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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 7. Z&jak r,'__ Fading, Changing, Dying. Everything beantiful, darling, most fade ; The rose and the lily, the pride of the field, And myrtle, which bides the rude marks of the spade, . Where lov'd ones are sleeping, will all have to yield To time's busy gleaner, who gathers the leares And unopened buds in the forest and plain, To carefully bind them in bandies and sheaves, And carry them ofT to retard not again. ErerythiBg beautiful, darling, must change ; The woodland, the meadow, and oourse of the stream; These scenes now familiar, ere long will Beem cinujgo, And only be thought of m seen in a dream, Or picture* of memory long hung away, And faded by age, or the dust of the past; Each moment of pleasure refuses to stay, The voice of the zephyr is lost in the blast. Everthing beautiful, darling, must die, And that whioh increases will sorely de crease ;' The sturdy old oak &s a duat heap will lie, The song and the singer will both have to oeaae ; let there is a hope that each beautiful thing? Though not in this life?will have being once more; The heart, like the ivy, to loved ones will cling, Whon fallen, and creep to eternity's shore. Everything beautiful, darling, must fade, Muat change and must die, be it never so grand ; And nothing endureth that ever was made, For time has the day in his own cunning hand. Tkft anifif Via hnmhlftth not He trailda, though, and crumbles its dwelling of clay; When everything earthly, and time ia forgot, Tho apirit will laugh at the thought of decay. SAVED. A TEMPERANCE SKETCH. The following cases of deliverance from the power of a drunkard's appetite wero related at a meeting for the'intem perate in tho Hippodrome, New York. A middle aged man, of gentlemanly ad drees, arose and said: I have known what it i3 to be a prosperous, even a wealthy man,-a church member, and an active worker in the churoh of Christ But the corse of intemperanoe seized me, held me, till it took my money, my friends, and my reputation. I at first neglected to go to church on communion Sundays, then altogether. Lower and lower I sunk, till suddenly brought to my F.enses by the death of my little boy, a child ten years of age. How I loved that boy no words can tell! I was not happy one moment Vith him out of my sight. I ooulJ not take a journey un less I could have the child go with me. On one journey in a steamer, our boat collided with another vessel, and we were obliged to run into port. Hardly had we reached land when my boy was ^jsgjzed with illness. I summoned his motlior, and together wo hung over his bed, and watched his young life while it passed away rom us. Before he died, wlien no COtUU O longer open* w uo, uo E laced his han in mine, folded one of is own little nands over both, and with the other pointed upward. When he was gone, I partially re formed. I changed- my outward life. I tried to serve God with half my heart. I became diligent in business; I pros pered; my friends came back; money flowed in npon me; I trusted in my own power to stand, and then?and then?I fell! Once having tasted the poison, I was foroed to go on, and little by little, with ever increasing speed and force, I went downward, till a second time, home and health, friends and money all gone, I was a hopeless drunkard. In this condition I was persuaded by a sis ter, who, through all, had loved and prayed for me, to aome with her to one of Mr. Moody's meetings. His preaoh ing touched my he irt, and started my tears, but I was very careful not to let my sister see them. After the meeting she would not let me go till she had in duced Mr. Moody to speak to me. I was reluctant, but when he approached and asked me if I was a Christian, I took courage and replied: " A very bad Christian, indeed." Yet there awoke in my heart the desire to be again a man, , and I persevered in coming to the meet ings till, at last, I found what it was to really have freedom from sin throngh the mercy of God. I am free now, be cause he that is " free in Christ, is free indeed." Wo oof Amxm anrl tViArfl wimfl forward a young man with a fair face, and ac abundance of brown, curly hair. Hif story was a sad one of prolonged etrug glo and repeated failure, and the bittei anguish of remorse. He begun to drinl at the age of fifteen ; at twenty-one h? was a hopeless drunkard. His fathei and motber never ceased to pray for him, His wife, after he had one, never woulc give him up, but these were his onbj meflHs. And he did all a man coulc do to break their loving hearts. In th< army all his evil habits became con firmed, aud he had been enslaved bj them all his life, exoept one interval o: two years and seven months; And thii period of reformation was brought to ai end by the advioe of a physician, a whoso suggestion he' resorted again t* tliA tioa nf stimnlants. Soon he coulc not live without them, yet sach whi his anguish of spirit at finding himsel again nnder the dominion of the tyrant that he took every vow, joined ever society, oven took an oath to abstain be fore a magistrate. All was of no avail He broke them all when he saw the cuj ?nothing could rt strain him in th< presence of temptation. Twice h< would have taken his own life, but tha his wife had stayed his hand when th< knife had almost touched his throat.. He said: I need not dwell on wha was. Let me hasten to tell whenc< came my deliverance. On Thanks giving day I went out in the morning and by dinner time had had so many ai six or seven drinks. Went home in t condition in which I could only eat, ant after eating, sleep. I slept on the sofi till toward evening, then sauntered forth After a short visit at the house of mj brother-in-law, I went out, not knowing or oaring whither, having no definite purpose, except to drink at every come; on my way home. At one place the oar tender said : Fill up the g'ass, iti Thanksgiving dav, vou know." And ] filled it up, Mid -went staggering on. Ai unaccountable impulse turned me baol several times that night when I wouk have taken a certain direction, and nr steps wandered on and on, until I cam< to tho great building where Moody ant Sankov were holding their meetings. 1 drew nearer and nearer. A great oonflic was poing on in my mind, and it seeme* as if God and satan fought together fo my souL I conld not go away; I couli not enter. Anfl when at last I was en abled to rush to the entrance, it wa more as a maniac might have gone ther than like a reasonable man. Once ir side, the lights, the throng, the chom of a hymn?they were singing?all helj ed to sober me. And when the hymn ceased, and M] Moody called out: "Is there in a this throng .any poor sinner who is e lost that he cannot help himself ? I* bvm come forward here and we will as { God to help him." I said: "That's me; that message is for me "?and down the long aisle, pushing my way through the crowd standing there, I almost ran to the foot of the platform and seated myself. When the invitation rang forth again I tried to rise, but the people near me, seeing my condition, took me by the arms and held me down, whis pering: "Sit still; sit still, you're drunk." Drunk I Yes,] knew it, but I had heard the voice of God, and when the invitation came again I couldn't sit still, and I broke away from those who held me, and rose. Ah, what an -hour followed I What prayers and tears and struggles! And at its close, some one asked me if I would pray an hour after my return home, for, if I would do so, I might know that at the same hour many hearts were praying in their own homes for me. As we were about to separate, home to pray for this soul? Let us pray now and here." And we stayed, and they prayed for me and I prayed for myself, and