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THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. II.?NO. 13. BEAUFORT, S, C., FEBRUARY 1(5. 187*5. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
With the Tide.
Wave by wave o'er the Bandy bar,
Up to the coasts lights, glimmering wan,
Ont of the darkness, deep and far,
Slowly tho tidocamo creeping on.
Through the clamor of billowy strife
Another voice wont wailing thin :
The first faint cry of a now-boru life
Broko on the night?and the tide was in.
Wave by wave o'er the sandy bar,
Back again from the sleeping town,
Back to the darknoss, deep and far.
Slowly the tide went dropping down.
Silonce lay on the chamber of death ;
Silehce lay on the land about;
Tho last low flutter of weary breath
r on on ttie night?and the tide was oat.
A CONVICT'S STORY.
TOLD BY HIMSELF.
A letter, written by a man who was
recently a convict in a State prison, to a
oonvertod companion who is still at the
prison, was read at a meeting held in
the Prosbyterian church in Poughkeepsie,
and produced a profound impression.
The copy is exactly like the original
exoept names. It tells its own story
so frankly and sincerely that none oau
fail to be touched by it, and it furnishes
* a grand incentive to perseverance on the
part of those who labor for the worst
olasseo:
Friend Tom, if i may still call you bo,
i know you are surprized to get a letter
from mo, but i liopo yon wont be mad at
my writing to you. 1 want to tell von
my thanks for the way you talked to mo
when i was in prison, it has led me to bo
a hotter man. I guess you thought i did
not cair for what you said, A aud at the
first go off i didn't, but i uoed you was
a man who had don big work with good
raon, A want no Sucker, nor want gasing,
A all the boys knod it.
1 usod to thiuk at nito what yon said,
A for it i nocked off swearing 5 months
before my time was up, for i saw it want
no good nohow?the day my time was
up you told mo if i would shake the
cross (quit, stealing) A live ou the square
for three mouths it would bo tho best
job i over dono iu my life. Tho state
agent gave me a ticket to hero, A on tho
oar i thought moro of what you hist fluid
to mo, but didn't make up my miud.
Wheu wo got to Y? ou tho cars from
there to here i pnlledoff au old woman's
leather (robbed her of her pocketbook)
i liadn't no more tliau got it off when i
wished i hadn't done it; for a while before
i made up my mi d to bo a square
bloke for 3 months on your word, but
forgot it when i saw the leather wa3 a
gif (easy to get), but i kept close to lior
A when sho got of the oars at a way
place, i said, main, have you lost anything;
and she tumbled her leather was
off (found her purse was gone), is this
it, says i, giving it to her. Well, says
she, if you aren't honest, but i hadent
got cheek enough to stand thut sort of
talk, so i left her in a hurry.
When i got hero i had 81 aud 25 cents
left, A i didnt got no work for 3 days as i
aint strong enough for a roust-about
(deck hand) on a stoambote. The afternoon
of tho 3d day i spent my last 10
cents for two moons (large round sea
biscuit) and cheese & was thinking i
would have to go on tho dip again (picking
pockets), when i thought of what you
once said, about a fellers calling on tho
Lord when he was in hard luck, & i
thought i wonld try it onco anyhow, but
whon i trynd it, i got stuck on the Btart,
and ull i could get off was, Lord give a
poor fellow a chance to square it for 3
months, for Christs Sake, Amen, A i
kept thinking of it over and over as i
went along. About an hour after that i
was in 4th St., & this is what happened,
and is the cause of my being whore i am
now, A about which i will tcil vou before
i get done writing. As i was walking
along i herd a big noise & saw a horse
running away with a carriago with 2
children in it, i grabbed up a peace of i
box oover from the sidewalk and ran in j
the middle of the street, and when the
horse came np i smashed him over the
head as hard ar, i could drive, the bord
split to peaces & the horse ohecked up a
little & i grabbed the reins and pulled
. his head down until he' stopped. The
gentleman what owned him came running
up and as soon as he saw tho children
were all rite, ho shook hands with
me and gave me a $50 greenback, and
my asking the Lord to help me came
into my head and i was tliunderstrack i
couldnt drop the reins nor say toothing,
he saw something was up, '& coming
back to mo said, my l>oy are you hurt?
