Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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h . .a ? w -a^<\w\ .v ? ??? - .. .. J.UIIUJI' i MMtM iw ii<i* rii>:j imic 'i'd;-! ii zal -/ij t?q -i i:WtittM TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. J () I ) \ N 1 ) oil Rj^epTJNTltY. i M AHO hit ).?/. IJA ALWAY8 IN ADVAWfi 1 VOLUME 3. V? ; 'a. i t SATURDAY MORNINU, JUNE 26, 1809. ' HOI1 ^tiiil? J A Homo in the Ocean. Let us yisit Minot Light House now. While this storm is at full power. This ledge im covered by water, except for a short time at very low tide. It risos in Boston bay, about twenty miles from BostoW und one mile and a hit If from Cohnssct. Iuto it are fitted and bolted down tho stones of the tower, which are dovetailed and bolted into each other in euch u fashion that no stone can he moved without lifting tower and ledge with it. The tower, light and all, is 111 feet in height; all over it, clean to the very top, the waves arc dashing. Does not their thunder make your very heart tremble ? But these keepers tell you there is no danger! For forty f et the towers are built up solid, except the well, which is in the centre, thirty-eight feet deep. It holds a supply of water for one year. The water keeps good and pure. The well holds 2.000 gallons. It is rather warm iu the summer, and in the winter becomes as one the keepers says, "a kind of porridge ice. Wo will sup pose we enter the tower from a boat. To do so wc should cither climb u ladder forty feet long, fixed iuto the side of the tower, or be swung up iu a chair. At the top of the ladder are two sets of oaken doors, against which are now beat ing the hungry waves. Between the other doors and the inner is an entry about three feet long. Kntciing this room (which is the cellar), from the doors arc seen on the right hand tho coal and the wood. There stands also a Hour barrel, and over these, suspended on hooks, hangs buckets of various sizes, containing, doubtless, many good things for food. On the left is the oil pump for {umpiug oil iuto the tank iu the oil room. Here are chests, ropes, brooms, tubs, pork barrels, and a little of everything needed for light keeping and lnniso-keeping. It is dark and ? lo!K here, mid we had better -i.-cend. All! how goinl it smells here, in the room tiext above the cellar. Kitchen and dining-room and everything cosy, com fortable and neat. A table well set ? hut cakes and hot coffee and boiled fir.li, "Of course we will." And down we -it. lint waiting a second invitation. Well, is not this a singular situation : It seems like dining iu a wh le's belly. Stormed about ami dashed about and poured about by the remorseless sea. and eating a relish In I meal tjuitc at our case. It is certainly one "new thing under the sun" to some of us Fach of the four keepers is oft' one week and on three. Communication with the land is oft n dangerous and impossible. In the win ter they cannot get home as often as once in three or four weeks. They all have families on shore; and here they sit during storms that shake to its foun dations their lonely tower and envelope its crystal summit iu foam, and they thiuk of wives and little ones wdio may bo sick or dying without the possibility of sending word to their beloved watch men ou the sea. '?Do you not take pleasure in the sights you must behold during all these isolated days and weeks!''" asked one. Oh. yes 1 We have a very extended prospect, and one which is never tw ice the same. Both sea and sky are forever changing, and everything that is on the sea comes and goes. There is nothing stationary but our tower. We see all the vessels that go in and out of I los ton harbor, and in the summer we are visited by pleasant parties in sailing vessels and steumors, the latter of which sometimes bring out bauds of music, which play to us. They approach close to u<. and give thrco cheers for Miuot Ledge light When visitors come into the Light we sometimes find as much amusement as they do. We have all sorts of visitors, as you may suppose. They come from China, California, ami from all parts of the world. We have many famous and some infamous names upon our visitor's book. It may seem strange that so far ns we are from shore we should be visit< d by birds, insects, millers and butterflies from the laud. Tho butterflies art; ol huge dimensions. 