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Love and Madness. Reading, Ta., October 13.?Tbe Rev. James E. Schnitz was this morn ing taken to tbe insane assy 1 um in Norristown. Since the first report of his insnnity it has been ascertained that the death of Miss Lienbcck, a lady acqtiaintaucc of tho clergyman's, had much more to do with his loss of reason than was at first supposed. Prior to the interment of the young lady tho Rev. Mr. Schltz entered the chamber in which she was laid out, and, grasping her hand, raised it to his lips and fervently kissed it. "Sho is not dead," said the maniac minister ; ,4scc ! she is not dead ; she has ressurreoted," he exclaimed, at tho same time again kissing her bloodless hands and caressing her head by gently stroking back her wavy hair. The friends of the young lady took him away with considerable difficulty, and he was urged to go to his board ing house and try to reconcile himself to the death of his friend. Instead of that he went in a carriage to the real denee of another young lady friend and vehemently urged all the inmates of the house to prepare themselves immediately, as the day of ressnrrec tion had come, and his dead friend, Miss Lienback, had been resurrected, lie theu went to his boarding house and turned on the gas ? ovcry burn er. When remonstrated with he be- i came very angry. One after another of the articles of furniture in the par lor he demolished. Oil paintings were torn into shreds, two mirrors j were smashed, and the house turned j topsy-luivey. Then heran into the street and knocked down and injured ; live persons. The sixth'person ho at tacked knocked him into the gutter. | lie was very badly injured, and re mained unconscious until early Sun day morning. At brief intervals of apparent sani-1 ty during the day he summoned the inmates of the house, with a number of visiting ministers, to stand around his bed, and told them that the day of his resurrection hail come, because the lady ho so much ail mi red had been resurrected. He did not refer to the resurrection of Miss Lciaback when he preached her funeral sermon on Friday last. Mr. Schultz in the discourse spoke of tho pleas ure of carriage driving with Indies, j and their company, of love stories and other matters forci. n to funeral (.liscourscs. 11c was not interrupted until many of;the mourners had be come alarmed at his nonsensical re marks. Yesterday all the Reformed clergymen in the city assembled in his rooms, und it was decided to have him sent to an asylum for treat men t. The Rev. Mr. Schultz is 42 years old, and unmarried; lie has had a weak mind for several years, but it "was belieyed that ho had been perma nently restored, ami he was allowed to preach as usual. lie mingled in t-hn befit, society, und if. is generally admitted that the death of the young lady had much lo do with again un seating his reason, Miss Leinhach was much attached to him. and it is known that he entertained reelings of the highest respect for her. At the first news of her death, and when her i jast dying request was made known ! to him, he wrote a letter to her par ents, saying that under the circum stances he in nil probability might decido that he would not officiate? that he could not. it was surmised that he could not preach on account of his feelings, nnd he was not qncs tioned on what was considered a mat ter too delicate to talk about. Other arrangements were being made, when the family was greatly surprised on receiving another letter ! from Mr. Schnitz, saying that he. would preach the funeral sermon, as the dying girl hatl requested. On th night before 1 he funeral Mr. Schult/ ?was the guest of the Rev. Dr. Hans man, of this city, and it is said that he remarked to Dr. Bailsman that if anything happened to him they; should not take him to the asylum at; llarri&burg. lie was assured Unit nothing was wrong, nnd Mr. Schultz retired. Last evening he mentioned the name of Miss Lcinback, and ask ed where she wns. He wished to know why she hud not called upon him. "Oh, but they used mo badly 1" he exclaimed. "Why did they knock me down and fill my head with holes? But it's nil right. God and our side will win !" ..He tore off the bandages from his wounds, and insisted that they should be placed in another way. "Why does she not come to me?" hi I asked in piteous (ones. See my poor head all covered with wounds." I . Tins was a fact, because yesterday it was learned that of the men he had assaulted on Saturday night one had knpClced him down with a handsaw, lascerating his head frightfully man" ner. The man who