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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 29. 1876. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 51.
aM ASONIC JJIRECTOHY.
.Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M.
W. H. PARKER. W.\ M.\'
J. C. WOSaiANSKY, Secretary.
Meets 2d Monday in every month.
Hesperian ChapterNo.l7,R.A.M.
J. F. C. DuPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.*.
J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder.
Meets 3d Friday night in every month.
BeSaiwe toil No. 16, R. & S. M,
J. T. ROBERTSON, T.\ 111.*. M.\
JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder.
Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month.
DE. JOHN S. THOMPSON,
DENTIST,
Offers his professional services to the citizens
of Abbeville and the Borroonding country.
Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank,
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON
(Have on hand a large stock of
Gulls' UM hi SM
AJ VERY LOW PRICES.
A large assortr ent of
.Ladies' and G-ents'
Merino Vests & Smrts, i
BOULEVARD SKIRTS, J
Silk Scarfs and Ties. A
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GIVE THEil A CALL. . A
The Star Shirfc! " I
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Having tried these Bhirta, we can tafely re
commend them for a good fitting and durable p
Shirt. - T
Collars, Linen and Paper, J
latest styles, 0
With Cravats and Scarfs to Match.
QUARLES & PERRIN.
Cottage Bedsteads!
*
Two hundred Bedsteads joat received, war
ranted all hard wood, at prices from $5 00 to
$10.00. * v
J. D. CHALMERS.
Boots and Shoes!
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Oar etook of BOOTS and SHOE3 is now
complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH.
Call early and get a bargain.
DuPRE, GAMBBELL & CO.
C. E. BRUCE,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
^ i * ^
Over Parker & Perrin's Store,
ABBEVILLE, 8.
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Deeiree to say that he is folly prepared to meet
nil demands the public m&y make in his lino.
He keeps constantly on hand a large lot or ibe
beat material and employs only the lineal work
men. He keeps a full stock of cuatommade
Boots and Shoes, and guarantees the most
entire satisfaction in every instance.
M. GOLDSMITH. . .P. KIND.
GOLDSMITH & KIND,
Tn/\TT%iT\nTi? i itt> nr i nTTTiTTrimn
FUUfUMS AJNU IAU11JUSIS
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(PHOENIX IRON WORK>),
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Manufacturers of Steam Enjrinea of all sizes;
Horse powers, Circular and Mu'e.v Saw Mills,
Grist and 8ugar Cane Mil's, Flour Mills, Orna
mental House and Store F.onte, Irou Railings,
Agricultural Implements, etc. Brass and Iron
Castings of all kinds made to order on abort
notioe, and on the moet reasonable terma.
Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses.
ft -R TJORRELI,
AT HIS OLD 8TANE
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Over Parker & Perrtn'a Drag Store, i
Hu a supply o> Northern Harness Leather
and other material for Making aud Repairing
Saddles and Harness. '. - V
CARPENTRY. "
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>r*r * i- "i 9 *
The underaigned hereby gma notice that he
is prepared to do all kinda of
o
He also repairs Cotton Gins, Tbrasbers and
Fans. 1 full supply of Gm Material always
on baod. Farmers are requested to bring
meir 1+106 up eariy m me bohuu m uiun uiuc
to h?ve them properly prepared.
Also Agent for tho Taylor Cotton Gin, the
Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds of Rubber
and Leather Belting.
D. B. SMITH,
,, Abbeville C. II., 8. C.
STEAM
PLANING MILL,
Columbia, S. C.
F.W.WIN G, Proprietor.
MANUFACTURER OF
Sash, Blinds, Doors,
WINDOW MD '
DOOR FRAMES,
? v"* ?
MfleMBliiflsHiiiitte,!
PILASTERS, j
Mantelpieces,
fflULJH HMUM.1S,
Handrails,
Newels,
Balusters.
SGEOLL WOM of all Description.
All Work Guaranteed A No. 1.
Which Shall it Be ?
[A rich man who had no children proposed
his poor neighbor, who had eeven, to take
me of them, and promised, if the parents
rould oonsent, that he would give them prop
rty enough to make themselves and their
ther six children oomfortable for life].
Hiich s all it be? Which shall it be ;
looked at John, John looked at me,
.nd when I fouDd that I most speak
[y voice seemed strangely low and weak :
Tell me again what Robert B&id
.nd then I, listening, bent my head?
This is his letter:
" I will give
l house and land while yon shall live,
t, in return, from out your seven,
ne child to me for aye ia given."
looked at John's old garments worn;
thought of all that he had borne
f poverty, and work, and care,
iTiich I, though willing, could not share;
thought of seven young mouths to feed,
f seven little children's need,
And then of this.
" Come, John," said I,
We ll chocse among them as they lie
sleep." So, walking hand in hand,
ear John and I surveyed our band ;
iret to the cradle lightly stepped
ihere Lilian, the baby, slept.
oftly the father stooped to lay
[is rongh hand down in a loving way,
rhen dream or whisper made her stir,
nd huskily he said : " Not her!"
re stooped beside the trundle bed,
nd one long raj of lamplight shod
.thwart the boyish faces there,
a Bleep so beautiful and fair.
saw on Jamee' rough, red cheek
. tear nndried. Ere John could speak,
Ho'b but a baby, too," said I,
.nd kissed him as we hurried by.
ale, patient Bobbie's angel face
till in his sleep bore suffering's trace.
No, for a thousand crowns not him!"
[e whispered, while our eyes were dim.
oor Dick! bad Dick ! our wayward son
tobulent, restless, idle one?
lould he be-spired ? Nay; He who gave
lade us befriend him to the grave;
inly a mother's heart ooold be
atient enough for Bach as he;
And bo," eaid John, " I would sot dare
'o take him from her bedside prayer."
hen stole we softly up above,
id knelt by Mary, child of love.
Perhaps for her 'twould better bo,"
said to John. Quite silently
[e lifted np a curl that lay
eross her cheek in a willful way,
nd shook his head : " Nay, love, not thee!"
he wliile my Heart beat auaiDiy.
illy one more, oar eldest lad,
rusty and truthful, good and glad,
a like his father. " No, John, no !
cannot, will not, let him go."
nd so we wrote in a court eons way,
'e could not give one child away ;
nd afterward toil lighter seemed,
tanking of that of which we dreamed,
appy iu truth that net one face
'as missed from its accustomed place ;
hankful to work for all the seven,
rusting the rest to One iu heaven.
Circumstantial Evidence
ai Interesting Account ot the Im
portance Attached to It in Mur
der Trials.
