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* IF03R.T ROYAL Standard and Commercial. VOL. IV. NO. 47. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1876. $2.00 per Aim. . SiflEfc Copy 5 Cents. Be Careful What You Say. I ?: oaking of a person's faults, i is;, don't fcrget your own ; Remoc ber those with homes of glass She - 1 seldom li.row a stone. If wa La nothing else to do Bat talk of those who eiu, 'Tis better we commence at home, And from that point begin. We have no right to judge a man Until he's fiirJy tried ; Should we not like his company, We know the world is wide. Some may have faults?and who have not ? The old as well ks young ; Ferhapa^we may. for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. j. u leiiyouor a neuer pian, Aud one that works fall well: I tjy my own defect* to cure, Ere 1 of others' toll. And though I sometime* hope to be No worts than some I know, My own shortcomings lid me let The faults of o? hers go. Then let us al, when we commence To slander fiitud or foe, Toink of the harm one word may do To theeo who hide know. Remember, curses, sometimes, like O r chickens, "roost at home." Don't speat of others' faults until Wo have none of our own. HIS OWN MEDICINE. The Story of a Village Doctor who was Always Drunk. OKI Dr. Banker was a stout, red faced man of abont sixty, in a perpetual state of intoxication. Sometimes he was worse than at others, but he was always drunk. "Now, only see," some admirer would exclaim, 44 you go to Dr. Bunker and state your case, and he may be so drunk as to be scarce ly able to open his old saddle bags, and yet he will give you some thing that will go to the spot and no mistake. What a man be would be if he would only keep sober." This fame of the doctor's, however, came to a tragic ending. vvenaa among US widely known and muoh loved, a little girl sadly crippled from her birth. Her delicate and morbid condition seemed to stimulate her brain, so that she became renowned throughout the valley as an intellectual prodigy. Unable to walk, she was carried to school by her parents. She was an only child, and it was pitiable to note the pride they oot in her cultnre. At best she was not long for this world, aud h?r exit was beiug hu'ried by the cramming to which her ?fond friends and relatives , subjected htr. Her pure white soul seemed to shine through her delicate face, which even traces of pain and the sad, waiting patience of frequent disap- ( pointment failed to mar. At spelling bees and other public exhibitions of the j schools crowds would gather to applaud the clear, silvery voice that so readily responded to the vexing questioLS. lu this way Lucy Hooper came to be so j generally kuown and so much beloved. "Little Lucy," one would say, "has an answer ready to any question; and as ( for spelling, she's ahead of the master." ( When about ten years of age little ^ Lucy developed a new torture iu the i shape of paroxysms of pain that were known to the country as fits. The poor /tVtil.l tnffavuil linrril>lv vhilfl t.hpfiA at- ! vuim PU"V*VV* MV..wV " ?? ? tacks lasted, and Dr. Bunker was called, in on a gallop to administer relief. Tliis 1 he did on several occasions. But the evil hour came when, more intoxicated , than usual, he sent the medicine to the suffering child. The powders were administered, and Lucy, instead of beiDg bettered by th^m, grew suddenly and , alarmingly worse. She said, between paroxysms of intense pain, that the pow- ' ders did not taste as the others tasted. The doctor was again sent for, but found insensible from driuk. The , neighbors, who sought in much excitement to sober their favorite medical adviser, felt that the little pationt had but a brief time to allow for remedies. They poured cold water over his head and hot ooffee down his throat. At last he was sufficiently aroused.to justify his being hauled in a wagon to the house of Lucy's parents. Daylight was stealing softly into the rude room when the doctor staggered in. A greater curer of life's ills than he had entered before. There is a tide in our vitality that finds its ebb between midnight and early morning, and how often are we called to note the coming of death and .layb'gkt together ! The cool, nmn*nf/ walks in lustv streDcth over the eastern hills and the birds sing and the rills sparkle, while the cows low and the chickens crow, as if all nature felt a new life, with a renewed lease on all that is y'ea-aut and beautiful. At that moment, as if in mockery of us, the sick unto death ft el their hold weakening and the shores of life receding swiftly aud silently from them. Lucy's parents were poor people, inhabiting a log cabin to which had been : added a porch, and one end of this porch had been turned into a bedroom for the little favorite. It appeared neat and cleanly, but there was no curtain to the window, no carpet npon tl e floor. One could almost cover the rude furniture with a blanket, but each spoke in an uncouth way of tenderness and affection. When the doctor entered there was a profound stillness in the little apartment. "She is better now," whispered the unhappy mother to the doctor, 44 but she has been very sick." The now sobered physician took the ^ candle from the stand. was a tallow dip and burned dimly at best, but now haid a long unsnufled wick, and a gutter of ball melted tallow running like a stream of lard from the summit. Believing Lacy to be asleep, the watchers at the bedside had neglected the candle. 