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£0 Vi JAL NEWS. ton cotton-aeod oil mil's. lias has s eventv-one newspapers, county,' M^s., wll ««“ tiie crop this year since ,jt corn and lockage elevator at 1 covers seven acres of Tenn., [.{WE thousand dollars have isis ecUoraco tfccn factory at Union, djrolina. houses have bun feed and six [ erected at Cullman, Ala.,'within jsf sis months. U JJrtot county, Ga., voted on the week, and gave a majority j^tyfor “no Birmingham fence.” cotton fac v on the jj progressing very satisfactorily. It 3 few weeks. lie comp jeted in a • -organ factory has been discovered ".Vis.Tenn., which turns out instru¬ ct compare favorably xvith those , elsewhere. Uporce lain works in Augusta coun « have commenced operations, mods equal to any over made are Lilt in large quantities. is 10,000 bushels of Leon (Ill.) div’s last year's com c rop re ton the hands of the producers, and L ^ught for 35 cents a bushel. tajE are many parts of south Flor lW j)cre the crops of Guavas are great toa the people can use: being a per jble fruit it cannot be shipped. Lfkm in Gates county, N. C., owns L m iles of narroxv-gauge railway, Ling five of its t a w mills. It is (largest lumber business in the State L b T. Wall, Florida’s colored ex igtossEiau, noxv farming in Alachua B ty will realize between $7,000 and DO net hem his vegetable crop this .tew Carolina has two of the lar¬ ks vineyards east of the Rocky moiui L The grapes raised are coming Igjvst demand ex’en oitsidc of the linTSX drinking match occurred at llrou Springs, near Iuka last week, ■ton Mr. John Hays, of Memphis, isdiammev. The drummer won, jtimg two and a half gallons. [Iran taking out the amount of a fare feas railroad conductor handed §19 lb Hie wrong passenger, xrho pocketed liii! refused togiveitup on the ground pi he did not ask the conductor for it. Tee band of Second Adx'entists which fert time since established themselves [Fairfax Court-house., Va., appear to jrecarried everything before them in at village, and it is said that in a short fethey xvill have a large church, xx-hich somber of their converts xvill build for an, ■ The famous live oak tree, knoxvn as lb “Devil’s Riding Whip,” which is sit ■leil three-quarters of a mile northeast ■ the “Devil’s Mill Hopper,” il ear feesville, Fla., measures 33 feet and ■inches in circumference one foot from ■ ground. The tree is hollow and af P 8 ample shelter for 40 hogs. at the Hygeia Hotel, Old lint Comfort, Va., drive over to St. pirn s Protestant Episcopal church, at pmpton, which is the oldest sacred ed f e k iu brought the country. It xvas .built of F from Holland in 1658. Its F 1L given by Queen Elizabeth, v. as pifed in a fire that once burned in the Future for three days. I Before ike wa" Alabama raised a pt K r &uig; deal else; of cotton she and produces not much of K now much t>oats some northern states in the ptietion p], and has of oats, pleasing finds profit in pork, a assortment of ; es an ‘t niills. She also raises ten r <en t more of cotton than she did ten Ppago. taber of her She farms. has also doubled the Jonesboro f (Ga.) News: There are txvo tea calling themselves elders in the I unnon church stopping in the western I Won cf.our county. They hail from I ’ A and their presence here bodes no I food. To tolerate their nefarious peaching p is a reflection on the intelli nce °* ollr people, and, unless the law p l,e m adc to reach them, common de I 1 demands that they be notified to 80 ed to go, and stand not the II et °f (heir upon Itnchbtjbg going but to go at once. News: W T e xvere shoxxm pteulay, * tlle Southern by Mr. Henry Charles, a flag | a , the Confederacy which he ■ outbreak of the war, and at e time plans for a flag for the then federate is States were asked for. It v w, 1 much faded, but its colors vet U are ant enough to show that it was a dutiful and appropriate piece of work, ft is bl ue, xvith wide a red border, and arevi, * Placed 01 U on e ‘Afferent the form Southern of States in a cross. editorial notes. *bf v holesale shipping of arms and Mahons of war, from the United States tlnaa, has been made public. The _ ^rOant 1 the expended Chinese government in this country is thus OOf) - f-5,000, I; vie w ( f the damaging effect which H ri¬ fe ^v n 35 s - > n 1 I 73 I-': U m J,l„J VOLUME VL the Potlach feasts are having on the civ¬ ilization of the Indians of the northwest