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Hank Ita rn Soxi'i, i '-r ( i'ii Imiliiies Tin) pro !e r or in parts, as pur KKANCIa A, ltl'C'K. ;. 's;;.-2ia. NOTICIv H living ! Auditor by I he Orphans I'y lo reix.rt ilisi rihiit ion of ' "I .In. si Hurzoon. Kx - 'hi. ilir'ii, to and a:n ii'.r r '". lintM-e is hereby it veil ''I lil ll I Kill ii i i.. !,. ;, ui. at my nllicc in ltiens 1:1 s r II. IS7 7. at S o'edoek, ' 'In y niti-t .itu-nd. or tt de- "H :iii lund. v' hALUAN, Auditor. : H. NOTICK.Havin I Auditor to report ilis- hi he Intel of Win. Kit r i.l .Micl. i A. Kline, lute Ji. h - ( .isi d, in a n l iininnn ' ' in- a.ne, not iee is lie re- ''-'li'l III ilia J lit Mid iiiti , '"' t!l.-i' with tl,e lie t,rder ot lfi Kiirii.i.... ii-. . i I s T III l ulii.ii ii ...I .l.i.rfmlt ' "'-'J all. ii. 1 ii thev see proper. ' 'ii-, ' '' I'AKK, Auditor. 1-77. 'j;.-r.t. , . I A K Y K. M 'Com IMF., llei.l. - u .', 'v-n "n't I-tlem of Admtr.ls ' : '.v'?;:'nV.',, umlerhiirnc-d on ' '.. -l I 'lllllllil. litA.it llaillin. .,' .'" '' the Hcislerid Caiil ' ''r-is iiiiiebteil to mill ps-ate "' turward and pay th mdiii 'iui i havinar cniiiiiii will prc- i.i- .,r m.tt lenient. rf VUIAM MCOMHIR. Adin;ultstrtor. 'fJeifi Ants wanted. Hjlflt l,., ... . . . 1 I.. i . . . . r. .t: i . TA LLOAI. OITTV TO BK BI NO WITnOI T CHORtt TO TH If Al It OF "THE KINOa OI.D CUI'RTIISK," J',ntonthe imryOUn,f attorneJ'' JU8t admitted W'13 iipy"'" HUii s'n,rBcicuf, aa-as young- attor- And ti frown of deep abstraction held the seizin of Ins face The result of contemplation or the rule In Shel ley s Case. One clay In term-time Mr. Smith was sitting in the Court, When some n-ood men and true of the liodv ot the county c'id on their oath report, mat heretofore, to wit: upon the second day of May, J A. r. 1477, about the hour of noon. In the coun ty and statontoresuid. one Joseph Pcrosrirs. latCM.r fimd county, c'id then and there le loiiimisly take, steal and carry away Duo bay horse, of ihe value of filly dollars, more or less (The same then and there heiny of the property (roods nnrichattelsor one HeKnkinh lies): Contrary to the statute In such case expressly made. r And provided: and aaratnst the peace and diir iitty of the state wherein the venue hud been laid. The prisoner. Joseph Pcrosrirs, was then ar raigned upon t his eh. 1 1 it .. And plead not riiiliy, nnd of this he threw himself upon the cnuntrv at hiriro : And said Joseph bemjj p or. t he Court did gra ciously appoint Mr. Sin it It to defend him much on the same principle I hat obtains, in every charity hospital, where a youna- medical student is or ton set to rectify a serious iujtiry to an oiraii or a Joint. The wit ncses seemed prejudiced against porr Mr. ScroirjfS : And the district nttornev made a thrillinir speech in which he told the jury that ir thev didn't find lor I he state he reckotud he'd have to ' walk their !or ;" Then Mr. Smiih arose and made his speech for t he delen.se. V.'heiein he iioted Phakespere, Hlnckstone, Chitiy. Arehbold, .loiujiiin Miller, Storv, Kent, Topper. Sinedes and M r-hall, atid tiniiiy other wriieis. and evirybody said they 'nc-'r heered tied a bust of elo tiiience." And he said: "fin this hypothesis, my client most iro free : Ami : "Arain, on this hypothesis, it's morally impossible that he could be guilty, don't you see ?" And: Mien, on this hypothesis, you really can't convict ;" And so on, with forty six more hypothesis, upon none of w hich. Mr. mitli ahly de monstrated, could Scrojrjrs be derelict. Hut the Jury, never stirrinir from tho box wherein llp y sat. . Hetiirned vcr'ttct of 'jruilty ;' and his honor st ruig-hl way senlenvei; croar to a t liree-y.-ar term in the penitentiary, and a heavy tine and the costs on top of that ; And the prisoner, in wild delight, not up and danced and euiiif ; Ami when llie.v asked him th reus in of this ptrauurc behavior, he said; "It's because I trot off so easy for it tlieie'd ha' been a K'lv imiieot ihetn darned hypothesises, I should ccitainly have been liuiin '" Irulii i;uscll in MiUuinnnr ll ilidiij Sci ilm r. Old JIis GHSs'-ff's Account of the J'icnic. Often and oflen I just sit and laugh to think of it. losex, and Silas, and 1'eter, and I'cli'tr, and Ami J.u:e Godolphin, and me, we all went ; and tlicie was Maria Foster and Kitty 1'eck, and goodness kiiowb who else lois of 'em. Why, i told you, didn't I? To this picnic, to 'je sure. It wasn't very warm weather ; summer was over; but we thought wo hadn't any pic nic, and m vo got ono up. The I!.iplist Sunday fchiMil liail had ono. and tho Meth odist chinch had had one, and the fai mors, they'd had one ; and now we that lived down in the village, we were going to have everybody enjoy themselves; and we in vited I'eleg 1'oiington bt-catiM) ho was sucli a joker, and Sally Sproat because sho was such a witch, .though they didn't live iu the village, because w knew they'd get up some fun for us. 8o they did. Well, bless your heart, after we d made it up and planned we weie to goto Uiigg'a l'eak, and who wc a asK anu an, wo weie !l lilting iu Ann .lane Godolphin's parlor, and some one said : "Wc ought to have a tegular spread table, and bit dowu and eat together, of couise." And avs somebody else : Yes, so we oughier." And says some ono else : Tho gieat bother of them laid suppers at picnics is that everybody fetches the same thing." . 