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Chatham Record. 0 jj itpm G H. A. LONDON, Jr., f.ditok wi rii':'niCTtu. BATES OF ADVERTISING. One fjiiare, on Insertion, Our pquai-e, two luh-rtlon,-Ono ftii.trp. f'nt' nii'Dth. - it.M l.M 2.W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: OnpfMO, uneyt-ar. OiiiTiy ,U nnlb ..... Oue copy .three luoutlis, . . l.m VOL. II. PITTS1M)R0 CHATHAM CO., X. C, SEPTEMBER 25, 1871). NO. 2. To the Bereaved ! Headstones, Monuments AND TOMBS, rs THE BEST OF MARBLE. Good Workmanship, and Cheapest aud Largest rioiy m ue oiate. lards corner morgan ana Diuuui streets, oeiow Wynn a livery staDlea. Buurma ui coiumnnicationo to CAYXON A WOLFE. Rileich, N. O W. L LONDON Will Keep Them. Hit Spring and 8nmmer Stock is very largo and extra Cheap. liemeniber, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And always keeps a Full Bnpplv. lie keeps the largest stock of TLOWS. l!r0V CAST INQ8 aud FAliMlNQ IMPLEMENT iu tlie County, which he Bella at Factory Trices. lias Boll-tongues, Shovel-plows, ' Sweeps, o'e., as cheap as yon can bnv the Iron or Stool. He keeps the finest and beat stock of GROCERIES! Suffara, Coffees, Tea, Cuba Molasset, Fine Sirup and Fancy Groceries. He boys goods at the Loweat Frioes, and takes advanUgo of all diiwouuts, and will sell goods as cheap for CASH as they can be bought in the State. Yon can always find DRY GOODS ! Fancy Goods, s neh as liibboue, Flowers, I.ieca, Vailn, rtufls. Collins Corsets, Fans, riaola, Umbrellas, Notious, Clothing, HARDWARE, Tinware, hrvj. Paint Mixrd and Dry Oil, Vnnkrry, Conftriioncrhs, SHOES! Very largo ptork Boots. Ladiea aud Children. Hats for Men, Hots, Carriage MaUrialr. SEWING MACHINES Nails Irou Furniture; Chewing aud Riuokinr Tobacco, Cigar. Siir.fl; Luather of all kinie, and a thousand other things at the CHEAP STORE! W. L. LONDON. PITTSBORO. N. 0. H. A. LONDON, Jr., Attorney at Law, PITTKUOKO', X. ('. JtttJ-Special Attention Paid tn Colleottna. . J. J. JACKSON, AT TOR NEY-AT-L AW, riTTsnono', x. c. WAil business entruntcl to hi in will re ceive prompt attention. W. g. ANDERSON, l'r.tldeot. P. A. WILET Cmnlii.r. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, OF it ii.ek;ii, x. c. J.D. WILLIAMS & CO., Grocers, Commission Merchants and Produce Bayers, FAYETTEVItLE. N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF RALEIGH, . CAR. t. H. CAMERON. Prtrtdrnt. W. K. ANDEKSON, IV Prn. W. 11. H1CK8, gre'y. The only Home Life Insurance Co. in the State. All Its fund loaned ont AT HOME, and among our own people. We do not send North Carolina money abroad to build up other Bute. It Is one of the most successful com panies of Its age In the United States. Its as sets ere amply sufficient. All losses paid firomptly. Eight thom.au d dollars paid In lb ast two years to families in Chatham. It will cost man aged thirty years only five cents a day to Insure for one thousand dol'ars. Apply for further Information to H.A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITT8B0KO', K. C. JOHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, HTTSBOBO', N. C, rtHllM la lb Courts ol Chatham, Bsra.ll, M or aad 0r., aid la th. Bapr.ai.aaa W Cnrts, The Maid and the Lear. A dtal leaf drifted along the snow, A poor brown leaf with edges torn ; Now litre, now there, blown high and low, An outcast ai.d a thing of acorn. ' Aias! Alas! .- So life diifts on to hearts forlorn. Once In a l ower, freeh and b.ight, Rinsed by tho suu-rays aud the dow, A maid to Ike the hot snn's might Trone on the ground her fair limbs threw, To sleep, to sleep, And dream of some one that she knew. Bbo tlept aud dreamed a horrid thing That he she lured from her would stray ; And starting np, deep sorrowing, K wolved te ecek liim out that day. Alas ! Alas ! Tnas all too true he'd fled away. Her last love token Jnst a leaf Of sycamore lore's emblem bright, Plio threw away; then preyed thr.t grief Might bear her -ff from mortal tight. Alas ! Alas ! Whilo the dead leaf drifted through the night. A Pleasant Surprise Spoiled. Tiii're ie scarcely anything more nn ft i lunate for a nian than tho absence of loving women around his