The murder of Madame Pauw in
"ranee, about ten years ago, shows how
conspicuous and powerful motive, in
he absence of other conclusive evidence,
jmeuxuea puts jusuue Buuuuvuuiiv upuju
auw was a widow with three childreD,
'ho had an intimate friend in the Coant
e la Pommerais. This titled personage
'as in need of money, and he had a
ead for scheming. He planned a frand
pon eight insurance companies, and
ersuaded the poor widow to become
is instrument in it. Her life was to be
lsured ; she was then to feign danger
os illness; and, while lying apparently
l a serious strait, the insurance oom
anies were to be persuaded to ohange
le life-policies into annuities. The
Dunt advanced the premiums; the
olicies were made out, transferable by
idorsement. Madame Pauw was then
ldnoed to indorse them to him, and
Lfe to make a will oat in his favor. The
ext thing was for the widow to pretend
> fall ill, which she did; but, instead
f the policies being transformed into
ae track of the criminal
anilities, the poor lady died 1 It was a
rave blunder of the count to tell the
octor, when he came in, that Msdame
'auw had fallen down stairs; for not
nly was this denied by abundant testi
iony, but the post-mortem examina
ion betrayed the preaenoe of poison as
he cause of her death. At onoe there
fter the Count de la Pommerais came
to the possession of the half million
rancs which a crued under the policies
nd the will. Here occurred a singular
ociUent in the trial. It is clear that, if
he count had intended the fraud in earn
st when he proposed it to Madame
Jauw, and really designed to obtain for
ier an annuity by its means, thus secur
Dg to himself a life income, he could
lave had no serious motive for killing
ier. And this was actually his defense
gainst the charge of murder. He de
lared, and tried to prov^, that he really
leant to carry out the fraud, and that
ladame Pauw's death was a catastrophe
nd an accident. Thus in trying to clear
imself of the grave crime, he coolly
onfessed the lesser. lint the proof
outradictory of his case was too clear ;
e was convicted and duly executed.
It has been said that a very important
aJofnnfiol a*ri_
LUIS. Ill tllU UJiilUl Ui uu Cfuuuiiauvuu via
ence is that of opportunity. To show
rant of opportunity, that is, an alibi,
3 an absolute answer to the strongest
Jdictments, and produces a fatal flaw
a the chain. Opportunity to commit
be crime must be either proved out
ight or inferred by the most conclusive
resumption. There never was a more
triking case illustrative of this than
bat of the young S ottish girl Made
sine Smith, whose trial at Glasgow may
ofiily be remembered by many readers. I
t may be said that the trial was one of j
he most interesting in British judicial .
nnals. Madeleine Smith had engaged I
terself to a young Frenchman named |
j'Angelier. It was clearly proved that j
he had tired of him, and was anxious
o Gisemangie ucnscn li^m mo wuucu- j
ion. Bat L'Angelier clang to her, and !
efused to be rebuffed. There is no '
loubt that on several occasions, just I
>revious to his visits, she had purchased j
>oison; or that, always after these visits, I
le was seized with severe illness. On j
he seventeenth of March Madeleine re
urned to her house in Glasgow, after a
vimf, to some friends. The next
lay she purchased some arsenic, "to
rill rats with," as she raid. Thearsenic
MJnght, the next thing she did was to
vrite to L'Angeiier, inviting him to tea
>n the evening of the nineteenth. He
lappened to bo out of town, and did not,
herefore, ge* the note until it was too
ate to accept the invitation. She wrote
gain on the twenty-first, urging him to
ome the next evening, and saying:
* I waited and waited for you, but you
ame not. I shall wait again to-morrow
light, same time and arrangement"
[*lu8 note L'Angeiier received. So far
he proof was clear. It was also in evi
ler, ce that h6 started from his lodgings
in exoellent health on the Sunday even*,
ing, and that he sauntered in the direc
tion of Madeleine's house; this was at
nine o'clock. Twenty minutes later, he
called on a friend who lived but a short
distance from her residence. Here the
evidence utterly failed, and left a blank
for four hours and a half.
At two in the morning, L'Angelier
was found at his own door writhing and
speechless; and in a few hours he was
dead. The autopsy betrayed a large
quantity of arsenic in his body. But,
between twenty minutes past nine and
two, no human being could depose to
having laid eyes on him. Madeleine
herself denied that she saw him at all
that night; nor was the slightest proof
forthoominc that she did. She was trat
on trial for the murder of L'Angelier;
and, although her desire to get rid of
him?that is, a motive; her purchase of
arsenic?that is, possession of an instru
ment similar to that which was found
to have been fatal; and her notes of
invitation?that is, a fact from which a
strong probability of a meeting between
them that night was established?were
fully proved, the absenoe of all proof of
actual opportunity to commit the
deed availed to save the prisoner's life.
She said, in effect: "I was at my
house, and can prove it; he was ?ot
there, for I defy you to prove it; there
fore I have an alibi." The Scottish
verdict of "not proven" set her free,
but did not clear her of the stain of
deep suspicion.
The storv of the Danish pastor, Soren
Qvist, is one of the most touchingly
tragic in judicial records; and onoemore
exemplifies Paul Feval's complaint that
justice is sometimes too quick to seize
upon appearances, and neglect the sup
position of fabricated evidence. Soren
was a clergyman of middle age, settled
over a small, primitive parish in Jut
land. Pure and irreproachable in char
acter, genial, generous, and devout, he
was cursed with a fiery and ungovern
able temper; yet he was universally re
vered; and varied his pastoral cares, as
in fl/Mitiiltnainan onnn.
XO UUl UUii^V|UOUl Ui UUWUUUWTlttU wuu
tries, by cultivating a modest farm. He
had a daughter, gentle and comely. A
farmer in a neighboring village, one
Morten Brans, well off but of bad repu
tation, sought this daughter in marriage,
but was rejected both by her and by the
pastor.
Soon after a brother of his, Niels
Brans, entered the pastor's service as a
farm hand. Niels was lazy, impudent,
and quarrelsome, and frequent alterca
tions occurred between him and his mas
ter. One day Soren found the man
idling in the garden. A quarrel ensued,
when the pastor, his hot temper getting
the better of him, struck Niels several
times with a spade, saying: " I will
beat thee, dog, until thou liest dead at
my feet I" The man then jumped up
and ran off into the woods, and was not
seen again. The rejected suitor Morten,
after his brother had thus mysteriously
disappeared, boldly charged the pastor
with the crime, and offered to produce
convincing proofs of the fact. Soren
was therefore arraigned, when the fol
lowing evidence was arrayed against
him. A man testified that, on the night
4U a V* /\ nnm in
ai ici iiuc uo Dan uxio pcuoi>U) iu
his green dressing gown and white night
cap, digging hard in the garden. It was
also proved that, search having been
made in the garden, a body had been un
earthed, undoubtedly that of Niels, with
his clothes and earrings upon it. A
servant girl testified not only to having
heard Soren repeatedly threaten to kill
Niels, but to having seen the parson go
ont into the garden on the fatal eight,
in his greefa dressing gown and night
cap. Still stronger evidence was pro
duced to the effect that the parson had
been seen, in his green dressing gown
and nightcap, carrying a heavy sack
from the wood near by into the garden.
The chain of evidence was apparently
nnmn1oti> arrainiif ftnrori -ftnrl f.hA nrw~tr
1 r
parson now sealed his own fate by de
claring that he believed he had lolled
Niels, though nnoonsciously. He stated
that he was wont to walk m his sleep.
