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0 THE TRIBUNE. VOL. I.?NO. 41. BEAUFORT, S. C., SEPTEMBER 1, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM. , ???: ? ?r ? ? i . Chickens. ?'I didn't!" says Chip. " Yon did 1" says Peep. " How do yon know ??yon wore fast asleep." " I was under mammy's wing, 8trotching my legs like anything, When all of a sudden I turned around, For close beside me I heard a Bound? A littlo tip, and a little tap." " Fiddle-de-dee 1 You'd had a nap, And, when you wore only half awake, Hoard an icicle some who re break." " What's an icicle?" "I don't know ; Rooster tells about ice and snow, Somotbing that isn't as good as mea', That drops down on you and makes you squeal." " Well ! swallow Rooster's tales, I beg ! And think you didn't come out of an egg ! I tell you I heard the old sholl break, And tho first small noise you ever could make ; And mammy croodled, and puffed her breast, Aud pushed us further out of tho nest, Just to make room enough for you ; Aud thoro's your shell?I say it's truo !" Chip lookod over his uliotiMer then, Auil there It lay by the old gray lien? Half an egg-slioll. chipped and brown. And lie was a l?all of yo!l??w down, Clean audchippor. and Hiua't and spry, With the pertest bill and the blackest eye. " Il'm !' said lie, with a little perk, " That is a wonderful piece of work ! Peep, you willy ! don't you see That Hliell isn't neaily an big a* mo'/ I Whatever you way, mien, I declare 1 I never, never, never could get iu tliero !" " Yon did !" says Peep. " I didn't!" says Chip. With that ho gave bora horrid nip, And Poop began to dance and peck, And Chip stuck out liis wings and nock. Thoy pranced, and struck, and capered about, ] Their toes turned in and their wings spread' out, As angry as two small chicks conid be, Till Mother Dorking turned to see. . She cackled and clucked and called in H?in At it tbey went with might and main ? Till, at last, the old hon used her beak, ( And Peep and Ctiip, with many a squeak, Staggered off on either side. With a very fuuny skip and stride. " What dreadful noiiHeuso !'" said Mother lien, | When she hoard the story told again ; M You're had as the two-logs that don't have 1 wings, Nor feathers nor combs?the wretched things! That's the way they light and talk For what isn't worth a mullein stalk. What does it matter, I'd like to know, Whore you came from, or where you go ? , Keep your temper and earn your food ; I can't scratch worms for a lighting brood. I won't have quarrole?I will have peace i I hatched out chickens, so don't be geese 1" Chip scratched his ear with his yellow claw, ' The meekest chicken that ever you saw ; And Peep in her feathers curled one leg, And said to herself?"But he was an egg !" ( ?Hose Terry Cooke, in SI. Nicholas. A DRAMATIC STORY. The Alnnnrr In Which an Injured Alan Nettled Accounts with the Desperadoes. 1 A gentleman who has lately returned j from a visit to Dallas, Texas, tells a story which is rather dramatic and may be ( true. The story was told to him by an , old hunter, who had become domesticat- . .1 1 : - * " cu tutu niw iUU-UglLlg UUOUl OU6 OI tilO Dal li us hotels. \ " I could tell you a g?x>d many queer 3 stories, stranger," said the old fellow, in ( conversation with the gentleman, "but , I don't know of any that 'ud be more , likely to kind o' strike you than an ex- , porionce of Sam Dong's in Harrison , county, years ago. Texas wuz a tough , place then; you kiu bet on that!" i And then the ol?l fellow told the story, | which cjiu scarcely be as graphic in print , as in his terse idiom: Years ago Harrison county, in Texas, was the haunt of about as desperate a j gang of ruffians as ever infested any dis- , trict west of the Mississippi. Their num- ( ber was so great and their organization \ so completo that they set the but half , administered hiw at dotiance, carrying on a career of daring crime with impuni- , ty and making the region an undesirablo j placo of abode for all honest citizens. Ostensibly hunters'or liorse-traders, the ; desperadoes made stock stealing their { chief oooupation, never hesitating to commit a murder when necessary for their safety or for the execution of any , of their rascally plans. The controlling | spirit in this desperate organization was a giant nomod Dick Reddett, who, from his exceptional ferocity and daring, ex- , oreised almost despotio oontrol over his followers. A special pride of this man was in his extraordinary skill in the use Of the rifle. UO one of the han/1 lvain*? ablo to compete with him in what was at that time considered the chief