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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER \ ;M; BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1876. VOLUME XXIY.--NO. 20. : i Z* " " g ^?? ? A Midsummrr Sovg1. Oh, father's gone to market town ; ho waa up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making bay, And whittling down the hollow goes the boy thst minds the mill. While jpother from fie kitchen door iB calling wi?h a will? "Polly'.?Polly !?The cowb are in the corn! Oh, wliere's Polly ?" From all the misty morning air there comes a summer sound? A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. Tho birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo, And over hill and hollow ring* again the loud hiilloo? "Polly !?P. Jly !?TLe cows are in the corn ! Oh, wliere's Polly ?" t?iA tmAH tlm !i..uev bets swarm by with buzz and b.'om, And in the field ai J . arJen a hundred flowers Lloom. Within the fflrnur'e meadow & brown eyed daisy blown, And dewn at the odge of the hollow a red and thorny roee. But Polly !?P0I7 !?The cows are in the corn ! Oh, where's Polly ? How strange at - ucL a time of 4?y the mill fchoaldstop it? cUtter I Th? farrfer's wife is L?;ening now, and wonders wbat'B the cutter. Oh, wild the birds are tinging in the wood and on the hill, While whistling up the hollow goes the boy that minds ih? mill. But Polly !?Polly !?The oows are in the corn ! Oh, where a Polly ? . ?Scribner for August. THE MASSiCRE AT GOLIAD. An Account by the Only I.lYlnjr Man who Survived It. Santa Anna invaded Texas in February, 1836, with 10,100 men. The army entered by two routes, the larger division, commanded ry Santa Anna, going from New Leon, crossed the river at the Presidio del Rio Grando, and taking the main road, made forced marches toward San Antonio de Bexar. The other division, under Gen. Don dose Urea, exgovernor of Durango, crossed the Rio Grande at or near the city of Matamoras, and entered Texas at San Patricio, on the Rio de las Nueces. The two sections advanced, having several engagements marked by cruel eienfrVitpr. fJnl Fannin was at Goliad. thirty miles distant, with Texan troops. ? i The fortress of Goliad stood on an emiEaoce. It was a large square build ^ing of stone, inclosing about an acre. It was rather a series of buildings, having an arsenal, a barrack and a church. It had three strong bastions of solid masonry, two of which were turreted. The place had a formidable appearance, Tout was not really so, as tfje walls were thiu, having been designed to resist the attacks of Indians only. Two or three good field pieces oonld have breached ?' ?ny section of the Btmctnre, pave the bastions, in an hour. Fanuin's force in the place amounted to not more than | 325 men. Tho country was open, ami 'an army oonld march past it on either f side unmolested. i, ; When Gen. Urea reached Goliad, instead of besieging he marched aronnd, crossed the San Antouio river above. Fannin then set fire to the fortress, and b?gun his retreat toward Guadalupe Viflforia, but 'socfn surrendered. The terms offered by Urea were : That ihe Texans f-hould be received an-' treated as prisoners of war; thai private prop erty should be respected and restored; that the side arms of the officers should be given up; that the m<-n should be sent to Oapano. and thence in eight days L i to the United States, and that the<iffi cere should be fooled. No written copy of this agreement was ever found; \ but Cap! Shackleford said it was reduced in writing in both languages. He made this assertion in my presence at Goliad on the day of the massacre. But written or unwritten, - the stipulations should have been equally binding. There is no kind of doubt that the Mezican officers destroyed the documents. Fannin and his fellow prisoners were then remanded to Goliad, and General Urea went to Victoria. The prisoners i?J WtTO UUUUXCU an \ju?iau iuw tuu \/au i church, ft place not half large enough for them, with but one window that I can remember. They wera kept there two days, and then allowed to go out into the k open area of the fort. k On the twenty-third of March Millar's W . command, to which I belonged, reached Goliad. The company consisted of Bwventy men, who had been captured at i C&pano. We were allowed to mingle freely with the other prisoners, but were | assigned separate quarters at nightfall. Nejrt day Ward's battalion, which had escaped from the mission, and had been captured near the Guadalupe river, were I brought into Goliad, making in all' nearly 500 prisoners. On the morning of our arrival at Goliad, we met two gentleman and a squad of lanoera. One of the gentlemen wa? tfol. i'annin, who, although wounded, ww on norsenacK; iuo oiner was uoi. Holzinger, a Mexican artillery officer. Fannin said ho had fonght a hard battle on the nineteenth, and had urrendered tipon honorable terms the next morning. He -was then on his way to Capano, to procure a vessel to transport his men to Kdw Orleans. This is proof positive that Faunin surrendered upon honorable terms, and not at discretion, as Santa Anna always insisted, and, doubtless, believed. I have read Urea's dispatch to Santa Anna from near Victoria, in which he gives a full account *>f his proceed ings since leaving the Rio Grande, tells of all prisoners at Goliad, bnt says not one word about any agreement with Fannin relative to terras of surrender, lpaving the commander-in-chief in the * brlief th&tr'Falnnln surrendered at discretion. I know, from Almonte's diary, that this is the only dispatch received by Santa Anna fr >m Urea bince hp had left the Rio Grande. The courier from Sauta Anna arrived at G"liad on the twenty sixth, having left San Antonio the morning of the Fame day, distant one hundred miles. Don J. N. PaTtillfl, the commandante, glanced at the Rnperscrij?tion?tben at the black seal beirinj; the president's at ms, an upright arm and dagger, with the # legend *'Mano y Clavo,"aDd Pat down on his camp stool to road the missive, uttering e'jmething like a groan. Its purport was that he hsd certain prisoneri in charge, that he knew what his diitj was, ana irust execute that duty and promptly rejoin his commander. Par til la threw down the dispatch in disgust " Duty, indeed." he muttered, leaning his head upon the table. A young woman entered the room, * took up the letter, and read it through from beginning to end. Partilla looked up and disoovered the intruder with the dispatch in her hand. "I see you have boen reading my dispatch, " said the commandante. "So I have. I came herewith that very purpose," she replied " I suppose yon know what it means ?" "I nnderatand its meaning perfectly. It meanR the death of every American now in Goliad. I have watched for the courier sinoe daybreak, and was resolved to know the contents of his dispatch at anyperiL What are your intentions?" " To obey the president's instructions to the letter." . ; j "There is one company among the prisoners in there of whose capture the president could not have been advised when he wrote that dispatch. I mean the men from Capano." "I don't know that." "Suppose yon assume that he was not aware of their presence. He does not mention the company in his letter." "Well, what then? It would only prolong their lives for a few days." " Promise me that yon will do as I wish. Much can be done in a few days. I have friends near the president whom he cannot afford to disoblige ; nor can 1 they well afford to slight me. Promise me this, and Francisco, my husband's orderly, shall start for Bexar to-night." " It f-hall be as you desire. They call me Indian, Senora Alavesque; but were I president I would not write that letter for all the lands your father owns ; not for all the gold that ever passed the mint of Mexico." The colonel leaned his bronzed Aztec faoe upon the table, weeping like