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VOL. V.-NO. 43. GENERAL NEWS. \ banging fact r . v w ' ,h a Cil P itnl of is aixnit to be stut*d n Gal- veston, Texas. Texas bluegrass seed is being tried in West Tennessee. In the absence of lime this grass, it is th night, will thrive best in that secticn. The largest sheep ranche in the world j s the one at Diniment ami Webb coun ties, Texas, where 300,(XX) head of sheep jL re pastured on 300,000 seres of land. The State Capitol of Tezas will prob able be built of tine granite instead of Ihnestone. It is claimed that this will nrtk" it the best State-house on the con tinent. The queen's health is evidently a sub ject of gra.v f< s:- in England. Her dis order is said t > be of a dro)>sical nature, an I die probabilities arc that she will be a bed-ridden invalid. Xlxml a year ago half a dozen colored ni -n, of St. Bernard parish, Ln., organ ized a mutual benevolent association. Now tlr.i association numbers fifty, and they h ive accumulated a fund and begun the ernetkn of a school-house for indi gent children of their race. Six tho:isin I baby alligators are soi l in Florida every year, and the amount of ivory, number of skins and quantity of oil obtained from the older members if the saurian family are sufficient to enti tle them t > a high piece among the pro ducts of th ■ Stat?. Englishmen a”e getting control of con siderable lan I in America. In Texas 311,01)0 a wis have just been purchased by Mr. Whalley, M. P.; an English syn dicate hi a 1,300,000 acres of both in land in Mississippi, and another compa ny 2,000,000 acres in Florida A few days ago Knoxvile finished work on her wat *r system at a cost of $150,000 The two reservoirs were hardly filled with wat -r when the bottom of one drop ped out. Now comes news that th ; < th* er is in the same c< n litien, the watt r having suddenly disappeared into unfath omable depths. Savannah News: Joe Brown's ncome is sdd to be 81,000 a day. Os this am »nnt he gets $5)9 a day from the Dade county coal mines. There is no doubt that hi is making mtn?y faster than any oth -r Southern man. His for tune is njw estimated at $2,000,000. The Senator’s si n denies the soft im peachment. Vn industrious buzz-saw in New Or leans ran against iui obstruction in a log through which it was passing the other day, but held its temper and soon cut its enemy in two. When the Hank dropped oil the workmen found that the stw had biseted an eight inch spherical shell, doubtless a relic of the war. The exte rior wound had healed entirely, leaving no trace of the passage of the shell t > its resting place. Ihe New York Herald makes a calcu lation from the traffic and passengers that cressed the great bridge to and from New York on Saturday, from which it appeal’s that, deducting 40 per cent for sight score, the receipts for toll will aver age $2,530 each day, or $1,300,000 a year Deducting interest at 6 per cent on the outlay of $15,000,000, the cost of the I'tidge, there would remain a sinking fun 11 /ward paying that debt, $400,000 a year. I he agricultural laborers of Mississip pi, 310,000 in round numbers, embracing m.n, women and children, including ' hildren from ten years of age up to men and women of threescore, manage to "ling from the bosom of mother earth l lie magnificent aggregate of $63,701,844 per annum, or nearly ;118 to every’ man, ""man and child engaged in stirring the “ I and gathering its fruits. The money value ».f the farms in that State in 1880 was $93,844,815, against $81,716,576 in l8d), which shows a wholesome increase in value. * >f the five field generals of the confed ' 'at army, J. E. Johnston and Beaure g.ird survive. General Johnston is the g’li ral agent of a prominent New York insurance company, and General Beaure gard is the adjutant general of the state "i Louisiana— where he has created the h" st body of militia for its numbers in ■ merica. He is also one of the commis t'ioners for the liquidation of one of the "hl Lou liana state banks, besides which has other important business connec tions. There were twenty-one lieuten -1 ■ generals in the confederate army 'om first to last, and of these all were horn the United States army but four, Biehard Taylor, N. B. Forest, Made Hampton and John B. Gordon. ' '* them the following are living: D. H. •LU. who is in North'Carolina; Stephen qM)c Elcillon drejns. Lee, Early, Buckner, Wheeler and A. P. Stewart, besides the two not from the old United States army mentioned above. Gustavus W. Smith is the ranking major general living, find is state commissioner of insurance in Kentucky. W. T. Mar tin lives in Natchez, and is a railroad president. 