South Wales Echo

A LEGEND OF THE POTOMAC. From its headwaters in West Virginia, which are iittle' more than mountain brooklets, to its estuary at the Chesapeake Bay, where it is seven miles wide, the Potomac River passes through a .country rich with the most impressive pictures of God's creation, equalling in grandeur those I attributed to fairyland. We think a person would almost be le-I to believe in the possible existence of that mithical realm should he follow the river's course, and be impressed, as we have been, with the myriad associations that connect them- selves with every point along its banks. Were it navigable for its entire length, it would be deemed a rival of the Rhine and the Amazon for the ex- tent and magnificence of its attendant scenery. All the great epochs through which mankind passed in its journey from barbarism to civil- ion, are suggested by a study of the varied • jects along its way, and we will find relics as well of all the great cycles o't time which have well of all the great cycles ot time which have marked the eras in the history of the world itself. In the sober majesty of the mountains which form its cradle, w? are reminded of the days when our race-yet an infant in the arms of its mother earth—roamed the hills and vales in the simplicity of its primitive mode of life. If we stop and examine minutely the mighty rocks which, by some great upheaval of land, have formed these colossal monuments of nature, we will find evidence-! of a period so far back in the world's history that we become dizzy by the flight of ages before our mental view. We will see in this place the vast, marshy shore of a con- j tinent long since sunk beneath the waves of the Atlantic, in whose muddy waters, and amidst whose rank growth of vegetation, are floundering and fighting f )r existence creatures now strange to oureyes-uilghty saurial1 and other reptiles and fishes, long since extinct on the globe. And, if we look to the eastward, in the mental vision which is called up before us, we may imagine that we see the great continent itself about whose later existence Plato has told us in the words of S)lon, and regarding which so many legends have come down to us—rising gradually out of the waters that now form its shroud while, to the westward, where the continent of America Dow stretches far away, we see a mishty but shallow ocean, whose "grey and melancholy, waste holds no life now known to us, and on whose bosom the ships of commerce and civiliza- tion are altogether unknown. Further on down the river we go, and soon we come upon signs of modern lite and industry. Here is the mining village of Piedmont, situated in a beautiful valley. The hills at this point are removed a little back from the river's brink, and their perpendicular walls are clothed in a blended gown of grey and green. Viewed from a railway which winds its course circuitously about the mountain, tar above the village, the scane is one which suggests the thrift of man and the toils which the necessities of our busy d^y call from him. The village itself is a mass of white frame houses., lying irregularly along the banks of the river, with a single church spire printing upward to the land of perpetual beauty. Here upon the side of the declivity are the mines, from out of whose grimy mouths are belched at frequent in- tervals and shot down an incline into the valley below cars laden with the blacte remains of the verdure of a former age, now serving the conve- nience of this great, untiring age of industry. We are here carried back to the time when man, first throwing off the cloak of that innocence with which his Maker invested him, began to barter with his neighbour, trading the ores and stones for which he delved beneath the alluvial, life-giv- ing soil, for the gratification of his developing tates and inclinations. Further down, and Cumberland is pictured on our sight. In the shape of a horse-shoe, the river loops toward the city, which nestles snugly in a basin formed by the rounded heights of Bear and other mountains. Here we see the beginning of the canal, the partner of the Potomac in the rest of its journey to the capital of the United S'ates, and the bearer of merchandise '>ud the products of the mines to the great marts along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. And it is here we obtain a vision of the next grand step in the march of civil- isation and refinement: the prosperous city, the railways (of which we have hitherto caught but the merest glimpse) with their hundreds of cars and their docks at the canal's head evidences of a condition of things, between which, and the soli- tude of the foliaged mountains we have left behind, there is the lapse of ages in the development and progress of our race. And still onward might we go, and reach in time-what seems to be the gateway between the past and the present. Raising its proud head high up in the air, an immense mass of rock-at the junction of the Potomac with the SheMndoah- 43tands like a sentinal at the portals of modern thift, "alone and lonely," the last great elevation eastward of the mighty chain of which it is a part. But from this point onward, while the scenery is very beautiful, it appeals less to our sentiment* than do the tales which war and peace have linked with the names of the places along the river's bank. 011 this snot—between the land of fact and the domain of fancy-lips Harper's Ferry which John Brown, along with his own name, has made immortal in the pages of history. Yet, aside from its historic interest, it would be difficult to conceive of a more attractive spot, combining as it does the loveliness of nature with the beauty of man's handiwork—the towering rock on one side of the river. the verdure covered hills on the other, the blue mountains in the distance, the shining- river with the island parks the cluster of houses which forms the village, the ruins of the old arsenal, the pictnresqe railway bridges, and the canal winding around the base of the cliff. And so, down the stream, we might gradually glide from one scene to another, most of them from here onward bearing more r less asssocia- t,ion with our national h storv. We would pass Point of Rocks and Georgetown Washington, with its brond streets and