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Tji L E c T u i c
TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S
OFFICE.
Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL f5,000,000
50.000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTOR S.
HON. ANDREW Q. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield & C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syramse, N. Y.
O. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY. of Westray, Gibbs A
Hardcastle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICERS.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred
miles at once, between the following ports, viz :
Population.
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa 60,000
Hong-Kong 250,000
Swatow 200,000
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow 1,250,006
Wan-Chu 800,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chean 1,200,000
Shanghai 1,000,000
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000.000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides
which we have the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means of communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and her only means now ofoommuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large country, in the main densely peopled : but
few yet realize that she contains more than a third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred and Fourteen millions, and this is more
likely to be under than over the actual aggregate
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do read and write. Her civili
xation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach
ers and traders ; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owDed by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the transmission of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great se*port3, were now in
existence, it is believed that its business would
pay the cost within the first two years of its suc
cessful operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
degree remunerative to capitalists, and to our
whole people It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically.
stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Lodger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA
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DEMOCBATIC PI.ATFOK*.
1. That the federal government is
limited in power to the grants contain
ed In the Federal Constitution; that
the exercise of doubtful constitutional
powers is dangerous to the stability of
the government and the safety of the
people, and the democratic party will
never consent that the State of Penn
sylvania shall surrender her great right
of local self-government.
2. That the attempted ratification of
the proposed fifteenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution by the radi
cal members of the last legislature, and
their refusal to submit the same to a
vote of the people, was a deliberate
breach of their official duty and an
outrage upon every citizen of the State,
and the resolution making such ratifi
cation should be promptly repealed
and the amendment submitted to the
people at the polls for acceptance or re
jection.
3. That the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania is opposed to conferring
upon the negro the right to vote, and
we do emphatically deny that there
is any right or power in Congress or
elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up
on the people of this State in opposi
tion to their will.
4. That reform in the administration
of the federal and State governments,
and in the management of their finan
cial affairs is imperatively demanded.
5. That the movements now being
made for the amelioration of the con
dition of the laboring man has our
most cordial co-operation.
0. That the legislation of the late re
publican Congress "outside of the Con
stitution," the disregard of the major
ity therein of the will of the people and
sanctity of the ballot box, in the exclu
sion from their seats in Congress of
representatives clearly elected, the
establishment of military governments
in States in the Union and the o
verthrow of all civil governments
therein, are acts of tyranny and usur
pation that tend directly to the de
struction of all republican government
and the creation of the worst forms of
despotism.
7. That our soldiers and sailors, who
carried the Hag of our country to victo
ry must be gratefully remembered,
and all the guaranties given in their
favoi must be faithfully carried into
execution.
8. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-born citizens
at home and abroad ; the assertion of
American nationality which shall
command the respect of foreign pow
ers and furnish an example an encour
agement to people struggling for na
tional integrity, constitutional liberty
and individual rights.
9. That the present internal revenue
and taxing system of the general gov
ernment is grossly unjust, and means
ought at once to be adopted to cause a
modification thereof.
The report was acccepted and unani
mously adopted.
HOST. ASA PACKER.
The following extended sketch of
the Democratic candidate for Gover
nor, will no doubt be read with inter
est at this time:
Asa Packer, the standard-bearer of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in the
present State canvass, was born in the
townsip of Groton, New London coun
ty. Connecticut, in the beginning of
the year 1569. His grandfather,
Elisha Packer, was the most promi
nent and successful business man of
his native town. He was a farmer,
tanner and shoe manufacturer, diligent
in his business, a staunch member ofthe
Baptist denomination, and worshiped
in the church erected on the site of the
Pequot Fort, still in existence, and
known as the Fort Hill Church. His
father, Elisha Packer, Jr., was a man
of strong sense, industrious, economi
cal, and of independent character, but
never very successful in business. As
soon as the son was of the age to do
something for himsolf he was employ
ed in the tannery of Mr. Elias Smith,
of North Stonington. Despite his
youth, he came to be regarded by the
tanner as a confidential friend and ad
viser, and, if death had not interposed
and broken the connection, Asa Pack
er would probably have become a part
ner in the establishment, and end
ed his life as a tanner. After Mr.
