Show v jt SIOXDAyAXI) THUIUDAT K VJtBV rCBtlSliro It was evening XEiEGR-APH- : fjlE SEMIWEEKLY Tjfc!I 8TENIIOPSEt Editor farm-hou- TROU THE SERVIAN lkon swinging tli iEUSoj HMfih : v- i - tho leafy qi4hanl hiding ' him sing Che apple-hoa- r ' As answer hhnlthjtlikling J) “I am ja fairer tLIngf’' i’p looka the unmown meadow AndlajJgh upon thaair-‘‘Cfecn apple lathe shadow Than thee I am more fair!- - - done ''There was but one occupant of the room and she sat by the window What a glorious vision she would have been to an artist in that attitude of unstudied- - grace with one cheek pillowed on her hand ! The small head the dark hair gathered into in rich roll at its back and then the clear regular profile' the brown eyes and the red lips made Abbie Glenn a very beautiful xBut despite the graceful abandon of her person the young girl was not at eas oJ Yon could have devinod this by the restless movement of her fingers oud by the nervous tapping of her small foot on the carpet even jf you had not been near enough to hear the words she murmured to herself! “It is strange” shesaid “Hugh lias not returned this evening Grace would certainly have come up and told me had he come 1 suppose I must answer that letter of Mr Stewarts and decide my future What a brilliant one it would be as the wife of so wealthy a maul How every one would envy me and what a simpleton Cousin Martha will think me to refuse so magnificent on offer even it Mr Stewart is almost fifty For whom too am I doing this ? For ' a man without family or riches —the nephew of- our housekeeper I’ And as the young girl said this you might have seen in the moonlight the sudden curling of her rosy lips and the bridling of her small heart “And yet I love him” she sajd and now d tender softness stole over tho proud face and made' it very beautiful “I may struggle but heart Cannot against conquer its 'my weakness Oh Hugh Holmes the 'bright: head” which Lord Duncourt said last Winter’ would do honor to a’ coronet will be happiest laid against your heart and the fingers that lay calm and cold in tho pressure of the man of wealth willAhrob and quiver at your lightest touch! How my heart too is always going back to the old days when Hngli and I and Grace ‘wandered threingh the wood shadows— those days that are the great jewels of my memory ! lie is gifted and he will be great too some day and then I shall be proad of him my Hugh He has never called me his Abbie but then lias lie not said that it was: a luxury to look on such beauty as mine?— and do not liis: dark eyes follow me aboat the room with a world of admiration ?— and is not beauty to him an intense exceeding joy? and mine surely must win him Sometimes as the moonlight can't tell secrete I will admit it) I have been a little jealous of Grace sometimes thought his' eyes and voice had a tenderer meaning when they addressed her but then gentle and lovely though she may be I know lie’ thinks of her only as a sister Pxetty she certainly is but then am not I — — feet on the staircase The sound Abbie Glenn's reverie broke suddenly upori later moment a light figure bounded inand a Then the maiden pure of kisses Takes tip the jmfculoW's boast Wlmt idle folly this is— 'Tie I apt W9rth the most!” ' y - The soft spiritual light crept into the corner chamber just os it had done before and the same breeze came up from tho meadows and folded away the curtain so that you could see into the room almost os if it were day It had undergone many changes There were traces everywhere of the softening harmonic ing touches of woman—if we except the high post bed5: That stood in the corner with tho dark chintz curtains just ns it had always ! ‘OU Wiut so lair as lae!” n se ms tMPPl0 hcarsjlilm fnglng r and the moon was coming over the distant mil and the light lay sou and serious just as it bad done ' ten years be fore on the old fields around and ' trees stood The was it Nothing changed broad and os and solemn green &ndrH if just the Wilding had grown Older you could