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.VI x-> r * TW? DOLLARS PER ANNUM, y f SiAufi vi ?ifj?te>ifct* tu t?J ' ? vP-; ????.?jdi Vit Lhb "tail tftioy$n Wvn ? \ fei/ ? ill iliiw ooflalai* :m -.Ii "t > ?vnlMj_r I n ?brlll*| o>- l. ,fe'AYA~ff<il? \ mguJit' ? I. ;.AA?-\V **<?Vt .V _:_1_L^J ?iw innSTelooT Imr. ?Triu?fj .inj .: iii z.-.l sHi (,???'{ 'iJ fmiiri? ?>m i?d qiilt-jiiwrT '?g Hif?jri c HA VOLUME vi |irtt4 ?:t ? tjl u' Ml SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, lUi .._i ..-Iii -?mit oilj *c .w/'tnoB 9dl Ho | ALWAY8 IN A?\?iHHil4 fM0 ? ' ? _ > ?'' : ? ?? '?' *" ? ? ? ? ? ? ? TiTT "' "iff A Homo in tho Ocean. Let us visit Minot Light House now, While this stortn is nt full power. This ledge is covered by water, except for n short time at, very low tide. It risos in Bostort'b^yi about twenty miles from )Joalo*s and one utile and a half from C&kasffcf.. * Into it are fitted and bolted down tho stones of the tower, which are dovetailed and bolted into each other in each u fashion that no stone can he moved without lifting tower mid ledge with it. 'The tower, light and all, is 114 feet in height; all over it, clean to tho very top, the waves are dashing. Does not their thunder make your very heart tremble? But these keepers tell you there ia no danger ! For forty feet the cowers are built up solid, except the well, which ia in the centro, thirty-eight iect deep. It holds'a supply of water for ono year. Tho water keeps good and pure. The well holds 2.000 gallons. It is rather warm in the summer, nnd in the winter becomes as on. the keepers says, "a kiud of porridge iee. We will sup pose we enter the tower from a boat. To do so we should either climb a ladder forty feet long, fixed into the side of the tower, or be swung up in a chair. At the top of the ladder are two sets of oaken doors, against which are uuw beat ing the hungry waves. Between the other doors and the inner is an entry about three feet long. Entering this room (which is the collar)) from the doors are seen on the right hand tho coal uud the wood. There ?lands also u flour barred, and over these, suspended on hooks, hangs buckets of various sixes, containing, doubtless, many good things for food. On the left is the oil pump for jumping oil into the tank in the oil room. Here are chests, ropes', brooms, tubs, pork barrels, and a little of everything needed for light keeping and lwusu-keeping. It is dark ami .dn'U here, and we had better ascend. Ah ! how good it smells here, in the room Uext ubpvc the cellar. Kitchen and dining-room and everything cosy, com fortable and neat. A table well sot ? hut eakes ami hot coffee and boiled fish, **Of course we wjll." And down we sit, not waiting a second invitation. Well, j is not this a singular situation ? It seems like dining in a while's belly. 8toriucd about and dashed about and poured about by the remorseless sea, and eating n relishful meal quite at our ease. It is certainly one "new thing under the aun"*to some of us Each of the four keepers is oft' one week and on three. Communication with the land is ol'ton dangerous ar.d impossible. In the win ter they cannot get home as often as once iu three or four weeks. They all have families on shore; and hero they sit during storms that shake to its foun dations their lonely tower nnd envelope its crystal summit in foam, and they thiuk of wives and little ones who may ho sick or dying without the possibility of sending word to their beloved watch man ou the sea. '?Do you not tako pleasure in the sights you must, behold during a*ll these isolated days and weeks ?" asked one. Oh, yes 1 We have a very extended prospect, and one which is never twice the same. Both sea and sky are forever changing, and everything that is on tho aea comes and goes. There is nothing stationary but our tower. Wo sec all the vessels that go in and out of Boston harbor, and iu the summer wo arc visited by pleasant parties iu sailing vessels and steumors, the latter of which .sometimes bring out bauds of music, which play to us. They approach close to us, and give three cheers for Miuot Ledge light. When visitors conic into the Light we sometimes find ns much amuse mo nt as they do. We have all sorts