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' ^ ' ' ' ' ' ^ ^bjilur Jmi ^nrlutG^1** . ? .-*. - ^ ? . w,iw i- -A F$?2}^ ^.ew^P*P" r : For tnp "j?rqqaotioi^g|f the Polity^!, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests. TeraiS 3.1.5 "J a STsar. T-f - -** "'"'VVi "", in - . ^.a Payable in Advanoe; VOLUME XXX. LANCASTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 13. 1881. NUMBER 10 k -.-i...- ~*J iMttttM tfards. H^B Iii the BuhIumm Portion of the Town, NX CHESTER, S. C. HH H. M. CROSS; Proprietor, ft March SO, 18SI. MMVVM> I>. TIUNTIIAM, 1ATTORNEY AT LAW, Broad Street, iAl&X) jrV, N. i 111 ttn- C.H,rN JSf Keishnw und LaiicH*ter counties. Nov 6, 1878. ly y ~ THOSsT MILLS, COTTON BUYER, I'll F.STKU K C Will pay the highest marker prices for all grades of Cottons. Call before Helling. Office in Wvlie A Agura building. March 19. 1879. ly. WM. CLYBURN, COTTON MERCHANT, t!AM 1)EN. S. C-, Buys ali the Cotton coming to Camden from Lancaster ami pays?he highest CASH prices. Nov. 6. IH7R. If ' . S. B. MEACHAM. COMMISSION COTTON BUYER, ( IIKSTKIt S. C. < >flloe at \V. HOLMES HARDIN A CO. Mr Always in the market and will pay t he hi^hcHt market pricea. I Nov 23, 1HS0. 4m. 1 DBS' HUNTER & WATT, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, OFFER their profoeaional Hetvleen to the citizen** of Luuouater, Ker tnaw ami V lu-Htf(JountieM. All call*, both of the night and day, promptly attended to. One of the * firm ran alwaya be found at our local offlon at Hanxlng Rock. 1 Chronic diaeaaea a specialty. ] J. Mil. EH HUNTKlt, M. I). W NEAL WATT, M. I). } Feb. 9,1881. 6m. _T. N. SCALES, I" Dkai.kk in f FINE WIN KM, WHISK I KM, 1 BRANDIES, and TOBACCO AND CIGARS Under XichoUon's Hotel. CHESTER, S C. Mlf All order# promptly tilled. Feb. 2, 1HHI. tf. D MACAULAY & CO. ( /I^AA 11 * ** - ? * i/uiiun luuimnMon Jieimnnis, CHESTER, 8. C., I Boy largely on export order* niul I domestic apiunera, itlwuy* on tliu I market. Planter* will find it to ttiuir iuteresd to call on um before Meliiiig. I <'otmiKunieiitM will receive prompt i attention. I Hept 28, 1880. 6ui. Riddle's Hotel, LANCASTER C. I/., S. C. HAVINO purchsnel the HOTEL formerly oocnpied by Mr. Jonea Crockett, Hitimte on Main Street, I am prepared to receleo traiment and |rtluanent boarder*. dnod accommodation* at REASON ABLK RA RES. < Stable* and Lola free to drover*. J. M. RIDDLE. Feb. 1, 1876. If. 1 J. W. HASSEITINE A CO., CALL ATTENTION ^ k V "* * TO TH KIR STOCK OF KKRTILIZRRH, I AO ID PHOBPH ATKS, i CiJ EMICAL8, Ac. 1 Special attention In tlireeled to their 1 KniuitH (ierinun ShIU, cure preventive of runt In Cotton. H|NK*tal flgoren to <i*l> buyer* on nv of the ?U?v?. Feb. Olli. 1M|. DENTISTRY. !> - If-. C. Vdiniir. ?Uraduateof Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery.] LANOASTBR, 8. O Work done on the mml reasonable term* and war ^UlU ranted to give satisfaction Owes O.nk Door Mouth or Om> Pnrr-OrrioK. March ?1,1W0 1y. k SAFES! SAFES!! K WE ARK AGENTS for Haft* manufactured by TIioiurh Knruo* A Co., Pittsburg, Pa. ALSO, rnn the rci ?DATtn o*cco um? madKUY MARVIN Jt CO., NEW YORK. WE WILL SELL LOW Eli Til AS' ANYOTIlKR AOENCY, SOUTII OR NO RT11. (Jive us a trial. Hit CM A McDOW A I.I,, Hani ware Dealers, Charlotte, N. < FYb. 23, 1881, tf. 0 p i?: n i n oj OF N;EW FALL GOODS! 1 11 A V K 11 K( K N T IiY H KTIJ K N 1 cil from the .Northern market*, where. I purchased a splendid nto -k of fMCY &I0 STAPLE MY ?. HOOTS, SIIOIOS. HATSuhiI CAPS GENT'S Ready-Made Clothing.\ I The public in requenled to cull unci 1 <ec my stock. which i>? ('oat im.ktk and Kkksii. The ladies will coiimiiIi tiicir I lit hi liV limL i'lflr i. t ?*?o f >. ??