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The jHH-ret.
l*aiu uamon uuio ravins : * i.?-i nu* wuirixu m
your ear;
I would fain impart ? -ecivt that n?> othor soul
may hoar."'
Said Phyllis unto Damon : " And why whis|> r?
We're alone !
* You had lx*ttcr tell your secret in an ordinary
tone."
' Cut, Phyllis, little birds, they say, are sometimes
telltale-tits ;
One cannot he too cautious in divulging
precious bits."
" But. Damon, this is nonsense, for there's not
I
a bird about;
Besides, I can't keep secrets, and am sure to i
let it out."
I
"Yet, Phyllis, 'tis a secret that but concerns us j
two ;
1 scarce dare say it to myself, much less spent |
loud to yon."
"Well, Damon, you may whisper, since you de- j
cline to speak ;
But' promise, first, to keep your lips sow distance
from my cheek."
Then Damon gave his promise, and he whispered
soft and low;
The secret seemed to please her, but its purest
nons can know.
"Dear Damon." was the maid's reply?and ill I
that could be heard?
"I won't be very angry if you do not keep your :
word!" I
TEE AMBER NECKLACE, j
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She was very haughty ami indifferent, j
like her fair mother, and she held her i
head high as she walked among bei!
friends, but deep in her heart lay the
warm, smoldering fire that the blood
of her Portuguese father had kindled,
and the one weakness of her life was an
unwavering faith in the dear old legends
that her father was so fond of telling.
One of the precious heirlooms in the
Vasquel family was a long rosary of
wonderful carvings, in the pale, silvery
tints of clouded Turkish amber, or the
deep, sunshiny gold or rare Persian
specimens. This had descended to t!ie
present Vasquel, and he cared for it with
almost superstitions reverence; 1 ut
when he married Margaret Dale, so cold
and stately to all the re.4 of the w orld,
so winsome and loving to him, she had
coaxed from his strong box of treasure
trove the wonderful amber rosary as an
orniihent for her fair, white neck, lie
had given it but unwillingly into her j
keeping, and she had worn it in triumph j
over her pale blue satin dress.
She went out one chilly, dreary morning,
unbeknown to him, and returned
with burning cheeks and shining eyrs,
when the fierce November storm was at
its worst For several days she w is
very s!ck with a sudden attack of inflammation
about tK? lungs that lmshcd
her sweet voice and made her breathing
4eavy and painful. Then just when tin y
thought the crisis past and that she
would soon recover she died. Through
the brief, bewildering days of her illnoes i
Vasquel never thought, of the ami er j
rosary, but in the terrible stillness that
followed her death and burial lie L.ul i
time to tliink of everything, and it was j
then he missed the precious relic. Little
Margaret was two years old then, and j
wondrously beautiful. Into her uncoil- J
* scions baby ears the father poured his i
hopeless wail of agony for the loss of his j
wife, and his fretful complaining tlt.it j
the Vasquel talisman was lost. Babv '
Margaret comforted him with for iut
an tile caresses and cooed her inartk u
late blessing to his wounded heart.
Fifteen years lind passed si nee her
mother's death, and "proud Miss Yj<hquel"
walked in regal indifference aim :ig
the score of friends and flatterers v. ho
clung about her, despite a dim financial
rumor that the Vasquel property was
slowly diminishing in value for want of i
proper attention. Seuor Vasquel had
lost heart and courage in the long, lonely
years in w hich his only light and comfort
was his darling girl, hnt she was
* proud and beautiful, and lelt that in J
some mysterious way the fate of the j
family depended upon her.
"I want my portrait painted," she!
said, one day, to a friend of hers, Senor .
Keno, whom she kuew was a commissi ur 1
in art. "Father has mourned all my j
life that he has no picture of mamma ;!
he does not seem to think how l>adly he
would feel if I should vanish from his
sight forever, and leave no shadowy
semblance."
Senor Reno took immediate interest
in this matter, and soon invited Miss
Vasquel to the exhibition at the academy
of design, to study the different styles of j
a few fine artists, and choose between i
them. She chose one, for the strangely
familiar look in a child face he had contributed,
more than for any special skill
iu manipulation that the picture evinced.
Still Senor Reno approved her choice, '
said the young artist she had selected I
was conscientious about his work and j
skillful in its execution, hih mhji.^d
were commenced the next .day, and the '
picture soon completed.
" It is a superb likeness," said Seuor j
Keno, admiringly.
" Yes," answered the young lady, with j
a curious look; "but I did not know I 1
looked so much like porcelain."
The artist smiled gravely.
"It is true," he said, "the face is;
without enthusiasm, but it has the possi- j
bilities of life and soul, if only I knew what |
would interest you. Is there no costume
you would be pleased to assume, no I
character you might represent with glad- i
ness ?"
"There is a costume1," she said, "in
which I would delight to be painted. I
wonder I did not think of it before."
Without further explanation she went
; way. In a few days there came to the
studio an elegant costume, suitable for a
Portuguese lady of high rank. Soon
thereafter came Miss Vasquel, and arrax-oul
>,orcolf in nnaint dress. A
high, pointed comb held a long black
veil, which drooped mantilla-like over a
pale blue satin corsage, shading her rose
tinted shoulder aud round white arms.
