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sc BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22. 1876. j VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 50. ^MASONIC DIRECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. IV. H. PARKER. W.\ M.\ J. C. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M. J. F. C. DuPRE. M.\ E.\ II \ P.-. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every month. DsSanssnre Council No. 16, R. & S. M. T. T. RORERrSON. T.\ III.-. M.\ JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meets let Tuesday night in every month. DB. JOHN S. THOMPSON, DENTIST, Offers bis professional services to the citizens i of Abbeville and the surrounding country. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON Have on band a large stock of Guts' Linn la M AT VERY LOW PRICES. A large assortment of .Ladies* and G-ents' Merino Vests & Shirts, BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Silk Scarfs and Ties. GIVE THEM A CALL. The Star Shirt! Having tried these Shirts, we can safely re commend them for k good fitting and durable Shirt. Collars, Linen and Paper, LATEST STYLES, With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERR1N." Cottage Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedsteads just received, war ranted all' hard wood, at prioeu from $5 00 to $10.90. Z ~ - * - J. D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes! <- i<t ' > \ * ; "i .J. V : S Our stock of BOOTS and SHOE^ i-t now oomplete, and at the Lowest Pricts for C-VSH. Call early and get a b?rgaiji. DuPBE, GiUffBRELL & CO^ '* O. B. BRTJCB,; ? ,: i " * t' 1 *' ri L J O! RS^I duui anu onus master, if* y >' i Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, 8. C., { y \ i \ l \ ' - Dseiree to say that ho is fully prepa- el ftf-nseot nil demand* the pablic may make in h:? line He keeps constantly on hand a large ;ot of the best material and employs only tli?tiuei-t wo- k roen. He keepa a J all "stock of custom mwl". Boots and Shoes, and guarantees the moat entire eatiltf io^Ioji to every instance. ,.* .'I, QOI.Tj^M^n^ f%'"? * r.Jt rlVtlSD. - G-OfcDSHITH & KIND,- - FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS '(PHOENIX IRON WORKS),' COLUMBIA, S. C. Manufacturers of-Steam Endues of all Hizep; Horse powers, Circular and Malev Saw Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Milis, Flour MilK Orna mental Houso and Store Fronts', Irou Rulings, Agricultural Ifnplementi*,"6tc. biass and Iron Castings of all kind* made to order on ?bort intioe. and on the mo?l're**0D?bla tdrm?. lao, manufacturers of Cpttcu^re^es. w i S. B. NORRBLL, HARNESS ana SADDLE MAKER, AT HIS OLD STAND Over Parker & Perrin's Drag Store, Has a enppTy of Northern Harness Eeather and other material for Making aud Impairing sfiddles'and Ba<pie8^ "* ll! v rj CARPENTRY Il'lilfiHFJ 7^11 The tuidenngned he?bygives notice that he is grepjrid 10 doall kipdf of Cajpr/wiA jif Biilii. He also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrashers and Faob. 'A. ftlH sapphr'ctf Gin. Material always tnii kacld. 11 Farmer* are requested to bring thair Gh>s tip eajcJy in the season to allow tid$e tt> hkvft thorn nrtmorlv nrenarert: Afeb "Ag?nt for tlie-Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brooks Cotton Pros*, and all kinds of Knbber and Leather iieltiug. D. B. SMITH, t r AbbeviUc C. II., S. C. .; ]7j?;STEASW Columbia, S. O., r F.W.WING, Proprietor. MANUFACTURER OF . . ,t<r? * Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW-AND DOOR FRAMES, S k. wr PILASTERS, Mantelpieces, MOLDINSS, BRACKETS. Handrails, Newels, Balusters. SCROLL fOBXiif all teiipfc. All Work Guaranteed A No. 1. Content. I My bo&rt and I bat lately wore at strife, I She foil a-longing for a certsin thing, j The which I could not give her, and my life Grew Rick and weary with her clamoring. I God known I would have given my youth 8 wide scope, To buy my heart but ono brief, bleseed day Of the bliDd bliss she covoted; but hope, When I appealed to it, turned dumb away. Until hope failed, I did not chide my hoart, Bat was full tender to her rnieery, kr ew how hard and bitter was her part; Bat when I saw that good was not for me, I felt that time and tears were vainly spent; "Heart," said I, "hopo is ei:o:it; bo con tent." Pool heart! She listened eanxst, humble wise, While my good angel gave her counsel strong, Then from the dust and ashes did aris?, Aud through her trembling Hps brake forth a aoDg; A soothing Bong that grew into a strain Of praise for bliBS denied as well as given. She sang it then to charm a lingering pain. She sings it now for gladness, morn and oven. She sings it, seeing on life's garden wall Love's deep red roses in the sunshine stir, And singing, passes, envying not at all, Content to feel that love io not for her. The roses are another's, bloom and scent, My heart and I have heartsease?and con tent. ? >17/ Thp 7?n*i?>/7 >; A JAGUAE STORY. " Ah ! Senor Inglez, I see you're de termined to defy our climate! After tho march that my husband led you through the woods this morning, ono would have thought jou'd have been glad of a siesta; aud hero I find you writ ing away like any lawyer." So speaks, gliding out with tho sup pleness of Spanish blood into the veran dah in which I am seated, my charming hostess, Senora Diaz, oue of the most piquant little tropical beauties that Mu rillo ever dreamed of. ** XXZtill raollr connro offer oil wonders I've seen in this fairyland of yours, I had need write them down as fast as I see them, lest, as your proverb savs, one nail should drive out an other." " Your flatter our poor country, senor, with the conrtesy of your nation. But as I see that you are putting by your writing, I will task your gallantry so far as to beg your help in watering my flowers, for it is not easy for me, with my lame hand, to manage that great watering pot!" " Be pleased to use my hands as those of your slave , senora, when and wher ever jou maj need them. By-the-bye, j am I wrong in imagining that you prom ised me a story connected with the laming of the haud of which you speak ? I would not willingly be troublesome, hui, whpn vnn Iiavr Iflisnrw"? "With pleasure, fenor ; it is von | kind of you to interest yourself in such I a trifle. As soon as the plants arf j watered, I shall have the honor of s< rv t ing you a cup of coffee on the balcony; I and, than, if you arc good enouph to" care to hear it, the story is quite at yonr service." And accordingly, ten minutes lator, I tind myself sitting in the verandah ovt r a cup of such coffee as I have not tasted since leaving Arabia, with little Lolita (JDolorea), my -hostels' only daughter, and my especial pot, nestling at mv side ; while the senora, deftly rolling up and lighting u paper cigarette, begins as follows : When we firsE'came here, senor, a zood manv vears aero, tho dIhoo was verv different from what you see it. My hus band had n grant of laud from the gov ernment, which was glad to givo awuy ground about here to any one who would take the trouble to dear it; and well it might! For in those days the jungle reached right down to the water's edge; and such a black, horrid tangle it looked of briars, bamboos, Spanish bayonet, wild fig, liana, pirijuo, locust wood, and what not, that I ielt as if I daren't even