/ *-WV ?r J .'H "V ni,H' rw 1 DRESS HOODS, (UNulI \MS, ralooks. flannels. SHAWLS, CLOAKn, notions, hosiery, jlovks, ?o., 4co. I have on hnml a lot of icnooi. Rooks, Stationi:ry, Ac, i am agent for Wii-kon, Cm i.os A Co's C'ki.khkatko Wac.ons. COTTON WANTED, Tor which I will pay the highest prices. J. H. W. STEVENS, Agent. Oct. H, 1MM0. LATHAM HOUSE i OAMDKN, JS. C. TKANSIKNT no A 111) $'2.00 TICK DAY.) Weir Ample accommodations. Tu ilea nuillicit with the Went tlu* niartela alioriI. Kvery attention paid to ;he comfort of (iiii'klii. "i 'onnocted with the IIoil?? in a 11hi clan* liar Whirl) in loirnlinl Hrpurately from the Hoidh*, ami orderly Kept. M|r('onveyanreH utippliutl to ?ii<'*tn hi liheral Cermn, either lor city or miuiitry line. rt. It. LATHAM, Proprietor. Oct. 2, 1H77, tf. H. TAHIR, L INCA8TKK, H. Pit ACTICAI. imi PAiBTE.1 m PLASTtSEB. WILL CONTRACT For Brick Work of Evkry Kini?, ALSO L'A LSI MINE It OF ALL CO LOUS. flAVINO Into Jour ?>x|>crien<*e In * * my imsliiflwi, l will guarantee mti*hu>tiou 111 ?vcry joh of work tnlru?tfil to me. Tlit? beat rrferoncoa furuLlied when reqliii on. ??0l. 14, 1870. tf. WAITED. OlUinii POILNDM OF RAW ' lliilex. IMglnpf mark ct price |>unl 1). L. ADAMS. OfH JR. ln*0 SEEDS! SEEDS! WK IIAVK JUST RKt KIVED a largo Mt<N'k <>f Onrdvti Sevda. Cull early and Mrure vour eunply. I>l(. J. V. MAI KEY <k CO, FcW. 1. IS8I, tf, VINEGAR! VINEGAR!! Pure Cider VWiegar. at M rent* tper Kallon, Warranted. For Male hy W. D, LEMMOND. Try ft ?nd you will uevar regret It . Hundreds Buried Alive. Heartrending Scene* at the Recent Caeamiceinla Earthquake. The sp?cfl^ correspondent of tho London Daily New nt Casamiceioln sends a vivid description of the town after the recent enrthquukc: Down the stoep rond came old and young, laden with such ^of their household goods as they had saved, chiefly 1>m1 Trrft** Mf.^ traces of a night spent in tears. Then eante a handcart, filled with dusty and tumbled clothes, from under which protruded a pair of booted feet, telling of the sad burden there hidden. Opposite ruined houses were encamped their late occupants or in tho orchards and I gardens you saw improvised tents. i >i! tin- roadside wad a lx*(l made on the ground^ and touted over with shawls and other garments as warmly as possible, tor hem nth lay sick persons. <iroups of young girls wandered about weeping; hut all the people were very quiet as if stunned, and only when some sr.d hurden was carried p.i-t did their voices rise in 1st met.table exclamations. Before we reaehed the Piazza we came upon a group of houses fallen in one heap of ruin across the street, so that we laid j to climb over a Lill of rnhhish. Here | the soldiers were at work digging. Alas! they could hope to timl no living person under those crushing tna.-scs of masonry. < )n every side of the Piazza the houses were ruined. Hoots hud fallen through, carrying first tloor and ground tloor into the cellar. <>l ! one house the front, along which ran an iron balcony supported by iron bars nlniin nuiL!iM.i?l I' .1 .. r.i-- ? , u. AO riillMI N\ ll II . II the window is said to he the snfc.t place in ease of an earthquake, and ! and here I saw frequent evidence that | it is ho, though no' always. The home I of the parish priests is level with the ground His aged brother and sister, j the latter of whom was in bed- o* the first story, found themselves deposited In the garden alive, they know not J how. The doctor of ('asamieeiola has lo.it one of his children, who with a servant, was buried with the falling i staircase, while the rest of the occu- I pants remained unhurt ami escaped out of the w indows hy means of a rope, all other ways of descent being cut off. In the l'iazza