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gervais & assembly streets
(01 AM HI a, S. 0.
<3onv<?niqitt to the Greenville and Charleston
KAjVroiyU and tho Busiuesa portion of
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por Day.
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alp.
IS ?0 U* tf
The Little Newsboy.
Out in the dark of trie snow-covered street
Wearily patter the poor little feet :
Eye? sleepy, from tirod?he's; worked all the
day,
Tor poor little Robbie line no tirao to play.
niailly he'd hie to.his snug lttle Vieri,
Put the children at homo would be orying
for bread:
And Robbie must sell all hin papers to
night.
Or the children will bo in a sorrowful plight.
Roor Robbie's no father to work for him now;
Ami tlnit is why Robbie is out in the snow ;
Ami his dear nether aiglf*. aa she says with
a tear,
"What a pittiful night, wntld that Robbie
were here."
Then she throws down her work, nnd she
opens the door,
She has ojtened it certainly five tinieH be
fore;
Ami she cries, "Ah ; he's coining. 1 hear the
glad song
Tlml my dear Robbie sings an he trudges
along."
And Robbie spreads out his hardly-earned
store
(If pennies?oh ! Robbie, I wish they were
more ?
And he snys, '-Mother, dear, I think I've
done well
Every one my papers this cold night to
sell."
Then his mother?her heart is too full to
speak?
Kisses poor little Robbie upon his cold
cheek;
AndthutfUsthcgre.it God though of much
she*ft bereft,
That her geodlitllO Robbie at least has boon
left, ^
Pear child sitting warm by your firo to-niglit
while tlie snow king is out iu bis garments
of white,
Thnnk tue (Jod of ull comfort, of light and
of joy,
That you an' not Robbie the little nrwsboy.
TUNE.
BY K- ANUKttTON.
'Oh, Paul ! don't you wish wo r.cic
rich, like the family at Hill Lodge, and
thai papa CutUd drive to town every dnv
iu his carriage as Mr. Hirers docs ? and ?
there's Julian, too, only your :igc, ridel
u h rse now?he might have given you
his little puny, it was very mean to se 1
it.'
:'Sister let us be thankful that our
lather is able to walk, and not crippled
like Mr. Rivers* but do you believe
that I. who atn taller, than Julian, would
ride that little pony ? A pretty fig tiro
I should cut with my long legs almost
t< tu hing the ground.'
'Ah. but sometimes T cannot help
wishing we acre rieh,' and Dora Hatnp
ton sighed, as she glanced down at her
faded calico drcsi
TIave courage and patience little Sis ;
I hope soon to get a place and earn some
money, then, when I g"ow to be a man,
you are to be my little housekeeper.
Hut here comes Julian, riding at a full
full gallop down the hill ; what brings
him, I wonder we have not been v? ry
goods friends of late ?'
'Hallo, there V cried Julian. ?Hold
my horse while I come iu for a few u.iu
utcs.' Again he repeated the summons
iu a louder tone.
?Who are you caliing to, Master Iliv
ers V
'To you, of course ; you do uot keep
a groom, I guess.'
'We do not, sir, neither arp I one; so
when you condescend to ride do am into
the valley, uttcud to your horso your
pelf.'
Dora watched Julian as he alighted
add tied his horso to the gurden gate.
He was handsomely dressed in a velvet
suit, with riding gloves, and dainty, lit
tle, well-fitting boots; but lie looked
pule and sickly, for his appo ite was
pampered with rich uuwhol-.ome food,
and he was allowed to sit up until all
hours of tho night. Then she glanced
toward her brothor. What a contrast !
With his dark, handsouio .eyes, nnd no
ble brow and cheek, browned by expos
ure to the sau ; even those coarse, homo
made jjarineiits looked ?voll upon hL
erect figure. 'I'll never wish for riuhus
any moro,' thought Dora.
'Puff, puflT exclaimed Julian ns ho
entered ; 'bow smothering it is in this
little "room, with its low ceiling! Oh,
Dora! 1 did not seo ydu in that dark
corner.'
'Look you sir !' cr!cd Paul, indignant*
ly. 'this is my I'nthcr'a dwelling, and as
such, is sacred in my eyos. Stay with
out in future, and do not come here to
insult us.'
'Excuse me. Paul, for I really didn't
iuteud to offeud you,' und Juliau held
out his hand. 'I came to nek if you
would go to town with me ; 1 waut a
ucw riding whip, aud uo end of things.'