& the thought come into my head just
thou to ask him for work, and i asked
him to take back the bill & give me a
job, says he jump in here and lets talk
about it, but keep tho mono. He asked
me if i could take care of horses & i
said yes, for i used to hang round livery
stables, and often would help cloan and
drive horses, ho told mo ho wanted a
man for that work aud would givo mo
$16 a month & bord me. Yon bet i took
that chance at onco, that nite in my little
room ovor the stable i sat a longtime
thinking over my life & of what had
just haponed, aud i just got down on my
nees and thanked Ihe Lord for the job,
tic to help me to square it, and to bless
you for pnttiug mo up to it, tic the next
morning i done it again A got me some
new togs (olothes) tic a bible, for i made
up my mind, after what the Lord had
done for mo i would read a little every
nite and morning, tic ask him to keep au
eye on mo.
When i had been there about a week,
Mr. Z (that's his name) eame in my
room one uite, and saw me reading tho
Bible. Ho asked me if i was a Christum,
and i told him no?he asked mo how it
was i read the Bible instead of papers
and books. Well, Tom i thought i had
bettor give him a square doal on the
start, so i told him all about my being
in prison Sc about you, A how i had almost
done give up looking for work, &
how the Lord got mo the job, when i
asked him, & the only way i had to pay
him back was to read the Bible A square
it, A i asked him to give me a chance
for tliree months. Ho talked to me like
a father for a long time <fc told me i could
stay, aud then I felt better than ever I
had doue in my life, for I had given
Mr. Z a fair start with me A now i
dident fear no one giving me a black cap
(exposing his past life) A running me
off the job.
The noxt morning he called me into
the library A gave mo another square
talk A advised me to study some every
day A he would holp me one or two hours
every nite, A he gave me an arithmetic, a
spelling book, a goography, and a writing
book, A ho hers me every nito. He
lets me come into the house to prarers
every morning A got me put in a Bible
class in the Sunday School, which i liko
very much, for it helps me to understand
my Bible better
now, xom, tnea moutlison tho square
aro up 2 months ago, ami as you said,
it ia the best job i ever did iu my life,
A i eommonoed another of the same sort
right away, only it is God helping me to
last n lifetime, Tom. 1 wrote this letter
to tell you i do think God has forgiven
my sins, A herd your prayers, for you
told me you should pray for mo, i no i
love to read his word A tell him all my
troubles, A he helpame i know for i have
plenty chanoes to steal, but i don't feel
to as i onoe did, A now i take more
pleasure in going to church thau to a
theater, A that wosn't so onoe.
Our minister A others often talk with
me A a mouth ago they wanted mo to
join the church, but i said not now, i j
may bo mistaken iu my foelings, I will '
wait awhile. But now i feel that God
has called me, A ou the first Sunday in
July i will joiu the church, dear friend,
i wish i could write to you as i feel but i
can't do it yet.
You know i learned to read and rito
while in prison, A i aint got well enough
along to write as i wonld talk; i noiaint
spelled all the words rite in this, and
lots of other mistakes but you will excuse
it. i no, for you no i was brought
up in a poorliouse, until i run away, A
that i uovor new who my father and
mother was, and i don't know my rito
name, A i hope you wont bo mad at me,
but i have as much rito to one name as
another and i have taken your name, for
you wont use it when you get out, i no,
and you are the man i think most of in
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i>mi worm; ho i nopo you wont bo mad? |
i am doing woll, i put $10 a month in |
the bank with $25 of the $50, if you over !
want any or all of it, lot mw kuow, aud |
it is yours, i wish you would let me send '
you some now. I send you with this a
receipt for a yearof Littel's Living Ago,
i didn't kuow what you would like & i
told Mr. Z , and lie said he thought
you would like it. i wish i was uere (
you, so i could send you chuck (refresh r.
cuts) on holidays, it would spoil this
weather from here, but i will send you
a box next thanksgiving any way. Next
woek Mr. Z takes me into his store
as lito porter, & will ndvauco me as soon I
as i know a little more; ho keeps a big
granary store, wholesale.