mlatial buildings, the most American of Alexandria, with its reminiscences of the life-time of George Wash- ington and Mount Vernon, where rests all that is mortal of him who led our forces to victorv in the struggle for independence to the blue waters of the Chesanenke. with its steamships and sail- ing vessels—one of the highways of the world's commerce. But, among all the traditions of the past and etories of th.3 present—told to us some five years ago when we made a trip along the river, and hence associated in our minds with the Potomac -none come back to us now more vividly than .does the tragic romance which is connected with the vicinity of Cumberland and which, while well known there, we do not remember to have heard related elsewhere. In the early davs of the settlement of what iR now the United States, when a person spoke of the "far West" he had in mind all that vast ex- panse of territory, beginning some couple of hundred miles back from the Atlantic coast and extending thence to the Pacific coast; and what is now Cumberland was, at that day, but an en- trance to that wild and unknown region. Some few stragglers, imbued with the spirit of dis- covery like La Salle and De S,)to, had indeed penetrated the mountain fastnesses of the Alleg- hanies and wandered away beyond them into the valley of the Misssissipi; but such intrepid ad- venturers were few in number. And so the valley which now holds Cumberland was known at the time of which we speak to verv few others than those pioneers who had strayed away from the parent settlement and founded a village on the banks of the Potomac, which has since grown to such importance and magnitude as to gain and merit the title of 44 the Queen City of the Alleg- hanies." The members of the great Algonquin tribe which inhabited this country looked with envy Rnd alarm on what they deemed the encroach- ment of the new comers; and, while they were not outspoken in their jealousy, they showed in many ways their distrust of the settlers,and gave them many apprehensions of trouble in the future. One of the new colony, however, through acts of bravery in the hunt, gained the admiration of most of the Indians, and often accompanied them on their expeditions in search ot the game which then was so plentiful in the mountains. But the chief of the tribe took an early dislike to this bold pale face, and hesitated not to show his displea- sure when the white man was lauded for his heroism and success in securing the game; for, it is to be presumed, he feared that his own great- %we-hit-hert,o unrivalled—would be eclipsed by the new luminary; and his fears were not un- (voanded. The chief had a daughter, whose form and features are described, in the legend which has some down to us, as being beautiful above those of all her sisters. She was warm of heart and graceful as an antelope. To her the young white man soon became devoted and, it is perhaps needless to say, that she reciprocated his love. !M:>ny were thi trophies he brought her from the chase and many were the r :oonlit nights whbh saw strolling band-iri -irid along tb« bar-ks of toe Pocomac. The changes which the improvements of civiliza- tion have wrought in this country have made it almost impossible for us to conceive of the river as it was Pot this point and time. Where the lovers liked to be most together, the head dam of the canal has since been built, and the stream is now much wider than when the pale-face wooed the redskin maiden. But as it is beautiful yet at this point, despite the inroads of science and its adaptation to mercantile utility, we may well imagine it vru none the less so wbaa nature, in all its pristine vigour, was the eole adorner of the river's banks. The father of the maiden suspected the object of the walks which bis daughter took, and many a time followed her in her nocturnal rambles but, by some chance, or the design of the maiden, be bad never been able to change his suspicion into positive knowledge; for, whenever he had follow- ed her, she was sure to lead him to the mountains, where she would gather some herb in the closing twilight or. she would lead him up the banks of what is now known as Will's Creek, into the Nar- rows, where she tended some traps to catch the game that here came down to drink of the pure water; and then she would return to her wigwam as if no other motive bad directed her steps thither. On making inquiries, however, of some old squaws who had long years since lost the ability to love or be loved, he found that, at times when he was away on some expedition and the pale-face was not with him, his daughter was in the habit of remaining away later into the evening, and so he adopted a ruse which proved fatal to the lovers. Leaving the camp, one morning with a handful of braves, he bad caused it to be understood that be would not return for half a moon, as he was going to visit the great medicine man of an ad- joining tribe, and it would be a time measured by the rising and setting of six suns ere he reached the destined camp. Decoyed by this information, the young lover saw his sweetheart the second night of her futher's absence and, after a long stroll along the river's bank, it was agreed between them that the next evening the young man should come UP to the mountains, ere the sun went dewn, and meet her on the summit of a rock from which a lovely view of the surrounding landscape could be obtained, and to which he was, in consequence, much attached. So, on the following day, after his daily labours were completed, he proceeded to toil up the moun- tain. It was a long jouruey, and he started early in the evening in order to reach the designated spot before the daylight should depart for, notwith- standing the habits of his life, he lacked tfc' tine sensibility-akin to the instincts of the lower ani- mals—which makes the redman as much at home in the forest or on the mountain in the darkest of nights as he is in the brightest sunlight. The lower edge of,the sun was already hidden behind the western mountains when he reached the rendezvous and over the scene, which lay stretched out at his feet, a reddish light was cast that heightened to the extreme the bold outlines of the mountains, and changed the Potomac to a river of blood. Far away to the