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YOL. II.?NO. 41. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 30, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
The Bride's Story.
When I was bnt a oonntry lass, n >w fifteen
years ago,
I lived where llows the Ovororock through
meadows wide and low ;
There first, when skies were bending bhio and
blossoms bowing free,
I saw the ragged little boy that went to echool
with me.
Itis homespun coat was frayed and worn, with
patches covered o'er,
His hat?ah, such a hat as that was novor seen
before.
The boys and girls, when first he came, they
shonted in their glee,
And jeerod the ragged little boy who went to
school with me.
H is father was a laboring man, and mino wee
highly born ;
Oar peoplo held both him and his in great
contempt and scorn ;
They said I shonld not stoop to own a playmate
such as he,
The bright eyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with me.
Yet spite of all the jeers aroond from children
better dressed,
My heart went out to meet the heart that beat
witbiu hie breast ;
His look was fowl, his voico was low, and,
strange as it may be,
I loved the ragged little boy that went to
school with me.
For yoare they had forgotten him, but a hen
again we met,
His looks, his voice, his gentle ways, remained
in memory yet;
Tlioy saw Mono the man of mark, but I could
otily see
That bright eyed, ragged little boy that went
to school with mo.
Ho had romembered me, it seemed, as I remembered
him,
Nor time, nor honors, in his mind the cherished
j.ast could dim ;
Yotnig lovo had grown to older love, and so today
ycu see
I wod thj ragged hitlo boy who went to schoo^
with wc.
BORN A CRIMINAL.
T.ic Story of Connecticut's Most Awful
Ciime.
One of tlie most atrocious crimes ever
perpetruti din this country in early days,
and indeed ranking with the most horriblo
over known in the United States,
was the murder of the Mallory family,
at Washington, Conn., about ten miles
from the town of Litchfield, in the year
1780.
In the month of December, 1779, a
ragged, penniless, wandering stranger
appealed to the charity of old Mr. Caleb
Mallory, resident of the town of Washington,
for a night's lodging and a meal
of victuals. The person thus appealing
was not over nineteen years old, and
though large for his age, had a countenance
that made him seem younger than
he really was.
In answer to Mr. Mai lory's questions,
he said that his name was Bornett Davennort:
that ho had not n.
world, and that ho wan entirely friendleas
and liomolefiB.
The old man's kind heart was touched
by thin tale of woe, ami he readily proffered
the shelter of hia homo aa a homo
for the young man jus long aa he might
desire to avail himself of it, an oiler
which Davenport promptly accepted.
At this time Mr. Mallory and hia aged
wife bad living with them threo orphan
graudekildreji?two girls named Eunice
and Eliza, and a boy named David?the
offspring of Ouptain Eben M dlory, the
old man's only son. who had been lost
at Roa.
Ilia kind entertainers were, of coarse,
unaware that the one whom they thus
accepted aa, temporarily ut least, a member
of their family, was a born criminal
?one whoso instincts wore entirely peiverted
to evil, and who had never, in
his short life, given any sign of the
possession of any moral perceptions
whatever. Harnett Davenport had boeu
born of parents who, if not actually
oriminals themselves, were certainly
u, wickedly indifferent as to whether their
son beoamo one or not. They lived
near New Haven, and from hie earliest
youth Baruett, instead of attending
school and reoeiving any moral training
from his parents, was pormittcd to associate
unrestrainedly with the worst
boys of the town. Ho was from early
years unprincipled, profane and impious.
Before he was nine years old he was
an expert in cursing and swearing, and
an adept in mischief. At eleven years
he begun to pilfer ; at thirteon ho stole
money ; ai til teen ho entertained
thoughts of murder, and rapidly waxed
harder and bolder in wickedness. " Notwithstanding
his eviljinstinots and'habits,
he managed to behave pretty well for a
oo.iplo of months, wbilo living with the
Mallory family, aud quite won the kind
hearts of the old folks, who could scarcely
have treated him bettor had he been
their own son. There is reason to believe,
however, that daring this timo he
was, with base ingratitude and diabolical
cruelty, planning in his mind a most
horrible orimo?nothing less than the
slaughter of his benefactors, that he
miglit possess himself of their most
valuable offsets.
