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| THE GREENVILLE ENTERPRISE. X v?e? IBM * J- ??.. III! ' -* *==? IH ^ i HI i i i i i I II ? 1 ^ !_.?. T-?~ _ . , ?? - . . ; r DrvoteL to Items, Politics, intelligence, nnh %e improvement of llje fttotc onto Country. I JOHN C. BAILEY, PRO'R. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JI'LY 1#. 1871. Onasommoii Two PoiT?r? por annum. stance to hunters that they abonnd I Th? Buinor o??*?" " *" Adtbhtiukmrnti Inaortad at tba rate* of , , , ? vono dollar per aquaro of twelao Minion ll??? Hi #?w?- -?? * ...... ? type) or icm for the first io*ertl< n fifty oent* each for tba aacond and third 1dm lions, and twontv-flvn cent* for subseque Insertion*. Yearly contract* will he mude. AM adrertiecmrnt* must have the numb of insertion* markei en them, or they will in parted till ordered oot, and charged for. Unlet* ordered otherwise, AdvertUcmen will invariably be " displayed." Obituary notice*, and atl matters inuring to the benefit of any one, are regarded i Advcrtinmcnta. Pen Piotures by a Tribune .Coirei pendent Hiceirhjoined sketches arc tnkci from a letter in the N. Y. Tribnnt of tho 8th inst., from its corrospon dent travelling in South Carolina v>vr*r.fi VILLS* There mo few towns in the South that one feels tho -mnllesl *"t'C to visit the second time; de&- fcw J count Greenbut nmo. Xretnrued Inst Sat' ' oicasu. e, not only beurday win. . , . thai blow cause tho cool frotn the mountains vrciC a ful relief alter weeks fpent in u." sweltering low-country, but be cause it was to be for mo a point of departure for a journey across the great Blnc*Ilidge range that I bad seen on my previous visit to the place, lying like a lingo cumulus cloud 6trctcTied along the northern horizon. Besides, the town is exceptionally pleasant and the people kind and hospitable. Although they hold to their old opinions still, like most people at the "South who were convinced against their will by tbc logic of war, they aro friendly to Northerners, cher- 1 ish no ill will, and 6ecm to be in earnest in the desire they uniform Jv express that emigrants from the 1 Northern States should settle in J 'their midst. They have more culture than it is usjtal to lind among ' the inhabitans ol Southern villa^' ^ *nd ,lie>; 8ns,ni,L aeka"find" mo8t ' periodical# and English magazines atid reviews. J he mo men arc famous all over thcS'atc ^ lor their beauty, and justly so.? Hie appcarar.co of the men does c i:ot, however, confirm the oescr- I tion that the climate is one of re* 8 ma< kuble hculthfulncss. They are much inferior to the women. Per- ' haps the cause is too much whisky 3 and tobacco and too little work.? |' It U marvelous with what an air 1 of pet feet contentment the men in 8 {Southern villages will sit all day in r groups upon tho tavern porches, r moving only when driven by tho ?ttn from their first positions, or I tor an occasional vicit to the bar. 8 They have little conversation, for 1 they long ago talked each oilier J urj, uihi mey mc seldom troubled 1 with what Huxley calls " the inula- I <ly of thought that doth infest us r.!!." They enjoy the luxury of r perfect idleticrs, a thing never fwl- i Jy experienced l?y men of North, c ei n races. '1 cms a it's head. r At noon ?c reached the still tail I of Saluda Mountain, an advanced I southern span of the Dluc llidge c chain, and found a rude mountain 1 tavern, which is usually the resort i of pleasure seekers from the low t country in the Summer, nrd of t doer-hunters in the Fall. In com- c tnarids a view of greater extent 4 than that from the Catskill Moan- ( tain Jlouso. To the cast and north, 1 tho blue and green ridges and i peaks sweep off into the hazy dis i tanco. Westward the eye follows e the great, green mountain waves, f until they tadeaway in ripples ftu fi off in Georgia ; while to the South, c nil of tho vast plain of South Car I olina seems to be stretched out like \ ft mftl). It is ft sconoof wnnrWfi.l i granduer nnd beauty. As we 1 gazed upon