0. W. Field and L> L. L< - max are in Florida, and both are in the employ of the United States corps of en gineers. Marmaduke Johnson is in St. Louis and is wealthy. William Preston lives in Kentucky and has a fortune he inherited. Humes lives in Memphis, Tenn. Wirt Adams is an agent for Mis sissippi, and lives in Jacks >n. Frank Armstrong lives in St. Louis, and is con nected with the Gould system of railroads in the southwest. Churchill was Gover nor of Arkansas, and lives at Little R< >ck. Colquitt was governor of Georgia, slid is United States senator-elect from that state. Colston has returned from Egypt, and is living somewhere in Virginia. Di brell is a member of Congress from Ten nessee. Lyon, who commanded one of Forest's divisions awhile, lives in Eddy ville, Ky. Tdo not know what Mackall, who was a brigadier-general and chief of General Bragg’s staff, is doing, but I be lieve he lives in Georgia. McGowan is a. member of the supreme court of South Carolina. Miles, W. R., is a cotton planting magnate on the Yazoo rizer, in Mississippi. R. A. Pryor in a prosper ous lawyer in New York, and mirabile 1 dictu. I hear that he is an enthusiastic advocate of Governor B. F. Butler for the presidency. Ripley, “Old Rip," as he was called, is in London, the agent of an american rifle company, and Rody is there with him, John G. Walker is in Mexico, and is getting rich in silver mi ning, and Holmes is his partner. Wil- Ham C. Wickham is a prominent railroad man and republican in Virginia. Os the three Lees who were generals, Custis, who was Mr. Davis’ chief of staff, is the president of the Washington and Lee college in Virginia; William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, generally called “Runy,” is a planter and is prosperous on a tine estate. Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin of the others, and a famous cavalry officer, owns the “Ravenwood” estate, on the Poti mac about fifty miles below Washington, where he is living like a fine Virginia planter of the olden time. Robert Lee, the Heneral’s youngest s< n, who served in the ranks a greater part of the war, livos on the James river and owns a handsome estate there. Longstreet lives at Gainesville, Georgia, and is United States marshal. General Early prat tlces law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart is pre sideiit of the Un’ver sify of Mississippi, at Oxford, and Lieu tenant-General is prisident of am ther Mississippi institution of learning. R. H. and Patterson Anderson are dead. General B. Frank Cheatham is the super intending commishioner of the Tennessee penitentiary. General Bate is governor of Tennessee, and W. H. or “Red,” Jackson, one of Forest s division com manders, is living near Nashville on a magnificent plantation. General M hee ler, who commanded all of General John ston’s cavalry, is a planter in north Ala bama. General Lawton, the quarter master-general of the confederacy, is a leadihg member of the Savannah, Geor gia, bar, and General Gorgiis, the confed- 1 crate chief of ordnance, died in Alai ama the other day. Cockrell, the ranking confederate general from Missouri, is a United States senator. A Barricade. On the anniversary of (he Paris Com mune the inhabitants of Stuttgart were surprised by a large blood-red flag hoisted on a tower in the middle of the town. It seems that this flag remained there until noon, when the police suc ceeded in removing it. The Socialists, who had hoisted it the night before, had done everythingto render the re moval of the revolu onary banner as difficult as possible. The tower gate was found to be barricaded, as well as the windows of the first story, and the police had to scale the tower by a high ladder and enter through the windows of the second floor. Tiie flag bore the inscription: “Liberty, Equality, Fra ternity,” and “In memory of the Paris Commune, 18th of March, 1871.” At the entrance was posted a placard, “Be ware of dynamite.” About five pounds of gunpowder was found strewn about at the inner gate. An elder of the kirk having found a little boy and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form —not a judicious one for a child: “Boy, do you know where children go to who play marbles on the Sabbath day? “Ay,” said the boy, “they gang down to the field by the water below the brig. “No!” roared out the elder, “they go to hell and are burned.” The little fellow, really shocked, called to his sister: “Come awa, Jeanie; here’s a mini swear ing awfully.” —Dean Ramsky, DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE Hi, 1883. Western Stock Raising* A I‘ir'tVßE PRAWN OF IT nv A practical WESTERN MAN. A western man who has hail a lengthy experience in stock-raising, says that the picture drawn of it by many news paper Writers is altogether" too flowery. He says it is the height, of folly for a young man to go west with a few hun dred dollars in money, invest in sheep, and then sit down expecting to be rich in a few years. lie concluded his letter ns follows t—-A young man starting for the West to engage profitably in stock raising should have at least $5,000. Os course he Could start on less. Two thousand dollars would buy him horses and Wagon, fix Up his ranch, pay his ordinary expenses, and buy him 200 sheep; but he would have to work