Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1871, Page 3

danced o1 a In all bis emotions, as never A madiy ari’ Aod why? Tn Bis mother-in- it something would carry her off. Ob, now he might look for a quiet life, ough soning steed uralgical wife waing uo ne wife, And up to his collar ia det. For she of the specs and carled false front, And the binck alpaca robe ‘Most pick ont a sailor to ealfer the brant Of her next daily trial of Job. He watched while the vessel cut the sea, nd bump: A P od and downed, And thoueht whe qualmish could be, | Hed consider the edifice crowned | ae thick and thin, it of brea. h. ‘azed at the shie ehe was in, ber violent death— Till over the azure horizon’s edj The bark had retired from vie When he leaped to the crest of a And pranced like a kangaroo. And many a jubilant peal he sent { ver the waves whica had made him free, ent « last caper cestatic, and went, Turning» mereau'ts. home: rd to tea, TWICE MISTAKEN. Christmas eve. Helf-past nine. comes into my room to clear away tea. « T suppose, sir,” he said, as thongh it were a subject not admitting of a’ doubt—" I suppose you don't dine home to-morrow?” Both the tone and remark are unfortunate. I have not an invitation to dine out, and I can not insist upon dining at home, as my arrange- ment with the Crummses provides fof dinner on Sundays only. [had intended to put my diffi- | culty to my landlady, who is good-natured and | persuaded. I find, instead, I have her and te deal with; so I close my book slowly y. * Well,” as if I were thinking, and not ite certain. rs. Crumms would have waited to hear what I had to say; not so her husband. he looks sur- Prived at my hesitation, and quickly putsin a ¢lincher. “ Most gentlemen dine outon Christmasday,” he says, staring at the wall some feet above my bead; ‘‘and Mrs. Crumms always expects a holi- day on that day.” i feel after that statement, the only thing to be done ts to surrender gracefully. « Of course; quite right. Ol, yes! I shall dine out. Cramms. “ Very well, sir,” he replies, In a tone as if he had never raised the question, but was simply taking an order in his old capacity of hotel Waiter. ‘+ Anything else,sir? Good-night, sir.” ‘Then Crumms gocs down-stairs triumphant, and I doubly regret having stayed in town, in- stead of going home, since I shafl have to get my solitary Christmas dinner at a London hotel. Christmas Dey. Mrs. Crumms this time brings in my breakfast. She has a large apron pinned over the front of her dress, and her sleeves are tucked up, which mean, ‘with her, cooking. As she sets up the things, she wishes me the compliments of the season. “And I hope you'll enjoy yourself, sir,” she adds; ‘for I'm sare you want a holiday, with your sitting here reading to all hours of the night.” She means it kindly, and notasa hint. I pay for my own coals and candles—for the former particularly, they being supplied by the Cruram- ves—so I thank her for her good wishes. I don’t anticipate much enjoyment, on the contrary, I am ata loss to know what to do with myself, and heartily wish the day was over. One o I see through the window, as I come back from church, that the Crummées are at high dinner. Cramms himself is in his shirt sleev on his legs, and looks very much as ere making a speech. ‘There are cries of avo, pa!” and a great deal of laughter, both | of which subside very rapidly as I knock.” One ofthe smallest of the many small Crummses comes to the door, with her little (cheeks and ebin bearing unmistakable signs of pudding. She just peeps out to see whe it is, and then scampers away, as if afraid of loosing some of the good things in the parlor. For this want of respect to the lodger I heard her mamma re- iky ledge, | Crumms « Never mind, nobody is naughty on Christmas da: otapplause. J go up- stairs, and “pa” pi with his speech. Two o'clock. I ring the bell for some hot water, and Crumms answers it in full waiter’s dress, white ties, dress coat, and a low-cut waistcoat showing a large amount of shirt front with elaborate frill. He walks into the room as if he is very proud of himself, and is more waiter-like in his manner than usnal. «Hot water to wash with, sir?” and reaj with the jug, which on the table. = | Dramms,” I ask, ‘‘where are you go- bj Out ae He — for a minute, then and more confiden- ap Christmas tial. go out wait on day , ‘and I have been in the same house for the last fourteen years. The — man andlady are a couple as came to the wn at Newford the year 1 married Mrs. Cramms. We were both at the hotel, and were just leaving to come up here. The lady took @ great liking to Mrs. Crumms, and one day she said to me, ** So you and your wife are going up to London, Crumms? Now you must come and wait at my house when we want help.” AndI have been there every ‘Christmas-day since—not missed one. I go on other days” —he says this quickly in an off-handed manner, as if the other days were of no importance— bat. ain’tregular.” “ You go there and help wait, I suppose?” “Well I do most of the waiting: ail of it, you may say,” he replies. “They don't keep a man and there are only the female servants. They ain't much good not like Mrs. Crumms. She could wait, she could. She was wonderfai handy. That's what first made me look at her.” “ And where do you ne ae = ford Square, man’s name.” On the spur of the moment, just to see what Crumms will say, I ask, “Will you take me with you to-day?” “You; sir,” he replies in surprise. « Well— really, sir, I’ don’t think Mr. Domviile would— though I have known him these fourteen years, I'm afraid he'll think it rather presumptuous of me to introduce a gentleman into his house!” « Teuppose so,” I answer; the idea of a waiter introducing a friend as a guest at the dinner be- ing certainly very absurd. ‘* But I didn’t mean that. Take me with you to wait.” “You! vou go out