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VOL. IV.
CLEVELAND, TENN.. JULY 10, 1879.
NO. 27.
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Marriages and oliiluary notices, over one
tqnare, charge 1 for at liaJf regular rates.
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sert!' 41.
No notices inserted for leas llmi fifty cent.
Willi White llnntl.
Years aba wtnt about the worM,
Lorely oyea and railing faeo,
Dressed and scanted, gemmed and curkd
Always queen by rbjht of graoa.
All Uic timo tbaro wan a grave
'Neath the warm Italian iky,
By the Adriatic'! wave ;
Khc alone, of all, knew why.
He bose dad lay lonely there, "
Far from frienda and native land,
Worked to uln a name to wear
Till ana lit utw lis her baud.
I.ove and longing, pain and pride,
PaeMra first , and coldness neV ;
When she went away he diod,
Uaing frail, Intense and vexed.
Bat the snow above her heart
Melted suddenly one day,
And, awakening with a start,
She wrote, 'Ob , forgive, 1 pray,
'Allny ooldncn, all my pride;
I, unwillingly, am true.
When my lips said 'No I' I lied,
1 have never lovod but you 1'
Weeks she waited, then t here- came
Tardily from that far land
A brief letter to her name
Not hie fcjgnct nor his hand
Jnct to say that he was dead :
His light wont out suddenly.
Brokenly she bowed her head :
'All is said and done fcr me !'
Then remembering life, aa 'twero,
Jnbt a burden at her feot,
Heavily she stooped her there,
Loathing what had been eo sweet
'And to-night there is a feost ;
I am promisod, I must go.
Might I xeo his grave at least !
Bat the world would scorn me bo.
'Well, it may be that some day,
When I'm wrinkled, bent and old,
When my hair is thin and gray,
None will think but I am coid.
'I may do then as I pleaso,
Gross the sea and seek his grave,
Linger near it at my case
1 that slew where I could save !'
Oh, she wan so fair that night
Boft flushed checks and sweetest eyes,
Shoulders so divinely whits
And a voioe of low roplies !
Bat the while she bent her head
In the waltz's rapturous wave,
Khe was thinking, 'IT. Ib dead 1'
An J, 'What llowers grow on his grave?'
AFLOAT AND ASHORE.
Nobody was in tho habit of calling
Emily Travers a beauty, and few ever
gave her a second glance in passing ; yet
when yon happened to linger at the
gato for any reason, and saw her stand
ing there on the grans-plat feeding her
doves, you wonld at once declaro that a
prettier sight than that yon never saw
in your life. But it was not Emily who
ever gave such a subject a second
thought; busy, bright, and happy as
she waB, the whole world seemed beau
tiful, and that was quite onough for her,
without stopping to consider whether or
not she was a part of that world. Nor
did Norman Macpherson ever stop to
think on tho subjeot ; Emily had been a
part of his world ever since he had had
any, and what tho world would bo to him
without her wna something that nover
entered his head. He remembered the
day when, a little chubby urchin three
years old, ho had been taken over the
way to welcome tho new baby there, and
had asked to see her wings ; ho remem
bered when ho dragged her up and down
the garden paths in his cart, and spilled
hor. ont, and she refused to scream ; he
remembered when lie wan lighting with
Saunders, and getting worsted, how she
arrivod upon the seeno with a stone be
tween her two arms that would have
been Saunder's death if it had happened
to hit him : in fact, ho remembered no
time whon she was not a part cf him
self, when ho had not sat with his arms
about her waist, when ho had not kissed
her at mooting and parting, when ho
had not loft every other girl for hcr,and
wonld have been amazed if she had not
weloomcd him as a matter of conrse.
After ho went away to tho naval academy,
Emily's letters were something that he
looked forwird to twico a week as un
failingly as to Wednesdays and Hitur
days themselves ; and when ho made his
flying visit home, it was to Emily that
he went with the recital of all his hopes
and angers and joys. 'Emily,' he said
once, in a startled way, 'I beliove I Eay
my prayers to you. '
Being in thin state of mind about
sweet Emily Travers, you oau imagine
his wrathful consternation when, on re
turning homo from his first oruiee, hav
) ing been for some time without letters,
and coming in by tho long window in
stead of tho door, ho saw a fellow lean
j ing over her chair a tall, dark, hand
some man, handsome but for a soar
across his fori head leaning over hor
ohair and holding her hand, while her
backward and upward gaze was as
brightly fond as his manner was devoted.
