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i THE STlHDiRD. II Ti ll A D. -in p'tu, TANDAJR VOL. III. NO.

30. CONCORD, N. FRIDAY, AUGUSTS, 1890. WHOLE NO. 143..

i 1 1 i 5 .3 WK DO ALL KINDS OF ZZ-IS THE EAT EST MA MA XX Eli Tyy; LOWEST RATES. "Ail A Special Special; Special '-Special Special Special oial SPECIAL- Special special Special Special Snc.inl Special Special Special TO- MKX NLY! ONLY! LADIES DO NT LADIES DON'T HEAD THIS. HEAD. THIS i Xhi wivk we are -offerim: Moleskin for S5-cts. Jut like you liavf Uvn buying at 6-1-5.

-ALSO- Just received '15 cases Men's Fui Hats in latest summer styles aud colors, and at 25 5er cent mule value. Au elegant line of Fur Crushers in four different colors, 75 cents and 1. Also we want to ay that we are atl'juarters for Overalls I j. We have a Blue Ourall for 50 cents that against any you il! Pi-Ii-il! i i'liv tor 6o Also i row ami Mode Ducks, Coat3, Shirts and Jumpers. ALL STYLES.

A i'lLL LIKE OF THE CKLE- iii: vTKo Sweet Okr Overact. SlITS THAT will keep you AS (LEAK AS JF YOU WERE IK A BA3TD-, BOX. i -( 0 A I) SEE II EM COME AN SEE THEM JUST FOR CURIOSITY. JUST FOli CURIOSITY. A i ice line.

A nice line. 5 of of Colored Mahaiis( Colored Mahairs and and Alpaccas, IN COATS AND VESTS. ALSO Skkksuckeks Ako Fancy Flannels, pok Coat and Vest. single Coats at 50 cents in Cotton I Felzsr Cannons LARGEST PAPER -PUBLISHED IN CONCORD CONTAINS MOKE KEADINCr MATTEK THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. A large portion of the twisiness 1lt-f tf T.li IT 1 wujcui aiis, 'was tirned yesterday.

The Indole eiit btate Convention of Nevada pii4s a full ticket in the field. old bars to an immense value jire bei'flg exported to Europe. Mrs. Cooper, wife of the late Gen. Samuel Cooper, Adjutant General of the Coof ederato States, ciied yester- day.

-Four more bodies of" tlie victims of the disaster in Chesapeake-bay have been found. LAn explcK sion from fire damp in a french mine Tuesday killed 98 persons. l--The Exchange adopts resolutions condemning the Lodge bill.and the proposed boycott also A favorable committee report has been made to the House on Mr. Conger's compound lard bill. The democrats of the fourth Geor- gia district have nominated an Alh- ance man to succeed the present" member, Thos.

W. in Con- gress. cowboys in a western train compel the passengers to give- up their valuables. -The Republicans of Tennessee yesterday in con-vention nominated Lewis S. Baxer for governor by A fire in Chicago last night destroyed ten acres of lumber.

A lay of Summit, commits suicide through dread of hydrophobia. Many Republican members would like to rebel against iSpeaker Reed but are afraid, He becoming somewhat alarmed- at the growing sentiment against him. His conduct is rupturing perional, as well as political friendships. -Diseased cattle have recently arrived in -Liverpool from New York. The Saii Salvadorians continue to defeat the Guatemala troops.

Cholera is pausing eighty dealh3 a day in Mecca. Disturbances are reported from Samoa. A general strike was ordered yesterday on all public school buildings- being repaired in New York I citv. Tlie bodies of two more victims of the Steamer Louise disaster have recovered, making fourteen in, all. Over five million dollars worth of gold bars have been shipped from New York this week.

General Rivas, in command of an" army in San Salvador has turned traitor and is attacked the capital. The constitutional amendment allowing Chicago to issue $5,000,000 of bonds in aid of the world's fair ha3 passed both houses of the Illinois Legisla Ihe rumor that the Russian government would enforce against the Jews the'edicts of 1882 is unfounded. de nies ever having sent a mission to the Vatican. The W. C.

