blood.
One night in the middle of October. IHS-, Parke
Beadle, president of the Palmetto Life Insurance
Company, Was found in bis private office dead.-
He sat in a green office-chair before the desk, upon
i the yellow lead of which bis head lay, He seemed
asleep, for he often slept in this singular position;
• but, when b secretary tried to arouse him, it
was discovered that the spirit had taken its etern
al flight. A knife-wound was found in the back,
and a surgical examination showed that the glit
j tering steel had touched the organ of life,
j No signs of a struggle were visible; the iron safe
i which contained several tlmusauds, had not been
tampered with, and the papers of the company in
the desk were complete. The object of the as
sassin must have been revenge, and the affair
puzzled the jwjliee and the fteteclives# Tbecom
. panv offered a large reward for the apprehension
of the murderer, and to this sfnn the secretary
: added a thousand from his own private purse.
| Parke Beadle's antecedents underwent a thoro*
| examination. He possessed few enemies, and
they not of the kind to which assassins belong*
A telegram sent to a prominent Northern de
! tcctive bureau brought two noted man-catchers
to Mobile—Clando Colby and Mark Vareton. They
had distinguished themselves in two worlds, and
loved mysterv. Before reaching Mobile they
agreed to worA separately for several weeks, and
j then meet and compare notes.
! They did so.
Mark Vareton read the fcllowing mem:
j “In the winter of 1849, in the city of Guutemala,
Province of Gautemala, Central America, Parke
! Beadle #l¥*t an adventurer named Andre Fenton
in a dtrei. Andre Fenton, supposed to be mor
: tally wounded, swore revenge. Kf- recovered: he
was" seen in this city two days after Beadle's mob
dir. He is the man!”
Whb a smile on his handsome face, Claude
Colby drew forth liis note !>ook and read the fol
i lowing entry:
“On the night of September 15. Reuben Denton
| purchased in New Orleans a dagger. Reuben
j Denton was Parke Beadle’s private secretary. The
deceased had kept a diary tor thirty years. The
diary for 185- iH missing from his paper#; tl#*t
| riiarv contained accounts of money loaned to Reu
ben Denton. Reuben Denton offers one thousand
I dollars reward for the capture of the president’s
murderer. He (R. D.) is not worth the sum. He
i was lately rejected bv Maud. Parke Beadle’s
daughter. Reuben Denton is the man !”
Thus the detectives differed, and the disagree
ment led to the conversation that follows theopen
: ing of onr story.
Therefore, it was resolved that Colby should
; trail his man. and Vareton his.
A fortnight after the comparing <f notes Claude
QUITMAN, (IA„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER li, 1874.
| Colby left Mobile, and a week later Vareton fol
| lowed him. The former sailed for New Orleans,
S the latter for New York. 1 should mention here
! that a fortnight after the murder Reuben Den
j ton, the secretary, left Mobile, saving that he
could be addressed in the Crescent CHv.
j Colhv carried Denton’s photograph in ids pocket.
! It had been given him by the mufriereri man’s
daughter, and her parting word* still rung iu his
I ears:
“If vonr hunt proves successful, do not fail to
return to Mobile.
She was a beautiful girl, almost killed by grief,
{ for the usbasHiu’s knife had left her alone ill the
i world.
In New York Vareton lost the trail of his man.
He tracked him to a metropolitan hotel, and
found among the remains of n coal fire in the
room which he hud occupied, a piece of crumpled
paper on which wus traced, in Spanish, these
words:
“There’s a bullet in my breast, and a poignartl
in Parke Beadle’s back. Ha ! ha !’’
Strange to say, Reuben Denton left it trail of
crime in New Orleans, which Colby found.
In his hotel apartments he shaved himself, and
the paper, covered with lather aud crushed iuto
;i brittle pulp, was a leaf from the missing diary.
Had the detectives met after the discoveries
just mentioned, they might have quarreled over i
the identity of Parke Beadle’s murderer. Colhv )
| found more tbau the diary leaf that interested
, him, viz,, he discovered that an old man had ta
ken pa ssago in the bark Algonquin, bound for
' Bremen. Thatold man was Roußon Denton. The
( detective hastened to New York and stepped on
[ board tlu l White Petrel. He entered his name
i aa Royal Dunbar: destination, Bremen.
The self-same day that witnessed tlu* White
I Petrel's departure from New York, saw another
j vessel spread her snowy sails. She was a fast
, sailing craft, and she carried a passenger who hud
! written on her regia tery, “Joseph (j. Brewster, I
Havre.” That passenger, who appeared a man of
means, and whose 1 dark mustachins were elegant
ly waxed, was Mark Vareton, the detective.
The nutioue oitv clock of Baden Baden was toll
ing the knell of a March day, when s man entered
one of the elegant gambling den* of that liaunt
jof vice. Though the hour was early, the tables
were crowded, and bis entrance was scarcely no
ticed. He was a tall man, with piercing eyes and
flowing side whisker*, and he carried a little
ivory-headed cane.
He approached the main table and looked at all
who sat thereat. There sat the Frenchman be
side his national foe, the Prussian, aud the Eng
lishman's elbow touched the American's sleeve;
the Spaniard and the turhanod Turk fought the
emerald tiger side bv side, and the princess of a
ducal line watched tin* croupier rake in her gold.
All was excitement. Faces proclaimed the
winner and the loser.
