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S'Fi % YOL. IY. NO. 44 ^ The Fearful Little Maid. She stands within the daisied field, A little maiden all alone ; And bending down she takes a flower, And plucks its petals one by one. " He loves me well; he does not love" ; Trembling, weeping, now is she. " Ah, does he love ? or loves he not ? I cannot try! I dare not aee !" Her heart is beating loud and fast, Her blinding tears are like a pall : She d es cot hear the eager step, She does not see the shadow falL The flower is taken from her hand, 8wiftly the petals he removes. " He loves?loves not?he loves?loves not. See, darling! ?'tis the last?he loves!" ?Fanny Barrow. A SPECIAL CONSTABLE. Two women, sisters, kept the toll-bar at a village in Yorkshire. It stood apart from the village, and they often felt uneasy at night, being lone women. Ono day they received a considerable sum of money, bequeathed them by a relation, and that set the simplesouls all in a flutter. They had a friend in the village, the blacksmith's wife; so they went and told her their fears. She admitted that theirs was a lonesome place, and she would not live there, for one, without a man. Her discourse sent them home downright miserable. The blacksmith's wife told her has%* * ? ? _ t? l:? baud all about it wnen ne came iu ior lub dinner. 44 The fools !" said he; 44 how is anybody to know they have got brass in the house ?" 44 Well," said the wife, 44 they made no secret about it to me; you need not go for to tell it to all the town?poor souls !" 44 Not I," said the man; 44 but they will publish it, never fear; lcave^women folks alone for making their own trouble with their tongues." There the subject dropped, as man and wife have things to talk about besides their neighbors. The old women at the toll-bar, what with their own fears and their Job's comforter, tfegan to shiver with apprehension as right came on. However, at sunset the carrier passed through the gate, and at the sight of his friendly iace they brightened up. They told . him their care, and begged him to sleep in the house that night. 44 Why, how caul?" said he. 441 am due at ; but I will leave you my dog." The dog was a powerful ins-tiff. The women hofced at each other expressively. 44 He won't hurt us, wili he ?" sighed one of them, laiutly. 44 Not he," said the carrier, cheerfully. Then he called the dog into the house, and * told them to lock the door, and went away wbistl ng. The women were left contemplating the dog with that tender interest apprehension is sure to excite. At first he seemed staggered at this off-hand proceeding of his master; it confused him, thou he snuffed at the door; then, as the wheels retreated, he began to see plainly that h< was an abandoned dog; lie delivered a fearful howl and flew at the door, scratching and barking furiously. Tue old women fled the apartment, and were next seen at an upper window screaming to the carrier : 44Come back! come bacfc*, John ! He is tearing the house down!" 44 Drat the varmint!" said JoIid, and came back. On the road he thought what was best to be done. The good natured fellow took bis greatcoat out of ... i j 1 J ii. .1 iUa. DUG can ailU U&iU It UUWU vu vuo uw?i The mastiff instantly laid himself on it. "Now," said John, sternly, "let us have 110 more nonsense; you take charge of that till I come back, and don't ye let nobody steal that there, nor yet t' wives' brass. There now," said he kindly to the women, "I *hall be back this way breakfast time, and he won't budge till then." " And he won't hurt us, John ?" " Lord, no I Bless your heart, he i? as sensible as any Christian; only, Lord sake, woman! don't ye goto take the coat from Lim, or you'll be wanting a new gown yourself, and maybe a petticoat and all." Be retired, and the old women kept at a respectful distance from their protector. lie never molested them; and, indeed, win n they spoke cajohngly to him he even wagged his tail iu a dubious way; but still, as they novod al>out, he squinted at them out of his bloodshot eye iu a way that checked all desire on t heir part to try on tho carrier's coat. Thus protected, they went to bed earlier than usual; they did not undress; they were too much afraid of everything, es pecially their protector. The night wore on, and presently their sharpened senses let them know that the dog was getting restless; he snuffed aud then he growled, aud then he got up and pattered about, muttering to himself. Straight way with furniture they barricaded the door through which their protecto] must pass to devour them. But, by and bye, listening acutely, they heaid a scraping and a grating out side the window of the room where the dog was, and he continued growlinf 1 fT>i?r ? 