acoomplishment of a Western man. It was a favorite practice with the band to congregate at some one of the few small stores scattered through the oountry and there engago in shooting matches, and it was upon one of these occasions that Bom Long, the hnnter already mentioned, ohanoed to be present. Long was a quiet, modest follow who lived with his wife and child in a small cabin in the neighborhood aud who made hunting his constant occupation. He never appeared at the store save to exchange skins and furs for provisions or ammunition, and was widely and favorably known for his sobriety and houosty. Upon tho occasion just referred to when Bam Long chnuoed to oome while the desperadoes were engaged in one of their shooting matches, it was demanded that ho should take a part in the sport. The hunter hesitated at first but finally, not wishing to incur the ill-will of the ruffians, consented. His skill with the rifle was known to bo something remarkable, and the desperadoes were not greatly surprised when ho defeated them all save the captain of the band. This man hod not ongaged in the sport, but when Long had vanquished all the others he came forward with the assurance of an easy victory. The shots were mado, and, to tho surprise of all, Long gained the day. The rage of the leader of tho ruffians knew no bounds at thus being defeated inpresenco of his followors, and, although refraining from any violence on tho spot, he intimated darkly to the hunter that ho would yet " got evon with him." Long paid little attention to the threat, and soon afterward returned to his cabin. At just dusk, somo days later, Sara Long having como in from n long hunt, was lying on the floor of his cabin and playing with tho child, whilo his wifo was getting supper. The wife, busy with her cooking, asked Long to go to an adjacent spring and bring some water, a roquost which ho promptly complied with, leaving his gun in the houso, a somewhat unusual course with him. Ho had reached the spring and was just stooping to uu mo pan 110 carried, wUon he was bomo down by nn attack from behind, bound securoly and dragged some yards into tho woods. When he recognized his assailants he knew what to expect. He had fnllen into the hands of tho Reddctt gang, and the leader was about to "get even." Long was stripped and bound to a tree bv order of tho captain. A supply of hickory bwitches was obtained, and then the captain took one of them up and began the whipping, announcing, with an onth, that no man could beat him or his men at shooting and stay in the country, Tho sufferings of the victim were terrible. The flesh was cut from his back in strips by the blows, and when the leader of tho ruffians had gratified his rago, othors of tho band continued the punishment. But one man among the number showed any mercy aud his assertions that Long bad been punished enough wero received with derision. Finally the hunter fainted under the pain, and tho ruffians, having satisfied their grudgo, departed, leaving tho object of their spite Btill bound to the treo. In this position he was. found by his wife, who had become alarmed for his safety and who, searching for him, had been attracted to the spot by a faint moaning. She assisted him to reach the cabin, which ho did with difficulty, and then nnrsod him faithfullv to recoverv. It was weeks before Lo was well enough to move about. Scarcely had Long recovered from his wounds whon his cabin was found deserted, and members of the Reddett band, thinking that he hod fled the oouutry, boasted openly of what they had done. At the same time, thoy became bolder than ever in the commission of crime, always hunting or traveling together in a company of between twenty and thirty, and defying attack from any quarter. One day, as they wero engaged on a hunt, a member of the band became separated from the rest in the excitement of the chaso. Ho was found, lying dead, shot in the loft eye. A few days later, one of the ruffians, riding alone, was killed. Again the bullet was found to have entored the left eye, but no trace of the slayer could be discovered. A week or two passed, and another of tho desperadoes was shot, the Bamo terrible accuracy being exhibited in a shot in the left eye, proving all the Bhots to be from the same sonrco. The robbers bocame alarmed and kept always together in their raids, but there was no escaping the death which seemed always to be lurking noar them. One after another fell, until ton mon had died, each one piercod in the eye. The woods wero s<?ourod by the terrified men in vain. On one oooasion, when n inembor of tho hand was