'Veiy well ;" says Ann Jane t.odolphin. Let's wiito notes and tell eveiybody what tobiiii"-. Itsaves trouble you know. And people"like to feel thty'ie doing just the ligln thintr-" Good," says I. And up speaks Sally Sproat, and says Oh, yes, that's a nice idea. And, if you like, I'll write the notes and Mr. I'ot liugton will help me." They'd been lliiting together all mom ini', them two, and were full of -fun. I mane up my mind they'd be a match of it. So there was. She married him, and but that ain't my story yet. , Well, now," says Ann Jane Godolpliin, 'that's kind of you, Sally Spioat. We'd oilci take up a collection for no e-paper and envelopes right away, and little iom my I'rice will carry the notes around. So we made up tho money then ana theie, and one of 'em says 't wasn't me : "L's that get up the invites, we'd ought cr be h-ft oil easy about bringing things." Says Sally Spioat : "I think so myself. I&LaVt imiko i. heavy fo;- you. Let me and .Mrs. Godolpliin manage it, and nobody can blame anybody l"t n,e-" Well, vo all thought that was a pretty idea. Some of 'cm were dreadful economi cal, and like to get all the fun without any of the cost. Some folks is near by natuie, you know; can't help it. lt then if you have a few dollars you like to keep 'em, don't you ? So. between you and mo and the post, 1 didn't reel sorry when I got a little note that said leiume see, how was it? Oh, this way : 'Miss Cnssett: Your company Is respeet fully invited lur lo attend tho Scalptowii licnie, next Tuesday morning, o'clock. T meet at tho cross-roads, opposite the tav- er" lleao hring i'ifr and dishes for Imi. "Well," says I, "I ffpit. off easy, and seeing I have I won't bo mean about fiep-jK-r. I'll take one of Ihose big pound packages." So I did. . Well, Thursday came, and eight o cIock came, and it was as bright a day as ever 1 s.iw. I started early and took my nephew Pete along with me, and a hired man to i i ...vn tn tl. cross-roads. UllYe, teliunc irnio j ; and theie we met Miss Bally Sproat and , lVlejr l'ottington, in one gig. Says 1 to myself, "there'll be a ma ch of it theie, , and so there was. They married and-but there now, I haven't come to that yet. The rest of the folks came tip and every oue of 'em had a big basket. Aud we all EBEXSBUItG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1877. nodded and laughed, and talked and joked, aud away we rode to Grigg's Peak. At the foot of that we stopped. You see you couldn't ride up to the l'eak, nor you couldn't leave your horses all day, so we'd arranged to have 'em driven back. Most had brought a hired man, or somebody to drive their wagon back and bring it out in the evening. So we all lighted down and took out our baskets. I can tell yo i china for ten isn't any light load. Mine was as heavy as lead. And we watched the wag ons out of sight, and then we began to climb. It was a climb, I tell you. When wc got up to the Peak we were beat out. Peleg PoUington, he carried Sally Sproat's things as well as his own, and I thought Uten he was coming ou, and would propose soon. Well, he did. But there, now, where am I wandering to? And some of the young men did the same ; but men, woman and children had their bands most ly full of the heaviest baskets I ever saw. And there was the dieadfulest time getting up that hill, tumbling down and acreaming anil hollering for help, I never shall forget. But we got up at last, and then we sat down on the grass and took breath. We'd calkerlated 'twould be cool, but it turned out tho hottest day, just the hot test yer ever knew. My lauds ! we tvere all baking nud broiling, jest as cross all but Sally Sproat. and Peleg Pottington they were full of fun. I made up my mind something would como of them. So it did. Well, so we sat and cooled oil", and after awhile we got more good-natured. "Well," says Aim Jane Godolpliin, "1 tell you what I propose. Let's have dinner right off; we're all tired and hungry. I've got a table cloth here. Let's set our table." So we all agreed on that, and we ladies got up and went to work. We put down the table cloth and begau to put ou the dishes. Gracious goodness ! the stacks of them. There were twenty-five of us, and as we came to count up, we found we had dishes enough for two hundred aud fifty. "Plenty is belter than lack," says Ann Jane Godolpliin. "Come now, what have you brought? I was let off easy. I was told to biing dishes for ten and pepper. Thought I'd bring euough so I got a pound." "I was told to bring pepper and dishes for ten too," says I. "Just the same with me,'' said Silas Pone's wife. 