44 She is sleepiu' seemingly very comfortable now," again whispered the; mother. The doctor nearly rut the candle out j ^ in a clumsy attempt to snuff it, and i then threw such light as it had upon the face of the girl. Alas! the sleep j w?s not one to be courted. The eyelids { covered but one half the ball, and through the white, the only part visible, death stared. The doctor hastily seized a thin little hand and felt for the pulse. He felt in vain. Bending over the poor sunken face, he listened at her paited Sips for tidings of life in her breathing. He listened in vain. " Lucy, my girl," said the doctor,% "how are you?" There was no response beyond a quivering of the eyelids eo faint that it w is almost imperceptible. This was the last signal thrown out by the little soul, then more than half way over the cold river. " The powders," continued the mother, unaware of the change going on in one dearer than life to her, "didn't seem to act like the others, and Lucy said they tasted differently." " Have you any left ?'' asked the doctor, hastily. " Yes, one; here it is," and she handed the medicine to the physician. He looked aud then touched the white substauee to the tip of his tongue. In an instant his face became as ghastly as that of the dead child before him. His hand shook so violently that he spilled the powder upon the tloor. Throwing out his arms as one orowning, he seized the father frantically and cried, in a hoarse voice: 41 Tom Hooper, take me out of this," and as he went the agonized parent heard him mutter: 44 Poison; my God, poison!" The word poiioa was enough to excite the valley to a frenzy. A coroner's inquest was demanded, and physicians summoned from a distance to make a posl-mortem examination. Enough was fouDd by these learned men in the veins of the deformed girl to insure death, r ooner or later, without the help of any poison administered by a drunken doctor. He was summoned to appear and offer any explanation he might see fit to make. The coroner found him in his office. He was for once sober, and more wretched in appearance than when intoxicated. 41 Have yon come to arrest me?" he asked. 44No, doctor," replied the officer; 44 you're wautvd as a witness." 44 As a witness," he repeated, looking at tho ccrouer in a vacuit, absent^ortof way. 44 Yes, yes; I see. Well, I'll be a witness; I'll show 'em. Wait a minute." Baying this he took from a jar a white snbstanoe that he proceeded to measure off into small powders. He made six of these as well as his hands, that shook as if palsied, would permit him, and throwing the several potions together lie did up the dose in a bit of paper w deli ho placed in his vest pocket. Then he accompanied the coroner to the house of the dead girl, where the jury *at in that solemn deliberation of stupidity so common to coroner's inquests. \fter being duly sworn, ho^was aeked to tell all he knew concerning the sickness, treatment, and death of Lucy Hooper. 44 Gentlemen," he said, in response, ,4 this mquesfc originates in a belief that there lias been malpractice in this case, md that the patient died from the ef - -* J i i fects of poison aummisiereu Dy me, md not from the convulsions to which <be wa* subject. In this last illness I prescribed for her but onoe. J?'rom the time she took the medicine I sent her she grow rapidly worse until she died. To prove to you that my intent was hon3st, and to show you hov harmless was the remedy, I now proceed to swallow ten times as much as I prescribed for my patient." Before any move of remonstrance or j prevention he had swallowed the drug. [ The deadly character of the powder was j shown in hi' death, that followed twelve j hours after. "It's all right, gentlemen," he said, j between paroxysms of pain, "it's all j right; if you want further testimony, { meet me at the bar of God." The doctor's memory is cherished iD the valley, where it is generally believed ; he did nut commit suicide, but had a j mistaken confidence in his own reme- j dies, and they always wind up with : "What a doctor he would have been had he kept sober." Dividing it Up. A certain peasant visited the hodja of Trirkwv one dav. and ?resented him "V %i r - -- * with a hare. The giver was treated with great consideration, and a soup was made of the hare. Next week the peasant came again. 44 Who are you?" 441 am the man who gave you the hare." 44 Oh, yes;" and he was again well received. Some time afterward camd several persons and demanded hospitality. 44 Who are you 9" 44 We are the neighbors of the man who gave you the hare." 44 Oh, yes; you are welcome;" and they also were well received. Not long after this appeared quite a troop of people. 44 Who are you ?" 44 We are the neighbors of the neighbors of the man who gave you the hare." *4Oh, yes; you are welcome." So they were shown in, and the hodja presently set before each of them a cup of clear water. 