Smith's death, Mr. Packer engaged
himself to an old farmer by the name
of John Brown, a hard-handed and
hard-headed old Democrat, of the
school of Thomas Jefferson. From
him Asa Packer imbibed his Democ
racy.
When he had reached the age of sev
enteen years he pulled up stakes and
struck out for Pennsylvania, then a
wild, sparsely settled country. He
entered Susquehanna County on foot
in the year 1822 with a knapsack
which contained his whole wardrobe
and a few dollars in his purse. Arriv
ed at the town of Brooklyn, he ap
prenticed himself to a carpenter and
joiner. After serving his time as an
apprentice, and liecoming the master
of his business, he contined to work
at it assiduously for several years,
when he invested his savings in a lot
of wild land on the upper waters of the
Susquehanna, and entered upon the
hard but free and adventurous life of
the pioneer. He made a clearing, and
reared with his own hands the cabin
to which he soon afet rbrought a wife,
a daughter of Zopher Blakslee, Esq.,
one of the pioneers of Northern Penn
sylvania. Here lived Asa Packer elev
en years, when circumstances led him
to change his residence to Lehigh Val
ley. In that locality Josiah White
and Erskine Hazard, representatives
of associated capital of- Philadelphia,
had projected and executed improve
ments which inade the wonderful
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNINO, JULY 30, 1869.
richos of this section—its_ coal, iron,
timber, lime, cement, and slate—par
tially available. Hither came Asa
Packer, a poor artisan, to labor with
his hands, to mix with a crowd of men
similarly employed and undistinguish
ed. What has raised Asa Packer so
for above the throng of which he then
was but a unit? Observing the char
acter of the country, the almost im
measurable extent of the coal deposits,
and the diversity of the rich produc
tions of the Lehigh Valley, he foresaw
the establishment of these extensive
colleries of lines of transportation,
and all the immense traffic whichjtime
developed. Here was a field for the
highest intelligence and the most un
tiring energy. Accordingly, in the
spring of 1833, when he was twenty
seven years of age, Asa Packer left his
farm in Susquehanna County and per
manently settled himself in the Lehigh
Valley,
Hisadvent into a region in which he
was destined to accomplish so much
made no stir. He brought to the new
field but a few hundred dollars. His
capital lay in his active mind, stout
heart, and strong arms, aud in indus
trious and thrifty habits. His first and
second summers were employed in
boating coal from Mauch Chunk to
Philadelphia, in which he acted as
master af his own boat. The energy
which he displayed in this occupation
brought him to the notice of the Le
high Coal and Navigation Company,
and he formed a connection with the
company, which was maintained for
many years, greatly to his advantage.
He induced his brother, Robert Pack
er to join him, and assisted by some
capital from his uncle, Daniel Packer,
they engaged in general merchandise
in Mauch Chunk, under the firm name
of A. &R. W. Packer, with a capital
0f55,000. The most of this money
had been saved by Asa Packer from
the hard earnings of former years.—
The new house entered, from the mo
ment of opening, upon an extended
and profitable business. It soon be
came known by its large tranaetions
both on the Lehigh and Schuylkill
rivers. Its operations on the Lehigh
during the fifteen years between 1835
and 1850 embraced a large mercantile
business at Mauch Chunk: contracts
with the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, which involved the build
ing of dams and locks on the upper
navigation ; working coal mines leased
from the company, and afterward Mr.
Packer's own mines near Hazleton,
aud shipping coal to Philadelphia aud
New York. A similar shipping busi
ness was also done by them on the
Schuylkill. They were the first
through transporters of coal to the
New York market, and it is a fitting
return that the business should still
continue to be the largest item in the
income of Asa Packer, its projector.—
Through his coal mining operations
he was brought into close relations
with the late Commodore Stockton,
and between them there sprung up a
warm friendship—a friendship which
proved of great value to Mr. Packer at
a trying moment when pushing for
ward to completion the great enter
prise of his life, the Lehigh Valley
Railroad.
Up to the year 1860 the transporta
; tion of the coal of the Lehigh valley to
market had been altogether by water,
but the business had now reached such
a magnitude, as in Mr. Packer's
judgment to justify the building of
a railroad along the banks of the Le
high River. Accordingly, he urged
upon the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company the policy of building a rail
road as a part of their system of trans
portation. But the project was not
favorably received by the Company.