1 have in the morn ing swept off the walk that surrounds tho lantern, thirty, forty, and fifty ol t In sse little shore birds, which allured by the bright light, have flown hither over fhc waters to their death. ::Aj|d. hetp {* a bit of the glass front HIJO of thp ?tpiares of the lantern broken last wock by a large soa fowl, as wc gup* ?>o&>, for wc did no' tbu i*cni)emnn This is the first accident of the kind siucc the light Was creeled." "How long was this tower ill build ing ?" '?Five years and four nioiitlis. '?What do you men find to employ your minds ami hands with, and keep time from hanging too heavily upon you ?" "Oh, we mniiagc to keep busy. Wc make almost everything, from an exten sion table to a clothes pin. Then for sport and to supply our table wc fish. We don't have to go a fishing. Wc are j already there. All we 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." lify 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 diameter, aud 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. Here is an iron bedstead, a table on which lies a register lor the names of vistors, a ward robe, a' marble wasu-bowl and a water closet. I'p again, and wc come to the oil room. There is one water tank in this room, also a work bench and a box of glass for the lantern There are here an oil measure, a tool chest linden spare lamp. Another of the stoop narrow stairways brings us to the Watch-room? sitting-room of tho tower. Here is a table, an arm chair, a stove, books pa pers, a few pictures, and the machine lor I ringing the fog-boll. From this room wc may now. since the storm has ceased to send the waves so high, pass out on the balcony that 8U rounds it. Well for us that the iron railing is so str< ng. There ! UfiW you've no choice but to go homo hare-beaded. Why did you not cling to your hat and wig't This wind is enough to lake hair out by too roots, even if it. leaves the head itself. What a scene ! -v ?{%* :r ||pi:?e I- -Wo cannot dy^i-ibo it hot us go on. Ouc more Right and we are in the light room. Hero is the < b jeet for whose elevation and colli ioilaio e I all this masonry was made?all this skill ' and labor cnllod forth. "And tho light I is the life ol men." 'I bus wo render it. I At sunset the l.nup is lit, and till sunrise ? it {shims on in the darkmss?a beacon ami a wai'liitl". to all ?Im sail on that d ingerous sea. The lamp has throe con j centric wicks, and is iu the centre of a lens four feet in diameter and ten feet ' high. Step within an 1 look at your friends through these prisms??how do you like the looks of faces throe; feel ' long '{ This magnifies the power of the light, and the g!a-s walls of this room probably have the sann* effect. There is another walk and balcony without, but we will not try it. It is only on calm, clear evenings that being out there is agreeable. 1'nt within, not all the cold and frost und storms of winter, at its worst, can effect one's bodily comfort. One is as thoroughly protected as if he was iu bis tomb. Wonder if these keep ers ever have a nervous fancy that they arc entombed ! It would not be strange. On tin- first balcony, about three feet wide, wc should have scon the ibgbcll could wo have scon anything for the wind and spray. It weighs 1,500 pounds, and is hung up against the wall of the tower.?A*. V. Journal of Commerce. <mm??? - imm?i. ? - A Toueiii.NC Stoiiy.?Tho Hon. A II. Stephens, of Gcoagia, ::t a mooting at Alexandria, for the benefit of the Orphans Asylum and free school of that oily, related tin- 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 nightfall the home of a wealthy planter, who took him in, fed and lodged him. and sent him on his way w ith a blessing. These kind attentions cheered his heart and inspired him fresh courage lo battle with the obstacles of life. Years rolled round ; Providence led him on and he reached the legal profession j his ho>t. had died, tho cormorants that prey en the substance of a man bad formed a conspiracy to get from the widow her i state. She sent lor 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 tonacious gratitude was now added to the ordinary motivo con nected with the profession. He under took her caUSO with a will not easy to be resisted, he gained it; the widow's es tates wore secured to her in perpetuity," and, Mr. Stephens added, with an cm path ia of uUiotioi .'....