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Beautiful girl t I have wandered far
And strayed where the soft magnolias blow,
But l nerer gazed on a face as bright
As thine, sweet spirit of young delight
Beautiful girl I thou art bright and fair
As an tingel shape lnthemooUght air;
No shadow rests on thy brow of snow,
Love’a own dear light ia wandering oft
O'er thy gent fcppbt csrmine soft,
Thy lovely cheek, where the rich', red glow
Of the warm blood melts tbrongh the virgin snow.
So sweetly blendingin one bright dye.
The woven beauties of earth and sky.
Truth, holy truth in its"freshness dwells
Like shadows of stars from a trembling stream.
And thy thoughts ore a dream of eden's bowers,
thy words are garlands of flowers, bright
Beautiful girl! I hare seen thee more,
▲ floating creature of joy and love,
As light as a mist on the sunrise gale.
Or tfle buoyant sway of a bridal vail,
Till t almost looked to see thee risa
Like a soaring thought to the free blue skies,
Or melt away in the thin, blue air.
Like a vision of fancy painted there.
Thy loyr sweet voise, as it thrills around,
Seems less a sound than a dream of sound;
Softly and mildly its clear notes swell.
Like the spirit-tones of a silver tyell.
And the lips whence the fairy music flows
Is to fancy's eye like a speaking rose.
Beautiful, beautiful girl! thou art
A vision of joy to the throbbing heart;
A star sent down from the world of bliss,
And all nndimmed by the shades of: this;
A rainbow pictured by love's own sun
On the clouds of being, beautiful one!
Bcauiiful girl, 'tis a weary year
gince tby sweet voice fell on my ravished ear;
'Tis a long, loug year of light and gloom
Since I gazed on thy young cheeks’ lovely bloom;
Yet thy gentle tones of music still
Through the holiest depths of memory thrill
Like tones of a fount, or breeze, or bird,
In the long-gone years of cnildhood heard.
And oft in my dark and lonely moods.
When a demon wing o’er my spirit broods,
Thiue image seems on my soul to break,
. £jke the sweet young morning, just awake,
Filling its depths, as the shadows flee,
With beauty aud love and melody.
Beautiful girl! thou art-far a*’oy, —
And l know not whither thy steps now stray;
But old ’tie-sweet, it is very sweet •
Ip the fairy realms of dreams to greet
Thy cheek of rose, thy brow of pearl.
And thy voice of music, beautiful girl!
-
could buy bis wife possessed. Her
wardrobe, jewels, house and carriage
were among the most superb in New
York, yet her closet evidently bad Its
skeleton, andto-night,',viiaare tban ever
before, it seemed determined to rattle
its dry bones in pur very eare,
and bxtike itself felt and seen in.evjeiy
nook and corner of the milionaire’s
sumptuous home, in spite of ail Althea
could do to keep the unpleasant thing
out pt sight fli<
it, unmindful of her elegant|g§^ Misg,,.' in-what is npw .iLeftoni' jcklf-put pi! the negro,; I belive many
the strangely beautiful picture sue! Wunty.. -The location.of this Jforfc was r ' " ” ‘ " '
made, ifth&-hnrried fo‘ ; the as^stappe 1 ----- •
of her helj^leksiy : intoxicated hus
band.-' - r.-.uhm sdi! ’ /
It was not the Aral’ time she had
waited :his homing in a pale agony of
THE HIDDEN SORROW.
the window, and, with a half suppress
ed sigh un her lip?, stood watching the
the sleighs fly past, so loug that Mrs.
Chester quite,lost her patience, and : ex
claimed, rather petulantly.' ...
“Nonsense, Althea I Why is it that
you are always worrying about Ho wRrd.
He is not a baby, and is no doubt quite
as capable of finding his way home
ns most men are. Mr. Tremiiiue kno ws
that.we are going to the opera this
evening, and be will be sure to drop in
before the end of the first act, ycu may
depend. And now we must dress, if we
wish to hear the opening air in “Faust,”
which I certainly do, however, it may
be. withSfom” - ■ 9 |J C Q ,
Mrs. Chester was one of .these
“IfaevrBo* i^foted
ed; “I knew how those unfeeling creat
ines hp;t^,v«ends- TOid«l bjang bin
.otelqmos ata woa
And i|s&^is§ltij^ «»8.fpfr-
For tbaterentiet^ tinje she whiibd to] fear and dread, and not the ifirst
time shei had heard ithat -dull,
soul sickening’fall, : -nortbe'first time
positive characters who immediately' head, the clear cut features, ffiirsume-
an
act upon what they say, and ir less
than an hour we were oh our way to th'e
opera. • > ■ .
