1,A.L.V1•r5:1;194
The' Democratic Watchman.
hf '" r iikttYPOlPli: PA
' , THE 84111V8ADRAWER.
, .
Tinifftrll y liriwetlumysttornhug,
Ilderest rare,
"liffirni tenet; ittnlyllftg. • • '
• ''''''ThatitrY•daling shall never
house weika t, •
And there while the hours are wa
rill the Is all at rest,
• 'ot firriact limey a baby• •
~glorse to my aohtumbramt,
"'Aftpreity, 4We gatminis t
wrought, sitting apart,
Wileb" rgt.o o , l i o it r r u trotohing
vrmet my beating fltia
"• Andeflierinrrkeppy d ng
iiineakst in a 111114 e song,
Like the murmur of birds ai hromling,
When the dAY are Warm and, long.
„Lletrod kkeslidoty wardrobe,
fh_ trot was almost fUll
WI tobdis bf the'llnest muslin.
AuOnsebsa tithe whitest wool.
• 1 Ismaieerth:.;,' kllloirethet, . •
. With rows for' every pair,
III?. And "Valk " 9top fragrant,
, or my prAdoe tp wear
Ah 1 the radiant summer *toning,
of • ntather'ajoy
Thank 0011, he la Mt and perfect,
leyboastifol, mow born boy."
La
it hhlit !tear be.preio white garment s
wrought while sitting apart
Lay him, so sweet and so helpless,
Aare, oltme to my throbbing heart.
Shifty and many in evening
Mk • ESCIO-a , " baby mune,
What do tha angels Cl.ll him r
For he died without a mune,
Bit while the hours ire waning,
And the 11041110 1111 all at rest,
And fanny a baby nailing
Close to my aching brow
SPEECM OF SENATOR WILLIAM A
WALLACE, AT BELLEFONTE.
The likswie of Use Campaign
BIELLZTONTE, PA., Aug. 24, '69
Sonatbr Wallace,. of Clearfield, spoke
this evening hero in the Court HOUIO tQ
ft fere and enthushuitie meeting of the
Democracy. He said :
At the threshold of a Gubernatorial
campaign in a great State like ours, in
which the results are to be potential as
well without as within our borders, it
might seem appropriate to discuss the
grave questions in national politics
which present thetnselvee on every
hand. The short-comings of a national
'admhvtatration that assumed the reini of
power with flattering premises of reform
and goo 4 gnvernnment; the fatuity of
Its officill head in surrounding himself
with advisers without experience and
tounselore without knowledge ; ;their
ntter failure to create and sustain a poli
cy in our national affairs either foreign
or internal ; the broken pledges for re
trenchment and economy , the unsatis
factory condition of financial affairs ;
the .increased rates of interest; the
prostrated condition of all kinds of buei
-1/014 ; anti the onerous and never-ending
weight of taxation, are themes upon
each of which the people think and fuel
deeply and to these, we might with prof
it dew, to our attention In the pending
canvass. But matters of serious M.-
ment•claim our attention nearer home,
and remembering that our institution
x
are founded upon the principles of local
self-government, and that the protection
of our personal rights and of those lesser
but important forms and privileges
which aid in making up our .fornt of
government, is vital to Its success as a
whole, it becomes our ,duty to closely
scan the condition of afairs In our State
government, and to learn by calm scru
tiny there, whether the agents we have
employed in its istiministretion buys
boen faithful to their trust, and are
worthy of is renewal of our confidence
That a wide spread sentiment of dissat
isfaction exists, nay more, that the pr»
wailing tone of the people and the prose
of the Commonwealth, is tigeinet the .
official fealty and perromil purity of the
mass of those who have made and exe
cuted our laws in the past three vdars,
will scarcely be disputed Such a sen
timent could not exist unsupported by
facts, and it is our bueines4 in this can
.vass to toot its truth
We br o adly charge, that In every ele
ment of good government, in every es
Gentlel feature neetywary to the protec
tion of the rights of the people, the ad
ministration of John W. Geary has
been e failure. He Is the Executive
head end the policy dictated and the
ends obtained are equally Chargeable to
his account, and hi, Isi justly responsible
for the misrieeds of his subordinates and
of those whose policy MU. moulded at
his dictation. ,
He is responsible, that the expenses of
the Slime government are larger now
than daring the war, and areiaereasln g ;
that the treftenry of the Stem is teen
aged in the Interest of a ourrupt ring,
and the money of the people seed to fat,
' ten now burdens upon them ; that e n_
blusbinK corruption la boldly charged
upon the incumbents of place ; that pri
vate legislation, to the detriment of the
public good. rapidly Increases ; that
monopolies are melded and given power
to oppress the citizen in his business ;
' that the jedidary are attacked and the
"sanctity of the organic law overridden
for a price; that legislative borers and
Cort/mg officials swartn9eround the seats
• of power, and fatten on the body politic
and the • what revetitais that firm into
the coffers of the Commonwealth are
. diem* from their legitimate and con
,- Iticutioaal p' 'pupa
ilitzir OW ene of tilt!
