I " SS V -l O if, A. MoPIKE, Editor and Publisher. volume xti HERIFF'S SALES. )V" virtue rr sunury ivrns or i r.iiu. r,rjnu. rtfl'I I ' r'J i-:-in-i imii in me. urt n f I iHimnn i ihi? '! am ui 111 conn i y nnn TUESDAY, APRIL 2d, 1878, ! I rl0rk. 1. 31.. the follow-in real estate, to wit : Ail the n'jrht. title ami interest or .Taeob tin .', ,;t in ami t" a lot of itnmnil Jitimteit in Car- "n h..riiih. Cambria county. la.. frontlnif I, S'ir.!iii"'rr''l. a.l j.ininir t'liurch .treet on - eft. Int "f Lawrence Nclirutli on the fnuth, lot ul T. K. Scanliin on the west, having ervttJ a two Cory frame hne ami 1 ,,if new In the oecupaney of Jacob Hnher. i - .. .i i ....i.i .i. ... J. i j,?n in exccuLinu aim .m um ul me suit o: 'in Fiii'k rS(). the rinht. title anil interact oT JllipJn I'tirri'1!!. l. 'f. an. I t' a lot of jrrountl fitunte In i rr"iK"nn tnrnu:i It. ' mnina county, m.. lront j u in M;iin -ereet. ) iiiic lot of A. Walters J n ,i,e ., r li. lot of M.irfin Yaliner on the north, fcvl running bti.'k to an alley, having thereon vt, two (it.iry l.ink houe ntiil plank stahle, 5 .w in the oeonpnncy ot .lames Null. Taken in ) x ..-u r i) ami to he sol. I at the .uit of.Tohn Buck jr-:i Au.n-tiiitf Waller., executors of Geo, Weak- r.l.i'.'.!. At all the riult. title anil interest of Charles ,,h !' n uinl 1,1 :l l.ii'Pfl nr l.:irrdl ul' Inn. I ft- u.ite-l In .Ir.rkfoii township, t.'ainliria county, , a ijninifis lit nils of Feter Kinney, ('atiil.ria l-.n i n.. it-..nie Wclin. ami other., eontaininif ' ! i -n-s. in.. re or Ica, about in acres cleared, fiav-iw-i thereon ereetcil a two tory plank house ami It .inie lurn. n.t now oeeuiiei. Taken in exeeu J n And Id lie sn. I at the uit of Thomas Kinney. $ A'.-!', nit the riielit. tit le mtil inti rest of John ? . i m:in. of. in an. I to a piece or parcel of latul J pi h?.1 iu Saueiianna township, t .'ambria Coun- c V.i., alioiniiiif lan.l ot l.eon.ir-1 rarabati)Ht ill tl.e iiurt!:, William Met 'otiible tin the west, ml r-"rie Sny-ler on the north a nil est, con '.'BiHtST ai res, twee ur less, atmut 2b acres of trl:ii-!i are elea.eil, havitnj th -reon erecteil a one :i:: l a-li :ll story pl.ink lioiise, loif barn and black- shop. "W in the in-eup iney ol Jolin I!. Wil :. m. Taken in exei utfmi ;iu. to be Sold at the li ! of H C. Kirkp.itriek. '1 ' t ll.i. r , . I T li.Ta M. I In ln.n.t . . t oil I A !ni:r. l. in ami io a piece or pareel of laml sit- 'j i e in le i meiii ti'Wiisiup, t -Aiuliria county, r., iiir lan ls of James Aiiatu, Harry SliepJ l.ar.i. i;ei! iiiati .Mellon, an l ot her., conta ining 100 Tres, ttior-or less, about 7-" acres ot which are i.r.' !. hai-insc thiTfiKt a two story (none imi-e an-l trjiiie iKirn. n.w ; the oceipa-n-y of Silns A 'jMi. Taken in execration ami lo teso:.iat the "I K. H. S:iupp. Ai . all the nuhf. title anl interest of lienc i . t t '..Ike. of. in ami to a piece or parcel of l.-inil s'tij.if e in t 'arrol I townsliiji. i 'imibria county. I'a.. ni' nii.Lr l.m.ls of Henry Hopple. Wm Artile. Aa .rew Wbitc. ami others, eonfaininar TS acres' .r less, alum rjA acres ( whrt h are elt-.iril I:.,V! i thereon erected a one story loir house and ..n. r.nw in t he occupancy of Henclict Folke. n "i execution and io te suld at the suit or y 11 p(iie. .. aii the rfsrht. title and interest of.Tohn 1.. ki ll- AI.- - ii-..:. in and to a lot of irroand situated in Sp:- ri boroiij-h. Cambria coitntv, fn., I' rtniii mi the south on .Main street, on the norti I i in a.l.y. on the west hv lot of Stephen Con-M-I.ai,.l I'll the east by h.'t of Charles harti: I a-. u le the i eon erected a larirc two story frame tm-eru fn I tiil pJlf ttahle, now intheoceu-f-Mi -v .Ir.mes H,tn ks. .(,, tj the rijrht. I itle .in i interest of John Crm-ie. of In and to two lots i.t yriiiunl situate,) fn Chest Siirinits tuiroush. ...vi-r a c.illlllv. I'm. txillllileili.fi llie n. rrU liv nn ley on t he h bv street, on the east hv Ureens ai:.-v. an l on the west by lot ot John iiiii-r ti; t hereon erected a plank stable. 1 Ai-n in .-V .-ut!..n hr1 to be sold at the suit of 1 !!.mi;i j:. Kerr. Ai.mo. -iil the ria'i. tftJe and interest of Thotn ' ;,.r:n.i. of. in a ".I to a piece or parcel situate I'l'iilt .i i tovnhii.4'it!nii-fa cuintv. ljt ad. l:.nif !; TI'lT':! I aer-S. 's of Th.mias Will. Anthony Myers. Irr.n Com; a;iy. and ot hers, contati.inz m.'ie or li-s. unimnr veil, having tin rn. ,n j.r,.,..0( a teatn saw mill. Taken in execution iin I t., b sold at the suit of W. J. Jiuck, endorsee of it. (I. fj rinan. Tihmsoi 5.U.K.- Ono-tl.ml of the pwrchnse t. to o In- p.ti.i hen ttie prnpei tj Is kniK kcd and tin- i i iiiaiiiiii t wo-iliiids Injure the conin uiati.in of the .ici d. .MUX ltYAX, PhorifT. ii r fT sO'Ii. e. K'leinburif, Man h 11. is;.n. ShcrifPs Sales. 1 V irtu.-of iry writs of F". F.i.Htid IViirt. . ' til sni'd out i.r the uni t ir Cmnnion I 'i as ,,i t 'aiubi ia cniimi nd to mo lirctl. 'in ! will b.-.