waiting!” says Cramms, holding his breath. « Yes. if you will take me.” “Well, Ido call that a good joke,” he gasps ent, “Lord what an idea!” Then dropping | ~« his walter-like manner altogether and becoming thoroughly human, he burst oat laughing. I had only intended to chaff Crumms, but it | strikes me that going out with him will be more than spending Christmas-day by myself, begin to hope that he will take me. I ille would have no ob- I urge, “and I could mg friend of yours, who is just begin- J wants to learn the business. sir,” pants Cramms again, *you ain't + By Jove, Iam, though. I don't know what on earth to do with myself all day. I should like to go out waiting.” Crumm’s laughter, which is very prolonged and loud, and accompanied with a great deal of coughing and wheezing—for he is rather stout— brings his wife up the stairs and finally into my reom. She begs my pardon for the intrusion, and then “€ turns to her husband. mms," she says, “you musn’t excite Remember, you are going out wait- yourse ing “Yes, yes, my dear; I remember,” he an- ®wers, as soon a= he recovers his breath. “ Bat here is Mr. Herbert wanting to go out waiting = «Mr. Herbert,” says my landlady, surprised her turn. «Yes, Mr. Herbert,” repeats Crumms; and his laugh barsts out again like a smouldering fire. 1 immediately begin to enlist Mrs. Crumms on my side. She fs a merry, good- woman, with rather a partiality to ‘wild young gents,” as she calls them, and is fond of ‘stories 1}. | He points me out as is fair-sized, the walls are painted and ha | round with’ pictures. It is rather dark an heary-looking, and the furniture is old ve. There are three servants gol with trays and piles of plates, the table. They stare at me as side of Cromms, and he introduces me as a young friend who wants to seé a little genteel waiting, and whom he has made bold enough to bring. Then, as if that settled the matter he goes off to business, and asks several questions as tothe number and names of the guests. I notice the servants al treat him with great re- t and he in return, is condescending and ite to them. With me when they are in the room, he assumes an authoritative air, and all the time he is very grave, and looks as if the cares of bis position are too mach for him. He smiles once, when we are alone, as I hand him a Jelly; and then his muscles being relaxed, his old fit of langhi —— out again. it and year a) ont by the He cannot laugh inward! aud chabense trementiay toot the jelly cae and trembles to an alarming degree; ‘and it is only by means of promptly takiag it under my own protection, that I save it front being shaken, on the floor. «© Lor! to think of you being here,” he mut- rs; and the next instant is gravity itself, as Mrs. Domville’s voice is heard on the stairs. he isa middle-aged lady, and sj trendly manner to Mr. Cramms. an¢ r in her inquires after his wife and children. oung friend of his, who has come to help hi: ad Mrs. Domvilie seems quite satisfied, and goes upstairs again to the drawing-room. Four o’ctock. The dinner is ready, and all the yuests have arrived. Crumms stations me be- hind the door, and goes himself to the head of the table, and I watch the people as they come inte the room and take their places. ‘They are mostly middle-aged, like their host and hostess, and ently old friends; for sev- eral nod to Crumms, and one gentleman isquite hearty in his greeting. and says it would not seem like Christmas dinner withont him. Mr. Demville laughs, and asks after Mrs. Crumms; but Crumms refuses to be thus thawed, and re- vies in a tone as if such trifling questions inter- Ferea with the responsibility of his position. So far everything has gone right. Then comes ablight mishap. Sust os ever ybody is seated and silent, and Mr. Domville ering to na grace, Crumms gives me a siginal, and I step forward quietly to close the . The movement at- tracts the attention of a young lady, who is sit- ting with her back to me, and she turns round. She wide y has not noticed me before, and her laughing gray eyes scan me surprise. My face ar new one toher among the well- known faces round the table. I suj jen she thinks I am a guest who has arrived late and just come into the room, and seeing me standing there and no one taking any notice ef me, she says courteously: ‘Isn't there a chair for you?” Then turning round to Mrs. Domyille,O, aunt! here is a gentleman left out in the cold.” Mr. Domville, instead of saying grace, looks up stares, and half rises from his chair, while the company all turn toward me. Itis certainly an embarrassing moment; but Mrs. Domville comes to the rescue, and says quietly, “It is nite right, Helen.” The young lady looks a iltte confused, and then Crumms, in his ner- yousness, spoils everything by rushing up to her, and calling out: “ He’s come to help me wait, Miss Linton.” My fair champion thereupon blushes yery deeply, and beg* my pardon; several of the guests have simultaneous twitchings of the mouth; Cramms looks half angrily, half apolo- getically, at me; and at last Mr. Domville, ina shaky voice, says grace, while Miss Linton bends her head v low and hides her face. The next moment Crumms, serious and imper- turbable as ever, removes the cover off the soup, and the dinner begins. 