VOL. LV. BARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG. PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Next Door to JOURNAL Store, MILLHKIH, PA. HOUSE, (Opposite Court House.) H. BROCKEBHOFF, Proprietor. >VM. MCKKKVKR, Manager. Go xl sample rooms ou first floor. Free bus to and from all trains. Special rates to jurors and witnesses. Strictly First Class. IRVIN HOUSE. (.Most central Hotel In the CltyJ Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haven, Pa. 8. WOODS CALW KLL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. JT D. H. MINGLE, I'tiysician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa. OR.JOHN0 R.JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Ofilce in 2d story of Tomlinson's Gro cery Store, Ou MAIN Street, MILLHKIH, Pa. C. T. Alexander. C. H. Bower. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BJELLEFONTK, PA. Office in Garm&n's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKLLETONTK, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLRPONTK, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond. Y° cum & HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLETONTK, PA. High Street, opposite First National Bank. c * HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LA W. BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices in all the courts of Centre County. Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations in German or English. ILBUR F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE. PA. All business promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. JJEAVEK & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany 9treet, North of High. A. MORRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court House. S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Consultations In English or German. Office In Lyon'-. BuUdlng, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOYE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Office in the rooms formerly occupied by the late w. P. Wilson. ADVERTISE IN THE Milllieim Journal. RATES ON APPLICATION. She pitllelm THE DESERT OF THE HEART. Oh, desert of the heart, in those long eves When autumn brings our flowerless wluter on, What a bleak wind aenws thy wild waste grieves With hollow murmurs for the dead aud gone ! Oh, desert of the heart! lu our fresh youth, when all things are uew-born. Before we lure, lu our luipatleuce, old. We mouru our fate as though we were forlorn; Then, also, how thou seemest vast aud wild! Oh, desert of the heart! We long for love, we think the heavens are rude,. The future looks all cloud and storui and ruin. And tierce against the barriers that exclude Our bliss we strike, but seem to strike in vam, oh, desert of the heart! Illusions! Run, oh frank and bounding youth ! There at two paces is the bush in dower; No more the desert. But for age. In sooth. Is there a white-rose bush, or jasmine bower. Oh, desert of the heart? Bitter delays and longings uaattalned! Oh ! say, beyond the sands and frowning uiouu tains. Him lu the distance to our weak eyes strained. Is there not hnl some Vaucluse with Us foun tains, - oh, desert of the heart? GRACE MORTIMER. More than fifty years ago a farmer named Atwood, a widower and childless, resided on aix extensive farm 011 the lior ders of Sherwood Forest,oll the Notting ham road. His residence was isolated, being two miles distant from any human habitation; and he, though now 011 the verge of three score years, was as hale and hearty, to all appearances,as the generality of men at forty. He was reputed wealthy, having con stantly in his employ some three or four sturdy field laborers. At the time of his wife's death, and some two years preceding the incidents embodied in our story, he had taken home to reside with him ail orphan niece from Shropshire, named Grace Morti mer, Grace was a young lady of handsome features and commanding figure, every expression of her face bespoke intelli gence, courage, and decision of charac ter; which last qualities were the admi ration and boast of the kind old nnele Farmer Atwood. The uncle was reputed wealthy, and a gang of thieves who had their headquar ters in the neighborhood,had more than once tried to rob him. 011 the last oc casion they had assaulted the house when the girl was alone, with some female servants, but hail been repulsed, Grace who knew how to handle a gun,shooting one of them in the arm. From this time forward Fanner At wood never suffered her to remain lx*- l.i.wi 1-- rii-nniiiir'- Ids tb*4 fairs,without leaving a sufficient number of his men to insure her protection; but oftener he t<x>k her with him, thereby rendering precaution doubly sure. On one of these occasions at Notting ham, Grace made the acquaintance of a dashing young silversmith, who profess ed to be carrying on a large business