'Not in the dusty highway at your
horse's heels ; hut if you walk there by
the meadow, atidthrough the little wood
I doa't object, for I have some errands
in town for mother.'
'Auroed, then ; may I put up my
horse somewhere till we return ?'
'Yes, in the old barn; there is plenty
of straw and he will be quite safe there.
I'll assist you now, Julian, ami any time
when y<?u treat mo us your equal, ami
drop putting on airs.'
'All right, Paul. But what sh ill I
billig you from town, Dora, and Julian
rattled a handful of silver dollars in his
pockot.
?Nothing, thank you.' Dora Hamp
ton was not a whit less proud than her
brother.
The two boys followed the narrow
footpath through the meadow, though
almost hidden from their sight by the
long, waving gratis, Paul sometimes
stopping to gather a few wild flowers,
for the garden at Dale Cottage was not
rieh in floral ornaments. Tl ey did not
wait to go round by the old bridge
which spanned the little stream half a
mile away, but drawing < fi their shoes
a-d stockings waded through the water,
sitting awhile to rest on the other side,
and planning a fishing excursion for a
future day. Beyond the stream lay the
little wood, and there Paul gathered the
wild honey suckle and the delicate fern
to ad 1 to his bouquet, hiding it beneath
the rushes at the Water's edge until their
? ei wrii.
'J he plensnnt shady wood was passed,
a wiioliii.- lam; fcU.eceroV'1, froo 'xhvuxnf
the church spires and Jolty buildings of
the town were visible The two com
panions soon reaching the wide suburb
of the principal street, traversed in all
directions by many others.
They visited one store. I'aul made
the household purchnj***. for his mother, j
and vari >u< others on Julian's account ;
who soon disp^s 1 of :ill his money; !
'And now,' he said, 'I have not a red
cent left.'
?Precisely my cns?,' erie I Paul, 'with
this difference, that I started out wilhi
out any of my own. Hallo ! what's this T*
Stop, stop, J ule.'
The boy lifted something from beneath
his feet ; it was a pocket book filled with
notes, s^ome of a high vaiue,
?flow lucky !' exclaimed Julian, 'jui-t
when our pockets were empty. Bet's
go h;dv-a oil the spot, or. rather, hurry
on into the laue, and there count our
trcasure.'
' (Jar treasure ? You had passed by,
und were not the finder, neither is it
mine to divide.'
'1 never heard such stupidlietM ! Do
you really intend to restore that pocket
book, if inquired for ? No one SaW you
pick it up.'
'Yes, One. did, who sees all things ;
but I shall not count the money now ;
my father will do that, when he comes
home, and keep it until we hear of the
owner.'
'And that owner reward you with his
thanks, or, perhaps, a miserable live or
teu dollai note.'
'I shall rejoice to have rarued that
much honestly.'
The walk homo was far loss plcisant
to the two boys; Julian all the way
co\etint* a share of that newly-found
trca.suio, nnd Paul grave and silont with
the resj onsibility of his charge. Thoy '
no longer hunted the brown squirrel,
nor paused to watch the fish leaping to
the surface as the sunbeams danced up
on tho water, uor plucked the wild
flower in their path?even the hidden
bouquet was forgotten?but thoy hurri
ed ou to tho cottage, where J ulian.
uttering a hasty 'good-bye,' mounted
his horse and rode away.
Mr. Hampton bald a situation as
clerk-in an offiee in tho town ; ho always
went there early, but tho following
morning Paul accompanied him. They
bought a paper, eagerly scanning the
advertisements under the huud of'Lost,'
and with a wildly boating heart, Paul
read aloud, '$200 Reward,' then follow
ed n description of tho pocket-book and
its contents. (200 I Ho was breathless
with excitement.
'This appears to bo the property of
Owen Wainright, one of our leading
merchants,' said Mr. 'i&mptoB, ifoi
shall take it to him, my^boy, rolatinj
how and where you fount
It wis not long bo I 11 returned,
his handsome face glowing with pleasure*
'After inquiring ray nam? father,* said
ho, 'and' y*ur employmet) , Mr. Wilo->
right usked what I shoulH do with the
roward ? 1 suswered giue it ? all to
father, for he will know best how to lay
it out. So here it is, Air,' aud Paul
couutcd out ton $20bi11s. T
'And a real godsend it ?, Pnul '
'Hut stay?you nnvo ^ot heard all.