I forgot to tell you of my Mission
Sunday-sohool class, the nehool is in the
Sunday afternoon, I went out 2 Sunday
afternoons & pick? d up seven kids) little
boys) Ac got them to come in. Two of
them knew as much as i did & i had
thorn lint in n nluuu /./...l i
loam something, i don't know much
myself, but as these kids can't read i
get on nicely with them, i make suro of
thom by going after them every Sunday
} an hour before school time, i also got
4 girls to come.
Te.l Mack <fe Harry about me, if they
will como out hero, when their time is
up, i will get them jobs at once.
I hope you will excuse this long letter
?fc all mistakes, i wish that i could sou
you for i can't write as i would talk, i
nope the warm weather is curing your
lungs, i was afraid when you was bleeding
that you would die. Give my respect
to all the boys, and tell them how !
i am doing, i am doing well, A every
one here treats me as kind as they can.
Mr. Z is goiug to write to yon some 1
time, i hope some day you will write to
mo.
This letter is from your very true
friend, who yon no as j
I
He was One of Them.
A story is related by a German correspondent
as being a true account of an
incident that occurred after tho late imperial
hunt at Hubertustock. Tho Emperor
William fooling unwell proposed 1
to return to the castle on foot in com- t
pauy with tho king of Saxony anil the I <
grand duko of Mecklenburg. But tiring 1
on the wny, the party got a peasant to
give them a lift in his cart. Prosently ]
the man's curiosity being excited by tho
appearance of his passengers, ho said, '
turning to ono of them: 4 4 And who may
you be?" 441 am tho grand duke of 1
Mecklenburg." 44 Oh, indeed," replied
the peasant, with a wink, 44 then who
may you be?" he inquired of tho next.
441 am tho king of Saxony." 44 Better 1
and better," oried tho carter. 44 And
you ?" accosting the third member of
the party. 441 am tho emperor of Germany."
44 Well, theu," said the countryman,
in high good humor, 441 will
tell you who I am; I am the shah of
Porsia, and can hoax people as well as
you can." But when he drove up to tho i
castle of Hubortustook, tho honest fellow
found tliat, of all the potentates in tho I
cart, he was the only one whoso claim
could not bo substantiated. i
Why they are "Lucky."*
Wlieu a vessel of the Canard lino is
ready to sail, but before the passengers
are received on board, a oompleto inspection
is made by her commanding
officer, aud the marine superintendent.
The crew are drawn up for inspection in
two lines, on the starboard and port sides
of the deck, each man wearing the badge
of his boat, and ready to answer to his
name. The muster-roll haviug been
called, orders are given to prepare for
boat service ; and the men break up into
the necessary number of crows, each at
his own station. When this is done the
order "boats out" is given. When the
boats are down, and proof has been
given that everything connected with
them is ready for servlfb, the order to
haid them in is given, and in a few more
minutes thoy are restored to their customary
resting places. The same organization
of crews is applied to fire duty ;
and as soon as the boat inspection is
completed a fire-drill takes its place. In
this somo men have cliurgo of buckets,
with ropes attached to them, so that
they can bo filled over the sido aud
hauled in. Others have to fetch aud
join the hose, to connect it with
pumps worked by the engines, or to take
charge of the jets. Others are prepared
with blankets to be wetted and
thrown over tho flomos, but tlio ossontial
matter is that overy man has his i
place and his duty, and every man is ac- j
qua in ted with them both. Tho same j
division into crows, as for tho boats, is
also used for manning tho pumps, and
ns noon as tho fire-drill is over, tho
pumps receive the next attention. Each
ere w is expected to bo in its place, each
pump is tested and examined, and it is
shown that there is no water Jin the
bilge. This done, the crews are dismissed,
but tho inspecting party procoeds
to make a complete tour of the !