For a moment Norman stood spellbound,
and aB he stood, ho heard Emily say ;
'Oh, how can you ask me, Howard
dear? Ton know wo never, never onu
be parted.'
To think wns something to which Mr.
Noman Mephorson never oondesoendod.
He rather excelled in feeling. And just
now he felt as if tho only thing in tho
world to do was to knock this varlot
down ; aooordiugly he took one step and
did it. And then, seizing Emily's hand
himsolf , only to throw, it f m him with
a wild and angry outcry at her perfidy,
he was gone ; and he never knew again
where ho was, or what had happened,
till be found himself on blue water for
a three years' crnise, with plenty of
time to eat his heart out, and profoundly
convinced that he was a victim nf the
blackest treachery, and that if Emily
were false, then all the world was false.
Six months of that bitter diet, with the
swift, 'mod scone before his eyes, chang
ing only to show the man falling, Sophy
running forward with shriek, and
Emily landing frozen to stone as she
had started from her chair, and the opou
hearteel and gay youth had became a
taeitnrn and gloomy man, witbont a
word to Bpare, ready for any dangerous
service, and never half so pleased as
when some black tempest followed
them, and the thick darknoss shut them
in like the curtain of death and judg
ment that they were soon alxrat to lift.
Yet when a twelvemonth had passed,
his bitterness began to be something
less in degree ; occasionally a ray of
eonso wonld break upon bin gloom, and
the thought would come to him that,
after aM, ho had nover onoo spoken of
marriage to Emily Travers in so many
words ; he had taken everything for
granted ; he had left the way open for
any other beggar that chose to como
along. Why, ho asked, had he ever
doubted Emily ? She loved him to day
like a brother, as 6he had always done.
Loved him like a brother ! Not she, ho
would reply to himself, when be had
felled her lover to the ground, and had
flung her from him like a snake. She
had reason to hato him, he said : of
course she did hato him.
Life looked dark enough to Norman
Macpherson at that time, and you may
be mre that he made no effort to set
things right ; but with tho persistency
of his Scottish race, he fitted his back
to beat the burden ; and when the three
years' cruise was over, he made no visit
to his home at all, but got another term
of sea servies, much to tho relief of
some one elso who wished to stay ashore,
As for Emily, she had not been sure
that night that she was not beside her
self. Talking to the young naval eflicer
who was going to marry Sophy- a
secret she had kept at Sophy's require
ment, ond concerning which she had
often drawn on her fancy for Norman's
pleasure and surprise when sho should
be allowed to tell him addressing him
affectionately, as she felt toward one so
soon to be her brother, aud answering
his threat of taking Sophy away by beg
ging him not to part her from her sister,
snddenly a white maniac with blazing
eyes had appeared in tho window, an
uplifted arm had fallen, tho shrkkiu.-
Sophy had inn to lift tho head of her
senseless lover, and Norman was gono.
What it nil meant sho could not conjec
ture, and she was too stnined to make
the effort. She' went about as if she
wcro a mo7ing statue ; everything seem
ed to go on a long, long way beyond hor
viow ; sho was waiting for n word that
did not como ; aud when day after day
and week after week crept by, and no ex
planation came from Norman, nnd sho
know nothing of his whereabouts, except
tho official statement, she realized that
her world had collapsed likn a pricked
bubble, and sho collapnod with it.
When Emily ciine up from that siek-
noss it was liko ouo emerging from the
lark valley of the shadow of death, aud
some of the shadow still clnug to her ;
there was a look on her palo faco as if
she was gazing into a land beyond.
Sophy wan married, and went nway ; her
mother closed the house and took Emily
to Europe, settling down at last in a lit
tle town on the Mediterranean shores,
whoro they could pick up their scattered
throadn, nnd see if they were still Amer
icans ; and the days went by so quiotly,
with tho slow rising and falling of the
blue water of tho lidoless sea like an
indolent breath bcBide them, that they
hardly knew how many of them passed.