T. assembly closed its session last nigh. Suwannee countv, had its first hanging in twelve years yester day. Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson yesterday, tendered the President his resignation. Hoiu'D.

Russel has' written -a letter to Senator Hoar taking strong ground against the force A Hungarian settlement near Pitts-! burg, wa3 burned An impromptu duel in the streets of Greenwood, results in the killing of one man and the wound ing of the other. Twenty-four men have been in dicted for cutting a leve0 last April. Nine thousand acres of rice and cotton haa been destroyed on the- River Nile by an inflow of salt water. Soldiers from some of the ltal- ian regiments are deserting by the wholesale. -President Celman, of Argentine Republic, issue's a peculiar manifesto.

The rebellion in San-. Salvador is over andtheOuatemalan my has been withdrawn. ator Blair introduces a resolution instruction: the committee on rules to report a gag rule. Two attempts have recently been made to wf'effk the fast mail from St. John's, N.

to Boston. The Secretary of the Treasury has made a change in the manner of making the monthly public 4dbt statements. Famine in the Soudan is causing one hund- red deaths a dayv The bank of England rate has advanced to 5 per cent. The foreign demand for gold is expected to continue. Imports at New York are remarkably heavy, while exports are very light.

The daughter of the Emperor of Austria gives up her prospects of the throne to marry the man of her choice. A man at Long Branch shoots his invalid wife and is sorry because the wound did not prove fatal. MrB, E. Harris tells us that he saw an open boll of cottou yesterday J. Harris's farm.

It was a full grownvhell and had opened last Friday. is a warning to the basket makers that it will soon be their wares to be brought into service. This Tickle Tbe Kladrd. To eee an old man lean up again the wall on the seat and go to sleeA iff church and when he wakes up draw a long breath and nod aw head like he knew what the preacher had said and it suited him exactly. To see the courting young man try to fan his best girl, and hold her pajasol, and gloves, and hymn book and try to look pretty at the same time, To see what a "bad memory some men have when they -return home and their wife aska them about the articles she had' requested him to buy for To see eight men, each one hold ingjhe other by the lapel of the coat talking excitedly till Borne one, opposed to their candidate, joins the group andjthen act as if they were talking on nojparticular subject and change the'eonversation- to the weather.

To aee a man ride 'through town kicking his horsejto makehim act like he was gala and hold the reins tight when the truth of it is his horse is 60 poor that he can hardly carry him at best. see a Jady who acta like; she had piles of money -have a dude clerk to take down every piece, of goods in the shelf and then declare she can find nothing that suits her. To see another lady buy a spool si thread and a set of knitting needles and then to ask to have them sent to her To see how many things some people can advise a poor fellow, who is suffering with the jumping toothache, to use. To see how some men can entertain a dozen more on the street corner while5 ne is lying about his dog. To see how mad the clerk at the soda fountain looks when the strapped dude, who has just "set np" about a dozen of his fpards," tells him he will "see him tomorrow!" To hear a man arguing one side of politics in order to get to be appointed magistrate, and then some fellow ask him the difference between the penitentiary and the "White House, and hear him declare he "did know, but he has forgot, shore." Wh Is Her Some time ago The Standard received a copy of the Bureau of La bor Statistics of North Carolina.

Like all works on statistics, it is pretty dry. There are facts, however, Brought to light that are worthy of much study. In some agricultural statistics, we find reports from three farmers from Cabarrus, one of which we give below. Who is he? is an interesting question and one we shall make some effort to answer. The report: "12 in family; 4 able to work on farm; $450 paid to hired labor; 80 per cent of crop raised by the owner; value of land $15; 75 acres in cotton, 40 bales, value 40 acres in corn, 1,000 bushels, value $600; 30 acres in wheat; 500 bushels, value $500; 20 acres in bushels, value $100; acre in peanuts, 10bushels, value i acre in sweet potatoes, 25 bushels, value $12; I acre in Irish potatoes, 50 value $25; i acre in cabbage value 1 acre in orchard, value $50; acre in grapes, value 20 acres in clover, 80,000 pounds, value $400; wages to day hands men 50c; women, .40 to 50c; wages per month paid men $8 to $16; women $4 to The value of the several crops raised on the farm is $3,302.

