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_?-?-:je IndLepencleixt Paper Devoted to fixe Interests of the People. VOLUME in. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1875. NUMBER 52. _? ? ?f 1 I tots! IN AN HOUR. ANTICIPATION. "I'll (ako tbo orchard patb,"ebo said, Speaking lowly,- smiling slowly: 'J'ho brook was dried within its bed,. - r- Turrhot wa Sang a ilamo of red Low in tho west as forth sho sped. _ Aorosa tho dried brook-courso sho wont, Bulging lowly, smiling slowly: ' Hho scarcely saw tbo san that snout it'h fiery force In swlf t' descent^ Hhu never raw tlio wheat was bont. 1'lie grasses parched, thoblossoma dried, Singing lowly, smiling slowly: ,. Her eyes amidst tbo drought carried ' ? A fiiimraor plcananco far and wide,' "With roaoa and awoot violets pled. QJ 11, t ?? t ? nlBAtrOINTMENT. But homeward coming all tho way, Bigblng lowly,,pacing slowly: . -.? r<he? r.nciv tbo bont wheat withering lay, Sho saw tbo blossoms dry decay, Bho rolsBcd tho brooklet's play. - A breeze bad Bprting'from out tho south, rr.il ! Cut, sighing lowly, pdoiDg slowly,'. Bho only felt tho burning drought; Hit eyes woro hot, and parched her month: . Yet sweet tbo wind bluo from tbo south! And when-tbo wind brouht wclcomo rain, BtJU B|gbtng lowly, pacing slowly, * fBbo uoTcr saw tho lifting grain, But only?a lon? orchard Ibih?, Wbcro sbo bad waited all lu vain ! ?iVbn? /Vrn/. TUE CRACK IN THE DOOU. Tho prettiest house, prettiest gardon, the .best servants, and tho largest bank aooennt injX. belonged to Mrs. Mehita blo Armstrong, widow. Somo people also declared that sho was tho prottiest woman in X., but thofjo woro not the bthof womon. Thoy said that sho hnd rod hair, and was too fat, and what tho gentlemen saw to admire in her they oould not guess, eto, eto.; but, say it as often as thoy might, ovory man in tho place was Hetty Armstrong's dovoted servant, friend, and, a dozen of thorn, her lovers, also. A bright, dashing, warm-hearted woman sho was, as merry as though she had nevor known a care. Not that she had forgotten tho lovo of her youth?the gallant, Mack-eyed cap tain, (wk?seship had gone down in mid ocean five years before, and whose pic tured face lay near hor heart eight and day, sleeping and waking; but she was too full of life and hopo to livo entirely in the past, and loved neither hours of melanoholy, not what womon call "a good cry." To forget all sorrow, if sho could, and to bo as happy a* site might, were the two grand rnios of her lifo, and, therefore, people who did not know Hetty Armstrong thought hor heartless, and mado n great mint ako. Thoy called her a flirt, and that was not trne, either. Bhe only flirtod with thoso who began tho gamo first, and that a woman bad a right to do. At X. if a gentleman oalled twioo upon a lady, his attentions wero said to be "very par ? tiuular;" "if ho saw hor homo from meeting," rumor declared that thoy woro " ongaged;" and if ho spent an evening with her, they were "to bo married nest week." for certainty ; but Hetty Armstrong was somohow not in cluded in tLe goneral rnlo. Sho hacf ] dotermined to do as sho ohose. Hho went everywhoro with ovoiy unmarriod gentleman of hor set. Sho was friendly when sho ohoso to bo, and flirted when ehe liked. After sotting gossip afloat a dozen times, sho gaiuod her point, and people left her alone. It was Hetty Armstrong's way, and no indication of matrimonial intentions. For years gon tlemon haunted hor pnrlors, escorted her hither and thither, Bung with her, dnncod with her, confided with her, and adored her, and village gossip had not not married her, until suddenly a i tran ger made his dobut at X., and sot tho! tongues going boyoud evon Hetty Arm strong's power of silenoing. Ho was tall, ho was hnndsomo, ho was comparatively young. Ho had just that touch of exquisite about him which is bo charming when " a man's a man for a* that;" faultless in toilet, faultless in manner, education, accomplished alto . gethor, ho openly flung himself at Hetty Armstrong's feot and dcclarod himself hor admiror. Of oourso wo do not moan to Fay that ho ruined tbo knees of his faultless habilimonts by going down upon thorn, or in any othor way conduct ed himsolf as did the knights of old when heart-smitton, but, after the manner of tho nineteen!ii century he declared his intentions quite as openly. Ho sang to nud at tho lady. Ho haunted her parlors liko n woll dressed ghost. Ho wrote poetry for tho " Lumi nary," addressed to H. A. and signed ?. Ii. Ho breathed deep sighs