•,..ElOO.l 44, Mad 4FO 10 Plmin
tenapoe.qt a horde o unnecessary hire
, lingo,about t lha legleiattve mid, executive
&pertinent" of the Mite government.
. This is no fancy . picturq, hUt 14 the
; ports*y*l of mo r tar butatartling t*itiee,
and l ts, truth will ,be demonstrated by au
4wvetotigtetto of the 10104 ,
• , The ex of the thatesoyernment
. during t three years of the war
ear",i4 o . l airtqati of iliivernoc
4.
OM. 'Nitro 0 40 owe,:
"PDX YearSi oe .peoimber 14;408,
..441, 4 gen;
~ ; , tor, pm/ ,qid ing
toor/ r4 p,'Keros6oo t ilVl ;
..., ,;w.ft_ leiosw,riAs/ 400 6 1 ,
Y !refs ititt . t/ • / .t. , 1 J
, • r• ,1•kr.**14 1, 4 1 - 41 P91 Ole 1ref141414„
jbw ad Wagon of ,fto!.. Gepry, thew 1
iii i4
iffitl, iIr•AVW POW "44•41 Po,
-4.04% 'l 1 ,. . 1 ,.•11Vi1l VI, 0 , • I , ' Ii• 4, ,L) I, I
10116,••••0••••• 1 4.•*•••.•.1.•••••••••rirry
11167 ,11711
1808 8411.1011
The expenses of 1888, It Is thus seen,
are $246,618 greater than wore these of
menu
truth be renaereci for this frightful in
crease of.oxponditure.
"Phe-tremetwr-rkwift-rm-eartbramb&-ir.
atcltteitstYo'pearnadtionnsl3o
'
road
o ag in
Men whose 0911800011 W elected them as
honest men i only those Who have seen
Its manipulations of hien and Its altneist
universal success in its movemen.s, can
justly appreciate the vicious influence it
exerts. The treasury of the State it re
lords as its inheritance and the money
of the 'People at its legacy. To 911 the.
Treasury and ndt pay the debt, to hank
die the deposits and realize cent. per
cent. Mutt their skillful `manipulation,
to redeem the lean beating five per cent.
and replace it with one bearing six, by
an "adroit arrangement 'with those in
power, have beets some of Its exploits tri
the past three years. Previous to 1867
the mass of our debt paid an interest of
but deeper cent., but under the shallow
pretext that it was over due, the ring
enacted the law of February 2d, 1867,
by which the Treasurer was authorized
to redeem the overdue five per cent.
loans and replace them with a loan
bearing six per cent, In this arrange-
meat the hand of Governor Geary is
plainly seen, for without his consent it
could not have been the law.
A loan of more than- twenty three
millions of dollars bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent. 'was iralllllllll.
ted, by thin operation, into a six per
cent. loan, and the amount of interest
payable by the people, in 1866, wits
$1.892,105,wam increased in 1867 to $2,-
237,033,0 r over 3b0,000 of an increase in
the first year. in 1868, we paid 1,979-
fi9o in interest, or $87,000 more than
11 , 9 had to pay in 1866. The expenee
of placing the new loan paid by the
State wail nearly $90,000, making an
aggregate 01 over a half a million of
dollars paid since 1867 to enrich the
Treasury ring. Alf of this twenty.
three millions of six percent. loan is
vet to mature and upon it this year arid
each succeeding year until payment,
$230,000 snore of your money than he.
fore - writtheeerimary, must be paid in in.
tercet. 'flw figures are from the
official documents, and the same docus
mente show that the State Treasurer
had in his hands, in 1867, an average
monthly balance of over three and a
half million,' of dollars, arid in la6B,
his average monthly balance wan over
two millions three hundred thousand
dollars. With these princely revenues
at their command what could not the
treasury ring effect t Large fortune,'
flowed gently into the laps theme
shrewd financiers and they controlled
every spisiisluirtit to pOwer and place.
