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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,   DECEMBEE 9, 1880.
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NEWS SUI^MMY.
tniportant Intelligence from All Parts.
Domestic.
TffiE public-debt statement issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total debt
(including interest of $1S,861,663), §2,llo,S07,-
930. Cash in Treasury, $210,936,763. Debt,
less amount in Treasury, SI,90*1,8S1,167. Decrease during November, §3,609,-261. Decrease-
since June 30, 1SS0, 337,S91,12S.
Ak Indianapolis Judge has decided that the
tea prize-package business is a lottery, and
fined the managers of such a concern §200.
Loreszo Ivet, a colored school teacher at
Danville, Va., recently punished a pupil, a
lad of fifteen. At recess the boy and a
brother attacked the teacher with knives and
fatally stabbed him.
Sjecbetart Schurz, in his annual report,
renews his argument in favor of retaining the
control of the Indians in the Interior Department, instead of transferring it to the
army. The Secretary states that nearly,half
a million acres of land are being cultivated by
Indians, and urges the issuance of individual
patents for farms. The employment of Indians as freighters has proven a beneficent
innovation, and their aptitude to mechanical
pursuits is pronounced surprising.
The Inter-State Convention of Agricultural
Boards at Springiield, 111., on the 1st adopted
a resolution indorsing the Keif er bill, pending in Congress, for preventing the spread of
the cattle disease.
Ik Pulaski County, Tenn., on the 2d Dan
Smith, colored, was found guilty of an outrageous assault upon a white woman and sentenced to the Penitentiary for a period of
twenty-one years. The citizens, being dissatisfied with the sentence, took the prisoner
from the custody of the Sheriff, put a rope
round his neck, fastened one end of it to a
bridge, and threw him over its side, where he
swung until dead.
The New York Chamber of Commerce on
the 2d adopted a resolution declaring that
"the proposed National-Bankrupt act for the
distribution of insolvent estates and for the
discouragement of insolvency will promote
the general well-being, by confirming confidence in business transactions, and greatly increase inter-State trade."
A WASHXJTG.IOX special of. the 2d says Mr.
Burehard, Director of the Mint, thought the
stringency of the New York money market
was causedj for the most part, by the hoarding of gold. It had been shown by his investigations that two hundred millions of
dollars had disappeared from circulation. Of
this the banks held §95,000,000 against $17,-
000,000 s:x months before. The increase of
the amount held by the people was in nearly
the same proportion.
There was in the New York Assay office
on the 2d foreign gold coin to the value of
■S50,0O0,€0D. It was estimated §12,000,000
more was on th.2 wa3r to the United States.
The New York piano manufacturing firm
of Dunham &• Sons failed on the 2d. Liabilities, §-±0,000.
Secretary Thompson reports that the
Navy Department has on hand an unexpended balance out of the last year's appropriations of S1,7SS,004
A recent Greenville (S. C) dispatch says
a man named George Martin, a wealthy cotton p'anter, who was riding on horseback on
the railroad near that place, was run into by
a locomotive going fifty miles an hour- The
"horse was killed, but the man could not be
found until the train stopped at the next
station, when he was discovered on the pilot
of the engine, still sitting on his saddle, stone
dead. He was an old man, and corn whisky-
was detected on him, a piece of a jug handle
hanging around his neck by a string.
A Chinese giant recently arrived at New
York, who is said to be the tallest man in the
world- He is ei-xht feet six inches in height,
and is well-proportioned. He says his parents and the rest of his family are not above
the ordinary he:ght.
The foreign coin and bullion received at
the min's and assay offices of the United
States for the past year amounted in value to
§61j637,550; the bullion product of American
mines deposited during the same period was
of the aggregate valuj of §35,821,705, being
nearly three millions less thanforthe preceding year.
Cojimissioxer Kitrsr, in his report, shows
that the internal revenue receipts for the last
year were §123,981,916, being an increase over
the twelve months preceding of §10,032,294.
The cost of collecting the same was §4-505,-
" S43, being 3.62 per cent, of the amount collected.
The report of the Superintendent of the
Government Life-Saving Service shows that
Ihe Service comprises 179 stations, of which
139 are on the Atlantic coast and 34 on the
great lakes and the Pacific. The number of
people rescued from wrecks by the Service
during the past year was 706, in addition to
which 1*28 vessels with their crews were aided
out of dangerous positions.
The Beckwith House, a four-story hotel at
Qsbk.osfif.-~ Wis., valued at ffi0,003, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 3d. It
was kuown on the morning of the 4th that
one person, Mrs. Paige, wife of a wealthy retired merchant, perished in the flames, and
it was feared that three other persons, including a servant girl and a watchman, also
perished. One lady escaped by jumping
from a four-story window on some carpets
placed on the sidewalk. Mrs. Paige might
have been saved also had she had the courage
to jump.
The Inter-State Convention of Agricultural Boards in sess'oa at Springfield, 111., adjourned on the 3-1, after adopting resolutions
favoring the more thorough collection of agricultural statistics.