The man who lately entered looked on without :
a word, and when his eyes had ceased to wander
up and down the table they rested on a dark
featured man who sat mar tho croupier. His '
skin proclaimed his residence under a tropical |
sun, and there was Spanish blood in bis veins.—
He was playing heavily, but the fates were j
against him, for lie was losing. When, at last, he j
lifted his eyes, he encountered tho gaze of the j
new-comer, to whom ho faintly smiled and nod- i
ded.
He plated until midnight, when ho arose and i
beckoned another man from the table.
The pair left the house aud paused oil the j
terrneo,
“Sir, we will settle that now,” said the .dark- ]
featured man.
“Settle what?” asked bis companion, looking
both surprised and astonished.
“That little difficulty between us, What 1 have ,
you forgotten?”
They spoke in English.
“You mean the affair of last night?” said the
man addressed.
“I do. Fox Carlyle, you have not only insulted j
me, but you have slandered tin* name of a lady. J
I told you last night that I would demand satis- >
I faction. 1 demand it now.”
j ‘1 would advise vou to wait till von are calmer,”
! said the other. “Vou have lost heavily this night, j
■ and your nerves are unstrung. Your ball might |
fly wide of the mark. Yes, I would advise you to i
I ' vni, -“
; “Wait! Coward!
i Tin last word was a hiss.
The man called Carlyle stepped suddenly for- ;
ward, and there was au oath on his lips.
“I return your epithet with another Liar!” t
{ A* he hissed the word, he struck the man in {
! the face with the back of his hand.
“Now, yon must light.!’’
j “I am ready,” said Carlyle. “I want to light!
j you now, Andre Fenton !”
i “Meet me here in ten minutes, with vonr sec- j
olid,” said the tanned limn. T go to find mine.” ;
“I will not fail you,” said Fox Cariyle, with it
strange eagerness.
Then he turned on his heel, and walked down !
the terrace.
The man called Andre. Fenton was about to ro
scek the gambling den, when a band touched his ]
arm. Turning quickly,ho recognized a man iu the
moonlight.
“Ah! Brewster, I was going to look for you!”
! he cried “You have heard what lias passed be
i tween us ?”
j *‘l have; and in this affair of honor I claim the
j privilege of becoming your second.”
“I accord it most willingly. I was about to
j hunt you up for that purpose. Do you know whom
he will choose?”
“Indeed, I do not,” was tho reply, “With
whom is he intimate” ?
“With no one, unless it 1m: that English lord
j who has played with him several times. He
| styles himself Alfred Dunlerv.”
j “1 have seen him,” answered Brewster/ “Let
! me retire a moment.”
j “With pleasure, Brewster; I shall afiait you
I here.”
| The second left the fefface and invaded a very
: small room which lie found untenanted, but well |
i lighted. Hanging his hat on the knot*' that no j
pceriug eyes might look through the keybob*, he i
drew a 'paper from his pocket. It was a large, j
I important-looking document, and gave Mark
j Vareton “authority to arrest Andre Fenton for the j
! murder of I'orkc- Beadle in Mobile, Alabama, U.
N. A.” 1
j He smiled triumphantly nhe glanced over the
I paper—-one of the results of an extradition treaty
j —and murmured as he returned it to his pocket:
! “Ha! my theory has proven the right one. An
! dre Fenton is in my clutches 1 Fox Carlyle shall
j never aim at his hear*. 1 wish Colby was here to
: shar* my success. Colby, ah ! be is among the
; antipodes no doubt, looking for Reuben Denton."
i When he returned to the terrace he found four
men on the spot where he bad left Andre Fenton.
: One carried a box containing dueling pint.lk u u
I der his arm. He was a middle-aged Bavarian sur
| geon, who spoke English fluently; the others
were Fenton, Fox Carlyle and his second, the
| Englishman already mentioned.
Mark Veil ton was introduced to flm latter, and j
the party descended from the terrace and walked
! to a secluded nook iu the garden attached to the
! gaming-house/
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The seconds mad* no attempt to reconcile the
two men, who were placed in positions, as yet
weaponless.
“Quick ! the pistol* !” cried Fenton, impatient
ly. “I want to see his blood flow; in it 1 want to
wine out a foul slander.”
The seconds, each bearing a prstol, separated
on the spot where tho little Bavarian stood, and
walked towards the principals.
“Now is mv time, murmured Mark Vareton,
and his hand sought the pocket that carried the
order for the arrest.
He drew it forth and looked at the dark-skin
ned man.
Then his Jins parted to speak, when ho heard
the voice of the Englishman.
He stopped suddenly in liis tracks and beard
these words:
Reuben Denton, alias Fox Carlyle, I arrest you
for the murder of Parke Beadle/
The second held a paper in his hand, and, with
a cry of astonishment, Mark Vareton started to
ward him.
“Nir, what do you mean? M he cried. “There
stands the man !” and he pointed to Andre Fen
ton, on whose dark face a fiendish smile was seen.
“J am not mistaken,” the other replied. “I
have not followed him one year for nothing. I
can show von forty-nine leaves of the missing
diary, which I have found in his tracks. 1 have
tire knife with which he struck the fatal blow.—
Ask him if I am mistaken.”
As the last words fell from the speaker’s lips
his hands flew to his face, and his whiskers, aave
a mustache, fell to the ground/ Mark Vareton
started back.
“Claude Colby, is it you?"
