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NUMBER 28. mm m KVMBT WMMTMMDXY AT lAMDEVI, KERSHAW CO., S. fbankjT. beabd. "siisatsrstene ? (Utting Around. They ware sitting around upon barrels uid <MOft * ? V* jr%'. <"?! Discussing their own mad their neighbor'* . ? affair*, f J *? ' And the look of-ooctent that it seen on each face Seems to ?ay "I have found my appropriate place." Sitting around. In bar-rooms and groceries cakV*y they ait And serenely chew borrowed tobacco and spit. While the stories thcy?tell and the Jokes that they crack, Show their iiearta have grown hard and un doubtly black While Hitting aroUud. The " sitter around " La a man of no mean*, And his faoo wouldn't pans for a quart of white Yet he aomehow or other contrives to exist And ia frequently seen with a drink in bib flat While aitting around. The loungers they toil not novyct do they iipin, Unloaa it be yarns while enjoying their gin. Thrysiu people of leisure, yot often, 'tis true. They allude to the work they're intending to do While sitting around. ^they 're a habit of talking of other men's wives A* they whittle up sticks with their horu yjhandled knives? j*re a aoaly old set, and wherover you go wlH And them in group# or strung out in s row, Sitting around. ?Detroit Tree Pre**. g^Saved by a Rash of Lightning. I ? My narao is Hunt Yee, sir; Anthony I am a settle* .and drover on tliin *??'?<'; ?? ? now, bul yon should >n it when I and my wife flrht 1 Up her?. There was not a houso ?ight for miles, ' Even now we many neighbors; but those we .Anwnright good ones. To ap neighbors as- voti ought, at live,in these lonely places, v ^ from the haftnts of man. am about to tell of happened I was going to the 4 settlement, to ae5l*.eomo Oftttle?flne creatnr?^jr Ly!l?w*I^The ioumf?.v^?l ut with me than it in now; plenty of 00m 1 me with in the shape ?oceries ' ? r, .^seatied* 10 *ny oommission in ? herj?a dolL Sho had -7?d"!!; that is, a bought the rag buudloH her mother 1 for her. For some days before my Wiwture the child could talk of nothing r e1*? ?r we* either, for the matter of that for alio won a great pet, tho darling of TiIILk ? WftB1t7,bo a bi?. big doll, with i^Rrhair agd bjue eyes. I shall never forgeUhe clidd* words the memfe, I 48 8he ^ me to the gate, or tho pretty picture she made. There awgome children sweeter and please lying it very soon." 1 turhod to nod a yes to her a* she Btootl m lier clean, whitey-brown pina fore agaW the gate, her nut-brown hair f jliogan $rly?ho#jwK n#ck> ^ ? light breoze stirring them. litiiAbrftV?id0n'' 1 anawoml> "for my Httle one?almost as big as Dolly " ftiuwoi;ld beUev#'11,are ?y>h? doll Z ih?"ghtf wereof that promised doll, as I rode along, or what a nieo one X meant to buy. It was ?ot often J epent money in what my good thrifty wire would have called waste; but Dollv was DoHy and I meant to do it now. The catt 0 sold, I went about my p?r. chases, and soon had no end of paLls < >e packed in the saddle-bags Tea 8"<7W, rioo, candles?but I need not wenry you, sir, with tolling of them to jether with the calico for shirU 'and nightgowns, and the delaine for the children'* new frocks. Ija?t of all I . about tho dotted found a hSV y\' W hiflf ft" Dol,v; or ik ?T bUt lt lnMl fluxon ourls and sky-blue eyes; and by dint of pulling a -re you eould^eu or,huttlSeyosgat. '?I)o it up carefully," I fiaid to the J jtT0rf- ? ,Htl? da"?h*' mi 7 ftny ftrm ??nies to it " rho day was pretty Iroll ended before I all my work was done; and just for a ? ?;^01 whether l\ ?honld not stay .n the town and start for m0rnl,lg- Jt wo?hl liave1 :! ' ,norp prudent course. ji,lt t Uionght of poor Dolly-. ' ,r:irv"'',,f ay?*? .?* I W?t0hi?g u,? rapture i? her d.ligkt?l Z "' th my P?ke<l in (1,0 It was as good and steady a horse an inboT" fT ' "ir; hntni*ht Wan to , ot | wolU mi,? RWftJ train ti 1^WD; ^ were going ] [j l* "M nfif1y night, too. Again the thought struck me?should I turn back ^ thTmUl" m?rning? 1 h"1 th* P^ee or the cattle, you see, sir, jn my breast dermal' ? robbw1^ V*. mnr- 1 n7h* "?tqalt* unknown things on the prairie. But I had my braoe ot ?nre pist.?ls with ?m, and .leaded ^ press onward. .?? 10 The night came on Ms dark mm niui. , pitch dark besides. Bnt on thai ?oore I' h?l no fe?r; I kneW the road Well *ve*r inoh <A it, though 1 M. "hon,d in the tfght. Iwft" ahont six mites from heme, I snp and I knew ths time mart be dole Mnight, when the storm which hfwing broke. The fhnnder ?f.ohlM. ^5 listened Had I been mistaken ? No, there it wm Again* But in what direc tion I could ngt tell. I couldn't see a thing. It w?