! i i t i 1 i H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "HE is a freeman whom the truth hakes free, akd all are slates beside. Terms, S2 per year. In advance VOLUME XII. EBEXSBUIIG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1S7S. NUMBER 2S 11 1 I I , I just Jthcr e W.an indsof f ncar of the of yean imber. ks and iberitu r in this i of the el into culture Since in been rr, and .or that 0 over lli tlu-ra Russia n birge society, indeed, peasant ie of u rtrflr on r. - price en 1 an J, M re is re-sen-on. of this rr;itliere-l " to fiUtf London r se:vsoU- ower? of estrnble iv. U is spice v ,o all tlie ml is no gioiis of small fa libers, in 3 of e are the are oppr. een. A f smoked ieil in lhe. f part uf our I'1' ip, iiicl'l i9or fil-y ie clove is ami K -11 3 seed ve" i seen if short time res of the oil. r,oth Lhe cloven oil tbey ,1 is fci,:t' re ther re ire iu coQ' A'hen lir.cn , following of vinegftf r(re oniona, pe. Mers earth. L-e of 1 Y) it UI'U" t, e to n-mn :! nnd w!,4l0 will restor h gcorcaea I. ;n E'v.,t a,n' r'Ar 13razil, r ny. SwetU"1' anl JP" lanlof cua.lor. J Jliina. c, of Colo; t!.e bi-n JS. THE I.OItirS I'RA V K R. The following ltonuiif.il pmm is said to hae Iteeti wriiten ly K'.i'gJ.imes 1., ihougb by soino it is ascribed u Ihsbop Andrews : If any srr cli-M reset.. unit f,in woiiM Bather Some comfort, let th'm ha-ten unto Our Father. Fur we of hope and help are quite bereaven L'uless thou 8Ui''r us Who art in Heaven. Thou showed mercy, llierefore for the same We praise thee sin-ring Hallowed be thy name. Of all Thy merries eat up the sum, suow us 'ifoy ji,. and let Thy Kingdom come. We morial are, ann alter from our liirth. Thou coiij-tjnl art ; Thy will be done on Earth. Thou mad'st F.'irt li, a well as planets seven ; Thy name is blessed here. As 'tis in Heaven. Xxthinir we h-ive to ue, or debts to pay, t.xeept thou (f'vest it to us, Give us this d;iy Wherewith to elothe us, wherewith to be fed, I've ivithoul Thee we "v-ant Our daily bread. We want, hut want no faults, for no day passes IS j I wo do sin - Forifive us our trespasses. N" mnu from sinninir ever free did live. Koix've us, O Lord, o--r sins As we loixive. K we repent our faults. Thou ne'er disdninest We puiduU Ttiem tl.at trespass against us. J-'oruive u. Ihi't is past, a new path troad us, lJU'iet usiilwa in Thy Faith, And lead u. We Thine on n im pie and Thy Chosen Nation 1 iito ail U ii. lis, tint .Not into temptation. Thou that of all good iraeeait tin jfiyer, .-tiller us liot to waiK'i r. JJut dt iiver l"s from the firnf assaults of v.-orld and devil. And llesh, so that ih.ai free us, J nun ail evil. T" these petitions, let both ehuieli and laymen With one coi-sent of heart and voice, ssiy Ami n. DAVID MATSOrVTHE LOST MAN. BY JOHN t. WltlTTIKIt. Who of my young readers have not read the svu nnvful story of Kuc!i Aiden, so weely s 1 1 1 simply I11 by tbe great Kn-gb-b poet? It is lite story of a man w Iio went to wa, leaving belunu a hwett young wiie atul liLlle dangtiler. lie was ca.st ,tiny on a ue.-eit d, wliere be remained .-eectl years, wben be was di-coveied,aud tiikau -lt'b,V a passing vessel. Coming ba-k to bis native town, be found bis wife nianied to an old playmate a good man, I sola and honored, with whom .she was Jtviog liaj pily. The poor iiKin, unwiiln g to cause her pain and ptr jlt.xiiy, rtsolvtd litt to m.iico himself known to htr, and lived an.1 died alone. 'i lie jMHim has refunded me of a very sitn i'aisioiyof iny own 2s'ev KngUud neigb 1 cm lio.xl, w iucli 1 I ave oiieii beaid, and v.iiebl wiM '.iy to led, in t in poet ry, like A fied 1 eut) -oil's, but in my own l oor p.ose. I can assme my reai'ets that, iu ji- ni iiii particuiHis, it i.- a in.et;.le. i.e u. .febt .-ni'iiner iiot ning, more than t'inee ."-coie yeaj s ago. Pavd Mat son, with bis yon.g w iit and t wo iieaii I y, bate footed bi-ys, .-i.H'd on tbe bank of the liver, near then f'webi.ig. 'I bey weie wailing tbeie for IMaliaa C'uitis to C"ne round tbe p''!iil niu iiis wlieuy, tttake t be bu.-baud auil fait'er to the jajit a ftw miles below. The Lively Tim lie was about, to sail on a voy;ige to S;ain, and Uav.d vias to go i:i liii ..s tiKite. '1 bey ibeie in lhe level poi ning MiiiMi'iie, laUii-ig 'joefci i'ully ; but bail iU btco ,ieai e.io.ili, Jon Could have i- en te;us ii Anna 31a.a.;.i's bine eyes, lor sl.e loved bei liiisband, and knew tiieie tti.s alwaye danger on I lie sea. And la iil'i blofT, cbeety voice trembled a little no.v and ii.tn, for oe bone.