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VOL. y. NO. 9.
The Baby for Me.
I have heard about babies angelic,
?lin ? ucnvvxiiv luoiv iu uicu ciro,
And hair like the sunbeams of morning
When first they appear in the skies,
And smiles like the Riniles of a cherub,
And mouths like the buds of a rose,
And themselves like the lilies and daises
And every sweet flower that grows.
My baby's the jolliest baby
That any one ever did see;
1 here's nothing angelic about him,
But he's just the right baby for me !
Hi-; smile's not at all like a cherub's,
But rather a comical grin;
And his hair?well, it favors the sunbeams,
When sunbeams are wondrously thin.
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His eyes, though they're blue, like the heavens.
Are remarkably earthy with fun;
And his mouth's rather large for a rosebud,
Unless 'twere a half opened one.
His hands don't resemble a fairy's
In the least. They're a strong little pair,
As you'd think, I am sure, if he'd got you.
As oft he gets me?by the hair !
And he isn't a bit like a lily,
Or any sweet blossom that grows,
For 110 flower on earth, I am certain,
Has a dear little cunning pug nose.
He's himself?full of mischief, the darling,
And as naughty as naughty can be;
And I'm glad that he isn't angelic,
For he's just the right babv for me !
THE WARDER'S DAUGHTER.
j
Marion Hyde was a cripple, but for all
that she was beautiful. Her father was
warder in a prison. Among the prisoners
was one at the registering of whose
name at his entrance Marion had been
present, and something in liis youthful j
though sullen face attracted her pitiful
gfcince. He had stolen repeatedly from
his benefactor, and finally had admitted
into the house in the nighttime a gang of
burglars, who had secured considerable '
booty and made off with it in safety, save ;
one, after severely pounding the proprietor
of the house. This one who was not |
able to escape betrayed the complicity of :
the young man in the affair. He was j
tried, convicted and sentenced.
There was no redeeming feature np- 1
patently to the story, but somehow that !
fa 'e haunted the girl's gentle thoughts.
Perhaps it was l>ecause she had a young ,
brother who "fcas a wild lad, wandering
just now in disgrace, no one knew whither,
and all the more tenderly loved by (
Marion l>ecause of his sad ways.
One day as she leaned on the window
sill, looking with a wistful sadness into
the yawl at the prisoners, one of them
locked up, antl, clianged as he was in
every wan, tlrn feature, she knew again
the black, sullen eyes that yet were
so uehow like an angry, obstinate child's, j
Her glaucc followed him as though |
fascinated, and as he * passed from sight j
she sighed softly and went in to look at
tin prison record for the poor hut's
name.
It was Aymer Preston.
The next she knew of him he was in
the sick ward.
For a few weeks slie saw irm tnere,
but the gloomy eyes never softened, only
gazed straight before tliem from their
ho1 low sockets, or hid themselves obstina
ely behind their wasted lids.
He never spoke, he scarcely ate; and
the prison physician told Marion that he
was dying of sheer inanition.
"It is my opinion he's trying to starve
himself to death," he said.
Marion drew near the sick lad.
She bent over him and spoke with gentle
firmness.
But she might as well liave talked to
the blank wall, for all sign he gave of
having heard her.
Marion left the ward with a shocked
and anxious face.
" Let me know if there is auy change,
or you tliink of anything that I can do,"
she then said to the doctor.
But at dusk the doctor was called away
by serious illness in his own family, and
near midnight the assistant, going his !
rounds, found Aymer Preston dead in
bed.
" It's either make believe or heart
break," Dr. Putney said, sharply, when
word was brought him, and he ordered
that Preston's body should be kept wrappod
in blankets and not removed till he
saw it.
The order was obeyed, but when three
days saw no change in the form, Dr.
Putney having meanwhile examined it,
it was removed to the dissecting-room.
Marion Hyde's ^window commanded a
view of this mysterious and horror inspiring
apartment. As she stood at her
window that night she thought, with a
vague thrill of pain, of the one cold, still
tenant of that terrible room.
She was not a timid, superstitious
creature, nor by any means given to
nervousness; so when she saw the window
of the dissecting-room slowly lifted,
and a gaunt, wild face appear at the
opening, instead of screaming or running
away, she sto<xl still. She knew
that her heart was throbbing wildly, but *
she knew also that it was no phantom she
looked upon. Doctor Putney had been j
right all the time. Aymer Preston was j
not dead, and thus he was making one
wild effort for liberty. Marion Hyde j
stood aud watched him.
She could Hot have called out just then
if he had been the most desperate and
hardened criminal within those walls.
Besides, the poor wretch was only making
himself. He could not escape even
now unless by a miracle. She saw him
stop presently beside a window, which
opened into an upper hall, aud after a
long effort raise it and slowly drag himself
through.
Obeying an impulse which she could
not at the moment control, Marion softly
opened her door and passed out without
her crutch for fear of the noise. She j
reached the hall just as this poor wasted .
creature, after a brief rest, was urging '
his half paralyzed limbs to renewed
effort. At the sight of her he gasped
aud dropped in a swoon, and Marion
hurried to his side. She dared not leftve
him, so she waited, nibbing bis cold
hands between her tender palms, till he
at last opened his eyes and she made
him comprehend th?t *he wanted him to
with fecr.
