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X _ ? ?' ? , _ immi?m?mmi' ?? TOE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER * >c ;v?j v i a ry ' ' -' " 'I , -! i 4 -'? >* V u IkL l? V V ^ ? ' * - * ' 1 * ' * ? " ' ' i .. ^ : ;; " ' t . '...;'.:v"7:' , . ; ? -:1'0 - ....... r. ,.? * ?, BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER , 20, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 24.; : . ... :: ... .. . ' *_ !* "" Ttoder the Willows. 'Neath the willows by the mill-stream, with the ' summer sun above, His gold light above me beaming, I am dreaming of my love; 'Neath tbe green leaves, 'noath the brookside willow tree, I am dreaming of my trne love; doth my true love dream of me ? They call me a fair beauty, say mine *yes make o$?r*'dimt 7 ; , If I gloryin that beanty, 'tis for hfm, it is for him! He oailB me the bright lodestar, the bright jewel of hlilifejpv TT '' Doth he thick it will he Eden to me to be his wife ? My darling, oh, my darling, the world may call me fair; Dilt take me to thy heart, lore, and hold, eh, ' ' -'"hold'me there !* * - *" * Mine eyes to thine, dear, looking?my head upon thy breast; So shall we build together our sweet, our own heme nest! \ THE taw CASHIER. m [I a -ft I li li I "WeP, my dent, \fhat is this dread fol aflBair about p<x>r Williamst" ' I *"Whataffair-?" repeated her spouse, who, seated in a moft delightfully comfortable chair, was bolacing himself with a new review. '"What affair?" he repeated, looking at her from under his spec tad ee, in .fcreat astonishment.. " Why, yon kfcovr as well as I do," reSr^' iw" S? V6T8 tO Mft i/fly 8DOtIt| tills afternoon." The bank director gazed in still inAVAooiriflr ference, and from chill indifference to cold contempt, proposing in the full luxuriance of which last he received a most emphatio and indignant *'Nol" for his trouble. Mr. Williams confided some of his distressing sensations to his friend, Mr. Lindsay, who confided them to hiswifo, and wondered what the deuce had got into the people, particularly that silly little girl, Gertrude Vernon, for treating a fine, gentlemanly fellow like Williams in such a scandalous manner. Mrs. Lindsey said nothing, but thought a great deal; her woman's heart failed within her for fear, and over her pillow that night flitted visions of suits for slander and defamation, courts and i - .11 ? At. Ai w " When Maggie was on the steps," added his wife. " Oh I" said he, returning, with a low laugh, to his book, "it was nothing." VNoF-Wtt need not tall me so," aniwered Mi wife : '"it was something, and I*insist npon Knowing what" Mrs. Lindeey's "insists" were by no means terrifyiDg. He replied, therefore, quietly : " My dear, it is impossible /or me to tell you; it was a secret oonflded to me." ' Then there is something, thought she, triumphantly, although silent at the last speech. Mrs. Lindsey walked about the next day with the important air of a person who had made a discovery. . She - looked prcternaturally wise and fearfully solemn;: even while washing the breakfast cups, and expiring with impatienoe for the arrival of the afternoon. She went^over as soon after * dinner as*it was deceDt, to pass it with her friend and neighbor, Mrs. Vernon. This lady had not been her friend and *=uejghbcr for so madvyears without discovering the infallible signs and symptoms of a secret; so pat determined not to take the slightest hint, or betray the least curiosity, being a very sure way, ahe vary wail knew, oI liippiug the inb teiraed dMctosttt? in Ihe-bud. She permitted Mrs. Lindsey to run on till she had exhausted herself, in such like truisms: " How distressing it is to be f( deceived in any one you have respected and liked " Well, truth is stranger >. than flctioff" What a world we live in " Certainly one learns new things n every day;'.' "I never was more surprised in my life than I was yesterday." This looked like coming to the point, so Mrs. Vernori raised her eyes and be^an to appear interested. "But," said Mrs. Lindsey, drawing back her head (as she peroeived the movement) with no little "dignity, "one must keep some things to ones sel^L' Mrau.Vernon looked down on tier knitting* ana oegan laiamg of indifferent matters.^ Nothing could *?^ot< d lack of cirri o?ty3 iin . Lindsej, in a sort of spite, made the disci jsure. " I can never look at him again without horror and' diPguPt," exclained Mrs. Vernon, after a moment of breach leas astonishment. " W ho oou Ul be! i*ve it! Such an agreeable, handsome ^oung man, bnt Satan knows w<>li enongh where to choose his servants." " 1 really thought ii wan my dnty to tell you," continued Mrs. Lindsey, , gratified btyond measure at the eff-.-ct she hadT produoed, **for he has been so very polite, vou know, to j our daughter Gertrude, and now, of course "? " Of oourse," interrupted Her friend, " she ehall have nothing more to say to f?a .5 : *' I would not cut him dead, my dear," exclaimed Mrs. Lindsey, in some alarm, " for nothing more of this is to oome out, you understand. My husband, Dr. Day, and all -of them, it appears, have determined to conceal it, and as the jjoung man has behaved very well ?iuce*hia ' arrival here, we miubt on no account rake up this old master." " Oh ! dtfrtaiftly; I shall say nothing, you may depend'upon it," answered her companion,;?except to warn Gertrude, and insist upon her discouraging bin attentions aBd treating him with great coolness. What can he have .dpoe ?" she exclaimed, after -moment's pause. " That is more than I can tell," an-? swered Mrs. Lindsay. " The words oertainly give one's imagination free scope. I have thought of everything, .gtoflreally ooold not sleep last night for 'distress and fear. I imagined him gliding into the bank with false keys and shaded lantern, and perhaps setting fire to it afterward for the purpose of ooncealiog his depredations; which, as we live so near, you know, would be anything but pleasant. Sometimes I think there were defalcations in the accounts, and he threatened to kill Mr. Bennett, who perhaps discovered it, if he betraye4hia.v ' Ciien.agtto, I do not . know bnt he has killed somebody." Mrs. Vernon's lace;:reflected every varietv of horror." * ? ? 1 _ _ ".Xipte he Ji? " eho almost shrieked, f*fjjx>kiDg odiof t^g. window; " he is coming here." Both ladies rose hurriedly, the first impulse being t>> rim and look the door, but as Mr. Williams did not display any belligerent intention, but walked with a very quiet and composed air up the steps and rang, Mrs. Vernon contented herself with ordering the servant to say that " Miss Gertrudo wa* engaged." This proceeding occasioned no slight disappointment and surprise to both Mr. WxUiams and the lady of his love, who, with beating heart and blushing 1 faoef, had from an upper window witnessed his approach. She had glanced in the glass to ascertain just how pretty she was looking, then stood awaiting . >4aomentarily .a summons down. But she was deceived. The hall door closed, and-tbe servant retreated again to her quarters. No message, book or note?what could it mean 7 " Mamma," she eiclaSmed, after wait mg an impatient.tiaii nour for Mrs. LindseySs fcxit, "Iftr.1 Williamfl called here this afternoon, and wag not admitted?wliat does it mean?" "Do not speak of him, my dear;" returned her mother, with vehemence, V wretch that he is " m ' '9 OJBtty, what isi the matter?" answered her astonished auditor, a slight tremor in her voice alone betraying' her agitatiun, for the darkened rpom concealed the pallid cheek, and wild, startled expression in - the soft, blue eye,. Mrs. Vernon repeated the conversation which had just taken place, filling her daughters mind with the same mysterious, undefined suspicions which agitated her own, and conoluded by commanding her not to glance, talk or think anything more of Mr. Frank Williams. Mr. Frank Williams, the