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FThW:Y EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. (., DECEMBER 2, 1882. ESTABLISHED 844 rt ifyorng t hi it,Jang io - brlittIe6- ouana 1withae yeas that bave vanished th race isUn, landlaiting and toR are dan& byittle~thsky growsClear; Atiejbyli~ttleie san oomes near; XiI.byliDethe daya smile ou Niiildr-andbrighteron paia anddoubs; MntibY little the seed-we sow beautirfuiiel&t will gro by little-the4raA4grows strong, i hm battleof Right and Wrong jS~lite the' Wrong gives way, -t ght has sway; Leby little all Ion ' g souls up nearehining goals? e by little the gool in men to beaty for human ken; Pheisciettrof good to be.; by tde the God-of all oorldesier His pleading cell! NUDSON'S NUESE. A dozen -tea biscuit, did you: say, R Booney" sid the baker's wife; N'nda loaf of brsad? and a- card of :Ack gingertread? Just let me take ur basket,!na'akn,and .I'r pack 'em deal better than you could. Yes, was-aying, there le lies, clean -4ut-of hi- head andraving, and no -y take-care of him but me. And A m a guess oW much time get, Aritkthe sh op and the six eaheop's M mother after." B t why on earth," said the cus who hadordered the tea biscuit, and black gingerbread, "don't the poor fellow to some hos -what the doctor advised- his "said-Mrs.Feathertop. "But inute you mention the word 'yoa! tMg he would go out head poor- soul. %o, no, no,' over and over again, and he onto the side of the bedpost un nustbhavea -heart of iron to -.away. And the worst she'slust been: tnmed out of oy n 'Miss rice; the tle seamstress who rented the op ,Wk zoom otMrs. Feathertop and ept herself on-infinitesima morsels of bread and meat which she. picked up ioody knew where, paused to listen o. her way through the shop. "He was getting good wages in a r jeweler's," said the baker's wife, evidently enjoying her -man audience,&and Mr. Goldilove set st b -biy-'imfor he'd a way of Workig that he'dlearned in foreign parts, an~d they tell me it's quite an art to set them-precious stones in-the gold so as they's stay- fifnxi andshow off their colors to good advantage. And there was a particular choice jewel seint~hereto beset asa wedding pres ent for some -young lady--a sapphire, Sthey say it's called-and it was g'in intobischazge. And from that. day to this, ma'am. and Miss Price, there hasn't nothin' ever Ibeen heard of that sapphire.. Ifit had been ,any one else Mr. Goldilove would have had him ar rested; but "this John Judson had al ways borne; so good a-character and was- such an blit-and-out respectable an, as lie hadn't the hear to do it. --But he Aisliarged him, of course who .wouldn't ? And here the poor fellow is, out of planed with no refer LUde and sofaras I knew without a penny inhis pocket. Ana what we're to-do~ I don't know, for its downright are 32 can't spare the time to give hm hdrops and look after him as a sik man hould be looked after." iT~s lie no friends?" said Mrs Z- MZIsse rieat 6.si~' a ~~erswif6. '"eis astranger in the ~~oufry.9 And poor folks, mind you a ,.don't pick up friends here and eia.ad ever-ywhere like the mil esreead about." J tlere Miss TPrice stepped for 4*nrd.htr little splint basket -on - ir. Yeathertop," said she,, diffi ely, "ITam quite alone in the world, ithno tiesg keep me busy. .If you Yentobjet-rltake my sewing down aftoL Mr. Judson's room and take care hbii days, if Mr. Featheftop won't mind t1he night charge." "mh sure, Miss Price, it would-be a eed 'of 4hristian charity," said Mrs. Ad as she afterward said-to Mrs. Roo! - sin'~&pretty She's~forty, Efshe's - ~ a~b-baker'a 'wife :And shds~ smallpor,: as you may see ~yon~4hrs.Rooney,:ma'am; nd Jer bar edand her eydAshes are aFetetop s a whenirat she ~our topso~bc~g ar~,says ~b~' e got But Mary Price, if she was neither young nor beautiful, possessed the rare attributes of a sick-nurse-the soft step, the quick -perception, the noise less, gliding movement-and before she had been the guardian genius of poor John Judson's room for a week the fever turned and he began to grow better. "So," he said, suddenly, one bleak February afternoon when