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The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-09
BOnnetS.

A fashionable girl says: What are
called poke bonnets are most popular at
present with young ladies. These are
slender shapes worn OH the back of the
head, and extending high above it. In
stead of having aaring brims, they are
close on the sides, and the whole top of
the head is left uncovered. These shapes
in cream colored felt, or in velvet to
match costumes, are used for dress hats.
They are trimmed with soft silk and two
nodding demi-plumes. An ornament of
gold or of silver is seen on many hand
some velvet hats, yet most milliners use
such decorations with care. A bird g
wing stuck in tho face trimming is
also popular fancy with stylish young
ladies.
The last importaticns are capote bon
nets, shaped like babies bonnets, with
ont a frame, and with cape and soft
crowns that can be crushed without in
jury. The front frames the face, and is
tied under the chin, like the old-time
cottage bonnets-a warm and comfort
able fashion that we predict will become
popular next winter after the poke-bon-
nets now worn have exposed the head of
the wearer and brought on neuralgia
and other ailments. A pretty capote of
brown silk, with crown and cape in one
piece, has brown o trich ruche for face
trimming, and damask rose. A long
scarf of ecru lace passes over the
top, and serves for strings to tie under
the chin.
The Italian Brigand is the name given
new round hat of black velvet, or of
velvet made with high pointed crown
and wide brim turned down. A scarf of
scarlet silk, with gold bands in the end,
is twisted round the crown, and an odd
little aigrette of game feathers is stuck
in the back.
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VOL. II.--NO. l2,
Believe Me.

Believe me, when tell thee, darling,
That my heart is warm and true;
And the years have only brought up
Hope and love combined with you.
Bitter memory wakes the sorrow
That has slumbered many years;
But the daylight hour is nearing
When we meet in smiles and tears.
The world may scofr aud turn coldly
On my track DER land or sea,
Yet I'll bear the blow more bravely
II it leads to love and thee.
Lonely hours and fading pleasures
Fill the mind with days gone by,
When we kissed our little treasures,
Parting sadly; you and I.
Fate and fortune ever battling
In the ranks Of bounding life.
Down to-day and up tomorrow
I Is the lesson Of the strife.
Loving hearts must never falter;
Hoping onward to the last
Breast the storm without murmur;
God will help when all is past.
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A Strange Proposition.

A New York paper, the Graphic, in
all sincerity puts forth the following
strange settlement of the capital pun
ishment problem. We publish it as a
curiosity simply AS there is preju-
dice against the putting to death of
persons whose neurosis crops out in
murder, a hint as to what should be
done with them might well be taken
from the insect world. When wasps
have laid their eggs they confine beetles
near them for food; but should they
kill the beetles they would be mass of
corruption by the time the eggs were
hatched, and should they leave them
fully alive, they would sprawl about and
kill the young larvae. So the wasps
wisely sting the beetles in such way as
to paralyze and render them incapable
of motion, though they still live and
are incapable of doing harm. A man
insane enough to commit a murder is
always dangerous; but as it would be
"inhuman to kill him and UNIV SO to
leave him his liberty, and, as things 60,
impossible to confine him as insane
when he has become sane, would it not
be we'll to render him permanently in
sane by processes we'll known to physi-
cians-to paralyze or reduce him to i'm
becility-when he will feel no hardship
in his confinement and humane persons
will have no reason to complain 1t is
evident that some compromise must be
brought about in the matter, and there
seems to be none better than that sug
gested by the wasps,
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Desperate Women.

Jennie Collins, in the Boston Tran
script, tells the following story of the
working girls of that city: On Sat
urday night, not long ago, three girls
came home with their weeks pay, and,
as the first one said, "Mother, hold your
apron" all threw their money into it.
congratulated the mother, because they
were so good. She answered: "I wish
they were bad, then it would not break
my heart to see them deny themselves
every pleasure and work like slaves"
One girl, who was out OF work and in
debt last spring, could not bear the cross
looks when she went TO the table, 30 she
in her despair wandered into street
car house, sleeping under car three
nights and sitting in an Office in the day
time. This exposure to the cutting cold
winds nearly cost her her life. When
she found something to do she dropped
on her knees and began to pray.
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Insanity Increasing.

