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v: r i j n *t! 'i ???/, pin. a v vi : ... BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 2. MASONIC J>l RECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. W. H. PARKE Ft. W.\ M.\ J. C. W09MANSKY, Secrotary. Meets 2d Monday in every month. Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M. J. F. C. DcPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.-. J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d End ay night in every month. DsSaassnre Coraci! No, 16, E. & S. M. J. T. ROBERTSON. T.\ II!.*. M.\ JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in overy month. DR. JOHN S. THOMPSON, DENTIST, Offers his professional eervices to the citizens or ADDOVlJiO ana UIO Huriuuuuiug tuuiiuj. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON Have on hand a large stock of AT VERY LOW PRICES. A largo assortment of .Ladies' and Gents' Merino Vests & Shirts, BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Silk Scarfs and Ties. GIVE THEM A CALL. The Star Shirt! M 5% J* j ^ S if' 'n ^ Having tried theee 8hirts, we can safely re oommand them for & good fitting and durable Shirt. Collars, Linen and Paper, LATEST SI' X JUtiSf With Gravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERRIN. Cottage Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedsteads jaet received, war ranted all hard wood, ac prices from $5 00 to $10.00. . ?f .- v .v J. D. CFTATiMFiRS. Boots and Shoes! - * Oar stock of BOOTS and SFTOE3 is now complete, aod at the Lowost Prices for CASH. (Jfcli e&riy ana get a uargmu. DuFRE, GAMBRELL & CO. - c. E. BRTTC3, Boot and Shoe Maker, Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, S. C.t Desires to a?y that ho isfnlly pnparei to meet all demands the pfibllc may make In bis line He keeps oonstautly on bund a large lot of the boat material and employs only the tinoct work men. He keeps a full "stock of custom mad<^ Boots and SboeB, aud piarautc es tiie moat entire ?atief action fn every instance. m. goldsmith. r. kind. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS (PIKENIX -IRON WORKS), a COLUMBIA, S. C. -1 - * * Manufacturers of Steam Engines of all Hiz?s; Horse powers, Circular aud Mnley Saw Mills, Grist and 8ugar Cane Milln, Flour Mills, Orna mental Houao and Store F.outf, Iron Riilinge, Agricultural Implements, etc. B ass and Iroi> CastingSof nil kiada mado to order on short notide, and on tho most rea?ouable terns. Also, manufaoturora of Cotton Presses. S. B. NORHELL, HAMESS and SADDLE MAKER, ? js. A AT Ills Oil) 6TAND ? Over Parker & Pen-in s Drag Store, Hu a supply of Northern Harness Leather and other material for Making and Repairing 9 riaddteMmd-Harness. ^ ; * ? "carpentry. The undersigned hereby gives notice that he is prepared to do all kinds of Carpenter's fori and Bnilfling. He also repairs Cotton Gins, Thrashers and Fans. A fnll supply of Gin Material always on band. Farmers ate requeued to bring their Gins up early in the season to allow time to have them properly prepared. Alan Affint for th? Tavlor Cotton Gin. thn Brooks Colton Press, and all kiiidfl of liubber and Leather Belting. D': -B. SMITH, ,c; :. : / c ' . g Abbeville . H., 8. C. STEAM F.W.WING, Proprietor. ; SfASrtrFAOTUBER 0? Sash, Blinds, Doors, WINDOW AND DOOR FEAMES, feilll PILASTERS, yMMteteieoes. HOLDINGS, BRACKETS, Handrails, Newels, Balusters. SCROLL WOE of all Description All Work Guaranteed A No. 1. AUNT HANNAH. A Story Told In Rhyme by J, T. Trowbrldce. She ia known to all the town, In her quaintly fashioned gown, And wide bonnet?yon would gncsa tt at the distance of a mile ; Wit her little sprigs of smilax, and her laven der and lilacs, Snowy napkins and big basket, and serenely simple smile, She is just a little qneer ; and few gentlefolk, I fdar, In their drawing-rooms would weloome that benignant, beaming face; And the troth is, old Aunt Hann&h'e rather antiquated manners In Bome fashionable circled would seem sadly out of place. Yet there's something quite refined in her manners and her mind, As you presently discover; and 'tis well enough to know, Everything that now so odd is in the bonnet ana me uuuico Was the very height of faahion five and forty years ago. Sbe was then a reigning belle; and I'yo heard old ladies tell Hon at all the balls and parti en Hannah m Amsden took the lead; Perfect bloom and maiden aweetaess, lily grace of rare completeness, Though the stalk stands rather stiffly now the flower has gone to seed. She had all that love oonld give, all that makes it sweet to live? Fond caresses, iewtls, dresses; and with eloquent appeal Many a proud and rioh adorer nelt?In meta phor?before h?r; Metaphorically only does your modern lorer kneel. If Bhe heeded, 'twaa because, in their worship, their applause, Her perfection was reflected, and a pleasing musio heard; Bat she suffered them no nearer than her gold finch or her mirror; And she hardly held them dearer than her pier-glass or her bird. BcS at last there came a day when she gave her heart away? If that rightly be called giving which is neither chotoe nor will, But a charm, a fascination, and a wild 6weet All the freeh young life outgoing in a strange ecatatic thrilL At a oity ball, by oh&aco, she first met bis ardent glanoe. He was neither young nor handsome, but a man of subtle parts, With an eye of such expression as your lover by profession Finds an excellent possession when he goes a-bunting hearts. It could trouble, it eould burn; and when first he chanced to turn That fine glance on Hannah Amsden, it lit up with swift desire, Witla a suddea dilation, and a radiant admira uuu, And ahot down, her Boul'a deep heaven-like meteor trailing fire. y i * , ' v_' How was any one to know that those eyes had looked jast so On a hundred other women, with a gaze aa bright and atrange ? There are men who change their passions oven oftener than their fashions, And the best of loving always, to their mind, id etill to change. Nay, it was not base deceit; his own oonquest seemed complete. They were Boon affianoed lovers; and her opening life was filled With the fiHBh of flame-lit fancies, mornlng'b rosy-hued romanoes, All the dews of hope and rapt ore love's de licious dawn distilled. Home the oountry maiden went; and a busy summer spent All in bridal preparations, blissful troubles, happy woes; Fitting dresses, filling presses, little crosses and distresses? xuuco yiamuiLuu/ yuviucv w uup iivut.qwu > . / ' - rose. ? Never since the world began, course of true love smoother ran; Not an eddy of dissension, nor the ripple of & doubt. All the neighbors and relations came with kind , congratulations, J tl And a hmdro 1 invitations to the wedding j v feast went out. i ^ m All the preparations thrived, an'i the wedding | m day arrived; Pleased but pensive moved the mother.; and j o loo iamer wiui & amue Broad ard genial as tho summer, gave a wel come to each comer; All things turned on golden hinges, all weat merry for a while. And the lovely bride, arrayed all in lacee and