killed, the shot had been heard, and once a gaunt figure was soon running through tho woods, but pursuit failed to overtuko him. Accustomed to faco danger as the dosperadocs were, imd possessed as they were of a brutal courage, they trembled before this ruystorious dauger. It could not bo faced, and it could not bo averted. TKa rnaiilf. vrroa ^f Al 1 J ?vuvuv ttmo uunu m;iuo UI Lilt? U1U1U iloserted and fletl tho region. There remained only the captain and four of the more r solnto of his followers. These live hunted and mado their raids together, and for some time escaped harm. It chanced that among the fivo was tho man who had endeavored to save Long at the time of the whipping from so severe a torture. This man one morning ventured out in the woods without his comrades. Ho was walking slowly along, looking for game, when the brown barrel of a rifle projecting from a bush beside him checked his course. A bill, lank figure rose from the bush, and the startled man recognizod Sam Long, the hunter. LoDg raised tho rifle, then lowered it. "You're the man who said a good word for me, an' you may go, bad as yon aro> I won't take your miserablo life. Go 1" Tho iuhu needou no second invitation to go. He hurried to tho camp and told his story. Tho captain and tho other t'uree men started out in pursuit of Long, and but two ir?'?n accompanied Dick Reddett wlion ho ret urned ! Tho fliiml tv,<,f . 11 ? -I--* i- it ? ??* mu?u uuu iiiiiuU) nnub ill UIO CYO, Bad no search of tho underbrush revealed the hunter. Tho next day another man w.is killed in camp, and again the hunter e caped. On the next day the two remaining men fled tho country, leaving the flerco lteddett alone. Tho leader of the desperadoes dared not remain where ho was. He knew ho was tho man whom Ijong sought above all others. Concealing himself until night, he mounted h s horse and tied for the nearest point on the Arkansas river where it would l>e possible to take passago on a BtofWhboat. Two days later ho reached a small landing iu tho woods on t banks of the rivor, where the steon stopped for passengers, when there w< auy to tako. lie learned from tho oct pant of tho only cabin in tho neiglibi liood that the boat would be down in t afternoon, aud so, having put up t signal to secure a landing of the bo established himself on tho bank a waited. Ho deemed himself safe onou from pursuit, and took no precautioi Throwing himself on tho ground slept, until, lato iu tho day, ho v awakened by the sound of the boat tho distance. She would round a po in a moment or two, and he waited < pectantly. As suddenly as though ris from tho ground, a lauk figure ptood 1 foro him aud tho muzzle of a rifle peoi in his faco. Tho terrified desperado h no difficulty in rocogniwinir tho man tlio ono ho had injured. With Uu> ri still held steadily upon tho face of t startled Reddott, Lour hissed out: "I've got you! You whipped m Whipped me like a dog! I swore ] kill you before I call myself a man aga and I'm goin' to do it ! I'vo cleaned c your band, and now it's your turn ! < I've got you ! Thank God, I'vo ? you ! Tho ruffian in abject fear pleaded 1 his life, groveling at tho feet of the hr tor. He clung to his words as a drov ing man clings to straws. Tho boat w very near. Should she round tho poi in timo ho would bo saved ! Alrea her smoke-stacks showed through t brush, when the hunger pressed t trigger, tho sharp report rang out, a Reddett fell dead, shot to tho bn through the left eye. Long slipped aw in the woods, and when the boat stopp in response to tho signal, they found dead man, but no ono else. Harris county was rid forever of the worst ga of ruffians in tho Southwest. " An' that, stranger," said tho old m in tho Dallas hotel, " is a truo story the way Sam Long settled accouuts wi the blackguards." An Operation l?y Physicians Who not Advertise. Siuco tho academy of medicine Evansvillo, Ind.. expelled a veteran pi siciau for regularly advertising, t Journal, at that place, tries to carry c the rule iu spirit by excluding the regular advertising, iu reporting a cr as follows: There was an operation performed t other day?a Burgical operation?and wo did not have a wholesome dread the academy of medicine before o eyes, wo would report the caso in fn It was an amputation of the leg?t lower part?about half way betwe whero the shoe stops and the garter I gins. The patient was weak, and con not afford to lose any blood; she need all she had to begin tho business of 1: ing again, so the doctors (members tho Drake medical academy, consequei ly cannot bo named) agreed solemi: thnt she should not lose any nt