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YOL. III. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1873. NO. 15.
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The Stage-Driver.
There is a magic in the oalling of a
utage-driver. Everybody knows and ast>iree
to know the stage-driver; everv>ody
is known by, and is proud to be
known by, the stage-driver. The little
bofY8 remember it a month, if the stagedriver
speaks to them. There is a piir^
ticular satisfaction to be able to distinguish
among drivers, and say it was
Winkle, or it was Nason, or it was
Mitchell. The stage-driver is prince of
a peculiar realm; and that realm consists
of the yellow coach he drives, and
the high seat he occupies, and his four
mettlesome horses, and forty miles of
country road, and the heart of several
principal roads, not to speak of ten
thousand little matters of interest and
pleasure, business and profit, news and
gossip, with which he is oonnected.
Hence he, like a prince, is held in revonce
of the populace. Of all the people
on the earth, he is the one who rolls by
in a gidded coach; he is the one who
rides through his immense estate with
the most lordly and consequential air,
and all the rest of us seem to be but
poor tenants and gaping boors. It is
something to soeak to a staire-driver: ;
it is ii great thing to be recognized by ,
the stage-driver. To be perchanoe f
known by one who knows nobody, is ,
nothing. To be known, to be pointed ^
m* out, to have your name whispered in a f
bystander's ear, by one who knows ]
everybody, affects you as if Omniscience ,
wre -speaking about you. The stage- j
driver dilfers fr?m ft steamboat captain, c
in that the latter is not seen to be so }
immediately connected with his craft rs ]
the former. We meet the captain at e
the breakfast-table; he is nobody; he {
is no more than we: we can eat as well ,
as he can. But who dare tonch the '
stage-driver's ribbonB ? Who dare swing e
his whip ? t
How rapidly and seeurely he drives j
down one hill and up the next?and (
that with fifteen passengers and half a j
tun of baggage! Then how majestioally t
he rounds to, at the door of the tavern!
What delicate pomp in the movement of
ftie four handsome horses! In what
style the cloud of dust, that lias served
as an outrider all the way, passes off
when the coach stops! How the villagers?the
blacksmith, the shoemaker, *(
the thoughtful politician, and the boozy j
loafers that fill tie stoop?grin anil j
stare, and make their criticism!
How he flings the reins and the horses
to the stable-boy, who presently retnrus t
with a splendid relay! How he accepts t
these from the boy with that sort of air
with which a king might be impposed
H to take his armor from the bauds of a
^ raletl There are his gloves, withal; he
H always wears gloves, as a Saratoga fine
I lady, and would uo sooner touch nuyI
thing without gloves than such a lady
J would a glass of Congress water.
There is, moreover, a mystery attaching
to the stage-driver?a mystery
deeper than the question why the car- r
easses of elephants are found imbedded .
in the ice-mountains of the Arctics?
even this: Why the stage-driver is not
frozen to death in our winters? His
punctuality has something preternatural
in it. How, in the coldest weather,
in the severest storm, in fogs, in sleet,
in hail, in lightning, in mud, when nobody
else is abroad, the stage-driver
appears, rounding the corner, jnst as
regular and jnst as quiet as the old
clock in the kitchen! 1
Four Men to be Hanged.
Four men, all of them whftes, are now
lying in the County Jail of Burnet
County, Texas, under sentence of death
?all to l?e executed at the same place
on January 15. Their names are Benjamin
Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball
Woods, and William Smith. They were
all sentenced for the murder of Benjamin
MoKeever. Their ease, taken in
nil its details, is one of the most interest
jag in the annals of criminal trials.
The evidence against them, though conclusive,
was entirely circumstantial.
McKeever was shot from his horse at
night near the residence of the Shelbys,
his throat then cut, and his body
carried on horseback tliree miles and
thrown into a cave. A large rock was
placed on the bloody spot where his
throat was out, bnt this precaution,
instead of concealing the crime, led to
the arrest of the criminals. The keen ,
eyes of a frontiersman saw that the rock
ha<l l>een recently placed there ; ao it ]
was remeved, and indications of blood
found. A closer search resulted in the j
further finding of a paper-wadding that (
had been fired from a shot-gun. On ,
examining a gun of Benjamin Shelby
paper-wadding was likewise found in it,
and yet another wadding that had been
tired from a shot-gnu like the first, was ^
found under Shelby's doorstep. In bis
house was found a copy of the Chimney ,
Corner, and by comparisons it was
ascertained that the three pieces of gunwadding
had l>een obtained from that ,
paper. Placed together the following
enigma could be easily n?nd : '
^ With piece of papex or a slate, <
w Sit around the fire l>oth large and
ff small;
n A letter moke, almost an eight, ]
And now you see what covers all.
