The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, March 17, 1875, Image 1
THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. I.?NO. 17. BEAUFORT, S. C.. MARCH 17. 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
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mnc miu liUII^Ilier.
Iu the days when earth was young,
Love anil laughter roamed together :
Love took up his harp and sung,
Round him all was golden weather.
Bat there came a sign anon?
What will ho when life is gone?
Laughter theu would try liis skill.
Sang of mirth and joy uudying ;
But ho played his part ho ill,
He set echo all a-sighing.
Kver came an undertone?
What will bo when life is done
Then for ever since that time,
Love 110 more can livo with laughter :
For bright as is the summer-prime,
Winter pale will follow after ?
Love henceforth must dwell with sigliB ;
Jo? was left in paradise.
A BANK ROBBEUY.
The Pint to Itnh n ftnnk?Its HorcfM nnd tlie
Trouble the Thieves had with the .Honey
--An InterestliiK Story.
The story of tlio Corbondale bank robbery
as tolil by theScranton Republican
is one of the most interesting records of
modern crimes, and reveals a plot so intensely
dramatic that the details will
amply repair perusal. It appears after
>uc jLuuijfi.-i nuii Nocnrcu meir prize tliey
were in a regular quandary what to do
with it. It was to their consciences as
trying as the tenacious old inau of tho
sea in the fable, and they wore constantly
removing it from place to place, stealing
it from each other and sub-dividing
it to silence grumbling accessories until
it was considerably scattered.
There were two plots to rob the bank.
The first contemplated its robbery at
midnight. The night robbery was
planned at meetings held in a coal mine
a short distance from the city. There
were ten men in this plot besides several
outsiders. The plan originated about
eight mouths ago. Tho parties to the
plot noticed that old Mr. Stott used to
work alone in the bank at night, and that
Iluggau, tho chief of police, used to do
duty as wat chman at the bank, and in order
to carry out the robbery successfully,
it was necessary to put Duggan out
of the way.
They then iuteuded to go to the bank,
rap at the door?so as to bring the
cashier to the door?and then rush past
aud overpower liim before he could use
any firearms. Then they proposed to
friorhten him with niut^io ~
w M.LX W UJ'tJUU^
tlie safe, and if necessary to dispatch
him.
The meetings at which this design was
matured were regularly and well attended,
each participant in the plot going
singly at the dead of night to the mine
in which they were held and returning
the same way. This plot fell through in
consequence of two of the moat prominent
men withdrawing from it, because
murder was contemplated. It was supposed
that the bank contained from
eighty to one hundred thousand dollars,
and the thieves had set their hearts on a
great haul. After this plot was frustrated,
one of the active participants in
it thought that there was a good chance
for a daylight robbery of the bank. He
noticed that Mr. Stott was in the habit of
letting his two clerks go to dinner, while
ho remained alone in the bank. The
last clerk left the bunk precisely at noon,
the other left fifteen minutes before him,
find for about twenty-five minutes the
cashier was left alone. This fact, together
with the isolated condition of the
bank, which stands by itself, inspired
the robbers with confidence of easily securing
that for which they had worked
so earne.stlv and well.
It was also discovered that Mr. Stott
left the key sticking on the inside of
the front door, and this it was intended
to use in locking the door to prevent depositors
or others from coming in during
the robbery.
To tho rear of the bank the directors'
room is situated, and a door leads from
this intn tlin wfiv.l Tliau i.lon .1 ??1
v..v/ J >?v*? A J imov; vUOV ,U?t;H'U
that the koy was usually loft in that
door, and this they intended to use as a
means of exit.
When this information whs gained the
lending plotter took all the present
parties who are under arrest one by one
into his project, including a miner, whose
duty it was to receive tlio money from
the robbers as they loft tlio bank, for
which purpose he was stationed in a convenient
place. The meetings of this
second robber band were held at the
old graveyard near the bridge, at midnight,
where amid the hush and the
silenco of the tombs, the plan of robbery
and murder was freely discussed.
The first daylight raid was contemplated
for the lifth of January, but failed in
consequenco of the two men who were
to enter the bank meetings I. iend of
thoir's just as they were about to enter,
and ho, knowing that ho would suspect
something, thoy turned away, and tliero
the matter rested for the present, having
been postponed until the next cold
day.
x'ho cold day was appointed because
thoro would not be so many people on
the street and tho fact of a robber disguising
his faco would not excite any
suspicion. Thus Jack Frost was taken
in as another accomplice.