go a step into it for fear of being lost altogether, . However, bit by bit, we began to get the ground into some sort of order ; but ieven when wo had cleared it, aod begun to plant it, we had still plenty of ene isSts to fight against. Ihe aDt3 were rhe' tvnrst, Frir. nnart from tlin liuvnr* which they always make in a plantation, they have a way of running their gal leries under the whole surface, and it ;>reaks in just like the crust of a pie. There's a place a little to the north of this, where you see ft huge pit in t ie ground, full of bushes anil wild grass, with here and there a few moidering timbers, Where a wholti' village sunk at once, the foundations having been fairly honeycombed by the ants I And thence comes our saying that Paraguay has two enemies?" the wild Indians and the ant Indians." However; luckily for us, there were no Indians about "there, except the tame In dians, who behaved well enough, and used to bring us food and diied meat in exchange for knives and aquardientw. Ami na fnr Mia pnfcs TrWt, with nrvisnninff them, and digging np their nests, ai\d flooding their galleries with boiling water, we managed to get the best of them at last, though even now they sometimes make a foray upon us from the woods aroun d. But af ter them came mother pest that was far worse?the snakes. I n?ed hardly tell you, who have been through the forests yourself, how they swurm there; and for a time I really gave myself up for lost. My hu Koi^n riu<.<1 fn r?<ill flinm flta fo -v _ rra f li_ ?rerV and, really, they were quite as regular, not a day that we didu't find one or two of them somewhere about the house. And once what a fright I got! When Lolita was only a few month5? old, my husband and his men hud gone out to their work one morning as usual, and I was busy in the house, with the child lying asleep on a mat at the other end of the room, when, all at once, I naught sight of a mouse's skin on the floor, with the body sucked clean out of it, like an orange. I knew at once that there must be a snake some where al>ont, for they're might fond of mice, and that's just the way they deal with them; but, look as I might, I could ) see no snake any where, till suddenly the thought struck me, con Id it be under j the child's mat? As gently as I could, I I lifted up one eoruer, and there it was, i the long, slimy, green-and-yellow lieast, | curled snugly up, and fast nsleop. I | knew that I could do nothing with it ! myself, for it was a sort that you cau i only kill by shooting them; so I ran out; into the courtyard, and, luckily, the first thing I saw was our hunter Jose, with his gun on his shoulder. I called him in at once, and he settled the beast with a charge of small eliot. ? However, as tho work went on, and we got more and more ground cleared, our visitors b g in to forsake us; for snakes must have a thick cover to bur row in, and, when that's taken away from them, they soon slink off. So then I began to hope that we were fairly at the end of our troubles; but wo weren't? we were only at the beginning of them. I don't know how it was?perhaps it njay liave been that (aa the proverb says) everything mmst have its turu?but somehow, all through our troubles with the ants, and serp9nt?, the bigger beasts had never disturbed us at all; but sow, just as we -were beginning to have a lit tle peace from our other plagues, the four-footed gentlemen began to come on the stage at last. One morning, just as we were at breakfast, in came one of our vaqueros with news that our cattle, while feeding among tbo long grass on the other side of the river, had been at tacked by a jaguar, and one of them killed. The fellow who had brought the news had had to run for his life, and would hardly have escaped had there not been a fat ox ready at hand instead. As it was, he looked so thoroughly frightened that it made us all rather serious. However, a week passed with out any fresh alarm, and we were be ginning to get over it, when suddenly in came tlwo or fonr Indians in a great flurry to tell us that a huge jaguar had J broken into their encampment, and I killed a woman and one of their dogs. I in 1 1 J r.^VTt ; ?nuii Liiy xiUMJiuiu iiuuiu i/iio oiuij no : made sure tbat it was tlio same beast j tliat had fallen upon our cattle ; for they . described it as being of a very strange ' color, far lighter than any that had ever j been FCcn in those parts before, and from that they had nicknamed it " The Pale Death." So then we all thought it full time to do something ; and my hus band called his men together to go out and hunt it down. I I remember that morning well, though | it will be a year ago the day after to j morrow. Away they went merrily enough, every man with his gun and i hunting knife, and Moro, the blood hound, along with them. My husband J turned and kissed his hand to me just i as they entered the wood, and then they | were gone! When I found myself all alone in the j house with Lolita, and thought of what ! miorVit liannpn if tkev met this horrible I boast, I was so frightened that (although I had 110 thought of any chance of dan ger to myself) I wasn't satisfied till I ! had shut and barred every door in the i house ; and then I came and sat down ! in tho drawing-room, and took Lolita in | my lap, and tried to tell her a story, i Suddenly I heard a scraping along the | roof, and then a dull thump like the fall | of something heavy ! Anxious and ner I vous as I was, it gave me a terrible start, ! though I little dreamt what it was. But | tho next moment can e a souud just I overhead that 1 could not mistake?a I Ion# hoarse roar, that I had heard many ! a time in the forest at night, and never | heard without feeliug my heurt fitand ! still. Then the thought struck me? | "Oh, Heaven; the jaguar !" I shall never forget that moment! For one minute I was quite sick and helpless, as if all the life had been struck out of me at one blow; paid then a thought flashed upon me. There was no keeping the jaguar out, for most of the doorways were only hung with cur tains; but in the storeroom close by there was a huge woodeu corn chest, uearly empty, and big enough to hold six or seven people at once. If Lolita and I could only get in there we might yet be waved! I siatched up the child, ran with her into the storeroom, and crouched down in the chest. Unluckily it closed with a spring lock, so that I had to keep the lul slightly open with my left hand, to avoid beiug f-hut down and stilled out right; but it had an overlapping edge several inches long, which quite covered my fibgers. I uas not a moment too sooa. Hard ly had I got fairly settled in my hiding ulace. when I heard the erreat ela*s scraping the fluor, nrnl the hungry sniff n-t the jaguar quested about in search of fviod. He came straight to the chest, and there stopped short a moment, as if ?us|><H*tiDg a trap. Then he pui his In ad close to the narrow* opeuiug, so that I could feel his hot breath on my face, snuffed once or twice to satisfy himself, ? d then tried to force the lid up \>ith bin paw; bnt, thank God. the great paw would not go into that httle chink 1 All he could do was to get his tongue in and lick my fingers, making them bleed as if they bad been rasped with a saw. And theu, what with the taste of blood, and what with hearing Lolita crying msine, nis Jury was rousea, anu ho began to roar, not nu honest, deep mouthed lion ro;ir, but a sirup, snarling veil, tlmt made mv blood run cold. Ugh ! I can't think how I didn't die outright, bnt tho touch of Lolita's little arm, clinging round ray neck, seemed to give me courage. But the worst was still to come. Find ing that he could not reach me from Ire low, he sprang on the top of tho chest, crushing my hand between the lid and the upper edgo. Then I thought all w.is over, and gave a ecream that made the whole house ring. My Rcream was answered by a sound that made my heart leap?the distant <;ry of a bloodhound ! Tho jaguar heard .f fnn f/ir Iia lnannrl /Town <ub1 cfsirwl li^teni^g a moment, and th^n ran to the loor, aa if to escape. There it was igaiu?much nearer?and with* it the voices of men culling to each other. They were coming buck ! M.