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SULLIVAN & BRO?, Look for tlxe the of the OIBOULAR ?A.W. IL, Deo 18.1884 - f 23 11 i rr GOODS WERE NEVER SO LOW. This faot We are prepared to Prove te our Friends and Customers who may favor us with a eall. WE are now receiving th? larges* and most carefully selects tock of GencralMsr .J ehandlae Wblcr?we*avS ?v?r iwrcbased, ?nd wi make it to /Tr *ntor?stto I ?.ll and examine for yourselves. We haye added to the Hnes-uaually kept by os many otw and desirable ones, embracing- j tadies' Dresa Goods^ Flannels, Suitings, Shawls, &o.f And the beat CORSET on the market at OOo., worth $1-00. Also, a A LABOE LINE OF BEADY MADE OliOTHINGs BATS, TRUE KS, UMBRELLAS, BL?Njti?TS, SAPDLE8 and HARNESS. Aleo, the Celebrated>>k?W OWBB" SHIRT-tba king of all Shirts. U needs only to, be worn to be appreciator!, ; _ Wear?agen?foT?h?C??*brated M isba waka Sulky Mows, Cultivators and Hand ?ming Piowa. ,,;. i_.:>.<' . Tba VWhtt? Hickory" aha MHiokman" en? and two-horse WAGONS, every one of '^weguaractoe. The attention bf Ginners and Farmers ls called to our COTT?X SISEO, ???b GRAIB? CRUSHBR, By which you can erush your Cotton Seed ana m*k? your Fertiliser. , Oat eur ?rice* on Plantation and Gin Hons? Scales, Cotton Gina, Feadere and Con c<a*?rs and Oaneeal Farra Maohloorjr. . "?fe?a?allUmto in tb?CottouiMarket, and wtlldo yo? righi. W? will pay ?ll Ua who ow? va for Supplies ?nd Oa?no an ?xtr?, prue. A largs lot of DAG OIKG ?e d TIBS ai lowest r* Ices. UcvvMjV?f O?TKVA?T ? VV. BILL ARP'S VIEWS Ou th? Training a Boy dela In Colics?. Atlanta Constitution. It ia right, I know, for a man to be conservative and tolerant and respectfully considfate of other people's opinions, but bow can a man be so and take the papers. When he reads the nonsense of men claiming to be educators be gels disguated with fools, and when ho reads tbti venemouB lies and alaudera of politi cians he is equally disgusted with knaves, and so between the two their utterances in the publio press keeps bim vexed about half the time. Nevertheless, it is the duty of a good citizen to keep up with the age in which he lives, for he can do something, and it is bis duty to read and bo prepared for coming events and raise bis voice on the right aide. It bas been a great drawback on the South that ber people did not read enough and were too contented with their ignorance ; but they are wak* ing up now, and you can hardly find a family in this region that does not take some paper. I mix with our common people a good deal and I know families who take a paper for the children to read, although the parents cannot. Thia is all right and it is encouraging. After a poor farmer boy has learned to read and write and cipher, be can get a right good education from tho papers, and be can got it cheaper thau any other way. I would rather my boys would depend on three or four good papers, that would not coat more than ten dollars a year, than on fifty dollars worth of Latin and Greek and algebra and geometry. They will be of more benefit to him in the practi cal business of life. Of course, if be is to be a professional man, be must study the sciences and go to college, but it ?a a buzzard-a great bazzard to send a boy to college, and the reason is plain. Four years at school and four more at college takes eight of the best years of a boy's life, say from 12 to 20, the very years that bis physical system needs physical exercise and physical training ; the very f'enrs when bis babita of life and for ife are fixed ; the very years when he should mix labor with study and let bis brain and his muscle all work along to Eether and sustain each other. CoTicge abitB are babita of physical iudolence. A college boy bas no education to work anything but hiB brain wben be comes away, and looka around for business. His physical nature abh?re v ork-be can't stand it. Ilia babita are fixed and habits are as binding as fetters, and be gees no agreeable opening except the law or medicine or politics, and so the land is full of quackB, pettigo?gers?aud small politicians who afflict the people and dc no good for themselves. These small law yere sit aiound town and watch for strife among nabora like a buzzard watches foi a carcass. They nurse and encourage all sorts of petty litigation. The docton gallop off to bee a Bick patient and keep him Bick until it takes bis little crop tc pay the bili. The politicians get up t rumpus in the newspapers and alacdei one another until the people don't knoti who to v ?te for, and they don't care And so it goes, and it would have beet better, far Detter, for the whoie batch tr. have Btayed upon the farm and murrien clever country girls, and gone to raisins children and chickens in an honest ant honorable way. Now if, I aay if, th? college boya would go to farming I woult rejoice to see the boya go to college, fo the higher the education the more refine? is the happiness that knowledge give and tba better farmers they would m.tke but they will not. And for like reason I have never favored the higher educa tion of the negro. His race ta physicall; ordained for labor, muscular labor, am bc iikes it. A college life is bis utte ruin as a man aud a citizen, and he come out a genteel African vagabond, i rs ceived a letter from one of them i Atlanta the other day that was full c profane abuse and blasphemy for th view* expressed iu ne ot my