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~BY ?. A. LEE AND IIUGII VILSO.N. ^ ~ ABBEVILLE, S. C., WKMESDAY, MARCH 18, 1874. - ^ ^ ^ ^OLl?ME III"-I^^^ 1873. FALL & W"R tako pleasure in announcing now receiving our Stock of TRA I)K. and are confident of our a n call, both in price and quality. I STAPLE AND F Hosiery, Gloves, Gorsets, R wirtvale SVii XilV/A UAUf WU*4> vvj rv ? Ami many other articles too numeroi Wo would direct special attenlioi Boots st,: We make this line of Trade a speci that tlio.se who favor us with a call complete Stock of BEADY-MA] BOTII C'ilK/ In addition to the above, wo keej GROCERIES Ai And have at all tin SUGAS, COFFEE SOAP, CHE3 Give us us a call, and we will cc-rl Sept 10, 1873 22-tf I AM receiving daily my FALL everything usually kept by tlic ^rcat care after the panics in mono) I will he able to sell at prices to sail My Stock embraces in part Staple, and Fa phots a tan simp I U VllUte Hardware, Cr GROCERIES, J. T. 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March IS, 1S74 40-tf CONGARES ?5. O. j IR MilKill yysan lESJiJiiiaupjajMsi Proprietor. Manufacturer of Steam Engines and Boilers. Iron and Brass Castings of all * Descriptions made to Order. ; T was awarded the first premium! J on castings at the State A^ricuJ ural ai?d Meebaoieal Seeiely Fairs In-Ill in Columbia, November, 1871 72, 73. MANUFACTURE Circular Saw Mills cf al sizes. ALSO Took the First Premium at State Fairs held November, 1871, 72, 73 Mc.nufaeturc Portable Grist Mills of all sizes. Al.so awarded a premium at State) Fairs for til's best GRIST MILL IRON'S. For Sale. The Circular Saw Mill I hat took the premium at the laU! fair. ALSO One 30 Horse rower, Oho 15 " " Statinnan* Engine. I liotli in good order and will be sold low ' for Cash. JOHN ALEXANDER, Columbia, >S. C. Or D. 15. Smith, Agent, Abbeville S. C. Dec. 10, 1873, 35-tf T. M. DENDY, M. 0. DO WD, 'Grocer aid Gutti lercliait, 23 b20ad :ts22t, atobsta, ca. A full stock of Choicely Selected Groceries AIm-ov, /mi Iio v,>1 I Prompt attention given to Orders [jam! coiisi'MiiiHnts. j Felt. 1], J874, 44-tf \)ll JOHN S. THOMPSON DENTIST, I/jTK FFEIl^ his professional services to the citizens of Abbeville, and rlie i surrounding country. Office over Citizens' Savings Bank, Abbeville, S. C. Oct. 22, 187^, iS-tf 50 33ush.els' I WHEAT BRAN ' n -n i _ j. cor tow rccu, at HARWELL & C0/3. | Feb. 25,1874. Cigars ! Cigars !! Cigars !!! The best brand can always be found on hand at the store of J. B. & W. J. ROGERS. Feb. 25 40-tf Fresh crushed coffee, French Breakfast Coffee, Choice Rio Coffee, Fresh Ground Buelavhoat, just arrived, at BARNWELL & CO. Fob 25, 1874. The Flower of Lovo Lies Bleeding. 11Y IlICIIARP URN 11Y STODDAltD. I mot a little maid one day, All in the bright May weather { She danced, and brushed the dew away As lightly as a feather. She had a ballad in her hand That she had just been readiup, But was too young to understand That ditty of a distant land, "The iiower of love lies bleeding." She tripped across the meadow grass, To where a brook was flowing, Across the brook like wind did pass,? Wherever flowers were growing Like some bewildered child she flew, Whom fairies were misleading: "Wliiiw Imftuvflv " f Miiil. nrn von ? And what tiiing*do you pursue?" "The flower of love lies bleeding." "I've found (he wild rose in the hedge, I've found the tiger-lily,? The blue Hag by the water's edge,? Th j dancing daflbdilly,? . , King-cups and pansies?every flower Except the one I'm needing;? Perhaps it grows in some dark bower, And opens at a later hour,? This flower of love lies bleeding." "I wouldn't look for it," I said, "For you can do without it: There's no such flower." She shook her head; "But I have read about it!" I talked to her of bee and bird, But she was all unheeding: Her tender heart was strangely stirred, LMw. 1... w?? I OI1U I1UI j;cu Mil lltill/ II XI ?%y tt \'i \i | "The llower of lovelies bleeding!" "My child," I sighed, and dropped a tear, "I would no longer mind it; You'll find it some day, never fear, For all of us must lind it! I found'it many a year ago, With one of gentle breeding ; You and the little lad you know,? I see why you are weeping so,? Your llower of lovelies bleeding!" J.? Aii Old Lawyer's Story. I am a very old man now. So old that 1 work no longer as I used at my profession. The time of rest has come. It is a happy time. I am not poor. 1 have all life's luxuries. Best oi aJI, I have a wife who loves me still, and whom 1 love as well as when I wooed her? nav. better, if that can he, and m.yj children arc beautiful and prosperous. What can a man wish more? I read my favorite authors. 