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INDEX- THE UEWS. "3he did. It was leautiful said BOBBERS LED REVIVAL! A little sun, a little rain, A soft wind blowing fromr the West; And woods and fields are sweet again, CABLE SPAEI23. i The Dv wager Duchess cf Eucc'ec; dying In London. Cholera has broken out among tho Japanese troops at Pert Atthur.

Heivy ice la the Gulf of Newfoundland Li sauslng damage to shipping and the The new telegraph line connecUrg Man-delay, Birmah, with Pekm, China, was opened. Belgian socialists have decided to con-mence a general strike on receiving tho signal from the general council at ,1 he Mikado has dismissed the pre "03 and chiaf of police of Shlmooseki for remiisnesa la nit affording prctectlon to Lt Huag Chang. The troubles France and Great Brit in the Upper Nile Valley were delated In war-like in the Iloua of Common', It is thought in Montreal that the present conservative government in Cans la Is tottering. There is a rumor of more cabinet resignation? pending. Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian minister of justice, has resigned became he favored an immediate-appeal to the country on the Man toba school qu-stioa.

Ihe American, who Bhot companion In Paris, Is thought to ba Thomas O'Brien, the bunosteerer who escaped from UUcai N- Y-, a years ago. The Belgian cabinet has decided to Imme-llately mobiltzs 7,00) soldiers of the army on account of the danger arising from political agita'ioa in industrial circlej. Tho Prussian government has tecome convince 1 that Count voa i nit's scheme a rraln monopoly is incompatible with ex sting commercial tr-ratlis, it teen df-ciared. Premier Caitlils admits that the situation affairs in Cuba Is grave, lut says that 10 0) troops will be sent there, and II necas-lary, 100,000 men will occupy tho disturb listrlct There was a shootinr affray in the N-r'-h-ra Bailroal St a ion in Paris, between two American bookmakers, Jn which Thomn O'iirien mortally wounded companion aaaaed WedeL i wifelet'a first dinner grow cold, she said. "Not likely.

love." he replied. But don't you need glance in the i mirror?" "Oh, I shall put all vanity aside, niy dear, she answered, "and simply be domestic. If yott are pleased there is uo one else to see, you know? besides, I must wait on you Will you carve "It Ob, said Mr. Fished "Certainly. Tins is' "Soupi love, said Mrs.

Fisher. "Of course we have soup. I served everything sat lone time. But we have courses all the The fluid which Mr. Fisher ta3ted somewhat resembled dishwater; bufc he forced a smile, and thought he would "try tha flsh." The next instant, a creature of the sea lay before him, much it came from the water, save that it was covered with a very rancid batter sauce.

It had aot been opened; its head, tail and scales fe mained intact. "It does not seem quite right, somehow," said Berenice; "Next time have it cleaned love," said her husbend, playfully. "And after all beef is the grsat reliance. Where is the beef?" Before you, dear," said Mrs. Fisher.

"Shall I turn the higher?" gas up The husband made no remark. He turned a ball of burned bone and meat about with his fork, tried to cut a few scraps, gave it up as a bad job, and sighed. "Ob, Josiah, doesn't it suit you?" asked Bef eaice, with pleading glances. "Is it overdone, lear?" "I'm afraid it is, a little," said Mr, Fisher. "But I've no doubt the next course will amply compensate.

What have you given me, my angel?" "Apple pie," said Berenice, handing him a large plate, on which lay a large slice. "The unfortunate husband took one mouthful, then said, meekly "I'll try the pudding, dear." "Pudding!" laughed Mrs. Fisher. "That is my home-made bread, fresh from the oven. Try a piece." "No, no! I've eaten quite heartily already!" cried poor Fisher.

"I'll smoke a bit. "Oh, dear!" screamed Berenice, "my after-dinner coffee I forgot it." -The very thing, love," said Mr. Fisher. While she was gone, howeer, he stayed the demands of hunger with biscuits from the sideboard, and sat beaming upon her as she "re-entered with an extra smudge on her nose and a scorch on her apron, carrying a tray loaded with coffee pot and cups. "Now I will show you the sort of coffee your lit tie wife can make," said she, passing a cup for him.

He took it, tasted it, and beamed on her again, then he said: "A little weak, my dear. By the way, did you grind the beans?" She shook her head. "Does one grind coffee?" she asked. "Always," said the husband. "I'm so sorry," said Berenice.