|, as I hare said, as dark ?? pitoh. Getting off my homo, I felt about, but oould find nothing. And while I was seeking the cry came again the faint moan of a child in pain, Then I began to wonder. I am not su perstitious, bat I asked myself how it was possible that a child oould be out on the prairio at such an hour and in such a night. No; real child it oould not be. Upon that, came another thought one less welcome: Was it a trap to hin der me on my way and ensnaro me ? There might be midnight robbers who would easily hear of my almost certain ride home that night and of the money I should have about me. I don't think, sir, I am more timid than other people; not as much so, per haps, as some; but I confess the idea made me uneasy. My best plan was to ride on as fast as I oould, an<J get out of the mystery into safe quarters. Just , here was about the darkest bit of road in all the route. Mounting my horse, I was about to urge him on, when the cry i again. It did sound like a child's; the plaiutivo wail of a child nearly ex' ? hansted. "God guide me!" I said, undecided i what to do. And as I sat another mo I ra?nt listening, 1 once more heard the , cry, fainter and moro faint. I throw inyst!f off my liorso with an exclamation, j " Be it ghost or bo it robber, Anthony j Hunt is not one to abandon a child to die without trying to save it." But how was I to save it ??how find it ? Tlio more I searched abont, the less j could my hands light on anything, save | the sloppy earth. The voice hod quite I ceased now, so I had no guide from that. | While I stood trying to peer into the , darkness, ull my ears alert, a flood of ; sheet lightnings suddenly illumed the I plain. At a littlo distance, just beyond a kind of ridge or gentle hill, I caught a glimpse of something white. It was dark again in a moment, but I made my way with unerring instinct. Sure enough, there lay a poor little child. Whether boy or girl I oould not telL It seemed to be three parts insensible now, I took it up, dripping with wet, from ?loppy earth! just but out nr 4tt<Nl With the ohild hushed to my breast I rode on Its perfect silence soon show I thanked God that Ho had let me save it, and I i -In ! grateful some poer mother : would be! But I was full of wonder for j all that wondering what extraordinary j ate h/ul takon any youug child to that solitary spot. ! Getting in sight of homo, I saw all the ] Deborah 'hud done it for mo I thought, to guide mo home in ^ety tbrojigh the darkness. But pres onUyl know that something must be the j matter, for Ui(f *ery few-neighbors we had were gathered there. My heart stood HtiU with fear. I thought of some ca , lamity to one or other of the children. I had saved a like one frobi perishing, but what might not have happened to uiy own. J Hardly daring to lift the latch, wlTile ; i,re<l ho5HO Bto?d "till and mute , outsido, I wont slowly in, tho child iu my i "rmB ??Ver?d over with tho flap of mv l lonfljcoat. My wife was weeping bitterly. What s amiss?" I a8ko(1 in 0 fft/fc voice. And it seemed that a whole chorus j of voices answered mo. "Dolly's lost." Dolly lost ! Just for a moment my heart turned sick. Then some instinct hke a r?y of light and hope, seized upon ?ne Palling the coat off tho face of the child I ho d, I lifted the littlo sleeping thing to the light, and saw Dollv I n:rha: ?^d 1 ^ ?aved was no other th|n my own- n.y little Dollv ^ I knew that God's g(,Hi angels had 51? \T "ftV? h"r' nnd ihni first KU ?'? Hnn??er bad shone just at the right moment to show mo where she lay. It was her white sun bonnet that had caught my eye. Mv darling it was, and none other, that I I,l>?d picked up on tho dronohod road ,Wl ' ?nii?UB for h(,r I>ad wm, . tiered out urn eon to meet mo in the ; afternoon. For somo hours sho was not i SrlTw Tt ?hAnced thftt my two Older I rf, h,ul ??n,> OV(,r to our nearest neigh 1 2 V" "7 Wif?' miBHin? t,l? child w?^T.Rr ' k u for ?rant<Ml ">'? 1 on ?T " T,'? ,itt,a ?,,fi hftd 1 ZoT\T' "nl ni?ht an<1 ??? "torm Lorcrtook her, when she fell down fright ened and utterly exhausted. I thanked Heaven aloud before them all, sir- as I "aid that none but God and his'holy angels bad guided mo to her. It's not much of a story to listen to, sir. I am I awe of that, U?t I ntirn ihink of ^ , in the long nights, lying awake; and I ask myself how I could l?ear to live on j now had I run away from the poor little lory in the road, hardly louder than a j aquirrel s chirp, and loft my child to die. *ee, ?ur, you are right; that's Dolly | ont yonder will, her mother, piokin* fruit; Ithe little trim light figure in pink ?with just the same sort*of white sun bonnet on her head that she wore that night ten years ago. flhe j* gjrI r jn:t"?rth ?nvin^ tho,,?h 1 ^ life lasts I shall be thankful that I came the town **** nlg,lt ^atoad ?* "toying in * ^h?id 1*?' . , , of Motherwell, in I Igland, a short time ago, and within a' IT* ?M<* appeared ne?rty simultaneously. InquM*, I by the sanitary inspector showed that a 1 woman suffering from fever was lying in ! a beck room in a milk dealer's shop In the street where the cases ooeurred and 1 that nearly all the families affected' had ' got their milk from this shop. Artificial Batter. If we have to eat artificial batter it is gratifying to know that it can now be made equal in flavor, texture and odor to | the best batter made from cream. There ? are several manufactories in New York , and Brooklyn which turn out many tons of thin product weekly, and a well known ' chemist of this city reoently declared that, while he had no doubt that more than half the butter consximed in New i /ork was artifically made, he oouscien- J tiously believed that it was quite as good ns butter mude in the dairy, and often much better. The imitation is made of suet, which after being