il yesterday, filled with \ that tooling of enthusiasm and ex- I .notation, which lie who has nover I stood on mountain tops lift^ nover i experienced, a big cloud came sail- f ing from over the Georgia hills, I brushing the sides of the tnonn i tains in its course, flapping its a damp skirls in our faces, tor a lew t minutes hiding all tho world below j from view as it hold us in its cold e embrace, and floating away to fall 8 jj} rftin upon the low country miles i away. 1 Cupar's Head is the name of the I highest point upon the mountain, ' whence tho best view is obtained, s There is a faint semblance of a a man's bead upon a rock, which c gives tho place its name, though a why it should be Caesar's head t rather than that ot anybody cUc i no one here can tell. The elvea- e tion above the sea is -about 3,500 n feet. The hotel is a rough affair. 1 The rooms know neither paint, < ptastor, paper, carpets, nor other 1 Adornments; bat tbo beds are t clean, and the cool mountain air 1 gives a good appetite lor the chick i a, ham, rice, nominy and hot buscurt a that the table affords, and that comprise the invariable fare j at Southern inns. The forests that i cover tho mountains abound in t deer, wild tnrkov, and smaller j game. It is an unpToasant circnm. < % .. ... . m.wvoiiukcs. lhe Inndlon > > I eavs that deserters and refugee from tbo conscription betook tliein Selves to these monntains dnrinj " the war, organized themselves inti predatory bands, and made raids t? npon the country below, plunder to fMtners of their money and ia cattle. After the surrender inanj of them remained in the tnonn - tains, and, according to the land ?- lord, joined the Republican party, nnd with the help of the r.cgrocts H hnln* *?t J ? * " . vivkiug one oi their number J to tho first legislature under the reconstructed Government. There t is such a disposition in South Car olina to tnko it for granted that all ? rogues and ansuicioas characters 1 belong to the ltcpnbKcatl party, that such stories as that ft* the landlord's must bo taken with a grain of salt. ? ? o i ? The Mera Tragedy. | Chicago, July b. The coroner's inquest over tho lynched ^an eHcitfcd tl c following: Mary Mera, notlier of the child, testified as tollo*. - \ M/ btteband Martin Morn, whip**1''' 8('n Martin, aged ten years, t'J'o '"OCRS ago Tuesday night. My babe was 1 born that day, and I did not see I a I? ? mo wnippmg ; it. was dune in another room ; 1 heard tho blows and heard the child beg for tnercy.? t The child went to bed about ten \ o'clock. Tiio noxt morning tlie , child came to tny bedroom, follow- , ed by his father who was whipping \ h im * cry hard with a black-snake A horse whip. The child dodged t around the room, to avoid tho 8 blows, and begged for mercy.? f, The child was comj>letclv^u"hnn |j I?i9 father.J/A\jit. IIis tnce was fc well en from the whipping ho Lad cceived the night before. His K ather whipped hitn very hard for en or fifteen minutes. At last lie r topped, and told the child to put fc m his shirt. lie made an effort to k lo 60 and failed. His father ro ? ?catcd the order, when tho boy n aid, "I can't see! I can't seel-' i You can't see it," responded bis g ather. father, I can't see 6 on ; I can't sco you. I led like n lying." The father then rubbed n lie boy with spirits and forced otuc dpwn his throat. Tho child u uised his hands, moved his lip? n md expired. c Mora then took tho body and v >nt it under tho bed, where the 0 ick mother was lying, and it re- e named there until evening, when 1 io buried it. The testimony of c lie boy's sister is still more b?rri- 0 >le. * n Sarah Mora, daughter of tho ti nnrdcrcr, aged 14, testified that f? icr father often whipped her brotliir vcrv scvcrciy with a horse whip, j h I'ucsday two wcoks ago lie brought ] il .... 