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" I won't go back to prison," lie whispered,
between lbs set teeth.
" Yt?u need not," she said, simply, and ^
led him to her own chamber.
There was positively no other place Q
tliat was safe from the strict search that j ^
she knew would be instituted as soon as j(
he was discovered to be missing.? She
procured him some garments which had j}
belonged to her brother, and she got him ^
such food as would be safe for him to eat g
after his long fast. ,
He regarded all her movements with (
the incredulous wonderment of a child.
" What has been the matter with me ?" I ^
he asked, after a while. 44 I could not I v
stir any more than though I was dead, 1 v
but I knew all that was going on about v
me. Ugh ! it was frightful waiting there j
in the dissecting-room. I believe it was
only the horror of it helped me to break i
the frightful spell." | ^
44 I suppose you were in a sort of >
trance," Marion said, thoughtfully. g
44 What are you going to do with me ?" j c
he asked again. i v
441 don't know,. I am sure," she said, ' v
with a sigh ; 44 but you are safe here till r
I can think." I j
441 don't expect you to believe me, ;
but I am <os innocent of the crime for j
which I was brought here as you arc." j ~
44 Guilty or innocent, I pity you, you [
are so young."
Concealing him till the hue and cry >
were over, Marion smuggled him through j
the gates in a woman's dress and with a r
basket of soilecT clothes. And so the j
mystery of Aymer Preston's escape re- ,
mained a mystery.
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The years moved on. Marion was
twenty-five. Her father was dead. Her }
idolized brother liad perished in a brawl, c
She was alone in the world ; an invalid, g
living on the merest pittance earned with j 1.
her needle, but the same sweet-faced, lj
sweet-voiced girl who had won flie hearts n
of the prisoners in the gloomy abode of L
which her father had be^n warden. e
One day she was sent for to see about f,
some embroidery. She was received by 1]
a young lady, and something in the c
young girl's -bright face drew Marion's 0
glance unconsciously. Where had she r
seen those eyes, so large and so intensely
Uack ? o
44 Why do you look at me so ?" asked
the young girl, with naive eagerness. v
44 You remind me of some one I have t]
known," Marion answered, simply.
44 Xo one ever accused me of looking y
like anybixly but Robert before," laughed v
the girl. ji
44 Ah, yes, you do. I see the resem- j
blance now quite strong," and Marion's j
face flushed with emotion. 44 Perhaps t
you are related to him. His name was lj
Aymer Preston." f,
44 Oh!" cried the young girl, springing 8
up, 44 and vou are lame and vvmi^namd J
'iciiH. T ! 1.
JO iU^UJV/U XiJ UC. JLVU mv, AWM V ^ i
knew it. Ob, Robert, what will you c
say ?" .. . * ' t
She vanished from Marion's astonished t:
eyes, with the words on her lips. She r
was back, however, in a trice, and with
her came a tall, dark haired, heavily t
bearded gentleman. o
"Marion Hyde? Is is possible?*'he r
exclaimed, clasping both the little trem- c
bling liands in his and putting them over *
and again to his lips, which were quiver- p
ing with emotion. "Surely you know
me ?"
" You?you are Aymer Preston," stammered
Marion.
" I was Aymer Preston, I am Robert L.
Liesson. A relative of my mother's left .
me his property on condition of my tak- I1
ing liis name. I have searched for you j'
vainly, Marion Hyde. My prosperity
has been bitter to me till now I find you. *
Oh! you sliall never touch needle or work ^
again." ,
"No, indeed, that vou shall not,"
_ * "
chimed in she who had been the means '
of this happy recognition ; mid as she !
said it, both her arms were round Mari- ?
on's neck, and she was sobbing and kiss- !
ing her alternately. " Robert always a
said he would never marry anybody but a
you, and you'll have him, won't you, a
dear ?"
" I have proved mv innocence of tliat ?
charge of robbing my guardian," said
Robert, gravely. " But it was long be- r
fore I could do 60. I followed up the ^
man whose testimony convicted me, till
he lay dying, and gave me a written con- s
fesaion of false witnesses. My guardian c.
paid hirtT to injure me. He wanted me .
out of the way. I will not be so abrupt j 0
as to ask von to marrv me now, but as a
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this rash sister of mine has said so "
much, I can do no less than testify to its I
truth. I have always loved your sweet, J s
dear face, Marion. I shall never cease "
to wish it my wife's face till that wish is ,
realized." i | r
And then he left Marion to his sister's j1
petting and soothing. I
"This morning I was alone?not a 1
friend in the wide world, and now "?
A burst of tears came to her relief. a
She is Robert Liesson's wife now, and a
her beautiful eyes are as dovelike as ever
with compassion for the unfortunate.