At Detroit on the morning of the 3d W11-
helmin* Spindjer, a domestic in the family of
Henry C. Weber, was fatally burned* The
old foolishness of urging a slow-burning fire
with a can of kerosene was the cause of the
catastrophe.
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Personal and Political.
The vote in Arkansas was; Hancock, 60,-
481;* Garfield, 41,661; Weaver, 4,161. Total,
106,3;!3. Hancock's plurality, 18.820; over all,
14,659.
CdsGRKSSMAsr Evarts W. Fabr, of the
Third New Hampshire District, died at Lit-
tTeton, in that State, on the 30th ult., of
pneumonia.   He was forty years  of age.
The full ofiicial returns from California
show a total vote of 163,970. Hancock received 80,33 J; Garfield, 80,257; Weaver, 3,381.
Hancock's plurality, 75. The Electoral vot>-
will etand five for Hancock and one for Gar-
ireid.
General Gap.fiei/d arrived at his home al
Mentor on the 30th ult., from Washington.
The Electoral College* in all the States except Georgi t i««t on t.-e 1st and cart their
-••'Votes for Pie-s d-i>t of th • United States. The
Electors fn ilw execpfonal ,Hate did n<,t
Mieet, as the Gi-.-gi-i c>l»{ provide.-* that th-
v jtes.ehail be kh^oh tin Wedne-day follow*
W!- tlK' Hr*" Mm l»i' i • l>ic"mher, which wil
%.' •Jiv.i.hM H. It is <? a,me t that the Uniteu
States law directing the counting on the first
Monday in December is supreme, and that
the Georgia vote cannot, therefore, be
counted.
Three judges of election at Manchester,
Va., have been arrested for refusing negro
votes at the Presidential election.
The semi-millennial celebration of the
birthday of John Wyciiffe, who made the first
translation of the Holy Scriptures into English, was held under the auspices of the Bible
Society at New York on the evening of the
2d.   '
The trial of B. F. Allen, President of the
defunct Cook County National Bank, upon
the indictment charging him with making
false report to the Comptroller as to its condition, was terminated in Chicago on the 3d,
before Judge Blodgett, by the return of a verdict of "not guilty."
A Washington* dispatch of the 3d says the
Chri^tiancy divorce case had utterly and unexpectedly collapsed. The witness who was
relied on to prove the bad conduct of Mrs.
C, on seeing her in court declared that she
was not the woman. It is stated that Mrs. G
will press her cross-bill asking for a divorce
on the ground of cruelty.
A New York Grand Jury on the 3d presented indic'ments agamst Joseph Hart
Louis A. Post, Kenward Philp and Charles A.
Byrne for publishing in the Truth a crimina,
libel on General Garfield. An indictment was
also presented against Samuel Sullivan Morey
for perjury.
Foreign. *
Eussia is taking steps to convert Batoum
on the Baltic into a free port.
An Athens telegram of the 1st says Greece
had asked of Turkey a definite proposition for
the settlement of the differences between the
two Nations.
It is stated in a Constantinople dispatch of
the 1st that Dervish Pasha had declared he
would not obey the order of the military
convention giving San Giorgio to Montenegro.
Mme. MoNTiEoim, a noted Parisian writer,
has been fined 500 francs and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment for literary offenses against decency.
Negotiations were in progress in Vienna
on the 1st for the recall of the International
fleet from Turkish waters.
It is stated in a Paris dispatch of the 1st
that the Papal -Nuncio had made a fresh
protest against the French religious decrees
in terms so offensive that it was necessary to
suspend diplomatic relations with the Vat-"
lean.
Gonzales has been peacefully inaugurated
President of the Eepublic of Mexico, and
General Diaz has accepted the portfolio of
Public Works in his Cabinet.
The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has
advised Orangemen throughout Ireland to
organize counter demonstrations to the Land
League on the same days and at the same
places. A Dublin dispatch of the 2d says
there was an almost universal suspension of
the payment of rent throughout the country.
The freedom of the city of London and a
sword have been voted to General Eoberts
for distinguished services in Afghanistan.
A Eagusa dispatch of the 2d announces
the dissolution of the Executive Committee
of the Albanian League.
The dissolution of the International fleet
has been ordered, the British squadron sailing
for Malta, the French for Toulon, the Italian
for Brindisi, the German for Trieste, and the
Eussian for the Pirssus.
The President of the Argentine Eepublic
in South America has offered free lands to
50,000 Irish immigrants.
A  clothing store  in   Toronto,   Canada,
caught fire on the 3d.  All egress by the stair-,
ways was cut off and four persons were fatally burned.
It was officially proclaimed in Dublin on
the 3d that County Leitrim was in a state of
disturbance requiring additional police. It
was stated that a fund of £3,000 had been
raised for the defense of the Land Leaguers.
The Government had commenced proceedings against the Sligo Champion for publishing a notice calling upon a tenant to relinquish his farm.