We don't believe the report This 1 report was gotten, up by some man, who (sincere though mistaken) thought it about the size of some man's farming 'operations The products of no farm in the county are worth $2,852 over and above thecost of hired labor. Such reports are misleading. One reason for the lack of legislation in behalf of the laborers and farmers, 'he chronic way of publishing and put ting in book form exaggerated, je ports of several big farms, while hundreds are struggling to keep body and soul to-gether on the pro ducts of their farms. Put a stop to this' foolishness. Come down to hard, cold facts.

R. F. Chri8tenhury lives in No. 2 township and he is 61 tears old. The census enumerator had to spend some, time at his house, for Mr.

CnYistfnhnrv has a familv. He has nine living sons, two: dead; four living daughters and one dead. Thus you see Mr. family of children number 16. Mr.

told us that he was never in jail or in court he has never sued any one, but a fellow, through malice, suea mm ior vd cents ne aiways pays cash and raises nis own sap. plies. He works and makes every thing around him do the same, The remarkable part fit it isthe youthful appearance of Mr. C. Why, he looks younger than a good housekeeper, tliat you, nave seen the child.

That gives us an exclusive interest in each other; for we are the. only people in the house, -or, for that matter, in-Mr. Clyde's present circle of awuiamtaiicc. I believe, who have seen it How much, may I ask, have you seen?" Iaw the cliild on the stairs with a black kitten." "No further than the stairs "No further. It went in at a door on the right, and the door was closed passed; it is always closed.

"Not always. But never mind that; and oh, my dear Mrs. Brooks, whatever you see, or iiatever you do, don't go fu! It -would be the death of you, or of your lovely baby liere! ,1 went in once followed tlie child just a year Ego. and novcr'shalll forget it!" Just a year ago: exclaimed my wire. -ix-ivx lurA ixtfifiL arm ami uivr then.

"It is air very strange; when and to whom ftappears. I saw it twice while poor Mr-i Clyde v. as alive; and Mrs. ClyclvJsuiw it once before her first child died, and once when she was about to lo amothcr again. A dreadful storv that; but I c.m't tell it now.

And tlu-n I saw it agsi 1 last year. I saw nothing be-twi-ett- those, times, and no one bcsiJes saw anything, except, of course, Mrs. NowyoS have seen it; but you did hot sec itlaat j-6ar, is very strange. But and what is the child my wife asked. "Nobody seems quita to know.

It is a peculiar po.seaMo.i of Silveriadiea. like tlie birch wood at the back, and it has been for generHtlon-j. But what story is tliore tq tell about it Mr. Clvde likes to tell himself." said she, with a sniilo; "ha wiH not tell it to everybody, though I dare say he will tell it to you; you'vo seen itt" My wife came to me a little while after that interview with Mrs. Vans it tart, con siderably ie Id me hat had passe 1, and then broke into a fl of tears.

Slie had been turning all that was said over iu her mind, and slie had come to a sinister conclusion, "I believe," she -declared, "that Mrs. Vansittart meant to iimplyby what bhe told me about poor Mr.vf Clyde, tliat the apparition of this pliautfm child meant death to her children! And whattffmy seeing it meant deaths to my darling baby! Will! it makes me sick with dread!" I tried to comfort her, after the man ner of husbands, and to dispel her But she shook her head, and would not heed me. I then, advised her to lay the whole matter her dread included be fore Clyde. Before dinner she inveigled Clyde into his study, and got from him the following story: "In the buccaneering days of tlie last century, said Clyde, "ah ances tor of mine, the then second son of the house, was in the. navy.

