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WASHINGTON NKWS-.
Clerk Adams Makes 8 Democratic Majority
in the House.
A BAD SHOWING FOR THE FREED
MEN'S BANK:
ANOTHBIi lUTTURNINO BOADEU REWARDED
Washington, June 23. Rufus
Campbell has been appointed Pen
sion Agent at St. Louis.
Clerk Adams has completed the
roll for the next House, which shows
a majority of eight full-fledged Dem
ocrats. Garfield, Banks and Foster
are counted out.
The Freedman’s bank has enough,
it claims, to pay a ten per cent, divi
dend, but the expenfce of distribution
would, in most cases, cover the'
amount. There are twenty thousand I
depositors of sums under five dollars, i
to whom the fifty cents is thought of I
no consequence. The Commissioners
think they will ultimately be able 1
to pay fifty cents on the dollar.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, one of j
the silver Senators, is preparing the j
report of the joint commission on 1
silver. He favors the double stand- 1
ard, and considers that the opinion !
of the Secretary of the Treasury is
of no more binding force than that
of any other individual.
G. Wiley Wells, ex-member of Con
gress from Mississippi, will be ap
pointed Consul General to China.
Washington, June 23.—Commodore
Jno. R. Goldsborough is dead.
Secretary Sherman has received a
dispatch from a daughter Lewis Cass, j
who married a German nobleman, \
directing a subscription of $50,000 in
the four per cents.
It is stated the Canadian Govern
ment is moving for Sitting Bull’s ex
pulsion from Canada. H'S presence
inspires the Blackfoot Indians to
turbulence.
HAYES ON CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Officials Hot to bj Politicians.
NO iMCKIUm FOR PARTY PIR
POHEX.
Another Good New Departure.
Executive Mansion, I
Washington, Juye 221, 1877. f
Sib— l desire to call your attention
to the following paragraph in a letter
addressed by me to the Secretary of
the Treasury, on the conduct to be
observed by officers of the General
Government in relation to the elec
tion: “No officer should be required
or permitted to take part in'the man
agement of political organizations,
caucusses, conventions, or election
campaigns. Their right to
vote and to express their
views on public questions,
either orally or through the press, is
not denied, provided it does not in
terfere with the discharge of their
official duties. No assessment for
political purposes on officers or sub
ordinates should be allowed.”
This rule is applicable to every de
partment of the Civil Service. It
should be understood by every officer
of the General Government that he
is expected to conform his conduct
to Its requirements.
Very respectfully,
R. B. Hayes.
LOSSES OF BRITISH COJIP4JUFA
BY THE ST. JOHNS FIBE.
London, June 23. The Times’
financial article says, several Eng
lish Insurance Companies lost heavi
ly by the St. Johns fire. In one in
stance the loss will be over $500,000,
and the least that any single office
will have to bear is over SIOO,OOO.
The principal sufferers are the North
British and Mercantile, Royal, Liver
pool and London arid Globe, North
ern Queen, and Commercial Union
Companies.
Another Bank Fallnre.
Peoria, June 23.— The bank firm of
Sidney Puisifer & Cos., closed their
doors. Sidney Puisifer, whose prop
erty it is to the amount of over a
million dollars, printed a notiee on
the doorof the bank expressing pro
found sorrow for the suspension, and
bis belief that the creditors would
lose nothing, as his property is large
and unincumbered.
Woolner Bros., large distillers,
have been borrowing heavily of the
firm, and will doubtless also fail.
The Turks made no sign of hinder
ance at Ibrail. Two small camps are
visible on the bights above Match in.
The Russian force at Galatz and
Ibrail is 40,000. A wide march on
the Turkish side seperates the com
battants at both places.
New York, June 23.—A cable
special says that a whole Jtussian
corps are in Bulgaria. The Czar,
with his staff, intends to cross to-day.
London, June 23.—Various special
dispatches point to tiie speedy re
moval of Russian headquarters to
alexandria iu Roumauia—probably
on Sunday or Monday.
Constantinople, June 23.—The
Porte’s reply to Lord Derby’s note
in reference to the Suez Canal was
dispatched on the 21st inst. It is
understood the Porte vccepts the
principle of free navigation of the
canal by neutrals, but, reserves the
right of fighting an enemy’s vessel.
Prince Cassatt, of Egypt, leaves for
Varna to-day on board the Missre.
The Sultan presented him yesterday
with a sword of honor.
London, June 23.—A telegram
from Ibrail announces 0,000 Russians
crossed the Danube from Gnlatz,
The bridge constructed by tho Rus
sians over the river at Ibrail is finish
ed. The Turkish garrison at Mutchin
has withdrawn.