a child. Donna Pachita Alavesque, a lovely women of twenty, was the wife of a colonel of the Mexican army, a man oi great wealth and power. She had followed him to Texas, partly from whim, but ohiefly in the hope of doing good. Her visit that night to the commander saved seventy lives. Ool. Portilla sent a courier that night at nine o'clock to Victoria, informing Gen. Urea of the receipt of Santa Anna's note, and of the plan he should pursue. He also informed him of his intention in respect to the company to be preserved; On that same evening the rumor got abroad among the prisoners inside the fortress that the commander-in-chief had been heard from, and that all would march in the morning for Capano, where ships were waiting to transport us to New Orleans. Nearly all were young men, most of whom had pleasant homes, and friends who would welcome them home with joy. Many were singiug gleeful songs, or telling pleasant stories and talking of their friends. A young man asked some one, apparently among Ward's men, if he remembered Jack Fellows- I think that was the name. The answer was: "Yea." And the first voice continued: "Do you mind how he Uhed to sit up there in the bastion evenings and siug and talk of his mothers and sisters at home ?" " I do right well. That chap used to make me cry sometimes." "Well, he'll never sing any more. He's as dead as Julius Csesar, He was the tirst man killed in the Eucinal. Poor fellow ! I helped to bury him in the ditch. I wish he was here t?> night." A flute in the hands of a skillful performer had been plaviug all the evening such airs as "Atild Lang Syne," and "Home, Sweet Home." Every one around mo appeared to be happy and spoke in pleasant tones. At length all the voices were silent, and nothing was heard but the cries ot the Indian sen- . tries as they paced to aud*/ro on the walls yelling in most unearthly accent*: "Ontinella Alerta 1" "Ceiitinella"? something else, wbich I have long ago forgotten. At daylight the reveille consisted of simply a few drum traps and a bugle blast. Soon lines wi re formed and the rolls called. There were no sol diers inside the fort, only a few officers, who were oounting the prisoners, and making preparations of some sort in n very quiet way. ivow ana men koeuwthing was said about the early release aud departure of the prisoners; about the necessity for slaughtering beeves, and other preparations for a voyage. Sjou a numl>er of prisoners, I should say at least 150, moved out of the maiu gateway, in the direction of the southnrn taction. An officer came up to where we were standing in line aud ordered us to move. As we passed through the gateway, the party that had gone , out ahead of us had turned the corner of the fortress, going apparently toward the river. We turned the opposite way, and entered a small peach orchard, where we were told tc sit down on the grass and keep quiet. _ On one side of tl'"-orchard, facing the Matamoras road vs a line ol officers' tents. The c side was protected by a cactus hec . beyond which was an old graveyard, much dilapidated. The western side was an open prairie, with here and there a tree. The rest of ? ?oma ahf r\f flin fnrf. I ClltJ prirsiJjUCIo Luru vnixiu uuu v< ?uv .v.., one-half going three or four hundred yards westward along the Matamoras road, and the others in the direction we had taken. The latter passed up the road, aud, turning round the orchard hedge, halted just, beyond the graveyard. A line of soldiers marched on either side. A tall young fellow walked at the head of this party, with a Mexican blanket about his shoulders. He looked toward us, smiling pleasantly. I had conversed with him the day previous, when he spoke hopefully of an early departure for his home in Penn sylvania. This party had barely turned the cactus hedge when a prolonged roar of musketry was heard fn the direction of the river beyond the fort. The cry then arose among our men that they were shooting the prisoners. The firing was kept up for several minutes, and then it died away in occasional shots. The firing commenced at the graveyard. The intervening bushes preVti-rtrr oova fhn VtUtCU UUl UUJ tuiug occasional gleam of a bayonet, but I could hear the trampling of feet 'anil the shouts and groans of dying men distinctly. Meanwhile my attention was directed to the party that had marched out on the rotd in front of the fort. They were in plain view. Some accounts of this massacre say that the prisoners were shot while in sitting postures, l'his was not the fact as to the party coming under my notice. They halted, when fairly out on the open prairie, the soldiers formiug a line facing down the road. The prisoners were then placed in a single line facing the soldierH. The Holilieis then faced the prisoners, and at the command leveled their pieces, and each soldier fired at the man directly in front of him. About a third of the pnsoneis leu, oiners scoo i appar ently astounded until bayoneted, but about forty of them ran in various directions. Not one of these fugitives escaped, however, as all were pursued aud either fabered by the dragoons or killed by the lancers. The wounded prisoners, about thirty in uumber, were murdered in the open area, inside the fortification. Major Dominguez, a yellow, pink eyed man, a refugee from San Domingo, had charge of this part of tho maswacre. He obtained it by request, being a friend of Gen. Oaray. This is the man who, at Agua Dolce, caused Capt. Grant to be placed on the back of a wild horse, with a lasso round his neck. The horse was then whipped till, maddened, he dashed away, dragging Capt. Grant through a thorny chapar; al. Grant was left dead npon the ground and mangled in a horrible manner. This miscreant that moruing hacked a wounded boy to death while the lad was on his knees praying. He and his assistant* then stabbed the wounded men to death, first dragging them fi"om the hospital floor. Meanwhile Father Maloney, the curate of San Patricio, pushed the three American physicians and their assistants into the vestry, aud shut the door. He had hardly done so when Senora Pachita Alavesque entered, and asked if they were still alive. The priest answered that they ware in tLe vestry, but that he expected Dominguez for them every moment. " Give him this note," she said, ,;and if he dares to treat it -with disrespect, he shall never pass that door alive." Soon Dominguez entered. "Show him the note, father," said Pachita. DomiDguez read the note, which was signed "Garay,"and it directed that the three physicians and their assistants should be reserved from execution. Dominguez walked away am (iiv r\f rliaann/\infmant. YTJLUU aIX ail U& vuiuu VI The last assassination was that of Col. Fannin. The colonel being wounded, was led oat and seated in a chair. An interpreter, Oapt. Splan, had been left for the purpose of explaining anything that'the oolonel might have to say. The colonel took from his pocket a letter and a watch, and asked that they be sent to his wife. He then handed the officer some doubloons, which he begged him to accept, requesting that he would have him shot through the heart and decently buried. All this was promised, the officer pocketing the money. Fannin was then blindfolded, shot through the head, his clothes stripped off, and the 1 body dragged out through the main gateway, and left lying on the grass. After Fannin was murdered, the officer ordered Splan to take his seat in the chair, as he also was going to shoot him. Gapt. Splan replied that he had been reserved as an interpreter. "We have no further use for interpreters now," said the officer, "all the Americans have been shot. Take your seat." At that critical moment an officer with whom Splan had a slight acquaintance was passing. Splan hailed him, and they commenced talking about the execution of Fannin, which had just