-1 I i i i I!. F. SCH WEI ER, TEE COUSTITUTIOH-THE TJKI03 AITD THE BSTOECEYEITT OF TEE LAWS. Editor arul Proprietor. VOL. XXXII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENXA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY lb 187S. NO. 3. "to jlTl iMf! i '111 I ! if i! 1 h THE HOLLT TREE. Hurrah, hurrah, for the hollj tree. I'prearing bis bead in the front and snow ; Not a jot nor a tittle careth be For the clond and the storm, and the winds that blow. The rones that grew on the southern wall Waxed feeble and few. and we watched them fall. The haathorne bad faded, the lillie is gone. The skies of December are pallid and wan lint the holly is sturdy as sturdy can be. Hurrah, hnrrah, for the holly tree! Hurrah, hurrah, for the holly tr.e. There never was surely a bonnier cne ; His prickly armor ' is good to fee. And bis beriies are red in the winter son. II a berries are red, ae rudJy are they. Thcngh t e ioeea are dead and the swallows away. The icicles bang and the U nipeet is keen. But he h th b a garmei t cf glittiruig green. Like a king in bis g ory stand th he. Hurrah, hurrah, for the holly tree! Alack, alack, for the holly tree. Laughing aud eaer thtre comcth a troop. The mtn to work, and the maidens to see. And the children to add to the joyous group. And lo, he is le!t when their labor is o'er. Dismantled, bereft of the raiment be wore ; And branches are prone to the anow-covt red earth To be ra sed wi:b rt joiciug and ramid with mirth. The spoilers have vaui-hed ; lone ahlvereth he. Alack, alack, for tl.e holly tree! Height heijiho. for the holy tree. But b.s boughs will gleam in the fetiTe ban ; And some in th- Tillage church may be. And some may grace the cottage walk Oh it is well for the holly tree told Tliat be weavttU a spell ovir the young and the old. One spray in a girl's soft hair aha'.l glow. And one will .ie on a grave. 1 know. He har th the sorrow, be sharetb the fcle, He.gho. biiho, for the holly tree! TOM WILLS; OK. TI ltollor Outwitted. I remember the story my father used to tell of an adventure lie once had with a noted highwayman, while on a journey from Rhode Island to one of the north eastern counties of the Um pire State. Jle was employed as an agent of Harrisoff. one of the owners of a great "land tract," and it became necessary, on one occasion, for him to visit that jKirtion of the State of Xew York where the land lay. to transact some business connected w ith his agency. At that earlv dav, stage coaches, those cumbrous vehicles, rolled but leisurely over the rough, corduroy oads; and passed only between the i.rincii.al tow us. distributing their weekly budget of mail matter; and travelers whose business hapeiied to he off the '!rreat thoroughfares," as the stage routes were dignified, found It mniv convenient to lournevoii horse back, carrying a few changes of linen in portmanteaus strapped behind them, or in the more convenient old-fashioned leathern saddle-bags. My father had chosen this latter mode of traveling, and. mounted on a valua ble sorrel, lie had passed through the States of t'onnecticut and Massachu setts, into the southern border of the county of Lew is in the State of Xew York, w ithout encountering any extra ordinary event. It wasat that pleasing season of the year, w hen a journey of that character is the most agreeable; for the spring had already melted into the blossoming month of June. All that dav he had journeyed over w ild and broken country, w ithout pass inr a settlement, or meeting a single fellow -traveler; and but for his admi ration of the frequently changing scen ery, would have found the road ex tremely lonesome. Towards evening, while resting in the shadow of the forest, he heard the sound of an ap proaching horseman, and shortly after a traveler came in sight along the road over which be had iust passed. The stranger was mounted like himself, on a fine sorrel, with a pairof heavy saddle bags strapped to his saddle. The new comer was a large and athletic man, w ho, but for the peculi arity of his dress, might lie rcgardi-d as anything but a welcome coiiitmiiion on such a lonely and unfrequented road. But his garb and salutation immedi ately placed my father at his ease. lie wore a strait-bodied, high-collared, brow n coat, w ith wide-brimmed, low-crow ned white hat, and w hite neck cloth: a garb w hich bespoke him an itinerant of the methodist jicrsuasion. one of those self-denying followers of hrist, who have always been foremost with the example of their pious and simple lives, among the pioneers of our new settlements. "A pleasant evening to yon, my friend !" said he as he approached my father; and dismounting from his sad dle gave him a friendly shake of the hand. "It is lieautiful weather, sir! and if you do not consider the inquiry imiertinent, in a stranger, sir, in which direction are you traveling?" "Omul evening, sir," my father re plied. "I am journeying towards Mar tinsburg."" "Ah, indeed ! how fortunate," said the parson. "In that case, sir, I trust w e may journey together; for that same little town happens to be my own des tination. But can you tell ine, my friend, how far we are from a tavern?" My father informed him that he also was a stranger in the country, never having traveled that road before; but if he had been rightly informed where he had last spent the night, it could be but a little distance ahead perhaps at the end of the forest through which their road lay; and returning to his saddle, my father joined the stranger on the road.' The two travelers journeyed along side by side; and e're they had ridden two miles, had become quite intimate, as travelers under those circumstances frequently will. The parson was a man of sense, and much intelligence; and by the time they had reached the