At the next meeting wtiich was held
in the graveyard, it was concluded that
two of the party at present under arrest
should start from tho liighworks, on
Dundaff nad, at exactly three minutes
past twelve at noon and walk at their
regular gait, down to the bridge crossing
the Lackawanna river in the rear of
the bank. Two of tho other men wore
to be watchers, were to start precisely at
tlio same time from a hotel in tho opposite
direction of the bank, and pass
along ono on eachj^sido of J Main street,
and to cast a glanoe into the bank as
they passed by, so as to see that tho
j coast was clear, without hesitating, how- .
ever. They wero to walk right ahead |
until a ]H>int whcro Main street inter- j
j sects a short street on which the bridge I
before alluded to is located, and where I
tlio first two men were expected to be j
j stationed. If tho coast was clear, the j
men who passed by the bank wero to ,
raise their hats slightly and walk 011 slow- j
ly without seeming to take notice.
The raising of tlio hats was the signal '
I that all was right, and so as to make as- j
surauce doubly sure, another participant j
1 was stationed on Main street, to see that
tho clerks had left the bank at their ap- i
j pointed time.
This was to be done by signal; not a
word was to pass between the plotters, j
J and the raising of the lint was the uni- j
! versal token.
Ar the two men who started from the '
front of a certain hotel already referred !
to came within sight of Shepherd's
i corner, whore tho third lookout was
1 stationed, they received the proper sigj
nal, passed up Main street, one on each
j side, as planned, and one being twenty
feet in the rear of the other. On arriving
within sight of the bridge they saw that
their companions who were to enter the
bonk were at their post. The signal was
given promptly, and those who were to
enter the bank walked up to Main street,
Bond being twenty feet in advance of
his companion. Tho men who gave the
signal retraced their steps slowly and remained
in sight of tho bank until they
saw their accomplices enter and tho
window curtains pulled down to prevent
parties from looking in. All watchers
wero to remain at their post for teu
minutes, so that in case the robbers were
intercepted, they could be on hand to
prevent their arrest, and to use every
means in their power to do so. At the
end of the ten minutes they were to separate
and each one to go to some store
where he was acquainted, get into conversation
with the storekeeper, and to reI
main with him constantly until the news
came that the bank had been robbed.
This was for the purpose of proving an
alibi. They were if possible to coll the
storekeeper's attention to the time, so
that in cnHe they wcro suspected and
arrested this could be proved too. And
as soon as all hands engaged in the crime
could conveniently do so, they were to
hasten to the scene of the robbery, and
be very energetic in hunting up the
thieves.
That this compact was well carried
out, is shown by the fact that two of the
real robbers hired a sleigh, armed themselves
with revolvers, and set out in
search of the inoffending ones. On arriving
at tho depot they told the chief
of police about two men whom they saw
enter the train, and who looked to them
as suspicious characters. The chief had
tho good sense to see that the parties
worn oil wrvlvf on.l /at* * !%?? -1 * 1
??"' "" ?tu"u,u 11111 j 1
not arrest them. The party who was i <
stationed to receive the money from the I I
thieves met them as appointed. j 1
On receiving the money this accessory j j
carried it to the house of u;i accomplice, . i
where it was buried in an ash-pile at the !
rear of the house. r
On the same evening it was removed 1 t
by the robbers, who thought it too close : t
to the house, and it was carried about a i j
quarter of a mile distant in an old pillow j }
case and buried iu a heap of snow. ! n
Subsequently it was feared that the foot- j t
prints in the snow would tell tales iu j c
case the officers came to make a search, > ^
and so that investment was not consid- !