all. I (we are writing according to t "codo"now, so we can't name hi] produced a sort of rubber strap, wlii looked like tho doctor's snspendei sowed end/ to end. Dr. (a meml of Drake medical academy, so wo cam mention names) held tho leg up wh Dr. (wo don't mean to bo person but it was neither of tho other doctoi strapped the rubber on. This done, I (who, being a member of Dra medical academy, cannot allow the n of his name) put something olso c while Dr. (who is nameless becar a member of Drake medical academ took tho rubber strap off. A physici was present (belonging to Drake me< cal academy, wo withhold his nan: armed with a knife, and began to ci IIo was ably assisted by a medical g< tleman of this citv (mniKMitinimhln lioi as he holds a membership in Dra medical academy). Tlio arteries w< taken up by Dr. (who belongs Drako medical academy, and is thoro " nameless here forovermoro") in most Bkillful mannor. When our i porter left the patient was doing wc The whole oporntion was very credital to tho doctors (who, being mombers the Drake academy of medicine, cant have their mynes in print). A Child's Prayer, She was hardly nblo to talk plainl and a policeman had to give her 1 hand to assist her up tho steps into t ceutral station. " Did you put my mother in jail she asked, as sho pushed her pi) sunbonnet back and looked from ono another. Tlioy had arrested a red-faced, tangle haired woman, who fought the oflice and made use of foul language. No o dreamed that tho child was hers, but was. Tho little thing was so innocc and puro that they didn't want her oven see the iron bars, but tho motl: heard her voice, called to her, and til opened tho corridor door. The chi grasped tho iron door, looked into t cell, and cried out: " Why, mother, you aro in jail !" Tho mother crowded back, ashamed hnrsclf, and tlio child knelt down on t stone floor, clung to tho iron bars of t door, and prayed: " Now 1 lay mo down to sloop, and hone my mother will bo let out of jail The men hail ^oars 111 their eyes they gently removed her. and when t woman camo into court tlio noxt moi ing to bo tried his honor wliinpered hor to go homo and try for that ehih sake to l>e a mother inatcad of a wrote ?Detroit Dree Press. Julge Myriok of California has deei od that a man nndorgoing an imprifui rncnt for life in civilly dead and 1 wife a widow. ho About Patent Medicines. ;ro American Agriculturist is doing good work in exposing tlio humbugs 3r oITored to tho people in various guises, j In n late number it says: Our objections ho k? rfttcnt medicines aro several, but llrst aj. and mainly because they are secret. Wo nd object to taking or giving anything , whatever, tho composition of which is not fully known. Wo would not treat n jjg dumb auimnl or a plant with an unknown drug, much loss a human being. These 'j medicines may bo divided into two classint e^: ^oso wbich possess really activo ax- l'rol)(>rties and have a positive effect when ndminlntarml mill tlinnn )(3_ practically inert, or consist of some stimulant or tonic, and act more upon tlxo imagination through the remarkable circulars which accompany them than by virtue of any medicinal agent they contain. This last class are tlio worst swindles, as they give a stuff that costs a n | mere trifle for a high price, but many of [.^1 them aro so nearly nothing that the harm ^ they do is more to the pocket than to )U{. tho system. The whole class may bo set down as worthless trash, and in the a main are agents to draw monoy from tho * nervous, timid, and credulous, for tho jor benefit of a few ignorant pretenders, who, with their flashy diamonds, fast horses, and fast lifo generally, aro a sad ^ blotch upon our civilization. As to the int ?^1Rr c'OTi those medicines which liavo j some potency, we object to these because they aro powerful, and those who '^e use them are working in tho dark. Mor' I pliine is a useful remedy, but should aluu wa78 fiiveu knowing that it is morplune, and just as dangerous as it is useful. Not one mother in a hundred would [ ft ?PPly n solution of morphine to tho on mouth of her teething babe did she know that it was morphine, but mix it up with ? sugar, and call it somebody's " soothing an RyniP'" ^ is used without a question, Gj and thousands of little white gravestones all tho way from tho Atlantic to the PaId lie attest its soothing power. Certain worm lozenges were once popular, and lluia 1 uixvjxx iiiiTCXbiOCUiCilb WW) UUUUCU ""V-/I111do dren Cry for Tbom," and hundreds of parents who would have been horrorstricken had their physicians prescribed a doso of calomel, fed their children