never detect it in that twilight made by the mood-bea'' modnlight she told all wliile her cheeks grew "right with blushes or damp' with tears how that evening Hugh Holmes nad taken her out among the deep shadows of the garden and tpld her that he had loved her better! than or nehesj how he had asked her to bc-Cbme his wife and how bewildered and astonished she was at first' and 'yet withal how exceedingly happy! Then after she had tremblingly faltered tho promise that lie asked and ho had called her hils Grace they had had a long talk- of the p&3t and the future And Grace had told Hugh she' wondered that he and Abbie had not loved each other instead that the queenly grace and beauty of her cousin had not won his artist taste and heart guid he had smiled ahd answered : i “They have won me Grace to glory to luxuriate in beholding her exceeding beauty as I would that of somo rare old statue or master-paintin- g My eyes never grow tired of gazing at her I love her too very tenderly as the sister of my boyhood but I have never gathered her into the innermost folds of my heart There is too great pride in Abbie’s nature for me ever to find repose 'in her affection She loves the world its clamor its applause too well ever to make my affection the chief end and aim of her life Our souls were not made1 for each other” v Abbie sat very still and heard all this but her face had a kind of hard frozen look about it when Groce paused and involuntarily £lie clenched her band while" for a moment a strong lmpulse ruslied over her to fell that Sweet face to the floor and stamp all the beauty out of it but with a strong effort slie re- toe - s' that was in for the groan T— i : Brownlow w W is Plaid to rival his Satanic There am Majesty in iersonal appearance lint I Old incidents Jubal' retalted of many which he her own darkened soul at the moment prevented it whether I repent “I have commenced-anor not it is too late to retrace The game must be played out now aiid what I do must be done quickly’ Abbie Glenn said those Words os' she sat in her own room &u hoar later and then she rose up and went down stairs Oh these links in the great chain- - of evil riding farther and farther on through 1 he snares and the llow icon riantly should the prayer go up froiri all bur hearts Lead us not into temptation” Abbie found her cousin in the sitting-rooalone for Mrs Hill was preparing the evening meal Grace was reading Her cousin stole dp to her and drawing one arm arouud her neck laid tho other playfully ert the page Orace looked up With a quick smile arid drew down Abbie'a face to her iipsc'“AVhat'is Hugh doing that he should leave left-he- r '' cannot at present cajll to mind but one Burs ing the battle in tlii wilderness oil one occa--1 sioii a regiment froi South Carolina waj or- ron-- 1 Jcrcd to- charge the enemy Bor eome Did it ' of faltered Jubal hearingsonTHjrode up to the head or ttfo column and in that peculiarity of toiietqj which lie was not ed cried Out: “Blat yu fox got j'us Into thisd —d scrape aiil ypu chain help us outr’ Hie ngiment was f6 cut by the- - reinark that they rushiVl upon tlm foe driving him from every' position j 'X ' - w 1 ’ pit-fall-sf t ft ': m EASTERN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS EXPECTED HMD OX riUFFAlJD! - )' PEATII OF THE lAjKlT 01? NEWCASTLE! COMMERCIAL DEFIIESSIOX IX ENGLAND! i- - NEVADA ADMITTED! his fair lady alone so long?” asked Abbie ! ' rlightly j r ‘2 Iifffalo30 “He went to tlie village dearie some three An n!Ucial menace wan received by the Provost hours ago and is not yet returned” replied Marshul in thin city lrn CiiiuiiU this cveiiiQK BaiUt liiyioli toajrl wtHtlnp that the rHieln in- Canada are to make an Grace j “I shall pluck yon lemon glowing “Yes he is” said Abbie “for I met him less iniuuMliate raid on lluifalo ITie military are now Wiinlnzwa! under arais and the city m fo he patiroled Beside the : than an hour ago in the garden but he is ' ': j': Capc'ItiiccUa I shall pluck you apple growing slie