brocade, Orange blossoms in her tresses (strange as now the story setms), Quite enchanting and enchanted, in her cham ber blushed and panted, And but one thing now was wanted to fulfill her darling dreams. For the clergyman was there, to unite the happy pair, And the guests were all assembled, and th% company sat dumb; And the banquet was belated, and the maid tr?a it'll And the wedding waited, waited, for a coach that did not come. Then a few began to sneer, and a horror and a fear Fell on fnenda and auxioua paresis ; and the brido, with cheek aflame, All too rudely disenohanted, in her chamber paced and panted ; And the one thing still was wanted; and the oue thing never came. Glaesy smiles and feeble chat?then the parson took his hat, And the wedding guests departed, glad to breathe the outer air; Till the last farewell was taken, kind word offered, kind hand shaken ; And the great house stood forsaken in its shamo and its despair. t With a firmness juetifiod less by hope, perhaps, r than pride, i All her misery, all their pity, Hannah bore a without complaint; f Till her hasting mother met her, pale and i a breathless, with a letter, j 0 And she saw tie superscription, and shrieked ! j1 " Frederick!" and grew faint * - *8 < 'J* j T1 With quick band the seal ehe broke, and she nei'.her breathed nor spoke, But a sudden athy paleness all her fair face overspread; And ft terror seemed to hold her, and her oheek grew cold aud colder And ber icy fingers rattled on the paper as Bhe read In ber chamber once alone, on the floor she lay like stone, With ber bridal gear about her?all that idle, fine array; And the white moot), white and holy, to her ohamber bar climbed slowly, And looked in upon tho lowly, wretohed lady where ehe lay. Why the letter wae delayed, what the poor ex* case he made, Mattered little there to Hannah lying en t moon-lit floor. ["was his heart that had miscarried; for soma new toy he had tarried; In a fortnight he was married, and she never b&w him more. ame the glorious autumn days?golden hills, cerulean haze? And still Hannah kept her chamber with her shame and her despair; II the neighbors and relatione oame and offer ed consolations, And the preacher preaohed up patience, and remembered her in prayer. pita of all that they oould say, Hannah Amsden pined away. Game the dull days of November, oame the winter, wild and white; onely, listless, hours together she would sit and watch the weather, Or the cold bright constellations pulsing in the pallid night. r>r a. fwAlvAmnntVi a. da* nn nonr Hfcnnnh pined away. Came once more the fatal morning, come the dread hoars that had been ; II the anguish she lived over, waiting, wailing for her lover. Then the new dawn shone about her, and a sweeter dawn within. 11 her Boul bleached white and pure, taught by suffering to endure, Taught by sorrow to know sorrow, and to bind the bleeding heart, ow & pale and placid sister in the world that lately missed her? Sweetly pale where peace had kissed her? patient Hannah chose her part. o do good was her delight, all her study day and night; And around her, like a fragance iu the halo round a saint, reathed the holy exaltation of her life and occupation. But the rising generation soon began to call her quaint. or her self-forgetfulneea even extended to her dress; Milli er and mantuamaker never orossed her threshold more; ut t bodice, and the bonnet with the won drous bow upon it, ITArvt nawar fthonm'nff faah inn nf ffiA ! faded yearn before. 3 she still goes tip and down on her errands through the town ; And sometimes a schoolgirl titters, or an urchin Btops to grin, r a village cnr barks at her; bnt to her 'tis little matter? You may fleer or you may flatter?such deep peace her bouI is in. mong all the sick and poor there is nobody so sure Of a welcome and a blessing ; and who sees her onoe appear, sming round some poor man's trellis with her dainty pots of jellies, Or big basket brimmed with bounty, soon forgets that she is queer; )r her pleasant words, addressed to the n6edy and distressed, Are so tonohing and so tender, full of sympa thy and cheer, r the time your smile is ready for the simple, aear oia iaay, It is pretty Bare to tremble in the balance with a tear. ?Harper's Magazine. THE HERO WOMAN. STORY OP THE REVOLUTION ARY WAR. * In the shadows of the Wiseahikon oods, not more than half a mile from le Schuylkill, there stood in the time r the Revolution a quaint old fabric, lilt of mingled logs and stone, and en roled by a palisaded wall. It had been ected in the earlier days of William eim, as a blockhouse, intended for de mse against the Indians. And now it stood with its many roofs, s numerous chimneys, its massive, Ua TTivJn/1 fwAnf f\f Infra ILAtVlU WiUUUWO, ?CU1CU UVUH VI *^5" id htone, its encircling wall, through hicli admittance was gained by a large ad stoutly built gate; it stood in the lidst of the wood, with trees inclosing 8 veteran outline on every side. From its western window you might btain a glimpse of the Schuylkill aves, while a large casement in the juthern front commanded a \iew of le winding road, as it sunk out of tew, under the shade of thickly olus :red boughs, into a deep hollow, not lore than one hundred yards from the tansion. Here, irom tlie southern casement, on ae of those balmy summer days winch >ok in upon the dreary autumn toward le close of November, a farmer's daugh ?r was gazing with dilating eyes and alf-clasped hands. "Well might she gaze earnestly to the suth, and listen with painful intensity ar the slightest sound ! Her brothers rere away with the army of Washing an, and her father, a grim old veteran? e stood six feet and three inches in his bookings?who had manifested his love or tho red-coiit invaders in many a des erate contest, had that morning left her lone in tho old mansion, alone in this mall chamber, in charge of some am lunition intended for a band of brave irmers, about to join the hosts of free om. Even as she stood there, gazing ut of the southern window, a faint limpse of sunlight from the faded saves above, pouring over her mild ace, shaded by clustering brown hair, here, not ten paces from her side, were even loaded rifles and a keg of powder. Leaning from the casement, she lis ened, with every nerve quivering with nspense, to the shouts of oombatants, be hurried tread of armed men echoing rom the south. Suddenly the shouts grew nearer, end hen, emerging from the deep hollow, here came an old man, running at full peed, yet every few paces turning ound to fire tue rifle, which ho loaded 9 ho ran. He was pursued by a party if ten or more British soldiers, who tune rushing on, their bayonets fixed, 3 if to strike.their victim down ere he dvanced ten paces nearer the honse. On and on the old man came, while lis daughter, quivering with suspense, tung leaning from the window; he eaches the block house gate?look ! He 9 surrounded, their muskets are leveled ,t-his head; he is down, down at their eet, grappling for his life I But look gttULL I XIO Uttr>UCO Ilia IWo iVSlUUj YVItU >ne bold movement he springs through he gate; an instant, and it is locked; be British soldiers, mad with rage, gaze tpon the high wall of logs and stone, ,nd vent their anger in drunken curses. Now look to yonder window! Where he young girl stood a moment ago, [uivering with suspense, as she beheld ler father struggling for his life, now tands that old man himself, his brow >ared, his arm grasping the rifle, while lis gray hairs wave back from his rrinkled and blood-dabbled faoe ! That 70S a fine picture of an old veteran, ierved for his last fight; a stout war ior, preparing for his death struggle. Death struggle ? Yes I?for the old ian, Isaac Wampole, had dealt too aany hard blows among the British sol iers, trioked, foiled, cheated them too ften to escape now I A few moments 3Dger, and they would be re-enforced by strong party of refugees; the powder, he arms, in the old blook house, per ips that daughter herself, was to be leir reward. There was scarcely a 3pe for the old man, and yet he had ;termined to make a desperate fight. "We must bluff off these rascals 1" 3 said, with a grim smile, turning to a child. " Now, Bess, my girl, when fire thiB rifle, do you hand me another, id so on, until the whole eight shots e fired 1 That will keep them on the her side of the wall for a few moments least, and then we will have to trust ? God for the rest 1" Look down there, and see a hand ealing over the edge of the wall. The d man levels his piece?that British Lropei iUllO UUUlk WILLI tt U1U01ICU liiVUU. ?on his oomrades' heads! No longer quivering with suspense, it grown suddenly firm, that young xl passes a loaded rifle to the veteran's asp, and silently awaits the result. For a moment all is silent below; the ritiBh bravoes are somewhat loth to try tat wall, when a stout old "rebel," Be in hand, is looking from yonder indow I There is a pause?low, deep urmurs?they are holding a council I A moment is gone, and nine heads are rust above the wall at once?hark! ce?two?three I The old veteran has :ed three Bhots, there are three dying en groveling in the yard, beneath the tadow of the wall! "Quick, Bess, the rifles 1" And the brave girl passes the rifles to jr father's grasp; there are four shots, le after the other; three more soldiers 11 back, like weights of lead upon the UlLLIU, tUIU 2* BUJglO leu-uuav in docUj awly mounting to the top of the wall, a eye fixed upon the hall door, which ) will force ere a moment is gone! Now the last ball is fired, the old man ands there, in that second story win >w, his hands vainly grasping for an her loaded rifle I At this moment the Dtrnded and dying band below are ined by a party of some twenty refu (es, who, clad in their half-robber uni rm, came rushing from the woods, and ith one bound are leaping for the sum it of the wall I " Quick, Bess, my rifle." And look there?even while the vet an stood looking out upon his foes, the ave girl?for, slender in form, and Idly beautiful in face, she is a brave rl, a hero woman?had managed, as if r instinctive impulse, to load a rifle, le handed it to her father, and then aded another and another I Now look down to the wall again ! le refugees are clambering over its mmit?again that fatal aim?again a irrid cry, and another wounded man ppling down upon his dead and dying mrades! But now look! A smoke rises there, fire blazes up around the wall; they ve fired the gate. A mpment, and the It &nd the lock will be burnt from its cketa?the passage will be free I Now the fiery moment of the old man's al 1 While his brave daughter loads, continues to fire, with that deadly n, but now?o'-, horror I He falls, falls, with a musket ball driven into 3 breast?the daughter's outstretched ais receive the father, as, with the 3od spouting from his wound, he top 3s back from the window. Aii, it is a sad and terrible picture! That old man, writhing there on tho.. ken floor, the young daughter bending er him, the light from the window earning over her face, over her fath s gray hairs, while the ancient furui re of the small chamber affords a dim okground to the scene! Now, hark! The sound of axes at the 11 door?shouts?hurrahs?curses 1 " We have tho old rebel, at last I" The old man raises his head at that md; makes an effort to rise; clutches ' a riflo, and then falls back again, his 33 glaring, as the fierce pain of that und quivers through his heart. STow watch the movements of that tighter. Silently she loads a rifle, si itly she rests its barrel against the id of that powder keg, and then, icing her finger on the trigger, stands ; )T her father's form, while the shouts of i enraged soldiers came thundering ' m the stairs. Yes, they have broken : > hall door to fragments, they axe in ; jsession of the old block house, they . i rushing toward that chamber, with iraer in tueir Hearts huu iu iucu ring eyes ! Had the old man a thou- , id lives, they -were not worth a far ng's purchase now. Jtill that girl?grown suddenly white ! the'kerchief round her neck?stands sre, trembling from head to foot,-the ' e in her hand, its dark tube laid j linst the powder keg.J ! rhe door is burst open?look there ! >ut forms are in the doorway, with , Lskets in their hands, grim faces stain with blood glare into the room. tfow, as if her very soul was coined ; o the words, tbat young girl, with her , e pale as ashes, her haScl eye glaring ih deathly light, ntters this 'short yet . aning speecu: Advance one step into the room, 11 will fire this rifle into the powder ire !" So oath qnivers from the Hps of that 1, to confirm her resolution, but there ) stands, alone with her wounded her, and yet not a soldier dare cross ! threshold ! Embrued as they are in ids of blood, there is something ter le to these men in the simple words that young girl, who stands thore, ;h the rifle laid against the powder ?. * ~ z Chey stood as if spellbound, on the eshola of that chamber. It last one bolder than the rest, a fr\rtr\ 4a Kal# AAnAAfllAil 1T1 ft IYUj WJLIUDU iBVU w ? ck red beard, grasps his musket and J els it at the young girl's breast! ' Stand back, or I will fire !" tf 11 Still the girl is firm; the bravo ad- , ices a Btep, and then starts back, e sharp " click" of that rifle falls , :h an unpleasant emphasis upon his ! 