1 .. ?? - - - 1 * * iij uruuicr in, nwi saul that he n tail not worked, and whipped and n knocked liim down twice. Father u tontinued to whip him, and said n ic would whip lijm till he could h iot stand up; that ho would whip he lite out of him. Two or-three n iinca lie would *nv this, and broth- ? sr would plead with lather: ti ' Father, don't whip me any more, bi Dli, don't whin me any more.1*? a . liked liitn. ih other went to hed si ibout 10 o'clock, lie said he did s lot know whv hither wli!nn?i1 ti?? io ; he never told stories only when r 'tither tnado hiin. Father would n ay it he didn't own up lie had v lone so and so, ho would whip ti titn; fttid, to avoid it, brother o vould own to thing^hc never did. t! Wednesday I got up and got i? jrcnh/aet rend j'. Futhcr ro6e vhen breakfast was ready, and e brother got uj>, but felt so badly a to went back to bed. Father r nado him get up anil go out and b ecd the stock, and when lie came a jack father whipped him, and sent v dm to the field. He went fur him i> md brought him, and made him nke off his clothes, and then whip)cd him, and then picked him np * md laid him on the stove. The b tovc WA3 hot enough to heat an N ron. I was bakina hiwenit ? f? father put liim on the stove twice} I >rothor ploading all the while.? '' 1 Father don't burn mo." lie creamed very loud; and the tain stuck to the stove, ilis skin 11 tame off l.is back and his foot, and u tuck the stoyc. Jt ginejlcd so * hat I open the door and father V mincdiately shut it. While broth* ^ >r was pleading, father said ho n von Id burn hiin till he worked. I t( iavc seen father strike mother g vith his fists many times, lie c nocked brother down soveral imes with the but end ot the whin [ never saw ray brother after he * went into mother's room. )i B A touno gentleman who ban / nst married a little undersized a jeauty, aaya the Von Id have been e aller, but ?bo was made of such y >rcciou8 materials that Nature r iould not afford it. f ~* *V i W. . I. \ ' 4 m ..aolUHUO 01 tfte Bout 1 I When people are poor tber ai foolish to attempt to live m if tii? i were rich. The old and jonnj r the males and females, of evet > family which has the misfortnc i to bo poor, ought to bear the bu den together, and ought to wor t t?getlicr to increase the commo store. If there is hnt " ^ ??vu? vfurKin | person in the family, and he is get | orally the father, his nose will b , 1 kept at the grindstone from on i year's end to another, unless h ' lias a well-ordered household. Th ) wife can greatly aid him by he sympathy,by frugal management by a cheerful temper, and by in stilling into the young people lea sons ot economy and industry.? To attempt to live as rich pcoph i V.'bon a family is poor, is no oniy ? Giara anu A cheat, but i makes the head of such family f hopeless J-~ * nuu uruage, and absolutely perpetuates the poverty so sedulously sought to be concealed. We are, with few exceptions, all poor aliko in the 8onth. Let us not bo ashamed of it, nnd not commit the folly of increasing and continuing it by contemptible shifts to hide it. It is an evil, but the way to conquer it, is to look it in the face; to go to work, and to practice eC?no>ny. If all that an over-worked f;*M>er makes is consumed in supporting 2?ns^ in idleness and daughters in An ,cx* j trnvagance of fashionable drc83m? < \nd display, what earthly prospect s ill there bo of an improvement n circumstances I If the overworked head of the family lives inder all his burdens, he lives, to co increasing WVwtuiiy which irguv to be a source of comfort to im. If ho dies, a victim to his eavy burdens, he leaves behind ; iin sons untrained to work?poe i ibly of expensive if not dissipated aous, ana daughters without nny csoni cos whatever, and miserable 1 ?causc they cannot continue to I cep up the poor delusion that they ' rc part and parcel of the fashion ; ble world. 