childhood and youth. Mark Ripon Lad never known Mi-jh women, and I offer this fact as some palliation for his want of faith in them. He was ignorant of his parentage: he had been found one summer morning on the steps of the Foundation School iu Buxtersgate, Ripon; and us it was on the festival of St. Mark, ho had received the name of the saint and the name of his native city, and been adopted by the institution. Wholesome food, stout clothing and a decent tra do hod been given him by tho Foundation, and in many respects he wns felt to have done it honor, for. after fifty years 4f crolitable citizen ship, ho was ono of the cathedral vestrv, sat in tho common council of the ancient city which hud adopted him, aud was said to be worth at least X30.0O3. But there is a t uccess which the world sees littlo of that of the heart and in I his resptct Mark Ripon was theverioBt pap per. Of the nursos aud matrons who had boeu around his earliest years he had not one tender memory; nouo of liiem had fed the hunger of his heart. He bad no hmm, no mother and no sis ter. The school had boon simply a placo in wLicU to eat aud to sleep and to learn. Unfortunately, when the lad fell in love it was with a pretty flirt, infinitely more heartless thau himself. But Mark's love had been cruelly deoeived aud mocked, aud he had come out of his chagrin and sorrow with a confirmed be lief in the general and natural unfaith fulness of womeu. Populur maxims and j-sts confirmed him every day in his idea, aud like most Englishmen, having once avowed this as his opinion, every reiteration of his own idea was a fresh confirmation of it. But ho had many friends among his own sex. Men generally i-poke of him as a crusty old bachelor, but otherwise a well-to-do, shrewd and honorablo fol low. Chief among these friends was young George Downey the child of the only companion his boyhood had ever known, and his own godson. If Mark Ripon loved any human being it was George Downes, though as the latter grew up to manhood he gave him a great deal of anxiety. For George preferred the society of women, and would not credit Mark's positive assurances of their universal falseness and nnworthiness. One moonlight night, as Mark was comiDg from a vestry meeting, he met Oeorge in the cathedral close, and on his arm was a very beautiful girl. The old man looked angrily and doubtfully at the pretty faoe lifted to his favorite's. Tho bright moonbeams touched her long fair curls, and made the white vail around them like a glory. Mark remem bered j ast such a lovely, innocent face lifted to his, and he had no doubt what ever that this girl would be just as false to George as pretty Fanny Maltby had been to him. George, however, would not be per suaded to doubt her. Then Mark offered to pay his expenses if he would go abroad and travel for two years; but George said 'he had just got a place in Batterfield's bank, and preferred a hotne.' The young man, in Mark's eyes, was bent on raining himself, and in a few weeks be celebrated his wedding with an elaborate rejoicing that roused the old man's bitterest contempt. George fully expected that he would now bo ignored, and probably lose for ever any chances he might have had of inheriting his godfather's wealth. But Mark was nnlike the generality of men in many respects, and in none more than iu Lis behavior to the young man who had so flagrantly disregarded all his ad vices aud entreaties. He redoubled his cue over him, aud watched ail his movements with a eon -stantly increasing intereat. In fact, he did not blame George at all; he regarded him as oue who, in an unfortunate hour, had fallen into the hands of a power which was too great for him. He pitied the happy bridegroom, and resolved aa soon as possible to release him from the toils of the woman who had charmed and enslaved him. In vain. George's wife smiled npon and entertained Mark Ripon. He visited ber house, indeed, for it was necessary to wntoh her movement!