two men sat on the door step of their house, their arms folded 011 their knees, their heads bent i , 11. : down iti a dumb despair terrible to see, A woman, weeping, told me that the wife ami mother lav buried in the | ruins of the house behind them. In the middle of the l'ia/./.u sat an officer taking note# of the most destinto cases. A poor, ragged woman, fludud with crying, was telling her sad story, and a group of silent and sympathizing listeners stood close around. Tin? silence in the usually voluble Italians was very impressive. Soldiers were being ordered oH in parties to various parts to excavate. Then two hoards were curried past. Oil them were the flattened and du.-t covered forms of a woman and a little girl, just dug out. Three or four men pm-scd m< carrying and supporting in a chair an elderly ! woman with crushed and bound-up j 1 | face. Hie was speaking and her hearers told her pof t<> he afraid. This was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The enrthrjtinkc had happened at exactly l.Oo o'clock on the day before as the great clock at (Au>iimiccio|n, which had stopped, proved. The poor woman had therefore lain buried alive twentysix hours, with what agony of mind ami body through the long dark night and following morning one can hannilv seuicclv inmirii.?> (>1? i ^ v r v heap* of ruined houses! i lu*tcra of then: hung on tin* edges of sloop valley* at ouch side of the Piazza. Many of them wore very ol<l and crowded together ami |*m*ihly many hud I>h?1 foundutioiis in the hillv and loosely-com|M<*fd ground, and hero the greatest ruin had taken place. The evidences of the violent shaking of the soil extended for nhout two F.nglidt mile*. Where there wore no houses, landslip*, fallen walls and scat to rod stones along the roads and la nee wore proof enough that the convulsion had la-en general within Litis urea. The last houses that wore shuttered lie heyond the hill of( itsamiociola 011 the descent toward J^aoco at a place called Camminelln, whore titer# are hot mud baths. When I tell you thutfrotn 300 ' to 400 houses were totally destroyed 1 and other* will have to 1>? pulled A 1 ;* down, and that a million franc* will not cover the damages to buildings alone, without reckoning the loss to !#ortable property, you will have some Idea of tko extent of t|te disaster and -Ji ?uv iiiiBi i j wiai^lllllel Sllf ..ensile. l^Ulte two-thiWs of the town, arc destroyed, | and it all happened w thin five mill- , utes, nay, less, for the irst shock that | did the real damage lasted only seven seconds, followed within the five inin- ( uVcs by a fcr tjphfT, enutjjog the already Mci cdyjy?^d^to ^ They were | ^ still hmmg. As wo passed along the ! j edge of one of the valleys we heard a . ! clatter, ami looking hack saw the I cloud of dust which msc from a house J ou the other side that had just fallen J in. Kxcavation was langerous mid j ' i had tohc stopped during the preceding I I I i r) 11 fur lhi.fi. unu I... l?..l.? !.? I..... i ? n"'> * "v ' ^ "MO ,,w ll,L* wiii|?? being all broken. 1 All was being done that cotibl be (o 1 alleviate the distress; but the misery to be relieved will last tor months,and y subscriptions are already opened. It 1 is to be hoped that the Usual Slimmer 1 visitors will not be frightened away, f for that, indeed, would take the bread 1 out of the mouths <>f many who are dependent on the season for their live- * lihood. The last great shock at l 'asandeeiola ' j was in 1H(>1, when about thirty people were killed. In 1?VJ.S there had been a ' more violent shock. This time it is 1 feared tliat more than two hundred 1 persons are killed. It would be impossible to relate till ' the sad incidents that 1 have heard of. 1 1 wo glunpsesot happiness in the midst of so much \\<e ur< u relief. One voting man succeeded in digging out 1 " . . . ' I alive liis mother ami sister. though the latter had both leg" broken, from the ' ruins of their h ajse immediately r.l'tcr I the .