in Manchester. He paid the most flattering attentions to her during the two days they remain ed at the fair, and finally asked permis sion of the uncle to visit them at the farm, which proposition was the more readily acceded to on account of some hints thrown out by him in regard to his own personal wealth and family influ ence. Agreeable to arrangements, some two or three weeks after this, Mr. Joseph Pennington, such was the name given by the Manchester suitor made his ap pearance at the residence of Farmer At wood, and was cordially received both by the old gentleman and lis niece. During his stay he made rapid advance ment in the confidence and esteem of the family, and used frequently to take long rambles with Grace through the adjacent country. On one of these occasions they had extended their walk to the very borders of Sherwood Forest, when he turned suddenly upon her, and with a terrible meaning flashing from his dark eyes, spoke as follows — "Grace Mortimer, is it possible that I am so changed that you do not recognize me?" Grace gazed up into his face with a vague expression of alarm, but made no direct answer to his appeal. "Look at me wretched girl; look at me well! Look at this maimed arm,the work of your hand!" And rolling up his sleeve he displayed a frightful scar just above the wrist, where she had shot him. In an instant the terrible truth flashed upon the poor girl's mind, and with a ory of helpless terror, such as might have awakened tlie pity of a fiend, she ank swooning at the brigand's feet. Without using the least effort to re tore her to consciousness, he caught her in liis arms and bore her into the forest. When Grace recovered from her swoon she found herself in the midst of a rough company, in a low vaulted apartment, lighted by a miserable oil lamp and a single wax taper. The room was of ample dimensions, and seemed to have been partially dug from the solid limestone rock. It was the shout of triumph which greeted her entrance into the cave which first aroused her to consciousness, and as she laid on the huge bundle of straw upon whieh the brigand chief had seen proper to place lier, she could not fail to catch every word of the conversation Ml bid I KIM. PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1881. which ensued between them. Grace cast her eyes around her for a moment, just long enough to take in the surrounding objects,and beheld on every hand a heterogeneous col lection of stolen property scattered about her. In the centre of the room six men were sitting around a table playing at cards, while her false lover, Pennington, was busily occupied in changing his fashion able garments for the coarser descrip tion worn by the robbers. None of them paid any attention to her, and soon after they passed out of the room, leaving the taper burning on the th>or. Grace hoard them h>ck and bar the door, and soon after pass away. Then in the silence and solitude of her narrow prison she noted the swiftly consuming taper grow fainter and fainter till it finally expired altogether, leaving her in total darkness. She raised herself to a sitting posture, and at that moment she detected for the first time a minute ray of light resting on her hand. She removed her hand, and all was again in darkness; she re stored it again, and the welcome ray of light was still there. She now became fully satisfied that the outer world was not very far removed from her. On examination she discovered a small opening in the rook overhead, of about a foot in diameter, upon which rested a fiat stone, placed there no doubt to con ceal the aperture from observation. She strove to remove it with her hands, but the stone seemed firmly planted. Finally, with one almost superhuman effort she succeeded in moving the bar rier so far aside that she found no fur ther obstacle to her escape. Trembling with fright and exhaustion, she crept through the open space, and throwing herself on the bore rock above, her beautiful face upturned in the clear autumn moonlight, she fervently thank ed GIKI for her timely and unexpected deliverance. She next looked about her, and per ceived that she now stood 011 the summit of a vast ledge of limestone, with huge forest trees around her springing out of the mossy fissures of the rook. 111 a moment she became satisfied in her own mind that the entrance of the cavern was just beneath her. Going the other way she went through the forest till she came to a traveled road. It was tlion in the gray of morning, and in a few minutes her attention was arrested by the sound of approaching wheels,and she made up licr mind to appeal to the person, whoever he might IK; for protec- A * length the tnivm came nixt Grace accosted the driver. She stated in as few* words as jxissible who she was and what had happened to her, and begged him to conceal