end of the wood, where their eves were J greeted w ith the sight of a house, and a sign on w hich was written the wel come words "Entertainment for Man and Beast," my father had become quite attached to his companion Three or four travelers had arrived at the house before them, and the landlord told my father, that if he spent the night with him, the parson and himself must share the same bed together. This arrangement, however, was agreeable to both, and their horses being led to the stable, the two new ly arrived guests joined the other person in the little bar-room "Did yon come through Cherry Val ley geutlemen ?" inquired one of the stranger My father replied, that he passed through that place two days before and his companion signified that he also had "Then you must have heard of the murder and robbery of Col. Stirgis, that occurred near that place the other day." My father answ ered that ''he had not halted in the place, and therefore did not gather auy of the village gossip, But his fellow-traveler remarked that he had heard of the affair, and a sad affair it was, too. "Ah ! my friend," he continued, 'these are fearful times, when peaceful travelers cannot travel through your country in safety! I hear that murder and robbery is of frequent occurrence on this side of the Hudson of late "But,' he added w ith a smile, "poor preachers like me may pass scot free for its precious little the knaves would make off one of my persuasion "Have they not yet found any cine to the robbers?" he asked. "Xot for certain," replied the man "But there's no doubt it's the work of that scoundrel, Tom Wills." "Yes !" now joined in the landlord who that moment returned from the stable; "yes, gentlemen, there's not the least doubt n't ! That, cut-throat Tom Wills, is at the bottom ou't all." "Tom Wills! Tom Wills!" related the parson ; "and pray, my friend, w ho is this Tom Wills? I never heard the name before !" "Then, I guess, you must Ik- a stran ger in these parts." "Yes," answered my father's com panion. I nave now entered ora' state for the first time, and am therefore a stranger in the country." "Well, then, sir, I'll tell you w ho this Tom Wills is," replied the landlord. "He is a notorious robber, w ho they j say came up from York, and for many months carried on his bloody work between Albany and Schenectady, and thereabouts. He isthe same villain who wavlaid and roblied Colonel Van Rens selaer on the Mohan k last fall ; and dodged alnuit Montgomery county, till the country became too hot for him; and since then, no doubt, he's liecn on our side of the river. Yes, gentlemen. continued the landlord, "I hav'n't the least doubt that same rascal murdered Col. Sturgis for the money he was tak iiiff down to York to buy his summer stock of goods with." ' As the landlord concluded this ac count of the robber, the parson lifted his hands in horror, and looking uj- wards, exclaimed : "Ah! may the good Lord protect us from that sinful man! "My friends," continued he. with evident signs of alarm, "do you imagine there is any danger of our being molested by this wicked Tom Wills, on our road to Mar tinsburg to-morrow?" "There's no knowing w here he is. answered one of the travelers, "for they say he makes his appearance w here he U least exjiected; sometimes spending the night as an honest traveler with the very persons he robs the next day He is a plausible fellow, w ho disguises himself so skilfully that even his own accomplices, it is said, often fail to rec ognize him." "Indeed !" exclaimed the excited par son. "But, my friends, let us trust in the protection of Heaven ! for if the sparrows are not suffered to fall un noticed to the ground, how much less shall we, who are of more value than many sparrows !" and with this pious exhortation, the worthy parson dis missed the subject, ami led the way into the stipier room. That night, my father and his new acquaintance were furnished with a bed in a small "lean-to," built upon the rear of the house. But before retiring the stranger asked my father if he had any objection to join hint in returning thanks to, and begging further protec froin Heaven. Of course he had not, and the good parson made a most eloquent prayer; in which he esjiecially prayed that they might be delivered from the bauds of that sinful robber, whose wicked deeds were filling the country w ith alarm. As my father w as in the act of un dresssing, a large, well-filled pocket- book slipped from the breast pocket of his coat upon the floor. The quick eye of his fellow- traveler caught sight of it, and stooping down, he picked it up and restored it to him. remarking that he "seemed well prepared for a long journey. 'Yes," replied my father, jocularly, esiiecially when my purse is backed by theseearnest persuaders !" aud draw ing from the waistband of his panta loons a iair of loaded pistols, he laid them ujHin the table at the head of their lied. During the night my father was aroused from sleep by hearing foot steps in the room; and, springing into a sitting position, demanded quickly "Who's there?" "It's only I, my friend," answered the voice of his bed-fellow. "The morning air Is rather fresh, and I have just closed the window that's all." and returning to the bed, the parson was soon buried in sleep again, as my father supposed. Before daylight came the travelers were called to an early breakfast; and by the time the sun had peeped over the hills, they had paid their reckoning and departed. The persons who had first arrived on the previous evening were bound southward ; and my father, with his companion, struck out towards Martinsburg. As the day progressed, the two tray elers became very communicative; aud the confiding preacher drew from my father all the objects of his journey, while the