vessel. The storerooms are visited, and
the steward is cautioned with regard to
his duties in respect of them, and is especially
told that no other light than
that of a cloned and locked lamp must
ever be taken to them. Every watertight
door is shut and tested to seo that
it moves freely on its liiugos, and that
none of its lever fastenings are rusted or
out of order. The supply of rockets
and other signals is examined, the steering
and signaling apparatus tried ; and
only after everything has been found to
be in ordor in tho word given ..for the
ship to embark her possougorn and to
proceed upon her course. In addition
to all tnis care, every officer is rospousiM.%
f . tl.o i.i
./*W iUi KUU WUU4HWU VI 111 U1M UWIl
department, and the captain for all, ho
that the smallest imperfection would be
reported as soon as it was discovered,
and rectified as soou as rectification was
possible. The Canard company does
insure, but yet hikes its own risks to a
certain exteut, and no known risks are
over incurred. If the smallest defect is
discovered in any part of a iliip, no
question is raised whether it will bear
one voyage or two voyages more, but
the order "out with it" is given at
once.
A New York Restaurant.
Says a eorrespondent of the Rochester
Chronicle : Delmonico's, in New York I
city, lias made sometimes $100,000 a
year clear profit, and cau afford to pay a
rent of $12,000 a year. Rut how many
of oar find class young men, the./eMws.'?#:
t/orc, must be aunually ruined in order
to yield the enormous profit! How
mauy casks of brandy and baskets of
champagne must be guxzled, and how
many sons carried dead drunk home to
RorrowJhg fathers and mothers ! It was
at Delmonico's that Stokes took his last
glass of brandy before going down to
the Grand Hotel for the purpose of
shootiug Fisk. Ho needed an extra
drink in order to trive him nerve, ami
perhaps had not that last bumper been
taken ho would not have done the crime.
It seems strangely harmonious in the
eutiro scheme of rotribution wrought
out so effectually in Fisk's death that
his murder sho Id be referable to the
bar where he so often reveled. At JDelmouico's
ho was considered a rare fellow,
and indeed none could rival him in
the lavish flow of cosh. Hero he began
Stokes' ruin, ami from this place the
latter proceeded to the work of
vengeance. The recent death of Stokes'
father recalls scenes in the Tombs, where
I met him aa he went to see his son.
Ho was a froqnent visitor to that
miserable son, whom he saved from the
gallows, and for whose release from
State prison ho so anxiously labored until
cut off by death. The Btokes murder
was but one of the abominations connected
with Delmonico's.
A Vow Responsibility.
A day or two ago a citizen living on
the river road called at the Detroit post[)fTieo
to mail a package. He had four
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LA.UK: TtlslbUWl DU1U1|"1 UU It, lllll WUell
weighed it was found to lack two cents.
'I'll not pay it I Four cents is
plenty!" blustered the man. "I know
what it is worth to carry packages us
well as this government (iocs!"
"The postal law regulates these mattern,"
observed the clerk.
"Then I'll regulate the postal law, I
will!"
The clork was wondering how it could
be done when the man continued :
" Yon see that package ?"
" l'es, sir."
" With four cents on it?"
" Yes, sir."
"Well, I'm going to mail it. If it
reaches Chicago all right. If it doesn't.
I'll come around here and haul you
through that window and break fifty of
your ribs and twist you twico around
that door 1"
Applications for the position of.stamp
dork should l>o sout in early.
In a Kentucky Prison.