A satin cloak, edged lightly with eider
down, hung from one shoulder, fastened
by showy, silken cords, ami soft, thick
tassels.
" I hato these ornaments," said Miss
VasqueL touching the heavy gold chain
dead gold band bracelet*. "7hty
leek like mantelet, But diamonds r ever
p&iit w?U, tad 2 ha*e no petrlceofclaei' "
5 BE
The artist came to her mil, and with
bis critical gravity nuilisturbed, though
his eyes were alight with admiration for
hi* beautiful subject.
"You are very rTplit to distrust the
eilect of dead gold," he said; "but. !
think, if you are not averse t?> the antique,
T have something more appropriate."
Slowly unlocking a heavy chest, he
brought out a strange ebony casket, and
from its satin and sandal wood interior
lie drew fortli a long string of carved
amber beads. Miss Yasquel gave a little
cry of delight as she gathered. the
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curious, sjuuijif^ tilings iu at r uiuius, ujhi
slipped tliein through her delicate
fingers. She held them to her burning
checks, touched them with her scarlet
lips, whispered to them under her!
breath, and then held them up between 1
her eyes and the one dim window, that,
the sunbeams prisoned in them centuries
ago might meet the light once more.
The artist, dazed for a moment by her :
unexpected enthusiasm, soon recovered 1
liimself and went at work. The sketch
grew in bold relief and delicate tint and
color, while the girl's eyes questioned
of the amber rosary what its mystic i
depths and brightness held of fate for
her and hers. Suddenly she gathered
the whole shimmering mass in her hands
again, and turning to the artist, asked 1
where he had found these wonderful
bends. "It is no secret," he answered, i
" They were given me by my father. '
Years ago, when I was a lad of fifteen, I
In4 painted an English lady and her
child. The lady wore a costume somewliAt
like yours, ami when the faces were
done, she left the dress and ornaments i
on a lay figure, that the picture might i
be made complete without her presence. !
Many days my father waited for her, but
she came no more. So he turned the '
picture with its face to the wall, and 1
folded away the dress and ornaments in ;
yonder chest."
"May I see the picture?" the girl j
asked, with an eagerness she tried hard !
to repress.
"Doubtless," was the grave replv ;
and from a huge pile of what looked like
rubbish hp drew out a canvas on which :
the dust of years had settled.
Miss Vasquel gave one glance at the !
two bright pictured faces, then a puzzled |
look at the artist.
"Yes," he said, answering her eyes,
"my picture that you saw at the exhibition
was an old copy of this child face,
slightly retouched for the occasion."
" But my father must see these," she
murmured, and glided away like one in
a dream.
Soon she came back with the stern,
silent man, and together they gazed
upon this strange reminder of a lost, lost
life. Oh, beautiful face, so fair and
bright, when the heart that vivified it
lies cold and still in death. Oh, sunny
eyed babe, vanished as utterly from the
earth, but living not less truly uuother j
life.
Ah, well! Senor Vasquel thinks luck j
came back to him with the amber beads, j
but the daughter thinks his heart grew :
strong and warm when he found this i
new proof of his young wife's l%ve and
constant thought for him.
The Monkeys' Cage.
I've been standing before this cage of
monkeys fqr an hour, and I admit the
fact that monkeys are very like men. j
Like individual men, too?persons one j
knows. That white faced monkey there, I
with chin whiskers and a conceited ex- .
prcssion of countenance, how like Sena- :
tor , as he sits reading his newspa-j
per of a morning. To be sure, it is duly ,
a large piece of brawn paper which the
monkey holds before his nose, but the
air is exactly the same.
There, upon iui up]>er bar, *its a very
solemn monkey with brown hair, a !
sharp nose and rod eyes. He keeps a
store in our neighborhood, and al ways
makes mistakes in his own favor as to
change. Just below him is perched the ;
family doctor, owl-like and comfortable, j
I fancy I can bear him saying : " Yes, i
yes?certainly, mv dear madam, certainly;
it is either the measles or the spotted
fever, or?ahem ! we shall be able
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to t-t-11 111 a day or iwo; meauwime, toe ;
prescription as before."
Who is that on the lowest bar ? A i
funny, littl*% tliiu monkey witli black
side whiskers and white rings around his |
eyes like the rims of eyeglasses ? That !
is Count Dandelion, who tanght French I
in Mrs. Middleton's seminary. One expects
him to speak in the old style : " It !
is necessaire zat you study, young i
ladees. It is not posseeble zat I split
open your head and put into it zo vairb.
I should hike pleasair to do it, but I cannot.
"
And that very restless, sentimental
looking young monkey who just now j
went down into the bottom of the cage .
to bring up a nut, and sits eyeing it suspiciously?who
is that ? Oh, it's very
ungrateful of me, but he does look so ,
like a beau I had once, especially now
that he pauses to stroke his mustache.
As my beau used to look, I mean; the
portly monkey of forty years, with no i
nonsense about him, probably looks;
more as he does now.
