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LOUIS IANA ili . MT 0\- T{(i 1,1.. • DEVOTED TO THE COTTON PLANTING INTEREST, IMMIGRATION, EDUCATION, AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS _ V()L - vil - N0 - 37 - VERMILION VlIJ,I'., ATTAR'Al'AS, LttfclSUINkA, THURSDAY. AUjiUST 28;.l&7i>. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. —— _ T hk (French |sislid»card ©ffrrs a sug li 0 n which might be acted on with ad % vintnge by tl» authorities in this coun ty It in <w made that a reply can lip senton thebaic < " ir '' without expense to die jiaxtv to whom it is first addressed. TttERK vorv *'' w from the Smith »t the Saratoga hotels. Four or five*® r#»^ rwl from < Georgia, and " i|K>ie Hiwl there one from New Orlcans (jhnr/c^toii :tn'I Richmond; hut there is mi general arrival from the South, as vm in former years the ease. "We , the jury, find the prisoner, T onuts Uuford, guilty as charged in the indictment, and allix his punishment at imprisonment for and during his ij.itni'rtl life in the Kentucky state penl "tratiarv.'' This is the verdict in the iMHe of 'Thomas Buford, the murderer of ' Judge M.'Klliott. T he facts have been developed in •.rMJjdelpbi^ th : it t<t*e clj*Jia in the Wal' jeruepn rtntenC tmvo/Ticeii quietly stear ins? tin! public vii-li for twelve years, and ■ they have, actually bagged over $1000, , out). These Ijiievc < have lived extrava gantly, ami have spirted diamond breast pins, but nobody seems to bare suspected any wrong until recently. Russia is just now an afflicted coun try. With it war debt of about $700,0<)t), wflll added to her already large public •obligations, the plague has caused much distress, and the locusts have recently descended on the agricultural districts, while the revolutionists have turned fire bugs, and, armed with the patent match box, they fired and destroyed 3,501 , buildings last month. Valuable build ings have been burned at Moscow and Jfijni-Novjrorod. The law of Texas wl|iph Tequila trains going out of the State to stop thirty minutes on the Texas side of the line, hlfts just gone into force. The pen ; alty for violating the luw is $50, and several conductors have already had to i pay the penalty. The object of the law is to give Texas law officers time to look through the train for escaping criminals. Thiilrond officials look upon the law as a great hardship. They think that a stop of ten minutes would be plenty long enough. FltEXCH capitalists linve agreed to furnish the money to construct the pro posed canal across Florida from Cedar Keys to the mouth of St. John's river. Tliij promoters of the enterprise will en dj(avor to secure an act of the Florida legislature granting the right of way and exemption from taxation for twenty five years. The canal will shorten the distance for vessels going from the At lantic to the Ottlf of Mexico about ..... | l,Wl miles, t , Si .VCR Joaquin Miller has had his hair cut he has condescended to talk a little on mundane affairs. The latent thing at tributed to him is this: "An Indian is never honored with a distinctive name until he has done something noteworthy, and which reveals a marked traitof char acter, When Hitting Hull was it young man he was shot in the legs in battle and disabled, but he sat boiil upright J»n the ground and continued to fight, with the fierceness of a wounded buffalo bull; and if was this incident which drew from the tribe the appellation of (Sitting Hull." The Empress Eugenie has direct**! thht her Spanish estates and her Swiss chateau he sold and all her possessions to be con verted ir|to cash. As soon as a net tle nient of her affairs is effected she will re tire for three mouths to a convent at fimirgcs. Thence she will pay a last visit to her mother, and, after a few months' stay at her home, will return to the,convent to remain there until death. Although she has recovered calm and even appetite, Baron Corvissart says her life has been immensely shortened by the , * death of her won, whom, he thinks, she will not hmg survi ve. The United States may be regarded as the greatest tobacco growing country in the world. If can be grown in every one of the Stales. From the beginning in Virginia, this country has now reached a production of four hundred million pounds, worth about $.'13,000,000 in its unmanufactured state. Fully fifty thousand persons are employed in it" manufacture, earning $14,000,000 in wages, and turning out a product worth #73,000,000. Tobacco ranks sixth on the list of our exports, and last year we si nt abroad #50,000,000 worth, (ier many is our best customer, but Great Britain follows closely, Bggjjwaa'.i - .j. 1 - 1 - 1 . 1 Ttir plan is favorably spoken of, in an English mechanical journal, of drilling triangular holes for blasting—that is, when boring for blasting purposes, to make the holes of a triangular section, instead of circular, as by the ordinary method, and to effect this the boring bar or jumper is partly turned on each side «f it» cutting alternately. No difficulty is experienced in I siring the holes to this shape, and they tire found more effective. | 'haft round holes—the corners forming i punts at which the fracture of the ma terial operated on appears to commence, the line of fracture usually forming a I ' I -' Iuk . ition of the triangle. Holes aver J ' aging three feet six inches in depth are It , cosily made, in this way, in from thirty \ t» forty minute*. The jiowder charges vary from one to two pounds, according j to circumstances. £ & * H, in ' lax gave some friends an undress exhibition in his hotel, as there was fwat curiosity to know the exact mfStSi nieof the youth who could do so mttch w ;h tie' oar-. He i> thirty-eight and *' 1 r " •"•fourths im he^ around the chest . ■ -< 1 his arm*, offorty-o&e and i I one-half inches when his chest IS inflated. His bare fore-arm liieamireseleven inches, and hl« right arm over the muscles meas ured, with his arm doubled up'aud over his shirt, thirteen inches around. His waist measured thirty and one-eighth inches; his right thigh twenty and seven-eighths, his calf fourteen and one half' inches, both aver his tights. 