4-i?y? olitm.'jil nnl iOW. iuw wrt? niuugu, ou[/f>i?wu at tlie back door, and left their monei to save their lives; they got into the vil lage. It wa3 pitch dark, and all th< houses black but two; one was the pub lie house, casting a triangular glean across the road a long way off, and tin other was the blacksmith's house. Her* was a piece of fortune for the territiei women. They bnr>t into their friend' house. " Oh ! J me, the thieves liav< come 1" and they told li?r in a few word all that had happened. " Nay, Jane, we heard the scrapin/ outside the wiudow. Ob, woma i, cal your man, and Itt h;m go with us." . " My man?he is not. bete." " Where is he then V* " I suppose he is where other work iDgwomen's husband's are, at the publi house," she said, rather bitterly, fcrsh had her experience. The old women wanted to go to th public house lor Lira ; but the black smith's wife was a courageous worum and, besidep, she thought it was WD A . likely a false alarm. " Nay, nay," said she, " last time I went in for him there I got a fine affront. " I'll come with yon," said she. "I'll take the poker, and we have got our tongues to raise the town with, I suppose." So they marched to the toll-bar. When they got near it, they saw something that staggered this heroine. There was actually a man half in and half out of the window. This brought the blacksmith's ?on/1 fho timid r>flir W1IU tu u ciajviobut) ??uv? ??v- ^ implored her to go back to the village. " Nay," paid see, " what for ? I see but one?and?hark !" it is my belief that the dog is holding of him." However, she thought it safe-t to be on the same side with the dog, lest the man might turn on her. She made her way into the kitchen, followed by the other two, and there a sight met her eyes that changed all her feelings, both toward the robber and toward each other. The great mastiff had pinned a man by the throat, and was pulling at him, to draw him through the wiudow, with fierce but muffled snarls. The man's weight alone prevented it. The window was like a picture frame, and in that frame there glared, with lolling tongue and starting eyes, the white face of the village blacksmith, their courageous friend's villainous husband. She uttered an appalling scream aDd flew upon the dog and choked him with her two hands. He held, and growled, and tore until he was all but throttled himself, then he let go and the man fell. But what struck the ground outside, like a lump of lead, was, in truth, a lump of clay; the man was quite dead, nnd fearfully torn about the throat. So did a comedy end in an appalliDg and most piteous tragedy; not that the scoundrel himself deserved any pity, but his poor, brave, honest wife, to whom he had not dared confide the villainy he had meditated. The outlines of this true story were in i several journals. I have put the disjointed particulars together as well as I could. I have tried hard to learn the name of the village, and what became of this poor widow, but have failed ev, mil/1 thaoa linou mApf. tVlA liltm ilV.'. UUVU1V4 %'.UW7V/ IAMVW u?vwv ??.w eye of any one who can tell me, I hope he will, and without delay. Thoughts for Saturday Night. The wife makes the home, and the home makes the man. Elope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas. The most laudable ambition is to be wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be good. To think kindly of each other is good; but to act kindly toward one another is best of all. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, the most elegant and effective of compliments. Few things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of application rather than means that men fail of success Many a life, that might have been most efficient if rightly directed, has been lost to the world, and doomed to mortifying failure, becau-e men have not been sufficiently developed to know their own peculiar endowments, or to make intelligent chance of a vocation. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a State: like an ague it shakes not this or that limb, but all the body is at ouce in a tit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another, and hath no place left to rest on. He flecks from one egg ! to another, so hatches nothing, but addles all his action. Not enjoyment, but rectitude, is the i chief good, both in this life and tLe life which it to come. Enjoyment flows ' from rectitude; but the fountain is higher and purer than the stream. Enjoyment is often an end uuworthy to be , sought. Rectitude is al ways to be sought. Rectitude is always to be desired above ; all things. Friendship is a vase which when it is ! flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, ' may as well be broken at once?it never i | can be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more cleurly do wo discern the hopelessness i of restoring it to its former state. Coarse 1 stones if they are fractured may be ce> meuted again, precious ones never. k It is not you who, on your deathbed, " | quit sin; it is sin that quits you; it is ' not you who detatch yourself from the '! world, it is the world that detaches it'' self from you. It is uoj^you who break ' j youi bonds, it is your bonds which break 1 of themselves through the fragility com1 : mou to our nature. It is easy to see ' j that he who condemns the irregularity 1 j of his own life only at the moment when 1 he is obliged, in spite of himself, to resign it, does not condemn them from conviction, but necessity. j Woman's Rights. \ An exchange says : On the return ;! trip of the excursion train from Harper's ; Ferry a lady, whose avoirdupois issome1 ! thing in the neighborhood of 300 I pounds, having ridden a loDg distance, ) ' "standing and in silence," approached r a high-toned young mar, wno was enjoyiug two seats all to himself : , ' Sir," said the fat lady, " can you not - retake room for me on that seat ?" 