I was able to come to Christ, and jnst as I was?yes, drank as I was, he took me. And from that glad hoar when I wont home to my wife with the good news of my sins forgiven, He has kept me; He has shown in me His power to save " to the uttermost." When he had closed, a young man arose and said: I was a drunkard from my boyhood?a wreok before I reached the age of twenty-one. My mother never ceased to pray for me, and to urge me to reform. When I was under the inflaenoe of drink, I would get as far away from home as possible, and stay away until my money was all gone, and sick, broken and helpless, I would seek my father's house. During these ab sences, my mother's letters would follow me, WUBUCVOJL DUO uran niicio JL noo and when I returned she always wel comed ine and nursed me back to health. Here is one of her letters, said he (and he drew from his pocket and read to the audience a tender letter from his mother to her dear boy, begging him to come home, telling him how she loved him and waited for him, and wanted to see him begin again). In answer to some such appeal, he did seek his home one night, after having been on a debauch of weeks, in which he had fallen as low as intemperance could bring him. He came at night; he watched the windows till the lights were out; he approached and rang and waited, and soon a step on the stair and the door was opened, and his mother held him in her arms? " close to her heart, as if I had never gone astray." That night, he continued, with a voice husky and broken, she nursed me as she - " x? l? nad nurse a me many imitsa ueiuic, uu? on the morrow she was not at my bed side. When I asked for her, they said that she was ill; and when I crept from my ohamber and confronted the physi cians, and begged them to tell me that I hud not murdered her, they replied : " There is not a shadow of hope." Then my heart broke, and I pleaded with God, with many tears, to spare her only until her boy could repent. And God was merciful to me. He did spare her, and He did teach me repentance. I knew the way. I had been well taught. I knew that help was in Christ and Christ alone. And I sought and found that help, and have lived to see my mother's heart made glad by the answer to her prayers. He called upon the mothers whose tearful eyes were lifted to his face to work on and pray on and love on, until their wandering boys should come back. The President's Salary. The following is the massage of Presi dent Grant relative to vetoing the bill for cutting down the salary of the Presi dent of the United States : To the Senate of the United States : Herewith I return Senate bill No. 172, entitled " An act fixing the salary of the President of the United States," with out my approval. I am constrained to this course from a sense of duty to my successors in office, to myself and to what is due to the dignity of the posi tion of Chief Magistrate of a nation of more than 40,000,000 of people. When 41? nf f.VlA TTni LiitJ NUIUJ Ui bUO XXUMUVUV V* ?MW -w ted States was fixed by the constitution at $25,000 per annum we were "a nation of but 8,000,000 of people, poor from a long aijd exhaustive war, without com merce or manufactures, with but few wants and those cheaply supplied. The salary must then have been deemed small for the responsibilities and dignity of the position, but justifiably so from the impoverished oondition of the treas ury and the simplicity it was desired to cultivate in the republic. The salaries of congressmen under the constitution were fixed at $6 per day for the time ac tually in session, an average of about i nr. .i U ,oao,-r>T, ?790 liU \JUAJSS (/V CtWJUL DCOOlV*-j V4 yiaiv per year, or less than one-thirtieth of the Balary of the President. Congress men have legislated on their salaries from time to time since, nntil finally they have reached $5,000 each per an num, or one-fifth that of the President before the salary of the latter was in creased. No one having a knowledge of the cost of living at the national capital will contend that the present salaries of Congressmen are too high, unless it be the intention to make the office one en tirely of honor, when the salary should lie abolished, a proposition repngnant to our republican ideas and institutions. I do not believe the citizens of this repub lic desire their public servants to serve them xithout a fair compensation for their services. The sum of $25,000 does not defray the expenses of the Executive for one year, or has not in my experi en<$. It is now one-fifth in value what it was when fixed by the constitution in supplying demands' and wants. Having no personal interest in this matter, I have felt myself free to return this bill to the House in which it originated with my objections, believing that in doing so I meet the wishes and judg ment of the great majority of those who indirectly pay all the salaries and other expenses of the government. U. S. Grant. Executive Mansion, April 18, 1876. The Boston Belfry Mnrder. Thomas W. Piper, condemned to be executed on the twenty-sixth of May for the murder of Mabel Young in the bel fry of the Warren avenue church, Bos ton, made a sworn statement that she reoeived the injuries that c used her death from the trap door falling upon her head, and that he was frightened lest he would be accused of murdering , her, and therefore he denied all knowl edge of the matter, trusting that his con nection with it would not be discovered. Just Wait.?" Young ladies have the privilege of saying anything they please during leap year," she Baid, eyeing him out of the corner of her eye with a sweet look. His heart gave a great bound, and while he wondered if she was going to aak the question he had so long desired and feared to do, answered : "Yes." " And the young men must* not re fuse," said she. " No, no. How could they ?" sighed he. 11 Well, then," said she, " will you"? He fell on his knees, and said: "Any thin gyou ask, darling." " Wait till I get through. Will you take a walk, and not come hero so much?" Fashion Notes. Turbans and white straw sailor hats rill be most worn by Bchool girls from en years np to misses in their teens. The wool de bege and other suits worn >y young girls are made with basques Eat button behind and long deep aprons. Jrown, gray and dark blue remain the olors most in favor for young folks. The low sash tied around the hips and astened behind h? a large bow is made f wide gros grain ribbon, and worn with i dque princess dresses by very small ;irls. Their lace caps are of close capote i hape, trimmed with ribbon to matoh j he sash. The stockings are of similar olor. ] The burnous overskirt has a long 1 mnkled apron, trimmed with bows [own the middle and two bias bands of I ilk. There is usually a seam down the liddle of this apron?a thing that would ot have been permitted in the oostumes f a few years ago. Oambric and print dresses for sehool nd general wear are blouse waists but Dned behind; this waist is separate from he skirt, with ends extending over the ips, and instead of a belt a drawing tring is passed around the waist. Deep wide round frills turned down ad around the neck, are made of the ew lace braids, and worn by small chil ren, both girls and boys; price $1.25. 