He had found texts, written sermons and
visited his church in a state of somnam
bulism. He must, therefore, have found
the man dead in the wood while thus un
conscious, and hare buried him while in
this condition. To be brief, boren was
found guilty and executed.
Twenty years after, Niels Bruns
turned up again, alive and well, grown
now old and Rray. He recoun ed how
his brother Morten (now dead) had con
cocted a plot to fasten the crime of mur
der on the pastor, in revenge for the re
jection of his suit. A body had been
disinterred and dressed in Niels' clothes;
the dressing gown and nightcap had been
abstracted, used as we have seen, and re
placed; Morten, dressed in them, had
brought the corpse in the sack, and
buried it in the garden; and then, his
plot carried out, ne had given Niels a
purse and bid him begone, and not to re
turn, or his life should answer for it.
Niels had kept out of the way till Mor
ten's death, and had now returned
with this terrible tale.
Testing Dispatches in Cipher.
The cipher used by the whisky rin? in
St. Louis, pays the'New York Herald,
is very simplo when it is once compre
hended. The actual words of the dis
patoh are written so as to follow the
order prescribed in a set of numbered
squares, and when the words are thus ar
ranged they are read off according to the
numbers in the squares. Each square con
tains one word, and the set contains twen
ty-four words, in six columns, four deep.
The reading begins at the bottom, fourth
square from the left, ana proceeds, one
square to the left, one back and upward,
again to tlie left, and so on, until the
top of the column is reached, when the
next word is two to the right and back
toward the left to the first new word,
and then down again. We have arrang
ed a set of squares as described in our
dispatches, and also applied it to the
dispatch signed " O. E. Bahcock."
Every reader can pick it out for himself.
General Babcock's dispatch seems to be
arranged in two separate squares, and
the deciphering accordingly begins in
the proper square of the upper set. The
following is a set of squares:
11
1
1
9
a
12
C
5
11
11
X
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<
2
13
11
1 18
16
,
1
15
17
At
and
with
confer
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my
f>tly
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prompt
ever
retain
to
me
unfortunate
h?
possibly
It
1 this I of
receipt | on
Kmm A1
John
now
1 moment
?ee
would
there
to
earliest
what answer
hour hint
him , fnlly
proteot i ana
very ! house
If to
can ; and
prevent' report.
Knew he was Honest,
During rainy weather a gentleman
stepped into a tobacconist's in London,
and asked him for the loan of an um
brella. He was promptly accommo
dated. " You're an obliging man," ob
served a oustcmer, after the stranger
had stepped out. " Yes, but that's a
mighty honest fellow," said the tobac
conist. '' An honoster or more generous
man you won't find in a day's travel.
He has got a number of umbrellas of
me, but he always brings back a better
one in return. He changes 'em some
how, but how I don't know, and I don't
care. I see he's honest, and that's all 1
care about it,"
THE CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS*
The Statu* of Operation*! on the Gt?antf
Self-Rerfiterinc Tornatllea?The Centen
nial Guard.
The exposition grounds oontain four
hundred and twenty acres and are near
ly triangular in shape, being bounded on
the north by Belmont drive, on the east
by Lanedowne drive, and on the Bcuth
west by Elm avenue. The total number
of Centennial buildings now completed,
with those in course of construction and
others not yet begun, is about one hun
dred, and the total area covered by the
exhibition buildings proper?that is, not
including restaurants or other buildings
not intended to contain exhibits?will be
about seventy-fiye acres, whiih is nearly
double the space covered by the build
ings at the Vienna exposition. The lat
ter covered 88.8 acres, excluding inolosed
courts ; those of Paris, in 1867, covered
thirty-one acres ; London, 1862, 25.6
acres ; Paris, 1855, 22.1 acres, and Lon
don, 1851, 23.9 acres. The board fence
bounding the grounds is 16,000 feet in
length, and contains thirteea entrances,
representing the thirteen original States.
These entrances or gates will be orna
mented and fitted up for the sale of
tickets, and will have self-registering
turnstiles, by which the exact number of
visitors to the exposition can be easily
ascertained. In a bird'seye view the
buildings are Been to compose three dis
tinct groups, one in each corner of the
triangle. In the first are the following
buildings, sc nearly completed that the
details of the interior ornamentation yet
to be finished are not worth mentioning:
Main exposition building, art gallery or
memorial hall, judges' pavilion, Cen
tennial photographic association pavil
ion, office of the Centennial commission
and the restaurant Ludreau. Those well
forward in construction or upon which
work is just beginning are the Centennial
national bank, Vienna bakery, photo
graphic gallery, wagon and carriage
manufactory, Japanese bazaar, extension
to the art gallery, dairymen's association
buildings, Brazilian imperial pavilion,
German government building, and that
of Clark & Co. The grounds will be
dotted everywhere with soda water pavil
ions. The second group contains the
following buildings, all completed:
Machinery hall, United States govern
ment building, Uliited States laboratory,
United States hospital, office of the Cen
tennial board of finance and the three
buildings of the British government.
ThrwA b?p11 forward in construction are.
the Pennsylvania railroad companies,
Centennial depot, shoe and leather build
ing, three machine shops (annexes of
machinery hall); the 0. T. A. fountain,
tourist's ticket office, New York pavilion,
the nailless, spikeless, bamboo dwelling
for the representatives of his majesty the
emperor of Japan, and the pavilions of
Connecticut and Massachusetts. Those
upon which work either has begun, or
will shortly begin, are : Fuller, Warren
&Co.'s buildibg, Liberty stove works,
Gillender & Son's glassware manufac
tory, West Point oadets encampment,
Loisseau's pressed fuel building, Trois
Freres Proence&ux restaurant, news
paper buildings, United States signal
service pavilion, opamsu goveiLiucm i
building and the State pavilions of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi
gan, Wiscousin, New Hampshire and
Delaware. The buildings in the third
and last group, which may be said to be
finished, are horticultural hall, women's
pavilion, women's schoolhouse, South
ern restaurant, Lauber's restaurant and
tho American restanranfc. Agricultural
hall, the largest in the group, wonld be
ready for exhibits now had it not met
with a misfortune shortly after the be
ginning of its erection, in having the
framework of one of its wings blown
down by the wind. It will however, be
entirely completed before the middle of
March. The buildings in this group,
the erection of which will soon begin,
or a fVio navilinnn of Tfnnftflfl and New
Jersey, the American brewer's building
and the New England loghouse, in which
the methods of conducting the old-time i
and the modern kitchens will be placed
in contrast. A strong force of special :
police are stationed on the grounds, but !
the organization of the regular Centen- '
nial guard will probably not be effected i
before the end of April.?Philadelphia ;
Timet. I
In the Sick Room.
A waut of sympathy on the part of a :
nurse is like a perpetual cold bath to a
Eatient. This is not a very common ]
lunder. But the opposite is so com
mon, that it may sometimes become a 1
question in the patient's mind whether 1
he would not prefer absolute coldness. !