other related all the princi pal incidents of his life, and dwelt par ticularly upon his religious experiences. The country they were passing over was less wild in its character than that of the previous day. But still there were stretches of miles without scttle- uients. They were passing through one of these wild stretches, when my father's agreeable companion, who had been riding a little in advance, suddenly checked his horse, and turning upon my iatuer w un a cocked pistol pre sented at his head, exclaimed : "Xow, neighbor, if I've amused you long enough w ith my character of a canting parson. I've another to show you ! So now let us have that well tilled pocket-book, w ill ye?" As much astonished as my father was by this sudden change of manners, he was too good a lawyer to be disconcer ted, or thrown off his guard ; and rap idly draw ing a pistol from beneath his vest, he levelled it at the head of the quasi parson, and sprung the trigger. Xo report followed, and snatching the other, he also brought that to bear upon him. But the imperturbable robber pushed it aside with his own pistol, and with a sneering smile informed my father that those "persuaders" were harmless, and would now fail "to back' his plethoric pocket-book. He had "taken the precaution to empty their pans w hen shutting out the fresh morning air, at the tavern behind them." This w as true. The disguised robber had thrown the priming out of the wiudow, at the tavern, and my father now found himself completely unarmed. But even in this emergency, uiy father was more than a match for the liold villain ; and taking from bis breast a well simulated pocket-book, which he had prepared in anticipation of a similar encounter, he extended it to wards the robber. But a the fellow was altout to snatch it from his hand, my father tossed it from hi in into the thicket bordering the road. His inten tion was to put spurs to his horse and so make his esca)ie as soon as the man should attempt to recover it. But in this intention he was disap pointed, for the battled robber w ith an oath discharged his pistol, w hich, but for his poor horse, would have been the death of my father. The noble animal received the ball in his braiu, and fell with him to the ground. I'll 'tend to your case at my leisure !' cried the highwayman, "but I musi first have that pocket-book." And springing from his horse, he disappeared in the bushes. Seeing the robber's horse remain in the road, a uew idea now occurred to my father; and instantly acting upon it, he cleared himself from his dying sorrel, and leap ing upon the back of the robber's horse, flew rapidly from the spot. The man heard the clatter of his horse's feet upon the road, and turning at the sound, was sadly chagrined at the trick that had been played upon him. lis discharged his remaining pis tol at my father, who had by that time got beyond its range; and still greater must have been his mortification when, on examining w hat he supposed to be rich prize, to find the pocket-book filled only with worthless strips of brown pajx-r. My father had ridden but a little dis tance from the scene of this occurrence, when, on ascending rising ground, he found himself close upon the village of Martinsburg. It happened to lie a public day, and the place was filled with people. Bid ing up to the front of the village tavern, about which he perceived a crowd of people, he hastily informed them of what had just occurred; and scarcely had he told his story, when a party of eager horsemen started out to scour the coun try for the robber. In the absence of the party, my fa ther, calling for a private apartment, proceeded to examine the contents of the robber's saddle-bags, which he found contained, besides a quantity of wearing apjiarel, several suits of w hich were evidently intended for disguises, over eighteen hundred dollars in gold and bank-notes, and paiers which sat isfactorily proved that his late saintly traveling companion was none other than the notorious Tom Wills, whose robberies and murders had thrown the whole country into alarm. The people were absent but a few hours when they returned with the robber strongly bound. At first the cunning rogue attempted to make it appear that my father was the real robber, and himself a harmless and inoffensive Methodist preacher; asserting that it was his horse that was killed, and not my father's; and in cor roboration of his statement advised the people to examine the saddle-bags on which my father had ridden to the place. What the effect of the fellows s plau sible story would have been it is impos sible to say, had my father not made known his business in that part of the country, when one of the gentlemen, with whom he had been corresponding, aud who was expecting his arrival, recognized him, and settled the matter. The jail at Martinsburg not being deemed eiifliciently strong to hold so notorious an offender as Tom Wills, he was taken on to Watertown, in Jeffer son tjounty (ine adjoining countyj. where he had his trial my father ap pearing as oue of the principal wit nesses against him aud where, a few weeks afterwards, he suffered the pen alty of his crimes upon the gallows. A the deepest bate may spring from the deepest love, so the greatest ingrati tude may arise from the largest bene fits. It Is said that Cicero was slain Dy one wnom nis oratory iai aeienueo when accused of his father's murder. : Expediency is the science of exigen cies. China and Other Ware. It was in the reigu of William and Mary that old china came tothe throne on which it has held sway ever since by the divine right of its own charm. The pleasant Queen Mary was a Stuart in spite of ber virtues, and loved to see pleasant things about her, and the fan tastic forms aud rich colors of the