territories and British Columbia, the do* minion government in the official gazette recommends and urges the abandonment of the practice of Potlach, proclaiming a continuance of the same to be in viola¬ tion of their counsel and desire. The practice is indulged in by both rich and poor, who spend their time and money in accumulating property to distribute among their own and other tribes. The custom of Potlach is based on a desire afor destruction, and is practiced with view of receiving greater presents than those mad a. The poor borrow from the rich to be able to practice Potlach, lay¬ ing exorbitant and ruinous interest or usury, for advances in money or goods. The custom, which is also practiced among United States Indiaus on the Pa¬ cific, it is held, leads to immoral practi¬ ces, those entering into it frequently depriving their families and themselves of the necessaries of life for that purpose. It will readily be seen that the result must prove most ruinous if the practice is allowed to continue. The dominion government, however, prefer to counsel and advise rather than enforce its aboli¬ tion. Thus failing, more stringent me a mrcs will likely be adopted. AMERICAN FABLES. The Sailor and the Slmrli—TU6 Box and the Farmer. A Peasant, who had often heard that Truth xvas a Jexx - el lying at the bottom of a xvell, one day descended into his well to search for the treasure. He skinned his knees and elbows, barked his nose, ran an old fork into his foot, and shivered around for six long hours before his wife drexv him up and asked : “What in Goodness’ name were you doing doxvuthere?” “Looking for Truth,” ‘-‘Why I could hax’C told you before yon went down that you xvere the big¬ gest Fool in America!” moeal: You can get more Truth than you want around any well-curb. THE SAILOR AND THE SHARK. A Sailor who had fallen overboard and was speedily interviewed by a Shark, cried out to his enemy : “Have pity on a man who is down 1” “My friend," replied above the Shark, is “a of man xvho keeps himself water uo use to me. Now is my time!” moral: The man who falls overboard in busi¬ ness can expect no favors of the Sheriff TIIE FOX AND THE FARMER. A Fox one day made a call upon a Peasant and bitterly complained of the custom of shutting poultry up nights iu Fox-proof pens, “It isn’t because I suffer at nil,” added Reynard, “but think hoxv nhcomfoitable it must be for the poor Foxvls. It is their condition I wish to mitigate.” took the matter under ad¬ The Peasant visement, and next evening he neglected to shut up his fowls. Next morning lie came across the Fox just as he had fin¬ ished feasting on a fat Pullet and cried out: “All! this is the xvay you take to pity my poor Fowls, is it?” “Well, you see,” grinned Reynard, “I feel very sorrry for the Fowls, but at the same time cannot afford to miss an op¬ portunity.” MORAL : The man xvith ten acres of land to sew is the chap xvho first sees the need < f an orphan asylum .-—DetroitFree Pres*. A Too Funny Boy. A , Washington w wtpv lettei^says snvs- — Bennv nenny 2ffil reioris. a r ’very lively otlA boy according to nil The day he infuriated all of the staff of the Attorney-General to a PI On his^fatheris desk there is a lot calls of buttons, connecting whh electrical m all subordinate offices of: the depart ment, from the Solicitor Ge - °ne day, not long o“ad Suddenly, ffiv hefom the with his father. P latter could stop him, Benny began to play upon all of the electric buttons at once, as if upon the keys of a piano. These sudden and repeated calls created a panic in the department. The Solici¬ tor-General, a grave, dignified gentleman the Assistant Attorney-General, twenty the chiefs, Chief Clerk, and in all about came in one after another in mad haste, only to he met by an apology from the Attorney-General, while Benny howled with laughter upon the carpet where he lay rolling, as the slaves of the buttons appeared and disappeared, black ■vsitli wrath notwithstanding Brewsters ami¬ able begging for forgiveness of the mad freak of his dear-, merry son. A . „ * C i,-..,,, ' AnEngltahMs ly Corunna leeeu * g in the cefflre. At the wffh with a a wfflte n nite eross cross small En- 8 o S n foremost. The English gush ” h flag flag at at her I er rfor the C n°Uriu to O captain to to lower 1 the Ugh green flag, but the messenger met treatment on summone d the Uvis assistance arce o 0 f the Spanish