The house, when we entered, was
literully packed with the most brilliant
and fashionable audience, but Althea
seemed to move like one in a dream,
and took not the slightest notice of
of anything or anybody around her.
I could not muke it out at all, and
hardly dared to look at her for. very
sympathy. Her magnificent, dress of
violet velvet aud creamy old lace be
came her perfectly, aud never did a
qneeu carry herself more royally, or
seem unconscsous of her beauty.
Diamonds—a fortune’s worth of them
—flashed on arms, neck and bosoin,and
gleamed like drops of liquid light amid
the rich abundance of her dusky hair;
but she was not happv-
There was much too heavy a sorrow
lying r. stlessly i t her heart for that—
too muc’t of a uttmtless dread and nnx-
ity to allow enjoyment of any sort.
At (lie end of the second act a gentle
man made his way to our box, auk ask
ed, in the usual conventional manner;
ufter the customary greeting were gone
through with, how wo liked the muse.
Mr. Chester, who had been comforta
bly dt-ziug iu bid-chair the whole time,
declared he was never more charnied—
an innocent fabrication which hone ot
us cared to question.
13
,n st,r -
prise. "Be was with yotiffl think, Mr.
Richland?” ' f - r >. , ;£-i«aSg r
“Yes, and l leifi him. with the others
at Delmbnico’s. 1: I don’t care for. that
sort of thing, you know,” . lowering his
voice and- glancing furmecly at Mrs.
TfAa!fce, : “It makes oROTeel so coh-
os everybody knew* idolized her hand
h——4 an ^ ygj somewhere
t CQlumbn^.v, .” r !r' _
Eufaal»tr»I* connect* *t Fort Valiev for Pbitt
•inthbeit far ^FcSl
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
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Arrives at Savannah
***Td5AM
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
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Bank of Deposit, Discout aid Ej
It was a bitter cold day; the streets cl'
New York were alive with a dense mass
of crowding humanity, over-coated,
muffled and veiled, ns became those
those who joyously braved the penetrat
ing wind aud sharp atmosphere, in the
merry-making time between the death
of the old and the birth of the new
year.,, ., ■
Notwithstanding the frosty weather,
the Empire City was never iu‘gayer
mood, and up and down and across the :
thronged thoroughfares, stylish turnr
onts dashed swiftly by to the tinkling
mn-i&of silver-tongued bells aud low,
happy laughter speeding away to the
open roads and snow-clad country, ly
ing White and still beyond the nuriying
*' 0 coid w t icii t, it wns wat-nr 'fou^cdly -wreiched tlie Dext
iho elegapt room where tver
sittiupte-my coiirin Althea, her
ena Chester, and I.
not; young—past
e was the most
''satv, and as she
orimsoin damask chair
ly looking out at
T thought I
had never seen any gne' so charmingly
an^ .irresistibly lovely. Her lustrous
blaclc eyes, clear olive cumplexion and
glossy wealth of par pie-black hair were
so perfectly perfect that one did not
know which to admire the most, and
her voice and smile were as sweet and
winning as her form was graceful and
her face matchlessly beautiful.
Howard Tremaine loved her as few
men loved thbir wives, and Althea,
sheh^«i glide(l .dowR...the greakoakeh
J PT9pe|upon
the Jloor, % right to riir the pity of the
coldest heart, and cause the very angels
in heaven to weep. ■*<>' ••
I could have’cried aloud in my unqt-
terable surprise and grief and on my
knees haver begged him for God’s sake
tojdesist.from furtherjbreakingjthe heart
of .the wife who loved him, so dearly—
■Sfejsjjl^lfeliaiil eaws«aoJEl
I saw her through a rush of bliudiig
tears help him somehow. to regaifi his
feet, anid eves in his pitia.b^Q.' weakness
ho looked like a fallen god, the noble
| SOLD
C. E.'M. Wxshington Oriette,
1
T^mb^tih, thrfe, "i^^elbf., Gi-een
have been sold into Cuban . slavery
“thyo.’ ye love of .gainJEuljspails. ”, since
the sntrepder. The nogro was brought
here, in the first place by the. Ywkees,
and- of consequence the-same spirit pre-
they came through the Yazoo Pa^s, and -vailsrin.spmepf their.desceri(lunts.