Oriental porcelain had touched her fancy. She had solaced the term of ber absence from England with its accumulation, and she brought a great quantity of it w ith her from the Hague where the taste for it was already for-u ed, as every oue knows, that is familiar with the Dutch articles of the day whose fronts are often mere plastrons of porcelain, the access of the Dutch to the ports of ti e Orient having filled Holland with strange wares and strange fashions. Holland not only imported but iu her Delf imitated the Chinese wares, sometimes carrying out the imitation exactly to all the curiosity of its quaint design, aud sometimes decor ating the objects with the pencils of her best artists. The U,tiecn procured other china also, wherever it was to be bad, so that, as we are told, her collec tion was " wonderfully rich and plenti ful." Parisian and Damascus cups. and fine glasses, such as the storied " Luck of Eden Hall," were not un familiar by that time in England, and there were several potteries producing line results in France; but the beautiful Sevres, with all its exquisite odors its bleu du roi, rose du B.irri, vert pre, and jouquille: its embedded jewels and Watteau paintings single plates 0 whose earlier and best manufacture now bring at auction sometimes as much as a thousand dollars, and a set of three jardineires recently selling for fifty thousand dollars was not yet iu existence; and neither was Dresden the Chelsea with its rich claret, nor the Capo di Monte with its shells and corals and figures in such high relief as to cast distinct shadows, nor many other fine chinas. Xevertheless, the Heuri, Deux faience, decorated with masks and scutcheons and fine damascene work, with its rosy rel'cfs and dark yellow backgrounds, was all that could be wished; the 1'alissy ware had reach ed perfect:on in cups, platters, incense burners and possibly statuettes, having unrivaled brilliancy of enamel colors, purity of tint and outline, in all its reptiles, shells, fruits and foliages; and there was almost unlimited choice among Italian wares, and gorgeous Luca delta Kobbia, the Castle Durante, the Fon tan a, tl e delightfully decorated Venetian majolicas, and countless others on which Raphael and his con tern por aib'S had not disdained to lavish their designs. All this, skilfnlly used, con stituted no mean or frivolous ornament, the critics of the day to the contrary notwithstanding. Whether or not the Queen filled her palace with china, jars. vases, idols, statuettes, pilgrim bottles, cups and plates and monsters, giving preference always to the Japanese and Chinese products the egg shell, the sea green, the imperial ruby, the blue and white Xankin, the crackle perhaps by reason of the remoteness which gives fictitious value, perhaps through the fascination of thehideousnessof its gods and demons. "In a few years almost every great house in the Kingdom,' says the historian who did not appreciate this sort of beauty "contained a museum of these grotesque baubles. Conntantlnople. In v'ew of the stirring events trans plrlng in the East, caused by the terrible conflict now being waged between the Moslem and the Muscovite, all infor mation, historical, arcrieolcgical, descriptive or otherwise, of the grand objective point of the Russians, Con stantinople, can not but be interesting to the genertl reader. B 'ginning at the walls of Com-tantinople, we would remark that they are in a fearful state of dilapidation, which however adds to the historic interest w ith w hich they inspire every visitor. At the "Seven Towers" is the famous " Golden Gate," through which the Emperors of the Lower Greek empire sallied forth to make war upon their northern foes, and into which they returned in triumph ifter their victories. The next most interesting portion of the walls is that near the " Cannon" gate, where the last Emperor, Constan i.ine Paleologus, fell when his capital became the property of its couqneier, Mohammed II., 144, May 20, just 3S years before the discovvry of America by Columbus. The vicinity of this gate is a deep ravines and there the fatal attack was made which resulted so disastrously to the Greeks. The turret where the Emperor fell and was lost even to his own people, stands prominently at the base of the valley, overgrown with fig trees and evergreen ivy, the sole monu ments of so much devoted patriotism and self-racrifice. At the northeast extremity of the wall are still In excellent preservation the palaces of the Greek Emperor. Beneath the ruined pilaces isthe prison wherein to many princes of the great Greek im perial family suffered slow deaths in darkness. Most of them had their eyes put out by hot irons, and some even were deprived of their tongues the policy of barbarous Christian times. Beyond the ex'remlty of the Golden Horn there are two streams of fresh water that flow into the Tort, near the mouths of which stood a Pagan temple. Above and around the Port is the city of Scutari, formerly known as Chryso- polis, or the Golden City, and just below is that of Cadi Kiery, or Chalcedon, the scene of one of the most interesting of the great ecumenical councils of Chris tianity. In the latter city the goddess Proser pine and the god Apollo were worship ed, each in their respective temples, on the sites of which are now the Christiau churches, Catholicand Greek, both erected to the Mother of God. Xot far from these Jason rested his crew of the Argo before pushing on to the shores of Colchis in search of the golden fleece Xear by Is an e'evation where once j stood the temple dedicated to Apollo, in which the wearied mariners from Greece offered up prayers to this god. Rowing up the Bosphorus, we pass the hills of Buyukdre, where Godfrey de Bouillion and his army of crusa lers were encamped. Beyond are the heights where once stood a temple to Jupiter Uranus, where the Argonauts stopped to ofT.