thoroughly washed, is reduced to oil at a low tempera- i ture; to each one hundred pounds of oil twenty pounds of sour milk aro added and the two substances are churned, half an ounce of bicarbonate of soda and two or three tablospoonfuls of solution of annotto being thrown into the mixture. The product of this churning is allowed to come in contact with ice, and is again churned with more sour milk. After fifteen- minutes, agitation the solidified oil takes up a certain percentage of the milk, as well as its flavor and odor, and the butter is ready for the market. An analytical chemiBt of thiB city, who' has prepared and published a pamphlet on the manufacture of artificial butter, furnishes a number of analyses, includ ing those of artificial and genuine butter. Of the fats, including olein, palmitino, stearino, butyrine, etc., artificial butter contains eighty-two per cent., cream butter eighty-six per oeut. The most perceptible difference in the constituents of the two products is in the matter of salt, of which artificial butter contains 5.225 per cent, and the genuine article 1.51 per cent. Of coloring matter there is a trace in the artificially prepared com pound. The percentage of salt, it is said, may bo agumeuted or reduced to suit tho taste and requirements of tlio I public. It iB claimed for the counter feit butter that it does not become rancid so quickly as dairy butter, and that it can be made much more cheaply. It is a fact that more than nine-tenths of the liquors sold here are artificially made, thanks to chemistry, which is now able to reproduce the exact constituents of the various kinds of ardent spirits. Let us Hon to Reach tho Black Hills. The United States War department, with tho approval of the secretary of war, has issued a circular announcing, for tho information of all concerned, tho following routes connecting the Missouri river with the Blaek Hills, in accordance with the late treaty with the Sioux In dians: Route No. 1.?Beginning at Bismarck, Dakota, tho present terminus of tho Northern Pacific railroad, it will cross tho 108d meridian of longitude, the west ern boundary of the Sionx reservation, tin the shortest and most practicablo route to Deadwood City. Route No. 2.?Beginning at a point on the right bank of the Missouri river, known as Fort Pierre, or at some point not over eighteen miles north of that place, it will cross the 108d meridian, on tho shortest and most practical route to Deadwood City. Route No. 3?Beginning at the Yank ton crossing of tho Missouri river, and thence up the south bank of th? Niobra i ra to its crossing opposite tho mouth of I the Keya Paha river, thence up tho latter ! streaiq to or near the sources of Porcu j pine creek, whence it will cross tho 108d I meridian on the shortest and most prac ] ticabin route to Custer City. All people who establish thomselvesat I stations along these lines aro notified i that such establishing will not carry with : it any propriety -v right to tho land, which will bo subject to conditions which , may he imposed by tho secretary of war. Tho western boundary of the Sioux res t orvation, as fired l?y recent treaty, Is as ? follows: Commencing at the intersec | tion of tho 103d meridian of longitude I with the northern boundary of Nebraska, thence to its intersection with tho south fork of the Cheyonne river, thence down said stream to its junction with the north fork of the Belle Fourche, thonoe up that fork to the 103d meridian, thence to tho south branch of Cannon Ball, or Cedar creek. , Not Happy Yet. A correspondent of tho London WnrUl is responsible for tho following : Close upon tho Patti scandal comes the news of the unhappy matrimonial arrangements of Mme. lima de Murska. This gifted lady's husltand, M. Stranhilla, amused himself during the honeymoon, accord ing to Australian advices, by ruthlessly | slaughtering the two small terriers of tho songstress, her three eansry birds, a parrot, a monkey, and five cats of rare lnreed, which she had acquired with diffi culty pud was maintaining at untold ex pense. I have the moro sympathy for Mme. lima dn Murska inasmuch as this is the seventh time sho ha? vainly ossayed to obtain a suitable partner for life. ?. ? 2: .'4 0<?rvtM'? Among the large ortwd at the Executive Mansion in Washington, eager to see tho President, was a f<?ot sore, homespnn clad Oeorgian, who, upon the assertion that he had walked all the way from Georgia to sea the President, wsa ad mitted to his presence without the usual waiting. Tho Georgian informed the President that he had no favor to ask in the way of obtaining an ofllcA, but de sired to give him some information re garding affairs in Georgia. The oppor tunity waa at hand, and the pedestrian related several matters that he thought should be attended to, of which the President made a note with a view to their proper reference. SATED FROM THE GALLOWS. (Irriaxaarn that Hera IJke m. Mpecia.1 lot rrfrreacr af Pr*TM*Mr. A Boetoa letter says : The extension of life granted to John P. Phair, who wan to be hanged in Windsor, Vt., for the murder of Mis. Annie Freise on Juno 9, 1874, was granted under aingular circumstances. To Mr. Marshall D. I Downing