of visitors, as you may suppose. They come from China, California, and from all parts of the world. We have many fatuous and aouie infamous names upon our visitor's book. It may seem itrango that so far as we are from shore W/J should be. visited by birds, insects, millers and butterflies from the land. The butterflies are ol huge dimensions. I have in the morn ing swept oft" the walk that surrounds tho lantern, thirty, forty, and fifty of these little shore birds, which allured by fho bright light, have flown hither over the waters to their death. !:Aiir) here }? A bit of tho glass from fljjo of thp squares of the lantern broken last wock by a lurge soa fowl, as we - up* pose, for we did not sco the gentleman. This is the first accident of the kind giucc the light "ifas creeled.'* "How long was this tower iti' build ing r ., ' Five years and four mo "What do you men find to employ your minds and hands' with','and keep time from hanging too heavily upon you ?" "Oh, we mniingc to keep busy. Wc make almost everything, from an exten sion table to n clothes pin. Then for sport and to supply our tublc wc fish. We don't have to go a fishing. Wc are already there. All wc have to do is to heave a line from the door, and in a minute we have our dinner by the nose. Then we have reading and writing and sewing to do." jfy this time dinner is finished, and up we go. The next room is a bed-room. We notice that the rooms are all of one size, twelve feet in dinmetci, and six or seven in height. Overhead in this first bed-room is a long piece of joist, which can be put out of the window and used for raising up heavy objects. Hero is nil iron bedstead, a table.on which lies a register for the names of vistors. a ward robe, a* marble wasn-bowl and a water closet, l.'p again, and we conic to the oil room. There is one water tank in this room, also a work bench and a bor of glass for the lantern. There are here I an oil measure, a tool chest nud*h spare lamp. Another of fche steep narrow stairways brings us to the watch-room? sitting-room of the tower. Here is a table, an arm chair, a stove, books, pa pers, a lew pictures, and the machine for ringing the fog-hell. From this room we may now. since the storm has ceased to send the waves so high, pass out on the balcony that surrounds it. Well for us that the iron railing is so strong There ! now you've no choice but to go home haro-heuded. Why did you not cling to j your hut and Wig ? This wind is enough to take hair put by the roots, even if it leaves the head itself. What a scene ! -v> H??j>r4?iae L 'We. c.-.iinnt d ?>'-ri)>q it_; Let us uo on j*WOuo more flight and wn are in the light room. Here is the ob ject tor whose elevation and continuance all this masonry was made?all this skill and labor called forth. "And the light is the life id .men." Thus we render it. At sunset the lamp is lit. and till sunrise it ghincs on in the darkness?a beacon und a warning to all who sail mi that dangerous sea. 'file lamp has three con centric wicks, and is in the centre of a lens four feet in diameter and ten Feet high. Step within and look at your friends through these prisms?how do you like the looks of faces three feet long ? This magnifies the power of the liiiht. and the glass walls of this room probably have the same effect.. There is another walk and balcony without, but 1 we will not try it. It is only on calm, clear evenings that being out there is agreeable. 15uL within, not all the cold and frost and storms of winter, at its worst, can effect one's bodily comfort. One is as thoroughly protected as if he was in his tomb. Wonder if these keep ers ever have a nervous fancy that they are entombed ! It would not be strange. On the first balcony, about three feet I wide, wc should have seen the fogbcll could we have seen anything for the wind and spray. It weighs 1,500 pounds, and is hung up against the waii of the tower. ? X. )'. Journal of Commerce. A Touciiinc Stoiiy.?The Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Qcongia, at a meeting at Alexandria, for the benefit of the Orphans Asylum and free school of that city, related the following anecdote : "A poor little boy on a c Id night, with no paternal guardian or