and gavo soft glancoB, and naid things that might have double meanings. And this not for a week or a month, but for a year, at the ond of wnioh timo Hotty Armstrong began to understand that she was expected by oyerybody to ao oept (JharloB liokowood when he offered her his heart and baud. Meanwhile, tho soft eyes and sweet voice, tho deli oate attentions, and tho winning songs of her admirer were not without their effect upon Hetty Armstrong's heart. It began to be oonsoions of certain tremors and fiatterings in his presence. Her cheeks flushed as they had in girl hood. Her dreams were not the sober, practical dreams which nature at fire and-twenty should alone indnlgo in; nnd as tho days rolled on she felt moro conscious, that; the " Yes " which was expected of her would bo easily uttered. She tried to bo prudent and judge the man carefully. The renn It was that she declared him to bo." an angel." At last Hetty Armstrong 'fairly' let go of tho rudder of self-will, to which he had, olnng?olong, and allowed herself to! drift down the tide of eironmstauoesj which were' to lead her into tho arms of Oharles Rokewood. She felfc that, life would be happy with sn?h a bosom to roposo upon, ' and began to wonder whether it really was necessary for a widow to bo married in peoil color when white was so becoming to her complex ion. Bo mntters stood when Ohristmas drew near, and with it Hetty Arm strong's regular Ohristmas ovo party. All X., or nearly all, would be there; even the Rev. Luther Paragon; who amiably forgot to Bay that he disap proved of dancing and charades when Mrs. Armstrong declared that "sho adored them." It was always the mer riest party of the season at j X., and this time Mrs. Armstrong decided that she wonld ontdo herself. There was a dash moro of coquetry in her dress; a dash of extravaganoo in the snpper; a glitter of rare China, and a perfume of rare flowers in the parlors?just as they say wine warms np the wits and fancy does lovo at times. All things wonld bo brighter, fresher, moro sparkling, jnst now, thought, or rather vngnely felt, tho woman who had just began to know her heart, and thonght sho knew an other's. She Btood, in her rich dress of looo and silk, flowers in her hah: and on her bo.iom, before ? her .[gnoats arrived, bef jre her grato firo in tho parlor, when somo ono touch od her on the {shoulder, and, turning, sho saw Ohnrles Rokewood. Her faco was a little paler, her oyes more earnest in their look than usual, nnd n sort of happy terror hung upon her ns sho guessed why ho had como so early. " I know I should find you also," he said, "and I have something to say to you ;?something-" There she stopped him. " Don't say it now," sho pleaded. "I havo an evening before mo whioh calls for all my oalmnasB. If it is snything agi tating, I?I must ask you to wait. After these guests of mine aro gono?or to morrow, I will hoar yon ; not now." Oharles Rokewood bowed. "Yonr will shall bo my law," ho said, and took her hand and kits ?cd it. Sho lot him do it, blnshing all tho whilo, not caring now to look at him. All tho evening, after tho other gnesta wero there, her thoughts wan dered back to that moment. Sho know what sho would say, and sho oonld an swer only in ono way?only ono?sho likod him so well. "And I havo folt to euro I could never like any' ono again," thought Hotty Armstrong. "There is fate in it." But sho danced and sung nnd talked ns usual, nnd no ono guessed that was what sho was dreaming?not oven Mr. Rokewood, who, with a ohosen friend, had slippod away from the par lors, and wa8 smoking and talking in tho dressing-room. Ho wns a littlo out of sorts. Hotty, oonsoions of h?r du tios as a hostoss, insisted on being pub lic proporty, and could not bo lured into a teto-a-toto, and tho women who wore ready to bo talked to ho did not enro about. Engaged men aro gener ally known by thoir boorish conduct to ladies gonorally. Rokewood, although not engagod, boliovcd himself far enough on tho road to forgot suavity, and fell back upon oignrs and Iub mas online friends whenever his lady-love oonld not bo whispered to or gazed at. Consequently dnmsnls who thought Rokewood charming woro wondering what had bcoome of him, when' Biddy, tho waitress, mysteriously beckoned her mistress into tho hall, and, in an awful whisper, said " moro spoons wero needed for tho cramo." " Of course there must bo," said Mrs. Armstrong. "Where was my poor head to BO forget it? I'll get poor Aunt Martha's set from my np stairs china closet. Please wait on tho