south-east, he could trace the river's course, until the foliage of the outlying hills sheltered it from view. Up the stream to the south-west he could follow it with bis eyes only for a short distance, as it here first catr.e into view from behind a neighbouring mountain by a sharp turn to the north-east. Be- yond the river the land is level for a distance of four or five miles, and from his elevation appeared to be spread with the richest of carpet, blending all the hues in the rainbow, as the dying sunlight toyed with the foilage, and contrasted its bright colouring with the dark shadows of the open spaces between. He sat down and admired the panorama, for he was tired from clambering up the mountain side, and was glad to get the rest which the grass- covered rock afforded him. It was nearly an hour after the suu had set before a rustle in the dense under growth announced the approach of some one and, with a sudden bound, the long-expected one appeared before him. Her cheeks were flushed with exercise, and she appeared to her best advantage in her virgin comeliness. "My mountain bird is looking well to-night," he said. "Thy pale-faced sisters down in the village yonder may well envy thee the beauty which thou drawest from God's pure air." My pale-faced lord must not compliment his servant," she answered in her own sonorous tongue, or she will be idling her time away look- ing into the brooks and pools of the mountains to see the face he admires so much, when she should he attending to duties that her father or her lord may require of her." "Thou knowest well," he said, I will never require aught of thee but those womanly tasks which thy pale-faced sigter4 have ta do, if indeed thou will consent to be my wife and share with me the humble comforts of my home." "Yes, thou wouldst have me give up that life to which I owe what thou callest my beauty; but I fear that it is never to be for thou knowest well the chief of onr tribe likes thee not, and thou a!so knowest that I am his daughter and must give heed to his words, even while my heart goes out to thee like the mountain bird, to which thou art pleased to liken me, goes out to meet the sunshine which is its life. But. thou lookest tired, my love. I have given the much painful toil in calling thee hither to meet me and ill can I repay thee for the trouble to which thou hast been put. "It is naught," he answered, 44 compared with the pleasure I enjoy in thy company. But thcu givest me alarm by the words thou speakest. Wouldst thou not go with me to thy land of the rising sun? I will take thee where thy father's anger cannot reach thee, and where thou mayest live out thy days with me in peace, and where thou mayest have many things which must here be unknown to thee. I will protect thea even here from thy father and thou knowest I have a strong arm, and that this is no idle promise." 44 Alas, my lord, that it cannot be. Thou knowest not the duty which the Indian maiden owes her parent. Were he to give me to thee, then indeed would thou be more to me than he but this he has not done and will not do, and therefore to him do I yet hold my allegiance. I would that it were not so but the Great Mani- tou, of whom thou speakest, knows best, and His decrees are just. We must not murmur against His commands. And thou hast told me in thy own religion it is said, that thou shalt honour thy parents." "Then am I to have no hope? Are all my bright dreams were illusions? And are we then to part thus? I cannot believe that thou lovest me as I do thee. But I will tempt thee no farther." Both were startled at this moment by the crack- ling of dried twigs, and a moment later the bushes were pushed aside and a band of stalwart braves, with their chieftain, stood before them. The maiden clung in despair to her lover's neck and the father, advancing, thus addressed them :— I have searched for my daughter in the wig- wams of her people, thinking she would be theie to welcome her father home but she was not, and none knew whither she had gone. Then did I look for her in the forests of the mountain and thought I should find her not, when lo as I go on in my search, I find her, and she clings to the pale-faced dog and knows not her father. Then will I execute the judgment of the just upon her; for 6he has dishonoured her father's name, and thereforemmt she die. And the pale face, her lover, must die too, for be has betrayed the trust of the red man, who took him to his lodge and treated him as a brother, thinking not that the pale-face would bring dishonour up"n himself and the tribe after smoking the pipe of friendship." The white man strained himself loose from the arms of the maiden, and endeavoured to grasp his weapon, but she prevented him. Stay thy hand," she said to her lover, and then, turning to her father, 41 Touch not a hair of his bead. I have been a faithful daughter to thee, and would be faithful to thee scill, but thou wouldst not. No harm shall come to the pale-face through thee. But, rather than the blood of either of ye be shed by the other, we will take into our own hands the execution of the deed and the judgment thou wouldst have done to us both. Come, my lover, if we cannot live together here, at least we may go hand in hand to the happy hunting- ground, even as we have strolled the banks of the river down there—we can be wedded in death." And ere her father could divine her intentions, she grasped the hand of her lover, and together they jumped far over the rpeky ledge and down, down into the space below. Thus were they truly wedded in death and thus was the revengeful malice of the chief thwarted. And so to this day Lovers' Leap-as the rock has come to be called-is pointed out to the tourist, though the actors in the tragedy which gave it a name, have long since gone to their rest, and only the rock remains to remind the traveller of the scene that was enacted on its summit. Since that day, the city of Cumberland has grown up, and the rock that this legend has made famous appears now to be far away from the brink of the river, which, as it murmurs on in its never- ceasing course, seems to breathe a requiem for the lovers who preferred to be united in death rather than to suffer the misery that circumstance had woven around them in this life.