Mary Price sat stitching silently by his side, "I shall get well." "The doctor says, so" silently as sented Miss Price. "Why didn't they et me die?" groaned the poor lapidary, screwing up tis forehead. Miss Price looked at him in amaze ment. "Don't you want to live?" she said. "What have I got to live for ?" burst out John Judson. "I -have neither name nor fame left, and can't even get the chance to earn my own living. They believe me to be a thief. As well die of fever as die of starvation." Miss Price looked gently at him. "There is no need of either," said she. "I have a few dollars in the savings bank. You are welcome to them until you can work and earn something for yourself" John raised himself. on his elbow and stared at her. "Why do you give me your hard earnedsavings?" said he, bluntly. "Because you need them more than I do," said Miss Price, sewing away. Judson uttered a low, bitter laugh. "I thought the race of Christians was extinct," said he; "but I believe there are some left." After that he recovered rapidly. But on the day on which he first sat up there came a thundering knock at the door and in walked old Mr. Goldi love, plump, clean-shaven and looking -eminantly respectable in his fur trimmed overcoat and new kid gloves. Judson started. "Have you come to arrest me, sir ?" said he. "Not at all, my dear fellow-not at all!" said the old gentleman, briskly. "Look here I" snugly reposing in' the palm some thing small and sparkling like a drop of blue dew. "It's the Mordaunt sapphire I" ex claimed the lapidary, eagerly. "Exactly!" said Mr. Goldilove; "it's the-Mordaunt sapphire. And where do you suppose we found it? " "I am sure, sir, I do not know," an iswered Juson, whose fever-bright eyes were still fixed upon the glitter ing blue jewel as if he momentarily expected to see it melt away. "Why," chuckled Mr. Goldilove, "I was the thief, Judson ! I stole it my self. Ha, ha, ha!" "You, sir? " ejaculated John. - "I sent this coat to the furrier's," said Mr. Goldilove, "to have the trim ming repaired where it had ripped away. And the furrier found the sap phire lodged .neatly in a seam. It must have clung to the fur some time when I leane41 my elbow carelessly on the table--slipped in at the ripped place and tucked itself comfortably away. And all the time I was scold ing abouL t u, Judson, and be lieving youin 'my heart to be a' thief, I was carrying~ about the missing jewel myself. Good faith, my dear fellow! I'ye thought since if the Lord judged us as hardly as we judge eac~h other our chances in the other world would be mighty slim, ehi? But I'm sorry-sorry from the very bottom of my heart-and I beg your pardon, Judson! And your old place at the shop is waiting for you, with a little rise in wages, whenever you choose to come-back." And he cordially wrung the lapi dary's hand once more and hobbled off; and it was not until he had gone that Judson discovered that he had left a twenty-dollar bill on the table, folded in an envelope directed to " John Jud son." ~When Miss Price came in as usual on her way home from the shirt fac tory where she worked John Judson had a story to tell her.^ "You've kept my heart up many a time, Miss Price," said he, " when it has been like-a lump of lead in my breast, with your tales about the vari ous little adventures you had had seek Iing for work in all those downtown places, and now I've got an adventure to relate to you!" {Miss Price burst into tears when she heard it. "I'm so glad, Mr. Judson!" she cried. "OhI ami-so glad!' But I knew all along that you never took that jewel!" "Godibless you for that!" said Jud son, in a low voice. When Mrs. athertop came up she e~ws full of Mfr.Goldilove's good-nature ..he pennies- ge had given her little ~nesytbe praiso-hehadedjudgedtO the ~nineglassoppjd- counters and .llolmaanmb40nknlkan . "And so the sapphire was found after all," said Mrs. Feathertop. Blit, dear me I have you heard about poor Miss Price. Did. she tell you?" " No," said Judson. " What is it?" "The shirt factory has failed," said Mrs. Feathertop. " The hands are all left without work; and what's worse their