On the night of February 8, 1780,
Barnett Davenport deemed that the
time had come for the exeoation of his
infernal purpose. He slept in a small
room off the kitchen, at tho back of the
house, while Mr. Mallory and his wife
occupied tho front room on tho sooond
floor, over the parlor. Tbo boy David,
seven years old, had a bed iu a little
bedroom adjoiniug the apartment of his
grandparents, and his sisters were ;n
the back room on the same floor. From
this arrangement it will be readily seen
that it must have been easy for Davenport
to mako, unobsorvedly, all the preparations
necessary, when the chosen
time came, for the awfnl butchery he
contemplated. At a little after midnight
on the date stated, whilo there
raged such a terrible storm that there
was small danger of any person being
abroad to hear any extraordinary noises
which might arise in tho house, Burnett
Davenport arose from his bed, dressed
himself, and made ready for his crime.
He had been for two days making a
groat pile of pine shavings, in a shed
outside the kitchen, under tho pretense
of building a nico cupboard for Mrs.
Mallory. Theso shavings ho now carried
in and strewod about tho floor ol
tho parlor, tho kitchen, and the diningroom
that lay between them, and over
them he poured a gallon of turpontine.
Then putting on an old pair of over
alls and n jacket to keep bin clothing
from being slaiue'd witn blood, he armed
himself with a great knotty club of green
hickory wood, and ascended the stairs
to the apartments where tho old folks
slept.
In those days locks noon inside doors
were seldom used iu private houses, and
the Mallory residence was no exception
to the general rule of omission of such
security. To enter the chamber of his
benefactor, tho assassin had nothing to
do but to raise a common latch.
The light he carried awoke Mr. Mallory,
aud, in surprise, ho turned and
h: If nioso iu his bed, but had no time
to utter a word, for in an instant the
huge club, wielded by the sturdy villain,
descended upon his head, cracking
his skull like an egg Bhell. The old
woman had been awakened tho same moment,
and, before a second blow could
bo aimed at her, gave one cry of terror.
It was her last. The next instant she
w is stretched by the side of her husband.
To mako assurance doubly sure,
the murderer's heavy club descended
a^ain and again upon tho heads of tho
old couple, dashing ont their brains, and
finally he drove deep into tho throat of
each the blade of a big carvii g knife
which he had brought from the kitchen.
At this moment ho heard the voice of
little David calling from the next room.
"Ginn'pa! Grau'pa! what is the
m ittor ? What arc yon doing ?"
As nearly as ho could, Davenport imitated
the old man's tremulous, high
pitched voice,calling in response: "Davy,
boy, come hero," and planted himself
close to tho door, with the dripping
knife in his hand. A moment more,
and the littlo fellow, with nothing on
one ms uigntgowu, bounded into tho
room, only to have bis throat clutched
by the assassin's powerful hand as he
crossed the threshold. When the lad
hed been choked so that he could not
ciy out, Davenport transferred his
clutch to poor Davy's long brown ringlets,
dragged his head back and with
or.e slash of the keen knifecut his throat
from ear to ear. Now all was still.
Tho murderer, grasping again his club,
walked on tiptoe to the door of the littl"
girls' room and looked in. Thoyhad
not awakened. Ho hesitated. TIicd,
turning hack into the room whero his
bloody work had hot u done, ho fastened
the door upon the children, by bracing
a chair nguinst it, so that not even a
strong man could have opened it from
the inside.
Now he proceeded to gather tho
booty for which he had done the horrid
d? edis already stated. Out of an old
chest he drew some pieces of solid silver
pi ite. From a bureau drawer ho took
?40 in gold and silver. In the pockets
ot the old couple he found a silver
wotvh an>rahoiq twenty or thirty shillings
in silver, xhe gold wedding rings,
oi ee massive, hut now worn thin, he
tore from the fingersof thedead. Thoroughly
he searched the apartment, but
this was all that ho could find worth carrying
away. First he put tho plate in a
pillow slip, and carried it ont into the.
yi.rd, pocketed the other valuables, andthen
proccoded to fire tho house. Rolling
the corpses from tho bed upon the
floor, ho tossed aside tho bloody feather
bod upon which they had reposed, and
fiom beneath drew two largo straw beds,
tho contents of which he scuttered about
the floor. Thon he drew into the center
of the inflammahlo pilo some brands
from the open fireplace, saw the straw
Kiuciio, ami quickly run down to tho
floor beneath, where in each room he
touched liia caudle to the turpentiuo
soaked sliuviDgs. In nu instant the
whole house was ablaze.