1ft stands five feetci^ht Andone-Jjpftlf Inches, 1 ' and from finger-'end .to^fim^r-cnd, his,, arms outstrctelujdtfh^nneiURircH'^ufit five' feet nine inchdi^* Mi's prists arc small. Ht> is /•fearivd'Hm.Wong '£ the Imek; tigh'trjjjenfcwi about the legs, but ratherjiawis^sik>u^ the shoulders. " L-e The AtKuitic Coast Pilot, published by the United HtaU'^Oonst Survey, ex plains the origin of the deep holes along the New Jersey coast, some distance out at sea. Of these "mud-holes," as they are termed, nine arft known to navigators, the deepest and the furthest out lieing the I W-fatbom hole, eighty-three miles southeast of Sandy Hook light-ship. The remarkable depressions, as the Pilot points out, have the look of having been originally a continuation seaward of the Hudson River Valley. They were in all probability ■scooped out by the river being forced to run through narrow gorges. Several of these gorges can still be traced running parallel with the New Jersey coast* In fact, the soundings along the coast would seem to indicate, that the whole coast line ages ago was ! many miles seaward to its position to i day; that, then the Hudson river entered the ocean at least one hundred miles | southeast of Its pifesent mouth, and that the whole continent has since subsided, the sea encroaching further inland as the country gradually sank. < , Vivir,a,the inporrjgible p ractical joker, '.vJu&^eiit so ittiny \ eaw .of his life for the benefit of the cwstpui# officials in traveling about with two trunks, one containing rattlesnakes, and the other packed full nf, odd boot-straps by hy draulic pressufe, having fooled all "the human race, h|s taken to . fooling other and inanimate things. J# last victim was a poor disnb pitcher of milk that, could not say him nay. "It was," he say, "splendid, bright summer weather when I wen! to my dining-room, and saw sit ting on the tabic a nice pitcher of fresh milk, t didn't breathe a word, but went gently and closed the shutters, drew the cnrtiins and went into the next room, where 1 took the fire shovel and tongs ; I blew, thundered, rained, un chained the dements to the beat of my ability for three minutes, exclaiming from time to time, 'How iteomesdown!' 'Did you ever see such lightning - ?' and so on. This done, I go back to the din ing-room, «pcn the curtains and shutters, and let i n jilie sunlight, and look at Mr. Milk-pitcher. * M m I he Anythinged If the milk hadn't soured ! I regarded it disdainfully and, crossing my arms, I said to that milk, said I, 'You miserable idiot, don't yon know that there has been no thunder storm—that I put up that elemental disturbance on you ? You ought for very shame's sake to turn rfd—I mean to turn uwegt again.' " Sir GauN^X. Woi^EraEjrhas assured sojgic Zulu ehitf^wfioi surrendered, that *th| British grffifnjiK^f ijll hereafter take charge of'th&fcmuJW.v, and he was preparing, according to the latest ac cotOrts, to advance on the new, fortifica tions of Cctywayo, north of Ulendi, wheh can only be apjironched by a narrow de file six miles long, lined with sharp shooters. It is profeafcletJiat the severest struggle of the war will take place at this;pointi and tiuit it Will bet decisive. The war has been in progress since Jan uary 11, and since the fatal, surprise at Isandula (January 21) little success at tended the British arms until the recent advance down the valley of the White ITmvoiosi river to Ulendi, where Cety wayo had concentrated his troops. I>ord Chelmsford, who corn!ncted the, cam paign previous to the arrival of Sir Gar net Wolseley, has been very severely censured in England, and his dismissal was demanded, but the queen personally interfered in his behalf, and he was kept in command,. Sir Garnet Wolseley is conceded to be the best general in the British army, and he will doubtless bring the Zulu war to a close. It has lieen a very expensive affair to England, having cost thus far about $23,(KM),000. Of course the greater part of Zululand will be annexed %> the queen's South African possessions^ which cover an arc# of 320,41*6 win re miles, with a population of 1,142,782, only a small portion of which is Eurdjieftu.—[Courier-Journal. , i , ' ■ [ 1 ' » , ' I , 1 I 1 [ p ' i \ j SOUTHERN SEWS ITEMS. James river i,s lower than it has Iteen in twenty year". The scuppernong crop of Mississippi is short this year. Alexander Stephens is to spend three weeks at I^«!ig Branch. The Sunday law in Texas has proven a failure all over the state. John Stoddard, Esq., a prominent citi zen of Savannah, is tfeau. The drouth in south and west Texas is becoming something fearttd. One hundred new buildings in course i of erection of Montgomery, Ala. Sherman, Texas, has passed an ordi nance prohibiting music in saloons. The cash premiums for the state fair at Italeigh this fall, aggregate $M0U. Immense loui* of rich coppcr ore have been discovered in Ash county. N- • ■ I , Weajthv citizens of Nashville have fa llen in a new cotton factory. Wm. H. Yanderbilt has given the I l0iv V itv M KaAvito W ijlfstous to utilize the water j movit eT canaf. The sale of watermelons** prohibited : in JaeksonviHr, VlarUia, RHer A-.".cart 1. ; TRe ■Mtioii n-oji ui "northern Texas *tever known to he better tfcan it is this U.wu in IVUNU «eo*U» iuak'n;, ' amHkiwueiits to g»to I.to.fria ni'.'i ' '>■[ . , - ■ 1 1 3 1 s „ " - r e " e e " & i«. \ ' Many tramps arc moving oil to Mem phis to share free food ami possible plan Longiver, ^tlic Fort Worth stage-rob ber, has received a ninety-nine vciir sen tence. One si earner recently left Savannah with 8,000 Watermelons, consigned for New York, • „Atlanta (l>a,j is to have a military 'a<a"demy. it will'be open hy the lirst of Hep < teiujicr. P^iightning st ruck a cotton lielil in/ in.ir a the other ilay, and scorched a (ftiagter of i acre, -..f** Gov. Nicholls, of Louisiana's a vic tim to neuralgia, and has gone to Virginia for relief. Washington, county, Texas, farmers are paying (iftv {•onts per hundred for jiiek iug eotton. Henry Ward Beecheer is booked to lecture in Montgomery, also Mobile the com ing season. Cattje arc dying oit the prairies of Bell county, Texas, in great, numbers from want of water. The Louisiana Sentinel urges that the state take some action with regard to leprosy on the Lafourche, In Evergreen A la., where the popula tion i» 7ft| *lr rjiliniipifi"t Ai'tjtf'f"" since .1 miliary X, The quarantine between Texas and New Orleans ia so strict that the papers nrc not interchanged. One farmer in Norfolk county, Va., hss raised and shipped 12,000 barrels of po tatoes this season. The Austin Statesman says it is ns | serted that there arc two hundred and six newspapers in Texas. A rapid rise in the Ocmtilgee river, in Georgia, last Sunday, devastated the crops on the banks considerably. The assays of gold bullion at the United Stntes assay office in Charlotte in the month of July am'onnled to $r>,t3,226. According to the report of the com missioner of agriculture of North Carolina, dogs cost the state $0,000,000 annually. The lands of Talladega county, Ala.. have yielded good crops after forty years' cultivation without the use of fertilizers. Gold mining in North Carolina is a booming. Four prominent New Yorkers are in Charlotte looking after mining interests. A negro boy in-Waco Texas, caught n number of lnrge rats, and, alter skin ning them, sold them to a restaurateur for ; squirrels. The Key of the Gulf says that Key West, with its 1,000 inhabitants, has less deaths and better health than any other city in th<"south. A farmer near Wilmington, N. C. net spring-guns in his watermelon patch, and the thieves came along and stole both guns and melous. The Supreme court of North Carolina has decided that dogs are not property in that state, and on that ground an indictment was quashed. A recently enacted law in Galveston provides that any employer who shall force an employe to labor on Sunday, shall be lia ble to a fine of |60. The Nashville Medical society has been hauling a number of its members over the coals for allowing the frequent repetition of their names in print. The News ventures the prediction, there is not another city in the country that can show a better health record than Savannah. "I cannot tell," says an old convict, "how many crimes are arrange!. .