-t sailor loied bis snug home on tbe .lien imae, wiih tl i; (bar wife and her jnetty b s. IJut pi;.e.:tly tbe wbe. iy caui alongside, and David was ju-t fcteppi.ig in it, wbeu he turned b,ck to kiss Ins n'iJ and boys. " In with you, man, ' said lVla iali Cur tis. "J'iiete's n time fn kissing and huc'.i fot leiies when the tide si'ives," And so tiicy patted. Anna and her b'-vs went back lo Ibeir botue, and David to i lio port fiopi whence lie sailed oil in HiP I. vtly Turtle. And months passed ; auU'M-i follow e the fcutnn.er, .""iid winter the ai'iiiniii ; and then spi i.ig came ; a. ion i was -iiininer on ibe liver hide, and be did not co,.,e back. And another year p. -set', ; i.ct tin it old sailois and fishermen .-! k iinii beads solemnly, a. id said the J.iielv I'm lie was a lost ship, and would never come l ack to poit. And )oor Anna l..n! la i bombazine gown ded black, iMid bri st i aw bonnet tiiinmcd in niuiini.ig libliins, smd iicncefor.h was known only as M e 'A'idow Maison. A id bow was it ail this timo with David LiniM-lf:' Now, yon must know that tbe Mohnin H tii,i,i people of Alieis and Tiinob, M ftj'.' iu ami ..tlee, at'd toe naibaia coast, luJ for a loiig i.inie been in tbe habit of li ting out gal!oysaiid armed boa's to seize " hoi ,,ie chain, ve.-.sels jf Cio islian nations ni i!,e slaves of iheir crews and pas-f-fiit-i s, jsi.st as men calliiig themselves t in ist ians in A met ica w ere sending vessels b Afiieato catch black slaves for their Il!ni'a ions. Tbe Lively Turtle fell into ,!je bands of one of these roving sea ob btis, and tbe ciew were taken to Algiers, ? ni sold in tbe mai ket-plac? as slaves, tmr David Maison among ibe le-t. 'Vlien a boy, David bail learned the '''de of r.h"i cariemer w ith his father, on i Mcnitn.ic, and now be was set ac work " uie dockyaids. II "J master, who was I'.uiaHv a ki.ir! man. did not overwork h ill. (li !, i,I ,I ilir liia ilnoe Inaven of '-'ul, and when liis clothing was worn 0 lt its place was supplied by the coarse 'Lll t UiHb Oll,1 ' ,,' I U Hill. UDVHI 1 1 V Ik-rber women. Three hours befoie ;iiisel be wr4s icleased from work, and I'Utal U'bieli !c Hid At, ill m meH : .1 Sall- b.illi, was a ibiv nf pnli.e rest. Once a ill ibe season called Il.nucan, he was 1. r. . . ' "-h at ,ei.-urc foi a whole week. nine linie we.i on days, week?. r,1''llis. and yeais. Ilisdaik hair became i k"a.V. lie si ill dieamed of bis old home on j.ie Men iniac, and of bis good Anna and .. . v.. ere yet living, what, i bey ihougbt of him, a,ifl what they were doing. Tbe hoj.e of ''er seeini; tbeni aaaiii tiew fainter and K u"ter, a. id at lasl neatly died ut ; and I e leMgned himself to his fate as a slave "jrlife. 1 lut one day a handsome middle aged '"'email in the diess of one of bis own utiytueii, atteuded by a gitat ollicer of tbe Dey, entered ibe ship yard, and called up befoie him the American captives. lhe stranger was noun otbet than Joel Hailow, Commissioner of tbe United States to procure the liberation of s'aves belong ing to that Government. JIo took tbe men by tbe hand, as tbry came up, and hey weie fiee. As you might expect, lhe poor fellows were-veiy grateful; so:ne lauehed, some wept for joy, some shouted and sang, and tin ew pp their caps, w hile others, with David Maison among them, knelt down on tbe chips, and thanked Cod for tbe p,reai deliverance. "Ibis is a very adectins; scene," said the Commissioner, wiping his eyes. '"I must keep the impiession of it for my Coluir.baid :"' and drawing out bis tablets, be proceeded to write on '.be spot an ajMis trophe to Feeedom, which afteiward found a place in his great epic. David Matson bad saved a little money during bis captivity, by odd jobs and woik on holidays. lie got a passage to Malaga, wbcie lie bought a nice shaw l for his wife, and a watch for each of his boys. He then went to tbe quay, where mi" Ameri can ship was lying, just ready to kail for Uoston. Almost tbe first man he saw on board was IVlatiah C'uitis, who bad rowed him down to tbe port seven years befoie. Jle found that bis old neighbor did not know hi m, so changed was he wiih his long beaid and Moorish dress, whereupon, with out telling his name, be began to put questions about bis old home, and Jinaliy asked if be knew Mrs. Maison. "I rather think I do," said TelAtiah ; "she is my wife." 'Your wife !" cried the other. ' She is mine beloie Cod and man. I am David .Mat son, and she is tbe mo:berof my child u n" "And mine too," said I'elatiah. "1 left her with a babe in her arms, if you aie David Maison, your light to her is outlaw ed ; at any rate, she is mine, and I am not the man to give her up." "God is gieat !" said poor David Mat son, unconsciously rejieatiug tbe familiar words of Moslem submission. "His will be done. I loved her, but I shall never see her again ; give these, with my bless ing, to the good woman and tbe boys ;" and he handed over, with a sigh, the bun dle containing the gifts of his wife and children. lie shook bands with his rival. "Pela tiah," l;e -aid, looking back as be left the ship, "be kind to Anna and my bojs." "Ay, ay, sir," responded tbe sailor, in a careless tone. lie watched tbe poor man passing slowly up lhe nano.v Mrcef, un'il out of sight. "It's a hard ca-e for old David," he said, helping himself to a fiesh cud of tobacco , "but I'm glad I've seen tbe last of him." I'elatiah Cnili.