'here are also broad Puritan collars of rish cord lace that imitates antique de igns; price 82. What are called "basket suitings " are ae fine woolen stuffs used by Parisian ressmakers for the dresses "recently im orted for girls. The oolors are oream, ale blue, and French gray in small lised squares, all of one color.' The imming is merely kilt plaiting and silk icing. The prinoesse style is adopted for the * -11 lque dresses 01 smau giruti, wuuo uu-g iris have overskirts that are merely prons shirred to form a fan behind, and 1 le basqnes are box plaited, with a row i f insertion between the plaits. A Ham- ( nrg ruffle edges the basque and over kirt; two such ruffles are on the lower 1 kirt. ' *" 3 To brighten up the dark dresses worn 1 >r house toilettes are collarettes of 1 laited lisse finished with pearl edging, t 'he most dressy ones are made of the ' ew cream colored crepe lisse trimmed ? ith folds of pale tinted China crape e oing around the neck, and held by ? >ng looped bows of gros grain ribbon. ' The inevitable cream color has found t a way into lingerie, and instead of j aowy white linen collars and cuffs, a ] ovelty is cream tinted cam brio Tor tnis urpose, with the corners wrought with jarlet, blue, brown, gray or black, done 1 washing wools to represent Greek juares, or a vine cluster of flowers in le corners of collars or cufls. Talue of Discipline. Gen. Geo. A. Custer, in his war lomories, thus describes the confusion b the flrst battle of Bull Bun: The value of discipline was clearly iiown in this crisis by observing the lanner of the few regular troops, as jntrasted with the raw and undisci lined three months' men. The regular aldiers never for a moment ceased to >ok to their officers for orders and in fractions, and in retiring from the eld, even amid the greatest disorder ud confusion of the organizations near lem, they preserved their formation, ud marched only as they were directed >do. The long lines of soldiery, which a minntAR before had been bravely onfronting and driving the enemy, sud enly lost their cohesion and became ne immense mass of fleeing, frightened reatnrea. Artillery horses were cut cm their traces, and it 'was no unusual ight to see three men, perhaps belong ing to different regiments, riding the ame horse, and making their way to lie rear as fast as the dense mass of men aoving with them would permit. The lirection "f the retreat was toward ^entrevillo, by way of the Stone bridge Tossing, and other fords above that >oint. An occasional shot from the memy's artillery, or the cry that the Mack Horse cavalry, so dreaded in the irst months of the war in Virginia, were oming, kept the fleeing crowd of sol iiers at their be9t speed. Arms were K ?^ ...tt An*n?r - no VkAin/v rin 1 on Cray nf opr. muwu onoj no .. ? , ace in warding ofl the enemy. Here and ; here the State colors of a regiment, or , perhaps the national standard, would be , seen lying on the ground along the line )f retreat, no one venturing to reclaim >r preserve them, while more than one , 'nil set of band instruments oould be observed, dropped under the shade of <ome tree in rear of the line of battle, md where their late owners had prob ibly been resting from the fatigues of lie fight when the panic seized them md forced them to join their comrades n flight. Popnlation and Area of Brazil. By a partial census of the population Brazil, the home of the Emperor Dom Ptfdro, now visiting the United States, made in 1872, it was estimated that the rmtire number of inhabitants was 10, 106,328. The number of square miles * - a _ a I. ? i. J? AU/n jomaiueu xii mo iwem) piuviutDo ui tun L'rapire is 3,275,326. In 1850 the num ber of elaves held in the oounfcry was es timated at 2,500,000, but after the law for their gradual emancipation was pass ad in 1871, this number gradually de creased. According tc an official return published in May, 1874, there were at that time only 1,016,262 slaves distribu ted over the whole empire. The popu lation of Brazil is made up of an agglomeration of many races. While it remained a colony of Portugal, but few w UiiiUi-i iu;(.A;m^ttuiou vuo iiuu^^iouw w South America. ' The earliest European settlers intermarried and mixed with Indian women, and afterward an exten sile intermixture |of race occurred with the Africans who were brought into the country as slaves. In the northern prov inces the Indian element preponderates, while in JPernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas, the negroes are numerous. At the seaports the ohief part of the population is of European descent. The London Plag-ne. What was the nature of the plague in London in 1666, and has any sickness like it been known since ? asks a corre spondent of Noah'8 Sunday Times, to which query the following reply is made : The plague is an aggravated contagious fever, characterized by an eruption of carbuncles and buboes, en domic (and frequently epidemic) in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and through ont the East. Before it last appeared iu London, in the years 16631^65, it usually visited Great Britain every thirty or forty years. Marseilles lost nearly half its population by it in 1720, and Moscow iu 1771-'72; and certain points in the kingdom of Naples, as late as 1815-'16, suffered most severely from it; since that time it has been almost unknown in Western Europe. The celebrated "black death," which ravaged all Europe in the middle of the fourteenth ceutory, appears to have been the "plague." Gave up his Ale.?The Portsmouth (N. H.) Chronicle prints this statement: Mr. Jrt?n W. Gerrish is said to have succeeded in .ridding himself of 150 ponnds of superfluous weight within a year, simply by taming his last tumbler of ale bottom up about a year ago. Some Senators' Wires. A Washington letter to the Cincinnat Gazette says: Let me tell you of som< wive? I know, whose husbands si gravely in the senatorial hall, and whoa countenances seem to express so muol dignity and wisdom that one, in looking at them, would consider them far abov< the paltry littleness of every-day life " Why don't you go to Mrs. Blank ?" ] said to a sewing girl soliciting me for as sistance after a month's illness. " She will do something for you, as you hav( sewed for her so long, and she likes yot ao muoh." "Oh, Miss Gleaner," the girl re; plied, " you are a heap happier and bef fcer off than she, if she is a senator'! wife, and wears diamonds and velvets, 9he never has a oent to spend herself. Her husband buys everything, anc grumbles over the way the money goes, He visits the kitohen to see no waste if going on, and he comes up where I am * i* - a l L.L two or tnree times a aay, waeu uo t borne, to see how I am getting on with my sewing. Sometime i I get so scared like I ran and bide when I hear him joming." "Probably he is interested in the Jress reform movement," I said. * "And Mrs. Blank," continued the jirl, "never has the enjoyment of sc muoh as $5 at a time for her private spending money, although, of course, ler husband likes to see her dress well, 3ut he buys all the dresses!" Some time ago there was a pale, [ragile-looking little lady, the more mis erable half of a Solon, and her pallor tras heightened bj her constantly wear hg green, which is only becoming, rou know, to persons with oolor and lealthful tinge of complexion. " Why lo you, my dear Mrs. Solon, wear ^reen so much?" asked an intimate fnend. 