^ priso n, and afterwards successfully earriW their name is legion. , About a week ago-th roe h groes were to be seen assembled on fW'^W|r of the Mississippi at Bayou Sain, awaiting transportation to Kansas: Mr. Sid Hall, of Montgomery county, Ala., reports that the farmers have effectually stopped the progress of cotton worms, by the tree use of Paris green. The report is general in Virginia that the corn, clover, potato, tobacco, fruit and other crops have been greatly damaged by thcimmenae heat and protracted drouth. The Jewish temple, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, has been offered free to the Bap tists in that place for worship until they can rebuild, the latter having lost their house bv fire nre. fire , nre. The Elizabeth City (N. ('■) Economist says that $25,Q00 to'$.'!0,000 worth of huekle berries have been sold from the counties of i Chowan and Perquimans, during this sea At a meeting of citizens in Richmond, Va., with reference to the proposed Sunday Laws, it was resolved that there should be , "liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws." Chevalier Jumonville, whose defalca tions as cashier of the Canal Bank of New ' Orleans, lias just been discovered, was quite ■ a venerable man, and has been attached to the bank since boyhood. • The Mississippi towns arc very much, dissatisfied, because the mail service is al most broken np on the river. The Cnited [ States mail boats won't take on mail from Memphis, hence the trouble. Memphis Ledger: The free ration question is still a subject of contentious dis cussion in many quarters. A few of the neo 1 pie remaining here are pinched and have scanty fare, but, the majority are sleek, fat and well provided for. ' Albanv (Ca.) Advertiser: General » Gordon's' sheep ranehe does not comprise , "fortv thousand acres," and negro convicts ' are not "inclosing it with a stone, fence." I There is not enough stone in southern and , southwest Georgia to build an old-fashioned atone chimney, ninch less a fence for a sheep 1 ranehe. Corpus Christi Ledger : In the item I of horse hair, a business has developed in this city within the last few years amonnt 1 ing to *175,000 to 200,000 pounds annually, [ Tile exports are gradually increasing, and p greater attention is being paid by the ran eheros to the preservation of this product. ' The jKilice of New Orleans having ap prehended an escaped convict from the Tennessee penitentiary telegraphed the fact to the prison lessees, ami received as a repfv: "We have jk ; particular use for him, but will pay twenty-live dollars reward for him if dc 1 livered here." Refreshingly cool. St. Augustine Press: It is reported 1 that an English company of capitalists will attempt to build a Florida ship canal in op 3 position to the French company, and over a slightlv different route. Air. Reid, member "of the'British parliament, will, it is stated, 1 soon come to this country in behalf of the English company. In Archer county, Texas, a farmer, .Tobn Brighnm. called fii» daughter to prepare s bre*kfa«t. and then left the house. He was I subsequently found in the wood*. Having „ l first attempted suicide by hanging, and fail " j ing. he literally beat his own brains out with a hammer. He lived but a short time. He - was formerly of Conway, Arkansas. Albanv (G».) Advertiser ; The col- i r ored debating club, among the hands upon the plantation of Mr. A. M. Griffin, in Lee e rountv. hsicl a* thv snfrjm of their last «le bate: Which ar? the most benefit to the eetttotrv. the fcsmrcre or the b«aards f T Af " tor rnn'ch wranprlinsr, and m animated <Hs etisston, they finally «leei«M in favor of tin e bimartU Qitraan (Ga*) Free Press : A singular e tbin-.' has just oeeurred in Bernn comity, quite near the Brooks line, and not far from Little river. The < v arth has *unk in to the " 1 dejttli about onr Immlml feet, earning ! «|own of the pines. The fink i> & j almost eirenhir in iormh alvontonehun i«. 1 <lrer1 f*< i in H h sattlto be a won I tlerful bale, ftutl many pm&m* are visitina h I out of enriosity. \ Aan iicus (Ga.) Eepublican ♦ Tier. ' Flovd Swvfeou. voJoreJ womanly to Africa, 1 * t I ^ * r ! I J . I i t >. u r ■ j \ ! | I ' II * t r : li - f . . <Miver<'tl a leetnre in th« eonrt battle Thur^ day ni^ht. Ainong tU,e piatnf%*af the cas toins ol' ihf Afrieun was ^»nc in whieh the \ mode of execution for eriminnl Was, that n pieee <il timber w»«» fw wedges larjre enough i<> yet the lieud vietini ; throttgh, atid then the Wetlifew t^rce4 out {Mid the victim left to strangle. \ Arkansas Gazette : A mapivas .testi fying in Justice IfoweV courtyC&en a loud peal of thunder and a thiHh ^^li^btniug caused him to spring froui bif^at. The justice, with his fatherly kind ot: protection reaching over and catching hoWJiM the,ma«, said ; "Sit down^sir, sit down; y<ljare in Jny charge- Don't be frightened ; *11 protect you.' > Itie man looked at thejus|c^ ^itli an inexpressible .expression, sat ^|f^n in the chair iMiffrresunied his statemenjli, ' m West Point (Miss.) I0<-In>llA^ learn from Mrs. James \V. McXVary, <®Louisiana, that there is a most peculiar Hofjlo!' turkeys raised in her neighborhood, -jiavs that the bones of their legs are stii't.aSwill bend up or double up like as if they none at all when they attempt to walk, aijj^i vK they are in perfect health. Instead w®a4kingon their legs they crawl with theniS&fnething similar to a terrapin. Wilmington (N. O.) Star; .te negro preacher near Red Springs aufjijrjieed to his congregation scvcraffcu nday«^rop, some what as follows : "i have been ^fechitig to you evef" since I came, from and Mark.