1 smoke rn\- cigars. I take a glass o! wine of an evening. Sometimes we go to a plaj\ Every Sunday morning to church. It is all ho-liday-time for us. It will not last long. We are both old, but we are happy. There is no romance about a lawyer's profession. People arc dis-j posed to sneer at it, ami to speak ofi its followers as tricky sort of folks,j more anxious for their own. gain; than that of their neighbors. IT this is so, wc do not stand alone; | but 1 will say for my brotherhood,) that they have hearts as well asj other men, and that it is not always merely for what we can make by it; that we undertake a cause. 061 things fall into our way very J often. I have had no need to read! romances. The real stories that; have fallen beneath my notice are; quite as interesting, and far more singular, than any tales of the imagination could possibly-bo. I tell them to my children sometimes of! winter evenings. Perhaps it is only to flatter the; old man that they assume an interest in them, nevertheless I will tell one of niv talcs to vou?one which \i r I have always had cause to remember. A great mativ years ago, while Ij was comparatively a young man, and still unmarried, 1 resided in a; certain city in Pennsylvania, and, enjoyed the reputation of being the! 'cleverest lawyer ever known there, jit is not for me to say the praise! was merited, but I certainly found j ! myself able to discover loopholes j of escape for those whom I defend-1 ed, which surprised even my fellow-j lawyers. I possessed by nature I those qualities which would have made me an excellent detective, | and I was a thorough student ofj the law. There was no mystery! 'about it, but among the more igno-j rant classes I had gained a reputa-j tiou for more than human knowi-j I edge. Perhaps it was not polite j for them to say the devil helpdd. I mo, but they did. However, T began to tell about Madame Matteau. i She was an old lady who owned a little house in the suburbs <>f the city. Shu he resell' was of American birth, hut her husband had been ' * ' I'1"''!-* /?l ? **.? Ik CA ti II) \ i t \ I ;?il- I tl I. I VIH II lllllll, 7V? IUV AMUV, anic had been bestowed upon her. lt>he was now a widow, and her i # ' daughter (Jabriolle, and a son named Itenri, were her only living j relatives. Iter income was but slender, and she eked it out by taking a few boarders, generally steady old people, who had known :her for many years. These respected and liked her; but the city genicrally had a prejudice against her. There had been two sudden deaths in her house. Each time the victim was a stranger who came at night, and wits lound dead in his i bed in the morning. Each time the jury was divided?some believing that strangulation had been the cause of death, some that the man had died in a lit. It was a terrible thing that two such deaths should have occurred beneath her roof. Madame's friends pitied her. The rest of the little world hinted that these were strangers, and that their trunks, with no one knew what amount of money and other valuable property, remained in Madame's possession. Xo one said thafshe was a murder\ ess, but every one said it was "very strange/' in an odd tone, and no one since that second death had visited Madame Matteau. I myself?because I admired her a great deal, and her daughter still more?had always insisted that it was merely a coincidence, and that 111 a world in which apoplexy and heart disease were so common, it was no such marvel that two men should have met sudden deaths in the same house, lint my faith in flvia tlmnrv was shaken when one V,J,W v" "'' ~ *J -- -- II j morning it was published over the city that another transient boarder had been to unci dencl in Madame Matteau's house, and that she was arrested on suspicion of having murdered him, his watch and chain having1 been found in her possession. Before I had recovered from the shock of this terrible piece of news, a message came to me from .Madame Matteau. She desired to see me. Of course I went to her at; oifce. She had been* taken to prison ; and I found her in a little grim room with a barrel window, and an insufficient fire upon Jic hearth. The logs had burnt in two upon the arjdirons, and the white ashes were scattered over the hearth. Almost iiij them sat Madame Matteau, in her widow's dress of sombre black. iShe was chilly with grief and excitement, and Lad drawn her chair dlfcse to the fire. "She shook violently from head to foot, and her face was deadly pale as she turned it toward me and held oiitjicr hand. '"Oh, thank Heaven, yon have come ! ' she said. <kI know you can save me. Is it not horrible? How could I kill a man? Why should I? Why do people come to my house to die? To die horribly, with black faces and starting eyes, as if some one had choked th?iin? Ugh! and he was a pretty young man the w i ~L ? !