-.Tp.sii tn iniMW-sale.nt the hotel T' 1 oni-.f.l i. i .."in', ill I.IIIIIMIIWil, Oh Saturday. ;t,ril (If It, 1S7S, st 2 k.i.k k. r. u th" rolloTitie reiil m-V,te. tn wit : Ai.l the rtifht. title and Interest or Wtlliam ' '' -v; nf " to a piece or jmreel of land sim ' -1 n U ail'i!Z. n tmrnslpp. Cambria count r. :",!'i s;-ii lauds ot James VTlTad. 1. J. Mw. and other, cmitii in inir V2:t acres, more or I ss i :,ii-tt- ;l ... ai n,im. .enc. thereon and h.ty-..- ti.-r-on erected a one .iml-a-liair st rv trame i 'ie olaci-simth shop and stable, not now oo A," a piece nr parcel or land situnted Washington t..wnh:r Cambrln. ciranty Pa. ' 'i rip Umlfvl ii. I li.ivis. James Conrad, and ' lit l.iimi i.t m. Tiley. ci.ntiiHiiii acres. V'. r.; or less, having :i e. nl mttie opened thereon, "'i a pi.-cp r,r ,,;,r,.,. r nnd sitii ited in Wah !''K',"n towtishin Cambria coiintv. I'a.. a.ljoininjr eo :.-! (. . t.j.. 4-(,.ritv simrt. I. .1. !r- .. ami other land of W m. Tilev. ctrntasnlyia- 0" j-r-. no-re or less. A!ro. a piece or tiarcel of satiated in Hnli ndeti town-hip. Cambria vimiy, d . adjoining lands of heirs or .Mrs. '"'?. Charity stmrp. V . M.arp. and others, n a mitt m mros.tni.rp ,f h-ss Alr.t ail Hie r..- it. t, tie :.nd interest ot William Tilev. of in an i t,. a piece - r parcel of land situated in Wash 'O'Vnsn.p Cambri countv, I'a.. adjolnlna in .s .,t i;,y Wiihehu. Charity Sharp. "Ireirs or I.". .rwt,. sn I other lands of Wm Tllev. cow--. .mi :g 4S acres, in. .re or less. Taken In execution "!'' at ,l,p ' J- -'lorrtll, for 'ol -fdu.siown Savings Hank. als.., all the riifht, title and interest oT Jacoh o'',"" ri"'' Adam lii.so. (trustees of Cnited it , r"n Chnrcli. Kairvicw.) .f. in and rn a lot "' fcrrlltld senutn.l In I. , u i. , ; i - in me wi-i; ui rmrview, f',w,"' l. t'ambria c-tii Jv, I'a..frontlnn a t..r,, roa-l and a I oiniiH lifrL s (r Jonathan "-eran.i i ln-tp Cn.-ler. having rfieroon erected lirT'. "'"ry '"'''". now used l.y the Cniled t. '1 ,n, ',nr')r-'''.n. Taken in execution and t' .e, l at the uit of A. Kresh. Ai s.i ail the rlifht. tille and interest of P. " " -arhar.lt, r. in and to a lot of -round 'i.aie i the Kourth w..,r,i of Johnstown horouh; ,','," Ir,f",,ny- rrontfn on Pine street, ad i, Ii "to1 ,o!,n Thorn, sr . on the south and erU. !'J '"n t,,! north and west, havtna; thereon b. m . "t.iry l lank house and stable, now ili-. icriipuncy of I. Jacott (tearhart. Taken Ki 'l'".',"" " l-old at the suit ofM. W. i . '"- '"f "e ol John Thorn, jr. r'iT- "'Viur,,tit,t,e nd Interest ol Richard or i,-i r! "i" 1iin,t Hyekman. or. in and to a piece b.j V i er '""""''ip. Cambria county. Pn..lrnt s . ,"' n 8,r' et an adjoining lands r John ' . KV. ("'ure Heahm.aml others, containing; Ik , .m"reor haTin thereon erected a In A V'"8 ,1,,U,R. not now occupied. Taken Var,.Ution 8nd to b0 801,1 l ' UH or T. K. nJm'v1,8,, kF 'r;1!T0n'-thi', of th" P'trchase u , ,!mM wh,'n thjiropertr is knM.kd tonfir'n.i ",er,,!"'f"ing- two-thirds l,efre the '-oiinrniaiiiiii or the deed. Kheritr.nm JOHN KYAV. Sheriff. erirrOfflee, Ehensluirir. March IH, 1H78. JJOTICE U Iicreli given to all par K ; ,.V '.' " ' !' rei" ' . ' :t ttie account of II. I i"s,'.r. .. .V. . '' A'fnB or Henry Ril.blet. an 1'n.M. ,n . T l,a" l,K('n nle'' the office orthe . ' ' t,,,e "' or Cambria, and that tl. -lir-t ri't"Ju? ''e thereto, on or before ' n rul. y,' ,'r J"" Tin. 1-78. the same will bo 1'r 1 " l''Xi:M r-rotlionotary. .....ai, uince,h.i)nil)ur. Mnr.iil. lt7. t. w AMhJl. A M-.ictic.il farmer. who can fm-oiwi, .... i .:. "l"nt . , i ,,..i,i ..mi iiiifiif- ! wnMnV k" -i"- f farm in Hlacklick c.?ia rn.nr.nb''nt U,e of April next. To "i'l to . o . nt 'n liberal induoeineuts Mar, ; i7;':s at nUll'e- JJ)TICi:.T!)e annual ctimir Irr i vJ"" " I'Hd at themee ,.f the Sccr k-lKc n . " "r'r '-l "'"J Of April taexti ,t,wnn the liour u!7 a,',d g r j Jrch is. IsTH -tlt.' K- SJAPTLAX. Seerptary. allnrT!.r best varielieaat wholes. ( ,. . r l,.n V, ' o r ti .n , Kirwi4. at 1,,-n. , -? . . . . ,r'- '3 t low prices. '. PUatii Id great Ante-Coltnnbirin Discoverers of America, The belief that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover America i" so general that multitudes -would be sur prised that a person could be so hardy as to attempt controverting what we have been taught as a truth from our school-days, and yet so stubborn are the facta adduced in support of the voyage of St. Brendan in the Cth century not, as in modern times, with a view lo accumulate wealth, but with the true Christian missionary spiiit, to pieach the Gospel to heathen nations, and gather them into the fold of Christ that we think it worth whiio to call attention to it. St. Patrick landed as a missionary in Ireland in 4:52. When in that part of lie land now known as County Kerry he proph esied the birth of a boy who would be the founder of a great monastery at the place afterwards known as Cloufcrt, iu the coun ty of (jalwny, the walls of which are still stauding. St. Brendan had a cousin named Barinthus, a seafaring man who resided on the western coast of Ireland, from whom lie had heaid wonderful accounts of a voy age he had made to the happy islands in the western seas, off where Urn sun seems to set, where it is perpetual spring, ajid