If they were not happy days to Emily,
noithcr wero they entirely unhappy ;
only there seemed to bo nothing to look
forward to, and, except her mothor,
nothing to live for.
Nor was thcro any very giddy variety
to Norman's days out of sight of shoro,
the sun coming up and going down as if
by machinery, and ho only glad to be in
harbor for the sake of putting to soa
again.
One day, being in Asiatic waters, the
officers of tho Aftuncck, that had paused
on hor way from a raoro southerly har
bor, camo on board, and as they stepped
on the deck, almost the first person that
Norman saw was a tall, dark, handsome
fellow with 0 Fc.xr across his forehead.
In an instant he had turned npon his
heel, and was striding to another part
of the ship, before he know what ho was
doing, or could make up his bewildered
mind to aotion in relation to this man,
who must long ninco have been Emily's
husband, as he reasoned. But he was
not so quick that another foot did not
como striding after, and a haud wan laid
upon his shoulder in a manner that
mado him wheol tbout at onoe.
'Well, Mr. Maopherson,' said the
stranger, in a great honest voico, 'ac
cording to all the laws of society, I be
lieve you owe me somo satisfaction, and
I have oome to claim it.'
'By all means, sir,' said Mr. Mac
pherson, racehauioally, with a bow.
And thon the stranger broke into a
hearty laugh.
'And I won't say iiniing,' he ex
claimed, 'about your. eTntrttge to your
superior officer, but, by Jove !' bo cried,
with another peal of laughter, 'It serves
you right. Did yon suppose all the
world wanted to marry your Emily, you
ooEcjited monkey? Sophy was a girl
much more to my mind, let me tell you.
nopuy nas been my wife this many a
month. And it was of Sophy that Emily
was speaking when yon took the law in
to your bands. I suppose, sir,' ran on
tho stranger, 'that I ought to give yen
a good thrashing ;bnt all the satisfaction
I want is to hoar you nay that yon are
ashamed of yourself.' And you may bo
euro he had it.
But thcro was no time for conversa
tion before they were joined by others,
and the courtesies of the exceedingly
brief occasion occupied the timo of hosts
and guosts till the boat put off again,
and the Attasrrk received her own. But
a letter to tho department, requesting a
leave of abser.ee from his ship, went in
to tho mail from the next harbor they
entered, and the time that pawed be
fore an answer came and tho request was
granted was longer than all the rest of
Norman Macphcrson's bfe. And al
though be traveled homeward as fast
as steam could carry him, to his frame
of mind electricity would have seemed
slow.
With what elation he saw at last, the
long, long miles having raveled out bo
hind him like tho clearing of a tangled
skein, tho lights of tho city stretching
on all the radiations of its avenues I How
glad and eagerly, two hours after that,
he hurried up the street of tho little
suburban town, picturing to himself
the night of Emily, the sparkle of her
surprise, tho next moment when he
should feel her arms around him, the
way in which she would forgive him,
hardly daring to look up, his heart wan
beating so. And when ho did at last
look up, it was only to eoe blinds closed
and paths overgrown, and the latch of
the gate too rusted to lift easily only
to find, with a benumbed sense of the
world having come to an end, that Emily
and her mother had gono ; and, as his
own people had scattered long ago, there
was nobody in that neighborhood to tell
him where
But after a few hours his wits return
ed to Mr. Macpherson ; he remembered
that tho family had friends, and from
one to another he went then in tho fol
lowing weeks ; but to no purpose : all
ho could discover was that Emily and
her mother were in Europe, but in what
portion of it nobody seemed to know.
For a littlo while he experienced all tho
blae't despair of such revulsion from
hope. But there was nothing to do.
He cursed his ill fortune, and contrived
to get transferred to the European
squadron, and then began his search
anew. As fate had ordered it, perhaps
in mcctery of his impulsiveness, he bad
not oven learned the name of tho cflioer
who had demanded satisfaction ; he did
uot even know if that officer belonged
to tho Aliased: ; but ho wrote to one of
his old comrades to learn about him if
possible, and meantime he waited and
Watched,
Mr. Macphcrson's habits changed,
too, somewhat. From never having
gono ashoro, ho now never staid on
ship, if ho could get away, when shoro
was in night. Town after town he
scoured, journey after jonrney ho manag
ed to make, bank after bank he visited,
at post after post ho asked. But he
found no traco of what he nought ; and
as the year closed ho paid to himself that
it was of no use, ond that he was a mnn
with a memory r.nd without hope. Still
ho continued to go ashoro when in bar
bor, although moro lrom habit now
than expectation, sunshiuo or storm
making littlo differeuoo.