taken place. Becoming impatient, the officer ordered Splan once more to take the chair. The officer told the commander of the firing party that he would be responsible for Splan, and taking him by the arm, they walked away together. The officer conduoted the captain to where we were stationed, and then left him to seek the commander. It was here, from Capt. Splau's own lips, that I learned the particulars of Fannin's death. He had scarcely finished his narrative, when an orderly came up and told him ho was want d by the commander. He bade us an affectionate adieu, saying he had no doubt that he was going to be shot, and walked off with the orderlr. Haouilv. he was mis taken. The next morning lie was started off to Mutameras with a returning provision train. The soldiers, stripped the clothing from the dead bodies of their victims, and, making a bundle of the gory vest ments, hung them on their bayonets, iiud thus marched back to their qnar tern. As they came, past where we were, oue follow raised his pun, f-haking his bloody bundle at us. Some of them got bank notes out of the prisoner's clothes, of the value of which they knew nothing. That afternoon a man came to our quarters and off-red a' twenty-dollar UuiWl State's bank note^To!- fifty cents. H<* succeeded in eff-eting a sale. A lancer catne with a pair of boots hanging to tiis saddle, which he offered lor " dos reals." Davy Strong wanted boots very badly, and thought they would fit him. M my of the meu cried out "shame " to Davy, but he paid the money and pulled tbem on. The bodies ( f the murdered men were burnt at the places where they died. The cremation occupied three or four .lays. Whatever may h?ive been the motive for this, the result was beueficial, as it spared us from the stench that would have arisen. Eight days after the mas?acre an or ler arrived at Goliad to shoot the remaining prisoners, but before it could oe carried into effect it was countermanded. And this, Don Manuel Talsa told me, was the result of Senora A lotToonT-wAi iiifliionr?A nfr. lipnrlnnftrtfirs. About the close of April following 'Senora Alavesque came to our quarters one day with the don, her husband, who looked like a good hearted man, but dreadful stiff and dignitied. Pachita biide us all good bye, and said she was going home to Durargo. There was a very handsome young Kentuckian named Allen in our company, who used to talk in French with tlie senora. On taking her di al departure Allen was the Jast nan she spoke to. It was plain to me, boy that I was, as I watched their parting, that there was a special cause for her great interest in our fate. Allen was young, about twenty-five, a blue eyed, handsome fellow, with a quiet, well bred air. The senora was hardly twenty, a black eyed, high-bred beauty. God bless her. She saved my life and the lives of my companions. Senor Alavesque was a man of middle age, a Belf-oontained, quiet person, who was never seen without his cigarette. 1 TV 11_? DnnsA In nr. A DU;tKltllg nuusc 1U an upiuai? This is how the rnmpus occurred : Higgins, who is a top-floorer, came home late, hringiug a friend with him. As the ways leading to Higgins' apartments are tortuous, he left his friend in the hall and ascended alone to illuminate. Having etruck a light, he gave a low whistle as a signal to his friend to ascend. This little circumstance was fatal to the peace and well-being of the establishment. The old gentleman Battles, who has the first floor front, was in a half wakeful state, and hearing the sibilant signal sounded on an upper landing was convinced that it was a thief's method of communicating with his fellow, .Battles is energetic, and in a very brief space of time bang went his pistol out of the front window, accompanied by a volley of cries of "Polioel" "Fire 1" "Rob: bersl'and "Murder!" This demonstration had its effect all along the line. The boarders, en deshabille to a greater or lesser degree?it was a warm nigbt?appeared on the landing, aud the boldest of them invaded Battles' appartment.The neighbors rushed out or put their heads out of the windows, aud the greatest commotion prevailed throughout the street. The olice began to arrive, reeuforced by a squad from the stationhouse, aud the tire patrol rushed around the corner. It took some time to explain matters and to restore quiet. to.j the neighborhood. The most frightened individual of all was the strange gentleman Higgins had brought home with liira. He was set upon by the infuriated boarders as the supposed burglar, and narrowly escaped demolition. Renouncing.?-xne jute jur. , being oue of the moderators, did not satisfy by his preaching the Calvinistio portion of his flock. . ** Why, sir," said they, " we think you dinna tell ns enough about renouncing our ain righteouaueus." . 'Renouncing your ain righteousness!" vociferated the astonished doctor; " I never saw any ye had to renounoe!" A oonplo of thieves entered the house of Mrs. Wright, a poor widow, near Knoxville, and findingnothing of value there, went iuto the ya^d, killed her only oow, stripped it of its skin, and onrsing the woman for being poor, took the hide to Knoxville and sold it to a tanner. [ THE UXITEI) STATES. Some Interciln* Htntiatici. The area of the United States is 3,578,392 square miles, which were acquired as follows: Square 1{{l?t. Territory ceded by England in 1783 815,615 Louisiana, as acquired from Franpe in 1803 9i0,9'2-< Florida, an acquired from Spain in 1821.... 69.268 Texa*, as admitted to the Unlou in 1845.... 2H7,50i OrevOu, by treaty in 1846 280.425 California, taken from Mexico in 1841 649,762 Arizona, from Mexico by treaty in 1854. .. 7,500 Alaska, from Russia by treaty in 1867 577,390 Total present area 3,578,332 In 1620 there were but 300 whits settlers in New England. Less than 250 years ago New York city consisted of one dozen log cabins, and all the land now comprising the city and county of New York was purchased for ?24. One hundred years ago we were thirteen feeble colonies and 3,000,000 people; now we consist of thirty-seven sovereign and independent States and twelve Territories. The thirteen original colonies, in the order in which the names of their representatives are appended to the Declaration of Independence, were as follows: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The entire list of our present States, arranged alphabetically, with the date of their admission into the Union, is here appended : STATI8 AND TEnniTOnna. Dale of i Data of > Statet. Admiuion AStates. Admitrlon. Alabama 1819|MiBgourl 1821 Arkansas 1836 Nebraska ;...1R67 - lorn IV- A. I uam orma no. bub Connecticut ? New Hampshire ? i Delaware ? New Jersey ? ; Florida. 184B New York ? Georgia ? North Carolina ? Illinois 1818 Ohio 1802 Indiana 1810; Oregon 1859 Iowa 1846 Pennsylvania ? Kansas 1861 Khode Island ? Kentucky 1792 South Carolina ? < Louisiana 1812 Tennessee 1796 Maine 1820 Texas 1845 Maryland ?.Vermont 1791 ] Massachusetts ? Virginia ? Michigan 1837 West Virginia 1863 Minnesota 1858 Wisconsin 1848 Mississippi 1B17 ; Our twelve Territories, under similar i arrangement, are as follows : TTriloria. Data of Organiiation. Alaska . ..Not yet organized Arizona... 1853 Colorado.. *1861 Dakota 1801 District of Columbia ? Idaho 1863 Itidiau Territory Not yet organized I Montana j8AI New Mexico 1850 Utah 1NS0 1 Washington 1853 l Wyoming...... 1868 * Just admitted as a State, making the : number of States thirty-eight. I The Eruption of Volcanoes. The Revue Scientifique contains an ( interesting chapter quoted from a work ] on volcanoes by M. K. Fuchs. The author, after reviewing all the different theories hitherto in vogue, distinctly repudiates the notion that volcanoes are in communication with the center of the earth. The real cause of eruptions, he suys, is still a mystery ; the modern hypothesis, which supposed the center of the ear?h to be solid, but enveloped by a stratum of rocks in a siate of aqueous fusion, over which lies the hardeued crust we inhabit, answers pretty nearly to the facts brought to light by recent investigation. 