3 "Well, 'pon honor, madam, I am sorry I but I am?ah reserving this for me wife t ah, pou word I am," was the reply. j I The old lady swelled up nearly t.'.iee -; her natural size, and, having taken iu a 3 full supply of breath, she let out with : - " 5lou nasty gold spectacled snob, you 1 ain't got no more of a wife than I have; 3; you are trying to save that seat so as you 3 i can put on airs and lay down and go tc 1 sleep when you feel like it. Git up oul s of thar or I'll smother you to death wit! 3 my shawl." s! " Well, madam." " Don't madam me, I'm single ; gil i up, I tell you," a.d with that she seizee 1 the young mau by the back of the necl and raided him as high as the roof of th< car would admit, and calmly droppei into the vacated seat, much to the merri > ment of the excursionists, who were jus c in the proper mood for fun and frolic, e As the young Dundreary gazed at tin i old lady munching a pie he muttered t< e himself: ^Well, 'pon my life J" bu the fat woman gave him a glance, an< ), ; he rushed into another car and took ; seat on a wood box. FOR.1: RD A BEAUFORT, S. < The Conjurer's Basket Trick. We derive from Mr. Frost's 44 Lives of the Conjurers" a description -written by the Rev. Mr. Cannter of the basket Lick common among the conjurers of India: A stout, ferocious looking fellow stepped forward, with a common wicker basket of the country, which he begged we should carefully examine. This we accordingly did; it was of the slightest texture, and admitted the light through a thousand apertures. Under this fra gile covering he placed a child about eight years old. When she was proper ly secured, the man, with a lowering aspect, asked her some question, which she instantly answered, and, as the thing was done within a few feet from the spot on which we were seated, the voice appeared to come so distinctly from the basket that I felt at once satisfied there was no deception. They held a conversation for some moments, when the juggler, almost with a scream of passioD, threatened to kill her. There was a stem reality in the whole scene which was perfectly dismaying; it was acted to tho life, but terrible to see and hoar. The child was heard to beg for mercy, when tho juggler seized a sword, placed his foot upon the frail wicker covering under which his supposed victim was so piteously supplicating his forbearance, and, to my absolute consternation and horror, plunged it through, withdrawing it several times, aud repeating the plunge with all the blind ferocity of an excited demon. By this time his countenance exhibited an expression fearfully indica tive of the most frantic of human passions. The shrieks of the child were so real and distressing that they almost curdled for a few moments the whole mass of my blood; my first impulse was to rush upon the monster, and fell him to the earth; but he was armed and I defenseless. I looked at my companions?they appeared to be pale and paralyzed with terror; and yet these feelings wero somewhat neutralized by the consciousness that the man could I not dare to commit a deliberate murder in the broad eye of day, and beiore so many witnesses; still the whole thiDg was appalling. The blood ran in streams from the basket; the child was heard to struggle under it; her groans fell horridly upon the ear; her struggles smote painfully upon the heart. The former were gradually subdued into a feint moan, aud the latter into a slight rustling sound; we seemed to hear the last convulsive gasp which was to see her innocent soul free from the gored body, whon to our inexpressible astonishment and relief, after muttering a few cabalistic words, the juggler took up the basket; but no child was to be seen. The spot was indeed dyed with blood; but there were no mortal remains, and, after a few momenta of uudissembled wonder, wo perceived the little object of our alarm coming toward us from among the crowd. She advanced and saluted us, I holding out her hand for our donations, which we bestowed with hearty good will; she received them with a most graceful salaam, and tho party left us well satisfied with our more than expected gratuity. What rendered the deception the more extraordinary was that the man stood aloof from the crowd during the whole performance?there was not a pefson within several feet of him. High Hash Talk. A dialogue occurred at a Detroit J boarding house, according to the Free | Press, between an effeminate, shabbily dressed young man and the landlady, j which for ponderous rhetoric excee is j anythiog of a similar nature that has j seen the light in some time. The land! lady appeared at the front door, in an-1 i swer to the bell, and was accosted by i the young man as follows: " If you are manager of this domicile j I wish to know if you - could be per- j suaded to provide me with apartments \ and provender during my sojourn in ! ' 1 * - ' ~ 1. -?