stairs until I ooroo to you," Aud away ran Mrs. Armstrong to tho second floor, where sho plunged into u long, old-fashioned clostot, and brought forth a legacy of silvorwaro loft her by her maiden aunt. Counting tho spoons over, a murmur of voices from the next room foil upon her oar. At the samo time she caught the perfume of n cigar. She know that oharles R?kewo?od had the richest voice tad smoked the best cigars of any man in his set. "You dear old follow," she whis pered to herself, ' I havo been so cross to you to-night that somo day I'll be as kind to you as I can to make np for it." Then, with a loving woman's, wish to seo the dear face that is so, dear to her, she stepped forward and peeped through a crack in tho door of the china closet opening into the little sewing room, devoted for this evening to tho gentle men's toilet. Every word was plainly audible when her pretty ear approaohd so otosely to the crevice, and* 4ko first word rivited her attention. Tho men wero talking of matrimony. " It's a donoad hnr?f" eaid his friend. "Yon are tied to a woman's apron strings for life. - You can't say your soul is your own. Take my advice and keep out of it altogether, Oharles." "Look here, old fellow," said Charles, taking his oigar from between his lips, "that sort of a thing is all a man's fault. Now, when I marry, my first act will bo to provo myself master. As yon begin, so you ? go on, and, before the honeymoon is over the woman who takes my namo shall know that my word is law, and that hers most yield to it." The spoons in Mrs Armstrong's hands tingled together just then, but no ono heard them. Oharles went on : "My wife, if I have ono, shall havo no chanco to show her tomper. If she does not liko my orders sho mnBt obey without liking. I'll break her in just as I wonld a horse?bring her down at onoo to tho frame of mind I moan. to keep her in; purposely thwart hor for n while; contradict her ; object to style of dress; make her alter her way of doing her hair; refuse to danoe attendanoo at ohnroh; make her send regrets to party invitations when sho wants to accept them^ show hor at onco what buo may expect.- After n whilo I migut yield a little more; bnt becanse, yon under stand?not to please her." '"Y-e-os," said his friend, doubtfully; " bnt you can't think how hard yon'll lind it; and if you stay ont lato they make Buoh a row?tit np for you in a night-cap, and cry when you como in." "I'd rannngo that," said Rokewood, ?'by staying out every night until day light. Tho ono rulo I should put in prnolico wonld be?nover lot tho woman havo her own way." The spoons tingled a little moro, and Mrs. Armstrong's faco was torribly (lushed, but sho listened still." " Of course yon yield a great doal to tho woman you aro in love with," said Mr. Rokewood, evidently brushing tho nshos from tho oigar;' "but that's becauso of tho romance and all that sort of nonsense, which dion out with tho honeymoon. You can find women onongh to writo poetry to, and to talk sentiment with, married or single. Ab for your wife, she's the worunn that keeps houso for you, nnd tho sooner you mako her aware of tho faot tho hotter. When I marry, Jones, my dear fellow, it will bo with no idiotio idoa of pcrpotuui courtship in my mind. I'll begin as I intend to go on, nnd bo muster, depond upon it." "Rut not my master," whispered pretty Mrs. Armstrong, "not mino."k ''Mistress Armstrong, them spoons," whispered Biddy, at tho Btairs just then. Ilotty Armstrong gathered up the spoons whioh had slipped down into her lap. Sho looked at them as oho did so. They wero solid aud elegant, na was all her silver. Her oyes glanced about tho room, which wealth and taste had mado tho perfection of oleganco and comfort. Hor room ! Sho heard down stairs tho morry ohat of her guests, tho sound of mnsio nnd dancing. Sho romombered that in tho kitchen her servants wore making ready, a supper fit for a king. She turned .to tho mirror ; a handsomo woman, still young and elegantly dressed, looked proudly baok. An hour botoro all this, tho woman included, flho would havo given to Oharles Roke wood had ho been a beggar. Just a twingo of pain weut through her heart. Ono tear stolo down her glowing chock. Then sho gave a litt'o bitter laugh. "I nlouo am queen of mo 1" sho misquoted, and ran out to givo tho spoons to Biddy. "It was bard to find them," sho said, " but lioro they tiro at last." And nho laughed a little louder than usual, aud not quite naturally. It was tho merriost Christmas party of thorn nil, said