"But now I'll get my little note book and jrou can tell me just how you fancy things. The soup stronger "yes," he nodded. The fish?" she inquired. "Well, you must tell them to send the fish well cleaned," he said. 'The beef moderately done, and, lest you should have too much to do, buy baker's bread and pastry." "Never!" she answered, solemnly.

"I know a housewife's duty better. Give you baker's bread and things Never, my love. And the coffee must be ground, I remember." "Yes," he said, helping her to get the dishes together and put them on the dumb-waiter "grind the coffee, sweetest." "And it was a lovely little dinner for me to cook, wasn't it?" queried the black and greasy object, whom, he could scarcely recognize as his dainty Berenice, approaching him with upraised lips. "Kiss me ten times." He did it. "And isn't it so lovely to be alone together I doing everything to make home happy "Delightful!" said Mr.

Fisher, as he polished himself surreptitiously with a napkin. "I'm going out for a few minutes, pet." He did. His goal was a restaurant. During his absence Berenice admitted her mother at the kitchen door. "Well?" asked the latter.

"I shall love Josiah better all my life!" said Berenice. "He has been an angel Oh, what a mess I served him and he smiled it through. My "programme is ready for to-morrow. I mean to offer him a dinner, after a receipt of my own, serving everything with sugar instead of salt. The coffee will be ground into powder, and I shall put peppermint into my pudding by mistake, and make more of my delicious bread.

And I have prepared to make an omelet for breakfast to-morrow, and one of the eggs is addled, lt is dreadful, when I can cook so beautifully. But I shall always adore Josiah after this his patience is so beautiful. He has never blamed me for what he believed to be my innocent mistake. "It was the only way the -only way," said Mrs. Royal, as she bade her daughter good-night.

"Go on as you have begun. I advise alsuet pudding and fried oysters scorched oysters have an unequaled flavor, my dear." Mrs. Royal returned home, Three days passed. On the fourth her daughter and son-in-law appeared at her door. Berenica was beaming with smiles, Mr.

Fisher grave beyond description. 1 "Wehave come for a little advice, dear he said. "A nice receipt for said Mrs. Royal. "No, cried Mr.

Fisher. "I think my little wife confided to you our delightful dream of living quite without servants?" i 'I was so afraid vou would let your Mrs. RovaL "And how does it suc "Splendidly, mammal said Berenice, "lam improving so fast! I made him mince -pie to-day, and home is like Arcadia. "Precisely, darling, said Mr. Fisher "but I don't have enough of your society.

You lire in the kitchen, covered, my dearest, with pot 'black. Youare working too hard. I begin to understand, since you ironed my shirts, sweetest, that laundry work is a. specialty." I- shall learn in time, said MrsllFisher. "I only scorched four of bur shirts; and my home-made bre(ylis delicious.

And, oh! I am so anxious to make home all it should be -to3arry out Josiah's lovely dream. Mantma, come and dine with us to-morJpv, and see if I have not some littljf talent for cooking." "That is a good idea," said Mr. Fisher. "I shall unavoidably be away from home; but I think, little wife, your dear mamma will see that my idea was, perhaps, too Arcadian and we might get the servants back, and see wide in her preUy dresses again." "I always tell my daughter to do as her husband wishes," said Mrs. Royal; "but of course I will dine with Berenice." She did.

It was a very good little dinner; but the next day found the servants in their and Mr. Fisher never alluded to hi3 Arcadian dream again. Good Company. Why the Train Was Not When one leaves the main lineoJ railway, east or west, and trave's, or tries to travel, on the same road Which merely serves a local purpose, he is likely to find prevailing a free and easy ttate of things as regards speed andsche lulo time. An Australian correspondent gives this account of a certain "flyer" out there.

People never take this train except for journeys at considerable length walking is as easy and much safer for short distances. On a recent occasion, when the movement of the train was even more deliberate than usual, a passenger went to the conductor and said "Ain't we going pretty slow?" "Well," said the conductor, "we ain't flying, I'll admit." "May I ask what the trouble is, then?" "Ain't any trouble." 'Then why don't we go "Well, I'll tell you, since you seem to be so Back here wo found a two-year-old6uH stuck in the trestle, and we sto ped'and helped him out. Now, the rules of the road are that in such case the animal belongs to the conipanjv' "But how does th make you run so slow?" "Run slow? Wh, ain't used to be left, that 'ere bull and whoa we hitched him on bel ind the train ha didn't walk well. 1 cioingraii can 1 ii erot one of our mfi punching him umbrella, and the bell rope, going to twist bull as there is from behind with i an ear of corn tied But if vou think thfi horns off as in the county, whyf you re awiuiiy mistaken, Press. that all.