1 believe I acquit myself creditably. Cramms declares that I did. wonderfully well, and, is in- clined to think, I believe, that 1 have wasted natural talent by not being a waiter. At any rate, I don’t spill anyt over arybody's dress or knock anybody on the head. I care- fully wateh Crumms for his and, thanks to having been at a dinner before, though not in the capacity of a waiter, I have some idea of what ought to be done, and so remove the i grad covers and hand round such dishes as ought to be handed at the proper time. The greatest difficulty I have is to keep A countenance, particularly when I hand anything to Miss Lin- ton. She is so bright-looking; and it is such fan to see the sparkle in her eyes and the bd drop when mine, and a litile re- pressed smile ‘ing over het lips, that it taxes = powers to the utmost to keep from et I feel that I should like to kick the young fellow sitting by her side. He does not seem to have very much to say for himself, and he examines every dish as it is handed to him, through an eye- glass. His in mis so long and nose is E,'close that T have a growing feclination to bob the dish up in his tace. For more than half the dinner he is silent, then he talks a little politics, staunch conservatism, and Miss Linton imme- d ately ennnciates the strongest princl- | nog upholds woman's suffrage, and their hav- ing seats in parliament. This seems to over- = him, and he retires from the contest with a sigh. Later on, he tries again; when the mince pies are heing handed round. “ Will you have a a month?” he asks with a faint smile which disturbs his A neg and brings it down into his lap. He pots a it slowly, and, not trusting himself to repeat the joke, asks her to have some mince-pie. Ry No, thank you; I never eat them,” she re- ies. Pc Have you never tasted them?” he says, frowning as it he were a barrister cross-examin- ing a witness, but probably because his glass gives a premonitory slip. “O yes! I have tasted them, but I don’t care about them,” she answers. He has no comment to make upon her reply, and he helps himself in silence. Siz o'clock. Crumms and1 solemnly put on the wine and the glasses, push the desert-dishes a little one wayor the other, and leave the room. ispers Crum the hall. “ Bravo, sir! With a teaching you'd make a capital waiter. And Miss Linton for @ gentleman, too. What a joke! Atleast,” he adds, as if he suddenly feels that he has made rather a mistake him- self, “of course that is what you are, and a gent is always a gent, I say. But you understand, sir. It was so ludicrous.” “ Perfectly. I understand, Cramms. What are you going to do now?” yell, sir,” he says, coming a little nearer, *« I generally have something In the hongekeep- er’s room. Maybe you wouldn't like that, though we should be quite alone.” As I want something to eat, and am not par- ticular where io it, I follow Cramms down stairs into the kitchen. The servants there are busy washing up the plates and dishes, amid a neral smell of dinner and hot jwater, which is jarfrom pleasant. The housekeeper takes us at once into her room, where there is a cloth spread upon the table, anda row of the good ings from upstairs on a kind of dresser. Noe are tare you don’t mind, sir,” says Crumms to me, when we were alone, ‘because | I'll wait till you are done, if you like. I am not hun + But I am, and I shall not begin till you do,” J answer; and we sit down togetier. The soup is cold and fast becoming a elly: the fish looks | mangled and unsavory; so { decline soup and fish. “I tind that the having a little something in the kitchen after dinner is over upstairs re- | quires training before it becomes really enjoya- Die. Crumms evidently has had the full amount of training that is necessary. For a man who professes not to be hungry, and who has had» good dinner a few hours before, he displays a capability for eating that is truly wonderful. I | prefer the dishes that have not been touched up- stairs; he. contrary, is on equally good terms with them all. However, I get. quite gh to satisfy me, and there is a novelty in ating one’s Christmas dinner with a waiter ina back-kitehen. The wine certainly is the best part. Crumms has taken care there shall be plenty of that, and makes a most liberal host with Mr. Domviile’s Port and Sherry. Seven o'clock. Crumms says he must take the cottee up to the gentlemen, and leaves the room. No sooner is he gone than one of the servants comes in, apparently in search of something. Whatever it is, she does not find it. She hunts about vaguely for a minute, and then stops op- posite to me. ** So Miss Linton took you fora gentleman,” she says with a laugh. “How nice.” * Miss Linton made an unfortunate mistake,” Ianswer gravely, imitating Cramms’ manner. “Well, I don't know about that,” she replies. about the young fellows round Newford when she was at the wn Hotel. There aint any- particularly m my out waiting Pacis ton ene eae , am mn ‘ Scmnebody at her etd place” =” 1% Of Mr. inves: “and Eid think you were sachs: «cat tinves: “ nl were § a nee ‘you woal @ bit of fun like that, Ikhow:” “ But Mr. Domville,” begins ber husband. « Nonsense Mr. Domville!” she “He needn't know; and if be does, he'd laugh as much as any one.” be Los will be ae. — oyna ye ma. mms, yielding to ue. “You on Ss Domville know. There isn’t likely any one to be there ag will recognize you her ‘won't do, and Crums’ to go me it calamity; so it was arranged that Cramms should go first and send a cab, and then wait for me in the Crescent a little distance off. | on our way to Bedford square. The whole time | he is either laughing at m: ing out with him oF Dervous as to the resuit. “In the latter he is almost piteous in his entreaties to me to be careful, and repeats over and over again his di- rections how te wait. We the cab at the street leading to the square walk on to the rt big house with a large hall. There isa window by the street door at one end, and a | broad staircase at the other. The dining-room i i “ There is certainly an excuse for her doing so.” This strikes me as being very open ‘Battery; moreover the israther warm from Ieper a efkec meter Te ok m1 the bargain. As I dont answer, she tries another sul “ You are oat of a situation at present, ain't ou”? . I nod. “ Where were you?” she asks. « Notts? she say knowing ©: . aa) rumms cams ene "Kua 80 BOW you've coms to i : : i * Been pum ing with bis Set tanreer “They are women. I There. ain't todo, and Tean aay you" keep, vou know.” 7 "° ice, we go upstairs to the me out, shatting the door awtal « L knew they would,” he replies. 