where it is not required that the inhabi tants should labor to obtain food. It is an errouous idea to suppose that the Irish at that time had no ships capable of making such a voyage. It was at the time that Solomon was building his Temple, l(XHj years before Christ, that the Phomi cians left the coast of Tyre to sail the w hole letiglh of the Mediterranean Sea, through the Pillars of Hercules and across the pres ent Bay of Biscay, a voyage as long as from the coast of Ireland to that of America while we see persons crossing the ocean :n our own days iu small boats 13 or 20 feet long. The naval fleets of former days seem to be undervalued, for King Dathy brought a large licet from Iioland to France and an army amongst which therewas a large body of cavalry, and after that King's death by lighluing near the Alps, his gen erals led them htmie about the year ilSS. This fact alone proves very conclusive! tliat the ancient Irish had ships capable of carrying cavaliy. Sr. Brendan traveled along the western shoie of Ireland, seeking possible informa tion from the descendants of the ancient Tuatha Danaan inhabitant-sof the country. Haviiig selected hiscrevr. and made all his arranoements, he set sail fiom a well shel tetcd harbor iu his own country which bears his name to this r'ay. After a long and rough voyage, his licle baik being well provisioned, he came to summer seas, his course being in a south, westerly direction, where he was carried alone? upon his voy age without 'sails oi oars lor many days. This, it is reasonable to presume, was the Culf Stream, w hich brought t hem onshore somewhere about Sl.e :'th or 3?lh decree of noith latitude. IlereliAviug lander! and rested awhile, he marched rnlnnd for fifteen days steadily, when they arrived at a great rivi r (lowing inland from the sear, from east to west, a thing never before heard of, and showing a country as large as Europe and Asia both put together. This great river is believed to have been the Ohio, as that di rection corresponds with the general course of that river. As theie seemed to be no limit to this land of wonders, ihe Saint de cided not to proceed any further west at this time, but to leave more wonderful dis coveries and the Chtil rianizing of the sav age inhabitants to otheis who would follow. It is easy to imagine numerous reasons why Brendan shouid ntuin to the seaside lalicuo, want of piiv i.-ioiis, discontent among his folio weis, etc., etc. The mi mensily of the discoveiy they bad made was enough to oppress their very htaits wiih leritn, added to which was the long ing w hich must have excited .bcm to carry home the news to their own nation. This voyage of St, Brendan's took place acco.ding to Colgati, the gieat Irish an tiquary, in the year 540 ; other authorities set it down as bcint; a few ycais eailicr. It is said that Ihe legend's ard accounts of this voyage, combined with the discoveries by another Irish Saint, Viigilius, Bishop cf Salzburg, in Bavaria, of the sphei icily of the earth, R: st suggested lo the active mited of Columbus the idea of the existence of a westei n conl incut, and 1 hat the subject was fully confirmed in his mind on he Aim,' that seveial dead bodies, of a color and a race different from any o:her ever discovered in Europe, Aisia or Afi ica went driven upon the coast of the Capo de Veides. It is a fact, not generally known that the first manor Columbus's expedition to set ftiot tin American soil was an Irishman. This i iccorded by an Ital an pi iest, Johu Baptist Tei tiitoi i, in a publication of the 17th century, a copy of which is iu the li biaiy of the University of St. Louis. In this woik it is related that when Columbus neaied the land, the water not beine deep enough to adn.it the sh'p any further, the small boats were launched to cany the ad miral on shore. Among the crew was one I'alriciu Mijuirnx. (if he were in Ireland to-day le would be called Paddy Maguire) who jumped tint of the boat, reached the land and waded on shore, on the 4th of Oc obor. 1492, thus, lightening the boat and helping to carry the Admiral luriher up on the beach. The roster of the ship's crew that sailed fiom Spain is, all complete, in the archives of 31adiid, from which the above lias been taken, hot because he, Pat rick Maguire was the only Irishman in the expedition, for theie were scveial, but on account of the remarkable action which enabled him to be the first man to set his fo t on the newly discovered soil of Amer ic i. There should be no surprise expressed at meeting Ii ish names in the list of mariners in the Spanish fleet, when the qualifications for enrollment in that expedition are con sidered. Nowhere on earth could such a school for seamen be found as on the wes tern coast of In land, bet ween which and Spain, fiom the days of Scotia, a consider able trafiio was can ied on. Scotia was the datig'iter of King Solomon, and wife of Milesius, son of Hiram, King t.f Tyre, wl.o sent bis aitiiicers to build the Temple for King Solomon, at which time the Princess left her father's lull's to follow, beyond the seas, in ships built by her husband's sub jects, ihe futilities of her lord, and sought a heme among the rich green plains of lie land. It is over 2,fr'(K)ye.irs since the Prin cpss Scotia (from whom '.lie country was called Scol i.t and the iulinbitauts Scot), with her tbiee sons and theit troops, lauded in Iieland and conquered the Tuatlia-Da-naans. From that period the intercourse between Erin and Spain began, the road way lying over the fearfully rolling wares HE IS A FREEMAX EBENSBUEG, PA.. FRIDAY, MAllCIl 29. 