Detroit Free oft Restoration Bible. Colonel Cabaniss, Georgia, received by F. ZJihn, of Toledo, Bible with a history, was in lead Cabaniss, 1860," and the word Member from xpress from J. Ohio, a little On the fly-leaf encil: B. der this in ink "This Bible was found on the ba: lefield of Car- rickp Ford, by Paul wards, Major, andiiafterward Dieuteiant-Colonel of the Fourteenth Ohid Volunteer Infantry." It was the first glimpse that Colonel Cabaniss has fed of tbe Biblo in thirty-four yeaisi How into Mr.

Zahn's polsession known, but some timtf ago he tised for the owner in tho it came is not from a Blade, and received ha letter Mr. Cabaniss, livinl in 'Mississippi. He remembered thatsome one of the same name resided at. Atlanta, Ga. Mr.

Zahn opened a correspondence with the Atlanta bearer of the name, and was put on the right track, the gentleman proving to ba a brother of the Representative. Enclosed within the pages of the little volume was a one-sent postage etamp of an issue antedating the war. The Bible is a3 well preserved as though it had been recently removed from a bookcase, and, in the words of the delighted owner: "It doesn't look as if it had been used much before or since the late unpleasantness." The fight at Carrick'a Ford was one of the earlier battles of the war. Washington Post. Hydrophobia hi a Fox-Bite.

It. appears that hydrophobia can be communicated by the bite of the fox. A short time ago Prince Stanislas Snlk-owsky was hunting at Trestemitz, near Mar bury, in Caryathia. A dog was at the time bitten by a fox, but the wound soon heale J. Two weeks ago the dog went mad and bit the princess, a valet and other dogs in the pack.

The princess wore thick gloves and the teeth did not penetrate, but the valet developed symptoms of hydrophobia, and all the dogs wero killed. Chicago Times-Herald. Broadway the Street. Tho longest street in the world is Broadway, which begins at Bowling Green, in the city of New York, and runs up the Hudson under the same name past Yonkers, some fourteen miles, and is then continued along the Albauy post -road to the capital of th3 State of New York. This-makes the street practically 150 miles long.

Of conrse there are many other long and fine streets in the world, but not one, taking in all aud all, equal to Broadway. Frank Iieslie'a Weekly. HERTFORD COUNTY. A EA 310 SQUARE MILES. POPULATION, 13 851.

Hkrttobd Coujjtt was formed tn 1759, from Chowan, Bertie and Northampton counties. It was named in compliment to the Marquis of Hertford, an Knlish nobleman, a friend of liberty, an i elder brother of Lord Conway, who, in 17o, moved in the House of Lords the repeal of the Stamp Act. Hertford is a name of Sason origin and signifies the ftel Ford." Wintos, the county-seat, is situated 155 miles north-cast from lUleigtt, ion. jene Chowan river and has a population "of about 500. urf act Lovel and sandy, soil good; 'watered by the Mehcrrin and Chopin rivers.

Staph--Cotton, corn, naval stores and fish. Being near the Norfolk market, trucking is also profitable. Fruit- App peaches, pears, melons cuppcrnong grapes, aud the small fruits. Timber Juniper, cypress, pine, oak, fh. the gunn and the usual eastern growth.

Post Offices Anneta, Bethlehem, Comio, Iliirrcllsvillc, Lotta, Mapletou, Henola. Murfrcesboro. Rlddicksville. St Tun.isohn. Union, Wintou Ahoakie and Agate.

County Officers. Superior Court, i T. D. Boone; Sheriff and Treas urer.W. K.

CuUfln; Register of Heeds (i. A. Brown; Surveyor, J. D. Parker; (Vroner, J.

W. Tayloe, Standard Keeper, W. J. Boyette. CoMMrssioNEits W.

T. BrowD, chair-un; T. E. Vann. A.I.

Parker, J.N HniloTvin nnd .1. T. Williams Board of Education J. P. Freeman, W.

V. Shaw and C. TV. Scarborough, Snpt. Public S.

M. Aumack, TOWNSHIPS AND MAGISTRATES. Manky's Nkck S. P. Winborne, E.

(1. Scars. L. F. Lee.

AtUHfrurcT.oRo W. W. Stcphensa Hi u. T. C.

Vinson. U. Vanghan V. 8. Nelson, an.l Goo.

T. Harden. St. John's T. Tf.

Mitchell, J. P. l-'rrcman, W. 11. Ta loo- C.