1c is not to be doubted that eruptions are owing to a straggle , between the vapors contained in the volcanic focus and the masses of lava that *top their if^sue. These will absorb a large quantity of the former, but in the end they get saturated, and the remain- | ing vapors force a passage to the terres- ( trial surface. The origin of these vapors j is fctated to be the eet, which provides ( fhrt -cnlfjinin fniYifl with the reauisite 8team, In support of this view the author pointa to cbe fact that active volcanoes are almost exclusively sitnated near a sea coast. Oat of 139 that have hail eruptions since the middle of the last oentury, ninety-eight are insular, and uearly all the others are close to the coast. Another argument in favor o the infiltration of Rea water is this: that the chemical constitution of volcanic vapors comprises all the substances that distinguish soa water.from fresh, and even iu the same proportions. The real volcano iH the invisible focus Bituated in the entrails of the earth, and not the mere crater exposed to view. The mountain is nothing but a sort of chimney formed by and for the passage of the lava, and it incloses a vast space where the lava accumulates from time to time until it is expelled by the steam. We may here state that these views coincide with those explained by Dr. Montuoci in his Questions Scientifiques, in which he considers the various focuses of vol- . trimmeu calico cinws. u.er mouest mcti beamed with youth and beauty beneath the graceful -folds of a gauzy green veil, aud her rosy cheeks shone through it like a pair of large cherries. She didn't carry one-half of her dress in her hand high up to gratify the vulgar gaze of blackguards or to draw forth ludicrous and ungentlemanly remarks of corner loafers. Nor -was she pinned back so tight she couldn't step, and ber heels didn't kick her tilteras high as the small of her back. She didn't walk like a mule with a loose set of harness on and flies bad. No; she wasn't dressed in a style calcnlated to attract the attention of any but true gentlemen, and of these she commanded the ntmost respect, and it was paid her by all who, in meeting, admired her. canic activity as so mauy "ulcers" of : the terrestrial globe, and not reaching ; further down than a couple of miles be- . low the level of the sea., ' How the Sioux Fight, The Sioux, when on the warpath, black their faces from their eyes down, the forehead being colored a bright red. When in mourning and when very eager to avenge the death of friends or rela- < tions, they cut their hair short and daub ' their faces with white earth. Their I leats of horsemanship are wonderful. ] They consider the greatest act of valor I to be the striking of their enemy with 1 some hand instrument when alive, and, J whether alive or dead, it is the first one i that strides the fallen foe that "counts 1 the ooup," and not the one that shoots i him. They do not always scalp. Their ' objeot of scalping iB t j furnish proof of < their deed and give them to their women i to dance over. They always attack in a sweeping, circling line, eagle-like, give ( a volley, pass on, circle and return on a 1 different angle. "When they kill one of ] the enemy there is always a rush to get tho first crack at him so as to " count ' the coup," and then some Indian who 1 was disappointed in getting a cut at the ' victim while alive scalps him. The 1 Sioux always camp witb tepees (lodges) in a circle, making, as it were, a stock- i ade, and when on dangerous ground j thf-y picket their ponies in tho center. Mr. Keller is familiar with the ground 1 where the disastrous engagement of I Ouster occurred. Concerning tliis he : said: "My idea of the Custer/Blaugh- ' ter is that the Indians hail no' women 1 aud children in their lodges, and had 1 parapets- dug under the lodges out of : sight. Custer, thinking it a family cump, rushed in the center of the fort, 1 where resistance would necessarily prove fatal." An Old Tfrric Girl. We saw her on tho street yesterday, says the St. Louis Journal. She wore a neatly titting, plainly cut and modestly i . 1 3 1 TT t THE INDIAN SITTING BULL. A Correspondent Tells na who he la~Pecnlliurlilca of the Indiana. The Chicago Tribune correspondent says he has learned almost!' a complete history of this hostile 'warrior, Sitting Hull. He is a Teton-Sioux and only thirty-five years of age. Captain MoGarry, of the steamer Benton, tells me he has known Sitting Bull about tbe upper Missouri trading posts for many years. His principaf bartering place was at Fort Peck, though of late years - < i . f_|| A Knf. tie and nis Dana nave iuuuwou tu? falo north on the Souris and Pembina rivers, and have bartered their robes and tongnes for gans and ammunition with the French half-breeds of Manitoba. Sitting Boll was a convert and friend of Father de timet, who taught him to read and write French. Hahas always scorned to learn English, but is a fair French scholar. In the Dakota language he is also versed, and declared to be a greater orator than Little Pheasant, chief of the Yanktonnais. Captain McGarry says he knows that Sitting Bull has read the French history of Napoleon's wars, and believes that he has modeled his generalship after the little Corsican corporal. Sitting Bull has never accepted an overture of peace, the report that he gave in his adhesion to Sully to the contrary notwithstanding. He has always been an unrelenting and vindictive savage, to the Americana what Schamyl was to the Bussian. Father de Smet kept the Teton-Sioux from the warpath until 1868. He then left the upper Missouri and Sitting Bull became a chief. No organized effort was made to array the flmn-r nnfinn ftcainst the whites until after the Minnesota massacre of 1863, when the Sioux were driven west of the Missouri into the bad lands and mountains of Dakota. Sitting Bull aspired to the leadership, but Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Little Pheasant and the Ogalalla Sitting Bull chiefs repudiated him. From that time he has been a malcontent, and at war with the chiefs of the Sioux nation, though he has by his persuasive arts of oratory seduced many hundreds of their young braves into his ranks. He is also largely re-enforced by young braves from the Crees and Assiniboins of Manitoba. Every summer for five years he has been up north among these tribes, and nowJ&ey are flocking l-rt Kio ofan/lorrl Tf TPDOfta ft TO to be believed, and I have no reason to question them, when he next makes a stand against the Federal troops he will have in the neighborhood of 5,000 warriors, every one armed with repeating rifles. A great deal is expected from Sitting Bull's inability to take care of the wounded already on his hands, and which is a sacred duty among the In tliaus. If he has not sent his wounded north among his Manitoba friends, he will do so before ho hazards another fight. The telegraphing report of CapfamSmith, who brought Keno'swounded Jown, that Terry had found the biers of uine chiefs killed in the engagement with Ouster is a mistake. They were the remains of sub-chiefs and braves killed by Caster when he was with Stanley in 1871. The Sioux custom is ;o carry off their dead braves to a sejluded valley, and after their customary mourning period has expired, to lay out ;ho d?ad brives on a platform high snough to be beyond the reach of wolves or coyotes. An Expose. A remarkable feature of the groat in?r-collegiate rowing matches, such as ;hat which took place at Saratoga, is the freedom of costume permitted to the jontostants. Nowhere, outride of the irt studio, are the beauties of the