W There were several other circumstanI
ces pointing strongly to the accused men
as the murderers; therefore the jury 1
that trjed them did not hesitate to find
them guilty of murder in the first 1
degree. The verdict is generally ap- 1
proved by the citizens of Burnet County,
and the latest advices from there
indicate that there will probably be no
interferences by Superior Oonrts or the <
Governor to prevent the decreed quad- >
niple execution. <
An Affectionate "Pup."?The Terre 1
Haute Kxjires* tolls the following dog ]
story : " There were two doqs living in <
the same neighborhood, up town, that i
were nttached friends, often visiting <
each other and making excursions to- ?
gether. The other day one of them <
sickrned and died. His canine friend i
rviltorl to ?ee him. and found him dead. I 1
He watched beside the body until night, ]
and then attempted to drag it to his i
^ home. Bnt the burden was too great i
n for hia strength. After dragging it <
? several hnndred yards, he was eompelled
to desist. Brit even then he
H|^^^would not leave. He stood, for a time,
H^^Hgazing sorrowfully on the dead, then f
^^H^Baid down in the street, beside him, ?
HH^Hwith his head on the neck of his old <
^^^BHeompanion, and thus he passed the 1
^Blight, and thus )he remained until the t
^^B^Bxnlywae remove'd.^Such is dog friend- i
I
The Champion Numismatist,
It may not be generally known that
Dr. Charles Spier of this place is the
>ldest living and most successful numisnatist
in the world. He has been enraged
in the collection of coins for over
ifty-seven years, and has now over
1,000 pieces, representing ever species
>f coin ever produced in any year, or
inder the dominion of any sovereign or
government, from the days of Semiramis
ind the Pharoahs down to the present
ime. His collection is worth hundreds
)f thousands of dollars. He has over .
10,000 of his pieces in the vaults of the
Bank of California, and 4,000, or over,
lere. At the Bank of California his
collection is pronounced the best and
nost valuable in existence, not excepting
those of Queen Victoria and tlie
mltan of Turkey, which are particnlary
extensive and valuable. A few dayB
igo we examined the 4,000 of his pieceB
vhich he beeps here. They proved 41
nost interesting 6tudy. Coins of the
incient Jewish kingdom, of the various
ongs, consuls and emperors of Rome,
)f Tyre, Sidon, Carthage, Nineveh,
Babylon, China, Palmyra, Egypt,
Japan, etc., with specimens of every
rear's coinage in all Christian landB
rom the time of Constantino till now,
vere exhibited in prodigal profusion,
the doctor has many coins which would
iell for manj thousands of dollars each.
Pis collectmn has been the work of -a
rery extended lifetime. He has traveled
nearly all over the world, and is
fonstantlv receiving new additions to
lis pieces from Europe and the East.
3e has gold and silver coins from the
lize of a very large teacup, down to that
>f a pea. We wish we had the space to
mrticularly describe so'me of them.
Hie doctor, who is in easy circumitances
and greatly advanced in years,
hough still robust for one of his age,
emains in Visaila on account of tho ex ellence
of the climate. His collection
r very interesting to any one apprecia;ing
the mementoes of antiquity.?
Visalia (Cal.) Delta.
Chinese ( 'ambling.
Little by little we are arriving at an
iud?rstanding of the Mongolian's habits
>f life. The introduction of the race
nto Pennsylvania has given us a new
nsightinto their "ways that are dark,"
ind the Pittsburgh Port, which has
lever ceased to wonder at them since
heir pioneers reached Beaver Falls,
1ms describes one of their peculiar
unusemeuts:
"Among the many little diversions
?mployed by the Mongolians at Beaver
Palls, none are more popular than the
fame called ' Chamie.' It is played by
he pigtails with 'tseen,' a copper coin
if the value of one-tenth of a cent.
Hie gamester is driven into reckless
irofligacy by the necessity of throwing
i whole penny into the pool at one time.
The game causes the utmost excitement
ind the most intent ardor among the
ilayers. On tho table is a kind of dais
vitli holes all around it. Into this each
ilayer puts as many tseen or pennies as
le wishes, the number being restricted
vithin a certain limit, and then a spring
nakes all the pennies put in tumble
nto a heap. Each player then guesses
he number of pennies in the pool, and
he one who guesses the nearest obtains
:he pool. At firRt sight the game looks
exceedingly simple, and one would imigine
that each player would put in the
unollest number of pennies possible.
But this is not so; for each one tries to
circumvent the others by his cuSining.
player will put in sometimes a great
atany more pennies himself than the
>ther, and then guess in proportion.
The main amusement of the game to
in outsider is the manner of playing it
?the many ways wliich the players employ
to make believe that they are putting
in many pennies by enlarging their
fists, or that they are putting in little
by making them smaller, when they may
be doing the very opposite. It is exceedingly
comical and interesting, and
ill the timethe jabbering and chattering
joes on at a pace that would astonish
Doufucius himself."
Love at Sight.
A servaut girl of no strong intellect,
who lived with a lady in the neighborhood
of Paisley, one day surprised her
mistress by giving up her plaoe.
The lady inquired tho cause, and
found it was that fertile source* of diss
msion between mistress and maid-serrant?a
lad.
" And wlio is that lad ? " in(juired the
mistress.
" Oh he'H a nice hid: a lad that sits in
the kirk* just foment me."
" And when does he intend that he
ind you should be married ? "
"i dinuaken."
" Are you sure that he intends to
marry yon at all ? "
" I dare Bay he does, mem."
" Have you had much of each other's
Dompany ? "
"Not yet."
When did you last converse with
him ? "
" 'Deed, we hae nae conversed ava
pet."