guide to protect or direct him on his way, reach ed at night fall the home of a wealthy planter, who took him in, Fed and lodged him, and sent him on his way with a blessing. These kind attentions cheered his heart and inspired him fresh courage to battle with the obstacles ol life. Years rolled round j Providence led him on and he reached the legal profession; his host had died; the cormorants that prey on the substance of u man had formed a conspiracy to get from the widow her cstnto. She sent for the nearest counsel to commit her cause to him, and that counsel proved to be the orphan boy long before welcomed and entertained by her deceased husband. The stimulus of a warm and tenacious gratitude was now added to the -ordinary motive con nected with the profession. He under took her cause with a will not oasy to be resisted, bo gained it: the widow's es tates were secured to bor in perpetuity," and, Mr. Stephens added, with an cm path is of emotion that sent an electric thrill throughout the house, "That boy stan I? before you." Mormon Assassins. i\ ? ??. - .it . The Suit Lako Rrportcr gives the following account of Brighum Young's baud of cut throats: A . certain nuhiber, suiil to be twelve, of the roost ilusiK5rnfco characters in the Church, were 'selected from among the Danites to commit such assassinations as might be found necessary by the Prophet for the ^welfare" nnd "advancement" of 'his hob/ cause The murder of Gov. BoggS nnd many others w:is plauucd in the secret conclave of the Danites, nnd i executed by the chosen '?twelve." The attempt to murder Governor Bogga for tunately failed, and at least one of the would-be murderers is now kuowu to live iu Utah. Both of these secret socie ties now exist in Salt Lake City. The discipline is mote perfect under Bfigham Young than under Joe Smith, and con sequently the aims more sure, tiie objects more certainly accomplished. No sooner does a Gentile enter Salt Lake City than he is placed under the survcillianec of ?the secret police. A member of the Danite organization is deputed to watch him from the time ho comes until he leaves. His habits words, and careless expressions of opinion are noted and reported, that the Mormon authorities may determine whether he is a friend, a secret enemy, or nn open and avowed opposer of Mormon iniquity. The day has been when expression of opinions inimical to the Mormon leaders would result iu assassination to the bold de fender, and sometimes even the mere suspicion that a Gentile was opposed to the Mormon rule would produce such u result. Tho true secret of Brigham's great success in controlling the discordant ! elements of which his Church is com ?posed is due to fears of the Duuitcs. The Mormons know that certain death by nssas.-'iiaiion awaits a violation id'their j l oams, ami Und aliliougu tne^'oay1 o|J their7 I doom may be postponed, it is sure to J ! eoine with too opportunity. It is true that many apostates have escaped as ! sassination. but this was owing to the fact jthat they used*subterfuge to place themselves beyond Brilliant's pa wer; but even these instances are not wanting of Danites having followed apostates into different cities of the United States, hoping for a favi ruble opportunity to assassinate. Others escape, because for tho time it is deemed inexpedient to kill them. Bccoilt mysterious deaths of Gentiles near Salt L.ke City have for n short time excited comment, but finally < tin v have been lorirotten. No coroner's inquests have investigated facts and circumstances, and no inquiry has been made by the authorities into the cause of their deaths. But such a system cannot be perpetuated. The Government must sooner or latter throw her protect ing banner over her citizens in Utah, and not allow it to be scoffed at and spit on by a lewd ami lecherous priesthood. Eauly Bisi.vn.?A young farmer found he was getting reduced in circuill stances. He went to a friend to ask his advice. This friend, with a grave face, said : "I know of a eharin that will cure that; take this lit tie cup. and drink front it every morning of the water you must get front such a spring. But remember you must draw it yourself at five o'clock or the charm will be broken." The