of this city is due the credit of staying the execution of Phair, and per haps of clearing from him the charge on 'which he was convicted. Mr. -Downing was sitting in his office on<> morning about nine o'clock, when Robert Lowhee of South Boston, a young man em ployed in tho offioe, came in and said that a morning paper had a glowing ao oount of an innocent man who was about to be executed in Vermont. Downing asked Lowhee who the man was and what he was to be executed for.' Lowhee replied that he did not know. Mr. Downing then gave Lowhee Some money and sent him out to purchase the paper, a thing he never did before, as he was uot in the habit of reading during busi uess hours. Tho young man soon re turned with the paper, and Mr. Down ing began reading Thair's statement de claring liiB innocence, and followed it through in detail. When Downing came to the clause in which Phair said he was not able to prove to the satisfaction of the jury where he was at the time the murder was oommitted. and especially to that portion where he positively as serted that he was in Providence, R. L, seeking employment of the American ; Screw Company, but was unsuccessful in so doing, it flashed across Down ing's mind that sometime in June, 1874, ho visited Providence on some business. I and on tho frain returning from that j city had a conversation with a man who | told liim that he was just returning from Providence, where ho had been to *ek | employment ; that lie was a machinist by trade, and had applied to the Ameri can Scraw Company for a situation, but was not successful in obtaining one. So strongly was Downing impressed with tho recollection that he referred to a little memorandum book, which he was in the habit of keeping whil^ traveling, and ascertained that the day he was in Providenoe was on the - informed from Rutland, where he _ r previous day. Downing then said thai ho was convinced that the man whom he met on the train on the day above men tioned and the man whose statement he had jnat read wore one and the same porson, and getting up from the chair in which he was sitting ho remarked: "Thatis the man; thoy have not got tho right man." Tho young man to whom ho made tho remark asked him what he knew about it, and he said that ho did not know that ho knew anything, but although never beforo to his knowl edge had ho seen the man with whom ho had tho conversation oa tho cars ro i turning from Providence, still ho was i firmly convinced thut that man was the J ono who was to bo executed for murder, ; and was innocent of tho dreodful crime for which ho was to die. The telegraph operators to whom Mr. | Downing intrusted his dispatch to Gov. I Fairbanks, acted with aouteness and promptitude, and Phair's life was saved. Scenery of the Colorado Mountains. No language in expressive enough to convoy a correct idea of the rugged grandeur of the mountain scenery that surrounds us hero at Sunshine. No pen can picture tho sublime beauty of tho broad and varied panorama that presents itself to tho eye of tho beholder as he stands on tho summit of Loo hill and takes in a full view of tho mountain ranges, piled one upon tho other, with peak after peak. After feasting our eyes on tho most magnificent mountain scenery we turn our gazo uj?on tho far reaching plains which spread out before us. Thero we can seo tho Platte wind ing its way through tho deeort with its many tributaries, dotted with a sparse growth of willows and cotton woods, which marks its oourso across the broad plain. Many of the thriving Colorado towns are also brought so closo to th? beholder as to bo plainly rocognizable. Among thorn are Oreeley, Evens, Erie; Longmont, Denver, and many others. No American need go abroad to feast upon famous mountain scenery, for we believe the Rocky mountains afford the grandest and wildest seonory tho most vivid imagination can picture, l>osidos the most maguifleent natural curiosities in the world.?Houldcr (Cal.) Courier. Not Wanted In California. Tho San Francisco Mail uses plain English. It says that the Attn and other papers that speak of the magnificent op portunities which California presents to j the new oomer, lie in a very gratuitously^ criminal way. " The unvarnished trtdh is," it snys, "that our labor markotis stocked to overflowing, and every frtfch arriving truin but adds to the miserable multitude that waits, suffer*, starves atid finally flghts its desperate way Esst again. Men of brains aud culture good clerks, excellent ftooountants, busi ness men of undeniable energy, meolisn ics of ability, walk the streets in du despair." "Westward ho!" is a si song in this year of grsCe. "Hi times " is the national tnne in Oali nia as well as in New York, and work men would better keep step to ike m wherever they are. To the young mtn who is about to put his college edn|*. tion snd his sole-leather trunk on a Olkli fornia bound train, the Mail ori?