W. Tf. Tvlcr. and B. H.

Joyner, Vinton 1. Anderson, Robert TTo-m m. V. IT. Jernignn, T.

11. Matthews. I. Copelanrt an 1 J. E.

Brt. Hark ells vtm.k S. "INT. Aumack, A. B.

Adkino, Edmond Jones. E. D. Scull uid N. Prnden.

upkuiou Couiit. Meets sixth Mon-dnv after the first Monday in March and September. W. J. Lonrv.

Solicitor. CniMTNAh OoiritT Meets on the 4th Monday in February, and the second Monday in August. Judge, B. B. Winborne; George Cowpcr, Solicitor.

DitfTiucT Officeus Judge, Oco. II Brown, Beaufort Congressman W. A. B. Branch.

Beaufort, Co, State v. rr 0 Tlieo. Whites. Perquimans Board for Ilcrtfor.l, B. Wiuh orne.

TOWN OF MURFREESBOKO. Murrrvesboro la situated in the northwestern part of the County, at the head of navigation on ihs Mehcrrin River, and tm a population of 1,200. It was incorporated in 17S7, and named in honor 4 Will iain Murfree, a Revolutionary aero ind oat riot, who resided here. Mwor L. J.

Lawrence. )MMi8roNKR8 II. T. Lassiter, TJ. Vauhan, J.

N. Lawrence and J. W. Hick, 1st Ward; L. C.

Lawrence, 2nd Ward; Constable, J. E. Evans Clerk. A P. Hi lies.

CriURCH DIRECTORY. Mktuodist Ser ices every Sunday ornmKatll o'clock, and at night at I clock. every Wednesday night. Rev. J.

McCall, Pastor. Sunday School every Sunday aft-jrnoon. U. Vaughan. Sunt.

BvrrrsT -Services every 2nd and 4tb morning and niirht. Prayer, meeting every Thursday night. Rev. ftmuel Siundors, Pastoi. Sunday chool every Sunday morning, j.

R. Superintendent LI HUNG CHANG WILL LIVE His Assailant Sentenced to Life Imprisonment at Hard Labor. A Tokio dispatch to the Ceatral News says that Scriba, of tuo Imperial TJjiverslty oxHmiuod Lt Huns Changs wound nnd found that the patient wa making exc progress puis and temperature werj normal and he wa able to walk about a Tuo dipTpa'ch further says that Koyama, Japanoie who shot the Chinese Viceroy, ha? been sentenced to imprisonment tor life at hard labor. 'i'hb Central Niwtha? advice. from the IVieadores I inier date of Maroa 26 Tcosodhpatohej state that CoL Ito reports that on Maro'a 2i the fort was 'koa easily by the Oa the 25 th ttie Japanese atUc'ied aad captured Xont-luDg, taking nin h-avy gun? and a number of smaller ones, a well as many rifles and a larje quan ity of amuaitlon.

In the en-garment the ChiDee lot thlriy klde and ixty taken prisoners. Tbe Japaneie Iojs was seventeen woundeJ. The Japanese fleet captured tbe forts oatbe Fiiher and a .1 1 island i formiug the Pescadores group are now Jn the po-sessioa of the Japanese. A SCHOOLGIRL MURDERED. Fonnd Wi Her Throat Cut" Lying in a Stream of Water.

The fourteor-year-old daughter of Jacob Dean, Wao neir Harmony, Caroline county, lert home for school in the horning as usual. As.he diinot reVuriitat h9 accustomed hour her parents became alarmed about her and began to search ifor Jer. Late in the afternoon her body was jound in a near her home. Hei i roat had been cut In a most brutal Thecelghborhood Is thoroughly ardas. i ei "ttl diligent search Is being made for the i Perpetrator of the crime, but no ona has iyet Policeman Barney Degnan, of St Barnard arr ted John Fisher, aiboy twenty jearj cl 1, for abusive language, Ox the way to the station-house Fisher s'arled to run away whereupon Degnan shot him dead.

Two lives were reported to last by the fount Ares near! Bowliag Graen, and one in Grayson county. Near Hadley, in the western part cf the eountyj about 500 acres of timber have! been burned over. The mes of Henry EUer, Otis! Smith and Jame3 Walters were- jdestroyed. Wa Oaks, a prominent farmer living near Danville, committed suicide by hanging himself In hi) barn. No cause is known for the deed.