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How Rank Clerks are Yi atched. f,
Every bank and every hotel in the v
large cities has its own private detective, j ^
who watches all who come and all who ! "
go, from the partners and officers to the ^
bell boys and messengers. It is told of a
the president of a well known banking J b
institution that now and again he sends ; s
for some one of his clerks and holds 8
some such conversation as this:
"Last Tuesday," he will say, "you
spent the evening at Jones' billiard
saloon, did you not ?" A
".Yes, sir," will stammer the astonish- p
ed clerk. I
"lrou took during the evening six o
rounds of drinks with your three com- s
panions, of which you paid for four, did tl
you not ?" i e
"Yes, sir," replies the astonished I p
youth. ti
" Tlien you went to Mills' and lost 815 i p
at faro, is it not so ? Don't deny it?I v
know. I know all about you." : ti
Tlie president v. ill then go on and tell ! ii
his n;an where he lives, how he lives, i t
whom he associates with and where he ; t,
gets his clothes; all this to let him see r
that he is watched, and to warn him 8
against wrong doing of any kind. j c
Without discussing the wisdom of sub- j s
jocting a mail to such a system of snr- ! t
veillance as this, without defending the a
man who has so little self-respect as to 'J
submit to it, it mu6t be said that it is c
v?ry effective in keeping young men in v
tb? right path. ! f
1ALT]
LND PORT
BEAUFOET. S. C
(iocs Info Stcanihoatinir.
The late Commodore Vanderbilt, with
hat forecast of vision, that essential elcaent
of genius which in every important
vent of his career never failed to assert
tself, saw that sailboats were destined to
ase their supremacy while he was inter- i
sted in sailing vessels. Eleven years
iad passed since Fulton's experimental
rip up the Hudson. Abandoning" his
uccessful business, he accepted the post
f captain of a small steamboat at a salary
f $1,000 a year. At that day passengers
o Philadelphia were conveyed by steam?ont
from New York to New Brunswick,
there they remained all night, and the
iext morning took the stage for Trenton, !
["hence they were carried by stage to
^liladelpliia. For twelve years he com- ;
aanded the steamboat (which was owned I
iv Mr. Gibbous) running between New
'ork and New Brunswick. The hotel at
sew Brunswick where the passengers '
topped was at the same time given in
harge of his wife, whom he married |
rlicn only nineteen years of age. She |
[ as the daughter of a neighbor on Staten ;
sland. Her maiden name was Sophia '
ohnson, and thirteen children, nine J
laughters and four sons, were the fruits
f this marriage. The hotel business 1
iroved more profitable than the steam- J
ioat, and why he remained as captain so ,
i>ng was for the reason that the State of ;
Jew York had granted to Fulton and
fivingston the exclusive right of run- j
ling steamboats in New York waters.
Relieving this grant unconstitutional, as
t was afterward declared by the supreme 1
ourt, Mr. Gibbons ran his boats in dofi- .
* ' * ' * i , i i ^
nee 01 it, ana urns mvoiveu iuiqhuu m ? j
ierce contest with the authorities of New
fork. The brant of the battle fell on
Captain Yanderbilt. For sixty succesive
clays an attempt was made to arrest
lim. Leaving his crew, who were also
iable to arrest in New Jersey, he would
pproach the New York wharf, with a
ad at the helm, while he managed the
ngiue. As soon as the vessel was made
ast he would conceal himself in the
old. At the moment of starting an oilier,
who would be changed every day in
rder to avoid recognition, would be in
eadiness to arrest him.
" Yon are my prisoner," would say the
fficer, hipping him on the shoulder.
" You are more like my prisoner,"
rould respond the captain, and then or!er:
" Let go the lines."
Fearing to be carried to New Jersey,
diere a retaliatory act threatened him
ritli the State prison, the officer would
ninp ashore, or failing in this, beg to be
nit ashore, which request was of course
olitely granted. in this and other
liings the captain managed to evade tlie
nws. He fought the State of New York
or seven years until Chief Justice Marhall
declared New York wrong anil New
ersev right. The opposition tried vainy
to buy him off. " No," replied the
aptain to all such offers, " I shall stick
r> Mr. Gibl >ons until he is through his
roubles." And he did stick and lie caried
his point.
Mr. Gibbons offered to raise his salary
i) So,000 per year, but he declined the
ffer. " I did it on principle," was his
eply to the question why he refused a
ompensation tliatwas so manifestly just.
' All I ever cared for was to carry my
oint."
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An Indian Romance.
A dark, swarthy looking individual,
ressed in semi-Indian garb, was at the
Jnion depot, Omaha, making numerous
aquiries in very imperfect English dia
ect concerning tlie name of C. G. Gasill,
who left some portion of eastern
owa for an overland trip to California
Tiring the gold excitement of 1851.
liis half wild fellow claimed that he was
lie son of this Gaskill, and that he was
bout five or six years old when his
Either set out with his family for the
verland wagon trip to California. The
Eimily, two years later, were in Arizona,
nd oue night the Apache Indians made
n attack upon them and carried him
way, while the others made their escape.