every ono of her guests, and Hotty Armstrong scorned the morricst thoro. But no ono saw her when tho door was closed upon them, and sho wan alono in hor chain ber. No matter bow briof a love-droam hng boon, tho awakening ia hard, es pecially if it ia Budden. nc-t'y- Armstrong rofusod Charles Eokevood tho next day, and tho people who g??efaOu it biume? her bitterly. As for Charles himself ho was amazed, and injurod, and deoply griovod, for ho novoi^gncssed that his iootnro on mar ried lifo had n second auditor ; nor that Hotty^ronld havo said " Yes " instead ef "|io," but for that crack in tho ChinaJsloset. I'ho Military Infatuation. JnrA now Enropo is suffering from one ofijaor periodical .military infatua tions. ^Everybody predicts war. All the cabinots prognosticate hostilities. Business ia deprossed and stocks de cline, and an indefinable feeling of in security and dread fills tho air. But when the inquiry is pressed beyond tbeco [superficial aepeots of the situa tion itxa hard to discover any tangible and satisfactory reasons for the forebod ing. .Tho ghost in a singlo oloset does not aoobunt for the universnlscare. Tho only facts that as yet have oomo to the sfarfaoo are that Germany, know ing that Franco feels her humiliation and okc-ien under it and may some day endeaver to offset tho recollection of Sedan/fias inoreosod her army to a mil lion and three-quarters of men. All tho reserves of tho empire are drawn upon to>the utmpst to put tho available military^forocs into training for a possi ble contingency. The experience of tho lato strtigglo bb to tho value of particu lar ormtprtnd methods of operation is being utilized, and the nation has been increased and madomore effloient. But Gormuny has no foroign foe, and no quarrel on hand. Any immediate war with Franco is out of tho question. Troublo%ith Russia ?ho may havo pro vided she provokes it. Trouble she may have with Italy and Spain and Francop ?ho attempts to bully the e&}}w(*j&.Oar<3iun.ln into electing a Gor man Pope. And ?ho may have trouble with England and BnEsia if sho insists on absorbing Denmark. But there is no legitimate occasion [for war and no reason for this enormous inoreaso of hor army. Tho other' nations have natu rally onough taken alarm, and begun to inoreaso their armies and navies too, simply becauso Germany has iucreoscd hers, and to day Europo has larger military establishments than over bo fore in a time of peace. Tho posses sion of tho instrument is a temptation to uso it, and such splendidly equipped and thoroughly drilled armies are a constant provocation. Considering tho poverty of Europe, tho oppressiveness of taxes, tho degradation and suffering of tho lower classes in every nation, theso enormous military establishments nro terriblo pervorsions of powor and property. It is only necessary to think of tho industrial force represented by a million and three-quarters of men in tho most prodnctivo period of lifo to see what a drain Germany is making on tho refiourco of tho nation. And yet oyory soldier has to bo supported by tho produolivo energies of tho young and old, tho lame and tho infirm, the women and tho children 1 Wo havo a great deal to complain of, but it ir? mat ter for congratulation that wo havo no great army to support and no military infatuation. Weather Signs. A Fronch naturalist ban recently groupod, for public convenience, a num ber of his observations upon animals, sbowing that many mombors of tho bruto creation may bo useful as living baromotors. Bain or wind, ho says, may bo oxpocted when tho spidors shorten tho last throad by which their wobs aro suspended; fair weather whon thoy longthen them ; and tho duration of cither by tho degreo of contraction or oxpansion observable. "When ewal lows swoop noar the gronntl, uttering plnintivo cries, rain is nt baud; when thoy mount up, fly from sido to side, and play togethor, lino weather will fol low. When a singlo mngpio leaves its nest in tho spring itisnsiguof rain, but tho rovorso is tho caso when two paront birds leave it iu company. Bain is uoar whon tho peacocks utter frequent cries, when parrots chatter moru than usual, and when geeso nro uneasy. A WKH-niT girl in Cnsoo, Wis., while at tho breakfast table, a few mornings sinco, mado loud and repeated calls for buttered toast* After disposing of a liberal quantity of that nourishing arti cle, .she was told that too much toast would niako her Biok. Looking wist fully at tho dish for a moment, she thought sho saw a way out of hor diffi culty, and