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NIL DESPEP,ANDUr.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. III.
MDOAVAY. ELK COUNTY, l'A., THURSDAY. JANUARY 1, 1874.
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Little Annette.
I ittle Annette ! little Amictto!
With your rosy checks and tresses of jet :
Willi the lashes concealing yonr gypsy eyes,
Meet for a king's or an emperor's prize !
Yuiir white teeth gleaming like drifted snow,
Or shining like pearls iu a well-laid row ;
I.ittlo Annette! little Annette !
I hear the ring of your laughter yet.
T.ittle Annette '. darling Annette .'
Only a year ha flown, and vet.
Ere yon conld melt the sdow with yonr breath,
A messenger came, and Lib name was Death !
Little Annette ! darling Annette !
Never yonr face can I forget.
Listen! The augels are calling yet.
Over the pine-trees. " I jttlc Annette !"
JOHX MAKROTrFIUrS CHRISTMAS.
" It's very odd," said John Marrow
prat, scratching his head -with the end
of his penholder, and looking dubious
ly at the columns of figures he had been
adding up.
Mr. Marrowprat had been elerk for
Josiah Lickpenny, ship-chandler, for
ten long years, but never, in all his ex
perience, had he encountered so ob
stinate a set of figures as those before
him. Three times had he carefully
arranged and compared them, each time
in a different way, but every combina
tion had successfully resisted his en
deavor to strike a proper balance.
Whether it was owing to the fact that
the solitary candle, mounted in the
neck of an old ink-bottle, gave so poor
n light, or that the day's labors had
been very arduous, or that his mind
was employed upon some other subject
than the one then before it, I do not
know. Certain it was that the results
he obtained were anything but correct,
and they so perplexed llini that from
scratching his head he proceeded to rub
his nose, and afterwards gazed into the
three-cc'iriertd bit of looking-glass
tacked up before him to see if any wan
dering ink had found a resting-place on
his face. Satisfied that such was not
the case, he ran the fingers of his left
hand carelessly through his locks, and
saw for the tirst time that here and
there a gray hair had entwined itself
with its brown fellows. Then he put
Lis pen in his mouth and, biting it, al
lowed his thoughts to wander much in
this wise : " Christmas Eve again.
Christmas Eve ! the happiest eve of all
the long year to many ; but to John
' Marrowprat the gloomiest. And whv
5s it to John Marrowprat the gloomiest'
jj-.icu . lc-ui po'-'u posmou at a lair
salary, with the prospect of seeing a
iiew sign hung over the door in the
near future bearing the names or -Lickpenny
k Marrowprat ?' Hasn't he cot
r comfortable back-room at Mrs. Win
tile's with a little stove in it that does
Ler... terribly wLcn wellfed, and a large,
cozy rocking-chair, and a shelf of
l.ooks, and a table with two drawers in
t, and pleasant light ? Isn't there old
Mr. Windlo to talk to, and Miss Coy to
nlay chess with ? Miss Coy to be sure.
I must have played as many as twentv
ne.mos with Ler, and yet, 'now that I
think of it, we are not very well ac
quainted. She seems to be a' very nice
.iittle body though, and has a very
pleasant smile : a smile very like the
ene that so frequently illumined moth
er's kind face. Ah, the old home ! How
joyous we.:e the holidays I spent there!
Again can I hear mother's gentle re
proof for our boisttrousness, and again
do I see the ruddy face of father as he
heaps the wood upon the roaring fire.
Those were happy days beneath the old
roof days never to' return ; for the
earth covers all thc.se dear T'.cfs that
ro longer can brighten at the sound of
Christmas W lis no longer gather about
the dear old family board."
There were tear's in simple John Marrow-prat's
eyes as he trimmed the candle
end turned again to his figures.
"John," sa:d Mr. Lickpenny, thrust
ing a very r J face, surrounded bv a
frame of stubborn sandy hair, through
the little window in the" partition that
Oirided tbe private office from the store,
' when can I Lave a statement ? "
"AlaiGb any time, sir; I'll come
own after Burner and finish, up," an
swered Mr. Murrowprat, wiping his pen
on his coat sleeve, and proceeding to
close and put away the books.
Mr. Liekpeimy shut the little win
now. t'Ut lilllnpdllitolT- runui. J- iL.
doorwa
" Veil, John, it's CLrittmas Eve, and
pay-day, too."
" Yes," replied John, somewhat sadlv.
"It has alway l.een my custom, as
you well know, to :.Ld bome'thing to the
usual wages at this time of the vear,''
continued Mr. Lkkpennv, produ'eing'a
well-worn pocket-book, ' but raonev
has U-en so awfully tight with me for
tin- past few months, and things work
so .incommon bad that e-a 1 I Lave
thought it best to dispense with that
little ceremony. Of course, to one who
expects a change in the condition of
things, and is in a measuie preparing
for that change i which is not so far dis
tant as. it might be), this is no great
disappointment. I only mention this,
Mr. Marrowprat, that vou may know
tha whole matter."
