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d. . nLetadb. TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1879. VOL. 11I.-NO. 102. ROME. Home tWill be just what we make it, Clothed in sorrow or in joy ; Love, if pure-no powvers can break it, Nor its peaceful life annoy. Dbrkness always gathers strongest Whore love's power is little known There its shadow dwells the longest. As a tyrant on a throno. In the garret or the palace, Ilome is home, where'er it be, Lo.o should ruleit free from malice, Spreading peace and harmony. Pleasant words at home returning, Iiring kind answers back again ; Each from each be over bearing Love is its bright golden chain. Oh how grand, arrayed in beauty, When iove's power guided all at home ; As a sentinel on' duty, It remains-whate'er may come. Loving hearts are over ready To add pleasures every day ; By their life power, firm and stbady, Blessing all w.thin their way. May love's gun be ever '-ining, In each home b'or all the land By its mystio grace entwining Ileart to heart and hand to hand. Flowing onward as a river ; In its silent majesty ; God's true presence to deliver hearts and h9mes from misery. Wronged and Righted. Several years ago I was a member of a dramatic company doing the interior Penn Kylvania towns. At U , among the " sights " pointed out to the stranger is a huge tree, and about four feet front the base the bark has been cut in the form of a cross in dimensions about two feet by three feet. What is the meaning of that? " asked I of my "guide "-the clerk of the post ofi1c-as I pointed to the cross so deeply graven in the tree. "There's a story goes with that," said he, "and it's been the cause of my being against capital punishment ever since." "A story?' ''Yes," interrupted he, "and one that even the youngest child in our town has learned to relate. Let us sit here, and I'll tell it you." Lighting a fresh cigar, no began the following, and I will give it in his own words as near as I can: " Let's see-it's now almost forty years ince the events which I am going to relate ccurred. Two miles to the west, over there, is an old run-out coal-pit, or I should say, a pit sunk for coal, but which never yielded much of the 'dusky.' One of the men employed in the first working and sinking was named John Harris, a collier from over the water. He was a sort of superintendent or boss of a gang of the workers, and had built himself a neat little home about a mile from here, between this place and the pit. His family consisted of himself and daughter, his wife having died in England. The daughter was a beautiful girl just turning her eighteenth year, and was the magnet that drew all the Fay young gallants for miles around. Amdng the number of swains who were ready o 'flght, bleed or die' for her were ' Henr. Lewis and Charles Jenkins. Both figure prominently in my tale; so I will name none of the others who had enteredl the lists for favor from Lucy Harris. "It appears that Lewis, a quiet, orderly young fellow, had the inside track in the affections of the divIne Lucy, and accom panied her to all the merry-makings, feasts, etc., to the envy of all others, but to none more so thtan Jenkins, wvho flattered himself that, were Lewis only removed from his track, he could come in winner of the hand of the fair one. 01ld man Harris really favored the latter, being, as he often remarked, a 'youngster of the right sort, and( none of your milk and water babies,' which eulogium of the talents of Jenkins was occasioned by the fact that old man Harris in his drmnking bouts found a right goodi companion in Jenkins, and one who could ' down ' as much 'mountain dew ' as he, while, on the other hand, Lewis was about the only teetot aler among the visitors at the Harris house. In his carousals thme -old man swore roundly that Jenkins alone should possess the hand, If not the heart, of Lucy, and forbado Lewis from coming to his house. Clandestine meetings, of course, followed between Lucy and the latter, but not unknown to the vigilant Jenkins, who was watchIng the lovers for all that was out. " Things reached a crisis, when the old huan, iunformed of these meetings, took to dIrinking harder, and swore by all the gods to rid the erqrth .of that dougit-faced baby who was trying .to