To be continually dodging around the
bed, and pouncing upon every object !
that is.not at right angles, smoothing
out the sheet, and dabbing at the pil
lows, and saying a dozen times an honr:
" How do you feel now ?" " Don't you
want something to eat?" "Can I do
anything for you?" "Let me bathe
your head I"?is enough to drive a sick
man wild. He feels that he would like
to ask you to go away and hold your
tongue; but he knows that all this fidget
ing is prompted by affection, so he
holds his tongue instead, and bears it
all with what measure of patience na
ture has bestowed upon him. In point
of fact, the sick person is generally very
ready to tell his wants. His food and
drink and physic are the momentous
matters of the day to him, and will not
be forgotten. He is likely to tell you
when he feels better. He is euro to tell
you when he feels wors9.
Worse than all these things is the
solemn faoe in a sick room. It is hard
for a troubled heart to put on a cheerful
countenance, and it is no wonder that
nurses so often fail in this. But we
have known persons who thoaght that a
cheerful face and a bright smile in a
sick room were indications of a hard
heart.?bcribner.
Four Innocent Men.
Four innocent men have just been
pardoned out of the Oregon State
prison after spending three years there
on life sentences. In 1872 a stage was
stopped in a lonely place by four masked
men, who took from it gold dust worth
$4,200. The nearest house was the resi
Ui bUU 1UUI rncu, nuu noio tuvui
ward wrongfully convicted. Footprints
were found leading from the place of
the robbery to that house, and it was
also ascertained that the men had been
out late on the night of the crime. There
was no other indication of their guilt;
but the public sentiment was very
strong against robbers, and no more
convincing faots were demanded. A :
mob visited the house, caught one of
the men, and scared him with threats of
hanging into saying that he and the
others were guilty. The false confession
would not have Baved his life, but the ar
rival of an officcr did, and then he de
clared the untruthfulness of his state
ment. The four were tried and hurried
ly convicted, and sentenced for life, al
though the driver of the stage swora to
an opinion that they were not the rob
bers, for which testimony he narrowly
escaped being lynched as an accomplice.
Becently the real criminnls were de
tected.
Gave It Up.?Dumas was smoking a j
oigar, twenty years ago; the room waa
blue, and a doctor was lecturing to the j
young fellows on the evils of tlio exces
sive use of tobacco. Dumas laid the |
unsmoked half flridd, and has not lit
another since. 1
A YOUNG LORD IN LIMBO.
The Favorite of Buffalo Society Brought
Grlef?Portlcnlara of the Cue.
For something over a month, says t
Buffalo Courier, a young llnglishms
named Hugh Courtney, aged twenl
three, supposed to be one of the descer
ants of a titledfamily "across the wate]
he haying represented himself as t
son of the Earl of Devonshire, has be
cutting quite a swell in fashionable o
cles hereabouts. To all appearances
was well supplied with filthy lucre; 1
attire was "loud," of the veiy lat<
fashionable cut and decidedly Englif
He changed his clothes several timet
day, was petted and courted in socie
circles, for "a lord, you know," is
novelty here and his acquaintance not
be slighted. He was believed to be t
soul of honor, of course. His in ten
aristocratic feelings, upon his first 8
pearance, led hftn to decline being i
troduced to sode of our first familn
" because they sbld leather," but subt
quent deliberations caused him to chan
his mind. He boarded at the Ti
House, called for the best the hou
afforded, drank oostly wines, smoki
? in V
CJLpCliOl YD tl^fUD AU 1UUV LUMU^vv. -
extravagant tastes and habits to the fu
est extent. Bat alas for the nncertai
ties of human enjoyment I One nig
found him the inmate of a prison ce
charged with defrauding thepropriet
of the Tifft House of $325, the amou
of his hotel bill contracted during 1]
stay here. The particulars of the cas
as learned by our reporter, are, in bu
stance, that Courtney left England thri
months ago for San Francisco, where,;
in Buffalo, he made him sell' conspic
ous and popular smong the bon ton,
little more than a month ago he can
here and took up his quarters at tl
Tifft House. He represented to D
Tathill that his funds had run short, bi
he would soon receive a remittance fro
his father, the earl, and would make goc
all liabilities incurred. This was we
enough for the time being, but the san
excuse was presented each time he r
ceived his bill, nntil it became U
stereotyped for human endurance, ar
a warrant sworn out for his arrest, <
the charge above named, was placed i
the hands of officers, who waited up<
Mr. Courtney at the hotel and ma(
known their business, which, natural
enough, put him in quite a flurry. H
actions and talk were more like those <
an overgrown and inexperienced be
than a man.
Requesting a few minutes' time he a<
dressed a piteous appeal to a well kno*
lady and gentleman, and handing it to
messenger instructed him to oollect hi
fee from the party to whom it was ac
dressed, as he was possessed of on]
Bey en cents. The note was as follows:
Dear and Miss I ai
locked up for not paying my bill at th
hotel. Will you be kind enough U con:
and make it all right ? It is for not pa^
ing my bill. I am in a dreadful state (
mind, and, my dear Miss , please d
persuade the to do something, <
I shall have to lay here all night.
H. Coubtney.
P. 8.?If you could see me it woul
be all right.
Mr. Courtney was then oon^eyed 1
the Btation and looked up. Shortly a
ter liis incarceration the messenger bo
entered the Btation and said the commi
nication was returned with a refusal t
pay his fee. A reporter, on learning c
the occurrence, paid a visit to the prii
oner in his cell and found him feelin
very badly. He expressed the opinio
that this was a " blarsted country, whei
a man must live on money, while at 'om<
you know, I could live on me ow
name." He remarked: " I'm very e:
travagant, very extravagant, you knoT
Like to spend lots of money and have
jolly gool time, you know." He didn
appear to be having a very good tim
just then, though. He wa3 very anxiot
that his name should not appear i
print, and refused point blank to gfr
any information beyond the statemer
1-V.n* T.ia nonrla TPOVA Wflftlfhv flTld Hvfi
Ln the south of England, and that; h
bad money enough -when he came hei
to home had he started immediatel
Dn his journey. He had no business c
professional calling; hehad served som
time as an officer in tho British servic
and had been traveling for plearan
He intimated that a "little onpleasani
uess " had occurred in the family pric
to his departure from home and a
tributed his riisfortune entirely to th
"failure of papa, you know," to mai
remittances in response to drafts he ha
made upon him. He is hopeful th*
some of l;he wealthy acquaintances h
aaa made here will come forward an
issist him in his dilemma until word ca
be Eont to hi3 parents.
An Earnest Model.