* ? S\t itlTA A* itl.OA I [ tI10 Cliyj WUICUL LUtx\ utj ui mu v/i luxw i j days, duration and may possibly extend i I through a greater period." The mistress of the house, catching j ! the style and spirit of the inquirer, re- ] i sponded : " Unfortunately, a great demand ex-I i ists at present, which so crowds the ca- | I pacity of my apartments and the con- j j tents of my larder that I cannot con- j { scientiously provide the accommodations J j you desire." Evidently the young man had ex-1 i peeled to completely crush the landlady l with his command of the English language, but his disappointment was plainly shown in the look of blank amazement which he bestowed upon j her after hearing her reply. He was j not completely aunihilared, however, i for he continued : " Provided you could, madam, pray what amount of j money would you impose upon me for accommodating me?" " Eight dollars a week in advance," 1 was too suggestive, and as the young ! man backed down the steps he simply j said "good-day." The Turkish Empire. i The sultan of Turkey, who has just been dethroned, may pass into history ' as Murad the Unlucky. He came to J 11 the government just three months ago, in the middle of a violent and bewilderk ing political commotion. He ascended a throne made vacant by the bloody :: death of his uncle, and, captured by the t j leaders of the palace conspiracy, was I i made sultan whether he would or no. i Murad was throught to be a very tolera> ble prince, and great expectations were t ; entertained of bis reign. Nobody t knows what has been going on in the j shadow of the palace ; but from time to J time it has been given out that the new t sultau was going to pieces very fast. I Lately it was announced that his mind was a wreck, and that his deposition J had become necessary. This step has I now been fulfilled, and Abdul Hamed, - brother of the falling Murad, and second t son of the late Abdul Med j id, has been proclaimed his successor. Hamed is 3 about thirty-four years old, and is ro3 ! puted to be a fair sort of prince, as t Turkish princ go, which is faint praise. 1 Like his brother, he succeeds to the a ; go* ornment of a distracted, wornout, j und impoverished empire. r ro' lND ( 0., THURSDAY, 0( THE HARVEST FESTIVALS. lion' (he (ieriunii* About New York Cele* brale the Event of n Bountiful Harvest. Every year when the harvest is in the German people about New York hold a harvest gathering on Union Hill, New Jersey. At these gatherings the festivals of the Fatherland are indulged in. 1 At the festival this year the chief event of the day was a rural wedding in Plattdeutsch country style, the bridegroom being Alfred Dehmcke, a newsdealer of Hoboken, and Minnie Konig, a blooming maid, born in Philadelphia, but for some time residing on her father's farm in Jersey. Three gaily decorated wagons, containing the bridal party, and a set of household furniture, made the circuit of the grounds, preceded by a band of music and a messenger on horseback, dressed in a velvet ooat with silver buttons, velvet knee breeches, top boots, and a stiff hat ornamented with ribbons and gold lace. This messenger was the " wedding inviter," and as in the old country, sum moned the guests. His horse was decorated with ribbons, and the two made a gay spectacle. In the bridal party were the parents of the groom and bride, the groomsmen, Oapt. Aery and Mr. Dnerirnnf and twelve bridesmaids, with caDS of gold cloth and velvet bodices in the North German country fashion. The bride was similarly attired. The bridegroom was dressed as a German farmer, in velvet coat and breeches and a threecornered hat decorated with flowers and libbons. The Rev. Dr. F. I. Schneider, of the Lutheran church, a resident of New York, was the officiating clergyman. The nuptial tie was adjusted in front of the North German farm house, a red, high-roofed structure built in exact imitation of the German article. A real wedding ceremony was performed in the same house at the festival last year, and a bouncing boy lives to-day to serve as a reminder of it. The bridal couple stood on a platform before the house. A table set with flowers, and bearing two candlesticks, which .could not be lighted on account of the wind, stood beside them. The clergyman preached a short sermon, the bridal pair answered questions about the same as those in vogue here, aud they were pronounced man and wife. The twelve bridesmaids kissed the bride, and friends and relatives proffered their congratulations. After siuging by tho Lyra Singing Society of Hobokeu and the Jersey Schuetzen Liedertafel the "party entered the farm house, and a banquet, dancing, singing, and music followed. The president of the Plattdeutsch Association gave the bridal couple fifty dollars, Capt. Avery gave a complete kitchen outfit, and a clock was presented by some other friend. Numerous minor gifts were received. Tho interior of the farm house was one of the most interesting spectacles on the grounds. The main room was the spacious kitchen, with its big brick oven, over which the hnge ehimuey hung like a porch to receive tee smoke. Overhead was a partial ceiling of wood, between which and the rafters was a store of hay. At one side, separated from the room only by a paling, were stalls for tho horse and cow. Hams and sausages hung