( scut nn electric thrill throughout the house, " That boy stau Is before you " Mormon Assassins. The Salt Lako Jirjiorfir gives the following account of Mrighum Young's band of cut throats : A certain number, Bnld to be twelve, of the most desperate 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" and "advancement" of his holy cause. The murder of (low Boggs and many others was planned in the secret conclave of the Danites, and I executed by the chosen ' twelve." The attempt to murder Governor Boggs for tunately failed, and at least one of the would-be murderers is now known to live in Utah. Both of those secret socie ties now exist iu Salt Lake City. The discipline is more perfect under Brigham Young than under doe Smith, and con sequently the aims more sure, the objects more certainly accomplished. No sooner docs a (lentil;! enter .Salt Lake City than he is placed under the surveilliancc of the secret police. A member of the Danite organization is deputed to watch him from the time, he comes until he leaves. His habits words, and careless expressions of opinion are noted and reported, that the Mormon authorities may determine wluthcr he is a friend, a secret enemy, or an open and avowed opposcr of Mormon iniquity. The day , has been when expression of opinions inimical to tin; Mormon leaders would result in assassination to the hold de- | fender, and sometimes even the mere ' suspicion that a Gentile was opposed to | the Mormon rule would produce such a result. The true secret of Brigham's great success iu controlling the discordant : elements of which his Church is uom 1 posed is due to fears of the Dnuitcs. The ! Mormons know that certain death by a.-.sa.-.-Miation awaits a violatiou of their I bams, ami m.a atfltougii the u.i\ oHhTsrl doom may be postponed, it is sure to come witli the opportunity. It is true that many apostates have escaped as sassination, but this was owing to the fact that thev used*subterllitre to nlacc themselves beyond Brigham's p?wcr; but even these instances arc not wanting of Ifaniter- having followed apostates into j different cities of the United States, hoping for a faV< table opportunity to I assassinate. Others escape, because for 1 the time it is deemed inexpedient to kill them. Itcccuf mysterious death- of C!entiles near Salt Lake City have fur a -lent time excited comment, but finally they have been forgot I uii. No coroner's ini|uest* ha\e in\e.?t igated facts and cireuinstauces, and no inquiry has been i made by the authoriticsiutothceaii.se of their deaths. But such a system cannot be perpetuated. The Government must sooner or latter throw her proteet .... ing banner over her citizens in I tab. and not allow it to he scoffed at and spit on by a lewd ami let herons priesthood. Ivvut.v lltsl.Nc.?A young farmer found he was getting reduced in cireum stances. He went tu a friend to a.?k his advice. This friend, with a grave face, said : "I know of a charm that will cure that ; take this little cup, ami drink from it every morning of the water you must get from such a spring. Mut 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 his estate, and spying his neighbor's cow.- which had broken through the fence, and were feeding on his pasture, he turned them out and mended the fence. The laborers were not yet at work ; when they came loiter ing along niter their proper time, they were startled at seeing their master so early. "(Mi !" saul he. ul sec how it i.? ; it comes of not getting up in time." This early rising soon became ll pleas ant habit ; his walk and cup of water gave him ail appetite for breakfast; and the people were, like him, early at work, lie soon acknowledged that the advice his friend, had given was as good a.- it was simple. A Frenchman who was afllicled with the gout, being asked what difference there was between that ami the rhuema tism, "One-very gn at difference," he replied. ? Suppose you take one vico, you put your linger in, you turn dc scrow till you hour him no longer?dat is do rhuemalr/. ; dcu s'pose you givi him one turn more, dal U de gout." A Mad Hoksk.? Tine West Chaster, Va. Republican of M-tgrduy-suyB: 'On Saturday lasttju horse owuod.by Sewcll Chambers, a colored man living in Thornbury township, was scired with hydrophobia. Tho animal had boon con fined in n field near l&rlltrglon's corner, but by some means y.St out cd' the enclo sure into the public.rond. It attacked a team belonging to William Farrcll. who was engaged in hauling stone to the railroad. The driver oTthe team succeed ed iu driving off the mad animal, aud 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 tho spasm returned it would again rise, ami attack everything in its road. Several persons w re chased to the tavern porch, and one