next morning the farmer walked across his fields, for the spring was at the farther end of bis estate, and spying his neighbor's cows which had broken through the fence, ami were feeding on his pasture, ho turned them out and mended the fence. The laborers were not yet tit work ; when they came loiter ing along after their proper time, they were startled at seeing their master so early. "Ohl" ''aid he, "I sec how it is; it conn s of not gotting up in time." This early rising soon became a pleas ant habit; his walk and cup of water gave him an iippctitc for breakfast; and the people were, like him, early at work. He soon acknowledged that the advice his friond, had given was as good as it was simple. A Frenchman who was a Hinted with the gout, being asked what difference there was between that ami the rhucmu tism, "One- very great diHereiicc," he replied. ??Suppose you lake one tiee, you put your linger in, you turn dc screw till you bear him no longer?dat is do rhucmntiz; den s'poso you give him one turn more, dat is gout." A .Mad Hohsk.-tIJ^, West Chester, Pa. Republican of AJ-flM^rSiij-B: ., "Ou Saturday labfjflBibor*>p#,iAcd.>by Sewell Cliambers, a colored uiata Uviug iu Thortibury township, was aeixed witli hydrophobia. Tho aniuial had liuen con fined in a field near ncr, I but by some means' y.r>\, out of the enclo sure into the public,?oad. It attacked a team belonging to^William Farrqll, who was engaged in hauling stone to the railroad. The driver lif the team succeed ed in driving oft' the mud animal, and it is not believed that it injured any of the horses attached to the team. When the fit was off, the poor brute would become very weak, stagger, and fall. When the spasm returned it would again rise, und attack everything in its road. Several persons w.re chased to the tavern porch, und one individual narrowly escaped being bitten. Iu its fage to bite its own tongue w.:s nearly bitten off. The animal was finally secured iu a lot, where it died during the night in great agony. It was a valuable horse, and was used by Mr. Chambers iu threshing grain, with a machine, through the neighborhood. What is still more terrible to contemplate is the fact that tIiis horse is supposed to have been bitten by a dog belonging to Mr. Elias linker, that was thought; to he mad, and bit two persons some three weeks since?an account of which was published in this paper. This supposi tion is strengthened ky the fact that Mr. Baker's dog bit two other dogs os the farm of Sir. Georgs Faucet t, where the horse was kept. The dogs of Mr. Faucet I were killed immediately alter. The two young men who'were bitten, as well as their immediate friends, are much dis tressed over these facts; but it is hoped that the means resettled to in their cases will prove effectual against thin malady. - ? HIT. ? I - In a Tihiit Plact..?At h-.<>n Sunday cvenim^lsatigucd by his long -j?lii'TITy, y*t$$,;'ici^^^Sr "1^!.> i-on .fohn drove the team pito a good range, and determined to pass the Sabbath enjoying a season of worship it li the good folks of the village. When the time for worship arrived .John \v;.s set to watch the team, while the wa; oner went iu with the crowd. The preacher had hardly announced his subject before the (dd man fell fast asleep. He sat against the partition in the centre of the body slip, while just against him, separated only by the very 1 >w partition, sat a fleshy lady, who seemed all absorbed in the sermon. She struggled hard with j her feelings, until, unable to control them any longer, she bur t out with a ' loud scream, and shouted at the top ??! 1 her voice, rousing the old in.in hall awake, who thrust his arm around her waist, and cried very soothingly : ??Wo Nance! wo! Here John, cut the bell}' band and loose the breeehing-quiek or she'll tear everything t.? pieces!'' It was all the work of a moment, but the sister forgot to shout, the preacher lost the thread ol'his discourse, und the meeting eaiiic prematurely to an end. while, deeply mortified, the old loan skulked away, determined not to go to meeting again until he could manage to keep his senses by remaining awake. To-Day. And T<? Mounow.?To-day. we gather bright and beautiful llowcrs ?to morrow they are faded and d id. To-day a wreath of leaves shades us ? to morrow, sere and lallen, they crumble beneath our tread. To-day the earth i- covered with a carpet of green?