very hard, save all ho could, and really otiglit to have a partner to help do the work. Even with $5,000 it would be slow work for several years. I would advise a young man of limited means who wanted to go west to raise stock to get lip a party of three or four and “ pool their issues ” ;er a few years, till they could afford to branch off alone, At any rate, I think i man ought to hire himself out to a stock man for a year before he invests. He will thus have a chance to learn the business and can look around for a snit dde investment, and perhaps at the end if a year he may not like the life and conclude to return. For the life is a hard me, full of exposure and discomforts. He may have to do his own cooking and washing tinless he is fortunate enough to have a better half to do it for him. But ic will be his own master, sleep as he lever slept before, his cheeks will be kissed so red that his mother would not know him from an Indian. He will have to work hard, perhaps, day and night, for which he will be well repaid by the increased comfort of his flocks and herds, and by their increase till they cover a thousand hills. But this talk of i man who has no means going west, taking cattle and sheep on shares, put ting up a log house on the open prairie, loing his own work, and making his fortune in a few years, is all nonsense, ft is a very risky business to say the least, and careful managers will not give stock on shares to anybody who is not well prepared to take care of them or concerning whom they know nothing. The expenses of raising stock are much heavier than supposed. The cost of living is higher than it is here; wages ire high, fencing is expensive, corrals md buildings take much time, labor and noney; but to one who is willing to work, md wants to get ahead, I say, “Go West,” and see for yourself. Bismarck Saving a Soldier. A good Bismarck anecdote, showing the prince to have been a good comrade from his youth up, is the following : In 1838 he entered the Potsdam bat talion of “Garde Jaeger” as a one year volunteer, and six months later, at his request, he was transferred to the “Sec ond Jaegers” at Greifswald, in order to be able to profit by the lectures in the Agricultural School of Eldena. One of his comrades in the battalion was a young man, who at the present day still counts among the great landed propri etors of the province of Pomerania. He then stood in the second rank immedi ately behind Bismarck. In spite of stringent orders to the contrary, the Jaegers persisted in frequently firing a shot at the numerous storks on the meadows near Greifswald while out on a march, drilling or exercising. One day on the march home to the barracks, Bis marck’s hind-man brought down a bird with a bullet. The officers, although marching a good way ahead, heard the report, saw the stork falling down, or dered the battalion to halt and forthwith began to examine the guns. Everything was as it should be in the first rank The culprit in the second rank began to tremble all the more for his safety, inas much as his promotion to a lieutenantcy was at stake in case he should be found out. This Bismarck realized, and while his friend was on the point of voluntari ly denouncing himself in order to clear the rest of the men from an unjust sus picion, he whispered to him: “Look sharp ! take your gun in your left arm ; I’ll throw you mine.” No sooner said than done—so quickly, in fact, that the inspecting officer did not notice it, and the case of the killed stork remained an unexplained mystery. Over a mug of beer that night Private Bismarck declined to receive the thanks of his comrade for a service “which was not worth talking about.” To this day the two are pleasant neighbors and sworn friends. An Author’s Offence. In Dresden, Julian Hawthorne, the au thor. is credited with the following ex ploit: He had been driven from the side walk many and many a time by the Ger man officers, till finally one day coming over the Elbe on one of the bridges with out a friend, he vowed that the next German officer he met should at least give him half of the sidewalk. He soon . met one, and neither being willing togive I way, they walked directly into one an- I other. Hawthorne did not budge, neith- j er would the German; they glared at | each other for a few moments when the German drew his sword and attempted • (o strike Hawthorne with the flat of the blade. In a twinkling Hawthorne I knocked the officer down, took his sword . iw»v from him, broke it across his knee md" threw it into th • Elbe. The dis ■ raee of having lost his sword was so i/reat that the officer never dared to men tion the circumstanc'; so Hawthorne; •scaped without tine or pumshment, No Chance To Shoot, One Sunday afternoon, at a hotel in Alabama, we were talking about how great disappointments sometimes soured a man, when a chap who hail been chew ing plug tobacco all by himself over by the window turned around and said: “Gentlemen, you’ve hit it