her if possible somewhere 111 his wagon, for fear that Pennington and liis associates might follow and overtake her. No sooner did the driver understand that she was a niece of Farmer At wood's than he asked her if she did not remember him. "I do now!" cried Grace, with a thrill of pleasure. "You are one of those very persons who came to our relief one time they attempted to rob my uncle's house." "The same," answered the driver; "so you may as well clamber into the wehicle now as at another time and so give us an hoppertunity to conceal you from liobservation." Grace thanked the loquacious but kind-hearted driver, who now assisted her in mounting to the cart, the body of which was filled with a great number of boxes, baskets, and casks. A whisky barrel, with one of the heads knocked in, seemed the only unoccupied tiling in the wagon; and Mr. Sharp, with an aptness worthy of the name of Sharp, hoisted it up with the remark that the bungbole was in the other end. "Now, young oman,ifyou don't mind it, I'll just cover you over with this wliisky barrel,so if any one comes they'll see the sound head with the bung out, an' they'll think I'm just taking it to market to be filled. A pretty good idea, young 'omau," he said. Grace assented, and suffered her pro tector to place the empty barrel over her head, thumping it two or three times to be sure that it gave forth the right sound after which lie resumed his seat once more and drove 011. He had not pro ceeded far, however, when lie apprised Grace through the bungliole that two men were in pursuit of them, and that she must keep up a good heart and lay snug. In a few moments tlie clatter of horses' hoofs, was distinctly audible to her above the heavy sound of the rumbling vehicle. The next moment she heard the strong voice of Pennington com manding the driver to halt. "By what right, an't please you do you delay an honest man 011 tlie king's 'igli-way?" demanded tlie driver, in a querulous voice, as though nothing in the world had happened. "By tlie common right," answered Pennington, "that one man lias to make inquiry of another. We are officers,and in search of a young female pickpocket who lias just made her escape from cus- J tody. Have you seen one 011 the road answering to that description? Remem ber we are officers, and you must con ceal nothing from us." ' 'What have you got stowed away in your boxes there?" , "O, you can examine 'em!" said the driver. "I don't fancy you'll find 'em j j contrabanded. There's heggs in some an' butter in others, ffeece, and wegeta bles, an' hother similar truck in all the rest of 'Olll. We'll hxk 'em over, an't please you." "Oli, 110!" returned Pennington, "there is too much work in that. But what have you got in that barrel?" he added, giving it a smart tap on the head with his tilling whip. "An't please you," quickly returned the driver, "it's a whiskey barrel I 11111 taking to market to be filled. If the young 'omau be there, you are in search of, she must have got through the bung hole somehow!" "I think if she was in there she would find her way out," answered Penning ton, with a meaning laugh, "But evi dently* she has taken the other road, and as time presses, we must bid you a very good morning, Mr. Driver." And with this, Pennington wheeled liis horse, and drove 011 with liis com panion, well satisfied that they haul sold the driver, instead of being sold them selves. The driver cracked up his horses, and began to whistle as though nothing lntd occurred. When the team reached the brow of the hill, he stopped his horses with a sudden *jerk, and clapping his hands to the barrel raised it up,and then jsiinting down into tlu* valley, said— "See. Miss Mortimer, there lx* a host of men there, and Farmer Atwood at tliuir head!" With a thrill of joy she recognized her uncle, and springing to her feet be fore the driver could restrain her, waved her hand aloft, and shouted with all her strength. In a moment the people below saw and heard her,and a simultaneous shout went up from the valley. When they came together,she told him in a few worils as jxissible, the story of her abduction and escape,and her friends eagerly forming themselves into a tri umphal procession, the curt being in the centre, marched to the office of the mag istrate at Nottingham. Again the story was repeated; aud on being assured by lir that she could guide them to the place, a young baro net, named Hopgood, who had taken much interest in the affair, as well as in the handsome vivacious face of our her oine, volunteered to lead a company of cavalry to the spot, if Grace would ac company him 011 a palfry and point out the way. To this Grace assented, and alxmt three hours later the cavalry started ou their expedition into the forest. TT.. .J luej lHt little ilittb-wRy in find ing the cave, and still less in