As he Landed Lis honeEt clerk the
am kmt of Lis we.ek'6 salary there was a
cunning gleam of the eye and a twitch
ing t the corners of the month that ill
befitted the gravity of Lis speech.
" So ftj a that's concerned, sir, re
f rring, of course, to the promise of ad
Tanoement you have made, I've always :
- vv uui v. jj, m lime,
I have become worthy of a closer con
nection, I shall endeavor to deserve it,"
answered John, as in substance Le Lad
answered many times Lf-fore.
Mr. Lickpenny Dodded and smiled,
and so did John. Then Mr. Lickpenny
went back into Lis little offioe, rubbing
Lis Lands ; and John, putting on Lis
great coat, went forth into the cold,
evening air. The lamps were lighted
throughout the city, and the toy and
candy stores were" resplendent' with
gold and red and silver ornamentation.
As Le passed one of them and saw the
throng of pleasant-fed people within,
purchasing happiness for tfce little ones
fat Lome, Lis Leart was heavy with the
thought that there as no 'little soul,
near aad dear, for Lim to gladden pn
the morrow.
it was n short walk to Mrs. Windle's
boarding-house, and, soon leaching it,
he entered by means of a latch-key. He
had built a fire at noon, and his room
was now warm, but there was an air of
loneliness to it that it had never worn
before. After washing, he passed the
few minutes elapsing before supper in
looking over the evening paper, a copy
of which he had purchased on his way
home. His eye naturally sought the
amusement column not that he was in
the habit of frequenting theatres, but
because he hoped to find there some
cheerful notices of Christmas panto
mimes and plays. There were, indeed,
several announcements of this sort of
entertainment, but they were not at
tractive. The time had been when he
had read with delight the names of the
Clown and Columbine ; but these fic
tions no longer possessed any fascina
tion for him, and to-night they served
but to arouse sad memories of boyish
frolics. At the bottom of the column,
however, was the notice of a perform
ance of " The Messiah," and he read
the names of the singers and the other
particulars with interest. Nothing
could exceed his love of oratorio music.
At the supper-table he sat beside
Miss Coy and learned from her that she
had several errands to call her out that
evening, but was in fear of being dis
appointed in her desire to perform
them, as it Lad begun to snow.
" That need make no difference,"
said John, endeavoring to look uncon
cernedly at a plate of toast before them.
" I am going out again and have a very
large umbrella, and, if yon are not
afraid of getting wet, I should be glad
to accompany you."
It was not a very elaborate or artistic
invitation, but Miss Coy seemed de
lighted with it, and soon" after Btipper
was seen by several of the boarders es
saying from the front door with her mit
tened hand on Mr. Marrowprat's arm.
Now John was anything but a ladies'
man. He was somewhat awkward in
their presence, and was painfully con
scious of the fact ; and ry frequently
he got tongue-tied. Ent when Miss
Coy told him that the object of her ex
cursion was the purchase of some trifles
for her sister's children, whose hearts
would be broken if Aunt Annie neglect
ed them cm the morrow, John became
forgetful of himself.and was soon peering
in at windows with a beaming face and
making suggestions regarding the pur
chases, and went so far as to buy a
squeakiug dog with pink eyes and a
woolly tail for his landlady's' little boy.
Long betore thev got to this point.
however, they had become quite com-
niumeative.
"I should think," Faid John, placing
the nmbrella so as to more effectually
protect his companion from the storm",
ihnt yon'd ftid it very tiresome teach
ing school."
" Oh, . -:t"" T do. But there are
many pleasures that compensate for the
fatigue," was the cheerful reply. " I
forget iu! about niyseif iu watching the
children's fnee. There's nothing so
plear:t to lock at as a child's face."
"That's so," said John, "it makes
us feel young again. That is," he in
stantly aided, conscious of a blunder,
" 6uch as are old."
" I'm sure you don't call yourself old,"
responded Miss Coy, in a tone strongly
deprecating such a conclusion.
" Ye, I do," said John, in all sincer
ity : " I'm getting along fast. At least,
I feel so. Perhaps it is owing to my
solitary way of living, perhaps not. I
don't know." There was such a yearn
ing for sympathy expressed in his voice
that the" bright look tint Miss Coy
habitually wore faded for a moment,
and one of kind conc.rn took its place.
But it came back almost immediately,
and her increased vivacity was an evi
dence of her desire to dispel the sadneES
that had fallen upon him. And she was
very successful.