No law credit be passed against their
will and their asnisutnee in legislation
was a guarani.) of success.. Nu bill
eat" ever paused In a hich these num
were interested that a-as refused the
signature of the Govereor, and lie never
inittated n Momentl movement against
their will.
*That wrriipting and debasing in.
fluencea surround and pervade the at.
mosphere of the State capital, scarce
needs proof. The closing bourn of the
last session of the legislature were full
of proofs of the wealth, the power and
the corrupt purviews of the Treasury
rung, and so vile and base have we be
come; and so plainly was the power of
money in legialation proved, that the
tnoml sense of the people who hear me
would be shocked at its recital and the
outrageous character of the transaction
almost etamlb ibex a falsehood Such
Gouge could not be, had we a firm and
pure executive. The knowledge that
the calm and intelligent scrutiny of a
capable and honest Governor was to be
fastened upon their deeds, and that the
veto power would he exercised in bold.
ing them arid their purchasel privileges
up to the scorn and execration of an
outraged p4ople, would go far to deter
these men from corrupting the weak
rind purchasing the corrupt. The evil
is a terrible reality. It confronts us in
high places and it saps the vitals of the
State. The remedy rests with the peo.
ple alone.
The vast increase in private legisla
tion and the many corporate monopo
lies granted, to the injury - of the people,
can beat be Allow') by a comparison of
different periods.
. .
Under the administration of Governor .
Packer, during 1858, 18:0 and 1860,
there were paaseti a total of 2,019 Lille
which became laws, or an annual aver
age of 073. During 1R74, 1865 and
1866, under Governor Curtin, there were
passed 3,131 bill* which became laws.
.or an animal average of 1,(144. Whilst
during the sessions 1867, 1868 and
1809, Governor Geary's three years,
3,689 Mlle became laws, showiug an
annual average of 1,223, or nearly
double the average during Governor
Packer's term. The necesnity for spem
iel legislation during the war was tar
greater than since, and the amendment,
to the coustitmtion depriving the ,k,gis
'Attire of power co enact laws in canes
in which the courts have jurbididtion
in the hands of a firm execut‘ve odicer.
would have vastly decreand the anion nt
of them vicious enantmen te. tiotares of
lasrmare fonntl.apon, the alattite books
of ),867, 1868 and 1869, in which the
'doutte wire *Mad With the' &mire, of
the subject, 'yet favoritism,, or some
other Inagua, mettred the Approval of
the Execticirp. Thin is the,fleld too, in
which special privileges are ,Mcured
and in Which peculiar vocation of
tegislativw borens is -made profltible,
awl when it is seenithat in the term of
Goverjor Qeszypy,cr eight hundred
laws have been tinaotei (venting chart
tfareAolirrfretiteeeeporattotil or enier4..
fag tbe, pow igt(441 1 4044. ; liMpteci •
Fib pll4„be estimated, suit tha
c le 'basin unA•ittood.' 'Two'
.111 'Clftitit'lo/gllltatioll' is' In netesleart'
and detrimental to the people, and
their safety demanded a clearly defined
policy on this subject and a rigid ad..
herence 'thereto by the Executive.'
power to apt
additiort telt _..... —ditly in ......
A
sion. 'SifeW I AI ra - 4:4411 +llJttititlytitit
°er ,ItTi 44 nvy? t 3 9
an 4 1 41 t Oft ay. rweio,
general laws as far as possible. The
remedy R* Ntib snlailiieltremil in the
hands of the Execidivn. lie has failed
to airily it and hits aid&l and abetted
the wro'ng.
The delibetate overthrow , N isjudi•
opal district, the. attempt to nullif; the
of the people of that district in the
choice of tiadr judge, and the palpable
violation 'Of 'the ronatientioil 'rimmed'
in modeling, ah are ohaegenbiejlirectly
to John W. (hwy. for the hill was
signed on the very morning after the
night of its passage, under clicumstan•
ces which coriclusivelY prove his
knowledge of itst purpose and character.
If ha knew these, is it uujust to_chargs
that he knew how it was passed end
what, base means secured the limes
nary majority for its gpectly enactment?
If 06 judiciary are to be attacked and
the eapreast will of the people defied by
the use Of money in a corrupt combina
tion, of what value are our institutions,
and whose life or property is secure?
John W. Cleary possessed the know!.
edge of the wrong and the power to
prevent it, and tailed to use them, and
lie is justly responsible I'm the infamy.