letters, an he demanded the name ot that Boato traitor, as be called bim, who said h pitied us wheo he saw ihe ignorant hord that bad been entrusted with the hallo Well, thal darkey has been to colley and is now an educated vagabond. Tb trouble with Mr. George W. Cabio that he does not consider the negro es race bnt lets bis large ph il nn tb r op hy cot older them individually. Ho finde nea: where a negro became an expert froi having the advsniage of a high degrt of culture, and he makes him a iype i the race, and puts a demand upoa us fi a like civilization to all. It reminds a of the educated bog that, a few yebrs sg wss exhibited over the South, and cami play cords and tell the ??H cf day upc a watch, but I don't think It folio? that we should, therefore, educate sil tl hogs in the country. The exceptioi always prove the rule. No negroes ba* made auy progress in arts, or sebnee, i Eol?tica, or the pulpit except those wi ad Caucassian blood in their veins. Tl cross does well for a time, bat it effort, for nature abhors j and from the unnatural union comes feeble posterity or none, after the fii generation. Some of the noblest colon people I ever knew were of this kin Fred Douglas and Senator Bruce and i the colored men of note are among thei The barbers of the South are of thei and almost without exception they arc law-abiding, intelligent and well-ma uered class of citizens. I have great 1 spoct for them, for they attend well their J>usiness, end are entitled to mc respect than some of their custom* Mr. Cable seems to think that justice the negro requires that we should m with them on equal terms In oarchcrct and schools and cars and b?tela a theatre?, and this shows bis niter igi rance of the race ss a race, for they w tell him almost uniformly that they not want to mix. They wont equal pri leges, bot they do not like to mix. 1 race instinct ta against it. Your rec* editorial on this subject woe mostodmi ble and mest true, sod this reminds t to say that no philosopher or phi lao th plat understand* the negro like tb* who were born and bred, with them, ti the negro knows it. He bas to-day m respect for tho old masters than for bis colled Northern friends. When he fe fully assured that Democracy does i mean slavery or oppression, but rather enlarged freedom and protection bo i no longer rely upon Northern p?litiq Noitbera promises, and will q??tlya late with bb own people. - Weare | dog along very well together now, i I think some of our abstractionists attaching too much importance to race problem. It ia premature. Itt become a serions problem for oar cb il d and my faith ia they will be prepared it. It is said they are increasing ti rapidly than the wbtc*.. I baye nt beYieviaTt end I put no trust in Che ? ans that reposts it. The birth rote i b? aa great, but tho death rate is ot 1 threelo e?*jOur city retwds. prov annually. They do not marry like t med to, nor do they toke ea good cai theircMidreuV; 'ft^'nms Increasing saoreropidly. It docs not low that they ever will or ever ooh ) trol the country or its government f0? mon ?introl it now. Not the a I^Wbiry ifccV jwpirty ^tjrolp aud always will. Money controls us all, whether we know it or not. Money is the lover of Archimedes and tho negro will never have it because he does not want it. It is not his nature to accumu late. He lives and toils for bis present good. A few do acquire property, but only a ferr, and that proves the rule by the exception. He cannot accumulate if he would, because he bas no fitness for the arts ana the tricks of trade by which moat of our race get rich. Tho negro rarely cheats or deceive?) any ono in a trade. He is frank and open and does not know how to plot a fraud or conceal it. In all this I admire him, for he is uniiko tho white man. Solomon says "a lie sticketh close on the joints between tho buyer and tho seller," but be meant it for the Jew, and it is true of the Gen tile, but not of the uegro. The negro will steal, for that is an instinct of his race aud lie cannot help it, but he will not steal much. His inclination that way is limited, but when a white man steals, the more he get* thc better satis fied he is. Well, races are races, and we must study them. This nt inly will teach us that the African, the black negro, was by nature and nature's God created and fitted for labor rather than for college or tho theatre or the fine arts. But let the experiment of high education go on. Let Uii try it for another twenty years, and perhaps the problem will beso'7ed. In the meantime let Mr. Cable pt ?ess bis soul tn patience, and I hope the Mew York Tribune will learn in due timi why it was that ono million of the nation's wards failed to vote for Blaine in the last election. The editor of that Pacific journal has put that conundrum at us very frequently of late and seems impa tient foran answer. Well, we give it up. Why don't be ask the wards? As the Scriptures say, "He is of age, ask him." I told John Tl i o m rei the other day that one of hrs Yankee friends up North wanted to know why he dident vote for Blaine, and he stopped short and looked surprised, and said : "Well, boss, what's he got to do wid it?" And then I asked another darkey, and he said, "Goshainity! boss, I didn't know he was a nuntin'." BILL A BP. How Fitz John Porter Hade on Ascen sion During the War. President Lincoln was much interested in the account of a perilous