did this claimed that he did it in self-defence, as Mr. Schultz hail come after him with n brass stair-roil, and was about strik ing him down with it, as Ite hud struck down a number of others. Mr. Schultz'8 friends, who are quite wc'l offj decided to have him placed in the Stale Insane Asylum, and ho was ta ken there by the first train to-day. The Village Fire Engine. A second-hand engine is bought at a low price I'r >to oOtne city which is1 d{scared the old style ami introducing! the slcatner S3-stem. A pleasant the-1 ory supposes this n nchine lo bo asf good as new, with the exception of; the somewhat worn paint and varnish1 and tho buttered brass works oflhcj Ornamental parts. When such nu engine is bought it is received with a fair degree of enthusiasm and wheeled in triumph to a safe place iu the' town barn or she'd. Theto. it is lock-' ed in, and the key is so safely* put j awnj that nobody can find it. The presence of this engine in town is somet'ldng like that of a fetich among! a pagan tribe. The villagers do not fall down and worship their new pur chase, but they retire to their beds at n.ght with a sense of security, because they have a lire dopa.it menl. The engine rests ami rusts. Hens roost upon it. Its cylinders become encrusted with oxide. Its joints grow more still than tho*c of the most rheu matic patriarch in town. Its wheels cleave lo the axles and rigidly refuse to revolve. The hose is like a sieve, and will not carry water. No fire bieaks out for live years. Then one i? suddenly discovered, nnd the fire j Ideparlme t is called. The man who! has the key is away from home. The barndoor is plied from its hinges and the old engine is trundled out j Men and boys man the rope and drag the thing lo the scene of conflagration yelling like untamed and untaxed In dians as U.ev 'novo alone On en deavoring to put the lire dep u meut {into service, its weak points become 'painfully apparent. The Haines have their own way, and the o is much un necessary destruction. Bellknap and Mrs. Greene eloped together, at. Melrosc, Wis. They drove a good horse rapid I)*, but had not got more than ten miles before they heard a chiller af.hoofs behind. Greene had hastily mounted sind situ!? 1 in pursuit. The race was long and exciting, but the husband at length rode alongside the pair, cock ed a pistol, and commanded u halt. Bellknap was abject with terror. '?You may have your wife," Mr. Greene," lie said. "1 don't want her. You don't think I have chased you like mad lo get her back 1 Oh ! no. But I'll take rny dollar and a halt'! that she's got in her pocket." The money was given up, and the elope-j menl proceeded quietly. Boston morality has had another! shock. .lohn A. Woodward, chief clerk in the eily Treasurer's olllce, and one of the persons of consequence in society has decamped leaving a deficit oT 380,000 in the public fund. Ik you hope for what is reasonable and then work, you will probably get it. But ifyon expect the impossible, like the man who wanted to buy a I pair of spectacles wit h which lo get a I bird's-eye view of the city, you arc I bound lo be disappointed. Parson Ble^so's Revival. For more than a week past tho Rev. Aminidab Biedso has been very much troubled in hi* mind. A rival Gal veston pastor in bis immediate ncigh i borhood has been carrying on sncli a successful revival that nobody in the neighborhood bus slept for more than three hours just, before day during the past week. A number of tenants in the neighborhood refuse to pay rent, and some have actually moved away* All this time not the slightest religi ous interest has been manifested among Rev. Btr. Blcdsp's congrega tion. On the contrary, quite a num ber of them have strayed olf to Par-j son Johnsing's revival. Something had to be done, or Othello's occupa tion would be gone up the spout. In vain did Parson Biedso warn his (lock of the wrath to come if they strayed into Johnsing's sheep fold, but all efforts to >ring them to a sense of their duty failed. He had quite a serious notion of resorting to the Ar kansas plan of salvation, which is?lo take a club and lay on to the sinners until they crawled up* to the mourn ers' bench with some of their ribs caved in, but as some of the member ?! of the conuregnli ;i .ho handle cot . 