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worthy of consideration. The mu-
sic increases to a tempest, and the
dancers act like maniacs; they
seize each other and fling them
selves violently around, arms and
legs of men and women fly over
the heads Of the crowd. Shreiks,
cries and bravos rend the air, and
the exhausted dancers stagger off
to the little tables in the grove to
gather new inspiration from deep
draughts of cognac or repeated
libations of champagne. It was a
holiday night and the Closerie des
Lilas was crowded as usual, and
prominent among the most reckless
dancers on the floor was Henry
NJ. :. ., from Louisiana. In person
be was tall and handsome, with
dark curling hair and dark eyes,
just the figure to shine in such a
place. His mistress, Marie 10 RENE,
as she was called, was one Of the
most beautiful lorettes in the Latin
Quarter. His father had been
wealthy planter in Louisiana be-
fore the war, whose property had
been lost in the rebellion. He fell
fighting for the lost cause in the
Confederate ranks at Shiloh, leav-
ing youthful widow and this boy
The widow gathered the scattered
wreck of her fortune, and dedicated
it to the education of her son
whatever advantage the South
afforded she gave him, living her
self in the most pinching poverty
and denying herself even the ne
cessaries of life. Some one ad-
vised her to send him. to France,
and God only knows the years OF
struggle that ensued while the son
grew drunk with the riot OF Paris
and the poor mother toiled on III
poverty. At last his letters failed,
and she heard from him no more,
and then came the bitterness worse
than death to think that, after all
of her sacrifice, she was forgotten.
At last the yearning of her heart
stung to it's uttermost tension
could endure no more and she re
solved to cross the sea. By beg
ging and pawning the last few rem
nants of her jewelry, she gathered
enough to pay her passage and ar
rived in Paris on the night Of the
Fete.Dieu. She sought her son at
his lodgings, but he had gone to
the Closerie ball. Thither she
dragged her weary frame and
sought her loved boy among the
throng. There was loud applause
from a crowd of frantic dancers
near her. A little demon, in stri.
ped stockings, shrieked and danced
with the widest gestures, flying
her arms above her head, being en-
couraged by the young man oppo-
site who seemed infatuated with
her madness. When the dance was
at it's heights, wild shrek rent
the air and a poor woman, in faded
black dress, lay dead upon the
floor.
Truly yours,
BROADBRIM.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

A young lady who wanted a
new pull-back, hearing that gold
was down to "Pa," was almost
broken hearted on being told by
him that he was unable, never
theless, to pay for it.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21
NO. a.,
The Latin Quarter.

S4~O ~
from where the dark towers of
Notre Dame frown down upon the
Seine, is q network of little narrow
streets and lanes which have re-
NAMED unaltered for ages. The
Iconoclast has been at work all
around them; grand boulevards
have been laid out in their vicinity !;
stately buildings have been erected
on every side; all Paris has ex-
perienced more or less the rage Of
public improvements but, in the
section of which I speak, things re-
main substantially as they were
hundreds Of years ago. Many Of
the streets are SO narrow that the
sun never shines in them even at
high noon. ALI the doors are
clamped and bolted with iron, and
the windows are heavily barred. In
the narrowest streets the air is
damp and humid and smells musty
and clammy, as if you were enter
ing a sepulcher. It is not a pleas
ant place to wander in after night
fall, for most of the streets are des-
titute of lamps and this quarter is
the paradise of thieves and re-
ceivers of stolen goods. All the
houses have high pointed roofs
with deep overhanging gables
which, from the dingy little shops
beneath, almost shut out the light
of day. Gaudy looking ball dresses
and articles of faded fnery hang
for sale at many of the doors, and
watches, rings and breastpins, the
proceeds of many robbery, are
temptingly displayed in the win
dows. Slatternly looking women
and fierce looking men of no par
ticular occupation, sit along the
narrow sidewalks, conversing in a
patois scarcely understood outside
the limits of their ancient guild,
and discussing with evident relish
their sour wine and black bread,
garnished with garlics and Swiss
cheese. From many of the win
dovs weak little vines and clusters
of sickly flowers look imploringly
up towards the sun. The casual
visitor making his rounds in broad
daylight is curiously scanned
and cautiously watched as if he
were an intruder. Historically
the place is beyond all estimate in
teresting. Only a little distance of
is the Conciergerie, the terrible
prison of the Revolution, from
which so many gallant and nob]N
men and women were carried to
the guiAotine upon the Place de la
Concorde. Close by is st. Ger
main des Pres, the oldest church in
Paris. Among it's crumbling tow,
ers lies the dust gilmore than eight
hundred years, and beneath its time
worn roof are the ashes Of James,
the Great Duke Of Douglas, and
Casimir, the priestly King Of Po'
land, who renounced a crown for a
cloister, and many others whose
names will be remembered in his
tory till time shall be no more
This may be called the picket line
of the Latin Quarter. Within sight
on the opposite side of the river
is the church of st. German
TAuxerrois, from the little belfrJ
! of which the fatal signal was giVer
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