victim of these machinations, was one of those universally popular and happily constituted characters who take everywhere, with young and old, grave and gay. His peculiarly fascinating exterior had, of oourse, something to do with this, but, more than all, a never ending flow of good spirits and amiability, or suavitiveness, as phrenologists would term it, which possesses an irresistible attraction. This much vaunted quality made him play, romp and make himself as ridiculous as they could desire with children, just as he could listen with the most deferential and interested attention to the long, dull harangues of their papas and mammas. His bow to his lady love, Miss Gertrude Vernon, was the perfection of courtesy and grace, so it was to poor old Mr. Anderson, who sold books and pamphlets at the little shop on the corner of the street. The very attendants at the large house where he boarded had wings when he was to be served. Yes, Mr. Frank Williams was, or rather had been, a universal favorite, uut, lo f a wondrous change. The pleasurable flutter, agitation and smiles, which were wont to mark his approach at parties, all had disappeared, and in their plaoehe beheld a sullen and ominous gravity and shrinking. Young ladies instead of being "most happy," were "engaged," or "fatigued," or "just going home," when he asked them to danoe. Miss Cornelia W ^ndall no longer declared she could not think^f singing-Without an accompaniment, and glanced a pair of most, coquettishly beautiful eyes,significantly as she spoke. No! she did not aocept them when he tendered his services. The pretty widow, Mrs. Harcourt, no longer seized Kim nff Aanf.lVO JUL IS tUUi OUU VXUilOU """ uu t ?/| nolens volena, by way of shielding herself, as she protested, from the attacks of that iasofferable bore, her sexagenarian adorer, Mr. Mills. A mamma came up one evening and absolately took hei daughter off without preface or apology, who was hesitating, blnshing and " believing that her father was going home with her," when Mr. Williams requested that honor. There were no more little suppers and family dinners for him at Mrs. Lindsey's, and little Maggie not only refused in the most dignified, manner to be caressed and played with, but dashed over the other side of the street, whenever she saw him coming, in evident perturbation and alarm. The gay, merry, flattering world had changed amazingly for Mr. Frank Williams; " nodsand becks, and wretched smiles," all vanished; he begun to doubt whether he was himself. To complete his desperation, the ladv of his love had wftjied from timid delight to chill indif COSW, mingieu wim mube vi a juewy iufuriated husband, and the new cashier's handsome person extended at fnll length with his brains blown ont. On considering the matter the next day, however, there was a possibility that some one else might have done the mischief, and without betraying herself she determined to proceed, in the most diplomatic manner possible, to the dis covery of this fact. At a small party where Mr. Prank Williams was not, she seated herself by Mrs. Maxwell, a charm ing young married lady and friend of his, who had remained cordially true and kind amidst the volley of cold looks and icy greetings by which tne unfortunate youtn naa oeen assauea. " What can be the reason," exclaimed Mrs. Lindsey, with a wonderfully ignorant and sympathizing air, "why that agreeable young man, Mr. Williams, is not here to-night ?" "He was not invited," replied her auditor, coldly, with most suspicious brevity. "Not invited ?" echoed Mrs.Lind^ey, as if she really could not credit the full horror of the fact, of whi'*h, by-th^-way, fche was aware before. Her companion m ide no reply, and Mrs. .Lindsey begun on another tack. " I do not think he is as great a favorite as when he first came here." Still no answer, and Mrs. Liiidsey, who did not find this "monologueing" particularly agreoable, turned to her silent auditor, and exclaimed: " What can be the reason ?" " I should imagine you would know, Mrs. Lindsey," answered the lady, at length, with no little indignation, " for it was something that you told Mrs. Vernon,' and Mrs. Vernon told Mrs. Fisher, and Mrs. Fisher told her cousin Mrs. WhIIr. and shA told Mrs. Davis. and she told?nobody knows who; suffice it to say, that every man, woman and child in this place has heard the "something," and it is doing a deserving yonng man incalculable injury and ruining his prospects in every way." " What will become of me?" thought Mrs. Lindsey, in an agony, as she walked home that night. " Oh ! that treacherous Mrs. Vernon, when I told her in all friendliness, too, entirely on her daughter Gertrado's account, and she promised me that she never would speak of it agniu 1" Early the next morning she sallied into Mrs. Vernon's and anted, with quivering lips and ashy cheek, wbetner she had mentioned *' that affair " about Mr. Frank Williams to any one. Her friend looked excessively frightened an 1 silly herself for a moment or two, then acknowledged that she '' had spoken of it to Mrs. Fisher, but she was sure she had not told?she would go and see her without delay." " But she has though," replied Mrs. Lindsey, with the energy of despair? "she told her cousin Mrs. Wells, and Mrs. Wells told Mrs. Douglass, and Mrs. Douglass told Mrs Davis, and it ia all over town." Nothing except Mrs. Lindsey's consternation could equal Mrs. Vernon's. Bat a drowning man catches at a straw. ."There may be tome mistake," she' replied,afc all events I'll go and see Mrs. Fisher this afternoon." " Dow Could you, Mrs. Fisher," be tt,-,,1-, tt Mint, affair ? uu 1U.IO* T C1UUU, wm ? ^ about Mr. Williams, which I confided to you, under the strictest injunctions of secrecy ?" Mrs. Fisher looked up at the ceiling, down on the floor, and out of the window, and gathering courage, doubtless, from the survey of these prospects, said, in a filtering tone, "that she had only told consin Mrs. Wells, who was Very prudent, and never mentioned anything. " j 44 But Bhe has not been very prudent this time," answered Mrs. Vernon, with no little acrimony, "for she has told Mrs. Douglass, who has told Mrs. Davis, who informed the whole town, I imagine, for everybody knows it." Not half an hour elapsed before Mrs. Fisher's hat and oloak were on, and she was in Mrs. Wells' parlor. "Lucy," she exclaimed, when she met her cousin, "how could you teli anybody what I told you about Mr. Frank Williams! I certainly thought that in mentioning a thing to you I was safe?I would no sooner have, trusted it to a dumb woman?what possessed you to tell this!" | J ^ v ? v? * go"I did. not exactly "tell it," answered Mrs. Wells, \5jjth a crimson face, " or rather, I have no idea of betraying confidence. Mrs. Douglass said something, from whioh I had no doubt that *ne knew all about it, and answering her with this idea, of oourse, very innocently, made in some measure the disclosure, then concluded it would be more prudent to tell her all and bind her to seorecy." , * " Whioh she has not kept," said Mrs. FiBher. " for she has told Mrs. Davis, who has told the whole town, I suspect, for everybody knows it, and it is making a great deal of trouble." "I am very sorry," answered Mrs. Wells. "Whatcan I do? Shall I go and see Mrs. Douglass ?" ' "Yes, by all means; put on your things now, and then oome to our house and tell me what she says," leplied her cousin. Mrs. Wells was a timid woman, and it took her some time to broach the subject. " You remember what I tcld you about Mr. Williams?" she said, at length, in a low, confused tone.' " Yes," answered Mrs. Douglass, with the most composed air in the world. "Did you ever tell any one?Mrs. Davis?" stammered poor Mrs. Wells, feeling like the victim herself. 