-zx„ -• — —v • - -- i* - Again, mny aot this true story,fur
nish the germ of another motive for the
"Negro, Exodus?”
*5
op a narrow slrip.p^landf .Yery, .parrow;
gf> J^^,^«!a-'a^jU^...jP(g»^aprate
gURs on, the west ride migh^ salute the
1& ‘ J “* “rains”. on tha,Yazoo river hr
a. hept itself well out
of ^vieir*' andv i>ut fbr ithe sad,- anxious,
look that often of late crept in
to Althea’s great, soulful ^eyes, I’d
thought that sorrow could not exist in
w WWBIOLET,
Cashier..
»e.
SfsS
manemUy flipret;;
We were going to the opera in the
evening. Mr. Chester was to attend
us in the absence of Howard, who had
gone awaT two or three hours before
with three or four friends, who had,
very much to his wife’s regret, called
for him to accompany them on a little
half-hour or so sleigh ride ont on the
Bloomingdale Road.
Asthe-Short winter -afternoon wore
on, Althea grew everv moment more
im 3*lit-;
tie half hour or so,” neyer having
been very strong, died utterly, long be
fore the sun’s last cold, golden raysfad.
ed in the west, and when Mrs. Chester
ring for lights, and carelessly remarked:
that it was time to dress, she was na-
tiseable ill at ease, and would do noth-
ing bat walk to and f^o between the
window and the warm, rosy fire light'
] in that nervous, listening, expectant
Exchu* va 7- wIlloh “ painfully suggestive of se-
[cret dread and awpety, too deep and
j wretchedTor words,
j Whatever Howard Tremaine touched
turned to gold, and all that money ‘ frt
Vcflant.
Jltsideot
^li^bd riiiflinfeliinglj
S*WSMfr hjjwjneaiimg glan?© H HZ
3 - She was yery pa!6, and thehand that
held her boquet trembled.sligl^tly, but
otherwise she was her own calm, proud,
lovely self, and neither Mr. RichlaDd
nor any one else could see beneath the
mask.
I can’t tell bow the evening passed.
I only know I was intensely glad when
it was all over with, and we were at
home again.
Mr. and Mrs. Chaster went at once
to their apartments, but I hngeied a
moment in the parlor with Althea, who
seemed in no hurry to go to her room
though it was late and the whole house: dare-to-tbiok-of ?”
as still as death.
Bui as she did not appear inclined to
:talk, I kissed her, aud said good-night
and went up to my chambei
leaving her there alone, like auothe
Ariadne, sad and heart-broken, in the
midst of princely splendor and nntold
wealth.
I had barely left the room before the
jingle of bells and tbe clatter of fiyiog
ho.ofsin the now almost silent street ar
rested my footsteps.
A sleigh dashed past, and stooped at
‘ The night Was intensely cold, but the
were Rmokih^ tond’their
quivering flanks White witlit-fd
frost.' \
Not caring ;to seeiwe,: ,1' ; SVopped
the curtain,, and snlaea toloofc at Al-
agnattaattitta
hard against her
holding dose abbot
, wofe^lsdth its soft
opera doak she e
snowy fringes:
mings,
tain firelight like^a silken ciond, tor on
Ssi*
even this Althe^fhadtarneA down so
low that it; was inovjj&f$K$gt($ii«
tm sowidedpH theBtairs,
then came a sound of a-mgffied fall-aiid
t
thing indescrible that stamped him a
man of wealth and intellectual force, was
still apparent; though ‘ so completely
had the man been gotten the' bettbr of
by the demon that lurks in the wine
cup. ; . i ; . I -V. ! • , --si i’
And she—Althea—the look in her
eyes I II never forget to my dying day
She did not' say a word; a kind of
dumb despair seemed to settle upqn
her countenance—n dispair that paled
her cheek to the hue of .ashes, and
chilled the very life blood.'in her
.veins.