Before, howover, tho glaring light
shining through tho windows of adjacent
houses bad alurmed the neighbors,
Barm tt Davenport had escaped in the
d nkr.ess, oarrying with him the bag of
silverware.
Good as had been his arrangements
for a conflagration, its progress was less
speedy than ho doubtless hoped it would
be. Tho walls of the house were of
stone, and inside it was very solidly
bnilt.
Four young men who happened to be
sitting np in a neighboring lionso were
the first to arrive at the fire. The flames
on the first floor were so furious that
they could not dare to enter there, but
they placed against a window on the
second floor, wlicro the fire did not yel
seemed to have rcaohed, a long, stoul
pole?the ''well-sweep"?and two ol
them, climbing up thereby, entered th(
window. Tho loom into which thej
thus came was that of the boy David,
They fonud no one there. Then thej
1 uaflnca opon tlio door leading to the
| room of tbo old folks, and amid th<
burning straw and blazing furniture they
i discovered the corpses of Mr. and Mrs.
i Mallory and the lad. Two only of these
they were able to rescue?the old man
ami the boy?and these not without receiving
severe burns. Then tho fast advancing
flames drove them out. " They
are all murdered I" cried one of tho
young men from the window, sending a
i thrill of horror through tho little crowd
of neighbors already gathered below,
i Tho bodies handed down seemed to
i prove the truth of the avermont. Their
ghastly wounds looked doubly horriblo
I by the tierce glare of the flames.
The dreadiul shock had the effect of
temporal ily paralyzing tho energies of
those who gathered about thoso frightful
evidences of a crimo infinitely more
terrible than anything the quiet little
i town had ever known before, and no attempt
was made for some minutes to
check the fire. Those few minutes were
f sufficient to put the flames beyond the
possibility of control. Suddenly the
noi3e of breaking glass and an agonized
shriek resounded from tho ba^k part of
the house. Tho crowd ran around there
and saw at ono of tho windows tho face
of the eldest of the two sisters. She was
screaming for help with her head thrust
out through the window sash, and the fire
i already lighting up behind her. The
i younger sister could Dot be seen.
No ladder was obtainable, and the
i " well-sweep," upon being brought
around to this window, was found to be
several feet too short, as the ground
behind tho house was lower than in
front.
A ?11 - > ' ' -
ckuiu ?.'! vujkib uiiiuu 10 me cnnu,
"Jump out 1" "Jump out of tlio window
!" lmt she appeared to bo too much
terrified to "know what was paid to her.
Men ran in n'.l directions seeking ladders
or poles long enough to reach the
child, but before any could bo found,
the smoke overcame her, she sunk down
out of sight, aud in a few minutes more
the beams, having been burned through,
the whole thaw was seen to sink down
into the first story, which was by this
time a hugo furnace, bearing the poor
child with it, beyond all possibility of
human aid. Suspicion at once fell upon
Harnett Davenport. An intuition of his
guilt seemed to pervade tho eutiro community.
On the afternoon of tho next day a
faimer, four miles from town, lonnd
hidden in tho woods, near the bunks of
a little ereek, the blood stained overalls
and jacket. These he?not yet knowing
of tho murder of tho Mallory family
?brought iuto Washington, deeming
that his discovery would make a groat
excitement, but on arriving there he
learned of the- appalling events of the
night before, and found himself the proprietor
of but a second-class sensation.
Peoplo werp not slow, however, to surmise
the facts connecting the crime
with these gory evidences of guilt.
Some one remembered having heard
Davenport speak once of living iu New
Haven, and straightway swift riders
were dispatched thither to encompass
his avreHt should ho bo found there.
Tho move was a wise one, for within
live d iys thereafter, Harnett Davenport
did, by a circuitous route, reach Now
Haven, and there was found in tho company
of an evil woman named Collier,
with whom ho had formerly been acquainted.
He was promptly arrested.
The gold and silver money, the rings
and the watch were found upon him,
but tho plate was not, and it was indeed
not known, as yet, that he hod it. Aft* r
a fortnight's confinement in prison,
however, when he was brought to
realize with what horror everybody
viewed his crime, and how ho was loathed
as a monster, even by the vilest
wretches, remorse overcame him, and he
made u full confession, telling how the
crimo was porpetrated?as it has been
set forth?and making known tho spot
in tho woods, a little to tho west and
south of Litchfield, where he had buried
the stolen plate, uud where it was soon
recovered.