'Bess, I am dying," gasps the old i a, faintly extending his arms. "Ha, I , we foiled the Britishers ! Oome? I oghter?kneel here; kneel and say a lyer for me, and let me feel your rm breath upon my face for I am get ig cold?oh, darK ana com: Look! As those trembling accents 1 from the old man's tonguo, thoso gers unloose their hold of the rifle? eady tlie troopers are secure of one :tim, at least, a young and beautiful 1; for affection for her father is mas king the heroism of the moment? >k! She is about to spring into his as! But now she sees her danger ! ain she clutches the rifle; again? al 3Ugh her father's dying accents aro in r ears?stands there, prepared to scat- j : that house in ruins, if a single rough ! nd assaila that veteran form. There are a few brief terrible mo- : juts of suspense. Then a hurried und, far down the mansion; then a ! fiiQ bf.dirq* then the echo of | UVCOU uu vuv . VVM... J ? le shot and the light of rifle blaze; j en those ruffians in the doorway fall ashed before the strong arms of' Con lental soldiers. Then a wil^l shriek liveis through the room, and that ung girl?that hero woman?with one iund, springs forward into her broth s' arms, and nestles there, while her ad father?his form yet warm?lies th fixed eyeballs upon the floor. Out in the Black Hills gold region, aen you buy a bowl of bean soup, you ke off your coat, dive for a bean, and lien you come up with it the proprie r of the saloon takeB it away from you td Bays you only paid for soup. THE SHOWER OF FLESH. A Scientific Analysis of Snpposed Flesh ?A Scientist Declares It to be D ad Frog Spawn. Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, scientist, to whom was given the specimens of flesh which it was claimed fell in Bath coun ty, Ky., has furnished the following re port of his analysis: I have examined the specimens of matter that were sent to me from Bath county as having fallen from a dear sky, in a limited space, in the neighborhood of Mudlick Springs. The pieces reoeived by me had been placed in alcohol, and they had evidently shrunk considerably from their original bulk. The four pieces furnished me by Uaptain Brent, of Mount Dterung, uuu Mr. Madden, of the Courier-Journal, were from one-half to one inch in size; they had the appearance of dried gela tinous matter of irregular shape and were more or loss colored. Filaments were attached to the exterior. Under a feeble magnifying power the edges were translucent; when heated in water the pieces became enlarged and more trans lucent. The dried pieces when out across showed on the exterior a soft gelatinons substance withput any fibrous structure. Under the microscope the parts that had dried showed an irregular filamen tous structure. The dried pieces, when placed in a flame, burned readily with the strong and well known smell of ani mal matter. The pieces were examined carefully under the microscope, but there was not the slightest indication of anv muscular fiber or other structure belonging to what is commonly known as animal tissue. In my mind this mat ter gives every indication of being the I UCUU DpitWU UJ duo uauio^uiuu doubtless that of the frog. . They have been transported from the ponds and swampy grounds by currents of wind, and have ultimately fallen on the spot where they were found. This is no isolated occurrence of the kind, I having oome across tho mention of several previous instanoes in the course of my reading. The only one I can now fix the date of is recorded by Mufchubroeck and occurred in Ireland in 1675. The matter is described by him as very glutinous and fatty and softened when held in the hand, or emitted an unpleasant odor when exposed to tne action of the fire. The ovum or egg of the batrachian reptiles is a round mass of transparent jelly, in the center of which appears a small black globule. In the present case the passage through air would have dried up, more or less, this gelatinous mass, so that the exterior would have become hard and the interior, as I found it, still soft and gelatinous. As regards the quantity supposed to have fallen there is doubtless exaggeration, for the singularity of this phenomenon would doubtless have such a startling effeofc on the minds of the witnesses as to cause them to magnify the number. I have desired more of the matter to be sent to me, when, if there is .any modification of these views, I will make them known. Considerable excitement exists among the people generally concerning this affair, and it will be hard to c nvinco the country people who witnessed this phenomenon of Professor Smith's theory. PrcDared for Fire. The fire brigade of the Centennial will consist of two lmndred men. Of these at least one hundred will be oc cupied as fire patrolmen ; the others as firemen ready for alarms. They have been selected largely among ex empts from the Philadelphia fire depart ment and among experienced firemen now in service. The officer in com mand is Captain Joseph Hammond, detailed by the fire commissioners of Philadelphia, who have given him the necessary'leave of absence. The direc tor of the Centennial fire department is Atwood Smith, who organized the Phil adelphia insurance patrol and is now orpni riant of it. and whose anDointment to and acceptance of his post were es pecially requested by the insurance companies. Two fire houses are to be built, and three Are engines are to be detailed for oonstant duty. Five or six reserve en-, gines, on exhibition in maohinery hall, will have steam constantly attached, en abling them to go into actual service at any time, and a number of chemical fire extinguishers are to be in readiness at points available and dangerous.' The sources of water supply are two.. The Belmont reservoir has a capacity of iOf000,000 gallons. The Schuylkill river, flowing close by, will render tribute through a powerful Worthing ton^pump, which forces water to the summit of an ornamental stand-pipe dom inating the roofs of All the buildings. There will be water enough to keep tne foiifltainsin the grounds sparkling under aun and stars, and to drenoh the whole exhibition in an hour, should that be necessary, In the main, building mere are seventy-four hose connections; in the machinery building forty-severn. Aj-ound the exterior of the main build ing are tliirty-Bix more water plugs, and around th6 machinery buildiug thirty three. The rest of the buildings are provided in the same way. The Minister's-Wife. Under the head of "The Minister's Wife," the London Baptist Magazine has the following bit of pleasant satire: The minister's wife onght to be selocted by a committee of the church. She should be warranted never to have head ache or neuralgia; she should have nerves of we and sinews of iron; sue should never be tired nor sleepy, and should be everybody's cheerful diudge; she should ba cheerful, intellectual, pious and domesticated; sho should be able to keep har husband's house, darn his stockings, make his shirts, cook his dinner, light his fire and copy his ser monB; she should keep up the style of a lady on the wages of a day laborer, and be always at leisure for good works, and ready to receive morning calls; she should be secretary, to the Band of Hope, the Dorcns Society and the Home Mission; she should conduct Bible classes and mother's meetings; should make clothing for the poor and gruel for the - - " 1?'