When charity walks into the
lowest places of want, we see the
beautiful purity of her robes most
distinctly.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

The wealth Of a man is the
number Of things which he loves
and blesses-which be is loved
and blessed by.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21
JOB PREsesTEyysG
TERMS CASH.
THE GIRL WHO WOUEDN.T.

The other day a man with num-
erous quail-tracks under Els eyes,
and numerous seedy clothes On his
body, and a numerous pair Of old
boots On his feet. entered Justice
Browns Office.
The Judge was all alone
In his glory; g
Engaged in readiug Blackstone,s
Thrilling story.
The stranger beckoned to come
one in the alley. It was q
woman. She was so near thirty
FIVE that she couldn't tell where
her thlrty-fourth year left off.
She had on q calico dress and a
$40 bonnet. She had q pair of
two-shilling earrings and pair
Of SO kid gloves. 1t was vision
Of loneliness, and she also had a
sore thumb.
"We want to git married, re-
marked the man. - -
They wanted to wed and be welded,
They wanted to jine and be jinted;
And Dan was the person selected,
And his Office they place they had 'pinted
"Oh, I guess l won't-not to-
day. replied the bashful girl as
she hid her face in her hands.
"Come Amelia" )" coaxed the
man. Like.
II hate ter-I'm SO scartl" she
whispered.
"Come right up to the point,
Amelia" pleasantly added His
Honor.
"Ob, / druther not T.
"That's what we are here for,
| darling" whispered the man. You
| know we are to have a ride on
| the street cars and a big
| dish Of ice-cream. Don't back
out now, my angel
Il hain't no angel-I'm only
dining-room girl !" she snapped.
"Amelia, do You want to marry
| this man ?" asked the court.
II kinder do, but I kinder hate
to. I'm afraid everybody'lI know
I'm married, and then they II laf
at me. I druther wait a few
days."
"Darling, would you go right
back on me after I bought you
them gloves and that hat p ex-
| claimed the lover. "It'll be in
the papers how you come here
and then wouldn't get mar'd to
me-"
IL don't care nuthin' for the pa
pers."
'sBut think Of my feelings, darI-
iDg!"
ri don't want ter.'
Arguments and entreaties were
| of no. avail. Even while the old
| man talked to her with tears in
bis eyes she jumped ont doors and
ran. down the al.ey homeWard.
"Gone." sighed His Honor, as he
looked after her.
eyes, gone," echoed the old
man, "and I've fooled around her
for three weeks and paid out thir-e
teen dollars cash! Here, swear
mel"
"To what ?"
The lover lifted his right hand
and swore-
He swore by all the stars in Heaven,
| And by the moaning sea-
He swore by all the forests drear,
And by each single tree
He swore an oath as big around
! AS any wagon Wheel,
That if he ever loved again
He hoped that he might feel.
| Somebody boot a-hooting him
With kicks both stout and fast,
And people calling him a fool
So long as life should last.
Man passes his life IN reasoning
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