Insanity is increasing in some of the
United States, says an exchange, in a
ratio greater than that of the popula-
ton of nearly twelve per cent. The
increase is also larger in the foreign ele-
ment than in the native born. The
causes assigned for this increase among
the American born population are "the
educational pressure upon the young to
the neglect of physical exercise, artificial
and unnatural habits of living, the ex-
element and competition of business,
and whatever causes multiply nervous
diseases, especially those by the brain,
which result in mental arrangement.
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An Old Convict,

A Hartford correspondent of the New
York Sun describes visit to the Con
necticut State prison, at Weathersfield,
where he came across the remarkable
convict, Andrew d. Wells, who has been
prisoner there from his sixteenth tc
his si1tieth year, and who now, though
pardoned and released, still remains nj
work in the prison.
Wells is described as man of strong
natural build, but the impress of age is
visible in his wrinkled and somewhat
emaciated face, and in his stifened bear
ing. His countenance told of life oi
silence, of uncheered labor, solitude
and imprisonment. In conversation,
however, he is lively and clipper, and
he told the story of his life with ease
and animation. He was thrice sentenced
for robbery, q business, he says, which
his mother taught him when he was
a nero boy. He never attended school
but month in his life, and when he
entered the prison he could neither read
nor write.
He managed to improve his mind
gradually, however, learning to read in
his cell at night with an old copy of the
Bible and an almanac. A fellow pris.
oner taught him to write, and now he
Is regular subscriber to several peri
odicals and papers. He has a son whom
he never saw, and he has not seen his
wife for eleven years.
The warden describes Wells as ga
sensible old chap" and first-class me-
chanic. He exhibited box full of his
handiwork, consisting of small knives
and hammers three-quarters of an inch
long, to be attached as charms to watch
chains. Wells feels the prison walls his
home, and cannot bear to be at liberty,
so he still works in the shop, and
boards and lodges with the chaplain.
There is a similarity in this to the
case Of "the aged prisoner of the Bas-
tile d" and the "prisoner of Chillon. "
Both spent the best years of n lifetime
in prison, and when released begged to
be taken back again. What Byron puts
into the mouth OF the old man of Chill
lon might we'll express the probable
feeling of all the three:
AT last men came to set me free.
I asked not why, I rocked not when;
1t was at length the same to me
Fettered or fetterless to be.
Those heavy walls to me had grown
4 hermitage aud all my own
And the whole earth would henceforth be
wider prison unto me-"
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in it. 1 cast an imploring glance at Ma
than. He hurried out, and knew he


than. He hurried out, and I knew he
would speedily return with him.
At that instant J onathan Morris, one
OF our neighbors, entered the office.
His face was flushed, and his breath
came deep and quick, as if he had been
running.
He fixed his eyes for a minute encour-
aging!y upon me, and then asked per-
mission of Esquire Hammond to speak.
Then he said, in loud voice:
"Nathan Bagley has just told me that
Jasper Cooper's trial is going on, and I
am here to testify that he did not know
his gun was loaded"
How my heart bounded at these words
of hope.
81 saw a fox" continued Jonathan,
"prowling about my turkey pen. I ran
over and borrowed Jasper's gun of Mar
garet Oonnor. Before could get back
and load it, the fox was gone, but when
l carried the gun home, the ball was
still in it,
Jonathan Morris was a highly respect
ed man in the town, and his testimony
saved me from being tried for capital
crime. The stern features of Mr.. Ham
mond relaxed, and the opinions of all
who had listened to him were percepti-
bly, changed. L was undoubtedly bad
boy, but not so bad as had seemed.
After few more questions, and lit
tie deliberation, Esquire Hammond gave
his verdict as follows:
"For the crime of wantonly frighten-
ing Mrs. Lucy Robinson, Jasper Cooper
is required to pay a. fine of fifteen dol
lars and the costs Of this trial"
Father and Nathan had come in while
he was speaking, and in time to hear
his concluding words. Father took out
his pocketbook and promptly paid the
fine. You may be sure that was thor
oughly punished and penitent.
AS we walked home, confessed, with
out the slightest concealment, all the
wrong I had done in forging his writing
to obtain leave of absence from
school, and then in a moment of resent
full mischief, pointing my gun at an old
woman, and threatening her with the
disastrous result now so well known.
"My son." said he, very seriously,
"you now see the value of good name.