balloon as cension by Gen. Fits John Porter on the 11th of April, 18G2, near Yorktown, Va. About 5 o'clock in the morning he stepped into the car of Prof. Lowe's bal loon to go up and make a reconnoinance, then to be pulled back to terrs firma. He supposed that the usual number of ropes were attached to it, whereas there was only oue, and a place in this, it waa afterward ascertained, had been burned by vitriol, used in generating the gan. Taking his seat in tho car, unaccompanied by anyoue, the rope was let out to nearly its full length-the length was about 900 yards-when auddenly snap went the cord and up went the balloon. This was an unexpected part of the programme. The men below looked up with astonish ment, and the General looked down with equal bewilderment. "Open the valve," shouted one of the men below. "I'll manage it,,' responded the Gener al. Up went the balloon, higher, higher. It rose with great rapidity. Its huge form lessened as it mounted into tho regions of the upper air. It became a speck in the sky. The wind was taking it in the di rection of the enemy's territory. By this time every staff officer and hundreds of others were looking at the moving speck. It is impossible to describe the anxiety felt and expressed for bim, the central object of thought in the far away moving .p^ck, every moment becoming less visi ble. It seemed to move toward the Union army, and the countenances there brightened with hope. It passed over the heads of tho Union men. Soon it began to descend, but with a rapidity that aroused renewed apprehension. Quickly a ?quad ot cavalry plunged spurs into their horses and dashed away in the direction of the descending balloon. ? The rest of the story is as received from the General's own lips. While the rope was being played oui be adjusted bis glass in readiness for his proposed view of the enemy 'a territory. A sadden bound of tbe balloon told bim in a mo .sent th. t sh? rejp* had gi?cB tvs j. He dropped the glass, beard the call, "open tho valve," made tbe response given above, and aet about looking for the valve. He was sensible of being flighty, (the Gen eral loves a pun as well as the next one,). I nt was not at all nervous. He saw the wind had taken him over the lino of rebel entrenchments. Having no wish to drop in among them, ho let the valve take care of itself, and proceeded to take advantage of his position to note the aspect of rebel objects below. Crowds of soldiers rushed from the woods, and he heard their Bhouts distinctly. Lucki ly be was above the reach of their bul lets, so be was not afraid on this score. Tbe map of the country was distinctly discernible. He saw Yorktown and its works. York Biver and ita windings, and Nofolk and its smoky chimneys. A couuter current of air struck the balloon, and Its courte was reversed. Its retreat from over rebeldom was rapid. He open ed the valve, the gas escaped, aud down be came. He could not say how fast he came down, bat it was with a rapidity be would not care to have repeated. Tbe car G truck the top of a shelter tent, under which, luckily, no one happened to be at the time, knocked tbe tent into pi, and left him enveloped tn a mass of collapsed oil silk. He crawled out and found him self in the middle of a camp, not 100 yards from Gen. McClellan's headquar ters. * Heathenism Ia North Carolina. A young lady of thin place who bas been teaching school in a neighborhood in the Eastern portion of the county, returned home last week, when she learned for the firs; time that Cleveland was elected Presid? at. Tbe head A the family with which sue boarded '.ook no paper, none of his neighbors ?.?ok any, and it was currently reportad that Blaine v?*s elected and everybody believed it. We have been in the habit of contribut ing sometblog every year for tbe purpose ot sending'the gospel to the heathens, bat we are now considering whether it would not bo better for Us (o appropriate What we have' to give next year to send the light to some of tbe darkened por tions of Union County. They undoubt edly need i t.-Mor. roc Enquirer. ' "-.- .j- -04> - Emeralds, pore and beautiful, have been discovered In North Carolina. Tb? cut stones aet have sold for $100 a karat, and are eagerly ?ought for by dealers. One gem, weighing two and a half karats, baa been purchased by tho British Hosea m. - Josh Billings ; The infidel, IQ his imp ad once, will ask you to provo that the flood did occur, when the poor idiot himself kant even prove, to save bin Ufe, what sakes one apple sweet and! one sour, or toll whi a ben'tf cgg ift White and edoVt *fcti9?. " ." Stranger than Fiction. Somo twenty odd years ago, there dwelt in California a family of turee persons, father, mother and daughter. The latter was a mere child. AU wore young- The father was a physician. Unfortunately, he injured bis not very exteusive practice by intemperance. His habits became so dissipated, that the poor wife, despairing ol his reformation and also of the possi bility of independent action on ber own part to secure support for himself and child, proposed a separation. The man agreed to it ; but he was not put out like Kip Vnn Wiulcie. Ile was assured that while he lived she would ur ver ceaso to help him, and that when ht- mended his ways, their old relations should bo restor ed. He departed to cure himself, if possible, ana become worthy of the wo man, who, sorely beset, undertook the