THE TITHE WAR. Boycotting an Agricultural Show. i The intense feeling engendered by the tithe war is curiously illustrated by a paragraph in a Flint- shire newspaper yesterday, annonncing that the farmers in the Rhyl district have decided to take no part in the exhibition of the Flintshire and Denbighshire Agricultural Show at that place, because Mr Vaughan, who appraised cattle at the recent distraint sales, is on the committee. Mr Vaughan accompanied Ap Mwrog, the auc- tioneer, in bis expedition, and became a prominent personage while enforcing the payment of tithes.

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YANKEE YARNS. j WHY HE BAN. I Judge: "You were seen last night about 12 f o'clock under suspicious circumstances, trying to enter the open door of Jones's store, on Austin Avenue." Prisoner: "I noticed in passing by that the door of Jones's store was open, and I was just shutting it up, that's all." "What did you run for as soon as you saw a policeman ?" What did I run for when I saw the police man ? Well, that gets me. Why, I am a friend of Jones, and as soon as I saw his store door open, and a suspicious looking policemau sneaking around, I ran as hard as I could to let Jones know his store was in (ixzjgcr of being robbed. What did I run for? Well, that gets me. What do you suppose I ran for ?" Judga—"Well, judging from the gall you have, you ought to run for president on the Anti-poverty ticket. You would get there. Thirty days." SONG OF THE FOOLKILLER. I The Foolkiller sat by a. hickory tree, in the luminous light of the moon his eyes were lurid with baleful glee, and he chanted a" simple tune. And the Foolkiller's treses were black as night, and the Foolkiller's voice, was strong. and the Foolkiller sung with a weird delight, this simple yet rapturous song: "0;. whither and where is the youth who goes in the light of the waning day, to the river-side, where the bock beer flows, and squanders away his pay ? I sigh for a crack at his swollen head, and a punch at his blood- shot eye-O;) whither and where is the youth I said, that l'il. find him and lef him die ? Oh whither away is the man who tries to get off a public speech, who'll range from murmurs and broken sighs, to a desperate wolfish screech, who gropes around for a missing word, and stammers aud hems and haws ? Oil soon wiil the crack of my club be heard, as it flattens upon his jaws. 0,1 show me the patii to some lonely dell, where L'll find an idiot gay, who twangs a note on a chesnut bell, whenever a word you say; for a chesnut bell is a fool's device, which none but a fool will use, and I'll knock such lunatics in a trice, clear out of their high-heeled shoes. Cli whither away is the man who smiles-, and grins in the house of prayer ? For he thillb he's smart, but my snares and wiles, will coax him into my lair; and there in the dark and dismal damp, l'It flatten him on the wall, and I'il pave the floor of my lonely ca.mp, with his indestructible gall" Then the Foolkiller leaped to his feet quite blithe, in the light of the waning moon, and he drew a finger along his scythe, as he chanted that simple tune, and he started off on a Spanish trot, according to life- long rules, and sung as he went, I'll make it hot., in this dismal region of fools !Atchison (Kan.) Globe. AT THE RIBBON COUNTER. They came hurrying and skurrying toward it with all the fuss and flutter fashionable shoppers make, says the" Accident News." The clerk in charge smiled wearily as he saw them approach. I'll go you two cigare,tes that they don't buy anything," he said to a fellow-clerk. 44 I'll go you," was the reply. 44 All right—ah, anything I can show you in ribbon to-day, ladies ?" "Yes; I'd like 0 Mame, see this new shade in green." How lovely I do think that 0 Sadie, bow do you like this odd shade in blue ? It's just sweet pretty 44 Think so ? "Yes, indeed. What are you going to use the ribbon for? A bow for Bismarck's collar. The dear little fellow has almost every shade and colour imagin- able now, but I thought I'd see if there was any- thing new." Aren't the ribbons perfectly lovely this year ?" 44 Oh exquisite I rave over them What is your favourite shade ?" "Wei!, really, I just don't know. They are all so lovely." That's true. I've half a mind to take this sea- shellpink-0, have you noticed how they're combining pink and pale green this year?" 44 Yes; but salmon and Nile green is prettier. Let us combine them and see. Show us some salmon and Nile green shades, please." Oh how lovely Exquisite Ju,,it beautiful 44 O Mame, how would this look on that pink plush bonnet ot mine ?" 44 Lovely "Let us combine some of this cardinal with this pale lemon-Oh isn't it lovely ?" Indeed it is Do you like the picquot edge as well as the plain ?" 01), I hardly know." 441 don't either." 44 They're both lovely." So they are. I have half a mind to get Bismarck a bow of this odd shade in red." "He has dark eyes, haen't he ?" "Oh, the loveliest dark eyes And such beautiful silky brown hair." 44 Yes but on the whole, it isn't just the shade I want. Suppose we go over to Brown and Green's and see their ribbons before deciding?" And they go.

SAD SUICIDES OF LADIES. I An inquest has been opened at Darfield touching I the death of Miss Emily Cast, aged 33 years, a lady of independent means. It appears that deceased, who was well-known and highly respected, had for some time been depressed in I spirits owing to family bereavement, having within a short time lost an aunt and a sister by death. During the last week or two she seemed better and more cheerful. On Tuesday morning she was walking in front of the house when she suddenly disappeared, and after several hours' search she was found drowned in the river Dearne. The inquest was adjourned.—Yester- day an inquest was held at New Wortley, on the body of Elizabeth Whitham (33), wife of Mr Alf. Whitham, Wortley-road. Leeds. For the last six or eight months Mrs Whitham has been ailing, and in consequence was very much depressed, although she did not show any suicidal tendency. On Tuesday, however, she swallowed a quantity of essence of ammonia, which was kept in the house. Medical aid was obtained at once, but the unfortunate woman gradually grew worse and died on Wednesday. A verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned.

THE SUPPOSED HORRIBLE I MURDER OF A GIIIL. Further Ghastly Discoveries. Yesterday another human arm, evidently the fellow to the one found on Thursday, was discovered in the Regent's Canal, near the Midland Railway Station. It is be- lieved that the arms belong to the same ttody of which the legs were also discovered on Thursday. All the limbs appear to have been cut from the corpse of a well-developed young woman. Detective-Inspectors Bannister and Dodd are investigating the mystery, and have arranged to have the canal dragged for A long distance. Little doubt is felt that a murder ha been committed.

SUNDAY CLOSING IN CARDIFF. I A Remarkable Letter to Dublin. I At a meeting of the Dublin Licenced Grocers and Vintners, yesterday, a letter was read—amid applause-from Messrs Thomas and Smith, of Cardiff, that since the passing of the total Sunday Closing Act for Cardiff, one of the capitals of the principality, the convictions for Sunday drunken- ness haj increased 400 per cent. and it was now the opinion of the Catholic and Protestant clergy, and of the press and of the employers of labour, that the act had been a failure, and must be repealed. The letter was regarded as convincing testimony against the Irish Sunday Closing Bill, to be brought forward shortly,

THE PARISIAN ELOPEMENT. I Publishing the Banns. I The Press Association's Dover correspondent says that instructions have been forwarded by Mad lie. De Campos to Paris to publish the banns of marriage, which will be done on Sunday. As soon as the necessary formula under the French law has been complied with, the arrangements are to be made for the marriage to take place.

SHOCKING MURDER AT LEEDS. I At Leeds, yesterday, James Pyeah Piate, aged 27, was committed for trial at the assises, charged with the murder of a youngf woman named Leach, with whom he bad cohabited. The prisoner, while drunk, quarrelled with deceased. and so ill-used her that she became insensible, and afterwards died. The evideur6 showed the deceased had a v-eryexcitable temper, and that the couple often Quarrelled.