I had seen enough, heaven knows, of
Althea’s hidden sorrow and stole away
to my room, wishing I could believe
the whole miserable scene but a troub
led dream, that would vanish with the
coming of the morrow’s sun. '
Howard did not make hie appearance
nt breakfast the next mornihg.
Althea explained, in tone of apology,
that Mr. Tremaine came in late, and—
wus tired."
Mrs. Chester did cot? gttesS' that any
thing was wrong. and really thought
Howard ill, aud advised Althea to send
for the family physician..
Althea, however, did npt follow her
sister’s advice, bnt sat all day beside the.
sofa where her husband . ti lay, suffering
miserably from the combined tortures
of heiidoche and remorse.
Toward evening, be began to feel
better, and good resolutions began to
slip themselves into bis mind* as is of
ten the case when one’s bead and con
science bhVG been f or Some jit tie, time on
Hie rack.
"Althea,” he said, drawing lier love
ly face down to his, and kissing the
sweet mouth* that trembled' beneath
his lips in away that betokened the.
near approach of tears—"Althea, I saw
a look in your eyes,, last night, wuiCu I
cannot quite forget, and which-1 hope
to never see in them: again; and I prom-
ise you, here and how that I will never,
s6 long-as I live touch a drop of wine '
again. It’s the deviRs ovm afid never
failing well-spring of sin add misery,
and my wife—God bless her!—is not;
to haye her happiness clouded and her
heart broken^ hy tbe folly and mad-
ness tbatlieih; ajbptfifetef gr^en seal :
There! do you believe me, darling?
of do .you think me - incapable of suc
cessfully resisting the sparkling tempta
tion that has proved the rum of annum-,
bered millions* and blighted and embit
tered the lives of more women than I
after their passage around a bepd in the
nyer of fifteen ^1^, “go'fof’’,lihatyriw
left of ‘them oh the rf: Me ; n have
beeu known^ on descending the river.,
in their “dngouts,” to trahsporfi ihes*-
primitive'Ve&els 'across the r ' , neck” at
this point, and thus saye'over a dozen
riiil&'by water* ' !i : , ” v
In 1863 General Pemberton
manded at this point, which .occupied
the .very anomalous gebgraphicol 'atti-
thde of being both above and below
Greenwood, Colonel Hemingway own-
ed a faithful slate—Peyton by name, a
noted negro fiddler, and I belivee, bis
carriage driver. He was known for-
miies around, and highly respecte'd by
both blAck and white. Hence, when:
his young master, Hon. Lymi Heming
way, at present state State Treasurer of
Mississippi, joined the old "Carroll Ri
fles,” he took Peyton along as a trusted
servant. He went with him into Vir
ginia and returned home in 1863. In
February or March of that year
“I believe yoti, Howard,” she Bob-
bed?‘Tittust beliete ybu,for to do oth>
erwise, would 1311 me/ If there was to be
WBKannt
if you will only keep yonr promise* I
shall be so happy—so happy, Howard!”
She fdl, sobbing into his arms fc and
her eyes the glad smiles were coming
and goiDg like sunshine through an
H p J^fyI^ ^^jUijyyLt
day, but Howard has never broken his ^ ^ h kd marriSd in hisl.
vow.andlfeel Quite certain now that . ,
vow, and I feel quite certain now that
flews*
The friends of Gov. Colqnitt point to
l 6-
re-
tbe healthy pondirion of the state’s,
i n^ices ja^lff^ir Ihfifliop^ „
election, and attribates this happy out
look to his administration. What ego-
has a bookkeeper with the solvency of > '
hir emyloyer. Tbe people of Georgia
one thing is sure—had loot the last leg
islature .©leaned out the Angena stable,
and aroused the gcAeraor to his duty by
threats of impearinaent, it is an aoeept-
e.1 feet that the publiqiijl would not
have been so pregsant with gret»baeks.
’
something like a half uttered oath, ask him for a quarter to help paj forth
mingled ^ith the:low cry of wtettem- Iltwager my oK hat that they won’t
ble anguish that hurst iRVojqhtaxily borrow it any more. It baa bees tria&
... .. ^
A FAITHFUL 6PI
was needed to visit the Federal gun
boats then coming down the river on
Fort Pemberton; and - who could better
be secured than a trust-worthy negro?