'It makes you look like a corpse." "Oh, Mr. Salon likes it, and you mow he always bnys all my dresses for ne. I have never even purchased a jingham since our marriage." Another knows that her husband's af ections are alienated from her, sinoe rears have marked her brow with wrin des and scattered snowflakes over her lair. She knows that her husband has k "new, new love," and yet she keeps 'her heart's proud pain superbly still," tnd is to her lord the same quiet, un * teinsn, uncomplaining wumuu bud ui? ilways been. "Some day," she thinks, ' he will remember all that I have been o him, and he will grow wearied of the jurchaaed wiles of this strange woman. [ can afford to wait." Are not her vhite hairs a crown of glory? The Continental Congress. The Continental Oongrefes of 1774 was listinctly a legislative body, each of the hirteen colonies having contributed its nost representative men. It was not a arge gathering, and it became very imall as the times grew stringent. Their novements were watohed with ooneid irable interest on every side. England ras then the mistress of the world. She ras not only the only mistress, but she vo.8 aJone in ner conquest. The Southern delegates to Congress iad a rather weary journey through the rilderness at that time.. In 1774 travel irs between Baltimore and Philadelphia vere compelled to hire guides to show hem the way. Baltimore was then a tillage of eighty houses, and there were ew settlements along the coast. The first meeting of the Continental congress was in Carpenter's hall, Phila lelphia. It took the Boston delegates nneteen days to reach the Quaker City, ["he delegates walked from the city avern, where they assembled, in pow lered wigs, knee breeches and buckled ihoes, to Carpenter's hall.* The address )f Patrick Henry will never betorgotten, rnd when he proclaimed himself as not >elonging to any particular State, but is an American, he struck the keynote )f the newly born nation, xne gran leur and simplicity of this first Con inental Congrnss elicited the admira .ioa of the greatest minds of the day. For fonrteen years in all the Continental Congress governed the United States, [t was, in fact, President, Cabinet and Congress?a kind of Venetian Senate without a doge. It made war and con jluded peace ; it appointed, promoted ind degraded generals ; it sent and re seived ambassadors ; it gave us decimal surrency. Never was a government more defective and yet more successful, and having fulfilled its mission, ifc be came unsuitable and insufficient; and when the country became ripe for an other better organized government, thf Continental Congress quietly and wiselj went out of existence. The members of this Congress wer< frequently tested during the Revolution arywarby allurements of wealth anc office. John Reid was offered ?10, OCX to help to undo independence. His re ply was, in simpl6 words : "I am no worth purchasing; but, such as I am the king of Great Britain is not ricl enough to do it." Effects of Business Depression. One of New York's eminent physi cians said to a friend of the Express tha the very worst cases among his mal patients were men of business with n< other physical illness than mental suffer Tha noot. tuna full of losses, th 4"5' *"? ? , - present not encouraging, the future a] uncertain, and the effect had so preyei upon them that they could not find res of body or peace of mind. Many hav lost all their earnings for ten and twent; years in the shrinkage of values and th expenses of business. The labors an accumulations of years had all gone tc gether, and resulted either in real o threatened bankruptcy, and with onl; the most gloomy forebodings for th time to come. While the general it crease of wealth from 1850 to 1870 wa J lo^for TToar very gr&aiiy ouu iu uuo u*v?ui. more by 233 per cent, than twenty year before, no man can begin to realize whs the depreciations have been since 1875 Bnt it is the effect npon peculiar persons especially npon those of a sensitiv nature, whose credits have been impaire and who can neither hope nor rallj which is so alarming. When physician report so many of their oases to be tfa result of nervous depression, occasione by business, the record is a sad oge fc both the country and mankind. It Was He. A man forty years old, and as long s a rail, went into one of the banks ( Detroit to get the cash on a thirteen-do lor oheck, drawn by a party living i Nankin township. " Yon will have to be identified," sai the cashier, as he looked at the check. " I'm the man," was the reply. " But I don't know who yon are." "But I do." " You must bring some one here wi knows you." " Don't I know myself ?" exolaime the check tenderer. 41 But I must know you. You may b Tom Jones for all that I know." "You must be a consarned fool i think I'm some one else?" growled tb man in response. " You must be identified," observe the cashier. " That's ray name, I tell ye, and th is me, and if this bank gets me riled I' lick the whole crowd of you over behin the railing 1" The cashier wouldn't pay, and the ma couldn't find any one who knew hin and at noon he was waiting " for tb I feller who sassed him to come out." THE BELFRY MURDER. The Condemned Prlioner* Piper, Telling hi* Story ot the Terrible Affair. The Boston Journal says: Thomas W. Piper, who lies in the Suffolk win ty jail, oondemned to death for the mur der of Mabel Young in the belfry of the Warren aveuue Baptist church, has yielded at last so far as to confess that it was he who first knew of the death of the child. Hitherto he has denied posi tively that he had any knowledge or the occurrence until told of it by others; but now, in contradiction of his oft-re peated assertions made uuder oath at both his trials, and repeated in the most solemn manner at the very moment of bis sentence, he comes forward with a strange story of the little girl's acciden tal death in which he claims for himself entire innocence. Piper's story was told in the presence of Mrs. Brown, of his counsel, the Rev. Dr. E. 0. Eddy, of the Tabernaole Bap ? 1186 Cliuriui; UU umuoi 'JI blio jau, nuu u ! young man who was employed to take notes of what the condemned man might L say. His story of how he oooupied the time on that fatal Sunday afternoon is 1 the same as that told by him when testi fying in his own behalf up to the time ' when he went up stairs to prevent the 1 boys who were in the vestibule from en ' tering the audience room. From that point it differs from every other state ment whioh he has made hitherto. He said that some oomplaint had been made of the lack of fresh air in the au , dienoe room, and that to remedy the frnnhlfi hfi went nD to the belfrv to ocen the trap door, and thus secure a through draft, as he had done more "than once before. He took with him the bat stick, which played so important a part of the trials, and, having raised the trap door, placed the stick under it as a sup port. Returning down stairs, he reached the gallery floor and there met little Mabel Young, who was coming out of the organ gallery. Noticing the direction whence he had come, she asked: "What's up there ?" . He answered that that was the belfry, and something was said about the pigeons. In a moment she asked permission to go up, and he told her that she might do so if she wished. She started up the stairs and he remained where he was. Soon, however, he re memembered the way in which he had left the trap, and fearing that in getting into the belfry she might injure herself, he hurried up after her. When ho reach ed the top of the stairs his worst fears were confirmed. The bat stick had been knocked out, * "? ? ?