1 No situation in life can bo more i ailing than that of a poor family ' triving to hide its poverty by i ping the fashions. If tho effort i nadc by its members to keep tip ! false show were but directed to t seful ends, the iOsnlt .wouJd, be 1 lost propitious. As it is, all they an do is to keep ttrtsTr heads abovo < rater and be tolerated in the world < f fashion. To compass this pitiful I nd they pass through pnrgatorv. I 'hey sacrifice relf-respect, solid < omtort otid all tho sacred duties i f domestic life in order to get an 1 nccrtain and very humble posi < An In ' v... mat ovciciy which is called I ishionablo. ^ ( This is unworthy of people who j avc a epnrk of intellect. It will be, ' it becomes prevalent among us, I 10ro disastrous oven than the war ( as. It will fasten poverty upon \ s for successive generations, and , uiko us a set of eocinl cheats and j umbugs. , If thoughtless bovs and giddy , liases aro allowed tfieir way, they | ill, of course, keep nwny from the ' isks of lite and seek only its plea* , lire*. Put (hey ought not to be < llowed to have their way. Tlicv , liould bo controlled. The boys t ould bo brought up with the idea ( lint life has its serious duties and ^ epponsibilitics, and that chief j muiig them is the courage to \ rork; and the girls should bo j aught that they cease to bo the | runtnents of domestic lifo when | licy sacrifice everything to fasli- | >n and empty show. , Ileal gontilitv is something high- , r and nobler than mere fashion ; , nd genteel poverty is far more espectablo than the vulgar snobcry that so many weak minded nd white blooded peoplo enhi.. ate all their lives long.?Rich\oiul Whig. * ? - - l Iw New York roan Iait week made ^ wager that he could run a closed um- ( rella down hi? lhrr?*t Ia ?!? io sooner bud be accomplished thi? , ;at than the bate wretch who made 1 jc bet seized tbe umbrella by the I andle and opened it all tbe war, 'inching it on tbe catch. lie then ?td. Of course all efforts to dose tbe tnbrella and remove it hare been ut> srly useless, and the poor sufferer 'alks about with his person distended t a manner that is inexpressibly painit. These practical jokes are eery rong. Just for the sake of a mo> tent* amusement this man ia obliged > carry that umbrella with bim to bis rare. Up to Snuff.?A ijhtlcman laying at cards at Baoen-Badon< ras very mnch annoyed by an ftr^nisitive stranger who stood be mo uim ana looked into bis band, f it last he took a pinch of snnff i nd administered it to hit torment- < r, Immediately saying : u 1 beg i our pardon, bat you was eo near i ne, sir, that I mistook yonr nose 1 or mine." ' i ** A Burning Coal Mine. re )j Alter the tourist has taken Ui g, enchanting ride over the Switcl j back, at Summit Hill, a few miU ,e beyond Munch Chunk, (Pa.,) he : f. ready to look with interest upo k the old fashioned looking town, n portion of which is underlaid b g the ignited coal. The Are was ni v discovered till tho early part c e the year 1859, when it had already o made considerable urorr^n T? ?t m r If" w*v* A% 1 e iue general opinion that it was tli e work of an incendiary, but Ut r raotivo that a person could hnv t, that would induce him to set fir - to a valuablo mine, causing th i. destruction of thousands of dollar . worth of valuable proporty, cai a only be surmised. It may be tha t sorao thirty or forty years hence t when the fire has died oat, and al i so all interest in regard to it, w< . will bo startled by the confessior , some ancient but time-softencc sinner, wl:0 will give the full r ar ticulnrs; but wo mti6t wait till then. Tho excitement at tlio tiinc Of the breaking out pf the fire was considerable, but coal mining in this country had not then attained the magnitude that it now possesses, and fires in the mines were then almost unknown. The miners had as yet had no experience in thorn, and a very simple, in fact entirely too simple, means of extinguishing the firo was adopted. A dam of timber was built ain'Psa the gangway, of but littlo more strength tn*n a partition Wf tween two rooms. This was in icnueri to retain ?.