oxolaimed : " Well, givo me annuzzer picoo and sond for tho dootor." kkpbxhps. A rcdb ird pined in a silver cage, Her tnito su;-.f; high In tho maplo troa, And called from hin airy anchorage; " Oomo ud to me, mm.i np to mo I" " Tho ripe, rod berries our feast ehall grace; The nesta aro many, our wings ore fleet, And all tha world Is only a placo For us lo>lng in, aad love In, Sweet 1" Tho tilvor wires were ernol and atrong; Mo heart was tender, to set her free. How could aho answer her mate's Bwoot song, " Oomo np to mo, come up to me 1" xiio air is merry with song blrdg small, On tremulous branches over->head; But beard no more la tho redblrd's call For ono has vanished?and one In dead. ?Sitter John. Malleable Glass. The French journals contain an oc ean nt of experiments made with a new kind of glass bo perfectly annealed as to havo lost all brittleness, wherefore tho inventor calls it, justly or unjustly, malleable glass. His namo is Do la Bartre, and the experiments wero mado at the workshop of the railroad com pany of Pont d'Ain, said company wish ing to ascertain the value of an inven tion which, at tho present day is exciting a great deal of interest, especially in such pursuits where glass is exposed to a great deal of strain and danger. A pane of common glass a quarter of an inoh thick, of which tho borders were supported by a wooden frame, was laid on the gronnd. A copper weight of four ounces was dropped on its surface, elevating gradually the height of its fall. The glass broke at the shook caused by two and a half feet of fall. In place of that pane another, half as thiok, was substituted, of one-eighth of an inoh in tkiokness, of the glass tem pered after the now method. Tho some weight was dropped, raising success fully t? the height of the ceiling of the hall, without causing any damago to the glass. Tho experiments were continued out side the building, and the experimenter olimbed on a ladder leaning against a wall, to lot tho weight fall. It broke at a fall from sevWteun foot. Tf. wna then proved that the tempered glass does not break by shocks of longer or shorter duration, as the common glass doev. It is broko in a groat number of very small crystals, resulting from its now molecular disposition. When thrown ou tho ground tho tempered glass rebounds, giviug a special sound liko that of tho fall of a sheet of metal. Tho observations as to its resistance to heat have caused another series of experiments to bo made. A strip of common glass wub laid flat over tho flame of n lamp. At tho end of twenty four ?ccouds a sudden noise told that tho glass was split. A glass annealed according to tho now mothod subjected to the saute conditions resisted indefi nitely. It was taken and plunged in a pail of water, put again all wet nbovo tho flame. It was in no way broken by tho fire. Patents havo been tnkon in Franco aud in other countries. A sooioty was formed at Bourg by tho aid of somo friouds, who havo offered their testimo nials to the inventor. The buildings for manufacturing this kind of glass aro in course of erection. Wo add to those details, givon by the local jonrnalfl, that the inventor pat outed Iiis process in Franco. Tho claim of his invention is : As s ion as tlio malloability bogins tho glass is thrown at onoo in u groasy, rrsinons or other r.ubstance, provionsly heated to various degrees, in proportion to the naturo and quality of tho glass on which thoy operate. Clmugiug tho Earth's ixcogrnpliy. Soveral projects whioh aro likely to change tho features of geography to somo extent have been fnrnishod tho American geographical sooioty and aro worthy of notice. The Suez canal? already successfully carried oat?has separated entirely the conti neat a of Asia and Africa. Tho Isthmus canal, be tween tho Paoiflo oooan and the Ca ribbean sea, will, in liko manner, when J completed, divide tho North nnd South American] continents. Tho proposed Maryland and Dclawaro ship canal, to connect ilio waters of tho Chosapoako and Delaware bays, by tho Sassafras river, will convert tho largo poninsuln, 150 miles long from north to south, aud over G5 miles wido at tho widest part, comprising r-oro than three fourths of tho state of Dclawaro, tho counties of Northampton nnd Aocomao, Virginia, nnd nearly all that portion of Maryland on the eastern shore?an area of littlo leas than 5,000 squnro raileB? into an island. Another ship canal is to out off tho peninsula of Barns!able from tho main laud of Massach. Both of tho two latter enterprises, it is thought, will soon bo accomplished, as tho bonoflts to American oommorce that will como from thorn aro most manifest, SAYINGS AND DOINGS. ] \ A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nioknamn lata* forever. j oaquin MiLXiEn cut bis hair on re turning to London, but preserved .his, poetio individuality by donning green, pantaloons. Tiiebjb will be two eclipses of the ran this year, one on April 6, not visiblo in the United States, and another on Sop tomb or 20, visible east of the Missis^ sippi. ?