He was held in jail at Litchfield, and
there tried. Had he been taken to
Washington and allowed to fall for a
few miuutes into tho hands of tho infuriated
people of that town, tho formality
of a trial would nover liavo been
necessary in his case, but they of Litchfield,
while not less determined that ho
should havo tho utmost puuishmeut,
wore minded that it should be inflicted
by due process of law. And so it was.
He was tried, pleaded guilty, and was
seDtenctd to bo hanged, and on tho first
Friday in May, 1780, was hang'd at
Litchfield, in the presence of a larger
concourse of spectators than had ever
before assembled to witness an execution
in New England.
English Hotels.
uuiim ?. ucuuiugN, iu >i teuer 10 too
World, describes the hotels aud lodging
places of London. lie says that the
hotels generally patronized by Americans
nro Long's, Clnridgo's, Fenton's
Miss Edword's, the Brunswick and the
Lang ham; and that their bedrooms are
I clone and ill-ventilated, the charges very
high, aud the cooking in threo of them
bad. A man and bis wife cannot live in
them for less thun ?20 a week. Nowhere
in Englntul can the comforts of the best
> American hotels be had. "You cannot
i wink without being eharged for it." As
i to lodgings, " no one knows anything
> about the perfection to which the art of
i robbery naa been brought who has uot
t passed through tho hopper of a Loudon
; lodging honso mill." The extra cliargos
t usually amount to more than tho reguf
lar price of tho roomH. Homo of the
) restaurants aro good and moderate in
r prices. A new and large one furniflht h
, a meal for three shillings and sixpence,
r or about a dollar in our currency, eon>
siating of soup, fish, two entreea, a joint
) and iocs, all of the host quality.
A "Wonderful Cure.
She came from Detroit, Micb., ami
her great pride van being an invalid, i
She lost no opportunity in stating that <
she came to Minnesota to recuperate. (
She did not hesitato toenter into couver- l
sation with any person she came in contact
with, giving advice, climntological <
or physiological, to invalids, and seeking
the same from tlioee of robust con- i
stitution. Her conversation was always ]
prefaced with the introductory iuquiry, i
so common to visitors : " Did you come ?
here for your health?" She thus ad- '
dressed a stalwart, ruddy visaged young <
man at tho dinner table of the Metro- 1
politau a few days since, and the follow- i
ing conversation ensued : ]
"Yes, madam, I camo hero probably
the weakest person you ever saw. I had i
no use of my limbs, in fact my bones i
woro but little tougher than cartilages. 1
I Lad no intelligent control of a single 1
muscle, nor tlio uso of a single faculty."
" Great hoavens!" exclaimed the astonished
auditor, " and you lived ?"
" I did, miss, although I was devoid
of sight; was absolutely toothless, unable
to urticulato a singlo word, and depended
upon others for everything, being
completely deprived of all power to
help myself. I commenced to gain immediately
upon my arrival, aud have
scarcely experienced a sick day since ;
hence 1 can conscientiously recommend
the climate."
"A wondeiful case!" said the lady,
" but do you think your lungs were
affected ?"
"They were probably sound, but
possessed of so little vitality that but
for the most careful uursiug they must
have ceased their fuuetious."
"I hope you found kind friends,
6ir i"
" Indeed, I did, madam ; it is to them
afd the pure air of Minnesota that 1
owe my life. My father's family were
with me, but unfortunately my mother
w;>8 prostrated with a severe illness during
the time of my prostration."
"How sad I Pray, what was your
diet and treatment?"
" My diet was the simplest possible,
consisting only of milk, that being the
only food my system could bear. As for
treatment, I depended entirely upon the
life giving properties of Minnesota air,
aud took no medicine except an occasional
light narcotic when very restless.
My improvement dated from my arrival.
My limbs soon became stroug, my sight
and voice came to mo slowly, and a full
set of teeth, regular and firm, appeared.
" llcmarkable, miraculous ! Surely,
sir, you must havo been greatly reduced
iu flesh?"
" Madam, I weighed but nine
ponuds. I woh born in Minnesota.
Good day."
A b'reat Blast.
Gen. Newton says that the blasting
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win; ui iuo uuiuiui ui mo nen vmie ex- li
cavntious in Now York harbor will prob- o
ably tako placo abont the middle of Sop- k
teiuber. It will require about 50,000 u
pounds of explosives to do tho work, a
The materials used will bo uitro glycer- &
iue, reud rock and dynamite, according
to the nature of the rock to be blasted.