-.and it u uaait nie U*^ (Jenesis and F.xedus, you must raise mv wages. It is bard work, and I'm not going to preach the fat out of my gizzard for so little pay." The Donaldson (Ha.) Chief states that within the period of a week fonr duels had been arranged in that town. The first, was an affair in which fists alone were used ; the second was a well executed hoax. A large crowd was attracted to the scene of hostili ties, and double-barrel-shot guns were the weapons. In the third instance on»' of the principals backed out on the field of battle. In the last encounter one of the combatants was cut several limes. A Jackborn (Texas) dispatch to the j St. liOuis Globe, says : Miss Walker, aged , It), living with her father, S. (Walker, , retired to bed and slept nil night with a tre- ' mendous rattlesnake, seven feet long, which crept, into the bed. About daylight Miss Walker turned upon her pillow, when the snake struck her in the forehead with his : fangs, and instantly coiled around her throat. She screamed and fainted. The reptile was finally killed, but it is believed M ips Walker cannot live. Florida, *ay* the Sumter Advance, like every other state, has its proportion of I good and bad land. The soil is divided J into what is called hammock, high pine, low nine and swamp land. On the hammock laud you find the oak, hickory, hay, magno lia, gum, beech and many trees familiar to norther eves, and whose existence with them always proclaimed a good soil. The same rule applies with equal force here. The swamp lands are very rich, and, when ! drained, are the best sugar and rice lands in i the state. Han Diego (Texas) Messenger^: Quite j an interesting scene is witnessed on our j streets about three days out of every week ' by the harnessing up of wild amies for the j Larados stage line. They are blindfolded until hitched to the stage, when the driver crawls into his seat as easy as if he was try- j ing to slip upon a deer or turkey; when well | balanced ami reins in hand, the blinds are j removed, and off they go like a pair of rabbits, and the experienced drivers on this line never let them get away or break a string. Its amusing for the bystanders, but poor fun for the passengers who are not accustomed to such travel. Norfolk Virginian : Bristol is perhaps the only city in the world with two mayors, two city governments, police, etc., and that is taxed in two states. The line between Tennessee and" Virginia is in the center of JMain street, and gives rise to many funny Kh , for example, the runnaway couple coach and four, but arm-in-arm si« p am street ;ir»d are w«dde*tf' The fu- f commits a crime in Virginia, goes to the pavement on the other side of the street, j and talks defiantly to the officer on the oppo- j site side, who has a warrant for his arrest. I A stumble or a too bold disposition will ! sometimes, however, bring him to grief. j j | j J | I j j ; 1 j | i [ | | ! j Jacksonville (Fla.) Union : A singu lar incident occurred at the residence corner of Washington and Adams street. A white servant of the family had a little boy who was exceediinglv fond of a mocking bird which used to sing near a window of the res idence. One dav the bird flew in and par ties tried to catdi it, but it escaped through the window. The child would often :isk to be.permitted to go into this' room and hear the bird sing. A short time ago the child fell sick, ami about the same time the bird ceased to sing. Yesterday the child died, and when the undertaker visited the room where its body lay, the bird flew in at. the window, andj after making a circle or two, dropped dead on the floor. A Georgia negro girl who went to Li beria in 1877, has returned. She does not give a verv cheerful account of her experi ences in that free republic. Among other things, she savs that "the natives season everything very highly with pepper, and when a child is born among them, they stuff its mouth with red pepper, and gruel, and lay it in the sun for an hour. They say it will make it strong and healthy." Also she says, "the natives are very hard on our people when they commit crime.'' She mentions the case of one Reuben Bayho, who stole something from one of them, and they caught him, tied a big rock around his neck and threw him in the river. threw him in the river. ' j • , ■ t • I I I , ' ' j I a threw him in the river. threw him in the river. 1 MISCELLANEOUS. * Cholera, in epidemic form, has made j t its appearance in Hiogo, Japan. Sara Bernhardt has received an order I for a bust in marble of Lord Beconsficld. ^ The back taxes due the city of New * York by the Pacific Mail Steamship company r amounts to $1-40,000. ! It is said that the gambling houses of New York are connected by telephone, the I object being to prevent being raided. The cadet engineers of the naval acad emy at Annapolis, are on their annual cruise in the man-of-war, Mayflower. Water, when it becomes steam, is ex I panded 1,700 times its original bulk. An aeronaut, calling himself Count Henri dc Gilbert was to make an ascension itt Cincinnati, .lie stopped into the basket when all was ready, and then leaned over J the edge to kiss bis wife. Then he kissed . another woman, and so heartilv that his wife I was furiously angry. The balloon was cut loose, and as it went up, Count Henri saw that his jealous wife and the other woman were fighting. The spectacle disturbed his i presence of mind, and he permitted the bal t loon to collide with a chimney. A rent and >. collapse were followed by a quick descent, u but the Count was only a little bruised by r the fall. His feelings, however, were sen , r ' i f | , [ ^ , t r 1 e ! . s - I i SPORTINtt NEWS. Budd Doble has decided to sell his stable of trotters, including Chicago Maid, Clementine, Ponald and Nettie C.,and retire permanently from the turf. O'Leary states emphatically that des pite reports to the contrary, he will not com pete for the Astley belt at the Madison Square ■ j Garden in September. \ H. V. Bent is a as concluded to sell ! | Bonesetter. and his engagements to Messrs. S. F. Studbaker and Joseph MeEvoy for $lf?, I | 000. Bonesetter is entered in the Chicago ' j circuit II John T. Biggs, driver of Proteine. : states that Proteine's right fore leg m badlv ! injured, and there are tears she will break * I down, ffte is matched to trot Boncsettfr for t ! $10,000 Sept end)er 15. - r ! A Kf.W Yokk physician, >ays that u : man can drink twice a* mneh beer and li not g-et drunk if he will shut hi ev - - j every tim« he takes a glass.—£Free f j A man can drink twice as much t>ee* if j he will shui hi* eyes when the waiter . j comes aurfor the pnp ami make hb . ' friend -"ttle Cor i t—[Richmond Baton. I i : r t 1 s . f r n . HI T«IK mk* "My blue-cvM ph with goldeiVhair is sittuig "ii my knee, A ml gaxiys eagerly afar, Aeros.