He is said to have" been a bold bad man, though his portrait (which I'll show you) presents only a ro jully sailor, whomighthow-sver, at times have an awful temper. His elder brother died childless, and he inherited and brought home presently a foreign wife, from heaven knows where. They had a daughter, it is said a fair haired creature, whom the foreign woman hated with.the hatred of the Pit' The child, too, had a favorite cat, and the foreign woman could not abide cats. What followed the story is not quite clear about Thechild, however, died, either through constant ill treatment or by some immediate violence, and my ancestor took some terrible veng ance on his wife, so terrible that, it is said, she wa ever after his trembling slave. You shall see her portrait, too, and note how the face seems impressed with a contin ual terror-a terror of which, it is said, slie speedily died.

But the strange thing is that in memory of these things it is not the ghost of tlie mother that visits the house, but the ghost of the child; and the only explanation I can offer is that tha child, as is said, was passionately fond of her mother. The spirit of tlie child and of her kitten appear at sin gular and ominous intervals. Tlie apparition is said to prognosticate an infant's death, an 1 I must confess it lias been strangely coincident with, tlie two griefs of my life. My dear wife first saw it a3 I have told you, have never seen it just before the death of our little girl. She 6aw it, as you did, climbing the stairs, and at first she thought it was her own child, except that she did not understand the presence of the kitten.

It entered the room you know of on the right, which was then her room, and she followed, overtaking it She was sur prised to find the door closed when she came to it, and still more surprised to see her own child asleep in her cot, and thestrange child with the kitten sat look-ing at the fire. She stood fixed for a little with a sense upon her of the evil unknown. Then she remembered the tra dition she had heard that the apparition of the child with the black kitten fore boded djjath, and she turned and fled from the room. She came to find me. We returned to the room together but the apparition was She was terribly overcome with the dread of what was to ensue.

She was sure our child was going to die, and she insisted on sending at once for the doctor to discover whether there was not in her some lurking ailment He fame and found noth-ing the matter, and tried to reason away mv wlfo's fears, but without effect Then I bethought me of the other tradition. and reminded her of it that whoever, having seen" the apparition, should discover and explata the mystery. wOuld Lay tl.e ghost and save the threntened chit'. Slie- caught at tliat i.h fervent hope. Sho prcptuvd ito seo the ghost again.

She Svaited a night 1 or two in her room to receive) it, but it did. not onie. Then another night slie remained dovn stairs till her usual time for retiring, and when" she withdrew, she saw as before the child c'imb the stairs, before her, arid disappear into her room. She entered it, and saw it, as before, 3it with the kitten before the fire. he could not 'Si'e the face of eitlier, though she had an unconquerable -longing to do so.

Slie sat down a long way oil, and Continued in next issue. The Alliance picnic at Yost's saw mill in Rowan county on Saturday was a rousing big affair. The' table laden with tbinss to eat, was zau feet long. -The immense crowd of OUUU or over uiaue, ai a given oiuai. nni mah and when the wave of hun gry humanity thai receded nothing was left exceDt a trnrfc of tbe planks.

Speeches were made and the young people courted and the old people recalled -tne gooa 01a times anu 1 eTerybody went nome satieneo. NOTES. Wadesboro's census is 1,217 just 47 Jess than Concord's ten years ago. Buenos Ayres haa been bombarded aud 1,000 persons killecL and 5,000 wounded. The population of' Gofldsboro is 4,093, not as much as that of.

Concord. IIqu. John S. Henderson ha3 been re-nominateil to succeed himself In Congress. It is what we expected.

'Judge Armfield has. been remominated and Solicitor Long was nominated, by acclamation." -j M. L.McCorkle, of Catawba, will get to be judge for about seven months. Gov. Fowle has appointed him to the vacancy, caused' by the death of Judge Shipp.

j' Though Eavea and Harris fought and bled, they did not die. The Re publican State Convention held in Raleigh On the 28th mouth. will be of. this Paleigh wants a wiqe manufactory, as the grapes in Wake are so abundant. There is not likely to be an over production of wine, as the IjCgislature meets next winter.