Ir. Gaskill has a very vivid recollection
f the battle, and also the long wagon
rip from Iowa, while he has little or 110
ecollection of the home or just where it
ras located. He was carried away by the
ndians and lived with them, sharing the
ame neglect and attention as their own
hildren, until he grew to manhood. He
escribes his life as being pleasant and
ne that he fully enjoyed. He became
cquainted with the great chief Cochise
nd followed him in many of his battles,
le painted, tattooed and besmeared his
kin like the savages themselves, until
ow it has the same coppery color. He
escribes Cochise as being a great warior
and a most wonderful savage. He
emained with these Indians until alxmt
ix years ago, when he was captured by
lie Comanches in one of their battles
rith the Apaches, and with them he led
wandering existence, first as a captive
nd afterward as one of the tribe. Last
ill he became tired of such a mode of
niul lr>ft- flip trihp nnd mnlHnrv
AM/wvmw ;?j - ? o
is way toward the Pacific coast, made
aquiries concerning his family, but
iiled to learn anything of them. In his
randering, nomadic life he had accumuited
considerable wealth in the form of
old dust, and on the proceeds of this he
ras traveling in search of his lost home
nd friends. No one seemed to be able
:> give him any information, and lie
tarted on his way east to prosecute his
earch iu Iowa.
A Flimsy Defense.
The case of Ann L. Neill against tiie
jn'rican Popular Life Insurance Comauy
was brought to trial before Judge
hreedman and a jury, in the superior
ourt, at New York city. The plaintiff
ued on a policy of ?5,000 taken out on
lie life of her deceased husband. The
ompauy defended the action on the
round of a discrepancy of one year in
he aee of the insured, eriven in his ap
licatiou for insurance, as compared
nth tlic statement ofj his age given on
lie proof of his death. The son of the
usured, "who put in the proof of death,
estitied that lie must have made a misake.
Judge Freedman promptly diected
a verdict for the plaintiff for
5,195. An extra allowance of five per
ent. was awarded to the plaintiffs conn- :
el. Tlie judge also refused a stay of
he entry of judgment for sixty days
sked for by the company's corn, so I.
die courts require a pretty good reason
n tlio part of a life insurance company, '
dicn tiio tatter endeavors to evade the !
ayxac-nt of a policy, i
FOR1
ROYAL C<
THURSDAY, FI
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LOVE TRIED BY FIRE.
Ten SrroiidH ol" Doubt nil A>;o of Aitoi:y.~A
Farmer nnd hi* Wife Dfnoribr Ihcir Nenxntiou*
iu the Fnlliua C'ar?.
If every individual who. went down
with the ill fated railroad train at Ashtabula
and lived through the experience
were to write up his or her sensations and
adventures none would display that coolness
and heroism described by Johnson
B. Orburn and his wife, who were on
their way to the Saginaw valley. Both
are past forty, and Mr. Orburn is an
Oliio fanner, who lately purchased a
farm in Saginaw county. As the train
pulled out from Ashtabula the fanner's
wife began eating luncheon, and her husband
was trying to read a newspaper by
the light of the dim lamp.
He says he felt the first movement
when the bridge gave way. He first imagined
that one of the wheels under his
car had become detached, as the corner
of the car seemed to settle down a little.
He dropped the paper and seized the
hack of the seat in front of him. Then
the whole car seemed to lift up, and several
women shrieked in alarm. There
was no sensation of falling. On the
contrary, both agree that they thought
the car was running up a steep hill.
This would prove that the rear end of
their car settled down first. From the
time the bridge gave way till the cars
struck the ice uot more than ten seconds
could have elapsed, and yet during that
brief interval the husband threw one
arm around his wife, she grasped the seat
and asked what had happened, and he
told her to secure a brace for her feet and
added : " We are off the track and running
through the fields !" The rear end
of their car struck first, smashing itself
to kindling wood, the debris being
thrown over the passengers in front.
The farmer found himself on the floor,
held down by a mass of wreck on his left
leg, while liis wiie was uirowu uuru?a
liim, with the wreck of two or three seats
holding her against the side of the ear.
"While thus held, and before either had
spoken, one end of the car settled a little
and the wife was releasal.
"Mary, are you living?" asked the
husband, being his first words after the
fall. She replied that she was not even
hurt, beyond a bruise or two, and by
this time the shouting and confusion
around them proved that the train was
off the track, though neither one suspected
that it was more than a tumble
into a wayside ditch. It was wonderful
how ft woman could retain her presence
of mind under such exciting circumstance,
but Mrs. Orbnrn didn't even cry out
after the shock. Scores of other passengers
were shrieking in pain and flight as
the cold waters flooded one end of the
car and the flames began to eat rfway at
the other.
The woman cleared herself of the
broken seats just as the fire started, and
she then ascertained tlirfC her husband
was pinned fast to the floor by the wreck
of matter on his leg, which was partially
bent around one of the iron standards of
a seat. She worked with all her might
to set him free, but the raging flameswere
now only a few feee away, and the
smoke and heat were becoming terril) le
"Mary, take hold of my foot, bend my
leg toward you with all your might and
see if yon can't break it!" called the
husband, who thought he could easily
free himself if the leg was released from
its cramped position. The wife seized
his foot, meaning to obey, but at that
moment the car lurched over a little and
her husband released himself. When
they left the car her drees was on fire,
showing that another minute would liave
enveloped both in the flames.