-s ihabcach, beyond the bar, yIs the restless seo. * rsh.e 1 it-tie hand in mi?o-. 1 tilWjISPia with ' hildish glee, Tojp^ flic foanring bilh^ws splash, ; • « Alton the sluu-e they fiercely dash, Ttie^^iiJe back silently. 4U\t while she laughs so merrily, j My It cart is far away ; Ari<f/us I look upon the shore, c \V^r^%m<J a)id long the. breakers Boar, i My sa-l soul seems to sav : ^ | " The sea is like a human life ; «j i i i»rraks upoii l.he shore Of wiih a resistless might, * • i An^^^i ^ ] \ > '. ■: !;.! ■ j Miii ' i ii m-'iini :'ul ihoih I, And gaze upon the sea, | My blue-i'ved pet with golden hair, i Whose heart has never known a care, Still sits upon my knee. Her head is resting on my breast— Her ryes in slumber deep; The same rough sea whose breakers roar, ' And madly, fiercely lash tin- shore, I Has lulled my child to sleep. — T. /J. Chryntnl in JYorrirfown Hrrahl. 1 } i . I j ; j ! j i j j 1 j , , ' : I J ! i j j ' j j | j f j j I ! j j I Stories for the jfiresidc. j THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, i j "Of all tliingn, a night journey is the I' most, tedious," said (Uarenee Hatfield, as j 1 he let himself fall heavily into the still' | and uncomfortable seat of the railway J j ear, with the faded velvet cushions, arid ! J its back at exactly the wrong angle for i | iitight approaching the luxury of a nap. j I ''1say, Clifton, do you think we might! smoke?" ' _ ! "Well, I rather imagine not," said I, j with a motion of my head toward the j other passengers). _ ; "There appear to be ladies on board." j 1 Hatfield shrugged hs shoulders. j "Such ladies! ' | "Well" laughed I, "they don't appear I i to be particularly stylish in manners or [ costume, but nevertheless, my dear fel | low, the divinity of their sex hedges them around like a wall." "Divinity is their humbug!" shortly | interrupted Hatfield. "As if these half- ; dressed dowdies, with babies and band- I boxes, could possibly belong to the same j world with Beatrice Hale!" To this 1 made no answer. It did not seem to me exactly appropriate to lug the | sacred name of Beatrice Hale into a dis- j cussion, in a place like this. Yet what j couid I do except to feel my face flush, and thilwy of my hair tingle? Fori ivs* anjMMdtftfcte'in love with Bec IIale, , i(i so Hatfield. If T Were IbMwte Jjuarti of ink and 1 reams of paperWtrying to describe her 1 | manifold charms and excellencies to the j ! rea<ler, it wouldn't do any good. Such I j things have been tried before and failed, j j Let him imagine the fairies brunette that I J the suu ever shone on, and he may come | j somewhere near the mark. Suffice it to say that she was as beautiful as a dream, j arid that Hatfield and 1 were both slaves : at her feet. Which of us did she like best? Ali; , that was the question I It was something j like the children's old game of see-saw. ! Up I go, down you come. Sometimes I ' fancied 1 had the ghost of a chance, somc j times I was convinced that Hatfield was | • altogetlier the preferred, and that I had j , better emigrate to Australia at once. j "Hello!" cried Hatfield,breaking un- i ■ ceremoniously in upon the thread of niy j t musings, "there goes the whistle. We • shall be off directly. Thank goodness for that!" And he put up his feet on the opp> I site seat, and prepared for as comfortable I a four hours' ride as possible. I Clarence Hatfield and 1. be it undcr , stood, were employes in the extensive ' business of Messrs. Jenkins .Tumperton ' & Co ., auctioneers, and had been down in ! j the country putting up a sale of swampy j I j lots, cut into streets and squares, accord- I ing to the most improved metropolitan j methods of doing such things. It had leen a dismal business. No-1 ve ruber is not an inspiring month at the ; , best, and a three days' fog had conspired j against, the success of Mount Morra j ,1'ark, as Jenkins .Tumperton ft Co. had r christened their new speculation. Yet, i we had done reasonably well, and were : ' now thankful to get back to New York. . i As the train gave its starting lunge, j f | the door flew open, and in came a tall , | old lady, in a pro-ligious black bonnet and a fur cloak, surrounded by a perfect eheaveaux de frise of squirrel cages, [ leather bags, brown paper parcels and sandwich-boxes. Site, was followed closely by a younger lady, dressed in black and" closely veiled, and paused he< ^ itatingly in front of our seat. , "Yoiing man," said she, in a low voice t as gruff as that of a man, "is this seat r engaged ?" 1 "Yes," said Hatfield, "it is." e "For your feet?" ! . i "No matter what for," superciliously 1 replied the head clerk of Jenkins, Jum s ' p<>rton <fe Co. "Please to pass on, old - lady. You'll find scats enough be I yond." ! " But this was a stretching of the truth. ' There were no scats beyond, as the old lady could easily perceive, unless she , tn ui* »lip.vtlv Annncifp n rorl hoi ehoVe sit directly a red hot : ; I _ j j» ! )■ i ( j h „ j •ir ! ji : ( ' r i ,'' | ' I j j l i( ' : ,, ; ! j . j | ir ! i I J " • 11 i . i 1^, ( j_ ! „ | , i*' • | i < . f ■ ■ ! '' : i ' j I i j | I | ( j 1 1 ! . | ' ■ ' ; i | j I ! , I ' [ ~ ' ' I I • | i ■ ; i ' . u - if , tn ui* »lip.vtlv Annncifp n rorl hoi : ehoVe to sit directly opposite a red hot coal fire, or u|K>n one of those corner ar rangements close to the door, which are | equivalent to no seat at all. The old lady hesitated and changed her heavy carpet-bag from one wearied arm to the other. I thought of my own good Aunt Polly at home and rose at i once. "Pray take this seat, ma'am," wid I. "And let me nut your parcels up in the I 1 rack for you. ' "Clifton, what a fool you are!" cried i Hatfield, in an impatient sotto voice, i "Why couldn't you have sat, still and minded your own business?" "It is my own business," I answered brusquely, "to see that every lady is : i made as comfortable as it is in the na r j ture of thing? to be. Now the squirrel ; cage, ma'am—it'll go very cOinfortalljp j under the seat, I think." t Hatfield uttered a contempt uous grunt, 1 but he never offered to take !i:s feet from s oft' the opposite cushions, although the . younger woman -lootI in ihc aisle, un f j comfortably swaying backward and for r j ward with the motion of the train, until n j a woman beyond, obsetraw the _state of . t affairs, drer' a >lee^£f eail'i into her ' i I . - I r , i - - 1 ; r j i | «j i ] | ' I j lap, itt(d 4ie<koiie<l Uicolhc# to- take the place thus vacated: 1 By tins time the old l«dv had c#al>* lished hci'srlf to her entire satisfaction and opened "her snndvMi lifts. " Mitch obliged to you, young Uian," } said she; '■ It's easy to see thai' you'w a mother at .Vour own at hoi lie, and i that you're in- tlfij Itabii of