Peyton nt once undertook the mission,
and n presenting himself as a fugitive
slave to the commanders of tbe boats
was well received. Being bright far
beyond ordinary, he managed to secrete
their official papers, maps, &o., and es
caped iwith these documents to Fort
Pemberton.
After the fall Of Vicksburg, in July
following. Peyton went with bis'^oung
master again to Virginia, where he re
mained until the imfreoder of General
Lee. • The former being compelled to
remain a nuihber of days thereafter,
in order to comply with the formalities
of the surrender, sent Peyton ahead of
him to his home, near Carrollton, Miss.
On his way* however, he was betrayed
to the enemy by 'some “ Confederate as
ihc spy who bad deceived them above
Fort'Pamberton, was captured and car
ried in irons to New York, thence to C u-
Jli* and
SOLD AS A SLAVE,
together with many others. The vessel
On which he was taken was a Federal
gun-boat. In Cuba he worked as a slave
in factories for nearly fifteen years, be
ing entirely cut off from alt communi
cation with home and friends. He made
seven attempts to escape from bondage,
all but the last, of course, being unsuc
cessful. Finally, hefoundiin American
vessel, commanded by a Sqh(her,ier, to
whom he r*>i,ttei? t.helnsforv rtf hfo a.***
to be returned to his homel and
family?. The captain secreted him in
the hold of liis. vessel, . carried .him to
Costa Rica, thence to New York,., Pey
ton then worked his way to Virginia,
where a nnmber of ladies raised the
means to return him to his home, after
an absence of seventeen-years.
, He reached Winona. .Miss., on the
15th of April, .1880. Peyton says.that
NUMBERS OF MULATTO WOMEN
are being constantly sold into Caba as
slaves. Northern men " marry them,
take theni to Cuba "on a bridal tour,”’
and there sell them as cooks and fancy
house servants. He saw one sold last
fell, by the man who married her, for
8500; and further, that as he came
through Cincinnati on his way home he
saw the man, and recognized him,’ who
sold her in Cuba.
The facts above given are .from one of j
the most reliable ' and responsible gen
tleman in Mi8si88’ppi, ' written to a dis-
tinguislied membes . of Congress from
teat state.
Closing his letter, be says of Peyton;
rallyjsupposed. that Peyton lutf either -
died on his way home or had been foul
ly dealt, with. His late return explains
ifcajteq c Th.eiY®keo-wiU ! neyer.ge«te tS
make capital—either political, or finan-
jA’ *35,000 COMPROMISE*
“He was delighted to again meet-his
, T ,.. I long ab
sence'; though her second husband was
drowned several months ago. He&ce,
hh found her ai widow.' With both hus
band and wife it was like a return to
life from death. Peyton is ah exceed-
inely intelligent negro, and says he,can’
hardly -realize the changes that have
token place. He left his children babes;
arid finds them married, and with. *hii
dren of their own.”
; L. : '■ . f-.-.: -
Ii any one doubts the troth of this
story, ho or she cate write toCaptain B.
F! Jones, ~ ’
Constitution.
It will lie remembered that a sulk has
been pending between the state and
Col. John .T. Grant and C. A. Nutting,
in. which ,the State claimed damages
from the latter as securities on llie.bond
of treasurer Jones,
A short, time ngo a verdict of abont
880,000 was rendered against the ; two
securities.. There was a great deal of
doubt about.this verdict,, and tbcjjnry
’^igped a . paper saying that if. certain
testimony ..which was excluded by a
technichal ruling had been admitted,
they would not have rendered a verdict
for a debtor against the defendants.
.The case was appealed, anil an intermi
nable-fight spemeddu prospect.
An attempt. to settle the case, get
what the state could get, has been
pending for some time. At last, on :he
advice of the attorneys in the case, a
settlement has been reached and Col:
Grapt has paid into the treasury 835,-
000 in cash and gotten a receipt in lull.
This is the first instance in onr knowl
edge which money was ever collected oa
the.default of a public official bond.
Ic was the general opinion that the leg-
latureshould have relieved Col. Grant
from at least the bnlk of liis liability.
Bnt at last the matter is settled, and
the state is .835,000 richer. .Col. Grant
has received the congratulations of bis
friends at his release., and their sympa
thy at his having been mnlched in such
a large.amount, when be protests that he
was merely a temporary bondsman. It
is estimated,that his signature on the
bond has cost him over 850,000. Of
couse the case against Col. C. A. Nut
ting still coes on.