- -vd jc< ittuily oo extinguished by it. The theory was good, but uiifortunntcly when the water rose to a considerable height the dam gave was before its pressure. A second dam was immediately erected, but it met with the 6ame fate as the first. It was then decided to build a dam. which would not bo bursted by all tire pressure that could be brought to bear on it by the waters of the mine. Four feet were cut of solid coal in the top, sides and bottom of the gangway, a solid structure of oak, strong as a canal lock, was erected, and clay was packed in behind it for *h? sonce of ten feet. Tho water baolt ??p oflfoinot tliU. but now the water wa* net tlio opor?r. it ruction. The fire had n.ade a ietonr through the coal, nml tmH mvelopcd tlio dam on all sides, ' mvo one, and on that was the wa er. No human structure could , ixist in snch a conflict of the elements. It was oarth against fire, . ivatcr and air, and earth succumb-' id. Tho dam having given way, , he fire soon reached the mouth of ho elope, and all Impcs of extinguishing it were given up. Since that time tho mine has , jeen closed. Tho firo will burn j >nt, but will certainly not bo ex- , inguished in any other way. Oc- , casionally small tracts of laud fall , nto the fiery furnace below. The , iflfects of tho lire and its ncc?mpa ( )ying heat arc almost well shown < bcrc as at Vesuvius ar.d Jt'na.? , n>o rocks are baked, and arc of many shades of color; they have changed their stratified position, tnd aro inclining in overy direcion. lint perhaps tho most interesting of nil aro the changes xrrought in tho rocks containing iron pyrites (Ke. 2, S.) Tho pyrites have been heated in the proximity of steam, which caused them \o become soluhlo water; they liave then been dissolved out of t e rocks, leaving perfectly cubiial, glazed cavities in the solid rock, giving to it a honey combed uppearanco. [iv ew l ork Kvangel 'mt. i < Old Shoes.?Yon probably think j that if yon look very sharply at an aid shoe, when you throw it away, ! that .you will know it strain !f s? 2ver comes back to yon. Bnt that Iocs not at all follow. One of heso days you may button your e Jrcss with an old pair of slippers, ( joinb your hair with a boot, or 1 grasp a cast off gaiter while yon jat your dinner. Yon don't see ( Ljow this can bol Well, we'll tell j rou. Old shoes aro turned to no sount by manufacturers in tbo fob j lowing manner : They are cnt in;o very small pieces, and kept for 1 \ couple of days is chloride of sulphur. The effect of this is to nake the leather hard and brittje. y Next, the material is withdrawn * rotn the notion of the chloride of * tulphur, washed with \rafer and e Iried. When thoroughly dried, it * s ground to powder, and mixed f with some substance like glue or I gum, that causes it to adhere to- 1 gothor. Jt is then passed into ' would and ?li?ruul !??? ? -Y- > Vunuvu M|IU UUIrlUtlH, sombe, knifehartdlea, &c. 80 yon teo how it may come to pass that 1 ron will comb your hair with a i wot, and fasten your clothes with * t slipper. 1 11' V [From lb? Troy Time, June 22J ] 10 A Hired Aiuiun. jg RcraarkahU Scandal in Saratoga is 'fifunoQ n The Southern part of Saratoga a County has lately bcch greatly ex y cited over a matter, the develop* meats in regard to which are about as follows: A little more than a y week ng??, Isaac G. Lansing, a fnr? 8 mer, living in the town of Half 0 moon, went West with a gentle0 man from Vischcr's Ferry to buy 0 ehecp. Immediately after his de? 0 pnrturc a most horrible story be0 came whispered about, tho sub8 stnnt-o ..? " * ** ?us mai Mr. Lan1 ting line] bargained with a man to mnrder his wife during his ab'? 