LATER JXEWS.
Dr. John Buchanan, the Philadelphia
dealer in bogus medical diplomas, has been
sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to be imprisoned for ten months. Chapman, his accomplice, received a similar sentence.
Both houses of the Vermont Legislature
have passed a bill declaring a nuisance any
place where liquor is sold or given away, or
gambling is allowed, and its keeper can be
fined and imprisoned.
Abraham Robinson, a Chicago cigar dealer, has been arrested on the charge of arson.
His establishment was found to be on fire on
the morning of the 6th, and the firemen
found that two wooden pillars had been
chopped away, a train of kerosene and shavings laid, the flooring torn up and a candle
placed so as to fire a pile of oil-soaked paper.
H s stock was heavily insured.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 6th says
fears of an attack by the Kurds had detained
at Bagdad several thousand pilgrims returning from Mecca.
The City of Berlin, in Prussia, has a population of 1,118,630, which is double that of
1860.
In his speech at Waterford, Ireland, a few
days ago, Parnell declared that nothing short
ofmakngthe tiller of the soil its "owner
could put down the agitation in Ireland. He
also predicted that the country would ultimately recover its legislative independence.
\ A London dispatch of the 6th says that
Gladstone's withdrawal from the House of
Commons was urged by his physician. It
was reported that, after the presentation of
the budget, Gladstone would be made a Peer
and support the Irish Land bill in the House
of Lords.
Congress reassembled on the 6th. In the
Senate Messrs. Pugh, of Alabama, and
Brown, of Georgia, took the oath of office,
after which the President's Message was read
and the Senate adjourned. In the House
Mr. fc'coville was seated for the Thirty-second
New York District, Several resolutions were
presented, among them one favoring a tariff
for revenue only; one forthe appointment
of two temporary Justices of the Supreme
Court, and one calling upon the Secretary of
War for an estimate of the cost of a steel
railroad from New York to Council Bluffs.
The President's Message was then read and
the House adjourned.
GESrEKAL Wir-MAM B. Hazen, of the army,
was on the 6th appointed Chief Signal Officer,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
General Myer. This appointment promotes
General MeCoOlc, of General Sherman's staff,
to the Colonelcy of the Sixth Infantry.
A PEDESTttiAx match for $2,500 has been
arranged between the American champions,
O'Leary and Weston.
A Toronto (Can.) telegram of the6th says
there were a great number of counterfeit SI
Dominion notes in circulation there. They
are printed from the **D" plates, and are
finely executed.
BEVJEILLm
The dawn smiled through the blueness overhead,
The lark awoke;
The mists and mysteries of the night were fled,
The morning broke;
And soon the crystal chalice of the air,
All pure and clear,
Was brimming o'er with musicsweet and rare
From far and near.
It overflowed the universe with song
So fresh and bright
That weary faces, pale with vigils long,
Suffused with light;
And turning toward the beauteous eastern
sky,
In glad surprise,
Reflecting half the glories from on high
In happy eyes.
And in rosy shadows of the morn
A tiny life,
In solumn hush of joy and love, was born
To human strife. v
A buried heart, long cold as drift of snow.
'Neath breast as white
Stirring strangely in the rapturous morning
g.ow,
And throbbed with might.
A weary soul, unloved, alone and old,
And long oppressed,
Sped outward though the azure and the gold
To endless rest.
The dawn smiled through the blueness overhead,
The lark awoke;
The mists and mysteries of the night were
fled,
The morning broke!
—Miss Ada M. E. JS'icliols, injBarpcr'sMdgazine.
MRS. MARCELLUS'   STORY.
" You know," began Mrs. Marcel-
lus, " that it is noAV five years
since the double wedding of my
two darling daughters, parting from
whom was such a dreadful cross
for me to bear. Every mother
knows how sharp a pang it gives to
transfer to another, almost a stranger—
a man whose very existence six months
or a year before was unknown to us—
the treasured being whose smiles and
tears have been since babyhood her
mother's rain and sunshine. Ah me! if
mothers suffer in this way at the marriage of one daughter, think how doubly
great must the trial have been to rne
when I was called upon to relinquish
both my girls at once—to see them both
go away on the train, joyous and happy
with the men of their choice, while
nothing was left for me but to come
back here iato the empty house and
begin a new plan of existence with the
vivifying and soul-sustaining element
of constant and ever-present love left
out! 1 don't think any one in Hurville
had the slightest glimmering of an idea
of what I suffered."