doing tev erence to her gra\r hairs. As fof this person—with as not! of Iter wofee. l«nmet in" the direction off Mr. mt'fi'difj-'Uf he's got a I can't say much for her bringing up of bull. iVrhaps lie . may be old hittisclF^lie day. and stand I in need of a little anil consider^ atiou from the voiinir." j j " When I'm anxkras for *^;our gortn jaopinion ma'am, I'll let you know," r%> ; turned Mr. I l.'U^eld, tjUlici' llipwuitly. ^ThtMtld Uj - ! opress 'lie^-i.f might make room for me. j Reader, did you ever stand in an ex ! press train in full motion ? Did vou ever fee! vourself swayed backward and j forward, humping one of your phreno logical developments against one side of the car,-and bringing the base of your i spinal column against the top or the seat j at the opposite swerve of the train ? j Did you ever grasp blindly at nothing 1 for support ? Did you ever execute an involuntary pas sen I, by way oT keeping : your balance, and then grind your teeth to see the t wo pretty young ladies beyond ; laughing at your antics ? If so, you will know how to pity me during that hour and a half between 1? and Stani r„,-,i I Hint a it,iil ucLweeii i> aim ei,uu ford. I - s t ' I - • ' i' R - 1 ' " f r t • - 1 i I I r - i the I' as j 1 still' J arid ! for i j ! I, the j I or fel | ; I j not the | dis- j j and 1 her 1 and a half between r„,-,i I Hint a it,iil ucLweeii i> aim ei,uu _ j ford. Hatfield went to sleep and snored; j» ! the old lady in the gigantic bonnet ate )■ i sandwichs and drank from a wicker flask ( of excellently smelling sherry ; the young j lady sat as noiselessly as a black-veiled h |statue;, fretful babies whimpered, old „ j gentlemen uttered strange sounds in •ir ! their sleep; the lights flared like sickly moons overhead, and the shriek of the ji : train as it flew through the sleeping vil ( ' r lages, sounded like the veil of a fiery i throated demon. ,'' | " Stamford !" bawled the eoniluctor." ' I At last I succeeded in dropping my j j weary and stiffened limbs into a seat, l i( ' : where slumber overtook me ill just a minute and a quarter; for 1 had been ,, ; asleep on mv legs once or twice, even in ! my former disadvan tageoiejattitudpjand I j could scarcely believe the evidence of my . j own senses when we finally thundered | ir ! into the echoing va»tnes< ol the firand i I Central depot in New York. J " • Hatfield, alive to the necessity of 11 ..catching a car before the whole world of i . i travelers should crowd into it, stumbled 1^, .oyer the old lady's ankles with small ( j_ ! ceremony. „ | "Oh, take care! You've knocked the squirrel cage over," cried she. , "Confound the squirrel cage!" shouted i*' Hatfield, gnashing his teeth, as the an • | cient dame placed herself directly in the i aisle to set the furry pet up again, < thereby completely blocking up hi. . f ■ egress. ■ ! "Served you right, Hatfield," siyd I, '' : as 1 stooped to itssiMt. i Just then the young cftinpanion of ' j the ladv a<lvttiiced, flinging back hei - i e k ' I ' , a 1 " ' v r ' r ' f ' ^ " 0 ( l e !» ' s ' • j I j I | j : , j | j j i j ! veil. I "(Jrandma," said she, "the carriage is i waiting. I'll send Thomas fttr the pat j eels. Mr. Clifton, I am very muck | obliged to you for your politeness to mv I grandmother, who'is unused to travel | ing. As to Mr. Hatfield—the less said ( j about his courtesy, the better." And 1 1 Beatrice Hale's black eyes dashed dis ! dainfully on Clarence's cowed visage. . | "Miss Hale," he stammered, "if I'd ' ■ the least idea who you were— ' "You would have regulated your con duet according," impatiently interrupted ' ; Miss llale. "Thanks, I prefer to see | people in their true light. Mr. Clifton," j turning gracefully to me, "you'll call and I me how grandmother-stands her journey, ! to-morrow, won't you ? Oh, thank you, , I the carriage is close by." And to this day, I believe that is the ' way 1 won my wife; for Clarence Hat field was a brilliant, showy sort of a fel [ low, who far outshone me in general so ciety, and I think Bfee had been disposed rather to fancy him until that night. ~ But she was disenchanted now for good and for all. And Grandma Hale comes ' to see us every Christmas with a hamper ' I of srood things from Hale farm. ■ i . I"' ' 1 -1 [ L* ' t > t 3 >: . ' i <, .. j I j ; j j i : . j Little Johnny's Sfory of Old Gaffer. And now for a story about ole (Jaffer l'eters. I One day Jack Brily, which is the • wicked sailor, swears and everything, that ho was goin by ole Gaffer's house, and he | fous him diggln a well, and a boy was i pull in up the rocks in a'bueket with a ■ win law. So Jack he give the hoy 2 bits, , ; and sed : i "You go and git sum candv, and III j ' pull up for you when 1 get back," and the hoy done it.. Then Jack he put his hull dog in the bucket and let him down, . and the dog it jumpped out in the well j with Gaffer, which hollered wild, and the dog too. Then Jack he got ole Gaflcrscs' , ; cat, and pitched that down too, and the I dog tackled the cat between Gafferses' i legs, and the cat run it up Gaffer like he ! was a tree, and all vcllin' like ingens. There wasent never such a fite. After a whffe Jack he let the bucket down and hauled old Gaffer up with the win lass, looking mighty beat, and his clothes tore bad. Fore Gaffer cud get his hrcth, Jack sed: "Tell you wot, Gaf fer, if I hadent come along yude had a | pretty rough time of it, cos that boy's gone for another cat. ' I Then Gutter he helped Jack git the dog out, which bad killed the cat, and Jack and the dog they went away*, and when the I toy come in site, Oafler he met him morn halef way, and licked him til he was sick a lied. The Late Fire at Serajevn. Some of the large firms in the city esti ' mate the damage at more than one hun dred million florins, but this is thought to lie exaggerated. The homeless peo ple camped in the squares and gardens. The euiperor i f Austria forwarded 10, 000 florins in aid of the sufferers. The duke of Wurtemburg has organized a committee for the purpose of rebuilding i the burned district. The fire destroyed 188 houses, 300 "hops and 48 whare I houses. The to private property i* . estimated at 1,000,000 florins. There is - no insurance. I Owing to the scarcity of piwvimons r prices, already high, have been increased. The fire was caused by an accident which , occurred while the excise officers were i sealing the easAw in the spirit warehouse. One thousand bouse* and eight hundred - stores were burned at Serajem The - loss of life by fire is small. As the lire 1 at Sarajevo "baa destroyed an iaw« ; quantity of army t^uua, a rfconstnicti'm r of the tb-wn will require a great sum. '. ; '' I : e s ; s i '» i il ! r| | * ! i, j 11 I e , i' e s' ic t. 