6enco. When Mr. Lansing returncd. he found tlio rumor was rife 3 in his neighborhood, and at once ! commenced a suit for slander, and 1 obtained an order of arrest against Abrqm Devoo, of Crcscant, the author of tho story. Upon being arrested, Devoo at onco made a J criminal complaint against Lansing for plotting tho murder of his own wife, upon which Lansing was 1 arrested vestordnv * ib curium entanglements wnn otii.. " cr women, and Hie wife's property 1 is suggested as nn inducement to ' iho plotting. It is certainly n ' most strange and unfortunate af- * Mr. ;] ? | A fakmkr named Watt Carr, rcliding near Hamilton, Ohio, whiic , sonversing with somo friends on j' ho stoop of his house concerning ho manner in which Mr. Vallnn- 11 ligham shot himself, it is stated, ^ ittcmpted to illustrate if with a oadea pistol, and succeeded in the n Unstrfltion precisely as Mr. Val , andigham (lid. He fell instantly. . ind died in a lew hours. s< A Prussian cavalry officer, who j( **as badly wounded at the batt'c H if (^ravfclottc, was greatly annoy- t) ul by the cries of some wounded (] loldiers lying near him. lie stood n he annoyance as long as lie could, ind then testily called out: M Stop " four howling over thero ! Do yon ^ bink yoti are the only persons ,! tilled in this fight)" ,j< Tub gushing Olivia, in writing e Ip tho Agricultural Department, si A IF I till /v/ Uil.nAt I 1>h4 I. aa \9 ? finu i'i iivnv iiuti n?n w 1 a coat as dainty aa tho velvet o i|?3 of a belle." |, I Beautiful Simile. An Alpine hnnter, asccndinj Mont 13!anc, in passing over th r Merde Glacc, lost his hold an* slipped into one of those fiightfu crevasses by which the sea of ic< 1 to cleft its foundations. lly catch ' ing himself in his swift dcscen ' against tiio points of rocks nni projecting spins of ie? , ..V V.V?< > ins Jail 60 that lio renccd the hot 1 torn alive, but only to face death in a moro terrible form. On eitli cr hand the icy walls rose up tc heaven, abovo which ho saw on)) a strip of blue sky. At his feet trickled a little stream formvd from the slowly melting glacier. Thero was but ono possible chance of escape?to follow this rivulet, which led toeomo unknown crcvico or passngo. In silenco and terror he picked Ins way, down thomountain side, till his farther advance was stopped by a giant cliff that 1060 np before hitn, while the river rolled darkly below. lie beard the roaring of the waters which seemed to wait for him. What should he do? Death was beside him and behind him, and he might fear, beforo him. Thero was no time for reflection or delay. Ho pnnscd but an instant, and plunged into the stream. Ono minute ot breathless suspense?a senso of daikncss and coldnos, and yet of swift motion, as it ho were gliding through Jho shades below, nnu then a light l>egnnui fecis' and tho flowers ancl the 1 lUimuer sunshine of tho voi? * ???v VI Jhamounv. 1 So it is when believer's die.? 1 I hey conic to 1 he bank of the ri ver, ' md it is cold and dark. Nature I ill rinks from the fatal plunge.? ' ietonc chilling moment, and all ' ear is left behind, and the Chris- ^ ain is amid the iields of the para 1 lioc ot God. 1 CONFEDERATE UoM'MKNTS.?AVo C Q bscrve,sny8 the Atlanta Era, that in effort is now being made nil >vcr the South to raise money for he purpose of building inonu- I nonts to tho Confederate dead.? v L'l?is is all right and proper, but n rould it not be better to first take ,, arc of the living orphans of the | (| Confederate dead ? In order to I rlio tell iiw^w.c.^ODd noble men ' n re have only to savo the minds, 8 iodict and souls of their dear lit- ii le children. The proposed mon- ti ments would be graceful and n icautiful tributes, but it is possi- , le to erect others far more useful. o "lie dead soldiers of the (Jonfcdrate aimics need no towering J1 halts of perishable marble to com- j ncmorate their names and deeds. ' 'hey have left behind children, ? aany of them in extreme poverty, n nd it would be senseless, nay in t uman, to let these starve, or grow e p in ignorance, while wo build Monuments to their fathers, 'lhc nrious mono men tal associations * night do well to use the lui.ds col- l1 ectod for tho benefit of tho living. Juild a few institutions of learning : c ml oovliima f..i- U.n ' ..... MVf ' ?i HIV IIIIIUI I I4IHV C I hildren of our dead .heroes. A ? ew such monuments scattered vcr the land would f?c far more j onorahle to both living and dead linn a costlier ami moro gaudy, ^ at empty, tribute.?Savannah 1 Idvertittcr. r ?