? sick; and, tinaiiy, huo huuuiu ho jjicmcu with everybody and everything, and never desire any reward beyond the sat isfaction of having done her duty and other peop'le'H too. A New Temperance Argument. The Reedsbnrg (Wis.) Free Pres tells this extraordinary story of an old gentleman who lives in Poynette, Co lumbia county, that Stat", aud admits that " if it were not so wellvouchod for it would be altogether incredible The old man is named William Otis, and ho is now ninety-two years old. He is represented to have been very mucli addicted to intoxicating liquors?has drank enough liquor to float a, seventy four-gun ship. Many years ago he be came nearly or quite bald, and his teeth became few and far between. His eye sight failed almost entirely. About twelve years ago he left off the habit of drinking liquor. Since that time he has had a new set of natural teeth all around, his hair has come in anew, and his eyesight has returned so that he is enabled to work mgularly at hia trade, which is ahoemaking. The Jury System. The Cleveland Herald calls attention to one of the glaring absurdities of the jury system aa it obtains at present, which is brought prominently to notice by the proceedings in the Adin murdei trial, recently oommenced in that city, Here is a case of the simplest possible character, the facts being already before the publio probably an fully as they can be after the witnesses have been exam ined and the arguments made. There has been no denial on the part of the ac cused as to the main facts. The story ol the triple murder is known in its leading circumstances, if not in its minute de tails, to nearly every person in the coun try, and there are veiy few who have not formed some sort of an opinion on the matter and expressed that opinion at some time. Yet the time of the oourt is rtn/mrriad and the tflrnftvars ar? rint to expense in the apparently fruitless en deavor to secure a jury of men who have heard or read nothing of the case, or who have formed no opinion npon it from what they have heard or read. A jury of twelve men, each of whom ia blind, deaf, dumb and idiotic, could alone satisfy the requirements, and they would be or should be promptly objeoted to and the jury seats left empty. To what an absurd farce this reduces the trial by jury which was to be the pal ladium of our liberties I In the days when newspapers were few, when news traveled slowly, and when whatever ap peared in print was considered by the reader to oe "true as Gospel," there might have been some excuse for confin ing jury responsibilities in cases of life and death to persons who obtained their first definite knowledge of the case in the jury box. In those days there was comparatively little difficulty in securing a jury of such men. But now, when avarv riArsnn of ordinary intelligence w * w* J * reads a r ewspaper; when every person is ready to make reasonable allowances for possible errors in the hastily gath ered and instantly printed newspaper accounts of startling oocnrrenoes; when the day's proceedings of the whole world are brought to nearly every person's door next morning, and some sort of an opinion is momentarily formed upon nearly every subjeot brought to notice, it is the height of absurdity to expect that twelve men, of intelligence, ability and character, fit to dispose of the life of a fellow man, can be found who have not heard of an occurrence that startled and horrified the community in which they live, and who have not "formed an opinion npon such facts as were brought to their knowledge. It is an insult to men of intelligence, ability and charac ter to suppose that because they formed an opinion from such evidence as came to their knowledge in the newspapers, they will not pass a fair and honest judg ment upon the sworn testimony submit ted to them in the courtroom. Swindling a Bank President. The evidence given before an examin ing committee in New York shows how a bank president was roped in and swindled. The party referred to is Wil liam M. Graham, who was president of the Wnllkill National bank, at Middle town, N. Y., and is now in prison for de falcation. From the evidence it appears that Graham met the "capper" at a race at Fleetwood Park, in the fall of 1871, and, after the day's sport had ter I mi'nnto/l fVia-tr Tvrn/toAtlpri tf> the fttro UltUUVUU) VMWJ bank of Brings and Moody, who then kept an establishment in Twenty-fourth street. Graham lost $1,500 that night, and within a few days thereafter had de posited abont $23,000 in the faro bank. He drew a check on the Walkill National bank for the amount, and certified it. He was then drugged by the gamblers and kept in that condition until the check could bo presented at his bank. Horton, the cashier of the Walkill bank, refnsed to honor the check, and Graham was eventually allowed to-go home. The gamblers, however, were angry at being unable to collect the $23,000, and de cided to "fleece". Graham, which they did, in the following manner : Brigga, apparently inoensed at the brutal manner in which Graham had been treated, called npon the bank presi dent at Middletown and told him, with tears in his eyes, that he (Brigga), too, had been defrauded out of some money by Moody and the " capper," who were in collusion, and he was anxious to get even with them if he could. He stated that he was a dealer in the rambling house, and promised Graham that if he wonld again visit the house he would be furnished with $10,000 to bet with. Briggs, being dealer, could easily let Graham know what card to bet on and win. To this proposition Graham eager ly assented, and in a few days again put in an appearance. When he arrived there he was informed by Briggs that Moody had unexpectedly come to the house that day, and it'would be impossi ble to get the $10,000 out of the safe, but if he could borrow the money some where it would be "all right; he oould not lose." Accordingly Graham pro cured the amount from the Park bank, where the Walkill bank kept an account, and placing the entire amount in one bet, as he was directed by Briggs, he lost it. Graham was afterward impor tuned by the "capper," with whom Briggs and Moody had refused to divide the gains, to bring a suit against ine scoundrels, bnt he said in reply that he dare not let hi? bank people know that he had ever played in a gambling saloon. * ' A Huge Block of Silver. The steamer City of Havana bronght to New York a block of pure silver weighing 4,200 ponnds and worth $64,000 in gold. The block is a foot in | diameter, and has six sides, each thra. feet long. It is perfectly smooth and highly polished. It belongs to Pio Bermejillo & Co., bankers of the city of Mexico, who have consigned it to parties in New York, to be exhibited among the Mexican products at the Centennial.. It was exhibited at the Mexican exhibi tion in Mexico last year. The silver forming this immense block is said to have been dng from the Real Potosi, one of the oldest mines in Me-dco. The purser of the Havana says that the J silver block, in its box, lay a day and a night unguarded on a wharf at Vera Crux. "It wouldn't slay long on a I in Vow Ynrk." he added. The wuau iu *w.. 7 silver was examined by the United States appraiser, and then deposited in the Now York Bale deposit company's vaults to await ordera from the Mexican | Centennial commissioner. An Amusfnj? Scene. There was some amusement in the United States Senate shortly after that body went into an executive session. The galleries had been cleared, aa