'Me too," says some one else, and then everybody spoke up. We'd all been told to briug dishes for icn and pepper. We all had. There we were on top of Grigg's Peak, with the wagons scut homo and nothing to eat all day hut pepper. We'll done a smart thing inviting those two jokers, They'd played a nice liick on us. Xevei shall forget that picnic as long as I live. There wc sot and sot, and scolded. Sally and Peleg went oft together. After a while ono of tho boys went alter them and found 'em eating lunch that she'd brought in her reticule; and then they fetched Peleg back, and stuffed his mouth with pepper, and then he fought 'em, and Silas Pone got rolled over the piecipice, only he caught in a big bush and climbed up again, and Mrs. Pone fainted away. Anil old Mrs. Pone she got hold of Sally and boxed her cars and smacked her in the face, aud there was an awful time, I tell you. And then it came on to rain, and it jouii-d and pouted, and we had to pack up tho china and go down tho Peak and hide in the woods, and there we weie Imlf drowned. And Mrs. Mason's little boy got lost, and it took all day to hud him ; and when it cleared up, and we went into the sun to dty, there came along a mail hull and tossed little Jane Perriwinklc. Didn't hurt her much, but tore her clothes aft oft. Everybody was starved, and wet, and angry, aud such a lot as went home, in the wagons you never saw. It was the mean est picnic I ever remembered going to, and picnics usually do turn out mean, I think. None of us spoke to Sally Sproat or Peleg Pottington again. But they got manied, just as I said they would, and their practi cal joking brought them to an untimely end. You see, one evening he'd just gne down the back stairs little side stairs you know, set in the wall and it struck her if she threw down a big bundle of something and groaned, he'd think she'd tumbled down, and be scaied ; and it struck him, that if he put the kerosene lamp into a pa per bag with two holes in for eyes, and held it over his head, and wrapm-d the table cloth around him, and went up stairs, why, she'd think it. was a ghost. So he started just as the bundle came down, and they met. They put a beautiful obituary notice in the paper about 'em. "They was united iu life," they said, "and in death they were not separated." And so they weren't. A Conmcrok's ("lock. A famous con juror has lately been exhibiting a clock of his own invention, the mystery of which no one. we believe, has yet fathomed. It is a clear disc of glass, marked with tho usual numbers. The hands have no bulb or other enlargement at the center, where it might be immaglned mechanism could be concealed, aud appear to he simply piv oted to the face. A ring like that of a watch suffices for the support of the clock from two cords suspended from the ceiling. At tho command of its owner, the clock marks any hour, moves backward or for ward, and otherwise behaves in an aston ishing manner. The use of tho cord is uaturallv suggestive of concealed wires and electricity, which is probably the secret of the movement. But this theory is some what damaged when the magician removes the clock from its cords, and holding it with two fingers at arm's length, carries it into the midst of his audeinco and causes it to continue its pet foi mances under the very eyes of Ihe people, allowing the clos est inspection. One cl ick like that would serve as an invaluable aid to an exhibiting spiritualistic medium, and would cause widespread rejoicings among the elect. When Abe Lincoln was a poor lawyer he found himself one cold day at a village some distance from Spiiugtield, aud with no means of conveyance. Seeing a gentle man driving along the Springfield road in a carriage, he ran up to him and politely said, "Sir, will yon have the goodness to take my overcoat, to town for me?" "With pleasure," answered the gentleman ; "but bow will you get it again?" "Oh, very easily," said Mr. Lincoln, "as I intend to remain in it." "Jump in I" said the gen tleman, laughing; and the future Presi dent had a pleasant lido. , roisoxED nr a wild-cat. A MAX IX CALIFORNIA WHO HAS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A CATAMOUNT. The San Francisco rost, of June 27th, I says : The . peculiar power which crazy ; canines possess of infecting human beiogs ; with a like disorder by a simple insertion ! of their teeth into auy part of the human body which may come handy has long been i a source of uneasiness to mankind. The 1 recent crusade against Spitz dogs through- j out the East, the earnestness with which it , has been carried on, well exemplifies the estimation iu which this power is held. The feline specie has, however, never been credited with any such uncomfortable abil ity, but a case now existing at San Quentiu and somewhat puzzling all the medical men who have examined it, seems to indicate that the bite of a mad cat under certain circumstances may produce effects some what akm to and nearly as uncomfortable as that of a mad dog. On the 3d of January last there was re ceived at the prison a young man named Charles Thoinasou, sentenced to four years' imprisonment for the plebeian crime of stealing hogs in Siskiyou county, lie was of medium height, stoutly built, weighing some one hundred and sixty pounds, and appeared to be iu perfect health. He soon gave them a