The snow, which Lad begun to fall
early in the evening, had given place to
rain that froze as soon as it reached the
earth and covered the walks with an
icy coating extremely dangerous to
pedestrians. Mr. Murrowprat, with the
brown raper parcelb containing their
purchases in one hand, and the wind -
losseu umureua in me omer, louna con
siderable dimcultv in supporting his
fair companion. Twice she slipped, and
twice, with Lis assistance, laughingly
recovered herself. By and by, one of
the bundles i- ; and, in stooping to
pick it up, J.hn felt his feet fly from
under Lira, and, notwithstanding a con
vulsive clutch t the air, down he wevt
Leavily, and something Fnapped. In
attempting to rise he found that he had
in some manner injiired his left foot, for
he could bear no weight upon it.
" I'm afraid that I've sprained mv
lean on me.
" John looked ut the little figure be
side Lim and smiled ; but he pave her
the bundles nevertheless, and atte mpted
to proceed.
"I can't get on," he said, with a
groan,
" Dear me 1" cried Miss Coy, "what
can I do for you ?"
" Hurt ?" sententiouslv inouired a
policeman who had witnessed the acci
dent.
' " Yes," said John. " Get a carriage,
Tin you r
He leaned against a convenient rail
ing and awaited its arrival, endeavoring
to avoid any expjession of the pain that
grew more and more intense everv mo-
ment He still gallantly held the um-
trena over Juiss Uoy, wfiose anxietv
was great. When the coach came the
officer helped Lim in, and as Le was
about to perform the same service for
Miss Coy Le said, bluntly: You'd
better get a doctor to Lim "as soon as
yon can, for ia my Lumbla opinion Le's
got a broken leg." I Leard it snap."
Miss Coy got into the ooach in an ex
cited condition of mind, and the vehi
cle rolled away. In a short time it drew
up before Mrs. Windle'B, and with the
aasistance of the etout and sympathetic
hae-kman John was taken in and placed
upon his bed, where Le was soon sur
rounded by Lis landlady and such of
the boarders as happened to be at
Lome. When the doctor came Le bent
them all out of the rom, however, and
soon declared that Mr. Marrowprat
HUKlf. -tl IhN I HIV. Ill- EHliI CnnBTflVlI.n 1
. v. ..tt i r ,,, b wno tiaa never su2-red from nervous
nf nf;. B ' ;nfortun"te, : ! ness. She verv cooll v raised his hea 1.
l?trlW.T,iln 8 ! -! calling to Miss Coy, who hammed
had sustained a very ugly fracture of
th leg.
Mr. Johnson, a fellow-boarder, re
mained with him that night, but in the
morning left him to fulfill an engage
ment. After breakfust there was the
most timid knock on the door imagina
ble, and in answer to his invitation
Miss Coy came softly in. There was no
denying the fact that he was glad to
see her pleasant face and to listen to
her greeting of "Merry Christmas," for
hi9 face brightened and his reetlessness
ceased.
" It's all but a merry Christmas to
me," said John.
" It's all for the best," she answered ;
although I'm afraid that I was the
cause of it."
"No, no I" responded John, earnest
ly. " I was going out anyway." And
there flashed across his mind the long
columns of forgotten figures that had
worried hirn so, and which he Lad
promised Mr. Lickpenny to cara for on
the preceding evening. He was won
dering what Mr. Lickpenny would sav,
when his visitor asked him if she could
not write to some of his relatives for
him.
" I have none to write to," he an
swered, sadly.
" Your friends, then ?" she hastily
added.
" Nor friends," said John.
She remembered the sad tone that
their conversation the night before had
taken, and was turning away with tears
in her eyes, when John said :
" Would yon kindly write a little note
for me to Mr, Lickpenny?"
Bin gladly cartified her willingness,
but had scarcely prepared the materials
when they were' interrupted by a knock
at the door, which, opening, disclosed
the figure of Mr. Lickpenny himself.
" Umph 1" said he ; " broke vour leg,
did you ?''
As he approached the bed he winked
so familiarly at Miss Coy that that
young lady blushed, and John stared
at him in amazement.
"Yes, sir," replied John, when he
had recovered himself.
" Umph 1" ejaculated Mr. Lickpenny,
" it don't pay to go on love excursions
on winter nights, does it ?" He winked
again at Miss Coy, but she turned away
her head in confusion, and hurriedly
put up the ink and paper.
" What !" cried John, lifting himself
up on his elbow and surveying his em
plover vita indignation.
"'Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Mr. Lick
penny, ' eautrkt at your age, who'd
have thought it. Come, do not look so
i innocent.
Vt hen a man neglects his
I business and pocs oil with young
j women, a thing he never was guilty oi
I before, the case is vtry plain."
Miss Coy having replaced the writing
materials hastened from the room with
. ti bumi'iir face, and John, preatlv dis
! tressed, f.-lt oacis on Ms pillow again.
" Well, John," said Mr. Lickpenny,
( when she had gone, " how did it hap
pen and how iu the world am I to get
i those books balanced ?"