[ruder Clip provisions of the law en
acted in days 'when national debts were
not considered national blessings, and
still unrepealed, (=loin revenues belong
ing tA the State were to be applied to the
payment Of the State debt through the
operations of a Sinking Fund. Since
1860, the last year of Gov. Packer's ad
ministration, $45,346,000 have g o n e
into the treasury. By *far the larger
portion of this proceedr from the reve
nues specifically applied by law to the
payment of the debt, and yet the debt
now is only about four millions less than
it was in 1860, and this calculation ex
cludes the loans fur military purposes,
and to redeem the overdue loan Where
have those millions gone, end why Is
the State debt still so large 7 The mis
management of the finances of the:gate,
never so groat as within the last three
years, the paytnent of larmdy increased
salaries, the emplovment of pastors and
folders and other useless (Amalfi. the
increase in the iinuount of interest, end
the necessities of the Treasury ring,
have combined to increase our expenses
to so great nlri - extent as to divert Mee.
large revenues from theirproper desti
nation and therefore the de bt- still exists
Strenuous etThrts were, made at the
close of the last 'Session of the legislature
to have the surplus in the Treasury ap
plied toward the payment' of the debt
maturing, and a section was placed in
the appropriation bill by the united vote
of all the Democrats and it parlor the
Republicans, ordering the moth ipation
of the payment of about $BOO,OOO there
of out of the surplus then in the Treas
ury. This would have saved the State
$50,000 The bill was then sent to the
vommitve of con term - 1,v., and t)My struck
this section out at the command of the
Treasury ring. When the bill came up
in the Senate, on final passage, he this
form, it was voted down by a rote of
22 to 10, mainly because of the omission
Or this amendment and of the payment
of the piasters and folders in the
Seven ltepublicans voted with the Dem
ocriits and defeated the bill and aliened
the wisdom of the amendment Yet,
within three days four of those Republi
cans Changed from and voted with their
brethren to reconsider the bill and they
passed it by a vote of T 7 to 111, two Re.
publicans voting with the Democrats
against the 1011, and IMO Democrat vot
ing with the Republicans for the bill.
By this vote the State lost at least $50,-
000, and the ring gained the use of over
$BOO,OOO for more than a year. Why,
in this exigency and undir the facts
disclosed on thin passage of the bill, did
not the Executive do his duty sad send
it heck without his signature 1 lie was
too weak ur lie was the tool of the 'Treas
ury ring; in either case, ho is unfit for
the place hu
The administration ofJohn W. Geary
Is a failure, the name of legislator under
his rule has become a hissing and a re
proach, the (sir fame of our noble Com
monwealth is tarnished, her revenues
are wasted, and her debt unpaid ; her
magnificent resources lie undeveloped or
private enterprise must do the work ;
the power to guide the State in her no
ble career of progress, and to give to
her that place amor.g her sisters for
which nature has fitted her, must be
sought elsewhere than in the feeble ca
pacity of him who now Is her Chief Ex
ecutive ; and we point with confidence
to the man of oar choice, to Idui who
has grappled with the rugged realities
of our mountains and our valleys, and
by his indomitable energy has made
them the sources and the avenues of
iiiitulti riches, to hint who with strong
mind and iron will has concentrated all
his powers in her development, to iris
who has by these acts proved his now,
lky to suceessfully manage and control
but own business, to him who has by
Ills business intellect, his upright deport
ment, his spotleils 'diameter and his
deeds of charity, won the, hrgherit trade
among Ills fellow men—to Asa/Packer,
the successful business men, as the man
whom Pernisyfvanlatiow needs to ban
ish corruption, to pay her debt, restore
her enedit.anvi vionslop.her resources.
(linrnenee Applause,l „
With uvitebnlly' "hasbn 1 131overnror
Geoy tvansinittod to the , legisisture the
revolutions of ;Congress proposing the
fotilsouth Amendment, and in doinu so
le.Uctx44 , l, it.idtsiq • siiiii•ove
ettinvi of the IfutitelerMftrese and un-
Wilt...tingly • , recornnienit ithe , prompt!
paglhuitiovi of ithe wipe )ry the "Rapie r
turn."
Ere thus Inithitlisibe grass wrong that
hail labels perpetrated nein-the piterikl of
'the . fllf9rn iN I uP.PS4. PPP*
tutlin whiph emphatically daelares that•
die right dr stitiage "Asir Neat •In 'oda
class of citizens totite. , estelasiot •zot all
others, he recommends the destruction
of that into and the substitution of an
other without the authority of the peo-
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•
WE
dtt•
, d i vot their right to pose
.