Ho had como ashore one day as u -ual,
on the afternoon of the morning when
the frigate entered port, and had taken
a stroll through tho little town, and had
lost himself in the upper part of it. Tho
loworing weather of the morning had
ripened to a drizzling mist at lost, and
now it was raining in a steady down
pour that the wind caught up in slanting
sheets. He had, however, bought an
umbrolla at some shop, and was hurry
ing down to the shore and wondering
only if he would And tho sailors waiting
with the gig. The wind was straight in
his face, and tho rain came fine as
needles ; ho held the umbrella, as he
bent to the force of tho gale, directly
before him, like an African warrior's
shield ; an 1 this is tho reason that sud
den'y ho found himself brought to a
standstill, an with a sudden shook his
umbrella had interlocked with another,
like two horned creatures doing battle.
'A thousand pardons,' he cxolnimed,
gruffly, in English, before he bothought
himself of his French. 'Do pray excuse
me,' oarae a parcel of silver notes, in
English too. And then, in another
moment, both of the umbrellas were
suiting ofT upon the blast and oareering
out to sea but what cared they who
now them in that gathering gloom, as
Emily and ho were clasped in one
another's arms, and life was whole again?
They were married tho next day ; and
although, a year after, Norman left the
navy aud entered business, it was not
till that morose man had earnod tho re
putation of being the j oiliest dog afloat.
Harper t Bazar.
When after snnset tne oarth cools
down by radiation under a clear sky sev
eral degrees below tho temperature of
the air, the cold surface condeuses the
moisture of the air in form of dew.
Frtdihut Nirtes.
Fine worsted shawls for hotel piazzas
are as delicate as laej mesh.
Turban shaped English hats are close
ly bound with gay, soft scarfs.
Summer traveling dresses aro made
without trimmings of any kind.
nuramer casnmcres aro shown in
novel and fancy designs and colors.
lho trained dress has ceased to exist
in tho streets, save for oarrioge wear.
1 rench women buy one handsomo
dress each season and wear it steadily,
Ihe use of elbow sleeves has revived
that of black velvet bands for brace
lets.
A now bangle is a snake of silver fili
gree with his tail and head tied in
knot.
Little straps of insertion now take
the placa of pins to hold up children's
sashes.
Ihe mixture of figured with plain
materials to match governs the fashion
more than ever.
Foulard wrappers are mode prinoepa
shape, pied with a contrasting color, and
trimmed with Breton.
Jet is combined with gold for evening
wear. Jot leaves in ombroidery are out
lined in gold leaves with a very striking
effect. '
Black grcnudino with damask designs,
open work, and stripes of all widths will
furnish tho minority of toilettes for the
summer.
Brown, green, black and blue water
proof cloth with an alpaca finish is ad
vertised in London. It is said to be
very light and comfortable.
The marquise cravat, of white India
mull and plaited Breton lace, will be
worn with light summer costumes; it
enc'rcles the neck and is tied in a large
bow under tho chin.
The beaded lace bonnets to wear with
various dresses aro cither close shapes,
or elso they have Mario Antoinette flar
ing fronts; these are most often trim
med with wliito chrysanthemums, lily
buds, roses, and a barbo of Breton lace.
Harper's liazar advises a young lady
to get soft white muslin, such as is called
Persian lawn, for your graduating dress.
Make it with a demi train and a polo
naise. Oat tho polonaise quite long;
thou draw it back in front from just be
low tho waist, cttch it up in a full clus
ter of small plaits on the hips and in the
middle of the back, and trim it with
ruffles of Breton lacs. Une with water
ed or satin ribbon for garniture, without
flowers, and wear very little jewelry
Braid your back hair in two loops, and
tiowith white ribbon.