London, June 23. —The 2d edition
of the Daily News has a dispatch
from its correspondent at the Rus
sian headquarters, at Ibrail, dated
yesterday, which says the Russians
crossed the Danube at Galatz in
boats. They have taken the heights
behind Zizila, near Matchin. The
Turks are said to have abandoned
Matchin. A sufficient number of
Russians have crossed to establish
themselves solidly. They are now
entrenched.
A Bucharest dispatch to the 2d edi
tion of the Standard, says the Turks
are destroying the line of railroad
between Tcheruevona and Matchin.
It is rumored that there are indica
tions that the Turks will not defend
the Dobrudsha.
Ibrail, June 23.— The Russians, on
landing on the Turkish bank of the
Danube, pushed directly into the in
terior behind the hills, gaining pos
session of the heights commanding
Matchin, after an obstinate fight
with a body of Bashi Bazouks. The
engagement lasted from daybreak
until noon. The capture of Matchin
is imminent.
London, June 23i—A correspondent
of the Times says that Suleiman Pa
sha advances very slowly, the road
being obstinately contested by the
Montenegrins. No doubt he will
succeed in getting through, but with
very grave losses. According to the
latest consular reports, he bad 22,000
regulars and from 5,000 to 8,000 irreg
ulars, against whom Prince Nicholas’
cavalry oppose. The fighting isverjf
sanguinary, but the Turks can only
return now with danger, and will
push forward regardless of losses.
The Convent of Ostrok was buruod
this morning.
An attack is announced on two j
points of the Southern frontier.
The total number of Turkish forces :
now operating against Montenegro
is 60,000.
A Beuter dispatch from Ragusa
yesterday says, fighting near Ostrok
ceased yesterday. The Montenegrins
occupy an entrenched position, which
prevents the advamte of Suleiman
Pasha. Prince Nicholas, with an-:
other corps, is entrenched at Oerova, |
south of Ostrok.
Ali Saib is expected to attack Dorn
lograd to-morrow, with the object of
effecting a junction with Suleiman
Pasha. Should these operations
succeed, both armies will march
upon Cettinge, whiie Lieutenant-
General Mehernet Ali will march
down from Vasejevic to Cover their
flanks.
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Russians Across Danube.
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1 TtKKS REfITtING BEFORE THEM.
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Turku Pushing the Moutrnrui ln*.
London, June 23. — The Post's Bu
charest dinpatoh says preparations
for orosaing the Danube are com
plete. An attemi>t i# pxpecteif lii a
few nights.
A special to the News from Ibrail
says, all is ready. The bridge from
Ibratl to the Turhlsh shore is comple
ted. The bridge is between 700 und
800 yards. The Russians have also
a large number of rafts and em
ploy ail merchant vessels detained
in port. Seven wooden sloops have
beeu ironplated, armed with two
guns and capacity for 200 men. The
bridge is composed of huge planks
held together by anchors from the
Ibrail side. Five batteries for pro
taction have been constructed on the
Matchin side. The Russian force at
Ibrail is 15,000. m
Austrian troops have lined the
Montenegrin frontier with u strong
detachment to Budna and Cattlenoe.
The Russians have material ready
to bridge the Rivdr at Galatz
COLUMBUS, (iA.. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1877.
AHrilhlitAfPgftuk la JTetucgpVlDa
are returning-to. their country’s de
fence.
Constantinopi.b, June 23.—1 tls
officially announced that the Turkish
divisions operatic# from Ilnuego
vina and Albania against Montene
gro successfully C|ffeofsd a inaction
at 9 o’clock this tuoruiug, and are
now marching upon Cettlnge.
London, June' 23. A Paris dis
patch to the Tln\es says It Is stated
that the steamer vonv,ying the
gigantic Krup gun which was extjlb
ited at Philadelphia to Russia has
grounded near the island of Ohssel.
The Daily Nines’ Plojestt dispatch
confirms the re)ii>r| tfiit tilt' Gia ll d
Duke Nicholas received the- English
attache*. Col. Welleely very.brusque
y. He put forth stipulation us a
condition of his accompanying the
army which must trammel him as an
independent representative of Eng
land. His freedom of action would
be supervised strickly, and he wus
warned that it was expected that be
should not testify in an unfriendly
spirit. Col. Wellesly remains at
Bucharest, presumable awaiting in
structions from home.
THE WAR IN ASIA.
