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THE HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY plattsmouthT nebkaska. OFFICBi On. Main Street, between 4th and 5th, Second Story. OFFICIAL P APE II OF CASS COCXTY. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months , j.oo 0u copy, three months 50 SKA SJRA J. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. PERSEVERAXCE COXQUERS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME IX. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1871, NUMBER 50. THE HERALD. ADVERTl S r Q ItATES. 1 square.. S square 8 squares. ii column. X column. 1 colnmn. 1 w. 9 w. S w. 1 in. 3 m. 0 m. 1 yr. $1 oo $1 ho t-i oo fa so 5 oo as on f ia oo l oo U" a i: a o 60 in 001 in (hi 00 f 75 4 00 4 7.', I 8 H 13 00 90 01 5 00 8 0O10 00 14 00 20 00 28 00 85 CO 8 On la 001S 00 18 00:3.1 ooo on m 00 lb oo i8 on -21 oo as on 40 on ui on. inn m tSf All Advertising bills due quarterly. flT Transient advertisements must be paid for In advance. Extra copies of the TI braid for sala by II. f. Streipht, at the Prwtottlce, and O. F. Johnaon, cor ner of Main and Fif in streeia. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Contlcnscd from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Monday, March 2. The trial in Lon- don of the Tichlxjme claimant on the charge of perjury, which lasted ISO days, has resulted in bid conviction on all the charges, and he has been sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. The jury was only a short timeout. The verdict caim-d great excitement in Lon don.... A Madrid dispatch anuounces that Count Serrano has been declared President of the Republic, and General Zuhala, the Minister of War, is appointed Presi dent of the Council of Ministers. General Moi ioncz has failed to relieve Bilboa, and it is reported that his army has tieen defeated by the Carlists, with a loss of 3,000 men, killed nd M ounded. A Bayonne telegram says the Carlist forces have occupied the city of Tolof-a, in (luipuzcoa, and Andodin, a small town in Biscay, near San Sebastian.... A terrible accident occurred on the Great Western Kail w ay in Canada on the night of the 2Mb ult. A passenger car attached to the Sanfia, accommodation train took fire when seven miles went of London, the fire being caused, it is" supposed, by the falling of a lamp. The fire was not discovered un til the interior of the saloon was com pletely filled ith flames, which spread through the cyaca almost instantly. The pas sengers wen: compelled to jump from the rear platform and through the windows. The train was stopped as quickly as possible, but before they could be extinguished eight persons were suffocated or burned to death. Several others were injured, some of them seriously A Cheyenne dispatch of the 2th ult. says Mr. J. II. Beter, the Indian beef contractor, had arrived from Fort Laramie, and reported that affairs at the Indian agencies were in a critical condition. He eays that a great many of the late, outrages were committed by the "good" Indians at the agencies, and they were not to be depended on. He had stopped supplying cattle, as he dared not drive them to the agencies. The Indians had killed many of the cattle, and he was anxious for the troops to get there. Tvksday, March 3. The Carlist Junta at Bayonne have received a dispatch to the effect that Bilbori has surrendered to Don Carlos, and that the Carlists have met the Re publican army near SomoTOstro and defeated it, inflicting a loss of 5,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners.... Official dispatches received in London state that over 1,000,000 pconle are starving to death in the famine-stricken districts of India.... A boiler exploded in Blackburn, Englaud, on the 2d, killing twenty persons and wound ing thirty, some of them fatally. ... A Dry Tortugas dispatch states that a steamer has just made that island from Havana, and re ports great excitement in that city owing to the alleged departure from Biltimore of the steamer Edgar Stuart on a filibustering ex pedition, and that the Spanish naval officers had determined to sink her, with all on board, if she was found near the Cuban coast. "Wednesday, March 4. A recent Paris letter s.iys the agents of the Prince Imperial were at work in every village in France as pa- I ticntly and tenaciously as New World pio neers Later advices from Nagasaki, Japan, say that the insurgent forces, which, accord ing to previous accounts, were marching upon the city, had been totally de feated by the Government forces.... A letter recently received in Washington from New Oilcans says Judge Durell had for warded his resignation to a trusted friend, to be tendered in the event of the Judiciary Com mittee of the House reporting articles of im pcaehnicnt .... A Washington dispatch sajs the receipts of the Government from all sources for the quarter ending December 31 were $55, .VJlj.V.ttf. The expenditures for the same period wire $03,S23,537. Thursday, March 5. A Bayonne dis patch says that Don Carlos has been pro claimed King of .Spain, and that the corona tion will take place at Bilboa.. . .According to f Madrid telegram the recent suc cesses of the CarlisU have aroused the national spirit of the people, who are coming to the aid of the Government in its efforts to crush the insurrection. Contribu tions of money and clothing are being re-cciv-ed from the provincial authorities.... Chief-Justice Waite took the oath of his hinh office at Washington on the 4th ... .Presi dent Grant has appointed the following named gentlemen to be Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad : James F. Wil son, Iowa ; J. II. Millard, Nebraska ; John C. S. Harrison, Ir diana ; John A. Tibbets, Con necticut, and Francis B. Brewer, New York all for one year from March 11, 1S74....A Worcester (Mass.) dispatch says it has been decided to abandon Dio Lewis' plan of opera tion against liquor-dealers, and a new and entirely original plan has been adopted. A large committee has been organized, and in sub-committees of two or three it is proposed to first visit the owners of buildings occupied by liquor-dealers, and by prayer and Intercession induce them to sign a builders' pledge not to let their premises to any one for the sa'e of liquor. They will also visit dealers at their homes. The movement i to be private, and no street work will be done.... The Maryland State Grange met in secret session at Baltimore on the 4th. Of the fifty two Granges in the State forty-seven were represented. Friday, March G. Calcutta dispatches report that the distress among the famiue stricken people iu Eastern Tishost is increas ing. In one village alone there have been eighteen deaths from starvation in four days. The number of applicants for relief has in creased from 15,000 to 30,000 w itbin a week ....News has reached London from the Gold Coast fully confirming the previous reports of a victory, and dispelling fears which have been entertained for the safety of the expedition. The Ashantee King has surrendered himself and is a prisoner at Gen. Wol.