-; but neither t.er smiled, n-r souks. i,or attuLtiona moved Mark. Ho hal gone through that delusion olco, and was not to be deceived ag .iu. It was one great point in his favor that George hod tikcn a house in such a situation that be could keep the young wife under v ry close surveillance, and be was couudent that, sooner or later, he would Drove her all that he bclic-vcd womeu uuiveisidly to be. But month after mouth wtut by, and G?oroe was more in hne than r-ver. Thero had also come to thehopny home. over the w:iy from Mark's, a iiuo little boy. that had be u cIU;d after him. and a blue-eyed girl, whom not even Mark conm nnd in his ueart to regnrd rs false and dangerous. He was c-ven venturing to make Mrs. George Downes that cx ocption said to be contingent on everv rule, when suddenly all his suspicions were lorceu into active life and promt nenee. Oue day a viry wot ono a close car riage drove up to George's homo, oud Mrs. George, heavily cloaked and vailed, was driven away in it. Very well, ma'am,' said Murk, bus pioiouBiy, m inmsoir, "we biiiu see whether you o cm few to having boeu out to-day. So ho wont over to George's, pluyed a rubber or two with his favorite, and triod every way to in.Iuco a confession as to the drive in the rain, but the young wife would mako no allnsion to it. This was on a Monday. On Thursduy, a t the same hour, the carriage cameagain, and George's wife went away in it. The next week she went out on three differ ent days; aud twice, the weather being fine, ho noticed that she wore her very best satin dress, tho rich blue brocade that had been one of her wedding buits. The affair was beginning to look very black to Mark, for he had satisfied him self that George had been told nothing whatever of these clandestine excur sions. On the next Monday he had a carriage waitiug, aud when tho lady went out again he directed hi3 driver to kwp her well in sight. In this way he followed her beyond tho aristocratic pre ciucts of tho city, to a little house set bick iu a garden quite iu the suburbs. A very handsome foreign-looking man met her at the door, and led her, with many smilos, into tho house. Mark sent his carriage home and, in spite of the cold, patiently waited. After an interval of two hours Mrs. Jiowues carriage returned, the same gentleman put her carofnlly iuto it, aud she munt have driven at onco home, for when Mark passed the home she was sitting in her plain merino dress at the window, nursing his namesake. She ran to the door aud begged him to come iu, but Mark was full of hia d is wiry, and answered, gruffly, Ask Goorge to come to mo after dinner; I have something to tell him.' George heard whit his godfather had to say, with his face half augry aud half incredulous. 'It must have beeu my wife's sister,' he said. Mark laughed scornfully at such a defense, aud, moreover stoutly asserted that it was Mrs. Downes, and not Mrs. Downes' sister. 'Gome on Thursduy, and see for yourself, George.' 'If I do, godfatner, it will not be be cause I suspect my wife, but because I am sure to prove you wrong.' Still George thought it singular that he could not by the most adroit ques tioning get from his wife any allusion to these mysterious vinit?. At length be said, '.Emma, I will ask for Thursday afternoon, and we will go out to Aldbo rongh Woods, and get the holly and mistletoe for Christmas. What do you aay?' 'I can't go Thursday, George dear; I have so mnoh to do.' 'What have you to do?' 'More than I can tell you. Is it not near Christmas, and does not that imply all sorts of housekeeping duties? But 1 will go with you Friday, dear.' George was a little cross at the refusal. and answered gloomily, 'No; he had lout the wish to go now.' Then both were silent, and the evening was not a pleas ant one. All the next day he told him self that he would not go and watch his wife Thursday, yet when the day came he was sitting with his godfather at the window. At the usual hour the carriage arrived, and Mrs. Downes, with her hair as elaborately dressed as if she was going to a state dinner at the bishop's palace, ran down the stops, and was soo n driven rapidly away. 'Well, godfather,' he said, pleasantly, 'that is Emma, certainly, and she is very remarkably dressed; but for all that, I am sure she has some good reason for what she is doing. I believe I will wait until she tells me.' 