14No I" answered Mrs. Douglass, " Mrs. Davis told me." "Is it possible I" said her auditor, in a delighted surprise. How did she boar it?" ?? Tf mo tVio nam a ntnrv it mmft from Mrs. Lindsev," answered her friend. " She told Mra Allan, who told Mrs. Johnson, who told Mra. White, who told Mrs. Davis, and she told me." "Indeed I" said Mrs. Wells, with an astonished.expression of countenance peculiar to herself. '' Indeed 1il."j What a racing and ohasing was there that livelong afternoon- about " that affair " of Mr. Frank Williams. What a oommotion in eight or ten feminine hearts (married ones! too) of which he was most unwittingly the cause. Purple, brown and stone colored cloaks were dodging eaoh other in all directions, and after explanations and reexplanations by scores, everybody shook their hands free of the matter, voting that Mrs. Iiindsey'waa the guilty person, on whom retribution should fall. She (unfortunate woman) was sitting quietly at home in pleasing ignorance oi.ail this commotion* when rMr3. YemoiS,j*iith a peculiarly pursed-np expression of countenance, came in. Never since; the memory of man, or woman either^ Bad her friend and neightpis' loOtajjd - sa awfully solemn and rigidly seyere'/ 'Mrs. Lindsey bad not heart or voioe' Enough to bid her " good-evening;" she merely motioned her to a seat, and gazing steadfastly at her, waited for her to begin. " .Hi 141 am surprised, Mrs. Lindsey;" at length said the lady, "at yonr attacking me with making publio that story about Mr. Williams, when youJ?ave*informed everybody else of it, ffl well a9 myself." Still, Mrs. L>ndsey said nothing; she merely looked for a further fcxplanatiob. " You told Mrs. Allan," said her com-, panion, in reply to the look, " and she told Mrs. Johnson, and "? " I told Mrs. Allan ?" gasped Mrs. Lindsey, at length; " I nover told any one but you." " What I _ not one Sunday, ooming from church' ?" A sudden light glanced upon poor Mrs. Lindsey. " Bat I did not toll her anything," ' answered she; "I merely hinted at something." "Well! that is the amount of it," said her friend; " it is a hint at .something with all of us, and none of us know what it means; and I, for my part, am inclined to think the whole afn AUIM'Q nAnannon I iUX AO UUV Q UUUU o UVUQDMOV) Wwfipuw'v* by a very timid, nervous woman. M And with this neighborly speech'Upon her lips, Mrs. Vernon departed. This was by no means the last of Mrs. Lindsey's troubles that evening, for her lord and master came home at nine o'clock in a towering passion about the same matter. It appeared that on being interrogated bv Mr. Frank Williams as to the "cause ana oocasion of the- offefnse he appeared to have given.people in general, his friend, Mr. Maxwell, had told him that it was something which came through Mrs. Linisey, which the had beard from hpr husband; and what the " something " was, she nor nobody else knew. Convinced that there was some mistake, for Mr. Williams was not apt to Huspeot his friends, and Mr. Lindsey he knew was his friend, he hastened to that gentleman and asked an explanation. For a moment Mr. Lindsey was bewildered; ho was as ignorant as Williams himself; but a thought of Maggie and his wife's rapsioiona on that evening flashed acrosd him. " My dear fellow," he exclaimed, " I am distressed that this has happened. I understand perfectly what it is; all nonsense?silly women, silly women." . And he raced home, leaving his audi tor, if possible, more aatonisnea tnan he had found him. Mr. Lindsey was really furious, and hiB meditations on the way homo as to all Williams had suffered in consequenoe of his wife's gossip did not serve to calm his feelings. "And so, my dear," said he, a* he dashed into tne room, "you've been making a pretty di?h for yourself." Mrs. Lindsey heard in silence, while her spouse walked up and down the room wondering how wtmen oftme to.be such fools ami bis wife such a particular one, and concluded by striding up to his terrified helpmate and asking .her " what he w.is to say to Mr. Williams for all her confounded nonsense ?" " Rut hr hr.9 done something dreadful; you know he has," she sobbed, at length, by way of a palliation. " What do you mean?" said her husband, sternly. " You told Mr. Day, yourself," she oontinned, in an agooy oi LoarM. "Yes,!; told him, replied her husband, "that Mr. Bennett's silly daughter chose to fall in love with;Williams, and aa her Annie evidently was not returned, her father was very glad of an opportunity of getting him out of the way before the girl made a fool of herself. This was confided to me as a secret, which was the reason I did uot toll :you at the time-, for I- know' very* well what a secret is in the hands of a woman?the whole race?even my little Maggie can keep nothing to herself." In spite of this taunting - speeebrhis tone softened, and Mrs. Lindsey gaiuoil courage. " ~ } ( J* "I am sorry, my dear," said phe, "that I have made so much mischief, but there is no upo groaning over it now. I'll, endeavor to mend it as far as possible. I'll tell everybody that it was a mistake of mine, and take the blame on my own unfortunate shoulders; besides saying everything necessary and Mr Williams himself." *%?/?/& VJ-iM w *?--? .. , A week from that night did Mrs. Lind sey make an many graceful and apologetic remarks as she could well muster to Mr. Fiank Williams, and little-Maggie shower down kisses and tears innumerable on bis cheeks. He went from ther* to a party wfcere ^1 tb?yiwug ladles in ^o^ -lavishta^n 4nm their brightest smiles and mo?t particular at. tentions; not omitting even Miss Ger trade Vernon, whose lovely blue eyes followed him with snoh a bewitching and bewildering interest that he could nol forbear whispering: "You'll not refuse to permit me to esoort you home?" " Certainly not Mr. Williams," she replied, with a bfaflh and a smile. " Never, never, tHU I repeat anything that I hear again," was Mrs. Lindsey's oonclud ng exolamation that evening? Particularly to that good-for-nothing s. Vernon," she added, mentally. 7 n " Sufferings of the Servian Wounded. Mr. Archibald Forbes, wnfcing to the London Daily -News froip. Paratzin, says : It is well that the Servian wonnded do not seedftjflggfexpect muoh or to care for negleot.- .1 never saw finer stoicism. Not a groan was uttered as the rough carts bumpeq:6vor the jagged stones, not a murmur indicating that tfce fierce sun beating down on the sufferers was an inconvenience, much less an insupportable anguish. They are flesh and blood, of oourse, and one would imagine that flesh and blood of one raoe must feel physical suffering as acutely on fho AarVi o.ti/1 hlrwl nt imothfir. Bnt we have evidence that this is not so. The Hindoo endures without apparent serious inconvenience wounds tinder whioh the British soldier writhes in agony, and the former recovers easily and speedily-from an operation after ' which "the latter wilt for weeks and months be prostrate. The Servians say of themselves that they are "hardy," bnt I oannot but think that this Hardihood in making light of wounds and a offering is to be ascribed at least in part to. a less aonte sense of physical pain'than is the characteristic of people living under less primitive conditions. " God knows it is a good thing for them if this is so, for there is small appliance for mitigating the angnish 9^ promoting the recovery of the Servian wounded. ' Tt have seen nothing used for the cleansing and dressing of wounds but a of cold water, a tuft of lint, ofteher of common tow, and an insufficient bandage. Splints are made as they are wanted, of ; a bit of bark, or the lid* of a box. There is no chloroform, and there are no hospital oomforts. I. saw a man with a smashed elbow, whose bandage was juu an indescribably loathsome state, get out U of a wagon, enter a publio house, buy > for himself some bread and wine, and consume the same ona settee outside, < with a serene indifference to the -oondi- ? tion which, I am bonnd to state, was ! ^Bate ^hfe^iQdffSel^petfiOnal .an4 f general an it is, cannot wholly cope with 1 the inexorable conditions which nature ~ enforces. Hospital gaflgrene follows *, swift on neglected wounds, and the man who survives hospital gangrene, even if ho bo & Qetvitua, is exceptionally fortunate. "In "hospitals'here?if you (Jan apply stxch a name to the places in whioh ESMlt&aiBgBtiM drain of death is steady, are nevertheless always full. An Heiress to $560,000,000." .J Miss?