Some carious details are given in foi
iign journals respecting afamous mdd<
who posed for the " Atalanta " of Prt
lier and the young girl in Gerome'
"Cock-Fight," now in the gallery c
Luxembourg. When Bhe first went t
Paris she was a young and illiterat
peasant, but she managed to edacat
iierself. "Wliile posing for the "Ate
lanta " she ceased one day to come at th
iccustomed hour, so Pradier went i
search of her, and found her, as h
thought, lying dead. An attack of brai
Fever had struck her down, and in a fe1
iays she died, to all appearance. Be
this seeming death was only the rigidit
of an intense attack of catalepsy, an
she was really conscious of all that wa
passing around her. Pradier conclude
he would takf a cast of the corpse. Th
modeling of the feet and hands gave th
* ~ t__J_ I- A.
poor girl no uneasiness, out uer wm
at the thought of the suffocating weigh
of the plaster on face and chest enable
her to break the fetters of the letharg]
To the amazement of the artist, the suj
posed corpse bounded from the bed, an
seizing a mass of the half-liquid plaste:
she dashed it full in Pradier s face. Tt
violent exertion did her good, and si
was saved. But somehow she word
never forgive Pradier. She would n<
enter his studio, and he was forced i
get another model to complete h
"Atalanta." *
How a Cricket Saved a Ship,
In Southey's " History of Brazil" 1
tells how Cabeza de Vaca was in s grei
ship going to South America with H
men and thirty horses ; and after th?
had crossed the equator, the command*
discovered there were only three casl
of water left. Ha gave orders to mal
the nearest land, and for three days the
sailed for the coast. A poor sick soldii
who had left Cadiz with them, broug]
a grillo, or ground cricket, with Inn
thinking its oheerfnl voice would amui
him on the long, dreary voyage. Bi
to his great disappointment, the litt
inseot was perfectly quiet the whole wa;
The fourth morning after the ship ha
changed her course, the (Ticket, whic
knew what she was about, set up hi
shrillest note. The soldier at once gaT
a warning to the officersin charge of tl
vessel, and they soon saw high, jagge
rocks just ahead of them. The wafc
had been careless, and the great ship j
a few moments would have been dashe
to pieoes on the ledges, if this pur
creature had not scented the land, at
told them of their danger. Then the
cruised along for some days; and tl
cricket sang for them every night, ju
as cheerily as if she had been in far c
Spain, till they got to their desiim
port, the island of Oatalioa.
F1BM STOCK.
Some Very Interertln? FlfUN ud 8ta
llrtlofc
The number of farm ani'maln is not
keeping pace with the increase of popu
lation, swine having decreased eight per
cent, during the past year, sheep having
barely held their own, while horses have
increasBd only three cent, and oows
about one and a half per cent. The
Erices of horses and mules of all ages
ave generally decreased, although local
causes have in some sections kept them
firm, and in a few States increased them.
Thu decline is sharpest in the Eastern
States for horses, and in the Western
States for males.
* The rates for milch oows are not sub
tained in the Eastern States, eicept in
Connecticnt and Massachusetts. The
average is the same as that of last year
in New York, a decline being percepti
ble in the remaining Middle States.
There is an increasing demand in Mary
land and Virginia, States well suited to
dairying, and prices have advanced
somewhat. In the Oaiolinas and Georgia
the rates sympathize with the prevailing
downward tendency. Prom Florida
westward along the gulf ooast, and in
Arkansas and Tennessee, prices are
higher, the greatest proportionate in
crease being in Texas. In every State
? ? ? - ? ii _ i
oi tne great in tenor vaueya were is an
increase, exoept in Nebraska, where
prices ruled very high last year. On
the Pacific coast the high California rate
of last year is not fully sustained. A
comparison with last year is made in the
rates of the following States :
1171
UTS.
New York.
Virginia...
Georgia...
Texas
Ohio
Wisconsin.
Misaonri..
Oregon....
$37.60
22.77
17.02
15.72
82.65
26.75
20.86
21.75
$87.50
22.94
18.85
18 83
80.42
26.37
19.50
21.65
The class including all cattle exoept
cows exhibits no very sweeping changes.
The abundance or scarcity of supplies
for winter use causes local changes. In
the Eastern States, prices are firmer in
Vermont and Massachusetts ; in Penn
sylvania, in the Middle States; in Mary
land Vrti4V> riarnlinfl Alabama Tatojj
the more eastern States of the Ohio val
ley, with a positive rise in the district
west of the Mississippi. There is little
decline in New York, Delaware,Virginia,
South Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. There is some decrease
in several of the New England States, in
New Jeesev, Georgia, and little in Indi
ana and Illinois, except that in the latter
prices of matured stock are well sus
tained.
The following tables show the relative
prices for 1876 and 1875 :
Btat*.
U71
1?
Maine
(20.43
$21.12
New York
19.40
19.60
North Carolina
6.33
600
Georgia
5.97
7.00
Texaa
5.87
5.28
14.72
14.25
Uiuitr Iteo Ttart.
Illinois
14.uu
10.40
Mieeoari
11.66
10 00
0??r three
I Van.
Stmtr.
1871.
1875.
*58.22
tes.oo
New York. *.
51.%
52 08
North Carolina.
15.35
14.70
Georgia
1&47
15.00
Texaa
14.18
11.82
Kentucky
36.05
34.53
IJlino'a
35.74
34.69
Missouri
28.81
24.25
The rates for sheep are not materially
changed in the Atlantic States north of
Virginia, or in the Gulf States. In the
Southern Atlantic States, and in the
Ohio valley, there is a Blight tendenoy
to high rates, and in the Missouri valley
prices are still more advanced. The
numbers of sheep on the Pacific coast
are so increased that in dry season some
districts are overstocked, tending to de
crease in prices, which is indicated to
some extent in the preAnt returns from
Uaiitoraia. xne pncea 01 iuu grown
sheep are thns reported in the following
States:
Pennsylvania.
Georgia...
Texas ;
Tennessee.
Ohio
Illinois....
Nebraska .
1876.
1875.
$3.97
$4.22
3.95
3.90
8.15
8.17
1.94
1.76
2 29
2.16
2 40
2.20
3 09
3.00
2.75
2.84
3.00
2.74
A alight increase in the price of hogs
ia observed in New England, especially
in those of more than one year old.
There is an advance in the Middle
States, in Virginia and North Carolina,
bnt in Sonth Carolina and Georgia
prices are not fully maintained. In Ar
kansas and Tennessee, where supplies
.were scarce and high last year, with low
prices for all kinds of stook, there has
been a manifest advance the present sea
son. The Western States all return
higher prices than last year. The fol
lowing figures for old hogs will repre
sent the general tendency of prices:
Saw. W7& | 1175.
New Hampshire $27.25 ! t24.00
NewJereey 20.60 j 18.75
Aj-kansaa \ e.iu i 4.10
Iowa 13.75 I 12.13
Kansas 14 92 | 6 67
Maryland I 10.27 9 73
Alabama. j 6.07 5.81
Kentucky 10.19 . 8.67
Indiana. I 13 33 1 9.30
An Unlucky Countenance.
When Abbas the Great was hunting
in the valley, he met one morning, as
the day dawned, an uncommonly ugly
man, at the sight of whom his horse
started. Being nearly dismounted,
deeming it a bad omen, he called out in
a rage to have his head struck off. The
poor peasant, whom the had seized, and
were on the point of executing, prayed
that he might be informed of his crime.