i ^ ^ Coast Guard, sralois .bonded and even t * \y^V ^ remoVeJ lias the objectionable gv^ ^ inquiry of been^stituted pit circuia stauce CON YERS, GA.. AUGUST IT, 1SS3. “WIPED OUT” AT LAST. A STOIIY OF A FAMOUS SCOUT OS CL’STEU’S COMMAND. Return, to Civilization, but t.ongs tovliis Old Exciting Rite, Gets nn Appoint* went and Goes to His Dealii. [From the Detroit Free Press.] Renders of. the Free Press will re¬ member a series of articles that appeared m these columns upward of a year ago, being the adventures of a guide and scout upon the plains. The hero of them was Mass. George Singer, a native of Lynn, At an early age he was placed at tvork in . one of the shoe manufacturing establishments in this city, but when 19 years of age, became infatuated by tales of border life, and started for the far West in 1856. He soon attached him self to Phil Kearney’s command, in the capacity the of a hunter, and went with him to scene of the Mountain Meadow massacre. The celebrated Brady, the scout, was with the same command, and a the strong attachment sprang up between two. A great many wagon trains of emi¬ grants were crossing the duties plains in those Sam’s days and one of the chief of Uncle soldiers was to protect them from Indians, them. or “Ingjius,” as Sieger called As guides and hunters for these trains Brady and Singer were constantly employed he used to for declare, year’s, he during became which familiar time, with every trail, water course and range from Texas to Oregon. He had picked up tongue, a smattering and of nearly every Indian hunting spoke Custer’s Spanish fluently. lie was for command at the time he was annihilated, hut lie was away on a scout at the time. Custer, he declared, was afraid of no man living, and had a supreme contempt for the In¬ dians. “I never knew him,” said he, “to hesitate an instant when he came upon a band of Indians he was pursuing. He would draw his sabre, jam his spurs into his horse’s flanks and shout in ‘Charge!’ and away he would go, rods front of his men. He was always tho first into a fight, riding down the savages, slashing demon. right ” and left, and yelling like a Of the cause of Singer coming to De¬ troit he was ever reticent, or why lie should come here at all. Ho said that the opening of an old wound rendered him unfit for the life of a scout, but to John E. Long he intimated that there w.os another reason why he came, and without admitting anything, conveyed the impression that he desired to remain in obscurity for a time. Certain it is that, when interviewed by the reporter, he requested that his name bo withheld from publication, saying that he desired no notoriety. He had a little brick shop on the corner of John R. and Center streets, and was very skillful in making fine, shoes for women’s wear. In fact, he very soon built up such a custom trade that lie gave employment to o journeyman. One of the first acquaintances he made in the city was John E. Long, the gun¬ smith, who gave the reporter a 1 ‘pointer. ” Singer height, xvas a man of about medium broad in the shoulders, deep in the chest, and his arms were a sight to behold. He had been twice a prisoner to the Indians, and one day drew off liis blue woolen shirt, baring a body that bore the marks of seven bullet wounds. One of these missiles had struck him in the right breast and passed out some distance below the right shoulder-blade. This wound had healed imperfectly, and its opening xvas the cause he assigned for returning to civilization. He often expressed a desire to return to his old life, and one day in the spring of 1882, the reporter found him in Long’s gun store purchasing a repeating rifle. He stated that sometime previous he had written to the War Department and asking appointment as scout, had just received orders to proceed to St. Louis and report for duty as a guide for Gen. that Cj . ooFs comm and. He left Detroit night, and promised to write to Mr. Long and the reporter, hut he failed to ke |P^ ™ reporter met M r. Long and inquired if he had heard from their replied ^ Mr. Long, “and I do ^ expect A 8ho rt time ago I read, connect i on w ;th Crook's campaign against the Indians, that the body of Singer, a i g the scout, was found riddled . „ buUet ~---------- \ Modern Fable for the Brave. A fly, observing one day a sheep run nine * with great rapidity from a forest, inquired. “What is the matter, my friend?” enough !” panted the , sheep. “Matter yonder wood there is “Dear fly, in a ‘‘Really ? and wliat of that ?” returned he fly. “Surely, you are not afraid of a ion 9** “And do vou indeed not fear him?” gasped the sheep. it, I xvill my “Certainly not; to prove self enter the wood.” and returning T|, e flv hurried away alter some time, continued: b i £: . h him for some minutes, and I even flatter myself that it xvas I xvho mi noved him. Prav, do. not be so timid! At this moment a spider, who had just completed her web near by, appeared turned suddenly on the scene. The fly pale Lay. and, xvithout warning, fainted quite The spider seizing him, bore himinto her web, whence he never reap- 1 d friend,” sighed the sheep „ Alas! my quietly “it not so as he walked away, is much what vou are afraid of, as it is the being afraid \”—Life, STARTING.A PAPER. wax an arkansaw enterprise was SUDDENLY ABANDONED. [From the Arkansaw Traveler.] Captain Lomuth has just returned from an interior county’, where he went some time ago to establish a milch* needed and loudly-demanded newspaper. full When he left Little Rock lie was so of hope, and so confident that his enter¬ prise would prove a success, that his sudden re-appearance and declaration that his venture was a failure, created :ii inquiring interest among his friends. “Why did you give up tho other enterprise, captain ?” he was asked the even* ing. “Well,” he lied, blowing cloud rep a of smoke over the head of a short inan who sat on the opposite side of the table, “I did not receive sufficient en¬ couragement to, continue, but received a great deal of it to quit. Arkansaw may be the future home of -the cottn* try paper, but at present 1 am inclined to believe that the hand press and the roller are mistaking their calling, and misappropriating the wisdom of tradi¬ tion, when they assume citizenship under the rural piue tree. Some time ago I heard that Bugleville wanted a news¬ paper, and that the citizens of the pros¬ perous place were so rife for a local pub¬ lication that they would willingly con¬ tribute toxvard the permanent establish¬ ment of a xveekly journal. I wrote and to his a loading citizen of the town, reply fairly blazed with encouragement, “ ‘Of course wo want a newspaper,’ ho said, ‘and to slioxv you hoxv alive our citi¬ zens are, coxae over and see what they propose to put up by xvay of a starter.’ i xvent over. Everybody was glad to seo me, and with considerable ceremony I was conducted around tho town, con¬ sisting of a few board stores, a saw-mill, a blacksmith shop, and ail undertaker’s t stablislinieiit, xvhick seemed to be the livest institution in the place. Filially xve met in a back lot, and held a meeting in regard to the paper. After numerous speeches, it xvas agreed to grant me for¬ ty-five acres of land, situated near toxvn, and then to further promote tho matter, the mayor declared that ho xvonhl give me a mule. This seemed encouraging enough, and I invested what money I had in an office. I soon got things originnb in running shape, and by way of it T called my paper the Shark. I did not attempt to*canvass for subscriptions until the first number xvas issued, could pre¬ ferring to let people see. what I do. When the paper came out, I went around town, having hired an apt pen¬ man to accompany me, and take down the names of the subscribers, while 1 solicited and called them off. The first man we struck said: ‘Certainly, you may put me down. ’ “ ‘For a year ?’ I asked. “ ‘Oh, yes, - or for two years.’ you,’ I “ ‘I am much obliged to grate¬ fully replied. all. Needn’t write out ‘Not at a re¬ ceipt, for you see, one acre of the forty five given you, was donated by me. I don’t think that you will have any troiibk running a paper on forty-live acres (1 land, for I understand that some of the most successful papers in flic country are operated on a basis of about ten acres. “I moved away, somexxdiat disap¬ pointed. The next gentleman, an intel¬ ligent looking fellow, said: “ ‘I have always been regarded as the most enterprising man in this communi¬ ty, and I must say that I am proud ol the distinction. I was (he first man to suggest the establishment of a nexvs paper. and I shall lie by no means small in mysuppoit. Put me down for two subscribers—hold on, put me down foi three, as I want to send a copy to my brother. No, a receipt is unnecessary. Ten acres, of the forty-live, were do¬ nated by me. Just give me credit on your books for the balance.” This dug dee]i into my flesh, but lie seemed to be so interested in my success that I could not tell him how I longed to stand flat-footed on the top of a barrel and split an oak board over his head. • The next man xx’c approached intentions xvas very warm in his praise of my ; but I decided upon being careful. The land racket had been worked on me just a little too often and xvas in a fair xvay to bankrupt my scheme. “Did yon contribute any of the forty five acres ? ” I asked. “ Not a foot,” he repeated, “but not because I did not favor the project. 