back wages never will be paid. I'm dreadful sorry for poor Miss Price. It does seem as if she had nothing but ill luck in the world. But, there! Irve left Patty in the store and she don't know the price *of a thing. I must hurry back as fast as ever I can." Miss Price came down in the bakery that evening. "Mrs. Feathertop," said she, "I am going to give up my room." "I supposed so," said Mrs. Feather top, wrapping up a loaf of Boston brown bread in a paper for a cus tomer. "Well, Miss Price, I'm sorry," but-" " But I didn't tell you all," said Miss Price. "I-I'm going to be married ! To Mr. Judson I" Down rolled the leaf of Boston brown bread to the ffoor. -. " Eh ?" cried the baker's wife. "It ain't possible !" . But it was. Plain little Miss Price, with the white eyelashes, the red hair, the pock-marked complexion, had wcn a husband after 4A1. "In-my eyes, dearest," John Judson had said, "yours is the sweetest face in the world. It bent over my sick bed when I should have died, save for its help and synapathy; it lighted up the dark hours of my weary convales cence; it shone like a star in my ut most need. And if you will trust your self to me, Mary, you shall never, God helping me, have reason to regret it." So they were married, much to the wonder of the world in general. "Well," said Mrs. Feathertop, "if Miss Price has got a husband, then no body need despair." But Mrs. Feathertop's visioD was duller than that of .John Judson. She had not seen the glory of Miss Price's pure soul shining through her pla n face.-Helen Forrest Graves. The custom of kissing - the;, thumb instead of the book was considered by many an evasion of the moral obliga tion attached to an oath, while to others, holding the Testament upside down was deemed an equally effi cacious release. These and other dis reputable artifices are, however, very little indulged in at the present day. When the celebrated Sergeant Hill conducted a defense at the bar of the house of lords, he propounded a question to a witness which thae coun s: on the .other side objected to After much had been said on eithex side, the law lords themselves dis agreed, and the bar and all strangers were ordered to withdraw. After au absence of two hours they weare read mitted, and the lord chancellor in formed Mr. Hill that the house de cided the question might be put "Please you, my lords," said the ser geant, "it is so long since I asked the question that I forget what it was, but with your lordships' permission I will put another !" A witaess was lately called on a trial at the old Bailey to prove an alibi. He solemnly swore that the prisoner on the night and at the hour in ques tion (11:25 r. x.) was at hon'and'in bed at a distant part of the parish. Nothing could shake his testimony, for he said he had looked at the clock just as the prisoner went upstairs, and he had set the clock right with the church clock himself the same day,. and it was certainly 11:25 i'. M., etc. "Pray what do you make the time now ?" blandly asked the counsel who cross-examined, pointing to a great white dial over the dock. :No answer was given. " Don't be confused-take your time. I ask you again-what is the time by that clock now ?" The question was repeated sev eral times and the witness was eventually bound to confess that he could not tell the time by a clock at all. Singularly enough the clock in the court was standing at 11:25 when he made this avowal. -We remember a country witness being called at the assizes to prove that at a particular hour on a certain night the moon was shining and at the full. There happened to be no almanac in court, but the evidence seemed to be satisfactory, for he had obtained his information from " a regular good London stationer's al manac." The question was asked in crosseamination, "How did you ob tain this London stationer's almanac? Did you buy it;?' "Buy it! No; my father pasted it behind my kitchen door nine years ago-the day I was married!" It need haidly be said that iformatiozras to thiemoons age dur ing a day in the current yeairas of little value from an almanaenineyears m-2uneixur. THE JORN