added from Liverpool Manchester The out of nil tho v-Grace” City gone again probably liUh reporis couimcrcil failures iuKugland conUpon year lofty tree! “I have something to say to you’’ : i v “You meadow There was a Strange Hgnificanco in her tinue The' Duke of Xewca-tl- c died oh Die 18th inst cousin’s tone and Grace loqked up in surprise after a Jty mo you shall be mown! jprotracted illuessi coniinolraHtalilo are not Xnd to know think “You dear The that rich” it yoy Time you a:ybu Jjnuloii tinued Abbie “no w don’t J sliake your ' head suppose the Federal accounts are new made a fThis day shall be my own!? so at least you are rich iu comparison with favorable as possible to suit a political emergency strained herself dcplorea the prospect of continued war aa most and me Now what I want you to It Hugh and depressing to the whdlc world “Grace” said the lier cheek melaucholy girl' putting Y1IE CAM IN VAIN down close to her cousin’s “your offence in promise is this — that you will make over all presenting the greatest reproaches to mankind A grand baraar jn aid-oSouthern nrigoncra wan not calling me was a very pardonable one your fortune to Htiglf’’ eu the IMli wiin grpat j g at : opened so coxTixcEbJ wife will And be and to Mrs rpr Hugh's you disclaimed iri tho Call back the dew ' Holmes 1 Ha lia little coz ! docsii’t the name matter a very general support Is being -extended Thar on the yooe at morn waa lying ' sound strangely ?” BITS OF NEWS to tbe bazaar - i 1 Of When the day lk dying ' And her cousin’s was A mote GraCjO rather Englaugh hhpcfrilfbelmir thought prcvaileifiri snhbeatu Hid the stay hotel board is $450 per day lish commercial circleaViii tho ITtli On the Jlbth a very gleefql one when it was only wild and : Washington there was renewed gluyiu and depression Call back Ahe Wav® j hoarse opd almost mad of Moscow Russia has been A large portion E'en while tw ebbing tide’s recoding— Tire manager of the (errantilc Kxcliange bank Three hours later when the night wa? himself undue ecitemeqt in regard tel the killed vOlu allunliedfn fires waning though the moon still kept her silver destroyed by incendiary affairs of thb bank which were reported' to be in a Of thy voice are theyi watches over the farm-houand' the green Acotton mill in Massacliusets pays' $120 confused stltewas the jcaase Ai vMn the call Additional failures afe garilen a white resolute face was lifted from flicljidirig 20 on iovo corner cliamber and it bent per pound for cotton 70 cents less than that Liverpool firms intcihstid inreported makes the bed tiieVmerit'ari trade departed pistraction over another by ite side where sweet dream running through the milL v When the The‘reported sevcfitylof the' commercial panic Rio de Janiero is connrmcd' the liabilities of 4 smiles weirs hovering and whispered with at Bitter tears let fiilL ‘Full a thousand l Cape de Verders liavc banks iii t&alj city will be XI 100: ’ suspended fearful emphasis: died of and starvation the still famine Pnr and sunshine wave and flow’r rages: Tlie “Never never Grace Newman shall you ship Gertrude fpr San Francisco was at"" t Renew'd return at destin'd v Rio discharging her caro for repaire be the wife of Hugh Holmes while I' have v “Pretty waiter glri3” are “beerjerkera” in 4 y never yet was known the pow!r I SO No York power to prevent it!’' Cunlil vanish’d lAve rtfcajl v j StLonis' The’ Herald has some additional details of a of’ Oh Abbie Glenn I your good angel must movement below Petersburg on the 27tli: On I' The IIoosiuc tunnel was tohritc been made lave been far off when you spoke these words Hatchet’s Rnji Egan’s division 6 T infiiii- - j in that evil hour in 2 years It has token 1G years and will re- try fdund enemy potted on the other side in a Call back the brave tils command was deployed entrenchments line of V Boneath the distent billow lying “But Hugh why have you not told your quire' 10 more in line of battle Smitli’4 brigade jrdhsed carrying IS the breastworks on the bther side jThe only