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VOL. IV. NO. 11. PORT ROYAL. S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1873. i^,?gV^?Ya - ' Don't bo In a Horry to Go. Come, boys, I have something to tell you; Come here, I would whisper it low: Ton're thinking of leaving the homestead, Don't be in a hurry to go. The city has many attractions. But think of the vice and sins : But when once in the vortex of fashion, How soon the course downward begins ! Ton talk of the mineB of Australia; They're wealthy in treasure, no doubt, But. ah ! there's gold in the farm. boyB, If only you'll shovel it out. The mercantile life is a hazard, The goods are first high and then low; Bettor risk the old farm awhile longerDon't be in a hurry to go. The great busy We?t has inducements, And eo has the business mart; And wealth is not made in a dav. boys? Dou't be iu a hurry to start. The banker an J broker are wealthy, And take in their thousand or so ; Ah ! think of their frauds and deceptions? Don't be iu a hurry to go. The farm is the safest and surest; The orchards are loaded to-day ; You are free as the air of the mountain, And monarch of all you survey. But stay on the farm awhile longer. Though profits come iu rather slow, Remember you've nothing to risk, boys : Don't be in a hurry to go. DEATH IX THE EYE. Colonel Bill Borlin was the gencralianimo of the Texan Lynchers in the early history of that State. He well deserved the title which he had won by many a desperate deed. He possessed Buch incredible skill in the use of all sorts of murderous weapons, that it might be pronounced virtual suicide to even think of encountering him, so rapid was his motion, so unerring his mortal aim. The terrible cognomen " Death in the Dye told truly the mark at which he always fired?a mark he had never once missed?while sueh was his astonishing quickness that his antagonists usually fell without pulling a trigger. An enemy stood 110 better chance by resorting to the sword or the bowie-knife, against one in whose hands the flash of steel was like lightning? as swift, as mighty to slay?one who appeared to surpass all other men as much in strength as in activity?a giant in stature, a fiend in courage. His biography in itself was more thrilling than a navel, wilder than the wildest romance ; and the very first act of his dreadful daring revealed, in all their force and fullness, the two essential elementg of his character?the ferocious ar-ior of his appetite for revenge, and the iron pertinacity of his indomitable will. At the age of twenty he pursued the assassin of his brother all the way from Carolina to Canada, ami shot him dead at the dinner table of a tavern in Quebec ; yet such had been the cunning of his previous arrangements for the eveut, that aided by numerous relays of swift horses, he effected his escape safely to the South. The achievement cost him ten thousand dollars. From this tiroo forward his life was one long war. Almost every month in the year saw him engaged in some fatal duel?fatal only to others, never hurtful to him?while each week witnessed the occurrence of casual affrays, often as bloody as his more regular combats. TT/i TT-..U l.nif., nt..l nan i<uu \u tuo nimv uuu pistol. But the truth of impartial history compels me to record, that this man, so fearful iu his deeds, whose right arm reeked with gore to the elbow, was not commonly the aggressor in his countless quarrels. Often the friends of those he had vanquished in fair fight assaulted him, from motives ?f revenge. The fame of his prowess provoked the vain jealousy of others. Ho hud acquired the perilous reputation of a matchless hero?'.lie ardent, the desperate, the ambitious would win, if e?ssib!?\ his laurels. Every young crcules longed to kill the lion, so as to clctlie himself in his skin, and thus was Borlin forced to maintain an interminable war. It is so in all professions. There can be no peace in high Elaces?storm, hail, und thunder must reuk around thv mountain's brow. This duelist was one of the earliest iu Eastern Texas, where ho became the chit f of the Lynching party. Iu his own county of Harrison, he possessed boundless influence ; indeed, he would not suffer a foo to reside within its limits. ITenee, he might have openly deiiod tho officers of the law, had such been his pleasure ; but his shrewd und fai-seeing sagacity adopted a wiser and safer course. After pi rpetrating auy homicide, lie invariably submitted his own ease to the graud jury, sure of a triumphant acquittal by his friends on trial; and thus, should public sentiment ever turn against him in the future, he would be enabled to plead effectual verdicts iu bar of all past offences. At length the time arrived which the colonel had so long anticipated. A wealthy and intelligent class of citirons began to change the current of opinion in Harrison, so that in the county election the friends of order, by a slight majority, gainrd their candidate for sheriff. This was a terrible blow to the Lynchers, as it deprived them of their * i ? i : in. Beriiro YUIllilgM ^lUIIUU 1U povam^ j rie?; ami to increase their danger, at thin nnpropitious crisis, a new judge