1S78. ISira s-eye View, .Sillcs Dren.H Goods Mourning Good Clotikings riantiela Linens Jfuslins 11'liite Goods Lac a Hibbons Trimmings IJin h roid cries Fringes Zcpityrs fiiul Worsteds XccLieear Gloves Toilet Articles Stationery Ft offers f- Feathers of the Bay of Biscay; and if 2000 years ago, with all their recollections of one thousand yeai of adventure. Brendan and his com panions should have braved the fierce stoi ms of the Atlantic in their anxiety to gather sheep into the fold of Christ, it would not be veiy surprising. Traces of ante-Columbian voyages to Amet ica are conl iiiiintly croiipine: up, ami it rs not at all improbable that the Phoen icians in the voyages from what is now known as the Snails of Gibraltar to Cape Finisterie iu Spain, and from that fo Capo Clear in Ireland, must have been occasion ally diivenout of their course and made discoveries anion? the Azores, Madeiia the Canary and Cape de Verde islands' Humboldt, states Ntsitivcly that those is lands were known to the Plnmiicias and Etruscans, and there is a map in the Libra ry of Sr. Mark's at Venice, made in the year 1.54v, some 15') years before the voy age of ColnmlHis, in which ihe Anii:i -s or West Indies are laid low n with wonderful correctness. Ihe Scandinavians have established strong claims to the discoveiy of America live centuties bef.ue Columbus set tmt on his adventurous voyage, and these claims are well support ed by the temaikuble works if Itafn, the ).-.utsh histoiian. Ther"Nrso Sagas," as translated nrl published by Ihiii, claim the discovery of the northern part of the'.continenf, Greenland and Labrador, by the Scandinavians; but they also give the honor of the first discoveiy to Irishmen at a much earlier jieriod, and in their woiks they call the new country "Zrclund ft Mik ," or "Great Ireland." They also s'ale that when some of the Norsemen went down to a region called "Iluitra-Manna-land," (probably the Carolinas and Geor gia,) "they found here," says K.ifn, "a w hite peoplo different from the Esquimaux of the north, having long robe-s or cloaks, and frequently bearing crosses iu a sort of religious processions, and their speech was the Irish or Ceilic dialect." Many very ancient manuscripts are to lie found in the Iceland 'c chronicles, or, "Shal-hoh-Saga," bearing date 1117, carefully delineating several bays and shores of America : they also mention the death of an Icelandic woman, named Suasa, who had accompanied an expedition, and so minutely described the topography of the place where -she was buried that Sir Thomas Mn;aj conjectured that the spot should be nVthe immediate vicinity of the great falls on the Potomac ltiver above Washington. A (w years since a celebrated English antiquarxi. Mr. Thomas C. Kaffinson, and M. Louis Lequereux, the distinguished geologist, with two American gentlemen, pioceeded to the localities mentioned iu the "Shal-holt-Saga" and made close search for any traces to ascertain the exact place of Suasa's burial. Afler a long search Miey discovered an inscription in the Punic language, cut deep iu a rock ca li d ihe "Arrow Head." It read as fol lows ; Hf.hr i.ifs Stasv (or Suasa), ' The Fa ii-1 1 a tit Kit. A Person rnoM thk K.t ok fcKi.Axn, THK W'HMtw op Kj.h ih. Ami Nisikii or TiiiiKiiiiii, Chii.iimkn or thk hamb Katiik-r, TW'KNTY-MVK VKVHS OF AUK, MAY tiOD MAKK ni.All HKH SOUC 1051. Near it they exhumed some human teeth and bones, three bronze trinkets and some other relics. I mention these to show that the discovery of America was WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES TJtTT, AND All, Joint, H'uncimakcr's Grand lcnot, SE3,EZSa,t3-. 1378. THE second yestr of the Gnernl Dry Goods Business at the Grand Depot is jut opening. It is proper to ay that wht wns deemed n ex peri ment, the first year, experience proves to ba n success, and we now propose to preatly improve on the fir6t plana. The principles of uniform low price for everything throughout the House. 2 One Price and no partiality. 3 Pclitextem and Fr.tience to rich and poor. Qr Ccsh R.