*el* Kansas, and here is the. account from a journal of that oity of her wonderful ^ * ^ i- x-' Air U.li^^x r i?Se? flft<fflUlooo,3flC amounting to about $560,000,000. It; seems that her great-gieat-grandfatlier, t. on her mother's aide, , who was a Rott&n senator, had all his property, -which consisted/ofr a Tint amount.-of. real estate in' and around the*city 6f 'IRome, confiscated to the Soman empire on ac-: * count of his being concerned with Marc Antony in the terrible assault on the 9 body of Caesar.' Csew's wife was also accused at the same time, but Maro Antony afterward. said flhe was-^^ove suspicion, aiuT nothing* was done in the . < matter. All the property of Melissa's;. great-great-grandfather, however, was confiscated upon the testimony of a detective. The detective afterward was taken, with frenzied remorse, and wrote a : full confession, moved to Pompeii, and was living in that ill-fated town when the sudden catastrophe which befell it cuiinnii dbwa in the prime of Jife. Dur- ing the fedent disoovetfbfl among the ruins of Pompeii this oonfessiou was discovered, and Miss Elder's great-greatgrandfather was fully. vindicated. A Chicago , lawyer, who waa traveling through Europe, heard of the circumstance, and by aid of detectives, found in the person'of Melissa Elder the only surviving heir of her lamented greatgreat-grandfather. The lawyer has taken the prosecution of the case on a contingent fee, and Melissa leaves for Rome to take possession of that town. Of course, we tender our congratulations; $560,000,000 do not grow on bushea. , . .... : The Probabilities of Sickness. The business of life insurance is largely based on purely mathematical calculation, involving the laws of probabilities, the object of which is to determine, by careful comparison of extended statistical returns, and like information, the probable duration of a person's life at every year of his existence. On the tabulated results is founded the scale of premium charges, proportionate to the risk assnmed. While every one is, of course, interested in knowing how long he is likely to live, he has a more immediate and vital interest in learning how often he is likely to bo sick, and for how many days per year he will probably, by ill health, be incapacitated for work. Dr. Reginald Southey has recently been delivering a course of valuable lectures on ,s Individual Hygiene " in London, and in one he introduced a table of "Expectation of Sickness," which he had. prepared, and which is as follows: At I Jmonlu TTQOra (if OffA nnlnTllfttw Oil fOUT l/rr Vajwj ^ T? sick days yearly. At twenty to thirty, Qve or six days, At forty-five, seven days. At fifty, nine or ten days. At fifty-fivo, twelve or thirteen days. At sixty, sixteen days. At sixty-five, thirtyone days. At seventy, seveniy-four days. . . ... Of oourse this refers to people of average good health, and not to those who may be afflicted with any ineradicable or ohronio ailment. , ; ii,, i A Case on Trial. Judge and jury have been worrying over a dog case in Memphis, Tenn. Nothing could have been simpler than the inane of fact. A man stole a Newfoundland dog; but the law in regard to property in dogs always has been past finding out. The prisoner's counsel argued that under the common law dog stealing was not a crime or an indictable offense, and that no statute exists in Tennessee making dog stealing a pun-' ishable offense, such as larceny.' Judge Adams held that thp stealing of a dog was not a larceny or an indictable offense, and that the demurrer of the defendant to the indictment on this ground was good. XJtie attorney general men raised the point that the collar on the dog was personal property, and the defendant conla be held to answer foi theft; bat the adroit attorney op the other side retorted that the maii took the dog, and that it was the dog, and not the man, that wa4 responsible for the collar. The prisoner was finally discharged. * Now, the old question oomes np: If a.dog is not property, is the dog tax constitutions! t ..'f ??'!?. <1 .1 ,'i A THREE JUTS' TISIT. Be?liif In Three Day??Adrlce to Tho?? WkMe Waft* matt lis Brief?Notatle Ok|*eu to btfken Id Kueh Depart* . Bent-Freiruuie for Bash Day. - 4. FIRST DAY. Bide around the grounds on the steam railway; then denote the whole day to the Main building) As there are thirtysix different national sections in it, Ibis will give an average of only fifteen min-. utes to each. To some yon will do ell to devote half an''hour or even more, while others will Have to be passed over with a hurried glance. The most noticeable and characteristic exhibits in n ?a nn*Y) a/1 Knlnrtr COUU CUD uauiou i/viuni United States?Silverware, jewels, ohemicals, furnitjfre, the book trade pavilion, chandeliers, the piano pavilions, the marble and slate mantels, and the very extensive display of textile fabrics. The educational exhibits in the south and east galleriep should also be seen. Mexico?Most noticeable are the immense casting of silver, the articles of Mexican onyx, and the leather and woven goods. Netherlands?See the engineering ex hibit and the East India curiosities. Brajal?Notioe the feather flowers and beetle : jewelry; take a glance at the photographs and ihe furniture. Belgitnnf-See the court of laoes and the schoOlhouSe (both will be found at some diatanoebaak from the main aisle). Notioe in the aisle the great pulpit of carved oak. Switzerland?Watches, lace curtains, embroideries and carved woodwork are the best exhibits. France?B^lfan hour should be spent ATkminiDa thn broruses. Doroelain. tapestries, silks, Limoges enamel, laces, ladiee' dresses, and the multitude of fancy articles. Bee also the church images and decorations. England?This department also requires much time. The silverware, porcelain, Doulton ware, ornamental tiles, furniture, and the product of the royal school of needlework are best worth notice. India?The carved furniture, jewelry, fine tissues of silk and linen, shawls and embroideries are admirable. Canada?No fmecial objects. A walk through the section will reveal a rexoaritable variety of excellent manufactures, resembling closely.thdse of the United States. J " . Minor Brjtish Colonies?Beginning wfth' Jamiica, which fronts on the central aisle, these exhibits extend in a line back to the wall.!; A glance should be taken'aleaoh. V : < ' - The Australian Group?It inoludes Yiotoria, New -Sotith Wales, Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania; all lie together, but each has : a-separate court. While there is a marked similarity, eaok-eolony has objects of special interest, and each court should be visited. r.ja:i >;> . ' . * Sweden?Here the oostumed peasant figures, the porcelain, the furs and the iron are most worthy of attention. t V/\f?oQTT?Sao -tiVia'tilinrroA lAwfllrv. thft figures of Laplanders.; and the picturesque iron exhibit, t .-vtij* V- r -. Italy?Carved sjwoodwtfrk, . mosaics, cotfllfl;|a^Jry,fl?lphotogjiap"hs. ... ; Argentine Jftepubiii;?Not particularly interesting. S>jo the minerals, the vicuua shawls, and tlie trunk that can be,converted into a bed, botel table, etc. Porn (back of the Argentine Republic ?Tho Aztec skulls aud articles from ancient tombs are alone worth seeing. , . Orange Precj Stato (still iurti)?