Instead of placing tho explosives in several
large masse?, it is to bo scattered j
over the rock in small charges. Holes y
have been drilled in the rock columns n
that support the roof, the number vary- 0
ing according to the height of the col- ^
umn. These are to bo charged with tho
explosives, and then it is to bo exploded 4
by means of electricity. The blowing c
up is to bo done in threo sections, and r
the effect will bo to crnmblo tho pillars ..
and allow the roof to sink in. c
Tho great opinion that tho whole mass j
is to be hurled into the air at one grand r
blast is erroneous. Beyond a few beau- .
tit'ul jets of water shot into the air, and (
perhaps a few pieces of rock, hurled \
above the surface of tho water, nothing j(
will he seen. When all is prepared, the E
water is to be let in ami the chambers c
tilled, thus forming what is called in eu- ?
gineering parlance *' a wet tamp." t
The water will confine tho forco of the t
mum rous blasts, and enable them to act r
with greater force. After the explosion E
it will bo necessary to do considerable a
dredging in tho way of hauling out *.
pieces of rock. This will take several j
months, but will probably be completed ,
by next spring. Tho persons operating t
the blast will occupy a position 300 or t
400 feet away. ^
Tho improvements will deenm the .
channel about thirty feet, ami allow of i
the passage of the lorgof-t vofscIs, where c
Ik fore only crafts of high draft could ?
go. It is expected that the ocean steam- f
ore will take this route, as it is shorter <
than the Sandy Hook route l?y about <
oighteen hours. *
Power of Co-operation in Animals. t
Au energetic scientific goutlemnu in ^
England recently gavo a lecture to u pro- *
via rial audience ou the power of co-op- ^
oration in animals. Ho took as liis ex- j
amples the bee, the beuver, nud the
buffalo. His audience were much j
pleased, and the elderly country clergy- j,
mnu with whom he wan staying seemed r
especially delighted. But it is not easy ^
to realize to the mind the horror which t
came into the breast of tho scientific (
gentleman when, sitting in the count y j
church to listen to a sermon from his
host, he heard that good man illustrate
the wonderful wisdom of Providence l?y ]
representing tho bee, the beaver and the r
buffalo as all three working tog* ther in t
some foreign land in harmonious and ?
systematic combination. e
The useless waste of money on wed- f
dings un?l funerals calls for reform. 1
Extravagance makes young men dread f
marriage and death. t
Agriculture in Great Britain.
The New York Sun iu an article on the
subject Rays the agricultural resources 01
of the British islands are curiously un- a]
demited in this country. Accustomed
to regard ourselves as tho purveyor of al
England, we take for granted that her tl
own production of meat and brcodstuffs
is considerable ; and there is, moreover, n<
in impression in the minds of many ol
persons that her soil is not subdivided
in easily working farms, but is mainly d
engrossed by largo estates. It may be re
worth whilo to show how decisively these b,
current notions are contradicted by the
facts ; and for that purpose we avail our- o
selves of a report on agriculture lately d<
published by tho British board of trade, oj
With the exception of Russia and
France, no country in Europe has so tt
many acres under cultivation as the hi
united kingdom. Of plowed land and st
meadow sho can show twice as much as
Buugary, four times as much as Sweden lo
ind Norway, a lifth more than Spain, bi
ind a sixth more than Prussia, although tl
;ach of the States named has a larger, p<
ind some a vastly larger, superficies, tc
ft is well to ponder the significance of cc
.his fuct, /or it explains why England
otig anterior to her commercial and b<
manufacturing expansion was a rich and b<
powerful nation. And here we may w
mint out that the mistaken opinion re- p<
ipecting tho distribution of her soil has gi
irisen from Iho confounding of arable si
jriMi rmunvoViln
From thn, total surface of the British th
stands, which exclusive of lakes and at
ivers comprises seventy-six millions of w]
icre->, must bo deducted almost two- ar
levenths for woodland and pasturage, tb
coors, game preserves and parks; and pi
his fraction of territory undoubtedly is
controlled by a relatively small number
)f proprietors. If we turn, howevor, to p<
he ground under cultivation, we find ot
he number of farms in Englund, Wales, te
aid Scotland computed for the year
,875 at 550,000. These aro graduated ex
is follows: Small farms of fifty acres or th
ess, average farms containing from ca
iity to three hundrod acres, and large of
arms exceeding the last namod figure; th
aid it appears that seventy per cent, of,
he whole numlior belongs to the first of
iat< gory, twenty-seven per cent, to the th
econd, and only three per cent, to the tri
a-t. As regards tho respective areas
ccupicd by the three classes, we may Bti
et down in round numbers the aggre- te:
;ate of arable land at twenty-four mil- Pf
ions of acres for England, two and ^
Free-fourths millions for Wales, and tb
bur and a half millions for Scotland.