There is not a monkey of them all
who dues not remind me of some one I
know*. And Jet who will stand before !
the cage awhile, she will come way with
the same impression; and not one of the
tribe will ever for a moment remind her
ef a woman.?licadaiy Ea<jb\
How to Pmen tColds.
Popular Science Monthly gives ?;
advice in regard to the prevention 01
colds. The mistake is often made of
taking great care to put on extra wraps
and coats when preparing for ontdoor
exercise. This is not at oil necessary in
i robust persons. Sufficient heat to pre;
vent iftl risk of chill is generated in the
body by exercise. The care should be
j taken to retain sufficient clothing after
! exercise, and when at rest, to prevent the
j heat passing out of the body. Indeed,
persons very often catch chills from
i throwing off extra clothing after exer|
cise, or from sitting about in garments
the material of which is not adapted to
prevent the radiation of heat from the
body.
Luttrell was once asked whether a certain
accjuaintance of his was not always
j very disagreeable. "Well," eaid he,
! " be is always ts diasgrecsblc &? the cir?
i eumrtss?** will penult."
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AND PORT
BEAUFORT, 8. C
THE ELECTOR A I, TKIIU >A1..
Thr fill I Tf\l of lb?* Hill If *!>?>! I? ?! li> lh?Joint
Committee ol" (
The following is tlio complete t?-\t ??f
the 1 ?ili agreed upon by the joint committee
tni counting' the electoral vote of
tlie United States :
A bill to provide for and regulate the
counting of votes for President and
Vice-President, and the decision of
questions arising thereon, for the
term commencing March 4, A. D.
1877:
lie it enacted, ct<\, That tha Senate
and House of Representatives shall meet
in tlie hall of the House of Representatives,
at the hour of one o'clock p. m.,
on tlie first Thursday in February, A.
D. 1877, and the president of the Senate
shall be their presiding officer. Two
tellers sladl be previously appointed yn
the part of the Senate and two on tlie
part of tlie House of Representatives, to
whom shall be handed, as they are opened
by the president of the Senate, all
the certificates and papers purporting to
be certificates of electoral votes, which
certificates and papers shall be opened,
presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical
order of the States, beginning
with tlie letter A, and said tellers having
then read the same in the presence and
hearing of tlie two houses, shall make a,
list of the votes as they shall appear
from tlie said certificates, and, the votes
having been ascertained and counted as
in this aet provided, the result of the
same shall be delivered to the president
of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce
the state of tlie vote mid the
names of the persons, if any, elected,
which announcement shall be deemed a
sufficient declaration of the persons elected
President and Vice-President of
the United States, and together with a
,--A ~?/viA? "1*^11 l\n nrtlAvail nil
list Ol luo vuura Minn ur mx.
journals of tlie two houses. Upon such
reading of any certificate or paper, when
there shall be only one return from tlifc
State, the president of the Senate shall
call for objections, if any. Every objection
shall be made in writing, and
shall state clearly and concisely and without
argument the ground thereof, and
shall be signed by at least one senator
and one member of the House of Representatives
before the same shall be received.
When all objections so made to
any vote or paper from# State shall have
been received and read, the Senate shall
thereupon withdraw, and such objections
shall be submitted to the Senate for its
decision, and the speaker of the House
of Representatives shall in like manner
submit such objections to the House of
Representatives for its decision, and no
electoral vote or votes from any State
from which but one return has been received
shall be rejected except by the
affirmative vote of the two houses. When
file two houses have voted they shall intra
e<Jiately again meet, and the presiding
offieer shall then announce the decision
of the question submitted.
Sec. 2. That if more than one return
or paper purporting U> be a return from
a State shall have been received by the
president of the Senate, purporting to
bo the certificates of electoral votes given
at the last preceding election for President
ami Vice-President in such State,
unless they shall be duplicates of the
rutiivnK 11ml VMmi'PH
rviiiic lV VUlli^ IUI ? ,
shall be opened by him, iu the presence
of the two houses, when met as aforesaid,
and read by. the tellers, and all
such returns and papers shall thereupon
be submitted to the judgment and decisions
as to which is the true and lawful
electoral vote of such State of a commission
constituted as follows, namely:
During the session of each house on the
Tuesday next preceding the first Thursnay
in February, 1877, each house shall
by viva voce vote appoint five of its
members, who, with the live associate
justices of the supreme court of the United
States, to be ascertained as hereinafter
provided, shall constitute a commission
for the decision of all questionsupon
or in respect of such double returns
named in this sectiou. On the
Tuesday next preceding the first Thursday
of February, A. D. 1877, or as soon
thereafter as may be, the associate justices
of the supreme court of the United
States now assigned to the first, third,
eighth and ninth circuits shall select, in
such manner as a majority of them shall
deem fit, another of the associate justices
of said court, which five persons
shall be members of the said commission,
ami the person longest in commission
of said five justices shall be the
president of said commission. Members
of said commission shall respectively
take and subscribe the following oath :
"I, , do solemnly swear (or
affirm, as the case may be) that J will
impartially examine and consider nil
nnestions submitted to the commission
of which I am a mc-mbcr, and a true
judgment give thereon, agreeably to the
Constitution and laws, so hell) me God."