* back) ?Diamonds and ostrich*feathers. ".Ohili??Notjnbdi besides minerals. >" China?Porcelaiu and. wonderful carvings in wood und ivory'. Do. not mies the curved bedstead.. . . .r \ .:! Japan?Give as much time, as you can Bpai ir.. to this section.?. The bronzes, porcelains, lacquered work,. and embroidered screens are inynitable. Denmark?Stop only, to see .the beautiful imitations of Etruscan and Egyptian pottery in the first alcove, Tunis (back of Denmark)?Notice the inlaid arms, jewelry, engraved silverware, and rich gold-thread embroideries, j i Sandwich Inlands (next the walH? Queen Emma's feather cloak, wooden bowls, and native ornaments and utensils should be seen. - Egypt?The gorgeous embroideries, the curious Arabio engraved , brass salvers, the stuffed crocodile, and the handsome cabinets may be Been in a few minutes. .1: Turkey?The finest sights are embroideries in silk, linen, and wpolen, pipes, curious pottery, old ,arms, and attar of roses. ,-r ? ? ij. Portugal (back of Turkey)?Here the peculiar pottery, the filigree jewelry, and the fine carvings in wood for architectural ornaments are best worth seeing. ' /. . : : .,;a .? Spain-?Examine the emblematic facade to the Spanish court. Also the moral tiles, earved sideboards, pottery, silver, and the large show of textile fab* Russia?One of the most interesting sections. See the silverware, the malachite and lapis-lazuli objeots, the cl6ths of gold and silver, and the furs. Austrian-Hungary?'Here tbe Bohe<?i?" nlooo *Iifl Vinirnmu wotV in mtt ~ ? ? 0--, | bronze, leather, meerschaum; and amber, the garnfit jewelry, and the Hungarian opals should be seen. ; Germany?The Berlin poroelain, the collective book exhibit, and the pianos are best features. ii'K *).7T } ; r' , T<4 SECOND DAT. r " ; 7 i' , .1 t f; * : I .'? ] , V \ . Visit first the Shoe and Leather building. There is a good deal of sameness here, bnt the display gives, by its extent, a. strong impression of the importance of this industry. The shoein akin g machinery is very interesting. Go next to Machinery hall. Three broad avenues run' the whole length of this huge structure, and by traversing each slowly and diverging from the one on the south side into the hydraulic annex, a good general idea will be gained of the largest collection of machines in motion the world has ever had an opportunity of seeing. The following manufacturing processes oarriea on every day will be found worth stopping a few minutes to inspect: Weaving silks, woolens, carpets, stookings, book marks, eto., printing, lithographing, paper making, scroll sawing, barrel makiDg, gloss en~w.T>;r><v nVinonlAta and randv makine. K"??u6i ?? % type casting, type writing, making gutta percha shoes, tobacco making, watchmaking, rock drilling, and many other operations. From Machinery hali the visitor should walk rapidly past the buildings at the western end of the grounds, noticing particularly the glass factory and the Chilian, Japanese, English, and Spanish buildings, entering the latter for a few minutes' stay. The Government building, the Woman's pavilion, and the Horticultural hall will finish the day's work. . ;< ' THTKT) OAS. ' Divide the day between the Art galleries and Agricultural hall. In Memorial hall see the Oastellani collection and the English gallery pretty thoroughly; look at Makart's Catharine Oarnaro in the Austrian gallery; pass rapidly through the French, German, Swed ish and American collections, not forgetting, however, to notice in the former' the Gobelin tapestry; Bee the Spanish and Russian pictures with more oare, and do not overlook the mosaics ent bj the Pope, and a few really good Norwegian landscapes. Then pass to the annex, where there are acres of mediocrity, with here and there a good canvas. The Dutch and Belgian collections are perhaps the best, but there are some American and French pictures that ought not to be missed. The Italian marbles will be found pretty and attractive. j Take, if possible, a half hour for the Photographic hall, where there are admirable displays by English, Frenoh, Australian, German, Russian, Austrian, Swedish and American photographers. In Agricultural hall see first in succession the various foreign sections? English, French, Japanese, Dutch, Venezuelan, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese^ Canadian, Italian and Liberian. During the remainder of the time at your disposal walk through the aisles in the American department and examine the j mn?rf. irrf^rAHfincr Axhibifcs. The aanaria should not be forgotten, and a little time should be devoted to the Brewers' building near the halL?New York Tribune. ,, 1.V.'_ The United States Senate. The New York Tribune, in reviewing the Senate and the political situation of the next body, says: As the Senate now stands there are seventy-one membt-rs only qualified; one elected but not yet sworn in (Mr. Blaine), and two vacancies?one in Louisiana, in place of Mr. Finohbaok, and one in West Virginia, in place of Mr. Carperton. Of the' whold number of seventyfour, the terms of twenty-five will expire on the fourth of March next, namely: Alcorn, of Mississippi; Anthony, of Bhode Island; Blaine, of Maine ; Boutwell, of Massachusetts; Clayton, of. Arkansas ; Cooper, of Tennessee; Cragin, of New Hampshire; Davis, of West Virginia; Ferry, of Michigan 'r Erelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Goldthwaite, of Alabama; Hamilton, of Texas; Harvey, of Kansas; Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Johnston, of Virginia ; Kelly, of Oregon; Logan, of Illinois; Norwood, of Georgia; Ransom, of North Carolina; Bo^crtaon, of South Carolina; Saulsbury, of Dela ' TT . ware j Droveiittou, ui a.eu?uo?i ? ttdov, of Louisiana; Wisdom, of Minnesota, and Wright, of Iowa. Of the twentyfive, sixteen are Republicans and nine Democrats. Messrs. Anthony and Johnston have alreadybeeii reelected. Mr. Lamar,has been ghosen in placeofMr, Alcorn; E. H. Rollins in plaoe of Mr. Gragin,; Gov. Coke in place of Mr. Hamilton ; James B, BecJfc in place of Mr. Stevenson, and Gov. Kirkwood in place of Mr. Wright.. Of those so far ohosen for the term ending 1888, three are Republicans and four Democrats, being a gain of two for the Democracy.The terms of twenty-four senators will expire in 1879 and twenty-five in 1881. Of the forty-nine senators holding over from the fourth of next March, twentyseven are Republicans, nineteen Democrats, and one Independent (Mr. Booth, of California). There are two vacancies, one from West Virginia and one from Louisiana. Adding the senators already elected fcr the term beginning in March next, the next Senate stands thirty Republicans, twenty-three Democrat* and one Independent. Counting Ooforado, which is now a State, there are twentytwo senators yet to be chosen, -(dependent on the elections coming off in the fall. In order to secure a majority of one, the Democracy must eleot sixteen of these twenty-two, and they have the following States to select from? Maine, Massachusetts, ' New Jersey, OnliTOAfrt. Worth fWolina. Honth Garo lina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana (two), West Virginia (two), Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado. It will thus be seen that it id almbst a certainty that the Republicans will control the Senate for the first two years of the new administration, but by a small majority. Growth of the United Statei. ThaAmerican nation began its first century of existence with a population of 2,750,000. It has now, by the best estimates, 44,675,000. The area has been extended from 800,000 to 8,603,844 square miles. The development of agriculture, under the pressure of immigration and the stimulus of mechanical invention, has been utterly without precedent. The value of manufactures has advanced from $20,000,000 to $4,200,nno fiflfl. TTorehm and domestic oom ruerce has taken gigantic strides. The development of mineral resonrceB has not been the work of a century, bat of fifty