forcing an entrance, and arresting four of the gang who chanced to lx* within. Among them they found a constitution and by-laws, with eight names attached to the docu ment. A dot of blood was prefixed to one, signifying that the person had lieeu "murdered or dealt with foully. The four wore immediately taken into custody aud carried to Nottingham, while a guard was stationed around the cave to make prisoners of the others 011 their return—Pennington and two of their number not yet having been taken. They were trapped, however,that very •night, and returned to Nottingham with their fellows in the morning to await their examination. Some weeks after they were brought upbefore the assizes, and on the testimony of Grace and others they were duly condemned to transpor tation for life. From this moment Grace Mortimer become the rage and admiration of every one, even to the nobility. She was petted by the old men, and toasted and flattered by the young; and if rejxirts be true she became tlio inno cent cause of more than one duel among the chivalrous young squires of tlie neighborhood. But when a few months later it waff proclaimed she was to be the bride of the young baronet, Sir Andrew Hopgood tliey bad 110 further occasion to quarrel among themselves, and were rendered but too happy l>v being present at the marriage fete, and* witnessing the hand some dower which Fanner Atwood lie stowed upon his beautiful niece. Whispering. Ask the offenders to go whispering for;i half hour, or hour, and at the end of that ascertain who have succeeded, letting tliem raise their hands. Com mend their success; give them a little rest and let them try another period. Have a period set apart for speaking by having a large card marked, "Study Hour," on one side and "Needful Speech" 011 the other. At the end of each hour turn this card. Keep 1111 eye 011 the noisy ones, and give them a separate place to sit, not so much as a punishment as to prevent their troubling others. Keep a record of those who whisper much, and class them as "Disorderly," and lower tlieir standing for go~d be havior. This needs to be handled with care. Detain those who are noisy and try to influence them by a kind personal talk. Appoint some of these monitors. Give extra employment to those who seem to lmve time to whisper. Make a great distinction between those who whisper about their lessons and those who whisper about mischief. ArllllriHl Diamond*— How tlu\v %v*r Made. Mr. Hannay, the Glasgow chemist, who succeeded in producing carbon crys tals which by careful examination by experts, proved to be real diumoiids, lias at lost explained the method by which lie produced them. His experiments were bold, expensive and oft repeated. Out of eighty only three succeeded. Violent explosions were frequent, fur naces were blown to pieces, steel tubes burst, and as a net result lie produced a few small crystals of diamond which would have but little monetary value. Furthermore, he confessed to having in duced in himself a very weak state of the nervous system caused by working under such difficulties and dangers. The crys tals were at last produced by a tube of coiled Loromtxir iron twenty inches long, four inches in diameter, having 1111 inter nal bore of only half an inch. 111 it were placed a mixture of 90 jK*r cent, bone oil, 10 jx'r cent, parffine spirit, and about 62 grains of metal lithium. The open end of the tube was welded air-tight,and the whole was heated to redness for four teen hours, a pr<xx*ss whieh of course caused a tremendous themperature with in the tube, the same process having ex ploded many tulx*s tried previously. Af ter allowing the tube to cool and open ing it, he found within a small mass ad hering to the sides which wai quite black. From this black mass lie obtain ed the crystalline carbon. Paraffine spirit is made up of earlxm and hydro gen, and it is suppos >d that the metal lithium went into union with the hydro gen leaving the gaseous carbon which, under the intense heat and pressure, was crytallized into the solid form which we call diamonds. If this ex|xrinieut can lx* regarded as an indication of nature's pnxjess the temperature of the earth must have been at one time much higher than anything we can now produce arti ficially, with a pressure so enormous as to lx* almost beyond calculation. The earth which now affords habitation for man must have undergone wonderful changes since it was capable of produc ing tlie diamond. — Dr. FootFs Health Monthly. Tin* IfHlliirliiMtioiiM of Groat >1 *. In 1806 General Rapp, on his return from the siege of Dantzic. having occa sion to speak to the Emperor, entered his study without being announced. He found him so absorbed that his entry was unperceived. The General, seeing the E.uperor contiuue motionless, thought he might be ill, and purposely made a