tasto of bis quality, however, and showed them that he was not one of your common convicts by going into oue of his spasms on the night of his at rival, and nearly scaring his attendants out of their seven senses. An investigation of his previous hisUry showed that three years ago, while herding sheep iu Siskiyou, he had attemp ed to i take a catamount, an animal sharing the j qualities of the wild-cat aud panther, from a steel trap iu which it had been caught. While h.ilding it in place with a forked! limb, the fork broke aud he fell forward ou I the animal, which, before he could kill it, I gave him several severe bites, one, the deepest, on the neck near the spine, and ! others on the arms and left hand. Ihe wounds, though severe, were not danger ous, and in about six weeks they were en tirely healed. A week afterwards, howev er, he experienced a fit or spasm, making noises and behaving himself exactly like the animal that had bitten him. The spasms continued at irregular intervals of a month and six weeks. They weie weak at first, fut increased in duration and vio lence as time went on. He was finally sent to the Insane Asylum at Stockton, wbeie ho remained for five months and was either discharged as incurable or under the im pression that the spasms hnd ent irely ceas ed. He lived back in Siskiyou from that time till his arrest and sentence, and the latter, though unfortunate for him, is per haps a fortunate thing for medical science, as his case is one of the most peculiar which has ever engaged the medical men of this coast. Upon the night of his arrival at the prison he was taken with a spasm, as stated, and removed to tho hospital, where the convulsions lasted for a period of ten days at intervals of twenty-four hours. They have continued about a mouth apart, the one occurring in the eat!' part of this month and lasting three days. During the prevalence of them the man is one of the most, horrible sights imaginable, the human instincts being entirely absent, and the appearance, manners and conduct of the man being those of a gigantic i!d-cat. A fortunate circumstance is tbt, the fit is al ways preceded by a short period of insensi bility. Ylienever he sinks into this, tho guai ds, who are kept constantly watching him, immediately seize the ropes and straps which are kept handy, put a straight jacket on him, and tio IiiTn down in tho firmest possible way to his bedstead. After a short or long period of insensibility he awakes, his face during the interim having been wondei fully tiausfonned. The eyes have grown round like a cat's, and glare with the insane frenzy of a wild animal, the fea tures, though otherwise unchanged, Ziave taken upon themselves an expression of autmal feiosity utterly different from their usual mild and placid expression, and with out any sound from him he appears more like a confined animal than a man. The slightest thing, however, throws him into a wild rage. His hands and feet are used as paws and he will strike at anything within reach with fingers outstretched like claws. His movements aie veiy quick, and he will snap any one who approaches with all the agility and viciousness of a cat. Moreover he is unable to speak, his only utterances being a low purring sound when quiet and a snarling, spitting sound when aroused. Tied, as he is, he will spring and catch injliis mouth flies that come near him, and as he is very muscular, his attempts to spring upward raise the ends of his heavy bedstead completely off the floor. His most notable characteristic is his in creased power of scent. Should a cat be anywhere iu the large room, however it may be concealed, he will immediately lo cate it and make frantic exertions to get at it, evincing the wildest fury if it is brought near him. Tho instant one is brought into the place, however covered np, he is able to detect it ; and if it be moved from place to olace. his eves and head will be tin tied ro --r---T r - I follow it keeping up all the time tLe low, angry purr of the wild-cat or the open- mouthed snarl of the aroused beast, Ihe spasm lasts from one to four hours. Dur ing tho innensible.state preceding the spasm the pulse increases to about 140 beats per minute, and the skin becomes covered with j a cold perspiration. When the spasm leaves him he sinks into a prolonged sleep, j from which he awakes in his normal coudi- j tion, his soreness and a slight difficulty in breathing being the only .indication to him of his attack. Of what he has been doing he then ' knows nothing. His complaint does not seem to have injured his health, as he now wciyhs about oue hundred and seventy five and outside of the spasms appears perfectly healthy. The case is attracting a good deal of attention, and the man was on Fri day last examined by Dr. Gibson and Dr. Sims, the latter being a physician of veiy high standing in Paiis, where he resides, and at present on a visit to Ibis coast. Drs. Black and Stivers, of this city, also held a consultation with Dr. Pelhalm, the prison surgeon, on Thursday last, and others have also consulted the last named gentlemau