STow, of theso totals tho soace covered
>3' small farms represents, following the
irdor of the countries named, fifteen,
weuty-three, and fourteen per cent.;
arms of average size absorb fifty-six, hi;
ixty eight, and fifty-eight per cent.; an
rliile only twentv-nino per cent, in
Inglnnd, nine in Wales, and twonty- kn
hree iu Scotland are comprised in the th
irger holdings. In short, three-fourths rei
f tho area belongs to farms of three
illn(1 rfil onrna ai* luua* n**a ?.JJ
wwivv w? ivyoo J uuu ruur tuu iUUU UU
mder tillage ia Great Britain is qnito pa
s minutely subdivided as in the United
>tates. wi
Church Kevenues. no
There is no established church in I10
France. All religions are equal by law, JUI
>nt only Catholics, Protestants andJcwb m<
re paid out of the public treasury. Out Pr
if 36,000,000 as many as ninety-eight 8?
nr cent, (over 35,000,000) are Oath- he
ilifjs. X here are 581,000 Protestants, mJ
9,429 Jews, and 84,000 members of di
itlier religions denominations. The an- "5
inal State payments are: To Catholic
(relates and clergy, $8,301,659; Catholic 8"
hnrches, seminaries, etc., $2,041,080; mi
hotestant clergy, $283,000; Jewish Wf
abbis, $37,800; Protestant and Jowish ro
(laces of worship, $16,000; making a
otal of $10,679,720. In England and th
Vales, with a population of one-third
ass than that of France, tlio total aninal
revenue of the bishops and other rn
loigy amounts to $18,960,425, which is da
,lmi-st double whut is paid iu France to *n
lie clergy of all denominations. The *n
liirercuce is that in Franco this payuent
is made out of the tax-raised pay- ha
nent of the nation, while in England 1?'
lid Wales it comes from property and ve
at ings as secure to the clergy as their
iHidcd estates are to the nobility and 00
;entry. Moreover, nearly one-half of
he people of England and Wales, who 001
lo not belong tot ho Established church, *?
roluutarily support their "spiritual pas- on
ors and masters," as in the United ??
states, by pew rents, fees and voluntary
sontnbntions. The British archbishop 801
md bishops roceivo princely annual in- P?
ioraes. For examplo, the archbishop of ?'
Canterbury, $75,000; his grace of York, re'
550,000; the bishop of London, $50,000, 7e
ind tlio bishop of Durham, $-10,000. 'b
Each of the other twenty-six bishops re- be
(t-ives on the average about $25,000 a 88
nnr, with a rent- freo "palace" and *b
pounds in the conntry and a flue man- 'b
lion in London for residence dnring the an
ix months of the Parliamentary session 'r<
n each year, archbishops and bishops ftn
it.t ing in the Upper IIouso as spiritual be
?rds. Just now the see of St. Albaus
las been created and a proposed bishop
io of Cornwall is on tlio tapis. After
hat about a dozen more sees will bo es- Pr
ablished. 80 the temporalities of the 00
Ihurch of England flourish exceed"gly.
?
John Mangovnn, a farmer of North to
Sasthopo, Canada, came home from of
narkt t and going to his room cat his el
hront with a razor. He then went to hi
mother room where his father was and ei
ilapped him on tho back, when the old hi
nan turned around and was horrified to w<
ice his son with a frightful gash in his JK
reck. A neighbor who was there throat it
1 handful of feathers into the ont and tc
ituuohed the flow of blood. si
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
If we look upon life aa a gift of days,
ne at a time, alf its duties can be done,
!l its hardens borne.
*'Two things," said Mohammed, "I
ahor ; the learned in his infidelities,
10 fool in his devotions."
Tho thing which an active mind most
pedn is a purpose and direotion worthy
F its activity.
God gives food to every bird, bat he
ocs not bring it to the nest; in like
tanner he gives us our daily breed, but
y means of our daily work.
Pride is an extravagant opinion of our
ira worthiness ; vanity is an inordinate
csire that others should share that
pinion.