44 The man is a fool," they said, upon beholding such an entertainment as that. But the hodja answered: 44 This is j the sauce of the sauce of the hare." Follow Your Leader. P.ide has much to do with the courage of mankind. Less than a century ago there was a game among the merchants of New York called "follow your leader," the fine of the participant who failed to do so being his wounded pride j and a late supper. This game came to an end one night when an intrepid challenger, who-e pride had on one occasion can ied him in the wake of his leader over the end of a North river pier in among the ice floes, coolly 6eated himself in his office upon a twenty-pound keg of gunpowder from the bunghole of which a paper was lighted at the end extending across the room. "Follow your leader!" he said to his friends, but they left precipitately when the paper had burned up to the heel of bis b ot, which rested against the keg. Adjusting ft Loss. The Boston Commercial Bulletin has the following : Keen fellows those insurance agents. There was an alarm of fire the other clay, caused by a gas explosion in the " saloon " of Mr. Michael McGowan, at the North End. As soon as the excitement had quieted down a little Mr. McGowan started for the insurance office, where he had taken out a policy on his " shebeen " and its contents. Soon after Michael left, a quiet looking gentleman entered and interviewed Mrs. McGowan on the subject of gas. He was very severe; he thought the gas had been improperly used; he doubted if the company would put pipes in there again if so much damage was done. Mrs. McGowan was alarmed. She knew that much of Mr. McGowan's business was transacted " under the gas" v 1_ J . ngni, ana Bne vomoiy pruwwwju ; " Aisy, sir, av ye plaze; is it the gas and the fire ? Divil a harrm have they done anyway, barrin' Mike drivin' the head av him thro' the windy, but manny the worse lick he's got whin lie's been out wid the byes. Burn, is it ? Nothing was burnt but Mike's ould coat. As fur the whisky, it wouldn't burn if you'd trow it on the fire. Damage, is it? Wait till I get a drop o' whitewash, the morrow, and divil a sign of a scorch ye'll see." Meanwhile Mike, with his head bound up and wearing a woeful countenance, was waiting at the insurance office. Presently the agent arrived,and Mr. McGowan opened his case at once. "Good marnin', Mister Premium. I've jist drapped in fur me insurance, sor. The bloody gas works, bad luck to 'em, busted the stoofing ahl out avthe pipes, and sit fire to me place, and trow'd me clan troo the windy, wid me head agin Murphy's wall, as kapes the grocer's shop, that came from oounty Cork an' knows me well, barrin' he'll sell a glass a whisky on the sly, which, being a grocer, is agin me rights." As soon as Mr. McGowan stopped for wind, the agent quietly inquired : " How much do you think your loss is, Mr. McGowan ?" " Well, I do not know, sor. What wid me place busted, and me stock burrned, me clothin' destryed, me hed bruk, to say nothin' av the bind on Murphy's wall, I'm thinkin' a matter of five hunder dollars wud be squaring . 99 me. "Mr. McGowan," said the agent, drawing a bank note from his drawer, "I have been up to your place this morning and seen what damage has been done, besides having the pleasure of an interview with Mrs. McGowan. There is twenty dollars to-pay for a bucket of whitewash, a pane of glass, and your broken head, and don't you ever try to play games on insurance people." Mr. McGowan's face lengthened inch by inch, and his square jaw dropped as the insurance man continued. Finally, his eye falling under the gaze of the ether, he pocketed the money, signed the necessary papers, and merely remarked : "So ye've had an interview wid the ould woman, have ye ? Be gorra ! I'll have one wid hor meself agin I go back." Mr. McGowan was tnie to his word, for he paid the twenty dollars to the clerk of the police court the next morning for, as Mrs. McG. described it, " batiu' her like an ould carpet." The Hay Fever. An essay is devoted to the treatment of hay fever, and contains much valuable material which may be appreciated. "Removal to a non-catarrhal region. This is the great almost unfailing remedy." These regions ure designated as the villages and hotels among the mountains where subjects have escaped the disease. The practical value of this to those seeking refuge from their enemy "an hardly be overestimated. Preventive treatment is given, and includes the best possible means for preparing the subject to endure that which cannot always be wholly avoided. While the author has little faith in any specific drug or class of drugs, he has evidently great confidence in preventive and palliating means of treatment, and in place of recommending one cure for all cases, he in * n--i 1- _i 1 i u. J &15TO II1HC ffiOil SUUU1U Ut3 ObUUlOU and treated by itself. This is certainly the best enidence that he is a sound therapeutist. The best idea of this part of the work may be obtained from the summing up at the end, as follows: 1. Remain in a non-catarrhal region during the critical period. 