individual narrowly escaped being bitten. Iu its vage to bite Its own tongue w;:s nearly bitten off. The animal was finally secured in a lot, where it died during the night in great agony. It was n valuable horse, and was used by Mr. Chambers iu threshing grain, with a machine, fhrntlgh the neighborhood. What is still more terrible to contemplate is the tact that this horse is supposed to have been bitten by .1 dog belonging to Mr. lOlias llakcr, that was thought to he mad, and bit two persons some three weeks sine??an account of which was published in this paper. This supposi tion is strengthened by the fact that Mr. linker's dog bit tvfo other dogs o.s the farm of Mr. George Faucett, when' the horse was kept. The dogs of Mr. Faucet I wore killed immediately after. 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 resorted to in their ca.scs will prove effectual again.-1 thin malady, j In a Tiiiii r Vlaci:.?At J.-.on Sunday evenim^j^igucd by his long * 1'iurTi.y. A4- ijjo"r^^fSw ""J'.h. rflu .!\.hu drove the team into a good range,, and determined to pass the Sabbath enjoying a season of worship \\i:h the good folks of the village. When the time for worship arrived John was set to watch the tea ii. while the wagoner went inj with the t- ?vd. The preacher had hardly announced his subject In-fore the ' old 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 low partition, sat a ' fleshy lady, who seemed all absorbed iu the sermon. She struggled haul with her feelings, until, unable to control them any longer, sin- burst out with a loud .-??ream, and shouted at the top ol her voice, rousing the old man hall awake, who thrust his arm around her waist, and cried very soothingly : ??Wo Nance! wo! Here John. < til ihe hellv band and loose the breeching quit k or she'll tear everything to pieces'!'' j It was all the work of a moment, but the sister forgot to shout, the preacher j lost the thread of his discourse, ami the ? meeting came prematurely to an end. , while, deeply mortified, the old man skulked away, determined nut to go to meeting again until he could manage to j keep his .-t ti-o- by remaining awake. To-Hay Am. To Mnitnmw- -To .lay. we gather bright and beautiful How : ? to morrow they are faded and d I To-day a wreath of leaves -hades us? , to morrow, .-< ro at d fallen, they crumble : heiieat' our 11 o.ol To-d:i'y the earth i- covered with a I carpet of green?to-morrow it is brown with the w ithi ri d grass. To d y the vigorous stalk only bends ? before the gale to-moiTOW, leafless and sapless, a child ma) break the brittle stein. To day ihe ripening fruit ami waving grain?to-morrow, --the hind is taking its rest after ihe toil." To-day wo hear sweel songsters of meadows and forests, the buy./ aud hum of myraid insect!?to-morrow breathe softly, all nature is hushed and silent. To day a stately edifice, complete in finish and surrounding, nttracts the passcr-b) -to-morrow a heap of ruins mark the site. To day there are cattle upon a lllOUS : aud bills- -to morrow they fall l>\ slaiigh ! tor. i 'file fashion of tho World p.lSil til away , lint ht Christ dwell within us, and though we pass away like the faded leaf aud shapeless stalk we shall arise to now I1CSS of life. ??Whore everlasting spri .g abide, And never withering Hov u 1 A TECHNICAL Sl itok.?Dove Tetter from a Tailor to his Sweet-heart, a Man illa, maker?"?Bemnant of* my hope*: May I be ripped from the border of your esteem and never be buttoned to the loop ol' your kindness, but 1 am strongly sc.mied to them by your beauty. May I never loose a thimbleful of your fav?r, but you have entangled the thread of my understanding with that pretty outside of yours. Odd bodkin ! L am surely yours every inch of me?and my needle follows you. Therefore blunt not the endeavors, but. let me baste myself to your kindness, that I may sit (hitherto your affections. I love you beyond measure, but its so hard to cabbage one sweel look from you, that I almost de spair of having uiiough to finish my suit. Pray put a favorable construction on this, and, lor the same shall always sit cross legged for your sake, being my dearest little flouncer, your. CA BBAOF.." A BkaUTIKUL INI'IDKXT. ? A naval officer being at sea in a dreadful storm, his wife, who was sitting iu the cabin near him. and filled with alarm for the safety oi the vessel, was so surprised with his composure and serenity that she cried (Otlt. My dear, are you not afraid ! IToW is it possible you can be s ? calm in such a dreadful storm He rose from his chair, lashed to the .deck, .supporting himself by a pillar of the hod-place, drew hisfcword ami point ing it to the breast of his wife exclaim ed": ?Are you afraid of that sword ?" She instantly answered, "No." ''Why r' said the officer. .... . I "Because," rejoined the lady, "I j know that it is in the hand- of my bus- < band, and he loves me i< o well to hurt me." ?Then."