The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 22, 1876, Image 1
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.