1 ton were liable to lay him on', ou the j mourners' bench he hesitated about' resorting to extreme measures. Last j Sunday night there was quite a largo congregation at Parson lilcdso's . j chapel in consequence of Pas son i Johnsing's being laid up with a sore throat, and the former determined to profit by the occasion. After a hymn was sung Parson Rledso slopped to the front and said : "Brt <U rin and cistern : Dis hcah ; church is gwuic ter be a scene of do* outpourin' of de bebbenly grace, and I I'll start de boom aid Jim Webslen as a sorter nest egg fooh de res' ob you to lay up to. James Lake your.L place on ao nv'urncr's Re*neh." Jim Webster, a dandified-looking young mulatto, said he wasn.t well aud begged to bo excused. "All right, Bruddcr Webster, if you feel like dar was no hope for ycr ?dat dcrc was no ba'aui in Goliad for a sinner like ycr, jess slay what' } yer is, and suck the end ob ycr little cane When ycr beluhbcd pasture is called on by do foabman oh do Gal ves'.on grand jury to say if ho knows who shaved do tail ob "Sqniro Jones' bay boss, be is gwiue lor pint out de niggab, even ef it was his brudder." It wasn't two seconds before Jim Webster was in the mourners' bench. "Annudder brand plucked from the burnin' brimstone ; one more lost lam' foun' forde angels to rejoico ober moab den de ninety and r.ine that ain't been colch 1 Now is de time. I t us sing'Old Hundred." I Atter the singing, Pat son Biedso went on to exhort: "Why don't you git aboard do gospel train? Now .is the accepted time. Which is best, to make your peace wid hchhen, to have dat peace whicis passes :.!! unlfc-isUth din', or to he sent lo dc penitentiary for votin* foah times at election ? Wud you rrddt r be a follower of a Jam', or hab a white man follow in' yer wid a gun while ycr was working sixteen hour? a day whar dar is weepin' and whulin' wid a big leddcr strap?" "l'so a coming," said a trick look ing darky, who is supposed to have considerable influenco in political cir cles, going and taking his place along side the penitent. "Praise dc Lor'! Do gran'jury is gwinc to meet and den dat culled lady what forgot to bring de wash is gwiug lo call on all do mountains to kivcr her up. Wud ycr rudder be one oh de elect, or hab a boo in ycr paw wot king on do streets? Come up, sister, andjine the gospel band." Several responded to the invitation. "Brudderon, dis is slow work. Lot all dem what's I sen kccrlcss in banOHn' poultry, dem what's sinned agin dar nabor's wood-pile, come up,' or dar be some tclcphoiiin' lo de po lice station. So long de lamp no oil do lack. The dutndesl rascal may come hack. It is needless to say that the reviv al is an immense success.? GalvestOn News. $ Pathos of Diyorcc. Gregory against Gregory was tho titldijSbf a St. Louis divorce case, whitijLwas varied hy an exciting inei den'^Secnlly. Mrs. Gregory, ivl use examination w'p.s interrupted b. he reunifies of counsel bearing upon the mnlcfir sot up in the cross hill, listened witujfigreat interest to tho colloquy, and.kept her cyc3 steadily fixed upon herf.husband's counsel. Her bosom Incited wie n counsel argued upc'? t' j Allegations of (lirtation ; at length tmatjle to stille her emotions, she rose fronjl'thc witness chair, and, throwing ! 'tier-amiss, with a .dramatic gesture j aim lone exclaimed : "Yon will drive I me 1 crazy 1 Would yon ibmo of tha|?you have ruined my cbarncter. I MytGod ! I cannot boar this. Eugene 1 my) husband, suvc me ! save mc ! These impassioned utterance:- produc ed a great sensation in court, which wa* filled with ladies, witnesses, and spectators. The agonizing appeal to thojhusband brought him to his wife's stuj< He bent over her, and did all iu Sis power to soothe n:.d quiet her. An,elderly man who had accompanied Mrls. Gregory to court also went for- j w??d. but the husband gave him to Ulifjcrstaud that his wife having sum moned him to her side, he would ul-j lee no otic e! u to render any service" at that time. The ladies in court were much affected by the scene, and aim some began to sob. In the end' the proceedings were adjourned uutilj morning. Origin ot the God Hymen. [Hymen was a young men of Ath ens, obscurely born, but extremely I handsome. Falling in love with ft! yjjung lady of distinction, he disguis-j ed himself in a female habit, in order toget accessio enjoy the pleasure of her company. As he. happened to be ?fid day in this disguise with his mis WSsnj and hei female companiono, celp-1 braling on the seashore the riles of! Ceres Elcusina, a gang of pirates came upon them by surprise and car ried them all oil'. The pirates, having conveyed them to a distant island, got drunk for joy and fell asleep. Hymen seized his opportunity, aimed the vir gins when, leaving tho ladies on the' Island, he went in leiste to Athens,1 where ho told his adventure to all the parents, and dcuiidcd her he lov ed in marriage as his ransom. His request was granted ; and so fortunate was liic mairiago that the namo of Hymen was ever afterwards invoked oh all future nuptial.