Experience, it was answered, had
proved that coal aud iron would only
pay water freight. The Reading Rail
road, which enjoys unusual facilities in
grades and water connections, was in
stanced to clinch the argument. Asa
Packer's opinion,however was notatfec
ted by this adverse criticism of his pro
position, and he determined to take
the matter personally in hand. The
ground for a railroad in the Lehigh
Valley was embraced in a charter for a
road of much greater extent, protected
by that great Pennsylvania financier,
Edward R. Biddle. It was embraced
in the charter of the Delaware, Le
high, Schuylkilland Susqueh annah
Railroad Company, incorporated A
pril 21, 1846. The first survey was
made in the fall of 1850. Not until
the 4th of April, 1851, seventeen days
before the enarter would have expired
by its own limitation, did Asa Packer
take his place in the board of mana
gers. On the same day the board
sanctioned the grading of a mile of
railroad near Allentown, and thereby
the limitation was avoided. On the
; 30th of October, 1851, Mr. Packer be
came owner of a controlling portion of
the stock, and subsequently submitted
a proposition to build the road from
Mauch Chunk to Easton, a distance
ot forty-six miles, for a consideration
to be paid in the stock and bonds of
the company, the name of which was
now changed to the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, to suit its extent
and true field of work. Mr. Packer's
proposition was accepted, and he com
menced work in November, 1851. Un
der his personal supervision it was
push ed with great vigor. As he re
ceived only stocks and bonds in pay
ment, he hazarded his whole fortune
in the enterprise. In its early com
pletion and profitable working he
saw every dollar of his investment
quadrupled, and every acre of land in
Lehigh Valley enchanct-d in value.
But it was a heavy load, and many
times did it embarrass Mr. Packer to
carry it; but his high character and his
reputation as a business man enabled
him to command resources which
other. Commodore Stock ton, the New
would have been at the service of no
Jersey Central Railroad Company, and
other rich corporations to whose bu
siness the Lehigh road would contri
bute, also came to Mr. Packer's assis
tance, and made large advances on its
stock and bonds.
The Lehigh Valley railroad was fin
ished and delivered to the company on
the 2ith of September, 1855, and was
put immediately in operation. Its
coal freights, which in 1857 amounted
to 500,000 tons, in the year 1860 exceed
ed 2,000,000 tons 635,000 of which were
delivered alow its route from Mauch
Chunk to Easton to works which the
railroad itself had called into existence.
The addition which it brought to Asa
Packer's fortune can only be stated by
millions. Within three years after
the opening of the railroad from
Mauch Chunk to Easton, with connec
tions which made a railroad route
from the valley to Philadelphia as well
as New York, Mr. Packer suggested
the extension of a line of railroad into
the valley of the Susquehanna, and up
that valley to the great table-lands of
the State of New York, there to con
nect with the New York and Erie
Railroad. This would bring the An
thracite coal region within the system
of roads leading north and west to
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and also
afford a direct route by connection
with the Catawissa and Erie roads to
the Great West. Asa Packer has
lived to see the whole of this stupen
dous conception realized. It is not
possible to calculate the benefit which
it is destined to confer upon the whole
country. It will set the wheels of ma
chinery in motion thousands of miles
in the interior as well as at the tide wa
; ter, and bring about in a great section of
; country that diversity of employments
; essential to the highest development
i of the people.
On his return from a trip to Europe
in 18(55, Mr. Packer announced it his in
tention to found in Lehigh Valleyan e
ducational institution which shouldsup
ply to its young men the means of ob
taining that knowledge of which he had
in early life felt such a profound need.
The branches of education to which it
; was Mr. Packer's design that the insti
! tution should be especially devoted
| were civil, mechanical, and miningen
| gineering; general and analytical
' chemistry; mineralogy and metal
lurgy; analysis of soils and agriculture;
architecture and construction; all
branches of knowledge of exception
al value in the Lehigh Valley. In
carrying into effect his purpose, Mr.