it was supposed, and tlie transaction ol execu tive business commenced, when some one happened to look up and saw in the reporters' gallery an individual evidently taking notes. The sergeant at arms be gan to motion him to retire, but no at tention being paid to his gestures, a messenger was soon sent up,when it was discovered that the intruder was a for eign artist carefully making a sketch of the Senate chamber. Being to a great extent unacquainted with the English language, he was entirely innocent of any discomfiture his presence created. He promptly retired with his unfinished sketch when the messenger expressed to him by numerous signs that he must withdraw. T Fashion Sixty Years Ago, No well dressed woman wore any thing bnt white muslin, says a lady, writing of fashions as they were sixtj years ago in the United States: -wintei and summer those flimsy drdBes were always cut with low or at most onlj half-high necks. Beneath them wa? worn only one scant white petticoat; even in winter flannel skirts were avoid ed by the fashionables. No starch was pnt into either dress or petticoat; and some ladies, in order to make the mate rial cling the better to the form one would think already sufficiently reveal ed, actually had their dresses dampened, as the last finishing touch, before start ing for a ball. Truly their appearance must have justified a rhyme which wac popular at that time: Ladies fair tills gay garb dressed In Look Ere-liie, angel-like, and interesting i One wonders that these belles did not ' positively freeze to death in the long, severe winters. The houses were heat ed only by open wood fires, stoves being i almost unknown. And in rooms only half warmed these thinly-attired ladies lived. Worse yet, the "modiste" length of skirt was just to the ankle bone, and silk stockings and slippers i were the only covering for the feet, even to walk in the snow and slush of mid i winter. Pattens or clogs might be put i on to go out of an evening, but they looked so "old maidish" that the girls i did not like tomse them much. There was one mitigation of the hard' ships of this dress?the outer garments in winter were worn long, and Mrs. D. describes her street oostume in one of those years when she was a sooiety 2ueen. Over the white muslin frook be wore a long scarlet broadcloth pe lisse, which was fitted to the figure and ornamented with a small cape. Her hat was very wiae orimmea, rnaae 01 vsik satin and crowned with ostrich feathers. One woold think that this style of wearing white must have been rather troublesome, and I asked if it was abso lutely wom all the time ? " Yes," Mrs. D. said, " for dress always, winter and summer." When she was a girl her mother allowed her to have three mus lin frooks a week in the wash; for morn , ing or housework French calicoes were worn, but, as th?y cost a dollar a yard, they were quite expensive. Every lady had also one dark silk to wear to funer als, or if by chanoe the muslins were not in order. It was at this time when scantness of drapery was at its extreme that Miss Patterson married Jerome Bonaparte. A. consin of Mrs. D. was at the wedding, and when asked afterward to describe the bride's toilet, replied: " All the clothes she had on I could have put into mv w, istooat Docket." Her dress was of stfteh a muslin, only richly embroidered, and o! extremely fine teriure, and it was said that beneath it she vore but a single garment. i, . Of coarse, when white was so univer sally adopted, any device was resorted to in order to give variety to the dress. Various materials were used, mull, Nainsook, bishop's lawn, and Indiamus lin, which was extremoly soft and deli cate; none of these fabrics at all re sembled our modern organdie or Swiss, as they were neither stiff nor wiry, soft ness being a requifiite of style. There were devices for covering the neck, which fashion bared. Three-cor nered handkerchiefs, of muslin or iace, and small silk capes or squares, were thrown carelessly over the shoulders. A very favorite wrap waa the pelerine. a cape with long tab ends; this was made for opera wear, in pink or blue sili trimmed with swan's down, and for the street of black silk with ruffles. Imagination ana Disease. The influence of the imagination in the similation of disease has often been proved. , It was in France, we believe, that an experiment was made upon a soldier who, being condemned to die for some infraction of military discipline, was handed over to the scientists as a living subject. He was placed in a hos pital and told that all around him were patients suffering from smallpox. Al though this was not true the man was soon taken violently sick and displayed every symptom of the disease. Instan ces tending to establish this re markable domination of the mental faculties over the body are not rare, and a story is going the round of the news papers which may be cited in this con nection : A young man in Indianapolis went '-i~ - alnra on/1 aflVari for flftV i-Ll IAJ a UiUg auuiu v cents' worth of strychnine. The drug gist gave him a harmless powder and he swallowed it. He then explained that his affections had been blighted and he had taken the poison to get even. The druggist told him that there was not fifteen minutes' life in him, and that he was beginning to fade about the e jes al ready.' The youth sunk to the floor and the sweat streamed from his brow. He was becoming very siok, mentally as well as bodily, and appeared to be dy ing. The medicine man became alarmed at the effect of the dose, and examined, the jar from whioh he had taken the powder. It was "sugar of milk," buki enough?perfectly harmless, and yet i<; was producing spasms. As a last resori; the young man was informed that ho had taken no poison, but, instead, a verv harmless powder, a bushel of which would not Kill. The information put tt ! stop to the dying business. He reeved, ! got up and walked out of the store dis I -maM nrnmfslnc. however, to tfTVC thu guuwv^., U> ?. , coroner an early job. It was the opinion of all the bystanders that tho me.re im agination of poison in hia system was really killing the youth. Niagara After a Gale. The Suspension Bridge (N. Y.) Jour : nal gives the following interesting de scription of ft gale of wind at Niagara falls and its effects : An incessant gale from the north and northeast caused a wonderful change in the Niagara river, and the falls presented an appearance such as has not been witnessed since the year 1848. Many of our citizens, and more especially the visitors who hap pened to be in town, rushed from point to point viewing the wonderful sight. The huge rocks below the American falls that are usually covered with water from fifteen to twenty feet deep, were | bare, and stuck out like mountains. I William Glassbrook, tho old ferryman, j said he could have walked from the en I trance to the "Shadow of the Rock " up j to the "Gave of the Winds" in front of I the American falls without danger. The I river between Goat island and Prospect [ park, where the water