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The Dalton Citizen says that a very
ingenious machine for the prevention
of fires in lint rooms of gin honses and
pick rooms of factories, etc„has b een
invented and patented by Dr. L, A-
Folsom, of that city. It acts automati
cally, being placed in any room where
fire is likely to occur. As soon ns fire
is commnnicated the machine is set off
and the room instantaneously flooded
with carbonic acid gas and Water, ex
tinguishing gthe fire in less than, a min-
ate. The Citizen says it is an invalua
ble .invention, and will fill a long felt
want of the farmers of the Southern
states, and when generally introduced
wili do away with the necessity of in
surance oh gin.houses, as it lsabsblute-
aEfdhiatic fire extinguisher. Dr.
ft ffpa|V ftltd has giyen the sub
ject of gin .teouse fires no small Study,
aud this machine is the result, . oi’.liis la;
bors. He is one of the .most prominent
gentlemen in his section^and# machine
that he would present to the public is
worth consideratiop.—Savannah News.
Mr. Augustes M:orris, hue of the Uni
ted States Commissioners to the Icter-
national Exhibition at | Sidney, Austra
lia, writes, to the State’Department that
“in all cases where the leading Ameri
can manufacturers have sent their prod
ucts hi the exhibition they have either
excelled all competitors of other conn-
tnes or stood in first rank,” American
watches are above all'competitors, and
American pianos and organs in the first
rank' witn the'best. 'In silver and pla-
ted J ware the United States also excel,
•especially in beauty of desigh. In ag-
DEaRULUTA-
It was dark in the depot-one day last'
weefc when thfe evented twin came in.
Au elderly farmer was backed npogmnst
Winona, Miss.. or to C. Y- F.
Memwether, Oakland, Yalobusha coun-
- .....
Hnt there are so many points which
make it most creditable that few will
veiiture to gainsay The writer here
of knew Peyton, hi old master (now
deceased) and his young one-, Hob. W.
L. Hemingway, State Treasurer, Jaek-
W8 your paper son. Miss. He knows that Peyton was
misterio«s)y lest on his w ay home from
Virginia after the surrender* 4s he
had been almost always free during tee
&iys of southern slavery, it was
/%. ^ ? ^t_Tk_--tr»uar
3F'
Williams & Co., of Richmond,'Vte. have
the best aromatic kinds, bat Cumerbri &
Dunn, of Richmond and Petersburg;
Val, who fiateTextenriue factories also
in Sidney and Melbourn, have the
greates varieties. The : Winchester ri-
fira hate been placed before all others
There use two million beehives in the
United States. . Every hive yields on an
average, a little over twenty ponntls of
honey.; The average price at which
honey is sold is 25 cents a pound; so
that after paying their own board, the
bee» present ms /with a revenue of 83,-;
000,000. To. reckon it in another way,
they make av clear gift of over a pound
of pure honey to every man, woman '
and child in the vase dominion of the
United States. - Over twenty-three and
ooe-thiixL mllion pounds of wax are
made and given to us by these iudustri-
gqs workers.-
rtsthey „
their passengers, when a. handsome
young giri. in^a sealsta*mote#toflashed •
forward and throwing, hereof upon-the -
honest granger’s manly breast, imprint- -
ed a kiss upon: his shu burned cheek-
and exclaimed.-. '
Yeti dear old pa, I knew yon ; would I
be waiting for mej . And how’s mother
and how’s Jennie andhowls John—and ■
oh, I’m so glad,-to get backhand'
where’s my trunk—and; ob/tipi^-iyou 1
take the checlFrttid letVlrurry. ”
The granger was old and kind of
dried up, and he had! never kdOWh what
it was to have. a Wifo, muth *leks a
daughter. He mistrr.a ed the young Iu- -
dy in the sealskin saeqae had m:uio a
mistake, but instead of stammering and
hemming and hayujig he came gradual
ly up to the scratch and throwing botu
arms around the fair creature, he made
up his mind to be a father to.heifor die
in the attempt. Imprinting a Jfwr-like-
tlie report of a pis.tol on her cheek, ho
enthusiastically ejaculated:
“Oh, ycr mother’s well, an' J6hn.au'
Henry nn’ (smiick) an’ Jane an’ Susan <
(smack, smack) an’ Horace an’ Blindyy
an’ Calvin (smack), an’ Peter (smack,
smack), oh, they’re all smart and hear
ty, an’ ”
By the time tDe young lady’s friends, s
could get to her site had slid into a sta- -
uy faint and they had to lug her homo ,
in a hack, while the aged granger, ns he -
finished the tbiird . rouqd'-with'her out- -
raged young man and sauntered ont of f
the depot, leaving hint, with a bad eye •
and rupiured coiit, chuckled to himself.-
“The old man is gettiu’ old an’ stiff
an’careless like,'hut when' young fe
males Want to play any games o’ Copen- .