Packer gave a woodland park sixty a
cres in extent, situated on the borders
of South Bethlehem, and $500,000 in
money. This institution known as
the Lehigh University, was formally
opened Sebtember 1, 18G6, and its suc
cess has realized the intelligent and
beneficent purpose of its founder. By
its character it is made a self-sustain
ing institution ; intended to reach both
rich ancl poor with its advantages; its
free scholarships being offered as prizes
to be competed for by all the students.
No sectarian bigotry limits its benefi
cent influence to a single religious de
nomination, but those of every creed
find a welcome to its halls. On the
2:! d day of November, 1865, at a dinner
given to Mr. Packer at Bethlehem, a as
public acknowledgment of his prince
ly gift, at which many prominent men
of the State were present, John W.
For ney paid the following tribute to
the guest of the day. "Here is a char
acter and coreer for youth and man
hood to study. Here is a lesson to the
one to move on in the path of improve
ment, and a stimulent to the other
never to despair in the darkest hour
of disaster and misfortune. We
pick out Asa Packer as the min
er picks out a piece of coa
to show the value of the precious de
posit from which it is taken; we pick
him out to show what can be won by
personal honesty, industry, and kind
ness to men , by courage in the midst
of bad luck; by confidence in the
midst of gloomy prophecy; by modes
ty in prosperity; and by princely gen
erosity when fortune comes with both
hands full to realize a just ambition."
Among his immediate friends and
associates, Mr. W. 11. Gatzmer, the
President of the Camden and Amboy
Railroad, bore high testimony to the
enorgy and ability with which Mr.
Packer had carried out his great min
ing and railroad enterprises, and ac
knowledged that although Pennsylva
nia is only his adopted State, few of
her sons have done more to develop
her mineral resources. Mr. Packer en
joys to the fullest extent the confi
dence of the community in which he
lives. This it has shown by electing
him to public office whenever he
could be induced to accept it. He
served his neighbors several years in
the General Assembly of the State, his
services there ended with the year
1843. lie was then elected Judge of
the County Court, which position he
held five years, and hence he is famil
iarly known as Judge Packer. More
recently he has represented his dis
trict for two successive terms in the
Congress of the United States, and his
friends insisted on presenting his name
to the late National Convention of the
Democratic party, as a candidate for
thetirSt office in the gift of the Ameri
can people.
Mr. Packer's whole career exempli
fies the truth that in the United States
there is no distinction to which any
young man may not aspire, and with
energy, diligence, intelligence and vir
tue, attain. When he set out from
Mystic, Conneticut, to make the jour
ney to Pennsylvania on foot, it is not
probable that his entire worldly pos
sessionsamounted to S2O. These pos
sessions now are estimated at twenty
millions, all of which has been accu
mulated, so far as known, without
wronging a single individual. On the i
contrary, the wealth which lie has (
gathered is but one tithe of that 1
which lie has been the means of erea- 1
tingin the Lehigh Valley. J
IIOKIUIKS OF I.KFKOSY,
A correspondent writing from the
Sandwich Islands gives the following
description of a visit to a leper hospi
tal at llalaia : "We enter the room.
Mats spread on all sides are covered by
about a dozen or titfeen recumbent fig
ures, among the worst of the bad eases.
A fetid order, faint but perceptible,
pervades the apartment. We hear
hard, hoarse breathing, harsh whisp
ers and deep sighs from those who can
never again speak with their old voi
ces. The decay of the vocal organs is
almost the last stage of the plague, and
seems the most terrible of all. The pa
tient is unusually by this time one
mass of corruption. What faces are
turned to us as we grope among the
half conscious sufferers—faces that look
as though they had been hacked twenty
times across with the broad-ax, and
each gash healing had left a horrible
seam. Ears swollen to twice their
natural size, raw looking and bloody,
while the enormous lobes, hanging
nearly to theshoulder, ooze with asick
ening pus. There are those with nos
trils slowly witheriug away, some
with no nasal at all, only an ulcerous
cavity remains, too abominable to be
thought of for a moment. Fingers
grow sharp at the ends, sloughing the
skin, shedding the joints one by one.
They are but half alive, these lepers,
and carry their own infectious corpse
about with them. One old man, sit
ting in a gate, a narrow strip of cloth
about the lions, is covered from head
to foot with large, hard swellings.—
There is not vacancy enough between
his thousand and one lleshy hillocks
to lay the tip of your finger. Yet he
is unconscious of any pain whatever.