-an while, the jaguar seemed to get bewildered, and ran wildly up and down the inner gallery. Suddenly there came a loud shout at .Hie of the windows, and then two shots and a frightful y*-ll ; and then my hus band's voice, strained to its loudest: " Cachita! where are you ?" I just mauag( d to crawl to the door and let him in, and then I fainted outright. They told me afterwards that our bloodhound had struck the trail of the jagnar leading straigin; rownru iu? house ; and then they all Ret off to run like madmen, fearing some harm to me. My husband and Jose distanced the rest, and came up just in time to shoot the beast through the window. As for my h-.ind, it was so crushed that I couldn't stir a joint of it for weeks after. The Indians doctored it for me, and they tell me I shall have the uso of it agnin by-and-bye ; but I don't need that to remind mo of that day. If I live a thousand years, I bhall nevei for get it. W?rms to be Extradited. In the "Worms forgery case at Mon treal, Judge Ramsay decided that the prisoner should bo handed over to the American authrrities. Worms was a practicing physician of Montreal, and was arrested on a charge of forgery. Having obtained the confidence of Wil lium L. Newman, ot the Atlantic noiej, Chicago, Worms persuaded liim tlmt ho could obtain a profitable contract for Indian supplies from the United States government. They went on to Wash ington together, where, after so mo de lay, Worms produced what purported to be a oontract for a gigantio quantity of clothing, bearing the sigimture of Se cretary Chandler. Worms persuaded Newman that it was necessary to send $5,000 to the President as a bribe, and when Newman placed the money in au euvelope, diverted his attention for a moment and changed the envelopes, sub stituting one containing some pieces of paper, una was registoreu anu mawa. As a matter of course, the forgery and fraud were soon discovered, and Worms' extradition songbt for forging the contract. The men and women dress so much alike in Cochin, China, that it is dan gerous to slap a man on the shoulder and remark: " Come, old fellow, let's drop in here and indulge in a smile." It may be the old fellow's wife, you know. ON THE RIO GRANDE. InveKtltfalinjt the Unlets on the Alexin Border. General Ord, commander of the miJ tary department of Texas, was examine as a witness before the select committi of the United States House on tl Texas frontier troubles, and gave to tl committee a very full and intelligent a count of the cattle raids to which tl rancheros on tho American side of tl Rio Grande for 500 miles along tl river and for 150 miles back from it ai subjected, as well as oi tho remcti which he would recommend for them. According to the general's stateme] the country which is tho scene of thof border forays is separated from tl river by a very extensive belt of unde growth forest, or chaparral, which forn a screen and shelter for the catt! thieves, who live by plunder, and whic renders it next to impossible for mil tary patrols or military posts to inte fere with them. There are two clasft of Mexicans living on tho Texas sid< the one consisting of intelligent, honei rancheros, who aro as much opposed t these raids as the American portion ( the population is, and the other consis ing of worthless fellows, many of thei outlaws or deserters from the Mexica army, who work occasionally on tb ranchos and who act a3 spies and ii formers for their cousins, or compadrct on the other side, when they cross th river on their cattle-stealing expeditiom It is the intelligence which they roceiv from these fellows which enables thei to avoid the routes by which they migl be intercepted on their return wit their booty. On their own side of the river thes bands, which sometimes number fror one hundred to one hundred and fift men. are in league with the local an I thorities, their recognized chief bein, Cortina, so that all facilities are gi re: to them for disposing of their plundei and Bnch a thing as restoration of . th stolen cattle is never thought of. Th national government of Mexico is no to be hlamed, in General Ord's opinion for this state of things, first, becaus the system of the government is to le each State take care of its own affairs and second, because the Mexican sol diers have a strong tendency, wheneve they get near enough to the border, t desert their colors at d cross into Texas The Mexican government is, kiereforc powerless in tho matter, and tne Stat government of Tamaulipas scorns to re gard these frontier forays as part of th< esiablished order of things essential fo the good of the community. The onl; remedy, therefore, for the evil is?an< it is one which the general is urging oi the War department-*?to increase th cavalry force on the Rio Grande and givi him authority, when his troops come 01 the trail of one of those thieving bands to let tho pursuit be continued to th? Mexican side of the river, and let thi troops deal out summary punishment oi the robbers. He thinks that whatever oppositioi the local Authorities might make to sucl a practical course, the general govern ment of Mexico would not njftke any Ho says that now. in ono of the mor< northern States, Oliihuahna, himself am the Mexican commandant have a mutna arrangement by which Indian expedi tions are followed on either side of thi river, and that on some occasions th: American and Mexican troops have co operated in their movements against thi Indians, rations being supplied by hii orders to the Mexicans, Ho is confl dent that the only feasible mode of put ting down these forays is by following up the robbers in the way ho recotn mends. Tlin Itoiith of ttevordv Johnson. Mr. Johnson went to Annapolis U urgue a case in the court of appeals By invitatiou of Gov. Carroll be becamt liis guest at the executivo mansion. A dinner Mr. Johnson appeared in excel lent spirit and his usual health, and en tertaiued the company by his conversa tiou aud reluting anecdotes. At dinne: lie took one glass of Madeira and re fused to tako any more. After dinne: lie suddenly asked tho governor to tak< him into the parlor. He took the gov ernor's arm, and walking in there, sa down ou a solo. .The governor proposec to have coffee brought. Mr. Johusoi replied: "No, if you want to smoke rejoin your guests and smoke." Th< governor answered : " Yory well, ] will join you in a few minutes," nnd re turned to the tablo ; but feeling uneasy at leaving Mr. Johnson