concerning it. None but he has, hox-ever. had the privilege of witnessing the spasms, and a settled opinion has heretofore not been arrived at by them. The majority seem to regard it vaiiety of epilepsy, the feline movements being considered due to the influence ou the man's mind of the struggle with the cat. Dr. Pelham, how- i ever, who lias enjoyed an experience- of twenty years in the northern part of the State, thinks differently regarding it though he is not fully determined. He thinks it a species of lucomania and directly duo to the cat bite. Neither the man himself nor any of his family had ever been subject to epilepsy, and the perfect action of the heart and lungs during the spasm seems to indi cate the complaint to be more nervous than epileptic. There is no frothing at the mouth, and the peculiar diagnostic symp toms of epilepsy are nearly all absent, while many of those of hydrophobia are observa ble. It is the doctor's opinion that the man's bite during the spasm would be as virulent iu its effects as the cat bite, and in consequence the greatest care is maintained over the patient. Whatever the complaint is, it is a horrible one, and is constantly growing worse, and, from the description of those who have witnessed the spasms, the snarling, snapping, cat-eyed beast is as horrible a sight as the records of tho varied forms of insanity can present. LEWIS AND COXXELLir. A correspondent of the Bellefonte Repub lican, an old man. furnishes the following in reference to the above named robbers of the early times : There are a few incidents in fhe subse quent lives nf these desperadoes (Lewis and Connelly,) remembered by the writer, which perhaps may not he uninteresting to the present generation, Atmut the time referred to in the article, Lewis and Connelly, w ith au accomplice hy the name of Mctiuirc, attacked a wanu loaded with store goods in what isknown as the "Seven Mountains," belonging to Ham mond & Page, t hen merchants of this town, and succeeded in carrying off a valuable part of the cargo, consisting mainly of dry goods, a portion of which were afterwards found secreted in the mountains. Some time after they came to Potter's mills in 1'enn's valley, where they made an at tempt to enter the store of .1. & J. Potter, at that time kept in an old log building un der the superintendence of John Kerr, as sisted hy .Jacob G. leUi, a clerk. Kerr and Lebo, having been aroused, made some de monstration, which caused them to leave without securing much plunder. The latter gave them the contents of an old shot gun, when, it was said, Connelly proposed re turning a rifle ball, but was prevented by Lewis. The next heard of them was that they had gone to the home of Lewis, ou the Sinnema honing creek. In what is now Clinton coun ty. At this period the whole community was alarmed at the depiedalions they were committing, and hence it was extremely de sirable that au effort should be made to ar rest them. A juirty of reputable citizens of the town, namely Hon. John Mitchell, afterwards canal commissioner and for a iiumlier of years a member ot congress from this dis trict ; Jas. M'frhee, a prominent member and supporter of the M. E. Church ; John Hall, the father of our county commissioner and a very intelligent and influential mail ; Maj. William Armor, familiarity known as one of the best, if not the very best, filer in the whole conn try ; Peter Deisul, aone arm ed man, and Samuel Askey, who was un doubtedly the most noted backwoods hunter iu northern ami western Pennsylvania, com posed the party who started with their rifles in pursuit. It was considered a daring undertaking, and many advised them not to attempt, it, as these brigands were the terror of the whole community, and it was lielieved they were desperate men, who would never sur render with their lives. A braver and more determined set. of men never started out on such an enterprise, and, as the result show ed, were just suited for tint occasion. Having travelled on foot for a week or more thronjrh the woods, there being no roads of any kind, with their provisions in their knapsacks, in addition to the j;aniii they secured, they finally approached a house on the Sinnemahouing, and, from an ndja ceut hill lop at some distance, discovered a party of nicu hooting at a mark. Satisfied that Lewis, Connelly and McGnire were among theio, aud having first examined their guns and flicked their Hints, they made a sudden raid down 'he hiil and surprised the marksmen, when firing commenced on both sides, to the great consternation of all concerned. Owing to the fact that the pur suers were prepared for the contest, and the pursued unaware of their approach, the f ormer had the advantage, and as a conse quence, the victory was gained hy the noble men who risked their lives for the welfare of their fellow citizens. If was an act of bravery and courage sel dom witnessed, and should have secured for the participants a monument to their bra very. They have all long si nee passed away. Connelly ran to a spring house near by, where, as he was reloading his rifle, he was mortally