ered safe, and another removal planned, j t
Accordingly, at midnight of the same c
night it was removed from the snow- j \
pile and placed in a latli-pile located in j t
the neighborhood. Another conference ! t
of all the robbers was held, and it was j
concluded that the lath-pile was also an j
unsafe investment, as parties engaged
around the sawmill would be likely to
discover it, and another removal was de- f
cided upon. ?So before daylight on the j
following morning, one of the robbers
removed it to a closet in the rear of his j
dwelling. He shortly afterwards heard f
that he was suspected as one of the rob- ^
bers, and this depository was considered r|
unsafe, and the funds were transferred f
to a saloon and tlirown under the couu- f
ter. , A
Later on in tho evening the money u
was removed to a hotel, where at mid- i
night in tho presence of all the robbers it 1
was counted for the first time, when it was f
! ascertained that if divided equally, allowing
n percentage to outsiders who r
had a knowledge of the robbery, the i
share of each active participant would i
amount to about $1,500. The entire c
amount was $0,700. t
The money was left in tlio hotel in e
its pillow easo until the following Sunday,
when it was concluded to remove it i
to what was considered a safer hiding- i:
place. It was accordingly given to one a
of the robbers, who carried it to a small i t
grocery store on the outskirts of the j i
town, and lifting a portion of the floor 1
buried it without the proprietor's kuowl- t
edge. On account of the innocence of 1
i the storekeeper and the fact that the f
thieves might want the money at any
time, it was again removed, and on this 1
occasion carried into a coal mine about a >
; mile from the mouth of tho slope, and 1
! hidden in one of tho chambers. " Hero t
i at least," said the thieves, " it is entirely t
j safe." But subsequent events provod t
: tho fallaey of this belief. Tho money I
j was regularly visited overy day, and ono f
' fmo morning it was discovered that
' other thieves were on the trail ?>f tlin,
! stolen treasure. This time it was the j
' rats. They gnawed a hole in the pillow f
awe, and were chewing Uuulo Sam's j 1
greenbacks. Maledictions were freely 'J
poured out on the rodents and a notili- t
cation was sent out for a full meeting of c
1 tho thieves oiico more. Each was afraid u
1 to take charge of the money personally, (
j and tho raid of the rats led them to con- 1
| elude that a division should bo made at t
i onoe. r
Accordingly, while the other parties
vaited outside, two of the robbers enered
the mine at midnight, obtained the
noney and conveyed it back to the
grocery store already mentioned. As
hey were about to count it, they tnjouutered
an interruption, and they went
ip stairs into a cold loom, leaving the
noney in a cracker barrel down stairs.
Clie parties who caused the interruption
vere three old men who came in to sit
town and smoke their pipes, as is eusomary
in country stores. Presently
hey commenced a discussion on crackers,
in the course of which the merits of
?ood and bad ones brought forth a lively
lispute, much to the annoyance of the
nen up stairs who overheard the story,
,vho feared every moment that some of
:lie disputants would go to the barrel, in
vhieh the money lay, to take a sample
jraclter to sustain his argument. The
hieves were afraid that another division
>f the spoils would be necessary to shut
he old men up, but fortunately the
iracker controversy was cut short and
mother argument commenced. The disputants
were long-winded, and 110 fire
poiug up stairs the robbers were shivering
with cold, and one of them proposed
to go down and "clean the old
men out." They finally left, having oxlausted
popular topics, and the thieves,
:rembling with the cold, descended and
vanned themselves l?y the stove. The
noney was again removed from the
;racker barrel, and it was about to bo
ounted over again, when another rap at
ho door prevented it. The robbers on
his occasion thought they would not run
he risk of another frceziug, nml uceord
ugly those tlmt were not known in that
iectiou of the town pretended to bo unlet*
the influence of liquor, and one of
hem laid his head on the knees of his
onfederate while those who interrupted
emained in the store.
This interruption was caused by the
rife of the proprietor of the store, who
*ame in to get some potatoes which lay
n the barrel next to that in which the
noney was re-deposited, and the tliieves
eared that the woman would put her
land into the wrong barrel, so they were
igaiu in agony until she left.
After her departure the door was lock>d,
and the thieves resolved under 110
. ircumstances', would any one be aduitted
until they counted their funds.
The money was counted and divided
vithont further interruption, and the
Kirty broke up at the peep of day, each
setting out in a different direction for
ais home.
One of the parties set out for Bingmmton,
where he was captured a week
ater, and his share of the money found
in a stable. Another was arrested at his
iiouse, and his share of the money was
Uncovered in a snow bank, frozen over,
it a short distance from his house; another
portion of the money was recovered
through the instrumentality of the
;hird robber, it being concealed among
liis friends. The share of the fourth
larty was found in an earthenware jug
11 the cellar of his house.