He leaves a wife and five chddren. The Yazoo anil Mississippi Valley frelgh train pulled out tot Newj Orleans with the largest shipment" of oottop that ever left ifemphli, Tean, It consisted of 10,521 bales all billed through to JA verpW. The Grand Castle of the Kaights of the a A lea Etgle, ncaiwarft besan Its annaal session In 1 Dover. A street parade and an address of welcome by Mayor Beedy formed a larg, part 61 the day's progranj. -Mr.

Charles F. Warwick Was Installed 4 aayor of Phil-ad el. hia. Eelhhold idler, lieutenart governor of Nevada, was arrested on the charge of Pe er Badeij, aged 65, a well- known resident of South E4stoa, wa killed by a Lehigh Valley passejer train wfcile walking on the tracks. B.

A. Kahan was robbed and murdered in Miladelpbia Cora Smith conf ssed arrested in Omaha, that she haa poisoned her father in Dea Moines, for xmich crime her mother was sentenced to life imprisonment. Alfred Mattln and HeaJy Jame, miners, were crushed to death in the Sleepy Hollow Mine, in Central City, Col.iy a mass of dirt and rock which fell upon tem In a drift. Manufacturers ot bar iror formed an associ tion in gp was arrested in San Francisco accused of conspiring to sell bogus certificates to unregistered Cbinamen. Capt Philo N.

Griffin, jrho commandei the Chinese cruiser, Chea Fuei, at Port Arthur, and was captured, haa been heard lr om in jypt. -A gang men engaged In making out bogus Chinese negotiation papers have bsen dijcoibred at San Fran cisco. At Loulsvillel Tom areas was fatally shot while try in to store. is believed that rob grocery John D. 13aohe, who disappeared recently from Ney York, -n Canada.

At Nash vile, Weakly Jk Brothers, carpet and fiiraiture dealers, made an assignment; Assets, $55,030 liabilities about $48,003. St Paul's Catholic Church at Omaha wai burnad. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Maroon were fatally poisoned by toadstools near Comanche, Cal.

Fire destroyed all the business portion of danaseraga, N. Y. The loss wili be 100, COO. -j News was received at San'Francisco that the overdue bark Colu3a had arrival at Shaagjiai. A trainwa held up near but toe robbera got no mony.

A company make a new will be formed in Kansas to- kind of sleeping -In bandits and citizens near Indan Territory, Samuel a flfht bet wean Prang's Station, iMcWilliams and George Sanders were killed, The corn- mission firm of Ma'oolm Water bury, Chicago, made an assignment, being forced to do so by the bears ia tbU prk market. Miss Mollie Easley was found with her throat out at her home neajr Princeton, Ky. Pink rton detectives Inj Chicago stated that John McGowaa an 1 Ale Bothrchild, expert jawelry thieves, who had been operating eitensiv ly ia Sotiiern cities, he been captured. Captain Wl son Bos cjf Green Cree'r, Cape May county, N. (whose mind wa9 affected by family committed juicido.

Belmad, a beautiful place on the Ja jmes Biv in Powhatan county, has Leen converted by philanthropic Ph la- delphians an ihdustiiat school for co' or boys. James J. Car five years, of Wilmin rton. Buioiie. Fire destroyed sty, aged thlrty-D 1., com mi ted a lactory and three other bui dings ia Irrjngton, N.

J. The Earn Line steamer Earndale, had a hoi knocked in her s'arbcard bow. Cor- mcek Duffy, aged twenty years, of Hazletcn, while going nome prom work, was poutcel upon and abb-d Jy an unknown another. Tne man. who mistook him for oil Times building in Chicago was damaged to the exieut of $70,0.0 by -Thomai White, formerly marshal ofj accused the wife of David Eaton, a colored larmer.

ol tel i ova stories about to bi3 wife, and whipped her The wema i got a pistol (with a rawhide. and shot Wh te in the right tempi1, killin him instantly, stock farm near Henry Thornp, owner of a1 Fort Becovery, ha 1 hii mind upset by finaici 1 trouble, shot ani killed wi and then banged himself la hia barn. WORK AND WdRKERS. The 2:0 weavers ia worsted mill, in Jamestowj, struck for an increase of wages. A delegate convention ofj G3al was to discuss the held in Springfleld, BUnoisl, action of certai operators who have order- ed a redaction of 10 cents par ton, gross weight, on coal mined.