wounded. After receiving the shot he made bis way to the forks of a tree, to which he was traced by the flow of blood from his wound. He died the same day and was buried in that locality. Lewis was shot in the arm by, it is said, Peter Deisel, although this was never cer tainly known, is from the promiscuous fir ing it might hare been done by another ; and they all preferred sharing the responsi bility of taking life, under the circnmstar.ces, rather than placing it upou oue of their num ber. He was brought to Bellefonte in a two horse wagon, covered with a muslin sheet, tin the evening of a very sultry day, ami, as may he supposed, to the great relief of all the inhabitants. H was taken to the front room in what was known as the old jail, where he remained until he died from the effects of the wound. It was Ihe opinion of the attendant physician that, he might, have survived tint for his refusal to submit to an amputation of his arm, which afterwards mortified ami caused his death. Kvery attention was paid to Lewis hy Ihe citizens of the town, especially the ladies, during his sickness, and much sympathy was fell, for hitn in consequence of the impression which prevailed that among bis bad ones he had some good qualities one of which was his aversion to taking life in pursuance of his calling, and another bis preference for robbing the rich that lie might give to the poor. It is not known to the writer what lie came of M'Guire. He had been frequently arrested and imprisoned, but usually made Ida escape, and it was the general opinion that there was no jail iu the country sufli cently strong to hold him. Ho had the repu tation of lieing particularly expert in this ro Sect. They had all lieen frequently con cerned in Ihe robbery of the mails and of passengers in stage coaches, hut ueither, it is believed, were ever convicted. Comfort in Affliction. It ras court weekin a certain county town and a dozen or so cots had been put up temporarily in the parlor of one of the hotels. Theie was a grand chorus of snores. from nearly all of the beds. After an hour or more of this uproar ono of the most resonant snore rs nf the lot brought up with a snort and was suddenly silent. A Frenchman fcio occu pied'acot in tlie extreme comer of the room exclaimed, "Tank God, vou ecs dead !' the iionnons of .1 xjciit. CITIES DESTKOYEn BY EARTHQUAKE, FIRE AND TIDAL WAVE. IFrom the Boston Advertiser. Valparaiso, May 30. A few days be fore the events I am about to narrate took place, the volcanic mountains of Sau Pedro and San Pablo were observed to be send ing foith high in air, from their lofty icaks, flames, stones, and ashes. At night the reflected light illuminated the heavens, at times giving a reddish glare to the passing and overhanging clouds, and would gradu ally disappear. Now aud then a glimmer iug, whitish light would brightly be re flected from some bursting forth of the flames at the crater's mouth, aud with these frequent changes the night would pass away. Daylight gave the appearance of a dense smoky cloud hanging high above and around the volcano. At the foot hills of theso mountain ranges were situated the cities of C'alama, Sau Pedro, aud Chuichui. all of which were destroyed. Wednesday, the 9th day of May, 1S7, was remarkable for the extreme heat and suffocating atmosphere a cloudy day. Iu the evening at 8:U0, without auy announce ment by the usual rumbling, underground sound preceding an earthquake, the earth began to shake, slightly at first, aud then the-shaking gradually increased in strength. For the space of three minutes the motion of the eaith'ssurface was undulating, rock ing, and uplifting. The shock was dis tinctly felt from Calloa, Peru, along the coast of Bolivia to Yaldivia ; in the south ern portion of Chili, its cential poiut ol ac tion and force being iu Bolivia. Upon the commencement of the tremor the startled populace of the many different seacoast cities hurried foith from their dwellings aiui found themselves scaicely able to main tain their foothold iu the public streets; some there were who fell upon their hands aud knees. The darkuess of the night, the grinding of the walls of the buildings oue against the other, the crushing, bieaking, crackling sound of timber, the tumbling down of walls aud clouds of dust flying about, the crash of household goods, crock ery, glasswaie, iic, as they fell, the ring ing of the chinch aud the other bells with the sway of the earth these, together with the cries of despair aud shrieks of women and children, mingled with the loud prayers of ineicy, were but a portion of the honors of the passing moments. With diminished force for hours after, shake after shake oc curred, and to add to the misfortunes of many of the cities, flames broke forth fiom the ruined bouses. Bravely tho men contended with the new enemy, which was fast gaining the upper hand. The blazing flames as they shot up ward were seen miles away at sea on ship board. The light of the conflagration upon the jagged, shapeless ruins of buildings in tho background, and the reflection of the flames upon the passing forms, the scared, pale faces of the women as they hastily passed to and fro, hunting some dear oue or anxious for the welfare of relatives and friends, gave perhaps a faint picture of the i "last day." Amid such sad and gloomy ! scenes the cry broke and was repeated from j every side, "The tidal wave !"' Men gave up :u peiiect tle.