Graham's own township gav Col. C-owles 100 majority in the primary convention. This is the Congressional race. It is believed that he whole county will becarried by Cowlesl Clear the track! The first independent candidate for Congress, for this year, has announced himself through a circular letter. Ilia name is Geo.

li. Tohnoffski which is pronounced To-no-ski. A ten'jyear old boy in Bengal has eighteen wives the six aunts, eight sisters and four daughter of -a Brahmin. Their -ages range from 50 yeur3 to three months; the youngest, beiug carried into the marriage ceremony on a brass plate. The boy ought to be carried out in a pine box and dumped into ariverv, South Carolina is patterning after North Carolina in the selection of a faculty for her agricultural college off to another State, Trof.

J. Strode, of Virginia, has bee'u elected Trcsidea of Cleaison College. But unlike the old Tar Heel State, South Carolina is runnings after a false jrod the demagogue Tilljian. From the Salisbury Watchman we leati that Hon. Lee Overman has purchased ten hound pup3 and sent them to the State penitentiary for training.

We prottst against such a misuse of the State's funds. It is enough to.train convicts to compete with honest labor and give them the rudiments of a trade; bat when it comes to training pups, you may justly expect a howl from our dog trainers, and from others interested in dog flesh. A four page circular letter has bcen issued by some contemptibly mean cut-throat, who, knowing the depth of his lying vile and slanderous accusations and His cowardice, dares not sign his name. The article is to the effect that Judge Clarke, Judge Whitaker and Gov. Fowle had been trading, all of which waardictated and controlled! by Col.

Andrews, the manager of the North Carolina division of the R. D. railroad. The whole thing'can not be short of the basest lie. But the vile, venomous stuff in the article is iu keeping with some more Incendiary stuff you hear of now: adays Thcf author will be found out he's an office seeker.

Mark you. Kmi tit's Fortl. Gold fever is above 5,000 on the gnage. Messrs JJ S. Turner and Hiram Barbee have received their-much delayed machinery, -which -is already placed and in running order.

Lmberson uarmon is selling stock in the Barbee mine. Mrs. J. -D. Cox, who has been quite sick, is much improved.

1 Patrick. KTATK KOTES. They were about io have a little War at Rutherfordtou last Saturday between the whites and the blacks, but peace has been restored and everything: now moves alons se -1'; My' Durham Globe: It is evidently unfortunate- that there-, should be such a state of affairs that men of undoubted capacity, ability and in tegrity are made to gi ve place to others for no better, reason than 'that they do irot belong, to' a certain or a certain organization. only test for a 'Democratic candidate should be: is he capable? Is be honest? is he a sound Democrat? There is danger of. party disaster when new tests are introduced.

Kewpokt News, July 29th, 1890. Editor Standaud: I promised yon when I left Concord to give yon a few items for your paper. We left Concord on July the I4tl for New York. (Imean myself and better half) arrived; in Washington on the 15th at 9 'a. m.

We stopped here two days looking at the Bights of Uncle CSam'a big capital. jWe went to the capitol building and looked all through it and spet several hours in the Senate heard some strong debating 'on the western laud question; did not know any of the debators. We then took a-drive to the White Honse'aud had a look round to see how they do things there. We tookin the rational iriiiBer.m, Smithsonian Institute, Corcoran Hall, Agricultural Hall aud Washington's monument; took a ride up the'elevator to the top and had a good view of the city and the grand old Potomac river. 1 We then Went to the Baltimore Potomac depot and saw the; exact spot where Pre'iden Garfield el 1 when shot on July 2nd, 1SS1.

Imbedded in the floor is a gold star just his head struck, and theTwall is marble bus of Garfield anj'aii account of his assasi ionWc boarded he train here for PhilaiieifsWaMand arrived there in three hoTurs. jWe stopped there or.e day and night and visited many placeiof interest. 1 From there we went to York City. To saythafc all (he sights in. that grand eld" city would be saying a good ileal; but fest assured we saw the many of them.

The graini est sisht to see was the burning of the Western L'nion Telegrapliuild- ing which was just across the street fronj the hotel where we were stopping. The fire, was bursting out'of all thelvindows when the fire': en tities bewail to throw water on the building. The first thing to be done was to secure all the people. They got hem all out without difficulty but seven, who were on the ninth door. Their passage out of the building was cut oft at they al! went out on top of building, iu phiin view of the many thousands of pe jple on the streets arid house tops.