: of ioe 4
t t ' o Jon! : th-. e i
.io f e ' tit t..
do T to 11; % mi. to . Itss
e l irinvtv in tioAnio:.=ende:voroolwwhm
, s s el wrong has boon perpetrated ups
n cl e it4n,siitueoto py r qp Legislature
n
"FTPTi lli ri e-b- P - Ri
(eik "iilthemtganie 61)4°4 etitithp
• by din • s •
.againss the rati cation, and their right
to be Heard before thiterwerdiet was re
;mut*, wits as clear as was their right
to fiats 'upon the question origirinlly. It
hit nbt entered into the canvass in the
election of a single member .or senator
and nearly all of those who voted for its
adoption in 180, voted agalrnit nn
amendment of the same character in
1868, koown as the Itioknian resolution.
t)is determined were they in their refusal
to permit this Yoke of 'the people to be
heard, that in the Senate, on the I lth of
March, the Radicals, by a strict party
vote, refused to postpone the question
for two weeks in order that' an oppor
utility might he'hnd for the people to
be heard b petition and remonstranee
ou the subject. Never ,before was the
right of petition denied in a Pennsyl
vania Senate. In the same body reso
letions providing for the preparation of
a bill to submit the question of ratifica
tion of the amendment to the people et
the polls in October, and to postpone sic-
Ron until the rtimult was isseertaineil,
was also voted down by : the Ridicals,
every nom of them voluig against sub
mitting the question to the people In
the Home the mime proposition was sub
milted and there, too, the Radicals re
fused, by a strict party v(ite, to submit
the question to a vote of the people
The resolution ratifying the amendment
was then adopted, in both brunched, by
the votes of the Radical members and
Senators, and we noosed from them to
you The question for you us determine
Is, Was it right for V 0.14 to pass upon so
vital a charge as this, or will you be
bound without your ronsent npportu.
nay to express your dissent f The sen
timont of the people of the State is un
mistakable against the ratilicsstion of the
amendment Yet Radical orators argue
that the question i• settled and cannot
be re-opened, and that, therefore, you
should not ;apish thew for their violf
Lion of duty The princ.ple of loyal
government is violated by the servants
of the people, who declare 01,4100.11/es
their musters The inherent powers of
the people to, deteFinine fur themselves
their rule of suffrage and to adopt or
reject their organic laws, id dens , d and
trampled upon ; and they are deliberate
ly told they are without remedy and
that their faithless agents should again
he employed Can Impudonte further
go? The right of repeal exist*, and in
heres in equity avid Justice The forms
of our eon4titittiosi rind the sovereignty
of the people, la well as the lowerful
voice ot our groat Suite, when deliber
ately announced through the ballot, will
deinocistrate In the petty tyrants who
would thus deprive us of our dearest
rights, that fraud and chicanery upon
four millions of p,•„ plc will not w•ii, and
that the •voice of Pen u t yl the
Keystone of the Federal arch, is not for
but is ag mist the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment (Greta ii
plat/84.
RIPE WHEAT
We loot to-day o er a outlined fortn,
And or tears fell softly loin ,
We looked our hut nu the aged tare,
With IN look of peso., Its patient graos
hair like a silver crow n
Wr tonrhrd our awn to the rlavrol.l hand.
From life'. long slate ut rem ,
And nmnng the hionrontr, white and 1 , 111.0.
We noted w letneft of golden wheat.
Slapped doer to the lolent breast
Tilt blossom]. wiii•pered of fadelelol bloom,
on, land where fall no tram,
The ripe wheat to'd of toll and clinic,
The patient walling the I rontlng prayer,
The garnered good of the year.
We know not what work his hands have found.
What rugged plamo. hi. feet ,
What emus aim his what hilu.kness 111 night
ICA
We saw but (lie .. the EllOlOlOlll.l white,
And the build& ripened wheel
As code goes up m the fields of earth,
Bearing the tmuuree of 11(n,
God lotiae fur some gathered limn of good,
From the harvest that shining stood,
But welting the reaper's knife.