Never until this moment had John
' considered Mr. Lickpenny other than a
gentleman. To be sure, during all his
i years of service he had never seen Lim
under circumstances calling for precise
deportment ; but instinctively he had
! clothed him with all necessary attri
; butes only to have them now torn off,
j and the hue character of the man dis
j played in all its deformity. The scales
fell from John's eyes, and his Wood
boiled at the insults offered to innocent,
'kind-hearted Miss Coy. He held his
! anger, however, and answered as calmly
as possible.
"Mr. Lickpenny," Faid he, "you
hare insulted a very worthy young lady,
I without the least cause ;' i"nd mv a's
! tonisk.ir.ent at your ungentlemanlv re
i marks is only exceeded by my disap
. pointment. I did think, so lately as
j yesterday, that you were some-thing dif
' ferent from this."
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Mr. Lick
penny, "can't stand raillery, hey?
Why, John, you'rs worse than a boy."
" If I was out of this bed, sir, you'd
find out the difference," cried John,
waxing wroth ; " you can leave the
room the sooner the better. Get vour
J confounded books fix-d up as best you
can. I won't touch them again bv a jug
ful." Mr. Lickpenny Fuddenlv became
grave, and began expostufuiing. but
, John would not listen to him, and de
, man led that he leave the room in such
j loud tones that the landlady appeared,
asserting that she thought be had called
for her. There being no other alterna
tive, Mr. Lickpenny angrily departed ;
but John, in his excitement, having
i attempted to move his injured leg, im
meaiuieiy lamina wia the pain. JUrs.
Win die was a tall, mui.cnlar female.
passing anj who bhe e.siied
through the half-open door, she Boon,
with her assistance, brought Lim back
to consciousness. As Le was lowly re
covering, Le thought he heard, as if in
the distance, the voice of Miss Coy,
saying: " Poor fellow, he wm to ie
quite alone in the world ;" but vihen
he opened Lis eyes they beheld no one
in the room save Lis landlady.
He lay for some time, until Lis mind
was quite clear, and then Le Bent the
I landlady for Miss Coy, who Lesitated,
, t but at last came in. When Le Baw Ler
all Lis old diffidence returned, and it
was with difficulty that he told her of
his deep regret at the insult she had
suffered, of lis self-dismissal from the
employment of Mr. Lickpenny, and of
Lis sorrow at being unable to take Ler
to the oratorio that evening, as Le knew
the loved good music.
" Do not mention it." she said : "vou
Lave suffered too much for my Bake. If
there 13 anything I can do for you, I
pray you let me do it"
" Miss Coy," said John, Lis Leart
speaking through Lis faltering lips, "I
Lave lived alone, quite by myself, for a
number of years, and Lave few friends
and no relatives to take care of me ; can
I ask you to do so J"
"Oh, gladly!" Bhe said. "lean
sjend considerable tide with you, and
will read or write for you as yon wish."
" I intern Jortvcr" continued John,
with emphasis.
She put her bunds to Ler 'face and
burst into tears; but, bearing John
bitterly repeating Lis rudeness, eLe
went to him then nul knelt beside the
bed. Tenderly Le smoothed her bair,
and softly fell hiH words upon her oar.
" If I am not too old, dear, it is indeed
merry Christmas to me." And, rais
ing her head and looking into his kind,
sad eyes, she answered : " We will
grow old together, John, and laid Ler
head on his happv breast.
'
Five years hnve passed, and again
the bells are ringing on the eve of the
blessed holiday. John Marrowprat,
seated in his own house with a fair
haired child upon his knee, hears them
with a calm contentment, for the sad
pictures of the past that of old were
conjured up by their silvery tones have
grown dim compared with the happy
pictures of the present.
About Dyspepsia.
Sufferers from this horrible malady
will find some of their own feelings de
scribed in the following article from the
Orrrland Monthly :
Did you ever have the dyspepsia?
Did you ever have or ever imagineyon
had a complication of all known, and
several unknown diseases ? If yes.then
you have had the dvspepsia, or its full
equivalent. Chronic dyspepsia may be
defined as an epitome of every com
plaint wheewith transgressing mortal
ity is scourged. It is as nice a thing to
have about you as a trunkfull of taran
tulas, with the trunk lid always up. An
eminent English physician "has said:
" A man with a bad dyspepsia is a vil
lain." He is, and worse. He is by
turns a fiend, a moral monster, and a
physical coward and he cannot help
it. ne is his own bottomless pit, and
his own demon at tbe bottom of it,
which torments him continually with
pangs indescribable.