-hook. I never saw such a happy 1 smile as that on the face of the vouug ' woman who showed me her healthy ' bahe safe in her nriiH. It was the only face with a smile I lsavo seen- ' The people Heem stunned loo horri- ' fled to explain, ,y\ ?Cary t-h utter a ' word or to take com.urt, Those who 1 stand idle for only a few ean relieve * their despair hy helping in the work? ! 1 look at lis with haggard eve* and '* i i blanched or II I ' d I' atnr - ("a>a- J micciola is one of the sweetest, as it is i ' one of the healthiest, spots on larth |" It will be many months, however, he- j lore the district teguinu its furiw r t1 smiling, prosja rats appearance, and iin* r? nienium "I t i.j- most t< rrilile ' catastrophe will never be lost by tho>n ' who have been *yowitnesscs of its ' horrors. _ _ i I An I ii vent ion fur Sleepy Ilea.Is. 1 ( The engineer of the Richmond <\ty almshouse, a yotiug ninn named AYilI am 11. Thompson, has exhibit*.1 *]iiitc ait inventive genius in tin* management of his business. Mr. Thotttp- 1 son, some time ago experieno>.| great .litlieulty in waking up in the morning at the right hour ; sometimes he i would awake at 2 o'clock, and think- I ing that it was time for him to get tip he would arise and lind out that he | jji'iu n u|i mi] uotirs oeiore n was ^ necessury ; occasionally he would over sloop himself ami this l?M him to invent a machine called hy him ' Aii ' Kleotrieal mnehiao for lighting fires 1 turning on gas un l and at tho same- | 1 time answering an alarm hell." The j 1 machine has just ban completed, and 1 would do honor .ty an Ivlisori it is of | | simple construction and is in success- I fnl operation. It i- worked 1?v a conn ! I ni<m clock, and is plaocd upon the side of the wall in the engine house, i a few inches In-low tho clock. The clock can he ftt so us to cause the i machine to strike a small gong ai un\ i given hour. The gong is, in fact, a 1 < part of tho machine, and w hen it is ' 1 struck a bell is caused to he rung in the engineers bedroom, in the upper 1 story of the In.doing (three stories | ( ft hove I lie purine room f) tlx* door i lending to the engine-house in opened i tor the fireman, who i-? al"o awaken kJ i by another bell in hi- bedroom ; the i ' gas in ttie engine room is turned ou, JI and the lire in the engine is ret to i burning. All of this in done by electricity and 11.1 ijuiek an a flush- No i lock is needed on the door. The elec- < trie current pulls it wide open. The I young inventors eh?ctrio machine was i successfully used several days before it was generally known about the building that such n thing had been I invenU'O hy him ?Jiichmaml ( Fa.) i fWf. 11 Murdered t'oi His Money. One Urol fur Murdered and the Otlnr Unconsciously lieeonice llie Avenger. c A merchant of this citv who has ' * K been in the Western part of the State for several days past, and just returned home vesterdav, brings an account of i big sensation with which that sec* t Lion is stirred up at present. The current report, as he relates it, presents iituations of so startlK'r a nature as to ^ be scarcely paralleled in thy record of ^ modern crimes. o Two horse drovers from Tennessee jj were proceeding through Mitchell Jounty,Their destination being Ashe- w rille, with a drove of ho ses, when 0 wo of the number were discovered nissing from the drove since their last [ "topping place, some distance back, ft was agreed