Which oath shall be tiled with the secretary
of the Senate.
When the commission shall have been
thus organized it shall not be in the
p#wer of either house to dissolve the
same or to withdraw any of its members
; but if any such senator or member
shall die or become physically unable
to perform tlie duties required by
this act, the fact of such deatli or physical
inability shall be by said commission,
before it slndl proceed further, communicated
to the Senate or House of Representatives,
as the case may bo, which
body shall immediatel #and without debate
proceed by viva voce vote to till the
place so vacated, and the persou appointed
shall take and subscribe the
;dh hereinbefore -prescribed, and be;
come a member of* said commission.
And, in like manner, if any of said justices
of the supreme court shall die or
become physically incapable of performing
the duties required by the act, the
! other of said justices, members of the
| said commission, shall immediately apooint
another justice of said court a
\ member of said commission, and in such
appointments regard shail be had to the
impartiality and freedom from bias
sought by the original appointments to
said commission, who slmll thereupon
immediately take and subscribe to the
oath hereinbefore prescribed, and be;
come a member of said commission to
; fill the vacancy so occasioned.
All the certificates and papers purporting
to be certificates of the electoral
rotes of each State ehcll bo opened in
thf alphabetical order of the States, ae
i prortded in section one c? this act, and
FOR'
ROYAL OC
THURSDAY. FEJ
\vho)i iJit-rc sluJl W iiuiiv liisut (uu> such
ot-riiticxti* nr :is tin- n or
papers from sfah State shall be opened
(excepting duplicates of the same return i.
they shall la lead hv the tellers, and
thereupon the president of the Senate
shall call for objections, if any. Every
objection shall be made in writing, mid
shall state clearly and concisely, and
without argument, the ground thereof,
and shall be signed by at least one senator
and one member of the House of
Representatives before the same shall be
received. When all such objections so
made to any certificate, vote or paper
from a State shall lwve been received and
rend, all such certificates, votes and
papers so objected to, and all papers uecompnnviil?
the same, together with such
objections, shall be forthwith submitted
to said commission, which sludl proceed
to consider the same, with the same !
powers, if any, now possessed for that
purpose by the two houses acting separately
or together, and by a majority of
votes decide whether any and what votes
from such State are the votes provide! '
for by the Constitution of the United j
States, and how many and what persons 1
were duly appointed electors in such
State ; and may therein take into view i
6ucli petitions,' depositions,- and other |
if o,i*r oq ulioll l?v fli? famuli hi
I'UpriOj XI UU J j (?W UlllMt WJ M4V .. (
tion and now existing law he competent
, and pertinent to such consideration, .
which decision shall be made in writing,
stating briefly the ground thereof, and
be signed by the members of said j,
commission agreeing therein. "Whereupon
the two houses shall meet:,
and such decision shall be read
and entered in the journal of each \ (
house. And the counting of the votes j
shall proceed 'in conformity therewith, j,
unless upon objection made thereto in | <
! writing by at least five senators and fire j 1
members' of the House of Represen-:,
tatives, the two houses shall separately j 1
concur in ordering otherwise ; in whicn j 1
case such concurrent order shall govern. | <
No votes or papers from anv other State j .j
shall be acted upon until the objections ! 3
previously made to the votes or papers i
j from any State shall have been finally ;
j disposed of. j j
! Sec. 3. That while the two houses , |
shall be in meeting as provided in this
net 110 debate shall be allowed and no
i question shall be put by the presiding J j
officer, except to either House on a mo
! tion to withdraw; and he shall have j
power to preserve order. ]
Sec. i. That when the two houses ]
separate to decide upon an objection that may
have been made to the counting of
any electoral vote or votes from any ! J
| State, or upon objection to a report of (
: said conunmi8sion or other question j (
arising under this act, each senator and ; j
! representative may speak to sucli objec- j
tion or question for ten minutes and not1,
! of toner than once, but after each de- j j
bate shall have lasted two hours it shall j ,
be the duty of each house to put the [ (
! main question without further debate, j,
Sec. 5. That at such joint meeting of , j
j the two houses seats shall be provided j (
i as follows: For the president of the .
: Senate, the speaker's chair ; for the i ]
speaker, immediately upon his left; for i <
tlie senators, in the body of the hall, ' (
upon the right of the presiding officer ; : (
j for the representatives, in the body of 3
} the lmll not provided for the senators; j (
for the tellers, secretary of the Senate I,
and elerk of the House of Kepresenta- ]
: tives, at the clerk's desk ; for the other j ^
; oilicers of the two houses, in front of the 1 }
clerk's desk and upon each side of the '
j speaker's platform.
Such joint meeting shall not be dis-11
! solved until the count of electoral Votes ! (
i shall be completed and the result de- (
| clared ; and no recess shall be taken un- ]
j less a question shall have arisen in re- j ]
gardto the counting of any such votes or j 1
i otherwise under tiiis act, in which case j
j it shall be competent for either house, ! j
acting separately in the manner herein- j:
; before provided, to direct a recess of j i
such house, not beyond tbe next day ,
i (Sunday excepted), at the hour of ten '
o'clock in the forenoon. And while any (
question is being consideredbv said com- j
mission either housL may proceed with (
its legislative or other business.