usually runs more than twenty miles an hour, was checked to such an extent as to be tradable any where without the slightest assistance. But the grandest view of all to behold was the great Horseshoe fall. This had lost fully two-thirds of itsimmense body of water, and was compared by many with an ordinary millpond. The stream immediately above Table rock and far beyond Street's island, a distance of more than four hundred feet, presented one solid bed of rock, but liardly a drop of water. The place jnst opposite, where the old Terrapiu tower formerly stood, corresponded very much with that already described, and the handful of water that remained, comparatively speaking, was forced through the deep channel in the center, which forms the Horeethoe. A Dance at Sea. Many years ago I was sailing over the broad ocean on a holiday. To please his American passengers, the captain?a warm-hearted Scotchman?dressed the ship with flags from stem to stern. It was a magnificent day?there was not a breath of wind to lift the semi-trans parent, golden stained haze in the at mosphere?and so the boatswain "piped all hands " for a holiday frolic. The passengers " piped " themselves, and rushed in a body to see the sailors act an original play, in whicl*, disguised as elephants, donkeys, aud other ani mals, they did inoonceivably funny things. Then they gave a concert a la minstrels, with a world of natural and characteristic humor. And in what fes tive, jolly spirits we got, to be sure! One of us?a bright, charming young fellow?invited the whole ship?pas sengers , officers, orew, cook, and powder money?to a ball in cne evening, enomg in a snpper at his expense, on condition that we danced to the figures as he called them out. We were ready at that mo ment to promise to dance on our heads to anything, and looked on at a distance with delightful anticipation, while he gave some mysterious instructions te an old salt, which included some writing on his part and much giggling on the I)art of the tar, who walked off present y, looking as tiokled as a little boy with a new kite. After tea the deck was cleared for action. The full moon " rode through the heavens without saddle or bridle." as a " horsy " passenger remarked. The captain's "finely chiseled eye winked serenely at the subversion of law and order,*'as an amateur sculptor observed. The little stumpy old sailor who owned a dilapidated fiddle and was to do the music brought out his Oremona, which whined and squealed to perfection as he tried his hand at the good old tunes of " Monie Musk,"." Life let us cherish,*, and "The Dashing White Sergeant," and soon after the, dancing began. But the figures! Instead of " right and-left," etc., which commences a co tillon, our host, taught by the old tar, yelled out this nautical paraphrase: / " Haul upon your starboard tack, and let the other craft pass, then bear up and get your head upon the other tack; regain your berth on the port-tack; back and fill with your partner; boxhanl,and wear round taioe against the sun in company with the opposite craft, then Sour own, afterward bozhaal and bring er round to place I" < i As we danced with the sailors, they kept us " to our bearings," and we wait ed, 'mid shouts of laughter, for the next figure, which everybody knows in the vernacular as "forward two." " Shoot ahead about two fathoms until you nearly come stem on with the other craft under way, then make stern hnaWi t.n vnnr hflrth; side ontforabend. first to starboard, then to port; make sail and pass the opposite craft, and get your head ronnd on the other tack; an other side ont to starboard and port; then make all sail to regain your berth; wear round, back and nil, and boxhaul your partner After this came " right hand across," which the old tar translated into "Heave ahead and pass the adversary yard-arm to yard-arm," giving the whole figure with such droll directions that we were aching with laughter, ending with: "Regain your berth by the beet means possible, and let go the anchor." The rest of the cotillon, given with sailing orders, was so riotonsly funny that the jig which ended it was danced according to every one's whim, although the paraphrase was as good as it could be?commencing with: "Wear round to starboard, passing under your part ner's bowB, and sight the catheads of all the crafts;" And ending with: " Boxhaul fVio Tsimln cnriftdron in the circular order of sailing." If to langh ia to grow fat, our indi vidual tonnage, that jolly day in the middle of the ocean, ought to have been prodigiously increased. The sailors greeted every figure with uproarious, cheers and a ' Yo-heave oh 1" while we laughed till we could only gasp. l 1 -?! The Boston Massacre of 1770. The following acoount of Warren's address on the massacre anniversary, one hundred and one years ago, is from the diary of an English officer. It has, if we are right, never been printed until now: March 6. 1775. This day an oration ? J L- ft nnfAri, was ueiivweu uj x/x. ??w^u, . ous whig, at the groat South meeting, opposite the governor's house. It was in commemoration of what, they term the Massacre ' on the fifth of March, 1770. It was known for some days tnat this was to be delivered. Accordingly a great number of officers assembled at it, when, after he had finished a most se ditious inflammatory harangue, John Hancock stood up and made a short speech in the same strain, at the end of which, some of the officers cried out 'Fie! fie!' which* being mistaken for the cry of fire, an alarm immediately en suedi which filled the people with such consternation that they were getting oat ; as fast as they could from doors and windows. It was imagined that there would have been a riot, which, if there had, would, in all probability, have proved fatal to Hancock, Adams, War ren and the rest of those villains, as they were all up in the pulpit together, and tno meeting was urowueu wiui luuucro -D and seamen in such a manner that they ' could not have escaped. However, w luckily did not turn out so; it would in- * deed have been a pity for them to have mode their exit ia that way, as I hope w6 shall have the pleasure before long ; of seeing them do it by the hands of the I hangman." . '115 At the Centennial, The price of admission to the Cen tennial grounds in Philadelphia will be fifty cents, payable in one note at the entrance gate, and admitting to every thing that is to be seen during the time the visitor remains within the inclosnre. No season tickets will be sold, nor will two twenty-flve-cent notes for a single admission, nor a dollar note for two, be taken at the gate. No matter how often a person leaves the grounds during a day he must again pay a fifty-cent note each time that he re-enters. The hours E tt 1J hi lo si ta Pi c< is A E si of admission will be from nine a. m. to six p. m. each day. Boiling chairs will be kept at designated stations within the principal buildings for the conveyance of visitors desiring to use them. With at tendants, the charge per hour will not exceed