The Greensboro patriot [August 27, 1879]

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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY,!['AUGUST 27, 1879. New Series No. 593.
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THE FATAL MIRROR.
en I was first iu Paris,
I wont to H: inly, I was «t tho op-ill
alone. It in rather heavy work
then i I v.i at wandering
iwiug tired of the noise
I .i darkish corner,
I the wiill iu peace.
■ ■ • I saw- -i ooopk ap-attracte
1, I suppose, by the
■I bt en. I had noticed
:■ «r«a tall, and
. in a large whita burnous
• i es, leaving his arms
wy arms, with a
' an inah wide, just below
II waa made of yellow
1 L ifer* • • ..... V.I on it in
tii letter*. The hood uf
drawn over his head,
i ry 1 rng fall of Bilk
tirely. The girl on his
bite domino and a mask of
was a delicate, fragile
I whi n she aai on the
. and took off her mask,
■ IS not more than seven-liest,
bappiesi
i p golden hair, lie
D low with her—
btli handi in ins as if he
i, ■ i. I once I heard him
- Bake don'l look at
• mod.' 1 heard no
M I move l away, the
: i i tin ee sweet * yes
cared expression
tasl I ioked hack, she
ig on ln's shoulder,
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; the place—u
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■ v way to the
fail luce ex-
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i :' iby, and press-
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i '• • j -..-. I that
a white
-'through
■:■ . • he fell like ■ lamb,
bnmon6 lying near t he
fnsion lie had well
od. I »-':!i 11 never
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Maker.
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four neks, V>\ Aituinii.irat j\' KMem, .'i ■
PwSJe r»tr. f..r AoaMt eelawa >il>wilm»iali
ly djmmed
I.I Bo >r, lay the
if one was needed. The table was laid
in my studio: it was gay with lights and
flowers, and other things—tilings to eat
and too many things to drink, I fear.—
George was late. He came at last, an-swering
onr uproarious greeting joyous-ly,
and took his seat by me. I saw with
some regret that ho had already been
drinking, though he only betrayod it by
a certain restlessness of manner, and a
deeper flush than usual on bis face. We
were very gay, and George outshone
himself; he was full of an almost boyish
jollity, which grew wilder and more
boisterous as the night drew on.
It wai late when the conversation
drifted gradually into a ghostly channel.
Onr party represented several nationali-ties,
and each one brought his charac-teristic
contribution, until a ycuag Ital-ian,
with a pale, delicate iace like an old
carving in ivory, who sat opposite to
George, began to speak of the idea that
every face which looked into a mirror
left its indelible impress there, until
there came to be a confused mass of out-lines
inviaiblo to unenlightened eyes,
but which under certain favorable cir-enmstances
arranged themselves in or-der,
and came out into shadowy distinct-ness,
one after the other.
'An ancestress of mine,' I heard him
saying in his dreamy voice, 'hail a mir
ror of Venetian glass, set in a framo
carved wonderfully, and swinging be-tween
twisted columns. S'lewas a beau-tiful
woman, with great blue eyes, and
led gold hair like that of Titian's wo-men.
It was said that my ancestor loved
her with such jealous rage that he amid
not boar her to even look at aught be-side
himself; even the suulight and the
eveniug sky were hateful to him, because
her sweet eyes looked at them lovingly.
Bhe must have led a gloomy life at best,
iu tho high castle perched upou a lonely
rock; and who can wonder if the painter
who came to take her portrait stirred a
little blood in those pale cheeks, if only
as a sudden stone disturbs the turfaoe of
sumo still mountain lake ? Her husband
nati'hed her grimly, as she eat in her
thick satin dress.sowed with great pearls,
and her hair gathered beneath a diadem,
and flowing in long locks behind.
'The next morning they found her ly-iug
in the great bed—with its dark
blood-red hangings—dead. The women
who made the death toilette, whispered
that the fair neck was dark aud swollen,
with thocrurl gripe of strong hands; and
it is said that when she laid in state, her
long hair was curiously dressed, so that,
her neck and throat were vailed by it,
and her fair pitiful face was framed like
some of the Madonnas of Fru Angelico,
in burning gold.
'1'hat night my ancestor shut himself
in his wife's chamber, and in the dull
dawn they found him on the floor before
tho mirror; they lifted him, bat his dark
face was rigid, and his gloomy soul had
gone to its appointed place. He had
gone alone into tho deserted room, and
with his dim candle went to search in
tho secret* of the dead. It was mid
night, aud as he looked involuntarily in
tho mirror, out of its shadowy depths
suddenly looked forth the face of his
dead wife, with all tho lonely wretched-ness
aud despair of her Bhort life gath-ered
into her eyes. Kho implored him
mutely to give rest to her poor wander-ing
soul; she held him with a ghostly
strength in the dark room, until she
conquered, snd he fell and died before
her mirror. And so she was avenged.'