Sf.c. 6. That nothing in this act shall , :
be held to impair or affect any right now ]
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existing under tne uonsnnmon anu tuw.i .
; to question by proceeding in tlie judicial i i
courts of the United States the right or j,
i title of the person who 6hall be declared : j
I elected or who shall claim to be Presi- j
i dent or Vice-President of the United : !
I States, if anv such right exists.
| Sec. 7. That said commission shall
make its own rules, keep a record of its i
proceedings, anil shall have* power to
employ such persons as may Ije necessary j
I for the transaction of its business and !
the execution of its powers.
? mm* Prince
Albert's Room.
Oliye Logan thus describes the apart |
ments at Windsor Castle that were al 1
ways occupied by Prince Albert, and j
liaye never been used since his death : [
The faitliful servitor who points them i
out says that nothing has been touched |
in them since the fatal fourteenth of Docomber,
1861, when the "blameless
prince " quitted these scenes of e;irthly i
i glory to find, let us hope, even more de|
lightful ones among celestial spheres.
The prince's hat and cane stand where he i
last placed them; the book he was reading
is open at the page where Le left off;
*1 1 1 ? b el r< i /1 TT'b nvnon
TI10 D6C1 OH WU1UII iiu oirpu axiu viu^xwu i
ho died stands exactly as it did when he
breathed his last; an inscription at its
foot records the date of his birth and of I
his death. To come daily into these de- :
serted rooms and see for Lerself that the !
thoughtless hand of some servant has
not disturbed any of their pious arrange- j
ments; to gaze her fill on the vacant
couch, the unfinished book; even fit is
said) to herself brush away any trace of !
; dust which may have fallen within the '
' hour upon the cherished relics cf her
: dead husband, is a duty scrupulously
performed by this exalted woman and ;
good wife each day when she is at Wind- 1
sor. It may be that it is the reports of
these truly wifely actions?which could
not degrade a woman if she were a queen
of heaven instead of empress of India?
which have spread from lip to lip, ami
formed a basis for unfounded gossip .
about the queen's semi-lunicy concerning
the prince. That 6he causes his
plate to be placed at all meals, talks to
him as if he were present, and other t
things mors shocking than these, are ;
rumen without a grain oi truth in th#m
i at this tia? or formerly i
r t
JMMERCIAL.
BKUAItV is, 1877.
Till! SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.
Ten Year* ul .>1 i-er>?A 11 Extorted Be?ttrM
und u Cruel CotlieU. :
A few weeks uifo. bfiVH the New York 1
JJcraltl, h man, nearly eighty years of !
age, died in this city. He left no cbildren,
Hinl, it is alleged, scarcely a friend 1
to pay the last rites to his ashes. He !
died at midnight, and alone. Xo one !
had thought hiiu dangerously sick, for '
he reiired to lietl at night as usual, and '
his death was onlv ascertained at noon '
of the following day, when his door was '
broken open and he was found lifeless : J
upon his bed. Breakfast had been pre- , !
pared for him as usual, and his passion- j
ate temper was so much feared that no
one had ventured to disturb him till it"1
grew so late iu the day that the house- '
hold became seriously alarmed at his 1
non-appearance, An autopsy was held j !
upon the body, and the whole system of J
the deceased was found to be thoroughly '
diseased, though the proximate cause of > '
his sudden death was considered to be 1
disease of the heart. (
Such painful' scenes as those from '
which the veil has been partially lifted j j
in this old man's ease are almost sacred. | '
One hesitates to draw the curtain aside j '
fn rt?v#>n1 the misew A cirl of fifteen
marries a man of middle life, a widower,
with children older than herself. She
lived with him till no longer youthful, '
lias borne him children, and lias seen
him change from a doting lover to a j
querulous husband, and finelly to a mo- ]
rose and pitiless old man. Both her
own children and those of his former
wife are death He has no near relatives
and 110 familiar circle of acquaintances. !
He keeps a solitary Lome, from which !
all strangers are jealously excluded, and I
that home becomes her prison. This was '
ten years ago, and her life since, all accounts
agree, must have been a weary
torture. In fact, the stories recounted
by those in a position to know the truth
seem to go beyond belief. The man
bad received the education of a gentleman,
but the veriest savage would have
revolted at the cruelties he is accused of
practicing toward his "wife. Without the
slightest provocation, it is said, he had
been known to strike that helpless
woman to the floor, drag her about bv
the hair, and kick her brutally. His
whims and caprices were legion, and the
whole household crouched in terror before
him. It was never known what
new vagary would take possession of
trim. Both his trembling wife and servants
would study his humors with a ;
painful zeal, and yet fail to satisfy the j
capricious tyrant. Servants, however, '
could and did leave the house, but not I <
even this resource was open to the snf- j <
fering wife. j ]
Kuowing that even a woman's endur- 1
mice has its limits, he threateued openly, <
it is averred, to shoot the man who <
should dare to give her refuge, and i
cither kill his wife as well in her hiding 1
place or drag her back to her old life of j
torment. Nor was this any empty 1 ?ravailo,
intended to frighten a weak woman, I \
fur it is flrrnly believed by those who j (
knew the man best that he meant it to ! <
the letter. So his wife suffered on. with- ! 1
nit relief, waiting for the end. Wl.at | 1
ten years of such a life must have been ; ?