was also appointed. The old faction, however, did not despair. They were BtiU numerous, thoroughly armed, desperadoes to a man, and determined, at tho first court, to muster all their strength, so as to control and overawe the proceedings. At nine o'clock in the morning of the second Monday in September, 1812, the new judge took his seat on the bench. He was a stranger from the west, whose name alone had transpired, and whose appearance, at lir&t, inspired the desperadoes with hope, aud the friends of order with doubt and painful apprehension. Charles Evans was a young mau of thirty-two?tall, slender, extremely handsome, and dressed with the most finical taste?his fingers flashing with rings, and his person adorned in the most gaudy manner. His long liair of a bright golden color waving in curls around his shoulders, and the sweet smile of complacent vanity beaming on his features, gave him an aspect almost ludicrously feminine. Colonel Bill Borlin gazed on this ap-1 pnrition with ineffable contempt, and : whispered his comrades?"Wo will) have it all our own way. as Houston has kindly sent us a Miss Nancy/ /" If the colonel had paid more attention to the man, and less to the clothing, he would, perhaps, have been led to a different conclusion; for there was a strange light in the vivid blue eyes of the stranger?a light that went and came at irregular intervals, like the play of lightning in a summer cloud, while the corners of his mouth wore a wild, resolute, sneering expression, betokening the opposite of pliancy and fear. The grand jury beiDg called and sworn, the judge commenced his charge, and at the sound of his voice everybody started ; for the tones were shrill as a trumpet?stern, ringing, imperious, like the accents of a commander on parade. Having glanced rapidly over the legal definitions and penalties of crime, he proceeded to descant on the responoilvili^Tt /vf */v ni/1 in ClinprUU. DAUUltV Ul J UiiCD IU HAL* A Li un ou{/?/?vu sion. His soul appeared to catch electric fire at the theme?his voice borrowed the rich roll of thunder?his vivid blue eyes literally blazed with that strange light?the wild expression grew terrible on his writhing lips?and his words flew liko volleys of burning arrows. He painted the borrows of lawless anarchy till the very heart sickened; he described the beauty of regular government as a vision of heaven realized on earth; and he finally closed with the bold announcement?" I will perform my duty. I will put down Lynching wherever I have the honor of presiding, or I will myself be put in the grave !" " Then, Miss Nancy, take care of your eyes !" cried a hoarse voice, louder and more menacing than that of the judge. Every heart save one shuddered. The sentence seemed like a warning from eternity?a revelation, as it were, from the depths of hell. " Who aro you that thus dares to in- ; ermpt the business of the court:" exclaimed Judge Evans, with the grave ! majesty of a king. " My true name is Colonel Bill Borliu ; but most persons call mo 'Death in the Eye !' " was the answer. " But in law you have auother name," rejoined Evans* smiling. "Tell me what it i" ; but take good care of your eyes !" retorted Borlin, with unspeakable fury. "It is murderer 1" said Evans; and the smile on his lips, before pale sunshine, was now a wreath of lurid fire. " You shall pay deariv for that word a woaIt !*' foirlr tlir* ! I J I'll 1U ll-ic ncca . * %**?,? . ...?, | duelist, grinding his teeth like a raging wild beast. " Tliere is no time like the present," was the cnlm reply. "Koto f" interrogated Borlin, as if doubting the evidence of his ears. " Yes, now.' if you have the courage to challenge me," said Evans. " I do ehullengo you," thundered Borlin. "And I accept," answered Evans. " Name your seconds." " We wiil fight without any." "The terms?" asked Borlin, with signs of ostonishment. " On horseback, in the little prairie west of the village, one half hour from this, each ariued with us many pistols j and knives us he can procure, or sees j tit to carry," said Evans, apparently ! passionless, as if defeudiug a motion in j court. Is'oone but the chief actor in this ex- j I traordinary scene uttered u syllable, or | j offered to interfere, lor all saw thut , | such uttempts would be unavailing, J j perhaps dangerous to the meddler. One ' I half hour afterwards the parties met in 1 the little prairie, which was circular in , I form, and about three hundred yards j iu diameter. By tacit consent, both j actuated by the same purpose, they as- j sumed their stations in the edge oi' the ! timber on opposite sides. Both wore j strong belts literally stiff with knives1 and pistols. Both were mounted 011 powerful steeds, but of opposite colors, | that of the judge being white as a snow cloud, while the colonel's was black mid clossv as the wing of a raven. The 1 features of the riders in that race of death presented very different types of expression. The colonel's brow looked dark as the gloom of a tempest?stern, lowering, awful; but the handsome face of the judge was gav, smiling, joyous?brilliant as the sunbeam that kissed it. The multitude stood around in the grove, speechless, almost