- ?? Singular Cask.? A case which y ccms likely to rival in interest t ven the UulufT trial is shortly to j, ppear beforo the country. Sumo 0 rronths ago a Mr. Ruth, of Lawcncc, Kansas, was found dead, nd near his person was a letter roin which it appeared that it was % he belief of the man who was dead ! ; hat he ha?l been poisoned by ouq ' )r. Mcdlicott. tint" ' * . , "'.c " iicio An lionoraldo j>08i- ^ ion in society, not only having _ ecu regarded as a clever physi- c ian but also as an estimable f] Hiristain gentleman and a mem- \ er of a religious society at Law- y cnco. Circumstances connected r itli the case led to the belief that n 10 doctor had been unduly inti- c rate with the wife of Air. Ruth, nd that this intimacy led to the cath of the nnfortiii.ftte man. Tt i t now hciii that- Dr. Mcdlicott, A omo time a widower, has murder- (| d his wife; no motive being al- ^ 5ged for the act excepting that rhich too often has led to the com 1 rission of murder?lust and the 0 eairc for money. Now develop. *< lcnts in this caso may soon Ikj ex* n ccfed, for tho opening of tlio tl rave and tlio examination of tbe n <?dy ot Mrs. Medlicott have led to ^ lio belie! thut tho lady wns poisond. llor stomach has beon subcctod to analysis, and, as is allcg- * d, has bpen toned to contain bud- 1 tances of the samo nature lys thoso *i diich wet w found in tho stomach 11 t Mr. Huth after that gentleman j( ad died. /' _ - J --V. ninugncu before Justice Cramer, of Waterford. 1 lio examination of Lansing was at once proceeded with, and Devoe disclosed a state of tacts which, if true, reveal a plot for wife murder on the part of Lansing which, in horrible and cold blooded details, rivals Riiloft"'? t--4 * ?1 - *..? j ui.- ago, Lansing approach- j 6d him with complaints of 11 trou- ( hies in his family," and a proposition to Devoe to get his wife out "] of the way, for a consideration.? f Devoe says he received the pro- ? position favorably, and that on " the strength of it lie has at vari- f oiis times received favors iroin t Lansing, in the shape of fire wood, c etc., and small sums of money.? Devoe also disclosed the nature of tlio proposition to several persons, telling them that lie intended to 0 make use of it to get considcra n bio money out of Lansing and fin- c ally expose him. As Devoc's sto 1 ry goes, ftbont two weeks ago, JJ Lansing told him that lie was about ?? !Cit?C hom<? fnr R?veral duvs. v that his wifo would be nlono in Q( every niglit villi their . children, and he wanted the bus ^ in ess done I lien. Devoo rcla'cs . the details of - instmctions which ~ lie received from Lansing, how to enter the house through a certain " ins. cure window, how to make his ^ entrance noiseless, where to find J liis sleeping wife, how to find certain jewelry and silvcrwaro in vaciitna ..f lli/* ! #* ?? ???!....1. '- ? ? i *?? ? |-??t to v/i i no iiuhov^ ?? uiiiii lie aas to take away, and thus to " make it appear that plunder was 1 :lio object; also, how to rob n 11 neighbor's house near at hand, and " has make the " blind " darker, ' tnd finally how Lnndsing camion- n ed hitn to 44 make no mistake" and n 14 not harm tho children," but to v 14 make sure work of it." Then !' the blood money was paid, the sum 1 being one hundred and five dol- 4 lars, and the devili.-li business ar- " ranged. Dovoe tells his story in J; 3ucli minute detail, and connects 3o many collateral facts ami out- " ?ido parties incidentally with it, 1 hat before the investigation is dosed it cannot fail to appear that 1 Devoe has told an ingenious and 2 tremendous lie, or Lansing ought to be hung. The examination is wljourncd to the 2Gih inst. Mrs. pl Lansing lias some property, and c both she and her hushnnd are very j n respectably connected. The %4 Iron- J11 ble in the family*," it is rumored, j 1 VOLUME XVI1I-NO. It. | A Wonderful 8(017. A It is said that in tbo tomU of e the Necropolis of ancient Egypt i two kiuUs of mummies hare been 1 found. One is incomplete?that in 0 to say, all orgnns necessary for life . have been separated from them ; t tbo otber, on the