\i. ,*r.i ir.s.,?ni, lllglll uciure. Wllj guou J-J-VJUV^U, Iiow horrible!" I sat down beside her. I took her hand. "Madame Matteau," I said, "be calm; collect yourself. As your lawyer, 1 must know all. Tell mo from first to last what happened? what was said, what was done. If y?-# I paused; her black eyes had flashed upon tne. I could not ask her whether she had any confession to make. I saw she had not. Unless she was the best actress who ? 1 X f 1 A!..i ever lived, .uauamu :u<uu;uu ihncjcentof any crime. "If you h#ve any suspicions," I added, "tell thcni nil to me." "There is no one to suspect," sobbed the poor woman. "In the house were Gnbriclle, my daughter, whom you have seen, old Hannah, the cook, Mr. and Mrs. Beauohamp, friends of my poor dear husband in his boyhood ?the beat, the kindest people?Mr. Gray, a very old man, too feeble to leave the house, poor deformed Miss Norman, and the librarian, Mr. 15 ass ford. Xone of these could or would murder a mouse. See how kind they are; they remain in my house; they send me word tliat they have no doubt of me. Oh, bow ca"j anybody?" 9 wAnd this man who?" I began. "Yes," said Madame Matteau, "I will tell you; he was fair, young, handsomely dressed; he asked Mr. Bassford at the depot, if lie knew of any one one could accommodate him. Mr. Bassford brought him home. My only empty room was the one in which those other two strangers died. I could not bear to put him there ; but Mr. Bassford laughed at me. We had supper afterward. lie talked a long while to Gabrielle. It was late when he retired?late for our quiet household. Ilannab had made his fire. She came and told us that she had done so. He said good-night. After he had gone, we found that he had left his watch on the table. He wore it only with a bunch of seals, and lie had boon setting it by the clock, and showing it to us as something very handsome. ] knocked at his door to restore it to him. He had not left us hut fifteen minutes helbrc, but he must have been asleep already, for he made no answer. So I kept it for the night, and wore it down to breaklast next morning. As I eanie down 1 met a gentleman in the hall, ile inquired for Mr. Glenn. That was the new comers name. I sent Hannah to wake him. She could not do so, and grew alarmed. She had a key that would open the door, land used it. The next thing [ knew t o we were all in the room, and the i windows were wide open, and the doctor had been sent for; and the young man who had called was screaming that his brother had been l zlnotn find then there I i\r Mvuk.ii * ? ! was the inquest, and they arrested me. The brother said the first tiling lie noticed was that L wore iMr. Glenn's watch and seals. I had forgotten it in my terror." j "So Ilannah had a key to the ! room ?" I said. "Yes; at least it was a key that would open it. It was the key ot j Mr. Bassford's door. She knocked ithe other out with a stick and put j that in." "The people who were there on that night were your boarders when the other two men were found J dead ?" I asked. "Oh, yes!" yAnd Hannah was there also? All my married life Hannah has lived with me." : ' [ "Your daughter oversees the household in your absence?" "Yes, poor child, with Hannah's help." 1 thought a little while. "Madam," I said, "there is some strange mystery in this affair. I do not despair of proving your entire innocence to all the world. Meanwhile, be as calm* as possible, and I . 