on iy- these lozenges. The writer, at a public lecture, exhibited the quantity of calo ut niel he had * separated from a box of ir- these lozenges, and had the satisfaction 196 of checking their salo in thnt city. Now while we do not deny that in some cases | ho these remedies may be useful, wo emif phntically and wholly object to them on ?f account of their secrecy. Thuy tuny bo ur hurtful, and are always needless. When ill- we say needless, we mean in the secret he form in which tlioy aro put up. None on of this active class of secrot medicines contain anything of any medicinal value hi that is not to bo found at all decent drug pd stores, or which is not at tho command iy_ of every one. of ?tily A Wall Street Financier. |r" I do not imagine, says a correspond" ont, that Jay Gould is a pleasant theme to any American, and yet tho Wall street strategist has his strong points. ls* He is a man of uncommon nerve, never ,ey faltering, or, as they say, never "squeall? ing," when pursued by tho most adverse ? fate. It was thought that when Fisk a ? died his dramatic end would demoralize Gould, eventually drive him from the *r' public gaze, and certainly ruin him as a financial power. There aro those who 180 assert that his subsequent inglorious de>n? feat in Erie was a warning to him, that lM() ho redoubled his efforts as a strategist, y' and made up his mind to rocovor lost au ground. Others again say that his operations are only auother method of ly keeping off the. dreaded end foreshadowed by the death of Fisk. I was down in Wall street tho other day talking with "!?? an old habitue of tho street. Ho was saying that Gould had everything his own way; that ho could do ]ust as he might please in any stock, nml that all y other operators were powerless to prevent him. "What, tnen, is there to r,9" prevent him amassing unlimited ,1K wealth?" " "He is loaded down with Union Pa?f cific," roplied my friend, "and nobody lot wants it. Gould can nover get rid of it uuloss a dividend of ton per cont. is declared, in which event ho may unload and retire from the street one of tho ly richest men in America." Gould will probably never quit Wall ho street. His temperament is exactly suited to tho excitement of that kind of life, for he is a cold, wary, dextrous nk business man, without passion, and opto parontly without feolings of any kind. He neither drinks nor uses tobacco in any form; nor is ho addicted to any ,rB habit that would prevent him from a n0. most perfect and absolute concentration it of tho astonishing faculties with which ,nt ho is gifted. I am told that his chief k, broker, "Cliarley" Osborne, mnkos lor over $300,000 annually on commissions ey alone, and that Mills has boon known to [jq realize $125,000 in a single month. ho Pig Iron, of Tho production of pig iron in tho ho United States last year amounted to ho 2,089,413 tons, as compared with 2,808,278 tons in 1878 siml > wr^i r.'.u I 1872. Tl?o following Slates wiulo more !" iron in 1874 than in 1878: Maine, Veras mont, Massachusetts", Now York, Virho ginia, Qoorgia, Alabama, Texan, West :n- Virginia, Tennessoo, Ohio ami Michigan, to The following States made less iron in l's 1871 than in 1878: Connecticut, New ill. Jorsoy, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin ami Missouri. The groatest id- increase in 1874 occurred in the misoelm laneons bituminous coal and coko dislis trict in Ohio; the greatest decrease in 1874 took plaoc in Lehigh, Pa. T1IE (JUEEN OF THE GYPSIES. * Children of the Forrnt Frightened OfT by a r Storm?The Postponement or nn Interesting Ceremony on Account of the , Weather. A largo number of young persons r gathered at tho gypsy encampment on c tho old Cove road just beyond the Kings county penitentiary, to attend the coronation of the king and queen, who reoently P camo from England to be the leaders of 6 tho tribe of wanderers that every few years spread their tonts on Long Island, n There wore, says the New York Sun, C only two families in tho encampment near Brooklyn, but about forty wagons u woro expected from Jamaica, Hempstead, t and Flushing, and from Now Jersey, and all of these were to choose their king and queen. Uriah Wharton, a halfbreed, has been king of the tribe for many years, but a short time ago he left with Ins family to go off alone. He is c nearly seventy years of age, and has ii uecu iu mis country twenty-live years, r Ho gave up the leadership because he was so old, and the gypsy families were ? to meet tc attend tho marriage of their Q now king and queen. The husbands of tho families?the Boswells and the Sparrows?wero off