Jluliktur I’a-lia Flglu In* (lit* Ilu-!iin-
Constantinople, June 23..—Intelli
gcuce received to-day announces that
Muhktar Pasha has" been engaged
since Thursday with the Russian
army at Tatkahodga, between Kho
rasauand Deltbaba. The battle was
proceeding all day yesterday—result
unknown/
NEW YOUIv.
OOV. HAMPTON—JEWISH SYNAGOGUES ON
THE SELIGMAN AFFAIR.
New York, June 23.—At the New
York Hotel this morning, a large
number of distinguished citizens
paid their respects to Gov. Wade
Hampton.
The steamer Lamerique, of the
French Tratis-Atlautic Line, after be
ing thoroughly overhauled and re
fitted, left Iladock to-day for Ply
mouth and France, with between
140 and 150 passengers.
All tile Jewish synagogues in the
city were this morning filled to unu
sual extent,Aubeing anticipated the
Rabbi’s would have.someUiing to say
concerning the subject of controver
sy between Judge llenry Hilton and
Mr. Soligmau. In most of the syna
gogues the subject was not touched.
The exceptions were the congrega
tions of Rethel, Lexington avenue
und Fjfty-rifib st., Temple Emanuel,
Fifth avenue and Fojtv-third st,, and
BUearitß Israel No. 5 West Nine
teenth st. The pastors of the sepa
rate churches declared that the im
portance of jthe subject had beoD
greatly magnified, and that no groat
principle was involved. The whole
subject being simply a personal con
troversy between two individuals.
ATTEMPT TO ROB A TRAIN.
capture of a maxis.
Toledo, June 25. —An attempt was
made last night to rob the express
car of the Ltike Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad. Shortly after
the train left Lowell, Ind., the car
was entered by four men, who accos
ted the messenger and were about to
bind him, when they were confront
ed by a force of officers and express
men, headed by Chief of Police
Hand of this city, who had been noti
fied that the attempt wus to be made
to rob a ear, and Hand concealed
himself and men in the car. A short
but most desperate struggle ensued,
resulting in the capture of the entire
band, who were brought to this city
and lodged in jail. They are all
young men, residents of Noble coun
ty, Indiana. The train was not
stopped, nor any of the passengers
aware that anything unusual had oc
curred during the trip.
FU4NCK.
Jane 23.—The vote in the
Senate for the dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies, being foreseen,
has caused little sensation, and is
discussed by the morning papers with
great calmness.
Tho ; Deputies passed yesterday a
supplementary naval vote of nearly
six millions of frauc-s for armaments
necessitated by events in the East.
TELEGRAPHIC SUDIABI.
Toledo, O. —There was a slight
frost in this vicinity last night.
Patbbson, N. J.—The Bilk weavers’
strike continues. Soleliac’s weavers,
who demanded two per cent, increase
were to-day locked out until they
will aeeept twenty per cent, reduc*
tion.
Memphis—'Tfrfe affthage to the cot-'
fpu crop on Arkansas river by the
flood is estimated at from 20,000 to
30,000 bales.
A Cane nf Hydrophobia.
Pottsvillf,, June 23.—A hydropho
bia case at Mahoney City attracts
much attdtifi&n. ‘ Mr. Foster, the
victim, stlli living*, when oflfred
water or ice, is seized with convul
sions and suffers dreadfully. He was
bitten seven months ago by a pet
terrier.
JACK'S FORTUNE.
Once there was an overgrown emperor
who sat on a great white stone on a hot day,
with bare feel and soiled trousers, looking
with longing eyes down the road and sigh
ing so loudly’ as to scare all the toads from
the roailsple,,which, just here, was fringed
with tangle 4 grass, yellow from drouth, and
over-grown mullen stalks whose fuixy
leaves sheltered alarge family of "lady bugs”
when they were at home.
Strange position and situation for an em
peror. but this was an emperor of the Alex
ander Selkirk school—"a monarch of alt he
surveyed.’’
He was alone in the world, and his world
was u strip of pasture and woodland, a
stretch of marsh, and a dark green rim, out
lined against the unclouded blue of a July
day. A long time ago this monarch had
seen a sailor—a great raw-boned fellow in
a glazed hat and overalls, who told him
that the world only began beyond the dark
rim of trees, and that great oak-ribbed ships
were always sailing away to other lands on
the big water, which was ever and ever so
much bigger than Squire Higden’s pond,
whereunto Jackey drove the cows morning
and night, for a cool wetting in the limpid
water.