A foreign correspondent tlepcribes a
rich dress worn by an American lady on
hor presentation at Queen Victoria's
levee : 'The dross is entirely composed
of rich whito satin. The front of the
skirt is trimmed with wide chenille
fringe, with a heading of fine silver net,
nnd with bands of largo daisies and
green leaves in chenille embroidery. A
band of similar embroidery edges the
low corn ige. Tho train is three yards
in length (the rognlation length as pre
scribed by etiquette) ond is cut around
the edges into large fc Ulops. At the np
pcr points of each scallop is set a daisy
with its leaves in chenillo ombroidery.
Thin train is laid in flut plaits on the
right shouldor and is clasped there by a
siuglo large daisy, crossing the back of
thocorpago transversely and being held
down at, the left side of the waint by
another cluster of dainien. This method
of arranging the train is fnr more grace
ful than were Wattcau plaits. With this
dress was worn a full set of diamonds,
comprising three bandeaux for tho hair,
a necklace of flue single stones, solitaire
earrings and portcbonhem bracelets.
Tho regulation throe white) feathers and
tulle vail complotos this rich and taste
ful toilet.
A Historic Country.
Egypt was the land visited by Abra
ham in search of food when there was a
famine in his own oountry the land to
whioh Joseph was carried as a slave, and
whioh ho governod as prime minister.
From Egypt Moso3 led the Israelites
through tho Rod sea. Here Jeremiah
wrote his 'Limentations.' Here Solon,
Pythagoras, Plato, and many other
Greek philosophers, come to stuty.
Hero Alexander tho Great came as con
queror. Egypt taught the world the
use of paper made of its rushes tho
papyrus, In Eypt was founded the
flrntpnblio library and tho first college
of learned men namely: the Alexan
drian museum. Hero Euclid wroto his
Elements of Geometry,' Theocritus his
'Poems,' and Luoiau his 'Dialogues.'
Here tho beautiful Cleopatra, the last
Egyptian queen, held Julius Ciosar, and
thon Mark Antony, captive. In Egypt
woto built the first monasteries. The
Christian fathom' (Or i gen aud Athasian)
controversy began there. The buildings
which now remain are tho oldest and
largont in the world. On the bank of
its groat river may be seen tho oldest
hi eh and the oldest column. Up this
noble stroam sailed Herodotus, the most
entertaining of travelers, and Strabo,
tho most judicious. Indeed an the
conntry is little moro than the narrow
strip that is watered by the Nile's over-
ylow from the river may bo seen almost
U its great oitios and temples.
The fishing season has ended on the
Potomac, and the catch has been a fifth
larger than last year, being estimated at
0 ,000,000 herring and 300,000 shad,
"liaised."
No barber knoweth whom he may
shave, and the man who runhes into a
shop and drops into a barbor-chair,
without seeing wVo oocupi"s the next
chair to the right or left may ret badly
left, as a c ise proved yesterday. A sol
id old citizen in tho wholesale trade was
taking it easy, his face covered with
lather, when In came a young man who
flung oft" his coat, bounced into a chair,
and called out :
'Hurry up, now, for I must got bock
to tho store before old Blank does or he
will raise thunder! Ifnng him, he won't
even give a man timo to die!'
Tho solid citixon turned his face to
glance at the othor, and tho barber no
ticed a reddening of his faco.
'Going on a vacation this summer?'
asked the barber who was preparing to
shave the young maD.
gr'aoation! How in Tophet can I get
away from old Blank? And if I oonld
ho pays such a stingy, contemptible sal
ary that I couldn't 1 (Tord even a rido on
the ferryboat!'
'Why don't you ask him for a raise?'
queried tho barber.
'Why don't I ask for the haud of his
freckle-nosed daughter? Ho'd discharge
mo in a minute, though he's making
money and can afford it. If tho old by
ena would have a stroke of apoplexy the
junior partner might do something, but
such chaps always live to bo a hundred
years old.'
Conversation ceased here, the solid
man got outof his chair, took a brushing
and sat down, and when the clerk arose
from his chair and turned around snow
balls would have looked blaok beside
his face. He tried to bow and speak,
but something wouldn't let him, and
when he started to put on his coat he
held it tails up aud collar down. He
was still struggling with it when the
solid man rose up, looked around and
walked out, saying never a word. The
barbers wet the young man's head and
held cologne to his nose, but ho walked
sideways when ho went out, and thee
was an uncertain wobble to his knees.