?said he. "remember, I know in whom I believe, ami that he holds the winds ill tils flsis iukI -,r..t. r in the hollow of his hands.' A \\'<>N i?vr.i't i. St?kv.? For a week past the daughter of Mr. Wnlshuucr, ag( 1 about three years, and residing at the corner of Spain and Great mim streit 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 he v. a- taken worse. 'flic father of the child, s'.tj p.?>ing that worms was the e tu> ? of her illness, administered a worm p iwd ;i\ About midnight she was taken seri usly ill. accompanied by a choking sensation, and it Was feared she Would ? lie from the effects, when she suddeiih vomited, throwing up. among other mat ter, a ii\e mouse, about an inch ami a h ill' long, not including the tail, which Was m at the same length As soon as ' the young girl wa< relieved of the ani mal, she immediately exclaimed to lur anxious pi cut.-. "Oh. mother. look, this ; is the thin- that has been troubling me so inn h." When wc saw the child. I' i d i*, to ruing, slie was as well as could be. ami romping about the streets as 1 happy as a "gaysunflower." The mouse which was so mysteriously lodged iu the child's stomach, was captured by Mr. Albert \\ eilbacher, the druggist, corner of Spain and CrcatuiCli streets, and prc . serve 1 in alcohol, where the curious, as j well a- skeptical, can examine it at their 1' ore How, when and where the ani mal found its way down her throat, and how it maintained life, is a matter of j eonj- et ure.- ?.V. 1. Timm. _ 1 . A Bp.AVK CUM.. A little girl in 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 i to sleep iu the dark without asking God to take care of you and walch-ovcr you until the morning V "No, Miss. 1 ain't afraid, cause 1 sleep iu the middle." A young Cincinnati dentist was intro duccd to a fashionable beauty the other evening, and gracefully opened the con versation In saying: "Miss-, \ hope 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 coustablo some where ?? the northwest exp- es for sale a roan In ire. or so much thereof a* may be necessary" to satisfy the judgment. Dancinu Their Bags Ovr.?Ti?o unsophisticated cpunjry lasses visited NTblo's, in New York, during tho "ballet season. WKch' tho skirted, gossainor Clad nymphs made their appearance On the stage, they became rostlcsa find j fidgety. "Ob, Annie I" exclaimed one, totfo i'OCC. "Well, Mary?" "ft ain't nice; I don't like it." "Hush !" "I don'tcaro, it ain't nice; and I won der why auut brought us to such, a place !" "Hush, Mary ! The folks will laugh at you 1" After one or two flings and a pirmuitt*, the blushing Mary said : "Oh, Annie, let's go; it ain't uicc, and I don't leel comfortable !" "Do hush, Mary," replied the sister, whose own face was se.i-lct, though ii wore an air of determination ; "it's the I first time I ever was at a theatre, and 1 j suppose it will be the last time ; so I am just going to sec it out, if they dance i every rag off their backs I" Napoleon is building a villa at Homo on the spot where the palace of the Ctcsars once stood. A London railway is asked to provide cars lor the special accommodation of | ladies with pet dogs. GEronoble, in France, being in want of] a hero, is about to erect a statute of Jou vin, the glove-maker. Mr. II. 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 Hue of the Pacific rail way. During jubilee week Boston Instead of being the -'hub of the universe," will be ?hu hub.Lulu ^ 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 necessary for all men. A Tennessee suicide carefully took off his wooden leg before shooting himself. A 830,000,000 embezzlement has just been discovered in the Austriau War j office. I Ninety-eight 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 Kast 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 ami wine in Communion. ? lleinember who you are talking to, sir!" said an indignant parent to tl fractious boy; -I am your father, sir!" "Well, who's to blame for that?" said young impertinence; ??'taint me!" A large number .Journeymen brick layers of Cincinnati have refused