by the drovers, who ivcre brothers, that one of them should ^ 'cturn for the purpose of recovering he strayed horses; and that they houl-1 both meet at a house which j, ivas then in sight; the one after he ind sold the horses in Asheville and t| gotten the money for them, and he other when he had succeeded in .. lis search. j. The latter, after sonic days, succeeded in finding the horses and bringing hem to the house where he hau the ( ippointmcnt to meet his brother.? a iVhen In- iriijiiired at the house if liis i< irother had arrived lie was told that 10 such man had been seen. In ae- tl ordanee with a mutual agreement to iwait the other's arrival it either 11 caviled the spot first, he explained lis mil pose and applied for uccommn- ( latioiis for the night. lie was given k lermissioa to stay, and retired at an arly hour to a room t * which lie was |, how n, the door of which he took the tl lreeautioii to lock before going tolled Niiue time during the ui.lit lie was t! iwakened by a knocking at the door. He iiupiired who was there, and re- jj reived thy nnsiyer. "Your brother," 11 u strange voic. lie replied tliut it vas not his brother's voice, lie was old it made no difference; it was dc- T tired ho should upon t lie door anv way t< lie retuscd, and a threat was made to treuk down the door, lie replied no , S noro. hut held his i.i>tol. which lm I ukI Imforc secured, iti readiness. Several vigorous blows \n i11i an :ixt* ?It*- > nolidicd the door, and he discovered wo men by a light held in the hands if a woman, who was standing he- i iiml them. Two wcjl aimed shots Voiii the revolver of the Tennesscean ii irought down the men, one after the I jther. The woman dropped the light I t to seize the axe, and a third shot kill- ; ; 1 her. ! r Recovering from the amazement in- I to wliieh the rapidity of these oeeur- j ' renees lia<l thrown him, a horrid suspicion shot through him which was I fullv confirmed hv tho result. Obtain- s lug a light ami making an investiga- 1 lion of the apartment, lie found under , the lied upon which he had been ' deeping the dead body of his murder- * id brother. t Ho had evidently been rilled of his j * money ami other valuable.*, and these 1 ivere found uj?on further investigation, upon the premises It not being the business of the gen- ' ' tleinan who n lutes these circumstances 1 to get news, be did not obtain any ! mime*, and gives now only tho slient ' points of the ease which impressed , liiin most, while immersed in his own , business nfluirs. ?Charlitlr Hbcerrer, Af't'il 4 /i. < Ma nr. H.u.n hy Friuiit.?Terror, it seems, can take off the hair, as well is turn it. The (iazcttc <Im Ihtfpilaux t gave an account not long ago of a sing* 1 ulur case of alopcey. 1 A girl, aged seventeen, who had al- j ways enjoyed good health, had one | nay a narrow escape irom being \ [ rushed by a floor giving way he- i neutli her. Shu won very much fright- i rued, and llie eaine night began to i complain of headache and chill*. The < next morning .-lie felt re*tlc.v?, and had ] itching of the acalp. | I>uring the few following day* ?h? ' tendily improved, with the exception | of the itching. One day, in combing her hair, she noticed that it came out in great quantitim. 