terrified with the scene about to open. Suddenly the colonel waved ft white handkerchief as the signal that he was 1 in the act of starting; and swift as arrows from the bow, terrible as balls from the cannon's moutli, the two, horsemen, with pistols cocked and fingers firm on the trigger, shot towards | each other. "When within fifty steps of his enemy the colonel halted with surprising dexterity, and crying, in loud tones, " Now take care of your eyes !"' leveled, and fired. At the instant, the judge urged his i horse to an evolution, as if bounding J over a wall, and the bullet aimed for j his eye struck the silver pommel of his saddle, and glanced oil' without harm. Continuing his former velocity, he passed the colonel within three feet, 1 discharging his weapon at the other's bosom, but inflicting only a slight wound ; and then both proceeded to the opposite sides of the prairie and re j newod their headlong course. This j time neither halted, but passed, nlinost j touching each other, and both tired as ! j they passed, each drawing from his foe | i a stream of blood. The same charge was repeated with like results half a dozen times, till their fire-arms were j exhausted, save a small pistol in the pocket of the colonel; and yet both j kept their saddle. j The last swef p of all was terrific. The | horses were battled iu foaui, the rideis were covered with blood, aud both reeled ia their seats; yet they rushed onwards madly as ever, while two terrifio cries, as they started, warned the appalled spectators that this shock would be final. Some desperate thought seemed to have occurred to each at the same instant, uttering itself in those wild cries?yells, like nothing earthly, but shrieking, savage, demoniac. On they flew?they kept straight onwards ?they swerved not to the right or left ?and they met like the collision of adverse comets. Down went the strong steeds?down the furious riders. Ah! surely this must be the end of all! Not yet. See, the judge rises, tottering, slowly to his feet, and his face still wears that indescribable smile, unquenchable by all its blood, unconquerable by all its bruises. The colonel cannot stundf yet lie is not dead?he writhes in his agony like a crushed worm. The judge approaches, crippled, halting, to his enemy?stoops, anil plunges the sharp knlfo into his heart. He is the victor in the field of death. Not yet! Hark! a crack, a roar, a fall? the colonel musters also his expiring energies?fires his last pistol?and exminima in tones nf bullish triumoll?"] told you to take care of you eyes!" The horrified spectators ran to the spot. The antagonists were both dead, and the right eye of the judge was shot out. The colonel was " Deatli in the Eye!" to the last. Active Journalism. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette tells a very amusing anecdote about a former city editor of the Enquirer, named Bennett, which illus trates a phaze of journalistic enterprise never known in New England, bul which was common enough iu the Wesi when Artemus Ward was a " local" or a Cleveland newspnper, and Marl) Twain a gatherer of news on the Ohio. When news was scarce, Bennett was in the habit of inventing extraordinary naval items for his department, n favorite resource being to make children fall from the lauding of the Newport ferry-boat into the river, and tc liuve them rescued by his acquaintances. He had honored one Mr. Helium (Cclia Burleigh's first husband) several times in this way, when the fictitious savior of drowning innocents became tired of the joke, and at last called al the Enquirer office and demanded thai i-l.nnl.l nnf lin l-smon+otl VT(? WHS flS sured that his request would be cornplied with, aud so it was in its letter, but hardly in its spirit, for the nexl day the Enquirer contained aparngrapl: to the effect that a beautiful little girl, the daughter of a prominent citizen oi Newport, had fallen from the ferryboat into the river, and that Mr. Helium, who was standing by, and could easily have saved the child from t watery grave, refused to render the least assistance. When Kellnm, boiling with rage, went to the Enquirer to seek an explanation of what he had begun to regard in the light of a persecution, his threats of vengeance were suddenly stopped by Bennett taking off his coat and saying: "You're uot a bad fellow in your way, Kellum, but I can't stand any interference with my department. If I make any statement in the Enquirer, you must not come round here contradicting it. That isn't journalism, you see, and it must be put a stop to at any price." Helium's wrath instantly subsided, and the two men remained friends until Bennett's diath. A .Man Bitten by a Cat. A remarkable case of hydrophobia lias been brought to light in Brooklyn. Herman Schanncan, a German, fortyeight years of age, employed in the Navy Yard until recently, returned tc his home one evening about two weeks ago, and at the supper table amused himself by playing with a large pet cat. Suddenly the animal, which had heretofore been regarded as very gentle and docile, jumped up on bis breast and put her fangs through the nose of hei master, Sclmurman. The wound be-? ? 