“Most assuredly! Alfred Dnnlery b* Colby/
said the detective, with a smile- “Now a-k Reu
ben Denton if I am mistaken.”
There wa*no need of asking tb** man, who
trembled like an aspen before the quivering finger
of Claude Colby
“ There boy our man, Vareton,” wiid Colby, nod
ding at Fenton- “Take him rf yon can. I will
look to mine.”
The next moment a hand was on the duelist’s
shoulder.
“Yes. it was I. Colby, you've trailed the light
! mail," come from between the ashen lips
j “So you ure Reuben Denton,” said F ion, at
| this juncture, advancing and peering inU. i :s an
■ tagonist’s face, lam glad they are going to take
! you back to America and bang you. You saved
uie a blow. I went to Mobile for* the purpose of
killing Parke Beadle; but seeming to divine my
object, you struck first. Reuben Denton, 1 mil
under many obligation* to you. l>o you wont me,
Mr. Vareton?”
Mark Vareton, biting his lip, answered, “No.”
Claude Colby 1 * theory of tho Mobile murder, j
viz., that Reuben Denton had token Beadle’* life
to cancel Id* indebtedness, proved the correct
one.
Mark Vareton never recovered from his pro
fessional defeat, and when, a few months later, a
brother detective met him in New York and said,
“Denton or Fenton?" he aiiMworod, “Denton !”
Reuben l>eutoil paid the extreme penalty at
tached to crime, and Andre Fenton went from
Baden Baden to Monaco.
Claude Colby received two reward* for his ser
vice* -ton thousand dollars and the hand, with
the heart, of Maud Beadle.
He followed the culprit over a good portion of I
the continent before bo led him to Baden Baden. !
He recognized Mark Van ton in the person of I
Joseph Brewster; but kept his own identity wi ll
j concealed. Ho bad planned a surprise for bis i
j brother-detective, and wa* the instigator ot the j
quarrel between the two gambler*.
If Parke Boodle had not fallen by tho hand ot 1
his decretory, he would have been *faiu by Andre
Fenton. Tnisis beyond doubt.
Vareton attended Colby’* nuptials, and, like a I
; true detective, kissed the bride, and compliment- j
jed the tact and shrew dues* of the man she had <
! won.
j Reuben Belknap Denton was “the man 1”
four brides In two days.
A prince of India recently took to himself four
brides, the occasion being his arrival at majori
ty, which is there seventeen year®. A corres
pondent give* the following interesting account
of the quadruple wedding. The prince is tho
Thakore of Bliownuggur. and he was educated at
an English college in iniliu. The correspondent
says:
He was married on the 14th of April to the
daughter of the great t hief of Wudwah, a prin
cess üboiit fourteen years old, and to the sister
of tho licir apparent *1 the Goitduldynasty, a noble
lady, as remarkable for her wit us for her
charms and great wealth, hut who is only fif
teen years old. On the next day the Thakore
completed his four-fold alliance. * The ladies he
married on the second (lay wore the sister of the
father of the reigning Chief of Yankonoor, aged
twenty-two, and the daughter of a very opulent
landowner of Dank, at 'ialaja, aged only tenor
eleven years. 1 have told you the Rajah is only
seventeen; it is for your readers to imagine the
probable emotion* of a young man distracted
between tho mature charm* of a stately princes*
of twenty-two and the tender lov elans* of roy
alty not yet in her teens.
Long before the l‘Jth ult., the festivities con
nected with the lour-fold wedding commenced.
The brides had to be brought from their several
Battywar homes to Bliownuggur. For this pur
pose, about a fortnight previous to the actual
marriage celebrations, four old and trusty re
tainers Bliownuggur Raj were dispatched to
Wudwah, Gondul, Vankanser and Tulaja. They
wore dismissed on their several errands with all
due formalities. The young Thakore accom
panied them with an imposing retinue to thc
eity gates. Tho Rajah’s guards, mounted aud
on foot : hugli elephants lazily swaggering under
their gold aud blue how'iluhs; durbar camels, and
ambling Kattywar palfreys; drummers tumping
with might and mam on their tom-toms shriek*
of pipe and twang of guitar; the royal churiot,
followed by an interminable winding line of
vehicle# of all descriptions, and over ami beyond
tho surging mass of the great unwashed of
lUiowuuggur—all eomibuteil toward making the
grand departure of the four Klle/crs a splendid
success from a native point of view.
A fortnight passed, and processions poured in
from all sides to Bhownugger. 1 refer not only
to the four processions winch had been dismiss
ed aud now returned, but also to st ores, aud
scores of others, sent to lJhnwmigger to express
the congratulations to the young Thakore ot the
elite of the Kattywar peninsula. 1 was iu time
to see several of these processions, and dozens of
others in Bhowimgger itself. In each there was
the same tumult, strident musio, exaggerated
pomp, and ceaseless noise. Again rose the brav
ing of horns, again the rockets rushed skyward.
There was the elephant with its gaudy trappings,
ami the humble county hack, painted yellow ami
green, with his tail dyed red. In the iniddlo of
the rolling crowd cuuic the closely curtained ears
of the brides.
-1 need hardly inform you that their faces are
too sacred to be seen by am man save by their
husband. The huge Kattywar oxen dragging
these cars had each their horns encased in thick
plates of gold, and silver, and silver bells tinkled
from the garlands round their throuts as they
trotted along. All Bliownugger went out to meet
the incoming procession. With these proces
sions 1 should suy tlmt quite twenty thousand of
the inhabitant* of Kattywar poured into the capi
tal. Alms were everywhere lavishly distributed
to the poor, presents in silks and gold to the rich.