noise. Napoleon immediately arous-d himself, oacL without any preamble, seising R+pp hv the arm, said to him, pointing to the sky : "Look there, up there " The Gen eral remained silent, but, on being asked a second tiire. he answered tliat he per ceived nothing. "What," replied the Emperor, "you do not see it? It is my star, it is before you brilliantthen, ani mating by degrees, he cried out : "It has never abandoned me. I see it on all great occasions, it commands me to go forward, and it is a constant sign of good fortune to me." It appears that stars of this kind, so frequently spoken of in history, aud so web known as a metaphor in language, art* a common halliuinati>ll oi the insane. Brierre de Boismont has a chapter on the stars of great men. 1 cannot doubt that pliautasies of this description were in some cases the basis of that firm belief in astrology which not a few persons of emi nence entertained. The hallucinations of great men may be accounted for in part by their sharing a tendency wh'ch we have seen to be not uncommon in the human race, and which, if it happens to be natural to them, is lia ble to be developed in their overwrought brains by the isolation ef their lives. A man in the position of the first Napoleon could have no intimate associates; a great philosopher who explores ways of thought far ahead of his contemporaries must have an inner world in which be passes long and solitary hours. Great men are also apt to have touches of madness; the ideas by which they are haunted, and to whose pursuit they devote themselves, and by which they rise to eminence, have much in common with the monomania of insanity. Striking instances of great vis ionaries may be mentioned, who had al most beyond uoubt those very nervous seizures with which the tendency to hallu cinations is intimately connected. To take a single instance Socrates, whose daimon was an audible not a visual ap pearance, was subject to what admits of hardly any other interpretation than cata leptic seizure, standing all night through in a rigid attitude. Shall Waiters Wear Beards. A proprietor lias an undoubted right to engage a man conditionally, upon shaving. No man is forced to accept; it is solely* a question between them, for them to settle, without the interference of anybody. Everything is carried to ridiculous extremes. One well-known up-town house actually requires their men to shave everything clean. It is said that a guest, to whom nature had denied any hirsute appendages what ever, and who consequently lacked that manly appearance which those orna ments alone can give, was waited upon by a waiter who possessed a handsome beard. Tlie customer, noticing the difference between the waiter and him self, announced his intention of not using tlie house in future unless tlie waiters shaved, which from that time lias been a rule of the house. It may not be generally known, but tlie proprietor of one of our leading uptown restaurants invariably shaves when in the city. This is consistency. This gentleman would, doubtless, scorn to ask a man to do what he would not do himself. A Great Catch on FUh. A great catch of weak fiali, was recent ly made about two miles off Rockaway Beach by the steam smacks E. T. De Blois, Capt. J. A. Keene; Leonard Brightmau, Capt. Elijah Powers, and J. W. Hawkins, Capt. J. Wawkius. These smacks are engaged in the menhaden or "moss bunker" fish ery for the oil-rendering and fish-scrap works on Barren Island and were cruising off Rockaway in search of schools. About noon a vast school of what the fishermen supposed at first to be menhaden was discovered stretching along the coast for miles. To borrow their language, "the water was red with fish, but they didn't break the surface, as menhaden always do." The boats were lowered, the seines spread, and then it was discovered that the school was of weak-fish and not menhaden. "I have been in the business for twenty years," said the mate of the Brightmau. "and I never saw anything like it before. The fish varied in length from one and a half to three feet, and in weight from three to seven pounds. The De Blois caught over '2OO barrels, the Hawkins 150 barrels, and the Brightmau 350 bar rels. The entire catch was estimated at comething over 200,000 pounds, which, at the ordinary market price for weak fish seven cents a pound would amount to §14,000. But, of course, the market price could not be maintained in the presence of such a catch as this, and it was said recently that a strong effort was being made by the wholesale fish dealers of Fulton market to prevent the greater part of the fish from being put on sale. The Captain of the Hawkins, which landed at Pier No. '22, East river, foot of Fulton street, obtained a promise from a Fulton, market dealer to take part of his catch, and then made over tures to Mr. Eugene