2. Strengthen the system by food and tonios. 3. Avoid dust, smoke, night air, and the vicinity of plants known to produce a paroxysm. 4. Dress warmly, with flannels next the skin. 5. For the cough?Mild narcotics; various household demulcents. 6. For asthma?Smoking stramonium leaves, saltpeter, espic cigarettes, inhalation of sulphuric ether, carbolic acid. English Country Towns. The inhabitants of a country town in England, says Louis Jennings, if not jolly, are contented. The squire in the neighborhood is not quite such a despot "n no lin noad fn V.O flTlAfl fSiP nms UUW ai UU UOV U W WW VMVW WW perity of any man in the town near him depended on his nod. The idea of setting up a shop without his gracious patronage would have been mere madness. He was generally very much opposed to more than one child in the family being sent to school, and had no very good opinion of workingmen who could read and write. Now all is changed?the owner of the large house and park is very liberal in contributing to the support of schools and churches, and although he is still a person of importance in his neighborhood, the people are no longer afraid of him. His custom is worth having, but in these days the bulk of his supplies for the house is brought from London, and vegetab'es, fruit and game he gets from his own estate. The shopkeepers, therefor *, make very little out of the "big families," and I often wonder how they manage to live. I was talking the otuer day to a poulterer and fishmonger, and he told me, confidently y,that it was hard to make both ends meet. The Reign of Terror. Daring the reign of terror all the prisons of France were filled with victims. These were generally the most worthy people in the community, whose otdy crime was in being obnoxious to the ruling powers. Those who were suspected lied, if possible, but were generally unable to carry away their property. Millions of property were confiscated. The prisons were crowded with the rich, the elegant and the cultivated classes. Thousands were guillotined; and universal fear and anarchy reigned without a parallel. Deputies, even those who had been most instrumental in bringing about the revolution, were sacrificed by the triumphant Jacobins. Women and retired citizens were not allowed to escape their fury and vengeance. Marie Antionette and the Prinoess Elizabeth and Madame Roland were among the first victims. Then it was that terrible scenes became of daily, almost honrly, occurrence. Delicate and beantifnl women knelt before the bloody autocrats of the revolution, offering a vain appeal for the eafety of those dear to them. But the savage cruelty of the republican leaders, tasting for the first time the sweets of power, was not to be satisfied until the populace, sated with gore, arose en masse and stilled their proceedings with the menacing cry of "No more blood| shed!" Marat and Robespierre themselves shared the fate of their victims. Upon the former, vengeance was wreaked by the haDd of a woman. From the town of Caen came Charlotte Corday, and, after many unsuccessful attempts, made her way to the presence of Marat. The so-called "father of his country" was seated in his bath. A. cloth had been thrown over him, and he was writing upon a board, which he used as a desk. He put a few questions to his visitor, who suddenly approached the bath, and, leaning over it, struck the occupant with her knife. The blow was dealt with such force that the weapon entered Marat's l osom up to the hilt. He uttered a single cry, and expirevl almost immediately. Robespierre's death occurred upon the scaffold. In the diary of Charles Henri Sanson, executioner of Paris during the revolution, occurs the following entry: "Robespierre was the tenth to appear on the platform. He went up the steps of the scaffold without any assistance whatever. His demeanor exhibited neither weakness nor assumed bravery; his eye was cold and calm. The men were ordered to take off the linen in which tiie prisoner's face was wrapped. They did so, and uncovered his jaw, broken by a Mow from one of the mob. The pain must have been horrible, for Robespierre uttered a fearful cry. The blood trickled down from the jaw, and the mouth remained wide open. He was immediately strapped down, and, less than a minute after, the knife fell. The j uead was shown to the crowd, like that | of the king." *? . How he Got a Coat to Fit Him. A middle aged son of the Emerald Isie went into a Detroit clothing store the other day, and said he wanted a "good, chape coat." He was a big, round shouldered man, and his arms were almost as long as those of Sir Dan Donnelly, who could "button the extremities of his knee-breeches without stooping." The largest trade size of coats is No. 42, and the salesman took one of that size from the pile and tried it on his customer. It was too small every way, particularly in the sleeves. The cuffs were six inches ubove the wrists, and the customer said he felt like a pot of porridge that had boiled over. The salesman handed the coat to an assistant and said: "Bring here a forty-four coat." The assistant fumbled