When a worm of the business dust of
this world has writhed with the dys
pepsia until it has assumed a virulent
chronic form, who shall find colors anu
abilities varied enough to paint his
condition ? His blood becomes first
poverty-stricken, then impure, and, as
"blood will tell," every part of hi
system is contaminated by the foul
stream. The brain complains bitterly
on its owu account, and vehement com
plaints are being continually sent up to
it from the famishing liver, bowels,
spleen, heart, and lungs. Like "sweet
bells jangled out of tune," the entire
organization breathes discords. Even
the remote toes telegraph up to the
brain: " We are starving down litre;
send down some provender." Tbe brain
makes requisitions on the stomach,
which are futile. The stomach is pow
erless to provide, ahd the brain cannot
iransmit. At times dl the starving or
gans conspire together, suspend woik
and undertake to compass by riot what
the-r fail to get by appeal. Then life
trembles in the balance. Thenth
solation O, the consolation ! that is
visited on the dyspeptic. Friends
when he is lifele-ss from lack of vitalitv
friends will exasperate him with
taunts of being "lazy," "shiitless,"
" indt-lent," and " without ambition !"
Nor can his friends be made to appreci
ate that it is as preposterous to expect
one who is undergoing constant torture
and consequent exhaustion to Lave
" ambition " as it would be to expect a
corpse to have an appetite. Kemedy:
everybody's advice that is, ride every
body's hobby. Cart: death. Drugs
are but aggravations, and " bitters "
are bitter inde-ed.
We have heard of a chronic dyspeptic
who took his cue from his chiciens.Rnd
by swallowing daily a moderate handful
of gravel stones of the size of a pea
downward, finally succeeded in trans
forming "cue" into "cure." He
claimed complete restoration. In the
face of this evidence to the contrary, we
re-assert that, for chronic dyspepsia in
its worst form, there is but one certain
cure absolute rest. Preventive: take
as good care of the coats of your stom
ach as you do of the coats of your
bae-ks. Do you wish for faith in God,
in human love, in earthly happiness, iu
the beneficence of Nature, and in im
mortality? Keep your digestion vig
orous; on that hang' all of these. Wouid
you prefer an abiding faith in tortures
unspeakable, in horrors inexpressible ?
Destroy your digestion. Would yon
live in the body for ever ? Kep your
digestion ia full vigor; and although
the end of the world may come, your
end will not come you will have to go
after it. Old age is but the failure of
nutrition. Nutrition is life; non-nutrition
is death,
A Kej to a Person's Name.
By the accompanying table of letters,
the name of a perou or word may be
found out in the following manner:
A B D H P
C C E I (,
E F F J i:
G G G K S
I J L L T
K K M M U
M N N N Y
o o o o w
Q . R T X X
K BY Y Z
U V V Y Z
W W W W
Y Z
Let the person w hose name you wish
to know inform you in which of the up
right columns the first letter of his
name is contained. If it be found in
but one column it is the top letter; if it
occurs in more than one column, it is
found by adding the aljihaljeticJil num
bers of the top letters ol these columns,
and the eum will be the number of the
letter bought. By taking one letter at
a time in this way, the whole can be
ascertained. For example, take the
word Jane, J is found iu the two col
umns commencing with B and H, which
are the second and eichth letters down
the alphabet; their sum i6 ten, and the
tenth letter down the alphabet is J, the
letter sought. The next letter, A, ap
pears in but one column, where it
stands at the top, N is seen in the col
umns Leaded B, D, and H; these are
the second, fourth and eighth letters of
the alphabet, which added give the
fourteenth, and so on. The use of this
table will excite no Lttlo curiosity
among those unacquainted with the
foregoing explanation,
TLe happiest woman, like thfc happiest
nations, Lav no history.
The '.Vlilpplnir Post.
A correspondent thus describes the
whipping of four burglers at Newcastle,
Delaware : It was rumored in Newcas
tle that 1,300 men would come down
from Philadelphia to rescue the pris
oners. The fill eriff established an arm
ed patrol, and the entrancesjto the town
were picketed. No disturbance occur
red. The conourso of people was im
mense, and shortly after 10 o'clock,
when the jail-yard doors were opened,
a surging crowd, impatiently waiting iu
the street outside, pressed in and filled
the narrow space in n moment. A guard,
armed with Springfield rifles, and a de
tachment of police were stationed to
keep order. At about 10:20 Carter and
Hope were brought out of prison and
put in the pillory, which accommodates
two nt a time. The Sheriff and a dep
uty fixed their necks and arms in the
Loles. nope being shorter than his
companion, who is known as big Frank,
and is a very tall man, was suffering
from phthisis, and waB allowed to stand
more erect than Carter. In his case,
too, the stocks were not fastened by
the usual hooks, but were held down
with strings. Cartvr was securely lock
ed iu tliein, placing Ills Jong, saU'ly
beard under his throat as an easy rest
for the neck. At the end of the Lour
they were released. Carter complained
of pain in the chest from standing in so
bent a position. Hope spoke more of
the soreness of his wrists. Lawler and
Hurlburt were put in next, and their
hour expired about 112:23. All this was
decorously done. The crowd was dis
posed at one time to jeer at the cul
prits, but the Sheriff quickly interfered,
saying that no remarks would be allow
ed from the spectators, as the punish
ment itself was sufficient for the pris
oners to bear. The men had their hats
on their heads and blankets or coats
were thrown over their shoulders, the
day being raw and cold. Upon the re
lease of Lawler and Hnrlburt they were
taken back to prison, and the four werv
then brought out one at a time, and
whipped. Before commencing this,
the Sheriff, coining forward with the
old-time hardened "cat " in his hands,
made pro?lamation that no disturbance
or remarks would be tolerated. " Big
Frank " w;is whipped first. He came
out, already stripped for the purpose,
with a coat loosely thrown over his
shoulders. This being removed, he
was fastened up, and the Sheriff ap
plied the " cat " to the extent of the
forty blovs, a deputy standing at one
side, and counting them off in an audi
ble voice.