-cley's headquarters Henry Bou- verirTBrand has been chosen Speaker of the British House of Commons, ne was Speaker of the preceding House. ...In New York, on the 4th, the criminal euit for libyl of Luther C. Challis against Victoria4' C- Wood hull, her sister, Tennessee Clafliu, and her husband, Blood, was brought to trial in the Court of Sessions. The defendants were without bail, their bondsmen having surrendered them into the hands of the Sher iff, and failing to obtain new sureties they were taken to the Tombs on the 5th. An ap plication for a reduction of bail was refustd by the Court Mis AdaM. Noyes, the act ress, died iu New York on the 5th of hydro phobia. She was bitten by a pet poo die about two weeks before Deputy O. D. Hinckley, of Wisconsin, is engaged in organizing Fanners' Granges in Maine. Several are already organized, and it is anticipated that a State Grange will be In operation in April. . . . Mrs. Madden, of Cairo, III., filled a lamp with kerosene by the fitful glimmer of a lucifer match. The cm and lamp exploded, and Mrs. Madden received in juries from which the will probably die. Saturday, March 7. According to Constantinople dispatches a dispute has arisen bet ween Turkey and England in consequence of the arreat of a British subject by Turks in Lahej A Lisbon dispatch says that cer tciu inhabitants of the island of Fayal have addressed a petition to President Grant, praying for the establishment of a protector ate by the United States over the Azores. The President has declined to favor the proposition During the recent absence from his home of Anthony Coggswcll, cf Chapmanville, Pa., his wife died and w as bur ied. On returning he had the coffin opened 'and it was found that the body had turned in its place, indicating that the woman was only in a trance when she was interred. This dis eovery so affected the husband that he is now a maniac. F0KTY-TIIIKD CONGKESS. Satukday, Feb. 23. Senate not in tension In the House a majority report was made from the Committee on Elections la the Georgia contested election case, "hat Itawcs, the fitting member, is not entitled to a seat, and that Sloan, the contestant, is. A minority report was also made, taking an adverse position.. ..Several reortsof committee were made of a private na ture, alter wnien speecnes were maue in toinmn tee f the Whole, ou various subjects. ...Ad journed. Monday, March 2. Senate. A resolu tion of the Chicago Merchants' Exchange against any further i9sue of paper money was presented and referred, as were also petitions of several thousand business men of Chicago asking for an increase in the volume of the paper currency.... The bill to extend the time for completing the Wisconsin Central Railway was passed.... Several resolutions of State legislatures were presented and referred Kills were introduced authoriz ing the Secretary of the Interior to ue. for the benefit of the Great and Little Osage Indians in Kansas, faOO.t-OO per annum for four year, out of the proceeds of the sale of their lands; relating to the Central branch of the Union Paeillc Railway The bill iu regard to the appoint ment of a Commission to investigate into the alcoholic liouor truffle was taken up and debated, after which the House bill in regard to the Centennial Exhibition wai taken np, and an amendment was offered and discussed U strike out the provision authorizing the President, in the name of the United States, to ex tend a respectful and cordial invitation to the Gov ernments of other nations to be represented and take part in the International Exposition, and in sert therefor a provision authorizing the President to extend a respectful and cordial invitation to the Governor of each of the United States to be pres ent and take part in the National Exhibition to be ti- lil at Philadelphia, etc.... Executive session aim adjournment. limine. Several bills were introduced and referred, among which were the following: To give flexibility to the currency without expansion; to legalize the issue of the reserve of $ 1 1,000,000, and to make the same available for times of ex traordinary financial pressure ; granting the right of way to the Wisconsin Central and the Wisconsin Valley Railways; for the admission of Utah into the Union as a'Siate: to enable members of Con gress to do public business with their constitu ents and other departments of the Govern ment and to limit the franking privilege to certain newspapers.... Several resolutions of State Legislatures were presented and referred.... A bill was passed extending to unnaturalized en listed men of the navy and marine corps the same privileges as to obtaining citizenship a unnatural ized enlisted men of the army now have.... A mo tion to suspend the rules and pass the hill ainmtr- izing weekly newspapers to be sent by mail within the county of tlieir publication and exchanges between publishers to be transmitted in the mails free of post aire was defeated til to "Jj.. A reso lution was adopted advising the heads of depart ments anu the omcers or me iiouse mat u is the sense of the Uonse that in discharging clerk, officers, and employes from the public ser vice in their several departments they shall dis charge civilians who have not been in the army or navy, and shall retain disabled soldiers and sail ors. and the wives, widows, daughters and sisters of soldiers or sailors, provided they are competent and that two members or one ramilystiau not ne employed in the same department The bill to rein-aft he tax on matches and bank checks was debated in Committee of the Whole.... Adjourned. Tuesday, March 3. Senate. A peti tion was presented and referred of a large number of business men of New York city, asking Con- irress to nut an immediate stoo to anv further issue of greenbacks by the Secretary of the Treasury and to canse the retirement, and at once, of the legal tender reserves issued.... Bills were reported from committees favorably, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue a supply of arms to Nebraska; with amendments, to provide for the incorpora tion and regulation of railroad companies in the Territories of the United States. . ..The bill in refer ence to the Centennial Exhibition was taken cp and a motion was made and debated to refer the bill to the Committee on Appropriations.... Ad journed. House. Bills were passed amendatory of the Homestead laws; to prevent the extermina tion of fur-bearing animals in Alaska. ...The hill to regnlate commerce among the several States was taken up. and Mr. McCrary, who re ported the bill from the Committee on Kail roads and Canals, addressed the House in explanation and advocacy of the bill. The bill related, he said, exclusively to inter-State com merce, and he asserted it to "be the right and duly of Congress to regulate such commerce. Mr. Arthur, member of the same committee, spoke against the bill as being a proposition in the nature of an experimental explorer of the elasticity of constitutional government Ad journed. Wednesday, March 4. Senate. Resolu tions were presented and referred from the Wis consin Legislature, asking Congress to provide for a ship canal around Niagara Falls, and from the Kama Legislature, asking Congress to take im mediate steps for the relief of certain homestead settlers in that State whose rit'hts are jeopardized by railroad companies.... The Liquor Traffic bill was debated, and an amendment was offered providing that all of the Commissioners to make inquiry should not be in favor of pro hibitory legislation or total abstinence.... An ad verse report was made from the Committee on In dian Affairs on the claims of the citizens of Kan sas for losses by Indian depredations, as set forth in the report of the Commission created by the Kansas Legislature iu 1S71 ...The Louisiana bill was taken up. and Mr. Carpenter spoke in favor of the bill providing for a new election in that State. The Centennial bill was further considered.... Adjourned. Mouse. A memorial was presented of business men of New York representing an aggre gate capital of $170,0O0,C0, against any increase of irredeemable currency by the Government, and protesting against the action of the Secretary of the Treasury in issiiin-r Treasury notes without authority f law.... The bill to regnlate commerce by railroad among the several State was further discussed ....The bill for revising the statutes was considered at an evening session. Thursday, March 