alone, proposec to the company to go into the parloi p.nd join- him. Mr. Charles (i. Kerr Mr. Johnson's son-in-law, who hadcom< into the dining-room after Mr. John son had left the table, said : "No, h( always takes a nap after dinner, and ] ? i- _ ff fTH.. suppose lie nas gone 10 bikuj^ xu? company then went on smoking find talking, and while so doing * servant o: the governor appeared at the door, ant beckoning him out told him Mr. John son was lying in the yard on the stones Gov. Carroll went immediately to th< place and found Mr. Johnson lying on the cobblestone carriageway that passec under tho porch of the mansion, clos< up to the wall, and near a do:?r leading iato the basement. Ho had evidently gone down the front steps and grounc to the side of the house, and had faller where he was found. This was aboul eight p. m., and the impression is thai he had been there at least half nn hour, He was then dead, and was bleeding profusely from a wound on the rightsidt of his head and face. His body was al once removed into a basement room anc physicians summoned. Mr. Johnsor was dead. There are largo wounds or the right side of the forehead, two frac tares of the skull from the upper portior of the forehead to the eyebrow, disl jca tioa of finger of left hand, and outs 01 hands and legs and bruises. Abolishing Custom IIoinos. Tho secretary of the United State: treasury has decided to recommend th( abolition of all custom houses in tlx United States where the amount (if ex penditnres for the past yenr wore in ox cess of the roceipts. In accordance witl LUiH iu?u ifiiu nuuuuuw ui im; vuriuuu CU3 torn houses have been carefully exam iu^d, anil tho secretary has decided tc ask that fifty-poven of these useless in etitutions be abolished. The largest ex cess of expenditures over receipts foi any one custom house was at Drowns' ville, Texas, -where tho expenditures foi the year were $06,977.86, and the re ceipts $42,472.18, leaving a deficiency o: 324,505 08. Of the New England State: Maine loses seven custom houses, Massa chusetts four and Rhode Island two The custom houses at New Albany, Iud. St. Joseph, Kansas City, Keokuk, Selma, Ala., and other inland cities wil be abolished. New York State will lost ono or two custom houses along the lak e < Sag Harbor being one of the non-payinj stations. Water Weeds.?A gentleman had : pond from which he took water fo: household use. But weeds grew rankb in it and destroyed its beauty. He wai advised to procure a pair of swans aoi they would oleax the weeds away. Hi did so, and sure enough they rooted on tho weeds; but then the water gre\ stagnant and became impure and unfi for use. He sent the swans away, am as the weeds grew and thrived the wate baeame pure and u^ble. MURDER THAT WOULD OUT. Proofs Agolnat Murderer* FurnUhed by tl Very Means thnt they Employed lor Coi cenlment?Parallel* or the William burgh Tragedy. The discovery of the mutilated r mains at Williamsburgh, N. Y., calls I mind some notable cases that seem j confirm the popular belief that whatev< disposition may be made by a murder< of tho corpse of his victim, sooner ( later it will " cry out from the ground against him. In England what w? known as "The Waterloo Bridge Myi tery," about fifteen years ago, create great excitement [t here, remains of human body being: found crammed int a carpetbag, as did recently the discoi orv of tho murder of Harriet Lnne b her paramour, Wain wright, by the fine ing in a cab a package containing parte her remains. In America, the killing c poor .Alice Bowlsby of Paterson, N. J, by Rosenweig, discovered by the fine ing of the body crashed into a trunk fc transmission to Chicago, is still fresh i the recollection of the public. From number of cases showing the difficult of keeping murder out of sight, the fol lowing three cases, which have becom historical, are interesting examples: The case of Prof. Webster, who wa hanged for the murder of Dr. Parkman was one in which giilt was brough home to the perpetr/itor through th identification of a body after it had bee: separated limb from limb, submitted fc chemical processes, and to the inordi nate heat of a furnace, and mingled wit) tin unnumbered bones of anatomica subjects. It was shown that Prof. Web ster had urgent pecuniary motives fo getting Dr. Parkman out of the way The prisoner lived at the Medical Col lege, lioaton. .tie maae an appomcraen to meot Dr. Parkman at two o'clock 01 Friday, Nov. 23, 1849, to discuss monej matters. Dr. Parkman was seen enter ing the collego at a quarter to tw< o'clock, and was never again seen alive The prisoner said that the doctor die not keep his appointment, and was no in the college at all that day. For a whole week no traces of th( missing man were found. On the Fri day week and the day following wer< found in a furnace connected with Web ster's laboratory in the college, fusee together indiscriminately with the slag the cinders and the refuse of the fuel, ? large number of bones and certain block; of mineral teeth. Some gold that had been melted was also found. Othei bones were discovered in a vault unde] the college, and in a tea chest, embeddec ia a quantity of tea, the entire trunk oi a human body and more bones were found. The parts thus collected from different places made the entire body ol i a person of Dr. Parkman's age, aboul | sixty years, and the form of the body, when reconstructed, had just the pecu liarities of Dr. Parkman. It was further shown that the remain? had been separated by a person pos sessed of anatomical skill, though noi for anatomical purposes. Finally three witnesses, dentists, testified 'hat the mineral teeth were those made for Dr. Parkman three years before. A mold of the doctor's jaw was mado at the time, and it was produced, and shown to be so peculiar that no accidental con formity of tlie teetn to tne jaw couia possibly account for the adaptation. This clinched the evidence against the prisoner. The murder of Samuel Adams, a printer in New York, by John 0. Colt, a teacher of bookkeeping, and brother of the late Col. Samuel Colt, of revolvei fame, is auother example. As in the case of Prof. Webster, the motive -was to get rid of an importunate creditor. The scene of the murder was the build ing on j>roaciwiiy ujiu v^uumueio auccn, now occupied by Delmonico, the res taurateur. John C. Colt occupied a room in tliie building for his business. One Sep tember morning in 1841, Adams, who was printing lor him a work on book keeping, called for 850 or 360 due him, and was not seen again alive. Inquiries were made by his family, and it was as certained that ho was last seen going into Colt'fi appartmcnts, in Chamber* street. On the day of Adams' disap pearance, suspicious noises wero heard in Colt's room. The body finally camc boxed, directed to a gentleman in St. LoniH, by way of New Orleans, and was trneod back to New York to Colt, and he was arrested. Colt's story was that Adams aud he had a disputo as to the correctness ol the bill presented, and that the lattei called bim a liar, which he resented by slapping him in the face. A scuffle en sued ; Adams seized him by the throat and Colt, in self defense, canght up 8 hatchet lyiug near by and struck him on tho forehead, killing him. He went oul of his room and locked the door, hurry ing to the City