There was a painful silence for a mo-ment,
then George laughed aloud: 'Ah,
Giovanui, how easy it is for you infidel
Italians to believe I 'It is said, it is
said,' that is enough for yon: who knows
what your grim ancestor saw in tho mir-ror!
Did he came back to tell? His
owu black face might bo enough to
' frighten the soul out of his old body.-
Aud moreover, suppose a man should
choose a mirror into which no one he
know had ever looked, what then ?'
.• horror of that Giovanni answered tranquilly, 'The
I, p ire life hand of fate would lead him silently; ho
would bo constraiuod to choose the mir-ror
holding tho face which made or mar-red
the past.'
'Look, Jack,' George suddenly ex-claimed,
'it is nearly midnight; if you
had a lonely room aud a mirror, I would
try Giovanni's theory to-night,'
I had a mirror and a lonely room; an
i -oiir-lita antique mirror, which I had found the
3 tadio, Sjme
• : haps, threw
ind me, much to-c
ii sidi red by the
■ ate friends.
if confidence
icy, I1" was a rsy
i rv, Loving
:i i;n tint kuowl-i,
I cannot i!>
i in spite of
ricti nthal i black
that
the little
. tin dirty floor,
Dty white bed; and
i bly surrounded by
tores stating cu-ttlod
in
il
Rtmlin s nnA ilay before in au old shop in tho Cite,
and brought home iu triumph as a ver-itable
work of art. As Giovanni pro-ceeded
in his story a Btrange fancy had
taken possesoion of me—for this mirror
taut companion-1 swung lit its carved frame between two
.!:■• friends, twisted columns.
•Have you a mirror, Jack?'
•Yes," 1 answered, 'there is one in the
Inmber room, but George, don't try say
experiments to- night; it is cold and
abominable in there, and it will strike
midnight immediately.'
■S) it will, there is not a moment to
lose.' He sprang up, and snatched a
me- candle out of an old-fashioned oandela-ind
atench times, brum on the mantelpiece. As he light-
*. one of wild, reckless id it, I was painfully struck with his
i ■ ti i and said must restless, excited manner. As he passed
■ the othoi ■ was me, I laid my band on his arm; a strange
unable, with Hashes fear choked my voice and oppresst.1 me.
lived anger He paint He shook me off hastily, and laughed
terlj out: 'Why, Jack, are we fools? Do you
.• the nl set believe iu such rnbbish? IUhl' He
v surprise walked quickly to the door of the sal n,
' . A feed- : aud opened it: he looked back and made
while in a mocking gesture of farewell to us, as
• ' ispring; we sat aud stood, in dead, breathless si-
' her ftcrwi rs, lenee around the supper table, with its
: l!" coili i llp gay confusion, its light and flowers.—
uld clapping fa ivrhaps the feeling of dread which evi-ighing
while the deutly had taken possession of all these
| ith its feet. There reckless fellows was a sort of contagion
I something , from Giovanni and me; for the Italian
i. One . veuing j sat immovable, with burning, horror-passion-i
r in mv studio—a
-, Who was going to
Ins fortune. I was in
had sold a picture, and
*parture was a good excuse,
stricken eyes, and I, if I had been a wo-man,
would have cried out or fainted.—
We listened to his firm footsteps, as
they echoed across the wide, empty
room. They stopped. The little olook
on the mantel and the bell of Notre
Dame began to s:rike. Then there rang
through our ears a terrible ory, then a
heavy fall, then dead silence. I was at
the door in a moment, and the rest fol-lowed.
I knew, before I could see, that
I should find him there before tho mir-ror.
The only light was from the sludio
door, and from the moonlight struggling
through the oobwebbed window. Ha
lay on his face, with his arms outstretch-ed.
I tnrued him over, and lifted up
his ban 1M.m.- head. His teeth wero
clenched, his eye's wide open; tho face
was full of despair and horror, but evia
as we looked, it settled into the calm re-pose
of death, lie was dead. Dr. Lau-rent
kneeled down beside him and bared
his arm. Not a drop of blood followed
tho lancet, but as I still held him my
heart gave a great leap at the sight of a
broad golden baud below the shoulder.
I hastily pulled down tho sleevd. I had
no neod to decipher tho fantastic blood•
red letters on it. A flood of light illu-mined
the past mouths. No wonder, no
wonder I I nudcrstood in a moment.—
There was a secret in his life, au an
guish against which he might well wound
himself to death. Dr. Laurent said it
was disease of the heart; bnt Giovanni
whispered in my ear, 'Giacomo, it is
Beatrice' mirror,' aud he crossed him-self
furtively. After all the necessary
formalities wero ended, we followed him
to his lonely grave. There was one per-son
who stood with us beside the grave;
a woman tall aud withered, with great
brighteyss, sot in a brown Italian face;
she said nothing, she never took her
eyes off the coItiu, but as they lowered
it, she knelt down and stretched out her
withered hands, and mnttered some-thing
rapidly. Giovanni, who stood by
me, said, 'Amen.' Ho thought it was a
blessing, but I, who saw in her the old
woman at the opora ball, knew too well
that it was a curse.