1 Three days later she was perfectly 1 bald. Ilcr general health was good, lint her head continued bald, and was I still so when fei-q two ycarj later by i (he reporter. I Examining a Witness. Everybody knows Mr. U the rathr successful criminal lawyer of Pbildcljdiin, says the Mercury, and the eculiar tact with which ho usually ucceeds in eliciting the truth from a fitness. lie once in a w hile, however j iicets with a queer customer, with' rhom he can do nothing whatever, j uen n one turned up before a com- ! lilting magistrate, on Thursday lust. j A Mr. Doyle was cotnplaiucd of >r keeping a disorderly house in ihippen strict. The complainant ngngod Mr. II. to attend to uttend to is ease and put Doyle through a nurse of sprouts. The first witness as Cornelius O'Neil. We give his xaniinution hv Mr. 11. "Do you know tho defendant Mr. )oyle ?" ' "Niver a man hotter." "What kind ol" a house does he cop ?" "A brick house." "I don't mean that; what are its i cruliarities ?" "Two storks, with a hack kitchen aat joins out t<? MeCiarry'rf fence." | "Vou stili misunderstand nic ; I j ish to know the reputation of the ou? i. I> it good or hud ?" "Had entirely." Mr. 1!. called the attention of the I 'otirt to this nnswer, and desired the ingistrate to take a note. The mag* it rate did so. "What do you mean when you say ic reputation of the house is bad ?" I " I hat it has the devil's own cliim* | cv, and a roof leaks like a sieve." "Vou still misunderstand me, Mr. i rv..:i i ii. t u? try again. lial I i lit 1 of people \ i.-?t the house?" ''Man ami women principally; at j >ast that* the only kind i ever inet liore." 'Well, what kind of women are I icy ?" "Female women as near as I could ; idgo." "Well, what is their character ?" ' 'OiiIj one of them imv tl?a uriiel" '' i "The Court will please note that.? >nly one of the females has a eharaer. And which one is that ?" "A young holy by the name of Me- , hune." "She, you think, has a character !" i "Think ' I know it. I saw it on I outlay." "Saw what ?" "Her charneter. It was written by 'ather Daley with a good pen." "You still persist in misunderstandng inc. L< t us try once more.? lave you evop won women of the own nt Doyle's V" "No, sir, not from the town, hut u aft of tin in from the country." "By women from the town, O'Ncil, mean common, vicious women.'* "What do you say ?" 'I say had women. Have you ever ecn such womou drinking and daucng at Doyh-'u?" "All! nuidta! listen to that ! An is l the likes of Doyle that would allow ilcli people to misuse his shop ? By he powers of Cromwell, if his hoy Mick was here, bet lied twist yer nose ill ye could use it for a gimlet !" "But?" "Arrah ! go awav wld ye hhiokgnrd o say that of dacint men. If it were lot for molesting the Court, I'd peel lie coat and make a flounder of you n less time than a donkey can cat a histle!" Here O'Neil became so excited, that Mr. K. told lit in he could stand aside to make room for the next witness. The trial resulted in a verdict of acquittal. Postmaster (loneral Mavnard found ,\vo cents jn his office which a visitor 'ittd dropped, and lie placed them on lis desk until the visitor should call iiid claim tlivm. They have hcon :here now for several months and reuain undisturbed, although many vistors anil employees of all kinds come ind go at all hours by the desk where they lie. The Postmaster was so pleas?n at the Spartan honesty of the department that, with perfect confidence, lie placed two 31 notes beside them, riio pennies remain still undisturbed, hut Muynard is out $.'2. Georgia has sixteen thousand more somen than men, and ten thousand foreigners. "Lemmy, you're a pig," said a father to his son. "Now do you know what i pig is. Lonuuy ?" "Vc? a pig u u ^Km's SOU " Starving Herself to Death. Mi*s I [attic I >' if// ,Still Alive, but licvcd to be Xi.ar Il.v F.nd. C'ltirAoo, March ?A telegram to the Time* lVom Iowa City, Iowa, hays?Miss 1 [attic Douell was living at 7 o'clock this evening, the close of (Ii?> f liirlr.fnncfli ,!?