to work in consequence of an attempt of the I bosses to reduce their pay from five to four dollars per day. A woman of 75 was married to a man of 35, in Tiffin, Ohio, last week. The i woman has been married twice before, and has children older than her present husband. Horace W. Carpenter, of Oakland. California, otters to give 800,000 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 be found on the outside." That's the way with the most of the world. The Strongest Kind of'a Hint?A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one ol her rings would go ou his little linger. A landlady in Boston, it is said, makes her biscuit so light that the lodgers oan see to go to bed by thcm.1 Anything pito you dare?" inquired one Dutchman of another, while engaged in angling. No, nothing at all. Veil I returned tho other, not'ing pito me too. A preacher in Now Hampshire, dis coursing On tho subject of Daniel in the Lion's Den, said; "And thar he sot all night lung, lookiug at the show for noth ing, and it didn't cost him a cent." The venerable Bishop Andrew of the M. K. Church, South is in Augusta, litt-, and lookiug well. Morning gfejr MkHl^? sail Wo arc in favor of ttarrl^^^SSS^ tig*.* Rethink every "oira**^tft to be allowed to vote on M4> ^MfllMft? iay representation, j ^ ; "A man lecturing in Georgia,, asaerla, that Adam was a yellow man.'' We" know an incredulous fellow who says bo wasn't any sueh Adam thing.* ^ l'nn ?,ir> "Hains bare injured Kontucky corn." Too much water has always had a bad effect on Kentucky corn, bat the people., St'lll-USC it. mmmi? "Sherman declines nothing." We noticed that on his "march to tnesjal**'' "Chained lightening'? is the mos? shocking of all. "Victoria is to make a continent*! trip this summer.'" Wo don't case a . "continental" if she docs. "A woman has died of 600 pounds weight iu Philadelphia." Thia- proros that "Time and tide weight for no man j or woman either. Being collared by a big fellow may bo seizinablc advice ; but nobody likes it. Those who imagine that one stream cannot cross another, have neveT seels a "stream" of cattle crossing a stream of I water." i \K Work has been commenced on the new jail at Darlington. Prof. Kcrr, finds a quantity of niarl in the vicinity of Wilmington, North Car olina. i Bennett, Jr., has a new yacht Like him, it is uncommonly fast. Cuba appears 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 has 417. Sir B. Cunard's property in England was sworn at ?300,000- ? t. , Geo. W. Childs is to give a Fourth of July diunec to his Ledger employees at Atlantic City. The Puke of Hamilton ataudssix feet in his stockings, is purple in the face and red of hair. A publishing house and typ? foundry have been started in Shanghai by enter? i prising Chinese. Cininnati claims a population of two hundred and sixty-five thousand. Reversible parasols, which close with the lining outside, are the newest things iu this article. As late as the 5th instant, travellers in northwestern Maine were delayed by' deep snow drifts. At the recent convention of the Ep?K^ copal Diocese of Pittsburg a new parish of strong ritualistic tendencies wasre? fused admission by an overwhslning vote. Miss CraIg gave the jury a splendid banquet after the one hundred thousand * dollar verdict. Dennis Been, convicted at Cambridge, Mass., of murder, ou Wednesday last saved the State the trouble of carrying out the sentence, by hanging himself. A juryman was asked whether he had been charged by the presiding Judge. "Well, Squire," said he, "the follow that sits upon the pulpit and kinder bos scss it over the crowd, gin us a talk ? hut l don't know whether he charges any* thing or not." During the first battle of Bull Run a Brigadier-General discovered a soldier concealed in a hole in the ground, and ordered him to join his regiment. The man looking him full iu the face, placed bis thumb upon his in-;! 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: "1 want my mammy ; that's what's the matter. I told the darned thing she'd lose mo," Tho North-Gorman papors are telling a wouderful story ubout a girl, a resident of Hamburg, some twenty-three years old, who after an illness of some weeks, apparently died on the Tuesday before Pentecost. Tho physioian, however, farbade her to be buried, as he perceived nono of tho positivo 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 camo to life. Her death-like swoon had lotted eleven day$\ j or the length of 80 average Atlanta steam voyage. *