"Tou know that some two months
before the double wedding I took my
daughters to New York for the purpose
of completing the purchases I considered necessary to furnish each with a
suitable trousseau. Much had been
bought here at Mr. Perkin's nice store,
almost all the underclothing which was
so much admiredby their Boston friends
when the girls arrived at their husbands'
homes was made here by the neat fingers
of our Hurville seamstresses, but there
were a few things for which the New
York style was necessary, or at least so
the girls thought, and that was the same
thing. We were in New York about
ten days, and though every moment,
except when we were asleep, was absorbed by the intricate duties of our
shopping, my sense of approaching
loneliness grew deeper and sadder, until it became so overwhelming that in
spite of my efforts to conceal it from
them I feared my daughters would observe my melancholy, and that it would
cast a gioom over the last joyous days
of their maidenhood. But they were
too full of spirits and excitement
to notice it, and attributed whatever was unusual in my manner
to the exceptional fatigue of the
occasion. Finally, our task seemed finished and we started for home laden
with purchases, leaving a number of unfinished orders, which were to be sent
us by express when completed. We
got to the depot rather late, and I
found a long line of people standing before me at the ticket-office window. I
was almost at the tail of an elongated
serpent of humanity which wriggled
forward Avith despairing slowness and
after standing a while I impatiently left
the ranks and went to where my daughters were sitting. ' We shall never get
all that baggage checked in time, I
said, ' I'm. afraid we can't get off by
this train.' At that moment a young
gentleman who was waiting his turn,
and was only the second or third person
from the window^ learned toward us
and said to me: 'I'll get your tickets
for you if you'll allow me. How many?
Three?'—'Yes,11 answered, ' three for
Hurville, please,' offering him the
money. 'Never mind that now; wait
till I bring you the tickets;' and I saw
him pay for them out of his well-stuffed
wallet. Of course I refunded, with
many thanks, as soon as he brought the
tickets, which he did in a minute or
two and I then hurried away to check
the baggage, while the girls went on
the train to secure seats together
and get the conductor to let us face
each other.
"We had a pleasant day for our journey, but the train was uncomfortably
crowed. A succession of way-passengers, one after another, absorbed our
vacant seat and prevented the girls
from indulging in that exchange of secret and in general highly-laughable,
confidences with which young people
of their age are always bubbling over.
Some of these local passengers were
not very pleasant company, oeing frequently -encumbered with market-
baskets which were not only in everybody's way, but proclaimed by unmistakable odors the nature of their contents. Seeing that it was impossible
for lis to retain the fourth seat and having learned from the conductor that
there was no room in the parlor-car, it
was really a great relief, as
a certainty of escape from
unpleasant companionship, when
the same young gentleman who
had kindly helped me at the ticket-office
came up and asked if we had any objection to his sitting there, as he had given
up two seats in succession to ladies and
had been standing tbe most of the time
since we left New York. Of course we
assented and for the first time 1 examined our fellow-traveler minutely. He
was very good-looking—a blond, a style
of coloring'that I have always particularly admired in a man when it does not-
degenerate into effeminacy, as it certainly did not in this instance. In figure
he was tall and slender, with the erect
and graceful carriage of the accomplished soldier, not the awkward stiffness of the recruit. His eyes were a
deep, rich blue, almost violet—eyes that
in themselves wouldhave been sufficient
to make a woman's reputation for beauty; his long silken -moustache shaded
from blond to golden red and was parted
fanlike over his vermilion lips, fragrant
and glowing with youth and health.
His manners were essentially those of
distinguished society and his well-cut
gray traveling-suit, his superlatively
tine linen, his tiny gold watch-chain
with a valuable pearl set in the slide,
his fresh gloves, his dark-blue necktie
carelessly twisted in a sailor's knot, his
fine shoes fitting every curve of his aristocratic foot and covered by neat cloth
gaiters buttoned at the side, his elegant
traveling-rug rolled in a pair of Russia-
leather straps, his stylish umbrella, his
fine handerchief embroidered evidently
in Paris in quite a new way—a f ac-simile
%i a seal in red wax, with a monogram
and crest standing out upon it—above
all, his silver-fitted traveling-bag, even
finer than those we had priced at Tiffany's for one hundred, and fifty
dollars each—all gave evidence of a
position of something more than ease in
regard to money; while his beautifully-
white teeth, his exactly-parted hair, his
scrupulously-tended hands, all spoke of
that extreme care of the person which
unmistakably indicates the habit of contact with people of dignity and good-
breeding. Remember, friends, I did not
judge ray new friend from the point of
view, naturally restricted, of Hurville. I
looked at him from the summits of the
forty centuries of civilization of the European capitals, and I at "once adjudged
him to be a man of the world and a gentleman.
" Of course we fell into conversation,
and his tone of thought and mode of ex-
pressionfully coincided with the elevated
character of his appearance. He was
English by descent, he toldus.but American by birth. His reading had evidently been extensive, and his comments on
every subject that arose showed that an
•■original as well as a scholarly mind had
been brought to bear upon it. Yet never
was he so absorbed in the discussion as
to neglect any of those attentions which
are so agreeable, even so necessary, to
ladies while traveling. His politeness
was constantly on the alert, and his
quick eye detected wants even before
they were fully felt, much less spoken
of."