There was subdivision of the money.
i:no, mui sums 01 mty, ouo uunurcuaiui
wo hundred dollars, and a number of
hose who were engaged in the lirst
dot for the proposed night-robbery susjeeting
those who were engaged in the
ictual robbery insisted on receiving
heir shares, and so black-mailed tho suc:essful
thieves, until their shores dwindled
lown to very small proportions.
In addition to this the thieves began
o steal from each other, and so succeeded
in mixing up tho different shares
intil it became a complicated problem to
race the actual sum in tho possession of
sacli one.
Stick to Your Farms.
The feeling that yon are settled and
ixed will induce you to go to work to
mprove your farm, to plunt orchards, to
let out shade trees, to inclose pastures,
o build comfortable out-houses; and
inch successive improvement is a bond
o bind you still closer to your homes.
This wdl bring contentment in the
amily. Your wives and daughters will
all in love with the country, your sons
vill love home more than the grog-shop,
aid prefer farming to measuring tape or
?rofessional loafing, and you will be
rnppy in seeing tho contented and cheeriil
faces of your family.
Make your home beautiful, convenient
ind pleasant, and your children will love
t above all other places; they will leave
t with regret, think of it with fondness,
ome back to it joyfully, and seek their
hief happiness arouud their homo lirelide.
Women and children need more than
neat, bread and raiment; more than
teres of corn anil cotton spread out all
trennd them. Their lovo of the beau,iful
must bo satisfied; their tastes
nust bo cultivated; their sensibilities
lumored, not shocked. To accomplish
his good end, homo must bo made
ovely, conveniences multiplied, comorts
provided, and cheerfulness fostered.
L'hero must be sunshine and shnde,
uscious fruits and fragrant flowers, as
veil as corn and cotton. Tho mind and
leart, as well as tho field, must bo cultivated;
and then intelligence and contentment
will be tho rule instead of tho
sxception. Stick to, improve, and
>eautify your homesteads, for with this
food work comes coutentment.
Wicks or Kkrosknk Lamps.?The uniitiflfaetory
light frequently given by
E-Toseno l'.inps is often due to the wick.
L'lie filtering of several quarts of oil
'trough a wick, which stops every pnrti
sle of dust in it, must necessarily graduilly
obstruct the pores of the wick.
Consequently although a wick may be
ong enough to last some time, its corlucting
power may bo so impaired that
i good light cannot be obtained.
Origin of Salem Witchcraft.
! During the winter of 1691-2, a circle
' of young girls was formed in Salem
Farms, which met at the house of the :
Rev. Mr. Purvis, for the practice of I
palmistry and fortune-telling, necromancy,
magic, and spiritualism. In this
} circle there were (1) Elizabeth Parris,
the minister's daughter, aged nine years,
i who at first had a leading part in the
i subsequent" excitements, but was early j
removed from them by her father; (2) i
Abigail Williams, Parris's niece, living
in his house, aged eleven; (ill Ann Put
j nam, aged twelve, daughter of the parish
clerk and recorder, a prominent man at j
the Farms; (4) Mary Walcott,seventeen, I
daughter of Jonathan Walcott, Mr. i
i Parris's next-door neighbor; (">) Mercy j
Jicwis, seventeen; (0) Elizabeth Hub- |
bard, seventeen, niece of Dr. Griggs, j
the village physician, and resident in his i
family; (7?8) Elizabeth Booth and j
Susannah Sheldon, each eighteen, be- j
louring to families living near at band ; )
i 19) Mary Warren, aged twenty, a servant i
in the family of John Proctor, who was f
i brought to the scaffold by the girls; and
(10) Sarah Churchill, a servant in tlio t
j family of George Jacobs, Sr. Her cm- 1
ploycr also became their victim. With | i
these ten, other persons were drawn to f
act. There were John Indian and 1
i Titubn, two slaves of Mr. Pavris's, wlio 1
probably were brought to the colony t
from the Ilarbadoes, and besides those, 1
one or two others; but the girls, with ^
| the slaves, formed the circle, and were 1
I the leading characters in the events
i which have been a horror and mystery
ever since they transpired. In those '
, events those girls were bold and even ;
vicious in their bearing, ami evinced un ; <
utter absence of compunction or com- ! i
; miscrution ; except in one or two in- I 1
stances, displaying a complete disregard 1
I of the agony and destruction which they j
i brought upon others. I
In the course of tlio winter they bo- <
; came expert in the art they were learning, 1
Gradually they came to exhibit their at- 1
tainments to beholders. At lirst these 1
exhibitions consisted of creeping iuto 1
; holes, aud under benches ami chairs ; 1
j putting themselves into odd and un- 1
: natural postures, making wild gestures,
and uttering incoherent aud unintelligi- 1
I ble sounds. They were seized with <
1 spasms, dropped insensiblo to the floor, 1
. or writhed in agony, pretending to suf- <
fer tortures, with loud and piercing out- ]
cries. Naturally they began to draw l
upon themselves general attention.