It seemed that tbey were all doomed to death. But -just when they. wers about to give npin dispair there wa3 a loud report, and up high in the air could be seeu a small thread flying which fell across the building. "Alas they are saved was the cry of the multitude below!" A rocket had been shot with a. small thread which was fastened to a ropt, Which was soon pulled by the prisoners on top, and in It ss time than it takes tell.it there was a brave fireman on' the top of the building and cutf open the door to the fire escape.

Iu a few seconds they were all safe on th5 street be low. I On Saturday the 19th we boariUd a New York Central and River (limited) train for Buffalo and Niagara Falls. We r.an on the banks of the beautiful Hudson all the Way from York to Albany, a distance of 142 miles without a stop This is the raa in the world without a stop. From Albany we went to Utica, Rochester and arrived in Buffalo at 9 p. m.

From here went to Niagara fallf, and'arrived there at 10:30 p. in. We spent two days and nights herelook- ingiat the beautiful, works of natniie. The places of interest which we visited were Path Island, Goat Islaud, American Falls, American Rapids, GaVeof the Winds, Luna Island, Horseshoe Falls, Three Sisters' Is- Hermit's Cascade, Prospect Railway, new suspension bridge, Cantilver bridge, old suspension bridge, whirlpool rapids, Capt. Webbs swim, whirlpool, Table Rock, etc.

The beauty of the falls cannot be described. must be seen to be'appreciated. We visited the national museum s.iw many Egyptian mumies and thou sands of other things new to AmoBg other thin3 we saw Capt. Webb's Hat which he wore just be fore he took his fatal Swim. Fiom Here we went to Buffalo and spent two dayilioing some business, and from here we went to.

New York and put up in Brooklyn until the 20 th wnen we took passage- on the Steam Ship for this place where we arrived on' 27th at 5 p. ni. The passage here was not rough. But nearly all the passengers- ere more or less sick. Mrp.

C. was "quite sick aua for the first time in my life" I contributed mv mite to mighty deep. We are. taking on Cargo- here for the. Brazilian ports and will sail on tomorrow night.

Newport News is a small place just across the Chesa peake bay from Norfolk, 11 miles from Old Pointr Comfort and Portress Monroe. 'We are having some trouble in Fueno3 Ayresv A Revolution is in progress and battles arc being foiight right in the streets; Put I shall proceed on my voyage' unless I receive a cable from mj folks' before the ship starts. think' tliat the -trouble will be settled in a few days ami by the time I get there all will be jgoing on serenely. We have about 40 iirst class passenge'p, and some i L- -Will write yon soon aeain. r.

(I. T. Crowjcll. Towuihii JleeUnas itad Conn I jr Coii-vrntlcn. 5 The Democrats of the various townshipsitf Cabarrus County are requested to meet at their resp'-ctive placiSjof voting on Saturday, August IGthrat 2, o'clock P.

and elect delegates to a courty convention to be held iu the court ho'nse, Saturday, Augiisi 23d, nest, at 1 o'clock P. for the purpose of nominating i candidate for. th loweriionse of Representatives iu the next General Assembly, and candidates for the various county offices. Township Executive Committees will please advertise the meetings to be held iii their respective toAvnships. By Democratic, Executive Committee, Cat'arrus Cuoty, July 2G, Im M.

Arciiey, Chairman. Towxsnrr executive committee. No.1 1. L.1 Stafford, chairman; L. M.

Morrison, II. B. Parks A. N. Harris.

i No. 2. J. II. Morrison, chairman; J.

Harris, P. M. Morris, D. G. Ilol'orooks and No.

3. T. A. Fleming, chairman; M. F.fNesbit, Nat Johnson and W.

A. DeMarcus. No. 4. P.

C. Iruhardt, chairman; (f. M. IVtn A. Freeze, R.

V. Caldwell and It. M. Patterson. No.

5. IM. Lipe, chairman N.1 M. Darn an! A. Post and Geo.

Barnhardu No. 0. S. C. Fisher, chairman; II.