ofti-cBidthoM who iovo! them sighing aunt and my Uncle Glenn of your engagement The hop crop in Vchnont is a failure hist was Col Spntlcr of the 4th tlliio i’hc re j v to my cousin ? It is surely time they should iir them cease to sigh croUscd and advanced tipofi A tornado at Mattoon III turned a freight malning Forces then know and rejoice with you and it’s too bad thb junction of the' Royutbri near a bird back the Call point reaching and a down detached car train blew road our troops' befog de- to of be selfish all the and with road upside Quaker you keep your happiThat seeking warmer Minute for pleasure ness to yourself” j ployed inan open plaiia the enemy opened with "::" it half a mile: (Sient is our Summer treasdre) artillery from tlie right! and left their batteries Hugh Holmes and Abbie Glenn stood in a 'Spread his wing to fly 1: y were soon Ullenccd: Who Butch of ladies A an V l party attempted retired part of the garden where the path i of the Crawford 5th our On corps dt: tho Call back the dream lt was flanked on each side by thick shrubs arid exploration of the White Nile were compell- same timeright 4 was About engaged sharply That in the night our fimey chaining the' June sunset lay in bright ripples along ed to return owing to the hostility of the tlie enemy attacked in furcein front nnd onpm With our slumber waning the western sky when the young girl spoke native merchants tlieir object being jto break tiirotigh between : ' Melts at dawn awsy and tho left of Warthese words in a ' thc'rjght of Hancock’s corps e was and we captured assault The ren’s pulsed tone One tribe of Circassians 500 families stil 500 000 Ah! no tall like this succcedibgr the advance of the enemy wa3 or prisoners “I know it Abbie” he replied “and I should hold out against the Russians continually de- so suddenly met: Cease with dying lord thy pleading j Know too lata with bosom bleeding have done this before but — Ccde’s section of Bcch s battery wat captured 6000 their besiegers Love is more lost than they! There was a little embarrassment in his feating but was snbse'iuently'r taken The triemy also Enmade an assault at tlip s’uie time on our loft tho manner and an eager glance stole up froti England contemplates converting and rear which was hulriflsnmely repulsed T Our ' breech-loadhis under the of thick lashps field rifle into a companion sunshine tiieI RArhr losses are Seven or eightl hundred “In short” he resumed “you knowrdear ! New York 30" v The average net profit of British railways Abbie said words am these I "T (he very poor” jCcopfTIXTED) Southern papers conti in caustic comments on tlie procu'cuingA of the ate extra wssioii oT(the proudly) “I nave no fortune and can 'offer is four' per cent 'She came forward with a rare grace find ’a A fear humble home her a Groce IjcaWatnre hh1 pronouhciTlSteplicn’s but I very for so yoiina child and said' Garibaldi is in feeble health and cannot Alabama traction in practicable of recoil think plan in uncle am this rash matter” I may with one of smiles “Yon are wel- crutches walk without The Ilerald'A corresn ndent says: AH Is quiet The last sentence was rather a question r come to onr home Hugh But grace stood A ValU ySheriandoali reconnowsance an in than an opinion Abbie drew nearer to him and freedmon in Missouri who farthe on onesidc of Irs illill and The refugees failotf to find said Woodstock thi3 as only any rcbcU to the room-- ' and her voice was very low and steady and will need been has that Enrly was" with her eyes and So aid winter this ntunlier' reported shall “I government “Abbie !” Called ari Ctfger voice “Oh the I thought Hugh “Abbie his forces diil man not the know that - liko ALbie reorganizing fingers young the best I know T shall” there you are by the window ! I thought you which twisted the silken tassel of her apron COOOrThere are also a big number of destiThe mountains afr fill of stragglcw wild are But an hour later when the children had must still be ' " Is you i' head better?” trembled