"Soon tliey became to lie styled "the
afflicted children." In the early stages
I no explanation of their condition was so
| much as suggested by any one; but as
' soon as J)r. Griggs was called in. and
had examined them, lie declared them
bewitched. In those days, and prior to
j those days, physicians frequently disi
posed of difficult cases which came before
them bv such a resr.rt- The nr<?
# m ~ w t'* " ,
fession must bear its fair shore of re- '
sponsibility for succeeding occurrences. '
| ?The (r ala ri/. '
The Irish Marketman.
j It was the market day, and rainy, says 1
the Dnnburv man in u letter from Ire- i
| land. I was up early, and from the coffee-room
window could look down a 1
| street leading from the country into the '
I market square. And up this street for a I
J full hour the farmers straggled along <
i with their produce. Kueli one hail a '
! little pony or donkey hitched to a low i
I curt which appeared to have thills at 1
! each end, and on the cart were a half 1
dozen or so of long bags tilled with pota- ?
j toes. Some of them laid oaks, and a few 1
j brought in hay or straw. The farmer I
appeared at the head of the animal with I
I his hand on the bridle, wliile the wife <
either rode or walked behind. She wore ]
a bluish cloak of freize, which reached '
nearly to her feet, with a cape over her 1
j head. Some of them wore white caps I
under the cape, anil rod petticoats under *
the cloak. They were well-formed, 1
| healthy looking women, with faces and f
' arms browned by out-door work. Some >
1 of them were very old and shriveled, '
and worn out by years of toil. This wjis 1
their life: Toil all the week, and trudge 1
into town every market day. The shriv- f
eled was once buxom, and the buxom '
conlil look at tlio shriveled and Roe the I <
end as plainly as if alio had already i
I reached it. 1
j The clerk of tlio market met them at
; the head of the street and collected their
| toll, nnd they passed on into the square
! and took up their position. Then the
, buyers came about and examined their ]
! produce, and shook their heads very do- '
j spondently over the exhibit, as being so '
| much inferior to what they had expect- *
j e.l, but finally endeavored to look more *
; hopeful, and at last offered, as an en'
couragement to farming, live per cent.
, under the market price. I wandered
among them for an hour or more, listeni
ing to blarney, bickering and wit.
Ilow Ice Freezes,
! One of tlio officers at West Paint rej
cently resorted to the following experiment
to determine whether the ice on
' rivers and creeks thickens 011 the bottom
i or on the top. He cut a hole in the ice
opposite West Point, anil bolted a piece
of board to the under sido. Examining
, it three or four days afterward he found
i rue unit norm on mo top just as lie loft
I it; and cutting through tlio ice found tlio
1 Inmrd sandwiched between the upper
j layer of ice to which it had been bolted, 1
' anil about four inches of solid ice which 1
had formed underneath it, showing con- '
clusively that ice thickens on the under- 1
aide, and not on the top.
i
On the plains of Texas is found a little ]
flower called tlio "compass flower,"
j which in allchangesof wind and weather
i points its leaves invariably to tlio north,
A Horror of the Cold.
Tlio particulars of a Bail case of death I
jy freezing have been reoeived iu this
jlace from the town of Exeter. N. Y.t
luring the intense cold weather that
prevailed. The victims were three
joys, named Patrick, Martin and
Miclial O'Hrieu, the first aged eight, tlie
lecond ten and the third eleven years.
L'hey were brothers, living with their
jarents in Exeter. The father and |
notlier are lazy and dissipated people,
mil live on the fruits of the labor of their
liildreu, who were seven in number,
die four oldest made baskets and the
liree others just named traveled on foot
ibout the country selling them.
The thermometer in the town of
Exeter marked twenty-five degrees beow
zero. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien told
lieir three little children that they must
(tart out with a lot of baskets. The
joys begged to be allowed to wait until
he weather moderated. They were
joorly clad and barely able to keep warm
n the miserable house iu which the
'aniily lived.