The culprit stood with his head bowed
between his arms and took the castiga
tion without flinching. His back was
considerably reddened, and slight welts
were raised, but no blood was drawn,
nope was whipped next. He stood
erect, and there seemed to be a slight
yielding r hie benty uudn th -woigLt
of the blows. Closing his eyes, he
threw his head back a little, and several
times shivered perceptibly, as though
in much pain. No blood was druwD,
although red welts were raised across
his back. Lawler was brought out next.
He was, apparently, more severely pun
ished than his companions, for' welts
were raised which turned black, and
under a few more blows would have
opened and sent a stream of blood.
Hurlbert received his punishment last.
He dropped his head between his arms,
and his lace was hid from view. He is
a man of powerful built, and did not
flinch under the lash. Large red welts
were made across his back, but no blood
was drawn. This ended the perform
ance. The evident expectation of many
persons was that the Sheriff would be
very severe. But he applied tbe whip
verv moderately, and this produced no
little disappointment. The four men
now begin a term of ten years' impris
onment. Carter is said to have com
mitted a housj burglary at Trenton,
and to have helped rob the Bene5cial
Savings Fund in Philadelphia, after
ward killing one of Lis confederates to
compel Lim to give up the plunder.
Hope'B real name is said to be JameB J.
Wutson, and he is reported to be a
graduate of Yale College and a man of
reputable family. He is a brother-in-law
to Jimmy Haggerty, who was killed
by Iieady the Blacksmith of New York.
He has been'concerned in several burg
laries, and escaped from Sing Sing
last Bummer. Lawler is also called
James Howard, and is from New Eng
land. He was sent to Sing Sing in l"sTl
for grand larenny, and escaped about a
year ago. Hurlbert, or Brady, is a
well-known burglar, who Las been fre
quently imprisoned, and is also Baid t
have escaped from Sing Sing two or
three months ago.
The Signals.
The late lamentable disaster, sayB an
old sailor, shows either gross ignoranc-e
of the " rules of the road," or gross
carelessness ca the part of the seeiond
officer of tbe steamship Yille du Havre,
if the weather was such as to allow the
lights of the vessel to be Been, Thebe
" rules" are very simple, and have been
turned into verse, and run thus ia re
gard to lights at sea :
tireen to green.
Or red Uj red.
There i no danger ;
(io ahead.
If nnou yonr Krt it w.cu
A Hanjer biartowd hght of preen,
There ifc not much for you to do.
Tor green to port keeji clear of you.
If red njion your marboard appear.
It ie your duty to keep clear :
To act ae judinueut wiy u projer.
To fijrt or Kiaruoard. back, or etop her.
The Loch Earn was upon the port
track, with the wind to the westward,
and if the steamer's green light was
seen, she Lad the right of way to hold
Ler course, and the steamer should
have ported her helm and passed
astern of the Loch Earn, instead of at
tempting to cross that ship's bows.
From the steamship, if the Loch Earn
light was visible, it was Ler red light,
and being ou the ttarboard aide of the
steamer, she sbould be governed by
the third verse " to act as judgment
says is proper, to port or starboard,
back, or stop Ler."
" How much did Le leave ?" inquired
gentleman tf a wag on learning the
death of a wealthy citizen, "Every
thing, responded the wag, be didn't
take a dollar with him.
The late Prof. Agasslz.
The loss of Agsssiz will bo deplored
throughout the United States as a na
tional calamity. For. twenty years
Americans have come to look upon
Agassiz as a countryman, as an orna
ment to our national household, and
the champion who chiefly entitled us to
be represented among tlua few persis
tent " interrogators of natnro " whose
patient questioning had drawn out
clear and definite answer. The Ameri
can Cyclopaedia even describes him as
"an American naturalibt of French de
scent." Louis John Piudolpli Agassiz was
born in the Canton of Fribourg, on the
Lake of Morat, May 2H, 1807. The
father of Agassiz was a Protestant pas
tor, as, indeed, his forefathers fir six
generations had been. His education
was conducted by his mother until he
was eleven years old, when he was sent
to attend the gymnasium of Bienne.