steal his; child away from him, Lucy, who had of late been treated shamefully by the old reprobate, used to come here to this spot to hold tryst with her lover, or to weep alone in anguish over her unhappy life, made now~ doubly wretched by her continued opposition' to her father's wishes. ' "Jenkins came to the house onb ecauti ful (day Ip May, and having brought a plon tifml 'supply ot whiskey with him, the old mna1yr5w 5) pdethe 'i*fluence,' and .depkiuwt fr~* eithier, tAuey, see lng how~ ,it4 pt6silently stole fronm the ~houp e her way towards her fa*f ~~8he was seen t6 leMO U4t a he imme *dial41,y *oa~~'t that ifarris obliv she heard a crackling in the brush, and, thinking It was Lewis who was keeping his tryst, her eyes brightly kindled and a smile illumined her face. But when the burly form of Jenkins burst into the clear ing, her smile changed, and a look of loathing and contempt greeted him as lie rudely accosted her. "'Thought it was the other one, did you? Well, I'm tired of this shilly-shally ing, and I'm going to end ths thing. You have got to be mine at last, so you can make up your mind to that ' " ' What do you mean I' asked the ter rifled Lucy. "'It ncans that, you are in my power now-no one near us-and I'm going to make you mine by all means.' " le seized her as he spoke, and, not withstanding he was a powerful man, her strength and the liquor lie had imbibed made the struggle a desperate one. Seeing that he would probably be foiled in his evil desires, and now thoroughly maddened by the whisky he had drunk and the girl's almost superhuman exertions, lie whipped out a large pocket-knife and threatened to kill her unless she quit struggling. The sight of the knife lent extra strength to the unfortunate girl, and just as she was about to overpower the brute the knife was sheathed in her bosonm. She fell at his feet and again and again did the murderer's knife seek her heart. After his paroxysm of rage, the sight of the now inanimate body filled hiu with fear, and, dropping the knife, he ran from the spot. He quick ly made his way to the house, where the old man still lay in his stupor. Then did the first thought of concealment of the crime enter his mind. le raised the old man from his slumber, and easily convinced him that lie was but just dropping off to sleep when lie roused him, and bantered him to finish the bout. The old man took It all in, and together they had a right mer ry time finishing the jug. Here was an alibi ; for lie could make the old man swear that he had not left him a moment that day. "A short time after the murderer had fled from his victim, Lewis, who had an appointment with Lucy at that hour has tened to the rendezvous. Imagine his hor ror when his eyes gazed upon the one object on earth dear to hun, cold, lifeless and bloody. With an awful shriek lie clasped her in his arms, trying to warm her back to life by his own heart beats. Then, kneel ing by her corpse, lie swore to avenge her death, and then, almost crazed by the blow, lie continued to call on her lie loved. "Some miners passing that way dis covered him, and taking him into custody, delivered him to the authorities at G--, who, notwithstanding his protestations of innocence, lodged him in jail on a charge of the murder. of Lucy Harris. Public sentiment was about equally divided, and when the trial came on yhe court-room was crowded. The defehse was a denial of the murder, and the knife, whibh was proved to have been the prisoner's, he claimed to have lost several days before the murder. The prisoner could not be roused out of the apathy which had seized ~ him, and to all the exhortations of his friends he made answer that the s"oner all :was over the sooner he would join her, above. Not withstanding an able,defonse by his law yer, he was fomid guilty of the murder and sent6nced to be hanged. " The trial and verdict convInced nearly all that he was indeed the murderer, anid the most charitable gilded lis fearful crime with 'emotional insanity.' However, guilty or not, preparations for his hanging went on, and the eventful day drew nigh. "Jenkins was the loudest voiced of all firm believers in'the guilt of Lewis, and it was observed that lie of late drank heavier, and the sun neither rose nor set on him ex cept as a