The Western 1 ar Iron Manfaciurers' Asso ciation was organize! at Cleveland. It is to iao ude only manufacturers west of tho and wi 1 regulate prices and 4 i 1 The skilled ptegseis of tho Tren ton, N. potteries, who have been out of employment for ne rly year, owing to tbe reduced list their 1 ef usual to work at agreed! in conference to a reduction of 33 per cent Tne National Executiva United Mine Work 13 of (Committee cf the America has been callel to meet in Columbus. Ohio. The commit tea will remain there all next week to prevent the Ohio miners from ecsdlng from the United Mine Workera at their annaal Convention, i The Andrews Brother Company, at Ilazleton, has succeeds 1 in ttarUng up its with-non-union men.

Xll the finishing mill3 there are now ruaninir w.th non-union men, who are paid Amalgamated Association The ttri-lng pudd er have made no attempt to obtain1 a setllexnen. No dummy in" frpn of a' clothing store has a right to be than th on the lilressed Tvarojer And warmth wiihia the mountain's breast. 8o simple is earth we tread, il So quick heir love with life and famev i Ten thousand years hare dawned and fled, And still her magic is the same. 1 A little love, a little trust, I A soft impulse, a sadden dreamj Ana me as dry as desert dust I fresher than a mountain streaa Simple is the heart of man, I So ready for new hope and joy; Ten thousand years since it began, Have left It younger than, a boy. -Stafford Brooks, in the Pathfinder.

AN ARCADIAN DREAM. WISH I had 1 v- been namea X' ez a Baid the young wife, bbing. "Berenice is a toamo for a princess1 or a countess Peggy or Polly would do Yvell enough ifor receiving orders through kitchen sueakih? tuoe. Ana wnat wa3 the of making up my mind to 1 i TO use be be an old mat's darling rather than a young man slave when it turns out like this?" 'But it can turns out just as vou say, my dear, said Mrs. Boyal.

'Give me tne particulars. More is to be gamed by submission than revolt, especially when the husband is much older than the wife. Submit cried young Mr3. Fisher. "No! I will never do that never! Do ycu suppose I married a rich man to do the "Let me hear the particulars, Be renice," repeated Mrs.

Royal. "Well, mamma," said young Mrs. Fisher, "you know I went into ahouse full of servants excellent ones, too. Josiah was very affectionate, as he always is, and all he asked me to do 4as to tie his cravat, and pin a rose into his buttonhole, and to go to the door and throw kisses to him of a mornihg. And after a while it was, Get my slippers, darling.

Bun for my umbrella. Where is my Very tiresome, but to be expected. Tbjon very soon it was, 4Let us 3end the servants away at meal times, and wait Jon ourselves at table. It is so delicidus to bo quite alone Of conrse I agreejd aud nowcomes this astonishing proposition dismiss all the servants; lve for each other I'm to do the cooking for him, iron his shirts black his boots, for all I know Not for econ omy's sake, but to nvike life beautiful Ob, I sha'n't endure it. I cannot, mamma! I shall quarrel if he persists I did not marry a rich man to be cook and laundress.

1 "Be quiet, said Mrs. Royal. "Listen to me a little while. Let him have his own way, that you may have yours in the end. It is an amiable caprice; humbrrit." A long conversation between mother aud daughter followed, and the restilt was that when Mr.

Fisher returned I to his home that afternoon he found his wife fairly beaming with smiles. "Well, Berenice, mypet have you been thinking of the ideal liter I proposed? You did not seem to appreciate the notion quite as thoroughly as I expected this morning." "I'm afraid I did not, darling," said young Mrs. Fisher. "But I ran ran over to mamma's, and she was so enthusiastic over it." "Was she? was she?" cried the husband in amazement. "I fancied that she would rather oppose it." "Oh! you don't know mamma," said Berenice.

"Josiah, while you are doing it, why not get a cottage and a cow and chickens? I would like to milk, and make butter, and hunt for eggs. And we might have a few pigs. "We'll begin by degrees," said Mr. Fisher. "I suppose we'll have to, Josiah," said Berenice; "but I'm wild to take things in hand.

Pay the servants jap to the end of their months to-morrow, and pack them c.ff, and you'll hive nice, homemade cooking right away." "Dear me!" said he, "I shall spend most of my time watching you at work, in a little white aproD, -with your sleeves rolled up." "Ob, how nice!" the cried, kissing him. "Oh, make haste about it, josiah." Josiah obeyed. By the following night the servants had all departed. Only Berenice remained in the house, though she had a visit from her mother. The table was set for a grand dinner, and as Mr, Fisher opened the door a small figure appeared at the head of the basement staira? "Who's that." he cried.