The whole populace grew frantic with gayety.—
Rosewater was being constantly sprinkled about
and gorgeous garlands flung hither and thither.
And so the brides came in one by one. They did
not enter tho city, hot, following the native eti
quette, encamped at various residence* of
wealthy relations outside the walls till the EHh
of April arrived. Then, about noon of that day,
a procession longer and more noisy than any
previous one passed out of the gates, under the
waving palms and quivering tamarinds. In
front went the bridegroom to bring bis first bride
(she of Wudwah), then surged the enormous
crowd leaving behind it a cloud of blinding dust.
The Thakore was in capital spirits, ftudjlaDgh
ed and joked with his courtiers and Brahmin
priests as he went to meet hw fair betrothed.—
By this time she, too, had set out on lifer journey
towards him. Her rath, or car, came in sight.
The young Thakore alighted from liis splendid
Kattywar mure, aud, having duly congratulated
the guardians of the precious treasure within the
rath (and, by the way, promised them handsome
presents for bringing liis wife to him safe and
sound,) he entered, and sat himself down by the J
side of the Princess. On the meeting of the j
pair, the royal cortege proceeded to the house j
of a near relation of the Thakore. There, in the
central hall, jealously excluded from all but about i
a •undred of the noblest Rajuoots of Kattywar, '
the marriage tookplace- The Rajpoot rite is a
simple one; men of that caste from time inune- j
inorial have been better fighters than ritualists.
A few flowers are sprinkle*!, after and pan dis
tributed, the Deify invoked, and the tores and
penates duly honored, the bride duly authenti
cated and handed over to the bridegroom, and
then comes the moment wlen .the bridegroom
first reimrvcH the sacred caftan and catches a
glimpse of the face of the girl he lias married
cndit is all over. When the rite was performed,
the young Thakore came out t-o view the loyal ami
enthusiastic thousands waiting to cheer liim in
the streets. He was in grand spirits, took his
newly-made wife to the place witli him, and then
left her and rushed off to marry, in the same
fashion, the fair one from Gondul. And so the
four weddings came off, the two latter by torch
light; and a pretty risk did the town of Bhowuug
gur run tlmt nignt from the bonfires, fireworks,
blazing cressets, etc., which tried their best to
turn night into day in its midst.
What chiefly interested me were tho trousseaux
of the brides, which were extravagantly ricli and
varied. I slmuld say Gondul hud amongst her ]
“kit” about five thousand silk dresses. May she;
live kmg enough to wear them all out! Wud
wah’* dowery was Rs. 2,000,000; Gondul, also, j
Its. 2,000,000;* Vankaneer, Its. 1,000,000; and Dank,
Rs. 35,000. The trousseau of Gondul was the
richest, and a portion of this I was privileged to j
see. It was laid on* in an upper room of the ■
Thakore’* palace, and I was escorted to see It by ,
several Ministers of State- Never in iny life did
I see such a sight. There was huge shawls,
clothes, scarfs, mantles, counterpanes, and band" j
kerchiefs of silk, embroidered most elaborately, I
and stiff’ with gold and silver threadwork. Here j
was a shawl from Benares, with gods in gold and
and silver, worked on h bib: ground of softest
silk; another lay outspread bewkie it, represent- \
ing a flock of small yellow birds- ncwtling m mnn
merablc flowery bowers. One Kattywar shawl
cost, according to my information, six hundred
rupees. The most gorgeous of the other cloths
were literally stiffwitli gold. The patterns were
exquisite in many instances. J specially n(diced
a silver veil sprinkled with pak- bine and prim
rose-colored flowers. One dress, all blue satin
and silver embroidery, resembled an Italian sky
seen through a gentle shower of snow or lilies.
Nearly every cloth lying before me cost more than
five hundred rupees each. Around and near
these dresses lay a most extraordinary litter of
various valuables—gold, silver/ and brass dishes,
preekme stones, fans, aimfeta, bracelets, nose and
ear and finger-rings, massive ornaments for the
i forehead, breast, and ankle, neclaees sparkling
with ruby aud diamond, emerald, amethyst, to
pnz, opal, and pearl; rosewater laddie* of pur#
| gold basins of silver, and huge brass cooking
j utensils, mhos and tiaras and chains, sapphire
pendants and enameled jugs and ewers, silver
lamps, trinkets rough with precious Jewels, and
a hundred other articles of value tor use or or
nament. And mind, this was but a small part of
the trousseau of one of the four brides w hom the
Thakore of Bhownuggur hud married. I was
! simply mute with astonishment when otto of the
j Ministers informed me, whilst I was looking ut
I the things, that l only beheld, a* nearly as could
he estimated, exactly ono-cighth of the trous- 1
seau of the bride of Gondul 1
—
1“ Ruth’s’’ Letter to tho N. \\ Journal of Coni*
luorce. ]
A WORKING WOMAN.
What Good Health, System nml a Willing
Heart ran AeeomplUh A Model
for llouM'wlvcn.
I Looking out of the window the other morning
I T saw a woman drive to the gate, with a trim;
i little establishment in excellent order. I had j
never set eye* upon her before, 1 was sure of !
j that, though she looked up ut the window with a j
' a bright and cherry smile ns though she had
[ known me all my days. Springing out <f the |
[ high wagon like u girl of sixteen, though she was j
I evidently three times that age, she hitched her !