He turns a ghastly grin—supposed to
be a smile upon us, and exhibits a new
inound just making its appearance on
one side of him, which is likely to
crowd out a few older ones. The poor
wretch looks more like a horned toad,
polished down a little, than a man and
brother.
NAVINO FOR Old) AWE.
No one deuies that it is wise to
make provision for old age, but we are
not all agreed as to the kind of pro
vision it is best to lay in. Certainly
we shall want a little money, for a des
titute old man is indeed a sorry sight.
Yes, save money by all means. But
an old man needs just that particular
kin I of strength which young men
are most apt to waste. Many foolish
young fellows will ihrowa way ona holi
day a nervous energy which he will nev
er feel the want until he is seventy;
and then how much will he want it!
It is curious, but true, that a bottle of
champagne at twenty will intensify
the rheumatism at threescore. It is a
fact that overtasking the eyes at four
teen may necessitate the aid of spectacles
at forty, instead of eighty. We advise
our young readers to be saving of health
for their old age, for the maxim holds
good in regard to health as to money.
'Waste not, want not.' It is thegreat
e. *■ mistake to suppose that violation
of the laws of health can escape its
penally. Nature forgives no sin, no
error. She lets off the offender fifty
years sometimes, but she catches him
at last and inflicts the punishment just
when, just where, and just how he feels
it most. Save up for old age, but save
knowledge, save the recollection of
geod and noble deeds and innocent
pleasures ; pure thoughts, save friends,
save love. Save rich stores of that
kind of wealth which time cannot di
minish, nor death takeaway.
The Milwankee \l r isc)isin relates the
following additional illustration of
the sagacity of the elephant:
The elephant Romeo, who had won
quite a reputation for cutting up, star
ted a sensation yesterday, which for
some time bid fair to be quite lively.
It seems that when the train was com
ing into the city on Friday morning,
some thoughtless.boy threw a stone at
the baby elephant, hurting it.
Romeo was full of wrath and started
for the crowd of boys with the evident
determination of stirring them up.
The keeper saw what was up and for
nateately succeeded in quieting the
monster.
Yesterday morning the boy who
threw the stone was on the circus
grounds, and Romeo by some means
discovered him. The huge fellow was
full of wrath, and stared about wildly.
He upset stands, threw his trunk a
bout him and bellowed very much like
a young tornado.
It was evident that he meant mis
chief, and as soon as he was in earnest,
would manage to get loose, and then
the dickens would he to pay. A ri
der was sent down town to hunt up
Romeo's keeper, and that worthy just
arrived as the monster was in a fair
way to get loose. The keeper mai -
aged by blows and threats to quiet af
fairs. Meanwhile the boy who had
made the trouble was getting towards
town as fast as his young legs could
carry him.
A very fat man being measured for
a pair of pantaloons, gave directions
that they should be large and full as
he liked them loose. When he came
to try them on they stuck tight to his
legs, whereat lie remonstrated: "I
told you to make those pants full."
After some objugary expressions of a
profane nature, the tailor ended the
controversy by declaring, "I dink dts
pants if full enough, if dey was any
fuller they would split."
"When 1 was quite a boy," says
Smith, "my father ordered a coat for
me from an Israelite, and when the
garment came home it was very mu< h
too large. The perplexed Jew, after
vainly trying to gather up the fullness
in the back with his hand, so that the
front might set tight, declared at
length that the 'coat was goot; it wi s j
no fault of te coat; te coat fit Jgoot i- !
neugh, but tepoy was too slim !' " J
VOL 64.—WHOLE No. 5,500.
The Lebanon (Kentucky) Clarion
says; "A most daring and determined
attempt to commit a rape was made
in Adair county, about four miles
from Columbia, last Monday night.
Two young ladies, daughters of a re
spectable farmer, were steeping in the
upper room of their father's dwelling,
which is a log house. A black scoun
drel made his way into their chamber
by ciiming up at the side of the chim
ney to the window. The young ladies
were awakened by the touch of his
hands, plated upon the head of one
and *he feet of the other, and screamed
out in extreme terror for assistance.