drunkard. The night before the day appointed for the hanging lie was seized with delirium tremens in the then prlncip)al saloon of the town, and, ti the astonishment of the bystanders, in his do. lirium beo again went through the bloody Sragedy. The Judge who had passed the dread sentence was sent for, and, giving Jenkins into the custony of several consta bles, lie had a magistrate to take down the sayings of the now ravIng maniac, and all wore soon convinced that the real murderer of Luoy Harris was before them. "The Judge went to the cell of the con demned, 'Id with a glad heart lie conmmu nicated the joyful news to the prnsoner, and told himn he would be a free man to-mor row, and thanked God the real murderer had been found, and that an innocent man had not suffered. The Judge and magis istrate, on their own responsIbilIty, released Lewis, and the trial and conviction of Jen kins soon followed : for when accused of the murder and shown the damning self accusations, he wilted and made a clean breast of it. The gallows erected for Lewis served to "shuffle off" the real mmorderer of Lucy Harris, for Jenkins was swung off in a short time afterwards. "Lewis, as soon as released, camne to this ;spot, tIid scone of the tragedy, and carved that cross on the tree, and every,day during life hie would come hero, kneel and pray. to be worthygot being united with her above. Hils reason was shaken by what Ihe had gone through, and the Judge cared that he wanted for nothing. ' The people here call t,hat .'LOwIshkCrMs,? and:H6aven knows he did carry a heivy cross.. He. kept it white and clean while livingr not allowing:a fibre to grow in atht of ,h Ii nelsions, 'lHe died about fifteen years ago, amnd once in a while drie of the town' pienbildte out thie jooes as it fills up, so as to erWI 'Low1l# 6089 le Ibg is the tNti 1e ,.A Mighty Good Stick." "Confound that scaly siner; that's the third time he's skinned my hook," and he yanked up his fish pole and pre pared to rebalt. It was on the sunny side of the bridge and for three hours, the two fishermen had silently sat and the fish had been equally silent. At tachl'ng a dainty morsel 80 that the point to be taken could not be seen, he chucked his sinker into the water and then continued: "Just out by them 'ar sticks I pulled up a monstrous eel, weighed four pounds and a half." "I'm, hi'm," remarked his compan ion. "Yes, four pounds and a half after it was dressed. Well, you can Jedge how big he was. When I made the chil dren's shoes in the winter I lined both pairs with his skin, and had 'nough left for another pair. I was fishir' for blue fish, too, but the tide got kinder low, and the bait Xot among the grass. and Mr. Eel lie went for it. Couldn't think what I'd run across. I switched my pole this way an' that w Ay an' then I knew 'twas an eel. I sorter let him play with the line till I guessed lie might be tired an' then I pulled him in." "n ill up hard ?" queried the listen er. "1 sht'd say so. This pol jest doubled right up and the tip was out here within a foot o' my hand, but 'twas good for him. I'd risk this pole with a ten pounder. It's a mighty good stick. Ilello1 there's a whop per I" Just then the "mighty good stick" broke oi short, and both fishermen seized hold of the line and pulled for dear life till the fish on the hook was landed. It was a blue fish and they took it into the nearest counting room and had It weighed on the postal scales. "It'll cost you just six eents to send it at letter postage," said the obliging clerk. "It must have been my other pole that [ pulled the eel with," was the only comment of the sundried fisher man, Improving the ndlan. At Traverse City we were joined by a man from Boston who had "Injun" on 4he bran. Ilie shook hands with every redskin lie could corner, patted on the head every papoose he could reach, and the slght of a bark wigwam would send him off on a journey of three miles along the sandy beach. When we got up to Old Mission "Hlia watha," as we called this Boston man, found plenty of food for his character istle. Lots of Indians were loafing around-greasy, slovenly redskins who hardly knew enough to catch fish, and the Bostonian let himself loose. He was the friend of the red man from the word "go." Ills charity extended