" Then how should you suppose that
tie is going to marry you ? "
" Ou," replied the simple girl, "he's
been lang lookin' at me, and I think
he'll soon be speakiu'."
The volcanic rocks of the Pacific
joast in the Sierra Nevada and Coast
range consist of a cooled lava flood extending
from middle California,through
Dregon?wheae it is two thousand feet
?_ii 1 :?4? T)_;4,-?i.
uinmu iuw? iiiuinu w;iuiui'ici, 1
Ln this lriva region, occupying an area
>f not less than fifty-six thousand s<jpare
niles, arc about a dozen Tolcnnocs,
very one extinct, being, as Prof.
Joseph Le Conte of the University of :
California calls them, mere pimples'
ipon its surface. That geologist main-!
:ains that these volcanoes could not have
poured forth so immense a quantity of |
nva, and ascribes its occurrence to ,/fs-!
rure eruptions, instead ?f to the action ,
>{ craters.
A company (J New York and Pennjylvania
capitalist# have purchased ten
lores of land at McKini^y's Station,
en miles from Pittsburgh, Penn., for i
;he purpose of establishing works for!
;he manufacture of steel by the Bessener
process.J | The company has a aapi.
al of $1,000/000. I
The Emotional Nature of Dogi
A little reflection shows that a dog
approaches a man mnch more nearly in
the matter of feeling than either of
physical or mental characteristics. It
is a startling fact, well brought out by
Jesse in a synopsis of the dog's attributes
(" Researches," chap, v.), that
there v are very few human passions
which a dog dtfes not share.
A dog feels anger precisely as we do,
and after provocation is sometimes vindictive
and sometimes placable, according
to his individual character. He is
susceptible of hatred of the bitterest
kind. He is so excrutiatingly jealous
that his life becomes a burden in tjie
presence of a favored rivaL His envy
contiqualiy leads him to eat what he '
does fiot want lest another animal should
take it, and tt illustrate the fable of "The I
Dog in the Manger." Gluttony holds
out to him temptations under which
even his honesty sometime succumbs; l
but, on the other hand, from drunken- :
ness he iB nobly emancipated. A dog
mentioned by the Rev. Thomas Jackson
(" Our Dumb Companions," p. having
once been made so drunk with malt 1
liquor that he was unable to walk up
stairs, ever after declined to taste the ;
pernicious beverage, and growled and
snarled at the sight of a pewter pot.
Again, as to love, Don Juan was a cold '
and unenterprising character compared
to a dog ; afld as to maternal affection,
the mother-dog feels it with heroic passion,
starving herself to death ratlfPr
than forsake her offspring. Gratitude
maybe almost said to be a dog's lending
principle, supplying first the spring of
allegiance to his master, and ever after
reconciling him with true magnanimity
to take evil from the hand from which
he has accepted good. Regret and grief
he feels so deeply that they often break
his heart. Fear is a passion which dogs
exhibit with singular vuriatiou, some
breeds and individuals being very timorous,
and others perfect models of
courage; the latter characteristics and
fortitude seeming to bo more characteristically
canine. A gpreyhound has been
known, after breaking his thigh, to run
on till the course was concluded; and
in the excellent new volume " On the
Dog," by Idstone (p. 39), is a frightful
story of a foxhound whom its ferocious
master flogged so savagely for " babbling
" as to cut out its eye with his whip.
The animal continued to hunt with the
pack till the end of the chase, where,
upon the human brute, a certain Colonel
Thornton, " took out his scissors and
severed the skin by which the dog's eye
had hung pendant during the entire J
run." As to hope, no one can observe
the dog watching for his master's Btepa8
in Landseer's picture of "Expectation,"
without admitting that he knows
the sentiment as well as we. Pride in
a successful chase may be -witnessed in
every dog, and even felt in the quickened
heartbeats of a greyhound wjien caressed
and praised. That dogs have- personal
vamity appears from the fact that they
are so manifestly dejected and demoralized
when dirty and ragged by long
exposure, and recover their self-respect
immediately upoa being washed and
combed. Chivalry and magnanimity
nmy nearly always be calculated upon
in (logs, and wife-beating is an offence
in ivIiiiOi flie four-footed beast never de
I' unrni rmt xrvij uuu nuiiivt?<?vv.(.
lienrd the iloor slammed, and looked
behind liiin. He hud not time to express
any surprise at this, for nt the
same moment lie felt something soft
rubbing against his leg, and putting out
his hand, touched what felt like n cat's
back. A rasping growl saluted the motion,
and he saw two fiery, glaring eyeballs
looking up at him. "Are you
afraid, Mr. Forrest?" asked Driosbach,
from out in the darkness. "Nota bit."
Driesbnch said something; the growl
deepened and became hoarser, the back
began to arch, and the eyes to shine
more fiercely.
Forrest held out hvoorthree minutes;
but the symptoms became so terrying
that he owned up in so many words that
he was afraid. " Now, let me out, you
infernal scoundrel," he said to tho ii?n
tamer, "and I'll break every bone in j
your body !" He wlas imprudent there, |
for Driesbach kept him, not daring to j
move a finger, /with the lion rubbing
against his leg all the time, until Forrest
promised not only immunity, but a
champagne supper into the bargain.