1 1.1...1 CUII1H (.'SllTIUCI^ |;uillliu, nuu ???*rv? j?n?fusely. The (lay following tlio wound festered, and the injured man killed the feline author of his trouble. A week later Mr. Schaurrann exhibited symptoms of hydrophobia, his mind wandered, and ho became decided in his aversion to water. The malady grew rapidly in virulence, and his pain and physical contortions are such now that it frequently requires the assistance of his wife ami two sons to hold hiin down in bed. lie is at times wont to growl like an angry cat, nnd manifest other indications of derangement peculiar to the terrible malady. Medical aid was procured, but his condition did not improve under the treatment. A police surgeon visited the uufortunate man, and ordered that he should be removed to t he hospital. When the ambulance was sent to the house, Mrs. Scliaurman would not allow her bushaiul to be removed, asserting that his family were fully competent to take care of him. Pleasant Visitors. The "road agents," as highwaymen are considerately called on the Pncitic slope, are sometimes accommodating to their victims. Not long ago a stage was stopped by a solitary " road agent' near the Reese river 111 Nevada. A local paper says: "A barricade of sage brush had been built across the road 011 the top ol which a blanket bad been spread. On the front seat of the coach were Mike Kehoe, the driver, Mi.jor Stonehil), and \.1.1i,w.f?n W1...1 the coneli approached the barricade tuc horses shied mid Addington remarked, " I guess we're in for it." Just then out stepped Mr. Robber, shot gun in hand, "Huud eout that box," ho remarket! with a decided Yankee accent. The driver handed her out, and tlie robbei commanded him to " driveou." "Won'l you remove your blockade?" "Certainly," said he, as he proceeded to pul! down the obstruction. " Will you givt us back the box?" asked Addington, "Drive on," shouted the robber " Leave it where the stage can get it,' requested Ad. " All right, drive on,' returned the robber. He was as good ai his word. He left the box by the sidt of the road, where it was found by tin down stage and brought to town. Th< express agents state that nothing in tlx box had been disturbed, and that tlx robber realized no money by his daring exploit," ' J ' i Suicide uo Evidence of Insanity. A case of great importance has just been decided in the United States Cir- ai cnit Court of Iowa. The deceased, one 1( ' C. L. Hogan, was about forty years of ' age. For five years ho had been ex- T j press agent at Boone, la. He was a h jovial, light-hearted man, a man of good C habits, never in his life known to be a | sick. October 18, 1871, he committed d suicide. The coroner's jury found that n he died from the effects of a revolver n 1 shot fired by his own hand. At the u time of his death he had two policies t( of insurance upon his life?one issued g by the Mutual Life Insurance Company, ti of New York. This policy contained a w ; clause providing that the policy should p [ be void if the assured should die by a his own hand. Proof of death was for- tl > warded to the insurance companv. They a , refused to pay on the ground that the o t assured had died by his own hand, c< > without the meaning of the proviso w in the policy. Suit was brought against a the Company by the administrator, v who, in his petition, alleged that the 1< . saidChnrles L. Hogan, "while tern- T 1 porarily insane, and being cognizant of r< ' the net, took his own life." The de- ii j fendant admitted that thedeceased died p . by his own hand, but denied that he n was insane, and the case was tried up- h ' on the issue. Before proceeding to tl t trial the counsel for the defense, after 8] t stating the case to the jury, esked them a, t if any of them had the preconceived n opinion that a man was conclusively h 1 insane merely because he committed t< suicide. Some of the jurors answered g J in the affirmative, and these men were, si on defendant's motion, excluded from C 1 tho jury, and their places filled from E the panel. The plaintiff produced o several witnesses, who testified that a ti ' great and marked change had come n over Hogan the latter part of his life ; h | that for the last six mouths prior to c; hi9 decease he had been moody and de- n j spondent at times; that he acted as g ; though he had " the blues that from h : an affectionate parent and husband he ii had changed to a morose, irrita- tl bio man, subject to fits of anger ; that si during the latter years of his life he t< ' had complained of heavy pains in the \s back part of his head quite frequently ; a 1 that at such times he was voir violent s' L in his manner, striking his wife, threat- tl ening her life, and treating her harshly, tl and afterwards denying all remem- a brance or knowledge of such actions, w Physicians were also introduced who, a as experts, testified that in their opiu- f< ion Hogan was insane. The defense a admitted that deceased was at r times despondent during tho last year e of his life, but explained the cause by b showing that his family relations at fi home were very unpleasant, and that q his pecuniary embarrassments alone i were of so severe a character