like the leaves around them in Kansas asleep tute refjigei?s picked up by our cavalry ' jrrown somewhat Jitter acquainted and AhJI And the speaker came up to Abbie and “No Ilngb you can trust the words of Captain Burton has' been removed from the Onr entire casualties i 1 the battle of the hie with her usual are about 7000 the eneii ly abotft 0000 vivacity hod been laying I looked fondly into her face your boyhood’s sister” replied Abbie “My out a world of k for the future a lit-“Yqs Grace thailk yotl it is quite well” uncle is too generous and noble to allow your consulate of Fernando Po in West Africa to Headquart re Army ToWmaji 23 I tie dimpled liand find-Jw- y froke so laid in this army resulted in when not movements latd The “and I the she wap replied timidly upon want of wealth to influence him in the least that of Santo3 in South America Having s shoulder and looking round he saw I iteher’S run on the j?im- II to lines our fell But if I might say a word for Grace— — ing you here I came to the window and leave of absence he will renew his extending an of advance ibout three miles beyond can road I Xewmau holding up a small ' of to breaming in the moonlight But what has 1 on She 10 left and the wcoyeryr'-our started former bouquet paused slightly Hugh position arid hopes to ascend of the exact exploration iii Africa esqaisit6 moss ro3e-buand geranium leaves j kept you up so late dear ?” iif the lines rind his filled he as fastendark with position eyes surprise 1 I to source its so the will H be for works their “Because— for erected CCongo defense "Its surprised— Hugh ed them on his companion-“Idyou you Hugh’ kid the child iii a r York-2!I ” Xcw lina rnmn wiiisper “Iinadoit foi you la3t Monday not understand ybu Abbie” he said The Richmond Dispati h rif the 2Gth ayS: The PORTRAIT OF THE REBEL- GENER- hostile aniU’vekept it eve J since so the leaves have I : “Hugh come ! slie exclaimed springing inquiringly apnici are so stre ugly entrenched it would ? not withered at'allJ from her seat “and you have not let me know see seem sheer madness for Mtlfcr to attack the other'' for “Well me EARLY then I AL I forgive’ Hugh t rm in front some places ate 400 others novei l09 till this time Grace ?she added reproach- must speak plainly” said"the girl “Tori you Grace ” returned the boy as it 3'ards almost sternly apart they may remain in their respective no took the flowers know our darling is the wealthiest of ns three! Old Jubal' Early or as General Lee calls jwitli that ‘natural grace fully all urinter or any morning or night may - ' re“Yes I sh'ould nave done so darling” for my parents deft their child ho fortune but him his “bad old man” has won a j name dur Ebsitions a CollTsioti nich no courtly breed y can confer : “Then f came up in five minutes after their own good name Grace plied farmhouse Flienaniloah Valley repre- - ' the the yon thought of me sometimes did A Even from dispatch ?” yori nirurrival But you were sleeping so nicely was my cousin’s mother’s and though inacf jng bis sojourn in the valley of Virginia of sehtsflll quiet' tSuerrillns between 'Martinsljurg Grade’s blue eyes grew dark as sno replied I had not the heart to waken you and so Bid you ever see arid Winchester re getting: very bold Strong cordance with the will my uncle is to possess which he is well worthy Jgeriy 0h yes to be pure I did and every are necessary to protect the trains Per- - 0 headache terrible on that it during his lifetime the whole will be Grace's him?- If not you have missed one of the guards again” to sleep I used to pray bring sons orownt passing through re Mijt ithe rebels are pfe- - T' “But I have been aWake nearly two hours” at his death Now you see I want you and that God would brhigHugh to us id towards Western yir- for atf extensive the" war curiosities of paring man Heis'a safely” greatest which seems time said Abbie it “Gracief? said tho swi&t you “daring shadows cousin to find no ginia my drifting of considerable bjCtlirowing his arm and corpulency with a full face Washington 30 around her neck “Gracie Hugh have not thought of me” along yoursuriny future and so Hugh you Thhall always love President tauicda 'The proclamation about have too” admitting we which “Yes has the the full of moon will forgive me ior advising you to place the you appearance you very deariy!?