In applying for the vacant position to
day, state what shop you shave at.
A Brother's Tribute.
The eloquent materialistic lecturer,
Col. Rob't Ingersoll, on the occasion of
his brother's bnrial recently, spoke thus
poetically of death, although his remarks
were not founded on tho grand old Chris
tian belief which extends beyond tho
grave :
My Friend 1 am going to do that
which tho dead oft promised he wculd
do for me. The loved and loving broth
er, husband, father, friond, died where
manhood's morning almost touches
noon, and while tho shadows still were
falling towards tho west. He had not
passed on life's highway the stone that
marks the highest point, but being
weary for a moment he laid down by the
wayside and, using his burden for a
pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that
kisses down his eyelids still. While yet
in lovo with life and raptured with the
world ho passed to silence and pathetio
dust. Yet, after all, it may bo best,
justin the happiest, sunniest hour of all
the voyage, while eager wiuds aro kiss
ing every sail, to dash against the un
seen roek, and in an instant hear the
billows roar above a sunken ship. For
whothor in mid sea or 'mong tho break
ers of tho farther shore, a wreck must
mark at last tho end of each and all.
And every life , no matter if its every
hour is rich with lovo and every moment
jowoled with a joy, will at its close be
come a tragedy as sad nnd deep and dark
as can be woven of the warp and woof of
mystory and death.
Cholera In Asia.
Accounts from India state that the
cholera has been making fonrful havoo
among the pilgrims returning from the
Hurdwar fair, and is being spread by
them through northern India. Itis as
serted that between 20, 000 and 30, 000 hill-
men from the Himalayan districts near
Nynee Tal died on their homeward jour-
uoy. Several oason, most of them fatal,
appeared among the Fifteenth hussars
almost immediately after their arrival at
Meerut from Candahor, and it is sup
posed that the outbreak is duo to some
men having traveled from Mooltan in
railway carriages which had boon used
by infeoted pilgrims. Tho disease has
appeared in most cities of tho Punjab,
and tho fear of the spread of the epi
demic to Peshawar has indinod tho au
thorities to remove tho greater portion
of the garrison there. It is suggested
that tho English government might well
consider whether it is not timo to put an
entire stop to those great religious fairs,
seeing that they almost invariably form
centers whence pestilence spreads
throughout the country, and that the
effective sanitary control of tho masses
ot pilgrims asnerablodJiTHilmont impossi
ble. '
A young fellow in Big lUpids, In.,
was married under some diflleiilties the
othor day. Tho parents of the girl re
fusing to allow him to see her, he had
himself arrested for breaking into a build
ing, and then subpieuaed tho girl or. a
witness. By this means ho secured no
oess to hor long enough to accomplish
his objeot, by the friendly help of a
minister.
Traces of F.m People In the
Territories,
That which seems the most perplexing
to tho antiquarian in tho fact that the
ruins of Arizona, New Mexico and Col
orado bear no resemblance whatever in
their const motion to antiquities found
elsewhere in our country, nor to those
of old Mexioo, Yucatan or South Ameri
ca, with one exception of the Casa
(rando, twenty-five miles above the
1'ima village, upon the Gila river. Hero
the walls and doorways slope toward the
ceiling in a way resembling tho ancient
structures of Central America. The
Caea Grande has so often been described
iu works of travels that all interested in
antiquarian researches have become fa
miliar with its appearance Its history
must forever bsffle the curious.
It was first visited and mentioned by
a Spanish adventurer, Cobeza do Vaca
in 1635, and later by Fadro M irco de
Niza, in 1537, and was afterward vim tod
by a part of Coronada's army, in 1510,
who found it iu pretty much tho same
state of ruin as it remains at present
with the exception cf being several eto
ries higher.
Here, too, are found the ruins of the
Montezuma canal, which is well marked
for more thsjl twee y mileF, of immense
size and admirably constructed.
In the Gila basin aro ruins of other
cities and edifices showing remains of
greater magnitude thau that of the Csa
Grande. The Pima Indians, who now
occupy the valley, and were found there
by the Spaniards in 1535, had no knowl
edge of the people by whom these ruins
wero bnilt, although their tradition at
that time extended back several hundred
years.