from the beams, and brightly scoured pe .vter dishes adorned the walls. The kitchen opened into two rooms, in one of which was a huge, oldfashioned peat stove, that was imported from Germany. The festival lasted four days. There was a real christening in the farm house. On the harvest day last year fifty thousand persons were on the grounds. The attendance was fully as large this year. Tho whole country around was filled with gaily decorated wagons and teams, emblematical of the bountiful harvest. Pearl Fishing in Scotland. Pearl fishing, once common in the rivers of England, is now no longer an industry in that country, but the search for pearls is still prosecuted in some cf the Scotch rivers, apparently with more vigor than success. The fishings iu the shallow wateis of the Dee (Kirkcndbrightshire) have of iato years become exhausted, and all the ingenuity of the pearl seokers had to be called into play in the search in the lochs and deep pools in the river's course. During rlie last three years tongs have j;been u-ed with fair success, aud the parts thus reached have been thoroughly fished. Beginning on the lee side, the boat is allowed to drift, tho fisher lean! iug over, with his head literally in tho i wider, bnt protected by a tin box, ! through the plate glass bottom of which | he scans the bottom of the loch, perj haps thirty feet below, but to. his eye j not more than a tenth of that distance. | On a series of poles, jointed after the fashion of a sweep's broom, is a landing | net, with steel scoops, iuto which the | fisher sweeps every shell that comes beI neath bis gaze. In this way. and with I much industry, a large number of pearls I have been obtained, many of" them of considerable value; but in another season or two the whole will be exhausted, and the pearl and pearl fishing of the Cree and Dee will become a thing of the past. It is to be regretted that the j jewel robbers in England do not search j the rivers for tho pearls which, during I the occupation of Britain by the Roi mans, were found in large quantities in j the fresh water mussels. Appeasing Hint. Thompson, the artist, is of a somewhat testy disposition. His charming : wife knows this, and whenever her lord , and master wears a frowning brow, hastens ta appease him by some of the j myriad little foolishnesses so becoming i iu young brides. The other day she was ! ont of town, and Thompson embraced ! the opportunity to dismiss a fat and i stupid serving man whom he abomiua| ted. Half an hour a terward, as he is ' at work in his studio, he hears a scratchi inc: at the door and then a timid bark like that of a dog, but not that of a dog: "Bow! Wow!" He opens the door. It is the servant. | "You infernal fool, what do you | mean ?" " Oh, I had noticed that my mistress i often appeased you so 1" XVAXi 3OM]V TTftRER 5. 1876. AN EXCITING EXPLOSION. What WR.? Done by n Driver while Surrounded by Burning Dynamite. While transporting a wagon load of dynamite from one storehouse to another in St. Louis the other day, Frederick Julian was dragged forty or fifty yards, a wagon was smashed, and several buildings leveled to the ground. The driver was only slightly injured, and was able the next day to give a very intelligent account of the explosion. "We have two powder magazines," he 6aid, "in which we store our giant powder. One is in Lowell and the other up on the bottom land near the Seven Mile House. In the former we had a lot of damaged powder, some of which had been stored there for more than a year and a half. I went up to remove some of this damaged powder from the Lowell magazine to the other, to have it renovated. I put four inches of sawdust in the wagon and then put in ten fifty-pound cases of powder, on the top of which I put twenty empty boxes that I desired also to remove. This heaped the wagon up full, so that I had not even room to put my feet down on the bottom of the wagon bed. I drove out to Bellefontaine road. I didn't smoke any on the way. Near the gate of the cemetery I smelled smoke. I haven't the remotest idea how the fire could have been started, but I immediately comprehended that my load was burning. I reached dowD, dropped the reins and pulled out the nearest box. When I lifted it I saw that it was on fire on the back side. I tossed it out of the wagon and caught hold of the box near?cf ma iphinh was hnrninff still more. I threw that out, too, and in doing so burned my hands pretty badly. Then I saw that the fire had started pretty well back, and was burning in the sawdust and all along under the empty boxes, so that I could not possibly got at it to put it out. My horses began to be frightened, too, and if you know anything about djnamite you know that when it takes fire it burns with an intense heat. I was therefore afraid that if the load burned there it might set fire to some of the honses. Accordingly I let the horses go toward the common. 