-a cue aoor naa iuuou, ?uu tuexa iaj wo little girl caught between the heavy door aud the edge of the floor. Piper took the child out to place her on her feet. She moaned, but was unconsoioue. He . laid her on the floor, and after a mo ment's pause to collect his faculties started down stairs with the intention of making a full statement of the occur rence. On the way he met the Misses i Knight, Alice and Jennie, who tentifled at the trials, entered into conversation with them, and while* standiug with > them conceived the idea of keeping the * whole occurreDoe a secret. Acting on this resolution, he went about his usual occupations. In the Post of Deo. 8,1875, the fol lowing appears as Mr. Avery's presenta tion of the case: The child, he argued, could have beeu killed by the falling of the fifty pound trap upon her. He argued also to show that perhaps Glover went up there to get the young pigeons, and that the child straying up there might have been pushed aside by him witnout any evil intent, as she was detecting him, and perhaps the door fell upon her then and he retreated. Piper has no hope of a commutation of his death sentenoe. A Fisherman's Wedding. i Along a certain portion of the coast of Scotland, when a yotrng couple agree I to get married, the nearest relations Of I both parties meet to ratify the contract. This is an occurrence of great rejoioing. The women appear in full toilet, and a sort of feast is prepared. The marriage ceremony is usually performed by the clergyman of the district at the resi dence of the bride. After the religions rites are concluded, a contract is signed by both parties amidst a cloud of wit nesses. The bridegroom wears his Sun day suit, and the lady is adorned with the conventional veil. The marriages of these people take place, almost without exception, on Fri day, and the celebrations attending the event continue until the dawn of the Sabbath puts an end to further hilarity. On the first night of the dancing the women are attired in white muslin gowns, with their necks and arms ex r\naoil tVia Int. far aAnmdf] xsif.Vl ftnv OTlnTl- I fV/UVU) v. ^ ^ tity of glass beads and ornaments. The men are in their shirt sleeves, with gor geous blue waists, ornamented with brass buttons, and wearing every variety of hat and cap. Their throats are muf fled with enormous neck-handkerohiefs, which they persist in wearing in spite of the heat. When the entire night has been passed in dancing, and daylight appears, a rush is made through the town to the future home of the newly married couple. The musician, armed with his fiddle or bagpipe, as the case may be, leads the procession, the bride and groom come next, and the rest of the party follow on behind. Scotland abounds in singular mar riage customs. One of the most re* markable is called " creeling the bride groom." In eome counties on the day after the wedding, -while the marriage feast still continues, the bridegroom had a creel, or basket, filled with stones firmly fastened upon his back. With this incumbrance he was compelled to run about the neighborhood followed by his friends, who "would not allow him to remove it until his wife came after him and either kissed him or unfastened the creel. It sometimes happened that, as relief depended upon her, he had not to run very far; but if the lady-was "? ? V.ot.Vifnl /it w>rrr nnnrt.ivfl hfi l?UOi ?OAJ UHU1U V** \/* ~r had to cany his load a considerable dis tance. The custom was very strictly enforced, for the friend who was last creeled had charge of the ceremony, and be was naturally anxious that the new bridegroom should not escape. A Riotous Island. Barbadoes, the soene of the late riots, in which a large number of persons were killed, is the most eastern of the Oarib bee islands, and the earliest settled of the British possessions in the West In dies. It has a population of abont 150, * * ^ -i i 1 rr AAA 000 people, 01 wnom oniy aouut ii,wu are white. In 1816, and again in 1825, there were formidable negro insurrec tions in the island. The capital, Bridge town, is one of the gayest and hand somest towns in the "West Indies. It has abont 20,000 inhabitants, and is a strong military post. Riots have oc curred throughout the island. Planta tions and houses have bet n sacked, ani mals destroyed, and an enormous de struction of property taken plaoe. A Blunder. ?Acoording to the New York Herald the railroad companies have made an extraordinary blunder in reducing their passenger rates to and from Philadelphia during the Centen nial onlV twenty-five per oent. Negro minstrel troops and opera and theater companies can get better terms any time of the yew. A Story of A. T, Stewart, A short time before the late war brok out, the late A. 1. Stewart entered int a contract for the building of his hous on Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourt] street. The gentleman who made th estimate which became the basis of th agreement made what he supposed wa a safe and even large allowanoe for an; rise in the price of labor and all kind of materials. But the prioe of labor ant material advanced far beyond the wild est expectation long before the houa was completed, in foot before its erec tion was fairly begun, and the oontrac tors became financially embarrassed Mr. Stewart would not release then from their legal obligations, but enterec into a supplemental agreement wit) them by which he was to advance thi money, and they were to go on with th< work, being held liable to the amoun that the house might cost abovo th< contract price, The result was that th? contractors became indebted to Mr Stewart in the amonnt oi a great man] thousand dollart, and after very valuablt quarry property bad passed over to his in part extinguishment of his claim, h< brought an action for the recovery o: over 680,000 more. Two of the con tractors were supposed to be the wealth] men of the concern; against these h< obtained judgment by default. Th< third partner was the builder, and h< was made the defendant in the action Mr. Stewart had sworn to hisoomplaint and this would have made it necessary to have the answer sworn to. Then would have been no trouble in swearing to a good answer ; but it was hoped tha cne action mignii ue uuiiipruuLUiJcu, am it was feared that a sworn answer woulc pnt Mr. Stewart somewhat ont of hnmoi for compromise. Delay was resorted to and throngh the good nature of Judgt Hilton many extensions of time wer< granted. Finally it was stated that i was a matter of pride with Mr. Stewan to get judgment, since much had bee: said about him relative to this transac tion, and that now he wished to be vin dicated by obtaining judgment It wai understood that if the defendant woulc consent to Mr. Stewart's judgment h< would give a release urithin one weel without charge. This exceeded expeo tation, because several thousand dollari had been offered in compromise. Tc Mr. Stewart it was a matter of pride to the builder it was a matter of flnan cial existence. The condition was ac ceded to. Mr. Stewart obtained a judg ment of $33,792.26 against the builder and the builder had the judgmeu against him satisfied gratuitously withii a week. Made Them Shake. When John Brougham, the actor, lefl Burton's theater in New York city, il was whispered that Mr. Burton had nc very friendly feelings toward his old as sociate. The frequenters of the theatei were very fond of Brougham. Som( time after Brougham's withdrawal froir the Chambers street company, a larewei benefit was given. The play was " Johi Bull;" Mr. Burton as Job Thorn'bury Mr. Brougham as Deunis Bulgruddery The house was crowded from the foot lights to the dome. Mr. Brougham'i appearance on the stage was the signa for a perfect ovation. He was bailee with cheer after cheer. When Burtoi came on, and the two actors stood fac< to face, the cry went forth : 1' Shake hands! Shake hands!" Burton tried to go on with his part but he was interrupted by a repetition o: the cries. The actors stood silent, bu the uproar in the house continued. Mr Brougham then came forward, find char acteristicoiiy spitting on ms nana, ueu it forth to Burton, paying : "Dhrop it there!" Barton hung back and looked sterol] at the audience. The cries of " Shak< hands " redoubled. Burton saw that th< house was determined to be obeyed, anc he at last gave his hand?not with thf very best grace. Brougham shooki with a will, amid the enthusiastic cheer of the spectators. The play went on Burton was in no humor for gagging that evening. He played his port ad mirably, stuok to the text and indulgec in no fooling. When the curtain fell 01 the piece Brougham was the- firat collec out. He made one of his ciiaracteristii speeches, gave vent to his emotions 01 mnvinor ncmin fimoncr the " old familia: scenes," and retired from the stage ami< shouts of laughter and applause. Bur ton was then called out. It was som time before ho answered the call. H? evidently did not relish a oomplimen en second. At last he appeared befon the curtain. He moved with a sten dignity which did not fail to impres his audience. He bowed stiffly, and wa about to withdraw immediately, whej he was stopped by calls for a speech. I response to these calls he alluded to th separation between Mr. Brougham am himself. Mr. Brougham, he said, ha< thought he could do better "on his ow hook," and had a perfect right to try He had hoard with regret that Mi Brougham had gone off the track a lit tie, but he hoped he should not burs his boiler, etc. The Indian Bnrean Bill. The bill passed by the United State House, transferring the Indian burea to the War department, by a vote of 13 yeas to 94 nays, provides that after th first of July next the seoretary of wa shall exercise the supervisory and appe: late powers, and possess the jurisdictio ? 