1 am a surveyor, possess a fair degree than oi intelligence and shall he more pleased when you have worked up a good circulation.” “ You will of course subscribe ? ” “Oh, yes, for two copies.” advance,” “I must insist on pay in I said, xvhen after a fexv moments he still made no movements toxx'ard hand ing out the money, right,” he replied. “I’ve “You are always thought that newspaper men xvere indiscreet in giving credit. Say, there’s a little balance on our account. You see, I surveyed the forty-five “ C “ G »a ** Kir,”with »»i„,lig» tion that lent agility to my legs, I walked away. Soon afterward I met the mayor xvho subscribed for ten copies on the strength of the mule, and a little further j on I met a man who wanted to be put j down for six months because be had fed | the “I mule. decided to sell the land, and one jay xvent out for the first time to esti mate its value. It was on one side of a mountain and stood on its edge. A thrifty German, who owned a farm ad ; joining my land, said that he of plowed the land, by j moans of a windlass at the top NUMBER 21. he would - 1 When the plow was wound up throw it down, and a man stationed at the bottom would arrange it for another furrow. Just as I was about to close a trade with the German, the sheriff came out and seized the land for non-payment of taxes. I went back to town and of¬ fered my office for sale, when one of tho leading citizens mounted a stump and said : . . This is the return we get for kind¬ ness, fellow-citizens. We started him in business, gave him lends and stock, now he wants to desert us. We’ll give him fifteen minutes in which to leave the town,” “I went to the stable to get my mule. Ho was lying down in the .stable when 1 entered, but I aroused him, but a bridle on .him, and left, Tho mule began to stagger, and by the time I had gotten two miles from town, he laid down and died. Then I started on foot, and after walking sixty miles reached the railroad. I still oWn the office, figure.” and am willing to sell at a reasonable (foxv Bank Notes arc Redeemed. Perhaps, says a- Washington holders cor¬ of respondent, the thousands of National bank notes in this country would like to know something of their redemption. The facts are The not generally National known to the public. is in the Bank Redemption Agency Treasury He* Treasury building. lias The it, but tho partment full control of National banks themselves pay all the expenses. To this agency pounds daily, and of mutilated bank notes come and those not fit for use are counted ground up into pulp. From this the color is extracted and the material sold to paper makers. Tho money comes to the agency from tho banks all over tho country. It is sent by the Adams Express, xvith whom the agency has a s pecial contract. It is put up in pack¬ ages before being sent, and the amounts in this are marked on their outside. These packages must be counted on their receipt here, and of the fifty-seyen employees of the agency forty are count¬ ers of money. The counters arc very skillful, and they are the most export of detectives. If they make a mistake in counting the amount is deducted from their salaries; and if they permit counterfeits to pass unseen these are also deducted. In many eases these counters have discovered counterfeits when the most expert detectives have passed them unnoticed. Bills are al ways recounted, and the average number counted each day is §300,000. This continual practice gives such a delicate touch that the difference in the quality of the paper enables them to detect counterfeits, and it has happened that the engraver of a plate from which a note WHS taken has declared that a note xvas genuine until its defects were pointed out by one of these counters. The txvo worst counterfeits now out, which are liable to deceive any one but an expert. .na¬ .