living manly form so completely exhibited. A 3up and bathing drawers not much less scanty than the conventional fig leaf, iro the ODly drawbacks to complete nuJity. Dur ng the race the bare bodies .if the rowers writhe and glisten under the eyes of the spectators, and when it is over the victors are carried on the shoulders of their friends through the id miring crowds on shore, so that all may observe their masculine figures and their muscular development. One of bhe rowers, stretched at fall length in a boat and smoking a cigar, was leisurely paraded up and down before the grand 3tand, as if courting admiration. Women is well as men are regaled with the speo tacie, auci DOlu HtieB oecm iu wii/ucno ii. with equal satisfaction. We have here an illustration of the purely artificial Dature of the current laws of modesty. Just as it is immodest in a woman to be aeen in her nightgown or in her corset, but quite proper for her to show herself in a ball dress, which covers her form just as little if not less, so a man who is, or who ]ust has been in a boat, and wielding a pair of oars, may strip himself before the public to a degree which on any other occasion would subject him to arrest by the police.?Sun. Importance of Peat Beds. In some remarks on the climatology of New Hampshire, Prof. Huntington states that the preservation of the vegetation on our mountains is of great importance, not only in modiiying tho distribution of rain, but also in modifying the extreme of cold in winter. Our mountains, especially the higher sumA ? s\y*r* Kin nrvf V\ LDlfcHj UTti UUVtJfCU tuu wuniucmvio uo^/vu) axcopt where it has been destroyed by fires, by peat, formed chiefly from moss and lichens. Now, it has been found by experiment that peat moss can absorb more than twice its own weight of water; dry clay, nearly its own weight; dry earth or garden mold, more than balf its own weight, and dry sand a little more than a third of its own weight. Wifh equal times of drying, under the same circumstances, therefore, peat moss lo.ses two-thirds of all the water it contained; clay and earth more than threefourths, and sand more than nine-tenths. Ihus, in a dry season, beds of peat must form an invaluable reservoir of water For the supply of springs and streams. Wherever it or vegetable mold aboundp, the soil retains its moisture, being only gradually evaporated, a high relative humidity is maintained, aDd springs gush forth from the slopes of the mountains, and a slight change in the temperature causes rain to fall in gentle showers. It is noted that on the mountains of New Hampshire fres in general spread only over their eastern slopes. Marched Too IJnpidJy. As farther facts are brought to bear upon Gen. Caster's disaster it becomes more evident that his swiftness in marching against the Indians outstripped calculation as to the forces that wero to have supported him. Had his march been extended, as it was expected to be, by the exploration of some lateral valleys,"delaying it a single day, Gen. Gibbons would have been with him in the attack. A new grape fungus, which first appears on tlie leaves of tho grapevine in the form'of a minute yellow spot, was described hy ur. j^npfimauu at ? r-ucui meeting of the St. Louis Academy of Science. It makeB its appearance jnnt before and daring the flowering period, as far as known attaoking only the leaves, or rarely the petioles and pedunoles. It kills the leaves and thus cripples the plant, and attaoks all varieties indiscriminately. CHARLIE ROSS. Another Gleam of Flope?The Boy.Deelnrcd Alive and Weil, The Philadelphia Inquirer has the following: In the office of a relative of Mr. Christian K. Ross, on Walnut street, there was assembled a knot of men who listened closely and anxiously to the answers given by a mulatto man to questions put by Captain Heinn, who has had charge of the Ross abduction case on behalf of the city police department ever since the first information of the curly haired boy's disappearance was left at Fifth and Chestnut streets. The mulatto came to Philadelphia and was discovered in the vicinity of Mr. Kosa' former omce aou hkj^o ui4uuui(j where Mr. Rosa could be found. The man says his name is George, and that ho was* born and raised in Ufcica, N. Y. He ia tall, powerfully built, about twenty-eight or thirty years of age, with complexion very light, even for a mulatto, and keen, dark eyes. His manner is simple and quiet, but earnest. He says that he was the cook of a gang of thieves which was a branch of the general organization of which Mosher and Douglass were the leaders. The latter were with 11 Division No. 1," which had its quarters here in the Northeast, and he was with "Division No. 2," which located and operated in the South and West. Charlie Ross was stolen on the first of July, and three days afterward he was in the custody of " Division No. 2," then at a point near Cincinnati, 0. George says that Charlie was turned over to his care, and the first thing he was ordered to do was to clip the curls from Charlie's head; that he did so, and another man then went over the work again and out the child's hair very close to the scalp. The party with the child in their possession soon moved ooam, and for nine months constantly shifted their quarters, but kept South all the time. He asserts that he saw the child alive and. well within five weeks, and that, within a week, if the facilities he asks are afforded him, he will recover the loDg lost boy safe and sound. George alleges iao fine feelings of humanity as the motive which prompted him to now seek to restore Charlie Boss to his heart crushed parents, but says plainly that he is after the reward, which he would have moved after sooner had he dared. He claims that he had no hand in the abduction, and that he never did any crooked work with the gang. It is said that he was able to give very straight answers concercing the names of leaders of the latter, detailed information as to work done by them, eto., in response to questions put to Captain Heine and others, together with other information which would imply that he has seen Charlie Boss since the latter's abduction. The mulatto solemnly protests that every word he utters about the matter is the truth, and says he only wants his assertions tested, and tbat He ib ready 10 do what he promises or forfeit his life. Mr. Ross has been summoned to the city, and when ho arrives there will be another examination of George in his presence. There are three theories regarding this man'B action : First, the man may be simply a " beat," to use an expressive plang term, endeavoring to mako a few dollars out of Mr. Rofs or wcare free transportation to a certain distant point bo is anxious to reach; second, he may bo commissioned by men having possession of the child, which has grown a burden in their hands, to play tho game he is trying on, with the object of securiug the resvard and sharing it with them ; third, he is telling the truth and is really able and willing to do what he proposes. The popular hope will prove universal that he may, in any event, prove the meaLS of clearing np the " Charlie Ross" mystery." A Tradition of Saratoga Lake. There is an Indian superstition attached to this lake which probably had its source in its remarkable loneliness and tranquillity. The Mohawks believed that its stillness was sacred to the Qreat Spirit, and that it a numan voice uttered a sound upon its waters, the canoe of the offender would instantly sink. A story is told of an Englishwoman, in the early days of the first settlers, who had occasion to oross this lake with a party of Indians, who, before embarking, warned her most impressively of the spell. It was a silent, breathless day,and the canoe shot over the surface of the lake like an arrow. About half a mile from the shore, near the center of the