to the Indian and no further. The Ingen uity of the Indian surprised and de lighted him, and after paying three dollars for a bark lamp-mat worth about twenty-fiVe cents Ie exclaimed: "Why, sir, give the red man halt a show and his ingenuity would outshine the white man's in no time at all I lIe has been knocked down anid stepped on and kept down, but I'll improve him If I have to stay here all summer." The next day, while we wvere hunting around for harvest appies, we came up on about twenty Indians on the shore. One was using "HI lawatha's"' fine comb; another had his tooth-brush cleaning the sarnd out of' a sore heel; a third was trying to windl up his watch backwards; a fourth had his wallet; a fifth hmad his hat and( cane. The Boston man had a bottle of'perfurmery in his satchel, and one old squaw was pouring the contents on the soles of her big, black feet, and then smelling eteh foot in succession' Her face bore tire broadest, blandes, smile one ever saw, arid was darkened only when her husband came along and drank up what perfunmeiy she had left. They sailed away down tire bay 'in theIr eanoes, and an hour af ter we came across the boston mnan. - iA en thusiasm had so carried lhmp away that lie had spent the night in a wigwami. While lie slept and dreamed of Im proving the poor indian, the poor In dian had remained awake and irnii~ov ed his chances. It was a sad blow to the trusting man, and when we. took up a shake puree to sendl him across to Petoskoy, he had only one wish. He wanted to be turned loose in a paddock w,ith all the rod men of Miehigan for about half an hour. , A pespgrate Bear Fight. In the oarly 'part of .this cenitry the9 western por,tions of North. Carolina were infested by wild game, amnQpg which was the elk, now entirelye inet in the South. The ilagt elk was killed in Mitchell county, Jt is said, about 18243 Some time about 1815, a patrty of veteran and daring hunto,1s were in the~ mountains of BlunggtsbQ, engaged in a hunt for th#pse animals. They *pent heral. weelcs,, lynally in such embeditidfisisleepidg Tai tJi fo6 osts, al*afs dn. danger from' d*h bedits bdfennin,juwst#efore night. fail, the paity. rot1arnod, one by one', to the rendeavodse ali se one V old osan,,ajnosl '#rtbttsiIQan~t~$ sportsmsen. 1(iwhgui ii t$ absence dauO. I it%kf~ "Utie slipj '6h was ~1 pne to iolso of the report came from a canebreak, a quarter of a mile away. Taking lights, two of the hunters made their way thither and found their com rake but a few rods from the brake, lying on the ground so badly injured, as to be helpless and well nigh ex hausted. In reply to inquiries he said he had tracked a bear and tired at him wounding the ferocious beast. he thought, fatally. On going up to his prize the bear arose and seized lim. A terrific struggle ensued between the two. Losing his knife in this contest the hardy hunter said he had no other means than to seize Bruin's nose in his teeth, IIe declared that he had done this. and with such effect as to bite off the tip of the entire end of the nose. The earth near by was bloody and trampled, but his comrades ridiculed the idea of his having bitten off the bear's nose lie continued to assert it and said that the bear, discomnited had fled and taken refuge in the brake, where he would wager . he then lay dead. The wounded man was taken into camp and his injuries attended to At daylight next morning several of the hunters went into the brake, and there found the bear shot through the body and with the tip of his nose bitten off. The old hunter lived many years but always spoke with peculiar pride of his having thus overcone the bear, and exhibited a score of wounds made by the animals claws, as proof of the story. Fifty Revolve.iv. Capt. Akey, who killed a. man in Nevada recently, was mining in Tuol.. umne. county, Cal., when the war broke out and with a number of other residents, volunteered his services. A company was raised, all good men,'and lie was elected captain. Much to their disappointment, the Government de cided to keep them in California, and they were ordered to Humboldt Bay. Akey's head was turned by the author ity conferred upon him, and he began a series of petty persecutions which al most drove his men mad. They bore it for months, until it padsed