But, of course, this the sailor had made
up out of whole doth, as Squire Higden’s
house-keeper would have said; he had told
Jackey an unconceivable lot of lies front the
beginning. Nevertheless, the more Jackey
dwelt upon the marvellous story the more
likely he thought it, and at last, sick of dri
ving cows, putting up bars, doing chores
and sleeping in a dismal garret with bats
and spiders, Jackey had determined to set off
and see for himself
He had heard of giants in his time, and he
almost felt like one,sitting on a stone at the
first station of his journey, tired, footsore
and very hungry, surrounded by catterpil
lars and field beetles, who were working
away as contentedly as if nothing unusual
had happened. And if one looks at it in the
proper light, an affair like this great under
taking of Jackey’s was a mere bagatelle in
deed to the grave matters which occuptfli
the beetles. One of this giant’s days was a
full year to them, and whereas he was to live
a thousand years, they might be ground un
der foot at any moment, and crushed into a
long eternity. So you see that an affair of
life and death, and a desperate struggle to
provide enough to eat for a large and in
creasing family was of much more impor
tance than Jackey’s going out into the world.
Though it had been bad policy in any bee
tle then to have hinted as much, considering
the humor he was in.
The musical blast of a dinner-horn awoke
Jackey from a miserable reverie, which had
hung his head between his knees, and, for
getting his various determinations, in dis
may at the thought of the severe “taking
down” which awaited him up at the white
house for not being on hand to draw the
water and hew the wood incidental to this
time of day, Jackey, got up wearily, looked
almost despairingly at the dark line which
shut him in, ami turned his face once more
toward the old thankless life, the dusty bars,
the thirsty cn\vs, aful the clatter of a harsh
tongue, which took care never to give him
peace, until the last rickety stair had creak
ed tinder him, and he and the spiders were
again busy weaving, ue his airy dreams and
they their useless webs.
This was a wonderlu! day after all.
In ihe mar ain g Jack had fully made up
his mind to go into the pond to its very
heart, and there drown himself, where the
glossy leaves of the lilies would cover his
despised head forever Then he had thought
to go Ant hrto the world and seek his fortune.
Now, he had come back to the only home he
knew, aud found his fortune waiting for him
there Oh, the life—the life out of books,
and as we all live it, is truly a very strange
thing. i
Jackey had come back at noon, but his
stony ears heard nothing of Aiinf Bettie s
sound berating; he had not minded being
shoved, and called lazy bones and told to “go
along,” and served a dinner of tragmenta oil
a tin p!arter at the back of the house under
a spreading catalpa tree
He ate the dinner humbly, wiped his
mouth only once with the back of hi* hand,
and, suddenly realizing that he was old
enough to konw a great many things, be
made up his mind to learn some of them at
once, or else beat out his brains. But one
thing waa very clear to him —he was for
ever done witn the old, ignorant, down trod
den hoy. He waa lo be called Jack now,
and ihe dark rm had narrowed and dwin
dled down until it shut in Squire Higden’s
great white house, with the well-sweep and
garden lull of homely flowers, the dovecote
he had made, and the rambling old piazza
covered with Virginia creepers and blush
roses. He discovered all in a moment, a
fact which has come home to most of us—
that the world is where contentment chains
the heart.
Oh, what are desert sands, turrets, towers
or ships,or seas to suph of us as are safely
harbored in a loving heart?
Still less do any ol these things count
when we feel that, on all the earth, there is
not that thing which lives but in the mem
ory of our smile.
Jack fetched home the cows through the
back pasture, and sleeking down the stub
born black lock* with an unpracticed hand,
wore that afternoon his best clothes, which
were ill-kept in the extreme, although it was
but Friday.
Aunt Bettie, who wore the tucking comb
which had adorned the marriage coiffure ol
her tndther, and a smart grey gown, declared
(hat the “bound boy had madness in bis eye,
and was going clean daft." However tins
may have been, it was certain that the new
Jack obeyed like a Christian, and was as
unlike the old Jack as it is possible to con
ceive the same youth to have been.
Thrown very early upon his own resour
ces, Jack had known what it was to starve
body arid soul. It is dreadful enough to lie
down to steep on poverty's bed cf straw with
an unsatisfied appetite, but how much more
tryrible is tb situation; and how tnueb-har
der to bear when the craving heart and brain
are endnrmg the bitter pangs of starvation!
Jack was not strictly a bound boy, but his
hard fate had one day cast him at Squire
Higdon's door, and' here he had remained
earning what he ate as a dog might, hunting
partridges, whose bones he was to pick
The fortune which Jack had found when
he retureed home at noon was a young girl
so beautiful, so,fipe, so much like a picture
a% to have takeii his breath for a moment,
Tbere never lived a man so ignorant as not
10 be able to understand and appreciate fe
male loveliness. Tiie uncultured, inexperi
enced'man is very apt to exaggerate the
*^ er nothing beyond
the cartn. earthly to the polished man of the
world—but rhe beauty is a revelation Jo him.