that they d were sufficient to account for his moody a and melancholy fits ; that he was a de tl faulter to a large extent to the company l'or whioh he worked ; that he had embezzled a S300 money package, and that the express company were tracing the matter, and that exposure was im- a minent at any moment. Then he tried ^ to borrow money of various persons to . t.h.iA. ii a milKe up I1JK (ll'IJCll iu Lilt) CAfJItnn tuiu- paiiy. That ho stated to one of his ii L most intimate friends the day beforo w his deatli that he must have this money n or he was a ruined man. That he failed . ' to get it. That the morning of his J ; death a superintendent of the express a , company came to Boone, very unex- A ( pectedly to Hogan, to exame Hogan's o L accounts. That at about eleven o'clock fi that day he committed suicide. That he gave as a reason that his family re- li | latious were unpleasant; that he had h no money and no frieudp, and had made c . up his mind to end his life. The jury tl were out nbout half an hour and re- m turned a general verdict for the defend- v | ant, and answered as special findings E I that Hogan voluntarily and willfully s took his own life, and that he knew at c | the time he shot himself that the act ? Mould result in his own death. The r | plaintiff made a motion for a new trial, ti , which came up before the Court and ti was overruled and judgment entered b , upon the verdict. a if The "City of the Kings." ^ One of the peculiar institutions of Lima is the police. They nre generally natives, and are armed with a musket ^ and bayonet, and dressed in a military uniform. They are invested with the title of aceladore, and a most appropriate appellation it is, for a lazier set of j fellows cannot well be found. When on duty they generally ensconce themt j selves in some doorway, or corner, and c f linfn nMfti their niimketa between their I knees, and their caps over their eyes, '' they beguile in sleep the hours of duty. 11 An earthquake may shake a dozen H buildings down near him, a salvo of ar- c 1 j tillery be fired, but these poor minor ? '! things cannot awaken a celadore; and ? , he has no ear for the musical cries of v . murder, help, and thieves. Hunger is ' , ! the only thing that can awaken him. '' , The old salts, who sometimes frequent v ' the streets of Callao, often disarm the c j sleepiug guardians of the peace, and j 1 ' parade the streets, clothed in their clonks and caps, and armed with their n , 1 weapons of protection. How would v . such men suit in our stirring cities ? 0 1 Leases. ? A Judgo in the Superior Court at ( Baltimore lias neen explaining me , meaning of the provision in a lease L which requires thut a tenant shall keep 1 , premises in good order and repair. The c t word " keep," he said, implied an obli- 0 gation to put the premises in repair if * I they were out of repair when received, t i and to keep them so, for it would be r , idle to stipulate to keep in repair what fl . is not in repair, and the covenant was p ' therefore equivalent to " put and keep i ' and deliver up " in good order and re- i 5 pair. The words " good order and re- s j pair" meant such a reasonable condi- c ) tion of fitness as belongs to houses of 6 3 the age, class, and condition, as good t 3 repair for one might not be such for y 3 another. The house must not be de- s ; faced, and mast bo used with proper t and reasonable care, e The Professional Bondsman. " What is a professional bondsman ?" sked a New York reporter of a Lud- A >w street jail officer. " Why, bless me, dou't yon know ? 'here is lots of them in the city. They j fli ang around the corner of Centre and i ai hambers streets, ready to rgo bail for bi ay one who gets into trouble, and will H o It for any price according to the fr less a man gets into aud the amount of w loney he has at his commadd. The hi sual tariff is fifteen per cent., but will cl ike less rather than lose the job. They n, enerally have a middle-man, sometimes vo, so that the bondsman can swear jc itli a clear conscience that ho is not aid for the service. Why, I have seen w batch of them together rigging one of ftI aeir number out so that he would make rj credible appearanco in court, and in re rder to do so, one would take off his 8C aat for the bondsman to wear, another ould furnish the vest, another exhange pants with him, and others jj' arious other articles until the best be- j ftl mging to the lot had been selected. J j.. 'hen he would march to court, and, if, jj, sjected, hurry back to assist in dress-1 ig up another of their number, who, a( erhaps, might be better versed in the ^ lodus operandi of bail-giving, and in Q1 is examination would steer clear of j.j ae rocky questions his predecessor 0, plit upon. They are usually middle- aj ged men who, in early life, have been lerehants, but now come under the fr ead of 1 broken down,'and are easily ^ aid to a professional eye by the shiny ! 