beyond the limith of endurance, and then they re solved to end it. This esolve took the form of a determinatio never to obey another command of Akey's. This was nothing more nor I as than mutiny and was punishable with death; but the boys preferred that to the tyi anny under which they hiad'groaned and suf ferod so long. An order had been re ceived to proceed from Humboldt Bay to Red Bluff's and Akey went by vay of the ocean to San Franelsco, while the company crossed the mountains. They were encamped on the bank of the Sacramento river when he arrived, and the crisis came aR soon as lie put his foot in camp. le called the company out on parade, and ordered all those who had resolved to repudiate him to step to the front. Ninety men, the en tire company, firmly took the steps The Sheriff of Teiiama County was with him and turning to that officer he asked dim if lie would assist him in ar resting the orderly sergeant. The of flcer replied that he would, and the two started to do so, whlen they were both covered with fiity revolvers, the ominous click of wvhich sounded pain fully intense. Th'le Sherliff took to lis heels, and never stopped until I.e reached the ferry, a quarter of a mile distant, but Akey confronted the angry men as coolly as if nothing extraordi nary was hiappeninig. Trhoecoior never left his face, nor did a tremor disturb his equanimity, although lie fully re alized that the men were thirsting for his blood. Nothing but his bravery saved him, for they had fully deter mined upon killing him, but as he ran his eyes up and down the line and said, "Boys, the odds are too much," they respected his courage, dropped their weapons, and allowed him to slowly re tire.. The upshot of the affair was that he was relieved or his command, and after an lnvestigationi of' the circum stances, was discharged from the ser vice. The Oak Tree. 4 long time ago, two lads, calleg Ed mond and Oswald, camne before a court of justice. Edmond said to .the judge: "Three years ago, before tettlag out on a journey, I entruste(d to this Oswald, whom I then considered my best friend, a valua ble ring composed of precious stones, but now lie will not restore the ring to me." Oswaid lain lisa hand upon his breast and said, "I swear by my honor that I know nothing about this ring. Miy friend Ed noond cannot bp in his right senseos." The judge said, "Edmund can you bring forward any witness to prove- the fact that you entrusted the ring to his keeping." Edmond replied "Unfortunately, we had no witness excep)t an old oak tree in the yild, nder which wW ,took lea#e of one anotbr." OM'aid ' said, "I atm readly to awear I know a little abou't the tree: as abodt the Th udge said, "Ednm~d goand bring me .a branech ot that tree t I deire to see it. You, Oswald you wait here tihlli hereturns.." Edsmcn. .wn, Af tene ~alting a ,ittle while.the judge became iu1itient and said: "Wh* can be keeping' dniond so lo:W ? Oswald'dn the phidow,anto seeit he le retiurnltk. 0 said Oswald1 co'uld not aO% turehoete The Man That Owns The Railroads. Not long ago a woman of Now York was passing along Fifth avenue near the cathedral, and seeing some men at work in a large lotas if prepariig the ground for a building she stopped and put some questiois to a maI who seem ed to have clarge of others: "What are you going to build here?" "A house ma'am." "A large house?" "Yes, ma'am, a pretty good sized house, I think.'' "Do you know the owner?" "'Oh, yes'mn.' . "Well, do you know if he want's to borrow any naoney." "Can't say anything about that, ma'ani." "If lie does, I could let lim have sonic. I have some money that I should like to put outas a building loan in this neighborhood.'' "Well, ma'am I dunno whether le waints any or tot." "You might mention it to liin and lie could conic and see me." "Yes'm ; but it might be better for ou to see lim." ")oes he live near?" "Yes'n 'taint very far.'' "And you think lie niight want some money ?" "Well, he might, you'd better see "What's his name?" "Vanderbilt, nmia'am." "Wha-a-a-t?" "i r. Vanderbilt, ma'am, the man that owns all the railroads.'' . Then that clever woman of business walked hastily away without, even thanking the man for all the informa tion he had given her, and the proba bilities are that she won't call on