maintenance of tue family. Encouraged by his wife's prayers, letters and heroic conduct, the doctor redeemed himself. At least he thought so, and his poor wife was moro than willing to believe it. Ho returned to her homo and henrt, warmly welcomed back to both. Unluckily, he ? had either miscalculated bis will-power or the demon of indulgence was simply asleep, and by no means dead within him. Ile went back to bis cups, and very neon tho skeleton finger of poverty was laid upon his dome ?tic affaira. The devoted wife, unwilling to undertake another experimental separation, and unable to remain where she was, determ ined to try what change of sceuo would do for this miserable man, who, naturally kind, talented and wholesome, appeared to be insanely abandoned to the devil of I strong drink. Just at this crisis, rumor* .hail reached California of the Comstock Lode discovery, and thither many of the mining population drifted. Across the Sierra&s to Virginia City this littlo and most wretched family journeyed. Tho doctor pulled himself together for a while and did some business, but his health was gone and very soon he died. Widow and orphan were left in the very depths of poverty. The generous miners had clubbed together to bury the doctor. They made up a purse for tho mother and child, from time to time, and thuB saved both from utter deprivation of food, shelter and raiment. There was, at that time, superintendent of one of the mines, a sturdy young Irishman, who, from the lowest rounds of the ladder, had begun to push his way to fortune. He was not then more than comfortably well off, and i little dreamed of the Monto Christo ! casket in store for him. He used to car ry the weekly or monthly Btipend to the widow, and bis visits to ber became more j and more frequent. At last ho married her and ber days of fear on the score of poverty were over. She possessed a well-to-do husband, who was th* master of his passions, and certain make his way in the world. But, in the days ol distress, the unhappy woman bad resort ed to the morphine habit, and could not, of her own effort, release herself from it. A young physician at Virginia City, who bad recently graduated in France, in formed ber that if she would visit Paris and put herself implicily under the care of hm old roaster there, ber cure could be guaranteed. While the husband remain ed to uncover, with the present junior Senator from Nevada, the richest silver deposit tbe world bas ever known, the wife crossed the seas and submitted to a rigorous medical treatment. It was suc cessful after many months of endurance. Meanwhile tbe famoua California and Consolidated Virginia mines were pene trated by the husband, and the world renowned big bonanza, of which bo was principal owner, made bim at least forty times a millionaire. The wife in Paris, now perfectly cured and blooming, at once rose into prominence and celebrity, for how could the marvel-loving Parisians help adoring a woman whose talents and beauty were matched by such fabulnui wealth so romantically discovered. Foi years, this lady, who is no other than Mrs. John Mackay, bas been a Siivei ?ueen in the moat splendid capital ol urope. She bas lived in palaces, Noblemen and men of genious bave paid court at ber shrine. She outshone thc Empress, when the empire survived, and, during the alleged Republic, she bas re fused for ber daughtor the hand of roy alty itself. Money, world without end bps been at her disposal and she ba< lavished her gold like one born in thc purple. It was wittily said that whet ?he Fiesch Go/eram^nt declined to ai low her to illuminate, at her c?ra expense the Are de Triomphe, she banteringly offered to buy it at toe Government's owt price I Her sister married an Italiat conni, said to be a genuine article, wbc was rich, distinguished, enterprising ant a gentleman. He bas for sometime beet building railways from Texas to Mexico Mrs. Mackay is a devout member of tin Catholic Church, and her alms giving ii munificent as her powers of convenioi are said to be as potent, io some diree lions, as tbose of Monsignor Capel ii others. Though thoroughly good am rd mi ? j glin ' ha? a wnrwn'? pimnnihli vanity as to personal pulchritude, wbicl is all the more precious to ber because i is about to vanish. Hence ber world famous quarrel with the illustrious Meio sonier, whose portrait of her was pro nounced by ber friends a "perfect fright,' while the old artist and bis cabal insistet that it was a triumph of realism. A any rate, Mrs. Mackay paid $26,000 fo the canvas, and, to the horror of man; Frenchmen who value the least work o the great master as a spark of divinity she (brew it into the fire, and commis sioned tbe equally eminent Bon nat to d her lineaments Justice for another grea sum of circulating medium. 