1 A _ 1 - . . , 1 enueavor to rememuer everytning connected with the sudden deaths that have occurred in your house. The incident that seems the most unimportant may really be of the most immense value. So I left her and went home. Strangely 'enough, on the way I met the doctor who had been called in. lie was a dull, heavy sort of person, considerably given to beerdrinking, and my opinion of his ability was not very groat. However, I questioned him on the subject, and he replied : i'Well, you see, 1 don't say the old woman murdered him. If she did, I should say it was by sitting on him, or smothering him with the bolster. I suppose the cause of hi* death was asphyxia. "Well, then, what is asphyxia? Why, too little breath to keep on living. lie died because he was short of breath. So we all do. I wash my hands of the matter. Only there's the watch; that looks dark." I had learned nothing from the doctor. The coroner lived near me. His jury had been twelve oi the most ignorant men in town. This is ail lie told inc. "He was smothered, that man was ; so were the other two. Men don't smother themselves. "Wo I made it inscrutable Providence t'other time. We made it murder, this. That there watch, you know." Thus, without any new light, I went home and formed my plans. There was but one way in which to penetrate the mystery. * I must enter the house; 1 must see the pco'plc there; I must penetrate to the room in which these men had died so suddenly, and I must not be known in my real character. That Madame Matteau was innocent, I fully believed; but that some one beneath her roof was guilty, I made no doubt. It might be Ilannah. It might be the librarian, Mr. J3assford, whose key fitted the dead I man's door. It was possible?but j no, I would not harbor a mad su| perstition.- There could be no sti pernatural power beneath which human beings" drooped and died. Death as it came to us all was mystery enough. What had been said to me by a woman, who would have | been a* spiritualist had she lived to-dny, was a mere absurdity. "I believe that there is some horrible unseen thing in the room," she had said?"some awful, shapeless spirit, that when it is locked in with its victim, murders. Let others believe what they will, I believe that."* The words haunted me, but I laughed at them, of course. "Whatever it was, I wuuld try* to i.now. I had a plan. At dusk that day I went into my bedroom myself. I came out n changed man. I wore a white wig. a pair of great green goggles, and Ian overcoat, the tails of ^'hich j readied my heels. I had a muffler [about my throat, and a little hunch on one of my shoulders. I carried a thick cane, and stooped a great deal as I walked. Tn my hand J 'carried a carpet bag, and in my i bosom a pair of pistols, well loaded, As I passed out into the streel the early moon was just rising; she Hit me on my way to the door ol Madame Matteau's house. I It was opened for me, when ] iknocked, by old Hannah. Iler eyes j were red and swollen. Then I told I her that I was a stronger and had ! received Madame MuUchu's add rest I from a gentleman in New York, jand desired to stay under her rooi ;all night. She shook her head, j "I don't think you can," she said, j "The lady is away from home. Besides, we are in trouble here. J ! don't' think Miss Gabrielle would?' j But here Miss Gabrielle hersel: j appeared. ; "lam an old man, Miss," I said I "and, as you see, quite infirm. ] dread another step. I should tak< it as a kindness if you would ac commodate me, and I will pay anj price you ask." rwil.'ful At TT Mil \_^ Li IJL l^HV ivwun.-- v.? nali. "We linvc only one room," sh( i said, "and that? 1 ended the question of my staj j by bogging to be taken tt> it. ; "You will have supper, sir?': I asked the girl. ' But [ declared that I had eaten and only wanted rest. i Her reply was : j "Hannah, show the gentleman tf j the blue room, and make him ; ! fire." I was in the blue room, the seem of the three sudden deaths or mur 1 dcrs. It was a small apartment painted blue. It had also blue J window-curtains, and a blue sill* coverlet on the bed; a neat, stripet carpet, a set of old mahogany fur niture, and very handsome ewei and basin of costly china. It \va: at the time almost a universal cus torn to burn wood. In this room however, was a small coal stove I alluded to this as Hannah cam* in with the scuttle. "Yes, sir," she said. "Missus doe - . ... t burn ooals. IIe son" is a clerk, or the like," at them new mines In Mauch Chunk, and he sends it cheap to her; but it's a dirty, nasty smelling thing and I hate it. Now it's built and lit and 'twill warm up in fifteen minutes. It takes longer than wood." She went out of the door- and came back in a minute*witlra little tray on which stood a pot and cup and saucer, also a little bowl and a tin <7 ti'ifiilmf onrl "cnm jii.'