- reached home. He told Anna the story of her husband, anil laid hisgifis in b r l.ij . She did not shin-k lior fint, for she was ab.althy woman, with stiong nerves; but she stole away by hei-ilf and wept, bitteily. She lived many yeais after, but cold never be peisuadtd to wear tbe pretty shawl which the hus band of her youth had sent as bisfaiewell gift. Tiieie is, however, a liadition that in accoidat'Ce with her dying wish, it was wrapped about In r pt.or old shoulders in the coflin, ami b tiio.l with her. Tbe btlie bull's eje watch, which isstill in the postssioti of one of her grand chil dren, is now all that remains to tell tbe tale of David Matson, the lost man. A Convict's Stkanoi: Stout. --"Twelve years for stealing meal to keep I is family lioni starving!'' This stalemeni. is made by an official of lhe Eastern Penitentiary as a veutable fact. At 'lie present time there is coniiued in tbe La-iem Peniten tiary a man who is senium nit a sentence for l he hn een v of food, which was to feed hisstai ving w ile anil chiidien. Tbe man's siory is this, and it is vouched for by a fellow prisoner, who was concerned in tbe robberies, and to whom ibe Couit gave two yeais: T was a coal miner, residing at Scianfou, and riming (lie suspeni"ii of w oik last wimer like many ot hers 1 was on t he verge of sta vatioti. I looked over my larder, and fop. id Indian meal and meat enough to last foi a week. After 'hat was gone T knaiv not where the next was to come from. Tbeic weie my wife and thiee childien to Le looked afet, no pios pectof woik, because .lebig men of '.be coal companies were iiirh. ing among them selves, and 'he poor mb-t-is were starving. In tbe same house Willi me lived a Dutch man, wlio w;;s also a mi-.er. Seeing thai things weie becomming despea:e, one day I proposed to the other fellow that we should go i 1 1 1 o the couiitiy and get us enough meal to keep us for a month. V e took another fellow vvidi us (theie be is, saitl the man, pointing to the two j-ear fellow). We went into six bains and stole as much Indian meal as we could carry. Then the Du.cbmaii went into a kitchen and took two cans of fruit. When we weie neatly bacK to town, this man here found a spiing house open and a piece of meac foil iwetl him out of theie. YV e weie arrested alterwatd and tiied. The Dutchman tinned S.aie's evidence, and the JndiiC gave me twelve yeasvtwo years for each barn I went into), while my com paninu got two yeais foi tbar piece of in.iat. I tell you what, it's rough ro lock a man up that long for so lulling a crime, when he does ir to keep the wolf from the d'Kir." An effort will be made at an early meet ing of the lioard of Pardons to have the convict released, provided, after invest isra tion, bis story is found to bo true. lhdn. Record. Give Them Vent There mw be a good deal of sound philosophy in the foi lowing stoiy from St. Xich"lin. bur, at times it is a downtigh: nuisanca for Job li ny to let his noise out : "O, .Johnny !" eried a neivons mother, "do have some pi-.v on my poor head ! Can't von play without si-.oiiting so'.'" Poor . oh uny diew no lbs tape reins wlh which lie was driving two chairs tandem, and called in a loud, hoarse w titsner : "Get up whoa!" lint at Iftig'h, finding lU'le pleasure in this sn pnress.M amusement he threw down his rein, and. laying bis h:'nd ilium bis biea-t, saitl, wt.li a long breath, ', moibei, it's fill! of noise in here and it hurts Mte t-o to keep it iu ! "Don't all liMle hoys make a noise, when Miey play?" "es, Johnny, I believe they ali do," replied the laily. "O, then, mot her dear," ei ied John ny, in a winning tone, "ple:;se lei me be a littlfl boy." We will join poor Johnny in his peTi;ioti. Please, mother, let-your sons be iin'e boys while they inav. Le. them have a free ami happy childhood, that when your heads are low in the gi ive bey may point back to those days ami say, "We were happy HiildtPti, for tiiere was always buii sbiuo where our mother was." W'tifSKP tzif&a& hzj-;zi. -smzz "iaSfes SgiM . Ilirtl'8-eye View, Silks Dress Goods Jlourninff Goods Cloahings Flannel 8 Linens JI a si ins White Goods Laces Ribbons Trimmings Embroideries Fringes Zephyrs and Worsteds TCecJuvear G lores Toilet Articles Stationery JTloicers c- Feathers T A GHASSIfOITFIl sioni: On the t"p of the Uoya! Exchange in London, is a curious weather vane, not like any other in England, or peihaps in lhe woihl. It is a huge gra-shopper, and the following account, shows how it came to be put up 1 beie : About thiee hundred and fl fly yeais ago, a woman, wiih a hole baby in her arms, was :iiiiguig along a country lane. Pie sently, aliei looking to see that no one was watching hei, she climbed over a gate into the lieiu, and wiapping the baby in its little shawl, she laid it down in the grass, so gently as not. to aw;.ke it, anil then, nevei even Imi king behind her, she c'o.obr.d ovei ibt gam .t.uu i ;ilo ; he la.ie, and a tut on hei join uey. The baby soon woke and began to cry . and u. c. ltd for a long, long time. And at lasi, tiled and luiugiy, and hot wi'lt rhe sin., for ii. was a line summer's day, ii was wearied t ut. and dropped off to sleep again. 