a little at the pile, and brought back the same coat. It was tried and rejected, the customer remarking: "Sure, if I wore that coat they'd be fay in' I was a gossoon that wasn't done growin'." " Tou are an awful big man," said the astute salesman, winkiug at his fellow clerk; "I'll try a No. 48 on you." " Make it forty-nine, for the honor of ould Ireland," said the patriotic Milesian. "Forty-nine was brought (the same coat) and also found too smell. A Napoleonic look of decision illumined the face of the salesman as he confidently cried: " Bring here a fifty-two coat. I'm bound to fit you, anyhow." The Maniinnl < nof TEoc aorain friAil nn and 1UCU11VM4 WUW TTW.J ?? *vv. wuj the customer appeared satisfied. " I never get sleeves long enough for me," said he, "but I'll get them lengthened out, and then they will be all right." He bought the coat. The Question of Baggage. The impossibility of handling promptly and satisfactorily the huge quantity of cumbrous baggage that has been poured into Philadelphia, moves the Ledger to make these suggestions : The trunk or any other piece of luggage that cannot be carried in the hand by the visitor, and bo in the railway car under the eye of the visitor while traveling, is a perpetual source of anxiety, disappointment, and vexation. Railway depots have pyramids of tnem, which I nwriora ncvi-)' boa Tin til nhnnt. to rfi tarn home. What can be carried in the hand valise, the sachel, or with the wraps in the shawl strap, is all-sufficient for visitors to the Centennial Exhibition. The prevailing style of dress in Philadelphia, at this time, is the dress that people travel in. It is recognized and encouraged as the proper thing for all-occasions, whether for street dress, dinner dress, or evening dress, and it is universal at the Exhibition. Travelers and vis.tors are here in sufficient numbers to make the style. We repeat that no luggage is needed at this time for any purposes of etiquette or ceremony in Philadelphia l>eyond what visitors travel in aud can carry in the sachel, valise, or shawl strap. Those who bring trunk* are simply sowing for themselves the seeds for a big crop of delays, regrets, disappointments, and vexations. An African Foundry.?Lieutenant Cameron mentions an African tribe carrying on an extensive iron trade, having foundries fifty feet long by thirty feet wide, where tkey frequently get 150 to 200 pounds of metal in a single smelti ing, but we are not clear as to the locality. A Grange Barbecue. A granger in Jena, La., writes as follows: What is a barbecue? Webster ] defines it to roast a hog whole, and he is considered standard authority^ For the i sake of your many readers let me try to i describe one st greater length, given by ] Pine Grove grange. It was said to be ] an average one. When a neighbor de- < cides to give a barbecue a committee of ] arrangements is appointed, subscrip- 1 i tions of money, provisions, beeves, I hogs, sheep, goats and venison are taken I up. Poultry, bread and cakes are cook- ] ed at home by the ladies of the vicinity and then brought to the manager of the i pit. This consists of what might be 1 termed a ditch, about three feet deep, 1 the same wide, ?nd forty or fifty feet i long, which is tiiled up with hard wood i logs and poles, then set on fire. When I well burned to coals, poles from six t inches to a foot thick are nauled on both \ sides, close to the edge of the pit; by 1 this time the beeves are quartered and i parboiled, nice peeled handspikes of i sweet wood are run through the quar- I ters and other animals and placed across the Jarge poles, care being tak-n ihatthe 1 meat touch neither sides noi bottom. 1 In twelve or eighteen hours it is cooked. < Coffee is made in large pots or small 1 sugar kettles. Plates, cups and saucers, < kuives, forks and every requisite are i AA?<tin/? fcKIa in tlio pmuru uuuui a. ittigo u>i *iug vauit? ?uv ceuter of a parallelogram dining table, inclosing about ono-eighth of an acre. Between the carving and dining tables at either end is a small table, where little boys eat at one and little girls at the other, and their wants are attended to by some school teacher or minister. Some four feet outside of the main table strong forks are driven into the ground, fresh cut pine poles are placed horizontally in them, the outside of these are peeled, and the fresh pitch, with turpentine, springs out like heavy perspiration. Then woe betide the garment that comes in contact with it, for it has no respect of persons. This contrivance saves the police some trouble, as they have to stand guard most of the day. They are known by wearing a red ribbon on the le't shoulder. Waiters are young or single men, and recogDized by wearing a blue ribbon on the left arm; half a dozen expert carvers cut up the bread and meat. There is a sliding pole near one corner of the square, so when dinner is announced one of the guards runs it back and another oounts as the ladies come in by pairs. When the complement is in for the number of plates the pole is replaced, and no more can enter. This prevents any confusion inside. The speaker's platform being raised, logs are