.r IUIU uv.iJiuuwjj ill n napkin, ".Miss sciijt a bite and a sip," said she. '-Tea rests us old folks mightily. Good night." "Good night," I said, f'l expccl I shall sk.cp soon ; I must be up jearly, though, for I have bills to i pay. I have some hundreds of dollars with me to pay out to-motrof| and it's in this bag." She looked at ine in a queer sort of way, arid lingered besido, me. At last she spoke : "Look ye, sir," she said, "I think that folks ot'youi ago do wrong to lock doors on Ithenuolves. Yon might be ill at nigh*-, and who'd get iu to you 5 Leave your door unlocked." The moment she was gone ] turned the key. Was it this woman's practice tc beg travelers who stopped with her ; mistress not to lock their doors 1 "Was there some baleful potion in the cup she had given me ? It was an innocent looking cup enough ? an old-fashioned affaii covered with little gilt sprigs. The tea was fragant hyson ; but the suspicion that had crept into my mind tainted it. I fancied a strange color, a curious smell. I put it trom me and would not have touched it for a kingdom. I had not intended to sleep, and I did not undress myself. I merely removed my disguise, and sat down beside the table, with my pistols beside me. That some attempt might be shortly made to murdei me I felt to be possible. I though! of all the old tales that I had heard of trap-doors, and sliding panels. [anil secret entrances 10 inweiurs j rooms. 1 was not a coward, but ] ifelt strangely nervous; and singularly enough for a man of my perfect health, my hands were growing cold, and my feet were lumps of ice, while my head was tyuruing hot. Fifteen minutes had passed, anc the lire was kindled, bat the roorc was not warm. The blue flame; stniggled among the black coals and ilnng forked tongues tippci jv/ith yellow into the room. Then jwas nothing cheerful about tlx stove, though it was of that opei ,.:.1L?1 ,un V,?nl.|;n Vfl Sl^lU IIU VV ^uucii iiiu J. iiuiniiu. J. i I drew a chair toward it from liabit (and set my i'eet upon the hearth. ] do not knpw liow long I sat there Suddenly I became aware that ] was not myself. I was losing 11)3 j senses. If unseen hands had beet 'clasped about my neck, and an un 'seen knee had been pressed again si j my chest, my sensations could 110! have been different. A thought of the evil spirit whicl my friend had suggested, faint 1\ struggled into my mind. As I stag gcred to my feet, a noise like tin 1 roaring of the sea was in my ears I The llame ot^the candle turned t< i ja great yellow oiur. I uareiy re taincd strength enough to stagge ' to the window and iling it open i The fresh, cold winter air rushec in at it. It gave me intense pain J [but it revived me. In a momeuf . Irnore I was able to clamber out o ' it upon the shod below. . j There I remained until the day /dawn. "With rny returning sense: the truth came to me. That whicl fl had murdered the three men win ! had slept before me in the blu< L" chamber, was uotliing more or les' ; than the coal stove. It It was provided with what i: I.called a damper, and this bein?j > caught in a manner which closed it /sent the poisonous gas into tin f room. It had been kindled as i j wood fire would have been at tin .: hour of retiring, by one quite igno !rant ot the danger possible fron C coal-gas, and they had slept never t( ' awaken. Had I thrown mysel f upon the bed, I also should hav( j been found dead at daylight, in al > human probability. [j As for the fact that neither doc 3 tor nor coroner discovered the - truth, I have but to say that the\ ' were not deeply acientific men? {that coal stoves were scarcely user - in the place, and that it had no been mentioned that the blm chamber was thus heated. ! Of course I rejoiced the house ' hold by my discovery the nex j morning1, and equally, of course ' Madame Mattcau was not only treet from all suspicion, but became tin [ object of universal sympathy. Sin ! was always grateful to me, and sin proved her gratitude by giving m< t what I soon asked for, the hand o i her daughter Oabrielle in marriage ?Isiitji r. ! The imaginative advertiser is : , Southern man who gets up as tbl ; lows: What is Woman??A gen : t!cman once asked, *'What is wo I man ?" when a married man rc plied, "She is an essay on good pj ness and grace in one volume, el ? egantly bound. Although it ma; -Jbe dear, every man should have ,'copy of it." Wo will only ad< .'that when a man takes a wife h 21 should buy her the "Monumental or "All Right" cooking-stove aui I l / ^ s ve he a tair start. ^ , ^ Ulman's Educated Dog. : dale Depot. His mime is. Knappv^'J , ? He is the property of Mr. Geprg^; Jf Ullman, the station master. Koaj>p . brown shaggy coat of fine hair. . He was born in the Scotch High- >jl|S , lands nearly four years ago. Iti his infancy Kftapp was imported at tflrwinrH ?t?iva liitv* in \Ti? 