'Slut God had beaid the voice of the lad." 15y anil-by down the lane came a schoo b.i. lie was whi.-tiing away, as bapp as evil he count be ; be had come out - f school, .out was gnfig h-me. lie lived hi. ibe farm house a ht'le way further up lhe lane. 'vnv be gatheied a few prim rones, now he has a -ny k ; bud ; bn. just as he came io lite g.ue. over winch tbe woman bad climbed, be beaid a grasshopper chirp ing away so loudly, that be spiangover the gale io catch him and there was the baby fast asleep! Ear more pleased 'ban if he hail caught a bundled gi as-hoppers. the boy took up the little fello. and ran home nith his piize. fhe kind farmer's wife, although she had many cuildreu of Iter own, at once determined to keep the litvle orphan w ho had been saved from death by a grass hopper. Y ears passed aw;y and the baby became a strong bov ; the boy grew to be a man ; be wem to London ami became a merchant. God blessed all he did, and he rose to be the most noted mail in the city. Queen Elizabeth was then Oti the throne, and of ten ditl she -end for Sit Thomas Gresham, fur the Utile deseitcd boy hid become a knight, to eousnlt hii.l on the great affairs of state. About thiee hn.id.ed years ago, Sir Thomas Gre-i.am founded the Exchange. Tbe Queen came io di-ie with him, and laid the first slo And theie upon the topmost pinnacle Sir Thomas placed a grasshopper ; and theie it. is lo-day, io tell the bu-y toiling city, that. Almighty God can hear the infant's cry, andean save a valuable life by eveu such a little ihiinj a a grassbooper. Teaching limps to Sino. In Fulda, Germany, reualr nisi itutionsare establish ed Io teach bubnnchesto sing. The young biids are placed in rik classes of six to ten each, and kepi in the datk. As they are fed a lii lie hand-organ is played. Finally the biids commence to associate '.be vnusie willi tbe feeding, and when hun'j.y, Ihey commence to sing a few notes of he inne they hear daily. Those w ho do :his a.e at once placed iu a more cheerful room, when light is admitted. This encourages and makes them more lively. Then they like to sing, and aie taught, more. The most difficult pa. ii the starting of the birds, some of which have to be kept a long time in the daik and on starvation ratious, be fore their obstinacy is uvmcome. John Wanamaker's Grand Depot, HEecond ye-jr of the General Di y Goods at the Grand Depot i3 just opening. It is proper to nay that what was deemed on experiment, the first year, experience proves to 1 a success, and we now propose ta fjieally improve on the first plans. The principles of X A uniform low price for everything throughout the House. 2 One Price and no partiality. 3 Politeness and Patience to rich and poor. fc Cash Returned if buyers return erods 'even though. Dress Patterns; in reasonable time and uninjured. A very larg2 stock of all kinds of newest Dry Goods always on han-i, arranged on one floor with plenty of li jht to see them. A. thousand people oan easily he waited on at one time. Where so many goods are selling every day the people are sure of getting only fresh goods. Earnestly deei-ing to serve the people well, and inviting t'r-em to visit the Grand Depot whether they wish to buy. or "only to tea the fashions." If not conning to the city to see the magnificent new sloclt for Spring, send for samples, ing cMss of goods wanted. We do a large business through the mail. Very respectfully, JOHN WANAMAKER, Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. no i s axi GiiiLs. The following, which is taken from tbe columns of the Austin (Texas) Sluft'nxxih, contains food foi sober thought. What is said of the rising generation of Texas, is equally applicable to children all over this broad land. Head ami rellect : A geoib'Tuan, who made it his business to inquire now and I hen into 'ases of want among t'.niso ifilueed to povetty, sas thai, most suffer! 'vho are very poor ate vtmiKii and m.tt. ot' f l.-se are ''eti mai ft a ml aeenm-pii-i'eti.'' T't-y have been i.ipl'i eveiy thieg 'ml '! - ti is.-iini o of pra- it al ilo'ies of ev- -day ' i t'-. Th-y k tow e vet y I hi t g 1 h a t is t.f no pi ;' ieal iirie. 'I'nev i'aii do a.tv.bitig exfiq.. inn k a n hones'. ' t vi nj. One atlinir ble r t.nij, n . t .-tl iii-etl 'O t he ti in os' si r-ii - s n ml even new loo piouil to conifss -ter fea.fiil pt.ur ami living as Mi dees nitti let. .'t-i.ts eat b dv and pvn b"s, can s".ik I-'ren.