Their father rushed up stairs promptly
with a pistol and fired several shots at
the retreating form of the villain, who
by this time was out of the house.—
None of the shots took effect." A ne
gro named Ilendricksou has been arrast
ed and charged with the crime, and is
now in jail at Lebanon, in default of
bail, intense excitement prevails in
the community and threats of sum
mary justice have been maee.
The mostsiugular case is said to have
occurred in the Third district a few
days ago. A little girl, about three
years old, named Emily Walhauer,
residing with her parents at the corner
of Spain and Greatmen streets, had
been camplaining for some time of
pain and nausea in the stomach, while
at the same time her appetite became
extraordinary. The parents, suppos
ing that the child was troubled with
worms, gave the usual medicine.—
These operating severely made the
little girl very sick at thestomaeh, and
after, she threw up a live mouse of
medium size. The mouse was taken
to the drug store of Mr. Weilbaeher,
near by, and was visited by a large
number of persons, the mouse being
still alive.— Sew Orleans Bulletin.
The remarkable intelligence of the
colored officials in the South must be
gratifying to their Northern Radical
patrons. Ben Marks, an ebony gentle
man of Mougomery, Ala., had to go
to jail, and Joe Williams, another col
ored brother, was made an officer for
the time being by a justice of the peace
and deputized to take hiin there. On
the way to jail, the prisoner got the offi
cer drunk, and taking the commitment
out of his pocket, presented it to the jail
er and had the officer locked up. When
Constable Joe awoke from his drunk
en slumber he found himself a prison
er, and Ben was far away. He stout
ly denied taking anything to
drink, and said: "Something'swrong,
somehow or other, kase I know de
squire meant to write me down officer,
an' Ben for jail."
A FRANK CONFESSION.— Frank was
in the habit of falling out of bed du
ring the night, and his father to bieak
him of the habit, would remind him
| of it the next moruiug.
Yesterday, as usual, his father said to
him, "Here, Frank, you fell out of bed
! again."
"Oh, no, father," said F., "I didn't;
it was the pillow ; for I went up to see,
I and the pillow was on the floor beside
i the bed."
"What made you cry then ?" said his
i father.
"Well, you see," said Frank in the
most sober manner, "it was dark, and
I could not tell whether it was me or
| the pillow."
A lot of minstrels of a Western city
j started out on a "tower" recently.—
They went to a town not for away and
| advertised to give a performance for
"the benefit ot the poor, tickets reduc
ed to 25 cents." The hall was crani-
J ined full. The next morning a com
j raittee for the poor called upon the
: treasurer of the concern for the amount
said benefit had netted. The treasurer
expressed astonishment at the demand.
"I thought," said the chairman of the
committee, "you advertised this con
cert for the benefit of the poor!" Re
plied the treasurer, "Didn't we put
the tickets down to 25 cents, so that
the poor could all come?" The com
mittee vanished.
A guest at a Cleveland hotel was
discovered by the ptoprieter the other
evening, rather tenderly embracing one
of the chambermaids. The landlord
rebuked him somewhat angrily, and
wanted to know the reason of such eon
duct. "Simply observing the rulesof
the house," said the guest, pointing to
card tacked to the room door. "Don't
it read, 'Any neglect of servants should
be reported at the office?' I don't
want to be reported at the office for
neglect of servants, do I?"
A GERMAN, named Carl Schell
married a girl just from the Fader
land, at Omaha, some three weeks a
go, in a most peculiar manner. He
purchased a pair of ear-bobs, put them
iu her ears, and informed the young
lady that "this little ceremony consti
tutes a marriage in America." After a
week had passed he took them out, and
informed her of another piece of news,
viz., "This little ceremony constitutes
a divorce in America." He is now in
jail for stealing a trunk.
A young gentleman, not distin
guished either for good looks, riches
or wit, having met a severe rebuff
from one of our prettiest and most
distinguished actresses, and wishing to
punish her for her disdain, consulted a
friend as to the best means for his pur
pose. "Do you wish to be very severe
upon her?" "Very." "Then go and
see her."
While ten men watch for chances,
one man makes chances; while ten
men wait for something to turn up,
one turns up; so while ten faii, one
succeeds and is called a man of luck,
the fovorite of fortune. There is no
luck like pluck, and fortune most fa
vors those who are most indifferent to
fortune.