0] loss upon their broadcloth, and the 1 pi tove-blacking polish on their boots. {)( h, the sheriff's got 'em all down 4 P. ^ on his books ; but sometimes when tj* ne of 'em keeps away for a long time and jr urns up under another name, they w lanage to squeeze him through. He m as to be awful careful. I remember a j. aso that happened lately, where the jr rnn is yet in the jail. Bonds were (j( iven in the sum of thirty thousand dol- f irs for the prisoner, the sureties swear- (j ig that they were worth seventy-five liousaud dollars each, and everything jr eeming correct, the sheriff was about q j accept them and release the prisoner, dien one of the old deputies came in sj nd recognized them as P. B's. The jj heriff, with a view to bring them within lie criminal law, never let them know sj liey were recognized, and proceeded to j( dminister the oath to them, but they j( ore just as wide awake on their part, nd had recognized the old deputy, and ^ earing that he might 'give them away,' s the boys call it, casually inquired if C( esiding in New .Jerseyma-le uny differ- ^ nee in their being accepted, and on eing informed tliat it did, withdrew j tJ] rom tlie bond without taking the re- jj uired oath, and so saved themselves. Jut for the chance visit of tho old j eputy they would have been accepted, nd the sheriff made liable for the j birty thousand dollars." Woman as a Student. A Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm takes rather P gloomy view of tho co-education of ^ he sexes. She says that boys and ai iris aro now just as much competitors u a the race for learning ns though they f( :ere admitted to the same college halls, s in her opinion they ought to be ; 111 ut tho girls are at a tremendous dis- b, dvantage, and fall early in the race to 11 untimely graves. The main reasou f this disadvantage she finds in the ? ishiouablo dress of the day. She says: !' By means of corset, band, or belt, her ai ver is divided into an upper and a ' iwer section, tho one forced up to flj rowd the heart, lungs, and stomach ; f he other down to find room, as it can, b 'here there is no room for it. Every b ital organ is displaced or cramped. w tlockades are established, by tight P hoes, tight gloves, tight garters, tight orsets, or, still more murderous, tight P kirt-bands ; and there the blood must P uu by extra force of pumping, every " ime it passes from the heart to the ex- 81 remities or back. * f * To study V( i such a costume is to burn tho caudle t both ends, but the spirit of the age H } upon her ; tho ages to come press on 11 er; study she must, and die she must. r' Finishing a Poisoner. The Denver Xeivn, in characteristic w Western style, tells t re following c< tory: jj Last spring n party of buffalo huntrs, six in number, wore encamped nt tl 'wo Buttes, about twenty miles from p lie present town of Oranudn, in Bent 1' ounty. A man, known only l?y the ^ nme of "Jimmy" was their cook. ' loon after eating breakfast on the " lorning in question, all began to feel ick, and in a short while it became videut that the food they had eaten ontained poison. They had recourse . o tobacco tea, which caused them to (' omit the poisoned food. "Jimmy" w ras suspected and watched. Recently b e was seen to put some white powder, 3) fhich proved to be arsenic, in the offee. The scoundrel desired to poison r< he hunters to secure their outfit. The a lunters made a target of "Jimmy," n nd when they were done with him'he H] rasn't of much use to himself or nny a no else. He was formerly n New York e ough, and his bones are bleaching H ipon the arid plains of Southern 0 Joloradoj. ii New ravenient. A new street pavement has been tried p n San Francisco. It is called " hydro- o arbolized brick," and is made of bricks ^ if a soft, porous nalure, which are oiled in coal tar, which renders them c ough and nearly as hard as granite. A oad-bed is made by leveling tho sand nd packing it with water. A layer of b ?repared brick is then laid flatwise, each t: >rick being dipped in boiling tar as it a s put down. This is overlaid by a 8 econd course of prepared brick placed a lose together edgewise, oach brick I lipped as before. The interstices are s hen filled with boiling tar, and the 0 rhole covered with a thin layer of o creened gravel The cost is about c hirty-siz or thirty-seven cents per a quare foot. r Facts and Fancies. Fears are entertained that the United tates steamer Ada has been lost with )rty hands on board. Powdered borax is a sovereing rem3y for water-bugs. It never fails when ited about their haunts. " " m ? > ? ?1*. An Exciting Deer Hunt. Straggle with a Wounded Buck In the g Water?The Hunter Diving for hi* f( Life. Curloy Pete Quick, noted as ti linnter ei nong ft family of famous hunters, had ei 1 exciting adventure with a wounded i uck in Big Log Tavern Poud, Penn., | E e was on a runway, and an immense re prong buck ran into the pond, near here ho stood. Quick jumped into p is bout, and followed the deer, dis- w larging both barrels of his rifle at the s< limal. He says he " hit it bad," but kept right on. Redoubling his ef- b irts, he sent his boat alongside the ol ?er. It liad got far out into the pond, *i hich at that spot is half a mile wide, ei id very deep. Quick had dropped his fle in the bottom of the boat, without fc doading. He thought the buck was a > badly wounded that he could dis- f< itch it with his knife. Ho