4 4 By that time the flames were blazing up among the boxes and I detected the peculiar odor of the burning dynamite. I jumped off the wagon and unhitched the horses. At the same time a lot of men came out and began tearing Mrs. Clark's fence to prevent it from taking fire. I led the horses about twenty or thirty feet away from the wagon and stood holding them by the head and looking at the thing as it burned. The men had the fence torn down and were standing a little back, but between Mrs. Clark's house and the wagon looking at the blaze, so.you can know it must have burned violently for some time. I was standing, as I said, only just so as to be out of range of the heat, with the horses between mo and the wagon, when the explosion came. It was an awful noise, but it did not stun me so but that I hung to the horses and was dragged forty or fifty yards in a state of bewilderment. Then I lost hold of the horses, but they ran only a tew yards, and I went up and caught them. They were not much hurt. 441 started with 500 pounds. I threw out two boxes containing 100 pounds, and from the length of time it was burn* T * 1 1' -A ' 1 nin/Inv rrou mg l judge mac mm me kui?uuci ??:> consumed before the explosion came. That, would leave 200 pounds. It was heard four or five miles in every direction. The force of the explosion didn't seem to come my way at all. The stuff is queer about the direction of its violence. It strikes mostly down. There were plenty of men between the wagon and Mrs. Clark's house, yet the house was shattered and the men only slightly hurt." Power Better than Law. Commodore Yanderbilt was once advised " to get th9 law " of a certain matter## "Law!" he exclaimed; "why, I have the power already." Long before the famous Erie litigations fell into such a hopeless tangle that he and Mr. Drew were compelled to settle their quarrel themselves, he had conceived a great contempt for the courts of justice. His first experience in the oourts was in the course of the steamboat litigations which grew out of the charters granted to Fulton and Livingston by the New York Legislature, and which Chief Justice Marshall brought to an end in 1824 by deciding that the State could not grant an exclusive right of navigation. C.ipt. Vauderbilt, in 1818, took command of tbe steamboat Bellona, of the New York and New Brunswick line, which was chartered by the New Jersey Legislature. The Troy Press describes his first appearance in couit: He was arrested by the sheriff of New York on an attachment for contempt, and taken before the awful presence of the great Chancellor Kent, at Albany, to answer to the charge of violating an injunction awarded in the case of John R. Living~L v,of lo.nn Orr/lan onrl HPhnmnR tll/UXi aaiuu uguuu 'Gibbons, prohibiting Gibbons, his agents and servants, from navigating with any boat or vessel propelled by steam or fir9 the waters in the bay of New York, or in the Hudson river between Stateu Island and Bowies' hook. The chancellor held that as Vanderbilt was not iu the employment of Gibbous, and as Gibbons had not been running the Bellona since the injunction was served, aud that as no collusion had been shown between Gibbons and Tompkins, Vanderbilt must be discharged from the attachment with costs. A Desperate Experiment. An absconding clerk in the Sault Ste. Marie canal office adopted a clever though perilous plan to escape arrest. He took passage ou a propeller and, rightly judging that the law officers would bo in readiness to receive him I with open arms the moment the steamer I made her first landing, he donned a life preserver and qnietly jumped overboard when about a mile from shore. He left behind him a few words written on a paper collar, politely apologizing to the captain for having made free with the life preserver, aud promising to remit its value if it proved to bo worth anything. No proposition could be fairer, but as nothing has been heard of the desperate navigator it is feared that he will never remit. 1ERCI $2.00 per i Witchcraft in France. At Montbrison, France, not long ago, the magistrates were called upon to adjudge a somewhat singular case. JeanMarie Baron, aged thirty-seven, a well-todo farmer of Poncins, had for,three or four years entertained the hullucination that some of his neighbors, jealous of his prosperity, had combined to injure him by witchcraft. His cows fell sick, his wheat "[withered and he himself had singular fits of oppression and despondency at the sight of the objectionable persons. He consulted several doctors, even going to Lyons for treatment, but as they all derided his story ne reaoivea to put in practice the remedy suggested by a village crone?namely : to draw blood from each of his persecutors. Accordingly he armed himself with a number of stout pins with glass heads, hid himself near the parish church door on a procession day, when the whole community would naturally gather there, and falling suddenly upon his victims planted a pin in each with remarkable vehemence. Mr. and Mrs. Raynaud and Miss Jeannette Badleu complained to the police of the assault. Baron declared with an air of happiness that he was guilty ; that he bore no ill-will to the complainants ; that he had to do what he had done, and it had proved effectual, as he and his cattle had recovered their health. The judge endeavored to convince him that he had never been possessed, but the prisoner retorted unanswerably that until he had aseaulted his tormentors he had suffered, whereas from the