'Don't be such a fool, George; go and question your servants. ' After a little re fl action, Gaorge crossed to his own house and rang the bell. The housemaid seeraed astonished at his appearance, and wlen he asked where hor mistress was, said she had not seen her since she ha d taken her orders for dinner. Then George went np to the nursery, 'Where is your mis tress, Ann?' 'Is she not in the parlor, sir?' 'Yon know she is not. Where did she go in the carriage?' 'Indeed, sir, it if my business to mind the children; the mistress knows her I own affairs, without the l.kes of ie med dling in them.' Hd turned round impatiently, wfiit back to Mirk Ripon, i n I gotau accurate description of tho hou-o to whinh he had traced Mrs. (ioorgo; and iu half un hour the half curious .tu I half-angry husband slopped at tho pretty c ittage. All was quiet about it, there was no appearance of company, it looked almost dpaertad iu its wintry garden. An exceedingly lovely woman, though evidently in frail and failing health, opened tho door for biui, tmyiiig, in nn inquiring yoice, 'You mi.ut tho siguor, sar?' 'No, I wish to see Mtv.. J)jwnes; she is here, I believe?' 'Ah, yes; Bhe is her- If yon will please to go up ono shiii. I am so weak and tired always.' She pointed to tho stairs, aud George went thoughtfully up them. Half way there was a littlo laudini; aud a door, aud here he board a stranso musical voice, aud then his wife's merry laugh nt its observation. It nettled Gaorge; he knocked sharply, and before an an swer could be given opened the door and went into the room. 'Oh, Gocrge, how provoking! What mode you come, dear? Hia wife was sitting in all her bridnl Query on a little elevated platform, and Signoi Sarti was patting tho last touches to a vory lovoly portrait of her. 'I meant it for your Ciiristmns gift. George, and you havj peeped before hand. Is not that too bad?' 'Indeed it is, Emma.' But Emma was almost satisfied with his peeping, so proudly aud loviugly did he take her home. 'How did yon find me ont, George?' 'Oh, yon are easy to find out, Enma. Of course I knew if you went ont in a carriage, that you got the carriage at Morril's. Bat how do you come to know this Frenchman? 'You think all foreigners are French men, George. He is an Italian, and so is his beautiful wife. Ha camo from London to paiut my lord bishop and the cathedral, aud the signora was so much better here that he resolved to spend the winter in Yorkshire, and make enough to take her home to Italy in the spring. My lord asked me to have my piotnro clone, and pipa paid for it in order to surprise you. I think, George dear, you had hotter not let papa know you hove spoiod his surprise.' George felt moro and more sorry and humiliated as he looked iu tho pretty, frank fao, aud thought how cheerfully, after all, she had taken the forestall ment of her Christmas secret. 'I will do as you say, Ecu 011. Has the signor plenty of work?' 'He is painting many of the principal ladies in the city. The bishop thinks very highly of him. Iudoed, I Lave seen his lordship there at nearly all my viuits. ' Goorge let tho subject drip now as quickly as possible to Emma; -but he talked a good deal about it and in no very good temper to his godfather. For once Mark had no excuse for his suspicions, tie was quite awed by tho fact that he had dared to think wrong of interviews which the bishop had ar ranged and honored with his presouoe. Ho had lost faith iu his own penetra tion regarding the sex, aud George and Emma were quietly at come pains to convince him that good and true women are the rule, and not the exception. And though I cannot describe exactly how it came about, I know that tho next Christmas Mark was the gayest old baohelor in Ripon, and opened the ball at George's home with Signor Barti's bundsoine sister the very same lady whom the bishop himself, very soon afterward, made Mrs. Mark K pon. Harper's Weekly. Twenty Miles In Forty-six Minutes. A vary exciting race took placs at Evansville, Ind. The conditions were that John Jones, using ten horses, Bhould rido twenty miles, Joues re mountiug at every half