You prejudiced old Lucy Robinson
against you by teasing her. You for
feited Esquire Hammond's confidence
by robbing his pear tree and the note
you counterfeited destroyed your charac-
ter for truth. With only your own
word to help you in this trial, you could
not have escaped the heavy charge made
against You. If good name has been
established, and the life record is right,
You may defy suspicion and conquer
false charges but with bad reputation,
it is often impossible for even the inno-
cent to get justice"
have never forgotten the lesson Of
that day. 1t taught me to shun dissimu.
lation and artifice, and since then have
never wilfully told lie. I sought by
every means in my power to repair the
wrong had done Lucy Robinson. Her
woundhealedint time, and as sfatherpresent-
ed her with handsome sum of money,
besides fixing her house, her bitter feel
ings toward me quite died away. care
fully saved my pocket money, and when
Christmas came purchased for her nice
WOODEN dress, which she received with
the warmest thanks. From that time to
the day of her death, had true and
faithful friend in old Lucy Robinson
Youths COMPANION.
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COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON THE SPOT Lice. MGnEE-YuTuREs
CLOSED BARELY srEADY--FLoUR sTEADx-
WHEAT HIGHER--CoRN sTRoNG-oATs STEADY
--wHIsKEY HoMINAL-PoRK FIRM-LARD
TIEMER-pETgoLEuM QUIET-sPIRIrs TUR-
pENTINE QUIET-RosIN QUET-oILs QUIET
FREIGHTs GENERALLY LowER-CoTFRE
QUIET--sUGAE FIRM.
SATrEAy. June l0-6 p. NJ
Business generally light and the markets quiet
anu without important change, save in lew A
good business done in some OF the principal com
modities on Change. Flour steady. Wheat
in fair demand and decidedly higher. Corn
strong, with fair demand. Oats steady Whiskey
was dull and nominal Pork hrm, but rather quiet
Lard iirmer. Frcights were weaker and quiet
Cotton spot unchanged Futures closed barely
steady Coffee quiet. Naval stores quiet. oils
we're quiet Petroleum dull. Sugar active aud
firm.
CorrKE.--The market for Rio quiet. Mild coffee
was also quiet. We quote :-Ordnsry cargoes, 14s,c
y l5c.; fair do. 1876. l6s<c.; good do. lie. =
17l4c prime do, 17sc. l7s4c; extreme for lots
l4asc lss4c. Santos fair to good i6lAc lie, gold
ninety days; Java, government bags Zoe. 22c. do
grass mats, DOC 23c Singapore do, lsc. Doc Ceyon
16lsc 1875 Marscabo. 15c 1siac. Laguayra, lie
Isc 15c &c., st. Domingo. l4sc 15c. Porto
Rico lsc Ice. Costa Rica, lie 1ac Nacassar 1sc
l01.c.: Mexican lie 1sc. Manila. lie 1sc. Angos
tura l7c 1Sc-, Ssvanils. loc lS1sc; Curacao l5c
. lie.
Futures closed barely steady The closing prces to-day
compare with Fridays prices Is follows
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Wheat aud ie n &c better but the ads ancs
checked the demand aud sales moderate.
prising about S2oD bnshsls including about 5000 bash
els late last evening at ~ os Tor 30 New iork lnpec-
ton 81 osis Tor Chicago 81 10 Tor do u ~
VI ~ tor No Mil~ankee, J5iE NO. in store. ~ -
for ungraded dnncsata VI ., r No sheboygnr slrng.
Soc tor unnerchsuts able rye quiet Barley III
active. Barley mait-we note SAFES ~ 1900 bushels
bushels sold, 5pc s.c for Western missed 3sc Zoo
for Western white a. 9sc. for white, f;c for
black Western. 4tc for graded NO. white Jsc ic Tor
white and Soc dc. mixed Corn IN air demand
AMI hrm note sales OF bushc ut 5Ic. 5oc for
steamer bac Tor Western yellow. rr. 5Dc Tor ungraded
mixed. sc. 81 &c. for umc rchantaplc. J3sc Ode
grade, and zoe for 800, bushels mixed 90 arrive
in two weeks.
lisnr AND Jurx.--we note sales 81 $50 bales bntts
ut Else. We quote :-Anierican dressed. 800 800
single. 300 x.25 Tor aoublc aud Si2O xi25 for
rough Manila hemp. V4c, gold; Russia clean; 80,
s2lu. gold: Italian x275 $3.50, gold. jutc. Sac. a
size. currency: jute butts 2s.c cash sssl ncmn 4sr.
god: lste. 5l.c. 5ssc.. xoId.
LSsRED-Ne sales Of 1900 bags. Bombay. at
81 -6is. Tour months.