FACTS AND FANCIES I was not always in this station of life," said the hack driver nlaintively as he reached for his fee. Indeed?" 44No, sir..At one time I was a well-known and promising lawyer." Well, how do you feel over your promotion ?" was the unfeeling rejoinder.-Merchant Traveller. COULDN'T SCARE Hnr,-A talented pianist, Mme dc V erp. sitting at dinner by the side of Col. Ramellot, asked him in an amiable tone "Colonel, are you fond of music?" 41 Madame," replied the warrior, roliing his eyes savagely, "I am not afraid of it.Norristowtt Herald. Wby, how ate you, Billy ?" said a travelling man, on meeting an acquaintance in Chicago. I am indeed surprised to see you here. I thought you were living in St. L,)uit, I was until a short time since. Indeed 't And bow long have you been in Chicago?" I was resurrected last January."—Merchant Traveller. Miss Clara: "Do you think, Mr Featherly, that Miss Smith, whom we met last evening, is a very plain person?" Mr Featherly Yes, in- deed, I think she is the homelist girl I ever saw, present company, of course, always—ex—er—um -tha,t is-yps, she is certainly a very plain person. Are you lawn-tennising any this summer, Miss Clar-t ? » While a London chemist was testing a bottle of milk, it exploded with a loud report, scattering fragments of glass all over the room. Professor Huxley's theory is that the cow had been eating dynamite, but we think that his hypothesis is wrong. A more plausible explanation is that some friend had been throwing nitro-glycerine into the well. When two young people of dissimilar sex, with a singleness of purpose and a doubleness of affec- tion, sit up with each other, and so on, and whetf the clock strikes a dozen, he says 44 Is it pos- sible?" and she say?, "Why, I didn't know it was so late!" you may draw your conclusions that very soon a unified couple will be hunting a cottage to rent. HIGH ART IN NEW YORK.—Miss Bondclipper, a New York society lady living on Fifth-Avenue, recently called at the studio of Herr von Dauber, the celebrated artist. "I desire to have my picture taken," said Miss Bondclipper. "Vitoh vould you brefer, '<. esayon portrait or an oil painting?" asked Von Dauber. "You can paint me in crayon first, and if I don't like it you can put some oil -on it afterwards," replied Miss Bondclipper. i I have a dreadful temper," confided little Mabel to the new boarder. Oh perfectly dreadful. I get right over it, though. So does papa. I make right up asrain after I am mad." 41 Do you 14 Yes." 44 Have you been mad at any one lately ?" 44 No, I haven't but papa has. He was awful mad at Kitty, the servant girl, one night, but he was ail over it the next morning. I saw him behind the door with his arms around her kissing her just as kind and making up. Chicago News. It is sad that when you touch a man's pocket you touch his soul, but how was it before pockets were invented? The ancients knew nothing of pockets. The condition of a little seven-year-old ancient with no pocket in which to store away his marbles, jack-knife, top, fish-hooks, jews- harp, mouth-organ, ink-stopper, jumping-jaclt, beau blower, gum, slate pencil, loose matches, etc., must have been pitiful. Before pockets came into fashion purses were suspended from the girdle. Thieves cut them away and then cut off wilh them, hence the term cut-purse is much older than that of pickpocket. THE PRETTY OIGAR GIRL. She's as pretty as a picture as she stands behind the case— Every curve a curve of beauty, every movement one of grace, While the smiles that from her ruby lips perpetu- ally rise, Lightly dance across her dainty cheeks and leap into her eyes. She will know you, you may wager, if you've purchased there before, And her smile will greet your footstep at the threshold of the door You will raise your hat politely as your eyes en- counter hers, And she'll charm you with a sample of her sweet I Good morning, sir's." There is r.o delay in buying, which your very patience mocks, For, while your hand seeks the money, hers is in the Droper box And, in picking out your purchase from the whiteness of her hand, There will seem an added sweetness to your loved Havana brand. If there's change she doesn't throw it in a careless man-like way, But she hands it out politely, with a" Thajak you, sir good day And you go out breachin, fragrance to the distant hidden stars, And your blessing on the beauty of the girl who sells cigars. -Columbus (0.) Sunday News.

A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS AT CARDIFF. Several accidents of a more or less serious nature occurred at Cardiff yesterday afternoon and evening, the sufferers in each case beiiig treated at the inrlllary.-Frederick R. Hedges.1 (28), living in Eisteddfod-street, and in the employ of the Tuff Vale Railway Company, was engaged in shunting some trucks, when one of his feet was badly crushed A boy named Henry James Denman, 6 years o; age, and residing at Giynne-street, was detainee I suffering from very severe injuries, caused by h clothes having caught fire.-J ohn Driscoll, years of age, of 40, Mary Ann-street, and in t employ of Messrs Cory at the Bute Docks, h his arm badly crushed whilst engaged inshunti some trucks on the railway.—A boy named J< Jenkins, 9 years of age, and son of the os at the Royal Hotel, slipped from a ladder leafr to a hayloft, and falling a distance of about I broke his left arm, and sustained a scalp wout

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE IN lE: RHONDDA. Four youniz men, named John Chapiblin, D'ivid Rees, Thomas Jones, aud Albert Wijns, are under arrest at Porth, 011 a very ous charge. It appears that a man namedoert Davies was, last Saturday, returning krds Rhondda-fach late at night, when tlfour prisoners met him. Without any provtion they set upon him, and the poor fellow waited and beaten in a savage manner. His bnbone was broken. He was for some days verj, and is not yet out of danger. On Thursday .oners were apprehended, and locked up on a rge ot doing grievous bodily harm.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEARND I DUMB, LLANDAFF Generous Donation by Mr Cory. Mr Melville begs to acknowledge, vgrateful thanks, the receipt of JE20 from Mrhn Cory, being his promised contribution iki of the extension fund, and £ 5 in aid of thetbcoming Syrian bazaar.