-pan, ami with the women and children, intent on self-preservation, they sought, maddened with aff'iight, the steep hillsides for safety. Mothers were separated fiotn their children, husband from wife ; everything was confusion aud confounded; the sick arose from the places iu which they had been left in fancied se curity, and .they, too, lushed on with the rest, many of them polishing iu the at tempt. The sea gradually left the shore, and falling back for at least one-third of a mile, as if to gain strength aud velocity ; for its tearful coming Kap, using sixty feet in height it advanced, boiling, rolling, j and tumbling over and over, with a deaf ! cuing noise, bearing all before it iu its j course; vessels, some of them, sank in its I embrace and were never seen again ; oth i ers clung to their anchorage aud for a time j were buried in the wave, were lifted up. and in safety swaying fiom sido to sido settleil at last in sniooin water; many dragged and hurried lo the laud, where they were dismantled or broken to pieces. The tidal wave, gaining iu force ami power withits onward rolling motion, seemed stiiving for the final struggle, and running its fearful course it soon entered the thrice doomed cities, putting out the flames of the burning buildings and raising a dense volume of smoke and steam. In receding I the wave took with it all that remained uu- desl royed. t With the appearance of daylight was J discovered the wreck of what a few hours I before had beeu flourishing cities, now a ! desolate waste. An iudusti ions, thiiviug ' people were homeless aud houseless, and j soon to suffer the pangs of hunger and i thirst, of ruin and despair. The beach j was strewn with the wrecks of their prop J erty, and the sea bad destroyed their pro 1 visions. For five days the tidal waves rose and fell, growing each day lesser in ' (Vitce. It is supposed to lie the most dis 1 astrous wave ever experienced on this 1 coast, and to have teen caused by a sub ! terranean eaithquake under the sea. and connected with the volcano of San Pedro. J Cities and towns have been mined, : some of them never to be rebuilt iu all probability. Among the places which have suffered in more or less degiee are : I Callao, Pisagua, IqniquV, Aiica, t'obij.i, Balama, Sau Pedm, Pisco, Pabillou do Pica, Punlo do Lobos, lluauillos, Tocopil ! lo, Mejilione de Botaena. Many of the I trinca have been sunk or badly injured, and the (osses sustained hy the people aie I incalculable. The Cat men mino fell out 1 of plumb and buried thirty five miners 1 and an overseer in its ruins. The trading steamers of the coast took deck londs of snfferinn women and children to C'oqtiiin . bo and Valparaiso, where they were cared j for by a liberal, charitable people, and the ; Chili Government, immediately upon re- j ceipt of information of tho state of affairs along tho coast, sent men-of-war steamers loaded with clothing, provisions, aud wa- ti:i fjr the. relict of the suffering. The following is related by a captain of a vessel ou the coast. At. the ti ne of the ' shock his wife was playing tltc pi.ino, "Home, sweet home," and his two dangli ' ters were present, singing the song. They ran up the companion way ou deck, and a few moments later the tidal wave left the vessel broadside to the incoming cm rent. The heavy roller si tuck and Inoke the ves - sel into pieces, and all weie left at the mercy of the sea. The Captain, an exrt switnmer,endeavored to assist his f.uo dy, , but was picvtulcd by the CLuutow scivut NUMliKtt 27. seizing hitn by the arm. To freo himself, and u the excitement of his situation, ho was comjiolled to strangle the Chinaman. He found that his whole family had disap peared from sight. FAXCIES Or THE IXSAXE. "Yes, sir, I'm the light of the world," sail a hatchet-faced, emaciated man in tho city hospital for the insane on Ward' island, New York. And he looked at tho superintendent, Mr. A. JS. Macdouald, seemingly exacting some acknowledg ment of the truth of his assertion. Getting from the doctor a iuhI of respect ful assent, the patient continued : "You know, doctor; that I have leen skinned alive here burned alive, scalded alive. You know it, doctor. My bones have been taken out of my body one by one. My head has been screwed off and screwed on again." "W hy did they take your head ofl ?" the doctor inquired. "Oh, you know, doctor. You know well enough," the patient replied, re proachfully. "You know that my head.is the moon and my skin is the stars. Where would you get your light at night should like to know, if it wasn't for me! Doesu't my blood supply light for all the street lamps in that big city over theie?"" As ho said this, he waved his hand toward the opposite shoie, wbeie the thousands of lit tle gas jets glimmered