plumb cen ter ! Up to four years ago I was a man who alhis wore a grin on his lace, and I’d divide my last chaw with a stranger. Folks now call nie mean and ugly, and I kin hardly get a man to drink with me.” “Then you have suffered a great disap pointment?” I queried. “I have, stranger—l have. Ten years ago a man in this very town cleaned me out on a mortgage, sold me out on an ex ecution, and chuckled at me when I took the dirt road for Tennessee. I orter have shot him, but somehow I didn’t do it, and arter I got to Tennessee things be gan preying on my mind. Day and night I could hear a voice saying: ‘Go back and plunk old Brown,’ "and I lost flesh and came powerful near going into a decline.” “Yes ?” “ Well, that voice kept talking and I kept waiting, but in about three years I shouldered my rifle and turned my steps this way, my mind fully made up to shoot old Brown on sight. He had a patch o’ land out west o’ here, and used to ride out every day. I made for that spot, calkerlating to biff him as he drove up to the gate. Nobody had seen me, and nobody would know who did the shooting.” “ Yes,’’some one answered as he made a long pause. “ Well, I got fixed and waited, and I was feeling real good for the first time in three years when I heard hoofs and looked out for the old man. It wasn’t him. True as you sot there the old skin flint had gone and died only a week be fore, giving me a tramp of "200 miles to say ‘ howdy ?’ to his executor ! Gentle men, I can’t describe my feelings ! Just think of one white man playing such a trick on another ! It was wuss than Ar kansaw swamp mud warmed over for next season. I was took with shakes and chills and a cough, and here I am, sour, cross, mulish, ugly and realizing that I don’t stand no more show of going to Heaven when I die than that thar’ dog does of swallowing a postoffice with out any preliminary chawin’!”— M. Quad. Preserve the Forests. One of the encouraging signs of the times is the fact that the South is wak ing up to the value of its timber lands. “The lumber interests of the United States, and in fact of the whole world,” says The Southern Lumberman, “have assumed such important proportions that it is due to the people that our State Governments each establish a series of surveys and investigations, with a view of determining the exact amount of their forest wealth, and that in time the gen eral Government, through its proper de partment, should publish in statistical form the result of each State's timber resources. “While this authentic report would be of great value to commerce, the presence of the botanists and their assistants in every portion of tlie States ami Ter ritories would arouse the people to h sense of the wealth contained in their forest possessions, and would perhaps stimulate them to a more economical use of the timber, and make them more care ful about preserving it; at any rate, the timber, its extent, variety and value, should be made known at as early a I date as possible.” | _____ The Cleveland Herald says:—Few, indeed, are the people who can keep up the round of Washington gayety without sadly showing their weariness. An ex ception to this rule is a young daughter of an army officer stationed in that city. All winter she has been busy with re ceptions and dinners, kettledrums and Germans, and on Wednesday, as she came into Mrs. Chandler’s parlors she was fresh and rosy as if it were her first day. My curiosity was aroused, and presently I had an opportunity to inquire of her how it was that she was able to endure that to which stronger women yielded. “Oh,” she replied, laughing, “ mamma is almost a crank on that subject. She is bound I shall not look passe at the nd of this my second winter. Every niffht when I get home, no matter how tired I am. a worm bath is given me, )(i r which I drink a bowl of buillon, •lid am put to bed in the guest chamlier, ahich is more quiet than my own. In the morning I am not called, but arise when I awake, which is not often lieforc lunch time. It grows monotonous, I assure you, but if 1 go, I have to submit, T tell mamma she treats me as if I was a Maud 8. or a prize fighter.” A clergyman at Cambridge preached a sermon which one of his auditors com mended. “ Yes,” said the gentleman to whom it was mentioned, “ it was a good sermon, but he stole it.” This was told to the preacher. He resented it, and called the gentleman to retract what he : had said. “I am not,” replied the ag gressor, “very apt to retract my words, but in this instance I will. I said you had stolen the sermon. I find I was wrong ; for on returning home, and re ferring to the liook whence J thought it was taken, I found it there.”