Both were able to walk to the hotel as
soon as released, liaving escaped with
only a few bruises. The heroic wife and
i.1?? ?~~ vaa/iit 4-n nlioxr Imr
liiume r wiis nui umj tcouj w vuvj uv>
husband's orders, but she had a plan of
her owu.
" Wlien I saw the flames just upon
us," she said, "and wliile I was sure
that my husband would be burned alive,
I made up my mind to put one of the
cushions over him, lie down on top of
tliat, and hope that, while I was being
burned up help would come to him for
our children's sake."
" I was afraid she wouldn't be strong
enough to break my leg," added the husband,
" and then it would be all up with
me. I was going to have her get out,
and then, rather than be burned alive, I
was going to destruction. Well, I had
tliis big knife in my right hand pocket,
and ruv right arm was free to get it and
usejt!"
A Plucky Captain.
The schooner Baracoa, of Booth Bay,
Me., discharged a cargo at Ponce, Porto
Rico. The customs authorities there declared
that there was an informality
about the matter, although no fraud
was charged, and a tine of $4,300, gold,
was levied against the vessel. No time
was given the captain to consult with the
owners at home, and the officer was in
trouble. A Spanish gunboat lay alongside
the schooner and threatened at any
moment to take possession of her. The
captain of the schooner not appreciating
the positidh in which he was placed,
slipped her chains and at half-past eleven
o'clock a. m. went off like a bird, and before
the astounded and dumbstruck officials
on the gunboat could collect their
senses. She got all sail set, and was
three miles away in the briefest possible
time. As she went off she sprung her
luff and sainted the poll with her colors
three times tliree. The gunboat was sent
in chase as soon as she could get up
steam, but the schooner was out of sight
in a very short time.
A Self-Made Man.
No better specimen of the " Whittington
" ideal of the English self-made man
could be found than the late Mr. George
Moore. His life was exactly that of the
Industrious Apprentice. He used to
tell how he first came to London without
a friend or a sixpence, and, walking
about the streets, entered a draper's
shop to ask for employment. This was
at first refused; but the owner was won
by some answer, or something in the
bearing of the candidate, who, on the
day of his engagement, set before himself
two purposes to be worked out?to be
head of the establishment and marry his
trwidfor'a Til both of these
aims lie succeeded; and the house of
Moore, Copestakc <fe Co. is now one of
the most important Miolwde stovps in
th* kisgdos*.
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"\mnuni!"Dr!T A T.
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1BRUARY 1, 1877.
A I'MOIT. AXXOrXOEJIEXT.
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How .In in eg Horrlun Bennett, Sr., Informed I
tin- 1'iihlic ofllig Approaching .Uurriaue.
The following is the annonnccment of 1
the intended marriage of the senior
James Gordon Bennett as published by
him in the Jlcrald in June, 1840. It
created a sensation when it was pubj
lished:
TO THE READERS OF THE HERALD?DEC- I
LARATION OF LOVE?CAUGHT AT LASTGOING
TO BE MARRIED?NEW MOVEMENT
IN CIVILIZATION.
I am going to be married in a few ,
days. The weather is so beautiful ; times
are getting so good ; the prospects of
| political and moral reform so auspicious
tliat I cannot resist the divine instinct of
honest nature any longer ; so I am going '
to be married to one of the most splen- !
did women in intellect, in heart, in soul,
in property, in person, in manner, that
I have yet seen in the course of my interesting
pilgrftnage through human life.
* * * I cannot stop in my career. I
i must fulfill tliat awful destiny which the
Almighty Father has written against my 1
name, in the broad letters of life against
the wall of heaven. I must give the
world a pattern of happy wedded life,
| with all the charities that spring from a
nuptial love. In a few days I shall be
married according to the holy rites of
the most holy Christian church to one '
of the most remarkable, accomplished :
and beautiful young women 01 uie age. ,
She possesses a fortune. I sought and
found a fortune?a large fortune. She
has no Stonington shares or Manhattan
stock, but in purity and unrightness she
is worth half a million of pure coin. Can
any swindling bank show as much ? In
good sense and elegance another half
million ; in mind, soiil and beauty, millions
upon millions, equal to the whole
specie of all the rotten banks in the world
j Happily, the patronage of the public to
the Jlcrald is nearly $25,000 per annum,
almost equal to a President's salary.
But property in the world's goods was
j never my object. Fame, public good,
usefulness in my day and generation, the
religious associations of female excellence,
?the progress cf true industry?these
have been my dreams by night and my
| desire by day.
In the new and holy condition into
which I am about to enter, and
to enter with the same reverential
feelings as I would heaven itself,
I anticipate some signal changes in
j my feelings, in my views, in my dur;
poses, in my pursuits. What they may
be I know not?time alone can tell. My
ardent desire has been through life to
reach the highest order of human exeel|
lence by the shortest possible cut.