• horse and blanketed it as though she Were used *
Ito it. and was then ushered into the parlor. She j
j bad come to inquire about some lots upon our !
farm, and 1 assure you she talked business, it j
evidently being no new thing to her. ! found
she was from a neighboring town, five mile* dis-
tant, where her husband is u prosperous
architect and builder. After she had obtained
the information for which she came, we fell into
a conversation ouch as our sex will indulge in.
“Have you much of a family?” I. inquired.
“Eleven children,” she replied. I opened my
eyes in astonishment, expecting to hear the
usual answer these days. “Three, two boys and a
girl,” or vice rvrtm. “Have you never lost any
children ?” said I. “None,” sin- replied, “and
none arc married ; they are all living at home.”
“ What a family to look after I” 1 exclaimed!
“Oh, I shouldn’t mind our own family ut all,
hilt we have always bonded three or four
carpenters necessary in my husband's business.
Then we have, a farm, and a good many emvs to
see to ami butter to make, and as my husband is
always busy in other ways, the oversight of the
farm devolves mostly on me,”
“1 hope you are more fortunate than the res!
of ns in having good domestics to help you with
all this work, said 1. The good woman
straightened herself up and gave a decisive re
ply. “I never keep any,” she said. “They
never suit me.” “ Your children must help you
a good deal, then.” “Yes: but they have tucir
lessons to learn. Their eldest sister, who has us
good an education as money could give her,
tenches them entirely at home. We have a room
in our house fitted up especially for that nut
pose. /hev are more thoroughly taught by lim 1 ,
w ith the deep interest she feels in them, than
if they went to school elsewhere ; and being able
to recite their lessons iu the early part of the
day, they spend fewer hours over their books,
which iH better for their health, and this en
ables them to give me more assistance than they
could otherwise do.” What u sensible woman,
thought I, for you know what a favorite idea
home education is with me, when it i* at all
practicable. No I drew my chair up closer to
Iter and said, “ You don't do your own sewing
do you?” “Never sent out a stitch in mv life,
dresses or anything else, even when we had not a
sewing maeliiuc.” “Do you make your hus
band's and your boy's shirts?” I asked. “Every
one of them. My eldest son is something of ii
dandy, as young men will be, and lie bought
some shirts a wuiJeagrr. Oh, such a tit as they
were. I . spent more time ripping and fixing
them than Would have made n good half-dozen/'
“Doyou ever have time to go outside your
house ?” I inquired.
“Oh, yes,” she replied with a smile. “I am
here this morning, yon see, to inquire about the
land, and day before yesterday l went to the
Sta te fair with some butter and took a premium.”
“ You must sit up very late nights,' L said.
“ Oh, no, not very; wo always finish up our
work by eight-o'clock evenings, unless Hornet hiug
special is going on, for we are a musical family. ;
Wo have a piano. My daughters play, and father
and mother, boys and girls, all count mama |
good sing, often before going to bed, ana this !
cause* us to sit up rather later, I have some- j
times thought, than was good for us, considering ;
we have to be up with the lark in the mornings, j
You Wiioit that music is very fascinating to those j
that love it.” “ Are you always well?” I asked.
“My health is perfect. I have a good natural
constitution, and have no time to be debilitated
and nervous.” Here this paragon arose to go.”
1 followed her to the gate, saw her unhitch her
horse aud depart, while 1 returned to the house
with these reflections : Eleven children, board
ers, a farm, no servants, no sewing put out, all]
teaching done in tho house, premium for butter j
at the State fair, music aud fine arts. Think of !
it, O. ye daughters who have a family of three
children, three servants, hire all your sewing
done, and have headache, dyspepsia and general
debility thrown in.
As for mo, I went lip stairs aft or this interview,
unrolled some shirts I was just going to send out
to he made, and oiling up my machine, went to
work at them. Of course 1 hate it. Of course it
will tiro me to death, but it is so nice to be smart
like this good woman, i have made some in
quiries about her since she was here, and find
iier story was not exaggerated. She is a living
example of what perfect system and industry
will accomplish/ Bhe was once a teacher, well
educated and sensible. She married her bus
-1 Rind when lie was not worth a cent, and now
they live in a fiftecn-thousand-dollar house, own
a gi#>d farm, and to t-lie good management and
thrift of the wife is attributed much of the hus
band's success. They and fboir children have
the name of being one of the happiest and most
united families anywhere about. But my para
gon does not write srnfli long letters as this, |
suspect. I must go 1 nick to my machine ; it
ucts like a witch to-day.
Ruin or Prosperity.
A distinguished Republican of Afahttmi, Judge
Haralson undoubtedly the ablest man of the Re
publican party in North Alabama, has written a
letter for publication, of which the following is an
extract:
The civil rights bill is n leading measure of the
Republican party the party is pledged for its
success -its party leaders support it with but few
exceptions. All the Republican members in Don
gross from Alabama, headed by Hpencer in the
Senate, supported it. It is urged hy resolutions,
in primary political mootings all over tho Nouth.
There arc' individual exception* L concede, but
they are powerless against tho overwhelming
current which is pressing it on. It was passed in
thoßenatc by a party vote, after due deliberation
in a party caucus, and was, therefore, given to tho
country as a strict party measure.