" Your crime," said the king, " is your
unluckv countenance, which is the first
object I saw this morning, and which
had nearly caused me to fall from my
horse." "Alas!" said the man, "by
this reckoning, what term must I apply
to your majesty's countenance, which
was the first object my eyes met this
morning, and which it to cause my
death ?" The king smiled at the wit of
the reply, ordered the man to be ro
a j ? " firnaivnt itinfwul
ar i leasea, ujiu^uvo
iB , of taking off his head.
:e
>yl
.1: Female Devotion,
An Arizona wife begged the court not
to punish her husband for the crime of
bigamy, of which he had been convicted.
"He loved me once and was kind,"
she said, with tears running in streams
down her face, " and when I go away to
my lonely home, it would be my only
earthly comfort to know that he was
free to seek for happiness, if he can find
it anywhere in the world."
TTT1?? *TTOf< f.Vio
>r UCIl OOUTOUWJ noo puuuxuwu,
stricken woman fell upon her knees be
fore her husband, and placing hej hands
upon his arms, asked him to forgive her
if she had ever done anything to chill
his love for her, and to kiss her just as
he would a dead wife whom he loved.
The wretched man seemed entirely over
come by these pitiful appeals and his
own fate, and, grasping her in hia arms,
kissed her over and over again, and
when the officers drew him away, she
sank fainting to the floor.
THE WILD FAMILY AGAIX.
Murder of the Girl by bet Brutish Brother
?The Murderer Captnred and Sent to
the Insane Asylum?An Unparalleled
Story et 8ava*ery and Barbarity.
In the fall of 1871 quite a sensation
was created by the discovery in the "wil
derness of Wyoming county, Pa., of a
family of wild people, consisting of a
man and his two children. * The latter
roamed the woods in a nude condition,
subsisting on nuts, roots, etc. The man
lived in a miserable hut, where his chil
dren sometimes slept. He was possessed
of a good education, and clothed in rags
and surrounded with filth, he spent his
time in studying an old Bible.
He seemed to have a profound knowl
edge of Scriptural subjects, and was
well versed in ancient and modern his
tory. He possessed, also, extraordinary
elocutionary powers, ana naa myenvea
a system of short hand which he wrote
with remarkable speed, and read with
fluenoy. Soon after the discovery of
these strange beings a man named Rob
inson sought to make aoney out of them
by exhibiting them about the country.
To obtain the children he was obliged to
kidnap them, and by a course of most
cruel treatment compelled them to sub
mit to be partially clothed. When
plothing was first put on them they tore
it to shreds. The father was induced to
aocompany them, and served as lecturer,
reader and short-hand reporter.
The children were a boy and a girL
They were named William and Melvina.
The latter waa twenty-two years old,
perfectly developed, but somewhat
dwarfed in appearanoe. The boy was
nineteen. There was a remarkable re
semblance between them. Their heads
trere email, with reoeding foreheads, and
were covered with long, matted white
hair. Their noses and mouths were
rery large, and their eyes small. The
expression of their faces was idiotic.
Ihey were mutes, so far as emitting in
telligible sounds was concerned, but
they had a straoge, harsh gibberish in
which their father insisted they com
municated understandingly with one an
other. The exhibitions of this degraded
family were bo shocking to the sensibili
ties of the pnblio that the exhibitor was
compelled to abandon his speculation,
uid the "wild mutes," as they were
armed, were returned to their retreat
in the wilderness, in the winter of 1872.
They were gradually forgotten, but in
1873 their father appeared at Tunkhan
lock and made the charge that his son
iid killed his faster and attempted the
iie of his father, and asited that he be
aken in charge by the authorities. The
did boy was arrested with great difficulty j
aid lodged in jail. All efforts to get Him j.
*"? ?nnnnnrtfloofnl n-nr?
\J WCtti uiuiuxuig noio liuouwwwui) uuu
ie was so violent that no one dared to
inter his cell unprotected. Nothing
ould be done with him, and some weeks
iter he was secured he was returned to
he woods. Ever since he has been a
ource of annoyance to the authorities,
md he has at last been disposed of by
>eing captured and incarcerated in the
nsane asylum at Danville by order of
?urt. The extraordinary story of the
amily, as told officially by the father, is
is follows. It has no parallel in modern
imea :
The name of the father of the wild
nutes is Thomas Wells Parke. He is
lfty-flve years old, and waa born in Exe
er, Luzerne corfnty. He lived in that
)Iace until he was fifteen years old, ob
aining the rudiments of an English edu
ction. Beyond the fact that when he
au-i. I--'- 1
IiIIUI 11 lo [^tucuio uiuvuu iuuv/ vuu
wilderness of Wyoming county, to the
ipot where he was discovered with his
ariily in 1871, and that they died there,
md were buried in the woods by his
iwn hands, nothing is known about his
.ntecedents. His father left fifty acres
if land, on which Parke's hut now
tands. When he was twenty-six years
Id he married a girl of twenty, named
dory Searlea. She was sickly, and sub-;
ect to insane spells. The girl, Melvina,
ras born in 1849, and the boy nearly a
hree years later. Their mother never s
,'ave them any attention, and from the C
ime they were old enough to get about v
hey were compelled to look out for I
hemselves. They never spoke a word fc
r> fViaiT li-tJoa nnr Vttir? ft D-ftrmfiTlt of STIV I
ind on them until the showman took
hem away. They early took to the
roods, and grew up like tho animals
bat infested the region. Prom digging
or roots and hunting nests they acquired
he habit of going on all fonrs, and were
Imost as fleet as deer. They were
qually agile in an erect position. They
nbsisted on nuts, roots, bark, etc., and
Lbo systematically hunted mice, rats,
abbits, ground moles, and other bur
owing animals, which they devoured
aw. They climbed the higesfc trees with
a8e, and hunted birds' nests, the con
ortiVti av rnnriff
oUWJ U1 YVIUtUj nuoiuui vggu W4 j mwuq
irds, were choice food for them. They
randered about in the most rigorous
rinter weather, and sometimes remained
way from home days at a time. Their
kin became almost black from exposure,
nd at the time they were discovered by
he huntera their flesh was covered with
cars made by onts and scratches in the
roods. The skin of the palms of their
ands and soles of their feet was thick
nd as hard as horn. The disposition of
he boy at that time was ugly and
icious. He had made several assaults
n his sister, wounding her badly, and
ad attempted to kill his n other, who
' il-- l?t. Mowik 1R71
Ail away irurn tuo uuv m xuiuvu^ av?*j
nd never returned.
Left alone with his wild offspring, the
ather noted with alarm the increasing
Brociousness of the boy, and, when he
ould control him, he tied him in the
int for the safety of himself and the
irl. This increased his fury, and he
ms released. The disposition of the
;irl was gentler, and she was quite do
ile.
When they returned from their short
our with the showman it was in the
aidst of the severe winter of 1872.