" His journey might or might not be
so long as ours. He had taken his ticket
for a place he nased, a small station in
Pennsylvania, where his father's horses
and carriage would be waiting to drive
him to the town where their home was,
a bustling lumber-center back among
the Alleghanies some twenty miles oft
the railway. His father was the owner
of an immense tract of timber-land
there, a property which had come into
his hands many years ago in England
as an offset to a very bad debt incurred
by some scamp who had inherited it,
but had never seen it and knew not
whether it was valueless or the reverse.
For thirty years his father had paid
taxes on these unpromising forest-lands,
and then suddenly there was a rush of
enterprise in that direction and the
property became a fortune. Tha timber
was of the finest and the demand for it
unlimited. He was his father's business
representative in the cities, and had
been to Europe also, where he had visited their English relations, who were
very high-toned and all that, but not
quite so well off now as those of the
family who were in the plebeian bustle
of successful trade-enterprise in America—to wit, his father and himself. If
the coachman and team were at the
station Avhen we arrived (we were to
take supper there) he should go home
with him; if the man and horses were
not there, he snould find a telegram
from his father, in which case he was
to go on to Pittsburgh, and would see
us at breakfast in the morning at the
place where we changed cars for Hurville.
"In the course of conversation I
mentioned to him the peculiar and interesting circumstance which had called
us to New York, the girls both blushing
and ejaculating in a duet, •" O, don't
mamma!' But I know so well the heart
of youth, both male and female, that I
did not think it right to expose this
young man to a misconception in regard to the position of my girls, more
especially as ever since he had joined
us he had sat -and gazed at the seat
which I occupied with my younger
daughter with a look in his eyes which
betrayed the secret of an inward and
sudden yearning which was almost pain.
To my surprise, the announcement of
the approaching wedding of both my
girls produced no especial effect upon*
him. He seemed interested, and indulged in a little graceful badinage; bnt
this was what struck me as so strange;
every time he spoke to the girls he was
smiling and gay and joking, but every
time he turned his eyes on me his expression of face, his whole manner,
changed. His gaze became riveted on
my features, and his soulful eyes lingered there with a fixity that abashed
and disconcerted me. I could not understand it. Why did he look at me
so? Years had passed since last that
sort of gaze had been fastened upon my
face, for it was a gaze which unmistakably says, 'You have made an impression upon me which I cannot resist;
everything about you is pleasing to me.'
Try as I would to "avoid this look, turn
my head as I might to escape the gaze
of those bewitching eyes—even when I
closed my own and feigned sleep—still
I felt their tender rays upon me, and
never once did I find it otherwise.
" It is this point of the story, friends,
where I feel confession so difficult. You
who have known me for fifteen years,
pursuing unswervingly the prosaic pajh
of duty, will find it difficult to understand
the power of the impression this stranger
made upon my poor heart, widowed in
its prime and at that moment about to
be further robbed of all it had to love
and cherish. All the years during which
I had employed the most rigid, rules of
subjection over myself seemed to vanish
like a mist. Every moment I felt more
and more strongly a belief that this
new-born passion was sincere and knew
that if it should really prove so the time
when it would meet with full and grateful return on my part would not be far
distant.
"So wore on the daylight hours.
Dusk came early and after the lamps
were lit first one and then the other of
my girls wrapped herself in her shawl,
and cuddling together on one seat with
the head of each on the other's shoulders, they both dropped asleep. He
and I were now sitting side by side.
For a long time neither spoke. I persistently stared out of the window at
the flying landscape, almost invisible
now in the increasing darkness; but I
could feel, though I did not even glance
at him, that he had turned, in his seat,
his elbow resting on the back of it, his
cheek on his hand and his eyes on me.
At length he bent over toward me and
in so low a tone of voice that the girls
could scarce have heard it had they
been awake, he whispered, 'Willyou
permit me to say a few words to you?'
"'I have no objection,' I answered
coldly—'always with the proviso that
what you have to say to me is something which it will be no derogation of
my dignity as a mother of grown daughters to hear.'
" 'Couldyou, madam, for a moment
believe me capable of saying anything
unworthy you, unworthy myself?' he
exclaimed, reproachfully. ' O no, I do
not think I have given you any cause to
believe me other than a gentleman. I
am not in search of a love affair, believe
me, nor have I hitherto been considered
as at all of an impressionable nature. I
am perhaps not quite so young as I look,
and certainly the opportunity of meeting beautiful and fascinating womeu has
not been lacking to me. 1 know scores of
such and still I have borne hitherto an
unoccupied heart. Now, I— But I am
tongue-tied; I fear to give offense. I
know very well you would not let me
tell you that you have inspired in me
one of those passions which, born in an
instant, often shape a whole destnjy—
that I love you as fondly as a man ever
loved a woman. No, no, do not stop
me. I say that I do not make such assertions, because I know you would not
allow me; but there is one thing I will
make bold to do—onef avor I must crave
at your hands.   Will you grant it?'
'"Whatis it?" .