lake, tho woman, wishing /?nnT7i'n^o tlia TtwIifiriR of th? erroneous nass of their superstition, uttered a low cry. The countenances of the Indians fell instantly to the deepest gloom. After a minute's pause, however, they redoubled their exertions, and in frowning silence drove the light bark swiftly over the waters. They reached the shore in safety, and drew up the canoe, when the woman rallied the chief on his credulity. " ihe Great Spirit is merciful," answered the scornful Mohawk; "he knows that a white woman cannot hold her tongue!" Suspension Bridge. When the first suspension bridge at Niagara Falls was projected, in 1848, Mr. Charles Ellet offered a reward of five dollars to any person who would get a string across the chasm. The next windy day all the boys in the neighborhood were kite-flying; and, before night, a lucky youth landed his kite on the opposite shore and secured the reward. Of this little 6tring was born the large cables which support the present vast structure, -out tue ursu hucuoooux of the string was a small wire rope, seven-eighths of an inch in diameter. To this was suspended a wire basket, in which two persons could cross the chasm. To this was attached an endless rope that was worked by a windlass on each bank. The ride down to the center was rapid and exhilarating, but the panse over the center, while the tlack of the rope was being taken up, was apt to make the coolest person a little nervous, and the jerky motion up the opposite slope wns rather annoying. The present bridgo, with its railroad track and carriage way, was built by the late Mr. John A. Roebling. It is 800 feet long, and 200 feet above the water.?Scribner's Monthly. Table Rock. On the twenty-fifth of June, 1850, occurred the great downfall which reduced Table Rock, at Niagara Falls, to a narrow bench along the bank. Tlie portion which fell was one immense solid rock two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide and ono hundred feet deep, where il separated from the bank. Fortunately, it fell at noonday, when but few peoplewere out, and no lives were lost. The driver of an omnibus who had taken off his horses for their midday feed, and was washing his vehicle, felt the prelimi nary cracking and escaped, the vehicle itself being plunged into the gulf below. Some Fioup.es.?There are in the United States 6,000.000 farmers, 1,200,000 trades people, 9,700,000 mechanics, 2,600,000 professional men, 43,000 clergymen, 40,000 lawyers, 126,822 teachers, 62,000 doctors, 2,000 actors, 5,200 journalists, 1,000,000 laborers and 75,000 domestic servants. A Wise Furniture Car Driver, One of the gayeBt hearted men in St. Louis is a furniture car driver, whom, by way of pet name, we will call Curly Jim, usually contracted into Oarly. He has a way of always looking so ooutented and so entirely at peace with all the world that tho rest of mankind (vide President Taylor's message) are ever disposed to treat with him on the most friendly terms, and he is Old Popularity himself with the female portion of the moving world. Curly's wagon always seems to be loaded with the better class of furniture, as if he were omployed only by genteel families, and he has a knack of piling it on so as to present a shipshape, if not an artistic appearance. "He is quite a philosopher, too, in his way, and has a pretty good insight into the labyrinths of the human heart. "How is it, Cirly, that you get tho moving of all the mulionaires in town ?" said a Republican reporter to him the other day. "Well, you're a little out of plumb there," replied Curly; "millionaires never move. I get pretty nice loads, to be sure, and that is partly luck and partly a little knack that these common fel lows don't understand." I must be one of the common fellows, too, replied the reporter, for I don't understand either. Explain. "Did you ever buy a box of strawberries in the market i" " Many a time." " And didn't you always find the nice, plump berries on top ?" "Always." " Well, that is the way I make up my loads. Now most families have got a few nice things, and nearly all, even the very best, have got an awful sight of trash; and suppose you have got to move them, and is there any sense in piling all the nice things in the bottom and covering them up with trash so as to look as if you were moving a junk shop or second hand furniture store? For instance, here's this load I've got on now. The only nice things the people have are tha wardrobe, bureau and washstand. As I pass along the street you don't notice anything else on the load but them, do you? That's owing to the way they're put on. When we get to the house they are being moved to the best things will all stand on the sidewalk, while the old traps and rubbish will be fetched into the house as fast as it can be taken from the wagon. The neighbors, of course, will all be tVio Vtlinria ftnd nnt. of VWX'UQU vuv WMXMW w the corners of the windows, and will say: 'That is a very genteel family moving in; they have got pretty nice things.' Don't you see?" " That all looks very plausible; but do people who are moving care, as a general thing, for the appearance their traps will make in being moved ?" " You bet they do. The other day I was moving a family into a row and an-, other carman was moving a family into next door. I accidentally overheard the lady at this house say: 'How provoking! That abominable carman seems to take special pains to make as much display as possible of every brokenlegged chair and rickety piece of furnituro we've got. Our things are nicer than thoso next door folks, but while theirs look so genteel one might think we wer? moving from the poorhouse.'" " Then you believe in always putting yonr best foot foremost, as the saying is ?" " True for you. It's the grand secret of success in the world. And when I put other people's best foot foremost for them thev like it. and that is the way I keep my business." An Anecdote of Forrest. The little old theater in Albany, N. Y., has been made the scene of many carious theatrical stories. On one occasion Mr. Edwin Forrest, then a young man, and more famous for his muscle than his genius, gave a tremendous display of really powerful acting. He was supposed to represent a Roman warrior, aud to be attacked by six minions of a detested tyrant. At the rehearsal Mr. Forrest found a great deal of fault with the supes who condescended to play the minions. They were too tame. They didn't lay hold of him. They wouldn't go in as if it were a real fight. Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened; the supes sulked and consulted. At length the captain of the supes inquired in his local slang: " Yer want this to be a bully fight, eh ?" "I do," replied Mr. Forrest. " All right," rejoined the oaptain, and the rehearsal quietly proceeded. In the evening the little theater was crowded, and Mr. Forrest was enthusiastically received. When the fighting scene occurred the great tragedian toofc the center of the stage, and the six minions entered rapidly and deployed in skirmishing order. At the cne " Seize him I" one minion assumed a pugilistio attitude, and struck a blow straight from the shoulder upon the prominent nose of the Boman hero; another raised him about six inohes from the stage by a well directed kick, and the others made ready to rash in for a decisive tussle. For a moment Mi. Forrest stood astounded, his broad chest heaving with rage, his .great eyes flashing like Are, his sturdy legs planted like columns 1U- Thor> noma f.tlA fftW Upuu tuo nuijju, .... moments of powerful acting, at the end of which one supe was seen sticking head foremost in the base drum in the orchestra, four were having their wounds dressed in the green room, and one, finding himself in the flies, rushed out upon the roof of the theater and shouted " Fire J" at the top of his voice; while