Mr. Wninright seemed phased with-my'
answer, and uking 825 njjure froui the
pocketjjhonk gave it to q?>lso, saying.
'This, my honest boy, is-for yourself.' t
He next, asked ihfudjts, i?4M oh ! father,1
I do believe toy fortuno ifr made, fon 11
ani tO ?Olli? ngajn ?KriniAnCT y{>n with
me, to morrow morning, aop he promises
to give me then a 'post or' trust' in his
warehouse ; and, father, owVoiy way hero.
I met old Miss Elm wood, ^who once had
the school houso near our cottage, and
she ia going with me.torpide dry goods
storo, to help me chooajo two pretty
dtosses for mother, and Po? : and, dear
father, try to get off with tuie afternoon
?we'll go home togetnwr and have a
real banquet togethor iiVhotior of his
good hick.'
Mr. Hampton made kflgn in token
of assent, for at that mmnjmt he could
nut speak.
Oh, what a happy cvcnlfcig that was ? j
The little e<-U.-igc in the volley resound
ed with the children's sorrajand cheers,
as Paul's 'banquet,' for sislhey called it.
was partaken. 1 questui^JCtha, grout
house upon the hill was hat " fojty ,l
fdaco.
It was wonderful what that 820(1
efTeetod. It. put a bright r.jier mi little
parlor walls, and a ue#J^jigpet ovur tho
f.oor, so strewn with r .-mJkIs ami gre-n
leaves that one f. .nvd^?^^eiu byj
walking ou it. ^i'ree^at^HprubsVcro.*
planted in the gsrdon, nndffowora round
the window b?oh, you would hardly
know Dale Cottage now.
Even Julian Rivera is convinced that
it was a far wiser, as well as more honor
able course, to restore that money, for
Paul advances each year in his siiaa.ion:
And d.-ar little Dora w so proud t?l
her brother! She will u W and then
rctlioliiher n highly important co.umis^j
don, and write him a note, Bending it bj
some one going to tuwu, merely for the
pleasure of seeing tho directiou, 'Paul
Hampton, care of Owen YVatorightf
Esq.'
'Hero's another tetter from your
sweetheart, Paul,* jiaid a fellow clerk
one day*. ' ! ' ,-'^ U rdi
'No, it's from my own-dour little sis,'
was Paul's Jreply.. 'buTif 1 meet with
such another true, kind girl for a sweet
heart, also I shall think myself a lucky
fellow.'
Atid so Paul keeps steadily upon his
course, with every prospect of future
advancement, and with the brightest
hopes of growing up to a noble man
hood, in spite of his humble beginning
His employer places the grearten conti
deuce iu him, and Dora i* justly proud
of her brother. They have both Icarucl.
on mure than one occasion,'the truth of
the old ma xini?Honesty Is ttve best
policy ; tor does not Paul owe all his
bright prospects and an,bit inns to thut
one little act of rostoriug the le-dt pocket;
book t > its ownor ?
itobwcp. 05nF.FT.KY ON FaMK AM)
His E pit a mi.Fame is a tapir;
popularity an Occident; . riches take
wings; the only ear.Jily certainty is
oblivion. And yet I uhejrish the hope
that tho "journal I projected and estab
lished will live and flourish Ioug after I
shall hnvc mouldered into forgotten dust,
being guided by a larger wisdom, a
ruoro unerring sagacity to discern the
right, though not by a more unfaltering
readiness to ombraco and defied it at
whatever personal cost; and that the
stone which covers my ashos may bear
to future ages the still intolligiblo iu-.
sciiption, "Pounder of the New. York
Tribune."?From iiecolUctiont of a Dual/
Li/r. _
A young gent I em an, having called in
his physician, eaid :
'Now, sir, I want no trilling ; I wish
\ou to. strike at the cause of the dis
- ' ; * ? * ' m i .is i*vu ? *
ease.
?It shall bo donel' replied the' doctor,
aud, lifting his cane, hu smashed the
decanter of wine upon the table. .
tfhe ready money system?Due or bo
done.
??i <rf* ?Mjfyi-toetic Auti<*8?
i ill bu? ? -I ? / '. ftp) si* ?i*t
A CHAi-iKH of AOOIDKNTB?-Til Ii |b"b- !
c-dTOLT oj/ usinq untamim) Bii-Brrs.
f.v ? ; i ? ? ?