1 or>/1 T\r?aaooaori ViV f,h liUW DAOiUUJOU uuu ^ seoretary of the interior in relation t Indian affairs; that he shall, from tim to time, make details of army officers t administer the affairs of the India branch of the War department; that th commanding officers of geographical d( partments shall be ex officio in oharge c Indian affairs in their departments, an shall make details of officers, includin officers on the retired list, to administe the affairs of the Indian service, and thi the inspector-general of the army sha discharge the duties of inspector of It dian affairs. The aot is not to be coi strued to authorize an increase in th number, rank, pay, or allowances i army officers. All contracts for India supplies and transportation are to b made in the same manner and at tb same time, where practicable, as thos for the army. AU religious denomini tions are to enjoj a frcd and equal rigl to erect and maintain church and schoi buildings on inaian reservations, xuu vidual Indians who have adopted th habits of civilized life may become cit zens of the United Statos without fo: feiting their right to their share of tl tribal property. The Sllvex. The New York Herald says: Te thousand dollars in silver were paid 01 in one day at the sub-treasury in n demption of currency to that amoun At this rate it will be quite a week b fore the coin will be seen by the hor* car conductors. A week later it will I seen sporadically in the lager beer ei loons. In another week it will drop j the plate at the chnrohes; in a month will be at tha corner groceries; next will reach the bootblacks, and in tbrrt months people will be complaining thi the confounded thing is wearing hol< in their pockets, and then people wi put away a million or two of paper cu rency, just as people during the wi kept silver dollars under glass casci Never satisfied! AN AGRARIAN MURDER. The Intended Vlctl* Escape*, bat tala Drirer li Instantly Killed. Mr. Bridges, the intended victim in the case to whioh we refer, says the London Tinuis, is the land agent for some property near Mitohelstown, place on ihe border between Limerick and Cork, and not far from Tipperary. He had some time ago made himself un popular among a certain class of the 1 an try by attempting to raise rents, by serving evictions, ana worst of all, by taking a lease on his own account of a piece of land from which another man had been evicted. It iras about eighteen months ago that he was first shot at, bnt he was only slightly wounded, and being a man of great courage, kept his ground, in every sense of the word, afterward, and even under the provisions of the Peace Preservation act, recovered com pensation for the outrage. That he has been aware for some time of the danger to which he has been since exposed, may be gathered from the fact that he has not only gone abont constantly armed, bnt has also been attended in general by a body guard of four armed police. He had, indeed, good prima facie reason for being canbons. His late assailant was at large, and was known to be some where in the neighborhood, bnt owing to some misunderstanding between the constables of the three border oonnties, in any of which he might be found, he had not been apprehended by any of them As Mr. Bridges was riding home from Mitchelstown, where he had been collecting rents, the next important at tempt on his life was made, and made unaor mrouuunwuwiB ou jiw deserve special remark, even in Ireland. Mr. Bridges' whole party, including the driver of the car, was five in number; two were police, and at least four carried firearms. They were on the queen's highway. It was still broad daylight; but the part of the road which they were passing was lined on both sides by hedges thick enough to shut out a view of anything beyond them, and the road itself, too, just at this place dipped slightlv. Suddenly there came the re port of a gun from behind one of the hedges. The charge, which was prob ably intended for Mr. Bridges himself, Bbrums. ILLti UTiVCI HUU IU11DU mm. The confused soene which followed is described in somewhat different ways by those who took part in it. The filing went on. Shots came in quick succes sion from both sides of the road, and Mr. Bridges was wounded in the head severely, if not fatally. One of the two constables who were with Mr. Bridges now sprung over the ledge from which the first shot had come, and, finding a man behind it with a blunderbuss in his hand, seized bim and handcuffed him. His companion, less active or less enter prising, failed to make his way over the hedge on the other side, but, seeing two men behind it, fired at them, and re ceived their fire in return. The men ran off, but the constable followed, and dis covered them sheltering themselves be hind a haystack, and again exchanged shots with them, bnt to no purpose. On his return to his own party he found that no further attack had been made upon them. The casualties which had already occurred were, however, not slight. One of the five had been killed outright; another had been badly wounded, and, of the three remaining, one only had escaped altogether unhurt. An inquest on the unfortunate car driver was held. The police were in no doubt as to the side of the road from which the shot that killed him had come, and they were equally oertain that no one else was discovered there except Kq mVinm fh<w had handcuffed and secured, and in whose possession a blunderbuss, recently discharged, had been found. The j ory, however, were unable to agree upon a verdict. There had been a good deal of wind the day in question on the highroad between Mitchelstown ind Oork, and there had been a good deal of smoke, too, from the repeated discharges of firearms. It was difficult, under such perplexing cir cumstances, to arrive at the exact trutn. The jury, in the words of one of their own number, did not wish to saddle on any one man the crime about which they were inquiring, and they limited them selves, accordingly, vo me very uuie aa seition that the death had been caused by a gunshot wound. ' Prehistoric Man. Some late disooveries of cave dwell ings near Thayngen, in Switzerland, are valuable as allowing methods of com parison between the 'Ci-oglodytes and those who made their dwellings on piles sunk into the Swiss lakes. Had the lake habitations been occupied at the same period of time as the caves, some evidences of connection would undoubt edly have been found, but the contents of this cave points undeniably to a peiiod contemporaneous with the re moter Troglodytes of France. Among the remains of animals, the mammoth, rhinoceros, cave bear, lion and reindeer suffice to warrant this conclusion, while the handiwork of tbese cave dwellings bears a marked resemblance to those