hauled, with the ends facing the stand, and strong planks laid across for seats. The whole is placed under a dense forest shade, near a cool spring of water, so if all present cannot eujoy themselves it must be their own fauit. Some of a Chinaman's Yiees. GAMBLING. To surprise a Chinese gambling party in flagrante delicto is considered the iicme of police subtlety and daring. On | every block is to be seen one, two, or j three quiet faced watchful old Chinamen, sitting on little stools in narrow i doorways, set some twelve feet back ? from the sidewalk. John passes Cer ) berus unchallenged,.threads the pas- ] sages easily enough and finds himself in a the temple of fortune, reduced to a dirty j little gambling shop. But should t officers X, Y and Z (or any other un- \ known quantity) make a tush on any of s these little, old, watchful men, there are a hundred chances to one that they s will be quick enough to prevent him e pulling a cord that sets a bell a-tinkliug. c Once let that bell tinkle and though the e iuvading force were fifty strong all i would be in vain. For suppose they I skurry past Cerberus and try the us- t f-ault. Obstacle number one is a big \ door, three, five, six inches thick, with y heavy cross-bars of wood and iron on a the wrong side which would defy the ( whole force used collectively as a battering ram ; and even were that door t parsed in the first sweep, the passage is f found to be a maze, with a barricaded < door at every angle ; ingenious mechani- i cal contrivances slip bolt and bar into 1 their heavy sockets quick as light, n while the tinkle of the bell has sent the < vi ^1 ?* U ?1% 4 I gammers nyiug uy sumo icw c^u w uj> to the roof. One memorable time, a certain wonderfully active and efficient officer, while hotly pressing some flying pigtails in one of these passages, suddenly found himself hauled up to the ceiling, with his neck in a noose, and there he dangled until cut down by his brother stars. LOTTEBIZS. Closely related to gambling are the lotteries, in which almost every Chinese storekeeper deals. On every ticket eighty Chinese numbers are printed, the buyer having the privilege of crossing out five or more of these numbers, and if any or all of these numbers when drawn are found to be prizes the money called for is paid. The prizes are five, and vary from twenty-five cents to one ( hundred dollars, the price of the tickets \ being from ten cents to one dollar. \ The drawings take place twice a day. \ This much you arc told. White people j patronize this petty system of robbery ( extensively. No drawing party nas yoi ] been seized, and the whole business is , intangible and shady.?&cribner's. ( I Life in California. t Such incidents as the following are j [ still cornmou in stng^ coach traveling in ! * California : The coach contained eight I( raou and four wom^n, all unarmed. J j When the coach reached a part of the I : road lined by a thick growth of brush, j into which it is impossible to turn a * ' loaded wagon or even a light one. two 1 } men sprung up and commanded tne ; ! driver to stop a. d throw out the express i boxes. Both men wore white cloths * j under their hats, one end being thrown ! up over the front of the hat and the I other, with eye holes, covering the face. ^ | One man, with a double barreled shot- f gun, aimed at the driver, and tho other ? at the body of the coach where the pas- 4 j sengers mostly were. After a short I parley two boxes of treasure were thrown 1 out, and the driver was compelled to 1 drive on, the shotgun corering him until c he was hidden by a turn in the road. 1 A Legend of the Seneca Indians, Herno, the great Thunder spirit, had his lodge behind the sheet of water which ponrs down at the falls of Niagara. For a long time he dwelt there, astonishing the Indians with his stunning peals, bnt never venturing forth tc practice his strange art before their Byes. They could hear him and knew he was there; but never as yet had he been seen; nor is it all likely that he 01 the effects of the sun ever would have t>een seen bnt for a little incident, the results of which brought him forth. A youDg and beautiful maiden residing at Seneca village, just above the falls, had been contracted in marriage by her father to an old man of disagreeable manners and hideous person. She it once resolved to seek death rather than drag out the life of misery which such a union must bring about; and with this object in view she launched forth from the village in a oark canoe and swept down the rapids of Niagara singing her own death song until she took the awful leap. But death was not ready for her. Eerno, the Thunder spirit, happened to be wide awake; and when he saw her 3oming down among the foaming waters be coolly caught her in his blanket and conveyed her to his home behind the falls. Of course, the maiden had romance enough about her to be grateful for all this, more especially when she found jhe was entirely beyond the reach of the monster her "cruel pa-ri-ent " had selected to comfort her through life. She fell upon the neck of the Thunderer and wept sweet tears. The tears softened lis stern