-0nrT.nrl If bnyc.T-t rottirn . o:ls (oven though Dren Patterns) in reasonable time and uninjured. A very lar.je stock of all kinds of newest Dry Goods always on han-1, arranged on one floor with plenty of livjht to see them A thousand people cun easily be waited on at one lyvic. Where o many goods are ecliin.j every dy he people are sure oT ge.iitn. only fresh goods. Frnetly desiring to serve the pnon'e well, nnd inviting them to visit too Grand Depot whether they wish to buy. or "only to sen the fashions." Ttfi'f not com .n;j to the city to see the magnificent tci.?J-& n-w s ock for Spring, eend fo r sa m pies, descri b in.f t-1 iss of goods wnted. We do larje business through tt ni I . Very respectfully, JOHN WAN AM AK ER, Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. centuries anterior to the time of Columbus and that everything is iu favor of the correctness of St. Brendan's statement. He lived many years after his return from his wotitloiful voyage, and took pleasure in relating bis advert ores to his scholars. He founded the celebrated Abbey of Clon fert, in the- County of Gal way, in which it is related that three thousand students at one time, fiom various paits of Europe, received their education. St. Brendan died about the year 577, and was buried iu his own monastery of Clonfert. To show how grea ly Columbus was in debted to IiiMinifii for the information he posM-sd on the true geography of the earth, I should mention that there are no less than cloven Latin manuscripts in the Bib liotheque Imperial, at Paris, the dates of which vary from the eleventh to the four teenth century, iu prooi of this discoveiy, while seveial nioie in French, Dutch. Ger man, Italian, and Portuguese are to be found on the continent. But the work published by Professor Rafn at Copenha gen in 18:7 is conclusive on the subject. The Siieiland and Faro I U-s form as it were stepping siones to Iceland, which is six hundred miles from the coast of Nor way, and only one hundred and forty from Greenland. Iceland is part of America. The sul'ject of the maimer in which America first became inhabited is one of absoibing interest. We know that in 183:1 a Japanese junk was driven on shore in California, but what about the Pata gonians, or the Dingos of Aus ralia? and then the West India Islands were thickly inhabited iu the time of Columbus, the Aztecs had leached a high degree of civii zation, and a former race seemed to have passed away, namely the mound builders. One of the most distinguished of the Irish missionaries w ho preached the Gospel iu Germany, about the middle of the eighth century, along with St. Boniface, was the learned Feargal O'Fatrel, known in histo ry as Virgilius, Bishop of Saltzburg. He arrived in Fiance in ihe year 74:5, and was honored with the friendship of Pepin, son of Charles Mai tel. who was afterwards ele vated to the regal dignity being the fiist king of France. Pepin retained Virgilius in his. palace with himself for two years, and then recommended him to Olilo, Duke of Bavaria. St. Boniface, Archbishop of Metz, was Virgilius' ecclesiastical superior, and as they differed on some points of dis cipline Bonifaco had information thereof conveyed to Pope Zachary. The chief ac cusation was that he, Virgilius, asserted the sphericity of the earth, the motion of the earth round the sun, and that there ex isted antipodes or, people living under the earth with trrTce,intiiig to ours. The Pope was luisTrTfinied, the statement be ing that he taught that there was another world under our earth, and a different race of men inhabiting it. Pojie Zachary wrote to him in 748, and his letter is still in ex istence, drmnuding an explanation, allien he received to his full satisfaction. It is interesting to know that an Irish monk should be the first to outertain a line mil ion of the existence of antipodes, of the sphericity of the earth, and of the motion of ihe planets, and of the earth round Ihe sun. These are the princip'es afterward taught, by Copernicus, another Catholic priest, about 1450, for which he was prosecuted by the philosophers of Am day, as was Galileo by the scientist and philosophers of the school of Aristotle Ptolemy ; but the Popes in each of tiiee AHE SLATES BESIDE.' Thirteenth Street. fMtlies' C JFisses' Suits " SacqitcnS: Cloaks Underwear Hosiery Upliol.ttery Goods Blankets and Quilts Trunks and Valises Itubber Goods Horse Covers Mens C Boys' Clothing Hats Shoes three cases proved themselves the firm friends of learning and advauced ideas. Here it will be seen that it was from the travels of St. Brendan in the 0th centurv and from the philosophy of St. Virgilius as he taught it in the 8th century, that Christopner Columbus, with the assistance of the strong arms of Patricius Maguirns, was enabled to land on the shores of San Salvador, on the 4th of October. A. D. t492. "B. A" in the Nvtrc Dtc Scholas tic. Atlantic Wrecks for Thirty-seven Years, "We hare liefortvns a record showing the nnmlier of lives lost In crossing ihe Atlantic during the iast thirty-seven years. In tins period fifty-six fine steamers have leen wrecked, and iu twenty-nine instances more or less lives were lost. Nine vessels were never heard from after leaving port. These are the President in 1R4I, the Citv of Glas gow in 18.