I therefore conclude that the Republican party,
as a party, support* this bill, and by its support
expects its final success will put it upon tho
statutes of the country, if it can enforce* its exe
cution. I cannot support this measure in any
political organiZkthm, or lend myself to its sup
port in any seukeof the Word. This- is the issue.
In it is involved the ruin or prosperity of both
races iri the South. If the bill is finally passed, it
will require a standing army to enforce it. Who
does not desire to avoid such a calamity? Wluit
sane until will willingly vote for this policy, know
ing its consequences V
This bill gives to the Federal Omwt* exclusive
Jurisdiction over any and all violations of its pro
vision#, thereby centralizing the powers of the
Gcuertri Government; break ing down the jurisdic
tion of the Htate Courts—putting every man iu
the Nouth in the hands of the Federal Judiciary,
and giving to the Jodieim-v [rover to enforce
heavy finis and impi'isonnfwi*-
Tlie Democratic and Conservative party, in
Alabama, is opposed to this bill in all of its fea
tures, and so am I. Its ticket is a good one,
headed by Gen. Houston, the embodiment of
: Conservatism. He is honest and capable. The
platform is sound, announce* correct principles,
such as commend themselvoa to men everywhere.
I will certainly support them.
Respectfully,
\V. J. lIAUArJWW.
—**
While u vender of greenu wiw endeav
oring to dispose of his .stock in trade, his
poor old iwg bulked, and refused to budge
an inch. The driver finally commenced
j to belabor the animal with stick, when an
fdd ladv thrust her bead out of u window,
I mid exclaimed: Have you no mover V”
i “No mit’iim,” replied the peddler, “notli
■ in# but greens-’ *
Spain and the United States.
The trouble between Washington nml
Madrid is only one of delay. In the pro
tocol adopted bv Seurntary Fish nml Ad
miral Polo, Spurn promised to iuveHtiftntu
the conduct of the alleged ollicitdoffenders
| in Cuba, nrraigtf flicm before tho courts,
! and punish them if guilty, lint no time
I was mentioned for this work of redress,
; and Hpain, busy with other mutters, has
postponed it. Of course this postpone
ment cannot be tolerated forever, ami 11
much longer delay, ciunfot fail to' cause u
coolness between the two' fuitlorm. The
protocol also providos for “feelprocnl j
reclamations," and if these cannot be j
mutually arranged then the sfettk-meut i
shall be mode by arbitration, with the I
future consent of the United hffutes Sen- I
ate. On our side life reclamation is a do-1
niand for tho payment of damages to the
families of the murdered Americans
among the crew of the Virginias. Spain
on her part asked for damages on account
of filibustering expemlftions from tho
United States, which this government
(she says) might have prevented Home
of the papers sjienk of these Spanish
claims ns nil insult to this country; but
they should not be so regarded, HriK'o
“reciprocal reclamations” are evpresslv
provided for iu the protocol. General
Cushing is reported to be bard at work
trying to adjust tile difference; but we are
not hopeful of success. The policy of
Spain would seem to be to throw the
whole tiling before one or more arbitra
tors. Tho American case may be safely
trusted to any impartial tribunal.- .Chi
cago Tribune.
♦♦♦ —
Reasons for Looking Prettv.
There are good reasons why we should
always Appear ah well ah possible. Taking
into consideration the strong effects exte
rior things produce upon the mind, it be
comes ft necessity, if we desire happiness,
j This is generally conceded to l>e tho chief
object of life; therefore it is well to observe
I he things most calculated to produce such
a result.
A consciousness of looking well, being
dressed in good taste, and consequently
pleasing to the eyes of those hy whom we
are surrounded, produces nn effect for
ourselves as pleasant. We feel nice—see
that others appreciate us. aud our hearts
warm with a glow of satisfaction which
sends light to the eye and lip in genial i
smiles. The atmosphere about us is per- i
vadod with a presence of joy. It is the
thrill of “angel breathings upon human
lips,” which purify us from discontent
ment and the weariness which arises out
of discontentment.
The effect upon the spirits of a dark or
bright day is unmistakable. As unmistak
able is the effect of our surroundings
wherever we chance to be. Our sensitive
ness to exterior influences, renders tts hap
py, depressed, or miserable, according to j
the degree of beauty about us. In a pleas
ant, airy, well-furnished room Hr tJ glow
cheerful. In a dark, gloomy one we are
depressed. A smiling face charms its to
forgetfulness of many ills, while a softfbro
one makes us remember them so vividly,
we are apt to grow morbid and exaggerate
them. In the tout t'/tswnftlti of a man and
woman dress, features and expression— l
we instantly draw inferences citiier for or 1
against—pleasant or unpleasant. The snr- j
roundings speak for the tastes and habits j
of a person almost always, unerringly.— !
Tlie dress is a part of these, and the most
important, we may say. Expensive dress
is not essetitiul; It is the color and fitness
that give it character. Elegance and beauty
consists in its tasteful arrangement, by
contrasts or harmonies; and in accordance
with our success, is the effect produced
upon ourselves aud those by whom we are
Hurrinffided.
Let us, theft, try to look wefi - dress
with taste; surround ourselves with pleas- i
ing objects—be happy ourselves, and make
others as happy as wc can.