<??.? There is nothing half so >sa? in 7>?e: as tho spectacle of an auctioneer, at-; tempting to sell $15,000 worth of goods, to an audience whoso aggregate and. tangible assets foot up thirty cento. Oranges are now raised in such quan tities and of such excellent quality, in the neighborhood of Galvestbii, Texas, that the importation of tho fruit, it is thought, will shortly cesao. at that port. ? The heavy grades of leather made in; this country aro so far superior in qual ity to those manufactured in Europe, that an effort is about being made to introduce them in Germany, in which country our leather eon, be delivered' below the cost of that made in Europe j The Tituaville Courier says that the1 production of petroleum in western i Pennsylvania during the year 1874 would fill a canal thirty feet wide at the top, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven, feet deep and over seventy-five miles long. The St. Lawrence county (N, Y.) dairymen havo been discussing the' length of rime a dairy cow should go dry. After two hours* debate a vote i was taken, which resulted in a six. weeks' vacation for each dairy oow,, beginning with the first of January, of each year. This is the way one ekoir sings tho first verso of Jerusalem, my happy homo:" Vio-IU.m?li-Ior>flf, Yi iUO.Itt.fe&h-lonK, Di-rning jlh-czreo pan-pot Ling-cong z-'oo kyi-z wo too, Tob. ngo xiu gyi on-wo ? ?. The eh oil- to which we now rofor is composed of Chinamen; but there aro plenty of American choirs that can sing ' it just as badly. Thu queen of England's daughters aro examples to the rest of tho fashion able world in industry and taste. ' At tho royal Swiss cottago oaoh of tho princcssos has a garden whioh she cul tivates with her own bauds. They havo learned to cook, and they frequently sit down to a meal prepared by one or the other. Louiso, wifo of tho marquis of Lome, is a clevor artist: ? ~ Iron Furnaces in Alabama and Georgia.. Tho following is n list of tho furnaces on tho lino of tho Selma, Home and Dal ton railroad: NAME. 1."Cation. TONS. Rldaa Valley.lloino, Oa. 9....0 n iKtna.JKtna, G*. 1 .'......< ? U 'Htonowall.Stonewall, Ala...18....it 11 TYcuiDHeh..T.vnn: . !i, Ala....::< I.... 11 )I ?Hock llun.Griffith, Ala.10....ii ii Woodstock..Aifulstou, Ala..18....hb Sholby No. 1.?....Coluiublana; Ala....14....11 U Shelby No.2..Coluniblaua, Ala....24.iib; 'llrlarnelil.UrlarAeld, ,\:............ 0....1i U Alabama. ;i??u Creek. Ala....?.20......ii b; Cornwall.10.0 b llouud Mountain.u.9....ob The two last aro on tho Coosa river, bolow Itomo, Go, Tho ab?vo furnaces aro all charcoal; those marked with a (+) aro out of blast. Thero is at tho present time stnokod up at theso furnaces, ready for shipment, nearly 1G.000 tons of iron, whioh in tho aggregate is worth nearly half a million dollars. Tho sale and improvement of this iron would bo a considerable item of freight to onr railroads, and the rotnrn of that amount of money would oauso many a smile to radiate over faces that aro new gloomy and despond ent.?Chattanooga Commercial. Tho Travels or St. Anthony of Pndna. Curiously enough, tho missing frag ment of Murrillo's " Appearance of tho Infant Christ to St. Anthony of Padua" has turned up in Now York. Tho prin cipal figuro was out out from tho pio tnre, brought to this oity and sold for $250 to a Broadway pioture-dealer. Fortnnatoly the dealer know tho work end was ablo to seonre it nt once, and ho hau honorably tnrncd it over to tho representative of tho Spanish gov ernment residing in this oity. The original thoft was, most likoly, commit ted ot Soville by somo of tho Spanish banditti und sent to thia country in ohnrgo of coiurndep. It seems to have got into tho country without detection by custom ofllcors by being packed in small compass. In a damaged condi tion it has nt last been rescued, and St. Anthony of Padua, after moro adven tures than usually fall to the lot of his associates in the oalendar, will find his way bnok to tho shrino from whioh he was torn by sarorilegions hands.