contrary, is quite 1 complete. Having observed this, j a Swedish cbemist. Dr. Gruseel. bacb, baa come to tbo conclusion 1 that tbe Egyptian mummies aror . not at all, as bns been said and be) licvcd for some thousands of years, - bodies embalmed bw _ _ a.ij |>rgccsi j ol preservation whatever, bit that they aro really tlio bodies ot individual whoso life lias been moi mcntarily suspended, wi?h the ini tention of restoring them at soma ! future time, only tlio sccrot of preservation has now been lost. Meanwhile, Professor Grussolbach ndaddnccs many proofs in support of his idea ; among others, his experiments during the last ten years, which lio says have always proved * successful. Ho took a snake, and treated it in such a manner as to benumb it as though it had been carved in marble, and it was so ' brittle that had lie allowed it to fall, it would have broken into s fragments. In this state ho kept it for ono or several years, and ??* ? * * v.. it;?juircci it to life by sprinkling it with a stimulating fluid, tho composition of which is his 6ccrct. l']'r fiftccn years Jb&.WftVfl rdssuTrcctions, apparently without sustaining any harm. The Professor is reported to liave sent a petition to his Government, requesting that n criminal who has been condemned to death may lie jivon to him, to bo treated in the same manner as the snako promising to restoro him to life in two pears. It is understood that tho man who undergoes this experiment is to pardoned. Whether he Swedish government has ncepicd or rejected the learned hemis "s proposals is not known. Romantic Result of a Stare A beautiful and wealthy Toung rt ly, at a social party, took offence At rlrat *he supposed to bo the imperiiient gazo cf a gentleman pr??cn?, who "U a stranger to her, hul a fiiend of be lady of the bou o. The lady dcnis cxpul?i?ift, .ir a condition fic'O?" /ftroaining. Explanation* enug at her, " tkCtiglf 1? n?t look0 attract and fasten the allennomMi nv one" He was looking m ? G? - ... M HMO nd costly chain that encircled the fair me'* neck?just such a one as he had lurchnsed fur his si-ter?in one of tha inks of which (having a secret openng) he had put his photograph. llul oino months since, and hefure lie had in opportunity to present it to his sis er, it was rtulen from him. Upon xamining the lady's chain he touched spiing (to the little henuty unknown) ,nd In, rnd behold! there was his holograph, 1 leave jrn to j ulge the confusion >f the fair one. She immediately ofercd to return the phce of jawehy vhicli was politely declined, for the ime, and it is said by knowing ones lint she has concluded to except the oung man's hand and heart, in order hat heing the pos?es?or c.f one sliR nay he permitted to retain the other. I is hilt justice to remark that tlio oung lady bought tlio chain from a raveling peddhr, who had stopped at ior father's house, for about one half f its O'iginal co.-t.? [for. ChilicolltC Ixtgittcr. A Queer Fowl.?Tho vomnn* voinen should nntkc a note of this >,cm iVio k DoiSvnrc paper : 411 saw a lion Sun lay tlmt was a pay old chicken -half bantain. Sho used to lay pps and hatch them during tho irst five years of licr life. Sho hen ceased to lay?changed her nnnncr and looks to that of a ooster, and now crows for day nd all day. lights tho other roostrs, and mates with the hens/' ? Ykllow Fkver in TtKNOs Avars rhe New Yoik Ilcrshi'# correspondent ( Huonoa Ajres sends information of 'io vellow fever plague in that city.? iow tliat the epidemic is disappearing, ie newspapers arc engaged in ? ?*f i woroi concerning the number of per>na tliRt perished during.its slay. As iany as thirty thousand are given as ie number, while the nativef &|>crs ?il ot admit higher figures than fifteen iou?aiul. Of the American victims wo?a young lady named Miss Wood od the other a Mr. Spiing?saciifieol heir |ires in voluntarily attending the iclr, and, owing to their humanity and nselfi-h heroism,.found untimely grave* i a strange land, far away from their i tends and relatives.