ui? Uiir; uni nit' (umau|/i(uuiu^; nuuc-ioi I i
?au tell, nml the oliuiax to her wrongs i i
was only to be reached at the end. lie ' i
Inul given lier many years ago a deed of , i
the house and lot where they were living, j (
uid this was her main resource for sup- ' i
port in ease of his death. i 1
A week or two before he died, jieiliups i ]
being conscious of the precarious state ! r
:>f his health, lie determined, it is said, to [ 1
extort this deed from her. As she knelt j I
before him he placed a pistol to her 11
bead and threatened to kill her instantly I ?
unless she would give him back her j f
property. It is asserted that witnesses 1
stand ready to attest this fact in court, if i
necessary, and to aver that being in dead- 1
!y fear for her life she made the required j
surrender. No sooner had she made 1
this last concession than he hastened to i
J raw up a codicil to his will, by which <
liis wife was shut out from all claim up- j;
:>n his estate except what she derived j l
from the bare dower which the law 1 i
makes the portion of a widow. : i
Had he any near relative to whom he i ]
might naturally have desiredto bequeath j i
his estate or some portion of it, the sola- j ]
tiou of the mystery might not be far to j 1
seek. But it is reported that the prop- i 1
erty lias been vailed nwav to distant j ]
relatives and business acquaintances for : <
whom he could have had no special at- j 1
tuchment. This statement must be re- j i
reived with caution, for, apart from the j <
exclusion of the widow, nothing is detin- j 1
itelv known of the provisions except to !
certain gentlemen acting as counsel or
executors. It is stated, however, on the
authority of one of these gentlemen, ,
that the body of the will is very loosely
and badly drawn, but that it is not pro- J
to o.mlriwd otir lmrfinn fa i t
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codicil referred to. The amount of the !
estate cannot be accurately determined i '
ut present, but the real estate bequeathed j
is valued roughly at $30,000,
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A Slid inheritance*
A writer in the Psychological Journal, j
a British periodical, gives the result of !
his observations in these strong words : i
14 The most startling problem connected j
with intenqjerance is, that not only does
it affect the health, morals and intelli- j
gence of the offspring of its votary, but ;
they also inherit the fatal tendency, and i
feel a craving for the very beverages ;
that have acted as poisons on the.'r sys- 1
terns from the commencement of their
being." Especially so it is when both
parents are drunkards.
Maudsley says : " Idiocy is, indeed, !
a manufactured artiele; and although we I
are not always able to tell how it is j
manufactured, still its important causes .
are known, and are within control. J
Many cases are distinctly traceable to ;
parental intemperance and excess.
Out of three hundred idiots, Dr. Howe
found as many as 115 to be the offspring
of intemperate parents; and there are
numerous observations proving tha1:
chronic alcoholism in the parent may directy
produce idiocy in the child. Ij \
WAAM f^AA linn *1* ;
iiui wjyr, iii icu jowo ui inu i?^u M j
traffic, after the removal of the spirit
duty, insanity increased fifty per cent, j
I)r. Crane makes some figures and in- ,
fers that " the intemperate have nearly i
twenty-nine times as hi any idiots amc'lig
their children as do teifipirate parents." !
Th? objective 5f the sa frhf?** *
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The Heal Sea Ser|M*itt.
The lv?n?loii Sjtcot?fi>r says: In the
limits of Mulawa. the sea monster so j
repeaO-illy wen, ami so repeatedly de- J
dared to be mythical, appears at last to ,
linve been carefully observed by com- j
f>etent witnesses. ' Tiie creature was
<een by the passengers and crew of the
drip Nestor, on her voyage to Shanghai,
iud on her arrival at Shanghai tlie master
of the shi}> (Mr. .John Keiller Webiter)
and the surgeon (Mr. James An-,
lersou) made a statutory declaration of j
ivhat they had seen before a magistrate, ;
is a mode, we suppo#>, of formally at
testing that tliey spoke in good faith.
The creature (which resembled a huge
salamander, only that instead of being
ibout. six or eight incites long, these di
mensions must be multiplied by at least ;
seventy-five or one hundred, the laxly '
being from forty-five to fifty feet in
length, the head' twelve feet, and the
tail, it is said, no less than 150 feet ) was
first seen at half-past ten on the eleventh j
if September, fifteen miles northwest
)f the North Sand lighthouse, in the I
itraits of Malacca. The weather was
fine, the sea smooth and the air perfectly
dear. The Chinese on deck were terri- j
bly alarmed and set up a howl. The j
whole watch and three saloon passengers
iftw the creature clearly, and observed |
its movements. It traveled for a long j
time about as fast as the steamer, ap- j
pearing to paddle itself by the help of i
" an undulatory motion of its tail in a !
rertieal plane." The Ifodv and tail were j
marked as those of the salamander are 1
'? o Klo/ilr an/1 I
marjteu?wnii aut'iuair umxuo, miava iu?u >
pale yellow in color. " The head was j
immediately connected with the body,
without any indication of a neck." Both j
witnesses state positively that the ouly J
resemblance was to some creature of the
frog or newt kind, while one of them
(the surgeon) says that the longer he observed
it the more he was struck with its
resemblance to a gigantic salamander,
rts back was oval in form. No eves or
fins were seen, and it did not blow or
3pout in the manner of a whale. The
greater part of its head was never seen,
being beneath the surface. Probably
the creature is of a race which survives
from that very different world in which
creatures of gigantic size seem to have
been so much commoner than now.