In Arizona tho 'stone book' of geolo
gy also opens its most inviting papers
to tho savant. Upon the tops of the
loftiest mountains are found water-worn
stones, and fossilized shells, while many
interesting specimens and well-defined
geological etratas aro offered for invest!
gation at almost every turn.
Bee Stings for the Cure of (.'out.
Several articles and letters have been
printed in German papers of late laud
ing the efficacy of tho sting of tho com
mon bee as a euro for gout. Here is
one of the latest of theeo communica
tions, which appeared recently : 'I was
lying in bed,' says the writer, 'Buffering
from a heavy attack of gout, accompa
nied with violent pains in my left foot,
when I chanced to read in a newspaper
an article describing how gout may be
cured by the stings of bees. I at onoe
determined to try tho reme.ly, and soon
contrived a small box by means of which
a captured boo could bo applied to the
afflicted part. I then let my foot bo
stung by three bees in succession, each
bee leaving his sting bohind in my flesh.
After a few minutes these stings were
extracted; and when the pain caused by
them had subsided I found that the
gouty pain had also left me. On tho
samo day I left my bed, and on tho mor
row was able to walk about. For somo
littlo timo my foot was slightly inflamed,
and I experienced some burning sensa
tion ; but in four or five dayn thin loft
me, and I was completely recovered. '
ITKJIS OF UF.NKItAL INTEREST.
Treasurer Dt J. Hondrix, of Lixing-
ton oounty, B. C, bos defaulted to the
amount of $1,000, and disappeared.
Colleges Quarreling Over n Heest
Asa Packer's will, recently probated
in Philadelphia, contained the following
clause: 'And to the trustees of Wash
ington oollege, Lexington, Va., tho sum
of $1,000. ond I also direct that the
bond of tho Washington oollege, L?iing
ton. Vo;, for $1,000 shall bo surrendered
and canceled by the trustees, thus ma
king tho legacy to that college $5,000.'
A letter has beon received from tho sec
retary of the truntoes of Washington
and Lee University, at Lexington, Vu.,
saying that is the institution which
Judgo Packer really intended to benefit,
and the one whioh issued the bond now
in the possession of tho estate. On the
other hanil, the snperintendoi.t of tho
Virginia Military Institute, a S nte insti
tution, also Bituated at Lexington, lays
claim to tho whole of the legaoy, nnying
that it was intended for that institution,
inasmuch as the $1,030 bond referred to
wan in reality a bond of tho Virginia
Military Institute, and not one of
Washington college, whioh has been
known as Washington and Leo Univer
sity sinoo the death of its president,
General Robert E. Loo.
Feminine ! ices a Cent iiry Aim.
It is not to be supposed for u moment
that ladies of the present day resort to
aitifloial means of increasing that native
lovelinoPB which 'when unadorned is
adorned the most.' Their great-grandmothers,
however, thought difTiroutly;
and so numerous had fomalo falsifications
become a century ago, that it was doom
ed necessary to introduce an act into the
English parliament in 1779, whioh pro
vides as follows:
'All women, of whatever age, rank,
profession, or degree, whethor they bo
maids or widows, that shall, from and
alter this act, impose upon and betray
into matrimony any of his majesty's male
(ubjeots by paints, 1 scents, cosmetio
washes, Artificial teeth, false hair, flpan
ieh nool, iron stays, hoops, high-heelod
shoos, or bolstered hipB, shall incur tho
penalty of the law now in foroo against
witchcraft and misdemeanors, and the
marriage, upon oonviotion, shall stand
null and void.'
Veloclpodtats resemble the ages they
roll along byoyoles.
One bnycr atBimo, ilk, made 14, -000
by the late cotton rise.
Tho I'micd States consumes annually
2,000,000 worth ol quinine.
The cat worm is very destructive to
the coin crop this season iu all parts of
Virginia.
Tho total number of emigrants land
ed at Castle Garden during the first fivo
months of tbe present year wa 10,5!)2
against 18)140 for the same iperiod in
1878.
Tho allopathic physicians of Philadel
phia have agreed to collect bill month
ly, or at the cud of services in each oaso,
and have employed a financial agent to
attend to collections.