Associated, night and day, in sickness
| and in health, in war and in peace, with
i a woman of the liighest order of excel[
lence, must produce some curious rei
suits in my heart and feelings, and these
j results the future will develop in due
time in the columns of the Jit raid.
Meantime I return my heartfelt thanks
I for the enthusiastic patronage of the
i public, both of Europe and America.
| The holy estate of wedlock will only in|
crease my desire to be still more useful.
; God Almighty bless you all.
James Gordon Bennett.
j Mr. Bennett published a postscript to
! the announcement to the effect that until
after his marriage and honeymoon he
I would have no time to waste in replying
to the attacks of rival editors, and two
days after the wedding the event was
j noticed as follows at the head of the edi:
torial columns of the paper :
MARRIED,
On Saturday afternoon, the sixth inst,
by the Rev. ])r. Power, of St. Peter's
Catholic church, in Barclay street, James
I Gordon Bennett, the proprietor and
j editor of the New York Herald, to Henrietta
Agnes Crean. What may be the
effect of this event on the great newspaI
per contest now waging in New York
time alone can show.
Practicing Economy.
The practice of economy on the part
1 of the people of the United States, says
an exchange, for thirteen years has had a
marked effect on imports, which have
fallen off* so heavily as to materillay affect
the income of the government from
customs duties. The customs receipts in
December were nearly $2,000,000 less
than in November, and $2,316,177 less
than in December, 1875. The receipts
from customs during the last six months
of 1876 were $64,530,058, and from Internal
revenue .they were $57,033,420,
! which was a falling oft' from last year of
$11,962,000 in the former and $424,372
in the latter, and upward of $12,000,000
in all. The result of this large falling
off is that the liabilities of the government
in December exceeded its receipts
by $3,585,142. During the last six
i months of 1876 the public debt was diminished
$6,578,000, which is $2,338,428
less than during the last six months of
1875. These figures show the effect of
the private economies ot tiie people on ]
the resources of the government, ami if
imports continue to fall off during this
year as they did in 1876 there will be an
increase of the public debt. This state
of things calls for prompt and wise legislation
on the part of Congress.
The Russian Army.
A correspondent at Paris, discussing
the various rumors concerning the condition
of the Russian army, says the truth
is the army continues to be organized
with great rapidity. The men are neither
so unhealthy nor so discouraged as
they have been represented to be, and
will be perfectly ready to take the ti?ld
in two months, provided a capable general
is placed at their head. The real
complaint of the Grand Duke Nicholas is
inefficiency. The moderation of Russia I
is not caused by military weakness, but i
by her desire to throw the blame of pro- 1
yoking war in Turkey.
Inky.?Report lias it that a river of
genuine ink has been discovered in Algeria.
It is formed by the union of two
streams, one coming from a region of
ferruginous soil,the other draining a peat
swamp. The water of the former is
strongly impregnated with iron, that of
the latter with gallio acid. When the
two waters mingle the acid of cue unites
with the trVm of the other, forming n true >
ink. I
RIBI
$2.00 per t
Co<xl for the Eyesight.
They tell an incident in Chicago
about mortgaged property and old Long
John Wentworth, who is considered one
of the real estate fathers of Chicago. Almost
every piece of land in Chicago is
mortgaged. Mr. Wentworth is a venerable,
grand old man. No one knows his
age. Senator Logan says that Long
John fell out with Columbus at Palos,
and came over to America in a Cunard
steamer and bought up some corner lots
in Chicago before the great Italian uavi'
i e .!_
gator set out on 111s tour 01 uibuu*c*j.
However, I regard tliis as an error,
which one of the returning boards should
correct.
Ex-Mayor Hoyne here says that for
the last year Long John Wentworth has
been known to stand for hours in front
of the piece of ground owned by the government,
and on which Mr. Mullett has
tried, in the new post-office, to build a
young American ruin to vie with Kenilworth
castle. He says l\Ir. Wentworth
has stood in front of the board fence J
surrounding this piece of government !
land and peeked?actually peeked j
through a knothole into this post-offi^,
yard for hours at a time. Mr.
worth's actions got to be very mysteri- j
ous. They begun to excite the grave !
comments of the whole city. 44 What j
does he mean," they asked, "standing1
there, liom* after hour, looking through j
the knotholes and cracks in that post- J
office fence ?"
One day the truthful, silver haired
Mr. Story of the Times saw Mr. Went- 1
worth looking, as usual, through his fa- I
vorite knothole. You know Mr. Story '
would not tell a lie for all the hatchets j
in Virginia. Well, after he had watched j
Mr. Wentworth one day for about three
hours, standing there in a drizzling rain
and peering through a crack, he went up
to him and said:
" Mr. Wentworth, I beg your pardon,
but I can't bear this suspense any longer.
Tell me what in the name of Grant and
the returning board are you looking at ?
What "?
" Oh, nothing, Mr. Story, nothing
but"?