•"This: that you will let me count
myself among your friends. Give me
that foothold, and something I feel here
in my innermost heart tells me that by
il I may lift myself to a niche in yours
which no other man now fills. Let time
try the sincerity of Avhat I say. All I
ask of you is that if I ever come to Hurville (as I surely shall if I'm alive),
you will allow me to call upon you
merely as a friend: I ask no more.'
" 'Are you sincere in this wish?"
" ' As Heaven is my judge, I am. In
less than an hour this train will arrive
at the station where, in all probability,
we shall have to part. X cannot endure
to think that in a formal shake of the
hand at a railway-depot you and I are
going to separate, never perhaps to
meet in this world again. Both of us
have made plenty of such impromptu
acquaintances before now, and have
seen the end of them approach with the
utmost indifference, and never given
another thought to these chance friendships of a passing hour. But I feel in
my innermost heart that this meeting
between you and me was brought about
by the hand of Providence itself, and
for a purpose that we at this early stage
of our knowledge of each other cannot
divine. I will not, I cannot, see it fade
away. Will you give me leave to come
and see you at Hurville?'
" • With pleasure,' I replied.
"He sprang to my side as I assented,
pressing against me so closely that I
withdrew myself hastily lest it should
become an open embrace. Yet even
as I repulsed him he smiled fondly
on me and said in a tender voice,
'Thank you, my friend; this is.*all
I ask. I shall soon see you again,
and I warn you I shall see you
often. I am willing to take my chances
for the future.   Time Avill try me.'
" ' Come", come!' I answered, 'these
hints and insinuations are mere folly.
It Avould be disingenuous to me to pretend not to understand them; but let
them stop here; let us banish all nonsense. I am older than yourself by
some years and Avhen you become bet-
, ter acquainted Avith me you Avill find
that there is nothing in the least extraordinary about me. I am simply a middle-aged, might even be called an old
Avoman, Avrapped up in a pleasant but
very unromantic set of friends .and with
all the love of my nature buried in the
grave of a dead past, except Avhat survives in the persons of those two sizable young ladies who sit nodding opposite.'
" 'Every Avord you say,' he said,
again drawing near to me in an affectionate way, • but confirms the impression youfirst made upon me. I think you
are a woman of the noblest nature, the
soundest sense, the Avarmest heart, I
ever met. I admire you as much, as
deeply, as I respect you. But this you'
must permit me to say; you are doing
youself a great injustice by laying out
for yourself a loveless future. You will
feel the heart-void very powerfully
when your daughters leave you. You
are not an old Avotnan, even in years,
Avhile in appearance you are not even
middle-aged; no one would*dream of
your being the mother of these young
ladies. Noav, is it right in a woman so
exceptionally endowed AVith affections
as you are to say you Avill never love
again? Leave the future to take care
of itself; you do Hot know Avhat it has
in store for you.' *
" With that he pressed my hand, and
1 pressed his in return and then dreAv
away from him, and, covering my face
with my veil, nestled, halt frightened,
half joyous, into the AvindoAv-corner.
The emotion he had caused me filled
my eyes Avith tears, yet whether I shed
them in happiness or sorrow I could
not tell. There AAr*s the dead love, the
girlhood's sweet dream so cruelly finished, ray long conviction that on this
earth never again Would the delicious
oneness of Avedded life be mine. Could
it really be that 1 had inspired in the
bosom of this thoughtful young man
the sentiments Avhich lead to the devotion of one soul to another? Even as I
questioned thus my inner self I raised
my veil and meeting the fixed gaze of
those lovely eyes they smiled an assent
and I sank back, trembling in the
ecstasy of my new-found joy.
" We arrived at the supper-station,
and with his usual gentlemanly care
our friend helped us from the car and
escorted us into the supper-room- He
seated us at a table, and turning down
a chair for himself he Ayhispered in my
ear: "I'll.go now and 3ee if there is a
dispatch for me. If there is I shall just
have time to jump on a western-bound
train. That is it, there; it is only waiting for this connection. If there is no
dispatch and my father's man is here, I
will come back and have supper with
you before starting home. In any case
I'll see you soon in Hurville.'
"I was too agitated to partake of
food. I tried to sip some scalding tea,
but could not and rising from the table
told the girls to pay for the supper
when they had finished; they would
find me outside on the platform. I
heard the whistle of the departing west-
Avard train and as its ponderous weight
thundered over the gleaming rails I saw
that he was in. it, kneeling on a seat
and peering anxiously out, trying no
doubt to get a parting glimpse of me.
Just as he was whirled away I saw the
flutter of a handkerchief, and kneAV
that at the last instant he had recognized me where I stood.
''' Where is our friend?' asked one of
the girls, who had now just finished
supper and come out. 'I thought he
was going to have supper; he turned
down a chair."
" 'He left on the Avestern-bouhd
train,' I answered.
"I suppose he got the dispatch he expected and hadn't time to come in any
say good-bye.'
"It was the first time a secret had
ever come between me and my daughters.   I felt distressed and even guilty.