9 ald,” aan tS Y “Why, Roche, whatare you doing here? Go- ing out to dinner?” = Just had it,” he replies. “Been to gee an ol ‘sae aot night then naturally wonders what I ma nisug the streets oe ‘Christmas J tell bim I have been out to diuner. “ They have broken up very early,” he says’ and then asks suddenly: *‘ You haven't sneaked off to read, surely?” ‘This is said in @ tone as if it were a mortal sin for a man to read for an examination un Obrist- mas days. That's: it,” he says, when I had disclaimed any idea of reading. “* Will you come home with me. My will be very glad to see you. We always have a carpet- dance or some- thing in the evening.” I accept readily, and go back with Roche to Ouse. i tock. We have cleared the room for —— the first quadrille has just com- Not able to get a partner, Iam standing on the |: when a Sarriage rolls up to the street-door, there is a loud knock apnouncing the arrival of sume new-comers. “Mrs. Roche hurries down and meets thomin the hall. I hear her say ax they com* upstairs, a oe are just too late for the first dance, jelen.”” The name Ary makes me start. “ By Jove, if it should be Miss Linton!” is my muttered thought. Thalt hope it may be; I half hop2 it may not be; and I haven't time to decide which half is the stronger, before Miss Linton heracif comes laaghing up the stairs. At the very glimpse of her, I instinctively draw back into the shade, and she and her mamma pass by withoat no- ticing me. It seems very ridiculous to meet the same young lady twice in one evening, first as a waiter, and then asa guest; but there—it is done, it isa Yait accompli; and Miss Linton and [ are once more under the same roof. I wonder if she will recognize me, and I watch her with in- terest as she goes round the room. Sooner or later we must meet face to face; and the awk- ward mc ment comes sooner than’ I expect. ‘When Miss Linton reaches the door where Roche is standing with his partner, she stops there and talks to them when they are mot dancing. “'Isthere any lemonade, Edward?” che asks presently. “<I want some, if there is.” "That's a bad sign, Nelly, after dining out,” he answers with alaugh. « There is some down. stairs. I would get you aglass; bat you sze it is my turn, If you don’t mind, you will find some- body outside, I think.” Roche lehds off with the third figure; Miss Linton comes out upon the landing; and move trom the shadow of the wall into the light. She makes @ quick movement with her hand, There i Justa litte tightentag of hes Tires ere is just a le of her lips, a faint bingh Tees to hettcheehe Sod ther eke asks me quietly to fetch her a glass of lemonade, Roche had said it was down stairs, and I find itin the dining-room. I am rather glad of the excuse to get away and have my laugh ont; for the whole thing is more and more absurd, since ‘Miss Linton has @ second mistake, and thinks I am a waiter. It is a very natural error yey and — up = castes ey Iputthe on a tray wely w 3 She is quite compo sed now, and thanks me unco: as I hand her the lemonade. ‘Then we stand side by side—I holding the tray in both hands—till the dance finishes, and Roche get your lemonade?” he asks. Now you wanta for the till after supper, unfe wa ey ‘Oh heral Let T SU} , unfortunately. » here! me introduce you. Miss Linton, Mr” Instead of Waiting to hear my name, the oun; ey —_ down the glass quickly and ndignan Don’ absurd, Edward!” she says as she walks off. “ Some mistake, old fellow,” whispers Roche to me, and catches her — Inside the room. bad are so close [ can hear what they say. “« What is the matter, Nelly?” he asks. «* How could you be so ridiculous as to intro- duce me to him?” she replies. “ Why shouldn't I?” “Why shouldn’t you? He is a walter; [knew that. He was waiting at Mr. Domville’s. Instead of looking contrite, Roche goes off into oii wus ery aeld f you,” sh half “ Tt was very stupid o 1s” she sa; a crosly. “It forced me tobe ude to hig? “ t nonsense, Nelly! I shouldn't play you such a trick as that, of course. Thatis Her- bert; he is in the same office as I am.”” «You are not joking, Edward, are you?” she asks, quite seriously. “ No; upon my word I am not.” “Oh, 1am so sorry, then!” she says imme- diately. ‘‘But there was somebody just like him at the Domvilles. What shall I do?” “Come and be introduced, that’s all. I'll make it allright. And they came together to the landing. “My cousin made a mistake, Herbert?” he says, while she stands by him blushing deeply. ‘Then he adds, laughing, “ She you for - ” “I made a mistake,” she breaks in very quickly, coming a step nearer. “4 beg your pardon.” To save her from further embarrasment, I asked her for the next dance, and it is imme- diately — “ By-the-by, Mis Linton,” I say, when the dance is over, and we are standing Gn the land- again, ¢ ve never told me wi OSES x age se “No.” Her iat ane anes look ith their ler lav, up w merry oy Sey my face. Trey seem at the same time to question me whether I shall be an- noyed if she speaks the truth. She pauses a mo- ment, and then says, ‘‘ A waiter,” and presses her lips tightly together. ean it was quite excusable,” she begins, hur- riedly. 5 he ‘Thank you again,” I remark, interrupting er. “You won't listen,” she says, plaintively; “I want to 25h “That explain—— I look so much like a waiter,” I add breaking in again, ‘‘that it was quite excusable taking me for one.” “ Ob no; 1 didn’t mean that, of coutse,” she saysjforcedtolaugh. ‘ But where I wasdining, there was a waiter like you—so exactly like you,” she emphasizes the word exactly and glances quickly up at me as she does so, “and I mistook a gel an, and thought he was one of > ” “So you make up for it by taking me for a waiter,” I answer. “Well, I think the waiter bas the best of it.” « But it was excusable, was it not?” she asks, “you two being ¢o much ‘alike?’, “You ‘ing the waiter for a gentleman? If he was like me, certainly.” “No,” with a stamp of her foot, “my mistak- Ing you for a waiter.’ © Very will” oho says with slangh. Th wel ‘Ba! wi @ langh. en she adds mischievously over her shoufler, as her artner comes to the next dance, I think my frst mistake was the more excusable of the two.” {And I think the last, by far the worst,” Ire- ply. * Do you? WellI am very sorry,” she an- swers; but her eyes belie her as she goes off laughing into the drawing-room. Fortunately I secure the dance before supper and take her down. “ You don’t wait so well as your double,” she says, as I hand her some mince-pies, I had just put before her for a minute, and then taken them away. “Tam sorry for that,” I answer; ‘but then, you see, I know you never eat minee-pies.” “ How do you know that?” she asks, turning round, quickly. “Your cousin has told me a great deal about "reply. « Did he tell you, pray, that Inever eat mince- pies’ “How should I know if he did not?” I say with assumed simplicity. She looks very incredulous. “He didn’t tell you that I know! though I believe you men talk a greatdeal of nonsense; as much nonsense as women do.’ “ You own that about women, then, and yet yon want to baye seats in Parliament?” “Oh, now Lam certain you must have been at Mr. Domville’s,” she cried; “‘for I never said tion to my ni If you were not 3 how could you have known Tsaid?” “ Do you believe in the theory, Miss Linton,” I begin with a ve face, ‘ofa person know- ing, by a sort of affinity, the thoughts and ac- ti of whom he has neverseen, but whom he is permitted to see, he is at once, ¥ fate, most deeply interested in?” “No, I don’t,” she replies, laughing. “How Before Ioan go on expounding my imprompt can on a ; Roche somes up ‘and claps me on the “ Well, Herbert, how’s Crumms?” Roehe has often been to my rooms, and knows my landiord, of course; but what demon pos- segses him to come st this moment snd pro- “ Bravo!” cries Miss Linton, her bands. “ Now I know; you went with Crumms.” dert was there with Crumms waiting. Now, 'b you?” she to "So driven up in per, sttlavt T made my owns fun!” she says. “Won't I laugh at she read me such a lecture as I Kare. And havo not made @ mistake after «+ Except when “ Oh, thet ashamed ot that Seer oe shen: 5 ee Mrs. oe calls me * Mr. Wi me the rest of the pariy a her hee . Par iow shall come, Miss Linton?” Task, as T put on her cloak; ‘‘as a waiter or a “ In the capacity that you thi suite best,” she answers. Then she adds more * “Titers toa tarthoe nets 12 may dhacy” for that day—something about Mis; Linton— to let remain ing unusually calm, Cramms became unusually | @rriciaL. excited, and was with difficulty prevented from — TARY ot the mission to the of for nd be ot macied. That. eet Caeser oe OPILARHUPIE CEE corer Erirrin memes Sem Se, rae sa : yerity of was bronght about by him’ ei omits fh eho { Igftventitied, "An actlerplng’e tax forthe perment | if the Legisinttes Asocmbly out waiting on a certain Ch y~ DISTRICT OF CO! of the intereet as it sbail asm accrue on | at euch election: dad prowsdey furiecr, That this act Re the for holds toe General | Million doliare cf bonds, authorized to te ieracd by | shall receive th eval and cancthon «f the Ore. * eter of Cobtmbs sotitied “An act bowers: ; A NARROW ESCAPE. ise accantlp of the | Sutuwtsinn ee Waeruapel ocreate a debt “ ow a Mother aud Her Five Children | neral electio Fied trom Fire. | there: i miay of for special improvements and ee ip ea fourth Wednesday of oF the issuing of four millions of bonds and the ‘the ing road Cu te A correspondent writes from Michigan:—A | Fotvies mactat, ‘Thad whereas on | Suet eecnee Te Sees ne Sem, | phemcunt sot qroending ox wemdrel shomemed Ga: thrilling ficidemt and miraculons es from } the immediate taking effect of de question of the iseuing of four aN rs idence shal! be furnished death soaks the.cone-of_ tho peas ots fe chi ie act, it ts hereby Geslared to be in force from and | Fierimernt boule. toe vossof the py oF ccmpictiog be dren o! ir. aun, of oul Creek. | after Governor. * t When the mother saw that they must leave their te approval By MeSAARUES L. HULSE, “t xrctrre xs guarantors home, after fighting the fire ali day, she told the Bpeaker of the House of Delegates. Boner ss herein Ceeama. as said Board that the ameunt go sob children (five In number) to go to the lake and WILLIAM * section inthe Wetrictat Crinmtin whe eae ay she would follow as soon as she had gathered up | 4 »proved, A: yreident of the Council. | hed on the fourth Wedneeiay of Roveanber Sai, | Sesteenny Se gtalt ny ise ae ome she ‘time a few articles to take with her. They reaches poroved) ANCRE I wernor. ee 1-n (bring the twenty ercand day of that month i ( y the lake just in time to taken into a Mshin, - eat said Legis we Amombly of the Distr 4 be boat, whieh three neighbors were ‘about to shove UTICK BY THE GUVERNOS AND BBORE- | 72" fay! irony Lig 7 19th, i eutitied “An act oftin. The mother in the meantime had gath- | 1% TARX of the District of Columbia of the sub- | Shall 'annully accrue ce fee tte tt | ered up what she could carry, and started (Or | eee ee ein sercnal cl aa act ol the | Remit euthorincd to be ievard by the District of Co- | “Ost"®. And teat further enacted. That tu the take, but fonnd the road which her children aislatirc Acccnbiy ch aad District eutiied “Ae | MBDia. by an act entitled "An act authorising the ide for the payment of said had taken so full of smoke and fire, nud talling | gcfauthorising the District of Columbia te-createe | District of Columbia to ereate adebttorapecsal im | Governor te y autborined trees, that she took another eourse through the | debt for special umprovements and repairs in said eng Tad Fm pg t by the | tered or compon bonds of the Pisirict of ( Woods, coming out some distavce above where | District by the iaeuing of four million of Bonds. and | (rdhk Sterno thetic tenn an elTink Stax | which shall express the object of their the children had. She knew wot whether es | levying a tas for the pa of terest 8,8 | accrue hereon, ant submitting the act with the | Stake Bian Salcbail be seocanatastecens nally heard they had been taken off by the boat. ‘Sinction tn eaid District, "approved. | tion fa the sald Distric paw ctisia Lundred thousand aoliare. 