-r up their devotions to the great God of visible nature. Hard by is the scene of the conflict of Pollux with Amycus " the king of the country" and in the neighboring heights a giant's grave is shown, where the latter Is supposed to be buried. There grew the " crazing lanrel," which spread misfortune among the crews of vessels in the remote times of mythology. Beyond is the far-famed Cyerlan rocks, on which still stand the remains of a Rwnan pagan altar, where sacrifices were offered to the power of Xeptune In that portion of his aquatic domain. On the heights of Roumcli Ilissar stands the Robert College, which was founded and endowed by an American, Mr. C. R. Robert, a wealthy merchant of Xew York, the corner-stone of the same being laid on the4th of July, 1SU9 Xear its site was an altar erected to tiie god Mercury, or Hermes, after whom I the promontory above was called Mount Hermon, On the summit of this and th; opposite hill, on the Asiatic shore, stood two heathen temples, the one erected to Serapts and the other to Jupiter Pluvius. Long after the dis appearance of these two monuments of the heathen age, where the present antiquated and useless Turkish castles of Europe aud Asia now stand, existed, in the year 1243, two others erected by the sovereigns of the Lower Greek empire for the purpose of commanding the narrowest portion of the Bosphorus, which there is not over 500 paces in width. It was here that the conqueror of Constantinople, Mohammed II., passed over bis troops from the Asiatic side. Reverting back to 547 years before the Christian era, when a war of con conquest wis being waged by Darius King of Persia, against the Teracians and Scythians, a people occupying a coun'ry which Is now called Bulgaria, we find that he passed, at the above period, over this narrow part of the " Thracian Straits," by bridges of boats, an army of 700 0.O men. These asso ciations bring beiore us three distinct periods of the world's and man's history first, that of the barbarous and idola trous times of the ancient Greeks, Per -ians and Scythius: secondly, of the Christianity of the Greeks of the Lower Empire; and thirdly, of the reign of Islam:sui. Curious Cabinet Espenftes. The detailed statement of the contin gent exjienses of the department of jus tice up to the first of this month, from June oil, 1S76, show some rather curious exienditures. For instance, under date of October 14. 1S7G. Mr. Taft, then attorney-general, charged $13 for ex penses of trip to Xew York and Long Branch. On this occasion Mr. Taft de livered a Republican campaign speech at the Cooper institute in Xew York. On the 5th of February last $4-50 were paid for lives of "Marie Antoinette" and of "The Prince Consort," w hich seem rather unusual works for a law- library. On the 2d of last March. 1,- 305 were paid for a potrait nf ex-Attor ney-General Picrrcpont. It is in ac cordance with custom to purchase por traits of the attorney-general, but $5ut; would seem to le a very good price. The amounts paid by the department to special counsel show that the favored ones in that line have quite a "fat" thing of it. For instance, a special counsel was paid $100 in the case of Donn Piatt. There was nothing what ever done in Mr. Piatt's case except that he was indicted. Mr. A. G. Riddle re ceived $1,0(0 as special counsel iu Geu. Babcnck's safe-burglar case. Mr. J. M. Wilson received $)2,00 as a special assistant in the treasury robbery case. Ex-Attorney-Gencral Akerman got$l,- 000 for assisting the I'uited States at torney in Georgia iu some trifling case. Mr. D. T. Corbin, the United States attorney for South Carolina, got $2,000 for special assistance in the Ellerton riot cases, wincli. wiin one exception, re sulted in a hung jury. Sidney Web ster, Ex-Secretary Fish's son-in-law. and who is always in for the good things, got $2,200 as a special assistant in the customs cases in Xew York. How Small Items Count. Five cents each morning a mere trifle. Thirty cents per week not much ; yet it w ould buy coffee and sugar for a whole family, $13.25 cents a year and this amount invested in a saving hank at the end of a year and the in terest thereon at six per cei.t., computed annually, would in twelve years amount to more than $080 enough to buy go d farm in the nest, five cents before each breakfast, dinner and supper; you'd hardly miss it, yet it is fifteen cents each day $1.05 cents a week enough to buy a small library of books. Invest this as before, and in twenty years you have over $a000. Quite enough to buy a good house aud lot. Ten cents each morning hardly worth a second thought; yet with it you can buy a paper of pins or a spool of thread. Seventy cents per week it wou'd buy several yards of muslin; $35.50 In one year. Deposit this money as before, and you would have $2340 n twenty years quite a snug little fortune. Ten cents before each break fast, dinner and supper thirty cents a day. It would buy a book for the chil dren ; $2.10 cents each week more than enough to pay a year's subscription to good newspaper: $105.50 a year wiib it you could buy a good melodeon, from which you could produce good music, to pleasantly while the evening hoar away. And this amount invested as before would in forty years produce the desirable amount of 15.000. The British Consul at Ajaccio says that 400,000 blackbirds are annually ex ported from Corsica to France for the epicures of Parlt . ". A Atrans'e Story. Xowithstandiug the most strenuous efforts on the part of his friends to keep the matter a secret it is known to be a fact that Reuben Proctor U still in the land of the living, although his exact whereabouts are unknown, unless