years. There were few banks in the colonies in 1776; there are more than 6,000 now. Internal improvements and the common. school system have kept pace with immigration. While annexation has quadrupled our area since the Revolution, it has contributed very little to the population. The purchase of Louisiana, Florida, California and New Mexico brought in fewer than 150,000 inhabitants, and the acquisition of Texas and Oregon merely restored to citizenship those who had immigrated from the United States. The aggregate area covered by population in 1790 waa 239,935 square miles. .The main line of settlements ran 1,000 ? i- i-1 i.1. miles along ine coast iruiu uiu uuuw ui the Penobscot to the Altamaha, with an -average extent inland of fzom 100 to 260 miles. A few pioneers had made their homes in the Ohio valley; there were two or three patches of settlement in Kentucky; there was a village in Indiana and another in Michigan; and there were bands of adventurous spirits as far west as Illinois. The Louisiana purchase in 1803, supplemented by the Oregon treaty of 1846, added 1,171,931 square miles to the national domain; the Spanish cession in 1819 embraced 59,268 square miles; the annexation of Texas in 1845, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the Gadsden purchase in 1853, brought in 967,451 square mi.es; and, finally, Mr. Seward's Alaska investment involved the acquisition of 500,000 square miles. The total area is now 3,603,844 square miles, or 1,042, 000,000 acres, one-half of which are publio lands. In surface extent three nations surpass the United States?the British, Chinese and Russian empires. The arable land undor cultivation is less than one-tenth of the total area. ? An Offer. . A breach of promise suit reported in the London newspapers turned on the ?i 1 J L ^4-^11? question wneiner sue umeiiut?ui> miuuiiiijr made tin offer of marriage. The affirmative evidence was tho following verse, which, he sent to the plaintiff: Believe my sighs, my Uara, my dear, ' Believe the heart you've won ; Believe my vows to yon sineere, Or, Jane, I am nndone. Ob, oome, my charmer, lota away To ohuroh and end this strife ; How blest will be each night and day When, Jane, yon are my wife. The jury deemed this a fair and square matrimonial offer, and awarded Jane ?40 damages. , V Employment.?It is something new, says the New Tork Herald, for Scotland to send to America for workmen. One hundred stone masons in New York city have been engaged to go to Greenook. Novel as this seems it lsnot so unreasonable as oominfl from the West to seek employment in New York. THE ESCAPED FENIANS. How the Plot lor their Enciipe woa Arranged f and Carried Ont?lite Snccea*. The method of escape of the Fenian prisoners, Bix in number,"who have arrived in New York, was suggested by c the experience of John Boyle O'Reilly, i now editor of the Boston Pilot. In 1869 1 the whaling bark Gazelle, of New Bed- r ford, was cruising off the Australian s coast, under command of Oapt. David c R. Gifford. To this vessel O'Beilly, a then a prisoner, was conveyed in a small l1 boat, through the assistance of his n friends. Oapt. Henry O. Hathaway, b then third mate of the Gazolle and now t city marshal of New Bedford, was in- t strumental in saving the escaped pris- I oner's life, who, having been by some ? misohance thrown into the water, was i supported there for several hours by t Oapt. Hathaway, and finally rescued in t nearly a lifeless condition. From this t incident and Oapt Hathaway's kindness ti and sympathy, a warm friendship e sprung up between the two men, whioh 3 * a /MTi.ill MA?iM n nas since continued. u jneuiy was *?t jr anxious to assist the other Fenian pris- h oners to escape, and when, after consul- t: tation with other sympathizers in this ? country, it was concluded to make an attempt in that direction, the manner of a his own escape naturally suggested the o most feasible plan. t.1 Oapt. Hathaway'a advice was sought C by those in charge of the expedition* ^ and he was urged to take oommand of fi it, but this he felt obliged to refuse. He, i however, gave them the benefit of his experience on the Australian ooast, and his directions were followed almost to B the letter. The bark Oatalpa, of 202 j cons, then in the merchant business, though formerly a whaler, was purchased, nominally, by John T. Bichardson,' of New Bedford, and others, Mr. 1 Richardson, who owns an eighth inter- est, acting as agent. As the vessel was y to sail ostensibly for a whaling voyage, she was fitted ont for that purpose, under the direction ol Oapt. Hathaway. e Capt. George Anthony, a, man about a thirty years old, and who from his youth ^ hap been engaged in whaling, was se- fc; lecied as master. This was his first ^ voyage in that capacity, but the seaman- ?, ship and oourage he had displayed pre- ^ viously, fitted him for the position. ( * The Oatalpa sailed from New Bedford, ^ April 29,1875, clearing for a whaling Q cruise in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. n The crew was composed mainly of Malavs and Poztuguese. So quietly had ? all the arrangements been made that no 1L. i 4-Un C SUSpiOlOll 01 but) brut) UUJCUI/ ui tuo iujage was excited. It is said that the only persons in addition to the promoters of the soheine who knew of the plan were Oapt. Hathaway and Mr. Richardson, v Oapt. Anthony, of course, knew the nature of his errand. None of his crew . had been informed of this, although it ^ is' thought that the cooper, who is an . Irishman, may have had some idea of it. e The whaling merchants in New Bedford denounced the purchase and fitting out of the Oatalpa as a foolish venture. The first news from the vessel after she sailed was received in March of this year, when she was reported to be off the west copaLsS Australia, with 260 barrels of sperm oil. .When the first intimation , of the rescue was received in May last, it wes generally disbelieved, even 4ha r agent stating tliat the vessel -could not be in the place assigned to her. It was . generally thought that the Oatalpa would , first make port at New Bedford, although the originators of the expedition expected she would land the res- . cued men either at Fernandina or j Charleston. The six men who escaped were soldiers in the English army, and were sentenced to penal servitude for ? life. ' J I. The Story of the Hodja. ^ Once as the hodja of Turkey was a walking in a cemetery by the side of a ? highway, it occurred to him to hide in c iih old tomb to watch whether the good t and bad angels of judgment would come. While he was thus waiting, all c at once there came the sound of bells; ?Hio irlaa that. tVlft dfl.V of I tUiU, OUXUl/A Y1AVJLA. VUV VAMBV V?*r a w- J, resurrection and the last judgment were c at hand, he crept ont of his hiding a place. It was a caravan goiDg by, and r tbe mules, frightened at the sudden ap- 1 parition, fell into disorder and " stam- ? peded." Upon this the mule drivers, j sticks in hand, beset the hodja, and in quired who he was. k . "A dead man." ' : J "What are you doing out here, then ?" - " Only taking a walk." "A walk? We'll walk you I" And they assaulted the hodja with such . vigor that he only escaped with manv , bruises, a broken head and two black p eyes. When his wife saw him in ' such a v plight, she asked where he came from. j. "From the dead," said he. " I have ^ been in a tomb." j '?Well, how do things go on in the r other world?" * " Why, wife, you had better look out e there for one thing?not to frighten the pack mules." g A Wholesale Trader in Live Stock. J Oapt. Richard King lives on his farm fc (Santa Gertrudes) thirty miles from a Corpus Ghristi, Texas, and in March 1 --'-3 1- .1 noWo fvnm ITanOAfl I r last HUIU LU UL'C pai vj a a vua ?, 000 head of horned cattle (all out of his i own stock) for the sum of 0327,500, de- f liverable in Hoyt City, Kansas, 8100,000 a paid down in cash, and the balance on *3 delivery; and in April he sent off the * stock in thirteen droves, which arrived ' all safe. To bo certain to have the re- c qaisite number to be delivered, he add- o ed 5,000 extra head, and still has left ^ some 50,000 head, besides 25,000 head > of pheep, and 7,000 or 8,000 head of I horse and mule stock. He has some 60,000 acres of land under fence, and is 1 now fenoing in 60,000 acres more, and still has 140,000 acres in and about the \ same tract. It took 700 men to drive i this lot of stock, and upward of $50,000 e for the outfit. 