Than labor well, that in death you go
Not only bent with bloeanma atritet—
Not bent with doubt and hardened with feds ,
And dead. dry hunks of the "'atoned y ars—
lint laden Vlllll golden wheal
A Remarkable Dream
Last winter, in one of the London pa
pens, an article appeared suggesting the
Lypothesis which might account fur
some of the unexplained phenomena of
dreams. The writer recognized at, an
undoulitell tact the freipieat
cation 4100/40 , 1641 AIM 1 / 4 /13411.. it persons
far separated from each other; so that
simultaneous impression's wire msdc
on those minds, not only in aloe', bo
also in waking hours. lie guppomed,
than, that there [MOIL be a power in
nature whereby a brain, intensely excit
ed, might send forth Imphisev—traces,
perhaps—inch as should, in at, letiktil tit,
reach another brain, aril Convey
thoughts arid images from t i arm( to
the second. Ile,engsested that, I.y process to which the movements of elec
tricity and magnetism- 'would afford at
least distant analogies, mind. ie sym
pathy with each other might Otte share
a coMmon experience, He would in
this Way explaon the many well attest.
ed Instances' relittiver , hays
been impressed - with the fact of the
death of some object of love,, dying, it
may he; thousands of miles away ; ao'
at the. very moment of 'disease, 'hey
have felkiunbutitlthaLtleAtlibad taken
*CP-
Read,ini this artie e, was reminded
tifriitrv'e that I' had'heatid'hilet an'
iiithrtate Itiend,• era &tint 'which be ,
, had, had , ; direct !mai -pristtioasly, and
vTlikeh Ifft, otti riiepds also Opt n
ed ayy Ike same, lapur, tberepre ask
ed hioilo eve eiliint,
itiuthe of Whitt' Qd . frad'tbltt fitt., and
, ainsuri shat fleas tan. real it without
feeliew l tbealit virmi ind•O q , reiwkiable
dream.
I need only add that my friend is a
gentleman and a scholar, of high cal•
larit ell tll Mer
Is the fall of 1865-1 think it was In
. th L zaujaLQLX.p . awktr z .-whikl. was '
spoiting law in th city
Llll 4 elired to my room a milkkikli
Trt-w-Ttltek twriviniug.
member, distinctly. hearing the clock
strike Avelve atiTllTYTh"bed, watching
the smouldering lire, anti) &oviform'
crept over me and I slept. I hardly
lost conficiounnses when I seemed 16
heir hind and confused noises, and felt'.
a choking sensation at my throat as if.'
it were grasped by,,a strong hand. 1
awoke (as it seemed) and found wyaclf
lying on my hack on the cobble stones
of a nano* ntreet, writhingi.in•the grip
as low brows], thick eat MAO, with
"uniceinpt" hair and grizzled heel
who, with Quo head at my throat an
holding my Wrist %;ritli the other, three'
his weight upon me and held me down.
From the first I knew that his deeire
was to kill me; and /117 stragglea wete
for life. I recall, distinctly, the sense
of horror at first, and then that of furl.
ous determination which took posses.
nion of me. I did not make a sound,
but with a sudden effort threw him
half off urine, clutched him frantically
by the hair and in my agony bit furi
ously at his throat. Over and over
we rolled upon the matinee. My strength
began to gtte way helbre the fury of
my atruggles. I saw that my antago
,, mist felt it and smiled a ghastly smile of
triumph.
Presently I saw him reach forth his
hand and grasp a bright hatchet. Even
in thin extremity I noticed that the
hatchet was new and apparently unused,
with glittering head and white polished
handle. I made one more tremendous
tight for life. For a second I held my
enemy powerless and saw, with such a
thrill of delight its I CII,IIIIOL forget, the
horror stricken faces of friends within
a rod of us, rushing to iny rescue. As
the foremost of theta sprang upon the
back os my antagonist lie wrenched his
wrist away from me, I saw the hatchet
flash shore iny head and felt instantly
a doll blow on iny/orellead.
I fell back the ground, kntimb
ness spread from my herd over my
body, a warm liquid flowed down ujion
my face and into ,ny mouth, and I re
member the taste was of hood, and my
"limbs were loosed." Then I thought
I was suspended in the air a few feet
above inc laxly, I could see ffipf , elf, as
if to a glass, I) mg on the back, the
hatchet sticking in the bend, and the
ghastliness of death gradually'spread•
mg over the tace. 1 noticed especially
that the noun,' made I.y the hatchet
was in the centre of the forehead at
right %wiles to, and di% ided atually by
the line of the hour. I bean] Pie weep
ing of friends, at first loud, then grow•
ing fainter and fading away intomilenne.
A delighttul sensation of tweets repose
without a feeling 111
like that which I experienced years
ago at rape May when beginning to
drown—crept over nie. I heard exquis
ite music; the air was full of rare per
tunics; I sank upon it bed of downy
me a lien, are' a start, T awoke.
The tire still smouldered in the grate,
my watch told me I had trot been more
Lthan half an hour leap.