seventy-five cents; without at-1 tendants, thirty-five or fifty cents for J j11 each class of chairs respectively. There ! will be plenty of ordinary chairs, which ei weary sightseers may use without charge. ; A building, entitled the "House of, d Public Comfort," will contain separate j E parlors for ladies and gantlemen, retir ing rooms, barber shops, baggage rooms, etc. Retiring rooms are also located at the entrances to all the principal build ings. Noar the carriage concourse will be carriage stands, at which checks will bo given for vehicles left in charge. The ] ii telegraphic system will embrace a cen tral office and numerous sub-offices, lo cated in convenient parts of the build ings and grounds. Imbanb.?Henry T. Helmbold, the noted bnohu man, it is now declared by a Philadelphia jury, is insane and has been for five years. He has been tent to a lunatic asylum. To the Centennial. An Omaha poet bursts forth as fol >wb: " Oh, come, With fife and dram And the big braes band, From all over the land, And celebrate And dedicate The great Centennial !" And ho continues in this strain at some ngth, extending his Centennial invite on to all " To come from all creation To eole'^rate And dedicate The great day of the na'tion." i.j . ,<i- . Items of Interest > America's patron saint in 1876?St. nnial. London drinks 250,000 gallons of 3er every day. London pays nearly one-third of the hole inoome tax of England.; . A report of an Illinois hataging says : be sheriff did not wish to conduct the :ecntion, as he was Oram's cousin, but rain insisted that no one else should ing mm. There are two styles of composition in mmon use. One has mnoh sense in few ?rdfl, the other has the greatest ^oan& of words with the smallest amount of >od sense. The heirfi of all who fell at the Alamo under Fannin at Goliad, and all sol era who took part in the battle of San icrinto, are entitled to 640 acres of ad in Texas. . i. U p "; A resident of Salem, Mass., name not yen, has canceled $80,000 worth oI )tee and mortgagee against severil per ns whose means are small, because the nes are so hard. Foulard costumes are shown either ith t>lain Grounds or with bouquets or rdiniere stripes on plain grounds for e polonaise or overdress, and plain ulard for the skirt, . . : ite A little boy, whose oondttct'~made his other say that she feared he did- not ay, replied: "Yes, 'I do;','I pray e^y night that God will make you asd i like ;ny ways better." Seedi of the mahogany tree sow ree or four yean ago on the island of auritiua have already produced trees renty feet high, and from three to si* ohes through the trunk." Papa (concluding the fascinating le): " And he was turned1 into a autiful prinoe and married Beatity." innie (after a pause): " Pa, were you beast before you married mamma f The Kansas potato bu$s, which have ade their appearance this year, instead ! wearing the black and yellow stripes raaltothem, are arrayed in alternate ripes of red, white and blue. Tir r Williams. who >in? inst returned >me from a long l-esidenoe in China,, tys that out of thel50,000,000 women l that country sot more than, a few lousands can read or write. A Norwegian, when drunk, froze his an da and feet so badly near Decorah, Dwa, that they had to be amputated, [is We got judgment for$2,500 against' le druggist that sold him the liquor. A young man much enamored of a ifcty young lady attempted to put his rm about her waist, when she remarked, oietly : " Don't you do it, there's a inback there." Of oourse there was. * " Young man," said the judge, ** did 5U steal that piece of Hardware No sir," replied the prisoner, "I don't eal hardware. That isn't in my line of asiness; chickens and coal iff my. line. A new kind of door hinge has beau ivented. Its peculiarity is that the x>r not only shuts quick'y and noise? ssly, but it hits the person who ldaves ie door open a fierce blow on his back. Mrs. Livermore says there are 5,500,* 10 superfluous women in the county, at they want sealskin sacks, pull-back Iks, four-button kids - and striped ockings just the eameas if they weren't iperfluous. -,1 i Two Philadelphia families, the Buck ills and Crozers, have made up thede riency on the cost of the Baptist Publi tion Society's new building in that . ? aw aaa n. I, y fcy, amounting to 5iu/,wu. Xiacu uum pays half. An idea of what it oosts to lead a fash aable life in Washington may be'fdrm [ from the fact stated by a cabinet lady: at for the short season of 1875, two jeks shorter than that just concluded, ir visiting cards cost her $40. "Some infernal idiot has .put that, in where I can't find it 1" growled old jperity the other day, as he rooted - out the desk. "Ah, um? yes;-"I onchfc bo." he continued, in a lower y, as he pulled the article from behind-1 s ear. A Lynchburgh man about to die con seed that three, years ago he robbed > d killed a man. He declared that ?1 ost nightly since the murder he earned it over, and the horrors of fe orse are supposed tc-have brought on e fatal illness.' He died praying for rgiveness. Frank Beard,' the artist, while at din ir recfintly, was told of a man with iree hands. "How is that?" asked sard. * 'He's got a little behind-hand," as the reply. " You are a more exfcra dinary man," was tho reply, " for you . ive two heads; you have a head-of your vn, and you've got a-head of me." An asoent of Mont Blanc was success lily effected on the twentieth of Jan irv bv M. Gabriel Lappe, a French unter, and Mr. James Eales, an JUiig Jh geologist. The curious feature of te exploit was that at an elevation of 1,000 feet they found a temperature igher than that which prevailed in the wer region. m The color of a soldier's uniform is lown :o ??e not so mnch a matter of. ate as of vital importance. Experience roves that men are hit in battle ac jrding to the color of their dress.. Red the most fatal; the least fatal, i U8trian gray. The proportions are : ed, twelve; rifle green, seven; brown, x ; Austrian bluish gray, five. There are four hundred religion? jpur als in the United States. The Metho ists have forty-seven, the largest num ? 11? --?? o who num 82*y tlltill t'tnun buc wo wuumvs-| er forty-one; the Bfaptists, thirty-five; 10 Presbyterians, twenty-nine; the Ipiscopalians, twenty-one; the Luther os, fourteen; German Reformed, fonr- / >eu; Jews, nine; Congregationalism, ight. The Ponghkeepsie Eagle says that a' ivorced husband recently met i*t the [udson River railroad depot in that city is wife and child, from whom ho had een separated, and while the three ere talking the second who 01 wjo u?- , orced man stood looking on. When le bell rang the man bade his first wife ood-bye, and hurried his second wifo lto the car. ^ A novel mode of gambling was de leted by a policeman at Bradford, Eng md. He found some twenty men at le river side throwing chips of wood ito the river, and paying a penny each ) the winner whoso craft arrived first at ie bridge. The magistrate decided lat it was a clear case of gambling, end ned the idlera ten shillings each, with ption of prison,