A correspondent of tlio Cincinnati
Commercial, speaking of the cruelties
practiced in the ponitentiary at Frankfort,
Ky., gives the following accouut of
tho atrocious manner in which women (
are troatod there: 4
The femnlo prisoners, of whom there .
are about forty, are employed at hemp
spinning; they are all dressed in men's "
clothes of the regular prison stripe, and 8
do as much and as sovere work as the *
men, although in far better quarters and 8
loss repulsive circumstauoes. They work x
in a long brick building, which is well f
ventilated, in consequenoe of which they
suffer comparatively little from the dust 3
of tho hacking houses. Their wearing .
of male nttiro is made necessary by tho ^
nature of their employment. They are
hitched to a long rope, which turns tho T
spindle,and its they walk backward, tug- ,
giug at tho ropo, tlio hemp is unwound *j
from a big swatli of the material around V
their waists, and nimbly converted into
hemp ropo for bagging. It is hard E
work, but might be vastly worse. A
woman's task is to spin fifty pounds of E
this hemp rope a day, and when she has E
done that she is through for the day, 8
and may have the freedom of tho prison ^
yard. Tho superintendent of the do- ^
partment informed me that an expert ?
and faithful worker could finish her task
between seven o'clock in the morning 8
and two in the afternoon; but it was aftor
three o'clock when my visit was made,
ami they were all hard at work yet. In J
raakiug a general survey of tho place I f
noticed a curious looking instrument
hauging up against the wall. It cousist- .
ed of a handle of some hard wood, about
ten inches long, aud a leather strap an 1
inch and three-quarters wide and some *
eighteen inches long. It was evidently c
a whip, und supposing it to have been x
misplaced I asked tho overseer about it. .
" No," ho replied, " wo have to keep c
that here to whip the wouien when they r
aro in their tantrums."
* You don't mean seriously to tell mo j
that the State of Kentucky tolerates tho J1
wliippiug of women, even in this horrible
place ?" I inquired.
"Such is tho rulo of the prison," ho ?
Afllmlv rrvnlitul 44 on/1 if l?oo t*\ ? " I
.J - .jv "^V?, IUJU iU UIM1 tu UP UUHO, .
" Aud who doos it ?" was my next iu- 5
quiry, as I lookod ouriouRly about the
place lor some mouster with a bull-dog !
head and a mask to liido his brutal foa- f
turos.
" I do," wtui lue blandly conveyed iu- I I
formation.
The Plan to Capture Arnold. 4
It was at No. 1 Broadway, New York,
that Clintou aud Andre hatched the plot
which resulted in Arnold's treason and
the gnoiniuious death of the adjutantgeneral
of the British army. Subsequently
Arnold made his headquarters
at the house adjoining, uud it became
the Heat of one of the most daring and
heroic acts of the war. After the traitor
had lied to New York, the patriot officers
laid a plan to kidnap him aud carry him
off bodily to their camp. The execution
of the plot was intrusted to .Tohu Chainpe
of Virginia, sergeant-major of Colonel
Henry Lee's cavalry legion. Cliampo
deserted to the British, and was at once
sent, as he had hoped, to assist Arnold
in recruiting a corps of royalists and deserters.
Watching the habits of the '
traitor, the Continental soldier soon laid
his plan and communicated it to Lee.
Iu the rear of Arnold's quarters au am- e
pie garden stretched out to the river and i
as iar up as No. 9 Broadway, where it
communicated with a dark alloy loading \
to tho water's edge. This garden wan ,
shaded by Lugo trees, several of whioh -j
were a hundred feet in height, and one,
a madeira nut, which long survived, had
lateral branches nearly as many feet in v
length. Under the shade of these trees
it was Arnold's habit to walk late every
night?thinking bitterly, no doubt, of
tho dear price at which ho had won a
British commission and a hireling's y
gold. Uliampe, with two accomplices, i
had arranged to seize tho traitor on a f"
certain night, gag and bind him, and b
carry him in a boat, ready at hand, to li
the American camp. It is said that tho c
devil always helps his own. Whether f
Arnold roceived aid from this quarter or I
not, it is certain that on the day fixed t
for the consummation of the plot, he 1
changed his quarters, and the labor of f
tho patriots was lost. Ohampe subse- t
quently made his escapo and died peace- t
fully at home, long after tho indepon- t
donee of the struggling colonies was se- t
cured. IIow Benedict Arnold sank <1
into oblivion, history has recorded.? c
Svribner'a for February. c
Rich Onl of Bitters. )
The Stockton (Cal.) Independent 1
has the following : The news from New f
York bv fcelecrranh that l)r .Tnannli Wol- ?