(o-inorrow it is brow n with the withered grass. To-day the vigorous stalk only bends before the gale?to-morrow, leafless and sapless, a child may break the brittle stem. j To-day the ripening fruit and waving grain?to-morrow, "the land is taking its rest after the toil." To-day we hear sweet songsters of meadows and forests, the buzz ami hum of my raid insects?to-morrow breathe softly, all nature is hushed and silent. To-day a stately edifice, complete in finish and surrounding;, attracts the passer-by -to-morrow a heap of ruins mark the site. To-day there are cattle upon a thous and hills--to morrow they fall b\ .-.laugh ter. The fashion of the world paescth away. But let Christ dwell within ub, and though we pass aw-ty like the laded leaf and shapeless, stalk we shall arise tu newness of life. r ??Whore everlasting spring abide, And never withering flovo* " A Tk? iiMCAi, SriroK.?Love Letter from a* Tailor to his Hweet-heart, a M?n luft>iaaVer-^?"-Itcinnaht of iwy" hopes:": May I be ripped Iroin the border of your esteem and nover be buttoned to the loop , Of' your kindness, b.ut I am strongly soutnea to them by your beauty. May I never loose a thiinbluful of your favor, but. you'have entangled the thread of my understanding with that pretty outside of yours.. Odd boilkin ! L am surely , yours every inch of me?and my ueedlo follows you. Therefore blunt not the endeavors, but let mo baste myself to your kindness, that 1 may sit thither to I your affections. I lovo you beyond measure, but its so hard to cabbage one sweet look from you, that I almost, de spair of having qtiouuh to finish my suit. Pray put a favorable construction on this, and, for the same shall always sit cross legged for your sake, being my dearest little llounecv, your. CABBAGE." A BKAUTtVUL IXCIUKNT.? A naval officer being at sea in a dreadful storm, bis wile, who was sitting in the cabin near him. and fit toil with alarm for the safety 01 the vessel, was so surprised with Jlis composure and serenity that she cried (Out. My dear, are you not afraid ! IToW is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadful storm t He rose from his chair, lashed to the .deck, supporting himself by a pillar of the bod-place, drow his fcword and point ing it to the breast of his wife exclaim ed : '?'Arc you afraid of that sword?" She instantly answered, "No." "Why t" said the officer. "Because," rejoined the lady, "I know that it is iu the hands of my hus band, ami lie loves me too well to hurt me. "Tlieu."?said he. ''remember, I know in whom l believe, and that he holds the Wind? in Tils (1m> a in I tUo water in the hollow uf his bauds." A Wonderful1 Story.?For a week past the daughter of Mr. Walshauor, aged about three years, ami residing at the corner ol* Spain ami Grcattuan street complained of an itching ache in the stomach, which she attributed to her parents, as being caused by ants. This irritation lasted from that time until half past seven o'clock Thursday night, when she was taken worse. The father ol'the child, supposing that worms was the . an- - of her illness, administered a worm powder. About midnight she was taken seriously ill. accompanied by a choking : sensati and it was feared she would j die from the effects, when she suddenly vomited, throwing up, among other mat- I ter. a iive in use, about an inch and a half long, not including the tail, which was m ar the same length. As soon as the young g'nl was relieved of the ani mal, she immediately exclaimed to her anxious pniuiits, "Oh. mother, look, this is the thing that has been troubling me So much." When wo saw the child. Kr *' ly morning, she was as well as could he, and rompituj about the streets as happ) as a "gay sunflower." The mouse which was so mysteriously lodged in the child's stomach, was captured by Mr. Albert Wetlbacher, tho druggist, corner of Spain and Grcatuien streets, and pre served in alcohol, where the curious, as well as skeptical, can examine it at their leisure. How, when and where the ani mal found its way down her throat, and