to a very few. When a rumor to this effect first reached my ears I set about a course of cautious inquiry aud investi gation, and by means and through per sons I will not now divnlge, learned full particulars of the afiair. Reuben Proctor's life was saved by the hasty and aw kward manner in which the mob did their work. The rope used was a thick, heavy oue, and the knot was so clumsily tied that his neck was uot bro ken, and, indeed, the rope was not drawn tight enough to prevent breath ing, but the intense agony of bis situa tion threw him intoa faint so deep as to closely resemble death. In the hurry and excitement of the affair no critical examination of his condition was made, but when his struggles ceased he was pronounced to be dead. The inquest held uon his body was a hasty one. It will be remembered that the mob made no attempt at disguise or conceal ment, and yet a jury summoned on the spot and of men who either witnessed or participated iu the hanging returned a verdict that he was hung by persons to the jury unknown. As the object of the inquest was to discover nothing and implicate no one it was loosely con ducted and hurried through with, and at its close the body of Reulten Proctor was taken in charge by his friends. He was taken home, and as he was believed to be dead was laid out upon the bed and a member of the family kept watch by his side. This person fell asleep for a few hours and upon waking ob served that the features of thesupposed corpse had undergone no change, and were not rigid and fixed as in death. He felt the arms and legs and tound them limp and not without a slight de gree of warmth. Putting his ear iu the region of the heart, he thought he could hear it faintly beating He then took a mirror and holding it to the lips a slight moisture became visible on the glass. He rubbed this away and held it there again and with like result. Again and again he repeated this ex periment and always with the same re sult until he became satisfied that the moisture was the result of respiration. He then roused the rest of the family from sleep by shouting the announce ment that Reuben was still alive, but not until they had examined for them selves could they be convinced of the fact. This unlookol for position of af fairs threw the whole household into a tumult of excitement and for a time the; knew not what to do. They dared not eml for medical aid, fearing that the mob might learn of it and return to make sure work a second time. At length with such methods as suggested themselves they set about the work of resuscitation. They rublied the hod vigorously. They threw cold water upon the face. For some time thej seemed to accomplish nothing, hut al last a feeble groan escaped his ip ; the eyes opened, closed again, as if dread ing to see. I hey spoke to hnn. told him ho was with friends and need have no fear. H- again opened his eyes, and looked around in a curious, w an dering way, and after a few attempts sHke, but with great difficulty.' He did not seem to be conscious of the events of the day. and inquired w hat had happened. They told him, and a his memory was awakened to the terii ble ordeal he had undergone, a convul sive tremor shook his w hole frame. Im agination seemed to transform his sur roundings into the scene of his fcarfui suffering, and again and again he clos ed his eyes to shut out the dreadful vi sion. During the period of returninj: consciousness he must have suffered a hundred times the terrors of the day. Ills breathing lecame difficult, aud it seemed at times as if each breath w ould be the last. His fa-e grew livid as it again the noose was tightening around his neck. So vivid and realistic was the horrid fancy that the constant as surance of his friends were longpower Iess to dispel it. True it is that all the ingenuity of the inquisition could not devise such powers of torture as exist in man's own mind. To influences w ith out he can oppose the resources of his mind, courage, fortitude ami resolution, but when the mind is itself the instru ment of torture, when the means of de fense are made the weapons of assault, he suffers a helpless, hopeless victim. I will not dwell on this uninviting top ic, and what remains may be briefly told. A mock funeral was agreed upon. As was natural the house was shunned by the neighbors and this contributed to the scheme there in progress. A coffin was procured, filled with dirt and was duly consigned to the grave. A few days after Reuben Proctor, so dis guised that his own mother would not recognize him, left his home never to return. Whither he went I know not, nor did I care to learn. Guilty or not guilty of the terrible crime of which he is charged, he is accompanied by me mories that will destroy his peace for ever, and from them neither accident nor ingenuity can rescue him. Those who hate him most cannot w Ish him worse than to be left to himseif, a prey to his own imagination. And thus let us leave him. Forrest nod the rtmitha. A writer in the Indianapolis Ihra.d says: Some thirty years ago. and during ny proprietorship of the City notel on Fourth street, in Cincinnati, Mr. C. T. Smith, a member of the "sixty-foot" family of that name, called at the hotel and engaged rooms for EJwin Forrest and wife for a term of days, covering a prospective engagement that John Bates, of the Xational Theatre, had made with the great tragedian. Mr Forrest at this time was at the zenith of his fame. In Cincinnati particularly be was very popular. He had also a very valuable tract of land on the opposite side of the Ohio, known as "Forrest Hill," and overlooking the city. So, to some extent, be was financially in terested in the growth of the city. One Sunday following the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest. Mrs. Forrest