hagen. they’ll find him right to time, .
an’ Ishouldn’t be s’prized if it rain ’fore.,
nine o’clock. G’lang Katiel”
About seven years ago the body of
Mr. William Blandfdrd, a police officer,
who died at the^ageof seventy years,,
was interred in the north side of the *
Philanthropic Cemetery, at Passypnk -
avenue and Morris street. Last week '
the bo ly was disinterred with a view of
its being taken to the Odd Fellows’ •
Cemetery. It; extreme weight. (over
400 pounds) provoked remark, and in
vestigation proved that the body was
entirely petrified. The- superintendent
of tlio cemetery recalls the fact that
about twenty yearengo, when the bodv
efu man which had been buried for
three years was disinterred, it ; was
found as hnrebt® -Stone and so solid that
the corpse conld have been, placed in a
standing position like a block of mar-
ole; It is supposed that there is some
iniheraf substance in the water which
acts riphn the bodies and produces pet
rifaction:—Philadelphia Record,.
_ Hear what tliehojast Judge sutii in'
Hungary: S/me time ago a mail died
bankrupt, aud though ko. did not leave
liis widow a sirigio
ed.Iier ft very large.unpajiba^^Q^I
public honsp. His creditor did.honor',
to his memoiy by .kringiiig ‘Ln.Vctiotf
against his widow for the payment of
her husband’s drinking account. She
pioved that she-was absolutely'penni
less, but the Judge condemned hef .to',
pay the bilfe with costs; on the gtoinl
that-by her evidently capricious andim-'.
practicable temper’she had driven her
late husband to the public house, inter-',
der to find the/e the comfort : and peace..
which were denied Mm at hoffief '
“Emma R.”
tOhio) Trib^efhks-efskmmi&tarj qnes^
tion: “Do you tWnk itr%ht-for'a girft
tb sit on a yoriiigiman’k lap eveh’if she-
was cigaged-to hiW- ; WliCrcubott'
the editor gets ofl a very extatoftbunwr. •
-lie: ; 1 ‘ We> havat Wh uvVjiAiShtfp '
yes;if it is another's grif add ou> fep-
yes; biit if it'whs our girl as^^joth/
fellow's larp* neveri*’ ; ‘ '
——— m w’ ■ ' ' -
A German physician darns So bin.
discovered a means of dying the tyssof* ^8
animals in general, and of man in par-
tieularl ihiy cblor hepleareS. H e mac
companied in his travels % a dog with,
a rose colored kkt tritb aii ora'ngel
red eye, a mdukey with a duonio yel
low eve. a negro with onehliek' and one.
bine eyei and a negresa with one eye,
gold colored and the other silver white.
The doctor says that Eis process,instead
of injuring, strengthens and improves
the sight, ; \ '
Tbe weariness of life Which Princa.
Bisnmrek manifestadroriris. speech
tekhsts^the olhef d6y Wiiotiee-
■able ftker m Ms whofe' dbrneiMier,*’
wbieb in its lassiftide was g . Pinrice^
contrast to li^s activity in past d^ys.
The ChaneeBorte nervous irritability iq
said toexeeed all bonnd«.
names. Copper pennies and two-peu-
j were ewned in 1707-
The ancteat-silver- penny was the
first silver eoin struck in England*, and
the only one current among the Anglo-
Saxons. The penny, until the reign of
Edward, L, was strnck with a cross so.
deeply indented that it might be easily a ebickea fancierteays that he stuck
parted into two for halfpence, and into conrt-plasier over all egg found broken
four, few farthings^ and hence these in Ibe nest, after the hen had been sit-
tine a week, and in dne time it gave i
chicken n= sjirightly as any of the brood!