>arke had left home at the time he
isually gathered his crop of potatoes
nd turnips, all he raised on his land,
nd when he came back there was noth
Dg for him to subsist ou. His children
-1- TTTAA^a
GtOUh. lUBUineivoa at uulo w uuu >tuuuu.
The snow was very deep, and they
:ould find but littlo to eat. It had been
heir custom previously to make out
heir winter's subsistence by sharing
heir father's potatoes, which he cooked
n a hole dug in the ground in liis hut.
rhe stock having been exhausted, they
iuffered terribly from hunger. Parke
ibtained occasional relief from the sur
ounding villages, but it seems, singu
arlv enough, that no move was made to
leal permanently with this wretched
amily. The mutes stripped the bark
rom trees, and even ate the straw which
ormed their father's bed in one corner
>f the hut.* They fought each other
ike wild beasts, and their father lived
n mortal terror for nearly three months.
Ifear his hut is a swamp, which is the
lome of myriads of the smaller rep
iles. When spring opened, the wild
aid almost famished children scoured
his swamp, and caught and devoured
vith the ravenous appetites of half
itarved wolves the creeping-occupants
>f the mire. This is not only testified
o Tfy their father, but by others, who
leclare that they saw the boy catch and
:at a water snake.
Parke says that this horrid diet in
ireased the ferocity of his children. One
lay the brother and sister camo into the
mtand a fight ensued between them.
Parke was compelled to fly. Bill, as the
joy was called, attacked his sister with
tn old case knife he had pioked up in
the hovel. He stabbed her in the breast
and in other places. She ran bleeding
into the woods. Her father fonnd her
afterward lying at the foot of a tree,
dead. He carried her body a long dis
tance into the woods and buried it.
Parke continued to live in the hut,
bnt was frequently compelled to leave it
bo escape the fnry of his son. Finally,
sarly in 1873, he made the oomplaint
igainst him, and has at last had his
brutish child safely disposed of.
Parke is a thin, wiry man, ragged and
slovenly. His head is covered with
long, white, unkempt hair, and he hac a
lowing white beard. He attributes the
lamentable condition of his children to
the incapacity of his wife to oversea and
Tain them, saying that he was too much
absorbed in his scientific and literary
pursuits to notice their wants.
Shortly after the death of Mclvina he
puDiisnea a cara ataung ior iiuutuuMuu
us to the whereabouts of his wife, and
pegging her to come and look after the
ieeds of her remaining child. He is by
nany considered- insane. -
A Narrow Eieape,
There was to be a military execution
way'up above the heads of everybody
n Harper's Ferry, on Bolivar heights,
md with abonta thousand others I went
o see it. Two soldiers had been con
victed of desertion, and their death sen
tence approved by Gen. Sheridan. I
ikip the details. About twelve o'clock
loon they found themselves on their
mees in front of two coffins inside three
idee of a hollow square of soldiers,
rith a firing party two rods in front
[heir eyes were being bandaged; three
ninnfcea more, I think, would have set
led their accounts with this world, wnen
in orderly came galloping up that
iteep, muddy hill with a telegram.
Sen. Stevenson, who commanded there,
)pened it. It was signed "A. Lin
win," and directed an indefinite sus
pension of the sentence. A suspicion
iroeaed my mind that we had all been
participating in a gotten-up dramatic
mtertainment, to prod ace a good moral
)ffect on the soldiers present, particul
arly the two most interested. In other
ivords, I suspected that this telegram
lad been received by Gen. Stevenson
jefore the funeral cortege left Harper's
Ferry. I was on the staff in those days,
ind was privileged to ask questions, so I
- 3 ^ r% U rtfl
mrea UU LIIO gCUBiai au iuo uaiuuiuu
ers two hours after and inquired about
t. He assured me that my suspicions
rare unfounded. .
" But the line from here to Baltimore
s down and I had no reason to expect a
lispatch. How it got here I don't
mow. Certainly, they would have,
een dead in a few minutes more."
The statement of the operator at Balti
aore, afterward published, gave inten
ity to the dramatic situation out on
ileak Bolivar heights on that dismal
February morning. The President's
lispatch was received about ten o'clock
hat morning, with the cipher of the
iVar department to hurry it to Harper's
ferry. For hours the line had been
town between that and Baltimore; there
vw no train tnat would oe umeiy. xc
v&h the jadgment of the operator that
his ended the matter; that the men
aost die, Yet an effort might be made
o reach Harper's Ferry from the west.
3o made the trial; he kept right on
risking it for an hoar and a half. As he
ailed, and continued to fail, his anxiety
'rew greater to save the doomed men.
dare not say how many thousand miles
hose words of the President traveled
mckward and forward in that ninety
oinutes. They went to New York, to
Buffalo, to Cincinnati, to Pittsburgh, to
Vheeling, and elsewhere, often return
ug like Noah's dove of mercy, and as
' - nti L.j
Ilten sent one again. xiiey reucueu
Cumberland at last, and thence flashed
[own to Harper's Ferry in timo.
Saved his Diamonds.
General Jack, a noted circus man, has
great penchant for diamonds, and it is
aid that those who want to come it over
Jeneral Jack?no easy thing to do?al
ways approach him on his diamond side,
le takes it as a compliment to be asked
0 show his collection, and does show it.
Jut he is a good judge of character for
U. The story goes that some thieves
onspired to rob him by profiting by his
leasure in showing his treasures. There
rere three of them?nobby English fel
iws?who came over expresslyto do the
>b, and thoroughly posted. They made
is acquaintance at a hotel, and in due
ourse procured the invitation to see his
iamonds. They claimed to be sporting
len, ardent turfites, but connoisseurs in
uch things. They came to Jack's house
ne afternoon, in a coach, and he re
vived them alone, opened his safe, dis
1 J nrnnf. inf.A T
l&ytJU mi 1UO uiDaouito, nvun
istory, eto. "This," he said, "is my
foloonda specimen?not very large, bnt
jmarkable for its brilliancy and pure
Ater. This is my Brazilian?it is a bit
ff color, a suspicion ofa canary tinge"?
hack I smack I thwack! "You would,
ouldyou?" and with three successive
lows of his fat white fist, his three
Inglish visitors were knocked down and
nt hors df combat. It was a mere
aspicion on his part?something he saw
1 the men's faces, read in their eyes?
ut it saved his diamonds.. He sum
loned aid, looked the safe, secured the
len, and found them fully armed?pis
>ls, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag,
liloroform, red pepper. He disarmed
ism, bundled them into the coach, and
ave them twejity-foy hours to leave the
An Odd Detection.
An elderly man fell at the corner of
Washington and Warrenton streets,
toston, while intoxicated, and hurt him
3lf badly. A crowd immediately gath
red, bnt though the man laid there un
ble to move, no one essayed to assist
im up, till a young fellow foroed his
ray through the crowd and made him
elf very officious in his efforts to get
be old man home. Meanwhile another
lan in the crowd had seen this young
lan counting some money in a neigh
oring doorway and suspected that he
light have knocked the old man down
nd robbed him. Officer Maynard was
ummoned and both men were taken to
tie police station, and on searching the
oung man, who gave his name as
r:~Ur.ai TW1f\r TrurA fnnnd on his
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eraon, which he said belonged to his
unt, Mrs. Catherine Mahoney, at No.