-li ami ti-rinat-. Wlt.'ti -hi? owned a piano she was ni i st re;s et Mo ili ine a 1 1. I?n t she hail never m-nln a tlress or rooked a mal. She hatl nor li-.i. i t gli i io teach or '.. r vise a household. She had al' ll.eexlia rinisii of an elrre of an approved tioattling school, but wa- as lii-l-l-- is when she wore pi.fil'ores and rihorl tl ..-s-s. 8neli a woidh. t, sprung from sneh a. cirl of stub training, wult! barillv lie soi.j-ht :i.'tei as a wife, 'ft: supply her warns a. nt tm b'i noaul t.ill :i task a t hone h ' In ' mtn who unit' Pv by Ins own exe linns wnttiil m, :t ttisso.H-i senses, um-tl-r'ake. Vm Ihes. wrm-n. wh'n parents ami gn.t r.l ia t-.s t'r i- 'nil ot-i recourse, at.'l miamy ami Ica h elo-e .he li( seenes of many . tin tvpr nrci' fail ami tt:-ntit'ul anil lelovetl. 'J'tn Sew Ymk Xuti'ii' 'V -as correspondent: atlverts to an t'nr phase of 'bis (jnestion. Vbetlirw tells he trni h our r.i.,ers na v tlefid e fn. th 'tnsvl ves. vVe only kn".v .bat idl- vn;il.n"ib are every W'l.e'e. .Most .T these tlie itt the gnUei or e'ose a i-a reei o'" vit-"in a tfa'b of shame. People seem tn eliev lha; their i.is nit's, be either itllers sintl outcasts or professional gettl-.ie?i. Not on" youth in ilCivthat noes on tn battle wiih life has learned a trade. Of educated ar' hite-ts, artisans, civil engi neers i'lttl machinists there are none roni paralieelv speaking. every family ttas its iliu'iiii and lawyer, and many an -niliryo loafer am! w hi sry-gnzzling ward noli'ien. The leartt.l profession, so-called, are slop ping over wi'h 'gimrance atul incapacity, and ther-f ire th; depravity "'mIi' in vain to he reformed by lit courts ami by ibe hangman. Wht II AVantkd a IiF.crirT. In the cilyof ITahf,ix there dwell a lawyer, crafty, subtle ad ente as a fox. An Indian of the Miamao tribe, named Simon, owed him some money. Toe lawyer had waited long for his (in. His patience at last gave out, ami lie threatened he Indian with lawsuit, pr.-ces ami execution. The poor red man got scared s.nd hiought tbe money to his creditor. The Indian waited, expecting the lawyer wuld write a teccipt. "What a'e you waiting fo. ? ' asked tbe law ver. "!ecetpt." said ;he Indian. "A veceip' ?" aid Ibe lawyer, "a re ceipt ; wha do yon know about a receipt ? Can v n n.i.leislHiid the nain-e of a re ceipr ? Tell mo the use if one and I.w ill give it o von." The Indian looked at bim a niomeut, antl ; hen said : "M'i.u iiiavheme die! me PO heben . me find ibe gate locked : me sre 'Postle Petei ; be say 'Sim m. what you want ?' me say. Want to gel- in. lie say, 'You pay Mr. J. dat money?' what me do? me had no receipt. ! had to hunt all ober bell to find you !' He got Lis receipt, Thirteenth Street, Business Ladies cC Hisses' Suits Sa cqttes cC Cloa ks Underwear Hosiery Upholstery Goods Ulankets and Quilts Trunks ntid Valises Jlubber Goods Horse Covers Men's & Boys' Clothing Hals Shoes describ ATt"iAi. Eisipges. n lien caverns in i which the siieams disappear aie of small , extent, and open at both ends, they form natural bridges. These are fi eqnent ly met ' with now in localities vfcie no water ex- j ists. A remarkable curiosity of ibis kind, ' occins in the valley of Icounuzo. or I "audi, ' in .Mexico. Ii. spans a chasm thiee li nil- died and twenty-five feet, deep, a whose : bottom w inds a small torrent, i he llio de la i Summa Paz, inclosed iu an almost, inac- i cesstble channel. The piinctpal britige me;i-ures forty eight feet in length by j thirty nine feel in width, am? is sis ami one-half feef. thick. Sixty five fee below this bi itlge is found a second, c sisi ing of j three blocks, which suppm-. themselves) v, it hou. any advenli'iou aid; (he central : is peiforated with a lmle, th rough which tbe bottom of the abyss is visible. The , Ii: itlge of Arc, over the river Ardeche, is a j natural arch, ninety-eight feet in height, . and one hundred and ninety-five feel iu ' span. The hi iilge of Veja, near Yervona, 1 is one hundred and tw my-live feet high, j The magnificent rock biidge of Virginia ! spans an abyss a Inch separates two nioiiu- j tains an -bysslwo hundred and twenty- j live feet, in Ibe deep obscuiily of which i whiten ami seethe lhe restless waters if : Cellar creek. This marvelous arch is near- j ly one hundred feet in length, ami forty two feet thick ; it is a natural cuiiosity, ; which no spectator can suivcy without feelings of admiration. In the Labanon, a torrent emptying into the lieitnt liver passes under a oat u ral ai ch Io hundred ; and fifteen feet iu htigln, locally known as . the Ain el Lnhtin. A similar bridge is thrown ovei the Litany, : be ancient LcohU, near Tiar Kmaone, ivhere the river has tunneled irouth a i"ck npwaid tf ninety feet tjiick. The mad from Vatly el Teim ;' to Xihah