Two young ladies residing on the Alexandria
turnpike, a few miles from
Newport, Kv., learning that a young
man nnmed Newman had been talking
improperly about them, waylaid him the
other night and beat him severely. He
has 6W?m out a warrant for the arrest of
the {forties.
N
A Burying Ground of Glantp,
On the farm of Mr. Harrison Whaley,
near Moorfield, in Carlisle Oo.,Ky., is ?
Bkirt of woods which possesses characteristics
of deep interest. About three
inches beneath the surface of the entire
tract may be foynd innumerable bones,
evidently the remains of an extinct species
of the human race. Several moundf
are also in the woods, and in one which
has been partially explored were found
skulls and bones which from their sizt
must hnve belonged to a race of beingf
far more gigantic than the race which
now inhabits the earth. In this mound
were also found many clay utensils:
also arrow heads cut out of the solid
rock, and pipes of the same material.
Such a memorial of the past starts many
inquiries. "Was the plaoe onoe a battleground,
where the aborigines fought tc
maintain the glory of tpeir respective
tribes ? Or was it a common burial
,1 0 Tkafiwof eocmB tA Kfl fllP TTtAflf
^iUUUU J XUOU1DV OVV?M? w vv V?v
plausible theory, inasmuch as the whole
tract, covering at least fifteen acres, hat
multitudes of human bones but a fen
inches beneath the surfaoe. It is evident
they were never buried, but originally
lay exposed to view, until the accumulated
deposits of time formed the
black, rich soil which covers them. Bui
whatever'theory may be adopted, it ie
certain that these bony materials antedate
history and furnish another prool
of how little is known of the races and
tribes who flourished, it may be, centuries
ago.
Animal Ingenuity.
The architectural ingenuity, mr rnthot
genius, of the tarantula is a fact long
familiur to naturalists, a San Diego, California,
paper tells us. This insect has an
exceptional development of the instinct
which instructs all creatures which are
not protected by natnre with a warmthengendering
hairy hide to properly
house themselves. The details of the
tarantula's dwelling, down even to the
matchless mechanism of the doors ol
its edifice, have excited the wonder ol
all interested in natural history. The
most elaborate inventions in locks and
hinges of vaunted human skill are distanced
by this venomous insect in the
construction of the door which secures
its'privacy. But the road-runner, between
which arid the tarantula a deadly
enmity exists, is its master, as an incident
which we are about to relate will
show.
Prof. Agassiz, during his recent visit
here, exhibited a special desire to be
supplied with as many specimens a*
possible of tbe road-runner, of the tarantula,
and of the tarantula-killer.
We are not advised as to whether he
was supplied with live specimens of the
road-runner. This is a very timorouf
and inpredibly swift bircL it is about
the size of a pheasant; its plumage it
not uulike that of tho pheasant family,
It has longer legs, and a sleiulerei
neck and body than the pheasant. It
scends. The stories are endless of big
dogs generously overlooking the insults
of smnll curs, or taking them into water
and giving them a fjood ducking as n
punishment for their impertinence, and
then helping them mercifully back to
land (see Jesse's "Anecdotes,'' p.* 147).
Sense of property, bifurcating into both
covetousness and avarice, is common to
all dogs. The kennel, rug, collar, waterbasin,
or bone once devoted to his use
no dog can see transferred t# another
without indignation. Frequently he
"covets his neighbor's house," and attempts
to euscorce himself in it surreptitiously
; and almost universally he
covets his neighbor's bone, and purloins
it if he dare. Even from avarice he
cannot be wholly exonerated, observing
his propensity to bury his treasures.
Shame, humor, grntituile, in fact, nearly
all other emotional attributes not above
enumerated, are also to be noticed in
dogs.
Forrest and the Lion Tamer.
Mr. Forrest had the reputation of being
a tyrant on the stage, and was extremely
apt to bully all in the theatre,
from the manager down. But once
he met his match. It was when he was
* i iv - -i j t* i
Slaying ai xue oiu orouunuy xm.-uu<- m
ew York. His pieces wore followed by
nn exhibition of lions by their tamer, n
certain Herr Dricsbael). Forrest was
one day saying that he had never been
afraid 111 all his life?could not imagine
the emotion. Daiesbnch made no remark
at the time, but in the evening,
wluti the curtain had fallen, invited
Forrest homo with him. Forrest assented,
and the two, entering a house,
walked a long distance through many
devious passages?all dark?until finally
Driesbaeh, opening a door, said,
"This way, Mr. Forrest."
XT'.. 4. am^ama.1 ntul imm/wlinfnlv
trusts for locomotion almost altogethei
to its legs, and runs with a switnesf
that would shame a rabbit or a hare. Ii
is susceptible of domestication, and ii
time learns to come at the call of thosi
who have petted it. Bnt it is a hopelesi
thing for a stranger to try to approacl
this fowl.