BROW-RAID. Only One Man Now Living Who Participa. ted in That Evet-Brief Sketdhes df the Participants Therein. Mr. Richard J. Hinton, editor of the Washington Sunday Gazette, gives a chapter of the John Brown raid, in view of the recent discovery of the re mains of Watson Brown at Martins ville, Ind. Mr. Hinton relates what became of the others who were with John Brown at Harper's Ferry: The unknown members of the Har per's Ferry party were the following persons: . John Brown, of Kansas, ( North Elba; of New York; John Henri Kagi, of Virginia and Kansas; Aaron D. Ste vens (known in Kansas as "Colonel Whipple"), of Connecticut; Owen, Watson and Oliver Brown, brothers and sons of Captain Brown; John E. Cook, of New York and Kansas; Charles P. Tidd, of New York and Kansas; William Lehman, of Kansas and Maine; William and Adolphus Thompson, of - New York (Ndrth Elba). The former had been in Kan sas, and they were brothers of Henry Thompson, who was the husband of Ruth, Captain Brown's - eldest daugh ter; Albert Hazlett, of Pennsylvania and Kansas; Edwin and Barclay Cop pi, brothers, of Springdale, Cedar county, Iowa; Stewart Taylor, of Can ada, and FrancisJacks6 and Mer riam, son of the abolitionist, Francis Jackson. These were the white men actually present and participating.- The colored members of the party were Jeremian Anderson, from Canada, supposed to be a quadroon and belonging to some of the fugitive slave colonies in the neighborhood of Chatham,CanadaWest; Osborne Peter Anderson, a bright mulatto, from Canad- a Virginian; Dangerfield Newby, from Missos -1, one of Brown's rescued slaves of 1858, quite dark ; Shields Greene, a dark man from Rochester, New York, fa miliarly linown as "Emperor" and in troduced to the party by Frederick Douglas; John Copeland, of Oberlin, biorth Carolina. This Vinies twety two persons in all, of whom Captain Brown was chief. Of the party of raiders John Brown was wounded, captured and hung at Charleston, Virginia, December 2, 1859. In the fight, John Henri Kagi, the most brilliant intellect of the party, and second in command, was slain at Hall's rifle works or rather at a rock in Shenandoah river. With him fell John Copeland, Lewis Sherrard Leary, Stewart Taylor, Jerry Anderson and William H. Lehman.. At the engine house, besides John Browri, there were Watson and Oliver Brown, Stewart Taylor and Adolphus Thompson, Aaron D). Stevens, Shields Green and Edwin Coppic. Of these Oliver Brown was shot in the groin on the night of the 17th, and died in great agony. What became of his body no body knows. Watson Brown was shot on the 17th, and died after the United States marines, under Robert E. Lee, captured the engine-house. Edwin Coppic and Shields Green were cap tured, tried and hiung.at Charlestown, Virginia. John -Copeland was cap tured at the rifie works, and, after a trial, was hung with Green. Aaron D. Stevens was shot sevieral times and taken with a flag of truce. With Albert Hazlett, captured for William Harrison, wilo is still alive, Stevens was executed. . Hazlett was captured at Chambersburg and delivered to Virginia. William Thompson was shot on the 17th at the railroad bridge, and taken into Foulk's hotel. While in the parlor, wounded and a priso.ner. arned men came im, took him ornt shot and threw him over the bridge, shooting him as h'3 fell. Stewart Tay lor was killed' on the 1i8th by the United States marin.:3. Dangerfield Newby was shot at the arsenal gate. *Now, as to the balance of the party left to guard thie farm and the school house with the arms. KOwen Brown, the elder son of Captain Brown, escaped through Pennsylvania to Ohio, where, on the western reserve. he was guarded and protected. He is a man of fifty-four years of age, and lives in the Jay Cook house (as a caretaker) at Gibraltar, Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, 0. John E. Cook es sent into th'e neighborhood -of the~ ferry to make arrests, and escaped into Pennylvania on the 17th, with Owen Brown, Barclay Coppic, Albert Hazlett and Francis J. Merriam. They were afterward joined by Osborne R. Anders'on -and Charles Plummer