ker, the vinegar bitters man, has sued
fi* a divorce from Lis wife, brings up
some reminiscences iu this city. Some
teu or twelve years ago Walker camo to
tins Independent office to get some t
labels printed. Ho had no money, but ?1
said bis modieino was good, be liatl uo I
doubt of selling it readily, aud if be v
could get credit for a low labels be i>
would pay in a short time. Tbo labels 1<
were furnished, and in course of time f
paid for and more ordered. A
A little later Walker peddled his bit- e
tors around in a little, wbito coverod, v
one-horse wagon, and sold the medicine J
by the quart or gallon, or any other de- 1
sired quantity. Now lio makes affidavit n
to $100,000 annual inoome, and the same v
amount of property. Tho bitters scorn ii
to liavo at least ouo good quality?that ti
of making its proprietor wealthy. Mrs. ei
Walkor wants 8400 per woek alimony and ti
83,000 counsel fe?es. Pending tbo nrgu- li
rnent on this point, the court allowed 3!
her $50 per woek, which she sayH was o<
the amount her husband allowed her for a
piu mouoy alone. ui
IT KltlHT HATE BEEN.
A Story or Life.
Ab ! bow timo does take ibe romanoe
rat of our lives and leave ub high and
Iry on the lee shoro of conceit.
It does not seem so many years ago
hat Mary Jane and we attended the
iamo country scboolhouse, divided the
lamo apple, chewed the same piece of
pim, and slid down hill on the same
iled. It does not seem many years sinco
re stood togother and pledged eaob
tber by all the faithful promises we
cuew that around tbo same love our
roung hearts should ever twine.
Fate culled us away from our early
tome aud separated us from Mary Jane,
distant lands sent forth a call for ns and
re went.
Aud tbo parting?tbo tears shed?the
ast embrace?the promises renewed uuler
tbo flaming branches of the old oak
ree. Ab! how fresh they are in our
aomory even to this day.
Mary Jano could not be expected,
mien oh RJie lovea ns, to spend lior time
no ping and monniing. She must go to
inging school, to paring bees, and to
audy pulls. Wo arrnnged all that.
?erhaps wo wero selfish in selecting
Pom Jones to do escort duty for us, for
Pom was bashful, freokled, a little lame,
lightly cross-eyed, and anything but a
girl's boy." He was a good fellow,
Com was, and if wo had been half-witted
ee must have oeen the intelligent
winkle in his eyo as he promised to do
lis duty well.
Thoso letters wo reoeived. "What a
ale of lovo thoy told ! How miserable
dary Jane was, and how different the
mjoyment was with Tom Jones instoad
>f tho abscut one by her side ! How we
ropt over those lines !
Gradually thoso letters of Mary Jane's
Lid not make us weep. There seemed
athor moro of Tom Jones iu them than
re liked, and we wrote a oruel, wicked
otter, telliug Mary Jane that it she
bought so xnaoh of Tom Jones to take
liin. It was tho last thing in the world
vo meant, but jealousy is a blind brag;art,
you know, and wo were jealous.
It was too true, alas ! and the next
hing we heard was that Mary Jane and
Fom Jones wero engaged. VVe smashed
ip her daguerreotype and burnt the
mir chain she mane ub with hor own
lauds, tore up her letteis, and drew a
hoture of an Indian on the broad
nairie, with biB victim tied to a tree and
ho fagots heaped all about him, ready
;o be set on lire. Tho viotim very much
resembled Tom Jones?tho Indian was
? ourself.