-.4. the Pacific in 1S.VJ, the Tempest in 1S57, thu United Kingdom iu lSt;8, the City ot Riiston in ISio, the Scandcria in 1872, the IsmailK in 1x73, and the Col umbo in 1S77. The number of lives which were thus blotted out. aggregates 1,3!7. Of the remain ing vessels, lour were burned, five sunk liy collision, two by colliding with iceliergs, two t'oiuideretl at sea. and thirty-four were wrecked on various coasts. This is a sug gestive showing, for it at otict calls inui con trast the relative eril incurred ly depend ence upon bitman judgment and human handiwork. t)t the entire total of ste liners los:, in two cases can the disaster lie attribu table to a breakdown of the machinery namely, the Anchor line steamer H iliern'ia' which foiiiulo ed through her propeller shaft having Iwen withdrawn from its ;Uce after the propeller had been lost ; ami llie other the Ismailia, of the same -line, which wan once spoken under sail, her niacin nury leiiig disabled, and was never heard of afterward. Neither has any lioiler explosion occurred on an Ailantii: steamer during the eriod men tioned. So tar as the record liefore ns is authority, the inference therefore is that the greatest loss ot" life is due not to lack of safe vessels, but to failure In judgment or the incompetence of those who handle them. Thirty-four steamers, as alsive state.l, have liecu wrecked, and an inspection of the localities where the wrecks occurred shows that several have hap)Mmed in about the same vicinity. For example, the City of New York in 18il and the Chicago in 1808 were both wre.iked on Daunt's ltock, near Q'leeustown. No less than twelve have been destroyed on the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. It may be asked if vessels cannot bo built s rotig enough to withstand driving upon the rocks as in the cases of the Atlantic and th Schiller, at least for a sutticient timt to enable 'the passengers and crew to obtain assistance or make their escape ; but here llm question of eost o'jtrudes itself, and tho answer of those who have considered the snlijcet Is that vessels cannot be so constructed and yet profitably used. Taking this into account with the aggregate iitnnlw-r of lives los, in all 4,780, and it will be evident that the problem oi reducing the dangers of the sea becomes, as we have frequently nrg",J depending on the efficacy of lit'a s.iving in. ventiuiis. Devices which will ktep large iitlinlierB of people afloat (or coiisidcralile periods, devices that will keep individuals above water tha: can Im rapidly inliihtedto th Hirson with impossibility of unmake devices for taking line from" wrecked veal se!s to llie shorn, devices for iudivattn the relative positions of ships to nacb otherruew signals tor fog and night, and contrivances of that natnre, all are subjects for the in vert tor"s skill in devising better modifications aiid improvement." 'Scientific American. AX IXNOU12XT JIAX HLWG.', The case which is abouVto be narrated has few pan al Ids. More than a dozen suspicious circumstances pointed to the gnilt of persons-accused, and one fact dove tailed into the other with the utmost neat ness anLaccuyacy. On the Sib of June, 159, Hobert Bell, a farmer residing in the neighboi hood of Norwich, Englaud, was fonud murdered and robbed in an unused by-road leading from tlie highway to his house. Two laborers going at daybreak to a small coppice near by, saw. tiif: ltODT IN A r!Tcit, and, recognizing ihe fanner, notified his family, which consisted of a wife and one daughter. The proper authorities were summoned, and a careful examination begun. Mr. Bell's skull was cut in two places from the blows of a blunt weajxm, and there was one stab wound in his heart and another in his throat. In the mud near by were the marks of Mr. Bell's boots, and of the bare feet of another party. Lying in the ditch a large jackknife was found, with which the stab wounds bad been inflicted. The marks of Mr. Bell's boots were visible from the road up to where the body lay, as was also THE ntlNTS OK NAKED FEF.T. These latter were traced along the road leading from Norwich for about a quaiter of a mile, to a stone by the roadside. Here they ceased, and it was supposed that the murderer had sat upon the stone and put his boots ou. Between the stone and the hedge Mr. Bell's hat was found. The lin ing was wauting. On the top of the stono there was a thin layer of mud, and in it was the impression of corduroy trowsers. In the yard of an inn about two miles rurlher ou the lining of Mr. Bell's hat was found. It was evident that, after committing the crime, THE ASSASSIN HAD VISITED THE INN. Inquiry showed that Mr. Bell quitted Norwich about 7 o'clock in the evening to walk home, a distance of about three miles. The probability was, therefore, that he was murdered between 8 and 9 o'clock, while it was still daylight. About 10 o' clock the same night a Jewish jieddler called at the inn, iu the yard of which the hat lining had beeu found. He wore long boots and corduroy trowsers. He ate a little bread and cheese, drank a glass of ale and quitted the place, remarking that lie had a long journey before daylight. That was all that was known about him at the inn, but the wife aud daughter of the murdered man had AN I M rilHTAXT FACT TO KELATE. Between C and 10 o'clock the tame night the peddler called at the fartnei's house and informed Mrs. Bell and her daughter that Mr. Bell