*? - ' - 1 .v.tiui u.i t ui iivr voluntary tasting I.a-t evening she wrote on her slate : 'Do not offer me anv rnoro water.' The attendants disregarded this, and she drank the water presented her, though in very small quantities. She slept quietly about six hours. W'hsn not. asleep, she lay still with, closed eyes. This morning she was so weak as to bo unable to sit up in bed* During tlie forenoon she rallied, and gained sufficient strength to sit up for a Short tillie. llv si?MlS she siiruifierl O ft tluit she had a slight pain in hor" breast and stomach. A bout the middle of the nftt rtioon > 1.c sank .suddenly for a few moments, and the family were hastily gathered l ? hor side in the belief that she was dying. Pho gradually recovered, and at 7 was reported the same as usual, except somewhat weaker. All the water slu? drinks is taken up by the digestive organism, and no signs of vomiting cr nausea arc apparent. It is not probable that .-be can bold out much longer. Some time ago she gave directions for the disposal of her body, and va-di m orning she expresses her hope that, she may not iive to behold another day. PitTsburgh's Peculiar Puff. The llurlin-jfun Hmvkvye man writes iroin tin' city <?i snow Hakes: "I>id you ever see a Pit tsburgber get a flako of soot oil his face? lie never rubs it ulf. To rub ol!" a Hake of soot discloses the stranger. It abo leaves a streak of black, lealf an in wi le, in place of the Hake of .soot as big as a three cent piece. This is not an improvement. The Pittsburghor to the manner born blows it oil' lie is an adept in the art. If the ilakc nestles mi liia o.-ar., l.? ?<v< tnitluri hif uod'-r 15pv gives one vigorous whiiT, .in.! the obnoxious Pittsburgh snow flake leaves his face without a mark. It' it lights on either cheek, tbe mouth is puckered and stretched around in the direction of th" smut, with the unerring accuracy of a garden hoc It is astonishing what almost inaccessible portions ot tnc laco and head can be reached hy a native burgher in thi.-* way. I have scon one who could pull' a black flake oir the hack of his neck. Sometimes the beauty-spot will nestle close behind the left car, where it i.- apparently secure from a blow as a calm centre. Hut the native simply give-* it a puti'clear round his head, from left to right; the current passes over the left ear caroms on tin: right and conic* hack and picks up the wanderer ami blows him away. They pull" theso sable Hake* in any position as easily as a weekly paper pud'* the summer . circus.'' Turkey or Fowl. The Prosecuting Attorney in an ; Indiana court had indicted a man for ! stealing a hog. TI12 evidence proved that the animal was dead, dressed and : hanging upon a hook. The court ! held that the varicticc must defeat a i conviction, as the indictment should have charged him wit!) stealing 'pork' instead of a 'l.og.' ! The next case was that of a man in| dieted for stealing a turkey. The evidence showed that the bird was dress| ed and hanging up in a smoke house. 1 he Judge ruled that, the priaopcii must he acquitted, as the indictmeut was faulty in not charging him with j stealing a "fowl." At the dinner which followed upon this trial a largo roasted turkey was I the principal dish, of which the Judgo! was very fond. "1 will thank you to help roc to some of that turkey," said the Judgo to the Prosecuting Attorney, who hapI pined to he the carvor. "To wlnit ?" answered the lawyer, ! with a look o|'feigned *urpri?o. "A jjartut'thu turkey?a wing, a ' Vide bone, or hoiijo hreaat." j "Judge, I don't know what you mean ; I see no turkev. Will you \ have eorne jowl. i "Well, vim rather havo me," re plied the .Judge, with a good naturcd j laugh; "but 3'ou muet recollect that there'# a wido diflTerenco between u turkey in an indictment and otic ca i\ (Ujoutrtiltk"