went to the Xinth Street Baptist Church without escort to attend morning ser vice. The Rev. Mr. Mjgoon, one of the most eminent pulpit orators of his times was in charge. Upon the entrance of Mrs. Forrest the reverend gentleman left his pulpit, passed down the aisle where he greeted her cordially, and then escorted her to a seat near the pulpit. This little episode cau-ed quite a flutter in the congregation, but when it became known who the beautiful lady was, and that the preacher was on terms of friendship with her and her distinguished husband, his gallantry was not only considered quite projter, but was silently applauded. Mr. Forrest wis introduced to me by my friend, C. A. Loan, the Father of Eliza, Olive, Cecelia, Dr. Logan, Minister to Chili; and Thomas A. Logan, now a prominent attorney of the Cincinnatti bir. Mr. Logan was a comedian of great merit, and one ot the most cultivated and genial of his times In the profes-iou. The introduction took place in tte hall of the hotel as the two fcere passing out on their way to the theatre for re hearsal. After the usual handshaking aud exchange of the ordinary compli ments, which I performed as well as ray embarrassment would allow, I ven tured to ask if his quarters pleased bim. "Yes. sir." "And is Mrs. Forrest pleased ?" "Yes, sir," Xow I remem ber how much I admired his manner of saying "Yes, sir." As the two turned Co leave, Forrest turned and said: "One moment more, landlord. I want you to be particular and set down everything I get in the way ot extras, m you can itemize them in the bill when I call for it. And another thing I might as well tell you now ; I don't want to be bothered with all sorts of people that claim a rlgnt to invade my privacy. I won't tolerate it, sir." This was all said with a sort of "Here, you fellow" air, which I thought at the time was just the sort of thing for a great tragedian to do, and to which I replied, "All right," and the two van ished. About the third day after this Iialogue occurred, and about the dining hour, a well-dressed, middle-aged gen tlemen stepped up to my office counter m l asked for a blank card. Before writing on the card he asked if Forrest was in. I replied I thought not. "See here, young man, there's my card. You have orders from his Royal High ness, no doubt, to suppress this sort of thing, but It won't do. You just send chat card up to Xed Forret's room, and f he refuses to see me I'll just lay around here and cuff him into a proper sense of d -cency w hen he comes out." As i rang for the oiter I glanced at the card, and saw written on it: 'Charles T. Smit.i, Hamilton." To my tstoiilnhincnt, an-ner came for the gen tlemen to walk up. S nitli hadn't been ;one long, when a servant handed me in order from F.rre-t for two bottles f cliamp-igne. With the regular routine ol olhce duties tne incident I lave jut recorded passed out of my j nind until towards sn town, when i.i walked Mmtli with a very red ra-e, a nojst. smoking heal, shirt-collar and bosom wilted, and as drunk as "Rip Van Winkle." "Sae here, lau-Un'nrd," said S uith. in a maudlin way, as be leaned over the office couuter. "You you (hie) thought you pla played . now, didn't you, eh?" and then he turned around, with both elbows rest ing on the counter, and his legs woh" Ming under him. "Why, lau'Ior I (hie) listen tor me a moment (hie), if yer please. Xed For Forrest aud I fought, Med, aud di died long "fore you w as weaned, yomijj man, eh? He's drunk iam, he is; if he ain't, hoie I may to (hie), eh? He'll pi p'ay 'Klchal.io in a horu to-uight, lie wiil, eh?" "Well, Smith," said 1, How did the thing work?" "Work!" says Smith, bracing w ith both legs ami Ids hack against the counter, "Work? Of cmrse it wor worked. Did didn't he send for the champagne, vh? The Smiths ain't to be tri-tritled with by any such the theatrical horse marines as Xed For Forresf, eh? Why, landlord, he owes me for a bor-bor'erd shirt when he was a poor cuss; but that's all right. I lon't care a red for the shirt; but he musn't try to cast op-pro-opprobum (that's it) on the Smith family with im punity (hie), eh !" The scene was very auinsing, and the guests enjoyed it hugely. After a while the indomitable Smith subsided, and struck out int the street for a promenade. The next morn ing he came around to the hotel with clean linen and a fresh shave, looking as fresh as a daisy. Well," says Smith, "did Forrest play the Cardinal last night t Because if be did be can stand more champagne t the square inch than any man I ever saw." Smith was a lawyer, and I remember seeing announced in the papers his appoint ment to the Chief Justiceship of one of the Territories. Iidurlounee of Hlgh-Heeled Shore. In descending stairs or steep declivi ties while wearing high-heeled shoes, w hich throws the weight of the body upon the front part of the foot, the ex tra effort made for the purpose of re taining the body w ithiu the centre of gravity produces a direct strain upon these tendons, causing rupture or stretching of the angular ligament suf ficient to allow them to be displaced. It is no wonder, then, that fashionable women waddle in a most ungraceful manner whenjhey attempt to walk. They destroy their comfort to follow a ridiculous fashion, and acquire an am bling and undignified movement. Peo ple do things to follow fashion that their good sense would cause them to be asha netl of under any other circum- st.inees. Ladies wearing such shoes i ered three muskets and a case of old are often obliged, for safety, to go down ! fashioned pistols, a pipe, with a china stairs backward; and they cau be seen every day descending the stoops of our fashionable resiliences iu this manner, making pretense of talking to some im aginary person in the front door, as