Hotel, where his brother, Samuel Colt, was staying, intending tc tell him his secret and take his advice. Samuel Colt, who was in tho barroom Willi somo ineaus, vjiti uis uiwiutu uu go up to bis rocnn and that lie would join Lira in a few minutes. The prison er waited, and bis brother not coming, ho went back to tlio room in Chambers street. Tho body lay there covered with blood. He took a large box, drammed the body into it, wrapped in a piece of can vas, tying thelegs up close to tho truuk, and then scattered salt and sawdust ovei all. He washed off tho marks of blood on tho wall and floor, and smeared them with ink to hide their traces. Ho stayed in tho room until lato at night, and tiien returned to Ilia JO.'igxngs. next mum 1lg he nailed np the box, sent for a car man, and had it put on board tho steam er Kalamazoo, lying at tho foot of Maidec lane. Colt was convicted of willful murder, and was sentenced to bo hanged. On the day fixed for tho hanging he stabbed himself in the heart. A remarkable murder trial in Boston, in many respects like that of Professoi Webster, but resultiogin the acquittal oi the prisoner, was that of Leavitt Alley, who was accused of killing Abijah Ellis, Some workmen near tho Cambridge gas works discovered two barrels containing I LllG mUtllUtCJUUUUJ Iivaiaug xoa wuw V?*.?vs I liver. Tlicy were packed with horse ma | nnre ami shavings, aud in one of the , barrels n piece of brown paper was 1 found with the namo of M. Schouler, c ! billiard table maker. It was known thai j Loavitt Alley, a teamster, was in the I habit of reraoviug tfiese shavings to his stable. Following the clew to the stable it was found that a drymanuro heap had been disturbed aud blood was found or some boards near by. It wus proved that ou the previon; morning Alley started from his stable with four barrel", aud a teamster, ir | jumping from a \ ngon, had ascertained J that two of them wero heavy. Two ol the barrels* wore not satisfactorily ac ; counted for, aud a man testified that he I saw the team and barrels with a mar 1 strongly resembling Auey on ruu ui> j dam, whencn they wero supposed to bavt J been thro mi into tho river. Alloy owec Ellis about $200, needed money, anc ' Ellis was known to have been lookinp for the suspected man on tho night ol 1 tho murder. A new ax that Alloy bar j bought was missing. Stains were founc on his clothing, which experts declarec to bo the blood of the murdered man. A woman had heard strange noises on th< night of the murder, like the rolling o; barrels. Alley, it was shown, had plenty of money after Ellis' death. An ex aminat'on of the stomach of the mur dared man showed that he must hav< died between six and ni:>e o'clock on the faral evening. Seemingly, here was a perfect chain of circumstantial evidence. But the defense met the theory that Al ley had committed the murder in a quar rel by showing his peaceable disposition and his high reputation for honesty, and controverted the assertion of the prose cution that Alley was in debt to Ellis, and without money to meet an engage ment that fell due at the time of the mur der, by showing that the prisoner owned real estate in New Hampshire, and had money in a bank. Alley's abundance of ready money after the murder was ex plained by his son having repaid him $125 the evening before. He gave a sat isfactory account of how he had spent his time on the day of the murder. Ex perts called by the defense swore that the blood on the prisoner's clothes, being dry, could not be distinguished from the blood of a beast. This conflicting scientific testimony confused the jury to the advantage of the prisoner, and he was acquitted. If he was not the mur derer, the murderer was never found. CR1IY OYER STOCKS. | ine uoniinza maoin in san rrnncmg in Dcicribcd by a Correspondent. The people in San Francisco are crazy on the subject of stocks. Men, women and children all deal in them. You step into a bootblacking establishment, and as the darkey brushes the mud off he remarks: "Chollar's looking up, Bah. Quite a bulge dey got on Californy." You can buy stock from twenty-five cents up to $i80 a share, so everybody, from the richest man in the city down to the newsboys, can handle it. To illustrate the extent to which this gambling mania affects all classes of people, I will relate a little incident which came under my own observation. I was dining at the Palace Hotel. The waiter placed a plate of soup in front of the gentleman opposite me, a prominent ? ? 1 *11 CI fll. stocK Drojcer, wnom we wui can omim. As he put down the plate the waiter re marked : ' What do you think of Nevada, Mr. Smith ?" " Well, I think they aro a good pur chase at $26," said Mr. Smith. "I'se got ten shares dat coat me $18," said the darky, "and I guess you may sell them for me in the morniDg. Fish, sah?" " Yes; bring me some sea bass." The fish was brought and the con versation continued. " What do you think of Ophir, sah ?" " Well, I don't think it will go much higher. Thoy run it up to 83 to-day." " I'se got fifteen shares of dem dat I held a good while. I bought 'em in at 15. I guess you can sell dose too." OA mnrjf An fVlTVYniVll flirt I a.UU DU JU VTOAXU UU uuiuugu nuv VMVM.W 1 dinner. With each course was an order to buy or sell some stock. The fellow ! had invested his little sayings in margins on trades, and cleaned up nearly 82,000 ; as the result of his operations. The 1 i conductors on the street ears hardly i havo timo to collect fares, they are so 1 much occupied in trading \ with the 1 [ drivers. There are some queerstories told ; i of tho moauB adopted to influence the , market. One of the leaders of tho big J bonanza ling, when asked for jjoints by bis friends, tolls them that lie cannot say anything, but they may read the dis Eatches on his desk, 'these dispatches o himself had dictated, and when his friend buys or sells on the strength of them, he finds some bright morning that lie has been bucking against the ring and been swallowed up. Another well known operator who lived at Virginia City, and whose apartments were shared by a fair companion, came down to San Francisco, and after a few days wrote to his fair friend to buy shares in a certain mine. Of conrse the woman told one or two intimate friends, they told others, and as soon as these people had bought all they could put up margins for tho ring began to deliver stock. Tne stock had been watered and tho outsiders swindled. Some say that It-- L 1.