After four years of Bienne he spent two
at the college of Lausanne, and there
for two years botook himself to the
medical Bchool of Zurich. For a year
more he was at Heidelberg. In 1827,
in his twenty-first year, he entered
Munich, uui It wao wlille li; still
an undergraduate Lere that he was
chosen by Martins, the explorer of
Brazil, to complete the ichthyological
report on that empire, left unfinished
by the death of Spix. Whether this
appointment determined his specialty
or not, it is certain that for several
years he devoted himself to ichthyology.
Cottii, the publisher, recognized the
value of his materials for a "Natural
History of the Fresh- Water Fishes of
Europe," and advanced him money to
complete it.
After taking the degrees of doctor of
medicine at Munich and doctor of phi
losophy at Erlangen, he went to live at
Vienna. At the close of his Brazilian
studies he studied for seven years the
fossil fishes of Europe, and in 1832 be
gwn the publication, not concluded till
1844, of the work upon that subject
which not only established his reputa
tion as one of the first of investigators,
but also made known his claim to be
recognized as one of the first of natural
philosophers. For it was during the
preparation of this monument of patient
study that he was led to accept the doc
trine of special and successive creation,
and to reject except iu a limited sense
which by no means satisfies the de
mimds of the upholders of that theory.
Tlie controversy which seems at fir't
sight us barren as the dispute upon the
letters of Phaluris, but which has de
veloped into irreconcilable doctrines of
the existence of divine providence, the
nature of man, and th'j conduct of life,
and ramified into every lyceum plat
form and every pulpit almost in Chris
tendom, was then just beginning. The
stand which Agassiz took in "it und
wbicu )' maintained with little modifi
cation to the last, won lor hit first im
portant work an attention wider than it
could otherwise have gained, and it is
not venturesome to infer that it was this
result of his studies rather than the
mere merit of the researches, which so
few are fit to judge, which commended
him first to the admira'.i-.n and finally
to the affectionate veneration of the
Am'-ricans and particularly of tbe New
Englanders, among whom "his later lot
was cast. At least it won him instant
and universal recognition among natu
ralises. He was made an LL.D. of the uni
versities of Dublin and Edinburgh, and
enrolled a citizen of both cities. Dur
ing the publication of his great work
he sent to press also several monographs
on sub-divisions of his subject or sub
jects cognate to it. His vacations for
ten years had been devoted to excur
sions among the Alps, the result of
winch was the publication, m fragment
ary parts, of his glacial theory. In the
autumn of 1S4G he reached this country
with a commission from the Kitig cf
Prussia, provided for him by Humboldt,
to examine and report upon the natural
history and geology of the United
States, and an invitation from Mr. J. A.
Dowell to a lyceum in Boston. The
next year he was offered all the facili
ties which the Coast Survey service af
forded of continuing his explorations,
ana it was this offer which decided lira
to remain in the United States. J this
year also he took the chair of Zoology
and Geology in the scientific school of
Cambridge," then wly founded, and
his first vacation from the duties of his
professorship produced Lis "Lake Su
perior." Iu 1Vj2 he accepted a pro
fessorship at Charleston, but the condi
tion of his health forced Lim to return
to the North. Since 1808 he has been
a lecturer at Cornell. The results of
hiB voyages to and up the Amazon in
180o, and around the Horn in 1871, are
already known by such aB have cared to
study "their records. This year the
island of Penekese was granted to Lim
to found a scientific school upon, and
his efforts to establish there a scientific
class, apart from aud not auxiliary to
the ordinary course of liberal educa
tion, Lave now been brought to nothing
by Lis deatL, since Lis tuition for
twenty years Las not yet developed a
pupil capable, by the acknowledgment
of men of science, to take Lis place.
What is Sold for H ay.
PurcLasers of Lay in this city, says a
New York paper, often find in the in
terior of bales large stones and bufcbels
of beed or chaff, and on the hickory
bands, which are always twice the nec
essary size, large, Leavy knots, skill
fully turned inward and hidden by the
hay. Small buyers are compelled to
submit to this fraud of the honest coun
tryman who packs the Lay, but the Iobs
fails heaviest upon livery men who pur
chase large quantities. These usually
buy from contractors, who are bound to
furnish a good article. Keepers of
Email livery Btables wbose Btoek of Lay
is exhausted are compelled to buy on
the wharves. A bale weighing from
240 to pound Las frequently been
found to contain 80 to t0 pounds of
stones, sticks, wires, and seed or chaff.
The superintendent of a stable in Amity
street bays that one-fourth of eight
bales of Lay received from a well -known
feed store was worthless.
An Albany ttian baa invented a pro
cess for making paper boxea from the
pulp without beams,
Items of Interest.
Why is a beefsteak like a locomo
tive? It's not of much account with
out it's tender.
Teach a child to lie, and then hopo
that ho will grow up honest. Better
Ent a wasp in a tar barrel and wait till
e makes you honey.