seized it ii v one of its horns and tried to hold it, at the deer plunged at the same time, 3 id the horn broke off, throwing the 7; anter backward, and almost capsizing n le boat. ji Recainine his equilibrium, Quick jain seized the deer by the horns. The ack whirled suddenly and pulled Quick ? it of the boat. He landed squarely on ^ le deer's back, still retaining his hold . i its horns. He was in a perilous po- , tion, a long way from land, nnd his ( sat lying bottom side up. Ho knew om experience the danger of a hand- " ehand contest with a wounded deer, w a land or water. If he could hold his " asition on the deer's back, he hoped to J1 e carried safely ashore. But the deer, p a sudden ducking of his head, threw le hunter over his head in front of c ira, aud tho next instant struck him w ith his fore feet. Quick saw that he f< iust fight for his life. Drawing his f< uife he closed with the now frantic an- b nal. He plunged the kmfo iuto the eer's neck twice, and then it slipped ]? om his hand and sank, leaving him v efenceless. h The deer meantime had not remitted n i the least his mode of warfare, and fj (uick's clothing was almost entirely 8 ;ripped from him. Finding that he ;ood no possible chance with the buck, e dove from its sight, and coming up j( )inc distance off, made for the nearest ^ lore. The deer did not follow, but )ok the shoro at another point and j >st no time in leaving Quick and the ^ oud far behind him. The hunter found imself in a most pitiable plight. lie 1 as nearly naked and benumbed with * dd. Moreover, he was on the side of e ic pond opposite his cabin, and was * bliged to walk half way round,through f le underbrush, before he could rcacli 1 . nis wounds wero painful, but not c ;rious. The buck was found dead the 1 ext day a quarter of a mile away. Stokes and Walworth In Prison. j A Sing Sing correspondent says:? D . draft of fifty convicts went to Auburn \ risen. The authorities intended that 1 tokes and Walworth should have been mong the number, but the serious ill- ^ ess of both prevented their removal v >r the present. a Stokes is uneasy under prison rule, ^ nd was greatly alarmed when informed y tho warden that he must go to f, uburn prison. Many very silly let- li nf. flm nrison for ? *? - x tokes, some congratulating hiui on his ti glit sentence, others asking for his I utograph, all of which, of course, aro h estroyed. Walworth has become mel- a ticboly in the extreme since the nov- s Ity of prison life has passed, and he ti us settled down to the monotony of ti 'amping from the mess-room to the tl ork-shop and from thence to his w loomy cell. He appears to have roa- g zed tlio stern reality of prison disciline, hut is very quiet and submits romptly to the rules of the prison. He ever speaks unkindly to any one, silvers all questions in a gentle tone of 11 fiice; Imt, when left to himself,appears t verwhelmed with sorrow and remorse, i] [e has lost all freshness of counte- t unco, and seems to be breaking down ipidly in health. While in the Chapel, a few days ago, e was seized with vertigo, and had to 0 assisted to the hospital. Medicine ' as administered, and he retired to his f 2II, preferring its touch of straw to ' ospital treatment. Since then he has *' cen suffering from pleurisy, and is, ' 11 the whole, a pitiable object; just on ^ le thresh hold of life, he bus the npearance of an old man. His physical j' uuishment, however, seems nothing lien compared to his mental agony. r Then sick lie never complains, nordues 11 c ask for anything. A Fitting Rebuke. ? There are many men in existence who c com it 110 harm to speak slightly of P oman; according to their idea, it i 1 quite meet that the strong should as. j lil the weak. Ono of those robbers of a pntation received a severo rebuke 011 f recent occasion. At a dinner at which p o ladies were present, this man, in re- s ponding to a toast, "Women," dwelt j hnost solely 011 the frailty of the sex, t xclaiming that the best among them t '< r.. little better than the worst, the r Iiief difterence being their surround- fl igs. At the conclusion of the speech, v gentleman rose to his feet and said: j " I trust the gentleman, in the ap- j lication of his remarks, refers to his j wn mother and sisters, not ours." The effect of tins most just anil timef rebuke was overwhelming, and the l laligner of women wus covered with 1 onfusion and shame. j { Teachers' Salaries.?New York city i as fixed the maximum annual salary of j he male principals of grammar schools i t 83,000, of male vice-principals at I 2,500, of male firstassistants at 82,000, t nd of other male assistants at 81,000. t t is also provided that the maximum 1 alary of female principals shall be 8'2,- 1 00; of female vice-principals, 81,500; < f female first assistants (if instructing i lasses of a particular grade), 81,000, i nd of other female assistants, an amount ' anging from 8500 to $800. i - . . -T - * A fight between xurKs aim Arauo m ll-Ahsa, Arabia, recentlv, resulted in ie killing of 300 of the latter and jventv of the former. There was never a time when newsapers made so much " bustle " in the orld as of late, and yet they do not jem