mile, against Bedford's ten horses, Bedford to be al lowed two riders, one already mounted and ready for the start as his predeces sor came under the string. Bedford's rider weighed ninety-nix and 125 pounds, respectively, while Jones' weight was 161 pounds. The race was intensely exoiting, the contest being very close until the last half of the nineteenth mile, when Jones' horse flew tho track and threw him heavily. He was np in a moment, however, aud again speeding away, but, the time loit gave his oppo nent an advantage which he could not recover, though he came under the string only fifty yards behind in a twenty-mile dash. Time, forty-six minutes. The Ameriean Method. We hear from Amsterdam that Mr. Jay Gould has been rather astonishing Dutch finanoiers. It appears that he has been negotiating with bankers there about a Kansas railroad whose affairs have been in litigation for several years. He finally offered $1,303,000 for the first mortgage bonds held by the syndicate, which they accepted, with the proviso that interest should be added to the date of payment. Gould agreed; bnt created a secsation by immediately wri ting a cheek on Messrx. J. S. Morgan .V Co., of London, for the full amount. luterc-li'iiK Experiments 011 the Brain. Professor Mart C Wili-tr, .lispl.iyed to a email c r--l uf natur.iiinU a' the Saratoga cobventiuu of scicutii:ts, a se ries of experiments for which an Euglish investigator, Prof. Ferrier, has become fanume. It had long been supposed tunt tl;e hemicphMes of tho brain, at all veuts on their outer surfaces, contain ed no special nervous couuoetiou with the rest of the systpni; that is, that they were not tho places where thought or motion was called forth. Strong eleo trie stimulus had beeu applied to these parts of the brain without any result But less thuu ten yer.ru ago it was found by certain investigators that vory weak electric currents applied to the surface of the hemispheres c illod forth specifio notious, aud th!s clue was followed out by Prof. 1-Vrriijr with astooishing re suite. Some of thee experiments not making any protoosious to their novelty were exhibited try Prr.f. Wilder upon a large white eat that Iva 1 beeu made utterly iusensiblo by Ihc administration of ether. He had mapped out beforo him a diagram of the brain, with certain places designated by figures. Pussy's brain was denuded, aud tho points spe cified were touched by the termiuals of a weak electric current. A chart stated 'that was to bo expected, aud tho event happened exactly in accordance. Thus, when the placo on the brain marked '1' was tcu .'hod, the opposite hind leg of the animal was advanced, as tho chart said it would bo. Wbeu '4' was touched, tho frout leg moved as if to strike, being first drawn baok. With a touch to 9 the jaws moved aud the month opened. In eomo instances the animal has been made to scream, spit, and lush its tail by similar means; pr its lips rise aud the nostril seems to be irritated. The re markable circuniHtauce is that precisely the same class of actions always follow the application of the electricity to a given spot. This in a scientific phrenol ogy; bnt eiactly how to explain it, no body yet knows. Trot. Wilder has a large number of cuts' brains there, in alcohol. They serve i very purpose of the human brain for a ctudent, aud are more accessible, it-j well as iu bet ter pre servation. Making: day Pipes. The Detroit Fro I'n.s has disjover ed iu thai city a firm engaged iu the mauufueture of tuoe. minion clay pipes which ell at i-ui'h a low Sgnro, and givop an insight into iln workings: All tho clay used is purcliarpd at Baltimore.aud costs from $'M to ??H!0 per carload. It arrives at the factory iu hard, dry lumps, and must be thoroughly soaked in a big tub or tauk before it is ready for U60. The soft clay is ttien robVd, and knead ed and mixed together until it forms a solid mass withoutauy lumps. Six men sit around a table wit 11 a lot of damp clay within i-asy reach. Grasping a lump in each hnud tho workman rolls it back und forth on the table, shaping it with his hand until it resembles a pipe, and then laying it one side until a tri.y