G. Blackford, of E. G. Blackford A Co., Beekman street, to sell the remainder. As soon,however,as the Fulton market dealer learned of the offer to Mr. Blackford, he refused to take any of the fish. The captain of tlie Bright man, however, had better luck. H. M. Rogers A* Co., of No. 11 Fulton market, engaged to take his entire catch of 350 barrels, and immediately put two men in charge of the lioat. The Dll Blois, meanwhile, had made fast to the bulk head at the foot of Beekman street, and Captain Keene, failing to come to terms with the Fulton market dealers,engaged P. Owens, of No. 104 South street, who manages the peddling trade for the Ful ton Market dealers, to dispose of his fish. A crowd speedily gathered about his boat, and the fish sold almost as fast as they could be handled at twenty-five cents a pair. The pressure of the crowd became* so great at one time that police assistance was invoked, and Officer Wil liam Brown, of the steamboat squad, w as detailed to stay on the boat. ItinL anl the Lighthounci*. It is a curious fact in natural history that our migrating birds all (or nearly all) perform tlieir migrations in the night. Subsequent investigations have led to the acceptance of this habit 011 the part of the birds by all scientists who have studied this subject. And Capt. Brooks, of the Faulkner's Island lighthouse, says that every year great numbers of birds kill themselves by dashing against the light. Once, in the top of tlie lofty lighthouse off St. Augustine, Florida, I found the thick and solid plate glass badly cracked, and some plates newly put in to replace others that had been wholly smashed by the impact of wild ducks—and this, too, bear in mind, in spite of a strong wire netting placet! around the light for its protection! Such is the force with which they fly. Faulkner's Island light is so strongly protected by heavy plate glass that it is rarely, if ever, broken. But " the slaughter of the innocents " is enormous in spring and fall. During the period of tin* main movement, for a week or so in spring and in September, Capt. Brooks says hundreds of dead birds are picked up. 011 the morning of May 1(5, 1878, he picked up no fewer than 216 dead birds at the fix>t of the lighthouse tower, none of them larger than a catbird, aiul he says there must have I wen three or four times that numlier that were so disabled that they could not get off the island. He thinks 1,000 birds at least were killed or wounded in that one night against liis light alone; and he took measures to ascertain how it was with other lighthouse keepers. Most of them reported quite as large, and some even a larger destruction than Faulkner's Is land had witnessed! Take even twenty of the eighty or one hundred lighthouses (at a guess) betw *en the New Jersey coast and the shores of Maine, aud if anything like this rate of ornithological fatality prevailed, what must be the annual destruction of birds on our northern Atlantic coast alone ? Mrs. Celia Tliaxter, in her reminiscences of the Isles of Shoals, tells of a similar state of things at that light. Doubtless tlie keeper of almost any light could tell a similar story. No wonder our New England birds do not increase—that many kind 9 seem to be falling off. That with the wanton destruction wrought by long-legged men and boys with guns, and this work of the lighthouses, there is danger that the number of our small birds will tend, notwithstanding their fecundity, to diminish rather than in | crease. A Boj'i Grip for Lif*. William Stonestreet, a twelve year old lad, had a narrow escape from a sudden and terrible death recently, in Louisville, Kentucky. The boy says he throw ing a base ball up against the side of his father's house, near Hancock and Lamp tOD streets, when the ball lodged in the gutter at the top of the house. He imme • diately started np to get it. getting out on the roof through a hatchway. The house has three stories and an attic, the roof is rather steep, and as the boy slowly edged over toward the gutter be felt a sinking at the heart. Ills little sister Mary was stand ing in the yard eyeing her brother, and calling out to bim every instant to come down. He made some boastful answer, and continued his dangerous journey. He reached the edge of the roof, caught a firm hold of some projecting shingles, and lean ing over seized the ball. Before he could arise from his stooping position, be felt the shingles to which he was clinging giving way with him. He clutched them nerv ously and began to draw himself up slow ly. Suddenly the shingles gave way, and •n an instant the boy seemed to be hurrying to instant detfth. The pavement was fully thirty feet below, and there seemed nothing to prevent his being dashed to pieces on the bricks. Just as he was rolling over the gutter he involuntarily seized bold of it