discovered in Dodogne, at the same time differing most markedly from the oldest specimens found in the 8wiss lake villages. Snch rude designs traced in bone as has been found in this Swiss cave, show quite a fair appreciation of art. Some surprise has been expressed at the truth and freedom expressed in these designs, appertaining as they must to so remote a period of man's history, but when we consider how our own children take pleasure in exercising this faculty of imitation, it i3 not astonishing that some crude artistic power should exist together with a very low amount of culture. Prehistoric discoveries seem to strengthen the idea of a slow and continuous progression from higher to lower forms of art and industry. rush vs. Credit, Scene?A butoher's shop. Time? Nine a. m. Enter Mr. Smith, a credit customer, in a hurry. Batcher (coldly).?Good-morning, sir. What will you have to-day?" Mr. Smith.?You can send me a good roasting piece and two steaks; also a supply of vegetables. Butcher.?Anything more ? Mr. Smith.?Yes, you may send a ham. Send 'em early, and charge 'em. Butcher enters the order in his book, the beef at twenty-eight cents and the steak at thirty cents?other things in proportion, and remarks to himself: I wonder when I'll get pay for these? laatwonth's bill ain't settled yet. Guess I'll put it down heavy for him, anyhow, to pay me for waiting so long. Enter Mr. Jones, a cash oustomer. Butcher (warmly).?Glad to see youu sir. How was you suited with that mut ifr. Jones.^-Yery well, indeed. What have you gofc to-day that's good ? Butcher.?I've got some turkeys, sir, but they're only middling, and if you'll wait till Saturday I can get you some thing real nice, and at a low figure. Mr. Jones.?What are you asking for steaks and roasts to-day? Butcher.?Steaks, twenty-five cents; roasts, twenty-two cents. Mr. Jones.?All right; send me the same as last Saturday?ten pounds. (Takes out his pocketbook and pays the money, having thus saved not less than one-fourth of Smith's money.) Barney Williams, the Actor. The Sun tails us tiiafc Barney Wil ama, the actor, lafcslj deceased, was fty-two years of ago ijid that his real ame was Bernard JUaherty. He iras orn in Oork on the nineteenth of Jnne, 324. His father wan n sergeant in the ritish army, and after his death Mrs. laherty and her two sons and three lughters immigrated to New York, frnard was then six years of age and m errands for Wusuington market salers, and subsequently became an Tand boy in a printing omoe. In 1886 9 ran errands for the management of ie Franklin theater, and in time be tme an usher at $5 a -week. During (s employment in the theater he learned number of oomio nongs and danoes, id in them he soon exhibited himself i saloons. In 1850 Barney w&3 in a New York leatrical oompany, and Joe Jefferson as the low comedian. His first wife, aggie Lockyer, whom he first knew as young ballet girl of the Bowrey leater, was dead, and he be m to admire the pretty Mrs. eetayer, a widow. Barney was also ipressed by her, but both were, too iy to offer themselves, and neither lew the other's feelings. One evten g Joe asked Barney, as they were ressintr for the stage, to make Mrs. iestayer an offer on his behalf, arney was staggered, bnt he heroically solved to abide by the lady's decision, e fnl filled his task between the first id seeond acts of the first piece, saying: Mr. Jefferson has commissioned me to for his heart and hand." "I am irry," said she, as her faoe clouded ith mingled regi.*et at the neoessity of indering Jefferson unhappy, and the leming indifference of Barney. "I epect and admire Mr. Jefferson, but I ,u never become his wife." " Then ill you have me?" eagerly inquired arney. "I will," said she, brighten g up as Barney seized her hand. A ergyman was sent for, and the oouple ere married between the seoond and rirdacts. Barney Williams was a well known itor in this country, and made a great iccess in England and Ireland. Six jars ago symptoms of paralysis begun show themselves, and in 1873 Barney oke one morning and could not open s left eye. An irritation of the spinal srves at the base of the brain also gave m much trouble, and though medical ience relieved his afflictions, he was equently oompelled to- cease acting rough relapses. The cause of his lath was a paralytic nc. Jtie leaves one ild, a daughter, Maria Kathleen, aged irteen. He was buried in Greenwood metery. The property left by Mr. illiams is valued by his lawyers at out $500,000. The "Western Farmer's Pest Mr. Hill, the Greeley (Oolorado) Sun lis us, always sows a large area of ad. His hopefulness prompts the wing, and bis oombativeness prompts m to fight and save. About fourteen tars ago Mr. Hill had all his money in isted in his first crop. The young asshoppers commenced to eat the beat as it came in sight. There were les of them trying to cross the ditch. > vast was the number that most men ere discouraged, and lost their crops, r. Hill now commenced to run water otrnd his crop, and, when the hoopers ram across, he took a sharp spade and it the bank of the ditch smoothly on e side next the crop and soon had the easure of seeing millions of the de royers swept off into the creek. When her millions succeeded in reaching the beat he patiently drove them back into .e ditch. In this way, watching and jhting with all his enemies, he con lered at last. Mr. Hill said he felt lid for his work, for he made $4,000 at year; getting twelve "-ents a pound r his wheat. In late years Mr. Hill fought the -asshoppers with fire. He and his en would put a belt of straw ten feet Lde across a field, and, with long poles, which were attached long pieces of uslin, drive the hoppers into the raw. They couli be dnven only from ne o'clock to three. Once in the straw iey remained quiet. Two men then ' - ' rt 1 41. ? ew a line 01 uie tuuug tuo uu? u> mo jit of straw, and consumed every one. hey were destroyed in snoh numbers tat they could be tr.ken in double mdfuls. One year Mr. Hill had a patch of 1,600 tbbages, upon which the hoppers fed i great numbers, until the oold weather one. The ground was full of eggs, pon examination it seemed that the rerage number that each grasshopper sposited was twenty-seven. There were jgs enough to bring forth a brood that ould have eaten up the whole farm, [r. Hill commenced to experiment with te eggs. Placing them in the direct >ys of the sun, he found that it required ilv a short time to hatch them. Con uding that if they could be kept cool tey would never hatch, he plowed them 1 under, and never heard of them terward. They probably all rotted, e is confident that we are going to be >le to manage the young grasshoppers jreafter. A Carious Wager. The following anecdote illustrates the uth of the proverb anent the slips he reon the cup and the lips; A few years ifore his death, the Emperor Nicholas ' Russia sent a looking-glass of rare ze and beauty, with an embassy, to the npress of China. The looking-glass id to be carried all the way from St. etersburg to Pekin by human hands, espite the immense distance which had i be performed in this mariher, the oking-glass safely reaohed China; but, i the meantime, difficulties had broken it between Russia and China. The 3n of Heaven neither admitted the em issy, nor did he accept the present. A )urier was dispatched to ?t. reters xrg, who asked the emperor what was > be done with the looking-glass. The nperor replied that it should be oar ed back by the same route, and in the me manner. When he gave this order te Grand Duke Michael happened to 3 present, and offered to lay a wager ith the emperor to the effect that the o king-glass would be broken on the ay back to St. Petersburg. The em aror accepted the wager, and the bear 's of the looking-glass reoeived strin ant orders to be as careful as possible. ! they should break it on the road, they ould be severely punished; but if they lould bring it back safely, they would >ooive a handsome reward. They car ed it back with the most incredible ire, forty men bearing it by turns, and ifely reached St. Isaac's palace in St. etersburg with it?where the emperor aod, with his brothers, at the window f the palace, and laughed at having won lebet. Bat on the staircase of the alace one of the carriers slipped his wt and fell down, dragging several of is companions after him, and the pre ious looking-glass was broken into a aousand pieces. The grand duke, lerefore, won his bet. v An Affecting Meetxno. ? Sarah teele, a young woman, has been com litted for trial in England oh a charge f bigamy. Both husbands attended in Durt, and on being confronted with her rst partner, Sarah threw herself into i is arms, and said: " Alec, is that you ? 