trading horses. . Sparrow's wife was in the city telling fortunes, and Mrs. Boswell was in charge of the throng of bright, funny gypsy " children who were frolicking around on tho grass. Slio said that she was very ^ much disappointed that the other fami- * lies had not arrived, because they were lonely. Young Wharton, a stalwart son of the p former chief, arrived early in the day, { expecting to meet the other families g there, but ho supposed that they had ^ been kept away by tho threatening rain. Mrs. Boswell looked every inch a gypsy fortuuo teller. Sho wore long Egyptian earrings and other antique jewelry. She ? said tnat she had boon seven years in e this country, and had traveled from Maino to Georgia, and around to Illinois and back. She pointed with pride to her daughter Hovira, a beautiful girl, v who was making bright eyes at the young t men. She woro a coral necklace, with t her name on tho gold clasp, and on nearly every linger there was a jeweled ring. Her dress was much soiled, but her feet c wero covered by bright theatrical shoes. ^ Sho was full of mischief, and was trying ^ to make her lover, Wharton, jealous. Sho said that sho liked Wharton better than any American she ever saw. If she c married a white man he must be a splen- t did, handsome man, with plenty of 1 money, and ho must have a large park \ with a tent in it, for her to live in. " I won't live in a house," said she. "I c was five years at school at Epping ^ forest, near London, but I loved to be ^ outdoors more than I did to be inside, j. A number of gypsy girls wero there with 0 me. I will never go into a city to live, because my mother and my sisters could . not live with mo. They could not stand ' it. I have some objections to Wharton : J .ho doesn't drink, and is rich, but ho will j. play quoits. There he is, at it now. Why won't he go into his tent and read c ?read poetry and nice things." The organist of Dr. Eggleston's church ] and his betrothed lady friend wont up to <3 have the expectant bride's fortune told, i Hevira took her behind the tent and first e k said that she was very beautiful ; then j ' slab told her of the line of life along the center of her hand, and how few marks . there were on it, showing that she had led an easy life. She would be married . soon, and to some one not far off. Then . tho young miss came from behind the tent and bloshingly said that she had * been told of something that had alroady happened, and, looking sweetly at tho I organist, added : " and something that L is to happen, tx>." The young man f; went to have his fortune told, and came h back in a sulk, whilo the gypsy maid tip- d toed behind him, making faces, and il laughing out of her eyes. Toe king and queen did not come, and some one suggusluu that the report was an advertising . job. Then tho matron of the band said < very soberly: "If you thought tliero ' would be grand sights, you are mistaken. ? All we do is to gather together and se- . lect our leaders, and then move off." A Q little gypsy boy who had been busy making nickels by playing Yankee Doodle on his teeth by knocking his * lower jaw against the upper played a " parting tune as tho visitors hurried away F to avoid the approaching rain. 9 t t On the Beach. g A beautiful young lady was walking arm in arm with a young mau an evening or two ago, into whoso oyos slio would j sweetly smile. . if It's a lovely evening," said tho fair , 0110. , 44 Yos," repliod lior attendant. They were silent and walked on. " It was a lovely evening yostorday," said tho beautiful girl as the came round again. d 44 Yes," meekly answered tlio young c man, evidently at a loss what to say. r They came around a third timo, and it w was his turn now. n 44I hopo it will be a lovely evening to- b morrow," said ho. ? 44 So do I," said she. tl Tho eavesdropper arose, looked off on e tho water, from which tho tints of tho ri setting sun hail not yet gone, and wondered whether all beautiful women wero , like this one. ^ v Anory Arout it.?Woman's rovengo ti ?if she dies for it. As the brine got h out of the carriage she caught her veil ii and tore it, aud tho bridegroom wsis ill- f< uatured about it. Then when the fuuo- g tionary said : 44 Will you have this mau?" n etc., she said 41 No," and that was the I cud of tho marriage, tl * Items of Interest. The scale of good brooding?13 natrial. A fiery charger?A summer hotel eeper. It is reported that several horses were ocently made deaf by lightning at Lanaster, Fa. Chicago people drank 15,000,000 [lasses of lager beer daring the year mded August 1st. The hay crop of Connecticut will