Mr. Forrest, called before the curtain, bowed his thanks pantingly to the applauding nudience,who looked upon the whole affair as part of the piece, and " had never seen Forrest act so splendidly." Plain Fnncrals. The undertaker received an order to have everything as plain as possible at the burial of Mr. Garner and his wife, victims of the Mohawk disaster in New York harbor. Here is a proof of good sense and taste on the part of Mr. Garner's friends. " Sated with the pomp /vf fViia mnrlrl nf wlli/?h T UUi5 lUHlOO Ul uuio TTV4?V?) ?. hav<5 had an uu common share, I desire to have no posthumous display," wrote the celebrated Lord Chesterfield, and ordered his body to be buried in the nearest graveyard, and his funeral expenses to be limited to a small sum. His example had great effect in England in putting down foolish fuueral pomp, [n this country it is among people who are not rich that faneral folly is carried to its highest pitch. People who can ! scarcely see a month's food ahead, will j * i- - j. - ~ n IUMA fnrhino ofc I spena wdai ib tu tuciu ? uwiu iv?vUuv m* a funeral, and the hard earned savings of friends are expended in a dreary prooession of hacks to a distant cemetery. "What possible connection can there be between my drinking a glas< of" wine, and that fellow's health ?" asked a man when urged to drink a toast; and what possible satisfaction can there be to the dead in a long retinne of hacks at 810 apiece filled with mourners, whose j?rief is not always as palpable as it ought to be, following him to Greenwood if If people want to give proof of i affection after bereavement, let them subscribe to help widow or children, if they need uid, and not to the hack proprietor and undertaker, who now alone benefit.?Nev> York Sun. j THE TERROR OF DEATJf. fllcn iHadr UncnntrallHble by Dnnger?The liainiugot ilie ft. Claire. J. B. Sutpbin, of Minneapolis, was on board the propeller St. Giaire, which was dewtroyed by lire off Fourteen-Mile Poiut, Lake Superior, and is one of the Ave (and the only passenger) who escaped with their lives. The St. Olaire left Duluih with four passengers and a crew of fourteen men. At Ontonagon another man wan added to the crew, and twelve or thirteen more passengers were taken on board. At about two a. h., when eighteen miles from Ontonagon, and seven and one-half from land, firo was discovered in the hold, near the engine. The captain at once aroused the passengers and crew, and unavailing efforts were made to control the flames. In five minutes from the first alarm the entire vessel was wrapped in a sheet of fire. An effort was made to lauch the yawl, but the intense heat prevented, when the vessel was headed to the windward, to drive the flames aft, and all hands went forward to the bows, where the metallio lifeboat hung. It was immediately launched, but had no sooner touched the water than sixteen or eighteen men jumped into and about it, swamping it instantly. There were no ladies on the vesseL Most of the men were provided with life preservers, and if reason could have pre" - ' 1 ' 1 ? J 1 1 XL. vailed mignc nave Deen uaveu, uuv kuo great majority of them were filled with fear and frenzy, and the lifeboat would no sooner right than their wild straggles to olimb into it wonld again upset it, and every time the boat turned over some poor fellow, thoroughly ohiiled and exhausted, would lose his hold and disappear. The water was intensely cold, and the unfortunate men suffered terribly from it. The captain and several others maintained their presence of mind, and endeavored to calm the fears of the drowning men, assuring them that if thev would but remain quietly in the water for a few moments they could ride safely in their life preservers, the boat fcould be bailed out, and they oould hfl taken in and saved: but reason had lost its sway, and the poor fellows woold bear to nothing. They kept the boat turning over until, one by one, chilled and benumbed, they were unable to longer retain their hold upon it, and passed out of sight, dead or dying. At last, after having been in the water two and a half hours?it seemed an age to them?the only three who survived, Capt. Rhymas, First Engineer Daniel S. Stringer and Mr. Sutphin, righted and bailed the boat, and got safely into it. When the boat was first launched the first mate, Thomas 0. Boothman, and wheelsman, Thomas Fortier, had thrown a hatchway overboard, and with another man had climbed upon it. Toward these men the three in the lifeboat turned, and took in the mate and the wheelsman. The third person had perished from exposure. The party then consisted of five, and with one oar, and paddles obtained by splitting up the seats, they made for land, which was reached, through a heavy sea, at A w Tliflv lan^Arl af. a JLUlU.-?R?OU IUU a.1 Mt AMVJ ??? M fishing shanty, near Sleeping river, got a good breakfast, prooored a sailboat and ran down to Portage On the following day a tug wer 1 cr 1 and recovered fourteen of the doafl bodies. On the Argentine Frontier. The sole means of existence possessed by the nomad Jribes on the Argentine frontier in South America, since their hunting grounds have been well nigh exhausted, is marauding upon a large scale. In this way they supply themselves with hordes, on which tney rely for locomotion und nourishment, but which they seem to be unable, or unwilling, to rear. Vast herds of horned cattle likewise are driven away from the Argentine plains, to be bartered in Ohili for brandy or other articles aocounted of prime necessity. These expeditions are usually undertaken by small detachments, but now and then by veritable armies of two to three thousand lances. In the great raid of December of last year a company of Indians took part whi.h had traveled from the Andes, a distance of 900 miles. In the pocket of one of them, killed in a skirmish, was found a short pipe, a handful of tobacco, and a little tinder. This was ?11 Hin Yvwiiriainn r?AOmAfl fllflntjal for I DU VUO ^/AVTMMVM . _ his journey. In the life of privations which he leads unaer his toldo, or rnde tent of ball's hide, the native of the pampas has one constant occupation, the selection and training of horses for the onerous demands of Indian warfare. His first business upon returning from a foraj is to install tbe animals falling to his share in a good pasture where they may gain weight. Their strength and endurance are next severely tested by binding on each a heavier load than he is likely to bear in action, and then driving him at full gallop through swamps where the mire comes np to his belly. Those who survive this treatment may be trusted to carry their riders ninety miles a day, but usually a native takes with him five or six, sometimes a dozen, in his incursions, and is sufficiently agile to leap without dismounting from one horse to another. The marvelous speed whioh an Indian is able to compass under these circumstances constitutes in fact his force, for his favorite weapons, the lance and knife, are of course futile against regular soldiers. Unlike the tribes of our Western plains, these nomads have never learned to use firearms effectively, and to this day fly panio stricken upon the discharge of musketry. Male prisoners are invariably massacred, but white women, whenever it is practicable, are carried home to the captor's lodge. According to trustworthy calculations, the total lighting strength of the Southern races does not exceed 20,000 lances, yet the devastations of these inconsiderable hordes subject a country, which in the revolution of September, 1874, placed 60,000 soldiers in the field within a week, to an annual loss of more than two millions of dollars. Moreover, they compel the republic to station on the frontier a military force whose maintenance for the same period represents at least an equal sum. A Female Fire Company. Thero