~ ^,1 V.inr. { mo upcraiui wxiu uli^iuccicu tut* . reimbursed his lady friend, while others j say ho had not even grace to do that, i As soon as a man makes a fortune hero ; . ho at once builds a hotel or theater. Of [ course the Palaco takes the lead among ' i the hotels. The exterior is anything j but beautiful, as it is nothing but a i i great sqnavo building, with an excres- 1 [ oence in tho shape of a bow window to < each room, giving it a decidely eruptive i i appearance. Tho interior is not as ele- : f gantly finished as I had been led to sup- ,] pose, and in this respect do^s not at ' all compare with tho Palmer House in , . Chicago. The rooms are all comfort i able, well lighted and famished, but tho favorite apartments lor lummes tmu regular boarders are those on tho sixth floor, opening on the large covcred court in the ccnter. E. J. Baldwin, or "Lucky Baldwin," as he is called, is building a largo hotel, with a theater in the center. If any one else were to put such a building everybody would pre dict a loss on tho investment, as the town is overstocked with botli hotels and theaters. But as everything this anoma fn fnvn rrnl^l T lUULi bUU^UUO otbmo v\j bUiU uv a aupjiose it vrill pay. What a Joke Did. There is unhappily too much reason to believe that the horrible and fatal panic at Robiuson's opera house, in Cincinnati, 0., was the deliberate work of a young boy who was fond of his ! joke. Of course this young American j humorist had no adequate idea of the effect that he would produce by yelling j " Fire !" at an opportune moment in the i midst of a theater crammed with women i and children. Had he suspfitted, how- J ever faintly, what a thing pauic is, a j 4-Iiii.rr innvo linrrihln flVMl thfin mob 1 rage, with its concomitant swoonings, shrieks, imprecations, prayers, desper ato struggles for life regardless of other life, he would hardly have tried his ex pel imcnt. Though it was not as success ful as it might have been, the aggregate of death and agony, mental and physi cal, wa- doubtless amply sufficient to satisfy his curiosity, and it is not likely that any who were present will while they livo engage iaor countenance prac tical joking. The catastrophe serves to remind us what materials are to be found in every church, theater, or crowded ferryboat, needing but the yell of a ma niac, a drunkard, a brute or a fool, to be i quickened into horror inexpressible. The Big Bank Burglary. It is probable that the cashier of every 1 bank in New York has made up his mind what no wouiu uo 11 no were piaceu iu tlio position of the cashier of the Norfh- i ampton hank. As far as heard from, ; tho following is the respective pro gram mo : J. " Would have shot 'em all the day ; before." 2. "Would havo thrown snuff in their oyes aud choked 'em to death." 3. "Would have swallowed tho safe key." 4. "Would have been off to the lodge, and they couldn't have found him." fi. " Would havo blnffflil Vm nfTT hv threatening a law suit." 6. "Would have told 'em that his mother in-law was in the house." 7. "Would hare died right there and been buried on the spot." 8. "Would have argued the matter with them till daylight." Deity In Forty-Eight Languages. The following list, comprising the name of God in forty-eight languages, was compiled by the well-known Frenoh philologist, Louis Burger, in the follow ing manner: One day, as he was walking along the streets of Paris, he heard a voice beseeching him to buy some nuts. Upon looking back he discovered that it was the voice of his old barber, who was gaining a scanty living by selling nuts on the street. To aid him, he hastily made out and gave to the barber the following list: Hebrew?Elohinm, Eloah. Chaldaic?Eilab. Assyrian?Eleah, Syriac and Turkish?Alah. Malay?Alia. Arabio?Allah. Language of the Magi?Orai. Old Egyptian?Tuet. Armohan?Tenti. Modern Egyptian?Tenn. Greek?Theoa. Cretan?Thioe. JEoiian and Dorio?Iloa. Latin?Deua. Low Latin?Diex. Coltio and Gallio-Dia. Fronoh?Dieu. SoaniBh?Dion. Portuguese?Deo's. Old German?Di6t. Provencal?Dion. Low Breton?Done. Italian?Dio. Irish?Dia. Olalu Tonguo?Deu. German and Swiss? Gott Flemish?Goed. Dutch?Godt English and Old Saxon?God. Teutonic?Goth. Danish aud Swedish?Gut. N orwegian?Gud. Slave?Buoh. rouun?Bog. Pollacca-Bung. Lapp?Jubinal. Finnish?Jumala. Ranio?As. ZembJain?Fetizo. Pannonian?Litu. HindoBtance?Rain. Coromandel?Brama. Tartar?Magatal. Persian?Sire. Chinese?Prn-sa. Japanese?Goezur. Madagascar?Zannar. Peruvian?Puchecammac. By the sale of these lists the barber was enabled to make as good a living, if not better, than M. Burger himself. Where it Came From. Apropos of the "guzzling" of liquors on funeral trains, Perley, of the Boston Journal, tells the following story of an incident which occurred while the corpse of a distinguished citizen of the old Bay State was on its last journey homeward, quite a number of years ago: There was an unusually large delega tion of Congressmen as an escort, to gether with the usual staff of officers and correspondents. It *as a warm, early spring day, and when the train Btopped for a few moments at Magnolia station, just beyond Baltimore, one of the House clerks, noted for his bibulous propensities, was delighted at finding a colored boy on the platform, with a hnndln nf frnsh mint, which was imme d'a'ely purchased. When the train started, the owner of the fragrant flavor ing herb at once began to concoct whisky juleps, but although there was no lack of liquor, there waa no ice? that luxury not having been introduced into the -water tanks of cars. All at once M. exclaimed: "I can get some ice in the baggage car," and wont for ward, to return soon with some large lumps of tho cooling material. He was greeted with a welcome shout, and soon the ice was being rattled in glasses from which the juleps were approvingly drained, until a South Carolina repre sentative, as if suddenly struck between the eyes, exclaimed : "I wish I may be Kissed, M.,if I don't Deneve yon tooK this ice from the box under the coffiu.' rhero was a dead silence?no more juleps were drank, and at Havre-de Grrace M. quietly left the car. Had a pledge never to drink any more whisky juleps been thou and there presented, it would have received numerous signa tures. Hanging a Man. Prof. Houghton of the University of Dublin has been investigating the sub ject of hnmaue hanging. He states that Mr. Gibson, surgeon at Newgate, Eng land, has frequently seen the victim struggle for more than twenty minutes before becoming inanimate, and pro seeds to say: That the old system of taking the convict's life by suffocation is inhumanly painful, unnecessarily pro longed, and revolting to the spectators whoso duty it is to be present. That the object of an effective execution by sus pension should be the immediate rap fcnre of the spinal column by the fall. That the use of a "long drop" is not only much preferable from a humanita rian point of viow, but is the only meth od by which the desired object can be effectually attained. That the short fall and position of the knot employed for so many years by Calcraft are barbarisms which should cease to be permitted. That the fracture of the spinal column can best bo instantaneously effected by placing tho knot under the chin and al lowing a fall of at least ten feet. That in the carrying out of a capital sentence care should be exorcised in the selection of a suitable rope. In the execution of TTrmrv Wninwricht it would seem from the published accounts that theso prin ciples were adopted by Marwood, the executioner, and with perfect success, and the instantaneous rupture of the spine resulted from placing the knot un tler the culprit's chin. Political Conrentious, Wednesday, March 22.? Pennsylvania Democratic convention, in Lancaster. Wednesday, March 29.?Pennsylvania Republican convention, in Harrisburg. Wednesday, March 29.?Vermont Re publican conversion, in Burlington. Wednesday, March 29.?Ohio Repub lican convention, in Columbus. Wednesday, April 5.?National con tention of colored men, in Nashville. .Tuesday, April 11.?South Carolina R'epublican convention, in Columbia. Wednesday, April 12.?Virginia Re publican