full of wet, embryo pipes lias been accu mulated. Tho tray is then placed out doors iu tho Mm to dry, nnd after an hour or two is brought inside by the same workmau, shoved into an iron mold aud pressed into shape with a quick pull at a lover. The hole through the pipe is made by hand with a piece of wire, well greased. Two girls at an ad joining table receive tho pipes nt this stage of their manurncture and scrape off the ridges and other imperfectiois left by tho mold. The wet pipes are then taken cut of tho Kb op and placed in large crocks or tubs of lire clay, called saggers. As fast as tho naggers are fill ed they are piled one above another in side a brick kiln, and two or three times a week the kiln is fired nnd subjected to inteuse heat for several hours nntil the pipes are baked thoroughly white. The 6tem of eauh pipe is then coated with a yellow mixture of shellac, tumeric and othwr substances to prevent it from sticking to the lips, and the pipe is ready for shipment in boxes partially filled with sawdust. Love-Making at the Springs. A correspondent at tho White Sulphur springs annonnces that it is a common occurtenco for young people to engage themselves, and et-joy all the privileges oi lovers during the season, and then drop the matter as if it were of no mo ment. One girl he tells of was too sharp for such practico, however, and he thus recounts the case: 'I love yon with a love that the Euglish language does not furnish words wherewith for me to ex pi ess myself,' so a Louisiana gentleman said to a pretty Baltimore girl the other day. 'Do you ?' she said. 'Alas I yos,' said he. 'Well, then,' was the sensible auswer, 'suppose you wait till I get homo and tell mo so there.' Tho gen tleman subsided, and though it speaks well for her good sense, sho might bet ter have kept it to herself. However, it is put on record hore for the benefit of the nnwary. Yes, most of the love af fairs born of sulphur water, hot weather and the german are bnt fleeting fancies. 'Yon loved Miss Flora A. last season; how is it yon see nothing of her this ?' ask oil a young lady of a masculine friend the other day. 'Where is that pretty yellow and black dress you wore last season ?' he asked. 'Oh I it's worn out.' 'That's what's the matter with Miss Flora, for sweethearts as well as dresses wear out,' .larliMin and TanBiirrn. F nm Prof. Voa Hoist's latest vohiine on 'h political history of the United Statos wo extractthis peu-and-iuk sketch of IV' siiient Andrew Jackson aud his sactiesaor, Martin Vau Buren : Tho pic ture of the rising and of the trttiug sun symbolized theio very bod'y. Rather did th y supgest to the mind the little urehiu evening star, lei aud imp;, rted by the strong baud of the parent sun of Hobel's poem JackBou, a msn with a tall, leau form, erect aud straight; his fleshless hand firmly graspiug the knob of Lis walking stick, without tho aid of which his stiffened legs and swollen feet refused to move with their wonted cer tainty; every wrinkle of his long, sharply-cut face carved as it were in granite; his large eyes behind his bushy eye brows beaming with undiminished brightness spite of his spectacles; his white but still plentiful hair bristling up from his perpendicular forehead. Vau Buren, on tho other hand, reaching only precisely the middle height, in blameless toilet, his smooth, snow-white shirtbocom iu complete harmony with his round face, carefully shaved, with tho exception of very decent side-whiskers; hit lurgo double chin finding a pleasant support ou his biond, black crnvnt; the only characteristic folds proceeding from hia fleshy under lip; a settled smile in which a studied, oblig ing manner, unlive good-nature aud shrewdness havo equal shares; in his bright-colored, vivacious, twinkling eyes tho samo qualites to bo read ; a round, high forehead, which appears oighcr still from the absence of hair on the crown, and bears evidenco of eudow meuts, without, however, wearing the stamp of tJto thinker; a friendly, well meauiug bourgeo'H, iu whom the largest and best part of simplicity aud honesty are scarcely much more than skin-deep, ia opposition to which the