THE PURCHASE Of THE I CARDIFF OMNIBUSS. An agreement for the purchase the Provin. cial Tramways Company of th%ses of Mr Solomon Andrews, of Cardiff, ha%n signed by the solicitors of the respective pas, and in a short time will be submitted to acting of the tramway company's i;hareholder, London.

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TO-DAY'S POLICE. —— NEWPORT (COUN'Y). A DEFENDANT WHO DIDN'T LOK SORRY.-At Newport county police-court, tis afternoon- before Mr Thomas Beynon and t/o other magis- trates—John Hodge (14), em loyed at the chemical works, was charged wih stealing roses from the garden of Auckland Villa, Maindee. —The proprietor, Sidney Chales Wills, said he was on the watch for prisner on Sunday night, as the roses had been reputedly plundered. '\t 20 to 12 be saw the prisoner;limb the palings and commence his depredatias. He did not, however, wish to press the ckrpre.—The Magis- trates' Clerk (to prisoner): Ar>you sorry for what you have done?—Prisoner: Yei--The liagistratesl Clerk.—He doesn't look so.—"ined 5s and repri- manded, the bench expressig the hope to the prisoner's mother that his fsher would give him some chastisement. THE BEER BOTTLE, NOT Th BABY, AS A COM- PANION.—Margaret Saunder with an infant in arms, was summoned beforetne same court for being drunk at Maindee. A two a.m. on Sunday morning, the 19th ult.. a pliceman found defen- dant lying asleep in Evesvll-street with a beer bottle by her side. He arlsed her. and put her on her way to Lisweny, Viere she lived, but she abused him, and, pickig out an inviting spot in another part of the road, went prone again. Three times the officer found her at various ?ints of the road, but nttin.atety sent her '•me.—The Magistrates' Clerk Had she the bab with her ?-The officer No.—The Magistrates'Jlerk: Is shea married w,)iii,,iti ? -Tlia (!fficer: è, with six children.— The defendant said sheould not travel; the way was so lonz.-The bene let defendant off with a nominal fine as it was er first, appearance. A SUDDEN TEMPTA'ON.—James Smith, Irish harvestn a I, was chared before the same court with steahnfir a drake;he property of Di. Harris, farmer, Ramney.—Aiordme to prisoner's own admission, rielivered; broad brogue, he saw the drake waddling aboutha road as though it were lord of the entire m¡.or and all other ducks, and was seized with the idden temptation to convert it into money. b accordingly killed it and offered it for sale atvarious placesfor6d.—Fined 120, or 14days' imprbnment.

AN EX-CHMPI0N SCULLER M MORE. Robert Watson oy: the ex-champion sculler, died at Middlesbrtgh to-day.

A BOGUS ;EGISTRY OFFICE. Edwin and RA Courtenay were remanded yesterday, at Livaool, charged with keeping a boprus registry offi. They opened an office in a fashionable thorhfare, and charged half a guinea. A largeimber of girls and young ladies had paid the fel but no situations were found, and when theyeturned to complain the police were called in. 'his occurred so frequently as to cause suspicion.id the prosecution was instituted. The prosecutinfolicitor said the office was a bogus one, and simp1,. means of swindling.

A MEDIOL STUDENT'S FREAK. At MarlVough-street, London, yesterday, Leland Colba young American, described as a medical stunt, was charged on remand with firing a reVCer in Kensington Gardens on the afternoon June 23rd. The case has been roported.-ir Arthur Newton, solicitor for the defence, ain stated that his client had no idea that be wftransgressiug the law, and that he was extremeljirry for his conduct.—Inspector Mors- ley said at he had made inquiries, and found that the isoner occupied a respecta ble position in societ-Ir Mansfield imposed a fine or 25.

/BISHOP'S BLACK LIST. Thishop of Oxford has just concluded his trienil charge. It is mainly occupied with the discuon ot the Bell-Cox case, as to which he says ii. when the sanctity of marriage, the authty of parents, the general obligations of re- ligioand morals are called in question, as thay haveot been for years past, it is passing strange thatB should exercise ourselves chiefly on the forwf the oath to be taken by the Dean of Arcs." His lordship says that in 500 parishes thehave been no interments under the Burials Ac;hat be knows by name 300 clergymen whom hould not possibly allow to officiate in the dice, and that he objects to the insertion of sted glass windows of such a character as to pent the poor being able to read their prayert b<s.