" Girls,' said I when we were again
seated in the train, ' Avhat did you think
of our traveling companion?'
'' My elder girl thought he was a perfect gentleman, evidently rich, very well
bred, very handsome, and, strange to
say Avith all this, a scholar. She had
no doubt he moved in the best society
Avherever he Avent.
" My younger girl's impression was
quite different. In spite of all he had
told us about his wealthy father and his
lumber-forests, she said she didn't believe but what if the truth were kno*wn
he Avould be discovered to be a New
York drummer in the button business
or perhaps a Western man in the ham
trade.
" Well, my dears, I am going to tell
you something about him that will surprise you. He is not what you have
said, Minnie, nor Avhat you have said,
Jennie, nor what he himself said; he is
simply nothing more nor less than a
pickpocket!'
" The girls were first horrified, then
they laughed; the farce of a thing is
very apparent to heedless youth. No
doubt the other youthful individual Avas
laughing at the farciality now. As for
me I could scarcely see the joke. The
matter Avas not so serious as it might
have been, however, for the bulk of my
money Avas stitched in the bosom of my
dress; but I had kept out about four
hundred dollars to pay for a set of sil-
verware which was not ready at the
last moment, and that money my friend
had seen in my pocket-book Avhen I
paid him for the tickets. I discovered
the loss at the supper-table almost the
instant he left my chair, and my rising
and going outside Avas the natural impulse to stop a thief. I kneAV now only
too Avell when the transfer had taken
place; it Avas at that blissful moment
Avhen this new pattern of a Romeo had
pressed up to the side of his silly and
elderly Juliet in a tender half embrace.
The youthful philosopher was quite
right in saying I did not know Avhat the
future had in store for me. I had not
the remotest conception that in less
than an hour it would disclose to my
dull mind that I had met a pickpocket,
in the guise and with the apparent feelings of a gentleman—not to say a lover.''
—Olive Logan, in LippincoWs Magazine.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Barber's Tricks in Paris.
The persistence of hair-dressers in
recommending their dyes, washes and
lotions is well known, but they fortunately do not all employ the violent means
of forcing their Avares on customers
practiced by Maignan, who has just appeared before the Tribunal of Correctional Police on a charge of aggravated
assault. His shop, which is one to be
avoided, is at No. 4 Rue Duphot, near
the Madelaine, and, according to information obtained by the police from the
neighbors, he Avas accustomed to impose on his casual clients, foreigners
especially, by applying lotions, under
some pretext, generally, to remove the
boulon de leiculvitie, or pimple that
would produce baldness, and then demanding sums of from five francs to
twenty francs -payment, of which he
most frequently succeeds in obtaining.
Among other examples may be cited
that of an Englishman, who, having refused to submit to the extortion baa his
umbrella impounded by the coiffeur, and
Avas forced to apply to a magistrate to
recover it. Another act of extortion Avas
practiced on a school boy, who Avas sent
by his parents to have his hair cut.
Maignan first, on his own authority,
made a small tonsure to destroy the imaginary " pimple of baldness," after
which he applied a lotion to make the
hair grow over the bald place, and then
exacted an exorbitant sum from the
boy's mother for this double operation.
A cook's assistant named Blanc, the
complainant in the present charge, deposed that he Avent to be shaved and
brushed up on a Sunday morning in
September. Maignan, Avhile arranging
his hair, said that it wajs falling off, bub
that he had an infallible Avater to make
it grow, afresh. Blanc declined to purchase it, but the hairdresser, -nevertheless, emptied a small bottle on his head.
When the operation of shaving and
brushing Avas terminated Blanc gave the
barber a franc, telling him to take his
change from it, but Maignan demanded
four francs more, pretending that the
price of the lotion was four francs fifty
centimes, and, on Blanc refusing to pay
for Avhat he had not ordered, seized his
hat. A loud dispute ensued and attracted a croAvd outside. Maignan then
threw the cook's hat into the street,
and took down a Turkish poniard that
Avas hanging in the shop, menacing the
complainant with it. Blanc endeavored
to Avrest it from him and in the struggle
received six cuts in his hand. A bystander, who intervened to assist him
was also slightly Avounded. The defendant said that Blanc was the aggressor, but this was disproved by several
witnesses. Maignan was now condemned to six days' imprisonment and
fifty francs fine.— (raligmmi's Messenger
—I think that Thanksgiving Day
should be abolished.—T. Gobbler,
— Some of the most timid girls are
not frightened by a loud bang.—Lowell
Citizen.
—" O, my ear-rings!" exclaimed the
urchin as thje side of his face came in
contact with 'the flat of his father's
hand.—Waterloo Observer.
—Blondes, it seems, have gone out of
fashion, and many ladies will have to
switch off.—N. Y. Commercial-Advertiser.
—The change which frequently comes
over the spirit of a man's dreams is often
brought about by a change of his liquor.
—N.  0. Picayione.