Jack had heard of such women, but he had
never thought to see one
He dropped the bucket be was taking into
rHe barb yard and stood stolilly staring at
the white vision behind the blush roses. The
shy brown eyes met hts for a second, and
then a quick faint color came to ihe white
Woolen ye not slow to accept
homage wfiereVer it is to be found. This
girl bronght up in the gay world of which
ihe boy only dreamed,'felt, in a vague way,
her power over him.
A wave of hot blod flowed on the brown
hair on her temples, and a smile of some
thing akin to scorn crept into her face.
She had made a conquest of a cow boy!
She felt that she must seem like an angel
to him in her costly clothes, with her slen
der, jeweled hands, and her sea-shell com
plexion. if he had been a puny fellow in
that garb, she should have despised him lor
looking at her but adoring strength, as she
did, she only saw the bare, brawny arm, with
iis muscles showing like cord through the
tawny *km. Aunt Bettie appeared at the
kitchen door, in a check apron, shielding her
eyes from the sun.
“What are you loitering there, for, Jackey!
You do beat all creation tor laziness."
A spasm of pain flitted across the dark
face at this drgredation before her.
She leaned over the trellises in a pret’y
coquettish way, holding a rose in her hand,
pointing to a tangled mass ot honeysuckles
growing on the top of a dead ash tree in the
yard.
“Jack, do you think you could bring a
ladder and get me those beautilul blossoms!
Those al the very top, I mean.”
Jack shut his teeth hard in time to keep
his heart from flying out ol his mouth, and
his Read spun like a lop lot a moment.
“I do not need a ladder,” and he ascended
to the coveted blossoms, with one hand, ta
king care to break the most choice, which
he gave the girl with shaking fingers.
She to.-sed the rose out among the weeds
and went away then.
Jack slept that night with the outcast rose
next his heart, a9 the girl did not doubt but
that he would, when she threw it away.
Yet, girls are innocent creatures, and it ; s
continually being said how pitiful it is that
men ensnaif them by tricks and wires.
Deceit against cunning.
Jack awoke at daylight to find the rose
limp and miserably faded. The pigeons
were fluttering about his window and call
ing loudly for breakfast. He looked at him
self in a piece of cracked looking-glass he
had secretly carried tip the night before
Then he threw the withered rose over the
purple necks of the pigeons, and hated him
self bitterly. He led the birds, and lost his
own breakfast from pottering about among
the currants. He found two things among
ihe currants. The poor little rose was one,
the other was a dull, intolerable pain in his
breast, which he knew not how to medicine.
The experience of loving and hating came
together with Jack.
Next to himself—perhaps before himself
—he hated the elegant gentleman who came
down from the city in kid gloves to boat
and ride with Eleanor.
Jack thought this the most beautiful name
in all the world, but everything about her
was delightful, except Mr Harburton. Jack
contemplated a murder whenever he looked
at Mr. Harburtons delicate white throat.
To strangle him would have been a small
affair.
Thus passed away the first sweet summer
of his liie- All had been drea. y winter be
fore; but we can never know how dear a
clove-bud is until we love.
Jack had developed now into a man, bul
his ignominious duties remained the same,
and oh, what hopeless days, what despairing
nights, those were when he first realized the
misery of ins condition! She must despise
him —she so beautiful, so rich—the heiress
to all Squire Higden’s lands; an angel, whose
lot in Lite was to be so far removed from
him; a son of toil and dependence.
Jack's wretchedness sprang most from
his feeling of inferiority, if he could once
stand on an equal footing with other men he
might tell her all, and could better bear re
jection. But to be ignored and looked upon
as an animal incapable of feeling like a man!
Then he swore to be a man tor her sake. It
would be something to know she had made
him one, even if he lost her forever.
One day, late in the summer, ne brought
around the horses, as usual, lor Eleanor and
her escort.
Eleanor stood lashing her blue habit fret
lully with her w hip on ihe porch .where the
roses had lived and died.
“Jack, I shall not ride the dapple to day.
You may saddle Rifle for me.”
“But Rifle is not fit for you to ride. You
cannot hold him—"
•‘I am ihe best judge of that. Bring him,
I say "
Rifle had mischief in his eye, and Jack felt
him tremble as he held out his hand for
Eleanor to step on.