5. Senate. A me morial of the lows Legislature for an increase in the volume of currency was presented and referred. ... .Bills were passed granting pensions to ex soldiers; amendatory of the act to encourage the growth of timber on Western prairies. ...Bills were introduced to organize the Territory of Oklaha ma: for the improvement of the month of the Mis sissippi River.. .The amendment to the Liquor Traf fic Mil. providing that all members of the Commis sion shouid not be in favor of prohibitory legisla tion or total abstinence, was adopted 23 to The Centennial bill was further considered.... Ex ecutive session and adjournment. House. The motion to reconsider the vote rejecting the hill for free distribution of pub lic documents, etc., was adopted 121 to 10fi. A mo tion to recommit the bill wa defeated yeas 45, nays 1KJ and the question then recurred on the passage of the bill as originally reported, and the hill was rejected yeas 111, nays 120. . .Resolutions Were reported from the Committee on Elections in the Virginia contested election case, that Davis, sitting member, is not entitled to the seat, and that Thomas, contestant, is.... The resolntious were adopted without debate, and Thomas sworn in.. ..The Legislative Appropriation bill was con sidered in Committee of the Whole. ...An evening session was held to consider the bill to revise the statutes. Friday, March C. Senite. A memorial of citizens of Michigan, protesting against any in crease in the volume of currency, and several peti tions of merchants, manufacturers and business men of Chicago, Peoria and Paxton fur an in crease of the volume cf currency, were preseuted and referred. .. .A bill was introduced and referred, appropriating $ 10,000 to pay the expenses of the Joiut Select Committee to investigate the affairs of the Disuict of Columbia.... The resolution in regard to cheap transportation was debated The Centennial bill was taken np, amended and referred to the Committee on Ap propriations. It provides that the President be requested to extend respectful and cordial invita tlin to the Governor of each of the United States to be represented and to take part iu the Na tiuata'. Exhibition to be held at Philadelphia under the auspices of the Government of the United States in the year l:-"i6....The Liquor Commission bill was passed to 21. It provides for the appointment of a Commis sion of five peron, not office-holders, whose duty it shall be "to investigate the alcoholic and fer mented liquor traffic and manufacture, having special reference to revenue and taxation in dis tinguishing, as far as possible, in the conclusions they arrive at between the effects produced by the nse of distilled or spirituous as distin guished from the nse of fermented or malt liquors. In the economic, criminal, moral and scientific aspects in connection with pauperism, crime, vice, the public health and general wel fare of the people; also, to inquire and take testi mony as to the practical results of license and re strictive legislation for the prevention of Intemper ance in the several States, and the effect pro duced by such legislation noon the consumption of distilled or spiritnons liquors or fermented or malt liquors; also, to ascertain whether the evil of drunkenness has been increased or decreased thereby; whether the use of opium as a stimulant and substitute for alcoholic drink has become more general in consequence of such legislation, and whether the public morals have been improvefl thereby. It shall also be the duty of said Commis sion to gather information and take testimony as to whether the evil of drunkenness exists to the same extent or more so in ether civilized countries, and whether those foreign nations that are com- sidered most temperate In the nse of stimulants are s through prohibitory laws; also, to what de gree prohibitory legislation haa affected the con sumption and manufacture of malt and spirituous liquors in this country." The sum of $l0,0i0 is appropriated to carry out the provisions of the bill, the Commissioners to serve withont salary other than incidental expenses. ...Executive session and adjournment to the 9th. llouse. A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for a bronze statue of the late Admiral Farragut.... Several reports of a private character were considered. ....A resolution of the Massachusetts Legislature, rescinding the resolution of censure against Senator Sumner, was presented. ...Adionrned, the session of the 7th to be for debate only. THE MAKKETS. NEW YORK. Maecu 5, 1ST4. Cotton. Middling upland. 15?i"816c. Liva Stock. Beef Cattle $10.UX13.00. Hogs Dressed, J6.6247.25. Sheep Live, $6.O03.0O. BREADSTtrrs. Flour Good to choice, fb.65 6.85; white wheat extra, $6.857. 40. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $1.481.50; Iowa spring, fl .4'J.1.51 ; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.501.54, Rye West ern and State, 3C(&$i.iaj. uariey n.owii.rw,, Corn Mixed Western afloat, "'9&S2c. 0&UL ..V Western, 61j3c. Provisions. Pork New Mess, tl5.7515.S0. Lard I3,9!ic. Wool Common to extra, 4070c. CHICAGO. Liva Stock. Beeves Choice, $3.405.70; good, 5.1tl(R5 .30: mcdinm. 4.755.0; butchers stock, t?:$.501.50; stock cattle, ft.251.50 Hogs Live, $l.s5fi35.G0; Dressed, f !).124ib.25. Sheep Good to choice, $5.2o.25. Provisions. Butter Choice, 3Sl3c. Eggs- Fresh, 15?tlhc. Pork -New Mess, fl4.12!i 11.20 Lard 8HG3.Sc BnEAnsTUFFS. Flour White Winter extra. ti.ljO(rf'..25: snrinz extra, fj.la'iSe.OO. Wheal Spring, No. 2, tl.lStai.19!-,. Corn No. Si! ic. Oats No. 2, 4243c. Rye No. 2, 85 85'ic. Barley No. 2, fl.55(g.l.58. Wool.-Tub-washed, 4858c. ; fleece, washed, ,jr.C?48c.; fleece, unwashed, i!534c. ; pulled, 35340c. Brexdsiitm.-Flour 6.507.00. 1.40. Corn 57liOc Rye $1.01. 50c. Barley f 1.751.M. Provisions. -Pork $14.2514.50. 8. c ST. LOLIS. Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.50 5.50. Hogs Live, $1.255.E0. BREAOSTrrrs. Flour, XX Fall, $8.25??.6.50. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.551.60. Corn No. 2, 60,l)0?ic. Oats No. 2, 454tic. Rye No. 2, MIX &9"c. Barley $1.503il.6X Provisions. Pork Mess, $14.50(314.75. Lard S-'iSS'c. ' -II- . T-r-T-r. JUUV At tCC. F.nEAOsTurrs. Flour Spring XX, te.OOtP.fi.So. Wheat -Spring No. 1, $1.24&1.S6; No. 2, $1,221- 1.21. Corn No. 2, 5t;-Hc Oats No. 2, 42(& 4--!'ic. Rye No. 1,78(5.700. Barley No. 2, $1.xj 1.00. UL t itUl 1 . Bbeapstitfs. Wheat Extra, $1.F81.58. Corn ti3J0c. oats 18 -'Oc. TOLEDO. Breapstcffs. Wheat Amber Mich., $10 1.50! i ; No. 2 Red, $1.43(31.44. Corn Jiixed, hiyt ti5c. Oats No. 1, 48&49c CLEVELAND. BREADSTtrrs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $l.r6 57; No. 2 Red, $1.453,1.4b. Corn 52,6Sc. Oats 18 Wc. UttTALU. Live Stock. Beeves $1.62i6.25. Hogs- Live, $5.505.90. Sheep Live, $4.MXS5.60. Wheat Oats 113 Lard ! runiic Debt Statement. The public debt statement, March 2, ia as follows: $1.214,fiia.l!W) 505,ti'.l7,5jO Six percent, bonds Five per cent, bonds Total coin bonds Lawful money debt Matured debt Legal tender notes Certificates of deposit Fractional currency Coin certificates Interest $l,720,3ti0,700 $14,678.0(10 9.813.3110 382.078,h.t:J - b0.39O,000 4S.640.494 40.ti--9.800 23,505,0ti5 Total debt. $2,294,58,012 Cash in Treasury : Coin Currency Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provid ed by law Total In Treasury. Debt, less cash in Treasury Decrease during the month Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Com panies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding Interest accrued and not yet paid Interest paid by United States Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc Balance of interest paid by United States f S3. 588,222 3,72i',704 5,390,000 $139,70:',976 .