't ic is >t f a 's le id id ic m j. l,t. s li c ■. i| c i a j ? a I I, — —— fj Till' HKHMIi: Mi UIII'.lt. 'I'll*? I^ntrsl OclailH of the Terrible* Tri»#r ttfj; Xrnp iI!<•—Throrifs «l (hr t usr coiiiiiiei «r %*» ohihi tfcl- IMvAloii orihcOld rrtip. ii I i • J-Wo^trqsimt to-day a sketch of Martin - ' UeiSncimdbin-wife, who were murdered s ! in ttlSr lied sis miles from Atlanta, on t thtfJ&^llf' l^fld, The old man was sev years of age the old woman ' jfeeatSbeneath the roof where they wcte : I WtiMNJ, trmI during all that tinic 1 had -- Wlj<®d tll«t,'confidcuce and esteem of all ^jSgffiafnewiliein, Indiied they were most I^M BW blnry Oliristians and inoffensive in • oM : '^opli' Llouid h ave been made the ' kne^'fi to the.aiinals of Fulton county. ■ 't'lntlfl 4W the 4ast persons in the world, i' : froin Ivltom violence could lie expected, tj and tjniee, the laf® ])ei"sons upon whom |-i viol®"e should have spent itself. And W#*ili3bHltcin.into another world- amur -t'i dvS .iWriiV'iii the plan and so savage R mmH jykl in the execution that the canuot contemplate it iiu ^ after,tki.' Ctiinc the utilyo^j- . J uabte iffl^sed—"the notes arid the monpT^ - : —JbpJRnild ill an old-fashioned pftelier , 1 upwT a table in the corner of the very ' | room in which the deed bad been done. " Scouting parties scoured' the country in f I every direction. Every mind in the j r community was excited, and every eye t was strained, llewards were ofli'red by • , the relatives of the deeeased and by the i - j governor. The whole police, tor a time, 1 i seemed to have dedicated themselves to i the search for the perpetrators of this i | crime, without t he shadow of a palliation I or the semblance of a parallel in the his I i tory of Georgia. Many arrests were r j made, but the negroes, upon showing - their whereabouts upon the night ol the . crime, were promptly and justly released. i | Theory ran wild, and fact seemed e ; lost forever in the mists of mystery, i k i Suspicion ran riot, and was just in . ' | the act of pointing its trembling linger I ' at the kinsman of the deceased, when ' sympathy shielded him with her hallowed J wing. And then Asa Gnnn was brought," 1 with his wonderful confession, inculpat j ing a , white man and another negro, i Thorough seaveh was made for the per sons in the county from whicfi Asa said they sprang, but no such men were to he i found. And then Asa dented all knowl edge,of the killing, saving that the bite , from the dog, the blows from the spade, a and the horrible threats of his captors. 1 ■ had frightened him into a confession, the " ! words of which wei'e not his words, but ' had been put into his mouth by men be v \ lieving in his guilt and hungry for his r ' conviction. And then Asa was carried r ' j out to the seeiteof the tragedy, and it j was thought by many excellent men that f ' the tilings which he pointed out and the ' answers which he gave forever lixed him ^ j as the guilty man in connection with the " j whole affair. But a quiet, collected geti ' tlemaii who went out with him said that 0 ( Asa. was again'thrcatcned and prompted i and so intimidated by the crowd which ( l | was present, that he told a medley of lies which would have awakened the envv of e ; Munchausen and kindled the admiration !» ! of Perkins. ' s 1 The motive for the murder is shrouded | in the deepest mystery !—Atlanta Consti ' • I tutioli. i I r i ' " ' I - r , s ' ' I t t B " 0 ( j h ■s ,f II . 1 i . thk KOKK Of i.ovk IS i>»;ai>. J j iiv .(oil\ anthoiu s. ■ ' Tbe-wind-swppt garden is nil desolate, j 'I'lte grytind is crimson with the bleeding i I vhit", . 1 Save nie some fruit, some (lower or any leaf; I"' Home summer-token that may yet lie mine. ' ■ * All things are palsied where I (tilts, 1 The very weeds are dead, nliis. -1 The carpet-mosses and the pleasant grass Are blown iithirst across the yellow moor, [ The duttMy turns to ashes in my band— Tile rttse of i ,ove is detttl furever. "My life is faded oat," she said ; "Alas! the rose of Love is dead." L* The alders shiver by the lonesome brake, ' [one idle leaf clings trembling—all 1 see. t Will any hand reach dttwn the lonely leaf, i And give that kindred misery to tttc'/ > I Sty life is folded, 'lark and brief— t t liie grief within another grief; A passion dead us any wanton leaf 3 Clings closely yet where hope may come no >: more; . ■ This is a garden tenantless to me, The rose of Love is dead forcvormore ; " Mv life is failed out," she said, ' ' " A (as 1 the rose of Love is dead. i My heart is sick with perfume of dead <, \ tilings— .. | 1 hate the memory of passion fled, ' finite the niusie-mes-ayes of song i That throb between the living ami the dead. Sweet sounds ami scents and paintud '. flowers W'earv the sorrow-laden hour*. ; Vo voice is heard where I have listened Ion?, 1 onlv hear mine own, re-echoed o'er— '' This garden is bespread with dews of dearth, I : The rose of Love is dead forevermore. e " Mv life is failed out," she said, s ; " Afas! the rose, of Love is dead." s i "Alas! lite rose ol i,ove is neati. 1 : ^ ; j ! " „ h, a , j j , he his a the he s ; " Afas! the rose, of Love is dead." s i "Alas! lite rose ol i,ove is neati. '» i A Candlil Confession. il ! Memphis is an island. Oceans, seas r| | ,jnd rivers of quarantine surround the * ! ill-fated city on every side. There is no i, j health in us. So say the outside world. 11 I And the world is doubtless right in its e , judement. While thus envelo|>ed in a i' , night of woe, girddl with a relentless cor e don of official "quarantine, and no dead s' i to bury to speak of, we have leisure to ic ruminate on our sins of omission. For it t. t must be said that our shortcomings arc : none other than omitting to perforin 't those acts of cleanliness that are neces ic I sary to la- performed, if our js-oitle desire is 1 to live in a .healthy city, free from cpi >t j demies. The present citizen fully utlder f- stands the condition of atliiirs. lie knows a intuitively that the death-dealing vaults 's upon which Memphis stands are the, j cause of all our woes. He does not ask le 1 for a scientific diagnosis. It is one of id 1 those self-evident propositions that no id one can dispute. The power to remedy ic these evils docs not now exist. When the m city is re-inhabited with her now absent population they will be able, if they give a long pull and a strong pull, all together, to radically regenerate this city and j. make it in the future in reality, what it is now to the eye alone, one of the fairest l,t. cities that the sun ever shone on. as lie uo d. " ,r : V' !t l ' ( ' III !' s " ir .