diplomatic reserve .: moro than a thin varnish, la boriously acquired by the parvenu, nis wide mouth is c.irtainly able in speech, but it is still better skilled in the art of a silence conscious of its object. The man understands how to wait without manifesting tho least sign of impatience; but ho will never walk awov from a mirk he has oucn aimed at, and he thinks himself good enough for the beet. Even if his temperament should not presorvo him from palpable misdeeds, he would never become guilty of them, because he is wiso enough to know that tkr.y tviuilj bu irreparable mistakes. With happy facility he reconciles him self to the most different convictions and parts, and even to those of tho mau sure of himself aud routed in principle. He dacs not urge his boat onward by the powerful oar-strokes of his own arm; but ho knows whoro to find a proper rug as a sail to catch every wind that blows. A Practical Joke. Kscontly the cffeoti of an insolvent undertaker's establishment iu New Haveu, were sold out uudor the hammer of a sherifl's sale. Tho stock included many caskets and colli as, all of which were bought by one party. The after noon of the sale the gentleman buying the stock arranged to have the c iskets removed from the premises, aud employ ed an Irishman as an assistant. Near the uu. lor tabor's establishment was a jolly German butcher. Ho conceived the idea of frightenug 'Paddy,' aud communicated hia idea to the man iu oharge of the removal. The butcher selected a good sized ci'lli'i aud crawled iuto it and laid himself down and a. low ed himself to be securely fasteuod, aud waited for events. The romoval of the cof fins began. Ono aflor another w;s taken out by the teamster and 'Pildv' each taking an oud. Finally 'P id.:y ' pat hold of the one containing the butcher. His oouipauion took hold of the fo:t, and Paddy' the head of t'io cfli i. Xhev 1 ifted it, but it was ur.umally heavy. Both looked at each other iu a frighten ed manner. 'Paddy' set his end down and said: 'lie gorrah, there's a body in tlmt oue they've forgot to bury.' A screw-driver wns obtained and the lid remove!, and 'Pally discovered the features of the butcher who lay quiet aud composedly as a corpse, with his eyes closed. As soon as 'Paldy' saw the body he jumped high into the air, and exclaimed: 'I tnulil yon so,' and then ran out of the building and could not be induced to re-enter it again, neither would he contiuuo his labors in that direction, but utterly refused to tonch another cofflu. Heir Found Among Tramps. Heury Gilbert Grattou, au Euglish boy of fourteen, who has been sought as the heir of a large estate in England, has been found in the Tramps' Lodging-house in Boston. He was kid napped iu 1809 by two French athlctoo, and was brought to this oountiy when only five years old. He is the yonnster who stood on a caunou on the shoulders of the etroDg weman who traveled with Barnnm's Hippodrome. Finally, owing to the brutality of tho French men the boy ran away, and the past few years has been working at odd jobs in Virginia, Washington, Biltimore, Phil adelphia, and Massachusetts. Search for him has been pushed incessantly by the British oonsnl-general at New York, to whom he has been turned over. The father-in-law of Mackey, the Cal ifornia Bonanza King, was a barber. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Twelve million cans of peaches were put up in Baltimore this season, con suming 400,003 bushels of fruit. I akota is larger than XewEugland, aud its people are beginning to agitate its divisiou iuto three Territories. The celebrated Kennedy ctt!e ranohe, Texas, on tlie R o Grande, has been purchased by an English company for ?!)DO,000. The mayor of St. Augustine, Florida, recoives a salary of twenty-five dollars a month, and the city scavenger recoives the samo amount. The revoane officers at Washington dise-ovfred an illicit still in full opera tion withiu a few huudred yards of the President's manuion. Philadelphia papers tell of tho arrival in that city of a party of Italian chil dren, all of whom bad been purposely maimed by the Ions of an eye or a limb, in order to tit them for the