If there be any good in thee, believe
iat there is much more in others. It
urteth the most of all to prefer thydf
even to one.
Philosophy is a bully that talks very
ud when the danger is at a distance,
at the moment she is hard pressed by
le enemy she. is not to be found at her
ost, but leaves the brunt of the battle
i bo borne by her humbler but steadier
unrado, religion.
When we have only a little we should
i satisfied, for this reason, that thoso
_'ml enjoy aunnaance wno are oonientea
ith the least, and so that the pains of
ivcrty are removed, simple fare can
ve a relish equal to the most ezpenve
luxuries.
There is a Russian proverb which says
iat misfortune is next door to stupidity,
ul it will be generally found that men
lio are constantly lamenting their luck
e only reaping the consequenoe of
eir own neglect, mismanagement, im
'evidence or want of application.
One of the almost numberless aditituges
of goodness is that it blinds its
>6sessor to many of those faults in
hers which could not fail to be dected
in the morally defective. A coniousnees
of unworthiness renders us
ceedingly quick sighted in discerning
o vices of our neighbors; as persons
n easily discover others in the symptoms
those u is eases beneath which they
emselves have suffered.
Without the proper and sober estimate
men, we have neither prudenoe in
c affairs of life nor toleration for coniry
opinions?we tempt the cheater
d then condemn him?we believe so
rongly in our faith that we would sendee
dissentient as heretics. It is exrienoe
alone that teaches as that he
;o is discreet is seldom betrayed, and
at out of the opinions that we coniinn
spring often the actions that we
[mire.
The Railroad Business Overdone. 4
At Long Branch, says Oath, in one of
3 letters, with a railroad man of fair
thority, I remarked :
" Pullman has three residences that I
iow of, here and in Chicago, and at
a Thousand Isles of the St. Lawuce.'
'' He will want to ?6t them all together
one smaii 10c oeiore many years
rs," paid the auditor.
Why, do you think the railroads
11 throw off on him ?"
" Yes, their diminishing business will
t permit of any Buch incubus. It is
rd times with all railroads. They are
at beginning to meet questions of mount
bluntly, and this Mr. Go wen,
esident of the Beading railroad,
>es to the core of the question when
> says that too much competition has
ido it well nigh impossible to earn
vidends. That had already been said
' Mr. Dovereanx of the Oolumbus and
eveland railroad. The open lakes and
i lines of rail to the West gives too
neli outlet for the crops. Before the a
it wo had single tracks on every railail
; now Vauderbilt has four, Soott
roe or four, Garrett two or three, and
e Eric, und Chesapeake and Ohio are
io in the ileld, with the Grand Trunk
.nking all around to the North. Low
Us are a necessity of such an abun,uco
of communications. Passengers
America now pay the cheapest fares
the world. Ten dollars for excursion
iketa from New York to Cincinnati and
ok ! The closest eoonomy must folw
such prices. Tho Pullman cars art.
ry heavy, and mash np the road beds ;
ey bring no revenue to the hauling
mpany, which must also keep them in
pair. They oost from $17,000 to $50,ft
aiiio/in an/1 twoi/vli /? /%**>
v* wum nvigu uvui vnoup^wutd
fifty tons, while ordinary cars weigh
ly twenty tons. The Erio railroad ran
e Pullman oar wliioh cost 452,000?
0 Orange Oounty by name. Every
rnteh of that cabinet work ooet your
cketbook to repair it. Now, the imlk
the Pullman cars will require to be
built very noon; they run about eight
arn, and then, such is their condition,
oy must bo wholly rebuilt. There are
tween two thousand" and four thound
of them, perhaps. The capital of
e company is, say, $12,000,000. When
at construction account is made up,
d tho railroad companies proceed to
jt about repairing o her people's oars
d carrying extravagant ".riders," the
iy day will be over.
African Superstition.
Tho king of Dahomy has invoked the
otect'on of his godsagaioet the British
inmA^AVo'a aVti no A a l?i? a#
>ing so ia somewhat curious, it may
row some light on the character of
o African native in its pristine purity
doscribe the prooeea. An imitation
a ship in wood, executed in the moat
ementary ideas of naval architecture,
is been placed on a mound, and about
ght hundred or nine.hand red native*
ive been paraded before it. drink
as then administered to eaoh man, and,
wording to his attitude after imbibing,
to chief priest decided whether he waa
? be sold as a slave or offered up as a
ictiQoo to appease the gods.