$2,15,880,CGG $2,5y0.047 $4.623,512 646.235 22,386, b'Jl 5,031,317 17,3r.2,314 A Mother Killed by Grier. The Iudianapolis Sentin?l gives the follow ing account of an incident which recently oc curred in Crawfordsvillc, Iud.t "The depot had been broken into that noon, and some money and a quantity of tickets etolen from the oflice, and things generally upset, by a party of boys. WarraRts were Issued, and among them one for a boy named Mike Mc Neal. About midnight the McNeal family were called upon by the officer of the law and informed that the boy Mike was wanted, at the same time reading the warrant. Mrs. Mc Neal was astounded, and said there must be a mistake. None of her boys would be guilty of theft, she knew, and it was all a mistake. Her feelings overcame her and 8he fainted. The officer, however, bearing the warrant had no other course to pursue but to demand the boy. The mother again fainted, and, when she was restored to consciousness, the oflicers agreed to let the boy remain until they had seen the party by whom the warrant had been sworn out. If 4 Mike' proved to be the one, they would return to the house, if not, he would of course not be arrested. The officer found, however, that except in name 'Mike' was not the boy. The real culprit was Mike McNeal, a cousin of the former. The officers re turned to gladden, as they supposed, the moth er's heart by telling her the boy was innocent. To their horror they reached the houe and found Mrs. McNeal dead. The shock and grief combined had been so great as to kill her. The affair caused considerable excitement in town." The Pact'Jic Medical and Surgical Jour nal savs : A striking instance of inherited appetite for alcoholic liquors has been re cently brought to our knowledge. A lady, wife of the Mayor of an Atlantic city, was a confirmed inebriate, and in spite of the most assiduous efforts made by her hus band and others to restrain and reform her continued to drink until her life fell a sacrifice to the indulgence. Her grand mothers were both intemperate and both died from drunkenness. . Several of her brothers were inebriates. She had one child, a daughter, who exhibited in child hood a marked appetite for strong drink and who drank to intoxication w henever she had the opportunity. The child died at the age of six years. During her brief life she was known to have been repeat edly drunk. So Inveterate was her appe tite for liquor that she would resort to the most cunning tricks in order to procure it tricks such as would do credit to the ingenuity of an adult. m m There is a man in Idaho who recently found the truth of the old saying, " There's many a slip," etc. He was a man against whom no adverse charge could be urged, except having lived single too long to en gage in a little game of matrimony with a young and handsome rival. The stake was a buxom lass of nineteen, and although the liero "put up" broad acres and horned beasts innumerable, and " went " a rich quartz mine and a forty-stamp mill " tetter," his opponent " called " him on a full hand of youth and good looks and took down the " poL" Delay is always dangerous. , TIIE TF.AYEK MOVEMENT. Continued Spread of the "Woman's Pray- 1ns .Movement Jt I'rocress In Olili) and It Appearance in the East and the Far West A Graphic Account of the "Work in Ilirhmonil, Ind. The Crusade f)ean In Chicago An Incident of the Movement at Ac nisi, Uhlo. The Temperance Praying Movement, grows apace. From almost every portion of the country reports are received of the progress the ladies are making in the work of shutting up saloons and converting their keepers. Of course the largest measure of success attends their labors in Ohio, where the movement originated, but even there the novelty of the movement has to a- certain extent worn off, and iu some localities the ladies have aban doncd the gentler weapons of prayer and song and laid hold upon those furnished bv the laws, the latter being used only when the former are ineffectual. It is estimated that up to the 1st of this month over 1,500 saloons bad been closed in lDhi alone, and their death-dealing contents emptied into the public gutters. The ma chinery of the law has in some cases been in voked to stay the efforts of the ladies, but so far, up to this writing, no injunction has been granted which has been able to stand the test of judiela' Investigation. The ease at Lulls boro was decided In favor of the praying women, but an appeal was taken to a higher court, and the matter is yet undcterminea. At Oxford one Branderberg had a petition filed foran injunction, but on the 28th ultimo, pending its consideration, the ladies assaulted him with godly weapons, and he surrendered, sigued the pledge, emptied the contents of his saloon into the street, and abandoned his at tempt to obtain an injunction. The bells of the city were rung and there was general re joicing. In New York City, Philadelphia, San Fran cisco and Louisville, Ky., meetings prelim inary to a crusade have been held, and it was thought on the 1st that active praying as saults would be made during the first week in March. The following account of the experience of a praying band at Richmond, Ind., as de tailed by a Chicago correspondent, will prove interesting: With drooping heads and funereal tread we crunched the frozen snow beneath our feet, and thus moved along, wheeling into a cross street; and then, the head of the procession sank to its knees. A moment later and the party had grouped itself upon its knees close to the wall, in front of a disrepufable-looking whisky-tdiop, whose door was locked. A tremulous voice in prayer rose upon the air. The rabble gathered from every direc tion and toon the prostrate group was fringed by a dense mob of jostling boys, of men and women. The sidewalk opposite became speedily lined; vehicles stopped in the street; and there was formed a semicircle of several hundred around the praying women. "Dear Jesus, may not this man find the door shut against him when he seeks to enter at the last great hour," was the theme of the iirst woman's prayer, and it was taken up by all the others. A couple or three prayers, and then all rose to sing, and then down they sank again on the icy stones, and with upturned faces pleaded with Heaven for forgiveness of the barricaded sinner who furtively peered at them from a fissure in the window. The outlying mob was simply tolerant nothing more. It did not jeer or scoff; but it retained its hat ou its head, it continued to smoke its abominable pipe, it did not omit its conversation, it looked on without conviction, without appreciation, without feeling. Iu about thirty minutes the procession moved on. Four saloons were visi-ed, and to but one was it given admission. This one was a German saloon, whose owner 6hook hands with all the ladies as they entered, and then considerately slammed the door in the face of the rabble, which thereafter amused itself by banging the windows and rattling the latch. Ineffectual attempts were made by prayers and earnest personal solicitations to induce the proprietor of this saloon to abandon the traffic, after which the ladies returned to the church, where there were a few fervent pray ers, a few hymns earnestly given and then an adjournment. The sensation at Xenia, O., is a little boy of seven years whom the ladies had found in one of the saloons visited and now closed. At the first call the little fellow joined them in importuning Lis parents to quit Felling liquors, and when the ladies noticed this they asked if he would Join them in praying to God to lead his parents to quit, and after an affirma tive answer he knelt and intelligently joined in the prayers. Afterward the ladies asked him if he knew the nature of a