D. Walker, L. C. Ritchie, A. J.

JJjipard and A. A. Cruse. Noi 7. 3Ioses chairman; C.

L. uiimao, Lt-utz, M. Moose, and D. M. Moose, Jr.

No. S. H. C. McAllister, chair- 1 rr man: U.

u. uemg, l. a. Closer, John Hah and D. C.

Fagtart. No. 9. G. Barn hard chair- man; 31.

n. Jeuer, o. ci. wnnr.i, ii. O.

Miller and C. F. Smith. No. 10.

John S. Turner, chair- -i Hf Tt TT 1 man; li. u. uook, v. u.

uuu-jon and R. D. Goarlev. No. 11.

B. Young, chairman; T. J. White, W. R.

Johnson, S. W. White and D. W. Best.

No. 12." Dr. R. S. chaW- mary uinguam, castor, John N.

Brown and W. D. Anthony. Suicide. Mrs.

Dicey McGom wife of Mr. Guilford McGowan, residing about 6mile3 from: Greenville, committed itl is supposed, on last Thursday. It seemed; that she sent her step daughter off and immedi ately after" her departure she to an old well standing in the yard, pull off her shoes and deliberately jumped The well wa3 about twenty feet deep. She was found drowned shortly after and takes out. Her remains were interred in the family burial ground Saturday last She was about Co years of age.

Greenville Reflector. Bombardment Of Bui-no Ayrfi Dnr- in'x tlie Insnrrrr(Ini). Bue-nos Ayres, July 3L Dur- ins tne insurrection nere, an iron clad fleet which Had joined the rev- oln tionary movements bombarded the city for two days. Serious damage was done to many buildings, especially those in the vicinily of the Plaza One thousand persons were killed. and 5,000 wjunded.

The shipping jn port sustained no damage. Mew lrRK, July 31. A dispatch received in this city from Buenos Ayres today, Galveston, says: "Telegraphic communication with Buenos Ayres, via Galveston, is reopened." rhfy Say Tlist. The boy at the sea shore dances to the tune of $4 -a day, besides what he spends for ice cream with the summer girl. The candidates this time are going to the square thing; and not do just anything "because they have to, you know, owing to circumstances." A man who can endure the torments of the mosquitos for jiy whole riiht and not use a few Sunday school words, need not fear'' that in a -moment of temptation he Wiay let his tongue PASTUttKS (iKKEX, Unto new flelds and pastures green lead tlioa Ourvantlering feet, sweet Bbeptrtles-, rher Of living waters gush, and Blow thick as stars, and every laden boiigH I-tletli irfp inahna aye, tlie pathway show Un the parapeted citadels, "Vliero cboristered angels ttnto chimiaz bella Swell antliemg of the Even so )-wl thou uie into darkness, where the light and darkness compreheudeth not, To somo undream'd of subterraneous spot -VV'licre truth's pure, shining light hath roue before him, I To see.

hencs issuing, some -poor, palsied wight Brop 04 liia kneea and rise, thro' faith, to adbre him. i Atlanta Constitution. LOOK! THE PHANTOM CHILD. "Brooks and I and; another sat at mid by the fire, each with a tall at. his t'ibow.

We talked of Mr. 5yftrt, aiid ptfychical of sfiooks vampires, of luminous shadows, and wanderiiig wailing ghosts when Brooks (who-! is a large red man ith a Mini attuned to tales of diablerie, Jtiid a fatal sympathy with thipgs super-ua uiiil) told the following from hia own; intimate knowledge and experience: Uy wife and I spent our lioneymoon in the onse of a friend of mine in a lonely but picturesque part of Sussex, V.Te had the house to ourseivesnot pnly because my friend desired not to intrude upon our first conjugal happiness, but also because he hated the house, and si kt.ua lived in it! lie tiad had some yeais Ix fore a great his wife, a beautiful fragilecreature, lad died in child txl after a. short period of perfect wedlock, leaving him the loneliest and mot melancholy of He had made his ancestral home a treasure house of. r.rt to enshrine the crown and center of all his bride, so that when she was gone iU LeaiUy and its interest were fled Or him. Wr, with the selfishness of the newly married," forgot what the place meant him, and reveled in its beauties within and without.