It is as sagacious as swift. We wen
put in possession of facts about th?
creature by Mr. Jose G. Estudillo, whicl
excited our wonder and admiration. Ai
we have said, there is enmity betweei
the road-runner and tarantala. Th<
road-runner is as noiseless as rnpid. I
lies in wait for the tarantula, and tin
moment it finds its enemy asleep, it ap
proaches noiselessly with a twig of thi
prickly cactus. Deftlv and stealthily i
goes on piling tho pricKly prison aroun<
the devoted insect, until at last a ram
pnrt of the desired height is piled up
It then selects a speciallv jagged am
heavy piece of cactus, and drops it oi
the tarantula. The last, awakened b;
the shock, endeavors to rise and maki
its exit. It is instantly impaled tipoi
the thorns, and the triumph of the road
runner is complete.
The Story of Stephen ( Irani.
The man lives in Philadelphia who
when young and poor, entered u bank
and says lie, "Please, sir, don't yoi
want a littlo boy?" And the state!
personage said, '.'No, little boy, I don'
want a little boy." The little boy
whose heart was too full for ntterance
chewing a piece of licorice stick he ha<
bought witli a cent stolen from his goot
and pious aunt, with sobs plainly audi
ble, and with great globules of wate
rolling down his cheeks, glided silent!
down the marble steps of the bank
Bending his noble form, the bank mai
dodged behind a door, for he though
the little was going to shy a stone a
him. But the boy picked up somethin)
and stuck it in his poor bnt raggei
jacket. "Come here, little boy," am
the little boy did come here; and tin
bank man said, " Lo, what pickest thoi
up?" And he answered and replied
"A pin." And the bank man said
"Little boy are you good?" and he sai<
he was. And the bank man said, " Ho\
do you vote? 'Excuse me, do you go t
Sunday School?" and he said he did
Then the bank man took down a poi
made of pure gold and flowing wit]
pure ink, and he wrote on a piece o
paper, "St. Peter," and he asked th
little boy what it stood for, and he sail
"Salt Peter." Then the bank man sail
it meant "Saint Peter." The little bo
said " Oh!"
Then the bank man took the little bo
to his bosom, and the little boy sail
"Oh!" again, for he squeezed him
Then the bank man took the little bo
into partnership, and pave him half th
profits and all the capital, and he mm
ried the hank man's daughter, and n<e
all ho has is all his, and aJl his own, toe
The value iron acquires under th
hammer is something wonderful. It i
said that n har of iron worth $5 is wort
$10.50 when made into horse-shoes, $5
when made into needles, $3,285 mad
into penknife blades, $29,480 in shii
buttons, and $250,000 in balance spring
of watches. Boyii may, from this, st
what labor is worth, and learn to vah
and respect it, for it is tlio labor tl
mind puts iutn the iron that so increas<
its value. Consider what would l>e tl
result if there were no iron.
All the prisoners confined in tl
Frankfort (Ky.) jail escaped one dw
night through the roof.
A Hard Walk.
, The train from New York to Paterson
i N. J., got fast.in adrift at a cut nea
Clifton, one night dnring the late storm
s and bid fair to stay there all night. Thi
> passengers took the affair in all sorts o
, humors. One man said his danghte
was to be married that evening, and hi
i wonld give two hundred dollars to b<
i carried through. One lady had gone U
[ Passaic in the morning for an hour'i
) visit, and she was alarmed at the prob
i able condition of the little nnrsing bab<
i she had left at home. Another man hat
[ a wife who he expected would want hin
; to go for the doctor before morning
[ After waiting for a time, a number o
, the more anxious ones, including the fe
' male with the babe at home and severa
other females, concluded, rather thai
i wait in the train all night, that the;
) would walk to Paterson.
[ It was an awful walk. In places thi
; snow was above their waists. One mo
i ment they would be upon the track; thi
i next they would suddenly find them
r selves precipitated into some ditch, o:
over some embankment. The woman
with the babe at home, delicate am
sickly as she was, kept up with the rest
?1?? li ol tr\t\r
tUliUUUgll nut: woo uwvaoiuuaiij uvij^rv\
! by the strong arm of some of the men
i When a male member of the party fel
' disoouraged, and like giving out, he wai
' kept tip by a sort of pride, thinking tha
[ if a woman could stand it, certainly hi
ought.
Despite the situation, the cracking o
jokes never ceased, and good-humo
prevailed to such an extent that th<
party had no time to get down-hearted
' Then somebody would disappear with i
' yelp down some unseen cavity; all hand
would rush to the rescue, and the miss
\ ing person would be extricated an<
' threatened with being left alone if h<
1 did such a thing again I And so it went
The party finally reached Paterson a
about -11 o'clock at night, having beei
1 passed on the road by the train they ha<
; abandoned, which had -succeeded ii
; forcing its way through, but withou
stopping to pick up the tramper
1 through the snow.
i An African Man of Business.
1 Soor Hadji Palloo was a smart poun;
[ man of business?energetic, qnick n
mental calculation, and seemed to b
born for a successful salesman. Hi
1 eyes were never idle, they wanderei
over every part of my person, over th
' tent, the bed, the guns, the clothes, and
! having swung clear round, began th
1 silent circle over again. His finger
" seemed never at rest, they had a fidgetj
nervous action at their tips, constant!