The brutal parents forced them with
brents and beatings, however, to go out
vith the baskets. They started iu the
lirection of Westville, some miles disant,
over a bleak and desolate road,
lillv and in some places badly drifted.
Each boy hail a number of baskets tied
;o him reaching above his head. When
ust seen alive by any of the family they
vero struggling up the hill away from
:hc house, two of them weeping bitterly,
rhey never reached West villi'.
me next morning a gentleman wlio l
was driving from Westvillo over the I
Exeter road saw the bodies of three
children lying in the road. Each had
i number of baskets tied around liis
body, and the largest of the threo had
liis arms around the neck of the smallest,
[t npeded but a glance to enable the
{eutleman to see that the boys were
lead, and had doubtless been frozen
to death. There wero frozen tracks of
tears on the cheeks of each one. The
bodies were taken to Westville, where
they wero recognized as those of the
Llirco little basket peddlers who were;
well known throughout the section.
Fliey were taken home, and when it was
learned that the little fellows had been
Iriven out in the cold to sell their bassets
the popular indignation was intense
igainst the parents. If there is any legal
punishment it will be invoked on the unnatural
father and mother.
How to Settle Strikes.
The lesson taught by the present great
strike in Massachusetts, and the still
more extensive ones in Great Britain,
says the New York Times, is of the
liigliest importance to employers and
operatives everywhere. It has justly
been said of the thousands of colliers
who recently "struck " in South Wales,
that as the result of their strike neither
capitalists nor laborers will attain any
id vantage which could not have been
secured at tho outset by tho exercise of
i little moderation and sacrifice. Precisely
the same remark may with truth
bo made of the striking men and women
mid the capitalists in New England.
The irreconcilable attitude of the strikers |
lias been productive of nothing but fresh
obstinacy and misunderstandings on
both sides. The property-owners, firmly
established in their right to pay such j
wages as they choose to give for a certain
imount and ipiality of lnbor, scoff at all
violent and threatening efforts to change
their determination, just as the master
colliers in South Wales have for some
weeks ridiculed the demonstrations of
the liftoen thousand men who threaten
to compel them. When employers and
employed disagree in such times as the
present, there is little sense in a prolonged
struggle 011 either side. It is
likely enough that justice may bo fully
gratified by that concession on both
mles which can bo gained only through
die medium of arbitration. At the suggestion
of the membojp of the Social
Science Congress at Belfast, in Ireland,
last year, a strike then in progress there
was successfully settled by the arbitrn;ion
court. Tlioro is no reason why the
lame effective and pacificatory method
should not be adopted everywhere whenever
disagreements occur between large
lumbers of operatives and the capitalists
who employ them.
Farm Laborers.
There is a persistent decline in the
numbers of those who till farms in
Breat Britain. By census returns, farm
aborers had fallen in number from 958,HM)
in 1801 to 798,000 in 1871, or seveneon
per cent. The Scotch decrease was
riot so largo, being from 105,000 to 93,100,
or about twelve per cent.; still,
thero is a great decrease, for which it is
lifficnlt to account in some ways. The
introduction of improved means of tillage
can hardly have wrought so great a
revolution as to enable so many hands
to be dispensed with, and, in fact, the
character of the cultivation dews not
cliango so fast nor so radically as many
liave supposed. The true cause of the i
change, beyond tlio effect of a snperdmndant
rural population?superabundant
for the work done?i- to bo found
in the great labor-absorbing capacity of
our cities ami towns. The man with only
his hamls can fiinl endless varieties of
rough work in towns at better pay
usually than tho country districts can
nfford. Hence our towns become crowded
with rustics, who, it is to bo feared,
oft'Mi become degraded tliero, and do not
ii little?themselves and their sickly progeny?to
increase the poverty and
wretchedness which breed to such a
strange degree in all our cities, however
prosperous
The badgers in California ore killing
tho lambs at a dreadful rate.
Items of Interest.
A little lx>y in Albany bit his
tongue while rocking on a chair, and
bled to death.
A bright boy recently told his teacher
there were three sects, the male sect,
the female sect, and insects.
Among the things sent to the starving
people of Kansas was a tract headed
" The Wickedness of Gluttony."