'hey told me you were banged in Glas ow years ago. j Items or 1 merest. Egyptian women are old at twenty - five. The immigration from Ireland lot 1876* -will be the smallest since 1861. It was only 51,462 last year. Not lees than twelve thousand women are employed in the glove trade in the apartment of the Loire, France, alone. Bossia contains 12,818,658 children of between seven and fourteen years of age, and only sixty-nine per cent attend school. When a rich man becomes poor it is bat just that he should be cat by all poor acquaintance# who clang to him in better days. . The "March ooinage of the San Fran cisco mint amounted, to $3,308,000, against $2,612,000 in the corresonding month of last year. A woman and her daughter, the latter only twelve years old, both reeling with ' intoxication, were seen in the streets oi Virginia City a few days ago, We've suspected for some time past that measures would have to be taken to check the alarmingly rapid growth of the Smith family. And here now, sure enough, a Pennsylvania man proposes to exhibit at the Cerflfcurial a "Smith roller and crasher." A cow belonging to Silas Davis, of Vermont, " ate five skeins of Mrs. D.'s carpet yarn, six knots in a skein, the same being hung on a clothes-line to dry," and they don't know whether it is beet to keep tne cow as a cow or to-vreave her up into carpets. There are glasses find glasses. "Why," said a husband to his wife, "areyoujdwava looking in the glass ?" "Because, mjRdear," was the answer, "the glass I lock into enables me to im prove my personal appearance; the ene you look into only degrades you." A partridge flew through a window in a house in North Greenbush, ST. Y., and striking a sewing machine near the win dow, broke it, and fell to the floor dead. Upon examination it was fonnd that the head of the bird was crushed into a. shapeless mass, probably by' its contact with the glass in the window. Illness prevented Miss Adelaide Neil son from appearing at a London theater ?4T,am awnino anil irittl Trinnh fftfir VUO UVUU VTVMMQJ and trembling the manager permitted a young American girl, just finishing her studies for the stage, to take her* part. She dia it so well that the Londoners like her nearly as well as Neilaon. Some people seem to be extremely sensitive. At one of the churches in Norwich, according to the Bulletin, one Sunday the minister read the prayer to a person in deep affliction, and a man who had just been married got up and went out. He said he didn't want pub lic sympathy obtruded on him in that way. An old lady living in Saugerties, N. Y., whila suffering from a severe Head ache, fell asleep with a bottle of smell ing salts in her hand. In the morning she awoke with a blister on her thumb, which had covered the-month of the bot tle. In a short time inflammation arose, gangrene set in, and death fol lowed. A safe deposit vanlt just completed in London is deemed invulnerable. It is sunk forty-six feet in the ground, with walls of brick and concrete six feet thick. Inside this structure is tho safe, three feet thiok, made of fire brick and undrillable iron. The metal doors weigh four tons eaoh, and are swung by hydraulic power. A well Known Jfans aenusG, rcuumg in the fashionable quarter, has been ar rested, and is in Mazas prison, accused , of having for years past, while drawing and cleaning teeth, introduced slow poi son into rich patients' mouths at the in stigation of their heirs, and thus com mitted many murders. Two hundred witnesses are said to be subpoenaed. A couple were recently married at Waynesboro, Pa., the bride beingseven ty-nve and the groom seventy-one. The latter had never been married before, ancPhewasso overcome that he fainted at the conclusion of the ceremony, which incident led the newly married wife to exclaim : " Poor fellow, I have feared all along that he couldn't stand The foreign missionary work by Prot estant Christians is summarized as fol lows : There are 1,659 stations, 2,132 missionaries, and 1,537,074 native con- . verts. The annunl expense is over 55, 600,000. Great Britain is doing more than half the work, the United States abont a quarter, Germany stands next, and other counties are accredited with very little. Brethren," said a speaker, " when I was a boy I took a hatchet and went into the woods. When I fonnd a tree that was straight, big Ind solid, I didn't touch that tree ; but when I fonnd one leaning a little, and hollow inside, I soon had him down. So when the devil goes after Christians, he don't touch those that stand straight and true, but takes those that lean a little, and are hollow inside." A New Orleans merchant was induced by a woman, who told a pitiful story of poverty, to give her $14 with which to bury her dead husband. Before giving the money hejwent tothejhouseand saw a discolored corpse that he thought ought to have been buried days before. In his hurry to get away from the place he forgot his umbrella. When he returned for it he found the corpse sitting up and counting the $14. Dr. Moreno and his wife of San Fran cisco had quarreled, and he was anxious fcn make ud. He told her to kiss him in token of reconciliation, and she refused. He knocked her down, and commanded her again to kiss him. She still refused, and reoeived another felling blow. He continued to beat her until she oould not have kissed him if she wished, as her injuries are such that she is not ex pected to reoover. Dr. Fayer's opinion is that, if sys tematic returns were kept, the annual number of deaths from snake bites (ex clusive of all doubtful cases) in India would be found to exceed twenty thou sand. A larger proportion of women, it seems, are bitten than men, showing that the women of the working classes in India are busier than their lords in the fields and other placesVhere snakes are to be met with. Finney, the great revivalist, was pass ing an iron foundry when the works were in full blast, and heard a workmip swearing terribly. "Young man," said the revivalist, addressing the swearer, "how hot do you suppose hellis?" * ? ? * J Ik!** AnAoiiAncr Xfie workman recogmzeu mo ?, and placing his arms akimbo, and look ing liim squarely in the face, said: "Well, Mr. Finney, I suppose it's so hot that if somebody brought you' a spoonful of melted iron you'd swear 'twas ice cream." An incnnifins fellow has invented a new way of getting his liquor. He puts two pint bottles in his coat pocket, one full of water, the other empty. TUen he goes into a saloon and asks for a pint of gin, handing out the empty bottle. When he gets the gin ho pnts the bottle iu his pocket, and tells the barkeeper to "hang it up." Barkeeper natnrally objects, and demands the cash or tho gin. The man reluctantly bands him the bottle of water, and goes out mnt toring about " somo . folks being so con founded particnlur."