44 4 Nothing but!' That's a pretty j
way to talk, Mr. Wentworth, after stand- I
ing here in the rain for three hours with
your eyes on that ernck ! Looking at
- nothing but!' Likely story, Mr. J
Wentworth. No, sir; there's a mystery !
here somewhere. Now tell me?tell me ;
what you see."
44 Well," said Mr. Wentworth, 44 if you
must know the truth, Mr. Story, the
honest truth, I came out here to improve
my eyes. It does my old eyes good, and
lias done 'em good ever since the lire, ;
to come here and look through the fence i
and see a piece of land in Chicago that1
ain't mortgaged."
If any one doubts this story, and I am j
DUIiJ IU Iliac uituij uuogiuuvu
are disposed to be always questioning
the veracity of my stories, they can come
here to Chicago themselves and see the
cracks in the fence ai^" the knotholes
aud the land without any mortgage on it !
that Long John Wentworth looked at.
?Eli Per kin*.
North Caralina Bankers.
The "bankers," who live along the
North Carolina banks, are a peculiar
people. Like the Florida " cracker,"
their origin is wrapped in mystery. They #
have little intercourse with the world,'
and that little is confined to an interchange
of commodities. They are expert
fishermen and hunters, and the j
range for both is wide. They make their j
own nets, hollow out a cypress log, and
fashion and trim it to the semblance of a
boat, cultivate a little patch of potatoes,
and live and flourish in a sort of rude independence,
if not antagonism to their
more civilized neighbors across the Channel.
They are happily ignorant of the
making and unmaking of Presidents, and
the turmoil of the world generally in no
way disturbs the equanimity of their
lives.
At the extreme end of Bogue banks,
and eight miles from Cape Lookout, is
Fort Macon. A broken down parapet
and a few dilapidated looking guns constitute
the fort. A row of neat cottages
shows the quarters of the officers, aud a
solemn tower is said to be the hospital
So close a resemblance does this fort
bear to a prison tnat uesertion is 01 vrxy
common occurrence. In tliis emergency
the soldier and banker are of use to cacli
other. The former, after making his
escape, takes his way along the banks
until lie falls in with a banker's hut, and
there disposes of his blouse, pants and
cap, receiving in return a complete suit
of nondescript apparel. Tlien the
transformed soldier is ferried across the
sound by the accommodating banker,
becomes a civilian, cancels his engagement
and is rarely brought to justice. A few
years ago a soldier, tired of the monotonous
life of the crazy old fort, made his
escape iu the customary manner, and,
after wandering through several States '
in the direction of the frontier, at last i
found employment in a circus. There
he completely sunk his identity, and became
a daring bareback rider. More
than three years had elapsed, when an
officer strolled into the show, at that
time performing in Iowa. The officer
recognized the delinquent and, armed
with the necessary extradition papers,
clapped his hand on the soldier acrobat,
and conveyed him back to his old quarters
at the dismal end of Bogue banks.
Length of Days.
The following table shows the duration
of the longest and shortest days in the
principal capitals throughout the world,
corrected for refraction, etc., and earned
out to the nearest minute :
Latitude. ?#?<??
Dfj. Mia. H. M. H. M.
Washington... 39 0 N 14 52 ? 22
Stockta 1 ni 59 20 N 18 30 5 54
Copenhagen... 55 41 N 17 20 6 54
St.Petersburg. 59 56 N 18 44 5 4 '.
Berlin 52 31 N 16 33 7 4)
London 51 31 N 16 32 7 44 j
Edinburgh.... 55 07 > lI aa u oj
Dublin 53 22 N 16 66 7 18
Amsterdam.... 52 21 S 1J 44 7 81
Vienna... 48 13 N 15 63 8 17
Pans 48 50 N 16 6 8 10
Madrid 4-) 25 N 15 0 9 14
Lisbon -"W 4-2 N 14 CO ? ?-l
Cairo 30 3 N 14 0 10 10
Naples 40 50 N 15 3 9 14
Constantinople 41 1 N 15 4 9 12
Calcutta W 36 N* 13 20 10 42
pekln 39 85 14 84 9 18
Cape Town.83 68 8 14 22 45
P?i>4S?i) ' 8 M J* 13 *? 11 84 j
m ?i s ii n I *9
I
innm Single Cm 5 Cents.
Hf.i.ic nf Iniprpfit.
AlVflUO VI A.a?v< .w
The average age of sheep is ton years;
cows, fifteen; hogs, fifteen, and horses,
not used as beasts of burden, twenty.
Said a man to another : " Don't forget
the baby ; give my love to him." Said
the other man : " '? ain't a 'im, 'e's a
'er."
A London newsboy found a 82,(XX) diamond
which he carried about in his
pocket for a month without knowing its
worth.
Citizens of Fort Griffin, Te^ps, captured
eleven men who were trying to n.n
off twentv-seveu head of stolen horses,
and hanged them all in the woods.
Some physicians now claim that the
general prevalence of diphtheria is due
in a great degree to the gas which is
thrown off from coal stoves in ill ventilated
rooms.