Love linked with economy will carry a
young couple a great deal more safely
on the road of life than extravagance and
show.
Next to Mont Cenis tunnel, the
Hoosac is the longest in the world, being
only 320 feet less than five miles in
length,
Dried fruit is being shipped from
Cortlandt, New York, to Germany. The
other day fifteen tons of dried apples
were sent.
After traveling up and down Europe,
Col. Forney says the working people of
America are tho happiest and best paid
on earth. They eat tho white bread of
the world.
An old toper chanced to drink a glass
of water one day, for want of something
stronger. Smacking his lips and turning
to one of liis companions, he remarked,
1' Why, it don't taste badly."
An improvident Danbnry youth entertains
a high appreciation for the State
prison, which he regards as " tiro only
place where a fellow is not dunned for
liis board and washing every Saturday
night."
I hate anything that occupies more
space than it is worth, says William
Hnzlitt; I hate to see a load of bandboxes
go along the street, and I hate to
see a parcel of big words without anything
in them.
Nurse?"My dear air, just look here,"
taking the blanket from a fine pair of
twins with which the master of the
house had been presented. "Oh, yes,"
said the blushing young husband, " I
suppose I can take my cnoice."
Spelling matches are in vogue this
winter in Ohio, taking the plaoe of other
entertainments for grown folks. * One in
Springfield was held in a large hall, was
attended by a thousand persons, and
tlie wife of a leading lawyer took the
prize, which was a finely-bound dictionary.
In many instances refreshments
are sold, the profit going to churches or
charities.
Auna Dickinson describes the new
society bow, as executed by Washington
ladies. She says that to bend the
head, except to acknowledged suporiors,
is out of fashion. The lady looks you
coolly iu the face, smiles as sweetly as
she can, and gently inclines her head
toward the right shoulder, with a little
backward movement at the same time.
A alight Frenchy shrug heightens the
effect.
A San Francisco wife by mistake took
ikjuiu uuiuiuuui, uuu i6 ourneci ner
mouth terribly. Her husband, upon
hearing the doctor's opinion that she
would not be able to speak for a month,
said with intense and spontaneous
fervor, " Thank God for that!" Later he
explained that he meant to express gratitude
for the probability of her reoovery,
but she did not seem to be entirely
1 satisfied.
Where to Find Gold.
An exchange, referring to the serious
i losses in the silver mine stock speculations
in the West, says: Our readers
will find it a good rule to remember the
words of Emerson, that they can find
| gold wherever they choose to dig for it.
There have, no doubt, been many cases
in the rise of petroleum, ooal, gold, silver,
copper and other industries where
fortunate speculators have become suddenly
rich. If people go into the purchase
of mining stocks and other
" property " as a speculation they must
not complain if they fail. It is gambling.
All gambling is based on chance. If
people gamble and lose it is their own
fault, committed with open eyes. The
true way is, after all, to dig for gold and
find it wherever fate places us; to dig for
1 it by industry, thrift, economy, patience
! and good humor; not to buy what we do
1 not want; not to sell what we do not
liavo; not to purchase property on a
margin in the hope that it will be worth
so much more within six months. These
simple rules underlying the success of
I our richost men will, if followed pru,
dently, prevont these "Big Bonanza"
' excitements, and the suffering that so
I frequently happens with the collapse
of petroleum wells and fanciful gold
miuing stocks.
i
Funeral Expenses.
Among the items of the accounts presented
for the funeral expenses of Hon.
! Francis Malbone, a Senator from Rhode
Inland, who died in Washington in June,
1809, and whose remains were interred in
! the Congressional burial ground, are the
; following :
! 1G pounds crackers 3.60
111 pounds cheese at 25 cents 2.81
; The committee to audit the contingent
! expenses of the Senate directed that payment
bo mado for crackers, but rejected
tho claim for the cheese. The next
voucher presented to them for their approval
read thus :
7 gallons best Madeira wine. ?28.00
4 gallons Cognac brandy 8.00
12 pounds almonds at 40 cents 4.80
10 ix>unds raisins at 50 cents 5.00
Of this account the committee would
umtt iuiuw ior iuiit gauons wino ana
three quarts brandy, 829," but they
passed another voucher for " fourteen
I pounds of pound cake, 87," purchased
; from Monsieur Julien, a confectioner,
who also supplied "twelve pounds
| crackere,"