is car. ied across this woudeiful Rich. The nieh over ibe Dog river, near ! the Xiban el Libau, is hollowed "til in tbe j solid rock. It is ninety feet thick, itp cpan , one hundred and fifty seven fret, and the . Height of the lower side tieaily two bun- j tlied feet. Matrimony Made Easy. Thibet is the ; old bachelor's paradise, for it is --here Ibat ' lie can flirt, with a hundred girls simultane. : oosly, and get married wit bout knowing it. T. T. CtHtper. an agent in tbe English Civil Service he was recently muideied . at Il'.ianio, although lhat is neither here nor there resolved to travel through China by a rou'C comparatively unknown and full of dangers. Starting from Hadow, he went along the Yatig tse-Kiang to Eastern Tiber. One day be found himself in a j giove, surrounded by a group of gills, and, accord iiijj to bitn "the whole scene was so I Aicadian, and the romantic pffeot so irre- j sistible, that, though struck by the remark- 1 iihle absence of iho male hex, be gave him. self up to the influence of the situation, and waited with languid rtniosiiy for the 7s noi"in',H( of this pleasant lh lie adventure. He smoked with the gills am' shaied their meals, and afterward they dragged in a young girl of sixteen, attired in a silk dress, seated her by his side, and then began to lance around the pair. He could not niako it out until bis servant expkiined thai, ao cordiinz to one of the tnttonis of Thibet ' he had, without knowing it, allowed tiii.i self to be mai i ied. lie at first wished to ( resist, pleading English customs, but the tribe among whom he was wor.ld accept no explanation, and he was comieled to take tbe gill with him. llochcttvi' Union. risin:i 11Y A GHOST. rttOMISE MADE IN I.IKE KF.I'T AFTER DEATH W 11 AT 1 II K sIMI.IT SAIIl. "D d vou ever see a gl.ost?" "No." Did you ever see any one who bad seen a phost." "I can't say that 1 ever did," ibe re pott er replied. Whereupon the gentleman said that in the person of one of the oliicei s of the city Government could be seen one wht hatl once had a veritable iuteiview with a spirit from the other wotld. The itpoiler ifit td the gentleman. "Yes, sir," he said to tlie reporter, "il is tbe truth. I did once see a ghost, 01 have an inteivieiv with a spiii. At lens, I think I did. 1 may have been dreaming ; I don't know, lint it w as a most, rental k able, a most inexplicable deaiu what on might call a prophetic dieam, that was fn. lii lied in eveiy detail in a most extiaot dinat v manner. And I don't think il was a d i earn. "It was at tbe time of the war. I was on the Coiifedei ate side in tbe war, a soldier iu the First Mai land Cavahy. Iu the same company with me was a gentleman fiom California, whom you may callf'op lcston. I'd lather you wouldn't publish bis real name. He was a splendid fellow, and before long we became very intimate, ami giadually giew to be most devoted friends. He was tbe bravest of men, but at ibe same i ime unusually warm hearted and affectionate, and 0111 affection for each yther was something unusual among men. "One day we were together in a pretty hot fight near Greenland Gap, llaidy conn ty, Va., dining Gen. Will. E. Jones' laid, and, as we h.id no artilleiy with us, our regiment was dismounted and detailed to stoim a chinch in which a body of the en emy had eutietiched themselves. It was a nasty piece of win k, and i he prospects weie slim .f getting back alive. As we went at it Coplestou turned to me and said : 'Look here, old fellow, let's promise each oihei that if one of us is kilied without a chance to say good -by, he will come again to see the oilier, if such a thing is possible.' I understood him and promised. We got. off this time w ilhoul much damage, but it was nude. stood between us that the agree ment was lasting. "Nol long after this we weie separated. He was seut off with a de"ail for scouting woik upon the Mississippi, and befoie he got back I was capiiiitd by Avciill at Moorlicld, after the Chambeisbui g raid. They sent me to Camp Chase, neai Colum- i bia. Ohio, and hem 1 lav for a long lime i w ith fifteen or twenty thousand ot her piis oneis, heating little or nothing of lhe men on ibe other side of the Potomac, ami '.hen only fiont the new pii-oiieis when they weie brought into cimp. Of Coplo&ton we heard nothing at all. "In Camp Chase we lived iu big barracks, about uOO men in a banack. lit the one iu which 1 was.'nifSt of the men were Maiy l.indc.s of our own Command. We slept in bunks around the room, and the loom w as heated by three big stoves. One night I was sitting by the stove oca rest the dooi, thinking. It was late, and all the olbcis were in their bunks asleep. I sat theie alone for some time, looking at the fire and lost in ihougbt. Suddenly I felt imjiedlcd to l'Htk up, ami theie, just in fiont of me, on the oilier side of tbe stove ami betwecu i ii, and the door, stotnl Coplestou. " j "Were you alaimed at all '.'"' ! "No I was not alaimed, only grcat'y , sin prised. There was nothing to alaim. I It was only Coplestou, dressed in the same ! gray suit ami black felt hat. I thought of i Course, at the install', that somehow he I had been captuied and bi ought a piisotter to th3 camp, and had only just learned wheie 1 was. I exclaimed, 'W hy, Cople ston, when were you brought in'.' and tried to li-e up and shake Lauds with him. 1 , con Itl not move. "Coi'lcsioti looked at rre sadly lor a moment and then said, "No I was not bronchi here; dou't Juu remember our agreement ?' 