1 Newton place. An officer went to
be house, and on investigation Mrs.
iahoneyfound that $440 had been taken
rom under a certain carpet and voung
.'aylor is held for taking it. Thus an
ttempt to do an act of kindness result
d in his being detected in a crime.
A Centennial Blow-Up.
They intend having a very lively oen
snnial "Fourth " at Hell Gate, in the
last river, New York. One hundred
nd twenty men are employed drilling
oles in the roof and sides of the excava
ion, which has been completed at a cost
f $750,000, and which is directly under
eath the rock which once so frightened
footer TTondnVlr TTnilqnn nnrl liin
lephantine mariners, inducing them to
elinquish their refforta to reach Hin
oostan via Hell Gate. An average of
wenty-one holes a day are drilled, and
?hen the fourth oomes they mil be
harged with 50,000 pounds of nitro-gly
erine, which will be touched by a cur
ent of electricity, and Hell Gate will be
henceforth forever open to the naviga
ion of Brooklynites and New Yorkers,
An Answer.
You ask me, wondering, why I sing,
And why my lips In langhter put;
The ripples of my mirth ul spring
From the deep sorrow of my heart.
A emile is easier than a tear
That serves to keep sad memories green,
And always, through what is, I hear
The echoes of what might have beeo.
Items of Interest.
. Trust reposed in noble natures obliges
them the more.
Capital punishment?Hanging on the
neck of a pretty girL
When is a baby like a canister f When
it is a tea thing.
All things are in fate, yet all things
are not decreed by fate.
When are eyes not eyes? When the
wind makes them water.
If crying babies had any sense they
never would take their mothers to
matinees.
- A Western writer has evolved a liew
name for the Legislature?"act grind
ers."
Never huny. More men have died
from getting out of breath than for any
other reason.
Chilian women have received the
right to vote, the only qualification
being they must be of jtge and able to
reau aim whlc.
A tramp lately asked a lady for money
She offered hi food. " Gracious !
was his observation, "do you think I
can eat all the time ?"
A family in town has a dog twentyi
five years old. He was originally a
hound, but he's stayed with them so
long that they call him a tarrier. ,
During the past twelve years Dart
mouth College has received about $600,
000 in gifts, and about $700,000 more
will become available in a few years.
Lamartine says: " War, very far
from being the progress of humanity, is
only murder in mass which retards it,
afflicts it, decimates it, dishonors it."
Experiments with young grasshoppesr
at Jackson, Maine, have shown that they
may be frozen and thawed several times
without impairing their power to return _
to life.
The Erie car shops at Elmira, N. Y.,
are crowded to their utmost capacity, in
turning out pas sen gar cars to meet the
extra demand dnnag the centennial
year. The men are working nine hoars
a day.
"Remember,"said u trading Quaker
to his son, "in making thy way in the
world, a spoonful of ou will go farther
than a quart of vinegar." And Broad
brim was right; but the trouble is,
people will persist in trying the vinegar
Some men are always lucky. A
htm tor of Brainerd, Minn., while oat in
the woods reoently discharged his gun
just to clear out the barrel, and unknown
to him a fine buck happened to be with
in range and was shot through the
heart.
The family of Lewis Neides, of Bead
ing, is unlucky. The daughter fell off
a chair and broke her arm in two places.
Soon after, Neides himself fell and
factured hiB ribs, and before he had re
covered his son, aged ten years, fell and
b:*oke his arm at the elbow.
Thought engenders thought. Place
one idea on paper and another will fol
low it, and atill another until you have
written a page; you cannot fathom your
mind. There is a well of thought there
which has no bottom; the more you draw
from it the more clear and fruitful it
will be.
David. T. Sleeper, of Sandown, N.
H., who is totally blind, is able to reap,
mow, thresh, chop down trees, cut up
cord wood, make ax handles, ox goads,
and can go round the neighborhood with
assistance or direction from any one,
and never finds time to spend in regret
ing the loss of his eyesight
He was in a confidential mood when
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ne wem iiumu mo utucx uj^uv v**
ferryboat, and said to the gentleman
sitting by him : " I'm happish man in
New Yorfc. I donowe man shent. I'm
gonehome, an' if tholoman's sittin' up
I'll licker, an' if she's gone to bed 111
licker any way. I'm bonnt' have shome
fun."
The warden of the Oregon peniten
tiary has discharged the prison doctor
and detailed one of the oonvicts, who is
an educated physician, to perform the
duties. The warden claims that he
saved the State $1,500 a year by this
arrangement, and is always sure to have
medical attendance "within reach"
when needed.
" See here, conductor, why don't you
have a fire in this car ?" " Well, you
see, one of the directors is a clothing
man, another is a doctor, and another is
a drug store keeper, and another runs a
tombstone factory, and you know in this
ruvmln mnsfc * live and let live.'
So you see1"? "All right, sir; go ahead
with yourooffin."
"This is my last call,"remarked a
flippant young gentleman to a young
lady who was soon ta-be married, on a
recent occasion. "I never call on
married women or unmarried ladies after
they have reached twenty-five." "You
do well, sirgravely remarked an elder
lady present. " At that age, and after
marriage, they begin to know the value
of time, and do not like to waste it."
Acoounts from Villefranche, France,
state that the valley is still covered with
snow and the cold very severe. The
wolves, being almost famished, have be
come most audacious; a few days back
four of those animals entered the village
of RierAyroux in the open day, and
carried off two young pigs and a goat.
A number of dogs have also been killed
by them, and the innabitants dare not
venture out at night unless armed with
a gun.
The boys of Winnemucca, Nevada,
had some fun with a showman. They
formed a line from the ticket office ex
tending around a near comer. Each
asked the price of admission, and, on
being told that it was fifty cents, shook
his head, said it was too dear, retired
and fell in at the rear of the line. This
was kept up until the showman, astound
ed at the unanimity and seemingly great
number, reduced the charge, and then
every boy cleared out.
A French artisan living in London
committed suicide the other day by
guillotining himself. One evening he
was observed to take home two large
planks of wood and a large dotlble
handled knife. With these, as it was
subsequently discovered, he constructed
a guillotine. Grooves were formed in
the wood for the knife, and down these,
after having been drawn up with a
nnllflv. it forned hv heavv stones.
The unfortunate man's head was com
pletely severed from his body..
Mrs. Gross, of Paw Paw, Michigan,
thinking her husband was unduly atten
tive to his brother's wife, was therefore
made jealous. One evening he left the
house late, and she guessed he had gone
to meet his sister-in-law. So Mrs. Cross
followed stealthly and discovered, not a
liaison, but a murder. She dogged him
to a place where he was joined by two
brothers, and thence kept them in sight
while they took a drunken stranger to
ward a lake. Then she went home.
The stranger was robbed and drowned,
and her testimony is nsed in tne trial of
the three brothers.