A Singular Adventure v
The Evening Star prints a communica
tion leaking the announcement of the sup
posed existence of a race of Albinos on the
i Kio Grande, neat Knuta Fe. The paper
vouches for the standing aftd good charac
ter of the writer. The communication
states that in the mouth of July 1845, the
writer was traveling east from the Pacific,
and seeking a gup or pass through the
mountains, which would lead to the Kio
j Grande, south of Santa Fe, ho found a
) passage which led into their Country. It
was a eanoti of thirty miles in* length.—
| From the outlet of the canon he traveled
i about a mile, when lie found three women
and two children, their skin as white uk
snow. Immediately one of the women left
the place in lmstc, and, about sundown,
three men caßie riding rapidly down on
the finest horses he ever saw. They were
well mounted and well armed. They im
mediately dismounted and disarmed him.
They were white men, such as are fre
• (piently seen in Hants Fe, arid sometimes
|in California. The next morning early,
he was ordered to mount his mule; one of
| the men rode ahead of him, and the two
I others followed behind. After riding
about twenty miles they dismounted, and
ordered him to do the same. They had a
short confab together, and he was ordered
:to mount liis mule. They then gate him
| all his arms and traps, with the nndor-
I standing that he was to make good time
! out of the canon, and continue going in
i that direction without looking back. From
that point Ire traveled thirty miles before
he reached an Indian village- It was that!
iof a tribe of Ooinanches. When he terid j
the chief, by signs, that lie came out of !
those mountains, he was afraid of him. He f
said that they were the abode of the evil
spirit, and that no Indian that went into
those mountains ever returned from them.
He describe*. 4 ) the country ns circular, rur
rounded by steep and high mountains,
covered with snow, without a break or
pi we. —Ch icrtyo Time a.
A TfitfffK Which Getk ’Em.—Hattrrday
morning there came over the Great Wes
tern road, on its way west, a trunk which
made the lmir of the baggage-master stand
, right up. It was thirty-four inches long/
three feet wide, and whs made of solid
boiler-iron, an eighth of nn inch thick.
The handles were of iron, rivited on with
great holts, and the Ud fastened down
! with an immense padlock. On one end of
the trunk Was painted the words; •‘Hhe
i can stand it I” and on the other; “More
coming r The railroad men groaned
aloud as they wu'kedumiind “them trwwk”
and viewed it from every angle, and two
ominous men, who thought the owner was
1 going to stop over, mode tracks out of the
j depot,- Detroit Fret Press*
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
i “Slush's lire trump*" hi our gftrdensra' “hniuU’'
lit ple#cltt.
There is u Brooklyn unit so ffrttfpftrwt# that hw
nover drinks except tWidt rttfmh
| A school boy’s aspirations "! wish 1 wore a
fountain, that I might bo always playing.”
0. brother cremation 1 Wo htrve to’ warn out
living—find we don't want to bo compelled to urn
our dead.
Although fife Temperance ladies sdvooat#
“cold wirtery” they don’t like to have H ftofmnon
their oflfrris.
Boston Post: Peru continues to he cold toward!
Chili, aud GbiW warms up against Peril. Peruse
that.
rcrofntion has been suppros*-’
cd, and there are now wot more then five or fix
iu act He operation.
NO. ID.
i “Why,” ft’ffxfotmly hupurtes the PHtsburg Com
, uwivial, ate there no he dolls ?”
An li'fcdftftoit speaking of suicido, sard the only
i way to stop it was to nrahe H a capital offence,.
j pmifsbabh* wkh death*.
Next to the “fittie Ittftay boe,” tho bootblack
rurhisliotf Mw brlglwist example of improving tho
'‘shining hour.”
Tha Dutrott Free Pres* suggest* that tho NVW
iork Fiines is a gout) paper to wrap around cH
| cumber vines.-
! Ait c.iclmngo'tells ImW the e.Vo is “swept and
| washed.” How it is blacked would furnish on
j < ther in tore* tiWg clntpter.
It has been said that it itrboHer for a woman to’
be laughed at for iicft luring married than to fib
unable to laugh hecuiMc sire is married.
Compwffiofr hy a little lay Nubjeet: “Tho
horse is a very useful animal; it has lour logs—
one on each corner.”
RfelinMohd Knctrrircrv A Western editor has bc
tiorrtta insane. Tire amount due him for back
subscription* m not stated.
Boston 01obc< At Georgia earner promises t ct
publish “fhiriHlnfttmroiu.” This fir prolaihly au
attempt to eoftciHate the Grangers.
Should cremation ever beeoWie adopted as a
system, the expression, “I'eaK'e to his ashes,” will
mean something.-
TH# Hint smart <K> mWu frvcW m Augusta comi
ty, Va. Bohr ninety-urn* ream of age, and inarirt
hi# own cofth* tl>* other day#-
jtu Ohio lodv herclitfctf ffira divorce <m
niic occasion her hthrirttnd put her to soak- in tho
rain-water barrel/
Nrnrte fashfonnhie fauK-i with one of
tin- Fifth avenue churches propose to hold a fash
ionable prayer meeting nt Dclmunico's. No cards.
The Now York Herald heads a news item:—
“Death hi a,Shanty.” Was it from a gunshot
wound received during- tire recont war ?
If there over k* time when rf man is ju*tificd
in changing the subject suddenly, it is when his
wife aide* if lie pc’*tod thwl letter to mother
promptly.