Tko other day as wo stood by tho
jost-olfioe a family wagon drovo up, and
or tho lirst time in many years wo saw
tfnry Jane. How vory stout she had
frown, and how vory coarse those feaures
and how very red that auburn hair
hat was so soft as it twined about our
ingors ! There was a young Tom, and
k younger Ezckiel, and a still younger
lezekiab, and a pug nosed, freckled
aced girl, and a pair of twins. There
vus old Tom Jones, too, more awkward,
nuier, moro cross-oyed and homlier than
?ver.
And when Mary Jane scolded old
I'orn for not helping her out of tho
ragon, the notes Unit once so much readied
us of the nightingale now sounded
like a raft scraping .against the abutuent
of a bridge in a spring freshet.
Then wo thought of what the poot
rrote:
' Of ail ea l words of tongue or pen,
?lio sad-lout are tUeso?it might have been."
Wo do not hate Tom Jones as badly as
pa once did.?Chicago Ledger.
English Method of Executlou.
In England, as I suppose you know,
piites a correspondent, the way of hangng
is dill'erent from that in the United
ItateB. Instead of tlio eonilemned per011
l>oing strung up to the ceiling, a
tinged board on which he stands is sudLenly
let go by drawing a bolt, and he
alls downward. I presume that in the
Juited StateH the poor wretch always
tns his neck broken and dies without
tain, but here hanging is tho most cariciously
cruel of all the ways of puting
to death. Everything depends on
ho woight of tho mun and tho depth of
ho fall, and in the majority of cases the
ictims are put to a slow and agonizing
loath by strangulation. The hangman
>r one of his assistants has often to hang
m to the feet of the body in order to
horten tho struggles. In the case of
>Vainwright the scaffold was surrounded
?y a screen, so tliat as soon as the drop
ell, he vanished below, and only the
ope was seen taut and jerking.
Another Chance to Subscribe.
A suit has been commenced against
ho city of New York by tho heirs of
ohn or Johannes Vormilya, an old
>utch settler, for the recovery of the
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yilUU) U1 tuitl (lUlltlU I l?l iUHllliniUUl
slaud bounded by the North ami Hari>m
rivers, and extending from seventyonrth
street npward. Tho heirs of Mr.
farmilya found their claims to the proprty
in qnostion on two patents, one of
.'Inch was given by the British governor,
riohols, in 1667, and the other by Gov.
'homas Pongan in 1686, to John Verlilya
and four other patentees, for ser*
ices rendered the British government
l settling and improving the upper poron
of Man hat tau island. Tho proprly
is estimated to bo worth at this
mo about two hundred and fifty mil011
dollars. Up to the present date
12 heirs of Mr. Vermilya have register1
their claims, but it is lielieved that
great many more will be found, as ^ho
uuo is comparatively common.
Items of Interest.
" Yes, I wnut my daughter to study
rhetoric," replied a Vermont mother,
" for she oan't fry pan oak ee now without
smoking the house all up."
There are in Illinois, aooording to a
late report of the board of education,
fifty-four colleges for males, six for females,
and thirty-fire academies and
seminaries.
A lazy fellow falling a distance of fifty
feet and escaping with only a few
scratches, a bystander remarked that he
was "too slow to fall fast enough to
hurt himself."
The keeper of a lunatic asylnm in
Bristol, England, went on a spree with
one of the maniacs, fonght with him
when both had become drank, and broke
three of his ribs with kicks.
A pond of water in northern Alabama,
embracing some ten acres, suddenly (lis
appeared with a loud rumbling sound,
and a large hole, down whioh the water
ponrod, is all that remains to mark the
spot.
A raptured writer inquires: " What
is there under heaven more humanizing,
or, if we may use the term, more angelizing,
than a flno black eye in a lovely
woman ?" Two black eyes is the only
answer thought of at present.