|; " Stop I" Yes, let him stay where hojg, and if he ean't find the chance he wnnfe' let him take the first that offers. Tfc# IKBC1AL CONFIDENCE. . ?f * Lm4I*( CMMtrdtl P?p?r jm mm Ike The RBeltimore Gazette says: For wme Son past an nnealy feeling has been glowing up in' commercial circles, cauael&t in fact, bat nevertheless calcu lated produce disaster. The shrink age of p?lo?i following the general de 10f business has natorally cre in among those who hare oapi ated or are seeking new invcst ye4, beaidee this distrust, there ilHMqr in certain quarters, includ te of the public journals, to rub f aore instead of trying to heal it hing emollients. It is not neces sary 11. point out the causes which have led toBhis abnormal condition of affairs; but 1'ftfcing facts squarely in the face, we sil'Juld attempt to avert impending evils Wj wise and prudent action rather than |ssten panic by throwing fuel on the f pnea. It must not be forgotten that i 0 are all embarked on a common T?ya( ij that a. community of interest anno LndH us all; that common safety or oomn on wreck awaits both capital and labor (jn the stormy sea upon which both are m ding. In such a crisis the utmost need exists of carefnl, cautious reckon ing. If we cannot trust each other as we shoo 1?if ^ refuse to help to bear each othei i burdens?if cold and narrow thonj hta of self alone oontrol our daily actio Is?we oon at least, by skillful pilot ge, avoid precipitating danger, and thcs escape a oommon shipwreck. Of cwtun o, thosa whose trade it is to gather | from the brol^en cargo strewn the beach will weloome with do the false Ares lighted on the crag to he vessel on to the breakers. It is [ such we earnestly appeal to-day. o the frank, honest, generous citi ze&Kvhether he be in or out of active btfSiVKss, who reoognizes the mutual re spoiKbility which rests upon all, and wh<wfeels that the safety of all is the higifc*t law. It is not asked, nor expect ed, Xat even such should make saori ft^fcjoycmd. their oommon share; but stu&r it is an easy thing to frown away tiKKnfcral uneasiness springing up on btcT insVmd of in the vi & m*rowth by helping to break down ? ? beflB found wanting, all are now unwise ly fleeting with oaptions criticism or un merited disfavor. The shrinkage in se curities of undoubted value may thus rationally be aooounted for, but the Ldpkage done to the whole oommeroial ooiMmunity is no Iobs positive and de plorable. > "Where are to-day hundreds of thou sands of safe securities held as collater al# for loans in savings banks and trust ootnpanios, as well as by individual oper ators, which, if the shrinkage continues, Siy bo rejected and the loans called in. le disaster that may follow such action no one can foretell. . All this can be avoided if ordinary prudenco prevails, and if the public pulso beats, as it should, in unison with public confidence. We are not writing iu tho iuterest of any special individuals or corporations. We are only pleading for the people-*-for the many against the few?for the millions who pay their taxes honestly and have a right to be protected iu their persons and property by tho parent State. In the perilous times in which we live, we must not forget that while capital is resting, labor is perishing. There ore [ thousands to-day throughout the eoun- I try who are asking for bread and receive j a stone. Thousands of willing hands j lie idle, and tens of thousands of aching j hearts are beating in agony at the droary j future. Yet in this sharp oxtrojnity ?' fortune the work of destruction is uneon- ] sciously going on, tho remaining bul warks that protect us from disaster are being thoughtlessly battered down, and the safe and sound securities we lmvo j are menaced with ruin by tho partial j withdrawal of that confidence without ' which they may soon become practically I valueless. We ask the thoughtful men | of lmsine^???not the oommeroial wreck- i er?if the [.ioturo is overdrawn? Look at the Actual business of the country to- I day, and soe if there is not ground for [ apprehending serious results in tho near t future, unless a wiser, sounder, broador I and more catholic policy prevails. Why should there in reality be want of oonft- | donee ? Why should capital bo looked i up unemployed ? Why should legitimate business enterprises bo checked because men dreamily say to each other that they j do not know what a day may bring forth ? Why should credit tumble with j gold to zero, and securities of recognized i worth bo broken on the wheel, when | trust and faith and hope should walk hand in hand together to save and bless a common brotherhood ? He serves his country best who sees the silver lining in tho cloud, and takes to heart the shin ing symlnd?he servos it least who, when "the storm is threatening, adds to the general gloom by fears and doubts and oanseless npprehensions. Now is the time for the true, the brave, the loyal citizen, whether ho be onthronod in capi tal or the representative of lal>or, to step fearlessly to the front, and by generous deeds as well ss cheering words aid in bringing back commercial confidence to the temples from which it has been heedlessly exiled. It is not strange that the bill for tho repression of duelling hangs fire in the Frenoh Chamber of Deputies. There is no pressure of public opinhm behind it A pious young gentleman, who was re cently challenged to a duel, oalled upon his bishop and asked for advice. " Ought I to flghtor not ?" " Come and ask mo after