through the dark ness. "Once," ho continued, "my head was as big as our frieud, the doctor's, here. Now see how thin it is.". And as ho stroked his poor shrunken cheeks, hisj head droofied upon his breast, his jaws dropped, and ho looked unutterably sad. "Yes, but," said the doctor, try in? to rally his patient, "if your skin is all takt it off and your bones are taken out, how is it that theie is anything left of you?"' The patient did not raise liis eyes fn tn the floor. As the doctor was moving away the fMtor fellow mumbled in answer that he supposed his body was repaiicd as fast as it was destroyed. "That's a cut ions case," said the doctor. "It is a mixture of nianU and melancholia. A stout built, excessively nervous man with black hair and liearr, was m xt visit ed. He fancies that he has an ele-tiio batteiy in him, aud that his ei-emie bold the wires aud use them to diaw away his thoughts. "They came again last night, d.-cior, the patient said.. "They c.imo and look my lungs out." Another fellow says that he has a doctor in his body, who moves about to physio nnd torture him. "Can yon feel him to-day ?" Dr. Mac Donald inquired. "Oh, yes," was the reply, I can feel his shoulders pressing here," and he put his hand to his left breast. "Then, wherc's his head?" aked tho doctor. The patient felt all over his body and about his throat, and then shook his head, saying : "I don't know where Lis head is to ilay. A very remarkable patient is an elderly man, an ex-college professor, who is hard at woik on a translation of Horace, with copious foot notes. He talks so learnedly and logically, that you wonder a bet her ho has not been confined by mistake. But ho jirese.it ly tells you confidentially that Charles Dickens wrote "Bleak House"' for the sole pui pose of injuring him, and if yon should say anything about fHiisou, ho will immediately tell you that bis wholo system has bou ruined by being inocula ted with poison contained iu the lead of the water piiies. He admits that he is i j sane, but says that he is caicfully rf'udy in.r ; his case in connec ion with the lead oisl I ouing theory, and has hopes of getting tho poison out of his system. j The PortHTiox of the ( i i.oiiE. The most trustworthy estimate of the number j of people on the earth for the year 1S76, ' as furiiUhed by the German statisticians! j is 1,4-2,5,917,000. This is an inciease of i over 27 millions on the estimate of 1873 . but the augmentation is not duo entirely to the excess of births over deaths, but large j ly to the obtaining of more accurate infor mation regaiding the population of tedious I hereto lit le known, and ..,. . ...... c inurti census returns from other countries. Asia is still the home of a m.ijorit v of tho human race, after having supplied" shoots from which have spruinr great Western peoples. About four-sevenths of the earth's population is Asia ic, or f 2",r4S -5;K) ; Euroe comes uext with over a 'fifth or 3ua.lT8,:;!)0; Africa with about a sevl enlh or 19tl,J21,00 ; Amend with less than a sixteenth, or a"i,."il'j, 8(HI : and fin ally, Australia and Polynesia, with' tho very small fi action of 4,74,G00 people Em ope is the most densely populated having 82 peions to the square mile' Asia will, 4 ; Africa nith 17j ; and Amerl ica and Australia with only Oj and 1 re sjveclively. There are 215 cities on the earth with a population of over 1(H,000,20 aithbalf a million or more, and nine cities contaiuinjj a million or more inhabitants. Of these last, four arc in China. Including Brook lyn with New Yoik, as we may ligLtrully do for purposes of comparison, the gieate&t c.ties of the win 1.1 stand in this oidei London has 3,4V!).42S; p,, l.s.,1,7;,. New York. Il.jrri.njj ; Vicuna, l.OyiVitJ Berlin, 1,044,000 ; Canton and three other Chinese cities, one million each. Neir Yoik thereto! e takes its place thiid iu tho list of great cities without counting our New Jetsey ovei fi.iw. . Though there is not at hand sla istics uiw.n which to base au accurate statement ot the fact, yet it is fhe opinion of all ob servers of the condition of civilized eoplo that the average l..i ge ity of il,e human race has incie.ised w, thin a bundled yeai Such lejM.rts of ihe death rate as we havo go to siip,it that conclusion, all) it is thoroughly proved that the devastations of epidemic diseases are not so great now as formeily; while the medical au Meadilj advances :u its inaMciy of the disorders of the human sys'Vin and iu itsabiiity to watd off and check maladies which threaten hu man life. Li England, for in.M-tuce, the death rate has declined Considerably "din ing a quarter .f a century .There aud elsewhere in Lurojw, as also in this couu tiy, the subject of public hygiene has ie ceived great attention of Lite years, and its difficulties are being steadily" overcome x. y. s'tt. It is one of the anomalies which it would take a met. -i physician loexpl iin mat -w Ii ii half a loaf is better than n0 bread, a oo'j tir:iion loaf is equivalent to no hi o.iol. " JU!t loaf a few moata aad sv. il u tju'v.
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