A Victim of "Mistake-."
'Something pains me here,' said John
Dobbs, under arrest in Now York as
one of the burglars who succeeded iu
stealing soveral millions iu bonds' from
the Manhattan bank, addressing his
keeper,
'Where ?'
"Here," said Dobbs, indicating tho
fleshy part of his left arm between tho
shoulder and elbow. The keeper put
his finger on the spot aud pressing, felt
something hard and round. The oat-side
skiu was very dark and tender, and
Dobbs winced us the tnrnkoy applied his
thumb to it. Dr. Hardy, the prison phy-sician,
was sent for and told to bring his
case of instruments.
The physician, who is accttitomud to
the eccentricities of prisoners, examined
tho dark spot carefully. He became
convinced that Dobbs was nut joking,
nor giving him a 'ghost story,' and pro
duciug a sharp bladed little instrument
from his case he went quietly to work.
In about a minute and a half the doctor
drew back his knife and a pistol bullet
with three rings around it rolled into his
hand.
'Why, where did yon get this, Dobbs?'
asked Warden Finn, in surprise. The
warden had just come up and was look-ing
at the bnllet as it lay in the doctor's
palm.
'It was all along of a mistake, sir,'said
Dobbs, passing his hand scross his
mouth apologetically, and clearing his
throat. 'You seel was 1 raveling through
Jersey a year ago, and I met a farmer
who mistook me for some one else. lie
ups with his Smith A Wesson's revolver,
and plugs me right in the arm. I ought
to have had him arrestod, but didn't.'
'Have you ever been shot accidentally
before ?' asked the warden.
•Well, yes; I received seven] bullets
in my legs from persona who didn't
know who I was. Two or three of 'em
are there now. It's extraordinary, when
yon como to think of it, that all those
people should have fired at me by mis-take.'
The doctor and warden both coughed
simultaneously. They asked Dobbs if
there were any more of these metallic
souvenirs which he wished to be reliev-ed
of. Dobbs said 'No, and was, locked
up again. He is a plump, hearty person
of middle height, with rosy cheeks and
a good appetite, aud is confident that he
can convince the courts that his arrest,
like the pistol shooting at him, was au
unfortunate mistake.
A Hummlng-Ilird's \csl.
R"cdntly a humming-bird's nest was
found by some persons who had suffi-cient
natural curiosity to overcome their
compassion, and whocapturod the nest,
twoyouug hummers and the old one,
took them home and had them stuffed.
They are to be sent to a museum of nat-ural
curiosities. The nest is built on a
little twig, and scarcely the size of half
au Eaglish walnut. Both nest and twig
are covered with little patches of lichen
nntil it is almost impossible to tell one
from the other; and the nest looks like a
kind of natural excrescence on the twig.
Tho nest is pliable, like a tiny cup of
velvet, and the inside is Uned with a
white substance as rich and soft as white
silk. The little birds aro about the size
of bumble bees, very pretty, and they
sit on a littlo perch just outside the nest,
with open bills, while the old bird hovers
over to fe-ed theux
The Difference it Make.
About this time the men folks are get-ting
ready to join their families in the
country or at the seaside, and Everard
ouders if Kate will cut him diad when
her awful pa makes his appearance,
while prettly little Mrs. Do Vine, as she
reads her husband's note, stating that
he will be down day after to-morrow,
realires that she positively must not
again forget to oorreot the mistake of
that handsome, jolly young college man
who has been addressing her as 'Miss'
for the last four weeks.
HEW VOKK'S (HAIt-tNTINE.
Thr Mrihod. b> whl.li 11.. Ilriropolu ».-.
rurr. Frrritom Tram <'nntn«iou. IlUra.*'..
A New York journal tells its readers
of the means used to prevent infection
of the inhabitants from the terrible
scourges which ships bring into that
harbor, as follows: The scourge
against which the quarantine < fibers of
j this port have to guard agaiust with tho
i greatest care is yellow fever, which is a
j yearly visitant to tome portion or other
! of the Atlantic si aWrd. This is be-oanseof
the constant and quick commu-nication
maintained between tho large
senport cities of the United States and
West Indies and Mexican ports, where
the diseoao is endemic. Even iu the
port of New Yoik it is so common that
from the first or middle of June until the
middle of October, yellow fever is rare-ly
absent from the hospital on Dix island.
It is brought chiefly in sailing vessels,
iu the holds of which the conditions of
heat, filth and fermentation, are pecu-liarly
favorable to the development of
! its germ. A steamer running at stated
| intervals obtains its cargo quickly and
makes with it a quick passage; but tho
sailing vessel lies for weeks under the
tropical sun, while being slowly loaded,
generally with crude sugar or melado.
This is a oirgo most sinooptiblo to the
fermentation caused by the intense heat,
a filthy deposit is formed in tho bilge of
the vessel, aud it is here that the yellow
fever germ is propagated with fearful
rapidity. Ou such a vessel, although
she may sail with a clean bill of health,
if the crew aro not thoroughly acclimated
the dread disease is almost certain to
make its appearance during tho passage.