<' I"" er " f s be , ' • t : , I t t a i* is many home*. Smelling a Snake, The Indian doctor who has gotten up quite a repu wtion here—especially among the colored people—for his . marvelous cures, was called professionally to see Charles Wilson, colored, or some mem ber of hi? family, a few days a;o, and soon.after entering the l»tise the Indian s ensyits eyes about the room and remark ed ufttt he "unelt a snake!" The iri li mates laughed at the bleu of a snake in c the house, but the Indian-aid hecotibbi't ■. lie mistaken, and approaching the uiantle i| piece be insisted there was a snake la c f;ind It. % stick was run behind the i- loantle piece when io! out crawled fl spn>a«iigadder. lite cj^ggfcaiion »i », crCapK Geo it x - e ! 1 n ; i n t - - c n ,f le : . , j i IIKK-A-ltltAt ( IIIM. Nfisn ("Ii«» Jones w»is hvenly-llirce, .Vu* 1 wcntlerl'ul at refmrtce; In ;ill her life, licr j»;irent - sav, 9 ,s|ie never uavc herself auny. Voiinvr Ttiuirn Yainrsto ( hiansr < lm\r I rom IV kin came »•> study law .Vt Hnrvjtfd's university— lie. too, wa* great at repartcv. Mis« Clio Jones had often wii.l She knew* that she shonhl tlie nnwetl; She never had seen n fellow smart Enough to ca|>tivatv her heart. Yntfiig Toni?o Yanti*te Chiang < haw, II.iii V"vve(f to tlie n haehelor. "Tliere arc no elev< r jfirls!" said lie: " I ne'er will marry a t hinee!'' TI h'v met anil loved timid the hum Ami splendor of a kettle-drum ; A tawnv skin t<> persons clever ( an make no diflcroncc whatever. "Oh. Clio! do you utind my shridt:? Said he. *' Mv Tonfjot'* lisped the maid, 44 You are a snowdrop to Othello! All! Tonijo was a lucky fellow ! To tell hvr love ran C'li«» < )i her imvuvua she made no honcsr; tier pa replied that HeM he d If sift! idiould marry a Chinee ! t S|i e sH/ieked, syhheil, |tormed, and blew • lie ^ Pte-I ' " • 1 « itSestJFeHkp!, .tie Her father lucked Iter in the utti" ; A ml left a .horsewhip in the hull, In hopes that TuugurCha\{ would eg 11. Oil, gentle friends!'' my tale is doiic : Poor t Mio Jones hecanm a nun I In t tiled instead by hari-kari. The moral is that it. is never Advisable to be too clever; It' Clio had not been, you see, ^ She might have wed with you or me! . i . 1 it of no seas the no its a cor to it arc cpi the, jj[]aifs and ^Xlhims. i I r A i rxKt) fact—-one that gets in a wo#- , i man's head. ' When tt man lnis no mind of bis own, •"'bis wife generally gives him a piece of " | hers. ' j It too often happens that in pursuing I i happiness we are, as it were, only Hias ! ing a pig with a greased tail. - i It must have been in the green cherry r Hcasou that Tennyson wrote, "From our , waist places comes a cry.' s pi' is deeply regretted that Noah did ' not kill the two mosquitoes who en' ' tered with the otherproinenadcrs intotlie ark. I Scenic : Recitation in mental science, t Professor—"How do you know that you t know anything?" Senior—"1 dou't B know?" " Tit maslicd potatoes were worth 4S3 pel" 0 plate, young indies would take them every | time in preference to ice-creiun when ( j j treated. h It is a great piece of folly for a man ■s j to be always ready to meet trouble half ,f way. If he would put all the journey II | on trouble, he might never meet it at all. j " TheiimometIvR's up to ninety, Mr. . l'litanciill," said a visitor to a Statu 1 street broker; "Let 'em go up to par," said the .man of njngrijng, ruclnily: 1 "I'm not short on cm. (,'ot't'KU is coined for exclusively reli gious purposes. It enables a man to feel : that he has contributed to the spread of the gospel without drawing too largely ^ on his income. A mixture composed of one part, of ; powdered borax and two parts of pow dered sugar sprinkled upon the floor where cockroaches frequent will soon eradicate them. "I wo lu,nbox your cars," said a young ladv of Kellcfuste to her stniiid and tire some admirer, "if"— "I' what?" ho anxiously asked. "II," she repeated, "1 j could get, a box large enough for the pur ! pose."—[ 1 'tick. A l.lTTl.E Waterloo Sunday-school miss was asked by her teacher, "What must people do in order to go to heaven?' "Die, I suppose," replied the little one. " The teacher didn't question her any further. " i 'm inkeknaixy disgusted with my wife - that's the long and short of it. ' "What's wrong now . lias she been ktck ing up a new caper?" "No; I wouldn't, stand that; but she keeps on repeating all her ojd ones," Mow to Catch livrs. -Cast vour self into the bosom of yo/.r family at three o'clock in the morning smelling „ strongly of whisky and with Ixiols on. What you get is fats. These you place h, iii the "bag which you carry with you for the purpose. " AN11 how does Charles like g"iug to school?" kindly intpiircd the good man of tli« little six-year-old l»>y, who was waiting with a tin can in his hand the as advent of another dog. " I like goin lie well 'notigh," replied the embryo statcs uo man, ingeniously, "but I don't like d. stay in' after I git there." Ttir. parson has exchanged pulpits with " an eloqucMt brother. "How did you like ,r : the. sermon ?" said Dr. Jones' young wife, aft<'r her intellectual treat. "Well, I V' tell you what it is, Mrs, Jones," replied !t the old ladv, confidentially, "1 '»pow l ' ( ' y„u young folks like this sort o' preach III in', and it's nat'ral ver should, but i did !' s " miss the parson to-day. I've got so used ir .<' ter him, ver know, that I alius know I"" iist what he's goin' to say when he opens er " his mouth, I've beam him so many years, f s ver know. Hut to-day, why, I couldn't tell what waM comin' five iniriutCH be ,, u „., a •> it in fl »i , A Child'H Horrible Fate. ' 5 Ond the 8th of .lulv last the Picayune • published the fact that on the evening t previous a little girl named Kosa Chris : i tiaii, aged nine years, while playing on , the sidewalk opposite the residence of I her parents, at the corner of Drvades and t Melpomene streets, waa attacked by a t large Newfoundland dog and bitten oh tlie right temple. !-dre was immediately taken into the house an«l medical aid sent for. Subsequently the wound caused by the bite healed entirelv, and the child was apparently well. Yesterday morn it ing her mother remarked that ths girl x had a strange staring expression about - the eyes, and ritoke incoherently. She e became alarmed, and immediately sum !- mrmed Dr. d'Estrampes, who, upon ex 1 amining the child, dec a red that she had n the hydropholwa. The proper medicine# ;- were administered, but the disease made i- rapid progreas until all hope* of saving n the patient were abandoned by the doe t tor. The suflerinjpi of the unfortunate - girl are excruciating. Now and liieii - she speaks, crying out that she c dog" around her lx«d. Her n p-.trent- used their utrao.-.t effodBSQj ,f wkaIk * bee, but were powerless to le the sufleriiige of the dying ehiUt—[New | Qm | M » i'l-UVlllie,