!iM MACE'S CUPS AND BELTS.' .n the Chancery Division, yesterday, the case Cox v. Mace came on again before Mr Justice litty. It was the action against Jem Mace, the all known pugilistic ex-champion, in which the laintiff, Mr Myddleton Cox, claims a lien for loneys advanced on the security of the ex- lihampion s trophies. The plaintifi had applied >or an injunction. Mr Turner, for the plaintiff, now meutioned that the parties had come to an arrangement, under which the defendant was ?oing to hand over one of the cups and one of the belts, and that under the circumstances it had been agreed that the application should stand over for another week on the same terms as before, that was to say, the defendant was not to part with the trophies, but he was not to be inter- fered with in exhibiting them. His lordship made an order to that effect. -1,

THE HEALTH OF CARDIFF PORT I Medical Officer's Report. I The report of the medical officer of the Cardiff Port Sanitary Authority, Dr H. J. Paine, for the year 1886 has just been issued. The total number of vessels entering the port has bep.11 less this year than last, the numbers being 12,132 as compared with 12,709. This has been due to the decrease in the number of foreign vessels, coastwise havine been slightly in excess. The following is an extract from the medical officer's re- port Upon thewbole, tbe sanitary condition of the shipping during the year has been highly satisfactory 599 vessels were reported to me as requiring sauitary medical inspection, having cases or suspected cases of illness on board. Of these, 379 were foreign and 220 coastwise. Four hundred and forty-nine seamen were received into the Hamadryad Hospital during the year. Of these, 48 were classed under the head of zymotic diseases the remaining 401 were cases of ordinary sickness or accidents. Of the zymotic cases, three were from small-pox, one from diphtheria, five from fever, 17 from diarrhoea and dysentry, and 22 from intermittent fever or ague. No deaths occurred among these cases. There were, how- ever, 20 deaths due to non-contagious diseases. Out-door patients belonging to vessels in the port are also treated at this institution free of charge; during the year these numbered 6,473. The 48 examined vessels did not cause any trouble. On three of them, the "Gertrude," a coas ting-vessel, the as "Prmcipia," from Marseilles, and the "Alice Piatt," small-pox patients were found. The rest of the crew in each case were re-vaccin- ated, the vessel disinfected with chlorine gases. and the clothing belonging to the sick seamen destroyed. No extension of disease followed. Typhoid fever was discovered on board the Oarl Ritter," from Hamburgh. This case seemed to originate from the foul water used, the amount of sulphates was 3 04 per 100,000 parts, and a sample taken was of a brownish hue, and was turbid with suspended organic matter. In con- sequence of the existence of cholera at Bilbao and other ports trading with Cardiff, in the autumn of this year an application was made to the authorities to again place on this station a quarantine boat to intercept all vessels arriving in the Roads with foul bills of health. This appli. cation was immediately granted, and the boat was continued until the 10th November, but no case of sicknefee due to this disease came under obser- vatiofiu,

I SPORTING ITEMS. Bubear has been matched against Ross. Robert Watson Boyd, the ex-champion sculjsr, is lying dangerously ill. It is said that Mr Biake gave Renny to an old friend as his final for the Northumberland Plate The value of the Berkshire Plate at Windsor, won by Pull Together, was JB555 6. Ayrshire credited the Duke of Portland with 1:61,325 17s by his victory in the Royal Plate at Windsor. James Watson, the oldest trainer in England, was looking hale aud hearty this week at Gos- forth Park. Cambridge oarsmen carried everything before them at Henley on Friday, representatives from that University winning the eight events decided. J. Spurway and E. Thomas are matched to walk three miles (the former receiving 160 yards start), for £ 20 a-side, at the Treforest Running Grounds, at 3 p.m. on Monday next. Friar's Balsam, who is engaged in the July Stakes at Newmarket next week, had a capital gallop of seven furlongs in company with The Shrew on Friday, the pair being led by Upset. In the L100 Sheffield Sprint Handicap, to be decided towards the end of the present month, C. Gent and H. Hutchens. of Putuev. are Dlaced on the same mark. L The Falcon, the property of his Royal High- ness the Prince of Wales, lias been entered for the Twn Year Old Stakes of 200 sovs at the Kempton Park First Summer Meeting. On Friday Matthew Dawson bad The Baron out on the tan, and sent him a capital gallop over six furlongs. The spin was a brisk one, and the crack was led by Arlonis, (Jrowberry, Blowing Stone, and Spring Jack. Lady Muncaster is gradually coming to herself. Her illness and rapid growth destroyed her pros- pects for the Oaks, but the succeeding months of the racing year will greatly improve the filly, who stripped for the Gold Cup at Epsom stones heavier than at Epsom. The latest thing in fancy wagers comes, as usual, from the Land of the Wooden Nutmeg and the Almighty Dollar. Two sportsmen, named respectively H. W. Stevens and W. J. Spencer, recently engaged in an eating match in Salem, III. The match was to see which could increase his weight most by eating. Spencer increased his weight Mix and a quarter and Stevens six aud a. half pounds. Wavelet scored a treble event at the Curragh June Meeting this week by winning the three queens rlates. The 71b penalty she had to carry on Thursday did not apparently make much difference to the daughter of Paul Jones and Wanda,, as she again won easily from her four opponents—Sylvan Queen (who, as on the pre- vious day, finished second), Silkminster, Dracc, and the Sprite colt, who are all reckoned pretty smart in Ireland. An objection has been lodged against Chatter, the winner of the Victoria Plate nt Alexandra Park on Saturday, June 18, by Mr Paget, the owner of Clarion (who ran second), on the ground that she was not qualified to run according to the conditions of the race. It appears that Chatter as a two year old won the Corporation Stakes, value £ 436 17s, at the Brighton August Meeting in 1885, while the conditions of the Victoria Plate read as follow: For maiden two year olds or three year olds and upwards who have never won 150 sovs in one race."