is a female fire company at WellesW College, Mass., for it is believed tuat, however incombustible the college building m??y be, the students should be taught how to put out fires in their own homes, and be trained to presence of mind, to familiarity with the thought of what is to be done in case of fire, and to a full realization of the most important fact that any fire can be put out at the beginning. Twenty hand pumps are distributed throughout the building, each supplemented by six pails filled with water. Every pump has its captain and company of six girls, one of whom is lieutenant, and all the companies are drilled at convenient opportunities in handling the pumps, in forming lines and in passing the pails. The whole organization is officered by a superintendent and secretary. Hose companies for operating the great steam fire pump are organized in a similar manner. A girl was killed near Danville, Va., the other morning while milking a cow. If girls would only learn to play the piano' and mate worsted dogs such accidents would never happen. Items or Intcre>t. It is a bad night when moBquitoes cannot sleep. V' Next to a razor-that takes hold well in shaving, one that lets go easy is moat * desirable. Why are kisses like the Creation! Because they are made of nothing, and are very good. Man may learn wisdom from a postage stamp, it sticks to its legitimate business. Letters profit by it. SaltLakepapers say that 10,000 miuera have left Utah this season to assist in the Ban Juan excitement. How cool and nice it would be to fall down a well t Provided you are careful < not to kick the bucket. George Eliot says that " what we see exclusively we are apt to see with some mistake of proportions." A modern essayist defines "gossip " to be the "putting of two and two together and making five of them." Two San Francisco butchers own 700 000 acres of land and employ 1,000 men. TOiUitflM AAwiiolofn AM rUvmana JLHj|bLL UlCOg uajJiw?u>in wv vimiuchwi A horse committed suicide in Lake Village, N. H., the other day, by drowning himself. He was sick, aad became despondent. A giri of thirteen, in Guildford, lugland, was recently caught by gypsies, stripped of all her clothing, and sent home unhurt. In 175P, George Washington, in send- \ ing to London for some goods, put upon the memorandum: "Nine pounds of sugar candy." The Missouri Pacific railroad lias suddenly discovered that train condustors have robbed it of $80,000 durinf the last twelve months. Ad Indiana lady sent a letter to her brother in California, telling him that the family had smallpox, and in a few days he had it, too. . In 1807, while Lewis and Clark were crossing the Rocky mountains, a number of Indians followed them for several days in order to restore some articles that they had lost. "A wife in San Jose, OaL, became wild* ly jealous of her husband, and killed herself, which left the husband free to marry the woman who caused the jealousy, and he did it within three months. Troy papers say that the firing of cannon on the night of July 8d deafened the horses of Trojan hook and ladder company, and when the alarm sounds the horses have to be led to their places. In this matter of preserving health by eating at regular hours, it is interesting * " +V10* a m'lrwmiB nli) Tnwft framn UU UUW3 liuav H Tigvivuw -_ of ninety years has lived for the past thirty-five years of his time entirely on. catch meals. The number of visitors to the Centennial Exhibition since the opening to Jnly 18th, aggregates 2,254,074, and the cash receipts $743,576.60. The number of " deadhead " or non-paying visitors is, therefore, 766,921. A gentleman of Jersey City, N. J., has taken the fourth of Jaly decorations from his house and sealed them in a packet, which is to be opened by his descendants in order that the same decorations may be used by them in 1976. One of the fruits of the Centennial Exhibition will be that you can buy a dozen different makes of sewing machines next year, and each one will have -> received the 41 first" premium for excellence, light running, and such. Edward Timmons, father of Louise Hawthorne, the actress who was killed by falling from a hotel window in Chicago, has committed suicide in Middle- * lown, Conn. He was greatly depressed by his daughter's death, aud at length became demoted. The .Centennial sash of red, white, and blue ribbon six or seven inches wide is one of the patriotic fancies of the year. It costs $1.75 a yard, and is worn tied low down around the hips, with two deep loops and/nds hanging behind instead of a stiff bow. A horseman passed through Lafayette, ,r- al-- /-m l?ia wjiv from ilLUi f tUC Uiuci uojj VM ??-* ? Texas to Michigan. He was mounted on a mustang, which had carried him all the way, 1,500 miles, with nothing to eat except what it picked np along the roadside. The man's entire baggage consisted of a blanket and a lariat Kansas is complaining that her crop of cereals this year is too enormously heavy for utilization. Millions of bushels of wheat will have to be lost, the farmers say, because it ripens too fast, and cannot bo got to market; and as to corn, the yield is so great that vast quantities will have to be used as fnel during the winter. He was an applicant for the position of writing teacher in a public school. They gave him a copy book and asked him for a specimen of what he oould do. He took np the pen, and in a handwriting that looked like a flash of lightning Vio* Ka/1 miafalrart thfi TOfid. WTOtO UUCBV uau UiUVMUVH ? w as follows: " Sorter doesn't kill folkes aa fast as green gooseborys." At the closing of a concert, while a young man was straggling with his cane, overcoat, opera glass, and his young lady's fan, all of whioh he was trying to retain on hie lap, a suspicions looking black bottle fell on the floor with a thud. " There," he exclaimed to his companion, I shall lose my cough medicine." That was presence of mind for yon. A colored man began busftess as a physioinn at Oxford, N. 0., some years ago, but was not very successful, except pecuniarily. The mortality among his patients seemed greater than the circumstances justified, and recently his neighbors, convinced that he knew nothing about doctoring, took him into the woods and whipped him soundly. A foreign innkeeper posts at bis door this notice: " English, German, Italian . and Spanish cpoken here." Arrives an Englishman and in fantastic xrencn m&s for the interpreter. " Monsieur," replied the waiter, "there is none." "What, no interpreter? And jet you say on your sign that all the languages are spoken here." " Yes, sir, by the travelers." The well known French earthenware manufacturer, Emilie Collinot, has just discovered a new mode of decoration for private dwellings and public buildings. Instead of applying the decorated faience to the wall he proposes enameling the stone itself by putting up a light scaffold and using the blowpipe instead of the oven. The advantages of' the scheme are principally cheapness and durability, A bad boy's father at Mile End, London, was fined for his son's truancy from school, and imprisoned for three days because he was too poor to pay the fine. t.i i offense, where J. 116 UUy louuawu w?w , npon the unfortunate parent, hearing lie was to be summoned once more, declared he would rather make a hole in the water than be imprisoned again for his graceless child, and drowned himself in the Begent's canaL The early Massachusetts fathers did not believe in pakt. I he Bev. Thoman Allen, of Charlestown, was bronght up in 1680 for "having paint about hi? dwelling," and only eecaped by showing that it was done before his time, and that he disapproved or it. The flr*t Boston church was never painted, and ? list of Boston mechanics in 1670 does not include a painter. This abomination did not become common until after tbe Bevolution. 4