—iEsthetie bridegroom: " It is quite
consummate, is it not ?'' Intense bride,
examining the tea-pot tenderly: " It is,
indeed! O, Algernon, let us live up to
it!"—London Punch.
—" I am a creature of settintary
habits," remarked the hen, and then,
it being a little late in the season she
crawled into the nest and " set" on a
bureau-knob and the porcelain sample
egg.—Burlinaton Hawk-Eye.
—The editor wrote " An evening
with Saturn," and it came out in the
paper "An evening with Satan." It Avas
mighty rough, but the foreman said it
was the work of the "devil." And it
looked that Avay.—Norwich Herald.
—Cloaks with extremely costly linings
will not be worn this season. It is found
that the wearers suffer from the cold
too much, as the garments will fly open
and expose the lining to view.—Boston
Post.
—A young lady of two-and-twenty refused to wed a man of fifty, saying he
was neither one thing nor yet another.
He was too old for a husband and too
young to hold out any hope of immediate widowhood.—Boston Transcript.
—An honest Galveston shoemaker
was strolling down the avenue, when
peering into a restaurant, what should
he see but one of his fashionable customers seated at a table covered with all
the delicacies of the season, including a
large bottle of green seal and two canvas-back ducks! Rushing in, the irate
Galveston tradesman exclaimed, " Yon
haven't got money to pay me for the
boots you have got on. but you can afford to pay for all manner of delicacies." The young man wiped his moustache, and looking around to see that
he was not overheard, responded in a
whisper, "Don't be deceived by appearances. You must not lose confidence in me. I don't expect to _pay for
this little banquet any more than I expect to pay you for the boots."—Galveston News.
A. Colored View of the Telegraph.
Mr. Brown, the telegraph operator at
Woodland Station, is answerable for the
following good one: Last Monday week
an old colored gentleman brought to
the office a dispatch, which he ordered
sent off immediately. Mr. Brown an-
SAvered "all right," took the paper and
sent off the message. Then taking
down his file, he placed the original on
the nook and hung it up in the office and
went on to attend to his business. The
old felloAv took his seat and sat for half
an hour never taking his eyes off the
paper on the file. After waiting until
he was out of all patience, he said: " I
say, boss, hain't you gAvine to send dat
message? It's berry important; it
should go 'megetly." Mr. Brown an-
SAvered: "Why old man, I sent the dispatch long ago; it's delivered long before this." The old man then said:
"Ye can't fool dis chile. It's not sent
at all; it's hangin' up dar on de hook.
I saw ye when ye put it dar, an' I
hasn't taken my eyes offn it sence."
Mr. Brown tried to explain, but nothing short of sending the paper message
whirling along the telegraph wires
would satisfy. He doesn't Delive yet
the message was sent.—JSaston (Md.J
Star.
Both Sides Satisfied.
There are some men in this Avorld
who are smart enough not to be cheated.
They don't propose to let the sharks
and sharpers of the Avorld get the best
of them. Mr. Gallagher is a gentleman
who weighs nearly 300 pounds, but he
isn't too stout to look after his own interests. The other day he purchased a
load of coal and went himself to see it
weighed. The driver, Avho Avas also a
very heavy man—somehow the coal
cart drivers are all heavy men—didn't
get down from the load and Avhen Gal-,
lagher called his attention to it said he
had to hold the horses. But that didn't
satisfy Gallagher. He made the driver
go to the horses' heads and hold them.
Then he discovered a dog that would
Aveigh about ninety pounds under the
seat. He remarked that he wasn't paying for any dogs these days and wanted
the brute removed. The driver said he
couldn't leave the horses to remove the
dog, so Gallagher climbed up on the
Avheel, grasped the dog's collar and
yanked the canine out. It immediately
jumped back to its place on the wagon.
Then Gallagher yanked it out again and
again it jumped back. Again he pulled
the animal off that time Avith much
difficulty, the dog resisting though not
offering to bite. He tried to hold the
dog that time, but the animal was as
big as a yearling calf and too strong for
him. It got away and back upon the
load. Then Gallagher was mad. "Durn
your pelt!" he cried, "I'll fix you?"
He seized a pitchfork, and mounting
the load, grabbed the dog and hurled it
off. ■" Now," he cried, bracing himself
upon the load and pushing the animal
back, "go on and weigh the coal!" and
there he stood and with the fork kept
the dog off while the load Avas Aveighed.
Then he got -dpwn from the cart, and
remarking that they didn't get him to
pay for that dog's weight, Avent home
happy. And the driver Avent off happy,
too, as he reckoned that himself and
•the dog together didn't Aveigh over
twenty-five pounds more than Gallagher.—Boston Ppst.
—T. Julien Jones is at the Roosevelt
Hospital, New York, Avith a pistol ball
in his head,- the result of a ninth attempt to commit suicide. Fom* times
before has he used the revolver, twice
taken laudanum and once arsenic. It
is thought he will recover from the last
attempt.
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