If, while lying in an infected port, care
is takeu to pump fresh water in the bilge
daily, and to require sailors, upon the
completion of a day's work, to bathe and
put ou clean flannels, there is littlo
probability of the disease making its ap-pearance.
On the arrival of a vessel
from au infected port at quarantine an
examination is ma lo of each passenger,
aud his baggage is opened, placed iu a
closed room and thoroughly fumgste-d.
If at the expiration of five days after
leaving au infected port no case of sick-ness
has oocurrod, ^rntiqur. is given the
passengers and their baggage, aud they
are sent on a steamboat to the city. So
thorough is the quarantine of this port
that although since 1870 thousands of
passengers from infected ports havo ar-rived,
no cuso of fever has appeared
among those to whom pratique has once
been granted. As soon as the passen-gers
havo £ouo away, the vessel is al-lowed
to proceed to the lighterage ground
aud discharge cargo, having been pre
viously fumigated twice iu every attain-able
part. The crew of tho vessel is
usually discharged before tlio cargo is
broken, and stevedores, coopers, and all
who work iu the hold reside in hulks
anchored uear by, and are not allowed
j to return to tho city until a period of
| five dsys lias elapsed sinca they worked
| on a suspected vessel. The lightermen
are not allowed to go on boarel the vessel
that they arc discharging, and during
the discharge of tho cargo fumigations
with chlorine aro made daily. The ves-sel,
once emptied of her cargo, the pro-cess
of purification begins. A fire hose
is attaches! to the force-pump, carried
to the Hold, aud a full head of water is
I direoteei to every part, while, at the
samo time, men are set to work with
scrub-brooms, and overy portion of the
hold is made as clean and sweet as a
farmhouso kitchen. A discharge-pump
is kept working whilo the scrubbing is
going ou, and the process is continued
until tho discharge w-.ter is as cloan as
that which is pumped into tlio hold.
Cleanliness is the first law ( f quarantine,
and after it come aeration, fumigation,
aud disinfection. Tho disinfectant in
use at quarantine is as simple as tho
fumigant, and consists of a solution of
sulphate of iron—a pound to tho gallon
of water—combined with carbolic acid of
twenty per cent, strength, thoroughly
applied with a common watering pot.
France' Objection to England's
Miiiiriiing.
The objection of tho Paris SUxU to
the official English lamentation over
the prince imperial seems to bo well
taken. There is no French empire,
and how could there be a French prince
imperial ? Would Jerome bo receivisl
as emperor if he came to Kegland ? Yet
he is as truly emperor aa tho son of
Lonis Napoleon was prince imperial.—
There are two other families beside the
Bonaparte family which have furnished
rulers to Frauee—tho older and the
younger Bourbons. If Jerome Bona-parte
be emperor of the French, the
| Count of Chambord is king of France,
i and the Count of Paris king of the
i Freneb. Now if the Count of Cham-bord
had a son who sbonld dio in exile
in England, would members of the gov-ernment
c llicially attend his funeral?
Or would the Count of Paris, dying iu
England, be officially mourned as kin/
1 of the French I How wonld England be
pleases! if some scion of the Stuarts,
dying in Africa while accompanying the
French army, should bo honored by
France as England has honored the
young Frenchman ?
The young Bonaparto who was killed
i by the Znlns was either the rightful
[ soveroigu of France, or he was a private
Frenchman. But the official presence
of Euglish ministers and of members of
the British royal family at his funeral is
the precise sign of respect which would
have been offered if he had teen ac-knowledge.!
to be the French emperor.
The -Vice/' very properly objects; aud
. the flaneur of the Boulevard, as he drops
lumps of sugar in his glass of water at
the cafe, will wrathfully muse npon the
perfidy of Albion.
The tax ou armorial bearings in Eng-land
realizes $000,000 annually.
Another phase or the Brniu Scandal.
The new number of the London
Academy contains a series of very in-teresting
and valuable letters from the
late Lady Byron to Mrs. Leigh, her
husband's aister. They form part of the
papers cf Mrs. Laigh which have lately
been purchased for the British museum,
aud havo been communicated to the
Academy by Mr. E. Maundo Thomp-son.
The letters were uritten at virioui
periods, beginning on January It-., lfHfi,
the day after Lady Myron left her hue-band's
hoii'e, ending iu 1801, just be-fore
Mrs. Lsigh's fatal illness. There
are also two letters to Mrs. Liigh's
daughter, the last of which waa written
in July, HR, after her mother's death.
All these letters testify to the constant
esteem and affection which Lady Byron
entertained toward her sister-in-law.—
Tho expressions of affection they con-tain
entirely discountenance the idea
that the charges brought against Mrs.
Loigh after l.idy ISyrou's death, and
said to rest on hor direct personal testi-mony,
had any foundation in faot. Writ-ing
only ten days after she had left her
husbaud, Lady Byron addrosses Mrs.