had sent him with a message to the eflect that ho had forgotten some important business aud hud returned to Norwich, and that probably he would not return home until the next morning. These facts clearly pointed to the peddler ns the guilty man. After murdering and robbing the farmer he concocted the plan of pretending to be a mes-senger from him wi h the view of relieving bis family from all fears at his proloujed abseuce, thus securing. TIME FOIt HIS OWN FI.IC.HT. Officers were seut after the peddler, and next day be was attested, examined and committed for trial as the murderer of Mr. Bell. When the trial came on the ixsddler, whose name was found to be Abraham Ivewis, told a most exlraoroiusiy and, as was generally believed, artful stoiy. Be fore this, however, additional testimony of a most startling nature was produced for the prosecution. In the peddler's box, in which be carried the goods which he of feted for sale, was found a small parcel containing ten shillings, the wrapper being a piece of a newspajier. In the farmer's pocket was found the newspaper from which the piece used as a mapper had been torn. It lilted exactly. The hostler of the inn at Norwich, at which the fanner stopped on the day he was murdered, IDKXTIFKI) THE PKDDI.KR as having been in the inn yard ou the day in question, and as having asked a iium ber of questions about the farmer. The hostler also swore that the knife found by the dead man belonged to the pcddlri. He knew it from the fact of the peddler having loaned it to him that very day to bore a hole in a strap of a harness he was tixing. None of the money w hich the fai m er was known to have bad aliout him was found on the peddler, but it was supposed that he had hidden it somewhere before he was arrested. THK I'KDPI.EIt IN HIS DEFENSE, proved, first of all, that be was a man of good characer, bringing up his family iu respectability. Then he told his stoiy. He said that on the night of the murder be was on bis way frotu Norwich to the mid land counties. About a blind red yards from the stone above referred to he met a man well nm filed up ; the man passed him, and the peddler walked ou. Ho sat down on the stone to rest, and filled his pie. The pacr in which be can ted his tobacco was worn out, and he looked around to nee if there was anything lying near be could substitute for it. r "t. BETWEEN THE STONE AXI TH E HEDGE he Saw what be supHised was an old bat. He picked it up, toie. tint the lining, and wrapped his tobacco in it. As he did this' he saw the man whom he had passed just before coming toward him. When the man got close to him, be said : "Friend, do you waut lo earn a couple of shillings?" "I always want to earn money," the peddler replied. "If you will carry a message to the house ou the hiil thoie," Ihe man said, "I will give you ten shillings. ". - "What is t!ie iness;S?" tlio jddlcr asketl. "I live there," said the man. "Go and tell the ft. Iks that I have foigotleii some im portant business and am going back to Norwich, and won't be home, puihaps, tint il lo-ni.'i row." The peddler agreed to en and ccr the nirs-iao, and the man g tve him t -ti si. 1 i s wrapped in a piece of new sp,i r. i l.i wns the money :;ud the paper found in hi box. He to tin; message, as litloii sworn to in llie evidence by. SI US. 15EI.1, AND IIK1! DVftilil i.K. After eating his supper at Ihe n:n tin peddler, accoiding to bis story, went inti the yard and filled his pipe. Then be transferred tho rest of his tobacco to his waistcoat pocket, and threw the wrapper the lining which he had taken out of the hat be found by tho stone upon the ground, where it was subsequently found. Terms, $2 per year, In advance. NUMJEK 10. The peddler said that, seeing the farmer around in the inn yard, lie asked the hostler where he lived, whether he was well off and whether he had any children, with tho sole view of finding out whether it wyuM bo worth while visiting his residence for the purpose of selling his wares. As to the knife, lie admitted that it was bis, and that he bad lent it to the hostler to lnif a bole with the day of the murder; but h also solemnly averred that the hostler hati never returned it to him. As rain fell dn ing the day that followed the farmer's murder the fee-1 of the pcddlct could not be compatcd with the priuts in the mud, the latter having been utterlv ob literated. The prisoner's counsel made a long and able address in behalf of bis client. He referred to his good character and industry as a boy, to his perseverance and thrift through his early manhiod, to his having married a woman of good Israe litish family, and to his having expensively educated two sons and a daughter. A score of witnesses were brought to testify to Lew is' excellent character as a man anil his integrity in business matters; but all was in vain. The evidence against him was overwhelming. The prosecution had a fearful array of material to woik from, and his address to the jury DECIDED THE I'KDDI.EU's FATE. In half an hour ihoy returned with a verdict of wilful minder. The Judge in passing sentence