If, as was the case in " a lottery litigation,"
in New York, a stockholder in a
lottery fails to get his own sharo of the
money, what are the chances of the
ticketholder ?
In nearly every city throughout the
country the exits of theaters have been
officially examined since the Brooklyn
disaster, and in most of them alterations
have been ordered.
Don't put the point of your lead pencil
in your mouth. The frequent practice
has resulted in the ruin of health, and
in many cases in paralysis and death
Besides it is*a vulgar habit.
So far tliis year, not less than 36,000
head of beef cattle have been driven
from eastern Orego; and eastern Wash
ington down toward the Pacific railroad,
the greater part destined for San Francisco.
A Philadelphia policeman, convicted of
murder, is to have a new trial because at
the tiipe of the deed, in the language of
the judge, " his reason had been torn up
by the roots and judgment jostled from
her throne."
Many a fanner's boy goes into some
city and struggles along until middle
life, with nothing to show for his labor
except that he has thoroughly learned
that a half starved lawyer is less to be
envied than a well fed fanner.
The people often make blunders in
their choice ; they are apt to mistake
presence of speech for presence of mind ;
* * ?.m tbn
tliev love so to neip a man noc uum
ranks that they will spoil a good demagogue
to make a bad general.
She wouldn't stand to have a tooth
pulled for one million two hundred
thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked the streets all day in tiny gaiters, *
two sizes too sn all for her, and thought
nothing of it; but then nobody saw the
tooth, and several naw She gaiters.
While Dr. James Actams, of the _ .
don hospital, was removing the
limb at the hip joint from a boy, to
alarming collapse occurred, and the patient
sunk fast. ITie operator instantly
had eight ounces of blood injected ?from
his arm to the boy's, and then completed
the operation. The boy is doing well.
About 1,200 Icelanders have immigrated
into Manitoba and settled on
Lake Winnipeg at a place which they
call Gimli. The colonial government
has given them land and helped them to
get over. They are very unlucky, however;
this winter, numbers of them, especially
children, having died of smallpox.
Four wars within tli9 last fifteen years
have cost Great Britain upward of ?16,000,000
sterling. The Persian expedition
cost ?900,000. The outlay on the Chinese
war amounted to ?3,114,000. The
New Zealand war, which did not extend
beyond the year 1866, was covered by
?765;000; and the Abyssinian war entailed
the expenditure of ?8,000,000 or
?9,000,000.
It is a fact worth thinking about that
Africa .is three tames as densely populated
as America. The estimated number
of inhabitants in Africa on about eleven
and a half square miles of territory is
more than twice that in America on alxrat
fifteen and a half square miles. In
imoripA thp averaare is five and a half
people to the square mile, in Africa,
seventeen and a half.
The number of pilgrims who assembled "
last year at Mecca is stated to have b.een
140,000. Of th<?e 40,000 were conveyed
by sea, and the remainder by caravans
across the continent. The whole ntimber
is below the average of former years, the
falling off being accounted for by the
French government having forbidden the
pilgrimage from Algiers in consequence
of the prevalence of cholera in Syria.
The Dead of the Year.
The year of our Lord 1876 will always s,
be remembered for the deaths of great
men and women which occurred during
the twelve months. Of preachers and
priests Cardinal's Antouelli and Tarnoczy,
the Rev. Henry Boehm (who had lived
and done good works for a century), the
Rev. Dr. Bushnell, Protestant Episcopal
Bishop Johns, the Rev. Dr. Sprague,
the Rev. George Peck, President Stearns
of Amherst College, Bishop Janes of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and the
Rev. Dr. Durbin are among the manv
who have died. Among notable statesmen
and jurists the deaths are recorded
of Francis Beak, Reverdy Johnson,
President Roberts of Liberia, Chief
"r?A"? Uolotpnro PT-Gnvernor
J libllCC \Jl -W?
Wise of Virginia, together with those of
Speaker Michael Kerr, H. H. Starkwerther,
Trusten Polk, H. G. Blake,
John A. Searing, Allen T. Caperton,
Francis P. Blaur, Sr., and James W. Nye,
all of whom were, or had been, members
of the United States Congress. Turkey
lias lost two sultans, although there has
been little apparent mourning there for
either of them ; Portugal has lost a
princess. Of soldiers, Santa Anna, the
American Generals Custer, Bragg, G.
A. Smith, Gordon Granger are a few of
those who have died. The American
navy has lost Commodore Stephen Decatur,
John Pope and Admiral Stringhom.
George Sand, Harriet Martineau, Henry
Kingsley, Francis Pnlacky, Alexanoer
Bussel, John Foreter, Orestes A. Brnwnson,
G. M. D. Bloss, Charles C. Cheeney,
*nd George Alfred Lawrence have
ended forever their literary lnlx>rs. The
utsicr* has lost Charlotte Cushiijaii and
Frederick Lemaitre. New York lout
Alexander T. Stewart; Beaton its
noblest phiUnthropiit, Dr. Samuel G.
Sows, and tk9 list 11 itiU iuoompletsj
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