purpose of begging. A monument has beeu inaugurated among a number of gentlemen iu Bvlti-' more to erect a statue to General Lafay ette in commemoration of his valuable services to the cause of American liberty au l independence. While tho Traus-Atlautio circus was pniadi'jg the aireets of Mayfield, Ky., a email boy twisted the tail of the lion, which hiiug o:it-i le the cage, causing the animal to assail and nearly tear to pieces his keeper, who rode inside with the beast. Tho ltw against pool selling or gam bling in any form on any horse raoe in Massachusetts being in force, the asso ciation at Beacon Park near Button, decided to respect it fully aud no betting was allowed; tho first horserace of the kind iu inauy years. Nathaniel J. Cofliu, au old soldier, feeling aggrieved at the statement in a paper at Portsmouth, N. H.,' sent the editor a challenge; but tho man of the quill respecting tho stringent law, swore ou a warrant and had the blood-thirsty individual put under bonds, Bad accounts concerning the Italian crops are confirmed. The yield of maize in several provinces is only half that of ordinal y years, while in several others it is considerably below the average. The wheat crop is also generally unfavorable, the production beiug equal only to a third of that of 1S78. A writer iu au English magazine sug gests a new vocation for womeu that of gardeners. While women are feeling most deeply their exclusion from the ordinary walks of life, why should they neit take up n profession to which there is no barred door, aud ono so infinitoly suited to their tastes. Holloway, the English pill manufac turer, is to build a college near London, for the higher education of women, at a cost of 81,250,000, aud endow it with half os much more. The way in which he became able to do so much good was by spending a-iMit SI. 000, 000 in adver tising during tho past thirty years. A New York lawyer, employed to search the title to a piece of properly, reported it unincumbered, and it was ace irdingly bought. Oa the purchaser subsequently ascertaining there were heavy claims upon it, he sued his exam iner for damages aud got a verdict, whioh wp.s sustained by a court to which the case was appealed. Charles Dickous, son of the great novelist, manages one of the largest priutiug e Hi ;es in Liudoj, perhaps in tho world, lie has very successfully published the 'L union Dictionary' and the 'Guide to Londou,' and is now pre paring a 'Dictionary of the Thames.' He inherits his father's early love for piintiug ullices au I newspapers. Maiy Kecsucker, one of the most en thusiastic of the convert-i at a camp- moetiug at I'rbaua, Ohio, fell into a trance while praying. Her friends be lieved that her condition was the result of a special blessing, aud would not permit a physician to elo anything for her. She lay unconscious se veral days, and finally died of spinal meningitis. A Mr. Soule, of Elgin, III., is in hia third year of frog farming, and his first crop is now being marketed. He has an acre and a quarter devoted to the frog industry. The kind grown is the 'Gos lin frog,' much larger than the common sort. Mr. S. will, next season, furnish St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati with frogs, and is confident of success in the business. The family of Fredeii:k Sussie x, con sisting of six persons, residing at Lin- don, N. J,, partook freely of toadstools nnder the impression they were mush rooms, aud two of the children died from the effects the same day. The mother, in the midst of the tribulation, gave birth to a child, and is at the point of death, as is another child. The father and fifth child will recover. Richard Stevenson, United States deputy marshal, was shot to death in Kingman county, Kansas, by a horse thief, who escaped to the Iudian Terri tory. He had arrested the thief at Wel lington and was retnrning th.e prisoner and property to Kingman. B jth men, tegether with a drummer, were in a carriage. In descending a sndden de clivity tho thief snatched S'evenson's revolver and shot him through the breast. He then disarmed the commer cial traveler, mounted the best horse and fled.