"Your little wife," was the replyi Berenice's face was adorned with smear3 and smudges, so were her hands, so was her white "Some accident, he cried, in alarm. I "No, love," answered Berenice. "Why do you ask?" I He did not like to tell her that she had a dirty face, so he laughed, aud as she threw herself into htsf arms embraced her like a very knight at conr- tesy- fc i i Retiring to his own room to look in the glass, he found that the three kisses that she had imprinted on his cheeks and brow had left their mark there. Ho put his hand to the polished space on the top of his head, and found it sticky; 'and his usually immaculate shirt bosom had the marks of ten tiny black fingers upon j. It took him some time to make his toilet, and when he 'descended dinner wa on tihlpj and Berenice was Btriking the gong in ear splitting fash Three of Themlleet Death in Kentucky.

THREE OTHERS ESCAPED. The Company Was Warned in Time by Officers of a Seqret Ser- vice That Has Repnntly Been Established. A daring but uosaco -saful attempt at a train robbery occurred at 2.33 A. M. in the southern part of K-ntuoky.

Six men undertook to ro the southboun I No. 3 Qaesn and Cresoant train, which left Cincinnati at 8 P. M. Oie of the robbers was killed outright; another died at 4 o'clock la the morninj; a third, giving the name of Her, has sino 1 succumbed. Tae other three have not yet been heard from.

The train wa? delayed hot nnre than 10 mlnutej, and reached Chat anoga at 8 A. on time. The reason for this summary disposal of so large a body of train robbers was that some latimat on of their purpose ha 1 been given to the iilrad and express authorities, and T. B. who serves I as superintendent police on tbe Southern roal, had w-th him tw- trusty assistants.

The train had just reached the south end of Tunnel No. 9, which is a mi north of QreenwooJ, when the robbers gnal ed it tostopt They had hardly solosed their purpose before Mr. Qriffia and his assi tanta on the train began shootin and in a few minutes three of the robbers bad fallen, the other three had fled and the tra'n wa; soon speeding on its way. Injury was suffered by anyone on the train, and the treasure ia oar3 of the Adams Express Company's messanger was saved. WABXED IN TIME.

CiscrNNATi, Manager Carroll of the Queea and escent Road, has received word of the defeat of the train -robbers at Greenwood, but no detail of tbe battle. The special agent in charge of the police departmen of the road led the successful fight with the thieves General Manager Barrett of the Adams Express Company looks upon this as an I n-portant event." The exp-ess company has adopted the plan of a secret service to protect its proper against robbera. This is the first result of the new method. While it 1) costly, it is inauitely more effective than any amount of de.eative rk employed to ar. rest and punish robbers, Mr.

Barrett says the robbers could have had no knowledge of the amount of mon carried by last ght's train; that they made their attempt as a pure venture. He declines to say whit would have been their reward if they had been successful. DEATH or THE THIED MAN; A telegram from Cumberland Falls says the third man who was taken from the engine ha3 since died, making the third man -dead. The robbery wa pla ned to have been committed on tbe 11th of this monthf but on account of a creek near the oene being out of Its banks the men were afraid they would be caught and postponed It- A farmer says the men have been in a hollow near by for five weeks. One of the gang gave them away to the officials, and the trains have been loaded, with detective for the past month.

TO SMUGGLE IN CHINAMEN. A Bold Gang of Count erf ei era Had Laid Ex- tensive Flans. United States official at San Fran isco have run down the gang that has teen Issuing forged certificates to Chinese. The persons arrested are IL 7 freight; clerk on ocean fcteamshlp dec James H. SuHi van, ex-deputy county clerk; Ka'zauxr, oi Oregon; F.

N. Cipric, a well known smuggler, and L. Greenwald, of tbe Emeral smuggling ring A number of forg cer ideates re found upon the prisoners. Officials state thai this is the biggest ganj of counterfeiters in California since the days the Boyd-Ciprioo The mea made a do perate resistance, but were ievidenta Iy overpowered. The unterfellers were, caught in a room which had been a rendezvous and In which many of their operations took The officers had to break in the door; and when they secured a n.isskm they found one man learinsr ud documents, while an A- er -was g- Jthrowing a package of certificates out the window, where they were caught by a detective.