MoLxssts quiet We quote Cuba. centrifugal
aud mixed, re. 2sc; clayed. lYe BE.
ado refining. Zoe J4c grocery. BE. Zoe
orleans lair TO good 4cc. prime choice Bic &c
NAVAL srvRssfhe general tone Of the market nn-
changed: LOO bbs spirits turpcntlne kod ut Juc. We
quote spirits turpentine, BE good
strained. 81 u, 81 10 TarWashngon - ~ =. 20
Wilmington e. 10 - 20 Adviccs from Wilmington wrre
ows;-osin steady; strained. 81 ~. sooo strained
- -. Far hru. 81 o. Turpenfne steady son. II ~;
virgin. ~ spirits tie ady; re.
Nc note sales y New Bedford OF 100 bbs sperm
ior manufacturing private teras We quote Lnsrea
4sc soc. yelow 5Bs. ssc white winter, ,c
lard prrsenf make. tc nsc sperm, crude. 81 ia do
bic aeed winter 81 40. do. natural do ~. whale crude
Northern 49,; do. SOUTHERN be; beschsd WINTER sve
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ending to-day are: legal tenders ST. $50 600; SILVER
$13, 700.
silver is quoted to-day at 5lkd ; ESQ 900 bullion
went into the Bank of England balance. In Pars
exchange London 25f 26sc Tor short sight, Rentes
105C 32lc. for the account In Frankfort United
States bonds now ives 1921. The weekly state
ment 0; the Imperial Bank Of Germany shows de-
crease OF . 665, 900 marks
THE FOREIGN MARKET
Foreign advices report further advance In consols
consequent on the subsistence OF the grave anxiety
which has existed reference 20 the Eastern ques
tion
United States bonds were without change, except
for 1857 and nvcs, which rose to ll0,. for tho
former and 10 1861 for the latter Erie was J. per
lower, selling at 1ass. The following quota
lions hslfpast r. NJ :-Consols Tor money, 93ss
"a; do for account, s3,s a 81; hve-twenty bonds,
1865. old, lo44; do, 1867, 1l05s tenforty do, lo7;
nes hves, 1851 Erie, Ia. do, preferred ISL 10.
RAILROAD
Railroad bonds strong the largest advance hav
Ing u in New York Central Of 1883 and Ham
nibal and ST. Joseph Fights The bonds of the Wis
roads Grm, aud those of the Pacific roads
steady. Ohio and Mississippi consolidated sinking
funds in exception TO the general list u lower
The Pacific sold l05 for Union rsts, 100
land grants l0l for Western and 93 for Central Pa
ci6c, California and Oregon Branch. Iohigh and
wilkosbarre consolidated firm at o3 a 93is, and
Hannibal and St. Joseph convertible At 70 79l Har-
lem coupons 1rsts sold at 1lGsx and c. c.. G. and /.
rsts 1851, Northwest consolidated gold coupons
fell OF TO 90 90h and Ohio and Mississippi consoll-
dated sinking fund to 991s.
BANK SHARES
The sales OF city bank shares were 20 Leather Manu-
facturers' at loo and 10 Republic TO- In other in
vestments we notice sale OF New York Gas at 135.
STATE BONDS
In State bonds Missouri long were strong and
advanced to 1915, the highest price for long time
past Tennessee sold at 42ss.
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Government bonds firm and in good demand.
The largest transactions in ls67s which sold at
1921 The following were the latest quotations -
United States skies, 1881 registered, 1l97s 1903, do
do, do, coupon, 123s. ia; do. do, 1885, regis.
tered, 1864 1l65s do. do, do coupon ll5s 1l6s
do do do, new registered, 1865 a1l7; do. do, do.
do, coupon, l204 1905 do. d. 1857, registered,
1195l 1928 do nvc-twenties coupon 1925. l22&
do do 1885, registered. 1907 1909 do do, do.
pom l2 ALA do ten forties. registered 1l75s lis
do do, coupon, llS1s 1l9; do. hvcs, 1881, reg
stcred, ll75s 1l7ss do. do. do, coupon. HIS a
117,s; Pacific sixes 1854 1855
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
The imports Of dry goods and merchandise for the
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S,TArE RIGHTS ruE sALE-IN THE MAxSARD
clothes horse the best cheapest Ia the market. tho
clothes hang apart; the trade supplied.