to be getting very much behind. A philadelphin merchant who has een in business 32 years owned up the tlier day that he didn't know what a ght draft was, and ho wasn't blind, ither. Fiji offers the right of suffrage to all >reigners after they have resided six louths in the country. Australians ?ar that the offer is not an entirely dislterested one. Since the beginning of the United tates government it has given away 3,032,800 acres of land to soldiers, taking in all half a million farms of GO acres to each. Ohio is becoming quite a tobaccorowing State. During the present i j on nnn linrrclinnrlH ear it lias prouuceu ou.uuv f tobacco, and Cincinnati bids fair to ecome an exporting centre and market )r the popular leaf. In Indiana and Illinois one rides nndreds of miles throngh cornfields liich have been bearing fifty bushels > the acre, year after year, without lanure, for twenty years "in succession. 'he soil seems inexhaustible. An English gentleman, recently deeased, imperatively willed that liis ife should not, after his decease, " of* ?nd artistic taste or blazon the sacrod ielings of her sweet and gentle nature y the exhibition of a widow's cap." Fashiou presents some curious probjms. When skirts were worn three ards in diameter, eighteen yards of laterial were enough for a dress, but ow they are made to fit closely to the gure at least thirty yards are uecesary. Some young fellows in Lowell conidered it a pood |oke, at the close of a cture in Huntington Hall, to raise heir umbrellas. The result was that very one who came out with an umbrella opened it and sailed away amid he cheers of the aforesaid youngsters. It is officially announced that the Iritish Government will hold the Govrninent of Spain and all concerned re* < ponsible for further executions of Iritish subjects in Cuba. At the same ime, Great Britain reserves its deisiou on the executions which have aleady taken place. It is rumored that ltyan and Varona, >f the Virginius, not dying easily, a ipanish officer thrust his sword throngh tyan's heart, and that the bloodthirsty nob severed the heads from the bodies, laced them on spikes, and marched hrough the city. The Virginius is re orted sunk at St. Jago. As a consequence of the panic, the irico of yellow seal Johannisberger, rhich is sold "only to crowned heads ud Americans," has fallen to $15 a bottle. This will be grateful news to lany of our unfortunate bankers and rokers whose suspension forces them a economize even in the necessaries of ife. A horrible case of murder and mutilaion at Ghazcpoor, India, has occurred. ?. ?i>0f ? wnman. having cut t u]'|;uuo iuuv .. , er step-son in pieces, roasted tliem, nd served thera up for her husband's upper. He, however, discovering a nger among the pieces, was so horrified [> lind it belonging to his infant son, lint on extracting a confession from his rife, he at once sent for the police and ave her into custody. Many Cubans Arrested. When the City of New York arrivod t Havana, says a correspondent, a porion of her passengers were arrested mmediately on landing. Among those hus arrested was a niece of Aldama, rho was searched for letters supposed o be concealed on her person. Correslondeuce implicating a scoro of the irincipal Cuban families in the island ras found. No attempt has apparently teen made to conceal the plans intendd to be conveyed in cypher. The lames and plans of the conspirators tore all found. An expressman named lambalier in Havana, who wus in the ontidence of the Cubans, bad gone on toard to obtain similar criminal rorespondence ami had also concealed a lumber of letters in Ins umler-gitruents, but on coming up from the hold o go ashore he saw what had been the ate of the other extemporized postarrier ami endeavored to throw them iverhoard. Home lodged,however,in the fiiards, and were thus seen by the poioe, who rescued those tliut had fallen u tlie water, and when Ilumbulier apl>o was arrested and hurried way with tho other prisoners to Fort hibaua, which is a fortress correspondiif? to the Morro Castle, at the other nd of the town. He was to have been hot tho next morning, and the writer's uformaut had little doubt, so great was he feeling against the insurrectionists, hat the order was carried out. What specially embittered tho Spaniards gainst Hambalier was that he hud always been a conspirator, and had only ust been released fiom the Isle of ?ines, where he had been confined the >ast eighteen montliH for offences simiar to this last offence. Tiie arrest of Humbalier and the Cn>ans who arrived on tho City of New fork was tho signal for tho immediute irrest of forty of the principal Cuban itizens in Havana and vicinity who vere implicated by tho captured corresjondence. The arrests were going on ip to tho lasj; hour that the writer's inormant was in the city, and universal error and confusion prevailed among ho Cubans still left at large. None mew how many names had been menioned in the letters in the possession >1 the authorities. Flight was almost mpossible, and any attempt would be < i proof of gnilt. Their only resonroe , ivas to possess their souls in patience ' -4 ind await the fate that seemed certain.