8 Here commoxces the romantic and thrilling | | Brople of said Di 3 | art of the story. There was not Execerive Orricz, eval, with the said act entitle: | oo tn board; a piece of board was ail they bad | DistRict oF Govtssia, Aagurt iy isn. { Ire fh "Dinirict of Cohimbla to create adh for | nd : ‘nex special improvements and repairs in anid District by ike contre! the boat with. For some time the boat ming of fonr million of bonds, and levying a | bes Notre fice general | election in the District of Columbia. which will be | id th, Wednesda ode rode gently upon the water, all the time work- | | tax for the payment of the interest’ as it shall'auy | per ing a little out from shore, although they did not | fhe guyeyom th Weanreday of November, Mell) | tually accrur ti fing thre net, with | Bee. 3. realize, on account of the density of the smoke, | cher egialative Soecmbip ae she District of Cot the got, | meet the ‘accrue on ead bonds, there how far they were mtting. from shore. They | pia. entitled “An act euthor! F fe District of Go, ‘aD 7 j on 4 7 Sit of six per weet Seconds sPer cose coals. tetarn: 96 their Tenninin wean 4 beget gt ‘oar auton ead Section Sill be the @ret general slection, jaitor Hare of the apsesned value of real Peoeonal Dleasure. It soon became apparent, | Eypgize te said District by the teeing of Sour malice | ene pacesse of said act on D act levy | feetate in said District, the procesde ot which tax ‘4x for the payment of interest as ft shatl t they were | Interest as itshall annually a Dledged for the 4 rapidly drifting into the lake, and they made all | {2t6" sted accrue thereon, and sab- | hall conatitute a special the act with the question of the issuing of el Nee Rally gecrue on fonr million dollars of bonds of said tnterest a the efforts they possibly could to guide their un- | the four million of improvement bonds to a rote of | ‘Boriznd to be issued by the District of Colpra | “Buc 4 and be ti Jurther emacted, ‘That the Gur- wicldy craft back toward the shore. Houratter | the People at : eral election tn eaid District,” sp- | Columbis tocteate a acbriee oped) Lapeer rres | trnar ie hereby requested to conse this act to be day tis. . sal im i i oe 1 =) Poce, they jabored, but all. was in vain. They | Provided by asidcer ts tee meopie of salt Disrrict ior | and repaire in eald Dictrie by knew that if they continued to drift, death was almost sure. “All were in the greatest despair. | ‘elt spproval ‘The oldest of the children, a girl of eleven | ¥ uired by the fourteenth section of the charter of the District of Columble, (act of Congress of Bebe one. eighteen hundred disapproval, im onnncetion with the million of bonds. and levy in four millions of bonds wy be intercet ms it shall for special i twenty | onedand by | a bonds fe I | And submitting the act, eurtatie proclamation to eubeit the summers, was the bravest of the lot. ‘She held | Sadi election will ber the frst general election after | eine of four mitions of tm na Shame fo'tbe people, aud’ presct ibe the form tn whieh the baby almost constantlv during that terrible | the parsage of enid act, Said act is hereto sutjoiued Draitice’t the People at e general election in said | itsball be voted upon. ona’ L. RULSR. trip. On they went, the waves frequently pal reof is made herewith. And «aid election, as respects the said act. will be Beak ‘of Delngat breaking over them—ot course all were wet and Governor ttt: PrtrctCotumbis, | beidesin the said Act provided. “Said act ta hereto | “Wittaw sticker daybreak was joyously hailed. ‘They were now aN EN, | Goverment oT te | u SEE. Somer. oun on beyond the snioke of the burning forests. They | AN Act authorizing the District of Columbia to create AS { were sure they would soon hail some vessel. Ail day long they looked, until darkness again set in without seeing a sail. At about two o'clock in the morning of the third day out, one of Mrs. debt for special improvements and repairs in | Secretary of the District of Columble, id District by the issuing of four million of bunds, | AN Act levying. tax for the payment of the inter- and levying a tax for the payment of the interest | St W annually aceras on four million as it shall sunnaily accrue thereon, and submitting bonds, a be the act with the question of the issuing of the four ‘SEWING MACHINES. KEYSTONE Mann's children, a boy of three summers, died Million of improvement bonds to a vote of the peo- eutho: . SEWL MACT) trom hunger and expoesre; when it died it was at a general election in said District. lebt fer special imp: ire in said hee rang lying in the bottom of the boat with water halt Hi emacted by the, Lantsiative Assembly af the let by the issuing of four millious of bonds | makes the least noise, rune easier, and Rerforme Over itslittle body. | The little eleven years old | Srurvect of Colmmese, That in order thet special im- | Sod erzine = tax for the payment every description of sewing ot all fabrice. Might .r 1 said she wanted the men in the to put Hite oer D By apie wg th an oulmmit- body with ——we ‘than eny ether ma ton the bedding, but they would not, and she rg Sompleted sewers apd’ brid four mil im ey Soe was too weak, and was holding the baby, and the JOHNSON & OOLLEY'S, 