1
' We hare thought all along sinoa ' thcj
horse opidomic began to rage, that there
would-be trouble from bitehing up oxen,
mcuj- biiys and goals, who had novor
been properly trained to this kind of
work., and ? nqw we arc called upon to'
notice a series of runaway accidents that
occurred* yesterday, by which ' much
property was destroyed, and'liV'cs'eti
dangOred.- VVe - hope ?it will Bcv!er bo'
our duty > tq . chronicle such a horrible*
chapter p? dptruetion.
, The first outbreak occurred at the
head of Franken street yesterday morn
ing, about eight o'clock. It seems that
'Mr 1-umpjcrkcr,' one1 of the ontrferous
in ilk dealers who supply certain of our
citieeus tvith etdoring npjterial f >r llipir.
coffee and tea, was coining from his
dairy with his hand-carts filled with
milk cans, aud (owing to'the epihippic)
drawn by two sorrel-headed hired hicn,
one a young spirited fellow who had
not been worked in harness but three
days, and the other an older beast with
wind galls on Iiis head, and blind in the.
off eye. Mr. Punipjcrker was pushing
behind, not dreaming of danger, when
just as the team turned from Brook1
?"street on to Franklin; they caught-sight
uof cdTorul coafp, and-not being familiar
with such looking animals, became af
Irigted and started off down Franklin
street at a fearful rate of speed, with
their coat tails in thk't horizontal posi
tion neeeslairy for the gnnYtfof ehebuea s,
and their.soap looks Aying-Iii tho breeze.
The hand-cart was npset near the cor
ner of Walnut ?lrect, but the now thor-1
ou2ol# maddened team soon kicked
'themselves loose from the wreck, and ,
wiiji the tugs flapping about the calVos
of*-their logs, fied out on the Plcas-i^t
ville road, ".where they were stopjied by
a saloon keeper who held a couple of
orcktails iicfotjO them. Mr Pumnjeik
cr's loss was about six dollars, tn>?.-:!?? |
for tin-ware and wasted chalk.
A, Swede man '>'.]?,,-? w :> .?-'i -1 I > a
red wheel barrow^ while trotting down i
Sffflip. 'WfCt&y1 iffrnVnm? b came *
I'rghteMcd at The fuel ? a . if g man!
??\h) was hiving his in otri hiul&cd iri|
front o| the American Hutcl, and before \
thu bystander* cou!i| ?iep him ran away']
at break-neck speed towards Moiroi
street. A man in front of the Parshall.
tlouso yelled, and threw a ClUO at the
frightened man, but"** struct tli'e hitter
in a ' different-spit from that which! the
thrower intenrlod,. jto. d^ita, . and* .vnly
a?-ccler^ted the runaway's progress, and
he broke into such a gait that tic broke
a gut? near Spring and Ferry street, and
left the wheel barrow a Wreck '6n the
top of ,1. K. White's sowing machine
rootas. At last iicuounls the frightened
Swede .jiad not been captured, and it is
thought, that he has ,eturned to his
nat ive land.
An old farmer came in town yester
day driving his two sons, who are about
ten hands high* with white spats on'
ibeir . iferoheads, where their hats wear
^edirt off, and hitched to a light wago-n I
with frost-bitten puQikillft, decayed po
tatoes, stove wood and other luxuries
peculiar to this country. Both'boys had
been carefully groomed^ and cn|ma
I gallantly. uraiioiiijijntn town, when just
f as they wero .opposite the ilry goods 1
store of W. II. Andrews, on fipfiflfrj
street, several handsome young ladies
came out of the store, and'William, who
whs on the I'tiigh" side^ became d'righte
| tied and bogau kicking, which so alarm
ed his companion that he, too, snorted,
and seizing tie- bits in their teeth, the
team started towards the.post office, the
wagon striking against the tiilcgrhph
poles, awning posts and other ohstrue
ti jus, throwing the driver out and caus
ing stove wood and vegetables to rain
upon the heads of the people on the*
sidewalks in great profusion. A police
mm -tried to stop them at the corner of
Washington street, but his noise and
gestures only frightened the team the
more, aud [they turned north up Wash
ington street, leaving the wagon box
and bind wheels'behind. School was
just out for ti'oon, anf<f th# path of the
runaways was "^filled with children, and
it seemed as if several lives mm bo lost;
but at this juncture a noble aud daring
livery horse, who was out with his
throat in a sling, taking a walk for his
health, Saw auu seemingly comprehend
ed ths situation, ami though his throat
waa so sore that he could hardly "whin
tier " and Iiis ankle* laine it was with
? / 'in!? ytt'^it *".***
dilpculty .he. walked, he managed to
throw himself in front of the running
moo, and seized them by their coat tails
with his mouth and suoccedeA in check
ing their career, but tint until the noble
aoimal^had^-ihnen dragged several rods.
