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GALLAHERS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT 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/ I.TIIIII . ■ "Mil. 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. *+ ”~7"