Early the next morning I Joined an
intimate friend, aoh whom I spent
touch of my time, to acemoretn.y
as was my hail, muffin, to the law
school. We Loafed for a moment of
various topics, when suddenly heinter
ranted me wolf the remark that be
I had dreamed strangely of me the night
before.
"Tell me," f asked; "what was it V
'•I fell asleep,•' he said, " about
tweke, and immediately- dreamed that
I was pass;ng through a narrow street
when I heard noise and cries of IbUr
der. Hurrying, in the direction of the
noise, t saw you lying on S - iur back
fighting with a rough laboring man
who held you down. I rushed forward,
but as I reached yos he struck yer on
the head with a hatchet and killed you
instantly. Many of our friends were
there rind we cried bitterl In a nit):
ment I awoke, and An vivid had been
the dream that my cheeks were wet wit b
tears.
"What sort of a man was her" 1
asked.
"A thick eat ;Min, iri a flannel shirt
and rough tronaerft; hie hair was un
combed anti itle beard' itrizzled and
of a few days growth," ,
Within a wattle I was in Burlington,
N. Jr, I called at a frienil'a
"My Illuthand," mid m friemEr is ile
to nit', "had r.tteli a horrid dream about
you the other night: He dreamed
that a.man killed. you in a Aireet fight.
Ile ran to hel yea, hut before he reach
ed the auatt-icaus uty had killed you
wit,h a great ! club. "0 no,veried the
burtmod — aeroall the rdom; "he killed
you with ft
' I may add that - these crietidd.pf mine
wane pensonallymeik sown, eaaiotlier;
The,tirct.one, in, ricw Y0,r14, dr,e.auied
,tiat lie %ram the foremost who reached
the scene; the other . thitf'he was' one
'of the number who followed ; Leoilr of
' which 'point/ coincided with oiy , qwn
•
droani.
I a ea4A are Ots Plicunistancek, I, • re
theta. ljeineraberi f il the remark
of old Artaphernes, that dreams are of
fen'the resaft of a train of thcaight'
started bv•eonveroation ,or roaltiag l , or
Ike lueidents of ,wiskiag time, but I
riouldrecall, nothing, nor Fot4lo,lller ,
of my frieityts Gant any eirpums ne
"that'eref thib had sad. WSW vei
'lteettot by, tut 'OPistorh;l : is ar6tclr
they iecatlith taloa lase otigis f this, re,
A r49431 F. , ,,,Y 4 4 , 15.e1e 4 R ,
—When Dan Rico'. ars' wicy Jan
away with an affinity, tho bereaveff htio
band said, "It is a comfort to know that
Ole went off with a pinthstnnn.
clYeTtor isbellllima horse?
Ike auseS *lair rah it ell m b s tiee:
—Within ton years past the einigrA.
Lion to tlill3p2ityy from gurope bosh.
mated st'r,ouomoo txl6bno. '
AVitrielltil t sdreielecuirett the par,
milt of her bill by' carryinvolf the
wooden leg,of a ntybactory costumer.
—A contemporary thinks that if rain
4t'oes' not soon oonie to lay the dust,
"New Jetste*reill All blow easy."
....Remark of au lowa man during the
total ecl)pne: "Gentlemen, I have be en
to n hundred circuses, but thie'bdats 'em
all!"
—A. little Utica girl's delleitint
wealth h t . uto,;kiave all. the mope), you
want to eperid, and to Wear button gat.
totti."
.Tbalar'ftlebt alarnond fn the 'United
Stases Is said to Live been recently sold
at Saratoga for t 1,500, It weighs 10!
karats. . .
—An ilitterato correspondent, who e
Riven teeporkingl, want; to know "ho t
the " Anglo-Saxe° rape," eg. , ranch tslk.
ed Of, IN to come otf.
—A New York (It-lunatic (Title ~atr of
a burlesque writer, that he II "nuvr
persevering than littnquu'k ghert, and
quite a humorous."
—A dbuntry paper sap there n n nnal
in that vicinity ow nonn that he rtt.r
tho door-step of tho church to ;ere the
wear of hie pew cushions.
—An urchin on being rvhekr.l for
wearing out his stockingm at the
plied 'dint it tiOulan't be heipe4—"toe
wiggled and !ada didn t."
—A prominent German in St .ktoph,
!do , while admiring the eclipse thsoth
er day, remarked : "Ile look ,heat
pig cabbage cut mit a knife."
—The rate at which the new lot
trains between New York and Chws K u
must travel to be on time is thirty.4olt,
miles an hour, including atoppegss
—A wag speaking. of the eadistlia.