Two hours later he was wandering down
the rough and rocky road near tne boundary
ol the Higden lands when his ear caught the
sound ol horse's liet in quick regular thuds.
which meant a runaway He knew that it
was that black devil, Rifle, and that he would
kill Miss Charden if he was not slopped at
rhis poiut, as the road grew more dangerous
at every step.
Willi a white face but with a determina
tion born of love and despair, Jack threw
himself into the road.
On came the black horse like fury, his
feet striking fire from I'ne white stones, his
mane floating behind like a cloud of smoke.
Jack threw up his arms, shouted once, and
catching the reins with a grip ol iron, held
on like only a man can who freely gives up
his life for another.
Poor fellow! Ihe first blow from Rifle’s
foot knocked him senseless, and he was un
conscious of the rest.
He felt like a man hanging between two
worlds in a gray void: but his last thought
was one of gladness. He could at least die
tor her.
Jack was terribly injured, and the fields
were shorn and the meadows bare and brown
when he could look out of his window again
and wateli the busy pigeons picking and flut
tering in the October sunshine.
Everybody had been very kind to him, but
he realized that he was sorry they had not
let him die in his trouble, when ke knew the
least about it.
Miss Charden, who had sustained slight
injuries, had asked after him daily and tap
ping timidly on his door had come to know
if she could see him.
“She was going away on the next day
and she should love to thank him for what
he had done. She should have been killed
if he had not flung himself between her and
death. ’
Going away! Being trampled upon by a
legion ol wild horses would have been no
pam compared to that of hearing this news.
And yet, he had never even dreamed that
it would not be so.
“How could you do it, Jack?”
She fluttered over him—like a mother
pigeon, laying a coo!, white hand on his
head
“When we don’t want to live any longer,
such things come easy,” he said stolidly.
“And why should you not want to live any
longer—so young and so strong?”
She must not know how weak he was,
and Jack turned his face to the wall.
“I am sure you would want to live if yon
knew how grateful I am, Jack."
“Grateful!” Between scorn and strong ag
ony. “How grateful? You can thank me,
of course, but you would not grieve all the
same if I were lying here dead But don't
mind me. Miss Charden. Why should you
grieve for such as l?”
“i hope I am not a heartless woman,”
she said humbly, with tears in her voice.
1 I should grieve to see any one hurt in my
behalf.”
“Oh." If only ,nw he could have shut
his eyes, and ku|t, them fastened down for
ever: then theie fame a pause.
“You doubt rny 1 gratitude—l hope toevince
it sofne day. It may be in my pow er to re.
pay you—"
“Would you do it!” Jack fumed upon her
fiercely.
•J believe I should do anything you asked
me— you sailed my life." Now she was not
looking at him; but at the hare, weather
stained walls, and the cracked glass.
Ue seized her hand —held it a moment—
then let it fall on the counterpane.
“No; 1 feel that I am not fit to toucli you,
and ask you nothing. I am not villain
eiruugh to take edvantage of you. 1 ask no.
thing of you bul th*t you will sometimes
think of me.”
"How could I help it! I know all that
you would say. Jack; you rg not teamed,
you are not a gentleman as the wartd goes;
tnd you are poor; but all that matters mu
at all. You lack only money, and I have
that.”
Like a miserable idiot he blundered again:
“And do you think to repay me in mo
ney!'’ .
“Oh, Jack. Jack! Can’t you see!—”
Jack juto with a vengeance, and held Elea
nor with the same grip he had used on Rifle
until she was breathless.
Then he tell into a dead faint, from which
he woke to find love, wealth, anew life and
Ihe great world which had come to him
there under the homely ratters, where the
pigeons were fighting and clamoring for
iood.
It there is to be a fortune it will come in
time, like the first day of Spring—before we
know it. — St. Louis Republican.
A PROFESSIONAL RAT-CATCHKIL
HOW HE OPERATES.
Bt. Louis Times.]
Richard Toner, a professional rat
catcher of considerable notoriety in
New York city, arrived in He. Louis
yesterday, anu has taken a contract
to rid the Lindell House of rats. He
is accompanied by one assistant, and
has a thoroughly iraiued ferret. Mr.
Toner says rats begin to breed at the
age of three months, und once every
month threafter produce a litter of
thirteen ; but the number of the lit
ter never varies, and is always com
poseed of twelve males and one fe
male; if the number of females were as
great a9 males, rats would become a
plague that ail the terriers and rat
catchers in the country could not
keep down.
He began operations at the Lindell,
last night, in the presence of half a
dozen persons. He urmed himself
with a dark lantern, a gunny
bag, and a peculiarly constructed
pair of tongs or nippers. The tongs
are about two and a half feet long,
and have handles like shears. Mr.