you have fought," replied the venerable prelate. The Hibernians' Address. The following is the address to the publio recently unanimously adopted by the national convention of 4he Ancient Order of Hibernians, convened in New York <rity: W For some tune a stigma or cloud has rested over the Ancient Order of Hibernians on aocount of troubles ex isting in certain portions of Pennsylva nia, the convention deems it neoessary to furnish for your careful consideration a true statement in regard to that cloud or stigma. As an organization the An cient Order of Hibernians exists throughout the length and breadth of this oountry, and has a very large mem bership. The order throughout the whyle oountry, seeing the necessity of having it placed in Its proper light be fore the American people, has been care ful in selecting from the various States delegates to this convention having the esteem and confidence of the people. The doings of that convention are pub lished, clearly showing that the order does not recognize any connection with any other organisation whatsoever, ami particularly with that terrible band of misguided men that have oommitted such crimes in Pennsylvania. Enemies of our order exist who aro ever ready to cast odium on our people. A searching investigation was instituted by the na tional officers and the State officers of Pennsylvania to discover if any connec tion existed between members of our so ciety and the Molly Maguires. Said officers, in their wisdom, and as evidence of their determination to enforco our constitution, which misguided and un fortunate men hail violated, cut off from all connection with our organization the following named counties: Schuylkill, Carbon, Columbia and Northumberland. In doing so they were satisfied a great number of good men would suffer for tho misdeeds of a few ungovernable ones. Hut the character of the organi zation was involved, and good men from all sections were demanding the expul sion of those misguided ones. We have endeavored in revising our constitution to remove every cause of an objection ablp.nature, so as to majte our rules in harmony with the teachings of our holy [ohprch. In doing this the convention Sooind to the Novation of the Irish race. m vidual members ex* or oommit crimes the society should not be held responsi ble, as such members are summarily ex pelled. The end for which we are la boring is to unite for bouovolent pur poses our race and creed, and we earn estly desire the encouragement of the ministers of our holy religion. We hopo that the above explicit state ment will remove all existing preju dices, and that the Ancient Order of Hi bernians, individually or as a body, will never, in future, furnish an item for the press which will cause a blush of shame to mantle the check of the most exalted of our race or creed. Stonewall Jackson. Tho widow of "Stonewall" Jackson Hays that no man has been more misun derstood than her husband. "Ho is represented," alio asserts, "as having been stern, inexorable, and hard-natured. He waH just the opposite. He was as demonstrative, as affectionate and yield ing as a woman. At home, ho was ten der, playful and loving. His whole life hung around his home. He had no arrf bition?no love of power?no thought of place or pomp. His horror of bloodshed was instinctive and powerful. He served his country from a senso of duty. Ho was passionately devoted to children. Our first child died, and my daughter was born only a few weeks' before his death. He never took a doy's furlough during the war, not even to come to wee his child. Just before the battle of Chancollorsvillo I took the little baby and went to see him. You should have seen what raptures ho went into over that little girl's cradle. I havo seen him kneel by her cradle for hours at a time, just gazing into hor sleeping face." It was suggested that the letters to her during tho war would give her many in teresting points. "Oh, no," alio said, a charming blush stealing over hor face, j while remembrances put a now light in her expressive eyes, "they were all real love letters. Ho had little room for any thing else in his letters home. And then i he was a very prudent man and never ' talked of his plans to any one." Volcanoes of the Moon. Tho most prominent instance of sup posod lunar change on the surface of tho mf>on is thnt of the orator Linno. On the northwest quadrant of tho moon, near the center of a lovol tract about 480 miles in diameter, there is a bright crater called RohscI, nearly fourteen miles in diameter, with a oiroular wall rising 4,000 feet al>ovo tho interior, and about 1,600 feet al>ovo tho surrounding plain. Scattered over this plain are a few small craters, some two and ono h^lf miles in diameter, with walls al>ont 800 feet high. Near its eastern center an eminent selenographer named Lohr man placed a distinct, bright crater alnjut five miles in diameter, which he described as being after llcssel tho most conspicuous object on this tract of level ground. Ten years later onr greatest, selonograper, Baron von Madler, con- ! firmed Lohrman's observations, and ! made this crater a subject of special study, naming it Linno. In the draw- ' ingn of