— —■ A Snow Decision. —The Supreme Court of Illinois decides that no man is obliged to clean the sidewalk Opl<osite h»s The case was that of a reside t f Bi.s.mmgton. who let rim snow aecn mulMe n. front of his |«r"P'' t v, and, bmnj . i undi r th. <’.ty oi.hmp.ee, ..pp m-d/- (o the court, Shelling a Village. u The shelling of an Alaskan village, of v which so tragic an account was current .1 some months ago, is described by Comdr. - Merriman of the navy, who did it, as a jr wholly justifiable proceeding. He says that he is represented as wantonly burn- - Ing the Indians’ houses, bedding and i winter’s food, and turning their women 1 and children to perish in the pitiless cold of the Arctic night, simply because they I had made a vague threat to destroy ” property. The true history, as he narrates it, is as follows: s A medicine man of the Hootsnoo e tribe, 80 miles from Sitka, wns acciden- - tally killed while whaling with two £ white men, whereupon the tribe seized a the whites, demanded 209 blankets as , ransom, and finally waited to gel a third white man (as one of the two captured 1 had but one eye), intending then to put a two of them to death—one for the medi t cine man, and another for the death < f 3 an Indian while felling timber, some time before. It seems that it is either a life for a I life, or a hundred blankets—that being I the native valuation of an Indian, in 3 their current money. They also took 3 possession of a steam-launch and other i property to the value of several thousand I dollars. Comdr. Merriman arrived at t the scene on the day whose evening 3 would have seen the prisoners put to , death. He rescued them and immedi -3 ately demanded of the Indians 400 blankets, told them if he did not receive ) the blankets he should burn the town, and gave them till the next day to com- I ply. They at first said they would, and i then, sending him only 80 blankets, and I those stolen from the house of an absent t chief—they took their winter provisions, • bedding and blankets into the woods ami - defied the officer. > Whereupon lie was as good as his ■ word, and, though he says ho spared a t aumber of dwellings to shelter them, i they were left under the impression that ■ he meant to destroy everything they r had, and he “wanted them to think so.” 3 He adds that “the property-holders and , missionaries agree with me, and I bo lieve the lesson will last the Indians for f a generation, although they rebuilt their houses in a month.” He gives the Alaskans a good charac ter in the main, and declares that, if the present prohibition of distilled liquors were extended to malt liquors, and schools established for the children, the Alaska Indians would be a valuable 5 population, for they are “at all times willing to give an ‘honest day’s work for , reasonable pay,’ an attribute not pos , sessed by any other tribe within my knowledge.” 1 Going Into Exile. I Capt. Thomas Osborne of the steam . ship which took Arabi Pasha and his companions in exile to Ceylon, and ar rived at Bombay on January 16, has fur nished the following account of the voy age : “We took Arabi Pasha and his associates and their families on board at Suez, and sailed from that port on De cember 27, bound for Colombo. They were seasick for the first two or three days, and after that they brightened up and were always more or less cheerful. Eventually, in fact, they became as happy as if they were going to paradise. “The dullest of the lot was Arabi. The exiled party went ashore in four squads. In the last one was Arabi. On landing the people crowded round him. II should call it fairly mobbing one. Some kissed his clothes, some got down on their knees and kissed his boots. The party were driven away in carriages to the Cinnamon Gardens, where they were located in some handsome bungalows. On the whole, I don’t think any of them regretted his lot. They never exhibited any symptoms of fear, and believed a happy future to be before them.” Heavy License. The most recent example of the work ing of a high license system for bar rooms is in Bloomington, 111. There are thirty-two saloons in the place, and a population of nearly 20,(XX). The fee is $.50 a month, or S6OO a year, and this brings into the city $19,2(X) a year, or nearly one-third the whole revenue. The saloons are said to be orderly, and generally in the hands of substantial men, who own the buildings in which they are kept, and who would stubborn ly resist a return to low license. The l»resent arrangement has prevailed nearly twenty years, and is, therefore, no longer an experiment. A Herolne.—Reporting the death of a Mrs. Baker, at Fort Fairfield, Me., recently, at the age of 97 years and 11 months, a correspondent of the Lewiston Journal says: “Many years ago she came, with her husband and three small children to the Upper St. John, where she made for themselves a home in the wilderness. They settled on what was afterward the disputed territory. Mrs. Baker, being a patriotic woman, manu factured an American flag, which her husband flung to the breeze on a Fourth erf July morning, for this display of Yan kee patriotism on what was claimed as ' British soil, Mr. Baker was arrested and lodgedin jail at Fredericton, where he i remained for more than a year, while his heroic wife managed the farm and kept > everything in goodjwder at home. The Chinese have no word that fs I v equivalent to hell, and no conception of / such a place. A missionary in an ann- / cultural district of China / o< when he tried flint could I r “‘ TERMS 81.00 A YEAR. AMERICAN FABLES. inMratlliide-TherineketShnp T he r ltm „ and the fox, • "»rmer Some Specimens of INORATm-mi.