-!, and in pro gross of lime the Greeks enrolled him among their v- ids. St ciett hu9 been aptly compared to ja heap of embers, which, when separ ated, soon languish, darken, and ex pire ; but if placed together glow with I a ruddy and intense heat?a just cm ihlcih of the strength, happiness, and the security derived from the union of mankind. The savage, who never j knew the blessings of combination, land lie who quits society Irotu apathy or misanthropic spleen, arc iiko the separated cmblors?dark, dead, use less : thev neither give nor receive i I heat, they neither love nor arc belov Icd. To what ads ??i' heroism and virtue, in every -''go and nation, has not Ilm Impetus of alTeelion given tise ! To what gloomy misery, de spair, and even suicide, has not the desertion of society led I How often in the busy haunt' of men are all our noblest and gentlest virtues culled forth 1 And how, in the bosom of a recluse, do all the soft emotions lan guish and grow faint! The lale Empress of Russia was otic of the l it best persona iu the world. Though she was generous to her friends, and very liberal to he ft* nevolcnt institutions, her allowance was so great and the presents she re ceived from her husband, her subjects I and foreign sovereigns so many, that she accumulated enormous wealth. ITlie diamonds, the objects of art, the wardrobe, etc., which she left, have been arranged in twenty great halls in the Winter l'alace at St. l'etcia burg. '?Wrecked." ' i ?ff'' Few rnon can hear of the loss of a gallant ship without a touch of sad* ncss. Life has been compared to the groat ocean, and men to the ships which sail thereon. When a bark which has braved the tempest of strange sous comes homo with rusted hull and tattered sails men welcome her back just as they do onc'of their own kind who has journeyed afar ami passed through peril' to benefit his race. Il is when wc come upon the wreck of a once noble ship that men try hardest to remember WplI she Bcrvud her builders. It is wiicii wo. hear that some gallant bark is miss ing, leaving no sign nor trace, that men arc awed as they speak her name. There is nothing that will touch and soften the heart like the sight of the wrecks which drift here and there on life's ocean?once grand and gifted men now blown hither and thither, now going with currents, now hidden from sight by the mantle of night or the mysterious fog. lie who visits an asylum for tho insane gazes out upon an ocean which is ever changing its surface and its shores. One mo ment the? waters will be calm and peaceful?the next there will be the roar of a storm and the growl ofi breakers. Ileforc him w ill drift j wrecks without number?-some mov ing slowly out oi* the fog?some drifting into it?some skirling the shores on which stands tearful friends to wave farewells?others being car-1 ried by unseen currents nfar to sea. It is an ocean without a harbor of ro fngc. Once a wieck upon its bosom and there is no landing. Day aud night, for weeks and months and years, and dismasted and dismantled hulks weave in and out of the fog?in and out of the sunlight?whirl slow-1 ly about in the eddies?catch on the shoals and go driving further out'; upon the troubled wateis. Storm and' rust and time arc silently at work, and one by one, as the years creep on, old wrecks sink silently into the sea and are heard of no more forever. When men die we forget that they were litic those who still live on. We forget all mat was ba.l in them and ; remember all thet was good. Wc know that they arc dead, and the Hisy world closes up the gap and j marches along. But when men sail out lipon life's ocean to become j wrecks?Lo be dead in all but uume? I ?x) drift in the darkness without chart j or beacon?lo feel the shores going farther and further away from thein,i j there is something so pitiful that j eyes !ill with tears and hearts growl (tender. They have no tombstones,I iyet men read .heir epitaphs and for ?ct them. Ill a battered hulk drills ! ' '' I la skeleton crew?drifting, dnving, j swirling, plunging, and there is no [help. The end in it darker night, a ?stronger gale and a cry of despair as ! the waters close over all and roll on j as before. j It i? very disgusting to see Ameri can people honoring Sara Bernhardt. iSbc has relinquished all that is hon orable and lovable in a woman, ami flaunts her shame in the face of the j world. That men who have pure wives and daughters at home can pay homage to impurity and immorality