'Gieat heavens !" I exclaimed, 'were j.U ?' "'Yes,' be said, 'I was k'.Ued today.' lie then went on and told me all about it. One day be and one other of our men w eie surrounded in a house iiearLuray, iu Page county, Va., by a stpiad of Feduials, ami altera little figln, in which Coplestou was wounded in the b g, lhe two weie captured and laken into the enemy's camp. They weie held for a few days, ami acre then sentenced to be sho as an act of i etaliatioii for some sins laid at Mosby's door. A ser geant's guaid took Ibein into Ibe woods, a. id wi'.h some touch ;f pi'y offered to let them lli.i lhe gauuiht, Indian fashion. Tbe other man accepted ibis slight chance of etsc.ipe, but was shot as be ran. Cople stou leiu-ed Io move, and was killed wueie be sat mi the groudd. "All this, sir, I assure you, was ti ld me by t his strange vi-i'oi . As lie finished he said : Should there ever be any either em casioii fo.- me to see you, 1 w i'.l come, and then disappeared, not going eut by the dooi but simply fading away. I was, t.f course, strongly moved, bu. sboilly af.ei that I reined to my bunk. The next morning I t'dd lhe men in the mess of the ciicuuistauce, and was of coiiise laughed at. ,'Three weeks afterwards fresh jn isoners were brought in from ibe Army of Viigin :a, wbc, with tit her news, lold of Copies ton's death, just as I had already heard of it fiom himself. Tbe men of the mess no longer laughed at my story. ''I do not pieiend to explain this at all. I think it C tii't be explained. I am not impeist iiimis, I thick, and, as 1 said before, may have dieamed it. bill even then it would lie a very itianedieaui. i!timorc Antt r icun. A Coxxkcticut inventor has devised a safety lamp for railroad ens. A kerosene lamp is placed outs'de the car at one end. throw ing its light by a ie!l.-ctor into a tube a fo tt and a half in diamctei. which runs al'iiitiside of the ventilating dck. At in tervals the tnlie is "tapped" for light, a fiyrtem of lejlectors di.l i ib.r.iug Ihe l'ghi tiirongh the entetior of tbe car. An at tachtiieut is piovided which extingu shes the light the instant the lamp is off iis balanoe, so thai in lhe event of an areident no fc-ar of fire nei-d bo aj-pt ebetidetl. Th" tube conduc's tbe light so ad mi i ably that Sue prim can be read at A diminiee of foity cel from the lamp. Two twin b.orlteis aie said lo be so much alike lhat they frequently 1mm low money from each other witltoul knowing it. i I 1 i ; 3 t r i n ill Ti- li in ciiil.im:. A STCRY OF THE KA1II.Y PATS OF M1CHIG. THK llii M il SKITi.l.US AM) THEIR KAMII-II S, 1 The Detroit '-xtf says: Think of a fMh climbing out of bed at daylight and callii, to each of his thirty or more children tog i:p, and then assigning them their sevei duties for the d;ty ! Such a man was At 'nine Louis Descnmpt Labadie. With b father and tw'o In others, this somewhat li . niatkable son of Gaul emigrated froi France and settled in Detroit in 1751 Nineteen yeais thereafter he niairicd Ai gelnpie Campau, ami the two went to bousr . keeping over the river. At that time aj the laud wheie Windsor now 6tands wa owned by tbe Ottawa Indians, ami th famed Pt.ntiac, or Pondiack, as tbe Frenc . spelled it, was i heir chiof. Poutiac, how ever, w it h consent of the nat i.m, was rapid ; ly deeding away all the lane's along th liver to tl e Fieurh scHleis, and veiy man. of tli se deeds aie now in possession eif Mr Chailes F. Labadie, of the thin of Labadn &. Windsor. ' The collection of deeds now held by Mr Labadie is quite interesting, two or tbrei of them being signed by Pontine himself One of these deeds is made to M r. Labadie giandfatber, Antoniiie L. D., and reads a. all of thm do. "I, Pondiack, Chief tbe Otalwa Nation, w it h consent of all t nation, iu the jnesence of George Crogh" E.