Toner gave the bag to his assistant,
aud took the dark lautern in his left
hand and the tonge in bis right.
Equipped in this manner, he crept
aboUL the cellars among barrels amt
boxes, aud every now aud then seized
a rat with the tongs. The assistant.,
who kept right at his heels, instautly
opened the mouth of the bag and
the rat was dropped into it, the
process of capture not occupying
over ten seeOuds. He says that when
he throws the strong light from the
lantern upon a rut it does Dot run,
but simply turns so as to prevent the
light from shining in its eyes. As it
turns there is no difficulty in seizing
it with the tongs.
Mr. Toner did not make any use of
his ferret until about. 1 o’clock, when
everything was quiet in the house.
He first went all over tne premises,
examining the rat holes to familia
rize bitnseif with the rats’ “run
wavs.” He says the rats have certain
holes to run through when they are
frightened, and that an experienced
rat-catcher can soon learn how these
Doles lead. After acquiring this
knowledge he sent his ferret into a
rat hole and stationed himself at the
other eud of the hole. For instance,
ne found a rat hole in the pantry and
traced its course down into the cellar,
wtiere it came out in some corner.
He started the ferret inro the hole
up-stairs aud stationed himself below
with his tongs; the ferret pushed his
way along the turnings of the hole
and drove the rats ahead of him. As
the rats ran from the hole in the cel
lar, Toner picked them up with his
tongs aud dropped them into his bag.
Toner owned the largest rat pit in
New York.
A Desperate Murderer Captured.
We learn from Mr. Courtney, dep
uty sheriff of DeSoto parish, that on
last Monday or Tuesday he arrested
William Lungley, a very desperate
character, who is wanted in Texas
for many high-handed outrages he
has committed in that State. He
murdered his last victim in Lee coun
ty, where he was well kuown and
feared as a bad man aud a remarka
bly good shot with either pistol or
rifle. For some time he was confined
in the county jail of Lee, but subse
quently made his escape and fled to
Louisiana, settling in DeSoto parish,
where he has been living quietly aud
peaceably for nearly two years under
the assumed name of Jackson.
The sheriff of Lee county learning
of Lungley’s whereabouts wrote to
the sheriff of DeSoto parish giving a
full description of the man and the
crime he had last committed, and
cautioned him to use every precau
tion for his capture as ho or some of
the j>oßne might possibly lose their
lives. Soon everything was quietly
and systematically arranged for Uls
capture. Mr. Ootirtney and a small
posse went into the neighborhood of
where their man was living and be
fore he was aware of what was going
on they suddenly came upon him in
the field plowing and unarmed, tak
ing him completely by surprise.
Lungley immediately realized what
was up aud and seeing that
he had no possible chaace of
escape, gracefully surrendered,
saying, “Gentlemen, I know
what you want; you arc after
William Lungleyr I atn the man.”
Mr. Ootittrley informed him that he
had guessed correctly, and produced
the warrant for his arrest. Lungley,
after being well secured, said be
might as well make a clean breast of
it, as it would be the last of him when
he reached Texas, and confessed to
the killing of thirty two men, and
said he came near killing a man two
(lavs before his arrest and wished he
had clone it., as it would have saved
him from being captured.
Doting his residence in DeSoto
parish he conducted himself in
most quiet and gentlemanly manner,
and none of his neighbors for a mo
NO. 150
inent suspooted him of being the
bloodthirsty villain that he Is.
After Lungley’s delivery to the
sheriff of Texas, he ipvited Mr.
Courtney and his posse to come and
see bun bunged.— Shrevcpwt Times,
17 IK.
uon 1 LOT A TICKET.
bit 1 p. MtTT.roKD. *
A few'years ago, when the Pacific
Railroad was anew thing, I happen
ed to he at a place then called Mud
Cat Htation, on the abdve mentioned
road, one hundred and forty miles
from Denver, and with the biggest
kind of a scrape on my hands. Now,
when I tell you that it was eleven
o’clock ut night, .that I had a posi
tive and important engagement at
Denver in the "morning, that, the
train would be due in half an hour,
aud that I did not have a single cent
In my pocket, the delicacy of my
situation wilt be seen at once.
Not taken the least aback by the
sombre aspect of affairs, I sat by the
sickly light of a sputtering candle,
in the waiting room, diligently read
ing. In the midst of the sentences,
however, now and then asense of my
situation would rush over my mind,
disappearing as some new feature of
the story would excite increased in
terest.