§5 bills on the Hampton National Bank of Westfield, Mass., and $109 bills on the Pittsburg National Bank of Com¬ merce. After tho notes are counted and sorted those which are in good preser¬ vation are again issued, and those mutilated are destroyed as above shown. Female Government Clerks. Boston The Washington correspondent The of tho - Advertiser says: women clerks employed by the Government in Washington are paid poorly compared with the male clerks. But $900 and $1,000 are large sums compared with xvlqit they could expect to receive in Boston and Nexv York. What xvould the shop girls in Boston say to going to a desk at nine o’clock, completing their work at four, going away ■without loss of pay for a month’s summer vacation, and staying at home xvith pay xvhenever ill? And that is xvliat women clerks do here at 81,000 a year. What wonder that scores of them sup¬ port families, educate children and have money saved. With the prospect of permanency these government positions are by no means despicable. They re¬ quire only honesty, decent and appearance iliey fur¬ and ordinary respectable education, and income. A nish a sure clerkship is not to be scorned, and the clerks are to be pitied only of rigor because too short hours and a idlers. laxity The encour¬ age shirks and women are not xvorih so much as men. They are less constant and harder to manage. Butin some kinds of xvork they excel. A feeling against their employment is prevalent, based to some extent upon the abuses which inevitably follow of xvhen these places are given as matt ers glar¬ per¬ sonal favor. Some of these are so ing and pernicious that they cannot be told. But those xvho understand best the way things have been xvill rejoice that it is something besides favor xvhieh xvill hereafter influence these selections. In genera], women remain but a few years in government employ. the Unfor¬ best tunately, those xvho do not are fitted. It is no exaggeration to say that there are hundreds of women xvho have out groxvn their usefulness. But their pov¬ erty invites pity, and they are retained in charity. Were “business the clerks principles” could to control, one fourth of be dispensed with; but, after all, tho money thus spent is not wholly wasted. There are pathetic stories enough that in these offices to make one willing the some latitude be allowed in retaining stojin-Ucaieii. rrsiuQUF/s NEW jpiumot: vy no is tms sober Looking citizen? He’s a news papor Funny Man. Are ail Humorous Writers toxicated sober by Success. ? No, tbev This Are poor often bellow ^In- 1 j s Evidently one That has Not Caught On. Right yon are, My Son. STORY OP THE CUSTER MASSACRE All Account of the slaughter Given by an Indian Woman. Since General Custer and his coni" maud of three hundred were massacred by the braves of Sitting Bull, two which or three accounts have been given of purported to be a corroet history the tight. But of the particulars of tho scene there have bees only meagre pnb- ac¬ counts. The Pioneer Press now 1 is lies an interview between a correspond¬ ent at Standing Rock Agency and the wife of Tatatukahegl ska, or Spotted Horn Bull. This woman is first cousin of Sitting Bull, and the story is vouched for ns being a true account of tho battle. Aft r describing the advance and the re¬ treat of Ma jor Reno—whom she declared to be either drunk or crazy, and his men t horoughly panic-stricken—the and its woman stated that the retreat conse¬ quent slaughter was scarcely trumpets ended told when the blare of Custer’s the _Sioux of his approach; but they " prepared for him. The quiet¬ wore men ly crossed the river, and hundreds gal¬ loped to his rear, out of range at first, but soon hemming him in constantly narrowing circles. The woman mounted her pony and rode behind her camp, where she could get a good view of tho hills beyond. She saw the troops come up and dismount. Each fourth man seized the bridles of three horses besides his own. The rest deployed and ad vane d on the run toward the river. She saw the terrible effect of the withering lire which greeted tho approach side item of tho the willows on the Indian’s slroarn, and laughed ns she said : “Our people, boys and all, kill had the plenty soldiers. of gi ms and ammunition to new Those who had run away left them be¬ hind.” Slowly trotting north along tho outskirts of