Leigh as 'My dearest Augusta,'and con-cludes
by saying: 'Feelings must not
noaf.be indulged; but whenever I feel
at ii, it will be as kindly as yon could.
Independently of malady, I do not think
of tho past withany spirit of resentment,
and scarcely with the sense of injury.
GuJ bless him.' Ttieto was at a later
peri-xl a serious dispute between Lady
Byron and her sister-in-law; but it arose
on the appointment of a trustee under
Lvly Byron's settlement. Luly Byron
appointed Dr. Lushiogton, to whom
Mrs. Leigh objected. The rupture of
their intimacy of twenty years clearly
arose out of this quarrel. In 1851 a
meeting was to havo takeu place be-tween
them at Keigate in the presence
of the lato lt:-v. Frederick Robertson,
but it did not happen, and some months
later, wheu Mrs. Laigh was iu her last
illuesi, Luly Byron wrote to her daugh-ter:
'Whisper to her from me the words
Dearest Augusta. I can't think they
would hurt her,' and added a po<t>.cript
that she was at l'.-»her till Wednesday,
and if she was wanted they were not to
hci-itaie to send for her. Tho whole of
this interesting correspondence, which
throws new light on the relations of Lady
Byron to her sister-in-law in the years
after the separation from her husband,
is entirely inconsistent with the theiry
Mrs. Stowe has promulgate,! as to the
causes of that separation. F.very reader
of the letters will agree with Mr.
Thompson that if the words have any
meaning Ihcy dispose of tho whole
calumny and banish it into the regions
of afterthought.
To the Voima: Men.
Remember that the world is older than
yon are, by several years, that for thous-ands
of years it ban been B0 full of
smarter an I better young men than
yonrself that their feet stuck out of the
dormer windows; that when they died
the old globe went whirling on, and not
one man iu ten millions went to the
funeral, or even heard of the death. Be
as smart as you can, of course. Know
as much as you can, without blowing
the packing out of your cylinder-heads;
shed the light of your wisdom abroad in
the world, but don't dazzle the people
with it. And don't imagine a thing is
so simple because you say it is. Don't
be too sorry for your father because he
knows so much less than you do. The
world has great need of young men, but
no greater need than the young meu
have of it. Your clothes fit yon better
than your father's fit him; they cost
more money, tbeyaremorestylisb;your
moustache is neater, the cut of your hair
is better, and you are prettier, oh, far
prettier than 'pa.' But, youug man,
tho old gentleman gets the biggest sala-ry,
and his homely scrambling signature
on the busine: a end of a check will drain
more money out of tho bank in five min-utes
than you could get out with a ream
of paper aud a copper-plate signature in
six months. Young men are useful, and
they aro ornamental, and W6 all love
them, aud we cjuldu't engineer a picnic
suc3essfnlly without them. But tiiey
aro no novelties, Oh, no, nothing of the
kiud. They have been here before.
j)ou't be so modest as to shut yourself
clear out; but don't bo so fresh you will
have to be put away in the cool to keep
from spoiling. Don't be afraid that
your meri. will not bo discovered. Poo
pie ail over the world aro hunting for
vou,sndif vou are worth flndiug,they will
find y< it. A diamond i-n't so easily found
aa a quartz pebble, bnt people search
for it all the more intently.—Hawkey
a Kealliheil Confession:
Nelson Bogard bargained to buy the
farm on which he and his mother lived
at Dark Bend, Ind. The owner was seen
going to the place to deliver the deed
and get the money, but he was never
known to return, and his horse remaine 1
' among Bogard's stock. ThemissiDg man
was a stranger, and nobody was partic-ularly
interested in his fate or in dis-proving
Bogard's assertion that he hail
departed afoot after sclliug his horse
aud the farm. That was seven years
ago. Afterward, a boy who had been
reared on the Bogard farm was frund
dangling in a barn. Old Mrs. Bogard
fell ill recently, at the age of seventy-seven,
and believing that she was about
to die, confessed that she and her son
: mnrdered the stranger for his money,
and killed the boy because he knew
something about the crime But she
recovered, and is now in jail, together
with her guilty son.
Recently the largest mail ever sent
' aoross the ocean in one day was sent out
of New York. There were "2,976 letters
and 120 bags of newspapers.
The Vagaries of Fashion.
There is ono thing which we ham
never been able to understand, aud
which we believe few can possibly com- I
prehend or explain. It is tho vagary of
female fashion. Who is it that invents
it, and has the knock to maintain it as
long as he pleases, and then with equal
audacity and success starta something
fro<h, is all a mystery. The phenome- \
non is by no means new. A hundred and
sixty years ago the old essayists were at
a loss to know how tho extravagant odd-ities
of female attire originated, and
*ere so cleverly kept up in spite of tor-rent?
of ridicule. Then, as now, a new
fashion had its run of a few years, and
dropping out of use as mysteriously as
it commenced, was followed by some-thing
equally preposterous.
In these vagaries e>f fashion there
teems for tho time being to bo a kind of
mental derangoment—perhaps more cor-rectly
the prostration of intellect,
through a doficien'yof moral courage.