Tidd. Cook was captired, taken to Virginia, and afterwardgiung. ~Barclay Coppic got'away and re tuned to Iowa. When ewar began he joined the Tihird reiinKansas vlunteers, ai ~wiisln misile second lieutenint. Heivnto Iowar, with them to the regiment when killed in August, 1861, by the fall of a train through the Platte river bridge seven miles east of St. Joseph, Mo. Charles P, Tidd went to Ohio and Canada, thence to New York. When the war begun he entered the volun teers, and died on a gunboat, of fever, at Roanoke Island, N. C. Francis J. Merriam succeeded in retching Canada, and afterward went to Hayti the second time. During the war he was in the field the most of the time in Virginia and South Carolina. In the latter State he was engaged in raising colored troops. His death is involved 'in some doubt, but he went to Mexico to enter the Republican army, and, so far as known to the writer, died there. Osborne P. Anderson escaped to Canada, and came back after the war begun. He served as a recruiting agent, and was a non-commissioned officer. He died in Washington in 1871, and is buried here. The only survivor of the Harper's Ferry party, actually present and in the fighting, is Owen Brown, Hash. A reporter of a New York paper re cently made an extensive tour through the hotels and restaurants (both high toned and low-down) of New York, in quest of information as to the popu larity of..hash among the different classes of the.community, and his re search disclosed that the composition of the article was not, as many sup pose, a "mystery," but that it was made of "corned beef and potatoes chopped up together fine, well cooked and well seasoned," and that it was among the oftenest called for dishes in the Windsor, the Brunswick, theFifth Avenue and Delmonico's, as well as in the cheapest restaurants. He found one place where a ton of hash was made, sold and eaten each week, and an Italian restaurant on Pearl street where the price-list is as follows: Cents. Cents. Coffee, per cup......1 Cor'd beef and cabb.4 Tea, per cup......... Beef stew...........4 Soup, per bowl......1 Mutton broth......*4 Pi per cut.......2 Chicken stew......5 He also.. round. that.teze is nbe-a first-class eating-saloon in New -York kept by a colored man, though they have numerous small cook-shops. In conclusion he says : " There is but one high-priced res taurant in the city where-hash is totally ignored. Mr. Yun. Fone is proprietor. of the same, and 18 Mott street is the locality. It is said that in San Francisco there is a Chinese dining-saloon which oc cupies the whole of a five-story build ing. The upper story is reserved for the nobility-those who will pay extreme fancy prices for their food. The fourth story is set aside for Chi namen who are in the ring, and have the handling of otherpeople's money. On the third floor Chinese merchtznts congregate, and so on down to the basement, where the common herd ex ercise their chop-sticks. It is also said that the tea and other articles of food, which are started in prime condition on the top floor, are handled over and over again, until they reach the base ment, where they are sold finally for the smallest possible prices. How ever- this may be in. San Fran cisco, Mr. Yun Fone conducts his saloon differently. At 18 Mott street everybody is on a dead level, and if you pay the money you can have your choice of anything in the hotel. To the qulestion if he made hash, Yun Fone answered no; that his people, as a rule, preferred their native dishes, al though roast chicken, roast duck, heart, coffee and American fish were con sumed in large quantities. The prices charged in this Chinese saloon are similar to the rates in a fifteen-cent American saloon, \vith this difference: that imported Chinese food is much higher. Reaching into an imm-use jar, Yun Fone pulled out what seemed to be a section- of a dried shark and a piece of old parch ment. He then went on to tell how rare and delicious these things were, and how, if you wanted a meal of them, the order would have to be given a day in advance. Tfie price was $2.50 a bowl. but there would be