an excuse to hide their awkward movements. After Forty I ran. A corresKndent, writing from Ham ilton, On., says; The papers record what may lie false, w hat may lie true, hut what certainly is romantic, con cerning a treasure trove in the great belt of marshy woods near where the Great Western Railway now rnns, known to the last generation as "The Beverly Swamp." Forty years ago the Duudas and Waterloo road was the great highway from the then head of navigation, Duudas, to the back coun try, and signs of its departed greatness remain in its rickety toll gates, desert ed wayside inns ami half dead villages and crossings. In those days life there away was exciting. The movement of jKissengers and gixxls along this turn pike was really immense; settlers were coming out seeking the West, men w ho knew iioImmIv, of w houi noliody knew anything, and usually timid foreign folk with stores of coin; the swamp- were iiiiioi wild animals indeed, iu severe winters the wolves that then roamed infrequent packs are still seen, hungry and fierce as of yore ; outlawed men from both sides of the frontier found hiding places in the swamps and added to their dangers, and those, you will remember, were the days of the coiners, of smugglers aud of rebels, for the stormy period of William Lyon Mc Kenzie and Papineau was already upon the country. Sometimes, too, a misan thropic hermit or a lunatic turned Or son added to the whole an additional element of romance or horror. Of crimes, real or rumored, there was no lack, and I should not like to say that there w ere more of the first class than of the second. The $icttor enumer ates a few of the tragedies which never made more than a temporary or local sensation. "A poor, foolish officer," it says, "w ho had escaped, or, some say, w as exiled from his native country, was foully murdered with an axe at Spring Creek, within half a mile of Rocton, aud the story of his death was never chroniceld iu print. There, too, died a brave old Pole, who had escaped through many a desperate battle for his country unharmed, and came out to this land to meet a miserable death at the hands of a murderer. Again, au old negro was shot in the village of Rocton some twen ty years ago, and no arrests were made, nor did the wild story of the crime find its way into the columns of any paper. But one of the most singular of these af fairs has just been brought to light, or, rather, recalled, by the discovery in a swamp which a farmer named Cornell was having drained, of the w reck of a stage coach. His son. in cutting a drain, dug up the thigh lone of a horse; then further excavations brought to light pieces of rotten wixxlwork, leath er and rusty Ix'h-. and finally a small iron box.w hich, being opened w ith a hammer and chi.-cl. yielded several rot ting and mildewed awr-. They were nearly all illegible, the writing having nearly faded away, but some of them were deciphered. The follow ing is as much as could be deciphered from the principal and largest paper: Cole Cooley L- ilesir oseu to tw in d ith KeiiMc. He is known to jirnis iu his hoii-e. A No nml Carl Stcimiiits. whose tothe Her lo-t liracious Majesty is cealed. Make a draft at once of every in the neigh liorhood arms lying at Crook's Hoiimv t'oioticl Kirby will take command 'ertiticates are inclosed. You are authorized to-i.-,,(Hm oil Mackenzie the sum dead or alive r shoot him like a dog hi- body shall be forwarded to the capital In another parchment the following w ord- w ere deciphered : MtD.ii.r Kn:rut, Preston. Maoa.ui:: The bearer is an officer in the cious Majesty, you will give him the your dwelling. It is well that should not be know n. Signed'- t olonel KIKRY. Adjutant of the loth Mil vice SI7. Another !ocument contained the words : This gives Andrew Steciitiel the li berty of retiring from the service with the title of lieutenant. And another : There is much property of value bur ied in the high lands w est of Coote's Paradise. According to the story told by the Sj'trtnt'tr this coach set out in 1S37 in charge of an old soldier named Dan. Kelly, whose descendants still live iu Beverly, bound for Waterloo. It had three passengers, Eng!idi officers, bear ing important dispatches, two warrants from Col Kirby and some thousands of pounds in English bank notes. The roatl was rough and dangerous, and though it skirted the dry highlands at many places it crossed necks of marsh aud wooded creeks. The govt rnment had put on a great many extra coaches, carrying officers, arms and money, and naturally they w ere horsed and manned w ith unaccustomed animals and inex perienced drivers. When after dark this particular coach approached Plum Bottom Creek, w hich runs through a low, marshy piece of ground, dividing Beverly from the township of Dumfries, Kelly, who had driven over this road but once before, dismounted and in formed tiie officers tiiat he dare not cross that night, as he did not know the road, and they hail better camp for the night. One of the officers, with an oath. knocked Kelly dow n w ith the butt of his pi.-tol, and, mounting the box, drove madly into the swamp. It w as not long, however, before, in the ab sence ol anything to guide him, the coach and team plunged into a swampy hole, from which the officers were for tunate to escape with their lives. Xext morning the coach had disappeared, to be recovered, as the story goes, forty years afterward. With the box, already described, are said to have been recov- bowl, and innumeranie articles of in terest too numerous to mention. The news of the discovery, says the Sjrut tor, flashed like wildfire over the coun try, and at last accounts a large gang of men were engaged in digging for taeasnre and human remains. 1 r !
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