Forty years ago tho lady part of man-kind
fell into a mania for wearing dresses
with huge shoulders blown np like bal-loons.
It amounted to a purposeless
distortion of tho perfem. So everybody
said it was. But tho avowal made no
difference. Sleeves must bo made six
times larger than they need be. Shoul-ders
must be distorted, rendered posi-tively
ugly. It was tlio f:nhiou, and
that was enough. In due time, when
the mania had run its conrse, tho bal-looning
was given up, and shoulders
shrunk to their natural figure. When
it was all over.no oue vouturedto ex-plain
how the frenzy had originated, or
what was its meaning. Oa tho contrary,
as if ashamed of tho weakness, the sub-ject
was skillfully dropped. (Text iu
the order of this species of feminine de-mentia
came tho crinolin;1 vagarv, A
petticoat of horse-hair and whalebone
was employed to distend the outer dress
far beyond tho person. It was a re-sumption
of ho.ipa, with the difference
that while hoops expanded sidewise, the
crinoline spread out all ronnd. Every
woman had the shapa of a handbell-wide
at the lower edge and small above.
Gracefulness was out of the questiou. If
the object was to prodnce a monstrosity
it was eminently raooeasfttl. The crino-line
mania had a fair run of several
years, and giwn up, then* o-.-curiis! the
fresh surprise how it ever had received
the Bligutest eue itiragcuient.
Crinoliues of overy variety having
been relinquished, feminine societv is
sorely iu want of a new ecceutricity. It
would bo ugaiust all rule not to appear
ridiculous. So wits aro at work in tho
graud arcana of fhshiun. The world had
not long lo wait. Tho fiat goes forth
from somewhere that, as a superlative
novelty, dresses are to bo worn tight to
the person from top to toe. Instead of
paduings aud ballooning", there is to be
squeezing so lightly as to be hardly able
to breathe. To impede walking, and if
possible to prevent sitting, the legs are
to be held back with strings. By way
of compensstion for tho tightening np,
the dress is to be so long as t:- trail three
or four feet on the ground. Snch may
be called the present fashionable regime,
maintained, as usual, with the forco of
inexorable law. Woe be to the fine lady
who does not make herself as lank as a
skinned rabbit, snd who fails In the
tuckings and tyiugs to restraiu locomo
tion I What her natural shape may be
is nothing to the point. She may not be
able to go up or down stairs, except by
one foot at a time, like a child learning
to walk, but that is of no consequence.
Fashion demands that she shall appear
maimed in the lower limbs. The law is
to bo obeyd. and there's an end of it.—
Harper's !!'•• kly.
The Smith's Ablest (o-ncral.
(ien. Longatreet recently told an in-terviewer,
in answer to a question as to
whom ho considered the greatest gen-eral
tho Confederacy produced : I am
inclined to think that < leu. Joe John-ston
was the ablest and most accom-plished
man that the Confederate armies
produced. Ho never ha 1 the opportu-nity
accorded to many others, bnt he
showed wonderful power as a tactician
and a commander. I do not think that
WO had his equal for haudling an army
aud conducting a campaign. Gen. Lee
was a great leader—wise, deep and sa
gacious. nis moral influence was some-thing
wonderful. But he lost his poiso
on certain Occasions, No one who is
acquainted with the facts can believe
that he wonl 1 have fought the battle of
Gettysburg had he not havo been under
great-excitement, or that be would havo
ordered the sacrifice of Piekati nod his
Virginians on the day afler the battle.
He »«idto me afterward, ^by didn't
yoi stop all that thing that day?" At
the Wiideruees, when Mir liues had
beenrwiven in, and I was just getting
to the field, Gen. Ls« put himself at the
[ head of one of my brigades, and leading
it into action roy n:"n pressed lam back,
' and 1 said 11 him that if he would leave
! my commind in my own hands I would
| re-form his lines. His great soul rose
| masterful within him wluun crisis or
di.aster threatened. This tended to
: disturb his admirable equipoise. Il'.ved
Gen. Lee as a brother while he lived,
! and I revere his memory. He was a
! great man, a born leader, a wise general;
! but I think Johnston was the most ac-complished
and capable commander that
we had.
The driver boys in a mine near Wilkes-barre.
Pa., struck for ex >rbitant wagei,
and -aused the suspension of work of
hundreds of workmen.
An Engineer's Presence at .Mind.
As the Bbitt was being changed at the
Yellow Jacket shaft, Nevada, ten men
had a narrow escape from death. These
meu got ou board tho nnMl ekip at the
2,300 station to go to the bottom of the
shaft. They had gone but a short dis-tance
before the eccentrics of the donkey
engine broke, and tie skip, with its
living freight, started for tho bottom at
lightning speed. P. McCarthy, tho en-gineer,
knew that the descending skip
must be stoppesl or all on board would
be dashed to pieces at the bottom of the
shaft. He instantly seized s heavy
plank, the cud of which ho thrust be-tween
tho pinion shaft and the reel or
drum from which the eable was paying
off. By hauling down on the end of the
plank it acted as a brake, and finally
brought the skip to a stand, wheu it was
within twenty feet of the bottom of the
shaft. The drnm was revolving at light-ning
speed wheu the plank was first in-troduced,
and the friction produced
streams of fire and smoke, but the pres-sure
gradually told, slowed down tho
speed of the skip, and finally stopped it.