There appears to be no manner of reason
for doubting the very express evidence
30 succinctly and soberly given.
The Sicilian Brigand.
The evil of brigandage in Sicily is now
continually increasing, and calls for serinis
attention. The duly journals of
Palermo, reluctant as they are to confess
the true state of things, say now that the
cup is full. Society is so corrupted by the
nil that Rose assorts that Leone, the
noted cliief, know all the watchwords of
lie troops, and all that was said und done
iu the family of his captive.
At times it has been the dominant
power in the kingdom of Naples, and
fjolleita relates of Murat that meeting i
)ne day on the open plain some soldiers
with a man in chains, he asked who he
was. " Your majesty," quickly reejx?nd*1
the prisoner, " I am a brigand, but j
worthy of pardon, because yesterday, i
when your majesty ascended yonder |
nonutaln and I stood hidden , behind a '
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roeii, i could nave kiiicu von. j. uiougin ;
?f doing so, but your dignified appear- :
nice prevented ne. lint if yesterday 1 ;
md killed the king, to-day I should uot*j
mve been a prisoner and near death." '
The king panloned him, and the outlaw. !
visaing the knees of his horse, went away j
"ree and happy, and lived hmiestly in j
hat neighliorhood from that day. The
generals of Murat, to eradicate brigand- j
ige in the kingdom of Naples, employed,
he most severe measures. Good citizens i
were eujoined to imprison or kill the ;
brigands, and all men able to light were j
irmed. All correspondence with them I
was punished with death. Husband and j
,vifc, mother and son, brother and broth-:
>r were divided by this scourge ! In the :
rear 1800 the government, which was 1
molested in Calabria by the brigands j
under the protection of the Pope, again |
idopted serious measures. I have often j
listened to the description by the colonel i
in eharge of that expedition of his terrible
work there. He caught the outlaws j
by fifties and sixties, and ranging them j
before his soldiers' guns shot them down i
like wild animals, regardless of the pray- :
?rs of wives and children. But as this j
was a means of public safety ami not
mere cruelty, he afterward gathered the 1
diildreu into asylums where thev were j
well eared for.
A Loose Lord.
Why did not some rich American girl I
buy up Viscount Maidstone, who sold j
himself to the queen for a shilling ? asks !
fi London correspondent. This young !
man is the eldest son of an earl, un- I
doubted heir to the estates and title, j
handsome, graceful, well educated ami i
young. At the conclusion, it is sup- 1
posed, of a family row, he presented j
himself at the Royal Artillery at Wool-;
fA^Ai'vinor t.ViA rumen's shilling. !
VVlllly CU-lVt} A vvv* ? *"v
'listed as a common soldier. When it j
came to stating who he was, yon can
imagine the flutter the incident created, j
In the course of the day liis father got |
wind of it, and came down to barracks, ;
paid " smart" money?a pound or two? j
and got his young lordship of}'. The j
young man's plea was that he was allow- j
ed bnt% ?10 a week income, and a lord j
could not live on that. The very next1
day he enlisted again, lmt agam he was 1
turned from his purpose by the com- '
mauding officer e :ercising the prerogative
vested in him of refusing any re- i
emit he does not deem suitable. The :
report isrfhat the viscount has now enlisted
in a cavalry regiment, where, in ad- 1
dition to ether hardships, he will be i
obliged to perform a stableman's duties. '
Another Amendment.?Petitions to ;
the United States Congress from fourteen j
States asking for a sixteenth amendment ;
to the Constitution of the United States, ;
prohibiting any State from disfran he* :
;.vnr TTnif^rl Shafts citizens on account of 1
?
sex, have been received by the president!
of the Congressional committtee of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association :
within the present week. Nearly 4,000
signatures of prominent citiaens in the !
several States are appended to these ne- j
tituras. They were presented Hie:
Hones sad fitaate j
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Items of Interest. i
There are 728 granges in Pennsyl vania, II
an increase of ninety during tlie year. |
The membership aggregates about j j
10,000. " xl
A grocer Juki a pound of sugar returned
with a note stating: " Too much sand #
for table use, and not enough for builditiir
mi nvviipa "
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The opinion that Weddings day follows
appropriately after Choose day is
put forth with dne diffidence by the Fhfladelpliia'
BuUetin. * *# 7!
A Bohton nam committed suicide because
Tildeu was elected. A Sedalia
man has committed suicide because
Tilden was defeated.
A New Orleans thief lately sent back
the stolen clothes of an under sized citizen
with a note saying that he would
wait for his victim to grow.