mount to 587,000 tons, worth $7,000,00 or $8,000,000. A man is 1,950 times as large as a aomaon honey bee, and yet it is useless to ry to argue the matter with the bee. ~ . An exchange pathetically sings : " Tie sweet to wait, but, oh 1 how bitter To wait for a girl and then not git *er.n ? , A woman sixty years old was recently onvioted of murder in the midland circuit ii England for killing her husband, aged linetv-ninn. A man has just been before the magatrates in Salford, England, oa charges if drunkenness, haying already appear id 172 timeo. In Meriden, Conn., reoently, two baso all players, running for the same ball, lumped heads so hard that one of them ;ot brain fever. The gentle citizens of De Soto, Mo., tave passed resolutions declaring that hey will hereafter hang every norse kief they can lay their hands on. " Puts" and " calls" may be propery defined thus : You put your money in he hands of a broker for the purpose of peculation and call for the profits in rain. The fiddler of a minstrel oompany ran way the other day in debt to the mana;er, who declared that he had engaged ho fellow for a fiddler, but he had takn the part of a base violinist. Did you ever meet Alonzo Brown of Virginia ? If you never did you never rill. He was found out West, hanging o a limb, the other day, and a paper o his coat read : " He stole hams." So great is the rapacity of sunfish, ass, and pickerel in Lake George that if the 70,000 or 80,000 trout placed in hese waters by Seth Green, soaroely one u a thousand will come to maturity. A young man in Lancaster Pa,, sent a lollor to a firm in New York who advertised a receipt to prevent bed dreems. le received a small slip of paper, on rliich was printed:''Don t go to sleep." A suffering wife has come to the contusion that it is easier for a man to ramp all day through a swamp with a Louble-barreled shotgun on his shoulder ban to bring in the kindlings or put up , clothes line. An awful fate has overtaken a Texas liwyer. The Bonham Enterprise says : oo Dupree made his first speech reoenty, assisting Capt. Sims in the proseou? ~ t 11 fTO _ i iuu ui mux. nuugon. xu? jury sentenled him to be hanged. New Jersey is the State for low taxes, ler whole indebtedness outside her war lebt is only $200,000, and her remainng war debt is only $2,696,300. The xoess of reoeipts oyer expenditures last 'ear was $299,817.27. It is notioed, but not explainable, that he party who manipulates the " boas id die " in an orchestra is invcriably old-headed, and that if the big drum in band is a very big drum, it is always tounded by a short, fat man. A. It. Hack, of Baltimore, stopped at Jiagara Falls last week, but every time ie went on the streets he met so many riendB who kept calling, Hack, Hack ; tere you are, Hack !" although ho could iot recognize a soul of them. He stood t for one day, and left for Rochester. The Freemasons of Iowa are very (inch exercised over a recent decision of ho grand master that dancing in the xlge rooms is inconsistent with the ood of the craft. Two subordinate offi era have been deprived of their posi- . ions for acting in violation of the deitdon. Dr. Barrett, of Middletown, Conn., hinks he has disoovered the canse of iay fever in the pollen of the ambrosia tlant, which matures about August, and, arried about by the wind, causes irritaion of the nasal passages : and says hat the way to escape the disease is to ;o to some town where this plant is iot found. A newly arrived family was lately gasug at a shop window in Rookport, 111. jittle girl?"Oh, mammal is that a 'ent" iamma?" No. mv child, that is a iowI." Father?"No, my wife and laughter, that is neither a 'en or a howl, ut it is a heagle, the hemblem of this lore ted country |" At a Meriden reform school the other ay a boy who had been called up for liostisement began to run around the oom instead, the instructor in full chase rith a ferrule, Finding that he could ot catch him, he ordered several large oys to seise the fugitive, which they no ooner did than they were set upon by lie rest of the school, and a free fight nsued that was only quieted by the arival of an offloer. A real remedy for seasickness, says the ournal du J fat-re, is said to have aft last con discovered. The formula varies rith the state of the water and oonstituion of the individual, and the more or as liability to suffer from that distress ng malady. The following is the recipe t>r very rongli weather : Choral, three rammos ; distilled, water, fifty gram les ; currant syrup, sixty grammes French easenoe of mint, two drops. Hal ho mixture to be taken 011 embarking ' Jl