Schmidt, who was about this time making lunar observations of this particular part of the moon, Linne in ! shown as a deep crater corresponding with the description of Ijohrman and Madler. Our Badger'* Dead. The Londou Examiner relates the following anecdote of the late James Merry, the Eugliah a{x>rtsiuan, irou master, millionaire and member of Par liament: A favorite pastime of our hero, in his | early days, was the pitting of a dog I against a badger. Ho and his olium iu sport, who became his partner in bnsi- | neos, procured a celebrated badger that i had never been drawn by any dog. ! Somo Edinburgh sportsmen, however, : sent a challeuge, and backed their dog I against the badger for what in those days was esteemed a heavy amount, the ? sum of $600. The owners of the badger accepted the bet, and the fight was to come off at Linlithgow, half way betwoeu Glasgow ' and Edinburgh, on a certain day. To the horror of our sportsman aud his chum the badger died, aud died on the day ' just before the day on which the afftur ' was to come off. To one of them the five , hundred dollars was a dead 1o?b; but to the other?who knew that there was hope even when the signs of life were gone 1 there was something yet to be done?as we know well enough there always is to tlioni who have a heart for any fate. So he took the dead l>adger, placed him in tlio well known box, proofed to the trysting place, prepared, if possible, to save if only a portion of the money now I forfeited. On arriving at Linlithgow tho men of the defunct badger had their hearts re lieved by learning that the dog men had come but had not brought their dog with them; tho warrior, however, would not fail to appear tho next day. This was accounted an opportuuo moment by the companion of our merry hearted hero to propose a compromise. The merry one bade his friend keep his own oounael, or wait to hear what tho dog party might say. They dined together; the all-sub duing and melting influence of the much desired Olyneleishbrand promotingoood fellowship and good will , < The dog party began tp hint at draw ing the bet, rather than trying to draw the badger. A kick under the table from his friend intimatcythe anxiety he felt to dose at onoe with any, terms that might be offered. ThaMfojt was re ?poodfld to by another ana seventy-five doHar^^ThouamtlRW were handed over and tl?o momenBSr question was settled. "I? thinking we've got the better o* ye this time, Jamie; oor dawg's got the mange." " I'm no sue sure about that," repliod the other; " our badger's dead !" 'BljnhN (Juoer Customer. A funny old man?a peddler <rf notions ?popped out us 'Bijah opened the cor ridor door. " You acknowledge that you got drunk do you ?" asked the court. " Yes ; I own right up." " You fell in tho mud, lost your Htoek ?n trade and bit the policeman who arrested yon ?" *' '^aVB >URt whftt I did. your honor, and I believe 1 ought to bo sent up for three month*. I believe I've got down to a mean point, Rml it uoe<lfJ Bomethi an TK .r nP 8tnudinK' 8end me up and* will prove a great moral lesson to "Why don't you go to Florida and plant an orange grove?" n?ko<1 hi|| honor, as ho looked down bonignlv on i the old pioneer. "Florida?orango grove! Why, l| couldn't plant string-beans, your honor ! I can t tear up tho soil and root around like a young man with muscle and back- i bone. I'm over seventy years old, all shrunk up, ugly tempered, and I want a check put upon my mad career." "I don't want to send an old man liko you to the bars," observed the court. " Why don't you emulate tho example of Socrates, and behave yourself ?" " I don't care for Socrates, and I'm liable to go out of hero and kill a man !" exclaimed the peddler. " Well, you'll havo to kill somel?ody then, sighed his honor. " [f J send you up you'd eat twice as much as yo? oould earn, and I also believe that you are a real nico old man when you 'are srbor." " No, I ain't?I'm a rogular old cocoa nut, with all the peeling left on ! Won't you send me up, and givo mo to under stand that I've got to behave myself or suffer tho consequences ?" No can t do it ; one old man makes more fuss up there than forty younir ' men. You'" 1 pure air o showers You'll have to go on snuffing the ir of liberty and dodging April s." " Now do I thirst for blood I" whis pered the old man as lie went out. He taw a sailor across the street, nnd he rushed over U, wallop him and thus prove Ins desperate oharaeter in tho very nyes of the court. " Who's this nailing across my bows ?" I yowled tho jack tar, as the peddler I bumped against him, and he drop,**! the mftn 1,1 n melting snow bank as easily ' ts a ln>y gets away with a jaw-breaker.? llrtrait /''rrr J'rr 1 - Earning His Wages. A man lately applied to a shoe mann acturer in Brockton, Mass., for work uid being refnsed, said he won hi do mything for 81.no a day. The matin- ' , acturer responded : "All right, I'll gjvo roil a job. If you will walk around the itreeta ten bonis a day, beating a drum, ' i 1 " a week's work at your flg ires. Here's your pay in advance 8<> " Vt;iast, accounts tho man was still walk- ; ng and drumming, and the exasperated ntizen* were looking for the manufne iirer, who had taken a vncation. JOB PRINTING. Tk? Umm oCc* la aapabia ot piaapUj l M*Uy MMtttti all MjUa ot Job fruitui ?l Vtmitimg QTi<f ninU, We*Ulim0 Gmr+*, /HrMotiMU, Hat*4biU?, IHttrs, Dodgerm, lYfT?MWO. I Id short, we hare the ptmmm sad mtUrUl for filling u; order which may be given ua. We aolidt a trial. Item* of Interest. The men who don't get office* always wonder the people don't rise. ? /.