heart, and led him to smooth pack if not to toy with her golden tresses. In short, to hurry through a long dory, they got to billing and cooing? hey fell in love?they made the interesting affair known to each other; and he wronged though beautiful maiden became the wife of Herno, the Thunder tpirit. And, as a matter of course, she was very happy. About this time the Senecas of the vi.age above the falls were visited with a pestilence which swept them off by hunIreds, and while some prayed to the 3 rent Spirit for help, others gathered iround the cataract and sent in their pe.itions to Eerno. The tale of their tufferings moved the Tnunderer, and he sent the maiden forth to tell her people hat a monstrous serpent was dwelling peneath their village, just below the mrface of the ground; that it was depending upon their bodies for food, and hat it came forth at the end of every neon and poisoned the waters, in order hat they might die and be buried within ts reach. As soon as the Indians learned this hey pulled up and moved to another lo;ality; conso<jnently when the great serpent poisoned (ho waters as usual, the ?arth brought him no lood. This was m affair so strange that he crawled forth ,o see whu.t it meant, when, to his snrpripe, he found the village was deserted. With many curses on the head of the rhunderer, as the author of his misfor;une, the serpent took the trail of the repeating Indians &nd started away in hot pursuit. The maiden still loved her people, and vhen she saw the serpent moving on to 'fleet their further destruction she appealed to her husband to arrest him. Terno was uot deaf to her entreaties, ind so he stepped forth from his hiding place and launched a hissing bolt after he serpent, which struck him just as he vas endeavoring to cross the narrows lorne distance above the falls. The wound produced was a fatal one, uid the great monster floated dowu the itream and lodged upon the verge of the sataract, stretching nearly from shore to ikore. The swift waters were dammed ip by the obstruction; but they finally proke through the rocks behind, and bus the whole top of the falls upon vhich the snake rested was precipitated vith it into the abyss below, excepting i small portion, which is now known as ioat island. It almost entirely ruined the home ot ;he Thunderer, for it reduced the great ?pace behind the waters to a very narrow jompass. He Ltill occupies it as a sleep! g apartment, however, and you may tow hear him snoring under there as you dand on the shore; but if he would exercise himself in his favorite pastime o 1 ihrowing thunderbolts he is forced to ?/vw?/\ ono/m Inaa 11 mifiirl A IUD IVlbU Uil/U D^/ttCU ivuu 1MM?WV?? Unreasonable as this myth may sound, :here can be no doubt that the Senecas jelieved every word of it. When they vere to be met with in the Niagara jountry they pointed out a place neai he month of Cayuga creek, where th aauks were shelved ont in a semi-circnar form, and declared that it had been lone by the serpent in his death throee ifter having been wounded by Herno'e ;h under bolt. And to this tradition may ae attributed their custom of putting iway their dead upon scaffolds above ground instead of burying them. The Irish Medal. The medal presented by the Irish litizens of the District of UoiumDia to :he member of the Irish team making .he largest score consists of a beautiful ive-poiuted golden star, depending rrom a pin in the form of an eagle with >ut9tre ched wings. The weight of the nedal is sixty pennyweights. A diamond is imbedded at each point of the ?tar. In the center of the star is an engraving of the Capitol bnilding, on one ride of which are the figures " 1776," ind on the other " 1876." At the lowei >ait of the star a black and white enameled target with a diamond as a bull's;ye. Crossed over the upper part of ;h'e star are two rifles joined together at he top and secured to the upper point )f the star by a miniature laurel wreath a gold. From the talons of the eagle, vhich is of solid gold, in bold relief, are itrc-tched to either side the American ind Irish fligs done in enamel. An Address.?O'Connor Power, M. ?., is on his way to the United States or the purpose of presenting a congratulatory centennial address to Presi lent Grant on behalf or the Irish peo)le. IrelaLd seems determined to acknowledge, as far as utterance can con7*y, the warmth of her affection for the jouutry which has given a home to so nauy millions of her children. Items or Interest ' The creditors of H. A. Pierce, a Springfield bankrupt, get one cent on a ' dollar. A quack doctor advertises to this effect: Cough when you can, for after 1 you have taken one bottle of my medicine you can't. , The city attorney of Des Moines, . Iowa, recently talked eight hours in orj der to prevent the discbarge of a pris, | oner, against whom he had no case, until | an officer could reach town with a war h rant for his apprehension on another , charge. i It is easy in the constant nse of a fa miliar saying to forget the circumstances i which suggested it, and probably there are but few people to-day who know that i the author of theapothigm "It is the t little things of life that make or mar our i happiness," alluded to fleas and mosqui[ tocp. An inquisitive young man visited a >' State prison in New York, and among his questions asked a girl the cause of her being in such a place. Her answer 1 was that she "stole a watermiJl, said went back after the stream that turned 1 the mill and was arrested." The young man left immediately. 