'T\\\rr\*& ; ? V "tilt vv *?AI U ^ Noticing genius and intclligence'm ? Knapp, Mr. Ullmaifbegan to train him, Now Knapp can perform. ; many wonderful feats. He - has been taught to assist his master ia . the performance of his duties , around the depot. Knapp has *j ' learned to tell by the clock wh>en a train is due; and at njght when ! the hands point to the proper hour ; Knapp takes a lantern in his month. ' and stands on the platform with the light guiding the engineer to, the ' stopping placc._ Ivnapp knows an express I rain-from a cnail train,-and ' i a mail train from a way train. In the day time when a train ap' proaches tlie station and the track i is* clear, Knapp shows ap white Hag, which si?ni4iea all is wolI v i JN'ot many days ago Knapp ap pea red "with the white flag ft* an ! express train hove in sight, ,l5ut see ing two small children going tijowu 1 tho wagon road ignorant- of the approach of any train, he saw that i the children would reach the crossi: ing simultaneously with the train; lie dropped the white flag, :and [ seizing the red flag in his mouth, ? he darted toward the crossing. The * i cow thr> rp.d flncr find shut ""0*"vvl """ ? "O * i off steam before the animal reach; ed the children. Arrived at the ,' ' crossing he stood there and pre: vented the traiu from passing until y I the children were safely over the , track; then he laid the flag down ' and the train went on. On another occasion Knapp snatched a child from in front ,of a - way train just as it was stopping *at the depot. The child's clothing 3 was torn by the wheels of the loco; motive, so narrowly had it escaped death. ' Ivnapp consults the clock every 1 (day for the arrival of the mail M trains. A few moments before the ?I mail is due Knapp stations himself *| at the mail rack, and when; the ;; baij is thrown from the car he car-j rics it to the post-office, and if it 11 contains any letters tor his master ^ | he takes them back to him. [I When freight trains begin to | switch cars at the depot Knapp alr: ways takes a red flag and trots up J or down the track, as the case.may be, and flags any train that heaves in sight. Knapp always keeps his ^position faithfully until called in i by signals, just as any other flagj man is. Engineers all know Knapp N (and faithfully act upon ]?is signals, j After tlie departure of freight [trains Knapp often walks down ": the track and carefully examines 'jlhe switches'to see that the DraKe' I men have left them all right. Satisfied that no blunders have .been * made, he walks back to the depot, and if the clock shows him that he ji has a few leisure moments he signifies to his master a desire for a rfpipe. Mr. Ulluian has taught him to smoke, and lie always keeps ' jKnapp's pipe ready for lighting I when he calls for it. The pipe beJing lighted, the animal sits on a s!chair and smokes with as much ! apparent ease and comfort, as his ^ master. 51 Mr. Ullman is a good musician. Jle has a piano in the ladies' room , [of the depot, and often performs on it. T\nnnn has been taught to sing r 1 " X' r 5 lor whine the tune which Mr. Ull' !mnn plays.. The dog perches himt; self on a chair beside his master J with his fore feet on the piauo j frame, and accurately turns the J sheets of music with his tongue. JKnapp can waltz, dance a schotj-i tisclic or a a polka a3 well as any J one can on four legs. 1 Of late some of' the mischievous brakemen have thrown snow-balls . atKnapp just as the train started, k | or have made ugly faces or stamp, cd their feet at him. lie seeming. ly took no notice of these jnsults| but on Monday one of the brakesmen went into the depot to get a > 3 drink of water. When he started I out Knapp stood in the door and . would not allow him to move. IIo ( 'made a movement as though 'about ! to administer a kick, and Knapp j opened his mouth and uttered a 5 J growl, which convinced the brake2 man that such a proceeding1 would vbe dangerous. Ivnapp kept his 2 prisoner in the room until the train ( had gone so far that the hrakeman couldn't catch it, and then releas"jinghiin, Knapp walked away a.-. juneoncernei'.ly as tliougn nothing ;unusual had occurred. Since tb-i' a time the brakemen have been o\" 'eeedinglv civil to Jvnnpp, ^bui ln> treats them with lof'tv iudbiereiico. i- v ? A Peoria naturalist, in aHemp ting to warm the ears of a fro-a y I wasp over a gas get, discover a j that the tail ol the insect thawor :1! out first, and worked with a rapid e.ity that was qs astonishing a.< th'. i hideous profanity of the natural"-;, d who held "tile insect, by flu j 'while thus experiment"'. *