A Londoner, seeing an advertisement
headed " American Steam Safe Com-v
pany," remarked that he was glad the
Americans had made steam safe com- v' *
pany . 1
A man can't throw water on his front
stoop in freezing weather without giving
rise to the suspicion that lie expects a
visit from his mother-in-law or a poor relation.
Judge Hoar once said of
He has reached the superlative of
At first he sought to get .on, and then he V
sought to get honor, and now he is trying w
to get honest." V<
A young woman in Rochester, N. Y.,
has sued for damages a man who kissed
her. A man who can't kiss a woman
without damaging her ought to pay for
his awkwardness.
Dion Boucicaiilt recently told a friend
of hi* that the whole number of dramatic $
pieces which he had put upon the stage _
is 367, and that they have yielded hfm
not far from 33,000,000.
The London Telegraph, which claims
to be the daily paper having the largest
circulation in the world, publishes a certificate
that during the five months ending
December 1 it printed the vast number
of 26,^1,875 copies, being a daily
average of over 200,000.
In Scotland it has for a long time been
usual to blazon on a man's tombstone the ,
symbols of his trade. A sugar cone inchoates
the grave of a g> ocer: an ax and
saw, with hammer and nails, occurs on
the grave of a carpenter; for awl and j
hammer on that of a shoemaker, I
About iliis time farmers are sitting in 71
the evenings by their comforting fire- /J
sides, with a pitcher of cider, plate of / M
apples and pan of nuts before-tJ>enL Iii^M
the interim between their eating H
drinking they look solemnly upward
exclaim : " What awful hard times 1" \
Of the 60,000 Chinese in Ban Fran*
cisco, about 750 attend the evening^ 1 H
mission schools. Three hundred have\
joined churches. Seven hundred are/- ^B
members of Christian societies and are jfl
studying Christian doctrines. Nearly
1,000 regularly attend Sunday-school.
"Yen, fun is fun," the old man *<id, u be H
brushed awav a tear,
And wildlr clutched his pantalooiuv -the jwrtion -I
in the rear ; r
" But putting crooked pina and sich in a per- !
sou's easy chair
Is rather more. I svrow to gosh, than mortal *
man can hear!" v
" Ransalvatioi)," the little l>oy tliought
it was. It lx>tliered him. especially as
as he heard it snug very often. Ana sq
1%^. hi'o SniwlHv-sohool teacher. Thft
ii^r aom \ t , _
mystic word turned out to he part of. th#
line : " Glory, lionor and salvation.JPPBPF^^
the Lul said lie wished they would sing it '
plainer. j
" Ulio, Fwed! What en earth are J
you walking about with that beastly I
sausage under your arm tor?" Fwed:
" Well?aw?the fact is, the othaw day /
I saw in the papaws that a fella'd been
sent to the workhouse?aw?because he'd
got no visible means of subsistence.
Put me in a regular blue funk, you ^ j
know! So I got tliis sawsage to protect l/j
myself." *"
An old German farmer in Iowa had his
born, which was destroyed by tire, insured
for $500. The company said he
could accept $200 or they would build^jj^^
him a new bam. When the life iuauTance
agent came around the Gennan &
facetiously intornnvl him tliut he would' ; J
not have the life of his wife insured, as
the company, in the event of lier death,
might want him to take some withered
old Dutch woman.
Apples being so nbimdant this seasoii,|fl^H
the sheep may be treated to a feed once^K^H
a week. There are none>of ourdomestiq^B^H
animals who feel the cliange from greeiflj^H
food to dry so sensibly as the sheep, and^^^H
they need a feed of turnips, apples, cab-^^^H
bage or something of that kind quite^^^H
often. This prevents costiveness I
stretches, an ailment common to sheep fl
in this country but unknown in Great fl
Britain, where turnips are fed daily.
Salting sheep is quite as important in the |
winter season as in any other. Indeed, J
all animals should have access to salt
A church in Hanover, 111., played a M
pleasant little joke en its pastor. They M
a..1,1 i..'m l>n lio/5 1 w?ffpr take a holidawfof
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two or. three weeks, and, like a sensibly
man, he to< >k it, and journeyed into a far
ooimtry. When he came back he found
the old t mlpit gone, and u delightfully J
fashioned new one in its place. His
elders greeted him with a roil of " soft
money," tnore than sufficient to cover all JM
tlie expense of his jaunt. This way of r\
treating a minister is better than the 1
donation party nuisance, which generally A
brings the suffering pastor a lot of mis- M
cellaneous rubbish which lie can neither^ J1
use, sell nor give away.
One More About General 5je.
The Utica Observer teils this btory i
It is related that he was trying a case
the Southern tier, the presiding judge
being peevish and irritable, as well as
rather dull Gen. N\ had not only
cross-examined a witness at great length,
but had frequently put the same ques- H
tions, which the judge had frequency W
ruled against as improper. At last the
patience of the judge was exhausted, *?t
lie rebuked Gen. Nye, oiid ];etukntiVje^
asked : " Gen. Nye, what do you think
am sitting here i'or?" Nye locked upjfl I
and, with a grave countenance, but J|H
twinkle in hi? ere, answered coolly iqJ|H
composedly: "*ou got ac tti? I
time, jrotf honorF