' in the act of feeling something $ whil
! in the act of talking to me, he wonl
1 lean over and feel the texture of th
1 cloth of my trousers, my coat, or m
1 shoes or socks; then he would feel hi
own light jamdani shirt or babwainloii
: cloth, until his eyes casually restin
* upon a novelty, lbs bo<ly would leas 101
: ward, and liia arm was stretched or
| with the willing fingers. His jaws als
3 were in perpetual motion, caused by tli
1 vile habit he had acquired of ehewin
5 betel-nut and lime, and sometime
3 tobacco and lime. They gave out
1 sound similar to that of a young shot
in fche act of sucking. He was a pior
3 Mohammedan, and observed the externi
3 courtesies nnd ceremonies of the tm
1 believers. He would affably greet mi
3 take off his shoes, enter my tent protes
3 ing he was not fit to sit in my presenci
3 and, after being seated, would begin h:
1 ever-crooked ertand. Of lionestyvlitori
9 and practical honesty, this youth kno
nothing; to the flure truth ho was n
9 utter stranger; the falsehoods he ha
: uttered during his short life seerae
3 already to have quenched the bold gaj
of innocence from his eyes, to have bai
ished the colour of truthfulness from hi
1 features, to have transformed him?y<
1 a stripling of twenty?into a most a
? compbshed rascal ajul consummate e:
" pert in dishonesty.?African Corr
1 apondcnt.
An Old-Kushiniied brigand.
Brigands of the old-fashioned type ai
fast dying out, but some very fine spe
i imens of the romantic sort are still to I
t found in Corsica. A correspondent <
i the Paris Temps mentions that, besidi
y some thirty-four very doubtful chara
t ters, who systematically elude the pi
lice of the island; there aro three ind
' viduals, named Germani, Suzzoni an
1 nlmilt wlinm TOIT HCtl Kfltinll
1 legends are told. The exploits of tliei
. brigands are, however, me.re child
r play compared to those of Suzzon's pr
y decessor, the famous Santafuccia. E
. wns perhaps the last of the old rac
a and was a power in Corsica some thirl
t years ago. He took to the woods i
t consequence of what happened to 01
jr of his brothers, who was convicted i
1 the evidence of false witnesse, and sei
I to the hulks. Snntaluccia gave hirase
e no rest until he had got those men inl
x his power. Tho first of these he tied 1
a tree and addressed as follows:
" Yours is a lying tongue; you ai
1 about to lose it;" which assertion he ii
v stantly made good. To the next ho sail
o " Yon have declared that your eyes b
. "held that which they have not seei
a you are going tr> lose your eyes." 1
ti the third he said: " "ion have swoi
f that your ears heard what they had n<
o heard; you will l?se your ears." E
il then tore out the eyes of one and cnt c
ii the ears of the other.
y
The Fleu.
7 When a flea, under a microscope,
d made to appear as large as an elephan
' we can see all the wonderful parts of i
7 formation, and are astonished to fir
e that it has a coat of armor much mo
complete than ever warrior wore, ar
K composed of strong polished plates, fl
' . ted over each ether, each plate like
tortoise-shell, and where they meet hu
dreds of small quills project like tlio
e on the back of a porcupine or hedg*
R hog. There are the arched neck, t!
h bright eyes, the transparent cast
? piercers to puncture the skin a suck
e to draw away the blood, six long leg
rt four of which are folded on the breaj
P all ready at any moment to be thnu
^ out with tremendous force for tli
jump which bothers one when they wa
16 to catch him, and at the end of ea
-s leg hooked daws, to enable him to cli
ie on to whatever he lights upon. A 6
can jump a hundred times its o1
length, wnich is the same as if a m
is jumped five hundred feet; and he c
rk draw a load two hundred times his o
weight.
Encounter With a Panther.'
, Dave Moaher, a trapper and guide in
r the North Woo^s, had a terrible encoun,
ter with a North Woods beast last week.
b, Three miles from Sacondaga Lake there
f is a wild, rugged pass between the
r mountains, known as Black Oat Valley.
0 The mountains on either side are verv
0 steep and rocky, and are covered with
} a heavy growth of black balsam and
s spruce timber. As the ' snows deepen
- and the weather becomes cold, many
0 deer and animals take shelter in that
1 locality.
i Among the rest are the martin, having
. a Valuable dark-colored fur, known
f among trappers in those regions as
- "Black Oat. They seldom move by
1 day, keeping ooncealed in trunks of
l trees or between the fissures of rocks.
jr Owing to the uncertainty of finding one
twice in a place, and their natural shy8
ness, it is quite difficult to trap them.
- However, when they become pinched
3 with hunger they wifl jump at the bait
without hesitation.
r A keen, strong, steel trap is set and
, covered with snow or leaves directly un
1 tier a drooping branch that the animal
, can reach by rearing; npon this is se1
cured the bait, and in the affort to reach
. wliicn it is pretty apt to step in the trap;
t then oome a system of desperate
a manoevers, and the only way to hold
t them is by having the trap chain at9
tached to a small suppling that will
spring and lift them off the ground,
f This sleek, fine-fnrred animal is aliont
r the size of a red fox, and, as David used
s to express it, " They're a sassy vftmint
. to get hold on."
a As Mosher was going the rounds of
b his traps, he saw throngh the bushes
- ahead a terrible commotion under a
1 large white birch, where a trap had been
e set. As he approached, a long, gaunt,
. tawny-colorea, fierce-looking animal,
t whose wild scream upon the mountain
a side, at night, will send a thrill of hor1
ror to those who are safe in the cabin,
a sprang upon a lower limb of the birch,
t and bid defiance with glaring eyes. It
s was driven to desperation by hunger.