convention, in Lynchburg. Wednesday, April 26.?Georgia Demo cratic conventions by congressional dis tricts to elect delegates to the national convention. Wednesday, May 10.?Michigan lie publican convention, in Grand Rapids. Tuesday, May 16.?Alabama Republi can convention, in Montgomery. Wednesday, May 17.?National Green back convention, in Indianapolis. Wednesday, May 17.?National Pro hibition convention, in Cleveland. Wednesday, May 17.?Tennessee Re publican convention, in Kuosvillo. Thursday, May 18.?Kentucky Re publican convention, in Louisville. WfldiiesiLiv. Mav 24.?Knns.as Demo cratic convention, in Topeka. Wednesday, May 24.?Alabama Re publican convention, in Montgomery (minority call). Wednesday, June 14. ? Republican National convention, in Cincinnati. JrYednesday, Juno 21.?Florida Demo cratic convention, in Quincy. " Jeanette, your conduct was per- a< fectly proper in kissing the young man when he so requested, in order to 'assist him in discovering whether it would make the gas flicker or not.' Slight deviations from strict deportment may always be made while investigating seientiflo operations," Masked Robbers at Work. Eberhard Bellman, an eccentric old German, lived alone in Giles' Hollow, near Roseville, Pa., for several years, md as he bad received money from Ger many at stated periods and neither spent it all nor invested it in any way, the in ference was that he secreted it. Bell nan goes to bed at 8:30 o'clock in the evening, not only locking his doors, bnt barricading the front door with a heavy 3ar, and the back door with a heavy jhest. At abont six o'clock in the morn ug he was called from his bed by some rae who said he was freezing. Bellman aised one corner of his window curtain md looked out. He saw too large men naaked and armed with clubs. Bellman nstantly decided to escape by the back vay, and, hastily putting on his panta oons, he pushed his chest away from lie back door, drew tuo bolts and sprang rat. He was seized and before he could itter a cry a hrqe hand was clapped over lis mouth. His captor whistled, and he two men ran to him from in front of he house. He was taken back into the louse and gagged and bound. The robbers then tacked a bed quilt o each window, and then struck a light, [hey tied Bellman in a chair, and then egan to rati sack the house. They mptied his chest and scattered its con ents on the floor, finding about $200 in ;old. They ripped open a straw tick nd found $200 in greenbacks. Con inuing their search, and finding no more aoney, they threatened Bellman's life f he did not tell them where the rest of ws money wub; uui uo wuiuu uuw Chen they sprinkled him with kerosene il, and piled straw and paper tinder his hair, and set fire to it, threatening to urn him to death, and he yielded. He old them where $2,000 was hidden, and iter he had sworn on a Bible that that ras his all, they took it and went away, saving him bound in his chair. Bellman invariably visited the village very morning, and as he did not appear ne morning suspicion was aroused, and hen a few villagers went to his place in he afternoon, and found him as he had >een left by the masked robbers. The oom was in confusion, and the floor be eatn ins cnair was Durneci nearly lirough. The legs and bottom of the hair were also burned. Bellman says tiat he has $8,000 left, and that with aat he will go back to Germany. Perils of th? Sea. As showing the perils the pilot en Junters in long ocoan voyages, espe ally in the winter, the following extract om the Abram Leggett, pilot boat No. describing the experiences of her last ip is pertinent: Left Monday, Jan. J t, and sailed directly east 275 miles, n Wednesday, Feb. 2 were between . le Georgia and Nantucket shoals, and \ heavy gale was blowing from the . iiithwest. It rained fiercely and the , ir?rtVAoonrl A f ot'r n'nlftnlr VliU DbCOUUjr lUV/igaQbU? uv UM V V*w? l6 gale was at its height; the sea was feed up bj mountain waves that swept ean over the deck. The boat was i irown upon her side, and everything J as thrown hither and thither through ie cabin. It was impossible to stay be w on account of the terrible rolling, he stove was upturned and a kettle of filing water was borne clear across the Join. Once the bedclothes of one of ie bunks were thrown acroaa the cabin , id landed in the opposite bank with- , it touching tho floor. The foresail was , own into strings, and the foreetorm ysail xras earned away, and water mved down tho hatchways. At one j while three sailors were working in j e bow, a tremendous storm canglit the )at and threw her on her beam ends. ie was almost entirely under, and her J asts whipped tho water. She lay wtill r nearly fivo minutes, and none of the iIor3 expected that she would ever i imo up. Hi?r buoyancy and stauncii iss alouo taved her, and slio cams swly out of the billows and righted, ae sailors wlio were in the bow as she snt over hung to the ropes; they stood jright in the water on the masts, which y flat upon the sea. The storm con aued until midnight, and the barometer is lower than was ever noticed before the experience of the boat. No one uld sleep until the tempest abated. q next day it was a dead calm. Hie Local Reporter. A correspondent says: Newspaper aders generally, and, I am afraid, able litors, too, frequently ij-?ore the man legs who.unobtmlively pervades the eat cities in search of news. As a lie, reporters are not lond or officious; ey are not too modest, but have a re izing sense of the purpose for which ey exist, and it seldom occurs to them growl at the demands made upon em; demands which frequently keep em at unremitting labor-from sixteen oiclitann hnnrs a dav. Your true re >rter never sives up the business. He ids himself fascinated and cannot slide f the chains even -when they gall him * rely. He goes through life watching 1 in its highest wrought places, and c ows at once a cynic and the tender? 51 1 ?arted and most charitable of all men. 1 e unerringly detects the true from the t l3e, and. worsmpsinai wmcn is uatunu, lietlier ifc be good or bad, with some mes an undue warmth, caused by the ] sparing contempt he acquires for the eakcosa of humanity. He weighs all en, r.:id measures them with a yard ick that is not, after all, illiberal. And is from tbo results obtained by these iwns on the newspapers' chess board at the materials are formed to over J-nnoWno Vvnilr] n r? amnirps olpcfr .1 LI UJ lltVOUX^r., WUU.V* ? residents, construct cabinets, define itional and international policy, bre?k tigs, und make Congressmen. Speaking in her Coffin. Mrs. Harriet Westervelt, of Bloom gdale, N. Y., died and her body was seed in a coffin by tho undertaker for trial. Before the burial ariangements ere completed he said to the woman's lughter : "Are you really sure that lo is dead?" as she looked so Itfolike. .e bad hardly spoken before the eup 3sed corpse sat up and frightened all resent by saying, in a lond voice: " Mj od! what are you doing with mo? hen she fell back and became uncon sious. Mrs. Westervelt was removed om tho cofBn to a bed, and a physician as summoned, but by the time he ar ved the woman had expired. Horrowing Money. Being now in favor with Great ritain, the kliedive of E^ypt lias bfen mbled to borrow $80,000,000?