pledge, and if he would like to sign it him self. After they became satisfied that he was acting understandingly he took the pa per and wrote upon it very legibly James P. Folev. After the surrender he was very am bitious to help pour out the beverage, and himself discharged the contents of several bottles of liquor. He is a very interesting and precocious child, and is made the special sub ject of prayers. His parents almost idolize the boy, and a little child is leading them in a better way. On the afternoon of the 28th ult. a prayer meeting was held in a Baloon in Chicago, lo cated on the corner of Madison and Clinton streets. Three ladies only joined in prayer, and the exercises were interrupted to 6ome extent by a crowd of boisterous and unman nerly roughs. The ladies have promised to thoroughly prosecu'e their work in that city, but the most bopcf ul of the temperance re formers are not sanguine of great success. The ladies of Columbus, Oltio, commenced active work in the cause of temperance on the 3d. Prayer-meetings were held at 10 a. m. and at 2 p. m., and about 3 p. m. 200 ladies left the church and u arched to the American Hotel, headed by the Chief of Police and one patrolman to keep the streets open, leaving the church filled with people to pray for those who went out to work. The bells of three churches were tolled while the procession was moving. 1 uey called upon several saloons and hotels, prayed, sang and appealed to their proprietors to abaudon the traffic, and then the proces sion returned to the place of starting, w here they were heartily w elcomed and congratu lated. Letters were read from a prominent saloon-keeper stating that he had stopped selling liquor, and from a brewer, saying he would never brew another keg of beer, lne ladies were greatly encouraged, and would renew the warfare on the following day. The movement wai iraugurated also in various other portions of the State. In Indianapolis a Women's Temperance Union was organized and the prayer movement would soon be started in that city. In Waukegan, 111., the temperance question was the issue in the mu nicipal election. The temperance candidate received 384 votes and the anti-temperance 91. A majority of the Aldermen were under stood to be liquor men. At Columbus, on the 5.h, about 200 ladies, divided into four squads, visited a large number of saloons and beer cellars. Quite a number of signatures were obtained to the citizens' pledge, but Eot one liquor dealer could, by song or prayer, be induced to sign the dealers pledge. At some of the sa loons the praying women were insulted and ridiculed by the dealers' friends of both sexes, and at one point the disturbance became so threatening that iu accordance with the advice of the Chiif of Police the ladies thought best to de sist. Among the signatures to the citizens' pledge was that of James G. Ball, the Mayor of the city. The ladies showed no signs of growing weary in their work, and were, in fact, much stronger iu faith and numbers than be fore, the insults offered them having bad much to do in bringing about that result. A Kansas couple paid their marriage fee in butter. They belonged to the creme de la creme. TRUE LOVE. I woctD that every angry shaft From Trouble's bitter sheaf Would wing its flight to pierce my heart. To give to thine relief. I would that every 111 and woe. And every carting care. Would force their way within my breast. That I for thee might bear. I'd genial deem the icy chill. The biting frost and cold. The stormy tempest, love, if thoa Were sheltered n the fold. If my frail bark were tossed about, Of angry waves the siKirt, Calm as on glassy lake I'd feci. If thoa wert safe in port. And if thy choice e'er me should pass. To bless another's life. His truest friend I'd ever be. Because thou wert his wife. Chamber t Journal. A GOOD HATER. BY EDGAR FAWCETT. Near the close of a superb midsum mer day Marion Farrowe leaves her father seated with a novel on the piazza, and strolls down through the sycamores and beeches whose lordly green branches gird the house with a sort of austere privacy. Having strolled down, under the lawn's cloistral shadows, to the deep hedge that separates it from the outer road and the river's cool, broad band of silver, Marion stands for a moment with one hand clasped about a grim, black spike-head of the small iron gate, looking straight be yond into the shadowy, violet hollows of the distant hills and overlooking the light row-Doat mat now pauses just in iront ol her. " Marion !" a voice has to appeal before the boat's occupant can make known his presence. " You have on your sad look again. Y hat is the matter?" And then Marion gives a slight, triad cry, and unfastens the gate, speeding to wara the river, while at the same time Mr. Malcolm Hurst ships his oars and springs out on the bank to meet her. " V hy don t you tell me that my mother called upon you to-day?" Malcolm ques tions. " Simply," Marion answers, " because I was waiting for you to begin the subject first; and, since you've done it, come, please, no absurd hesitation about telling me just what she thought of me." " She thinks you charming." "Yes? Go more into particulars. please." "Ana she thought it nothing except marvelous," he goes on, " that you should have this great distaste for seeing people." " ray do not let U3 pay any more heed to that subject," Marion plaintively ap peals. 14 It seems to me that everything you and I mention nowadays, Malcolm, is sure of leading up to it." "And no wonder!" he answers, with not a little plain sullenness. " When we rented the Brookes' house, in early June, and I met you, that evening, walking with your own brother and my old school mate, Scott Farrowe, even before he had presented me, it flashed though my mind. while looking at you, that you were the sori; of woman to shine in ball-rooms and be courted by thousands." "Oh, hush, Malcolm! I should hate such a life." ' And now I should hate to have vou lead it," he tells her, with a tender tone in his lowered voice. "There is a wide distinction, 3Iarion, between the ball room belle and the the domestic nun. I don't want you to be a flower, my love. that grows perpetually in the shade." Marion shakes her head with a kind of slow impatience. "Hut it is my wish, Malcolm: whv should yon not respect it at least for a year or two to come ? It is not so very long ago, remember, since mother died; and then, father, you know, is quite too old for company, and " Hut Malcolm indulges m a roar of aughter at this point. " Your father too old for company, in deed ! Why, he is just at the right age for t. Jiy-the-by, mother called him a prince. The only trouble is he makes you the ab solute empress of his actions." " He loves me, vou know. However, Malcolm, let us talk of other things. When are you going to Boston again?" " l can't say. .t amer has attended to most of our monetary matters of late. He is there now, and proposes staving some little time. It is really wonderful that we sbould have come back from Europe, after an absence of nearly twenty years, and found that that man Gawtrie should have managed our money as though he had no other business in all Boston." "Gawtrie! " Marion merely murmurs the word, but Malcolm goes on : " 1 here is a lather and son : the son's name is Edred Gawtrie. He has lived in New York a great deal. Perhaps vou have met him there, Marion, for there was a time, I think vou told me, when you used occasionally to honor assemblages." les, there was a time," Alarion an swers, with a little laugh. "But New York is such a huge place, even socially, you know." " l met ijurea uawtrie me last time I was in Boston. Father insists upon my having him up here, so father must be obeyed. If he clings too