By the latest oensus Ireland has 5,412,397
inhabitants, divided, as to reliflrion.
ao follows: Roman Catholics, 4,150,857;
Protestants, 1,261,510. Of the
Protestants* 667,998 are reported as
Episcopalians and 497,648 as Presbyterians.
A young married man who talked
about " Tom and Jerry" in his sleep,
the other night, told his wife next morning,
upon being colled upon for an explanation,
that " Tom and Jerry " were
very warm friends of his, and she
seemed satisfied.
A young woman in Chicago put her
false teeth in a glass of water at night,
aud in the morning found them imbedded
in a chunk of solid ioe. She was
late at breakfast, the process of thawing
out the teeth with a bonfire of matohes
having been slow.
"It is an ill wind that blows nobody
good." A Tennessee farmer had his
crops, stock, etc., damaged by the late
floods to the extent of $2,600, but gained
by the deposit of a rich sediment on 550
acres of land, whioh ho values at $5,500,
or a clear gain over the loss of $2,900.
Borne Western newspapers are suggesting
that provision be made at the
Centennial to reoeive contributions to
aid Mr. Ross in searching for his missing
child. The sentiment of sympathy
for the heart-broken father is so widespread
that it is believed a large sum
would bo reoeived.
Tim _i ?
xuu vijuvx^v/ uiauuioiO| nuunc uiniriiiur*
ice were seized, petitioned to be allowed
to oontinue their works, because otherwise
the cattle fed their would starve.
The court asked if they could not be fed
elsewhere, to wbioh cue distiller, who
feeds 1,224 of them on the slops, said
that " their food could not be changed,
as their teeth had become soft."
" What am I mado of?" asked a little
girl fresh from her first Sunday-school
lesson, as she essayed to Bhow off her
kuowlodgo to a younger sister. " I
don't know," was the honest answer.
" What does mamma sweep up from the
floor ?" was the first speaker's next trial
in the Soe ratio method. " Pins, needlee.
and hairpins," was the prompt but unexpected
response.
The London Luneet very opportunely
warns the medical profession, and others
not familiar with tne symptoms of brain
disease, of the urgent necessity of treating
" sleeplessness " as a warning symptom
of brain disease. A " curious" patient,
enrious because he cannot sleep,
should at once, for his own sake and for
that of others, be carefully watched.
Delirium tremens, traumatic delirium,
and the most dangerous forms of mania
are all prone to give this warning token
of their presence, and scarcely any
otlier.
Man and Monkey.
nti. ? r j rr. i -
j.ne euuaun r.cno ways : me wonderful
resemblauoe of some of the larger
apes to human creatures is especially remarkable
when they are suffering from
illness, or from what, so great is their
intelligence, we must acknowledge to
be sorrow. An ape of no oorumon merit
having lately died in the zoological %
gardens at Dresden, an account has been L published
of its last moments, which
give some idea of the almost human JsNRj
dignity and pathos of its behavior an the
ocoasion. A few weeks of the destrojv
ing malady, says a sorrowing friend, had
been sufficient to change this being, so
full of life, strength, courage?this
magnificent prototype of all quadrumana
?into a spectacle or misery. The most
complete apathy had taken the plaos of
exuberant freslinew and vivacity.
Mafnka, as this interesting creature was
called, appeared to suffer under a dim
wnfHuuiwuwwi turn nu? uuuiu tuptJUl uu
rolief, but only the alleviation of her
painp., from those abont her. This state
of things lasted till within a few hours
of her death. Then, as the director of
the gardens leaned over his favorite, the
ape drew him toward her, placed her
arm nronnd the neck of her kind friend,
and looked at him for some time with
clear and tranquil eyes; she then kissed
him three times, with short intervals
between each salute, motioned to be
laid upon her couoh, gave her hand to
him?as though bidding farewell to a
companion of many happy years?and
slept never to wake again. Thus died
the quasi-human Mafuka, fortified not
indeed by the rites of the ohurch, "but
by those common to the wider brotherhood
of trusting and affectionate hearts."