the encampments, she noted tho Indians xvho had crossed getting closer to the troops. She watolled the latter—those who were left of them— retreat to their horses and mount. She heard the yells of her kindred and tho shouts of_the whites; but soon, as tho former grew ploiitier and the latter fewer, she could distinguish little save here and there an animated cluster of men and horses. Slowly the pony jogged down tho - When she'reached tlio Minrns stream. left,, conjo camp, on the extreme not an hour’s ride, sho said not one white sol ah-r xvas visible on the field. Of horses there were plenty; these the Indians stripned The Ouster fnen xvero soon and tho Indians knew they bad kilted the long-haired chief; by his buck g;i:i coat trimmed with beaver which Liey found upon him. Tho Sioux lost thirty killed and more than twice as many wounded, Indians numbering •five thousand in all. The Romance of line Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge has its romance. In 1867, xvhen tin; first Bridge Company John V.’Y.H formed, A. Roebling, tho distinguished at engineer, secured xvas once as the Chief Engineer of the .xvork. Ilia thorough practical knowledge of the truetion of suspension bridges pointed him out as the proper person for the position. IIo bad already contemplated Mali a stracllire and felt a warm inter e-;fc in the enterprise. He embarked in it. with enthusiasm, and for two years worked faithfully at the important ore linrinarios. One day xvliile standing on the pier at the feiry slip on tlie Brooklyn crushed. side Sixteen his foot xvas accidently days after this unfortunate occurrence the eimincer di >d of lockjaw, before a stroke of actual construction had been done to the bridge. Hero was one valuable life sacrificed to tho great work. The dead man’s son, who xvas familiar with all his plans, took his place as Chief Engineer. Like his father, lie xvas' de¬ voted to tho enterprise. lie labored at it more dilligeiitly aild for more hours of the day than any of his subordinates,' until a disease, contracted through con¬ stant exposure to the damp of the foun¬ dations, destroyed his health. Three years after his father’s death ho xvas physically prostrated, although his mind remained as clear as ever. He removed to a house on Brooklyn Heights from the wiuddxvs of which he could constantly . watch and direct the work, although twelve his limbs xvero powerless. laboring For years his brain has been on the un¬ dertaking. xvliile the devotion and intelli gence of ins wife have made up for tho loss of his bodily activity. Colonel Roebling’s health has been sacrificed to the work, perhaps beyond ■ recovery. His sufferings, liis persever¬ ance and the assistance he receives from his wife’s devotion call to mind tlio caso of Mr. Henry Faxvcctt, the English Post¬ master General, xvho, although afflicted with blindness, carries on with the aid of his xvife one of the most exacting and laborious departments of the Govern¬ ment Despite their misfortunes, Mr. Fawcett’s administration is vigorous and efficient and Colonel Roebling’s brain work has been of inestimable value to the bridge enterprise. l eft Him There. One ot the characters in Lord Beacons field’s “Eufl.vmion,” the named famous Mr. London Vigo, was intended for tailor, Poole. The story of Poole is now going the r< uuds that, xvhen walking one day in King’s road, Brighton, I)86ulunching a .“larky” yor.ng nobleman, whoiiad with some friends, determined to “risk - a fife ut Poole,” as he expressed it. So eoiug to “our Vigo," he loudly asked - what thedeucehem aut by building lord) such a coat as that he (the young xvas wearing. The eminent tailor ...merely ! said that ho regretted having failed to meet xvith his lordship’s approbation, * and asked him to button up the coat. This done, Mr. Vigo took a piece of tail¬ or’s chalk Donalds pocket and proceeded quite gravely to mark and remark the . coat well mountebank’s nigh ail over, jacket, until and it. looked then, like a gravely raising his hat. lie assured his lordship that if he would call with the coat the next time he was duly passing, alter-.it Ids (Mr. Vigo’s) people Would for him". And' long bc-f re the yymng sprig ° of nobilitf had hit upon a rl-fort, ’ lie xvas hit in the centre of a group of,* grinning friends. elu sion of some matter of business upon which it xvas evident they could not agree. 1 -The Continent,