A Wyoming man won ten dol
lars on a wager by eating twenty
pigs feet. This was a pigs feat,
indeed.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

a volume that is apt to bring
tears to auybody's eyes-a volume
Of smoke.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

When a woman, however gentle
at home, goes to market, she's
pretty sure to have her own
weigh.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

Man passes his life in reasoning
on the past, in complaining Of the
present: and trembling for the
future.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

A muff-A thing that holds
young lady's hand without
squeezing it.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

When does a farmer act with
great rudeness toward his corn ?
When he pulls it's ears.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21
Dpoetrpp.
THE WORLD IS WHAT WE
MAKE III.

I've seen some people in this life
Who always are repining,
Who never, never yet could see
The storm-cloud's silver lining.
There always something is amiSs,
From sunrise 10 its setting;
That Gods hand made their map Of life
They seem the while forgetting,
And have seen blessed sight
To sin-beclouded vision,
Some people who, where'er they be,
Make earth seem an Elysian.
They always see the brightest side
The direfui shadows never
Aud keep the flower of hope in bloom
Within their hearts forever.
The one can make the sunniest day
Seem wondroRs sad and dreary;
The other smiles the clouds away,
And makes dark day CHEEKY.
This life of ours is, after all,
About as we shall make it,
If we can Danish grief and care,
Let's haste to undertake it.
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70 extol ones own virtue is to
make vice Of it.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

Life is like a city full Of crooked
streets.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21
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Smiles are the language Of loge.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21
God promises nothing to idle-.

ness.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-08-21

The other day a man with num-.
erous quail-tracks under Els eyes,
and numerous seedy clothes On his
body, and a numerous pair Of old
boots on his feet, entered Justice
Browns Office.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
Liquor Consumption.

Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Rochester,
N. Y, having been applied to by a mem
Der OF the British Parliament for sta
tistics in regard to the liquor traffic in
this country, in turn applied to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, and re-
ceived from him the following letter:
SIR Your letter to the Hon. the Secretary
of the Interior, asking for some statistics
in regard to the liquor traffic in the United
States for a member of the English Parlia-
ment was referred to this Office on the 18th
inst. In reply, have the honor to state that
the only information [ can give you on the
subject is derived from returns to the Treasury
Department of the quantities of domestic spir-
it's and malt liquors on which tax has been
paid. and imported liquors that have been
withdrawn for consumption. The returns for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877 are as fol-
lows:
Spirits distilled from whatever materials,
Ale beer, lager-beer and porter, barrels $500 $50
Imported spirits of all kinds, gallons. 1885, 67O
Imported wines in casks and bottles, gal
Ions. 6,1Zo 469
The following is a statement of the amounts
of special Or license taxes paid to the Govern
ment by dealers in liquors during the same
year.
Retail dealers in spirituous liquors, $25
s1oo each. ..........,....... 44s 729
Re'ail dealers in malt liquors exclusively,
SzU each. Ii, oUI
wholesale dealers in malt liquors ex-
clusively, SO each. ................ 420O1
Thus it appears that there were upward of
1876, 900 liquor dealers in the country that year.
From the above, and other data, the Hon.
Edward Young, Chief Of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, estimates the amount of money annual
ly expended in the United States for liquors
by consumers to be nearly 1886, 100000.
Respectfully, GREEN B. RAUM,
Commissioner
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