Had David quietly backed out h?
could have'enjoyed his supper of venison
and pancakes. But no, he raised
the old nfle and fired. In one-fourth of
? a York minute, Bill Stewart's exact time
* for skinning a Montezuma bullhead, all
e the clothes upon him would not have
8 made a bib for a china doll. He direct3
ly found himself beside a log, partly
6 scalped, with his lower limbs looking as
'I though they had been through a threshe
ing-machine, while, at the same moment,
8 with a spit and a scream, a panther dis?
appeared up the mountain side. When
J he came up the panther was engaged in
e killing and devouring a martin which
3 was caught in the trap, and his hunger
? being partly appeased was the means of
y the trapper crawling off with his life.?
9 Atiburn N. Y. Advertiser.
ig
Aaron Bnrri
it
o Henry Ward Beecher says: " Aaron
e Burr was a keener thinker than Georgt
g Washington. He was a far more inge,s
nious man, a more active man, and, ii
a he had been a moral man, and maintt
tained normal relations with his fellowls
men, and with the laws of rectitude, h<
d would have been an abler man. Washie
ington was a man of good sense, but hf
? was not a man of genius in any direc
tl tion except that of conscience. He wot
9( a'man of singular equity, great disinter
is estedness, and of pure and upright in
d tent. Sagacious he was, by a light
w which came from integrity. He endur
n ed, having faith to believe thut right
d was right, that it was safe, and thai
d right in the end would prevail That
5e which made Washington the only grea'
j. hero of our revolutionary struggle wai
is the light of the moral element that wai
in him?not any intellectual geniut
c. which he possessed; not any rare tact o
t. administration, or any remarkable exe
r. eutive power. And if you look bacl
npon those names in our history tha
have stood the test, yon will find tha
they have been men who w?re faiitfu
in the highest moral element. And ai
re time goes on, those men who lacic tnes<
elements sink lower and lower and low
)R er till they set below the horizon; an<
those who possess them rise higher, til
3B they reach the meridian, with undvinj
c* splendor, to shine npon history and th<
world."
l
id
al Had Memory
J,e Those even who are cursed with th<
p8 most treacherous memories general!;
r retain a pretty accurate recollectioi
pR where dollars are concerned. But then
k' are exceptions to every rule, and a curi
ous one recently occurred in Paris. Oni
Madame Le Brmn, when leaving thi
10 Vincenncs railway station, saw a litth
"! packet drop from beneath a lady's dress
She picked it up and gave it to her, bu
the lady denied all knowledge of it,.am
. said that it could not be hers. Madami
Le Brtn, much puzzled, spoke to one o
re the officials at tiic station. He opene<
the mysterious parcel, and found that i
,/ contained about $4,000. Madame Li
' Bnin then rushed once more after thi
lady, who came back protesting that i
wasn't hers; presently, however, thi
recollection suddenly, dashed across he
. that her mother, who h%d recently mad'
r? a great deal of money, gave her a present
~ ft day or two before, of the sum in ques
' tion; but, knowing that her daughte
was going to pay several visits, took th
precaution of sewing the packet of note
into her petticoats?an attention which
is had it been effectively carried out by
it, more vigorous ply of the needle an
ts thread, would seem to have been by n
id means ill-bestowed in the case of a lad
re who totallv forgets in a few houss
id packet of $4,000. It is not every on
it- who, when losing money, has the lnckt
a meet a with Madame Le Bran.
n
se
e- The hay consumed by different an
he mals does not vary greatly from thre
is, pounds daily for each hundred pound
er weight of the animals. The followin
fs, table is the result of various experiment
at, by different persons, and will De usefi
vn for farmers who wish to determine, b
tat calculation beforehand, how their ha
nt will hold out for fhe winter, 500 cub:
ch feet of timothy hay, in a full bay, beiii
ng one ton: Working hones, 8.08 pound
lea 'Working oxen, 2.40 pounds; Milch cow
(vn Boussingault's 2.24 pounds, Lincoln
an 2.40 pounds; young cattle, 8.08 pound
san Steers, 2.84 pounds; Dry oowt, 2.4
wn "pounds; Pigs, estimated, 8.00 pound
Sheep, 2.00 pounds.
\
Good-Eye, Old Tear I
We bid you good-bye, with a smilq,
Old Tea* because it won't pay to ay.
Ton are bound to go, and leave us, we
know, and we oannot but say good-bye.
We feel nono the leas that a long-draWa
sigh, a quiver of lip and tearful eye,
would better express, we will oonfeee,
our heartiest last good-bye.
You've piled upon us a heavy load
and many an ache, on an up-hill road ;
yet enough for the day waytne strengthalway,
and henoe our smile is at best
awry with which we say, Old Tear, goodb7e
. - .