THE CURIOUS WILL DISPUTE. The General's Liking for Whisky, I In the Probate and Divorce Division, yesterday, the case of Vivian v, Kenuelly was continued. Mrs-Vivian, the widow, was further cross- examined. She said before the marriage she was staying with Miss Keogh at Naas, who was present at her marriage. She had never threatened to place the general in a lunatic asylum. She never knew him to do anything that was absurd or insane. The general was fond of Irish whisky. She did not think that was proof of insanity. She had never written to a young woman telling her not to answer any questions about her marriage.—In re-examination, she said that from the first time that she saw the general he always said he would act honourably by her, and make her his wife. She wrote to the general when he was in the lunatic asylum. She refused that the marriage should be kept secret. The general sent her the money to pay the expenses of her journey to Naas. She might have threatened to leave the general if he did not give up Irish whisky. She knew that the general was corresponding with a lady after he had married her (witness). He once gave her a letter from that lady to read, but she burned it without reading it. From first to last the general was always kind to her, and she did her be.,t to be a good wife to him. He certainly had a great objection to be asked for money. That ue did net think was a peculiarity in husband, The Rev. Mr Burnett, curate of St. David' Naas, county Kildare, said he married the parties. Everything went off properly. Witness and his wife attended the wedding breakfast. The general told him that the lady he was going to marry was not of the same social position as himself. There was nothing whatever in the general's conduct to induce the belief that be was of unsound mind. ¡ His manners were those of a perfect gentleman, Mrs Burnett corroborated the evidence of her hus- band as to the circumstances attending the marriage. 'iNIr Bayfoi:d-Dl*d the lady exhibit great anxiety, previous to the ceremony, about getting married? Sir J. Haauen—There is nothing in that, as most ladies are anxious to get married. (Laughter.) Mrs Davis said she now resided at Stoke Newington. She had kuown Mrs Vivian from her childhood. The General and Miss Edwards visited her in London previous to their marriage. They appeared very much attached to each other. The general said his family bad locked him up in a lunatic asylum to preveut his marrying Miss Edwards, but he intended to do so in spite ■ -f them. Witness was present at the marriage. Everything went :off properly.—Mr Iuderwick Did you think the general insane at the tinie Witness Well, if he was insane, I am. (Laughter.)—A number of other witnesses gave evidence to the same effect.—Mr Bay- ford opened the case for the defence, and said ha should call witnesses who he believed would, to the satisfaction of the jury, prove the deceased to have been a person of unsound mind. -Dr Thomas Clark gave evidence in support of this statement, and the case was adjourned.

FORGING A DEAD MAN'S SIGNATURE. At Bow-street police-court, London, yesterday, Henry Brown (66), Ellen Garvey (47), and Cathe- rine Richards (28), were again charged with having obtained about £100 from the Post-office Savings Bank by forging the signature of a dead man, the husband of one of the women. The prisoner Garvey was the widow of a man who bad about B100 iu the Post Office Savings Bank. By a former wife lie bad several children, and at his death they wera entitled to about £70 of the money in the bank. Deceased also left several houses, and ia one of these Richards, a married woman, resided. The man Brown was a lodger with Mrs Garvey. After the death of Matthew Garvey withdrawal notes were ob- tained and filled iu for sums of £ 10 and £ 96. These wete signed with a cross by the prisoner Brown, Mrs Richards certifying that he was the depositor, Matthew Garvey. Mrs Garvey accom- panied the other two prisoners when they went to draw the money.—Mr Bridge committed the prisoners for trial, and allowed bail.

-4- A SERVANT GIRL WRITING HER LIFE. At the Worsbip-street police-court, London, yesterday, Mary Ann Creswell, 18, servant, was brought up on remand for stealing 6s 6d in m wy and some small articles the property of her employer, Mr Dean, a musical instrument makpr, of the City-road.-The case was fully reported last week, the facts being of the ordinary kind, but it transpired that the prisoner bad commenced to write ber life, giving the manuscript the title of "Life's Trials."—Mr Busbby now said he was afraid she was a bad girl. She had refused the offer of a lady to take her into a home, aud site jnust now go to prison for si* weeks.

THE QUEEN AND THE WOMEN'S I JUBILEE OFFERING. A Letter of Thanks. The Press Association has received a fac-simile of the letter addressed by her Majesty the Queen to contributors to the women s jubiiee offeriug. Ths letter is as follows Windsor Castle, June 22, 1887. I am anxious to express to all the w-irc-n of Great Britain and Ireland how ieeply touched and gratified I am by their ve-;r kind and generous present. I thank them i most warmly for it, and shall vaiue their gift of the statue of my husband very highly as a touching remembrance of this interestiug and never-to-be- forgotten day, and of their great loyalty and affection. "(Signed) VICTOKIA R. and I." The words "deeply" in first sentence and thank" in the second sentence are under. lined.

THE SEVERN SUB-MARINE MINERS. Cardiff next week will be almost entirely denuded of its citizen soldiers, the tnree different volunteer corps stationed in the town alJ having arranged to undergo a regular course of training away from home. The i, d -s, as stated by U yesterday, go to Aldershot the artillerymen, it will be seen by an announcement elsewhere, are to camp at Ltivertiock, while the Sub-mariue Miuers take, up quarters at Plymouth. This last- named corps will be absent a fortnight, whereas the artillerymen and riflemen only go away for eight. days. The Miners parade at the Drill-hali at 9 o'clock this morning in heavy march- ing order, and will journey to their destination by the Great Western Railway. The Government requirements in the case of volunteer engineer corps are particularly exacting. Thus should any member be absent to- day without leave, he will be called upon to pay a ^ne of £ 9. Tiie detachment, while up for training, will be under the command of Major Thornley.

UNIONISTS HOOTED AT A I TEMPERANCE MEETING. I A temperance meeting was held in the ilifemorial-ball, Farringdon-street, London, last night at which Cardinal Manning andSir W. Lawson were received with great enthusiasm. 011 Mr Johnstone, M.P., presenting himself, he was loudly hissed. Mr W. S. Caine, M.P., and Mr T. W. Russell, M.P., were received with such a storm of booting and groaning that they put 011 i their hats and left the hall.

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