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Gold opened and closed at 1l2s, with sales in the in
term 1923, tho decline beng occasioned by the Ia.
yorabe tenor Of foreign dispatches ana the improve
mont OF securities in London GoId loans made ut
per cent for carrying hat, and at per cent for
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delivered contract. 800 bales For future delivery
the follows: Yesterday alter two 4. Munc
100 at il'ae july loo At II io,iye August LOO AZ
u l3c. 100 lie, 500 II 10 Ioc; October 800 at
n 1Jl6c. November 200 At IL s32c. Total 4SD bales
To-day up r. MJune. 100 II 81 sc. July, POD
II lJ2c., 100 at Il Lice. l.iOJ at /: lac
500 III IL Lice. 100 lee. 100
il ai-sae., 100 Al iae. 30 y I,;iae. August
1000 IL 3Gc. 200 at ~ J31c, 300 nj IL &C.. 7UD
II o-sac., 1000 At ~ 3i9c 600 At I2ilc. 900 at
I2.c 100 IL iIoc. go II iJlc. 200 l. Lie .
October 100 ut II ~ i2c November 100 At II b. &c.
- BE. 2Op 1T e. DECEMBER 100 ut III 53-e ;
January 2UJ At I1s.c Total. 600 Lalcs Grand
rne receipts the ports follows .Gaiyes
ton iOI bales; New Orleans $50; Mobile III: savannah
n Charleston ITO, Norfolk III New York. H. Boston 10:
rhilsdephs. 81 Total ss, bales i's aay at wce.,
L. 4u3l l94 Cotton rcishts closed follows To Havrc.
BY steam &C. compressed To Hamburg. by steam 5sc.
com pressed To Bremen by steam 4c., compressed 10
Liverpool. 5-I5c. by by sail. 9.S.d.
FLOUR DtsKAis-keceipts-tlcur ~, $50 bbs: wheat
2iD.75s oushels meal JTh 1862 bush.
ccrn 10 800 do barley malt. i'J do. The onr
kc exceedingly quiet but prices were nominsy I'M
changed. The about 1000 bbis.. including
stale Western southern, the annexed quotations
quis with 3vi bulls at - - 30
Corn meal quiet with sales OF 600 bnl.. - 40
- for Brandy anl - NJ 81 :. os Western Jc
aud 81 nil, - Dunfe
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The Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway day
the Supreme Courts Of Ohio Indiana and Illinois Tho
road bought by the following committee Of the gold
bondholders -Messrs John w. Ellis, John I. Martin,
George L. seney, Alexander N. White and H. A. " Post.
The total issue Of gold bonds is S. 600 OcO and this
committee represent 81, 943,O 0o This sale exungushes
both common and preferred stock amounting to
SIS 0OO and relieves the road OF several unpron
able leases So 600 900 bonds No
bonds which precede the gold bonds under which FORE
closure made disturbed. This Ii tho most i,n-
portan sale OF railroad property made for many years
The following the comparative earnings OF the
Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad
First week, June, 1876. $40 $50
First week, June, TO- $50
increase. $2U. 700
The following are the comparative earnings OF the
Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad Company
First week of june S76.................$2 41 900
First week Of June, 1875 .............. IT'S $50
increase $62, 90
January to Juna !, I've months, / week
ioio..... S2S, 62S
lEcrcase. .................... $a9o, 49,
The earnings Of the st. LOUIS Kansas City and North
Railway Company for
FIRST week in June, 1875 s5l $40
First week III June, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. AZ 255
increase. $l2, GA
MINING STOCKS
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quifemcntA SO, 400 $50 SIG 0sI 40 Dec. $5'4U'a
INVESTMENT SHARES.
Investment shares brought the following dgures view
Jersey Central s3,a 81 Rock Island, 1919 1914
1914 Illinois Central, 81 Cleveland aud r,ttsburs,
guaranteed, y2is ss>s Delaware and Lackawanns,
tvs.; Norris and Essex lo4 New York aud New
Haveu, 49, Chicago, burlington and quincy 1863
Delaware and Hudson, l0oss Producers aud Pctro.
ieuIn ll'ss III. Il.i4; Wells Fargo Express 9ot
New York Genital, 1884, lo7 !. alos
TaE UNITED TREASURY
Washington advices state that the Treasury holds
s943, soo 600 In bonus circulation de
crease the week s20o.u0o Bonds held 10 secure
public deposits SIS. 500 Revenue receipts to-day
$40 ooo customs receipts, x4oov00. bank notes re-
cslsed TOR redemption, ovo. ooo; the wces
oA.ssQesa SAs Treasury shipments Tor Tie week