'And now, while ber opulent husband along with Mr. James G. Bennett, hs laid another ocean cable to compete witl rival Gould lines, the world li. startle by a fresh sensation from the femat portion of this remarkable family. Al Paris, and therefore all the universe, i io a ferment over the approaching mai ringo of Miss Mackay and. tho Fri nc Colonna. The drift ls nuptially t Borne, "the City of the Soul," and t Italian nobility. It is a miraculou bridging of tbe chasm that lies betwee the mining gulch of the Nevada moue tains and St. Peter's Church, whe? stands, in supernal splendor, "the grand est dome that mortal band bas paints against God's loveliest sky." But Got ila his providence, who inspired the pot aug woman to wander to the Comstoc c and there meet and wed Job Mackay, so soon to be tbe moder . Aladdin, bas led the mother and daugl j ter from chapter to chapter of event fi life whoso troth is indeed stranger tbs fiction. Little did the widow of tl wretched doctor of Virginia City .Iq agine that she would fairly roll in weah! ? dwell in palaces, be courted-by Cb ure : and State, be familiarly associated wit the proudest names of tbe decendanta i the Cniaaders, and finally become tl mother-in-law of a Prince Colean whoso nobility dates back almost to li time of Saladin. The family name ls i * lamons aa any tn history, and the read , o? tho annals of the earth who has n heard of the hero of Lepanto, the supe i Cardinal and the never-toOio forgoUj ' MlehalM K / . -.. . :. ?i V- . .. .v.: *r. <??:..? .-_. achievements-such a reader, vre say, who knows not of these memorable and glorious representatives of the Colonna must bo co?tent to remain io ignorance, which is hardly bliss. The heir of the Colonna family is, therofore, at twenty seven year? of age, to wed tho daughter of the poor doctor who fell by the way side in Nevada, and sleeps his last sleep in that stony desert. The proudest noble of tho whole of Europe, with ono of the mightiest genealogical records, ia to wed the adopted daughter of John Mackay, about a quarter of a century aince a com mon or rather uncommon miner, once poor aa the traditional church mouse and now phenomenally rich like one of Jules Verne's heroes stepping from the covers of his most improbable romance. By Jove I it is the most extraordinary fact of modern society and perhaps the most curious example of the happening of the improbable aince the sou of a Corsican attorney became Emperor of France and conqueror of Kings. Let ua hope that Mrs. Mackay may not, with her honest lord and excellent daughter, land on a financial St. Helena after aomo apccnlative Waterloo. Such a contingency and finale would appear to be impossible; but when ono remem bers what Grant waa and what he is now, it is rash to try predictions based on sub* lunary dispensations. At present, the Mackay star ia in thc ascendc .. True tho Comstock Lode is played out and the mines are filled with water. True the Digger Indians threaten to make Nevada tho burlesque of a State. True richea often take unto themselves winga and (ly away. But, io all human probability, the present generation of Mackays will continue to nourish on earth, die in regal paraphernalia and be gratefully remem bered after death in cathedral aisles. And some day, very remote, when the Italian chronicler has occasion to record some singular phase in the history of bis nativo land, not the least glorious an nouncement may be that n priucely do acendant of Mrs. Mackays daughter waa worthy of the great Admiral who beat back the Ottoman power on the nen, the noted Pontiff who gave new lustre to art, the stern patrician who lowered the pride of Riexzi, and the angel of beauty and geniua whose name shall live with that j of Angelo "while there's an echo loft to air."-Chronicle and Constitutionalist. The Greatest Evil of this Nation, Drunkenness ia the greateat evil of j thia nation, and it takea no logical pro cesa to prove that a drunken nation can not long bo a free nation. 1 call your attention to tbe fact that drunkenne&a ia not at a atandstill ; but that it ia on no onward march and it is a double quick. There is more rum allowed in thin coun try, and of a worse kind, tbau was ever allowed since the first distillery began its work of death. Where there was one drunken home there are ten drunken bornes. Where there was one drunkard's grave there are twenty drunkards' graves According to the United States Govern ment figures, io 1840 there were 23,000, OOO gallona of beer aold. Last year there were 551,000,000 gallons. According to the governmental figureB, in the year 1840, there were 6,000,000 gallona of wine aold. Last vear there were 25,000,000 gallons of wine. It ison the increase. Talk about crooked whiskey-by which men mean the whiskey that does not pas tax to the government. I tell you st! strong drink is crooked. Crooked otsrd, crooked cognac, crooked schnappe, crook ed beer, crooked wine, crooked whiakoy, beenup it mases a man's path crooked, and bis life crooked, and his death crook ed, and bia eternity crooked. If I could gather all the armies of dead drunkards, and have them come to r?surrection, and then add to that all the armies of living drunkards, five or ten abreast, and then if I could have you mount a horse sud ride along that line for review you would ride that norse until be dropped from ex haustion, and you would mount another horse and ride until he fell from exhaust ion, and you would take another and another and you would ride along hour after hour and day after day. Great hoBta, in regiments, In brigades; great armies of them ; and then if you had voice enough stentorian to make them all hear, and you could give the command, "Forward-march 1" their first tramp I would make the earth tremble. I do not1 care which way yon look in a community to-day, the evil is increasing. I call your | attention ta tba. ??C% ih&% tlirrs sT~ taon sands of people burs with s. thirst ic: strong drink-a fact too often ignored. Along nome ancestral linea