Air. Vanderbilt to offer him a loan on his Fifth avenue palace." What Made hlm so Mad. A day or two since an industrious and enterprising beggar who plays the role of a consumptive walked into the store of a business man, pretendiig to letu heavily on the arm of a youngster who couldn't have supported a quarter of him if he had taken a notion to top ple over and applied to the proprietor in a halt whisper for a little bit of money to help along "a-poor-worn-out man-who-had-a-siek-wife-and-a - large family-with - the-consumption -If- you please-sir." The store keeper is noted for his gentlemanly deportment behind the counter-and everywhere else, in deed-but he is very hard of hearing and the low voice of the unfortunate speaker with a big family and one loot mo the grave awoke no echoes on the druma of his ear. Politely leaning over the counter, lie stated : "'What,?" Again the wcak-lunged seeker after alms wis pered his melancholy tale of woe, and again the store-keeper stated "what," with the additional remark that his hearing was slightly defective, and a little raising of the voice would , be in order. There were half a dozen consti tutional loafers In the store, and they began toget intorerted. The candidate drew in a bushel or two of oxygen and scenfbd to make a valiant, effort to whoop up lisa voice, but although the loafers detected a bIg imnproveimnt the honest storekeeper was again obliged to con fess that lhe didn't know what thme sad-eyed speaker was trying to put through him any more than the man in moon. "You go to -I" was the dying beggar's next remark, followed by a string of oaths such as we couldn't think of printing, and uttered in a tone of voice that sounded as if it had come up from the bottom of a bar'I. The gentleman behind the counter heard the noise distinctly, but lhe didn't altogether catch the order, andl so put ting both hainds behind his ears lie art,iculated : "You'll have to excuse mnc but speak a little louder, please." Th'le distressed citizen p)ulledl his foot out of the grave, untucked the stoop) in his back, and as lhe moved slowly toward the door lie yelled : "Guess you of ten get deef- -- -- you I You're A -- -- old -- to -- -and don't you take mue for no fool I" And as lie Wont out the door lie jerked the boy elear off hIs feet and set him down again so heavily that his bones rattled. The loafers yelled with laughter and when their sides would'nt shake any more the proprietor, who hiad worn a puzzled look innocently asked: "What made him so mad ?" Modiern Sch,oo Punishment, A writer off for a holiday, concluded to pay a visit to the old boarding school where lie passed domue of the pleasant Bat hours of lis life, owing to thle*kind manner in which the principal kept lisa unruly boys under restraint, and gives n, glimpse of the method employed to subject the refractory to discipline, whieh is in cheerful contrast to the flogging and bread and water discipline but too common in such inistitutions. lie says: "Au we, approached Judd's bridge, about five miles fromn the school we overtook two boys oni the rood, one of whom wears a woodeti bootJack sprung:about huis neck and dangling on his bressti but he carries his bnrden lightly and cheerfully. As we cameo up totieo; drew-'rein and they. boph pgqaod t e roadside. "'.p ~boys,"pik.bwherg do6 you "We'ra from 4ho 'Sotaggery' ir,t' t'I hot it-Os"aai1 With a lauh, n ja both ie eI ")u Wha 6 having a little tussle in the sltting room, and he picked up Mr. Snug's bootJack in the corner and began to pummel me with it, and Just as we were having it the worst., and rolling mn the floor, Mr. Snug came in and uagiht us, and now we're paying for it." "How so?" I inquired, well knowing what would be the response. Oh, you see Mr. Snug held a diagno s over our remains, hind said the thought we were suffering for the want f a little exercise and ordered us oni a ,rip to Judd's bridge.'' "And the bootjack ?" "Oh, he said that Uharlie might want to play with that some more on the way tad had better fetch it ilong," and with a mischievous snicker at his en umbered companion he led hinm along he road in a hilarious race, while we mnJoyed a hearty laugh at their ex p)ense. And this is a punishment! Yes, here 4 an introduction to one phase of a tystem