Dun, Barlow & Co. report that the
failures in the United States, for the first six
months of the present year, are 5S25, as
against 4, 749 in 1877 an increase of over 1000
in number, equal to nearly Is per cent. The
liabilities for the first half of 1878 are $780,
100000, as against 1896, 100000 for the same
period of last year, a percentage of increase
still greater. These figures are Of grave i'm
port as an indication of the state of trade
Never before in an equal period in the history
of the country have business misfortunes been
so numerous or aggregated an amount of loss
by bad debts so great" te5s.e
Contrary to general expectation, the
anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne was I'M
productive of bloodshed in the city of Mon
treal. The Orangemen went to their hall and
the Catholics gathered outside, the latter in
vast numbers, backed by the Mayors 500 spe-
cial police. When the appointed hour came
for the procession the Orangemen did not like
the appearance of things on the street, and re-
NAMED inside. Six of the leading Orangemen
were arrested upon special warrants, the trial
of whom will test whether the Orange body ia a
legal society.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
POLITICAL POINTS.

Official returns of the California cleo
ton give the following as the composition of
the Constitutional Convention Non-P artisans
81 Workingmen, 81; Republicans, II Demo
Gratis, 6 Independents, 2. The Nom artisans
elect all the delegates at large.
The Missouri Democratic Convention
was held at. Jefferson City July 10. The fol-
lowing ticket was nominated Judge of the
Supreme Court, Elijah Norton Register of
Lands, J. E. McHenry; State Superintendent
of Public Schools, R. D. Shannon Railway
Commissioner. A. M. Sewer. The three
first named are present incumbents. The
platform denounces the national banking sys-
tenn as oppressive and burdensome, deprecates
the contraction of the currency, and demands
the unconditional repeal of the Resumption
act.
The Democrats of Michigan met in
State Convention at Lansing on Wednesday,
July 10, and nominated the following ticket ::
For Governor, Hon. o. M. Barnes, of Lansing :;
for Lieutenant Governor, A. P. Swineford, of
Marquette; Secretary of State, George H.
Murdoch, of Berrien Springs; for State Treas
urer, Alexander McFarlin, of Flint for Com
missioner of the State Land Office, George
Lord, of Bay City; for Auditor General w.
T. B. Schemerhorn, of Hudson; for Super
intendent of Public instruction, Prof.
Truesdel, of Pontiac; for Attorney General,
Maj. Allen B. Morse, of Ionia; Member of
the Board of Education, Edwin F. Uhl, of
Grand Rapids. The platform arraigns the
Republican party for corruption in Office, in
dorses the investigation of the electoral frauds,
declares that gold and silver is the money of
the constitution, that all paper money should
be convertible into coin at the will of the
holder, and opposes any further forcible re-
duction of the currency.
Gen. Ferdinand Latrobe has been
elected Mayor of Baltimore.
Something of a sensation has been
produced in political circles in New York and
Washington by the announcement of the re-
moval Of Gen. Arthur, Collector of the Port of
New York, and Hon. A. B. Cornell Naval Off
Ger at that port. Gen. E. A. Merritt and Col
W. s. Burt have been designated as their sue
cessors.
Secretary Sherman, while in New York
few days ago, was interviewed regarding the
next Presidential campaign. He is reported to
have said unreservedly, that Grant would be the
next Republican candidate, and that if the con-
vention were to be held Immediately he would
be nominated without any opposition.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.


The President has appointed John l.,
Frisbie, of Michigan, United States Consul at
Rio Grande, Brazil. gtt tsr.sa5
A Washington telegram to the Gin
cinnati Times says: "It has leaked out here,
from sources entitled to the highest considera-
ton. that an arrangement has been completed
whereby Justice Swayne will be given, in
March next, a foreign appointment, and Mr..
Stanley Matthews, whose Senatorship expires
at the same time, will be appointed to the SUI
preme-bench vacancy thus caused"
Ex-Gov. Kellogg, Of Louisiana, APP
peared before the Potter investigating commit
tee on the 18th inst, and was examined by
Gen. Butler. He testified that the election in
Louisiana in 1876 was entirely legal. The wit
ness gave detailed statement as to the COM
position of the respective houses of the Legis-
lature, and, after reciting the law of Louisiana
at considerable length, he stated that Gov.
Packard was legally inau suraued on the 9th of
January, 1877, at which time there was a
Republican quorum in both houses Gen.
Butler produced tables compiled from
the Returning Boards figures which showed
that, after the board had thrown out sufficient
Democratic parishes to elect the General AS
sembly, it was found there were still two
Hayes electors defeated, whereupon the Re-
turning Board threw out parishes and pre-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
The Family Hammer.