there runs the river of temptation. There are children whose swaddling clothes are torn off the shroud of death. Many a father bas made a will of thia sort: "Io the name of God, amen. I bequeath to my chil dren my bouses and lands sud estates, share and share shall they alike. . Hereto I affix my hand and .seal in the presence of witnesses." And yet, perbsps, that very man bas made snother will that the people have never read and that has na ver h eon proved in the courts. That will, put ia 'writing, would read some thing like this : "Io the name of disease and appetite and death, amen. I bequeath to my children my evil habits, my tank ards shall be theirs, my winecup shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation shall be their*. Share and abare alike shall they in the iofamy. Hereto I affix my band { and seal io the presence of all the ap plauding harpies of hell."-Dr. Thlmage, in Frank leslie's Sunday Magasine. Not A Beggar. "Gentlemen," he begsn in a smooth, molasses sort of voice, "I am dead broke' but no beggar. I want to raise about three dollars, bot I'?ball do it ia s legiti mate munder. Now, then, let me ask you to'inspect thia." He took from bia pocket a piece of iron chain aa isrge as his thumb and contain ing aix links, and passed it around. Af? ter it had carefully been Inspected by each of the party he continued : "I want to bet my overcoat, which ia certainly worth HO, against $8 in cash that none of you can sep?rete one link from the others." , - . The piece of chain wss passed around again to be more closely scrutinized, and finally one of the party, who was a ma-: chin int, returned it with the remark : "And I waot to pot up that amount against your overcoat that you can't do lt yourself." . ..? ? "Done I" said the stranger, as he pulled of his coat. . Coat and cash we.s pot in tho hands of a stakeholder, and the stranger asked the crowd to follow him. He walked across the, B t rec t and in to a blacksmith shop, and Sicking un a hammer and cold-chisel, he ol i ber at cly cat oat a link. Tho crowd stood around like so many pumpkins at a couoty fair, but when th? ?tranger held up the link and claimed the stakes the machinist recovered his wita sufficiently to exclaim; ? . -u^j-. '?old by a projeeeleoal MlWlsfc money- Is yours, old fellow, but in exactly thirty seconds after you receive It I sholl begin to kick, and you hod better bo twenty rods off 1" i "Thank?-glad to havo mot you-good BLAZONED WEDDINGS. Wbjr Wedding* Should bo Private. From the Courier-Journal. Weddings aro almost always regarded by women as joyous events, and worthy of jubilant commemoration. The glee ful unanimity with wbicb they respond to an announcement of a wedding, the alacrity with which they attend it, and tho aentimental excitement It produces in them, are as remarkable as they are universal. Hen, howerer, unless very young, aro not apt to share their enthusi asm and transport on tbts subject. They may want to be married-though this Is doubtful-as much as ?omeo ; but they do not feel so Bure that marriage will bring happiness. Knowing more of life and human nature, particularly of their own, thoy look beyond the present ; they see the tisk; they understand that the fairest prospects may be most deeply shadowed. Women are proue to abut their eyes to everything but the immedi ate. To them, sufficient for the time is its radiant promise. Tho day of joyous ness bas no to-morrow. Every marriage ought to be happy, therefore it will be. Men think more and feel leis, and their thought is, "Marriage ii uncertain; if not harmonious it begets wretchedness. Who can predict harmony ? Who can preclude wretchedness ?" We hear continually of the fine in stincts of woman ; but they seem sadly at fault in regard to wedlock, which Bhould put them nt their best. What is the use of instincts if they mislead a woman in the moat important occurrence of her life ; if they do not tell her whom to accept ss a husband ; if they can not aave her from a partial or total wrecking of her peace ? She appears to be a bet ter judge of man under any other cir cumstances than those wherein he asks her to be bis wife. It may be that bis offer so flatters her ; that the phrase "I love you I" so unsettles her Intelligence ss to render her Incapable of discretion. Whatever the cause of her mental myopy, whatever the effect of a formel proposal, she certainly commits, at that crisis, many and extraordinary blunders. Cynics might say that she is so anxious to be married that she is not fastidious concerning tho man; But this is seldom true. Any woman can get a husband, if she tries-not, perhaps, the kind of hus band she wants, or ought to have, but a very tolerable husband, aa sncb creatures go. Io view of the feminine passion for w. ddingn, woman's willingness to become a <rife, under unfavorable asnecta, might br- measurably explained by uer determi nation to add one more to the intermi nable list, even at the price of being herself a connubial martyr. There can be no objection to weddings, but the majority of brides, and all their feminine friends and acauaiutances have an ardent prejudice In behalf of showy, sensational, widely trumpeted weddings. A quiet, private ceremony, to which only a few of tho nearest and dearest are in vited, where everything is simple and plain, is likely to be disapproved by moat of the gentler sex. They seem to think marriage