how it maintained life, is a matter of conjecture.? .Y. 1'. Time*. . A BltAVE < i IRL.?A little girl iu a Sunday-school was asked by her teach er : ? "Mary, do you say your prayers morn ing and night '" "No. Miss, 1 don't." "Why, Mary, are you not .afraid to go to sleep in the dark without asking God to take care of you and watch-over you until the morning ?" "No, Miss. 1 ain't afraid, cause I sleep in the middle." A young Cincinnati dentist was intro duci d to u fashionable beauty the other evening, and gracefully opened the con versation by saying: "Miss-, \ hopo that I may consider that wo are not en tirely unacquainted. I had tho pleasure of pulling a tooth for your father only a short time ago." A highly educated constable some where iu the northwest exposes for sale a roan horse, "or so much thereof as may be necessary" to satisfy the ju Igmeut. ,?AN<piN? Tu Kin Kaub Of*.?T^o unsophisticated country hisses visited Nlblo's, iti' New York,'duhng'tne Dailet aoakdn. WhW the skirted; go?BafaWi' c 1 ad ny n.phs madc their . appcara11 cc Ou the atage, they becatuo restless feud? r fi(1?ctJr ,-fj ? ttoil ;SSi AnnicI" niimf swioW "Well, Mary?" 1 19,D ' "fr ain't ni?e? I ddn't like It." "Hash!" "1 don't care, it ain't nice; and I won der why aunt brought us to such, a place !" "Hush, Mary! The folks will laugh at you 1" After one or two flings and a pirouette, the blushing Mary said : "Oh, Annie, let's go; it ain't uicc, and I don't feel comfortable I" "Do hush, Mary," replied the sister, whose own face was scarlet, though it wore-an air of dctermioatio. ; "it's the first time I ever was at a theatre, and I suppose it will be tho lust time ; so I am just going to sec it out, if thoy dance every rag off their backs 1" Napoleon is building a villa at Roma on the spot where the palaco of the Ojesars once stood. A London railway is asked to provido cars for the special accommodation of ladies with pet dogs. Grenoble, in France, being in want of a hero, is about to erect a statute of Jou vin, the glove-ma! jr. Mr. B. Odell Duncan, of Newborry. has been appointed Consul of the United States at Naples. Chicago now has thirteen railways connecting it with other places, and seventeen more arc building. Petroleum is said to have been dis covered on the line of the Pacific rail way. ' During jubilee week Boston instead or being the "hub of the universe," will be i ho hub.hub* The Atlantic cable's receipts are over $3,000 per day. The New York Medical Society have resolved that one day of rest in seven is accessary- for all men. A Tennessee suicide carefully took off his wooden leg before shooting himself. A 830,000,000 embezzlement baa just been discovered in the Austrian War office. I Niuety-cight lake vessels arrived or departed from Chicago one day this , week, A man iu New Haven has invented a machine by which one man can sew six hundred pairs of shoes in a day. The oat crop of East Tennessee will be very short this season?about one third of a crop. Corn looks badly, but the wheat crop is fine. The Unitarian Church in New Bed ford. Mass., has voted to dispense with the bread and wino in Communion. '? Remember who you are talking to, sir!" said an indignant parent to a fractious boy; "I am your father, sir!" '?Well, who's to blame for that?" said young impertinence; '''taint me!" A largo number Journeymen brick layers of Cincinnati have refused to work iu consequence of an attempt of tho bosses to reduce their pay from five *o four dollars per day. A woman of 75 was married to a mau of H">, in Tiffin, Ohio, last week. The woman has been married twice before, and has children older than her prcseut husband. Horace W. Carponter, of Oakland, California, offers to give SGO^OOO for the establishment of an orphan asylum in that city, if five other citizens will do the same. An editor says, "our best things will j bo found on the ouUidc." That's the way with the most of tho world. The Strongest Kind of* a Hint?A young lady asking a gentleman to sco if one of her rings would go on his little finger. A landlady in Boston, it is said, makes her biscuit so light that the lodgers oau see to go to bed by them,*} Anything pito you dare?" inquired ono Dutchman of ancther, while engaged in angling. No, nothing at all. Yell 1 returned the othor, not'ing pito me too. A preacher in Now Hampshire, dis coursing on tho aubjoot of Duniol in the Lion's Den, said; "And thar he sot all night long, looking at tho show for noth ing, and it didn't oost him a cent." Tho venerable Bishop Andrew, of tho M. K. Church, South is in Augusta, Oa-, and looking well. - ,U1 ?orrrittg jtwr,TiiJiMil?