closely, may I bring him over? " "No!" " Good heavens, Marion, if you haven't known the gentleman in New York, pray have you met him in a previous world ?" Marion makes no reply ; there are some moments of silence, and then the conver sation takes a tranquiler and more lover like turn. It is about ten o'clock when Marion says good-night at the garden gate. She insists upon his leaving her there, ne does not dream of guessing her reason for walking to the house alone. It is this: she wants the darkness and the utter sense of peace for just a little while. After a little she reached the piazza. Gliding up its steps she enters the sitting room. There, on a most commodious lounge, lies the old Major, whom, lightest of sleepers, Marion awakens. A little while before they separate he stares at her steadily and says: "The puss has found better company than her old papa's at last We battered old sol diers can't expect to cope with the fine young dragoons." "Malcolm isn't a dragoon, papa; and if he were everything grandest under the sun you know whom I wouldn't give him up for." Marion, a few moments later, has escaped to her chamber. " I wish it wouldn't weigh upon me so fearfully. And now that Edred Gawtrie's shadow should throw itself thus across my path ! Idiot that I am, not to have seen it before! Edred Gawtrie hates me, for the best of reasons. I broke faith with him when I was a wild flirt of seventeen. Edred Gawtrie hates me there is no shadow of doubt there. And he knows! He will tell Malcolm. Let him!" she bursts forth, with a laugh of bitterness. "Malcolm will have to know before many weeks. Mr. Gawtrie may as well save" me the trouble. Why not? Oh, if I could only hate Malcolm, and forbid him from com ing near me!" Those last words finish with a moan, and then follows almost a spasm of the stormiest grief. It is some little while past eleven the next morning, and not a very longtime since she has had her breakfast, that Marion, wandering near the river's edge, suddenly sees two slim wherries shoot past her at what seem3 fine speed. She just has time to recognize Malcolm before the bend in the river hides both boats ; and beyond there is that great marsh. But, perhaps ten minutes later, Malcolm appears again, rowing very slowly, and looking much latigued. He smiles sunnily enough, however, the moment his eyes catch sight of Marion. " V ith whom on earth have you been having that mad race?" she asks. " A man I've met two or three times on the river, and known he was aching to race with me," Malcolm answers. "This morning I felt like something serious, and we fixed on the stretch between our first gate and Meddowe's Bridge. I won by a half length, but it was tough work I'm not what I used to be at Oxford Marion." " You are not what I am usually accus tomed to see you," she makes rapid com ment. "You are horribly pale, and don't draw your hand away, sir you iremDie liae a leat. He has to take Marion's arm, this ath letic Malcolm, before they reach the piazza. While sinking into a chair, after they have entered the sitting room, what he manages to say is almost gasped rather than spoken : " Brand v-fl ask here in mv coatnocket v , right side." A moment later JUanon has lound the flask, and is pouring the brandy between his bluish lips. It almost instantly rouses him. " It was my own fault," he smilingly explains, while Marion kneels at his side, holding one of his soft, large hands be twecn both her own. " I was completely out of training, and might have been sure such a spurt ao that last would have used me up in my present condition." At this moment there is the sound of a steady. decisive step in the outer hall. " That is your father, Marion ; or do I fail to rec ognize his martial tread? Let the old Major come in and welcome this very in teresting young invalid." But Marion suddenly turns her head, springs up, dropping his hand, and hur ries to the door. "Go away, papa, dear!" she cries. "Don't come in here!" Her voice has the ring in it of a strong blow on silver. She pushes the door shut, and rapidly locks it. Then she turns again, and with excited eyes, and a pale, quivering chin, looks toward Malcolm's chair. It is empty. He has risen, and stares at her with most penetrating scrutiny. His voice sounds stern and hard as he begins: "What absurd inysteryis here, Marion? Why is your father not to enter this room? "i ou have tried my good nature more than once, I should say, during the past week or so, with your oddities and crotchets; but to everything there be longs a limit, and no human patience should think of bearing this queerness much longer." When he ends, Marion is standing with her back against the door, has drawn her brows together, and has made her lips meet in one resolute, rigid line. Then sne speaks, each word being hurried out with hot speed, and in a tone of marked hardness. 11 Don't bear it any longer. You know, Malcolm, what I told you when you first asked me to be your wife. I said, 4 No, no; not if my love were tenfold what it is.' But you won me over; I yielded at last. Well, you begin already to weary of the arrangement. Let us cancel it. I am ready to do so here and now." For answer he springs toward her, and seizes her in his arms. " If you are ready, Marion, I am not, and never shall be. I was wrong to speak so harshly; forgive me. But, Marion, if, as I have more than once believed, there is Bome sorrowlul secret of which I know nothing, why not lighten its burden, love, by letting me share it with you?" 11!. IT 1 , 1 1 xiis warm lips kiss uer cuee&, wnere the great tears have begun to show them selves. For a slight tinio Malcolm only hears her sobs, while her graceful head droops lower, lower, till its brow meets his shoulder. 44 Tell me," he whispers, very softly. Her sobs increase. " Tell me," he iterates, so faintly that she just hears him. 44 No, no," she exclaims, tremulously, 44 1 will not tell you. But I have not said there was any secret?" she quickly inter rupts herself, flushing hotly to the roots of her blue-black bair. Malcolm knows it is useless to plead longer, after that. " Was ever such a saint as Malcolm ?" Marion muses, that same afternoon. " To think of his having answered that wild tirade of mine only with kisses!" The next ten daya or so glide along smoothly. Finally Malcolm comes over, one morning, with" the most troubled of demeanors. He has joined the Major and Marion on the piazza, and sits be tween them, with eyes fixed studiously on his right boot, and with his cane im patiently tapping it. There has been a little silence, to which the Major has given a certain character, as one might say, by several meditative whorls of cigar smoke. Suddenly Malcolm exelaims, looking up with earnest eyes upon both Marion and her father : " I have been having rather unpleasant times at home in fact, worse than that. Major, mother thinks that you and Marion are treating her very badly indeed. She called here nearly a fortnight ago, and there has been no return-visit j-et. Mother is a proud woman, Major, but a woman of clear judgment. She leels now that every hour increases the slight which is being offered her " The Major h is sprung from his chair and seized one of Malcolm's hands just as that last word is spoken. " My dear boy," he cries, " nothing could be further from cither Marion's or my own thoughts than to offend so charming a person as your mother. We shall take pleasure in pay ing her a visit this afternoon." That afternoon the visit is paid. The Major improves upon the good impres sion made at his own and this lady's first meeting. "The man is superb," she tells Malcolm, in her august, law giving way. 44 1 never saw such mingled breeding, ease, wit, and manliness. Your father must meet him. I