1 t Bobbed by Daylight. t A Dallas (Texas) letter says: Two J robbers entered the office of the State j savings DanK, on luam aireeu, jiuupcu over the counter and commenced an at- 1 tack on Mr. E. H. Grnber, president of the bank, felling him to the floor by a blow on the head with a " navy revolver." They then helped themselves to j what money they could find. When | the alarm was raised they ran into a back , alley, where there horses were hitched, , and rode off toward tho south. Pursuit was at once made, but there is very little hope of the robbers being captared. Mr. Grnber states that the Iobs , will not exceed $200, as the roll taken , contained fractional currency alone. He has offered $500 reward for the arrest of the thieves, and the amount has been increased by othe r citizens to $1,500. Discharging Clerks. The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill provides for the discharge on the tenth of October of between 700 and 800 department clerks at Washington. A circular has been issued in the Treasury department informing clerk* who receive it that if they will resign before the reductions are mauo they -will be given two months' leave, with pay. Few if any resignations have been r oceived. Thoee who are relieved will be Allowed to draw their pay until Oct. 10. THE MASSACRE OF WYOMING. temtnUcencea of Indian Cruelty American Bravery- ?The AendJa of the Keystone Stat*. Amid the hurly-burly of centennial elebrations that crowd upon each other a this memorable epoch of the nation's iistory there is no event more worthy of emembrance than the Wyoming masacre, which occurred on the site of the harming scene?the Acadia of the Keytone State?that meets my gaze as I ook from my window this beautiful aoming. Almojt a century of time has wept over this fair valley, with its atenuating verdnre and its snows, since he ruthless savages under the lqad of Jntler and Jbrandt made tne tranquil lusquehanna ran red with the blood of anocent men, women, and ohil<!ren,and lotted oat their happy homesteads with he blighting breath of the devastating orch. The whole world has wept over be touching tale, and over the horrors naoted here during that awful month of uly, in 1778, and as Its centennial aniversary occurs in less than two years lenoe it is but meet that some prepara[ons should be made to oommemorate be event. History dwells with loving tenderness nd truth on the pastoral beauty of this harming scene prior to the invasion by be treacherous savages, aad the poet Jampbell, in hia immortal " Gertrude of Wyoming," wreathes a garland for its une that shall never fade, as follows: lelightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies The happy shepherd swains had naught to do tot feed their flocks on green decliTities, Or skim perch anoe thy lake with light canoe, 'rom mom till evening's sweeter ptstime grew, With timbrel, when beneath the forests brown fcy lovely maidens would the danoe renew; And aye those sunny mountains half-way down fcrald echo flageolet from some romantio ' town. Sach was the condition of the place re the savages with one swoop fell npon nd massacred its inhabitants, of whom 00 perished by fire, flood, and flight hrongh the fearfal swamp,, which to bis day bears the appropriate name of 'The Shades of Death." The fatal low was strnok on the third of July, 778, and the thrilling details of the loody business that ensued?the massare of men, women and children; the oble stand taken by the yoemanry with ikes and sickles and pitchforks, and ach other implements as they conld ommand; the flight of the wounded in """"o 'nm fVia ?imi" ffia ^ar^cTiinfl OUUOD UU FTii IUUO twa y ?mv m... noouhtered in the wilderness?all conpire to make tip one of the most harowing chapters in the history of any md, or any era ancient or modern. The ngel of death spread rain and desolaion oyer the place, and what a few short lays before was a very paradise seemed ransformed to a hell more awful than ver presented itself to the lnrid imagiation of a Dante. We who live in the midst of secnrity nd surrounded now by the monuments aised up by the march of civilization, an never form morel than a faint idea of he terrors that filled the valley from nd to end during that horrible tragedy, for can we but faintly conjure to our elves a picture of the fagitives?pray iairdd men, feeble women, and helpless ihildren?who struggled to escape irom he awful Bcene, those they loved, sons, insbands and brothers, burning at the take or subjected to torture mote cruel, ehile they pursued their journey engirt >y death. It is a pioture filled to overflowing pith bitter memories. The descendants >f some of the sufferers who survived itill reside here, and have conversed nth me flinoo my advent to the valjey >{ the thrilling stories which their athers and mothers often told them) md I drove to the crude monument irected by the patriotic women of Wytming and read the following inscripion: Near this spot wae fought, on the afternoon if Friday, the third day of Jnly, 1778; ill BA.TTLB or wroimra, n which ? small band of patriotio Americana, hiefly the undisciplined, the youthful and the ged, spared by tceffisiency from the distant auks of the Bepublia. led by Colonel Zebulon Sutler and Oolonel Nathan Deoison, with a ourage that deaerved saaoeas, boldly met and ravely fonght a combined British, Tory and ndian force of thrice their nomber. Nu 9 ? t frt ihfl iencftl BUperiUIlbjr MUUO 6>4iw t urader, and widespread havoc, desolation and uin marked his savage and bloodj footstepe brongh the valley. THia KOKUKiirr, Commemorative of these events And of the Actors in them, Has been erected Over the bonea of the slain \j their descendants and others who nreatly ppreciated the services and sacrifices of their atriot ancestor*. This monument stands oyer a pit in rhich the bodies of the slain were luried by their intends when they reamed after the death storm had spent bs foroe. The preoise location of this lit had not been discovered until 1832, rhen by a mere accident the bones were xposed to view. Probably in no nation has there been uch bravery exhibited or such savagery iracticed as at the battle of Wyoming, rhere, as the monument eloqaently atests: " the undisciplined, the youthful nd the aged " displayed such heroism. ?hermopyl? has often been cited in >rose and essay as the scene of true leroism, but Wyoming deserves a niohe ally as high in the temple of fame, and n altar as divine at the fane of bravery. ?he fierce Hun wai mild when oompared nth the savage Indian, and Attila, the scourge of God," was meek when ompared with the "Mammoth Brandt," * ? '?flllw aoi^ II WllUill llUO pUUU UlUJ uwtv* Locnraed Brandt! he left of til my tribe for man, nor child, nor thing of liTing birth ; fo 1 not the dog that watohed my household hearth "soaped that night of blood apon our plains 1 Wyoming valley teems to* day with realth. Tho grim black breaker lifts ta towering head along the stately river, >nd is eloquent all day with the song of abor. Busy steamers ply to and fro on he Susquehanna, the whistle of locomoivee awakes the echoes along the neighmnnnfairiR. find t)r0fiT)er01lfl JUlllJg J t lomesteads peep out from between the ,rees from Plymouth all along the level way to