| as m? We arc in favor of marriS* w*3&S^ tign?h. Wo think every ?6l&lfo**foryft < ob? allowed toyoUi on %b4* f^f?M^) i oy.jrcpr^aentatiop. t fcn? .o'tiS ? "A man lecturing in Georgia, tnat Adam was, a yellow'' MW tfn^ricrefl?^^ T ^wnh any in^ A^i^^^^^ ?**"? 5 "Haina have injured KtMlS^ki.nsfj^flo too, much waterrbas always b*al a j^; effect on Kentucky corn, but the jpeop|r?ya still-use it. , "Sherman declines notHlng1/*. Hfc'' noticed that on hhr "mah* to Ok****0 "Chained lightening" is the inp* shockjug of all. ,'oodflw 1o Jto?j "Victoria is to m*k* a ctmtineafcl trip this summer.*" 'We don? ?*$-! "contiucnt,!" if she docs*. "A woman has died of S?? pouuds weight iu Philadelphia." Th?r #wv**r ? that "Time ami-tide iceight for no bum { or woman either. Being collared by a big fellow loay be seizinablc advico ; but nobody likes it. Those who imagine that one stream cannot cross nnother,: have never seen a "stream" of cattle crossing a stnani of ' water." .:. .,: ? baa-J-ii-jA WTork has been comiionced on the new jail at Darlington. ? ?d fanm Prof. Kcrr, finds a q<ttrntHy> ?St~*tfMt ' in the vicinity of W ilmington, North Car?" olina. Bennett, Jr., has & new yacht Like . him, it is uncommouly fust. Cuba appc rt-to be pretty essentially confused. It is difficult to tell which faction is uppermost. . ^ There are 0,000 printing houses in the United States, of which New York State haa417.; Sir E. Cunr.rd s property in Sogltarh was sworn at ,?300,000. ' . ?. . . Geo. W. Childs is to 'give a Fourth of July diunscto his Ledger ejnployccfl at Atlantic City. The Puko of Hamilton stands six feet in his stockings, is purple in the face and red of hair. A publishing house and type foundry have been started in Shanghai by enter* prisiug Chinese. Cininnati claims a population of two hundred and sixty-five thousand. Reversible parasols, which cloao with the lining outside, are the newest things in this article. As late as the 5th instant,travellers in northwestern Maine were delayed by" deep snow drills. 1 At the recent convention of the E^kK copal Diocese of Pittsburg a new pufctt of strong ritualistic tendencies w\WJl?v fused admission by an ovcrwhalnlng vote. Miss Craig gave the jury a splendid banquet after the one hundred thousand ' dollar verdict. Dennis Been, convicted at Cambridge, Mass., of murder, on Wednesday last saved the State the trouble of carrying out the sentence, by bunging himself. A juryman was asked whether he had been charged by the presiding Judge. "Well, Squire," said he, **Ae follow that sits upon the pulpit and kinder bos scss it over the crowd, giu us a talk > hut I don't know whether he charges any thing or not.'* During the first battle of Bull Ran s> Brigadier-General discovered a soldier ' concealed in a hole in the ground, anil ord,T"d him to join hin regiment. The man looking him full in tho face, p^asjsj^?ri bis thumb upou bis nose and replied : "No, you don't, old fellow, you want this hole yourself." At a country town in New Jersey, a" little boy, who was jumping about and - bawling loudly, Was asked why he wept. The following reply touched all hearts : "I want my mammy ; that's what's the matter. I told the darned thing she'd lose me." Tho North-German papers are telling a wonderful story about a girl, a resident of Hamburg, some twenty-three yean old, who after an illness of some weeks, apparently died on the Tuesday before Pentecost. The physioian, howevec, farbade her to be buried, as he perceived none of tho positive proofs of death. The girl lay inanimate for nearly a fortnight, until orders were finally given to prepare for tho funeral, when, it being then Saturday and seven o'clock in the morn-, ing, she suddenly came to life. Her death-like swoon had lotted eleven r/?fe* or tho length of so average Achutris steam voyage.