suppose that it will only be proper for us to have a dinner next week Edred Gawtrie is coming up again, you know, and there are the Curl engs, and then from the hotel we might get Mr. and Mrs. Evevard." Malcolm says nothing. Just three days later, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst call upon Marion and the Major. The dinner invitation is then given. There is no refusing it, as Marion overwhelm ingly feels, with the beaming face of Mr. Hurst before her, so like the face of Malcolm, the son whom he adores. She promises that both she and her father will go to dine at the Hursts next Thursday, but she does so with every in tention of subsequently breaking the promise. That afternoon Marion sees Malcolm, and announces to him : . " Papa and I are not7going to dine at your house on Thursday." " Then you will mortally offend m mother," Malcolm cries, with anger. think 1 see how it is. You wish to shun Edred Gawtrie." Poor Marion clutches at this one suddenly-offered straw of excuse. Hitherto she has had no suspicion that Edred Gaw trie was to be among the guests; but she hides this ignorance with prompt skill. "How can you expect me to dine at the same table with this man, then?" she hastily questions; "for I suppose, of course, from your manner, that you know everything o'f what once happened be tween UB." " I do not know," frowns Malcolm. 44 Years ago, in a sort of secret way, we were engaged. I thought it very clever men to induce a man lor whom l cared nothing to believe that I loved him. behaved horribly to Edred Gawtrie. It sickens me now to think of how I led him on to a certain limit, and then Eim ply laughed in his face.' 31 I lalcolra. staring straight into her face, leels all his anger vanish. "A very awlul story," he comments, as she finishes. "How lucky I never could nnu out now it leels to be Jealous! Hut Marion, my darling, a recollection has just crossed my mind which liears rather oddly upon present affairs. I remember that both father and mother specially said they had not mentioned the names of any of our guests to you. In this case, your putting forward the fact of Gawtrie's presence, as a reason for not appearing i" ui iuic una a n iuu ui inconsistency, I think." He draws nearer and takes both of her hands. "Ah, Marion, strang est oi mysteries! iuu must nud some be Uer excuse." She looks at him with cold eyes. 44 will go myself. I will not let father go, Does this satisfy you ?" 44 It will not satisfy them, lou must both come, Marion." As she separates from Malcolm that day, it is with the half shaped resolve that she will go alone, and that an excuse shall be made for her father that must pique nobody, viz suauen illness mat excuse winch can shadow so many sins of omission. Marion stands, a little later, at the door of the sitting room, having left her own, the lack of color within her face making an utter ghasthncss there.- 1'apa," flie calls softly, while knocking at me shut uoor; and her lather s voice bids her enter. Let us not follow her. For more than an hour afterward the sounds of her sobs may be heard in the silence of the outer hall. When Marion emerges from that room. it is to go immediately and write Malcolm note, in this note she positively promises that her father and herself shall dine at his house on Thursday. me day or the dinner at length arrives. Marion and the Major drive over in a carriage of plain elegance, and cause, as they enter Mrs. Hurst's rooms, quite a little admiring buzz. lhe Maior is more me prince this even ing than Mrs. Hurst has yet seen him. lhe rooms are quite well peopled when he and Marion appear. Two or three male hands are held out to him almost immediately, by friends of former days. and he hears cordial words spoken that ight his face with a sweet, rich smile. Marion is listening to a few sentences from Mr. Hurst, when a voice at her elbow makes her quickly turn, w ith a vivid ittle flush. 44 Good-evening, Miss Farrowe. I have come to give you my congratulations." Her eyes are now lull upon the pale. handsome, oval face of Mr. Edred Gawtrie. And presently her hand is in the hand that he is holding out for her. opportunity Good Mr. of smiling Hurst takes the himself away. To Marion this meeting is an intense annoyance. Her eyes search the room nervously lor Malcolm, while Edred Gawtrie stands at her side, well dressed, well bred, with the suspicion of an amused smile at the edges of his thin, pale lips Hut Malcolm is nowhere to be seen; he has not, indeed, been in the room since the Farrowes first entered it. Presently Edred Gawtrie speaks again. with a sly kind of suavity. ' 1 trust that the present engagement 6tands no chance whatever of missing matrimonial consequences." Marion's brows cloud. " I see you sneer," she bluntly retorts. " I dare say I deserve it. But sneers will do no good." Just then, to her intense relief, Mr. Hurst returns, offering his arm to take her into dinner. Malcolm now appears, and very soon the large company move toward the dining-room, where is prepared a rare ban quet, costly in all appointments, and choice beyond expression in its many dishes. It is not until dinner is about half over that Malcolm notices a very strange ex pression suddenly possesses itself of Ma rion's face. This expression deepens ter ribly before long. He puzzles himself vainly about its cause. At last the banquet is ended, so tar as concerns the ladies' share of it. The la dies leave the table. Marion has been in the next room not more than a minute when Malcolm joins her. 4 Oh, I am so glad you came!" she tells him. " Won't you go out into the air with me? My head seems bursting." 4 Certainly," he answers. Her light shawl is on a near chair. Very soon she isoa the piazza, having hold of his arm. 1 noticed that you looked unwell at din ner," Malcolm tells her She leans her head suddenly against his massive shoulder, with a great sigh. 44 O Malcolm!" she moans, quite laintly, "how I pity you!" " Pity me !" She lifts her head again. "Hush, I didn't know what I was saying. How pood this air is when one's head aches ike mine!" Malcolm tries to talk of brighter sub jects. I hey possibly spend twenty minutes walking the piazza like this. Then Ma rion suddenly interrupts a sentence of Malcolm's by exclaiming: 4 Let us go back into the house. You must join the gentlemen. and I " Here she stop3, star ing at a large French window, which overlooks the piazza, and which thpy are now just passing. "To what room does that window belong?" 44 lhe dining-room." She gives a slight, excited cry, and hur ries toward it, Malcolm following. The blinds are tightly closed, but the windows have been left open, because of the mild weather. Marion slowly opens one segment of blind until she can see within the dining-room. "Do you see them? asks Malcolm, at her elbow. " Di they show any signs of getting tired? And is anybody tipsy?" "See for yourself," she answers him. In that vague light the face which she turns toward him is drawn livid, angaish ful. Then she points toward the place in the blind through which she has been looking. 44 See for yourself!" she re peats, with a laugh ; and the laugh is a little harsh, hollow sound. Amazed, Malcolm leans forward and looks into the room. Nearly all the men are grouped about a certain chair, on which an almost incapable sitter is blurt ing forth nmc choked incoherences. He springs back from the window in his dis may. At the same moment Marion hurries to his side. She points to the window with one hand ; she lays another on his shoul der. "There is the explanation, Malcolm, of every thing odd and mysterious in me since you and I have met. You did not dream that my reason for shutting and locking the door that morning M'hen my father almost stood on the threshold was because your brandy-flask was set upon the table. It is p or papa's one devil! The instant he yields an inch to it he is lost. Is it not terrible that there should be such a curse laid on such a man?" Malcolm just murmurs, "Terrible!" " Last April," she goes rapidly on, " 1 made a great resolve. I said to .myself. 