St, Louis Las a bogus expressman
who collects freight charges on neat
looking packages containing potatoes,
which he delivers C. O. D. to persons
to whom Le has previously addressed
them.
During the past year the Methodist
Episcopal Church has grown 84,000,000
richer, and gained over 5,000 members,
making a total of 1,404,027 members
and probationers. The number of
deaths during the year is 18,'JOO, which
is unusually large.
" There is one good thing about ba
bies," says a late traveler ; " they
never change. We Lave girls of the
period, men of the world, but the baby
is the same self-possessed, fearless,
laughing, voracious little heathen in all
ages and in all countries."
It was a very ungrateful person who
". by earrier.iiyf.,ijf the following
message to his place in the country:
" Send basket of early green pease by
express train; pack the bearer of this
in with them, as ho is a plump bird,
and I intend to eat him with them."
The Peoria Jtevirw saysthat thereans
seven thousand men in that city who
want a war with Cuba, provided they
can go as sutlers. They do not care for
the honors and glory of war; all they
want is a chance to avenge the violated
honor of our bleeding country by sell
ing cheese at 87J cents per pound, skip
pers included.
A live-stock dealer iB purchasing rab
bits at Chicago to sell iu San Francisco,
whence they will be exported to China,
whose almond-eyed beauties will pay
from ten dollarB to twenty dollars a pair
for them, and make them fulfill the
functions of pets, as American ladies do
poodle dogs.
Ireland is profiting by the large in
crease in the price of coal in England.
The island is known to contain many
rich coal fields, which have been hither
to worked on a very small bc1c. Capi
talists are now beginning to look to
these as profitable investments, and
preparations are being made to work
the coal on a large Bcale.
Production Las been impeded: the
stock of goods is diminishing; there is
little likelihood of overproduction for
some time again; the country will soon
wish to use the savings it has been
making; and, after a Bcare, as every one
knows, the reaction is always lively.
People will buy all the more eagerly for
their 6elf-demal and previous economy.
The stock war in Colorado is extend
ing to the northern part of flip Terri
tory. A German who Lad about four
thousand bheep within a few miles of
Denver awoke on a recent Saturday
night to see fifteen or twenty armed
med firing into his corral with rifles and
revolvers. He discharged several shots
at the intruders, but a volley of, bullets
drove him back into his house. In the
morning he found that 8'.i of his flock
were dead.
Tlie Late Judge Selsou.
Mr. Samuel Nelson, ex-assoeinte Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, died suddenly of apoplexy,
while sitting in his chair, at his home in
Coopers town, New York. Judge Nelson
had been for borne months past in good
health and spirits. A week be-fore his
death he complained of having titken a
slight cold and was confined to his
room some days. An hour later than
usual on the morning of his death he
took breakfast and seemed to be as
well as usual. While sitting in his
chair, between one and two o'clock,
listening to the reading of a letter by
Mrs. Nelson, he made au inquiry in re
gerd to it, and then, without a word or
sigh, suddenly died. He had reached
his eighty-first year on the 10th of No
vember, Lang been born at Hebron,
Washington county, in the year 1T'J2,
Judge Nelson graduated at Middle
borough College, Vermont. He w as a
member of the New York Constitu
tional Convention of 1821, and under
the judicial system the constitution
then adopted, was in April, 1823, ap
pointed Judge of the Sixth Circuit,
which included Otsego county. This
position he held until February, 1831,
when he became Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State oi New
York, In 1837 Chief Justice Savage
resigned, and Judge Nelson was pro
moted to Lis place, holding it for eight
vears, and bringing to the discharge of
Lis important magisterial duties great
learning and ability, a high sense of
Lonor and the most inflexible integ
rity. After an honorable and dis
tinguished career of 22 years upon the
bench of his native State Le was eleva
ted to the Bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States in February, 1815.
This offioe Le filled until Thanksgiving
Day, 1872, when Le bent in Lis refcigua
tioii, and it was acoepted on the 1st of
the following month. Since that time
till his death took place, the eminent
jurist resided at Oooperstown, sur
rounded by all the quietude and at
traction of a beloved Lome, passing
away the evening of a noble life amid
that eplendid scenery which Cooper
Las immortalized in Lis famous novels.
The Hoofc&e TunueL
Nearly C50.000 pounds of explosives
nitro-k1 vcrine, dualin, and powder
have btx.u used in penetrating the
Hoobac Mountain. Nitroglycerine Las
been chiefly effective. Its ube was firbt
attempted in connection with the tunnel
in 1 80C, and was Buooebsfully introduced
in 1808, suioe which time it has been used
with most powerful results. There Lave
been many 'disasters at the Hoosae
TunueL Accounts vary as to the whole
number killed during the entire pro
gress of the work ; but it is generally
admitted that the aocidenta which Lave
occurred in connection with the use of
nitro-gly oerine Lave been the result of
carelessness, A better understanding
ol its nature Las led iu more reoent
years to greater ewe ia its use everywhere.