To be sure, we have felt that the aohea
and pains were often by pounds and the
joys dj grains; and the screws seemed
turned with an extra pinch, as though
some malice had hold of the winch; and
others seemed having much mere delight,
and we much less, than was fair
and right; that coin of the realm and
bonds and stocks and real estate, in
squares and blocks and acres untold of
prairie and hill and silvery stream and
dam and mill; that these and more of
the coveted real, and desires fulfilled of
beauty's ideal, were the let of too few,
while we of the many were often in
Want of even a penny. But then, since
we know, or at least don't doubt, that
the broods of care are swarming about
the hordes of manifold wealth that burn
and sink and leave by. stealth ; that
"reumatic" loves to pain and twist the
grasping heart and the gripping flft?
we about oonclude that we ao not know
of one so fortunate here below with
whom we'd exchange what the year has ?
brought?though little of profit our
hands ? have wrought ? and take his
share of trouble and pains, and also his
lot of regret and shame, and also the
nw k*l?tnn orim that in 0UP
board or closet is grinning at him.
We cannot bnt feel, though a load of
care, that te say the least it is hard to
bear, it has been our lot all along tha
Sears, that nevertheless there is joy in
fe, in spite of sorrow, pain, and strife,
and hence we regret the old -?ear gone,
and wish it's draft on tim< adrawn ;
that all to soon the new is oldj too soon
the wondrous tale is told.
The stream of time-Oh, woe is me 1 .
Hath a current too strong and swift;
It hurries jqe on to the silent sea,
Like a rudderless, soulless wreak
adrift;
Oh! would that there were some little
bay,
Some headland, beneath whose tranquil
lea,
We might forever at anchor lay,
Or float when we would to the deep,
dark sea.
But a-truoe to regrets 1 let time roll
, on; what matters what oomee or what is
gone! It is joy to have lived, it is joy
to live; why care for the flight of the
fugitive? If each have filled up the
fleeting days with noble deeds ana high
essays, then no remorse or sad regrets
will cloud the year's serene sunset
' Okcefenokee Swamp*
| Active preparations are in progress
r to drain the great Okeefenokee swamp*
, in Southern Georgia. The largest
(counting Florida out of the question^
in fhia nf the world, is now being
attacked in earnest, and a chartered
J company propose to see if it cannot be
made valuable for something beeidee
' bears, coons, wild tnrkeys and snakes.
The swamp which extends down into
the upper border of Blorida, is a thickly
f. timbered morass, nearly two hundred
miles in circumference?nearly twice as
t large an the Dismal Swamp?and its
t ornithological population, which int
eludes some strange voiced birds apt
parently peculiar to that particular do4
main, is only paralled by its endless
i variety of snakes and alligators. The
, preliminary work of draining the swamp
f required an experiment to show the
nature of the ground beneath it; and a
c shaft or tunnel, sunk at the border of
^ the morass, has disolosed curiously
t enough the existence at the depth of
j two hundred feet, of a bed of genuine
s bituminous coal. Its extent, as well as
, the comparative value of the ooal, re_
mains to be determined. The most obj
vious facts in geology wijl readily exj
plain, not only the existence of ooal in
such a place, but the (probable) fact
I that the bed is a largo one. Other geological
facts of some interest are said
to have been developed by this shaft,
ono being stratum of rock of the Silurian
age.
B In the Cemetery.
i Lodging-house keepers have serious
3 objections to the introduction of ohil
? ? rm 1
. dren to their apartments, inese innie
cents are apt to damage furniture, to
s create disturbances not at all oonducivs
e to the peace of the rest of the house,and
to be tne unfortunate subjects of infeet
tious diseases. For these reasons those
1 lodgers are preferred who are "without
e incumbrance." However, it is plain
f that people with children must live
j somewhere, and sometimes artifice has
t Xo be employed to enable them te do so.
e On All Souls' Day a gentleman, seeking
e fresh rooms, was asked whether he baa
t any children. The man answered with
e tears that they were "all in the oemer
tery." Satisfied with this reply, th?
3 landlord accepted him as a tenant; but
the agreement between them was no
' sooner signed than four children appearr
ed on the scene, with their nurse. It
i?.? AIiaot Via si Konn fn ffltflltftii
0 WHO UUD CUCJ UdU uwu w
s Cemetery but they had come back again.
? The " Infant's Pavilion" will ba a
^ notable feature of -the Vienna ExpodQ
tion. Within this pavilion, gathered
from all nations, will fce grouped the
^ various contrivances used in the oare of
children. Those that minister to the
^ physical needs, those that amuse and
develop the mental faculties, toys and
games of all kinds, will find a place
- there. This is not all. It is the design
^ to prevent the various plans and systems
g used in charitable movements for the
js care of children and the medioal methods
and inventions used for remedying physical
defects and malformations. Tne
idea of the " Infants Pavilion" certainly
commends itself to the feelings of every
iy one- .
ic A Boston Gentleman who oonld net
ig waltz offered a young lady $400 if she
s; would alloy him to hug her just as
s, much as the man did who had lust
's waltzed vith her. It was a good offer,
a; and showed that money was no object
12 to him, but they put him out of the
s; house so hand that his eyes were quite
black.