Campbell's ledge.?Graphic. Yery Fine Work. Sir Joseph Whit worth recently exlibited three hexagonal steel plates at ihe Kensington museum, in England, which were so accurately planed that when one was placed on the other it glided about as if floating, and when one was dropped on another a "cushion" of air deadened the metallic sound, while, when the air was squeezed out, the contact was so close that the lower plate adhered to the upper when raised. He next made a measurement of 1-200, - - " * 000th of an men wita u jukuuio truuuu) at a certain temperature, will measure the millionth of an inch, and lastly showed the tensile strength of steel, a specimen of which bore a strain of seventy-five tons to the square inch, without breaking. For bridges, etc., only five tons strain to the square inch are required "for safety; for guns, forty tons ; for shells, thirty-five tons. What it Hopes,?Speaking of Stanley, the African explorer, whose letters are now being published, a religious jourmal earnestly hopes that he is a liar, and aaaerts that, in omm he not, he ought to be hanged. A Colored Camp Meeting Hymn. Why don't you do as Peter did, A-walking on the sea ? \ He throwed both aims above Ma head, Crying: ? Good Lord 1 remember mo.*1 Then remember the rich and- remember the poor, And remember the bound and the free. And when you are done remembering around. Then, good Lord, remember me. r If I could stand where Moees stood, And view the landscape o'er, . , I'd throw these legs as fast as I could? And Fd go to that pure white shore. Then remember the rich and remember tha poor, " And remember the bound and the free, , And when you are done remembering around, Then, good Lord, remember me. . >t * Items of Interest. In Tennessee villages spring chickens are eight cents apiece. Don't attempt to punish- all your enemies at once. Ton can't do a large business with a small capital., A law nas oeeu paaseu m vroruuuiy forbidding the construction of schoolrooms with windows on opposite sides of the room. It iasaid.to be proven that rooms so lighted are -injurious to the eyes. /.( MIV/ The Council BlnfEs (Iowa) Nonparei has won the prize for cat stories. It tells of one that entered an apothecary's store, selected the box containing catnip, tore the paper of it opto and commenced eating. '/ . A In the presence of OoL Benton, U. S. A., Gen.T'ijjJpilin,Dr. Gatliug,and others, one of the Improved rapid fttmg Gatling guns was reoently fired at the rate of forty shots a second, or 2,400 per minute. The gun is ten barrel, forty-nve caliber. . . The Southern economical proftem is concerning the reduction of: acreage in planting cotton. ' By a general assent this year fewer acres w&e planted than usual, but the use of guano nas, in many places, made the crop as heavy as it was before. Ti o-rniai'n fVin wnrkmr/H fit J.If 10 UUUUIUV ?W L M?V n v. the youthful mind.- A bOy who will listen indifferently to the sublimest tmths of theology will be roused to the acutest interest by the progress of a caterpillar over the collar of the bajld, headed man in the pew in, front of ni^ ' , " May I leave a Jew tracts !" asked- i* traveling quack doctor oi.%Iady who responded to his knock.: "Leave some tracks? Certainly; you may," said she; looking at him benignly over her speo> tacles; *' leave them with the'heel'toward the door, if you please." The SpectacTe of a man with' his fifth bride listening to the fnnera! sermon of his fourth wife Jyrak ;yritri<5Bsed at Bangor recently. . Number four died of a malignant disease, and there were no funeral services. He immediately got another wife, and invited, he;, to attend the fnneral sermon pi the dear departed. A rural female beauty alighted from the stagecoach in front of a hotel the other day, when a-piece of nbboauie* tached itself from be* bonnet and fell into the bottom of the carriage.j " You feRve left your bow behind/* bald a lady ' passenger. ' No, I ain't* he's gone aflsbing," innocently replied tbe rustic. * William ,B. tojfaY ifl 'the champion,- rascal, .jle has wife and child in nearly every considerable town in the United States eastof K&nkaa. His latest are at Portland,,^. He parries a girl, remains with, her lot it'wo days, and leaves. ? His principal occupation is that of a hotel alerk, and he is very handsome. > Mout u A hint for summer hotel; keepers. A gentleman comes down- stairs in the morning after abatilfc With'the btrga, in which he obmea'off second WMi. 'il This is terrible?that bed wis ftrH of bugs." '' Certainly," replies the clerlr, 'suavely. "What do you meanIt"will be fifty cents a day. e^tra for 'chambers without bugs.",;:::;;(> ti Tbe Swedes have'an ingenious way of teaching geography in .their schools. It consists of an outline map. of Sweden, - _i 1.1?IWtJ . Atttin drawn upon i^utru uuuwwu. ?- ? location of each city atad town is a hole in the board, and littleblocks with pins attached, each containing the name of a city, are stack 4n rows on the side of the board. The pupil reconstructs the map by putting each block in its appropriate place. At a railway station two gentlemen belonging to the district were warming themselves in the waiting room, whin a son of the Emerald Isle, " rather out at the elbows," entered the room. One of the gentlemen, characteristically humorous, said to him ::" 111 be after giving you my chair to warm yourself for a sixpence." "Will you?t.was the reply. "I'll be after letting you keep it for a shilling ; and'it's meseu that has much need of one just now." ' L Custer's Trail. To-day, says a corespondent with Gen. Terry's command^ anxious eyes ' tha fiiut to the are biuuuu vun?bu *uw ?.. abandoned firesides; the memory of wife and child oomes to sadden the soldier's heart, for who among all 4his gallant array can say he will return? Within a few feet of the spot where I write runs the broad trail marking the passage of Custer and his men, " Custer's Trail," as it is called, and they went in far more oonfldent of success and fuller of courage than even the men who follow to avenge or perhaps lie with them. There is no use trying to conceal the fact that the victory of the Sioux, so terrible in its completeness, has lowered the morale of our troops; j not much, perhaps, but if one listens to I fV>a o/VMiprs as thev discuss among them selves the campaign the conviction is forced that they no linger look upon victory as certain. Perhaps it is better so than to have an excess of confidence in lighting so wily a foe as the Indian has always proved himself. To prevent so lamentable a disaster so far as can be judged the present campaign will be conducted with the ntmost caution; it may be barren, but it is not likely to be disastrous, unless the Indian revolt has taken proportions beyond all estimation. Will Not Join the Sioux. The inspector of Indians in Canada stated that the Sioux now at war with the United states mtu oouu ? tobacco to the Blackfeet Indians in Canada and requested the latter to join them. The Canadian Indians replied that they would keep peace and would not join the Sioux. The latter sent a message in return that when they had finished with the Americana they wonld cross over and capture the Blackfeet country. The Blackfeet wanted to know if they would be assisted bv the mounted police, and the officer in charge aesured them they would be protected. The Indians say they could muster 2,000 warriors if any tronble arose. Marking Goods.?The foreign exhibitors at the Centennial have adopted a plan of marking the prices of their good8, The exhibitors mark on their goods, first, the price in American gold, without duty; second, the price in American gold, duty paid, and fiunlJv the mice in paper, duty paid. The dif -?i _;*u ferenoe between the price m goiu, mwont duty, and the price in cnxrenoy, duty paid, range* from forty per oent. to { eighty per oeni. , ? ?th JU