expressed his entire satis faction with the way in which the j,j- ijai done their duty, and after a solemn and terribly scorching address to the the prison er, sentenced him to bo hanged by the neck until he was dead. THE SEQUET Six weeks af er the banging of Abram Lewis, Henry Wilson, the hostler whose testimony had been so damaging to tbo unfortunate man, told his employer that an uncle had died In Lincolnshire and left him a considerable sum of money. Wilson gave his associates a tieat and started northward. At the end of a month lie re turned clad in mourning, and took tip his abode as a guest at the the inn where he had served for three years as a hostler. He appeared to have plenty of money, and soon made a host of friends. He "w as a medium-sized. irood-lookiiif vnm.n r..ii.. oi iweiuy-si.x, anu wneu well dieted, he was now, (IT A VEHV ItKsrmil'.lF nr.i 1.1- as After consu'titit' with iim i.,..n..,.i - -I ...w ,'.u,l IjU leased a small farm adjoining tLat ow ned and cultivated by the widow of Ihe mur Lo dered farmer Bell. He purchased suitable movn, onu uevoi.eu nimseii Uiiigently the cultivation of his land. He was regular atteudant .it tl, i.m iJ, i.,,.k t' a fur -the first six motitbs of bis residence, but alter he bcg.vi to attend the Methodic chapel, where Mrs. Bell, and daughter wishipped. lie soon fumed the acquaint ance ot these two lad es, and, though they never gave Lini any eucotit agemeut, called repeatedly 'it their hor.se. Miss Bell was a fair, pretty girl of twemy years, and it was ii:m oed th.-.t. WILSON was i avi: o cociit to nr.it. The report annoyed her considerably, and wbeu V ilson at length showed, by ll-'s conduct and words, that he entertained hope of winning ber for a bride, she le pu:sed him with iid gn. t on. He bore her rebuff's for ikimo time w.tbout complain ing. At length one Sunnay. when Mis Bell was returning home from chuich alone, be followed her and entered into conversation with her. Afler a few com monplace lomaiks he spoke out boldly and asked her to become his wife. She was greatly annoyed, and told him rlatlj and finally that she not only did not love him, but positively disliked him. Wilsc u, w ho hilhcito had. worn a mask in her presence, tbiew off his assume. gent'.eness, and addressed her in coaiM and angry invective. Mis. Dell, whu wa. a gill of some courage, gave him her niiu ! arnea away oy passion, he e v- Ciaimeu : 'I suppose you hope to marry 'Fqui Bedmayne. He is a fool ir he has any tun to say to you." 1 his remaik utterly astonished Miss Ee ; s she was not aw.ii i' tlwi. nnv .......... ;. ....j V' . 1 VU 1, of the family knew that Mr. IUdmayne ba K,vt cniiiiii.mu any oesne to make bis wife. She quickem d ber fctept, ht a 1 1 (I nas eucfi liome. sshe inid ber ino her her interview with ib.ui, and of ihe mark he hail maoe ltsju-ciiug Mr. lift: tia ne. MOTHER AND n.UT.HTER. conversed long and sci i.msly on the subject Mr. Iledmayne had me: Miss B-.-ll but one. oeiure tier lauiei s Oeatli. Hip day o aiiicii iie-r taii erwas murdered Mr. maj tie dined at the inn in Norwich lle.-i wit. him. and btforeb-.- l.-ft lsi,ii..l i.i... t.... asking him to read i; and send him an an fcwer iu a day or two. The letter. aloL with 1.50(1 in gold, silver aid notes, w. taken Com Mr. Bell's t.dy by his assasfit After the funeral Mr. K d'ruayue bad U-u Mis. Bell about the letter and that it con tamed a leqtiest to oe allowed to nav atu ...is hi .in. Dm stLuiauirr. Mis. Ilel reolv. had. af ber il ,,n ' 1. 1 0 ........... Ii 1: asl ed Mr. Ked:n..iie to aliovv iLe matter t ue 111 ieyane a twelvemonth. He 1 promised to dj so, and bad never beeu i..i 1; tiio nouse since. A STAUTI.IN'O o,'j.TION. How did Wilson know that Mr niavne was an vt bin.' to lici I .ed Mis. Bell stnt I .r Mr. Hedmajne am told him the remarkable cu ctiinsi anct He sob in nly det laied tlat he had nevt i left a hint of the mat ter drop to arjV one not even his own family. itiurnit,. home Mr. Bedmayiie ca.nful.y rt-,kU OVt. the testimony given 011 ihe Lewis tri. One fact stituk him like a flash of licl;i ning. Lew is s i, ini.ly aem-ii th.,i be iet ins knife to Wilson the day of the inuider ami tint Wilson nev r returned iu " Mt. lb-dmayne laid tbo a hole n.at ter be fare his 1 iwy-r. ami b. fore a week JMne V. IItN w..s 1 1 d m; EI) in j mi. lie si r oi 1, is 1. a. ing t;i 1 1, ,ejr t. p-opeiiy was s.n:i expl. Hied, a;.dthe m !! of two j. -is hin showed that test i on 11. 11, gn: 01 i;.e twu.ttci lie wns absent In. tif..-. tiie inn. I be landlord himself testif mat oe leu ii tn 11 iietneen 11 and , o coc mat i-'.giii, si; it iii.ii he was timf! Ii'. up ami l:gtii--i . i,it stiil tli,.,e soiiiittilng wan ing to bntig burnt in l.i r. the crime to wi.ichl.e w ns v i,.,. ...... 1 trunks weie c.u-efi.Py si.oclied, and Litter win ton liy Mr. K-diimync handed 'o Mi. Pull 11:1 tb.- , 1 , , - -- --- v inuideri .1, w as fouuo at the hot u.ni or o of them. Wilson was commUted for t:?al that vci y night stranding himself in Cell W illi Lib su.-pcudel. be v . 1 J U II
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