very moment that he had drawn blood he and his beloved cattle had enjoyed perfect kftalth, so that infallibly he must in the first place have been bewitched. He was sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment,receiving his punishment gleefully, "since," he said, "that is not so much to undergo as the price of thereoovery of one's health and luck." International Entomology. The Toronto (Can.) Globe, in an editorial article on the grasshopper pests in the Western States, says: The experience of the last four years has | demonstrated that the grasshoppers are irresistible vhile healthy. Therefore their parasites must be aided in their efforts to overtake them, and individual effort can do littlo or nothing in this direction. If it is anybody's business to tight the locusts, it is the busiuess of the United States and Dominion governments, in both of whose territories lie the lands from which the caloptenus descends. Killing the insects after they have arrived in Minnesota or Manitoba is a poor business?ir. fact a hopeless one. To prevail against them their habits and hose of their enemies must be studied at their homes; and, if needs be, the two governments must go into the business of raising parasites and letting them loose upox the country. This may seem to savor of the ridiculous; but when it is considered that these visitations are periodic, and, unless something is done, inevitable, the ab surdity of the suggestion will l>e less nnnn.unt Soil fori Tfl9f? Will plflTIHft Hf ilppaicuv* MV?J wu J\yw*w >f fore the next flight from the Rockies. At the end of that time Manitoba and the Northwest will have received many thousands of settlers, who will be jnst tnrning the corner after their first struggles. Hitherto it has been the Western States that have suffered. Our own country having been undeveloped, wo have not had the full terror of a locust plague brought home to us. If we bad received of our kinsmen and countrymen the s ories of homes desolated, farms abandoned, hopes crushed aud imminent starvation that have come from Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa, we should be willing to take any means to prevent the recurrence of the calamity, or to mitigate its horrors. A Useful Invention, A San Francisco inventor is exhibiting in that city a model of an anchor which is thus described by a local journal: It has two shanks, the one half the length of the other, and the shorter connected with the longer at the middle by a bolt, on which it swings freely. When suspended by the short shank the point of the fluke of the anchor cannot fail to strike the ground. The chain is intended to be attached to this short shank. The main shank, on which the stock of the anchor is fixed, is curved upward at the ?lUn /iVioin nnffis in ordinarv pUlUll IVUC1C IIUU vuiatu .u . y anchors, and a mortise in the short shank permits it to fall over it, which is the position it will assume as soon as the fluke strikes, and in which position it will remain as long as the strain of the vessel is on the chain. The objeet of the invention is to enable the anchor to be raised with ease. By the methods now in use the ground in which the fluke of the anchor is imbedded has to be torn out, or the fluko itself will give way. With the movable shank iD the new contrivance the inventor asserts that the anchor cau be raised to the surface with the same ease that it is lowered, as the fluke is required to come up precisely the same way it went down, without tearing out any of the ground in which it is embedded. It is also arranged that u reserve fluke can be adjusted to take the place of the one in use in case of accident. Hay Feier. The writer of a recent woric on hay fever adduces several instances to establish the fact that the disease has no tendency to shorten the duration of life. Daniel Webster suffered from it to the nt v?ia lifo ond lifl died at the 1UOL JCOi KTL AiM AAtVf -w age of seventy ; Cnief Justice Shaw of the Massachusetts supremo court, who had been a subject for many years, died at eighty ; another gentleman at eightyfour ; Mr. Samuel Batehelder is still living at ninety-two, and another gentleman is still living at the age of eighty who has been a sufferer for thirty years. The great English humorist, Sydney Smith, whose piquant account of his sufferings from the symptoms of his disease will be remembered by the readers of his correspondence, lived to the age of seventy-four. Thus far no medicine has had much effect in the treatment of the disease. The only remedy which has been found uniformly successful in a variety of cases is change of climate, and removal of residence to a mountainous region. AL. iiioniL Single Cony 5 Cents. The Soul's Hope. Behold! we know not anything; I can bat trust that good shall fal At last?far off?at last, to all? And ?very winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; bat what am 1 ? An infant crying in the night? An infant crying for the light? And with no language but a cry. Items of Interest, "Flooting and pleteing done" is an Eighth ave. (New York) sign. The champion whittler lives in Miohigan. He has whittled for three months, and now has a chain six feet long made from