incomp1cte,unlc::? it be gilded, inflated, and, io the French sense, exploited. They waut to bave a grand time, a social crush, and a deal of form and pomp, an excess of fuss and frib bling. Men, generally, do not incline to such oateotatioua frivolity, but yield to the woman's bias in the matter, and her love of nuptial display. The fact con cerns them far more than ita surround log. They would usually like to have the thing over a? quickly and quie??y a= possible ; they would be glad to dispense with all the tinseled superfluities and momentous mummery. This does not arise from delicacy or sensibility on their part, altbough delicacy or sensibility might suggest it. So much preparation and ado bores them, and they wish to be bored ss Huleas may be at tho outset, possibly with a prophetic dread of all they may be called upon, subsequently, to endure. They must be acquitted of responsibility for the noisy, spectacular weddings which are eo common in every American>city in these days, especially in the metropolis. Women are to blame for these, end it is strange bow many tenaibie, refined, weilbrea women-so considered-are willing to lend themselves to a custom that good sense, refinement and breeding ?boula never sanction. Tbe reason ii that they see but one sida of the thing th? -?Ids of dcroonsirstifesss and dispf^y. They sb love end honor marriage thai they believe it can not be too richly and grandly celebrated. Each wedding tc them fa ideal, and they imbue lt with tbe light and color of their imagination. They 1080 sight of the bride and groom In the rites that ere observed, fancying, perhaps, that if the rites are splendid the connubial feature will be fair-thal what begins well, aa they regard it, muai end well. As women Iodine to supersti tion they ere probably superstition* about weddings. They may hope tc concilipto the deities that preside ove: wedlock by the pomp of its comm?mora don. The other side, tbe fitness or un fitness of the eeo pie for tbe new condi tion, their temperamental harmony o disharmony, the seriousness, eren solem nlty of the occasion, its proper privacy the natural unwillingness of a sensitiv* pair to proclaim their happiness befor they have bad any opportunity to test it none of this occurs to them. All th finer considerations of a blending o lives, of the grave accountability as sumed, of the hazard undertaken, of th numberless chances against nny Bingi couple setting out on so perilous a joui ney are wholly i mored. If they wer not, who would have the temerity t chant peans of vi< tory before tbe batt) had commenced ? Apart from all questions of the' prc priety of spectacular weddings, how ira prudent, bow unsafe they are I : Wbft they are quiet and informal,. ? virtual! private, te they all should be, their eui come, If unfortunate, ls seldom not!cet and never excites general comment.' Th diftcord, oeparatlon or divorc? is regrette by the friends or the IHadjuatcd coupl who are'spoken of with tender pit' There are no sharp and painful cootra* between th? union end disunion. To mistake was one that could not have bee foreseen: tbe disharmony was probabl inevitable ; tho 'cad mult Is mention? with sympathy, and in a seml-confidet itiatl way. Caution was at jost objerv* There was no tempting of Fatoby ortet t Qtlouo bravado ; there was no arroga? assumption bf ccu ri og Fortune's Smile What happened to that couple mig! bnvo happened to any couple. How different when a bride endgrooi ndvortbn their mawingo for and widt Invite all their acquaintances, SH tl house with flowers j,,' turn., the occ*sic Into fin elaborate festivity,. wher?ih joy els. velvets, stilus and laces are display< fwf?uu ?o?" rji? foo TO^iisa tooses |s)Sl land should advocate and take part in them. Tho finest' women do not approve them and are not so married. Their del icacy r?volta atsncb pomp, and shrinks from auch violation of the plainest pro? prieties. At every wedding of thia kind, the presenta are displayed and labeled, and their quality and coat published in the newspapers, along with the full toilet of the bride: not her gowns alone, but even ber underwear, ber stockings, every shred of her esoteric wardrobe. Is thia nice ; ia tbia womanly ; is thia decent f Every properly organised person knowa that it fa not. ? Such things would be incredible if they were not BO continually done, and done, too -which ls still more incredible-by those pluming themselves on their ladyhood. Ladyhood in Booth I It is evident that in the social world there are ladies and ladies ; that what some of them babita? ally do without the slightest hesitation others couid not think of doing without a fiery blnub. Formerly, when a bride's entire w?rd? robe with every connubial detail had been advertised in the newspapers, it was assumed that the prying irrepressible re? porters, on whose shoulders so many sins, . not their owu, aro usual)*/ laid, had eur? reptltioualy obtained the particulars. Tola assumption is no longer made. The .mother, elster or ; other near kins? woman of the bride meets the reporters eagerly, and furnishes them with com? piolo information of the most indelicate sort, on tho ground that, in mattera 80 momentous, entire accuracy ia absolutely . necessary. The transparent fact is that the bride, as well os those related to her. are resolved to baye ber bridal, ana everything connected with it, blazoned before tho