Lion of troops, said. "Notwithentchr H ;
many of them leaving blooming; wll.,
behind, they go away in triensportf
A country newspaper stales thei e
young lady et an amateur concert atm e
well deserved furore by the lkilAwiti ,
taste with which she sang "An Ang-I.
Whisker.''
—Tbe partiii . g between Dan Hu. and
his friinnh is structi4 For b., )on ,
or so he hits been nieking hi. birs,'l
tnitni, end is tearing' bin ar.lf awes MO'n
this summer.
—h is stated that the prositleht ha
sent It opeetwl mitsgengor and II ,Alit
stottint.r after Princt. Arthur, with kr,
Invitation to tqw.ml a month at the
White Huta°.
-151/wrine 1130 y, the, Tiarkirih 3hw•
ter, hus recived the hunentry title
cilah,";he higheeet in the Turki•s
rivll Derviee, RI 111 Ill Ark tit the Sultan •
eKteern (or him
—There is n 11%Ing In
sin who was twice married before
was twenty.one years ot age. ■ mother
before slut was sevunteen, and It grand.
1111. t before she wst6
—" Employment No cornitill) produ
rn elim.rfulnebs," sap Bit.hor Hnll
"that I have known a man to cow.
home in high *writs from a itnienti
b•-
causo he had the nianagement of it
—A wonitnii resently died in Trn•
ton, Michigan, in giving birth 1 ,, lire
thirty.linot child Among the thim
one were three pair of twins, and the
olden. of them all 11 only 29 years uld
—An enthusiaatte Western xntvr
says that Annis Dickinson is not preu,
but tbst alin is bandliortm ;
stylish, hut refined , she is lo•sh, hut
not loveable; not stunning, but %drum
hie.
• •
---A wornin in St. Loons, ton lit "d
delirium tremens, threw her child ” ,, t
of n second - story window, toil
then jumped out •Iter it An Old Isd,
caught the child in hor apron, but
mother was "instantly killed "
—l'reaident triune% MACY prayed, if e
iireAtll•rn paPer is to be IN•1 lei' Oh
Lon], , we no abominate oureelice that
we could spit in our Laces am- kick our
,01 ‘'eA iuto hell !" Pieta) of coin? ,
ranecnis prayere are quite M. Piny
—Twenty, years nut) l'etinsyhini 3
wax thy 'arm!, wheat producing t.ittit,m
the t'rrion, Now it it about th"' tw dith
on the lint. The people hnve term , '
their attention to the developement
glut which tb , hidden in the earth—cii
coal And iron.
000t0 SPELL CAMP, yell
Aaron."
9rrat A, little tt i r-o-n— Aaron Aaron
" Very well, reliant - HI, see if yoll
pelt tinted Whales "
Yea, air. Great country, I lute N oe
try I'l-i-tic"
" go up to the head."
—Art'offeniied woman, net
ineitstititi to the funeral of s
near neighbor, stew the following Ist'
to the mourners; "I think I bare hen
elltrhted ire Fitting entitled from your
of invitations, We shall probably
a !utter/id at, our house one of th ee" d W .
Mid we won't it i vlte'
;
—A witiskyV ridkihg• Irishman vs'
brentgrie befbiall nnskrietrate mantel 'rte .
:ter, charged with being .drank s ad de
"OttrlX, T, ll 9igegletaati committed tie
delinquent to Prison for M
'onth
'ffifirt he'woOld gfvei Mtn here enough
t o
teurse.whisisy.,oilbres,l faith," wee the
prisoner's reply, " and Porter, too.'
, Western traveler , having secured
IMO a bat, hi cadet to prevent encroach"
amen* liesoble& a. pairof spun on hi'
.11044, WWI( ratintupp, ,unfortio ty
eleeping part i ner, alter several thrust/
the ilitarVrehillidetr, 'rdared out: "
YtiMdkkdl,iFf"yam• lite tr 'gentleman ,
you
'ought lea**Ohl Yeah wain si
;' —'-tin f"ttsPtell ,1131tOr ,004 4"Y 1121 `"
~,sl/Kgrillth„ Op t 1)l,i affootwm
ppp h T o t, aid deibribing
fdeet# n14411' 1 6 •tiuni 'II'
tpanspuetai anSliovo, you b,5,', 411 1
dn my arul,;', c o ) p argrar k. sr.
the lady, . I yod out a Vert re d
specie/hie couple, one is trasporl e
end the other hang