Photographs of tbe certificates were also seiz as were seals, rubl er stamp, and othtr. paraphernalia used in the counterfeiting. All th members of the gang we.e aced in the county The band had established agencies at Vancouver, Bois City, Helena, Lrncoln, Denver, Chicago, Phita eiphia, New York and Victoria, and had Lilt plans to do buslne-s not only with Cbinese they intended to, import, but with as many as pwsible of tho unregistered Chinese suppo el to be in the United States. Et mating that they could have reached 20 per cent of the unregl tered resident, or 16,000, they teheld the profits of their enterprise running far into tbe millions and they believed their fatulou profit would so be enough to enable them to bribe officials, buy juries, influe co politics and otherwise escape the penalty of th lr cr Beve i Chinese firm SanFranci-o wra In partnership the lorgew and tbey had agreed to take 5,000 of the certificates out delay. The band is supposed to.

have begun operation in Philadelphia, where ie Is a lare paper factory and printing office, the proprietors of whici are believed to have undertaken the contract of making the paper and shipping it to Port and Ma shal Carpos, who ppresse 1 the ur rising Cuba in 18S3, i as been a ppolnt to supreme command of affair on the isa'i'. The new ministry has be-n direct by hi Corte to mate a vigorous campaiga again the Insurgents. ABOUT N0TEDPE0PLE- William Wa'son, the English poet, is in luck. He has been gr.inted a pension of 1503 a year by Government. Gladst ne regime bal a'le idy provided h'm a p-nsloi of $1003 a year.

Doe poetry pay Count Caprivl, the ex-Chaicelior of Germany, has decided to spend an period abroad. Ue will gj first to Italy, and from there ta Cairo Be has spent tho Winter la Geneva, Swl'zerlaa I Dr. Ze'mllos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Penpotentiory from the Argeotlu-Bepublio to the Unl ed States, an 1 wbo 1 comm'ssloner fiom the Argeotlne 'pub'ia to Cotton State! nl Internntiaaat Ex-posltloa, visited Atlanta recently, and selected the site for the A gentlno building. Mini iter Zeballos wil soon take a trip nbroa 1. Dr.

Uriburu, now ac'-iag President of tho Argentine Bepublic, was bom about Bixty years a o. He-wa elected a National Dep. uty and became president of the Cham! er In 1865 he was a minister the Cabinet of D-Marcos Paz durinr Gen rxl Mitre's administration he was Argentine Minister successfully in Bolivia. Toru and Chllof aLd In 1892 be was elected VIco-i resident of the Bepublic St Ju'ian Pauncefor and Mr. Bax Ironsides will be the enly persons left of the present personnel of the British Embassy, as alf the others have been ordered aw.iy.

The cloud of their departure for Wa hington society will have its silver lining in tho arrival of the Earl of We tmcath. an I besidai Mr. Grant Duff the Embassy force will be aug. mented by Ca ptain Lewis Wintz, It. whoso appoiutme is just announced.

Ex-Speaker BeeJ I pasionateIy fond of the study of laiguages. Some year ago he took up French, and during the Fifty-first Congress, while acting as Czar over tbe House of Bepresentatives and pasiing through parliamentary etorms of cyclonic severity, foucd time three days a week to go to a school of languages for bis ie--soa ia French, later he took up Palian, and now able to converge fluently in that language. At tho pre.ent tl he is studs log Spanish. A BIG BANK CBASIL rhe Cincinnati Commercial Closes its Docn With Heavy Liabilities. The Commercial Bank, tfce oldest institution of the kind in Cincinnati assigned.

Wm. Campbe cashier of the bank, belngr named as assignee. The bank was compsSI sd to make good of bad paper, and this precipitated the ash. TheM wai a hurried meeting of directors and the assign-ment was decided upon. Tae assets and liabilitiei are unknown sven by the bank officlalj, I ut are reliably reported at about $1,000,033 each.

There was a paid up capital of 318,000 and deposits averaged $700,100. The offlo rs and largest stockholders are: President, C. B. Poo.e; William H. Campbell; dlreo om, J.

B-3peker, A. L. Herron aad J4 a Hall. The bank is the depoiitory for several eu-ourban towns, a number of bul'diog assocla. obert Clark the i rebate Court ad ihe Cnvler Club.

The Commercial Bank was es abllshed in 1331, "and has included In its directory Longworths and Daadridgei. raere are many charges of bad management tn 1 it is claimed the bank has been discount, ng its own paper for two weeks past. FIRE IN IHLWATJKSE. Three Large Stores and a Valuable Library Destroyed. Fire broke oat In the four-story block cs Grand avenue, which was occupied by Lan-dauer Company, wholesale dry-good3, and Tanner furnishing goods.

That building and one adjoining, occupied Ly Darling Wombol clothiers, were destroyed. The flames spread across the street and consumed the Milwaukee Library, containing a valuable colleo ion of books. Tbe to taUSHiSOTSF ion. i i r. i.