-tj., Suki inu ndeiit of Indian ailairs, cotisideiat iou of ihe good w ill I liear to A1 loiiine," S:c. The w ill is dated 17C.1, at. is signed 'lmdiack La juu rj tic.' Hi mai k consists of a sot t of hieroglyphic that resembles a Q more than anything else, wiih two paiallcl and one perpendicular line diaw-n across it. The deeds are all on paper which has grown yellow and musty with age. Most of them are in Fiench, and some are no longer than a man's band, and yet contain tbe signatuies of eight or nine chiefs. These signatures or ('tn consist of rude I epreseutai ions of crows bea.s, deer, foxes, ducks li-h, Vc. They are all "in consideration of the pood w ill we bear," and accoi ding to t be amount of gisid will a chief bote to a Frenebni was the measurement of bis river front, foi tlie far seeking red-kins would give a man only so many feel Mr acres of I iver-fronu, buL be might extend the giant as far bacic into the forest as be chose. Among the deeds is one granting to L'Assum pt ion Chinch the laud which it now holds, ' 'thre acres in width and 40 acres in leng'h." I'hcie are twodeeds of tbe land upon w hich Iliiam inker s tiisi illei us now stand; one it fmin one is I mtn 1'outiar; to l,teut. Abho't cu his Majesty's Artilleiy, tbe oilier fiom the Lieutenant toGiaude Peie Labadie. Eui lo letuiii totbe father t.f the f.3 chil dieii. Aiitoine Labadie lived happily wiiU his w ife live years, when she died, having borne bim seven childien during that time. He bad tiade.l extensively with the In dians Hud bad ticated them with such uniform kindness and considei at ion that ii I tern the death of his wife they enttrated bun to many a maiden from out their tiibe. This be did, choosing the daughter of a Sauteuse Chief, as the ireotd of tbe Catholic Church at Sandwich have it. !-evenleeii children bis tlu-ky bi ide present ed him, and thru her spuit Hud i0 the Happy Hunting Groin id. A boi iginal ami Noinian blood minglln in the veins of ibe IT descendants of this last union helped lo budd up a haitlv ami lather indus'iious community, and still Labadie faiteied not. He was wedded to Miss Cbailotte Ifittnc, ami the f.uils of this union were nine childien. the oldest son being the father of Gregoite L. Laba die, t.f tins city, and of Capt. Chailes F. Labadie, of tbe linn of Labadie A: Parent, Windsor. The latter still In, Ids a poitiutj of tbe old homestead in Walkei ville. t H I cit izens say t bat it was not an uncom mon thing for the old French setlleis tot lai-e families of IS and :?' childien. An o!d lesident says that Van Aveiy, who lived on tbe present site of the w atei woi ks, whs tbe father of 'Jo childien, all by oua w ife. With Ffi.i, Powi.k. The following was related by a Catholic priest, Father 11 , who in bis mis-i in woik iu Sou be, n Colo rado mid New Mexico met with many cx tiaon'.iti.iiy po.ij.'ie ami incidents, (lii one occasion be happened to html seivice iu a small out of the way chajnl abeie the vaiied duties of janitor we e dischaiged by a g.-ntlcniau of liif.h descent. Dining the seivice a chihl was broi.ght for baptism. It may no be gent lafy known ibat iu ibe Ibituau Cathol.c litnal, ibe pri st, be To a tou'bing the child with wa'er, puts a lit: lo sail into tbe waiei iu the picsei.ee t.f tLe coiigiegation, 'I be janii'.r, however, b.'il pup ned tbe water bifnehand, accu'dng to his own idea at. to the pi ( u t ion of sal;, when tbe piic-t, having t.mittttl to pUcn the salt, iu readiness wbi.-pered sofily to his at r nti.iiit : "Pat, will you lease to get the salt?" Pa iesjn:niid in ku audible whisjer fioin bebii.tl Lit; Lund : "Sine au' I .ut it iu aheatly." Father II , not fully understand mg, rejteaied bis wlii-petcd ittjuesl. Again Pat reolie.J moie a uLbly than be foie, and with slight dudgeon iu Lis tone "Sure au I put it in I ted e." "I'ut tbe litual demands that the priest should pei form the ceremony l f,.ie the C Migregat i.m," ex l iit.t-.i Father H , c nsi lei iibly auuoeJ al tbe jtoioi's ob. st nacy. Tbe Itishniati procured tbe salt and, banding it to the piiest. elettnllt d bim as weH as ihe congregation with the temaik, delivered in a surly grol ; "Hete aie. iledad. ye ra-i make a pickle uf ii if ye want iu.' '..('',, n(0 Union. Dl'.IVlNOA Co II Thiihit It A STt'M!'. Tbe S itnna, Caf, JnJ.jisl.'.'fi.t says : "It is w ll known, or ought t.. lx , thit 'be Ys'titi,e ttti'risl, w ho gttes 1 it S li'l pa,-- directly iltr.m jn ihe Tuolumne (i r.o j of Hitf Trttkt. an line a- nc.y in t(e t.iate. 1 u 'his grove him two siuntp-. '.;.ri;.-r i!,:oi nev oilier-on tint coast. V. S- Pi it -t. one lhe Y'l-elni'e i.ti!:iit..:ot!ci .. ) ;tk had a t'ol! traif 'n In. t.i a l...l. llii.r-..u in, t.f tli-n st ui 1 1 it f r the fciat-s to pai.- i hrom: h. The slump is .;: tt-t I iu tiiatm.M-r, ainl Ibeb-i'i wi'.l In cm ihrough ii f-;-i wide fv 1J feet high, r.ml will ! cinu j . , i. ,J nt. tin. iii u . 1 1- i : .1 . ... t'l 'ins iiion j . i Lis i. n g 1 1 ' I r i.H !i:t Jit I to Iwetl Ileg't,c1t-d, l.t Wll! tin it; U- i;;l j ; ,. ,1. f f'U tte l,n-"i li, it t.f mnrUts, n'r:.' !, u 1 i ! In, cut through it. Hint the o n.i.j i t u.ti i l.-ated Hw av, so that it cna 1 thorn. igidy appu-ililr. teil in ail ilk staieiy maguiticeiice." L.-T at sea Ibe siht tf land, t "if K