711 Market Space. het. Tth and Sth ste. coud not do it. The children di on the last day works be executed, t Pe enpow District, to issue, or cause to be issued, as herein- after the not cry much , asall were nearly exhausted. Finally, after tree days and nights, they were Go: yered, for, octet ILLOOX & GIBBS drifted ‘on shore at Kincardine, Ont., where | St? ir talihton Sollee’ eden eceetimeet | ealltion aeilers weeretereese: | W: their wants were speedily attended to, and from | Sftycone hundred, five, hundred. and ote thessuot | the District of Columbia insrcoriaees witht ae SEWING MACHINE acENcY. ‘sae Wee Gee aoa cap mae | BTU EN | Pe PRR eT RES | ay gon uring these three can - eit issue, ie rat @ debt for B Sil ST AND LESS LIASBLE TO Ine thes mother's Toellngs. ve ody that | yee Ree conta sama see tae | te and repairs in said ty ChE Out br dno uk new o! circumstances sup] course - , < mothe eat Port Warn’ aniatanta went | Seeetccumbinst sha bet et tweed gear Bf ed t anamount to fo the relief rooms. Ater’ making herself | soorge the nad ode a aid, perio anD wee BACTORY. nown, an wailing the ite of her c! nm ‘col L. tp pitcous sobs and fioann (she Thad supposed | Siehty boteasd dollar, daring each of Joisty__ ft tren, Ioteligmeer Bfltng. etn, te ene ey eee | tit ited States, entitled, “Am act to provide for ‘ells, the secretary of elief Association, ernm Ihe District ” ap- IMPROVED NOISELESS LOCK -STITOR told lier her children were here, well and ap- | préved February twenty-one .clgtioen hamared sd ~ parently, happy, I cannot pictiire the scene. | serenty-one id ine ame mainer that the gen: “Oh! it so? is itso?” Go less it- | oe es of #ai collected, by Se Reeeen CW Gee tee ee ee ede ‘Used exclunively for the of the | Congress entitled “An net to, to them at once!” Mrs. Wells informed her | igeretg annually accruing on aid Lond? sme Gover- | twenty Rutt nighinge saa they were near by, and she would take her there | nor shall_in connection with the Secretary and the | in the same that the atonce, Another and more painful part of the | Comptroller, prepare sail bends for issue and sale. | District shall be collected, story was yet ® be told Mrs. ‘on How todo Ontheir face fl hall be « im- | exclusively for tne payment of the interest annaall, this was a query, all the ladics in the room | provement bonds,” and shall be signed by the Gov- | accruing on said ; that this ect shall be sub. dreading to break the dreadful tidings to her. | TROT, countersizued by the Secretary and Ly 4 Peg iy ows the Stvvand ten the nofsoe “Pay seed | "RE «ana ve user, meds Patt tute | Sones aaa ES Sxc. 4. Amd be tt further enacted, That the bonds how little Charley was ? No one answered for | which may be Prepared for insue’and sal amoment. She looked up and saw at once all | said, until require Sor paid yarpsess, cual was not right. “Is he dead? is he dead ?” and as afore be de- he out commenced weeping asonly. a fond and loving | sball not permit any one or more of them to go out mother can, for the fore of her boy. ce ehraighs st eran ato —— requ jovernor: A Curious Matrimonial Question. sail Keep, "b register ar acto unt of oil bowae x which ; * ¢ The Ban Jose (Cal) Mercury contains this sin- | SL N° RS trom time te ties, to the Gasteieciee gular story: “A remarkable case, either of mistaken iden- tity and fraud, or wilfal or constrained perverse- ness, recently occurred, and still exists, in this county, which is deserving of something more than a passing notice. ‘There resides with his mother in Santa Clara, Charles W. Sikes, a young man of reputation, worthy and hon- est, but of humble circumstances in life. There aleo resides in the same town, with her parents, Miss Hattie Burnett, a gran: ter of Gov- ernor Burnett, an estimable young lady of 18, of fine accomplishments and unsullied charac- ter. These young people, it is asserfed, formed an attachment for each other, against the wishes bly, of the amount of sales,as well as of the Seount of Ghat may have socrued or to be BY CHINCHILLA Ovance. ara eis at 1011 Pennsylvania avenue, between lth and ith streets, N° BRANCH OFFICE. of the girl’s parents, who sought by various Toung Sikes wan poultivety fexbiaies to Ses or ‘at St Seemeral in ‘oung Sikes was positively forbidden to see or - tpeakt to the gin, "Hut everybody knows’ who | Boerd tr the patimont of th pt of epecal improve | Hinirict,” Ait tue agaist fais act skal bois oe has arrived at maturity, what such forbiddings | Decssary ital expenses thereof, angie De AGAINST amount to. Of course he met her clandestine- | other purposes; but no payments shall be made under | The act for levying ly—at least it is £0 positively stated by those | any contract for improvements, or for any work the aoe Sy a eee ea rviews. is exi sev- 7 eral months, until the 4th of September last, | cept in the ease of the nal execution of any conirs £ Eee who gave her name as Hattie Burnet at the law office of C. C. Stephens, of th i BY t NATIONAL LOAN OFFICE. cat ae it shail sntually accrue toerwon, when Mr. Sikes, accompanied by a I jurnctt, Salted city— as tw an acquaintance of both parties and boy WA | fearebenitting the ect, with the question of the their object in calling the intention of bel Ry ye Se ea PO. tte in ma eo a Ter rsa, qeannt, tot acy | PETG Tost ts ute ete vei with Mr. ms—who, way, hid. That the tickets for and asserts that he has known Miss Burnett from | of: J eI ss ee Ba snails in the Dallotboxee sitich tae Gort infancy, and could not be deceived in her to the use, of any of the money authorized | $T0r Inired to provide for the deposit of the tity—while Sikes went to the clerk's office for a | to be raised by this act, contrary to provisions, be | Sey Pike District of Oolete es ae license. | He soon returned with this needed in- | shail, oe couriction thereofin the Grlminal Coart | ¢b¢ 3 Gols nei pid strument, Justice Stewart was called in, and the | ot tet Oe Diskeed tar trey oh aei toe | Pistriet_ the oeckag four millions St were duly married. They returned to than three nor more than twelve months, and by s = s tar for the payment of the interest as it janta Clara, remained throughout the day at | fine of not less than five hundred dollars ‘nor more Say Sa bans the young man’s home, and then the lady went | than one thousand dollars. Se ae s lesuing of the to herown home. Now comes inthe mj >| BEC. 9. Amd be tt Suriher enacted, That this at a general on ine et and in relation romance, or what you may call it, of the whole | shall be submitted to the or electors of 0 " TON tothe question of the issaing of ‘four millions of ROBERT FUL' @ oo. affair. The fact of the leaked out— | District at the first general ‘which may be | {p,pve duet ake olen, for Stier made no secret of itand soon reached | neld aftr iy efits ot estions of {Rat sal be ond din all respects, na e ears "6 nit They asked — y ” persons eu! * otherwise, in sccord- If it was true. She said. no, and seemed greatly | "yhsP oon the approval ef theact Ti shall be | Sb°% with the lay which may be 314 NINTH STREET, surprised at the intimation.” Sikes published foe ‘ss the Governor may ai. | #} eto general elections in she was hs wife; and the’ girl waa brought to Feet, ct les than three, and the pablication tbereot h. 0; {ho polis, the balicts for: face en ie ool of = See. be-continned Ste terse ibe pes $e esit choctice. against this faw sball counted the election off- Here the dented everything relating to the at- | Aeompd, at ikea rar of bad aS mad'at the | Seek, ands tally lie thereof be made out, ae SETWARM D STREET AND FENNSTLVARIA ‘of said bonds, or of the contraction of said | ‘he completing of the counting 3 passin acquaintance—never intended to marry | gure ‘words following. A licate returns of Seven cate ee ay peu te had been a0 re : ine en of SE mtd es ste numberof Tove chat Uferent for members St or trict of ‘Gol iamaber of vooss cured fo personate her, Sey and inthis to | “Aunct tutoring the Birct of olanbietyere: | Sakepninuge Amami tel bi forty sgh ADVANCES MONEY firmly persists at the present time. ‘The parents | atte debt, for epeciel improvements and repairein | Several election or flairicts, which returns believe the girlthe public, mostiy, ao | sas Distriot, by the tava cracmouande, | Shall umber of votes cast for this loan, with Sikes. Some think her fears have been | shail anpually accrue thereon, and submitting tne | 2% Pee Tigught upon until she dare not own the truth. | act, with the question of the issuing of the four mil- | box ofeach elects ‘others shall be eloeel iat AT LESS THAN Cthers don’t know whatto think. tis ertainty | Hone of improvement bonds to rote.of the people, | s'alngantulige ands gumersaball Be Diaced in A ge HEA ppd and all parties are ome pe eS of improve- Degric ent be iu his hands by one or more of most wo! Syd millions el lcers. —————— ment bonds as provided in said act. Fifth. On receiving the said envelopes NE-HALF THE USUAL RATES A Bit of Family History. of Ud the ballots againet said ect and the issuing | the returns as aforceaid, the Secretary shall escane | O! The cloud of mystery which has heretofore t the same, and add together shrouded the antecedents of Mrs. Victoria C. of Woodhull has lent an air of romance to the his- ‘the 5 GOVERNMENT, tory of her career as clairvoyant, broker, and Sixth. If it ‘appear from said returns as certi- editor, and given some color to the suggestion of | {Rs of bonds, sud ingine & tax for the payment of | £e4 toby the Secretary that a: ity of the votes her renowned biographer that she was not born | the interest as it shall annually accrue thereon, | ;4%t for members of w slative Assembly shail as common morals are, but owed herorigin to | snd submitting the ect, with the question of thé | fail force and effect, and the Gorsroc het ee orrr, spiritual Influences. | ‘The Lewisburg (Pa.) | issuing of the four millions of improvesvent bonds) | ‘nlm the same fe the pepersnf tes Dietcich ae Chronicle, however, clears away something of | %.8 vote of the people at general election in | this law may be published. If a majority of votes this romance by publishing the following bit of | District. feauing of four millions of im- | *All be cast aguinst this act it shall’ be Yoid abd of AND OTHER SECURITIEG family history: During the year 1535, and for | grs"emest bonds, as ory be Fy a pf n0 effect. some years before and after, there lived on the | “Third. That ballot-box for each election district | Sme.2. AI ‘M Surther enacted, That with the farm now occupied by Samuel Gelst, in Union | shall be provided by the Governor,in which the bal- er ee of See Ee moweqagers es afore- County, near the village of New Berlin, a poor | lots for and against the said law and for and otice over fhe signature of the Goternor and of fee. | BLAMONDS, but honest family headed by a Mr. John Ham- | said improvement bende, st Lyn aR ‘of the ict that it will be submitted to mel. One of this family was Rosanna—better | glection ins the titled to vote, and | the people at the first general oloction after ite pase: known as Ann Hammel. During the winter of | Sct?’ yise. with the laws and age for Sppren: di val, ands ‘of 1835-86 Ann took @ fancy to a young man named ™ Bpucae ich notice hall be filed ye oltice GOLD AND SILVER WATOHES, Buckham Claflin, a Hoosier by birth, anda . retary of Se peddler by protession, who was selling wooden butmegs and tin-ware in that portion of the ome, country. The fancy was reciprocated, and the « loving couple were next Gnd Ridge,and afterw: Ohio, where a daughter was born whom the: named T t ny of the citizens of Union County were well acquainted with Mrs. Claftin and vouch for the truth of these a S