1 The Burlington Haw key e says: The first step toward making a man of your 1 sou is to train him to earn what he ' spends; then the best way to teach him to be frugal is to take away his money ' as fast as he earns it and spend it wisely for yourself. There is nothing liae ' teaching the young by example. The miners of South Yorkshire were dissatisfied with their wages, and at, tempted to-become colliery owners them, selves. An association bought a colliery, the profits of which were to lie shared among them. The capital raised was about $400,000. The enterprise has proved unsuccessful, and the money is ! lost. i The ire of a St. Louis paper toward the editor of a Chicago journal is lot loose in this way: He stands up and , lies, sits down and lies, eats lies, drinks lies and dreams lies. There is no other i name but lies for his preposterous aud unprincipled assertions. If there is really a place prepared for liars, the > smell of sulphur already arises to his i nostrils. ? A large boy attacked a smaller and cuffed his ears, but the uoble little fellow * did not strike back. He bore it all patiently till the big boy had gone, and a silvery haired old mau had patted him on the head and given hi in something. Then he went around the corner and* licked that big boy's little brother till he couldn't stand up without leaning against the walL -? There has been an interesting inquiry in Ppris lately as to which trees stand town life best, and it is decided that be- , yond all question no tree is so good for < urban wants as the plane. The same verdict is returned in London. Smoke does not seem to affect them, and few hner specimens of this graoefui and umbrageous tree can be seen than those on Berkeley square in that city. The annual Alpine horror has taken place. George W. Johnson, a London solicitor, and his guide, Franz Saarbach, being precipitated into a crevasse over a hundred feet deep, and buried with ice and sngw. His companion, Mr. Hayman, and the other guide escaped, bat only after great suffering. Large parties of guides have been ont, bat so far have wholly failed to recover the bodies. It is the custom in Lima when any , religions question is debated in Parliai ment for the ladies to go to tho Hoo.se of , Assembly, carefully watch the proceedings, and, after a way of their own, take part in them. For example, during the last debate on liberty of worship, each speaker who defended the proposal to separate the church from the fcJfcate had a Ann? ?> his head from iOUU VTA nwuu i the ladies' gallery, and the defenders of the church were honored with ( garlands. Piece Work, While piece work is strongly resisted , by the association of the Amalgamated . Engineers in England in its corporate > capacity, and by a certain proportion | of the workmen is mack uisllked in many important districts, tho men who have' learned its value to the able and , industrious mechanic would strenuously , oppose any proposal to limit it^ operak tions. Here I cannot do better than give an , extract from Mr. Brassey's essay on . . "Workand Wages,"recording tho ex, perience of the author's father, whose , testimony is emphatically in favor of , piecework. My father, says Mr. Brassey, always preferred putting a price upon the work i rather than paying by the day. This system was modified to snit the nsnal habits of the people with whom he had to deal. Piece work could not in ail cases be adopted without some complii cations and difficulties; but my father 1 always looked upon day work as a losing f game, and all his work was carried out, as far as possible, by sub-contract, ' which is piece work on a somewhat I lam. ana\a ETCD tllO SCatToldiUC iOT 1 the erection of an iron bridge, such as that over the Severn, near Colebrook 1 .iale, of 200 feet span, was carried ont 1 upon the principle of snb contract; and | the same system was adopted for the excavation of shafts and adjacent lengths ' of tunnel. Payment by piece is benefl cial alike to the master and the man. ; The man earns higher wages, while the master has the satisfaction of obtaining 1 an equivalent for the wages he has paid, and completing the oontrrct which he i has undertaken with far greater rapidity. On public works the difference in 1 the earnings of the men paid by piece ' work and the men working by the day was always remarkable. In the canal making days men working in butty gangs would earn four shillings, whi'e i others working on the day system woi Id not earn more than from two to thiee shillings a day. It seems to me that pieoe work is oca of the many instances in which a friend has been mistaken for an enemy; and . that vreat calamity would befall those who have denounced it if their d< nunci- % utions were carried into practical effect.