Tt^'iYthW of tho runaways came up
and took charge of his offsprings, and
offered* to treat the horse who had stop
ped them to a bran mash or a braudy
smash) ;>i>t ?lhetl>PW<Pfre,I 1,5,1
head and . disappeared down a,n alley
leading to his barn.
Yosterd?y.r*<-c"jild,of John; M>cgudg
??n, the gentlemanly pig butcher and
importer of, sabsaga meat, who lives on
Canine avenue, was riding down Market
street itt_,a?.b_a.by carriage, drawn by a
dark bay servant, when a couple of poor
ly fed, gaunt looking chaps hitched to a
grocer'B delivery, wagon, turned a cor
ner suddenly and threw a k'ss at the
dark bay, causing her to shy aud upset
the baby cart, throwing the occupant to
if?o g'routid right in" front ofthe grocer's
team. A lady who saw the occurrence
gave a "frfflck so loud and shrill that it
saved tho life of the child, for the two
hired men hitched to the delivery wagon
heard it, aud thinking it Was the noon
whistle of tbs-J'itt-ville Manufacturing
Company,' by a strong effort checked
their,- speed within two feet ofthe in
fant, and wheeling around went to din
ner. The promptness with which these
meu cens? work and go to meals, iu this
case avails something.
Yeeter'dayTjftfcr^rioh' a5 gestleman who
a lives upon the Pic.in-intvill road, hitch
ed up bis old grand-father, ju*t as he
had ???.ity himf "'pffl fcfaa horse-disease
visited tins eoc-Uoti, and droce into town
to do a little marketing. The old man
was jouudiyrcd about a year ago, by eat
ing a warm local on washing day. and
Ft' was nearly four o cluck before they
reached town, when the driver, Mr,,,
Ferguson, drove up in front of a grocery
s'-nv, and, after hitching his grand
father to the awning post, went into a
saloon to s. e if there hud been auv de
dine in beer since the Boston fire. For
sjure minutoa the hoise?we mean the t
?rrnml father?stool quietly, but bocom- j
ng re I'.>^r.',rfWhhTRmWil blanketed,) j
yes to warfiter around until ,
be saw in front of him a buskct of pcars^
? ft* . vlwidi,! u> 'u J laca'rd, in.-, riled 'one
Ltrja qt^rti(r,,or SI'S by the peck." The
pj-.eo s-. Haitkd the venerable old man,
wbu wasn't used to city customs, that,
with a wild snort of fear, he broke his
halter strap, - kiek'eif hhuSclf loose from
1ho'; vdiidlev- a?d galloped towards
ric.iiant vilb-j. -running over two livery,
^lflrsfs .ne^r ^eflito pf.tb,e.,Abott House
badly injuring them ami breaking his
own leg so badly that when his grand
son arrived upon the spot a minute later,
he shot the old man to put him out of
his miseryj'^and 'save Wintering him on
/ Teas,
KfYMOl.ooY.?Johnson once, made a
bet with BoSwell that he could go into
the fish market and put a woman in a
pussiou without saying a word that she
could understand. The doctor com
menced by sileutly indicating with his
nose that her fish had passed the state
in'-vhlch a maifs olfactories oouhl endure
thejr odor, 'lhc Billingsgate lady made
a verbal attaok common in parlance,
the doctor answered :
'You are an article, madam.'
'No more an ar'icle than yourself, you
misbegotten vllliin.'
'You are a noun, woman.*
'You?you,' stammered the woman,
chokinj weik-nt adiwfrof titles she could
not uipJofltapdi
'You are a pronoun.'
The beldam shook her fist in speech
less Mge.!
? Vou are a verb, an adverb, an adjec
tive, a conjunction, a proposition, an
interjection !' suddenly continued the
doctor, applying the harmless epithets
at proper intervals.