of correction as uniquo its the natchless institution in which it had its birth--a system without parallel in he annals of chastisement or school rovernment, and which for thirty rears has proved its wisdom in the lousehold managem(ent of the Snug gery. Agalin during the writer's visit, two uoys were called before the principal, when the following took place: "'1 called hint agaloot sir." "You called himh a galoot, anId then te threw the base ball club at you-is hat it?" "Yes sir, but I was only playing.'' "Yes," resumed the voice of Mr. Snug, "but that club went with coln tiderable force, and lan(ed over the ,once and made havoc in I)cacon Far isa's onion bed ; ahd that reminds tme hat the Deacon's onion bed is overrun with weeds. Now Willie," continued Sir. Snug, after a moment's hesitation, with eyes closed and head thrown back tgainst the chair, "Saturday morning -to morrow, that is-directly after breakfast, you go out into the grove td call names to the big rock for half tn hour. You understand ?" "Yes, sir." ''A ud George,'' continuedl Mr. Snug, with deliberate, easy lItonation, "to norrow morning, at the same tine, you present yourself politely to Dea Yon Parrish, tell hiu I Rent you to ask tint to escort you to the onion bed. At' which you will go carefully to work ltnd palil out. the weeds. You under stand, sir?" "Yes, sir." Presenco of Mtind. Presence of minid has lately proved valuable in several lateresting cases. l.ay Kuhn, at the bottom of a )ubnque well, drove at plkkaxe li to the slide, and stood under it when the saw the earth laden bucket falling, thus saving himself frot being crushed. John Carey, when lightning si,ruck the New Haven mill of which he was fore man, knocked down three of the panic stricken operators, who were madly rushing toward the narrow exit, and so prevented a dangerous jam on the stairway. Mrs. Dunkin of Long Pra rio, Minn., was threatened with an axe b)y her crazy son, site saidh, "well, if you want to cut liy head ofi' let's go to the chopping-b)lock."' H[e nodded, anud they passed out to the woodpile. It was dark ; addressinig him with : "Now I'll put my head on the block, she Irew Lihe white lierchief from h*er nteck 11nd threw it down and slipped away. I'fie lunatic strnck the kerchIef a hdavy butt hiarmtless blo0w. Julia Clarke, a San Francisco factory girl, was caught in a machine b)y her long hair. She seized a p)air or shears andr cut off her tress so quickly that she wvas not irawnt betweeni the wheels and killed, is she otherwise would have beent. 'ien non started doewn the shatt of' a Nevadan nine int a small skip. Th'ie donkey on.. line broke and the miners felt their vessel sink down ward wIth lightinu speed. Deat.hly fear turned every face wite. In the panic most of them 3lltecbed the skip to wvaht for the crash. At the first intimation or disaster Pat elk McCarthy the enginter at the top )f the shaft, seizedl a a heavy plan11k mid thrust the end between the pintion shaft and the reel, fromt whicht the sable was running off. T1hie drlum was revolving with terrific speed1, and the ~rietion produced streams of flre and moke. But the engineer's t,hrLust was xactly at the right point, and the end >f the bQard soon1 checked the dhescett )ringing the skip to a standstill a few eeL from the bottom. -Caution Agist Jgting. People generally suppose that there a nto danger to be apprehended from ightning until there have been sharp eports of thunder quicekly following he dlash, and Indicating a near explo ion.of the electric flud. Such is not he case. When the .cele brated Jailnes )tis, of Massachusetts, the groent orat or fthehRevolution, was killed, it is astd hat but a single bolt tell from the clouid luring the shower, iIe had often ex' >ressed a wish for a sudded ileth, An'd tad remairked thatwhebn his time shoudd aom, e, he. should prefer to be -struck lead, instanpaneouuly, by ligh.ting, )no day he was standing in hie front loor lwatcingi a small clond fivhioh ihad risoh an#c (rota Which rain drops hsd Ag~ud to faIl Tjr wat (A dtge sh Ad b' The Death of Louis XVI. On the 29th of Sbptember (A. ). 