enough for three Chinese stomachs in one bowl. This dish is rarely ordered. Only when a Chinaman is on an extra jamboree does he go $2.50 on one meal. To the suggestion that he might like hash if he tried it, Yun Fone answered that he tho'ught not. Hash might do for Americans, but Chin amnen would have to be excused-" Arabella-" Yes,.I think this sweet pug is just perfection. TDon't you? George (with' feeling-" No, not .ezi actlybutIdo think h& is verynear perfection." The 'first roud dance originated with Adam, when heaSdwn ca COMET Mere About the Celestial Wanderers-. Some of the Greatest In History. Although comets are not now re garded, as in the time of the ancients, as portents of war, death and disaster, they still cause much wonder and speculation, It Is no new thing to co casionally have the superstitious and ignorant of the community looking for the destruction of our planet by col lision with one of these strange visitors from space. In the year 1773 a great panic spread over France caused by the rumor, that Lalande,- the-great mathematician, predicted a comet which would destroy the earth; and not longer ago than 1872 much uneasi ness was felt by many in this country by the prediction of the conflagration of the yorld on the 12th of August, caused by a comet discovered by Plantamour, the Sures astrono mer. Notwithstanding the won derful progress of science in this century,-tliere is still much diversity. of opinion. as to the probability of a comet coming in contact with the earth, Some calculations go to prove that in the case of such an event the shock would be slightly felt, owing to the trifling density of the comet com pared to the atmosphere, and yet if the nucleus ;is a solid body of metallie i density, as some scientists [suppose, e the destruction caused by its . trikig i the earth would be terrific. " The i heavens would be illuminated with a e resplendence beyond that of a thousand I suns, the sky radiating a light which i would blind every eye that beheld it, e and a heat that would melt the hard- 1 est rocks." But Necomb tells us that I the chances of such a calamity are so S minute that they need not cause the slightest uneasiness. There has lately been some talk in the papers of a comet, which, at its perihelion in 1883, is to fall into the sun.- It'may be a comfort to the believers of this to know that Proctor says that it is doubtful whether, if a comet should fall into the ] sun, anything very dreadful would . happen. -T he n ature df com ets is in 11 measufre"st!Hatadi&de '~le a ert g o that Yhe iri mass .orf utsr it can hardly be doubted thiatheyare composed of some substance which is vaporized by the heat of the solar rays. Comets, although assuming many dif ferent forms, generally consist of three parts-the nucleus, the coma (mean ing hairy star, in Latin, from whence it derives its name) and the tail; the nucleus is the visible luminous point, surrounded by the coma, a mass of vapory appearance, and forms thE head. The tall is.a continuation of the coma, and consists of a stream of milky light'; its tenuity is such that the smallest stars can at times be seen through a million miles of it. In the early ages of the world the ap pearance of a comet in the heavens was looked upon as the forerunner of some great invasionl, pestilence, .the death of some ruler or ziations, or some other such dire calamity. It was said that the comet which appeared in the year 14 B. C. announced the death of Julius Cesar; that of 64 .A. D)., presaged the cruelties of Nero, and the comet of 603 the origin of Mohammedanism, be cause its tall was in the form of a cimieter; and as far down as 1066, the comnet which then appeared was sup posed to have anno.nced the ap proaching conquest of England by Wifliam the -Norman. The orbits of nearly one-third of the six hundred comets which have been observed since the birth of Christ have been calculated but it is impossible to predict with any precision the return of more than eight or nine. - A Snake Story. The following story of a snake that found "how to do it'' is by a man who. used to live at Ceylon, in