To riirii-1 tho plank into tho rapidly-revolving
machinery was a dangerous
experiment, and might have cost Mr.
McCarthy his life, bnt he got the right
hold in the start, aud held on with bull-dog
tcuacily. To do the right thing,
just as ho did, at the right moment, re-quired
great qnickuess of thought. The
place where it was to be inserted, aud
how it was t< be used must all have
been thought out iu a single instant.—
During the descent of the skip one man
leapt from it and caught tho bcll-ropi",
holding to which he managed to swing
himself to a wall-plate. Another jump-od
and caught a wall-plate, but lost his
hold and fell, but iu falling caught a
rod passiug horzontaily between the
sinking-guides, some ten feet over the
skip, where ho hold on till it stopped.—
Thus it will be seen that this man did
some lively traveling. Ho got off the
skip, and not finding a good landing
placo on the wall-plate, he went down
until ho overtook tho skip, wheu he got
aboard of it at the point which seemed
most convenient. Aside from a severe
shaking np and a bad scare, tho men all
came ont of the scrapo about as sound
as when Ihoy j;ot iuto it.
Our Foreign Trade:
The bureau ol abitistics has just pub-lished
returns of exports aud imports of
the Onited Btates for the la-t fiscal year.
The aggregate of these, exclusive of bul-lion,
was gl,iDG,220,ls,J4, an increase of
•24.818,664 over tho fiscal year 1878,
This increase consisted of 817,626,683 ot
exports aud (8,740,609 of imports. The
exports exceeded tho im[Hjrts by 82l ■',-
000,010, a greater balance of trade than
last yi-ar. The total value of ex|»orts
was $608,334,961. The oxporla are
classified for the eh veu months end
ing :tl*t May, lfiTO, aud give sonic inter-esting
results. Thus the value of bread
stuffs exported forthai period was 8192,-
713,707, cotton 8169,820,484, provisions
8108,069 660, mineral and other oils
$41,925,656, tobacco $27,420,776, iron
and steel ?12,(l75,02H. live animal- -1",
068,371, wood, Ao., $14,426, Id-', 4;. lor
the first time in the history of the conn
try breadstuff supplant cotton ■■•< the
leading article of export, but, still, tho
statement is incorrect that brcadstuffs
exceed in value tho combined exports of
cotton and tobacco. Provisions fell
short, owing to the docliue iu value ol
lard oiported, but tho live animal ex-ports
increased over 100 per cent., and
that of distilled spirits rose from $1,016,-
430 to 82,481,583. The increase in bread-stuffs
was mainly in wheat, of which
for the eleven mouths, there was ship
ped 118,611,922 bushels, against 67,245,-
TIGbnshela for tho preceding year.
Of Interest to Star l.a/ers.
Mars,* our ruddy onteido neighbor,
which presented so uncommonly fine a
spectacle two years ago, is now more
distant, aud seen at present ouly in the
night's later houri. It is aa interesting
object, with its snowy poles, whi^h are
seen through a good glass as flashing
points. It is growing brighter, and a
very good telescope will soon show the
snow-cap around the southern or most
conspicuous polo still more distinctly.—
This polar area of snow, on that far
worlel, visibly diminishes in July and
August—iudioting summer and winter
seasons chronologi-ally like onra. Kens
aud continents can also, nuh r favorable
conditions, be distinctly made out by
the astronomer. Tho red hue of the
planet is believed to bo due to some red-dish
characteristic of the soil.
The Bismarck Tribune says the work
of breaking twehe hundred acres of
prairie for Indian farms at Standing
Hock has just been OMnplstodi Ths
grouud is broken in ten-acre lots, that
lieiug the amount allotted to each fam-ilv.
These ten-sere lots iu some in-stances
arc grouped together, but are
separate,! by strips of unbroken prairie,
but they extend np aud down tie Mis-souri,
ou each hide of Standing Rook, •
distance of fifteen miles.
Can the fellow who tenders a lady a
biscuit be said to offer her a-dongh-ration?
"
The debt of the city of Paris now ex-ceeds
fifty-six million dollars.
A St. Paul woman was seriously
burned by her clothing cat-hing lire
from a lighted ciRar stub thrown on the
pavement, which was dragged along by
her drees.
At a recent shooting match at 'J00
vards, Corporal Lewis, of Flushing,
N. Y., made forty-nine out of a possible
fifty prints, being the highest score
known.
The farmers along the shore of Like
(lutario are setting out apple orchards,
claiming that the fruit, at $1 per barrel,
is more profitably and easily raised than
grain. ___^„^___
Illinois claims to have more horses
than any other State.