1792), Louis XVI. was conveyed to prison in the old home of the'I'emplars. One after another they heaped insults upon the royal persons, and at length biought the king to trial. All condemned him as guilty aghitust a na tion ; then came a struggle aA - to what should be his punishment. Th'ore were two parties in the Asaemblyt lirst, the non-Christian Girondists,. wlho sought a republic, the original leadors of the Revolution; the second, tIhd Jacobins, who sought the utter deiotion of' the old faith. Tih' Girondists were averse to the death 'of th'd king, but voted for it for fear of their niore san guinary rivals; the Jacobin&t rged his condemnation, and protiured it, The king's cousin, I'hilippe, dtje of Or leans, im id shuddering, voted for his death. Out of seven hundred and twenty-one votes Aouis XVI.'was coI demIed to die by mraJotity of twenty six. The king alone bore the sentence calily. On the night of' the 20th of January (A. D. 1783), he sAw for the last time on earth te queen, his two ch ild ren, and his sister,l nie. Elizabeth. They parted at teL o'clout; the king and queen gave tibeir blessing to the Dauphin. Then in the course of the night the king uade his colfession to the Abbe Edgeworth, and early in the morning received the blessed Eucharist froin the littlealtar in his ilnber, and Joined il dhe olce for the dying, while the roll of the drums were gathering the at,tendants for his exbetition. At nine o'clock he came ftolit d looked up t,o the tower where his wife and ciildrne were imprisoned, then cal1ly took his place in the chariot of death All along the way ie held his mind in prayer, uttering the 'salins in suppiI cation of our Lord God. TIhey were long in reaching the fatal 'spot. As they passed on there was a great crowd of people, slid and silout. At length they camne to the 'lae Louis Quatorze, where the obelisk of Luxor flow stands at the end of the gardens of his palace; ti executioner bound the iands of the king bohind his back. "Endure to the last, In likeness to our Saviour," said his confessor. lie came to the foot of the scalloid and mounted it, looked out upon the people, and said with a loud voice. "1 am dying innocent; I for give ill who have made me die, and pray that my blood may never fall up on France and you." Then the drums were beat and drowned the last words. The blameless king was seized and laid beneath the axe, and, amid the prayers of many a one concealed and the awe of the vast multitude, the blow fell. The king's lifeless body was taken to a dishonored burial, while lie himself went to meet the loving countenance and the glorious welcome of the King of kings. Sitting Hull on the Warpath. "What do yout call tl is, is it a Zulu ?" Justice Morgan gazed curiously at the queer sunburnt wikh looking specimen of manhood before him as he asked the question in the Police'Court, New York City. "NO, sir, said Offleer Wall, of the Thlirty-seventhl street pdllee sttation, whIo arrestedl hhni. "WVhere did youi fid hiin $" "'Runnlling wild Oh Eighth avenlue. Th'le fIrst thing I khew h6 Ias COminI' for me with h15islead dowvn,'and having some doubts ats to whtat he0 mighlt be I Jumped one side and( lie fetclied up agin' the wvall of a house." "IndeeCd, did it hulrt 1him1 ?" "I don't tink so, fol' 11e turned rtfnId ait me1 agint and says, "It's bet tall you go way quick.' 1 asked himl what was the matter withl him and 110 said he was Sittinig Bull oni the war path." "What do you tini1k of yourself now ?" asked His H.einor, turin lg to tile prisonler, whio. gave an unpro.. nouneable namuq." "Me doni' 1noW ; no, Speaka Englis." "Oh, you.speak 'a' good enotugh -'a" said Ills Ilonor. "Me fighlt-a mit Guater an' ho get'nl shlot. Me get a chaziic.an'.lun awvay." "Ahla I fought with (Juster, 0111 That acCounlts for tile Sitting; Bu)1. busin6ss. It's a pit,y you hadn't got.silot." "M.Le no care-a.", "Well, you can igo up :to tihe Island ~~ Hie dropped his head, Iput tile Qfleer kept hhn11 at a safe distatie.,n front of him until tile dhpor of the ten day hiouse Many personls tomplain 0o[always gets ting up tized In the Wonig. Thie is very of tent ditN.to dfeeoti4 venti of the~ bed ehltnes and M%et1f%g.'A4a er beds ate t~sft *id *Iffodh ~f partially etivip the eper, hti i' luneing profd1se pp'tapitationA. it'is a QoInuii'eifror to shi1Jpo$ t sie191y 0pei)ng, w1o'4p room can bIe igntiaW4t~~ > that for proo v6nilIi.tP( . be an ilet as wof i y~ ~ gind ;-r