The train dashed up. I carefully
marked my place, anu sauntered out
to see what would turn up. I knew
not a single soul to whom I could ap
ply for a loan, aDd had not even a
watch or revolver on which to obtain
the sum requisite to carry me to Den
ver. I was in trouble-that is, you
would have been in trouble; but I,
being used to dilemmas of this na
ture, felt myself fully equal to the
occasion.
Time flew. I had but five minutes
left, and was not a step further out
of the difficulty than 1 was an hour
before. I nerved myself up to the
crisis, walked over to the restaurant
and looked in. A dozen men—some
of them railway employes—were
seated round the tables eating.
I turned, and went back toward the
train, looked in at a window in one
of the cars, and saw my victim. I
knew he was my victim, for I felt it in
my bones; yet I didn’t know what I
was going to do to him, but I had a
presentiment, I may cal) it, that he
was the man to help me out of my
difficulty. I knew him well, al
though I felt certain that he did not
know me.
He was a noted preacher of Den
ver ; aud I knew at once that he was
not a man with a full knowledge of
the world—of Hs "ways that are
dark, and its tricks that are vain.”
Still musing over the difficulty, I
walked back to the restaurant again.
I saw a conductor’s cup, with a guilt
band, lying on the window-sill, and
I seized it.
I knew the reverend was short
sighted. I slipped my hat under my
coat, placed the cap oa my head,
seized a lantern and sprang for the
car. I rushed frantically in and
shouted —
“Tickets!”
The old gentleman was reading a
book. He looked round, then pushed
his spectacles a little higher on his
nose, and exclaimed:
“Dear raw! I had quite forgotten.”
Then he handed me his ticket,
which I coolly pocketted, and was
moving a way, when the old geutle
mun said :
“This is anew r.ule, to take tickets
at starting, isn’t it 7”
“Yes, sir,” I replied touching my
cap; “only just come in force, sir.”
“Oh 1” he eaid, coughed, and began
rending his book again.
Rustling out, to the restaurant, I
hurriedly deposited the cap aud
lantern, then called for a tup of
coffee and a buseuit, and began
eating Voraciously. The train-men
arose and went out, the bell for star
ting rang, aud the conductor cried
out.
“ All aboard 1”
I dashed down the cup of coffee,
rushed our on the platform, sprung
lor the rrnin, and was just iu time to
suing myself in.
I found myself in the car with my
victim, and m> first point was to see
if he recognized me. With this ob
ject. I took a si at near him and be
gan a conversation, To my remarks
he would reply blandly, and with
a look on his fact 1 of suon perfect in
nocence, f hat I felt satisfied that I
was unrecognized.
Suddenly the door opened, and the
conductor appeared. He was anew
man on this part of the line, and I
saw at once a strange resemblance to
myself.
"Tickets, gentlemen.”
I gave him mine; but the clergy
man looked him blandly in the face
aud said :
“It’s all right; I gave my ticket to
you before we started, you know..’
The man lookod surprised, and a
cloud gathered on his brow, but he
quietly remarked:
“You are mistaken, my friend.
Ticket—and hurry up, please.”
“I tell you I have no ticket. I gave
it up.”
“Money, then.”
Slowly, and with tiie air of one
deeply injured, the clergyman drew
forth his pocket-book and counted
out the fare.
“There,” said he, "I hope you are
satisfied ; you have ticket aud money
both.” .
"It’s all right,” said the man coolly,
and went on with a look on his face
that said as plain as words—“this
road won’t stand dead-beats.”
“A nice chance for a legal difficul
ty,” I remarked to the preacher, after
we were left alone.
“Yes,” said he, “and I’ll see about
it. too—see if I don’t:” 1
We reached Denver safely, and of
course I sent the amount to the rev
erend gentleman the next day.
-
sharp Fracttee.
The crowd of Radical office-seekers
who have been vainly busy of late in
trving to defeat the reappointment
of W: L. Clarke, Internal Reveuue
Ooileo'or for Georgia, are said to
have stuffed the pigeon holes of the
Treasury Department with. hQgus let
ters from men of straw, falsely rep
resented to be living in various
counties of tho State, audit is upon
these documents that’Harris in the
Atlanta Independent founds his in
sinuations and * charges against
Clarke. That is sharp practice -
Clarke is one of the few Federal offi
cers in this State, who has gained
the good opinion of the people, and
the reputation of an honest and
fathftil. as well as an aeeotntno at
ing public officer. His enemies show
what they are when they fry to hunt
him (town with bucket letters. —Tefe
grah & Messenger.