Thd nine parts of speech completely
conquered the old woman, and she flung
herscli down *in the mud, crying with
rage at being thus 'blackguarded' in a
set of unknown terms, which, not un
derstanding, she could uot answer.
-
P an Stauley's parrot, which was a
greet pel, managed to open her cage and
escape to the top of au apple tree in tbe
garden. 'The Dean rushed after her,
accompanied by his friend, Dr. Vaughan.
Polly looked down complacently upon
her reverend pursuers, and gravs'.y said,
'Let us pray.'
The Flying Arrow.
Indiana arc strange people' in I ttSKty
ways, and one of the strangest things
about them is their power of following
the slightest track left by man or beast
however lightly or carefully they may
have trtdden to avoid pursuit.
There is a story told about a hunter,
who having killed a deer, cut olfa joint
of the venison and bung it on the highest
nail in his wigwarm or hut?a kind of
tent all covered with skin.
Then he weut off to oollcot dry leave*
and sticks with which to kindle fire, for
of course no such things as coals Were
known to the "Flying Arror," as ho was
called for these Indians have no risal
name.
Presently he came back with well
filled arms, but lo and behold? his fine
joint had Tarnished' lie looked care
fully about, but no sigh of the thief wns
there; at least we should' never have
found any, had we locked ever ae close
ly. < Unite eidree
But our Indian caught op Ine ocheb,
and away he went in pursuit straight
through the forest, lie had not gone
long before be met a neighbor, whom
seeing him going along with his eyes
fixed upon the ground asked him what
trail he was on.
"I seek," said "Flying Arrof^ ."a
little old man carryiug a shortgun. Ilo
i- followed by a little dog with a
s'umpy bushy tail. Tbiaman isa thief;
hw was entered ray wigwam and stolen
my vctisiou. I will crash both him and
hi* dog,"
"Why, my brother/' answorei the
other, "I met such a man but far from
h'-re. aud truly he carried vcusion on bis
shoulder, but bow couldst thou descrided
him so merely seaing thou were away iu
the forest ?"
"I am ;uh"?sto,"said "Flying Arrojgj^
but Iis:ko. 1 founa n pile of stones an
der the hook where I left my Version,
had the thief n^>t been short, he woul 1
not have ncede I these to stand on. I
knew he must be old for his f-soteteps
were close together; an 1 thit hv> m\m
be a white skin simply beeausA th*. t*/**
turned in which as thou knewest, an
Indian's never do. Had his gun been
b>ng, its muxxle would have loft no trace
on the bark of the t oe as this one had
?'one, us it leaned against it. So thou
seest, brother, it was easy, after all Hav
ing eyes to describe the thief."
? But the cur, how couldst thou tell
its size even to the tail!" asked the other
Indian, who was younj* as yet and had
not learned the value of olose obsorva
tieo.
"Of what use would the eyes ef Fly
ing Arrow be, hid they not shown him
at once that the dog's feet were near
together as he wallkod on the sand and
that the sh rt bushy tail measured it*
self when he sat wagging it, watching
hia master unhooking my dinner? But
farewell, brother; I roast follow the
trail or I shall be loo late to retcuo my
vension.
"Ox Shilling" is a sign hung ont in
Iudiauapolis.
When a man becomes a printer he
??sets up" in business.
Cast iron clothes aro advertised by a
Main hardware man.
The editor of the Louisanha Sugar
Bowl has started the Louisen o* Cotton
Roll.
An ingenious farmer brought a turkey
to the Boston market with eight pounda
of shot in its crop.
A Pennsylvania editor excuses hia
lack of a kuowlcdge of figures by saying
that figures won't lie.
Zeb Cniromet wonders why poor people
are never afflicted with kleptomania.
We call it stealing them.
Beratiger was a printers' compositor,
entirely self taught, and he began to
publish when only sixteen yean old.
The press of Missouri calls for a law
awarding death aa the pun iah meat for
placing obstruction on the Railroad
tracks.
A woman is said to have oo me to town
at Springfield, III., the other day, to
buy a lower jaw for her son who had
been blowing down a gun barrel.
A Chicago paper says that is wonder,
ful how quick the blind beggars of that
city can toll the differeneo between ten
cents and a quarter.
The Courivr Journal says that one
might as soon think of operatiog upon
the painted walls of the catacomb* of
Egypt with the scissors aa upon a
Philadelphia j ?per.