General Fitzhugh Loe has resigned
his membership of the board of visitors
to the Mount Vernon association, and
General .Tubal A. Early has beon ap
K)iuted to the vacancy.
Col. Alfred Shorter, of Rome, Gi.,
has donated Shorter college to tho B rp
tist church of that oity, at a cost of near
ly $100,000. It is one of tho finest edu
cational bnildings in the South.
The land in Ireland is cultivated by
000,000 tenants, who oc;upy an average
of thirty-two acres each. There are
10,000 landlords, of whom 1,942 own
two-thirds of tho whole country.
Capt. W. H. Jnckson, a member of
the American rifle team, recently won a
prize and scored tho greatest r cord for
200-yard off band shooting, by counting
seventy-two out of a possible novonty
flve. Forty-six thousand two hundred and
eighty-six persons emigrated last year
from G?rmany, very nearly 5. TOO more
than in the preceding year. The num
ber in the past ten yearn is estimated at
845,24-1.
Father Ryan, tho poet-priost, has re
turned to St. Mary's eh ui eh in Mobile.
Ho desires to have the quiet necessary
for the arrangement and revision of his
poems, which will be published in book
form early in autumn.
Great damage has been done by forest
fires last week along the Like M chigan
shoro. Twenty buildings were burned
near Horn's Tier, and also a number
near Ahnepoe, Wis. Many families are
rendered penniless and destitute.
A lad in New York who had been un
der water eight minutes was resouod by
another boy diving for him. After half
an hour's hard work by Eurgeons life
wan resuscitated. It is considered one
of the most remarkablo casos known.
E 1 ward Richardson, of Jackson, Miss ,
probably is the richest man in the
South. He is reported to bo worth
from S3, 000, 00O to So, 000, 000. Ho owns
ninetcon plantations and markets about
45,000,000 pounds of cotton every year.
A letter written by the pope has been
published deploring tho now civil mar
riage law, denying that tho church de
sires to encroach npon tho prerogative
of the State, but declaring that purely
civil marriages aro doslituto of honest
or sacred bonds.
John Miles, a Mormon, was convicted
of polygamy at Salt Lake, and sentenced
to pay a flno of $100 aud bo confined in
the penitentiary for flvo years. Tho
cine attracted n great deal of attention
through tho support of Miles by tho
Mormon leaders.
A party of railway oflioials traveling
over tho Erie road made the distance
from Now York city to Niagara Falls,
111 milos, in the fast timo of cloven
hours and thirty minutes; the ran from
Hornellsville to tho falls, 113 milos, was
made in two hours.
Elizabeth Rose, a colored woman of
intemperate habits, threw her two-year-
old girl out of a second story window in
New York, and tho child's lifo was
savod only by her coming in contact
with a clothes-line. The nunatnral
mother was held for attempted murder.
James llryant, of Gainesville, Gj,, on
his deathbed ooufessod the murdor of a
revenue afloat named Cotton, two years
ago, who mysteriously disappeared.
Seoroh in tho spot where tho murderer
declared the body to have been buried
ronnlted in finding a skeleton with the
skull crushed.
The French do not know much about
trotting, judging by tho timo their homos
make. At a late international horno
show at Paris, a match, mile and a half,
to wagon, open to all comers, was wem
u no better time thau four minutpn nnd
fifty-two seoonds ouo and a half se-
ondn log ger than it required Flora Tem
ple to make two milos twenty years ago.
A minister of Maiuo in accused of
preaching a full conrse of tho Rov. Dr,
Storr's sermons without explaining that
his people wore getting tho gonpel at
neoond hand, Tho people were so im
pressed with tho force of the sermons
that they gavo tho preacher a coll to
their church. One of the young ladies
f tho flook wan edified to tho extent of
becoming bin 'wife.
An offhor of the Humane society who
has beon investigating tho transporto.
tion of oattle from tho far West to tho
Eastern market, finds that the animals
are frequently flvo doys without foe,
water or rest: jolted about the oountry,
which causes them to become feverish,
and thus impairs the blood, so that
when they are eventually killed and the
beef put upon the market it is actually
unfit to eat. Of the large number of
animals whioh die in transit, most of
them Ond their way to sale, either as
meat or cooking lard.