and clung there desperately. The gut ter was an ordinary tin affair, not very strong; nor was it bound to the roof very tightly. The sudden weight of the boy made the tin sag down, and a few ot the fastenings gave way, leaving the boy hang ing down over the abyss, with only a bro ken rotten piece of tin between him and eternity. William was now thoroughly aroused to his danger, and cried out for help. His sister ran into the house and happening to find a colored man there told bun of her brother's danger. The mau ran out and getting a long ladder which was lying in the yard put it up against the house. The boy was now almost exhaust ed. The perspiration was running down his lace in streams. His eyes were dilated with terror and exhaustion, and it seemed impossible for him to hold on till the as distance came. The colored man ran up the ladder nimbly. Scarcely had he reached the top when the boy, who could hold on no longer, dropped into his arms. The colored man took him down and when the boy reached the ground he fainted. He was taken into the house and physicians were summoned. A Woman with a History. Mrs. Be&tty passed through Nashville, Tenn., recently, en route few Blue Uidge Springs Va., her accustomed place for spending the summer, to Criggie Hope, where she will spend some time with her niece, Mrs. Murray, and family, of Mem phis. Mrs. Beatty is a remarkable woman. She is a daughter of Governor John Adai r , of Kentucky. At the age of 18 she mar ried Joseph M. White, of Florida, who was elected to Congress from that State, and continued to represent it at Washing ton for twelve yean, without ever going to the State or even asking the suffrages of (lis constituency. He declined to serve longer before each election, and finally was Tiowed to retire on the pretext his wife's health required a change. He then went on an important foreign mission and remained abroad many years, whereby his gilted and beautiful wife possessed extra ordinary advantages in sharing the honors of dignitaries in Church and State. She was honored by a private interview with the Pope of Rome fifty years ago without paying the usual homage of kissing his toe, ind not only did he pledge ever to receive whomsoever she might see proper to com mend aud to remember her in his prayers, but be sent htr some valuable presents, among which was an elegant diamond cross, with an exquisite representation of the Saviour in amethyst. Mr. White was a successful lawyer, and at his death left an estate of a half million dollars. Five years and more had elapsed after his death when Mrs. "Florida 11 White, as she was known in Washington, married Dr. Beatty, of New Orleans. He died in about five years, when she retired to the privacy of uer estate in Florida. There she remained alone with her two hundred slaves until the results of the war made changes neces sary. When Mr. Lincoln issued the eman cipation proclamation she called them to gether and explained to them its import. They readily understood, for she had, with •liligence. taught them to read and write. Although past 80 years of age she posses ses her faculties quite perfectly. Her memory is excellent. When younger she and Mi 8. President Polk were special friends. After the war she busied herself in the building of a Southern Presbyterian Church at Washington, and from one of uer own sacrifices she gave a couple of thousand dollars realized on the sale of tier diamond cross. It was a relic that she greatly prized, and she would not have parted with it, but, although she had edu cated seventeen children, she was never a mother; hence there was no person on whom she could so satisfactorily bestow it iis in giving it to her church A Noted Statue Beiujousfield's statue is to stand in the north transept of Westminister Abbey— that which is entered from the church yard of St. Margaret upon the Thames side, and in which stands the well-re membered monuments of Lord Chatham, Palmerston, Mansfield, Canning and Peel. Beanconsfield's statue will be placed next to that of his old antagonist, Sir Robert Peel. It will probably take the place of Chantrey's monument to Sir John Malcolm, the diplomatist of East India fame, to whose memory an other monument in the form of an obelisk 100 feet high stands at Eskdale,in Dum friesshire, Scotland. The Chantrey monu ment will be removed to another portion of the Abbey, as it was the intention of the late Dean Stanley to have the north transept devoted in the future to Prime Ministers. . The selection of the place for the Beaconsfield statue, aud the ser mon upon the late Premier, were among the very latest official acts of the Dean of Westminister. —The official list of property in Ver mont shows a total value of $163,391,- 893. Last year it was $109,250,000. NO. 36.
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