It was called; Silverladits because of a notable planta- tionxf birciies that protected the house froiu tl.e bjtter winds of the nortli and and that rustjed and swung in the breeze with a plaintive grace and whit ened into fair.sliui ghosts in the moon-i light Within, the furniture, the rugs and carpets and tapestries, the pictures nd pottery, the metal work and lacquer-ware, and the books, were constant springs of delight to us; and they were all so harmoniouslyand unobtrusively disrosed throughout the house that every day, almost every! waking hour, brought; ns a new discovery of beauty but no mystery. A year later we, were there again with our first born. At tne beginning of the last week of our stay our boat joined us to receive some additional company, whom he felt compelled to treat with more ceremony than we required. He arrived just before dinner. He was courteous ami kind; he tried to be cheerful and talkative, but frequently he lapsed into' abstraction, and he retired io his room When I I found my wife (not, as heir wont, snuggled into Led, for it was iutumn time, but) sitting, rocking herself by the bedroom fire, with her hands behind her head.

"Will," -e said, when-I stood before her, "you never told me that Mr. Clyde had a child. "A child I said. I suppose," she continued, "he is a good father, and always takes her about with him. A lovely child!" -I have heard," I said, "about one child he had." "tie must," said she, "take her about with him; for I never saw her before tonight Willj tlie most delightful playmate frr our darling! the sweetest prettiest cb iu the world, with her long golden curling hair falling over her shoulders, and with nothicg on but a dear night gown, and a black kitten trotting Ix'hind lier, twining about her little legs till I thought she would be tripped up ever so many times Where did you see this child, my dear?" "On the stairs I came up to bed.

Slie toddled on before me and went in at the door opposite ours." 'Which," said "is a nxmi the ouly room we liave not been into; it is always locked." 'I -So it is!" isaid she. 'Ii's all right about the child, I suppose," said-1, "but I did not know Clyde had a child living. The only child I ever heard he had died a mere infant, I believe before her mother." "I shall be very sorry if that is said my wife, "I think a child would have done Mr. Clyde so much goodr it rwouhtTave 'him from his weary depres sion and loneliness. However, I shall find out in the morning -what child it 1 j' Next morning1 my "wife made it her business, before, tlie new company ar.

rived to inquirel "concerning the child. The housekeeper! (to whom she first ro ferred) declared with, emphasis that there was no child in the house except our own, which Was certainly too young to be toddling about with a kitten. But (my wife' sgid) tlie woman looked somewhat askance and was over emphatic: phenomena which her astute mind regarded as suspicious. She therefore went to the master of the house, whom she found walking in the sunshine ou the terrace in front of the house. "I am curious Mr.

said she, "about the child! 1 saw on the stairs last night." He. turned a shade paler than was his went, and looked troubled. Jle made her wonder and Uhivoc (she -declared) by tlie strange veness of his "So, Mrs." Crooks, said he, "you, too, have seea it; I wondered if, you would. I have never seen it "Do you mean," she asked, "that it is not a real child of flesh and blood? "Thai's what I mean," said he. "But the ait? the kitten my wife.

"Is that not real "There has not to my knowladge," said he. "Jjoen cat in' the houso for jears. "Good gracious!" exclaimed she. lie seemed oii! the point qf explainin when tlie approa. 01 carriaue witli." drew lata away to receive ins iew tru "sfci.

tell your about it, he said, "by We met the new guoj aluncheou Mr. and Ml Yansittats p.na two grown up daughters. Mrs. Van lttart Was a sroo-J nalured matronly person, clearly fund of taking charge Afiev lurichli'j: took my wife's aim and list awav to, have ft loos -at ine oany. Tiii.

don. she sat down with my wife" by tlie baby's eradle, andher facjfull cf 6 sai I "SI hear from my old friend, the.