$70, )0,000 being for the state, and 810,000, )0 for the khedive's own account a:; a reat landowner. This increases the Igyptian debt to about 8700,000,000, all t f which has been contracted since Is- j lail camo to the throne. It is fortunate \r "P.rrrnf. flmt n lnr*r? phnvnnf the moiiev I an been devoted to -works of public tility, which must increase tho wealth f the people. AppROAcmxc Nuptials.?Under the oad of fashionable intelligence, a Western paper says: The approaching uptials are announced of the lovely and jcomplished Miss Blanche Eye and [erbert Crokid, the only sou of one of iir most indicted citizens. The bride rnt iH to bo ia as wealthy as she is beau ful, her father's bail bond amounting > 370,000. This i pproaching matrimo ial event haa caused much excitement i fashionable ring*. Baby's Skies, . Would yon know tho baby'* skies ? Biby'a akies are mamma s eyes. Mamma's eves and smile* together Make the baby'a pleasant weather. Mamma, keep yonr eyea from tearo, Keep your heart from fooliah fears, Keep yonr lips from dull complaining, Lest the baby think 'tw raining. Items of Interest, Counter-claims?Your wife's shopping bills. Fame?a Cower upon a dead man's heart. We rise to fortune by many successive steps ; we descend by only one. All the employees of the Concord (N. H.) railroad have been compelled to sign ine temperance pieage. Thirty-two sales of shorthorns took place in Kentucky last year, in which 1,553 animals were sold for $665,946. There are 21,255 Baptist chnrchos in the United States, with 13,117 ministers, and a total membership of 1,815,000. " John, if you're going to bo out till two o'clock to-night you'll have to stay at home and let Jtourself in, for I won't. There is no special style of engraving engagement rings. A spider's web, with a fly in it, is a very pretty device. Many a man saves his life by not fear ing to lose it, and many a man loses his life by being over anxious * o save it Beading, Pa., is a bad place for tramps. An old maid of that place re cently married one who applied for aid. A Paterson justice of the peace, who tampered with the scales of justice and those of his own coal yard, had been sentenced to pay a fine of $250. There were 7,740 failures in the "Unit ed States in 1875, of which the gross lia bilities were $201,060,453. This is near ly treble'the number of failures in 1871, and 2,000 more than in 1874. A Buffalo man dreamed that he was going over the falls, and he had his wife by the throat when ho woke np. Next night she had a dream, and broke his noso as she struck at an Indian, The longest night in Norway lasts three months, and, when a young man goes to see his girl, her mother, before retiring, tells her not to rain her health by sitting up more than two months. "How are you pleased with the Vioonf.Tr nt TtV<vnf?li larJiAs?" asked a nnm ber of highly polished Parisian coquettes of an English gentleman. "Pm no judge of paintings," was the reply. The way they weigh hogs in Kansas is as follows : They first tie the hog to one end of a rail, balanoe the rail on a fence with rocks tied to the other end, and then guess how much the rocks weigh. A Williamsburgh (N. Y.) minister who bad his hat stolen, gravely observed from the pulpit: " Bashfulness, dearly beloved, doesn't break out in this com munity as much as the snaallpos and measles." A daughter of Lucius W. Pond, the Worcester forgtr, ha? been serving as a waiter in a restaurant in fiat city tor 3overal months, voluntarily working out i debt of $100 which her lather owed tho proprietor. A boy of fourteen years lias been im prisoned at St. Eleanor's, Prince Edward island, for debt. Notwithstanding that his father sent un affidavit to one of the judgc3 of his sor.'s age, the boy still re mains a prisoner. It is now generally believed that, when Boss Tweed went up etairs to Fee if there was a robber in the house, he in advertently sat down upon a box of ilynamite?because ho is now being found all o\er tho country. Moliere was asked the reasen why, in certain countries, the king may assume Lhe crown at fourteen years of ago, and can not marry beforo eighteen. " It is," answered Moliere, " more difficult to rule a wife than a kingdom." Another little boy who was innocently playing with an unloaded pistol has shot i girl in the face. There is one thifig peculiarly remarkably about unloaded pistol-*. They go off oftener and kill more people than any other kind. Four children, aged thirteen, seven, ive and two years? respectively, came ;o tho station house in Williamsburgh, Y., and said that their father had Irtven tliem lrom nome ana mreaieneu ;o cut their throats if they returned. There is a class of people who ask you yhyyou "don't" come to their house, jut never say "do." They are nearly elated to the gentleman who has always rota "bill to take up " whenever you vish to effect a small loan from him. Paul Haupt, of Denver, went through he war without scaihe, and when his egiment was sent to Arizo na encountered tn one occasion five Apaches single landed, killing three of their number, jately he was crushed to death between wo blocks of ice in an ke house. We were told many years ago by Cat in, the man who painted our Indians, hat a prime necessity for avoiding dis sases of the lungs was to " shut your nouth." It was to their habit of keep ng their talking machines .closely shut " .... . ? i .1 ,hat He attnDutea tne ireeaom 01 uie edmen from consumption. An old inhabitant of Sunbury on ["hames, England, eighty-four years old, recently gave a dinner to twenty-four poor people, whose combined ages imountftd to 1800 years?an average of seventy-live years. The population of the town is about 3,000, so there is pret ty good evidence that it is a healthy locality. A Vermont editor saya that a man in Procterville caught a pickerel the other day weighing two and a half pounds, insido of which was another pickerel which measured nine inches in length, and inside of this was still another five inches in length. We don't qnestion the* truth of this story. The only re * * " ? a -j. iL.i mon ^lilTKEDlO tiling QDOUD ID IH Liiitu tuo uiuu didn't go on finding " inside " pickerels as long as the inches held out. The lad? of Harrison countv, Ky., do not accept correction in the schools with a becoming spirit. A teacher in Clay ville, in that county, a few dayB ago, while attempting to chastise one of them, was attacked by his brother with a pistol and was dangerously shot in the breast. The boy himself then attacked the teacher with a knife and inflicted a wound which, but for an upward turn of the weapon, would hf.ve proved fatal. *!uo BaiMincr- ^.vr Mr. Kelley (I>>>. of P?r'..,) in ft speech on the Tariff b;li paid that, as to ship building being a lost art in the United States, no industry here has grown.so well within the hist few years as' ship building, and iron ships aro now being built, not only for American merchants, but rlso for foreign merchants. As a < . proof of tho growth of this business, he paid that the iron shipping owned in the United States amounted in 1868 to only 7,502 tons; in 1872 to 12,6C6 tons, and *' ,""1 iia in nn increasing bliau XV ur.ll Q- -wv V14 * . ?- ^ ratio every yew. The city of Philadel phia had recentiy obliterated several of its streets to make way for an iron ship yard, which would begin work with au order for n hnndr?d foreign going craft.