- Union oju an erptal footing with intd the Nevada to have oh secret Abbie scud “and a Grace: I In whole of Grace’s fortune at her own disposal when it is at its Light in redness He is about other States Grjice Newman sometimes ms hea4 ‘ I Cumberland Va 2!h "hw so that no one—mot even yourself —can touch six feet P on mtiS"wlth ttSb 0h high and-o- f immense structure II13 ’The 1 tears Holmes and from the sn-catBeavei y composed of a detach- garrison Jtose it” PPy of I Abb“' memoiy-bclO'hio of the 8th' avalry- commanded iby are blissful ones” the pasf wonM “Abbie” said Hugh with stern brevity voice: sounds like a cracked Chinese fiddle- ment I ttacked this- morning at ring down to her heart those ' It was a sweert face with if s dark-blu- e was Lovell Lieut Col eves “answer e °rrL question and answer me hon- and comes from his inouth somewhat' iu" the daylight by Maij II ill of finboden’s command with always love you dearly” and' fair features in nestled oval the that lap of Hugh’s Grace’s consent you have style of the Hardshell Baptist with a long 350 rebels after two bomb hard fighting the relicls with is it coming was marked of Abbie Glenn and maybe you would have estly " drawl accompanied with an interpolation' of were repulsed and routed witha loss of llo with light m the' calandar said me?” this to e of tne 15 killed and a lkrpoi nnmber wounded but after all it was preferred its serenef beauty' to the brilliant Abbie could not meet Hugh’s look and she oaths In Winter liishead is encased in' a net- wounded mortal- only a typenof many of onfe above it the latter was Maj-H: among was Skull woolen and ears his drawn hands it 8uccessore aboat covered Joss killed and s with face her her ov Our cap our hanc Which in Btriped we not ' ly a : prisoner cY may linger fear' gpltemg to the heart of her sudden while in® eluld-live- s to the mounsharp tone retreated his emsent within the The which 21 that weriai i? rebels wounded conscience contained body ones wmch -4 KKi outraged x very v itI of'sharp agony to her voice' but not so her brqces Of a Virginia cloth bvercoati striking tains old unt mtUnthoHiadf ? (Signed) his heels His understood are covered it by leggings of companion legs Lonwvillc 2ft ' I that fell over her ’ she said softly i “Bo not ask me Hugh do riot ask me”' the some material wrapped from the fleet uplap t Ala onThum-da- y lecator In a reported fight at Ten years had “Tell me “B Gracie sweet cousin ” beautiful with wards white that as shesaid as kneea the passed ho ed May tape high particulars were rebels the X liarbmger of Summer hadbrightened the hiUs GracOdrew her head close to Abbie’s hearty “It is well ”1 said Hugh Vi am answered” He is as brave as he is homely and as homeNashville there is p nitnor that Hood N -At and the valleys once more and sitting there folded about with the white His companion did not hear the groan with ly as any man you ever saw except Parson again tlirowing his force is Sherpian s rear i finely-sh- Then laughs tho young man lightly Tle bachelor jso gay ' “I bold yin all jbnt slightly aped girl-wom- an I l i Iclover-Iade- n unkissed-maidc- n To-morro- 1 j : - - ' ' - r- - ’ - : - - ! : - to-nig- ht " - ' - I ! j w f ‘ ! sttc-ein- ' i - - broken-hearte- d honr-Bu- & I se in-tli- i- t- - er -- i : ! c te I I a er -- ! 1 " J I after the i i"i - f t the-figh- 1 half-rallyi-ng half-earne-st i i i j V er s - of-lig- her-brigh- t - ht -- : - -- - ' : ! : : play-wor- A -- S six-month- s - ds - ? ) - ’ :! m ’ ' 4 ri s 1 and-talke- d after-yea- : rs bit tet et U - - - I me-on- pris-one- fann-hous- rs - - -- ill 1 4 : t- : i f' ' ‘ ‘j--- - : 1 1 dt-fe- a - ir - r- - -- 1 tr - F-- :h - 'M-- 1 |