Brotherly kve iff UOf fh# ('rtrify kind they culti
-1 Vftte in l’lnladelphiii, for 15,782 Raid hearts were
made to bent as 7,85)1 in that city last year.
The nervous gentlemen who hist his head, tho
other day, while addressing his coustitnents, to
considered to he none the worse for his inisfor r
tune.
A ladv in Carlisle, Penn., has a parr of geese
that chipped the shell in IH.‘W, and therefore Will
have only four year* to wait before they will bo
fit for the boarding-house table.
A stranger wlk> threw a ten dollar bill into the
contribution lsx of a Kavunnah church got trust
ed for five hundred dollars worth of goods the
next day on the strength of it.
Cremation to too ebeurp' a process to find favor
with the creme de la creme. It is estimated tlmt
two dollars will cover the entire cost—and tto*
ashes too, for that mutter.
In penitentiaries unprovided with fiterafy at
traction* to content the inmates, they would na
turally, the first chance they got, take advantage
of the "Gates Ajar.”
A Purkopolis poet awoke his lyre, And sanfl&uf
“clouds which cinglc golden-lined their edgcA”
Several (fineturn*ti editors, pm*d with ciufis,
were out lust week looking for him.
Detroit Free Pro**: It’s a good time to get
married now, wheu blitter is 45 cents per pound,
as bridal couples don’t require auy solid funu
for the firat month/
A public, reader m Cflriengo pays a man ff *
week for sending up a special request for tlh’
re pet ion of his strongest piece, about the middle
of the pel fommucu.-
A young nfftfn of DrovriJm says h scarcely ever
goesjto the theatre, without feeling ms if he would
give six month’* salary for tho sweet satisfaction
of dropping a trip hammer on lira young lady’s
to nine r in front of him.
A Texas thief stole two which had been
presented by the people of Cincinnati to the
republic of Texas. It is pretty certain that
nothing to safe within reach of the brawny arms
of this fellow; and wbttt a fine government in
former he would make.
An Oswego paper describes fire by saying that
“the red fiauies danced in the heavens and Hung
their fiery arms about like a black funeral pan,
until Nam Junes got mi the roof and dashed them
out with a pail oi water/’
The difference between having a tooth
properly drawn by u professional surgeon and
having it knock out miscellaneously by a fall <r,
the pavement,- to only a slight distinction—one
is dental and the ertber i* urci-dentul.
“The day is not far distant,” says a Raleigh
paper, “when the world will begin to look on
death as a journey to another country." The
Louisville Courier-Journal assents lo this, and
natively adds that the journey wijl be one on
which we can go as dead-heads.
Little girl.—“Mamma, I don’t think tlis
people who make dolls are very pious people.”
Mamma—“Why not, uiy child?” Little gin
“Becouse you caw never make them kneel/ 1
always have to toy my doll down on her stomach
to say her prayers.
The following to from a paper
►published iu the far West: "To lent —A house
on Melville avenue, located immediately along
side of a fine plum garden, from which an abun
dant supply of the most delicious fruit may be
stolen during the season- Rent low, aud the
greater part taken in plums.”
The most serious charge yet made against Mr-
Beecher is thut he wu* the first man to oiler w
chroiuo to subscribers.
A lady barber has been driven out of Dubuque
by the married todies of that place. The latter
thought she scraped acquaintances too easily.
“I’d hate to lie iu your shoes,” said a Terre
Haute woman, as she was quarrelling with a
neighbor. “You*eouldn’t get iu them,” sarcus
thuilly remarked the neighbor/
A Milwaukee Woman/ for gave with consump
tion, begged the doctor to give her something
that would keep her up until the verdict of the
Beecher (Jomnnttee was published.
Tho people of Dataware want to have a big
race for governor, but we can’t see how they
possibly cu. unless they get permission to ran
it in some other State.
A Priuco of Italy, wlrosw domain was of small
extent ordered a person out of it in twenty-dour
hours. “The Prince b#s been very liberal, for I
cun quit it in Indi an hour,” answered ‘the ban
ished mum
A Gape foUth used the deed* of bis futh*
•r’a farm for gun wads. The stamp on the bot
tom of tho document wasn't anything like the
impression the old man made on the same part
i of the lud’s anatomy.
“Tape-worm Johnny” is the ruplioniistic name
lofuii individual in St. Lotfto, whose voracious
! appetite has frightened the hotel keeper* to
such an extent that they refuse him admission
tj their dining room*.
There to one recent decision of the Treasury
department in which a thankful public, of the
adult portion of it at least, will readily acquiesce.
It is that children’s whistles, tin horns, ect., are
“uot musical instruments/’
"A, Norwich preacher,” says the Bulletin,
“said ‘Amen’ tos4 Sunday afternoon w ith so inm b
emphasis that several lounger* at a Main street
drug store started breathlessly iuto the street
under the impression that au alarm of fire had
been raised."
A man was about to be hanged in Alabama,
sang, as lie stood with the noose about his neck:.
“Oh! the bright angel* are waiting tor me.’
where upon the local editor fiendishly wrote “And.
j the angels stirred up tho fire uml looked brighter
than ever.”
Advertising for a wifi,* is about as absurd a
getting measured for an umbrella.
To remove dandruff—Go out on the plans and
insult au Indian.
When a man save* his. cigar money to buy hi*
wife anew bonnet and the children new shot s, it
1 indicates a spell of sunshine.
Be template in diet. Our first parent* ate
themselves out of house ami tuque.
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