a single pine stick. A traveler stepped into the oottoge of an English farm hand at supper time and saw on the table a sweetbread, with ham and peas and new potatoes. A lawyer at the bar was held to be in contempt for simply making a motion in court. It was ascertained, however, that he made a motion to throw an inkstand at the head of the court. Listz recently played one of his own 1 "" iw.nMA.n mncinian COmpetUUUUB iUl UU awoiivou named Boise, and Boise's criticism is: " He played it m a way calculated to make one's hair defy hair oil." There is a growing conviction in the minds of smokers that a vest pocket should be made deep enough to entirely hide a cigar from the scrutinizing gaze of the man that never has any. A Kentucky farmer says that his old sow is in the habit of chewitig oh grapevines that grow upon .convenient trees, and, with the tree end in her month, swinging over the fence into a cornfield. A granite block weighing thirty tons was recently taken fiom the quarries near Hallowell, Me. Another block weighing forty tons is soon to be brought out. It will require forty oxen to move it. An eminent New York physician attributes much of the prevalence of diphtheria to the common practice of turning down the wicks of kerosene oil lamps until they emit a strong smell of oil. One person of every 259 in Cincinnati dies by suicide. Sixty-two per cent, of AA?man A SUip, U1 UUJllvuv A lawyer was oat sailing at Yarmouth a few days since, and as the boat went bowling along he enthusiastically exclaimed : "This is worth a dollar a minute I" About fifteen dollars' worth later this same gentleman was bending over the tafifrai), faint and limp, casting his bread upon the waters, and declaring that he would never go out sailing again. John Anderson, the first man who ascended the great South Dome in the Yosemite valley, California, lives alone in a small hcu^e near the saddle of the dome. He is hard at work constructing a siaircase of a thousand steps up the dome. He hopes to have an elevator i-nnninor in time, and is also working on a mcdel of a titeam" car that shall carry passengers tip the almost perpendicular r walls. Patient to his doctor?44 And it is rea ly true that I shall recover ?" 44 Infallibly," answers the maT of medicine, taking from his pocket a paper full of figures. 44 Here, look at the statistics of your case; you will find that one per cout. of those attacked by your malady are cured." 44 Well," says the sick man, in an unsatisfied manner. 44 W< 11, you are the hundredth person with this | disease that I have had under my caie, | and tho first ninety-nine aie all dead. I ? tllO seii-muruerera wo UClUiOJU* AMV proportion of the sexes is five men to one woman, and the most popular method is hanging. A man in Buffalo palled off his coat and jumped in the canal to save a woman from drowning, when a pickpocket stole his pocketbook from the coat, and the woman swore at him for pulling her hair in his efforts to save her life. The Oldtown Indians, who live near Bangor, Me., have a law requiring everybody to be at home by nine o'clock in the evening. One of the Indians was caught out at ten o'clock the other night and sent to jail for thirty days. The English press is greatly interested in tho shipment of beef packed in ice chests from New York to Liverpool. If the experiment succeeds, American beef can be placed in the Euglish market at a price twenty-five per cent, below the current rate. When a common school teacher in the West found upon his examination papers the question : " How does a ship at sea find it latitude and longitude ?" he arose to the occasion and promptly wrote : " It finds its longitude hot and its latitude kold." Up in Rutland, Vt., a man has just had a piece of window glass more than two inches long taken from his leg, where it had been for eighteen years. It may truly be said that during that entire period he has never been absolutely free from pane. A little boy, six years old, and a little girl, eight, were looking at th6 clouds one beautiful summer evening, watch- > ing their fantastic shapes, when the boy exclaimed : " Oh, Minnie, I see a dog in the sky!" "Well, Willie," replied the sister, " it must be a tky terrier." A Burlington schoolboy views the advent of school days without a tremor, because, he says, he is pained to au oz. that his father lbs. him without qr. nearly every day, worse than ever his teacher did, nor is he the only unhappy boy in town ; he says he knows a cwt. the return of school days with eager impatience. Carrier pigeons have been put to an ingenious use by a physician on the Isle of Wight. After visiting his patients in each village, the doctor writes out his prescriptions, affixes one to the leg of a pigeon, and sends the bird - ome. Thus the prescriptions are made up at once, and the medicines are dispatched speedily to those liviDg at a distance. A tailor and his son were in the olden days doing a day's work at a farmhouse. The prudent housewife, to secure a good day's work, lighted candles when daylight begun to fade. The tailor looked to his son and said : "Jock, confound them that invented workin' by caunlelicht." " Ay," replied the young ? ? aitVipr father."