\r ehangt. Those who come to you to talk about others are the ones who go to others to talk about you. An inspector on the Pennsylvania rail road has been arrested for stealing brass journals. Next time he hail better sub scribe. Tho present style of young ladies' dresses doesn't require any satin in tho material. In fact, they arc not made to be sat in. "John, what is the chief branch of education in your school ?" "Willow branch sir; master's used up nearly a whole tree." M. Quail says that " ono of the land scape scenes in Novada is an Euglisli tourist wriggling over the ground to get in position to kill a mule, twlieving that he has a sure thing on a grizzly." Chicago anticipates a case of crema tion. A young German proposes to burn his wife's Ixxly in order to take the remains to Germany, and is correspond ing with those who cremated llaron do Palm in Pennsylvania. A Connecticut farmer who saw tho yellow birds picking wheat from the stand.ng heads shot one of the supposed offenders. He found in his stomach only three grills of wheat, and by actual count 3OT weevil. A Turkinli priest of Dobrulook amused himself^during the recent disturbances by compelling boys of fourteen or fifteen to marry women of twioe their age. And now the young fellows nre yelling lustily against Turkish tyranny. Tho Cincinnati Commercial says: "Why is it that editors never commit suicide ?" The Burlington Hawkeyt has invested this subject a little, and thinks it is because the druggists won't sell strychnine on long time. Officers in the army of Saxony are not allowed to marry until they are assured of an income of about $260 per annum, and, although they are expected to live in good style and to dress in quoTi a man ner as to be at any time ] to-be A (Jood Indorsement. A gentleman recently entered a N York Irnnk and, with a nervous air, putdipd forward to tho principal officer's desk, where he presented a note for a heavy amount and desired to lmvoit dis counted. The bank officer took the paper, examined it, and pointing to tho name on tho back, naid : " That name, sir, is not (food here; we eun't tako that paper." "Then," said the other, "I am ruined?ruined !" With a hurried glance at the bystanders, the man was about to withdraw tho worthless note, but another gentleman who had been en | gagod close by, and who had evidently i observed what was going on, quietly put ; forth his hand, took the. rejected paper, scrutinized it, and then having taken a good look at the man who had presented it, lifted a pen from the desk, and de liberately wrote under the pruvuAis in dorsement : "Win. H. Vanderbilt." Tho adjim was accompanied by the simple words : " 1 guess that'll go." Then tho seventy-five millionaire?for ho it was? turned hastily away and went about his own business. Henceforth, for him, at least, the name of Vanderbilt will mean something more than railroads, stocks and bonds. A Good Investment. Home ton years ago, says an exchange, tho writer purchased of a nurseryman at Detroit 1,000 little white cedars, tho arbor vifte; the plants were one year old from tho seed, about six inches high, and cost one and a half cents each?SIB per thousand. Besides planting many of them in groups or singly about tho house and grounds, a sufficient number were used to make a hedge or screen on tho westerly and northerly sides of a largo garden which had been very much exposed to tho sweep of blasting winds, sometimes to tho destruction of nearly all the early plants that it contained. These cedars, set out some two or three feet apart, all grew luxuriantly, and they now form a living wall about twelve feet high, as impervious to tho winds an if built of brick or stone, affording a o mplete pro tection to the garden, and more than doubling its value for the purposes of its use. Delicate plants, that one blast of oold wind in a May morning would chill and destroy, now, no matter how bleak tho gusty day, seem to nestle in the warm sunshine, unconscious of harm. ?orly Court Martiulcd. It is related of Mayor-elect Moore of Cincinnati that during the war when ho was a colonel he was placcd in command of a detachment guarding a body of one hundred prisoners, and one day one of them, a great favorite, died, and his body was sent to his family, who lived only a few miles distant, but inside tho enemies' lines. On the morning of tho funeral Colonel Moore drew the prisoners up in lino and offered to take them all to attend it, under no escort but himself, provided they would pledge him their honor not to attempt to escape. They all accepted the offer, and ho marched them into the lines, took part with them in the funeral exorcises and returned,at night without tho loss of a nrfan. This proceeding, though humane, wh *0 oon trarv to tho rules of war that he threatened with n court martial.