ITEMS OF GEXER4X IXTEBEST.
(i.iunell, Is,, has snmmouisl her mi-litia
several times lately to suppress
tramps.
A Chicago preacher advert BM that
his sermons never exseed twenty miu
utes iu length.
Birds of a feather, etc- A Michigan-der
married a Portuguese at I letroit last
Wedueeday.
The deepest running stream Miat is
known is the Niagara river, which just
under the lower Buspensiou bridgt
seven hundred feet by actual measure-ment.
Four thousand (i-'ruiaus held a n.;
iu Newark, N. J., to pn ' BM
action of prohibitionists in reference to
the granting of licenses and B I]
recreations.
A masked man seized a young girl iu
Canton, Ohio, and holding her mouth
closed to prevent screaming, cut off tier
hair, which was particularly luxuri.n.t
aid handsome.
Intelligence from Noumea, New Cale-donia,
confirms the reporl oi the inten-tion
of tho French authorities to take
possession of tho group ot islands known
as the Now Hebrides.
The famous solid illver vase, two ai I
a half feet high, and I lib in
cated, presouted by the Whigs to Hi BTJ
Clay iu 1811, is offered for sale al U
ton by the great man's grand -on.
New York eabinetankera are i
agitating tho eight-hoi:
workingmen arose confined to thai
'..or as to be obliged to neglect the prop-er
moral aud physical culture ol tl
selves aud families.
The jury of insjnest cat i the ds -
the WOtkmen who were killed by
falling of Iho Buffalo, V Y., round!)
while iu process of construction, dee'
the builders responsible, owing lo '
diffi rent caro and supervision.
The proper caper at Newport just uon
is for tho young ladies who belong lo
tho 'cottage families" to play
makiug iu the dairies, and fen the young
meu who make a living by sacking the
heads of their cants to look on ad
ingly.
■Yea,' siid the hornj
gloomily, 'last rear we hadn't
to put in our bams, and this year ti
so much stuff that we can't take care of
i*, and u heap's bound to be spoils i.
There ain't any luck for il bu
how.'
The Saturday Review ay lbs
frugality and quickness of iu
the Welsh often secure .them advance-taentand
prosperity, especially in I
trade; and yet it is odd thai uo W
man ever attained, in uny waiit ol lifi
highest order of eaiinei i a.
The inhabitants of Hanuibal,
York, are shocked at lbs C tuduot of a
farmer, who, having bi itgbl oni of the
town cemeteries, is pi < lie
says it is his by de< l,andifpi iplei
win,I tbeb relativi-i tun | till
plowshare, they Ind both r di -
theni solves.
Owing to tho tea deal-city
offering china ami gli. ■ I
premiums to purchasers, the era
merchants hold a meeting an I appointed
a committeo to secure for them
prices from tho importers d tea
coffee., that they might retali
men who were ruining I heir tra '■' .
While an express train war- roue
a si iced of thirty miles an houi
Bayview, Maryland, a little girl m
her sister, and imagining she- ha I I
ont of a window, run to the do >i "f tl e
ear aud sprang off, and strange to s.y
received only a few slight
William Uuril is conducting r.
meetings iu a novel manni t Q
England. Ho has a tent wi '
capacity for 2,000 pat
pitches in a town, and the I
•trei I parade with gaudily p ttted
ooa; the evangelist, [lev. El
gomery, a vi ry bendson peer-ing
on oue of the win-
All tho anthracite or had e
America, of which more titan forty-millions
of tons are mined .:
the State of Pennsylvania, fr
counties of Dauphin, Horthun
S-huylkil],Curb >n and Lnzerne,
its area, if joined together, would
form a small county twenty B
nut! twenty four miles lo
Five hundred persons M ■ ll led
point in Alabama, neat tlin Id
line, to witucss a du-l I ■
tlemen. Tho combatants fire
..ther with small pistols at a -ii -
tanee of tea passs, without .,'
injured, wheteupoa the
vantage of the eoJe
[used to perrnil a SK
Tho clause in tho n- * M
liquor law requiring every Ii |Uor d
to get the writt-ti oooset tof I
of the premises, isa souree of ■■
We iu the trade, bi
tale owners, while will ng to
money of snob tenants, refuse to ■
nut themselves on paper. Home of tho
most prospetons places ii II
be closed.
AUieCowger recently wei t tn li
lecture on education at ('«■«
Ind. The speaker said In
else ought to be sscnfi sc-quirrmont
of knowledge,
home deeply impr wssd by wl
heard, stole a horse
rode fifty miles to a fen ■
had bargained for schooling w I
suing constable arrived.
Smitary authorities in Irelan i ap-be-ginning
to put the law into
with the view of proventing the sprea .
of infection caused by the 01 -• im of
holding wakes. A man has I
cnted by the Dublin public I
mittee for holding a wake on
of a child who died of smallpox. It
waa said that a person who attended the
wake has ainoe died of the same dis-ease.
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