True to life is the following from one
of the American humorists, upon that
exasperating subject, "The family ham
mer."
No well-regulated family pretends to
be without hammer. And yet there is
nothing that goes to make up the equip
ment of q domestic establishment that
causes one-half as much agony and pro-
family as hammer. 1t is always an old
hammer, with handle that is inclined
to silver, and always bound to slip. The
face is always as a full moon and as
smooth as glass. When it glides off a
nail and mashes finger, we unhesitat-
ingly deposit it in the back yard, and
observe that we will never use it again.
But the blood has hardly dried on the
rag before we are in search of the same
hammer again, and ready to make an
other trial. The result rarely varies,
but We never profit by it. The awful
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
The Governor Of Oregon considers a

The Governor of Oregon considers
general Indian war in that region Inevitable,
and has issued a proclamation calling for vol
unteers to put down the unruly savages.
Intelligence comes by way of Bismarck
that the hostile Nez Perces, at present Oh
Canadian territory, are moving across the
Rocky mountains to join those who did not
break out in open hostilities last summer.
The Commissioners sent to the Red
Cload Indians, for the purpose of trying to
persuade them to settle at some point near the
Missouri river, have utterly failed. Red Cloud
insists on establishing himself at White Clay
creek, $50 miles from the Missouri, and utterly
refuses to remain at the present agency, or
to listen to any terms of compromise. Spotted
Tail is willing to make his camp much nearer
the Missouri, but he, like Red Cloud, proposes
to have his own way.
Oregon advices report another battle
between the soldiers and Indians. The fight
took place on the Umatilla reservation, a large
number of people Of that tribe watching the
progress of the affair, without taking any part
der the command of Capt. Miles. and num-
bered about 800. The Indians were estimated
at 400 or 500. The latter were put to rout with
the loss of about a dozen braves. Capt. Miles
loss was insignificant
The city Of St. Louis has been suffer
ing season of phenominally hot weather, the
thermometer ranging from 80 to los degrees in
the shade for several days in succession. Bust
ness was almost wholly paralyzed, people being
afraid to venture out of doors. Hundreds of
people were Frustrated by the heat, and kind
of panic seized upon the community. In one
day there were $50 cases of sunstroke, forty-nine
of which were fatal. Other sections of the
West and Northwest have suffered from tie
extreme heat, cases of sunstroke being reported
from many towns and cities in Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and other States. In many instances
farmers have been Frustrated by the heat while
working in the fields. No such weather has
been experienced within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant.
South.
Mike Shaw was hanged for wife-mur-
der at Milledgeville Ca, on the 18th inst.
Hiram Fooks (colored) was executed the same
day at Princess Anne, Md.
The first white man was whipped,
under the new law which has just gone into
operation in Virginia, at Hampton, on the 18th
inst. Williams, the negro constable of the
town, executed the sentence of the court. The
man was sailor named Mccormick, convicted
of stealing an anchor.
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Beauty at the Bath.

A woman's garments we're recently
found by some young men on the bank
of secluded stream near Dayton. Ohio,
neatly arranged in pile. The owner
not being visible. the idea OF suicide at
once suggested itself, and this theory
was strengthened by the discovery in a
pocket of the dress of a tender and
touching love letter addressed to "My
darling" The clothes we're taken and
delivered to the police. The next day a
young lady of Dayton, accompanied by
some friends, appeared at police head
quarters and claimed the garments, ex-
planning that she was bathing in the
stream at little distance from the point
where they were discovered, and that
she could not conveniently prevent their
removal. The clothes were returned.