a house in Slave Island, raised on a high plat form: The steps up to the door had become loosened, and -behind them a colony of frogs had established them selves. One morning I watched a snake (a cobra) creep up, insert its head into a crack, and seize a frog, which it then and there swallowed. But the crack that admitted the thin, flat head of the ophidian would not permit of the same being withdrawn when the aeck was swollen with the. addi tion of the frog inside it. The snake sugge' and strugled, but in vain, and after a series of futile attempts dis gorged its prey and withdrew itshead. But the sight was too tantaizing. Again thei head was inserted1inhe crack,e and, the coveted.inorsel swal lowed, an1d again the vain struggles to; withdraw wee renewed. Iswts repeated several stimestill gaining wisdom by experienettbJe s~ izdesghy ~Ithde fromn4s oig o antag~ TopIcS r TRE vxr. The Canadian wheat aA L882 is a material improvi :ve ag hat of 1881. The crop o e rheat is estimated at 32,00 43A as and the spring what N },30,00, or4,600,000 bu a The great granite.monument tothe Ames brothers, builders of the Pacii -ailroad, is nearly completed near-Og Len, Utah, at the highest poin ithe' ee oad. It is a red granite pyramd ixty.feetoquaxe-at thebsixfmfest dgh and will last as long as granite rMi hold together. A medaioin bust >f Oakes Ames has been hewn on the est face andone of Oliver Ame on he east. The costis A house was burning at Wis., and- a womana ler husband cried,-" th n ollars to the man w saveg, L fireman dashed in at gr't persen d isk' and brought her ou- aliv tho husband i very wealth e to give a dollar ote ward 1 the supreme court d ides that the offer of 15,000 idali nd that the money must b Preparations are active ii i regard tothegreat rim exhihition to held n ok a the e1y -pa4 ments hie been com xhibition in the gardens of e orticultural soety.Wit -g buiaings and such additional s will be covered the total area ided for will be-some -- eet. The United States ively repieseated. The Prussian governmet - t the continued state pf em Las been seriously considering aeans to adopt for checkingthe Irain upon the population .d. ources of the country; ;and it roposed totake the ground t ors who intend toemigrae ff!tbat. O-s "o everitis m l f ence of such obligations, the ofiia authorities will doubtless be ingenigus i spelling them out, and measures will be taken to revent emigrationin all such'cases. Bands of gypsies wander abo i-n arge numbers in some parts of Ger nany, and occasionally emboldegreste ) )y their numerical strenghan :endered reckless by their necUss11es hey do not hesitate to:ake seious ~ nroads uponthe farms that they someO cross. Lately a band countinrgOier' O0 encamped near asmall vlinr ;he Hessian territory, andt~' .eir.horses loose to graze at wllover he meadows and farming]Baads-Othe. eighborhood. The ezaspe ted fr- ~ -~ ers and peasants thereupon :arnied - hemselves with pitchforks nk other weapons,.and attacked the eintruders, A. pitched battle followed, and is was aot without a severe struggle that the rative population remained masters of he field. The intei-ference of- the government will probably -be xequired toputi'end to the growingevil. From alat ely pubished work byGe ara1 Stralbitsky itappedi- thatEuroipe s 188,000 square kilometers, or about 15,000 square miles, larger than was mpposed. General Strlbitsky as areful measurements, and ascedamied hat Europe has lenefceof 1OO1 186squarekilo ets,ofwinch8462 belong to the continent and 6646463 ,to he islands, a calculation'which differ ~ onsiderably from those hithertomnaded [f General1Strelbitsky be correcek - szeofScandiavia,Fraceand~ugT has hitherto beenundlervalued, ii _ that of Italy, Great BritainSm n Portugal haye been exaggerated. The tree smallest, Europ~ States hav& the folowing -sizes Liechtenstel 159 ; San Marino, 85, ad Andorra, 21- --' 5quare kilomneters, the1aeben 2; -- about one-third as Iarge as'the ct L - Berlin,- which-.hasa a suefee 60.6 square k10meters. -' Mr. Penhecker; with- a ghjaytsnTe "ywoiild the word, tutw Mrs P., iwho bd little man? "a Bruledan