publlc, irrespective of propri ety. She and they might claim that the marriages of titled and prominent per? eons in the Old World monarchies aro copiously chronicled, and that tbe ma?. jority of newspaper readers enjoy such gossip. Thia is true enough ; but the Old world monarchies are not examples for a Hepublio and a pura Democracy, and no sensitive man or woman would ba willing to gratify vulgar curiosity unie? petty self-love were sorely involved. The unsafely of a spectacular wedding ia ahown by the fact that a large propor tion of marriages provo disappointments, often bitter, very bitter, disappointments. It has been asserted that moro than . one half of them turn out badly, and that at . leait two-thirds of them would better never have occurred. This mar or may not bo correct. There are, unfortunate ly, no statistics on this important subjeot. But enough ta known to clearly denote a certain hazard In every matrimonial ven ture; and in many such ventures a posi tive peril. It may bo conceded that thoy who possess sufficient means to war? rant them, financially, in a pompom wedding-many do not scruple to secure one by credit-would have leas prospect of aerioua disharmony than those of slender income. It ia easy to see that a rich couple are not nearly BO depend? ent on one another as a poor couple; that their frietion ia necessarily lees; that their chances of contentment, or B?ent resignation, are increased. Pover ty is alwaya a fearful strain, especially in marriage, and it la bard to bide the strain. Many rich husbands and wives who now live in apparent accord, and aro refiled happy, from ignoratio a cf their mutual feelings and attitude, would have jarred apart long ago, had their oireum* Btances been atraitened. If women insist, as they seem to, on some grand demonstration or parade in rtiisr-'j tc marriage, let them deief ii nu lli a number of ita anniversaries have Ceased-five at least, tho' ten would be etter. While couples often adjust themselves to one another in a year or two. it is unwise to believe all peril over until they havb had longer experience together. Not infrequently pairs copa ra to after fifteen or twenty years of wed ded bliss; but commonly they find out much earlier, t heir irreconciliable incom patibility. Few have the patience or tho fortitude to bear with ono another's failings to ouch an extent. But the period of trial should not bo less than ten years, to insure prudence. If they have so far borne and forborne, sinned and suffered, forgiven and been forgiven -all marriage is a series of adaptations and ' compromises-let them celebrate their tin wedding with such pomp and parade as they may I Then '* ey. will, in all probability, have passed toe dangwr pois*, er?d tboy *viU bs va ?ss?st? r?jcl?5 Chat they have escaped tocks on ?hieb, so many conjugal ventures have been wrecked. But all discretion forbids the cry of victory ere the first blow bit* been atruck. JuNiua HfiHBI BEOWHE. Safe Burglary's Progress. Tho Philadelphia Star learns from a reformed safo blower that the. latest freak of tho skilled professional cracksman is in taking advantage of tb:: adamantino properties of the cormndrim, which they Sway iii ? Vox J UV'Va " S?DDV, ?VTWl? t Taking advantage of tho rotary motion which the spindle affords, tbe finest tem*: Fiored steel spindle can be ground' down n'a few hours (by the Bamo method that the glass stoppers of decanters aro ground) . to euch reduced proportions aa to admit the insertion of any amount or kind of explosives through the crevice thereby made between the spindle and the door. ?How Is lt doner "Tho modus operandi ia aa follows: Tho safe, if of .a moderate aire, ia laid, upon ito bach, a ?trip or thong nf leather . ot the necessary length la looped or. sr the knob of the spindle, a man at'okeh end of tho strap pulling alternately produces a rapid revolution of the spindle. The process being identical with the drill-bow of the jeweler or tbe gunsmith, but being ou a larger scale Ia accomplished by the neater force and more rapid motion. The next requisite is the use of a small . stream of water charged with corundum or emery powder, which ia jud?ciotiL.y made to trickle 'against tho periphery of the spindle, and between' tho spindle and the body of the door, which, 03 it carries with it the powder la. aolutlou-rboth Obeying the laws of gravitation, thus readily penetrating the inmost crevices -the constant revolution of tho spindle,: or, more properly, the see* *w motion of tba leather Btr*p, rapidly grinds down the face of tho spindle and the surround ing metal. ' Coarser grades of corrundqm ' are used as the grinding proceeds. Itt a? very abort; period this labor reduce? th?v originally well-fitting spindle to tho con dition of the husband axle of a worn-out ? cart er wagon, ihua enabling the expert cracksman to Insert hts explosive material abould it be considered necessary." ; ; "How about larger safes and bank "'Largo safes aro operated uno a in sub . titantially tho same manaor, witV tho ex ception that, be ing too cu mb*KO moto upset, a funnel and a short rubber tube ia used to permit the plan and uso of the. grinding ralxtito to* penetrate the cre??, toas; and the rapid see-saw of: tho strap ' does thereat of tho work.*' ?..ra? there n-thing -yet Invented, br in tat* or any subataoco knotffoi'that/can successfully prevent this now .mellicd -?opin?t?ana ATVWOof."