-A Burglar who had risen to the Hwul of Ins lrotes.von one day called upon * Lawyer and said: 1 “1 have come to demand the Protec tion of the Law.” “You shall have it, mv Friend—fee hve dolin'’ “Last night a man named Jones liv ing on Seventeenth street, shot at me ” continued the burglar. “And what were you doing?” “I was about to crawl into one of his Windows to pack up his Silver and take it down to the Safe Deposit Company’s vaults for safety.” “Truly, such Ingratitude must be Re buked and Punished,” said the Lawyer. “We will have him Arrested forthwith', and though he maj Defend his Silver against Burglars be cannot Defend his Greenbacks against the Law.” The Bucket Shoe.—A simple-minded Peasant who had heard a great deal about Bucket Shops, entered one of them one day and asked: “What will it cost me to get a bucket ?” “Five dollars is our lowest Figure.” was the reply. The Peasant handed over his cash and was told to watch the Ticker and the man who chalked on the Blackboard, lie watched until weary of the Occupa tion, and then said: “I guess I’ll take my Bucket and along home, as it is about time to teed the Pigs." ‘ “Why, sir,” replied the owner' of the Cooper Shop, “thw Bottoni dropped out of your Bucket half an hour ago.” “Then I will take the hoops home to show my Wife that I speculated and lost.” “Base ingrate !” shouted the proprie tor, “is it not enough that you have not had your pockets picked and your head mashed with a chib? After having put us to the trouble of taking your money you would now squeal! Go hence"! Come here no more! Hereafter get yourself robbed on the highway or buy Mining Stocks !” The Farmer and the Fox.—A Farmer having missed a number of bis fine, fat Fowls, placed himself to watch for the Deprecator, and ere long he had the Pleasure of Sending a bullet into a Fox. “And so it was yon who gave me this Fatal Wound ?” gasped the Fox as ho fell. “But yon were taking my Chickens,” protested the Farmer. “That is true, but I was also nursing a litter of Foxes for you to kill. The /kin of one Fox is worth four times the price of a Chicken, and I was raising a Family of five. See what you have lost by slaying me, and Behold what base Ingratitude has repaid mv eflorts to britigyoii Wealth !”— Detroit FreePretn. — A llaytiaii Duke. M. To'.issaint-Lagorille, a full-blooded negro, once the “ 1 )ucde la Grand-Terre, and financial agent in France of the Emperor Soulouque, lias just died in Paris. He was successful in securing a considerable loan for the black Ctesar, by promising to pay the most incredible percentage—according to one account, even going so far as 2,000 per cent. He also bought up an enormous quantity of old military uniforms of all European nationalities, second-hand generals’ hats, and other adornments, for the decora tion of Soulouque’s soldiers, generals, and officers of state. He did not forget to procure, also, a considerable quantity of French brandy. Soulouque was so delighted with the success of his agent that he sent word to him that he hail elevated him to the dignity of a Duke. This made the man a butt for French wit, and ruined his credit. Then Sou louque became angry at the decrease of supplies, and, fancying that his agent was growing careless, he degraded him into a Marquis, then to a Count, next to a Baron, afterward to a mere Chevalier, and ultimately deprived him even of that remnant of aristocratic distinction. Meanwhile M. Toussaint-Logon He bail also lost faith in his imperial master, and began to carry on his business on Ins own account. When the Emperor was dethroned, and fled to Pans, he sum moned theex-Duke to appear lieforelum; but Lagorille refused to obey the sum mons. He had managed to build up for himself a iirop rty of some 60,(XX) francs, upon the interest of which he lived with comfort and great st-ls-complacency to extreme old age. A London Mystery.—A london pajx r savs: “A sad story of life will lie found tli’is morning among the reports of in ouests. Seventeen years ago a baby was found on the steps of a There the child was kept three till it was time to send her to Hanwell School, and from school the girl passed into employment as a domestic servant. She was, her master says, cheerful and happv. But a few days ago she sud denly disappeared from the house, and next day her lifeless body was found in a pond close by. There was nothing to show, nothing to suggest, a reason for suicide. No one can tell of whom she was tiorn; no one knows the Iw i Jesith From darkness to mukiu'w, •[h'a i'ttlespace<4hupp/htebetween. ■ CAurr sES ter tewn n t'X fnde ' '/klfhC