'This monster shall be nut downeven if I devote every action or my life to it. I was doing this when you met me. No woman ever struggled against loving a man as I struggled against loving you, Malcolm." " Poor Marion ! poor child ! poor dar ling!" He murmurs this between the kisses that he leaves on the hand which he has seized between both his own. "I have dreaded so to tell you." she rroceeds, quivcricgly. " Don't think that took this means because of such cow ardice. Ah, no, no I Papa promised me so solemnly that he would touch nothing if he came promised it over and over, you know that I gained a little confi dence, and let him come. When I saw him tnsie the first glass, at dinner, I knew that this must be. There was no petting him away without Worse sliamo and scandal (for wine at once is wormwood to his sw-et nature and makes him brutish if he is crossed), or I should certainly have gone to vou for assistance. But tune he is differ ent Cannot you manage to get that star ing crowd from about him? It is so hor rible for me to think of his being stared at in his shame and overthrow." 44 Yes; it shall be done at once." Malcolm leaves her, and approaches the window. The long French blinds are fastened on the inside, but they can be opened from without . Malcolm, know ing this, stoops down and opens them. Then he slips into the dining-room. Malcolm looks round him, and address es the company with a clear voice: uentlcmen, 1 am sorry enough to in terrupt your conversation, but I fear it will be only courtesy to the ladies for us to join them in the next room." The group shows immediate sign of dispersing, and does disperse presently In silent couples and trios. Not long alter- ward the only occupants ot the dining room are Malcolm, his father, Edred Gaw trie and the Major, wliose loud, thick breathings already tell the beginning of a besotted sleep. "Come." says Gawtrie, 44 let us have a farewell glass of this jolly Madeira before we Join the ladies." Malcolm smiles, takes up a glass and is about to fill it when he feels a hand lay itself lightly upon one of his shoulders. He turns, and is astonished to discover Marion "I wish you would rink no wine with that man," she says, pointing directly to Edred Gawtrie. Her voice is not loud ; it seems, indeed, to be somewhat low, and yet, by virtue of a certain cold vibration, l , i i . . . r i it is ncarti cieariy in every pun u iuu spacious dining-room. "I will tell you why I think be, is not fit, Malcolm, to re ceive the courtesy of any true-bred gen tleman. Having borne a personal spile toward myself, and wishing to deal me a good blow of revenge, he has used to night all skillful arts of persuasion in the mat ter of making my father yield to a weak ness which he has for years known him to possess. When my father came here to-night it was his honest intention to drink nothing; but again and again I saw Mr. Gawtrie tempt and re-tempt him with unflagging zeal. I repeat that saw this, and I dare Mr. Uawtrie to deny it." Xaturally a clever man, quick at expe dient, rich in repartee, E Ired Gaw trie is now completely nonplused. He springs up from his chair and begins, with a choked voice: "Madam, if you were not a lady " 44 Spare vourself the trouble of talking, Gawtrie," breaks in the stern voice of Mr. Hurst. 44 1, for one, feel certain that Miss Farrowe has spoken the truth. I re marked your conduct at dinner, and your attempts to gain a certain object were very noticeable." Edred Gawtrie is biting his under lip now. while either cheek looks quite blood- ess. Presently, making each word a dis tinct, separate sneer, he gives rapid an swer to this effect: " I am really sorry so to have called down all this wrath. Of course, I don't care whether I am believed or not, but the truth of the whole matter is simply that I supposed Maior Farrowe had seen the folly of disgracing himself among assem blages of refined people; otherwise, I twk the liberty of b lieving that his daughter would have had more respect the fam ily and the friends cf her future hmband than to run the risk of what hns to night occurred. Miss Farrowc's charges are quite absurd, though doubtless pardonable under the present unhappy circumstances. I cannot say the same for yours, Mr. Hurst; unfortunately, not even your mortified pride can excuse their absurd ity." And then this liest of haters slips from the room with a little mocking smile and considerable grace of exit. I have left my sting behind me," he confidently tells himself. Everybody has now left the dining-room except Marion, Mr. Hurst and Malcolm, and, alas! the poor Major, wholly inert and unconscious in an easy-chair which ' has been provided for him someiiine pre viously, and looking a sad enough wreck of the splendid guest who entered Mrs. Hurst's rooms with so lordly a presence not many hours ago. And now Marion breaks down utterly. It is a torrent of tears and sobs. She im plores Malcolm not to dream of holding to his engagement; she begs Mr. Hurst to tell her his true feelings, which she knows are those of horror at becoming connect ed with such a family. As for Malcolm's mother, on her account it will be a hundred-fold better if the engagement is broken. These and words much wilder leave her lips. Mr. Hurst and Malcolm both try to minister comfort; it is without avail. She throws herself on a great lounge in the corner of the room, and m ans and sobs only more terribly. They leave her thus for a little while, and at last after she has grown much qu etcr.a soft voice calls her name, and two arms lift her almost forcibly from the cushions, and pillow her head upon a large, warm, motherly bosom instead. "I have heard everything, my child," Mrs. Hurst murmurs, 44 and I hav heard also that you persist in talking wild, fool ish words about your engagement being broken. Why, Marion, do you think we could possibly let you go now now when the knowledge of jour misfortune ha3 made you so much dearer to us? No, in deed! And now, too, we legin to see how noble a girl you are. Oh, there have been people here to night who know you, and the secret somehow got abroad long ago of how you have given up all your young life to your poor lather in devotion and protection. So do you imagine we could part with such a heroine as this, now we have secured her? Oh, no ; never think of it J" Then there are sweet kistes given and taken, and Marion feels a great peace steal into her soul as she thinks of the fu ture, and is filled wi.h a shudder when she remembers the past. The curse yet remains. That shall be scattered by Death's hand solely but it is good to think that she must not hereafter face it all alone in its black primness. And so, clasping Mrs. Hurst very tightly inceed in her strong, young arms, she exclaims, just as Malcolm re-enters the room : "With all its horror and its agony, I cannot but thank God for this night!" " Why?" whispers Malcolm, coming to her side. Marion starts as the voice strikes her ear, not knowing Malcolm's presence in the room till then. Bat she makes a firm, though tearful, answer: "Because it has tested three hearts for me, and found them all true V'Jppkton' Journal. Nevada, a State of mlaes and desola tion, whose only hope .ter its n incral wealth shall have been woiked out is the agriculture of one or two valleys, is hav ing its woods leveled by 3,000 sturdy ax men. In a few years it will be a common wealth of sage brush.