is almost inconceivable. Yet they do so. TTuly, those Norfhorn breth ren of ours arc a groat folk. They uvii llcato" and hurrah over Booo'ioi, wild would bo assisted froin almost any Southern town on a rail, and now banquet the Bernhardt, a public ap pearance in whose companv would place a man under social taboo almost anyWhero on this side of the lino. A sad looking man went into a Burlington drug store. "Can you give ine," he asked, "something that will drive from ray mind the thoughts of sorrow and bitter recollections?" And the druggist nodded and put him up a little doso of quinine, and worm wood, and rhubarb, and cpsom sabs, and a dash of castor oil, and gave it to him, and for six months the man couldn't think of anything in the woild except new schemes for getting the taste out of bis mouth. S,rmon9. -- . Sermons are like guns. Soine arc large, others are small; some nre long, others phoft; some are new, others old ; some are bright j others rusty ; some arc made to be locked at others to be used ; some, are^Joaded. others empty.; some nre,ovynet|, others [arrowed. Some arc ajx-;gun8,^ome i l\0Plt?HH5,j S9U,C of cyeJ}j rtitfcjfoji* the pocket pistol to the J'aishun ? gun, Some uro cliargcd .y^lyj wJU^tyvder, and. m dio a gceat ^^jg^fU^oke. Some send only sfjjajl $ky\,?\fgy irri .l?u^vy,.r,ujetjil,, thaj, ^option. Some discharge chaiu .shot^mowing down winde platoons. Some aro wide-mouthed mortars, throwing only bombshells. Some arc during pis tols, used only in controversy?vi lo things. Some go oir half-bout, tpome Hash in the pap. Some funk,e a{terri ble llz, the charge all escaping .at the priming hole. Soue ^Uoo^lo.p high, some too low, some sidew.uys, a few diiectly at the point. .Some aro aim ed at nothing and hit it. Som^scat ter prodigiously; somy |iicklftheir owner ovcr.t Some are unerring, others always hit the wrong object. Some have too much wadding, and vice versti. Some arc alarm guns; others are complimentary, guns, used, only* for salutes on special, occasions. Some are in a series, constituting a battery ; others are swiyels made to turn in any direction. Some are use ful, some useless, some dangerous; some amuse, some frighten, sqijjs ex asperate, some explode. someJgain the victory* Very muck., depends upon the manner in which they aro made and managed. Babies. Wo love babies, anil everybody who docs love them. man hits music in his soul who do .s not love babies. Babies were made to be loved, especi ally girl babies when they grow up. A man isn't worth any thing who hasn't a baby, and the .same rule ap plies to a *woman. A baby is a spring day in winter; a ray of sun shine in frigid winter; and if it is healthy and good-natured, and your very own, it is a bushel of sunshine, no matter how cold the weather. A man cannot he a hopeless case so long us he loves babies one at a lime. Wo love, babies all over, no matter how dirty they nie. We love them because they arc babies, and because their mothers are loypsble /indlovely women. Our love for; babies!is only bounded by the nuiubar,of .babies in I the world.- We always lookTor ba i bit s, wu ,do \v?|h paternal-inflection and anxiety.; we do, indeed. We pity wives who have no babies. Wo men always look down-hearted) who have no bibles,/men aud'iviiqliave no bubic-s always gambit^ and Mr irk whis ky and Slay out at night trying ,lo get music in .their ? jaouls j but they can't come it. Babies* arc babies,, and nothing: c?irluUu/iueiripiuco^:; rjpian?s ! play, out, and. good Aivipg .plays out, I unless thuio /is a baby *in Uie;house. We say there'-s nothing like ajiaby. A gale blew, down a circus tout at Armenia, Ark., and two Hons escaped from tlicir broken cag'ej.. T^o*beasts bounded through Ute inglrjf?ned as sembly and, .lUsappeuYcd into tho darkness. Tfrojijar(c^.op|)o! 'amity of a lion hunt was not. i^dfiaecp' by tho inhabitants^ who alb,jg^W^bhid SC curt ly .fosteufl-^iviOP a^jqijiakh ?? possible, 'i'hv>i?iiMy^ *VkM*if'*>*#$?? bow tuvet, iuo\ided,.>.>-.Uv,W?Pl??W with torch s., pursuud l.h.o; ^igit^OBj fright ened ihcin with, U^rji|g-*J;ghJ*, and drove Ahorn inlojV/C?gs.bnr ,1-, Captain dames F". SteelejWio com ! mantled a SbiitTi Uai o'.iha I during the war, has sVm'i'lo ^fl*Ss Lucy ! Sims, a teacher in publio j schools (.f liro-.k!)'!!, it' s^bl li'lost by Captain Si'irtstf hci*i lathertidtothe bat j tic of rolcrnbuig. mine. ..C?4>t?}iu Sims was killed at Petersburg, t and his 'motherless child v as adopted as the |?'l?aughter of WieIMfmViU-JJuy the I Thirteenth New Yoik VrMntccvs. The regKneut Vdueato l i'ier'Ufr'Vassar College,^ . ?'Uf,"-->